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Show FOR WOMAN ANDIIOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO MAIDS AND MATRONS. About Evenlu- - Gowns Essential feature of Early bummer Wardrobe How Overworked Mothers May bate Labor In Gowning the Daughters. An The Little Fink Shoe. NLY a little pink hab shoe is ptainetl and crinkled ami torn, With a tiny hole wheie the little pnK toe Pet pd out in the uays that aie fc'Ji e. The little pink toe as the big little pig That to maiket f Ottfll would go, And over and er he legend Mia told As I kissed the lit ,ie i ink toe. Tiggie some more, the red lips would lisp, And the and kis were given aea n, Aam and poy happ were we In niothei hood's turetaste ot heaven. 33ut there came a a desolate with night, blight, ben death hore rr.v idol away, Ann no little toe ever peep Horn the shoe io be kised In the sweet old way. But my tears have deluged the little pink shoe, Ami stained it a stain. And I long for the deeper touch that would chill me in death If it gave me my dailing agun. So, when I ain dead, lay the little pink shoe Near my heart which is silent and cold. And peihaps up above, m the sunlight of lo e, I shall kiss the pinK toe as of old. Kate Thyson Marr, N. Y. Journal. -- cA- T f.clius over the shoulders, if it he wide, or edges the CouEces, if sarrow. Yellow organdie over white silk makes au effective costume. The Latest. Crepon Gowna To the mother of a large family let me recommend cotton crepe for the gowning cf her little daughters. It looks quite as well as organdie, if made rp prettily, and, oh, what a boon it is for the overworked mother. You know it doesnt need starching, but can be washed and hung out to dry. After that a very slight pressing is all that is necessary to make It ready for wear. One little mother that I know, with three hardy boys and one tiny daughter to keep presentable, intends to taka her childdreu away for the summer. She can't afford to pay immense laundry bills, so she has laid in a stock of cotton crepon gowns for the little maid. A pale corn color has an empire waist on which the skirt is large puff starting at gathered, the the elbow on Evening clowns. Even for those having but two black velvet ribbons. Other ribbons weeks vacation, an evening gown is an are sewed to the edge of the yoke and absolutely necessary part of the sum- tie over the shoulders with long loops. mer wardrobe. It need not be expen- - A pale green gown has a long Priscilla 4 A Tale of 4 1 Three Lions BY 4 H. RIDER HAGGARD CHAPTER I. Most of j oa boys will have heard of who was one of th Allan Quate'-mv.n- . party who discovered King Solomons mines some little time ago, and afterward came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry Curtis. He had gone back to the wilderness now, as these hunters almost invariably do, on one pretext or an itber. They cannot endure civilization for very long, its noise and racket and the omnipresence of broadclothed humanity provin more trying to their nerves than the dangers of the desiit. I think that they feel lonely here, for it is a fact that is too little understood, though it has often been stated, that there is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them. What is there in the world, old Quatermain would say, "so desolate as to stand in the streets of a great city and listen to the footsteps falling, falling multitudinous as the rain, and watch the white line of faces as they hurry past, you know not whence, you know' not whither. They come and go, their eyes meet yours with a cold stare, for a moment their features aie written on your mind, and then they are gone forever. You will never see them again, they will never see you again; they come up out of the blackness, and presently they once more vanish into the blackness, taking their secrets with them. Yes, that is loneliness pure and undefiled; but to one who knows and loves It, the wilderness is not lonely, because the spirit of nature is ever there to keep the wanderer company. He finds companionship in the rushing winds the sunny streams babble like Natures children at his feet high above him, in the purple sunset, are domes and minarets and palaces, such as no mortal man hath built, in and out of whose flaming doors the glorious angels of the sun do move continually. And then there is the wild game, following its feeding grounds in great armies, thrown out bewith the spring-buc- k fore them for skirmishes; then rank d blesbuck, upon rank of marching and wheeling like infantry; and last the shining troops of quagga and the fierce-eye- d shaggy vilderbeeste to take the place of the great cossack host that hangs upon an armys flanks. Oh, no, he would say, "the wilderness is not lonely, for, my boy, remember that the farther you get from man, the nearer you grow to God, and though this is a saying that might well be disputed, it is one I am sure that anybody who has watched the sun rise and set on the limitless deserted plains, and seen the thunder chariots roll in majesty across the depths of unfathomable sky, will easily understand. Well, at any rate he went back again, and now for many months I have heard nothing of him, ami to be frank, 1 gieatly doubt if anybody will ever hear of him again. I fear that the wilderness, that has for so many years been a mother to him, will now also prove his monument and the monument ol those who accompanied him, for the quest upon which he and they have started is a wild one indeed, But while he was in England for those three years or so between his return from the successful discovery Of the wise king's buried treasures, and the death of his only son, I saw a great deal of old Allan Quatermain. I had known him years before in Africa, and after he came heme, whenever I had nothing better to do, I used to run up to Y'orkshire and stay with him, and in this way I at one time and another heard many of the incidents of his past life, and most curious some of them were. No man can pass ail those years following the rough existence of an elephant hunter without meeting with many strange adventures, and one way and another old Quatermain has certainly seen his share. Well, the story that lam going to tell you in the following short pages is one of the later of these adventures; indeed, if I remember right, it happened in the year 1S73. At any rate I know that it was the only one of his trips upon which he took hi3 son Harry (who is since dead) with him, and that Harry was then fourteen. And now for the story, which I will repi at, as nearly as I can in the words in which hunter Quatermain told it to me one vestibule of night in the his house in Yorkshire. We were talklong-face- DINNER GOWN OF ELIZABETHAN MODE. sive, but it must be fresh and cut to show that it is intended solely for evening wear. Fancy silk is offered at such low prices that it seems an easy bodice with ribbons of the same color tied about the waist. The sleeves are tight and slightly puffed at the top. Yet the prettiest of all is a dainty pink, to he worn with a white mull gimpe. The sleeves are also of mull. The skirt is gathered to a white silk band embroidered in pink rosebuds that crosses between the shoulders both hack and front. Similar bands form epaulets, arranged in such a way that they are easily removed when the gown is to he laundered. They are washed in naphtha, and when the gown is washed they, too, are fresh. The latest. matter to secure an evening gown of Pretty stripes are offered at about 30 cents a yard, and make up very well for the purpose. Plain taffeta is good also, al'hough rather more expensive. Yet silk is not the only availNet is considerably able material. used, and may be draped over a gown that has seen its best days. The skirt should he finished with four or five rows of ribbon, and the wai t trimmed to match. If hut one evening gown is included in the wardrobe it is best with a square neck. This shape seems more suitable to every oeasjon than the round neck. Gowns made of organdie and muslin are by far the prettiest cf summer evening costumes. They are combined with lace and jtainty ribbons. The lace is draped into liattonit. Buttons are certainly as ancient as the siege of Troy, in the ninth century before our era, for both in that unfortunate city and at Mycenae, Dr. Schlie-man- n discovered objects of gold, silver and bronze which could have had no other use hut that of buttons. In medieval times the clothing of the common people was generally fastened with wooden pegs of the type and form of those resorted to in emergencies bv the country hoy of the present day. Buttons covered with cloth were prohibited by George I in 1720, to encourage the manufacture of metal buttons. Polish for the Furniture. A little turpentine and oil applied ta furniture with a flannel cloth, the furniture then thoroughly rubbed, will ghe it a bright, appearance. If your rosewood refuses to polish have your furniture man repolish it for you. Ho will rub it down with sandpaper, and varnish it, so it will last for it. cb-a- years. London's j lr'.i,t'00 e.'ni cab strike nnipn. Gf which was subscribed by cabmen. nn.-r- o cost trades unioi s $1 oak-panel- ing, about gold-minin- g he broke in; "ah, yes, g I once went at Pilgrims Rest in the Transvaal, and it was after that that we had the turn up about Jim-Jiand the lions. Do you know it? Well, it is, or was, one of the queerest little places you ever saw. The town itself was pitched in a soit of stony valley, with mountains all about it, and in the middle of such secne-as one docs not often get the chance ol Gold-minin- g, gold-minin- m I saw ir.v successful ftieud, who was a Yankee, sweep up the roll of the Standard Bank notes with the lordly air of the man who has made lus fortune. and cram them into his breeihes poikets. Well, I said to him the unhappy vender it is a magnifi cut piopertv. and I only hope that mv luck will he as good as yours has been. He smiled; to my excited nerves it seemed that he smiled ominously, as he answeied me in a pecul.ar Yankee I guess, rawl: stranger, as I aint the man to want to turn a dogs stoma, h against his dimer, more especial when there aint no more going of the rounds; as far as that there claim, well, shes been a good nigger to me: hut between you amt me, strajiger, speaking man to man now that there aint any filthy lucre between us to the features of the truth, I guess shes about worked out! I gasped; the fellow's effrontery took the breath out of me. Only live minutes before he had been swearing by all his gods, and they appeared to he numerous and mixed, that there were half a dozen fortunes left in the claim and that he was only giving it up because he was down-rigweary of shoveling the gold out. Dont look so vexed, stranger, went on the tormentor, peiliups there is some shine in the old girl yet; anyway, you are a downright good fellow, jou are, therefore you will, I gim.---.-, have a real Al, plate-glas- s opportunity of working cm the feelincs of Damo Fortune Anyway, it will bring the muscle up upon your arm if the stuff is uncommon still, and what is more, jou will in the course of a year earn a sght more than two thousand dollais in value of epn ienee. Ami he went, just in time, for in another minute I should have gone for him. and I saw his face no more. Well, I set to vvotk on the old claim with my hoy Harry and a half a dozen Kafirs to help me, which, seeing that I liad put nearly all my vvoilil-- lj wealth into it, was the least I could do. And we worked, my word, we did work early and late we went at it but never a bit of gold did we see; no, not even a nugget large enough to make a scarf pin out of. The American gentleman had mopped up the whole lot and left us the sweepings. "For three months this game went on till at last I had paid away all or very near all that was left of our little capital in wages and food for tho Kafirs and ourselves. When I tell you that Boer meal was sometimes as high as four pounds a hag, jou will understand that it did not take long to run through our hanking account. ht cto bs lovrisys'ij A SQUELCHER. a Fretty llow Woman Answered Lady Killer. Mrs. Blank of Detroit is a very pretty woman, in spite of three facts which to militate against her, might She i3 says the New York World. over 43, she has a married daughter and that daughter is the mother of two children. The daughter lives at Mount Clemens, a small town about twenty-fiv- e miles north of Detroit. Mrs. Blank was waiting the othi r day at tho Detroit depot for the train to Mount. Clemens and was reading a newspaper, when she became aware of the presence of a dapper little man, who passed and rc passed before her several times. It did not stuke ln-- that this individual was endeavoring to strike her attention until her eyes happened to meet his and then she caught the propitiating smllo that is characteristic of that kind of a dapper little man. Perhaps the smile was intended to he fascinating, but Mrs. Blank allowed her gaze to rest upon him calmly for a fleeting instant and then resumed the perusal of her newspaper. The peripatetic journey ings of the would-b- e continued for a few minutes, when, suddenly halting, he raised his hat with a flourish and remarked: I beg your pardon, but are you going to Mount Clemens? Mrs. Blank looked up and surveyed the intruder interestedly. Then she spoke in turn: "Yes, I am going to Mount Clemens to visit my grandson. He is almost as large as you are!" The doors of the depot which oi ened upon the street flew' hack with a ha ns as the dapper little man mingled with the distant sc-e- r lady-crush- er Train Without K.iiU. Experiments win. h me described as satisfactory have recently hem made in the suburbs of 1ai is with a train, drawn by a steam lotomolive, running not on rails hut on an ordinary road. of The train used at pit ant eonsn-contains of one wliih two ears, only the locomotive nui'hinrry, tog' paveng.rs, with seats for fo.i.-cesifts. while the other liaa tvven'y-fon- r hor-- t power The engine is of sixt'-oand the aver eg snood is about seven n iles an hour. The ti.nn is able to feet turn in a iirtle only twenty-thre- e in diameter. A noth' r train has been const! uct d for Hie ronvijanre of fiight. L i; brpul by the iuwnors ti.rt trains of this kind will b e.i.pioji in and mar s en I seeing. Well, for some months I dug away gavly at my claim, hut at length the very sight of a pbk or of a waHiing-- t rough became hateful to me. A hundred times a day I cursed my own folly for having invented eight hundred pound-;which was about all that I was worth But at the time, in this like other better people before, rue, I gall-minin- g. French pens nts have a bl,'f that if a fire with nimh smoke is made in the stove on th aji.'ro'i'li ol a stoim safety from lightni' g w iil b insured. Schuster show s tha' the u u m is based on rta-oas the mnohe s''i.s as a very good eondue or f )' ratr. i.'.g a.v,iy the n, hud b. on bitten by the gold bug, and 'lertriiily slowly am f t Iy. In one no.v hrd to take the consequence s. I thousand m s of da may e by light ning, ad bought a claim out of whih a G.3 churrla , r'd 3 mills have hen five or fix strut ten ho mule aatfortune k, hut he numier c factory thr.u-m- d Post as I though-- , chimne-- a pounds v o ?, vi iy ihr :p; 'hat is. I had given h m And In riiila p er fiend: ve hundred pounds for it. It w j wii'n ate. ; m to ie rn ained? She: that I had made by a very rnu in three y. nis. Cbai les, you know. It eh pbnnt burring he I so impatient! i .. P Puck. I sighe 1 n eplv - n 1 1 1 . MINING MICA DEPOSITS MAY BE DEEP. NOTKS. Only 14 men are now employed at the Daly No, 2, at lark City, I tab. At the Ontario No. 3, at Park City, all but tha timber men have been layed off. A man who has put in a cyanide Muehaelio mines ner Yuma, is Ariz., making a rieh thing by work- plant at the ing the tailings. It is said that a new mill will he erected on the North Hast I banco property, ut llinghavu, Utah, to replace the one burned recently, within ninety davs. V three-davshut down of the IVi Lamar mine, in Nevada, for the purpose of general overhauling has Wen passed and the mine is now humming again is in Walsh of Colorado Thomas Utah looking for a site to loeate a pyritie smelter. Mr. Walsh has demonstrated in Colorado that pyritie ores can be made profitable to the producer and will visit all the camps in I tah in the effort to further prove it. Joe Dupont suffered a broken clavicle and several bruises at the April Fool mine in Nevada in a manner which should make him thankful that he is alive. A ton of rock caved down in the drift in which he was working and his escape fiotu death was almost miraculous. The concentrator n for the NVasliakie mine, in Cassia county, Idaho, has been shipped, and it is expected that the plant w ill he in operation within six weeks. A force of men is now at work in the devclopomeut of tlie property and it is reported that largo reserves of ore are blocked out and in sight. Reports from Colorado are to the effect that tlie smelters and railroads are willing to make a reduction in .Smelting and freight rates in order to keep the silver mines of tlie state from closing down, and also that the miners have offered to accept a cut in wages rather than he thrown out of employ- ment. The further developementof the Antelope group at Bingham, Flail, is to lie undertaken in tlie next few days, and the work prosecuted on a most energetic scale. The property is owned by Col. Jack McNally arid Rory Donald, and has, it is said, already been productive of several hundred tons of ore, that was taken out through tlie workings of a neighboring property. A big mining deal has just been practically consummated, by which John D. Mackie will become tlie owner of the famous Silver leak gold mine in Nevada. A. M. NVomble and George D. Roberts have left Sun Francisco for New York to close tho purchase of the mine, which is said to he ono of the greatest in tlie world. For some time past it has been involved in liticontests gation, hut now all the been compromised. Mc- high-grad- e h0 Captain DcLnmnr is one of many ho has been attracted by tlie possibilities of Tnsearora, Nevada. He has had an expert on the grounds, and expects to secure a slice of property in that vicinity. Tlie property which he has inquired into is not far from the Dexter, and it is thought lie will be identified with that district before the end of the jear. w The gold samples brought in from State Line at tlie request of Captain .1 R. De Lamar and II. A. Cohen gave very satisfactory assay values, and it is said that if the report of their exthere is pert no doubt hut that this promising gold camp will he able to boast of tlie possession of an ore mill in tlie near is equally satisfaetory future. Crawford Moore has returned from a trip to Seven Devils, to Boise. He says he met two men who had just just come out from Chamberlain's basin a portion of that section of Idaho that is practically unexplored, where they had been engaged in' plater mining. They hud M,000 worth of gold dust which they had taken out in eleven 1 hey were forced to depend on days. snow water, and could sluice but a few days. Last fail they prospected in that country, and getting satisfaetory colors, determined to return when tho snow was melting and they could get enough water and since out a stake for Before they left last fall tlie w inter. they made all tlie arrangements possible. Messrs Robertson and Muyham have started upon the development of their recent purchase at Mountain City, Nevada, and will put down a shaft at once. Tlie assays, $77 and $.17, indiea'e that they have secured a good property. XV. T. Andrews, manager of the Seven llevis Copper ( o's. propert y in Idaho, says tli.it a railroad will he built from Huntington, a distaneo of river on tlie sixty miles, to the east, wli'.iii will facilitate shipping sufficiently to make operation profitable. A careful sampling of the ore bodies show ed that tin; average value was 20 percent in eoppi r, with silver and gold in su.hei, nt quantity to pay for smelting1, si ml for the treatment of the ore tlm erection of a smelter has teen begun. lou-fo- Pcofeaor Iloluict Corrects a Prevailing l.rror. J. A. II dmes, state peel gist of North Carolina, who is investigating the mica deposits of the West for the 1nlted States Geological bureau, ba returned from a trip up Clear Creek canon to examine some micL ledges in Jefferson and Gilpin counties. I do not care to express any opinion regarding the value of these deposits," sahl he, until the necessary tests have boon made at Washington, hut I will say that I was greatly pleased with the appearance of the ledges I have examined and regard them as offering every encouragement for development. There seems to lie a prevalent opinion in Colorado that the deposits of mica are always shallow, and If some merchantable mica is not found within three or four feet tlie claims are generally abandoned. This is all wrong. Tho dikes in which mica is usually formed are frequently limited in extent, hut there is no reason for supposing that tho miua does not extend ns far as the dike itself. None of tlie deposits I have examined in Colorado nre down more than twenty feet, while in some of tlie mines in North Carolina tlie mlea Is obtained from a depth of lit K) feet, and tlie same reasons exist for continuation in depth ns in the case of true fissure veins of gold and silver ore. There is every reason for the presumption that mica can lo mined to tlie depth of 1,000 feet. The better as depth is mica becomes gained, as it is less liable to rot from atmospherical causes. If some of tho deposits 1 have seen here were in North Carolina they would he in active devedopment and operation. Selling Mlnen. We suppose many miners want to know how to sell their mines or prospects, and they all look to tlie East ns the market place. Many have been led to think, from newspaper publications and the gilded stnnixs of interested promoters, that tlie vv hole eastern country, especially its money owners, ere quite willing, if not anxious, to buy gold mining properties. Western men recognize tlie fact that gold mining, intelligently conducted, is a profitable occupation, and That gold is constantly increasing in value, therefore tlie East is ready to engage in tlie vvotk. Tho fact Is that the East, as a whole, dont know anything alaint gold mining, that gold is increasing in value, that tlie business is profitable, or whether Cripple Creek is in Alaska or South America. Tlie inevitable result is that there Is no geneial feeling In favor of gold mining, unless it he in Klondyke, or desire to Invest In tho lousiness. This is true lioth as to the general public and with the special few who have money, filie merchant, shopkeeper, common professional man, contractor, etc., who form tlie mass of tlie heretofore investing public, are practically all broke or ns hard up ns they are in Hie West, so they could not buy if they wanted to. Tho real moneyed men nre tlie ones who buy, W'tieu any huj ing is done, and they ara difficult to satisiy. Moot mining men with a property ta Fell conn Last, ns many miners go into court, with a poorly prepared ease. If a would lie mine seller goes East with a mine to sell, he should bring along a report, or reports, tlie more the better, from mining engineers or mining men of good reputation and standing nt home, about whom western hanks or tin commercial agencie will fcive good reports. The day w 1, unknown John Joins, it tiled M. E can nii . t report which will do any good lira gone by. The names a tit! lioma standing of the endorsers of a project are of groat value in tlie East, and an-te- 9 an enterprise caa have such, an effort to float ft v'iil prove Useless, Second, a man should have maps, photographs, mill and smelter returns, and everything possible giving information about lii.s property. If lie has all those tilings, coupled with an acquaintance which can give him access to clubs and moneyed men, and is endowed with patience and grit, and money enough to carry on a four to six months campaign, lie can sell n. mine in tlie East. If he lacks them, it is ninety-nin- e in a hundred chances that he will fall in any effort to sell he may make. Mining Industry. ITI11 Top In litg Lark An Important strike was made a few days ago In the Hill Top mine in Horseshoe gulch, Iark county. The ore lias heretofore run an average of 14 ounces in silver, with a high percentage In lead, and is in such large bodies that the mine lias been shipping a train load every day. Early last week In working in tlie lower level a dike was encountered crossing tlie vein at right angles with the main drift along tin dike, and nt a few feet distant a second dike was encountered nt right angles with tlie first, and there seemed to he nothing for tlie woikmcn to do hut turn hack on their trn ks. It was finally decided to cut through tins dike, which was doti within about 20 feet. On tlie oilier side of the dike another large ore body was encountered, which proves to be the best finite yet met in the mine, the ore running from no to GO ounces in silver, from $4 to ?3 in gold, from 35 to 40 per cent lead and about $3 in copper. The new ore chute is being ilevelqpod to ascertain its extent. Gold In Nicaragua. New Orleans, Aug. A new gold field lias been discovered, tint this ona is in tlie tropics. Reports have come to this city lately that lug finds of gold Lave been made in Nicaragua, and the steamers from flint section have iic'm bunging in gold dust in proof of it. S. E. Spence, a well known citizen of Houston, Texas, nnived here today on Hie Meant' Iulion. piling between New (it leans ami Nharaguan ports, and confirmed tlie stoties alxmt tho discoveiii s in Nie.uagua. He says ha has been ail over tlie gold field districts. and licit gold is ifiero in large 1 quantities. acquired valuable claims, and will co it u as soon as he a can make mine 'mens to work them. lie sajs the whole g fid region down there very rieh and the climate spii ndid. lie sa v s tutemuoj ed miners d tlm United States will do much, better there than in a'tempi.ng to go to Alaska. I'ood in Nicaragua s cheap and other cutns are reasonable. t 1 i i |