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of the Stokes place, or the Lanier place or half a dozen others. In the meantime young Whitney and his bride will love In a cottage.
 It is the very beginning of the Lenox season, but these breezy knolls stand 1900 feet above the sea and there is chill in tbe air. As if by magic the ap- pearance --s the women has changed and to the fluttering finery of the silly seasJn succeed good stout and even fur cloth. There are new things in cloaks and capes every hour The English and unlovely box driving coat, with it's enor- nous cape sleeves, still disfgures the fairest forms and finds excuse for it's ugliness in it's smartness. It is marked by heavy seams well away from the edges, by wide collars, by big buttons no more than two on side.
 New bicycle coats have made their ap- pearance which are very simple yet neat, with their wide collars and quite full skirts falling over the hips. They are meant to button up snugly in chill weather and have natty look.
 A noticeable feature of many of the fall wraps is their use of white straps and tabs by way of decoration. A su- perbly fitting travelling cloak will for instance, fasten or appear to fasten with simple big button at the right shoulder. It will be dark gray or rough brown or of other substantial color, with triple-stitched white collar and cuffs and no break below them in the long lines of the garment except for a white strip peeping out for three or four inches at the waist Only woman with a fine figure can stand such a garment.
 It is all golf. Carriage driving and the guiding of flashing four-in-hands has always been the particular fad in Lenox, but the "bit maulies' of bent wood, the Craigenputtocks and other things with outlandish names and shapes ire in every fair hand nowadays. Rough tweeds appear most often on the putting g-green. The cut is shade short CT in some cases than in the spring, but not so short as the extreme bicycle skirt though the two costumes have much in common. Plaid is still common but by no means obligatory. Indeed, mixed woven goods are quite as popular and there is considerable use made of brown cloth with tan or drab. Nattv little capes that can be tn own over the players shoulders-until it gets warm,
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BOYHOOD DAYS OF TESLA
The Famous Inventor Born in a
 Half- Civilized Land.
The Son of Greek Clergyman He Was studious Youth, But Full of Fun Built Flying Machine at
 TwoIve-His Education.

Tn all probability NilSola Tesla knows more about electricity than any other man living. He stands at the head of those who, within the last 20 years, aave done more to forge the bonds that AaYe made the mystic current the use Rtal slave of human kind. And yet Niko- "a Tesla's boyhood was mostly passed 55o a region where the people are hardly arare than half civilized in their ways; R region over which Moslem and Chris tian have waged bloody combat for cen 1kuries; a region of rugged, bleak noun rains and narrow valleys and impetu= gus rushing torrents. This region is Known as Montenegro; it is narrow strip of country that lies between Aus sria and Turkey, and it takes it's name from its own somber mountains.
 Nilxola was born in the little village of smiljan, province of Lika, less than 40 years ago. His father was d clergyman Bf the Greek church, 10 which most Christians in Montenegro belong, and all through the boys carly years his most numerous acquaintance must have been among the rough peasants of the neigh norhood, some of whom were poor be- gond description and many of whom were so ignorant that they could not even read. But in spite of their lack sa cultivation and of cash, the peasant men and women of Montenegro are fine, strong folk, seeming to possess some thing of the ruggedness of their sur roundings in their own persons. They are brave, too and they love their eoun- sry and their religion, and ill his youth Nikola must have heard many tales of heroic deeds done by his fathers friends and neighbors in self-defense against ahe Turks, who wished to rule the land Rnd to force the people to change their faith.
 An American boy could hardly imag- inc anything more novel and strange than were this boys surroundings. Every man in Montenegro knows how
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The latter

character and ingenuity. Ihe latter characteristic was mostly developed in her embroidery, which was of artistic and original designs, and made her fa- nous all through the part of Monten- egro in which she lived. To his mothers love and influence Tesla attributes much of his manhoodis success.
 It should be said of the man whose boyhood has been outlined above and whose success has been so great, that although his inventions have yielded him great deal of money, he has spent it in making new investigations about as fast as he has received it, and that he regards the benefit to humanity that scientific progress will insure as of far greater importance than mere money making. Once when he was talking with the writer of this article, Nil1ola Tesla declared that he believed the mission of applied electricity to be the practical reiuvenation of the world, by lessening the amount of labor that must be performed by human hands, and that he hoped to live to see the day when all alike, both rich and poor, should share equally in the advantages of all scientific discoveries.
 "But that would be practically the abolition of poverty and riches" the writer yentured to say.
 "Preeisely so,' answered Tesla, "and that is what I believe will by and by be accomplished by mans investigation and utilization of natures mysteries.
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| 1t was while he vas at home then that he managed to get his father to agree to a scientific career. When the boy was IS he was sent to Gratz, in Austria, to study for professorship iii mathematics and physics. Al, Gratz he saw, for the first time, Gramme elee- trical machine, though h. had previous ly made some boyish experiments with electricity, having constructed with his own hands rude little generator, which he operated with the power of a toy water wheel. As soon as he saw the Gramme machine he determined 10 make electricity his life study. That was in 1875, only 21 years ago, and in that time NiSola Tesla has wrought more maryels with the agency that is now used to light our streets and houses and factories, haul our street cars and do many other wonderful things than any other person-unless it be Edison. who was then a telegraph operator and not far from the beginning of his ca reer as an electrical inventor.
 It should not be understood that young Tesla missed any fun that was going, just because he was forward in his studies. On the contrary, he was al ways full of juvenile tricks and had many boyish adventures, as he himself has often declared Once he went bv himself to a little chapel away up in the hills back of Gospic, and in some way was locked up for hours. In the mean time he was missed by his father, who organized searching party. but of course never thought of looking for the boy in the right place. How long he might have remained there no one knows, had he not finally thought of ringing the chapel bell Loud and clear through the narrow valley echoed the sound as he pulled the rope, and, guided thereby, the searchers hastened to the chapel, not at all sure, however, that the boy was there. When found he was cold and hungry and nervous and glad te get back home to his mother.
 It was his mother who sympathized most with his aspirations, and it was largely her influence over his father that finally won the latter to the boys plan not to be clergyman; and yetshe must sometimes have been annoyed by his pranks. Once, as he occasionally re- lates to his intimate friends, he was so startled by her sudden appearance on the scene when he was up to some piece of mischief that he fell into great ket- tie of fresh milk, spelling the milk and his clothes at the same time. She was a woman of unusual ability, force of
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Not Confined to BJue p,

The royal garden partie. u.
 ingham palace are by no ma., ma a' , bud alted social functions tbat ae 'ns 2 Americans imagine. Inv;ta.,. as laaa them confers but little sociall la'iOl They were instituted by tba aa passss Wales in order that he miobt p'.l0s h portunity to do the civil tbia nave number of his acquaintance % , ' for one reason or another, he csa 94el receive either at Sandr,nasu lau al Marlborough house as the 9~qll na his wife, and who, for obvious 1ass' ra are debarred from attendance ,ssS4a' .4 functions. At the garden nasti'' ts''' least one-third of the guests as''.' have been nor are likely to be nrs...' as,'.' ed at court, and among them arss Y, ,,'l' diyorcees, actors and actresses ss1 the stage-who are, of course st.,s ,.. debarred from presentation at . and even tradespeople. Tbe I Isa princes and princesses of the Io., ~ these affairs are carefully on..' from being intruded upon 6v fss,4'' fbs v eral company. Nevertheless on s s's cent occasion, the police had ,a < called upon to keep the guests t.s literally crushing their royal bo,,' their anxiety to stare at them-Sis go Chronicle.
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ELLEN USBORN'S LETTER.
Auturnn's Here and Goats and Mill
 linery Begin to Show Change.
circling HiIls oe Fair Lenox outdoor Gowns for the Autumn Return to Sturdy CIoshs and Somber
 Trimmings
 tCOPYRIGHT, iS96. l

Beautiful old Lenox was never in such glorious mood as now, when all the roads are in their splendor of perfect eondi- tion, when the gardens of the cottages are preening their autumn colors and the streets are waking to their life with the opening of the season.
 I ought not to say "streets." LenoX has only roads. There are here no traces of the urban. There isn't a big shop in the place. There isn't even place" ," The post office is such one as might be found in any other rural crossroads set tlement like this. There are afew little curio and knick-knack shops, slowed away in private houses often enough. There is a railway station, but it is a ramshackle affair and three miles away. l will tell you secret. None of the cot tagers wants it nearer. In their car riages they can cover the distance quick ly enough, and it keeps away a crowd. Many of the eottagers use the new and fine station at Stockbridge. They drive to the shops in Pittsfeld or send to New York. Thus the place retains it's rural charm in spite of what is the most e&- traordinary collection of country houses in America. The cottages at Newport have rather the suburban character, but here each princely dwelling is inclosed by it's own broad acres 300 of them, 800 or 1,000-with barns and grazing cattle
 Lenox is one of the few places in the world where 800 acres of land three miles from the post office will sell for more than 500 times as much as one acre on the main street. The bigger the plot of ground the more it is worth per acre. The splendid estate bought for young Harry Payne Whitney by an indulgent papa, caps the climax. Here is a fine scenery, here are pretty woodland lakes, here are hundreds of laborers working like beavers to produce such quick transformation as would have defed Aladdin. There are 1000 acres of noun tain land in the estate. Of course, no commanding mansion is yet reared on these Whitney acres, and twill have to be a palace indeed to exceed She wonders
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10 handle the rife and all other weap ons, for he is likely to have need of them at almost any time, and everyone is an expert fisherman and hunter. They dress in the brightest colors, and even 1he poorest often wear clothes that are richly embroidered and otherwise orna- mented. The women, too, attire them selves in what would here be considered fantastic garb, but, aside from what little farm work is done by the men, do nearly all the labor of the country. Sometimes the women do much of the outside work even, and without com plaint--for have not the men enough 10 do to attend to the fighting and the politics of the country, and the shooting of game?
 It is partly due to the attention given by the men to other things than work, aud partly to the ruggedness of the re- zion, that the people of Montenegro are 20 poor and so ignorant in the mass. Just how backward they are as to the comforts of life may be faintly hinted By the statement that in some parts of 3he country furthest removed from the larger towns the bread is baked with autyeast in the ashes of open fires, there being no ovens of any sort nor even ehimneys to carry off the smoke. The Montenegrins speak language that would sound extremely queer to Ameri- tan boys. It is described by linguists ss pure dialect of the Slavic" and is she nearest of all languages to the original Slavonic into which the Bible Kas translated nearly d thousand years ago for the benefit of the peoples uf central Europe.
 But it must not be understood that all those who dwell in Montenegro are ig norant and uncultiyated. As people they are bright and quick, and their sayings are often of striking force. For instance, in explaining the rocky nature of the soil the Montenegrin will tell you that when God was scattering the stones over the earth a bag of them burst over Montenegro" Among their leaders, too, are many who are highly cultivated. Tesla's father being priest, he was, of course, an educated man, and it was probably because he saw that his son could not do his best in Montenegro that the boy was sent away from home at 13.
 When only a little lad Nikola was very fond of study. Not altogether the study of books, but largely of things, for, like all healthy boys, he was inter- esfed in all that he saw about him. iTss earliest notion was that it was
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pity that man should have to climb the hills with which his home was sur rounded, since birds could fly wherever they wished to go, and with such small apparent effort So, when only little chap of I2 he set about making flying machine, using an old umbrella for the foundation. Undoubtedly he had the same general ideas that were later adopted by Herr Lillienthal, the Ger man who was killed the other day in one of his experiments, for, like Lil- lienthal, young Tesla's plan was to start his flight by jumping from the top of a hill. His interest in flying died out, however, when he fell and was so badly hurt that he had to stay in bed for six weeks.
 It was while he was laid up by this accident that he began to study mathe- maties and mastered arithmetic. He had an idea then that all problems in the science of numbers could be solved by the proper use of the number three and it's powers" !" but whether he proved his theory he has never told. He had then been seven years in school, having spent three years in the Real schule at smilian and four in the public school at Gospic, to which his father had re- moved. Gospic was a larger place than smilian, though only a very small town, but there were many more things there to interest him than there had been at smilian.
 His father decided. however, that the educational advantages of GosPie were not sufficient for his son, and so the lad was sent to live with his aunt in Carls- tadt. Grotia, where he was to finish his schooling. It was while on his way to Carlstadt that the lad saw a steam en- zine for the first time, and it filled him with the greatest delight. It was then too. that he determined not to be q clergyman like his father, as the latter wished, but to devote himself to science; and he studied so hard at Garlstadt that he was able to finish Rour-Years' course in three years time and to grad nate in 1873. when he was only 16 years old.
 Then there was an epidemic of chol- era. and because of this he returned 10 his fathers home at Gospic. But the disease sought him out, and when he recovered he was so weak that for two years he remained at home and rested from his studies.
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and then over the caddy's-are worn, and the headgear is generally either tan or Glengarry bonnet, though Alpine shapes in colors to match the suit and trimmed with bright quills, and even shade hats of moderate brim, are worn. The shade hat is, however, considered rather too much of a compromise. What a harvest of coin the complexion sPe- ciaIists will reap next November!
 It is the charm of Lenox, as it is of Newport on week days only, that one is free to do as she pleases without fear of the observer. Here it is the pleasure of half the girls to saunter about in
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ORIGIN OF SUNDoG.
The Expression Finds Place in Several
 WeIl-Known Dictionaries.

The Expression Finds Place in Several Weu-Known Dictionaries.
 To great many persons the term "snndog" will appear strange and cu- rious, and will probably suggest an inquiry as to it's meaning. Yet the word has vogue, and is recognized to the extent of claiming a position in several of the best known of our die tionaries. According to the "Encyclo- pedia Dictionary" a'sundog is, in me neurological sense, ga luminous spot sometimes visible few degrees from the sum- It is believed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos." "
 In the periodical called Notes and Queries of October 12 last year there appeared an excerpt from the Isle of i Wight Mercury wherein a writer de- scribes the phenomenon on it's first | presentment to him: "The sun was shining brightly on our right hand and lighting up range of downs on our left; behind these downs a large mass l of black clouds illumined by frequent flashes of vivid lightning, when what appeared like fire balloon-only, of course, with much more powerful light, as there was strong sunlight-was seen | travelling slowly in front of the black clouds against the wind, and apparently 1 going out to sea in front of us. We for the others in the coach saw it also however, unfortunately lost sight of it at a turn in the road and did not see it again spoke of it the next day to the boatman at the bay, and he then called it .sunhound' or 'sundog,' and said that 1t was light effect only, but was unable to tell me anything else"
 Several contributions appeared at a subsequent date in the same periodical relative to the term, and from them it would appear "sundog" is by no means uncommon as a name for the phenom- enon described above In sWright's Provincial Glossary "sundog" is de- scribed as of Norfolk vogue; but prob- ably the range is wider "Sunhound," ," it's congener, Wright localizes as be- longing to the southern district of England. Mir. Edward Peacock, who writes to Notes and Queries with refer ence thereto, mentions it as Lincoln shire term, and describes it as "a false sun, that is, in appearnce, like a some what elouded sun near the real lumin- ary."
 "These things generally, but not al- ways" writes NIT. Peacock, "appear in pairs on the right and left of the true sun, that is, in appearance, like a some tached pieces of rainbow were called sundogs, which were generally re- garded by them as precursors of dirty weather, But the essence of the sub sequent contributions in the periodical named IS contained in a communication from the pen of Prof. Tomlinson, who goes more into detail, and as a scientist speaks with some authority The article is too long to reproduce here, but it may suffice to say that, according to the writer named, the term is merely a happy -go-lueby guess which the phenomenon might suggest 10 an ob- server, and that the thing itself is due to dedrical discharges in connection with lightning, as ball lightning Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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of year or so ago. The paradise plumes are very expensive and hardly usual. Cocks plumage, aigrettes and even the head of the bird are used upon fancy hats, so that even the chopped-off and hitherto worthless head of the table chicken may have its uses. Flower trim mings pass away with the summer. They will still be worn, of course, but less than now, and there is a perfectly amazing lease of life in the black and white combination. White cocks feathers with dyed black ostrich plumes make very much admired effect.
 As plain straw conquered during the summer over the fancy patterns and plaids, plain felts. velvets, cut velvess and silks will form the basis of the au- tunnal hats. There are, however, fancy braidings in plenty. Some are folded bias strips of taffeta silk or velvet; some are combinations of chenille cord, either black silk chenille with heavy folds of white raw silk wadding, or chenille braided with velvet and adorned with crystal, jet and cut beads, or horsehalr lace embroidered with chenille cord and strips of satin.
 The most popular hat shape of the early autumn will be without any ques- tion a medium-sized brim, fiat or nearly so in front, but fared on the left and behind, with a full wide cap crown of moderate height, not over three inches high. Whatever the trimming it will include one jutting plume or bow stand ing straight up well above the crown.
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Greed of Gain.

The whole tendency of our ss.
 toward money-getting, and this crow out even the greater interests of i'm and country. Too many of our ss, men serve their country for N their country will give them, notu, they will give to their countrr | many ofice-holders occupy plsca
 trust for their own profit rather ts their country's honor, and too na of our young men are living for yb they can get out of life rathslt. for what they can put into it-s. Alex. Lewis, Baptist, Worcester. As
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their golfing suits much of the time. Really, for a glimpse at more formal garb one is indebted to the younger ma
 irons, or to peeps at things not yet worn. As to hats, which are always in. teresting, there is evidence that the up. ward growth of the crown has stopped
 at just the right point. The piquant and picturesque modes of the moment are far more beautiful than the flat disc
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Novel Tunnel Euuntn.,,on

4 novel way of Illuminating tunnel has been devised in Paris. Refeetors throw light from many electric lamps 16 feet above the rails to the sides of the tunnel, where it is again reflected by furnished tin, a soft and agreeable light. The trains automatically turn the current on and off in entering and leaving the tunnel.
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TALEsMAN EXCUSED.
Lacked the Necessary Intelligence to Act
 9 Juror

S8 a Juror.
 Tales1nan (hopelessly)-I don't think 1 quite comprehend it.
 Counsel-Your honor, l submit that this talesman lacks the necessary intel ligence to serve as a jurer in this case.
 The Judge-One moment, please. Let me make the matter clear to him. What the counsel means to say IS this: "What would you understand by these words if l should use them iii charging the jury: A reasonable doubt is evolvad by an intellectual process, which, hav- ing it's initial motive in inconsistent cies of evidence which make the hypo- thesis irreconcilable with the facts and circumstances of which and concern ing which the jury is the sole judge and interpreter, leaves unwaveringly and reIentlessly and without even mo mentary deviation to the one conclusion that the testimony is not of such con- sistence that reasonable doubt could not be evolyedY" That makes it clear to you, does it not? Now give us the understanding of the charge in your own words.
 Talesman (dazed)l don't quite see
 Counsel-Your honor, I repeat my challenge. This man lacks the neces- sary intelligence.
 The Judge (wearily) Challenge sus- tained. The talesman is excused.- Judge.
 Holland has 7.6nn miles of nnh1ia
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The ordinary cellar is responal for as many deaths as diphthsa scarlet fever or typhoid Of con we allude to the cellar under ] house, nine in every ten of which , lamp and of a temperature fayoai 10 the development of disease gerai
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It is claimed that the sums rays put out fire by rarefying the air, causing it to flow more slowly toward the burning article.
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Undertakinr Too mnoh

He-I am going to try and improve my mind.
 She-You are always attempting too much.-Town Topics.
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Holland has 7,6oo miles of public roads.