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Awewspaper paragraph says: A
fate census of France embraced 20,
000,000 women." Happy censusl
Thb people of rank in England who
have fallen into poverty are to be pea
sloned made strong again, as it were.
A Ka-T.amazoo merchant gives awny
a copy of Sf.inley'i Travels" with
each pound of cheese purchased at his
store. Tuns are in order.
It has been discovered that some O.
the largest manufacturers of Bologna
sausages have boon mixing poor horsc
flesh with worse pork in making their
sausage.
Thero are two Geraldine" poems:
ne, a romance in verse, by Will M.
Caneton; the other, a souvenir of the
St Lawereme. by Alonzo Hopkins.
The latter was published anonymously.
L Germany the law provides that a
critic may cot enter a theater to un
justly criticise a play, "even if he has
purchased a ticket." There is a del.
lcate flavor of humor in the Idea of a
critic ever buying a ticket.
The English go-. ernmcnt Is trans,
porting v.wng trees by the wholesale
from Scotland to the Isle of Man,
where (iieoba Mountain Is being thick
ly planted with l!. cm as an experiment
witli practical forestry on a largo
scale.
ISex. UrTi.F.KV drooping eyelid will
ao longer f.irnUli a subject for tho car
toonists. Dr. O. G. Ciliey, of Boston,
performed a surgical operation upon it
removing an elliptical section of the
eyelid, and restorii g it to almost nor
mal ii.'.e.
If the young Engl'shman who is re
ported u be preparing a key to the
works of Kobert lirowning could Bee
the piles of unsold Baconian keys in
Shakespeare's works, which were pre
pare J by Ignatius Douelly, ho wouli
hesitate at the threshold of his literary
venture.
Not many things in the earth, the
w. ter and the air are out of the reach
of photography. A flash of lightning
has frequently ben photographed.
Not long ago a scientist with a camera
and an electric battery got a good pic
ture of the i.o'tom of the Medtterran
sea. The same year i:i which Lincoln
was born gave birth to cx-Speaker
Robert C. Wiuthrop. ex-Congressman
and ex-Diplomate Kobert C. Schenck,
ex-Vice president Hannibal Hamlin.
Oli-er w.n.l.lMymw, W ffml
tone and Alfred Tennyson, while
Senators Morrill and Payne were boro
Id the year following.
As old lady of Lebanon. Ind., has
been shot by some one unknown, and
her son-in-law has been arrested lor
the crime on no stronger evidence than
mere suspicion. This outrage is un
doubtedly due to the ancient friend of
the malicious paragrapher.the mother-in-law
joke, and it reveals the fertile
elements for evil that exist In the aged
and hoary chestnut Thit joke should
be arrested wherever met
The experiment of constructing a
large building of paper has bojn suc
cessfully made at Hamburg, where an
immense hotel with its facade and
other important parts composed of
that material has been erected. It is
claimed that the building is absolutely
fireproof and also impervious to tho
action of the elements which ren ier
orick. stone or wood unsightly or un
safe under prolonged exposure.
Is large cities. Dearly all of which
Are in the north, no economy is pract
iced in conducting public schools. The
school houses are often palaces that
are furnished with ltttle regard to ex
pense. They are In charge of engin
eers and Janitors who draw large sal
aries. The course of instruction em
braces almost everything in the pres
ent and past, on the earth, in the
heavens above and the waters beneath.
A CoNfio native who has been taught
-to read and write,has just sent a letter,
his first, to the archbishop of Canter
bury. It is as follows: Great and
Good Chief of the Tribe of Christ, greet
ing: The humblest of your servants
kisses the hen of your garment, and
begs you to send to bis fellow servants
more gospel and less rum. In the
bonds of Christ, L'galla." It seems to
. us thai the letter hits the nail pretty
effectually on the head.
It is believed that the - use of
5 smokeless powder by armies will re-
. j jfi U" in mall'n military operations
i . ,nuch more difficult than they are now.
! Thf he absence of smoke and the reduc-
, V . . , v. uvijn Vi t,UT3 UCbUUaLIUIIB Will
.J"r scarcely allow of marching by the
I. ? j sound of cannon. In order to get an
' II idea Of thn situntinn r.n a V,ottl tiM It
will be necessary to examine it direct
ly irom some elevated point.
A gentleman who claims to have
een tho original manuscript from
which was drafted Franklin Pierce's
greateit presidential massage. de
clares it was in tho handwriting of
eieutcen different prominent publio
men of this country including cabinet
ollicers and heads of departments, but
the most pointed suggestions in it
werj in the fine, peculiar chiro,'rap&y
3f Wall Minot, who is still living in
c -rd.
Mtx of good-will everywhere may
ead with pleasure that excellent
Rowing presented in the year's record
. the Yo,,n? Men's Christain Associa
tion. 'I his excellent organization h s
cored in 189 a well-deserved success.
' , proven its usefulness in every
Jhannel in which good work .ouiu
Ion, and it, balance-sheet goes to
show how much ma, be accomplished
or civilization, by vigorous, intelli
fai. enterprising, Christian effort.
MODEL COOKING SCHOOL
PRACTICAL WAY OP IMPROVING
BRITISH COOKING.
"Example la Better Than Precept"
Over 40,000 Pupils Sinoe 1874.
A correspondent thus -writes of a
visit to a London cooking school: In
the largo vestibule of the school, Into
which we pass, is a broad counter en
closing a corner, aud here, on a "fair
white cloth," are arranged all manner
of ornamental dishes, entrees, galan
tines, jellies, creams, etc., which are
daily made by the teachers in the
demonstration classes, and are here set
out for sale. No doubt many a clever
housewife avails herself of this method
of procuring admirably made dishes at
a trifling cost which could not be
turned out at home wituout a $300
chef. Turning the corner of the
counter we find ourselves in a wide
passage, which divides the various
kitchens. The first kitchen is emptv,
but Mrs. Clarke tells me it is to be used
for children's classes, the demonstra
tor's ga -stove being placed iu the mid
dle between three large tables, outside
which the pupils stand and imbibe in
struction.
The next kitchen is very big, and
indeed it needs to be, for there are
about twenty girls and women in it,
pupils and teachers, and yet Mrs.
Clarke says that it is unusually empty,
owing to the inroads of influenza on
both staff and pupils. This is the practice-kitchen
for plain cookery. A
group of girls are gathered round one
table, making apple-dumplings under
the supervision and example of the
teacher, who is making tome too; far
ther on is another broad table into
which gas-ranges are let at intervals,
at one of which stands quite a young
girl, garbed in the regulation apron
and hslf-sleeves,but of an age to wear
her hair in school-girl fashi.n down
her back. She is ev dently a novi e
in the culinary art. and is stir.ing a
saucepauf ul of apple jelly in embryo,
whicu is simmering over the gas, in a,
tentative way, as if she were not quite,
sure what was going to happen next.!
In beyond this kitclun -Is the practice-;
scullery, where the pupi's are taucht'
the proper methods of washing up, the.
best way to clean pots and pans, the
management of ovens and fireplaces, i
open and close ranges, and sundrvj
other matters of practical detail of;
which the ordinary British cook is con-'
spieuously ignoraLt.
Passing once again through the big
airy kitchen, where the central group
of pupils is busily rolling out the pas-J
try for the dumplings, we cross the)
passage ui'u uiiuiiirr hiiciit'ii iiuany as)
l-i op ."I'-'-S is the practirf-l.-it.h.T fnri
high-class cookery. ' In here the pu
pilsaie somewhat older, as becomes
those who would pene.rato the arcana,
of soups, entries, purees, savouries,
-wcets, 01 namental pastry, and fancy
cakes. It has evidently been a day of!
cakes, for all so ts of choux a la eremc;
cones, cakes. Sec, are being neatly ar-
ranged in huge sieves as they are
taken out of the various ovens. The
lesson of (he dav has been on lish en
trees, and the dainty lingers of tha
teacher are engaged on soles a la Rou-
tnnaise when we enter. I watch thoj
whole process from beginning to endrj
the neaiiies, the methodical precision'
which economizes so much time and
makes flurry impossible and nnneces-,
fary; the extremely simple and lucid
explanations how, why, and when to
mix each ingredient, and the exquisitej
cleanliness and avoidance of all hand-i
ting; and I come to the conclusion!
that such teaching, founded on the old)
'rovorb, "Example is better than pre-l
;ept." is not only invalvable, but ab-
surdly cheap nt the prite of eighteen-;
pence for a lesson of two hours, or
ten-and-six pence for a course of twen-'
'y weeks' lessons of five days a week..
Sich teaching is worth all the cook-;ry-books
in the world, for the written;
recipes can never give a defm te idea of
what a dish ought to look like in color;
md general appearance when served;,
ind appearance is quite half the battle;
n good cookery. Nothing could be
Tiore appetising in appearance than the
iish that the teacher sets before us, the
allots of sole smothered in the thick
jreamy sauce, whose whiteness is re-'
I'eved bv the pattern in pounded coral'
which recalls the lobster stuffing under-
leath. My uncanny mind immediately
sees a likeness between the "Denion-j
tration ' room, with its tiers of raised
teats overlooking a huge table, and
he dissecting-room at a hospital; but
! keep the idea to myself, and do not,
seek to give qualms to my companion
jy suggesting it. The seats are occu-
oied bv a number of women mostly,
oks, I should say who, armed with
aotebooks and pencils, jot down tins
-emarks of the teacher, a neat fingered,
laintv little figure, iu her snowy white
ap, apron and sleeves.
The audience anuses me: it is so
pasy to distinguish those who have
come there of their own accord, and
paid the fee themselves out of their
own pockets, with the earnest desire to
tcquire as much kn wledge as possible,;
rrom those who have been sent there;
!y their respective "missises," and,
who eye the teacher superciliously,)
inrdlv condescending from time to,
;ime to make a note in their books for
form's sake. The fact that since the
pening of the School in 1874 no less,
;tinn forty thousand five hundred
pupils have p issed through the various
ilasses down to the present time, is a
jroof that it has not been created in
fain.
A Phonograph Orchestra.
Tho iwnnrlir was ushered into the
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naiutsoine am ng-room ui
Bishop, where the instrument (an Edi
son phonograph) and all its appliances
n-ere stationed. Mr. Bishop, with the
skil. of a person who had handled a.
phonograph for years, adjusted the
instrument and turned on the battery.
The various choice melodies which
poured forth from the cone-shaped
transmitter sounded very natural.
Anion"- the many selections were sev
;ral pieces played by the 7th Regiment
band, of New York, about four years
igo ; a banjo solo by a son of the
mayor of Jfewburyport, Mass., played
ibout a year ago ; a cornet solo ; sev
eral selections by a male quartet, and
many other musical gems, most of
which were played t Edison'a labora
tory over a year ago
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Mr. Bishop has ho arranged his pho
.lograph by the appliance of the cone-
shaped transmitter that whenever h
starts it going the found can be dis-1
tinctly heard throughout the whole
house. Mr. Bishop has also recorded'
a few remarks of several prominent
men of this city who have talked into
the instrument. It is very amusing to
listen with what accuracy they have
been taken and are reproduced. Ho
intends to have the Concordia Singing
Society and Jerome May's Banjo Quar
tet give several selections at his home
for the purpose of recording them.
Mr. Bishop, it is understood, is tne
DOSSCSSOr of the onlv nhnnnirratih rt
j this kind in the city. "Why," said he,
"with this little machine I can tit
down to my breakfast and listen to
the concert of tho 7th Regiment band,
played several years ago, and enjoy it
as much as if I had actually heard the
j band itself." He is undoubtedly right.
j The working of this machine is some
thing wonderful. Bridgeport (Conn.)
News.
Jfewspaper Gossip In 181S.
As for the publication of social gos
nip, this can do no harm provided that
; it be not either offensive or injurious
' to those with whom it deals. This is
not "new journalism," but "old jour
I jialism." Here is an extract from a
hook of Mr. Rush, Minister of tho
jUnited States iu England in 1818, en
titled "Residence at the Court of Lon
Uon:" ) Everything goes into tho news
papers. In other countries, matter of
i public nature may be seen in them;
iiere, in addition, you see perpetually
even the concerns of ind viduals.
f)oes a private gentleman c me to
own? you hear it in the newspapers;
does he build a house, or buy an et
1 tate? they give the information; does
' he entertain his friends? you have all
their nams next day in type; is the
drapery of a ladies' drawing-room
(L-hanged from red i amask and gold to
white satin and silver? the fact is pub
licly annou-ieed. So of a thousand
other things.
The first burst of it all upon Mad
ame de Stael led her to remark that the
'English had realized the fable of living
with a window on their bosoms. It may
be thought that this is confined to a
class, who, surrounded by the allure
ments of wealth, seek emblasonment.
1 f it were only so, that class is im
mense. But i's influence affects other
classes, giving each in their way the.
habit of allowing their personal inclin
ations and objects to be dealt with in
print; so that altogether these are
. thrown upon the public in England to
! an extent without parallel in any coun
try, ancient or modern. "When thei
' drama at Athens took cognizance of
' privati life, what was said became
t knvJi first la m. few lieteuera. then tot
a sLt town; but in three days a Lon
1 don newspaper reach?s every part of
the kingdom, and in three months
every part of the globe.
Unhealthy Habits in Towns.
The British Medical Journal raises
Its admonitory voice against the un
healthy habits of people who dwell
in cities. The fact, says the
Journal, that the prevailing ep
idemic of influenza prevails in
towns serves to remind us of
the insanitary influences of town life.
The prevalence of germs, bad odors
and other self-evident sources of grave
' disease in cities is well known. It is
rat ler the less constantly recognized
' unhealthy habits of townsfolk that are
mostly at fault when the fairly-fed and
well-to-do are smitten with colds and
I influenza. Diet is abundant but taken
! irregularly. The townsman, as a rule,
j is not a good breakfast-eater, and he
I dines too late and too heavily. He is
much addicted to taking alcoho', tea or
coffee between meals. He is a late
riser and goes to bed late, so that a
large fraction of his "day" is spent at
night in artificial light,
j He seldom takes enough exercise,
for the "constitutional" is 'ntolerable
to men of a certain temerament, and
Dtliers have no lime for that form of
physical exertion. A hurri d race to
catch a train or omnibus is not hy
gienic. He is gregarious, and his
natural flocking instinct makes him
ove. look, both in his pleasures as well
as his duties, the fact that he works or
plays with his fellow-man in ill-ventilated
or over-crowded rooms. Above
all, he is out of training, as he finds
out during the first days of a holiday.
Many explorers and fight ng men have
noted that they catch cold readily in
towns af'tr Waring cold and damp
with impunity in the country.
A Shabbily I)res;oI Millionaire.
Mrs. Hettv Green has enjoyed the
j cputation for a long time of being the
most shabbily tiresseii millionaire who
wanders within the precincts ofWull
street. Russell Sage wears inexpensive
clo hea, but they are not only neat but
' usually have the appearance of being
recently purchased. The only million
aire rival Mrs. Green has iu point, of
shabbiness is old Joe Robinson, who
was oii3 of the contractors engaged in'
tne construction of the Union raciflo
Railroad, and is said to be worth four
million dollars. He does not wear any
overcoat, because it represents an ex
penditure of money he is not willing to
make. His whole outfit, including
hat and boots, would not command
two dollars and a half at any well-reg
ulated pawnsnop.
He is one of the few stingy million-,
aires who are perfectly good-natured,
in their stinginess. He is not cross or
crabbo , but greets everybody he
knows with the utmost geniality. He
and Sidney Dillon are very good
friends, but neither the arguments of
At union nor of anv one else can
' spur him on to invest money in a ward-
rOOC 1UC BLU1 J AO lASllt v. .B
friend on the street not long ago, in
' conversation with a gentleman whom
he did not know, lie went up to mo
two men and was about to speak, when
the man who was a stranger to him
turned and said he was very sorry but
he had no small change. The friend
explained the situation, although he
was somewhat embarrassed, and the
stranger extended profuse apologies to
the millionaire.
-Tne underground electric railway at
BudaJLesth, Hun?ary,ia Ave miles long,
passing nnder many of the principal
streets, and Is reported to have proven
both an engineering and a commercial
success, i
MUL AXD ALLIU1T0B.
Tou Can't Catch a 'Gagator with a
Scared Heast.
When Captain Royce, late of Ohio,
made his home in Florida he found a
fine alligator preserve in one corner of
his plantation, and realized almost as
much from the sale of hides as from
his oranges. In crossing a small bayou
one day he saw a huge alligator snugly
ensconced under a hanging bank, with
little else than his cose on exhibition.
A colored man was sent to the bouse
for a log chain and piece of pork, and
the offered bait was taken safely in at
one gulp. But when the attempt was
made to land the prey the two men
discovered that their muscle was as
nothing against the steady brace of th
reptile's two powerful forelegs.
"Bring the litll?dun mule," said the
Captain, but when tho animal came
within scenting distance of tho alliga
tor it showed a desire to drift raxidiy
in the direction of home.
But diplomacy finally attached him
to the shore end of the chain, and when
he was given tho word "go" he mado
one jump that was accompanied by
unforeseen consequences. The alliga
tor had let go for a new hold just as
the dun mule made his initial bound.
With a wild circular sweep aud an
echoing "swish" he left the muddy
bed of the stream and went sailing
through the air. lie struck close to
the off side of the mule, and lay for a
moment waiting for further develop
ments. They eamo when the mule
caught sight of his mortal foe that had
so suddenly joined him company.
With as wild a snort as ever echoed
through the evergreen glades of Forida,
he made one wild plunge, broke loose
from the colored man, and went off
thiough the woods as fast as his shor
legs would carry him.
The chain held, and tho alligator
went along, over logs and stumps,
against trees, across pools and mire
holes a genuine stampede, gotton up
by as badly a scared mule as ever set
foot in Florida. Captain Royce and
his man followed the procession, and,
after running a palf mile, found the
mule in a tangle of bush, half dead
from fright, and the altogether dead
alligator beside him.
"Golly, boss," said the colored man,
"tlat hide ain't worth shucks," and the
condition of tho saurian showed that
his diagnosis was correct.
One of Mr. Carnegl :'s Benefactions.
In 1886, Mr. Carnegie wished to
build a library for i'ittsburgh to cost
$500,000, but the Common Council,
under the charter then in force, could
not accept the conditions he prescribed.
This was Allegheny's cliance the
Allegheny Common Council passed a
resolution offering Mr. Carnegie a 6ite
on Third Ward Diamond square,
wich he pcc?-pUd cn May ?, ISSSr
A commission of eight, four represent
ing Mr. Carnegie nnd four the city,
was appointed to take charge of the
construction. Ground was broken in
September, 1887, and tho contract
called for the completion in eighteen
mouths. Under the deed of gift Mr.
Carnegie was to erf ct a libr.-iry build
ing at a cost of $250,000," but he
exceeded this by about $50,000 in
making improvements which the com
mission suggested. On its part the
city agreed to maintain the library for
all all time. Strangely enough there is
not a book in sight save the catalogue.
The 125,000 volumes are ranged upon
;2t00 shelves in an apa tinent called tho
' book magazine." This is lighted by
electricity and contains no woodwork
save the shelves. In the large mu-dc
hall which fronts on Ohio street is a
$15,000 organ, stretching across the
back of tho stage for a distance of
forty feet and thirty-five feet high.
Those who have heard it, speak highly
of its beautiful tone. It has thirty
etoj s, which give the performer the
command of a dozen orchestras. The
building includes an art gallery, in
which are already many valuable pic-tu-cs.
The New. Methodist Book Concern.
The new publishing and mission
house of the Book Concern and Mis
sionary Society of the M. E. Church,
New York, is situated at Fifth avenue
and Twentieth street. It covers 105
feet on Fifih avenue and 170 feet in
Twentieth street. The first two stories
are of granite, the next four of brick,
and the seventh and eighth of granite
and brick. The cost of the building
will exceed $1,000,000. The basement
contains the engine room and storage
rooms. Several elevators, both for
freight and passengers, run iu various
parts of tho building. The ground
floor, with the exception of a part
rented to a piano linn, is used by the
B'-ok Concern. The second floor is
devoted to the wholesalo department,
and to offices for the numerous book
keepers and the agents of tho Concern.
On the third floor are tho bishop's
offices, library and chapel. The fourth
floor contnins, aside from the publish
ing department, towhichspace is given
on five floors, the offices of the Chris
tian Advocate, the Quarterly Review
and the boa d of education. A large
part of the fifih and sixth floors is de
voted to tho bindery, while on the
seventh floor are the presses. The com
positors and stcrcotypcrs occupy the
top floor. The M issionary Society has
its offices on the fifth and sixth floors.
A Liberal German Prince.
The rrinco then proceeded to utter a
protest against an article of a semi-t ffl
cial paper, giving out as the watch
word for tho coming elections the sup
pression of social democrats and their
partisans. He de- lare 1 that he would
vote sgainst the bill. Although he
was a most determined opponent of
social democracy, tho government
must leave the pcoplo a ccitain free
clioico of means for arriving at a com
mon end. There was iu social democ
racy a good deal of idealism, but that
quality had gradually become rare in
Germany, having giving way to place
'hunting. This closing remark of the Prlnct
evoked a burst of cheers front some
section of the House. The speaker re
ceived the warm congratulations of tho
;left and centre, while the members of
;his own party vehemently reproached
Jhim, and compelled him to declare that
he had not spoken in the name of his
party. .
What oxygen is to the air cheerful
ness is to the home.
BO LITTLE MADE SIB GLAD.
6o tittle msde me gld, for I was voung,
Flower, a iunw t, books, friend or two,
Gray skies with scanty sunshine piercing
through.
How little made me glad when I was young.
So little makes me happy now I'm old ;
Tour hand In mine, dear heart, here by the
tire:
The children grown unto onr heart's de.
sire
flow little keeps us happy when we're old !
And yet between the little then and now,
W bat word of life, of thought and feeling
keenl
What spiritual depths and heights ua
seen
Ah me, between the little then and now !
For little things seem mighty when we're
young;
Then we rush onward through tbe chang
ing years.
Testing tbe g.imut of all smiles and tears,
Till mighty things seem I!tle. We are old.
CNE VALENTINE'S DAY.
BY KEZIAII SIIELTOH
.The early days of February camn
tiinny and smiling; the birds tbat had
passed their northern winter in tho
warm b anches of the fir and spruce
trees of tho woods, were hopping
lightly from the silvery blossomed
pussy willows to the fringed and tas-st-led
hazel and alder shrubs, now and
tnea trilling forth from their tiny
tlyoats purest spring-like songs of
joy.
Adown the hazel-bordered country
road came two rsy girls clad in navy
bine walking suits, with here and
there in their costumes a dash of red;,
their bright faces and wind-tossed hair;
crowned with jaunty crimson yarns!
with dark blue tassels.
Their iteps were clastic with health
and youth's undoubting hopefulness;;
they gave tho finishing touch of life
that made tho fcenj a perfect one o
two young men who were sitting un
observed by them in a sunny corner
where two walls met, sketching the
stretch of grey roadway with its shrub
bt-iringed edges and fluttering birds.
"Be quick and sketch them,Jack,it is
the one thing needed to make the;
theme perfect. There, they have paus-'
cd, and how unconsciously graceful
they are pausing! ot of ten do you
get such an accidental touch as this,
and the picture will be the envy at the
Annual Exhibition."
Rapidly the sketching went on, and
together the girls resumed their steady
tramp, keeping perfect step, and pass
ing the two young men who looked as
innocent as only the guilty can! If
they had not sketched the girls, they
naturally would have shown some con
sciousness of their approach.
Now, it was the girls who gave a!
.ytVtstart of surprise as thev.9n- den
1 -ui aco-vcred the artist and his friend.
"What handsome, stylish young
men t Did you not'ee the moustache of
the dark-haired one? What a natural
wave it had, not that horrid waxy
curl at the ends that makes you feel
that it must have just come fresh from
Ihe barber's tongs," said Mabel Tink
hain, who was something of an artist
in her taste as regarded masculine
beauty. Being herself a rich hue-l
blonde, it was but natural that she
should havo been attracted by the dark
style of Roland Holland.
"No, I did not notice the dark one
as being other than a common-looking
man, but the brown-bearded man
what a figuro he hud I And a perfect
face!" and Mary Peck, with a graceful
movement of her arm, put up her hand
to her hair, to assure herseif that tho,
wind had not blown it "every which
way." "Really, are we blown quite,
into frights, Mabel? I wonder who
those fellows are, and where they
catno from. One was sketching and
the other leaning on the wall and look
ing; or do you suppose he was posing?
Wouldn't he make a splendid portrait?
"He? No, he couldn't hold a candle
to the dark one. I wish we could
know them, but what is the use in talk-;
ing such nonsense; you and I shall,
never know such as he out in this wil-,
derness! I wonder if pa will ever get
his business straightened out, so thatj
we can once more have a comfortable
home in the city! For one, I am
heartily tired of living out he c in the
country, shut out from all society. I
don't see why men who know enough
to do business on change don't know
enough not to get 'fleeced,' as pa calls!
it- Oh, dear, what mado him ail allj
at once, and send us out here to grand-'
father's?"
"I don't know, I am sure; bnyingj
long and selling short and buying short;
aud selling long, and being rich a few
years, and then suddenly 'as poor as!
Job's turkey' is a conundrum I cannot
understand. But I began to feel that;
when pa and his clique was rich, then'
somebody was fleeced and made poor;
we didn't know who it was, that was
all, and we just enjoyed it.
"Now pa talks about our being
fleeced, and I suppose somebody is
flourishing on the fleecing just as we
did ; and never dreaming that out here
in the woods we, the fleeced, are drag
ging aloi g miserably, shut out from
all the tin -gs we used to have. How
long have we worn these suits? Mine
is actually sprouting a fringe around
tho bottom, sort of growing its spring
foliage as one might say. I wonder if
we can have some new ones thii
spring?"
"I don't know. We have actually
trorn them three years; they were the
last we had before we came here two
years ago the fourteenth of this month.
Don't you remember we were planning
such fun for the novel valentine party
Lucy Hoyt had sent out invitations
for? Then pa failed, and we arrived
here at grandpa's the evening of the
party. I thought I should die as we
Hit that night in the kitchen and
watched grandpa popping corn and
grandma cracking walnuts, and actu
ally feeling that they were making a
real good time for us!"
"Never fear, I remember it all ; it
was just horrid. And grandma says
now she don't see what all our 'oppor
tunities' have amounted to when we
can't do half as much to help ourselves,
as girls who never had half oar
chance!"
"How provoked ste is because we
don't want to teach; and she is right,
we couldn't do it if we did wish to.
She told me this morning, if I wanted
a new dress 1 ought to find some way,
to earn it; that it was a shame that pa
had spent thousands of dollars on our
school bills piano lessons and French
teachers, aud after all we couldn't
teach even the school in this district!
And there's Nancy Farnum, who's
never had a dollar spent on her school
ing, and has earned ten dollars a week
for forty weeks a year, for the list
five years; has hel pod her ma for her
board' fore and after school, has dressed
well, furnished her ma's parlor up,
aud put money in the savings' bank;
and you two girls can't even give the
neighbor's children lessons on a mela
deonl Ob, I am sick of hearing it all;
and the worst of the whole is it is
true; and, as much as we hate that
old farmhouse and the way grand pi
and grandma live, w havo nowhere
eUe to be!"
Well, what can't bo helped, can't;
i so what is tbe use of talking? We
may just as well make the best of it
and come r'ght down and take what
.fun there is going; so let's walk on to
Betty Plummer's and tell her we will
accept her invitation for to-morrow
! night, and go right in for a good
time with the neighborhood young
I folks. I said at first I never would do
it, bht then I did not expect to stay
here forever; now I begin to think we
may. But, let's draw the lino at mar
rying, we will flirt with the boys and
have a good time. 'Twill be some
thing to take up our time. Grandpa
iai.d grandma will like all but the llirt
,'ing; they will begin to have hopes of
ius a.id think we are at last growing
'Sensible, and we can keep dark about
tour real opinions of folks and things,
jl hope, though, they will not play
kissing games. Just think of having
grandpa's hired man kiss us! Of
'yourse, he is invited."
Betty Pluinmcr was quite overcome
iby the sudden cordiality of Mabel
ITinkham and her adopted sister, Mary
tPeck, and for the rest of the day was
Jin quite a flutter of excitemeut over
the event.
Roland Holland and his friend, Jack
Staples, had chanced upon the l'luui-
f' ncr farm for their halting place in
his neighborhood while sketching.
When they returned to a late dinner
the voluble, gay-hearted Betty chattcr
ged of her morning callers, and with
icouutry freedom soon had given tho
young men a full history of neighbor
jTinkbam's oldest son who had " years
ago left tho farm and gone to New
York as a clerk, and lately becamo
what the country people called a stock
Jgambler; had been roiling in money a
tfew years, and married a city girl;
'Jater had lived in Europe a few years,
nd then, just as all gamblers do sud
denly he began to lose, and all at once
ifound himself at tho bottom of the
heap and glad enough to send his two
girls to his old home, which had never
;been good enough for them to visit
when they had lots o' money."
. She told the young man that the girls
W'cre real nice, but couldn't do a thing:
to earn a dollar, aud seemed actual y
proud of it!
.' Then she talked of her valentine party,
and the young men having identified1
Mabel Tinkham and Mary Peck as the
two stylish young ladies of tho rnorn
5ng episode, entered into Betty;s plans,
and soon had given the quick-witted
country girl some hints about valcnfincj
tricks. Betty was always ready for a
good-natured joke and readily agreed
,to their suggestions.
In response to one of thest! she went)
over to grandpa Tinkham's on the)
.evening of the thirteenth and told the
girls of these tricks. One was for the
girls to take an early morning walk on
;the fourteenth and the first man they
met would surely be their future hus
'band! Others were to be tried nt the,
house. One of these was lo go out
into tho dark, and standing on the1
doorstep unwind a ball of twine for a
few yards and holding the end of thc
twine in one hand, with the others
throw the ball as far out into the dark
ness as possible, then begin to wind
up the end in their hand, repeating
these lines:
"I wind this long line so very fine,
Hoping to fiini at the othi r em).
The love f would call my valentine.
Tbe man I'd choose for lover and friend."
Then, unless one was a predestined
old maid, at the end of the line would
stand before the maiden her future
i huband who would yield the line to,
' her, clasp her in his arms and take his
first kiss and disappear in the dark-i
ness, and when the gates wero propi-.
tious she would meet this very man,!
perhaps be introduced to him in the1
most prosaic and orthodox manner;,
and surely some day he would come;
to claim the hand of the maiden he had
kissed in the datk I
"I shall go for a walk before to-;
morrow morning, Mary; will you go:
too?" cried Mabel, gleefully.
"Indeed I will not. You'll be sure
to meet somebody's hired man driving
the cows to the spring for water," re-'
plied Mary, scornfully.
Then she continued, "I will confrol
tnv tmnatipnpA tn soft mv horn until
I evening. I shall throw the ball of
I twine from our back door-step, and let)
it roll down the slope into the garden J
i and then gently draw mv hero up tol
give me that sweet betrothal kiss, and,
as it is hardly proper to accept any-)
thing from a stranger, I will return iU
at once," and Mary joined in the gen
eral laugh.
Betty went home and reported.
Early the next morning Ma!el went
out for a walk and for half a mile met
no one, not even a hired man drivingj
cows to water, nor a milkman going'
toward the village.
Suddenly, as she turned a corner, she!
came face to face with the dark, mons-j
.tacbed stranger sue had seen a lewj ;
mo-nings ago posing so graceiuny oe-
ide the stone wall as be lifted his hati
and passed around the corner.
Mabel was not more romantic than
he ordinary girl, yet her heart
throbbed more rap'dly, and tho rich
icolor swayed back and forth in herj
hapely cheeks, as she wondered if;
there could be anything in such hap-i
'penings,and queried mentally over and'
over again, "who could he be, where
from, and with whom was he staying
in that neighborhood, and would shei
mavbe sometime really meet and spetk
with him?"
But it was time to return for break
fast, and, lo! he was returning, and
.politely lifted his hat once more from
the close-cut, da: k, curling locks.
Evening came, and Mabel and Mary,
were much entertained by the society)
into which they were for the first time,
introduced. Hitherto they had held
themselves aloof from the joung
people about them.
The remembrance of their New
York circle, their winters at Washing
ton, the years spent in London, Paris,
Mentone and In ice had been too fresh
in their memories to admit of their ac
knowledging that they could associate
even temporarily wi'h those so far re
moved from their set.
But the innate love of some sort of
sociality had conquered their delu
siveness at last, or rather the hopeless
ness of ever resuming their old place
had forced them to yield.
The hours ran on in more or less
stupid games until ten o'clock, wheq
one by one the betrothed maidens
slipped away from the party to try
some trick. Unobserved they were
not, and it was easy to guess who
hoped to be the favored one, as, after
each girl passed out, some admiring
swain was sure soon to follow.
None of the country youth dared
follow stately Mary Peck, and the en
vious tongues whispered, "She'll not
meet anvone ; she holds her head too
high."
Ou the back door step Mary stood,
half shivering with the cold night air,
half with a superstitious thrill.
Slowly she wound the ball after
throwing it, softly repeating the
rhymes as told by Betty. For awhile
the line was slack as if lying along the
ground, then it became a bit more
taut, and soon she was sure there was
some unknown attachment at the othei
end of the line.
When she saw a figure actually com
ing toward her in the darkness, she
nearly lost her "clf-possession ; but her
pride came to he aid ; she would not
scream and make h-'self an object of
ridicule before those youths; she felt
so much superior to them, that it would
have been the last thing she could have
endured. The light from a window
suddenly flashed upon the advancing
3gure. It was the brown-bearded
t ranger, who at that moment clasped
her in his arms, kissed her lips raptur
ously, released her gently and disap
peared like a dream in the darkness!
It was some moments ere she had re
covered sufficiently to re-enter the
house with a calm, undisturbed face,
except for a rich, deep flush not at all
an ordinary color with her.
Here she had need of all the celf
possession years in society had given
(her, for in her absence two guests had
arrived. Mabel was already chatting
(freely with Roland Holland aud Jack
Staples!
, AV'hy prolong the story? The end
was the usual one : the new acquaint
iance soon ripened into an old; the ac
quaintances became friends and in time
.lovers. Then came the quiet wedding
'at grandpa's; the short bridal tour, and
ithe prosaic settling down as house
keepers in two small flats in New
York, where in domestic contentment
rey dwelt ever after, in as great a de-
;- -yl of ccnt7.iuous harmony as falls to
,tue average iamines.
Grandma made this domestic peace
jpos-ible, by persistentlv insisting tl at
4xth girls should take daily practical
lessons in her kitchen; that the period
:of courtship should commence in learn-
ling the art of household economies
jThe girls sometimes rebelled, fancying
that things would manage to go on
(omchow without all that troub.e.
But grandma had her wav, knowing
that a young man with a moderate in
come has double need of a competent
borne keeper.
"Pa" never made a second fortune,
but drifted from Mabel's to Mary's,
and haunted Wall street with othet
ghosts of "better days."
The Visit of Count de Paris to America.
Several well-defined reasons are
given to account for the decision of
! the Count do Paris not to return to
England for some time, but to visit
Cuba, where hi wife's family, as co
heirs of the late Queen Christina, have
family interests. In Cuba, it is stated,
he will escapo east winds, be able to
judge of the state of tilings in the is
land and tho prospects of the Seces
sionist party, and will then go to Wash
ington, whence he will make a tour
through the United States. He can do
nothing just now in French politics,
I but he must not let himself be forgot
ten I lie Americans, as a friend of
his remarked a day or two ago, are
sure to make a g cat doal of him be
cause he is a Prince, the father-in-law
of the King of Portugal, a Pretender
to the Crown of France, and the his
torian of their Civil War.
His great personal friends, Mr. and
Mrs. Levi Morton, on account of their
official position, social experience, and
wealth, occupy a place at Washington
in some resjK-cts superior to that o
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison. They arq
sure to lionise the Count de Paris, and
tho American journals are equally sum
to help them. Of course a triumphal
tour in the United States would havi
a great effect in France. The excite
mcnt going on now in Portugal has
had no eflect in leading the Count de
Paris not to return at once to England.
I lis feeling in regard to the Anglo
Portuguese quarrel will be shown in
other ways.
The Count de Taris will be accom
panied by the Countess and their chil
dren and the Duke de Chartres. He
will return to Sheen House in May if
tho Anglo-Portuguese question is
settled by then. Paris Paper.
A German 'Yankee."
A full fledged German, bearing the
odd name of August H. Yankee, ob
tained his last naturalization papers
from the Clerk of the United States
District Court, Boston, the other day,
and is now an American citizen. Mr.
Yankee's occupation is that of a farm
er, and he lives in Dover, Mass. lie
was born in Wotechihous, Germany,
in 1863, being now 27 years of age.
He offered no explanation as to the
origin of his name.
The word Yankee, as almost every
body knows, is said to have originated
with the Indians, who used to call the
English settler the Yengeese, or Yan
geese, as they could not master the
correct pronunciation of the word.
Whether some of the ancestors of this
young man came over to America with
ihe Hessian troops in the time of the
Revolution and on their return adopted
the name Yankee is not known. It is
thought, however, that this may have
been very possible by more than one
of the officers of the court.
There is talk aTout one or two
English gun vessels being adapted for
tue use of captive balloons at sea.
UEWS IN BRIEF.
A n lMt.ita folr.vclp. tn rnn nnm sk
wire. Is one of the newest wheeling la
ventions.
Dr. Sequard claims that his elixir
has cured intermitten fever neuralgia,
rheumatism, insomnia jmd leprosy.
According to Dr. Alfred Carpenter,
of 721,000 children born In Engtend In
18S8. 130,000 died before the close of
the year.
Trees do not suffer from electric
lights, as has been supposed. Dr.
Siemens is said to have proved that the
electric light really aids vegetation.
The Kentucky Constitutional Con
vention has decided in favor of per
mitting ministers to become Guberna
torial candidates.
Professor A. I. Garner of Roanoke,
Va., declares that monkeys have a
language with a fully developed gram
mar and he is studying it.
The Emperor and Em press of Rus
sia will celebrate In 1831 their silver
wedding at St. Petersburg. There are
to be festivities on a scale of extraordi
nary magnificence.
Observations at the Berlin postofflce
show that underground wires are much
less liable than overhead lines to dis
turbance on account of magnetio
storms.
It. is said that the hop vine is tbe
best substitute for rags in the manu
facture of paper. The vine pulp pov
teases great length, strength, flexibility,
and delicacy.
It has been calculated that it would
be possible to take from a section of the
River Negro lakes, occupying about
nine square leagues, upward of two mil
lions of torjs ot salt.
An Inventor is trying to prevent
railway collisions by constructing an
apparatus that will give warning ot
locomotive engineers when their trains
get too near one to the other.
The new M Asonlc Temple In Chicago ,
III., will be In eSect a monument three
hundred feet high and 170x140 feet at
base summit.
Brazil is larger than the United
States but In the whole twenty States,
which make up the Republic, there are
not as many people as we have In New
York and Peunsylvania.
Recently published statistics show
that of the 1911,473 nou-commlssloned
officers and men in British army, 137,
973 belong to the church of England
and 37.278 to the Catholic church.
The mathematician of the Cincin
nati Commercial Gazette says that the
consumption of Malaga grapes has In
creased 100 per cent, in this country in
ten years. As a matter of fact, insists
the Detroit Free Press, it has increased
400 per cent, as custom house figures
prove.
The wholesale price of whalebone is
now $10,000 a ton. A project is on foot
to organize whaling expeditions from
Australia to the Antarti seas, where it
is believed plenty ot wha'ies are to m
found. Itj an almost untouched whal
ing ground.
Superintendent Byrnes, of the New
York police force estimates that 1000
men mysteriously disappear from publio
view every year, but upon investigation
being made it is found that 995 of them
have either gotten into trouble with a
woman or are short in their accounts.
The latest style of horse shoe for cav
alry horses on the Contient is made from
layers of paper, glued together, and sub
jected to hydraulic pressure Tnis is at
tached securely to tbe hoof by gntta
percba, and. being very elastic, permits
tbe expansion of the hoof.
A new operating table for veterin
ary Burgeons is so made that the top of
it can be moved by a powerful crank,
and be made to stand on edge on the floot
at the side of the table. Tbe animal Is
led alongside, and, while standing on
Its feet, is firmly lashed to tbe top, which
Is then tilted into place again.
"Sundown Doctors' Is the appella
tion said to be applied In the city of Wash
ington to a class of practitioners who
are clerks in the Government offices,
and who have taKen a medical de
gree with a view to practicing after
the hours of their official work are
over.
Machine guns, having the electrical
attachment lor firing, require one less
man to handle them, while the gunner
can tram and operate the gun at will
by simply touching an electric button.
In Sydney, Australia, an assistant
of the geological commission has dis
covered bow to photograph objects at
a great distance. He has gotten an
impression of landscapes at a distance
of sixteen miles, and made a clear pic
ture. In photographing projectiles in mo
tion no results of any importance are
obtained till the velocity of tbe shot ex
reeds that of sound. But at higher
speeds a wave of compression is found
preceding the bullet In its flight. Tbe
shape of this wave is a hyperbolold of
revolution, with the apex some dis
tance in front of the shot. Behind the
projectile there is a conical wave formed,
the angle of which Is less the greater the
vi locity.
One of the po'nts especially noted
by military observers during tbe re
rent manoeuvres abroad, where smoke
less powder was used, was that in a
clear atmosphere, unobserved by the
smoke ot battle, all bright accoutre.
uients were seen at a great distance,
thus showing tbe positions of tbe various
bodies of troops.
-Relief from the buzzing and inter
ruptions which try the patience of per
sons nsing telephones Is promised by a
system now being tested at Providence,
it. 1, xwo wires are used, one or cop
per, the other of Iron, and it Is claimed
that tbe liability of induction is removed
entirely.
There is not in the world so toilsome
a trade as the pursuit of fame; life con
cludes before you have so much as
sketched your work.
A Great Gamoier.
Philippe Ricord, the great French
surgeon and specialist, was a sad rake,
and one of the most inveterate and
terrible gamblers to be found even in
Paris. He made in the course of his
professional career four or five large
fortunes, but every penny of his mo
ney, or very nearly every penny of It,
went to tbe green baize. He would
receive at night, and nearly after the
last visitor had left him the old man,
instead of going to bed, would rake
together his earning, jump into his
carriage, and drive off to the gam to
play till the sunlight streamed throng
the windows, and then go home, have
a nap, and go to the hospital, attend his
patients, or lecture. He must have
had a constitution of iron to have
stood such a lifau -