my—li

■be7*' Mid (randp*. "Wall, that'*

Slie'll come out Mata"

trandpa—abr'a got oa—the 1

al rl*h

"ttjlt-graadpa—abe'i

clot heal"

“What rlotbaf* aali

ARCTIC MOTIVK IS FAME.

B

ElCHS

BSLC REPUTATION OUTLIFE ANO TREASURE,

ferhap* Yaa'ea Mel HU Theie • • i"t e boy 1 kaow Oo backward. Jump, or fall. But walk?—oh. no' not once th

day.

Id grkndjia: and

volcea that replied were ao very small that be bad to bend bla tail

head to hear.

' Aunt Minnie's doll's clotbi

No doubt tbla did :

—8L Sk-boia*.

No doubt t

I lo grandfatbe

found a long

t j lauy’a wardrobe,

—the hoop

ffcaa!"

d not aeem ao dreadas It did to ua; but

ABd froia This falat ml Vtaw the llaa Saarafclac far tha Nerth Tats hay?" Aaswan llsaU—A n Aaalysls af rhe Arctic Rsplarcr. Btgbty-fonr. seventeen. 84.17. Looked at In any way. wiH.cn :n whatsoever fashion, they do not s.'em to mean more or to be more thin just clghty-four. seventeen—a common

» Itrply f'oartcaoa.

Four-year^>ld Gailand is devrded to I

his young and beautiful auul Louise. ; .\nd Jtat One morning, as she was tal'.lug to - m i w bat happenc from the second-story window while I lwo (rartul III

he gave her ecatatlc anywers from the brick sidewalk, he suddenly held up pis chubby arms, and tailed up to her: “Throw youtsell down lu my arras.

auntU! HI catch you."

-'Why. Garland. If I were to do that." his auntie said, laughing. “I might make a buckwheat cake of you.'' “Well. then, auntie." said the gallant little lover. “I'd be the buckwheat cake and you'd be the honey."—Living

Churm.

'Oileq. a »n- the

brooch in the a

f a flag

r and t tbla 1 four

-e Juat eight a. for aught

here 1 cannot remember

1 suppose the

two tearful little nieces went to Aunt Minnie and told her all about ll; and i mink she must have forgiven them, .or al the rest of the visit goes Into a dream.—Frances Burr. In Little

. oiks.

■ be Ks'rd',1.

dry up sod blow

away." sighed the little r»d leaf as it dung desperately to the wind-shaken

I way and that, as a conjuror would four

| jlaas balls, and still the

vnd four and one and seven, for augl , we know who have not been Instructed

In their singular significance.

! But the other day a man came out of I the north and stood on a bleak and for•ultig hill at Cape Sabtnl. and shook , vis head, and said. "Kighty-four. seven-

That p

tinning , little

H you have never been a dear little white pooJle In a boarding house you can hardly understand how very hard It Is to love all the- jioarders Just alike. Bonnie was a gentleTfoklng. Uttlcjellow. and nearly every one loved him. but there was one woman who did not love Bonnie, and Ronnie, sweet tempered as he war. could not love that woman. It may have been because Miss Benedict was very nearsighted,

and t-ould not see how very Bonnie looked curled up in

white ball on the stairs. In tact, she didn't see him at all. and almoat etepped on him. and when he barked was so frightened that she almost

slipped the rest of the way dowmstaini. | t j, e rtd leaf.

After that time Bonnie always howled j whenever Miss Benedict came in sight. ' More than that, he always howled i mournfully every time her name was mentioned, and if he heard a caller in the hall inquire for Miss Benedict he would set up a heartrending howl, which he would keep up until the caller was gone. Bonnie's mistress told Bonnie (hat something must be done, for she coulo not have him annoying tllss Benedict so. Finally Bonnie agreed to run Into a far corner of a closet In the hall every time he heard Miss Beneotet's step, or heard her name mentioned. It was a funny sight to see Bonnie run for the closet every- time

a caller came to aee Mis Benedl he heard her step. The closet

swing door, and the minute the bated name was heard he would scoot for the closet and there, in a corner, he would sit and howl softly till Miss Benedict

was gone.—New Yofk Tribune.

limb of the tree. "1 did not come out

Into the world as

leaves, and my life has been too “Yes. your life has not only been

short but purposeless r withered brown leaf as

pttrpt

Ithered brown

,4 a—.

Ok. 1 hop? • red leaf., at

ioi only been lurmurej the It bopped np

sdlct. or t had a

TIM cats* Utdr*s Warrlrobi*. Once upon a time, when I was about as big as you. and wore rui white bib-aprons, and a blue ribbon

tied al went at

not." answered the litsite looked reproachfully at the big brown one.

' X'Well. what have you ever done' of an^ account? Why are you not like me? All of my time Is spent In doing good to some one./ For Instance, at this very minute I am giving back my substance to the tree who gave it. and when* my substance U gone my

Ufe will go too."

"Yes. but you are obliged to by nature to do that: that isn't voluntary kindness. Do you do voluntary "klnduesses for anybody?" timidly asked

f. for she was aMaid she

going too far.

oluntary kindnesses? Why. to be i cur! myself up in the form of cup and gather dew and rain tor the

tree to drink. I turn—"

"But that is nature's law again: that is not doing good for the Mke of

right."

"Weil, what do you mean by doing good for the Mke of

not compelled to

■at pit i ad oi Lieut

I Df only 84 degi j had missed by i unbuloa. and

Ua mystery ] and soducti'

and Intel!

Illgence and mon-

ey had once more combined in vain; that Lieut. Fear}- had made a northing

grees and 17 minutes, and ' 360 miles the goal of his that the arctic still kept safe within Ua cruel, white

ive bosom.

Wbetner all -this should be set down vs splendid romance or plain, ordlt tolly depends much upon the poln

view.

Like little Peterkln. when he found skull In the cornfield and wanted t tnow "what they killed each other

there are many very who sanely live and dlt

tlaln, ordinary i the point of

for."

• sensible people

die, make love and

Axes, and do :

1 this thing called "arctic explora-

p«y t at all Hon.'

Indeed, nd holo

3 not unuerstand

there

re is so much of a has and the arctic explore

! sure:

right?" 5

"Why. doing something that you are Something that your heart prompts you to do because it will help somebody that is In need of

help."

"Well, .did you ever get any medals for this sort of goodness?" sneerlngly asked the Mg brown leaf. "No." modestly replied the little one. 'T haven't any medals, but I do surely try to be good to people." "Wei, for Instance—" "Oh. 1 don't like to tell of these things. It rounds like boasting and I've really .done nothing worth talking

of. anyhow."

"Yes. she has too!"

Both leaves turned to see who the new speaker was and saw a little green

ery old, fully 15 r beautiful doll

Such a white-and-

■ed. smooth, s

china lady, with a sweet real hocpsklrt and a knitted hood and ‘ a litue urooch in the form of a flag! "Will you promise to be very-careful of her?-’ Mid Aunt Minnie; and we each hopped on one foot, and said.

"Yesm!" .

So grandmother and Annt Minnie wqnt downstairs and left na and the .smiling, black-haired china lady and

I must not forget the

■oat Im

' Well, who are you. who dares to interrupt the private conversation of

;ed the brown one.

m> straight yellow locks. I j katydid sluing upon the limb Just

iway up lu the country to vlsu I. my grandfather and grandmother. I do#not remember the Journey or the farm home or anything about the visit until It comes to the time when grandmother gave me and Cousin Eunice, who was a little older, a blue plate piled with bread and butter and Jtlly. and took us qp Into the big attic. and told us that we might play

there all cue morning

Annt Minnie, went up with us. she was very tall and very old. fu

—and she gave us her '

to play with.

e gray kitty.

gray kitty; for she Is the most Important one In the story. Indeed, there would have been no story at all If the gray kitty had not run under the — But you read on. and you'll see

te gray kitty did.

Cousin Eunice and I dressed tne china lady and undressed her. and Played come-to-see and ate the Jellybread; and. finally. Cousin Eunice Mid. "Let'rdreM up the gray kitty”

1 said, "Oh. let’s!"

So we put the astonished gray kitty Into the china lady's hbop skirt, and ned on the china lady’s lace coll

tar's .

I brooch, and tled on the

hood; and then '

n on the floor, and Const

. “Now walk like a

we put

iln Eun-

lady!"

mewed a long and ran as l'm an—around and the stairs, and and down another loom, and around

plnnt

with the flag china lady's

her down

ice Mid, “Now wall Bu the gray kitty frightful "me-e-oy"

sure no lady around and through the

flight, and w,#, »uu wruunu the house, and through the barnyard, —and—under the, barn! We two llt-

. too, as fast M we could; ; our faces quite on the i barn-sill, we could Just

■m 'S«r eyes blazing In the farthest

comer.

Oh! we called sweetly. Toot pumy! ' come, pansy!" and we brought milk In a saucer. But nothing would tempt the grfly kitty to com* near na We could hear her eerntch, and try to free herselT from the hoop skirt— that beautiful hoop skirt that belonged to Annt Minnie’s smiling china

lady.

At last, two very frightened little girls went to find

auu—uwut-r mi tie girls ran. too and. by laying o grpand by the hi

irrupt the privat

your betters?" asked the brown one. "I? Oh. I'm only an insignificant li tie atom who owes it's life to that small red leaf yonder. I could not help hearing yonr conversations and 1 feit that the lime'had come fbr me to

offer my testimony."

A puzzled look came over the face of the red leaf, for she could not remember of having seen the little katydid before. But the brown leaf rattled loudly and patronizingly said: “Well, youngster. If you've anything

to say. speak out."

"My story is a simple one." replied 9 kadydid. "It's Just t r childhood this sun ilng to fly one dsy. wfc pursued by a large hawk. I was very tired, and wm looking for a place to rest, when f Saw the hawk and realized’my danger. The only hiding place I could see wm this clump of trees, and I made for It with such good purpose that I reached It before the hawk. I alighted upon you. my big brown friend, but yon politely hustled me off. exclaiming ms you did so: T have all I An do to support myself, without an Incnmbraace like yon.' When I again alighted It wm upon the top of my little red friend there, who saw my danger, and the Instant I tell into her arms she folded them about me In such a way that I was completely hidden from the hawk, who had now taken up his watch in the tree. I was much soothed and comforted by the embrace and shelter of my friend, the leaf. When the hawk had decided that he

had time to

ould, and I to express kindness

ss to my whereabouts,

and left me

fled away without haring tha.-k my protector Mia now take this opportunity my deepest gratitude for her in earing my life. And to :

my life,

turning to the big brown leaf,

kind

you. sir." f, T must plentiful;

the

say that your kind is too you *ars for self, while at

time you try to pom as benefactors to tbs plant and Insect world. A whole barrel of big brown leaves like you are not worth one little read leaf like

thU!"

And with this parting shot he flaw

away, leaving the brown leaf rattling with Indignation, while the little rad one fairly danced with Joy »» »>*

Knowledge that she had been use In the world.—Chicago

Slam exports over 810.000.000 worth of rice annually and large tracts of jangle are brought under cult!ration

that to find out the man and his motives la almost as difficult aa to attain to the pole itself. No glorious knight af the Table Round ever engaged In more shadowy, intangible quest, with lees hope of what thr world calls reward. or earned the plaudits of a more thunderous, gaping audience, than these knights errant of the snows. The truth is that the great arctic motive is composed of many wants and

iwledga. love pf adventure, the am-

pxplorei id NIvl

impulses—Imaginations,

know:

billon to excel, and the mere eagernes

re to b

The Vikings were arcti

.-ause they wanted to find Nlvlheim. the mythical land where the frost Slant* played. Eric the Red loved cold spray on his cheek. Later, early Norwegians sailed Into the known north because new lands were needed for the restless men who crowd-

ed Norway.

Othar, of Alfred's court, "dealring to tnow." sailed around the North Cape In 890. and told a fine yarn about It. Likewise. Harold Hardrada, King of the Northmer seat his prows northward till they were gray with the frozen spray, and he ran plump Into darkness and barely escaped Glnnucgagap. the abyss of the world's end—a most excellent adventure. Indeed, and fine stuff for grandfather talcs and minstrelsy for many and many a day. Then came the medieval dream of a northwest passage by the open Polar Sea to the wealth of India and Cathay. The Idea took firm holt upon tne rich fifteenth century imagination: and even ns late ss 1807 Henry Hudson tried to find in the north an open waterway to the Pacific. Dreams? Yea,

Nansen. "England hM to e chimeras In no small

free for the fact that she has becoi

the i

But, says thank thea

£

Hma Thule with the i

mightiest seafaring nation of the vrerid." Splendid dreams. Indeed. Ul-

The words fairly tingle reiterated romance of the

centuries—bold voyages Into uncharted deeps where the blue bergs bold their

-sway.

As for modern motive. Nansen givM the clew to It when he writes often and again of "wresting the secret from these unknown regions of ice," and ot when he said of his proposed attempt

i the

coast. “It U not to seek for the exact mathematical point that forms the

rth's axis, this point

small moment. Our

point

northern extremity of the earth's that we set out, lor to reach tl

some hours to masteung the carom: I at least two or three Have sm-rificed ' their fine Ino-Uect to tneaa; whili 11 vm that ha e been thrown a* with splendid fury an- Abandon. •11 a<

ed

o keep to the

i tews shed tine

tailed goal, are really < 'tough t prudent folks awake et ulgbt (

prejiU

prejudice of their health and the peril

of their prrrltius happiness. So. after all. the itenon ’ try to reach the pole, going through silences that are at one

the silence of the stats, over whitenesses that are akin to the whiteneM

lltbely

wltb

ence of the stats, over w that are skin to the wliltt

of desth—the reason Is tkat the pole Is there, and. within the limit* of history and tradition, no man has seen it. What more, forsooth? And this adventure has one marked adtantage. t«-o over meat other avenues of sprightly endeavor: There is only one No.'h Pole, and unless the earth come o cropjAr In tne celestial fltldo. and ztt lo spinning on Another the man who finds It shall not need to sit tVrc and watch It. He will have won hrt Eureka for all Ume. and may res: In such temperate zone, of serenity aa bis rare and restless spirit can com

mand.

And. finally, who knows? Col-, fbur could not have foreseen the Declaration of Independence when be sailed out to fnd something. Franklin did not dream of the telephone wl-.tn be played with kites in a thunder sti-rm Every new outpost of science, c.^ry

star that swims Into our ken. evei land of the seas surprise the

often its discoverer, too. What is there at the North Pole? The Garden of Eden, or an awful spectacle of ice end snow and night? No matter; It la still unknown; and human curiosity i* stronger yet than death, and fears not man nor devil nor any unseen thing.—

the New Y'ork Mail

New Tork

the feature ol

{Iris as well as for their eldi pear lit many variations.

Tne

LATEST HEW YORK F^5ft!0N5

City.—Loose coats make >f the season for young

every h rorld it

■ yet thi r devil n

i. A. Bingham In t

nd Express.

ileeves and the shoulder <

stitched fiat to flounce depth, the seam proper being hidden at uuderfolded

pleat.

The pleat* fall free a

to provi(|e*tln

fulness at the back is laid In inverted

il lucheK from I

Illustrated or to com-spou other pleats If *o desired.

• quantity of materia! required fui the medium *lxe is seven and a quartet yards twenty-seven inches wide, low and seven-eighth yards forty four

luefae* wide or four and n t fifty-two incite* wide when

has figure or nap; six and three-quartei yard- twenty-seven inches wide, three and three-quarter yards forty fout

ide. or three and five-eighth

wide :

pleats t Btllched

lustrai (her pi The q

the top B I with tb

air yard

rds fifty-two Inches lal has neither figure

nyr ns

Woman's Blooae or Shirt WaWt. Princes* closing- tfr closings made ibly iNMieath two Iwx pleat* that

in ecu

Invisibly

6UAINT AND CURIOUS.

' nent is desired.

a plainer gar-

and Is laid in iu-

! coat Is cut wltti loose fronts and

j that'

ith the other dm with 8440 tons of ! retied plea) ■e. equivalent tb 281.333 bushels ol r -y~ effect, heat. This Is the largest cargo ever of toe slot i

lakes.

The

■cks that fit. loose]

its. stitched to give the slot

A lake schooner was loaded at Du-

luth the other

At each front, on the line

is inserted a pocket

that adds greatly to both the conve- ; nlence and style of the coat. The

The famous Rat Hole mine. In the ileeres are slightly hell-shaped and are

sona. was discovered ; finished with roll-over cuffs. The little

watched

floated on the great

i woman who »

d a trader rat

Iteneath tw

outre front, make an irapor

tant feature of the latest waist*, and are essentially smart at the same tunthat ihey possess the advautage of al lowing most effective trimming. Tbi* handsome May Manton model includes inverted pleats, stitched to form the fashionable slot seams for a few Inchw below the shoulders, the pointed strap*

over the shoulder seams and i

with postillions. The original is made

pasti-l g!

trimming of narrow bands of black

I a bell

postillions. The original is mads alst cloth, lu pastel green with nlng of narrow bands of black silk, stitched with black corticelll silk, and enamelled buttons, but all waist materials are appropriate and the trim mlug can be varied again and again. The fonndation lining is snugly fitted and closes at the centre front, but aep

said, has paid millions in dividends.

families

record was recentl;

the police of Paris. France, because bora complained of the night rackeb\The hostess of this home

i, SO pigeons, one goat,

dogi

One of the largest happy

ly broken up by

Igbt dogs, one parrot, aad

Captain Harland of the British earner Hard anger reports haring run into a rain of bats on the trip from New York City to Baltimore. The P wm attacked by great numbers v* the bats, and it was with great difficulty that those on deck could

! wings.

The largest apple in Boons county. Kan., has been found growing on a , itch on the farm of I The tree was small. ; and wos not supposed to have any I fruit on U: but this apple, which is of; the Ben Darla variety. Is IS Inches in ,

tree in a millet pal Mrs. E. A. Jones.

The bicycle cyclometer which -Is made ao economically and compatffty

for use on the 1 , machine used urposee. One yclometer has number of m sired to keep

turned c

d into many of the ted to js d*-

object U to Investigate the great i known region that surrounds (he pol Nansen reached 88.14. All of which does not yet make clear the bootless tolling, the uaeleM sacrifice, the magnificent courage (hat arctic sacrifice., the magnificent courage

find

e to go

deeper yet, and. touch those hidden springs that tumble men headlong Into such mad, forlorn and futile doings as mystify the gods. Only the other day a little dried up man. with his face scorched to a crust, like lava, returned to Algiers with a simple, brief story of haring traveled 2000 miles among the Moroccan Berbers. a somewhat peculiar people. Who would have made a flue hut deplorably ugly example of him. if they had penetrated his disguise. He had no particular buainees In thus taking death by the am:, except a deal re to know things. So with that woman, Mrs. Workman, who recently climbed Loongma glacier la the Himalayas, after Indescribable hardships and perils, Just because she i sometning big And ex dnner't like pink (sm. It Is a mlghtr good thing, w* cannot doubt, that all bqoosm ip the world is not spelled with the same set of characters. Most men like to epcei. Some choose seven figures on the credit side of the ledger. Borne take to music, to painting, even, hi their extremity. to the romantic school of fiction. Than an men who dwvote many toU-

to do J. She

which

the girls ot the telephone exchange e chirking work. The machine 1* fastened In aa Inconspicuous place on the switchboard and makes accurate

l of every teelphonlc i-oenectkxt

made by the girl attending that parti cular part of the hoard. Ifiie record is made automatically. The counter is attached at will by simply Inserting

_ .wo socket serewi

operator after presses the lei cone the Instn

Preferred Ml Wing Lee's t

i phy-

sician at the Homoeopathic hospital tc

his queue to dress a wound

Is qu< t in h

remove

may result

over the head skull fractured.

id hM re hit ke bit effec-

chances with > tin dressing ot

The doctor who was called to drear the man's wound started to share thr crown of his head so that a propel dreaMng could he made. To this Lee strenuously objected. In his broken toegwu he Intimated that rather then have his queue removed without which he can never again return to China, hr would take his chances with daath.—

Pittsburg Post.

apereelatlve ef Ike Vmlqmr. "That young woman has soma verj original ideas,” said the snaceptlbU young man. "Tea," answered MU* Cayenne, “shr must have. Otherwise she couldn't possluir derive so much enjoyment from listening to her own piano playing."—

Volcanic sshM mixed with cement have been used successfully Hi the construction of a breakwater la Otaru Har-

"SLOT SEAM” BLOUSE AND NINE GORED "SLOT SEAM" SKIRT.

e used neck Is a roll-over collar that fit* snugly about the throat. The right side of the coat laps well aver the left and 1* held buttons and loops, hut buttons and 1 lonboles can be substituted whenever

Om or Uw Boat oad Latot DmIkbs“81ot seams" are arncnglhr features iouud lu the best and latest ties!) ind lend themselves to costs, wsl rod skirts with equal sucicess. The itylUh May Manton blouse Illustrated n the large drawing U shown lu castor iolored cloth and Is trimmed with fane; tppllque braid In castor and browi the dee. It U worn as a separate wrap, iut' the dt :ume and all the season’s suit and jacket materials equally well. The iroad shawl colttr U novel and becomng. and Is especisdly smart and can be nade smaller If desired. The blouse U Itted with the fashionable double slot ms that extend to the shoulders on its and hack, under-arm and sboulims completing the adjustment

fronts ler st

net Ac Joinings of these portions. The ileeves as shown are In bell shapes, rod allow of slipping on and off with taae. but can he gathered Into cuffs Id >lshop style when preferred. The ilouse can be worn open to the waist Ine or buttoned over as shown in the

U four and threetuarter yards twenty-one Inches wide.

much In v y of the si

rod are seen upon many o

*t skirts.

The skirt shown in the large plctu a cut In nine gores. At the edge each gore an laid tuck pleats tb meat te fan the slot seam*, and ■

arately from the outside. The waist proper consists of a plain hack and front* that are laid In Inverted pleata at fbe shoulders, which provide becom Ing fulness over the bust, and In s box pleat at each edge. The back la drawn down snugly lu gathers at the waist line, but the fronts blouse slightly over the belt. Over the shoulder seams are

BLOUSX OA 8HIBT WAIST.

•ffect. hut v a plain flnl veierrru.» The aleevfls are the regulation aaes rlth cuffs lhat lap over st the Inside seams.. The closing is effected Invial bly by lapping the right edge well beneath the left box pleat and so bringing the two together at the centre front. The neck Is finished with a stock elongated in bishop style, aad at the waist Is worn a shaped btat te which the postillion is attached. The quantity of material required foe the medium slae Is four and three-quar-ter yards twenty-one tnehos wide, foat ds twenty-eereo Inches wide, thre* I a quarter yards thirty-two laches wide or two and flre-A|gfe|fc yards fee ty-four Inches wife * ’ • ', . BmIkS