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o . THE RECOMPENSE,. In Tunis, once, T rambled down A winding Arab street, When suddenly broke upon the wind A s'rain of musie swest, If Pan had tuned his fabled pipes, And blown them in my ear, They had not made a SONg S 0 sweet, And fine and true and clear, “What hand has touched so rave a chord? What lip has charmed the air To music so divine,” 1 said, “So wistful and so fair?” “They must have looked into the flowers, And twined each fragant face Into the melodies they play, To give them such a grace! “And every bud that has a birth, And every rose that dies, . Has breathed her first and last swest breath Into their soulful eyes! “They must have stood at Dido’s tomb, Above the lonely plain Where Carthage lies in tears of dust, Thrice risen—and thrice slain! “How must they con the songs of old, Of Sappho, Schiller, Poe, ! To_sing so well the eanticles Of freedom, love and wo!” i I found them playing on the curb— s A humble Arab band— ‘; With want on every magic viol, - And age in every hand! b I dropt a coin ufimn the [‘wlate; i For thanks of Leart anc mind, Bight grateful eyes were turned to me, And all of them were blind! / —Aloysius Coll, in Youth’s Companion. P IPRTIR PN TR N I IYINIVAINO TIPS THE LAST NIGHT IN CAMP. Yo : =By FRED- Lo PURDY. = ,::::2?‘b&&t&be:‘b&‘bbh&t‘-0‘333*. : w——gw R Nestled among the tall trees of a river valley in New York State's wil derness is a little cabin. Before the open fireplace in the one large living room two men sit, dreamily gazing at the leaping log flames. About them are scattered hunting parapher nalia of all kinds, from boots to guns. On the table well-thumbed volumes show sigms of sudden negiect. Pipes, dripping ashes, sirew the wooden mantel. The boiling kettle drones lazily. It is the last evening of the last day in camp. To-morrow—back to the world. Charlie, the merchant, rises, stretches, sighs and moves to the west window. His eyes wander afar to the mountains beyond ths river, lit by the lights of heaven. lln the gathering gloom he marks the piace where the trail to the pond bends bestween the hills. Beyond he measures the reach of the dry swamp, where the big deer hide. ‘Around the lessening horizdon he follows the outlet’s flow until it joins the river with a rush—and then he sighs again. “I wish we could stay longer!” There is a plaintive note of regret in his voice. Leslie, the editor, hears, but does not answer. He is seeing things in the fantastic movements of the flames. Charlie picks up his gun, looks over the sights and then slowly pushes an oil rag through the barrel. Then he sits down and gazes again into the fire. Leslie stirs and sighs. He, too, rises, and, from the north window, peers afar to Hardwood Island and Pine Ridge. With his eyes he follows the cranberry swamp to the old lum ber camp and on beyond to Silver Brook and the raspberry patch. “It’s tough to go back to the desk,” he says. His voice is no more joyous than that of the merchant, and his words bring no response. Leslie lifts his mud-stained hunting boots, cleans- and greases them and hangs them on a hook—for a year. Then he drops again into the chair be fore the fire. The ketile sings its song louder and louder. An hour slips by—an hour in which the lon tramps, the wading of streams and climbing of hills, the shots that mean* meat, and the weary but happy far ing toward the open grate in the even ing—were all silently reviewed and weighed and measured, and measured and weighed and reviewed, by the dreamers before the fire. Leslie turned to the man-made satchel and took from it a man-made linen coliar. He looked at it more than casually. He encircled his bronzed neck with it and shuddered. “Did you ever think that there. must be a hades?” heasked, reflective ly. “Else there would be no here after for the man that invented the stiff linen collar.” The merchant showed symptoms of taking notice. “The collar fiend does not deservei the measure of torment that has been ‘ _completely won by the inventor of the | boiled_shirt,” he replied. \ Then they gazed into the fire andi lost themselves in tought. | “Well, we must pack up, I sup pose,” said the merchant at last. ! “Yes, we must pack up,” dreamily echoed the editor. | And they continued to stare at the fire. The moments flew by and outside the gloom increased. The mountains across the river were no longer dis oernible and the shadows in the woods were deep and dark. By the flicker of the fire the merchant sought his razor, whife he ran his tanned fingers through his facial under growth. Finding the desired instru ment of human torture, he—sat down | and again gazed into the flames, ‘ The editor yawned and reachlng! for the drinking cup, interrupted the} gsiong of the kettle by filling the cup. with hot water, He, too, was think ing of the mowing that civilization demands of man's face, Then he-—-—‘ fixed his eyes on the fire, | “It’s no use,” said the merchant, finally and desperately. “Here goes.” He arose with determination and began the work of preparation for the departure. Lamps were lit, sweat ers were doffed and the razors were applied. Then came the packing, It was a busy hour or more unbroken by words. Buckles - clicked, straps creaked and the Xkettle sang. In wardly the merchant and the editor groaned. i Morning came only to emphasize the regret. Stiff collars ehafed necks, stiff hats pinched heads, stiff shoes crowded feet and stiff shirts held un willing bodies as in a vise. The sun was shining in the sky, but there were clouds over the hearts of the two men. That world there in the wilderness was beautiful, but the other world—that was different. The wilderness world was made by God— the city world was made by man. Who would not feel a pang on being campelled to leave the grandeur and freedom of the one to mingle with the pinched soul of the other? It was almost time for the wagon that was to carry them over the mountain road to the man-made rail road.” They listened for the chug ®f the wheels and hoped that mnoise would not offend their ears. They hoped the wagon-man had forgotten his orders. They grabbed their grips and great coats out of the cabin and listened again. Chug-chug! There it -8, The wagon is lurching through the woods. Side by side, the merchant and the editor turned and looked far off on the-mountains across the river, a-glit ter in the early morning sun. They must soak their souls full of the scene, for they would not see it again for a year—perhaps they would never see it again. “You sports better git spry, if we want to catch that train!” o The driver’s words fell upon the merchant and the editor ag a bludgeon. They tumbled into the wagon and the rough journey from paradise back to the world was be gun.—Forest and Stream. OLDEST LONDON POLICE CELL, Supposed to Be More Than 200 Years Old—Underground Passage. Beneath a building known as the oOld Court House, Wellclose square, Stepney, stand what are said to be the oldest police cells in London, and under these is the entrance to a sub way believed to have once led to the Tower, nearly a mile distant. ~ This subterranean passage is now ‘blocked up, and at the entrance there stands a skealeton, The building was formerly known as the High Court of Liberty and is supposed to be over 300 years old. The court house is now the home of the German Oak Club, and the fine apartment in which trials took place is used for dancing, while tte adjoin ing rooms provide accommodation for billiards. A winding stone staircase leads to the two cells at the rear of the court house. At the top of the stairs is a massive and strongly barred door, with a peephole in it. This leads to the first of the apartments. The only light which penetrates these dirty dens comes through gratings high up against the ceiling, and each is fitted with a shutter, by means of which the cells can be plunged into dark ness. Nearly half the floor space in each room is filled by a wooden bed, and attached to the walls are the rusty chains with which the prisoners were manacled. Another object to be seen is a straitjacket made of stiff canvas, with iron rings which can be fastened to the chains. Many names, Inscriptions and piec tures are carved on the wooden walls. One can still read the name of Edward Burk, who lis said to have been hanged for murder, Close by is carved “Edward Ray, December 27, 1758;"” and another inscription runs “Francis Brittain, June 27, 1758. Pray remember the poor debtors.” On the floor of the first cell can be distinguished the squares of a chess board, cut in the solid oak. Over the door between the two cells can be traced the words, ‘“The rule of the house is a gallon of beer,” and just below, in neater character, are the words, “John Burn came in April 11, JislY One prisoner broke into verse thus: The cup is empty, i To our sorrow; s HAED . But hope it will Be filled to-morrow, Another prisoner signed himself “James Carr, smuggler, 1787.” The pictorial efforts include churches, a crude representation of the Tower of London, an armchair and the triple emblem of the rose, shamrock and thistle, Running under the roadway of Wellclose square is a dungeon lined with brickwork a foot thick.—London Evening Standard, 2 e et et sttt A New Ice-Making Machine, A new ice-making machine has lately been placed on the market. It works on the principle that water will freeze when evaporated rapidly by means of a vacuum pump and a pow erful absorbent, such as sulphuric acid. It is said that the machine can be worked by hand and will turn out carafes of iced water at the rate of one in three minutes, and blocks of ice weighing about one pound in twenty minutes. The apparatus, con sisting of the absorber and the carafe, or the ice mold, are rocked by means of a handwheel and crank, which serves also to create the vacuum. This apparatus is made at Reading, Eng land.—Harper's Weekly, '« Battleships of To-morrow.". England’s Dreadnoughts afid Her i . Coming Designs. Two Mcnfifer Ships Bagun This Year, One a Battieship of 19,200 Tons With Turbine Engines---Early Construction of : the 25,060 Ton Battieship Probabie. The coming of the Dreadnoughts, as all the world knows, has meant a complete revolution in naval construc- ‘ tion. lln the opinion of most naval officers the future is to the Power which possesses most of these ships and can use them well, writes H. e Wilson, in the London Daily Mail. | It will be interest, then, in view of_ the pause which has been made dur ing the present year in shipbuilding, | to examine how the British Navy stands in this latest type of ship and what are the designg likely -to be adopted in the near future, The Ad miralty is committed to the large ba.t-i tleship and it will scarcely go back. Nor would it be wise to do s 0 in view . of the fact that almost all foreign | Powers are faithfully copying British desigus. | For the present year two monster ships—a baitleship and a eruiser— have been voted. The battleship, con trary to the reports circulated will be similar in all important respects to the St. Vincents. That is to say she will displace 19,200 tons or there abouts, will carry ten cr twelve 12- inch guns, and will be propelled by turbine engines actuated by steam. Thus she will make up the group of four St. Vincents, and when she is completed for sea the British Navy will possess two groups, each four strong of all big gun battleships. The other vessel will resemble the Invinei bles, with improvements, and will complete the group of four 25-knot cruiser battleships. So much for the present. It will be seen that there is nothing sensa tional in the design of the ships for this year which are meant to fill the gaps in the existing organization. But next year it is possible that there may be new and startling departures. From hints which Ministers and oth ers have dropped, the Admiralty will be “eompelled to ask for not fewer than five monster battleships. More may be needed, but this must neces sarily depend on the progress which foreign ships make in the next few months. Germany it must be remembered has now building or sanctioned seven battleships of Dreadnought type (against the British eight) and two, or possibly three, cruisers of the In vincible type (against the British four). And under her fixed program ‘she will lay down three more mon ster battleships and one more mon ‘ ster cruiser nect year, the battleships, ' it is believed, displacing 21,000 tons or even more. A British program of five battleships and one monster armored cruiser would bring the Brit ish total of Dreadnoughts up to only eighteen, as against the German to tal of thirteen or fourteen. The Brit ish margin of four or five ships, which it would give, would be far less than what the strict two Power standard demands. If, then, we assume that the Brit ish program consists of five battle ships and one improved _lnvincible —and nothing less will satisfy the claims of national security—it is probable that the Admiralty will lay down one group of four improved St, Vincents—four battleships, that is to say, each carrying twelve 12-inch guns. But the fifth battleship may quite possibly be an experimental NO MORE PHOSSY JAW. White Phosphorus in Match Manu facture to Be Prohibited. After many years of agitation the use of the deadly white phosphorus in the manufacture of matches is soon to be prohihited. A bill, backed by Herbert Gladstone and Herbert Samuel, with this object in view was introduced in the House of Com mons last week, and fuller details of the measure, which was issued from the printers Saturday, will give satis faction to the thousands of people employed in this dangerous trade. The government’s action is the in direct result of the Berne labor con ference of September, 1906, when representatives of France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Denmark and Switzer land consenting to the prohibition, Great Britain then withholding her agreement. As the outcome of a con sultation with the manufacturers the promoters of the bill now before Par liament have made it possible for less dangerous substitutes for white phos phorus, which are protected by pat ents, to be obtained on reasonable terms by all manufacturers. The use of the poisonous white phosphorus is not necessary in the business of match-ma#ing. Its em ployment, moreover, 18 highly dan gerous to the work-people, for it gives rise to the painful disease of necrosis of the jaw, commonly known as ‘“‘phossy jaw.” This disease has much the same. effect on those at tacked by it as that of leprosy, and it works the same horrible ravages on the face and hands, The bill, if it passes into law, will not only forbid the use of white phos phorus in the manufacture of matches, but will also make it illegal for any one to sell or import matches in the making of which white phos phorus has Dbeen used.—London Chronicle, S — ————————— While the Chinese do not care for alcoholic drinks, but are addicted to opium, the Koreans like strong drink and do not care for opium, ship, a new type, built rapidly and tested with the object of gaining ex perience for a new class ‘which will figure in the programs of 1910 and 1911. Here much will obviously de pend on the action of foreign Powers and whether the reports prove cor rect which credit the German Ad miralty with the intention of build ing vessels far larger and more pow erfully armed than any vet designed. If such an esperimental ship is to be built with great speed to obtain experience the orders for her guns, barbettes and machinery will be given well in advance, before she is even voted, and they may be placed in the summer or autumn of the present year. The same course was followed ‘ in the case of the Dreadnought. The new ship will not imprabably carry a new monster gun, the 13.5- inch, eight or ten of which may be mounted, and will thus carry out the policy of ‘“out-Dreadnoughting the Dreadnought.” One or two of these guns, according to report, have been building for some months, and the employment of them in the St. Vin ‘cent class is known to have been con sidered and only reluctantly aban-l 'doned. All the details are confiden ‘ tial, but the German naval handbooks 'will supply the public with what is % cex‘tain}y an intelligent guess and pos sibly accurate information. "Accord ing to them the new 13.5. inch gun ‘will weight eighty-six tons, or near 1y thirty tons more than the existing | ‘l2-inch weapon; will be about fifty- ! ‘two feet long, and will fire a shell weighing about 1300 pounds or 1400 ‘pounds, as against the 12-inch shell’s 850 pounds. Such huge projectiles would pierce five sect of iron and tear their way through the best mod- | ern armor at battle range. ‘ To mount guns of the size and ! length so that they will be able to fire on either broadside is a matter of extreme difficulty so long as fun nels remain. But there is some hope of getting rid of them and thus giv ing a clear field of fire, The Belle ville Company is said to be design ing a boiler which needs no funnel ‘above water to discharge_the waste ‘products of combustion and there is l the bare possibllity that producer gas cngines might be adopted. The firm of Vickers-Maxim has prepared de signs-for battleships driven by pro ducer gas, and it is understood that it ha_ “:gifi‘%{fig}g‘eadnoughtw “zgflfz yrthwith if it finds any Power advemurous enough to try such an experiment. The Admiralty, however, is not at all likely to install the gas engine in battleships until it has been thoroughly tried in mer chantmen and smaller cruisers. But that it will finally come may be taken as certain, The British battleship of 1910 may thus be a vessel of 25,000 tons, mounting eight or ten 86-tons guns, which will be so arranged as to fire on either bhroadside. She will re semble the new Brazilian ships in{ carrying twenty 4.7-inch or 6-inch | guns for defenge against torpedo at- I tack, and will thus be erempt from the most serious failing of the origin- 1 al Dreadncught—the entire absencei of a medium battery.—New York Sun. ' - MOTORS IN MASSACHUSETTS. Cars Registered at Rate of Tifty a : Day—Duplicate Papers. Massachusetts is deriving from the registration of motor vehicles a bigger income than ever has heen yvielded from that source. Cars have been registered recently at the rate of about fifty each day, and the total number so far since January 1 has been 15,767, Returns for the first half year which have reached the State Treas urer show that the fees collected in connection with the automobile ac tivities by the Massachusetts High way Commission since December 1 last amounted to $100,782. According to the Motor World about ten per cent. of the cars regis tered recently have been those of owners having residence in other States, but who have been coming in to Massachusetts with their cars for tours or for a stay on a#summer out ing. About 800 registrations were reissues. This year since December 1 last the total of private operators has reached 4057 and of professional chaffeurs 4480, It is worth noting that out of slightly under 200 new applicants for etamination for pro fessional chauffeurs’ licenses the com misgion’s examiners rejected about thirty per cent. it Preserving Fish in Paper, Some interesting experiments in connection with the oarriage of fish were recently made by M, Alfred Gol des, president of the fishery gection of the Brussels Chamber of Commerce, Soles caught by Ostend boats off the Portuguese coast were packed in a special vegetable paper, and after sixteen days appeared in much better condition, as regards both freshness and flavor, than those packed in ice. This paper was recommended at the Ostend Fishery Congress of 1907 by Herr Solling, inspector of Danish figh #ries. It costs little and takes up hut small space.—Harper's Weekly, e W AR O S TN\ Seda % ~ . ‘....r R 4 '_: v W;}%?{‘* LL 08 D LT v @ MRS N PO o CVg N\l el I\I'i?"‘&’"‘"'""?::‘\wg 2KA o o & ¢.S ’, N SMAELERS St @ A g S e '\“:;;‘fé?k-.ff’ 4% ‘f : < B g€ / } ‘_‘3.‘“’ &‘}3\ls 'y .;} .'.I yn‘: \J A : .‘.‘v‘ k a 8 SR L 4 ‘DA W\ ik g EE @A A et S TOT Muarvinges Increasing, Neports show that there were S7!)3] more marriages this year in France | than last year, bringing the total! number for six months up to 160,- 630, the highest recorded in Fronch} history, except for the year 1872, ac counted for by ceremonies delayed by the Iranco-Prussian War, The new law makes it easy to marry and not so expensive, the old requiringf nineteen separate certificates and lheJ minimum cost $lO. With increasedi facilities for marriage more legal | births are recorded.-—Pitisburg Dis patch. | She Has Taught Fifty-six Yeavs, Mrs. Emma A. Stuckman, of Na panee, Ind., has entered upen her fifty-seventh year as a schoolteacher and her one-hundredth term in the schoolroom. She bhegan teaching at the age of fourteen years, in 1851, in a little log schoolhouse in Kosciusko County. Mrs. Stuckman has always kept abreast with the best thought of her profession by taking advantage of first-class periodicals and keeping in close touch with those whom she knew to be efficient. Fer brothers, sisters and many of her brothers-in law and sisters-in-law, her children, and even her husband, have been her pupils. One son, William, was grad uated in law and is now quartermas ter in the United States army. A Belting Jumper, : Embroidered linen belting, in white and color, may be hougzht by the yard, and a very clever little lady has used it to make herself a jumper. A dou ble thickness over the shoulder, from the waist line in the front to the waist line in the back, ig the founda tion of the garment, while a few straps acress the back and front give the whole a very jumper-like appear ance, The four loops at the waist line formed by the shoulder straps are used to slip the belt through, g 0 when it is worn with a white skirt and blouse the effect is of one of the pop ular one-piece dresses. It is just such an arrangement that makes it possible to wear a blouse and skirt without a coat.~—Pittsburg Dispatch, g ' Sheath Skirt in Sparta, A It may interest the devotees of the pheath gown to know that it does not date merely from the French Direct ory. Long before that period it was g Bur Cut-out Recipei‘ Chicken Rechauffe.—~Make a sauce with one-fourth cup | each butter, stock, flour and milk. Season with galt and { pepper. Take two cups diced chicken and three of mashed | potatoes beaten light with a fork. Mix with three table- | spoons butter, three beaten egg volks, salt and pepper. i Make border around the dish of potato roses, fill centrg with chicken and sauce, cover with coarse buttered bread crumbs, brush potatoes with beaten volk and brown in . oven. Place bunch of parsley and red radish cut into a , flower on top and serve. ] centuries old. It was introduced in Europe by Lycurgus or another of the old Spartan lawmakers, and it was the matrimonial agent of those times, uyecurgus or the other fellow no ticed the marriage license clerk wasn’t being kept busy ecnough for the good of the State, so he issued a decree that all unmarried women slash their gowns on one side or the other, As failure to obey his mandate meant death by one or another of the pleasant Spartan methods, the com mand was carried outwith such swift ress that soon the license clerk de manded more pay, Strange that the same skirt forbidden by law in France should have been enforced by law in Sparta. And the Spartan debutantes slashed their skirts much more freely than the most daring matron would dream of doing to-day, even with a drop skirt stopping the gap.—Pitts burg Dispatch, G 0 e o wnd e 3 :»A ;" Figure is Straighter, Word comes from Paris that the fashionable figure is becoming straighter, with less bust, more walst, a still greater dimunition of the hips and an unwarrantable length of limb until in a twilight every tree or um brella may turn out to be a woman. The corset that achieves this elonga ted torso is an astonishing contriv ance suggesting a cross between a swallow-tailed coat and a stove-pipe and is strapped down in the back to the stocking. Mme, Rejane gives a striking example of the way in which a large frame may be put into these required up-and-down lines. In a very long limp garment that might have suggested a winding sheet had it not been black and that clung about her limbs like scales on a fish, she appeared recently at a “va‘rnishing day.” With the untwining of her draperies, she displayed black patent leather shoes mounted on high ame thyst heels and adorned with ame thyst buckles. Lace stockings of the same hue gleaming through the black folds of her skirt were judiciously displayed at every step. A broad gauge sash, furiher accentuating her up-and-downness of line, was caught high on her waist, hanging in long straight folds weighted with heavy fringe, giving length at the expense‘ of every hair's breath of width,—Ar gonaut, | Lemember When Visiting. The girl who goes to other people’s houses as a guest, either for a fort night or a week-end, should be care ful about remembering certain things. She does not want her hostess to hope, at her departure, that she will never come again, If you are the guest, observe these rules: . Be punctual at meais. Don’t make engagements until you consult your hostess. " Don’t write to friends and ask them to call until you are sure that such visitors will be welcomed by your hostess. Don’t have your breakfast in your room unless the hostess urges it. Do not fail to provide your own writing paper, stamps and pen. Attend to your own laundry and be prompt about paying for it. Don't follow your hostess in all her tasks. Let her have some time to herself, Don’t play the piano while the chil dren are taking a nap. Don't stay beyond the day set for your departure unless something un usual happens. Take a half hour every morning for putting away your clothes and straighitening your room. Don’t leave everything to the housemaid.—ln dianapolis News. 5 Tnequalities Discussed, “I wonder,” said the philogophic woman to her companion, as they were bowed out of the luxurious wo man’s outfitting establishment by an obsequious attendant; ‘I wonder just how the girls in there who are show ing off these beautiful gowns are af fected by the experience? They are poor or they wouldn't be working there. " They can’'t own lovely gowns; vet they wouldn't be women if they didn’t long for them. It must be ‘tantalizing to be handling them, dis playing them sometimes on their own figures, seeing other women buying them.” ‘ “Other and frequently homelier women,'” added her companion, who . was a candid person. “The girl who just showed us those gowns ig better fitted to adorn &»} or be adorned by them, than either of us—better fitted physically, at least. She is handsome; we are not. She wouldn’t be human if she didn’t say to herself: ‘Why is it theso wo~ men ean wear these beautiful things, and can't, when they've done noth-"- ing except to belong to men folk who | know how to get a lot of money?’ She may not formulate that thought, but there must be something like it on her mind.” ] “And what follows?” “She may turn dishonest, she may turn bad, she may be religious, or high minded and not ecare, But, oh, the lne.quallty‘ot thingsl't ..o o L TN W ib . . g ;?:i;,»- A B ke L RS NEWES T G 3 file S 5 B FASHIONS, v o \ \ w 0 1 K K 2 2K S AN S | The new coats may be long and short, There are numerous ‘variationg upon the smoke and taupe grays. There seems to be a green in every kind of street fabric that is being shown, Too much of gilt is tawdry, but just a dash of it brightens otherwise som ber effects pleasantly, Lingerie in effect, yet appropriate to the season, are the Charlotte Cor day hats draped with taffeta, The kid walstcoat, made of limp leather and elaborate with braid, promises to have a great vogue. Stenciling and tinting waists in colors is a new way of decorating by which some delightful effects are pro duced, A suit of rich dark green broad cloth may be lightened by touches of gold In the braiding and a few gllt buttons, Some designs for belt buckles, brooches, ete., are charmingly col ored, conventionalized flower sube Jects in highly glazed enamel. Considerable height seems still to be requisite for the fashionable fig ure, judging from the new styles in skirts showing many transverse lines, A dainty little frock of silk mull ig made in princess fashion, The yoke and sleeves and the ceinture which joins the skirt and bedice together are formed of strips of Valenciennes lace, There is a particuiar attractiveness in the conjunction of velvet and lace, as there is also in that of lace and fur, and the fashions of thig season give wide range for combinations of this kind,