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p; ' y?? V' Mynhei i BY ST. QEORQI C0PTBIOHT 183% P.OB] X. CHAPTER XVIII. [Contiuued.] Thus their first day in India has passed, and, as we have seen, it has not been without its adventure. If the record is kept up their stay in Bombay must be an eventful one. One of Joe's first duties upon visiting the barracks is to deliver a message from the commandant at Cairo, which probably contains inrormauon respecting Baron Popoff; for the officer who reads it looks very grave, and asks the American many question concerning the doings of the Russian, which J^e, fortunately, is in a position to answer. At this time England is greatly disturbed over the actions of Russia's ruler. He is said to be making preparations for pushing south through the Afghan territory to a point where his troops will be knocking at the door of India. A great railroad is about to be built for strategic purposes, and no one positively knows where it is aimed at?meaning no British subject. Hence, the appearance of a shrewd Russian diplomat and secret agent, like the baron, upon the soil of India, Is likely to create a sensation. His name has been connected with numerous unscrupulous political moves in Bulgaria and Roumania, and all along the Balkans, so that it long ago became thoroughly known to all the wading world. Thoce who watch the moves upon the chessboard of Europe can see deep purpose in every action, however careless it may appear to the casual looker-on. Those officers stationed in India have, of course, a peculiar interest in everything the White Cz~r does. They are threatened by no other nation. France is busy in Tonquin and Algiers; Germany in Central Africa; Italy in Abyssinia, while Austria has no foreign policy, and Spain is concerned almost wholly in her West India possessions. It is Russia who stretches her vast domains across the Atlantic to Pacific, and yearns to reach 4-un indion Anoon qc -cppll Ypnr after U1C luuiau VVVUU WW II W... ? ? year she placates the tribes en route, slowly but surely stretching her hand nearer the prize. The day will certainly come when the fiercest war Asia has ever known T. ill be fought on neutral territory between these two giants. One has only to travel to India by the overland route, via Herat, to 6ee the evidences of Russian encroachment. Almost to the gates of India the traveler finds here and there along the road Russian robats, or small wayside houses of refuge, erected through charity, where the weary pilgrim can pass a night without any charge for the shelter. No reasonable man doubts that England must wome day be prepared to fight for her 'Indian empire; nor is there anv reason to believe but that' she Trill be able to hold her own against that cunning foe who would creep in at the back door while the mistress is engaged in sweeping ard garnishing the front of the house. Whatever may be the mission of the baron to India, now that his presence is known, it is not likely that he will be allowed to go about without some sort of secret espionage. When the evening meal has been disposed of, Sandy and Mynheer Joe decide to see what Bombay looks like after nightfall. So they dress as quietly as possible, not forgetting to carry their firearms, as there must always be a certain amount of danger traversing the streets alone. Mr. Grimes hopes to be all right by morning, but thinks he had better rest nntn thon Mnllv comnlains of a head ache, probably tbe result of her exciting race for assistance, and begs to be excused. This has : i influence upon Mynheer Joe in inducing him to accept Sandy's proposal that they take a stroll, for he has no desire to spend the evening alone, Demosthenes complaining of bruises received in his tumble, which he wishes to bathe. ' Peace reigns in the neighborhood of the little hostelry near the foot of Malabar Hill, save in one quarter. Joe draws the attention of his artistcorrespondent comrade to tbe rear of the hotel, whence loud voices of discussion come. The row seems to be between the bobajee and a mussaljee tinder him. The cook berates the scullion and the latter assumes a ridiculously dramatic attitude, with his head cocked on one side. Sandy eagerly takes it in. If he could only reproduce that scene on paper, it would be a dandy. At any rate, his memory is irood. and he may succeed. As they walk on In the soft, balmy moonlight, the angry voice of the bobajee continues to float after him. Finally there Is a hubbub, and they know he has launched forth other arguments than mere words. It is not long before they have reached the native quarter. Perhaps some unusual festival is taking place; at any rate, the shops and bazars are lighted up and throngs are on the street. As in the densely populated cities of China, the people of Bombay seem to have no particular time ' f rest, unless during the hot part of the day their enthusiasm dwindles to a low pes. Night's cooling breezes bring them all out-of-doors, and the noise reminds a traveler of carnival time in Kome. Lanterns of every color, made of paper or muslin, hang about the streets and in the shops, sending a strange light upon tlie picturesque crowd. Sandy's artistic soul is charmed by tho spectacle. He seems to never tire of drinking It In. no detail escaping his eye. arxi all the while he utters exclamations that are indicative of his rapture. As for Mynheer Joe, he is more reserved in his manner. and yet enjoys . (he sight almost .ts well as the corrvfioundent. # 4 fe, ./ ; ; . r . . . , ;^r-: RR TOE.1 J : JJATHBORNE. ebt Bonheb's Sons. * ' -Q They seem to excite no curiosity as they move along. The natives are accustomed to meeting English-speaking people at all turns; slowly but surely they are leaving the ways of their ancestors, already more than two million having become Christians. England allows full freedom of worship. The only thing she set her Iron heel upon were some Daroarous customs, suc*i as the juggernaut-car and its slaughter, the putting to death of widows when the head of a family died, and like practices, for whL'h Brahmins, Parsees and Mussulmans alike have actually become thankfu', as these things were relics of ancient barbarism that clung to the country. Such sights the two travelers look upon?here is a retail groccry witl) many odd things upon the shelves, and the queerest object about the place is probably the banija himself; indeed, Joe declares he must be a natural clown from his dress, while Sandy berates himself for not having one of the new.style little cameras with him, by means of which he could secure a masterpiece for a subject. Next door is a shelf-like shop, where all manner of bric-a-brac may be found, anything that is bizarre hav ing a place, and the Hindoo proprietor, smoking his bubDie-bubble nods wearily over his Koran. Here are some snake-charmers, such as exhibited their tricks and horrid pets upon the square of Esbehiyeb, In Cairo. Then comes a merry fakir, known as a bickharrie here, shouting out his wares. Next we have some mountebank athletes, performing won derful feats in agility, with perhaps a wizard who can make a tree grow in the middle of the street, with full-sized leaves and birds singing in the branches; while It is not uncommon to run across a group of howling dervishes; who take the place of our New York little German band, making night hideous in a certain locality, passing the hat around, and then forced to move on by indignant shopkeepers, who are glad to buy them off. All of these sights and many more can be seen around the streets of Bombay. Occasionally an elephant lnnma nn. hut these animals are found more In the interior. Of monkeys there Is no end. One need not be at all surprised to feel his hat suddenly jerked from his head, and, looking up, see an agile fellow climbing to the top of a house with it Then the monkeypolice have to be summoned and various maneuvers resorted to in order to recover the lost headgear. One wonders why these things are allowed until he discovers that the Hindoos, as a class, are believers In theosophy. They look upon these animals as unfortunate human beiugs undergoing punishment for some past. Thus there are many things going on all the time in this strange city. One need never grow weary with seeing the same sights, since there is a constant variation. The blending of bright colors in the shifting panorama is what pleases Sandy most of all, and he is ever on the watch ,for a new variety of turban, of wfiich there seems to be an endless number. Mynheer Joe has given Kassee the freedom of the city during their sta.v, well knowing that the intelligent Hindoo will not abuse the privilege. As Kassee has been informed concerning the baron and his ways, it may be presumed that he will keep a jealous eye upon the Russian. This is what Joe wishes, for he knows that, as a spy, his servant has no superior. To the surprise of the travelers they discover this same Kassee walking along the street in company with another Hindoo, and both of them seem to be in rather a convivial frame of mind. The servant happens to catch his master's eye, and makes a rapid han-1signal that gives Joe solid satisfaction, since it tells him that the other is on the alert, and means something by hi? actions. Sandy does not see this side-show. He Is eagerly taking in the sights, aud as they have now reached a portion of the grand-bazar street where the lights are more plentiful, and the shops present the finest appearance. It is really worth his time to observe these things. Here is a sannar, or goldsmith, displaying his quaint wares In a most attractive form, and by eloquent silence inviting the passers-by to purchase. Then there are curiosity shops where a thousand and one queer things 'have been gathered from the four ends ?f the earth. Perhaps the next place will belong to a mosaicworker, and his shop is certainly a model of neatness. At a turbanmaker's Sandy stop? some time to see the yards of costlv cloth twisted into odd shapes, each tuft being afterward pointed with goM or silver cloth. These turbans are the delight of the Hindoos, and the man v. ho has a n w shape is the envied of his fellows. After this comes a variety of shops. rrom euversmitn s aown to me uur zee's, or tailor's. Our friends take It in, and will never in all likelihood forget the sights their eyes rest upon. The crowd is such a good-natured one, and. most delightful of all, does not pu?h and surpe as crowds generally do. fn their long walk the two friends do not remember having touched but one man. who stumbled against them and then rushed away as if filled with alarm. Sandy, recognizing nn old game of the thieves In London and Paris, at once looks to see if his watch is all right, and upon finding it so is relieved. "Well," remarks Mynheer .Toe, at last, '"the hour is late. Have you seen enough for one night, old fellow?" Sund.v nods. -i "My hcftfl Is crammed full of ideas, * which I must put into some shape be- 3 fore I sleep. This has been a revela- p tion to me, Joe. I never before sa^ g such life as old Bombay presents * Think of the rough sketches I've al- c rl-rr ^nnnrn tatttawo r\4 s | ir?uj uianu?iut " tuu vi n Silence, that wonderful burial-place ^ of the Brahmins?that magnificent statue out on the avenue?the Parsee broker?what's his name?" ".Tamsetjee Jeepeebhoy," smiles Joe. r "Drops from your tongue like oil, old J fellow. I must practice on these names, t About the sketches: I have the har c bor, the strange coasting-craft yon fi pointed out, a patamar with its two e masts, the small rakish manche and s the long, narrow felucca with its la- I teen sails. Besides, I've pot glimpses c of mosques, that lovely idol and an I array of such things, to say nothing * of the ideas now in my head which, * roughly drawn, will fill pages in the e note-book. Yes, I'm in clover, Joe, and * I " Mynheer Joe has left his side, which fact causes the voluble Sandy to turn around. He discovers his companion talking earnestly with a Hindoo, ana. looking more closely, recognizes Kas6ee, whose brown face is very serious, and whose whole manner proclaims that there is trouble brooding in the air for the Americans in Bombay. W CHAPTER XIX. THE FATAL THIRTEEN. Sandy chances to be a wise little fellow, and evinces no surprise at the state of affairs. He guesses instinctively that Kassee has made a discovery of some importance, and is now communicating the result of his work to the master he loves so well. Somehow it seems quite natural that they should get into a tangle, that mystery should crop up around them. They are surrounded by strange scenes, which the human mind could hardly imagine without a positive experience. The very air of India seems to breathe of mystery, as though It were impregnated with it. He watches Mynheer Joe and the Hindoo with considerable curiosity, while keeping an eye upon the crowd . near by, as If seeking to discover' whether any one else is interested In them. Joe now appears to be questioning his faithful servitor, as though be has heard it all and knows that it is serious. At the same time he does not exhibit alarm, for his experience has been great in the past, and he knows how to preserve his mental equilibrium in the face of the most astounding difficulties. "Ten to one It's all on account of that miserable Russian. I expected to hear from him again. What in the deuce is the sly rascal up to now?" mutters the correspondent, as he twirls his cigar between finger and thumb and keeps his eyes fastened upon his friend. He sees Joe look around him, as though seeking the danger of which he has been warned. Then their eyes meet The traveler cannot help but note the eager iook upon me iace 01 Sandy. He smiles and becuons to him. [ This, of course, means that he Is to be in it; and as the correspondent usually manages, by hook or crook, to get there, he feels satisfied that matters are shaping themselves all right. It suits him to meet difficulties as they fly. Sandy was never known to turn his back on the foe. With his curiosity aroused to a most intense pitch, the correspondent, therefore, advances to the fray. He casts a keen glance at the face of Mynheer Joe, but that worthy shows little of the emotions that may lie deeply hid- . den under the calm exterior. ? Thus Sandy draws up alongside of * his friend and awaits the communica- 1 tion that is to decide a momentous ( epoch In their lives; nor is it long in ? forthcoming. 1 "Well, the baron has been at work, 1 Sandy," remarks Joe, with a peculiar smile. "I knew he would not be long 1 in Bombay without attempting some ^ manner of evil against us, particularly E myself, for whom he entertains no 1 great love, you understand." Sandy nods his head in that vigor- r ous, thoughtful way of bis, more elo- " quent than words. [To be Continued.] ( Business and American Fathers. . There is a clear lesson in a story told f by the captain of a police precinct in | New York. Ono evening a man came j to the station house asking if any lost f children were there. Three were [ asleep in a back room, and the man I went in to see it his own was among j the number. He wakened a boy be- 1 tween two and three years old and i asked of him if he were Johnrv So- i and-So. The little fellow being very sleepy and frightened, could not be < - - _ a i made to answer, ana tne man xurneu away, saying he would have to send i his wife over. "What! do you uol ' know you: own child?" the police offl- 1 clal asked. "To tell the truth, I don't," ' the man replied. "I work on the ' line of street cars; the children ain't 1 up when 1 go away In the morning, and they're in bed when I get back at night. I never see them." Later bis wife appeared and identified one of the 1 children. It was not the one the father bad picked out!?Harper's Bazar. Small Book*. Publishers to-day are bringing out the very best books in the world id pocket size6, says St. Nicholas. Tbe portable little classics cau tie carried about and read at odd iimes, and there is no longer tbe same excuse for rending trash because it is "more convenient." Heading a little now and then, there is time to think between times, and a good book gaius greatly In interest if it be not swallowed at a mouthful. .Our readers should remem?1 oAtnn hrtfit oer, wueii nuoui iu uu; ouu& ?w. they "ought to read," fh.it It is usually to be hud in lmlf a 1ozen foruis at least. When we see certain enormous volumes in tine print iti. Scott's novels, for instance, we wonder that any on? ever had strength, patience and eyesight to read them. Guide (referring to Egyptian Pyra? Imids)?"It took huudrcds of years to build tbewi." O'Brien (the wealthy contractor)?"Thin it wor a Governmint lob?eh?"?Tit-Bits ] ? ?. - '/ <- \-f. V .,. /- * Si' ..'t',.. \ S0J4E |fEW FE/ITUpES 1 LIJY J^E ^TS LIFE. | BY J. CARTER BEARD. THE recent discoveries of Wasman. Florel, Belt and others, added to the wonderful results of the Investigations nade a few years ago by McCook, loggridge and Bates, have deservedly iwakened a new interest In everything lonnected with the lives and habits of mts. The remarkable evidences they ixhiblt of something which, notwithitanding its limitations, seems akin to luman intelligence; the pecfection, as tompared w'*'- other insects, of its )hysical sti .jre; the greater proporion borne by the brain to the rest of he body; and its wonderful social life, io much more highly developed than hat of the bees or of the wasps, have .WORKERS HOLDING LEAVES IN P VAE TO BIND AND CE nclined those who study it the closest o believe that, making allowance for he great inferiority of the class of nvertehrates, the Formicadae certainy hold among invertebrates a rank rommensurable with that sustained by )rimate8, including man, among vetejrates. Taking into account the comparalvelv enormous masses of brain mat er belonging to a number of large inimals which exhibit a marked dejree of incogitance, and the Intelll;ence manifested by members of this livlslon of Hymenopetra, the claim nade by Darwin that the anterior janglion in the head of an ant consulting Its brain "is the most marvelous itom of matter In the world," is juslfled. It is interesting to notice how diverse ire the methods adopted by invertebrate intelligence from that of man in ittaining a desired result. For initance, men make the tools they rejulre for carving or for digging, In fiEAD OF WORKING AWT < Showlc.c toothed mandibles, lects grow them; ves3els being needed is receptacles for liquid food, man learns the art of the potter, but the ;urious honey ants transform themlelves into living bottles, to -which the vorking members of the commune relort for refreshment. The tools of insects, exquisitely 'ashioned and finished, are much more lerfectly adapted for the purposes they lerve than are any contrived and nanufactured by human beings, but ;here is a disadvantage connected vitli tliem?tliey cannot De jam nsiue. The tools dominate the tool-beaiers md check development in nny direcjon not connected with their use. This lends to the extreme specializa:ion we find among insects. The egg producer, the queen of the termites, iltliough she possesses the usual nuinjer of limbs belonging to her species, s totally Incapable of locomotion, as ire the living bottles of the honey ants. The queen lays eggs; she can do notling else; the living bottles store up and field food to other members of the formicary, and are as incapable of per'orming other uses as if they were nere lifeless cells in a honeycomb. Among the Formicadae this tendency to specialization has resulted in es:nbli8hing species limited to particular ndustries or to particular methods of ivlng. Some species of slave-making ints, for instance, confine themselves so entirely to military affairs, and iave so entirely lost the arts of pence ind efficiency in domestic matters, that !hey are not only obliged to depend jpon their slaves to care for the young ;n the formicary, but to have the food p.nced in their own warlike mouths, STATE ELEPHANT OF THE PHEIi CARRYING THE S: and would starve in the midst oI plenty were this not dour. 'me mancliuies 01 mese anis. roiyergus rufesceus and I'. lucid us, tlie former a European, the latter an American species, are entirely unfitted for work, ? They can neither crush, cut nor saw; C but, being sharply pointed and curved, * they make most syrviceable weapons; C with them In attacking an enemy, j head of wabbiob ant Stowing pointed end carvcd man I dJbles unfitted fur work. S Polyergus seizes the head of her foe between the points of these curved polgnards and peuetrates the brain at once. A number of ants among those of LACE WHILE OTHERS USE LAR- I MENT THE LEAVES. , , I J I very different species are distinguished I by possessing relatively large licads, ' the use of which is extremely problem- 1 atical. And yet the smaller members of the commonwealths find a use for the ffwat rrpntnrpR. Numbers of thein mav ' often be seen riding about as human 1 beings do upon elephants, upon the backs and heads of their gigantic confreres. Even this use, however, does not account for the disproportionately large heads of the giants. But^the Col- , obopsis ants, which burrow in branches, seem to have discovered how to profitably employ the big-heads among them. They are placed at the entrances of the Formican dwellings, their great heads fitting in and filling the doorways. As a worker belonging to the household approaches she is recognized by "the animated and intelligent front door," which draws back sufficiently to admit the entrance of its friend and then resumes its double office of sentry and of barrier. The Eciton are the Arabs of the ant tribes, always at war with all other animals, with no settled places of abode, but ever wandering in Journeys that have no end. Yet in their temporary resting places the necessities and instincts common to the whole Formican family Impel these nomads to build habitations which conform to the character and style of the fixed and permanent abodes of ordinary ants. As, however, both the time and natural apparatus for digging possessed by the latter are wanting to excavate galleries and apartments necessary for feeding and sheltering larvae ?and pupae, these remarkable animals overcome the difficulty in a most astonishing manner by constructing living habitations, using their own bodies as building materials. But the most amusing Instance of the manner in which an ant left by nature to her own devices overcomes a difficulty'Is perhaps that of the Oecophylla smaragdina. This ant, one of common occurrence in Eastern Asia, forms shelters by bending the edges of the leaves of the trees upon which It lives and fastening them together. The adult ant possesses nothing with which to secure the edge of the leaves togeth or after tliey nave Been orougnt mio the required position; but its larva is furnished with glands that sccrete an abundance of adhesive, gelatinous substance, by the aid of which it forms its cocoon, and these intelligent insects actually make animated mucilage brushes of their larvae in order to effect their purpose. A number of the ants, seizing the edges of the leaves in their mandibles, bring them together into the form needed and hold them there, while other ants, each one of which bears a larva in Its jaws, apply the mouths of the larvae to such parts of the leaves as require to be cemented together, and induce their offspring to disgorge as much sticky material as they flud necessary to accomplish the desired result.?Scientific 1 American. Distinction In Joarnalifim. rn- '""I ? .ll-V. 1U UK I'UUUCL'lt'U VY1LJJ uu iiujnii iuui paper is always a distinction carrying more weight with tlie public than a DOLOGETON - LARGE WORKER WALLER ONES. I connection with any law flrm or busi ess bouse. The man who shakes hands most ia generally the hardest to shake. i ' . >0000000000000000000000000 | THE CULTIVATION OF COCOA ?' > IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS ? ! > O i >OOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO f J I J O the active young man pos- i '. | sessed or a iimuea amouni | of capital, who Is looking for "J" an occupation as well as investment, in the Lesser Antilles or in nany parts of Venezuela, the cultivaion of cocoa is at the present time he most Inviting of the agricultural jursuits. The island of Trinidad, vhicb is the one most familiar to the writer, produces cocoa of a quality secrnd to none, and only equaled by that jrown in the vicinity of Caracas, and 1 ilways brings the highest price in the ( London market. Considerable patience 1 s required to grow It from the seed- ' lngs, as it takes five or six years of 1 cultivation before there is a harvest prorth mentioning, and seven or eight 1 rears Derore a run crop can De reaized, but when the trees are once full p-own they will continue to bear fruit !or an almost Indefinite time. The cultivation of cocoa consists argely of draining the land, keeping lown the undergrowth of bush and creeds, and trimming the trees. The lowers occur in clusters on the main branches and on the trunk of the trees, usually only one of each cluster , reaching maturity. The fruit, which . is seen in the illustration, is a hard pod six or seven Inches long, resembling a cucumber, growing from the trunk or large branches, and looks rery much as though It were artificially attached. Buds, blossoms and fruit, in all stages, occur side by side, and ripened fruit is harvested at all tlnws if the year. The main crop, however, matures in the dry season, and is usually harvested in February, only small iiuantltes ripening during the remainder of the year. The pods each contain five rows of seeds or beans, quite similar to a large, thick Lima bean, embedded In 11 pink, acid pulp. These seeds are the ;ocoa beans of commerce. The harvesting consists of cutting off the mature pods by means of a knife on a long bamboo pole, gathering them Into beaps on the ground, where they are allowed to lie for about twenty-four bours. They are then cut open with a. cutlass, the seeds and pulp coming Dut in a mass; these are carried to the Jry house. As soon as the beans reach the drybouse, they are placed in the "sweat box" or pit, where they are closed up I. COCOA DRY-HOUSES IN TRIN tight and allowed to ferment for some time. ? The next process is the drying, which :s accomplished by spreading the beans In a layer over the platform and drying them in the sun. Laborers are kept constantly stirring them, while exposed to the sun, with a wooden rake, so that they will dry evenly. Each morning, during the early stages of the drying process, the beans are gathered into a heap in the middle of the floor and given a thorough mixing. This is TO? SCTi COCOA PODS ON THE TREE. (sometimes accomplished by the laborers mixing and kneading them by ircaaing mem wuu ineir uare ieei, as shown In the illustration. This is known as "dancing the cocoa" and renders the beans smooth aud uniform in color. It usually requires ten days or two weeks to finish the drying, depending on the weather. The dried beans, when ready for market, are put in canvas bags holding about 150 pounds, and the name of the plantation stenciled on the bags, these names or brands at times becoming very prominent in the market for the quality of cocoa the plantation is reputed to produce. The manufacturing, which is invariably done in Northern factories, consists of roasting the beans in a revolving cylinder; this develops the aroma and tits thorn for crushing. After the beans are crushed they are screened to separate the "nibs," or crushed nuts, from the shells. The nibs are then ground to a fine meal; this is put in sacks and nut in a Dowerful nress. where it is subjected to heat and pressure, and the fat, known as "cocoa butter," is squeezed out, and the nard substance left in the sack has only to be broken or powdered to become the pure chocolate, and this more or less adulterated is the chocolate of commerce.?Scientific American. If some people can't borrow trouble they will steal it. 11 ? . r Aathor Beveali Spider's Metlindi. Professor D. Hess has just pubIsbed an Interesting treatise on housa nseets, with especial reference to spi. lers and flies. The spider, he says, s a blood-thirsty insect of prey. But she is also a great artist and a most .ender mother, fiercely defending her jggs and her young ones. First, he says, the spider weaves a silken bagcet like repository for the eggs, using ;he rear part of her body as a form. In this basket she lays the eggs, .illing them tip carefully and neatly. Then she covers the exposed eggs wltlj 1 fabric of silk threads, the whole forming a minute hall within which the eggs lie snugly and well protected from cold, etc. If this be instinct, i good deal of wbat is called "human Intelligence" should be called "Instinct," too, says the author. Keeping Up the Heat. The top of the stove Is often crowded. There are dishes that are cooked. but must be kept warm. This can b? accomplished by the device shown in the cut . ijp ? v| ' W0*Mf^P^r' WMt?l , 1 IDAD?MIXING THE BEANS. A box just a bit higher tban a band lamp has both top and bottom removed. Across the top are stretched wires. The box is then set down over a lamp, and the kettle or dish is set I upon the wires, where its heat will bfe fully maintained. I This device will often prove of the greatest service, and can be made by, any one in ten minutes. Automobile For "Women. The present-day French aristocracy has the automobile fever in its most virulent form, and the lady of fashion must have separate vehicles suitable to the proper performance of her daily round of social duties. Various types of park equipages, closed carriages, etc., form her livery outfit, and now T Avnccni* of- P.niflCA liiUL IJU? 111 ixi vi jjciuoovi v w i has produced a handy little gasoline vehicle designed especially for pron> cnading and shopping, the volatile little French chauffeuse is losin? no time in adding It to her already large "stable." It is, in truth, a most convenient little three-wheeler (resembling for all the world the American "tri-moto"), requires very little attention, is powerful enough for all the demands that may be put upon it; is easily handled, neat, handsome, and, above all, it has received Dame Fashion's stamp of approval?hence Its popularity with the Parisienne with a penchant for automobilism. It Is essentially a lady's vehicle?a man would look out of place in it. The average Frenchwoman, equipped with one of these handy little vehicles, can make the rounds of the stores in much less EO"W THE UP-TO-DATE PARISIEKKE GOE9 A-SHOPPXNG. 4.1 <14- l?nof n c i 11 OYHPI1S!VClV 33 liUJC, UUU Ut 1CUCW uo !Mv?r? - ? under the old conditions. The space under the seat is devoted to the stowing away of milady's purchases. The illustration is reproduced from Automobile Topics. Quite Like a Jewelry Store. In a Kansas town the other day Miss Ruby Opal entertained Miss Pearl Diamond. They were seen romping on the emerald green of the lawn with sparkles of fun shooticg from their turquoise eyes.?Denver I'ost. , *.