AN ASSURANCE ! > [Copyright, 1804, by tlie that house opposite. IT© j over here from Paris to tune as a portrait painter* Jyjdflt3ts | was a handsome young 1 maufflM^a^' : u and-twenty, with very {' and inaiyr } no success as an artist, bu tjjHEoiitid J the fortune ho wanted in ( sion of a widow, and he raarinMKtiY Qm woman mueh older tlian | "No sooner was the knot ho began to make her i, Ave years they hadn't a rap-ffjulflV always a gentleman to his lie never failed in tention to her, and she simply shiped him; and, as far [■ heard, though she saw | slashed about right and left, no serious quarrel about it. [ the good sense and 1 elude liis wife in all the schemes by which he disd|HßH fortune. - j "About a year ago all cept an insurance of a th nn in on his wife's life. They sti 11 the road, but open house abandoned, horses and down, and the half-dozen j duccd to none ut all. The mained unopened to callcrs*"iMgttSfr now and then Piv.vnt t n f t>r intimate friends in his he gave them beer and stead of tho champagne nnd | other days. "Very little was now styjHpKBK&H Prevot. When her husband about her, ho shook.. his sighed, and said iier health jfljMtJj'it.s } were so bad she could not meet anybody, or even for the air, and ha," L afraid she would fall bad health indeed. r.isted on Mrs. Prevot rate west end doctor. | beeu ordered abroad, was I with friends of his own, -RjaMffEEßilfiEr l*ad begun to hope she to recovery. It was, ho K&Sd, his in- , leution to take up Jus resldefldc -'ifa Paris as soon as he could seU-la their in Londou. "A week later he declared the im provement in his wife's Health had not been maintained, and 1 that* she was worse than before leaving 1 England. During a couple of weeks more he re ported her going fr parade of to conceal na "A week tbe insur ance me. There was, ry irrcgulnr, thtthc death and,burial of whoso life I ad sent in a claim what kind?* I secretary, 'to be ispect foul play, lend of the dead •ndon during her s alone, without the house, with have just discov >r's certificate is enough,' said I; himself?' We suppose h# lie has placed s of a solicitor.' sed to pay tho vill not pay it im ip tho case. You and do all things I, 'this is clearly j a and an inquest. • taking up the few days. I will ;of the case. In made in Paris at topped when out some ono must t' he secretary, *we n you.'" >cken," said I, in ivo, "that of the mpanics one has riminating secre sent this speech. smile stole. "1 u do not solve the ghastly subject, fould bo out of on, bracken, go ell you that an cannot be got in not easy to get ed it our man in ar as he had been s movements the le account of him "iN A VERT FEW MINUTES THE LID Li■ :'4 ' . WAS OFF." Lelf. He had boon in Paris from the night of the sixteenth of October to W&ttifirtnibg of tho nineteenth, when he left with his wife for London. Mrs. Prevot was said to have been ailing while In For Is and when quitting it,, but as far as he could find out her case was not considered even serious, not to say dangerous. Our man wound up by asking for further instructions. "This was strong confirmation indeed of the secretary's suspicion. ,On the nineteenth tho woman had loft Paris with her husband. She was believed to be only slightly unwell, although he declared her to be dying, and when she arrived in London next day she was so ill that she had to be carried out of tho cab into tho house. "I tolegraplved our man in Paris: • Tome home over Prcvot's tracks, and t fihd ont everything you can about the pair on their journey.' "Another suspicious fact came to my knowledge, at this time. Prevot had left the country, and his solicitor could not or would not givo us bi address. 1 now felt that not only t\\ Ecllpnod. "Bluffem seems different from what he used to," remarked a man ou F street. "In what way?" "He wan once so self-reliant nnd boastful—one of the people, you know, * ho seem to know it all." "Ohl lie's had that taken out of him." "How?" "His son, aged twenty-one, is home ! from college."—Washington Star. A Cihp OiY the Old Illock. "llow old are j*ou, sonny?" "Twelve years old sir." "You are very small for your ago. I What is your name?" "Johnny Smith. My father is a 1 baker on Manhatten avenuo." "Your father is a baker? I might ; have guessed it by your size... You re- j mind me of one of his loaves."—Alex I Sweet, in Texas Sittings. Thought It Wan Worse. "But, papa," wailed tho young wom an, "you can have no idea how he loves me. He is willing to die for mo this very minute." "Well," said the old man, scratching his head thoughtfully: "I don't know as I have any objection to that. I was afraid ho wanted to marry you."—Tit- Hits. WHAT WK ARB COMING TO. Ho—Why is the cook leaving us? She—Because, she said, "she could make more money lecturing on Woman Suffrage."—lllustrated American. Just llow Did 110 Like It? "Could you love me, darling," he whispfcred, with a tender, pleading look in his eyes, "if I had only one coat to my back?" "I could," she replied, softly, as she nestled in his great, strong arms, "if I Knew you had sacrificed the others to buy me a new dress."—Tid-Bits. A Dilemma. The Lord—Miss Flypp—er, Mabel, deah, will you marwy mo? "Yes, love." "Er, won't you tell me what to do now, aw? So unexpected, you know. Ncvaw accepted before, you know, Ma bel, and, aw, I'm somewhat at a loss how to pwoceod."—Life. A Cheerful Outlook. Mrs. Youngwife (welcoming husband home)— Now, Duckcy, I've been cook ing all day. I've mode pio and cake, and biscuit. Duckey (cheerfully)— Then "let us eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow wo die."—Judge. A Hwcll Affair. "Are you going to Mrs. Uppercrust'a luncheon?" "Yes." "So am I. Let us go together, and after it is over we will go out and get i something to e.it."—N. Y. Press. A Strong Combination. Newspaper Man—llow is the theat i rical business this season? Traveling Manager—Fine! Crowded j houses every night! My leading man I is a prize-fighter, and iny leading lady a society divorcee.—N. Y. Weekly. What He Would* Rather Son. "Self-raisin' flour," soliloquized Farmer Sparrowgrass, after reading an advertisement; "self-raisin' flour mny ! be all right, but what I'd like, to sec is j some seed of self-raisin' wheat."—Pitts burgh Chronicle. lier View of It. " "You live opposite tho Vanasters, I bcliovo, Mrs. Knickerbock," said Mrs Cumso. "No," replied Mrs. Knickerbock stiffly. "The Vanasters live opposite me."—Judge. Ineyperleneml. lie—nave you ever Ixien engaged be- ! fore? She—No, darling. He—Then I'm afraid you will take I our engagement too seriously.—Hroolt- j lyn Life. " Not So Had," Etc. Though some look down on pawnbrokers Anil quito doapise tho creatures, Wo must confess Their business lias Its rcdcoming features. —Judge. | Already That Way. Tom—l believe I'm becoming dull. Fred (who means to be comforting)— j Nonsense. It's positively absurd to speak of your becoming so.—Chicago ! Record. Requires Genius. "Ah!" remarked tho great musician, as he walked the floor with his howl : ing offspring in his arms; "it is •mueh easier to compose a grand opera than a wakeful baby."—Puak. Summer Greetings. '•How do you do?" aud "llow dp you do?" Said the seersucker coat and the yellow r.hoo - And the "willy" hut e'en darod to intrude, And they all got together nnd "howdy dutlo!" —Cleveland Plain Lcalof Right In Ills Lino. Spencer—l sco that Corbctt has made quito a hit in London. Ferguson—lie ought to. He Is in the hitting business.—N. Y. World. At the Musicnlo. no—What is.your favorite air? I Bho Millionaire. Detroit Free : Press. .. RECORD OF A LIFE. ieccr Ouc by Saving a Piore or Every DI-CMM You Get. It often needs only a few interven ing' years to change our most common place surroundings into the most ro mantic; often in but a few years we learn t'o cherish anything which recalls to us old associations. I am certain ; that to a friend of mine no work of fic : tion could ever suggest so much gen uine comedy and tragedy as a unique little album which she showed to me recently. The book itself was a very ordinary one, of the sort generally | used for receiving clippings, but the ; pages, instead of containing bits of i fugitive verse, stamps or signatures, were filled with an odd collection of dry goods. In the upper left-hand corner of each page was fastened a fragment of dress material; opposite it a clever pen and ink sketch of the completed garment had been drawn, and below was given a written biog raphy of the same, containing all sorts of interesting items in regard to it; its price, its date of purchase and the occasion of its first appearance. The owner of the book was an artist and had supplied the sketches herself, but it occurred to me such a book would be interesting even without the sketches, as the beauty of the pages, to my mind, lay quite as much in thvi& suggestiveness as in their artistic ar rangemcnt. Several other friends who have heard of this book have been pleased with J the idea and have started similar J books. A young girl who is about to j bo married has decorated her first pages with bits from a very dainty trousseau. She intends to put in her book a piece of every dress she may pwn. A young mother has just commenced such a collection for her baby daugh ter. Should the child live to woman hood the book ,will bo to her a com plete record, not only of her vanished youth, but also of the mother-love that guarded and glorified it. If only our grandmothers in their days of silken tissue and stately bro mdes had had such an inspiration! And when the fashion of things pres ent has passed away, such albums will have developed into valuable posses sions.—Ladies' Home Journal. FAMILY SCRAP BAG. Oor.D paint of a good quality pro duces quite as rich an effect as gold leaf, and can easily be renewed. WHEN fur becomes wet or hard a brisk rubbing between the hands will restore it to its normal condition. EMBROIDERY of dandelions in the hud, blow aud blossom of yellow, white and green fioss is very pretty upon linen. MONOGRAMS on a bride's house linen now are made in heavy linen floss or rope silk, its heaviness varying in ae cordanee with the material it is used upon. CRAPE is of four different weaves, from the light crapes, single threaded, through the double and triple weaves to the quadruple, which is the best quality. A RANGE that is properly cleaned out every morning and all the ashes and clinkers removed will consume a third less coal to do a given amount of cook ing than one that is only cleaned out in a half-way fashion. IN a small room apparent size will be gained by using a wall paper which is light, and there are certain designs in paper having an interlaced conposition of darker and lighter shades that give the effect of air and distance. HOW TO KEEP ICE. A Hick-Room Hint Which Cortlnly la Worth Knowing. A very simple but little known meth od of keeping ice is to draw a piece of thick flannel tightly over some deep vessel, like ft bowl, for instance, and -'•itLiji—lji fasten it there. The ice is placed on top of this drumhead ajid covered loosely by another piece of finpnel. fn this condition the ico keeps cold | and oven freezes to the flannel. Thus a small piece of ice can be kept near the patient all night, so as to avert many weary inarches up and down stairs to the refrigerator. To break the ice a sharp needle or hat pin Js the best thing. Force it in and you will be astonished to see how cavity it will divide the ice.—Vesper ! L. George, in Youth's Companion. The Newest Pincushion. i The newest and daintiest thing In j pincushions is the following: A j wicker basket, about the size and i shape of the bowl of a clay pipe, is J filled with finely cut curled hair. Then ! a bit of block velvet is used as a cover- I ing for the top. and black pins are | stuck over the top in graduated rows 1 till it. is entirely covered. If the round ! heads are U3cd it will look like a great | blackberry. Now narrow lavender ribbon is tied around the basket and i long ends with bows, by which to j hang it up. Tract leal Kitchen Hint. When one is done using dishcloths, , they should be thrown into a dish of : water. Put a little soda or potash In, and placG the dish for a short time on I the stove, allowing the water to come J to a boil. The cloths may then bo f rinsed in cold water, and hung up in the air. When needed again, they will 1 be as clean smelling as the clothes I from the laundry, in which condition they should always bo kept. YOUR OLD BUREAU. It May Bo Oouvertoii Into Several Useful Articles. How to Fnfllilon m Very Good Hall Seat or a Settle for the Parlor—A I.ittle Ingenuity and n Pot of Glue Will Do It. The utilization of old furniture in furnishing the home has not received the attention to which as a measure of economy it is entitled. The possibil ities of an old chest of drawers that has outlasted its usefulness as such, have seemingly remained undiscovered to many persons. While the new uses to which it can be put arc manifold, space will only permit pointing out a few of the most useful. A very good hall seat may be fash ioned from any ordinary bureau. That i 0 --y > r IIALL SEAT FROM AN OLD BUREAU. shown in figure 1 was made from one of those swell front affairs, so familini in New England homes of the past, but of course any similar shape or pat tern would l>e equally fitting. To inaße the change it is necessary to re move the upper drawers, upholstering the space left thereby—seat, sides and back. The flat top of the bureau, of course, will not be required as such, and can be utilized as a scat by cutting to the proper size and nailing in place. The cushion maj r bo removable and can be covered with denim, jute, vel our or corduroy to suit one's purse. The back and sides should be padded, covering with the same material as cushion. Finish the edges neatly with gimp of suitable color or small brass headed nails. Should the wood be dark mahogany any of the shades of denim now offered will answer admir ably, and the pillows and bolsters, if used, may be decorated to advantage with outline designs. The suggestion of using so humble a material as denim k is with a view to economy; more costly ' material may bo used when desired. A very handsome little settle may be i fitted up in the parlor in much the • same manner. Figure 2 illustrates i what may bo done in this direction. Have the bureau well scraped so ns to , remove all of the old finish. After the cabinet work is effected give three coats of inside white paint laid or A SETTLE FOR THE TARLOR. evenly, finishing off with one or two coats of white enamel. The settle as shown here has been decorated with papier macho or composition orna ments, which can be applied with glue and nailed in place to suit one's fancy. When hard, these ornaments may be softened by wrapping in a cloth, wrung i out in hot water, after which they may be twisted to any design required. llouso decorators and picture framers are large users of such material, and 1 amateurs may purchase of them. When sueli ornamentation is attempted it should always .be previous to thfc painting, and may after this latter process is effected be further touched up with gold paint. A beautiful white and gold divan of small dimen sions, particularly well adapted for placing against the back of an upright piano, can be gotten up in this manner at small expense. Upholstering of silken texture and cushions of India silk will complete the ensemble.— Decorator and Furnisher. How to Mukc Powder Stick. If you must use powder and it won't stick on, try this: Get an ounce or two , of cocoa butter—costs about ton cents I an ounce and looks like tallow. Rub it on your face briskly until the skin I is well greased. Take a'soft linon j cloth and rub the butter off—and you will wonder where all the dirt came i from; then repeat the process, this time . rubbing the skin well after applying the butter. Again rub the face with . tho cloth and af>ply it vigorously. , After that rub on the powder and your > skin will feel like satin. You can use • it on the neck and arms the same way and it is not likely to rub off and make your skin look shiny. Cocoa butter is a good skin food and 16 harmless. For Wardrobe and Chiffonier. J A delightful recipe for scent-powder, to be used for wardrobe, boxes, otc., ' far finer Indeed than any mixture sold 1 in the shops, is tho following: Cori j andor, orris root, ro9e leaves and aro j matio calamus, one ounce each; laven • der flowers, ten ounces; rhodium, one j fourth of a drachm; musk, Ave grains. These, after being thoroughly mixed, [ are reduced to a powder. Placed among feminine finery, this sachet has the same effect upon clothes that would be produced by fragrant flow ers, if pressed between the folds. Rag for tho Hewing Room. A sewing machine rug is the latest ' addition to domestic appliances. It is 1 a sheet of denim, about the size of an ? ordinary bed sheet, in the middle of 3 which the machine stands. All tho 1 snippings and threads fall on the rug and the latter may be shaken off at - the close of tho day's work without tho 1 bother of sweeping and dusting tho room* _ _ „ „ ELKHART CARRIAGE and HARNESS MFQ. M.P r Have sold to coninmert for SI year*, j &II fill saving them the dalor'n profit. Wo uro the ) -X dliiUU OIx; ui s< JOHN LEISENRING, of Upper Lehigh. Subject to the decision of the Republican congressional convention. ItEPRESENTATIVB— JOHN J. McNELIS, ol' Drifton. Subject to the decision of the Democratic convention of the fourth legislative district. , HEPRESENTATIVE — JAMES A. SWEENEY, of Hozleton. Subject to the decision of the Democratic 1 convention of the fourth legislative district.. | T)KKKD TO A PRODUCING STALLION. i HAWKMERE. 1 By Beverly, 4272, 2.251. , Ilawkmerc is a handsome dark sorrel, 15.51 r hands, weight 1,050, l'oaled 1800. Special low rate. $lO, for season of 1894. Can be seen on ap plication to Joseph Schatzle, White Haven, Pa. LTOH SALE.—A line piano, also bed-room JU suit and household goods. 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