AUTUMN LEAVES.
JTCower and leaf of vine and tree.
Grass of meadow, weed o mire-
Bummer gathered them to be
Maggots forhe autumn' fire.
Bmoke-like haze on vale and hill;
Flames of gold and crimson bright
into life now leap and fill
Field and forest with their light.
Itel the glory of the year
Kindled into beauty so;
Boon the winter will be here,
Soon the curfew -then the snow.
Bo these lovely leaves I lay
In my book, all gold and red;
Embers for a winter's day
When the autumn's fire is dead.
-Frank Dempster Sherman, in the Amer
ican Illustrated Magazine.
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IN A TERRIBLE FIX.
By Eben E. Rexford.
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OW, 'Rastus" and bis sis
, ter picked a thread or two
off bis coat, and besifated,
as if thinking bow to break
the news gently "I want
to tell you about a plan
I've got in my bead'
"I know wbat it is,'', interrupted her
brother, turning paie. "I knew all
about it before I came down here."
"I'd like to know how?" asked Mrs.
Green, in great surprise. "I never told
anybody except John, and I'm sure he
hasn't let it out."
"No, he hasn't," answered Mr. Bangs.
"But the minute I read your letter, I
felt what was in the wind. You didn't
say in so many words that you'd got a
match planned out, but I understood it
iweil enough. Who is it, Selina? Bet
ter get the load off your mind as soon
as possible. -I'm prepared to know the
worst." and Mr. Bangs gave utterance
to a sigh of forced resignation.
"It's a widow," answered Selina;
"just the kind of a woman to suit you,
Rastus. I do hope you'll be sensible
this time, and not let your foolish bash
fulness spoil your chances of getting a
good wife."
"A widow!" Mr. Bangs turned a
.trifle paler, and shivered "I I'm
afraid I can't stand this siege, Selina.
I came mighty near knocking under to
that old maid last summer, but I was
helped out of the scrape some way.
I've always heard say that a man
couldn't hold out long against a widow
if she'd got her mind really made up to
get him."
4 "Don't be a fool, 'Rastus," said her
sister, tersely. "Maria's too good fos
you, and, if you know when you're
well off, you'll make sure of her."
"Maybe she won't be made sure of,"
said Mr. Bangs, to whom this conver
sation was somewhat alarming.
"Oh, yes, she will," answered Selina.
"I've talked with her about matters,
.and I know she'd have no objections."
"Good gracious, Selina!" exclaimed
Istr. Bangs, perspiring all over, "you
don't mean to say that you've actually
talked with this woman about my mar
rying her, do you? Why, she'll expect
me to do it, if you have, and, if I don't,
he'll be having me up for breach of
promise."
"Of course she expects you to marry
her, and so do I," answered Selina, as
5f that settled the matter. "Be a man,
'Rastus. I wouldn't be afraid of the
Women, if I were in your place."
' -"Yon don't know what you're talk
ing, about," said Mr. Bangs, shaking
his head dolefully. "You're a woman,
and can't be expected to know."
"Well, come down, and let me intro-
raQsaally got him to consent.
"I feel like a lamb being led to the
slaughter," said poor Mr. Bangs, as
.lae paused at the parlor door to wipe
3iis face. "I wish I were home again,
senna."-
' "Don't be such a fool, 'Rastus," re
peated his sister, by way of encour-1
agement, and then he was dragged
-t)ver the threshold, and he remembered
;af terward that something in the shape
ni a woman rose up, and said some
thing, after Selina had said something.
But what those something were, he
never knew.
When he came to, sufficiently to
realize what was going on about him,
be was alone with the widow. She
wasn't a bad-looking woman, he had to
admit. In fact, he rather liked her
looks.
Well, the result was, he fell in love
-with Mrs. Smith. He generally fell in
love with Xhe. women Selina selected
as proper subjects for matrimony. But
this time he felt so completely done
for that he was sure all his capabilities
for falling in love were exhausted.
He would never love again.
At the end of a week he felt that his
love had reached its climax, for he
picked up. a rose she had dropped, and
elept with it under his pillow.
'Ton poor, old fool," he said to him-
. self the next morning, as he stood be
fore the glass. "To think that you've
got spoony enough for that. I'm glad
no one knows it. But the widow is
Tery attractive, and I don't see as I'm
to blame. '. I-I can't help it."
One day Selina and Mrs. Smith went
out shopping after tea. As Mr. Bangs
was going through the hall he saw that
Mrs. Smith's room door stood partly
open, and an irresistible impulse to
take jusi one peep into it came over
him. He did so. Hanging over the
back of a chair was a walking skirt,
and that mysterious article of feminine
apparel fascinated him so much that he
ventured in, and began to examine it
"Well, now, if that doesn't beat the
Dutch!" said Mr. Bangs, holding it
up. "I wonder how I'd look in such a
thing? I'm going to try it on."
Accordingly, he got hold of the belt,
.and proceeded to invest himself in it,
kfter the manner of putting on
trousers.
"It buckle, I s'pose!" he said, pulling
the belt together. "Yes, there it is.
Lord!-wouldn't I cut a fine figure in
skirts," and Mr. Bangs danced a horn
pipe to the accompaniment of a ; swish
ing skirt.
The hall door banged.
"Good gracious!" cried poor Bangs.
"They've come home!"
Every hair on his head stood up with
fright. He grabbed at the belt, but it
wouldn't unbuckle. He heard steps
on the stairs, and women's voices
struck more terror to his guilty soul
than the sound of Gabriel's trumpet
would have done.
He glanced about him. There was
no escape. A closet door stood partly
open. Into that he crowded himself,
and pulled the door together just as
Mrs. Smith came in.
He could hear her bustling about,
taking off her jacket and bonnet What
if she were to come to the closet? It
was altogether likely that she hung
her things there. He felt as if he
were going to faint. Then be thought
of the ridiculous appearance a fainting
man in a skirt would make, and made
up his mind that he wouldn't faint
he'd die first!
There! She was coming that way!
What was to be done? A thousand
wild thoughts flashed through his
brain. He felt her hand upon the door
knob. -
"There's a man in your room!" he
roared out, in awful bass. He didn't
know how he came to say it. It was
the inspiration of desperation, prob
ably. "Oh-h, o-o-h!" shrieked Mrs. Smith,
and fled in terror.
"I've got to get out of this before
anyone comes," said Mr. Bangs, giving
a push to the door. Horrors! it would
not open. There was only one way of
opening it, and that was from the
outside.
A clammy perspiration covered him
from head to foot.
"You stay here, and I'll go in," he
heard Selina say, in the hall. "I ain't
afraid."
He put his eye to the keyhole, and
saw his sister enter the room.
"Selina!" he called, in a sepulchral
tone. "Selina!"
"Who calls me Selina?" demanded
Mrs. Green, dramatically, flourishing
the feather duster, which she had
brought along for a .weapon of de
fense. "I do," answered Mr. Bangs. "It's
'Rastus, your brother. I'm shut i:p in
this closet."
"Well, I never!" exclaimed Mrs.
Green, staring at the closet as if she
expected to look it out of countenance.
"Let me out, and don't be a fool!"
cried Mr. Bangs.
Thus appealed to, Mrs. Green ven
tured to open the door, and out stepped
Mr. Bangs, with his skirt swishing
about his legs.
"For the land's sake!" cried Selina,
with uplifted hands, and mouth wide
open. "Why, 'Rastus Bangs!"
"I I thought I'd have a little sport,"
explained Mr. Bangs, looking about as
foolish as it is possible for a man to,
"butyou came back too soon, and I
couldn't get it off, and slipped into the
closet. Help me out of the confounded
thing, Selina, and keep it to yourself,
and I'll buy you the nicest dress, in
town."
"Selina! Selina!" called the widow
from the bottom of the stairs. "Do you
want any help?" r
"Hurry up!" exclaimed Mr. Bangs.
"She'll be here in a minute."
"I'll tell you what I'll do," said Se
lina. "If you'll promise to ask her to
marry you inside of three days. I'll help
you out of the scrape. If you don't,
I'll call her in."
"I I dassent," groaned Mr. Bangs.
"Then I'll call her," said Selina.
"I I will!" said her brother, desper
ately. Mrs. Green gave a peculiar twitch to
the strap, the buckle let go its: hold,
and the skirt fell to the floor. Mr.
Bangs stood up a free man.
"Now, remember," said Selina, warn
ingly, "if you haven't proposed to Mrs.
Smith in three days from this time at
half-past six precisely, on Thursday,
the time'll be up I shall tell the whole
story."
Oh, those three days! They seemed
three years to poor Bangs. He tried
seven diff erent times to make his prom
ise good, but every time his tongue
clove to the roof of his mouth, and he
was speechless.
Thursday, at 6 o'clock, Selina came
to him.
"Have you asked her, 'Rastus?" she
demanded, solemnly.
"No, I haven't," answered Mr. Bangs.
"I can't, Selina."
"You've got just half an hour's time
left," said Selina, unfeelingly. "Sup
per'll be ready in fifteen minutes. The
half hour'll be gone before we get
through eating, and I shaH tell the
story the minute the time's up. Maria's
in the parlor, alone. If you want to
see her, you'll never get a better
chance."
"If you had any sisterly regard for
me " began Mr. Bangs, but Mrs.
Green cut him short with, the- remark:
"A bargain's a bargain. Do as you
agreed to, or I will. Don't be a fool,
'Rastus."
And with that she opened the parlor
door and pushed him in.
Mr. Bangs doesn't know what he
said. He never knew. But the widow
said he asked her if she wanted to
marry him. Being a truthful woman,
she said she did, and so the poor man
was spared the recital of the story of
his.terrible fix.
"It was lucky that it happened, after
j nil," he told Selina, "for, if it hadn't,
I never would have got courage to
propose never." New York Weekly.
The latest method in hairdressing
is to cut each hair separately, a pro
cess that takes much time, but does
great good to the hair.
'mm"1 MJmmim- a
THE TOMB
RELICS OF ROMEO'S JULIET.
The tomb of Juliet at Verona is fall
ing into decay and steps are to be
taken by the citizens to restore it. The
house where she was born, on one of
juliet's bibthplack.
main streets of the city, has recently
been sold at auction to Queen Mar
gherita for about $700, and will be
kept solely as a relic of the young girl.
SALT MAKING OH SAN FRANCISCO
BAY.
BY ENOS BBOWN.
The vast amount of salt consumed on
the Pacific Coast is derived from the
sea . by evaporation in Quantity only
limited by the demand. The cost of
evaporated salt is but one-fifth of the
lowest rate of transportation on rock
salt from the nearest source of supply
to the most accessible ocean port.
The locality which enjoys a practical
monopoly of salt making on the Pacific
Coast of the United States is Alvarado,
a town of Alameda Couuty, and twenty
miles from San Francisco. At this
point, which lies on the cast side of the
southern extension of San Francisco
Bay. exist certain peculiarities in the
lay of the land which, united with cli
mate and favorable character of the
soil, combined to make the locality es
pecially adapted for this particular in
dustry. Lone; intervals of cloudless skies, the
Ioy- humidity, and hign temperature al!
favor rapid evaporation, while the soil,
a stiff clay, is well adapted for levees
and making water-tight reservoirs, for
the most part, to fill with sea water by
gravity alone. Moreover, the southern
section cf the bay is contaminated by
I , ats -w Lift "r .fis,, SSNJ -I
GATHERING SALT FROM SETTLING POND.
no considerable affluents to dilute with
supplies of fresh water the saltness
which comes ih with the tides of ocean.
The largest as well as most thor
oughly equipped of the several corpora
tions engaged in the business is the
Continental Salt Manufacturing Com
pany, which has thirty reservoirs, cov
ering 1000 acres. This company has
constructed from first to last twelve
miles of Uveas, 2600 feet of flumes and
seven and one-half miles o2 ditches. A
slough meanders througn the tract,
which is navigable for vessels of con-!
A Queer Cuglam.
A Moslem in the East will never pass
or trample under foot a scrap of paper,
lest thereon might be written the name
of Allah. He will pick it up and stuff
it into the crevice of a wall, or even
carry it for days until he finds out
from somebody who can read whether
it contains the holy name.
In the calendar year 1904 the emi
gration from Italy to oceanic countries
afiffregated 223,102 persons.
IT
1. i
OF JULIET.
siderable draft and affords excellent
and economical facilities for shipping.
A large mill, well equipped with the
best machinery for washing, drying,
grinding, sifting and bolting the fin
ished product is a prominent feature
of the works. Twenty Dutch windmills
and two Chinese pumps raise altogeth
er 200,000 gallons of brine each minute.
The entire plant presents: to the ob
server a miniature Netherlands with
the distant ships on the bay appearing
as though floating in the air. The
manufacture of salt from ocean water
is a constant progression from one res
ervoir to another, transfer being made
as tbe brine reaches a certain density
to the next. Reservoir No. 1 covers
305 acres and is surrounded by a four
foot levee. Its outward boundary is
upon a slough flowing from the bay.
As the tide rises, twelve gates are
opened and allow the sea water to flow
in to a depth of three feet. The gates
are then closed. The average strength
of the sea water is from four to seven
degrees, and remains in Reservoir No.
1 until the strength increases to thirty
degrees. By means of windmills Res
ervoir No. 1 is emptied into Reservoir
No. 2 and the brine is exposed to the
heat of the sun until U reaches a
density of fifty to sixty degrees, which
may take three weeks. The brine is
then pumped into Reservoir No. 3,
where it attains a strength of seventy
five to eighty degrees. It then goes
into reservoirs Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8,
known as settling ponds, where the
brine voluntarily parts with the lime
which it contains, and becomes almost
a saturated solution at a strength of
ninety degrees. It is then conveyed to
the twenty-two salt ponds, where it is
exposed to the fierce heat of the sun,
and in about twenty days the salt is
deposited and the pickle allowed to
run off. Two crops are gathered, one
each in August and October. After
precipitation the salt remains exposed
for a few days, when it is first piled in
heaps and then wheeled in barrows
into great pyramids on the banks. The
pyramids of crude salt remain on the
bank exposed to the weather until it is
shipped as "crude" or passes into the
mill to be refined. Scientific American.
OHIO HAS A NEW STATE FLAG
Ohio has a State flag, designed at the
instance of Governor Herrick. The
centre of the flag bears the great seal
of the State. This is surrounded by
seventeen stars in commemoration of
the fact that Ohio was the seventeenth
State admitted' into the Union. The
field of the flag is scarlet Philadel
phia Record.
Celebration in Kilkenny.
The corporation of Kilkenny has de
cided to present an address to King
Edward on his visit to that city, and
on the same day to grant the freedom
of the city to John Daly, of Limerick,
lately discharged ,from prison, where
he served a term for using dynamite.
Steamship Cats.
From eight to twelve cats, rat-catching,
are part of. the equipment of every
great ocean liner, and these same pus
sies daily appear on the ship's books,
where their rations are accounted for.
Each cat is stationed at a, different
part of the ship, and certain stewards
are told off to feed them daily.
It is held in Germany that the tip
ping evil has led to the bribery method
which is so vexatious to business men.
4 .
New York City.--No dress worn by
the girl of twelve or younger is quite
so pretty and quite so attractive as the
one that includes a guimpe of white.
Here is an exceedingly stylish and
quite novel. model that will be found
most desirable for the first school days
as well as for immediate wear and
A LAT6 ASSIGN
which is quite appropriate for autumn.
In the illustration it is shown made of
light weight serge stitched with beld
ing silk and worn over a guimpe of
white lawn, but linen, chanibray and
all similar materials can be utilized,
while for the autumn, cashmere, challie
and other light weight wools will be
quite as fashionable as the serge.
The dress itself consists of waist por
tion and skirt. The waist portion ex
tends under the arms and over the
shoulder, giving something of a sus
pender effect, while in reality it is
simply made in skeleton style with
tucks that simulate box pleats at the
edges. The skirt is five gored and is
laid in box pleats that meet at the cen
tre front and back. The guimpe is
quite separate and absolutely simple,
being made with front and backs,
gathered at the neck and finished with
a collar and at the waist where it
is finished with a belt. The sleeves
are in bishop style.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size (ten years) is five
yards twenty-seven or thirty-two, or
three and three-eighth yards forty-four
inches wide, with one and three-fourth
yards thirty-six inches wide for the
guimpe.
Many hats appear to be trimmed
much higher at the back than they
really are, owing to their forward in
clination. It must not be imagined that because
a certain style of wearing hats has
been adopted, anything like sameness
is to be apprehended. For one thing,
great diversity is to be noted in the
shapes X)f crowns, and the importance
of the crown is manifest under exist
ing circumstances. It is placed full in
view, owing to the forward slant of
Light Colored Taffeta.
Plain taffeta is rather old. for a
young girl, but the light colored triped
flowered taffetas are lovely for even
ing dresses. They are not in as good
taste as organdies and muslins, which
can be made dressier by colored or
white taffeta slips worn underneath.
y
Klouse or Gmmpe "Waist.
The simple waist made with full
front, such as this one, is always in
demand, but especially so at this time,
when princesse skirts and skeleton
waists are so much worn by young
girls In this instance the material is
chiffon taffeta combined with iace, but
the list of available ones is nearly end
less. Lingerie blouses will e worn
throughout the entire winter and , are
always charming for indoor occasions,
while there are also many pretty thin
wools and silks, such as wool batiste-,
crepe de Chine and the like, which are
greatly liked for nvaists of this style,
and, again, all over lace or et is al
ways charming so made.
The waist is made with a fitted lin
ing, which can be used or emitted as
may be liked, and itself consists of
front and backs. The front is gathered
at the neck edge and again at the waist
line, but the backs are plain across the
shoulders, the fulness being found at
the belt only. The sleeves are the fav
orite ones of the season with the deep
cuffs, above which they are soft and
full. The closing is made invisibly
at the back.
BY WAY WAHTOH.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size (fourteen years) is
two and three-fourth yards twenty-one,
two and one-half yards twewty-seyen
or one and five-eighth yards forty-foui
inches wide, with one-half yard of all
over lace.
the shape, and its form (at least in
front) is not concealed "by trimmings.
Productive of almost endless variety
also is what we call here the "move
ment" given to the brim, that is to
say, the particular curve or roll it is
made to take, or the way it is turned
up at the back or side. Moreover,
brims may 'be wide or narrow. Ali
widths are accepted, although, as I
told you in my last, medium widths
will perhaps be the most generally
adopted for the present The Millin
ery Trade Review.