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y The remonstrated with
SEER
Somebody did a golden deed, even worse for
A A i pie To which, pipe between his Soa]
Somebody sang a cheerful song, his cracked, squeaking whisper, he
Brightening the skies the whole day long;—
Was that somebody you? “Terbaccer’s chippern grub, and erdarn
Somebody thought, * "tis sweet to live,” sight more fill'n.
Willingly said, “I'm glad to give;"” That, at least, was human, and a
Somebody fought a valiant fight,
Bravely he lived to shield the right;—
at olf eqvoty Yeu! BE Tur oT ay SE a
i scene, ter ing
Soucbely Rad ull the BUTS Hovis: fluence was beginning to bear fruit. to the leading man, impersonating a
Be in And so it was. His nails, which at first | Turk, to throw himself knees and
Thoughtlessly seemed to live in vain; — had been chewed to the d one- | hands, and in this position act
Was that somebody you? fourth their natural size, ually | as a sort of human table for the tray,
to assume the aspect of to a | which the Turk placed upon his bac
Somebody filled the day with light, human biped. ly he began to | All had gone well at rehearsal, and the
Constantly chased away the night;
Somebody's work bore joy and peace,— made and on one red-letter day he
Surely Ha Ho Will Ever ete il came in with , shining boots. But
as that somobody the m extravagance was ex-
—John R. Clements plained when he told them that the
E
wraith, who had
rely in Shes nds, rely trad W
home, and a to w at night
took himseif and the which covered
adhesive rather
than cohesive, for he had discarded his
patches only intermittently, invariably re-
suming them in bad weather. It would
have been less of a SSipiite to them to
Be
em t, or in some equally im e
By The office had worked itself into
such a f of virtuous sympathy that
it resented idea of the Shrimp's en-
joying even the poorest comfort as an in-
trusion, making their compassion less
necessary, and liable to dull its edge.
And yet he boasted of a home—they could
not help speculating as to its dimensions
and equipment—and of an invalid sister
—*“inw'lid sister,” he called it. The lat-
ter they mistrusted entirely. An invalid
sister, in connection with the Shrimp,
s2emed as much of a luxury as a chafing-
dish or a piano lamp. Brutally, crudely,
they even sus r
ing on their sympathy, or trying to, with
nothing more of material in view, how-
ever, hi the achievement of a purely
artistic triumph.
They were convinced of the sister's act-
8
:
i
minutive, that they, who were strong
and well clad and well fed, felt brutishly
elephantine and prodigious in comparison
-—as if health and robustness were
shamcful things in the presence of such
nei such poverty. In his low, squeak-
pa ce, blin| ng his eyes simultaneous-
J ling from his lips with
3 tning rapidity, he answe “En-
n."
They laughed at that, but their laugh-
ter spoke of increasing embarrassment,
not of amusement. ready he had es-
tablished 2a hold upon them because of
his weakness, and doy could not suffer
him to infringe further with impunity.
They—five of them pitted against the
ished | had
ent had
night, however, a disturbing element
occu which not been provided
for at rehearsal. A shout of laughter
had greeted his entrance and subsequent
antics, and had so angered him that he
signified his intention to quit imme-
diately he got off the stage. curious
oil. | part was that he had not been in the least
disconcerted by the flood of amusement
that sw the house. He had not for-
gotten his “business.” but had calmiy,
plasidly, gone on with his part to the
end. But indignation had gathered to a
head within him.
All this he told them in words badly
garbled and distorted almost beyond rec-
ognition, winding up with:
“l don't hafterstend thet—I tol’ de
man’ger. I kin be a biznis man, I sez.
So 1 come back to youse.”
With that he resumed the industrious
blinking of his eyes and twirling of his
ca
Bee day he did not appear at the of-
fice, and the chief clerk went himself “to
look him 8p
He found the Shrimp 's home—the home
that had so greatly excited their curiosi-
—t0 consist of two bare rooms—bare
oor, bare walls, and bare table. In the
one room which served as a kitchen,
stood the bed of the invalid sister, a girl
of nineteen. with a face so fine and beau-
tiful that the chief clerk felt a sudden
tightening of the throat muscles. The
nightgown and coverlid were both snowy
white, and he noticed a m ine lying
on her bed in which she had been read-
ing. Every once in a while she coughed,
the dry, hard, brittle cough which, to the
practiced ear, proclaims as plainly as
words, A am consumption, and I show no
the Shrimp of work- | mercy.
From thc adjoining room proceeded a
deep, guttural snore.
“Me farder,” explained the Shrimp.
“He's drunk. Gits drunk every two
weeks—every pay-day. Thet's why I
baby figure in man's clothes, shivering
with wet and cold—assumed an attitude
of defiance as a defensive measure. He
was too young, they told him, to be em-
ployed, and they quoted the law, which
said not under fourteen years, to which,
blinking his eyes with the same snappish
velocity as before, he replied:
“Yessir.” He made no movement after
that, but stood in the same submissive,
meek posture, twirling his poor, soaking-
wet cap. And so, to lend weight to their
victory over him, they told him they
could not employ boys of six or seven
years. And he blinked his watery, blea
es, and submissively, bleatingly uttered,
“Yessir.”
It became evident to them that he
lacked the intelligence to apply the gen-
eral rule to himself. So, kindly—they
could afford to speak kindly now they
had saved themselves from him—they
explained matters. For a moment he
stood as before, his emaciated little fin-
gers busy with his cap, his eyes closing
and opening automatically; then, with a
haste, which was almost appalling in its
abruptness, he tore at his coat, and from
some invisible pocket, with a prestidigi-
tator’s speed, pulled forth a creased and
greasy paper, which he handed them with-
out comment. It was a birth certificate
with an affidavit—his “working-papers"—
and his age was seventeen.
They looked at him and marvelled.
And the wonder with which they -
ed him was not unmixed with alarm.
The victory of which they had been so
certain was not theirs, after all. He had
faith in that magic paper that attested
his age, and he had faith in them. What
need to argue in words when he had
beaten them on their own grounds?
They felt the justice of his attitude,
and of one accord they discovered that
they needed him. The chief clerk want-
ed a boy to be more particularly at his
beck and call. The bookkeeper had some
labelling to do; the shipping-clerk some
sampling; and the manager, remember-
ing four-year-old at home, who was
bigger and stronger than this seventeen-
year-old, placidly agreed to the munifi-
cent remuneration of three dollars a
week, which the Shrimp had asked.
For that was what they called him by
unanimous consent. No one could have
said who was responsible for the designa-
tion, in Some subtle way, Shel minds
ng in the same grooves, evolved
the term, and it fitted like the vt
glove. They didn’t suspect—how could
they?—that he was enormously, morbidly
sensitive concerning his stunted
and that they might as well have applied
a iash as a nick-name. If they had given
the matter a thought, which they didn't,
they would have argued that he lacked
the brain capacity to be sensitive about
uality, however, one cold, rainy morning,
when the Shrimp wafted into the office
looking very much the same as on the
morning of his advent—a poor, desolate,
umbrellaless, scarcely human-looking
creature, with not a dry thread on his
aged to get quite so wet, and he told
them in his blinking, feverishly fitful way
that which harrowed them all they could
wish for and thawed every dormant cor-
puscle of PY in their blood. He had
tramped the five weary, dreary miles ly-
ing between Forty-eighth Street and the
ce, as he tramped them every morning
to save five cents. This saving, multi
plied by six through the week, gave him
the lordly sum of thirty cents to dis
of, which on Saturday he invest in
candy for his "inw’lid sister.”
He seemed, too, to be wholly uncon-
scious of doing anything noteworthy,
anything so far above the plane that
could have been expected of him as to
render his action monumental, colossal.
That he did this repeatedly, untiringly,
incessantly, in their eyes constituted him
a combination of hero and martyr; and
now, their thirst for the blatantly ex-
treme having been appeased once more
by the little creature, and their compas-
sion roused to the uttermost, they cast
about for means of alleviation, assuming
the form finally of an additional weekly
contribution of thirty cents, to enable
him to purchase the mean little package
which was hissister’s one end-of-the-week
delight and to ride to business as well.
One morning, arrayed in their gift, his
one suit of clothes worthy of the name,
he stated b uely, immediately on en-
tering the ce, that he was "gonter-
quit.” Noting short of a volcano risin
boldly out of the bay, and fully equipped
with lava and the other effluvia of a Vesu-
vius in good working order, could have
more greatly astounded them. The office
force left its several employments, and, |
encircling him. yielded to the seductions
of wonderment. Yet the Shrimp betrayed
neither satisfaction nor concern at the
impending Frange Blinking incessantly,
he received thg homage of their uncheck-
ed curiosity in taciturn silence, and only
after repeated shrapnels of incisive ques-
tioning did they elicit the statement,made
without any perceptible note of triumph,
“I'm gonterde stage.”
They looked at one another, unbelief
in the improbable contending with belief
in the possible. What company was he
gong to join? What part was he to
Shrimp regarded them uncompre-
hendingly. “Dun’no’,” he said, and show-
ed them a card. “Thet's de-feller,” he
tumbled the words from his mouth pell-
me.” But of his
not to buy a mentality at three | ly unaware of it. He ate his lunch of
dollars a week; him in need | pie and coffee, and smoked his pipe, and
of abluti and wat-
Y, +.
neatness of its seven-ninety-eight new-| * -by, little man, and good luck to
ness, he merely blinked his 3nd ut YO si sad .
essir.” r." They long ago learned
They did not despair even then. They to accept that, his maid-of-all-work word,
Bad bought a little human machine for. in face of “thank you," and “de boss
three a week, that could walk and drearily and went back to his fig-
run errands and fold circulars and pick | ures. i
R things a erally do as it was told. | In the outer office he went from desk
Jree not by inet fora mis oud | bo deck and offered to shalte hands, His
capable ing expressing pain hands were shockingly , and they
and joy, and set themselves the task | went through that last ceremony in a
of humanizing little automaton. spirit of manly heroism, for they would
They went about it systematically, and | not have offended him for worlds—
Began by giving 14m janch-monay, or he though he had hurt them So sadly.
had gone until then without a midday | Five minutes after the door closed
meal. To their consternation, he upon the pathetic little figure, the book-
into the office as his first luncheon a can- | keeper sententiously, “So that’s the
ister of ill-smelling coffee and a huge | last of the Shrimp,” in the perfunctorily
hadter stayhome.” And with a quick
thrust of the thumb in the direction of
his sister, he explained that the mother
dared not leave her alone when the “far-
der” was "sleepin’ off his drunk.”
Yet the common words, the hideous
body. They asked him how he had man- | grotesqueness of the brutish creature's
being so close by to one whom death had
already sanctified, could not veil a sort
of spiritual exaltation which exuded from
the Shrimp. He no longer seemed a
street gamin with unclean hands and
pontoon boots to the chief clerk, who
marveled as he discerned lines in the lit-
tle face which had always seemed so
contemptible, and meanings in those lines
which transfigured him. Truly, the
Shrimp was an ever-new revelation.
Soon after this they heard from the
Shrimp that his father had been sent to
the Island for ninety days—*for gittin’
interow and injur'nercop.” He express-
ed no sorrow at this—rather a vague sat- |
isfaction that his bibulous father was cut
of the way so his sister could consum-'
mate her dying decently.
It was plain to see, however, that some-
thing weighed upon him, and presently |
he made his confession. Pay-day—his
and the fort-'
father's—having come,
nightly drunk being in its inception in the
usual saloon, the Shrim
an offhand manner, as he gave them to
understand, apprised thereof a man who
had an old score against his father. There
had been a little unwillingness to pre-
cipitate a rousing row—for the score was
a very old one—but a dollar, handed
the Shrimp to the instrument he had se-
lected, was eloquent of results. There
had been a glorious row—a regular
fight—the police had come in and locked
the Shrimp's father up for the night. As
he was an old offender, the sentence had
been ninety full days. Thus, ingenuous-
ly, treacherously to the parent, loyally to |
the sister, had the Shrimp rid himself of
his father. "It woulderbeen so horrid,”
he said, sniffing, and twirling his cap in-
defatigably, "for her terdie wit’ him drunk,
perhaps, in de next room.”
On the Saturday that followed, as
were closing up, the Shrimp announ
briefly: "I've gotter quit here. On ac-
count of me inw'lid sister. We need all
de money we kin git for her, an’ I kin
make more money on de outside.” But
no persuasion, no coaxing, could prevail
n him to enlarge on the eni tical
p , “on de outside.” ng at
them with frightened hare's eyes, .
he
mumbled, “Some day I'm coming back,
and den I'll be erbiznis man fergood.” In
his flurry he telescoped his words
more ruthlessly than usual. They could
extract nothing further from him, and
finally, to escape their good-natured
queries, he bolted from the office without
as much as wishing them good-bye. From
the hall as van his raucous
voice carried the words to them,
“Some day I'm coming back.”
Some | time afterward the chief clerk
stum across mp unexpected-
ly. It wason & Satuidey afternoon, and
:
. the Shrimp turned
had craftily, in |
by | Sometimes a ship which has weathered
free | OF rock.
Hh is game that hoarse e call unre- The Cardy of Other Days.
3 es, free sam - — 5 a
“Funny, ain't he?" said one littie girl. Before the general use of sugar. it is
An enormous Jewess, with a high bosom evident that the varieties of sweets, as
and high pom and high voice, call: we understand the term, must have been
ed to a friend some six feet away, who limited; even when sugar became known,
had not succeeded in wedging her way its Jrice—accorging to some authorities,
through the mob, “He's as ugly as sin." equal to about $7. a pound of our mon-
A big, Irishman growled out, “That ey—must have made them the luxury of
young un got a regular Se Sing the wealthy. It is true, however, that
squint,” and all the while the Shrimp, there are in use, today, though in differ.
ignoring these thrusts and insults and ent combinations, very many of the an-
taunts, labored industriously, handing cient equivalents for sweets; the various
sample upon sample to whoever would delicacies “au miel et pistache” are only
take them, blinking madly,and squeaking another form of the “honey and nuts or
out the same w again and in. almonds,” of whch the earliest records
The samples came to an after a tell us. It is as) probable that the
while, and the crowd about him thinned candied fruits especially in evidence at
out. Some little boys, sediments of the this time differ only slightly from the
receding mob.remained behind and bawl- melitekta and dulciaria of the Greeks and
ed and yelled at the Shrimp, who, shrink- Rcmans. :
ing from them, turned in another direc But when sugar came into general use,
tion. But the boys swung about with sweets biossomed forth in a thousand
him, and rang out ribald insults, inviting varieties. | deed, “thousand” is scarcely
him at the same time “ter club us.” Again the word ii we are tc take the word of
to escape his tor- the Spani=nconfectioner in Beaumont and
mentors, but his persecutors turned with Fietcher’s ply, who deelared that he
him again, and some of them began pelt- could "t ach sugar to sip down your
ing him with stones and mud. throat in a million ways” Other old
chief clerk, disentangling himself dramatists give us here and there allu-
from the outskirts of the departing mob, sions to the taste fr sweets that came
made for the boys, and they, seeing him, in withthe time of Elizabeth
scented danger and took to their heels.
Quarter of an hour later, in a restaurant, his comrade to save him a piece of
over a cup of hot coffee, the chief clerk marchpane. There are not wanting au-
was saying reproachiully, "But, Shrimp, thorities to assure us that the “pretty
this is much worse than the other.” little tiny kickshaws” that Shallcw, jus-
"Yessir," said the Shrimp. He sat si- tice of the peace, bade to be brought in-
lent for = m:nute, and the chief clerk, to the arbor, were a recognized descrip-
looking vpcn the thin and wasted little tion of sweets. In other writers of the
face, Fammered into spiritual beauty by times we meet with constant references
suffer ng marvelled.
Then the Shrimp told his tale. The these were not, as the name might indi-
“inw'lid” siser had died, died decently cate, twisted up in colored paper and
and quietly—the Shrimp laid stress upon called “kisses,” such as are still to be
that—because his father was still away. found in old-fashioned candy shops in
But there had been no money in the our country, but that they partook rather |
house to bury her. and they, the Shrimp’s of the nature of our aromatic cachous.
mother and himself, had an insuperable Even the “sweet potatoes,” so affected by
objection to seeing the girl buried in Pot- Falstaff, were not improbably more or
ter's Field, “where dey put de poor peo- less what we now call crystallized, and
ple,” as the Shrimp said, detachedly, look- were eaten much as we eat preserved
ing as if he felt very rich. “So I stuck it quinces and apricots.
out. An’ now she's dead, I ain't goin’
back any more. She had ever't'i
wanted afore she died,” he said, with evi- History tells us of the “comfit-box” that
dent pride; “I wuz makin’ fifteen per.” the t Guise missed as he was enticed
He regarded the chief clerk dubiously for to his doom.
a moment, then lowering his voich to a -
confidential but raucous whisper, he add- | A Battle With Bees.
ed, “She had sharlodrousse and oranges —
every day.” i
One ot the servants of old Capulet begs
to “kissing comfits,” and we learn that
A packet of sugar was at one time a
she costly present to make even to royalty. '
In India, about eight miles from the!
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study. Talent
sees opportunity, genius creates it, but only pa.
tience and labor reap its most perfect reward.
—~2ola.
No, if one must have a long cloak, and
really a long coat of some sort is neces-
sary in these days of flimsy frocks, it
must be so expensive that it cannot be
copied, or it must be unquestionably
made to go with the dress with which it
is worn. I saw one worn by a pret
American woman. It was in dull Persian
blue cachemere de soie, and it had a deep
band of rich Persian embroi h
up the skirt part of the coat, a y!
into the armholes and a loveiy old lace
collar in
t dead cream that goes so
well at particular shade of blue.
Another woman, and she was unmistaka-
bly French, had on a gray voile dress
with an under-dress of cerise, and with it
she wore a gray surah coat trimmed with
a deep collar and revers of cerise em-
; here, in the sleev
set into the prin oy os Were
Pearls, all authorities agree, are pre-
eminently in fashion, especially the “old-
fash seed pearls. A leading Chest-
nut street jeweler reset or adjusted some
heirlooms of one customer, that were
worth $30,000, and everybody who has
pearls is wearing them. ornament
everything, but nothing more beautifully
than the sautoirs. Seed pearls are often
worn twisted in from two to nine strands.
| _ Slender chains of silver, bearing large
filigree plaques of dull finished sterling
i silver, ornamented with French rhine-
stones, are likewise greatly in demand.
! Earrings are fashionable as never be-
fore. The nt and drop forms with
; pearls and filigrees being favorites. Lorg-
nette and fan chains are of dull silver,
| ornamented with filigree links and coral
! or semi-precious stones.
If you possibly can, have an embroid-
ered robe in your summer outfit. They
i are so lovely and fit in so practically for
, afternoon or evening functions on warm
{ days that I suggest the purchase of one
| without hesitation.
The embroidered robe is practically
After that he lapsed into silence, re- town of Jabalpur, is a place called “The | self trimmed. The blouse must be cut
garding the cup betore him with intent, Bee,” from the fact that swarms of the
unseeing eyes.
‘out and the skirt seamed at the back or
He was miles and miles insects live there and defend their hold. | the flounce attached, and then the two
away, the intangible, untraversable, num- ing against the world. Shocking trag- | joined by a belt of the same material,
beriess miles that interpose between the edies have resulted from invasion of the ! and there you are!
A dress is the result
quick and the dead. Suddenly he raised spot. Some men who had unwittingly | that will give a satisfactory feeling of be-
his head, and the light that shone from ! disturbed the bees were set u by mil-
his eyes made beautiful indeed the weary, lions and stung to death, or chose drown- |
ing well dressed.
me robes are bargains as low as $5
haggard little face, despite their automa- | ing in the river near by as a more toler- | & $7.50. They need not be followed
tical blinking. It was evident that he able fate.
Deer, pigs and even the lordly | closely in the maki
if you prefer to
was bracing himself to a gigantic con- | tiger have paid the same penalty for their | gy our own individuality to the gar-
fidence.
“There was one t'ing she wanted more'n |
A bold Englishman, who some years |
indiscretion. i
You can cut the top of the bodice round
anyt'ing else,” he finally nerved himself ago determined to invade the home of | oF SUAS and make it collarless, to be
to say. He eyed the chief clerk closely, ' the bees, began by designing a suit of de- | © with or without a lace guimpe.
having some vague suspicion that his | fensive armor. It consisted of a sort of |
confidence might not be appreciated. Re- ' overall suit, tied round the neck with
assured, he continued, “It was a diamond tape, a bee-veil to be tucked into the gar-
ring.”
second, and then broke into that parling. ‘pairs of gloves. Into this suit he was |
Sleeves can be of the favored kimono
type. If the material be too narrow, the
sleeves can be pieced by means of straps
He stopped for the fraction of a ment, riding-boots, gauntlets, and two | OF lace.
If you are short and the skirt pattern
tripping rapidity of speech which had sewn by a tailor, so that there would be | is long, you can have a slightly raised
seemed so amazing, so startling, when no chink or crevice. He took with hima |
they first knew him: | native similarly armored.
y t her a diamond ring, and we| The two were to climb up to the back |
buried it with her.” of the hills so as to get above the bees,
waist line. Little expedients are always
suggesting themselves to the woman who
must do her own sewing.
Handwork can be added here and there;
Something wrenched inside the chief and another native, also armored, who | ace can be inserted between panels of
clerk's head. in the region of the eyes or | was in charge of the boat, ascended the
throat, or both. He wanted to laugh, and rocks. He went to the bank of the river,
he couldn't. He wanted to cry and he which was under the point of attack, and
couldn't. He was ashamed of both de- | made his boat fast.
sires. Squalor and fineness, poverty and | With his first attendant the English-
nobility, grotesqueness and spiritual ex- man climbed to a well-considered height,
altation, all jumbled together so foolish- | and then crawled cautiously forward
‘ly, so incongruously in the poor little | alone. He could hear an all-pervading
Shrimp, who, blinking incessantly, a little
paler, a little thinner, a little more worn | that sweet smell which is made up of
‘ than of old, sat opposite to him. honey, wax and bee.
Presently the squalor and the wretch-| Deciding that the point of attack was
' edness seemed to vanish, and exaltation | about a hundred yards farther on, the
| only shone from the Shrimp’s eyes. He | Englishman returned for his native, and
was speaking again. together they made their way thither.
“I hated thet—bein' dressed up, bein’ | The cliff was sheer, and even overhang-
laffed at all day long, makin’ a monkey | ing. A dense mass of bees and comb lay
outern myself, but I'll tellyer wot—! would | about fifty feet below the Britisher, and
hev goneon doin'it forevernever, if I] fifty feet below that were the boat and
coulda kept sis. But it wuzn't no use. the native in charge thereof.
She's gone. Dere's nuttin’ left for me ter | The hunter put one end of a rope round
do. So I'm comin’ back to youse once | a tree growing at the edge of the cliff,
| more, for terbe a biznes man in."—By | gave the other end to his attendant, and
{ Lida C. Schem, in Harper's Weekly. went over.
i 1
| Wrecked in Port. Expensive Revenues.
The collection of the revenues at some
of the ports of the United States is an
expensive business for Uncle Sam. Dur.
ing the past year at a certain port the
government paid two men just $1,100 to
collect sixty cents. This is only one in-
stance of the kind; there are many simi-
lar. For instance, the expenses of the
port of Alexandria, Virginia, were $1,224,
and the amount collected was $10; the
port of Annapolis, Maryland, turned into
the coffers of the nation $3.09 at the ex-
of $956; Crisfield, a port in Mary-
and, cost the governstient last year $3,-
| arctic gales or tropical typhoons, is wreck-
! ed in sight of port in some trivial shoal
| It is a sad thing. It is sadder
. yet when a young man who has laid in a
| store of learning for a life cruise,is wreck-
ed before he leaves the port of home on
his life Sedentary habits, in-
nutritious food and insufficient rest often
develop an inherited weakness in the stu-
! He coughs on rising in the morn-
| ing but sees no danger in the warning
!{ cough. He presses on, eager and am-
bitions in i Sthuliss ang rat sation id
m “weak lungs,” nate co i ived in ex-
and conditions which tend to consump- 256, Sor which Jt Ieedt a =
8 tan WY change. Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
tion. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis- | however, did alittle better; with an ex-
covery cures the cough, s “weak
trengthens pense of $3,573 it collected $221.65. Be-
lungs,” increases the supply of pure blood | gides ports i : thers
and id re-establishes the whole body in he maitioned, magly O
i
i
are doing about the same business at a
heavy expense. The average cost to the
ment for collecting its due in these
om was a little more than $23 for
every dollar collected. .
The country is divided into one hun-
dred and sixty districts and ports for the
collection of the revenues, such as cus-
toms and tonnage duties. Of these the
The Use of Hickory in the United
States.
In co-operation with the National Hick-
ory Association the United States Depart-
ment of culture has just completed a
in forty are greater than the re-
canvass of principal hick estab- i
lishments in er to ascertain r an- lle cost Of collestion 1.50 to Ri
nual requirements. ye eo after year the ‘attention of
In the last few years the users of hick-
ory have become very much alarmed over
the decreasi . So far, however,
it has been im e to get satisfactory
statistics either of the total quantity of
hickory yet standing in the forests or of
the amount used each year.
of affairs with a view to the consolida-
tion of some of the districts in order to
reduce the , but it only smiles
and smiles - smiles.
Would Do Just as Well.
A well known clergyman who is
You do not need to use Dr. Pierce's
are
“Well, my dear, if 1 had a valley
where I now have a mountain it would
D oublle Trouble. answer.”—Ladies’ Home Journal.
Him (just accepted)—“Do you know
I was awfully nervous until I proposed to Shifting the Burden.
3
“I note that you employ a great
inany quotations from the poe:s in
your speeches.”
“Yes,” replied the orator. “Just now
in my district it is desirable to say as
as possible for which you can be
Her—“Well, so was 1 for fear you
wouldn’t propose.”
observed a
—"Bredern, negro
preacher he leaned on the
FMankind am aera Joiph,
embroidery; ribbon can be run through
buttonholed slots and so on. g
If you once own and enjoy an embroid-
ered robe, you will never be without one.
A Snap-Shot Social.—The Snap-Shot
Social must of necessity be held in the
i afternoon, and would make a good z
hum, and his nostrils were filled with: Sat
urday half-hcliday altair, especially if
some of the young boys can be interest-
ed. There is pleasant anticipation in
planning for it, and working up the at-
tendance is pleasant, for ple like the
idea of “being taken” free, and all is
likely to be well where every one is con-
tinually minded to look pleasant and be
prepared tobe snapped. Pleasant mem-
ories are insured by the pictures taken,
and may be sha with absent friends.
The chief animation of the social is the
contest. Prizes may be offered for the
best results on special subjects which re-
quire haste and humor, as well as for the
more studied effects, for instance:
The largest number of recognizable
people (in one view).
Old Folks Away from Home (Grand-
parents).
Young Folks Away from Home.
Big and Little Folks at Play.
A Random Shot.
The Unkindest Cut of All.
A Wood Cut.
Our Leaders.
To person appearing in largest number
of views (not derogatory to photographer).
To person making the largest amount
from orders.
At the outdoor meeting take the pic-
tures and select the judges. At the ex-
hibition later show all pictures submitted
to judges, numbering each. Permit each
person to pick a first and second choice
from each special subject. The judges
give a report and award the merit prizes;
the report of the “pick” may then be
given, and the award, “Popular mention.”
This social can be easily carried out in
a young peoplate society where all are ac-
quainted and socials are regularly on the
endar.
A Floral Social.—The lawn of the home
there this social was held was lighted by
Japanese lanterns, and hammocks, lawn
Cramton
ng appearance gro -
ed to sociability. One of the est
girls of the society, dressed in white and
crowned with a wreath of flowers, repre-
Zo
carrying daisies),
Deep in a ba Heart, Nevin.
a Cream Muftine sone fd sae Nalt pints
our, two se w! eggs only.
Mix and little cream, little salt, and
then flour. Use enough cream to
make batter right consistency. Grease
muffin-irons. hot pour half full
doe all de mo’ valuable when dey is Baa Peravneny responsible.” —~Wash-
Star.
and bake quickly.