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XHIMIM Every ißtnntijf hi Uaj si. Ihul*. Mis*
A SHEAF OF SUPERSTITIONS.
A FAMILY WI4KKMI
I would n’ be bourn.' down
Hellcvln slant* and things
L'ke Unci© Jerry Flnckleys' sir
Fee fifty cents. Con tgo anywhere.
Kcr do s trick, unlest the signs la right
When tho p*o<*ocka sings
They stays at home from town
Fer fear of measlos;
Uov a seprut sign fer do#*
A-howlin', and mewlin' cats,
An' hoppln’ frog*.
An' snaky weasels.
An' when they see the l*glo hata
A huntin' pixies by the light
Of Jaek-a lumps.
They flunk and pray In s*ch a plight
It glvea ’em cramps.
Folks sir short fer sense
Tbet takes along thet way;
Tbe'r lives mokes more crpens®
Than nil the profits pay.
Use reason—
Ther" go slow,
Vou Idiot: Don t you know
Any more* a lug that hoe
In the house, a temptin' death?
] swon. you’ve sesrt my breath
Clean nwuy. You plegged fool,
Little more’n you'll Jest go
An’ do some mischief with the tool
TUB CtIAHM
To break tho apell when bad signs conus
(io to the burn an' Jest take some
Chaff up on the cockle screen,
An' shake imlowly, like you’ve seen
M siftin' meal, ’n then you sing
** Rafferty tallerly tlokory toe.
Elnhow crackabow, ther' you go I*
An' call the time vow kc-op the thing
A ©bakin' till ut last you see
The chaff's shuck through, and then run three
Times round the heap, ami kind o’ sing
” Alsby bnlihy blubberin’ Hen,
Don't let trouble come here agnla."
*N’ If ye’re careful with the charm
Ain’t no signs ken do you harm.
WHEN 1 WAS A BOY.
When I 'uz a boy
The girl that worked fer mother
Kept me most scan to death
With some had sign or other.
The tremblin' leav es on the big pople tree
In our back yard, nnld she,
Meant weevil would destroy
The wheat And when late summer's breath
Moaned In u sooty way
About the kitchen pipe.
She'd sj*.\ "Afore the corn is ripe
A fever ’ll lake this house.”
At last, when mother found me and brother
A-rryln* for the squeakin' of a mouse
T hat meant that some of us must die,
fr*he turned the girl awny,
And spanked us both, and I,
Still thankin' her, will always say:
*‘Ood bless my mother”’
-Donne Hob In son, In Century
CL A HA’S TWO LOVERS.
A Story of Lovo and Courage In
tho Sepoy Mutiny.
"Lour" Tom Forteseue, the major of
the Fifth Bengal native cavalry, and
Charlie Meredith, the senior captain of
that once famous corps, both loved tho
same girl; but though they* were bosom
friends neither of them had tho faint
est suspicion of the other's feelings to
ward Clara Hudson.
The colonel's wife know it But slio
was u wise lady and said nothing, not
even to her husband, who would have
"pooh-poohed" if she had done so. Ho
she held her peace, and Meredith, all
unwitting, determined to know his
fate before Clara went to the Hills for
tho wimp season.
it was a still, hot night on the lonely
plain, midway between Agra and Luck
now, where the Fifth was stationed.
Inside Die compound, horses sweated
nn a walk, and the punkah-wallah had
fallen fast asleep of sheer exhaustion,
while ids too swayed the canvas from
force of habit and sent a little breeze
down the veranda.
In a dim, distant corner of that
veranda sat Clara and ('apt. Charlie
Meredith. Both had been silent a
space. Charlie felt Ids heart thump
ing as it never did when he faced the
tiurkhas half-moon blades. Clara's
womanly intuition told her what was
coming, and she rose to go,
"One moment, Miss Clara,” said he.
Hho turned and sat down again, toy
ing nervously with her hands.
Charlie poured forth all his love, he
never knew how, but as best ho could.
"Stop! Stop! (apt. Meredith," im
plored the girl. "1 am not free to lis
ten to you,” she continued distressedly.
“Not free!" ho exclaimed, in amaze
ment- “Not free! Why surely you—"
“Charlie, you are too good, too man
ly, to be treated with any reserve. I
om already engaged."
The man leapt up at her words,
hud staggered ns if he had been
•truck.
“Engaged. Miss Hodson! Surelv you
w ill pardon my words. I never knew
It," he muttered hoarsely.
She replied In gentle tones, but
Charlie did not hear her. The little
punkah-wallah and tho veranda wore
chasing each other around the com
pound In a peculiar way, while the
barracks jumped up and down as if
excited at tho race. oA roar aa of a cat
aract stunned him. He stood there
speechless and dazed. When ho looked
around, ho w as nloiA.
‘Say, Meredith, where are you?"
shouted Maj. Forteseue, nn hour later,
rushing Into the captain's room.
“Why, man, you look as gloomy as a
molting hen, and I'm simply bursting
to tell you some glorious news. Con
gratulate me, my buy! I've won her!"
"Won—won whom?" ejaculated Mere
dith, with a sudden pang.
"The dearest little girl on earth, old
follow! I know it will surprise you,
but Clara said I wasn't to tell you yet,
and I—"
"Clara? Ah! I see. (rod bless you
and her, Forteseue!” said Meredith.
What a faraway voice it was that
spoke!
“Thanks: I knew you would. But
are you Hi?" he suddenly interrupted,
glancing at the drawn, colorless face of
his comrade.
"Oh, no! This confounded heat! It
stifles one. Have a cigar, Forteseue?
1 w-ish tho inspector-general and his
review to-morrow were at Hanover."
And so Meredith rattled on, white
his heart seemed as if more again it
never would.
“Look here, Charlie," said Forteseue,
"you are in a nice condition to bo
around! Go to bed, and I’ll hunt the
doctor."
And the great, big-hearted major, sus
pecting nothing, made him lie down be
fore he departed,
i, Th * doctor came in, and— heavens!—
Jie began to chatter about the engage
ment!
I saw it, Meredith. No deceiving no
old campaigner, P h? They are a line
sonple. Yes, take two of theae pilla
and go to sleep, Good night. You*,
riffht 6m tritet to-morrosY.’*
Al last H wftsalona, s itf)ng ( >n )it
chsrpoy and looking at the bare walla
with eye* which told of a bleeding
heart within
“If I could see mother!'' ho mur
mured. "If I could only hare her here
for just five minutes of advice and
sympathy! I must aslt to be relieved
after this inspection." And thus de
‘termlniug. he spent the awful hours of
the tropical night In trampling down
that love which comes but once to a
man or woman.
The next day the regiment paraded,
while the grizzled, one-armed general
sat motionless upon his charger, watch
ing the black phalanxes ride past the
flagstaff in salute.
' 'Humph! flood drill, welt set up,
your fellows. Colonel, I hope they arc
keeping sweet. We shot three yester
day.”
“I'll go bail for these men, general.
They are as good as they look. Every
one ia trustworthy."
The sepoy who was removing the
covers at luncheon overheard, and the
faintest flicker of a smile passed over
his immobile face.
Trustworthy! Little did they know
the general himself would be cut down
by his own escort before reaching the
next station. Who Was to toll ther-c
English of that sudden, awful treason
which burst out like the death wlpds
from I'atna to Delhi? Even now the
colonel's boasted sepoys were stealthily
sharpening their sabers, while their
sergeants wore stealing ammunition.
A tall Malay crept into the native
quarters the next evening at dusk, lie
was white with dust, and thirsty.
“Ugh, drink," said he. And they gave
drink to him.
"These sons of pigs must die. Ho de
clares the rajah," ho whispered, look
ing cautiously around.
"Where's our brother's token?"
queried a native trooper.
“Truly, the token," reechoed the
group.
The Malay picked his teeth, and
pulled out a little fragment of yellow In
dian paper covered with hieroglyphic*,
fie passed it around, and they smiled at
each other with gruesome delight.
Twenty-five minutes later the “trusty"
Fifth Ucngal had sworn to kill and
spare not. Every European was doomed.
Such were the orders of the secret
headquarters.
The night deepened. Charlie Mere
dith had dozed for the first time. Sud
denly he was awakened by a cracking
noise.
"Fire!" shouted he, jumping up and
looking out.
What a scone! The square in front
of his quarters was filled with black,
dancing, grinning, infuriated devils. A
bullet pinged and flattened against the
wall behind him. He was frozen with
horror at that moment, for his beloved,
gray-haired old colonel Just then ran
out, his only daughter in his arms, his
wife sheltered behind him, and all
three were cut down before Charlie's
eyes
"A mutiny!" he gasped. “The in
fernal hell-hounds!" He sprang to the
door, sword and revolver in hand.
There stood his body-servant.
“The sahib must fly or he will die. 1
1 should ho slain if they knew I warned
the sahib," said the man, gravely.
Charlie ran past him, behind the
building down to the fall river reeds,
and crouched thrre.
"Fortescne, are yon here?" ho whis
pered, catching a glimpse of scarlet.
“Yes, Meredith, and Clara with mo,"
was the low response.
"Have a care!" said Meredith "Do
not go tot) far out. I hear crocodiles in
mid-stream."
The heart-piercing screams died
away, tho barracks flamed up. and tho
throe sole survivors crouched lower in
the Jungle, while the sepoys danced
around the burning pile.
They had looted the canteen, and the
Malay was asked to drink. He shook
his head.
"The tall man -where Is he and his
maiden?” queried he. “Search the
river, for they have escaped."
The sepoys passed so closely to tho
fugitives that Forteseue drew Clara
nearer to him and clutched his pistol.
For many a brave man first kissed his
loved women and then shot them be
fore he died himself, In tho terrible
days of tho mutiny.
Down the stream the mutineers went,
while the Malay waited for them on
the bank, close to Meredith.
“Now or never!" thought Charlie.
lie leaped through the air like a
tiger, his lithe form wound around the
Malay's, and ho clutched his tawny
throat as they struggled In the reeds.
That iron ograsp never relaxed until
life had fled. He spurned the corpse
Info the current behind him.
"Good, Charlie! One fiend gone,
and he who caused the. mischief, tool
Now let’s make a rush toward the
stables, and then for buck now I" said
the major.
The two heroes grasped each other’s
hands, while Clara, calm and silent,
but deathly pale, followed their every
motion.
Fortescne tried to apeak. He could
not Ills lips were parched, his eyes
bloodsht. his heart was on Are with
the terrible strain. At last lie stam
mered out these words:
"If I drop first, Charlie, don't let
them take her alive!"
Charlie gripped his hand afresh in re
ply. No words were needed. They
understood each other.
Swiftly and noiselessly the three
crept under the sheltering jungle until
they stood opposite the gable end of
the long cavalry stables, all aglow with
the light of the fire.
Three horses, saddled and ready,
were picketed near at hand in the road,
and three sepoys stood by, laughing
wfth diabolical glee.
"Take the left man, Meredith.
Curse him! My own troop-major!”
Charlie saluted as he received the or
der. "Use the steel only. (Tara, keep
close behind me,”
It was done in a trice. One sepoy es
caped. They heeded him not, but gal
loped down the Lucknow road.
A wild yell rang out They were dis
covers 1.
"Forwardl Forward!" And the men
pricked the maddened horses with
their keen-edged sabers.
“Look ahead, Charlie They have
ambushed the road," said Fortescne.
A hoarse hurrah, as though these two
bad been the life-guards, was followed
.% * clash of swords amid a confused,
struggling mass of black figures.
Fortescne** hand was on his loved
one’s bridle. The other lover, Charlie,
leaned out across her horse’s nock to
cover her form. They slashed right
and left
them! Darling, (ire yon
"No," said Clara. It was tha first and
)#•! wopd Charlie heard her spank du*
Ing that memorable night, hideous as It
was
The distance to Lucknow woe twenty
miles. The pace was furious.
“Twenty miles, Clara," said Charlie;
“only twenty miles." She smiled ss he
looked on her sweet face In the light of
the dawning day.
They saw parties of sepoy cavalry
scouring the country in all directions.
Ulood and (fust all mingled on their
faces made It hard to perceive they were
Europeans, and they hoped to pass un
noticed.
"Hoe those pennons, Forteecue?"
ssld Charlie. “They belong to the in
spector general escort Poor fellowl
He's gone."
“Yes; and they are lying lor ua."
"Ton miles more now," continued
Charlie, cheerfully.
Just then his horse sank Into the
dust dampening It with its foam-cov
ered sides Charlie sprang up.
"(loon, Forteseue, never mind about
me. Von will find Laurence at Luck
now."
“Not a.yard, Charlie," said the major,
"(let up In front of Clara, and hand me
one of your ‘barkers;’ mine Is broken."
So they dashed onward again. But
those fatal pennons fluttered nearer
and nearer, and Charlie licked behind
at the yelling sepoys and downward at
the heaving flanks of the donbly-laden
horse.
Fortescoe's brow lowered, and he
clutched the pistol Charlie had handed
him.
In the midst of the gathering horror
Charlie Meredith had gone back to the
veranda. He could see the little pun
kah-wallah, ho could hear his own tones
pleading a lost cause. His mouth
twitched, but his resolve was taken,
and In his heart there was a strange,
unearthly calm.
Ho turned to Clara.
"Clara, kiss me," said ho, simply.
She leaned forward and kissed him.
“Good-by, dearest' My dear For
tescue, good by!”
Ho swung lightly down and stood In
the road.
Forteseue halted; ho trembled In
every limb; his eyes were filled with
unbidden tears; his voice rose into a
scream of agony.
"Charlie, we’ll die together!" said he.
"(Jo on, old fellow, for her sake!"
And Charlie struck the horses with his
sword. They galloped on, Clara with
her head bowed down, Forteseue weep
ing sobs of mlngl ed rage and grief.
The rebels saw their prey. He stood
facing them a* if on dress parade) Ills
helmet had fallen off, and Ms fair head
shone in the sunlight, forming s
strange contrast to his blackened face.
They were on him as he finished hie
prayer. They rode a round him, afraid
to close In, the Jackals pulling down
the dying lion. He held the food fdr
five minutes. There Were a couple of
saddles emptied, and all was over.
Charlie Meredith lay in the blood
stained dust, his death a glorious tdh
serration.
Htern Laurence heard the story twen
ty minutes later. On came the sortie
he had ordered out, Maj. Forteseue at
its head. They eaught his slayers end
mowed them down with tlCrvous arm.
as the reapers do the wheat
"There he lies," anid a trooper.
And the stalwart fellows stood
around, with blinding tears 111 ibeit
eyes. They watched the living rival
tenderly lift that precious form. He
held him to Ids bosom, as though he
would warm him back to life. He suf
fered no other hands to touch hlig as
they journeyed hack to Lucknow.
Sir Henry Laurence met them at the
gale of the Residency. Ho lifted his
helmet to tlio procession.
“ ‘Greater love hath no man than
this, that he lay down his life for bis
friends,’" said the great, Englishman,
solemnly.
Both he and Charlie lie burled in tiie
Residency garden together. Clara's
eldest boy is named Charles Meredith
Forteseue, ami upon the tablet 111 the
Forteseue church erected to Charlie's
memory are engraved the words of Sir
H. Laurence.--H. Parks,in N. Y. Ledger.
OUR BEAU IDEAL.
Virtues of the Mail Wo Moan I, to Marry
Hut Didn't.
What a model of order ho was! Never
aimed burned matches under grates or
into corners, and never Uttered man
tels and tables with scrap tobacco and
Kray ash. We never had to follow lu
his wake, picking up discarded Kar
men Is, sorting shoes and tidyinK pa
pers, with a view to answering “why
things weren’t left where they were
put!"
Under the most vexatious circum
stances our ideal man was always the
same whole-souled, genial, generous
fellow, keeping all his troubles to him
self, sharing all his pleasures with us,
and shielding us from all knowledge
of the disagreeable side of life; the
world might batter him to the very
door, but we weren’t to know It. Ho
must come in smiling, and ready to
sympathize with us if the Jam wouldn't
jam or the blue got streaked in the
starch.
With womanly Inconsistency while
wishing for a slave we also yearned for
intermittent intervals of dominating
lordly assertion, for moments when we
recognised our will as secondary, and
proudly, though grudgingly, submitted
to a higher power. The ideal man al
ways rewarded such submission by In
creased tenderness and deference ot
mien, loading us to think that wo had
had our own way after all.
That ho was rich goes without say
ing, though our impractical youth did
not insist on that point; but what man
is ideal without the glamour of gold?
Hid we marry him? No, oh, no! It
takes time to produce perfection, and
the world isn’t quite si* thousand
years old.—Mary . O’thilllvan. in
Donahue's Magazine.
The lleauty of It.
Some men never grow tired of admir
ing their wives, and oneof these, whose
wife was a handsome girl, was recent,
ly showing a friend anew house thev
had just moved into.
"I can t say I admire the house," said
the friend candidly, as they looked at
It from the front gate.
"Well, there's one beauty about it
said the owner.
“Where?”
“On the inside " ■
“What is it?"
"My wife," and after that it seemed
to the jnend that th- whole place wo*
heeuUfu I.—Detroit Free Press.
h “ y . Bay “ P ° rOU * cure
l* Bta **P>*ttng." “It would
“iw ,f | P TO P erl >’ aPPHea." “How?"
J iMter it pyor the
Bmiih, g arpar’n Ba*nr. *
WOMAN AND HOME
Novelties in shops.
hpai'H •'Masts’' Ars Orowlo* In Fopa
ls r Favor—Row a U'l* Company tin
Da Srrvod In a Small Oinlnx-Boom-A
Charming Tea Hrl I" from the Orient.
The lessons we have learned from
the Japanese have for a I° TI K time
done good service; hut the fashion of
arranging tables In “nests” la only
now being copied by makers nearer
home. In our small rooms and in the
apartments that yearly grow In favor
any device for economizing space Is
Important. These tables are In nests
TItK NSW JSPANK.SK TRA-KfctTl.K,
that occupy the splice only of one and
that can at need bo separated and
lifted cacti to its appointed place. AH
are, Indeed, boons to *he entertainer;
1 onOC saw H large company served
with slipper In comparatively small
rooms with absolutely no confusion by
the help of a number of Japanese
‘‘nests." They stood before supper id
corners here and lliero and occupying
littlft spttce. Suddenly, when the ap
pointed time arrived, attendants lifted
them out, separated them and placed
them hero and there, M that, every
guest found ft convenient place In
which to rest the plate of salad, the
glass of punch and the refreshing Ice.
The new styles show Inlaid tops and
many really beautiful designs. They
can he bought for forty dollars a bests
for four nr five.
The very quaintest form of the tea
table Icettlo comes from Japan and is
made of bronze in varying colors. The
support is a silver stork from whose
beak the kettle hang*, Hud Hie kettle
Itself It* (if a warm brown tone. The
whole stands upon a flat strip of orna
mented bronze in which the lamp Is
set. The price complete is fifty dollars.
A rather lal-go sum to pay tor a simple
kettle, but small compared with what
many jvomen spend upon mere fancies.
Near-sighted persons, or those who
have learned to like the lorgnette,
will he glad to learn of s tie:* form of
eyeglass that contains the convenient
handle with less space and smaller di
mensions. Very pretty designs In fine
gold-plate are made with slender sir id
like handles that fold when not In use
Against the eyepieces and can so be
carried In a small case. Their price Is
gft.Rn. What It.would ho In solid gold
or sliver I cannot toll, as thrde are tha
only ones seen so fsc
Tw-o HoW desks, both designed lo
economize space, are put upon the
market in tempting shape. One, when
closed, Is a simple, substantial square
table of oak that can be used for a
dozen purposes; when open It contains
a perfect desk Arid an excellent mir
ror. Its price Is $S,‘. The other costs
only a trifle more— ?S5, to he exact. It
Is of white enamel, stands about 5 feet
high, and, while only occupying tha
depth of an ordintPy book sftelt, pro
vides for a generous number of vol
umes and gives ample writing space.
It Is wonderfully graceful in design.
There are two upper shelves, the door
to the desk that w hen let down be
comes a table and behind Whldh are
pigeon holes, drawers and the like,
and below again two shelves more. To
complete It arc brass candlesticks at
tached one on each side of the desk.
W herever It may he placed, or at any
time of the night, a soft, perfect light
falls upon the paper and the writer la
enabled to work under the most per
fect conditions.—Clare Itunce, In Chi
cago Uccord.
FAMILY SCRAP BAG.
WomKh have uhandoned spoon col
lecting for silver hatpins.
Do.\ r backbite your neighbors un
less you want them to bite back.
It is far more easy lo acquire a for
tune like a knave than to expend it
like a gentleman.
China or glass dishes are the only
safe things in which ’ left-overs'’ may
bo allowed to standi
WnMK for the best salaries or wages
you can get, but work for half-price
rather than be idle.
The new veraion of the golden rule
these days is; "Po onto Others as they
would like to do unto you.’’
A MUTUim of two parts of crude oil
to one of turpentine, applied with a
soft cloth, mukesun excellent furniture
polish.
When you are buying a horse don’t
consult a pedestrian, and when you are
courting a woman don’t ask advice of
a bachelor.
Breathing through the Bose is the
only proper way to sleep. If you
awake in the night and find your
mouth open, get up and shut it.
TF.LErnoNFMETER is the new instru
ment that registers the time of each
conversation at the telephone from the
time of ringing up the exchange to thl
ringing-off signal.
Anew substance, called valzin, is
now being manufactured in Berlin
under a patent, and it la claimed to he
two hundred times sweeter than sugar
and free from certain objectionable
properties of saccharin.
ffo boß* Gild.
Builder- Vjs ; a if, this Hbilse has just
been BnlP.¥u, inclds for rent at very
fC&Sonahl; SgnreS.
Home Seeker— Will you give me a
lease for five years?
Builder—Five years? You must be
daft. In halt that time it will he
dry enough for mo to Jlva In mvseif.—
I>. V. Weekly.
‘ hum- tnd f'flfoctt
“ f like 'llls bat," (mq Isabel,
•• I' makes mv fare look loag smt sell,
" hea ilear fuVvir suit ilia b;ij
It mode hit tav loon longer rJifch
WHEN BABY BATHE&
Berent Small. Detail* tYh'ch Sbonld W*l
, Me ff#*leed.
Before baby takes the all-over morn*
fng bath, there are several small de
tails to be attended to, which will
simplify matters for nurse or mother,
and (five to the little one a comforta
bly-cleanly person.
Have at hand a cupful of lukewarm
water, together with two pieces of soft
old linen, one of which, dipped In
water, will cleanse the corners bf the
eyes, While the othef; wet with borax
and water and passed about Inside ihe
lips. will give the month a wholesome
sweetness.
The head bath comes next. A relvpi
sponge or the palm of the hand shdnld
be dipped in water to which has been
added a teaspoon ful of borax, and
passed across the silky head-fuxz,
which Is then dried with some soft
fabric.
Now the tiny bather is ready for a
body-bath. The temperature of the
water must be carefully suited to ita
system. If healthy anil vigorous, It
will enjoy a tubful of tepid Wilier;
but, If not very fobUst, baby should be
given a daily sponge bath fot* tieVoVal
months, followed by a vigorous *nb
with alcohol or olive oil, applied with
the palm of the hand. Klthfr the al
cohol or the oil will he found strength
ening and S preventive of colds. but
the alcohol, <*i account of Its drying
propensities, Is less desirable than the
oil.
Speaking of baby’s hath, perhaps
some mot tiers would appreciate ft hint
Its to the getting up of ft unique little
tub, which will furnish this sweetest
piece of nature's bric-a-hrac with the
morning ablution.
Take a tin dlshpan—the largest Of
its kind—ftnd enamel ontside and in
With some falnt'hned enamel, either
violet, rose, azure or buttercup yellow.
If anything of an artist, the deco
rator may toticH Up the sides And bot
tom of the pan with oils, scattering
across the enamel surface ft few feath
ery grasses, or blossoms.
A couple of big bows decking the
handles complete the beauty of this
masquerading dlshpan, but when the
tub is In active use, the lustrous
lengths of ribbon will have to be ban
ished to some other corner of the in
fantlle wardrobe, or laid aside until
called upon to add beauty to the basin,
when it Is brought lint to receive the
admiration Of the little king orquceu'S
willing subjects.—Holden Days.
AN OAK-LEAF DOILY.
A Flees of Handiwork Suitable far a
i'iiiristmas tilft.
The dak-leaf doily is one of many
unique varieties sueing for favor.
Tills piece of handiwork Is easily
fashioned, and When finished lifts a de
cidedly holiday air. Heavy white
satin is the foundation goods. First
secure n gracefully-shaped leaf ns a
pattern. You can have on ook loaf
stamped upon a square of the material,
and then rut. out the edges, or jrbtt mny
draw off, using a big leaf ns a guide,
your pattern upon paper. All that, la
OAK-LSAF DOILY.
necessary where you wish an extra
aired doily Is to allow ample snare for
the center, when the leaf placed neat
the edges will guide you In making
an outline. Whitewash embroidery
silk finishes stem and leaves prettily.
This Is worked about the edges In
buttonhole stitch. A Hey Aapaeasa
gold thread is carried along fts yotl
work the edges of each leaf, the but
ton-hole stitch catching the gold
thread down and holding It in place
directly upon tha edge. Wash tinsel
or gold thread, tevy flue in quality, Is
employed to vein the center of the
leaf. Satin damask or any one of the
art fabrics In white may be used in
fashioning a set of oak-leaf doilies.
liir£ No Vork ifHrriM;
Three young women who will a**,
tract a great deal of attention In New
York this winter arc Helen Gould.
Gertrude Vanderbilt and Virginia Fair.
Mlbs Gouhl I possessed of more money
in her own right than any young un
married woman in this city to-day,
says Foster Coates in Frank Leslie’s
Weekly. Her fortune is in the neigh
borhood of gKVfHKI.OOdi Jllal half fha
sum that gossip sets down to the credit
of Miss Mary Garrett, of Baltimore.
Miss Vanderbilt will be the richest of
the season's debut autos. If alt goes Well
she will some day he the possessor of
as much money as Miss Garrett. Miss
Fair inay Seetn poor in comparison,
for rumor credits her with being worth
. only ?1,000,000. Of these three young
I fr omen Miss Gould is the eldest, and,
like Miss Vanderbilt, much of her life
i lias been given up to chftrildhle UfW.
Miss Fair is strikingly beautiful. All
! °f these young women have admirers
| and it would not bo surprising if they
should become matrons during the
next twelve months.
Appetising Cold siarp
Put two beaten eggs into il lm (hip;
add to these four tablespoonfuis of
Vinegar, art even le&sjioonftil 0 f
laiistnt'd, IWtt tablespoonfuis ol salad
oil end oge of sugar. Stir this mixture
°' rr Hie fire until it becomes n smooth.
! slightly-thickened seuce. Pour this
1 over shredded cabbage, end pi.-we on
| th# ice W w ; 4i
Bezln-ilng Practice at Once.
j Mr. Ia into Miss Rosalie, I under*
; stand that you’ve been attending the
lectures on: “How to Treat Ordinary
Illnesses?’ 1 J
Hhe—Ye.
. He (drawing r,csi-cr)--r ft n f n you
toll mo what you would dq fora broken
heart? —Vogue.
A Wco lloutekcoper.
J/lttle Oirl (helping her mnthq;)*-
\ye (Rtwcd the stew und •quashed tb
now what hU I do next?-'
I .. ' ~. I
scHboL an 6 churcM.
—The Income o I Oxford university is
1380,000.
—McGill university, Montreal, baa a
department of pathology, which was
recently endowed by a gift of 1100,000.
—There are only four teachers in the
United States who receive a salary an
high ns 110,000 a year, and three of
them are college presidents.
—Ten thousand religious services
were cbhdhcted slid Too.orto Visit* made
by the sgents of the Metropolitan Tab
ernacle Colporlags association last
year. The tdtal ralnbot sales amount*
to fiO.wjs Ids lod.
—Mrs, John ,t. Aiklfis, of Philadel
phia, litis the pen with which Robert
Raikes. of England, inscribed the names
of the children who attended the find
Sunday-school in the world, one hun
dred and thirteen years ago.
—Only 51, out of HUS Christian En
deavor societies in the Reformed Church
of America have yet Joined the Chris
tian Endeavor Missionary league of
that church. These 51 pledge an aver
age amount of over >B5 a year to mis
sions:
—The total Increase of baptists in
the United States for the decade I*Bo
- was 1,183(758. The g* in among
northern Baptists was 103,(001 south
ern, 359,M0( colored, ili'rtr.y 700,000.
The total gain of the Cortgl egntloflal-
Isis for the same period Was 138,487; of
the Methodist Episcopal (north), 587,-
854; of the Presbyterian (norths 314,-
035; of Ihe Episcopal, 18S,8flS,
n A South Australian Christian En
deavor society has Inaugurated anew
kind of social. Tothissocial the mem
bers bring things to eat, but they do
not eat them. They Cover a large table
With loaves rtf broad, bags of (lour,
rice, oatmeal, together With gifts of
money, ahd these things are handed
over to the lady missionary of the
church, to distribute among the poor.
Several of the Adelaide societies have
thus found that “it Is better to give
than to receive.”
The increase nf the Christian popu
lation rtf British India, during the
twenty years from 1873 to lain, exceed
ed (id per cent, and 45 per cpnt. for all
India. But it is a singular circum
stance that the native Christians have
not received any substantial measure
of local self-government from the Eu
ropean or American religious bodies to
which they belong. The British gov
ernment has moved !rt advance nf the
Christian churches In gi-ahting a de
gree of political enfranchisement and
a measure of local self-government to
the Indian people as a whole.
—The gsncl-nl missionary commiltc
of the Methodist Episcopal Chbfoh, in
scssio nat Minneapolis recently de
cided upon the sum of $1,150,000 ns the
total to bn appropriated for the work
of domestic and foreign missions for
the ensuing year. The financial
report of the year, submitted by Dr.
San lord Hunt, of New York, said in
brief that the gross receipts for the
year showed a decrease of nearly SHI,.
000, slid that lllstead of the balance of
$4-4,000 which stood to the ct'ed 11 of
the committee on November 1 of last
year, it was now confronted with a
treasury debt of $100,3(18, and adding
to this ml outstanding bill of exchange
of $78,018 made a total indebtedness of
$188,300. The total expenditures of
the year were $1,850,345.
TWO GRASSHOPPERS.
A Store Strongly Resembling Mark T train's
‘■Jumping Frog of CnlHTerns.”
John Mackey < the mining millionaire,
has in his employ at Cftfson, Nev., nn
expert named Maurice Hocflich, who
always offers to l<ack Ills opinion hy
belting. This annoys Mackay, who
d<H‘s not llkr to be disputed, and is
further fretted by tlifi fact that Hoe
flich usually proves to be in tlie rig'll I,
One day Uoeflich was playing with an
enormous grasshopper. It could jump
Ovct twenty feet, and he said;
‘‘l'll ped you fifty dollars, Mr. Mac
kay, dot you can’t find a hopper to peat
him.”
Mackay sent a trusted emissary down
to Carson valley to secure a contestant.
The mini "peni nearly a week catching
hoppers, and reported that the liest
gait any of them made was seventeen
feet. He doubled if a better jumper
could lie found anywhere.
The next day he arrived with about
k do/,eH hopper", and Mackay gave
them quarters in his rooms as Vander
bilt would stable his stud. Bach had
a cigar box to himself, and every morn
ing they were taken out and put
through their pacesl It was impossi
ble, hotVevift', to get one In jump over
eighteen feet. Mackay Was in despair;
but one morning a hopper sniffed at a
bottle of ammonia on the table and
immediately jumped thirty feet.
Next day Mackay announced to Hoo-
Jlich that he was ready for the match,
i M expert Same an hour before the
time with ills pel llbpftfcr. Not finding
Mackay in, he noticed the buttle of am
monia. A light broke upon him. Grab
bing the bottle, ho rushed to a drug
store, threw alVtty the ammonia and or
dered it to be filled with chloroform,
Mackay soon arrived with a half do/.efl
mining superintendents, whom he in
vited to sSe hllfi ha some fun with
Hoettich. They were hardly seated
when Hoettich came in with the hop
per in a cigar box under his arm.
"1 vaa A Icetla fate, Mr, Mackay, but
I'm here raid der hopper ttttd rter oin."
He laid down the money, which was
hovered promptly. Mackey got behind
somebody and IKt his hopper sniff at
the ammonia bottle, which Held lloe
fl jell's chloroform.
'1 ime being called, the hoppers were
placed stdf! by aide on the piazza, and
at the word “Go" cadi one was touched
on the back with a straw, lloe/Hch’s
entry scored twenty-four feet. Mac
kay a gave a lazy lurch of some four
inches, and, folding his legs, fdtl fast
luslocp.—The Million.
Atiuifill His Favorite.
‘Tt is sad to set the ehill 61 autumn
ietlllfijt o'er the World." she said
“ Wh y I believe it i*/' re
plied the young man.
“Autumn always fills me with sad
ness,” she went on. “Even with you,
I know I shall be sorrowful when the
Ifdfti kills thfl l(*aT*A and leaven the
world so desolate."
“No, you won’t.” he answered, posi
tively. “I’ll fix that"
“How?"
“1 m going into the coal business.”-
N. Y. Mercury.
Fellow-Sufferers.
t irst Thin Man—What makes you so
thin, -friend?
Recqnd-Thin Man-Why, I'm a jockey
-beep training to win racy;. IV hat
makes ybw so,thin?
I' ltst Thin Man — Well, J>e been bet
ting you would win;—fuM*. 1
The reader of*
learn that there iH tHut ill
* dCn ™ hsi Wn' rr
all its stage*. n ,| tha , -a abls y,.'lyWMli
Catarrh Cum in ti,„ ' , ( 'arrh Ml
known to the modi, mi r,. v l K, ltivs U,| ( B
cOMfitatlona l treataicii V >, Hi
of the tts V o d Tal' Vint 5 E
{y building' aphtha 111,1 P.uS 11
and assisting natnreln doi B g|u? nwl ‘w2 Ei
Dollar* for any chap t* { . Hinux-. Eb
Head for II.H of U!Z2l* " f " ils ■
After all, It. la the rendition e 4 iss
regulates the fashions N ,l, ?: fjfo U* B
garments n,-e worn longer i„ . klh,! ' < B
In prosperous ones. - Boston .a,>• B
A rniLosopnr.a Is a man s„‘a fl
to argue with others until B
down thcm.-Ualvoalon News shc a H
Keep Your Weather r.„ od ,_
Erand loves a shining marl, o (IMi
rsa^,t.rs?.ssat|
ralglft, rheumatism and kidner?’ JJ* B
These I nutations are usually B
lers full of high wines. iZk ■
firm signature on Uie genuine t.Sf ll * fl
vignette of Ht. tleorgo and th. ** ■
Youno Max—“ Tommy, von tn m
nice little bey i" Tnmmv -“NoStSS 1 ■
that way to me, Mr. |i,- and A ■
ready has a follow."-Truth w ■
Tim breath of su*nhlon~U B
Bvcnted with cloves (Vk ■
I
. "Ear Ihsssst nine yssrs , hmrt , n>M , __ 1
(• have been rloMed up. and In roiimii>£ft I
WAa nOSnltl *<i hraatho through mr now MrhrMill H
became rery nrtd And nffcnMTi. l‘odc, l
saarttK-ourng.a iZST., I
•ou.Mcrahie about tit*good help, (Ton#kjllPsfi I
Hood’s s p>Cures
PArMwii-ina and decide to civett iri.i, n5 4
not token morathan on# hotlfii h#for# liwmnta
• banaflt nnd nrtor tn klhk iwn tiffiiipgbivoimma
r#sM/.#d. It* eflWts Mato w.,n^
IP I!* Ilk# anew mn," Al( vmith u
North Twelfth Bi. ue sure to got Hood'i. rr ** ll
Hood’s Pills rd piiTTly votroubir, anddu
not purge, pain or gripr. Mold by ail clriigUlt
CURBS
COUGHS, COLDS,
AKI>— —
INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION,
LOUIS COOK, Nrw G*t raws. iy: ''lt rf**
me grea' pleasure to he abld to MV that Locock I
Cough Ktixir is the best preparation for coußhi
and colds I ever used-and I M44 a good
maii/. I cheerfully rccommcod it.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
PRICE, 800. and ti.oo.
Prepared by I. L. LYONS ACO.
Kevr Orleans, lab
Fwe cannot
spare
healthy flesh nature never
burdens the body with too
much sound flesh. Loss of
flesh usually indicates poor as
similation, which causes the
loss of the best that’s in food,
the fat-forming element.
Scott’s Emulsion
of pure cod liver oil with hypo
phosphites contains the very
essence of all foods. In no oth
er form can so much nutrition
be taken and assimilated. /
range of usefulness has no limita
tion where weakness exists.
?fDar#d by Scott * Bcwii*. Oheit. jE
Now * ork. Sold by alt draggiito
"German
Syrup”
My niece, Emeline Hawley, wab
taken with spitting blood, and
became very ranch alarmed, > ea . 8
that dreaded disease, Consurnp
She tried nearly all kinds of tnn
cine but nothing did her any ? j
Finally She took German Syntp*
the told me It did her
than anything she ever tr,e . h
stopped the blood, gave her strength
and ease, and a gooU apF
had it froth her own J
Mary A, Stacey, Trumbull, &
Honor to German Syrup.
CURES RISING
•' BREAST
WiMsrjMS
where ‘'Mother'* Frlenu rclj( , T ert n>' ic j
K-ooroplisteil for rl/l"?. ”!
rmffcrinpc. It I* the ILi. the pries for ®*T
sa
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