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QUATRAINS. ft kxnettb m. l0watex tiapp1nb8b. Xdke him who once Bought for the fountato of youth. We spend our lives seeking the -waters of bliBB; Bot we find by the aid of the touch etoDe of truth That they lie at the bottom of Duty's abyss. CLEOPATRA. Full many a Cleopatra lives to-ilay, Dowered wjtn as powerful, potent spells ae she Who lived and"loved long centuries ugo, But there is now. alas ! no Antony 1 Bock Elm, Wis. ?vt.r\ Til tt ain r\m mTTV im.MILM.lll!. 9 , A Story of Love, Intrigue, and Crime. BY DWJGHT BALDWIN. CHAPTER I. X.OVE AND PEBH? M^vIBE! Fire!" In startled, terrified tones, the ominone words rang oat. "Firel Fire!" Scores, hundreds, of vninaa nanohf Tin and i rePeate<^ the dreadful // V jffl^imw\\warning, until the vast 1fntf' | pome of the great ExI linPO|Hr/1 Jposition building at WVr^HPy /Chicago echoed them vv K. ^ac^> 88 i* in scornful A police officer, ?'^ose w*tchful eye y*"XAv bad detected a slight ; / \\ blaze in one of the magnificent booths, caused by a spark from the electric lamp, had raised the first cry. Its repetition was the work of the throng of visitors, which, notwithstanding the circumstance that the evening was far advanced, still lingered in the untieing place. The incipient blaze, fed by laceB from far-famed Valenciennes and rich Gobelin tapestries, became almost inBtantJy a mass of seething flame. x%3ii\. tbo firp.finnd ex. n?uicoi?u.1T1>..v tended his domain, bis voracious appetite increasing as his hnge red month lioked np costly fabrics and destroyed elegant fittings, until, to the practioed eyes of cool-headed men who had witnessed the great conflagration which had one time destroyed the Garden City, the , enormous structure in which the la6t of a long series of annual exhibits was being held, appeared doomed to speedy and complete destruction. Confusion reigned supreme; children ??^ screamed, women fainted, and men ran wildly about, seeking an egress, and breaking windows to facilitate their escape from a seeming frightful doom. But high up above the panic, flame and smoke, above the arched roof, above all save the clear vaulted heavens, stood three persons who sqemed in imminent danger of meeting an awful death. ,' By means of the elevator that pierces the roof of the monster building they had gained a high position, from which vantage ground the beautiful lake, gleaming beneath the beams of the full effulgent I 1 ? ???? o41_ i tiarvem-iuouii, n&a a uuoa ? >.. ter stretched out before their eyes. "We are lost, father," and a young lady, in whose form aud face nature soemed to have blended in rioh profusion her rarest charms, as she clung convulsively to the arm of a gray-haired, rather feeble-looking old man. "Lostl No! no! Berenioe!" shouted he. "The elevator " "Is deserted! The fames surround thq shaft. We are left to die here alone." < The old man looked downward and J ' gave utterance to a cry of despair aB tne glance verified the words of his daughter. "This w*y!" shouted he a moment later, and dashed over tbe railing towards a flight of stairs which descended from the tower to the roof proper. There the old man paused that his .*' daughter might precede him. sj when well-nigh down, her dress caught upon a projecting corner, and, with a %of terror, she fell forward. ith a spasm of horror which rendered him incapable alike of speech or motion, the old man saw his daughter sliding down the arched metal roof of the building. Her infancy, prattling childhood, youth, and budding womanhood passed like a lightning-painted panorama before his eyes, and he closed them to shot out the seemingly inevitable fate of her he loved next to idolatry. At that instant a form rnshedpast him. It was that of a young man who, like his daughter and himself, had been gaz_ ing upon the beauties of the moonlit lake, r "Save her!" pleaded the fond old fath. r, hope restoring his power of speech. Without a word, a look, the young man projected himself forward and downward ? toward the place whore Berenice was clinging to a Bmall ornamental cupola. She saw him, and with renewed courage tightened her grasp. But her fingers twitched convulsively, ; - and her face, white as the moonlight in which it was bathed, told plainer than words that her strength was almost gone. The old man uttered a groan of agony, ^ ^ for to hie excite 1 mind her heroic wouldY he rescuer could but join her in a frightr ful death upon the pavement, far beneath. /. With rapidly accelerating speed the youth sped downward. With a dexterity wbich bespoke both agility of muscle and coolness of brain, he caught the small cupola and enme to a stop. At the same instant the slender jew. eled hand relaxed, and the form of the now unconscious girl began moving onward toward certain death. But fair Berenice St. Cyr had in store $ a fate other than destruction; clouds, darkness, and tearB were soon to gather like the mockery of an aureole around her sunshiny head, yet death was not to be her portion. The yoang man noted her deadly peril, ' _ JU and seized her wrist. Then, with an almost superhuman effort, in whioh everyf nerve and muscle played its part, he drew5 her upward to a point of temporary safety. In the meantime, the fire engine and hook-and-ladder company, which are housed at the north end of the long building, had arrived and made short work of the fire, but not until the devouring element had wrought damage to the extent of scores of thousands of dol? MIO. , Shout6 from the throng, which in the briefest possible time had grown to thcu-ands, now attracted the attention of the gallant firemen to the imperiled twain above. Ladders, to whose length there seemed no limit, rose aB if through the power of magic, and a rescuing party Boon reached the roof. But not even to the powerful arms of the skilled and intrepid "fire laddies" did the young man consign his precioar i burden. Instead, he boro lier away him^ ?elf, and, amid the enthus'mstio plaudits of the vast crowd which filled Michigan avenue, carried her safely down the tal/ ladder. "God blesa you!" cried Mr. St. Cyr, i. fervent tones," as he joined our hero t moment Inter. "You have saved my I child, my all. This way, John." In response to the direction, a hand- 1 I ' some carriage was driven through the | * curious, pressing people, to the curbstone. "Lift her in, please," continued the i old gentleman, as he baudr open tLA j door. Tne other complied, and a moment later, clear of the crotod,.the trio bo ti strangely united in one party, were being whirled rapidly away to the southward. "5 Before an elegant mansion in Calumet 1 avenue the vehicle came to a stop. ti But little had been said during the p short drive. Fully restored to conscious- e nets, but nervous from her recent Bhock y uiu- peril, Berenice had lain in the arms of her trembling but joyous parent. 1 "Come," said the latter, as he led the * way toward the broad threshold. a "Please excuse me," returned the young ti man, lifting his hat. "The lady is hap- s pily restored, I can do " " Nothing!" interrupted Mr. St. Cyr; p "but you can give us an opportunity to ex- s press our thanks for the inestimable service you have rendered us. Come!" On the point of repeating his deolina- 11 tion, our hero turned his eyeB upon the fair girl whose life he had" 60 recently 6aved at the peril of his own. * A strange thrill pervaded his frame as his glance rested opon her face, half shy, J pleading, but wholly beautiful, and fas- c cinating beyond all he had been fated to . look upon. ^ , A momentary glance into the dark tube of a camera obscura, and one's fea- , tares, to the smallest detail, are fixed for all time. . t! The convex glasses of the photographer " are not truer or clearer than the thoughts .. and purposes of a right-minded young man. and the delicate chemical plate no more sensitive to impressions than is the sympathetic, grateful heart of a girl. What marvel, then, that one ezohange of glances gave a new direction to the impulses of both? The young man bowed, and followed his J fair though silent persuader up the marble steps: CHAPTER II. * AN AWFUL AWAKENING. "This is our home," said Mr. St. Cyr, *' as with a hospitable wave of the hand he 9 ushered his gueBt into the drawing-room. ? And such a home.' The young man had expected to see eleganoe, but the rioh- 0 nesB of the soene quite astonished him, and bespoke a wealth with which he had ne?er ? before been brought in contact. 11 "Let us go to the library, father," sug- _ geBted Berenice. 'It's far cozier there." Straws are said to show from whioh j; J: mnil ia hlnvintr ftni) UJidVbJUU lilO ? w.w ?0, alacrity with which the father acquiesced was sufficient to convince the young man n that the daughter was the ruler of the f, mansion. . Assuming the office of guide, the beau- ti tiful girl lea the way through a number B. of large apartments luxuriantly furnished, ^ and glowing with the richest hues of art, to the apartment she had suggested. It was indeed a cozy place. Two Bides of the room were covered with books, and on the third an open fire burned 6( brightly. d "This ia father's den," announced jj Berenice, as she pointed to a revolving desk and a steel safe, which stood beside 0 it "I can't make him give up business." B) "Now, daughter," Baid the old gentleman reproachfully. > "At least not quite," corrected she. ^ "You shall decide the matter, Mr. " "Winters," spoke up the young man as the other paused; "Cole Winters. I a) should have mentioned my name before." Vl "No, you shouldn't," declared pretty Berenice. "The fault was ours?we never gave you a chance." ? "It's not yet too late to be polite," said 0 the host, smiling. "Be seated, please, and favor us with a more complete introduction. Mr. Winters." "I can add but little to what I have said," remarked the young man, as he accepted the proffered easy-chair. "My lifA has h?en uneventful. I have nothing besides my name." "A name?that is, a good came?iB a ? fortune in itself," said the old man, en. couragingly." e "I was born in Central Illinois, and am ' just twenty-two," Cole went on. "My parents both died wnen I was quite tl young, leaving me some little property as an inheritance. All of this was expended n on my education. About three motths u ago I completed my college course, and o CHmeto Chicago to seek an opening in life." "And have been successful?" queried a Mr. St Cyr. "On the contrary, I have failed at every turn. I had contemplated following the law, and sougnt a place in the office g of an attorney. This I could have readily ^ secured, but no one would pay me any t salary with which to support myself. Then I sought a mercantile position, but was unable to secure one, as I had had ei no experience ac a clerk. After this I ^ aspired to no particular line, but sought any kind of honorable employment." "And failed at all points?" "Something worse. A private banker si hired me for a year. I grew suspicious of him and his methods; end discovering p him to be engaged in a dishonorable ? business, quitted him after working a month, for which I received no compen- e Rfilion." tl "And besides losing your salary you d have made an enemy?r "Exactly." "What is his name?* P "Max Morris." i *' "Ha!" ejaculated Mr. St. Cyr. "The p friend and former partner of Almon c Sears!" 0 "The same. I've often 6een Mr. Sea-s a ;n his private office." "This Almon Sears is the 6on of an ol3 P end-valued friend, who died years age, leaving him penniless. I loved him for n his father, gave him every educational n advantage, started him in business, and, q had he proved in all respects worthy, 1 had even designed " The speaker paused as he caught a n glimpse of his daughter's pale face. e "He contemplated marrying him to his t daughtsr," whb Cole's ment.il comment. "Enough of him!"6aid the old man, with a slight show of petulance. "Pardon t the interruption." v "1-have no more to tell. My stock of money beinz exhausted, I supported myself by doing copying at a beggarly price. 8 To-right I visited the Exposition, in the i: hope of securing a place. Falling in that, t I ascended to tbe observatory, where I had the good fortune to be of some small service." "A service which nothing can repay!" c cried the old mxn with a fond look at his f t rescued child. "I like you, Mr. Winters? I like your honest face and the integrity of ) your heart and mind, as revealed in your frank, open story." 1 "You flatter me, sir," faltered Cole, his c fimharraRsment heightened bv the look of t pleasure beaming on Berenice's admiring i face. t "Not a particle. Yon have told your Btory; let me reciprocate in kind. For half my life I have been an act.fte bnsi- 1 ness man of Chicago. This is my daugh- c ter's eighteenth birthday. Some time ( ago I promised her that when this day ? came I would abandon all business and . devote the remaining years of my widowed life to her, my only child. ? "This I Jiave onlv been able to accom- < pliBh in part. I have withdrawn from i two firms in which I was interested, and ( the proceeds. $300,000 in bonds, are now in that safe." The enormous sum mentioned, to- 1 gether with its nnexpec'ed proximity to I j him, caused Cole Winters a sudden start | of surprise. 1 In tftis action ho was. not alone. Tha curious glance ne cast nt tbe cube of ' polished steel, which held secure behind 1 its boite and bars and massive locks more i than a kin?'s ransom, was duplicated by \ a pair of dark sinister eyes which gleamed nt tho lower part of one of the , windows behind the backs of tbe interested trio. "I have fully twice as much more safoly invested in j.ood paying real estate." Mr. St. Cyr went on. "These bonds draw only a very low rate of iuterest, and ( I nm desirous of changing them to bouses . and other rentable property. This, inv contract with my daughter, prevents me r from attending to in yorson." you remember yonr obligalonB, father," Bmiled Berenice. "In u week we are to leave for New rork, from where we will soon Bail for a our of Europe. I have a6 yet no agent o reinvest my money and care for my roperty during my absence. You seek mployment. I will pay you $3,000 a ear. Is it a bargain?" "My dear sir?what can I 6ay? I have ad no experience " "Experience an honest man can easily cquire, while experienced men seldom nrn honest. You are bright, energetic, incere. Is it a bargain?" Besides the father and daughter, the erson at the window awaited the reponjse. * "If you think me competent, sir, I will iot otherwise disappoint you." "Enough!" cried Mr. St. Cyr, extendng his hand. "We will settle the deails to-morrow. In the meantime acept and promise to wear this as a aemento of this day. It belonged to my inly son, long Bince deoeased." The speaker removed and handed our iero a curiously wrought old-fashioned nnM? no* nrWVi /UnmnTidp nnrt rnhifiS. 1UU( DUV ?TiVU UiWiuvMixx "What is it, sir?" asked a servant who tad entered the apartment in response to n electrical bell which his master bad Ducbed. "Some refreshments, John. Serve hem here, and as quickly as possible." The man looked ouriously at the ring rhich Oole was in the act of placing upn his finger, and withdrew. Half an hour later the little company eparated for the night. Master must think a power of that oung man to giv6 bim that ring," mused obn, as be went sleepily down the stairs fter having shown Cole Winters to the lost sumptuous guest-chamber in the hole manBion. It was long before sleep visited the eyeids of our heroine, whose happy, innoent heart kept beating time to a new and lorious measure?first love. When, at last, slumber locked fast her uter senses, the new-born sentiment ontrolled her half formed thoagbts. and reams of Cole Winters floated through er brain. Again she beard the startling cry of re, and with fast failing strength saw ur hero?her hero, as well?risking his .feio save her. "Help! Help! Murderl" From a vision at onoe awful and fasoiating, Bhe was awakened by these dreadal words. They proceeded, as she thought, from library, where she had 80 recently pent one of the pleasantest hours of hex rief life. In an in6tant; almost, she was there. Day had broken, and objects were disnctly 7isible. The outcry had emanated from the srvant, John Kedzie, who stood in the oorway, a look of horror depicted on is face. Rushing past him, Berenice saw chairs rerturned, the safe open, and paperB battered about. "Burglary!" she gasped. "Worse!" said John Kedzie, in a hoarse rhisper. She followed with her eyes the direcon indicated by his trembling finger, ad saw a Bight that fairly froze her oung blood, and depriyed her of the use f her faculties. Before her upon the floor, a frightfal ound in his throat, lay the lifeless body t her beloved father. Paul St. Cyr. [TO BE CONTINUED.J POPULAR SCIENCE. At Cherbourg, France, an electrical anoe is in operation. About one-third of the weight of an gg is solid nutriment. Th* rnmnnsition of the sun is nearly tic same as that of the earth. The earth only intercepts one 2,381,00,000th part of the total amount of f heat given off by the sun. An ingenious Boston man has just atented an electrical device designed to utomaticallv play banjos, maadolins, uitare and harps. A ton of sea water yields a gram of old, so that there must be far more gold eld in solution that has as yet been oblined from the earth. For countless ages the salts of the arth have been carried down in solution - -Irra-a +/\ Hid con Hilt, nft Bait 11 J lug mgio iv *uv ?wm? ? arried back again by evaporation, and tie sea tends to become more and more alty every year. Digestion in tbe case of carnivorous lants is due to the activity of certain licro-organisms, which are always presnt in the sap of the mature plant, and hat their secretions are favorable to the evelopment of such minute organisms. Sea fowls' eggs have one remarkable eculiarlty, they are nearly conical in jrm, broad at the base and sharp at the o.int, so that they will only roll in a ircle. They are laid on the bare edges f high rocks, from which they would Imost surely fall off sa j for this happy revision of nature. The prevalence of sun spDta is intimately connected with the occurrence of lagnetic storms on the earth's surface, 'he sun gives us of its heat but one part a 22,000,000. How to get one part lore, how to further utilize the solar nergy that is going to waste, is one of he great problems to be solved. It is now claimed that thero is such a hin<r jir "electrical sunstroke." The o ? workers around electrical furnaces in rhich the metal aluminum is produced uffer from "electrical sumtrokes." The ntense light causes very painful congesions, which caunot be wholly prevented >y wearing deep colored glasses. Calculations, based ou the observation if the retraction of light, have caused it o be supposed tbat the air becomes bc are at the height of about sixty miles hat the distance may be regarded as the imit to its sensible extent, but other cal< :ulations made during the present cen^ ury, of the distance of the earth at whicl neteors ignite, indicate that the atmos)here extends upwards of 100 miles. The line of the new overhead electrii ailwny iu Liverpool, which was recently jpened, extends along the whole lengtl )t the docks of Liverpool from north t< louth, a distance of six and a half mile3 Dn the trial trip the journey, thougl (topping easily and .precisely nt the vari >us stations, was accomplished in sever ind a half minutes. The cost, including jquipment, was about ?123,001) per mile A Government official sent out to thi northwest long before there were an; ailroads in that part of the country say: ;hat the glaciers of the Selkirk rangi tvere pure white ancl blue then. Now ;hey have a grayish color, and in soim lights a reddish appearance, and on qx unining the surface of the ice it is fount to be covered with little lumps of wha seem to be clay. The official says tha this substance is ashes from forest fires Breathing through the nose is thi )nly proper way to sleep. If yoi iwake in the night and find youi nouth open, get up and shut it.ramaqua Recorder. J \ FAIR WOMAN'S DOMIN 101 LATEST FASHION HINTS. A Pretty Walking Costume. A Theate Wrap and a Handsome Opera Cape. <Cfa ^%OULD anvthing t ^^^.nore suitable fc 1 brisk outdoor walk SgfJ: JrW i ing than the costnm ? j) pictured in the initu w B illustration? It ha onen Cloak and Ml vest of velvet. Th material is of wool ii 1/fT tf\ \A a gray blue tint. Th IJJ/fe I [A vest is of gray blu IMW-- f ur-\ velvet, and the cloai l-M BIf I b/^7 the same color, bu \ Pinks' of lighter cloth an vZrZj^rfifm trimmed with camel' XC*$ n I l\ hair braid. The skii (nm lift *8 ta^en *n widtt II Sr I ! ll ft 80 tna* no 8eam ' flML n II! |ll needed except in th Ufta^ I I II back, which is gore JjK'f r| I I so that it looks lik any other skirt. Ii f |i, front it needs som / if *~'? small pleats; in th / b i_. back the folds tnr: r r W. t\ towards the centei ft- - ?n The skirt is line fffi * ^^tLI or an i?T ? rf- Jr!\ has a balayeuse. Th j*f, ? ?is plain an '? feT-=:jiay be worn with c l,i-4?L_l^=ar' without the velvf 1 vest. The long jacke can also have a ve? which is buttoned to it directly. If the wais is worn without the vest, a velvet belt i 1 used which crosses at the back. The ares t material has no seam in front except th darts and fastens at tne shoulders, armhol and under the arm with very small booki If you do not want to cut the material th front of the bodice can be pleated. Th sleeves are Rassian in form, with deep cuff The velvet vest is low cut in front ana i the back, as shown in the picture, and ; kept in position by whalebones. It reach? only to the skirt band and hooks in fro.nl carrying the side point to be booked at tb side of tne belt. The skirt of the cloa crosses in the back by an added fold. In tt front it is box pleated and sewed at tt waist, so as to fall loosely. The jacket silk-lined and bas a little cape which trimmed with braid. The sleeves are all trimmed with braid. It seems a pitv to begin to use organdi< and silk muslins till summer comes in, bi they are so pretty it is hard not to. Besid they give an effect of vogue to the som what passe gowns of the season, at this tin when one hardly wants to buy entirely ne out-tits. A very pretty Nile green silk thi had grown a little soiled about the edge i the skirt and marked about the arms as party dress, was brightened into charm ir freshness by a deep ruffle of silk organd set in festoons at the foot of the skirt TJ top of the ruffle was headed by three rov of ribbon, pink, rich green and gold, the being the colors in the organdie. The ri bons were jeweled with amber, black j and emerald beads. The upper part of tl bodice was covered with the organdie, ma ing a sort of yoke outlined by a band of tl pink ribbon ttiat crossed the breast ai passed to the back under the arms. Big ru fles of the organdie fell over the shouldei And the dress was certainly a lovelier 01 ' than ever it had been when first mad Another afternoon gown of r03e silk hi a rielirnta ?i' UiV CUWiC Oftii b Wt^tvu ?|I?M w ^ muslin, all misty with a combination of ! lac cream and pink design of flowers, j the foot of the skirt there was a ruffle rosetted folds, the sleeves of silk were take out entirely and muslin ones substitute These were full at the shoulders and exten ed to below the elbows. A feather fan it IKST! fi h ai! ^Prmcfss /fly erf ' \ 'j?Sb_po ?..Loo=?.r-^ | THREE JIL1 [ Gossip of the impending marriage of Pri engagement of Princess Marguerite of Orl 1 to the Czarwitch, suggest that they have t Weymouth. It is said the vonng Lord ac) was solemnly affianced to tne Duke of Orl bis decree of exile. The Princess visited h gave her the go-by. His conduct was scar is that of one of Eraporer William's sisteri berg-Lippe, After 110 end of trouble and 1 ' late ana the present German Empress had ? Alexander of Battenberg, who for the 1 match excited great irritation in st -te circl by Queen Victoria and Empress Frederick 1 and the presents sent, when suddenly new ed for the ceremony that the Prince had ji singer named Loisinger. the daughter of 1 General von Martini. The union has not. Alexander, who bears the title of Count 1 Iloquefort and Its Cheese. : Cheese, which has been the fortur J of Roquefort, has destroyed its pi( 1 turesqueness. It has brought speci > lators there who have raised grea . ugly, square buildings of dazzlin 1 whiteness, in harsh contrast wit - the character and somber tone of tt 1 old bouses. Although the place is* ; small thaf, it consists of only or . street and a few alleys, the moi 2 ancient dwellings are remarkable f( j their height. It is surprising to s< 5 in a \tllage lost among the steri > hills houses three stories high. T1 j fact that there is only a ledge t 9 which to build must be tlie explan . tion. What is most curious in tl 1 place is the cellars. Before the chee: t became an important article of cod t merce, these were natural cavern o""!i oc -1 rn nvnpvvvlirrp fcn bo found tliis calcareous formation; but no they are really cellars that have bee excavated to such a depth in tl ? rock that they are to be seen in ; i many as five stages, where long ro\ r of cheese are stacked one over tl . other. The virtue of these cella from the cheese-making point of vie is their dryness, and their scarce J???? :?r~ if cream and lilac hung by a pink ribbon from 1 the waist. Still, It is almost a pity not to J wait till summer with its garden jwrties and soft warm moonlight! But that is the wnv with us now! Green peas and violets ? at Christmas, and organdies in February! Next we will have ice boating and fur right ,r here in June! Both of the costumes described are sketched herewith. _ ^ 1 A THEATER WRAP. MACE OF BROWN VELVET WITH FT7B AXX) EMBROIDERY TRIMMINGS. >r The picture shows an embroidered theater - wrap. The fur plastron, which comes e down to a point in front, is surrounded by 19 AWk is "| e a doable fur collar, which fastens in front. fl ae Beneath theplastron the long front breadhts t " begin. They are fastened on with large e safety hooks and held in position in front = 6 by a very broad girdle that is sewn on one t 8> side and hooked on the other. This belt or .n band is very stffly lined and is adorned with / 19 bead work. It is straight on the lower * 19 edge and at the top js cone-shaped. The ? ??X IAM/IIHtmioa nn/1 ' WD0J6 01 me UULU urcuuiuo. icu^iunios uuu !? around the edge, are bordered with fur, They are made of straight material and are ie slightly gathered in at the top under the 'e yoke and collar. Where they join the back :9 breadths they are very mnch -sloped,so as to ^ fit the figure in the fashion of an ordinary cloak. Either changeable velvet or silk can be used as lining. For our model brown velvet with large yellow brocaded flowers on it, was used. The double collar was of yellow velvet and so was one girdle, which was embroidered with brown beads. With the wrap was worn a very small tnrban-shaped cap of yellow velvet, trimmed withr yellow ostrich plumes and an antique buckle. * AN OPERA CAPE. MADE OP STRIPED MAUVK AND PINK LINBD j WITH WOOLEN 8TUEF. f, An outer garment for evening wear isprej sented in the picture. It is an opera cape J with double velvet collar. The cape is made ' of striped mauve and pink, lined with woolen material, which serves instead of the or| dinary silken lining and is also warmer. * jsJ&ii 'd., ' '' : ^ ^ ' "S. ie The mauve stripe of the lower part of this ( e. opera cloak merges into a greenish shade, i kL and the pink stripes have narrow diagonal 1 Ik? lines whioh give the impression of being | ii. raised or embossed. The velvet collar is cut i ronnd, so that it stands out on the shoul- . in ders, and is but little gathered at the neck, m The lining of the changeable velvet collar * d. must be cut out first and properly fitted. It d- is alike back and front and is sewn in at the in same time with the long cape \m 'ED PRINCESSES. nc^ss May of Teck to the Duke of York and tha eans, second daughter of the Duke of Chartrea 10th been jilted. Princess May was jilted by Lord :ed on his father's order. Princess Marguerita . eans. He was shut up in prison for violating lim every day. but when he got out of prison he , idalous. The third picture of the group above 3, now the wife of Prince Adolphos of Schaumicrimonioue discussion, the consent of both the ] 1 been obtained to her marriage with Prince | space of a few years ruled over Bulgaria. The , lea. The most elaborate preparations were made : for the wedding, the trousseau was purchased < s was received ten days before the day appoint- j ust married at Cannes a very beautiful opera ( the valet and of the old cook of the Austrian however proved a happy one, and now Prince 1 lartenau. and his plebian wife are separated. varying temperature of about 8? C., ie summer and winter. But the demand for Roquefort cheese has become 60 great that trickery now plays a part in the ripening process. The peasants have learned that "time is money," and they have ie found that bread crumbs mixed with i0 the curd causes those green streaks le of moldiness, which denote that the re cheese is fit for the market, to appear much more readily than was formerly :e the case when it .was left to do the e best it could for itself with the aid le ' ' ""I'tn-mtimn Mt.mninhoiW This U1 .1 >UUlt'lIUliVU.I UUIUVUV..V... ,n is not cxactly cheating; it is coramor:l" cial eDterpri.sc, the result of compe10 tition and other circumstances too se strong for poor human nature. In a" cheese-making, bread crumbs arc ,s' found to be a cheap substitute for IC time; and it is said that those who w have taken to beer brewing in this :n region have found that box, which 10 here is the commonest of shrubs, is a as cheap substitute for hops. The novs tion that brass pins are stuck into ie Roquefort cheese to make it turn rs green is founded on fiction.?Temple ,w Bar. )y / iAWAHAfl CLOTHlk [OV THE EARLY NATIVES MADE THEIR GARMENTS. lie Cloth Was Made From the Bark of a Tree?Methods of Taming ]t Oat by the Women. & ?N interesting art in the Polynesian group of islands, where nothing like a loom was known until the natives came in contact with the early navigators of the world, was the manufacture of tbeir material for clothing, called in the Hawaiian Islands, Tapa or Kapa. This art and industry which has almost entirely ceased in hese islands is still active in those orther south on the equatorial belt. "Rpfnrfl nrinted rottona became com aon in .the Hawaiian Islands the dress if the women consisted of a wrapper 2a-u (pah-oo) composed of five thicklessee of tapa each, about four yards ong and from three to four feet wide, >assed several times around the waist ,nd extending below the knee, while hat of the men was simply a malo or girdle which was about a foot wide and hree or four yards long. A mantle about si? leet square, Kihei Ki-ha ee), was sometimes worn by both Fig. 1. ; Fifr2, rig. l shows a tapa-beating club of hard wood, with incised lines and various z'tg zag patterns. Fig. 2 is a specimen of stamping end of bamboo marker for printing patterns on bark cloth. aen and women, by the men by tying wo corners of the same side together so hat the knot rested on one shoulder, ind by the women after the manner of i long shawl. Bed'covenngs (Eapa moe) were made >f five layers of common white taps hree or four yards square, the outside )iece <Kilohana) being stained or painted vith vegetable dyes and often richly tdorned with stamped patterns of the ame. ^ TI0. 3?MAK1SG BARK CLO' "This tap., ?r bark cloth, the bast or inner DarK 01 we paper mulberry tree or wauke (Broussonetai papy rifera, Vent.) and of the mamake (Pipturus albidus, Gray), both belonging to the nettle family and both indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands. Both were formerly cultivated with much care, no) only in Hawaii but by all Polynesians oi the Maoli and Vitian races. At the present time these trees arc found only in isolated places alon? the lower forest zone and chiefly in Kona, on the south coast of the Island of Hawaii. The manufacture of tapa was entirely in the hands of the womeu, who peeled off strips of the bark as wide as practicable* three to six inches, and while fresh scraped off the ouier coating with shell or stone implements. After soaking awhile in water each strip was laid upon a smooth log or anvil, curved after a certain pattern for the purpose and beaten first with a heavj hardwood round club called ho hoa. W1" " ./v./} tn t-hi? thickness of COiliUlOI flexible paper the strips were united 01 felted together by overlaying the edges and beating them and then the whole sheet when prepared of a size to suit the special purpose was beaten with a square club called Iekuku (ee-a-koo-koo) made of hard kaurvili wood (Fig. 1). Twc or three sides of this club were carved with incised parallel lines more or less crowded, while one face would be carved in some suitable pattern. By continued beating and careful manipulator many kinds and qualities of tapa were made, some so fine as to resemble muslir ?jid lace, aud other kinds left very thick and tough like leather. It was often M bleached white or stained with regetabkl - I and mineral dyes. One of the most ad-j f vanced arts in the islands consisted itu FIG. 4?8AM0A2T CHIEF IN VVLL DRESS?^ I BACKGROUND 09 TAPA, OK BAB* I CLOTH. I I - . printing with bamboo stamps (sea Fig, I 2.), a great variety of patterns and col- I on upon the tapas. It was sometime? g glazed with a kind of gum or resin, and * I some varieties were specially prepared I for medicinal use, pieces of it being fl worn as plasters. ^ V \ ! The wooden anvil (see Fig. 8) was in I form something like a shallow trough I with a flat, slightly carved bottom, I which, when in use, would be placed I bottom upward. This hollow anvil was >: J made of sonorous wood, and it is said A that in earlj days the music of tapa beating could be heard in every valley and tnat toe women imng on opposue< sides of the valley could talk with one r ." another by means of a system of tele-j -: graphic beats upon these sounding wooden anvils. In the Kamehameha Museum there is j , a splendid illustrative series of tapas, thej ;' > ,-.'4 property of the royal line of kings, i ' which for variety and beauty have noi match in the world. The figure engraved in the tapa beat- ' ing club is reproduced in the finished1 tapa, and can be seen by holding up anyi \%e. tapa to the light. These patterns all had distinctive forms, and the island or \ source of any piece of tapa could be/, known by the pattern it exhibited. Figure 3 shows the making of tapa,' ,, or bark cloth, the grass hut, the long Swooden anvil, the tapa and the club. The natives in the picture, however, are ' '-'. M dressed in modern costumes, which were? V" not in fashion in the days when tapa was. used for clothing. Tapa making, it seems to me, it an art which should be revived in these islands,; &X for the reason that when skillfully made it is a beautiful material and capable oft much artistic treatment, and would com- . mend itself lor many uses, ornamental bed coverings, table scarfs, covets for] % books, albums, portfolios and like tueaJ I coald not find aa example of Ha-| V"?f waiian tapa suitable for illustratiaiji and! therefore figure 4 represents a Samoanj Chief iu his scarf dress of woren banana! fiber?a rather modern industry there?1 the background and the floor two fine! ' t?S examples cf modern Samoan tapa or bar? cloth.?Frederick Stearns, in Detroit! ' Free Press. Where Are the Sparrows! . i A question often asked in Brooklyn is* "Where have the sparrows gone totn rY :k I . -\iS rH, OR TAPA, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. : Where a dozen sparrows were seen in alii ? parts of the city five years ago not halt that number are now observed. In some! parts of the city and suburbs the little1 j > fellows have entirely disappeared. Birdl { * "?- tryf fViiq ho oavincr th*fc' | i ianciers uuuuuuu i?i ww ? j since the English visitors have become do> ; mesticated they have adopted the habits' of their American cousins and have be-[ come migratory. Perhaps it 19 a more popular belief that the birds have' i been "told by a bird" that their j aggressiveness, frequent consequent squabbles and general worthlessne* had' made them so generally odious that they had taken offence and gone j away to parts unknown. As they are of d no value in keeping insects from tree? ' " I tbey can easily be spared, but it cannot be added that they never will be missed.) It is suspected iu some quarters that air 1 gun practice may have had some part ia depleting the number of sparrows.?New York Herald. # , J ? A clerk in a bicycic stnre in Kansas 1 City, Mo., has designed aud is building " a new buggy with pneumatic-tired bicycle wheels and a number of improve1 aients calculated to add strength, light1 ness and speed to the vehicle. ?1 in i Zante, the island that baa been shaken ? up by an earthquake, is the ancient Zakuuthos mentioned by Herodotus a? > producing asphalt 500 B. C., and the i natives still call it Zakunthos and stilly 1 find asphalt there. i M ! Nine millions worth of Mexican dok' <v 'i i lars were exported to China and Japanj % ; between January and November. 1892J 1 ^ ? J