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BeRefonte, Pa., June II, 1897.
' A POODLE ON A WEDDING TRIP.
A wedding trip is the time of timesin a
man’s life when he should be blissfully hap-
py. No calamity, however appalling ; no
annoyance, however trival, should ruffle his
good nature or cause him a moment’s annoy-
ance. Yet Sometimes circumstances over
which there is no control will arise.
I believe that I am blessed with an ordina-
ry amount of good nature. I havea fair stock
of patience, and Ilove my wife devotedly.
Yet the two weeks immediately following
my marriage were the most miserable
days I ever spent. The cares of matrimony
weighed lightly upon me, but the care of my
wife's pet dog caused me fourteen days of an-
guish and fourteen nights of sleeplessness.
My misfortunes commenced when I began
to dress for the wedding. Somehow I imagin-
ed that I would be late, and my preparations
were consequently made in a very big hur-
ry. It hasalways been a matter of wonder-
ment to me the human nature which collar
buttons, neckties, shoestrings, etc., show
when one is in a hurry. It is needless to say
that on this occasion the aforesaid articles
behaved with their accustomed obstinacy.
They did it so well that I was in a fever of
apprehension lest they should not relent in
time. After much coaxing I managed to get
my collar button fixed and my shoe-strings
fastened, but my white tie would not come
right. So I finished my dressing, and stuffing
half a dozen ties into my overcoat pocket, I
drove to the church with the intention of
having my best man fix my tie for me. Of
course, I reached the church too early by at
least three-quarters of an hour. The best
man had been similarly afflicted with the
dread that he would be too late, so I found
him paging up and down the vestry-room.
He greeted me most heartily.
“Hello, Bobby! Got your nerve with
you ?”?
“I’m all right,” IT answered.
‘Well, brace up, man. You're as pale asa
sheet. Take off your overcoat, and make
yourself at home.”
“I don’t want to take off my overcoat. I
feel cold.”
‘“‘Pshaw ! you're nervous. I wonder why
they keep this room so confoundedly hot ?
I'm almost roasted.”
*‘I guess you're a little nervous yourself,”
I suggested.
“Who ? Me ? Nonsense! I am ascool as a
cucumber. Say, how long before she starts,
Bobby !”’
“I don’t know. I left my watch and all
my money in my room at the hotel, and I
forgot to lock the door. If some one steals
them we don’t have any bridal tour this
time,”’ I said dismally.
‘“You’re a nice one ! I suppose you fant
me to go and get them after the cere-
mony ?’; =
‘Wish you would, old chap. You see, I
can’t do it very well, and I'd be everlast—
Say, have you got the license and the
ring 2”
“You bet I have ! Here they are. Here's
the license and here’s the—where’s the ring?
I put it in my vest pocket, I'll swear. Where
the duce—"’
“Good Lord ?’ I ejaculated, ‘‘you haven’t
lost it ?”’
“Oh, no, I've got it somewhere.
worry. Where in the thunder——?”’
‘Oh, you’ve lost it and we can’t get mar-
ried and she’ll throw me over. I'm ruined !”’,
I exclaimed wildly.
“‘I—I can’t find it. I must have left it be-
hind. I'll go and getit. Won't be a second
old chap. Don’t worry!” And off he
rushed.
I didn’t worry. I sat huddled up on a chair
in the vestry-room, and had ' the chills and
fever steadily for five minutes. Then the
clergyman appeared. I explained the diffi
culty to him, and did his best to soothe me ;
but I could not be soothed. Time fled and
took the last remnants of my composure with
it. The jclergyman was just about to send
word to stay the proceedings when in bounc-
ed the luckless Chambers with the ring.
I heaved a sigh of relief and broke out into
a profuse perspiration. My fears were ban-
ished, and when the ‘Wedding March” be-
gan I stepped out into the church with
Chambers, a thrill of exultation pervading
me.
As we came into view an audible titter rip-
pled over the congregation. It nettled me,
and I could not imagine what the matter
was. Then all of a sudden, with terrible
force, the horrid truth burst upon me. I had
forgotten to put on my necktie.
I went into a trance right away and stayed
there. They tell me that I am married, but
I have no recollection of the ceremony. I did
not come out of my trance until the middle
of the reception, when I suddenly awoke
and found myself shaking hands with nu-
merous people whom I had never seen or
heard of before. :
At last train time came. We drove away
from the house, followed with the customary
showers of rice and old shoes, and were soon
ensconced in our seats in the Pullman,
Chambers buying our tickets and checking
our trunks. Not until then did I realize
that I was married. As the train glided
away from the station I turned tenderly to
my wife—and just then her maid came up.
My wife hasa dog. An infernal poodle.
She calls-it a Yorkshire terrier, but I know
better. And she brought that cur along on
our wedding journey. If I had seen it be-
fore we started the poodle would have gone
on our wedding journey alone. I didn’t,
though, and when the maid came up she
brought the animal with her. Of course, in
less than four seconds we had the Pullman
conductor and the porter about our ears,
fussing over that dog.
“Sorry to tell you, sir, the rules of the
company are that dogs must travel in the
baggage car.”
“Dat’s a mighty fine dog,” struck in the
porter. ‘I'll tek mighty good care of ’im
for you, sah.”
“Oh, Bob! The trunks will fall on him
and kill him, I know. Marie, where's his
basket ? Bob, give the porter five dollars,
Don’t
_/ give him fifty dollars. Let me have the
precious darling, Marie. Where's hig silver
collar? Oh, he'll be killed! Bob, suppose
the train should run off the track. He won't
get anything to eat. You don’t want to go
in the nasty baggage car, do you, darling ”?
ete., ad infinitum. In fact, all night.
I handed the porter a quarter and hé re-
moved the yowling nuisance. My wife re-
lapsed into tears, and I began to be annoyed
at the dog. :
1 forgot how many journeys I made to the
baggage car that night. I stopped counting
after the thirteenth, and, by the way, that
thirteenth visit was an unlcky one for the
dog. Ithink that my brutality may be ex-
cused under the circumstances, but I was
brutal to the beast. : .
The first thing my wife did in the morning
was to demand. the dog. She told me that
my arguments all bosh, and she didn’t
care for the rules ok the company, she was
going to have her dog, dnd nobody, not even
oid Pullman himself, was going to stop her.
So at the next station I got the dog, and my
wife came out on the platform, and went
down on her knees, and began to fondle that
long-haired blot upon the earth. She called
him “pitty sing,” “‘manny doollum,” ‘‘lamb-
kin pie,” and other endearing epithets, and
succeeded in making us the centre of an ad-
miring crowd of station loafers. I objected
to this publicity, so I picked up the dog by
the nape of the neck and started for the car.
Once inside, I got my first lecture. I was
called a brute, monster, inhuman wretch, ete.,
and all because I picked up the dogby the
neck. The bone of contention was sent back
to the baggage car, and I devoted the next
hour to squaring myself with my wife.
“Tt doesn’t hurt dogs to be picked up by
the neck. Their mothers always.carry them
that way.”
“Oh, it does. You are a cruel monster.
How would you feel if some one picked you
up by the neck ?”’
“Well, you see it’s different—""
“No, it's not at all different. If it would
hurt you it would hurt a dog. Do you think
my darling Dude hasn't any feelings ?’
“I know he’s got feelings. He evidences
that by howling dismally whenever meal-
time comes around. I presume that it is an
insult to his dignity to travel in a baggage
car. You'll have to explain the situation to
him when you have an opportunity. Tell
him it wasn’t my fault. I did my best for
him, but—""
“Oh, don’t be absurd. You evidently
know nothing whatever about dogs, and I'll
thank you to keep your hands off Dude in
the future.” :
“With pleasure, my dear,. I'm not fond of
fleas. But I'm right pone a dogup
by the neck. Haven't ever seen a cat
pick up a kitten that way ?”’ ;
‘‘Yes, but I never saw a dog do it.”
“Well, they do, and you would have seen
them if you had been around. It doesn't
hurt a bit. Don’t you suppose that Dude
would have howled if I had hurt him ?”’
“He generally does when he is hurt,” ac-
knowledged my wife, ‘‘and he did look so
cute with his little paws curled up and that
meek expression on his fage.”
“That showed he liked it. All dogs do.
You ought to pick them up that way at least
once a day. It’s good for them—strengthens
the muscles of the back.”
“I don’t care if it is. I don’t want him to
have a strong back, and I think the railroad
company is just too mean for anything. They
might let m@ have my dog.”
‘Are you aware, my dear, that most
hotels are hard-hearted and callous enough
to object to dogs also ?"’
“Do you mean to say that I won't be al-
lowed to have Dude in my room at the
hotel ?”’
‘Very probably not. devoutly hope—er
—look at the scenery, isn’t it beautiful ?”’
“Well, I shall just demand him. You can
pay extra.”
“I'll have to anyway.”
“I'm going to have him. You see if I
don’t.”
She did. Three hours later when we en-
tered the hotel at our destination she car-
ried the little beast under her cape and ran
the gauntlet triumphantly.
Wegot along with him very well at first.
When we left the room my wife put Dude in
the closet and he escaped notice for two
days. The third morning the clerk called
me aside and remarked confidentially :
‘Say, do you collect wild animals ?"’
“Why no,” said I, somewhat astonished.
‘‘Well, I just wanted to know. The cham-
bermaids said that you’ve got a wild cat ora
panther pinned up in your closet, and they’re
all afraid to go in your room. They say the
thing growls and cries and kicks up an awful
row. What is it, anyway ?”’
‘It's my wife’s pet dog,’ said I, wrathily.
We left that afternoon. For the next ten
days I wore myself to skin and bones pro-
‘viding for the comfort of poor little Dude.
I paid out many dollars in fees to porters, I
lied frightfully to hotel clerks, carried food
upstairs in my pockets, ruining. two sunits.of.
clothes thereby, and put myself out ‘in-ether
countless ways. And yet my wife fussed be-
use she couldn’t have her doggie at the
ble and take him -to the theatre, etc. It
as on the day we arrived in New York that
e tragic denouement came.
My wife and I had returned to our room
from dinner, to dress for the theatre. Dude
was placidly sleeping on the bed (my side),
and the chewed fragments of my silk hat
were scattered about the room. I repressed
a desire to swear, and commenced to dress.
I was putting the studs in my shirt when one
of them dropped on the floor and rolled un-
der the bureau. I gota cane and painfully
raked it out. Dude, who had waked up,
grabbed it as it appeared and ran under the
bed. I raked him out with the cane, and
tried to get the stud away from him. I
couldn’t catch him. He would let me get
within a few fect of him, and then he would
break away. I fooled with him for about
ten minutes, getting madder and madder all
the time. Suddenly he started off in a race
around the room, tearing madly ufider
chairs, over the bed and everywhere,
1 stood up and carefully calculated how
much he had cost me in the past two weeks,
including fees to porters, transportation,
ete., but mercifully leaving out the wear and
tear upon my feelings, the two suits of clothes
and the silk hat.
Then I drew a long breath, and just as the
little beggar passed me, I drove a $50 kick at
him. He landed up against the opposite
wall with a scrunch.
And now my wi” wants a divorce.
——The physicians of Ravenna, Ohio,
are about to form a trust for the purpose of
protecting themselves. against deadbeats
who never pay their doctor’s bills.
THE SPOILING OF A HORSE!
‘The following description of the method
employed by many persons in handling
horses, which we find in the Journal of
Medicine and Science, is not simply amus-
ing, but conveys useful suggestions to all
who own or have horses to manage, either
in the stable or on the road :
Enter the stable with an appearance of
great hurry and flurry ; rattle open the
sliding doors, and, if there are any swing-
ing doors or shutters, throw them back—
each with a loud “‘bang !"’ This will wake
the horse up, and if he happens to be a
nervous animal, will increase the chance of
his running away, before the day is over,
about fifty per cent.
When you are ready to enter the stall,
order the horse, in a loud rough voice, to
‘stand over’’—at the same time squeeze
in and poke your thumb into his ribs.
Back him out with great haste and violence,
and with such a short turn that he cannot
fail to tread on his own feet and back his
hips against the back of the stall. Drop
the halter and go in search of the harness ;
if the horse stirs, grab him and yell
“Wow !"’— the correct stable pronuncia-
tion of *“Whoa.’’ Adjust the back ‘part of
the harness gingerly, so as to give the horse
the impression that you are afraid of him ;
then draw up the saddle girth with all the
quickness and vigor you are capable of.
If the horse snaps at you for this, throw up
your arms and jump at his head or strike
him in the face. If he declines to lower
his head for the adjustment of his collar,
put your arms around his neck and swing
downward with your whole weight—per-
haps you can weigh it down. Force a bit
into his mouth with your thumb, and,
standing on tiptoe, struggle with him un-
til you have succeeded in pulling his ears
and forelock into place, and put your
finger into his eye.
If the horse continues manageable, lead
him toward the carriage with the reins
trailing on the ground behind him. If
there is a door you can leave unfastened,
so that it will slap against him as he passes
the doorway, do so, and if he has occasion
to step up or down a step, be sure you
check him up so that he will perform the
feat with a series of plunges and stumbles.
Have the shafts propped up, and as you
lead the horse under them kick the prop
out, thus letting them drop on his back.
This will accelerate his motions and teach
him to keep an eye on the carriage, which
he will henceforth regard as a monster.
Run the vehicle down on him and punch
the ends of the shafts into his thighs, or if
you cannot manage to do that, run one of
them between his fore legs. Swear, jerk
the horse, pull the shafts into place, and
adjust the lugs. Keep yelling at the top
of your voice, ‘Wow!’ “Back I” ‘‘Get
over!” etc., to keep the horse awake and
show that you are master of the situation.
Twist the traces carefully, and leave either
one hold back or the shaft girth unfastened.
If the driver does not get killed before he
has a chance to discover the arrangement,
he can get out and alter it.
If you are going to drive, take up the
reins and cluck to the horse as soon as ycu
put your foot on the carriage step. If he
does not start off at once at a gallop, jerk
him and strike him with a whip ; but if he
is a good horse and you have followed the
foregoing directions carefally, he will prob-
ably be only too ready to start. In that
case jerk him and yell “Wow !”” ‘‘Back!”
always say ‘‘back’ when you say ‘‘whoa’’
—the horse will remember the combination
and back somebody off a precipice some
day instead of stopping on the brink.
Drive him at the top of his speed from stast
to finish, first on one side of the road, then
on the other. jerking him and whipping
him continually, and yelling from time to
time. This will make the horse respect
you, excite the admiration of the lower
classes, aud endear you to the populace
generally.
If you have occasion to stop on thestreet
either do not tie the horse at all, or tie
him to something he can take with him if
he wants’/to go away. If the weather is
chilly, it will toughen him to leave him
uncovered ; but, should you choose
to blanket, throw the blanket over
him loosly that the first breeze will turn it
over his head. A cold wind blowing on
the chest of a heated horse will refresh him
greatly, and if he stands in the gutter with
melted snow and ice water running around
his heels so much the better.” °
When you return to the stable, let the
horse cover the last few rods at the top of
his speed, and pull him up with a loud,
trinmphant ‘Wow !”” Now don’t miss a
glorious opportunity to try the disposition
of the animal. Unfasten all the attaching
straps but one holdback, and start the
horse out of the shafts. When you see the
result, yell likea fiend. The strap that
remains fastened will first make the shafts
punch the horse in the stomach. Then
pull all the harness off his back ;if he
does not kick, it is a sign that he is a good
horse—there is no mustang in him. If it
is winter and the horse much heated, either
leave him in the stable unblanketed or
put the blanket on at once and leave it on,
wet, all night. A draught or cold air,
from the opening above the manger to the
door behind, blowing the whole Tength of
his body, will help to season him. If it is
summer, slop his joints with cold water
and give him a couple of swallows to drink
—a ‘‘couple’’ means any number, from
two to a hmndred.
If the horse is tired and exhausted, do
not forget to feed him at once. He might
starve to death if you left him for an hour.
A heavy feed of corn will please him great-
ly, and a generous allowance of corn meal
will make him look nice and fat—probably
before morning. A liberal dose of ginger,
pepper, or ‘‘condition powders” will scare
away any evil spirits that may be hover-
ing about, and make everything all right.
If the horse is not dead by the next
morning, you can fix him up at your lei-
sure ‘and thereafter ‘conscientiously recom-
mend him as ‘‘tough ;’' but should he be
so unreasonable as to die during the night,
you can console yourself with the reflec-
tion that it was not your fault—the animal
was constitutionally weak.—Scientific
American.
Let the Blame Rest Where it Belongs.
Suppose Wm: Jennings Bryan had been
elected President of the United States ;
suppose that the trade conditions following
the election had been exactly as they are
reporte@ from day to day by Dun and
Bradstreet, suppose the same bank failures
had occurred in Chieago, St. Paul and else-
where ; suppose wages had heen reduced
on the same number of railroad systems ;
suppose the cut in wages had obcurred in
Lynn and other manufacturing centres ;
suppose everything had happened exactly
as it has since McKinley's election, would
not these unhappy events be attributed to
Bryan's election? Would not a grand
howl and stentorious ‘‘We told you so’?
be going up all over the country > Would
not the country be convinced that it had
made a mistake in choosing the Democratic
candidate ?
What Causes the Aurora Borealis?
If fire-balls were thought miraculous
and portentous in days of yore, what in-
terpretation must needs have been put
upon that. vastly more picturesque phe-
nomenon, the aurora? ‘‘Through all the
city,’’ says the Book of Maccabees, ‘‘for
ig spall of almost forty days, there were
seeh horsemen running in the air, in cloth
of gold, armed with .lances, like a band of
soldiers ; And troops of horsemen in array
encountering and running one against an-
other, with shaking of shields and multi-
tude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and
casting of darts, and glittering of golden
ornaments and harness.” Dire omens
these ; and hardly less ominous the au-
rora seemed to all succeeding generations
that . observed it down till well into the
eighteenth century—as witness the popular
excitement in England in 1716 over the
brilliant aurora of that year, which became
famous through Halley’s description.
But after 1752, when Franklin dethron-
ed the lightning, all spectacular meteors
came to be regarded as natural phenomena,
the aurora among the rest.. Franklin ex-
plained the aurora—which was seen com-
mon'y enough in the eighteenth century,
though only recorded once in the seven-
teenth—as due to the accumulation of elec-
tricity on the surface of polar snows, and
its discharge to the equator through the
upper atmosphere. Erasmus Darwin sug-
gested that the luminosity might be due to
the ignition of hydrogen, which was sup-
posed by many philosophers to form the
upper atmosphere. Dalton, who first mea-
sured the height of the aurora, estimating
it at about one hundred miles, thought the
phenomenon due to magnetism acting on
ferruginous particles in the air, and his ex-
planation was perhaps the most popular
one at the beginning of the century.
_ Since then a multitude of observers have
studied the aurora, but the scientific grasp
has found it as elusive in fact as it seems
to casual observation, and its exact nature
is undetermined to-day as it was a hun-
dred years ago. There has been no dearth
of theories concerning it, ‘however, Biot,
who studied it in the Shetland Islands in
1817, thought it due to electrified fer-
ruginous dust, the origin of which he
ascribed to Pcedandic volcanoes. Much
more recently the idea of ferruginous par-
ticles has been revived, their presence be-
ing ascribed not to volcanoes, but to the
meteorites constantly being dissipated in
the upper atm8sphere. Ferruginous dust,
presumably of such origin, has been found
on the polar snows, as well as on the snows
of mountain tops, but whether it could
produce the phenomena of auroras is at
least an open question. The prevailing
theory of to-day is that the aurora is due
to a current of electricity generated at the
equator, and passing through upper regions
of space, to enter the earth at the magnetic
poles—simply reversing the course which
Franklin assumed.
The similarity of the auroral light to
that generated in a vacuum bulb by the
passage of electricity lends support to the
long-standing supposition that the aurora
is of electrical origin, hut the subject still
awaits complete elucidation. For once
even that mystery-solver the spectroscope
has been baffled, for the line it sifts from
the aurora is not matched by that of any
recognized substance. A like line is found
in the zodiacal light, it is true, but this is
of little aid, for the zodiacal light, though
thought by some astronomers to be due to
meteor swarms about the sun, is held to
be, on the whole, as mysterious as the
aurora itself.
Whatever the exact nature of the au-
rora, it has long heen known to be inti-
mately associated with the phenomena of
terrestrial magnetism. Whenever a bril-
liant aurora is visible, the world is sure to
be visited with what Humboldt called a
magnetic storm—a ‘‘storm’’ which man-
ifests itself to human senses in no way
whatsoever except by deflecting the mag-
netic needle and conjuring with the elec-
tric wire. Such magnetic storms are cur-
iously associated also with spots on the
sun—just how no one has explained,
though the fact itself is unquestioned.
Sunpots, too, seem directly linked with
auroras, each of these phenomena passing
through periods of greatest and least fre-
quency in corresponding cycles of about
eleven years’ duration—From ‘‘Meteorolo-
gical Progress of the Century,” by Henry
Smith Williams, M. D., in Harper's:
Magazine for June.
Rose Potpourri.
An Old-Fashioned Perfume Which is 8till Popular.
All young girls love the old-fashioned
potpourri of rose leaves, and its delicious
odor will long be remembered by those
who have visited in the houses of our
grandmothers. Take a wide, open bowl
and put into it half a peck of rose leaves,
sprinkling them lightly with salt. Turn
daily. After five days the leaves will be
dry. .Then add three ounces of coarsely
ground allspice, one ounce of stick cin-
namon, broken into small pieces. Allow
this to stand one week, turning frequently.
Place in a permanent jar and add. one
ounce of allspice, half a pound of freshly-
dried lavender blossoms, one ounce of
cloves, one ounce of cinnamon, two grated
nutmegs, one ounce of ginger root, sliced
thin ; half an ounce of anise seed, ten
grains of finest Canton musk, one ounce of
the essential oil of rose geramum, two
ounce of the essential oils of jessamine, of
lavender, of lemon, verbena, musk, violet,
rosemary and bergamot. Add from time
to time, as convenient, rose water, colo-
gues, extracts, etc. Put in a fancy jar
with a lid. Open once a day to odorize
the room. >
The perfume is delightful and will last
ten years. You can add from year to year
a few rose leaves, prepared as directed,
and a little spice or oil, as you find con- |
venient.
a Clairvoyance Up to Date.
‘‘Are you the celebrated Mme. Rou-
lette 2’ he asked, after he had climbed
four flights of stairs and was admitted into
the mysterious interior.
‘‘Yes,” replied the bizare-looking per-
sonage who had received him.
““The great clairvoyant ?’’
“Yes.”
‘And you foretell the future ?*’
“It is so.”
‘And you read the mind ?’’
“Verily.”
‘And unfold the past?’
1do.”
“Then,” said the visitor eagerly, as he
took a large wad out of his pocket, ‘‘please
tell me what it was my wife asked me to
bring her home to-night.’”’— Life.
An expert potato grower has learn-
ed how to lessen the raxages of the potato
bugs by anticipation. Just before the
plants make their appearance above ground
he scatters potato parings plentifully
over the potato ground, covered with an
ample dressing of Paris green. The first
crop of beetles is thus taken care of and
the summer’s battle is half won.
Swallow Nominated.
Action of the State Prohibition Convention at
Altoona.
ALTOONA. Pa.,June 3.—The Prohibition
state convention opened in the opera house
this morning with 240 delegates im-attend-
ance. Rev: Richard Gilbert was chosen
permanent chairman. s
At the afternoon session a campaign sub-
scription fund of $3,186 Was raised of which
amount Dr. Swallow gave $1,000.
Rev. Dr. 8. C. Swallow, of Harrisburg,
was nominated for state treasurer with-
dut opposition. Rev. W. W. Lathrobe, of
Lackawanna county, was nominated for
auditor-general by acclamation.
The: platform adopted is as follows :
‘‘First—It pledges the candidates if elected;
to prohibit the sale of liquor through-out
the State. Second—it affirms the belief in
equal suffrage, without distinction of sex.
Third—I¢ arraigns the present state admin-
istration of this commonwealth as being
the most extravagant in the history of the
State. Fourth—it denounces the attempt
of Legislature to provide additional means
for the continuance of extravagant expen-
ditures. Fifth-—it denounces the present
system of depositing: the publlec funds of
the State with private banks. Sixth—it de-
clares against one man bossism. Seventh—
It stands for the maintenance of public
schools. Eighth—It favors" arbitration for
settling differences between capitol and la-
bor. Ninth—It upholds honesty in Amer-
ican politics.”” The convention closed with
a mass meeting to-night.
Nominations by the President.
WASHINGTON, June4.—The President to-
day sent the following nominations to the
Senate :
State—Lawrence Townsend, of Pennsyl-
vania, to be envoy extraordinary and min-
ister plenipotentiary of the United States to
Portugal.
Treasury—H. Ellis H. Roberts, offew
York, to be treasurer of the United Stgdes ;
Conrad N. Jordan, of New York, to he
assistant treasurer of the United States at
New York city; William E. Andrews, of
Nebraska to be auditor for the treasury de-
partment ; William W. Browne, of Penn-
sylvania, to be auditor for the war depart-
ment.
Postmasters—Pennsylvania, Geo. H. Swear-
ingen, Dunbar ; Reuben, J. Mott, Port Alle- | from hem to foot, with the little ruffle at
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Francis Schlatter Dead.
DENVER, Col., June 6.—A special to the
News from El Pasco. Tex., says that Fran-
cis Schlatter, who claimed to perform mir-
aculous cures by divine power, was recent-
ly found dead in the foot hills of Sierra
Madre, thirty-five miles south-west of Casa
Grand, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
He had been fasting and apparently starved
to death. While in Denver frem Aug.
22 to Nov. 13, 1895, about 200,000 people
visited Schlatter to receive treatment.
Growth of the Lutheran Church.
The growth of the Lutheran church in
the United States is something phenome-
nal. In 1820 there were only 35,000 Lu-
theran communicants in the country, heing
one communicant to each 275 of popula-
tion. In 1830, 55,000, or one to 234 popula-
tion ; 1840, 220,000, or one to 141 popula-
tion ; 1850, 144,000, or one to 162 popula-
tion ; 1860, 225,000 or one to 132 popula-
tion ; 1870, 338,000, or one to 100 popula-
tion ; 1880, 693,000, or one to 72 popula-
tion ; 1890, 1,100,000, or one to 55 popula-
tion. This places the church numerical
fourth in the rank of Protestant denomina-
tions in the United States.
——The Chinaman’s propensity for do-
ing things exactly as he sees them done,
errors and all, has been told of many times
in stories of efforts to teach him to cook
after complicated recipes. The latest vari-
ation of the tale comes from the Nashville
exhibition, where the custodian of the
woman's building was seen one morning
by a curios Celestial as she began the:day’s
duties, which included opening the register
with an entry of her own name. Later in
the day the Chinamen and a score of his
‘fellows came through the building and
were asked to place their antographs in the
visitor’s book. They did not at first com-
prehend the request. - Suddenly he of the
early morning visit was struck with an
idea. He went straight to a certain draw-
er in a table, took out a box, and retired to
a shadowy corner of the room. Here he
set up a small mirror, and while one hand
hitched at his back, * * * he used the
other to rub gently over his cheek with a
bit of pink-powdered chamois skin. Then
with a little pat on the forehead, and a
final smile in the glass, he put all the
things back into their places and took up
thepen * * * and with unbroken grav-
ity made some figures on the open page,
and.then laying it down gave a sign to the
next in line. y
Why She Fell on His Neck.
See the girl !
The girl is falling upon the neck of the
man.
Does the girl fall upon the neck of the
man because they are alone in the gloam-
ing ?
Partly.
Chiefly, however, the girl falls upon the
neck of the man because she is learning to
ride the wheel, and the man is her in-
structor, and she chooses to fall on any old
neck rather than her own.— Detroit Journal.
The Presidents’s “Sub.”
A Washington correspondent writes: A
stranger walked up to the doorkeeper of the
White House this morning and said :
‘‘President to home ?"’
“No ; he is in Philadelphia.’ i
“Any body givin’ out offices while he’s
gone ?”’
¢No.”
“Seems to me he ought to pnt on a sub
when he goes away so as to keep the old
thing agoin’.”’
——1It seems that Ambassador Hay would
not do to represent the United States at
Queen Victoria’s jubilee, so the President
sent Whitelaw Reid, Admiral Miller and
General Miles. They will pay the respects
of Uncle Sam at the big fete in London,
and will doso ata neat expense to the
[American taxpayer.
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— The boast of a Montana paper on
the length of the strawberry season in that
‘State has pronipted another paper to point
out that at Irapnato; a small Mexican
town strawberries may be picked in the
open air any day of the year.. The natives
sell large baskets of them for 12} cents in
American money, or. 25 cents im" Mexican.
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
Mrs. Harriet C. Wadleigh has been chos-
en librarian of the public library of Los
Angeles, Cal., by unanimous vote of the
board of directors. She was formerly head
assistant to Dr. William Rice, of the public
library of Springfield, Mass., and she has
been teaching and writing for the press.
A pretty feature of the new evening
dresses is the long, soft scarf of chiffon. It
may be black, white or colored, and the
black and white sashes are made very ef-
fective by dotting them over with applique
figures of lace in contrast, black and white
and the revers.
Plain chiffon, with a frill of lace all
around the edge, is also used, and the
sashes of white organdie have innumerable
rows of narrow lace insertion across the
edge. Ruches of tinted chiffon are festoon-
ed around the skirts of plain and brocaded
satin evening dresses, and one charming
gown is of yellow moire, with kiltings of
yellow chiffon on the skirt.
The bodice has tiny bolero fronts of jew-
eled lace and a soft, full vest of the chiffon,
caught up at one side with green and pink
hydrangea hlossoms. The striking, yet
simple evening gown, is of pale blue bro-
caded satin, with plaited bolero bows and
a belt of green velvet.
One of the ways a mother can keep her
crawling baby amused and save herself
many steps is to tie a long string to the
ball or toy the child plays with and, while
she sits sewing or reading, fasten the string’s
end tothe arm of her chair. + If, when
tumbling about the floor, the baby then
loses its toy, a pull on it brings it to light,
or keeps the ball a-rolling and the young-
ster steadily amused.
Olive oil is a gentle laxative and should
be freely used. Sprains may be greatly
relieved by the use of poultices of hops
or tansy. Rubber rings for fruit jars when
stiffened may be restored by soaking them
in water to which ammonia has been ad-
ded.
There is no better medicine for bilious
persons then lemon juice and water.
In truth if one follows the fashions of a
decade ago, one will be entirely in style,
as regards these muslin gowns. You re-
member how the skirts then were tucked
the bottom, the broad sashes and the full
French bodices with guimpe and ruffled
{ bertha? Well, all those fashions are com-
| ing in again for the summer of '97.
The girl who can sew and has idle hours
now, can make muslin gowns with their
pretty lawn linings very easily.
Dimities, striped organdies and muslins,
satin striped linens and all the many fasci-
nating bargains offered for the shopkeeper
from 10 to 25 cents a yard, are capable of
very artistic home treatment. By saving
the price of making, you can have two
frocks, instead of one.
The usual muslin hodice is made over a
full lining without bones. Some of the
prettiest are fastened up the back. Nar-
row lace edged ruffles or insertion can be
run across the bust, narrow satin or silk
ribbon forming -thaaruffle is often a very
artistic addition. he sleeves are made
slightly shirred and long ; or tight and to
the elbow from which falls a wide ruffle of
lace.
Belts of plaid silk fastened with a metal
buckle are popular with English women,
and belts of every sort are a particular fea-
ture of dress. Leather of various tints
forms a background for all sorts of metal
work and fancy jeweled designs. A green
one dotted over with turquoise is especially
a good style.
White and black are good for trimming
a gown of the periwinkle blue that deli-
cious hyacinthe shade between lilac and
clear blue, but white is the better of the
two. A linen dress of this tender shade
looks well with a sash of soft silk, white of
course, with a deep fringe partly knotted.
The morning hat is of blue straw trimmed
with a white silk band and three white
wings. ;
Roll out ps of puff paste until very
thin ; sprinkle with grated cheese, the
sharper the better, dust with a very little:
cayenne or paprika. Repeat three times,
then roll out one quarter of an inch thick,
cut into strips one half of an inch wide and
four inches long. Lay on an’ ungreased
pan and bake a very pale brown in a mod-
erate oven.
The prettiest ties to be worn with linen
collars are in Scotch plaids, of soft silk,
grenadine or satin. The Stuart plaid, with
its bars of yellow, the MoGregor with its
gay scarlet and touches of black, the Scotch
silk green and red and the Ferguson with
broad blocks of white are extremely effect-
ive.and pretty. The patriotic woman, of
course, loyally buys her ties in the plaid
which she has some claim upon, by right of
birth or relationship ; but the more frivo-
lous maidens will cheerfully don the plaid
of a clan which spent its time in fighting
with her forefathers, if its colors happen to
be becoming.
The black satin tie last season was some-
what neglected, owing to the whim of
matching shirt and tie. It is again worn
this year and is certainly far more effective
with light skirts than the fancy cravats of
light colors or the glaring vulgarities in
striped and flowered ribbon. The correct
bow tie, which is the only one to be worn
with a high, but turned over linen collar,
is small and very tightly tied. It should
never measure more than two and a half
inches from tip to tip, and should be so de-
cidedly tied as to preclude any possi-
bility of its coming undone or twisting
around under her ear, like the butterfly
bows of the Sunday school boy.
If you would keep your skin and
complexion in good condition beware
of washing in hard water. En-
deavor to obtain filtered rain water if
possible. If this cammot be procured the
water must be:softened by an artificial pro-
cess. Here is a recipe for a good ‘ water
softener in the form of a powder: Califor-
nia borax, in powder half an ounce ; white
Castile soap, powdered, half an ounce ; or-
ris root, two ounces; wheat flour, two
ounces ; almond meal three ounces ; oil of
bitter almonds, five drops ; oil of bergamot,
one drachm, says the Lady. Mix thorough-
ly. Add a tablespoonful of this to the
water in which you intend washing
the face about two hours before using.
A cheaper powder may be made by
mixing together three ounces of fine ground
oatmeal, three ounces of fine almond meal
and half an ounce of California borax.
For the summer veranda an artistic as
well as useful bit of furniture is a huge,
tall screen, made of one or more breadths
of dark red matting set in a frame of dark
wood or that which has been stained.
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