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takan of anoamoua
naiuunlcattoaa.
Fores
T There is no present prospect that work
'tviU.be renewed on tlio Pnnamn Canal.
j Tlio New York Teleijram concludes
that tho Cherokee Nation is not likely to
nell rts lands.
t It has been calculated that tho rail
roabt of tho world arc worth nearly
$300,000,000,000.
1 The Louisiana lottery has offered to
assume Jhe State, debt of $12,000,000
for an extension of its license for fifty
years.
, Tho balance of trade against Canada
during tho last fiscal year was $17,000,
000, or $0,000,000 worso than tho
previous year.
1 The New York Sun is startled at dis
covering that tho internal revenue of the
United States is increasing more rapidly
than the customs revenue.
' Tho Massachusetts Legislature has
dono well, thinks tho New York Com
mercial Adeertiser, in making it a penal
offence to dock the tails of horses.
' The startling and highly important in
formation that the Shah of Persia has
taken to wearing a silk hat instead of a
jeweled turban has recently been cabled
from Europe to America.
i Before tho recent l'rcsbyterian General
Assembly in New York the ltev. L. L.
Cottin said that 27O0 brakemen were
killed anil 20,000 injured every year ou
tho railroads of this country.
1 The Alaskan seal fisheries must be
protected, declares the New Orleans
Teiiut-Vemorral, or they will bo totally
destroyed within a few brief years, and
thus n great and -uniiiuo industry auni
bilatcd. Dogs are to be enrolled nnd trained in
the British Army... They nro to act as
nuxiliary sontis!s, as scouts on tho
march, as despnteri carriers, as searchers
for thewounded and as nuxiliary ammuni
tion carriers.
I Tho N.ew Haven (Conn.) Register will
give $100 for a properly authenticated
case vhcrchi the cucumber ever did any.
ono harm. "Tho vegetable has been
shamefully maligned and iusfulted," this
champion claims.
"If some museum man wants a chamber
of horrors," says the Minneapolis Tribune,
"why doesn't ho hire Chicago?" Or if
ho wants a deserted village, retorts tho
Chicago Time, why doesn't he make a
lato with Minneapolis?
, President Carnot, of France, is very
fond of Americans, nnd is cultivating
sedulously the society of our countrymen
now in .'uris. At "his receptions more
Americans are to be found than iu any
draw ing-room in Europe.
Various bodies have petitioned tho
Pennsylvania Legislature for so . many
legal , holidays that, according to the
Detroit t'rve Press, each day iu tho week,
including Suuduy, would have been a
holiday had the petitions been granted.
Pr. Rosenberg, a New York chiropo
dist, tells the Ejioch of a little patient that
lie was culled upon to treat. It is a vein
and a half old and has three corns and
two in-growing nails, nlthough it has
never walked. By the aid of cocaine the
operation ou its tiny feet was rendered
1 painless.
Illinois 1ms a new compulsory cduca
.' tion law under which children between
tho ages of seven and fourteen years are
'compelled to attend school at least six
teen weeks a year, and attendance on any
private day Bchool teaching reading,
writing, arithmetic and United States
history in tho English language, which is
approved by the Board of Education, will
be accepted as in compliance with the
law.
"During the last sixteen months," says
Jho correspondent of the London Timet
. at Cairo, "only four slaves were imported
into Egypt, and there have been only
two cases ot dealing between private per
sons. The slave trade may bo reckoued
as extinct iu Egypt. The number of
slaves in tho possession of private fami-
. ' lies is decreasing rtqmlly, thanks to the
' " 2 ' .Slaves' Home, which is a most effectual
, - method of doing away with this class of
" slavery."
. Work is at last to be begun in earnest
ou the NicuTaugua Canal, a largo force of
civil engineers having left New York for
. the bthmus. It may be that operations
i were delayed owing to the belief that tho
' uncompleted works of the Lesseps Com
pany might be bought cheaply enough to
make it better worth while to finish the
J Panama waterway than to construct a
, wholly new one in Nicaraugua. But if
-'uch a plan w;fc at ono time entertained,
t't jow seems to have been given up.
'ly the Panama bondholders and
JVders could not be induced to sell
4jjierests foi the very moderate sum
i fich they would now be valued.
SHE SWEETLY SLEEPS. M
Night wind that grieves and sweeps
Along the dark, deserted streets,
While Nature's heart In pity beats
O'er sins and sorrows of the day,
And those whose erring footsteps stray,
Beset with perils, passion blind,
Through ways and woes of human kind;
Oh, wind no need that wailing, thou,
Disturb that calm and placid lrow ;
For there around that precious head
The dows of sinless sleep are shed;
The rostful wphyr softly creeps,
She Sweetly Sleeps!
She Sweetly Sleeps I
Unmindful of the heart that weeps,
In loneliness and longing drear I
For light that will no more npjiear 1
Above life's far horizon line
And paint the world in hues divine, t
Of soft blue skies nnd golden gleams
September dies and summer dreams!
Yet, whisper in her ear, oh, galel
The burden of a tender tale.
That I would tell whore I the sprite
That shaped her visions of the night,
Wullo bound in gentle slumber's deeps
She" Sweetly Sleeps!
.V. .V. Fulsom, in Atlanta Constitution.
DOWN IN THE GRASS.
BY WIU. MSENBEE.
All night Vng tho low summer wind
had fanned tho dewy grass, and stolen
with a subdued murmur around the rudo
board structure that nestled in the high
grass on a.broad stretch of level prairie;
and now a great luminous star which had
risen from the prairie sea, and from a blue
waste of sky, shed its white ravs down on
tho world beneath.
As it rose higher in the heavens, its
feeble ray stole in at the open window of
the settler s cabin and touched the tangled
cloud of sunny hair that clustered about
the head of a little girl of ten years the
only child of Amos Lee, the settler.
-The Dickering light of a small kero
sene lamp shed its feeble rays around the
room, revealing a rude bed at ono end of
the apartment, on which lay the form of
a man, his face Hushed with fever, his
eyes wandering vacantly nbout the room.
"Papa," said tho child, bending over
tho sick man, "you must have medicine
and a doctor what must I do? What
can I do??"
Sho clasped her little hands nppcal
ingly,aud a tear trickled down her white,
troubled face. "AY liter! water!" cried
the sick man, gazing blankly about him.
The child hurried to tho other end of
the room, nnd fetching some water iu a
tin cup, held it to the sick man's lips.
He drank the water eagerly, and sank
back ou his pillow, where he lay ipiiet for
some time. Thtu he opened his eyes and
murmured :
"We must go 'way from hyar they air
talkiu' uv hangiu' me if I stay and
nicbby mebbv we'd better be moviu'
'for they'll come again. Hit's hard tor'
hafter leave our own home but but "
His inutterings grew indistinct, and he
again closed his eyes.
"Oh, papa! my dear papa!" cried the
child, "No one is going to hurt you I
am hero with you shall I go for a doc
tor? Oh, papa! what must I do?" and
she buried her face iu the bed clothes and
wept bitterly.
The father made no reply, save some
incoherent niutteriugs.
Prescutly the little girl arose and wiped
the tears from her eves, a look of deter
mination on her young face. She then
took a little straw hat from a peg ou the
wall and placed it on her head. She ap
proached her father, and bending over
him, kissed his hot, feverish cheek.
"Pupa," she murmured, her face close
to his, "I am going for a doctor be good
and lie still till I come back. I'll run all
tho way."
She then turned and went out into the
night, and ran swiftly down the dim
prairie road, her little bare feet falling
noiselessly upon the damp, dewy ground.
Tho nearest village, Neutral City, lay
five miles away, across a stretch of wild,
unsettled prairie. Here the only doctor
iu that part of the country resided, nnd
toward this place the little girl hurried.
She knew the road, having passed over it
before in the wagon with her father.
"It is uot long till daylight," she
thought, as she hurried forward, glancing
about her, as if expecting to see some
wild animal spring upon her from the
surrounding darkness. Onward, along
the dim path, that lay across the great
stretch of prairie she tied, while the big
white star rose higher and higher iu the
heavens; and the dewy breath of night,
laden with the perfume of sleeping flow
ers, swayed the long grasses and rocked
the tops of tho sumachs to and fro, as it
stirred their slender leaves into a
tremulous murmur.
Tho barking of a coyote caiue from
afar across the prairie, and sent a cold
chill of fear through the child's heart ;
she increased her pace, running swiftly
along the narrow path, her breath coming
fast and hard, the long wet grass swirling
about her little bare feet.
Every bush or shadow was construed
into a ferocious animul; and the sudden
crouking of a frog filled her with a name
less terror.
Presently the road grew dim and indis
tinct she had traveled for miles how
far she could not tell; but she was grow
ing tired and weak, and her steps came
slow and laborious.
"Oh, it's so far so far!" she cried,
her heart beating fast. "Oh, papa,
pupa "
She uttered a low sc.cam of terror und
half turned from the path; but it was
only a night bird that tlew within a foot
of her, with a "whish" of rapid wings,
and disappeared iu the darkness.
Tho great star rose higher and higher
in the purple sky; a faint, ashy light stole
up the eastern horizon, aud the sound of
Wuking birds came from the patches of
sumachs. Still the heroic child hurried
ou as fast as her wearied mid aching
limbs could curry her, her face pale with
pain and fatigue, her feet aud ankles
bleeding from coming iu contact with
"saw-briurs" thut overhung the path.
ISho had struggled wearily to the top
of a little hill, w hen suddenly a dark mass
jof moving fgmut broke ou her viiou.
She started uttered a low, agonized cry,
then turned half around, and sank down
a senseless heap in the damp grass.
A band of twenty mounted and armed
men were riding along the dim road in
the direction of Amos Lee's cabin.
"Jim," said Bill Strong, the leader of
the party, addressing one of the men that
rodo bv his side, "I reckon ole Lee'll
wished he'd obeyed the injunctions uv
the League when he sees us comin'."
"Guess he won't have much time ter
wish nfter we git thar," was tho answer.
"That's my unanimous opinion. I
reckon it's hang this time, ain't it, Bill?"
"You bet," and the speaker shook a
rope that dangled significantly from the
horn of his saddle.
It was during those terrible days in the
history of Southeastern Kansas, when the
local warfare was carried on by the
"Union League," against nil settlers who
contracted with tho railroad company for
the claims they had settled upon. A
large track of land, covering nearly three
counties, had been granted to the "Gulf
Bailroad Company," and iu order to com
pel the company to sell the land to
settlers at the regular Government price,
tho "Union League" was organized.
The first action of the "League" was
to notify all settlers not to contract with
the railroad company for their claims, and
when a squatter refused to obey this
order, he was dealt with iu the most sum
mary manner.
A month previous to tho time of the
opening of this story, Amos Lee had
settled on a claim about three miles from
the old "military road," and erected a
rudo board shanty. A week afterward
his wife died nnd left him alone in his
desolate prairie home, with only his little
ten-year-old daughter, Annie, to keep
him company and share his sorrow.
He then resolved to return to Missouri;
but first he contracted with the railroad
company for his claim, making a payment
on the same
This fact becoming known to the
"League," he was at once notified to leave
his claim within forty-eight hours, or suf
fer the consequences. But tho next day
Amos Lee had been stricken down with
typhoid fever, and the report reaching
the League that he had failed to comply
wltii their orders, a band ol armed men
was nt once dispatched to the settler's
cabin, with instructions to make un
"example" of him
"Hit's about time," continued Bill
Strong, "for this yer Leaguo ter stop
warmu an orderin an go ter hangiu ,
nn' see if that won't have the moral ef
fect uv stoppiu' these fellers thnt con
tract with the land comp'ny; but blamed
if some people ever lam anything till
ropo is round their necks-
The leader's horse swerved violently to
one side, then came to a sudden halt, lit
tering a peculiar snort.
Bill Strong turned his gaze toward the
path ahead, and saw the limp figure of a
child lying in the damp grass, almost
under the horse' feet. He quietly dis
mounted, and still holding the rein of his
refractory animal, advanced and bent
over the prostrated figure before him.
"I'll be hanged," he exclaimed, "if it
hain't a little gal!" And he lifted the
unconscious child in his strong anus and
turned her face toward the pale light that
was fust widening along the eastern
horizon.
5JJhat is i;?" asked the nearest horse
men, reining iu their horses and gazing
in surprise nt the lender.
"hit's a leetle gal, bin lyin' hyar in the
rond, an' she's in a dead faint. pore child!"
exclaimed Billy Strong, laying the child
down, and removing his coat and laying
her on it. "Somebody give me , has
anybody got a bottle with soni'thin' re
frehiu' inside uv it ?"'
"iou net, was the reply, as Half a
dozen bottles were exteuded.
"One is enough," he replied taking the
nearest bottle, and pouring some of the
fluid betweeu the unconscious child's
lips."
"What's up? What's all this menu?
Who've ye got thar?" asked the other
men from the rear, who had just ridden
where the little group was gathered
round.
"A little gal, as I live!" exclaimed
one of the men. How did she come
out hyar alone this time o' the morning?"
"Duuno," was the reply; "but reckon
we'll find out for she's comin' round."
"Oh, papa, papa! where is my papa?"
came from the little girl's lips, as she
opened her eyes ami saw the men clus
tered about her.
"I'll be banged if I know, little un,' "
answered Bill Strong, kindly, "that's just
what we wor goin' ter ask uv you."
"Oh, my poor papa! my poor papa!"
cried the child, and she began to weep
bitterly.
"Boys," said the leader, "I guess we'll
hafter put off our business with the
squatter 'till we kin find this little gal's
pa." Then to the little girl: "There,
now, don't cry, an' jist tell us whar yer
pa is, an' we'll take ye to him iu a jiffy."
Between her sobs, the little gill then
told of her father's illness, aud how she
had been afraid he was going to die, und
she had started to Neutral City for a
doctor.
"Gentlemen," said Bob Akers, "I'll be
duil gummed if that little gal ain't a
brick, an no mistake, an I say that a
man who's got a gal like that hain't a
bad man, an' that little gal's pa is Amos
Lee. I saw her there when I went to
sarve the notice on him."
A murmur of surprise ran through the
crowd, aud the speaker continued:
"As fer as obeyin' the orders in the
League, 1 hain't nuthin' ter say against
it, and ye can all go ahead an' do as you
please with Amos Lee; but if any man
tries ter harm this little gal's pa, he's got
ter walk over me 'fore he does it."
'Me, too?"
"You bet!"
Aud several of the men stepped to Bob
Akers's side.
"Boys," said Bill Strong, turning aud
confronting the men, "do ye aim ter say
that ye disobey the orders uv the League?"
"We do," they responded, firmly.
"Then," continued the leader, "I fiuo
every umu iu th' crowd that thinks as ye
do two dollars an' a half! an' I want
every one uv ye ter come up hyar au' puy
yer fine ter this leetle gal who I appoint
as treasurer."
And as he spoke ho took the required
amount from his pocket and dropped it
into the little girl s lap.
Every man in the crowd followed bis
example and dropped his "fine" into tho
"treasurer s lap, who found herself nearly
covered up with the incumbrances of her
new office.
'Now, bovs," said Bob Akers, "I'm
goiu' after the doctor fer this leetle gnl's
pa, an thar am t no time ter be foolin
around hit"
He swung himself into the saddle as ho
spoke, and turned his horse's head to
ward Neutral City.
"Some uv ye kin take the leetle gal
home nn' stay thar till I come," and with
this he galloped away, nnd was soon lost
to sight in the wreaths of mist that were
rising across the prairie.
A few moments afterward three men
rode out from the crowd, nnd went in
the direction of Amos Lee's cabin, Bill
Strong riding ahead carrying the little
girl in his arms, while the other members
of that party wheeled their horses around
and went m different directions to their
homes, just as the first gleam of tho
morning shot aoross the broad waste of
prairies.
Ou the night following the "League"
held a meeting at Bob Akers's house.
How's the squatter an tho leetle
gal?" asked one of the men of Bill
Strong.
The leetle gal is as pert ns n encket,
an' the doctor says tho squatter's gcttin'
along fine, an' hopes to have him up in a
week."
"Brothers uv the League," said Bob
Akers, rising, "have men been app'inted
ter take care uv the squatter till he gits
well?"
"They have," was the reply.
"Then," continued the speaker, "I
call for the report uv the leader uv the
delegation that wor sent ter hang olo
Amos Lee."
Bill Strong rose up, and said:
"Gentlemen, I'm ready to mek my re
port. Thar ain't no Amos Lee."
Then the meeting adjourned. Drake's
Magazine.
Diminutive Penmanship.
The number of writers who have at
tained this useless art of minute penman
ship, so perplexing to editors nnd print
ers, is really remarkable. As is well
known, Charles Dickens was one of the
chief offenders in this direction, his
handwriting being . very diminutive,
while every inch of his manuscript was
usually covered, as though paper were
both scarce nnd expensive. His habit of
writing with blue Ink upon blue. paper,
with frequent interlinutions nnd cross
lines, completed his enormities, and must
have made his copy a burden to tho
wearied proof reader nnd compositor. Of
a like nature was the chirography of
Douglas Jerrold, who jotted down his
jokes upon little slips of blue paper in
letters smaller than the type iu which
they were presently to be set.
Charlotte Bronte's handwriting was so
exceedingly delicate that it appeared to
have been traced with a needle, while
Thackeray wrote a fine, feminine hand,
nnd delighted iu ornamenting his manu
script with pen and ink sketches nnd
caricatures of his famous characters.
Captain Murryatt, it is said, wrote such
au exceedingly tine hand that whenever
the copyist rested from his labors he was
obliged to put in a pin where he left off iu
order to find tho place again. Another
expert iu microscopic penmanship is tho
English novelist, It. I). Blackiuore, who,
like Dickens, writes with blue ink, and
in tiny, detached characters, which are
nlmost undecipherable nt first sight. His
cotemporarv, William Black, is also noted
for the wonderful minuteness of his chi
rography.
Among American authors of extreme
economy in the use of iuk is the novelist,
Cable, who writes a dapper little hand
with a fine pointed steel pen; Julian
Hawthorne, whose letters are well formed
but almost infinitesimal iu size, and the
poet Stoddard, who uses a sharp pointed
lead pencil and gets about P.200 words ou
u single sheet ot foolscap.
.More Thau 80,000,000 Babies o Year,
It has been computed thut between 30,-
000,000 and 87,000,000 babies are born
into tho world each year. The rate of
birth is, therefore, nbout seventy a mill
ute, or rather more than one for every
beat of the clock. With the one-a-min-
ute calculation every one is familiar, but
it is not every one who stops to calcucate
what this means when it comes to
yeur's supply. And it will, probably,
therefore, startle a good many persons to
find on the authority of ayritcr iu the
Jlvxpital that could the infauts of a year
be ranged iu a line in cradles seven deep
they would go around the globe.
We have the ingenious conclusion, also,
that, supposing the little men to grow up
aud the sexes to be about equally divided,
we should have an army a hundred time)
us large us the forces of the British Em
pire, with a wife in addition to every
soldier. The same writer looks at the
matter iu a still more picturesque light:
He imagines the babies being carried past
a given point in their mothers' charge one
by one, and the procession being kept up
continuously night and day until the last
comer iu the twelvemonth has passed by.
A sufficient liberal rate of speed is al
lowed, but even with these bubies-iu-uruis
going past twenty a minute the re
viewing olUccr would only have seen a
sixth part of the infantine host tile on
ward by the time he had been a year ut
his post. Iu i ther words, the babe thut
had to be carried wheu the work began
would be able to waddle onward itself
when a mere fraction of its comrades hud
reached the blurting post; und when tho
year's supply of babies was tapering to a
close there would be a rear guard, not of
infants, but of romping boys and girl.
They would have passed, in fact, out of
the maternal arms into the hands of tho
school teacher.
Every moment nearly of seven year
would be required to complete this grand
parade of these little ones thut in the
course of a twelvemonth begin to play
their yart iu the first age of wan.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
MAKIKO SCtt.M'-BOOKS.
Good glue is best for picture scrap
books, ns it is not so apt to warp the page
or to "soak" the paper. For reading
scraps book-binder's paste, or any good
cooked pato, is better than mucilage.
Spread the paste thinly und evenly on
the scrap, not on the leaf, nnd while it is
damp lay on nn extra sheet of paper (a
piece of newspaper) over the page and
iron it with a pretty hot flat-iron till it is
dry. When nearly dry, the flat-iron may
be applied directly to the page, taking
care always to look out for tho paper oi
fiat-iron sticking to the page. By this
means the page is kept smooth, otherw ise
it will dry in wrinkles. When glue is
used no ironing is needed, but a little
more care is required in applying it.
Washington Star.
ART OP BOTTI.K CI.EANIKfi.
Most medicine-bottles can be cleaned
by washing thoroughly in hot soap-suds
and rinsing in cold water; but there may
be some that will require different treat
ment. Some druggists clean narrow
necked bottles by putting in bits of blotting-paper
with some water, shaking
well, emptying, them rinsing. This will
make them very clean. Frequently bot
tles will be musty when standing any
length of time, nnd in this case, if they
are filled with cold water and let stand
for an hour or two, the musty smell will
disappear. If the bottles are greasy, fill
with warm water, put in a piece of wash
ing-soda, allow it to dissolve, then shake
the bottle thoroughly, empty, rinse, and
put to drain. A few drops of ammonia
in a bottle of warm water will be found
excellent to clean a greasy bottle.
Powdered charcoal and water are good
to clean a bottle that is not greasy. Once
A Week.
TO CLE AH EXURAVINOS.
Put the engraving on n clean board
and cover it with a thin laver of common
salt, finely pulverized: then squeeze
lemon-juice upon the salt until a consid
erable portion of it is dissolved. After
every part of the picture has been sub
tected to this treatment elevate one end
of the board so that it will form an angle
of about forty-five degress with the hori
zon. From a teakettle or other suitable
vessel pour ou the engraving boiling
water until the salt nnd lemon-juice are
entirely washed off. 1 he engraving will
then be perfectly clean nnd free from
staiu. It must be dried on the board or
on some smooth surface gradually, uot by
the hre or sun.
Immerse the print for nu hour or so (or
longer if necessary) in a h e made by add
ing to the strongest muriatic acid its own
weight iu water, and to three parts of
this mixture lidding one of red oxide of
manganese. India iuk stains should in
the first instance be taken out with India
rubber very carefully. If the print has
been mounted the paste ou the back
should be removed with warm water.
Another recipe is: Lay the engraviug
down on a smooth board with a clean
sheet of paper underneath, and with a
cleau sponge nnd water wet the picture
ou both side and then saturate it well
with a soft sponge with the following
mixture: a quarter of a pound chloride ot
lime, two ouuees of oxalic acid aud one
auart of soft water and apply. Ameri
can Art Printer.
ltECIl-ES.
Cabbage Salad Boil ono cup of vine
ear. melt one tablespoouful of butter,
add to it one egg beaten light, one tea
spoon each of mustard, sugar, salt, flour
aud a half teaspoon of pepper; pour the
boiling vinegar on this mixture; stir
well; let it boil one minute; pour
over the chopped cabbage.
Boiled Onions Boil 6even or eight
large onions; drain three times; li
stand n minute iu pan after draiuing tin
last time, to allow them to dry thor
oughly; sprinkle with a little flour, salt
and pepper; add a good teaspoontul o
butter and pour over it all half a cup o
sweet cream or rich, fresh milk, tscrve
at once.
Spiced Beef Take from live to six
pounds of beef, wash aud pick off all
tine fragments of bones and cut the meat
into several pieces; cover with boiling
water, skim carefully as it boils; let boll
till the liquor is reduced to a half pint
Hemove the meat, season the liquor
highly with salt, pepper, sage am
thyme: add it to the meat and mix with
a fork till the meat is all broken. Pat
in a Doreclaiu Dan. place a weight ou
top and when cold cut iu slices.
Fresh Tomato Soup with lfii e To one
dozen ripe tomatoes, iiuartered, add tw
quarts of boiling water, a young leek,
heaping tcaspoonful of salt, four clove:
six whole peppers, a teaspoonful
granulated sugar, half a saltspooiiful o:
celery seed, or part of a bunch of soiq
eelcrv. Simmer an hour and rub the
pulp through a tine sieve and return
lo the range to keen warm. Add one
mirier of a uint of boiled rice, siiiinu
ten minutes and serve with croutons.
Cauliflower Cut a head of cuulitlowi
und soak in cold water twenty minutes;
put oil to boil with plenty of water; boil
half an hour; drain. To make the dress-,
ing take a heaping teaspoonful of corn
starch, rubbed smooth in a little warm
water; put on a cupful of milk, or half
milk, half water; when it comes to boil
ing point stir in the cornstarch, add half
teaspoonful of butler, u little salt und
pepper; let boil a inhume while stirring.
Serve the cauliflower in a vegetable dish,
with the dressing poured over.
Potato Bread For four mcditiin-si.cd
loaves of bread lake (at noun) four small
potatoes an I pan, slice und boil in one
quart of water. When done press the
potatoes all through a colander, add one
level tablespoon of salt and sufficient
water to make two quails in all. When
this has become cool mix in flour, make
a stiff butter. About four hours before
you wish to mix it for the night, stir iu
one pint of yeast. Leave iu a warm
place over hignt aud mold und place in
dishes as soon as possible in the morning.
In one hour it is ready for the oven.
Buke one hour and cover closely ou re
moving from the oven.
MAKING WOODEN INDIANS.
THEY ARE CARVED OUT 01" PINE
IN DEFIANCE OF NATURE.
Maker of Sins Tells the Secrets of
II IsTrnde Splendor, Hat her Than
Fidelity to Nature, His Object.
"There, Pop. I've got all dono but the
.... . . .
op. v lint color snail l painr mat:
The spectacled wood carver looked up
from the bit of cardboard that ho was
lettering and said, in answer to his son's
interruption: "Paint tho head red,
immv." Jimmv, a lad of thirteen, with
symptoms of incipient painter's colic, was
evotmg his best energies and tuc last
fifteen minutes before dinner to the de
coration of a wooden squaw m colors
whose brilliancy and variety would have
shamed the splendors of the first rainbow.
The little shop down in Goerck street
was n sort of tawdry statuary hall, re
splendent with the gorgeous presence of
half a dozen cigar store imunns in various
states of incompleteness. A tall squaw
having a scornful face as yet unadorned
with eves, occupied a conspicuous place
iu the "room; her drapery consisting of a
yellow blanket run! n red milium robe
A special order. ' said t lie woou-carvcr;
the mun would have that buffalo robo
red, because he thought it would attract
attention.
"Our business might be called artistic.
he continued, "but there haiut much
money into it. Years ago, when I was a
young apprentice, I had the honor of
making two line ship figureheads. They
represented parties standiu lull leugtli.
with scrolls iu their hands. I don't know
w ho the parties was and I don't know the
names of the ships, but I was proud of
the job. That sort of business, though,
dropped off liteen years ago. The Ameri
can people i.s economical to the detriment
of art, and our business isn t appreciated
as it ought to be. I do little or nothing
now but make nnd repair Indians and
letter cards with sentiments such as
them."
The carver spoke with the air of a man
whose art had been prostituted to the sor
did demands of trade. lie set no store
by the Indians turned m whole tribes,
and fashioned with small regard for the
truth of nature. "They don't look like
Indians, you know," he said, withnmiable
frankness. "No Indian ever had feature?
like that big fellow there, nnd I reckon
there never was a squaw who dressed like
that one with the red buffalo robe. If we
made 'em like real Indians they d be too
ugly to sell. We have no models, but
just keep on making them as they've been
made for the last fifty years. The idea
is to make them look pretty, and work in
us many colors as possible. Sometime?
we get seven or eight different tints, be
sides gilding." "What arc they made
ofi" "White pine. It works easy. We
hack "em out with saw nnd hatchet,
rough 'cm up with big tools and polish
'cm off with liner implements. Jimmy,
show the gentleman the logs in tin
cellar."
Jimmy promptly led the way to the
underground lumber room, where lay hull
a dozen great pine logs from sixteen to
tweutv-four feet iu length. Against the
wall leaned a rudely hacked piece of tim
ber that looked like a damaged gate
post. Jimmy averred that in tune thu
would be a splendid squaw, with i
painted skirt and a headdress of plumes.
He pointed out winch way me met
would turn and how the arms would ap
pear. The figure, limbs, pedestal and
all were to be carved from the single log
in one piece. It did not seem to contain
the promise and potency of the cleverly
carved figures in the shop above, but
Jimmy had faith that he anil his father
would vet evolve from the unsightly log
a comely squaw of conventional pattern.
"It takes from six to sixteen days to
make one of these figures,'1 said the mas
ter of the shop, taking up the thread ol
his discourse. "1 he simpler ones can be
whittled out in three days and painted in
three more. 1 lie big, complicated lig
urcx.wilh tomahawks and wampum neck
laces and headed bows, take a week or
more, and the painting requires nearly as
long. That squaw, you see, lsu t the
rigid color lor a squaw. That's only the
groundwork. We've got to paint he
copper color to-morrow. llien we ve
l'o! to nut in her eves. They may be
blue. L'rav or brown. After that come
the line work on the feather headdress.
Nobody cares much what they look like,
so they're showy, and paint's the thing
that makes 'cm sell. What do they cost (
From ! 5 to ijliO. A good Indian, well
taken care of, will last thirty years. Once
a year lie ought to be scut-buck for re
pairs. Taste in Indians iIik s not change
much, and my customers trust to me to
do the thing right. Yes, we deal ill second-hand
Indians," he continued, glanc
ing up at the faded splendors of a squuw,
over whose arm the woodcarver's street
eoat was hung for want of a better
clothes rack.
'When a mull moves to a new place lie
sometimes gels a fresh Indian. We take
the old one off his hands and sell it to
some small di aler. We used to make
negroes from 'IS lo "till, but later they
got unpopular. Then the Girl of the
Period and the Grecian liend had a go,
but mostly the trade runs steady oil In
dians. Going! Well, you may say that
business is dull, though it might be worse;
but on the whole, the public doesn't ap
preciate our art as it once did." .Vti
Xtn-k Star.
Au Indian Nun.
A full-blooded Sioux, the lirst of her
race to enter a Catholic religious com
munity, has just been received into the
novitiate of the lieiiedictiue nuns at .ell,
in Faulk County, Dakota. For four
years she had been under the cure of the
Benedictine nuns at Fort Yates, and had
repeatedly asked the favor of joining the
community. She was instructed by the
liev. Francis Craft, an lmliau missionary
of St. Francis Mission. She has been
invested with the white veil, and, after
spending two years ill the novitiate she
will be profe-sed. Her name in religion
is Sister .Mary Josephine. .Yne Yorl
There ure no usury laws iu Massa
chusetts or iu Urcut Brituia,
LOVE ROMANTIC, YET MOSTTJtUE.j
Three men, who wore good and great, Jjy
ravorea oy ionnne anaaie, -"T". ' ;
Ixvedone woman; but she - 'ljt
Loved none of the three.
They were friends and they loved each other
As friend loves friend, or brother brother; .
But no one ever spokfl .
The name his heart awoke.
The first his love to tho woman told,
In passion's words, by hope made bold.
"Ilettor than fame or wealth,
t . '
More than life itself,
I love you, I love you !" he said.
She listened, but she shook her head.
And answered, low and true;
"I love not; love not you." v
The second said : "I love you well, " ;
More than through lifo my Hps can toll.
Living. I'll love but you, .
In death to you be true."
Why, she did not understand, ; ' - .
But she laid in his her hand; - . " '" '
And throughout all her lifo V-
She lived his faithful wile.
Of his love for her, the third .
Sike nver a single word; ' t
Yet was his love's degree V
The highest of the three?
He watched her life aud saw her die, ' .
But his heart never voiced a cry. '
Somehow, when her lifo was past,
He knew she was his at lust.
Gertrude Garrison, in Dress.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A rash intruder Measles.
Not a religious stick The post chap
lain.
Well-made nien Tho olco-milhou-
nires.
Bound for Europe" Tho tourists'
guide.
When a man is "taKcn in ne is usually
"put out."
Silence is golden, but it doesn't make
a mute rich.
Dressed beef should be dressed ns cool
ns possible this weather. jYcw Orlcan
Picayune.
There is nothing in the language of
flowers so eloquent as a pair of pressed
tulips. yew York Herald.
It may be of some consequence
To some one if we say,
The man has certainly horse sense
W ho knows when to say neigh I
Customer "May I use your tele
phone?" Merchant "Very sorry, but
we do not handle hollowarc." Omaha
Worhl.
Mealtime Caller "When do you
dine?" Precocious Little Daughter
"We always have to wait till callers go.
I'm getting awful hungry."
Says a New York paragrnpher: "A
majority of our rich nieu are not educated
men." This will also read just as truly
the other way. Hume Sentinel.
Paterfamilias "Clara, I see that tho
front gate is down this morning." Clara
(shyly) "Yes, papa, you know love
levels all things." Burlington Free Press.
The girl who knows no worldly cares,
Anil whose papa is wealthy.
Her declining years most often finds
When she is young and healthy.
Life. '.
"How is it you have so few deaths on
your bunds, doctor?" "That's easy
enough. When I find I have a bad case
I order the patient to take atrip abroad."
Jinhje.
Husband (on his wedding tour) "I
want rooms for myself and wife." Hotel
Clerk "Suite?" "Husband "Of course .
she is perfectly lovely. The sweetest girl
in the world."
Bashful YoungMan "Ahem Sally
nlicm." Sally (encouragingly) "Well,
Ucorgc?" "Sally, do, you suppose your
ma would be willing to be my mother-in-law
i" Hoston (!r., tte.
The interest with which a young
man watches the growth of hair on his
upper lip is only equaled by that with
which the man of forty watches its disap
pearance from the top of liis head. JWio
York lh rahl.
First Omahaii "Going to have any
plumbing done this spring?" Second
Omnium "Did think I'd have a pipe re
soldered, but changed my mind und will
buy n farm with the money, instead."
Omaha Worlt.
Guest "1 wish I had come here a
week ago." Hotel Proprietor "Ah,
that's very flattering to my establishment."
Oucst "I don't know about that. What
I mean is that 1 should have preferred to
cat this fish then instead of now."
Young Husband "What? You are
twenty-five years old to-day? Why, you
told me u year ago, just before the wed
ding, that you were only twenty." Young
Wife (wearily) "I have uged rapidly
since 1 married." Yankee l!lale.
1 am lying, Egypt, lyiug In my own peculiar
way.
I acquired the habit lately, but I do it every
lay
F.very morning to the river with my tackle I
ivpnir
To lieguilu the s)K-kletl troutlet from his
deep. p-llueid lair;
111 the evening, on returning, I descrilie uiy
victim's size.
And I am rouiniiig. Kgypt, roaming iu a
wilderness of lies.
Xehraska State Joe null
The City Dos Cutclier.
The humble office of the meek and
low ly dog catcher is an industry not to
be despised from a pecuniary standpoint.
Thu City .Marshal, who is the official
head of this branch of commerce, re
ceives $1000 u year iu salary for doing
practically nothing. His allowance of
deputies and office expenses is ample.
The dog pound revenue is one of tho
political secrets, but it is estimated by
those who have been in the confidence of
the Administration as 17000. That repre
sents dogs caught aud killed iu St.
Louis, and costs iu case animals ure re
claimed. Then there is another alleged
source of revenue, the valuu of which
nobody but the incumbent knows, and
that is the price unuually received for dog
curcusses from the Fast St. Louis Govern
ment. It is said thut every day a wugou
load of deud dogs, that have just suffered
the sulphiirctting process at the St. Louis
dog pound, goes ucross the bridge, aud
is there redeemed ut the price of tweuty
five cents per heud. St. Louit StarSiy
imjt. i