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LUKE HAMMOND,
THE MISm,
By Prof. Wm. Henry Peck
Author of the "TR Stone Cutter
of Lisbon" Etc.
Chapter hi.
Continued
"Brandy:" he muttered It is be
coming a habit. I have shunned liquor
all my life till of late, and now I am
conscious of a growing taste, a craving
thirst for brandy. I need its fire at my
heart to carry my schemes to a success
ful end. And I Will succeed or perish."
f "A tapping at the door again.
Hammond opeued a drawer of hi3
desk, took from it a revolver, exam
ined it closely, then laid it upon the
tble and threw a newspaper over it.
-If an enemy and I have many very
daring ones in this world," he mut
tered. "'I shall not be taken off my
guard. Come in!"-he continued sharply.
Daniel opeued the door, and the
stranger entered with a stride that
swung him fully a yard into the li
brary. Hammond gave one keen glance at
the stranger, and then said to Daniel:
"Gto as I directed." ;
; Daniel departed, and Hammond
turned to the stranger, whose cloak
and hat still muffled his visage.
'"You seem to fear recognition," said
Hanittiond, quietly dropping into a
chair, so that the table was between
1-hii and the stranger, but with his
right hand resting upon the hidden
pistol.
"Do you think I fear itfrom "
"Spvak that name, and you die, John
Marks!" exclaimed Hammond, snatch
ing ft?rth the pistol like lightning, and
levelling it full in the stranger's face,
as the latter spoke and let fall his
cloak.
John Marks' dark and weather
bronzed face grew a shade paler as
Hammond spoke, but he said:
Fire! and lese a friend to gain a
hangman, Luke Hammond, since yon
love the name; and by Jove, you seem
ttliave thrived under it!"
"What foul breeze has blown John
Marks to Xew York?" said Hammond.
"A roving breeze, that puffs his pock
ets like blown-up bladders, and fills
tlm with emptiness, Luke," said
John Marks, showing two rows of
splendid teeth. "I want money, old
comrade. Put that three-decker of a
pistol aside. It makes my flesh creep
to have it pointed this way."
"Money is very valuable," .said Ham
mond. "What have you to give in ex
change for it?"
: "A warning, Luke," said Marks.
"A warning!" -i
"I'll sell it to you for five hundred
dollars, no less," said Marks.
"I pledge my word to pay it if the
warning is worth so much."
"Agreed; for if you don't pay I can
make more elsewhere. But I came to
you first, since you and I have worked
together in days gone by," said Marks.
"Out with the warning; my time is
valuable," cried Hammond.
The little bell was shaking terribly.
Something was going wrong in the
crimson chamber.
"You had a wife once, you know,
Luke."
liYes sh? died; go on!' said Ham
mond, visibly agitated.
"I know, friend Luke," continued
Marks, with a grin, "that you have had
two wives. Your second wife died
all right; women must die as well as
men, you know. Yes, the mother of
your son Charles died died as Mrs.
Luke Hammond. But your first wife,
you know she didn't -die."
"What! You rave!" said Hammond.
"You may say she died, Luke. You
have a good reason to say so,"- said
Marks. "But your first wife's sister
you rernembor her? Well, sh gays
your first wife was murdered!"
Hammond grew deathly pale, and his
eyes glared at Marks.
"Murdered!" whispered Hammond,
"That's the word, Luke; and she says
you are the murderer!"
"She says! Where is, she, John
Marks?" , " -
"In New York. And Luke, she is a
terrible woman fierce as a tiger, cun
ning as a fox, patient as a spider. She
thinks you are in America, somewhere,
and she has sworn to have your life!"
"Does she suspect that Luke Ham
mond is her dead sister's husband?"
gasped Hammond, a very picture of
terror. ... ' . .':
"Not yet. She has heard of Luke
Hammond, however," said Marks;
"and Harriet Foss is ' like a blood
hound on the scent. Once on your
trail, and before you dream of danger
she will have her knife in ycur throat."
"True," said "Cammond. "And now,
Marks, if you will prove to me within
three days that Harriet Foss is dead,
these five hundred dollars I now give
you shall be made five, thousand."
"Speak plainly, Luke Hammond,"
said Marks.
"What need, when you already un
derstand my meaning," said Hammond.
Marks grew whiter than he. did when
the pistol was' at his face, and for a
moment seemed ready to fly.
"Luke," said he, at length, "I am
no saint, you know, and there are red
spots on this hand of mine," he
stretched forth the lean, sinewy hand;
"but there are no stains of .woman's
blood oh it. I will not raise my hand
against Harriet Foss, but I will place
her in your power."
-"?.u.5re spljtting-hairs, as the say-
1
' Copyright I39e,
hj KOBIBT BONSKB'8 SOXS.
ing Is," said Hammond. "You have
grown squeamish as your hair has
frosted. ButI reject your proposition,
for I have enough of those stains upon
my hand already. I do not wish to see
her."
"Well, I will engage to send her on
a wild goose chase to South America,
or to Europe, or even to Asia," said
Marks.
"Would she recognize me, think
you?" asked Hammond'.
"I did not, until you addressed mc
by my ame," said Marks.
"What!, You did not know me when
you came in?" said Hammond . ,
"Not at all.'V
"Then why are you here?" cried
Hammond.
"I came to see a man whom once I
knew," said Marks speaking very
slowly. "His name was Luke Ham
mondthe name you bear now. He
was once very kind to me, when I bore
another name. I was in distress, and
I knew Luke Hammond not you
was as generous as the sun. You look
very much like him."
"Curse you! If I had Imagined you
could be deceived in my identity "
said Hammond. "But I bear that
name, John Marks, and let all beware
who shall seek to rob me of it."
"Bah! Don't scowl," said Marks.
"Continue Luke Hammond all your
life, so you will aid me a little. But
suppose the ; true Luke Hammond
should turn up!"
"He is dead these twenty-five years,"
said Hammond.
"The better for you for us," re
marked Marks. "I became acquainted
n Europe with a young man named
Charles Hammond your sou, is he
not?" '
"He is. I married his mother as
Luke Hammond." J "':.
"Yes. Your son told me his mother
died when he' was quite young. I told
him I was formerly a friend of his
father's I did not know you1 were his
father. He gave me Luke Hammond's
address and here I am, much aston
ished to find- "
"Luke Hammond! That Is my
name!" said Hammond.
'"So be it. It is a good paying name,"
said Marks, securing the bank notes
for five hundred dollars, as Hammond
counted theni from his wallet.
"Be true to me,-. John Marks, and
you shall find no fault with it," said
Hammond. "Now go, hasten Harriet
Foss's departure from New York.
When shall I see you again?"
"At the end of .' three days," said
Marks. -
"Very well.:". I shall need ydu then."
"For what?V asked Marks.
"I need a man like you always near
me," replied Hammond.
"You are right. We need each other,"
said Marks, as he departed.
"And now to visit the crimson cham
ber,' said Hammond. "Trouble, dan
ger all in a storm!'? I must be care
ful, or I am lost. If Charles were here
now!". 1 -igi
The bell rang furiously-,
Hammond -opened a closet, then un
locked a door at its back, and entered
the hall that traversed the eastern
wing of the mansion, taking a small
lamp with him. ' .'.Y V
Let us go with 'him to the crimson
chamber. ? '
CHAPTER IV.
THE CBIMSpjj CHAMBER.
Luke Hammond, having entered the
hall, passed swiftly along -until he
reached a flight of stairs. There he
paused for a moment to pull, sharply
at a bell-rope hanging from the wall;
and. then descended the stairs with
long strides, which soon carried him
to the floor below. There he paced
another "hall, till he reached the dcor
he sought. He passed through the
room into which It opened, and en
tered another and larger apartment.
The walls of this room were covered
with gold and crimson paper, and the
latter color gave it its name. The
room was-large, but had no opening
save cue strong door, a small grate
and a sky-light, the last in the centre
of the lofty ceiling. When Hammond
entered, the room was lighted with a
single, jet of gas, flaming from the
wall. This room had been ' used by
Kate Elgin's father as a studio, for
the late Henry Elgin had cultivated a
taste for the fine arts; but now it con-
and a few chairs, a small table, etc. '
As Luke Hammond entered, he stared
for a moment, in surprise and per
plexity, at the scene before him.
A tall and fearfully emaciated man,
clad in a single long" white robe, reach
ing to his-knees, was standing in one
corner, with a hatph,et in his hand, and
glaring deadly menace upon the two
persons hi the room. These persons
were Mrs.-. Harker and the servant
Daniel. Each grasped a chair as a
weapon of defense, and seemed to
shrink from the pale and mad-looking
man, as his deep-set, hollow eye3 rolled
fiercely from one to the other.
When Hamomnd. opened the door,
the prisoner, for such he was, seemed
to forget the presence of Mrs. Harker
and Daniel, and to concentrate all the
fierceness of his eyes upon Hammond.
"Where did yon "get that hatchet?'
' 1
demanded Hammond, pausing at the
uoor. .. - , '
'It was in the room when I rolled
the bed in," said Mm Harker, whose
6harp atd sallow face was as livid
with feai: as that ot & corpse
"How came it here? Who brought
It here?" cried Hammond.
"Must have been left here a long
time," replied Mrs. Harker, confusedly.
"I had not time to sweep the room
before I moved the bed and he on it."
"Fool! Careless fool," said Ham
mond. "Now fool to you, Luke Hammond,"
retorted Nancy Harker. "Who would
have thought that he would be able
to rise from the bed, where he has
been groaning a whole year?"
"I know you, Luke Hammond," said
the Invalid in a deep and hollow voice.
?'Has he spoken to you, Nancy?" de
manded Hammond.
"Those are the first words I have
heard him speak for six months!" ex
claimed Mrs.. Harker. "With strength
he has regained his speech."
"This is sudden and strange," said
Hammond.
"Have six months elapsed since my
tongue uttered speech?" asked the in
valid, and lowering his hatchet. "Have"
t been a mere mass f living matter
six Months?"
"He is now in full possession 6f his
reason," said Hammond, without reply
ing to the invalid's question. . "Had you
much trouble In moving him here, Mrs.
Harker?"
The glare of rage had faded from
the attenuated face of the invalid, and
though he still grasped his hatchet
firmly, his whole being seemed cen
tered in the conversation going on
around him.
Mrs. Harker replied to Hammond.
"No. He made no resistance when I
began to roll his bed from the white
and gold chamber. He seemed half
asleep. But soon after I had placed
him in this room he opened his eyes
wide, began to flash them around him,
half arose in hi3 bed a thing you know
he has not done these felx months"
"Six months echoed the Invalid, al
his attentive ear followed the colloquy.
"Six months! Then I have been tor
tured a year; for during the first six
mouths I was conscious of yout vil
lainy, Luke Hammond"
"Go on Mrs. Harker," said Ham
mond, whose eyes seemed to shun the
Invalid's.
"I forced him down upon the pil
lows," resumed Mrs. Harker. "He lay
quiet for a while, and then again tried
to get up. After a hard tussle I tired
him out, and he sank back exhausted.
Then Trang the library bell "
"To do that," interrupted Hammond,
"you had to leave him and run to the
white and gold chamber."
"Of course. We've no bell nor speak
ing tube In this room," said Mrs.
Harker. "When I came back to bind
li?m na T-nii mvloror? Via nrno ert
, 1
uuui, siaiiug auuui us li lie reuugmzeu
the room. I had a dreadful time in
getting him into bed again he fought
like a tiger -"
"And you like a tigress as you are!"
said the invalid. "I remember now 1
had begun to regain my reason."
"Then I ran to the bell and tube
again," pursued Mrs. Harker. "You
sent Daniel to 'help me. When Daniel
came we tried to bind him; but he
fought so hard that unless we stunned
him we couldn't "
"Did you stun him?" asked Ham
mond, a shudder creeping over his
frame.
"No it looked too cruel to knock a
sick man on th3 head," said Mrs.
Harker.
"You lie, tigress hag!" exclaimed
the invalid. "You ran and got this
very hatchet, and raised it to smite me
dead or senseless. You did strike me
once, and that instant I think my
power of speech began to return. That
man there, Daniel, cried out for no vio
lence; and in his trying to wrest the
hatchet from you, it fell uppn the bed,
and I clutched it.'
"Is this true, Daniel?" asked Ham
mond. "True, sir," said Daniel. "I believe
Mis, Harker would have killed him,
though not on purpose."
"He struck me, Luke Hammond!"
cried Mrs, Harker, pointing to her
bruised visage, l only meant to stun
him 8 bit,"
'Had you slain him, Nancy Harker,"
said Hammond, with sudden fierceness,
"by my blocd, I would have slain you!"
"Not" because of any humanity in
your heart," sneered Nancy Harker;
"but because the blow that slew him
would have slain the goose that layi
your goldSn eggs."
"Your very instruments despise you,
Luke Hammoud," said the invalid.
"Learn to govern both temper and
tongue, Nancy Harker," said Ham
mond, over whom this ferocious and
evil woman seemed to hold some pow
erful restraint.
Nancy sneered a recognition of the
advice, and went on with her story:
"When he got the hatchet he sprang
from the bsd and ran for the door
there. Daniel and I threw chairs in
the way and ho fell. Then he kept
us off.. with the hatchet, and ran to thai
coi'ner, where he is now. 1 ran to the
bell then and that's all."
"Murderers!" cried the Invalid
"When will this tyranny cease?''
"Daniel," said Hammond, placing his
lamp' upon the table, "do ,you, from
that side, advance on himwith the
chair. Nancy Harke-. with that chaii
push on him from the other side. 1
with this will attack him in frpnt. Wt
must pin him in his corner keep an
eye to his hatchet. Now all at once.
Stay! I thought I heard a step in the
hall."
"Bats, rats. This part of the house
swarms with the vermin," said Nancj
Harker, impatient to begin the assault
To be continued: "'
Ten men can be arranged to march
in single file In 3,628,800 different wayfr
j' -o SCIENCE. M
An anemometer at San 1 Francisco
mowed a wind velocity of over 120
niles an hour on May 19, 1902. At the
nountain observatory on Puy .de Dom,e
156 miles an hour was recorded on De
:ember 9, 190L V -
Twentieth century physicians are
rather slow-going plodders after all;
Cingalese books of the sixth century
ire stated by Sir Henry A. Blake, Gov
ernor of Ceylon, to have described six-cy-seven
varieties of mosquitoes and
124 kinds of malarial fever caused by
mosquitoes. " ' : .'y- -
Thejierves of eyes and stomach show
remarkable interdependence. A late
medical writer finds that eye-strain
;auses digestive disturbances, seasick
ness and even constipation, and that
stomach disorders affectvision, while
hemorrhages 'into the stomach are
sometimes followed by blindness
A new single iens"the Zeiss "Verant,J'
Causes photographs td stand out in re
lief as under the two" lenses of ft stereo
scope. The lens is onveo-concave, so
that the axes of the rays from different
parts of the picture meet in the eye,
and the focal length should equal that
of the camera' taking the photograph.
The electric waves of Herz were
found by him to measure 150 feet from
crest to crest; but those used by Mar
coni in telegraphing across the Atlantic
are GOO feet long, or more. These wavei
travel at about the same rate as light
waves whiA measure only a few mil
lionths of an inch or with the almost
inconceivable velocity of 184,000 miles
per second.
Plating iron objects with cadmium is
the interesting new metallurgical
achievement of a German chemist. The
bath is prepared by dissolving cad
mium chloride in water, precipitating
with sodium Carbohate solution and
dissolving the washed precipitate, while
still moist, in a solution of potassium
cyanide in water. Cadmium anodes
are used, with a current of four to
five volts. The deposit, after buflBng,
has the same color as tin, but is harder.
Two Germans have discovered a
method by which they can hear plants
grow. In the apparatus the growing
plant is connected with a disk, having
in its centre an indicator which moves
visibly and regularly, and this on a
scale fifty times magnified denotes the
progress and growth. Both disk and
indicator are metal, and when brought
in contact with an electric hammer, the
electric current being interrupted at
each of the divided interstices of the
disk, the growth of the plants is as
perceptible to the ear as to the eye.
tittle Glrli "Bait" for FUliennen.
More fishermen are supported in the
fishing season at the little town oi
Vardo in Norway than in our own
famous Gloucester, or the English
Grimsby. At Vardo everybody helps in
the work men, women, and even the
children. James B. Connolly writes, ic
Harper's Magazine, that he saw innum
erable little girls of nine or ten sturdily
standing in the cold air that made theh
faces and fingers blue, while they pa
tiently baited their fathers' and broth
ers' trawls. Their mothers performed
the same work while the exhausted
fishermen snatched the two-hours' sleef
that constituted their night's rest iv
the busy season. It is no uncommon
thing for a single merchant to have
several hundred thousand pairs of fish
hanging out to dry at once, in prepara
tion for the market. Mr. Connollj
sailed and fished with the fishermer
themselves, and gives a very enter
taining account of their peculiar cus
toms. How Mar' Twain Blade Five Dollar.
All boys like to earn a few pennies
now and then," but Mark Twain jells
of a very unusual way in which he
once made the princely sum of $5 as a
small boy. At one school he attendee"
tnere was a strict rule against niar
ing the desks. Any boy discovered mu
tilating a desk must be punished being
offered his choice between paying $J
or taking a public whipping. The ir
resistible combinatioiTof a shiny-topped
desk and a brand-new knife in bil
pocket was too much for Mark; he suc
cumbed to the temptation and whittled
away until the teacher caught him.
The punishment was set for the fol
lowing day, and Mark's father, think
ing it a pity the lad should be publicl?
whipped, gave him alecture and a
bill. Five dollars looked pretty big tc
Mark. He thought it over carefully,
and when the time came, with the bill
in his pocket, went up and took the
whipping.- :? ; " ' .
Cultivated UKltties.
Which careless women cultivate:
A heavy lower lip induced by a pout.
Dull eyes with heavy lids induced
by apathy and indifference.
Creases between the eyebrows in
duced by bad temper.
. Pimples induced by. tight lacing and
Overeating. V
Round shoulders induced by wrong
sitting "and wrong reclining and fallur
to take exercise. ,
Goggles induced by straining the
eyes.. ; . .
Hollow cheeks induced by nervous
ness. '.'" '
Stubby fingers induced by biting the
nails.
Bent toes induced by wearing tight
shoes. . '' " ' "
Freckles and tan induced by going
hatless in the hot sun. Pi ttsburg Dis
Wild ANimaIs not to be feared.
riiat it, it Yon Let Them Alone The?
'Will Not Trouble ItoH
"In the mountains Of Wyoming,Wbere
I have hunted for years, you" caii find
almost any kind of savage animal that
fou get In America except alligators.
Grizzlies, black bears and mountain
lions are commonly killed there," says
Hugh Sniverly, of Sheridan, Wyo.
1'Some of the men that come out
there to hunt think that if they stir
100 yards away from camp they must .
be armed to the teeth for fear of being
attacked by a bear or a 'painter' find
killed. There's a heap more danger of
getting killed on account of leaving
your gun at home when you go down
Market street. Some one might shoot
you on the street in a big city, but it is
dead, sure that a bear or a mountain
lion will never attack you unless you
drive him to it. , "
"I've hunted through the best dis
tricts for big game in this country,
and I've seen a good many grizzlies,
but I've never seen , one of them go
lfter a man unless he was cornered
or wounded. If you run teto. a griz
zly bear in a lonely place you'lPhear
a grunt, something like that of a mam
moth hog, and then there will be a.
mighty crashing of underbrush as he
makes off iti the opposite direction as
fast as he can go All you can gener
ally see of a mountain lion is a tawny
streak" as he makes off at incredible
speed. If he has any intention of go
ing after you it must be his intention
to go around the world and catch you
in the rear, for if you are standing to
the east of him he is sure to go due
west. -.
"Mountain lions in the winter time
will follow sleighs at a distance, wail
ing as they go, but there is nothing
in that to Inspire terror, for I don't
think they have ever been known to
close in on anybody. Their terror "of
human beings 1 is the thing which
makes them hard to shoot. In all the
time that I have been in the moun
tains I have never heard of any one
being attacked by a wild animal that
had been left strictly alone. But I've
known men to be killed even by deer
when the brute was driven to desper
ation. "Grizzlies are the best game in the
world. When you -once get their dan
der up they are savage fighters, and
the hunter's life is in danger every
minute unless he is a good shot and
has a steady nerve. If you ever get
within reach of the grizzly's pawyou
are a dead one. These stories of men
killing them with knives in hand to
hand fights are about as reasonable as
it would be to talk of stopping a loco
motive by getting in the way of the
train. If the big fellow gets the chance
to deliver one blow it is all over.
There was a grizzly up our way that
the cowboys called Big Ben. who
killed about one hundred and fifty
steers before he was finally shot. He
would break a steer's neck at one
blow, and then he would lift him up
and carry him off to a secluded place.
Grizzlies look awkward, but they are
mighty light on their feet, and they
can beat any man in ,a loot race."
Louisville Herald. -
Limited Facilitie.
The author of an article on "The
Public Bath," In The Outlook, tells the
following story:
At one of the fresh air homes by the
sea, where New York tenement chil
dren are taken for a few days of etery
summer, a young woman stood one day
beside a little fellow who sat digging
his toes in the sands as lie watched,
the other youngsters splashing in the
surf. .
"Don't you want to go into the
water?" she said to him, coaxlngly. - .
"No, ma'am," he answered, with pjiib
lie school politeness. He did not need
to add that he was afraid.
"You're not afraid, are you? Don't
you bathe at home?"
"Yes, ma'am," he answered, proudly.
"I get an all-over wash every week in
the washtub." . ;
"G'wan!" ; said the bigger boy whe
had run up dripping and shivering,
just in time to hear the little fellow's
answer "Yez means the dishpan."
Whichever the boy meant and he
undoubtedly meaut one or the other he
Is no worse off than a hundred thou
sand other "children of the tenements,
And he is better oft, thau thousands ol
his sisters, who, if they bathe at all
at home, must bathe In this same dish
pan or stationary washtub, or the
kitchen sink. There are -districts ic
New York where among 2500 families
there are but thirty-six bathtubs, where
Lin a single block there are as many ai
800 families without a bathtub or anj
sort. " .
Weatlicr Slgng.
''If the chiekweed and scarlet pim
pernel expand their tiny petals, rair
need hot be expected for a few hours,'
says a writer. "Bees work with re
d .bled energy just before a rain. II
the flies are unusually persistent either
in the house or around stock there is
rain in the air. The cricket sings a'
the approach of cold weather. Squir
rels store a large supply of nuts, the
husks of corn are unusally thick and
the buds of deciduous trees have a
firmer protecting eoat if a severe win
ter is at hand.. If the poplar or quafc
ing asp leaves turn up th under 6ide
rain will soon follow.
"If the camphor bottle becomes roilj
it is going to storm. , When it clears
settled weather may be expected. This
idea has seemingly been utilized in the
manufacture of barometers. The mair
trouble is they seldom . foretell the
change until about the time it arrives.
"Last, but not least, the rheumatics
can always tell it In their bones' when
a storm is approaching, and of this
prognostication the octogenarian of today-is
as firm an advocate as were his
forefathers." Chicago News.
s The Calcutta steeplechase for tbt
ladies' cup is the only event of its kind
in the -world
Destructive Dress TriminlusT.
If a hostess has an uncertain smile
and a wandering glance when greeting
a guest, it is safe to suspect that she
is looking for shArp buckles and but
tons before venturing to seat the new
comer in one of her mahogany chairs.
If signs of these tabooed ornaments
are discovered the wearer is gently per
suaded to try a seat padded and cush
ioned. With . feminine perversity she
usually manages to wriggle into the
latest bit of polished carved wood while
the hostess is momentarily distracted
by watching another arrival. In this
connection it is interesting to note that
the popularity of cut steel and jet, is
as unabated as that of mahogany.
Nebraska State Journal.
Tip For Spring Season.
All-over embroidery constitutes many
of the handsome gowns for evening
wear. - ,
A few of the spring coats repeat the
collarless effects of last year, but the
majority have flat turn-over collars.-
AJ1 the sheer materials that were for
merly confined to summer are now
used for evening hose wear all win
ter. 1
One of the prettiest hat fashions and
one likely to be repeated next winter
is the small turned up French felt
with a wreath of tight little roses
dropped on it by accident, half on the
crown and half on the brim.
Embroidered linen crash is a spring
.novelty.
Stripe effects predict much favor.
New Haven Register.
New Thin Goods.
The shop windows now blossom With
the thinnest and daintiest of fabrics,
the first offerings of spring and sum
mer cottons. These patterns are of the
choicest and very often are exclusive
and not to be duplicated later. For that
reason rather high prices are usually
asked for them.
If one may judge by the -first cottons
shown, the coining year will be notable
for the number and the beauty of tub
gowns worn. The old favorites, or
gandies, dimities and flowered muslins,
are on hand, as usual. Organdies with
deep borders are sure to attract atten
tion. The old rose designs are beauti
ful in these bordered patterns, and
there are many new designs. One in
apple blossoms was lovely The colors
were green, brown and white, just
touched with bright pink, as the real
apple blossoms are. An arbutus design
was also charming.
The new ginghams are very attrac
tive. Besides the ordinary thing, there
are silk ginghams as fine and as lus
trous as foulards, although laundering
might somewhat diminish, the gloss of
the surface. "" There are lace- ginghams,
some of them as sheer as net. These
are not expensive, and will make pretty
morning and bouse gowns.
There is a new cotton voile very like
gingham in texture, whuA comes at a
low price. It is to be had .u white and
nearly all common colors. The light
blue is especially good. They are ad
mirable for shirt waist suits. Philadel
phia Telegraph. .
A Woman's Pocket-.
For one blessing man is enviable his
pockets.: Woman occasionally has a
pocket, but she can't use it. "Put in a
pocket," she pleads, and the dress
maker sends home the new skirt with
a pocket stowed away in the recesses
of a hook-up placket hole. It is not a
workable pocket for three reasons:
First, it bulges if there is even a
handkerchief in it, destroying the sym
metry of the outline. - "
Second, things aimed at it rarely suc
ceed in forcing an entrance, but fall
alongside, downward with a whack on
the floor.
Third, -who could fumble through a
whole row of hooks and eyes, placed in
the centre of the seam at the back?
As a trifling obstacle ia the way of
blind manipulation it may mentioned
that such hooks are usually ot a tricky
patent, or they would not stay fastened
at all. - - :-
At the hem of .the garment, under
the "foundation" frill, pockets like a
tiny crescent-shaped pouch may also
be found lurking. A handkerchief can
repose in one in safety, merely involv
ing some suppleness in the owner, who
must execute a kind of dive in with
drawing and reinserting it. A silk
foundation sometimes accommodates
quite a practical-looking receptacle, to
which the unwary at first intrusts even
a purse or a pocket knife, But hard
objects dangling on a level with the
knee are ill companions, and those who
have once knelt on a latchkey never
desire to repeat the experience.
"I asked for pockets aud they gave
me handbags," is the plaint of the pet
ticoated throng, who wonder who will
invent them a third hand for their umbrellas-while
they guard their money
with their right and with their left
keep their garments from the mud. -
In the meantime, says the London
Graphic, while fashion, is decreeing
that sovereigns shall jingle in jeweled
coat of mail from the end of a slender
chain, . apparently, designed for the
ready pliers of the thief, womankind,
more cunning than they seem, are
carving a way Out of the-difficulty.
They maycarry their purse for all the
world to see, and a handkerchief peeps
out of their sleeveiS; but in many a
silken underskirt, where It will not in
terfere with the seti is a pocket, roomy
and secure. - There; it is that the .wise
woman keeps her gold and her. love
letters. '.',. ' ; - '
Unemployed London Women. '
Women as well as men are suffering
from lack of employment. Many
women are casual or irregularly" em
ployed workers; many women's trades -
are peculiarly seasonal fluctuations.
That some provision for unemployed
women, as distinguished from unem
ployed meu, is required, can be doubted
by no person acquainted with the con
ditions of industrial life; and if such
provision is to be really helpful it must
be built just as any such provision for
men needs to be upon a basis of care
ful examination and classification.
Certain differences in the industrial
positions of men -and women were
recently dealt with by Miss Wyatt
Pap worth, who pointed out: (1) The
way of escape provided for women fey,
various forms of domestic service; (2)
the fact that, because many women
are not dependent upon their own
earnings, the wages of women often
tend to be calculated upon what may
be termed a "parasitic" basis; (3) tha
willingness of women to accept forms
of work and rates of pay to which men
will not stoop. Touching lightly upon
the facts that the total proportion of
employed women to that of employed
men slightly but steadily declines,
while that ofwomen In. factory work
increases, the paper went on to classify
unemployed women under four heads:
(1) Casual or irregular workers; (2)
workers in season trades; (3) workers
not wanted in the callings they at
tempt; (4) workers personally defec
tive or economically inefficient a group
which might include "large numbers of
women over forty." With the genuine
ly idle the female counterpart, of the
loafer and the tramp Miss Papworth.
did not deal; and the omission is jusV
for such women soon drop out of even ,
the lowest ranks of labor; their case
forms, indeed, a serious social problem,
but the problem is not industrial.
Next came references to the various
existing agencies for meeting the trou
ble, aud a remark upon the necessarily
misleading character of statistics de
rived from registries and employment
bureaus, as at present arranged, since
the figures cannot possibly show either
the degree'of overlapping or the degree
to which the clients of these institu
tions are merely actuated by desire for
change of employment. ,
None of these -agencies, however,
most of which exist for other j ends,
can claim to have solved the problem.
Miss Papworth classifies suggested
remedies under three heads :: (1) Those
dealing with improved conditions of
work; (2) those dealing with improved
education and training; (3), those deal
ing with the provision of work or of
opportunities. It was justly pointed
out that "physical degeneracy is the
most irremedial cause, and the effect
also, of unemployment. Therefore any
thing that is done to improve the na
tional physique is. a direct contribu
tion" toward the solution of ; the, prob
lem. Among such measures were noted
the prevention of child labor, and the
leveling up of the conditions of home
work , by registration and inspection.
Shortened hours and better pay con
duce also to physical efficiency. ' "
What we.need. first of all, is to bring
order into the chaos ot industrial com
petition, to jiake, as Germany has
made, centres of communication .be
tween the work-setking worker and the
work-seeking employment. Clemen
tina Black, in the London Chronicle.
The open front seen on most cf tbo.
models will give the lingerie blouse an
opportunity to show.
Generally speaking the leg ef mutton
sleeve is the preferred" style for street
gowns. ,
The redingote will continue to hold
its own, undoubtedly, but the short
jacket or blouse will be preferred by
the majority of women. .
There are any number of short' bo
leros, some of them resembling the
loose capo bolero of last season. -
Children's frocks and coats show the
same lavish tendencies which distin
guish grown-up fashions.
Very pretty "ittle directoire jackets,
with fancy waistcoats and broad,
"pointed lapels also appear among
spring walking suits.
A charming black straw hat has the
brim rolled and pinched back, and side
in a jaunty shape, impossible . to de
scybe. '
This is a good model for a linen suit.
Developed in blue, pink, chalk white,
or brown linen, with plain straps, it
would be charming to wear with, thin,
white linen blouses in hot weather. -
A Thought. J
There are certain manners which ar
learned in good society of that force
that if a person have them he or . she
must be considered and Is everywhere
welcome, though without beauty or
wealth or genius. Give a boy. address
and accomplishments, and you give
him the mastery of palaces and for
tunes wherever be goes. From Emer
son's Essay on. "Behavior' . . ; '