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R EST B Explorer Stanley thinks thnt Africa will in the future become what America is to-day. A minister ot Boston says no fanner can be successful who doesn't work six teen hours a day. The adoption of "tool ties in place of wooden ones seems to bo one of the com ing reforms in railroad building. The Argentine Ill-public imports yearly over $100,000,000, and of this vast sum, the United s'tntes sell them less than seven per cent. There is an extraordinary increase of suicide and dueling in high military cir cles in Russia. The fashionable duel is fought at five paces with cavalry re volvers. It is estimated that $312,000,000 is invested annually in tho co-operative building associations in this country, and that these associations annually furnish 158,000 houses or homes to their mem ber. Tho newspapers of Louisiana, without regard to locality, almost solidly unite in demanding thut tho United States Government take charge of and maintain the levee system of ho Mississippi Hiver. The romafkable statement was recent ly made from the pulpit by au optimistic Boston clergymim thnt "there were never more beautiful women thnt now, and that Helens and Cleopatras arc pro duced by tho thousands." Tho burning of a Florida steamer is attributed to tho laziness of a watchman who attempted to fill a lighted coal oil lamp. The result was the loss of three lives and the destruction of the boat with all tho passengers' luggage. Tho New York Telegram declares that "a term in the penitentiary is the fit rcwari of such laziness. " Domcuico Cappeletto, a journalist of Padua, Italy, sent his newspaper an account of his own suicide and then shut himself in a room, lighted a charcoal fire and underwent asphyxiation. In a foot note ho advised the editor to print 100 extra copies, as ho thought there would be an unusual demand for the paper on account of his death. A Philadelphia barber -testifies that the use of leeches for black eyes is becom ing a thing of the past. This is not due so muchj lie says, to the growing uu popuUtrity of tho leech, as it is to the act that black eyes are much less fre quently seen than they used to be. Is this a good sign, muses the Chicago Herald, or docs it only point ?o the grow ing popularity of the revolver ! t In discussing tho best way to keep boys in high school the consensus of opinion at tho meeting of tho Northern Illinois Teachers' Association at Hock Island was that athletic sports should receive more encouragement. Farm, Field and Stockman ' suggests ! Why not substitute manual training or horti cultural pursuits! This would develop musclo and impart useful instruction at the samo time. It is worth remarking that tho Ger mans have never called Bismarck "The Iron Chancellor." Tho title is ono of French or British invention. Bismarck was called der Eiserno Graf after the battle of Sadown, and for years ho was known only as "The Iron Couut." But this title is said to have been given him in admiration of his nerve in himself arrestingBliude, who tried to assassinate him in the open street. In a case just disposed of the Supreme Court of Iudiaua has decided that a will made on Sunday is valid. It holds that the drafting and execution of a will nru akin to the execution of a marriage con tract and solemnizing the marriage. 'The statute," the Court notes, "makes it a penal offense to be louud engaged in common labor or iu one's usual avoca tion. It certainly could not be contended that a minister of the Gospel engaged in solemnizing a marriage on Sunday, or a lawyer employed in writing a will to be exeputed on Sunday, would bo subject to indictment and prosecution for a viola tion of the statute." There is just now a remarkable revival of the ship-building industry in tho State of Maine, announces the New Orleans Timet-Democrat. Yards, which long since fell into decay, have been brushed up and the symmetrical shape of u lure schooner or ship has appeared, and tho hum of building has taken the place of silence. After a careful review of the field it U concluded that the piesent sea son will rauk well up with any in the his tory of this industry iu that State, even in its uiot palmy days. While last year there was a marked increase iu building, this year will outrank it. This may be in part accounted for by the great ice boom and the additional number of but toms needed to move tho product. MAKE CHILDHOOD SWEET. Wait not till the little hands are at rest Ere you fill them full of flowers; Wait not for the crowning tuberose To make sweet the last sail hours, But while in the busy household band Your darlings still need your guiding hand, Oh fill their lives with sweetness! Wait not till the little hearts are still For the loving look of praise; But while you gently chide a fault, The good deed kindly praise. The word you would speak beside the bier Falls sweeter far on the living ear; Oh fill young lives with sweetness! Ah, what are kisses on cold clay lips To the rosy mouth we press, When our wee one flies to her mother's arms For love's tenderest caress ! It never a worldly babble keep Your heart from the joy each day should reap, Circling young lives with sweetness. Give thanks, each morn, for the sturdy boys, Give thanks for the fairy girls; With a dower of wealth like this at home, Would you rifle the earth for pearls? Wait not for Jjealh to gem Love's crown, Butdaily shower lifu's blessings down, And fill young hearts with sweetness. Itemcmber the homes whore the light has flod. Where the rose has faded away And the love that 'glows in youthful hearts, Oh cherish it while you may ! And make your home a garden of flowers. Where joy shall bloom through cliildhood's hours, And fill young hearts with sweetneas. -Daughters of America. DOROTHY'S PET, BY IIKF.EN FOHKK8? OKAVES . "Oh, Neddy, you dear fellow, you love mo, if no one else iioesl Kiss mc, dar ling! Bight on the mouth!" An old red barn, settled in a one-sided inaniier,down among the tall whito dais ies and clustering red clover-tops, as one sometimes sees au old wreck settled heavily among the drifted scasauds a monster pine tree spreading its green leaves above, the July sunshino steeping all the hills with yellow glory, and Colo nel Crowninshield. standing, in a bewil dered manner, just where the farm lane opened, amid a tangle of elderberry bushes and blackberry briers, into' the dusty high road this is tho opening scene. Colonel Crowninshield had been walk ing rapidly ; the black riugs of hair curled around his temples and the dews dotted his forehead. Iu his cool summer dress of white linen, his broad-brimmed Panama hat and tho knotted bamboo cane which he carried, he looked like tho pictures of a Southern planter hand some, slim and middle-aged. "Whom on earth is she talking tot" j he asked himself, as the clear, distinct utterances of Dorothy Emmcrick caught his ear. The color rose to his temples ; a som bre, jealous light glittered into his eyes. "Wish me good luck, Ned !" the sweet voice once more spoke. "I've told you about it but no one else shall know. You love mc, Ned, dou't you?" "It's that good-for-nothing sailor sweetheart of hers, come back from South Africa, unkuown to her parents!" thought the Colonel. "Ought I to in terfere? She is so young and inexperi enced, and No, Hal Crowninshield, old fellow," ho added, setting his strong white teeth together. "Do you happen to know, you Paul Pry, what the elev enth commandment is? Well, it is 'Mind your own business !' Dorothy Emmcrick is only nineteen ; you are seven-and-thir-ty. Leave her to associate with those of her own age and go you into the society of your own mature cronies! Yet it would be something to hear her Bweot foieo uttering words like that to you." And ho walked on, ruthlessly cutting off the white daisies with his cauc, as he made his way up to tho house. Five minutes later Dorothy now in at the back door, a simplo straw toque cov ering her sunshiny curls, a muslin scarf wrapped around her shoulders. "Give ine the package, Pumcla," said she. "(Juick! I'm late already for the train. And if I have good luck, you shall have ft striped shawl, and Noddy shall have such a new saddle aud bridle !" The old servant smiled doubtfully as she gave a small, flat parcel into tho eager girl's hands. "You're fairly daft about that stub born-tempered gray donkey, Miss Doro thy," said she, "as your pa says ain't safe for auy woman to ride. All the same, I hopo you'll have good luck, even if it wasn t for the striped suuwl tuat I in to have." It was lato iu tho afternoon when Dorothy came slowly up the winding path that led under bowery apple trees, and past a thicket of tall poles garlanded with hop-vines, to the kiteheu door. All tho brightness had gone out of her face; tho color had concentrated itself into two inteuse, burning spots on her cheeks, aud there was a troubled quiver in her lips. Old Pamela read her couuteuauce as if it had been an open book. "No luck, eh:" said she. Dorothy, "No luck at all!" cried almost fiercely. "But what did you do with the piiturc?" "I threw it over the edge of Quarry Cliff as I camo heme from the train," admitted Dorothy. "Oh, it did me good to hear it crash down among the limestone boulders! Tho idea of my ever presuming to think that I could be au artist ! And you'll have to wear your old shawl, Pamela; aud poor, poor little Neddy will have no new bridle aud saddle!" And Dorothy burst iuto a tempest of tears, and ran headlong out to the tumble-down old barn, behind which the sun was setting gloriously. "I'll tell Neddy all about it!" cried she. "I always feci belter after a good cry on dear little Neddy's gray neck!" "But, Miss Dorothy " The gardeu gate slammed so violently that tho tall red lilies shook as if in a cyclone, Dorothy was gone. "I said at the time it was a mean thing to do," muttered Pamela, Jan gling her dishes noisily togctlier, "and I'll keep on saying it till tho year o' doom. She loves that little gray donkey they've crowed un together. Mrs. Emmcrick and she'll rake it awful hard when she finds he's gone." "Rut it was such a good offer," said Dorothy's mother a pale, pink-eyed, washed-out specimen of humanity--who sat at a table, shelling peas, "and really tho beast was unsafo for a woman to ride." "Never unsafe for Miss Dot," said Pnmelu, beating savagely away at a bowl of egg. "If ever two crceturs under stood and loved each other, it was her and Neddy." "And Mr. Emmerick needed the money," added tho lady, conclusively. "It was really a foolish extravagance for us to keep tho animal. Dorothy is quite ablo to walk where she wants to go." "All tho same," persisted Pamela, "it was a cruel thing to sell the creeter while she was gone." "Sold!" gasped Dorothy, when at last she realized why tho little gray donkey's stall was empty, the bars leading to the highroad let down. "My Neddy! Mother, why didn't you sell me? But Til buy him back again, see if I dou't! Didn't you know that Neddy never could bo happy away from mc? Like a whirlwind she rushed ncrossthe fields to where the Crowninshield man sion stood grandly up against tho criiu son sunset sky. "Colonel Harold," said she, panting and breathless, "you are rich! Will you lend me some money? 1 can t pay it back just yot but I will some day 1 11 work hard and earn it. 1 11 sid.'u a note, or give a mortgage or something; but oh, please lend me &100 to-day. Colonel Crowninshield was sitting at his desk, writing. lie rose and drew forward a chair, but Dorothy was by far too much excited to sent herself. "It's to buy back my dear little gray donkey," explained she. "Papa has sold him, and I do love him so dearly ! Oh, I never, never could part with him. And I don't know of any one who has money enough to lend me to redeem him with except you." Colonel Crowninshield hesitated a sec ond ; then he opened his pocketbook and drew out a crisp, new one-hundred-dol-lar bill. Dorothy grasped it as a starving whito kitten might grasp at food. "I never saw a one-hundrcd-dollar bill before," said she. "Oh, thank yob thank you so much. But I was sure you would be kind to me." "May I ask you a question?" said ho. "As many as you please," she au swered. "Why didn't you ask Edward Sellcck for the money?" Dorothy looked up at hiin with blue, wide-open eyes. "Edward Selleck? Why should I ask him? How could I ask him? Isn't he cruising somewhere around tho coast of New South Wales? And Edward belleck, poor fellow, never had a hundred cents of his own, much less a hundred dollars." Colonel Crowninshield colored. "I beg your pardon!" said he. "I had an idea you were engaged tD him that he had returned from his cruise." "Icngaged to Teddy Selleck? Never!" "Wasn't it to him you were talking this morning iu tho red barn?" Dorothy thought a minute. Then she burst into a merry peal of laughter. "Oh, I remember now?" cried she. "I was thinking out loud to dear little gray Neddy, the donkey. I often do that. Ho looks at me just exactly as if he under stood me. But mother says it's a very silly habit of mine, and now I see that she is right. And you you thought I was talking to a man?" The sudden scarlet flared up to her temples, her bluo eyes corruscated like old mine diamonds. She flung back the hundred dollar bill to hiin. "Take it!" she cried. "I won't have it now !" "The little donkey! Ah," exclaimed tho Colonel, "I see it now! What a tool, what a dolt I have been ! No, Dor othy ; you shall not go until you say you have forgiven mc. And I am the culprit after all. It was I who bought the gray donkey. I never supposed that you cared for hiin. If I had But, Dorothy, look here! He threw open a casement draped with pale yellow Japanes.0 silk, aud just below the terrace steps she saw her little favor ite feeding in the plush-like thickness of tho soft, green grass. "It was to be a playmate for my sis ter's children when they came here in August," said he, "but I comprehend now how cruel it would bo to part you. lie is yours once more." "I won't tako him!" stoutly reiterated Dorothy. "I I am so ashamed to think I asked you for that money." "Why, Dorothy? Canuot you trust me?" "Oh, Icau, I can!" she cried, feivent ly. "I think you must be like Sir Launcelot, or cveu King Arthur himself, j Colonel Herold a 'chevalier without feai and without reproach!' I could trust j you with anything!" I "Witl anything?" He advanced a step or two aud held out his hands cn ' treatiugly. "Well, then, I'll try you? Will you trust me with yourself! Oh, little Dorothy, you don't know how truly aud teuderly I love you! how earnestly I would strive to make your life a dream of happiness! Darling, what is your answer to be? It is true that, compared with you, I am un old man, but "You are not old!" cried Dorothy, iu diguautly. "You're just fpleudid! And I know I'm only a silly child, but she came shyly to hiin, anil hid her lace on his shoulder as she spoke "when I said 1 could trust vou with anything I meant it all?" So they became engaged, little Dorothy and stately Harold Crowninshield. "But I never shall forget," said the Colonel, smilingly, "how jealous I was wlim I fancied I heard you talking to that discarded sailor love of yours, when, after all, it was only little gray Neddy?" "You'll never be jealous again?" said Dorothy, caressing the plump, mouse colored quadruped who was nipping whito clovcl-heads at her fect. "Never of Neddy, at all events,'' ho answered. Saturday Right. Cannon Marie of Leather. "Let me give you a bit of history," paid a downtown leather merchant the other day, "that many a student, has overlooked. The objects of peace are not all that leather figures in, for it is to leather that we owe the introduction of light artillery. Leather cannon have actually been tried on the battlefield, and, Vhnt is more, turned the tido of one of the greatest battles of modern times. The inventor of leathern artillery was n certain Colonel Kobcrt Scott, a Scotchman in the service of Charles I., of England. "Ho constructed guns of hardened leather aud experimentally tried them. The result was that they were pronounced superior to guns of brass or iron. But the Colonel did not livo long to enjoy the greatest triumph of his invention. He died in 1631, and a monument erected to his memory I have seen in a churchyard in London. This monument represents him as an armor-clad, fierce-looking man wearing a heavy mustache and pointed beard. "In the very year of the Colonel's death the effectiveness of his leathern artillery was amply proved on the memorable field of Leipsic, where, September 7, 1031, Gustavus Adolphus nchicved his splendid victory over tho Imperialists under General Tilly. It is said that it was owing to the invention of Colonel Scott that the victory was ob tained. "The guns were found to be so easily carried that a small battery could fly from one part of tho held to another, ami thus artillery be brought to bear where most needed a thing impossible with the heavy artillery of that period. Certain it is that leathern artillery was used in this great battle by Gustavus, though it is equally certain that the guus were never used afterward. Tho reason of that, however, was that the leather guns having demonstrated tho value of light artillery, a way was discovered of making tho metal guns lighter, and the greater durability of the latter gave tnem tho superiority." Frank Leslie1!. Tho "Black Drum" FIsli. Tho black drum is one of our largest game fishes, most abundant in the South ern States, but occurring along the Jersey coast, and oftcu fouud in the waters of Stateu Island, where one was caught last week in Prince's Bay. The drum belongs to tho fish family, which, owing to the peculiar structure of the air-bladder,posscss the power of utter ing sounds to a greater or less degree. Other members of the family, such as the vieakfish, croaker and roncador,make a grunting sound when boated (although old fishermen claim to be able to detect tho presence of a large school of weakfish by the noise made by them) ; but tuo sound of tho drum is tho loudest, and can be very distinctly heard at a distance. The croak of tho ubiquitous sea robin, which does not, however, belong to this family, is familiar to all who have ever wet a line in the bay. During the breeding season of the drum this noise is more pronounced than at any other time, tho males calling to the females, who respond in lower toues ; and at night, while feeding on the oyster and mussel bods, which provide their principal food, tho fish seem to grunt their satisfaction with the repast. Their strong, pavement-like teeth, work sad havoc with the oysters, and forty years ago this July tho oyster planters of Prince's Bay and other near-by waters lost their entire crop, owing to the descent upon their beds of vast schools of this fish. Since then they have not put iu an appearance in such num bers, although tho damage done by them is considerable, as they seem to take de light in crushing the oysters, even though they may not requiro them for food. Xein York 1'imes. Getting the Peach's Best Flavor. The Delaware peach is a noble fruit. "You people who live in thecities don't know the real taste of a peach," said an old-timer of Delaware as he drove through the orchards of Kent County be hind his favorite white horse, iutont on showing tho visitor what tho couutry looked like. "You mean that picking early for market robs tho peach of its best flavor?" was asked. "That's it," said the old-timer. "Wo have to pick peaches from three to six days before they are really ripe, so as to , get them to market. Now, a peach will j grow more iu the last three days before ' it is fairly ripe than iu two weeks at any ! other time. To know what a peach really is you want to tako it from the tree after I it has hung until it is dead ripe. Our i folks have a way of preserving peaches j for their own use, which beats anything I you get irom tho canneries or tho dryiug I houses. They take tho peaches when they are full ripe and aJiout to drop. They halve them and lay them on a board iu the sun. Before the juice is dried out the halves are packed down in layers, with a good layer of sugar between every two layers of fruit. Tho process is a good deal like that of preserving figs, only the layers of peaches are nut pressed asthefisare. Peaches put up this way keep right along. You put cream on them when you get ready to cat them, and you have got something good." St. Lou it Globe-Democrat. United States Navy Yards. There are nine navy yards in the United States, located ut Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Cbarlestown, Mass; Gosport Navy Yard, near Norfolk, Va. ; Kittery Navy Yard, opposite Portsmouth, N. II. ; League Island, Philadelphia, Peuu. ; Mare Island, San Francisco, t'al. ; New Loudon, Conn., Feusacola, Fla., aud Washington, D. C. QUEER WORK FOR WOMEN. ODD INDUSTRIES FOLLOWED Bi SOME OF THEM. Woman Who rinlnhca and Fnr tilalic Hoitws One Hun a Livery Stable Some Shoe Horn. Ncv York is full of independent women; "7itKT is the numeral mar dis tinguishes a young lady who consigns all sorts of hammered silver goous io the Exchange for Woman's Work. She made her reputation by a tea caddy, hun dreds of which have since been sold. Mrs. Eleanor Davis, a member of the Woman's Working Club, has a family of children which she is educating with the money earned from salad lessons. Iu Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth street, there are two sisters who conduct a jewelry business. Both are expert watchmakers, having learned the trade with their father, who is now in feeble health and dependent on them for sup port. The little women are pretty aud bright, and under twenty-four years of age. Aside from being self-sustaining, they have several small brothers and sis ters depending on them for motherly care nnd education. Mrs. Sarah L. Wright, of West Forty first street, runs a livery stable; Miss Feme has a boarding-house iu West Tweuty-lirst street and gets time to manage a boarding nnd lodging bureau located in West Tweuty-third. There are no less than 130 female bakers about town, and tho la-gest tobacco factory iu the vicinity of Bivington nnd Cannon streets is tho property of a woman. In Chicago there is a Miss Neeler em ployed by a local firm, who takes the house from the builder, decorates it throughout, and after the ornamental touches have been added in the form of gas fixtures, sconces, faucets, door-knobs, hinges and bell-pulls, she individually selects tho furniture, upholstery goods, carpets, cushions and rugs, and prepares the entire house for the reception of the family. Even the nursery is appointed, the cook, butler and maids provided, the table spread and the meal prepared for the house-warming. Miss Neeler is a young lady whoso success has been phenomenal considering the short time she has been engaged as an interior artiste. Chicago's Central Music Hall building is filled with bright women, who give medical treatmeut, physical and ethical training; build up voices and broken down constitutions, mako bonnets, col lect rents, teach music, pull teeth and right the wrongs of their timorous sis ters. Out on Larrabee street there is a Mrs. Jano Jensen, who keep a blacksmith shop, and when the customers exceed the shoers sho puts on a leather apron and a pair of rubber sleeves, and, taking a horse's foot on her knee, will shoe it as well aud almost as quickly as any smith in her employ. Miss Hattio Butterfield, the principal of ono of the large Chicago primary schools on the North Side, runs a boarding-house, from which she clears as much as her school salary amounts to. She is a daring trader on the call board, aud, notwithstanding tho risks she takes, manages to buy a bit of property every year or so. Miss Thcodosia Stiles, daughter of General I. N. Stiles, has a school on the North Side, where she teaches domestic economy, and Miss Jane Willard, whose father has had the chair of history in the Chicago High School for the last twen ty-three years, returned from Smith College after a year's study, rented a hall on West Madison street nnd undertook to teach the wild Western damsel how to swing clubs, manipulate dumb-bells and turn somersaults from a spring-board. She began with a class of ten, put them in blue blouses aud divided skirts, went iu debt for a supply of bells, clubs, wands aud hanging apparatus aud be fore tho term closed had three classes of thirty-live each. That was in 1886. With the proceeds of tho year's work she went back to Smith, fiuished the course and is again at work teaching the buds aud blossoms of smoky Chicago how to be well, strong and graceful. A Matilda L. Scott, living in North May street, has a keunel aud dog farm, where she raises toy terriers that net $200 a year, and she pays all her ex penses with the proceeds of tho canine sick ward. Miss Bessie Bole, of San Francisco, is twenty years of sge, and a lady of raro beauty, being a lithe blondo with dark brown eyes and a very pretty figure. At the Mecluinics' Institute she exhibited a set of horseshoes which she uiado in one of tho industrial schools. Her hands became at once a subject of interest aud largo inducements were offered by enter prising photographers for tho privilege of-selling them iu cabinet cards. Miss Bole belongs to a good family, the op position from which is all that restrains her from opening a shop of her own. Mrs. Mary Miller, of New Orleans, is a steamboat captain who learned the busi ness while traveling up and dowu the Mississippi with her husbaud. At his death she applied for a license, having no other menus ol support, and it was granted. Miss Carrie Burnham Kilgoro, of Phila delphia, has just been admitted to prac tice before tho United States Supremo Court. She is the fourth ono of her sex who has sought for or obtained this dis tinction. The other threo women prac titioners are .urs. llelvu A. Loekwood, Laura De Force Gordon, and Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbeiider, of Nebraska. wne woma'i nas maiio mo siik gowns of the Justices of the I uited States Su premo Court for the past forty years, aud she gets $ 100 for each one of them. They are all made alike, the only difference being iu the material, the Chief Justice wearing black Chinese satin, whilo his assoi'iates are robed ill black silk. Tl uiiici justice always wears a new gown wiiau lie swears iu a x'resiaeut. JStw lurk WurLl. The British House of Commons cou ... ..t I'.-yii i t .... r . itoum iiit-muL-ia, tony ol Wlioui constitute a quorum to do busiuess. HOLSEHOLlr AFFAIRS. CLEAMNn STLVEHWARrl. To clean silverware mix together half n ounce of nno salt, half an ounce of cream of powdefed nlnm nnd half an ounce of cream of tartar. Put them into a large whitcware pitcher and pour on two quarts of water; stir frequently until tho mixture is entirely dissolved. Then transfer tho solution to clean bottles nnd cork them lightly. Shako the bottle well before using. Pour some of the liquid into a bowl, and wash the silver all over with it, using an old fino linen cloth. Let it stand about ten minutes and then rub dry with a buckskin. It will make the silver look like new Chi cayo Herald. KATKINS FOTt EVERT KIND OF FOOD A napkin for every kind of food that is to bo served hot seems to be a require ment of the day, and to decorate these napkins in a suitable fashion seems to be a pleasant pastime for needle-loving women. The fish napkin, made some what longer than the length of the plat ter, is plain in tho centre, and cmbroid crcd at the ends in tiny shells, seaweeds nr lirnn ehinr coral. The ends may, in addition, be frimred or only hemmed An eirr nankin is pretty, embroidered with chickens in different shades of yel low silk, nnd a corn napkin with ears of corn, partly opened, so that tho grain and silk appear. As there is not so much poetry in a realistic potato, a nonscusc riiymu, nr tho flower and viue of the potato are wrought across the potato napkin, aud the snuares of linen laid on tiie uuuer dish may be embroidered with grasses or disks representing butter onus iu wuuu or gold. A napkin for hot biscuit, which is reallv moro of a necessity than any of these pretty fancies, may bo dcckci with flowers or a line from the poets or "nrosiets" iu regard to bread. Atlanta , w Constitution. TO BEAT AN EOG. Any child knows how to beat an egg, which is truo so far as that any one by dint of patience and a fork can lieat au egg to a froth, but one person will tako fitteen miuutcs nudhavo it less light than another in five. Tho one will beat fast, carrying tho fork, but entangling very little air; the other will lift tho egg, as it were, and throw it over the fork. This is the proper way, and does tho work in half the time. Acquire tho habit of beat ing eggs, or, in fact, anything else, from the elbow, not usiug the whole. arm ; the fatigued will be much lessened. The use of egg-beaters has made egg-bcatiug for cakes, such a formidablo task iu out mother's days, a very light ono iu ours, but for beating just ono egg a fork, even now, is often most convenient. Even with a beater, however, the best results are obtained by observing certain rules. In hot weather leave the eggs in ice water or on ice for some timo before using. It is not a gooa piau, nowevi-i, to keep all your eggs on ice, because they then become so thoroughly cniiieu tnai iu boiliuor them you cannot cstimnto the time required, and should they become frosted thev are inferior tor an purposes. In beating the whites of eggs a tiny pinch of salt will teudto facilitate the' work. Good IIoutckeejiiiHj. nr.cirES. Asparagus Salad Cut off a pint ol boiled asparagus tops, throw in cold water, aud let staud uutil ready for use. Then dry carefully, put them in a salad dish, pour over French dressing, let stand ten minutes and serve. Buckwheat Miilhus Dissolve one tcaspoonful of soda (not heaping) iu two cups or one pint of buttermilk; add a la- blespoonful of molasses and a little salt, and stir in one cup of sifted flour and one nnd a half cups ot buckwheat. ISakc in gem pans or muffin rings. Eggs and Cabbage Warm up a large cupful of cold, boiled cabbage, chopped fiue; season with butter, pepper aud salt Stir in threo beaten eggs aud a cupful oi milk aud bako for tweuty minutes in a puddiug dish. Iu this way a small rem nant of cold cabbage will make an excel lent side dish for dinner. Grandmother's Gingerbread This u tho real old-fashioued gingerbread of our childhood s days. Ono cup of New Orl cans molasses, three tablespooufuls of melted butter, ono tcaspoonful of soda dissolved iu fivo tablespooufuls of hot water, ginger, salt, aud half a teaspoon- ful of powdered alum. Two aud a hall cups of sifted flour. Pour iuto well but tered iron pans about half an inch thick and bake iu a quick oven. Parsnip Fritters There is no more delightful way of serving cold mash parsnips left from dinner, for breakfast, than in bails. Mix up the cold parsnips with the white of un egg and a little cream to hold it in shape, and mould it iuto little bulls, which should bo dipped one by one into the beaten yolk of an egg, and finally dropped into gently steaming hot fat and fried three or four minutes till they are of a nice browu color. Stuffed Potatoes Boil good-sized potatoes. When done, cut the tops off with a spoon, scrapo out the potato iu to u hot pan, uiiish, add a tablespoouful of butter, a uuarter of a cup af sweet milk (to half a dozeu potatoes), a tea spoon of suit aud a little pepper. li uutil very light, then add tho stitlly beaten w hites of two esji'S. Fill tho skin; with this mixture, heaping it ou top brush over with the yelk of the egg; put in the oveu aud browu. Soup Stock To threo pounds of lean beef w ithout bone put two und one-hull quarts of water. Simmer gently for one hour, skimming thoroughly w heu it comes to the boiling point, l'hen add oue carrot ono turnip, olio onion, one stalk of celery or a tcaspoonful of celery seed, one bay leaf, and simmer for four hours Ion never permitting it to boil or to "row cool aud addiiiir a little hot water, enough t keep tho original quantity. Klow and steady simmuriug, lint boiling, is neces sary to make the stock perfect. This will keep three oi four du iu summer, uud at least a wei'k iu w inter. KISMETI The dear old story; we were bound to meet Urxm the pathway that we folks call lire; Your eyes sought mine, your heart sought mine, my sweet. And all my being rose to call you wife! Each lived for each ; we made a world apart From all the busy, weary haunts of men; Hand within hand, and loving heart to heart. We lived beyond the world both now and then. The years have passed, but on the hearts of each. In spite of stormy weather, rain, and wind, Where never hand of mortal man may reach, A talisman is graven, sure and kind Kismet I 'Tis written there in golden type. Oil, happy . truth '.Oh, blessed, blessed fate! Through autumn's glows, from youth's bright mem'ries ripe, We've lived and loved, and lor the future wait ! HUMOR OF THE DAT. Buried alive Electric wires. Purlc. A safe investment Buying one. Law rence American. Stamp act, The act that wins applause. 2 aat Hijtitvjt. The man who offers an I O U is a writer of promise. Wathinyton 1'ott. Penny wise and pound foolish The man who won't tako out a license on his dog. I'uck. Popping tho question is simply pre liminary to questioning the pop. Bing hamton Leader. One of our society girls is going to take her poodle to the laundry to have his muzzlin' done. I'uck. Can it be that the habit of casting bread upon tho waters is what makes tho dark blue oceau roll? Somerrille Journal. When a young man loses his heart to some girl, he usually loses his nerve at the same time. Terre JIautc Ktpress. Ethel (to paterfamilias, who has just said grace) " 'S'cuso me, papa; is it gram'ical to say a men?" American Gro cer. A correspondent wants to know what kind of an animal a sun dog is? Well, wo should say, a "setter." ISoslon vm letin. -.- "Do vou know tho nature of an oath, Madame?" "I think so. All my f us band's oaths are very ill-natured." ruck. Pvprv one has a mission: The mission of tho crying baby is to make old bach elors and maids contentel. Atchinton, Globe. Jny Gould began his business career by cleaning out a broker s omce. buo- sequcntly no cicaucu out mo uiuiti. Chatter. Emmcline "Don't you thiuk young Do Jones is sweet?" Maude "Suite t Why, of course a perfect flat." Ameri can. Grocer. An exasperating coincidence Thai coal should always come down nt tuo same time the stove pipe does. Burling ton Free Prcai. A mau who hopes to make money oui of a stone quarry need not uo tusap- pointed if his hopes are blasted. i.aie- rence American. Mrs. Youugwife "Did you ever trj any of my biscuits, Judge I J unge 'No, I never did; Dutl l unresuymrj deserve it. " Statctman. Don't bo a clam. If you've got to be anything of tho kind bo a mud turtle- Then you may have some snap to you. Btnghamton Mcpublican. She (at the piano) "Listen! How do you enjoy tins retrain, iiu much. The more you refrain the belter I like it." Musical Courier. No matter how much a girl may liks her name, she is ulways willing to con sider the possibility of changing it to net advantage. Isoinercille Journal. There is no uso of disputiug the fact. The man who does business on a side street does not do business ou the square. Neto York Commercial Adcertiacr. Please give nio a copper, sir!" Was the beggur's pliuidiug wail. But the copper came with club in baud Aud marched him otf to jail, Tejaui 6'i'tii(. "You are too hard on Mr. Skinflint. You should treat him with more of the milk of human kindness." "He'd churn it iuto butter aud sell it if I did. Bin yhantloii Ifrp ublica n . There are many widows who've found Their llrst exporimeut curst; bo married a soeouil husband To revenge themselves un their first. J H dye. Horsy Husband "Ihavo got a flyei now, June, that can beat anything uboul here." Wife (intent of spring cleaning) "Well, John, I wish you would let him beat the carpets; they need it awfully." Boston Bulletin. Victim "Hadu't you better try the crimping iron ou a piece of paper to see if it is not too hut?" Barber "Dou't need no paper. As soon as I smells youi hair burning I knows right off it is too hot." Times lh iuxrat. "I understand, sir, that you said I was a thief and a robber. I want un expla nation." Blobbs (suavely) "Sir, you aro entirely mistake.). What I said was thut you sold shoes so cheap that you uro almost a freebooter." Light. His Worship "I must really make an example of you you aro here so often." Prisoner "Don't be too 'arl ou me, guv'nor; you ain't 'ad any trouble with me for eighteen months. Why, I ouly cumeout thismoruiu'!" Funny Folks. Au lngrato Father Millionaire "My dear daughter, it seeins to lue you ought to do something, and not always bo read ing novels." Daughter "Oh, nonsense, papa; you ought to be satisfied, having a rich heiress for a daughter." Tuiu. Democrat . Mrs. Gudabhout "What sort of a person is Mrs. Mildmuu, who has moved into the next house to youi .Mrs. Chaffer "1 don t think much other. Between you aud mo 1 thiuk she is next door to au idiot." Mr-s. Gadabout (iuuo ceutly) "I think o too, my dear." America.
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