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THE SPENDERS A Tale of the Third Generation Br HARRY LEON WILSON 19 1 Cogp/rigfit, by Lotbrop Publishing Company. CHAPTER IX.--CONTIITUKD. • Oldaker, wincing and turning to JBines for sympathy, heard her say: "Yes, do, Mr. Hlgbeel I do love Mhose ragtime songs--and than have tthem play 'Tell Me, Pretty Maiden,' isand the "Intermezzo.*" He groaned in angulslt. j The talk ran mostly on practical af- >fairs: the current values of the great jstaple commodities; why the corn crop |iiad been light; what wheat promised -to bring; how young Bur man, of the ^Chicago board of trade, had been jjpinched in his own wheat corner for : £lfour millions--" put up" by his admir- K|ing father; what beef on the; hoof ^r;\teomznandedj how the Federal Oil com- H^v^pany would presently own the state of r Almost every Barbarian at the table r w jSiad made his own fortune. Hardly •*"«one but could recall early days when "he toiled on farm or in shop or forest, lierded cattle, prospected, sought ad- Sf;:' .Kventure in remote and hazardous wilds. 5V * . - " 'Tain't much like them old days, "V -web, Higbee?" queried the crown prince * *ot Cripple Creek--"when you and m& bad to walk from Chicago to Green 33ay, Wisconsin, because we didn't Ihave enough shillings for stage fare?" .He gazed about him suggestively. "Corn beef and cabbage was pretty *ood then, eh?" and with sure, vigor­ ous strokes he fell to demolishing his fliet de dinde a la Perigueux, while a butler refilled his glass with Chateau - Malescot, 1878. "Well, it does beat the two rooms -madam and me started to keep house In when we was married," admitted the host. "That was on the banks of -sthe Chicago river, and now we got the Hudson flowin' right through the front yard, you might say, right past our •own yacht landing." From old days of work and hardship 4hey came to discuss the present and 4heir immediate surroundings, social 4Eind financial. Their daughters, it appeared, were 'feeing sought in marriage by the sons of those among whom they sojourned. "Oh, they're a nice band of hand­ shakers, all right, all right,'" asserted the gentleman from Kansas City. "One -of 'em tried to keep company with our •Caroline, but I wouldn't stand for »u He was a crackin' good shinny player, and he could lead them cotillon dances "folowin' a whistle and callin', 'All right, Up!' or something, like a car starter-- "tout, 'Tell me something good about him,' I says to an old friend of his ^family. Well, he hemmed and hawed --he was a New York gentleman, and «8ays he: 'I don't know whether I could make you understand or not,' he says, "*but he's got Family,' jest like that, tjearin' down hard on 'Family*--'and .you've got money,' he says, 'and Money .-and Family need each other badly In -this town,' he says. 'Yes,' I says, *1 met up with a number of people here,' I says, 'but I ain't met none yet that you'd have to blindfold and back into „a lot of money,' I says, 'family or no family,' I says. 'And that young man,' "he says, 'is a pleasant, charming fel­ low; why,' he says, 'he's the beat --coated man in New York.' Well, 1 looked at him and I says: 'Well,' says jj, 'he may be the best-coated man in IVY J I ^ A C4K1B WALK. TNew York, but he'll be the best-booted cxnan in New York, too,' I says, 'if he •comes around trying to spark Caroline any more--or would be if I had my 'way. Hia chin's pushed too far back under his face,' I says, 'and besides,' 1 says, "Caroline is being waited on by .a young hardware drummer, a good e»teady young fellow traveling out of little old K. C.,' I says, 'and while he hain't much for fam'ly,' I says, 'he'll Jliave one of his own before he gets through,' I says; 'we start fam'lies -where I come from,' I saya." "Good boy! Good for you," cheered *<lie self-made Barbarians, and drank tsuccess to the absent disseminator of • hardware. With much loud talk of this unedl- cfylng character the dinner progressed to an end; through selle d'agneau, .floated ia '84 champagne, terrapin con­ voyed by a special Madeira of 1850, sand canvasback duck with Romanee *Conti, 1865, to a triumphant finale of 'Turkish coffee and 1811 brandy.' After dinner the ladies gossiped of J^ew York society, while the barbaric ^ males smoked their big oily cigars and bandied reminiscences. Higbee showed tthem through every one of the apart­ ment's 22 rooms, from reception hall •to laundry, manipulating the electric ilights with the &klll of a stage man- eager. The evening ended with a cake walk, •for the musical*artists had by rare ' •wines been mellowed from their classic , • reserve into a mood of rag-time aban­ don. And if Monsieur the Baron with this uberant than the crown prince of Crip­ ple Creek, who sang as he stepped the sensuous measure, his pleasure was not less. He enjoyed to observe that these men of incredible millions had no hauteur.̂ 'I do not," wrote the baron to his noble father, the marquis, that night, yet understand their joke; why should it be droll to wish that the man whose coat is of the best should also wear boots of the best? but as for what they call une promenade de gateau, I find it very enjoyable. I have met a Mile. Bines, to whom I shall at once pay my addresses. Unlike Mile. Hig­ bee, she has not the father from Chi­ cago nor elsewhere; Quel diable d'homme!" „ CHAPTER X. / : THE PATRICIANS ENTERTAIN. To reward the enduring who read politely through the garish revel of the preceding chapter, covers for 14 are now laid with correct and tasteful quietness at the sophisticated board of that fine old New York family, the Milbreys. Shaded candles leave all but the glowing table in a gloom discreetly pleasant. One need not look so high as the old-fashioned stuccoed ceiling. The family portraits tone agreeably into the half-light of the walla; the huge old-fashicned walnut sideboard, soberly ornate with its mirrors, its white marble top and its wodS-carved fruit, towers majestically aloft in proud scorn of the frivolous Chippen­ dale fad. •„ Jarvis, the accomplished and incom­ parable butler, would be subdued and scholarly looking but for the flagrant scandal of his port-wine nose. He gives finishing little fillips to the white chrysanthemums massed In the central epergne on the long silver plateau, and bestows a last cautious survey upon the cut-glass and silver radiating over the dull white damask. Finding the table and its appointments fault­ less, he assures himself once more that the sherry will come on irre­ proachably at a temperature of GO de­ grees; that the Burgundy will not fall below 65 nor mount above 70; for Jar- vis wots of a palate so acutely sensi­ tive that it never fails to record a variation of so much as one degree from the approved standard of tem­ perature. How restful this quiet and reserve after the color and line tumult of the Higbee apartment There the flush and bloom of newness were oppressive to the right-minded. All smelt of the shop. Here the dull tones and decor­ ous lines caress and soothe instead of overwhelming the imagination with efTects too grossly literal. Here is the veritable spirit of good form. Throughout the house this contrast might be noted. It Is the brown-stone, high-stoop house, guarded by a cast- iron fence, built in vast numbers when the world of fashion moved north to Murray Hill and Fifth avenue a gen­ eration ago. One of these houses was like all the others inside and out, built of unimaginative "builder's architec­ ture." The hall, the long parlor, the back parlor or library, the high stuc­ coed ceilings--not only were these alike in all the houses, but the furnishings, too, were apt to be of a sameness in them all, rather heavy and tasteless, but serving the ends that such things should be meant to serve, and never flamboyant Of these relics bf a sim­ pler day not many survive to us, save in the shameful degeneracy of board­ ing houses. But in such as are left, we may confidently expect to find the traditions of that more dignified time kept unsullied;--to find, indeed, as we find in the house of Mllbrey, a settled air of gloom that suggests insolvent but stubbornly determined excluslve- ness. Something of this air, too, may be gioticed in the surviving tenants of these austere relics. Yet it would hardly be observed in this house on this night, for not only do arriving guests bring the aroma of a later prosperity, but the hearts of our host and hostess beat high with a new hope. For the fair and sometimes un­ certain daughter of the house of Mil- brey, after many ominous mutterings, delays, and frank rebellions, has de­ clared at last her readiness to be a credit to her training by conferring her family prestige, distinction of manner and charms of person upon one equipped for their suitable mainten­ ance. Already her Imaginative father Is ravishing in fancy the mouldiest wine cellars of continental Europe. Already the fond mother has idealized a house in "Millionaire's Row" east of the Park, where there shall be twenty ser­ vants instead of three, and there shall eease that gnawing worry lest the treacherous north setting , current sweep them west of the Park into one of those hideously new apartment houses, where the halls are done in marble that seems to have been sliced from a huge Roquefort cheese, and where one must vie, perhaps, with a shop-keeper for the favors of an ir­ reverent and materialistic janitor. The young woman herself entertains privately a state of mind which she has no intention of making public. It is enough, she r^sons, that her action should outwardly accord with the best traditions,of her class; and, indeed, her family would never dream of demand­ ing more. Her gown to-night is of orchard green, trimmed with apple blossoms, a single pink spray of them caught in her hair. The rounding, satin grace of her slender arms, sloping to the opal- tipped fingers, the exquisite line from ear to shoulder strap, the melting ripe­ ness of her chin and throat, the tender pink and white of her fine skin, the capricious, inciting tilt of her small head, the dainty lift of her short nose, --these allurements she has inventor­ ied with a calculating and satisfied eye. She is glad to believe that there is every reason why it will soon be over. * And, Blnce the whole loaf is notor­ iously better than a half, here is the engaging son of the house, also firmly bent upon the high emprise of matri­ mony; handsome, with the chin, it may be, slightly receding; but an unexcelled leader of cotillions, a surpassing polo player, clever, winning, and dressed with an effect that has long made him remarked in polite circles, which no> can achieve. Money, in- if certain ill-natured gossip of tradesmen be true, has been an fiacon siderable factor in the encompassment of this sartorial distinction. He waits now, eager for a first glimpse of the young woman whose charms, even by report, have already won the best de­ votion he has to give. A grievous er­ ror it is to suppose that Cupid's ar­ tillery is limited to bow and arrows. And now, Instead of the rude com-' mercial horde that laughed loudly ana ate uncouthly at the board of the bar­ barian, we shall sit at table with peo­ ple born to the only manner said to, be worth possessing;--if we except in­ deed, the visiting tribe of Bines, who may be relied upon, however, to be­ have at least unobtrusively. As a contrast to the oppressively Western matron from Kansas City, here is Mistress Fidelia, Oldaker on the arm of her attentive son. She would be very old but for the circum­ stance that sne began early in life to be a belle, and age cannot stale such women. Brought up with board at her back, books on her head, to guard her complexion as if it were her fair name, to be diligent at harp practice and conscientious with the dancing master, she is almost the last of a school that nursed but the single aim of subjugat­ ing man. To-night, at seventy some­ thing, she is a bit of pink bisque fra­ gility, bubbling tirelessly with remin­ iscence, her vivacity unimpaired, her energy amazing, and her coquetry faultless. From which we should learn, and be grateful therefor, that when a girl is brought up in the way she ought to go she will never be able to depart from it. Here also Is Cornelia Van Geist sis­ ter of our admirable hostess--relict of a gentleman who had been first or second cousin to half the people in society it were really desirable to know, and whose taste in wines, din ners, and sports had been widely praised at his death by/those who had had the fortune to be nuipbered among his friends. Mrs. Van Geist has a kind, shrewd face, and her hair, which turned prematurely grey while nhe was yet a wife, gives her a look of age that her actual years belie. Here, too, is Rulon Shepler, the money-god, his large, round head turn- lng upon his immense shoulders with* out the aid of a neck--sharp-eyed, grizzled, fifty, short of stature, and with as few illusions concerning life as the New York financier is apt to retain at his age. If we be forced to wait for another guest of note, it is hardly more than her due; for Mrs. Gwilt-Athlestan is truly a personage, and the best people on more than one continent do not be­ come unduly provoked at being made to wait for her. Those less than the very best frankly esteem it a privilege. Yet the great lady is not careless ol engagements, and the wait is never prolonged. Mrs. Milbrey has time to say to her sister, "Yes, we think It'f going; and really, it will do very well you know. The girl has had some nonsense in her mind for a year past --none of us can tell what--but now she seemB actually sensible, and she's promised to accept when the chap pro­ poses." But there is time for no more gossip. The belated guest arrives, enveloped in a vast cloak, and accompanied by her two nephews, whom Percival Bines recognizes for the solemn and taciturn young men he had met in Shepler'a party at the mine. Mrs. Gwilt-Athlestan, albeit a dec­ orative personality, is constructed on the same broad and generously grace­ ful lines as her own victoria. The fair-minded observer would accept as. sufficient promise of a good third. Yet hardly could a slighter person display to advantage the famous Gwilt-Athles tan jewels. The rope of pierced dia­ monds with pigeon-blood rubies strung between them, which she wears wound over her corsage, woifld assuredly over­ weight the frail Fidelia Oldaker; the tiara of emeralds and diamonds was never meant for a brow less jaajestic; nor would the stomacher of lustrous gray pearls and glinting diamonds ever have clasped becomingly a figure that was svelte--or "skinny," as the great lady herself is frank enough to term all persons even remotely inclined to be svelte. But let us sit and enliven a proper dinner with talk upon topics of legit­ imate interest and genuine propriety. Here will be no discussion of the vulgar matter of markets, staples, and prices, Buch as we perforce endured through the overwined and too-abun­ dant repast of Higbee. Instead of learning what beef on the hoof brings per hundred-weight, f. o. b. at Chey­ enne, we shall here glean at once the invaluable fact that while good society in London used to be limited to those who had been presenled at court, the presentations have now become so nu­ merous that the limitation has lost its significance. Mrs. Gwilt-Athlestan thus discloses, as if it were a trifle, some thing we should never learn at tht table of Higbee though we ate hie heavy dinners to the day of ultimate chaos. And while we learned at thai distressingly new table that one shoulo keep one's heifers and sell off one's steer calves, we never should have been informed there that Dinard had jusl enjoyed the gayest season of its his­ tory under the patronage of this enter* prising American; nor that Lady de Muzzy had opened a tea-room in Graf­ ton street, and Cynthia, Mwhionc3» of Angleberry, a b^auty-imj rovement parlor on the Strand "becavse sbe needs the money." "Lots of 'em takin' to trade nowa­ days; it's a smart sayin' ther* now that all the peers are marryin' act­ resses and all the peeresses goin' into business." Mrs. Gwilt-Athelstan nod­ ded little shocks of brilliance from h*»r tiara and hungrily speared another oyster. "Only trouble is, It's such rotten work collecting bills from their in­ timate friends; - they simply won't pay." _ Nor at the barbaric Higbee's should we have been vouchsafed, to treasure for our own, the knowledge that Mrs. Gwilt-Athlestan had merely run over for the cup-fortnight, meaning to re­ turn directly to her daughter, Kathar­ ine, Duchess of Blanchmere, in time for the Melton Mowbray hunting sea­ son; nor that she had been rather taken by the new -way of country life among us, and so temptod to prot ALLOW THE SUN DANCE. UHJsicjmirss INDULGE DT THKJLB FESTIVITIES. : Government, After Trying to Abolish Practice, Decides It Will Not In- ̂ t«Efere with Religions Ceremonies. Thfe stm dance is a tribal £fef&m6nt&1 of the Cheyennes which to them is of the most solemn religious impor­ tance, and the government after try­ ing* to suppress the torturing dance and failing, has decided to let the In­ dians have their way, and this year the dance has been held with all its old-time gory features. Of course, it is only the incidental torture that has been deemed objec­ tionable. This is so frightful and pro­ longed, it occasionally resulting even in the death Of the chief performer, INDIAN UNDERGOING TORTURES OP SUN DANCE. that civilised sentiment has strongly urged the prohibition of the rites. On the other hand, the self-torture is voluntarily undertaken in fulfill­ ment of a vow or pledge made by a single individual. Finding himself In imminent danger of death, by disease or from some other cause, he makes oath to devote his body to the per­ formance of the fearful penance in question, if the gods will rescue him from the immediate peril. If, there­ upon, he survives, he makes formal announcement of his obligation and readiness to undergo the ordeal, the date for which is appointed by the priests. At the same time, the sun dance is a festival of creation. Its form of ceremonial commemorate the making of the ancient world by the Great Medicine and the Roaring Thunder from Above, who is the chief of the lair and winds. It represents the crea­ tion of the earth and all that is on It the water and its fishes, the blue sky, the sun, moon and stars, the clouds, and the rainbow. One of the most important features •of the festival is the erection of a huge lodge, somewhat after the fash­ ion of a, circus tent, which is sup­ posed to represent the ancient world, as it was in days of ever so long ago. There is also a tall tree denuded of its branches and set up as a "sacred pole," from the top of which hang two long rawhide thongs. The ends of these thongs are fastened in the flesh of the breast of the man who undergoes the-ordeal. Knives are also thrust "through the flesh of the man on his back and hips, and shorter thongs are passed through the loops thus made: To the end of each one of these four thongs a buffalo skull is 893urely tied, so that it will drag on the ground. It is the business of the involuntary victim to dance about the pole until the thongs are jerked from his breast, and then to run until those attached to his back and hips are pulled loose. \ Meanwhile his kinsmen stand around, chanting weird ceremonial songs and urging him to bear his suf­ ferings bravely. Everybody takes part in one way or another, under the di­ rection of the priests, dancing and by other means working themselves up into a quasi-religious enthusiasm, and the celebration lasts several days. Usually the torture undergone by the principal performer continues for a number of hours, the blood running down his body in streams and occa­ sionally it happens that he dies before he is able to release himself. The Cheyennes seem always to have had a remarkable appetite for this sort of thing. When the ghost dance made such trouble with the prairie Indi­ ans a few years ago, stirring them up to hostilities against the whites, they took a prominent part in it. And until recently they were accustomed to Indulge in a ceremonial fire dance, in which the initiated pranced about upon red-hot coals until they extin­ guished them with their bare feet It is not known with certainty how they managed to do this without being burned, but the supposition is that, as a preliminary, they rubbed upon their feet some resinous substance which gave some protection. They also have a cactus dance, In the course of which the performers acquire a curious sort of "jag" by chewing the' hearts of a species of cactus. The effect produced seems to be something like that of hasheesh, the person thus Intoxicated being lift­ ed out of himself, as it were--wide awake, yet dreaming. One heart prf hour is sufficient to maintain the con­ dition described for days together, the dreaming being encouraged by a mo­ notonous drumming that is kept up all the time. TOWN DOOMED TO DISAPPEAR. B O O S E A X I Z O N A , T O 0 0 DOWN TO • WATERY GRAVE. Bustling Community Called Into Being by Building of Irrigation . Dam Will Perish That the Des­ ert May Be Made to Bloom. (TO BE CONTIlfU$&4 • • Perhaps never before in the history of the United States has a town been permitted to look forward to Its ut­ ter obliteration as does the. town of Roosevelt in southern Arizona, where the government is rapidly completing a great dam which will inclose a lake 25 miles long and two wide, the wa­ ters of which will"be used to Irrigate lmmense^arid wastes and make them buret forth into fruit and blossom. Pompeii and Herculaneum were covered by the ashes of Vesuvius, Nineveh and Babylon were abandoned to the desert's shifting sands, but Roosevelt is to be lihried beneath the flood of waters which in less than two years Is to be turned into the narrow valley. Roosevelt came into being yhen the great irrigation project was first start­ ed and it will cease to exist when the engineers and army of workmen bring their labors to a close. To-day the town is a thriving, bustling communi­ ty of 2,000 inhabitants, with electric lights, waterworks, sewerage, schools and churches; ultimately it will be but a memory. Roosevelt must perish that a desert may be made to bloom. Already the marvelous engineering work is well under way. The walls of the narrow canyon through which Salt river rushes on edge are being locked by a massive monolith of solid masonry, the highest arch dam In the world. This wonderful structure of sand­ stone and cement will be 280 feet in height from foundation to parapet, 210 feet long and 170 feet wide at base, and 700 feet long on top. Its cubical contents will be 300,000 cubic yards, and In its construction 240,000 bar­ rels of cement will be required- Placed alongside of an 18-story sky­ scraper, this dam would rise ten feet above it, while its length on top would be. more than two city blocks. Roosevelt Is a government town, and the rules laid down are simple and effective. Uncle Sam owns the ground upon which the town is erect­ ed, and the people are there merely by sufferance. No man may occupy a town lot which faces the main street unless he is engaged in a legitimate business, and his continuous posses­ sion of the property depends upon his own conduct. The results are in marked contrast with those which fol­ lowed the location of new towns on other projects where the government could not exercise any .supervisory control. The laborers are contented. They are depositing a large part of their earnings with the disbursing of­ ficer of the reclamation service, who banks It for them In Phoenix. Amusements are not wholly lack­ ing; baseball and quoits are popular, and in the evenings the town hall, ablaze with lights, is given up to dancing. Males predominate, so there '.I .n'i-lMi • >- ,« r* . >tu\> •<. «iiV. J are ntt ifoMy wall flowers. Notwith­ standing this disparity, no personal encounters have resulted, the slogan of the camp being "fair play," and the rules of deportment are rigidly observed. Each male is given a tag, and numbers, 1 to 20 are accorded the first dance, those from 21 to 40 the next, and so on. Just across the river the tepees of the swarthy Apaches dot the plain. The warriors of old Geronimo, now Uncle Sam's faithful laborers, dwell- in peace and harmony with his once deadly enemy, the white man, each doing his full share of labor In con­ structing the engineering marvel of the age. But while the city of Roosevelt, with the homes of its 2,000 inhabitants, is doomed, a fair valley is to be re­ deemed, in which the agricultural pos­ sibilities are not exceeded anywhere in the world. Under almost tropical Illf i OUR, BOYS and GIULS '£ts Two Youthful Electricians' The work of two electrical geniuses, Arthur C. Ripley and Chester Lyon, students at the Middleboro high school, Is attracting more than usual atten­ tion, and their work is favorably passed upon by electricians who rec­ ognize the value of their undertak­ ings says the Boston Globe, Young Ripley takes up electrical specialties, and the wireless telegraph is his hobby. From reading about the CHESTER LYONG (UPPER) AND AR THUR C. RIPLEY (LOWER) IN THEIR WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STATION, various models in use he constructed a machine, which he claims is dif­ ferent in many respects from any one now in use, and which can be success­ fully operated. At the age of 12 Ripley constructed a graphophone which would operate YOUTHS. BERG, successfully, and since then he took up the study of electricity. The wire­ less machine followed up other In-, strulnents which the young fellow made, and in itself Is a neat, weB~ constructed affair. There is a sending and a receiv- lng station, equipped with batteries ̂ and the rest of the apparatus, which! at present allows him to send a mes-i sage about 60 feet He has made! trials already when the messages werej sent through the two closed partitions^, and at this distance it went very welL? To operate a greater distance Ripleyi states more power from batteries*j would be needed, and the aerial plates; would necessarily need to 6e morej elevated. ! The apparatus exbibted at the town! hall was one of,the most popular of, the articles shown, and he was co»-» stantly kept at work operating it or} explainings its workings. Power was! generated from a bicycle on which: Chester Lyons was seated, and by the) revolution of the pedals a small, dynamo was driven, which gave good power for the work and took the load' off the batteries. Lyons* specialty is telephones, and? he has built a complete telephone oat<-: fit, which works nicely. The appara­ tus was also exhibited. Lyons built; the telephone apparatus when he lived' at Halifax, and it was used to con­ nect the various buildings on the farm* there. < Besides these electrical devicest shown, there were many other work­ ing models of machines which were1 in use at the exhibit. Their electrical research has beefe encouraged and assisted by Submaster L. O. Tillson, of the high school, who has done much to inform the boys on matters relating to their machines. - V '4 - ' Jf * ' 4 *• • -$* f|fgf | |4 Swing for Baby. Directions for Building a Device Which Will Entertain the Little One. Ilost children are fond Of swinging, and in the accompanying sketch we il­ lustrate a nursery swing that can be made at small cost; but in the making and in the using of it, there are two or three things that must not be forgot­ ten, and that are necessary to guard against a possible mishap. Firstly, every portion of It must be strongly put together; and secondly, from time to time the ropes, etc., must be examined to see ihat they are not mn«uj <0!s THE SWING COMPLETE. wearing through, and the hooks should be tested to see that they are still firm in the ceiling; and after that, with or­ dinary care no accident should be posr sible. Iron hooks suitable for the purpose can be bought at almost any ironmon­ gers; but for the buying of them an4 the fixing of them It would be quite well to employ the local carpenter, aS they must be firmly screwed into the joists that run across the ceiling. A carpenter would know, or soon find j out, the direction in which the joists run, and it would be very little trouble ' to him to screw in the hooks so firmly f that they should without danger be ; capable of sustaining any weight that they are likely to be called upon to '• bear. ' Unless possessed of a knowledge of the construction of a ceiling, it would >"% be ia dangerous and troublesome under- taking for afr amateur to attempt to fix '3 the hooks, as unless they are strongly screwed into the joists, they are cer- , tain not to hold, and down would come vM the 8wing, and perhaps its occupant d also. * ^ After the hooks have been placed Is : position, they can be painted white or Jig • made to match the color of the ceiling, ^ and when the swing Is taken down and not in use they will be unnoticeabte. '1» If the swing is Intended for «Blt» small children, then the nearer th* yiq| floor it Is the better. ] The sketch shows the position in which the hooks should be arranged. and all we shall require further will b« three pieces of rope of a suitable length ^ q and a strong Bquare basket or wooden v- yj box. A strong square basket will an- % sWer the purpose, and the ropes must be attached to the corners. ^ -J§; To prevent the possibility of a child , J| falling out, a strap may be passed . f: through the handles and fastened >>'% across in the manner shown in the V*4* s k e t c h . T h e r o p e a t t a c h e d t o t h e t h i r d X , hook, some way In front of the others, i;|f enables a child to BWing itself without aid. A cushion or two, or a rug in the basket will help to make the swing very comfortable and snug. Our sketch so clearly shows other details that further description is not neceeeary. . % lltl ( Bad Met Bf'ore. . Two files met in the pudding saucer And one began to sputter-- "Where was it that 1 saw you Ias|f Oh, yes' 'twas in the butter!" He Tells Them to Her. No man. believes half the thingfe wants his wife to believe. Favorite Card Game of Japanese,. BASIN QF LAKE SHOWING TpWN OF ROOSEVELT. V . f ; f skies, with a soil of wonderful fertili­ ty, the farmer in Salt River valley will cultivate his orange groves, his flg trees, his vines, while his broad meadows will yield him heavy har­ vests of alfalfa six and seven timet a year. The great lake which will be cre­ ated by the Roosevelt dam, Is to be tapped by canals hundreds of miles long and extending all over the broad valley around Phoenix. Vast areas now absolutely worthless will be transformed quickly into blossoming orchards and purpling vineyards, and hundreds of happy home3 will dot a plain where now the giant Bahuarro rears its spiny head and the gila monster roams at will. i . Vanity Rebuked. A lover of rare old china had a col­ lection that was the envy of hr-r vis­ itors. One day a little girl came with her mother for a call and, being seat­ ed in the living-room, wonderingly eyed the array of antique dishes. Thj hostess was much pleased at the child's evident admiration of her treas­ ures, and said: "Well, my dear, what do you think of my china?" The child looked up J?sr dot any pantry V - A g,ame popular with both grown people and children In Japan is played as follows: One hundred well-known proverbs are selected, each divided Into two oarts, each part printed on a separate . ard. The host has the hundred first ualves while he reads aloud, tone by one. The hundred second halves are dealt to the other players, who place their hands upward upon the "Tata- mi," or thick mat of rich straw on which they sit As the first half ,of any proverb is read, the holder of tto second half throws it out, or, if he sees it unnoticed among his neighbors, seizes it and gives him one of his own. The player who is first "«ot"" wins. It Is a very simple game, but it affords a great deal of amusement to the players, for the quick-sighted and keen-witted are constantly seising the cards of their duller and slower neighbors. This leads to much laogfe* ter aad good-natured teasing. U X B • > SENT HER FLAT STEAKS Grievance That Mrs. Newlywed Had Against the Unprincipled Meat Sealer. "Dearest," she said, and there was a slight tremor in her voice, "will you have a slice of bacon?" H,e would, as he had been married only a week, and would have accepted a slice of sandstone or papyrus from her hands with equal willingness. "I thought," he said, as with diffi­ culty he removed his eyes from the dalaiy morning jacket; surmounted by her lovely face, to the sordid bacon, "you said you would nave some of those meat-balls I like so well for breakfast." -- The lovely oyes fiWed with tears. "George," she said, with rising in­ dignation subduing her grief, "it was thst horrid, mean butcher's fault, and I want him never, never to dare,to ex­ pect my patronage again." "Never mind, dear," he said; "It "No; he sent the qieat but not w®afP I ordered. After 1 had planned having this nice dish for you this morning; after I had taken the pains to go in person and explain carefully to Mm the kind 1 wanted; and after I was set happy at the thought how you wuuld enjoy the meat-balls, to have my wholo pleasure spoiled by that detestaMsi butcher's mistake almost breaks say heart" More tears. "I ordered," she sobbed, "some round steaks to make the balls with, George, the ones he sent ftat-r-as--your hand?" No BrOv-ning. ' slfe was fond of t :e writings of the poet Browsing., Going Into the coun­ try she forgot to take her copy of her favorite, author. She determined t» try and get one at the vlUage shop. "Have you Browning?'" she asked. "No, ma'am." was the reply of th* shoo man; "we whiting, bat no browning.**--TH-1 t.nix, il.U. ... *..i .j. r,*.*..