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THE STORY
Told at the Edge of t
Written for
BY EDWIN LE!
CHAPTER IT.
"We crept out by the preen Jeland of
Thymnoes, where the white elieep were !
feeding to the water's edge, and past j
Goddo on our right, and the long, black !
tore of Bommele on the left, and bo by
inany a green oeland and dark rock out
Into the spray and fresh salt wind went
joyfully lurching the old Sea Wolf. Tho
frothy pillow of the foam glittering
nnder her crow, and behind the creen i
wall of the Norway pines, and the gray
jocke, and the sweet sea 6urge tha? !
tumbled forever at their feet and threw j
jits white arms up as though, lover-like,
it would enlace its silver lingers with
the green hair of the nodding braches
overhead. Down went our gallant 6hore,
down peak, and pine, and point, and as
the great black bosom of our mother
sea opened to us, her firstling sons,
proudly we turned our faces westward
and each eye grew bright at
thought of the plunder to come, and
each heart beat high as we 6melt the
Incense of fight in the strong breath of
the sea. Oh! but I was proud as, my
hand on the pulsing tiller that throbbed
under the racing surges not less loudly i
than my heart, I stood by the high stern !
and led the wild, free song to Odin, [
wherewith my gallant company mocked I
the waves?proud! Oh, the 6alt spray J
rises again in these old eyes of mine
!but to remember the fierce wine of lifo
that usurped my blood and flew here
|?nd there in ray young veins that day;
;this cold mind of mine bums again but
jto recall the ecstasy of the unfettered y
{passions that then beset me; but to
think for an ungodly minute on thoso
splendid vistas of unbridled lust and
cruelty and rapine which dazed my
I
( Well! it is over, and I do wrong even {
to remember. No more the salt wind
" takes the war song of Ulla, like a her- (
aid of death, to the land of the stranger; j
no more for him is the joyful rattle of
the ranged shields clatterinc on his j
vessel's side as she stoops to the steep
'blue valleys of the midland sea; no j
more the old viking's plough shall turn '
that frothy furrow he did once delight j
In; no more the lovely smoke of burn- }
ing thorps shall rise from L'lla's torch |
to Odin's footstool; no more his stern j
heart shall melt to pleasure as his veseel
staggers homeward through the j
yeast and spume, and every swirl of !
the cold dark water spinning enviously |
against her laboring side tell of rich
plunder hid within. It is over for mo, !
but it was a noble frenzy while it lasted, j
All that noon of our setting out wo (
vf. plunged before a favoring wind across j
the salt water, and by the second even- i
lng the wave began to wear another color I
as the sea shealed up to the British j
shore. At the same time the breeze I
gave out with the Gun and we took to
our sweeps, and all night long under
the starlight the Sea Wolf crept silently
and secretly into the land. In the gray
of the morning that followed a haze
grew up and under the curtain of the
white sea mist that lay soft and heavy
as wool on the gently rocking sea we
heard the sound of the waves beating
ygn the dim North Umbrian shore. "VVo
^approachcd as close as we dared, and i
then "waited for the eun, rolling an idle
bour or two on the smooth, Jong heave
V:-c -of th9.eif.fh, Id dead giienc?, \
SUtening to tie'CilStter of the wild fowl j
^nd the I?ugh of the kittiwake on the <
njjseen cliffs; or the chafe and creak of
?J1 oar DOW and then in the rowlocks (
and the hiss of the water swirling gcu- (
Hya gainst our sides. So siill lay the j
Bea Wolf in the shadow of the morning
mist that the shy grebes and speckled ]
'divers came naddiinff all about her >
and stared with eyes bead black with j
wonder to see the silver mist turn on a ,
sudden into a painted hulk with ranked ]
oars, and great damp sail aflap against 1
the ruddy mast, and golden dragon head
sniffing the chill morning air aloft, and
grim warriors leaning on battle-ax and 1
ppear crowding her deck. And strange
flsh swam lapping lound, and the swift i
gannet's white pinions stirred Hefdan's
listless flag as she swept unheeding by
through the milky haze. No man among
us spoke until on a sudden the curling
wavelets in the east sparkled with liquid
fire, the hang.ng shroud of whiteness
flushed with a yellow radiance, a
? strange, bright light shone through the
green-crested waves, and as the free,
weet breath of the morning drifted
down upon us, and eacli man drank of it
deep and silently, the curtain of the
night was lifted, and the yellow feet of
the sun came striding over the black
plains of the restless northern sea.
Silent and deep we laughed with
.pleasure, and my grim, stout fellows
shook the mist-beads from their tawny
liRS, then?muttering a prayer to Odiu
?again the white water fretted under
the stern of our ship and the long, slow
dip of the oars fell with a pleasant
Bound on the calm of the morning.
Bound under the rugged knees of great
^cliffs crept the Wolf, so secret and
Bwift that the speckled loons stood
l*? vr?TTTC tn + /-. V? iVa
s?fc *" nawu IJ1U i^uiucu
dragon head go dipping by their loneiy
eyries, and the blue pigcoE on her cavern
shelf astride of her white egg?
stood wonderstruck and forgot to fly?
thu6 she went across the mouth of lovely
bays and under grassy headlands and
big bights fringed with endless lonely
meadows and past fair estuaries whera
rank fields of westral crops were all
awaste between neglected woodlands
and southward constantly for many an
hour, but nothing could we see to sack
or bun). Noon came and went, and the
warm sweat glazed the sinewy forearms
of my gallant rowers until at
la6t I taw them begin to turn their
"bronze faces over their hither
ehmdders and angrily scan the ruined
shore and swear deep between their
strong white teeth; swear at the Dane
who had swept this fair country so
clean, swear at Biom Grim ear, and
Hakonson the avaricious, and Inge the
bloody, and Guthern of Hagbard, who
had pillaged here last autumn and
wiped out maid and matron, croft and j
castle, and left nothing for any honest |
viking who came alter them. Ay! it i
was sad, we thought, to sec- bo sweet a
country so void of life, and we pulled
on southward for many miles, looking
nlrw on the sunny shore made by natu ?
i - -1 i 1 . T 1
U> ije ricn aisu uappy. aiiu \ * ;i?u huui.
inir on it to bura or plunder, and tlie?
turning sadly to our piles of bloodless
swords and battle axes-, our empty
treasure boxes and unteuai ted rows of
iron fetters for the whire ankles <.f fair
British cirls. We had rowed on like
this, cursing Biorn am! In^'e and Hukon- j
son all the morning. ^n<! ):a<i seen
sothinp but the blackened r.iio- 'if a I
few villages upon the hillside, when. |
slipping by one lonely promontory, w?- !
saw upon the rocks a mad ?>ld j
woman, sad-eyed and lean and i
pinched, sole remnant of some
pillaged English hamlet, who
knew us for what we. were
upon the instant as she gathered her
poor harvest on the beach and leaped
JUPOfl a wck a lid gursed ys fiercely pyt
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he Northeri; bca, and
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of the black reservoir of her despair
and hatred, cursed us for pirates and
tyrants, asked where "were the two-yellow-haired
girls we stole ten years ago,
where her two tall sons, where her husband
and.her kin, and tossed her tangled
locks upon the wind and yelled and
cried until, as we crept by, Tnoralf of
Visund took a javelin from the heap
upon the deck and mocked her. "Where, i
you foul old sea hag? Where? Why,
down in hell. Go there and look." And i
as ho spoke the javelin flew, and, too
true, struck its mark and pierced deep (
into the old crone's withered bosom,
and with a stream of surprise and
deathless hatred she spun round upon
her heei6 and grinned and staggered
flit 1 Wn " :
ru>j H|j 4'A^
mim-m
^y/?
"THE JAVELIN FLEW 4ND TOO TROE."
afid then plunge3 headlong into the sea
at her feet, and as we passed her crimson
blood was spreading in a great red
pool upon the dark heavo of tnc smooth
flowing surf.
I know not whether it were true, as
some among my comrades thought, that
that thin old blood spilt so would bring
us luck, but presently it is true enough
we had another sign, for a raven came
Hying off from tho land and circled
round us and fell into our wake behind,
and as the black wings of Odin's friend
and messenger went flapping overhead
a new spirit was born in my fierce crew.
They stretched their hands to heaven
and shouted with one voice a verse
from out the raven war song, then down
they went and with new courage
stretched them to their oars until t
the red viking flag streamed bravely
out astern and the shields rattled f;
joyfully and tne water lay in a white
6lrcak along the low-dipping gunwale ^
of the old Sea Wolf. Capo and bay and s
headland slipped by. We had come into s
a better peopled country, when on a a
sudden a l)ane who kept our fore-watch n
clapped his hand upon his thigh and h
cried: "A burgh! a burgh! and not yet s
plundered!" And there, following the point
of his eager finger, we saw, three
miles away, a strong hall upon a rocky /
promontory, with tree6and meads about
it green and fair, and sheep upon the
hills and clustering huts below, all
sweet and peaceful, and a little harbor I
?everything, indeed, that could glad a {
viking heart* and, truly grateful, we \
' ?($ the bird that had brought us
fortune, and in a little creek to
wait for nightfall.
All the a/tCFiiojh the iongehip lay out
if S?ght in the little cavern bay with
cliffs, green-tasseled with hanging
grasses, nearly meeting overhead, an 1
below the smooth 6well of the water \
leaving me u>uk liiugjeo ui ecu jjiwo \
anil weeds, and idly reflecting the stern
races and golden mail of that grim crew }
Dn board lolling about upon the deck or
hanging over the loaded bulwark to watch
the shining fi6hes at play deep" down
below. Who would have thought that
pretty shadow listlessly rolling there on
the heave of the wave was*benton such
an errand? It was so still as we lay .
Bcreened in the cover that you could
hear the larks singing to themselves >
high up in the blue over the cliff grass, !
and the bubble and play of the water in '
the crevices of the rocks all round us;
it was so still that presently this monotony
grew wearisome to my fierce and ?
heated spirit. I chafed and turned
and impatiently watched the sun a
which seemed as though it would tr
never set, until at la6t a happy t?j
idea entered into my head?I e
would go and spy this burgh wo were to
plunder, see how big and strong it was, ?
how manv men held it and how much s,
profit we were like to coine by in the tr
venture. With this fancy in my mind I ^
roused my handsome sleepy fellows, ti
who, at my voicc stretched their great P'(
limbs where they had lain sleeping oil jt
the rowers' benches or turned their ey.rS n
from gazing on the shining 6ca to look a
on one another and say "Ulla is mad! ft
young Ulla Erlinqeon is wholly mad!" n
But I pointed out how the madness |;
would vantage us, how greatly it would jj
help us to know the lie and nature of =
the hold, how I could disguise myself so 0
that ray mother should not know me, t1
and learn and see all I could and be r
back again with them safe and sound, c
"or by dangling en a gibbet above the a
highest roof gave them something new v
to fight for"?as Sarp of 15eyr said?be- b
fore the twilight fell. j,
( IIAITKK v. v
Liko the brave fellow* that lliey were, t
Lhe bold fancy pleased them, and forth- a
with 1 was disguised as a ragged out- \
cast, with a slouch lint and soriv coat J
and dirty-gartered legs, with worn wolf- t
skin sandals: my yellow hair was knot- j
ted up and hidden in my cap, my face (]
was daubed gray and Iran with ash and 1
mud, and with a little paint goo I Ved- !'
rey put a sore or two upon my naked :
arms such as mijjht emtio by want ami !
long trai'el, and with a touch of red and
green made to look most, hideously new 1
t long-healed wound or two J lu. j upon '
mv bosom, I seemed when it was dune 1
so miserable at id lean and put so pitiiul 1
a whine into my voice ami leant so
heavy on my lung ash staff tha* all my !
jolly' vikings fell a-laughing, ami
laughed so loud they hushed the droning
of lhe blue pigeon broodinir on her
eggs and started the shaggy, greeneyed
sea crows from their rocky pinnacles
a rnile away, and then they
rowed me to a landing, and with jest
and sane advice sent me on my dangerous
errand.
It was a sweet place, that English
burgh. Even now, long years after, I,
old and wrinkled, still dream in the winter
nights of the warm incense of that
afternoon, and how the grateful sun
drew fragrance from out the earth,
and how sweet the yellow meadow (lowers
did smell about "it. and how the apples
blossomed on the hanger; and then
across my evening vision even now there
comes the black reek of its burning
tlisitrh :ind the hot steam of the blood in
.the ball by tho banquet tables?ay, 1
conjure again all these years after in
restless slumber *ho shine of its many
out upon that track I walked up the hilf^
secretly noting as I went each stock and
Btone of cover, and soon came to the
first sweep of outer stockade. This was
a great circle of pointed timbers sloping
outward over a ditch from the crest of a
tall earthen rampart?strong fence, indeed,
and one that twenty men might
hold against a hundred. I entered
through the open gate of this and right
in front rose another rampart and another
palisade that made me sigh to
look on?I had to walk half-way round
the grassy flat between these two .before
I found a gate to pass the second timbers.
But this latter entrance gained,
it made me master of the place. Those
two tall fences, strong in oaken timbers,
mossy gates and iron rivets, shut
!n the whole hiJ'top, of which the other
boundary was the 6heer cliffs that
dropped 6teep down into the sea below.
And all this space was full of sheds and
buildings, and huts and houses, and
pranaries of corn and stacks of fodd *r
for the beasts, and corn for soldiers, and
here a thrashing floor, and there a well
with rope and bucket, yonder a row of
roofs a-tasking in the April sun, tna
blue-eyed children rolling in frolic sport
about the grassy court?the twittering
love songs of the new-come swallows on
the roof ridge?and then athwart my
sleep the black column of avenging
smoke leaps to the star-lit midnight
sky, the cruel tongues of leaping crim
Bom flame spring ud. and vae lierce.
gasping cry or stricken men, the piercing
shriek of -women, and the low wail
of butchered little ones affright m/ old
and unstrung cars!
Ay, it seemed a sweet place that untouched,
ancient English citadel as I
hobbled out from the hazels and humble
and decrepit as became me, craved ita
hospitality. All inland ? stretching
away into the dim blue distance?lay
fertile/fields and woods, shining greener
lhan any other woods can shine, with
brooks and streams between them flashng
in the light, and splendid herds,
;noughto feast an army for a year, kneo
leep in the many colored grasses, and
hen all this richness swept round by
he 6hore of a little crescent bay to hero
vheie on a gently rising promontory
he prince's castle stood. It stood up>n
the very topmost flat of the hill, and
vas approached from below by a rough
rack fashioned of beams laid side by
iide, which circled up through the gorse
ind fern to its outer fence. Geitinor
>vens and a drinking trough and much
;lse. Then came a grassy green and
lext, along tho verge, a little aloof
rom all, the prince's house. A fine
vide house it stood upon the crag, with
erraces and courts, doors and windows,
itrong stone outer walls and timbered
irehes, a goodly place, indeed, with the
lun saining on it, a goou wma-cocs
wirling about, red fish-tail tiles upon
he rooi's, brass studs upon the doors,
ind a colonnadc round it with wide froecting
ea.es supported by unsraoothed
>illars of oak, to which solid oak logs
nade steps all round. Partly behind
his was the strong place of the fort, a
all, rough tower of solid masonry rising
heer into the air on the very verge of
he cliff from the more poacel'ul dwellag
places around, and grim and winowle6s
frowning down 201) feet into the
rhite surge that broke and thundered
ar below.
As I entered this burgh a few children
?ere playing about upon the grass and
ome women were grinding corn in a
tone mill at one place, while at another
. young and fair serving maid was spining
flax upon the steps of the chief's
ouse. A dog or two lay basking in the
un. and as they saw me and fell a-bark><J
\\\ \ \
"I ENTERED BY THE OPEN GATE."
iK the damsel 6topped her spinning,
le corn mill came to a stop under the
and* of the old crones, and the little
lies fled to cover like a flock of startled
urtridges. .But I looked harmless
nough, a ragged fellow there by the
ate. gaunt ami humble, and presently
jeing they were reassured I advanced
lowly and begge:l of the younger wolan
in the meanest whine my wit could
luster a drink of milk and an oat*n
ake to stay my hunger. That fair forifin-T
got up and took me into the hall
-and a splendid hall it was-and put
ie at the sen-ant's tressel, then calling
Dme others, set milk and bread before
ic. So I ate and drank and all the time
ept counting the golden plates and
wers on the master's distant table and
canning his weapons or costly furs
".lie round the hall, and thinking how
iirn my ship could carry home. Ay,
nd as eaoh fair damsel lilled my horn .
nd platter, asking me in gentle civility
lie while of my home and wayfaring,
tile did she know that I was wonder
if,' how ten eft sfte wouia ieicn ai me
lave stakes in Throndjem market place,
r whether Bhe would scream greatly
hat night or no. Indeed, those comrty,
ed-haired English maiden6 were so
ivil that had they not been barbarians
nd thus to us what the hinds of the
alley are to the hill wolves and the
peckled salmon to the gray ospreys I
light almost ha've-rued the red night's
rurk that was at hand. But as things
fere, I should have blushed as soon to
hink myself ?o.npassionate as coward,
nd thus I laughed and chutted with
hem, and while I linished my bowl
earned of those incautious women
ungues that all the men were away
ulaiid; that the women and chilIren
fro n all round came in and
he palisades were closed at nightfall,
Did saving some half-dozen herders
here were to be no men in the burgh
hat night. I learnt that their master
:nd a fair daughter, though I saw her
lot, as she was then spinning with her
miiden? in the turret; that the master
vas wondrous rich. l?ut old and feeble,
uid thus, having learned all I hoped for.
vith a last quick look round the place, I
os<.' u> c<>. As I turned or.e gentle
? T.MiEVYIiljL, SI1K SAiri."
maid put a 6ilver penny that 6he
taken from a little store in the corn*
her thread box into my hand. "F
well," she said, "old man, and may
good God guide y^u; it ever grieve!
heart to see one poor and hungry,"
that penny was put out at good intei
for that very night, when the burgh
burning, I saved her from the 1
wooing of Vidkun the rough, and, 1
ing her to the foss, showed her the
and, pointiDg to the dark shade of
thickets, let her go free and unhari
Thu* I rejoined my comrades and
them all I had seen.
{xo BE CONTINUED. J
POPULAR SCIENCE.
According to a hygienist, the
ants of the first and second floors i
house enjoy the longest life.
rr% A _ 0 n _"l _A
lesis 01 tno uyc&mue guue hi
Golden Gate, Cal., resulted in stum
to death great shoals of fish, and 1
ermen made a harvest.
Bnttons are now extensively me
factured from Irish potatoes,
treatment with certain acids they
come as hard as a bone.
A Rockford (111.) man has inver
a typewriter no larger than a wal
on which he says it is possible to w
faster than with the pen.
Russian scientists report that
white poplrir tree acts as a natr
lightning rod, as the discharge se
it in preference to othe^ trees.
The heavy return currents of
trolley cars at Pittsburg have c<
pelled the abandonment of the urn
ground telegraph and telephone wi;
The trolley system is to be used
% mining road at Marquette, Mi<
the loaded cars coming down sup]
ing power to haul the empty o
back.
A young woman was standing
the sidewalk at Red Bank, N. J.,
other day, -when a broken eleci
light wire touched her forehead. !
was instantly electrocuted.
The United States Agricultural ]
partment has started a curious lab
atory and hospital at Washingti
where various sorts of plants and tr
ire inoculated with different disoa
for convenience of studying them.
A serious objection to the und
ground traction system, whether ca
or electric, is that obstructions
liable to get into the slot, and seri<
results are sure to follow, as in 1
case of a St. Louis cable car the otl
day.
Dr. Willoughby Wade, of Lond
thinks -that the newly discove
Roentgen light, which will maki
photograph through an opaque s
stance, will kill the bacillus of c
sumption in the patient's body, a
is known that direct sunlight is ft
to it.
An elcctric ice-cutting machim
being used with much success at S
apee, N. H. It consists of a circu
saw, which the operator is able
raise and lower at will. The ot
day the machine cut sixty-five feel
ice to a depth cf nine inches in sever
five seconds.
Professor Baird states that one
the pikes which can be seen at
Imperial Aquarium, St. Petersbu
was born toward the end of the
teenth century, and is now, therefo
about 400 years old. This extraoi
nary fact is rendered all the m
probable when it is borne in m;
that divers othtr fishes in the so
aquarium are over 200 years old.
Working of the Brain.
It is we'l known that each side
the brain is connected with the mo
ments and sensations mainly on
opposite 6ide of the body; the rij
brain moves the left arm and leg, t
vice versa. Now, caces are not inf
quent in which, with or without
shock," or at least eome degree of i
vious loss of musculer power on
right side' of the body, the faculty
recalling and reproducing spol
words is totally or almost totally lc
Such loss of speech is technically cal
aphasia. It was first shown so
thirty-five years ago by a Frei
physician, that this particular syc
torn is associated with damage t
limited and very definite part of
brain substance on the left side wh
has since been known, in honor of
discoverer, as Broca's convoluti
When the power of speech has tl
been lost, it is possible, if the men
faculties are not otherwise damag
to acciuire it again, by just suet
coarse of training and practice as
child passes through in learnrng
speak at first, even where Broca's c
volution has been so damaged as to
quite incapable of performing
functions. In snch a case the port
of the brain on the right side coi
sponding to Broca's convolution is
pable of taking up its work ; but o
by being educated to do so, just as
damaged portion of the brain had b
originally. If after this the powei
speech is lost again by damage to
right side similar to that which !
impaired the left, there is no hope
of its being restored a second ti
It is thus clear that there are two
gans or portions of the brain capt
of controlling speech, and that un
ordinary circumstances only one
them is trained to do so, the other
lug fallow. All the education isgi
to one favored side, and all the w
is done by it; but the neglected <
if called by necessity to undertake
work, can be trained to do it, am
do it apparently, as satisfactorily
the other.?New York Telegram.
Wlievo Eajrles Are a Nuisance.
Envies arc bo plentiful in tne mi
tains near Selma, Cal., as to bo u s
oils nuisance to Btockmen. They s
to have a strong preference for s
jug pigs, and one stockman says
in the last season fully '200 younr
have bssu curried from his lducl
epglcs.
State Railwav* Pay In Prnssia.
In a report to tlia State Department I
United States Commercial Agent Modi
Weimar, upon the Prussian railroad sysi
be shows that last year the gross reci
from these railways were $244,467,17'
more-than half the entiro revenues ul
State. The net earnings were $51,051
ThLs sum is larger than tho Income dei
from taxes of all kiuds.
lilHck Snow in Chicago.
Chicago was visited by a most sing
meteorological phenomenon a few ui
ago. Black snow, yellow snow, and br
snow fell in blinding clouds over the er
city, and reports from suburban tc
brought the news that tho varicolored st
was not an exclusive Chicaco DroJuetioi
JS "SPRING FASHIONS.
are- .
WHAT WELL-DRESSED WOMEN
WILL WEAR.
rest, T.a?
It Will Be a Flower Season in MllliJJJJ
nery?A Younjs Lady's Corsase
coin" ?Basque of Mixed
*v,? rhflvlot.
U1C I v ? t
med.
told I
SO far, says the New York Sun,
it appears to be the same old
millinery story as to shape,
bonnets, toques and hats having
hardly a thing to choose between
them. One thing is certain, however,
ten* ]o far as trimming i? concerned it will
of a fe a flower season. Those who have
the
ling
Ishinn
By
be.
ited
boh, rite
*h\S!
jus \ ** ^:
the
tier
on,
red
?b? THE VERY NEWE
'? ' I
UUs
it looked upon present headgear as all t
ital that was conservatorial will open their t
eyes pretty wide when they see the i
s perfect flower-beds that will blossom i
lin. forfcb upoQ the heads of femininity, f
jar Roses by the bushel, violets by thou- c
sands and poppies by pounds will en- i
^ec hance the beauty and increase the cost j
k 0j of the great millinery epoch of the c
year. Tulle promises to be another
feature of hat-trimmin<?. A ruche of
, thip in blue or green appears to smart
. advantage upon a smell toque with a
low pointed crown and ro3ettes of the
same tulle on either side, the whole
being trimmed entirely with ivy and
*,e.' turquoise, a marked combination of
colors. On many of the hats appear
?r? bows of black lace with a white applique
design, while large white aigime
rettes are conspicuous in all millinery.
There is a decided tendency to strings,
tulle being used most, although wide
ribbon is also frequently employed.
, Qf CORSAGE FOR A YOTJN'fl LADY.
ve- The wasit illustrated in the twothe
column engraving is designed for rei?ht
ceptions or general.wear, the material
* -1 J 4-Ua I'nvt nf Aol
ind cnoaeii nuu tuo aUU.wv~ j
re- lar and lower aleeves of velvet making '
"a all the difference as shown in back '
Db- view. Silver spangled silk gauze is ?
the here chosen for full dress oocaof
sions, made of turquoise blue satin, *
:en with silver spangled passementerie f
>st. forming the square yoke. Trilby *
led bows of blue satin ribbon stand up on ?
me the shoulders, falling in loops on each *
ich side of the slveeves. The glove-fitted
op- linings are shaped with double bust
o a darts, and the usual seams over which
^he _
veil I
ork IriUNii r.ADIES' COKSA??K-I)
>ne, ~ "l
the ^e full fronts and bnck are grace- 1
,1 to fully disposed by gathers top ami but- i
! as torn. The closing can be effected invisibly
m centre front, or the lining
can be closed in centre and the yoke
with full front arranged to close at
the left shoulder and under arm seam
>un- if so preferred. The fronts droop
eri- stvlishlv over the belt of turquois blue
euni velvet that closes a* the left side. Full j
tick- three-quarter puffs reach below tbe j
thut elbow, which are stylishly arranged j
pig* over satin lining?. Waists by the mode I
i by <;au be handsomely developed from 1
soft- bilks, crepe, chiffon, monsseliae I
de soie, crepon, cash mere or other toft j
woolens with yoke, lower sleeves and j
roni collar of velvet or silk for ordinary I
e at
tern, T.
tfpts The quantity of 44-inch wide ma- J
* or terial required to make this corsage j
'oocT *or ft having a 30-meh bustmeas- !
'ived ure is 3 yards; for a 34-inch size, '?;
yards; for a 3H-inch size, 3; yards. j
1
HANDSOME BASyPE.
own Mixed cheviot is here stylishly decitir?
orated with pipings of dark green veliwn:1
<et and email smoked pearl buttons,
orm fjjje ecamjese chemisette, with stand
ing collar of the material here pictured,
can be changed for one of white
linen or pique, and a bow or a fourin-hand
necktie is a natty finish to
this style of basque. The basque is
glove fitting, shaped with single bust
darts in front that are piped with velvet,
the small buttons being sewed on
each side of seam. The closing is invisible
on the left side, or buttonholes
can be made to adjust to the first row
of buttons. The npper portions are
faced and reversed in stylish lapels
that meet the rolling collar in notches.
The back has the usual seams and
gores that adjust it closely to .the waist
line, under which it is widely sprung
to stand out in fashionable ripples
with fluted effect. The full mandolin
sleeves are piped with velvet on the
3T HEADGEAR.
wo upper seams, a do able row of butone
ornamenting the wrists. Basques
n thie style are among tbe first spring
mportations, and are styiish and combrtable
for walking, shopping, cysling
or general wear. Tweed, chev
all
Ui>? UAIUCI O 14011 y UiviiMii w?ft
?lain or mixed woolens, with smooth
>r rough surfaces, are chosen for'
BASQUE OF MIXED CHEVIOT.
oasques by the mode, and worn with
ikirts of the same fabric.
The quantity *of 44-inch wide maerial
required to make this basque for
t lady having a 32-inch bust measure
s 21 yards; for a 36-inch 6ize, 31pards;fora
40-inch size, 3J yard*;
?or a 42 inch size, 3; yards.
NEW SHArE OF JAf'EET.
A new shape of jacket that is likely
i:s:r,\::n by may anion*.
to fiml favor appears iu a plain gray
cloth, with just sufficient spring on
the hips iu tlie basque to jjive it the
ueeessary lulue?s so becoming to the
waist, which it makes much more slender.
Tbr. jacket is double-breasted,
fastened with six big pearl buttons.
The garment's chief novelty lies in the
cut of the lapels, which arc much
slashed, sharply jointed and faced
with velvet iu marked contrast to a
darker velvet vest. The sleeves are
1-1 ? *
cut large irosc mi; suuunm^
I'lbows, whence they fit eloscly t;> the
wrist. A eharmmg accompaniment
to this coat is a hat o& heliotrope
felt, trimmed with heliotropo ami
white asters creatn lace and a heron
ysprey.
TTIK NEW LAWN'S.
The new lawns and dimities are exceedingly
pretty, with {lowered stripe?
iu soft, faded colors, and plain stripe?
of color on a white ground. Swiss
muslins, too, are quite new in design,
with lines of color and Dresden bouquets
scattered all over them iu addition
to the usual white dote.
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I
CUKIOUS fk ITS. J
A watch has 157,680)000 ticks l
year. !
; Artificial teeth made of poroelain |
were in use as far back as 177i. I
The word "facetious" contains all j
the vowels in their regular order.
It takes twelve thousand microbes 1
to form a procession an inch long.
People, as a rule, hear better with J
their right than with their left ear.
Upon the farm of Mendel Wood, of I
West Bethel, Vt., there is a- maple j
tree which is in four towns and two j
counties.
All the state rings of the British .,
sovereigns are preserved, eitb'er in the, :
British Museum or among the regalia
nvAwn
Ui vuv V* vnw*
, The key of Libby Prison and the
flag which floated over the prison are .
preserved in the Soldiers' Memorial
Hall at Rutland, Vt.
A fifty-foot granite shaft, the longest
piece of granite ever taken out uf
a quarry in Vermont, was quarried at
Barre a few days ago.
Two Chicago fat men, weighing 325
and 366 pounds respectively, ran a
100-yard race the other day. The 365pound
man won by a stomach.
Harriet Moore, of Lancaster, Penn.,
has been sent to an insane asylum for
wearing continually a money belt containing
$60,000, and sleeping with her
clothes on to hide it.
'
Marriages can only be celebrated in
Servia between sunrise and noon, the
gride and bridegroum must be completely
fasting, and only one couple
may be married at the same time.
Judge Puster, of Jersey City, N. J.t
a few days sinoe was obliged to give
judgment of $8 for rent against a poor 1
woman. He then took out his pocketbook
and paid the judgment and costs.
Firm believer in the doctrine of the
transmigration of souls, the Burinan
holds tbat the soul must pass through
140,000 existences before Nirvana, the
sublime condition of self-loss, can be
reached.
John Purcell, a driver of a peddler's
cart in Bennington, Vt., received notice
a few days ago that, by the death
of an uncle in the East Indies, he has
become one of seven heirs to about .]
$1,500,000.
For several winters a seal has visit- <
ed the waters opposite Field's Point,
B. I. It turned np again a few days |
ago. People who have watched it in
successive seasons declare that it is
the same seal.
The heaviest man in Western Rhode
Island, Stephen Andrew, died at West
Greenwich recently. He was eightyone
years old, stood six feet tall, and
weighed 498 pounds. His chest meas- .
urement was seventy-eight inches, and
his biceps nineteen inches. He came
of a family o'f big folk. >.
Five hundred people engaged in a
rabbit drive at Market Lake, Idaho,
recently, which lasted for about two
hours after the lines had been lormed, 1
and ended in the capture or death of
some 2000 jack rabbits. The live rab- .
bits were shipped to Salt Lake City,
Utah, for free distribution to the poor '
of that place.
The principle of the telephone was
first shown by Wheatstone in 1831^At
various times between 1831 and W76
electricians and scientists experimented
with electro magnets as a means of '
transmitting sounds a long distance.
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell exhibited
the first speaking telephone at
the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
?
100,000 BaOaloes Died.
Near Cheyenne Wells is a long j
stretch of level prairie, which suddenly
torminateR in a urecioice. making i
a perpendicular descent of perhaps I
fifty feet to another plain below. In
the winter of 1858 a great blizzard I
raged for several days. The snow (
was driven at a terrific rate before a j
huirioane of wind, and the buffalo
were obliged, in self preservation, to
tarn their backs and run with tpe
wind. The result was that vast numbers
of the buffalo were carried over
the precipice, and their dead bodies
were covered with twenty or thirty }
feet of snow. For many years people
visited the spot to look at the bones,
which lay in piles ten and fifteen feet
high as far as the eye could reach
along the precipice, and it was com* j
monly estimated that 100,000 bufla- 1
loes found a grave on that fa'al spot
Sand stormi in those days were so
destructive that it was not unusual for I
freighters to lose their entire outfit.
Daring the prevalence of a storm no
attempt was made to move forward,
and drivers cleared the sand out of
the nostrils of the horses and oxen, as
otherwise the animals were threatened
with death from suffocation. A sand
storm usually lasted only two or three
hours, but its effects were felt for
days by men and animals exposed to
f ilia Klocf
IU6 IIITJ Vi buo ?'kuom
A curious phenomenon noticed in
different places on tlie plains was the
immense excavating power of the wiud
in a sand 6torm. There were areas of
three or four acres where the wind
scooped out the sand forty or fifty feet
deep and whirled it away in the air. j
i It seemed as if the work began at a i
| central spot no iarger than could be I
covered with a man's hat. In an incredibly
short time a round hole would
be excavated. The wiud then took
hold in real earnest, and tbe probabilities
were that tin entire sand hill
would In' leveled down in tho next
thirty minutes.?Denver Field an.l
Farm.
Lard ami Flour lor Burns.
In tbe treatment of burns there is
nothing better than the old-time application
of pure lard and llour. It
is well worth while for every house- 1
keeper to buy sjrae pura left! lar?l,
rentier it with the utmost care. and
]>!it it while piping hot into pots or
bottler, which may iie hermetically
<culc(l. A cupful <. : Inr.i mixed with
Hour to form si son paste may be applied
to a bum without loss of time.
?Detroit Free Press.
Willy at His Wife's Expense.
| Douglas Jorrold wa? sometimes witty
j nt the expense o: his wife. He ones
) toiil her, when .-he was no longer
young, that he wished wives were liko
bank notes, so that, one of forty could
be exchanged for twu of twenty. On 1
another occasion he was asked whori 1
his wife was danciug with, "ooqfi ]
member of the Humane Society, ! sul . '
pose," he replied. - Argons::!. I
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