10 THE SCBANTON TRIBUNE-WEDXENDAY MOItNING, MABCH 4. 1890. r-: Copyright, 186, by SYNOPSIS. 1 Prosper Is third twcretury to the Wshop LI Uruirials, wlio, at tlm ileulh of Loul XIV., becomes the rival of I'uiillnal Masa liii lor the premiership of Kmrir Hint lor the favor of Anne of Auwtrlu, the queen TeKeht. Ky an error In copying Prosper leads the bishop to make, un ubsuril :-r. ror In stating the population of Curls to the council. Prosper is dismissed with u beating. He is reviled by the binhop's Steward, whom he ultttckx In his rut Mild 4s punned through the slret-tH of !arU. As he Is escaping, he overtake another fugitive, who look uroiuui in fear, and throws a bundle into Propter' iriiia. Prosper stuggeis uuulnst a cloor in a wall, which opens, und his pursuers no Ly. He discovers that ho bundle contain something alive, ;eihups a. stolen child. Ho determines to restore it, and claim a xeward, .but as he turns the end of the street, he Is 'tripped lip by another man who eies the parcel und runs olT. Pros per makes his way to the suburbs, and taeekx refuse In a barn. On u wakeiilnti. - finds neur him the. fugitive who tosseil him the bundle. The latter Is much cast down when lie learns that lie had given It up needlessly, bill Is- evidently overjoyed when Prosper tells him that a lame man regained it, evidently ivcOkiiIzIuk a friend. AleanW'htln Prosper has noticed a xm ill rape ill the iimn'M girdle, brut-lug tlie roy.il crown and at once surmises (hat the in- Cant kins of France was being i unit-it on W and ihe eti-unger return to Paris, und Jrrosper takes note ot a door at whlili the nn lingers for a short time, before they Depurate, 1'AItT III. Hut I knew or thought that I knew nil now, und the moment he was out of fight, set olt towards the Palais lioyul Jlko a. hoiiiul let lmise, heeding neither those against whom I bumped In the Htralghter ways, nor the ilunger I ran of recognition, nor the miserable aspect J wore. I forgot all, save my news, even my own wretchedness: and never Itulted or stayed to take breath until l stood imntinK in the doorway of the lodge, at the Palais, and met my fatlicr-In-law'H gaze of distrust und ustonish Illeut. I He wus Just off the night turn, and met the on the threshold. I saw be yond him the Krintiliiff faces of thp under porters. Hut 1 had that to tell which still upheld me. 1 threw up iny hands. 'I know where they are!" I cried. breathless. ,-l can take you to them!" He Razed at me, dumb with sui-tirise and rage: and doubtless a less reputa ble son-in-law than 1 uppeured would have been hard to find. Then his pas sion found vent. "Pig! Jackal! tiut-ter-hlrd!" he cried. "Begone! Begone! or I will have you Hayed!" 'Hut I know where they nre! 1 know where they have him!" protested. His fucp underwent a startling change. He darted forwurd with a nlmbleness wonderful in one of his lmlk and cans-lit me by the collar. "What!" he said, "have you seen the dog?" "The dog?" I cried. "No. but 1 hnvc Keen the king! I have held him in my arms! He Is " He released me suddenly and fell hack a pace, looking at me so oddly lhat I paused. "Say it aRaln," he said, (slowly. "You have held the " "The king! The king!" I cried, im patiently. "In these arms. I know where they have him, or at least where the robbers are." His double chin fell nnd his red face lost color. "Poor devil!" he said, utill xtaritiK at me. "They have driven him mad!" "lint" I cried. "Are you not going to" He waved me oft and retreated a fdep hastily and crossed himself. ".Iacties!" he exclaimed. ".Move him tiff! .Move him off, do you hear, man?" "But, 1 tell you," I cried, fiercely, "they have stolen the king! They have stolen his majesty, and 1 " "There, there, he calm." lie an swered. "They have stolen the o,uen'H dog, that Is true. Hut have It your own way if you like, only K. 1o from here, and quickly, or it will he the worse for you; for here comes monselRiieur, '. I STARTED, AND LOOKED UP. 1he bishop, to wait on her majesty, and if he sees you you will There, make way, make way!" he continued .ad dressing the little crowd that had as sembled. "Way. way for motiselKneur, the bishop ot Heauvais!" As he spoke the bishop and his train turned out of St. Antolne and the crowd attending hhn eddied about the palals entrance. I was hustled and swept out of the way; and. luckily escaping no tice, found myself a few minutes later crouching: In a blind alley that, runs beside the Church of St. Jaciues crouching and wolfing a crust of bread which one of the men with whom I had often talked in the lodge had thrust into my hand. I ate It with tears: in oil Paris that day was no more miser able outcast. What had become of my and Worn en only . Aft most competent to fully appreciate the purity, sweetness, and delicacy of CcnotrmA . Soap, tad to discover new uses for it daily. . Is tka form of washes, solutions, etc., for dUt rawing Inflammations, irritations, and I weaknesses of the mucous membrane, it baa proved aaost grateful. " CcTfct-ftA Soar appeals to the refined and ealiiTated everywhere, a the moat effect ire kiapotifjlnff and beantifyiof soap.ss walla pursst and awes test for toilet and balk. Ida - - h MM. MS Mi W. tea ar a toai. 1, Klag wra-ai jmim, FSttss wave vaaa. tur,awnmianlii.s,a. Stanley J. Weyman. wife I knew not. and I dared not show mvself ut the blsho;" to ask: mv t'a-ther-in-law wus hardened against tne. ami ut the best thought ine mud: I bad no lomrer Inline or friend, ami this ut the moment cut most sharply the goiKeous hojs's in which 1 hud in dulged a few moments before were as lust year's snow! 1 crouched nnd shivered. Tn St. An tolne, at the mouth of the alley, u man was publishing a notice, and presently his voice rmitrht tnv attention in the middle or my lamentations. I listened, at first idly, then Willi my mind. "Oyez! uvti!" he cried. Whereas, some evil person, liuvlnu' no four of !od or the law before his eyes, lias inipuueimy, feloniously and treasonably stolen from the Palais Royal a snunlel. the property of the quern regent's most excellent majesty that is to say. inai anv one" rumble rumble rumble sentences, ami then I . caught "five hundred crowns, the same to be pant here a passing coach drowned some by monseigneur. the nlsnop oi iieau viils nivsldeiit of the council!" "And ulad to pay it!" snarleil a voice iUite close to tne. I started ami looked up. Two men were luiKing ai a vi nhiiv-f mv bead. "Yet it Is a high price for a dog," the fither sneered. "Kut low for a oueen. Still, it buys her. And this Is Uichelleu's France: -Was!" the other said, pithily. "Well you know the proverb: 'A living dog is better than a deud Hon.! " "Ave," his companion rejoined, "but I have a fancy that thut dog's mime is spelled neither with un "F" for Flore which was the wneips name, an o not? nor a 'B' for Heauvais; nor a 'C for Cor.de; but with an "SI -For Mazarln!" the other answered sharplv. "Yes, if he find the dog. But Heauvais is in possession "Jtocroy shook him." "still lie Is in possession." "So is my shoe in possession of my foot. And see 1 take it off. Heauvais is tottering, i tell you. it wants but a " 1 heard no more.for they moved away from the window, but they lert me a different man. I'iged. less by the hope of reward than by the desire Tor ven geance, my clerks wits aoke once more, while the very desperation of my affairs gave me the courage 1 some times lucked. 1 recognized that I had to do, not with a king, but a dog; and Hint none the less that wny lay re venge. And i rose up and slunk again into St. Antolne, and through the crowd and up the Hue de St. Martin and by St. Jlerrl, a dirty, ragged, bare foot rascal from whom people drew their skirts yes, all that, and the light of the sun on It all that, and yet ven geance Itself, the hand .hut should yet drag my thankless, cruel master's fauteuil from under him. Once 1 halted, weighing the risks and whether 1 should not take my knowl edge to the cardinal. Hut 1 knew noth ing definite, and hardening my heart I went on, until 1 reached the alley between the blind walls, it was noon; the alley was empty, the neighboring lane empty. J looked this way and that and then went slowly down to the door at which the man had halted, but to which as soon us he knew that the game was not lost he hud been heed ful not to return. There, seeing nil so quiet, with the green of a tree showing here and there above the wall, 1 bepan to blench and wonder how 1 was to tuke the next step; und for hulf on ..our, i dare say, 1 sneaked to nnd fro, now In sight of the door and now with my buck to it, afraid to advance and ashamed to re treat. At length 1 went through the alley, anil seeing how quiet and re spectable It lay with the upper part of the house visible at intervals above the wall. 1 took, ut last, heart ot grace und tried the door. It stood so llrm that T despaired, and, niter listening and looking to assure myself that the attempt had not been observed, I was about to move away, when I espied the edge of the ring- of a key projecting from under the door. Still all was quiet; a stealthy look round, and i had the key out. To draw back now was to write myself craven all my life, and with a shaking hand 1 thrust the wurds into the lock, turned them, nnd In another moment stood on the other side of the door in a neut gar den, speckled with sunshine and shude, und nil silent. I remained a full minute, flattened against the door, staring fearfully at the liinh-frimted mansion that beyond the garden looked down on me with twelve great eyes. Hut all remained silent, and observing presently that the windows were shuttered, I took cour age to move, nnd slid aside under a tree und breathed again. Still I looked and listened, fearfully, for the silence seemed to watch me; but nothing happened and everything; I saw tended to prove the house empty. I grew bolder, and sneaking from bush to bush reached the door ut lust, and with a backward glance between cour age and desperation tried it. It was locked, but that I hardly no ticed, for us my hand left the lutch, front some remote part ot the house came the long-drawn whine of a dog! . I stood listening and turning hot and cold In the sunshine, und dared not touch the latch again lest others should hear the noise. Instead I stole out of the doorway and crept round the house and round the house ugain. hunting for a back entrance. I found none; but at last, jrouded by the re flection thnt fortune would never lie so nearly within my grasp, I marked a window on the first Moor, and In the side of the house by which It seemed to me T might enter. A mulberry tree stood by it, und it lacked a Bhutter; and other trees veiled the spot. To be brief, In two minutes I had my knee on the sill, and sweating with terror forced the casement in and dropped on the floor. Then I stood an instant, listening, in a bare room, the door of which stood ajar. . Somewhere in the bowels of the house the dog whined again; otherwise all was still deadly still. At length. emboldened by the silence, I crept out and stole along a passage seeking the way down. The passage was dark, and every board on which I stepped shrieked the alarm. Hut I felt my way to the land ing at the head of the stairs and was about to descend, when some Impulse, I know not what perhaps a shrinking from the tlark parts below, to which I was about to entrust myself moved me to open one of the shutters and peer out. I did so. cautiously and but a little. and found myself looking, not Into the garden through which I had passed, but Into the one beyond the alley; and there on" a scene so strange and vet apropos to my thoughts that I paused, gaping. On a plat of grass four men were standing, two and two; between them, with nose upraised and scenting this way and that, moved a beautiful black- and-tan spaniel. The eves of all four men were riveted to the dog, which, as I looked, walked sedately, tint to the one pair, and then, as If dissatisfied, to the other pair; and then again stood uldwuy und snuffed the air. The men were speaking.- but 1 could not catch even' their voices, and was reduced to drawing what inferences 1 could from their appearance. of the two farther from me, one was iny rascally bedfellow, the other a crooked villain, almost in rags, with one leg shorter than the other, yet a face bold and even handsome. Of the nearer pair, who had their backs to me, the shorter, dressed in black, wore an ordinary aspect; when, however, my eyes traveled to his companion they paused. He, it was plain, was the chief of the party, for he alone was covered; and, thouh I could not see his face nor more of his figure than that he was tall and of handsome presence, It chanced that as I looked he raised his hand to his chin, and I caught the sparkle ot a superb Jewel. That dazzled me, and the presence of the dog perplexed me, and I continued to watch. Presently the great man again raised his bund, and this time it FOm MEN VVRIiH STANDINO. seemed to me thut un order wus given, for the lame man started into action and moved briskly towurds the wail which bordered the alley, und conse quently towards the house in which I stood. My companion of the night in terposed, however, and apparently would have done the errand Inniseir: but ut a word he stood sulkily und let the other proceed, who, when he hud all but disappeared on so little a thing It turned! below the level of the In tervening walls, looked up und caught sifeht of tne at the window. To be continued. COST OF PRODUCING A PLAY. A lilt of Inside History About "The Sport ing Duchess." The money spent by theatregoers of this country In a slnt?le jlear to See plays and hear operas would come very close to paying the national debt. Take one play alone, the big spectacular melodrama. "The Sporting Duchess." it averaged receipts of about $10,000 a week ut the Academy of Music, New York, where it ran for over 1100 nights. The people who saw the play payed over ltiOO.000 for their pleasure, and it Is only one of between 400 and 600 plays before the American public. Hut the public pays liberally to see pluys, the munugers must expend money In producing them. It Is hard to make an uninitiated onlooker feel that the painted canvas, the handsomely costumed actors und the other ingred ients' of the "show" cost u fortune. Since "The Sporting Duchess" has been taken as an example of the public's lib eral output in this direction it may be used also In illustration of the mana ger's expenditures. It is a tremendous play to begin with, calling for 13 mam moth scenes, the simplest ot which is a sort of baronial hall with solid stair ways, doors, newel posts, etc. Besides this there is a billiard room with tables, an Immense llreplace nnd furniture that wus all imported from Knglund for the production. There is a big hotel scene, and the Interior of Tuttersull's auction rooms, London, is faithfully presented. Several views of the famous Kpsont Downs race course, where the famous Knglisli Derby is run every year, are shown and there is a practical race course over which :!0 or :0 horses can run at full speed without danger to themselves or their riders. Charles Frohman, who produced this remark able play, paid over $76,000 out of his pocket before the curtain went up on the first night. He selected a great company ot players, surpassing in strength even the inugnitlcent cast of the Old 1'nlon Square Stock company duys placing Agnes Hooth, J. H. Stod- dart, Cora Tanner, K. J. Hatcliffe, Frank Carlyle and H. A. Koberts at the head of the organization, and giving a per formance the like of which the oldest theatre-goer could not recall. The horses, of course, cost a lot of money, but the greatest Item of ex pense was confined to a single scene the regimental ball in the second act. in th's scene the uniforms of all mill tary Kurope are displayed. There are over two dozen London and Paris dresses from the establishments of Worth, Felix and others, some of which cost $1,100 each. The dresses and uniforms cost In the neighborhood of $:!r,noo, making it probably the most expensive anil elaborate scene ever pre sented on a stage. HOISEIIOU) HINTS. Wear a clean apron while lronltiR nr bedmaklng. To clean bamboo furniture ue a hrtixh dipped in salt water. The eyes should lie bathed every night In cold water Juts before reiiriiiK, nnd they will do belter work the following day. When very tired lie on Ihe back, allow ing every muscle to relax, letting Ihe hands ko any way they will, und keep tne eyes closed. till stains may lie removed from wall paer by applying for lour hours pipe clay, powdered and mixed with water to the thickness of cream. if you have to sew nil day chance your seat occasionally, und so obtain rest. Huili- Ing the tare and hailils will also Humil iate and refresh. For Mains In matting; from urease, wet the spot with alcohol, then rub on while custlle roup. Let this dry In a cuke un I then wash off with warm salt water. Where it is desirable to ee the toncne of a very small child the o'deet may he accomplished by touchir.i; upper lip Willi a nil or sweel oil, which will cause the child to proiude its tongue. Sore or Inflamed eyes are relieved by bathing in tepid or warm wutr in which a little salt hus been dissolved. An Indi vidual towel should lie used In all such cases never one which li used In com mon by incmoers or the family. Very few of the biass trlmminirs lined about fireplaces und as furniture bun dles require polishing with powders or liquids, as they are nerly all covered with a lacquer, us are mint of the brass bed steads sold, if polished with anything except a soft cloth, the lacquer, which is put on to keep the brass from the action of the nir. is broken. Handles and orn-i-nients on which the lacquer is worn away may be restore! at sliKht expense. ' A housewife who has suffered from backache caused by leaning over the cook stove, which usually stands several Inches too low for comfort in worktmr. has had her her stove pluced upon a small platform a liDtle lamer than the stove, and about nine Inches hlnh, so that the cooking utensils on the stove will be with in easy reach without stooping. Those who are Plunnlnir houses would Ho well to Include such a platform In their ideal Kiicnens. i-ne cost would be sliKht. A Boft woolen rag. plenty of rabbins- iml one tablespoonful of vineitar mixed wlih three of pure raw linseed oil will make a mahogany dinner table shine like a mir ror. Piano keys when In need of clean ing should be wiped off with alcohol. For sponRlng out bureau drawers and draw ers of sideboards use tepid water contain ing a 1 per cent, solution of carbolic acid, or. If that is disliked, use a smal quantity of thymollne in the tepid water. Instead of paper some housekeepers line such drawers with white oilcloth. If the con tents of drawers are delicate waists or other articles likely to be Injured by dust it is a good phn to lay tn the bottom of the drawers a piece of cheesecloth as wide as the drawer, but twice as long, so that it can ts folded over the ton at the loiniv in wawen . BILL NYE'S EARLY WORK Some of the First Writings of the Dead Humorist. HIS SIDE-SPLITTING SAYIXGS Extracts from Some of the Most Chsr aeteristio Wrltiags-llis Best Work Dons as an Editor of the Laramie Boomerang. Although Bill Nye's letters and lec tures are familiar to all people who ap preciate humor of the true sort, his first and best writing done while ne was editor of the Boomerang has not hud that wide circulation it deserves. Aiuch of that excellent work he collected and published In book form, and it is from those unpretentious volumes, "Haled Hay," "Forty i.lars" V. H. Poiikeyt and "Chestnuts." that the following characteristic excerpts are made: DEDICATION. TO .MY WIFK: Who hus courteously and heroically laughed at my feeble and emaciated jokes, even when she did not feel like II; who hus again and attain started up and agitated sui-ceasfully the tlasKlng und relm-tunt applause, w ho bus fourug-enuHly lit Id my coat throtiKh this trying or ilrul, und w ho, even now, us 1 write this, is in the front yard warning people to keep off the premises until 1 have another lucid Interval, This volume is affectionately inscribed, by the Al'THOK. THE tri'e"a.ii;rcan'. The true American would rather work hlmseir Into luxury or the lunatic asylum than lo hang like a great wart upon the face of nature. SL'DDKN FAMK. A man works twenty years to become known as a scholar, u newspaper man and a gentleman, while the Illiterate murderer springs Into immediate notoriety In a day, and the widow of his victim cannot even g-et her life IrnturuiK-e. These things are what make people misanthropic and tena cious of their belief in a hell. Did NIT V. Dignity does not draw, it answers in place of Intellectual tone for twenty min utes, but after a while it fulls to get there. Dignity works all right in a wooden In dian or a drum major, but Ihe man who desires to draw a sulary through life and to be sure of a visible means of support will do well to make some other provision than a haughty look and the air of put ronage. FIRMNESS. Firmness is a Rood thing in Its place, but we Nhould early learn that to be llrm we need not stand up uealnst a cyclone till our internal economy is blown into the tops of the neighboring trees. .Moral courage is a good thing, but it is useless unless you have a liver to go along with it. Sometimes a man is required to lay down his life for his principles, bui the cases where he is expected to lay down his digester on the altar of his belief are com paratively seldom, TUB RIGHT SORT OF BOV. T am always sorry to see a youth get Ir ritated und pack up his clothes in the heat of debate and leave the home nest. His tu tu re is a little doubtful, and it is hard to prognosticate whether he will fracture limestone for the streets of a great city or become president of the I'nited States; but there is a beautiful and luminous HIV" ahead of his in comparison with the boy who obstinately refuses to leave the home nest. The boy who cannot summon the moral courage some day to uncoil the ten drils of his heart from the clustering Idols of the household to urappl with outrag eous fortune, oughl to be taken by the ear and led away out into the great untried realm of space. PUGILIST OR STATESMAN. Thousands of our own boys, who today are spearing frogs, or balhing In Ihe rivers of their native land and parading on the shingly beach with no clothes On o speak of, are left to choose between iu-h a ca reer of usefulness and greatness of brow, and the humdrum life of a blllouj stu dent and pale, sad congressman. Will ou rise to the proud pinnacle of fame us a pugilist, boys, or will you plug along as a sorrowing, overworked statesman? Now, in the springtime of your lives, choose be tween the two, and abide the conse quences, a child's FATK. During a big thunder rhower a while uro little Willie, who slept iinstalrs alone, ant scared and called his mother, who came up and asked him whut he wus frluhtened about. .Willie frankly admitted that ihe thunder was a little loo much for a little boy who slept alone. "Well, If you're afraid," said his mother, pushing back the curls from his forehead, "you should pray for courage." , "All right, ma," said Willie, an Idea com ing into his head: "suppose you stay up here and pray while 1 go downstairs and sleep with paw." THE CODFISH. This tropical bird seldoms wings his way so far west as Wyoming. He loves the sea breezes and humid atmosphere of the At lantic ocean, und when isolated in this mountain elitne, pines for his native home. 'i he codfish cannot slug, but Is prized for his beautiful plumage and seductive odor. The codfish of commerce is devoid of di gestive appartus, and Is more or less per meated with salt. Codfish on toast Is not as expensive us quail on toast. The codtlsh ball Is made of the shuttered remalns-of the adult codfish, mixed with the tropical Irish potato of commerce. The coil lis h has a greut wealth of glad, unfettered smile. When he laughs al any thing, he has' thut same wide waste of mirth and back teeth lhat .Mr. Talmuge has. The Wyoming codfish is generally dead. Death, in most cases, is the result of exposure und loss of appetite, THE HELEXTI.HS3 HUSK. It is now the proper time for the cross eyed woman to fool with the garden hose. I have faced dealii In alinofd every form, and 1 do not know whut fear Is, but when a woman, with one eye gazing Into the zo diac and the other peering into the middle of next week and wearing one of those 'floppy stinbonneis, picks up Ihe nozzle of the garden hose und lurns on the rull force of the institution, I fly wildly to the .Moun tains of llepsiilum. Water won't hurt any one of course If care is used not to forget ami drink any of It. but 11 is this horrible suspense snil uncertainly ubom facing the nozzle or a garden hose In the hands of a cross-eyed woman that unnerves me and puralyzes me. Instantaneous death is nothing to me. 1 am as cool and collected where leaden rain and Iron hail are thickest, as I would be ill my own olilce writing the obituary of the man who steals my jokes, tint I hate to be drowned slowly in my good clothes and on dry land, and have my dying gazd YOU WANT WE HAVE LET'S GET RICHARDS 502 CcEmCnraltb Milm THE DICKSON MANUFACTURING CO 8CRANTON AND WILKES-BAftrlE. PA Manufaetairers of Locomotivos9Stationary Enginos, Boilors, taNnloetaK AUUMTON.PA. rest on a wtwutn whose ravlshliqr beauty would drive a nwrrow-guage mule ltuo convulsions and niuke hint bate himself to death. . ' - . GOOD K EC IPCS. CHOCOLATE HAVAKIAN CREAM. For one large mould of cream use half a package of gelatine, one gill of milk, two quarts of whipped cream, one gill of sugar and one ounce of chocolate. Soak the gelatine in cold waer for two hours. Whip and drain, the cream, scrape the chocolate and ut the milk on to boil. Put ths chocolate, two tableepoonfuls of sugar and one of be .water In a e-mail saucepan and etir on a hot fire until smooth and glossy. Stir this Into the hot milk. Now add 4he soaked gelatine and the remainder of the sugar. B:raln this mixture into a basin that will bold two quarts or more. Place the basin in a pan. of cold Ice water and stir until the mixture Is cold, when It will begin to thicken. Instantly begin to stir In the whipped cream, adding half -the amount ai rtrst. When all the cream has been ad ded, dip the mould In cold water and then turn ihe cream Into It. Place In the !. chest for an hour or more. At serving lime dip the mould in tepid water, tiee thut the ci cam will co.ne from the sides of the mould and turn out on a flat dlsll. Serve with whipped cream. CREAM UISCU1T. Take two pounds of Hour. tablespoon of butter, ithree tablespoons of siqjjr. one egg, one ounce of bicarbonate of sod.i. one-half ounce of ammonia, or.e-eighth ounce ot cream turtur, one-lour. u cup of water und suftlcl.-m oil of lemon to flavor. Roll und cut out the biscuits, diop them for a niiiiule in boiling water, take them out ami put them in cold water; then lay them on u cloth to dry. now put them on baking sheets at a little dis tance uput t, and bake. CURRY OF LOBSTER. Cut Into pieces about two inches square the meat of a lobster weighing about three pounds, - und after seasoning wilh mK and one-fifth of a teaspoonfal of cuyeune set It away in u cold put.-. Put three tu blespoonfuls of butler into a frying pan and when It had become hot udd two table-spoonfuls- or flour and u small tea spoonful of curry powder. Stir the mix ture until It is brown; then gradually add a cupful and a half of clock auJ godson with sail and pepper. Add the lobiter and cook six minifies longer. Place small pieces of crisp toast upon a warm dish and pour the curry upon them. Uurultli wilh triangles of toast and bits or pars lty. ir the flavor of ouio.i bi liked fry a small onion In the butler, adding the flour und curry powder, but in this case strain the sauce before the lobster is put with it. FAIRY TOAST. Take stale sponge cake, cut In slices half an Inch thick. Lay on platters on which you wish to serve it. Beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff broth, then continue with the egg beater to beat into It one small glass of genuine jelly, leaving out one tablespoonful to put on top of slices. Any jelly you prefer can be used Heap the jelly frosting on each slice of cake until It Is ull used up, and lit the cen ter of each put a lump of jelv on the frosting. Make a soft custard ot the three yolks of eggs, one pint of milk made by using one can of condensed milk to a little less than one pint of water and one ta blespoonful of cornstarch, flavored with vanilla. When cooked pour the custard round the cake, but do not pour It on the frosting. As you serve each alive take a spooniui oi cuttaru with it. NEW WAY TO SERVE PARSNIPS. An entirely new way of serving pars nips is ltk the shape of an English walnut with a nut in the middle. The parsnips are flrt boiled and mashed fine. Then to each pint there are added a teaspoonful oi sail, two tabiespooniuis ot melted but ter, a dash of pepper, and two tablespoon fills of milk. Mix well over the Are, and when smoking hot add a thoroughly beaten und very fresh egg. Spread the mixture on a dish to cool. Then take the inn- of an English walnut and roll around it the pursuit) pulp until you have a good- sizeu mil. noil in egg and eracKer dust and fry a lliiht brown In deep fut that is smoKing, serve not, HAM AND Bod PATTIES. Cut the crumb of a stale loaf of bread- ami If you do not have this you can fc.tv it for 3 veins at the baker's into slices un Inch thick und slamp into rounds the size or a teacup. .Make a little Incising ull u to mnl these hulf an Inch from the edge und scrnpe out Ihe middle; brush over wilh melted butter and set In u good oven to toast. Have ready as many small spoonfuls of minced ham as you have rounds of bread; heal it with a little cream or white or brown sauce; till the cavities, lay u poached egg on each, and send to lame. STUFFED BKUABT OF VEAL. Let the butcher remove Hie rib bones and prepare it 'for Mulling. From the bones and 6 cents' worth of knckle of veal you will make the soup for dinner. For the stuftinu mix together half a uound of stale bread soaked In water und squeezed out, two ounces of butter, a fried inlnced onion, and minced parsley. Sea son highly and add two beaten eggs, if you want it extra nice, but it is very good without. Kill the cavity with this, sew- up ihe opening with a quart of water rr broth, lay on the veal the flesh sldo up permost, and cook gently In a moderate oven for two hours. Serve with some of us own gravy, thickened, CURRIED SARDINES. For a bile after the 'theater trv curried (ardines, cooked In a chafing dish. Make a paste, with butler, made mustard, cur ry powder, and n few drops of vinegar or lemon juice. HKtn the sardines and carefully wash the oil off. Spread them thickly wilh the mixture and grill them for a minute, and then sre either on fingers of fried bread, dusted with coral line pepper, curry powder and minced parsley, or on lingers of hot buttered toast. EOa CORN BREAD. Here Is a recipe for an excellent corn l.,'MI.,l Mulf .1 ..f I I... . I ill a pirn of milk, two eggs, two cupfnls oi i-ui iiineui. a 'iMoiespooni ui or laru or butter, a teaspoonful of suit. Heat Ihe eggs lightly and the soaked breud crumbs lo a baiter; mell the shortening; s:ir all together until hard, and bake In shallow mis tn u quii'H oven. WHITE POTATO SALAD. Tl-A flen lu.lla.l ,.ni.un. i . v. ....... .. iu,uiwrn uitu lui lUVU In thin slices. .Mix one tublespoouful of uae on. a pincn or salt, a lit tle pepper, one small onion minced fine, one eg sliced or chopped, and a little tmtstard. Philadelphia Kei-ord. - - . Still Nearer. KelnConsliips are very confusing lo the jM.r-iiu muni, out mere are not man. children so delightfully at sea us the small girl of Ihe following store: She uppeured with a. small brother ni n public school nnd gave In their nanu s as "Italph and Edith Johnson." "Hrother and sister, I suppose," said the teacher. "Oh. no. ma'am." said Ihe little girl we re twins." youth's Companion. MI'S Celebrated Female Powders serer .fall. MHMMMSftMdHSfMIUI iMftiadianwhmiaaCMe R M TOGETHER. LUMBER GO Telephone 422 if) (AOTION TO our patrons: V Washburn-Crosby Co. wfeb to asgure their many Mttl rona thut they will this year hold to their ureal ciutoat of milling STRICTLY oib Will-. AT until the new oroi k fully cured. ew wheat la now upon the market, an! owing to the excessively dry weather many millers turn of the opinion thut It It already etireu, and In prope oonditiou for milling. Washburn-Crosby Co. will tak no risks, and will allow the new wheat fully thro months to mature before grinding. This careful attentlou to everv detail of milling hn Sluccd Wub.buraCrosby Co.'s 'flour far aboToathml rands. ' " MARCEL Wholesale Agents. IRON AND STEEL Bolts, Nuts, Bolt Ends, Turnbuckles, Washers, Riv ets, Horse Nails, Files, Taps, Dies, Tools and? Sup plies. Sail Duck for mine use in stock. SOFT STEEL HORSE SHOES and a full stock of Wagon Makers' Supplies, Wneela, Hubs, Rims, Spokes, Shafts, Poles, Bows, etc. TTEHBENDER SCRAN Keault Is t weeks. K,yttU.',',.'J - ! 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Agent for the Rex Fire Extinguisher. WELSDACH LIGHT tr!allj ldm!ed for. Readlfl, ud Sewing, nnsmananaa fhia. n aw,f nf ama msa boar and gives an efficiency of atzty I owi can cues. Hart nir at least mi Mna aawa? tbal ordinary Tip Buraen. uui ana acm it. HIT & COIELL CO., 434 UCKIWURI IVEIUL flUKtsactttrsrs' Afoot. Jl I Pi lie tT leonoiiflcBL