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THE POET AND FATE IN COLLOQUY Fate: Singers who charmed the* earth are dead; Why singest thou to-day? The Poet: Because the laughing rose is red And white the scented may, And new-born golden light is shed On silver stream and bay. Fate: Thou dwellest mid a heedless race; They worship naught but gold. The Poet: Yet will I lift a tearless face Towards beauty, as of old. Her boons of love, her gifts of grace. Are won but by the bold. Fate: Shelley is dead, and Keats is gone And who will lift the lute? The Poet: Though these be dead, the same strong sun Still changes flower to fruit; The birds' hearts waken, one by one; So why should I be mute? ?George Barrow. /*~V ASPAR MIEHLE was a car[ f penter by trade and an idler by preference. He came to Old Town in the boom days of mining determined to strike it rich, and after fifteen years of desultory prospecting, mierumit*ut 1-iu1re1n.c1.iu5 and rather steady loafing around the Gem saloon he now found himself the more or less happy possessor of seven children, a scolding wife, a tumbledown shop and a general reputation for all-round worthlessness. Fifteen years of incessant drudgery is calculated to sour the sweetest temper, but Mrs. Miehle might have toiled on in weary contentment if her oldest son had shown any signs of being a comfort or a help. But he didn't. He "took after" his father, and even improved on the latter's constitutional aversion for work. The boy's name I was Jake, and from the time he learned to walk until he was fourteen years old his reputation was "ornery." For six months after he had achieved the art of walking he refused to take a step. When he had mastered the alphabet and learned to read his primer he began to play hookey, spending school hours fishing in the creek and lagging homeward only in time to sit at the evening meal. The boy "was sturdy of frame, mild of manner and quiet as an Indian. When other boys ran he walked; when they laughed, he smiled: when they * talked., he listened. The quality of "poise" was all over him. He was as stubborn as a burro, and shared with that singular beast the characteristics that made toil, speed, mirth and enterprise abhorrent to them both. Fishing was his chief occupation till he was thirteen. Then he developed a * _ ? rHEY FOUND HIM PERCHED HIGH ABOVE THE BEETLING CANION. hereditary passion for prospecting, and passed half his days roaming slowly over the foothills and up the silent canons, filling his ragged pockets with worthless bits of quartz, crystals that tn *"? >ti nr>/l n?n^ao iKn f Via t>yn 1 hiru in turn duu a^aico luai uc could barter for fisbing tackle among tbe small boys of tbe town. When be was fourteen he came across a pocket in tbe bills, from which be sc-rnped and gathered a score of bright red pebbles. That evening be wandered stealthily into tbe village Jewelry store and spread out bis "find." k "What they wuthV" he muttered to the proprietor. Tbe old man weighed them, washed , them and held them to the lamp. L ?.TJffn?T.'ll /.tl'A + ix juu uiij tvuia uu ounce, Jake. Them is Rocky Mountain i rubies." The jeweler sent the stones to New York, and in two weeks Jake got his half-dollar. This incident proved to be the turning point in Jake's life. First he divided the money between his five little brothers and sisters, and then he bought a rubber rattle for the f baby. That proved his possession of the rare and incomparable quality of unselfishness. Second he got an unmerciful "lamming" from his mother, because she was sure he had stolen the money, end he wouldn't explain matters. This clinched his reputation for stubborpess and taciturnity, but it also had the effect of driving him into mute and deep-schemed rebellion. For days thereafter he moped about the town or sat on his father's dust covered bench, dangling his legs and whistling softly to himself. If he felt any resentment against his mother he didn't show it by word or look. He watched her bending over the wasbtub and flipped gravel at the drying garments in 4he back yard till she gave him a r-jff on the ear. But he was back to dinner, and at supper devoured more bacon and beans than all the other children together. Then he slunk H down tue main street witn nis Drown tg hands deep in his pockets and his cap B pulled over his eyes. B " 'Tain't no use bein' so plagued SH| hard on Jake, mammy." said Caspar to his wife as he filled his pipe. "I s'pose you want me to raise up a RH fambl.v o' jail birds," snapped the weary woman. "Lord knows that sH there lad is sp'iled now, an' the fust 8* thing we know he'll be robbin' n S baPk." B "But he never rolled nothin' mmnrami "Whar'd he git them nickels he's been squanderin', then? Him lashin' money round like it growed on bushes, an' me slavin' an' slavin' to save a penny. It's a outrage, it?" Here the poor woman burst into tears: all the children, as usual, joined lLi me uuinui iuui us, <tliu tU9[mit ar ways evasive of trouble, took his lint and strolled over to the Gem to watch a game of stud poker. It was midnight when he got into his room and found that Jake wasn't in bed. "Mammy," he bawled, "Jake's gone:" "Let him go," piped the wife from the nest reom; "he'll git hongry 'fore he goes fur." The boy didn't come home to breakfast. however. Noon passed without a word of him, and by dark the fretful but affectionate Mrs. Miehle was worried. Caspar started out to look for his son. and he did make a few inquiries en route to the Gem, but there he lingered till the game got "warm" and so forgot poor Jake. Meanwhile the boy's mother had scoured the town for ! him. She had found out about the ru. bies, and remorse for the unmerited trouncing she had given him intensified her grief over his departure. She could hardly wait for the sleepless night to pass, tbe second of his absence. and then she went to the marshal and enlisted his services. On Saturday the Clarion had in it "a piece" about the disappearance of Jake .Mienie, ana nau me rownsioiK spent Sunday in the bills looking for biin. On Monday the Mayor offered a reward of $50 for information "leading to the safe return," etc., and Tuesday morning a party of searchers, headed by the carpenter and equipped with provisions for a week, set forth into mountains to look for Jake. Seven miles as the crow flies from Old Town and twenty by the trail that scars the mountain sides, they saw Jake perched high above the beetling canon on a narrow shelf of red and yellow rock. From their station below the searchers roared his name, but the chorus of their voices did not move him. "Come down here t'yer daddy, you young imp!" shrieked Caspar, but the little brown head did not move, and the men with Caspar held him back as he started to scale the rock. "Let the marshal git him," they suggested, and the looks they cast upon the father were all pity. The marshal clambered alone to Jake's dizzy aerie. The little fellow was sitting in a crevice in the rocks ?.-4U u:_ ?r,? i l. ?e ? Willi Hid uuwtt u^uiusi iui uuua ui a, scrub oak tree. The greasy cap was pnlled over bis face, blackberrj* stains were on bis sunken cheeks, and his ragged shirt and overalls hung in ribbons to his emaciated body. His skinny, brown fists were clinched and crossed on his lap and his body was as motionless as the rock upon which he sat. The marshal tenderly lifted away the cap and gently shook the bony shoulder. "Come, Jakey. are you alive?" The sunken eyes slowly opened, and the boy stared weakly round. Then he looked down at his hands and unclinched them. In each lay a nugget as big as a walnut, and when he looked back at the marshal he smiled feebly and said: "Free gold, ain't it?" In a delirium of Joy the big officer howled like a Comanche at his comrades-. They literally "fell up" the face of the rock. "Why didn't you come home?" roared Caspar, laughing and crying by turns. "Tried it, daddy, but I was skeered I'd lose the mine." said tlie lad. "I found them nuggets in this hole, and I thought I'd better set here till you cornel' Helvns sitting in a true fissure that provAthe opening of the best mine in RoutMpounty, and the MIehles have neveiHone a day's hard work since.? John h. Raftery, in the Chicago Record-Herald. A Shrinkage in Valnes. The eager poet wrapped It up carefully and set out for the city, where the leading magazine editors sat in judgment on such as his?or. rather, on such as might not hope to he quite as his; and It was night when he came to the city. At the hotel v.'liere he chose to lodge he passed It to the cle:k, with instructions to place It in the safe, where valuables were kept for security. "What value?" the clerk inquired. The poet's face flushed with pride. "It is, perhaps, scarcely possible to place a value upon It, but " "Say two hundred?" suggested the busy and practical clerk. "That is. perhaps, something of xhe sort they will place upon It," replied the poet, with a deprecatory curl of his lip. "Yes; say two hundred," and he sighed. The clerk checked It at two hundred and put It away in the safe. Next morning the poet arose, paid for his lodge, received It safely into his hands again and went forth. The afternoon was waning when the poet, looking wan and weary, stood again at the hotel desk, with it (no longer with a large I) in his hand. "Ah!" said the clerk. "Care for it again? Same value, I suppose?" "Well?er?ah?not exactly," said the poet, still eagerly, but of a different variety of eager. "I think?er?ah? what I was going to say, was?er?as a matter of fact?er?could you let me have half a dollar on it?" The clerk said he couldn't hardly .do it just then, and the poet took it and went back to his humble village, where he opened a tin shop and did quite well.?New York Times. Coronation RuleR. The King tas decided that Americans are not to be admitted to the coronation. even though they may come arrayed in gorgeous vestments and ropes of pearls and diamonds. The space in Westminster Abbey is limited. The pageant will be paid for by the British taxpayer, and until every taxpayer who may wish to view the ceremony finds a seat, there must be no admittance for the representatives? | niale or female?of foreign shoddydom. There is the more reason for insisting upon this if it be true, as asserted, that ' some of those who claim a right to be j present are offering to sell their tickets > in New York to the highest bidder.? T>onflon Truth. V> ^HOUSEHOLD T$: Color Scheme For a House Place. A house place in a modern dwelling is upholstered in moss green and fi tender gray, the color of lichens and ol granite rock. The walls are coverec with moss green burlap, which ascends as high as the "plate rail." Above thif the wall is covered by a frieze ol gray burlap. The green willow easj chairs are fitted with moss-green vel vet coverel cushions. The window seat is fitted with lichen, gray and moss-covered cushions. The rug or the floor is of mixed rock-gray and moss green. These colors blend to> gether very well. Baib, Of all culinary terms the word hash nas come to nave aDout as mucn opprobrium attached to it as any. Nevertheless, hash itself remains popular, with reason, for ivhen properly made it is one of the best of dishes. As generally used the word indicates a mixture of cold corned beef and cold boiled potatoes cooked together, and tne opprobrium comes In because cf the fact that the sinewy bits of meat are those that fall to the hash. But hash can be varied. It can be made of various kinds of meat and of various sorts of vegetables; it can be stewed or fried, it can be served with eggs or without. It can be improved with tomato sauce. How to Make Mcalln Toast. Any rather stale bread that cuts into firm slices answers for this delicacy, The writer's first knowledge of this was at a dinner party at which each dish was perfect of its kind. When the cheese was passed, with it came this crisp, delicious toast, cooked at the mo< rnent of serving. The slices were cut literally "as thin as a wafer" and spread out to dry an hour or two before needed. They were finally spread out on a hot tin pan, popped on the top shelf of a quick oven long enough to curl up a little and take on a pale shade of brown. This toast is particularly grateful to people of. delicate digestion, but is so appetizing that it has become a fad to lovers of dainty living. It may also be served at luncheon with fruit. Housekeepers who find themselves at the mercy of a country butcher should call to mind the French method of "improving" tough meat. An impossible beefsteak, for instance, may be transformed into one that is tender and juicy if it is allowed to stand over night in a mixture of vinegar and salad oil in equal parts. For a threepound steak half a cupful of the mixture should be put in a crockery plate or dish large enough to spread the meat out in it. Prepare this early in the evening and before retiring turn the steak. What is left of the mixture should be bottled for the next time, Don't use salt or pepper while it is in the oil and vinegar.?Chicaco Record Herald. \Heirs SH?kr# \WiFEjLr Stuffed Cabbage?Cut out the stalk end of a bead of cabbage, leaving ti hollow shell. Chop two pounds of un cooked beef and onion; add one cupfu of bread crumbs, one beaten egg, salt pepper and mace. Shape into balls arrange in the cabbage, add strips oi sweet pepper and steam until the cab ? + ! ? f Amof/ UHgt? lo itruuci. ocuc wim IV/xajuli sauce. Ox Tail Soup?Fry two cut tails un til "brown in two tablespoonfuls of but ter with two onions; then put in kettle add four quarts of water and simmei slowly four hours. Add one carrot one turnip, one tablespoouful of celery chopped fine, four cloves, one teaspoon ful of salt and one of pepper. Cook another hour and strain. R^nov( grease. Serve with each portion som< of the finest joints of the tails and t couple of slices of lemon garnishee with parsley. Potatoes au Gratin?Cut cold boilet potatoes in slices a quarter of an incl thick. Put two tablespoonfuls of but ter into a saucepan, and when me'ttec add one tablespoouful of flour, half t pint of milk and stir until boiling Take from the fire, add the yolk of foui ufffrc fniiv ohlncnnnnfnlo Af n for ivui it*U4VOJ/VUUa mo vi aicv cheese, half a teaspoonful of salt ant a (lash of pepper. Fill a baking disl with layers of the potatoes autl sauc< alternately, beginning with the sauce cover the top with bread crumbs anc brown in a quick oven. Ice Block Salad?Smooth a block o; ice with a hot iron, making a cavity ii the centre. Fill this with crisp lettuc* and hearts of tender celery cut in tin] pieces; add slices of winter radishei and small raw clams. Season witl salt, pepper, one teaspoonful of dr^ mustard and one of horse-radish an< the juice of two lemons. Place on sev eral thicknesses of cloth on a dee] platter, wreathe with green foliagi and serve at once. Try serving you green salad in this way. Note its deli cate coolness, its attractive possibili ties and its effect on the guests. The Sleep of Lions and Tigers. There is nothing odd or peculia' about the sleep of the lions and tigers In captivity they show the same in difference to danger that they niani fest in the jungle, and by day o night will slumber through an un usual tumult, unmindful or uncon scious of the noise. Their sleep i I commonly heavy and peaceful. The national debt of Norwa; amounts to about $60,000,000. ! t g Remarkable Air Test | | of the FuTtoc, 1 tz Q'nKmorri'nrt P wuuii(aiii(w Duao, u JULES VERNE'S "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" does not seem such a startling excursion into the domain of fancy after all in view of the achievement of the Holland submarine tor; pedo boat Fulton, which lay at the bottom of Peconic Bay, off the com, pany's plant at New Suffolk, L. I., | for fifteen hours on a recent Saturday [ night. I All preparations for the test were In order early on Saturday evening , and at 7.30 there passed down through I her companionway, forward of the tur, ret, Rear-Admiral John Lowe, retired; uieuieuaiii aiiuui jiuuai iuui, j ! t Sfi^f 'Sf/V5/?f__ , tV's* ROOM & [fj] * . a/? Iff"! cC COMPRES ?? S I <V_ COMPRES: ^.g| MIDSHIP SECTION OP HOLLANI USE OF COMPI The air is held in air flasks under square inch. The automatic valve all the air pure and breathable. When th 1 water from the tanks it Is turned on black lines, and enters water tanks at 1 forcing the water out at the bottom of 1 compresser it pumps air out of the boa ( is pumped into the tanks at X X X, an 1 pumped out at the outlet B. mander of the torpedo boat Winslow; ^ Captain Frank T. Cable, navigator for the Holland Company; John .Wilson, : machinist; John Saunders, engineer, ! and Henry Morrell, electrician. The 1 heavy iron hatch was closed over them 1 and after ft was securely fastened, the ? I nviil ftTTfln | X* UiLUil toil lit*. siuwijr, oictiunj auu c * tu! ly out of sight. Before going down the men had eaten a hearty dinner and had with them their luncheon and 1 breakfast. Sunday morning promptly 1 at 10.30, the huge craft rose to the surface so suddenly as almost to 1 Btartle the many people who had gathered on the shore to witness the finish of the test. The conning tower was not opened for several minutes after 1 the Fulton came to the surface, so one of the workmen swung out to her by ' the derrick and peered in through the heavy glass windows, then shouted uen who spent a night under water in the submarine boat fulton. John Wilson, mate: Frank T. Cable, captain: H. H. Morrell, electrician; Lieutenant MacArthur, standing. John Saunders, engineer, and Charles Bergh, boatswain, seated. i ashore that all was well. When the tower cover opened Captain Cable's I head was the first thrust up to view. , He saluted the watchers who had , been ashore all night, and remarked ' that if he had know the weather was - bo very bad above water he would > have remained under a while longer. The vessel was six feet under water, . and the occupants were not aware . of the terrific storm that raged above. Captain Cable said: "We hnd no aDDaratus to indicate the condition of the atmosphere, but depended on our own feelings. The ! boat is over sixty-three feet long and : It was the ordinary air ol the interior ; that we breathed. We had a good ; supply of literature and enough food t to furnish us two good meals. We [ played euchre a little and spun yarns. The work done by the French and y English submarine boats was disi cussed. This test exceeds anything accomplished by the other boats. We j have done something never done in the world before. We need not have come up as soon as we did, but the fifteen \ hours were over and that was the time | record we had set out to make, i ue. lieve that with the twelve flasks we could have stayed down there three | months. "We have proved that we can stay j f i & THE FULTON GOING AT FULL S * WAT r L" under water for fifteen hours. Our motor will carry us 140 miles, so it s would be possible to go right from New Suffolk to New York City and v travel the entire distance under water, coming to the surface only occasionally \ to take our observations. Using our electricity economically we could do this. Our motor is of seventy-horse power, but our 140-horse power gas engine would carry us further. It is only a question of the supplies we can carry." Captain Cable believes that he hae found a way to solve the problem of protecting the occupants of a submarine boat from the danger of asphyxiation while under water. The most serious objection to the use of submarine boats is the danger of suffocation from the fumes generated by the gasoline engine used to propel the boat on the surface and to furnish power for the dynamo which produces the electricity stored for lighting and for submarine propulsion. While no serious results have so far followed the. presence of the gae in the Holland boats, it Is always feared, mainly because It presence cannot be detected by any means at ' ?. ? conn/hq ~~~ 1? 1 """ I Automatic airt\ larters we 'on flj. vent/la t10n t ' f 1 5ED AIR FLASK _>l| A'R FLASK OUTLET ) SUBMARINE BOAT, SHOWING IESSED AIR. . pressure of over 2000 pounds to tie lows sufficient air to escape to keep le air from the flasks is used to pump and passes through pipes shown in 0 0 0, filling the tanks with air,* tank at outlets. If they use the air t next to the floor, and this foul air id forces water out. It can also be the command of Captain Cable and bis men. A Washington scientist has said tbat the gas is either carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide. It is necessary to know which, in order to provide means of counteracting it It is ugured that mice feel the effect of these gases, which are odorless and tasteless, twenty times more quickly than men. Captain Cable suggested that mice be introduced into the Fulton. He was told that if a mouse were to inhale either of the gases an examination of the corpuscles of its blood would furnish the desired information. The absence of food of any kind for mice, excepting small quantities of oil kept in patent cans, bas made rodents unknown on submarine boats. Accordingly, Captain Cable has secured half a dozen white mice, each In a little cage, and they now form part of the equipment of the Fulton. Combined Coat and Test. Generally gentlemen do not care to appear in public without the usual coat and vest. In warm weather this extra vest is annoying, and men frequently resort to the expedient of simply unbuttoning it, and permitting 11 to remain in this unsightly condition. By using the garment shown in the illustration the vest may be dispensed with whenever desired, and when not | in use is practically entirely out of view, nothing being visible which would indicate that the coat is a combination garment The idea is to attach the front half of a vest to the inside of the coat at the side seams, enabling the wearer to turn the fronts back and Insert them in pockets in the rear of the coat. The advantages oi a garment of this construction for use in warm weather will be obvious. GARMENT FOR DRESS AND COMFORT. The edges of the vest may be secured within the pockets, and the garmern used as a half-lined coat during the warmest portion of the day, and should tho evening be cooler the vest may b( buttoned about the wearer, giving hitt a more dressy appearance, and affording more protection than as th( garment was worn during the heat ol the day. The arrangement of the vesi is such that whether the fronts art buttoned about the wearer or foldec in the pockets, the front edges of th< coat are at all times free, and maj be buttoned or left open the same as an ordinary coat. rEED ON THE SURFACE OF THE ER. A baboon, the regimental pet of tlii North Corn Rifles during the whole period of their active service in Soutl Africa, has arrived in Dublin, aud hai been lodged in the Zoological Gardens Phoenix Park, goooooooooooooooooooocoooo R ODDEST OF AIL MAUSOLEUMS. | i oooooooooooooooooocooooooo | : W N HvlHzntlnn no topII ns in snv- 1 Iagery man has indulged weird 3 fancies In bis ornamentations of 1 the sepulcher. Even In the most barbarous climes and times much 1 thought was given to embellishments . of the graves of beloved dead. Many of the wonders of the world have been sarcophagi. The Pyramids are but repositories for the bones of Egypt-. Ian royalty; the Catacombs vast sleeping cars for the Romans' and > early Christians' last dreamless slumber. Throughout the world, by the side of his arches of triumph, man has erected mausoleums and tombs. In the heart of Vermont, in the shadow of the snow-clad or moss-mantled Green Mountains, stands a unique sepulcher erected by. devoted wealth, at the cost of many thousands of dollars, called the Laurel Glen Mausoleum. Throughout that part of New England known as the Marble State, the name of Cuttingsville stands only for this mausoleum; the rude hamlet hna hn+ nnn nrlflp nno distinction, it holds a tomb! Is this symbolic of a dying State, whose population Is deserting its hills and dales to help colonize the whole country? An opulent New Yorker had sought solitude in this picturesque village for several summers, and had built for his use a splendid mansion. But his last loved one was taken away by death, and the only consolation remaining tva& to leave his history in marble. Ajid so John P. Bowman erected a magnificent memorial to his family, which is now visited by tourists from all parts of the country. A whole year's time and the labor l of 125 men were employed upon this Greek temple, reared amid the green | shrubbery in this lovely valley among the mountains which encompass Ver- | mont In this tomb were used 175 i tons of granite, fifty tons of marble, j , pi ???? . i I n : and 120,000 bricks. Its dimensions are 18 by 25 feet, and It Is twenty feet high. Each block of granite weighs from three to six tons. The exterior decorations are Greek foliage with a laurel frieze. Within the portal is closed by a granite door of one slab weighing 6500 pounds. But the conspicuous and grewsome feature of this mausoleum is the lifesized statute of Mr. Bowman himself, standing hat in hand, with one foot upon the step, about to enter the tomb. He holds a wreath of marble immorj telles, and a huge key with which to unlock the chamber of deatn. witnIn. upon pedestals, are busts of himself, his wife, his beautiful daughter, and. In the centre, his baby, its plump limbs sinking into a cushion, tie , chubby arms extended to its mother, cold and rigid in unresponsive marble. | These were wrought in Italy from ( finest Parian marble (as was his own figure) and are of immense value. Twd long mirrors give the Illusion ( of vast' corridors filled with busts and statues of dazzling whiteness. By , this optical illusion thirty halls may ( be seen. Rich sculptures, bronze traceries and ornaments fill the sepulcher. A nightly illumination is produced by I six bronze candelabra, bearing pyra- ' mids of wax candles, which shed a weird light and give a solemn atmosphere to this place of death. Upon a rolling terrace, conspicuous from all directions, stands this mausoleum, with its owner ever entering its portal, yet never going beyond th? threshold. Rare exotics adorn the lawn in summer and a conservatory is kept up solely for the decoration 01 the tomb In winter. The cost of this sarcophagus is sup posed t^ge enormous, but no record! can be uic^overed. The founder lefl $50,000 for the sole purpose of having the grounds and the tomb cared foi perpetually. Six trustees guard this legacy, and one of their number enjoys the castle once occupied by th< Bowman family. It faces the mortu ary, and in it are the elegant furnish ings just as they were used by thf erratic owner. Oriental colors, wood r work in pale blues, reds and blacks f statues and relics brought from Italj = to the region of deep snows, speak oi v a luxury foreign to austere and pro 3 vincial Vermont. i The tomb was completed before thf death of the founder. What melan choly satisfaction he experienced in viewing his own marble image for I ever ascending the steps that led tc ! the cold clay and colder marble pre I sentments of his wife and children t can only be surmised. He has madf the village nestled in the mountain.' under the shadow of Killington a! 0 point for curiosity seekers, and the lift and death story of his own obscurc a family well-nigh imperishable. Perhaps to have done this seemed to biir- ^ worthy of having lived.?Wiunifrec Harper Cooley. 3 The Kind of Gan Desired. ^ A rapid-fire gun with a range oi fifwn v.nrris has been invented by at Englishman. It will slioot around s kopje and it may help.?Minneapolis Times. The date pnlm now flourishes ir 5 Arizona, even in soils heavily impreg ^ nated with alkali. ' " ' , 'r'y ' 1 " : $ Hew VMU Book tXwny. A cockade of red, white and blot to the most noticeable feature of the i new White House livery, although the National colors are in evidence throughout the costume in which the President's coachman and footman appeared for the first time. The coats and the trousers are of aeavy dark blue vicuna, the best qual< i I THE FBESIDENT'S COACHMAW. IB ty of goods obtainable being used. fl rhe outer seams of the trousers are U Dound with a white cord. The long paddock driving coat, which ' ;ermlnates midway between knee and inkle, is of "military" cut and has a \ snug waist and broad, square shoullers. The skirt has a decided flare, Down the front from the tigh&flttlng, , narrow collar to the waistline run parillel lines of silver buttons. , Underneath the coat is worn a longsleeved tunic of the same material as ;he other garments and fastened In front by a single row of silver buttons. Mrs. Roosevelt selected tfce material md the pattern for the livery. The % jrder was given to a fashionable New Fork livery tailor. Henry Perrln, the President's coach- ^ man, and Reeder, tbe rootman, were tiighly elated when, clad for the first ; time in their new livery,'they mounted the box of the smart new surrey , and , - . iook Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Alice Roosevelt for a drive. Folding Decoys. The gunner traveling over the conn- > rry from one spot to another finds the :ransportation of his decoys a serious matter. While their weight is not ?reat, their bulk is considerable, and . i large box is required to accommodate a small number of the decoys. A ' \ FOLDING DECOY. ' 1 S folding decoy has been devised by-. Joseph Coudon, - which represents a jreat economy of space, and to said to be just as effective In use as the ^ j )ld type. The decoys are made pf wood, about three-eighths of an Inch in thickness, and three of them are bunched together, two being attached to the third by a wire which holdsthem apart from each other when iu ase and permits of their being broughr compactly together for storage. A box &10x20 inches will hold one dozen -of these decoys. In actual service an. inehor is attached to the foremost 3ird. . A Statue With Parasol. A bronze statue of a lady carryingi parasol is rather unusual amongsvorks of art, but such a casting haft <4 : ecently been unveiled to the late Emi )ress of Austria. It is situate^! in a imall National park in Hungary, in vhich the late Empress was very fond f lmntitifr nnd ridins.?New York Her Id. ? ~ Lost the Bet. "Hello, Central!" 'Hello!" "How would you call 'Jin';' i.;f undred aud 'leven?" "Whai?" "Four ones?" "What do you want?" "Or would you say 'one, one, one, ne?'" . I don't quite catch you. Say it gain." "Or would it be one thousand one undred and eleven?" "Can't you speak plainer?" I "I'm ncL-inw mil hotv Prt'l Mflln -lev-en hun-dred and e-lev-en. Get bat?" "O, you mean one, one, double one?" "Thanks." "Here it is." "Here what is?" "Main, one, one, double one." "Oh, I didn't want to talk ttvanyody.. I only wanted to find ouf^o setle a bet, how you would call that pariculai number. I've lost. Good bye.*. .d