China's resistance to foreign aggres
sion seems to be limited to wrapping
her pigtail about her devoted head,
burning joss sticks to her ancestors
and making faces at the Powers.
Says tho Indianapolis New 3, the
live stock of tho country is worth to
day $230,000,000, or fourteen per cent,
more than last year, notwithstanding
tho fact that the number-of nearly all
kinds of live stock has decreased.
The fact that South American coun
tries and at least one European Power
are willing to sell their new warships
to the United States rather than to
Spain is a pretty good indication to
the New York Tribune of tho trend of
their sympathies.
A British investigiitor, provoked at
hearing his country repeatedly re
ferred to as a "tight littlo island," an
nounces that one county in England—
Middlesex—is of sufficient extent to
allow all the people in the world to
find standing room could they be
gathered together there.
Fifty years Loudon was five times
larger than New York. At the pres
ent time it is barely more than two
thirds larger, and if the two cities
continue to grow in the same propor
tion it will not be long before the me
tropolis of the Western hemisphere
displaces Loudon and becomes itself
the metropolis of the globe. Some
enterprisiug statistician on the New
York Herald has reduced tho state
ment contained in the foregoing para
graph to actual figures, with this re
sult:
New York. London.
1810 373,000 1,950,000
1850 G'JG.OOO 2,600,000
1860 1,175,000 3,200,000
1870 1.410,000 3,G00,000
18S0 2,000.000 4,000.000
1890 2,630,000 4,500,000
1893 3,109.009 G.GOO.OOQ
1945 16,000,009 1 6,000,000
From 1810 to 1850 London's popu
lation increased 31 per cent, and New
York's 75 per cent. Since that time
the percentages of increase have been \
as follows: From 1850 to 1800, Lon
don's 23 per cent., aud New Y'ork's 70
per cent.; from 1860 to 1870, London's
13 per cent., and New York's 21 per
cent.; from 1870 to 1880, London's 12
per cent., and New York's 43 per
cent.; from 1880 to 1890, London's 13
per cent., and New York's 31 per
cent.; from 1890 to tho present time,
London's 24 per cent., and New York's
90 per cent. In the calculations
which tho foregoing table makes with
respect to New York's future popula
tion, it is extremely conservative; for
in all probability New York will
eclipse London in population long be
fore the approaching century reaches
its meridian.
From the military viewpoint the
most interesting story of tho Cuban \
war is told by Frederick Fuuston, '
late chief of the insurgent artillery, in |
Harper's Weekly. It is the tale of the j
first, and probably tho last, charge of '
cavalry on an infantry square armed .
with magazine guns—Mauser six- i
shooters. The insurgents were, of j
course, tho attacking party, and
Colonel Funston is quite within his
rights in calling Desmayo, the name '
of tho action, tho Cuban Balaklava. 1
The charge cannot bo said to have j
succeeded, since the Spanish troops
did not withdraw until attacked on
the flank by Cuban infantry. More- j
over, Gomez lost fifty-two per cent, of j
his mounted force of 479 men, and !
this chronicler admits that if the in
fantry had not arrived he might have
lost all. Nevertheless the charge was
a military marvel. It is not too much
to say that tho magazine gun was ex
pected to do away with cavalry as a
force to he fought in mass or used for
other purposes than scouting, forag
ing and raiding. In fact, it lias done
away with the old close-order infantry
charge, substituting for it the
"rushes" in loose formation which so
disappointed the war correspondents
who followed Edhem Pasha's head
quarters with expectations formed by
traditions of Gravelotto and recollec
tions of Kinglake and Napier. Hence
tho fact that the Cuban horse were
able to cross a space of 400 yards and
reach their foes in fighting condition,
so that they disordered their fire and
Buffered comparatively little after the
magazines were emptied with tho first
eix volleys, must ho a matter of sur
prise to military theorists generally.
The incident shows that even this age
cannot produce military contrivances
the deadly efficiency of which brave
men are not able to overcome with
stout hearts and primitive arms. We
may probably call this, as we have
said, tho last cavalry charge. Cer
tainly Murat himself, with tho pick of
his cuirassiers, could not have made
a better ending for tho knightly arm
of war than did Gomez, the bush
lighter, with his ragged rough riders
THE CITY OF REST.
In love was it founded and pity,
That home at the heart of tlie praises, •
Where sleep never wearies nor passes,
Cut lies with God's peace iu his breast,—
In love for the spent aud the dying,
Iu pity for sorrow and sighiugj
A home for the homeless, a city,
A. welcoming city, of rest.
There never a trouble shall And them;
There, under God's dew and man's weep
ing.
The sielc and the weary are sleeping.
Nor burdened, nor worn, nor distressed.
The eart it folds them close, like a mother,
And none is more dear than another,
For God iu His love has assigned them
Ono home in the city of rest.
They sleep, but their eyes are not holden.
They joy iu the daisies and clover.
Yea, when the loved faces bend over,
They smile, knowing silence is be3t,
They see nature's beauty and splendor,
They hear all the blrd-raustc tender;—
Ah! rose-lit the windows aud golden
Tnat look from the city of rest.
'Tis sweet at the last, when Gol calls us,
To go to the city of slumber.
Oh! think of the inllnite number
To whom that long surcease is blest!
Release from the ache and the sorrow,
No slaving to-day or to-morrow—
Ah! call it not death that befalls us,
But peace, In the city of rest!
—Jumes Buckkaui. in Youth's Companion.
I THE DOLLARS
I THAT DISAPPEARED. |
BY ELISA ARMSTRONG.
St>eK^6edKsuKeie!oeoEefei^^ecdie!eseieeef^
O you know of
an Y real 'y Telia-
q AY hie cure for ab
igvSV i > !<)=) He 11 ' mindetl
ness?" aske 'l the
girl in the pic
ture hat.
"Well, you
v c *.O might mar r y
him," returned the girl in the seal
blouse. "Or, if that remedy is too
severe, you might "
"I'm sure I don't know what you
are talking about," said the girl in the
picture hat, stilHy, "J am not aware
that I mentioned—ah, Air. Bitter
sweet. What I said was "
"You must let me congratulate you,"
said the girl in the seal blouse, warm
ly; "I did not know that you were en
gaged, as yet, and "
"But 1 didn't confess it now!" ex
claimed the girl iu the picture hat.
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, nothing, dear; only you called
him 'Air. Bittersweet' instead of Ned,
as usual. I've noticed that when a
girl begins to do that the ring is the
next thing on the programme. But
what have you been doing now? Have
you absent wiiuledly said yes to some
one else as well? Or "
"Of course not, But—well, you
see, I went shopping yestesday."
"I see. Beally, there ought to be
a law against allowing an engaged
girl to buy a whole lot of things just
when she is incapable of giving her
whole mind to the selection. But what
happened? Did you buy more than
you could pay for? Or "
"N--no. You see, it was this way:
Papa has been giving me more money
than usual since Air. Bittersweet—
well, since he began coming to see me
twice a day. I snjipose it was—er—
because poor papa felt badly at the
idea of losiug me."
"Of course," assented the girl in
the seal blouse; "think how dreadfully
he will be reminded of his loss when
tho monthly bills come in after you
are married —and none of your mak
ing!"
"True. Well, night before last, he
gave me 820 of his own accord—
mamma was so frightened she thought
he inns', be feverish. Of course, he
told me tliat I must make it go a long
way, and "
"That he was on tho verge of bank
ruptcy," broke iu the girl in the seal
blouse.
"Why, yes. But how did you
know?"
"I have a father of my own, dear.
And what did you "
"I borrowed a penny from mamma
and sent out for the evening paper.
I wanted 13 see just what was adver
tised, you know. Then I made a list
after Ned was gone, and early yester
day morning I started downtown."
"How you must have enjoyed it,"
said the girl in the seal blouse, envi
ously.
"I did at first. Such bargains I
never saw before, and can never hope
to see again, aiid all of them were for
the day only! But when I opened my
pocketbook to pay for my first pur
chase, there was only twelve cents in
it, though I remembered especially
that I had put the twenty dollar bill
iu it the night before!"
"Could you have taken your moth
er's pocketbook lv mistake?"
"Not when my own had more
money in it, dear. Besides, mamma
wouldn't have a button with Ned's
picture on it in her pocketbook."
"Very true. Then you must have
been robbed. Did you remember that
any suspicious-looking person had
jostled you? Or "
" AI, no. I did remember a woman
who 1m 1 insisted upon greeting me
warmly as I was leaving the 'L' train.
I susptctod at the time that she might
be a pickpocket and did not return
her greeting. But "
"No doubt she was the very one who
took it. Did you tell the police?"
" 'M, no. I—l suddenly remem
bered that she was Ned's wealthy aunt
from Brooklyn. And I was told only
last week that hers was a face which
could never be forsottenl"
"Dreadful! But you must hate left
your money at home. Why didn't you
nave your things sent C. O. D., then?"
"I—l didn't dare. Papa was spend
ing the day home and "
"You needn't explain, dear. Go on."
"Well, I was in despair. X just
went from shop to shop punishing my
self by looking at the things. I went
home late, wondering what I'd tell papa
when he asked to see my purchases.
Men are so illogical; they are more
apt to givo jou more money if you
have saved what you had. thau "
"To replace what you have lost.
Well, you were unlucky. Of course,
you will never find "
"But I did. Just when it was too
late to go back and buy auy of those
lovely things I remembered that I had
put my money in the fiap of my pocket
book for Jale keeping and had been
carrying it ♦ bout all day!"— New York
Journal.
A Wise Dog;,
Various monkeys, geese, a goat, a
ewe with a lamb, elephants, eats very
commonly, and dogs innumerable are
credited with "accosting" persons,
and bringing to their notice by vocal
means the objects they desire or the
actions they wish done. A most in
geniously constructed request of this
kind was made a few years ago by a
retriever dog late one night in London.
The streets were empty, and the dog
came up, and, after wagging his tail,
began to bark, using not the rowdy
bark which dogs employ when jump
ing at a horse's head or when excited,
but the persuasive and confidential
kind of bark which is used in requests
and rejiroaches. He was very insist
ent, especially when a small, dark
passage was reached, up which he ran
still barking. As this did not answer,
the dog ran back, and took the writer's
hand in which he was carrying his
glove, in his mouth and gave a gentle
pull in the direction of tlie passage.
As this did not meet with the atten
tion desired, the dog pulled the glove
out of the hand and carried it off up
the passage, keeping a few yards in
front and waving its tail in a friendly
way. This naturally led to pursuit,
when the dog, still keeping ahead,
dropped the glove in front of a gate
leading into a butcher's yard, and be
gan to bark again. As it obviously
wanted the gate to be opened, this
was done, and it trotted in without
further remark. Every one who has
kept dogs kuows the tone of the bark
of request—a low "wouf." very unlike
the staccato bark of anger, or vexa
tion, or remonstrance.—Washington
Star.
Suit Instead of Gold.
Some sixty years ago Josepli Ever
est came into the Warsaw Valley
from Hume, N. Y., an 1 bought a farm
three miles from this village. One
morning he related a dream that ho
had the night before, and which he
had dreamed for three nights in suc
cession, in which he had seen a vast
treasure on his farm in the earth be
low. He was so moved by the vision
that, having selected a spot, he re
moved the earth to the rock, and, with
improvised tools, began drilling with a
spring polo. After going down some
eighty or a hundred feet and finding
nothing he gave up the search, but
still persisted in his belief of a hidden
treasure below up to his death, which
occurred many years after.
His nephew, H. T. Everest, of the
Vacuum Oil Company, of Rochester,
some years ago, remembering his
uncle's dream, which was a household
word in the family, sunk a well for
oil in that spot, but found a twenty
foot deposit of salt instead of gold,
thereby fully realizing the dream of
his uncle Joseph of a hidden treasure.
Some two years thereafter a small set
of salt works was built, and from this
small beginning sprang the immense
salt plants and the large output of salt
in the Warsaw Valley, which has revo
lutionized the salt business iu the
world. —Buffalo (N. Y.) Enquirer.
To "Take tin* Cake."
In England as early as 1063 a [cake
was a trophy earnestly striven for in
the foot races which were run across
the meadows and at all trials of speed.
At Easter and Whitsuntide, in Ire
land, the peasants annually met and
danced on the green. A prize, the
finest cake in the county, was displayed
on top of a tall pole decorated with
flowers, and was finally awarded to the
couple holding out the longest. The
test, it seems, was endurance in the
dance and not grace.
Bridal cakes were also struggled for
as trophies in England. There were
great times at a wedding and at the
moment the bride set out for her new
home a company of young men started
ahead on horseback. A polo three or
four feet high had been erected iu
front of her new habitation and upon
this was set a handsome cake. The
man fortunate enough to win the race
knocked off the cake with his stick and
eventually received it from the hands
of the bride. This was called "taking
the cake."—New York World.
Rapid Wrltlns.
A rapid penman can write thirty
words in a minute. To do this ho
must draw his quill through the space
of a rod—-sixteen aud one-half feet.
In forty minutes his pen travels a fur
long, aud in five hours and a third a
mile. Wo make on an average sixteen
curves of the pen in writing each
word; writing thirty words in a minute
we must make 488 to each second; in
an hour 28,800; in a day of only five
hours 144,000, aud iu a year of 300
days, 43,200,000. The man who made
1,000,000 strokes with a pen in a
month was not at all remarkable.
Many men make 4,000,000. Here we
have iu the agg:egate a mark 300
miles long, to be traced on paper by
each writer in the year. In making
each letter of the alphabet we must
make from three to seven strokes of
the pen—on an average three and one-*
half to four.
FAMOUS DRY TORTUGAS.
A ONCE NOTED FORT IS BROUCHT
INTO PROMINENCE ACAIN.
Between ISGO anil 1800 It Was the Key
to the tlulf of Mexico—Fort Jefferson
and Its ltemarkable History—A Prison
lor Bounty Jumpers and Deserters.
| The rendezvous of the White
Squadron at the so-called Dry Tortu
gas, says the Detroit Free Press,
brings this singular place into greater
prominence than it tvis had for a
quarter of a century. From 1860 to
1866 the key and fort formed an im
portant station—the key of the gulf—
a coaling and supply station for the
famous Bonquet fleet and our cruisers,
which belonged to the gulf squadron.
The word Tortugas means turtle,
and refers to these animals which
frequent the keys in May to deposit
their eggs. The name applies to a
group of low-keys, which rest on the
water like emeralds on a sea of azure,
formed by the pure white coral sand.
The keys are nine in number, and
are called Garden key—on which is
situated the great Fort Jefferson—
Bush, Bird, Middle, Long, Northwest,
Sand, Loggerhead and East. Logger
head key is long and slender and bears
the lighthouse —one of the loftiest in
the United States. Sand key is to the
north, on a line with East and Middle
keys. During the war it had a battery
and was the smallpox station. East
key is famous for the Spanish gold
laden galleon which was wrecked here
in the eighteenth century. The light
house keoper at Garden key found, it
is said, §20,000 in gold.
In the center of this great reef,
which represents possibly thirty square
miles, lies Garden key and Fort
Jefferson, surrounded by a harbor as
perfect as cau be imagined. Garden
key was well chosen as the foundation
of the fort, as it is like a spider in the
center of a web, into and about which
the narrow yet deep channel winds—
BO narrow, that in all probability
none but the smallest of the fleet will
venture in, though during the war,
fairly large transports came up to the
little wharf.
To the cast of the fort, beyond tho
blue ribbon-like harbor, lies a white
sandy lngoon, once partly covered
with coral, and on its extreme edge
the sea beats fiercely. To the south,
tho great lagoon stretches away, while
to the west there is a ship channel
with interveniug reefs of greater or
less depth. To the north, the condi
tions are similar, with three large keys
—Baud, Middle and East and their
surrounding reefs.
It was tlio original plan in 1847,
when JFort Jefferson was begun, to
place on each of the surrounding
islands a sand battery, thus making
the outlying islands a part of the
plans of defense, but this was never
completed.
The fort, named after Thomas Jef
ferson, gradually took form, and is
one of the remarkable structures of
masonry in this country, being of
brick, and a half a mile around, in
closing thirteen acres, and having
three tiers of guns, numbering in all
over five hundred.
Tho fort was surrounded by a ditch
or moat, and this again by a sea wall,
so that tho fort virtually rose out of
the water, having upon the outside
hardly more than au acre of made
laud which afforded room for the
quarantine wharf and several build
ings formerly used by the engineer
corps. When the war broke out the
fort was well on toward completion.
The walls were up and the process of
filling up with, concrete and coral
taken from the reef was under way;
but there were no guns, and it was
some time before the fort was even
fairly well equipped.
The fort to-day is, literally, a hol-
Mw mockery. One shot from any one
of tho white cruisers would, in all
probability, crush in an entire case
mate. It is a splendid monument by
Contrast of the advancement of mili
tary science, a typo of obsolete
methods, now of value only as a shell
which might be covered with bags of
saud or concrete of the dead coral
rock of which the great reef affords an
abuudant supply.
As the war progressed it became tho
famous Dry Tortugas prison, where
bounty jumpers, deserters and war
time criminals of all kinds were sent.
The most notable were the conspira
tors Spangler, Mudd, McLaughlan
and others, sent in some instances for
life, but all finally pardoned out under
reconstruction.
At one time there were about 10(10
prisoners and 1500 troops on this
saudbank of thirteen acres. In 1804
almost every month a transport ar
rived with prisoners—as motley a
crowd as one could wish to see, some
in old uniforms, some in citizens'
clothes, some in rags, unwashed,
vermin-covered; despair and criminal
ity written on many faces, while here
and there were refined-looking, de
spairing men, who had been unjustly
Bentouoed to the great prison.
Tho prisoners were marched np
into the fort, arranged as on dress
parade and the roll called. Some
were missing, had died en route and
were buried in the Gulf Stream;
others were sick. When each man
answered to his name his trade was
asked and ho was detailed to congen
ial work. The carpenters went to the
carpenter shop, the masons were set
to work laying brick to complete tho
fort, the laborers to hauling sand,
whilo largo numbers were employed in
attending to police duty and in clean
ing the garrison; tho druggists and
dootors went into the hospitals as
nurses, the cooks to the mess hall.
And so great was the surplus that the
officers took many for cooks and ser
vants as a matter of good policy.
The writer's family had two of these
men. One, who had been a chef in
Hew Ycek. had gone into the bounty
jumping business and had retired to
the Dry Tortugas. The other Baid
that he had been ordered to retreat at
Bull Bun, and as he did not stop
until he reaohed Vermont he was ar
rested as a deserter. These were
their stories. They were faithful ser
vants.
The Dry Tortugas was originally,
with its incomparable harbor for
medium-sized croft, the rendezvous
for the pirates, who swept the Spanish
main during the past century. The
writer discovered an old cannon, bear
ing the arms of Spain, on the reef near
Bird Key, in water about ten feet
deep, and some distance from the
channel, showing that it must have
been on its way to the key in a small
boat, and was probably lost overboard.
The islands have also had in years
gone by an unsavory record as the
headquarters for wreckers.
An Interesting Pension Case.
It is rare that descendants of former
Presidents, who hailed from the
North, appeal to the Government for
bounty to help keep body and soul
together. The request of Enoch G.
Adams, of South Berwick, Me., for an
increase of his pension from §24 to
§SO a month is therefore of unusual
interest. Captain Adams has had a
most unfortunate career, as his own
letter to the House Committee on
Pensions demonstrates. He is a
graduate of Yale College, in the class
of President Dwight, and a collateral
descendant of John Adams, who was
second President of the United States.
The ancestor, from which he traoes
his line, is Bev. Joseph Adams, who
was John Adams's uncle.
A favorable report from the House
Committee on a bill, which has al
ready passed the Senate, shows that
Captain Adams was a most gallant
oflicer. He enlisted as a private, rose
to the rank of Captain, and was
brevetted Major for his meritorious
services. He was shot in battle, but
refused to quit the service until the
war was over. A gunshot wound in
thp neck, of a serious character, af
fected his nervous system and his
brain. Captaiu Adams fought in the
.peach orchard at Gettysburg, being
one of the only two officers there who
escaped death or wounds. He is now
in his seventieth year, and some time
ago was robbed of all his property.—
Washington Post.
Vitality of the Wild (loose.
Farmer H. N. Clement, of Lowell,
Lake County, Indiana, was gunning
in the Kaukalcee Marsh. He came
upon a flock of wild geese and bagged
several of them, one of which aston
ished him by having as a breastpin an
arrow nine inches long. That goose
became the wonder of the neighbor
hood and the study of scientists, the
only conclusion reached being that,
wherever tho wild bird came from,
there it got the arrow, so unique in
formation that it could be assigned to
no tribe of Indians in the United
States or any other known country.
Finally Professor O. T. Mason, of the
Natural Museum, said the bird and
arrow could have come from no other
place on the globe than the Yukon
Valley, for except in that region no
such arrows are made.
Science does not pretond to say how
long tho goose had carried the urrow
of a Yukon tribesman until it met its
death from the shot of a civilized gunner
down on an Indiana marsh. The bird
disdained the weapon of a savage, but
turned up its legs to the marksman
ship of the Hoosier farmer years
afterward, and thousands of miles
away from its summer home in Arctio
desolation, as it was journeying south
ward. —Cincinnati Enquirer.
Englo Caught at Boa.
A most remarkable incident occurred
during the passage from Turks island
to Providence of the Boston brig Mary
Gibbs, in the capture by the crew of a
large eagle hundreds of miles from
land. Captain Coombs stated that his
vessel passed between two terrific hur
ricanes on the passage up the coast.
When the vessel was 350 miles to the
southeast of Cape Hatteras a large bird
was seen flying, or rather being borne
by the wind directly toward the brig.
A man Was sent out on the jibboom
to capture it, and the bird, which
proved to bo a large eagle, flew into
the man's arms and was easily cap
tured. It seemed completely exhaus
ted by its long flight, and for some
days it was unable to stand. During
this time the crew fed and cared for it,
and the result is that the eagle now is
very tame. Captain Coombs thinks
the eagle was caught in the terrifio
hurricane and carried from its natural
haunts to the spot where the crew of
the brig captnred it. The bird meas
ures six feet from tip to tip of its wings.
The plumage on its breast is white
while the back is mottled.—Boston
Journal.
Oeufcli of Lincoln's llescucr.
Austin Gollaher died at Hodgen
ville, Ky., recently, aged ninety-three
years. He was the boyhood com
panion of Abraham Linooln. They
wero born on adjoining farms and at
tended school together. When Goll
aher was eleven years old and Linooln
was eight the two boys wero fishing
in a creek that was swollen at the
time by a heavy rain. Lincoln fell
from a log into the water. Being un
able to swim, Linooln would have
drowned had Gollaher not pulled him
out. At the time of the accident the
boys were trying to "coon" across the
creek on the log, and it was while
they were in midstream that Lincoln
fell overboard. Gollaher used a syca
more branch to fish tho future Presi
dent from the water.—New York Post.
British Soldiers as Linguists.
British officers serving in Indian
regiments ore now required to learn
the dialect of their men in addition to
Hindustani, Pushtee, Punjabi, Hindi,
Khoskura, Tamil and Mahratti are
among the languages they must ac
quire.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Celery Salad.
One hard-boiled egg, one raw egg,
one tablespoonful olive oil of butter,
one teaspoonful white sugar, one-half
teaspoonful salt, one-half teaspoonful
pepper, four tablespoonfuls vinegar
one teaspoonful made mustard, four
bunches celery. Rub the yolk of the
cooked egg to a paste and blend the
other ingredients into n smooth, cream
like mixture, as in all salad dressings.
Chop the white of the egg and add it
to the celery, which should be chopped
or shredded. Pour the dressing over
it and serve at once.
Delicate Onions.
Slice two quarts of silver or white
or Spanish onions, put them on to boil
in cold water, to which has been ad
ded salt and a little baking soda.
When they come to n boil throw this
water off, then add hot water and a lit
tle more salt; stew until tender; turn
in colander and drain in a warm place.
When thoroughly drained have ready
in a pan a teaspoonful of melted but
ter; put onions in pan, and when hot
add a tablespoonful of butter and two
or three beaten eggs. This will agree
with the most delicate stomach.
Neapolitan Salad.
Set n small stone bowl with the yolks
of two eggs into cracked ice; add one
even teaspoonful of salt, one-half tea
spoonful English mustard and a little
red pepper; stir five minutes and then
add, drop by drop, three-quarter cup
fnl of salad oil; as it thickens add a
little white vinegar (about one table
spoonful in all); then add one table
spoonful finely-chopped onion, one
tablespoonful tarragon vinegar, one
quarter teaspoonful white popper, and
lastly one cupful whipped cream (or in
place of cream add the beaten whites
of two eggs); into a salad bowl put
one-half pint finely-cut pickled beets,
ono-half pint finely-cut boiled potatoes,
two hard-boiled eggs and one-half cup
ful pickles, all finely cut, and one-half
pint finely-shredded cabbage; pour
over half the mayonnaise, mix well
together and cover with the remainder
of tho mayonnaise; garnish with a
border of shredded lettuce leaves (or
shredded cabbage), hard-boiled eggs
and finely-chopped beets.—Chicago
Times-Herald.
Jelly of Snow.
Wash thoroughly four tablespoon
fills of rice and place in a double boil
er with two quarts of boiling water;
cook slowly, without stirring, until the
rice is tender; drain off what water re
mains and each grain should be found
separate and whole; set one side to
cool. Soak one-quarter of a box of
gelatin in water enough to cover it for
an hour, then pour over it a half-pint
of boiling water and add one cup of
powdered sugar. Stand tho dish con
taining the gelatin mixture in a pan of
boiling water and stir until tho gelatin
and sugar arc entirely dissolved. Then
turn the mixture into tho cooked rico
and thoroughly mix. Whip one pint
of cream Until it is light and dry; stir
the whipped cream as lightly as possi
ble with the cold rice and gelatin.
Flavor with maraschino or sherry, and
pour the mixture into a mold that has
been wet in cold water. Stand the
mold in the ice box until its contents
become thoroughly cold and set.
When ready to serve, tarn the molded
rioe out on a flat, pretty dish and pour
preserved strawberries or maraschino
cherries around it.—The Housewife.
Household Hints.
Never pierce meat while cooking or
the juice will escape.
Veal must never be laid on a dish,
but hung in an airy place till cooked.
Egg shells should be thrown into
the stock pot directly the contents are
used.
Choose butter by its fresh odor,
freedom from buttermilk and streaks
of color.
To scald milk set it in a jug or basin
in a pan of cold water over the lire.
When the water boils tho milk is
scalded.
Fish for frying should always be
dried thoroughly and dredged thickly
with flour before being bruised over
with egg and bread crumbs.
When flavoring soup never use
powdered spices, as they form a sedi
ment at the bottom of the plate and
spoil the appearance. Whole cloves
and other spices should bo stuck into
the vegetables while boiling. Long
pepper is superior to ground, but it
requires several hours' boiling.
People who are fond of sea bathing
in summer should know that in winter
a most effective and yet simple sub
stitute for sea water is a cup of
rock salt dissolved in warm water and
added to the bath. A warm salt bath
of this kind is the most rofreshiug
tonic for an exhausted body. But
don't go out of doors after taking it;
just before going to bed is the right
time.
"The reason so ma'iy people lose
their wisdom teeth early," said a den
tist, "is because they do not attend to
thorn properly. They are so far back
in tne mouth that the toothbrush does
not touch them in the usual perfunc
tory cleaning, and particles of food
are left there to decay. A soft cloth
kept ready to supplement the work of
the brush will be found of great ad
vantage."
Never throw away a piece of zinc.
If it is used in tho kitchen
around the range, save all the
trimmings, when the edges become
broken or ragged and must be
cut off, and when at last it is worn
out and has to be replaced, save the
old piece, cut it up with an old pair
of shears or bend and break it into
pieces, and occasionally throw some
of it into tho ooals when you have a
hot fire, and it will seldom be neces
sary to have the flue cleaned.
The fastest-flowing river in the
world ia the Hutley in British India.
Vita " ze 111
Overcome J f-J y
Feeling. Go to your druggist and get
a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and be
gin to take it today, and realize at once
the great good it Is sure to do you.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is America's Greatest Spring Medicine.
Great Chinese Bridge.
Spanning an Inlet of the Yellow Sea
near Sangang, China, is a bridge five
and a quarter miles long, with 300
piers of masonry, and having its road
way sixty-four feet above the water.
This work Is said to hnve been accom
plished by Chinese engineers 800 year*
ago.
A Cheap Trick.
To manufacture n cheap kalsomine
stuck cn the wall with glue, claiming
it to be the "same thing" or "just
as good" as the durable Alabastine or
to buy and sell such goods on such
representations wonld seem a cheap
trick. Some resort to it. To be safe,
buy Alabastine only in packages and j
properly labeled.
It has been demonstrated that
African elephants can be domesticated.
They make valuable beasts of burden,
as they climb mountains with remark
able ease, are sure-footed and can
swim swollen streams.
Beauty Xa Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascureta, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the bodv. begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion bv taking
Casearets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
Common Speed In Walking.
Very few pedestrians walk four miles
an bom-; three miles is a very fair gaic,
and when one exceeds that he Is begin
ni2 to walk fast. If my recollection
•arret the old common time In tho
army carried a man two and five
•lghtha miles an hour. The distances
which the aoldiers covers In an nour
hare now increased somewhat by
•lightly Increasing the length of his
•tops, but my impression Is That tho
common time remains under three
miles an hour. Certainly three miles
would be good, fair walking, and fully
up to man's average speed.
Coal Tar for Dyes.
Coal tar, when used for dyes, yleld9
sixteen shades of blue, tho same num
ber of yellow tints, twelve of orange,
nine of violet, and numerous other col
ors and shades.
Irregular honesty Is harder to man
age than regular dishonesty.
own®
Both tho method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to tho taste, and acta
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced. pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all lending drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
tDUISVtUE, At. NEW VCRK, N.t.
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