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rrR WEKLYEDIIO - WINBR 2918994% MY AUN The-tgoest frass;tbe sweetest flowers,grew -Ant -Pony*s door, The tfuest'af>ply,miles around, Aunt Polly's orebard bore; 'nvPll's-~coivs were sleel;. and fat, her I~. 'chiels a wondrous size WezSnfhb, the hired man, was-witty, ,zreat and wise. mea togo wit b Jabe at night.with clinking ils to' milk; - es he'd let me feed the colts and iab their coats of silk. AiX-th4nooa that rose inAthose days, just ;"heindbseidttle -bars *s twne as large as-it is now-with twice t .Polly '&a quaint old soul-a'busy Sbee-by day Mivna the honoy up'lor all, with never thought of pay. How many dawns we watched the sun, up risin- in the east. Shaie ont its baralers o'er the hills and drive -away the mit --Ed. THE MAKESHIFT EiB Annie Har Clarissa Kenip-late, very late Clarissa Collins-carried each pot to the back door.and i,nserted it briskly. Te litte heayr high and ua stable. There. were a good many pots,' andLt:wss juitke a .istance from the sittingi'r'om wino%to tie back door. Clarissa was tired when the stained green-painted shelves were emptied and.all the litter swept up. "Thiee" slhe breathe: with a little gasp of relief, sinking into a rocker,. "I'm thankful that job's done withl It's been staring at me ever since I came." Clarissa invrviably spoke of the day, -w eeWks ago, when she 'ud Jonas drove from the minister's into the little triin side-yard, as "when I. came." Since that day there had been a good ii ny reforms at the Kemp place. The heap of discarded gerani ums and fuchsias was only one of them. "I can't and I won't abide a mess of plaits round, littering! There's -enoUghjgoodness knows, that's got to litter without putting up with what ain't got to. You've got to water 'em, and you've got to patter with 'em and coddle 'em, an' there's always a ;mussy,-wct place under 'em'and sprigs and dry leaves. I can't abide 'em if other fuks can. Those that like 'em are perfectly welcome-I don't." Clarissa rouked backward and for - ward in the canpa:ious, calico-softeued chair, communing aloud. Her come ly, middle;aged face had a look of re lie! urzon it. Once only a slight shade of remorse quivered across it and was gone. "He'd ought to know I'd do it," she muttered, "and he onght to have got his mind made up by this time. I've given him time enough-ever since I came. I told him,ten minutes after, that I couldn't fe'lowship with a mess of ilants. I guess that was good an:1 ktir warning!" T.he rockers took to sudden creaking as if pleading in Jonas' behalf. In the sn'ny windows the green shelves loo!e'd bar e and lonesome. There were little round circles, smaller and large.r,side by side along their lengths, wh.ere tim pots had stcod. The big gest c rcle "of all spoke pathetiedly of Jons' pet cactns that boro the dainty *'qink- Alowers amnong i:s spines-that "Ahviiy" had set store by. Alwilda was the wife that hal driven from the ,-mi3iste:'s- into the trim yard first. ~vcn Jonas wvas hardly -fonder of plants than A'.wilda had been. "There's sonie sense to hiavin.g ind.Ws to sit by that youest se4'oi of," mused Clarissa contentedly, gaz-1 ing~ out on the strip) of mneandering1 roadway stretc-hi-ng ble:akiy away n'pi bi!l. "N~ow I can see the -people. passing--there's Deacon Pottlhcon-. 'in; a'reaay! I can tell it's the deacon~ by the wtay -the horse 'wags his headl and mee::hes along d:>wn the hill. Seems to rue I'd have a creature. with. -ik' of spirit to hi.- Why,no; .t&l oinasiasiTlive!" .t Witli 'sucden accession of neonu n,C!adss-a Kemp snatched a rnig and harrined to the back door. Jonats and the old horse were turning.igth the hua Ehe 'ednla hear the piond: peund.Iof clamsy -hoofs -on the har~d elay. She threw the, rug over the heap of b>rokei p' lants and waited td pni! down o-ne corner across the tiers of interlocked ea:.then .pots beside it. "I don't want it to come on him all in a heap," she murmured. "JTonas has to have time to get u-ed t othings. He ain't a sudden man, Jonas ain't. I've foumnd that out si.nce I came." Then she hurried back to the rock * ing chair by the window. Jonas was jnst f-lod diog past. "Why, ain't you early, Jonas?" Claries called, a hittle breathiess with hu-rying. "It's only 3 o'clock. I wasn't lo4oking for you back 'till sup per time." "Tee. I am early-whoa, bad,DJen ni.w o- -bat the town meetiog rs ec..W.e got through-or. doings sc:mr' we expected to. They ap pom L me moderator." Jo'nas' voice had a ring of- modest piain it. Clarissa laughed appre Clalkivel'. "Is;uisay' you'd moderate spi4n -didly,Jonas,"she said, "bat I shoumldn't 've aposed yeai'd 'ye moderated so -Teold horse started up and'went staidiy on toward the barn, with the trili of Clarissa's laughter in his wake. "Claris;y's a real hutnorons -wornan," ondered Jonas; "she's g.ot all! of it that Alwildy didn't have. Whea, back, Dennis!" .s If.lonais noticed the unwieldy .heap -under Clarissa's rug: on his way back to the house he said nothing about it, It was not Jonas Kemp's way to T POLLY. Gold-winged arrows pierced the gloom of valley, wood and nook, Bright fleeks of crimson rode the clouds and tumbled in the brook, Gave back with cheer the. apple's hue, the pumpkin's. and the squasb. Tili dear Aunt Polly would exclaim, "What a perfect da7 to wash!" What steam of incense then would rise from dear Aunt Polly's tub! For sun and sky her heart gave praise with each all-eleansing rub; No skylark's note, no poet's song, more pradseful than the tune She humoed the while her linen white upon the grass lay strewfi. Aunt Polly. faithful, gentle, entered long since to reward: Her kind old. face han slept for years be necith the churenyard s\vard': For her has dawned another-day, more per feet. brij--ht and glad - Than when sho rubbed the snowy clothes, while I s'ood by-a lad. th Keeley Stokely, in Youth's Companion. OF JONAS KEMP I liiton Donnell. room the bared shelves and the- nn wonted inflow of sunshine aer, is them appealed dumbly to him, and Joais answered as dumbly. His -seamed ol fa-e turned doggedly away ironm the-,indows, and the pain on it was only'isible to the faint, iweet face or Alwilda lookitig out of the dagner retype on the -*all. Clarissa's keen eyes'did not see it. Twenty years diried Jonas and i Clarissa Kemp, and Cla-issa xas not young. Sue had tailored a-id stitched away all her young years ia her small vils-e shop before she came. It had been Aseyen days' wonder toClarissa's friends and twice flirice that to Clarissa herself, that she . had locked her shop djor and gone to the minis to 's with Jonas Kemp. After supper that night Jonas did his chores and took (Iowa his pipe. Clarissa permitteC no smoking ia doors-pipes * were even worse than a mess o' littering plants. - You could abide the smell of flower,but tobacco --fangh! So Jonas had his evening smoke under the stars, or, rainy nights, sitting on th, saw-horse in the woodshed. Alwilda had "liked" the smell of his pipe. Heaven forgive tl -ge-tle little prevarication! When Jonas went in again at early' bedtime the heap of pots and braise. plants was cleared ieatly away, and Jonas had the rug, well shaken,under his a- m. He spread it with precise pains,aking in exactly its place on the sitting room floor. "I found it out by the back door, Claris.y," he said ,eiltly. "Umn-i-n," mumbled Clarissa,a lit tle taken aback. And that was all that was ever said about the plants. After that, if Clarissa had not been occupied continually with keeping the. house "unlitte-e " and.nost spotless: ly prim, she would have taken notice that Jonas stayed a good deal-soMe where-oat-of-doors. -He- spent rare mninaites only in his old place besids the sitting room window. And paiss-1 ers-by-if there hladl been-any passer-s by--on the grassy cross road. that rau past the old, unpainted-'-Ke-4 batrn would have looked cnriously at the big barn windiws. There wvere two of the n, and both were a-b'oom with red ger-aniunms and gay with purple and cr-imsoni inchsias. Ronigii deal. shelv.es stretdhel behind the. cob webbed panes, and1 every.,.one .was bi-ightly tenanted. B3ut passe-s-h~y were few, and Clar-issoa never pased by. lier way, when shP went abr-oadi, was by 'the wider ma~in road that i-an -uphill-:id down again to town. Clariska n'ever went to -the 'barn.- Jonas Eetup and the cows, the great barn eatt and Dennis *vers the only ones that~saw the r-et geraniams blo-oming bravely in the barn win dows-nunless, w-ho can tell?-nnless Alwida sawv them. .Another thing Cla-issa might have notieed wvas how long t he old pioe lay unto:iched on . the kitchen mantel: Jonau went out to his ev-eninz smnoke night after night-without it.! If .it ha l' been his way to say things he inight have said that when one's flants hav-e- been destroyed ruthlessly one mast replace them somehow even if one -mnst btig thena with the tobacco one misses filling the old. pipe with. And that wonld- have explaine-1 the -times-of late that Jonas had driven alone. to the little city down the river and comne backi past Clariss'a's win dow and Clarissa's 'curions eyes, with a queer,hnrapy loa l "in behind." "Humph! Now I wonder what Jonas 's got all tucked up in behi," Ciar-issa would mnuse,eyeing susp)icions ly the humps. 4"Tin't grain an' tisn't critter s--live ones anyway. And he couldn't 've got 'em if they were alive, note-without my knowing where the money habd gone~ to." But Cla- isa'h.ad .not put her cn on~flth on-igts into que-stions, and the tie of l.eingcurious and the kuobby-. do ered kaas '.'n behind". Jonas. bad g one by together. She was very busy .'H the latesn:gmer. aud early fall sew ingin rag o- her gay new carpet tha, wa-s to t-ansiure the dull little cor ner barlor where nobody went an d nobody wainted to go. One afternoon, as she sewed, she hear-d Jonas' plodding feet tap slow ly up.the wa!Rt and -Jonas' heavy breat:h keeping 'ti:me to the taps. What in land of goodness was Jonas coming.in thatt time a' day for? It was so n nsnal that Clarissa let the strip, of r-ed and yellow -ags slide out of her lap and curli like a br-illiant serpent at her feet. Jonas "caine ir.-" so seid&m, lately.except to his meals. She bard lv sa~w his uiliing old facee from morning to nighit,.Ior~she had formed the habit of setting his dinner out on the m:eal ehest in the- porch and Itt tjneh eat it alone. Her own- dinair it saved such a pile of littr and mess that way. Jonas plodded in. He looked bent and feeble. "You aren't sick, are you, Jonas?" Clarissa asked a little anxionsly. "Oh, no-no, I guess I ain't sick, Clarissy. I guess not," answered Jonas, dully. He crossed to the mantel and took down his pipe and blew the dust from it. A little glint of eagerness crept into his eyes-it was so much like shaking hands with an old friend again, "Where afe you going to? ? "Jest for alittle smoke, Clarizsy jest for a little smoke." "Land of goodness--at two o'clock in the afternoon! Jonas Ke.np,you area't lo.iog your faculties, I hope!" Jonas peered up at the o!d clock above him And then at the afternoon sun riding across the hecaveus. He looked dazed. The pipe slipped through his fingers unnoticId and lay in two pieces on the bare' tioor. '. guess I got mixed .np Claris;y; I thought-ttwas ufter s bper,' he ex plained with an apologetic atfempt at langhing. "I guess I'll go out and wait a spell, till 'tisf." But at supper time Jonas did not appear. Half-past five, six, half-past six-still no Jonas. At quarter of sev'ef Clarissa was frigLte ied. Dim foebodings tugged!it I er ireart-strings till they vibrated d,isgally. "I'll go hunt Jonast up," she said bri-kly, shutting her ears to the sound. "It's just as likely as not he's fa.len sound asleep somewhere. He's get ting real old, Jonas is." 6he -went through the.porch and carriage house and then with Quick ened stel;s- up to the -barn. It was a new trip, up.over the stony path, for Clarissa, and tihestones hart her ieet. "For the-land-of goo ineis' sake!" she crie I slijilly at the barn door. The fvbwers ii' the windows-row on row of ."them-danced diLzily before her efs. In Clarissa Remp's and Clarissa Collins' life she had never been so astonished. One of the windows was raised a little, and the b ee:e crept in and set all tne bright flowers nodding, friend ly-wise, at her. Row on row, shelf on shelf-for the land of goo uess' sake! Bit how cozy and homelike they looke.l How pleasant the weathered old barn looked! Then larissa went in. As long as she li,ed-and the Coll.inses came of a long-livd race -she never forgot the things she saw that afternoon in Jonas Kemp's barn. The strip of c.r pet by one of the windows.the broken chairs set about Alwildy's mother's spinning wheel, the light of the sun through the. geranium Teaves and,din ly, on the haymows behind and ou all the cobwebs and co.bwebs-and Joras there, asleep. ' Clai:i.ssa saw them all. She :aw them over ara- ovei again till she died. "JonasI"-she called softly, after a minute.or two. "Jonas, it's supper tiae-3onas!" She weat up to him and prod-Ied his shoulder with her thimn.led finger Clarissa:. -iearly always wore her himbe, to.have it "handy.". Sh-e.tilted his drooling old face towaid her and the lgght. It was tw~isted an rwhite. "Oh, he's got a stroke-Jonias! ona! he's gut'a stroke!" .Clarissa ried wildly. Jonas opened his eyes andilooke:l t her .in an unacquaint.d,- troabled way. ."ft's pleasant--out heie," he' mur :ured thick y. 'fThe plats-dou't take 'em ; away!" "Jonaa, dea -Jong.s - yu must get ight up. and .ad:nexu ao t ae h an,e with me-me, Clarissygd onas. ]Don V you udw Clarissy?". "Iknow somuebody Aliildy," uimured Jonas, trin; t.. 'rnile with is twistled' liK One arue ha'u..limp e'sid4 hiim,and he touchled it curious y with his othe- liand. "'.it.doe~ snt-be~lou t me, he sarid. After a little whie hiri ?0111eI qpite c'.ear again, andl the.he pleadd to stay with his uiowers. 'Col>ndn't I ley in b. dcat here, Ca isy?" he as.ted t.iuniy. "Jest- till I eel better Tie larnts.'ll muiss inie a' I'like:&it ont Ii:re-I like it out ere'-We'it out ne'e. Agaiti and again he munibled it wistflly. The tuno Claisa heart-trings were wailin-g almos-t bro(ke her he ir-. - She got help at a' neig~hbor' ~, anid tey took Jonafhioune.~ ke wias doz ing all the.. ay; TIt.s apn;iinostaliday ater when Jonas fully aw~oke. "Ain't it p pea ant. ont h'ere -in he barn, Cariey:" he .whiperel, appilj~. ".[ like it out here-don't "Yes," Clarissa said brightly. "I ike it 'out here,' Jona'." The green-paiunted shelvies had back their old tenants rand new tenants, row upon row. The wvindoesopp. osite Jonas' bed were fu~il of gei-anino anid gay purple and red iuchsia's, andt the actus was there that Aiwi dar had loved. Her mother's spinning wheel stood on a strip of carpeting near Jonas. How'pleasant it looked "out theie!" How the sunshine itat ed though the geranium leaves and made daning traceries on the wall. A sprig of the sun leaves lay adr'oss Clarissa's face, and 'Jonas smiled at it likena pleaed child. "Clarissy," he whispered eager-ly, "can't we stay out here always? .1 like it out here" Clarissa's eye; feiL.;aon a tiny litter of dry leaves under isiiidow. "Yes, Jonas," slie smniled, "yes we'll stay 'out here; aJ.w'eys.- ,I like -it, too"-Country Gedeeman. The Quafity dftT.e .Water. 1octor-Can yvou.ge1pare water at' your -boarding housa? Ptient-Not always. I fr'eqnutly :etct' just a fiavor of e in it.--~ CHLDREN'S GOLUM Ten Little Servants. T,n litt!e servants Johnny has, That krnow but to obey. Ari to his s.ivite-t beek *ad call 'hey never answer nav' An.d never Prguv or reply. Nor vexing questions ach, But with a good and hearty will Do their appointed task. Of dirrorent size and diffex:at strength, Yet willing all had true. And -Ilad to give each oth.or aid In everything they do. Five on his right, five on his left, And vaeh one has his pujr, Wnaieh mateh s him in size aad form Exactly to a hair! In orery duty of the day Each noWy btars bis prirt. At school or home, no matter where, In lahor or in art. And Johnny never soeaks his wish, He onlV netas to think, And straight these servants do his will, As quick as you could wink! Ani should thrse busy brothers work A sinute deed of sbrne, 'Not theirs the fault-yon may be sure That Johnny is to blanie; . And so are you in the samte case, All children and all men Fr vho ha, flngrs stront-and well Can count his servants ten! -Youth's.Companlon. The Camel's Revenge. Th.e cimel is stupid save when angry, and then see'us to become sand denly possessed with an intelligence almost preternatural- in carrying out its vengeful 'designs. Palgrave re lates the following stcry of a camel's revenge,which serves to illustrate this point: A lad of fourteen had conducted a large camel, laden' with wool, from one village to another,;.t a half hour's distance. As the animal loitered, or turned ont of its way, its condietor strnek it rerentedly, and harder than it sceieml to have thought he had a right to do. But not flAning the oc easion favorable for iaking immediate qiits,' it "bode its time." That'time was not long in coming. A few liays later the same lad had to r-c,nduct the beast, but unladen, to his own vii tge. When they were al)o,,t hAlf way on the road, a 'd at ,ome distance from any habitation, the camel sud lenly stopped, looked deliberately ron id in every direction. to nssure itself that no one was within i an., fin Ting. the road far and neir clea" cf pia-sers-hy, made a step forward.,seized the unlucky boys head in its monstrons mo-th -and, lifting -bi:n un in the air, fang' him down azaia on the earth with the upper part of his skii -com tpe tor& ff an&_ his brains scattered on the ground. Having thus satisfied its revenge, the brute quiell resumed its 7aee to ward the village as though 'nothing were the matter, till some men, who had observed the whole, though un fortnrately at too great a distance to be able to afford timely help, came up and killed it.-St. Paul's. A Leeson In Cantentmesnt. Long, long aan a robin and butter By talked over their troubles one day. "How much nicer it wonld be to li"e in a house as men do!" said the robin. Miss Butterfly was quick-witted. "Why not go to live in that house now? The window's open." And she iesy in at once. The robin was mnore cautious. He alighted on the wiud>w sill and peeked around. "I do,'t see any place for a nest." "Pshaw! Von don't need a nest in a hrnise," said his gay little friend. So Master Ruhn flew in and ierched on the first thing hefo'nnd, which was a baok: but he 10 ked homesick. Miss Ent'erfly fiuttered to a guill pen and made bue?ere it was a flowe-. Pretty soon ihe-e were sonnas, and robi, li.teni as hari as he conld. "Oh, -pama! ' a chi'a's voice said. "r onk there! Whbat a bean,tiful 1Uiterfly for your collection! Ani, p l)-, nia'n't I have the bird in a ae? I'd like a robin with my ca, ary." A man's voice answered low: "Pnn aound outside, then, deary,an1 close the window softly 80 they can't get out." Master Pobin's brains were wide awke now. He spoke quickly, "Th'it mar.'s an en-ento-well, I ca't say it; bnt he's cra?y on insects and he'll stick a p-in thro,gh you, my la y. And that girl thinks she'll put me in a case! I guess not! Let's Ont they flew, just as the little maid's hand tonched 'he sash. They heard her cry of disa pointment, as they dashed by her. "Oh, papa! they just went out like a flash and they're both gone!" But Maeter Robin and Miss Butter fly langhed heartily to he ont again in the free air~. The black c!ond was gwe and the warm spring sun was shiing on the garden beds of crocus and hyacinth. How beautiful it waa ot of doors! Living in a house was not to be compared to it. "Bet ter be content where our Maker meant us to live," said Miss Butter fi. A wise afterthought of the highty-tighty little creature!-Sun When Spain Cia-mn'd Illinois. The boys and girls may be interested to learn how neatly a claim of Spanish cnoue4t over what is now Illinois ud'a]ioining states was met at Paris by; the American peace delegates 105 years agc. Here is the story: 'When Great Britain and the thir ten tn1ies er disenssing the pre lmiaries ofthe treaty of Paris and Vrsiles in 1783 Spain surprised the1 c. ei aners of both by presenting a ei n o heowner4hip of the '"Imlni under the direction of Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia. This territory had been transier!el, in 1777, from British to Amei ican rule by the dash ing conqnest of Col. George Rcgers Clarke; but the wily Spauia! ds al leged a later conquest. In snpport of their claim the Spanish diplo:xats urged the followin- incideat from the history of the year 171: Don Eugenio Pourre, a Spanish captain. with a force o* 2;5 Spaniards, Frauco-Americans and Iudians, gath ered from St. Lonis, then the capi al of New:Spain, and from C.hokla,near by, mia.4araid across. wbat is W)w *he stat 6f Illinoi. rountum Lake Michigan, capture- Port~t Toseph, an ol( French fortification which had degenerated into a British trading post. The Spanish fag was raised over St. Joe's log fort, so ne guns were fired in honor of "his most catholic maf:etv" and then Don En genio and his band, loaded with fin-s and skins, hurried southward, to give no further ihonght to their "con quest." But two years later the Spaniards of Madrid betbon-ht them selves of ti1e incident and warmly snpported by France, based upon it a claim to the "Illinois country." The Anerican commissioners, led by Benjainii Franklii antl John Jay, admitted the facts of the raid, but denied the claim of conquest since there had been no permanent ocnpa tion-an al-olute re :nirement of con qnest. This reaouinq not I roving effective, the Ame i-nns then resorted to geogral,hy. E,en if the Spanish claim were just-which they were careful not to allow -they showed by a map which could not be quesrioned that the alleged conque,t could have no bearing upon the terri'ory in de mand], as St. Joseph was not, and never had been, a yart of the .1.iuois :onntry.-Chicago Record. Li,en1!nu.Not a Gluntten. E. H. House is writing a series of papers for St. 'Nicholas on "Bright) Sides of History." The anthorsays: One of the Greek bisto: ians sai that the regular price of a meal at a Roman hotel was about. ove quarter of a cent. That was a little before the time of the emperors; but we know that in Tra-au's reign,two cents a day were considered amdle for the snport aud edneation of a boy. On this basis, at a rough cal-nlation,the money paid for Calignia's supper might have snp 1.ied a dinner fo: one hundred and fifty mil;ions of people, if so many con!d have been brought togeiher. "I call it wickedness," said Amy, "downright wickcdaess." "That was the ol inion of quite a umber, even then, my dear. Lunl Ins was often taken to task for his rredi ty. and sever:l year.s laer, a great w,riter nared Javenai spoke his mind freely enough on the sub ject. He gave dinner., too; but from one of his bills of fa:-e, drawn up with his own hand,, we can find what be considered ample for himself anct friend. His principal dish was a young kid, after which he offcred !hickens, now-laid ezgs and vegetables; and for esert, grapes, ears and aplAes." "He was no glutton," said Percy pprovingly. "No; nor was Lucullus,in the lowest sense, though lhe seemed determined o make himself out worse than he ealy was. H~e always pretended that e gave his huge bau nets for a purely etish purpo-e. He invited a party f Greek travelers so ofteu,and at such eckless expense, that th!ey finally rotested and decla-ed themselves un illing to accept any more; but he told hem they shonld not set it all down o their acecount, fo"-, though a part of be display was for their sake, more of t was f&r his own. "Don't you think," asked Percy, "that he said that in kindaes?, to ~nake them feel at ease?" "I like to think it, and a-n glal when other pe sons do the same; for have a fondness for Lucallus, in pite of his faults, as you will have hen you come to know all abont him. [hre is no reason for classing hin ith the vn!gar gormandirers of his ige, li!;e Titellins of Comn nodus, or, I nay say, the majority of thle enperors, nost of whom ioo:k more leasulre i: 1 nanaging kiichens than in ruling'' ingdoms. Domni iau, the last of the i welve Casars, considered problems| f cookery so far above quiestions of' state that on one ocencion he called . he Poman senate together to consult 1 ith him as to how atirbot should he reared for the table. He looked i pon the Senator Montanus as a 2 rniacle of wislo I', for no better rea son, aipparently, than that this cnlti rated epicnre could tell, by the first ijte he gave an oyster, whether it ~ame from 'Englanrl or froms the Medi erranean. It is .Juvenal, again, who bells us of the delicate taste for which dontaus was renowned. I think, lowever, that the faculty of distin iishing British oysters does not ount for mneh. A good umny Amer [cans could do that quic-kly enon 4n With their eyes shut; thongh not, per- a aps, if the oysters had sugar on the n,a r-hich was one of the ways they weree laten in ancient Rome." e A fleaniar Pol.ye'ot. 13 A gentlemnan in a rural district I ~rew down upon his head a storm of, averse critiim by marrying a see d wife shortly after the demise of 3 his first. Two of those good ladies 1 ho lock generally upon the sur face of things and who are ever ready with: ~ondenation. were disenssing the ( isgraceful affair. I "Why, my dear, there's his poor! ife hardly cold in her grave and haJ i oes and marries another", "Dreadfui !" dec-lared: the other. "I j 1 never heard of such a ting" '"I should thik not.-ind1teed. went I mf nuomber one, angri:vy. " 'arryind rie after wife th n-v;i- - +h man -' regular plyglt?-- Goul Maga.jt IFOR WORYllS BENEFIT@ ,Prnn Will Whiten the Hands. For the hands that have become tanned or sunbnt, just before going to b.d bathe the.n in waria water so that all tne s<apy w.,.er has diFap peared, and then dabble them with lemon.jnice. ]f your skin is very sen sitive dilate the lemon juice,but wheu it is applied a:low it to dry on the hands. Sleep in gloves, and after the third night's care your hands will be as fair a id soft as the hands of any one of hihakespeare's heroines.-La dies' Home Journal. Woman' Position in TrdIa. Ilindn women in ancient India en joyed a state of complete independ ence and perfect liberty. They were highly respected- and enconra.ed to pursue the life they dee.ned best. They were nt evea co.npelled to arry. There a -e eviden.es that women cultivated lite-atnre a id phil osophy, and in the 'ambler walks of ii-, wives walked side by side with their husbandi and male relatves in agricultural pursni s. Even to this day the women a-ricultn-ists of India enj,oy g-e.tter fre3dom than their sex in urban countries. Altogether, in ancient times tle position of women in India was suparior to that of her sex in probably any other part of the world, even in learned Greece or Rome. Frenh Feminine Fencers. Ame-ic.m women have never taken ap feicing with the enthusiasm shown b)y English and French women, and femiuiae dueli<ts in our country will cloubtless continue to choose tongues s weapons; but thera have been wild rumnors that feminine skill with the oils, in France, would lead to a re vival of the times of the regency, when bona fide duel.i between women were no uncommon occarieuce. Only a few weeks.ago two fair Pari 5ilins. not averse to notoriety, ar ranged.,a meeting, but friends per 4ae.1 them to settle the quarrel and !all the anel.off, much to the reg-et Af scanda! lovers;_ Many French wom 3n are exI:ert fe ice'r.,and in London tbe f.id has been eacau;aged by the ;welle-t set. A really s%v.ger femi iine duel wonld be a new se tion in ociety. It woul.1 be romaut , ecoming, for nothing shows off th 5gure as good as fe icing. Then the )o-ibiities in dueling costumes are nost enticing. By all means, let us ght duels. T1h3 resilts need be no more sen ms than in modern "honorable en bn+l," het wea Frc:ch deputies; ind' the affirs 'would 'be chic and >i_-tures.ue in the eNtreme. Bat in he feminine dael the aulience must iot be li.ited to seconds and physi :ians. One should make a social unction of it and relieve the tedium )f afterno.n teas and receptions. gew York Sun. The Ent;is~h WYomai'a Shoes. We have beard so mnh-and have eard it so long-about the stout amid tensible shoes that English women ear that we have come to almost ,i ik that the English woman's rosy :heek and splendid health are due done to the shoes she wears. At any ate we have been considering stout hoes for a long time, and last winter nany a woman wore shoes made on he same last as boys' shoes. This all1 for boys' shoes for wvomen set healers to thinkiig and manufacturers to aking, and the result is that the ~ho-s are showing shoes esa :tly like hose made for men. No more wet eet and no more abominable rub )ers, unless it is terribly rainy. The iew walking shoes for women co'ne up io higher than those worn by men tot five inches-anmd are made of the nae grade4 of leather. A man's shoe s madle to allow the foot to lie flat td rest as easily as possible. The rdinary woman's shce permits the ipper to st: etch ov er the s31e and iter a short wearing the shoe is out f shape. According to a reliable lealer "it is three to four years since mr first orders for men's shoes for voen made individnally began to ~ome in. This spring, however, the lemand became so common that we de ermined to order a line. This win er the oil grain, different qualities of alf and horsehide shoes of man's nake, hut in proper sizes, are as ~vailabie for our women as our men onsumers. The high shoes won't be ltere1 an iota in shape, either. They all come upnuo higher on the ankle han the men's snoes do, being only ive inches high, against seven or even and a half inches that is the sal height for a woman's boot." hicago Times-Herald. Sports Healthfat for Women. Just as there are periodical protests gainst th.e atten..ion paid to athleties t schools, so people are found to take sception to the extent to which womn n indulge in sport. The real fault o be found is more with the woman terself than with her love for sport, f she can hunt, shoot, elimb moun ains and do various other things hich, as a rule, women did not affect ears ago, without aequiring a slangy one, it is dirlicult to understand why ~omen who live ia the country shonld ot avail themselves of the enjoyment f country pursuits, just as they mirc a the social functions of the London eason. A healthy, active woman liv ag in a honse, the stab!.es of which re well tenanted, and to which shoot ag is an aIljunet, would not urea omably feel dull on b. ing left alone~ ud having to confine herself to a con tittional on foot or am quiet ride long the roa-is; bat as the.re is a li uit the pro ninence given to athletics, na pssibly to nor. by maen there is a point beond which it is expedient that women should not go in the di rection of sport. In the alte. e 1 state of things, how ever, there is no particular necessity to run counter to the times. It must be abont 40 years since fonr young ladies living near Chiswick we:-e ae cnstomed to disport themselves il a four-oared boa , with a small brother to act as coxswain, and this si up:e a:uusement was considered exceeding ly f:ist at that time; now ladies ta.ce part in regattas, steer racing sailing boats, and, as in Miss Leale's cas -, compete at Bi4ey, all of which de l'artnres would have shozked their great-grandmothers. St.l thesp31ting wo nan i; no latt r-d.ty cr- ation. In numerable instances c u!d be given of women hunting, hawking and -hoot inz with crosshows long enongh ago, while Mrs. Thornton was n,t above making her app.-arance on th3 turf as a rider. The racing woman, however, is admired by but a few, and we are g-ad to see that neith-r Lady Greville nor Miss Slaughter admit ed any rac ing into their books. : For va ions papers and magazines, sund y la lies have been interviewed and w i:ten ab,ut, their portraits being givet at the same time. This, no do.ibt, gratifies personal vanity, but it is a crious coincid.nce that these notices are almost eclusively confined to hunting, driing and golling ladies, while archery, one of the most e i cy able and pre-eminently feminine amnsements, is seldom n.>iced, and seldom does a wo.nan's port:ait ap rear because she is. an archer. Up to a certain point one need not he averse to women joini ig in sport; it tends to give them health, to improve their physique, and goes a long way 'oward discouraging tight lacing and high heels.-London Field. Victor!a's Limited Powerx. The Queen has no power over tava tion and could uot c:-eate any new of lice with fees attached to it. The Queen cannot exclude a mem ber from Parliament after he his been dluly electe-, nor can she delegate the duty of signing laws to any one. Though her ma-esty may pardin a murderer she is debarred by an -act passed in the reign of George III from extending royal clemency to Sabbath bh eakers. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India though she be, Victoria cannot increase th a pay of her own foot nan, unless she does so out -,,her private funds. T%e Queen conld sell or give away the r I navy, or de:lare war with Russa, It she conld not spend a sin glo farthiaof public money without the causent Parliament. .The Qneen canW---eoni3nuicate*ivitl.', her sub,ects as cafhe most' of her servants, nor ca.se receive resents from her people save thr7goiW oicers of s ate or friends personally known to her -majesty. Though her d6c-sion is absolute after a prisoner has been sentenced 'she c3uld not inte fere with the course of justice before the sentence has been aised. Neither can she interfare ii' acase of private as opposed to public rong. Her majesty is subject to the. laws hat she signs,and cannot issue a prs amation c3ntl ary to law. If, for in tance, it were the law of Eug'and hat no train should trav-el at a rate eceeding 50 mni!es an honr.the Queen old not issue a prorlamiation exe'.pt ng a certain train from the operation f the law. Th.angh the Queen coul 1 recall any subject from abroad, shte cannot czm pel a sub-ect to leave Great Brit.Ain. his disability d3es not cease to oper te even in time of war, aud, thou-:h t such a time the Queen coald call pon every able man to take up a-ms, she conid not force a sin (le civilian to eave the country, even to carry on a eessary war. The Queen is the only person who annot a>rest a susi.eeted felon. Yo .tion can be taken against her for >reaking the law, and, therefore, she s precluded from making an ar; est, as, supposiag the suspected prisoner were innocent, no action for false i-n risonmient could be taken aga ns ther ajesty. The law, in leed, assumes hat the Queen can do no wrong. Fashi1on Notes. Cherry red taff.ta is tlie latest thin.g for pett.coats, and if you woald ba qite up to date have corsets to natch. A short jacket of fawn colored cloth ith a satin finish has a heavy broad olar and lapels or Alaska sabl,L~ ink, or some dark fur and is most effective. e Little col'ars of fur are m'tde sailor hape,ron,and are faste-ie 1 in front vith velvet iied in a sailor knot: chin hilla far, with blue velvet, miakesi a retty combination. Fancy ;uuffs of velvet to match the hat are displayed very temptingly mong the extravagant novelt ies. They are flat in effect and m ade with a ouble ruffle at each end, but large in ize. One of the latest novelties in millin ery is colored grebe. Pretty togn.es are made of pale blue or pink greb~e end said to he wonderfully beco ning. oues of white caracul are another fancy. A handsome chinchilla collar has a straight round cape of blue veint, mbroidered -s th cut steel,for a fou.i-I dation, while the chinchilla falls over it in points, thie standing collar being of the fnr. Ladies' tailors have taken veryv readily to the new skirts that are sheath shaped on the front and sides. - and made with underfolding fulness at the back, where they as a rule are made to fasten invisibly beneatha decorative simunlat d fas einin-i .f ti e silk c,2rd lacel ove.r tiny su2 ta.: