A I'Espagnole. "I wonder why it is." remarked the lit ranger to me. "Why what is?" I queried. He groaned and explained thus: "Why Is it that chefs at restaurants ! think that the mere addition of a to mato to anything under the sun justi fies their calling the combination some thing 'a I'Espagnole?' "I see 'eggs a I'Espagnole.' My curi osity is at once aroused. 'What. I ask myself, 'do the Spaniards do to eggs? Fo I order 'eggs a I'Espagnole.' What lire they? Eggs with tomato. "I see 'chicken fricassee a I'Espa ; gnole.' Nothing but tomato tnlxed with chicken. And thus it goes on and on ' through life, a continual round of j hopes deceived. Spanish sauce is to mato catchup. It is absurd; it is care j less. Chefs have no right to bo so | lazy. Why, if the same degree of care- | lessness is allowed to run rampant I through other classes of men besides chefs I do not doubt*'— Here the stranger got positively tragic. "I do not doubt that the good old phrase 'walking Spanish' will lie ap plied to stepping on a tomato. 1 fe:ir It; I fear it." And he faded thence, shaking Ills head with gloomy foreboding.—New York Times. Tennyson and Lowell. Mrs. Procter, the wife of Barry Corn wail, was a great figure in London lit erary society when .Mr. Lowell was United States minister at the court of fSt. James. Mrs. Procter was most anxious to bring Tennyson and Mr. j Lowell together. Tennyson, who was j whimsical iu his prejudices, made va- J rtous excuses and affected to believe that Mr. Lowell was a poet of little I Importance and an after dinner orator whose graces of style were overrated. One day Mrs. Procter told Mr. Ten nyson that Mr. Lowell had written some lines on her birthday and that she must insist upon reading them to him. The English poet looked at her askance and submitted with bad grace. Mrs. Procter did not go further than the opening line, "I know a girl—they say she's eighty." Tennyson scowled and sprang to his feet with a gesture •if Impatience. "Too familiar!" he jfrrowled out In high disdain and re- Sused to listen to the remaining lines. Mrs. Procter persevered in her efforts to bring the two poets together, and they finally met nnd became Intimate friends. Mr. Tennyson was a man of many caprices and had a touch of shy ness and cold reserve which made lihn unwilling to meet n stranger. A Sly Dog. The late Dr. .Tames Freeman C!:.r'.." used to tell this story of his do "At one time my dog was foil 0112 going to the railway station to see llie people, and 1 always ordered him t" go home, fearing he would lie hurt by the cars. ITe easily understood that if he went there it was contrary to my wishes. So whenever he was near the station if lie saw me coming lie would look the other way and pretend not to know me. If he met me anywhere else he always bounded to meet me with great delight. But at the station it was quite different. He would pay no attention to my whistle or my call. He even pretended to be another dog nnd would look me right In the faep without apparently recognizing me. He gave me the cut direct in the most Impertinent manner, the rooson evi dently being that he knew he was doing what was wrong and did not like to be found out. Possibly he in y have relied a little on my nearsighted ness In his maneuver." The Care of Goldfish. The Secret of success in caring for goldfish Is to keep the water they • n In fresh find sweet. Their globe should be emptied and its water renewed •< •often as every second day. Lift, i U fish out gently in a glassful of w: empty the globe, wash It out, then In fresh water and put the fish 1 again. Clear, sweet rainwater sli .1 be used. ni:d its temperature should ' • raised to 75 or 80 degrees by w:':\nl"*f a part of it. Sparkling well water i too cold for the fish to thrive in ir too pure, for the nnimalculae of r: ! water form an important part of the food of these lish. They need no other sustenance than a very few bread crumbs sprinkled in their water daily for overfeeding will kill them vert quickly.— Housekeeper. Barrie's Critic. J. M. llnrrlo some years ago was persuaded to lake the chair at a Burns celebration in Scotland. He was ex treraely silent and stole away at the earliest opportunity. Next week ap peared in the National Observer a hu morous article entitled "Mr. Barrie In the Chair," in which Sir. Barrie's lack of social tnct was held up to ridicule. I Many people thought the writer had gone too far and protested. But the fiuthor of the article was Mr. Barrie liiinself. Influence of Feminine Dress. Few men realize the influence that dress lias upon them. Man thinks t!ri he is an unbiased being, open to con viction. to sound logic, to unanswera We argument, For.il delusion: lie i open to nothing exrept to the elo quence of a few yards of silk and i the persuasion of soft laces.—London Graphic. Mads Quite n Difference. Ml-s Wutson l is' Mr. Sark KIJ • you as 1 entered the drawing room last night. Clara. "Is that the beauti ful Miss WatsonV" Clara Yes, dear, with the accent on the "that." Ex change. AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.— Emerson. Tit For Tat. First Teacher—You told me to re mind you ;o punish Willie Thompson this morning for impudence. Second Tpaclier—l'll do it tomorrow. I'm railed before the school board today for insubordination.—Llppincott's. A Secret. Sparks—l wonder why it Is a woman *ets out everything you tell her? Sharks —My dear boy, a woman has only two views of a secret—either It If not (Worth keeping or It is too good to keen THE BEST IN LIFE. Cultivate Gladness—The Brand Im- | proves With Constant Practice. If you want to get the worth of the | bargain in life cultivate gladness. The one who mopes doesn't enjoy herself, and surely no one enjoys her. Any one can be glad when things go her way. To be glad when the maid j breaks your best dinner set and the frock on which you've broken yourself turns out a fright shows a disposition j that can be counted onto oil life's wheels. There's a lot of gladness going, but many of us are blind to it. What wi want is to take life like a healthy child and find enjoyment in simple things. We can cultivate our critical side until it takes the zest from every thing. What if we haven't an overflowing pocket book? Need we hang down flit' corners of our mouths when there are health and the outdoors and love t.> make for gladness? Does it come easier to look on the black side? Has the pose of misfortune become your natural state? Forget It and take to grinning. At first that grin may be strained, but most of your friends will think It more lovely than your usual hangdog expression. The brand improves with practice. Forced cheerfulness is not pleasing, but it is better than chronic depres sion. Keep pumping out that oil of gladness, and by and by the dumps will be lubricated. Gladness isn't an effort to be glad: it is just being glad. You cannot worry yourself into it; neither (iocs it cone by simulation: it does come from tak ing life easy and enjoying things, whether they were meant to be en joyed or not. You sad one. try for a day to hunt causes for gladness. Instead of sum ming up your woes and mourning over the total, get in a receptive mood for Joys. You'll be surprised at the end of the day to find how many have been the occasions for smiling. HEALTH AND BEAUTY. Take exercise in the open air daily Air is all essential. Tight sleeves and tight finger rings are a frequent source of red hands, and the only remedy for this Is to re move the irritating cause. The secret of standing and walking erect consists In keeping the chin away from t'.ie breast. This throws the head upward and backward, and the shoulders will naturally settle back ward in their true position. Sleeplessness is often caused by the head being exposed to the cold while the rest of the body is warm, in nine cases out of ten if the head is cov ered with a silk handkerchief it will induce the much desired sleep. The skin taken out of an eggshell is a simple but good remedy for sore eyes. Just put on top of lid nnd band age over it, and you will be surprised how soon the swelling will go dow? and the pain will leave the eye. THE WRONG NOTE. Morart's Outbreak at an Opera Per formance at Marseilles. Mozart, being once on a visit at Marseilles, went Incognito to hear the performance of his "Yiltanclla Raplta." lie had reason to be tolerably well satisfied till In the midst of the princi pal aria the orchestra, through some error In the copying of the score, pounded a 1) natural where the com poser had written 1> sharp. This sub stitution did not Injure the harmony, but gave a commonplace character to the phrase and obscured the sentiment of the composer Mozart no sooner heard It than ho started up vehemently and from the middle of tie pit cried out in a voice of thunder. "Will you play P sharp, you wretches?" The sensation produced In tiie thea ter may be imagined. The nctqrs were astounded, the lady who was singing stopped short, the orchestra followed her example, and the audience, with loud exclamation:-. demanded the ex pulsion of the offender. lie was ac cordingly seized and required to name himself. He did so. and at the name of Mozart the clamor subsided and was succeeded by shouts of applause from all sid.-s. It was Insisted that the opera should be recommenced. Mozart was installed In the orchestra and directed the whole performance. This time the I) sharp was played In its proper place, nnd the musicians themselves were surprised at fhe superior effect pro duced. After the opera Mozart was conducted In triumph to his hotel. Oil Larynx. The larynx has been compared to a wind, a reed and a stringed instru ment. The comparison of it to a violin gave rise to the not very accurate phrase "vocal chords" as the name of the two cushions which are its most prominent features. But no string so short as those vocal chords could pro duce a musical bass note. In fact, the comparison of the larynx to any instru ment which produces only musical tones Is inadequate to begin with. There is no instrument but the larynx which produces both song and speech, and those comparisons view the larynx merely as a producer of mu sical sounds we have no further con cern with them at present. Besides, the voice cuu be trained for speech, elocution and oratory without a knowl edge of the physiology of the larynx. We have the power of ndjustlng the larnyx, of varying the tension of its cords, cushions or ligaments, as they have been variously called. We can do these things without scientific tech nieal knowledge of how they are done, without any knowledge at all of vocal physiology, and It is the work of the trainer of the voice to teach the pupils how to do them.—Chambers' Journal. The Reward of Beauty. "What a beautiful little girl!" said the woman. "Yes," replied the man,"and some day It may be necessary for her father to pay milllo-iH In order to get some scrawny Utile foreigner with bowlegs nnd watery eyes and a receding chin to marry her."—Chicago Record-Her ald. THE CLERMONT. First Passage by Steamboat From New York to Albany. In August, 1808—the exact day is ft matter of dispute—the steamboat Cler mont made the first passage by steam from New York to Albany. The dis tance, somewhat less than 150 miles, was covered In thirty-two hours, a record hailed as a triumph in speed, j for previously the passage between the two cities averaged four days. Itobert I'ultou had experimented with steam several years, but the Cler mont was the first boat he constructed on a large scale. As he could not get the engine he wanted In this country lie ordered one from England. The i Clermont was so reconstructed in the j following winter that it gave more commodious accommodations tp trav- J elers, and the year 1808. which was j the first yenr of regular travel by i steamboat, Fulton made it a point to I start his boat precisely on scheduled i time. Curiously enough, a portion of J liio public complained of this. It was not until well along in the summer that travelers got accustomed to It. Previously boats had been held for two hours at the request of pass< i gers who weren't ready. Fulton's per severance won public approval bef< re the season closed.—Anaconda Stand ard. Cleared His Doubts. A well known English gentleman engaged a tail and powerful high lander to act as gamekeeper on his es tate. Having been a considerable time | at his post and not having caught j any poachers, the gentleman suspect- i ed his gamekeeper of - irrlessness. | So one dark night he di .-r.iscd him self and went out with a gun to poach j on his own ground. lie had fired only j one or two shots when he was sud- i denly pounced upon from behind and his gun wrenched away. Then kicks ; and blows were showered upon him j until he fell down half insensible. | The highlander then walked away j quietly, and when the gentleman re- j covered sufficiently he crawled home j and took to his bed for two weeks, lie has now no doubts as to whether I the man can perform his duly or not. | Home, Sweet Home. The old man sat on the park sent, rivers of tears flooding his clothes. A sympathetic passerby, noting the high tide, stopped and asked if he were ill. [ "Yes, sir." said the sorrowing old i fellow. "I've jest 'ad bad news from 'ome. The 'ouse that 'as sheltered me for yenrs is to be torn down, and I 'aven't a penny to my name to stop it. Everybody will be turned out. and goodness knows what'll 'appen to 'em!" "Poor soul!" said the sympathetic passerby, bestowing a penny on the sad old man. "That isn't much, but you are welcome to it And where is this old ho.ne of yours, my friend?" "Up at the joil, sir," replied the old man."lt seems very hard. I've lived I there five and twenty years."—London i Opinion. ' How to Make a Cup of Cocoa. Take a tablcspoonful of cocoa and put it in a fin cup Add one teaspoon t'ul of granulated sugar and one table spoonful of boiling water. Mix well, . so that there will not be any lumps of cocon. Pour a little less than one half pint of milk into a saucepan and cook it, stirring all the time, until it is scalded—that Is. until a film forms on it and if begins to bubble a I little. Stir the cocoa mixture into this and cook until if boils up.—De > lineutor. FOOD FOR THE SEINE. An Incident of Whistler's Student Days In Paris. The early scenes in "Trilby" have shown us the hilarious squalor of the student life in Paris when Whistler joined the sfudio that G ley re carried oil In succession to Deiaroche. It was the Bohemia, Rarely modernized, of Murger's novel, and the shifts to which these raw recruits in art de scended furnished Whistler for life with some of his raciest stories. Once when an American friend unearthed him Whistler was living on the pro ceeds of a wardrobe. One hot day he pawned his coat for an iced drink. Invited once to the American embassy, he had to borrow Poynter's dress suit. I?uf the best story of these frolicsome days arises from the eternal copying In the Louvre, either on commission or on "spec." which kept them alive between remittances. Whistler's chum. Ernest Delannoy, had done a gorgeous replica of Veronese's "Marriage Feast at ("ana" that took when framed the pair of them to carry It. They fried It on every dealer up and down both : sides of the Seine until the first price of 500 francs had dropped with sev I eral thuds to 100, then 20, then 10, then 5. Suddenly the dignity of art asserted itself. On the Pont des Arts they 11 ft tit the huge canva-. "T'n," they said, with ! a great swing, "deux, trois—v'lan!" and over It went Into the water with a splash. Sergents de ville came run ning, omnibuses stopped, and boats pushed out on the river. Altogether I It was an immense success, and they j went home enchanted. -Pall Mall Ga< \ zette. He Was Sensitive. niobbs—You're pretts - much stuck on I Miss Gobbs, aren't you, old man? ; Ilobbs—l was once, but after what i she said to me last night I'm not going j to pay any more attention to her. Blobbs Gee! What did she say? | Ilobbs—"No!"—Cleveland Leader. Freshman Mathematics. Freshby—Professor, Is it ever possi ble to take the greater from the less? j "There is a pretty close approach to It when the conceit is taken out of a freshman."—Jewish Ledger. Humility. It Is a curious fact of human nature that humility draws forth from the j world almost as much admiration as I courage. As in the case of courage, it j Is almost Impossible wholly to con- I demn a character in which we see It, I and without it the greatest virtues leave us cold. If every good word which the Pharisee said of himself were proved true we should still dis like him. We eveu dislike his mod ern and far less offensive descendant, the prig.—London Spectator. A HUMAN GIBRALTAR. The Story That Is Told of the English Olonel Burnaby. In the biography of Colonel Ered Burnaby there Is a characteristic story, told by his friend Lord Binning, of that soldier of herculean frame and reckless courage: We were engaged in a football match on the green inside Windsor cavalry barracks, and the veranda* were crowded with onlookers as th colonel, dressed for London in frock coat and tall hat, with a cigar In his mouth, came out of the officers' quar ters and proceeded slowly across r corner of the ground, apparently ob livlous of the fact that a match was li. progress at the time. At this momen' our fullback, a gigantic Yorkshiremar named Hates, who must have welghei nearer fifteen than fourteen stone charging impetuously for the ball dashed full into Burnaby. The impa< was terrific, but while the Yorkshire man, hurled backward by the shock m though he bad collided with a mouu tain, lay gasping on the ground, nelthci Burnaby's hat nor the angle of his i cigar was in the smallest degree dis turbed. In fact, lie scarcely seemed to realize that a collision had taken place. When he did so ho removed Ills cigar from his mouth and, with his pleasant smile, said, "Dear me, I do hope I am not interfering with the game." The shout of delight which went up from the verandas was a, thing to remember. Studying the Crowd. "There doesn't seen *»o bo any dlf fcretice between a crowded train In the morning and a crowded train at night, does there?" queried a subway, traveler of Ills companion. "But I could distinguish one from the other, even If I had no Idea of the hours." "Ask the guard?" "N'o. All you need to do is to meas-1 uro the buzz of conversation. In t lie morning, when the crowd Is fresh and on the way to business, the conversa tion Is at least ten times In volume j what It is at night, when the crowd isj tired and on the wny home. Often-j times at night I've been In a crowded car for ten minutes without hearing a sound save the rattle of newspaper? j and an occasional cough. That same j crowd in the morning would be ful ! of dialogue, punctuated here and there with laughter. "It's just a wee study in human vn ture, that's all." New York Globe. AN ANCIENT YOKEL Not Quite Sure of His Age, but Knew It Was Something Fearful. During a Saturday stroll la the coun- I try a pedestrian came upon an ancient rustic engaged in breaking stones. Drawing him Into conversation, the pe destrian eventually asked the old fel low how old he was. "Oh, 1 dunno," was the reply, "but I know I be a fearful age!" "But you uiust have some general idea how old you are." i "No, 1 dunno, but 1 know I be a fearful age," was the only estimate that could be drawn from him. "All right; we'll try to get at it in another way," said the pedestrian, bringing, out his pencil and notebook. "Xiwr. how old were you when you left i school ?' ( "1 be jiine, gur, when I finished schulfn ." "And what did you do then?" "Well, 1 was boy fur Farmer Giles fur fifteen year." "And after that?" "After that 1 worked fur Squire Noakes fur seven and thirty year." "And what next?" "Well, 1 was wagoner fur Crukcr. ! the carrier, fur four and forty year." And so on.and so forth, until the final fact was elicited that hfc had been en gaged on breaking stones for a quarter ; of a century. Then the inquirer ob served, with withering sarcasm: "So you do not know how old you are? Well. I'll tell you. You're ,'!7B years old on your own showing." "1 dessay," murmured the ancient yokel, with undisturbed serenity. "I know I be a fearful age."—Liverpool Mercury. Scalloped Apples. Select a half dozen apples. Wash 1 and core. Slice across apple so that j each piece will be encircled by the skin of the apple. I'lace in a stew ing or frying pan, pouring over them about one-fourth of a cupful of water, three-fourths of a cupful of sugar— though amount of sugar Is best deter- I mined by acidity of apples—and a ta blespoonful of butter. Cover and al low to simmer. When soft remove, cover and fry. When sufficiently brown place In a rather deep dish al ternate layers of the apples and grated cheese. I'lace In the oven for five or ten minutes and serve In the same dish iu which they were scalloped.— Boston Post. Foiling the Book Lender. "The public library serves me in an Important respect," said the man with the aggressive weskit, "even though 1 don't take a book out once a year. 1 can say I'll take a book out. and that serves my purpose. If the public 11- ; brary wasn't here I couldn't do that. "I'm always being pestered by fool friends, who say: 'Have you read this nr that? Oh, you haven't! Well, I'll lend It to you.' Then if I accept the loan the chances nre that I never , want to read the book anyhow and i Haven't the time If I did. Then I | forget to return It and make a lifelong ! enemy of the lender. Some day there'll 1 lout the only way I ever use tlio library." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Double. "Apparently you don't admire Mlse Rkreech." "No; I don't like her airs." "What airs?" "Those she sings and those sh« wears."—Philadelphia Press. A Comparison. In a certain store there Is a salesman named Green. Small Clarence learned his name nnd said, "Say. Mr. Green, there's a man living two doors from us who has a name the same color as j yours!" THE DEVILFISH. He Is Not a Man Eater, but a Gently Reared Monster. Coutrary to popular belief, the devil- j fish is not a man enter, according to j nil official publiention Issued by the J Smithsonian institution, Washington, after nil authoritative study of the sub ject by I >r. Theodore Gill, associate in j zoology in the national museum. "The j food of the devilfishes," he says, "so j far from being large animals and oc casionally a man or so, as has been al- i leged, appears to be chiefly the small crabs, shrimps and other crustaceans j and young or small fishes. Rarely does j one prey on large fishes." Dr. (Jill says that in a number of re ! spectn the young devilfish grows up j under nursing and training remarkably i like that of a human being. It is nour- [ ished, for instance, from its mother's | milk. It is a peculiarity of the devil lish, he adds, thnt, instead of laying | many thousands or millions of ejjgs, it ' normally lias only a single young one j at a birth. A baby devilfish is some times as bn>ad as five feet and weighs j twenty pounds or more. Dr. Gill adds that devilfishes move I about from place to place inn sort of 1 submarine flight, speeding themselves ! along by flaps of the long wingliko tins. Day Dreams. if you have a particular piece of j ; work to do, get it done. Don't wait j ! for the mood to strike you. Don't dream! There are more pre- j clous hours wasted In day dreams 1 than any of us would care to think ] 1 about if we counted tliem. The queer thing about day dreams i Is that so few of them ever amount! to anything. The dreamer is only semiconscious when building his nlr castles, so, as a rule, they have no ! i practical foundation. While you are at work, keep your j , mind on what you are doing, and do | not let it wander off to what you would like to be doing. Only by keep ing your mind on what you are doing j j now can you bring It fresh and keen | to the things you like doing best when ! the time for doing them comes. Think itig too much about even great happi : "jess takes the "edge" off It. j The best time for day dreams is ! after you have gone to bed.—New York American. HEALTH AND BEAUTY. If people laughed more they would nil be happier and healthier. ; Equal quantities of lemon juice, Ils terine and glycerin make an excellent ; mouth wash. Don't expect physic and tonics to keep you well if you neglect the laws of health and hygiene. A mixture of white of egg and red I pepper is good for neuralgic headaches. Apply it to the base of the brain. When a splinter has been driven deep I into the hand it can be extracted with out pain by steam. Nearly fiil a wide i mouthed bottle with hot water, place » the injured part over the mouth Of the bottle and press tightly. The suction i will draw the flesh down, and in a min , ute or two the steam will extract the . j (splinter and the inflammation will dis t appear. ' A shoo which compresses the foot re -1 tards circulation of the blood much as the compression of a rubber hose re tards the flow of water. It is as fool * lsh and unhygienic to wear such shoes as It. would be to sleep iu a poorly ven tilated room In a bod several feet too 4 short to accommodate the full length of the body. Can you imagine any greater discomfort or one more calcu lated to destroy the health and cause I the most distressing of nightmares? Suicidal Flying Fish. The Indian ocean Is singularly de void of tish and bird life, but one night dozens of flying tish flew on board a vessel there. They were attracted by the lantern oil the foremast, against which they dashed and fell stunned to the deck. In appearance they are very like a sand mullet. The wings resem ble an extended dorsal tin and open and shut like a lady's fan Not only are they edible: they are a dish for an eploure.—Sydney (N. S W.i Freeman's Journal. He Enjoyccf the Rest of the Garr.e. "Now. that Is what Is known as a safe hit," volunteered the escort, "and entities the runner to take his place on the second base." "Yes," responded the damsel, "and if that duffer had the base running abil ity of an ice wagon he'd have stretrh ed that blngle Into a three bugger."— Louisville Courier-Journal. The Duchess' Philosophy. The old Duchess of Cleveland invit ed a relative to her husband's funeral and told him to bring bis gun, add ing, "We are old, we must die, but the pheasants must be shot."—Sir Al gernon West's Reminiscences. No Resemblance. "Woman and cats," said the youth ful boarder, "are alike." "Wrong, young mau," said the cheer ful Idiot. "A woman can't run up a telegraph pole, and a cat can't run np a millinery bill." llow many people live on the reputa tlon of the reputation they mlijht have made.—Holmes. Christening the Baby. A north country parson thought It absurd that a working class woman should wish to christen her child "Laura Winifred Gwendolyn Gene vieve." "My good woman, what a ridicu lously long and fanciful name!" he pro tested. "Why not choose something simpler—Sarah, for iustance? That is my own wife's name." "Ah, yes, Sarah's all very well for a parson's wife, but I hope my little gal will look a bit higher than that," an swered the woman readily. The astonished parson thereupon performed the ceremony without fur ther comment.— London Telegraph. The Retort Courteous. Professor Bates was quizzing a stu dent named Pond, who seemed to know nothing of the subject In hand. "Are there no fish in this pond this morning?" he exclaimed at length. "Yes, professor," replied the student, "but the Kates no good."— Llpplncott'* THE CHARM OF NEW YORK. An English View cf the Metropolis of the New World. New York ought by most artistic standards cf the past to be hideous. Instead (as I made up my inlnd, with a shock of pleasure, a few weeks ago) she Is ns beautiful, as Individual almost, as Venice. Of course there ar • her sky and her atmosphere. Even a regular old frump of a city could wear a spurious charm when golden wine of sunshine dripped over her from a crystal cup studded with turquoise or in a sunset such as heaven and Turner alone could conceive, glittering like a heap of jewels behind a veil of sprin kled gold dust. But the startling, bi zarre beauty of New York could .exist even in a London fog. What Is there to say of a vast city where all the architectures of tlie world and some that were never seen (anywhere else) on land or sea rub stwihAers together? Would you not think that they would refuse to speak to each other, even if they didn't tight In disastrous battle dreadful to wit ness? But goto New York and see. I said to myself as I drove about New York that the gay, colorful city was like a huge flower garden where the gardener had sown his seeds any how—crimson hollyhocks, golden sun flowers, dainty pinks, modest violets, tall white lilies, larkspurs, pansles and a thousand other early things belter skelter, leaving them to come up all among each other ns they chose, and Instead of the experiment being a fail ure It turned out n glorious success.— Mrs. <\ N. Williamson In I/>ndon Chronicle. Obes'ty and Will Power. Obesity is easily cured with (he ex ercise of the proper care and restraint on the part of the patient. Without this, however, the cure is Impossible, and no physician or medicine can be of any help. The happy-go-lucky dis positions of fat people, their tendency to regard their ailment lightly, cause them to look upon nothing seriously, to deny themselves nothing. These characteristics, which generally are re sponsible for their ailment, furnish the greatest obstacles In the way of curing them. As a rule, the fat person does Just the opposite of what, he ought to do. He eats the very foods he should avoid, avoids those he should eat, shuns exertion of every kind. In dulges In rest and luxury and seeks the way of the easiest resistance gen erally "Win Power." Tobacco and Tin Foil. General Wiutield Scott was responsi ble for tin foil being wrapped around tobacco. That fact came out In tho legal contest over the will of the ec centric millionaire tobacco dealer, John Anderson. Karly in the forties of tho last century Mr. Anderson kept a pop ular cigar store on Broadway. Felix McClosky, for many years the tobac conist's salaried companion and agent, testified that one day, in IKJ;> bo thought, General Scott came into the store and asked Anderson if he couldn't devise some way of keeping tobacco so it would not be affected liv age and changes in climates. Ander son thought about it and shortly after hit upon the plan of wrapping cigars and chewing tobacco In tin foil, there by keeping the tobacco moist for a long time. His tin foil covers became popular, and his preserved tobacco was ; much in demand during the Mexican war and the California gold rush, swelling his business to enormous pro portions and soon making him a multi : millionaire 1 A Comprehensive Word. The word "vermin" seems to have . become exceedingly comprehensive in i scope now that the society which is I devoted to the destruction of snch ! creatures has included not only rats, i mice, cockroaches and such small deer among them, but even cuts, dogs, spar rows aud canaries, on the ground that all these transmit disease toman Ity j derivation (Latin "vermis") vermin ought to mean only worms and the like. In which literal sense Tennyson j writes of the "vermin in a nut." l!ut i the term has constantly been loosely • applied to nil sorts of objectionable animals, from crocodiles to foxes. Purchas told of the people of .Tava , how they "feed on cats, rats and other i vermin.",'' a: id Izaak Walton denounc ! Ed "those base vermin, the otters." : He used the word exactly in the tem per In which a naughy little boy is 1 berated as a "young varmint."—lx>u | don Chronicle. The Nino Tailor Saw. The tailor—he was a cutter at a big salary—sighed ns he looked about his luxurious apartment. "She refused me," he said. "Why? I Because she didn't love me? No. Be cause of that old saw about its tak ing nine tailors to make a man. And that saw is a mistake, it Is n cor ruption of "nine tellers mark a man.' It doesn't signify that tailors are ef feminate. It simply shows that man kind Is liable to error. Tho toll of a bell In the olden time was called a teller, and in the olden time the church bells tolled nine times for every man's funeral; hence the saying 'nine tellers mark a man." In our stupidity we have corrupted that into 'nine tailors make a man' or 'it takes nine tailors to make a man.' " The cutter sighed. "This rank error," he said, "dooms me to bachelorhood."- New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Way He Felt About It. While several young ladles were dls enssing novel plans for a church ba zaar a new member of the committee proposed to have the pastor's photo graph reproduced on pillow tops aud "chance" them off. All the girls volcoi their approval at once, but when the plan was suggested to the parson In objected. "I really cannot consent," said he "I've been sat on enough as it is."— Indies' Home Journal. Secondhand. "Can't 1 go cut into the back yartf and play in the garden, mamma?" "Certainly not. child. You must sta\ in and study your uature books."- Life. Integrity without knowledge Is weak and useless.- -I'aley. A Practical Joke. He was a wag and was passing « large draper's shop Iu Manchester. There, drawn up, were three ur four vehicles, and among them was a closed! brougham with the driver fast asleep on the box. Evidently the mistress was inside the shop. Without a word the wag stole quickly up and, opening the carriage door, carefully slammed it to. lu an instant the coachinau straightened himself up and gazed up the street as if he had never seen any thing more interesting to look at in his life. Then he stole a look over his shoulder and saw the wag standing, hat iu hand, apparently conversing with some one inside the carriage. "Thank you, yes. Good morning," said the practical joker and bowed himself graciously away from the door, turning as be did so to look at tha coachman and say, "Home!" "Yes, sir! Teh! Get up!" And away went the brougham home. Where that home was, who the mis tress of the carriage was or what sha (lid or said when she came out of the shop or what the coachman did or said when he stopped at the door of "home" and found the carriage empty all that only tlie coachman and tlie lady know. —London Tit-Bits. A Beggar In a Basket. Perhaps the most curious use to Mexicans put their baskets Is to bold gamecocks. Sometimes the cock's IxisUet Is woven for the purpose; often er It Is made from a sombrero, the wide, high crowned, straw hat of the country, into which the bird is put, a hole cut in the crown to give him air and the brim carefully tied down that he may not escape. The bullfight ha* been called the national sport of Mex ico, but cockfighting is much more uni versal. for the humblest peasant may have his gamecock, which he keeps in H carefully made cage in his patio, watches with pride and tends with care. One of the strangest uses to which n basket has probably ever been put was the dally appearance In the streets of a young man carrying in a huge bush el basket on his shoulders his great grandmother, of unknown age, who held out a skinny hand to the passer by for the centavo which was almost unfailingly given. Surely a trust in Providence could go no further.—Elea nor Hope Johnson in Outing Maga zine. IVORY TOILET SETS. Extremely Popular, but Very Difficult to Clean Properly. Ivory toilet nrtieles nro quite as fash ionable as silver ones now, and tho fact that they are more difficult to clean in no way detracts from their popularity. It is not easy to romov® stains from the mellow, creamy material without spoiling Its tone. Some useful hints on cleaning ivory are given herewith: When the stains are very slight and do not seem to he permanent, though they cannot be rubbed off with a dry cloth, wash tho ivory thoroughly in warm water and soapsuds, and then, without drying it on a cloth, place it in the bright sun light for a few minutes. This expo sure will usually remove the stales." After they have disappeared wash. I the ivtjry again in soap and water, i rinse it thoroughly and dry carefully with a soft cloth. When the stains do not disappear entirely after contact with the sun's rays the ivory should lie washed again in soap and water, then rinsed In clear water to which a little lemon juice has been added Care must b*> taken to have the temperature of the water right, ps too great heat will la Jure the ivory. Very dark discoloratlons require the services of an expert to remove, though one may be fairly successful by rub bing oxalic acid solution, not too strong, and applying this to the darfc spots or streaks with a brush. After ward wash the Ivory well in clear warm water and dry with absorbent cotton or a soft cloth, and then leave in the sunshine or in a warm place to bleach. The acid of a lemon Is not harmful to the most delicate piece of ivory. In fact, the juice of a lemon can be applied with a mixture of cleansing powder or whiting directly to Ivory without running any risk of spoiling its tone or texture. It should, however, be removed quickly and the Ivory thoroughly cleansed afterward with plenty of warui water. Cabinet pieces that become discolored can bo cleaned in tliis way and will be great ly Improved In color and appearance. Don't Snub Children. Children love to be treated with courtesy and respect. They resent having their opinions and sentiment* snubbed, aud parents might learn >» good deal from them and about them if they would encourage them to talk more freely of all they think and feel. We nre hardened by the gathering years, and we have lost our keenest sense of what ts the very truest and the very best. The contact of a child's mind with its pure vision is like a message straight from <»o«l. iiiTlf! A. nellable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne nnd General Job Work. Stoves, Heaters. Ranges. Furnaces, eto. PRICES TDE LOWEST! QL'ILITY TDE BEST! JOHN HIXSOJV NO. 11# a FBONT ST.