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VOL. XXIII. NO. 2. TIOJtESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY," MAY 7, 1890. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
REPUBIvI
A number of Philadelphians have peti
tioned Congress to authorizo and direct
the coinage of fifteen cents coin.
Oysters aro a favorite dish with our
legislator at Washington, In tho
Senate restaurant about twenty-five
bushels a day are served out, and fully
the same quantity is dealt out hi tho
House restaurant.
Upon the return of the Squadron of
Evolution to home waters?, it is thought
that in combination with other vessels on
the coast there will be a grand landing
of the naval brigade for drill and instruc
tion In camp routine.
Notevory person knows that the sure
test of genuine paper currency is to hold
tho bill up to tho light so that you can
discern two lines running parallel across
its entire length. These are a red and a
blue silk thread inside the paper. No
counterfeit has thuin.
Europeans are becoming alarmed over
atatcmenU that another epidemic, also of
the "ncro malady" kind, is following in
the wake of tho influenza. It has its
homo iu southern regions and its
. symptoiu aro a feeling of paralysis in
the limbs and a tendency to lethargic
alcep.
Senator Sawyer has discovered the
.value of advertising. 'Tho fact was
mentioned in the Pittsburg Ditpatch that
ho was ono of tho wealthiest in the lint
of Senatorial bachelors and widowers.
Within a few .days thereafter he received
7237 letters from spiustors williug to
marry him.
A wealthy citizen of Osaka, Japan,
who is tho owner of a rich copper mino,
has celebrated in n rather peculiar man
ner the 200th anniversary of the mine
coming into possession of his family.
On that occasion each of his 300 or more
employes received as a memento of tho
occasion a awallow tail coat.
Tho daily rations of a pair of ostriches
on tho Fallbrook farm, San Diego
County, Cal., are forty pounds of beets
for breakfast, and for dinner a gallon or
two of grain. .For dessert tho birds aro
given bits of bone. "Gail Hamilton,"
tho prido of tho farm, is two years old
and stands nine feet five inches high.
Though tho Kiug of Dahomey, against
whom tho French in Africa are now at
war, is a very bloodthirsty person, whoso
favorite amusement consists in killing
his. subjects, ho appears to havo ad
vanced ideas on the equality of tho sexes.
His army is largely composed of femalo
warriors. In a recent battlo a number
of black nmazons were killed by tho
French.
An electrical instrument has been in
vcutod. which is designed to remove tho
pain iucidcntal'to tho extraction of teeth.
It consists of .adjustable prongs carrying
buttons and unuctcd with an electric
battery. Tho buttons aro placed on the
face over fJ nerves leading from the
teeth to the brain, and a circuit is estab
lished tho moment the extracting in
strument touches the tooth to be re
' moved. "' "
' '
According' .to" a . reroilicial return
tho length of the telegraph lines on tho
globe is at present about (500,000 miles,
or twenty-six times its circumference at
the equator. The length of wire is
1,088,880 miles, or eighty . times the
length of tho equator. Europo has tele
graph lines measuring 232,270 miles;
America! 176,246; Asin, 80,375; Aus
tralia, 26,053. and Africa, 1?,973. These.
are tho laud lines. There ure, besides,.
950 sub-marine cables of a, total leugth
of 112,701 nuutieal miles.
Japan isjoing to hold an ujposition
of her own in the Uyeno Park Tokio,
this year. It is not to bo on thcworld'a
fair order, however; Government exhib
its aside, only Japanese products and
works will bo exhibited. None the less
it promises to be a show well worth see
ing. There are to be eight departments
or sections flno arts, agriculture, horti
culture, live stock, sea food, forestry,
mineralogy, metallurgy and machinery.
Ample accommodations for visitors, iu
the way of hotels and restaurants are.
promised, as also reduced rales from San
Francisco and other points.
The white population of the Congo, iu
West Africa, is increasing nt quite a
rapid rate. Five years ago, after Stanley
had founded his statiors, there were only
about 200 white men engaged in the
various enterprises along the river. The
number has now increased to nearly BOO,
some of whom have lived on the river
nine or ten years. Tho gratifying thing
about it is that a fair average of health is
maintained among these colonists. The
fact would attract world-wide attention
if these pioneers wens having the ex
perience which, it is said, wus formerly
the fute of the Governors of Sierra Leone',
the old Governor invariably going home
in his cotiiu. while the new ollicial was
graveling to his field of labor,
ONLY A PAUPER.
Only the face of a pauper:
Eagerly pressing the window pane;
Heedless alike of the snow and the rain;
Watching the rich sit down to dine,
To their smoking meat and sparkling wine,
Hungrily eyeing the tempting fare,
With a look that bespeaks the heart's de
spair; Then turned again to the dismal street,
To the piercing wind and the stinging sleet
Only the face of a pauper.
Only the hands of a pauper:
Tremblingly clutching the tattered shawl;
Bloodless and numb are the Augers small.
Once they were rosy and plump and fair,
A baby's fingers, untouched by care;
Little more than an infant's now
Are the slim hands pressed to the throbbing
brow,
As with feeble steps she totters on,
To be jostled and pushed by the heartless
the hands of a pauper.
Only the feet of a pauper:
Bleeding and bruised by the Icy stone,
Shoes and stockings are all unknown,
Senseless now to the freezing air,
As she hurries on, she knows not where;
On through the streets unshod they roam.
Sheltered no more by the warmth of home;
While the fierce wind roars, and the storm
beats wild
On the ill-clad form of the shrinking child
Only the feet of a pauper.
Only theory of a pauper:
Wrung from the lips by the heart's deep
woe,
As the frail form sinks in the drifting snow.
Drowned at once by the shrieking gale,
All unheard is that feebl wail.
Yet He who rule from His throne on high,
Who heareth even the raven's cry,
Think ye not He hath caught the note.
That rose from the dying wanderer's
throat?
Only the cry of a pauper.
Only the soul of a pauper:
Freed at last from Its earthly thrall,
Rising up at its Maker's call,
Leaving forever the want and woe.
The pain ano "Itache it knew below,
Borne m1"'fim blissful shore.
Where cold and hunger shall pinch no more;
Through the white gates of the city of love,
Into the presence of Ood above,
Floateth the soul of a pauper.
.Mortimer C. Drown, in 1'anfcee Blade.
AN UNEQUAL PARTNERSHIP.
Never dawned a brighter morning than
that which ushered in Kay Huntington
wedding day. Never throbbed a happier
heart than that of tho fair girl who, for
saking home and friends, vowed to love,
honor and obey him "until death do us
part."
"Slio was tho belle of tho village, and
ought to have had her choice among us
all," exclaimed Carl Trenton, who,
everybody knew, had been refused by
the bride at least half a dozen times.
"He is so handsome, and rich, too,
they say. Really Nell Alden has done
remarkably well," said more than one.
envious maiden.
Hay Huntington, although bo was not a
rich man, was advancing rapidly on the
road to wealth. As he was a lawyer in
a distant city, tho wedded pair nt once
went to tho home which bo had provided
there, a modest cottage in the suburbs,
very plainly furnished, but as beautiful
as apalace iu the eyes of the loving
bride.
"We shall be away from the disagreea
ble and bustle, dcareW," said Ray, un
easily. "I can lunch Roger and
Allen's, and bo home for an early tea,
except, perhaps, in very busy seasons.
Besides, I got this place at a bargain
it costs dreadfully to rent and wo must
really economize in every way possible.
We must creep before we can walk,
Nellie."
"I am sure everything is as nice as it
can be," said tho wite. "It is much
better than being right in tho city. I
am sure that 1 should bo crazy in a week
there."
"I don't doubt it," returned tho re
lieved husband. "But you will not be
bothered here at all. I. will attend to
the marketing each day as I go to town,
and we will have a quiet little home of
out own." .
That was the beginuiug, Nay Hunt
ington's boasted creed was that marriago
was simply a partnership of two con
genial souls; a blending of two lives
into a perfect whole, whose thoughts,
whoso aims, whose energies, were one.
That was all very well, if - our legal
friend hud lived up to his professed be
lief. But, like many others, he pro
fessed ono thing and lived another.
While he often declared that a man and
his wife were one, tiis daily lifo added
.most emphatically, "and the man is that
one.
Pretty Nellie was not long in discover
ing that fact, and, although grieved that
her exalted idol pruj to be but com
mon clay after all, she made the best of
lite as she found it, and succeeded iu
eking out the scanty allowance which
was grudgingly given to an extent which
surprised and delighted him.
"It isn't every man has a wio like
mine," he often said to a friend, but
never a word of praise to the toiling wife
herself.
What wonder that the roses iu Nellie's
cheeks gave place to colorless lilies, aud
"crows' feet" multiplied in the fair face
as added claims taxed her strength and
ecououi Jb Tiny feet pattered here and
there ; Jy voices uiude the sweetest of
all ui I to her mother heart, and the
addeilSftiuibcrs brought added labor to
the patient mother.
Ray Huntiugtou was recognized ty the
world by his world, in which his wife
had no part as a successful man. Ho
attended his clubs, and dressed in a man
ner befitting his station, whilo his wife
wore shabby calico.
"Because I must, my dear; you do not
understand," be explained, when she
gently chided hiiu for some extravagant
outlay. "It is quite necessary that one
iu my position should do so. I heard it
hinted that 1 was to run for mayor next
year. Think of that, my dear."
And the uncomplaining woman did
think of tho proposed honor thought of
it with added dread as she toiled in tho
kitchen with no help except an ignorant
Swcdo girl, whoso chief recommendation
was her patient love for the littles ones
Once she ventured to suggest an al
lowance for family u-ic, as the busy law
yer often forgot to order tho neccsRary
articles, but she was'mct with indignant
surprise.
"Women know nothing about spend
ing money. Nellie, I am surprisedI
will attend to it. What! Grotchcn wants
more money? Wasn't it last week that
I gave you two dollars far her?"
"Yes, but she has been hero four
weeks. Wa owe her five dollar now,"
Nellie began with ajinivm face) then
she went on desperately, "mother wrote
mo that sho was going to visit us next
month. Sho has never been herenever
seen our rhihfccn. Charlie must have
new shoes and clothes; baby needs new
flannels, and and this is the best dress
I havo in tho world. You would not
want mo to feel ashamed to welcome my
own dear mother, Hay?"'
"How much money do you want?" he
asked frigidly.
"Fifty dollars, at ltfast, to make us
comfortablo and respectable," she re
plied with painful hesitation.
"Fifty dollars 1 I am not made of
money 1" ho exclaimed, even while his
faithful conscience reminded him that ho
had paid more than that for a club
dinner tho week before, and paid it with
a willing smile. "Hero, this must do,"
and he counted out four five-dollar bills
into her hand.
With ono startled, indignant glance,
the wife's hand shut convulsively over
tho money, and she left the room hastily.
"She will make that do," muttered
her husband, uneasily, wntchiug her.
"Next time I will give her more, and I
really think I will call at Blankton's and
order one of those new silks-"
The silk came, and Nellie smiled bit
terly as she laid it in the corner of her
bureau drawer.
Charlie rejqjcod in new clothes and
reaj "boys' boots;" baby wore soft now
flannels, Grctchen was paid, but there
was nothing left to replenish the mother's
wardrobe.
One evening Ray Huntington 'Teturned
to find his well ordered house in confu
sion. Baby had cried herself to sleep,
while Charlie was crying softly by the
chamber door, where Gretchen was vain
ly trying to quiet the fever-stricken
mother.
"Oh, papa, will my boo'ful mamma
die? Say, papa, will sho die?" wailed
Charlie, creeping timidly to his father's
side.
Gretcheu looked up wofully as ho en
tered. "I will do it in a moment. Ray!" cried
Nellie, with crimson checks and strangely
bright eyes. "I only stopped to rest for
a moment, my my head feels so quecrly ;
but I will get your tea at once."
"Lie still, dearest," he said more
gently than he had spoken for many
mouths. "Gretchen, take this note to
Doctor Davis, and call as you come back
R
aud ask Mrs. Hull if she will run jn for
few moments."
Doctor Davis came, a gray-haired man
who had read many of this world's les
sons aright.
"Overwork, my dear sir. System
completely run down. I have noticed it.
No help but that raw Swede girl willing
enough, but not capable, sir. Men don't
know tho value of good wives until they
lose them," said the old man, bluntly.
"You don't think she my wife
Nellie will die?" cried the startled
lawyer.
'Perhaps not hope not. But she is
worked out, and the worst of it is she
will carry her worry and trouble with
her through her delirium. What is this
about partnership, Huntington? I have
heard you define marriage often enough.
How have you used this partner of yours?
Have you shared the profits honestly?
I'd like to have you compare accounts;
you will have time enough before your
wife gets up.again. . I suppose she has a
mother? Send for her at once. Yes,
yes, I'll bo round in the morning, but
more depends upon loving care than upon
me; mini, I said loving care. Good
night, sir."
In the weary time of anxious waitiug,
Huntington learned a new meaning of
his favorite creed. In her delirium Nel
lie told him many things which she
woigd never have mentioned in' her ra
tional moments.
At fast there came a day when the lit
tle cottage was as silent as death ; when
the dread angel hovered on the threshold,
then passed mercifully by; when a hu
man flower bloomed but to perish, and a
tiny life went out with its first glimpse of
earth.
"Yes, she will live," said good Doctor
Davis, suspiciously wiping his glasses.
"You have learned your lesson easier
. it .....
than many men do, Huntington, for you ,
will have your wife again. If you love I
her, cherish her, manlmake her happy.
ou i.f ei, u. .
She is vour partner in life. She has com
mon sense, I suppose? Wall, then, allow
her her sharo of the profits. Never let
her be ashamed of her husbanV mauuer.
I am a blunt old man, but
-an well.
I have seeu much of this iV sided part
nership business among iitnied people.
Your wife has as much right to her share
of your income as you have. I hoe you're
nut offended, but I'm glud 1 hud the
courage to give you something to think
about. Keep up the loving care, Hunt
ington, and your wife will be arouud in
a mouth."
That month was one of pleasure and
sorrow to the repentant husband, but be
had resolved upon a new course of ac
tion, and as they sat at the table on New
Year's Eve, he said tenderly :
-'It was kind of the mother to leave
us to begin tho new yeur together,
Nellie; it shall bo the beginning of anew
lifo for us. Henceforth my 'partner' is
au equal with myself. The household is
your brunch of the business. I will see
that you have tutficient funds to cover
all expenses in a creditable way. My
wife shall never again feel ashamed be
cause of my stinginess."
' I never was thut," Nellie protested,
! lovullv.
"Perhaps you were uot sensible of it, j
but tho feeling was there just the same,''
replied her husband firmly. "It shall
never happen again: Td:morr0w the firm
of HilntingtOrt arid Wife1 begins Anew, and
orl ftalilTerent basUi I Will cherish my
family hereafter."
And happy years have proved tho truth
of his vow.
. The Trade in Adulterations,
Of all tho dishonest trades, the most
interesting is that which supplies tho ma
terials used in adulterating or imitating
legitimate articles of commerce. I
dropped into one not far from Chatham
Square, and was astonished to see lia
ingenuity and scientific skill displayed,
as welt as the large amount of business
done. It destroyed many romances to
have the proprietor pour upon a piece of
tissue paper a few drops of "Havana Ex
tract"' and produce a cigarette worthy of
Honradcz, or mixed raw spirits, burnt
sugar and oil of olard and have a very
palatable brandy.
I asked the proprietor who were his
chief customers. He said :
"All and every sort of people. Candy,
makers are larwo buyers. They want
imitation flavors for their cheap, so-called
'French confectionery'. Cigarmakefs use
immense quantities of 'Havana Extract'
while tobacconists that article and Turk
ish oil. Liquor dealers both wholesale
and retail are tho heaviest purchasers,
using vast quantities of preparations to
'age,' blend and improve their goods.
Spice mi l who grind cocoanut shells
into black pepper and cigar boxes into
cinnamon, consume the extracts of these
genuine articles or else imitations of them.
Of course we ask no questions, and
generally we want cash down or else sell
C. O. D. A'fW York Star.
The Eyes of tho Mole.
Carl Hess, the German naturalift, has
proved by minute mUroscopical investi
gation that the eye of the mole is per
fectly capable of seeing, and that it is
not short-sighted, as another naturalist
woul(l havo us believe. Hess maintains
that, in spite of its minute dimensions
1 millimeter by 0.9 millimeter the eye
of this little creature possesses all the
necessary properties for seeing that the
most highly developed eyes does, that it
i3, indeed, as well suited for seeing as
the eyes of any other mammal, and that
in the matter of refraction it does not
differ from tho normal eye. In order to
bear out tho theory of short-sightedness,
the physiological reason was adduced
that in its subterranean runs the mole is
accustomed to see things at close dis
tances, and that 'its eye had become
gradually suited to near objects. But to
this Hess objects that the mole when
under ground most probably makes no
use of his eyes at all, as it would be im
possible to seo anything, owing to the
absence of light, but that when he comes
to the surface, aud especially when he
is swimming, he docs use his eyes. Iu
order to accomplish this, he only has to
alter the erect position of the hairs which
surround and cover his eyes, and which
prevent the entry or dirt wncn ne is under
ru - round. and at the same time to nrotrude
his eyes forward. Nature.
Iesber Dust. ,
Ouo of tho most interesting contribu
tions of Professor Nordcnskjold to popu
lar science is his examination before
reaching Parry's Island, to the northwest
of Spitzbergea of tho snow which cov
ered the icebergs, aud which had como
from still higher latitudes. He found it
strcwu with a multitude of minute black
particles, spread over the surface or situ
ated at the bottom of little pits, a greiyt
nuraoer of which were to be seen on the
outer layer of snow ; many of such parti
cles were also lodged in the lower strata.
The dust, which became gray on drying,
the Professor found to contain a large
proportion of mctalic particles attracted
by tho magnate, and capable of decom
posing sulphate of copper. An observa
tion made a little latei upon other ice
bergs proved the presence of similar dust
in a layer of granular crystaline snow
situated beneath a stratum of light fresh
snow, and another of hardened snow.
Vpon analysis, Professor Nordenskjold
found this matter to bo composed in
varying proportions of metalic iron,
phosphorus, cobalt antl fragments of
Dintomaces.
Vegetarians.
A chat with the keeper of a vegetarian
restaurant revealed the fact that he fed
about two hundred people every 'day.
There is something enticing about the
appearance of a vegetarian restaurant.
Whatever may be thought of the fare,
the place, is always clean, and there are
none of thoso very suggestive smells that
are often too prevailing in places where
the carnivori meet. The waitresses are
generally neat and trim, too. The cus
loiueia at, mis re&iaurttut ure i
. . , . ,
makers 8Ud shopkeepers ass.s
rhl" twenty-hve per cent are w,
1 he manager said he didu t think
tomers at this restaurant are chiefly
assistants.
women.
there
were many among his customers who
were vegeturiaus from conviction. "They
come here for cheapness aud change,"
ho said. "Some are here every day;
others come three or four times a week.
The average price a man pays for a vege
tnriau dinner is lOd. ; but tho women
only average 6d." The manager udded
thut if there were auy complaints they
always came from women. J'all Mall
Oazette.
A Remedy for Burns.
The celebrated Germun remody for
burns consists of fifteen ounces of the
best white glue, broken into small pieces,
iu two pints of water, aud allowed to
become soft; ihen dissolve it by means
of a water bath aud add two ounces of
glycerine aud six drams of carbolic acid;
continue the heat until thoroughly dis
solved. On cooling this hardens to an
elastic muss, covered with a shining,
parchment-like skin, ajjd may be kept
for any leugth of time. When required
for use it is placed for a few minutes in
a witter buth until sufficiently liquid aud
applied by means of a broad bruxh; it
lonus iu ubout two minutes a shiuing,
smooth, flvxible and nearly transparent
skin.
A Elf COLONY OF CROWS.
HOW THEY WERE DltrVEH AWAT
AND THEN COAXED BACK,
The Illrcl Jlnvinff Vanished, Grub
Increased Tho Crown Brought
Hack, Slaughter the Grubs.
The crow is so universally looked upon
as a sortof vermin which no pains should
be spared to rid every community of,
that it will be hard for most people to
believe there is at least ono spot where
he is not only made a welcome
visitor, but to which he wa. actually
coaxed and begged to return, Jifter hav
ing been driven away by years of merci
less persecution. That spot is tho por
tion of Edgar County, III., known as
Aihmorc'a Grove. Twenty years ago
there had never been many crows in that
vicinity, but one season about that time
they began to arrive in countless num
bers. There seemed to be no end to their
coming. They occupied every piece of
woods for miles around, and it was esti
mated that the colony contained not less
than 500,000 of what the farmers sup
posed were winged marauders. It is
rich prairie land out there, and sixty
bushels of corn to tho acre was not too
much to expect as an average yield.
Naturally, everybody believed that this
great army of crows had heard of that
garden spot, and had marched upon it to
devastate the newly planted fields, and
leave ruin and famine in their wake, so
men, women, and children organized in
a systematic campaign against the black
destroyers. They were hunted in their
roosts, they were trapped, they were
poisoned, and they were even pursued by
fire, tho torch being applied at night to
woods where they roosted, and the loca
tion of which did not endanger other
property. Thousands of crows were
killed every night, but still the survivors
of the colony lingered in the locality and
swarmed upon the. fields.
Tho farmers of Edgar County noticed
another new visitor that season a grub
that not only attacked tho roots of tho
young corn, but also played havoc with
the grass. Tho farmers bemoaned these
disastrous visitations greatly, for it never
occurred to them that the crow was
among them for any other purpose than
evil. So the warefaro on the crow was
carried on with merciless vigor, and the
next season thero was a very decided de
crease in the crow colony. It grew
smaller and smaller year by year, until
only a few wild and straggling flocks put
in an appearance. .
During all this timo the yield of corn
per acre had gradually decreased, and
the crow was credited with being the
principal cause of the loss. The grub
was still at work, but the farmers had no
idea that they were not able to handle
him. But tho first season the crows
failed to appear the yield of corn was
smaller than it had ever been, and the
season was ono of the most favorable for
corn in the history of the country. Some
of .the fanners went to thinking. The
grub increased in numbers. The com
crop kept on growing less and less, until
ten bushels to the aero was as big a yield
as that rich prairio bottom would return
and the crows had not been permitted to
get another foothold in the region either.
Then .the thinking farmers made up their
minds that the rcasc the crows had put
in such a large and sudden appearance
at Ashmore's Grove a few years before was
that they had simply followed the wake of
the grubs, and had como to feed on that
irrepressible pest, and then the com
munity felt like kicking itself clear out
of the State. They went to work to try
and get the crows back again. They
sent clear to tho Wabash country, where
tho biggest crow roost on top of earth
is located, and had thousands of crows
captured and forwarded to them. These
were released at Ashmore's Grove, and
finding everything pleasant and peaceful
there the crows remained. More than
that, news of the situation must have
been communicated by these crows to
others, for ia a few weeks there were
more crows in that locality than had been
known for. years. The next season some
thing like the old-time colony took up
its quarters in the woods, and that fall
the biggest crop of corn that had been
known iu the region for five years was
gathered. Nobody disturbed the crows,
and the man who would have dared to
molest one arouud Ashmore's Grove would
have been lynched. In four years that
prairio was raising sixty bushels to the
acre again, and the blue grass was back
to its old yield. As the corn crop in
creased the number of crows that made
their home thereabout decreased. Thai
was because they had lessened tho grub
crop, so that there was. no use for so
large a force to work there, aud they
went to other fields of usefulness. But
thero have always been enough crows
around Ashmore's to keep down the
grubs, and what com the big birds eat
by way of dessert is not half what the
farmers consider that they earn us a
premium for the good they do. And
there is one thing certain : It won't be
well for any oue who goes, out into that
part of Edgar County and says hard
things against the crow. Aei York Hun.
They Mysteriously Died.
Three or four years ago young Adam
Forepaugh, the son of the lute showman,
was over in London. He had spent
about 10,000, nnd didn't dare ask foV
any more money so he wired over to his
father that he had a great chance to get
some new attractions for the show. Ho
said that he could get two monkeys thut
were larger than horses for 5000. The
showman congratulated himself 'on
huviug such a smart boy, and cabled him
the money. He was telling every one
about his new attractions, and if any one
doubted the reality of the alleged big
moukeys ho would answer angrily,
"Pshaw! What do you know about the
interior of Africa? Of course they have
monks there as big as horses."' Next
day came a cablegram saying: "Money
received; monks dead; much obliged
pup." Tho old showman never could'
tauda joke about monkeys u,ftr that..
ChicMjo JleralU. . -' -
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
HAKXtNO CtOTttES.
It is of essential importance that
clothes should be marked and numbered.'
This is often done with ink ; but as some
persons liko to mark with silk, we shall
describe the stitch. Two threads are to
be taken each way of the cloth, and the
needle must be passed three way in or
der that the stitch may b complete. Tho
first is aslant from the person toward the
right hand ; the second is downward to
ward you, and tho third is tho reverse of
the first that is, aslant from you toward
the left hand. The neecflo is to be
brought out at the corner of the stitch
nearest to that you are about to make.
The shapes of the letters or figures can be
learned from an inspection of any com
mon examples. Obntrner.
WASTEFUL ECONOMY IN THE .KITCHEN.
"Many a young wife," said a motherly
woman the "other day, "would find the
wheels of her household moving much
more smoothly if she would spend a little
less money on the furnishing of her
drawing-room nnd devote it, instead, to
supplying her kitchen with lnbor-saving
appliances and plenty of utensils. Econ
omy in kitchen utensils may easily be
pushed too far, and if there is another
place where a woman may be more read
ily excused than another for extravagance
it is just there.
"To have to stop in the mUdle of
making a dessert in order to clean a
saucepan or a kettle in which the soup
had been prepared, because you have not
another, is folly when soup kettles can
bo had for twenty-five cents each. To
have your kitchen knives of such poor
metal that they will not stay sharp, or to
let a good knife remain dull because you
think you cannot afford to spend ten
cents to have it sharpened, is a real waste
of strength out of all proportion to tho
snviug. To have nothing by which you
cau measure vour ingredients accurately,
because it costs more to buy a set of
weights or a graduated glass measure
than to trust to guess-work and au old
tea cup, has spoiled many a good dish
that cost just as much and has brought
humiliation on many a good cook. To
scrape your porridge pot with a spoon
because you will not buy a patent pot
scraper for twelve cents wears out ten
spoons to one pot-scraper, and the hired
girl invariably selects your best spoon for
that purpose. Sifung the coal ashes is
such a dirty business as it is usually per
formed and the servant kicks against it
so vigorously that the most economical
housekeeper soon abandons it in despair.
A patent ash-sifter that allows no dust to
escape nnd preserves all the half-burned
coal will pay ior itself in one winter and
last five. A cheap refrigerator can be
had for one-third the cost of a good one
of the same size, but if you buy it your
ice-bill will be twice as large.
"There is hardly anything in the
kitchen of which there are not two varie
ties, the cheap and the dear, and the re
sult of the use of either is generally its
exact opposite in actual cash. But in
comfort to one's self and to one's husband
and children, a saviug of time, temper,
brain-worry, and back-ache, they repay
their own cost many times over every
week." ATcte York Tribune.
I1ECIPES.
Rice Fritters Three tablespoons ol
rice, four eggs, one teacup of currants,
sugar and nutmeg to suit the taste; boil
rice gently until swelled; dredge cur
rants with flour; beat eggs: mix all to
gether thoroughly and fry.
Hermits One cup of maple sugar, one
half cup each of butter, and sour cream,
one egg, one-half teasspoonful of soda,
one tcaspoonful each of cloves cinnamon
and nutmeg, aud one cup of chopped
raisins. Knead as littlo as possible. Bake
like cookies.
Curried Eggs Heat a pint of milk;
add to it two teaspooufuls of curry pow
der, rubbed smooth iu a littlo cold milk ;
let simmer, and thicken with a tcaspoon
ful of corn starch rubbed with the sauce
of butter; boil six eggs hard, cut them
in slices and lay in the sauce; let them
stand over the tire until heated.
Mutton Chops Larded Beat chops flat
and lard them with salt pork. Put in
a saucepan, sprinkle with minced onions,
pepper aud salt. Cover with soup stock
aud let simmer one hour; thicken the
gravy with' browned flour, add the juice
of a lemou, one spoonful of mushroom
catsup and a wine-glass of currant jelly.
Lay the chops in a dish and pour the
gruvy over.
Serving Bananas To make a salad of
bananas slice half a dozen aud put in a
dish with layers of as many orauges also
sliced. Over nil squeeze the juice of a
lemou aud sprinkle plentifully with pow
dered sugar. Serve very cold. Any deli
icuto cake baked iu layers aud put to
gether with layers of bananas sliced very
thin will make a choice dessert. The
cuke should be served with sweetened
whipped cream or it will be too dry tobt
palatable.
Boiled Chicken with Oyster i Pre
pare the chicken as for roasting, adding
chopped oysters to the stuffing. Put the
fowl in a tin pail, tightly covered, and
place the pail iu a pot of cold water.
Boil for It or two hours, as required.
Make a gravy from the liquor iu the puil,
adding to it soino of the oysters. Take
a half dozen of the largest oysters cooked
until the edges curl aud lay over the
chicken. Put over it a little of the
gruvy, and serve the rest in a bowl.
Duck with Turnips Place in a stew
pan a tublespoouful of flour and twe
tublespoonfuls of butter; let the floui
brown slightly, then put iu a duck thai
has been stulfcd with an onion dressing,
turn it about iu this flour aud butter,
then add half a pint of water and a gill
of white wine, add pepper, nutmeg aud
savory, cover the stewpan closely aud
cook slowly. Wheu the duck is about
half done add two tuinips cut iuto balls.
When the duck is done, place it on a
deep platter, skim the gravy well, add a
little thickening, pour the gruvy and
turnips urouud tht duck and serve with
pieces of fried toast and currant jelly.
A MEMORY.
My heart Is far away to-night
Bevond the blue of the southern seas.
Where the world lies wrapped in mystic
lieht
And the red rose sighs in the hush of night
To her ardent lover, the braeze.
Where the pale acacia trembles aud show
ers
Its petals of perfumed enow on the stream
That hurries over it rock-bound bed;
Where the jasmine lifts its guidon head
And the poppies nod and dream.
Where the purplo fox-glove hide the bee
That drowsily, heavily drones and hums;
Where tho silvery waves break on the onl,
And the sea nymphs dsnce on the coral
strand
When the hour of midnight comes.
And I see his face and I hear hia voice;
Mr oriuce. with the shining, soul-lit eyes;
And I feel his arms about me twine.
And the warmth of his perfect Hps on mine,
'Neath the dust or the soutnern saies.
And oh, I am sad and lone tonight, .
And my heart Is full of a lingering pain,
And I list where the lilies breathe and move.
For the tender, passionate whisper of love
1 shall never hear again.
H'aj7itifton Pott.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Tho office-hunter knows no close sca-
son.
There is one thing the hardware dealer
always has on hand nails. Boston
Bulletin.
Isn't it rather remarkable that "tho
oldest inhabitant" is never a woman?
Waihington Star. "
"All the world loves n lover" except
the young lady's father and tho dog.
Burlington Free Pre.it.
It is unfortunate for a shoemaker when
his customers aro unable to foot their
bills. Ifew Orltam Pienyune.
"There's one of your patent fire-escapes,"
said the traveler as a tinder from
the locomotive struck him in tho eye.
Home Sentinel.
Wife (groaning with neuralgia) "Oh,
how my jaw aches ! It almost drives me
crazy!" Husband (significantly) "Think
of me my dear."
"Say, mamma," asked a sweet young
miss of five, "why do peoplo have two
eas wheu they can only hear cno thing at
time?" Judje.
A household pnper tells how "to get
grcase'out of white marble." An easier
way is to get it out of tho butcher shop.
fiocheittr Pott-Erprtu.
The man who is always being found
out considers himself unfortunate, unless,
perhaps, it is the bill collector who hap
pens to find him out Statesman.
Patient (on a diet) "Doctor, I have
a strange craving for baked beans. Aro
they healthy?" Doctor "I never
treated any." Lawrence American.
At the Hotel. Traveler (sitting up in
bed, watch in hand) "Six o'clock, and
nobody comes to wake me. I shall be
sure to miss tho train.'' France Mode.
In the gloaming, oh, my darling,
Wheu I come thine eyes to see,
Tie the dog up, tie him tightly.
Then I'll fel it's safe for me.
I'hiUulelphia 'Jimti.
Will "I believe editors weigh care
fully all manuscripts sent to them." Bill
(an author) "Yes, iu order to ascertain
the amount of return postage uecessury."
Yankee Blade.
He (cautiously) "What would you
say, darling, if 1 should ask you plump
ly to bo my wife?" Darling (even more
cautiously j "Ask me nnd find out." Tai
Washington Star.
A New York doctor says that travel
ing on the railroad will cure dyspepsia.
This doctor never can have heard of the
railway ham sandwich. Pitleburg
Uhronicle-Tele'jraih.
Algy (who has more than UjSj1"
"Pooh! Riches have wipyg- j.'. Landors
Jack (who hasn't enough) erin, ItWil. Appeul
they're mighty Blow in tl; i"!1""-
fellow." Texa Sifting: J'Ji
. -V
A veteran soldier fight". ,
again. He is telling how c3j 9y
hy tne explosion oj, a such. r,v
he, "when I looked around Jr .
that I was blind
The average wife may say, "1 e
so" occasionally, but she is hk
(.nought not to remind her husband oi
the idiotic nonsense ho used to talk t
her ia their courtship days. SomtrtilU
Journal.
Trausient "Do yon thiuk there is
much of a field here for a dentist?"
Landlord "I should think so. There's
one uiun up ut the head of the street
that's got an ucher or two." Bing
hamton Leader.
"And whut has become of your son
Jiuuuie?" "Jimmie's gone iuto jour
nalism. " "Why, he is only ten years
old." "True fur you; but he sells forty
newspapers a day. He's a saiurt boy,
that Jiuuuie." B'tar.
Things one would rather have ex
pressed differently: Jones (nervously
conscious that he is interrupting a pleas
ant tete-a-tete) A "I'm sorry to say I've
been told to take you iu to supper, Miss
Belsizc 1" London Punch.
Churgit, '92 "Cau I have this put on
my account here?" Mr. Tick "Very
torry, air, but we dou't kuow you."
Chargit (making a trial elsewhere) "Put
this down for me, please. You kuow me,
1 believe?" Mr. Hungup "Most un
fortunately we do, sir. Sorry can't
accommodate vou. " Yah lUcord.
A Bus's Stent and Sl.'ht
Havt you ever thought how largely a
dog's "scent" really depend on his
sight! Note how confused he gets in
trying to follow his nose on a hard sur
face. Then watch how he stretches his
neck aud throws his head up. And finally
consider how the puzzled guide or huuter
geU down U take a dogVeye view of
the situation, whence every btut twig or
broken blade hecoiues plaiuly visible as
a pathway in the wilderness. -V- York
onotary.