VOL- xxxv
Now Is Your Time
To Buy
Winter Footwear
XXOMVXXXAVX
We find we are overstocked- too many goods. Yes, entirely too many goods!
and we must reduce our stock and reduce it quick'.y, we need mjnev and we are
going to close out a great many goods in the next few weeks and they are going
very cheap. It will pay you to come miles to attend this great Shoe Sale for here
are the very low prices they will GO AT:
Boy's Oil Grain Shoes 50c Ladies' Rubber Boots fl.oo
Men's Heavy Kip Shoes. 50c Boy's Rubbtr Boots jr. 00
Youth's Oil Grain Shoes 50c Men's Rubber Boots v $1.50
Men's High Cut Box Toe Shoes $1.15 Men's Felt B:-ots and Overs <1.50
Women's Kangaroo Calf Shoes 75c Ladies' Fine Dongcla Flexible Sole
Misses' Kangaroo Calf Shoes 50c Shoes 81.10
Boy's Kip Boots SI.OO Misses' Fine Dress Shoes 75c
Children's Fine Dress Shoes 40c
Complete stock of Rubber and Felt
Goods of all kinds. Boots and
Shoes made to order. At all times
a fall stock of sole leather and shoe
makers supplies.of all kinds.
Iljl Repairing Promptly Done.
JOHN BICKEL.
BUTLER. PA.
HUSELTON'S
Short Talk About Advertising-
Talking through the newspaper is a good way of talking to the people if it is
not abused —if you tell the truth, A long list of prices does not amount to any
thing unless you have confidence in the house that backs the prices in their hones
ty and reputation they sustain.
What Would Your Paper Dollar
be worth to you if it was not backed by Uncle Sam. You have got to take the
dealers word in buying Footwear. You are not a judge as to values in this case.
It is wise to buy from the house you have confidence in.
YOU CAN TRUST THIS STORE.
We don't depend upon prices alone to* "cetch" customer*, it's the absolute
safety of the goods, allied to low prices, that gives us the advantage.
WE FIT THE FEET OF ALL MANKIND.
MEN'S AND BOYS' WOMEN'S and CHILDREN'S
in veal, oil grain and kip,? soles and tap, fashioned on the swellest lasts, lace or
high cut at—sl, $1.25 and $1.50. button, at 85c, #l, $1.25, $1.50, $ 2 , $2.20
Men's box calf, russets, enamels, cordo- and $3, in kid, box calf, kangaroo and
vans, heavy soles on bull dog, city and crack-proof calf, oil grain, veal unlined,
Cornell lasts -the Swogger styles—s2 kip, heavy soles, tip or plain toe, heel or
and $2.50, $3 and 13.50. spring.
OUR WOOL BOOTS and RUBBER GOODS
are all fresh made to our order. No old goods in stock. No old jobs to sell.
Good Boots und Rubbers at $1.50, $1.75, *2, $2.25 and #2.50.
Warm Lined Shoes for Elderly Ladies
at 50c, 75c, $1 and $1.25. Try this store—think you will like it.
B. C. HUSELTON'S,
Butler's Leading Shoe House. Opposite Uotel Lrfjwry.
We Are Sole Agents for the Jenness Miller Shoes for Butler.
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II I IT/ v Zj =» jjand summer goods down to make room for
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Bell 17d.
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Don't Shiver!
Winter is here and you need
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your Horse or Team—what is the
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CHAPTER XXL
HILTON.
It was a dark, drizzling night wher
I arrived at the litcle village of Hilton
within a mile of the hall. I knew i
respectable second-rate inn on the sid<
next the Hall, to which the gardenei
and other servants had been in th<
habit of repairing of an evening; ano
I thought I might there stumble upoi
some information, especially as th«
old-fashioned place had a large kltchet
in which all sorts of guests met. Wher
I reflected on the utter change whlci
time, weather and a great scar rails:
have made upon me. I feared no reo
ognitiuu. But whtjt was my surprise
when, by one of those coincidences
which Itave so often happened to me
I found in the hostler one of my owr
troo«p at Waterloo! His countenance
and salute convinced me that he rec
ognized me. I said to him:
"I know you perfectly. Wood: but
you must not knew me. I will gc
with you to (he stable."
He led the way instantly.
"Wood," I said, when we had reach
ed the shelter of the stable. "I don't
want to be known here, for reasons
which I will explain to you anothei
time."
"Very well, sir. You may depend
upon me. sir."
"I know I may. and I shall. Do
you know anybody about the Hall?"
''Yes, six. The ganlener comes hero
sometimes, sir. I believe he's in the
house now. Shall I ask him to step
this way, sir?"
"Xo. All 1 want is. to learn who If
at the Hall now. Will you get ulnj
talking? I shall be by, having some
thing to drink."
"Yes, sir. As soon as I have rub
bed down the old horse, sir—bless
him!"
"You'll find me there."
I went in, and. with my condition
for an excuse, ordered something hot
by the kitchen tire. Several country
people were sitting about it. They
made room for me, and I took my
place ait a table 00 one side. I soon
discovered the gardener, though time
had done what he could to disguise
him. Wood came in presently, and,
loitering about, begun to talk to him.
"What's tlie last news at the Hall,
William?" he said.
"X'ews!" answered the old man.
somewhat querulously, "there's never
nothing but news up there, and very
new-fangled news, too. What do you
think, now, .lohnT They lo talk of
turning all them green nouses into hot
houses; for, to be sure, there's noth
ing the new missus cares aliout but
Just the finest grapes in the country
and the flowers, pnrtv creatures, may
go to the devil for her. There's a
lady for ye!"
"But you'll bo glad to have her home
and see what's she like, won't you?
It's rather dull up there now, isn't
ft?"
"I don't know what you call dull,"
replied the old inun. as If half of
fended at the suggestion. "I don't be
lieve a soul missed his lordship when
lie «Ued: aud there's alwavs Mrs.
Blakesley and me. as is the best
friends in the world, besides three
maids and the stableman, who helps
me in the garden, now there's no
horses. And then there's Jacob and—"
"But you don't mean," said Wood,
interrupting him, "that there's none
of the family at home now?"
-"~' ir 'No. Why should there be? Least
ways, only the poor lady. And she
hardly counts now—bless her sweet
face."
"Do you ever see her?" interposed
one of the by-sitters.
"Sometimes."
"Is she quite cra*y?"
"Altogether; but that quiet and
gentle, you would think she was an
angel Instead of a mad woman. But
not a notion has she in her head, no
more than the babe unborn."
It was a dreadful shock to me. Was
this to be the end of all? Were it not
better she had <lied? For me, life
was worthless now. And there were
no wars, with the chance of losing 11
honestly.
I rose and went to my own room.
As I sat in dull misery by the fire,
it struck me that it might not have
been Lady Alice after all that the old
man spoke about. That moment a tap
came to my door and Wood entered.
After a few word#, I asked him who
was the lady the gardener had said
was crazy.
"Lady Alice," he answered, and ad
ded; "A love story, that came to a
bad end up at the Hall, years ago.
A tutor was in It, they say. But I
don't know the rights of it."
When he left me, I sat in a cold stu
por, lu which the thoughts—lf thoughts
they could he called—came and went
of themselves. Overcome by the ap
pearance of things—as what man the
strongest may not sometimes be?—l
feit as If * had lost her utterly, as If
there was no I-ady Alice anywhere,
and a® If, to add to the vacant horror
of tlie world wltJhowt her. a shadow ot
her, a golden simulterum. soulless, un
real, yet awfully like her, went wan
dering about the plice which TTad onc«
been glorified by tier presence—as to
tlie eyes of seers the phantoms of
events wliieh have happened years be
fore are sitill visit ie, clinging to tlie
room in which they have indeed taken
place. But, in a little while, some
thing warm began to throb aud flow
in my being, and I thought thait if she
were dead, 1 shoulc" love her still; that
now she was not worse than dead:
it was only that b »r soul was out of
sight. Who could ell but it might Ik)
wandering in worlds of too nobla
shapes and of too high a speech to i>er
mit of representati in in the language
of the world in wfeieh her bodily pre
sentation remained, and therefore her
speech aud behavior seemed to men
to be mad? Nay, was it not in some
sense better for me that It should l>e
so? To see once tLe pictured likenesa
of her of whotn I liad no such memo
rial, could I not give years of my pov
erty-stricken life? And here was such
a statue of her, ae that of his wife
which the widowed king was bending
before, whon he said:
"Who/t fine chisel
Could ever yot cut breath?"
This statue I might see, "looking like
an angel," as the gardener had said.
And, while the bond of visibility re
mtined, must not the soul lie. some
how, nearer to the earth than If the
form lay decaying beneath it? Was
there not some possibility that the love
for whose sake the reason had depart
ed, might be able to recall that rea
son once more to the windows of sense
—make it look forth at those eyes, anil
lie listening in the recesses of those
ears? In her sonanibulic sleeps, the
present body was the sign that the
poul was within reach; so it might be
still.
Mra. Blakesley was still at the lodge:
BUTLER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER H, 189H
I would call upon her to-morrow. I
wctut to bed. and dreamed all night
tibat Alice was sitting so) lie wher. in
a land "full of d.irk mountains." and
that 1 was waiuK-rlHg above in tlie
darkness, alternately i-alliug and list
ening; sometimes fancying I heard a
faint reply. whi< U might l«e her voice,
or an echo of my own; but never liud
ing her. I woke in an outburst of
despairing tears, nnd my was
not comforted by my waking.
CHAPTER XXII.
THE SI.EKPEB.
It was a lovely morning in autumn.
I walked to the Hail. I entered at the
s;une gate by wliioh I had entered
fir<»t. 90 many years before. But it
was not Mrs. Blakeslcy tlmt opened it.
I inquired after lier. and the woman
told me that she lived at the Hall now,
and took care of Lculy Alice. So far,
this was hopeful news.
I went up the same avenue, through
the suine wide, grassy places, saw the
same statue from whose base had aris
en rhe lovely form which soon b vaiue
a part of my existence. Then every
thing looked rich, because I bad come
fnftn a poor, grand country. In all
my wanderings I bail seen nothing so
rtcli, yet now it seemed poverty
stricken. That it was autumn could
not account for this; for I had always
found tha/t the sadness of autumn vivi
fied tlie poetic sense; and that the col
ors of decay had a pathetic glory more
beautiful than rtie glory of the most
gorgeous summer with all its flowers.
It was winter within me—that was the
reason; and I could feel no autumn
arouud nie, because I saw no spring
beyond me. It had fared with my
mind as with the garden in the Sen
sitive riant, when the lady was dead.
I was amazed and troubled at the
stolidity with which I walked up to
the door. and. having rung the bell,
waited. Xo sweeit memories of the
past arose in my mind: not one of the
well known objects around looked at
me as claiming a recognition. Yet,
when Che door was opened, my heart
beat so violently at the thought that
I might see her. that I could hardly
stammer out my Inquiry after Mrs.
Blakesley.
I was shown to t room. Xone of
the sensations 1 bad had on first cross
ing the threshold were revived. I re
membered them all; I felt none of
them. Mrs. Blakesley came. She did
not recognize me. I told her who I
was. She stared at me. for a moment,
seemed to see th;> same face she had
known still glimmering till rough all the
changes that had cr crwded upon It. held
out both her ham!s, and burst into
tears.
"Mr. Campbell." she said, "you are
changed. But not like her. She's the
same to look at; but oh. dear!"
We were both silent for some time.
At length she resumed:
"Come to my room: I have been mis
tress here for some time now."
I followed her to the room .Mrs. Wil
son used to occupy. She put wine on
the table. I told her my story. My
laliors. and my wounds, and my ill
ness. slightly touched as I trust they
were in the course of the tale, yet
moved all her womanly sympathies.
"What ca 11 I do for you, Mr. Cahp
bell?" she said.
"Let me see her," I replied.
She hesitated for a moment.
"I dare not, sir. I don't know what
raving; and she is so quiet."
"Has she ever raved?"
"Not often since the first week or
two. Now and thon, occasionally, for
an hour or so, she would be wild,
wanting to get out. But she gave that
over, altogether; and she has had her
lVberty now for a long time. But,
heavi >n bless her. at the worst she was
always a lady."
"And am 1 to go away without even
seeing her?'
"I am very sorry for you, Mr. Camp
bell."
I felt hurt—foolishly. I confess-and
r»»e. She put her hand on my afm.
"I'll tell von what I'll do, sir. She
always fsiils asleep in the afternoon;
you may si'e her as.'ecp, if you like."
"Thank you; tii.irk you," I answer
ed. "Thai will Do ntiuoh better. When
shall 1 conie?"
'Aliout, three o'clock."
I went wandering about tlTe woods,
and at three I was again in the house
keeper's room. She came to me pres
ently. looking rattier troubled.
"It is very odd," she began, the mo
ment sthe entered, "but for the first
time 1 think, for y?ars, she's not for
het afternoon sleep."
"Does she sleep at night?" I asked.
"Like a bairn. But she sleeps a
great deal; and the doctor says that's
what keeps her so quiet. She would
go raving again, he says, if the sleep
did not soothe her poor brain."
"Could you not let me see her when
she is asleep to-nigot?"
Again she hesitated, but presently
replied:—
"I will, sir; but I trust you never to
mention It."
"Of course I will not."
"Come at 10 o'clock, then. You will
find tlie outer door on this side open.
Go straight to my 100111."
With renewed thanks 1 left her, ana
once again betaking myself to the
woods, wandered aliout till night, not
withstanding signs of an approaching
storm. I thus kept within the bounda
ries of the demesne, and had no occa
sion to request readmittauce at any of
the gates.
As ten struck on tlie tower clock, I
entered Mrs. Blakesiey's room. Slu»
was not there. 1 sat down. In a few
minutes she came.
"She is fast asleep," she said. "Come
this way."
I followed trembling. She led me to
the same room Lady Alice used to oc
cupy. The door was a little open. She
pushed it gently, and I followed her
in. The curtains toward the door were
drawn. Mrs. Blakesley took me round
to the other side. There lay the lovely
head, so phantom-like for years, com
ing only in my dreams; tilling now
with a real presence the eyes that had
longed for it, as in them dwelt an ap
petite of sight. I calmed my heart at
once, which had !>een almost choking
me with the violence of its palpitation.
"This is not the face of insanity," I
said to myself. "It is clear as the
morning light." As I stood gazing, I
made no comparisons between tlie past
aud the present, although I was aware
of some difference—of some measure
of the unknown fronting me. I was
filled with tlie delight of beholding the
face 1 loved —full, it seemed to me, of
mind and womanhood; sleeping—noth
ing more. I murmured a fervent
"Thank God!" and was turning away
with a feeling of great satisfaction for
ail the future, and a strange great hope
beginning to throb in my heart, wliea.
after a little restless motion of her
head on the pillow, her patient lips
began to tremble. My soul rushed into
my ears.
"Mr. Campbell." she murmured, "I
cannot spell; what am I to do to
learn?"
"You made her restless. You see,
sir, she never was like other people,
poor dear!"
"Her face is not like out- insane," I
rejoined.
"1 often think slie looks more like
herself when she's asleep," answered
she. "And then 1 bare often seen her
smile. She never Smiles when she's
awake. But. gracious me, Mr. Camp
bell! what shall I do?"
This exclamation was caused by my
suddenly falling back in my chair and
closing my eyes. I had almost fainted.
I had eaten nothing since breakfast:
and had been wandering about in a
state of excitement all day. I greedily
swallowed the glass of wine she
brought me, aud theu I became aware
that the storm, which I had seen gath
ering while I was in the woods, had
now broken loose. "What a night in
the old Hall!" thought I. The wind
was dashing itself like a thousand
eagles against the house, and the rain
was trampling the r&ofs aud the court
like troops of galloping steeds. I rose
to go.
But Mrs. Blakesley interfered.
"You won't leave this house to-night.
Mr. Campbell." she said. "1 won't have
your death laid at my door."
I laughed.
"Dear Mrs. Blakesley," I said, seeing
her determined.
"I won't hear a word." she interrupt
ed. "I wouldn't let a horse out in such
a tem|»est. No, no; you shall just sleep
in your old quarters, across the pas
sage there."
I did not care for any storm. It
hardly even interested me. That beau
tiful face tilled my whole being. But I
yielded to Mrs. Blakesley. aud not uu
w/llingly.
CHAPTER XXIII
»ir oi.d room.
Once more I was left alone In that
room of dark oak. looking out on the
little ivy mantled court, of which I
was now reminded by the howling
of the storm within its high walls.
Mrs. Blakesley had extemporized a
lied for me on rhe old sofa; and the
fire was already blazing away splen
didly. I sat down beside it. and the
somber-hued past rolled back upon
me.
I was sitting in my own room, wait
ing for Lady Alice. And, as I sat
waiting, and wishing she would come,
by slow degrees my wishes intensi
fied themselves, till I found myself,
with all my gathered might, willing
that she should come. The minutes
passed, but tlie will remained.
How shall I tell what followed? The
door of the closet opened—slowly,
gently—and in walked Eady Alice,
pale as death, her eyes closed, her
whole person asleep. With a gliding
motion as in a dream, where the voli
tion that produce# motion is unfelt,
she seemed to me to dream herself
across the floor to my couch, on which
she laid herself down as gracefully,
as simply, as in the old beautiful time.
Her appearance did not startle me, fot
my whole condition was in harmony
with the phenomenon. I rose noise
lessly, covered her lightly from head
to foot, and sat down, as of old, to
watch. How beautiful she was!
She was wak ing. My love with t'he
unknown face was at hand. The re
viving flush came, grew, deepened.
She opened her eyes. God be praised'
They were lovelier than ever. And
the smile that broke over her face wag
the very sunlight of the soul.
gently, as she stretched her beautiful
arms toward me.
I could not speak. I could only sub
mit to her embrace, and hold myself
with all my might, lest I should burst
Into helpless weeping. But a sob 01
two broke their prison, and she fell
the emotion she had not seen. lte
laxing her hold, she pushed me gently
from her, aud looked at me with con
cern that grew as she looked.
"You are dreafully changed, my
Duncan! What is the matter? Has
Lord Hilton been rude to you? You
look so much older, somehow. What
can it be?"
I understood at once how it was.
The whole of those dreary twelve
years was gone. The thread of her
consciousness had been cut. those
years dropped out, and the ends re
united. She thought this was one oi
her old visits to me, when, as now,
she had walked in her sleep. I an
swered:
"I will tell you all another time. 1
don't want to waste the moments with
you. my Alice, in speaking :ilH>ut it
Lord Hilton has l»ehaved very badly
to me; but never mind."
She half rose in anger; and her eyes
looked insane for the first time.
"How dares he?" she said, and then
checked herself with a sigh at her own
helplessness.
"But it will all come all right. Alice,''
I went on in terror lest I should dis
turb her present conception of her cir
cumstances.
"Alice," I said, "it is nearly morn
ing. You were late to-night. Don't
you think you had hotter go—for feai
you know?"
"Ah," she said with a smite, in
which there was 110 doubt or fear,
"you are tired of me already! But 1
will go at once —to dream about you."
"Go, my darling," I said; "and mind
you get some rijfbt sleep. Shall I pro
with you?"
"No, no; please not. I can go alone
as usual. When a ghost meets me, 1
just walk through him, and then he's
nowhere; and I laugb."
One kiss, one backward lingering
look, and the door closed behind her.
I heard the who of the great hall. I
was alone.
Yet, at the moment, by a sudden im
pulse, I opened the window gently,
stepped into the little grassy court, and
then retreated into my own room,
where I i>aeed altout till the house
hold was astir.
CHAPTER XXTV.
PKISOV»ItEAKISG.
It was with considerable anxiety
that 1 repaired to Mrs. Blakesley's
room. There I found the old lady at
the breakfast-table, so thoroughly
composed, that I was at once reas
sured as to her ignorance of what had
occurred while she slept.
Arrived at my inn. I kept my room,
my dim-seen plans rendering it de
sirable that I should attract as little
attention in the neighborhood as
might be. 1 had now to concentrate
these plans and make them definite
to myself.
My cogitations concluded in the re
solve to use the means in my hands
for the rescue of Lady Alice. Mid
night found me in the alley of the
kitchen-garden. The door of the little
court o|>ened easily. Nor had I with
drawn its belts without knowing that
I could manage to open the window
of my old room from the outside. I
secured the door of the room, struck
a light, lighted a rem mint of taper
which I found on the table, threw my
self on the couch, and said to my
Alice: "Come."
And she came. I rose. She laid
herself down. I pulled off my coat
it was all I could tind —and laid it over
her. The night was chilly. She re
vived with the same sweet smile, but,
irlvini: a little shiver- -aid:
"Why have you no Are. Duncan? I
must give orders about It. That's
some trirk of old Clankshoe."
"Tes. that Is ft. Alice."
"I had a strange dream the other
night. L thought I was sitting on a
stone In the dark. Aud I heard your
voice calling me. And it went all
around me. and came nearer and
went further off. but I could not move
to go to y*u. I tried to answer you.
but I could only make a queer sound,
not like my own voice at aIL"
"I dreamed it too. Alice."
"The same dream?"
"Yes, the very same."
"I am so glad. But I didn't like the
dream. Duncan, my head feels so
strange sometimes. Aud lam so
sleepy. Duncan, dearest—am I dream
ing now? Oh. tell me that 1 am
awake and that I hold you; for to
morrow. when 1 wake, I shall fancy
that I have lost you. They've
spoiled my poor brain, somehow. I
am all right 1 know, but I cannot get
at it The red ia withered, some
how."
"You are wide awake, my Alice. I
know all about it. I will help you
to understand it all. only you must
do exactly as I tell you."
"Yes, yes."
"Then go to bed now and sleep as
much as you can: else I will not let
you come to me at night"
"That would be too cruel, when It is
all I have."
"Then go. dearest, and sleep."
"I wllL"
She rose and wyot I, too, went
making all dose behind me. The
moon was going down. Her light
look«d to me strange, almost malig
nant.
Next morning I called again upon
Mrs. Blakesley, to Inquire after Lady
Alice, anxious to know how yesterday
had jwissed.
"Just the same." answered the old
lady. "You need not look for any
change. Yesterday I did see her
smile once, though."
tlie usual facts of nature—(l say facts,
not laws I—the dreams of most people
are more or less insane; those of Lady
Alice were sound; thus, with her, re
storing the balance of sane life. That
smile was the sign of the dream life
liegiuning to leaves the waking and
false life.
"Have you heard of young Lord
And was that nothing?
In her case there was a reversal of
Hilton's marriage?" asked Mrs.
Blakesley.
"I have only heard sotoe rumors
about it." I answered. "Who is the
new countess?"
"The daughter of a rich merchant
somewhere. They say she isn't the
liest of tempers. They're coming here
in al>out a mouth. I am just terrified
to think how it may fare with my
lamb now. They won't let her go
wandering about wherever she
pleases, 1 And If they shut her
up, she will die."
1 vowed inwardly that she should
be free, if I carried her off, madness
and aIL
Pro
NAVAL DEFINITIONS. Z a
Fathom —A measure of six feet.
Turret —A tower for the protection
of the gunners.
A mapaK fn» 1/wvlr.
out at the masthead.
Armament—A term expressing col
lectively all the guns of a ship.
Jacob's Ladder —A short ladder with
wood rungs and rope sides.
Capstan—A machine used on board
ship for lifting heavy weights.
Bow Chaser —A gun- mounted in the
bow to fire on retreating vessels.
Bulkhead —A partition separating
compartments on the same deck.
Cable —A long, heavy chain used to
retain a ship in place at anchor.
Binnacle—The compass box of a
ship, with a light to show it at night.
Gangway—The aperture in a ship's
side where persons enter and depart.
Displacement—The weight in tons of
the volume of water 'displaced by a
ship's hull.
Barbette —A fixed circular belt of
armor for protecting the guns in a re
volving turret.
Knot —A nautical mile of 2,025 yards,
equal to about one and one-eighth
statute miles.
Monitor —A low, nearly fiat-bottom
ed armored vessel, with one or two
turrets, each carrying two guns.
Bridge—A platform above the rail
extending across the deck for the con
venience of the ship's officers.
Conning Tower—An armored tower
where the wheel, engine, telegraphs,
etc., are located and from which the
captain is supposed to direct his men
during a battle.
KITCHEN HINTS.
Sharpen all kinds of fish sauce with
lemon juice.
A dash of black pepper greatly im
proves vanilla ice cream.
When using vanilla for flavoring add
half a teaspoonful of peach extract.
Put sugar in water used for basting
meats of all kinds; it adds flavor, espe
cially to veal.
Add a cup of good date vinegar to
the water in which you boil fish, espe
cially if it is salt fish.
When baking fish place on the top
thin slices of salt pork; it tastes the
fish and improves the flavor.
To give an appetizing flavor to a broil
ed beefsteak rub a cut onion over the
hot platter with the butter.
Three tablespoons of freshly made
tea, with a pinch of nutmeg, imparts
an indescribable flavor to applie pie.
Chocolate is greatly improved by
adding a teaspoonful of strong coffee
just before serving; a teaspoonful of
sherry also helps.
To improve sweetbreads and give
them a fine flavor soak them in mild
lemon juice water an hour, and then
broil 20 minutes in beef stock.
HOMESPUN PHILOSOPHY.
After people pass thirty-five they
never make as fine appearance at any
thing as when engaged in work.
Talk as men shoot; make everything
that you say hit the mark or don't
waste your ammunition.
No man is an interesting talker when
members of his family are present, for
the reason that kin pin each other
down to facts.
You will find as you grow older that
a good many who claim to have their
coats off working for you have them
rolled up for pillows and are sleeping
on them In the shade.
After all there isn't any better friend
than the one who never "throws things
up to you."
A fortunate man Is one who Isn't re
minded every time his wife smiles of
dentists' bills.
We are annoyed until we are thirty
by the "example" we should follow,
and annoyed after that time till death
gets us at the "example" we are setting
others.
When a man fails in business his
thoughts turn at once to securing a
public office. Every man thinks it is
easy to get one.
No one is Jumped on so quickly when
he does wrong as the man who made
himself a self-appointed guide for
others.
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Third-class railway fares in India
are less than a farthing a mile.
Great Britain spends on tobacco and
pipes about £14.000.000 every year.
The first envelope ever made is in
the possession of the British museum.
Country roads In China are never
bounded by fences, but are entirely un
defined.
Hamburg's improved apparatus for
burning garbage does the work for
about 9 cents per 1.000 pounds.
Great Britain's marine steam ton
nage is to-day 6,720,703 —about as much
as that of all other nations added to
gether.
In the hotels built in China for the
use of foreigners, the highest stories
are the most expensive, because the
breeziest.
The longest canal in the world is in
Russia. It extends from 9t. Petersburg
to the frontier of China, and measures
nearly 4,500 miles.
Queen Victoria, somebody has fig
ured out, is sovereign over one con
tinent, 100 peninsulas, 500 promon
tories, 1,000 lakes, 8,000 rivers and 10,-
000 islands.
If a pair of herrings could be left to
breed and multiply undisturbed for a
period of 20 years "'iey would yield an
amount of fish equal in bulk to the
globe on which «e live.
Knew Hit (*tittle Touch
"Ah, go lang now. Pat, Oi know it's
you by th' physkersl"
Well Worth y.
There's nothin' too good fur Uncle
Sam,
From gold in the arctic frost
To truit that grows on the stately
pa'm
Where the snow-cloud never crossed.
From the tropic plant with fantastic
bloom
To the pine which has sternly stood
An' conquered in spite of cold an
gloom.
There's nothin' at all too good.
There's nothin' too good fur Uncle
Sam,
When he said "Are ye ready, men?"
From a million hearts come the words,
"I am,"
Till the echoes shook again.
An' the rich an' poor an" the high an'
Prepared at the country's call to go—
Fur there's nothin' at all too good.
MUCH IN LITTLE. Ja
Lucifer matches were first made
nearly 70 years ago.
The castle of Heidetburg Is the
largest In Germany.
Britain makes $20,000,000 a year
profit out of its postoffices.
Employment bureaus in Buffalo are
limited in their charges by an ordi
nance.
The state dress of a trumpeter of the
Royal House guard!, "the Blues," costs
over SSOO.
The people of Norway are greatly
alarmed at the spread of liquor-drink
ing among them.
Temperance is the rule, it appears,
all along the line in connection with
the Soudan expedition.
A correspondent estimates that the
population of London in 1901 will be
6,140,000, and 7,600,000 in 1921.
The city debt of Boston has increased
$14,500,136 in two and a third years,
ind now amounts to $80,166,910.
The origin of the American navy
dates from October 13, 1775, when con
gress authorized the equipment of two
cruisers.
The Liverpool docks, one of the won
iers of modern commerce, extend along
the Mersey a distance of six and a half
miles.
Andrew Lang, who probably knows
what he is talking about, states there
ire 100,000 novelists in England whose
works never get into print.
Dr. Nansen's profits from his book,
'Farthest North," are said to amount
:o $190,000. The profits of his lectures
nave added largely to this sum.
THE LITTLE ENCYCLOPEDIA.
The Atlantic Ocean is crossed month
ly by 1,000 ships.
A person walking at the rate of four
miles an hour consumes 2,300 cubic
Inches of air per minute.
The populaton of Palestine is in
creasing rapidly. Ten years ago there
were only 16,000 residents in Jaffa; to
3ay there are nearly 60,000.
The beautiful colors seen In the soap
cubbies arise from the fact that the bub
ble, being very thin, reflects light from
both the outer and inner surface."* of
the film.
A process has been recently perfect
ed by which thin sheets of absolutely
transparent celluloid are silvered by a
similar process to that formerly used
on glass.
In the streets and suburbs of London
there are now not only 712 fountains
for human beings, but 286 large
troughs for horses and cattle and 4io
small troughs for sheep and dogs.
Burglar-proof glass has been invent
ed by a smart manufacturer. It is
made by pouring molten glass over a
network of steel wire. It is especially
adapted for skylights and jewelers'
windows.
HOW THEY DO THINGS IN MEXICO
The bridegroom always furnishes thq
trousseau of his bride.
Mines are generally worked as mines,
ind not for the stock market.
In every city free night schools are
maintained for the working classes.
Church processions are prohibited.
Even a priest cannot legally walk the
streets in his churchly garments.
There is no hanging in Mexico, and,
>utside what concerns the army and
the brigands, no capital punishment.
In a Mexican home the sofa is the
seat of honor, and the guest does not
take a seat upon it until requested to
do so.
Theatrical companies that do not
present the attraction they have billed
No. 48
are subject to fine. A fine is also placed
an bull-fighters who give a poor per
formance or who do not begin on tima.
The term of a prisoner in a peniten
tiary is divided into three periods. The
first is occupied with penal labor. The
tecond is labor in the training school,
with little play. The third, "prepara
tory freedom." includes plain work and
many privileges.
IRONICAL IF& *- •
If yoA would succeed In life, learn to
know what you can't do.
If paying one's debts is a virtue, very
few men are strictly virtuous.
If volunteers were called for to pay
the bill war would never be declared.
If marriage is a mistake, it is at least
one a man doesn't make every day.
If a man is his own worst enemy he
has a natural-born fool to take care ofc
If a man rises in tbe world at the
end of a rope be Is sure of an early
downfall.
If handsome is as handsome does
some good-looking girls are anything
but handsome.
If people didn't have to work they
would have more time to get tired of
doing nothing.
If it were literally true that whisky
fills our jails lots of men would break
into them.
If you carve your name on the hearts
of your friends it will be more lasting
than if carved on a marble slab.
SIX SHORT SAYINGS.
What a wonderful being Is man! He
admits it himself.
We don't want the earth; If we had
the whole earth, we should not need a
navy to defend it.
A woman considers herself happy
when she lives two years in one and
grows six months older the while.
Man is the architect of his own for
tune, which accounts for some of these
Venetian facades on human woodshed*.
Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to
le wise; If a man isn't a judge of good
whiskey his drinks don't cost hiai so
nucb.
No man, generally speaking, has too
treat a future to be held in the little
•.ands of a woman.
Holding Out.
"Don't vou think it would be well
for us to surrender?" inquired the
Spanish officer at Havana.
"Surrender!" echoed his superior.
"I wouldn't think of such a thing—
not until we have gotten what there
Is to be made by speculation in food
supplies."
Good and evil are magnets. Good ia
the more powerful, but evil acts at less
distance.
Reason brings our vices into court.
Self-love examines them —and dis
?harges them.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
The meaner a man is the more
agreeable he tries to be.
A chainless wheel is far more de
sirable than a chainless dog.
Hope for the best, prepare for the
worst and take what comes.
A poet says that hunger acts U a
stimulant to original thought
IULIIU LIT*
man economize as the lack of money.
It takes a clever woman to obtain in
formation without asking questioni.
Some girls sing like nightingales,
and some others like gales in the night.
It's a pity that a man can never see
himself in a poker game as others
"see" him.
The first thing a widow does af
ter making up her mind to appoint her
late husband's successor is to make up
her face.
It is harder for a photographer to
make a baby look pleasant than it is
for the baby to make the photographer
look unpleasant.
OUT OF THE VEST POCKET.
Neither camels nor elephants car
jump.
Tea plantations In India cover 25,000
acres.
There are always 6,000 British ves
sels at sea.
Field rats are considered good eat
ing in Cuba.
Klephants can exert the strength of
31 horses.
Savages, on the whole, live longer
than civilized people.
A carrier pigeon service was estab
lished by the Turks A. D. 667.
Sicilian laborers are glad to get ten
pence a day for 14 hours' work.
Germans weigh nearly ten pounds
each man more than Frenchmen.
The heat of comets is said to be 2,000
times greater than redhot Iron.
A church in Seidlitz, in Bohemia,
contains a chandelier made of human
bones.
It is claimed that at present the Eng
lish language is spoken by 115,000,000
people. ,
ALL SORTS IN A NUTSHELL.
The American navy has practically
all been built since 1883.
More than 75 per cent, of the trad*
or Egypt is with British possessions.
The state of Texas is about 76,000
square miles larger In area than Spain.
In Berlin nearly all the repairs of
the principal streets are carried on at
night.
It is proposed to lntrodpce bats and
toads into New Zealand to combat in
sect pests.
In the United States there are no
less than 13 different varieties of the
Presbyterian church family.
The entire collection of coins and
medals in the British museum consists
of nearly 250,000 specimens.
Under the laws of China the man
who loses bis temper in a discussion la
sent to jail for five days to cool down.
Gray horses are the longest-lived
and cream-colored ones are the most
delicate, being unable to stand very
warm weather.
OF REAL INTEREST.
Sugar alone will apparently sustain
life for a considerable time.
On an average every woman carries
40 to 60 miles of hair upon her head.
The polar currents are said to con
tain less salt than those from the equa
tor.
The huge guns of modern navies can
he fired only about 75 timee. After that
thej become worn out.
Spain has more sunshine than any
other country in Europe, the yearly
average being 3,000 hours.
Under British rule the cotton crop
of Egypt has doubled, and now
amounts to over 500,000,000 pounds a
year.
In Abyssinia not so very long ago
salt was the principal medium of ex
change, being practically used M
money.