Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ff Bill Mathison Bow Magic and the Mos Bill Mathison stood in the cabin! ibrway malevolently regarding the iddle of many-poled lodges across'. -JO. river. Shrill yelps rose In. a chorus as a copper colored, crone'is sued from a lodge and hurled male Ictions' and pieces of firewood at a ick of thieving mongrel dogs. On ie flat beyond the tepees, a hunch of mies, a thousand head br more, of mingled breeds and many colors, were being held together in a compact mass I by mounted Indians, while scores on ?g foot prowled through the circling jfe'aerd, catching trim little ponies and leading them to their tepees. % "Blast 'em!" growled Bill. "If they stay another week, antelope 'll be nae mair plentifu' than water on the Kvaave; an'..there'll no be grass! ecoo' on yon bottom tae teed a) healthy prairie dog, mair less a bunch j o' calves." 1 "If we was in God's, country now/ li mourned Todd Wayne, as he wiped > the last ot the breakfast dishes, "an' sech do i n's waa takln' place, there'd be a bunch uh Injuns hot-foptin' lt for the reservation, with sartain repre sentatives uh Uncle Sammy givin' 'em a touch uh high life on the rear. These here Canadians is more deliber ate." "Oh, ay! they'll be aroond." Bill caught a whiff of the rank odor that hangs like a halo about an Indian ! camp. He slammed the 'door vicious-1 ly, and sat down.jvith his feet cocked y up on the*stfe??&ront.. "But the red deevlls 'l?^ha^hs?*the hides an' jerked meat they'll want by that time. It's a cryin' shame tae see the puir beasties murdered by the hoondred." "It shore is," Todd agreed, "but I don't se* that we got any license f Z enforce the game laws-them bucks is somewhat numerous for two white ; men. " Over in the Blackfoot camp the e, hunters mounted and rode north; ? fourscore greasy, bead-bedecked abor- j igines, wrapped in the many-hued blankets furnished by a benevolent I Indian Department, their post-trader rifles"looped to their saddle horns.' Ten miles north of the Red Deer no I : loft breathed chinook had touched the hSls since the first fall of snow. Bliz ' zards, bearing the chill of the ice pack and ever-lying snows, swept up from the north and tore across the j |. wilderness that lies between the North Saskatchewan and the Red Deer, driv , ing the antelope farther and farther! south; for when the snow covers the grass on the hills, and buries the ? sagebrush in the hollows, the prong horns must see?* fresh grazing . grounds. That was why the Black ; feet under Medicine Child jumped the reservation and hunted in^the Red Deer country. Their method was simple and, un der the conditions, eminently success ful. Then they rode in a body until they came to the deep snow. Then they scattered east , and west. Until there was ,a csescent-shaped -line of braces,! five miles from 'end to end. In this formation they.'combed the] country, driving thousands of ante-| lope before them to^h, bend in th?'riv ar, -across whici? bccaus? of the glassy Ice, the -prong-horns could not go. When the frightened wild things surged to and fro, seeking to break ' through the ever-tightening lines, the Indians cast off their mask of stolid ity and fell to slaughtering, with flashing eyes and shrill whooping, un Hjjtil the last antelope had broken des v perate^Tsthrough the line ot barking ./guns br lay unheeding in the tram pled snow. . ? ' The popping of guns down the riv .. ter and the sight of the squaws hasten ? lng away with skinning knives and pack ponies to carry the meat, pro?! invoked Bill Mathison to the utterance of profane sentiments. As he andi Todd Wayne surveyed the' killing from-the roof of the ?a! f shed, and speculated on the length ot time lt Would take to wipe out the antelope on the Red Deer at that rate, there Came a jangle of balls, and a single' boree sleigh slipped out ot tha mouth of the coulee down which ran the borne ranch trail. i . "Good enough! That's the vise I . gent that teaches school at Beaver : ?rossln'," Todd exclaimed. ."I'm! shore glad somebody's come along, yuh're good company, Scotty, but] yuh've got t' bropdln' over this Injun j proposition, and it'?, gettin' mouoto- j nous.1* . ' ..., "Aw, whisht yer fule talk," com-] m anded Bill. Then he shouted hos? pltably to tho newcomer, ^Plt yer nag V the stable an' gas rieht in. We'll be wi' you as soon as we feed these blattin* beasts o' calves." When Bill and Todd finished taking i care of their stock they hastened to the cabin. The schoolteacher had built a roaring fire, and was interest- j edly watching the Indian camp i through a space he had thawed on the frosted window pane. A box, about two feet square, stood&in the centre of the floor;-'? The lid was thrown back, exposing a queer looking thing that immediately a**-" quisitlve Todd. "Say, now, How "what breed uh n Looks like a cross b engine an' a blacksm . "That?" laughed . a magic lantern. I'i the Forksto giv?*a ment. Pictures, yo tableau or two-^-with "I never like f ra cbinery unless I know %n' harmless, " Todd < ularly, as he deposited "A mageek lantern Bill. And he viewed .great deal of Interest During the prepare '.Bill and Todd expia .vhat fashion ot fcflk ors In the lodge- acre s dwelt with muchw?mpl that they were undesh "It's no richte for t fae allow tn% red-Heev ii body's dooryard, as concluded, angrily I'V their killin' die 1 Medicine-Man. 1 till there'll no be anither bunch como tae the Red Deer for ten year," "Bill has been a-wishin' he was a 'heap big medicine man/ " Todd, the irrepressible, confided to Howell, "so that he could get out ar.' scare these here Blackfeet off'n the face uh the earth." After' supper the three clustered round the stove, for the mercury was marking time around the " twenty-be low " point, and^the hoar frost hung thick on the window panes. Howell and Todd discussed the various phases of the Indian^.Question, but Bill sat silent, puffing'industriously at his pipe. H? se?med to be studying over i some matters, and-at times his eyes rested speculatively on Frank How ell's lantern case. Suddenly Bill dropped his fe et "from ?the top of the oven door with a thump that brought a reproving look from Todd. He-knocked the ashes out of his pipe, on the stove front, and stowed it away in his pocket. ? Then he looked from one to the other and spoke. "I hae a plan for scarin' these red bodies finely," he began, rather I dubiously. "Throw it out uh yuh, Scotty," cried Todd, enthusiastically. "I'm the greatest son-of-a-gun t' work out schemes yuh ever saw--only I never can think uh one t! work." s _"It's no/on^ye 1'11-be dependin' tae wark oot the thing,". retorted .EUI. "Ye?Yno hae a big part tae*playi- It's on Mr. Howelf here ma plan depen's, an' maybe he'll no care tae tak a han'." "Let's hear your plan, by aU means," Howell said, impulsively. "If there's any sport in it I'll be right with you. " ? Thus pressed Bill voiced his Idea, and when he had done Todd Wayne and the schoolteacher were Idiotically giggling. 44 Yuh've shore got a vivid imagina tion," Todd assured him. "Yuh ought t' been one uh these here stbry-writin' sharps, Bill, with sech a noble set uh thlnk-wofks-yuh shore had. " "I prophesy that we startle the no ble red man a little, anyway," How ell chuckled, gleefully, "even If lt doesn't act as Bill thinks it will." It was a cloudy night, and the ranch lay under a high bank, which masked the cabin and stable, .the cor rals and calf sheds with unbroken gloom. Bill and Todd bundled them selves in fur coats and caps; they put on extra socks and dry moccasins and went outside. Their actions,did not betray anything unusual. They sim ply secured an axe each, and split a good sized pile of firewood. They piled the wood forty or ilfty yards from the cabin almost on the river bank. Whiled Todd whittled shavings tc-"" start a fire 3111 dived into thV cabin, reappearing in a mo ment with a ten-foot square of white cotton.; This he .fastened securely to ?, line, that rah from the woodpile to he stable, placing bl odes, of wood on the lower ejige-.tp,h]old..ltt?ut. - - When -Bill had completed7 bis .task; Todd signified tba* b? was ready to start the Ure.:"Bill shouted to 4he cabin: "We're ready nop, if ye are." The window lights were abruptly blotted out a second after ho spoke. They fanned the fire a. little, and as the flame shot up a nipping night breeze caught and blew it to a roaring blaze. From the blackness of the cabin wallia yellow glare of light shot forth, wavered a moment, then fast ened fairly on the white. cotton square, and disappeared. "The old boy's got tho proper fo cus, all right, all right," Todd re marked, jocularly, "Ain't lt about time t'? begin the grand march? S'nose your copper faced friends don't get curious?" ^ "Dinna ye,fear,* Bill replied, test ily, "the red deevlls 'll he here tagt ?neo*. Hae ye the concertina?" "I shore have," sald.Todd, produc ing the instrument,. *j ain't no Pad dyroosky, Bill, but I'll do the best lean." * % I He squatted in "the snow - by the fire, and, slipping his mitts Into his coat pocket, stretched the bellows and I rans his fingers over the keys, of the antiquated affair, -The squeaking' notes shrilici wonderfully loud In tlte silence. While Todd Indulged inl? few preliminary flourishes, Bill Heaped wood on the fire,".-Then be slipped.nout of bia. Jur ..\foat/'and straightened up wittf" a six-shooter in his hand; the barking crack-crack of it went echoing far np andflflowu the river. The Blackfeet, peering out of their tepees at the report pf the gun, noted the fire by the Gordon Une -camp, They looked with growing wonder at the figures of the two men vividly ' silhouetted In the glare, one huddled by the fire, the other capering before lt with loud , cries an<^ strange con tortions Of his bodv; and as the; squeaky trill of the concertina drifted over the frozen river, the Indian dogs voiced ? canine protest that died away in an eerie, wolf-like howl. Hesitat ing between curiosity aa<Js/supersti us fear, the Blackfeet listened and ..tched silently, until Wolf-That .ns-Swlftly, medicine man, struck Inflated chest with tho palm of hand, and spoke. 'It may be that' the white men 'e drank too much firewater," he Hied. "Or they may make medi 3 against us; for they like us not. .11 fifty lodges, of the Blackfeet id Iff fear before two palefaces? us cross the river and behold the (ga they do! My medicine ls nger than theirs-and lt is far rhere dwell the redcoats, In their tepees of wood." y the time Bill Mathison had exe d some thirty different steps of Highland fling, great drops of it were standing out on his tanned ks, and lt was with a feeling ot kfulness that he heard Todd '1 encouragingly, "Gc to lt, ,old Yuh got 'em a-comln'." As balanced airily on the toes of foot, pirouetting like a giddy is girl, and yip-ylpping in a man hat amazed even Todd, he heard huming pat-pat of moccasins in the snow. He glimpsed a line of in scrutable bronze faces peering at him -but of the dark. Closer they pressed, until the light of the: fire.^touched, their features with its; glow,..nndlhelr figures took on tangible shape. The^ .Bill faced them with hands ojgBMea)j? ? Todd fingered the keys dolDr??s^M^ "Have the Blackfeet' come to^be^1 hold the strength of my medicin??.*^ he asked, calmly. Bill spoke the' Blackfoot tongue like a chief of the tribe,, and wide knowledge of thfeir* customs and superstitions gave him a solid foundation to work upon. ' "What medicine does the white maa boast of?" Wolf-Tbat-Runs Swif; ;y demanded. In a scornful tone. "Does he think the Blackfeet are lit tle children to fear a fire and a thing that squeaks and groans with a strange voice?" "Listen! For many days the Black feet have had good hunting on the Red Deerv Is it not so?" Bill made a gesture" up and dow jj the river. "Our young men nave had good hunting," responded Wolf-That-Runs Swiftly, spokesman by virtue of his position when medicine talk was made. "Even so!" thundered BUL "The hunting has been good-so good that the young men, having powder a plenty, slaughtered the prong-horns for the joy of killing. And now the. carcasses, stripped only ot hide arid' tongue, He on th? river bottoms as close together as the cottonwoods in the coulees; so that when the chin ook comes the stink'-pf them will drive even the gray badger to the high lands. Wherefore, O men of the Blackfoot nation! the Great Spirit is angry. And he has said to me this night, 'Make medicine, and I, the Great Spirit, will send a sign that the Blackfeet who hunt under Medicine Child may be warned and cease their wanton slaying of the deer." .. Wolf-That-Rutfs-Swi?tly and' Medi cine. Child exchanged guttural confi dences for a minute. The younger Indians stood silent, but the gleam in their roving eyes betoken sn uneasy spirit. All through thi3 Todd Wayne with bowed head faithfully squeezed pianissimo strains out of tte concer tina, oblivious, seemingly, to his sur roundings. "We would see the sign," boldly declared Wolf - That - Runs - Swiftly. "We are no coyotes, to be driven from our hunting by a white man who speaks loudly. Show our young men. the sign, white medicine-maker." Turning his back on the Indians, Bill Mathison threw his arms aloft and shouted invocation to the black masseB of cloud-drift overhead. The strident'tones of him went bellowing across the hills. What he said was Greek to the Indians, and even Todd Wayne, though he attended strictly to the orchestral part of the affair, racked his brains to make sense of the words. But Frank Howell, list ening through a window, caught such fragments as "They reeled, they set, they cross'd, . they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reeklt, And coost her duddles tae the wark, . And linket at it 1' her sark,'' and he leaned against the casement, holding hands' to his,-shaking "side?. Of a surety Bill ?Tathispn knew how to conjure up.sp'jfts. *? " ? Suddenly be .jeased and held both ^aifirEf #^hf ^ying^fire? palms' cowr i .?re. :?s a sputter, a bril lia: slr o/ lo?d-red flame that died away isLg^jH' 'Bill faced th?; cabin and, pomlri^Jnio tha gloom, shouted: -'.'BeholrJ^ysign!" As he spoke a 'yenp.w glaro .showed fearsomely bright, on what seemed empty atmosphere. In a' breath a group of Indians stood where the yel low beam, had clared, then they were eclipsed by a"..squad of moulted po lice, tbs Riders "of the North, their red coats standing out like splotches of scarlet paint. A brief space they, linge-ed, startlingly life-like, then' there was nothing but black night. ? "Have the Blackfeet seen?" howled Bill. "Let them look again, Behold the sign!" ' Bill delivered himself cf more language as another scene flashed boldly ont, It was a smoke-stained ground-a fcrlm picture, perfect in dot nil, Back from the bodies .a gaunt, gray wolf squatted on his haunches, nose pointed skyward, as though he were calling his brethren to the grewsome feast, Bill turned on his heel as the plc? ture went out like a match lu the wind, -but there was no half circle of glitter?ng-eyed braves, Th^re was nothing' but the shuffling pet-pat of many moccasins in the crisp snow, and Todd Wayne, sitting by a few glowing embers, grinning ioollshjy up at him. * "They drifted," said Todd, tersely. "Mon/mon!" Bili Mathison Bald, earnestly-when, next morning, there was no sign of the Blackfoot camp, "the puir antelope'll be thankfu' for the nicht's wark. But wha wad 'a' thought the ignorant bodies wad flee frae a mageek lantern-an' a bit o' Bobble Burns!"-Bertrand W. Sin? clair. Breton Birthday Tarty. . A birthday party of 147.men, wom en and children, all the direct de scendants* of an old lady 100 years of age, gathered upon the 100th birth day of Mtoe. Anne le Cleach In the little village of Guilvinec In Finisterre this week. The old lady, who is a widow now, was married at fifteen. She had four teen children, six cf whom are still alive. Mme. le Cleach'si oldest grand daughter has herself been .a grand mother for seven yBars. The whole family form rather more than a third of the inhabitants of their village and Mme. le Cleach, who enjoys the best of health, knows every one of them by-sight and name.-London ,3 vening Standard. Conceited Men .Never Popular. A man who show* himself too well satisfied with himself is Seldom pleased with others; and thej', in re turn, are not disposed to like him.-^ La Rochefoucauld. Invisible Forces. All great forces are invisible and silent; only their effects are seen. The power of a true life, who can measure it? - *^9?mmo f . - * " GROWN UP PEOPLE, f? Margie's mother was, sowing some J seeds and explaining how they would \4X>m? up "plants. _ "Oh,"yes!" exclaimed Margie, "they go! to bed babies and get up grown people."^-Philadelphia Record. A TURTLE DAY. I want to tell you about an eiperi ence I had last spring when I had.the turtle fever and was very anxious to find some turtles ms'self. I started out one morning carrying ? net over my shoulder in search of them. I walked all around a little "lake where turtles would most likely live, but not a trace could I find. I w?s about tu give up when I remembered a little pond near the lake where I had often seen turtles. I walked cautiously around the edge and then my heart gave a leap, for there in the bottom of the pond, Tight near the shore, was a turtle. Now every one knows thatithese reptiles dive.iato the mud :at the ?east noise, and it'requires a cautiouE and quick movement to get' one, SQ; I thought it best to catch it with my hand. :Slowly I reached to ward lt and then made a grab. But ouch! such a slimy, horrid creature I held. - Not like the ordinary water turtle at all; but a soft spongy shell and a >blg ?ead that twisted around and trio'd to bite me. I never had such aa unpleasant surprise. I d/oppe^ the turtle, you may be sure, b"ut after so much labor'I was deter mined not to go home empty- hand ed.* So I tried to take him home in ,a handkerchief, but his ugly hqad first peered out from one corner and then from the other. He" frightened me so that I dropped hip?, handker BLIND When I am out at playo?' . " Duke ju mps and frisks nboutf Runs when n? sees me run- I -Barks when he hears me shout! And when. I trudge to school : Across the grassy nelda . ' Wbo should it bc but'-Duke Galumphing at wv heels!- ? " ' "-Written .for. the Wa chief and all, into, the ,.p?nd. For a long tfihe after tha? ?-.-d?d^not try-to ;|?go^??^tagv^ in', the Now York Tribune. .' . ON THE MERRICK RO AD. * Life on the .Merrick road,Pj which leads along the south shore of Long Island, oa a sunny Sunday,'afternoon is a very exciting thing. ( At sunrise the "honk" of the first automobiles wakes the slumbering resident, and from that time on till lafe af-night there is ?;n endless procession of vehi cles going to and fro. There is every thing from a 110,000 French car to a bicycle. r At hal:!-past 4 on Sunday afternoon, "a 'bus full of fellows, who evidently! had been on an excursionturther down t . Island, came lumbering along I?. MerricS road, The oceup?nta, all .very much"intoxicated, were quar reling among themselves, A couple of them were half asleep, A small boy, a brother of one of the men, sat on the steps, paying no attention to his comrades, The dispute 'became more and more heated.- One ot the sleepers woke up, but, in spite of the efforts of the rest, the' other man could not be aroused, A? last, full of anger and alcohol, the company fell upon, him and beat him until he Jumped out and ran up the road, where a free for all, fight followed, Numbers being against him, he'soon fell down in the road,.-when four of the men kicked him in the head, At this a few of the assailants became faint-hearted and ran off, breaking down hedges, trampling over flower beds and arousing all the dogs in the neighborhood. By this time a policeman and a-fire man arrived and arrested four of the chief offenders." Three they, let go, taking the drunkenest man to the Board of Health office for the nigh and to Mineola jail. The one who had been Kicked was taken to a doc tor, where he Bad his head tied, up The road in the wake of the wagon as strewn with sausages", b?er bot les and tin cans. The town officials arrested fifteen automobiles for fast driving. This was an exciting Sun day for Freeport.-Harriet T. Mum ford, in the New York Tribune. LOVE THE BIRDS. The birds of different*c?irntries and climes make a most interesting study, .and the more we learn of our little feathered kinsfolk of the air the more will we love them and hold their life and liberty dear. To destroy the life of a bird for the purpose of mere kill ing-to display one's marksmanship -is simply murder, and nothing .more, even though the victim be a bird. Life is given to all creatures of the air, the waters and the land by our Creator, and not one should be.| held lightly. Therefore, when chil dren kill birds for the mere sake of killing they :-;are committing very grievous sin. And to capture and cage them is even more wicked, for a bird in a cage is the same as a child in a prison, removed from all that it holds dear in lifo. Every boy and girl who reads this should try to im agine himself and herself kidnaped [ by some great monster, v/lth whom he and she had no connection what-1 ever, and carried" away from hom and friends and locked In a great ir ou cage, just large enough to admit of the prisoner having a few feet in which, to jump about and get exer cise, to depend on forgetful monsters for food and water, to have his or her prison .hung in cold or hot'places, to bb neglected and starved, and again overfed.' When they have fancied themselves inf :this unhappy captivity the boy and girl will have some sort of idea of the unhappy lot of an im prisoned bird. Now, the world had birds to fly and to sing before man was- created. Birds are as much a part of the beau tiful earth .as are the flowers and trees. There are- so many kinds of birds that to just read over the names of "a few of the varieties will rouse any boy's and girl's interest, and they will at once desire to learn something about each of these varieties, and of others that will come under their no tice when the subject has? been taken up. The tropical countries are richer In variety than are the northern coun tries. And the birds are larger'and morfe beautifully feathered in the tropics. Many of them have most curious habits, and form a never-end ing source of enjoyment to read and study abbut. A list of the namc3 of different families of birds, so to. speak, is given here, birds that are most interesting to know about. They are the nightin gale, the robin, the song thrush, the owl, the nuthatch, the skylark, the magpie, tho trogon, the rack?t-talled motmot, the .Mwope^tbe bee-eater, the hornbill (many varieties), the laughing jackass, kingfisher^ the cuckoo, the mountain parrbt, the DUKE. <*'''.>. ,.<" . ... (Ai And when sometimes Uni spanked, As every boy must be, Duke, with his single eye, Looks oh right angrily; He growls out: "Let that hoy be! "Don't lict-.that little chum of mine!" \nd then he licks my tears away, Tith sympathetic whine! ?ton ?tar by Marietta M. Andrews. cockatoo, the kaka, the kea, the swift, the morepork, the nightjars, &xe.?&u jnmlngblrd,"rithe. .pelican, the cormorant, the frigatebird, tho gan net, the screamer, the pochard*-the sheldrake, the secretarybird, the" vul ture, the kite, the esprey and the eagle. . The above list Includes birds of ail countries, and it will be a pleasure for the young reader to sort them, ar ranging them in their climatic order. Then study them singly, thus becom ing '.rtimato with our feathered kin all ovrer the world.-Mary Graham, in the Hartford Post, ' ? n; -r- OT-??**>>W**?*| TIFIC' NPV5TRJ . A Welsh flrm ls exporting to Brazil briquets made from waste coal and ccal tar pitch, moulded under pres? sure and heat, Coin'pelllng.. oysters to produce pearls by placing a foreign substance, sach as small pebbles, In their shells, .has becom9 an extensive industry, in -which the Japanese have specially ex? celled, but the Chinese can claim dis tinction In the originality of one of the substances often used by them, Paul Becquerel has exposed seeds of lucerne mustard and.wheat to the temperature of liquid air for threo weeks, and subsequently for h?urs, to the temperature of hoting; hydro gen, ?o"8 degrees centigrade/ and yet all of . the lucerne and mustard seeds, and several of the wheat seeds,r-ger? mlnated normally when planted. Bees were unknown to ihe Ingana, but .they were brought over fronrSng mntbonly a fow year3 after the land ing of the pilgrim fathers. M was more than two centuries after the flrs't white invasion of New England, however, before modern beekeeping began. The industry of the present day dates from the invention of tho movable frame hive by Langstreth, in 1852. Canadian doctors having reported frequent cases of slight injury or strain to passengers alighting from electric cars, tho Toronto Railway Company at the request of the Rail way afcd Municipal Eoard has mads some experiments with both two and three &tep3 below the car platform leveh The latter wera found to pro ject too far from the side of the car, but the two step pattern II?B been adopted. An electric rail girder has been de vised by the Albany and Hudson Railway for use in grinding the wing rails'of.frogs to insure smoother pas sage of car v/heels. A motor Is car ried in an ordinary hand car, a sort of email .barrow carrying the emery wheel being suspended from a crane overhanging the end of the car, and the operator supplying the necessary pressure upon the grinding wheel through tho bandies of the barrow. TALKED AT WRONG TIME. Apparently the English law courts hare the poke maker's attitude to ward talkative wives. It is not strange'for a.judge to feel that way liter having grown gray in hearing iomestic troubles aired in court. In i London municipal court in a sep aration suit recently, the wife plain tiff was on the stand. First, she ap peared subdued and nervous, but sud ienly becoming more "at home,""she burst forth into an astonishing flow pf words. Judge Bacon at first was Dverwheimed by the rising tide. At last, however, he cried loudly: "Be luiet, woman! You are not talking to your-husband! ."-New York Press. TELL FORTUNES .WITH GRASS. A simple method of telling tar j tunes, quite as unique and interesting Us the daisy method, is to us?, four blades of wiry grass five or six inches long.. Name the grass with your sweetheart's name. Place the blades together and tie in a single knot. Then take-, two blades and tie near the end in a double knot. Repeat this with the remaining blades 'until there are four such knots. Then un tie the centre knot. The form tho grass assumes determines your for tune; namely, one circle means that' your sweetheart loves you; two s?j-l arate circles ^hat he hates you; a cir cle within a circle .hat he is going to propose to you.-New Haven Reg ister. * MARRIED IN HASTE. It has been said that the exper-J llenCid man would never marry if he) didn't marry in haste, bacausa ka j knows too well the proposition that tie must face and fight, but, lucky Indeed is the man who does marry ia baste ii the helpmate is fortified with something more than her phj'sical strength-because, there comes a time when it is convenient to fall back on a- substantial fortune. Not ill suitable candidates are so blessed, but, perchance a man can boast, of <"Li > Creamed Parsnips on Ci, o \ tender, then season wi salt to taste. Prepare a , and one-half tablespoon one cupful of milk, one parsnips'were cooked, eighth of a'teaspoonful o wise and la^'them in tl bread is toasting, then toast; dress with a sauc< once. aa ? as S GS the absolute affection and tested sym pathy of such a one and that affection ls crowned with all the desirable at tainments and attributes of character, then, let him marry In haste, he should be congratulated indeed.. With ;"hlm there is no occasion for'regret, there is no bitterness .or. no.soreness.. But lc1 him watch out-in the final inning impulse 'may overthrow his most flattering prospects. - Nev/ Havcu Register. OVERDRESSING. "Nothing ls too bizarre and nothing Is too expensive to appeal to the woman with the overdressing " mi crobe," said a New York designer."^ really beautiful clothes. "It is strange that so many women .are devoid of the sense' of what is appropriate in dress. Gowns which would be at tractive at an afternoon reception are worn shopping; velvets and Jewels and trailing skirts and fluffy feather boas burden half the women you meet walking on the fashionable thorough fares, women who think-Bays the mark!-that they are taking- exer cise. It i's the same in England, On any of the smart Weet End-Streets you may see of a morning any num ber of these overdressed women, their elaborate costumes topped by a creation of flowers and feathers anu ribbons and- beads fearful and 'won? derful to behold, Once upon a time the well dressed woman wore a neat tailor made gown on most outdoor occasions,"-New York Tribune, WOMAN'S DARING TRIP, .'Miss Charlotte.Mansfield, poetess, novelist and explorer, who undertook an expedition overland from Cape to Cairo,'through some of'the wildest parts of Africa, was forced to glye up her journey by the sleeping sickness In the region whsrs Theodore "Roose velt hunted, The daring trip was started last winter. Miss Mansfield was accompanied by an ex-noncom missioned army officer and his wife, and two scoro of natives were in her train. Her' object was, in part, to study the folklore of the natives and to interview the pygmies. She at tempted little hunting beside that necessary to escure food. When she returns to England it is expected she will write a book on her adventures. She has already gained a name as an authoress, her novels, "Torn Lace" and "The Girl and the Gods," having attracted much attention. She made her way as far a3 possible on the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and then plunged into the wilderness, facing many hundreds of miles of tramping. -Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. PERTAINING TO PARASOLS. When your 'parasol gets shabby, don't throw it away, there are numer ous possibilities in lt. When the covering Is worn at th9 seams, cover it with a blt. of lacs, In serting oval pieces of applique ; stitch lt firmly to the material on the out side and cut the worn silk from un derneath. Worn edges can be finished with a frill of Inch-wide velvet or silk ribbon in the middle of each panel. The ribbon is gathered in the cen tre and is made one tone deeper than the parasol. For greater elaboration the bow knot can be arranged in the middle of each panel. If the parasol is spotted in one panel and the rest are In good condi tion, the spot can he concealed by em broidering a large oval medallion in self colors or white, with the mono gram of the owner in the middle. A unique effect was seen recently in a parasol which had a lining of palo yellow. This was covered with net in almost the same tone, and the ruffle wa3 briar-stitched in reddish brown.-Philadelphia Press. - J THE EACK YARD BEAUTIFUL. The life that has never contained a garden of some sort . Is a barren waste, no matter with what artificial pleasures-lt may have been crowded, declares Anne Ericson Cudllppe, in the Designer. There Is nothing com parable to the joy of planting, tend ing and dally watching the unfolding of bud and blossom which we have called Into existence, excepting al ways the dependence of a little child ? upon your love and guidance. Shall suggest ho rules for converting your bare yards into bowers of loveliness, for long-suppressed personal whims and fancies .should be harmlessly in dulged in the establishment of a true * garden. For those whose chiefest pleasure Hes In anticipation there are* i.appy weeks to he spent selecting the ..vines, shrubs and plants most'ad" I mired, to be welcomed as old friends when they have finally taken their appointed place in the garden. Nor will this familiarity rob them of newland interesting features. On the other hand, the impetuous nature, fond of surprises, can cast the re sponsibility o? selection upon the very willing, capable florist who, given conditions, furnishes bulbs, seeds and plants, the existence of which was never dreamed, and each day's un folding offers continual delightful surprises of color and form lasting throughout the blooming season. It is always possible to drape the sharp, harsh outlines cf buildings in a mantle of green, even where there is room for nothing more, and no walk should he without Its arbor. Toast.-Boil a half dozen parsnips th one tablespoonful of sugar and sauce by blending over the fire one fuis each of butter and flour with -half cupful of water in which the one saltspoonful of salt and one t pepper. Split the parsnips length ?e hot sauce. Let: stand while the arrange them attractively on the i, garnish with parsley and serve at Glove-fitting bodices are predicted. The bolero fashion is at hand again. Qhlldren ona more wear the pina fores. Orange Is among the most popular colors. Low shoes are ornamented with big buckles. Shaded silk hosiery has something of a v<jg%$. Much Mack velvet ls being used la millinery. The flower hat ls now the rival of the peachbasket. There ls a fad for Inset lace medal lions on stockings. Braided and embroidered cotton soutache buttons prevail. Jet and bead'fringes are much used on the smartest gowns. Muslin evening irocks.are touched with metallic trimming." New Paris bats are all large and show divergent trimmings. The directoire tunic cf real lace is new and exceedingly pretty; - Lace monograms appear on some of. the most fashionable stockings. . Washable chamois gloves are shown both In natural color and white. Tucks, still hold favor, but buttons haye outrun them in the race for first place, Collarless gowns are more freely i worn la daytime than for many sea* ; sons past, There is a remarkable prevalence cf foulard lu the handsomest day time gowns. Net gloves, the coolest things that can be worn, may now be had with embroidered backs. ?uit3 of silk, from the thick and heavy shantungs, which permit of In sets of really handsome lace, to the lightest and thinnest of Japanese or glace, hold their own. Young Men Lazy. I The young man has had his day so long in the United States that it is of more than passing interest to find j that a majority of the clerks in the ! Department of Labor who are to go out as a result of Secretary Nagel's housecleaning are the younger mem I bers of the staff. Some of the old men have lost their usefulness through superannuation, but the boys shew tho greater amount of laziness and general shiftlessness. The the* ory that a man cf fifty and more is out of the race when once he loses his .lob ls not borne out by this exper? ! lenee in Washington. The young chap ls mere valuable than the old ene If he can shew an equal amount ! of fidelity, steadiness and uniformity of output. But the distractions of life are more Hkely to cause his mind to wander and to make h'm an unre liable cog in the Industrial machin ery. For this reason there is still room, even in America, for the steady old hand who makes up for his lack of celerity with other qualities that are just as valuable io his employer. -Nebraska State Journal.