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! * USES. 'Ah. from the nigznrd tree of time How quickly fail the hour*! It needs no touch of wiud or rim* To loose such facile flowers. Drift of the dead year's harvesting, * They clog tomorrow's way, Yet serve to shelter growths of spring Beneath their warm decay. Or. blent by pious hands with rare sweet savor* of content. Surprise the soul's December air With June's furgotUn scent. . '?Edith Wharton, in Seribner's Magazine.. . J pa?(5.q.?se ^?DQ) I "About the meanest thins I ever did." laid Bass McFheeters, who had served ' u ? volunteer through the Cuban campaign. "was to Rtenl brandy off the } dead dagos. Every man Jack of them bad a flask. I guess It was the worst ' - - ? 1 A U A. _?^wl ' Dranay ever aisiiueu, uui n ium mighty food to me. and. as I say. I ^ stole It and drank it and felt like a fhoul all tbe time." "Ah, you're tbin-skinned," growled Heatbcote, a Harvard man who bad' come to be a Texas ranger because be was plucked at West Point; "If you want to feel real downright thirty cents you ought to try peacemaking between a woman and a wife-beating husband. I did. You remember It. * don't you, Harris? The time I came back from Lan&rtrr in an ambulance? I made peace between them all right, hot what they did to me 'between them* was a plenty. Blobbing dead dagos is a Sabbath pastime compared to peacemaking and twice as remunerative." "Neither one of yon knows what he's X talking ' about." drawled Lieutenant I Collins, who was doing his secondtyear on the frontier with bis regiment, and held the record as the only officer in It who was not pulling wires for detached service. "One of you is a thief: and the other a fool, but 1 can tell you I an experience that made me look like n p thief and feel like a fool for a long I time. "Yon remember. Hcathcote. while 1 i v was at the academy I was forever running tac? to Clncinuati to spend a day. a week or a month, or whatever time I coolt! get on KifU leave, oogus u-ujrnnis or other subterfuges. Well, tbey / wtere all bogus. but I had a reason, or thought I had. for going there so often. Woman? Yes. of course It was a woman. That Ik. she was the making of a flue and beautiful woman. She was a mere girl then, just coin? eighteen, and a* gentle aud generous a soul as ever lived. 1 might as well admit that 1 had my heart ret and my hopes built on her and?lost. I didn't find out thr.t part, the loss pnfi. though, till my last v Tialt to Cincinnati, and as that's what I X started out to te!l about, II just bcI fin there. ; "Well, I don't think Edith?that was r her name?1 don't think she ever knew how I felt toward her: you see I was never forehanded with women, or she wouldn't have invited me to her theatre party. 1 don't know exactly how t?jr mother spruug it. but anyhow we I hadn't been in Edith's house Ave ruink _ . | utes berore everyLcuy Knew inai see I was engaged to Herbert Humphrey*, a pruee kittle dandy with light-colored eyes and clothe* thnt would have made Freddie Gebhard look like a costermonfer. I didn't like him ilrst. last nor any ' time, hut of course I was a prejudiced part*. Well, I was assigned. that's what ?ou call it. I guess; I was assigned to Fannie Zlegler?you know the Zleglers. ' Heathcote? Brewers, you know, and [ we went off to the theatre in a lot of carriages, the girls all talking about the coming wedding and what lovely doings would be pulled off. and what a lovely ring that was Edith had. and me?you can just guess how I enjoyed that theatre- party. I don't remember what the play was or who was In my carriage Itesides Faunie or anything about It except that one of the party was a girl eouain of Edith's who had come from New Orleans to be leading lady, or bridesmaid, or whatever It Is at the wedding. "Well, sir. she was a stunner! 1 think If I hadn't been so faded on CN I : imt : sin cosim Edltb I'd have gone after tnat cousin. Her uamc was fortune Forgeron. o blonde creole with purple eye* aud a form! Oh, gay! I've seen ber only once since then, but it was too late. I'm always too late on tbe wooing business, but wait. Tbat conies in tbe story. I UK). We wnr ai mc lurai.v, nnvu > We? Well. I noticed this squirt Humphrey*. Edith's fiance, seemed to make tetter headway with the Creole goddecs than any of vs. I was dying to *whelm my woe'?that's in a poem?I was dead anxious to get next to ber. bat so help me, that Infernal puppy bad a way with him tbat distanced us all. and I began to wonder what Edith thought of the sudden flirtation tbat amde all us men so weary. Maybe the girls didn't notice It. or maybe thej didn't let on. for they all saw that Co j rioiie was n wiuner from Winnerville. "The last thing I remember at th? i theatre was Humphrey's showing Co rinne the beautiful ring that he had j given to Edith as a guerdon of tbeh j iroth. It was a peach, and no mistake, I think they called it a marquise, at j any rate its setting was an oblong opal, j rimmed with diamonds, but the pecu* j .. 1 t |f a | nariiy 01 11, auu * mm* ?.-> vu.v. beauty, was the green glory of the two emeralds set at the far ends of the ob> j long. Corlnne looked at 1t and then at Humphreys ia that awful way thes? J women with velvet eyes have, and said: 'I'd say yes myself to a ring like that.' Then she laughed in that limpid, coddling way a certain class of women have, and Humphreys?he was a forward imp?slipped the ring on hei plump, white finger 'to see bow it looked.' Edith's mother was with us, chaperoning the party, but nobody except me seemed to have any evil thought!, and I even suspected myself. "We got back to the house without anything more thrilling than small ( talk, and after a nice little supper nt! which, I thought, Humphreys and the | creole kept up a pretty steady ex-1 change of rather tropical compliments, J we all went into the music room for a song. I think there were eight besides Edith's mother In the party, all nice j young people of the very best families In Cincinnati, and all old friends except Humphreys and the New Orleans cousin. She fitted in all right, at least with the men, but Humphreys?I just couldn't help figuring him out as an interloDer. a misfit, a what you might call 'cheap skate.' "Now for the ugly part of It. 8omebody asked Edith to sing a ballad and of course we all insisted. She sat down to the piano, fingered the keys a moment. took off the beautiful marquise ring, laid it on the top of the instrument. and began to play and sing. I think she played four or five things before we would let her stop! She was nn exquisite pianlste and one of those V ^ 2J 'W : J z1 *v >* EDITH. amiable girls who loved to give pleasure' without being ceaxed. She didn't require any note.*, and as she played wwe wandered about the big room or sat still to enjoy the effect. I noticed that some of the girls couldn't resist piekiu? up the rln&. Tbey were nil envious of it, aud tf I'm not mistaken Humphreys stood for quite a while near the piano. At nny rate it was during the music that I got my only chance to whisper to Corinne Forgeron. That's what makes me think Hum pureyi muni iiave oeen uy xue pinun. "When Edith got through playing and looked for her ring it was gone! She laughed at flrst and called on us to 'quit joking.' hut when we had lighted all the lights and crawled all over the floor and lifted everything movable, poor Edith began to pout, and. well, you ran Imagine how we felt. No servant had entered the room. The top of the piano was closed, it was an upright one. and we moved the instrument four times in the vain search. The men looked sheepishly at one another. The girls looked mystified and scared. Only Humphreys kept up bis front. Nobody wuntcd to go tirst. and everybody knew It was time to go. I, for one, was convinced that there was a thief In the company, and naturally I suspected it was Edith's fiance, whom 1 bated cordially. Finally, in a barst of long suppressed anger. I suggested that the men should retire to the parlor nud search one another. That made the girls angry, and Edith began to cry. At last we all retired, feeling like a lot of whipped curs, alt but Humphreys. He had the impudeuce to keep reassuriug us. said that no doubt the ring would 'turn up.' nud bo forth, till I felt like choking him. Then he said something to poor Edith about her 'carelessness ' unit mum mv wnril if Fannie Ziegler wasn't hanging to my arm I'd have smashed hiui one then and there. "But we nil went home then, and, to tell the truth. I thought perhaps Humphreys was sufficiently punished when 1 heard nl>out n week later that he and Edith had quarreled and that the match was broken off. Oh. yes. I tried tentatively to set* her. hut she never saw any one after that. Corinnc Forgeron went home to New Orleans and I weut Iwrk to West Poiut. M'oor Edith's wedding never enme off. but I'm sure she's happier thau if she bad married Humphreys. Any way she wasted away aud I?but that's another story. i uaun t rceu down nere at f ort Bliss two months when I got an invitation to the wedding of C'orinne Forgeron to Herbert Humphreys! I couldn't go to it and wouldn't if I could, but I was summonoed just then to Washington. and. just for meanness?Tor I hated them both?I dropped off at New Orleans and called at the Forgeron mansion to sec the tawny Creole. I didn't stay five minutes. "She put out her big white hand toward mine, but before I touched It I saw the ring. It may be a case of 'Hon! solt qui mal y pense.' but. fellows, if It wasn't poor Edith's ring I'm a liar or an imbecile."-John H. Raftery, in the Chicago Record-Herald. I to VireeE maua 01 4&iue uas on llelda which were known to Herodota* Facts and JTQJ Fancies. New York City. ? Shirt waists and \ | blouses with a double-brensted effect < j ?re extremely fashionable, and suit many figures to h nicety. This smart WOXAX'S BLOUSE OB 8B1BT. model Is shown In silk chnmbray in pale blue and is unlined. but is suited to all the season's washable fabrics and to all waist cloths and simple silks, albatross, challie. wool crepe, peau de sole, taffeta and the like, and can be made over the fitted foundation when preferred. The lining is snugly fitted and closes at the Centre front. The back proper is laid in three backward turning tucks at each side of the centre, that are stitched for its entire length, but each front includes two deep tucks that extend to yoke depth and are finished with double rows of stitching in corticell! silk. The right front laps over the left in double-breasted style and Is held by means of buttons and button-holes. | me sleeves nre id sniri siyie, whh i cuffs that arc buttoned over at the outside and at the neck is regulation BtOfk. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size four and an eighth yards of material twenty-one inches wide, throe and seven-eighth yards twenty-seven Inches wide, three and a quarter yards thirty-two inches wide, or two and an 1 jljrhth yards forty-four inches wide l will he required. Woman's Wrapper. Tasteful, becoming morning gowus are essential to making a trood appearance as well as to comfort. The attractive May Manton moJel given in < WOMAN'S \ ?li? Inrffo niflnro hflfi the merit of belDC I ? ?* - I absolutely simple at the same time that j it is becoming and entirely satisfactory. The original is made of dull blue ba-1 tlste dotted with black and is trimmed with bands of plain blue, stitched with corticelll silk, but all washable fabrics are suitable as well a* cballie, cashmere. albatross and the like. The wrapper is cut with a fitted back And loose front, that can be arranged over the fitted lining or attached to the edge of the yoke as preferred. The yoke is pointed and provides a smooth fit across the shoulders without detracting from the comfort of the gown. The sleeves are in bishop style with deep cuffs pointed at the upper edge, and at the neck is a standing collar. The skirt portion is cut to Bare freely at the feet, and finished with a graduated circular flounce, seamed to the lower edge. To cut this wrapper for a woman of medium sixe eleven yards of material fwpHtv-sevcn incbe* wide, ten yards tbirty-two Inches wide, or eight and an eighth yards forty-four inches wide will be required. Hqu?re-M*?h Etamine. tStamines are being purchased to be made up over taffeta for a serviceable spring suit. The open mesh of this fabric Icoks eool and suitable for the first beats of our glowing American spring. Tbe dark blue etamine is extremely |K>pular. altbougb plenty of browns, dove grays, myrtle greens and a few pale "cranljerry" reds are sold. Here and ibere a heliotrope etciuine is cbosen. to l*e relieved with dark bauds. .1.. -l-? ?. ! Ltiw. hlfiiUMi (till llll" liui IV i'i lit" ?um U.I 1 .f |... - v.. of etatulue are most in demand. The 11/02 etamiiie has a square mesh. wb.cli distinguishes it from Inst year's jjcuds. Persian Lamb Button*. It seems a shame to out up such an expensive fur ax Persian lamb into Dip|>et8. but. nevertheless, pood dressmakers stop at nothing for fear of expense. A handsome Mark cloth costume for the street has a tight-fitting coat, which is quite long in frout. This has a broad-spread shoulder collar of Persian laiub. which terminates iu V shape almost m iuo wain, uu rmu side of the centra] fusUuiup arc ar muRfd three large button molds, covered with this rich fur. Tbis brine. life FAIR the buttons in three groups of two L*ach. " Clii?inl?r-?-Jonr." Among new models of ladies' under* garments Is the "cbemise-a-jour." a omliination of the underwnist with the short white petticoat. It is not loose and baggy like the old-rnsnioneu ciieroIse. ami it tits the figure quite closely. The "cheinise-a-Jour" is Fastened down the front with six pearl buttons, spaced quite far apart. It is supposed to tske the place of two undergarments with only one layer of thickness around the waist. As 8liinness is desired, the "cbemise-a-Jour" has its good points. , Faience Bine. Faience blue is a color well spoken of for a spring dress. After Easter we suddenly feel the need of a cool spring frock, something light of weight, which will not be a burden to drag about on a hot spring day. There is apt Vo be a "hot spell" Id May. We cannot get on without a foulard: our last year's example looks "weary" with its crinstant use. Try to get one of the Faience blue foulards, and you will keep abreast of the styles. HmIi tad Tom. School children are recommended t6 try the school stockings especially devised for theit use. or rather to save trouble for their mothers or nurse. These stockings are woven with linenspliced knees, heels and toes. They say. "they will not wear out,"' a broad statement concerning 'any garment worn by a strong, active child. RdmIu Cord Z?ph>ra. Among the summer cottons of the percale order. muslins strong enough to go to the tub every week, we nave English shirtings, prettily patterned In white and Russian zephyrs. These zephyrs show alternate arrangement of cords of stout threads cast up to the surface like a silky-finished stripe. Alt White Madras. Raised cords, fancy stripes, raised figures, broad satin stripes, small, shiny [inures raised on the surface, diversify ihe all-white madras, which comes in plenty of time to help out the woman who likes all-white toilets. ' Vogue of White Pelt. So desirable hare fashionables found the hat of white felt that It appears it ^ i \ RAPPER. Will still !>e wim us. ror me summer sporting hat it will reign supreme, and even in the interim shall we be reminded of it by the white felt-like facings which distinguish the brims of so uiauy modish cbapeaux. Child's French I)m?. French dresses, with their tong waists and short skirts, make a charming effect worn by little girls and are in the height of present styles. This pretty May Mnnton model is made ot French nainsook with trimming of tine needlework, and is dainty as may be. but the desigu is equally well suited to all washable fabrics, and to the simple wools and silk worn by children from the ages of four to ten years. Tue foundation for the waist is a smoothly fitted lining that closes with it. at the centre back. Onto this lining are faced the yoke and fancy front, and over it are arranged the full front 9LU HiK'iB. 1 lie 9Bkll I 19 PlUiJIi/ straight, tucked at the lower edge aud gathered at the upper, where it is seamed to the waist. The sleeves are iu bishop style with narrow cuffs aud at the neck is a standing collar. A ribbon sash is worn over the seanj that joins the skirt aud waiist. To cnt this dress for a child of eight years of age Uve and tive-eigbth yards of material twenty-one inches wide, four and a half yards twenty-seven inches wide, four and a quarter yards thirty-two inches wide, or three and au eighth yards forty-four inches wide FIIEN'CU ilHESS FOR A CHILD. will be required, with three-quarter yards of inserted tucking for yoke aud front, nine yards cf edging and six yards of insertion to triui ax illustrated. ftlfcorla. The present papulation of Siberia Is nliout 8.4NNMNJO. Assuming tint its resources are equal to thove of Russia lu Europe. Siberia Is capable of sustaining a population or 80.000.000. It is believed tbat Siberia could produce lO.OUO.OUO tons of wheat annually, 5.IMMl (MM) tmw of which would be uvnil able for export. The immense coal deposits of Siberia have scarcely beeu touched M present. A great stimulus will, of course, be given to Siberian production by the now nearly completed Trans-Siberian Hallway. BnI For tlie BoweU. No matter what ails you, headaehe to a cancer, yon will never get well until your bowels art; put right. Cascakkrs help nature, euro you without a gripe or pain. produce wwy natural movements, cost you just 10cents to start getting your health baek. Cakcarets Candy ('athartir. the genuine, put upin metal boxes, every tablet has c. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. A farmer near Lenox, S. D., shot a pclican that measured eight Icet and four iuclies from tip to tip of its wings. Brooklyn, N.Y.,Feb.20.?The activity at the laboratory of the Garfield Tea To. is further evidence of the popularity of their pretentions; over Three Million Families used Garfield Remedies last year! This vast public approval speaks well for the remedies. They are: Garfield Tea, Garileld Headache Pourders.Garfteld-Tea Syrup, Garfield Relief Plasters, Garileld Belladonna Plasters, Garfield Digestive Tablets and Garfield Cold Cure. i British America is about 300,000 square miles greater than the United States. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous newt alter iim cay s usr m ur. iuiur b umi NerveItestorer.f2 trial bottle and treati*efre? Dr. R. H. Kli^k, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Phlla., Pa. A new fad in London is to decorate the staircase* with flowers in bloom arranged on the ledges outside the banisters. Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays pain^curawindcolic^c a bottle. One way for a girl to dampen a younj man's ardor is to throw him overboard. .. I ?11.. I J; Delicately fora r find, in all the seaso or mothers, that tl Iv/H(/) *?ntly1 flfcjK which may be used Mt&m' any conditions,whe: Syrup of Figs. Iti f ,\y<7} binatton of the laxa | plants with pleas ' jSc agreeable and refr fto the system when _ Many of the ill a transient nature; trouble and it is pi promptly to the be jVv^! but when anything ^ is best to consult tl the old-time catha trums of the prese yf remove the strain |pM_, similar ills, which i m (a "*' tion of the svstem. Syrup of Figs?ami | sioa, the aches and Sjfc--- are doe to inactivit Only those wh< can hope to get its i M antee of the excelli ifJI of the companyyf?r-f printed on the froi KpP* it any preparation &&&; olent and shoo Id Ik jlLfr? quality of this ex< ff|A substitute, when > tfl always resentod by first-class drug et recommend, nor s remedies. The gen /W-: reliable druggists < mmw luoi A LUXU Watch our n?xt adw Ti,of fmr o nonbairn It) UOb bl J u puvuugv the reason of its pop Brother* la Dtffmat J.rmlM. It Ig seldom that two brothers become ottleers in the armies of two different countries. Tbln if. however, the ease with Colonel (ioiran. eommanding the Thirty-sei-ond Artillery Uegiuietit at Orleans. Hi* brother has jiiht In-en appointed Commander-in-Chief of an Italian army corps. This peculiar situation ix explained hy the fact that both brothers were !>orn at Nice, before that town oceanic rrenen. me finer brother remaining of Italian nationality. and the younger brother preferring to become a Frenchman. The moft certain feature of a sure thing in it* uncertainty. My Hair "I bad a very severe sickness that took off all my hair. I purchased t bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor and it brought all my bair back again." W. D. Quinn, Marseilles, III. Une tning is cenam,? Ayer's Hair Vigoi ipakes the hair grow. This is because it is a hair food. It feeds the hair and the hair grows, that's all there is to it. It stops falling of the hair, too, and always restores color to ' gray hair. I SMI a Mlk. All mp If your drnffist cannot upplj po, scad as om dollar and w# will aif iaaa joaabottls. Bo oreandriroU?bum of yoor nMTMt express office. Address, J.C. AYXRCO..LowcIl.lfaas. led and gently reared, women will >ns of their lives, as maids or wives le one simple, wholesome remedy ??*'! xlAAoanHtt nml nn#nwol!?? on/l lini |iti:ooaiiiij auu uaiui uiij v miu with truly beneficial effect*, under *i n the system needs a laxative?is? ? is well known to be a simple com- d itlve and carminative principles of ant, aromatic liquids, which are eshing to the taste and acceptable Ywf i its gentle cleansing is desired. ^ ij s from which women suffer are of Y and do not come from any organic J| easant to know that they yield so <| neflcial effects of Syrup of Figs, |I more than a laxative is needed it Ju tie family physician and to avoid /ft rtics and loudly advertised uos- :>U nt day. When one needs only to ? . the torpor, the congestion, or jltl attend upon a constipated eondluse the true and gentle remedy? ? I enjoy freedom from the depres- ? pains, colds and headaches, which v of the bowels. S 9 boy the genuine Syrup of Figs ^ beneficial effects and as a guar;nce of the remedy the fall name -California Fig Syrup Co.? ii it of every package and without offered aa Syrup of Figs is fraudt declined. To those who know the client laxative, the offer of any *yrup of Figs is called for, is a transfer of patronage to some itablishment, where they do not ell false brands, nor imitation uine article may be bought of all everywhere at 50 cents per bottle. iiaJTg^yrv 1 UUI RV WITHIN THE REACI "LI Lien Ilrsdi, ! They are . Lion 1Imi1>, Oitpm Cut from I.Iti They of woira Al?o tempt a f Tbejr arc S* J * ? t? ?_ i-ion iiraa*. Lion II rati s. 1 ' "^'Wm' '' ^' Mitliom trc it jyjflyAjiX Lion Head*. I I.KTJ flcjc*. ^1 v-'^Sfwyx (???U that ar? ' wWv/>' I'?clu1. nrclfu r/,... 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TtereUrmaon ^aj4{ WaownaadoprraifoTrr iwafli * Iteprodnruonof oar rb0M?HX?k onkr to lodant 700 to tnr Umm JHH 1^ 'fCTlFa* fi6CMilftoffMttjftj II JIJ ** r.72,'?fZ2?m' f C SS ^esrlsw If4l sf# ?_Ji ' H.|lw?l Mm*, 1m . a>?' r~W ttnuwwiytemtriiwriii^TM A la all ISO ktoda l illnll Tw^iTKm fH 18.. ? ?w wr? m *uapB. frnivwf* mm i^f/ m 'OHM >:?AUEB tIEIB CO, ? Gold IMtl u SalUt lif?hlMt McILHfcJNNY'9 TABASCO ADYERHSINQ Sai" Vfft H OP ALL. I ION HEADS." Lion Heads all the rage at present. I.ion Head*. ' c then it task that'* pteaMBt> N COFFEE WRAPPERS, n's heart ire trapper*, host of papas, being ciippeJ incessant! I.ion Hcad<? 0 ialuc they are meaning! I.ion Hrads 1.1 vc to I hem a leaning, , KM it excelling . ind now selling, s prs^es telling? vcr intervening! .t^n Heads. B rcrnts rcpre?enting, .ion lii-au*. cNpcrirr.rntal, , !. ornamental, U?tr? parental, ! :hcm brings no repenting! ^ i<"n Hrsdv jjj a!\?3;?. nor?h the *3vir.*, Li'?n Head*. Rift* fur which you're enriag. i? no clar.nij'. 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