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yoke effect. but the front yoke I'd
plastron are entirely separate. beifssr
attached to the right side and hooked
over onto the left. The waist proper
is tucked at each front edge and is ar
ranged in gathers at the waist line,
tine bertha finishing the upper edge.
The sleeves embody the latest novesty
and are cut short, with points at the
lower edge, to fall over the full cuffs
or undersleeves that, in turn, are fin
ished with straight cuffs and may be
unlined, to allow the wrists to be
seen through their meshes when the
material is Of q, transparent sort.
To cut this waist for woman of
medium size three and five-eighth
yards of material tweniy-one inches
wide, two and three-quarter yards
twenty-seven inches wide, two yards
thirty-two inches wide or one and
five-eighth yards forty-four inches
will be required with three and one
half yards for unders,eeves, one yard
of all-over lace for the bertha, and
one piece of velvet ribbon to trim as
illustrated.
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BISHOP HATTo AND THE RATS
The Old Story of the Dreadful Ending OF
the Wicked Mans Life.


To the famous mouse tower in which
the wicked Bishop Hatto was killed by
rats, Augustine Birrell pays his re-
spects in paper entitled Down the
Rhine" which appears, with illustra-
tions by Castaigne, in the Century.
Between Bingen and Assmannshau-
sen, on a rock in the middle of the
river, is the mouse tower. What child
has not heard of Hatto, the cruel bish-
op OF Mainz, the forestaller and re-
crater and combiner of the 10th ceI-
tury, who, having barns full of golden
grains, the gift of God for the food
of man, refused to sell it to the starv-
ing folk, preferring to hold on for
further rise in prices? A number Of
desperate men having unlawfully brok-
en- into one of these barns, this unfeel-
ing churchman set fire to it, and ESQ
pleasant was his humor) compared
the cries Of the dying men in the ago
ny Of their fate to the squeaking of
rats. In the 10th century it was dan
gerous to make fun of Gods creatures.
TIE rodents swore vengeance, and the
bishops conscience made him uncom-
Portable. Dying screams haunt the
memory. The vintages of the Rhine
will hardly wash them out. The bish-
op, doubt not, took to drinking heav-
lily. But he was not cured. He first
heard rats all about him, and then he
saw them blackening his floors and
nervously twitching their sharp white
teeth. He took to his heels and fled
from their horrid little faces, but they
followed at quick gallop. Was ever
prelate in so evil plight? He fair
ly scampered to the Rhine, and leap
ing into a boat. sculled himself across
to this old rock in midstream. 1t was
his last chance. The rats GANG patter-
ing down the banks, licking their
teeth. They hesitated, and while they
hesitated the hunted bishop, resting for
d moment at the foot of the tower, be-
sieged angry heaven with his cowardly
prayers. But the hesitation Of the
avengers of blood was for a moment
only; the rats took to the river, and
the lordly Rhine was black and brown
with their shiny backs. The bishop
now knew that his end had come. He
fed to the topmost story Of the tower
up the spiral staircase, which in mo-
ment echoed the quick steps of the
rats, that in All incredibly short time
made an end Of. Bishop Hatto. So
may all combiners pedish, be they cler-
les or lay, OF the old world or the new.
Of course etymology has knocked the
bottom out of the mouse NtaWer. 1t
has nothing to do with mice. To grim
like a Cheshire cat has, so etymolo-
gists assure me, nothing to do with
grinning or with Cheshire or with cats,
and yet Sir John Tennels Cheshire
cat (see "Alice in Wonderland") dis
"rnoaring into a grin will survive the
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Frost Alarms.

Marked success has attended the eff
forts of southern and western fruit
growers to protect, by artificial heat,
their crops from dangerous frost at
tacks during the winter season. Frost
alarms have recently been devised as
an additional precaution. These are
simply thermometers arranged to reg
lister dangerous drops" in temperat-
.ture, the alarm being given by means
~-Ioi-an electric bell. The device is ex-
ceedingly simple, being merely a new
application of old principles. Ar
rangements are provided for the ad-
iustment of the alarm. so that the
alarm can be set for any temperature,
and warning given whenever the tenn
narature falls within few degrsss Of
actual danger:
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womnn,s Fancy Waist.

The square yoke and the bertha are
among the notable features of the sea-
sons styles and lend themselves to
various combinations with satisfac-
tory effect. The smart May Manton
waist Illustrated in the large drawing
shows wool crepe in pastel blue with
yoke and undersleeves Of cream
.cluny lace and trimming of black vel
vet ribbon and is exceedingly effec-
tive, but the design is in every WY
suited to a variety of light weight
woods and soft eilks while the combin-
alton can be varied again and again.
Yoke and undersleeves Of chiffon or
Liberty silk with figured Louisine
silk are exceedingly handsome, crepe
de cline with point de Yenise is beau.
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PHENOMENA IN NATURE.
SOME EFFECTS IN MECHANICS DUE
TO CAUSES AS YET UNKNOWN.

Newton's Laws OF Motion May Be Upset,
While Much That Passes for Etsrnal
Truth "a Under Suspicion - Cause of
Gravity Beyond Human Conception.
Recently we have discussed in these
columns recondite problems of physi-
cal science. To say that these things
are beyond the purview OF engineers is
to limit the scope of the profession
The business of the engineer Is to util-
ize what has been termed, popularity
if not accurately, the forces of nature,
for the benefit of mankind. To the
physicist the world Is indebted for the
discovery of new phenomena and novel
relations existing between old and new
natural actions and interactions. 1t
is impossible, however, to draw mar
row line and say that the province OF
the engineer lies on one side and the
territory Of the man Of pure science
on the other. Thus the discovery OF
the phenomena of electrical induction
was mainly the work of Faraday; but
the construction Of dynamos, which
utilize that discovery, is the daily work
of the engineer. Reasoning In this
way, it easily becomes obvious that
the engineer is really deeply interested
in the whole course of modern scientific
research; and speculations as to the
constitution of matter and the nature
of energy are by no means to be re-
garded as of necessity distractions,
possessing no real value sufficient to
make them worth studying. No one
can tell from day to day whether or
not some extremely valuable discovery
will be made. There is reason, indeed,
to believe that co-relations Of phenon-
ena may at any moment be hit on
which will reduce the telegraph to the
level of a conspicuously clumsy piece
of apparatus, or bring down the cost
of electric lighting to tenth of its
existing price. When hertzian waves
were first spoken Of no one dreamed
that they would enable US to transmit
messages through long distances with
out visible means of communication.
The telephone was built up out of
most unlikely materials; and the man
who asserted that he could make all
iron plate talk to an audience by the
aid of three French nails. small bat
terry, and a few cylinders, would have
been regarded as lunatic not so very
long ago.
Of late those who have watched the
signs of the times will have noticed
that change is coming over the mode
of thought of the more advanced seek
ers after physical truth. Possibly not
many Of our readers have carefully fol-
- Dr. Larmor's address to Section
=. 49, fr-anciation, which we
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What lie have I been guilty OF
now?" I asked innocently.
"About my having my own way. OF
course. Mabel has hers. and its just
lovely to think of it. Just imagin'
how free and easy not to be at the
beck and call Of people when you
want to be at home and not to have
to say you're out when You are
there!"
We'll see about it. little woman"
That's what You said before din
ner. Of course that means yes" And
she clapped her hands, Just as Dickie
does when he's got . ne" toy. You
really mean it this time!" And she
got up and kissed mo solemrly on the
forehead, for ratification.
whats Mabel going to live on in
the country, or you We'll say for ar
gument's sake?'
ooh of course the husbands do the
work, with a man to help them. and
we've lots to SELL
"For example?" l asked.
"Pigs and sheep; stock and steers;
and they hunt all we want to eat"
STOCK and steers; different breed,
eh?"
That's one reason why want to
20 on a ranch. Archie. to learn some
thing" she said in an unusually hum
BILE voice.
ooh, see. Your education has
been neglected in the city!
l could not help looking narrowly at
her, to try to get at the truly truth"
to quote Dick. She had always given
me the impression that she was de-
voted to the city. and city life. She
would not miss her concerts. or her
little parties. or her "at homes" and
occasional dances fo- anything. She
Ipiqued herself on being "chic." Chats
what she calls it. think and she ap-
peared to love new clothes dearly.
But l may have been mistaken.
Women are hard to read anyhow.
The long and short of it was. that |
sent in my resignation to the weather
bureau, although had always con-
graduated myself on being an official
that stays in office not to be turned
with the change of political wind. and
have to condescend to any trick to get
in again.
However, we sold up. and started
west, buying half cleared land at a
cheap rate. 80 as to have something
left for preliminary cxnenses. We
were like the young bears. with our
trouble ahead. but got strong and
hearty and we'll able to bea- their
brunt.
My wife took M her enew studies
with fresh zest. and was tickled at all
she learned.
One of them was what she was
pleased to call "afoTetime doctoring.
mo good TO laugh. Arch" she
would say. if grumbled at her exac-
tions. who's to nurse you and the
children if you're sick abed? don't
propose to be sick nurse, so don't ar
range matters that l should be. Be-
sides you know there's no doctor in
these parts to be had under $50 SO
you must practice doing without them
by not needing them
"While you practice on the kids,
/ Put in.
"Of course know what you're driy'
izg at. Amateurs can't know every
thing"
But you knew you had put the
faxseed poultice on the kid. and that
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IaITTLB AvIoR
BY LOUISA A'HMUTY NASH.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

wasn't the place for the thermo-
meter"
"How could I follow the shifting OF
a slippery eel?"
Never mind. little woman, you are
not the only one scared by thermo.
meter reading, when the patient was
well enough to frisk into his clothes"
Whatever you say, you know Tom,
mie had close scratch of pneumonia,
and you ought to be thankful. sir. to
the poultice he didn't quit. Wish
l could prove it by doctor"
"And the proci would be well worth
the $50" answered in banter.
"Who nearly put blistering liquid
into my eye?" giving her weather-eye
(as she called it) sly twinkle.
"And who shook the kid, instead OF
the bottle?" shot back.
Nobody, since Methusaleh's wife."
"But seriously, Archie. isn't 1T Just;
perfect being your own butcher and
baker and churner and cheese-mon-
ger, and charwoman and schools
marin? Other things one doesn't need:
Don't say you need doctor. Archie
dear, or my nose will be jointed fiat
and that would break my heart!" s:I .:5
AS / made no response, she went
on: s:
"It's heavenly to be independent OF
all the mongers in creation. 1t gives
you kind of Alexander Selkirk sen
sation-kind CT monarch Of all we
survey feeling, that does one good.
Just say for once you agree with me-
Arch, or shall be let down to agree
ing with myself. as usual"
To tell the truth. which never con-
fded to Lucia. had been hiring "a
man not to work so much. but to
teach me to do things-me. who
scarcely knew p spade from 2 hoe.
And Coonie always said 1--WE had to-
have plenty Of garden stuff to fight
off the doctor"
Neither could ] make fenceiS or
milk a cow. or keep the hogs out sof
the garden, let alone turning them
into bacon.
Why things came so natural to
Coonie l never could make out. She
got through all her bousework. and
taught and clothed the kids, getting.
herself up spick and span everySevens
ing to sit with me in the little pars
lor. Summer had come round again;
at the ranch and ! had notion there
was something brewing in her; little;
head, when she said suddenly.
"Arch, dear. now that you know
stock and steers are the same
think you may be trusted toEleaye:
them awhile"
"Coonie!" exclaimed. adding moth
ing ,---lzl's- - -
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HUMOROUS.

Wigg-When my grandfather died
all the clocks stopped. Wagg-What
an untimely end.
Boggs-There goes a man who neV-
er speaks a really good word of any
body. Joggs-A misanthrope, eh!
Boggs-No; he shutters.
whats your name?" thundered the
magistrate. "John," replied the man
of many aliases. What's your last
name?" 81 haven't quite decided"
Muggins-Subbubs seems to be
pretty lucky. Buggins-Lucky is no
name for it. Even his neighbors' hens
come and lay their eggs in his yard.
He-So you wanted to know some
thing about my past. hope you didn't
20 to extremes? She (adherent OF
spiritualism)-No; l went to a medi'
um.
Mrs. Buggins-That was rather Sc
we're whipping you gave to Willie this
morning. Mr.. Buggins-Huh! You
ought to see the kind that mother Used
to make.
""That defaulting bank clerk was en-
gagged in some other business" said
Mr.. Bellefeld. impressively. What
other business" asked Mr.. Bloom
field. "Steal."
Goodman-Go and see him, and
think he'll give you job; but first
of all you need a shave. Upper
You're mistaken there. How do you
mean?" First of all need the price
of a shave"
"You seem to be very fond of cof-
fee," said the landlady. as she passed
over the sixth cup. 1T looks like 1t,
returned the boarder. when I'm will
ing to swallow so much water for the
sake of getting little.
What are you crying for, little
boy ?saskedsthes snd@ Fold lady..>-"Me
fader's sick in bed" replied the little
boy. I'm glad to see you so sympa-
thetic." 1T amt dat HesPeomlsed to
take me to do circus today. aRseaeR
he went an got sick. Boo-hoo-hoo!D
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The Stopping Place.

There is a wealthy but very hard
headed citizen of Detroit who has no
hesitancy in telling this story on him.
self.
"If there's anything on earth grinds
me it is to plunge into the social swim.
I'd far rather plunge into an ice-cold
bath. One of these here steelpen coats
makes me want to go out and hide In
the hayloft, and standing collar puts
me into a crouch for week after I've
worn it.
"But you know how women are.
They'll stand right by you when livin'
is uphill work, skimp, hustle and
save, but once they get money they
want show for it. and the bigger the
show the better. Things sorter come
my way in pine and l cleaned up
neat little pile. Just grinned at car
riages, horses. coachman. lot OF
servants a snookin' round the house,
receptions, theatre parties and all that
sort of thing.
But when they rung in genuine
butler on me had warm conversa-
ticn with mamma and the girls. 1t
didn't do mite of good. They talked
me clean off my feet and the butler
came. could have got away passably
with the president of the United
States, but that fellow. stiff-backed,
high-headed. dookin' superior like and
never smilin' less it was to stab you,
riled me awful. One day while sit
ting in the library, | heard him tell
one Of the maids he was goin' to re-
sign. What for?' she asked. The;
last lady as called took me for the
barbarian'-that's me.
"For years l dealt with raftsmen
and lumbermen. paid his bill for six
weeks in the hospital. and his wages
too. We keen no butler."-Detroit
Free Press;
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groundwork OF pQySlcdl SCiCnN~ 'A'.'s'
be Abandoned as untenable. He hints,
indeed, that Newton's laws Of motion
are no longer satisfactory expositions
of we'll known truths. He seems dis
posed to abandon the idea that force is
the cause of motion; statement
which we have often pointed out is
wholly inconsistent with Newton S
third law. Ions take the place OF
atoms, from which they seem to differ
only in being infinitely more numerous.
Kelvin's theory of vortices, with diff
ference is favored, and we have again
a theory Of force centres, which so
closely resembles that advanced years
ago by the late Walter Browne. to say
nothing of Bishop Berkeley, that to the
superficial observer at all events the
distinction is without difference. But
the most notable feature of the whole
discourse Is DR.. Larmor's tendency
to abandon the pursuits Of knowledge
in certain direcuons. 1t will be bet
ter, he said in effect, to content our
selves with a statement of the chain OF
events so far as we can see the links,
without attempting to discover the
ends of the chain. We can study the
effects of gravity, but it is forever i'm
possible for the human mind to con-
ceive of any adequate cause. We may
frame mathematical theories about the
ether, but the human mind is inca
pable of forming concept of sub
stance which will comply with the con-
ditions. In whatever direction we
turn, we are stopped by the presence
of the unknown. DR.. Larmor will have
it, as we understand him, that much of
the unknown is unknowable. 1t is pos
sible that we overestimate DR.. Lar
mor's pessimism; we trust that we do.
Among the matters to which he di-
rected attention was attraction. Its
phenomena are common and obvious,
even apart from gravity, but they ap-
pear to be absolutely inexplicable. We
speak of tor7ue of motor, or a dy-
namo, and it is part of the work of the
electrician and the engineer to calcu-
late its amount under stated condi-
tions; but no one on earth has the
smallest notion Of why torQue exists
at all in the combination of iron, cop
per. cotton and shellac. The magnet
gives us a puzzle as recondite as any
in the universe. In old times, when
men did not use very accurate Ian
ruage, it was said that lodestone
on a permanent magnet attracted"
iron. No one thought of saying that
the iron attracted the magnet to pre-
cisely the same extent AS to the ma
ture of the links across space between
the two, no one worried himself. "Ac-
ton took place at distance" that
was enough. Sir Isaac Newton was
the first man able to influence thought
to any sufficient extent to point out
that no action Of the kind could take
place without some bridge to span va
Guilty. By degrees it began to be un-
derstood that what we term magnetic
attraction can be expressed in terms
of lines of force: and, what is Of all
things important. that attraction is
due not to anything done by the mag
net per Sc. but to some external form
of energy which is localized and di-
rected by the magnet. But what this
form of energy is, or how the magnet
works, no one, as we have said, knows.
London Engineer.
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/ ~. si.z s-f.5E SCI A.uitueSS OIL
great cities;" so it must be, some lit
tie world straight from the hand of
it's Maker. "You see. Arch" she cons
tinued. we've not come across the
plains
ut seems to me that we have done
so," dared internose.
"The old-fashioned way. Of course.
The trains were there, and we had to
take them. But want to go in a
prairie schooner"
Heavens and earth! Does she want
to go back east that way?
Seeing my CONSERVATION she gave
my hand little pat. saying:
"Arch, You stupid trump. we must
take the children out camping some
where; they'll winter so much better"
Good heavens they're not bees,
Coonie / suppose you are afraid Of
having to apply poultices and thermo.
meter again-the mixture that does
not agree with your nerves. Eh?" l
bantered.
Change of air is good. that's why
the COWS go wandering off so far be-
fore they calve." she said. "and a
prairie schooner will be the very mic
est of all"
only without the prairie. seeing
we're mostly. mountains over here",
l interpolated
To please her. the man and fixed
up a rig. and we all embarked for the
nearest bit of coast. where |e expect.
ed to see more people than re had
the year through. although Lucia pro-
fessed 70 hate people.
After living all her life near the
great lakes, she hankered after a
sight &C water.
We we're preparing to camp over
night. before reaching the place In
the morning and l was welding the
axe for fire-making when | stupidity
struck my left hand between thumb
and forefnger. From great cash
the blood spurted, running down bril-
liantly as l made my way to where
my wife was busy with the children.
"Now, 'aforetime DOCTOR now's
our chance" said coolly. "Pve
struck bone"
"How could you be such a goose,
Arch?' and she tried in vain to
staunch the blood. AS it continued
to flow from the rather ugly looking
opening, she said. wait till hold it
together!" and she very ingeniously
closed the lips of the wound, holding
them firm with thumb and finger.
wait? What are we to wait for?
Till the fires made itself and boiled
the kettle?"
"Wait, say. and don't argie-bor-
gie!" This always meant that the
Scotch in her was uppermost. and
she wasn't to be gainsaid.
Don't argie-borgie!" and to the
eldest boy, Jimmie. you run round to
the camp ahead of us. and ask, one
of the young men to be so kind as to
go with you and fetch the doctor from
the town"
Coon" dared to expostulate.
"If you bleed to death. sir. how are
we to have our tea? You know the
plaster won't stick. and | didn't bring
my surgery needle and SILK. never
dreaming you'd do this
I knew telenhathically that "lock-
jaw" was the word running up, and
down the convolutions of her brain
the thing she had never seen happily;
| so let her be.
IF Providence makes you do this,
Just within reach of a doctor, I'm not
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they have already gained from their
guidebooks, that mouse" is really the
old German Musthum, meaning arse
nal. Still, Hatto may have been eaten
by rats on a musthum as easily as any
where else. But by this time the
mouse tower is out of sight.
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Mr.. BLUFF.

He purchased Shakespeare, hn0y
bound
\ f0rty-volumc set.
He searched for Dickens, Balzac's
tales
The best that he could get:
And Hugo, Huxley, Darwin, too,
And twenty score BESIDE.
They lin d his b oksill.e', VIII e ne
read
Proud Poll, the Pirates Bride"
or music he had Mozart's works,
Beeth0venS symphonies.
A gilt piano. too, with real
Hand-whittled ivory keys.
Herr Wagners bust adorned the room'
And fancies rare would rise,
Until you heard him carol forth:
"Shc Made Them Goo-Goo Eyes.
Josh Wink, in Baltimore American.
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Sad

az never heard the wind sound so
mournful as it does tonight" said the
shoe clerk boarder.
YES" said the Cheerful Idiot. ut
is the ssdest blow of all."-Indianapo
lis Press.
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Telephones Cheap in Glasgow

Glasgow ought not to suffer from
any lack of telephone subscribers. I'm
der the new system annual rentals arc
abolished and subscribers are charged
8 cents per day for the exchange con-
nectionl
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New York City.-Thc waist that in
cludes deep yoke, narrow front ana
bertha holds high place among the
designs Of the season. The smart May
Manton design illustrated has the ad-