BATTLE TO BE WOK.
There' a battle to be won
You may win It, if you will;
But from rise till set of sun,
You must battle sword and gun.
And must do as all have done.
Who have won a soldier's skill.
There's a ship of state to steer
You may guide it, if you will;
But from morn till midnight drear,
You must toll from year to year,
Just as every serf or peer,
Who has won a statesman's skill.
There's a lyrie to be sung
You may sing it, if you will;
But the starlit ehadea among,
You must train your truant tongue,
Like the lyrists, old aud young, .
Who have won a singer's skill.
There's a truth to demonstrate
Yon may do it, if you will;
But from early life till late.
You must work and watch and wait,
Till you triumph with the great,
, Who have won a savant's skill.
There's a sermon to essay
You may try It, if you will;
But from youth till you are gray,
You must read and think and pray,
's the youths of yesterday,
Who have won a stevard's skill.
There's a chance for every one
You may win with dauntless soul;
But from rise till set of sun.
Many a deed must needs be done.
Many a manly race be run,
Before you gain the goal.
A
. By Helen Campbell.
Ill BOHEMIA
"All I want," the girl said, "is to
eee for myself. My father insists that
there isn't any more Bohemia in New
York, that it went out with Pfaff's
beer-cellar, where Fitz James O'Brien
and Fitz Hugh Ludlow and all that
famouB tribe, Walt Whitman includ
ed, talked immortal talk over mugs
of beer from midnight to dawn. They
are all gray-beards now, if alive at
all, which most of them are not. But
yesterday Macpherson, the new man
in pastels, you know, told me at a
private view, of a place where you
can really dine with exiles and an
archists." "Why in the name of wonder,
should you want to dine with exiles
and anarchists?"
The young man's eyes were on
her, smiling, yet puzzled; and now
- the girl smiled also, yet with a touch
Of condescension, her charming face
expressing a general hopelessness of
making her meaning clear.
"You ought to know. You are
two-thirds anarchist yourself, I be
lieve, and, I do not doubt, know all
about it. So you have no good rea
son for not taking me."
Again the young man considered
her gravely.
"To what end? Have you not
burrowed enough in places where
you do "not belong? Why is it that
this generation is doing all the things
Its mothers never thought of, and
even now would not venture upon?
Fancy your mother at an anarchist
table d'hote!"
"Yes, but mamma has no dramat
ic instinct. I should say the last
generation were almost made up
without it, save one here and there,
who, if they did not find outlet for
It on the stage, suffered tortures all
their days from perpetual misunder
standings. Mamma now wants life
according to fixed rule. I, on the
contrary, want it with a flavor. It
Is all part of a general study of hu
manity, you know. Now there cer
tainly is, perhaps, not the old, but a
new, Bohemia."
"An imitation Bohemia, yes. A
Bohemia where, as a witty news
paper man said the other day, 'un
interesting people go to see people
who are not there' places where a
famous artist or writer has gone be
tween checks, and his followers
flocked there in consequence. You
don't want a make-believe Bohemia,
child."
"I don't want Bohemia at all. I
want to see the place that Macpher
son knows and says is Just a big
family, and the proprietor its patri
arch a place where homesick for
eigners, who have not made homes
lere, come because it is friendly and
kind and gives them native dishes
and native faces, and a place where
they can speak what they think with
out fear.' It is a dangerous part of
the city, he says, though how it can
possibly be any more dangerous than
all the rest, with the subway going
on, I can't see. The point is, will
you take me, Hal? I don't want to
go alone, hut I might, perhaps, for
luncn."
The young man groaned, but it
appeared to carry a sense of affirma
tive to the girl, who laughed again
as he fixed questioning eyes upon
tier.
"Poor Hal," she said, "you have
been looking at me like that ever
'since I was three and you six. Will
it always go on?"
"Always, I suppose; but you don't
mind, and I may cease to be sur
prised. When shall it be? To-mor
row?"
So it came that the next day found
the pair leaving a car at Sixth ave
nue and West Fourth street, and
turning presently from a deep-shaded
old park, due southwest into a street
filled with men hurrying from work
children as the sands of the sea.
- and a roar of sound, not alono from
the elevated close at hand in a side
street, but with organs pouring out
rag-tima music, and, added to this
the cries of innumerable venders of
wares no man in his senses could
possibly desire, till farther down be
fore a house, at the last extremity of
forlornness, her guide turned, then
led the way through a long hall, past
a kitchen, from which savory odors
steamed, out to a yard long and nar
row, actually a bowling alley at one
time, but now divided in half, its
companion alley on the other side of
a partition.
The proprietor, a striking likeness
of King Humbert, had advanced to
meet them, bowing as he came, and
led the way to the end of a long
table crossed at the upper end by a
second one, where he whispered, sat
the most famous exiles and patilots,
giving them places so near that much
of the conversation could be over
heard. "What a fraud you are, Hal!" the
girl said. "I knew you knew It nil,
but you feel it your duty to keep me
in check. If you dec-ive me so now,
what will you do when we are really
married?" But now she turned, for
a little gong had sounded, and a line
of waiters entered, bearing huge
bowls of savory soup,' from which
each guest ladled for himself huge
portions of rich gravy filled with all
known vegetables. How It was eaten
the girl could not tell, for every one
talked, it seemed, steadily, save the
three anarchists at the cross table,
who spoke never a word, the Italian
husband and wife at her loft, smil
ing amiably and soon talking volub
ly, as they found she could follow
them fairly well, pointing out first
one and then another celebrity; a
South American ex-minister of edu
cation talking South American poli
tics to an exiled Italian lexicographer,
who at intervals defined the meaning
of words; a doctor farther down de
scribing a new surgical instrument
to a neighbor bent on proving the
necessity of a literary aristocracy,
while waiting for the second course,
polenta, otherwise corn-meal mush
fried in thin slices, on each of which
reposed a reed bird nominally, really
a sparrow, heads and feet still on,
as if they were minded to hop away
on the moment.
"It would be perfectly heartless to
eat them," the girl said, "for you
know I belong to the Audubon so
ciety." And she pushed back her
plate and sipped a glass of vichy till
the roast came a slice of veal fla
vored with sweet herbs, a touch of
garlic, accompanied by a delightful
salad, la which leeks nnd red vine
gar and green Italian oil made a
color scheme with all the rest. They
had started with a mountain of plates,
slowly reducing till there came the
final cheese plate, with cup of black
coffee. And now there entered a pair
of strolling musicians, with guitar
and piccolo, delicate music, to which
was paid the tribute of entire silence,
each guest then paying his Bhare and
asking for favorite ballad or some
special solo, heard in Milan or Flor
ence, it might be, from the lips of
some famous artist.
The tables were cleared speedily,
and now games chess, etc. were
brought out, and, through it all,
nnceaslng talk. The pair slipped
away quietly at last, hurrying up the
crowded street to the quiet old
square.
"You don't mind, do you, Hal?"
the girl said, as they crossed the
square toward Sixth avenue again.
And the young man said:
"Not if you don't do it again."
From the Boston Cooking-School
Magazine.
Local Taper a Great Bcnettr.
There is no advertisement so bene
ficial to a city, nor one which more
favorably impresses a non-resident as
an ably conducted newspaper, well
gotten up, and filled with local news
and advertisements of home mer
chants. Such a paper at once sug
gests the thought that here is a live
and prosperous city, and the reader
is favorably attracted to it.
In new towns and villages this fact
Is so well understood that those inter
ested soon look about for a news
paper and often times a plant is
bought for the publisher, and It
proves a good investment.
No influence is more potent in
building up a community in America
than Its newspapers, says the Mus-
coda (Wis.) Democrat. From its ear
liest history they have been cease
less In advertising the advantages
and the resources of the surrounding
country. If a new industry was to
be had, they have been foremost In
measures to secure it, the publishers
often times devoting more time and
money (to say nothing of columns
and columns of space) than any other
citizen.
In matters of public concern, muni
cipal affairs, taxation, etc., they are
expected to advocate and do favor
the course which is most conducive
to the interests of the city and their
advocacy usually leads to better Gov
ernment and lower taxation.
Publishing a newspaper is a matter
of business. The mission of the local
paper, however, 1b especially to work
in and out of season for the building
up of the community, and in so far
it is entitled to the active co-operation
and support of the merchants,
business men and property holders
of that community.
Clock Made of Straw.
An extraordinary addition has been
made to the exhibition of inventions
now being held in Berlin. A shoe
maker named Wegner, living in
Strasburg, has sent in a clock of the
grandfather shape,, nearly six feet
high, made entirely of straw. The
wheels, pointer, case aud every detail
are exclusively of straw. Wegner
has taken fifteen years to construct
this strange piece of mechanism. It
keeps perfect time, but under the
most favorable circumstances cannot
last longer thaa two years. London
Globe.
:gr"gf itM - i. i if nTir!g-h"ril'"- ' I l'""
New fork City. The over waisr
that is made with loose sleeves is
one of the best liked and is always
charmingly attractive. This one Is
distinctly novel, giving the effect of
t, separate guimpe while in reality
the entire blouse is made in ono. In
the illustration taffeta is trimmed
with banding and Is finished with em
broidery on the yoke and the cuffs
while it is combined with a chemi
sette of tucked mousseline, but al
most all the walstlng materials are
appropriate and the blouse will be
found quite as satisfactory ' for the
gown as it is for separate wear. It
will be charming made from crepe de
chine or any similar thin, soft silk
and, indeed, ffom almost every sea
sonable material. The chemistte can
be of tucking or of all-over lace or of
anything in contrast that may be
liked, so that there is great variety
possible.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three yards
twenty-one or twenty-four, two yards
twenty-seven or one and one-half
yards forty-four inches wide with
three-quarter yard of tucking, nine
and three-eighth yards of insertion.
A New Shade.
The newest color shown in the ad
vanced styles is called mulberry. This
seems to be a cross between crushed
strawberry and raspberry, and it is
Just near enough to old rose to be
becoming to almost any complexion.
Hat in Tobacco and Claret.
A very large hat with drooping
brim rolled slightly at the left side
and medium-tall straight crown, cov
ered with mlrolr velvet I;, tobacco
brown. Binding of the velvet fin
ishes the brim; draped velvet, held
at the front by a diamond-shaped
brooch set with a mock moonstone,
surrounds the crown, and posed at
the left of the back is a radiating
tuft of three demi-short ostrich tips
In claret-red.
American beauty Favored. '
The American Beauty rose Is to
a great favorite with all milliners.
It is occasionally used alone, but of
ten combined with lilacs and orchids.
Child's Coat.
Such a coat as this one Is adapted
to all seasons of the year, for It can
be made from an almost limitless
variety of materials. In the Illus
tration white pique Is trimmed with
embroidery but cloth, silk, bedtord
cord and all materials used for chil
dren's coats are appropriate. For the
coming season pique, linen, cotton
bed ford cord and the like are much
used, while for the very warm
weather still thinner fabrics are
dainty and are very much' liked,
whereas for the cooler weather cloths
are In every way appropriate. The
cape Is not alone becoming, It also Is
protective and desirable from the
practical point of view, but It Is,
nevertheless, optional and can be
used or omitted as liked.
The coat is made with a square
yoke, to which the full skirt portion
Is attached. It Includes comfortably
full sleeves that are finished with
cuffs and the separate cape Is ar
ranged over It, while at the nock
is a turn-over cellar.
. The quantity of material required
for the medium size (four years) Is
four and three-quarter yards twenty
stven, three and three-quarter yards
thirty-two or three yards iunj-iuur
lr.ches wide, three and three-quarter
yards of narrow, six and one-half
yards of wide banding, six and one
half yards of edging.
Ribbon Through Lace.
The running of ribbon through laco
has become more fashionable than
ever and the handsomest dinner
gowns aro treated with silk and vel
vet ribbon and with chiffon velvet,
used as though It were ribbon.
Quills On Hats.
Colden quills are In great demand
for hats, and what could bo easier
than to paint over those that fall to
Iniatch any hat at present In use?
The Human Interest,
By RAMSEY REXSOX.
Has no mother killed her babies
and herself, rather than starve?"
asked the managing editor, his brow
clouded with anxiety.
"None," replied the night editor,
shrinking within himself.
"No leading banker committed sui
cide to hide the fact that he has been
stealing money to buy diamonds for
a popular actress?"
"Not a banker."
"No rich, cultivated, beautiful
young woman married her father's
colored coachman?"
No, sir."
"No very considerable publle man
been sued for breacu-cf-promise by
his stenographer?"
"I'm afraid not."
"No faithful wife left home to
make room for her husband's affin
ity?" "Not this evening?"
"No fireman rescued a pet lea
from the flames in the fortieth story
of a fashionable apartment house?"
"Unhappily, no."
Here the managing editor went to
pieces.
"My God, have we got to print
mere news on the first page, after nil
the money we're spending!" he cried,
and bowed his head pathetically upon
his arms. From Puck.
A Homesick Pioneer.
In wonder the people of to-day
read of the persistent cheerfulness
with which the pioneers went about
the business of settling the great
West. Nevertheless, It somehow
gratifies the weakness of human na
ture to know there was now and then
a wearer of the deerskin leggings and
coonskln cap who grumbled.
One early settler who went from a
snug New England village to the
fever haunted prairies along the Mis
souri was moved to put his com
plaints Into rimes, one of which has
survived, and is now carefully pre
served by the descendantsof the early
settler, who live Burrounded by the
peaceful prosperity and comfort of a
Missouri farm right in the heart of
the anathematized prairie.
"Oh! lonesome, windy, grassy place.
Where buffalo nnd Riiulte prevail;
The iirst with dreadful looking face.
The last with dreadful Rounding tail I
I'd rather live on camel-hump.
And he a Yankee Doodle beggar,
That where I never see a stump,
And shake to death with fever'n ager.'
Judging from the last line one
might concludo that an acute attack
of "ager" had suddenly prevented
htm from continuing.
Hunters Do Well Off Bonn ties.
Two old nimrods, William and
John Coldpitts, who livo in a tiny
huntfng lodge in the midst of the pine
forest near the small village of Se
ney, in Schoolcraft County, have re
ceived 1450 in wolf bounties from
the last meeting of the county Board
of Supervisors.
The old men, who are brothers, are
both well advanced in years, nnd hove
lived In the hut they now occupy for
over a score of hunting seasons, and
practically make their living by hunt
ing and fishing. Thirty large timber
wolves have been killed in School
craft County since October 1 last, for
which bounties amounting to $730
have been allowed by the Board of
Supervisors. Besides wolves the re
port shows a lynx, for which a bounty
of 1 5 Is paid, and five wildcats, which
bring $3 each, have been killed dur
ing the same period.
Besides the Coldpitts brothers sev
eral other well known characters
have made considerable money dur
ing the present season devoting tbelr
time to the pursuit of such animals.
Manlstlque Correspondence of St.
Paul Dispatch.
Didn't Know Where They Were.
Where a meandering river consti
tutes the boundary of a nation or
State, changes in the course of the
stream give rise to problems in civil
government, as the following Incident
Illustrates. A minister In the south
ern part of South Dakota was called
upon once to officiate at a wedding in
a home In a bend of the Missouri
River. During the high water of the
preceding spring the river had burst
over the narrow neck at the bend,
and at the time of the feddlng it
was flowing at both sides of the
cutoff, so that there was a doubt
as to whether the main chan
nel of the stream the interstate
boundary line was north of them
and they were still In South Dakota.
To be assured of the legality of the
marriage rite the bridal couple, min
ister and witnesses rowed to the
north bank, and up on the South Da
kota bluff the marriage service was
performed, the bridal party return
ing they cared not to which State
for the festivities. The Vermilion
Republican.
Relativity of Knowledge.
The "relativity of knowledge"
means that you can know things only
as they are related to your faculties.
The thing "in Itself," and apart from
the way it appears to us, is unknown
and unknowable. Absolute knowl
edge is out of the question. In a
word, we know appearances, but nev
er the reality behind the appear
ances; the shadows, but never the
substance itself. In fine, the gist of
the doctrine of the "relativity of
knowledge" is that our so-called
knowledge is only phantasmagoria.
We know the appearance, but we
have no means of deciding whether
the appearance Is true or false. New
York American.
Assouan Dam to Be Raised.
Egypt's great dam at Assouan,
built to harness the Nile, is to be
raised fifteen foot.
HOUSEHOLD
AFFAIRS
MICROBE PROOF FURNITURE.
"Furnish In bright, warm colors,
and you will have less sickness
you will keep the microbes out," said
a physician. "You know how deadly,
the sun Is to microbes? Well, so In
a lesser degree all bright, warm hues
are deadly to them bright wall
paper, bright upholstery, bright rugs.
Bright, cheerful houses are seldom
visited by me; they are, to all in
tents and purposes, microbe-proof. It
Is the gloomy house, with Its dark
paper. Its heavy, dark upholstery, Its
sombre carpets, that my team Is con
tinually stopping at." New York
Press.
SPOTLESS DISH TOWELS. "
None but the slovenly housekeeper
Is content to wash her dish towels
but once a day ov even less often.
Such treatment soon shows In a line
full of clothes that look as If they
had been used to scrub the coal bin
or a greasy floor.
. The trl-dally washing may be
quickly done If the dlshpan Is filled
with boiling water In which a little
borax Is dtssovled and the towels are
allowed to soak for five minutes or
more while the dishes are being put
away.
Rinse In several waters and always
dry in the air and sunlight, Instead
of on the line behind the range, as
Is the way with many. New York
Press.
TO PURIFY SAUCEPANS.
Sometimes the most careful wash
ing will not remove the flavor and
odor of food from the utensil in which
it was cooked. This Is frequently the
case with fish, onions, cabbage, but
there Is a remedy which may be a
little trouble, and yet it la well worth
trying. .
After any of these articles have
been cooked, wash the utensil well
with soap and water.
Nearly fill it with cold water, and
for each quart of water add about
one tablespoonful of dissolved wash
ing sola. Place on the fire, and let
the water get boiling hot. Turn the
water into the sink, and on wiping
It dry, it will be found perfectly
sweet. New York Press.
USEFUL KITCHEN APRONS.
'Aprons are one of the most usefal
garments In a woman's wardrobe,
and If those who do not wear them
when doing housework realize how
much neater they appeared dressed
in a clean gingham apron than when
in a discarded street frock, dirty and
perhaps torn, every woman would
have a goodly supply of these articles
of wearing apparel.
A fresh gingham apron savors of
the old-time gentility, when women
of the highest social rank were not
ashamed to be seen wearing large
aprons when performing household
duties. Even now the daughters and
granddaughters of those stately,
dames have in their possession a sup
ply of kitchen aprons that may be
slipped on when they go into the
kitchen to work. Washington Star.
Veal Roast With Raisins For a
Teal roast with raisins, take three
pounds, roast a nice brown in butter,
add hot water and salt, and cook.
Within one hour of serving add one
and one-half cups vinegar sweetened
with sugar, three-quarters cup
washed raisins, about ten flowers of
cloves. When done, remove meat,
thicken gravy with a little cornstarch
dissolved in water, and serve.
Sour Milk Gingerbread Cream
together one cup brown sugar and
one cup uuiier, laru or umi ana nan.
Add one cup molasses, three well
beaten eggs (whites and yolks sepa
rately), one cupful sour milk into
which a teaspoonful soda has been
beaten, four tablespoonfuls ginger,
one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half
teaspoonful cloves and three cupfuls
flour twice sifted. Heat the molasses
slightly before adding. Bake in a
loaf or a shallow biscuit tin, as pre
ferred. nan cun nutter, lara or arioDines. as
preferred, and mix with it one-half
cun each molasses and sucar. Add
one egg well beaten, a teaspoonful
soda dissovled in a quarter of a cup
of hot water, a teaspoonful ginger,
the same amount of cinnamon and
about one-half cup of flour. Add
also a pinch of salt. Beat thoroughly
and bake in a quick oven, using a
biscuit pan or gem tins, as preferred.
A few seeded raisins will Improve
il. dukb careiuuy. as KiuKerureau is
the easiest to burn of all cakes.
Lamb Chops and Green Peas 1
Take six chops, trim off, leavini
small bone, dip in egg and brea
crumbs, fry in butter. Take a can o
peas (when fresh ones are not to b
had) and heat them; also enoug
mashed potato to make a border. Fo
gravy stew four tomatoes and presy
through sieve, thicken with flour, adf
ding small piece of butter, sugarl
salt and pepper. When ready to servd
make border of potato near centN
of dish, place a little on outside o
potato; pour tomato sauce all around
this and you will have both a pretttf
and appetizing dish. Arrange tmn
paper frills on the chops and garnuhi
with parsley.
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