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THE WORTHINGTON ADVANGE. ROBERT MCCTJNE, Editor and Publisher. WORTHINGTON, Nobles Co., MINN A TREASURED KEEPSAKE. While turning some old keepsakes over In a sorrowful mood and forlorn, The gem of them all I discover In a child's sampler, faded and torn, With faintly-worked letters unfolding An incomplete motto, a-stare, And the time-yellowed canvas still holding A ringlet of pale golden hair. •'I Love My Dear Papa Forever," Runs the legend, the rest being blurred, While the lost of the childish endeavor Fritters out in a half-broidered Word Though all that was meant is completed In the woof that my mem'ry unrolls. Ever since the small worker's soul fleeted To the Giver and taker of souls. Only a child's sampler, faded, With poor straggling letters inwrought: But, ah! how distinct and unaided It emblazons its beautiful thought! Only a yellow curl treasured In the limp, flimsy, many-creased plaits, But instinct with affection unmeasured By earth's feeble standards, or fate's? Oh! again and again do I kiss it. With her imago still fresh in my mind! And that artless child's love, how I miss it, Sin no more with my life 'tis combined? Save as Death, the light-footed purlo'ner, By Love is run down in the end, And as Faith still abides to rejoin her In those heights sho was first to ascend. Once again with your mates I return you, Dear Keepsake! more precious ihan all, And again in the Past I inurn you, As life's shadows, deepening, fall. Once more in the casket I set you, And, turning the key, I depart, •unth no fear that I'll slight or forget you, Since your motto is worked tn my heart. —Nathan D. Urner, in Onco a Week. A VISITING CARD. Embarrassing Results of a Slight Mistake. It was a rainy day in January. Large drops were beating monotonously against tho windows of a red brick house, whose vlnte stone trimmings and other heavy architectural ornamentations wore that air of having been manufactured by the thou sand which characterizes the dwellings of those good people who have gained wealth without gaining taste. Behind the guipure curtains on tho first floor stood a handsome blonde looking out, with a bored expression in her cold blue e.ves. This was Solange Tarvenue, the only daughter of respectable bourgeois, who, having made his money in trade, now lived a genUcinau of leisure in this fine now bouse. "Heaven!" exclaimed M'lle Tarvenue, hmv tiresome this rain is! One can't go out, to make any calls, and 110 one comes to see ono. It's enough to give one the spleen!'^. "The spleen? What's that?" asked M. Tarvenue from the depths of his paper. "Something you don't understand, papa," said the vcungr lady, impatiently. "Suppose you practice a little, my daugh ter," suggested lime, Tarvenue, putting up some stockings sne had beeu darning. "That piecf, you know, you are to play at the raulpiur to-night." "Yes.it would be worth while, would it not sneered Solango. "People who don't know ouo note from another! As though there was any one in tho Ville-Abbe, any waj", who did. What is the use of having any talent for any thing when one lives in the provinces?" "O, the provinces again! Solange is in a bad humor. I'll get out of the way," re marked M. Tarvomie. "Leave the child alone. The temperature affects her. It is psychological," said Mme. Tarvenue, who flattered herself that she understood her daughter, and was upon the same intellectual level, albeit the latter had been educated in Paris. She went down stairs with the girl, and there Solange, with—one must be just—a good deal of mere digital brilliancy, began to practice one of those showy and utterly hollow musical productions in which there are technical difficulties in profusion, but absolutely not one note that can speak to the heart or the mind. In the midst of these trills and chromatic ocales the bell rang. '•There!" cried Solange, stopping short, •'I'm sura that is a call. You see, mamma, you were very wrong to say that you were not at home to visitors. Every one is not as much afraid of bad weather as you are." "My dear child, what are yo'i thinkingof! Such a day as this! Why, the parlor furni ture would have been ruined by people's wet clothes!" "People's wet clothes! It is to be hoped the people wo know would wear water proofs, as long as they come on foot," added the young lady, bitterly. She rang the bell. A young servant girl came in. "Bring the cards that were left just now." The servant returned. Solange threw an indifferent glance on tho bit of pasteboard. Suddenly her face lighted up she exclaimed quickly: "Mamma! It was M. de Provaret 1 And you didn't receive him!" "M. de Prevaret!" wailed Madame Tar venuo. "Dear me! What a pity, now!" cried So lauge, sourly. M. de Prevaret was considered the very best catch in Ville Abbe! Youngand hand some and clever, and the possessor of a large fortuue he lived with his mother, tbe dowa ger countess, in one of the most sumptuous residences in the town. And this young man, on whom every woman of rank with a marriageable daughter smiled, had rung the doorbell of the Tarvenues, and left his cards for them S He bowed to them, because they bowed to his mother, but he had never been introduced to the ladies. "What can it mean?" asked Mme. Tar venue, anxiously. Solange was standing before the glass. "Why, it seems to me that it is very clear!" she replied, with deep complacency. "Haven't you noticed, my dear mamma, that every time we go to hear the band play M. de Prevaret is there, too?" "What!—why—do you think—?" Mme. Tarvenue did not dare finish, so audacious did her thought seem to her. "And why not?" demanded Solange, throwing up her blonde head with a trium phant air that made her really immensely handsome. "You are right," murmured poor Mme. Tarvenue "you are pretty enough." It was quite true that Solange Tarvenue was handsome enough to inspire a passion, but she would never have had any attrac tion for a fastidious man. This young per son, with her sculpturesque form, her opu lent contours and her claiming coloring, was absolutely lacking in innate refinement or distinction. No reflection of a gentle na ture, an elevated soul, ever gave that in describable charm to her regular features that such attributes only can convey. She was clover enough, but it was a thoroughly material sort of cleverness, and it was joined to a most extraordinary amount of egotism and vanity. She had played, in childhood, behind the paternal counter but she had been educated in a fashionable Parisian school, from which she had brought away all manner of ambitions. In her dreams for the future she saw noblemen at her feet, and she would not have thought a crown misplaced had it been made to rest on her magnificent yellow hair. It was, therefore, no wonder, that the Corate de Prcvarct's visit had not much surprised her. She saw in it simply the natural result of her beauty. Sho received her father, when he returned, with a superior smile of calm fatuousness, while Mme. Tarvenue, who was most unsophisticated in her new grandeur, exclaimed agitatedly: "If you only knew whom we have iust missed!" "Oh! You think I don't know," replied the good man, trying to look very subtle. "So he has como to make his proposal, has hel" "To make his proposal?" quavered Mme. Tarvenue. "You kuew, then?" "It is to be hoped that I did know," re marked M. Tarvenue with importance. "He said t' me only this morning: "It is time vre came to an understanding. Eusebe is fairly wasting away he is so mucli in love with Solange." "Eusebe Of whom are you talking!" "Of my friend Ramillat, who is most anx ious that Solange should marry his son." "M. Ramillat did not call. But the Comte de Prevaret rang the door-bell while you were away." And Solange, having pre- nounoed those words, majestically left the room. "M. de Prevaret!" exclaimed M. Tarvenue. ••Why, yea," said madam, imitating her daughter's self-possessed and indifferent mien. "Solange is not astonished. He has been noticing her a great deal of late. And if he should want to marry her there would be nothing surprising in that either. She is handsome enough to make a messallianoe possible." A discussion then arose between Mme. Tarvenue and her daughter as to whether they ahouid call, in their turn, on the dowa ger countess—a discussion which was thus concluded by the young lady: "On general principles it Bhould be papa who returned the calL But he would not know how to appear in a way that would do us justice. Now, if it were I, having the habit of the world, I should know how to manage perfectly. So, it is best that mamma and I should go to call on the countess. By doing so we will make her understand that we are very willing to know her, but not willing to accept the attentions of her son against her wishes." The plan was cleverly conceived, and a week later was carried out. On the same day the dowager Countess de Prevaret was chatting with her son in a large salon filled with fine old furniture. He, who was the most touchingly devoted of sons, had been asking his mother how sho bad passed the afternoon. She had been too tired to receive, she said. But there had been several callers. "Among others these"—and she took up a card "Mme. Tarvenue" and mademoiselle. "Do you know these people?" asked the countess. "I wan surprised to get their card." "I know them ani I don't. He used to be a linen draper, I think. He is out of busi ness now. They sit near you in church the father is a little man with spectacles the mother very si-out and rubicund the daughter a superb creature, a blonde, who dresses very well. You must have seen them?" "O, yes, I remember now. I believe they bow to me. They are good souls, I should think, they go to church very regularly." "Good souls, perhaps," laughed her son, "but frightfully ordinary. The mother is impossible. As for the daughter, wo call her the empress. I assure you the namo suits her. She is a tremendous poseuse." •'But why should they como to sec mol" asked the countess. "Perhaps to solicit subscriptions for some charity. The mother and daughter belong to different church organizations, I think." "Perhaps. I don't care to know them, but I want to be polite. I might leave my card some day at their house. That would not commit me to any thing." "Of course not, especially with the Tar venues." The lady, little dreamed what a commotion the square of pasteboard her footman de posited at the Tarvenue mansion door one afternoon would causo in that household. When Solange, who was at the window, recoguized the Prevaret livery, she forgot all her assumption of indifference, and rushed down to tho kitchen to tell the serv ant that the ladies would receivc. Then she threw a hasty glance into the drawing room to assure herself that all things were in order there, a'nd, still running, returned to her room and began to make an appro priate toilet. What was not her disap pointment when she heard the carriage drive away again. •'Idiot!" she cried to the servant over the banister. "Why didn't you say we were at home as I told you?" "But, mademoiselle, the footman didn't ask. He gave me tho card and I said, 'Madame is at home.' Then he said, 'Well, give her that, then.' "Very woil," said Solange, with acerbity. "But you might at least have refrained from saying that we were at home, since you hadn't been asked." Nevertheless the sight of the countess' card somewhat appeased her. That a grando dame, of the countess' age, tor should have taUen the trouble to drive out in the cold in order to leave a card at their house proved conclusively that she wished to sanction her son's course. Thus did Mme. Tarvenue think likewise, and the two ladies resolved that the least they could do would be to call onco more upon the coun tess without delay. This had bjen arranged when M. Tarve nue, who spent an hour at his club every day, came in with a very clouded brow. ^Something very serious has happened." said the retired linen draper. Then—"We have no secrets from you, my daughter, and you know already that my friend Ramillat had spoken to me of his desire of making a match between you and his son. I expected an official proposal from him three weeks ago. I did not receive it, and since then he has seemed to avoid me. I did not like to call upon him because that would have been undignified nnder the cir cumstances. Finally, I met him to-day on the street, and although he pretended not to see me, I accosted him: 'What's the reason one never sees you any more, Ramil latl* 'It seems to me, sir,' he answered stilly, that it is scarcely my place to call upon you again after the step I took three weeks ago, and which you failed to recog nize in any way.' And now it turns out that he came here, left his card, as I was not at home, and thought, of course, as we had had a conversation on the subject the pre vious day, that I would understand the vis it as a formal demand on his and his son's part for Solange's hand. Here we are at loggerheads, and all because you did not give me his card. "But he never came, he never left a card," cried Mme. Tarvenue. "In any case there's a good match off," grumbled M. Tarvenue. "Do not deplore it, I beg," remarked So lange, with her most superb mien. "1 should not have accepted M. Eusebe Ramillat in any event. I hope before long to present to you a son-in-law of quite another stamp." In less than eight days Mme. Tarvenue and her daughter repaired anew to the dow ager countess. Solange was enchantingly handsome in a suit of dark blue with astrak han trimmings, and a toque of the same on her golden hair. Mme. Tarvenue, in plush and jets, had as sumed an indifferent and contemptuous air which she thought in the bs3t possible form. When the countess saw the two ladies en ter her drawing-room she suppressod a movement of surprise, but sho received her guests with that gracious amiability which so successfully keeps people at a distance. "I was sorry," she said, in her slow, mu sical voice, "not to have been at home when you came some little time ago to see me." "The I093 was entirely ours, madame," said Solange, with empressment. "Certainly, certainly," said Mme. Tarve nue, who was very red and very ill at ease. "I regretted the coincidence all the more that I thought you might have wished to see me with regard to some church charity." Solange understood the allusion, and her eyes flashed fire. "No, madame, I am interested in church work, but I do not solieit aid from others," she announced trenchautly. "We have come simply to prove our recognition of the visit by which you were pleased to show us that you approved of your son's visit to us." It was now the countess' turn to be agi tated. Had Gerard really gone to see these people? The daughter was pretty, very pretty. "I did not know that my son had called upon you," she said with her grand air. "But his friends are mine. Ah! There he is now. Gerard,'' addressing the young man who now entered with a smile, "will you not introduce me to Mme. and M'lle Tar venue?" "It seems to me that it is you who ought to introduce me," remarked the young man bowing low before his mother's guests. "It is true, Monsieur," said Solange, while her mother wished that the earth might open and swallow her up "we re gretted not being at home when you called some time ago." The young man bowed again, and looked embarrassed, and said nothing. "My daughter alludes to the visit you made us at the beginning of January," here threw in Mme. Tarvenue. "I wish that I, too, might allude to it, madame, but I am afraid there is a mis understanding, since I would never have permitted myself, not having the honor of knowing you, to present myself at your door. Now, however. I shall," he con tinued, with a profound bow, "certainly beg for the pleasure of doing so." "Mme. Tarvenue desperately rose, and, followed by her daughter, left the room. When Gerard had returned from seeing them to the door, his mother said to him: "Tell me truly, my aon, did you call on those people!" "Never in the world, my dear mother, and I don't la the least know what all this I BMaasI" In the street meanwhile Solange waa biting her lips till the blood started. What idiots we were! We have spoiled everything! He had come to the bouse without letting his mother know, and we have let the cat out of the bag she raged. "What a pity! If he only comes back again!" said Mm. Tarvenue, prayerfully. The next day there occurred Mme. Tarve nue's small weekly reception. The lamps were lighted and Solange was aetting out aome dominoes nonchalantly on the baize table. "la every thing ready!" demanded M. Tarvenue. "O, yes." "Well because I hold a good deal to this one evening in the week, when I can gather my old friends around me," said the old fellow. "I miss one, though, Ramillat," and he sighed. His guests soon began to arrive. Solange, with a book in her hand, abandoned herself to golden-tinted reveries. That very morn ing the Count Gerard had bowed to her profoundly, and on this incident, trivial as it was, she had begun to erect a visionary scaffolding of dreams. Suddenly the door opened again and M. Ramillat was an nounced. M. Tarvenue hurried forth to meet him. "My dear friend, at last!" "Why yes, here I am again! But let me tell you—all of you—the most extraordinary and laughable occurrence imaginable. You know, Tarvenue that I was offended because of your having failed to take any notice of a certain visit I paid you three weeks ago. You said that you had not heard of it. I was sure that I had left cards. Well, I left cards and you never knew it." Ho broke out with a loud laugh. "Tell me, Tarvenue, do you know the Comte de Prevaret?" "Very little, but he conies here." "Ah! he comes here? He came here on the 8th of January, eh? Well, I left his card!" Solange, who !iad raised her head from her book, now approached. "And this is the way of it: It's all the fault of that good-for-nothing engraver, Bladell. I ordered some cards for January 1. Probably the Count Gerard did the same. Now what do you suppose I discov ered after three weeks? That the cards were mixed inadvertently—half of them were mine and half those of the Count Pre varet. That is how it happened that yon received a card from that gentleman "and that is how Solange, whiter than a sheet, had risen with difficulty and retreated into the em brasure of a window. Her mother followed her. "Courage, Solango! Be kind to M. Ramil lat. After all, Eusebe is not such a vcrj bad match!" "What When one thought one was go ing to be a conntess." "Excuse Solange," said Mme. Tarvenue. "She is feeling indisposed." Three months later Gerard de Prevarel was married to one of his cousins, and th« same day M. Eusebe Ramillat, tlisdained bj Solange, conducted to the altar the daughtei of his father's partner. They say that Solange Tarvenue will not marry at all.—From the French. ORAL TRADITION. Tales Handed Down from Lip to Lip foi Many Centuries. It is said that the invention of writ ing injured the power of memory, and years ago, before tho schoolmaster was abroad as ho is nowadays, it was possible to meet with many instances of strong memorizing capacity among persons who could neither read nor write. Complicated accounts could be kept by the aid of a "tally" only, and the memory of many a small farmer 01 petty shopkeeper was his only ledgei and order book, It is certain thai since the art of writing has become ar almost universal accamplishment, tht faculty of memory, being less needed is less cultivated. Long after the in vention of letters our forefathers restec much upon oral tradition. Antiquari ans assert that one of the ancien: races of Italy possessed no writtei language, and even where written characters were in use, oral traditior formed an important supplement them. "Folk lore" tales and ballad.' have been handed down from lip lip for centuries with curious fidelity. A writer of some thirty years ag mention.? that one of Herrick's fines devotional pieces, his "Litany/1 wai repeated verbatim by a poor old woman, one of whose ancestresses had beer servant to Herrick's at Dean Prior. The old woman had never seen tht poem in print and neither she nor hei predecessors could read. These "nighl prayers," as the old dame described them, had come down on the lips o! these unlettered women for nearlj two centuries, and the ten verses of the hymn were as accurately recorded in the memory of the lasl reciter as in the printed pages of Her rick's "Noble Numbers." When oral tradition was recognized as a vehicle for actual information more care was taken regarding its accuracy that would be the case iu these days. The old rectors jealously guarded a time honored form of words even in theii prose narratives. Breton peasants, nowadays, notably those who possess 0 talent as raconteurs, will repeat a leg end or a story with scrupulous fidelity to the established form in which thej have always heard the incidents rela ted. and will check a traveler who at tempts to deviate from the orthodoa version with "Nay, monsieur, the story should begin thus,1' repeating the reg ular formula of the tale. During tht persecution ofj the Waldenses, in th thirteenth century, when their version of tho Scriptures was prohibited anc destroyed wherever found, their min isters committed whole books of the sacred volume to memory, and repeated chapters at their religious meetings. Even the lay members of their bodj adopted the same means of preserving their beloved provencal version. Reinei mentions knowing one rustic, unable to read or write, who could yet repeat the entire book of Job, according to the translation condemned bj the council of Toulouse, in 1229. "They have taken* away my deai tutor, but they can not take awaj my 'Telemachus,' for I have it safe it my heart," said the little Duke of Bur gundy, when deprived of the instruc tions of Fenelon, whose "Telemachus' was represented to Louis XIV. as covert attack on his mode of govern ment. It would be tedious to enumer ate the riany instances in which tradi tion has preserved what written histo. ries were forbidden to chronicle. Tra ditions may claim to be as accurate as written history though this, perhaps is faint praise. Oral tradition is usu ally free from conscious party bias The repeaters of traditional lore carrj on the tale as they heard it but how many an eloquent historian appears tc assume a brief for one side or anothei in every party contest, and to write hii history with a view, not of elucidating facts, but of representing certain his torical characters as angels or the re verse. That ugly popular adjective will adhere to Queen Mary's name in spite of the efforts of her best apolo gists and even Lingard's eloquence fails to shake popular belief*in the ex cellencies of "Good Queen Bess," and the "golden days" of her reign. Some times local tradition dares to array it self in open opposition to received history. Folk lore, if not an altogethei reliable guide, is seldom totally at fault in its statement of facts, and tra dition has frequently kept alive memo ries which might otherwise have per ished altogether. Books may be de stroyed and history willfully garbled, but it is lo :s e:i~.y extinguish' local traditions. LO.KVCKI Standard. FORTY-TWO STARS, that !i the Number the American tfaff Will Likely 800a Contain—Both How— of Conimi Pan tho Bill to Admit States North Dakota* South Dakota* Washington and llontana—The President Will In All Probability Sign It—Outline tf the Measure. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—One necessity FOR extra session of the Fifty-first Congress was disposed of yesterday by the passage by both houses of the conference report on the rerritorial bill. The slight fear of a pocket veto which haunted the friends of the Territories Tues day has been entirely dissipated by the easy triumph of the measure. The bill Is com pletely engrossed, and will be signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate early this morning and sent at once to the President Mr. Springer makes no sort of doubt that he will sign it without delay. [As agreed to the bill provides for the ad mission of North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington. Dakota is to be divided on the 46th standard parallell, and the two consti tutional conventions are to meet at Bis marck and Sioux Falls. Delegates to the con ventions of each of the two proposed States are to be elected on the first Monday la Uay tad are to meet on July 4. It is provided that at the election for delegates in South Dakota the electors shall vote for or against the Sioux Falls* constitution. If a ma jority of the votes shall be for the con stitutlon the convention shall resubmit to the people of South Dakota for ratification or re jection the constitution framed at Sioux Falls, and also the articles and propositions separate ly submitted. Including the question of locating the temporary seat of government, and if a majority of the votes cast on the ratification shall be lor the constitution, irrespect ive of the articles separately submitted, All lands granted for school purposes are exempted from entry tmder any of the land laws and can only be soil at public sale at not less than CIO an acre, the proceeds to consti tute a permanent school fund, the interest of which only can be used. Such lands may, how ever, be leased under legislative restrictions. All mineral lands are exempted from tho grants made by the act. The two Dakotas are to be added to Justice Miller's circuit (the Eighth) and Washington and Montana to Justice Field's (the Ninth).] READY FOB THE PRESIDENT'S ACTION. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The House has agreed to the conference report on the Direct-Tax bill. It now goes to the Presi dent. SIGNED BY THE PBE8IDENT. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The President has signed the Nicaraguan Canal bill. HORRIBLE. A Dissolute Lsboror at Upson, Wis., Kills His Wife, Two Children and Himself. ASHLAND, Wi3., Feb. 21.—One of the most atrocious murders and suicides that has been reported for some time occurred at Upson, iu this county. A laborer named Joseph Brogan killed his wife and two children, the latter aged 5 and 7 years respectively, and then committed suicide with a dull razor at 7:30 a. m. Brogan drank heavily and had a heated quarrel with his wife. She protested because he spent all of his earnings foi whisky. The couple quarreled frequently and nothing was thought of it. This morning, when several persons were passing by, the fiend attacked his wife with a razor and nearly severed hei head from the body. Tlie little boys awoke from sleep and were both horribly cut by the raving father. He started for the dooi and cut his own throat, his body falling against and barring the opening of the door. He was about 35 years of age, and had nc particular business. When the neighbors broke in it was a hor rible 6ight The single room of the house was literally covered with blood. The bodies of the victim and murderer were still warm, but all were dead. The affaii has thrown the little village into an uproar. Brogan has wealthy parents living in tin East, who have been telegraphed to. Marks upon the body of the woman ex amined at the inquest show that they had had a struggle before the cutting occurred. Her face looked as if 6he had been strict several times by the villain. The little boys, Hugh and John, were murdered in bed. The murderer was a big man and very dis solute, the wife having had to support tht family. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. labor Commissioner Wriglit Sends Hii Report on the Subject to Congress—In teresting Statistics. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Carroll D. Wright Commissioner of Labor, has submitted tx Congress a special report on mar riages and divorces from 1807 tc 1886. During the twenty years cov ered by the report there was a totai of 328,721 divorces granted in the Unitec States, increasing from 9,937 in 1867 to 23,53? in 1886. Of these 210,738, or 55 percent., were granted to wives, and 111,983 weri granted to husbands. The causes inwhlcli wives are the petitioners more largely than husbands are cruelty, where the wife seek! divorce as 7 to 1 in desertion, where the proportion is overly to 1 in drunk enness, where it is 9 to 1. Desertion wai given as the car.se for 126,557 divorces, and 66,635 were obtained on the ground oi adultery. The commissioner says it is ap parent that the divorces granted for drunk enness- the total being 13,813—can not rep. resent the total number in which drunken ness or intemperance is a serious factor. In the number of divorces during thes« twenty years Illinois takes the lead with 36,. 0S3 Ohio comes next with 26,867 Indiani granted 25,193 Michigan, 18,433 Iowa, 16, £64 Pennsylvania, 16,020 New York, 15,355 Missouri, 15,278 California, 12,118 Texas 11,472, and Kentucky, 10,248. DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. A BEAUTIFUL table-cover is made of cream white corduroy. It is lined with golden yellow sateen and finished all around the edge with gold-colored silk cord. PIES should be well baked, and need an oven at moderate heat, as too rapid baking renders the crust tough, and the fruit is never so file in color or flavor. OLD china needs the greatest care both in washing and drying. Too hot water may crack it. Lukewarm water and soft soap is the best thing for china, and it should also be rinsed in lukewarm water. THE great secret of good boiled salt fish is to freshen it properly before boiling. Some people soak their fish two or three hours and wonder why it is so hard, salt and dry. It should soak at least twelve hours, and longer won't hurt it. AN excellent powder for polishing tin ware can be made of the soft white cinders found in coal ashes. They should be crushed into a fine powder and applied to the clean tin with a flannel. The powder is so fine that it polishes without scratching the tin. IN furnace-heated houses the air often be comes too dry. If cloths are wrung from clean water and hung near tho register, re lief may be obtained. The moisture of rooms should bo such that at a temperature of sixty-live degrees a vessel containing water of fifty degrees brought into the room would receive a deposit of moisture upon it. POT plenty of arborvitae (white cedar) twigs in closets, chests or bags where wool ens or furs are kept. Moths have an aver sion to the odor of cedar, and it is easy in this way to have a substitute for the cedar wood chests once considered so indispensa ble. The twigs may also be placed under the carpets where heavy furniture is to stand. IF the water supply is of a suspicious character, thoroughly boil it before using, and then place it where there is no danger of its becoming infected. If ice is to be used cooling the drinking water, keep it out of the water, only packing it around the water vessel, but not putting ice into the vessel or allowing the melted ice in any way to enter your drinking water, and thus take be chances on its contamination. AMERICAN UK State of South Dakota shall be admltto under said constitution but the archives, records and books of the Territory of Dakota shall remain at Bismarck, the capital of Kort Dakota, until an agreement in reference thereto is reached by said States. But if at the election for delegates a majority of all the votes cast shall be against the Sioux Falls con stitution it shall be the duty of the convention to form a constitution as if that question had not been submitted to the people. It is made the duty of the President to ad-1 mit the four new States by proclamation if the] constitutions formed are ratified at the elec ton to be held on the first Tuesday in October. Each of the new States shall be entitled to one representative in Congress, except South Dakota, which shall be entitled to two repre sentatives. 8ARDINE8. Bow Herring Ar* Mad* to Bosomblotho French Fishes. "Are these the genuine French sar dines?" asked a well-dressed woman of a grocer as she received for inspection an oblong tin box, marked on one side "Sardines a laFrancaise." The grocer looked at her with a slightly surprised air, and replied: "Certainly." "You may send me three boxes then," said she, and, after ordering a few more things, went out. As she passed through the door a reporter, who had been standing by, inquired: "But were they real French sardines, after all?" The grocer tried to appear indignant, but couldn't. Finally he laughed and said: "I guess you know all about it, but what can I say when a lady asks me such a question? I can't explain to her that nine-tenths of the sardines con sumed in the United States come from Maine, for, although they are just as good as the French product, she would not have them, and I should lose her trade. Most of the sardines sold now adays are nothing but small herrings, put up in boxes with gaudy labels and French inscriptions. In East port there are nineteen places where they turn out sardines, besides three at Lubec, two at Jonesport and one each at Millbridge, Lamoine and Robbins ton. When it was first attempted to make sardines from herrings it was found that the difficulty lay in eradicat ing the herring flavor. It took years of experiment to accomplish this. Fi nally a manufacturer succeeded in pro ducing a combination of oil and spices which removed the trouble. The her rings used in making sardines are about 4 inches long, and can be bought of the Maine and New Brunswick fishermen, when plenty, for about $5 a hogshead, although when scarce they bring as high as $15 a hogshead. The fish are caught in huge nets set along the shori After capture they are taken immediately to the factory, and laid in heaps upon long tables, where they are decapitated and cleaned by children, whose dexterity is marvel ous. On the average each child dresses seventy-five fish a minute. The pay is 10c. for a box holfling about a bushel. Some of the children make as much as $1.50 per day. After being washed, the fish are pickled for half an hour, and are then laid upon trays and placed in a large drying-room, heated by steam. When dry they are thrown into large shallow pans of boiling oil and thoroughly cooked.. They are packed in boxes by women and girls, and into each box is poured some of the patent mixture of oil and spices. Covers are fitted on the boxes and sealed by men. The boxes are next placed in boiling watefr for half an hour, and are then removed and put on an incline plane, so that the enclosed hot air rushes to one* corner oi the box. This corner is punctured with an awl, and the air escapes the box then being made air-tight again by a drop of solder. The boxes are ornamented with attractive French labels, stating that the enclosed are "Sardines a la Francaise." Some are labeled in addi tion, "a Phuile d'olive!" The oil gen erally used is cotton seed. Olivo oil is, however, used for the quality marked prime. "Almost the entire product of these factories are shipped to New York, whence it goes to retailers all over the country. One of the Lubec houses pre pares about 4,500 boxes per day. The 'profit made by the packers is from 4c to 6c a box." "How do you happen to bo so well informed on the subject?" was asked. 'Well, I hail from Eastport myself," said the grocer, "and as a boy I used to work in a sardine factory."—N. Y. Evening Post. THE household of the Erejsce" of China is to consist of five hundred persons*, izc!ud ing thirty fan-bearers, thirty umbrella bearers, thirty physicians and surgeons, seventy-five astrologers, seven chief cooks and sixty priests. Mardi-Graa—New Orleans antl Mobile. Feb. 25 to March 8 the Monon Route will sell tickets to New Orleans and return at (25.00, and to Mobile and return at 123.00, which will be good returning until March 23. It is the favorite tourist route via Mam moth Cave, runniug coaches and Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars from Chicago to Louis ville or Cincinnati without change, and is eight hours quicker than any other. Day light ride through Nashville, Decatur, Birmingham and Montgomery. Fast train leaves Chicago (Dearborn Station) 8:05 and 8:2Q and 11:40 p. m. daily. For further in formation address City Ticket Office, 73 Clark Street, or E. O. 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Tn Empress Frederick has collected twenty-four thousand newspaper obituaries vf her husband. THB late Emperor William is credited ivith having saved $13,000,000 out.of his pub lic allowance. PBINCB BISXABOK speaks French with ease, but detests every other German who parades the same accomplishment. Tn Empress of China has ordered that Shakespeare shall be translated into Chinese for the benefit of the "Son of Heaven." Tn* Duchess of Rutland, who meWf pretty penny by writing for gives all her earnings to one of the London hospitals. PRINCESS CHRISTIAN is generous to the poor of Windsor. Twice a week during the winter months she provides dinners for them at the town hail. THB decorations of the late Emperor Will iam fill a large rosewood chest, which con tains ten velvet-lined drawers and thirty two large cases. THE German Empress, says the London Star, is a perfectly colorless character, who has no opinions of her own, and she is completely under the domination of her hus- I E COUGH 25 CTS.^A. 1 tiHSPAiseswaew who UBRARF 'BIGTIONAQIM ITSELF 3000 more Words nnd nearly 2000 more Illus trations than any other American Dictionary. An Invaluable Companion in every School and at every Fireside. Sold by all Booksellers. Illustrated Pamphlet sent G. & C. MERRIAM CO., Pnb'rs, Springfield, Mass. MOTHERS' FBIEWn MAKES CHILD BIRTH JASY IP USBD BIFOM COWFINBMBNT. BOOK TO "MOTHERS'' MAILKDGIFBBS. SXISMUT BEACLATOS EE* ATLAXTA, SA 8QU AIX DBUEAM* MIrJJjJiuEj March April May Are tin best months in which to purify your blood, for at no other season does the system so much need tho aid of a reliable medicine like Hood's SarsapariUa, as now. During the long, cold winter, the blood becomes thin and impure, the body be comes weak and tired, the appetite may be lost. Hood's SarsapariUa is peculiarly adapted to purify and enrieb the blood, to create a good appetite and to overcome that tired feeling Hood's SarsapariUa "Every spring lor years have made it a practice to take from three to five bottles of Hood's Sarsa parilla, because I know it puriSes the blood and thoroughly cleanses the system of all impurities That languid feeling, sometimes called 'spring fever,' wiU never visit the system that has been properly cared for by this never-failing remedy." W. H. liAWREXCE, Editor Agricultural Epitomist, Indianapolis, Ind. The Best Spring Medicine "I have taken three bottles of Hood's Sarsapa riUa and consider it the best blood medicine 1 have ever taken. It builds me up, makes me sleep bet ter, tcives me a good appetite and improves my health generally." Mtts. A. 1\ LEIGUTON', Port land, Me. Hood's SarsapariUa Sold by all druggists, tl six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 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