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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
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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-
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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
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getting ba
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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;
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many
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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.
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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
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{ ita
bros
srmal consel
res
It ¢
t of ti
ynization of ti
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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
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becomes simply «»
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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
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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
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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,
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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.