T
l.nro In Masquerade.
I dreamed Ihnt love came knocking
At your door one. winter nllit,
While tho specter trees were rocking
In ii bliwt o( snvnirn IiIIkM.
"Oh, I perish !" poor Lovn pleaded i
"Ope tlio iloor, fur love's der sake."
But nlihoiiffh you honrd nnd heeded,
BUM no answer would you make I
Not one wonl of iwwt replying
Wmilil your haughty Hps have said,
Even If Lore hud lain there riylnx.
Even If I.ove hnl In In thorn doid !
Then I drenmrd thnt l.ovo o'er-rulcd youj
For In tender voles hn cried,
'Nay,' dear lady, I sndly foolnd you,
Hlnee I ti not I.oto, hut Pride."
And you KtrnlKhtwny oped your portals,
With it merry and welcome noil.
To thnt wlllut of Immortal.
To thnt mnipjnrnding god.
Ah, you oped your portal llitlitly.
Not for Low's, but Pride's dear snke)
Km, () In ly, If 1 dreamed rightly,
Love soon tnuirht you your mlttnkn !
EimAn Faw kit, In Ths Century.
A HUMID TIME
"Thermometer 98."
"H'm!"
"Humidify 84."
"That's not bad."
"Not bed? What do Ton mean?
Not bad? Why tlio weather todiiy is
simply auffoeatina."
To emphasize his opinion Ned lient
over and drew a long drink from the
ftyphnn of vichy embedded in ice.
'Tcrhaps," said Jack Hurlolio,
"you believe that this isn't hot. when
I tell you that not very long ago I
struck a temperature of fully 100 and
no sun shining, either."
"Rats!" was Ned Wyman'a con
temptuous retort.
"But I'm telling you tho truth, my
dear fellow."
And where in the world did you
strike such terrible heat as that would
be?"
"In tho hot room nt a Turkish bath
the other night," Jack answered, with
out even a supposition of a smile.
"Humph!" grunted Ned. It was
decidedly too warm for such jesting.
He picked up tho seltzer syphon agnin
and eyed it as if meditating whether
to turn the stream op this nudncious
fellow who ridiculed weather so hot
that it wilted suffering humanity.
"No, yon don't," laughed Jack,
lifting a bottle of ink from his friend's
writing table and holding it poised.
"I have seen too much of the West to
evor allow a man to get the drop on
no."
Ned good-naturedly relumed the
ayphon to its bed of ice and reached
feebly for a cigar, which ho lightod.
"Wyman," growled Hargous, "why
don't you show some animation?"
"How cau fellow, when tho
weather is so beaBtly?"
"Vet, if all men were like you the
tropics would never have been dis
covered, and the world would bo ages
behind its present development.
Speaking of travel and heat, have you
any idea where the greatest heat is
found?"
"Bombay?" suggested Ned, indif
ferently. 1 "No, not exactly, In Bombay 110
is pretty hot, and when the mercury
got up to 115 the people openly as
aert that tho weather is being import
ed from the infernal regions. But
the greatest heat I ever mot was whero
the mercury olimbod to 140."
"In the shade?" gasped Ned.
"There wasn't any shade there." "
"'Whore was it?"
"On the Colorado Desert."
. "Oh, that's in Southern California,
isn't it?"
"Yes, and extends over into Arizo
na. It's tho dreariest, hottest placo
en tho Continent."
"Did you find the heat really uu
comfortable there?" Ned asked.
"Yes, decidodly so."
"I'm mighty glad," was the growl
ed answer, "that there's one place on
earth that'a really hot enough to make
yon admit it."
"It was a year ago," resumed Jack,
that I struck the most humid experi
ence of my life. A party of us New
Yorkers were making a leisurely tour
through the West Whew! but the
weather we struck in Arizona wa4
tally frightful that ia, iu the por
tions near the desert. We were travel
ing in a magnificent vestibule train,
but evon a drawing-room car is no pro
tection against sultriness. We left
Yuma late one night and struck
traigbt out across the desert for Los
Aiigolos. My boy, this weather in
New York today is frigid compared
with that we encountered there. It
was so frightfully oppressive that tbe
passengers voted unanimously to sit
up H night rather than try to rest in
our bertha. t ,.:
" "Tbere was one consolation for me,
however, " Mrs, Mssou and her daugh
ter, Marie, were aboard the train and
during the last few day I had d is
. .covered that I could be happy any
where if Marie was there, too, ' .
"Thero was a fair supply of ico on
the train, and tho cook and the porters
were kept busy all through tho night
making ice-cream, which we devoured
as soon as It was made. The job was
a tough one, but tho porters couldn't
resist tho bribe fund which we raised
for tho sake of ice-cream.
"In tho dry season tho desert is the
driest spot on earth, but tho rainy
season had Just begun, and the humid
Ity was something that New York pco
plu can't even imagino. We got
through tho night lomehow, though
many of the people didu't dozo, even
for an instant
"But tho day that foil owed was
worso than tho night. The sun blazed
down on that parched desert, and its
rnys and heot were reflected back at
us. It was imposiiblo to keep tho
windows shut, and the result was thnt
our eyes, nostrils, mouths and throats
were filled with thnt indescribably
horrible alkali dust Now and then
through the day it raiuod, but the al
kali soil of tho desert instantly soak
ed up all tho rain that full, and tho
efTcct of the showers was to make the
humidity like that of tho steam room
in a Turkish bath.
"I am no kicker, and I am willing
to endure a good deal for tho snke of
travel. It wrung my heart, though to
witness tho terrible torture thnt
Marie suffered. I fanned her, but the
breeze stirred up by the fan was so
scorching that she begged mo to stop.
"Just about sunset, when we were
about thirty miles out from Hnltou,
the train came to a stop in the middle
of the desert, for tho engine, despite
the slow speed it had made, was suf
fering from a 'hot box.'
"Thnt meant an hour's delay, the
conductor said, so I proposed to Marie
that wo lenvo tho unbearable train and
tnke a short, slow walk. The idea ap
pealed to Mario, for she was tired of
the car and felt sure that tho desert
couldn't bo any worse.
"Probably thero wasn't much relief
in thnt walk, but wo thought there
was. We talked a great deal, and in
spito of our sufferings from tho awful
heat and intense humidity I wns be
ginning to grow sentimental. I boliovo
that I was actually on the point of
proposing, when a toot from tho on"
gine's whistle, followed instantly by
a shriek from Marie, brought ino to
my senses.
"Tho train, somo distance away, wns
beginning to move. It was out of the
question to run after it, so wo simply
stood there, shouting and Having fran
tic signals. But no one saw or heard
us.
"Iu desperation I drew my rovolver
and rapidly emptied its chambers in
tho air. Tho traiu was now too fur
away for the reports to bo heard over
the noise of tho revolving, rattling
wheels.
"By tho tinio that we stopped our
noiso and signals, tho train was a
milo off, and going at thirty miles nn
hour!
"I gazed into Mario's face, and saw
there an expression that strongly re
sembled utter despair. She was a
plucky girl, but tbe situation was too
terrifying. Halton was thirty miles
away, and between us and thnt little
desert stntion there was not a hoime
of any kind. To walk that distance
over tho treacherous alkali soil, and
through such a hot and humid atmos
phere, was a task from which men
used to the desert would have shrunk.
" 'What shall we do?' Marie gasped.
" 'I don't want to alarm you, I re
plied, 'but we have a choice between
only two courses. One is to walk on
to Salton J the other is to calmly lie
down and die. We'll walk, won't we?'
" 'But surely, she insisted, 'as soon
as we are missed tho train will oome
baok for us. '
'My dear girl, I'm afraid you
don't uuderstnnd California railroads.
They won't alter their schedule time
by putting back after us. Tho train
may keep on for half an hour, or an
hour, before wo are missed Then tho
passcugers will demand that tho con
ductor put back after us. He won't
do it he wouldn't dare to.'
" 'And the next train?'
" 'Will not come along for twenty-
four hours. Trafflo over this desert
isn't extensive enough to demand any
better servioe. Come, Miss Muson,
we must walk, and we shall do well to
cover the whole distance, if possible,
between now and sun-up. - I
"She oomprossed her lips, and, like
the plucky girl she was, uttered not
word of complaint. We took hold of
hands and wulked along the track.
"The suflVrings of that night were
beyond my powers of description. It
seemed as if we were being slowly
roasted alive J In five minutes we were
drenched with perspiration. It drop
ped from our foreheads, ran into our
eyes, well nigh -blinding us. Thirst I
Ye shades of Tautalus ! how we long
ed for even a spoonful of water!
"It must have been midnight when,
footsore and rendy to drop from ex
haustion, we came across a shallow,
stagnant pool of alkali water. With
a shriok of delight, Mario ran toward
it. I rushed after her, cnught her and
held her fast in my arms.
"'Don't! Don't !' I cried, as sbo
struggled with me. 'If you drink
any of that poisonous water it will
drive yon nind.
"Mho desisted then, though she was
sobbing and gasping. We started on
ward again. An hour later wo camo
across a few stunted cactus plants. In
stinct told me what to do. I cut off
some of the prickly leaves, removed
tlio prickles, and we fell to chewing
tlio leaves. That gave us some tem
porary relief. Carrying all we could
for future use, we staggered on again.
"At daylight the next morning wo
were not in sight of Halton. And
now Marie, who had been compelled
to halt frequently for rest during the
night, moaued that she could go no
further. Hardly had she said so, when
she fainted ; and I knew the chances
were that she would pass direct from
that faint to denth.
"Groaning with horror, I took her
insensible form in my arms and plod
ded on, determined cither to save her
or to die with her.
"Tho early morning sun was so piti
lessly scorching and I was so fast
burning up inside that the latter alter
native of death was rapidly enforcing
itself.
"Suddenly I heard a shout. Never
again will any sound be so pregnant of
joy to me. A quarter of a mile ahead
and coming toward us wns one of the
slow-moving, lumbering desert wsgotis,
drawn by four horses, but coming to
ward us at a snail's pace.
"I tried to answer the hail, but my
throat was so parched that not even a
whisper pHHsod my lips.
"Then I attempted to rush forward,
but Ntumblud with the precious bur
den in my arms. When I came to my
self again, Mario and I were stretched
out side by side in the wagon under an
awning, while a physician gave us his
attention-' alternately. Wo reached
Halton thnt morning, and there found
Mrs. Mason all but crazed by sus
pense. It was sho who had prevailed
upon tho doctor and two men to go
out in search of us.
"That night wo were on a train
again, whirling townrd Los Angoles,
nt the hitter place it was uccessary for
Mario to rest for three days before
sho wns able to proceed to 'Frisco."
"Ami what became of her?" asked
Ned Wyman.
"I received this note from her last
night," Jack answered, pulling out a
perfumed missive and gazing affection
ately at it. "dim promises to becomo
my wife in the Fall, and my object iu
hunting you up today, old fellow, was
to bespeak your services as best man
on that glorious occasion."
"Of course I will, Hargous," Ned
answered promptly. "The only con
dition I make is thnt the ceremony
must not tuko place on suoh a desert
as you have been describing to me."
New York Journal.
Ills Foreign Tour.
A hard-working business man was
sitting at his deak the other afternoon
looking a.i fresh and sweet as a daisy,
when a friend dropped in on him.
"My!" exclaimed the visitor, "you
look good enough to eat."
"I do eat," responded tho worker,
in a tone of voueration for the an
tiquity of his harmless littlo joke.
The visitor laughod just because ho
was foeliug good.
"Haven't you beon away this sum
mer?" ho asked.
"Oh, yes; I went away in Juno and
returned in July."
"Ah, where did you go?"
"I vis tod a foreign shore."
"Is that so? No wonder you are
looking well. Did you have good
time? But, of course you did; you
look it."
"Had a fine time, but it was too
soon over.
"Where did you go,
"I loft Detroit at 7.80 P. M. June
30, wout ovor to Canada in a rowboat,
and came away at five minutes after
midnight July 1. "--Detroit Free
Press.
Explained.
"What made Mr. Borelr rcsirn
from that target company after ho'd
spent all tho winter aud spring in or
ganizing it?"
"Oh, ho didn't like tho office the
boys offered him. " .
"Whut was it Lioutenant?"
., "No; target." Harper's Bazar.
' ' : ( Binlneis.
He If I should promise to yon,
what would be the outcome?
i She It would depeud entirely on
the income, New York Proas,
rOK THE HOUSE WIFE.
qreex vtcToniA'a rAvoRirs aoop.
ft may bo of interest to humblo
Louss-wives to know what tho chief
Cook to Queen Victoria for many
years says was the only soup eaten by
Her Majesty during that time. It
was made of the following receipt
Wanh and scald one-half pound of
barley and sot in a stewpan with three
pints of veal stock. Simmer Tory
gently for one anil a half hours. Re
move a third to another soup 'pot.
Rub the rest through a aelve. PrJhr
It to the whole 'barley. Add half a
pint of cream. Season with a little
tait. Stir till hot and serve.
OnKRX OOOSB AND A IT LP..
Trnss aud singe a young, fat goose,
core aome apples, rub the inside of
the goose with a little thyme, salt and
pepper, All up with apples, and roast
till done. Unke a few apples in the
pan with tho goose, aud when you are
about to make the sauce from drip
pings, press apples through a sieve
with sauce. Baste the goose often,
but do not stick a fork in the bird
when turning. This receipt is worth
saving. Delicate green goose, served
in this stylo, only needs a bouquet of
celery, a roll, a bito of cheese and a
swallow of black coffee to be a feast
Qt for a gourmet.
CABnAOE PKKIiB.
Take bird, whito heads of cabbage,
remove tho ragged leaves, and cut into
convenient sized pieces, leaving a part
of the stalks on each. If the cabbage
is large, cut into eight pieces. Wrap
each piece well with string: pack the
whole tightly in a jar and cover with
brine for two or threo days. Squeeze
out the brine and scald the cnbbago in
vinegar and water, adding enough tur
meric to color it yellow. When thor
oughly scalded, but not boiled, drain
and pack tn a jnr with layers of horse
radish, black and white mustard seeds,
take some good cider vinegar, add mace,
cinnamon and brown sugar, scald and
pour over the cabbage. This pickle
can be mado during wintor. Home
aud Farm.
A lEM('lorS METHOD OF fOOKINO BEP.F.
Our greot Spanish-American dish
is "beef-Spanish." It is not only de
lightful to cat but is healthful and an
excellent appetizer, and can be used
iu preparing cheaper cuts of meat, or
with the finest porter-house steaks. I
will give both methods of preparation.
For a Bpauish stow, cut the meat in
ordinary pieces and onver with hot
water as usual ; peel ami alien into it
a number of tomatoes, a couple of
chopped onions aud a cliil pepper.
(Theso are the loug, slender pepper
and can be uaod when either green oi
red.) If desired hotter, more poppers
can bo used, but I should adviso
uovice in making tho dinh to start in
with one ; season with salt aud peppct
and siinmor until tho meat is done. II
too thin, a littlo thickening can bf
added. For beefsteak Spanish, the
steak is to be broiled or fried as usual,
but the tomatoes, onions and peppoi
are stewed together for about half an
hour, and, when tho steak is dono,
pour over tho steak and serve. Onions
sliced and fried are also poured over
beefsteak in the same manner.
HOUSEHOLD IIINT1.
Hub spoons with salt to remove egg
stains.
Tooth powder isan excellent clennci
of fine filigree jewelry.
A chalk line drawn around an arti
cle w ill keep away ants.
Silt rubbed on the black spots on
dishes will r move them. 1 f 1
Use a short handled paint brush to
wash tho outside of window sills.
A tablespoonful of lime water to a
pitcher of milk is very beneftoial.
After knives have been cleaned they
may be brilliantly polished with char
coal powder,
A ahovol of hot coals held over
spotted varnished furniture will take
out the spots.
Washing ginghama in water slightly
thickened with flour staroh is. said to
be an excellent idea.
An excellent way to wash silk is to
use salt watar and iron the artiolos
while they are still wet.
The fumes of a brimstone match wilt
remove berry status froth the Augers ;
or still better, use a little lemon juico
or ripe tomato.
The morcst dash of cinnamon in a
enp of ohocolate after it is poured is
said to add a piquant and undistin
guishablo flavor. j
A littlo aloohol will do wonders in
brightening glass, (Turpentine ia ex
cellent for washing links which have
beootne dull and dirty.
FASHION FANCIES.
MUCH TALK IS IIKAKD AUDIT
lIMCS4 IlKKOIOI.
Plenty of Mens, fliit Nothing That
i ii Takes the Feminine Knney Has
1 1 Appeared es Yet Tho
Latest Styles.
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THEM is s great deal of tnlk
about dress reform and the
peculiar and adaptable cos
tumos that may be used for
various occasions. But it is an in
disputable atd somewhat melancholy
fact, says the Lodger, that the majori
ty of these outfits are simply unbe
coming, and that the woman who has
tbe courage to appear in them is made
the subject of so much ridicule that
sensitivo women shun them with a
feeling akin to horror.
A number of women have made
their nppearanoe on the atrert in di
vided skirts, Turkish trousers and leg
gins, bnt this by no means argues
that even for bicycle riding and kin
dred sports will this style of dross be
tolerated. There is urgent noed just
now for somo really sensible, practi
cal and beoomiug costume of this
sort.
It seems a little strange that, with
all of the ideas that havo been ad
vanced, nothing has yet oome before
the pubtio that stands the least chance
for favor. The nearest approach to
it ia a very full akirt that droops over
the sides and almost oonoeals the feet.
Say what one will, tbe preseut con
ventional ideas of life are against any
extended exhibition of foot-wear
among women, and no'hjpj is lik?ly
to succeed tbaf goaSajfaiust popular
lentiment on this subject.
LATEST PAI1I3
The fancy for acoordion plaiting
still holds. An exceptionally pretty
dress is of silk-striped masliu. The
accordion-plaited skirt has a band of
trimming made by sewing on insertion
in a sort of braiding pattern. The de
sign ia repeated in the waist and
sleeves in smaller patterns, and is the
only trimming with the exoeption of
a velvet collar and belt.
Lace was never used in such pro
fusion, and it may be said never with
such exoollent taste. Headings are
set on, row upon row, in some in
stances forming a band eight or tea
inches wide just aboTe the hem of the
kirt. Into these are drawn ribbons
in co'.or matobing the dress, or in con
trast, and these have roaettes at inter
vals around the skirt. The overskir)
idea comes on but slowly.
A dress of rich black ailk, brouaded
with tiny spray of bright rosebuds,
has a drapery of ailk muslin in
aocordion plaits. The drapery hangs
irregularly over the skirt, the points
where it is drawn np highest being
finished with large bowa of ribbon
with ends.
Among the coolest and most oom
fortablo of hot-weather dresses are
those made with alternate rows of
material and insertion. The goods
may be the width of the insertion or
double tho width, according to fancy,
the insertion being set in from neok
to belt. The aleevea of some of the
newest dresses have the insertion set
in from shoulders to elbows over the
fullest part. Some styles show cuffs
and collar of insertion over the
material. It i a very easy matter to
make up these dresses it oua has the
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A DBX8ST COIFFCEM.
time and patieneo to hand-sew the
strips of material and tho insertion
together. This is liked much bettor
than when put toother with tho sow
ing machine, although the latter ia
much more expeditions nnd is usually
seen in all but tho highost-priced
costumes.
Fon a touxo omti.
A charming costume for a Rirl of
fourteen is made f flowered delaine.
YOITCO aiRti'M COSTTIWR.
set off with lace tabs, insertions and
nftne1 ft ham a tiAAnA ltalt vwl a
I " Ul uj
bows in moire, in the darkest tint of
me pattern, a ganged yoke is of
FASHIOS3.
white muslin or China silk. The large
hat is of fancy straw, adorned with a
huge erect loop aad two aide-fringed
ends of corded ribbon.
IS PLACE OF WHITS 8KCRT1.
Every woman enjoys tho sense of
daintiness which a spotless olean white
pettiooat gives. But not every woman
can afford this luxury. The laundry
bill whioh surely stares her in the face
is appalling. Less expensive and al
most as dainty are the new undergar
ments of linen dimity. Tbey are ecru
in color and made with a deep ruffle
taste fully embroidered in dark shades
of silk.
Hk&tsof black mohair or moreen
wear muoh better than the petticoats
of ailk. They have innch the same ef
fect when made with silk raffles. Don't
make the radios of old silk which you
may have in the honse, left over from
a gown which has aeen better days.
There is no economy in it. The ruf
fles will become worn before you have
had the skirt a week. It pays to bay
good silk for this purpose.
THC SILS PETTICOAT.
The silk pettiooat has become an ar
ticle of artistio elegance, made of rich
brocades and moire silks and trimmed
with lace covered ruffle and flounces
os chiffon, and ia almost as important
an item of dress as the gown which is
worn over it. A very dainty skirt is
made of black and white striped silk,
with a flounce of yellow satin at the
bottom, over which is a plaited silk
muslin ruffle edged with narrow blaoic
guipure and headed with hlaok inser
tion and a rnche of muslin. White
satin and white ohiffon are the idoal
combination for a bridal pettiooat.
Don't Uet I'mle r Tree.
Although it has mg been known to
every person of any observation or in
telligence that a tree is tbe very worst
place to go to for refuge during
thunder storm, a large proportion of
fatal; ties and injuries reported from
lightning continue to come from thoie
who seek its shelter. At Taunton and
near New York City several persons
have been seriously burned or killed
by lightning, all of whom had run un
der tbe bruuohes of a tree to ecne
the storm. Few are the exceptions tf.
this rule that tbe tree and the barn
tilled with new mown hay and the
open door give to lightning its great
majority of victims. dpriutield
(Mass.) Republican.
The sapphire whioh adorns the sum
mit of the English crown ia tbe sam)
that Edward the Confessor wore ut
hi ring.
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