Tlie<':il»' lei Party. Five pretty little pussy-cats. Invited out to tea. fried: "Mother, let lis go—oh, do! for good we'll surely he. We'll wear our bibs and hold our things as you have shown as how Spo< ns in our right paws, cups in loft— and make a pretty bow; We'll always say. 'Yes. if you please, and "Only half of 1 hut.' 4 "Thou go. nsy <!:irliujr children," saiu the happy mother cat. The prt ny little pussy-cats went out tlo'.t night to tea; Their heads were smooth and glossy M.u'U; their tails were swinging free; They held their things as they had leariied. and tried to be prilite— With snowy bibs beneath their chins they were a pretty sight. But ah! id;:s for manners good, and coats us soft as silk! The moment that the little kits were asked to titUc some mill? They dropped their spoons, forgot to bow. und —oh. what do you thinkV They t.r.t their noses in the cups, and all began to drink! Yes. every iiauglitv little ki: net up a mew for more; Then knocked the teacups over quick, and scampered through the door. —Our Dumb Animals. T.il e al OompeninitlOTi. The author of "inside Our Gate" tells of an exciting encounter between the family dog and an uni/xin c:ed caller, and of the various and unexpected re sults which followed it. Don was a very mild dog. but one morning, as he lay at the k.teli n d or a "vegetable man," suddenly turning tin 1 corner startled liim from his nap. He (lew at tlk» man. caught hitu by the trouseir. and ripped on ■ h g nearly u.» to the waist. Th * man shriek.'d. and that sent Hilda flying into the p.irlo,. My mother taking u r grant d that the man was bitten, and that he w.ts vi ry angry, ventured to tlu door to ask about it. There stood the veg table man, hold ing the cloth about his leg. and when lie saw her he asked in a very mild tone If siie would please lend him a thread and needle. "1 really must apolog'ze," he sild, "for coming so suddeulj upon the dog. He is quite excusaoTe; but i regret this rent, because I have on my b st pants. My wife insisted on my wearing tluin. as 1 was to.mlng t<» the village; but it can't be helped now." Hilda gave him a stout thread and needle, and he sat on the back st p and "sewed himself up." Meauv liile my mother, quite taken aback by his mild maimer, sought out a pair of my oldest brother's trousers, brought tlieni to the man, And gave him two dollars. , "1 in under gwrit obligations to y.iu. ma'am," said he. "These pants 1 have on only cost $3.50 and the pair you have given me are worth fully that. 1 am afraid my wife will think I haw over-reached you. You must let me give you a basket of pears." My mother insisted on buying th > pears, and the limn went off in high spirits, saying. "Don't blame the dog; he was entirely excusable, entirely.' Some weeks after this my brother couldn't find a certain pair of trousers that he wanted to wear. They were almost new, ho said, and he was sure he left them in his closet wlr n li> went to the city. My mother opened her eyes at me. "Were they expensive trousers?" she asked. "No." said he."l only paid sl2 for them; but they were new and 1 liked tlieni." The tale of those trousers became a family mystery. Making tke Itett of It. When grandma came into the nurs ery, she saw Ted staring out of the window with a scowl on his forehead. Mary Bstlia was lying stretched out on the floor, drumming her heels up and down; and Dick was pulling the cats tail. "What's the matter, Teddy?" she asked. sittii>g down in her chair aud beginning her knitting. "Oh. this rain is such a bother!" said Ted. "1 was going over to John's to make a b'rdhouse, and 1 t>ok my toots over last night to have them there; arid now I can't go because I've got a cold and it rains." "1 saw a .carpenter making a mud house the other morning without toils." began grandma; and the three children came over, und clustered aluuud her chair. "And that wasn't all." she went on. "lie had no arms, and he made it w.tli liis head." "He acted very odd, too," said grand ma, lifting Dick up on her lap. "First he rubbed his floor in, and he sang a funny little song as he did it. Then he went off for more mud. When he got back, he walkid in every direct on'but the right one. and I thought he had lost his way; but really 1 think he wanted to make me stop watching hlui. fir he Anally got there, and he went on lu'.ldlng. always singing his qllcer little song. After his pile of mud was large enough, he pressed his head against one end until lie had bored a little round room In it. I thought It must Uj hard work; but lie always sting an I seemed determined to make the lies of It." "Where Is his home?" asked Dick. "Out 111 the roof of the back porch." mild gruiuliua. So they all scampered off to tilel it. "Oli, yes!" said Ted. pointing up In one corner. "There It U. It la a mud dauber's 111-St." "It's u wasp's. I think." said Dick. "WvH, a mud-diMihur Is u wasp," said 'Jed, luughlug. "That's built better than I could do with tools," went on Ted. "I believe I'll make the best of It. too." So. when grandma saw them again. Ted was mending Mary Estha's doll's head, which had waited a long time for the glue medicine, Mary Esther was sewing on her doll's quilt, and Dick was rubbing up the nickel parts of their bicycle; and they sang so hard and worked so steadily that, when the dinner-bell rang, they were surprised tc find the rain all stopped and the sun shining.—l"plook. Haw a IJnlky Horse Was Conquered. A sound, young horse to be had al most for a song—but a worm lurkeii In the peach—the worm of balkl ness. "Not cannot always make im go, sometime not having pulling empty wagon, and dot sometime coming down hill before coming up." patiently explained the honest old Finn, who owned him. Elsie looked at the horse thought fully. In some points he resembled her mental picture of Black Beauty. Yi s, she would buy him and trust to kindness und patience to overcome his bnlkiness. All went well the first week. Elsie drove to the village several times and the horse behaved so well his new mistress began to think he had been maligned. "I'll be back in two hours, mamma," said Elsie one afternoon as she drove out of the yard, but this time she had reckoned without her horse. When about half a mile from home. Jet, without any provocation, threw up his head defiantly and refused to take another step. In vain Elsie coaxed and urged. Jet remained ob durate. Elsie took him by the bridle to lead him. but lie planted his feet more firmly, tossed his head and threw back his lips in a fiendish grin. After an hour of soothing and fondling Jet started oft' sulkily, prancing and jump ing sidewlse. The uu.de of treatment was new to liini. His former master had always whipped him soundly dur ing these little exhibitions, and in the end Jet had triumphed, for, l/aving exhausted his master's patience, he would lie released from the y>*agon and returned to the stable., Elsie had many exWb'.t'ons of Jet's contrariness, and ytie learned by ob servation to t< 4rtf the signs of a storm before it/ broke u]>oii her. Twitching and dropping of the ears, the light, high lifting of the feet were unfavor able omens. When these symptoms -were noticed in time a few kinds words and a little fondling often ex orcised the evil spirit possessing the horse. Elsie's brother urged stronger and more heroic measures, but Els!e wished to triumph through kindness, if such a course were possible. ••I should like togo to the village this afternoon, but my wheel is broken," said Frank one sultry day. "Take Jet; he has been in the best of humor lately," said Elsie. "Keep on the right side of him," she cautioned, laughingly, as Frank drove off. An hour later Frank came up flfc road afoot. "Where, oh. where is Jet?" cried Elsie in alarm, for well she knew Frank's hasty, intolerant temper. "Down in the field. I wanted to un hitch him. but the vicious tiling will not let me get near liini. You see it was this way. 1 wanted to cross the stream and lie began to cut up without any provocation, and I—well, liefore I knew it 1 struck him." Frank's face reddened as ho saw the reproach in Elsie's eyes. "He Is always afraid crossing water. With a little patience it would have gone idl right. 1 know, though, just how you felt. I have often felt that way. but 1 think it best to try to control my self before assuming control of an animal. Well, never mind, I'll go down with you. and I'm going to taEe him to town if 1 possibly can. It will never do to give lu to him uow," was Elsie's decision. Jet. standing near a big stump, snorted angrily as he caught sight of Frank, but his whole mien changed as if by magic when he spied Elsie. He wlilnued entrentlngly, and when she reached his side h.* rubbed his head affectionately against her. With uot appearing to notice that anything was the matter, Elsie went up to the horse, took his quivering head in her hands and talked to him. gently rub bing his head, or patting hlsnose.U'itil lie forgot abiut his bad temper and allowed Frank to do with lilin whit he liked. She has noxv used liini over a year, and his balkluess has grown to be a thing of the past. "That whipping did some good," Frank often ass its. "It did not make liini go. but it showed hlui the differ ence between my treatment and yours. Ever since lie lias known enough to appreciate you. and not attempt his tiM'j,s ln_your l'ivs nee." "lie tinfgliTyT.u a lesson. also," Elsie retorts. "I have often noticed you striving to euib that unruly temper of yours." "You are right. Elsie. Those words of yours about learning to control one's self hit me badly. That lesson alone was worth the price of your horse." "It was worth more than S7.Y then, for 1 refused that for htm last week," answers Elsie. A. M. Zollinger, lu l'ets and Annuals. 'Twin u I iirrlipi Sun. "That Is the suiiM-t my daughtet painted. She studied painting abioud, you know." Friend—All. that explains It.l never saw a sunset Uke tUut lu this country. - j u\ H\U Sardine Sandwiches. Cut the bread In thin slices of plain or fancy shapes. Remove the sar dines from the oil and rinse in hot water. Take out thi bones and rub to a paste with the hard boiled yolk of an egg. Season the paste with salt, cayenne pepper, lemon juice and melted butter. Butter the slices of bread with the mixture and lay a let tuce leaf between the slices. •' An Appetizing Sauce. What is known as horseradish sauce—a delicious combination of tgg and whipped cream with grated horseradish—is now one of the most popular of the appetizing sauces to be served with cold meat. Take the pre pared horseradish, after it has been grated and allowed to become thor oughly saturated with vinegar. Squeeze every particle of the vinegar from three tablespoonfuls of the horseradish, and mix thoroughly with the yoke of an egg and half a t.'a spoonful of salt Add six tablespoon fuls of whipped cream and mix again. Serve with the meat, or on a separate dish bordered with parsley. Peacli Mol l*. Soak two level dessertspoonfuls ot granulated gelatine in half a cup of cold water for two minutes; stir into the dissolved gelatine a pint of boiling water, the juice of one orange, juice of half a lemon and half a cup of sugar (usually have the sugar dis solved with the fruit juices); pour in to live cups previously moistened with cold water and set aside to harden; peel and cut into small slices two large or three small yellow peacht#, and just as the jelly commences to congeal push tLV peach slices down into the jelly (divide the peach Into five equal parts); serve with the molds turned out on sauce dishes and piled with whipped cream. Fit for an K|»k*ure. When economy must be with good cooking, be«*f sweetbreadi are used instead of calves and tin most epicurean member of the faniilj will never know the difference. Sweetbreads with tomatoes is perhaps the greatest favorite and is made thus: Strain a pint of cooked toma toes (canned answer well) through u course sieve, thicken with a table spoouful and a half each of tlour and butter blended together, cook, stirring carefully, until very thick, then add three each of jieppercorns and cloves, a bay leaf or chopped parsley, a tea spoouful of good sauce and enough burned sugar caramel) to give a rich, clear color. Parboil two pairs of sweetbreads, and when cold break up into small bits, rejecting skin and gristle, stir Into the cooked tomato, which lias been allowed to cool, turn into a pint pudding dish and bake fo 44) minutes covered. Keiuove cover spread over with stale breailcrumb: and (lots of butter and brown fort few moments on the top shi If off hot oven. If the oven is in use cool) In doubk' bailer and use only to brown as above. The first slow cooking is important, as it takes time to blend the smee properly with the sweetbreads. These sweetbreads are also (U-Ucious creamed thus: Prepare as above, add pepper and salt to taste. Put a tin spoonful of butter in a saucepan, mdt without browning, stir in a table spoonful of sifted tlour; now add. st'.r rlng constantly, half a pint of liat milk or. better still. crejMii; when this b >ilg stir in the sweetlveads and cook for five minutes in the double boiler stir ring occasionally. Serve in shells or to vary and make the sweetbreads go further use eases of puff paste. To vary again, mix with mushrooms, chopped fine, before cooking in double boiler. VV»itii*liol<l Hint*. Lamps are not so detrimeutal ta house plants as gas. Apples supply the highest nerve :uul muscle food, but do not give stay. A few crops of eau de colcgne in the water used for washing is most re freshing to sick people. Following the English fashion, crisp, tender celery stalks are often nowadays luiuded around w.th cream eln ese and crackers at dinner Just be fore the coffee is served. For custards, live eggs and as many tablespoonfuls of sugar to a quart of milk is the general rule. Heat the milk ami turn niton the beaten iggs and suj,i r, stirring constantly. A simple way to give a tlnuly touoh to the service of an lee at a home din ner is to use frozen custard, taking out the cream in big rounded M'o n tuls, and putting them In insta of whipped cream. A good polish for furniture Is ilßlde with half a pint each of vinegar, spirits of wine, Unseed oil an I tar pent Inc. Mix together in a bottle and ■tonkin well. Apply it i<< 111# furniture with a piece of old "flannel and [oll>h with a soft, dry duster. The soapstone griddle must be mad « very hot before the I Hitter Is IKiUr.d upon it. Such a grlddl" should l-e heated gradually but must b* hot en ough to bake the cake quickly. Never grease a aoapstone griddle. If tlt • cakes stick It Is because the gr.Ulle .a not hot enough. Chinese Shop 81(H|. The signboards (chao-pal) of the shops form a very curious feature in the streets of a Chinese town. These signs, as well as notices of the wares sold, are inscribed in large characters on both sides of pretty lacquered per pendicular boards, which are occa sionally fastened up, but very fre quently hung up outside the shop fronts, so as to attract the attention of passersby; with this view long large strips of doth are very commonly hung across the street, on which the names and designations of the shops are stamped or painted. The notices on the boards outside Chinese shops describe fully the business that la car ried on Inside. Facta About the Agile Fly. Somebody has found out that in pro portion to its size a fly walks thirteen times as fast as a man can run. Just as though everybody did not know that! But why putin the"in propor tion to its size?" A fly can make a complete circuit of a big room while a man is raising his band to biff the little torment.—Boston Transcript. LTaTO hair has ► nam no me. ► It is starved. It keeps ► *< coming out, gets thinner' and thinner, J ►< bald-spots appear, < ► then actual baldness. \ ► The only good hair s s? ran u- Hair ~.i: visor < the roots, stops i 4 starvation, and the > y i hair grows thick and long. It cures dan- < ► druff also. Keep a *4 * it on your < dressing table. It always restores ► color to faded or gray > ► hair. Mind, we say / 5 "always." * SI.OO a bottle. All druggists. L "I have foun<l your Hair Vigor 4 '. to bo the l*st remedy I have ever . . tried for tlie hair. My hair was i ► falling out very had, so 1 thought 4 I would try a nottle of it. I Ead r . y ueed only one liottle, and my hair " i stopped falling out. and it is tow k k real thick and long." 4 XlJ'i'V J. MOCNTCA STt.F, k July 28, 1596. Youkers, Is. Y. % * WrHm thm Doctor. * , ne will send yon hit book on Tb# 1 Hair and Scalp. 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Flavors: Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c. Every German regiment has a chiropo dist in its ranks. Did Ton Ever Ron Across an old letter—ink all faded rtat? Couldn't have been Carter's Ink for it doesn't fade. Russia in Europe has a forest area of about 500,000,000 acres. Happiness cannot be bought, but one of the great hindrances to Its attainment can be removed by Adams' Pepsin Tuttl Fruttl. The charms of solitude depend largely on the man who is to be charmed. The Best Prescription fur Chills and Fever Is a bottle of GROVS'S TASTSLSSS CHILL TONIC. It la simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c. London now has girl district messen gers as well as boys. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F. BOYER, Trinity Springs. Ijd., Feb. 15,1800. American nails have driven Belgian nails out of the Chinese markets. W. H. Griffin, Jackson, Michigan, writes. 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