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CHAPTER XV.
, CONTINUED.
Passionate, ami rierce in her passions
as an angry child, but superlicial
and changeable, she was already
regretting that she had not remained
nt Mary Hamilton's, in order that she
might have learned something more of
this man who was and yet was not her
Carlos?the one being in the world
who had ever made a lasting impression
on her shallow nature.
4'And yet, why should I weep?" she
exclaimed presently. "If he is Carlos,
he cares no more for me. He
will not acknowledge me; and if he is
not Carlos, why, then he is dead long
years ago, and I wept for him tben;
and I weep for him always when I remember.
Bnt of what avail? It only
spoils my eyes and gives me a red
face. I will wait! I will wait and see!
If it is Carlos Well, perhaps I
can compel-him to remember!"
Olive Gaye answered nothing: but
she listened and thought, and every
word sank into her memory.
The carriage rolled on rapidly, and
Miss Gaye's thoughts, as she reviewed
the events of the past few weeks,
moved even more quickly, -while the
tears and murmurs of Mrs. Helmholtz
presently subsided entirely.
The acquaintance of Olive with the
beautiful Lady of the Fan, as she had
called her in her thoughts, was one
of those incidents which seemed to
justify the girl's reliance on fate. She
had desired intensely to learn something
of the stranger and, if possible,
to know her personally ; and for several
days after the night at the opera
she liarl made inquiries in every direction,
but had failed to trace the ob
ject oi tier tnougnis, xui, one evouiug,
her uucle, in whose family she Jived,
said:
"An amusing thing happened to me
to-day. A gentleman came into the
office to usk me if I could tell him
where he could get a fan mended. It
was a beautiful affair of lace and
mother-of-pearl, and I was amused by
his anxiety about it. His excuse for
coming to me was that he was a
stranger in New York, and, as I am
his banker, he came to me for adviie.
I gave it; but my advice was that J'.e
should buy a new fan and throw the
old one away. That, he .said, was
what he had wished to do; but madame,
his wife, would have no new fan:
nothing but the broken one, mended,
would serve. And when I subsequently
saw the lady, I didn't wonder that
a man might be willing to do silly
things to please her. I never taw such
a beauty!"
"Ob, uncle," exclaimed Olive, "I
think I know about that fan; nud the
lady is a beauty, as you say. Tell me
all you know about them. I will call
on the lady, if you know her address,
and have her fan mended. There will
be a poetic fitness about it, for Bertha
Saxton and myself are responsible
for the breaking the fan." And Miss
Gaye gave her uncle a brief but highly
colored description of the incident
at the opera.
"Well, yes, Olive. I suppose you
may call on Mr,**. Helmholtz?Von
Helmholtz, the name really is. but it
makes it harder to say; and he has a
baronet's cornet or crown, or whatever
it is called, engraved on his
card. As a rule, I don't like that
kind of foreigner; but the man has
first-rate letters, and I think he's a
good fellow, except a little crazy
about his wife and very jealous. I
think you may call, however."
"Thanks, uncle; I sha}}," said
Olive. And before the next day she
had made the acquaintance of Mrs.
Helmholtz, and by the end of the
week they were intimate friends.
Like most of Olive Gaye's friendships
the intimacy was all on one side; she
listened while the other talked. It
did not take this shrewd young woman
very long to fill the spaces in the
conversation of Mrs. Helmho bz; but
ohe asked no direct question. Tn the
first place, it was always possible that
minrlif n At. La o o _
UilVVV ^UVOVIWUU v MW %/\J MU
swered; and, besides, her passion for
dramatic effect prompted her to "set
the stage" in such a way that the actors
could not help taking up thp cues
and making the proper effect. Her
success in the scene just enacted at
the house of Mary Hamilton delighted
her.
"He is a cool hand," she thought,
"the Honorable Clarence. If I had
not felt the shock go through him
when he first saw Celestine, his effrontery
would have imposed on me.
What is the mystery between th^m?
But I need not aBk. Celestine is
wild to tell me all about it and I need
only wait till we are alone in her
room Ah, here we are at the house.
She inusl; pay the carriage. I have
forgotten my pocketbouk. I have
such a memory! Ha! Ha! I always
do forget my pocketbook."
CHAPTER XVI.
t A TELL-TALE PHOTOGRAPH.
Mrs. Helmholtz amply justified
Olive Oaye's anticipations, and by a
judicious question occasionally and
patient listening, she soon knew the
mind of this superficial but fascinating
young woman.
"it is seven years nince I first met
Carlos Mendoza," she said, "and I
loved him from the hour I beheld him,
b? I shall love the memory of him to
the last moment of my life. He loved
me, too; I shall always believe that in
?-pite of everything?though he deceived
me about our marriage, but I
believe he was deceived about that,
too? i have good reason for thinking
that. Carlos thought the man who married
r.s was really a priest; and if lie j
ta<l liveil he would have made me his
wife truly and lawfully. Of course, 11
had no one to fight for me, like you i
happy American grrla witn*fathers j
and brothers, no one but a half-crazy J
adopted brother, who was not any relation
to me at all. But he was good,
Henri was?..nd no sister ever had a
truer brother; he believed in Carlos,
van xassei; out 11 ue is sun anve, ue
would fight for my rights against
Carlos or any man. But Carlos is
dead, of course, although that Mr.
Stanley is so like him that he has
made me lose my wits almost; and
even if he were still alive, it would be
no use now, for I am married to the
Baron Von Helmholtz?and he is so
jealous. If Carlos has come to life
again he would kill us both. Tell me,
cherie: Do you think it 2"?ossible that
iu all the world two people should be
so much alike as my Carlos and this
Honorable Clarence?"
"It is certaiuly singular and unusual,''
said Olive, in a meditative
manner; "but, as Miss Hamilton said, ;
'there have been cuch cases.' If your
Carlos is dead, and you say that you
saw him dead, that seems to settle
it.;'
"Oh, Diem! Yes, I saw him! I
kissed his cold lips and his golden ,
hair and held his dear head against :
my heart!" exclaimed the excitable J
creature, and in a moment sue was
w eeping frantically and wringing her
hands. , j
Olive waited for this paroxysm to ]
wear itself out, and then said calmly: !
"Can yon tell me how it happened?" :
"It was a quarrel over cards 1" <
sobbed Mrs. Helmholtz. "In that 1
part of the world it is mostly quarrels !
over cards. It was in a mining-town <
in California. Henri yan Tassel (nay i
brother, I always called him; I should ]
have told you that I was a poor waif, !
picked up on the plains by another ]
French-Canadian family, who were '
making their way from Montreal to <
California across the continent, more
than twenty years ago)?well, Henri, 1
| Carles and myself had just Reached ]
this mining-town, where we were going
to give our show. It consisted of 1
of sleight-of-nand ^tricks, singing and 1
dancing. I did the singing and danc- ]
ing, of course: and as I was beautiful ]
, ?more beautiful than I am now, for I ]
| was only seventeen?always had !
Dig nouses ana plenty 01 money. .
The entertainment -was called 'Professor
Van Tassel's Wonders - of
Magic;' bnt I was the seal magic, and
it was to see xae -danoe that people
came. But Henri supposed they
came to see his wonders of mesmerism
and thought-reading and all such
nonsense, because he was quite crazy
on that subject and believed every
word of it himself. After I left him,
I guess he found out his mistake. It
was at one of our shows that Carlos
first saw me, and then he came every
night. He was oply ahcow-boy, but
his father had belonged to the real
Spanish aristocracy; his name was
Mendgza, and there is a wonderful
treasure belonging to the Mendoza
family hidden somewhere in California.
That was what attracted
Carlos to our show. He had heard
of the mesmerism and clairvoyance
and all that stuff, and he thought if
there waB any truth in it he migfct
find out something through me; but
he soon saw that 1 was a fraud in that
way, though he declared I was a perfect
witch to him and had the magic
of beauty, which was the only magic
any man ever wanted in a womaD.
"Ah, mon Di^ul How he made
love to me, and how I loved him! We
had been married nearly a year, when
we reached the -mining-town on the
night I am going to tell yon of; the
show was over, and we had just raked
in the dust?I mean the money?you
see how it takes me back to' those
days! And I was waiting for Carlos.
I was waiting for him in anger, too,
for I had learned by this time that the
man who had married us was not a
real priest, and I was going to compel
Carlos to do me justice or else
never see me again; and he would
have done it, too, for I had a bag of
gold, and Mendoza loved the yellow
dust more than he loved me or God or
even himself. But he came no more
?ah, never more. It was Henri and
two other men that came before daylight
in the morning, and laid down
before me the bleeding corpse of my
Carlos, stabbed through the heart '
with his own dagger that was still in
the wound?grand THeu! But I am
nearlv mad at the thoucht! Could I
have seen his murderer then, the
same knife had killed him, too, but I
never saw him; none had seen him,
aud none had seen the.quarrel but
Henri; only these three had been in
the room, and Carlos had brought
death on himself, for he ,had cheated
at the cards, and if the whole camp
had been there none would have interfered;
for to cheat at cards, that
was a capital crime. Well, we fled
away in the early dawn, and we could
not even bury his body; but 1 saw
him dead, Olive. Ah, cherie! Dead,
dead, though I saw him no more, for
the dagger had gone through his
heart till you could have t-ouched the
point on the other side! But I
couldn t remember all tnat to-nignt,
in a moment, when I seemed to see
him face to face again, alive and well
before me. The first time, that night
at the opera, I forgot to think at all ; i
it was as if I had met his spirit in a ]
dream. Then I began to remember; (
an.l as he was so far away and I might j
be deceiving myself. I afterward per- ?
suaded myself it must have been a t
strange, wonderful resemblance. And ]
then I forgot once more and thought i
of my Carlos wheu I did think of him i
as dead, cold and ghastly, as I had j
seen him. To think of him so is very ]
dreadful, therefore I try not to think <
of him at all. That is why, whe:a I .
saw this Air. Clarence Stanley, I v-as
so overwhelmed?I forgot?and il '
| seemed to me I saw once more my
| Carlos alive before me!" j ]
i Olive Gave was an attentive lis- 1
tener. not only because of her interest <
in the story, but because of the 1
light it shed on the narrator'e character.
There was a mixture of deep t
feeling and utter heedlessness in this $
fair specimen ?f humanity that proved :
lier quite a new lype of woman, a1'
least to Olive.
"It must be a most remarkable I
resemblance,v sbe said. ,-l was ai j
first inclined to agree with you, and J
think that your first husband had beerfor
some reaeon masquerading unde)
a new name. But having listened 10
your story, I have to conclude, as you
do, that it must be a very extraordinary
but not at all impossible re
semblance. Now that you iiave told
me the name of your Carlos, it is easy
i. a- n ,1 Ar.. i 9..
enougii 10 uuuexomuu. im , oiamey s i
family is related in some way to a
Spauish family of Mendozas, and these
family resemblances are often quite
marvelous, and in the most distant
cousins they are sometimes as great
as between twin-brothers or sisters."
"Are they so?" asked Celestine,
with the wondering simplicily of a
child. "I never heard of it; bnt. of
course, that would quite account foi
the whole mystery."
Olive regarded her for a moment
with c positive feeling of envy; her in
genuouuness was so perfect and apparently
genuine.
"You ought to have remained on
the stage," sbe thought. ''It is no
wonder you were a valuable feature
in the professor's 'show.' " But aloud
she said:
"And what became of your brother?
Did he also mourn for the loss of this
wonderful Carlos?"
"Oh, poor Henri? Yes! He w^s
never the same again. I never kuew.
what to make of him at all, but now
be beepme more and more queer. Then
he took to drink, and he used to be
quite crazy with it, calling'on me to
forgive him, and saying he had brought
ruin and shame on the little sister he
loved?I never knew what he meant.
But sometimes I thought he felt remorse
because he couldn't savo Carlos
fi-nm +Vin man tthn killed him. At last
[ couldn't stand it afay longer, and I
ran away. There was lots of money,
rod as it .had been earned mostly
through me of course I took it. But
[ kneNv Henri ldved me like the best
jf brothers, and that he would have
searched the whole world through to
find me if he thought I was alive. So
[ fixed things so he would believe I
iiad killed myself rather than live
without Carlos?and sometimes now I
sven wish I had."
"Oh, don't say sol" exelaimcd Olive.
"You are happy now, and Mr. Iielmiioltz
is a devoted husband."
"Yes?yes, too devoted," said the
baron's wife, pettishly. "If oDly he
wouldn't be so jealous, but sometimes
tie fancies that Carlos isn't dead at all,
rod he just all but drives me crazy
[f he knew I had mistaken this Mi
Stanley for "my first husband?ah,
Dieu! His life wouldn't be safe from
tiim. I must never see that Honorable
Clarence again?because you see I
1 4- 4s\r* Viim an/7 4Vio "Rarrm trnn
Helmholtz is a good Husband. No
man has ever loved me so truly, and
just the same from the moment I first
met him. It was in London, and I
ivks on the way to Paris. You see I
knew I was half French, and I wanted
bo .get to my mother's country. Well,
tie took me there, and he married me
before all the world?he has spent a
fortune to educate me and make a lady
jf me?he would dress me in cloth-of;old
and cover me with diamonds?
there is nothing he wouldn't do to
please me, and if you think, dearest
Olive, that I am not grateful, then you
lon't know me at all. But I do wish
tie wouldn't plague me with his jealous
fancies, and I think I had better never
jee that' Honorable Clarence any
more."
4'I quite think so, too," said Olive,
"and I'm sure Polly Hamilton will be
jntirely of the same opinion. You are
too awfully handsome for any girl to
like the idea of having you mistake
aer fiance for a former husband. As
;o tH'e Honorable Clarence himself,
well, I don't believe any man could
Jee you oiten wunoui ianmg iu iwb
ivith you, and that would bo no end
jf trouble in this case. Oh,
by the way, let me show you this
photograph." And she caught up a
reticule which she had tossed into the
nearest chair on entering the room.
"I have only recently met Mr. Stanley
himself, but I knew his family
juita well when I was in England. I
bad a letter to-day from one of the
family."
While she spoke, she had drawn |
from the reticule a large envelope,
jontaining a letter and a photograph,
rhe latter she suddenly placed directly
before the eyes of Mrs. Helmioltz,
who, although she had been
prepared for the picture, could not restrain
a slight cry of mingled surprise
ind delight.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Tunnel Made by a Dojr.
A Baltimore dog early one morning
iesccnded into the cellar to watch for
rats. No further notice was taken of
iiim until the next morning, when the
ooj of the house heard the dog whining.
He weni into the cellar andfound
i pile of sand, but no dog. Then he
went into the yard, and tracing the
sound, he removed five or six bricks
from the pavement and pulled out his
pet. A careful inspection revealed
;hat the dog had dug under the foun- j
lation of the houseJn the sand,which |
j ad caved in on him. Finding do |
jther means of escape, he dug up to !
;he surface of the sideyard, a distance j
h seven feet, ana was pushing np tne
jricks wh?n discovered. He was
greatly exhausted, having been nearly
:wenty-six hours under ground.
Tecullur Klre or, a Ship.
A peculiar case of fire on shipboard
was that which damaged the bark Anuie
Stafford, at Dieppe, France, relently.
The vessel carried as ballast
jfty tons of flint stone. While lying
tlongside the wharf the vessel pitched
md rolled and this produced friction
3et\veen tho stones, causing sparks ,c
which ignited the ceiling. As the
jark had previously carried cargoes of
petroleum, the interior woodwork was
naturally in fine condition for taking
ire, and a damaging blaze was the ie-.
suit. .,JBl $
Why Cnbnn Foundling* Are All
Vaides, a Spanish official,
regime, said that he n iiilifcrWpji nj I
bis name behind him in QmSL,Midad?
eordingly he ordered that every&andr
ling should be given the surname
Valdes. As tbe order was not f
>d until long after he cease^Ato -JtiSj (
governor-general, the name Yaldes 1^
iow extremely common in Cuba
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Fiual arrangements for the political
aational conventions which will sigaalize
this year have been made. The
Republicans will meet in Philadelphia
on June 19th, the Democrats will
gather at Kansas City on July 4th and
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVE
tie Populists will decide their plan of [
campaign at Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
on May 9th.
The main Philadelphia Export Exposition
Building, in which/the Republican
National Convention of 1900
will be held, is buil^ of structural
steel and briofc, with plaster- lacing
3nd staff ornamentations. It will,- at
a'comparatively. dmaU cost.be converted
into a convention hall that will
seat several thousand persons. The
G. X. WISWEMi, SEKGEANT-AT-ABHS REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONTENTION.
arcades and connecting buildings are
mostly of wood, with fcrick walls, so
that the three connected bnildings
make one mammoth exhibition hall of
1000 feet in length by 400 feet in
width. The entire area of the main
building is 167,200 square feet. It ih
divided into six sections, which can
be readily converted irto one vast
auditorium, the length of which, instead
of extending north and south,
INTERIOR OF CONVENTIO!
is at present, will, with the side wall
taken out and the hall enlarged, extend
east and weat.
The body of the hall will seat 2000
persons. The numbw of delegates
and alternates will be more than 1800.
That leaves room on the main floor
for 200 persons?deputy sergeant-atarms,
doorkeepers and guests.
Rising on three sides of the hall are
tiers of seats which will hold 1000
guests more. The stage could bo
made to accommodate say 200 to 300
persons. But the committee hope to
seat COO newspaper correspondents, as
well as the officers of the convention
ttJUU UlDUU^ uiougu
The sergeant-at-arms snffers most
under the new order of things. He
will be bombarded with applications
for tickets which he cannot fill, and
every delegate is going to hold him
responsible for Lis disappointment/
The sergeantat-arms will be overran
with applications for appointment,
because a badge will admit the wearer
to the floor of the ball. When he
tries,to St 10,000 visitors &nd clamoring
citizens into 500 seats he wi]l find
his office most uncomfortable.
The organized bodies waich attend
national conventions willvbe bitterly
disappointed in the Convention Hall
arrangements at Philadelphia. Their
favorite performance ia to march into
a hall headed by a brass belnd and j
! 1111 "nil
INTERIOR OP HALL WHERE TH
with banners flying. There 'will be I
not room at Philadelphia for ai.y
Jtn-asp band exo6pt the one hired, to ,
fill the pMMB bet?*|n tfei speeches'.
Georee N, Wisifcin who has been
appointed sergeant-at-arme of the Re- |
publican National Convention, is a!
man of acknowledged ability for organization
and executive work. In
the handling of political conventions
he is already experienced, having
been assistant sergeant-at-arms of the
Republican National Convention at
Chicago in 1888, at Minneapolis in
1892 and in St. Lonis in 1896. Mr.
Wiswell is a Wisconsin man by birth,
and is now forty-eight years old.
Convention Hall, Kansas City,
where the National Democratic Con
vention will be neia July 4tn, is siturn
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NTION^HALL, PHILADELr^! ''
ated at Thirteenth and Central streets,
four blocks from the retail district of
the city. It has beeD classed by
travelers as one of the largest and
most perfectly constructed auditoriums
in existence.
J.ce UUllUlUg wua erectcu m u i/uoi |
^JTF^T^DEMOCRATIC NAT]
of $225,000, which was raised entirely
by public subscription. It occupies
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U piece Ui (J1UUUU Jit uv icew ah
extent, is two stories high and is
bnilt of native stone, cream brick ?nd
terra cotta. The first 6tory jb of the
Renaissance style of architecture, and
the second story is of Peristyle form,
with groups and columns. The building
is of bridge construction, without
a column, the roof being supported
by great ?teel girders that
span its 200 feet of breadth. Its general
seating arrangement is modeled
j ^ ^
i f' ^
SIOUX FAI.t.9
mittee rooms, which^ theft
rate street entrauqes. The building
has no.stairwayst Jfhe "upper seafi^gB
being reached -by means of inclided:
planes^8|p4r?te exits are ueetl for
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E REX UBLICANS WILL MEET.
the balpooitis and roof garden, ami it
is estimated that the half can be I
emptied^ the irate of 5000 people a
teintife.>:
Convention Hall has. sin:e its dedi-11
'
cation, a year ago, housed some of the '
largest audiences that ever gathered
under roof in this country. Its acoustic
properties have received especial
praise. Hon. William J. Bryan, wtua
last June addressed the Head Camp
of the Modern Woodmen of America
in the hall, said later:
"It is hard to conceive how Convention
Hall could be improved upon for
the purposes of large public gatherings."
Maurice Gran, whose grand opera
company sang mere ^November last tc
record-breaking grand opera house
audiences, said:
"It is a wonderful structure, com
plete iu all its appointments, and hae
no equal in America," while DwigUt
L. Moody, the evangelist, who a month
later faced in this hall some of the
largest crowds that he had ever addressed,
said from the platform:
"I came one thousand miles to find
the best hall I have ever spoken in."
The leading hotels of the city are
| the Coated, the Baltimore, the Midland,
the Savoy, the Victoria and the
Washington, .all of which are located
from three to ten. blocks distant from
the hall. Tfce Coates, which has always
been Mr..Bryan's stopping place,
will, it is said, be made the headquarter
of the National Committee.
The accompanying illustration
shows the Sioux -Falls auditorium,
which has a seating iciapacifcy of about
5000. Had it not been for this building,
which in the laTggst of the kind
j iu South Dakota, Siflaj* Palls would
I not have been able totsgjapture the national
convention of th$Popnlist party,
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[ONAL CON VEN_y^^BsAS CITY.
which will be '^efcL9ra9. On Majl
'23 the Republican*$^Ejouth Dakota
will also hold their|Bfcfc-convention
in Sioux Falls for taj^HDpse oi nominating
a CongressiojiMaSfcateticket
and selecting delega^Bo^he Bepublican
National ConytHpli at'Pkiladelphia.
The audi torknew building.
Not until afteflp delegation ot
Sioux Falls ru8tlers|?th?fali of 1898,
succeeded in oaptnrafetiiieconvention
of the National Creamery-Buttermakers'
Association was.the. construction
of the building dajjded upon. The
structure is well arranged and is complete
in all its dataHs. ft
Franklin the Printer.
Franklin's *?tirement from active
printing did not lessen his interest in
his trade, and'every possible improvement
in the art received attention
from him. * Nothing proved
better the prfnjfaJr's attachment for his
calling than an amnsement of his dnriug
his diplomatic iiervice in France.
In his own home he set up a press
and types, all of which he or his servants
cast, and with them occasionally
printed little bagatelles acd skits
Kwriuug unu iii9
.terialfl, consisting
j of ^ fonts," lie
kept
wia^itte'^e^uired for plowing,?
ao^jriill 'of^ieects.iauid noxious insects,
wU^t^^^^^ad'/rdeTottr tiie crdj?s.
Xi&^y>eigkt jK>r: cent, of the land
.sown' is devoted to the
:gfowt^^:fBierd&!9, and too little of it
-fcn?~ TI-. - Iffaa) I
iu . : yi v? btliy. .\JUV
bb?ti^^;to-(ogr icult u r e are the oboe
rtaiaty of seasons and the impossibility
0?competing with each countries
& America, Russia and India, where
laad'iii ;ftb]oxi()ant^and, in the lasf two
at least,. labor ia cheap.?dhainbers'f
490 Strokes to Hiftve n M?n.
"It is Wonderful how many razcfr
strokes we'take dnriog a day," said a
barber in oife of the Jarger downtown
shops.
"Did yon ever, figure .np on it?" t
"Yes. I've been taking np an aver-,
age for the last three weeks," replfed
the barber, "aad I've surprised my
self with the figures. I find I average
490 strokes of the razor for each
vx&n shaved. I took 1028 strokes on
one man, and several of my customers
who have stiff beards inn up 700 and
800 strokes. Then there are tender
faces that I shave only once over, and
they take, perhaps, only 250 strokes.
I shave on the average twenty-one
and a half tuen a day. One day I
shaved thirly-seven and another only
fourteen."?New York Mail and Express.
More than 20,000 Parisians earn j
Llioir liviucr as fortune-tellers.
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WOMEN AND WAR WORK.
Uniform Cloaks Designed lror the I?e<2
Cross Nurse.
The Red Cross nurses who were sent
to South Africa for the Imperial Yeo- M
manry Hospital were provided by the 9
authorities with a uniform cloak of
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REGULATION RED CROSS CLOAK.
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dark blue, having a red-lined hoodThis
is for the purpose of protecting
the nurses against the extreme' chilli- _ .
neaa of the night when they have to
run to and fro from the tents. lor
this reason the hood is made so that
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11 Call 06 quickly mruivu uvoi tus u?u.
A picture of this cloak is here shown.
This hospital is the largedp
hospital ever sent out of England by
public subscription, and ia?$>e principally
to the indefatigatipTwork of
Utt;, women of: Great, Britain. The
wsrdrobe allowed to. each nurse, aside
from theploajcj^cbmprises a dark blue
j bonnet;"sis pairs of strings, cne serge
dregjj u jferje gray zephyr washing,
dreriwjphxee triangular caps, six
lin$<rS$lat8, six pairs of cuffs, six
pairsi^iiz&n sleeves aud eight linen
^The^jf 'pl a Yeomanry nurse is at
the rateW fbout, thirty cents a day,
and begu^ qn the day of embarkation
for South Africa, ceasing on the clay
of amvfjbp'jEngland. If she survives
the service the nurse receives a gratuity
ofe$10O. The nurses sign a contract
Irhereby they shall hive no claim
whatsoever on the Yeomanry Hospital ,
Committee in case of death or injury
t by accident or otherwise.
A Boer W?iM!nc Journey.
The accompanying picture is of peculiar
interest at the present time,
showing as it does a typical Boer and
his "vrouw*1 trekking back to the
farm after having gone through the
marriage ceremony at the Dutch Reform
Church, in Barberton, De Kaap jj
Valley. Our photo shows the happy
pair sitting on the back seat of a ^
wagon, which is drawn by a. team of
no fewer than sixteen oxen. During
the long "trek" home to the lonely
farm this crude conveyance is their
dwelling bv nicht and dav?living
room, sleepiug-room and kitchen all
in one. Before reaching the happy
consummation of bis fond hcpes,bowi
ever, the young Boer has had many an
orduous ride to see the lady of his
choice. If his suit is approved of by
the old folks, the father, before retiring
for the night, hands the youngs
gallant a lighted candle, in which he
bas cut a notch; the understanding be- t
j ing that when the candle has burned
down to that mart the lover must sad|
die up and be off. Many tricks, oi
course, are played with the candle?a
fresh one is substituted by the lover,.
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,d TTFICAI. BOER FARMER HAS JfSl
;;; MARRIED^ THE GIRL OF HIS HEART,
AXD 18 NOW OFF HO>n: AGAIN DRAWN
BY SIXTEEN OXEN.
or the thing ia snuffed out at judicious
intervale in order to prolong the evening.
Antouioblles Used For Towing*
The haulage of boaU by automobile
along the canal between Brussels
and Cfcarierol has demonstrated, after
* longf'trial, that the m*? method of
of towing is three times quicker than
horse traction. The automobile de- a
rives its energy from-a railway com- M
poiied of six lines, three of high ten- J|
sion (6000 volts) and -three of low ^
tension, on which the trolleys run.
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1 HO ClCt'UlUll/J 19 luxuiouou WJ fcUAvv
dynamos.-eaoh of 120-horse power.?
Philadelphia Record.
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'*: Fully Equipped.
Sir Robert Peel was once going
through a 'jtfcture collection with a
friend where there was a portrait of a
prominent Englishman who was famous
for saying sharp things.
"How wonderfully like!" said the
friend. '"You can see the quiver oa
his lips."
"Yes," replied Sir Robert, "and the
irrows coming out of it."
The output of coal iu the United
States last year was 244,000,000 tons,
jr about one-thir J of the total product;
of Mi^wory '
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