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trimmed with chantilly lace. made panier STYLE
and draped full in the back. lr 1s lined with
crimson silk and the drapery Is fastened with
let ornaments.
4 VERY HANDSOAs WRAP for matron has q
foundation Of black net covered with cut beads
At the bottom are plaitings Of Spanish lace,
headed with cut bead ornaments From beneath
the bottom plating falls chenille fringe about
twelve inche. wide. A 1abot Of lace passes
around the neck and down each side.
SUFFICIENT has been heard and seen to en-
able Us to predict that nne cotton fabrics are
likely to be highly fashionable throughout the
summer. The popularity Of prints. eateens.
lawns and mrsiins II to be very great. This
sounds very like economy, but the impression
that materials that cost % little q yard Inva-
riabiy tend to reduce expenditure 10 q fallacy Of
which last year gave many convincing proof.
Ladies who live in cities find In the end that q
washing dress, with lace trimmings Of T0rchon,
or Medicl even, il about the most expensive in
yestment they can make, costing really more
than silk, since the laundress charges such an
Sxtravag2nt sum every time Hte lays her reno
waiting hand upon Il.
Foa sUHHER TOILETS for good wearing use
fancy checked silks viii be in greater demand
than ever. Two costumes made Of these fabrics
are pretty models. The first Is fine pin check
In blue and gold. Three shell and rose-pIeated
fufles trim the underskirst and the panier-tunic
= edged with dark blue Spanish lace. The point
81 bodice IL trimmed around the throat and
Down each side of the front with falls Of Spanish
lace, end 10 closed with tiny gold and blue en-
emel buttons. The second dress Is of shep-
herds plaid In black and white the underskirt
laid In kits all the way down. The oveTdress
II sf1irred to the jersey and is short and iaunty
Hoped fun and high on one side. with an enor.
nous knot and ends OF blac,R velvet ribbon.
Above this Is the BLACK velvet Jersey. with \
bouquet Of artificial wood Strawberries sci on
the left side among q mass OF black Spanls.,
Tee rallies pleated around the necS
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e.
see that message again. We must look at this
| matter tn cool, business-like way"
"Of course You can. couldn't; 1t nearly
| drove me mad"
"um-un-um," buzzed the young barrlster,
| reading the telegram. 'Bigamy Is an awkward
offense against the law. minimum. Let's
| see, you received this telegram this morning?"
Yes, and packed up and came off at once.
Lesby thinks it's important business regarding
money affairs"
'Humph!" said Reston, holding the TELEGRAM
first on one side, then on tho other, and then
between himself and the light as If expecting
to obtain brain Illumination that way. while
| John Audas watched his movements with
Look here. Jack, Reston said at last s1t's
one of the principles inthe law to believe nothing
until it can be proved"
Eyes, of course" aaid Audas
well, look here. then, old fellow, how do we
know that this telegram is truei"
"Oh, it's genuine enough"
"HOw do you know ?"
Glow do I-eh? What! how do know ?"
Yves, will repeat my question dozen times
II you like, my good SIR" said Reston. involun-
'.how do yoa know that this telegram is true !
1t may be hoax"
"What ?" roared Audas.
II say it may be hoax"
John Audas got up, drew long breath,
clenched his fist. aud began walking mn and
down the room.
IL say it may be trick" said Restou again.
'Tf it Is, and get hold of him who did it. IN
| treat him like Iwould q nut, growled the great
fellow.
"Humphi wouldn't do that" said Reston.
quietly Watching him. ''Manslaughter's worse
than bigamy."
"Here, say" painted Audas, implorinply.
'don't say that last word again: can't bear
It,"
'Besides. It might have been done by jeal-
GUS woman. It's rather feminine looking
trick"
Couldn't be, Frank, old fellow, for never
take notice of women. I'm all for horses and
dogs. I've neglected poor Lesby Tor them"
"Hah!" said Rest0n. "Well, you want my adj
vice. eh2"
'Yea, old fellow, II you win help me. Look
here; go down to Folkestone and see what you
can DO with her. Promise anything, only tell
ner she can't have me again. I'll blow out my
Dent ,a be fool, Jack. You'd like me to see
as NINE"
| , Frank Reston rose and touched the bell
usfe. 60 ana get . sixpenny Bradshaw" he
| saiu 10 the man who appeared.
Audas exeitedly. 49,. =
"Yon leave matters - me- said the brother
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due to one thing, which found voice In the words,
"Ah II my first WIFE," ETC.
"Jack loves her." said Frank Reston to him.
self, as he lay in bed that night, "she worships
him, and they are not happy. Jack Audas is
most amiable little darling that ever breathed,
and yet they don't seem ~ they should be-.
Hang his first wife Humpf! we'll no; she's de-
ceased. What fool the man is to poison his
cup OF happiness like this By iove, what q
good thing It would be II Lesby had danger
Gus ut OF sickness; It would bring Jack to his
senses, and-heigh, ha, ha, hum, how sleepy I
am-and-"
That was ALL for he dropped or to sleep 1t
once. But he had similar thoughts to these
every night during his stay, and again on his
OF his visit, and even then Ibis hr0ther-in-law
being half offended because he would not, as
Andas said, ''make It few more DAYS."
my first wife had been alivel II my first
wife had been aliye!" The very beat of the
train seemed to pour those words into Frank
over the matrimonial situation at the Con
pices. wy
"Poor little Lesby! He'll break her heart " e
said to himself II do not wonder at it. She
feels iealOusly miserable about that first wife.
wish now had spoken to Jack"
"No, I don't" he said after little more
thinking; ut would not have been WISE"
perhaps something may happen to bring
him to his senses, he said. after another pause:
something always does happen"
And then he read The Times till he reached
town.
Frank Reston sat in his dingy room hard at
work over brief-n0t his first; but these docu-
ments were sufficiently rare visitants to make
him study those which came with the most In
tense application.
Probably from desire that tho deep truths
that he 1leaned from the carefully writtpn folioo
before him should not escape after being once
taken into his head, the Young barrister was
resting his brow upon his hands. his elbows
were upon the table, and his thumbs over his
ears. aii'e, as from time to time he read few
@c-ds out aloud, it seemed In the seni-obscnr-
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Rutland Business Cards.
BERWICK HOTEL,

q f RICHARDSON, PrOpr,
RUTLAND VERNON +
Heated Throughout by Seam.
Good Sample Rooms, Billiard Room and
Livery Stable connected with the Hotel
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The other day stranger made his
appearance in the office Of Baltimore
man and presented a letter of intro
duction to the effect that he was Mr..
Blank, of Denver, who had come east
to see about organizing company to
develop a silver mine. The Baltimore
an read the letter and then stood up
and called:
james! james,,
James appeared at the door with a
broom in one hand and waste-basket
in the other, and the gentleman con-
tinued:
"James, go down to the night-watch.
mans office and borrow his shotgun"
"Excuse me, sir. but-but," stam-
mered the silver man as he reached
for his hat-"but is this something
new?"
"Just wait a moment" replied the
gentleman, as he walked to and fro.
BEG pardon-but excuse me, you
know-see you again good morning.
gasped the speculator, as he backed
out. and he went down stairs like a
man who expected every instant to
feel charge of bird shot rapping she
pickets off his back fence. Singular
that man with a silver nine should
come east to be rs easily discouraged
as that,
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Death from Emotion.

From America, says the London
Lancet, comes the record Of a very in.
structive case in which Il man died
from fright, and where the death mar.
rowly escaped being attributed to
ether. The patient had received Sc
we're injury to his hip during some
blasting operations. Some days after
the injury consultation was held in
the Wilkesbarre Hospital, and it was
considered necessary to administer
ether. The man objected to this and
urged that his heart was weak, but ii
was considered necessary to anesthe'
tise him. This decision seemed to af,
feet the man strongly; he breathed
with great difficulty, asked for the win
doWs to be opened, and died in few
minutes. No ether or other anwsthet'
ic had been administered and he had
not suffered any pain from the partial
examination Of the hip that had been
made. No particulars of the actual
state of the heart are given, but we
are told that ''murmur' was present
There is no difficulty, however, in trac'
ing the death to powerful inhibitory
influence upon weak heart. Had the
surgeons begun to administer ethel
this death would have been wrongfully
attributed to the effects of the auRs,
thetic.
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A Monster Prison.

The largest prison in Europe is the
house of detention, which has just
been completed at Berlin. The enor-
nous ediice comprises six separate
buildings, to which have been trans
ferred all the prisoners awaiting trial
who have hitherto been confined in
the various prisons of Berlin. The
prison for men consists of ground
floor and four other stories, with 732
separate cells, dormitories for 1875 pris-
oners, besides forty rooms for turnkeys,
and sleeping Accommodations for llS
attendants. Each of the 732 cells has
window ten feet high. There are
six cells in the basement for prisoners
who are refractory to discipline, and
in the basement are also to be found
the kitchens, the bathrooms and the
heating apparatus of the prison. The
internal part of the prison is con
structed of iron, and is 50 built that
all the corridors look out upon CEN
tral hall which commands view of
every CELL The prison for men which
is separated from the rest of the build
ing by wall sixteen feet high, also
contains only seventy cells and fifteen
large dormitores, the latter of which
are divided into sections, each con-
taing bed, which can be locked up
every night after its occupant has re-
tired to rest.-LOndon Ne,oS.
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Public attention is being awakened
by recent official reports regarding the
alarming increase of suicide. The eX-
act returns are only obtainable from
certain countries in Europe. These
show that 10000 Europeans shuttle
off the mortal coil" each year, which is
an average annual rate of one in 5000
of the population. Taking into ac-
count the motives for concealing the
fact of deliberate self-destruction, such
as annoyance to family and friends, re-
fusal of religious burial, confscation
of property, etc, the undetected cases
would likely enlarge the official esti-
mates by half as many again.
Upon such data as can be collected,
it appears that the average rate of
suicide is five times greater now than
it was century ago. Writers who
have made study of Systematically
gathered statistics on the subject
assert that this sad phase of civiliza-
ton is governed by general laws.
operating in certain limits, rigidly and
universally. 1t is shown that suicide
is more common in civilized than in
semi-ciyili2ed or barbarous countries
more in northern than in southern lat
itudes; more in summer than in win
ter: more in cities than in rural dis
tricts; more among the educated peO-
pie than among the illiterate; more
among working people than profession
al people, and more among the poor
than the well-to-do.
According to the table of NJ Maur-
ice Block, who is considered the best
statstican On this subject, the Danes
kill themselves the most and the Por-
tuguese the least. SaXony, Prussia,
France and Norway follow next to
Denmark, and after these come sue
.cessively Bavaria, England, Belgium,
Austria, Russia, Italy and Spain.
The number of suicides in Denmark
during the decade lS6S-19 was 4I1o.
or 37G9 males and 1864 females. OF
these it appears 81 individuals were
less than fifteen years of age, 2OS
between fifteen and twenty, $40 be-
tween twenty and thirty, 6l7 between
thirty and forty, ll32 between fifty
and sixty, SlS between sixty and
seventy, and 405 above seventy As
to the mode of death, 37l4 hanged
themselves, 7j4 drowned themselves,
and the next largest number resorted
to firearms.
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life, and none too soon, for Jacob Hop.
per had seized the wooden rake in his
wrath.
"Ihe Lord be good to met said the
repentant old man, as the sound of the
banging kitchen door warned him that
Miss Hetty had got beyond the reach
of his rage. al never struck n woman
yet, but | dunno what ] might be
tempted to do if that creetur had stay.
ed on here"
Mary Barlow was wedding her china
aster bed, when cousin Jacob trudged
slowly and painfully up to the black,
smiths shop.
"Mary," said he, "have you planted
them bulbs?'
"Yes, cousin Jacob"
"Well, you may dig 'em up ag'in," ,"
groaned the old man. "They amt
nothin' but red onions. Hetty give
you the wrong lot. She billed the dol.
lar-bulbs in a stew that tasted like old
newspapers, I'm p'isoned, for all |
know. And | dunno that it makes
much difference whether ! be or not. ."
ooh, cousin!'
"Mary," pursued cousin Jacob, "do
you S'pose your mother would come
back to keep house for me? Hetty
Boone is going tonight. hain't been
halfway comfortable since she came
to keep my house. And if you and
Bella would come, too, I'd let him have
the farm on shares. Somehow, I'm
lonesome without you. And these
gladiola bulbs have opened my eyes.
You nor your mother wouldn't have
made such a blunder as that. | amt
ashamed to own that I've been in the
wrong, and you in the right. Will you
Gomez
"1es, cousin jacob Mary answer
ed, heartily kissing the old man.
So ended the reign of Miss IIetty
Boone. The fate of the gladiola bulbs
had sealed her doom. And all the
stipulation that cousion Jacob made,
was that their common table should
never be desecrated by the presence of
onion stew.
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Cremation is fashionable among the
Indians Of Arizona.
The Washington Monument now
weighs 10000 tons
Excessive heat has caused the death
of all the fish in Lake Merritt, near
Oakland, Cal, the water becoming SO
warm that they could not stand it.
OF all the fortified country houses
which once existed in England, Play
ford Hall is the only one which now
las water in the moat surrounding it.
Santa Barbara, Cal. claims to have
on exhibition genuine blood-sucking
vampire. 1t has the head Of kitten,
the body of gopher, and the wings OF
a bat.
AT Franklin, st. Mary's Parish, La,
the postmaster, editor, recorder, justice
of the peace, constables, members Of
the Legislature, and several merchants
are all colored.
Angela Cordelia, a Nevada miner,
claims to be the strongest man in the
world. His bones are all extraordi-
narily massive, though he weighs but
1873 pounds. He can lift 200 pounds
with one finger.
The Atlantic Monthly says a curious
blunder is that whereby we call the
Russian capital st. Petersburg, when
rightfully it is simply Petersburg,
being named for Peter the Great, and
not for the celestial gatekeeper.
Chinese doctors consider all delirous
patients possessed of demons. Medi-
cine is then abandoned, u Chinese
band summoned, the sick bed decorated
with iirecrackers, and the priests
armed with magic fire. At a given
signal the band strikes up, the fire.
crackers set off, and the patient usually
dies, which is conclusive evidence that
he was possessed,
In the town of Zoar Ohio, al the
money earned by the inhabitants goes
into one common treasury. The ne
|
cessaries of life, including food, pro-
visions and garments, are furnished
by the village officials, consisting of
three trustees and committee of five,
who are annually elected by ballot.
The village contains about three hun
dred inhabitants, which number has
been the same since 1917, and never
increases or decreases to any noticeable
extent There are no preachers, but
all the people are devout, worshipping
after the manner of the Friends.
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The Outer and the Inner Life.

h""s "i'hiu WhiVl pussetil BLOW. -lAhL
There is song within the Tyre
That never yet was sung;
Unborn it lies upon each wire
That loosely hangs unstrung,
Until the minstrel's hand shall strain
The slackened cords in tune again,
The bards creative spirit give
That song vocal soul to live.
There is form that marble holds
Beneath its surface rude,
Deep in the unhewn heart it folds
Beauty no eye has viewed,
Until the sculptor's hand shall scale
Each layer off that stony veil,
Until at last shall stand displayed
The perfect form OF loveliest maid.
There is poem never told
Within the poets soul,
Like tabled streams DER beds of gold
Beneath the earth that roll,
Until some spell resistless wake
The soul in rhythmic song to break,
As bursts the stream into the light,
Bubblins with golden glory bright.
There Is love nor tongue nor lips
Fer told its deep desire;
Burning the heart, it silence keeps
Like subterianean fire;
Until some mighty passion-gust
Breaks through the outward icy crust,
Aud burning lava-words reveal
That love the heart would iain conceal.
The songs unsung, unhewn the stone,
The poems rhyme untold,
The hidden fire of love unshown
Beneath the surface cold.
'Tis better thus: the secret kept
The wound unseen, the woe unwcpt
The outer lies deceitlul show,
The inner lite that none may know.
John +. walter.
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Just a Way He Has.

City boarder to farm hand: why
does that old looking fowl make that
curious noise?" THAT rooster that
Jest crowed? Oh that's jest a way he
has, ma'am, of signifyin' that he's a
high flyer from up the creek, and can
lick all creation, and that he's happy
because he amt old enough by eleven
years to make pot pie for summer
boarders,"
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She Never Was.

"Charley Bodington was in here the
other night and made me miserable fol
a couple of hours" said Miss Nimble,
ting to her bosom friend one morning.
Don't you like him?'
mo, l detest him.
"yhy, he just told me as met him
on the street, that he called, and you
said you were never more delighted t.
see him."
swell, what of that? never was
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A Missing Quarter.

AS an instance of the exactness ex.
ercised in the United States treasury
department, the following is related :
The cashier of the Farmers National
bank. Bucks county, Penn, recently
received remittance of 81, 900 in sill
yer from the treasury department at
Washington. The remittance was
found to be twenty-five cents short
and Treasurer Wymon was at once no
titled. A prompt reply, inclosing a
twenty-five cent piece, was received
The reply stated that at the conclusion
of the monthly examination Of moneys
at the office a twenty-five cent piece
was found on the floor of the silver
vault, which the examiners were una.
BILE to account for. 1t is supposed that
in weighing the coin this piece must
have accidentally dropped on the floor,
and was not observed at the time.
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Torpedo Warfare.

Torpedo attack in warfare is receiv'
ing pretty close study abroad, and
English authorities are viewing the
subject in almost every possible light,
Altogether, it seems that the attack
has considerably the best of the de,
fense in this case, for after summing
up all the known methods of resisting
torpedo boat attacks, there seems to
be comparatively little comfort to be
gained. Torpedo nettings, the use Of
torpedoes from the ship which is at.
tackled, machine guns and direct fire
of large artillery are all considered,
and in each case the verdict has been
there is more uncertainty than is de,
sirable The fast torpedo boats, capa.
BILE of discharging either long project.
lies or torpedoes, having enormous
bursting charges are decided ugly Gus.
toners, and no certain way has so far
been suggested by which their attacks
may be diverted. 1t is all the more
unsatisfactory because the small tor.
pedo boats can easily discharge such
missiles at IA speed considerably great.
er than that of the fastest iron-clads
now ahoat, many Of them being able
to keep speed of twenty miles an
hour for more than an hour at time,
while but few, if any of the iron-clads
will be able to make anything like
that speed after having been at sea
two or three months. The final out.
come of all the suggestions seems to
be that Gatling guns of one-inch bore
are, so far as known, the most effect
i've weapon against torpedo boat.
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a Bachelors Wager.

a bachelorlawyer at the Luzerne
(Pa.) bar has a pretty cousin, at
each recurrence of whose birthday
he is esteemed entitled to the cous-
inly privilege of a kiss, though he
always has to fight for it. Lately,
the birthday having gone by dur
ing a business trip on which he
was away, he asked if he might
not have his kiss Notwithstanding.
To tins she stronuously objected,
She paid no bills, she said, when
the creditor allowed pay day to pass
without calling on her. He pro-
posed a game Of euchre, on which
he would stake a pair of gloves
against his cousinly privilege. She
agreed, and she won. Then he
stakcd a box Of bonbons. She as
sented and won again. Then
handkerchief, stockings and other
articles Of female apparel and
adornment were put up, and the
bachelors luck grew no better.
They played eleven games and she
was victor in them all. Being in
Philadelphia a few days later, the
loser called at a leading dry-good=
house to make his purchases. ii
was not a difficult task to ask fol
the gloves and the handkerchicfs,
but when it came to the stockings
he was non-plussed. Finally he
left it to the shop-girl, who sold