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1 - vj&pr. ui iv\?-i \NJ JI^ ? CHAPTER XXVII?Continued. ! Lieutenant Hedges tried to induce Untilia to go below and occupy Captain Denham's cabin, but to his solicitations she replied: "Why lie down when I am not weary Knd cannot sl^ep. No; I shall stand and drink in your daring with my eyes If I cannot help with my hands. l)ay Will soon be here, and the Alontauks / must find me ready." I "But surely, Untilia, you will not exf pose yourself to danger. We have plenty of men to do the work, and your ' ?ra/?imia fcn in A 1113 lb piouiuua *cij j?4uv4vv?>? ? ? to all of us." "The Great Spirit commands; I wear the plumes and carry the spear of the mighty Wyandauch. Where they are Been the Montauks will follow; and where could they be seen but in my' keeping. To-morrow's sun will see mo 9.3 now standing by your side," said the heroic princess. ( "Ah, Untilla, would that It were my fate to stand by your side through all the suns of ray life." j Alarmed at his own boldness, and - /perhaps struck by the Incongruity of [ tinting at love on such an occasion, Mr. Hedges turned and left ! The men not directly engaged in the sailing of the ship at once made preparations for the morrow's battle. All laid away their caps and bound kerchiefs about their heads; and as the night was warm, many of them stripped to the waist and tightened their belts. The long gun was cleaned and loadj ?d, and the. broadside guns were doubly / shotted. I The boarding pikes in tne racxs aoout I the masts and the cutlasses which the | ) men girded on were all examined by i Mr. Dayton. , The tire buckets were filled and placed \rtthln rea h, and In the cockpit the ship's surgeon and his assistants made every preparation for the reception and treatment of the wounded. Rations were cooked for the men, to be used on the morrow, and then the fire in the galley was extinguished. While these preparations were going on, Lieutenant Hedges, who with Untilla stood near the helm, saw the lights on board the Wanderer off Gardner's Island. "There Is the ship we are looking for," i Bald Untllla. "I see her; but we shall keep on till we see the Montauk beacon, then 'bout Chip and comeback; by that time it will be daylight," replied Mr. Hedges. The Sea Hawk bounded away, the waves hissing Irom her prow like the voice of an angry serpent, and herrope3 straining like the muscles of a creature huugerlng for the contest that lay before her. "Montauk light on the starboard bow," repeated the officer of the watch. /Bear away one point to the east," jflid Lieutenant Hedges to the two men ^placed at the wheel. h On sped the Sea Hawk with the eager r flight of the bird after whom she was ' named. Montauk light rose up bold and clear from the headland; and as the ea.ijle in wild speed stops and wheels back on the course he has come, so wheeled and turned the ship. A gray streak of dawn in the east, but the Sea Hawk faced the darkness to the west. Gardner's Island was now dead ahead. More light filling land and sea, and the Sea Hawk turned the point, and up A" 1 nr\fir?n aP fKa rvfAW TO ner pwuti iau mo cusigu ui wo (/iv.ince. There at anchor, not a mile away lay t&e Wanderer, her boats alongside after l&oding her visitors. Xn alaim Captain Fox ran forward aqd shouted to the coming ship. -I*rboard, you lubbers! Larboard!" ji shot from the loDg gun of the Sea H%wk was the only reply. Ike ships were now only a hundred wards apart. Fox saw his danger and touted to his boatswain, and then rang out the shrill whistle calling the tartled crew of the Wanderer to arms. The Sea Hawk folded her wings.1 She was alongside, and her grappling irnns. liko creat talons, were fastened in her victim. Down went the anchors, and^ He.lges' guns and ^he ch^er^of Ins neve^erxiii:ted himsel^' to betaken ) y surprise. But he was certainly surprised now. He could not credit his eyes and ears when he saw the Sea Hawk grappling with the Wanderer, and heard the shot that came from the signal gun crashing through the hull of his own ship. ( Quick-brained, he took in the danger, rand his first thought was that one of the men he had sent on board the Sea Hawk had betrayed him. In no other way, he was sure, could his personality and schemes bo detected. But there was no time for guessing; no time for anything but to shake off the foe that had swooped down on him and fastened her sharp talons in his side in a death grip. So well trained were his men that they threw off their jackets, tore the pikes from the racks, and rushed to their posts while yet the shrill whistle of the boatswain was piping all hands to quarters. The Wanderer was always ready for action: her guns were shotted at all times, and never lett unloaded except when tho charges were drawn to clean them. Now the great gun amidship turned her muzzle to the neck of the Sea. Hawk, and its fiery breath blazed through tho shrou'ls of both ships. The fifteen broadside guns were run out until they touched the black side of the Sea Haw',i. close to the water line, and then the solid shot went tear.ng a-id crashing through her timbers, a fountain of splinters flying up from the shock. Lieutenant Hodges had hoped, from the sudd^nn^ss of the attarx, to fin-' t})u Wandew whollv unt>j spared for *e slstance. He thought to board the foo and overpower him before he could ptrike a blow; but now, as ho saw the wonderlul alacrity with which tho pirates rushed to their posts, he almost ? forgot, in the momentary admiration of the act, the all-important mission on 1 which he had come. ! It was agreed between him and Untilla that her people should remain out of sight till his men had gained the deck of the foe, where they expected to meet Ralph Denham, when the MonItauks were to swarm on board shouting the battle cry of their tribe. In accordance witn this plan. Lieutenant Hedges, sword in hand, was the Qfst jnan to leap on the deck of the Wanderer, Mr. Dayton remaining baok to direct matters on board. With the quick bound of tigers two score stalwart young men Imitated their daring leader, and, quicker than the heroic deed can be recorded, they made for the long gun amidships, and drove back or killed the men who were fighting it. i With thatquickness of perception and action that would have made him the' foremost seaman in the world, had he been engaged in a righteous cause, Captain Fox saw his opportunity. ami of i-l ? " Ua A iarow wu untj giuppies; un iuucu. "Leave the deck to me, Frenauld! Hurrah for the men of the Wanderer!" High over the clash of swords, the roar of cannon, and the quick, narsh. Crashing of firelooks, rang out the voice bf the pirate chief; his men heard his words and seemed transformed Into fiends. Frenauld ran to part the ships; an-; other instant and the tide and wind1 would have separated them, so far that,! though they were anchored neariy head' to head, boarders could not pro from one to the other. But before the axes could sever the last ropes a high, shrill cheer rose up' from the deck of the Sea Hawk. It wa3 like the united cries of a hundred eagles when circling in mid-heaven they see far beneath them the robbers "despoiling their nests, and they sweep down to defend and destroy. "I wear the plumes of Wyandauch!; Men of Montauk, follow your queen!" Untilla stood on the bulwark of the Wanderer and waved the glittering blade above her head. "We come! Our princess, we come!" Bhouted the Montauks. Untilla leaped to the deck, ana when 8De raised tne spear 01 nyanaauca again it was redder than the waves, blushing in the light of the rising sun. In the meantime Frenauld's men swung their axe9 with all their might; ?nd when about one-half the Montauks reached the Wanderer's deck the gap between the ship had increased so much that the others were forced to remain behind. Wondering why Captain Denham, who must have heard the signal given, did not respoud, Lieutenant Hedges, with a view to cheering his own men as well a? to attract the attention of his commander, raised the cry: "Kalph Denham! Ralph Denham!" Fox heard him, and pressing his men to one side, he replied: "Itaipn .ueinium is ut's i, uuiotj joui The next instant he was before Lieutenant Hedges. "Murderer, you lie!" retorted the gallant sailor, and with a leap that would have been surprising even in an athlete,; he stood face to face with the pirate, j There was no time for taunt or ex-' pression of rage. The red swords circled and fell; glanced, flashed, and rose again, and Hedges, the stronger of the men, pressed on, and bore back his assailant. At the be?t, the contest between the men would have been uncertain, had not one of the pirates leaped at the first officer of the Sea Hawk, struck him over the head, and sent him reeling and bleeding to the aecK. Untllla saw the act, and, with a cry of rase that appalled those who came In her way, her spear gleamed like the lightning, and, like its bolt, transfixed the man who had stricken down the Lieutenant. "While this was going on Capt. Denham and his men, at the sound of the signal gun, had made their way through the opening, which Don had arranged. But the very shot that had called them to action had so torn the timbers' in the advance as to virtually block them In. In the dim light they worked like giants to release themselves, but whenever they lifted one timber from their front another dropped in behind it Capt. Denham heard his name shouted on the deck, and he recognized the voice of Lieut. Hedges. He felt like answering back, but checked himself. Still the Captain and his men worked,; and 8till rose and fell the tramping of /eet, the oath and shout, and the clashing of arms overhead, while the ships, though no longer side by side, used their cannon on each other with murderous effect. In despair, Capt. Denham was about to turn back, for the purpose of finding! some other way to the deck. If that were. ?*rk an K a K ao Tb/^r> in frnn 4 IJU591U1U, ucu uo uvcti v* i/vu iu uvui calling out: "Patience, men of the Sea Hawkj patience!" By the dim light they could catch the gleam of an ax in the hands of the youth, ana they saw that It rose and fell. A few minutes, and there came a crash, followed by a cloud of dust. Don haflfcjggi.jthe key-piece, and the whole 'mjjpHyypbbish came down. \&9$htWt6n, eager to speed to the aid of .thpr ?f&rades, could not restrain the rtfSerffcat leaped to their lips. "God bless you!" was all the Captain could say, as he ran past Don Into the armory, the walls of which were lined with cut'asses and guns. For the latter the sailors cared nothing. They flew for the cutlasses, drew the blades, and flung away the scabbards, and then rushed after the Captain, who was on the stairs leadine to the deck. The sight that met Captain Denham's eye would have appalled a heart less resolute. The handful of men that Lieutenant Hedges had led^to the ship were gathered about the prostrate form ot their leader, tlghtin^ desperately, though against overwhelming odds. The Montauk.'* under I ntilia had just charged ovpr ihe deck. and were repulsed, and the pirates, confident that the tide of battle/VfM. turning In their :avor, cheere4tJWf<Hig'nt Uke incarnate demons. As Ralph Denhaavhurried to the deck he threw off his '(ilsgulse, and though dressed exactly like his crew, there was no mistaking hlm^-jf ? The Sea Hawk.j men and the Montauks, on the forward part of the ship, saw and recognize^., him before the pirates did. "Ralph D en ham! & Ralph Denham!" wmt up the cry troife the gallant sailors who saw victory doming, personified in the i erson of their beloved leader. "Men of the Se&JBfe.wki To the rescue! Charge!" thund^ted* Ralph. There was only iyeed to follow his examplo. Those who ha$p?en? turning with anxiety to get lov'thid*aeck, now suw their chance. In the front FrenUuld wheeled his men, and tried to stem the unexpected onset. He fell beneath Dereham's blade, and many of his followera7]to avoid the fury of that irresistible onset, leaped into the sea. That part of the d&ok was speedily cloared, and Ralph knfelt to raise his old friend, but Lieutenant Hedges grasDed his hand, and to.-a voice still Btrong, though he wafrW^eding to death, "Don't mind me! DonTt itop till the Telling one of the sailoji&Jto call Mr. Dayton to send the ;*U?jMgO on board the Wanderer at Qno^j^nMa J)enhapi enjoined his men to follow again, for It was all important that the pirates 4lmn ir\ rannvor frnm t.hA DilU U ill UVl>UU?C vv WW ? W. demoralization which his coming had caused. "Never mind your pistols, my lads!" cried Denham, when he saw his men idi'awint? the weapons they had concealed on their persons. "Give them the cold steel, and drive thom into the sea." "Aye, aye, sir!" "Sweep the quarter deck; capture Kidd alive!" This Captain Denham Bhouted, as, with Untilla by his side, and the sailors and warriors pressing close behind, they sped to the place where the pirates, rallied by their desperate leader, were to make their last stand. Fox saw Ralph Denham, looked into his blazing eyes, but still he could not credit the evidence of his senses. Ghost or man, he would try him. And Fox did try, with a heroism worthy of a better cause, to defend or cheok the onset. But his men had lost heart. They went down before the flashing blades as the ripe jrrain drops before the sickle of the reaper, and the pirate chief was loft nearly alone on the quarter-deck of the Wanderer. "Surrender, Kldd! Surrender!" shouted Halph. For answer the pirate with a horrible oath, discharged his remaining pistol at his conqueror, and waiting only long enough to note that the shot had no effect, he turned and Hung himself into the sea. It will be remembered that the boats In which the visitors wore landed, were still alongside, there not having been time to hoist them on deck before Lieutenant Hedges made his daring attack. Captain Fox found a number of the pirates in one of these boats, and they had 6eizel the oars and were in the act of cutting the rope when he crawled on board. He never for an Instant lost the power to command. Seizing the tiller he called out to his men: "Better luck next time, my lads. We have booty enough or. shore to at out a score of ships like the Wanderer. Pull away!" The pirates took the oars and obeyed him, for obedience is a habit that clinga to men after she power to enforce it has gone. So busy were Captain Denham and his men, that they did not see this act of the pirate chief, an act that was not destined to be of great advantage. Within a few minutes after the disappearance of Fox, every pirate on the Wanderer not dead was a prisoner and under guard. Mr. Dayton had by this time worked his ship alongside the Wanderer and again they were made fast, with theii shattered hulls grating against each other. Captain Denham was about to go forward to where the surgeon was dressing T UoWrraa' WnilTlH whpf! T) DTI JJ1C U 1/CilCfcll V V*^s, ? .. .. ? ? touched him on the arm and said: "If you please, air, there's some ladies in the cabin that was locked up till I release;! them. They wished to come on deck, but I advised them not, and they want to see you." Ralph Denham did not wait to ask who they wero; his heart told him, eo he ran at once below. He bounded down the companion-way and into the cabin, with its piotures and articles of luxury untouched, and h6 saw In tho middle of the floor, with their arms enslrciing each other as 11 lor mutual protection, Lea Hedges and Ellen Condlt. [to be continued.] CURIOUS FACTS. Gla?s bricks gain favor. Norway taxes commercial travelers. Eiffel tower in Paris weighs 7000 tons. Father Danforth, of Springfield, Ohio, ha3 two cowj whioh he drives in harness. In France the doctor's claim on the estate of a deceased patient has precedence of all others. The Imperial Society for Acclimatization has succeeded in raising ostnobes m tne soacn or Jttussia. Each year about $30,000 is expe&attd in sprinkling the streets of London with sand, to prevent the horses from slipping. \ A hen that laid an egg smaller than a robin's egg at Cottage Grove, Oregon, cackled just as though she had done her whole dntv. A North Dakota farmer claims that strips of newspapers soaked in soar milk and fdd to hems greatly increases their laying qualities. The highest inhabited spot in the world is a mining camp in the Andes ?16,158 feet above sea level?where some 200 miners live in good health all tne year round. A canary owned by a Baltimore musician is said to sing at a signal from him, given on the violin, the "Popagano" from Mozait's "Magio flute." He has had the Dird two years. Anything black will produce more disturbance in your baby's mind than anything white. A child refusing to go to a relative in dark clothes would not Hesitate it tnc suit were cnangeu to a light color. The cat came baok to Samuel Ward, of Waynesboro, Penn., not in song, but in fact, a few weeks ago, Mr. Ward had cot seen it since July, 1894, vrhen he had dropped it from a train near Frederick, Md. Sarah Thomas, a lively woman, 100 years old, in Wales, possesses all her faculties, but is a dangerous somnambulist. The Princess of Wales annu- j ally sends her on her birthday as.many j shillings as she has lived years. A man who shaves regularly until he j is eighty years old cuts off aboul i thirty-five feet of hair, although if he j doesn't shave it doesn't necessarily follow that his whiskers will be thirtyfive feet long when he is eighty. Fioridians in the neighborhood of I Kissimmee carry on a profitable but j straggling winter industry disposing J of otter skins at $4 or $5 eaoh. In ! Kissimmee two firms this season have j purchased 1200. But there is no sys- i tematic effort to make the most of the industry. A wedding ceremony took place in Trenton, Mo., the other day which was a notable one for the reason that both the contracting parties had passed the age of three score and ten, j and that the marriage was theculmina- j tion of a courtship that extended over | a period of more than forty years. A Stubborn Maine Farmer. William Davis, a farmer of Penobscot ; County. Maine, has spent 83^ years iu jull j for contempt of court. He was Qnod tor i thrashing a boy who teasel him and,though i man of moans, vowe 1 he would never pay ! the flue. He was put in jail and has re- , malned there ever slnoe. An effort is now being made to securs his release. j QUEER CLOTHES. THE UGLY COSTUMES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. WHw.t Children Wore Seventy-Five jl cuio ?a lie i au'.aivibv j and the Relsn of the Ked Shoe. (( | \0 I remember how we used I 1 to dress when I was a child ? I J Indeed, I do, raj dear; I G can see every one of those queer little frocks?you would certainly think them so now, at any rate ?as plainly as if I had them .before my eyes." The speaker, says the New York Tribune, was a white-haired, sweet-faced old lady of eighty, whose remarkably faithful memory, not only on the subject of clothes, bat concerning nearly every incident of her rather eventful life, is a constant source of 1 1^ LLltirvci L'J UCl IIICUVACJ. "The first dress of which I hava a distinct impression was made for me when I was four years old. That was in the year 1821; so you are hearing now of the styles of seventy-five years ago. It is a long period to look back upon, but the time doesn't seem so far away to me. Well, the frock was given to me by my godmother?for :cny name, you know. It wan made of rattinet?I don't suppose you ever heard the word before?but it was the name of a kind of thin woolen goods very fashionable at the time. The color wa3 scarlet, and as I had never had anything so gay before, you may be sure I was proud of is. There was a litt.ln filoak to match, and a red bonnet, trimmed with nwanadown. "The next dressea I remember were two Sunday frocks, made exactly alike, which my sister and I wore, perhaps a year or two later than the time of the red rattiuet. You will laugh when I tell you that these dresses, which were considered especially beautiful and elaborate, were made of ?oalioo. It was French calico, though; much finer and prettier than anything of the kind to be bought nowadays, and it Cost from fifty to seventy-live oents a yard. All materials were dear then, and you saw very few silk dresses, particularly for children, except the wealthy families. You could have a silk gown now for what Frenoh calicoes used to coat. I can even remember the exact pattern of the calico in J "'-i' EARLY VIC1 those two frocks. There was a white ground, divided into squares, with a vine and leaf design in purple, running all over it. We thought it was wonderfully handsome, and I believe it would be considered very dainty even to-day, among the variety of pretty, thin goods which are shown. All children wore low-necked and short-sleeved dresses in those days, and, indeed, for many years after girl's costume, javuart, 1841. ward. It would have been considered ridiculously inappropriate to put anything different on them, even in winter. So our little frocks were, of course, made according to the fashion, leaving our necks and shoulders bare, and looking, I must confess, as 1 examine the old daguerreotypes, as if they were in constant danger of slipping off over our arms. The sleeves were tiny, circular pufis, not more than three or four inches deep, so that v,o had almost nothing on our arms either. The little waists were very short, much resembling the Empire styles seen now, and were usuallv made with considerable fulness. The skirts, always sewed fast to the waists, were straight, and reached to about half way between the knee and ankle. Really short dresses, as children wear them now, wero never seen. Below our skirts, anil hanging down to our very feef, were our pantalettes?plain yellow nankeen ones for every day, and fine white embroidered ones for Sundays. With theso particular frocks I am speaking of we always wora our best pantalette?. ."Our shoes were made of soft,green morocco leather. And that reminds me of the aggrieved feeling we children always cherished because we were obliged to wear that color. The two fashionable shades for shoes were tea green and bright red. My mother, whose taste in her own dress was subdued, clothed her children accordingly, and would never allow us to have I the scarlet ehoea. bo my Bister and I I were obliged to wear the green, and I to craze with hopeless envy at the gayer footgear of most of oar playmates. Hi1 boy's costume in vogue .tune, 1811. "There were different styles of hats, bat, if I remember rightly, those that went with our purple and white French calicoes were bonnets of green silk. The/ were shirred very full and cat so that the edge around the face was bias. This was then fringed out to some lepth as a border, and the bonnet was trimmed with lace and a. ribbon bow at the baok. 1 think that is a complete account of the way we looked, or?have I forgotten anything? Oh, yes; our gloves. They wereof ptraw colored silk, and pretty short, scarcely reaching above our wrists. "The time I am telling you of was long before the days of hoopskirts, you know. We children wore a number of stiff, quilted petticoats, though, to make our dresses 'set out' in the proper way. I can't remember that we were ever really uncomfortable on account of our odd olothes, though I'm afraid children would complain nowadays at the heavy skirts and the dangling pantalettes. These pantalettes were sometimes a nuisance even to us, accustomed as we were to them, when we wanted to play some aotive game. 1 recall one of our playmates who was regarded by the rest of us as a marvel of daring because she had been known on different occasions to ftmmrsr^ jU i/>1,. 'ORIAN DRESS. ' I untie her pantalettes deliberately from i i i - i_ _ l.:_u ii. ? t,. ner siocKings, so wuiuu iubj woio motened, and bundle them in Home convenient corner nntil she had finished her play and was ready to go home. "The boy's clothes at that time were almost as funny, when compared with modern Btyles, as were those of the girls. No knickerbockers in the days when my brothers were little fellows ! Boyti wore Ions?, loose trousers, similar to those of their fathers, and usually made at home from an old pair which the head of the family had discarded. Their queer little jaokets were sometimes belted in at the waist, with the skirt hanging a few inches below in blouse style, and sometimes they wore open coate, very short and elaborately braided, in military fashion. They wore various kinds of caps, and I remember a flat-shaped one, with a long tassel hanging down behind, which was regarded as very stylish. "Fashions did not change eo often then, my dear, as they do now. When ? i? J . j ?I;J ? you nau a ureas jou vumu num m iui years, just the same?unless you wore it out. Fine clothes could even be handed down from one generation to another. Years later than the time I have been taking about, when 1 had a small family of my own, the styles in children's frocks were not greatly altered. The materials had changed more than anything else, showing I ^ OIKLS' COSTUMES, FEDRDA11Y, 1843. much more variety, and the woolen goods in particular being finer in quality." The Forth Bridge, in Scotland, is constantly being repainted; in fact, no sooner have the painters reached one end than they have to commence again at the other. It takes fifty tons of paint to give it one coat, and the area dealt with is something like 120 acres. At Athens, Greece, a small potsherd has been found whioh bears the name of Themistocles, and is supposed to have been used when the ostracism of Aristldes took place. | -i> si t;?e dining boom. ( Its Furolnhlox and Decoratia^?Colonial Effects the Most Becoming. There is no more barbarous contrivance than the basement diningroom in the ordinary oity house; although it may be made necessary by considerations of economy and convenience. these faots do not make it any more admirable. Architectural limitations are aucb that the basement dining-room must of necessity have a low ceiling, little natnral light, and an unattractive outlook. These are drawbacks very difficult to overcome by any scheme of decoration or furnishing. For various leasons rooms of this kind may be dismissed from consideration in the present article. City houses are always bnilt with certain restrictions and limitations in mind, and eaah house must be a law unto itself. But aside from the question of meats, the builder of a detached villa house has free rein, and can consult his own taste and inclination in the arrangement of the various rooms. One who plans the ereotion of such a house will be wise if he gives his greatest care and attention to the dining-room, for no room is more important, nor contributes more to the PERSPECTIVE VIEW. character of the house. No handso mer room was ever designed than a oolonial dining-room, and it will be well to follow its general style unless it forms too violent a oontrast with the remainder of the house. For this reason it is well to have a cluster of narrow windows at one end of the room, opening with hinges, perhaps, glazed with diamond panes of glass in ! leads. This gives et mpst beautiful effect, if the remainder of the room can be brought at all in keeping. As the 1 room should be warm in the severest weather, an open fireplace with brass fira docs must be in evidence. The trimming should be walnut or oak with colonial ornaments, unless these ] are found too expensive. The mantel should be simple, so that it will not detract from the orvstal and plate with which the room will naturally be ornamented. The walls ehoald be a warm, red brown tint, or be covered with some warm colored paper with a simple, formal design. By far the most effeotive furniture for the dining room is mahogany, but thi3 is costly, if one has the good lack to inherit old pieoes of mahogany the problem of furnishing is made easy, for these can be made more beautiful than any modern pieces at very little expense, no matter how much they may have been marred by usage. With mahogany out of the question, pretty efifeots oan be had, which will make the room rioh, with well-made oak furniture, provided it is simple in design and not disfigured with maohine carving and glued ornaments. A hard wood floor costs no more than a fine carpet, and is far more appropriate. In this case a large rug will be wanted, but it need not be expensive ; extremely pretty designs are to be had in what are known as "art squares," which are nothing more than | rtitchefll \ i^sVK'-fe'L^? Dfoingf?. vj I H blol Hall H= -P 1 tJ^XlS-lO* I KPac lor '^m !; \4-b't\<o \ If Ti Ver&nd<5 7-wide PiVM Ploor reversible ingrain carpets. There is no need for ornamentation other than pure and simple porcelain, glass and silver ware, which can be made to do good servioe if not huddled away in closets, and a few good pictures in modern frames, chosen with some idea of the "eternal fiitness of things." The accompanying design shows a diniug room which lends itself readily to the treatment described in this article. The width of this house is 34 feet, 6 inches, and the depth, including veranda, 50 feet, 4 inches. With first story 9 feet, 6 inches, and second story 9 feet with attic 8 feet. This is ' a comfortable dwelling, easily heated. 1 The size of the dining room is shown ' by the floor plans. . The room is finished iu oak, with | oak fioor. The two windows are leaded with diamond-shaped panes looking out over the veranda. The walls are covered with paper of yellow brown color, with a stiff, formal design in red brown. This rims to the ceiling, with no frieze, but with oak picture rail about twenty inches below the cornice. The ceiling repeats the side , wall colors, though the pattern of the ' paper is not so pronounced. The fireplace is faced with dark brown brick. The furniture is rich mahogaDy with brass mountings. The sideboard, on which are a few pieces of fine glass reflected by the firelight, glistens a welcome. Bright china gives points of rich color for the eye to rest upon, i A Smyrna rug in deep reds and browns c laid on the polished oak fioor adds i still more color to the room, and a few ( choice hunting scenes finish tho walls. The cost to baild the house illustrated in this artiole in the vioinity of . "HH 1 ^ . i mi, ESth | TO__EL JLJJET? i Bed R PI I Bed R. -rr *?j ?r , ?/ m \fjpown tldl I Cf0|Cl0.j CIO- ' 31 Bed R. I Bed R, .Clo ; a Nl I 1 <Sccohd floor J| New York City, is 83500, not including the heating apparatus. In many sections of the country the cost should be much less.?Copyright 1897. The Milky Way. The milky way, says Miss Agnes M. Clerke, in Popular Astronomy, is made np of a finite number of star collections, each of finite dimensions; while the remainder of the sky, instead o! being veiled with shining orbs, thiokeet in endless backward files, shows * clear baokgronnd sprinkled with stars, the proportionate numbers of which diminish rapidly with penetration in- . to the ethereal abysses. The star ' depths, as Sir John Hersobel distinctly perceived, are open,. but, beyond certain point, empty. The stars and nebnlte form together a stupendous system, framed on lines dimly significant of an origin and progressive rela- . tions. But a system oannot be infinite . 3 ?not, at any rate, in a sense intelligible to the human intellect. Both observation and rational inferenoe indeed. while setting no boands to the display of creative energy, enforce belief in a terminated siderell world; only a certain horror vacui in the human mind shrinks baok from the void beyond, and evokes imaginary i stellar populaces to inhabit imaginary - " wildernesses. An Extraordinary Growth or flair. This astonishing growth of humaa liair is known as the Plica Polonioe, from its prevalence in Poland. The Plica oonsisted of hair closely matted ~ together; and the above example was sent to Dresden in 1780, after adorning the head of a peasant woman for a space of fifty-two years. It was over twelve feet in length, and nearly foot in circumference. It was considered fatal to cut it, hence the dimensions it sometimes attained. r: Origin of Fear and Terror. , President G. Stanley Hall, of Olark University, has lately been studying the origin of the various forms of fear and terror, and he suggests that the . common fear of high places, which many animals exhibit and which is very acute with some human beings, may be "a vestigial trace, like the gillslits under the skin of our necks, ante* dating limbs and inherited from our swimming ancestors." In reply to this, Professor Wesley Mills, of MoGill TT?.;<rAvaifir Suva that while the vounir* UUiTUiUtV^ | est mammals and birds exhibit peoaliar manifestations when placed near the edge of an elevated surface, yet a tartie will walk off any elevated supportagain and again, and a frog, "will jump almost any where." These exceptions, he thinks, present a difficulty to the acceptance of President Hall's theory. A Surprise for Pa. 1. Tommy was sent to sow the lawn slot with grass seed. Pa and the poodle were having a siesta out there. Is Tommy daren't wake them he scatered the seed everywhere bat where ;hey lay. 2. When the grass began to come ip, those bald places looked?well, luaint. The neighbors thought they rere new designs for flower beds!? 2omic Cats. i