ISK. BARTON'S PATIENT. y°u don't even know her name!" said vf( Mrs. Itenwlck. "My <• V JW/ ||3 dear Kenneth, there H never was anything SO ridiculous." UKJH ' jflS The captain of ar tillery shifted his feot ITT It 1 * a moro com for ta \ 1 R° sition on "Of course I know ef\ * ier nam e," said he; ill " anc * a ver y pretty ° nC Perry— "But who is it you are talking about?" said pretty Joyce, who hail been preparing a mustard paste for her brother's chest. Capt. Renwick answered promptly; "My sweetheart!" "Kenneth, dou't be ridiculous!" said his mother, somewhat tartly. "The sweetest, prettiest blossom in all the Adirondack wilderness!"' pur sued Kenneth. "Tho fairest of—Cat nip tea! I declare, Joyce, I won't drink it. What do you take me for?" "It's the best thing in the world for a cold on the chest," said Mrs. Ren wick. "Oh, if you had only kept away from that camping party!" "I* mistook her for the boatman's daughter the flrst time," said Capt. Renwick. "She—" "Kenneth, dou't talk—please d'ont talk!" urged his mother. "It's the worst thing you could possibly do, with your lungs all congested, and—" "But I must talk!" said the captain. "Consider, mother, Joyce hasn't heard a word about it. She only came last night. * Fancy, Joyce, my being fool enough to mistake her for a boatman's daughter!" "Why, aren't boatmen's daughters as nice and ladylike as anyone?" said Joyce, readjusting her apron ribbons. "Oh, but tliis boatman lives in a per petual state of shirt sleeves!" said Ren wick; "and he is a living fountain of tobacco juice and talks abominable grammar through his nose. And his wife is a low class of Meg Merrilies, who takes too much bad whisky when ever she has an opportunity. How 1 ever made such a blunder I can't imag ine. Hut Jenkins sent mo up to the lake head to hire a boat, and when I saw her sitting there among the water lilies, I jumped at once to the conclu sion that this was the boat to hire. 'My good girl,' sa3*s I—fancy my idiocy! —'if you will just row me up to Needle point, and call for me again in the evening, I'll give you a dollar.'" "And she?" said Joyce. "Rowed me up, of course. I wish you could have seen the way In which she handled the oars. Hut it was Dolph, the tobacco-soaked old boat man. who called for me at sunset 'Why didn't you send your daughter?' says I. 'lt wasn't my darter,' says he; 'it was Miss Berry.' Well, then, I met her at tho picnic. We talked together half the evening. She is as beautiful as she is graceful, and as intelligent as ihe is beautiful." "Did you apologize?" asked Joyce. "Of course I apologized," said Capt Kenneth. "And we had a good laugh over it She had been after water lilies, she said. She paints 'em in water colors. lam to have one when thoy are linished. Joyce, you must !:i t you hear how hoarse your broth er is? If pneumonia should set in after this exposure—" Capt. R. awick made an expressive gri'.r.ice. Joyce looked a little appre hensive. ".Mamma," said she, "you always were a pessimist. It's only a cold that ails Kenneth." "Hut it is settling on his lungs, my dear," said Mrs. Renwick, plaintively. "And out hero in tho wilderness there isn't even a drug store short of ilfteen miles. l)h, dear! Oh, dear! why did 1 ever allow myself to lie persuaded to coine to the Adirondacks?" "The scenery, mamma!" said Joyce, soothingly. "Hut one can't cat aud drink scenery. And this woman knows absolutely nothing about omelettes and French coffee, and she never broiled a beef steak in her life until I showed her how. As for her soups, they are simply uueatablc. And tho beds arc as hard as the nether millstone, and the mosquitoes are unendurable!" "All these are trivial annoyances," said Capt. Kenwiolc, skillfully contriv ing to tip over the catnip tea. "To me, tho Adirondacks are the garden of the world! I shall never be willing to go anywhere else in the summer. And she says it is even liner here In the winter, with the frilling exception of a little solitude." "Kenneth," cried his mother, in agonized accents, "you must not talk!" "My dearest mother, I am all right if you only won't fret!" declared the prodigal son. Hut Capt. Ren wick's eyes were un naturally bright, the hot flush of fever burned on his cheek, and his breathing was alternately hurried and laborious. It was undoubtedly the fact that ho had taken a severe cold during the camping-out expedition from which he had just returned, and that this cold had been proof, so far, at least, against all the remedies Mrs. Ren wick had used. "Oh dear! oh dear!" sighed the mother. "Why doesn't tho doctor come? Joyce, look out of the window! See if there are any signs of him." "The doctor?" ejaculated Capt. Ren wick, raising himsolf on one elbow among his pillows. "You don't say you havo sent for a doctor?" "Why, of course I have!" said Mrs. Renwick—"for L)r. Barton, from Nyles burg." "A snuff-taking old llend who will dose me with calomel, and experiment on me with every one of the hundred year-old drills in his saddle bays!'' cried the captain. "I won't see him I" "Dear Kenneth!" pleaded Joyce. "My son!" sobbed Mrs. Ilcnwick. "No!" ejaculated Kenneth. "I'll IHJ hunged if I do! I despise doctors, any way! And what sort of a medical iunn do you imagine would perch himself" up here on the boughs of these ever lasting- pines?" "Kenneth, you must see him!" said Mrs. Renwick. "Mother, I won't," stoutly declared the rebel. "But what will he think?" "What ho pleases. It will matter little to you or me what he thinks," said Kenneth. "All 1 know is that ho shan't cross this threshold. Give him his fee and tell him to go!" Mrs. Renwick and Joyce looked de spairingly at eacli other. Undoubtedly the captain was master of the situa tion. If he chose to set the doctor and his gallipots at defiance, what was to be done? At that moment, however, there was a slight rustle downstairs. "The doctor has come!" cried Joyco, excitedly, "with such a pretty little horse and phaeton. Oh, Ken, I'm sure he isn't old, and he doesu't take snuff. Oh, I'm so sorry I didn't catch a glimpse of him." "lie has come, has he?" said the cap tain. "Then tell him to go about his business." Mrs. Ogden, the fat landlady, put in her head at this juncture. "Please, mem, the doctor," said she. "Tell him—" hoarsely shouted Ken neth, flinging the pillows right and left. But before he could complete his sen tence the door opened and a tall young lady, in a blue cloth ulster and a pretty plumed hat, camo in, with a flat mo rocco ease in her hand. "Miss Perry!" he exclaimed, staring at her from the sofa, with a face sud denly lighted into new brightness and enthusiasm. "How kind of you to re member me! You are acquainted with my mother, are you not? Joyce, this is Miss Perry." The tall young lady looked composed ly around her. "I am sorry to hear of your illness. Capt. Renwick," said she. "Wo must see what we can do for you." "But," added Kenneth, stretching his neck to get a look at tlio door, which was still slightly ajar, "where is tho doctor? They told inc he was coming up." The beautiful lady sat down and gently took Kenneth llenwick's wrist in her delicate fingers. "I am the doctor," said she. "Ilave the goodness to remain quite still for a few moments while I ascertain tho pulse and temperature." Capt. Renwick was struck dumb. An electric thrill-seemed to dart through svery pulse and vein. But Jocyco'sej'es L;All "I AM TIIE DOCTOR." sparkled, and the dimples camo out around her mouth. "You!" she cried. "A doctor?" Dr. Barton nodded, still inteiit on the enameled face of her watch. "Pernella Barton. They call ine Perry for short Capt llcnwick always called me Miss Perry. I don't believe ho knew 1 had any other name." "And you arc really a doctor!" said Joyce. "Oh, Kenneth, how fortunate!" Dr. Barton examined her patient's tongue, listened at his lungs and mado some abstruse hieroglyphics in her note-book. Then she measured out some gray powders in infinitesimal papers, and loft her directions in the most business-like way in the world. "I shall look in uguin this evening," she said. "It seems to be nothing more than a severe cold. But I do not in tend that it shall gain any headway." "I put myself entirely in your charge," said Renwick, with a contented air. "I'm perfectly certain that I shall got well." "I thought you were going to send the doctor about his business," ma liciously whispered Joyce. "But 1 didn't know what sort of a doctor it was," retorted the captain. Pneumonia did not set in after all. Dr. Barton proved a true prophet, and soon dispelled the heavy cold. But Capt. Renwick had yet another ailment —in the region of the heart. "Mother," he said, coaxingly, "wasn't I right? Ain't she lovely?" "The sweetest girl I ever saw," Mrs. Renwick warmly answered; "and the most talented." "And if, mother —" "You will be the most fortunate man in the world," said Mrs. Renwick. Capt. Renwick made the best use of his time, and, although Dr. Barton's summer vacation was over, she lingered i at picnics, and in the peurly shadow of j water-lilies he still continued to make I many appointment* for seeing her; , and when he returned to the Seventh artillery he was an engaged man. "And after the flrst of November," lie says, "Dr. Barton will be my family physician for life."—'Saturday Night —Every bad man in a town strength ens tho devil's mortgage on tho city.— Ram's Horn. MOTHERS OF GREAT MEN. SCHUMANN'S mother WAS gifted in music. CHOPIN'S mother was as delicate as himself. GOUNOD'S mother was fond of pai it ing and music. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS said: "All that I am my mother made mo." Sponn's mother was an excellent judge of music, but no musician. RALEIOII said that he owed all his politeness of deportment to his mother. GOKTUK pays several tributes in his writings to the character of his mother. MILTON'S letters often allude to his mother in tho most affectionate terms. WORDSWORTH'S mother had a char acter as peculiar as that of her gifted son. MOHAMMED revered his mother and inculcated similiar reverence in his teachings. ST. AUGUSTINE, in his books, speaks of the debt of gratitude he owed to his mother. IIAYDN dedicated one of his most im portant instrumental compositions to his mother. SYDNEY SMITH'S mother was a clever conversationalist and very quick at rep artee. VON RANKE'S mother was literary and the author of several essays and other works. Tme character of Washington's mother is too well known to need more than an allusion. FORECASTS OF FASHION. RIRBONS, In all the pretty new Dres den designs, will be much used as trim mings for gowns this summer. A VERY captivating mourning para sol is trimmed with chiffon flounces headed by a border of black violets. LIGHT summer velvets, In all the new and lovely colors, are being imported for warm weather wear. SPRING hosiery displays exult in an unusually large variety, Indulging all the new fads In plaids, checks and stripes. WHITE and ecru linen collars and cuffs, hemstitched or trimmed with laco, will bo used on heavy gown ma terials this season. SOMEBODY says Impertinently that "a woman Is a creature who can wear a feather and a tin buckle and call it a bonnet." SLEEVICS are to be either long or short, and tho newest silk blouses for housewear have elbow-sleeves trimmed with lace-flounces. IT is stated that M. Jean Worth has inherited his father's clover artistio originality, and that he will success fully continue tho paternal business. ALL SORTS. MISS MARY PROCTOR, tho daughter of the astronomer, will leoture on as tronomy at Chautauqua during tho coming summer. PROF. MAX MULLEB knows eighteen different languages to the extent of be ing able to speak or write in any one of them, and a considerable number in addition less perfeotly. IIENRY ARTHUR JONES' latest play holds the record for length of title. It Is "Tho Triumph of the Philistines and flow Mr. Jorgan Preserved tho Morals of Market Pewbury Under Very Trying Circumstances." THE littlest woman in tho world, Miss Isabella Pindar, of the Bahamas, is on a visit to her brother, Gen. Abe Sawyer, of Key West, Fla. She Is 35 years old, 80 inches high, and weighs GO pounds. EDDIE THOMPSON, of Clarksville, Ind., Is a little more than 4 years of age, ind weighs 124 pounds, lie measures 3 feet 0 inches in height, and measures 40 inches around the waist. It takes a shoe about the length of a No. 3 to lit him, and he wears a man's hat —a OJtf in size. COMMON MEDICINES. TARTARIC acid was flrst extracted bj' Bcheele, in 1770. OPIUM IS tho juice of tho unripe cap sules of tho poppy. BROMINE was discovered by Ballara, of Montpelior, in 1820. PHOSPHORUS was discovered in 1000 by Brandt, of Hamburg. CHROMIC acid was flrst employed as a caustic by Sigmund, of Vienna. SULPHURIC and nitric acids were known to Gobcr, the iHchemist, in tho eighth century. CREOSOTE was discovered in 1830 by Reichcnbach, who extracted it from the tar of wood. VINEGAR is mentioned In the Egyp tian records as a medicine in the tenth century B. C. POTASSIUM, the basis of many medi cines, was discovered in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Duvy. ALCOHOL was first distinguished as an elementary substance by Albucasis, tn tho twelfth century. AT A RIPE OLD AGE. THOMAS WILLIAM WINNIETT, who died in Williamsburg, N. Y., recently, In his ninetieth year, superintended tho construction of the isthmus railroad from Asplnwall to Panama. DR. WILLIAM IIOTCHKISS, who died recently in St. Louis, was averse to water for cleansing purposes, and rare ly permitted It to touch his skin. Some of his acquaintances claim that lie knew the secret of longevity, and that his age was one hundred and forty years. DR. G. W. SAMPSON, who died at Tiffin recently,-aged ninety-three years, was tho first white physician among the Indians of northwestern Ohio, and was also president of the first medical convention ever held In that state. ANDREAS HAFTAB, the last veteran of the Greek wars of liberty of 1821, died In Athens lately at the age of one hun dred and sixteen. One of the btrects in Athens is named after him, and bis fu neral was a public one. lie had often expressed the wish to live till 1001, In order to say that ho had seen throo centuries. K lew TI T Busing "It do seem funny tome," complained the Georgia mother, "that you will stick to that Si Lovingood, that ain't got notliin' on earth but that there little ten-acre farm that every body knows is wore out, when you got a chance to marry that there rich man from the north. What is the matter with you, Polly, anyway? Throwin' away a rich man for a com mon, ornery cracker! What ixcuse you got?" The maiden smiled a wan smile. "Polly wants a cracker," was all she deigned to say.—Cincinnati Tribune. AM Kxperlenrfl Taught film. The Silent Partner—That bargain sale in dress goods don't go at all. I marked 'em: "All wool, entirely new, worth two dollars a yard. Reduced to ninety-eight cents!" But it does no good. The Head of the Firm—You've got lots to learn about this business yet. Mark 'em: "Damaged! Damaged! Were worth five dollars a yard, now going at one dollar and ninety-eight cents!" and they'll sell like hot cakes.— Puck. lhe Sain a Old I'wl. A little thing, hut ine, oh my, It made mo see stars in the sky Most awful quick; I touched the thing with my boot heel, It was a small banana peel, But oh, so slick. —Philadelphia Inquirer, W1 1.1.1 F. WASN'T IN IT. "Willie! have you been in another fight?" "No, mamma. This feller outclassed me, and I wasn't in It."—Brooklyn Life. It Must Have Been Washday. "There's no place like homo," droned the organ. Tears sprang to the eyes of the man with the dusty liat. "There's no pluee like home." "I hope not," sighed the man, for his thou glits were with the bare, wet floors and a dinner of cold potato on the top of the sewing machine. Washing ton Star. A Look Ahead. There before Crusoe's eyes was the print of a human foot. "Suffering Christopher!" he ex claimed. "Neighbors!" His brow clouded with anxiety. "I wonder," he mused. Hastening to his home lie changed the combination of the lock on the coal bin. —Puck. A Paying Talent. Mrs. Literati —My little son has the most remarkable powers of imagination I ever know in one so young. Ho will surely be a writer, and a successful one. Western Guest—Successful? He kin jist roll in wealth. Quick es he's old enough you take him out west and start him in real estate. —N. Y. Weekly. No Comparison. Cobble—The tortures practiced among the Chinese must be terrriblo. Stone—That's nothing. Cobble—Do you know of anything worse? Stone—l guess you have never seen a young mother giving a baby its first bath. —Brooklyn Life. •lust No. Wife (affectionately) How's your rheumatism this moruing, John? Husband-Pretty bad, my dear, pret ty bad. "Why don't you try the inlnd cure?" "There ain't anything the matter with my mind; it's my joints."—Texas Siftings. Wasn't She Cute? Miss Passe —How much did you pay for that hat? Miss Freshly—As many dollars as you are old in years. Miss Passe—ls it possible that you A*ill wear such cheap things?— Syracuse Post. HA Knew Hi* Business. Proprietor—Why did you treat that woman so coolly? Clerk —You noticed I sold her an ar ticle that didn't really suit her? "Yes." "She bought it because I treated her us if she couldn't afford it." —Pearson's. After the Ceremony. Bride (discussing the event) —It seemed to me that there was a slight hitch while we were taking our positions at the ehuncel. Groom—Possibly. But it was noth ing compared with the hitch that fol lowed. — Brooklyn Life. No Help for It. Miss Summit (lunching with Castle ton) —I really don't feel us if I could eat a thing, Mr. Castleton. Castleton (resignedly to waiter)— Bring in the whole bill of fare.—N. Y. Herald. Recommended. Clerk—How was that underwear I sold 3'ou? Customer—Fine. I gave it to our night watchman, und he basnet closed his ej T es since.—Clothier anil Furnisher. A Law Lyric. "Delay mo not, I'm oft to court," The hustling lawyer said; Then oil he went to court tho girl That ho was going to wed. —Detroit Free Tress. T~P nUREAU DRAWER. F : ' to ' '•>> Rerolatlon of a VT •tn i . iraoter. Harriet II /itC.i'.i rn says tlint a wom an".# bureau drawer- —tlio t drav- r, tlr.it either is or is not n < it h-all re veals character More than any of ln t possessions, and I could almost tell her fortune by looking* into it. Is it a pot ponrri—gloves, laces, hairpins, friezes, collars, letters and a lmndred other things? This denotes an uneven, un systematized, liappy-go-lucky life, on? that fate loves to pursue. The orderly woman who establishes a standard for people to live up to always keeps this bureau drawer in order. Ilcr life is of the tranquil kind. The woman who fills her bureau with boxes possesses an excess of order that makes life a burden to the ones who live with her. She is conservative ami not very adaptable nor tolerant. While order is the first lane to Heaven, order does not by any means produce Heaven. However, the bureau drawer never poses. You may profess sentiments that are not yours, and your milliner and dressmaker lend you a personality which you do not pos sess, and pose successfully for what you are not; you can buy correct books and pose for a litterateur by living up to their bindings. In your house and its furnishings you can buy artistic effect and harmony of color and grand pic tures, and even the atmosphere that belongs with these evidences of culture will hover about. You can have a Louis Quinze room without knowing why you have it, and you can buy your coat of arms and your antiques and your an cestors, and you may escape the soul of all that they represent and the world will be none the wiser. But let the world have a peep in the top drawer of your dressing table and it will find out things about your real character of which it has never dreamed.—Philadel phia Times. FANCY WORK BASKET. Two Medium-Sized IConch Baskets Con stitute lm foundation. A standing work basket is such a comfort when one sits down to mend or sew. Ficst of all, because it is more capacious than the ordinary little basket. Then it is such an independent sort of an institution, being able to stand ulone, that it quite relieves its A FANCY BASKET. owner of the many little attentions she must bestow on the unpretentious small basket. A very convenient and attractive basket may be made at home, using two peach baskets, as shown In cut. The lower one may be left unfinished inside, merely serving as a support. The upper one should be lined inside, and furnished with nu merous pockets and a cushion or two for needles and pins. Cover the out side with pretty cretonne or silkoline, putting a band and bow where the two baskets meet. The top is made of a long, straight piece of the right width to gather up in the center with a draw string, the other edge being fastened under the upper frill. The draw string should bo long enough to let all the fullness out, so that the top may be turned down on the outside when the basket is in Use.—Rural New Yorker. INTRODUCE THEM. lloja and Girls Should Bo Presented I ormally to Adult Visitors. It is a common oversight in too many households not to introduce the chil dren to visitors. Guests are formally presented to the adult members of the family, but the younger boys and girls are cither ignored altogether, or else introduced In a'general way without giving their individual names. This course is almost certain to result in awkwardness and constraint on their part when grown. There is a differ ence between putting children forward unduly and giving them their just meed of recognition. And pray take pains, in making introductions, to speak the names distinctly, and, above all things else, do not omit their mention. How many of us have been annoyed to have a hostess greet an intimate friend, to whom we were entire strangers, with j sonje such salutation us: "O Henry, so i pleased to have you meet Miss Blank," I leaving us to discover his surname us best wo may. It is not a bad plan for I the family to rehearse by themselves ! some of these little social formalities.— 1 Congregationalist. Chafing Dish Parties. | So great is the rivalry among the owners of fine chafing dishes and choice I recipes to be cooked in them that j cooking clubs, of both men and women, frequently meet and prepare a luncheon or ton o'clock supper entirely over the chafing dish. Each person brings or sends his dish and the materials for making it in advance, and the feast is ; cooked course by course by the different chefs. To prevent a superabundance of one kind of food, each guest is noti fied of the dishes that will compose the j menu, or permitted to send in word of : the concoction at which he is most skillful. In this fashion a chafing dish party may have "much of tlie delight and terror of a summer picnic. Toothsome I ly Call A. Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 3 1 f i cups flour, cup sour milk, tea j spoon soda, teaspoon cream tartar, 1 | pound figs, shredded, 5 eggs, tea l spoon vanilla, little mace, whites of 2 i eggs for frosting.—Mrs. J. L. It. Trask, ia Farm and Home. ICASTORIAI for infants and Children. MOTHERS, DO VOU KNOW N„A Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so-called Soothing Syrups, and most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine ? 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