Lost Hours.
"I say good night and go up stairs.
And then undress and say my prayers
Beside njy bed, and then jump in it;
And then—the very uextest minute—
The morning sun comes into peep
At me. 1 s'pose I've been to sleep,
But seems to me," said little Ted,
"It's not worth while togo to bed."
—St. Nicholas.
A Fortunate PUB*.
Mrs. Coady, who teaches a primary
school at Oakland, Cal., is very proud
of a remarkable cat which she keeps
alive through general subscription
among her rjpils. During several
years' experience Mrs. Coady has
found that the only way she can
reach the infantile heart is through
kindness to animals. Acting on this
she secured a large fui.-y cat which
sh<- gave into the tender hands of
her children. The result has been
the children fell in love with the ani
mal, and to divide up the prize Mrs.
Coady decided to allow the children
to take the cat home each night in
regular routine. The result has been
the cat has become large and arro
gant through the munificent treat
ment of its separate masters, who re
luctantly return it to the teacher each
•day.
The Frlnti.is of Postage Stnmpa.
In printing, steel plates are used,
on which two or more stamps are en
graved. Two men are Kept hard at
work covering them with colored
inks, and passing them to a man and
a girl, who are kept busy at printing
them with large rolling handpresses.
Three of these little squads are em
ployed all the time, although 10
presses can be put into use in case
of necessity. .After the s>aiall sheets
of paper upon which the 200 stamps
are engraved have dried enough tney
are sent into another room and
gummed. The gum used for this pur
pose is a peculiar composition, made
of the powder of dried potatoes, and
other vegetables, mixed with water,
which is better than any other mate
rial; for instance, gum arabic, which
cracks the paper badly. This paper
is of a peculiar texture, somewhat
similar to that used for bank notes.
After having been again dried, this
time on the little cracks which are
fanned by steam power, for about an
hour, they are put between sheets of
pasteboard and pressed in hydraulic
presses, capable of applying a weight
of 2000 tons. The next thing is to cut
the sheet in half, each sheet, of
course, when cut, containing a 100
stamps. This is done by a girl, with
a large pair of shears, by hand, being
preferred to that of machinery, which
method would destroy too many
other squads, who. in as many opera
tions, perforate the paper between
the stamps. Next they are pressed
once more, and then packed and
labeled, and stowed away in another
room, preparatory to being putin
mail bags for despatching to fill or
ders. If a single stamp is torn, or in
any way multilated, the whole sheet
of stamps is burned. There are
500.000 burned every week from this
cause. For the past 20 years not a
sheet has been lost, such care has
been taken in counting them. Each
sheet is counted 11 times.
The Story That liettio Told.
My little niece Bettie was spending
a summer with me in the country and
one day, as we walked to church, a
bird hopped across our path.
"O auntie," said Bettie, "that looks
just like the little bird 1 was so un
kind to last spring. I didn't mean to
be unkind, you know, but I was; and
I arlways feci so sad when I think
about it."
"What did you do?" I said. "Tell
me about it."
And this is what she told.
"You, see, auntie, I had just had a
little room given me for my own; and
1 was fixing it up with pretty little
things. There was a bracket against
the wall with openwork sides; and I
thought it would be nice to stick a
little branch into it, and fix a bird's
nest into the branch. So I looked into
all the trees to find a nest that the
birds had left. At last 1 found one
that I felt sure must be safe to take;
for 1 never saw any birds flying about
it, although I looked a good many
times. So I went and got the long
6tick that our gardener, Seth, used
to prune the trees, and began to
punch at it. O auntie! I can hardly
tell you the rest; it tipped sideways,
and two poor little young birds fell
to the ground! Oh, I can't tell you
how I felt! Iran to the house and
told mamma: and she told me to get
Seth to climb up with the ladder, and
straighten the nest and put the little
birds back into it. Iran right off to
find him; but, while I was looking,
she came out with a little box and
some cotton, and told me to run to
the tree and pick up the little birds,
and put them in the box and cover
them with the cotton, while she
looked for Seth.
"Oh auntie, what do you think!
when I got back to the tree, I found
two more little birds had fallen out
of the nest: and the poor mother-bird
had come back, and she was flying
around and around, and crying almost
like a person, and the little birds
were answering with such weak little
'peeps.' It made me cry so that 1
could hardly see to pick up the birds.
I had just got them covered up warm,
when Seth came with the ladder. I
W/S F« afraid that, when the mother
bird saw him up in the tree, Bbt
would be ao frightened that she would
fly away ana never come back; but
she loved hsr little birdies too muct
for that. Seth worked as fast as h«
could; but it seemed a long time tc
me before the nest was fixed, because
1 was in such a hurry. Then he toot
the box and climbed up with it and
put the little birds back. All th<
time the mother-bird was flyinj
around and around and crying. As
soon as Seth went away, I sat verj
still to see what would happen. Th(
mother-bird didn't come to the nesi
right away, but in a few minutes sh<
came; and, when she was all fixed 01
the nest, she stopped crying, and th«
little birds stopped peeping. I wen'
out every day to the tree befor<
breakfast, after that, and one morn
ing 1 found the mother-bird teachini
the little ones to fly. But 1 neve:
tried to get a nest for my roon
again."—Christian Register.
A Qaeer Little Singer.
The scholars called Barbara an<
Jess "twin friends." At noon recessei
they ate their dinners together unde:
the laurel bush —Jess ate Barbara';
cookies and Barbara ate the cup
cakes that came out of Jess's basket
They enjoyed doing everything to
gether, and that was why Jess was
grieved when Barbara told her she
had been to a concert the night be
fore. It was the first time their little
paths had separated.
"The singing was beautiful!" Bar
bara said, enthusiastically, not notic
ing the sober little face beside her.
"It was like this. 'Tra-la-la-la-la-a-a,'
going way up high as the sky! The
woman who did it had on a traily pink
dress, but I couldn't see her face. She
sang the baby to sleep."
"Why, Barb'ra Bennett, the idea of
taking a baby to a concert!"
"There wasn't any baby there, of
course! I never said any such thing
—oh!"
Barbara laughed till her clear little
voice echoed back to them from the
big schoolhouse.
"I meant she sang, 'Oh, hush-a
bye-low, hush-a-bye-low,' and rocked
her arms same as if the baby had
been in them," she explained. "Only
our baby would have fallen out, I
know."
The next day at noon recess it was
Jess's turn to say something surpris
ing. Her eyes were dancing with de
light.
"I went to a concert last night my
own self," she said, calmly. "I'm go
ing again tonight, too. I guess I shall
keep ongoing right along."
She waited for Barbara's "Oh!" It
was quite a while in coming.
"Oh!" at last said Barbara, with a
little gasp of astonishment.
"Yes, it was a beautiful concert. I
wish you could have heard it. Barb'ra
Bennett. The singing was thebest —
it was all singing. I couldn't see the
—the one who did it, but I know she
had on a soft gray dress —all furry
and shiny like silk. She sang the
baby to sleep."
"Jess Kinsey, what baby?"
"Our baby—the Kinsey baby,"
laughed Jess. "He went to the con
cert, too. Mamma wanted him to
go."
Then followed Barbara's quick, half
scornful questions.
"Didn't the baby talk out loud, right
in the middle of the concert?"
"My, yes—like everything! Then
next thing he knew he was sung to
sleep."
"Did her dress trail way out behind
like my woman's that sung?" Bar
bara's face was unbelieving. The
pink dress had trailed wa-ay out be
hind, splendidly.
Jess burst into a gay little laugh.
"1 couldn't see it trailing, but it did
—it did! You can ask my mother.
Then, of course, sometimes the —the
one who sang let it kind of curl up
beside her "
"Course. Mine did, too—just as
graceful!" interposed Barbara, has
tily. Then both little girls hurried to
their feet at the sound of the school
bell.
The next day, and the next, Jess
told the same wonderful story, with
the same little twinkles in her eyes.
She had been to the same concert
again, she and the Kinsey baby.
The merry little mystery clung
about Jess and invested her with a
little halo of importance among all
the girls. Nobody had heard of the
"to-be-continued" concert, but nobody
thought of doubting Jess's word. Of
course it was a kind of a joke, but
nobody could guess it.
One morning Jess looked rathei
sober. Barbara caught her around
her waist and whirled her under the
laurel bush.
"Well, she laughed, "I s'pose you
went to that concert last night, Jese
Kinse;-?"
"No, I didn't." Jess said, gravely
"There wasn't any."
"Wasn't any concert?"
"No, there wasn't. There was an
awful accident happened."
"Jess Kinsey, tell me quick!"
"Well, the—the one who sings goi
caught in & trap—so there!"
Barbara uttered a little shril'
scream of delight, and the other glrlf
came hurrying up.
■'l've found it out —a mouse! i
mouse!" cried Barbara.
"A mouse!"
"Yes," murmured Jess, sorrowfully
"a dear little singing mouse in th<
wall, and Ido miss her so! She hac
such a sweet, cunning little voice!
Seemed as if it filled the whole roonr
with a little soft music."—Youth'f
Companion.
The Vanity of Mnn.
: When some men make money, theli
first eviderse of it is a visit to their
old home town wearing a stovepipe
hat. —Atchison Globe.
MINTS
Corner* in the Living KOOID,
A very pretty corner may be ar
ranged in any living room by means of
a screen and a divan. Over the divan
there may be, if you choose, a canopy,
and plenty of cushions are indispensa
ble to its easeful luxury. But a screen
answers every purpose of retirement
and withdrawal and, being readily
portable, lends itself to the house
keeper's requirements. In country
cottages where space is important not
only corners may be secured at pleas
ure and furnished at discretion by
the help of the screen, but one room
may be made to do duty as several —
as dining room, library and drawing
room, as one of these at a time, or as
all three, should occasion suggest.
The Invalid's Itoom.
When possible, the invalid's room
should have a south or southwest as
pect. A room of medium size is the
best. Ventilation is easier to manage,
and there is less to clean than in a
large room.
For many reasons, it is advisable
that, if it can be so arranged, the sick
room should be near the top of the
house. In the first place, it is quieter;
noises from the street, as well as those
from the house, will be less noticea
ble.
But a far more important reason i3
that poisoned and vitiated air has a
tendency to rise, therefore, if the sick
room is on the first floor the impure
air will rise to the top of the house,
and possibly affect those who may be
living above the invalid.
If there is a small dressing room ad
joining the invalid's room, so much the
better. It will be useful as a store
room for extra bedding and reserves
of all kinds.
The sick room must be cheerful in
appearance. Get rid of superfluous
upholstered furniture, which only acts
as dust traps, and in the after disin
fecting may possibly be spoiled. Heavy
curtains and valances are undesirable
in infectious cases, but there is no rea
son that pretty wash curtains of lace
or muslin should not be decoratively
employed.
How to Kfpp Hook*.
Books, it is said, are spoiled
by being criss-crossed on con
venient desks and stands. Valuable
volumes should, therefore, be kept in
racks. One of the best of library ta
bles is constructed after the shape of
those used in Roman libraries. It is
a table, sure enough, on top, but is
provided with shelves beneath, shelves
so arranged that when a book is pul
temporarily aside it need not be laid
flat on its side, but stands upon its
feet, so to speak, which is the only
proper position for a book to be placed
in. On top of this table there is an
other receptacle for books, a small
revolving stand, which is designed to
hold the small dictionaries of foreign
languages and other reference books.
This is a case of fine, simply polished
hardwood and is especially adapted to
the man's library. For reading desks
of busy authors, the morocco bound
book blocks are at once useful and or
namental, though there is something
newer and rather more decorative in
the shape of a painted or engraved
leather revolving stand, which, by its
brass handle, can be moved about the
room at the convenience of the reader,
and i Tewed into the arm of the new
mori eading chair, or it can be un
hinf and folded perfectly flat for
oac'
4SAjfc(/f£/fC Lj
/uant Sandwiches —Mince one
p pepper, two tablespoonfuls ofca
e, half a cup of stoned olives and
large sprays of cress. Toss up
jhtly with mayonnaise dressing and
pread on thin slices of rye bread
fhich have been well buttered.
Drop Cakes—One cup each of sugar
and sour cream; two and a half cups
flour, a teaspoonful of soda, one egg.
Sift the cream tartar with the flour,
mix the soda with the cream. Beat
the egg and mix all together. Drop
iu small spoonfuls in buttered pans
and put a raisin on top of each cake.
Bake in a quick oven.
Banana Jelly—Mash eight bananas
with one tablespoonful of sugar, three
tablespoonfuls of any jam. apricot pre
ferred, and one gill of orange juice.
Make a lemon jelly of half a package
of gelatin, dissolved, one pint of hot
water, juice of two lemons and a half
a cup of sugar. Heat it and add the
banana puree. Turn into a mold, place
cn the ice until dinner time and serve
with whipped cream.
Vegetable Cutlets —Th-eee are made
of half mashed potatoes and half
equal parts of carrots, parsnips, tur
nips and onions. These must all be
cooked and onions cut fine and
browned in a little butter. The other
vegetables must also be chopped fin
after they are boiled, and all mix?
with the mashed potato while they a:
hot. Season lightly with salt and pep
per—say, scant teaspoon of salt ami
dash of pepper for ev:-Ty pint of the
mixture and a heaping tablespoonful
of chopped parsley. Set away until
cold, and then form into cutlets (tin
form is good to have), dip in beateis
egg and bread crumbs, brown in hot
fat and serve with a good brown
sauoe. .
3941
Oar Cotton Trade.
The United States furnishes nearly
nine-tenths of the world's supply of
cotton; the East Indies, Egypt and
smaller countries the other tenth. We
can hardly maintain this ascendency
with the efforts making to take away,
the business. Japan, for example, Is
manufacturing cotton cloth, and takes
largely of our supply. Now she has
cut her demand in two because by
using cheap Indian cotton and mixing
it with the American article she can
place her goods on the market at a less
price than if wholly made of our ma
terial. Another competitor will ma
terialize in a few years. With the
damming of the Nile and the estab
lishment of the irrigating canals which
are a part of the enterprise, a vast
tract of Egypt will be opened up for
the cultivation of the cotton plant.
An area equal to four large American
states will be reclaimed and much of
it will be devoted to cotton raising.
European and Asiatic manufacturers
expect to get the material much
cheaper, because Egyptian labor is
paid so little in comparison with
American.
"How did you like the pictures at
the art exhibition?" "Splendid. 1
met everybody and I never received
more attention in my life."—Phila
delphia Times.
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!
How Are Your Bowels?
■ -f—ip About the first thing the
Then, "Let's see your tongue."
Because bad tongue and bad
bowels go together. Regulate
If vflM //* W bowels, clean up the tongue.
V a 'l ,s ' s tbe way
W *° CC P an d l°°k well.
I jSjws ~. You can't Keep the bowels
V 3. Jllli!healthy and regular with purges
or bird-shot pills. They move
you with awful gripes, then
you're worse than ever.
Now what you want is Cascarets. Go and get tfrem today-Cascarets-in metal box
with the long-tailed "C" on the lid-cost 10c. Be sure you get the genuine! Cascarets are
never sold in bulk. Take one! Cat it like candy, and it will work gently-while you
sleep. It cures, that means it strengthens the muscular walls of the bowels, gives them new
life. Then they act regularly and naturally. That's what you want. It's guaranteed to
be found in
Get the genuine if you wart results! Tablet Is marked "CCC." C«*c«ret« are
told in bulk, but or.ly and always in the light blue metal bo* with the long-tailed C. LOOK
for the trade-mark —the C with a tail —ontnelid^
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Ask Tonr Pnlcr for Allen's Foot-lCase,
A powder io shake into your shoes; rests ths
ieet. Cures Corns, Lunions, Swollen, Sore,
Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and In
growing Nails. Allen's Foot-Eaie makes new
or tight shoes easy. At all druggists ani
shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.
The salmon pack of Washington in 1000
was valued at $3,240,460.
Frey'i Vermifuge For Worm*
Has many imitators. Get the genuine, made
by E. <fc S. FREY, BALTIMORE, JID.
It is sometimes a ticklish job to live on
tick.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
Seven thousand mills in Russia grind
annually over 10,000,000 tons of grain.
I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.— MRS. THOMAS ROB
BINS, Maple St., Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17, I'JOO.
Australia has more than 1000 newspapers.
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'Successfully Prosecutes Claims.
LatePrinclp&l Examiner U.S. Pension
3yrs in civil war. 15 adjudicating claluiH, atty nine*
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