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ar THE SHOP WINDOW.
A Phase Of tho Newly Married VINE Nave
.Just started HSusekeeplng.

We see," said Mr.. Glimmerby. all sorts
Of people looking In at all sorts Of store
windows; women looking in at the beauti-
full things displayed In the windows of
dry goods shops; children. enchanted .
looking in at the toy windows; hungry
people hating to look longingly a6 the
steaks and chops and turkeys and celery
invitingly arrayed In the window Of the
restaurant: skilled mechanics viewing with
Keen interest the fine tools shown in the
window Of the dealer in such things.
w see all sorts OF people looking in
at all sorts Of store windows. but among
all these people I think I like best the young
married couple looking in at the window
Of the furniture store.
Il like young married people anyway,
happy and hopeful az they are; Of limited
means perhaps. but with life and the world
before them. with the present and the future
rosy Their present stock Of h~ousekeep-
ing goods may be small. but how nicely
they make IL do. how happy they are with
what they've got now. and then with what
Joy do they contemplate adding to their
stock ss they 60 along as they have the
means.
there's one corner in the sitting room.
for instance, in which q big comfortable
chair that she would so much like TO get
for him would nc CO nicely, n they ars
going to have II some day. And the day
comes when they've saved up pretty nearly
on just the chair they want for a long time.
And some day she meets him when
he 10 coming home from business and
walks home with him, a young couple
pleasant TO see: and she hats him on The
way in front Of the window In which she
has seen this chair.
"A busy t~horoughfare. brilliantly liuhted.
and all the shop windows likewise bright
with light. and In front Of this particular
window where the furniture is this young
wife haIts her husband and turns him
there TO face IT,. And over IN a corner
is the chair she likes and in q moment Won
see them both looking at IL intently.
And you can't hear what they say be-
but you can imagine her saying 70 him:
That's the chair. George. that big
chair over in the corner n you can
imagine him saying to her:
How splendid
And then they both stand and look
at it for a while and talk about IL a little,
about how nicely IL will 20 in that corner
how nicely 1t will 20 with the other
things In the room and how very com
i0fts6ie It will be. and then with her cling
ing TO his arm q little closer now they move
on along with the thrOng toward home.
surely there can benz greater delight in
shopping than comes to the young married
keeping house buying things thai
need or for their homes adjournment a.
tney san as they go along. What q Joy IL
be to buy these things when at last
they can, and what q Joy they must and in
heir Possession a. they buy them one bV ona
70 d 20 their homes completeness. com
Tort and Reauty; and surely Of all the people
that l see looking in at the store vindows
gives me more pleasure than the
young couple looking In at the window
d the furniture store at the things they
ire going to buy"
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"THE LAST SUPPER" DOOMED
LEONARDO IA yTNCTS MASTER
PIECE ALL BTT a WRECh.
World Famous FFescO In Milan Gradually
hut surely Fadlnk-OOly Onr of the
C0pieslD the Monastery LIKELY In Survive
-Italy's NeKlect NJ a Great Painting.

ROME. Nov. i~a.-Leonardo da Vinci's
painting of The Last Supper" the world
famous frcscO in the Church Of Santa Maria
dele Giraffe at Milan. is gradually but
surely disappearing. II has beer in n
depiOrable condition for many years and
nov Is all but a total wreck.
Guide books explain the deterioration
by stating that the Rresco was painted on
the wall in oils. Art critics say that II had
already begun 10 fade a few years after
Leonardo's death, 80 much so that between
1880 and 1850 three artists, Vasari. Arluno
and LOmazzo. arrived at the conclusion
that the deterioration was due ito the
peculiar technic attempted by the master
in order 20 reach that greater finish Of
execution Of which he would have been de-
prived had he adopted tho ordinary methods
then prevalent in fresco painting"
Finally official experts deny that the
dampness OF the wall is the cause oR the
fresco's decay. We're the dampuess the
cause, they argue. the large fresco on
the opposite wall by Giovanni Donate
Montorfano. painted in 1895 and repre-
senting tho Crucifxion. would have suf-
fered equally. whereas it is still in a good
state of preservation. But these experts
10 not explain the deterioration by any
other theory.
Meanwhile the colors are fading. whole
patches OF the fresco have been obliterated,
individual groups are losing their COM
pleteness. details are disappearing, and the
trace Of the great masters hand Is hardly
distinguishable.
In the same room containing the cele-
brated fresco. the relectory Of a suppressed
Dominican monastery. there are several
copies orit which are said to facilitate the
study OF the original. Most Of them are
contemporaneous; all. with perhaps one
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When brought up by enlarginG the pho
tograph was coarse in a silver prin, and in
tolerabIe in a carbon. Most people would
have given 1t up as a bad job. but not 80 "A
photographer who could do things.
He took the lattice work away, worked
in the gown. refined the face by many little
touches that brought out what the original
suggested. and produced a four by six car
bon photograph that impresses one with
its beauty. It is like a fine old portrait
mellowed into tones of s~oftness.
A striking instance Of the pains that may
be taken in making a Photographic transfer
nation absolutely satisfying is found in the
case Of the picture Of a dead husband. The
material was unpromising. and as the wife
was in the country the photographer had to
make long trips frequently for consultation
with her.
They would sometimes spend two hours
talking over the necessary changes and
then drop the subject until later in the day
in the hope that the wife might be able to
call to mind some other little feature that
was essential to the perfect whole. All
this labor paid, for in the end the work was
pronounced lawless by the hardest person
Of all to satisfy-the widow.
Are they not ~tortunatC?" was the COM
ment OF a friend OF The family who hap
pened TO see h photograph hanging in
the studio.
-Why?" said the photographer.
Because MIR. So-and-So had such a fine
picture akenb before he died" was the reply
and unconscious consummate praise.
But pains are nothing to an artist photog-
Tapher who does this sort Of work. L. is a
matter OF pride in his art with him, and
only the result counts. One who makes a
speciality Of such feats, although il is a side
issue. says that he would think nothing Of
making fifty plates il necessary To accom-
pIish what he set out to do. A each plate
means a stage Of retouching his patience
may be imagined.
The cost OF a single reproduction may be
$50 and it may be $50. None OF the few
men capable Of doing such work would
make price in advance. They could not.
for each order is, despite all the experience,
virtually an untried field.
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THE monastery remained n baTrock untn
1897. when evidently Il vas discovered that
the bulIding was Of artistic md historical
Importance. Tho soldiers accordingly va
Gated II and m official or the fine Arts
Department, Signor Luca Beltrami, took II
in charge.
One might expect that tho state would
nave then furnished the necessary money
to have the monastery restored, or a. lensr
repsired. and to remedy tho damage done
during a century 81 military occupation
and neglect. All TINT Signor' Bel;rarj
WIS able Ia effect. and that Ms a specisl
concession and after having overcome
considerable bureaucratic difficulties. was
to obtain the privilege to apply the pre-
ceeds OF the entrance fee OF "A Ira charged
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large ~cloister has also been repaired, while
the work is now being continued in the
chapter hall. the sacristy and the choir.
Here a small marble tablet has been found
with the plain inscription -Beatrix Dlx,'
and 1t has been asoertained that it once be-
ionged to the tomb OF Beatrice d'Este, the
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nardo da Vinci is gradually disappearing.
Whether its decay is due to the use Of oil
colors. to the masters peculiar technic, or
to dampness OF whether the plaster was
scratched from he wall by the cavalry sol
diers and used to give a shine 10 their sabres
and accoutrements, it matters NOT. The
painting is i~rrevocably lost.
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FrOm hs Indianapolis NcW,

FROM the indianapolis NCFs.
Or. william b. Fletcher was a student
in craniOlOgy. and at his death he left an in
teresting collection OF skulls. human and OF
the lower animals. Among them In one Of
peculiar interest OF which the doctor was
quite proud and about which ne delighted
to talk to his friends.
This skull" the doctor said. was worn a.
late a. 1888 by an old German. who a. a
boy ~ or 20 years old was In the campaign &C
1872 under the great Napoleon In his disas-
trOus invasion OF Russia. This old German
came TO Indianapolis and for some years
took care Of the horses OF DIR. Theophilus
Barvin and OF mine.
HE was about ~ years old when he died.
During the Russian campaign he had been
cut down by a Russian sabre stroke which
fractured his skull: but the important thing
in his story was that his skull was trephined
by Larrey, NapOleOn's great surgeon. him
self, the broken pieces OF bone removed
and that he should have come to Indiana polls
so far away from his home and have lived
to such an age"
This was In substance the story told by
DIT. Fletcher OF the surgeon who may be-. re-
garded among the founders OF modern sur
gerry, as a man who WAS remembered by the
great Napoleon In his will. made at Sc. Helena:
Il beaneAth Ia. INV surgeon larIey, the most
honest man ] ever knew, iOo,eC0 ffancs."
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INSIDE TIE GUN TVRRET
THE IENtTHAT DO THE FIRING
ON BOIHD BaTTLESHTPS.

Ags NJ LOnger COuats In choosing the
CreWs-Peelrtsna settled ny G'onapet'"
tl~a Rapid GtriRg sun Densness-t"
aTnrret During firing = New METHODS.
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they now pop them on at tho rate of thirty
seconds to q shot. And that is while the
ship is in motion and at a target I,0OO yards
distant and only II by 2l feet in sire.
As the two pointers Of q gun crew receive
90 a mont above their regular pay and
are pretty important personages into the
bargain, there In keen rivalry for the posi-
ton. Sometimes an experienced mechanic
getting high pay secures the coveted place.
Again il goes to q mere boy who IL only
a common sailor.
One Of the best pointeys In the navy was
a lad only ~. Age made no difference. IL
was the ability to shoot straight that
counted.
At target practice a vessel steams along
a straight course. marked by Tags. A line
drawn from the target tOward the ships
course would intersect It &C right angles.
and for battleship practice would be 1900
yards or very nearly a mile long. The
ships spoed In regulated so that abe win
cover the firing course in s minutes n 40
seconds. An OfFicial whistle blows for her
TO begin and TO cease firing.
Thecoursei In covered once for each battery
and q loaded gun is allowed at the start.
For every succeeding shot the gums must
be loaded, pointed and fred.
The average civilian has q very indeHnits
idea as 20 the conditions inside a turret
While heavy firing h going on. He imasines
that the roar and reverberation and recoil
and all the other re must be terrific.
OF course ID isn't quite 90 peaceful al n
summer eve In . cemetery, but q gun crew
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1907-10-11
poilina Il Down.

II should Ike 10 manage this paper
for about six months" said the new
reporter Of a country paper. "Thc
present editor doesn't know his bust
moss"
Whats the NATTER" re was asked
why last night I was told of TO re-
port fire IN Broad street, and wrote
1t up In grand style, making hall
column article of II. l began It in
this way:
suddenly on the still night air
rang the shrill cry Of fire. and at the
Same moment the little licking tongues
Of flame whose light, playing along
the roofs edge caught the eye Of the
midnight watcher, leaped forth, no Ion
ger playful, hut fierce end angry IN
their thirst md greed. Ike glowing
snalIy demons. the lurld links entwined
the doomed building. In venomOuS
hisscs and spurts the flames shot into
the ovorhanging darkness, While from
every window Und door poured forth
Il dense sllphurous smoke, the deadly
suffocAting breath Of an imprisoned
iiend'
Il went Oh IN that style for over half
4 column" said the now reporter, "Rnd
this IS what appeared IN the paper this
morning:
"a fire broke out IN Broad street
last night but was quickly Suppress
cd DO you call that journalism p
London Standard
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1907-10-11

4 man Of middle age dad youth OF
romantic appearance sat alone In =
smoking compartment Of nearly
empty evening train IL the solitude
the youth took Il photograph from BIS
pocket looked ut it and then said tC
his companion feyerishiy:
Were you ever. sir, II love|
The man Of middle age started. lie
laughed.
WAS l ever IN loye| he repeated as
he rellghted his pipe. WAS ever fl
love? Well, I don't know IT,
You don't known cried the youth
We'll. if you ever had been IN love
you'd know it. Why, when you're fl
love your life is sweet dream. you
have no taste for food, you think OF
nothing hut the beauty Of
Were you ever marriedT snapped
the middle aged man
"No. but
'Wel. If you ever had been you'd
know It. Why, when you're married
your life Is
But the youth, with 2 scOwl edged
off f. The far end OF the carriage and
got cut at the next station, d'sgusted
London Scraps.
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hirlos,lc Wetatcr.

Theodore Parker gave the following
graphic description OK Daniel Webster
In the famous three hour sermon
preached soon after Webster's death:
He was man OF large mold, a
great body and great brain. He
seemed MADE TO last Il hundred years.
Since Socrates there has seldom been
a head so mass!ycly large save the
stormy features Of Michael Angelo.
Since Charlemagne think there has
not been such Il grand figure In all
ChristendOm. \ large man, decOrOus
IN dress, digniiied In department, he
walked as II he felt himself a king
The coal heavers ana pOrters OF London
looked on him as one of the great
forces OF the globe. They recognized
n native king. In the senate Of the
United States he looked an emperor IN
that council Even the majestic Cal
houn seemed common compared with
him. Clay looked vulgar and Van
Buren, but n fox. What mouth he
had, Ii was a Hons mouth, yet there
was sweet grandeur in the smile and
a woman's Softness when lie would
What a brow Il was. What eyes-like
charcoal fires IN the bottom Of deep
lark we'll His face was rugged with
volcanic fires-great passions and great
thoughts, "The front of JOve himself
an eye like Mars, to threaten and com
mand"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1907-10-11

The late Senator Platt OF COnnecdcuT
enjoyed funny stories and could tell .
good many himself Notwithstanding
his long public life, he always remem
bored a yarn that he carried from hi
schoo! days.
One year when the district school
opened In his town one OF the teacher
iu making Il record OF the ages OF he
pupils. as required by law. found tina
one little girl, who came from faml
ly not noted for being especial!
bright, was unable to say when hel
birthday came.
So In order TO complete her records
the teacher walked two miles to see
the girls mother one afternoon after
school. Asked If she could remember
lust when her daughter was born, the
woman thought for some little time
and then, with sort of puzzled look
said:
well. the gal WAS born in later
time. that's sure, but l can't member
whether they was a-plantin' on 'em or
a-diggin' OH em."-BostOn Herald.
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Though n had long adOred her In
,ecret-worshiped. ia fact, the ground
she pressed beneath Tie sOlcs OF her
dainty little No. 3's--he hnd never Yet
been able to screw up sufficient cour-
age to put his fate to the test. Poor
fellow! He was one OF those shy,
modest. self depreCatinG sort Of chaps
that are growing rapidly scarcer or ne
would have tumbled months ago to the
tact that he had only TO go In and win.
Gertrude Alicia knew the state Of his
feelings right enough, but IL had pleas
ed her hitherto to keep him dangling
In attendance. At last. however. she
made M her mind to land her fish as
soon as a favorable chance presented
Itself.
And the opportunity came at the
Smy thingtons little solree. when the
bashful swain, entering the cOnserva-
tory. discovered his inamOrata looking
her lovellest amid the palms and flow
ers.
"Are-are you aloneT' he questioned
timidly.
III n moment tho fair and ready wit
ted girl saw her chance and took 1t
then and there. - loan. Hen-er-Mr.
Finnlkin,' she said, with lowered aye
lids. "a lOlnl Certainly nOt-I'm q
gift"
And Gfteen minutes later, when they
emerged from their retreat. Henry was
asking himself how he could have been
such Juggins as to postpone his hap.
piness so long.
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They Needed the Medicine.

Some years ago a railway was be-
ing made IN the west OF Scotland, and
II was arranged that each of the nu-
merous laborers employed should pay
a penny per week to medical prac-
titioner, so that they might have his
services in the event Of accident or
medicine In case Of illness.
During the summer and autumn nei-
their illness nor accident occurred.
But when q severe winter followed
all at once the "navigators" began to
call on the doctor for castor oil.
Each brought his bottle, into which
an ounce was poured, until the oil was
exhausted, and the doctor was forced
to send to town for further supply.
When that, too. was getting low the
doctor one day quietly asked healthy
looking fellow what was wrong with
the men that they required so much
castor oil.
Nothing wrong at all, doctor" he re-
piled, "but we grease our boots with
it"-London Chronicle.
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Protopiasni.

All life on the earth appears only In
connection with one substance-a wa
terry jelly-closely related chemically
to egg albumen-and this substance is
known as protOplaSm. Every living
thing is built of this one substance
jellyfsh, trees, whales, men-every-
thing that lives. Biologists have SDc-
ceeded In doing some wonderful
things. Five or six starfish eggs have
been fused into one, from which
monster starfiSh has been produced.
Other starfiSh eggs have been Separa -
into eight pieces, from which eight
dwarf starfSh have been brought forth
Crabs can be made TO order, with the
large claw on either the right or the
left side, and fatfsh have been PRO
duced with the color pattern on the
underside.-New York American.
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TennYson's CYnicisn1.

Sir We're de We're was the eldest son
OF Sir Aubrey de We're. the sOnneteer
and friend Of Wordsworth His broth
or, Aubrey de We're, was more than
we'll known, a famous poet and 10
him IN his youth Walter Savage Ian
dor addressed the exhortation:
Mako thy proud namo sti!l prouder for
thy sOns.
He had no sons, however, never hay-
Ing married Neither had his brothers
We're and stephen. Thus tho name, as
q family name, disappears.
The DE Veres were early friends or
Teunysons, and It was from them
that the poet took the name which be
made proverbial and symbOlical Of a
elass-"the caste OF We're de We're
Lady de We're, the Only Lady de We're
Of fact then living, was inclined TO
complain that her name should be be-
slowed upon the black hearted Lady
Clara Of fiction.
Tennyson wrote dainty verses, but
was not master of dainty manners. He
growled: why should you carer But
Of course you don't didn't make
your namesake ugly, ana didn't make
her stupid. | only made her Wicked
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There was Il barber IN IN Indiana
city who. having been out late the
night before had shaky hand the
next morning and cut patrons cheek
four umcs," said the man who insist
g be saw the Incident after each
accident the barber said as he spong-
ed away The blood. oh, dear me, how
careless and laughed and let II go al
that.
The patron took all those gashes In
grave silence. but when the shave
was over he filed Il glass ut the water
cooler. took a mouthful of water and
with compressed lips, proceeded to
shake his mead from side TO side and
10 toss II up and down.
"What Is the matterT the barber
asked. You amt got the toothache
have YOU?
"'NO,' said the customer. only
Just wanted to sec II my mouth would
still hold water without leaking, that
was all .'"-Philadelphia Record.
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a Suurueon Rusc

Spurgeon, the famous English di-
vine, once passed a stonemason who,
after each stroke Of his hammer, ours
III ana syore. Mr Spurgeon laid his
hand on his shoulder and, looking kind
ly ut him, said: you are an adept at
swearing. Can you also prayT
With another oath he replied, "Not
very likely"
Holding up shilllngs, Mr.. Spurgeon
said If he would promise never to pray
he would give him that.
THAT Is easily earned" said the
man. with fresh oath, and put II In
his pocket. When Spurgeon left the
man began to feel little queer. When
he went home his wife asked him what
allied him, and he told her. 1T Is Ju'
das' money" said the man, and ON a
sudden impulse he threw It into the
fire. The wife found 1t and took It
out and discovered who had given Il
10 him The man took IL back to Spur
geOn, who conversed long with him,
warning him, and at length vaS the
means Of saving him. He became aD
attached member Of his flock.
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Condiments Eksr Death.

There Is German proVerD which
Says, "Man dGrf nur sterbcn um gcl0bt
zu werden" (We need only die I'm order
to get pTaisedJ This, we cannot help
but admit, Il fairly true In n general
sense, and II we required any proof or
confirmation the epltaphs IN ceme-
teries, churchyards and churches
would readily furnish II. Indeed If we
had no other testimony 10 go by than
these pious inscriptions we might al-
most fancy that men and women had
arrived at such n state Of perfection
.hat they were little less than angels.
Death. like time, IS Fat healef-Of
wounds. a great soOther 90 passions, n
great calmer of turbulent thoughts, a
slayer Of enmity. He is the peace
maker par excellence, having caused
the saying TO gain general currency
that we should say nothing of the dead
but what r. gDod. Among the laws OF
the Twelve Tables" compiled by the
Decemvlri. there was one which, In
fact, forbade to speak injuriously of
the dead. It Is IN exchange for this
doubtless that we are always doubly
anxious and ready to vilify the living.
Westminster Gazette.
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An American visitor Ia a German
city bought a dachshund The Gni-
mails length Of body. short and pecul'
larly shaped legs ard highly inteili-
gent dachs face he writes, would
have made the dog conspicuous among
the finest of his breed "One day we
missed him and We're unable TO find
our pet. Next day his dead body, 4
little longer than in life, was shown
TO ne by the man who came 10 tell us
he had found the dog He was very
dead. but did want 10 know how he
met his untimely end and after inquir-
ing learned that he had been run over
by a Observation-Disclosures
could readily understand how that
would have killed even an elephant
and wanted to know why the Internal
machine had been allowed 10 come in
TO the city. 1t was relief to be told
that q spie;elS heibentransportwagen
Is q wagon on which mirror plates are
transported Poor little dachs"