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Show THE RUSSIAN GRANDE DAME. tOVt ORJWENOSHIP. She is Democratic, but Weara Gowns. Jewels and Furs. When I set out for Hunsia numerous Gov-flco- it seems to me," said Sometimes Hal gloomily, "that you do not understand the first meaning of the word 'Love. " "Perhaps Betty. not," quoth the kind friends in England, who had never met Russian woman fh their and did not want to warned ma liv(..s against them The ailvico seemed ool for wns not the Russian woman In the book or the play generally the lady saucy "And never will," said Hal, with still deeper gloom. "Perhaps u;t," again quoth Betty. Hal looked at her disapprovingly. But as he lacked, and despite hlmsoll, Who could look his glance softened. long into Betty's bright' eyes, and remain cold and gloomy T "Sometimes, I think," said Hail, turn- vlilun, with. alluring, eyea and a bidden past? Hut what gorgeous deceptive dark gowns, spoke. "It seems to me," she said, wrinkling her small brow, "that there la nothing talked about in this world as NitNor thought about man with. maid and rified Every ko much 'Love.' thinl;3 he or she possesses the only true specimen of this rare treasure. Yet five, yes, five and a half, out of six have only spurious metal, baser ciin, as it were, a counterfeit, which soon betrays Its hollo wness." "Love, love, love, I hear It all tha time, and on all sides of me. Yet It Is love In nam: only. Selflshnss3 It mosr.ly Is, mean and calculating selfUh-ncsSometimes it is convenient infatuation, si metlmes It Is a pastime make gay an Idle hour. Sometimes It Is efmoly a manifestation of tho domineering spirit which of old inada Alexander long for new worlds to j. ti con-cue- r. The Best Place for Forest Camps. Some people may think an old clearing is a good place to pitch a group of tents. Nothing could be further from the truth. A clearing soon grows up in tall grass, that shelters mosquitos and gnats. It is filled with bushes, that are troublesome to cut away. The wood supply is generally poor and the clearing is exposed to the wind. The very finest and eaaiest place to make camp when traveling is on a level spot in the woods whero not a tree has ever been cut, and. If possible, in a grove of birches. Here a few strokes of the axe clears away all the underbrush. The birch makes a lovely night fire. There are balsams for boughlng the bed and tenting on such a spot is the luxury of r life. A week from the time we left the Forks of the Toblque we reached bald dome of Sagamook Mountain, the second peak of the Province ta height A storm had been entangled in the hills for days, and at NIctor Lake We saw its ineffectual efforts to escape. Tho clouds sailed down the valley, rolled up against Sagamook. and came curling over the top Jn great white blankets that tucked the mountains snugly away to sleep. Nlgnt slowly fell. The rata beat a long tat-to- o upon the tight canvas of the tents. The glowing logs outside, in the third and best Btages of a birch flro, sent out tiny puffs of steam where the drops of water struck, exploding the film of ashes, and producing that e little miracle which no one will who has not seen it, the fire burns more steadily and brightly because of the steady pour of rain. The perfume of the woods filled the air. The warmth of the fire soothed weary limbs. The melody of the raindrops was accompanied by the harmony of t the tree tops and the waves on the lake shore. From the ladles' tent came little chirps and gigglings, like the chatter of young swallows In a chimney. By the guides' lire somebody was droning en narrative. How much better story-telle- r is the primitive man than the busy, newspaper reading dweller of the town! To the dull senses of the sleepy ones the voice of the taleg teller seemed to float on and on, fainter and more distant, till It was lost In the murmur of the forest sounds. That was when sleep came. From "The Trout of Neplslgult," by Frederic Irland, In the June Scribnor's reeal furs, what magnificent jewels, they always wore in the book or the wha play! So when a country-womahad married a Russian asked me one afternoon in St. Petersburg to meet some Russian ladles, I thought gulllt'.'.y cf Mother Eve and the Apple of Knowthen meditated upon the ledge, Bplendors in feminine attire which I mlcht now see revealed and accepted. I entered my friend's hcoise in fear and trembling on account of my modest attlro. But soon a number of charming women were clasping me warmly by the hand and talking In my nitlvo tongue with scarcely a trace of foreign accent, while I was trying to recover from tho shock of the overwhelming cordiality and the uncomfortable fetsl- lr.g cf being overdressed. Several f them were grandes dames of the cla3S we bow down to and worship In England, and who extend us a finger to shake In return for our grovelllnf. These Russian women probably did not possess among them the practical sr.pe. sterling character and genuine spirit cf helnfulness which any one English woman would have, but I imagined a man might be In a dilemma as to which of them he loved the besr- A newcomer shook the snow from her fur cap. hung It up unceremoniously m the ha'.l, then came in, kissed tho hose?s on.bcth cheeks, and embraced ht r twice, repeating the ceremony with each of her friend3 In the room. Some men joined us. and one of them, an exquisite dandy, with three jewelled rings on one hand, two on the other and wearing the bright red trousers cf en officer in the Hussars, passed around his grid cigarette ease. Some of the women smoked one could not be checked, for could not one see the same trine; in London. As we separated I fe.lt thoroughly converge! to Russian femininity, and in numerous other experiences have not changed ir.y mind. One's Incursions Into the realm of the Russian grand dame are Interesting, but not exciting. They differ from those one meets In London and Paris In being more democratic, however. You. the stranger, must make first eat, but few of them alt at home, like many of our great ladles In England, and arrogate to themselves the privilege cf receiving but not returning calls. Ax soon as they know you at all well they Eat Before Dining Out salute you In the Russian fashion wUh A woman well versed In the custom a kiss en the cheek. They are not of good society will never so far discountess, prince,. or even madam e to grace herself as to go hungry to dinner one another, but Marie Yasalllevia at a friend's house. To do so will te (Mary, the daughter of William). Nat-al- a vulgar in the extreme. If she deairos IvivornA (Natalie, the daughter of to show proper regard for her hostess John). In the affectionate and familiar she will take something before going. Russian style cf address. It may be Just a cc of hot tea, perThy csro In to sen you without haps a stimulant In the way of a cup ceremony If they are pasalng your way, of black coffee, or, better than all, a cup and you feel perfectly free to go K of hot milk and a biscuit This braces their homes is you will, for a cup of up the nerves stars the stomach and tea at 9 o'clock with the family around keeps the body wall nourished until It la time for dinner. the aamovar. A Russian wtau has her shuba The woman who aets out for a formal a long clrrirtar oat oomtng down ta dinner party without eating anything her heel, without fWves. bi. wih a before she goes runs the risk of faint-net- s and dullness before the dlnnrr fur crflar turned up high above her beautiful fur. with lined hour. She la certainly much less alert and head, woman one who takes a bite oefor has what the Russian than one, Every as ever her condltlrm. Just every Eng- starting out The most successful beauties are lish woman has her grandfather courses thoee who do not eat a great dal at a portrait as a matter ai woman The put them on at the first dinner party. Thy take a bite of this b mt ot wintry wind, weeks In advance and x t&He of that, but nothing more cf the real cold weather, the skating They da not pretend to do more than taste the dlhes, and thy are reward-iar.d f4e!ghiflg. and thereby incraa their amplo forms to unseemly for their abstemiousness by the brilprnpartlons hng before It Is necessarr. liant complexion, tha clear eyes and Tbe few ladls who walk In the streets sharp wits of the woman who is at teem scarce" y able la move In tha peace with her digestion. Creat beauties eat very little, aad long, awkward garment, while their feet are Incased In big, fur lined shoes) what they da eat is of the simplest and which are positively ugly. The great most nourishing sort While they never ladies of Russia own wonderful Jewels. refuse delicacies, they do not eat heartUpon every East since their maniagw ily of them, reserving the appetite for the Empror has given the Empress an the simpler and more nourishing egg cf g dH, encrusted with Jewels, and, viands. New Orleans Picayune. containing Inside soma wonderful In the city of New York there wert. mechanical device to surprise and deIn .One her. cf 1303, 2SS deaths traced by the Core-ner- s the court Jewellers light to Illuminating gis. Of these 11 In has fact. pnt most of his lime In were reported as accidental and 130 as fashioning these eggs. The eggs are on suicidal. account of an Immense most costly ruby, diamond or emerald surmounting The penguin's wings are useful only the crown at the top of the egg. a few Siberian atones ander water. There art n ing his glance elsewhere, "that I'll accept that Chicago offer and go out there to stay." "Now, Hal," Bald Betty, smiling archly, "you know very well you can never do anything by threatening me." "Oh, Betty, Betty!" sighed Hal, "how can I do anything with you? You are not utterly heartless, that I know, neither are you cold, as you pretend to be. But do you not care for Love? Ia the greatest , thing In tho world of so slight value to you that you cast it to one aide and deny ivs very existence?" She sat a few Betty grew serious. moments in deep thought Then she what which one sees scarcely In any place but Russia nephrite of a dazzling green color, and one of the heaviest Btones-lthe world, tho red orlolz, aqua marine, topaz and alexandrite. The last is very rare in the large stones, and only two or three of them are found in a year. It la green in ths sun and a soft rosa color under tha electric lightLondon Daily Mall. out-doo- bo-liev- wind-swep- ' Love, say you?" asked Betty, looking vacantly at him as one who sees an Inner vis!on; "nay, let us put this thing to one side and be friend) Often I think that friendship Is the higher, better name for love. Love Is self seeking and exacting In its demands. Friendship asks nothing, only atands U serve and serve willingly and faithfully "love I have aplenty said B?tty plaintively, "but friendship I sorely lack. Not one have I who Is a friend Inasmuch aa he or she la willing to forego their own plana or pleasures and of mine. No friend have I with whom to observe the world's beauty, discourse of everyday incidents, cr EtrcM or ait In peace, aide by aide. "A friend Is one on whom I would rely and with whom I could thua exlt." aald Betty, "but a lover to an Impatient, unreasonable and aelflsh mortal." Hal listened and aald nothing. When Betty, for once, would talk seriously tn thl subject, he felt there was rotia for hone. "Am I not your friend, Betty?" he said, looking Into her eye with that sad but penetrating glance which always seemed to knock at the portals of her hert "Yea. Hal. you are," admitted Betty, "but of the wine order that Robert and Maurice are." "And am I not Just a tittle In advance of thew other two?" asked Hat, his gray eyes glinting dangerously. "Now, please, please, nad!" coatel Betty, aa Hal came straight across the room to her. ap-pro- Heart a Source of Income. Edward Lewi, a role, of St. Louli, who has had his "mualcal heart" on hearing at medical colleges, announces that he has sold his heart to Johns Hopkins university for 15,000. He aald the university had paid him t;00 down and would pay the remaining $4,500 to his widow or heir. of hit Lewis has given hearing heart at the Marlon Sims Medical college. The heart thumps with a muslo a) sound that can be heard distinctly whe n the ear Is held near his breast New York Herald. A miniature house, completely furnished, each plce carved with a the work of a St Joseph, Mo., pxk-etknif- e teamster, will be exhibited at the "World's Fair. oft-tol- d gel-tin- MAYOR COMMITS SUICIpB. BLACK RESEMBLES LINCOLN. Baltimore's Chief Officer Takea His Points of Likeness Between and Martyred President Own Life. , The M. Md. practical skill with which Pres. Baltimore, Mayor Robert ldent ia looking after every Roosevelt McLane. of this city, shot and killedj of the approaching detail bedimportant himself Monday afternoon In his room at his residence, No. 29 West republican national convention, is Preston street His bride of less than; shown by his selection of two weeks was at the time of tha Framk S. Black of New York, for the tragedy asleep in an adjoining room honor o? making the nominating and was awakened by the discharge M speech. Roosevelt and Black both the revolver, which Mr. MoLane evi have been governors of the state of New York, but In many respects no dently fired while standing before thj two men could be more unlUe. Roosemirror of the dressing case. velt was born amid the aristocratic The bullet entered the right templ and wealthy surroundings of a treat and, crashing through the head, city and Black saw the light of day la escaped In the rear of the left ear. Mrs, a humble farmer's home In the wilderMcLane and other members of th ness of Maine. Roosevelt was graduhousehold rushed to the mayor's assist ated with distinguished classmates at ance, but he did not regain conscious Harvard, while Black worked his way ness after he fell to the floor, and exthrough Dartmouth by teaching, ' tuot an A number hour. within pired toring and Belling maps and books. physicians who were Immediately sum Roosevelt has always been an active, moned, having at once expressed the earnest reformer In politics, while opinion that the wound was necessarily Black has been the strongest and bitfatal. terest kind of an unyielding partUan. No cause for the act can be assigned Roosevelt is a ready, offhand, extemBlack talks tn by the members of Mr. McLane's fam- poraneous speaker. ily. Since the fire of last February he public only on rare occasions, an i afhas been kept assldlously at work ad- ter profound thought and most careRoosevelt's ministering the affairs of the city, be. ful preparation are round, full and strong; sides endeavoring to direct the rehabilitation p.nd rebuilding of the burned Black's are short, concise and epiPhysically Roosevelt Is district. This, together with criticisms grammatic. moves slowly and Black while by his political opponents are thought active, The president'! deliberation. by many to have caused a temporary with well knit muscles and shoulders broad aberation of mind. the make tall, angular form of Coroner Benjamin F. Hayden signed a Btand out like the Black certificate giving suicide as the cause backwoodsman's figure of Abraham. of death and the remains were turned whom Black In many things Lincoln, over to an undertaking firm to be preresembles. But President Roosevelt's pared for burial. resolution, courage and absolute Mayor McLane was elected as a Demare matched by the dauntless ocrat to the office of chief magistrate of which has always possessed spirit the municipality In May of last year Mr. Black. Both are stalwart fighters for a term of four years. Under tha and both have the faculty of making city charter he will be succeeded by E. friends and keeping them. Black's Clay Tiraanus, Republican, president of nominating speech will be the grea:-es- t the second branch of the city council, surprise of the nominating convento serve out the unexpired term. The tion. Since the death of the lamented 6econd branch of the council, which la Ingersoll. the republican party has Republican, will elect a president, not had no abler campaign orator than His speeches Black. necessarily a member of the present He never body, to preside over its deliberations. scintillate with epigrams. Mayor McLane was 3G years of age, Indulges in Jokes, and seldom Illusthe youngest chief executive Baltimore trates a point by a 6tory: but he has ever had. He was the son of James L. a homely way of presenting an argu-mer- it In a sentence and clinching It McLane, president of the First National bank and nephew of Robert M. Mc- with a single word of illustration, that Lane, former governor of Maryland and is most effective. He Is never tireUnited States minister to France dur- - some, and It is safe to predict that ing r resident Cleveland's first adminis- the nominating speech for Roo33velt tration. Previous to his election as will be one of the shortest on record. xuavor he had four years filled the Every sentence will make Its point office of state's attorney, In which he and be as concise as a telegram. Beat had distinguished himself by a zealous of all, it will be a republican speech and Intelligent discharge of his duties. from beginning to the end; full of During his brief administration of the hope and encouragement for the parznayorality office he had brought upon ty, and giving nothing to the enemy himself the antagonism of the regular but the cold comfort of disappointDemocratic organization by the ap- ment and disdain. The president hat selection of pointment of independent members of made no mistake In the York. LesNew from his spokesman has been the party. Recently there marked opposition to him among Demo- lie's Weekly. cratic members of the city council In matters relating to the rebuilding of Juvenile View of Marriage. Baltimore and this is ascribed by many He was a boy with llfs as a con tributary cause of suicide. befora him. says the Philadelphia Mayor McLane was married two Telegraph. She was a little girt with weeks ago to Mrs. Mary VanBibber, a a saucy pug nose, but wise. It would well known and popular society leader seem, beyond her years. The fact that of Baltimore, and the newly made she waa nursing a doll wfth eyes that bride Is prostrated by the terrible opened and shut with a click may have been his inspiration. tragedy. -The dead mayor was very popular Say. I fink I'd get married If I among the people generally, Irrespec- knew how." tive of party, and the whole community "Oh. that's easy replied the owner has been profoundly shocked by hi ot the pug nose. "Pint you buy a diatragic end. mond ting and give It to her; then you buy a grfd ring, like mama'a got aod SENATOR QUAY DEAD. give that to her. And then you must Unconscioua for Houra Before tha buy her a wstch for her birthday." An' what she give me?" expectantEnd Came. asked the little chap. ly Beaver, Pa. Senator Quay Is dead. tjuthln'. of course," smartly "Why. The end came at 2: SO o'clock Saturday little companion. bis replied afternoon. Say, 1ter, he added, "I guest I Senator Quay had been unconscioua won't marry." from early morning and the stupor waa growing more profound each hour. Grandfather's Good Services. Oxygen was administered constantly In "Yea." said the Indolent youth, acthe hope that It would revive him, but Ms physicians did not think the sen- cording to the Chicago Post "we have ator would regain const iousn ess. They decided Ibat grandfather Is entitled to said at noon that the end was very some consideration." -near. Really?" The Immediate cause of Senator "Oh, yes. Of course, we can't afford Qupy's death was exhaustion due to ln to say much about him because be waa ability to assimilate nourishment If In trade, but we have given a lot ef had taken no food since 3 o'clock Sat- thought to the matter, and wc can sea urday morning. Chronic gastritis and extenuating circumstances." Inflammation of the s torn ax h was the "Perhaps be couldn't help It" foundation of the trouble. This state"W considered that, but it's not tha ment wss given out by Dr. Wilson by main thing." "He left you a big fortune.", authority of the Quay family. It was the first communication given the "Ob, yes; but that Is of trifling impre9 from a direct source since his 111 portance, except as It Is assoclattd ee?s. with the on reaCy great boon." Senator Quay would have been 71 "Which Isr years old In September. "Why, If he hadn't been In trade; we would be, don't you know. He savti Rye bread The toper. us that humiliation." en-tenc- es or fear-lessn- curly-heade- d es |