# the cake! vuer box 2 CRED = thet Dever iockt wa tue « di ) THIS FLOUR 1 PUT COLOGNE." lute this flour | put cologne Foi davoring—don't tell! Th: wok a buttonhook—my own— Au. mixed it very well I slipped it in the kitchen range, And cook, she never saw: But what to me seemed very strange, ‘The dough, when baked, wes raw! My dolly seemed to think it fine And so | gave Ler some With an egg cup full of lovely wine My papa's best bay rum The supper table, after all, I think, looked very well; And now I've told you "bout the ball—- But don't you ever tell 4 «XW. BILLY AND TIM. DY SARA MOORLAND. io ’ 3 years old, who for several weeks di 7 one very cold winter used to be see running about the streets of a town. Many people noticed them, but nobody Lk: w where they came from, or how tl lived. They were always together, . ud very much alike: exactly thesame height, with very thick, black, curly ha Every morning they might be seen sitting with their backs against an iron erating, through which hot steam from some kitchens belong- Ing large hotel was constantly ising; this kept them tolerably warm. As soon ss the trams and omnibuses began to run thev jumped up and tumbled bead over heels 1a the st way imacinable. People used to be very much amused at their funny antics, and tossed them balfpence, so they were very seldom a whole day with out being able to buy either a bun or a hot potato. After dark they left the busy streets and went into quieter and more out-of-the-way places to find somewhere to sleep. They neither of them remembered ever having been 1n a bed at all. They managed somehow to look aft: r themselves very success- fully, ar! nobody ever caught then stealing; Lut they were terribly af of policemen unlikely tha id o they might be taken to the workl and, little as t ey were, they dread at, On 3 Iv cold night they had been most ate in finding a suitable alee} I'hey had been watched by tw siicemen, who had groffly told tle: to get home, and they were not a turbed, for they had no hom: They wandered along until reached a part of the town they ! withing about; they stopped r v large church in which a being held. ep lasi le, Billy,” both went. ere not many people there, s a very large place; but the inded very beautiful to these trays, and it was very warm the to a id Q 3 : 15 ik said Tim; tnought struck them both ue people would soon all go ay could easily creep in and r one of the seats and stay ht; they could easily find morning. An at the back far from where they had s head was nodding from chur enter side ts ing lattice ously 1 t pew, on pulled ing wails Fhe alouy the i and i thes and av» body a fit of we echoed strangely through the big empty churel “Let's ground; they'll be real soft,” said Tim. Soon thew had settled themselves on the warm and never woke until daylight, “Somebody Il soon be coming to open the doors, Tim; let's hide nearer the front so as to be ready.” But nobody ¢ me to let them out. Hour after hour 1 assed ; they were hungry and getting very anxious. Breakfast had to be carned before it could be eaten; was there no wav out? They walked round aud round, bat, it was true enough, they wore safely locked in. “We've got 1nto prison, Tim.” “Something like it, Billy.” “B'pose we never gets out to-day Tim?" “Then we shall have to] stay in till another day, Billy.” They amused themselves as best they sould, but it was a very long, long day; nobody eame near, until late in the af- ternoon they suddenly heard a noise, then a key turned in a lock. Instantly they erouched in a big pew; but Tim peeped over the top to see if there were any chance of escape. It was nearly dark; the organist was going to prac- tise. There was no service that eve. ning; so he lighted the gas close by the orgnu and in the passage behisd, but tle rest of the church was in darkness, . “We'll try now, Billy.” So they rau along the aisle and out took no notice of the ragged ito a large old-fashioned med with ertmson cloth, and floor after them. flat people soon went away. wied the doors, and rere alone, ever been so comfortable, 1 as they were quite sure no- into the passage to the door, but they foun! it Fo nel: and the key still in the lock Nut to be easily beaten, they attempted to turn if, bat heir hands were too smell and very cold. There vere a great many passages and A groat doors leading into ves- tries, bit wins no other ont, Phe man who was play- would have to some time, and they must be ou the look-ont, Two long hours pus-ed, O, how tired and hungry they both were! Just as they were loging heart altogether the organ- ist stopped playing. “Now we must manage 1b Billy." They hid behind one of the many deors and listened to his footsteps, their hearts beating fast, the door and opened anv slearly thiore Zo somehow, it very wide, He put on his heavy top-coat, and drew warm fur-lined gloves, “Now, Billy!" “Now, Tim!" man could quite make ont what had beh busy How crowded street they knew so well, glad they were to sce it again! looked into each other's faces, and langhea long and merrily in spite their hunger. Now what was to be done? A peuny must be got somehow; but it was too late to attract anyboly's attention by tumbling head heels, and the of over “I'm afraid we shan’t getany supper “Seems not, I'm.’ . “Well, let's go and smell at the buns in the shops.” So off they ran, stop- ping at the windows of the bakers’ and confectioners’ shops. A lady passed out of one as they were standing looking wistfully atthe newly- baked buns, and she overheard this conversation: all at what would have, Billy?" “I'd have two of them four of them, and one of everything else, perhaps that would bay the lot.” *‘ They do smell good, we had twenty pennies, would do for now.” “Haven't you got a penny, asked the lady. “No, ma'am,” se.d Tim, promptly turning head over heels. “Poor little object!” said the lady to herself. “If I give you each a will yon buy?” “One of them big buns! and I shall bave half and Billy half, and we'll keep the other penny for to-morrow to buy another bun with, and I shall have half and Billy half.” ‘‘Here 18 a penny for you, and here is one for Billy; now both go in and bay your buns, and come back and show me.” Very quickly did the children obey her, though they thought it improvi- dent to spend two pennies at one~, ‘They seem very nice buns,” said the lady; ‘*here are two pennies for to-mor- row. Good-night; ran home now.” Then the lady quickly left them, for it was getting late, but she heard their merry laugh, and felt very glad she had brought gladness for a time, at least, to the two wretched-looking little lads The next business shelter for the night. “We won't try the Tim." **Not if we knows it, Billy!” It was fearfnily cold, butthey trotted along, and were hapmer than usual, athough their feet and legs were nearly bare, and they had no caps on their heads. They were some time before they could decide on a place, and after a rather long walk they came fo a good-sized house they had nover before seen. Ouone side a yard- gate stood just a little way open. This looked promising; there was no one about the place. They pushed the gato a little way and peeped. Just inside was a large empty barrel lying on the ground. “This’ll do prime!” said Tim. “Let's get in,” said Billy. So in they got, and hugged each other close, with their pennies for to- morrow in their hands, and were soon fast asleep, in spite of the intense cold, In the middle once, yon Billy. 1 wish Or even one little boy?” penny, what she was to find a church again, even of the night the snow thick flakes, and the wind blew terribly. All night long it continued, and when people looked out in the morning everything was com- pletely covered, and in some places the snow drifted many feet high. The of snow right in front closed the little sleepers quite in. The yard had to be cleared, so workmen came with spades “We'd better get this barrel out of the way, John,” said one man to an- other, “Yes; pity it was left out all night.” “Come here, John; look at this,” said the first speaker. There were the two homeless ones still asleep, never more towaken, never to feel hu snd cold and weary. They had looked for a night's shelter for the last time. “Better tel: the missis, John,” John’s missis, was the very lady who before. There they were clasped in the stiff, cold little fingers. They did'nt need to-morrow’s pennies now. Asd Algernon Gave In. “My dear, I can't afford to give it to you. We must save our money,” said Algernon, “J don’t see why," said Penelope. “A much wiser man than you once said: ‘Do not lose the present in valn perplexities about the future.'" Foun different monntain ks in Idaho are trom 148 to 29 feet lower, by actual men<urement, than they were 15 yoars ago, and it is believes that this setting 1s going on with many others, The dew is that quicksauds bave noder- mine | them. THE AFRICAN IN AFRICA. He Is Not Always a Barbarfan, but Is Often Semli-Clvilized, “Many says Dr. T. H. Eddy, *‘think the Africun in Africa is a barbarian, but while some of them are, the majority of them are far from being so. Stanley in his travels visit people,” ed the very worst classes on the Con- go. They are no criterions the Mohammedan negroes, but quite the contrary. Africa contains 130 million negro inhabitants outside of the Moors and people of Arabic descent When 1 say negroes I mean natives woolly hair. Woolly halr characteristic of the negro, but of is the One of the tions of Africa is the Foulah, which lar to them finest nn- 1 SOLUS number about 30 million und live back of Senegambia, occupying a to west [hess people are Mohammedans and write their own age in Arabic spenking, reading and They are black but an 1,500 east lang characters, also writing Arabic. h 3 1 th ¥ iy nailr, have thin, prominent NOSES the Fo nly getting ba “Theos y of negr from which the . 1 1LAOUis, Dry th ru ' 1 84 IDA Ware IR Oe DoOlY my portion emales born |i ol! males Manna, who hi half to one { on ' { n- Ben Veoevs dren and 1.864) 1 of his children resor an extent that y not fail to reco them nize son «7 He Africa ing the white Ho wil tov man | not roar gen ar i wie . sess £18 fie $1454 + $ 2) nat ther v % yell the eomn RES A GAY for ign- ren are never bora Ww Beauty as a Means of Health. Before one of the New York working girls’s clubs, Dr. Louise Fiske Bryson recently gave an address upon this sub- ject, reversing in more wavs than one he usual order of copybook aphorism, beautiful will safeguard against vice. The difference in appearance between one woman and anything else an affair of style-—that beauty of beauties so hard to define and so easy to recognize, which makes the infinitely more attractive than other maids of faultless curves and in- numerable : trong points not cemented by magic quality. Style may be de- fined, for want of something better to express it, ss an attractive manner of holding the body, a firm, graceful way of doing things and of moving about. It is the visible sign of inherent power and reserve force. It is the outcome { of long, deep breaths and the use of | many muscles. The prayer of the New | York child, ‘Lord, make us very styl- { ish,” when viewed aright, is recognized | a8 an aspiration based upon sound soi. | entific principles and worthy of univer. | sal commendation. Proper breathing is the first art to | cultivate in the pursuit of beauty. The { lun have their own muscular power, snd this should be exercised. The chest must be enlarged by full, deep breathing, and not by musoular action from without. Inflate the ay up ward and outward, as if the inflation were about to lift the body off the ground. Hold the shouders on a line with the hips, and stand so that the lips, chin, chest, and toes come npon one line, the feet being turned ont at an angle of about sixty degrees. I: is wrong to make the bony structure do most of the work in keeping the bod upright. The muscles hold it in position. In walking keep face and chest well over the advan foot, and cultivate a free, firm, casy gait, without hard or jarring movements, It is im- . possible to stand or breathe aright if posture and breathing are interfered with, the cirenlation is impeded, and de'eterious substancesin the blood tend This is one of the meny evils of tight shoes, I'o be well shod hasa marked influence on style. The feet symbolize the body in thelr way as much as the hands, A clever shoemaker say~ that in a well- the a duck’s foot in the mud, It 11mly in place, but nowhere compress ed. Nothing can exceed the vulgarity is is manifestly too tight. For misery- producing power, hygienically as well Next to the means of health, the care plexion and the enltivation of the right kind of expression are of great import- ance. The first is largely a matter of bathing and the general hygiene of the skin, while the setond-—a good expres. 18 best secured by the const of higher thoughts This living, Ones, tellectunl and is fortunately Beauty that is lasting and really worth while is more or less dependent upon a good cirenlation; while a good circulation is made possible by correct pose, proper breathing, and the jadi- cious care of the skin; something else “ary y in normal he bloo 1. And y combina- hine and exercise in the own dwellers blessings, partly es and partly from lac) 1% 18 the most tans body, Without it there 0 large, compact, muse frame. It is essential development imperative necessi of beauty. To i and spirits good, to strength and ability of motion, there is no gymoasinm so valuable as the daily round of housework, no exercises more beneficial in the r resnltsthan sweeping, dusting, making beds, washing dishes, and polishing of brass and silver vesr of muscular effort doors, togethaor with regular e in the air, will do more woman's complexion than all the lot snd were why housework for women than that exercise ately productive cheers It gives women the on living, and while. In a general way the great secrets of beauty, and therefore of health, may thing consists Lave these impo ¢ as Aas preserve grace, {ine such within Lercis Of «0 : ha pomades that invented. Perhaps the reason much more is the fact which is immedi the spirit, age 10 go ever dow 5 BO ERINO6s conr- with makes Moderation In eating short hours of labor and study; te larity in exercise, relaxation cleanliness; equanimity of temper, mperatnre I'o be tO Doe and drinking; and rest; n gener il be PPY, 1t is we of personsl t nany of thew as y form without ghis of others. Hapm msthet ¢ and hygien gecure per DECeR- 1 gle ana An De infring iniring ¥ i I'o be just as style 1s a duty, and both are in great mesure an affair of intellect and old order ' t sag management, Lhe yut the cart before the 5 virtuous and you w : except And the happine horse; ill be 1 ul with rails wiia many angeth, postuintes a Os, 1 i $43 1 rder ch gospel norality. Other times other mantis The ardent pursuit 0. good looks sums is in hygiene, and be- legitimate and praiseworthy bealth., The world bas yet ‘ f which COMmen 8 Means © room for two f three truths, of the fact that the defin desire for personal beauty Ww Re ever shall Ix proper x sa is 10 which constitutes in itself a perfectly nd meritorions inspiration to efi especially in a country where shades of Puritanism linger as a inheritance, and where disinterred Juddhism claims too often the frail neurasthenic for its own. -— Medical Record. rs, i he sad a ALGERIAN WEDDINGS. Ceremonies of Striking Interest tu the Foreigner. i ABOUT PHANTASMS, POBST-MORTEM AVPARITONE PROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A SCIENTIST. “Do I believe in ghosts?’ said Dr, Washiogton Star, “No, 1 do term, for the reuson that the popular sense has the least foundation, any scientific conception of apparition. Besides, like Coleridge, I experience and observation tain post-mortem apparations ol ; pe sons whose bodies have died do OCCHR~ certain definite purposes of their own allegations of such occurrences, “] believe in ghosts from purely scientific point of view. We are not, in fact, single and simple per- sonalities. There 1s in each individuality of which seldom, if ever, intellectually I find, as a matter of fact, that this in- which for , I will enll the ‘soul,’ is very little, if at all aflected by the physical condi- tion of environment on the material plane of existence. For example, do of us an we Aware, conveni- ence its f tion, which we sal 1u the physical world, It i fi IDE mec anically y or or law of grav: know to njur J { ita bros srmal consel res It ¢ t of ti ynization of ti Unlike onr product or nizati n of the bod nature, 1ndependen chemics v 41 b #100 Ix f ne 8 not a the org in is ow form ou: rbids the OW inhabits not ason why it lation of the onld it so continue an hour after death, rets volition and wy, ds the sssumption that it est itself to W hether or not n 10 exist { 10 even CONRCIOURN 88 men ug iord might manuf it ever does ‘ $3091 Bail U3 nota ns, becomes simply «» qu abundant, ¢ and of a kind which by the n testimony sufli eo the fact in any ¢ law. A very large number of slleg post-mortem apparations have een rn bije C4 d 10 « very Pp IR and scrutiny, with ¢ i } - an ¥ aicad “Such evidence is ne ord sho sive ary of ham laws i to establish urt of i Intel; test Cross-eXamin of withesses, 1 resear have, in my } ment judgn and finally decided fo be genuine. Now, a the ghost of fact ghost of fancy. 1 of As mere subject Danae ness 10 the sand eal body sus ain and exh maten rdinary s sult ras constitati 15K matier : own part t absolut tinction is j The experiments of such men as Clerk Maxwell, William Crooks and Prof. Tyndall onstrated the existance of states of 1 er designated ‘radiant,’ none of the ordinary ter appear. CEs Lue nave dem- AR an interesting relic of ancient customs, The bridegroom goes to the bride, and coming. Soon the coming from will walt for his and the marriage procession approaches the bridegroom's housa. The pipers always come first in the procession, then the bride, muffled up in a veil, riding a mule led by her lover. Then comes n bevy of gorgeously dressed damsels, sparkling with silver orna- ments, after which the friends of the bride follow. The procession stops in front of the bridegroom's house, and | { | | | | | pathway. The pipers march off on one side. while the bridegroom lifts the girl from the mule and holds her in his arms. The girl's friends there- upon throw earth at the bridegroom, when he hurries forward and carries her over the threshhold of his house. Those about the door beat him with olive branches amid much laughter. In the evenings on such occasions the pipers and drummers are called in, and the women dance, two at a time, faciog each other; nor doos a couple desist until panting and exhausted they step aside to make room for another. The dance has great energy of movement, though the steps are small and changes slight, the dancers only circling around occasionally. Bat they swing their bodies with an astonishing energy and suppleness. As leaves futtar belore the gale, 80 do they vibrate before the music; they shake, they shiver and trem- ble; they extend quivering arms, wave voils and thelr minds seem lost in the abandon and frenzy of the dance, while the other hen look on, SREOUE by their reing, trillin o, which add to the noise of the pipes and drums. —Home Journal. lieve that the particles which compose it are as far apart in proportion to their enly bodies in proportion to their re spective magnitude. Our bodily senses take cognizance of no forms of matter except those which are in a certain de ably infer the existence fied and tenuous states of matter, some such tenuous state the spiritual body may reasonably be inferred to consist. Then its apparition to us of more rari- istence of such bodies, butof the acute. that exaltation of their function, which old of consciovsness of which I have spoken, they do become adequate to wise called ghosts, are seen. existence of the ghost or spiritual body are only open to speculative discussion. As I have said, one of these conditions a to be that the spiritual body is not subject to the law of gravitation, It is unquestionably capable of chang- ing its location by its own volition, though probably not in accordance with our ideas with transfer through space. Likewise to such a beng t notion of time is quite different from our own. This gives it a duration ot existence which might be compared with our portion of endless existence and so represent Shethity. It may very well be that the body is by no means confined this planet upon which we live. As I take it, the spirit. nal body is the soul of ordicary lan- The soul conmsts of body as §0o8, tor the conditions of its own environment as our physical bodies are for she conditions surrounding them.” Related to the same interesting sub- ject we find in the Louisville Courier Journal, an article by Juban Haw- thorne, He says: —*‘Once admit the possitility of seeing anything outside of the physical plane, and there is no logieal halting-placefor you thenceforth. For the physical senses are all one; { they are modifieatious or reficements of the sense of touch. If, then, von | can see a #pirit, what 1s to prevent yom from aiso tonehing 1t, hearing it, tast- fog and smelling 1t? Nor does it help much to say that it is your spiritual eye that 1s opened. The impression of | sight on the mind is th and if of sight, then of the other senses also, The point is, you perceive something; whether with the physical or the meta- physical class of perceptive faculties may interesting to philosophers, but the results to you are practically | the same, @ Kame i ie Three young American artists found themselves together in Inia the other day, aud went to see the performance Indian juggler. There Visi what these seem able do. his Juggler's tools were simple. He 6 all bul saked, and he had a strip He stood 1n an open, level Ol an "RB Das 10 men 10 if } of spread out his can mace incantations move BOO an derneath wd and swnng in empty space and dangit down to witlun a ground, The and, at 8 certain lhe juggler ca led im, and linlogue easued between hi invisible boy. The , the juggler angry. ugrler climbed the 4 0p wlween zing feet of the De ¥ 10 the rope » Ny peared. a u and the boy be- At rope and boy, leaving nothing i from the wn out s, cat other ily the murder- under he eev- more body with the uliy flattened the bov, hax al ap t up toh 1nvisiie ime sancy his teeth tiInE own a moment, 4 Li~ o hi LE Dis outside. I nee, 63 C r kept his Kodak rk, and took a Heous negatives, Two Tee de- LOWE d uds for- era dilige ntly at Or more instant are results ally the same the po graph: r negatives, was the ac int the he transaction. What, all the things artists } ianation wotized. and satis- uot & nswer his in re- If any body knows it is certainly the Hindoo ers aud as certain that they will : ‘ " IS DOL alone ALSwET, — ———— SERVE COD AND WHISTLE. Secre ways t of Uncle Wallace Al« Being Happy. wchester Wallace was iody and watching a freshly pasted poster off the bill Alfriend happened alor and ] i he will hist] oat skinning soster Off the fence with tongue resently Colin approached old Win- and, laying his heavy hand ipon his shoulder, said to him: ‘Old man, I've known you for many years, and I always wondered why it was that vou was in a good bumor and whistling. Are you ever bothered about anything? know the sceret of your his chester, 1 always happiness. **Nuffin’ don’t nebber bodder me, Marse Collin, an’ dey ain't no secret | ‘bout me bein’ in er good hum all de time. [I jes go on doin’ two things.” “Weil, what are they?’ “Serve God an’ whistle And 1 feels sorry fo' de man dat won'y do de one an’ can’t do de udder,” and the gallant colonel shook hands with and came on down the street | leaving old Winchester watching the | goat and whistling that good old tune, “I'm er Gwan ter Gitter Hebben Bime By." — Louisville Times. al'avs AT HUME AND ABROAD. Canrorxia will make a great exhibit at the World's Farr. One of the giant trees of Calaveras grove will be ont down in sedtions and shipped to Chaea- go. The tree selected is 320 feet in circumference, ten feet from the und. A section of a tree from Ta- re County is being out down for ex- hibition. his tree is 106 feet in oir cumference and a section will be used for a dancing vavilion. From the first tin produced at San Jacinto Mines, California, a tin pail thirty feet high will be constructed to hang in one of the Exposition buildings The tin smelting works were started on the 3rd of April, and a considerable quanti.y of ore is treated every day. Tue telephone between Parise and London having been «0 suocessini it is proposed to conuveot Brusscis and London. For that par a cable will | be aid betwoen Ostend and Dover.
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