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HIE Rflfllflflfifi 0| ll (INN “any Nun. Tho small girl mapped. her blue eye. bud loaned to ooqwetto from the "W you mated to catch me.” she replied. panting her childish lips. H» was on hi. way to the high schOOI she to Mrs. Parkinson's establishment for young Indian This their daily wank mad. the children friends, loverS. 0031‘ mdes and enemies in turn. “I wonder." mid Robin thoughtfully. "why girls always do what. yuu don't ‘1 say, there's no hurry. heaps and Map. of “130-” muted bur audacious up. Had din W1)! placed it sideways because it suited her so well? Oh, no! Paulo Tumor was too youmc surely to study appeal-ammo. on her blue sleeve. “It's awfully cube chatâ€"that hat," he numeral, drawing a stinky paper packet from his coat. “I my, I've got some study for you. Tattle. flhose ye]:- low and white ones with purple stripes. Whnt will you give me for them 3" ‘I don't. know; I haven't anything ex~ eopt a thimble," driving into her pock- et with a sudden brightening of the sue-s. “Yes you may have the thimble, Miss Purkinaoogov‘eitbomnon my birthday. andâ€"" But Robin pushed away the hand that proffered the offering soomfully. Than drawing her somewhat roughly mmr. whispered: (Wars. ‘I don't know; I haven't anything ex~ The amulet was hot and distasteful tn the lfittle maid; she wriggled herself free. flushed with the quick temper Robin knew so well. "You’re a. horrid boy 1“ she cried. stanupimg her foot, and throwing the sweats angrily on the ground: “and I «I late you I" Be stared at her with and, remm'se- in! eyes; his slate had fallen unbndken ather feet. his cup also lay inn the dust. The spirit at revonco was upon the «mm. she saw the slate. and with u «man, she saw the slate. and wnn a quick movement stopped upon the sur- face. listeniuk to Obs dull cracking, w’hflo her heart beat furiously. Thorn fearing her cavafier's re« preached». she ran: swiftly away. leav- ing him gazing on the ruin. and those beautiful moot bulls with purple stripes lying in the gutter. l‘ LAT- strip-es lying in the gutter. Why, throughout the day had 'l‘ottiae Turner shunned her schooltellows, sit,- L'Lng apart. pal», Milling, a. striking want to but usual merry self? (3on it. be that she was haunted by the when 01 a dead past. when that W” “(as barely three ‘huurs old. and at» mane Wm Kt merely the breaking ad a slate! l‘asrhnps! Age walnut realize the woo of a petulant amid. As she walked home she looked in- stmctively far Robin. He was snub a clever boy; ubey never kept him in wth He must hpve gone bank am- abhor wayâ€"plupusely. ’lears 01' van:- than and W548 trained slowly down Lbo sad little taco. She forced her knuckles into her eyesâ€"big violet. eyes, with hub“ of golden brown, like the curb L'lnt hung to her .boulders. Tho grass under the bedgu leaked soft. and green from yuterday'a ram, and Toni-e sat. down to real, her legs curled up unclur her body, her cheeks still wet. Robin's m very unkind; he might. mvo known she would be sorry. it. was hurt“ of him. not to wait for her. So the tears and the thought: tlowo (ml, “other till 'l'ott'w's head unit an a level with the grass. and she lay, a jobbrm heap oi childish remorse under the sprouting hedge. “l sayâ€"Tot l"‘ L_‘_ I. AFTER 1 on wall: so you do WW in. m but up me e941. consider» Magnum t dmtofthor “on! bother the ham; just look 3“ .. -... and thank that it is sprinu bin. (malt. . ‘ For answer she twuned bcrfioft arms ! around Robin's neck and .kmsgd hum lovingly though shyly whispering: “You lam" . "And you’re come to hp my sweet- hu't 31th um" he fled. m baubles: maze-out. Tonia nodded Imp“. dropping snobh~ 0r tea on a vat of cambflc roll- od into 3 hull vi arounly. and th- ha a! but 0'01". hand- with OM nth. “I don't want a dlly Who-J want Ho pressed the may mouth vigorously Tutti» Tumor trimmed 3103* (man 3 her walking 8309 to 3 901m" ‘ boy of (cum. H w (Urn-:s *4 ‘30! 2‘ as he ran up Robbie, Tot. we've Nvitm! in .- it) make friends with Mrs. t’arKulsou a 09130-01 children. I won't have you gad- dpng about in Ohio streets with the pub- hc school kjda.” She Watered a bear on the ears to the ohilgi had time to plead that her com- the organist's son. ' d “was customary 53:11 at ten. she 3111' 1y to herself. What did the jam matter? She had made it up mm Robbie! WE II. .Tho following day the boy looked for! bus sweetheart. but there was no Sign of a blue} tyopk. .. aim} Vang (.139 CW. a- vâ€" w v tie dared not ask {or bet. or. even. manual: her name, fearing the ndlcule of km: elders. or the seam of younger souls who would. not. understand. . 50 the miserable musings dwmdled by. and a great blank seLtJed or} has life. Then suddenly Lhe reason at her absence came across mm like a flash. Of .course, Mrs. 'l'urner haul heard of then- courtship. disapproved, and taken 'L‘otthe from the wheel. She wee 91'0' babiy moped up with. some horrnd old governess at home, and not. even ala- l-UWed to walk abroad. The idea. ma- tured in his mind till he saw in fancy his sweetheart as a pale. wen captive, confined in :her home. 'L The thought gave him courageâ€"Lt was Saturday alwmnxm. and hewoum 3‘0 himself and beard Mrs. Turner m her den. ,b‘ortu'xed by Love has mung the bell wuh trambl'nug hands am; asked a very mdrfaoed mud 11' he maght. see Mars. Turner or Miss Tottie. __ , uv. fortified by love he mung the bell its special room mnd instructreaa, and With trembling hands and asked a very the pupilscannot go from one to the nedriaoed maid it he might see Mira. other until the year exwrea. The Turner or hLisa 'L‘ottie. pupils of the last year's course were .'l'he girl gapped at him. and replied busily mending a magnificent canopy, With harsh candor: "thfi work of the Empress Maria Theresa. “Miss 'l‘ottie is dead!" l An idea may be formed of the mag- _Robin had been too preoccupied with nltude of the task when it is said that his own thoughts to notice the drawn ten girls under Mme. St. George’s sup- bl-mda‘. and he sutured at the servant erintendence has been working at it [or girl as it she were mad. Then as the ten years already, and she expected it horrible fact broke slowly over his would take two years more to complete ahwked senses, the boy's heart seemed it. Every kind of embrmdery, includ- to hunt with sudden pain. iing Persian, Indian, Ja aneae, Turkish. .“JJeadl” tetra, is done here, and was astonished What did it all mean.“ lueadl The to see some beautiful samples of the beautiful bright uhild he had lovedâ€" .“nanâ€"duty,” or spider’s web, made by dead! 'the Guarani W91”? of Paraguay, an ___-_.- n1L:- l--- :- “Well ?” said tibia maid, as he still stood white and speechless staring in dumb agony. with eyes like a wounded animal, choking back a rising sob with painful violence. 1,-L. “it’s um true!" he cried at last; “you're a very wyidked woman, and I. won’t believe you.” .110 pushed by her rudely, but the 319k” gent m white flowers greeted hun__wwh ghastly reality. . ,l 121, mâ€"‘Yuu' .2311; vvfbii'gfi,‘ wng'entlemnnly lit- tLe boy,” and the girl vhndictively. “1 shall bell Ms. Turner.” -â€"'r ‘â€" “â€"9 Suwet WWQSE, appé'ared an the atanrmse. But still .tmne boy’s heart. cried inwardly. “it ‘11:: noflgntrueg“ '1.1- uh» dankeued hall. “Yes. fewh Mrs ‘l’umner at once." Full 0[ a child’s overwhelmimc fear of the dank enemy Death, he drew hhmeli up against. tine wall, shivering with nervous horror, white to WEM‘DQ; â€"v"fihn;?u.§tie via“ 5. gown, and MJ‘s'. Turn- er, moppmg hm ‘s'Lrgamung cheeks with LL‘ “ovuâ€" mv‘vâ€"‘vâ€"w-J. . He Looked. up at. Mrs. Turner with. bearless yet burning eyes, and. asked blumtly: “Is 'l‘ottiae dead?" {He wanteua. plain answer to his queer tiun and was not, pnepared for the tor- mm of inturmauoq and gommon‘plaoe 383111111“. poured from the motfier’s lips. \th. did it mutter to the half- summed schoolboy how_ they had tregt- ed um: sudden atta-ak of pneumonia. w‘baL they had thought~samrâ€"dane% All helknew was that 'lottieâ€"his sweet- heartâ€"lay 'm the next room. cold and lifeless as the stance on the road! Yet he listened. silent and oonstr-aim ocL now and again nodding his head mechanically. 'lhe y'all oppqsfite, .afnd. mechanically. The yvall appqslte, end the blaakrgwmd figure beanie: mm, seemed to recede and return, the atmos- phere became a heavy oppressive al- most unbearable; he was sidk with the cruel bitterness of realization! “Would you like to see her?" asked Mrs. Turner when. she hat} game to an end of he: ggqplzm descrlptgp‘n. ‘ Rob} The wards Titled the .boy with shrink- ‘mg terror, appalimg misery. He twist- ed his fingers. shuddered perceptibly and made a sudden rush for the hall door. “Nu. no!" he ejanulated hoarsely. “Pleaseâ€"1 gunkâ€"1’11 go}? “Oh. but l'm sure you'd like to seei her." continued the woman. in a. hurt, ‘ mptoaahful voice. "Only last. night, poor lamb, she talked of Robbie!" ' “Only last night!" The boy paused. Oh, wicked. heartless people not. to tell him. not to think. Only last night and he might have felt her little hand press his. ‘ He moved toward as it compelled. "Yes," he said, "take me; I’ll come!" The wmn could not read the suf- fering in his tap... am at discern it in the law unchxldush vp The quiv- ‘ eyeh the feverish flush that mkced hm pa law were lost sang to a w’h'iSper m m1 'vzgoroua a“! LWU (Iraq D vvvvvvv ; Robin walked home through the dull. blwuik streets, which an hour ago had appeared so full of Saturday afternoon beliday life and bright sprung sane shme “Hulloa, Robbie. where are you go- ing ?" asked his father, meeting him at , the Gunner. “To play cricket," he replied, chok- umg badk a. sob and strangling his emâ€" ‘0tmn. ‘ But Robbie turned iimto the green lane, wxhere Tattle had wept under the f hedge. have cued; his was the suffering that is too acute for tears“ . _ He stood over the dmald's {an form_m a listening attitude, as It halfaQXpectmg her to speak, till at Les}: commune that Mrs. Turner was waiting for mm to so; be followed her out wnth compress- ed lips and bent. head. lI-Ie moved awk- wmdlynturned furiously red when she said he was sorry." The mid nodded assent. _ “They are all heartless lLttle brutes at_th_a_t age; ape retorted. A n . L a--. -L ‘1... Vfiluvvuv-vâ€"vâ€" __â€"â€"â€"_ ten years already, and she expected it would take two years mare to complete it. Every kind of embroidery, includ- flng Persian, Indian, Ja anese, Turkish. :9,th Ls done here, .2pr waa‘astogished pondent. The entire course of instruc- Liam, which is quite free, lasts five years, but many pupils leave after two or three years, especially ladies who do not int-end to make art. work a pro- fession and are satisfied with knowing the rudiments of either laoewor‘k or art embroidery, tor every year has its epocml ecu-arse. Every year's course {has [LS 30ml room mud mstructress, and T'hae glory of Vienna. is the govern- ment art. school of embroidery. the classes of which are under the direcâ€" tium of Mme. St. George, perhaps the most mmplishod designer and needgeo woman in the world, writes a corres- VV'V" w v-'-â€"â€" to see some beautiful samples of the “naugduty,” or spider’s web, made by the Guaram women of Paraguay, and rarely seen in Europe. This lace is made of the fibre of the aloe, and it is so fine that it is made inside the huts, with the door shut, sothat not the Least breath of wind can touch it. I was still more surprised when Mme. St. George assured me that the sample be- fare me was not really Paraguayan, but copied by her principal assistant. This lady has been equally successful in copying old Venetian, Irish. Brussels, .nenitonn. etcâ€"em fact. every kind of lace 6f all oountrhes. How do you like your new teacher,- Wallie? asked his aunt. . Like isn't the word, replied Walhe. Oh! Then you love her, do you! I do. said Wallie, and then after a long pause. he added. Not! F'Lrst Member-How would it do to agitate for a law allowing bicyclists to use the sidewalks and compellmg 'ede- strians to walk in the middle 0 the street ‘2 -fl' - ._._‘.v"_ 6}; {héâ€"wfiiificiple of the greatest good of the greatest number. ”V- ‘Ivv Secdnd Member-â€"-\Vell, that idea seems a little premature, just now. Af- ter a time_we_ might dpmand sue); a lam: A 'boy of six years, who attends a private school where prizes are given on every sort of provocation, but 88 'et had never earned a prize, came 6 one afternoon and exhibited proudly one of these rewards of merit. Good, said his mother; but how did you gain it? . l was first in natural history. Natural history at your age? How did that happen?. Oh, they asked me how many legs a. horse had. And what did you say? 1 said five. But a horse hasn’t five legs, child. 1 know, but all the other boys said SIX. Proprietor-a of stores where mueicel instruments are sold say that many people seem quite mble to dieorim- inate between such establishments and ghosts in which printed music is dealt 1t. l 1 As en instance, it is related that a young man came into a piano store and asked: ‘ . Do you sell piano pieces here! No, answered the salesman; nothing bu_t_pie_,noe whole. ' n - - The intending purchaser opened his eyes in a. wide and puzzled yvay. and went out apparently wondering What]:- er the salem thought he wanted a fragment. of a piano SCHOOL OF EMBROIDERY. AT THE (‘YCELE CLUB. THE NEW TEACHER. [THE SMIAR'I‘EST BOY PIECES AND “HOLES. PERILS 01" 'A KLONDIKE JOURNEY. c. If. Miller’s Account of Ills Journey over. land Shooting the Canyon. 1 Men who are thinking of going to; the Klondike gold camps will find an interesting account of the hardships and terrible sufferings that must be endured in a letter written at Circle City by C. F. Miller to William Buer- mann, of Windom, St. Louis county. Mo. Mr. Miller was a farmer at Rock Hill, St. Louis county. and sold his farm in 1895 and went to Alaska in August of that year to seek a fortune in the gold fields. He says in his letter,8peak- ing of the journey: “One goes from J’uneau by steamer to Dyea, the head of navigation on the coast north of Juneau, and then begins the perilous journey over the mouno tains. Each man starts from Dyea with about eight hundred pounds of supplies. including provisions, and also tools, with which to build a boat. These supplies must be hauled on a hand sled in the snow by the man himself if he has no Eskimo dogs. It is a ter- rible lead ’over the strangest country it has ever been my lot to travel. One man can haul on his sled only. about 200 pounds at a load. He takes that about four or five miles, unloads, and then returns for 200 pounds more, and so on until he has his outfit moved to the spot where he left his first load. 2 “This tedious method is pursued un- til one reaches C’hilkoot Pass, which is 3,500 feet above the sea. level, and through which the trail crosses the coast range of mountains. This moun- tain pass is covered with GLACLERS AND SNOW’. Steps are cut in the ice up the sides of this pass. Here the traveller to the gold region meets with difficulties that try his nerve and patience. One must pack on his back from fifty to one hundred pounds of supplies at a. time, which he carries to the summit, and then returns for more, until his 800 pounds of outfit is carried up the menu-- tain. All this must be done in blind- lug snow/storms, as it. snows and blows all the time except in the two sum- mer months. “Crater Lake is on the north side of this pass and it remains frozen all summer. We crossed this lake on our way down to the mountins to the series of lakes below, and then continued our journey for 300 miles before we found suitable timber for building our hosts. We camped at the head of the Grand Canon one night, and then we ran the canon in our boats the next morning. This canon is three quarters of a mile long and only 60 feet wide, and. the walls rise mu feet high. The river is one-half mile wide above the canon. The terrible suction draws the water to the centre, causing it to be much higher in the ‘middle: “There is no ni‘éht here at this time of the year, but it will soon . change and then there will practically be no day.” “On this central upheaval of water leap and whirl frightful and dangerous breakers. We prepared to make this awful run through the canon on the morning of June 11, 1896. We ar- ranged everything in good order. We lashed the steering oar fast, discard- ed our coats and boots, and bade good- bye to the boys on the shore. We shoved off and the fast increasing current car- ried us quickly to the mouth ofl the canon, and there our boat for an in- stant seemed to pause, as if afraid to proceed. But it was only a moment’s stop, for, as quick as a flash. vwershot into that hell of boiling waters. All we could do was catch our breath. as we were picked up and slammed through the clouds of blinding spray. But before we had time to get scared g'ngér; out of danger ancf h :lgat‘ threeyquarters of’a mile 3110522 6 canon 111 two minutes and ten secâ€" onds. "The scene that la before us as we merged from the seet in waters of the canon was grand indeed. We sailed along quietly between gently sloping banks that were covered with wild flowers of brilliant colors. But there was something lacking. Not a single bird song could be heard. That beauti- ful picture was set in a desolate coun- try over which reigns THE STLLLNESS OF DEATH. “I saw an old man who has been in the vicinity of that canon for ten years, and he says he will die there: But he says he would like once more to lhear a bird sing, to hear a. rooster crow, and see a pretty girl, and then he would be ready to lie down and die. The ground here is frozen to unknown depths. Several bodies were recently removed from the 0H graveyard to the new one at the Forty Mile creek, and they were in the same state of preser- vation as when buried. The ground only thaws a few inches from the surfac in the summer. _ ‘ “I have been presenting the dark side of the picture, but there is another. There is gold here, and it is in paying quantities, but it takes time to find it. Men have taken out from $1,000 up to $45,000. but the latter amount is the most that any one man has ever taken out of the ground. The seasons are so short and food is so high in price that it takes along time to accom- plish anything. “This is very discouraging to many who come here. I shall try it here this winter. The miners in the winter burn holes down to bed rock and drift. out the pay dirt. Then this pay dirt is washed out in the spriflnz “This letter would be incomplete without a word about the mosquitoes. They are thicker and larger than in any other country, I believe, on earth. They never let up on a. men in the summer; They have actually driven men to commit suicide. I stood on: a mountain side the 2‘2nd of June and saw the sun set at 11.45 in the evening and dip behind theâ€" horizon and then rise again at 12:15 midnight. SOME NEW INVENTIUBS WHAT mansions MAN 1m BEEN INVENTING LATELY. L I“. Street-Sweep” - Machine lor “m. m Wool-Jew German Priming r...“ -£?or Closing Puncture: In Purl-um ureaâ€"A h‘cw Invalid Bed. A citizen of Washington, 1).C., ha: patented a band street-sweeper. 00n- listing of a skeleton frame umuuwi on wheels. 8 brush-roll, and an endless chain 0f buckets.whicb empty 1.th sWeep- ings into a receptacle. A constant smoker of Allegheny, Penn.. is the inventor of an emnumical matchâ€"box. An inclined false bottom has a. groove which will admit the. pas- sage of only one mam]: at a time, the match being ejected by pulling 1 handle attached to a slide. 'A quill Lube mouthpiece for Cigarettes or cigars has one and turned inside out and doubled over one or more times on the body so that it. is less easily bitten through. ‘- In a new bicycle electric lamp tho battery. which can be carried in a tool- box. is connected by wires with the lamp. and will furnish a continuous and brilliant light (or 40 hours. An improved mmhina for Glt'fillllug wool has a. hollow. tapered revolving drum. covered by a perforated a‘reen. Attached to bars within the drum am a series of teeth or pickers. Jgainst Which the wool is driven as the drum revolves. Fan blades within the drum keep up a constant agitation of the nu and drive the impurities through the screen into receptacles below. An improved stamp canceling ma.- chine consists of a chum with a false bottom for supporting the enveloms. and provided with an automatic spring tension. As the envelopes Slide down to “16 Drover point they are seized by pins. drawn to the canoeline dies, canceled and ejected tnom the machine. A New Zeelander has invented a spraying machine which may be car- phul lilrn a knanamtk- on L118 bwck. UI‘ riled; like a knapsack. on the back. or made larger and movod on wheels. the device (”misting of a tank for the spraying fluid. an air tube and piston. the fluid being ejectod by pneumatic pressure. A German prowess for producing tin oxide which is pure white. not poisonou: and gives abright.white enamel, mn- sista in heating the tin in an air-tight vessel to about 1,200 degrees Centri- g'rado and when 0,1; that temperatura air is admitted freely to the molten metal by opening all the doors. The slag is skimmed oft. the oxide remov- ed, and afwl‘ being again heated, is washed or passed through a fine sieve. In a newâ€"German printing press and oscillatory printing cylinder is so ar- ranged as to waste first in one and the; in an opposite direction. each movement actuating one of two in» pression or feed cylinders. thus obviat- mg the disadvaqtages arigi from the constant revolutLon of cylm m. 111 one direction. 4 AA vâ€"vrrw ping pencils from the vest pocket con- sists of a plate with a curved strip of [metal and. a hollow rubber band holding the pencil and a pin [on attaching it: _to the vgst._ "V“. w..- E32993 ugea fur the printâ€"ers' rollers‘ whwh wdl ooze through a puncture ana harden on the surface. ‘V" v An electrical attachment for musicafi instruments. operated on the pLan 01 the perforated music roll. feed mill. to- voly'ugg drum, gave“ the same‘beix‘lg actu- 813(17):} QMfih‘b bower instead vat 1L- alian elbow greasy esxiecially designed for motor cars. con- sists of a hood. preferably of rubber which slips over the upper knob of the handle. and a flap far the longitudinal portion of; the same. thus rotecting the hands of the motorman rom elec- tric shock and from the injurious efâ€" fects ol? handling metal, especially in cold weather. A new invalid bed hasas independent central section resting on a. movable auxiliary {rune whioh may be raised or lowered at will by a wheel and chain. The head or foot sections can be elevat- ad or depressed at any angle. and a rumovable attachmant is providzd for sustaining watar bags or slings for fractured limbs. In a German improvement in shift- ing or reversing gut. espevially applic- ablo Lo fluid-operated engmes, the pis ace induction and ecluction port“ hit each cylinder. the fluul pressure being regulated by slide valves. The a para- has is applicable to reversible mac liner, of all hands. ton nods of two compressed air cylin- ders are mnnected with push rods 0: links, whose free ends are attached to a block movable longitudinally on I guldo rod fixed at each and of the frame.‘ Ayalve bpx gouging a upgr- Anjxpproved German appqratus for sherihzmg and papkmg surgxcal band- age mayegial qonsxyts of [papetmache or card board tube with perforated sides in which the bandages are placed. sterilized by a current of steam. and bermetipally sealed by hinged and pieces lined With gum which fit over the end: of the tube. {Patrickâ€"Then‘ i'tI’vs IJCH w6i must be fun‘ Oi’m a moigbty soight better 0d than 0i was when 0‘ \ndod. Agitatorâ€"Don’t you know, air. that in this country the rich are growing rigge‘r .aznd "Rho 9991' ppqreg! AN ANOMALY. ,thod oi m Abdol'mDBw’W‘m ‘4 W.” of the V“ t" may?! “all“! at Gumbo“ fiQt-Lwrn'. darl “mm mm “091 unis exam I“ MVP 91?? In“