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ISS LULU VAN GESSNER and her chaperone were just pass- ing the hotel and the group of young ladies seated at one end of the ver- anda postponed all conversation to watch them with breathless interest. \What a disagreeable old woman!\ Miss Frelinghuysen murmured feel- ingly, and all the other \rosebuds\ whispered in unison, \Yes indeed! What a dreadful woman for a chap- erone! Poqr girl, why couldn't she have chosen some one younger and more attractive. But Miss Van Gessner seemed per- fectly content with her angular duen- na; in fact there was a sympathetic bond between them that was unusual to say the least where such extremes existed. They had just arrived in Newport from Miss Van Gessner's stately home on Fifth avenue, • and Mrs. Donder- decken, the unattractive chaperone, was a stranger to the inner circle of the Four Hundred. Of course her record must be unas- sailable and her pedigree satisfactory, or proud old Van Gessner would never have trusted her to chaperone his daughter. She was an acquaintance of Lulu's, made during a visit to a school friend in another city, and Mr. Van Gessner trusted implicitly to the lady's credentials and his daugh- ter's good taste in the matter, and Lulu Van Gessner, young, talented and aristocratic, was apparently more than .a . ctisfled with her some - 'what ecceac companion. \With that old woman to watch her Lulu will stand very little chance of making a 'catch' this season,\ Flossie Robertson said a little slangily, and stately Miss Giles, from the Imperial, unbent safficiently to say sweetly, \So much the better for the rest of us when the charming duke appears, my dear.\ Flossie pouted and blushed with true rosebud modesty. \The duke may 'prefer young ladies under strict surveillance and pay enurt in true Spanish fashion by ask- ing the old itely first,\ she said slow- ly. \You know our American inde- pendence and easy chaperones are subjects of much contempt to for- eigners who think women incapable of taking care of themselves.\ But strangely enough the \dis- agreeable old woman\ whom Lulu Van Gessner had chosen for a chap- erone during her first summer, did not prove such e monster after all. On the contrary, she, remained in her room a great deee and only appeared, as a good chaperone should, at mo- ments when the yffung men of the hotel were gathering dangerously near her charge's chair. But on these rare occasions it was noticed that the old lady's eyes blazed with extraordinary indignation and the curls of her unmistakable wig lanced angrily as she retired with Lulu to the safety of her cosy suite. But fortunately for Lulu the dis- tinguished foreigner, whose visit was so joyously anticipated, deferred his appearance upon the scene until a \YOU •RE GOING.\ eery opportune day. Mrs. Donder- decken was called sway suddenly by an urgent message, and who jhould arrive only a few hours later Fut the dashing duke de Aubigny in all the glitter of his proud position. Of course, the other rosebuds trem- bled more than ever now that Lulu was without the watchful eye of a guardian and quite at liberty to do all aorta of unmaidenly things, which the duke, man -like, would take ad- vantage of, and thna, almost before his trunks were unpacieed, they had decided that Lulu would be his vice • Jim. Like many another, Flossie believed that beneath the watchful eye of a guardian a young woman was safe in her very_ fancied inaccessibility, but was constantly looking for dire re- sults from a momentarily unwatched weakness, And so Lulu amtdniehed them all with her womanly dignity and de- eorum. She, a bud of twenty, ig- nored the wealthy duke with a de- gree of well bred courtesy that amazed and even put to shame the strictest duenna there. But from the a first Belle Orahan'dlmf tot intend that the duke should no- tice Lulu or her demeanor par- ticularly, and her regard for Mrs. Denchen was heightened consider- ably when she surprised that lady anti the charming gentleman during a tender tete-a-tete in her own pri- vate boudoir. \It was only to pave the way for I you, my dear,\ Mrs. Detuthes I whis- I pered, generously, and confident in that lady's ability to \work\ things their mutual liking, Mies Graham closed her lips discreetly and voted her chaperone more of a success than ever. ' For two delightful weeks the duke shed the sunshine of his smile upon this beautiful boutonniere at the sea- side and if one or two of the bads ex- panded to full blown roses beneath his exotic warmth there were no ble symptoms upon their faces until the hour of his departure. That day Lulu turned suddenly and smiled into his handsome face: \You are going,\ she said quickly, and if she had added, \and I am so glad,\ no one could have been more amazed than they were at her expression. ,. Flossie Robinson could hardly credit her own senses as she stood wet -eyed and bitter hearted,e - iiiii . Shing the farewells at his departure. Belle Graham stayed in her room that day, and was sadly cut of sorts with her agreeable chaperone. Mrs. Deuches, but it was quite apparent to them all that the duke had behaved badly with her young heart also, and gone away without a single promise of better conduct in the future. Lulu alone was happy when he had gone. \I was positively wretched all the time,\ she said timidly. \Just think of having such a dangerous Apollo in the very house, and not even a chaperone to defend you!\ Then a strangely sympathetic ex- pression crept into her eyes as she whispered faintly. \The duke did not try to make love to axerof you, did he, girls?\ Of coarse the girls were highly in- dignant at this charge and not one of them noticed in the momentary agitation how much their fluent denials seemed to relieve their timid questioner. For two of the y trninadies, at least, had swallowed, secredy, a bit- ter pill that rankled and burned their tender stomachs. The pills were sugar-coated, to be sure, but now that the \catch\ of the season bad gone sway uncaptured they questioned their methods of procedure in very bitterness of soul, and just in the de- gree that they regretted their own forwardness they resented Lulu's adamantine virtues. The more they thought of it the more mystified they were at her behavior, and finally the scheme to injure her was set on foot by those who felt themselves most shamed by the dignity of her ex -- ample. Mrs. Donderdecken's ears were as- sailed by many wily tongues before she had fairly rested from her home- ward journey, and deeds, possible and impossible, were laid at Lulu's door by the wagging instruments of malicious envy, \She was so sly, so distant, so tlfli natural, you know, dear Mrs. Donder- decken; we really were forced to be suspicious,\ even Mrs. Deuches whis- pered at the earliest opportunity. But Mrs. Donderdecken made no comments on her charge's behavior that could possibly satisfy the dis- turbed young ladies, and by the peals of laughter that emanated from Lulu's chamber a little later it was quite ap- parent to the disgusted listeners that she was not rating that young lady in any particularly disagreeable man- ner. And the duke did not return to ameliorate any of the existing condi- tions of jealousy among his adorers or to prove what they had at last come to belies.), that he had secretly aspired to Lulu's hand. So after much precocious reasoning the two cruelly...crushed buds decided to for- get their unpleasant failure and con- jure a less dangerous method of cap- turing the second wealthy nobleman expected at the beach. And it was during the excitement preceding this arrival that Lulu Van Gessner and her chaperone took their departure. No one missed them particularly after they had gone, for Lulu was a strangely quiet girl. and her devotion to the \disagreeable old woman,\ made her but an indifferent comrade in their midst, but one day, even the noble Englishman's presence wa for gotten for a time, while Lulu' mar- riage to the duke was read and is - cussed in the hotel parlor. \What became of her chaperone, I wonder,\ Flossie Robereson laid wearily, when the subject grew pret- ty near exhausted, and _quite to the surprise of every one, the vacant look- ing Englishman todk • sudden inter- est in her question. \They were married before they came here, you know, young ladies,\ he said, solemnly, \but as her father was not aware of her elopement, they decided to wait until she was 21 before-\ But his sentimental beginning was too much for thei excited listeners and the buds interrupted him by chiming in eagerly: \Anil did that disagrareable old chaperone really plan for her to see him here and go away just to give the duke an opportunity to spend Iwo weeks with his new made bride?\ • There was delight as well Li disitp- pointment in their Bushed, young faces now, and the Englishman, dense as was his brain, was sorely puzzled how to answer. \You see, young ladies, the disa- greeable old woman did not go away at all. She couldn't, don't you know,\ he added almost painfully, \for she was his highness all the time, only doing a bit of masquerading.\ ifs. Passed its Infancy. On the walls of Pompeii are adver- tisements which are shown to tourists to -day. There are marks in the cata- combs thIT have been there 2,000 years, aliening Inscriptions of records of businese, which prove that adver- tising Is nothing new. - Shoe and Leather Recorder. \LUCKIEST MAN IN ROME.\ A *Webby\ Who hays He Is s Relative of the President of France. No one in Rome was happier over the election of M. Carsitnir-Perier as president of the French republic than Domenico Piergentill, the owner and driver of a street coach which stands every morning in a certain corner waiting for passengers, says the New York Tribune. When Domenico took up his paper containing the announce- ment of the election he was almost speechless (rem joy. elien he had recovered himself sufficiently he ran to his colleagues, crying: \How glad that makes me! A rel- ative of mine president of Francet What an 'honor! I am the luckiest man in Rome.\ Domenico, to celebrate the occimior fittingly, invited all his brother jehut to a great dinner in the Osteria del Ciglio di Firenzi and there toasted his famous \relative\ for many hours. The reporters of ,,the Roman papers naturally heard of Domenico's tale and sought interviews with the brave fel- low. \Casimir-Perier is your relative?\ they asked. \Undoubtedly gentlemen,\ came the answer, and a smile of pride spread over the bronzed features of Dome& ico. \How is that?\ \Ecco! In the year 1876 Jerome easimir-Perier, it brother of the presi- dent, was in Rome. I had the honor during the entire sojourn to drive him about, going once even as far as the Castelli Romani. Before his departure Jerome Casimir-Perier, the brother of the president, sent for me. \'Dear Domenico,' said the brother of the president to me, .1 am going away to -morrow. But you have served me so well that I wish to give you some memento which will prove that I shall always remember you. Say what it shall be.' 'Excellenza,' I replied -and Dom- enico proudly drew himself up to his full height -el have served you and you have paid me, and my claim is settled. If, however, you wish to leave me some memento, you need only hold the child which my wife pre- sented me yesterday over the baptis- mal urn.' \The brother of the president of France consented at once and declared he considered it a great honor to be the godfather of a Roman, and- thereby became a relative of our family.\ The relationship is not \very close,\ but the good jehu never grows tired of telling his friends of the great honor which has came to his family. Interesting Experiments. F. J. Smith, of Oxford, England, makes the following interesting state- ment: -I have been stimulated by recent trials of the bullet-proof cuirass to try a few experiments on the sub- ject. I arranged a number of soft iron rods I -inch in diameter and five inches long, side by side and touching a piece of deal board; on these another layer was placed, so that one of the upper rods touched two of the under ones. A sheet of thin rubber, 1-16 inch thick, placed on this, separated it from a similar combination attached to it at right angles; and the whole formed a target. The rifle used was a Winchester, 22 -bore, cart•ying a long bullet. At a distance of tweittyleet the bullet penetrated five inches of the hard pine, but when the bullet fired at the same distance hit my rod target, it failed to penetrate even the first layer, but only drove the upper rods aside nearly at right angles to the line of flight. Possibly a similar arrange- ment, but of large steel cylinders, might make a satisfactory barrier to the shot of big guns.\ Gtoneelogy. Alexandre DUMB.% the great Frown author, wan a quadroon. and showed his African parentage in his woolly hair, his dark skin, his thick lips and his prodigious bodily strength. But it is needless to lay that many people looked askance at him on account of it. -Was not your father, sir, a mulat- to?\ a man asked him once. \Certainly said Dumas. -My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a full-blooded negro, and my groat -grandfather was a monkey!\ -What!\ -Yee, my genealogy begins where yours leaves off!\ -Youth's Com- panion usawrit.• R•pro•on. \What you need,\ said the house- wife. eyeing him distrustfully. -is a good bath and not cold victuals. You're the dirtiest looking man I ever saw.\ \It's Very evident, ma'am.\ replied Walkabout Beggum. deeply hurt, \you don't rickolect how I looked when / was here before.\ Ate ( ruwity. Traveler -Yes. I was captured by the savages and sentenced to marry • squaw. Hostess-llorrIble. Traveler -Yes; but they had some mercy. They did not insist on a fash- ionable wedding. -N. Y. Weekly. 1 — Entirely Adequate. New Reporter. to managing father of Philadelphia evening paper -Shall! go out and get some news? Managing leditot -Thereer no neces- sity for that, sir, the New York morn- ing papers are all here. -Texas Sift ings. Herculean Lahore of Ants. • South American ants ,have barn. known to construct a tunnel three milers in length, a labor for them pro- portionate to that which would he re- 4uirod for men to tunnel under the Atlantic from New York to London. Mss .spiellst lorstbought. She -Why are theater entrances always made so wide and high? No -To let in the hats, of course. PIRATES IN CHINA, TROY ARE NOT SO BOLD All THEY USED TO BE. The Best Fighters In the Empire— Hew They Once Treated a f:eneral Who At inched Them With an Arm; to Collect Taxes. If you want to see pirates pure and simple you must go to the Far East and live there or a season. Don't go to Japan, because the people of, at lovely country are extraordlually L -lest and polite. They wouldn't rel.) a man under any consideration, and as for. making a poor devil walk a plank, or slitting the windpipe of a luckless cap- tive, they would much rather perform hart -kart and pass to another and bet - 'or world. But right across the way from the Pirate Priest. Land of the Rising Sun, is China, which was a Tether of pirates before the first pyramid was built, and still produces them in regular harvests year by year. I have studied the Chinese pirates in his home and native lair and have heard wierd tales of piracy from the lips of pirates themselves. At least that is -what they made when the translator hied done with tkenasays a writer in the Neer York Herald. For instance: ' In the good old days, when a pirate had achieved a certain amount of suc- cess he could come back to his own country and after a little nelgotiation could be welcomed by the officials and r nobles who before had set a price u n his head. Nor has the practice led s out. In 1860 a young man in uth China by the name of Li Yu. who was neted for his gigantic strength and fe- rocious courage, started out on the ca- reer of crime. He was a thief, burglar highwayman, murderer and pirate. name and fame spread far and wide until the Chinese government offered a princely ransom - for his capture, living or dead. He defied the officers of the law and organized a band of men of the same typo and nature as himself. They adopted the old pirate banner the \black flag\ and under the name of \Black Flag\ booties famous or infa- mous throughout the Mongolian Em- pire. More than one hundred families of high distinction in China derive their title and their sicial and political posi- tion from some pirate ancestor. Such examples as these form the staple sub- ject of conversation throughout the em- pire. They exert a profound influence and lead them to believe that crime, however reprehensible in a single trans- action becomes respectable and meri- torious when committed wholesale, and that piracy is one of the best callings in which to attain fame, fortune, and imperial favor. Hotbed. of Duce aaaaa a. The two great hotbeds of buccaneers in the Emit are the sane to -day as they have been for centuries -Amboy and Canton. In each case the name is not strictly accurate. The Amboy mopie proper, who speak the Amboy barignege and live in the walled city, are very quiet, peaceable and orderly, and have a pronounced antipathy for fighting, whether on sea or shore. But back of Amboy is the mountainous district of Tong -an. It la connected with the ocean by many arms of the sea. Its moil is sterile and its -se wairces are very few; Its people, like all mountaineers, are thee, mu -wilier, brave and resollite. Even today they An Amboy Pirates = e a semi -independence of a mill- ieature. They are admired end feared by all their more pacific neighbors. Once missed they are perfect demons in the feay. In DWI a new local tax was 101 - wooed by a government officiel, of which a large portion was levied ripen this district. Although the erection was unjust and uncalled for, all the ether districts paid their share ure - o-n- plainingly and without protest The elders of T011g-en. ilOwftver. aunt word that they would not pa,y one farthing. The mandarins replied that they would go up and collect it there thernereives. Tie• response was prompt and significant: \Come and collect, hut bring your runny with you.\ A general was accordingly diepatched \Vial a regiment, with instructions to .ellect the impost and to behead all the eiders who had taken part in the refusal, lie marched into the district and met with no opposition until he reached the leallug town. He found It deserted and every (louse empty. This so enraged hint that he burned and de, stroyed a number of houses and killed or captured many buffaloes and berued ea tilt'. Mode Short Work of HIM. It was evening when he got through his work of destruction, and, desirous of getting out of the country as quickly as possible, he started on his return march. At nightfall, when movie\ through a narrow pass, his comma\ was surprised and ambushed by tee natives, who killed two-thieds of his soluiers and took him prisoner. They wasted no time, but buried him in a Mee up to his neck in quicklime and the' put molassea tivon his head to attract the Insect.. Tie was, of course, dead the next morning, alien thy cut off his swollen and diefignred head and sent it with their compliments to the local government. The tax was never colleeted. Exercise Caution. The pirates in the far East have helmet wisdom by eeperience. They no longer cruise the wide was, attack- ing fhatever craft may coins along. There are too many gunboats patroll- ing the coast, two many rifle guns and too many yardarms. Law and order In the past eighty years have shot, hanged, drowned, blown up or bunted at least one hundred thousand follow- ers of the \black flag.\ The survivors are painfully aware of the fact, an is also the younger generation, which has filled the vacancies made by death. To -day their work is done upon a small- er, but a far shrewder and safer basis. They keep spies at various places in their neighborhood, whe repo to li chead- quarters whenever some ju is about to leave that has a rich carg or that has a large amount of money. The pirates then plan to intercept the craft in some river or. arm of the sea, or else in some shoal water near the- coast, where there is no e.hance of meeting a gunboat, and where, after the robbery, they will have a safe means of escape. Their calculations are - carefully made, but come out right only once in four or five times. The reason of the failures are various. It may be that a foreign or Chinese gunboat sud- denly appears upon the scene. V may be that the junk they are afte. goes past their rendezvous with a European steamer or river launch, or mayhap that the prospective victim is delayed by advereee winds and Udine and so does not appear ett e &he time and place fig- ured upon. When they do make a capture they are not so brutal and cruel as ir the 0 The School Girl for kolop to Tilts. Tato. old years. They only kill those who resist or take arms against them. They confiscate everything on board and car- ry it to their own strongholds or else to some receiter's shop or pawnbrok- er's In any convenient town. • Grades of Piracy. There are different grades of piracy. as of every \Other crime. As in rob- bery you have at one extreme the high- wayman and the bank burginr, and at the other the miserable sneak thief, I so In piracy you have two widely sep- arate types in the freebooter who takes his own life in hie hand to win the prise and the prowling night boat pi- rate who steals children from the river bank and the sea coast. Slavery exists in China to -day as it ham done from the beginning of history. Children have their regular market price, which varies according to the prosperity or adversity of the times. In general, a small boy, below the age of ten will bring from $5 to $75, while a little girl of the 'amt. age will com- mand from $10 to $100. In warm cli- mates little folks do much of their playing after the sun has gone down and the Intense heat of the day is over. Then is the time for the_ Orate child 'dealer The trade fionriehee chiefly on the larger streams and rivers where . the children are stolen, end in the great Mew, where they are mold. The fate of these poor little captives is not so bed As might he nupporeal Most of the boys are bought for adop- tion by ()tjpese Mee who have no eon, and who, adoptinghe - e - them, give them ell the rights which a ectural son would have. Others ere mold as man servants, who, who, In the male. are very well The female children fin not have as happy a lot. One third ere sold to he. come ladies' maids and house slaves, one-third to he brought up as concu- bines. and one-third for the moat im- moral purposes There is hardly an Attendant - el woman In nil of China but whet owns one or more of these Ike called \pocket dniiiirtit.r.\ Justice Brthed. The penalty for child stealing is de- capitation. but it is very seldom inflict- ed. The 'Mates who are arrested gen- erally get out upon the plete that the child was lost or sold to them by some impoverished parent This, with the addition of a handsome sum paid to dis magistrate, together with the lack od positive proof on the part of the prose - cation, usually insures their aolatleial and honorable discharge. The Oriental pirate when he goes ire to the naval service of his country or of foreign nations is well dlariplln obedient and sober, and she) fights with the same ferocity as in his own call- ing. If new China ever comes to the fore he will constitute the material of its future navy, and will make a name and fame as great in the annals of ocean warfare as he has done in Me history of crinie. WIELDSA SLEDQE HAMMER Ohio Woman Making Herself Use. fel in Her litt•band'e Blacksmith Shop. Tenni within a few months John Brory, a blacksmith of Hamilton, Ohio, was an employe. Lately he ea tablished a place of his own at some little distance front his home. Work was riot very pleutiful at first, and Mrs. Browsey at the Anvil. Mrs. Brasey brought her husband's din- ner every day at noon, thus enabling him to stay in the shop all day and at- tend at once to any orders that might come in. One day not long ago John was in sore need of the helper he could not afford to hire, and his wife who had Just arrived with his diuner, offered to 'handle the sledge hammer. John laugh-' ed, but Mrs. Brovvsey picked up the sledge and surprised her husband by the case and accuracy with which she handled it. Since then she comes to the shop regularly when her husband needs her help, and now boasts et be- ing able to turn a horseshoe alone. She is a well developed ,woman, strong healthy and of attractive appearance, and is fond of working in the shop. Her husband, however, has about reach ed the stage when he can afford to hire a man to help him, and hopes ere long to call on his wife's aid in this Way for the last time. A Wt.rd to Letter -Writers. Always save your correspondent:if letters, says a letter writer of long ex- perience -at least till you have answer- ed them. Look them over before re - spending, and reply to any questions that may have been asked, for that is only another form of being personal, and personalities always pleftee You see, in writing a successful letter, in- stead of aayinit what you want to say, you must say what, your correspondent wants you to say, though, of course, af- ter you have been personal as long as need be, you may add variety by talk- ing about yourself; but don't be dull or stilted about it -don't describe a sun- set to aperson who never looks at the sun, or go into a long criticism of some book to an individual who never reads. Be gossipy. be light, and above all, be natural. Why, I know a pair of pain- fully discreet esters, who, when they are together, exchange opinions of all sorts as freely al5 any two of like rela- tionship, but whose stiff. cold converse - Cons by mail,you would never recog- nize as emanating from the same per. sons. so fearful are they that eomethine will get down in black and white that they might regret if the world got hold of it For my part, I would prefer te run the risk of the world getting hold of It to sacrificing all that pleasant chatty companionship To be separat- ed from your friends is bad enough without having the additional woe put upon you of an unneturel manner growing up between you and them. SIDE LACED GAITERS A Fa•hion of Twenty Year. Age Likely to Be Revived Soon. Although everybody wore side -laced shoes twenty years ego. the style was , generally regarded as a nuisance b. cause of the tedious process of lacing. The shoes were neat fitting and always looked well on the feet, but becalm* of the objection named the button gala era leaped intd favor the moment It ap- Late•t Thing in Shoes, peered on account of Its easy adjust- ment, According to a high authority on footwear an improved side -laced shoe 1. likely soon to be Introduced, some of the more fambionable makers already showing samples. rine lam. is used, the lower part being carried over and over as In men's shoe., the upper zigzagging over smell etude and being caught at the top by a clasp In this way the wearer can fasten her shoes 1111 eneily as she can her gloves. An imitation button lap Is on, of the fa. 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