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hours, and all that kind of thing" she

hours, and all that kind of thing" she
added, somewhat vaguely.
"The men would be perfectly salts
fed if only these revolutionists would
leave them alone" said Katia.
WAS the man who fired at M. An
Latovitch arrested?' asked Mary.
No; he escaped, I'm sorry to say,
and is in hiding Fancy Dmitri not
telling us about it," said Katia.
Il like him for it." observed Mary.
'He did not wish to alarm us; it was
kind of him | hone he is taking care
of himself"
ooh, Dmitri is very brave" said Ka-
tia He is not the man to show the
white feather, and he does not hesitate
to go out amongst his workmen.
1t is not to be wondered at that
Dmitri was made much of by the Ia
dies that night at dinner. But he was
quite modest and said that he de-
served no credit whatever for any
thing-it was all over before he had
realized what had happened. Dmitri
was at his best that evening. Mary
was particularly sweet to him, and
Christabel noticing it, wondered If
there had been time when her friend
had had a fondness for him-there
were several things that made her in
clined to think this, and even the visit
to Russia might be accounted for in
that way Christabel, too, was very
nice 10 Dmitri, and forgot his remarks
about the reyolutionists and herself.
1t was this that perhaps precipitated
a crisis.
In the forenoon of the next day the
ladies were in the garden in cool
and shady spot. Danitri had remained
in the house instead Of going to the
works, because he had made up his
mind to try his fortune with Christa-
bel. He had observed that in the
morning it was customary for Mary
and Katia to sit and talk in the gar
den While Christabel roamed about it;
it was thus easy to meet her alone,
and this morning was no execution.
BY taking a roundabout path he avoid
Cd Mary and Katia, and presently
found the object of his search.
He came upon her suddenly, and
she was rather startled on seeing him.
How delightfully."- cool you look!"
he began AS he came up with her.
1T is charming here" she said.
The air is so fresh, and the garden is
so full of fragrance"
at is" he agreed, looking her full
ILL.,
it was she who was the fragrance of
the garden. His glance was so ardent
that she could hardly help knowing
what was coming, and she began to
walk Oh towards the house.
Il hope there is no further trouble
at the works. she said, as he stepped
to her side. protesting that she was
too energetic
(To Be Contnued.)
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A CENTURY HENCE.
Writer Points Out Necessity of Build
ing for the Future.

A communication to the Washington
Star says:
Your editorial on government build
ings on the 22d instant is very correct
in principle. They need whole block.
But allow me to suggest that half
loaf is better than no loaf or only
scattered crumbs. The real trouble is
that no plan is adopted and moves are
made according to the spur Of the mo-
ment, involving the future, sometimes
disastrously. We have all seen the
growth of this country in the last 20
years; let's close our eyes and dream
vision of a century hence, with this
plan worked out gradually: The
White House remains as it is, with a
court Of honor made of the discarded
columns of the treasury; on the west,
the war department is in what is now
the state, war and navy; it has ell
bowed out the navy, which has taken
refuge in the Mills building, which has
grown to the whole block of the ave
nue. and f. Between them the Winder
building is there to provide annexes
as they are needed. The old Corcoran
Gallery block has become the state,
with appropriate reception rooms for
greeting the whole diplomatic corps.
The Bureau of American Republics has
become one of its subdivisions. JUS
tice is in the vacant lot opposite the
treasury, taking in the Arlington Fire
Insurance and Riggs bank. Beiasco
theater is the home of the supreme
court, court of claims. etc. The treas
ury has it's auditing offices in the block
of the Hotel Regent and Chase's. The
hall of records fills the other end of
the block. Commerce and labor has
a fine home on the avenue beyond the
postOtfice and district buildings. Agrl-
culture has also a fine home near the
botanical gardens, following the south
side rebuilding of the avenue. Is not
that a beautiful vision? 1t can be
realized some day if we recollect that
we are building for our children's chill
dren. Circumstances alter, and homes
that are now considered landmarks
may be willingly given up by future
as a last resort there is always official
appropriation. Let us see only the
plan and ignore the obstacles; pursue
the plan persistently, gaining ground
constantly as events occur with the
same unalterable purpose, and Wash
ington will become the finest capital
in the world. Paris and London have
had to struggle against historical land
marks of ages ago-relics of the mid
die ages that had to be preserved as
heirloOms of past period, but that
taxed ingenuity and talent to their ut
most to improve around them. Len
FAINT was a genius who started and
created Washington out of magnificent
distances. We have now a good sue
cessor to him in Col. BromweH. May
he remain long in charge of district
improvements.
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The horror of the matter is that
flies range from foul sewage laden
with germs of deadly intestinal dis
eases, like typhoid fever, to the fruit
stands, the market booths and every
where things We eat are exposed to
dust and insects. They infest
houses, hotels, restaurants, hospitals
even, settling on food on the tables,
falling into the milk on pantry shelves
and drowning in the syrup jug. These
occurrences are not confined to tene-
ments. Screens do not fully protect
the most careful housewife from the
fly nuisance. No human being escapes
exposure to contagious diseases.
cringe every time I see fruit stand
in town. What loathsome places have
those flies visited before they came to
taste these peaches and juicy berries.
With what criminal Indifference do
men and women eat these tainted
things, unwashed, and give them to
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If you still consider the house fly a
nuisance chiefly because it buzzed
about your nose on Sunday morning,
and because it specks up the gilt
frame on the oil painting in the parlor,
you had better have a talk with your
family physician on the subject. You
need to be revised and brought up to
date on this most vital problem of
the public health You are still read
ing in the third reader, which, we all
remember, represents this insect as
sailing about, absorbing from the air
invisible but noxious particles, thus
purifying it for humans to breathe.
The truth is that the fly is not only
an annoying insect, but carrier of
disease compared with which the
mosquito is a petty offender here in
the North.
1t required the shameful waste of
human life among our soldiers in the
late Spanish war to demonstrate the
fact that flies which swarmed un-
hindered from stagnant open sewers
to the exposed food supplies of the
camp spread the terrible intestinal
diseases, dysentery and typhoid fever,
that kept nine-tenths of the men in
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PINK RAMBLER ROSES.
They Lead Crimson Ramblers in
Vooue-AlI Pink Flowers
Popular.

The crimson rambler has suddenly
come into fashion abroad and in all
the recent accounts of functions in
London one reads of its being en-
DlOyed rs a decorative bloom. 1t has
been a great favorite in this country
for some years, but the pink species
is now beginning to rival it.
In June and early July one sees 1t
all through the suburbs, says Town
and Country, and it has quite taken
the place of the hOneysuckle, the Vlr-
einia c1eeper and other climbers for
summer houses and trellis covering
Some years ago it was introduced
by the florists here as potted plant
for Easter, the blooms being forced.
Before that time. both in England and
France, it was considered as rather
an ordinary variety of the rose and
was not held in high esteem.
A new rose, faint pink and single,
a climber and evidently wild flower
in its native land. has been used III
large quantities for decorative pur-
poses. The blossom is quite small and
feathcry. but massed the plants are
most effective. The demand for pink
flowers o. any kind this year exceeds
that of any other color. During the
winter the Killarney rose led even the
sterling favorite the American
Beauty.
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BURMESE DOCTORS SECRETS.
Cures for Cobra Bite and for ydrophobia They Will
Not Divnlge.

Meantime his superior officer pro-
ceeded direct to headquarters on re-
ceipt of the news to seal up the I'M
fortunate mans effects, after which
he set out for the zayat to see to the
burial of his subordinate.
On the road he met the dead man.
comfortably jogging along toward
headquarters quite recovered. The
Burmese medicine men had scarlhed
the wound and rubbed a certain paste
into it. They had also given the patient
certain infusions to drink and mad
cured him. Nothing, however, would
induce them to give away the secret.
Our own medicine men have many
cures of hydrophobia to their credlt,
but cures of cobra bites are almost
unknown. An English officer in the
Shan States kept a number OF dogs
one of which recently went mad and
bit one of the sahib's servants. Inc
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AS He Read the SiQn.

Two little boys the other day, from
a distant city, on visit to the capital
of the nation with their parents, sat on
the front steps of the house where
they were visiting, absorbed in the
passing traffic. A smart touring car
buzzed into view and sped on.
That's fine automobeel," observed
one little urchin.
Its a laundry wagon, too" his
brother commented. with conviction.
"'Tain't neither. What makes you
think that?"
Cant you read goosie?" the other
returned, scornfully; ''it says Wash
Dirty Clothes on the back"
So the imaginative little stranger
had interpreted the Wash, d. c." on
the pendant metal number tag on
the back of the machine in perfect Sc
robustness.
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little children. Mortality among in
fants and small children runs high in
summer, and intestinal diseases are
the principal causes. If it were an of
Tense against an ordinance, as it is
against public health, to sell candy,
fruit or any food that had not hc@ pro-
lection from flies, the death rate would
be promptly and startlingly lowered.
hear somebody saying, You can't
depend on what that man Beclwith
writes, for I've had a fly bite me, and
I've got him and looked at his bili-as
sharp as a mosquitoes it was
There is a gray fly, smaller trifle
than the house fly, that bites cattle
and horses, and often, when rain
threatens, takes refuge under nearby
shelter. Thus flies enter houses. This
stable fly bites you. At night you
will find these and other species of
flies resting with heads pointing down
ward. The greater number on the
walls will be the common house fly
that invariably rests with head up
ward. Just take look tonight. Get
the two kinds alongside and compare
their mouths. Now, will you believe
what l am telling you?
T would like to write a pleasant fly
story, but the essential facts about the
insects are unpleasant. Study the
photograph of a fly. Notice the hairy
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CHAPTER XVI. (continued.)

All idea came to him. stayed, gave
him no rest. He must find out what
was the matter But how? There was
no other course but for him to go to
Sulja. That was it, He must go to
Sulja,' and go as soon as possible.
When he had made this decision he
felt curiously happy.
He went to his club and consulted
time tables: he went home again and
packed up some clothes; he looked up
his passport--it bore the date Of the
preceding year, when he had been i'll
Germany: then he went TO bed and
dreamt of Christabei IN the morning
he drew a considerable sum OF money
from the bank. had tail, with Cooks
them. and then went to the Russian
embassy and had his passport vised.
All the time that he was doing these
things that curious feeling of happi-
ness remained with him.
Early in the morning he had written
to Philip telling him that he would
not be in the Office till the afternoon,
but he said nothing about going away,
nor did he tell him everything was
ready for his departure.
Il leave for Russia tonight, Philip"
he said abruptly and yet gaily, on
meeting his partner.
The dickens you do!'' exclaimed
Philip, in great establishment. Isn't
it a little risky? You don't know
single word of Russian"
81 must CO." said Norman. q leave
tonight All my arrangements are
made"
Right. o." said Philip. 81 under
stand-knight-errant rushing to rescue
Of captive maiden!"
Little did Philip guess how near the
truth he was.
Il must find out what is wrong,
said Norman, soberly.
It's no use, | suppose, trying to dis
suade you." said Philip. God bless
you, Norman!" he cried; with his
eyes suddenly glistening. Good luck
to you, dear b0y!" He had risen from
his seat in tumult Of emotion, and
Norman thought how like Christabel
he was at that moment. Bring her
back-bring her back with you" he
said
4 shall-if | can" said Norman.
The two men wrung each others
hands and parted without a word
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legs, the padded feet, the hairy feelers
and the prOboscis, with it's basketlike,
corrugated and hairy surfaces Can
fly thus clothed keep clean? Whatev-
er he steps on sticks. And he steps by
preference only on things that are
moist or sticky. OdorOus substances
are most attractive to him. Food and
filth are impartially sought. Can any
one who has eyes doubt this fact?
Every fly you catch on fly paper or
poison is one less to breed in your vi
entity. But the cfeanest house is not
safe from invasion so long as there is
a fly waiting to come in. The best
screening is only a partial protection.
The only cheerful thing about flies
is that there is no use in having them
at ALL Some towns are no longer
screened. They have adequate sew
erage disposal. They take care of all
garbage. No stable refuse is allowed
to pile up. 1t is spread on the land,
! where it is valuable. Remove their
breeding places and flies disappear.
The war of determination is easy and
practicable 1t requires little con-
scientious work and intelligent coop
Grafton
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Color lone of Washinnton.

The color tone Of the city of Wash
ington is green-a bright, new green
in June and gradually darkening as the
leaves of the trees mature. There are
nearly half million ornamental trees
and numerous extensive parks in the
Capital city, which accounts for it's
color tone. From above the eye looks
down on vast sea of green, along the
southern extremity of which winds a
silvery band, the Potomac. To the
east white island dots the waving
mass of green, and little beyond an
island of glistening gold shimmers in
the sunlight The first is the cap
itol, the second the library of con
gress. A brilliant white dot in the
west, surrounded by specks of yellow
and red, marks the White House and
the cluster of gardens around it.
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the hospitals and killed a thousand to
every dozen that fell in battle. Doctors
knew the life story and the habits of
the pestiferous house fly, and ig-
norance on the part of laymen is no
longer eXcusable. knowledge and in
telligent action will reduce the death
rate in city and country, and even
within your own family.
Flies come from eggs. But who ever
saw a Avs egg? If there is heap of
horse manure behind your stable a
swarm Of flies rests on it, and the sur
face is dotted with small white eggs
that hatch in twenty four hours or
less into small maggots, called larvae.
They burrow into the soggy mass, fat
tening, casting their skins several
times, and finally emerging from d
brief pupal or chrysalis period as
adults in less than two weeks from the
egg.
Lacking this favorite breeding ma
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Every one knows. of course, that the
bite of the Indian cobra is fatal. But
what Europeans do not actually know
is whether or not the natives of India
really possess the cures they claim to
have both for cobra bite and for
hydrophobia.
A few years ago an Indian civilian
in Burma strolled out with his gun in
the evening. When scarcely hundred
yards from the Zayat or shelter in
which he was camping S was bit
ten in the leg by a cobra, which he
promptly shot. He at once returned to
the zayat and scrawled a pencil note
to be carried by his orderly to his
chief, the deputy commissioner and
then resigned himself to the atten-
lions of a couple of Burmese medicine
men who happened to be passing the
night there and to the death which
he accepted as absolutely inevitable.
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Hulda 3. White OF Philadelphia has
purchased the firelock used by Alex
ander Selkirk, Defoe's original Robin
son Crusoe on the island of Juan Fer
nandez, at a sale in Edinburgh. The
relic has an authentic pedigree, and
for a long time was in the possession
of Selkirk's relatives in Fifeshire,
Scotland. The price paid for the gun
was $3.50
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Ano.o.lndians All swadeshi.

In the sense in which Sir William
Harcourt remarked, 1--WE are all social
lists now" it may besaid that all An
glo-Indians are believers in Swadeshi.
While all reasonable Anglo-Indians
deprecate the senseless agitation and
the unsound economics of the extrem-
list advocates of Swadeshi principles,
they are all anxious to assist that nat
ural development of indigenous indus
tries and the creation of new ones
upon which the future prosperity OF
the country so largely depends.
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MANY Lemons Handed Her.

The tIemon bath" is, it so appears,
the newest summer craze, says the
New York Times. Queen Wilhelmina
of Holland, who champions the lemon
bath. borrowed the idea from the
Dutch Indies and attributes great
deal of the satin-like softness of her
skin to the cleansing effect OF the
baths in which she has been indulging
O nthe advice of one of her colonial
governors.
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CHAPTER XVII.
A Prisoner of Hope.

II her lover and her brother were
IN the greatest perplexity and anxiety
because they did not hear from
Christabel, she herself was not less
puzzled and distressed because she did
not hear from either of them.
Her mind dwelt on Norman in much
the same way as his did on her, and
she could understand it was possible
that after the letter she had written
10 him on her arrival at Sulja. he had
thought it well not to write to her
again-at least for some time-yet
with his words, Il shall never give you
up" ever making music in her heart
she could not believe that he would
have allowed all these weeks to pass
without sending her a word. But
while there might be some ground for
Normans silence, there was none for
Philips, and she could not make out in
the least why she did not hear from
him
Then come Philips telegram-the
flrst he had dispatched When Dmitri
Anatovitch. as they were returning to
The house after the visit TO the works
ia which he had shown her the beau
tifuF' machine of death, had handed to
her. because he could not help it in
the circumstances, that message. she
had remarked that it was from her
brother. and that it was evident from
il that the Russian mails were not to
be trusted. The observation led to
question from Mary Sisterson, which
drew from Christabel a statement that
Philip did not appear to be getting the
letters which she sent him. any more
than she was receiving those she was
certain he had sent 10 her.
While she was speaking Dmitri kept
regarding her with gravely question
jqg ewes. as if he could not accept
what she had said; then. apparently
having come to some conclusion which
alarmed him, he put on an expression
OF surprise not unmixed with terror.
Surely he said, sit cannot BET
What cannot be-" asked Mary, III
her gentle way.
81 was wondering he replied, in
low tone. and with an inimitable air
OF seriousness, why there should be
this extraordinary-failu shall we
cali il? on the part of the Russian
r. 10,
thing"
Can you supply any explanation?
asked Christabel, as his manner OF
speaking seemed to suggest that there
might be one.
81 think can, but l would not rath-
er do So he said, mysteriously.
How droll you are. Dmltrl! eX'
claimed Katia. why make such a
fuss? Do tell us what you think. One
would say from your face that 1t was
hanging matter" And she laughed.
For reply Dmitri nodded at her-as
much as to say that it was a hanging
matter, whereupon her perpetual
laugh died away from her lips, and she
suddenly stood still, gazing at Chrlsta
bel with startled eyes.
Surely, Dmitri, it cannot be-" ex
claimed Katia, still looking earnestly
at Christabel, but addressing hel
brother.
What cannot be-" asked Mary
again, glancing from Katia to Dmitr
and from Dmitri to Christabel. Al
four had now stopped.
There is one explanation, and one
only, that I can see,' said Dmitri in {
whisper, having first looked all arounC
as If he feared being overheard. "Tht
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An imnortant Line.

"She is a most accomplished W
man."
els shc?"
why. you have heard her sing"
Eyes"
and seen her paintings?'
Yes"
Then how can you ask"
81 have never tasted her pies"
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a Poor ProVider.

The Kentucky colonel pointed with
extreme disgust at a man across the
street. Then he said:
"There goes that fellow Simpson
with fifty-pound sack of -four, and
I'll bet he hasn't a drop of liquor in
the house"
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Mo Lie, Either.

Mrs. Observation-Disclosures, how did
you like the decorations at the church
this morning?
Mr.. McSwat-All the decorations
could see, Lobelia, were worn by the
young lady in front of me. l liked
the grand sweep of the brim, the floral
display and the general arrangement
of the ribbons, but l thought the dead
bird looked out of place.
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Hawk and Weasel Fiuht.

A chicken hawk picked up a weasel
near Spring Grove, Pa, and the two
had a fight in midair, the result being
that the hawk was dead when it's body
reached the ground, and the weasel ex'
pired a few minutes later.
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An ASSIGNMENT.

How do you feel?" asked the man
aging editor.
Fit for fight OF q frolic,' answer
ed the reporter.
That's lucky. | think you'll get
chance at both I want you to look
after a wedding in the coal regions.
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Heiuhtened the Color.

She is eternally disgraced, and
nothing short of a divorce will do her
now"
! What has happened?'
"She was giving a pink tea, and her
husband came home and painted 1t
red"
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He Wonders.

Sometimes I get to wondering"
about what?"
81 wonder if my friends take as lit
tie interest in my troubles as do in
theirs"