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CHAPTER xxx.
THE LAST OF LUKE HAMMOND.

Luke Hammond found Kate Elgin
as Nancy Harker had described.
The unfortunate girl was not feign-
ing delirium, for she had swallowed,
while drinking water, the poisonous
drug Hammond had smeared in the
goblet. She was pale, very pale, but
on each snowy cheek burned a bright
red spot, while her splendid, dark
brown eyes were unnaturally brilliant.
She paced to and fro with a restless,
purposeless haste, and took no notice
Of those around her.
"This is my intended wife, Mr.. ALL
day. said Hammond.
Can she make the responses, Mr..
Hammond" asked Alrday, to whom
Kate Elgin was a stranger.
"Is it necessary, Mr.. Allday?"
"Not if you think otherwise, Mr..
Hammond" said Allday. But she is
not in state to know what is going
on"
THAT matters not" said Hammond.
where Is Daniel, Mrs. Harker?"
Il believe he sleeps. will call him."
said Nancy, going from the room into
the hall.
"Give me your hand, Miss Elgin,"
said Hammond.
Kate looked at him wildly, but did
not move q muscle.
Hammond took her hand in his, and
she made no resistance.
Come" said Hammond leading her
toward the door,
She followed him in silence. and he
led her into the hall and thence through
the ante-room of the crimson chamber
into the presence of her father.
"Haw cried Hammond. "Who moved
that bed?"
II did," said Henry Elgin sternly.
"For whatw
"There was draught near the CRATE
that chilled my very bones," said Elgin.
Nancy Harker and Daniel now came
in.
Henry Elgin," said Hammond. you
behold your daughter. She moves, she
sees and hears. But for the time her
mind is vacant. She knows nothing.
Do you still refuse to obey me"
Let me speak to that man who
wears a garb that have respected and
honored all my llfe," said Elgn, who
held his arms folded across his breast.
1T is useless for you to speak to
him." said Hammond. ANSWER my
question"
Still, I will speak to him." said FL
gin. "Sir, whoever you are. I am the
father Of that unfortunate girl. AS her
father, I forbid this outrage to be
done"
Mr.. Hammond" said Allday, terri
bly, alarmed at his situation, perhaps
this affair had best 60 no farther"
Silence, Thomas Allday," said Ham,
mond. 1T must 60 on to the end. Do
you refuse to go on, slr!'
Il am afraid-that is-you know the
circumstances Of the case," stammered
Allday.
The circumstances of the case,
Thomas Allday. are these" said Ham
mond. You have committed forgery.
hold the proofs in my hands. l can
produce them at any moment and send
you to Sing Sing. You know that?"
Il do-unfortunately 1 do" said ALL
day, who shrank from Henry Elgin's
terrible glance to he appalled, by the
fierceness Of Hammond's eyes.
"Will you 60 on with the ceremony"
demanded Luke Hammond.
Still Allday paused. He feared the
future. He was not clergyman,
though he saw that Henry Elsin be.
lieved him to be one.
10 be continued.
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Aim af f1le lsoSf.

It is a strange but infexib.c spiritual law
that those who aim at anything short OF
the best according to their conception, as
God has given them light, will sooner or
later come to grief 1t is merely matter
Of time.-Char!es II. Brent.
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Common Method of Suicide.
Shooting is the most popular method OF
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led the way among the colliers of Kings
wood in Cornwall. England was full of pa
gan poverty, and this new departure to-
ward the Submerged" and the forgotten
this human compulsion of zeal that ate up
neglect and its embitterments, broke once
for all with the traditions of apathy. Thel
John Wesley stormed Bristol town. Little
what chord they had struck, as their in
domitable fervor and unintermittent ag-
gression hurled out of their way the things
that would have obstructed them and once
! more reached after the soul of the common
man. 1t was a radical return to the sim
plcity OF Christ, and it had to face the
frown and scoffings of those who do always
resist the spirit of what is real and uucom.
promising. The harvest was white and had
born under the sky. baptized by the tears
of the lowly, hailed by the new songs Of
tens of thousands under the dome of God!
It went with Christ after the lost sheep,
and swept the very dust for the lost jewels.
It did not reach down from an attitude Of
stiff condescension and patronage, but
reached out from the universal level OF
human sympathy and childlike love. And
it proved by its errand and result that lie
who wants the souls OF men enough to 60
after them in Chrst's way can have them.
This is the method of the evangel for
which tie world is aching and starving.
This is the idea of service upon which
alone rests the power of Christ, Friend Of
Sinners and OF whom always the common
people hear gladly when He is truly told.
The indifference and the contempt Of men
at large for the church is at any given time
the reflection of the indifference and con-
tempt of the church for men at large. The
sign of the apostle is the sign of the sickle,
And the other power was over and
through the intensity with which they
bore It, the clearness and directness of the
message itself. 1t uttered the two funda-
mental words, repent" and "believe," !"
with an accent of imperativeness that
smote the frivolity and inhuman superb
ciality of the age. Again it transtigured
the possibilities of the lowliest man. 1t
said what laany only thought and dared
what many only wished. Its business Wal
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:. $s.75-Soo Line to Detroit and Return.
This will be sure to interest you. In
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-13
EVOLUTION OF NAVAJO WEAVING
Instead Being introduced by Spanish Missionaries the Art Spin
ing and Weaving Is of Prehistoric Indian Origin Having
Defended % Navajoes From Cliff Dweers.

ing, since it was expensive, and the colors
all native, with the exception of indigo
and Bayeta. The first use is noticed, too
Of other decorations than stripes and the
figures are imbued with meaning.
The time between 1850 and 1880 may be
classed as the middle period This is prob
ably the most interesting. The Bayeta
time extended from the antique well down
to the close of the middle period This
period witnessed the completion Of SYM
bolic designs. The more liberal introduce
ton and use of Bayeta; the advent OF
commercial dyes and yarns, and the slim
illus Of demand, encouraged the Navajo
women to more and better work
In this period the commercial side of
Navajo weaving was developed and
promise of greater things given which has
been realized in the later or modern
period. The middle period saw the strug-
gle between the old and the new. The
new finally triumphed, and milI-made
yarn and analine dyes took the place of
Bayeta, native yarn and native dyes.
This brings us to the modern blanket.
It Is a composite. Bayeta Is gone-the
old colors are gone.
We now have little of everything
Native wool and native dyes to a limited
extent, native wool and commercial dyes
in abundance Mill-spun and dyed yarn
in colors that have no place In Navajo
blanket
When the mill yarn was first intro
duced squaws without thought or selec-
ton eagerly took some Of the colors and
wove them into blankets. Some blankets
were made which contained such incon-
gruities in color as pink, maroon, orange
and rose. But when collectors refused
to purchase blankets having these limo
vations, the colors were no longer used.
1t was the same way with cotton warp
which was used a little in 1880, but which
gradually fell into disuse
About 1880 and even as early as 1875 the
use Of the Germantown yarn became prev
alent, and since then it has gained a per-
manent foothold, because of the variety
and stability Of the color. Blankets from
the Germantown wool are smoother In fin
1sh and, to the casual observer, more at
tractive than those of native wool. The
variety Of colors admits all kinds of COM
binatlons, and the squaw can give express
sion to all the weird fancies Of pattern, de-
sign or symbol that her mind can conjure
up. Many of the colors are out of place,
in a Navajo blanket, but she manages to
harmonic them to that there is no lash
ing of color.
This modern period is the beginning of
the end. Cheaper material means cheaper
product and less compensation for the
slave of the blanket, the weaver. The old
women are the weavers. The young wo-
men are not ambitious to learn, and finally
the last weaver will fold her loom and then
our beautiful barbaric weave will be
known only in the specimens that are pre-
served
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GROWTH OF VEGETARIANISM
Restaurants for the Serving of.svegetarian
Meals Are Patronzed in
MANY Cities,

An indication of the extensive adoption
of the vegetarian sentiment is the fact that
numerous vegetarian restaurants are now
doing a. profitable business in various
American cities; that the sale Of the differ
ent preparations from grain and nuts in
tended to supersede the use Of flesh or
fowl is rapidly increasing, says Good
Housekeeping. In New York city there
are five vegetarian restaurants. and ir
Brooklyn there is one. Other cities which
have, or had recently, institutions of this
kind, are Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, De-
troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San
Diego, San Jose, Portland Oregon; Des
Moines, Iowa; Madison, Wis; Lincoln
Neb.; Denver, Colorado Springs, Seattle,
Battle Creek, Mich; Washington, D. c.;
New Orleans, Nashville, Milwaukee, Kan
sas City, Mo-; Marquette. Mich. There is A
large demand for efined vegetable oils ex-
tracted from cotton seed, peanuts and
other oily products, used either on the
table or in culinary preparations. Break
fast foods prepared from oats, wheat, bar
ley and prepared grains have an immense
sale. A large concern that advertises
many articles of food also advertises It's
canned beans as specially adaped for vege-
tarians, being without pork.
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THE GLOVE APPLE
The Revival Of Fragrant Keepsake
OF the Days of Eliz.

Among the most interesting of the re-
cent revivals of ancient feminine arts
must be noted that of the fragrant keep
sake Of old times, the Glove apple. or apple
stuck full of cloves. In the ornate times
of great Elizabeth-she who left two thou
sand frocks in her extensive wardrobe
one reads of oranges stuck full of cloves.
But her physician, John Caius, advised
patients to "smele to an old swete apple
to recover their strengthe,' and perhaps
the Glove apple originated from this an
cient tonic.
In our great-grandmothers day the
making of Glove apple ranked as a gem
teel accomplishment and the gift of one a
graceful and welcome present. In more
recent times this art still fingered on, for
Mrs. Alice Morse Earle says that when
she was little girl her mother taught her
to make one. This was in the war time,
when spice was a high priced commodity,
and therefore the maker was obliged to be
careful not to waste the cloves.
Twenty Glove apples were recently made
by woman who had promised herself as
child to make barrel of them when
grown up. These she distributed as holiday
gifts. and in every case the old fashioned
spicy token of regard was received with
delighted surprise.
Surely there is future for the Glove
apple. At sick beds, in hospitals,aon the
desk of g business woman 1t would be a
pleasant addition while the making of
this article would be a pleasing occupation
for young or elderly women.
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GOULDt'TABLE CLOTH
A Linen and Lace Cover Which Cost
Thousands of Dollars.

- @hbSh N-dSS OSSs
Thousands of Dollars.
No place in the world, perhaps, has the
royal purple. beaten silver and fine linen
of the Old Testament been more lavishly
duplicated than in the homes of New
Yorlx's money kings. Surely money was
never more wisely invested than in fine
linen for table service. Within the past
I've weeks there was delivered to George
Gould one set Of linen table service that
cost $1,000 1t was a special order made
to fit round mahogany banqueting table
that can seat eighty guests. The linen
was first used at the opening of the re-
modelled Fifth avenue mansion on the
night Of the ball. Spun of the finest Irish
linen the tablecloth is six yards long. 1t
has deep, round border Of Florentine
point lace, all hand made in one piece.
The center issolid lace Me lace was de-
signed specially for they Goutds and will
never besduplicated. 1t represents months
of labor by scores of women lace makers.
with the cloth went six dozen plate and
finger bowl doilies embellished with Flor
entine point lace, carrying out the same
design of the wide borders in the cloth.
The whole is a work of art worthy a place
in a museum, where In all probability it
will some day land to be shown to future
generations as an example not only Of the
art.but the opulence Of 10th century living
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-13
TWO FAMOUS SPINSTERS
Miss Holley Is as Fashionable as Clara
Barton Is Old Fashioned

Clara Barton and Marietta Holley
("Josiah Aliens Wife") are friends Of
long standing. To Miss Holley's beaut1-
full country home in Adams, Jefferson
county, New York; home built out Of
the earnings of her pen-Clara Barton
goes for rest and companionship whenever
she finds herself with leisure and strength
to make the journey from her home in
Washington, for Clara Barton is in her
eighty-secOnd year.
Miss Holley drives a spanking team. In
her house is built an organ. A piano and
other musical instruments are in the liv-
ing-room. Miss Holley was a, music
teacher before she found fame and fortune
in one book. She is a poet and a COM
poser of music. Because of these accom-
plishments, no less than the sympathy of
New England birth, Clara Barton,
schooled to war, finds solace In the COM
partnership Of the poet and hunorist.
Striking is the difference In appearance
between the heroine of war hospital life
and the creator Of Betsey Bobbin. Slight
of stature, old fashioned beyond recall in
manner and dress, Clara Barton conceals
so well her force of character that hers
is what might be caleld an apologetic ap-
pearance. So low is her voice that 1t
can be heard with difficulty in conversa-
ton, unless ears are all attention. Mari
eta Holley Is handsome, big, command
ing, with soft, fluffy, white hair, large,
brown, velvety eyes and fair complexion.
She would attract attention anywhere,
and never more SO than when walking
or riding with Clara Barton. Twice a
year she comes to New York. If posi-
BILE, Clara Barton always joins her, and
they have good, old fashioned visits to-
gether in an uptown hotel. Gowns and
royalties play no part In the New York
trips of the founder Of the Red Cross
society," But Marietta Holley keeps
modistes and publishers busy, the one
group in making for her the prettiest
gowns they can devise; the other in
setting accounts.
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WOMAN CARNIVAL DESIGNER
A Statesman's Granddaughter Makes
Plans for New Orleans
Mardi Gras,
Makes

There are two designers for the New
Orleans carnivals-a man (who has done
the work for years., and Of late woman,
Miss Jennie Wilde, granddaughter OF the
statesman and poet, Richard Henry Wilde
Miss Wilde was born in Augusta, Ca,
tn Getty which not long since erected a
monument to her distinguished ancestor.
but with the exception of the years at the
art league in New York has spent her life
in New Orleans. It was soon after open
ing her studio in her own city that she
was asked to submit designs for one of the
parades, which she did, with such success
she has been designing for the same or
ganization ever since, and now has about
half the carnival in New Orleans. and also
designs for Mobile and Kansas City car
nivals.
(. Sometimes she says 81 plan and orig
mate everything in connection with a
parade or ball, as the case may be. even
to the smallest detail. Again, only carry
out the ideas of the captains or committee
in charge. The imagination that is neces-
sary for this particular branch Of art I
am proud to say believe I inherit from
my grandfather, Richard Henry Wilde.
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MAAT HILDA LApSoN.S ANs:

of what you're goin to do beforehan' an
II It's bad idea so much the worse for
you, seems if.
Il wish you could hear Mrs. Lane talk
on jes this thing. She thinks there isn't
anyth1n' quite so important an serious
as bringing up a chill an seems if she
was right; but there's diff're ways of
carrying responsibilities. She's that fratd
Mary IL pick up an acquaintance t she
don't approve of she don't sleep nights.
an Mary's calm lis is jes' the same as
her mas. Mrs. Lane could take in wash
in easier n she could let that little girl
go out In the street an play It'll the other
children. Little girls are bad 'nough, but
little boys are so much worse t Mary looks
the other way when she passes one when
he's out walkin' 'th the nurse. Mrs Lane S
bringin' her up as If she was princess,
an so she is, jes' like all nice little girls
but some way I can't but agree 'th her
neighbor, Mrs. Allen. She says t Mrs.
Lanes maxim Mary uncomfortable an
herself ridiculous, an I guess she's bout
right
But what started to tell you was that
there's new. baby over at Lanes, an a
boy, If you'll believe me. I dunno what
Mrs Lane said when she heard it was a
boy, but Mr.. Lane was as tickled as if
he was a youngster TIL his frs firecracker.
He toll Mary bout her little brother an
she didn't say much but jes slipped away
by herself. I went after her cause I
thought p'rhaps she was goin to feel a
little jealous, jes as children do some
times, for they can't realize It there isn't
anythin as 'lastic as human heart. But
Mary wentup to the nursery an dropped
on her knees beside the bed, an would
you b'lieve It, she prayed that as long as
God had sent a boy baby to her house, it
would be a good boy baby, SO It her mother
d let her play with it. For you know,
Lord says she, mother never let's me play
with little boys 'thout they're extra good
an we know somethin' of their families,
says she.
II didn't say anythin' to her, but jes'
slipped back as quiet as I came. There's
sometimes you have to think out for your
self, no matter how small you are, an
parents make things mighty confusin' for
their children 'thout al'ys meanin' to,
seerns if ,,
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BABIES MUST BE MoTHERED
Without Personal Attention That More Than Careful
ing and Keeping They Will Not Thrive-A Babies
. Al. !. Experiment in Foster "Mothering"

A curious thing impressed itself upon
the faithful women that manage the ST.
Vincent home in Philadelphia, something
they could neither understand nor ac-
count for They eound children In the
slums, raised without any comforts or
even necessities, healthy, bright and hap
py, while those in the home, despite the
care bestowed upon them and their album
dance of playthings, grew peevish and
fretfuL. The death rate, too, began to in
crease alarmingly, tho medicine was faith
fully administered and they were nursed
conscentiously. The cause of the condi-
ton, if not it's solution, was suggested,
according to the Household Ledger, by a
sensible, pleasant mother who had
been invited to visit the home. She
watched the children playing about the
floor and noted the lack Of normal, boist-
erous play the lack of freedom children in
homes display. Tho assured Of their
safety, these seemed veritable little waits.
The visitors eyes grew moist.
Well said the mother of the home, in
quiringly.
''They need motheripg; that's ALL" an
swered the visitor. "They pining for
the natural dove that every baby must
have. They are carefully kept and clean
and well fed, but that isn't all that a
baby wants. That fearful little thing in
the corner wants some one to take it UP
duu press IL W d 1UOlHeIly 1!UOSOHl-.- lou
and your associates cannot be tending the
| babies all day. The baby nature knows
nothing Of what it Is. entitled to, but its
| instincts tell it that it's outstretched arms
| should find other arms to meet them, that
| some one besides itself should admire
those wonderful pink toes which it just
fails to bite, that hand, tenderly rough
should poke its little ribs till it curls w
with laughter. And missing these things
| it feels, or seems to feel, that it must not
| be forward, but must stay quietly where
it Is placed, giving no unnecessary trouble
I making no noise Sometimes one sees the
same effect in children who are considered
| a bother in their homes and taught to be
| unobtrusive."
The words of the woman who under
stood the wants Of a child set the man
| ayers of the home to thinking At last
| a plan was devised and carried out which
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MISS KENT's MEXICAN OPINIONS
Gives Ora pic Description of the Oppouni-
Shopping and Of the Street Sights in Presi-
dent Diazs Capital

Miss Helen Kent of Minneapolis Is
spending the summer in Mexico City with
her sister, who was married there last
winter. Mrs. Kent and Miss Kent spent
the winter in California and will return
there in the fall. Miss Kent writes en-
tertainingly tc friends of her rambles in
the fine cid Spanish city that is fast
becoming fully moderniZed under the
progressive hand of President Diaz. In
recent letter she proposed to take her
correspondent on a sightseeing jaunt
whose realization would be a delight to
/ a visitor. Miss Kent wrote:
"F'irst, we would take the car and ride
down to the Zocalo one of the public
parks. 1t Is not so large as the Alameda,
being only about two squares, but full
I of interest On one side Is the palace,
where poor Carlotta-phantom empress of
lMeXico-lived with her princely Maxi
lmilian The palace is now the municipal
headquarters. Opposite the palace is the
big cathedral, not very picturesque, but
massive and grand. Facing the cathedral
and on the other side Of the park, is the
''Portales' (stores under portaD and
such curious mixture of little ice cream
stands. pulque junks. dry goods stores in
miniature, street fakirs Of all sorts and
conditions and all run by these dusky
! MeXicans. Most Of them black as In
dams and just as dirty-but o! such a
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other little shops, altho that Is really
too imposing a name for them, for 1t al
most seems If they could be carried
away in q shawl strap. You can buy
pretty much everything in small things
and rather cheap, if you can speak
Spanish.
LET us go next to the thieves market,
a motley gathering of many sellers and
some purchasers. 1t is located in a sort
of back yard not far from the Zocalo.
About everything for sale has been stolen
and you can buy anything from a rosary
to childs cradle at your own price. Just
make a feint of walking away after you
have priced an article and it seems too
high and they will chase after you fast
enough and you can then get it without
paying whole lot more than it is worth
I bought pair Of solid brass candlesticks
there for 81 which IS now worth about Al
cents IN gold. '..
Now we will take the car and go ur
San Francisco street to the Imperial,
swell American place, for some ice cream
It Is really nothing but milk frozen, bu
1t is the best Of the kind in the city
Cream Is something you don't hear of very
often in Mexico.
1T is Thursday morning, so we will stoI
at the Alameda, where there is music by
the band on Sundays and Thursdays
Thru the center Of the park run three
avenues of about twenty feet in width
on either side of these on band days, are