ws
THE ANGEL SLEEP,
When tae day is done and the shadows fall
Quer the earth Hike a dusky pall,
“een fron the mystic, the silent deep
Rises the eantitul Angel Sleep.
« Dew field and forest he spreads his winds
W here the cricket chirps and the wood bird
sings,
And the murmur of volees dies away, §
Stl by the Angel calm and gray.
Haman pas=ions that surge and swell
Are silenced under the mystic spell,
And tired hearts that are nsad to weep
Yiekl to the power of the Angel Sleep
Saft Bre broods till the morning gray,
Then as noiselussly glides away,
Awd the spell is lifted and hears again
Tabet: wp their burden of care aud pain.
We.call him Death! "Tis the Angel Sleep
That comes nt lust from the silent deep,
Awl smocias for ever the brow of care,
Add calms the fever of passion there.
$e woe sleep and rest, till the morning gray
Peeaks once more on an endless day,
And into the mystic, the unknown deep,
¥8es forever the Angel Sleep,
EE NRCS CUPRA RNG.
AT MmipNiGar.
The waiters watched his stightest
movement and attended to his wants in
a manner seldem witnessed, Was he
mot the richest American, or, at any
rate, the most liberal, who had taken
up his abode at the Langham this
year?
There is some pleasure in waitiog on
a gentleman who tips half a sovereign
as freely as an Eoghishmao does a shil-
Bug!
Mr. Jonathan Lee was evidently a
millionaire, and a man who understood
show to enjoy Inmesell,
¢ jong ago; snd whose aim in hfe, being
ohildless, wus the acquisition of new
clothes and jewelry. She was never
tired of changing her dresses, and was
ravely seen wearing ove a second time
in public.
Ar. Leo 1 passion for sending
kelrgeams. He seldom wrote a letter,
bat bowbarded Lis friends with messages
on msilers of no importapce—always,
to do Lim iastice, prepaying a reply,
One duit was one of our horrid
«days, nud ap esst wind was blowing—
i Mrs. Lee observed: *'I can't see the
ame of paying a shillmg for a telegram
aclody cares to get.”
“And what's the use of giving forty
guineas for a dress nobody cares to see?”
retorted Mr. Lee; which caused his
wife to flounce the ome she was then
wescing into the nearest chair, where
. wive devoted her attention to the latest
fashion book
But one day there came a telegram
which had crossed the Atlantic, snd the
news it contained, whether it were good
or bad, caused Mr, Lee to take an af-
fectionate leave of his wife, previous to
starting on a short journey. The word-
ing of the message was this:
“English gect has got the papers.”
Amongst the woods and hills of
Surrey stands a fine old stone mansion
belonging to Sir Andrew Gordon,
In the library of this house the mem-
bers of the family were arsembied ono
woning, and the family consisted of the
old baronet and his son Archibald, an
antiquated anut of the latter Miss Dor-
othy Gordon, and Constance Gwyn, Bir
Andrew's ward, a beautiful girl of near-
iy eighteen,
“There will be a storm fo-night.
Sark bow the wind is rising!” said Miss
Dorothy, with a shiver, “It's a mercy
your travels are over, Andrew!’
“Yes,” said the old man, holding his
mands to the fire; “I am betier pleased
wile. the safety cf my own stone walls
+ than the best mail steamer that ever
gwessed the Atlantic, But now 1'il ning
jor lights; and, Archie, my boy, come
over snd try to understand some wl
she mysteries contained in these vellow
papers.”
Archie, a handsome, fair-haired fel-
‘dow of twenty-three, had been resting
af full length--and thal was over six
fost—or a comfortable sofa, watchung
lurily the charming figure of his father’s
ward, who persistently looked every way
«but his,
“Pll come; but Idon’t suppose I shall
«onake suything out of them,” he an
swered, rising slowly.
“My boy, it is most important—quite
+ fortune for youl! Your pocr mother
never knew of it,” were the words Con«
stance beard as she sat idly in her low
chair near the fire. ‘The papers are
worth two thousand a year! That rascal
who hax kept them back would give
something to know where they are now,”
ohuckled the oid baronet, as he spread
. out the crackling letters and a large
shect of parchuneut on a table, the but-
ier meanwhile arranging a reading-lamp
to suit his master in so leisurely = maa-
per as to call forth an impatient
exclamation of *“Lhat will do! that will
dot”
Himmons respectiully took the hing,
and now busied himselt with the heavy
ourtains, having nowselesaly closed the
shutters,
“Phere is a shocking draught,” mur.
mured Miss Dorothy, ‘Don’t you feel
it, Constance?’
“Not a bit,” replied Constance,
daughing, a8 sie rose to get her work-
basket; ‘but the wind get in such
a night like this,"
Simmons retired, and Archie
sorved :
“I'm awfully glad that fellow is leav-
fng—he walks 1x8 a cat!”
“Indeed,” cried Miss Dorothy, quer-
» dlously, “I think your father does wrong
to part with him; we have never had so
quict n servant,”
“Never mind the man-—attend to mel”
+ ericd Bir Andrew, *‘You must particu-
farly try to remember this.”
Arciue, only outwardly listening, was
. wshibiung some of those provoking
mptoms which a lover shows after
— the lad a Tie roe
re, and y 04
Constance Gwyn seeised to remember
something, ant left the room. When
she veturucd siter a quariorof an hour's
abecuce, the builer had entered with »
nad
abe
, Pur Andrew's ‘'mightcap” of whiskey
w 4
hey will be safe here to-night; to-
morrow I will take then to the lawyer's,”
he said, Then, turning to his ward, he
inquired, “How is Gelert, fair lady?"
“I don't think he is well, Bir Andrew,
I've just been to see him.”
“‘OUopstance!’ cried Miss Dorothy,
soandalized, “have you been out to the
dog-kenuel at this hour, and on such a
night?”
“Yes, Miss Dorothy—and it 1s much
too cola for the poor fellow to be left ont
there ”
“Now, my love!” deprecated the old
Indy, waving one delicate hand in token
that her will was law, ‘never mention
the idea of bringing that enormous dog
into the house,”
The ghost of a pout came into Cov-
stapce's sweet face,
“There, there,” said Sir Andrew, mer-
rily, “don't fret, Constance, Gelert
sball have arkitled physician to-morrow,
it you think him ill. I shouldn't mind
his eoming into the house, but our ty-
his shoulders,
“*Archie,” softly whispered the girl,
as he lit her candle for her, **will you
ful grey eyes appealingly to his.
his face,
chess with tue curate to-morrow!”
“Oh, don't be silly!
Gelert is ill, bring him in.”
night civilly,” a! the same time drawiug
his fiance behina a
silent embrace, which
blushing.
A lright fire
Gwyn's bedroor,
sent her away
She put en her
as soon us the latter had received Galert
him to his mistress,
secking company, and was not ill, He
looked the picture of contentment as he
lay at Corstance’s feet, and she, feeling
wakeful, ‘sat quietly reading--though
between the page and her eyes came up
Archie's face,
The house had long been still, when .
the clock in the corridor struck one. |
Gelert at the moment raised bis huge
head and listened attentively, Cpn-
stance closed her book, and wondered
why the dog still kept his intent look;
it made her nervous, and she began to
listen too. Certainly there was a sound
as of a window in the library, just be-
neath her own room, being upened.
The wind and rain made so wild a sound
that she would have banished the
thought ot anything but these, had it
uot been that Gelert half rose to his
feet with a low growl,
‘‘Be guiet, Gelert!” she whispered;
for she feared he would bark, and so
reveal to Miss Dorothy his forbidden
presence,
Gelerts only
carncstly at his
ears again, and
door,
Constance went into the corridor to |
listen. The only person near her was
answer was to look
mistress, prick his
walk slowly to the
i
i
i
i
i
i
nervous Miss Dorothy, whom she dread-
ed to rouse. Taking firm hold o
Gelert's collar, she soltly reached tho |
top of the grand staircase, and a gieam |
of moonlight which burst throngn the |
stormy clouds, lit up with a weird light |
be portraits that iced the wall, and |
then as suddenly faded, In the dark. |
ness Gelert drew his mistress to
staircase, showing increased anxiety to
make her understand that there was a
cause for his excitement, Constance
leaned over the banister. The door of
the library was partly open and a faint
light was io the room. In a moment a
thought of the papers Sir Andrew had
just brought irom America flashed on
Constance; she remembered that they
were of importance to Archie, and that
some one else would be glad to get them
from him,
Whispering a few words to quiet the
dog, she crept softly down the broad
stous staifcase, and paused near the
door, Through the crack she saw that
two men stood at the far end near Bir
Andrew's cabinet, aud it was open. A
strange courage came to the girl, Bhe
knew that if she could eross to the cor-
ner by the opposite window, there was
a bell there which commumcated with
the wing where Sir Andrew slept and
which would also arouse the servants,
In another moment she had stopped
and clasped one arm around the dog's
neck, sod he seemed to know her wish,
for he crawled stenlthily beside her into
the room. They had nearly crossed if,
when Gelert drew a panting breath,
which startied one of the men, He
quickly turned and aimed a pistol at
Constance, In an instant she loosed
Gelert and sprang at the bell—heard
the peal ring out, a pistol fired, and a
dog's furious worrying—then fell un.
couscious ou the floor,
“How quiet you all are!” and then
Constance thought she had not saad it
such a faint voice it sounded. And
what bed was this with great green cur.
tains, Surely Miss Dorothy's! And
the room was dim, so when Miss Dor.
othy crupt to the bed Constance could
not see that her face was wet with thank-
ful tears,
“My love, you are in my room be-
cause I am nursing you.”
“Have 1 been ili?" said the weak voice
again,
“Yes, dear, but don't talk.” And
Miss Dorothy slipped away to come
back with the old doctor sna Sir An-
drew,
The patient's eyes wandered towards
the door,
Sir Andrew whispered a fow words to
the doctor,
**Oh, there's somebody else, is there?
all he may come in just for a min-
a "”
_— “somebody” had been outside,
“My dazling,” he whis , hol
the weak little hand, pred ye
Constance looked up in his face, try-
ing to reweniber something.
. we quarrel aboui- chess-or
somebody?”
Oh, that's ail right,” auswered
Archie, eagerly, ‘You checkmatod
me. :
“Well, but who was shot?"
“That will do now,
thio
wil my dear,”
} {Le good ola doctor, hastily, motioning
sll but Mis Dorothy away. ‘If you
you are a good girl and go to sleep you
shall talk to them all by and by.”
In the library Sir Andrew told the
following to his sou:
“When I was twenty-eight years of
age I was still dependent on my uncle,
who, though he could not keep the title
froma me, had the power of alienating
the property. He wished me to marry
his daughter, but while staying in Paris
I fell in love with a beautiful young
American girl who was studying at a
school there, I knew her twin brother
more for her sake than lus own, and he
witnessed my private marriage with her.
Within a year my uncle died, and I war
about to travel to America with my
wife, and acknowledge her publicly
there, when you were born, and your
dear mother lived but an hour, Her
brother, Jonathan Lee, saw me in my
deep affliction, and urged upon me that
be could acquaint all American friends
and save me a sorrowful jonrney. A
to the half share of some mining prop-
etty which had been left to Jouathan
Lee and his sister, or, in event of their
death fo youn. I went to Amerina, ob-
good your title to the share in the
property, which Lee had been appropri-
He is in Eogland; he may
put as the latter was shot when Gelert
fie matter
drop, I'ne other hired miscreaut es-
caped, but I think Gelert must have
hurt him,
3
Archie sat by her side, and
immediate change of air for you. A
day, so now you will prowiss to agree
to a very quiet wedding a week or two
hence, avd then I will take you
abroad,”
No answer, and the girl raised on
hand to cover her face, which it could
uot do,
“Tell her to say ‘Yes,’ Gelert!” said
Archie, laughingly, raising the great
dog's paws 1 supplication,
“May Gelert come, too?”
“To be sure; and here comes my
father to hear the glorious news, snd to
prevent our good Aunt Dorothy fussing
about trousscaux.,”
than Lee, and it convinces him that
received, and to hasten to his native
land-—there to arrange for the regular
disbursement of ball his income from
the mives in favor of his young English
nephew, whom he would never see or
hear of unless he failed in the
arrangements,
“We start to-morrow!
Lee to his wile.
for America
“On, my! 1
things I meant to buy in Earope.”
“And you never will!”
ponded Jonathan,
ES ————_L I
Baldness Mast vo,
A Detroit barber tells a joarnalist
friend of mine went
of to Paris a
ally falling out,
pearance of his head was
of hair ever #0 much more luxuriant
are. On inquiring the reason for this
change 1 was informed that he had had
his hair singed, Here was a practical
illustration of the good effects following
this new method, #0 I made up my mind
to adopt it, and have done so very sue-
cessfully,
“How is it done?” Well, I just take
a lighted taper and pass the flame over
the tips of & man's hair which ic at all
thin or hes a tendency to fall out; that
is all. You see, every hair is hollow,
and more or less of the fluid necessary
for its growth escapes, When the top
of the hair is singed the aperture is
closed and the strengthening fluid re-
tained,”
“Will pot the same means be em-
ployed to encourage the growth of hair
on the bald upper lips of some of our
youth?” was asked,
“Exactly, You see my moustache?
It 1s thicker on one side than on the
other, That is caused by my smoking
my cigars just a little short, and they
singe my moustache on one side and
make it thick there. Thies goes to prove
that singing is beneficial. 1 have no
doubt that before long you will see in
front of sll the barber shops in this
city signs marked ‘Bingemng done
here,’ ”
House of Vestals
A discovery of statues, busts, and
other works of sculpture, almost equal-
ling im number and importance those
found in the atrium of the House of the
Vestals, wae lately made at a piace
called 11 Sassone, situated between the
town of Marino on the Alban Hills and
the farm of the Frattochia, where, at
the beginning of the Iast century, the
Constable Colonna was wont to receive
and entertain the Popes on their way
from Rome to Castel Gandolio, At that
the remains of a very ex.
tensive villa, pscertained to have be
longed to the Veconia Gens, are
now being excavated by Signor Boeo-
$aners, Xaere have been Jy out no
wer than eighteen pieces of soulptu
melading statues of Marsyas, of -
athlete, a faun, as genius, a Silvanus,
and a copy of the Laocoon-the first
ancient copy of this group that has yet
been f five marble candelabra, a
bust with a curious kind of Phrygian
cap, & group of au eagle ug a
lamb, sod several of marble,
vases and very five bas-reliofs,
crt ua]
“Yrs,” said ths Vermont young man,
“I'm reckless to-day, and so's Bill, and
wa're going to paint the day red!”
And nt 59 and Ay went he rae
thios glasses apicce of cider, bought
tuo five-ceut cigars, and pat in the
alroruoon playing olieckers st the
grocery,
Cunt-0Y Finory.
A mystory to most people 1s what be
comes of sll the finery of fashionable
ladies who spend 85,000 n year 1n dress.
ing. It is quite impossible to wear it
all ont, because of the frequency with
which the styles succeed one another,
Nome unsophisticated folks are good
enough to suppose that the fortunate
birds of gay plumage bundle up their
cast-off wearing apparel and send it to
the various charitable institutions, or,
mayhap, keep some poor [amilies re.
spectably clad, but such generosity is
peculiarly rare, There are, however, in
this city some five or mx families of de-
ceased ministers who are kept very geu-
teelly dressed by as many wealthy ladies
who have that kindness of heart which
preciudes the section of the right hand
from the knowledge of the left, A
Chicago lady for the last three years
has kept a struggling young artist of
that city very nicely dressed in the
clothes which she deliberately stole
from her own son,
Aud another big-heartod woman in
the same city has fostered two or thres
young ladies and aided them in meking
the appearance their yocation demand.
ed, Her oboicest satine and velvels
have been more than once on the con-
cert stage or in the choir lott,
put unfortunately these stepping-
{ stones to future suecess are not to be
| found at every wealthy lady's gate, for
the modern woman has not so much
money as to find more repugnant. A
second-hand clothier inseris a notice in
a Sunday paper that lhe will pay large
cash prices for cast-off garments in good
repair. Madam drops a postal eurd in
{ the morning, and
good-natured Jewees calls in
eyes on, hats, veils, plumes, collars, dis-
i
| bonus
pers that bave ‘‘stretched to big,”
binding, disabled parssols
nighit-dresees and underclothes that have
becouse tiresome, steel, jewelry, buckles
of jet, pearl sud ivory, belts, portemon-
| nares, retionles anda any kind or style of
dresses” that are whele, together with
wraps, shawls, cloaks, sacks and out
door garments, The purchaser, who
sces a regular bousnza in the pile, gives
asks permission 10 come Again Ju KIX Or
twelve months,
And now for the disposition of these
gaudy raiments, The snoes are usually
fine custom-made goods, costing from
$9 to $18, and as they are but shghtly
| worn or out of style, it is not hard to
seli them. The dresses are cleaned,
,shghtly altered and sold to the girls who
irequent those pices for the Hoery
they flud it impossible to get elsewhere.
| Kid gloves are mended and cleaned,
| fathers and nbbous are similarly treat
ed, and, where it is impossible to clean
| ight dresses, shawls or trousers, they
rn A ———
Among the Lappe.
spiaaders are Qshermen or
{hey are
i nguished
week
Mn Lapp,
wien Labile~
uving mn
Hiive sist.
{rest 4 : of In he
. § dif»
g, APO 3 gat
« Ki'e
OF CORTE
wadmal of
or hats, Their
and rudely coonstrucled
slicks covered with
skin
LE Ie soil
lcelsgd, and live in
| tents are small
| with & skeleton of ben
coarse cloth, outmde of which they place
a layer of turf or bark. Theres an on
{ing st the top for the smoke to escape
from the fire, which burns in a hole
the center of the floor. ‘The winter nights
and the summer days lengthen the
pearer the land approaches Polar
circle, the excess and defect of light cor-
respomling with esch other, The Jap-
lander bas a winter of nine months, during
a portion of two of which the sun does not
ree; and accordingly, for several weeks
in July and August, the sus docs nol set,
The northern porlien of the country
abounds 1n low marabes, out of which, mn
summer, clouds of slinging goats ascend.
Further south, and bearer the Gulf of
Bothma, the woods begin to appear.
These consist partly of forests of larch,
pine, fir, alder and birch. There are no
fruit wees, bul currants and berries of va-
nous kinds abound-—the bilberry is very
common, and is called the “blackberry,”
by which sane it is also known in Soot-
land.
it will be remembered that, in 1722,
Linpmus, then a student, made his cole
brated botanical joursey into Lapland,
alone, and returned to Upsala, after an
abeence of exactly five months, having
traveled four thousand miles, bringing
back with him upward of one hundred
plants hitherto unknown or undescribed.
At a distance of eighty miles north of
the Gulf of Bothnia the ground becomes
gradually elevated, till at jength 18 nees in
jofty mountains, attaining a hsight of mx
thousand two hundred feet, which, in this
region, is two thousand seven hundred feet
above the line of perpetual snow. These
central mountains are the highest in
Lapland, There are numerous rnvers
which abound in salmon; and in the
mountainous regions there are many
lakes 10 which are found pike, perch,
trout, eels and char. Of wild animals
there are bears, elks, or moose-deer, wild
reindeer, martens, glottona, beavers,
otters, ermines, tquirrels, lemmings or
mountain rats, field mice, foxes, wolves
and hares; the latter are very abundant.
Among the birds are part Crows,
ravens, owls, a species of woodeock and
plarmigan,
The reindeer 18 the most valuable ani-
mal in Lapland, and quite indispensable;
ft is kept in herds by all. The very
poorest Lapps bave from filty to ome
bundred, which, however, they {din to
some other herd for pasturing. The mid
die classes can get on comfortably with
from two hundred to five hundred, while
the richest have herds of from that num~
her to over a thousand, The reindeer is
to the Lap ander what the camel is 10 150
Arash. a beast of burden; it also drags hws
pull. cr eanoc-like siodge, over the vast
snowy wastes. It wives hum milk wed
cheese; he eats its fash, of its bon he
makes spoons, and its thick warm ein
clothes lim. The ordinary JDurcen which
1 drags when sored 13 two bundred and
forty povmde, fel 06 gpd 18 geal
A reindeer faiciy tested, om a hint
i clothed wilh thd
ates fT 4
mn
nen Sule ; foe
re]
onl.
3.
tae
d stance, with a hight sledge, went at the
rate of nineteen Eaglish miles an hour.
1a 16909, an officer with important dis.
patches was drawn 800 mules in forty-
eight hours, but the poor animal! dropoed
down desd at the end of ts wonderful
journey; its portrait it still preserv d in
the Drotningholm Palace, mn Bwoden,
Journeys of 150 miles in nineteen hours,
are ssid not to be uncommon, The rein.
deer feeds on lichen; mm the summer
time, to avoid the inseclts-—gnats snd
gadflies —it ascends to the Alpe region;
and in winter, 10 find protection from the
wolves, and to obtain food, it shifts
down again to the level woodland tracks,
where the moss grows under the trees,
and another kind hangs from the branches,
They often scrape snow four to six feet
deep from off the ground to get a! their
food, but as the summer advances they
algo eat with avidity the young and leo-
der grage, which rapidly fattens them.
Ibe milk of the reindeer is much richer
than that of the cow, and has a delicate
aromatic flavor r esembling the milk of the
cocosnut, The Lapps very seldom see
bread, and they subsist almost entirely on
the produce o! their herds, with the occa-
gional assistance of fish and game. The
sun and stars are their only clocks, The
reindeer are much pelted and very tame,
quiet and gentle, but those that are not so
are caught to he milked by skilfully throw.
10g a thong pocee, or lasso, lwenly feet
feel long, over their horns and then ying
up the animals to a tree or post. The
women always koeel when milking
use hittle wooden bowls Dogs ar
for collecting and driving
herds.
the
i ——
why He Wanted a Folloeinain.
A man walked into the Desplaines street
station and asked for Captain Bonfield.
“Not in,” arswered the taconic Hub
bard, station keeper, as he tested a sardine
sardwich, *
“Where's Lieutenant Ward!” asked the
Give It up,”
nihilator
“Who can I sec?” inquired the citizen.
ee me,” said Hubbard, “What do
you wanti”
“Want a policeman.”
“What for?”
“Want him 10 go bome with me.”
“Don’t you know the way bomel” asked
the station keeper as be scalped another
sardine,
“Yea, but
with me.”
“Drunk?” saked Hubbard.
“No, #ir. 1am a probibitionist, but I
want a policeman, snd I don’t want to
stand here on the eve of our natal day,
very much longer. Do you understand
that?” shouted the man, with one hand
under bis coat tail and the other spread
out like 8 scoop shovel on the desk.
“We don't keep policemen 10 see sober
men home, natal day or no natal day,”
remarked Hubbard, as he squoezed the
pardine as sffectionately as if it had
been an old sweetheart
The west side man locked at the bard-
hearted wretch, and then said in a kind of
disiLherited wvolce: “Say, 1 wanl to see
you outside.”
“You can
sation keeper
The man leaned
desired
replied the sandwich an.
I want a policeman 0 go
see me here,” replied the
if
and said,
i8 al bom
{, and I want to get in.”
our night key?”
said, pu
over the railing
to be confidential,
me: ‘My wife
ta
it 1s" he ailing out a
corkscrew by mistake.
station keeper did nol see the
necessity of sending a policeman home
with a married man wbo was sober,
in order to see that he got in, and said so,
The citizen ssid that was not the point
He could get in humself, but he wanted the
policeman to 88 up house during
the night.
“What fort”
“Tosce that I sint put out.
whal 1 am afraad of.
she gets her back
begine to shove”
“We have no pohoeman for such ss.
sistance,” ssid Hubbard, finally.
The citizen jooked a! hum once more,
with this appeal:
“Hook me for vagrancy and let me go
down stars. [ must quiet my nerves”
S0 be went below among the snorlers
and the gang, and slept and dreamed
that he saw his wife standing at the top
of the stairway with a croquet mallet in
her hand.
————— ID Ws sss
Models for Hair-Dressing.
han
£00
in the
That's
Hhe's a terror when
aeainst the wall and
A good idea for women who hike io
dress their hair $0 suit the curves of their
head and yet have no gmding instinct
about 1t would be to go to a Museom of
Fine Arts and get hints from (he statues,
These dumb Grecks can tesch them. Not
many people are classic, to be sure, yel
every one not deformed has a hint, & sug-
gestion of the ideal about her.
Mre. Leogiry has combed her halr to the
top of ner hoad this winter because iis
more faslnonsble, snd people say 1t makes
her look older. That 1 not 3t, Sbhe has
broken the lines of symmelry. She has
the long face and heavy classic chin, and
the simple knot she used to wear at the
pape of ber neck balsnood it. Besides, the
ton of her head was beautiful 1a its coni-
oal curve. This her hairon top covers,
while it exposes the nape, which is singu-
larly lacking in curve. The back of ber
head, which she now exposes, 1s the only
ugly part of it.
Everybody has noticed and talked about
the unconventiohal charm and unusual
ness of Terry, Lut not évery one, per
haps, perceives how much of the unuen.
winess is duc to her true dressing up to
the period, to the smallest lapet or point
of its quaintoese. 1 have long had a
picture of her, sent me from London
when sho played Camma in Tennyson's
jast play. "The dress or robe was pecu-
Har, quite old Greek and not at all
modern. The other day I noticed its
facsimile, a trifle more meager, on &
statue of one of the later Homan Em-
presses at the Art Museum. The penod
of the play was Driton under the Romans,
Cy
Cuesta and Walters,
A fashionable New York tailor has a
now plan for a distinguishing
mark between tho and guosts at
a banquet or other social gathering.
Ho proposes that gentlemen hereafter
have their dress suits made of diagonal,
or a basket pattern in and leave
broadetoth to the
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Time is tho bast preacher.
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Making Cocktails,
Ou an icebox ju 4 sample voom ia
New York, partittoned off from a whole-
saledliquor store wus a block of ice as
clear as crystal. except 8 flaw 1m toe
centre, firsbhaped, frosly and dazzling
white,
“Bometbing new,” the bartender ex.
plained, knocking off a chunk with his
pick and breaking i. into pieces in a tam-
bier preparatory to mixing a cockiml
“Distilled water ice.”
“Especially for cocktallst”
“Not exactly. Anyone can have it in
his water if he wants it, or even lemonade,”
“Is the ordinary goodness of a cocktail
improved by frozen distilled water?”
“That's sccording io tastes. If any
one one wanie to have filthy water for
mixing his liquor with he's weltome to it,
but I don’t want any 1» mune. It stands
to reason that even the best Rocklsad
Lake or Cortland Lake ice must have im-
punties, although it 18 sad that Ly the
freezing of the water the impurities are
precipiiated. Common sense ought to tell
anybody that uuless lhe new ice is gath-
ered before impurities are sifted over it
from the sir or spread over ot by surface
water from the banks it cannot be perfectly
pure. Any physician will tell you that it
is better in summer 0 keep a bottle of
walter on jee than lo keep ice in 8 water.
pitcher. You don’t have to mix impur:-
ties then—some 1n the water and some in
the we. Water around bere is bad enough
anyway. Comupg down to mixing with
liquors, if you have good liquor you
should have good water. Of course, if
you sre not particular sbout your liquor
ihe water doesn’t make much difference.
Bome forty-rod stull will kill the taste of
East river water. Distilled water by itself
is rather flat the taste, [ suppose a
degh of seltzer might put an edge on it,
but that 1s carvyieg the mixing too far,
For cooling a cocktail, a Senta Cruz sour,
a milk punch and the iike this ics is un.
doultedly the best, and [ sec no reason
why It should not come 1nl0 COMMON use
in bar rooms. It doesn’t cost much more
than ordinary ice.
“Dy the way, speaking of haying things
pure, do you know thst many physicians
bave taken a decided stand against brandy
for medicinal purposes! They say that
the stuff sold as brandy 1s so greatly adal-
terated thet it 1s harmful to patients and
that it is almost impossible to buy in say
ordinary liquor store a bottle of pure
brandy. And they areright, too. A man
who knows himselt doesn’t drink brandy.
It will burn him out in jess than no Lime.
A little of good brandy, and I mean by
that pure brandy, is good, bat you'll find
very little of it. We have brandy that ww
pure and we have some thet is sa
good as any dealer's, but those physicians
that I spoke of are recommending whisky
in place of brandy. | think we make in
this country the best whisky in the world.
Toe principal thing is to keep it long
enough. It 1s chesp and if anybody wants
the pure sriicie he can get it by askiog.
The whisky that goes over this bar every
day 138 meaufactured in the hard-wade,
sour-mash, fire.copper way, being singled
and doubled in copper ellis over open
wood fires. It is distilled from the most
carefully-selected corn, rye and bsrley
he process of fermentation no
or foreign yeast or other delete
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na man's throat,
peer of the prev:
purpose. The
tion is much slower than
skies, but the result
in every respect superior. By
fermentation ue ge
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ness of
fusii oil, w
kies 80 injurious to b
tirely obvisled. Dy improved
snd manner of distillation all deleten
substances are sepsraled from the spirit
For a regular dnok 1 should prefer whisky
to any liguor that 1 have tasted.”
“Do men drink much behind the bar?”
“Asa general ule, not much. 1 have
known bar-tenders who do pot know the
taste of liquor, but they are rare birds. A
bar-tender that drinks too much soon bas
to pay for has drinks in fromi of the bar,
It isn’t pecessiry for a bartender to ex-
penment wich mixed drinks by tasting all
of them. If be knows tte ingredients of
8 nmiixed drink snd keeps his eyes open be
will soon learn 10 suil the regular drickers
and, in time, the particular drinkers, who
want just 80 much sugar, #0 much waler,
and 80 much winsky for a bot drink, or so
much bitters and so much of this snd that
for a cocktail. Iu fact, if I do say it my-
self, a bar-tender 1¢ not 5) bad as Le is
painted.”
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His
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Living in a Cell.
The clowster was realy the hiving-pisce
of the monks. Here they pursucd ther
daily avocations, bere they tsught their
schools, they travsacied their business,
they spent their time and pursued their
study, always m gociely, co-operstiog
and consulting, and, as a rule, knowing
po privacy. “But a monk always lived
in a cell!” I think you will be inclined
to object. The sooner you get rig of
that delusion ihe better, Until Henry 11
founded the Carthusian Abbey of Wit.
ham, in 1178, there was no such thang
known in Eogland as a monk's cell, as
we understand the term, Ii was & peco-
harity of the Carthusian order, and when
it was firet 1ntroduced 3 was regarded as a
startling novelty for any privacy or any-
thing spproaching solitude 10 be tolerated
in a mopastery. The Carthusian system
pever found much tavern Eagland. The
Usarthusians never bsd more than moe
houses all told; the disapline was 100
rigid, the rule 100 severe, the loveliness
too dreadful for our tastes and for our che
mate. Io the thirteenth century, of 1 mas
take not, there were only two monasteries
mn England 1n which mooks or nuns could
boast of havirg any privecy, say little
corner of their own to turn inlo, say place
where they could enjoy the luxury of re
tirement, any private study such ss every.
body nowadays, in a school of any preten-
gions, expects to have provided for Biaself,
and without which we assume that nobody
could read or write for an hour.
ET UU A
“Yrs, indeed,” said old Orimsonbeak,
“I've got my wife out of extravagant
hab! You see, I bought her one of
these Nitle savings banks, and every
time asked me for to get
herself anything I convinood how
mueh better it would be if she
in the bank and saved iL" * did
she do it?” questioned Yeast, bright-
Bh “Oh, she did it,”
; old e; ‘and thats
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