My tittle lore cnmo to m down tnn iitiilr, I hoard a swoot voice calling, "Are you thorn?" I ostiR-lit the mm gleam ot hor ftildn Imlr, I wntclioil her woo foot fiiltor, pink ami tmro, Toward nio. 1 folt thn clinging of her lips' iiwoit kl-s, Tho soft enronsc Mint so many miss j Why should t rnitiiro liiv llkn this, Biit'ii tailing ot hor sprlniftlm IiIIih, Howard mo. My little lovn li fnlr n n Illy, Hor ryon nro iizupi depths, nil dink and Mill?, Hor mnllo ns bright as Kprlmt'-t dnr ilnlTo dlllyi And ro:io or nsphodul could rival Illy l(or heart of K 'M. Oil, Timo, l (j-iitlo with tho llttln f ot, Load thom hy paths wh iro violets ll om RWoot ( Ornnt whom nho goes, tho an-fta thi'a may Kris My flve-yonr-nld. I irothy Homi. A FINANCIER'S WIFE. BY F.llWAIIK H. VAN Ztt.B. Mrs. Adolphe Mortimer lind made li(i hor tiiiml t lint if was her duty to become n Hiicrillce. If thorn ai one thing that this worthy wonuui prided herself on it win lier mind, unit when ever t!mt organ reached n decision it clung to it with ii tctnifit y worthy of almost biiv cause. Mrs. Mortimer's will power never slipped ils trolley. Rlio liml decided in thin instance, to cnst herself ns uii offering on tho nltnr of lirr lutHlmiiit'n liilti-r welfare. She had watched him grow niorlil, self absorbed, restless; ami, niter n tedious lmt, on tho whole, satisfactory process of ratiocination, nho hnd reached tho conclusion tlmt it was inciimlioiit iiion lier, ns his licttor half, to revive him, to enliven his drooping spirits hy the refreshing waters of her own mental ity. Having established herself firmly npon thin propoHition nho cast about her for Home effective methoil whereby she could luing thn old sparkle I nick to liin eye, the color to his wan cheeks, tho smoothness to his wrinkled tirow, "He in very nilent nt meals," she re fleeted. "Ho roads his -newspapers anil letters in n fidgety, despondent way J ho goes out early in the evening and remains Into nt his club. Then, again, I seem to liore him. That is ery strange. He used to take ho much interest in nil my nfl'iiiru. Now what can he find at the elnli that ho cannot have nt home? I Hot out to give him all the comforts of a eluti. How have I failed? Perhaps my conversa tion boron him. Ah, that's it! My rango of topics is too narrow. I really munt pay more attention to tho current news. roorJohn! When his mind is full of business cares I bother him with my chatter about books and theater and and things. What he needs is a home where he can get in nmall doses the mental tonic he finds on tho exchange and at his club. I'll rend tho uewspnpern every dny and surprise the poor fellow with my windom- The idea of my talking about bonnets when In is thinking only of bulls and bears. Its ab surd !" Mrs. Mortimer began her expert mout that evening at dinner. They bad cnten their soup in silence and tho anxious wife hail been nerving herself for the conversational plunge that she had determined to make for the sake of her poor, dear boy. Filially she asked: "How was the market toduv, Adolphe?" The . broker looked at his wife sharply, "Whnt market? Jefferson? Wash ington? Whut do you inonn, Gene vieve?" "Tho stock market, denr. Was it asy?" ' Easy as a sum in fractions," ho an swerod, crossly, helping himself to the fish ami relapsing into a moody silence, "Vulgar fractions," she was tempted to retort, lint stayed her tongue in time. After a while she made another attempt to rebuild his shattered con stitution. "How was the bank statement to day, my dear? " "Whose?" be asked nervously. "Why, anybody's everybody's. You know what I mean, darling. Are things looking up?". Her voice trom bled slightly, but she smiled sweetly. He glanced at her questioniugly, but remained silent. Bhe was growing discouraged, but, M I have said before, Mrs. Adolphe Mortimer had a will ot iron and re fused to give up the fight. It was something gained, at all events, to . cause even a gleam of surprise in her husband's weary eyes. "Are you long or short, Adolphe?" she ventured at last. , - "01 what?" Bhfl renlly didn't know. "Of of margins," she faltered, almost in a whisper. He wan too pre occupied to patch her answer, and again the dinner went forward in Milelice. "IVrhnps," sho mused, "he will be more talkative over his cofTee and cigar. I w ill wait a moment before making another effort. Let hip nee? What shnll I snv next? He snid tho market was ns easy ns a sum in frac tions. That means it's hard. When it's hnrd it's it's well, I don't know. I never heard of its being lmrd nor soft, either. Sometimes it's feverish, isn't it? That's it. I'll nsk him ntioitt it about its its tem perature. No, that won't do. That wouldn't sound like w hat I read in Hint Wall Street paper. l!ut wnsn't there something about the rnte of exchange? That must menu w hether it's fast or slow. I ll try that. "Did the exchange run very well today, sweetheart?" she liegnn again, as he moodily lit a cigar. He gazed at her a moment quizzi cally and then blew a cloud of smoke into the air. "Are you trying to get tip a corner in bosh, Jenny?" Shu disliked having her name abbre viated mid remained silent. Her heart was very heavy. She decided, after n time, to try another tack. Looking nt him meekly, she asked: . "Adolphe, my darling, what does it mean when it says that a Mock has been watered too much?" "I don't know what it is, my dear, but almost any stock is glad to get in out of 1 li wet nt present." This was not especially lucid, tint Genevieve felt that tier husband was thawing a little. "Ami what is u gilt-edged security, darling?" she continued. He smiled ny, actually Hiuiled. "Von are, my dear." This was delightful. He had not paid her n compliment in ninny days. "What do you mean?" sheusked, at a venture. "Well, my dear, you've improved greatly since I took you from par." His Hinile came again and his eyes rested on her kindly. She blushed like a schoolgirl. Could it lie that she had really broken the ice that had surrounded him ho long! l'''t no; again he was lost in thought ami seamed to watch nn unsteady market through clouds of smoke. If she spoke again alio might lose in a mo ment the advantage she had Heetued to gain. She sat silent for a while. Fi nally she said, almost in a whisper: "Adolphe, isn't this a good time to buy stocks?" He flushed and exclaimed: "The best I ever knew! 15ut, con found it ! nobody's got liny ready money. I could make a fortune with a little cash, but I might as well High for tho moon as for a few thousand dollars." He lit a fresh cignr and his face seemed to grow paler and more hag gnrd as the castles he could not build on credit floated nwny in smoke. Bhe went over to him and, seating herself on his lap, put her arms around his neck. "I've got a little money saved up from whnt you've given mo in the Inst few yenrs, Adolphe. It's only a few thousands, but perhaps it will help you out." He laid down his cigar and took her face in his two hands. "How did you do it, dear? A few thousands? Why, we've only been niiirried ten years. How could yon save all that out of the allowance I gavo you?" "I don't kuow, darling. Perhaps perhaps I kuow more about meat mar kets than stock markets, more about beefsteaks than bulls mid bears. You'll forgive mo for it, won't yon, dear?" "Forgive you, Genevieve? Here, let me kiss you again. You've saved us from ruin, dear. You're the most wonderful woman in tho world." "And you nru't going to tho club to-night?" she asked, as they strolled arm in arm into the library. "No, darling; sit down hero and I'll explain to you how we mako money un the Street." Once a Week. Wo in on Who Wear Heard. A learned German, who Las devoted himself to the study of physiology, an thropology sud allied sciences, nmkes the rather startling assertion that tuus titohioa are becoming commoner among women in the present dny than in the past. He tells that in Constantinople among the nnveiled women that are to be met with, one out of . ten possesses au uuiuistakablo covering of down on the upper lip. In the capital of Bpain, again, the proportion of ladies with the masculine c-haraoteristio is said to be quite equal to that observable on the Oolden Horn. An American inedicnl mnn state that in Philadelphia fully three per cent, of the ndult fnir sex are similnrly adorned, nnd prolmbly the proportion would be still turgor tint that many women take the trouble in erndicnto the uuweleomed growth by tho appli pation of depilatory preparations. Is this increase in thn number of women with hair on their faces to tie regnrded ns a sign that the human race is Improving? Very few men, nt all events, will lie disposed to consider Hint a mustneho adds to the charms of tho opposite spx. Englishmen, indeed, only n genera tion ago, hnd niich a detestation of mustiiebios nnd beards that tho prac tice of shaving all the linir off the face, down to their mutton chop whiskers, was nil tint universal. From one ex treme our clean fathers plunged into the other, and beards nnd iiiustnehios rapidly became the fashion. The fashion has of late yenrs been modified. licardi are less common but the mustache is cultivated in Eng land n widely ns on the Continent. Hut why should the fnir Sex lie visited by this nlllietioii? Homo writerson eth nology hold that the higher races of mankind are always more hairy, and l)r. Mott thinks that in a few centu ries men and women will tie clothed in hair. London Staiuliird. Slip anil Shipping. Grent llritain has 2H!KI registered pilots. Frigates in the modern stylo won lirst built in mill. The use of Htccl for ship building' wns begun in 1S7!(. Of 10,(101) lb-it fall senmen, sixty-ni tire lost every yenr. The Austrian navy husl'J'.t nhips, -ill gnus mid 87-IU men. The modern French navy dates from the reign of Napoleon lit. Italy has fifty ships of wnr, 171 lienvy guns nnd l'.l,'224 men. Little Greece hns a mercantile ma rine employing 2l!,80l,i sailors. The screw- propeller was introduced into the Pritish navy in 1840. The heaviest anchors weigh liboui seventy-seven hundredweight. The llrst English ships were the gal leys built by Alfred the Grent. The annual loss of shipping and car go is estimated lit Xlil,H2ll,(HH). Naval salutes to the flag are ns old ns the time of Alfred the (treat. Itiehard I. of England drew up the first known code of maritime laws. llussia has forty-four warships, with 2,!4 men ns sailors nnd marines. At the present day nboiit i)(i per cent, of nil vessels built lire of steel. Kea signals were invented nnd put in operation during the reign of James II. The greatest naval action in Greek history was that nt Kalnmis, li. C. 480. The greatest naval victory of modern timis was won nt Trafalgar iu 1805. Tho Austrian Lloyds Company wns formed iu 18:).') to trade with tho I'Pvaut. The Naval Asylum4 of the United Stateii was established in 181)5 near Philadelphia. A (itrl In a Hour's Hen. A highly respectable Indian gentlo- mnn, a member of the Dombay An thropological Hociety Mr. Burnt Chandra Mitra hascome forward with au apparently well authenticated story of a girl who tins been discovered in Julpaiguri iu tho den of a bear. The young person's habits were decidedly bearish,, for sho tried to bito aud scratch those who came near her, went down "on nil fours," and"growtcd at meals." The orphanage, of the New Dispensation Church, in Calcutta, could m ike nothing of the ferocious foundling, who hits consequently been removed to Has Aram, a refuge found ed and supported tiy llrnhmo gentle men iu that city. Nor is this nil. A I)hagal Zemidnr lias captured in tho jungle a wild boy, whose only approach to speech is tho ut terance of chattorinj sounds liko those of a monkey. Colonel Slecinan and the llev. Mr. Lewis, of the Becundra Church Mission, have vouched for sim ilar stories. Mr. Mitra is of the opin ion that when, as sometimes happens, an infant Is abandoned in the bush, there is nothing absurd in the idoa that it might lie adopted by a female wild animal that had lost her young, New York News. New Meaning Iu an Old Line. "Do you mean to say that you are going to charge me all that just for doing a little surveying?" "Yes, sir." "Wouldn't you take the land instead of the money?" "Possibly." "Well, I guess ye'll have to. This is the first time I ever really appreci ated that poetry about 'I am monarch of ll I survey.' "Washington star. FOIl F.V:;.1I AM) (lAltl)KT VAM'K or WOOU ASIIF.S. There is little difference in the fer tilizing value of hnrd wood or soft wood nshes. One has about ns much potash as the other, but the phosphor ic ncid is deficient in the soft wood nshes. The quantity of ash from the soft wood is only about one-third or one-fourth as much as that from the lmrd wood, nnd it is this fact probably that neeountsfor theeoniiiioii prejudice against tho soft wood bhIioh. New York Times.- THR FARM'S BUST MONKT MARF.R. The best money maker ou the fnrm Is the hen, hiivs the Tennessee Farmer. She turns grass into greenbacks, grains into gold, and from sand nnd gravel she coins silver. There is nothing else ou the place that compares with tier. The crops are slow and uncertain. The cattle and horses are henvy con sumers, and to get their value we must part with them ; but not so with the hen. Iu her small wny she is a gold mine on the face of the earth ; a mill tlmt grinds that which others overlook or refuse. miNKwiNo poiik musr. Not unfreipietitly from insuDiciciit salting nud unclean barrels, or other pause, pork placed iu brine begins to spoil, thn brinn smells bad, and tlio pontents, if not soon given proper attention w ill be unlit for food. As soon ns this trouble is discovered, lose no time iu removing the contents from the barrel, washing eneh piece of meal separately in clean water. Doit the brine for half nn hour, continually skimming off tho scum and impurities that will rise to the surface. Cleanse the barrel thoroughly by wnshing with hot water nnd lmrd wood ashes. Plnee the meat buck after sprinkling it with n little fresh wilt, putting the purified brine buck when cool, mid no further trouble w ill be experienced, nnd if the work be well done, the meat will lie sweet mid firm. Those who pack meat for home use do not always remove the blood with salt. After meat is cut up it is better to lie iu Halt for a dny and drain before being pla I iu the brine barrel. American Agricultur ist. KMrr.stoy. The Baltimore Sun says: "Without any question the kerosene emulsion barrel should find a place in every stockman's burn. The soft-soap emul- siou is best for this. The more liquid nature makes it ensy of manipulation in cold weather, and tho lnrgo qumi tity of sonp is very demising nnd wholesome. To apply wo use a com mon brush iu eases of cattle, horses or hogs, nnd in the enso of sheep dip the animal right into tho wiirm diluted emulsion. Tho cost of material for au average cow is about three pents, and tho time re quired for trentment less than five minutes. Soft-soap and kerosene cm-iilsion-formula: Dissolve ono quart of soft-sonp in two and one-half quarts of boiling water. Keinovo from the stovo nnd while still boiling hot add one pint of kerosene oil ; agitato vio lently by at once pumping the liquid back iuto itself through a small noz zle, or by other menus, until a creamy mass is formed, vtiich is the emulsion. This should not require more than from three to five minutes' agitation. Mefore using add to this an equal amount of water and mix thoroughly." rrr.r. fekoiso. With all stock the highest physical condition is essential to the most rapid growth, whenever nn animal is allowed to get out of condition iu any way there is a plieck to its growth. With stock that are being fed for ment the growth should tie pushed as raj. idly as possible, as the hirgest growth iu the shortest time and with tho smallest amount of food is necessary to secure the greatest profit. With breeding animals it is not necessary to push the growth so rapidly. Yet a steady growth should be main tained. Tho condition of the animal must determine tho quantity of feed given, but it should always lie suftl ciout to secure tho result desired. Whenever the animal fails to gain there is a loss of the food supplied and loss of the gain that might' have been secured. Full feediug with growincr animals is giving a sufficient quantity to secure rapid, steady growth. With fatten ing animals it is giviug all that they will eat up clean, but no more. It is positive loss of feed to over feed. Not only is it loss of tho food sup plied, but the animals will get off their feed and will not do as well as they otnerwico would. Overfeeding is pos itively worse than under-feeding. Care in feeding properly and regu torly will aid materially in securing the best growth nt tho lowest Post. Noir York World. tiTTun-rotons and prrhriivativkh. Butter is not necessarily colorless. A distinct yellow tint is often exhibited by a perfectly pure article, but the use of butter-colors is very common. Prep arations of Btintto or turmeric, are tho most usual forms. These are sold in liq nid form.oil or sodium earlionnto being employed as solvents. Such colors are also used for milk. Dairymen and mitk hnndlers now use, to a hirge extent, bo rax and boric ncid, nnd mimctimen mil icy lie acid as preservatives for milk, thus economizing materially in the outlay for ice, nud these preservatives may find their wny into the butter, cheese., etc., made from the milk. It is fortunate that most of the substances nro not decid edly poisonous, tint wo are still not in possession of Hiilllcient facts to say w lint nro the effects of continued use of them, even in small amounts. Boino of the cheaper coal-tar colors nro poi sonous, and commercial salicylic acid is not without injnriouseiTeetH. Hornx and boric ncid are, however, apparent ly without serious effects, tint it seems ho more than right that tho use even of these should in some wny lie subject to restriction. There in no convenient method by which the housekeeper mny recognize either the presence of nrtilleiul colors or preservatives iu butter. House hold News. FARM ASH OAllllKS NOTKS. When n tree is healthy the top fa luxuriant. Late cultivation in ttio orchard is rarely desirable. When mi npplo or penr is matured it rendily parts from the tree. Do not waste time nnd labor work ing with poor trees and plants. Grapes begin to change color two or three weeks before they are fully ripe. Chestnut trees will come into bear ing when eight yenrs old ; they do best planted iu groups. licgulnr pruning obviates the neces sity for cutting nw.iy largo limbs and insures better fruit. The secret of profitable apple cul ture is to 'cultivate thoroughly and feed the trees liberally. It in not a good plan to let the rasp berries mid blackberries grow too high; keep them pinched back. An application of wood ashes is con sidered one of tha very best remedies for penr trees that bear cracked pears. The presence of borers mny be rend ily detected by their chips near the roots of the trees. Seo that they uro destroyed. No matter nt what sennon the trees are set out, it is important that good care bo taken to pack tho earth firmly ubont the roots before leaving tho tree. Vegetables nnd fruits of all kinds thrive and yield better if the soil be fore planting is worked reasonably deep ami then tho surface is kept in a good tilth. Keeping all young trees carefully staked lends to the formation of clean, straight stems nnd these in their turn are conducive to tho growth of large fruitful trees. Tears ripen best in the dnrk. Tbey should be picked when matured and carefully ripened by plaoiug them in shallow boxes or drawers and storing iu a dark place, well ventilated. Thin out tho old canes of currant bushes. A half dozen well developed stems will produce as much fruit, and tlmt of a better quality, than of twice tho number of weak crowded ones, Whilo for soma reason it may lie a good plan to bury fowls that die with contagious disease, the safest plan is to burn us soon ns possible. This de stroys nil chance of spreuding a dis enso by contagion. As soon as the wenther begins to get cool n safe rulo in feeding, espec ially with the laying hens, is to give a warm feed in the morning and whole corn at night, giving the latter just be fore the fowls fly up on tho roosts. In transplanting trees all tho roots that may have become broken or bruised in the process of lifting should be cut clean away behind tho broken part. Make the cut a clear, sloping one in an upward and outward direct ion. The peach and plum aro so nearly related to each other as to lie budded or grafted on each other. The ulum endures tho cold better than the peach, and tlte latter fruit, grown on plum stocks, can be much more easily pro tected than when grown on its own. Tha A.-,t.,M.1 .,, - berry aud blackbevry bushes is a fun- ... 1. : V. j.. : n - . Hun wuieu "1'iBnsn rupiuiy, ami Will soon ruin an entire field or plantation unless prompt measures are resorted to. Digging up and burning of all in- ( feeted plants is the nly known safs . remedy. FOIl THE JlOL'SKWIFi:. TO KEKP Fltr.SIt MRAT. Fresh moat msy bo kopt somo time by coming it slightly. Wipe care fully and remove any parts that are not sweet and fresh, then rub all over thickly with salt. Or moko a lirino with rock salt and cold water; usn Halt enough to float the meat, then cover and put a henvy weight on tho cover to keep the ment under thn brine. Three days time is sufliieeut for corn ed lnent. TO f'l.RAX MIF.HMRS. To renovate the old black Ineo which has begun to look hopelessly grny try this plan : Hriish it with a soft brush that will not tear the lace. Sponge with tepid wnter containing a little powdered borax. Lay on a folded flannel and press on the wrong side with a moderately warm iron. Lay over the lace while pressing a piece of thin black silk. China nnd wash silks mny tie denned tiy sponging with benzine or gasoline. Use n flannel cloth to rub them nnd dry iu the air until nil odor has dis appeared. To wash such waists make suds of lukewarm water mid w hite sonp. Wash quickly, squeezing through the Hiids and rubbing as little ns po. Bible. Kiuse iu slightly cooler water. A mti: wiMAKisa i.p.ssow. At n broailmnkiiig lesson given ttio other day, the bread wns mixed iu tho following wny : Haifa pint of sweet milk wns put with half a pint of water, both of them luke-wni'm, and to them was added a cake of compressed yeast dissolved iu two tablospoonfuls of wnter. When sweet milk is not to bo hnd, one-fourth pint of condensed milk diluted with water to half a pint mny bo used. The mixture was next put iu a bowl of enrth-enamelled ware blue with a white lining, nud into it wiih dropped sifted flour from a litt!o scoop. . When the wooden spoon Used had stirred in enough flour to m-ike a donga that could Ii h:i:idlcd without running, every particle was turned up on tlie broad-boar 1. Then it was kneaded ever so lightly with the back of tlie hand until it could be' easily handled without using flour or sticking to anything. During tho kneading it wns explained that too vig orous kneading was not good for ttio bread, nor for tho woman who did it ; that stretching and pulling were wlmt tho rtoii(.h needed. The brend after the kneading was put into a greased bowl, covered with a linen cloth, and left to rise to twice the size it was when put into the bowl. The time for the rising, it was estimated, would be about three hours. The dough was t-iken from the bowl nnd cut into lonves of various- sizes, and put into the tins, in which it was linked for an hour. Tho loaves baked fi-oin twenty to fifty minutes, according to size. After linking the bread was not cut, but wns laid ncross a pun nnd placed in s draught between a window nnd door New York Post. BRAROXABLB PISHRS. Braised Sweet Dreads Take a pair of sweet breads, lay in salt and water for an hour, then blanch. Press slightly between two dishes; when cold remove all skin, fat and gristle; cut a small carrot, a turnip and an on ion ; put them in a saucepan with tile sweet breads; pour over a pint ot stock ; cover and braise for half an hour. Tnko up the sweet breads, lay in a small meat pan ; boil the liquor ; pour over the sweet breads and set in tho oven to brown. Servo on slices of fried bread. Mushroom Pates Cut up ono quart ef mushrooms, with one teaspoonful of salt, pepper and mace, and the juice of ono lemon. Put in a sauce pan and let simmer twenty minutes. Parboil six sweet breads, cut in small pieces and dredge with cracker meal ; put in a saucepan ; add a glass of cur rant jelly and a bunch of parsley ; let boil five minutes. Have baked in small pastry pans nice puff paste, iu which drop a spoonful of tho mixture. Serve hot. Chicken Turtle Forlnni Take a ten der, well-grown pullet and bone; stuff with a dressing made of a tea cup of minced veul, two chopped hard boiled eggs, a tablespoon of chopped ham and two Ublespoonsful of chopped mushroom ; heat all together iu a fry ing pan with a little butter ; stir five minutes and moisten with soup stock ; add two beaten eggs and teaspoonful of lemon juice j season with a salt spoon of salt and a pinch of pepper ; after filling the fowl lay in a saucepan and cover with a sauoe made of half a pint of stock, a tablespoon of chopped boiled ham, one ouion, a sliced carrot ana a tablespoon! ul of butter, and atew gently two hours; when done, take np and serve with veloitte sauoe,