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centre of his own farm by giving half of the
land in alternate blocks to the railway people,
He was already well-to-do and riches were in
prospect, for Bellevue had BOOM
Johnny Lyon walked up Bell avenue on the
board sidewalk towards the Bell mansion. A
lady was approaching young, beautiful and
handsomely appareied. She felt her fine
clothes and she walked every inch queen.
Johnny's heart went pit-a-pat. Could it be
possible that it was his sweetheart. Yes, it
certainly was Isabella Bell. AS he approached,
his eyes took in a. very altered situation, but
he could not see what was perfectly plain to
the young doctor who stood moment in
front of the drug store, for what her greaser
relatives prettily called buenG esperanza, was
the happy lot of the lady before him.
"Good morning. Aren't you Miss Isabella
Bell?"
Plump went the little well-gloved hand in
Johnny's rough paw, as the lady looked him
over and said
can you are Johnny Lyon. An SO you've
come back again. Well you look real
hansom.'
eyes. Bella, I've come back again. I've got
things fixed an I've come back to marry
YOU"
''You can't do that Johnny"
81 can't do that? Why can't do that,
BeIla?" --~s
''You can't do that, coz I'm married al
ready!''
"Oh, Bella, married already"
The lady looked at him with Klnaiy sym-
pathy, butvery proudly withal, and replied:
eyes, I've married a road agent"
"Married- a-road -agentr'
"WeI, if you are SO particular, not exactly
road agent, but a railroad agent, and that is
just as good.
He had dropped her hand and she thrust
it vigorously into her pocket.
Johnny
"Wel, Bella
'You've come back here q purpose to marry
me?"
eyes"
cam it NUS nave cos, go gooo deal of
money. I'm Mrs. Isabella Mills now, wife
of the road agent, Mr.. William Mills. I've
got money an he'll give me more when I
want it."
81 am glad you're all right" said Johnny.
dolorousy.
''That amt it., said the lady, 81 want to
help You out. Name yer flgger."
By this time Johnny was rapidly walking
up the cross street. The lady looked after
him thoughtfully moment and then pursued
the even tenor of her way, the proud and
happy wife of Mr.. William Mills, the road
agent. FRANK WELLS.
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COAL EXHAUSTION
Olner sources OF Energy For MOtivA
Power BEING Considered.


Many people wonder; and not unnaturally,
why we should be dolorously discussing the
question ofcoal exhaustion, at the same time
in every way that we can think OF, striving TIC
use up all the coal in sight as rapidly as pos.
sible, while we allow billions, trillions O!
horse power which nature offers us for the
taking from storehouses that cannot be ex.
hausted while rain falls and sun shines upor
the earth, to go laundering, unheeded, by.
True, there has been for long time some
talk about claiming the mighty forces of the
tide, and compelling all the great waterfalls
to turn machinery.
Somewhere on California's coast. we are
told, there is pump, actuated by the tidal
waves of the Pacific, that raises water five
hundred feet to be used as a source of power.
We are also told that the number OF wind
mills is increasing, and that more turbines
and water wheels are used in each succeeding
year. But we venture to say that all the
yearly increase of power taken from these
three sources would not suffice to supply the
"Campania," and the "Lucania,' % with travel
ing force.
There is, however, a company chartered in
New York, having for its object the turning
into light, heat and other Useful forms of
energy, of one hundred thousand of the ten
millions of horse power that are represented
by the word Niagara" The one hundred
thousand horse power that is to be secured
will be taken by turbines of from five thou
sand horse power down, and first converted
through alternating dynamos into electricity,
will be transmitted over wires to factories
and mills, mostly in the neighborhood, but
some, it is thought, as far away as New York
city.
aided by the still wonderful facility afforded
by the alternating dynamo and copper wire
for the TRANSMISSION of energy from where it
can be captured to where it is wanted for use,
and spurred on by our ever-increasing needs
and the difficulty of obtaining coal, the clos
ing year OF the nineteenth century, in which
we have achieved such wondrous mechanical
progress, should witness the general utiliza-
ton, for manufacturing, lighting, and trans
portation purposes, of those bounteous forces
OF nature that will and must be expended and
the waste of which is as though steam were
allowed to escape from the boiler without
first passing through an enigma
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pique. We have seen some pretty suits Win
blush tints, but the Oxford gray, which, you
know, is very dark, is thought to be more
stylish, and it is said to be more effective,
land it is certainly very attractive when worn
with a light or pale blue vest. These vests
! are mostly single-breasted, and button close
! up to the throat; but, as the warm weather
comes on, they will be worn low, with notch
4 ed revers, collar, and linen chemisette, with
standing collar and small black cravat.
=; What are called "dressmakers tailor-made
gowns differ from those that are strictly
tailor made, in being less simple. They
should be worn in the afternoon as we'll as
morning, and consist usually of skirt with
a short cape of some wooden stuff. If a coat
is preferred to the cape, the modiste trims it
with revers and colored mauve, and at least
a velvet collar, high at the back, as in mems
coats.
a pretty fancy il the new checked silks is
that OF blueish white, with mauve of the
special rosy tint. that is pink in the gas-lit
room in the afternoon, and clear lilac when
the wearer comes out into the daylight. A
plain blue skirt exceedingly full in the back, is
on most new silk gowns. A calling Dress with
very slight paniers, is a taffety with fine close
stripes of pale green and white. The trim
ming is green and white baptiste embroidery
in open design, wrought with black, and con-
sequently black is used elsewhere on the
gown. The most paniers stand out from the
hip In puff, simply made by lengthening
the side breadths and doubling them at the
top In fluffy rufde. Black is introduced in
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continue, and to return with increasing vio-
lence. The best Of all remedies is to cultivate
cheerful disposition, for cheerfulness is
habit. just as much as is worrying, and at the
same time to do ones daily work with that
quiet deliberation that results in accomplish
ing much more than when one is urged on by
haste till nervousness and irritabiIity ensue
All mental effort should be avoided for two
hours at least before going to bed. The food
should be simple and wholesome Colo
baths should be taken, wherever the consti
tuition will stand it, and after time the
nerves will be trained back to healthfulness
and sick headaches will become thing Of
the past
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inch wide black satin ribbon, descending
each side. of the front breadth, to meet a
bright open rufled bow of the same, and
similar ribbons go up the waist front to
end in a wired bow on each shoulder. A
featuresof the handsome black silk dresses is
that of having the front of the waist open ON
a full gathered blouse of ecru baptiste,
wrought in open: embroidery, and fastened
over white or colored silk.
AS the trimmings are an important factor
in all gowns, some Of the prettiest crepon
dresses are of dark blue, brown or black, and
have round belted waist covered with ecru
baptiste embroidery. Jet trimmings and
black ,mauvei are very simply arranged on
other black crepon waists that are also belted.
Very full sleeves are gathered in wide blends
Of mauve that open back in the little cuffs
from the hand. The skirt for any one of
these waists is entirely without trimming,
depending for its beauty on the ample width,
and also on the pretty frou-frou or silk lin
ing. Ia
Chine ribbons of delicate colors are used
in very simple way for Frightening up black
crepon gowns, and also when it is desired to
add color to dresses of white crepon or
muslin. The spring street dresses for girls
of fifteen or sixteen are serge or sacking, US
ually blue, though brown or other dark shades
with short. blazer, or still shorter bolero
are permissible. The jacket does not quite
meet in front, and has modest revers and
collar instead of the full butterfly collar
lately in vogue. Desired breadth is given by
full sleeves, which may be mutton leg or of
the modified bishop shape-ful all the way
to the cuffs, though narrower there than at
the top. The skirt without lining and
simply hemmed is gored in the side seams and
from three yards to three and a half wide.
A shirt waist and others of Madras ging
ham complete these girlish suits. For best
dresses, these young girls will wear white
crepons striped across with silk of contrast
ing color, white with fine blue stripes, or pale
green with white lines. Bracers of green
MORE ribbon go up from the belt of the
same, and fail on the shoulders in deep
loops low in front and back.
Ladies who contemplate travelling much
during the summer will find it to their ad-
vantage to have for the purpose dress of
ecru canvas. The skirt which escapes the
ground entirely, is close-fitting in front and
sides, and has two double box plaits at the
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could have saved If the greedy iveryman had
told him of that branch railroad, but not
swear-word escaped him. His surplus
energy was quite exhausted; he simply took
in the situation and hurried on.
About ten O'Clock a railroad train passed
the weary traveller and it drew into the COM
modious station in Bellevue City in the centre
OF recent potato patch Of Alexander Bells
just as Johnny threw his bride to the hoster
at the Bellevue House. He found that he
was on Bell avenue and the sod-roofed cabin
OF the Bells had disappeared. Alexander
Bell had got the railway station located at the
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visit to this village. An English lady of
note, the wife of the Governor of New South
Wales, was expected to visit Fort Mowbray
and "to take in" the native village. AS it
would never do to have the chief and his fol-
lowers appear in. their customary want of
dress, the agent thoughtfully sent over a lot
OF shirts and cotton trousers, telling Huanata
he and his people must, put the things on
during the visit of her ladyship, and the
chief piously promised to do as he was told.
As none Of the men had ever worn shirt
or trousers before, they had great difficulty
in getting into the things Some of the men
wore the trousers with their arms through
the legs, and others wore the shirts by tying
them about their waists by means OF the
sleeves, and most laughabie and grotesque
appearance they presented.
The children really looked better without
any dress, and the women at all times wear
an apron of woven sea grass. Now it so
happened that the lady did not come at the
appointed time, and SO the men soon began
to weary of wearing their trousers about
their necks and their shirts about their waist.
Like all savage races, and some civilized
ones, the Papuans are Unsuitable gamblers.
By means Of sort Of dice, they gamble away
all their possessions, not many to be sure,
but their canoes and implements for fishing
and the chase have value. The shirts and
trousers were too tempting property to re-
main long in the possession of the men to
whom they were gwen. IS the lady did not
come when expected, the natives began to
gamble, and as a consec uance, by the time
her ladyship reached Port Mowhray, the
chief, who was the most famous gambler
along the coast, had won all the shirts and
trousers of the other members of the tribe.
These articles We're nottregarded as essen
tial to decency, but rather as things decora-
tive, SO when the lady did appear and the
agents representative came over to the VIII
lage to see that all was ready for the white
womans reception, he. found to his horror
and amazement that al the men but the
chief, Huanata, were i'll their customary
state of undress. The chief, by way of ex-
hib.ting his possessions in the way of
clothes, was literally covered with shirts and
trousers, all put on in the most he!ter-skeiter
fashion, in addition to which he had big
pack on his back. s.
The outcome Of this Was that the COVER
nor's Wife did not visit the natives at all,
WHEREIN: they were much disappointed, for
tleJ had sre..e:. themselves with ccceanut
OF 20 maAa ua Tor the war- OF clothes. =
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with feathers, Shells and red clay, it often
measures several feet in circumference and
the structure, with little fixing, lasts for
j, months. . "a -
The parts of the shore where visited were
Port Mowbsay at the southeastern end, which
is claimed by the English, and the coast
along the Deursa Strait to the north, which
: no nation claims, and where the people build
-itheir houses in the branches of trees and are
such expert climbers that they have been
3 called monkey men" by sailors who have
visited that part of the island.
There are many tribes on the island speak
ing different dialects, but many of the Gus.
toms are commonsto all. There is no danger
: there of a mans heirs quarrellng over the
division of his property, for as soon as
he dies everything he owns is at once
burned or otherwise destroyed. Il is also
the custom to buy wives, the woman S father
setting the price, and regulating it, rot by the
girls looks, but by her SIZE and her ability to
cook and keep her husbands thatched hut in
order. s''a5. -
The English have an agent and keep gun
boat at Port Mowbray, and it was my good
fortune to be the guest OF the Enslishmen,
through whose kindness r learned great
deal about these, the most remarkable saw
ages in the world. Like all the natives of
Polynesia, the people of New Guinea who live
along the coast are expert canoe builders,
and are quite as much at home in the water
as on shore; indeed, it is said the children
can swim before they can walk, and the
children of nearly all savage tribes can walk
before they are six months old. The Pa
puans-that is the name applied to the race
OF black islanders-are said to be very treach-
erous, but they impressed me as being
happy, child-like people, fond of singing and
laughing, loving to bask in the sun, and
hating nothing but hard work, of which they
have not much to do, for fruit and fish are
abundant, and as for clothes-wei, the cil-
mate does not require clothing, and so Ions
as their bushy heads are done up in gorgeous
fashion, the people consider themselves in
full dress. ';t''' i .iiZ-N u 81
At the other side Of the bay from Port
Mowbray. there is q native village, and here I
had privilege II spending a few days
under the protection of a chief or head man
named Huanata This man, because he was
chief, had six wives. and SO many children
that he did not pretend to know them from
any one else's children, as they ran naked
and shouting along the white, shell-streWn
sand. 79+@ ~
"A very funny thing happened during my
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slris 80 the fashion for the world, particu-
iaciy IL Voman's attire; but the downfall of
;he e. pire, and with it the abolition of the
Tue e ct, destroyed those standards, or per-
,l.s | should say dried up the fountains
IA al which fashion emanated.
At the beginning of the century, Sidney
Smith asked. ''Who reads an American
book" Twenty-Five years ago the idea of an
American fashion that would be regarded
with favor in England and on the Continent
;ould have been preposterous. Yet, to day,
is pleasant to note not only that Ameri-
IN books are read al the world over, but
hat we are showing our independence and
bur qualities for leadership in the matter of
dress. The foreign publications now before
is speak Of London fashions and s'New
York fashions with as much respect
and approval as they do of ''Paris fashions"
This is as it should be, and it speaks
well for the emancipation of women from
customs and costumes that were not always
pleasant or becoming, and indicates ten
deney to nationaism in dress as well as
to what is still better, and that is a tasteful
individuality.
From week to week but little can be noted in
the way OF change. The spring fashions are
now entirely familiar, and as women are pre-
pairing for the summer outing for themselves
and their families, lighter and more service
able costumes are demanded. Still, there
are certain standards of attire that are either
fixed, or are becoming fixed. There is the
tailor-made gown, always becoming and COM
Portable. tits now more popular than ever for
street wear and travel, and even for the
church As dress has its evolution like
everything else in which humanity pro-
crosses, the tailor-made gown is becoming
more tasteful and simple. The short, natty
cutaway coat is still popular, and without
doubt will continue to be so. The widest
latitude is given as to length and fullness in
the back of the skirt, and indeed, a closer ap-
I Proclamation to mems three-button coats,
/ always, Of course, with due consideration to
the figure of the wearer.
| As summer approaches light tan covert
suiting is becoming more popular for tailor
I made suits that are to be worn outdoors
! through the summer and ON until the cold
weather sets in again. Those anxious to be
up with the fashions must bear in mind that
at least two vests go with such suits. One
vest may be of pale blue, and another of
brown or dark red with small stars or dots
in black or white. 1t should be borne in
mind that the colors of such suits are not
arbitrary, but the taste of the wearer can be
consulted with the greatest freedom. Brown
shades OF sacking or serge are found to be
Sery becoming with vest of pretty pink ecru
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WELL WORTH REMEMBERING.

Ordinarily" writes an American woman,
who is as famous for her literary ability as
she is for her common sense, 81 pay very lit
tie attention to recipes and hints I see pub
lshed in newspapers and magazines. Yet in
this condensed form one should be sure that
a bit Of wisdom or good advice we'll worth
preserving is not rejected under the impress
sion that it is a recipe for new way to boil
an egg" This womans taste in the matter
will always be kept in view, as representing
the taste of every other sensible woman. in
editing things worth remembering for this
department. '.'7 49, ~
-sjii1 ss.a1 - val
SIMPLICITY IN SLEEPING nuoMs.-A lady
noted for her good taste and her unusual
ability as housekeeper, says that everything
about sleeping room should be simple, i'm
maculate, and easily kept so. Bedrooms may
be either carpeted with mating, or the floors
oiled, and rugs placed beside the beds. II
the walls are papered, the co!ors' Should be
modest and the pattern subdued..p !
The windows should be curtained SO as to
be uniform with the rest of the house; but
too much drapery is an abomination, and it
should be entirely dispensed with in a Sick
room. The bedroom is what its name I'M
plies, Place OF repose, and every thing about
it should be conducive to the one purpose of
sleeping. Pictures and garish furniture, or
articles not actually necessary to the comfort.
of the occupant. should be entirely ignored. ;.
Above all things, sleeping apartment should
be flooded for at least one hour during the
day with golden sunlight and have in at night,
an abundance of fresh air, taking care the
while that the sleeper is not exposed, TO, 70 a.
draft. =" "''
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Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. the onlv

Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, the only
daughter Of the late Lucy Stone, has taken
up her mothers work, and with devotion
that commands admiration. Miss Blackwell
is an unusually clever and executive young
woman, a graduate Of the Boston University,
a member of the College Club, the New Eng
land Women's Club, and has been almost from
the beginning one of the officers of the New
England Women's Press Association. Whilea
decided advocate Of woman's rights, there is
never trace of bitterness in anything Miss
Blackwell says or writes. A lady who knows
her represents her as being sweet and strong
in her personality and her utterances.
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pack. Over this plain skirt comes an upper
skirt, which fits smoothly over it and is
cut in a deep point at the front, and in
shorter one at each side. The hat for this
travelling dress is an ecru sailor, with
band of white ribbon and four high and
stiff bows for its decoration.
But the first consideration in travelling is
comfort, appearance being secondary; but
when both can be gained without extra
alum.
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BOYS HI:!.NI|[pGlRL,S
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AMONG THE PApUANS.
A Glimpse at the. People of New
Guinea - -

New Guinea is one 81 the largest islands in
the world. twas visited by European sailors
more than 200 years ago, let, because of the
ferocity Of its wardike tribes and the density
of its forests. we know but little about that
remarkable country beyond the coast line.
The people are of adark, chocolate color,
some being quite as black as the negroes,
whom they much resemble. Their hair is
long and bushy and they give much time to
its care: Before j. great FEAST chief will
have half score men and women working
on his hair for days, and when it is finished,
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THE !. BELLE OF BELLEVUE.
A Long Love Story in Short
: Mete

onorJiy AFTER the civil war, IN the FOOTHILLS
OF the Sierras, there was a little struggling
settlement along the banks of stream which
had its rise four or five miles further up the
mountain in big spring. If Satan, i'm
prisoned thousand years, had just escaped
from the hot bowels of the mountain and
quenched his thirst with the donkeys and
sheep and pigs in the muddy stream, on
looking up at the tangled underbrush and
the stony, barren, hunmocky hills, he would
have been very likely to call the place Belle
vue, and that is just what its people called
this paradise of poverty. Here lived Alex
ander Bell, half Scotch, half Irish, with
greaser wife, and an assorted troop of inter-
nationals among whom was pretty little,
wild, daring, saucy romp, only wee bud,
but already we'll known as Isabella Bell, the
belle of Bellevue.
Three or four miles away over a spur of
the mountain in another less populous set
Element of a like character lived johnny
Lyons'a tall, wiry youth of eighteen, who had
made Isaballa's acquaintance in the little log
cabin school of Bellevue, where they had
learned together a little of reading and pot
hooks and figures, and whence they had too
often played truant when they should have
been trying to furnish their empty heads with
little knowledge.
They had finished their "eddycation." In
one of their wild excursions, when johnny
had rescued Bella from position of diff
Guilty and some little danger, they sat on
rock under lone pine tree, confessed their
mutual love and Rugged and kissed and
SVOre to be forever true There followed
three or four months of the old, old story
under difficulties, and then, in the early
spring time, with mutual vows many times
renewed, they parted; she to watch and wait
in anxious expectation, and he to seek little
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The Papuan children mature very early.
Boys become men at the age Of fourteen,
and girls OF twelve look like full grown
women, but this is the case with the people
OF all hot countries. Next to the boys and
girls OF the native Australian tribes, those of
New Guinea impressed me the least favor
a5lv
CAPTAIN Ton.