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LADY GopIvA REPREsENrEn

LADY GODIvA REPRESENTED.
Several times during the last 200
tears a great carnival has been given
at Coventry, England, in behalf OF
some worthy charity, and the chief
feature of the affair has always been
an attempt to reproduce the famous
ride of Lady Godiva. The latter, it
will be remembered, rode through the
town on horseback nude, cloaked only
in her long t~resses, because her HUG.
band, the earl, had l%aughingly prom
lsed that If she did so he would free
the inhabitants from the oppressive
taxation he had imposed on them.
However little he may have meant
it the earl kept his promise, and
the event has, therefore, ever since
been regarded In Coventry as a most
Important one. This year, when the
greatest of all the carnivals was held,
the part of Lady Godiva was taken
by Miss Pansy Montagu, widely
known as LA Milf for her living
statuary exhibitions at a London mu.
sic hall. Although the feeling against
this portion of the pageant was very
strong among religious people, La
Milo attired herself SO artisticaliy,
If lightly, that criticism was largely
disarmed. Her costume was a flesh.
colored, tightly-ftting garment, leav-
ing only the arms bare, while the
figure was draped with ample folds of
chiffon and a luxuriant auburn wig.
Her progress was witnessed by $780,.
900 enthusiastic spectators,-Lee,ie's
Weekly.
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The total area of the British empire
is nearly 11,400, 900 square miles, or
more than one-fifth OF the earth's sur
face,
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Ever been in Siberia?" asked the
reporter.
"Er-yes," answered the disting-
uished Russian refugee. II took a
knouting there one summer Chi
a 4 Tribune.
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Mrs. E. M. Tinney, story writer,
1926 E. Nueva St., San Antonio, Tex,
writes:
During 1901 / suffered from nasal
J catarrh, which various other remedies
I failed to relieve.
six bottles of Peruna, which / took,
entirely cured me, the catarrh disap-
! pearing and never returning.
IL therefore cheerfully recommend
Peruna to all similarly afflicted"
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II. n. GREEKS Sons, of Atlanta. Ga, are
the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the
world. See their liberal offer IN advertise
ment in another co.umn of this paper.
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time. My ankles swelle1 and / a
down dreadfully. / was nervous and
had awful headaches. / wonder that
any medicine could do what Doan's
Kidney Pills have lone for me. They
cured me four years ago and I have
been well " since"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-.Ailburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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THE WOMAN EVERY eNE LIKES.

The woman when every one likes
Is an excellent talker and listener,
but she listens more than she talks.
She fever sossips, but she Is kind
and liberal in her judgments. SHE
has a faculty Of remembering likes
and dislikes, and new treads on
other peoples corns and she never
asks unnecessary or curious ques-
tions.-Eome Chat.
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Mrs Winslow'sS Soothing Syrupfor Children
teetning, ~eoftens thegums, redncesinfiamma-
Gon, allays pain, cures wind collie, 25c bottle
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OUT o MONEY.

THAT summer resort proprietor IL
. sharp one, isn't he?"
Il should say SO. / fell on the dock
and he charged me for an extra BATH"
Cleveland Leader.
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MORE SATISFACTORY

MURE SATISFACTORY.
Eastman-I understand your father
owns a large ranch in New Mexico.
Does he run it on scientific prfn-
eipies?
Westlake-No; he runs it on
mohey-making principless-Chicago
News.
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CONFIDENCE

Jsckson-Heaven bless himl He
showed confidence iii me when the
clouds were dark and Threatening.
Wilson-In what way?
Jackson-He lent me an umbrella
Answers.
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CLOSE TO 7

CLOSE TO
Church-Did you ever try any OF
these close to nature methods?
Gotham-Well, I've used a porous
plaster!-Yonkers Statesman
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From THE institute before next March. Tkis 10 an
exclusive Telegraph Institute. not a BusiHess Coi.
Es&ablished Twenty-one Years. Main lines Of L.. q
ing SO per month and upward absolutely guaranteed
Bond. Yeu can work far yen expenses.
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ON GUARD.
Eyes. + sleep in the garage now and
the chauffeur Steps in the house"
whats that for?"
1.-THE chauffeur is troubled with In
somnia and the midnight rides ne
took in my car in order to pass away
the time were altogether too expen'
siye."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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A DILEMMA.

A DILEMMA.
"Bilkins tells me he is getting aw-
fully tired Of living alone"
# would think he'd marry and set
tie down"
ri was talking with him about 1t
the other day, and he says he doesn't
know whether to get married or buy
a Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
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20 Mule Team
) 9 RAX

will cleanae every article IN yonr laundry
kitchen or dining room. All Dealers Samples
Booklet and Parlor GA me WIKI" 1Oc.
PACIFIC COAST BOKAX CO., New \ orks
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DIET AND BEAUTY.

Women who want to be. beautiful
must pay attention to their diet.
Buckets of lotions, pounds of creams
and skin foods, boxes of flesh brushes,
complexion rollers, soaps - nothing,
not one of these can produce the
slightest effect in helping to give the
right color and glow to the complex
ion that has been spoiled by improp-
er food, says Woman's Life.
When pimples make their appear.
ance on girls faces many a mother
will even run to give blood tonics and
such, while still allowing their daught.
ers to devour fresh pork chops, veal
outlets, but never a bit Of fruit or
fresh greens, because they don't like
anything of that kind. but prefer good
substantial, hearty food"
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Or 2N1EREN<
k 70 WOMEN

a variety of interests denied to IL
average man. His collection of motn
and butterflies is the largest and
most important in the world, and. by
his generosity, is the property of the
nation, to whom it was conveyed by
deed of gift in 1901. A large part
of it is in the Natural History Mu-
scum at South Kensington, and 1t Is
a curious and little known fact that
women's fashions are directly In.
debted to Lord Walsingham and his
collection. Dressmakers and design
ers of Court gowns go to the drawers
and cases of butterflies and moths to
study new combinations and contrasts
of color, subtle shades of nature and
harmonies of tone, which are to be
beheld and studied there, and there
alone.-From Tit-Bits.
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I~ELEeRAPHERS WANTED

lece. In charge OF ex-railway oHoiais.
VsVVU n. r. r. In school rooms. Positions pa
- our graduates under . $40 Guaxanty
7rits for Oa.a,os. NATIONAL TELEGRAP
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p UTNAM FADELESS DYES

Color more goods brighter and faster colors thai. any OF
can dye any garment without ripping apart. write 4
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t,ubCr In TrcaCIc.

There are hopes at the beginning Of the
volume on w. = Gilbert" by Edith A.
Browne in the STARS of tho Stage" series
(John Lane Company, that the tone of
fulsome adulation that spoil the earlier
volumes will be avoided. The charter
on Gilbert's earlier years contains facts.
and he certainly fas turned out enough
work Of literary quality to warrant an
essay of a hundred RACES, however eulogistic.
The author gets away from facts as soon
as sine can. however; she processes TO adj
mire Gilbert's serious works, but has hardly
a word to say about them. There is much
comment on The Wicked World" but
mere reference to THE Palace Of Truth"
or "Pygmalion and Galatea" and little ac-
count OF how the "Pab Pallads" were writ
ten.
Notwithstanding her protests it il the
Gilbert and Sullivan operas that the author
cares about. There is much laudation of
these and of Mr.. Gilbert and Of the Savoy
productions. There are copious extracts that
surely n yet have ceased to be familiar.
Here was the opportunity to describe
accurately a brilliant and important episode
in stage history and a marked individual
talent in literature. The author has chosen
not TO seize IL but TO substitute 'attery
for the living manager.
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he was miserable. "In the tWinkllng OF
an eye destiny had exalted him and abased
him. For an instant a mirage OF unimag-
mod happiness had flooded the chambers
Of his eycs with loveliness and light; then 10
had been sponged out OF his heaven and he
beheld only the waterless desert OF his pain
She was there. the angel child whose frag-
rance Of soul had first reached him on the
air Of dawn across the shining calm Of a
river-reached him and filed his brain
with a craving and a passion for sympathy
such as hitherto he had never known, never
dreamed Of: she was there, a delicate figure
in blue. standing now before him in n violet
glamour Of sunlight-beautiful beyond
expression. beautiful beyond all u~tterance
Of music, and Of color. n Of speech-the
daughter Of Mrs. RevinRton!" Yes. abe
was that oh ectionable lady's daughter.
but she had long. moist. mobile lips OF
scarlet" and what was even a Bishops
~scrupulous son that he should undertake
TO resist her?
II Father Vesey was a small man." as
the story says and as we may reasonably
believe, no such charge can he brought
against Father Severn. the head OF the
Society of Nicodemus. We wish that il
might be proper to recount some of the
doings snd the uttcranccs Of this dominating
and INSCRIPTIONS man. but of course the
secrets and the copyright Of an author
must be respected. A distinctly ~iInagina-
tive and decidedly robust story. We
ourselves have found great pleasure in
reading il.
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repartee and epigram and suggestive re-
marks that border sometimes on vulgarity.
The romance Of adventure without sense
will he found in The Commensurate" by
Ambrose Pratt CR. +. Fenno and Company.
Every chapter has its crime or its rescue,
but the construction is clumsy and the
historical elements dragged in are absurd,
so that il will require a rather indiscrimi-
nate reader to keep on to the end.
Crime is more than plentiful in The
Mauleverer Murders by A. c. vies.
The last act of Hamlet" alone can com pare
with il. II is not fair TO call IL a detective
story, for, though detectives are intro
duced. their action is %innocuous. The crime.
the victims and the other Characters are
singularly uninteresting. but the e%xplann-
tory horror at the end ia very complete.
Half a dozen short magazine stories are
published separately in book form by
Thomas Y. Crowell and Company. All but
one are pathetic or sentimental, but Charles
Bait II Loomis's ~Araminta and the Auto
mobile contains three amusing skits on
motor cars. A narrowing tale Of monkish
jealousy and a pet parrot will be found in
Eleanor Gates's Good Night: Lloyd Os-
bourne tells OF n humble tragedy in
Schmidt; the story Of a broken down
doctor who finds himself again is told in
Katharine Brown Hollands Dawn: a
pretty gruesome frontier tale is c. O.. ID.
Roberts, In the Deep of the Snow" and
"A very unpleasant Chirrss episode 10 re-
lated in Frances Aymar Matthews's "Allee
Simee." The books are all illustrated.
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4 sniff nt the Desert ,

Artistic workmanship marks the cynical
little story that Mr.. Robert Kitchens re-
lates in "Barhary Sheep" (Harpers) He
has shown in earlier books how wonderfully
he can depict the desert, and counting
probably on these having been read first.
uses the desert here as a shadowy back
ground for a cosmopolitan episode. The
desire for realism at all costs accounts
for the u~nsympathetic character Of the
three persons involved; the ideal side of
each might have been touched upon with
more vigor, but that would have seemed
to Mr., Kitchens to detract from the value
Of his psychological demonstration
That climate affects che woman traveller
when she stops long enough in any place
TO give IL a chance to work is a not wholly
unknown phenomenon Pretty nearly
any observer can tell queer tales Of the
struggles Of the New England conscience
with the air and witchery Of Italy, and in
warmer attitudes principles give way to
physical attractions much more readily
The tangle that the British married firt
gets into through the influence of tropical
surroundings and curiosity about the I'M
known will be forgiven; it is a little more
difficult to appreciate her holding back
when, after preparing to give up her person
and her husband, she discovers that her
property il equally desired bv her desert
admirer.
The picture of the Eu~ropeanized Arab
is Photographic in its details and wholly
lacking in charity. He has all the faults
Of both civilizations and the virtues of
neither. He il thoroughly the niger"
that the stolid British husband considers
all Arabs to be. So black is he painted
that the reader will have din guilty in under.
standing the errant wife's conduct unless
he keeps her foolishness and her husbands
boorishness always in mind.
The episode Is brought to a close with
out the interference OF the police by the
employment Of a rather clumsy device,
which is pictures Iue nevertheless. The
story is thoroughly readable. but in con-
trasting the majesty of the desert with the
smallness Of the globe trotter's motives
and act .ons Mr. Hichens has been need
lessly cruel.
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DEVIL VISITS RHODE ISLAND.
Escapes From Faust" Into the By Gosh
Drama IN a Dress suit.

The devil In loose again. Aided by the
Brothers Paulton, authors of "Erminie,"
he has made his way to Rhode Island. where
he Is not one bit Queerer than the other
Rhode Islanders-at least the Rhode Island
ers Of the new Paulton play. The Other
House." shown at the Majestic Theatre
last night. The sad thing about this play
isn't Richard Golden. the star comedian;
nc IL IL the presence in three acts Of m
possible inanities Of a little ldea--R really,
truly, stepling marked idea. Poor little
idea-one felt for tit did look 40 " Of
place!
This idea is no less than n burlesque OF
"Faust"-a Conscious burlesque, not a
performance by the School Of Opera. Daniel
Hdke Of Somewhere, r. l., was an inventor
OF dyes, but on the morrow his bitter enemy,
who had bought up all his debts, was going
to dispossess n ruin him Penniless, he
picked upa volume Of Faust" (the connec-
ton Of events Ii obvious) M was inspired
by the psychological law Of association sup
plementing the call on the Devil for aid.
CLet us hasten to insert here that IL was
raining without, and the thunder machine
and the live wires were working overtime.)
And as he called in at the window walke
Edwin Mordant, who was a woollen manu-
f~acturer with a bass voice and a home
made pointed beard. He appeared TO be
also a nephew Of the man who invented
irony. or course he came to buy the dye
inventions. and Of course Daniel thought he
came to buy his soul. and duly signed the
contract with the single stipulation that
the wine and women should be cut out.
From then on poor Daniels misunder-
standing Of his case furnishes the fun OF the
piece.
In skilful hands. in the hands offs drama
fist Of wit and inventive faculty, even II
he were something less than a Shaw, this
idea might obviously be the basis of a
hilarious play, with not a few probes below
the surface OF things. As the play stands,
however, he tries his best TO forget the
absurdities and crudeneSs Of the farce,
While building up the idea for himself a.
best he may, Mr.. Golden, Of course, APP
peared "a Daniel Hdke. He was as in
capable of arousing a sense of life, a tingle
Of sympathy, as ever; and his gestures were
rather more than usually suggestive OF a
doll OF wires Nobody else did anything
that need arouse indignation outside Of
Rhode Island.
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Fail Fiction Coming In.

A story by Mr.. Richard Pryce, called
The Successor" that appeared in England
years ago Ia issued in an American
edition by Dufield and Company, New
York. II is a sample of the rocco art
and misplaced c%leverness that affict some
of the younger English writer's. which dem
that though il may be coarse to
call a spade spade it may be much MASTER
to keep limiting what it may be called.
The story turns on the substitution OF a
spurious heir by a method that smacks
of the days of the Regency. II il a theme
by no means new in fiction and has been
worked cut with perfect decency by other
novelists. Here it is never told, hut il
suggested indirectly from beginning to
end so that the reader can never get rid
OF it. The one clever Characterization il
that Of the stolid who is uncon-
Of the wrong lone by her fraud, but
Is led by a sense Of responsibility to try 10
marry the real father Of her child. There
Ia an old housekecper who acts the part
Of . Greek chorus and watches all that hap
pens. The other characters are pegs for
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other Books.

Killing for the sake OF killing il the
subject OF Big Game Shooting on the
Equator" by Capt. F. A Dickinson (John
Lane Company. and this is emphasized
by the large number of photographs of
slain animals Part Of the book in gwen
up 10 the authors experiences and the
perils he underwent in shooting lions,
rhinoceros. hippopotamus and the rest.
dovn to gazelles and wild fowl, n this is
much the more entertaining; but many
chapters are descriptions OF the various
animals their habits and the manner of
staying them. and this probably is of
greater scientific importance. TIT British
and German regulations for the preserva-
ton OF game are appended, They will
seem necessary TO the reader after reading
this book
To the many volumes on flower raising
must be added "Dafodils, Narcissus. and
How to Grow Them" by A. VI. Kirby
Doubleday. Page and Comrany). which
comes out at the tins when il is most useful.
The directions are cIear and practical and
should prove helpful 10 growers. large and
small. and even TO those who only raise a
few pots in the house. The botanical in
formation about all the varieties of these
beautiful flowers IL very complete ana
the many illustrations are fine.
Another collection OF stories from the
Harrer periodicals for the young has teen
made in Adventures of Uncle SANS
Soldiers Harr ers). Among the authors
are army officers and we'll known maya
zine writer's like Julian Ralph and John
Habberton. The stories are all spirited.
but IL Is TO be regretted with these, as with
others in the same series. that fact and
fiction are not kent a~art.
The purchaser of "Thro' tho Rye: A
Guide for the Thirsty Pilgrims in the Rye
Field" by Herman Lee Meader Crhe Henry
AItemas Company. Philadelphia), may well
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WHAT CARP ARE GOOD FOR,
Banker Thomas OF This Clty Found Them a
Fine EcrtMiZcr for Suxar Beets.

LYONS, ~, Aug. 80. -Orlando +. Thomas.
a New York banker. who own n stock farm
in this vicinity. has settled the mooted
question as to what carp are good for.
The late Gov. Roswell p. Flower caioled
Wayne county farmers into raising this
kind of fish. Banker William $ Gavitt
stocked Wayne county streams with carp
and ever since has been excoriated in public
and private Carp gradually took pos
session of the streams to the exclusion
Of game fish.
Last spring tho high water in Clyde
River left tons Of carp on the fats. Banker
Thomas had his men gather up and plough
under all the carp he could get and sowed
sugar beets IN h field. That sugar beet
field is the finest in all Wayne county this
year. and will raise between 40 and so tons
of beets to the acre.
This summer the continued drought
dried up all the little streams and swamps
and particularly a deep carp breeding
pond in a swamp on the Thomas stock
farm. Banker Thomas had his employees
gather up all the bullheads, perch. sunfish,
bass and other food fish and carted them
in milk ans on stone boats to Clyde River,
where they were dumped in.
Ton Of carp OF all sizes. ranging from
fingerlings to big fish weighing forty pounds
and over. were lett in the pools in the
swamp. lnehe were pltCnlOTkeu up INTO
carts and dra wn out on the oats stubble.
spread into burrows and ~ploughed under.
This field will be sowed to sugar beets next
spring. The pond hole that dried ny COW
ereI over ten acres OF ground and hal
never dried up before. Sufficient carp
were obtained to ~fertiliZc a ten acre sugar
hcct BOT.
Banker Thomas figures that carp are the
chcap pest fertili ger he can get and are better
than the commercial fertilizer or ordinary
tnaynra
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feel disappointed with the contents. for the
title suggests remarks of some sort about
drink, while the book deals almost wholly
with woman. There are many ~pigranmatic
attacks on her which are not often novel
or bright, but make up for this in violence Of
expression.
A boiling down of the essentials in Prof.
John Bach McMaster's volumes on Ameri-
can history will be found in his "A Brief
History of the United States" american
Book Company, which is a text book for
school purposes In the a~bridgment a
curious Importance seems to be given at
times to matters Of apparently slight i'm
portance. but that is inevitable with "cul-
ture" history, Tn notes are often more
interesting than the text. There are many
illustrations.
Among the countless books on the subject
THE Art Of Composition" by William
Schuyler and Philo Melvyn Buck. Jr.
Charles Scribner's Sons), may be singled
out for emitting information that belongs
to the primary school. There is nothing
spelling and similar topics, and
punctuation is relegated to short appendix.
We are glad to meet again our old friends
the figures of speech, named and defined;
they may nave no place in mo Tern rhe-
torical teaching. but they certainly ought
to be known by educated persons. The
arrangement of the book and the CORRECTIONS
seem clear and practical. Occasionally
exception may be taken to the on
the selections given, but that is partly a
matter Of taste.
A series OF sketches OF persons connected
in aoua NAV with the ata 90. MANY Of them
actors. is arranged In calendar form in
The Actors Birthday Book" by johnson
Briscoe, (Moffat, Yard and Company.
Some are illustrated with portraits. The
biographies are all ~eulogistic. but many
contain facts Of interest regarding the
person described. and an alphabetical
index at the beginning enables the volume
10 be used as a book OF reference.
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ditional to lay the bicycle track. Tax
Commissioner Hamilton has both oonstruc-
ton contracts.