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-~'-- - -% ----- - 4-, - TRI WEEKLY EDITIO3~ m ENVIROENT. grew in a garden far -zom the dust of the city street. bad no dream that the uni ;erse ld aught less pure and sweet ifs virgia'self; so chaste was it, erflamts retreat. night camqe down the lily lookied .In the face of the stars and smiled; a went t, sleep-:-' the sleep of death, sthe so' of a lie child back to the clasp of the Father-soul, ntoiched and undefiled. y bloomed on the highway close the tread of tho sweeping throng; Iore the gaze of a hundred eyes Vhere burned the flame of wrong; one.came by who tore its heart Wth a ruthless hand and strong. caught no glimpse of a garden fair, M-Iihew no other nam ra world that s " an a world and bruised it so ho le Of sin and shame; hed. its spirit passed e e shadows.came. dWho eq y but the sheltered one -Asullied -lower hal been Its home been out on the highway close -ro the path of sbame and sin? d the other forever angel-white Had it blossomed safe within? Snbeth Gallup Perkins, in Boston Transcript. BY X ATWOOD STUART. [ The train rolled out of - more than gyptian darkness and stopped sud denl.-. The flare of many lights, the- rum ble and roar of traffie,and the throngs people in the 'streets, proclaimed station to be a city, and a grIat one. -The passengers whose changing ce of iestination is was, poured -, pushing and jostling against a earn of people coming in, for the tain was a through one and the time itea. ong the last to reach the plat was ung girl, clad in mourn a stranger. She looked ut h 'nderingly, . as -thou., the ion and noise and - fusion she couldhaidly think esently,by the intercession of the master, she secuire a carriage s0reached her destina hieeause she so desired,in the ents. she -fund herself in -h Imaster o2 the "in heheld the letter c Iarefthen(hman, ou come straight from es.. "How long has it taken you?" he told him. 'And what is your name?" ealthy." 7. .Humph! Don't fit your present A.pause. "How old are you?', een my next birthday." pause. orothy, I suppose 'we shall .ve i$~her stay." :Let-hdr stay! and the pale orphan girl, a mere child, without father or . mother, was his own brother's daugh ter, a stranger in a strange land al ~most, homeless and penniless; and the Dunnings could have housed a regimrent, and were fairly roiling in - wealti . *A-trembling with the strangeness of the reception, scarcely comprehend * ng the right and the wrong of the whole matter, and already homesick, timid little Wealthy stood with down "cast eyes brimming over with tears, while they so positively decided her fate. Mrs. Dorothy Dunning p)ut down 4ier work. S"Come with me,"she said. Wealthy followed to an apartment containing two beds. Hore she was told she iught sleep. "This bed will be yours" indicating the bed containing Kone child, "and you can have the care -oY these three children," pointing to Stie pther, in which were two, thr-ee boys in all, sleeping soundly. - "You can dress them in the morn- - -nrg, hear.their prayers, and open the 'oom to*air. Then come to me and I 'will tell .you what next to do." Wealtl-y silently acquiesced by an inclination of the head. 'Left alone, she gave up,heartbroken, .t~'o real, genuine grief. "Oh, papa, papal" she sobbed, as .she crept to bed at last, weeping. ;Poor little Wealthy! "On the whole, it is quite as well," -said Mrs. Dunning, when she went back to the drawing-room. 'We wilh ~discharge the present nurse for Arthur, Rob and Joe, and she can hery stead. She told you she was S16, and she looks capable." 'ename will do very well fQr servant," r-emarked Lou, the 4 daughter, and young lady of tbhe f&..uy,j -Jooking over the top of her music sheet. aevnt o "Ahem!--hardiy asrat o must remember she is your cousin, -knoir," said Doctor Dunning, 4vinbg-..... slight twinge of con S "She needn't try cousin-in * ~uttered Lou, turning.away to her 'n'affairs; and at the'eVd%f a week -:~Dorothy Dunning had^ decided ~ee, and mentally vowed that any Wealthy should forget the uioship, and 'keep her place with -h children:'and mind the housework, wicshe could perform with such - Weattly found'lherself one of uses, w 'were employed to Ae sir Dunning chil ebeing the three u. was considered beyond a nurse's care, and never turned a hand over to brighten anybody's life. But there were gleans of bright ness in Wealthy's life, after all. Pleasant days she took the children to the park, and, while she sewel and minded them, she could also feast her eyes on the beautiful trees and green sward and the blue skies; so blue, Wealthy thought; skies anywhere else were never so blue as tnose. Little by little she learned that the best of us all, in one way or another, work more or less,and she argued tuat, per haps, hers was not such a hard loD as it might have been, in spite of the fact that she was obliged to be busy at something all the time. She was thanf =uor wat-sie-a, -andwoe and sang and made the best of it. And so it went on for six months. July came and Doctor and Mrs. Dunning and Lo - nent away to cool Birchlandg "Doctor - Edwards is coining to Birchlands this season," reported Mrs.' Dunning at the end of 'eoe/,rt ight. .. ' "Very wealthy family. Beri"rd the oldest son, has studied in Europe and has returned snd taken hi father's practice. Every one is speak ing of the celeorated Doctor Edward .-an excellent parti for Lou. Lou matched her pretty eyes wit12 prettier ribbons, and when he called he rustled to greet him in, the fleecy raiment that had cost WeaFty hours Af patier.t ende4vor to think out, and it, and make-a creature of a dream xud fair to look upon, "as beautiful s a fancy," Docter Edwards thought. But in the chain of circumstances, here were other incidents. In tne city the oppressive heat was elling on poor, puny Arthur, and one lay Wealthy, nurse, housekeeper and ommander-in-chief, found another are on her hands, a sick boy. Gently she quieted him, tenderly he cared for him, but at dusk she tood despairingly by his bedside,witb the realization that the disp-se was beyond the scope of her hnmediate prescriptions and fully aware that the boy was on dangerous ground. What could she do? Send for her incle? ,M.was miles away, and Irthui m-i....te before his father eached L9. r Send for a doctor? Where? Neitherj 5he-nor any of the children knew.thej ocation of any physician's office in ~he city. Speak to'the neighbors? Yes, but t is August, and they aye~all away. 'Comjpletely bIa%,ed,i. -1is la'byndith > Looking haistiy out o iand sh saw a bright light awy down the street on the opposite side. ,17hat must be Doctor Edwards thd I haYe heard so much about, I kno w,v" ihe said. And shortly after ward, Doctor Bernard Edwards, pro fessional, indeed, but hanUdsome, fine eyed and kind,was obeying an urgent summons up the street. He stayed all through the hot night with the sick boy, soothing and help in him and lightening for poor Wealthy what otherwise would have been a season of multitudinous terrows -and when morning dawned once again, Arthur's life was sa, ed. And during that night he had be come interested in the faithful, lovely young girl. Doctor Edwards always looked grim reality straight in the eye, and he found out what her position was in that house, and such a distaste for Lou Dunning's frivolous beauty caine over him at the disco ery that he hoped he might never see her again. He stamped and stormed a little and in his righteous wrath he spoke some certain truths of the Dunnings. "It is too scandalously bad!" lie wound up. "You might marry her," suggested grouty old Doctor Edwards, who had got the benefit of his soil's late re searches. "Have half , a mind to," said Bernard. Evidently he had a whole mind to; for the next day, before the gray dusk was fairly out of the sky, and long before the children were awake, Wealthy, standing weary and alone by the chamber window, found her self clasped tenderly in a pair of strong arms. I.ovingly the tall doctor s tooped and tenderly kissed the little girl. "Wealthy,"he whispered, "Wealthy look at me, darling! I have some thing to teli you, and I want you to answer me a question." Somehow it took a long time; but at the end of the narration, though Wealthy was in a flood of tears, the tired lhead rested against Doctor Edward's breast, and with a joy that could not be told,she answered "yes" to his question. When the Dunnings came back there was a heavy gold ring on WVeal thy's hand but Doctor Bernard Ed wards called befoye they had time to Sheto apologize for not keep Sg my promise of returniug to Birch 'ood,but professional duties prevent ed," lie said. "Perhaps, too, I should make excuses for falling in love with your niece, but that, also, I could not 'And before they realized what he 'vas doing he had taken Wealthy away and married her, and she had left them forever. Doctor and Mrs. Punning refer to their niece as "My dear Wealthy." does herself, indeed. "My cousin Wealthy," she says, in speak ing of her, "Doctor Edwards' beauti ful wife." But it was a corrective for the Dun nings. They may not be less self centred-that would be hardly pos sible-but they are more discreet. About 80 per cent. of the fishing nets in Hokkaido, Japan, are made of cotton thread. Cotton nets were first i+mntrdue from Scotland in 188& CHHLLDRREN'S COLUMN. Bedtime Three little girls., ..c&ry Weary of books and play; Sad is the world and dreary Slowly the time slips away, Sif little feet are aching. Bowed Is each little head; Yet they are up and shaking, o When there is mention of bed. Bravely they laugh and chattl Just for a minute or two, Then when they end their clitter Sleep comes quickly to wo. Slowly their eyes are closin.ei irp drops each _ Three little maidsare . Though they're not ready )ed. That is their method ever- . Nlght after night they . Claiming they're sleepy ne Never in need of rest; Nodding and almost drea., Drowsily each little heaV r: P"ll Is forever scheming ? k 'erely to keep out of bra -. *A Child With a Good M :iory. e other day a lady who lives oi 'gan street took her five-year-oh cm,n to a photographer's to have hi pictures taken. She was anxious-t< se:-ure a good likeness at this parti cular sitting because she wished t< distribute the pictures among som4 friends who were then her guests. The ch.ld's idea of the affair, how ever, did not, apparently, harmoniz< with thU- -f his mother. For whei the r..... 4th the camera began t. adjust the lens and direct it towari little Edward that young person se up what was unques'ionably a howl Is%-ain did the mo: her call into us4 her -utmost forensi6. abilities. Ed ward'did not want hi picture taken ."Why, my child," she said, sooth ingly, "the gentleman won't hurt yon JusiV'.e and keep still a momen aniv,will be all over before yor "'Yes, I knmv, ma-ma!" whim pered the youth, with the tears run ning down his cheeks, "but that' what you told me at the dentists." St. Louis' Post-Dispatch. How AnimalU Best Their Muscles. -When a m: n is tired he stretche! out his arms and legs and yawns. Birds and animals, as far as possible, follow the example. Birds spreai their feathers and also ;awn or gape Fowls often do.tuis. Fish yawn,the3 qp eir mouthiiW,p slowly till they ar( oosen and the gfils open./ - so - invetraAe--V-awners an stretchers, but-seldom sneeze unles they have a cold. Cats are alway stretching their bodies.legs and claws as every one knows who has had; cat for a pet. Horses stretch violently when an after indalging in a roll, but not, as rule, on all fours. A stag whe stretching sticks out his head, stretche hisfs eet out and hollows his bac c. reck as though trying to cree -aadera bar. Most ruminant animals stretc when tey rise up after lying dow Deer "do it regularly, so do cowl This fact is so well known that if cow arising from lying down doe not stretch herself it is a sign that sh is ill. Pnisay Raneu the Bell. A big b'ack tomcat in a Sioux Cit /Iowa) place of business gave the girl in the telephone central office a de: of bother, much as children do, yd know; for he likes *to turn the tele phone crank to hear the bell jingl Of course that "calls" the patient-gil at the other end of the wire. The ci is always ready to sit on his hincileg: lke a dog, or do a bit of gymi? ast work on the back of a chair, foi-he a very unusual cat. One day la~ we licking the sawdust from his 'slee sides when his paw struck the cran of the telephone, which was besid him. He stopped and looked 11 quiringly at the crank, and then car< fully, softly touched it again with h paw and seemed immensely pleasE with the jin2le. Now he has to 1 scolded two or three times a day f< experimenting with it. As soon as]I pushes the crank central calls up at wants to know "Number?" The cat friends have to answer, "Kittie ran the 'phone." The phrase has thi become a byword with the operatori When there is a false alarm they sa: "It was Kittie who rang." Extra Money for )lessenger Eioys. There are pleasant features in tl messenger lad's life that the pub] doesn't generally know. One of ti most pleasant phases is the tip whit often goes into the young fellow pockets. Some of the downton brokers have their favorite boys, at the lads get from $5 to $10 a week tips. The brokers prefer to have messenger boy do certain errands il stead of their own office boy, as ti latter are too well k>uown to the peop the brokers try to do business wit] The lads are often called upon toi strange thin .s. One of them canse quite a sensation a year ago by wal ing alongside a wealtby womnan,carr: ing her prayer book to church. TI lad didn't occupy the pew with tl lady, but he waited outside ti ehurch, at 30 cents an hour, until sl was ready to return home. 'Ladiesjwho go to theatres witho mkle escorts often get a messenger acimpatIy them, and sometimes tal the lad into the theatre. Some the lads tell you how the ladies ma< theam eat out of their bonbon box and slipped a quarter or a half doll into their hands beside.-New Ye: Mail and Express. Fox Cubs. They were delightful and amusii creatures, their ears ever alert, the bright eyes always on the lookout, a. their sharp little noses sniffing the eagerly. -So precisely alike were they, from ti of nose - to tip of tail,. that not even their owners co tielli the one from ttx other. They took kindly to pettijig and fondling, balv firmly th h ently refused to lear, ucks w er. V they had the run patter, patter went the littie feet; sc- atch, scratch, rap, rap, if- a door were shut, and the two-briggt eyed little rascals did not have to wait long for admittance. The next stepiras to the lounge or bed, -whe.e they cuddled close among the'soft ,pillows with great satisfaction. If ever dis lodged they protested vigorouly with tooth and claw, and a sha- little bark that said as plain as wdis, no, no, no. Alas, even baby foxes canno,-always stay babies. Box and Cox were with out doubt growing, and theirgowers of mischief grew also. A becakfast of young chicken without as 'uch as "By your leave, Madam," as the climax of -. long succession of mis deeds. They were restored %o their native peaks, where they could find a warm and Sheltered burrow, and as. foxes eat f&A iMice, grasshopf'ers,and crickets, they' were in no d.nger of starving.-Our Animal Friends. A Strange Fostr Mother A cat and five kittens were found. one morning comfortably .ensonced in the hayloft of a stable at Blacken hurst. They we,e not wante, there, and so the stable man rem6ed- the family to a crib in a stall avhere a broody but persistenf hen had. been for inany days sitting updii some china eggs. Before long souinas of a struggle were heard, and the cat left her young ones with a good-deal of - haste. On investigation the: stable man-found to his astonishpint that the hen had driven out th ca and taken her place as foste*;ao1er of the kittens, nor would sne#eriit the cat to return. She coQed -to the kittens and did her bes't tq nurse them; when they became r6sWss she' exercised maternal authrityf keep ing them well within bounds -jome times, while attending to onel ie of her nest, a kitten would stray from the others. But the faste:-nther was not to be evade*. She .ould at once leave her place and search till she found the truant, and jsuade it by pushing and other retdru to LLa nest. . nes sary.that tjecat6s edt. apMoach her offie e oor sooner wa wouid driv her place as hold. At nigh over the little an they were chicke they seemed to like t of their featherd quilt. J Magazine. S) F(idin out now to Uex' Two boys had sat down* to work out some- problems in One of thetn had been busy pencil a full minute when he his co:npanion itting with aims and knitted brows. a What-is the matter?" s clamed. "Why don't you be e ,m finding out how to egin," returned the other, quietly, and he wenct on thinking. The first speaker ycovered a page of foolscap with fig Isnres,found himself in a labyrinth from I which there seemed no escape, and ulooking back over the statement of .the problem, discovered a mistake in his first equation. Long befo:'e this, Ll however, his companion had worked tthe problem through and ieached thei. 4correct resuljt. He had not wasted [ time, because he had looked at all is sides of the question before he began. Ls A grat many of our yo.ung folks k overestimate the importance of haste. k They carry too heavy work in school l in order that they may graduate a year 1earlier. They skim through their 2 library books that they may return is them" and take out others. They isettle important questions on the im e pulse of the moment, because they rhave not learned that there is real e economy in taking time to see all d sides before making a decision. sNow and then we .meet people who gtoss up a penny to save themselves the s trouble of making up their minds. But even this is hardly more foolish than it is to follow blindly the firs', 'impulse that comes into our heads. ITo act without stopping to think is the poorest economy in the world. e Nobody wastes time so hdpelessly ic as the person who decides wBhout de e liberation, who, because of this wrong hbeginning, follows the wrong path, 's and finally is forced to retrace his n steps and start again. A little hard Ld thinking before we begin.jt eul nsave us not only mauc .>recious time a but many a-heartache-as well.-Chris, Stian Commonwealth. le Their Arms oo Short. The biggest te phone company in lKansas City is shgrt of operators, and d the reason of thinis5 that most of the k- girls who have alplied for positions r. the present monPh have not been tall ie enough. Heresafter a girl who does ae not measure 5 feet 6 inches in height 2e will not be employed, ae The copipany has learned that short girls have short arms and girls with u short arms cannot do the work-as well to as those with logg arms. The pres se ent in,ention of the compa.ny if to get of a sufflield. UB1er of loUgilarmed lgirls and then endeavor td keep them. ar; Greater Napoleons. rk "I don't see .why so many people envy a character like Napoleon." "It's due to the native egotism ol the human race. Every man imap"nes that if he had been in Napoleon's i place he would have been considerkbly d smarter and managed to keep ara . ro Helena."--Washington atar. FOR WOMI E ITO .oods Are Now Worn. Women are adopting even the aca demical hood as an adornment to Ae capes and cloaks, and wauy of the new cloth outdoor garments have ot white satin hoods ,t,ached, coveredq'o with lace, or white c.oth hoods with. a the new confetti embroidery made in b cloth worked with silk. Chantilly -b lace on black satin serves a similar fi purpose and silk lace is very much in n evidence for hoods which mostly en- v tirely cover the shoulder and almost c form an epaulet, opening out wide o nd being but seldo.n of any- practi- o cal utility-in fact, intended for orna- d ment, not use. q A Bind Woman Lawyer. During a recent visit to Joplin I met a woman who is totally blind go- i: ing around to "see mines" and make u purchases. . She would go down in a s shaft, follow the drift of ore with the t: tips of her fingers along the walls, e and, so sensitive was her touch, she ' could tell the.lifference between lead i and zinc and rock as correctly as if t: she had good eyes and a miner's lamp c to guide her. The promoter who was f showing her arou1nd told me ehe knew t as much- about mines when- she was, through "seeing" as anyone witlboth ' eyes, and was as judicious in her pur- 1 ebases, and that she was one of the ( most brilliant business and society women he had ever met. She is a successful lawyer in a western city. 0 -Woman's Journal. i Former Empress Eugenie's Appearance. It is not wonderful that the former empress of the French should begin to fal,. as she is now past 73, and has a had.a-pretty hard time with an ac cumulation of dorrows. But when a 0 yellow journal that has entered the fIeld of didactics and pedagogy emits such rot as as this:"Age alonedimmed i 'the lustre of the wonderful eyes, t witihered'the bloom of her extraordin- I arg complexion and dyed her black .t panish hair as white as the snows* that:blanket the peak of Mont Blanc," etc.4 we must intervene. Eugenie never-lad a black hair in her -head. If s she 4i'at-, she neyer would' have been 1 empress'of the French. it was theshim mer of her matchlessly beautiful gold- a ei tresses which first caught the eye is and won the.admiration of Napoleon. 8 noe~ orm. All show some :er, the mono e,ign; Instea t of ioer sdna.of the e finiWhecl aronithe ne or raised embroidered These are extremely pretty in purp.e violets yel:ow ttercups or blue forget-me-nots. Others have a hand-embroidered flow er in the co ner. with the stem and leaves stai ed in -color instead of being e.' Lroide-ed. Then there are hanaikerchiefs among the novelties wi h narrow colored borders and bow knots, fleur-de-lis or butterflies em broidered in each corner matching the border in color. The flowers chosen for these bandkerchiefs are generally light shades, but there are not a few this season with bright plaid borders. Among the more expensive handker ch ers are those of sheer linen ap pliqued with transparent lace desigus. An effective and novel idea is to sew on the lace design to the handker chief with fine, light colored silk. The linen must be cut away beneath the design, so that the lace will be trans pairent. An Old Ladies' Tea. The first old ladies' tea which start ed the fad.was on the birthday of a young matr-on's mother. She desired to give a flue spread of the most fash ionable kind, but *the mother ob jected..- ,"If you would give a. real ten, such as we used to have at homne, without all this modern fash ionable fuss and feathers, I would Ireally enjoy it," the motrier said, "but I ido not want all - these coarses, with different plates and silver every five minutes. It tires me all out." So the old time friends were invited to a very informal tea, and all dressed comorta' ly in their black silks, with little white lace caps, and brought their knitting and crocheting in the new old fashioned -reicules. When was served everything -was put the table at once, the servants dis missed and the things passed by the gu'ests that were nearest. Inetead of mod4ln salads, French dishes and cc-uglomerations there were sliced tongue and ham, thin cut bread and butter,some fluffy stirred biscuits, apple , iuce, preserved quinces, the little sour pickles, currant jelly, snow pudding, sa light pound cake and tea. There was nothing stiff or foripalj about it, and the old time friends en joyed recalling past experiences with out interruptions or formality. - For wear ou the Wheel. IAs the lines of short skirts confol-m to the same general rules governing longer ones, so the principal ingtova, tion noticeable in the new spring cy cling skirt is the box pleat at-the back. The back gores of the.newests ndels are either laid in two box pleats or in a double box pleat on the outside or a single underlying pleat,as individual preference dictates. The favori' e skirt of last season is modernized by intro ducing slight fullness in the back 1 gores and disposing it in two box Tjnthe outside at the entre t skirts are s e to a altiough stitc!ia0 radng , ftraophg are to be sed for g girlssits Chevi f, sere, osund zibeHne, clot, camel's Oxford suitings, craenette and many varieties of douule faced icsare being made up by tailors lio make for sportswouien. Cordu )y is to be worn by the more luxuri us cyclist It makes- very service ble suits and is.extre nely haiidsome, - utneeds to be of good qualityand to' e well made to show to the best ef ,ct. Brilliantine suits are something ew for cycling and are cooler 'than ool and warmer than the usual duck, rash or linen for su nmer lear. Most t the skirts are lined with percaline r soft silk. The heavy cloth and ouble-faced woolens of course . re uire no lining. Womans Aid to Selince. The work of women is in evidence i the University of Pennsylvania's ew museum of archaeology. In the action of casts is an important collec on obtained chiefly throagh the lib rality of Mrs. Lucy Wharton Drexel. 'his consists of maFble statuary found i the neighborhood-of Lakle emi,on e site of the temple of Diana Are ina. Here is an exquisite statue of a iun in a state of perfect preserva The cast of the statue of Nike, the Vinged Victory of Samothra, e, has eeu presented to the museum by Mrs. arles Platt, Jr.,a well known Phila ellphian. A talt wall case hotises a collection~ f Egyptian scarabs arranged chrono gically by rs. Julia Bullitt Gross f I-hilade phi'. - A splendid series of objects has een obtained by excavating ancient truscan tombs. Many of these vases, rmored specimens and other objects yo numer-ous to-mention are the gifts f. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, lately of alifornia. On the ground floor of the-museum ithe American collection illustrating ie pre-historic antiquities of -the rnited States.. A great feature of Ais is the Hazzard -collection from ie cliff dwellers of 'Mancos Canyon, i southwestern Colorado, a gift from rrs. Phoebe Hearst. This important ries contains almost - every object sed by one of the-inost highly i& anced of the eirly"America.people ad has be n supplemdnted byexte ive, cirections "of mdiaern Aii pecimens arrange dor the e Of amapisoni. ork-4.fXri. nt hid equip ef. archaeclogy rs ones Wister ire oi in the Egyptian section. isimpossible to do credit to the elections in one or two visits to the auseum. It shuald be remembered, owever,that the labylonian museum s the most important in Ameiva. and anks immediately after thd British useum and the Louvre. The greater portion of the large and alable collections of its antiqn.ties ias the result of extensive excavations ~mong the ruins of Nipp.u; in Central 3abylonia;' conducted by the 1. niver ity of Pennsylvania. Much labor vas bestowe~d in a thorough e.splora ion of the principal mound of these egions, which cove -s the temple of 3, supposed to be the oldest sanc uary in Babylonia. Thirty-Iive thou and cuneifoLm documents in c:ay ere secured. It is said tipon author ty that tho cuneiform documents of he fourth and second millennium, B. 3., can nowhere be studied to greater tvantage. In these collections. we see a great leal of gold and silver jewelry, charms, imlets, nearly 600 seal cylinders; Eebrew and Syriac bowls, hundreds >f glass and terra cotta vases, strange lay doffins and others of fragm nts f ancient inscribed stone vases and atve tablets and a great nu:nber of ,b,ects of art of a miscel ansons de scription. These. ob;dets serve to lustrate the custom and daily life of he old inhabitants- of Mesopotamia d of the Semitic race in general. It is interesting to learn that the ~ommittee in charge has obtained ~rom the snltan a renewal of his fir an granting permission to continue the UniverEit.y'o Pennsylvania's ex savations at Nippur, and that funda dave been collected to cover the ex penses of the expedition for -a te m O t wo years.-Philadelphia Record. Gieauings from' the Shops. Waterproof taffeta mousseline isuit able for waists and gowns. Immense lines of corded Japanese silks -for midsummer wea"-. New ideas in washable taffeta and ancy stripe ribbons for sprint and summer use.. A wide range of spring tints ii panne velvet, including the latesi rancy and staple shades. Elaborate displays of new designm in sil1k waists comprising all of thi finest imported and.-iomestic types. Prireese petticoats!of satin drapei with dotted point -d'esprit on whicl narrow ruchings of ribboli a.reapplied Theatre waists fashioned fri-ficrean lace and chiff .a on which are hyfrei stitched bands of turquoise blurvel I'etticoats of brocade, silk trimmei wth a deep flounce of applique laci beadedl by ruchings of mousseline di soie.. Mohair and silk passementeries at well as bodice garnitures and in span gled and jetted effe.cts at c.earing p. ces. Foulard siks with pastel .shadi grounds on which are artistically dis posed oowknots, clusters of rings aui various vine and scroll arrangements. -.ry Goods Economist. A new meti - T graph ples is to in the groud with arE pipe.likeArdramm jipe.-71a between thePole- au-t p a r n'ure of sand Somebodyv rlearned,Uonce; too the..trouble of- wiging the.. 0is . a numberof animuals, and found;ihat ; the brain of a laaie abbit -eigl - less for its size tLan thebn of b aiCi other known creture-much-lIs tlu that of a wiLd rabitt. The codfish are: feedia on the young lobiters to iuch an e.tent thai it will not take long to exterminate ,? -them. Through' the eLrts of the uited States fish commi%sion_eod fisoa seems to have incrdased.greatlyIn nuinbers. he fih.nW11A Islifnd aid -Wifih Hfll say ot l are- growing more plentiful every ybir and they say -nrther that when'dress ing codfish theysfrequently find-young ' lobsters whole inside.of th6a ger fisb-g Evidently youiig lobsters -are becem ig94eliate iorsel lo sore of tMia companions of the sea. The process by which an .English factoy couverts raneid batter, bougbt up at 'a low price, into fresh~itter statedto:1consist- in worfiiig 4ito a uniform semi-liquid-mass with- fresh buttermilk, then blowing thdugh this a current ofihot air, -and afterward a eurrent of cold air. The former ex pel' the intfyric acid 'to Which th* smell and=tate of ranidlitef^ar due, while any impurties present fait to the botto7n. The.cold air 4epates the butte;into globules. whn ik-is kneaded vith water,.salted colore a little if necessary and is' ready f sa as freslr'tutter.'" rirent inven A-5n Dani enginleisf. f ds ib. n nect a photograph wit h ii!Wne i such p znauner hat4 i comes avilab.iforAreceiv1 b ord ,f he,e aker.n, .cases Oidua p! Le de-t,to muiiatEiisbt wzi1- teprodusenhe poograph. Z-4 4!~tbqIt -nt from s a The iiotion &tmglR doFes of camphor 4mpartta temon plexion,a peculiar - eleg ea said by a Londu physicikA. ta developed 'a new haloi among a well-to-do young women. "'ike er rug'tating habits, this is disut y abandon after it-is: one- est'blised. - Mild exhilaratiowandstupefaction are produced, and the doses armoftenery -large. In some cases the eJects are hardly to be distin. uished froM-Ahose of alcohol. Extieme weAies ge erally follows regular doses, and the-_ camiphor-eaters all have a dresayq da .ed and very listle .a air, usually with a constant longing to sleep.- The' comnplexion, instead of bemg in any way improved, is given'a'ghastly pa' A Dangerous Ocupatlon. Much time and labor have been be stowed by scientiric 'men in' experi ments re:ating.to the,.use of phosphor us in the manufacture -of'- lucifer matches. It is found that while the presenit factory rules in England have led to 'improved conditions and less- *. ened risk, further advances' aYe im-' peratively liecessary. ' Some of the works in that country are old? and lend themselves with diffleulty to the imnproved structural arrangements found in the more effciently equipped establishments, and in most of' them methods now shown to be obsolete 're in use, involving unnecessary ris.k Jo the.operatives, and the dangerous :processes are said to be largely carried - on by persons in whom tire danger is - further aggravated by unsounst teeth. The fact is particularly noted of 'the neglect in substituting machinery"for hand labor in the angerous processes, ithe want o.f attention to the' condi tion of operatives' teeth and negle'et ingr to report irell known cases of phosphorus poisoning, or.even watch ing for their occurrence-deliberate and .lon~ continued - concealment being practiged in the latter. Knit All Their Lives. All the women of Shetland knit. They learn, the art in early childhood ;and continuie it all through their lives. The wodi use.d for thirknittingis growjieni the islands ~and is .'carded: and spun by the pe6p d-4hemsel'ves. Machinery..they have .not--except the primitive spinning whe. Many of the most elaborate shawl&have taken' months to make,,an'l some even years so that a vr.y.fine s:.awi may be wert~h as much *as $140 'to -.400. Mfost of the kriitting is,' howevey, of the .more honiiely and. sei-viceable kind and nay be bought from the wome,n themselves for a inoderate price. T..he n.anner in which the' *nshing of knit shawlis is acedmplished- in KShetland is a matter -of interest to.ioett'visitors. They - Are - isbh Brefully in soap lather and-then.-.td Kpiegat their shrinking, they ar.e laced ~from peit to point of the scallop bider in a large square wooden fraufe and placed.outside the cottage to dry. . A djusfts5e Flower Pot. An Oie on woni gas patientd 'an ' adjustable fio'War. ; ot,.'laving at two jart receptacle with overlappirigd'es which are held. in pjaerby a metallic band, the latter being rais~ed or low ei ed on the conical pot to increase o decrease the size.