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Illiteracy in Great Britain has de
creased from forty to seven pier cent
during Victoria's reign. During the
same period in Spain illiteracy has
continued over CO per cent. Educa
tion and national life, growth and
success go hand in baud.
An interesting departure in our ex
port trade promises to be the sale of
automobile vehicles. The announce
ment is made that a company has
been formed iu Paris expressly for the
sale of these carriages of American
manufacture, and that largo orders
have been placed in several American
oities. No matter how novel the arti
cle may be, American skill and inge
nuity are ready to supply it to any
applicant aud to any market cheaper
and better than it can be produced
anywhere else in the world.
Who shall say to what extent the
exposures and the comments of the
newspapers have prevented abuses
and deterred wrougdoers? Call it
newspaper scolding if you will, yet
who can maintain that it does no
good? Thousands of people would
never follow the straight aud narrow
path were it not for fear of the pub
licity of the newspapers, says the
Milwaukee Journal. Besides, the
newspaper serves to hold up before
the young aud those active iu life
some sort of a standard of right do
ing.
The wonderful growth of the tele
graph business oau best be shown by
quoting some figures. Thirty years
ago there were only 3000 telegraph
offices and little more thau 75,000
miles of wire strung throughout the
length and breadth of the land. At
the present time there are about 26,-
000 offices and over 1,000,000 miles of
wire. The annual number of mes
sages bandied thirty years ago was
5,879,282; today it is 80,000,000.
The avorage cost to the sender thirty
years ago was $1 01.7; the average
cost today is 30.9 cents. At the start
the cost to the company was more thau
twice what it is today to the sender.
Well, well, what a demoralizing
thing it is to have big medical author
ities turn up now iu the British Medi
cal Journal and prove that white
bread is better for most of us than
that made of unbolted flour ! Of
course most of us have little to re
pent of under the new gospel; we
have gone on eating white bread, al
though supposiug we ought to repent
of that; but then this topsy-turvy
business, with all the hygienic teach
ings of the century, is so discourag
ing to the spirit of reform. Who
knows? Home oue may tell us yet that
Welsh rarebits are particularly Calcu
lated to preserve the digestive powers.
One of the latest examples of the
ability of the United States to suc
cessfully display its practical inde
pendence of the rest of the world is
furnished by the course of prices in
the iron and steel industry, says
Bradstreet's. In most European coun
tries the tendency of the iron and
steel market has been upward for
some years past, active demand fur
nishing satisfactory reasons for this
price development. In this country,
however, the contrary has been the
case, and the tendency has been toward
the lowering of the price of both the
crude and. manufactured product. At
tention has been railed to this fenture
c>y some foreign iron-trade papers,
which contrast the upward movement
in prices which has occurred abroad
with the even more pronounced down
ward movement occurring in iron and
steel products in the United States.
In the ease of Germany advances have
been particularly marked in pig iron,
but it is to be remarked also that
the price of irou and steel in other
countries, not excepting Groat Britain,
have all been toward a higher plane.
In this country the contrary has been
the case, and on a total volume of
bufiuess,unprecedented in size,values
have shown little improvement over
one or two years ago.
ANOTHER.
Ten thousand men obeyed his lightest
world;
He pressed i\ button at his desk and 10l
Men who for years had 3truffgied on and
on
Awoke to And their dreams of riches gone.
And bowing servants saw him come and
60.
He spoke, and markets rose forthwith or
fell;
He governod all that mighty wealth will
buy I
Fame, honor, power, homage he possessed.
And yesterday you would have called him
blest—
But millionaires and paupers have to
diel
The shouting in the market still goes on,
j Though whispering servants tiptoe
through his hull;
How pooc was I beside liim yesterday-
How rieh, to-day, beside bis pulseless
clay-
Make fast the lid and let the curtains
fail.
—S. E. Klser, in Cleveland Leader.
si *
The Autograph,
the Trick That Did Not Fail |
x&ieieieimytmzeKM
OARCELY liaa
the postman
i_ S° llo 01 -t of the
TrgTSf'ehouse, aft ol- hav
jß,iug left the
lj§J morning letters,
wlien Jules Du
i X I )r °. who was
C..V.XO watching from
his aixth-stovy window, descended
hurriedly to the porter's office.
"Any letters forme?" he asked.
The porter put on his spectacles,
gathered up the letters which had just
come in, looked them over one by one,
and replied, laconically:
"None."
"Thank you," said the youny man,
and he slowly remounted the stairs,
where his friend, Armand, was wait
ing for him.
Through economy, the two young
men lived iu the same room. There
were to be seen all their books and all
their papers. There were more papers
thau anything elso, because both of
them ran manuscript mills. We re
gret to say that, while the two youug
men turned out a great deal of manu
script, they succeeded in placing very
little. Once in a while one of them
would get an artiole inserted iu one of
the papers, but they scarcely made
enough to live on, even by making a
partnership of their assets—and lia
bilities.
"Well?" said Armand, seeing his
ooinpanion enter.
"Nothing, as I told you. We shall
have to wait until the end of the
month. My uncle is a man who is a
believer in fixed dates,"
"Will ill luck never cease? We have
five days yet to wait. Still, I would
not object to breakfasting to-day, in
stead of Ave days from now."
"We needn't breakfast."
"I am as hungry as a wolf. You
know we had rather a light supper
yesterday."
"Yes, it is true that a smoked her
i ring for two is scarcely gluttony."
j Armand, his hands in his pockets,
walked up and down the room, re
flectively.
| "See here," said he, "don't you
know anybody who could lend us a
hundred francs?"
"Yes, I know lots who could, but I
know of no one who would."
Armand suddenly cried out:
"I have an idea!"
"Is it a good one?"
"Listen. Have yon not often spoke
to me of an old collector of autographs
who lives in this house?"
"Yes. He lives on the first floor, a
man by the name of Eridoux."
"What sort of a man is he?"
"Well, I don't know. I have
scarcely seen him more than a couple
of times."
"Suppose we try and sell him some
thing. "
"That is a good idea. It is true we
have plenty of autographs, but they
are mostly our own. He wants his
toric ones."
"Are you sure that no celebrity ever
wrote to us?"
"I don't think so, but there is the
correspondence cotler. Look through
it."
Armand seated himself at the table,
emptied the box upon the table, and
began to go through the letters. For
at least half an hour he carefully
turned over the sheets of paper.
Suddenly he cried out:
"Eureka! I have found it--a letter
from the Empress Marie Louise."
Feverishly he waved in the air a
yellowish sheet of paper, almost cut
in two by the folds.
Jules looked at it.
"Why, I recognize that," said he.
"It's a note from Marie Lonise, who
ÜBed to be a saleswoman at the lace
counter in the Louvre. I got that
letter, from her wheu I was serviug my
volunteer term of a year, with the
grade of corporal."
"I tell you, old man, that it is from
the Empress Marie Louise, and it is
addressed to the great Napoleon."
"And dated 1873?"
"1813, my dear fellow. The seven
looks exactly like a one. It is after
the victorious battle of Lutzen, and
this is what the Empress wrote;
"My Little Corporal—You have won
enough of laurels for the moment. Leave
your army and oome to me at the Louvre,
where I am yawning In the midst of billows
of laoe. MABIK LOUISB."
"And you think you can sell that to
our neighbor Bridoux? Why, you
are joking. It would bo a swindle."
"You can aid me. Have you that
false beard that you wore at the mas
quorade last year?"
"Yes, I think it is somewhere
about."
"Listen, then, and I will soon teach
you your role."
In a few words Armand instructed
I his friend what he had to do, and
then, putting the precious autograph
in his pocketbook, said:
"Do not forget. Knock in a quar
ter of aa hour."
Armaud repaired at once to the
apartment of Bridoux. The auto
graph colleotor lived alone. Ho was
a man of about sixty years of age.
Armand looked at him critically.
"I wish to speak to Monsieur
Bridoux."
"That is my name, sir."
"I wish to see you on a serious af
fair."
"Come in," said Bridoux.
Armand entered, aud Bridoux of
fered him a chair.
"Sir," said Armand, "I have heard
of you as being one of the most eru
dite autograph collectors in Paris,
and I wish to show you something
very rare—an autograph of the Em
press Mario Louise."
So saying, Armand unbuttoned his
coat, carefully took out his lank pock
etbook, and from it took the letter,
which he placed under the eyes of the
autograph collector.
Bridoux read it, mused aud said:
"It is very short. You bbv that
those characters are from the hands ol
the Empress Marie Louise? Her
autographs are very rare."
"It is authentic. The Empress ad
dressed it to the great Napoleon the
day after the battle of Lutzen."
"But the Emperor lived at the
Tuileries then."
"Certainly, sir, and that observa
tion proves your intimate knowledge
of the history of the time. But, if
you will remember, duriug the ab
sence of the Little Corporal, as be
whirled from battlefield to battlefield,
the Empress was in the habit of retir
ing to the Louvre."
Bridoux was evidently flattered at
his historical knowledge beingprnised,
i but, rubbing bis nose reflectively, ho
I said:
"How did the letter fall into your
hands?"
"Oh, in the most natural manner iu
the world. I got the letter from my
father, who got it from my grandfather.
My grandfather—a soldier of the em
pire, and a fanatic admirer of Napo
leon—picked up this letter one day
when it had fallen from the pocket of
the great man, and preserved it as a
precious relic. Sir, nothing hut the
most urgent need would force me to
sell it. But I must have 100 francs.
It is for me a question of life and death.
Nevertheless, I beg yon to believe I
am patriotic, for if I come to you it ia
because you are French and because,
if you purchase it, this precious docu
ment will remain in my own country.
I could have had ten times the price I
asked you. Just now an Englishman
tried to buy it on any terms. He fol
lowed me, even dogging my footsteps
to the door of this house."
But Bridoux evidently did not ap
pear to be in a hurry to bind the bar
gain.
"I would willingly buy it, but Iwish
to consult an expert first."
"I [regret, sir," said Armand, "that
I cannot wait."
He turned cold inside as be said to
himself:
"This affair is going to fall through
if Jules does not hurry up."
At this moment the door bell rang,
Bridoux weut to open it. Jules en
tered. He was unrecognizable. His
hat was on the baok of his head, hip
coat was buttoned to the chin, and he
had on a pair of long whiskers, not
unlike those whioh adorn tourists who
travel about with those queer "per
sonally conducted" parties.
At the sight of this curious person
age the autograph collector stared in
stupefaction.
"Pardon me," said the false Eng
lishman, "I wish to speuk to the gen
tleman who just came into your house."
Bridoux was about to reply, when
Armand interrupted.
"How," said he, "you here again,
man?"
"Yes. I will give you 200 francs
for your letter."
"But I told you I wonldnot sell it."
"I will give you 500 trancs."
"I tell you, sir, that 1 am already
making a bargain with this gentle
man."
"I will give you 1000 francs."
"I beg you, sir, to leave the room."
"Very well," said the Englishman,
"I will wait for you outside the door,
hut I must have that autograph!" and
he left.
"You see," said Armandto Bridoux,
"the price that Englishman attaches
to this precious document. Don't
force me to let it pass inte his hands
when I ask you only 100 francs for it."
The autograph collector wus at last
convinced. Ho took tho 100 francs
from his desk and gave them to
Armand, who thanked him and with
drew.
Not long after that the two young
men scored a success with a novel,
and the first thing they did was to put
a bank note of 100 francs into an en
velope with this indorsement, "Resti
tution and thauks," and addressed it
to Bridoux. But Bridoux never knew
what it meant. He simply placed the
100 francs in his treasury, and for him
the note of the little saleswoman at
the Louvre lace counter is still an
authentic autograph of the Empress
Marie Louise.
I>eceptlT Photograph* of the Sultan.
Photographs of the Sultan have
been much in evidence in consequence
of the Kaiser's visit to the Holy Land.
But these portraits give a false im
pression of the Sultan as he really
looks to-day. Abdul Harnid has not
had his photograph takeu for twenty -
two years, aud the pictures which
have appeared in the illustrated papers
represent him as he was when he as
cended the throne. The Saltan was
born in 1842, and he is therefore
fifty-six years old. He wears a long
beard, which is now turning gray.
When he was a prince he was without
a beard, but as soon as he ascended
the throne he abandoned the vse of
i razors.—London Globe
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I GOOD ROADS NOTES. I
Highways in Porto Kico.
Many of the soldiers who went to
Porto Kico and Cuba in #he war with
Spain were enthusiastic wheelmen.
Two of them met at the heudquartera
of the New York division of the L.
A. W. and began to compare notes.
I One of them was a member of Troop
C, of Brooklyn, and he said: "I have
heard the claim made that the natives
down there did not know what good
roads were, but my own experience
showed me that such was not the case.
The military road from Ponce to San
Juan runs diagonally across the island
from southwest to northeast. This
road is probably ninety miles long,
and it is a splendid piece of macadam.
It is bordered on each side, for a part
of the way, -with trees, and it fur
nishes a tine road for cycling. The
road is kept in repair on the European
system, in sections. There is a wide
gully or ditch on the side of the road
which furnishes excellent drainage,
and the culverts are also admirably
arranged. About the heaviest grade
is probably six per cent, in the mile.
I toll you that many of us wished that
wo had our wheels along when we
were down there." Then the other
wheelman, who had spent considera
ble time in Cuba before and since the
war, said: "There are some good
roads in Cuba, aud under the new or
der of things there will be more.
The shell road on the west side of the
island is fine, and it is about thirty miles
long. The roads about Santiago
don't amount to much at present.
There is a line road near Cienfuegos,
and I have traveled over it for about
eighteen miles. In my trips through
the islaud I have found good macadam
roads in the mountains. In some
places these roads appear to be cut
out of the solid roc]:, and they are in
as good condition to-day as Ihdy were
I don't know how many years ago. I
suppose that as soon as they become
thoroughly Americauized down there
we v/ill have to send missionaries and
organize an L. A. W. alliance and a
good roads association. They have
some good roads now, but most of
them seem to begin nowhere and end
in about the same sort of district."
Good Itnuda Concresg.
The Fanners' National Congress,
which has just closed its annual ses
sion at Fort Worth, Texas, has adopted
resolutions strongly indorsing the sys
tem of State Aid to road building, and
commending the efforts of the League
of American Wheelmen for its general
introduction.
The resolutions in fullnre as follows:
"Besolved, That the best interests of
American agriculture demand the con
struction of first-class roads connect
ing farms with market towns;
"That the cost of their eoustruction
is too considerable to be borne by
farm property alone;
"That, as the entire population is in
terested in and benefited, directly aud
indirectly, by good roads, all property
ought to contribute to the cost of their
coustructiou, through the medium of
a State tax;
4 'That wo indorse the system of
State aid to roads, because it appears
to solve the good roads problem in
the farmer's interest?,; it largely do
creases the cost of road construction
to local communities, provides the
means by which the large city tax
payers and corporations owning valu
able franchises from the Htate are
made to share in the expense, and
properly leaves it optional with farm
ing districts to avail themselves of its
provisions or not, as they may choose;
"That we believe the State aid sys
tem suitable to most States in the
Union, and commend the efforts of
the National Road Parliament, the
League of American Wheelmen and
the Government Office of Road In
quiry to make this system Jof road
construction generally known and un
derstood, and to bring about its gen
eral adoption."
A Sample.
"Wood is bringing fabulous prices
in Vassar now-a-days ou acoouut of
the condition of the roads," says tlie
Vassar (MioU.) Pioneer. "Almost auy
kind of fuel is eagerly sought after by
a dozen or more purchasers almost be
fore it gets into town. The high prices
will not last longer, probably, than
do the muddy roads, when hauling is
an easier task." The Grand Rapids
Herald adds that "substantially the
same condition of affairs exists in every
county in Michigan. The autumnal
rains have done their work, and with
roads hub-deep or bottomless, rural
trallic is impeded or stopped entirely,
and this will continua nutil a friendly
freeze makes the roads hard again."
I'uragraph* About tlie Crutailn.
The most critical road inspector is
the bicycle.
The resolution of the Good Eoads
Parliament "that each agricultural
college (ought to) furnish a course on
good roads construction" should re
ceive prompt nnd careful consideration
by every one of those institutions.
On the road question, J. M. S. says
in the L. A. W. Bulletin: "To my
mind more common sense would help
us. Narrow roads, a more convex sur
face, and frequent small repairs; but
unless wo do these things ourselves I
don't see how they will be done. Open
ditches, kept open, and a wide-tire
law would help us."
"Good roads assist in making pros
perity for farmers. Prosperou sfar
mers bring prosperity for cities.
Prosperous cities aud farming dis
tricts, when coincident, mean happy
people, healthy people—healthy be
cause happy. A happy and healthy
people is the goal of existence. Good
roads are a great force in reaching the
goal. Therefore all classes should as
sist in securing them."
SUN ECLIPSED AT MIDNIGHT.
A riienomenon Which Wan Visible No*
where on Earth.
The ordinary almanac gave for De
cember 13 a partial eclipse of the sun,
invisible at Greenwich. And, indeed,
the expression as to its invisibility
might have been put much stronger,
for it was seen in no inhabited region
of the earth. An Antarctic expedi
tion might possibly have sailed within
its sphere of influence, but as it was
it passed unwatched by human eyes.
This being so, and the eclipse one that
was necessarily wholly unseen, it
would seem as if nothing more could
be said about it, and as if it might be
passed without comment. But, un
seen as it was, the eclipse was by no
means devoid of interest. First of all,
it offers us an example of what seems
a paradox—an eclipse of the sun tak
ing place at local midnight. It is,
moreover, the first of three eclipses
falling within a period no longer than
a single calendar month. December
27 brought a total eclipse of the moon
at Greenwich; January 11 a partial
eelipße of the sun, and the three are
very intimately connected with each
other. The latter in nearly all its
characteristics stands in strong con
trast to the eclipse of December 13—a
large partial eclipse which will be
seen just outside the arctic regions, at
their midday and in their midwinter.
Nor is this sequence accidental. A
similar triplet of eclipses—the first
partial of the sun and seen near the
south pole, the second total of the
moon, the third partial of the sun and
visible near the north pole—occurred
just eighteen years ago, all three
eclipses falling in December, 1880.
Going back yet another eighteen
years, we find the same thing repeated
some ten days earliur in the year, aud
so on right uway backward till IGG4,
when, while the southern eclipse was
a large partial one and fell nearly in
the midwinter of the southern hemi
sphere. the northern was a mere graze
taking place at the midnight of the
regions from which it was visible.
Looking forward, wo find in like man
ner that eighteen years hence another
similar triplet of eclipses will fall at
the turn of the year, aud yet another
eighteen years later still. This ends
the series of these midnight eclipses
of the sun in the south polar regions,
for January, 1953, will be marked
only by a total eclipse of the moon.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
A good deed never dies.
Cant carries no conviction.
The best berries ripen where the
biggest thorns are.
Cultivate the field of life clear up to
the corners.
The man who lives tor self is not
missed when he dies.
Don't be molded by your circum
stances; mold them.
The way to get over your troubles
is to get under them.
By using what we have we gain
that which we have not.
Anger closes the eyes of reason as
soon as it opens the mouth.
Don't blow out the lamp of reason
for the gas light of wit.
In proportion as you say, "I am not
my own," all things become yours.
The man who does his own think
ing becomes a focus for all the reflec
tors.
There is no slave so sadly bound as
the one who thiuks he is free to serve
his own lusts.
Don't build the ginger-bread house
of cheap reputation on the ten-cent
foundation of inexperience.—Barn's
Horn.
"Oil, My! Oh, My! I Wasn't Scarotl."
A surgeon relates that beforo Santi
ago, he (the surgeon), going to the
front, came upon a young officer, sit
ting beside the road, trembling like a
leaf, and whiter than the dead men
around him. At sight of the surgeon
he began to talk, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
"I'm a coward, I'm a coward, I'm
a coward," he said; "I knew I'd run,
and I did. I'm disgraced forever, t
was going along all right, not thinking
of anything but getting at the dashed
Spaniards, yelling to my men to come
on, and running ahead as fast as I'
could, when all of a sudden I stubbed
my toe, or something, aud then I can't
remember being scared, but I must
have been, for I came galloping back
here, sick as a dog. I'm a coward, and
I wish I were dead! Why don't some
body shoot me? I've got such an aw
ful goneness right here," and he put
his hand to his stomach.
The surgeon gave him a quick look
and caught him as he plunged forward
in a faint. Where the awful goneness
was a Mauser bullet had found its
billet. They carried the wounded
man to the field hospital, and ho
chuckled all the way. "Oh, my! oh,
my!" he said, over and over; "I
wasn't scared! I Wasn't scared."
Aud then he would laugh delightedly:
"I wasn't scared. I was hit —I was
just hit. I ain't a coward after all."
Burled With Ills Weapons.
A doctor died and was buried at
Miltouville the other day. In the
funeral procession the doctor's team
was lead just behind the hearse and
propped on the buggy seat was the
doctor'? medicine case. And yet
some people reject the belief that
heredity has brought down to us the
customs of GOOD years ago. The
earliest account of man tells us that
the warrior was buried with his
weapons.—Kansas City Journal.
Birds' Nests.
Many birds vary the composition of
the outer layer of the nest, according
to the circumstances. If the nest is
located among growing leaves, the
t outer layer will be of green moss; if
on a dark branch, of natural-colored
lichtns.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A Table Bookcase
An odd table bookcase lias three
shelves for books, the highest about
as high as an ordinary table. A shelf
is built at either end at the height of
the second shelf, on which a teacup,
inkstand, a vase of flowers or some
other "aid to industry" can be plaoed.
The set of shelves is strongly built,
so that a heavy lamp can be placed
on the top without any fear of a
catas trope.
A Hint About Ten Making.
Dr. Goodfellow, an English analyst
of note, denies the oft-heard state
ment that "anybody can make a good
cup of tea." He lays down half a
dozen rules, as follows:
1. Always use good tea.
2. Use water which has just got to
the boil.
3. Infuse about four minutes.
4. Do not allow the leaves to stand
in the infusion.
5. Avoid second brews and used tea
leaves.
6. If suffering from heart or nervous
complaints, only use the very fiuest
qualities of tea, with short iufusion.
If this cannot be afl'orded give up tea
altogether.
The Treatment or Windows.
The window should be made quite
a decorative feature of the room, not
simply left, as it often seems to be, to
the tender mercies of a pair of muslin
or thick curtains, allowed to hang al
most as they please on either side.
True, the ordinary sash window
which is found in tho majority of
houses, does not seem to lend itself in
anyway to decorative treatment; still
there are ways and ineuus by which
eveu this soemingly hopeless struc
ture may be converted into effeotive
shape if not into absolute picturesque
ness.
An attractive treatment for the
window is to hnvo the frame taken
entirely out and substitute a lendod
glass casement opening outward in
the centre; but this naturally is an
extensive change, and partakes more
of a structural alteration, which should
hardly be undertaken except on free
hold property. Much can be done in
the way of improvement without al
tering the glass by the skillful manip
ulation of draperies and the arrange
ment of a window seat.
The bow window requires a little
care in draping, and should never be
cut off from the room by having a
straight curtain pole fixed across it.
The pole should bo shaped to the
window, and the curtains fixed near
to the glass, with a pair of heavy
handsome ones at the sides. A win
dow seat will also be found a helpful
addition, or a large Chesterfield may
find a plaoe in the recess with very
good effect.
With the long French window
there can be no difficulty, as its only
requirement is a short festoon drapery
at the top, with a nice pair of side
curtains; but the square window is al
together different, and must have
short draperies falling from the top to
just below the ledge, fixed close to the
glass, and the window seat is almost
an indispensable adjunct.
The small casement window is
without doubt the least troublesome
to arrange, us it is already a decora
tive feature, which only needs pretty
short curtains to complete.—Philadel
phia Press.
Keclpes.
Grilled Ham—Cut rather thick
slices of cold boiled ham. Dunt with
cayenne and lay each piece in a little
mußliroom catsup. Broil until well
heated and serve. Good for a cold
morning.
Cold Weather Salad—Cold beets
minoed, bits of cold boiled cauliflower
and string beans. After oaoh sort is
prepared, pour over them separately
a little Frenoh dressing. Put the
beets in centre, the cauliflower next
the beet on the outside, or divide the
space into thirds aud make a tricolor
dish.
Baised Graham Griddles—lnto one
quart sweet milk stir two cups gra
ham flour, one of white flour, one
teaspoon salt, two of molasses, half
oake dissolved compressed yeast.
Bise over night; beat down the first
thing in the morning, set in warm
place. When ready to bake add half
teaspoon of soda dissolvod in a little
hot water. Serve from the griddle.
Bed Vegetable Salad—One pint ol
cold boiled potatoes, one pint of col 1
boiled beets, one pint thinly slioed red
cabbage, six tablespoonfuls of salad
oil or melted butter, eight tablespoon
fuls of vinegar, two teaspooufuls of
salt, one-half teaspoonful of pepper.
Mix thoroughly after slicing the beets
and potatoes. Let stand in a cold
place one hour before using. It can
be served in a salad bowl, or in indi
vidual dishes, in nest oflettuoe leaves.
Hot Boned Chicken—Bemove the
bones from a chicken about one year
old; fill the spaces from which the
bones were taken with fresh chopped
mushrooms; roll it over; fasteh, tie in
cheeseoloth, and put it on top of the
bones in a kettle; cover the bones
with cold water, bring to boiling
point; add onion, bay leaf, four cloves
and a blade of mace. Cook gently for
one and a half hours. Serve gar
nished with molded rice and cream
Bauoe.
Eggs a la Caracas—Free two ounces
of smoked beef from fat and rind aud
chop very fine. Add one cup of
canned tomatoes (use as little liquid
as possible), ten drops of onion juice,
one-qnarter of a teaspoonful of paprika
(or a dash of cayenne), a dash of cin
namon, two tablespoonfuls of grated
cheese and a small piece of butter,
put in the chafing-dish, and when
smoking hot add three eggs well
beaten. Put the hot water pan un
derneath and stir till the consistency
of scrambled eggs. Serve on heated
plates, adding to each portion two
slices of hard-boiled egg.
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NORTHERN THIRST.
Dwellers In the Arctic Are Greet
Drinkers.
The dwellers in the Soudan or the
Sahara, of course, you would suggest.
But you would be quite wrong. It ia
not the tribes who dwell in the fiery
deserts of the tropics who drink most
water In a day. Far from It. They
are, as a rule, most temperate In all
things. Unlikely as it may seem, it
is just the last people you would ima
gine—the dwellers in the frozen north,
the Esquimaux—says the Philadelphia
Record. They seem to have a thirst
which Is quite unquenchable, and for
that purpose they are constantly melt
ing snow and ice over the lamp which,
fed by blubber, burns day and night
In every hut. Small wonder that the
soapstone out of which these lamps are
made Is to tho still uncivilized Esqui
maux the most valuable of possessions,
and that they will make long journeys
to secure pieces large enough to carve
lamps out of. The lamp itself Is shal
low, in the form of a small segment of
a circle, and the wick of dry moss,
rubbed between the hands with a lit
tle fat. It supplies itself with oil by
melting a long thin slip of blubber
hung above the flame. Sometimes
substitutes for the soapstone lamps are
made by the women, by cementing to
gether pieces of other stone with a
composition of clay, hair and seals*
blood, but they are never very satis
factory.
Ilrltnln'ft Ilomolcnn Wanderers.
In Great Britain It has been reck
oned that there are about 100,000 ab
solutely "homeless wanderers," and
that 60,000 of those belong to Lon
don.
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no sooner passes off before
■ another comes. But it's the
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B And it's the same' old story,
I too. There is first the cold,
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D; monla or consumption with the
long sickness, and life trcmb
yW ling In the balance.
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loosens the grasp of your cough.
The congestion of the throat A
and lungs is removed; all in
flammation Is subdued; the
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and the cough drops sway. It ■
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Dr. Ayer's 1
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Advlam Frea. I
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