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'Gbe Banwe>Zenw wal VOL. X . LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1897. _NO 1 SING A SONG. If you'll sing a song as you go along, In the face of the real or the fancied wrong; In spite of the doublt if you'll fight it out, And show a heart that is bravo and stout; If you'll laugh at the jeers and refuse the tears, You'll forco the ever-reluctant cheers That the world denies when a coward cries, t To give to the man who bravely tries; &Anil you'll win success with a little song If you'll sing the song as you go along! C C If you'll sing a song as you plLd along, You'll find that the busy rushing throng Will catch the :.'rain of the glad refrain; That the sun will follow the blinding rain; C That the clouds will fly from the blackened N sky; What the stars will come out by and by; And you'll make new friends, till hope do seends From where the placid rainbow bends; And all because of a little song If you'll sing the song as you plod along! If you'll sing a song as you tedge along, You'll see that the singing will make you strong; And the heavy load and the rugged road, And the sting and the stripe of the tortur ous goad Will soar with the note that you set afloat; That the bears will change to a trifling mote; That the world is bad when you are sad, And bright and beautiful when glad; That all you need is a little song If you'll sing the song as you trudge along! -Rufus McClain Fields, in Nashville Amer ican. IALI'S PERIL. UNDA-TSANG was an innkeeper. He was sole proprietor of the 4., Ballawari-Dak, which is a very big name for a very small native ho tel about sixty miles north of Penang, and on the high road to the hunting steppes of the Bakit, or hill country. Punda was a good sortof Malay,which means a bad sort of anything 81se. That is, he would plunder only on the securest principles, and never quarrel 4 with a bigger man or a better armed one than himself. In this he differed from other Malays, who would plunder and knife upon no principle or provo cation whatever, if they thought there was a ten-anna piece to be gained thereby. But a deeper reading of this pros perons Boniface of the jungles revealed the fact that he was capable of love yes, even a tender, human affection; and that little Iali, his five-year-old daughter, was the object of a worship 4 in his heart even more fervent than that which he bestowed upon the five home-made clay gods before which, in a dark corner of the Dak, he burned a vast deal of ill-smelling incense. The second year of Tsang's married life had hardly begun when his beautiful wife was bitten by a yellow viper while gathering healing herbs down in the valley. When they found the poor creature she was dying-with her new born babe in her arms. This calamity the bereaved husband regarded as a direct visitation of the clay gods in the corner; only' the day before he had robbed a Kling hunter of his rifle, leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kn kangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell ovei a cliff and was dashed to pieces. And Punda-Tsang always felt that that yellow viper was sent direct from the land of the judging gods to avenge the blood of the poor Kling hunter. But there was one thing that mitigated the harshness of this ven geance-the presence of the little child, whom he tenderly cherished, and whom he had called Iali, which is to say, "forgiven." One day two officers of H. M. ship Scorpion stopped at the Dak on their way down from a hunt in the hill country. We were seated under the palms before the bungalow after tiffin, smoking cheroots, while I listened to their exploits with interest. Suddenly four native Malays approached, wheel ing a live tiger in a clumsy wooden cage, and halted before the Dak. They were going to dispose of him to a naturalist down on the coast, who had a method of killing and stuffing animals by which the marvelous lustre of their skins was preserved. The' forest king was certainly a magnificent specimen, and the officers evidently thought so, too, as they concluded to buy him, perhaps to swear that they had captured him. They bought the animal for a good round sum, sent the natives back rejoicing, and started down toward the coast, while Pande Tsang, not contented with exacting fifty per cent. commission from the poor fellows for using his Dak for a tiger mart, committed the meanest act of his life. He slyly sawed one of the hind bars nearly through in four places. Then he went to work planing to waylay the tiger on his way back to his haunts after he should break loose, which he knew would happen before the purchasers could.get many miles down the valley. He quietly pursued his planning until late that night, when he heard from good authority that the tiger had broken jail, and nearly killed one of his owners. Then he prepared to put his plans into ac tion. Punda knew well enough that the instant a tiger smells blood he will drop flat, and, even if the feast is a mile away, will begin a slow, creeping journey toward it, wasting hours, per haps. When he has approached with in twenty feet of the prise, quivering with desire and terrible with greed, he will leap into the air like a cannon ball and plunge down upon his victim. Pnnda-Tsang knew all this; so he dug a pit down the valley, contrefeted a network of branches over it and laid a quarter of a bullock upon it Then he waited for the tiger to scent the blood and make his slow, eaawllg journey, knowing that when he made tlhe grand twentyfeet leap he would go through the network into be would starve the beast, let down a (1 cage baited with more fresh meat, and, 1: sliding the bars from above, haul the a captured tiger out and sell him over 1 again. All of this might have hap- r pened, but events somewhat stranger 4 and more terrible for Punda-Tsang in- I ,, terfered, doubtless as another direct visitation of the vengeance of the little 1 clay gods in the bungalow corner, half I concealed in clouds of punk smoke. t As little Iali was the innkeeper's constant solace and companion, she d went with him to the pit digging,. her father explaining to her the manner of capturing the "four-footed jungle god," which facts, instead of frightening the i child, only helped to increase the stock 1 of her play gods and demons, which I she moulded deftly from the red clay of the ravine. For two days nothing I u was heard of the tiger, and Punda- I Tsang began to fear that he had gone I - back to the hills by another route. On the afternoon of the third day I t; sat on the cliff's edge, watching the 1 mists rise from the roaring river 4 bottom, a phenomenon which al ways accompanies the closing t! day. Suddenly there was a great 1 r. shuffling of sandals about the compound, and I knew something ex traordinary was taking place. I turned quickly; the big form of Punda-Tsang, the inn-keeper, burst upon me sud denly, his fiat face as pallid as a demon's, ferocious, but with the fero city of nameless fear. n "Iali!" cried he hoarsely. "IWave Is you seen Iali!" e "No!" I replied, almost in a whis h per. He did not wait, but sped to r wprd the so-called bullock sheds, - which were really caves cut in the s solid rock beyonld the Dak. I had be d come attached to the child, whose .g marvelous beauty had charmed and r. whose weird ways mystified me. h The coolies were flying hither and ). thither, making the air ring with their ,e loud wails. Such agitation on the part sA of these vagabonds roused me to a d realization of the child's danger. d Suddenly I turned my eyes and r thoughts in the direction of the ravine - where the tiger trap lay. I recalled e vividly the child's interest in the d "jungle god" who was to be captured in the deep pit; and knowing the lit s- tle creature's absolute fearlessness, d thought that acting upon some child - ish impulse, she might have strayed i; down thq narrow path to the pit. d Meanwhile the wailing about me in p creased. n I dropped over the ledge, soon 'e reaching the pathway by a short route. ,n As I penetrated the jungle, now suf a fused with mist in the ruby glow of 1e the expiring day, I realized with what re risk to myself I was entering this dan nl gerous spot, all unarmed. I was still ,e debating whether or not to return for a 1e weapon of defense, when, as I leaped >r over a soft spot in the red clay, I saw w two footprints that shot terror into my y heart; one was tlat of a mammoth a tiger, the other belonging to a little ie child. I dropped down beside them.' Ad No. There was no mistaking them, so e, clear and fresh were both. Then I is crept forward, scarcely daring to re breathe, my heart beating faster and R- faster with apprehension. 1y The distance to that tiger pit seemed 1e to be doubled, and the time that to elapsed before reaching it everlasting. It The crackling of the leaves and twigs et on the moss beneath my feet added to my trepidations. Almost before I re 1g alized it I had reached the big trap, at and then halted short, thrilled by the a- sound of something human. Looking le ahead through the deepening mists , and intervening boughs I saw the lit is tle child figure of Iali creeping out upon the withered branches over the 1P pit. For the instant I bad no power r to move, nor dared I speak, lest, over come with sudden fright, the frail lit le tle one, might lose her foothold. Sud n, denly a new horror disclosed itself. SWhat were those two glaring, cold, ly yet fiery points just beyond the pit, Sburning their way through the shad n ows? It was thetiger. In moments like these one's reason Sing powers become superhuman. I saw that in all probability either Iali Sor I was to be sacriticed, which one e depended merely upon the caprice of the wild beast. I had heard that the calm, steady, fearless stare of a human to is more terrifying to wild animals than guns that kill. On the instant I re Ssolved to practice it; it was my only he expedient. So I stared at those two ed coldly bright and glowing points of e- light like a madman. ig Suddenly I saw the little figure he waver on the dead branches over the a mouth of the pit, and then, with a st weak little cry poor Iali had lost her he foothold and slipped slowly through . the yielding boughs into the cave be g neath. For a moment all was silent. to Then I heard her childish prattle. e, The soft sand had broken Iali's fall re and saved her life, while I was brought es face to face with the most awful prob ed lem of my life. For what seemed thours I stood like a pillar of stone, the ity perspiration pouring down my neck, ad my tongne hot and parched. en Suddenly, as I stood like one in a . trance, facing this growing problem, I was conscious of a stir in the reeds he and underbrush at my right hand. ill Though the sound caused me to trem a ble, I dared not take my eyes from the ng crouching monster beyond. The next ir. instant a strange, huge shape crept ih- stealthily cut of the underwood and Sadvanced into the clearing toward the h pit--a ponderous bflack monster. It all was a mammoth orang-outangl SThe tiger crouched lower. He ug seemed to be as nonplussed, as stunned a by the intrusion of this huge'inter a loper as I was. In motionless silence he he transferred his burning gaze to the o mammoth monster. "y, Advancing to the very edge of the ud pit, the huge ape slippe4, but he re og overed. He saw trxt the branohes w- were only a blind. Then ho walked be w heo* d e ofthe trap and Maelt down like a human being, slowly, de liberately reaching out his long, hairy arm till his giant hand clutched that bullock bone. Then, 'to my intense 7 relief, the orang slowly dragged the great mass of flesh off the network of branches upon the solid ground. For a moment longer the gleam of those two terrible eyes-now like peep holes into a fiery furnace, followed the unsuspecting pilferer. Then came a rustle, a strange shriek like thunder, 1 a bound and a roar, and the "jungle J god" had sprung into the air and come i down like a flashing avalanche full up- a on the broad body of the kueeling o orang. A single paw struck the mam- v moth ape in the back, and with an al- v most human groan the rescuer of my I life and hers gave up the booty, to- 71 gether with his own life. Then the v tiger, with'a final flash of eyes full in- I to my own, snatched up the caroase of a the bullock in his flaming jaws and r slid off into the thick of the jungle. After that, when he knew all, Pan- I da-Tsang burned incense harder than i ever, for he avowed that the gods had at last forgiven his former crime; and, generally speaking, Punda became a E better sort of a Malay than befor.- London Mail. SCALING WITHOUT A LADDER. A Pyramid of Soldiers Enables Men to Surmount a 31-Foot Wall. Corporal Leary, the limberest man at Fort Sheridan, took the chance of breaking his neck and tumbling the storming pyramids of forty-one soldiers in a bruised heap Saturday as he sprang upward from the shoulders of Private Miller, caught with three fingers of his left hand the top of the high wooden wall behind which lurked the enemy, hung for one perilous in stant, and then gallantly pulled him self to the top, seized his rifle, and sprang into the midst of the fbe on the other side of the improvised parapet in the Coliseum gallery. The human pyramid awayed, but held its sturdy place while gallant infantrymen swept up the stalwart shoulders and over the thirty-one-foot 1 wall to Corporal Leary's support,while a platoon of twenty-five men kept the enemy away in front of the wall. It was at this point that the regular army officers, who were watching the fray fromthe Coliseum gallery, led the applause, for Corporal Leary and his comrades had broken the world's escalading record by three feet. As a partial reward for his daring feat Corporal Leary will be recommended by Lieutenant Percival G. Lowe, in command of the camp, for promotion. When Corporal Leary climbed to f the apex of the pyramid and stood on the shoulders of the men in the top row, the tips of his fingers lackeddive inches of reaching the top of the wall. The highest wall that was ever escaladed before was twenty-eight feet, and the men who climbed over that in the military carnival at New York broke the world's record then. The wall at the Coliseum was thirty-onbe feet high, and it took just four minutes to scale it. Eighteen of the heaviest and strong est men in the regiment formed the base of the pyramid, ten mounted on their shoulders and leaned against the I wall, six stood on the shoulders of the t ten, four on the shoulders of the six, and three on the shoulders of the four. Corporal Leary scrambled up this escalading pyramid of blue, and stood on the shoulders of the top three, braced against the wall. e When he stretched out his arms,and 9 found his fingers would not reach the B edge of the wall, he crouched, and then, as the human mountain swayed t dizzily beneath his feet, with the B mighty and yet delicate effort of the r trained athlete he sprang boldly five inches upward at the edge of the - barrier. He tried to grasp the top of - the parapet with both hands, but only three fingers of his left hand went high enough. The pyramid under him was still swaying. He held to the- hazardous edge by the three fingers for an instant, and then, with a - heave and a twist, pulling his whole Sbody up, caught the wall with the i other hand. An instant after he was s op the enemy's side of the barricade. f I-Chicago Tribune. SBicycles in the German Army. I The German military papers have Sjust published the report of the Minis T ter of War regarding the results of the Sintroduction of bicycles into the army and the training of a bicycle corps dur ing the year 1896, says the Philadel e phia Record. A large number of ex e perimental runs were made and the a bicycles were also employed in manen r vers to advantage. The average of h the runs was about thirty-five miles, - with an average speed of nine and one b half miles per hour, including stops. . The greatest speed obtained was twelve I miles per hour in a run of thirty miles. t The greatest distance covered in any. - one run was one hundred and thirty d miles an hour, including stops. The e soldiers attached to the bicycle service . were given practical training on the wheel, but also received instruction in a reconnoitering, reading of the map, I etc. Not long ago Lieutenant von Is Puttkammer tried to dispatch a mess 1. age by relay bicyelists going and com - ing a distance of twenty-eight miles. Ie He had placed four relays of three bi Lt cyclists each at points six miles asiart pt and three dispatches were taken each Ld way,the cyclists' speed exceeding thir 1e teen miles per hour. It is estimated It by the Minister of War that after for ty days' training a company mounted [e on bicycles should be able to cover one ,d hundred and twenty miles a 'day with. r- full arms and equipment. The present s weight of the military bicycle, which ie is of the folding type, is thirty-two pounds, but the new type, of which a e large number has been ordered, will e- weigh six pounds less. The principal as I economy will be found in the abandon si m nt of chain gearing ad the substi su "Un of a eog-wbhee Arivilaggn.5 RAISES SHARKS TO.SELL. THE QUEER OCCUPATION OF A NEW JERSEY FISHERMAN. Disposes of Steaks in the New York Mar ket and There Are People Who Pro fnounce Them Good Eating-How He gC Discovered This Fact-A Shark Pond. aC Wilson Fastnet, who lives on the i beach at Seaside Park, over in New it Jersey, summer and winter, and makes his living in fishing, knows more about 8a sharks than any other dweller along t our coast, and during his off-days, when fish are not plentiful or the weather is too inclement for sailing, sl he spends his time in "sharking." This does not mean, in his vernacular, what the ordinary reader might sus pect; it has nothing to do with Wall b street "sharking," or killing sharks r upon the high seas by means of vari ous lines, hooks and harpoons. It im- ai plies a peaceful vocation that is unique in this country of strange employments and trades. To understand the P "sharking" of Mr. Fastnet it is neces- b sary to go back a little in history. w About five years ago, while fishing a off the coast, Mr. Fastnet caught a , huge shark on his line. Thinking he c had a gamey fish of unusual size on his hook, he began to play with him, o giving the creature more line as it s swam from him and hauling it gently to in as it approached nearer. In this a way he induced the shark gradually b to swim toward the shore, where there . was a possible chance to hook it with 3 a gaff. The shark, blinded probably v by the pain of the hook in his atom- g ach, permitted the fisherman to get r, him across the sandy bar, where at v low water a small inland pond formed. tl Once inside the pond the shark was at o the mercy of its captor. As the tide t: went down the shark was soon trand- n ed in the shallow water. d Mr. Fastnet then, with the help of d others, succeeded in getting a rope around the monster's body. They dragged him up on the beach, and by means of several other ropes they f made a regular harness for the shark. d Then he was turned loose and allowed to swim' about in the deep water off t the shore. For several days the shark t was kept a prisoner, and at regular in- I tervals he was hauled up for exhibi tion. Many people went down to see t the huge monster, and Mr. Fastnet charged ten cents a head from the spectators. Finally it occurred to the fisherman i that it would pay to make the shark a c prisoner in some inland pond of water i where he could be unharnessed. On 1 the Barnegat Bay side.of the beach there was a small cove, which was pro tected by the beach on three sides. A 4 strong dam was built across the neck I l of this cove and the shark was trans- I ported across the beach by a team of 1 a horses and dumped into the water. In 3 this prison the old shark thrived 1 t mightily and seemed gradually to lose his ferocious temper. It took all the B small and useless fish from Mr. Fast net's net to keep the creature from - starving. a It was while watching the growth of this captive shark that the fisherman a conceived the idea of raising other a sharks in his artificial pond. Now sharks' eggs are easily found along the Jersey coast. They are contained in a capsules or horny matter resembling i seaweed. They are popularly known as "mermaids' purses," and the shells are gathered by visitors to the seashore I for ornamental purposes. Generally a they are empty of all eggs, but in the I breeding season one can easily pick up I these shells full of eggs. a Mr. Fastnet collected a number of a these eggs cases and threw them into e the pond which he had formed, and in e a few months he was agreeably sur f prised to find young asarks swimming y around. The old shark in his greedi t ness devoured jthese little creatures r about as fast as they were hatched. o Then a portion of the pond was shut e off from the rest and new eggs were a placed in the water. Here the young e sharks could live and develop without e danger from the old one. When they a became half grown they were turned . loose in the main pond. Immediately there was a combat of extraordinary ferocity. The old shark pounced upon the youngsters and commenced to de Syour them as fast as he could. s- For a time the young ones fought Le back and tried to defend themselves, y but they would have been destroyed r- had not Mr. Fastnet come to their ree I- cue. He managed to land a harpoon c- in the fleshy body of the old shark and oe settled his fate in a few minutes. He z- thought it better to destroy the big of monster than to lose all of his young s, sharks. When he was hauled up on e- the beach and bled, his body was eaut a.up and while the fat was boiled down re for its oil, the meat was cut up into a. steaks for eating. These proved so y juicy and sweet that the fisherman sent Ssome to his friends. A New Yorker he who tasted of them thought they were :e too good to escape more general notice, se and he sent some to his friends in the in city. Everyone declared that they p, were more Than palatable; that they n were unusually delicious. - This was the beginning of the de - mand for shark steaks. Mr. Fastnet 5. received steady orders for shark's - steaks until he nearly cut up all his rt young sharks to supply the demand. :h Then he decided to raise sharks to sell. r- He increased the size of hispond, gath id ered more eggs and began to breed the r- savasge creature for commercial pur d poses. He now kills about twenty e sharks every summer for the market th Shark's steaks are quite-the thing for ata big dinner. Mr. Fastn'et raises a ,h good proportion of the sharks that are Wo sent to market. He kills them when 5 they are about three feet long. At this i age their meat is very tender nd juicy. al In order to keep up the supply he is n- kept busy breeding n'-w flocks 'evary ti- summer, add even then he cannot moet the4msud.-Philadelphizs Tisme. i;-i A REMARKABLE POND. What a Hog's Booting Did on a Kentu'ky Farm. Rev. Eli Owen, of the Rocky Hill e country, is the possessor of. a pqnd which has afforded him some pleasure m and a great deal of uneasiness. A W good many years ago a bold spring ran W across a part of Mr. Owen's farm and a] dropped in a hole not far from where f it rose. One year Mr. Owen built a hog inclosure on the spot where the spring ran into the earth, and fattened a lot of hogs. Gradually the hogs, in their rootings, filled up the small open- e ing through which the waters of the b spring sank into the ground, and the o first thing Mr. Owen knew a small t pond was forming. As the waters of the spring had no escape they simply b backed up, and then backed up some P more. Higher and higher the waters a rose, from a quarter of an acre to half 3 an acre, then an acre, and then five B acres, till the alarmed owner was seri ously perturbed as to whether the r pond owned him or he owned the v pond, or whether he was eventually to be the owner of a farm or a lot of a water. Finally Mr. Owen, by laying 1 a pipe in the pond and piping off the a water, saved himself from further en- a croachments, and now he has, if prop erly cultiv'ated, one of the finest sheets t of fishing territory in the county. In some places the waters are from ten to fifteen feet deep, while several acres are still submerged. Carp, sni-perch, a black-perch and other varieties of fish r stock the pond. A short while ago c Mr. Owen set out a trot-line, with I which the fish had great fqn, but from I which a large majority of Mr. Owen's '1 returns were broken hooks. Fish I weighing as high as twenty-five and i thirty pounds were hung on it, and I one or two captured. The history of this body of water - is somewhat re markable, as showing what a hog can i do when it turns itself loose to root in a f dead earnest.-Glasgow (Ky.) Times. A New Bist for ilee. One observant housekeeper has Y found out that mice and croton bugs do not invade the same premises at the same time. The mice scare away the bugs. In a consideration of the t two evils it is rather difficult, from a housekeeper's point of view, which to choose. This same housekeeper, says e the New York Evening Post, finds t that the ordinary round, many-holed e spring traps, baited with something soft, like a piece of'suetorpork, which n will dling to the hook and resist efforts a of the wily little creatures to dislodge, r is the best means of getting rid of n them. With this method .should be h practiced also the starvation plan, - which is to lhave every crumb of food, A every dust of sugar, oatmeal or other k farinaceous substance, anything, in ;- fact, that could afford them oppor )f tunity for satisfying appetite, kept n carefully away from tbham. The holes d by which they find access to closet e shelves should be filled with pieces of Le gum camphor. With patience and the t- perseverance, that is the cost of all n success, this pest, even in seriously nfested houses, can be exterminated. n Light From Sugar. r A scientist has discovered that light w may be procured from sugar. He has 1e succeeded in taking several photo n graphs by the light supplied by sugar g only. The sugar was first exposed to .n a direct sunlight for two hours, and is then placed in a dark room. Immedi. re ately on being placed in the darkness ly the sunlight stored in the sugar to le glow, faintly at first, but quite brightly after a few minutes. After about twenty minutes, during which time the of photographs were taken, the light be o gan to die away, and gradually went in out. The photographs taken by sugar r- light are quite distinct, though not as g clear as an ordinary photograph. The i- scientist who made the discovery de Sclares that, by exposing a sack of sugar d. to strong sunlight for two hours, nt enough light could be procured from it to illumine a small house for the gsame period. Buecesstul Shad Culture. S Fish Commissioner James A. Bill, ly of Connecticut, has written a letter ry giving some striking results of shad Sculture. In Five-Mile River, about nine miles from the month of the Con necticut, the Fish Commission in 1889 t placed experimentally half a million shad fry. No shed had been taken in the Sriver for years, but four years later, in 1893, more than 1000 were taken. This year the fish have been more numer n ousn there and in the Connecticut Rive Sthan for any one of many years here e fore, and the best fishingof the season has been done in the smaller stream. SCommissioner Bill says, also, that the n sine of the shad has been materially t increased b stripping only the largest shad to obtain spawn.-New York Post. so nt leerase Rmosads in wmrope, or In mileage of electric roads Ge e Inany is foremost in Europe, having 0, ~2 miles. France has 82 miles; he Great Britain and Ireland, 660 miles; ey Austria-Hungary, 44 miles: Switser y land, 29 miles; Italy, 24 miles; Ser via, Russia, Belgium and Spain have e- from 6.21 miles to 18.64 miles. Of et the 111 lines of electric railway in 's Europe, 91 are worked on the over is head trolley line system, 12 on the d. underground system and 8 by means 11. of accumulators. be Pltched Headlong by a Thunderbolt. r- Ernest Gadboise, a young man em ty ployed on his fathers farm on the t. Salem turnpike, in Cnneeticut, was or struck by lightning at Leffngwell, a while driving home.. The bolt thirew re him. from the wagon into the gutter, en and rendered him unconscious. The is horse was knocked down' and the y. wagon overturned. How long he was is unconscions he is unable to determine, ry but he was helped into a neighboring t dwelling. Neither he nor his horse was permanently injured. HOUSEHOLD MATTEDS. Charcoal for Disinfecting. No good housewife is without her own special and favorite disinfectant. A simple and effective one may be ir made of charcoal, mixed with dlsar water. Speaking of charcoal, it is well to remark that a little of it h sprinkled in water containing cut flowers will keep the water fresh for c some time. Cleaning thi Bread san. A w~,man hates worse than anything else tre cleansing of the bread pan or t bowl after having made 'up a "batch" of bread. Unless absolutely necessary to put the bowl away at once, fill it with cold water and let it stand for an hour. - By that time all the hard ° particles will have become softened s and fallen to the bottom of the bowl. e The practice of putting the bowl and molding board away unwashed, in the flour bin, as so many do, is most rep rehensible. The tiny particles will work off into the next lot of dough and ferment in the raising, and often spoils I a whole baking of brad, while the I baker is wondering v .t possesses the I stuff Absolute cleanliness should f always be observed' in attending to bread, cake or pastry cooking to obtain I the best results. To Xxterminate Insects. Cleanliness is the best safeguard against insects, fresh air, soap and water being all powerful, if no scrap 4 or refuse be left to decay unnoticed. I Floor and shelves' of pantries should be wiped with a damp cloth daily. The outside of all utensils kept per feotly clean, the slightest carelessness in this particular being sufficient to bring a whole army of pests. 'Covered utensils not in daily jse should have their covers left slightly ajar to admitair andprevent mustiness, and ofttimes rust. The refrigerator should be kept near a window, so that it may be fre quently flooded with-air and light. In no place is more apparent the house wife's thrift, painstaking and untiring energy. Camphor will prevent the ravages of mice. For waterbugs fill cracks and crevices with a paste made of two tablespoons of plaster of paris, one teaspoon of sugar and one tablespoon of green tea. To guard against buffalo bugs the floors should be wiped with water in which spirits of turpentine have been mixed--to a large pailful of hot water add a pint of turpentine. This is a perfect preventive against this pest, so much dreaded by the best housekeep era, and is well worth trying by those whose blosets and pantries have been infested by these dreadful vermin. Outdoor Breakfast Booms. At one magnificent summer cottage s on Long Island the summer breakfast room has been erected in the form of a f nympheum-literally translating this e means a resort or playground of 1 nymphs, and it cost a very handsome y sum of money, indeed: The chief nymph of this Greek bower gave carte blanche to her architect, who first covered sixty square feet of level turf, t overlooking the blue Sound's waters, , with a charming mosaic floor, in polished tiles, of white, blue and green. From this spring up a series of thirty d white marble Greek columns, to sup i. port a roof of glass, so arranged as to is slide and fold back, and thus open ;o this lovely room without walls to the y blue heavens. Directly in ths centre it of the tiled floor a sunk basin, eight ,e feet square, holds ornamental fish and s. water lilies, and out of the centre it springs a very charming marble r. nymph, who stands in a perpetual ia shower of sparkling water. Water e plants and blooming flowers are e. banked about the edge of the fountain, r here and there in bronze tabs stand , palms andferns, andon carved perches n are a snow-white cockatoo, with a rose a topknot, and a dazzling red and green African parrot A home-made nympheum iay be built of wire. A dry floor is the prime , requisite for one of these fairy apart r ments, and for that reason a place is 4 selected in the garden, and the first t thing is to lay the space with tiles, or - have it covered with a beautiful Sgravelof selected little colored pebbles n and snowy sand. Around or over this s the wire framework is plaoed, climbing in rose branches and grape vine tendrils i wound in and out of the wire mesh, r and there the delicatefarniture, breaik. r fast tables and chairs are plaoed.- eBoston Herald. e Srawberry Foam-.Waa hall anl y eut, or mash slightly, one cupful of t strawberries. Beatthe whites of two k eggs till stiff, add two heaping table spoonfuls of powdered sagar sand the berries, and beat until very thick and stiff Use s broadbowl and a wire - egg-beater. Pile it lightly on a glass I dish, and serve with sponge cake. Deviled Fingers--Out bread, free f; rom crust, into slices four inches long Sbyoneand ahalfinchesinwidth. Place - two of these slices together, with the following mixture spread between: To Seach anely chopped hard-boiled egg add a tablespoonful of finely mined - cold boiled ham and a tablespoonfal of e lemon jice, a tespoonahl of grated Scheese and shalf-tespoonful of French mustard. Sheep's Kidneys en Broohette-From . three kidneys remove the thin m-m. Sbrans that covers each kidney and split a without eutting the eords. -'Bprinkle Seach piece with a piqch each of salt ,w and pepper, dip in melted butter and r, brqil over a good fie Have ready os .s heatd serving platter a suse -a-de , as follows: Melt two tableepoo~ el of a butter, add a tablepoonifal of mined e, parsley and the jfioe ofa luass. IEi g well together, laythe kidn eys I- t s seaaoninz, tarning them an The serve, · .? HE TOOK HIS MitbibINE, But It Got Him Inte Troable and - Wanted It Modisgd. There were unmistakable marks of intimacy between his light-colored over- * coat and the sidewalk. His right eye was concealed by a handkerchief, and his-silk hat had l dent in it. "Doctor," he said, as he sank in a chair, "I don't blame yoa. I exonerate you from all responsibility. I don't make any reproaches." t'I should hope not," was the reply. "All the medical profession can do is to cure you when you are sick. It can't be held responsible for earthquakes or riots. Any broken bones?" ":lot that I know of. I didn't come to order any surgery, and I don't want you to think that I am trying to as sume to dictate to you in your busines. It's a delicate matter and I hope you will take i$ kindly." "What are you talking ibout?" "That last prescription you gave me." i "Ah, yes. I remember. You com plained of being low-spirited and slug- ._ giah, and said that you would faith fully obey my instructions In order td I get back your old-time form." " 'That is what happened. " And you a saki there was no use in- my taking drugs and turning my system Into a , chemical laboratory; what I needed was to laugh three times every day." I "Yes." I "I wasn't to wait till I saw a good , excuse for laughlng. I was to cultivate a susceptibility to humor, which I do I not naturally possess, and let my dia- phragin have spasms on the slightest provocation." " 9 "Certainly. That's what I call a corn D mon sense cure." "I-tried It, Acted faithfully on 'ar e instructions. I was going out to ltuch 7 to-day when I happened to remembera I, that I had neglected your medicine. I looked around for something tLt w would give me a pretex( anda. - would have it I saw a man with a max- -_ ket basket get run Into by a pushear t M- y first impulse was to lend him I g helping hand with his vegetables aSt things, but I thought of oan, and I d my duty. It would4ltave rejoiced yo d soul to hear the merry gurgles tihat o leaped from my throat. I was onlyb-. e ginning to enter into the spirit of th - n occasion when the owner of the-marse basket came up andi began to lntertfeL ' 1e I told him he was likely to ruin mny. hPealth with his thoughtlessness, but he n refused to desist until he had left ma as I now appear. I don't look to you 1feia an indemnity for what has happened; o but three times a day seems prettt". often, considering the rlaks involved.: and I do think you ought to seriously consider the advisability of reducing the dose." Mississippi Valley, of Bailroad maintinas t Unsurpassed : Daly : Stie betwee* NE, I ORLEANS & IfPHll in connecting at Memphis with id trains of the Illinois Oen tral Railroad for t Caro, St. Louis, Chicago, Cin to cinnati, Louisville, an making direct connections withthrough he trains for all points ht NORTH, EAST AIND WEST, including Buffalo, Pittsburg, Olev . :e land, Boston, New York, Phl-p >le Baltimore, Biohmond, St. Paul, Mi` neapolis, Omaha, Kansas Oity. Hot er Springs, Ark., and Denver. oess connection at Chicago with COtral ., Mississippi Valley Bouts, SoliUd l.M Vestibuled Daily Trains for ouDUQUE, SIOUX FALLS, 31C CITY, en and the West. Partieulars o". imt of the Y. C M. V. and eaneaeotag ines be Wu. Munar, Div. Pjasr " ... m* New O,u rt- Jxo. A. SooTr, Div. Pus. AgI., is MempkLas rat A. H. Hurso, O. P. A., or Northan Ole d ILosiselfte I. hip W. D.Btrr, Oly Tt Ag, teke ng wusk rA0 IAIS TB GREAT Thl 0 North and d- Only direet rseate to I S ieoII St. Lals, Cngs, k s 6 re and sal polta Only direst route to c Js, Ykthbe. I,- r .es the And all points in Texas and tie Saelet To west. - , Do.uble Daily Trahn. Ilo Fast Timoe . *om bThrouh 6aP9UlLu.s plit witheot change, makglg ditet kle tions with Irat-elas Mwe.I salt The grest steel brI4g. and Ohio rir aCidro aof delays tee t1a 'I ~ f