In Knn?ns, tho farming State of the Union, a solid delegation of lowyors La bacn returned to Congress. It in estimated Hint tho introduction of the bicycle and tho clcctrio enr hag thrown more thnn a million horses out of employment. Denn Gregory choractorizes tho proposal for the wishing of St. rnul'ii, Loudon, r.i ono of the silliest sugges tions over made. If cnrrioil out, the denn says, tho exterior of tho cothc dral would have tho appearance of streaky bacon. At first thought it ia rather inrpris ing the Now York Sun admit", to hear of book publishing houses in Denver, Col., and at Portland, Oregon. But thero are book publishers in theso places and tiiey get out somo volumes that nro creditable to their enter prises. Dr. George O. Shattuck makes ft vigorous defonso of foot bnll in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Ho is An overseer of Harvard College, so his editorial is significant. He Bays it is better to break a few bones thnn to abolish the game. Unfair players should be disqualified for ever. He advocates soino changes in tho rules. Tho English Zoophilist mnkes a virulcut attack upon tho now remedy for the euro of diphtheria because it is "tho product of animal torture." It Affirms that Dr. Schubert treats tho diseaso most successfully with chlorino water, that a Dr. Droer cures it with inKutlliitioiis of soziodol sodium, and .and tint there ara half a dozen other remedies. Tho Zoophilist also do tiouuces Pasteur's hydrophobia cure, .and generally all tho attempts at van "Ciuatiou cure for various diseases. I Ono reason given by tho San Fran- Cisco Chronicla for tha extreme slow ness of the movemont of ihe Japnneso army in Manchuria is that nil tho enmp equipngo nnd supplies must bo onrriod on the backs of Japanese coolies. Tho soldier disdains to do any manual labor. Ho will not carry anything which is not provided for in tho reg ulations, and he will not dig trcnohee or throw up earthworks. Tho result is that labor which the American or European soldier porfornn cheerfully is flatly declined by the Japs. A new social experiment is about to be tried in tho south of Franoa. A wealthy land owner in tho department of tho Cantnl has given a largo tract of laud to a small sect headed by the painter M. . Gravelle w hose aim is to return to the manners and habits of primitive man. In Frnnou Buys M. Grnvollc and his followers there are 40,000,000 hectares of land for loss than 40,000,000 people. With ono Lectaro apiece they can live a lifo of ponco, comfort nnd rural simplicity. vTuo caverns are to afford sleeping ' shelters nnd a few animals and a few crops are to furnish food as well as clothing. Th3 Boston News Bureau publishes a sorios of briof intorviows with New England cotton manufacturers, and it is to tho Atlanta Constitution a signifi cant fact that nearly all of thorn pro did a prosporons futuro for cotton mills In the South. Among the promi nent men interviewed is tho Hon. T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston, ox Minister to Frunoo and Treasurer of tho Amoskeag Manufacturing Com pany. Mr. Coolidge says: Regard ing tho present state of tho cotton goods business I can only say that it is very dull, goods never sold at such low prioos nnd I look for no imraedi- to improvement, Tho futuro is un promising. As to the movement on the part of certain cotton manufac turers to locato mills in the south, 1 ' think it will be a success. I know of no good nrguaieut to tho contrary. Southern labor, especially in the moun tain regions, is in ovory way equal to that ot tho north. The railroads have been and are still willing to make in ducements as regards freight rates, so that the Southern manufacturer can deliver his goods in the western mar ket cheaper thuu he can. This now enterprise is a Mow to the prosperity of - Massachusetts. " Mr. Coolidge thoroughly understands, the situation, oomiuouts the Constitution. He has investments in Atlanta, as well an in M UMHchusetts, and wheu he says that the. Southern cotton mills oan- deliver .goods to tho Western market cheaper than oau be done by the New Eng landura ho knows what he is talking bout . When men in Mr. Coolidge' position exprow the opinion that the Northern will owners would do well to locate their mills in the South their word will carry weight, and will' 'do nucb to hasten the southward . move ment of enterprise and capital. ' ' ' tiirfnw-TIilc, Bwnot Blnop, thi night tlmo's fnlrost child O'ornll tho worlit hnr pinions spreads Enoh flower, beneath licr lnlluonco mild, Flush fragrance sheds Tho owls, on silent wings nnd wldo, Btcal from tho woodlands, one by ono, At ourfow-tldo, When day la done. No moro tho clnnglng rookery rings With voice of many a noisy bird ; Tho stnrtfod wood dove's cln'.tnrlng wings No moro arc heard With sound like whispers fnlntiy sighed, Soft brcozes through tho trootops run, At curfow.-tide, When dny Is dona. So may It ho when life Is spent, When ne'er another sua enn rise, Nor light one other joy present. To dying oyoi i Then softly mny tho plrlt glldo To realms of rest, disturbed by none, A, curfow-tido, When d.ay h done. THE NEW WOMAN. Tho dark-eyed Miss Brown smiled ft little wickedly an she gathcrod her til my skirt up in hor hand and tripped up tho stairs w ith the most approved Dolsartean grace. Sho felt sure that Mr. von Ehren was watching her pro gress with admiration, and sho sus pected that each click of her high heeled slippers upon tho stairs brought a throb to his youthful German heart. That was why tho dark-eyed Miss Brown uniled. When sho had hung up tho filmy frock and kicked off tbo high-heeled slippers and was attired in a dressing gown am? kuitted, shapeless footgear sho wns still smiling. Sho brushed her hair and looked at herself critical- "I am certainly bettor looking than I was," sho murmured approciatively. "And I know how to make tho most of my charms better than I did. This pink thing is very becoming. He must bo younger than L It's almost mean of me to let myself fascinato him. Those Germans nro so romantic. Thoy aro not flippant, cold-blooded thiugs like our men." Hore Miss Brown's eyes looked sombre, and she glared for a second at a photograph on hor tnblo. Then her faco bright ened again, and she went on in her reflections. "If it woro purely a personal mat tor," she decidod, "I simply would not do it. But it is not personal. Those foreigners aro really in a stato of painful ignoranco about tho Amer ican woman. I dnre not say thoy think a girl who has been to college cannot bo fascinating. For mo to prove that wo can be all things to men will be really a patriotic act a vindication of tho Xow Woman, a triumph over the ilaxeu-hairod, Ma-donna-faced, eternally knitting idea'. Still, of course, it mustn't bo allowed to get too serious; I don't want him shooting himself or mo. " With this charitable conclusion, Miss Brown climbed into the big four- posted bod, which filled tho larger part of her room in tho quaint old homostead, whore she was sponding tho summer, and fell at onco into the rofra&hing sloop which comes especial ly to those whoso minds are free from guile. In pursuanco of hor pntriotio plan, Miss Brown pormittod the young Gor man, with tho haadsomo, boyish faoe and the oourtly air, to bo hor con stant attendant ovorywhero. Ho soomod to like the position. His eyos Bought hor the instant he ontored the dining-room. If sho ntartod out for a ramblo, ha always sprang to bor side, and with his foreign air of dofor onco and humility, baggod permission to aooompanv her. Evoryona about the plaao notioad and smilod at the young man's nppnrent infatuation. Miss Brown played hor part oxoeed ingly wjII. baa was a c'.sver young w nun and s'.n nnvar ullowod her youth to bacomo too personal or too santiinontaL Sho told him ubout her college life an I In saemad to never woary of bor talcs. She dixoussod evarytbiug with him from the classics to clambakes nul from poetry to poli tics. S'aa w.s oua of tha few young; women who cjuld do this in a way that would inspire the respect of a man who knew inuoU on thase sub loots, but who was unaoamtomed to women who knaw anything outside the purely feminine realm. It was before the evening that Miss Browu tried to instruct Mr. von Ehren in the baauties 1 of Browniig that she dioidid to stop playinj with fire. She did not fear it herself, but, (is sin puts it, a oonsoienoe not quite outgrown kept her from getting real enjoymeut out of , other people's igouios. And the courtly, slow speak ing young man had really seemed to her until last ev.iuing to be approach ing the stage of agony." 'I oauuot understand your Brown- ing," he said in his deep voice, with tbemnrkod Gorman nooont which' all tho summer bonrdors found so delight ful. "What is it which ho moans by such things as this: 'Where ho stands, the Arch-Fear in a visiblo form, yet tho strong man must go?' " "Oh, you've boon rending 'Pros pice,' have you?" said Mr. von Ehren's guide. "He means death, of course." "I understand bettor the rest. The rest is Very beautiful," said ho, nud ho began to quoto It But Miss Brown didn't want to hoar "Oh, thou soul of my soul," ovon with the quotation marks, so she stopped him. "Well, if I may not be pormittod to speak of that," said the gentleman, obligingly, "may I ask your permis sion to read the little poem I find hero! 'One Way to Live?' You might kindly elucidate that." Miss Bro .vn didn't cue to lmr tho poem. "Ah!" said Mr. von Ehrnn. "It Is not so we love. When wo have missed the heaven we do not say "those who win heaven, blest are they.' Wo love otherwiuj." "You nro still Werthors over thoro, I imagine," said Mis Brown lightly, rising us sho spoke, "Pardon me," said tho young man, rising also, "if I ask you what may seem to you a most impertinent ques tion. You have told mo and shown mo so much about America and Amer ican ways, will you not toll mo new it is that American worn?", love?" "Hcrr von Ehren must ask a moro experienced American woman than I that question," answered Miss Brown, with a certain dignity. She was an noyed. If tho man was going to make nn idiot of himself it would bo dis guhting. "It is not," pursuod ho, "us our womon do. I am convinced of that. You aro nil different. You " "It is a subject on which one can not generalize," broke in Miss Browu, quite curtly, "nnd on which we most certainly do not wish to particularize. I think there's a fog coming iu." "The fraulein wishes tho subject changed," hazarded tho German, smil ing at Miss Brown in A peculiarly irri tating way. "But before wo loavo it may I not ask her congratulations that I know about the Gormau ways of loving?" Miss Brown for the moment wns al most staggered ; but before the Gor man had a chance to observo that sho had recovered herself sufficiently to say : "Ah, it is ns I suspected. Indcod, I do cougratnlnto you. Aud is sho o flaxen-haired madcheu?" Mr. von Ehren kindly go-o ft brief description of tha young woman who was waiting for him to finish his tra vels, and Miss Browu struggled des perately to thiuk what had beon tho socrot of his devotion to herself. Sho never knew until the noxt win- tor, when thero enme a marked copy of a German magazine to her, con taining a very delightful articlo on The Now Woman in America," by Professor Soigmund von Ehren. Baltimore Telegram, Vast Armaments of Europe. Thirteen million oayouots prop up the czar's throne. That is tho full strength of tho iiussinn army on a war footing. Germany comes next, but after a long interval, with 3,700, 000 Boldiors. Italy has 3,153,000 and Franco 2,850,000, excluding 350,000 auxiliaries. Austria's fine army, which in quality Is reckoned scarcely sacond to Kaiser Wilheltn's, contains a maxl mum of 1,734,175 men. England at homo and in her oolouios can mobilize a force of 602,000. The little martial republic of Switzerland can summon 480,000 soldurs to her b.iuucrs In nu omergonoy, an 1 ovon poverty-cursed Spain boasts of 400,003. Austria, of all tho powers, has the most burden some military ostablisbmant. Her an nual expenditures on her army aro $255,000,000, while Russia's, with an army seven times a large, are only 880,000,000, aud Germany's 8113,000, 000. In proportion to size England's army is, perhaps, tho most costly. Her 662,000 men require $33,000,000 an nually for their Kupport, or ouly $38, 000,003 less thau the amount which provides Frnncd with an enormous host of more than four times England's numbers. Boston Journal. Butter Thnn Dumb Bills. Dyspeptics may be interested iu tho experiment of a man living ou Erie street. Being oonfiued to his ofHca most of the day, and having little ex ercise of any kiud, Lis system got badly out of order. For some two mouths past he has been spending a a half hour every evening in lying on his back on the floor and tossing his lusty two-yeaivold son back and forth. Ho sas this exercise boits dum' bolls nud that it is ouly after an occasional immoderate mual that hi is reminded ho has a atomuch. Chicago Tribune. Arizona's Quaker Sheriff". Arizona possesses a Quaker sheriff who is starllingly effective. Ho is Commodore Perry Owens, sheriff of Apacho county, formerly city marshal of Winslow, and one of the guards of tho Wells-Fargo Express across Ari Eono. Ho is nn Indianinu who went to Arizona fifteen years ago. His pooplo nro Quakers, and live nonr Carters burg, Ind. When a friend asked him the other day if the report was true that he had removed from active lifo moro men than any other man in Ari zona, he looked pained for a moment, then ho answered t "I was raised a Q'inkor ; but out here, you see, a man can't work at that. It ain't suited to tho Arizona ciimnto. I havo done a good deal of shooting, but it has nil boon necessary and in the lino of my official duty. My good mother, back In Hendricks county, ovory now and then writes me a letter. Sho sees newspaper stories about mo nnd she misunderstands them. You ask if I'vo shot 10 ) men. Well, no, I haven't i that is, unless you want to count Mexicans. 1 ve only killed fourteen whito men and wounded fifty-threo. Bomo of them died after thoy were wounded, but that was tho fault of tho doctor. "Over iu Winslow, several years n(,o, I was tuo suorill and liaa a war ra. for a fellow's arrost. I wrota to him to coma in nud surrender. Ho didn't even answer my letter. So af ter a whilo 1 went after him. He was at his mother's house, a double log abin built iu L shape. I tied my horsj and vent to the house. As I knoclrcd on tho door I caught a glimpse of two faces at a window at my back. The door opened about a foot and tho mnu I wns after stuck a guu out. I let drive with my Winchester, aud as I heard him drop I fired over my shoulder through tho window. Tho second load caught two, killing ono aud shattering tho arm of a younger brother. I knew that thero was still another man iu tho honse, aud that it was dangerous to remain on the porch. I jumped out into the open ground and as I did so I saw a man shelter ing himself behind a backboard. 1 ran a fow stcpB nnd uncovered him. When it was all over thero woro three killed ami one wounded. Tho wholo affair took 1 lice iusido a minute." New York Sun. An Electric Horn. A. B. Woukes bus invented an "clcc trio horn," says London Inventor, with which ho 1ms recently carried out a series of experiments, to take tha placo of electrio bells or gongs, etc., where an alternating current ot electricity is available. The appara tus is based upon tho principle of ho telephono receiver, and consists, iu its simplest form, of a dino of sheet iron placed in front of ona of tho polcB of nu electro-magnet, tho coil of tho latter being arranged to tako an alternating current of 10) volts. Tho method of working is as fol lows : Whon the current is switched on the reversals of magnetism pro duced in tho iron core by tho current causes a corresponding number of vi brations in tho diso. Thus, if a cur rout with 200 alternations per second is employed, tha diso gives 200 com plete vibrations per seooud, and pro duces a noto corresponding in pitch with tho number of vibrations. With a current of a given number of alter nations, the pitch of the note is con stant, no matter what tho diamotor or thickness of the disc, sinoa the mattor, iu nil of these, is obliged to vibrate at tho sanio rate. Tho timbre nud inten sity of tha sound, however, can be mado to vary in a number of ways. In order to obtain an intense sound with a small amount ot current, tho dia plirnm or diso must strike, whilst vi brating, tha iron coro or some other body. S"a All vs. Living Skeletons. Macdoiittld Gordon, of Henley, Aus tralia, weighed but thirty-fonr pounds although six feet in height and broad in proportion. Sam a London specu lators huurd of the freak and resolved to put the 'blooniiu' living skeleton" on ( xhibition iu the British capital. They Kent a man to the Antipodes to bring the skinney Mao at any reason able figure, but when ho arrived they were on the point ot 'arresting the agent for fraud tho "livinj skeleton" weighed 141 pounds I The sea nir and change of food had ruined tha specu lation, St. Louis Republic. A New Hyiiiptoii. Mama I'm worried about Johnny. He complains of a severe headache, nnd you know, he has never been ill before . ' Papa Never boon ill? He' always complaining of headache I Mama You interrupted me, I was goiug to aay ho hat never betu ill before on Sunday. run THE HOUSEWIFE. r.lf-'E AND MACAnoM. Rico when scrvod as a dinner dish needs to be in combination with some pantry element iu order to give if favor, and nothing can be moro highly recommended thau curry. To curry rice proporly a tiny onion should first be minced and fried a nloe golden brown in a heaping tnblespoonful and a half of butter. To this should be added a teacup of washed white Caro lina rioo, along with a bunch ot miuo;d market herbs.o level teaspoon ful of curry powder, a pinch of peper and a half a pint of liquid bocf ex tract Stir tho compound lightly but completely, then over tho top of the pan place a butter greased paper aud let It all cook very gently for forty minutes. New York World caimt dish or TURNIPS. There is a way by which garden turnips whoso virtues of flavor are so slightingly regardod by tho average housekeeper, may be prepared as the daintiest dish set before any woll-fcd Now Yorker. Pool aud wash a half dozen small whito turnips, trim them down to shapes of hearts or diamonds, pieces no bigger than a Brazil nut. Drop them in cold, salted water and lot them stay until it has boilod flvo or seven minutes. Lift them out and set again to boil until tender iu milk aud a half teaspoonful of butter. There are two methods of treatment now to be lowed. One and tho easier is to set the pot to ono side ou tbo stove and proparo a simple whito sauce of flour with a few spoonfuls of the hot milk. Stir this in with the turnips, add bits of butter aud pepper, and sorvo at once in a hot silver dish. Tho second process is to lift out the tnrnips when quite tender, let them drain, arrange iu a hot dish aud over them pour a rich tomato sauce. This last is of browned Hour, a half cupful, and but ter, mado iu a paste and molted, with a teacupliu ot any nice rich beel or chicken gravy. When stirred together add a small bottle of preserved French tomato, dash iu popper and salt aud let this boil for a bit Finikin cooks will strain tho sauce when it is done, and reheat before pouring over tho tnr nips, but the flavor ami effect is quite as good without the oxtia pains. New York Sun. 1 ItOCSEIIOU ItlN'TS. Ammonia will restore colors faded by acids. Cayouuo popper aud borax will froe tho storeroom from nuts. Wash out machine oil stains at onco with soft cold water nnd soap. Acid phosphate will remove ink stains from the hands whon everything olso fails, Milk appliod onco a wo -k with soft cloth freshens and preserves b jots and nhoes. One of tho easiest ways of taking cold is to drop asleep without au extra wrap over the shoulders. Canned sardines carefully browned on a double wire gridiron and served with lomon aro appetizing. Cnnuad tomatoes aro moro delicious bakod than stowed. About ten min utes buforo removing from tho ovon spread buttered bread orumbs over tho top. Wheu an eiderdown comfortablo has got hard aud lost all of its olastio ity haug it in the cool balmy sun for a few hours, aud all the life will come back to it. Calicoes, ginghams and ohambrays caunot bo properly washed along with the whito olothes. Thoy need amuoh quicker procoss, and the loug delays of au ordinary wash day would ruin them. Every good housokoepor browns and rolls or grates her stale broad, thus having it in roadiuess for scal lops or frying meats, fish, croquettes. If, after boiug rolled, it is put through the flour sieve tho additional fineness will amply repay tho trouble. Wall paper '.ample are deoeptive. Never suleci from them. They will make your room look umallur quite often, though they had not that ell'oot in the sample. Soleot from the roll and havo several strung out at onoe, bo that you may get the full effeot. Try boiling the soap before putting It into the tubs, and use it in liquid form. Borax can also be added to the soap while it is dissolving.' Borax will not hurt tho clothes, as it ia a neutral salt. Housewives who cling to the economical aud old-fashioued method of preparing "soft soap'.' find it a good plan to do their whole ' wash, exoept the flannel aud oolored calicoes, with the soft soap, pouring hot water on It in the tubs before the olotb.ua. are pulj In, I 'biiuUoipuis, rresa. I)i1Mn?. On llfo's swiftly flowing stream When I wako or when I drnm, Drift I onward with the tide To tho ocean vnst and wide. Whither?" Thus I ask my soul To Hint distant unknown goal? Aro tlwro rouks and reefs ahead, nislng from old Utem'i bed? Or beyond t know not whnre, Aro thorn pnlnis on Islands fair, i Bathed In perfumes, wreathed in smiles Drift I onward thoso sunny W?" Hut my soul said, "Dream no more," Trim the sail and grasp tho our? House thee! lest unfriendly shore Brlnj to their onr tho bronkets roar. True It is thoso sunny I'M, Llo In ocona wreathed in smllos. To reaeh tlvvn thou must work and wait. Nor bn dismayed by frowning fato-s Then drllt no longer! At tin last TUey sbu'.i tc tlituo when ttmo U past. tins. M. L. Oukuk llf.MOKOUS. Keeps iu any ciimnto A Miser, Fame is to have everybody know one's weaknesses. A thing of beauty is a joy uutiL th cost-prico leaks out. Of two evils,, somo pcoplo do their best to chuoso both. Money talks ;. but it docs not nlwaya speak when spoken to. Ho It goes without saying. She What does? lie A deaf mute's con vention. If somo men coull save nil the time they lose by hurrying, they would. hnvo plenty of leisure. It Is easier to cut fresh bread with a spoon than to profit by tho advice of ono who dispenses it gratis. It is moro difficult to go to sleep on a sleeping coach thuu it is to keep awake on a midnight wny train. About the finest combination of light aud shade we know of is found iu the whito aud dark lueut of the turkey. Lord Forgivuz. Do you know, I am passiountely fond of roses. Lthel Knox. What is your favorite? Lord Forgivuz. American. Beauties. Minnie. So they aro engaged t Her family seemed to bo latterly opposed to him. Mny Yes ;. at oue time thut was the only chance in. his favor. Bunker That's a. terriblo old hat Bilter is wearing. Why doesn't he got a now one? Hill Ho says if ho did ho would havo to get a new suit. Little Boy Got the earache? Lit tlo Girl No. Little Boy Then why you got all thut cotton iu your ears? Little Girl I'vo boeu.helpiu' tend the baby. 'Why is n great strong man liko yoa round bogging?"' "Ah, madam; it is the ouly profession in which a gentleman can address a beautiful lady without tho formality of an introduc tion. Sho Y'oti know very well that that mnu can't paint. Why did you toll mo that ho ought to havo lived in the days of the old masters? He If he had lived thou he wouldn't be exhibit ing his pictures now. Tenant Why, I haven't been nblo to muko a fire iu. this fireplace all the winter. It doesn't draw. Landlord. So? Then it must have saved about five pounds for you: in fuel. In such.s case I'm afraid 1'li havo to raiso your rent. Mistress What iu the world is- tli matter with the twins? Nurse Sure, I don't know; but, from the way they've boon fro-ttin' and cryin,' all day, it's my opinion that they've mixed theirseUes, aud can't telL which is which. She Do yon think the time will ever come when women will propose? He I don't sue why it shouldn't.. Sup pose you proposed to mo tonight and I said yes, what Sho Oil, Ilonry, this is so sudden ! But never mind; it's just as well, aud mother, I know, will be delighted. Orerheatlnir Houses. "I am fond of America and Ameri cans, said -Mr. it. il a iiustaizaell ol Loudon, "but thero in one thiug in this country that is sadly iu need of reform, though I fvar reformation is impossible. I refer to the boriiblo habit of overheating nil plaoes of pub lic resort, especially tho hotels. There isn't a hotel iu New York city where I oan draw a comfortable breath at this time of year. They are veritable fur naces, aud I can't understand how the American people manage to ondur them. I thiuk your people ought to live out doors more aud take more physical exorcise, and thou they wouldn't tolerate thoso super-heated houses." -Washington Tost. The carelessness ot huuaeholder in LondonNs shown by the fnot that in 1893 26,330 doors and window were found opjQ by tho poliu-J at night,
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