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LAFAYETTE GAZETTE. DLM*E I. LAFAYETTE, LA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1893. NUMBER 35. • ~ ~ ~ ~ . . . ulnu nun. nn .. IuIn nn unm mna n nnn|n u nnum uua nnuu A WOMAN'S .PPO - Just where it is one never knows. Beneath the folds It never shows; Above, below, before, behind, A puzzle to the human mind! Man never knows his helplessness - Until he tries in woman's dross To An4 the pocket. 'Twas sooner found in early days Before they had the polonaise! Dressmakers now are sore perplexed To know just where to hide it next! In these hard-times of eganty purse TsINerd to find the dress-But worse To find the pocket. A fact by husbands too well known, She finds his pocket; while her own Is so concealed about her dress It long since oolost its usefulness. She hears her purse now in her hand Beeus8e.nevei n command -lI4t iden pocket. lie's new so matrlmonial cares Who voluntdirs to run upstairs sAmd fetch a trifle, more or less, `His bride left in some other dress! Believe me, nature ne'er designed That.mortal man should ever find - A woman's pocket. Hte opens. de the closet door; Each hook so full of robes galore, That ere be finds the proper gown Each dress in turn has tumbled down. Into the placket hole at back Ilo thrusts his arm; alas! alacn 'Tis not the pocket. Nto drags itout in his despair And spreads it o'er an easy-chair BHe lifts up each tuck and fold and seam, Walks round and round as in a dream; He's much too good a man to swear, Att undevoutly wonders where S' he keeps that pocket. Hio grabs it up, and rushing down Upon her lap tosses the gown. "In truth you are 'the better half' if you can find-why do you laugh?" t "I laugh because you've brought me here A petticoat, my hubby dear, To find the pocket." -Berkshire Courier. [CLopyrightJýl83,by " " the Author.] s SI / " HE Grant fam- d - _ ily had rented 6 a furnished a i cottage for the ce Sj) season at a Sfashionable rc- ft sort, and were included in the list of guests invited to the hops at the neighboring hotels. One morning at ir breakfast they discussed the last invi tation with their father, who was a rather opposed to what he called tc "mixed gatherings." However, Mrs. Grant had provided her daughters with evening dresses. had remembered how she had loved dancing in her youth. She would chaperone them and be very cautious about introductions. So their father reluctantly ebnsented to their going, and their dresses next absorbed them. T'he night was perfect, and the ball room at the Tremont presented a charming scene when they entered it. The girls soon discovered friends in the many groups, and their cards rap idly filled. Both became interested in a tall, slight young man, who wore a badge and seemed quite ubiquitous, managing everything and everybody. "He dances beautifully," said Belle Grant to her partner, who was de cidedly awkward. Ill " No wonder. He has lots of prac tice," said Mr. Felter. " le really a starts all these festivities for the sake su of having a dance. Can't I present him? lie is really charming, talks as well as he dances, and sings exquis itely." Li Lillian Grant laughed at her own partner's seriousness, but just then the good dancer approached them. Felter or presented him, and he chatted easily about the success of the evening, Ile do was on the floor committee, and was att apparently overwhelmed with affairs; in; but he managed to put his name on (Ie each sister's card, and they agreed an afterward that his was the best dance of the night. They described him to Be their mother, wondered if they would fin meet him soon again, and really spent wi a great deal of time thinking and talk ing of his many attractions. fol Several days afterward the coal sup- fid ply gave out and Mr. Grant wrote on a postal card an order for several tons and dropped it in the box at the post thi office. That afternoon the girls were seated on the porch, sewing for a fair to be ob] held at a neighboring house, when they sul noticed a large wagon entering the urc drive. It was filled with coal and sui drawn by spirited horses. Their driver all idropping her work in amazement "1Vhat does he mean?" ned thinks that the proper thing," said er the work is done here"t "The man had driven close to a cellar h was shoveling the coal into it with a quiae intieresting, while the rattling wa . was thatedea. )He wore blue tar .- .e -,- had -..ven :- ose _. a t overalls, and his hat shaded his fea. tures; but as he drove away the sisters stared at each other incredulously. "Why, that's Mr. Gordon!" cried Belle. "I really believe it is!" said Lillian. "What on earth is he?" "Why, a coal-man, of coarse." "Will you tell father?" s "Indeed, I will not! He'll. say it e serves us right, going to public balls t and meeting all sorts and conditions of e men. We'll simply have to cut him." t "Such a dancer, too! I never had h such a waltz!" "What could have possessed Mr. Fel- t ter to introduce him?" c "Spirit of American equality, no a doubt. Whenever we see a coal-cart. c: we'll have to avoid it!" "Dear me, he'll be back with another ft ton as soon as possible." 81 "NVell, he'll not see me!" Lillian uv sprang to her feet, seized her work and ti disappeared. Belle remained in her low le chair and calmly put in her stitches. s8 "Pshaw!" she reflected. "We must ci be mistaken. It is a strange likeness, tI nothing more." p She was absorbed in a rosebud when B the mingled sounds of a child scream- re ing and horses wildly prancing startled to her. The scene made her heart throb et wildly. Her small brother, a mischiev- oi ous elf of six years, had fallen in front in of the coming coal-cart, and its driver pi was pulling back the frightened strug- ht gling animals. The terrified child did ti not move. Belle recovered her senses, qi ran down the steps, and picked up the of little man, setting him on his feet in rli the lawn grass. tii "Bravo! Miss Grant!" cried a familiar he voice, and she raised her eyes to meet hi Gordon's. "That was a close calll The w' yodlgster isn't hurt?" a "Oh! no, thanks to you, Mr. Gordon." co "Keep him in the house till I get .m, through here. lie started the horses I1 with-his pranks." th "You're not a bit nice, Fred." She pl shook her head at the little culprit, pi huggedhimand led him into the house. an The whole family had assembled, and m, Lillian, in her agitation, forgot her so prudence. on y "It is Mr. Gordon, Belle. I heardhim St speaking to you." fo, "Mr. Gordon?" cried Mrs. Grant. "] ai n- didn't see Mr. Gordon." "Well, you can see him now," said he d Belle, courteously. "He's putting the mI te coal in." a "Oh, I thought you meant the young 5a] C- fellow that you met at the hop." e "S I do, mother. lie's a coal-man." 1e "Nonsense!" "e "And he kept the horses from crush- ad it ing Fred's little body." co' i "'What are you all talking about?' los IS asked Mr. Grant. So they all explaineci he' d together. arc "'So you've been waltzing about with an, d the d A me a s c - frit on t nine rtanosrvd hut he t i in h goth TE LCART. COn V a coal-man. Haven't I told you the re e sult of these mixed gatherings?" Tli t "But he waltzes so well," said Belle. see S "Hle puts in coal very wiell, too." to "Mr. Felter introduced him," cried tioh Lillian. "Have it out with him." wai l "1I intend to."' age "If lie is a specimen coal-man, the ani E order is very nice," said Belle. 'Th ' That evening the girls met Mr. Gor- by don at a dinner party, and observed the cin attention and interest that le com nandled lwhen conversing. It was evi dent that hlie had traveled extensively, A and had met ivth strange adventures. to "iHe is quite a mysterious aperson, first opportunity. "I'apa is quite irate gais with you." of V They were partners in the dance that surr followed the dinner and could talk con- five fidentially. all n "Horow so?" and "Why, your friend came to our house wvea this morning and put in coal." ily : Felter laughed out. give "Oh! he is very independent. lie is of obliged to live in the open air-the re- basi sult of over-study. He combines pleas- , ure with profit, and as- this climate is a suits him, he sells coal and, stays here the all the year round. However, lie is tent rapidly recovering, and no doubt will Red resume his profession very soon. Sam o Gordon is a brilliant scholar, and a gen- Plan tleman." Cost "And a dancer." (;ilnl "I see fhim coming this way.y" Haul "Yes, I promised him this waltz." Irl eA Piece tof Lanol Too Is orth on the Strand, in London, 1 1 $27,500 for twelve-foot frontage, or not half quite $2,800 a foot. pout On the corner of Fifth avenue and POu Fifty-seventh street, $,000 a front foot doellr -perhaps more now: that's what Hunt- and ington paid wonner. five On lower Broadway, in corner plots, Rark *15,000 to $20,000 per front foot. Corner of WZp1 and Broad streets A can't be had a any price. ferti On Long Island, far from railroads, This 15 per acre. comi On government land eighty acres for inst nothing. tilize In most of the South American re- Incre publics a big farm for nothing and a due' bounty for settling on it. -Philadel- are a phia Record. conl' -Uncle Jack returns from a long Invet walk, and, being somewhat thirsty, tre drinks from a tumbler he finds on the table. Enters his little niece, Alice, clovr who instantly sets up a cry of despair. Uncle Jack - "What's the matterlong IAllie?" Alice (weeping) - "You've hi 1ll crinked up my aquarium, anul you've swallowed my free pollywogs."--Hnar- evctrs vard Lasspoon. FARMER AND PLANTER e HEDGES IN THE SOUTH. How to Grow Quitekly a Well-Wigh Per fect Hedge. A well-nigh perfect hedge can be quickly grown, and with but little skill, pains or labor, on nearly any sort it of soil in the cotton latitude, by put Ils ting out alternately plants of the pyra of cantha and Macartney rose. Either of these alone makes a very good hedge ad here; but the former does not hug the ground quite close enough, and the Int i1- ter is rather too sprawling unless spe cial attention is given !to pruning o0 and training. They, however, pre 't. cisely supplement tone another when planted alternately, say a er foot apart, the pyraeantha giving a sturdy support to the Macartney, In which compactly fills all the gaps that id the pyracantha growing alone would W leave. The rose is a little liable to spread unduly by self-layering, but st can be kept in bounds without much s, trouble. Pruning for any other pur pose is scarcely ever required, if at all. 'n Both of the above-named plants grow n- readily from cuttings, though it is bet d ter to plant either rooted lay b ers from an old hedge, or t' one - year rooted plants started it in nursery. Of course, good ,r preparation of the ground for the P hedgerow is advisable, and some cul- 1 *d tivation and manuring will he re 4 quired, but less than in the case of any 'E of the other hedge 'plants. Perhaps a. a rhinoceros might attempt a second time to go through a well-established Jr hedge of the sort mentioned, but I t hardly think thin h ayting would. liut e while I would never think of growing a hedge of any other kind, it is with 1 considerable reservation that I recom t mended even this style of hedge fence. 3 I have a great deal of it on my place that I am making no use of, sim c ply because, owing to change in my ' plans, it is where I now do not want any fence. And a useless hedge is not c I merely useless, but is, for obvious rea r sons, considerable of a nuisance, and one that is not readily gotten rid of. Still. for a fence along a public road. 1 for the inclosing of a large body of I land, and especially for protecting an c orchard against marauders, a good f hedge may, upon the whole, be in p many instances the best fence to have. --.1. W. .Matthewvs, Arkansas, it Ameri 'san Gardening. The Cow Lost Her Cud. ib A few days ago a neighbor asked nmy t advice as to the treatment of a favorite a cow, which he said was sick and "-had p lost her cud." When asked to describe a her symptoms he said she lay moping ti around with her nose on the ground a and did not chew her cud. I suggested p the administration of a pint of raw lin- t seed oil, or if that was not at hand. ti melted lard, as it was most probably ;a case of indigestion. IBut, he said. "she o had lost her cud, and she must get an- a other before she can get well." I agreed u with him. "Then." he inquired. "'how b can I malke her a cud and get it into sc her?" It then dawned upon me that my S friend considered the cud a part of. the tl cow's anatomy or working machinery, vi and it took some time to persuade it him that such is not the case. Finally et he went home, acted on my advice, and it in a few hours found that the cow had w got another cud. For the benefit of others I may state that "a cud" is a portion of food that has been swal- tl lowed and deposited in the first stom ach. When the animal is resting it e1 conveys this partially masticated food backc to the mouth in small wads. t Tius is called ",the cud" and can be seen travelinig up and down the gullet li to and from the mouth. When the ac tion of the Mtomach is sunsended from c wantof food or indigestion., this pass- a age of the cud is interrupted, and the animal is said to have "lost its cud." The trouble can generally be remedied by giving fffid or a little simple medi- rc cine.-l)rovers' Journal. gc pl An Experiment in Cotton. ai A farmer should know wvhat it. costs tr to make a crop and then he should w know how much it, is worth. and lal- th ance accounts, and if lie finds he has bl gained he should still pursue his course pr of work; but if he has lost, lie should Fl surely change his plans. I am fifty five years old and have been farming all my life except four years of war. and 1 have been successful, not as to it wealth, but I have raised a large famin- ii ily and have made a fair living. 1 will give you a detail of the real experience of making one acre of cotton on the basis of a whole farm, and on the or- no dinary plan of farming, as I see there an is a wide' difference of opinion as to n the cost of making cotton. HIere it is: Rent of land .................... ......$ 30, y BedPlan with three furrow.. ... Re-ked with three furrows ................ . fl Pole oi.. ... an unltiva te ................... ... 0 tO Pittim .p.. .. th. . ...arketi. . ................. . as Total expense............................15 o set I base theu handling of cotton on a half bale per acre. If you sell 250 fom pounds of cotton at five cents per in1 pound, and the seed at a basis of nine pre dollars per ton, you will have $14.7'. sto and yon see we can not make cotton at to five cents.--.. I. Jordan, in Farm and IRadlch. Nitrogen and Nitrogen-Gatherers. Crc A few words in regard to nitrogen in ca fertilizers will not be out of place. grc This is the most costly constituent of pre commercial fertilizers; and, in many by instances, the increased cost of the fer tilizer will balance or even exceed the hem increase in the proceeds from the crop, in due to the nitrogen. Fortunately, we an are not obliged to rely entirely upon co commercial fertilizers for our supplyof ye nitrogen to enrich our soils. Recent gr investigations have proved that cr tihe class of plants called "legu- wv minous plants," to which the clovers, peas, beans, etc., be- ma long, have the power of deriving from one the air a part of the nitrogen required far in the'r growth. For this reason thevy lie are sometimes called "nitrogen-gatlt- vat ercras." 'This fact helps to explain why die R clover fs'so valuable in restoring and enriching poor soils. If we fertilize our crop of clover liberally with potash and moderately with phosiha tes we have there the means of enriching our. er soil in all these "essential ingredients" be of fertilizers. Thisis a very important tie principle in the use of fertilizers, and art is in accordance with the long-estab ut- lished practice.--Bulletin No. 4( Ky. ra- Ex. station. Of I Farming for a Living. ge Secretary Morton reminds the croak he ers that only about 3 per cent. of all nt- the merchants escape failure, ~vhereas pe- hardly 3 per cent. of the farmers fail. ng The statistics really show that agri re- culture is'safer than banking, manu mer facturing or railroading. taking all a things into account. There is no farmer a of good sense and good health any sy, where in the west, Mr. Morton declares, ,at who can not make a good living for ild himself and family, and that is to as well as the majority of men 'ut are doing in any other pursuit. The ch man who owns a farm and sticks to it ir- is certain to profit by it in the future. 11. There is practically no more land to be ow added to the area of cultivation. The !t- supply of agricultural products has y- reached its limit in the United States, or and must now remain stationary, while ed the demand will go on increasing every ad year. This implies a gradual imaprove lie ment in prices, and 'a steady apprecia ,l- tion of the value of farming lands. .e- Farmers' l[omle Journal. 1I Sheep as Debt Payers. V When I first commenced farming on id my own account I went heavily in dibt --34,000---for a farm. I had about thirty sheep. I took eighty more for Lt two years. giving one pound of wool ig per.head antd returning the same nuin bh ber at the expiration of the lease. The n- sheep were fair-grade AMerinos, yield C. ing about five pounds wool per head. 3C I bought a high-priced ram each n- of the two years. I raised about 13' one hundred lambs. When they were 1 it sheared they gave me an average of t over seven pounds of wool per head,the next cross gave inc between eight and nine pounds per head. At the end of f. six years I had my farm paid for and . had a flock of sheep that could carry f off the lion's share of the prizes at our n county fair. It was in 1862 when I d first commencncd.-Allegheny County, n N.Y. Streaks in Butter. Streaks in butter are often seen, even t after unusunl care in the cream has been taken and preparation of the biut y ter itself, which mistify and discour e age the butter makers, whose efforts to t d produce a superior artical are earnest e anl sincere, says an exchange. The g trouble arises from the dissolving salt, d after the butter has been printed andi d packed, and may he revived by a second t- working over, six or eight hours afte! I. the salt has been introduced. To thos Im a who have not tried it the amnoun n e of water expeled from the butter, thai ,- appeared perfectly dry at the fir:d4. l working, will be a surprise. and th s v butter will present a uniforum color an.I n solid appearance not befr.re :appareit., y Salting with brine in the churn, while e the butter is in the granular form, ob viates the difficulty in some degree. but e it is not possible to avoid the streaky v condition altogether by hurried pack 1 ing and dispensing with the second I working.-- airy WVorld. Itailing Chlestuats for Food. At the suggestion of the national au. thorities, who believe that. chestnuts r can be profitably raised as an article i, ] of food. several farmers of ;lerkcs coun-t cultivatitn of the fruit. One farmer ti has thirty acres in almost hearing con- a dition. and he believes they will he- o come as popular in a few years as an r article of diet as either wheat or corn. S-1Phi;adel phia Tinmes. lRoaster Pigs for Profit. t It is often the ease that pigs fit for o0 roasting. especially when there is a w good demand for them, clear more b profit to the own:er than they will at any later period. This is especially in true of fall pigs which are hard to st I winter without stunting them. Crowd 11i the pigs for roasters all that is possi- vI ble. The better they are the larger price they will bring per pound.- i l"armters' Ilome Journal. ri HERE AND THERE. V so -The sooner cotton is gathered a.fter it opens the better the staple, and the " higher the price. Therefore when am boll opens. go out and get it. in -Sheep intended for mutton should tl not he permitted to "take their ul chances." hIush them from the first, t and market early. th -No farmer should neglect to sow th rye, oats or barley for hog pasture. tn less lie be one who has no hogs. Then ip and in that case he should rquit farming ti and take up politics. r -The farmer vwho closely calculates de the least amount of feed he can get his iv stock through the winter with, on a fo tight squeeze. will himself be squeezed m as tightly as his stock when thle final c settlement is made. ]li -DIistemper is prevailing among foals in many sections. When suffer- th ing from it care should be taken to an prevent exposure to showers and rain a storms. A little neglect is pretty sure fri to prove expensive economy. be --Hleavy fertilizing operates in two ca ways to defeat drought: it hIirrit's the I crop to matturity before thie droughlt tir can do its work, and it causes a heavy mi growth that shades the ground and in prevents to some extent 'evaporation tel by heat. it. -If rotation is good for politicalthi health, it is eqlually necessary in farm- tht ing. for the prosperity of the farmer w and the stability of the farm. When som cotton has cumbered thq ground for a an year, "turn the rascal out" and try Ste grain there and similarly with the oth er crops. Let rotation be the vwatch word. --A large majority of farmers can Io make more on a fifty-acre farm than one containing the traditional 200. No rei farmner should pay taxes on land that hle hhs no use for, nor attempt to cillti rate mnore than lie can thoroughly lhalt die in the most unfavorable sonditiona. ad HREADERS AND NON-READERS. ze SBright People of the World Who Have Very Little Book-Knowledge. ve Certainly there are plenty of people, I' men and women, who are exceedingly ', intelligent, and this not in any limited lt direction, who never read, who know s nothing about books, and who could not gain from them any appreciable " addition to their brightness. They have thought, and they can talk. They observe, as a rule, much more closely Ic- than the readers, who are apt either to i11 be preoccupied, or to be mentally "dis as sipated"-there is no other word-and ii. think, when they think, in a more ri- original way, or rather, as that word u- has now a conventional meaning, in 111 a way which is less obscured by the er influence of "'the common-sense of ' v- most." 1 as, Their thoughts, poor or perfect, are ,r at least their own, and are strong " is thoughts. They lack width usually, un though not always; for intercourse ' re with readers has much of the effect of ! it reading; but they have a certain di e. rectness and tenacity as to the point )e at issue. They are apt, too, to have 1e humor, the incongruities of things is striking them even more than they s, strike readers-how much had Burns I le read?-and humor of the peculiar kind t 'y which we define rather indefinitely by e- the word "raciness," thati flavor, thel a- trace of the onion which n imates the I - salad. In talking, it is said, they are deficient; but that is often only be cause they are in presence of f n persons whose knowledge of books I t they dread, or because they be- c it long to the classes or racesl - for there are both-to whom the 1 privilege of talking easily has not been . given. There are women among us I e who never read, and talk excellently i well-there were scores of them in t L France just before the revolution-and q h then who talk as only chiefs of profes- t it sions can, but who have never seen a a book since they were at college. In- f deed, we believe that if the literary s would inquire, they would be rather d d startled at the number of the latter. c I There are not only the scores of able men ii d who have no time for reading, but other I y scores in every profession to whom r reading is very like an impossibility. fI They can not do it any more than a o reading man can get through "Sis; b mondi" or "The WVanderer." ci There is a literary'assumption current; a now indeed crystalizing into an axioms S n that all able men with the time can. read books, and that if they do not, it is the fault of the newspapers, & the o novels, or congenital perversity; but d t the assumption is totally unfounded. r, Numbers of men of keen intelligence b Ssimply can not read, and never open a p book, and neither suffer for the defi- w ciency nor find it suspected by the world. There was plenty of intelli- ft gence before printing and before man- hi uscripts became accessible to any but at the wealthy. In Asia, outside theolo- m Sgy, all ability is independent of book- w knowledge; and the statesmen who a, never read are infinitely more intelli- al gent that the liaboos who kill their ti original thieking-power by studying M the books of a foreign people.-London fo Spectator. ` LOYAL MOORS. r Belief in the ,"Divine Ri]ghto of the Sutltan or Morocco. "I am the caliph of the Lord: I am ri the captain and commander of the TI Faithful,the chosen one of the Plrophet: ri I am the King of kings: I am a Prince a in paradise: then obey me without a se murmur, as my camels do." hi This is the magnificent pretension of sh the sultan of Morocco, and it is gener- tl ally allowed. It is refreshing to find a be country where not only has the divine at right never been contested, but where m as yet it has not even been questioned. w Now and again a pretender to the or throne has turned up. and the annals A: of Morocco are red with stories of civil wars. But the pretender has never been a revolutionist: he has always based his contention upon having a more divine right, and the alleged pos session of a more generous and directt flow of the blood of the prophet in his veins. no The loyalty of the people toward the monarch partakes of the nature of ado- Ao ration. When the battle is fought and of won, and the soldiers who have fallen sorely wounded are brought off the an field and placed in a circle around the le white pavilion in which the mysterious loi monarch leves, as unapproachable and invisible in his camp as in his court., k then, it is said. the dread sultan walks of up and down among them, smniling with silent pity upon their agony; and an they, the poor ignorant Kabyle:; of the valleys, and the nomad horsemen from dry the desert, cry out until the cries give as place to the rattle of death. "Allah eel ibarLk amer Seedna" ("God prolong the frc lays of our Lord"). And this too is the po cry of the malefactor as hlie goes toward death or mutilation, and these are the o words of the disgracedvizir who, when for purposes of political necessity he vi must disappear or be effaced, takes the or cup of poisoned tea from the hands of pri his gracious sultan. the The mantle of the Prophet of MIedina bri that he wears must indeed be broad an and ample, for it iscalled upon to cover i a multitude of sins-that is, viewed i-l from our standpoint-but the Moors believe that, try as hlie may, thie sultan can do no wrong. lie is like the saint J I saw in Tangier who spends his entire voa time in drinking gin and whisky. One wa might think that this saint was drink- wa ing an undue quantity of strong wa- bri ters, but such is not the case: at least fel it has never appeared to the MIoors in ful this light, for he is such a holy man, ih they say, that the moment the strong th waters came in contact with his per- the son they lose all their fiery qualities, fri and become innocent mare's milk.--- ma Stephen Bonsai, in Century. mi Ready for HIs Name, mu "Who is this coming?" asked thle mi hotel clerk. is t "That's another East Indian prince," tro replied the porter. bri "Front!" suf "Yes, sir." to "Bring in the double-width register." vom -Washington Star. ing D. DOMESTIC CONCERNS. --Sauce for Fish: Scrape fine the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, add pep per, salt, mustard, three tablespoonfuls each of salad oil and of vinegar and one of tomato catsup.-Housekceper. d -Chicken Mince Pie: Chop meat fine Sfrom boiled fowl. Put layer in dish, cover with sliced chicken liver. Add rest of fowl, with butter and seasoning, v then rich broth and crust, and bake. ,G°ood housekeeping. -Potatoes and Egg: Put alump of butter into a frying-pan; when it boils, brown in it a finely chopped small d onion. Cut some cold boiled potatoes a into slices, put them into the pan, pour e over them the well-beaten yolks of two f eggs, add pepper and salt; fry a golden brown on both sides.-N. Y. Times. c -Chopped Tomato Pickle: Add to eight poundsof chopped green tomatoes. well drained, a scant half teacupful of e salt and four pounds of brown sugar. ,f Let this boil two hours, then add a quart of vinegar, half a tablespoonful t of ground cloves, and one of ground a cinnamon. loil fifteen minutes, and s can.-Farm, Field and Fireside. -Preserved Greengages: Allow one s pound of sugar and a teacup of water , to each pound of fruit, halved and . stoned. Boil the syrup ten minutes be a fore putting the plums in, skim, and r then boil all together till tender. Take e from fire, and let stand overnight. The next day boil up again, adding a f few of the blanched kernels taken from the stones. Pack the fruit in - cans, pour over the syrup, and seal. Harper's Bazar. -Fried Cucumbers: Cucum rs' ar t good in any form, but they are.par ieu i larly delicious prepared in the folTow - ing manner. Pare and cut the cucem bers lengthwise in sflces about one I quarter of an inch thick. Cut off the tough white part on the outside pieces, and soak in eoleywatcr, slightly salted, for one hour. Wipe dry, sprinkle each slice with a little salt and pepper, dust with flour and roll in sifted bread crumbs, or dip in beaten egg and then in crumbs. Fry in hot butter.--loston Budret. -Household News gives this recipe for French Crullers: Put a half pint of water and two ounces of flour on to boll. When bdtling add hastily one cnp, oi1 fou, ounces, of flour. heat a mo int. until like smooth dough. Stand aside to cool. When cool add hree eggs, one at a time, unbeaten, eating'each time until the egg.is thor oughly blended. Roll out, cut same as 1 doughnuts, and fry in smoking-hot fat; roll thin, using as littld flour as possi- E ble. As soon as fried, roll each in powdered sugar. These are delicious c when fresh. I -Allemande: Melt a good tablespoon- S ful of butter with one of flour and add f half a pint of white stock, salt, pepper, 5 and a dash of grated lemon peel; sim- c mer for ten minutes and stir mean while: add a half pint of milk or cream a and the yolk of one egg. Do not boil s after the egg has been added. Finish a the seasoning with a little lemon juice. y Many cOols use the yolks of three eggs for this quantity, but it is rich enough d with one. The broth can be made u from the merest trifle of chicken or veal bones or trimmings.-Country 3 Gentlemlan. t -Cucumbers Stuffed: The large, V ripe cucunmbers need not go to waste. e They make most delicious dishes if ti rightly cooked. Peel two or mor e, cut I a slit in one side and scoop out the t4 seeds with a small spoon, fill with any I kind of bread or meat stuffing and tie shut. Line a saucepan with slices of it thin bacon and beef, lay on the encum- e] hers, cover with more meat and bacon b and then with stock or water and sim- IN mer an hour or until all are tender. If l1 water is used add two young carrots, 31 one turnip, an onion and soup herbs.- d American Agricultun li.st. g FROCKS FOR SMALL GIRLS. tl Everything Rather MNonotonous Now, But Simplicity Prevails. Fashions for lmarger children follow ' the wake of their elders. and there is ( noticeable the samen dearth of origin- t ality at the present time. both in ward- fr robes large and wa-rdrobes small. Among the prettiest things is a revival P of the English fashion of low-cut necks . and short sleeves. It is said to be more heathful and is certainly very sweet to A look upon. Biesides, so little variation is required, as a short waist and a full skirt comprise the entire frock. The o° little English dress in the illustrations t of to-day has a draped effect in front it and a liertha of lace drawn in with fr baby ribbon at the neck. The empire Pi dress, which is going out of style just tc as everybody knows how to make it, is of certainly very pretty for little girls in from three to six years of age. Cre- ly ponette is nice material to use, with :L bt bow of wide ribbon at the back of the sli yolke and ends falling to the hem. to More becoming yet are the round- m waisted frocks trimmedt with a bertha or draped revers and a long sash. A st pretty dress for a girl of twelve or thereabouts is of mauve spotted cam- N bric trimmed with narrow white braid fr and ra full vest of white nainnook hi tucked very tinely at the neck and fin- in isihed with straps and bows of ribbon. m -Chicago Post. (iiling Pleat ute. jo A little thought wtill show how vastly fo your own happiness depends oi the way other people bear themnselves to- tith ward you. The looks and tones at your brealkfast table, the conduct of your b, follow-workers or employes, the faith ful or unreliable men you deal with, of what people say to you on the street, the wa-y y-our cook and housemaid do si their work, the letters you get, the friends or foes you meet-these things m. make up very much of the pleasure or misery of the day. Turn the idea of around, and remember that just so at much are you adding to the pleasure or a misery of other people's days. And this is the half of the matter you can con- bc trol. Whether any particular day shall I bring to you more of happiness or of m: suffering is largely beyond your power j tb to determlnlue. WVhether each day of iwm your life shall glive happiness or suffer-r ing rests with yourselL--1h. Y. Weekiy. g PI -Whe H AND POINT. S -Vhen the goat tackled the ear _ oet -. dynamite, you ought to have seen th la butter fly. id -Every time a wise man make. a mistake it teaches him something. le Ram's Horn. t, --Do not put off upon others advice Ld that you are unable to keep for your , own use.---Galveston News. --The individual who does things ac cording to his own sweet will generally >f has a very sour won't.-Puck. s, -The great difficulty about common 11 sense is that it is so tremendqusly as scarce that it isn't common.-Texas ir Siftings. 'o -"If I should ask you to lend me n five pounds, what would happen?" Prospective Victim (tersely)-"O, noth o ing."-Tit-Bits. 4. --Man generally falls because he is >f an egotistical fool; and the woman who r. falls is the one that hasbelieved in him. a -Rest Islander. ii -Perpetual pushing and assurance d put a diiliculty out of countenance,and d make a seeming impossibility give way.-Jeremy Collier. e -Ile (from New York)-"Vas it you r I heard singing 'After the Ball' this d evening?" She (from Philadelphia) "After what ball?"-Life. d -"There's a curious state of things C in our church choir." "W~hat is it?" t' "The members are all at peace with a each other."-N. Y. Press. a -"'Brown has the job he was after plenty of light work." "\Vhat's he do 'ag?" "Attending motors at the elec tric plant."-Atlanta Constitution. -"''ow, Walter, -swhat did you say to Mr. Blenton for the nice peaches he sent you?" WValter-"I said I wish he'd send free stones next time."-lnter Ocean. --You can't always tell by listening to a man while he prays at Friday evening meeting just what he will do in a horse trade Saturday afternoon. Somerville Journal. -The Debutante (aside)-"How many verses shall I sing?" The Pro tessor-"Do you want an encore?" The Debutante-"Of course." The P;ofes sor-"One."-Boston Budget. -Very Appropriate.-WVillie-"You say you presented Squib, the humorist, with a cane?" Iill--"Yes." Will What kind of wood was it made of?" Bill-"Chestnut."-Yankee Blade. -Double-Leaded- 'You're a nice type of a man." said Jones, as he plugged the burglar with a couple of balls. "Double-leaded type," said the expiring thug.-Arkansas Traveler. -Mistaken Kindness.-Jack-" Hello, old man! Awfully glad to see you. Here, take off that coat and put on this smoking-jacket and mnake yourself com fortable." Dick-"Deuce take it! Do you mean to insinuate that I don't feel comfortable in a dress suit?"-Truth. -=Mandy-"Here, .Josiah, is a drug store; now let us go in an' get them souvenir spoons we've read so much about." Josiah-="Gracious. Mandy, you won't find 'em here, will you?" Mandy--'"Josiah. I know what I'm a doin'; didn't I see in a paper that they was a drug in the market?" -Artless Tommy. - Tommy-"Say, Mr. Yabsley, sister Laura said at the table this morning that she thought you had the prettiest mustache she ever saw." Yabsley--"You oughtn't to tell things you hear at the table, Tommy." Tommy-"But she is going to give me a dime for telling you." Indianapolis .Journal. -The Fizzletop children were play ing with their toys. "Johnny, you are spoiling the whole game. You are the biggest donkey I ever saw," said little -Mamie. Colonel Fizzletop (reproving ly)--"\Vhv Mamic, I am surprised." IMamie (indignantly)-"WVhy, pa, I didn't mean you. You ain't the big gest donkey I ever saw:" -Lawyerm-"And now please state the remainder g the conversation be tween you and the defendant " Wit ness-"I do not remember it, sir." The substance of it escapes me." Lawyer (witheringly)-·"Never mind the sub stance of it. Tell us the words, and I fancy the jury will have the intelli gence to get at 'the substance."-Har per's Ba zar. HAD A SHINE ALL AROUND. A Bootblack Knows a Kind Man When He Sees One. The Italian boys whose familiar cry of "Shine, boss?" is heard on all the f rryloats, are sometimes very clever in their methods of extending the trade. A well-dressed, middle-aged, prosperous-looking man boarded a South Brooklyn boat for New York one afternoon lately, his shoes display ing a variegated assortment of Brook lyn dirt and dust. He nodded to a bootblack who regarded his customer's shoes critically, observed that the cas tomer was a good-natured-looking man, and said persuasively: "Catcha da plenta mud, boss. Dis-a shine ten-a cent. Eh?" The customer said all right. A little boy. five or six years old, edged a-y from a sister twice his age, who had him in charge, and watched the shin ing operation with great interest. T'he man was evidently interested in the boy. and the bootblack noted that in stantly. \Vhen the bootblack's first job was finished the man and boy had formed a very friendly acqrlaintance. "Let me give-a da boydashine," said the bootblack. This pleased the man and amusedthe boy. "Now. who is your mother?" was one of the questions of the boy. "His mother is dead, sir," said the sister. "Ah, poor little chap!" exclaimed the, ° The bootblack regarded the girl out .4 of the corners of hiseyes, gave a glanoe. "i' at the man, finished the boy's shine. and said: "Let-a me give-a da lady dra shine, boss?" "Certainly, certainlyl'" exelaimed ~ man, and thegirl laughed so meli the operation that the man wsR well pleased to remember tha - change was due from the