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mink sleeves. Almost never does ono
sec the all-cloth jacket or the allfur
ono, if it is Of this years buying. Those
who owned scal-sliin Jackets arc having
them combined With sable, otter, mink
or beaver, and those who buy anew, are
sure to get the combination jacket.
a few astrallhan coats sell to those
who arc in deep mourning, for it is
universally agreed that this fur is most
fashionable with mourning dresses.
House slippers are dainty enough to
court the drinking of champagne from
thcir immaculate depths. In all cases,
that is, in all fashionable cases, they
axactlY match the costume md. TO In
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sure this absolute harmony. they are
made from piece Of the dress goods.
1t costs only dollar or two beyond the
regular price to get slippers made from
ones own material and the beauty and
daintincss are sufficient TO repay the
outlay.
A lately imported dress is Of gray,
smooth cloth. The neck and wrists are
shirrcd with pink ribbons. With this
dress goes pair of pink stockings to
match the ribbon and slippers made
from bit OF the gray material. gray
strap passes around the ankle. making
charming contrast to the pink tint OF
the stocking.
Black stockings nre not worn nt all,
except with street dresses. Morning
stockings for the house are fine white
silk. or Isle, embroidered in white,
black or purple. lieliotrope hosiery are
displayed in the windows decorated
with pansies, violets und pale snow
drops. Occasional pairs of black stock
ings are permissible, but they must DC
heavily decorated with whatever garna-
ture ornaments the gown, whether it
be jets. beads, embroidery or feather
trimming. The last is pretty rs a
trimming around the top of the slipper,
if one can rid ones self of the feeling
that ones feet and ankles are bearing q
resemblance to those Of fcathered-
legged fowl
delicate fall OF lace was arranged
around the tops Of pair Of house slip
pers, the lace being continued over the
front of the slipper in pretty jabot,
until it ended in rosette ut the toe.
Any girl with u modicum Of ingenui-
ty. pair of old leather slippers and u
jar OF paint OF gliding can make. with
little trouble. II pair Of slippers TO match
her incest house dress, or d gilt pair
that will go with every costume These
homemade slippers wear very nicely
and are really rs nice as one needs for
occasional house wear. II one goes out
much or has plentiful supply Of mon
ey, the case is different.
street gown is in carmine tinted
pcau dc sole. with a hanging belt and
pendants of black gimp. The throat
and wrists are ornamented with feath-
err rufIlc.
Some one has discovered that chair
grown on the premises" is always more
stylish and becoming, or that it can be
ho'C 'iiolc StSIiSn ana becoming thGQ
any that is transferred from another
woman's head. and cngraftcd upon your
own. There are capabilities in ones
own hair, impossible for the hair-drcss-
cr who seeks to decorate one with tho
boughtcn article.
The height Of tho hair is, as the old
lady liked her bcefstcall, medium" IL
is gathered NJ the back of the head. and
is loosely braided, then it is carried up
and down the back Of the head in two
long broad bands, much longer than
they are wide. llairpins to match the
hair. black. goldor amber, are used for
retaining points.
Should the locks be too scanty 70 per-
nit such reckless display there is still
blessed balm left open by Dame
Fashion. 1t is the old coil known rs Il
French twist. The French twist of 81
will begin to coil almost at the crown
OF the head. where, after n single turn,
the hair will be fastened and curled over
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Remarkable Foresight.

inexperienced Young Wife (whose
husband has returned home for the first
time under the influenced Darling, you
are sick. Let me send for the doctor.
Husband Zone Of the boys)-No: don't
send for any doctor, but if my symptoms
don't improve soon, send for snake
charmer.-Lifc.
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nrc deceptive us to price. The cost ia
not ut oil commensurate with the size
of thc hat. A little one with puffcd
crepe DC chine crown, feather band bor-
der, ostrich tips ut the back and n
couple OF jet ornaments costs sixteen
dollars
Another one all black with black
cloth crown, Persian lamb band. silk
pon-pons and two Persian lamb heads
costs SlS. by leaving off the lamb
''hcads' the price is reduced to Sl2 If
you take your own materials there is
not much difference in the cost, for the
making of the toquc alone is SIS and the
frame and petty expenses" come to
three more.
For those who have regular features,
not too large, and naturally sweet cx-
preston the little nat toqucs, nearly
the shape of a brimlcss sailor hat are
becoming, covered plainly with silk or
other material In the front may be
Set cocks plume towering saucily
erect.
Coats arc greatly diversified by trim
mings and combinations OF fur, gimp
and braiding. An elegantly braided
Jacket, SO finely done that the cloth APP
pears almost as if brocadcd, can be had
for $50. 1t barely comes over the hips,
Is close fitting and has tight sleeves,
slightly pulled at the shoulders.
favoritc jacket is u combination OF
seal cloth md astralihan. There are
astralihan sleeves and IN astralShan vest
with nstralShan lapcls, collar and cuffs.
The body Of the coat is seal plush. These
are, likewise, quoted at about $50, if one
gets the silk plush and the real fur.
Another coat has braided body with
persian lamb sleeves. An elegant gar
mentts of heavy black cloth with full
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6uena Vista, Virginia,
Offers Free Sites to Substantial
Industries.


alrady tow" 900 inhabitants
town. with the promise OF a
Following Lst the Secured and in
iron Furnace (compcted)
ana Harness Factory
MILLS anu LUMBER ards Yin
Wire Fence Factory
Electric
OF Vista
So0o Lexington
estate one
on $40 O Engine Boiler Plant budng
PARTICULARS address A. II.
j u
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A Sufferer.
"What ails Joncs?"

w IIlU tlII!D UUIiVS!
"Flc says he is suffering from dys-
pcpsin."
Why, lie doesn't lool. like dyspcp-
'EIe isn't; but his employer is
Judge.
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An Objection.

ARE you q suitor for Miss Browns
hand?"
Yes, but didn't"
Didn't what?"
"Suitor Munscy's Weekly.
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CHAPTER XIV.

Israel Kafka spoke dreamily, resting
against the stone beside him. Words
dropped from his lips in Oriental imagery
as he told the story of his love for Unorna.
The Wanderer stood wondering; Unorna
almost trembling for the revelations she
feared. Israel .Kafka continued, the flowers
of his speech growing richer and richer.
Sand love was her first captive" said the
Morayian, "and her first slave. Yes, will
tell you the story of Unorna's life. She is
angry with me now. Well, let it be. It is
my fault-or hers. What matter? She
cannot quite forget me out of mind-and I?
Has Lucifer forgotten God?"
He sighed, and momentary light flashed
in his eyes. Something in the blasphemous
strength OF the words attracted the Wan
derer's attention. Utterly Indifferent him.
self, he saw that there was something more
than madness in the man before him. He
found himself wondering what encourage
ment Unorna had given the seed Of passion
that it should have grown to such strength,
and he traced the madness back to the love,
instead of referring the love to the madness.
But he said nothing.
"What is it that you would say?" Unorns
asked coldly. "What is this that you tell
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50 long-suffering.
"Sav all you have to say" she repeated,
coming forward so that she stood directly In
front of Israel Kafka. sand you" she adj
ded, speaking to the Wanderer, '1eaYe him
to me. He is quite right-I can protect
myself, if need any protection"
You remember how we parted, Unornaf"
said Kafka. ''It is a month to-day. I did
not expect greeting of you when I came
back, or if 1 did expect it, was foolish and
unthinking. 1 should have known you bet
ter. I should have known that there is
one-half of your word which you never
break-the cruel hall, and one thing which
you cannot forgive and that is my love for
you. And yet that is the very thing which
cannot forget. have come back to tell
you so. You may as we'll know it."
Unorna's expression grew cold as she saw
that he abandoned the strain of reproach and
spoke once more of his love for her.
Eyes, I see what you mean, he said very
quietly. "You mean to show me by your
face that you give me no hope. should
have known tina: by other things have
seen here. God knows, have seen enoughl
But meant to find you alone. I went to
your house, saw you go out, 1 followed
YOU, entered here-I heard all-and un-
derstand, for I know your power, as this
man cannot know it. Do you wonder that
1 followed you? Do you despise mea Do
you think still care because you do? Love
is stronger than the woman loved, and for
her we do deeds of baseness, ucblushIngly,
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broke up, but II is notable that the guests
were honorably suffered to retire. These
passed back through Taahauku in extreme
disorder. A little after the valley began to
be overrun with shouting and triumphing
braves, and letter of warning coming at
the same time to Mr.. Stewart, he and his
Cinnamon took refuge with the Protestant
missionary in Atuona. That night the store
was gutted, and the bodies cast In pit and
covered with leaves. Three days later the
schooner had come in, and thing. appearing
quieter, Mr.. Stewart and the Captain landed
IN Taahauku to compute the damage and to
view the grave, which was already indicated
by the stencil. While they were SO en-
ployed a party of Moipu's young men,
decked with red flannel to indicate martial
sentiments, came over the hills from Atuona,
dug up the bodies, washed them in the
river and carried them away on sticks.
That night the feast began.
Those who knew Mr., Stewart before this
experience declare the man to be quite al
tered. He stuck. however, to his post; and
somewhat later, when the plantation was
already we'll established and gave employ
ment to 80 Cinnamon and 70 natives, he
found himself once more in dangerous
times.
Saved by skilful Rifle Practice.
The men of Haamau, it was reported, had
sworn to plunder and erase the settlement;
letters came continually from the Hawaiian
missionary, who acted as intelligence de-
partment, and for six weeks Mr.. Stewart and
three other whites slept in the cotton house
at night in a rampant of bales, and (what
was their best defence) ostentatiously prac-
ticed rife shooting by day upon the beach.
Natives were often there to watch them the
practice was excellent; and the assault was
never delivered-if it ever was intended,
which I doubt, for the natives are more
famous for false rumors than for deeds of
energy.
Twas told the late French war was case
in point the tribes on the beach accusing
those in the mountains of designs which
they never had the hardihood to entertain.
And the sam testimony to their backward
nessin open battle reached me from all sides.
Captain Hart once landed after an engage
ment in q certain bay; one man had his
hand hurt, an old woman and two children
had been slain; and the Captain improved
the occasion by poulticing the hand, and
taunting both sides upon SO wretched an
affair. 1t is true these wars were often
merely formal-comparable with duels to
the FIRST blood. Captain Hart visited bay
where such war was being carried on be-
tween two brothers, one of whom had been
thought wanting in civility to the guests of
the other.
Took Turns at Mock Fighting.
About one-half of the population served
day about upon alternate sides, so as to be
well with each when the inevitable peace
should follow. The forts of the belligerents
were over against each other, and close BY.
Pigs were cooking. Well-oilsd braves, with
well-oiled muskets, strutted on the paepae,
or sat down to feast. No bust
ness, however needtul, could be
done, and all thoughts were supposed to be
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other routes. The whole apparatus weighed
5000 pounds, and therefore made quite q
large dent in one of the planets on her trial
trip.
The tail had an area of 1000 square feet,
and when jauntily thrown over the dash
board had tendency to obstruct the view.
This machine also was unable to rise from
its jimson weeds and soar away into the em-
pyrean blue like sandhill crane, but had to
be scooted along a railroad track at great
speed, down hill, till the proper velocity
was attained, and then by depressing the
tail it was supposed to rise like an eagle and
bark the shins Of planets yet unborn.
The Inventor Has Expired.
It did not do so. You can get the stock
low, or suburban property will be taken in
exchange. My annual pass has expired.
So has the inventor. When he took his fy-
ing machine out of the round house he was
the picture of health. When be was next
seen it was eight years later, and lad II
years old went up and got him out Of the
top of tree. He had changeda great deal.
He had lost most of his hair Also his
head. But his teeth were found buried in
the trunk OF the tree, and they had the name
of the maker in the roof Of the plate. 30 he
sfSs sidentiied.--yzs1oaaszazs' -''rs-ss -
In this country flying machines have had
a downward tendency until recently. I am
glad to notice that Chicago is taking an in
terest, and I shall certainly do everything I
can to advance and encourage the enterprise.
I wish had room to go on with the his
tory of flying machines and aeronautics in
this country, but it would take too long to
even publish the obituaries Of the inventors.
All have been confident, but all have failed.
What the Future Has in Store.
That is no reason, however, why the mat
ter should not yet succeed in the future.
Far be it from me to speak slightingly of
the glorious possibilities in store for us. 1t
is only few years since passel Of bright
young humorists sat on the banks Of the
Hudson and laughed till they ached as they
watched the awkward thrashing machine
of Robert Fulton.
But where are they to-day? They are
dead, and no man seeks to dig out the mass
and read their unremembered names. They
laughed and then they died. Fulton CON
sidered and lived on. He laughs best who
laughs last. If you desire to make hit,
laugh at some of your own odd breaks, But
if YOU want oblivion to have a cinch upon
your fame, laugh at the shiny elbows and
ragged knees of genius and progress.
BILL NYE.
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FIRST WHITE SETTLERS,
And Their Thrilling Adventures
With Man-Eating Warriors.
TIE FATE OF A MAN, OF HAAMAU
Who Suffered Some Young Men Of Atuona
to Grind His Az for Him.
RIFLE PRACTICE PREVENTS MASSACRE
twHrTTEN FOR THE pIsPArcH.l
Letter No. 4.


Taahauku, on the southwesterly coast o.
Extraordinarily, say the sloYenly whites
may be called the port of Atuona. 1t is a
narrow and small anchorage, set between
low, cliffy points, and opening above upon
q woody valley. A little French fort, now
disused and deserted, overhangs the valley
and the inlet. Atuona itself, at the head of
the next bay, is framed in theater Of
mountains, which dominate the more imme-
diate settling of Taahauku and give the
salient character of the scene. They are
reckoned at no higher than 4, 900 feet; but
Tahiti with S,000 and Hawaii with Is, 600,
can offer no such picture of abrupt, melan-
choly alps.
On the side away from Atuona the shell
tering promontory was nursery Of cocoa
trees. Some were mere infants, none had
attained to any size, none had yet begun to
shoot skvward with that whip-like shaft of
the mature palm. In the young trees the
color alters with the age and growth. Now
all is of grass-like hue, infinitely dainty;
next the nib grows golden, the fronds re-
naming green as ferns; and then, as the
trunk continues to mount and TO assume its
fnal hue of gray, the fans put on manlier
and more decided depths OF verdure, stand
out dark upon the distance, glisten against
the sun, and fash like silver fountains IN
the assault of the wind.
A Combination of All the Hues.
In this young wood of Taahauku all these
hues and combinations were exampled and
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the back are not severe, and have already
signed them. They bind me not to stand on
the platform while the car is in motion un-
less properly chalked or rosined. They also
oblige me to refrain from bringing suit
against the company in case of accident.
OF course would not be so pesky low down
as to sue corporation which would give
me free ride.
am very grateful for the pass, and If
do not avail myself of it know of man
who used to ask me to loan him my railroad
pass. will let him 60, perhaps, in my
place over the road the first time, and then
when it is better ballasted will 20 myself.
He Had Several Other Passes.
Ihave several other passes over competing
lines-air lines, as it were-issued years ago
and decorated on the back with low cut con-
ditions. The Besnier flying machine, for
instance, invented by a gentleman of the
above name residing IN Sable, France, issued
passes some years ago. and have carried
mine now until it has careworn look which
casts q gloom over aerostation and such
things as that.
The first thing to be accomplished in sue
cessful aerostation is to overcome the force
of gravity and the resistance of capitalists.
The next Is to overcome the force of gravity
or provide easy and convenient places upon
which to alight. The third requirement is
that the aeronaut shall be able to guide his
rolling stock in such way as to avoid run
ming into a brighter and more beautiful
world.
Could Keep Himself From Falling.
NJ. Besnier, who was locksmith of Sable
pronounced Sablay), invented flying ma
chine which consisted of four rectangular
wings arranged In pairs at opposite ends of
two rods passing over the shoulders, the rear
e1tremities of the -ods being connected by
cords to the ankles of the remains-the
wearer mean-ln order to enable his legs
to pay their way by operating rear set of
wings.
Besnier was not able to rise from the
ground and soar away like lark, but could
climb to the top of a house, and after put
ting on his wings could fioal off in such
way as not to hurt himself so severely as you
might think be would. M. Besnier once
few across river where friends with hot
spieed rum and nice dry. warm clothes were
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Repeated Uy the score. Inc trees grew pleas
anuy spaced upon i hlily sward, here and
there interspersed with a rack for driving
Copra, OF a Uumble-down hut for storing it
Every here and there the stroller had a
glimpse of the Casco tossing in the narrow
anchorage below, and beyond he had ever
before him the dark amphitheatef of the At
uOna mountains and the cliffy bluff that
closes it to seaward. The trade wind mov-
ing in the fans made a ceaseless noise of
summer rain, and from time to time, with
the sudden and distant drUmbeat, the surf
would burst in a sea cave.
AT the upper end of the inlet, its low,
clify lining sinks at both sides into a
beach. A copra warehouse stands in the
shadow Of the shoreside trees, fitted about
forever by a clan of dwarfsh swallows, and
q line Of rails on a high wooden staging
bends back into the mouth OF the valley.
Walking on this, the new landed traveller
becomes aware of broad fresh-water lagoon
Zone arm of which he erosses), and beyond
OF a grove of noble palms, sheltering the
house OF the trader, Mr.. Keane.
The Music of South Sea Nature
Overhead, the cocoas join in continuous
and lofty roof; blRckbirds are heard Justify
singing; the island cock springs his jubi-
LIANT rattle and airs his golden plumagei
COW bells sound far and near in the grove;
and when you sit in the broad veranda,
lulled by this symphony, you may say TO
yourself, if you are able: Better 80 years
In Europe ~
Further on, the floor of the valley is fat
and green and dotted here and there with
stripping cocoa palms. Through the midst,
with many changes OF music, the river trots
and Orawls; and along its course, where we
snould look Tor willows, buraos glow In
clusters, and make shadowy pools after an
anglers heart. A vale more rich and
peaceful, sweeter air, sweeter voice OF
rural sounds 1 have Iound nowhere. One
circumstance alone might strike the ex-
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Fiieshire voice. In spite of this dire intro
duction he accepted the Captains offer, was
landed at Taahauku with three Chinamen,
and proceeded to clear the jungle.
War was pursued at that time, almost
without interval, between the men of Atuona
and the men Of Haamau; and one day, from
the opposite sides of the valley, battle-or
should rather say the noise of battle-raged
all the afternoon; the shots and insults of
opposing clans passing from hill to hill
over the heads of Mr. Stewart and his
Cinnamon. There was no genuine fighting;
it was like a bicker of schoolboys, only
some fool had given the children guns. One
man died Of his e1ertions in running, the
only casualty. With night the shots and
insults ceased; the men of Haamau with
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Come. birdie, come,
And fy with me.
Couldn't Fly With the Hired Girl.

Couldn't Fly With the Hired Girl.
He broke his leg while trying to fly with
hired girl weighing 1856 pounds. In after
years he wore a cork leg, and when his wife
wished him to fold his wings and come off
tie perch she would lock up his cork leg in
her bureau drawer aud conceal the key in
the family Bible. Being a Free Thinker,
he never discovered the key, and for many
years was at the mercy OF his wife.
About century and quarter later
Jacob Degen, prisoner at Vienna, con-
structed an apparatus having two um mbrella-
ike wings on each side of the operator and
worked by manual power. He was con-
vict, however, and the rather rigid rules
governing prison life interfered with his
e. per ments. The jailer would allow him
to fy to height of 80 feet, but had cord
attached to the machine SO that Degen
could not escape.
One day he cut the rope and scared away
into the ether blue; but as he was putting
his thumb to his nose in an attitude of
derision at the warden his off wing buckled
to, and moment later he fell with dismal
plunk into mortar bed just outside the
penitentiary. After that he wore look of
chastened sorrow and truss.
Trouble About Floating the Stock.
The great difficulty experienced BY the
flying machine men of all ages is to over
come the atmospheric influences sufficiently
to float the stock. Besnier wanted also to
be able to rise by his own unaided efforts,
like a seli-made aud sockless statesman. He
wanted to be able to light out when
"shooed," but whether be "shooed" or
"shooed not" he died unsatisfed. Poor
mani he did not know whether he shooed or
shooed not skip through the aeronaut
This is what call reciprocity Joke It
is for use in our trade with England. Poetry
written by Lord Tennyson taken in e1-
change. Better jokes offered, however, in
trade for Tennyson's earlier work. done
when he was poet
In the manufacture of flying machines We
are apt to forget that the pectoral muscles
of bird are greater than all the other COM
bined muscular tissue of the fowl put to-
gether, while in man the pectoral muscles
comprise only one-seventieth Of those In the
body. So man must rely upon extraneous