The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1902, Page 11

Aive “with his daughter Polly. Polly, ts telling the Colonel how a man ‘4g now supposed to haunt the plantation, story, A gold prospector named ‘Starbuck pays tie plantation a vist , Polly grown Interested tn him. { tag “when one m ho fa Sho ts walking sees @ mysterious Mgure he tal ——. ' (Conyrigtt, 1898, by Stree: & Smith.) ' THIRD INSTALMENT. 4 0, you see, said with « strange, forced 1 Warned you about going out alon’ | Bven in her fright she could not help seeing that he +06 seemed pale and agitated, at which she recovered | her tongue and her self-posresston. “Anybody would be frightened by- being dogged about under the trees,” she satd, pertly, “But you called out before you saw bluntly, “as if something had frightened you, } was why I came toward you.”” She knew tt was the truth, but ae he would not ! contess to ber visioh she fbi : “Frightened,” she éald with pale tion. “What was there to frighten m ) baby, to think I see a bogioiin the dar 08 sald in the faint hope that he had seen something If it-had been Larry or her father j, too! | her she would have epnfossed evertyhing. “You had better go in,” he satd curtly. you safe Inside the louse.” She demurred at thts, but a& she coul in her first bold intention of examining the locality °' of the vision without admitting its existence she per- ** mitted him to walk with her to the house, and then Larry and her father together and their agitated manner and were uneasy. Yet the Colonel's paternal at once fled to her own room. noticed their entrance ack belf fainting in Starbuck's erma, you have been frightened,” he but lofty dndigna- THE SECRET OF SOBRIENTE’S WELL. By BRET HARTE. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Col. Bwinger buys « California plantation and goes there to Larty Hawkins, ed 'Sobriente, who formerly owned tho place, waa found murdered in is well, Polly Interrupts the prite and Larry's lover's from communteating thet “The damned pup has bee Polly's get him down,” th eatisfaction, “He's been niontous, Yankee, abolitios who admires and ‘alone one eve for a ghost. But poor Polly had othe silence of her room. Anot augh, “but T but she would not trust Larty’s story. Why he should appear ground puzzle Ne sdea of purgactory—and haps he would have risen tma,"" he said That outrageously. her alone! ? “tearful joy" and I'm not a This was who had met she to do? For once her “I will ace ing to bed, and 2 o'clock ing, and occastonally peep! the moonlit but vacant again would’ she dare to she started to her fect wi A not persist shocked him!" thought the Colonel, exultingly. burdencd herself to a confidant, but Polly was tog loyat to her father to ehatter his bellefs—and too high-spirited to take another and a lesser person {nto her confidence. She was certain that Aunt Chice would be full o2 sympathetle belief and speculations, couldn't tell her own father! truly belleved that she had seen a ghost—no doubt the ghost of the murdered Sobrlente, according to her, although it suggested thy Catho- Stanbuck's presence—perhaps he had a message for The idea pleased Polly, albeit {t was a attended with Naturally, as a gentleman, he would appear to her— the daughter of a gentleman—the successor to his house—rather than to a Yankee stranger. thrilled; she cotld not think of undressing ahd go- was the unmistakable sound of a stealthy in the passage coming toward her room. In spite of her high resolve, she felt that if the door respect kept the two men ir thoights to each other mn tryin’ to be familiar, and ougat Larry, with glowing trying rome 6f his sanctl- n talk on Polly and she's r things to think of tn the her woman would have un- a nigger with what she For Polly really and with only his head above she was a Catholic! Per- entirely but for that stupid some shiverling. What was calm nerves were strangely surprised her still meditat- ing from ‘her window upon garden. If she saw him go down alone? Suddenly th a beating heart. There footstep Was It he? Then it WHEN us of her room opened she should scream! breath—the footsteps came nearer— door—and passed, was that cheek with a flush of indigi series AFTER THE WELL INCIDE iT. SHE CAM TO, we blood rushed ation, Her LONG CHAINS ARE Long chains are more than ever in vogue with fashionable wofen, and the Jewellers are puzzling their heads over the invention of novelties to encourage the fad, AN the precious stones, cut or’ in cabochon form, are used for the chains, a marked preference being shown for Alamonds set closely upon a mere thread of gold, ‘The pearl chains of this same fashion have lost much of thelr popularity, be- cause of their imitation in the cheapest sort of jewelry; but the long ropes of \real pearls are now, as always, the handsomest long chain a woman can wear, ’ ., Among the novelties the gold chains set with fresh water pearls, Irregular (49 form and varied In shading, have “perhaps the first place. One jeweller 3 shows a chain of odd workmanship, set “et half-Inch intervals with rugged fresh water pearls, alternately shimmering Pink and misty moon-like gray. In the same case {8 a chain of alter- mrating cat's eyes and diamonds, which, NOW THE FASHION while not so exquisite In color as Its nelghbor, 1s exceedingly odd and effec- tive. : Another jeweller, equally tamous, has a number of long chains in bizarre East Indian effects, cabochon gems, semi- precious stones and enamel being com- bined in barbaric effectiveness that would be hopeless were it not handleu with fine art, es It Is, A chain, ordered by a wealthy wom- an, is set entirely with diamonds, each stone swinging freely In a circlet of gold and takitg a new light and color with every slightest movement, says the Pittsburg Gazette, Meanwhile Parts, too, is outdoing her- self in the extravagance and beauty of her long chains, but Paris has a new. chain fad somewhat less expensive. A chain of sliver, beautifully wrough! 1s worn, and ftom it 1s suspended a single large cabochon stone. The. one Jewel may be an uncut ruby, emerald or sapphire of great size and cast a fortune, or {t may be @ moonstone, cat's tuiquolse matrix or some other one of the huntbler stones. TELEPHONE ETIQUETTE 15 NEEDED. | There yet remains to be written an authoritative manual on "Telephone Pti- quette," says the E'ectriclan. Not that the subject has not received attention . afar from it. But where shall we find » @ code of rules governing the relations of the calier and the called so just and *, #0 sensible that all may accept {It as the final law on the subject, and so accepting, abide by it? Mr, Smith, a busy man of business, wmmons his office boy and says Please get Mr. Jones on the wire." The boy does as directed, It happens that | neither man has attained the luxury of a desk set. Accordingly, when Jones is Informed by his boy that Mr. Smith wants to talk with him over the tele © phone ke lays aelde what he is doing and walks to the instrument. There he hears the familiar, “Hold the wire a mrinute, please,” ahd waite }_Datiently : + until Smith is notified that Mr. Jones Js “on the wire,” and goes to the tele- phone in his turn, Jones has wasted some seconds or min- Utes, perhaps, of his valuablo time. Smith, on the other hand, has lost no time. He could have saved Jones the waiting by directing his boy to call up Jones's office and ascertain {¢ he were in. Recelving an affirmative answer, he until Jones re: Smith would ponded. But in that case have walt and Smith Little vexations, like great problems, depend s9 much on the poin: of view. What we need ts a systes of rules} that shall be equally regpected by Smith | and Jones, whether eith: ¢ Ne rte aout er either be the seeker WHEN KIPLING MET STOCKTON. Frank R. Stockton'’s famous story, “The Lady or the Tiger?’ set: every. It was told that an enterprising mag- asine manager offered him $10,00 If le body guessing. It was @ topic of con- versation when Mr. Stockton met Mud-| mous tale, yard Kipling at formed the latter that he contemplated | going to India, says the Pittsourg Dis. | 4 patch. “I'm glad to hear it!’ exclaimed Kip ng, @mthusiastically, "1 i what we'll do with yeu over the wo get you away from your trienda| end family, We'll lure you out into the Jungle and hav: by our trusty wallahs We'll have you turned on your back dnd get one of our Digwest slophante \o e.and over you with be forefoot pelsed above your head Then I'l) way in my moet tiene wating Way ‘Qome, i Blecketot which wae Methe lady or the tiger? a — _ MOP AND BRUSH IN ONE. you selwed and bound) Would reveal the true end of the fa but Stockton was true to his “\atory and deciined the offer When the Siopkton family Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and his brother had a do wh: ved ank rained golely w hunt eats The rothers were overhauled one day a farmer whore cat they wet a To plagate the farmer they gave hun a |dellar for « pig, which they took home, By driving sway thelr father's plye at feeding tine they seow made their own the (attest pg in the pen and mld him Ate profit of #1. Mr. Mlockton always considered the deal w tribute to his business acunion ~ — SOME SWIFT FISH, Hecens eKperhinenin show Kiet the daiphin, when pureed, oan gd through! he Wator wt Lhe Hale Of muput bis lyr] {wo Mablee a0 hour Mle be grea! epond,| vt fer @ ehurt Mistanoe tae selon ean do bation, sinee 1 trequentiy| beet knew io + ‘he SOPhy wmilen BH Lour emee the lucha Commercial Veivur ANAM Hie wiial ior } see he oi etreuiage ie ie one Whe erm lb primaneniy # othe ol of the benie ere 4 genie Ham peenminnin! be Paras 2 Si eal there ie ue ohio em own dod the Binnie Mnokerel Ae we ule bemever, #)) tone Ash wide pier ub wih viet helily eel, whi wel Meee! Oe they ined eyed they maMld be Min Hidlet @cnne tuily tot ploy would oihen be online be gw meme —_ | OCONTAOL OF AUTOS Perle nde OF the A pile ds} 1 Leet ebosoameal = eg tee of fue tate ot pro whee ee ot ened bt sepned We lee aed cee het tier ial beawth ere tie humaine Cammmmmnen Vue Ne or fale ber! Al) Mahe toe eeidriiien Or rae could then have stepped to the telephone | and called for Jones, waiting bimself | doesn't care to stand around any more | than Jones does. | ‘To-day’s iMustration, taken from Black and White, of a simple London gown with much style, Is an ideal model for the tall, slightly built woman, This gown was created at one of Lon- don's best houses and has one or two very oad and pretty features, One tHat attracted my attention particularly was the way the ruffles on the skirt are cut ends, The gown is built of tan French voile and trimmed with medallions of cherry lace, the ruffle edged with gufp: ure of the same shade as the Ince. This model certainly ts a pretty: onc to follow when making a natural tépe pongee, and is panticuiarly cosine te the slenderly built woman’ because the corded shirrings give fulness and chap- acter to the gown. To begin with, we want a sl{p skirt of whatever we’ can afford, and let me say here that pretty lawn slips of the same shade as the gown are worn by people who could have silk if they desired it, but these Ught colored skirts are easily sviled in &@ gown that trains much, and the lawn ones a@re cleaned with less trouble. The dutside skirt is cut circular. Use a medium size piping cord, shirring the siire right on the cord. This ts much simpler than tucking and then pulling the cord through. Have three rows of cord. The skirt beit serves as 4 etay for the fourth row. Do not have the skirt over three yards wide where the flounees join it. Cut the lowér part of the skirt asa circular flaunee, rot very full, and when the ruifles are sewed to this It gives that delightful “billowy" bottem to the sieirt. A pretty tdea ruffles on a finish ¢o watch to use “our as gown, DAILY FASAION AINT. Wonren Readers. of Evening World. Te out (le estior Wieuse in mediva eine 4 yards f inghes wide, B04 yanle i inches wide f yards M8 inohor wide ort yards a wines wide wilh | b voller we pation (ie, ater ‘ v rs sont for W eonte tend o nal \ Fuilieor 4 «Mow ure Hee) Buther the Prumited ithe Ment ee Ate ‘ fieobion fal @ ehild alowt « ~ “ ‘ . i ney re pe upat "i ee ee Wide oe in sections, each section haying rounded | The | A COSTUME OF DAINTY back ‘ATHER AND LARRY WPR® AT HER SIDE. aion, as she was satisfied feat and she gilded to the door. she could hear the stealthy footsteps descending. Sho thréw @ shawl over hor taking the small which it nad always been part of her omtentatious darted back, shoulders, and, Independence to place at had died away before she saw only tho the fateful and long sealed the cause of Ker frightful more real and appalling! realed! a emerged slowly from it! Apparation of last evening, Starbuck! Thetr eyes met; an oath girl started back the pistol throughout the courtyard. drew back, side. They had béen learned the full extent of the gatden hiddén by a to pongee silk, not French voile, would be| The litte shaped collar from which two rows of black velvet ribbon, one! falls the sailor collar 1s made to mateh row a half inch wide, the other nar-| the tiny turnever just described, and rower. The medallions form a pretty | the sailor collar 1s of the tucked or- See HARRIET HUBBARD AYER her a private stairease long disused, ex . as a short cut through the urden. end of the passage—there was nothing beyond olf patio to the No one else knew of It and no one else had pom Was atl the right of aecess to it! This solemn human intra-' secret to Starbuck, another half-breed, son of a swivel. worked with Sobriente, w! after the murder, but wh return and work tne min cept by her- FREROH TAN VOLLE. | Wedaiuons then We mateh, f chifien ane of the gown. Ung tearure., . ville plainly, hu ww Over ot enews fulness for a Row: | " foreun 1 and ends or to auto ower meove ” \oimned of the putt “on “ | trict of Kamysehin, HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PARIS AND LONDON GOWNS. BY MME. LOUISE. This same model would be very pretty made of navy blue silk mousseline over a dine lining, using pure white lace and organdie. Have the French knots of the Persian tones. MME. LOUISE. A WEDDING GOWN. Dear Mme, Loulaé: Kindly (eH me how 40 make over a plain fird- Gored black datin nktrt. I wonld lke to ha it full looking around the bottom. Am forty Years old an@ quite mout, I should like to wear it with a ellk watrt. Als would be Dienned to have yon auggest omeching for me to wear at my daughter's weddliig ‘ext eionth, which wil! take place In chureh. Tam 5 feet € and quite stout B. OH. You can match biack satin very readily, I would advise you to get three yards and put a circular flounce on your skirt. If you destre to trim It, Grecian bordets of narrow black velvet ribbon at the foot and where the flounce joins the skirt would be in good taste. You did not state whether you desired @ color gown or whether it is to be worn At an afternoon or evening wed- ding, so 1 am going to suggest « stylish gown which would be mppropriate for either occasion. A black chantilly lace gown, made with @ net flounce, the flounce covered with folds of peau de chine, the bottom fold two inches deep, each one a little narrower, the spaced between graduating amaliér toward the top also, the first space being about one inch wide. You Will find this design has more than one good point; it te very stylish and It oem not take very much Inve for n skirt when the flounce Is of something eiee, and that less expensive than tnce. ‘The waist is made with w vest front of embroidered chiffon, the lace fronts on elther side being cut in points, the points getting smaller as they near the bottom of the wakwt. Minish the points with two very narrow folds of peau de chine and fasten them to the vest with stee! buttons; these also in graduated tines, Tho back of the waist ts cut with plaited “tale” of the lace, which are lined simply with plaited whtffon, and two steel butions at the waist line finish & small belt of peau de chine; which comes from the front. te WHERE WIVES ARE BOUGHT Wives are still obtained by in parte of Russian Hurope on the Vv exumple, this le praationlly the only way In which marriages are brought about ‘The price of a pretty gir fr @ Weli-tedy family ranges from Be & 10), aud ns Special cases 4 much higher! sum t obtained Ip the villages the lowest price about BB is ie curiam ary for the fathere of the intending bride and bridegroom to haggle tur long Ume over the price to be paid fo the lady, eave Vearnon'e Weerly A ung farmer whose father ¢ sat fond 0 par dor ® wite for him we be In the die ea, for ——_—- A BACRED LANGUAGE Arabic le the sacred language uf Me ae wt REVEALS BEAUTY SECRETS, | ‘ Sere ty wend Lees he rarer Mew be eee eee wom oo Ferrin aes a» eee ean — vs ig Way ie Ay yee ene ot Hine wel ie were 2 ting bos Hi fag bel. Ve, See jes gaolde “iw ee Fee an het ae | Mette: he * ft & » ! og p it ¢ Wale enh = GASTORIA ~The had tes ail stealthily followed the intruder. sntall, deserted, yard, half hidden In shadows, in whose centre stood over her at again being brought Into contact with ame accustomed to the darkness she saw something Fragments of bricks and boards lay around one end of a rope, colled around like a huge snake, scended its foul depths, and as sho gazed with staring eyes the head and shoulders of a man But {t was not the ghostly georn and indignation as she recognized the face of made a movement to spring from the well, but as the charged aimlessly in the alr and the report echosd Instantly disappeared in the well and Polly fell fainting on the steps. When she came to her father and Larry were at her jared at rushed quickly to the patio, but not in time to prevent the escape of Starbuck and his accomplice. time she had recovered her conscfousncss they had tion which she had @o Innocently precipitated. briente's well had really concealed a rich gold ledge, actually tunnelled and galierled by him secretly in the past, and its only other outlet was an opening in Its existence had been unknown to Sobriente’s successor, but was known to the Kanaka who had purchase | It was now, overcamé her Opening it softly,| Gently conce! head and dertinger pistol, her bed head, she ag But the footsteps reached the patlo, and she Brass-grown coutt- up well, A shudder came vision, but as her eyes be- The well was no longer and her terror changed to to tt. ‘broke from his ips. He her conduet held In her hand was dis- So pected! With a@ curse Starbuck the report and had névor denied By the that extraordinary revela- So- ing news atone which turned on a ho fled with his daughter 0 no doubt was afraid to e. He had tmparted the his partner, MONEY IN SUNFLOWERS. The first year of the twentieth cen- tury closed with a curious sale on the Baltic of a cargo of sunflower seads, which changed hands at £11 6s. per ton. Though a small trade has betn done in sunflower seed for close on 200 years, this transaction was the first in which a whole cargo—30 tons from Odessa— was deait with. In Ru where the cultivation of the sunflower and the manufacture of oil from its seed ta con- ducted on a large scale, the Grandi Flora ts the yarlety grown, The large pieces rise in a slender stalk five feet high, producing one monster head, the averago yield ‘being as much as Atty | Dr. Lyon’s Tooth Powder AN ELEGANT TOILET LUxuAY. Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century. Ami taments. 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Yarikeo missionary and Hawhithh wife, who had evi- with an rocomplice and secretly removing such Gold. was still accessible. f tified by Larry as the wandering tranip—tfailed to: ‘cover the secret entrance from the garden, and’ buck was consequently obliged ‘to attempt it from hotel (for which purpone he had introduced , himself as a boarder) by opening the disused well si fe night: These facts wete obtained from ne t in tho otherwise valueless trunks, weighted with stones for ballast, which Starbuck had brought hotel to take away his stolén treasure in, but 4 he was obliged to leave in his hurried filght. attempt would have doubtless succeeded but” rolly's courageous and timely interference. And now that they had told her alt, they. wanted to know what had first exctted her s and driven her to seek the well as the object of Duck's machinations. to Polly to pose as a more perfect heroine, may not blame her if she did not rise entirely Her previous belief that the peqd i compHee at the opening of the gatden Was guowt she had felt certainly In the way, as equally frightened and whom she that there were some things which she really * care to talk about, and Larry and her father that night with the firm conviction that, the tasoal Starbuck had tried to tempt her to fiy with his riches and had been crushingly folled. . love-like simplicity, that ‘she may have been too fool« ‘shly polite to her father's guest for the sake of her father's hotel.” However, all this was of smal account to the bi f a new discovery and working of the # gold ledge” at Buena Vista, secret from the world, the discovery was. a the neighborhood as th? result of a clit tee tion and prospecting on the part of Col. Swinger and 4| eT oe will print a of short daily love. each complete in ived wat plan of seeking Buena, Ling 4ue accomplice—afterward | Nt Tt was a terribie a never once sus- she sald, with a certain tofty to Starbuck, whom she belléved’ ‘him and this, and once, in Inter digs, w As the three kept t and whén tite Intter | Larry Hawkins, gentleman afterward boldly proposed to Polly Swinger ~ she misehievously declared that she soar that the secret might not go “out of the bushels to the acre. So rich is it ino that that quantity of seed will the seed, efter this qudntity of oll i been expressed, weights 1,500 when made nto cattle cakes. . The oll Is of @ clear, pale yellow color, | a almost jnodorous, and of an ae mild taste, so that it is in great as a table article. Why Sunflowers re) not cultivated on an extensive scale England it ts dificult to say. and cattle {ike Us seed elthef tn tte mat. ot | Ree Ne isnt talirndtices mt honey and wax; when_t! 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