6 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ. PA s . v, - : ; , L - I STUDY YOUR OWN STYLE. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. TteteMe Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. Fifteen mm were Injured In n wreck W the Northern Centrnl rnllwny nt Mount Wolf, six miles north of York, Pa. A fifty ton flywheel In the Niitlonnl robe Works company's plnnt nt Mc teewport, Pa., burst and completely .mcked the continuous mill. One mnn aa killed outright, nnd four were serl mly Injured. The southbound Missouri, Kansas ind Texas lller was ditched nenr 'tanklln .lunctlon. Mo. The engine ' ompeil the truck nnd rnn Into n bluff, be other cnrs jamming Into the engine. ne mnn wns fatally hurt. A visit to the scene of the murder of label 1'nge whs mnde by the Jurors In ha trinl of Chnrles L. Tucker, charged tith the murder of Mnbel Page. In n pedal electric enr the members of the dry, accompii nied by Sheriff Fnlrbnrn ad six deputy sheriffs, went to An nrndnle, where they Inspected Tuck y home nnd the surrounding country. Tnrsilny, .Inn. Jl. Fire destroyed the department store if Jacob Stelnback at Lonir Brunch, N. ),, causing 11 loss of $''(M),000. Many vdjolnlng buildings were damaged. Joseph II. Monroe of Binghntnton, t. T., hns undergone nn operation In a Heal hospital for the removal of his Ignt foot, which recently wns literally noked without his knowledge on a edhot stove. Governor Iligglns hns nppolnted Na thaniel Foote of Uochester ns u judge f the supreme court In place of Judge .VHUnm E. Werner, who hns resigned A accept the olllce of associate judge C the court of appeals. Official nnd resident Washington ex .ended New Year's greetings to the resldent nnd Mrs. Koosevelt nt the Thite House. This event, brilllnnt nnd (pectneulnr, marked the formal opeii .ng of the social senson of 1905. Worcester academy hns raised the jlOO.WlO necessary to receive the $10, 100 conditionally endowed by Hon. Chester W. KUigsley, and there wns a enernl Jollification. Tills nearly dou bles the permanent endowment fund t the academy. Llle Hucknns, nged fifteen, Is dead nt 'iloversvllle, N. Y from Injuries sus alned from the accidental discharge t a gun 1u the hands of a playmate, B. Xalph Oaksford, nlso nged fifteen, srhile shooting nt a. tnrget. The bullet altered young Hucknns' Intestines. With a deep gash on the right side of ills head, evidently Inflicted with a lunt weapon, the body of Leonard M. Mandevllle, a young mnn living In n7oodsldo, a fashlonnble section of Vewark, N. J., hns been found In a Utch of muddy water nenr the Jackson street crossing of the Centrnl Itnilrond tt New Jersey. Seven men nnd n wo san, all Polnks, who are suspected, ire under arrest. ' Monday, Jan. 2. The president nnd Mrs. Roosevelt onnded out New Year's eve by enter tnlng a lnrge pnrty of children. Irs. Mary Conkey wns fatally in 'Ural nnd her two young children se .erely burned by the explosion of n ras generator at Albany, N. Y. Hurrienne-llke storms have been pre. .-ailing In the greater pnrt of Germany, '.ccompanled by rain nnd snow. The itorm wns the worst on the Baltic oast. A freight wreck on the West Shore allroud at Catsklll, N. Y., caused by a iroken nxle, blocked trntllc for some Ime. Fourteen southbound freight . -nrs were derailed. Wealthy New York men have ineor- lorated an association for the purpose f equipping an expedition to reach the .lorth pole. It will te known us the ..enry Arctic club, nfter the explorer, rho will lead the expedition. A party of armed men went to the all and forced (Sheriff Simmons to leld his prisoner, Louis Alhvhite, lie 'used by hl sou of assaulting nnd -iiurdering two nged women near New ; ort, Ark., on Christmas day. The '.wb took the prisoner to the sceue of he crime and lynched him. That complete anarch) reigns In the Rangier district and in Morocco gen i-rally Is conclusively shown by the re torts from different points. The Brit fih consul has requested that all Brit ;di subjects living In the outKkii-U of '.'.'ungler move Into the town, an the government Is unable to be responsible ' '.'or the safety of life or property. Silt n nitty, Dep. ill. Itabies has been more prevalent In New York state during the past year tnnu ever l el'wre, according to the re port of the state (superintendent of ag rlcultuve. Senor OJeda, the Spanish minister has signed, with .Secretary Hay. tin ar hltratlon treaty l'(wten Spain and the United Stales t.liii;lar to those, already i-cg-MlMic l with thcr uations. United States Stitiitor John II. .Mitch ell. Coiizic-.sinan Itiugcr Hermann and Jeorge Sjrensen, formerly a deputy Bherlff of Multnomah county, have been Jointly Indicted by the federal grand jury at Portland, Ore. The labor unions Involved simo hist July In n strike against a 12',1 per cent reduction in wages In the cotton mills of Fall Itlver. Mass., by a vote of ap proximately three to one have approved a continuance of the contort. Wilbur Guyetto was hanging up his shotgun In his homo at Altona, N. Y., when he fell from his chair, acciden tally discharging the gun and mortally wounding his father, Edward (luyette. Tho yjtius mnn Is nearly crazy from grief. Engineer John Neubnrr was killed and Frank McCord, an express messen ger, was seriously Injured In n head-on collision between tt passenger train and a freight train on the Minneapolis, fit Paul and Buult Ste. Marie railway at Heaver Junction, between St. Paul und Minneapolis. Friday. Dor, BO. Governor Elect Hlgglns hns announc ed the appointment of Nicholas Van Vrnnken Frnnchot of Olenn as state su perintendent of public works to succeed Charles 8. Boyd. By direction of the president Can tut n Robert L. Howze, Sixth cavalry, now stationed at Fort Keogh, Mont, hns been appointed commandant of cadet a at the United Stntes Military acudemy, West Point, N. Y. The United Stntes gunboat Wasp, while proceeding down the harbor nt Kingston, Jamaica, bound for Colon, grounded on a mud bank. The British commodore at Port Itoynl hns volun teered his services. President Roosevelt hns nppolnted J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia chief of the bureau of manufactures of the department of commerce and la bor. Mr. Moore Is president of the Na tional League of Republican Clubs nnd was formerly city treasurer of Phila dolphin. Captain Frost, Cnptnln Poxsee nnd Captain Baker, with their life snvlng crews, rescued the members of the crew of tho steamer Drumelzler, which has become a total wreck on Fire Island. They had a hard time getting to the strunded vessel and back, but landed nt Oak island safely. Thnrmlny, Dec. 211. Socialists at New York announce that Elbert Hubbard, the writer, lecturer nnd publisher, hns made application to join the Socialist party. Postmaster Wynne's lnvestlgntlon and report on the question of polygn mous postmnsters In the stnte of Ida ho Is likely to open up the whole que' tlon of Mormon federal olneeholders. The farmers nnd merchants of Clay county. On., met nt Fort Gaines and decided to burn their shnre of 2,000,000 bales of surplus of cotton. A Are wns made of cotton on the streets of Fort Gaines. Grnve fears prevail nt Moscow thnt the resentment nroused by the czar's supplementary note warning the zemst vos against discussing matters deemed ontslde their very limited powers may result In violence. The city Is excited, nnd any untoward incident would quickly kindle a riot. T. A. Devcney, one of the most wealthy men of Fairmont, W. Va., hns confirmed the report that H. J. Price, Edward Slack, business men, nnd he would furnish bail for Naif Patterson, now in the Tombs at New Y'ork await ing retrial on a charge of having mur dered Caesar Young, to the extent of $50,000 If necessary. Arrlililxhop of Illilcin Dead. RHIEMS, Jan. 3.-Cnrdlnal Benedict Mary Langenleux, archbishop of Rhlcms, is dead, aged eighty years. He was created a cardinal in 1880. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Stork ((notation. Money on call steady at 3V4 per cent; prime mercantile paper, VaV.k per cent; exchanges, JlSi.G.'CDM ; balances, t9,lS2,GS7. Closing prices Amnl. Copper... 74 Atchison RSH B. & 0 106 Brooklyn II. T.. 1 C. ,C.,C.& St. L. 91 Ches. & Ohio.... 49 Chi. & Northw..209 D. & H m Erie Sfl'-i Gen. Electric... 1R7M, 111. Centrnl 1B7H Lackawanna.... 340 Louis. & Nash..l414 Manhattan 1G5 Metropolitan.. ,.lDft Missouri 1'ac. . . . 107 N. T. Central. ..143H Norf. & West... 8014 Penn. R. R 139'4 Reading- 80 Rock Island.... 3i; St. Paul 174 Southern Pnc... 6fl Southern Ry... 38 South. Ry. pf... 67 Sugar 143 Texas Pacific... 85 Union Pacitlo...llU U. S. Steel 30 IT. S. Steel pf... 93 West. Union.... M New York Markets. FLOUR Quiet ; Minnesota patents. $5.86 6.20; winter straights, J6.25fift.40; wlntei extras, (3.Ua(U4.30; winter patents, $5,503 6.85. WHEAT Opened firm on higher Liver pool entiles, small Russian and world's shipments, decreune on pasNiigu and cov ering; market later eased off under real izing and with the west and ruled Irreg ular; May, $1.15V(Mt; July. l.o;i. HAY Dull; shipping, 60iiG5c. ; good to choice. 771'iiSOc. POTATOES Steady; Long Island. $1.78 (12; stato and western, tl.2ufrl.60: Jersey sweets. 1(3.50. BEAN'S Cjulet; marrow, t2.fir.32.(!7; medium. $1.85: pea. 11.70; red kidney, t2.ilfi. BUTTER Strong; creamery, common to extra, 18'm 28c. ; held, 2O'026c. ; state dairy, common to extra. WnMc; renovat ed, common to extra, 14W21C. CHEESE Strong; state, full cream, small, colored and white, fancy, 12c:; fine, 11 c. ; late made, colored and' white, eholce. lie; fair to good, loffluc. ; small, poor, R'afifi'sC. ; large, colored and white, fancy, llc; f.ne, 1H11C. : late made, colored und white, choice, lO'ie. ; fair to flood, Mffift'ic; poor, SJtSc. ; skims, full to lght. 4floc. EdOS Steady ; stnte, Pennsylvania nnd nearby, fancy, selected, white. .i53sc.; choice, 32''"4e. ; mixed, fancy, aifalilc. LIVE I'Ol.'LTRV fnchanged; fowls, 10 Jrl2c; old roosters, Kfio. ; spring chick ens, 10'((12c. ; ducks, 14 u lie. ; geese, 13 u 14c. ; turkeys, lM17c. LRUHSED POULTRY Quiet; turkeys lower; fowls, choice fresh killed, 12c; do., fair to good. 1 lftr 11 M.C. ; old roosters. 9c. ; nearby chickens, choice, 15c; western do., choice, 14c; do., fair to good, 12'u 13c. J turkeys, nearby fnncy, 22c; choice, 21c; do., fair to good, IN'fiaii'.; western do., choice to fancy, lMoic; do. fair to good, 174 18c. ; ducks, nearby. I5ji1iic. ; western do., ILVlftc.: geese, nearby, 124H3C.; west ern do., liaise. Live Stock Market. PATTLE Supply light; market steady: choice, t5.-.VriD.5o; prime, $4,854(5.10; veal calves. $7.2M7.75. H' KiS Receipts light; market active; rrlme heavy, tl .Rn'n4.U0; medium. H.85; lieiivv Yorkers, $4.Mk1i4.k5; light Yorkers, $l.ii'i4.70; plus, t4. 4041 4.50; rnuglis. $Wi4.3n. SHEEP A.N'U LAMBS Rucelpts light; market steady; inline wethers, $5.10'nb.25; common sheep, t-'l3; spring lambs, $4.60'ii 7.60. 05 JANUARY '05 Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fr. Sa. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 91011121314 15 161? 18 192021 22 23 24 25 26 21 28 293031 THE GOLDEN ' 1 SNAKESKLN. He.Mved on the slope of Tedro tallagalla, In the depths of the foreat far from the habttatlons of man. To protect himself from prowling wild beasts tie had built hie hut In the top of a leafy, moss covered tree. Many years before he had owned a large piece of land, which yielded him his dally bread. One fine day, however, a Brttlsh merchant bought his property as an addition to a tea plantation, and paid the purchase money In spark ling new rupees. What was Mahlndo to do? Rhonld he go and live as a rich man? Should he venture Into one of the black Iron snakes of the Europeans and be car ried off, or board one of their float ing houses and go far, far away, to the place where the etin rises and where the most beautiful countries of the earth must be? No, he dared not do It! He had a wife, a eon and a daughter whom he could not desert. The weeks passed In half blissful, half uneasy hesitation. For fear of losing the money, he finally burlled It In the forest, under a tree, which he marRed. Soon afterward he waa taken 111. Some time passed before his recovery, but as soon as his strength permitted, he dragged himself to the place wliere he had hidden h.ls treasure. He did not find lit. Several trees had been felled, and the one with the mark on H lay on the ground among the others. To his despair ho did not know where to look for his treasure. He nearly lost his reason through grief and rage. His son died at this time of trfal; he also lost his wife, but he did not care. His soul was full of mlBery and sorrow, but It was all on account of the lost rupees. At last he fled from people and their malicious Joy, and went to live at Pedrotallagalla. He had lived there for years with his daughter Sarawamu. They led a mliserable, Joyless existence on spring water and wild fruit. He roamed the forest for hours at a time searching for his lost treasure, and paid no at tention to Sarawamu. His only thought was his misfortune, and he did not notice how beautliful his daugh ter grew, how her eyes glowed like the tropic sun, how slender and sup ple she was, and how her skin shone like a warm topaz. Others saw It, however. Laborers from the coffee and tea plantations, roaming about In the forest, discover ed the beautiful girl, and without many preliminaries, several of them asked the father to give her to them In marriage; but Mahlndo Invariably answered, "My child will not marry unt)!l I find the money, but then we'll have a fine wedding. They would curse him for a fool and go away. Sarawamu smiled. She did not care for any man. Tho life In the woods, among bracken and rho dodendron, pleased her. At last, how ever, her time came. An Intrepid ele phant hunter saw the beautiful wild thing, and she was caught by the sparkling eyes of the youth, as surely as the birds by his snare. When he spoke to her father he at onoe re ceived the same answer as tho rest. Tiszu smiled. "Mahlndo, don't be a fool," he said. "Give me your daugh ter, and come with us to the valley among the people. Leave the rupees to the evil spirits and let us Jive!" But Mahlndo was obdurate. "Then the money must be found, old roan. By the head of Buddha, why don't you seek help from others when your own wisdom Is not suflV dent? In, the village there Is a wizard of a good reputation, by the name of Loano. Go to him." Mahlindo liked the Idea, and depart ed with Sarawamu .for the village. Loano was a short, thickset man, with projecting eyes and matted beard and hair. The wizard shook some powder Into a brass dish, and soon a blue smoke enveloped him. He mumbled Incanta tions, took a palm leaf and en Uron stylo, and began to dance. At last he fell to the ground In convulsions, while his hand was scratching with the pen on the leaf. Rising, he said, "Here are the mysterious words. What will you give for them?" Mahlndo turned pale; he had no money. Seeing how tho wizard's eyes hung on the girl, he shouted: "I prom' lse you my daughter, If you will have her; but give me the leaf." The wizard smiled contentedly, and handed him the leaf, sayl'.ng, "Before next moon I expect my pay money out of your treasure, or the girl." Outside the hut, Mahindo devoured the writing on the leaf. "Let him tile tho skin of a golden snake about his right foot, and go to the forest where his money lis hidden, The spirit of the snake will steal Into its old home, and with a light pre sutc lead ftlm to the place where tho treasure lies burled. If the pressure ceases, let htm stop and begin to dig." From that day Mahlndo spent his days In hunting for a golden snake- skin, but In vain. Tired to death and ill, he came home one 'evening and was unable to climb the tree. Thui Ttszu found him. "Bring me a golden snakeskln, and Sarawamu will be yours." Mahlndo called out to the young man. Tlszu Jiad learned with consterna tion the agreement with Loano; but this 'promise gave him new courage, and he went out to hunt for snakes. All lin vain. When, a few days before j the new moon, he came to see Sara-, warau, he was In despair, But Sarawamu mlled, and took from a hollow tree art object Vbioi 6 . 1 , 6be handed to him. A snakeskln golden, flhinlng. "I found It on an ant bill. Oo to father and say that you found Jt" It Is not easy to ay who was mad dest with Joy. Tlszu or the old mau. But the girl was quito calm, and only said: "You have promised me to Tiszu; I am his." The old man agreed to everything and the hunter carried him to that part of the forest where the money was hidden. With the golden ikln tied about his foot, he waited full of expectation but tho wonder did iot happen. He felt no pressure from the skin. Then he was seized with fury, and, as If all sickness had gone from him, he rushed to Loano's hut. "Your wisdom did no good, old vil lain! Your writing was a lie, your trance a fraud!" he cried flinging the enakoskin In tho face of the wizard, who could scarcely believe his eyea when he say the slJ.n. "You have not done as I said," Loano replied, shrugging his shoul ders; "go your way. It Is not my fault." Maihlndo was foaming with tage. Just then Sarawamu, Tlszu and a brown policeman, brought by the hun ter, came linto tho hut. The police man heard both parties, and decided the case In favor of Mahindo. In tho valley, on the other side of Pedrotallagalla, Tlszu and Sarawamu soon built their hut, and Mahlndo came to live wl.th thesn. One evening, when the young couple were sitting In the moonlight before their hut, Tlsu remarked: "Strange that the wizard's formula did not help your father." ISis young wife smiled. "It was not real snakeskln, beloved. I suspect ed Loano, and feared that there was no such skin to be found. So I dyed the skins you brought tne In the Juices of plants until I got the right color." Tiszu shook his head and said, saili ng, "Love Is and ever will be th greatest wizard!" N. Y. Sun. Had Substitute. The late Dr. Otis Avery, of Hones- dale, Pa., was the oldest dentist in America, and he was also the first American ever to receive a dentist a certificate. Dr. Avery was talking one afternoon to a reporter about the earlier, unen lightened days of Honesdaie. We nati not then, he said, as much rellgtous feeling as we have now. I remember a revival service, very poorly attended, that was held during a certain winter. The revival ist, since the people would not come to him, went to them, and on the street corners he would halt and question them concerning their relig ious beliefs. "I haven't seen you at our revival," he said to one very old, bent man. "What would I be doin there?" tho other answered. "Don't you ever pray?" said the re vivalist. The old man shook his head. "'No,' he said; 'I carry a rabbit's cot.' " Chicago Record-Herald. Chief of the Uklahs. Charles Penlo, the oldest chief of the Uklah tribe, died at Cox Ranchero recently, and the Indians are now celebrating a death feast. Penlo was 107 years old and ruled the Ukiahs long before t'he white settlers arrived, and the death of many Whites lies at his door. He was judge and Jury for the tribe, but was deposed about twenty-five years ago for killing Sam Warden. Warden and another Indian had quarrelled over a game of cards and the other Indian was killed. Pernio was sent for and had War den tied to a tree to be shot. Ha dodged the first bullet, which so In furlated the chief that he seized an axe and chopped off Warden's head Penlo was held In ja'il for several months, but none of the Indians could be Induced to testify against him. Penlo had always resented the en croachment of the whites and was considered dangerous. He was burled in muian styie, witn nis pony ana war Implements. Sacramento Bee. How Two Missouri Towns Got Their Names, Nearly eighty years ago, when the Presidential struggle between Clay and Jackson was at Its height, It Is related that a band of emigrants from Kentucky, and the then other West ern States, commenced to settle on the north side of the Missouri River and called their county Clay and the county seat Liberty. At the same time another lot of emigrants from Virginia and other Southern States pitched their tents on tho south side of the Big Muddy and called thoir county Jackson and the capital Independence. And so it re mains to tWIs day, Clay stood for lib erty and Jackson for Independence. The Cost of Mining Shafts. Even aa far back as seventy-five years the cost of sinking coal mine shafts In England varied from $50,000 to $75,000. With the greater depth required as tho upper veins of coal were worked out, the eost Increased. In 1857 $200,000 was spent In sinking a shaft at the Haswell Colliery In Dur ham, an,d a quicksand that oould not be conquered with the appliances and methods of tihat day, finally caused the abandonment of the bore. At Munton Colliery, not far from Has- woll, $1,500,000 was spent In sinking three shafts, whIoh were completed when 1,488 feet deep. Improved methods of dealing with waiter-bearing Btraita have made moro modern shafts less cootly than those of the middle of the last century less costly both actually and proportion ately. BLOOD CEIXS. IN ALTH. m D1SKAIB. v. u millinnnlrf mnnv times over In the poosesMon of blood cells Woman Is tint nuit n rich, for scientist hv proven that the normal number of red blood cells In adult men is five million; in women four and a half million to tht square millimtter. The normal cell 1 not aDtolutwy rouna in health, hut. In disease, become e trcmcly irrrpular in shape. Every one can be In perfect health and possess th mil lions of rich red blood corpuscles If tliev only know Iiott to go shout It. T)r. R. V. Pierce, consulting physician to the Inva lids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buf fulo, N. Y., advises every man and woman to prepare for a long life by observing na ture's 4aws. In the first place, if your digestion is faulty, and the food you eat is not taken up by the blood and assim ilated properly, you ned a tonic and diges tive corrector, something that will increase the red blood corpuscles; he believes in going about this in nature's own way. Years ago, in bis active practice, he found that an alterative estract of certain herbs and roots, put up without the use of alco hol, would nut the liver, lungs ana nun Into fuller and more complete action. This medicine he called lr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. By assimilating the fiod eaten, it nourishes the blood, and, in stead of the Ill-shaped corpuscles, tha par son's blood takes on a rich red color and ttie corpuscles ar mor nearly round. Nervousness is only tne cry 01 in starvea nerves for food, and when the nerves are fd on rich red blood the person loses those irritable feelings, sleeps well at night and feels refreshed in the morning. KNOWLEDGE IS POWBR. If von want to know about your body, read Pr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, which can b had for the oost of mailing, 31 cents in one-cent stamps lor the cloth-bound book, or ai stamps for th paper-covered volume. 1008 pages. Ad dress Dr. K. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. - Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse th bowel and stimulate th sluggish liver. ICE YACHTING IS POPULAR. The Sport Is Making Rapid Strides in the Northwest States and in Canada. Minneapolis. Ice-yachting Is ex tremely popular on the frozen rivers and lakes of our northern states and Canada. It was In 18C1 that the first regular club was organized, and since that time many clubs have 'started. The hull portion of an ice yacht is quite simple, consisting of two pieces A THRILLING MOMENT. (Sailing Before a Btlft Northwester on a Minnesota Luke.) the center timber, running fore and aft, and the runner plank. On the cen terpiece the mast la stepped, the for ward part constituting the bow sprit and the aft part carrying the box and rud der post. The runner plank Is a stout timber from 14 feet to 28 feet long, tapering In thickness toward the ends, to which the runners are attached. The biggest yachts will weigh 3,000 pounds. Some of them have a sail driving area of over 1,000 square feet They travel a mile In 2:08. Bird's Nest of Steel. A curious gift has been made to the Natural History museum, of Soletta. This gift consists of a bird's nest con structed entirely of steel. There are a great many watchmakers at Soletta, and In the vicinity of the workshops there are alwa.-s the remains of the old springs of watches which have been cast aside. Last summer a watch maker discovered this curious bird's nest, which had been built in a tree In his courtyard by a pair of water wagtails. It measures ten centimeters In circumference, and is made solclv 0f watCh springs. When tho birds had fledged their brood the watchmaker se cured their unique nest as an interest ing proof, of the Intelligence of birds in adapting anything which comes within their reach. In the First Person. The Japanese language contains no fewer than 18 synonyms for the personal pronoun "I," one for each class of peo ple; and etiquette makes it unlawful for a person belonging to one rank In society to make use of the pronoun per I talnlng to another. A Famous Timekeeper. The world's best timekeeper Is said to be the electric clock in the base ment of the Berlin observatory, which was installed by Prof. Forster, in 185, II IS inclosed In an alrtleht oana cylinder, and h'as frequently run for periods or two or three months with an average dally deviation of fifteen-thousandths of a second. Yet astronomers are not satisfied even with this, and ef forts are continually being made to se cure Ideal conditions for a clock by keeping it not only in an airtlEht raje but In an underground vault, where neither changes of temperature nor of Barometric pressure shall ever affect It A Musical Prodiev. The London Academy of Music medal tor pianororte playing, counterpart and harmony has been won by Max Darpn. iltl, eight years old. There were 39 others competitors, the youngest of whom Is 25 years old. Cotton Mills. In 1000 there were in Russia 730 cot ton mills, with 279.500 horse power. 339, 903 employes and pay-rolls amounting to $33,902,003. Halrdresiing 8hould be Dona With Greatest Care. The scolding locks at the back of the) Beck are beauty's greatest ornament If tho prelty woman only understand Low to utilize them. Very few artists are bold enough of daring enough to paint the femala neck bare of curls, nnd there Is hard ly a famous Ideal head In the plctur Galleries with the ears exposed. " The tips of the feminine ears may bo as pretty as pink shells; but, all tho same the artistic yt loves to clothe them In soft ringlets, and no matter how graceful or swanlike may be the back of the neck it is much more artistic to dress It In small curls ever so tiny, or, as one wom expressed it, ever so st.lilght. If tho hair does not grow prettily at the back "f th neck try to train the locks down so that they will curL If this cannot be dono then use a few artlflclnl curls. Maybe tho hair grown so wickedly at the back of the neck that tho artlflclnl curls cannot be used with good results, and In this cas there Is nothing to do uut to dress the hair low. v The woman who wants to pleasB will surely not neglect to maks a study of her halr-dresslng. Pleasing Frock for Qirl. A very smart and pretty little froclf was made after the above model As Illustrated It Is high-necked, but tho yoke can be omitted, leaving a sq jar, low neck, or several different y.-rkes co'ild bo used with the dress, thns making a pretty change. Tucks ars laid in the waist In the back and on either side the centre box plait ! front. A double bertha edges tho yoke, and falls modlshly over the sleeve, giving breadth to the should ers in a way becoming to all children. Tho full, short skirt has a broad hem and the upper edge Is gathered an! attached to the waist. Pale blue chai ns was used In the making, with yoke) of heavy all-over lace, but several othor materials are adapted to the pattern, such as China silk, cashmoro, albatross and mohair. The medium size requires four and three-eighth yards of thirty-six inch material. Foreign Matter in the Eye. -Any foreign substance in the eye is very painful, but to remove It Is after all an easy matter. It the dust lodges on the lower lid press the finger gent ly but firmly against the eyelid, pull ing it down and telling the victim to look up. This exposes the inner lid and tho dust can be removed upon a toothpick ,or hairpin, about the end of which a bit of cotton has beea wound, to avoid a scratch or bruise. If the upper lid is affected take the) eye-lashes ' firmly between the fore) finger and the thumb, ask the patient to look down and with a quick move ment turn the eyelid up over the point of a pencil, or better still the edge of a card, which should be pressed against the eyelid just above the stiff part. This causes no pain and th dust can be wiped off as from the low er lid. A bit of steel is more difficult t remove. If a magnet is at hand It Is sometimes easily drawn out by the magnet's attraction. Bangle as a Pledge. , A new idea Is to substitute an en gagement bangle for the conventional ring. These bangles, which sometimes are slight circlets, and sometime broad gold bands, give the lover tne satisfaction of feeling that he has Indeed safely fettered his fair fiance for, once fastened, the clasp can only be opened by being forced apart with a chisol. On the continent, where H is customary for lovers to exchange rings, engagement bangles are some times worn by men, but they are rare ly soen on men of English-speakinc races. Biting the Thread. Young women who sow beautifully but who bite the threads when nnUh lng off the work or bite the thread la order to cut It off the spool, do you not know that a scientific estimate of the power exerted by the teeth made re cently by a scientist of note put the pressure used in biting a single thread at thirty pounds? Eggs for an Invalid. To prepare an egg for an InvalVi beat the yolk and white until extreme ly light, add a pinch of salt, pour lato a ohina cup, which Bet In a saucepan, of hot water, stirring constantly UU scalded, but not cooked. When UiSe Is done slowly the egg Just thicken slightly, but puds w until the en almost filled witn creamy custaiC Set la the oren a moment and serve; at onoe. v
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