Freeiand Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVEBY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TUB TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OFFICE: MAIN KTBEKT ABOVE CKNTBE. FREELAXD, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Bix Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to Is on the address label of each paper, the change oi which to a subsequent date be* comes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures In advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Mahc all money orders, checks, etc,,payable do the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. It is stated that the Andree taarch party is lost. So another expedition will have do bo sent out to lind this one. The process can go on indefi nitely. The figure 3 seems to have figured somewhat in the late war. Hostilities lasted 113 dsys, while 233 days elapsed between the declaration and the signing of the treaty at Paris. Much has been written of the bru tality of football and of other sports in which the players get their shins bruised and their hands calloused. But rough aud tumble sport of that kind is excellent for the youths. Wo know that there is a Miss Nancy school of education which objects to the use of fists by small boys at school, but the good old British system of settling differences in a square, knock-down fight had much to commend it, even if the boys did get black eyes and bloody noses, thinks the Brooklyn Eagle. It cut them loose from their mothers' apron-strings and made them self reliant and qualified them for that supremacy in the world's affairs which tho Anglo-Saxon is now enjoying. It is a paradox that the most cos mopolitan cities of Europe are at the flame time the most national, observes the New York Times. In America it is not so. There are Boston, Now York, Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans, each of which has its Separate attributes, and, while all are thoroughly American, not one can be considered exclusively national, not one bears the same relation to the United States that Paris does to France, that London does to England, that Vienna does to Austria, that Home does to Italy. The reason is plain. The great cities of America, in thetr eager development, have be come isolated in all elements of cul ture. And each is vain of its isola tion. The census of tho United States for 1890 gives the manufactures of this country for one year (1889) as $9,373,- 000,000, and the census of 1880 gives the value for that year as $5,370,000,- 000, showing the gain in ten years'to have been $1,003,000,000, or a gain in a decade of 71.54 per cent. At this same rate of gain for ten years, be tween 1890 and 1900, the value of America's manufactured products in 1900 would reach $1G,360,000,000. Suppose one cancels this rate of guin for three years of business depression, there would still remain $11,273,000,- 000 ao the value of America's manu factures for the year 1900, or the sum of $12,873,000,000 as the present (1898) rite of the annual products of this country. According to treasury statistics cof fee is steadily supplanting tea with the American people. The interest ing thing in this connection is that coffee can be grown successfully in all the islands that have recently como under American control. Jt is already the chief article of export from Porto Bico, and it is produced to some ex tent iu Cuba, Hawaii and the Philip pines. No reason exists why coffee production may not be greatly in creased in all these islands. All that the industry needs is suitable encouragement. This may in time wake tho United States independent of Brazil and other outside countries for its coffee supplying and furnish a new lever for securing trade conces sions from such countries. Peculiar Privileges. Lord Forester, who has accepted the office of mayor of Wenloek, England, this year, possesses an extraordinary privilege, and one that he is hardly likely to avail himself of. By a grant from King Henry VIII., which is now among Lord Forester's family archives, he has the right of wearing his hat in the presence of the queen. Lord Forester is the only English no bleman who enjoys this privilege, which was conferred upon his ances tors as commoners. The Forester peerage was created at a compara tively recent time—July, 1821. Lord Kingsale, tlie premier baron of Ireland, also enjoys the hereditary privilege of wearing his hat in the royal presence—a favor granted to hia ancestor, John de Courcy, by Kin? John. SPRING IN WINTER. I; Sorely,surely beos are humming in the mazy tangles sweet; Spring.with April smiles is coming: There are lilies at her feet! Mocking birds in beach-blooms singing thrill with joy the dreamy air, And the green is on the meadow, and the wild flowers cluster there ! < AN INLAND IRON-GLAD. > i > 4 BY C. A. STEPHENS. Bl W Af V V V Hl* Rufus Rundlett is another instance to prove that "the boy is father to the mail." When 1(1 years of age he helped to invent an armor-clad coasting sled, "the Runtum-Scooter," and he alone steered it down Wilkins hill to victory over the "Number Seven" boys; and now he is commander of an armor-clad ship, quite as capable, I doubt not,of routing an enemy. The sclioolhouse in ."Number Six," where we underwent a mild form of education together, stood at the forks of the couuty road, with the cross town road, which led down Wilkins hill, ou one side and Mill hill on the other. The county road extended north and south, along the crest of a line, broad ridge of land divided into ten fertile farms, owned by as many well-to-do farmers whose families made up our school district. We young people of Number Six had always been a little inclined to look down on the boys and girls of Number Seven 1 at the Corners, near the foot of Wilkins hill, for the deni zens of Number Seven were a some what poor and shiftless lot. The larger boys were pugnacious and ill disposed, and unless a schoolmaster were strong enough to thrash four or five of them, he must suffer the hu miliation of being carried out of the sclioolhouse. At Number Six,on the contrary, the pupils were well-advanced, self-re specting and orderly. An able teacher was required, but less to govern than to instruct. Still, I now think that the contempt in which we hold the Number Seven boys was rather Phar isaical, aud Ido not wouder they re sented it. We nicknamed them "bog trotters,'' and they retorted by calling us "hill dogs." The two districts also belonged to two rival political parties, a fact which sharpened the animosity between them. Wilkins hill was the best coasting place in the county. It consisted of five steep pitches, with intervals of less abrupt descent between them, which made altogether a run of more than a mile, to the foot of the hill be yond the bridge over Longmeadow brook. It had always been, and is to this day, the favorite coast of the Number Six boys. Indeed, we boasted that few, save Number Six boys,dared steer a sled down that hill. When the road was smooth and icy terrific speed was attained on the low est pitch, and any error in steering might easily cost the coaster his life. Boys from other places wore usually afraid to try the hill, but if a Number Six boy had not made the "run" at 13 or IT years of age we deemed him a backward lad. Tho coasting sleds most in favor with us were small and narrow. They were shod with half-round steel shoes, which were slightly bowed to make a "spring" space of an inch at the mid dle of the runner. Our favorite pos ture for coasting on this hill was face downward, with toes extended behind to aid in steering. Usually iu start ing at the top of the hill wo ran for ward, one • after another, flung our selves dowu on our sleds aud thus set off at speed. On moonlit evenings, when there were girls iu the party, traius were often made up of ten or twelve sleds —some of them large hand-sleds, ou which four or five could sit at ease. The forward or leading sled was called the "engine" and was steered by one of the oldest, strongest boys. Such a train,humming down that long hill by moonlight, gaining speed at every pitch till it shot past the Coru-ers at Num ber Seven, going 60 miles an hour,af forded an exhilarating spectacle. There was au almost uninterrupted view from top to bottom of the long descent; and besides the steerer oil the engine there was a "liornman," whose business it was to blow a tin horn if we saw a team or pedestrian coming up. All the others, too, joined iu a tremendous shout of "Road! road! road!" The hill was so long that not more than three or four coasts could be made in an evening and generally not more than one during the noon inter mission, when school was in session. A hired man from one of the farms, with a span of horses and a long pung sleigh, saved us the drudgery of pull ing our sleds up the hill. Laws relative to coasting were not then very strict in Maine,and wo sup posed we had a right to coast down the road at 60 miles an hour. Nobody had over made any objection. The only drawback to the sport was that we had to run past the schoolhouse in Number Seven, and the bog-trotters were accustomed to rush out and pelt us with snowballs. The place was locally known as Wilkins Corners. There had been good coasting for three or four weeks before Rufus Rundlett devised the Rautum-Bcooter; the entire hill was smooth as glass. Nearly every morning, noon and night some of us Number Six boys were coasting, and often there were parties of 20 or 30. The loafers and bog-trotters had jeered at us as we Hew past and snow balled us as iu former years, but be fore long the Number Seven boys actually undertook to stop all Number Six coasters. They rolled great snow balls into the road in front of the Thore's n sense of summer sweetness in the broad fields and the dells And a chimo—or is it fancy V— of remem bered heather-bolls ! And the mildest suns uro shining, and the skies uro bright with blue. And in gardens Love is twining all his rarest wreaths for you ! —Frank L. Stanton. sclioolhouse and built a high fort clear f across the road. Four of our boys ! who started to coast down were ob liged to take to the ditch. The bog trotters then rushed from their fort nnd by pelting them with snowballs forced them to run back up the hill. 1 They shouted that no hill dog should pass that school house. But as their fort stopped teams as well as coasters, oue of the selectmen of the town ordered them to remove it at once, and during the following evening a train of ten sleds from Num ber Six coasted defiantly by. But the next noon they played a new and worse trick on us. Eight of ten of us set off to go down singly.one sled a few yards behind another,when, as we drew near Number Seven school house, Kufus Buudlett, who was ahead, noticed that Matthias Mousen, one of the larger boys at the Corners, was standing on one side of the road and his brother Lew on the other. "Look out for snowballs!" Rufus shouted back to us. Neither he nor any of the rest of us saw that a new rope lay across the road on the snow ; till the Monsen boys raised it and caught us. Rufus' sled was capsized, and all the rest of us were piled up in a heap. Borne of us were scraped oft' our sleds, some had their sleds upset; for the Number Seven crowd had three or four boys at each end of the rope, and as fast as a sled came along it was caught by the rope and jerked over. Meantime a dozen other Num ber Seven boys were raining snow balls upon ÜB. We had to pick our selves up, recover our sleds aud get away as best we could. "Try it agaiu!" they shouted after us. "If you think you oza run by Number Seven try it again!" For a day or two we had little dis position to try it again; they were too big and too many for us to thrash, as we would, perhaps have been justified in doing, and wo did Dot dare to try the coast; but we chafed under the re straint aud beat our brains for a de vice to break it effectually. "Dol" Edmunds, who, after Rufus, was probably the most energetic of our boys, proposed to run a l)ig mar ket pung sleigh down, Inking one of the thills under each arm as he lay face downward on his narrow coasting sled between them. This feat had sometimes been performed on the hill by the older boys. Dol's idea was that the pung, loaded with ten or a dozen boys, would break the rope or jerk it away from those who tried to hold it. It was evident, however, that if the rope were so held as to upset his sled the pung thills would drop aud the pung come to grief, to say nothing of the danger to Dol himself" from being run over by it. It was then that Rufus Rundlett proposed to take the thills off the puug and steer it down himself, by lying directly beneath it on his own low sled nnd grasping one pung run ner at the forward upward turn in each hand and planting a foot against oue of the iron braces of the runners on each side. He declared he could steer the pung in that way and be completely covered by it. The most of us were afraid, how ever, that the bog-trotters would scrape us off' of the pung with their rope. At this stage of the argument Rufus proposed making the pung into a wooden armor-clad. Dol and lie worked nearly all the following uight. They took off the low pitng-box and replaced it with one far larger and stronger, made of joist and pine boards. It covered the pung runners entirely, being over eight feet long by four feet wide, and the sides rose to a height of over three feet, quite sufficient to shield all who sat within them. The box was made fast to the runners and had a kind of prow in front, projecting three or four feet in a wedge-shaped triangle. When they hauled it to the school house next day everyone who saw it,in cluding our woman teacher, agreed it was the most singular "coaster" ever seen in those parts. Rufus, when lying under it on his littlo sled to steer,was almost completely hidden from view; 1 and a short trial trip down tlie first pitch of the hill showed it to be nec essary that he should he strapped to the little sled. Rufus was teady to start at once, but the courage of many of the boys was not quite equal to taking passage in so novel a contrivance. Indeed, some little bravery was required, for if Rufus failed to steer it broken necks might be the result. Then, too, uo one knew how strong the bog-trotters' rope would prove to be or what would happen when wo ran foul of it. But next day, after we had eaten our noon lunch,Rufus having sent his father's hired man, with a spau of horses,down thehill in advance,placed himself under the puug in position j for steering. "Come on, boys!" he called, "who's ' afraid?" Dol Edmunds was the first to climb in, and nine of us followed him. "Shove off!" exclaimed Rufus, and in a moment more we were gliding down the first pitch. Altogether the puug, the heavy box and its load of boys must have weighed a ton. It rapidly gathered speed. Down the second pitch it swept, nuwiuca across the level stretch ami took the third pitch, faster and faster. It was amazing that Rufus steerod so well, but he seemed to know how at once. My own sensations swung between terror and a wild elation. Down the long fourth pitch we shot, gaining tremendous headway. The pung was now going so fast that the jar and jolting motion had entirely ceased. It seemed as if the road hall been oiled. The keen rush of cold air cut our faces,and brought to my eyes, I remember, was a kuze of tears, through which I saw dimly a wild pro cession of hurrying trees and roadside fences. The Number Seven bovs had seen us coming. As we headed down the fifth and last pitch we heard them shouting, and seven or eight of them ran across the road. "They're stretching their rope!" Dol exclaimed. Jumping to his feet, he pulled off his red woolen muffler and waved it defiantly, while we all yelled like wild Indians. The bog trotters yelled back defiance and raised their rope. In their ignorance they probably thought that,with five or six boys at each eud of the rope, they would be able to upset us. But the next moment they received an impressive object-lesson. The mo mentum of the heavy pung was some thing prodigious! We scarcely felt the rope when we struck it, and the next instant a dozen Number Seven boys were taking most extravagant leaps as they were jerked iuto the road behind us! All of them had been gripping the rope hard, and some of them were carried 50 feet before they could let go! They wero about the most astouished-lookiug boys that I ever saw! As for the pung, it did not stop till it reached the foot of the'hill beybud the bridge over Longmeadow brook, where we found the mau and horses waiting to haul it back up to Number Six. The bog-trotter boys had not wholly recovered from their discomfiture when we went by; their school bell was ringing, and when Rufus politely asked them what they thought of our blockade-runner they had little to say, "Ho!" Lem said,feebly. "What do we care for your old rantum-scooter!" And the name stuck to Rufus' armor clad. We soon came to call it the Rantuui-Scooter ourselves. The Number Seven boys knew bet ter than to attempt to hold a rope in front of the blockade-runner again; but they still imagined that the rope would stop us, if*only the ends could be made fast. Next day at noon, when we coasted down, we found that they had drawn it tight across the road and tied one end to a tree near the school house and the other to a horse-post in front of the grocery opposite. The rope snapped like twine when we struck it. A day or two later, as we coasted down, we found that they had collected eight or ten ox chains, but- they did not dare to use them; perhaps because they feared to kill some of us, or pos sibly because the selectmen had threat ened to have them punished if they seriously molested us more. After this they 110 longer tried to stop us, but. they pelted us hard with frozen snowballs. For ordinary snow balls we cared little, sines we could draw our heads down into the box as we passed; but soon 'Thias, Lem and some of the others began hurling heavy lumps of ice into the pung. To set such missiles at defiance, Rufus and Dol rebuilt the box of the pung,making the sides higher,putting a top on it and covering it with sheet iron. During the following week we made the coast not less than 20 times with this curious contrivance. Lumps of ice and even stones were launched at it; but no violence which the dis gruntled bog-trotters could inflict pre vented our running their blockade as long as the good coasting weather lasted. —Youth's Companion. QUAINT AND CURIOUS- The Ceylon yellow silk spider has a body that weighs nine ounces. There are 40,000 native pupils iu the Sunday schools of the Fiji Islands. A West African kiug is the owner of an umbrella which measures six yards in diameter and affords shade for a table with thirty diners. An English guide-book makes the curious assertion that a large propor tion of those who have made the us eent of Mont Blanc have been persons of unsound mind. A subterranean city exists in Gali cia, Austrian Poland, which contains a population of over 1000 men, women and children, many of whom have never seen the light of day. The ancient Chinese and Japanese frequently used to draw pictures with their thumbnails. The nails were allowed to grow to a length of 18 inches, and were pared to a point and dipped in vermilion or sky-blue ink, the only colors used in these thumb nail sketches. Probably the most curious European oath is administered in Norway. The witness raises his thumb, his fore finger and his middle linger. These signify the Trinity while the larger of the uplifted fingers is supposed to represent the soul of the witness and I the smaller to indicate his body. Hoc Found nil Way Home. ! Jeremiah Murphy, a well-known miner, living in Calumet, Mich., sold his big St. Bernard dog named Bar ney to a Klondike party eighteen months ago. The dog was taken to Dawson City and performed good ser vice there. The other night Barney reappeared at Mrrphy's home in Cal umet. How 110 succeeded in return ing from Alaska is a mystery. ENGLISH VEGETARIANS. E ATI NC-HO USES IN LONDON WHERE NO ANIMAL FOOD IS SERVED. Well-Cooked Food and Plenty of It For Thirty Cent* a Day-VecetHriaMM Work- Ing Vicoroiiftly Among; London's Poor Bright Men Who Believe In the Fad. I have visited nearly all the one dozen vegetarian restaurants that flourish in London, writes an Ameri can correspondent from the British capital, and have made the interest ing discovery thai by living at these places a man cau grt well-cooked food, and plenty of it, for about thirty cents a day. Though owned by different people, these restaurants are run on one gen eral plan and are earning handsome incomes. There are three floors. On the flrst is the main dining room, or coffee room, as it is called, where meals aro served a la carte at all hours of the day; on the second floor is the smoking and reading room, where patrons cau have access to all the morning papers and can play chess if they wish, and on the third floor is the twelve-cent table d'hote dinner, which is served every day from 12 to 3 o'clock. At the lunch hour the cofl'ee room on the flrst floor of the restaurant in Queen street, which is down in the "city," is filled with a tidy and well dressed crowd of men and women, though in proportion to the men the women are abont as one to ten. On this floor one often seeß silk hats and frock coats, though (and this always seems strange to an American) most of the men retain their hats at table, even when there are women in the room. The prices on this floor are somewhat higher than on the floors above, and the service is slightly bet ter. There is white sugar on the table instead of brown, and the spoons and forks —thore are no knives—are of German silver instead of pewter, which is used on the upper floor. Rolls are served in this room instead ■ of chunks of bread, but I conld not see that the soups and savory dishes, sweets, etc., were any better than those up-stairs. A plate of very good soup, either pea, macaroni or Scotoh broth, is served for six cents, though the wait ress assured me there was no meat stock in it; but when asked what took the place of the stock she was unable to say. For ten cents one could get a lentil cutlet, which was very appetiz ing and looked like a meat croquette. The potato stew was even better than the cutlet, and was served with butter beans for ten cents. There were var ious other "savory dishes," which is the vegetarian's name for what meat eaters would call an entree, at from four to ten cents each. Plain vege tables were four cents and ten cents a plate, though the savory dishes Jwere so very filling that plain vegetables to accompany them were not so much in demand. The sweets were, of course, like those served in ordinary restaur ants. To see the twelve-cent table d'hote dinner in full swing one shonld go to the restaurant in Ponltnev, which is at the beginning of between I and 2 o'clook on any day except Sat urday. Iu the large bare-looking room on the top floor are about a dozen long, narrow tables. At these tables sit perhaps 100 men, and it is doubtful that if iu any other dining room in the city of London can be found more di verse types of humanity eating to gether. The majority, of course, are rather seedy, but here and Jkhere one sees a well-dressed prosperous-looking man, and flne intelleotnal faces are not uncommon. The man with frayed cuffs and dirty flnger-nailß and vest minus a button or two sits besides the dapper-looking law clerk, and neither pays any attention to the other. The chances are that they have both come here for the same purpose—economy; for a plentiful and well-cooked dinner for twelve cents is a consideration to many who would be quite indifferent to the ethical side of vegetarianism. The cashier assured me, however,that many of the customers were strict veg etarians, who wished to encourage the movement in every possible way. On each table is a large bowl of brown sugar and another of salt, from which the customers help themselves at discretion. A fork anffJt'wo pewter spoons are laid beside each plate, but as vegetables 'do not require to be cut, there are no knives on any of the tables. The tablecloths are, of course, brown linen and scrupulously clean, but if ono is so fastidious as to require a napkin it is necessary to hand over a cent for its use. Though I looked carefully, I saw only two men in the whole room who had evidently thought it necessary to indulge themselves in this luxury. On leaving I offered the waitress twelve cents, as she had courteously answered all my ques tions, but she declined the tip, saying they were not allowed to acoopt gratu ities under any circumstances. Between -1 and 7 o'clock tea is served on tho first floor, or, if desired, it can be had iu the smoking room on the second floor. One can get a pot of excellent tea, mndetresh, for six cents, or a single cup for four cents. There is bread and butter for t \yo cents, cake at the same price, honey for four cents, and biscuits, buns or pastry for two cents. One cau get a welsh rabbit for eight cents, but it is not a very large one, and it is made with milk. Though these are strictly temper ance places they serve what is called "lager hop ale" for four cents a small bottle and "anti-Burton ale" at the same price. These beverages contain no alcohol. These restaurants are doing much to make vegetarianism popular in Lon don. The Vegetarian Society iB be hind them, and the cashier's desk at each place is well stocked with litera ture on the subject, which can be had for the asking, and cook books for two cents, giving recipes for mauy of the simpler vegetarian dishes, which are forwarded to any one on application. Much propaganda work is done in the poorer quarters of the oity, and the poor people are taught how they can live on a vegetable diet at less than one-half the expense of a meat diet. They are shown, for instance, that meat contains sixty per cent, of impure water, which they pay for at the butcher's at so much a pound, and that one pound of peas, beans, lentils or oatmeal, at a cost of two to four cents, contains more nourish ment than a pound of beef or mutton at six times the price, because in the former case, water is added, which costs nothing, while in the latter it is purchased at about twenty cents a pound. In support of the contention that meat is not necessary even for those who do the hardest manual labor, it is asserted that the athletes of Greece and the soldiers of Borne were vegetarians, and that the chief food of the Roman gladiator was bar ley cakes and oil. ORIGINALITY IN THE PULPIT. Startling Ways of a Reporter Who Turned Minister. From a reporter to a clergyman is a wide leap which few bright luminaries of the press would care to undertake. Key. C. L. Miel is a case in point, and he is considered as great a success in the pulpit as when he graced ths staff of the Examiner years ago. The same originality which characterized him as a newspaper man distinguishes him as a priest. In his church they follow the pre vailing fad of periodically giving a concert on Sunday evening instead of a religious service. Parson Miel had noticed that although those entertain ments invariably drew a large crowd, the receipts were never in proportion to the numbers. At the end of one suoh performance he gave the congregation the benefit of this observation: "Just to discover how much you ap preciate this music," he began, ''and to ascertain aUo who give and who do not," he added, naively, "I will pass the plate myself to-night." In his priestly robes he made the entire circuit of the church with an immense alms basin. And tho sum total of that collection broke all the religious records. —San Francisco News Letter. Life in Honduras. "The small banana planter of Hon duras is the happiest creature on earth," said a local shipper, "and nothing ever moves him from his philosophic calm. The frightful hurri cane which raged along the Hon duranian coast on the Ist of the month absolutely destroyed scores of little plantations. The trees were plucked out of the earth like blades of grass, the fragile buildings were blown into kindling wood, and nothing whatever left to tell the tale. "Happening anywhere else, such a disaster would have been a tragedy of the lirst order and meant incalculable suffering; but nature is very kind bo her children on the banana c )a*t. All that is necessary to rehabilitate the ravnged plantations is to stick a few clippings in the ground and wait for them to take root and bear. The work is usually divided between the planter and his wife—she sets out the clip pings and he does the waiting. Some time during the year, if he is not too tired, he may rebuild his residence. This is done by tying a native rope around four suitable trees and laying cane stalks crossways over the top. "Other cane stalks are now and then used for sides, but they are leally un necessary, as the Hondurian concep tion of privacy is very vague, and there is never anything to steal, bo, as a matter of fact, the hurricane was much leas calamitous than it appeared to those who are unfamiliar with na tive conditions. The principal loss which it entailed was in damage to the present banana crop, and the fruit grows with uch rapidity that three mouths ought to completely repair it. Meantime the planter does quantities of resting and is happy."—New Or leans Times-Democrat. A Flailing Am uiement In Australia. The average angler at home gets a large amount of amusement sometimes out of comparatively small —and not very many—lish. In New South Wales, near Sydney, they are going for bigger game. Armed with strong lines, massive hooks and plenty of raw beef, many lish from the beach iu the evenings for sharks, which at this time of the year are to be captured in great numbers. From twelve to four teen is a fair haul for a phrty of shark lishers, the monsters being almost ex clusively tiger sharks, which come right into the surf iu pursuit of salmon. The sport is exciting, and a Sydney paper to hand by last mail reports one party having hooked and landed nine sharks, the largest of which measured eleven feet six inches. That was something like a capture.—Westmin ster Gazette. Bile. Oh, Bile! Thou precursor of nearly all the ills that flesh is heir to! Thou yellower of the white of the eye, thou disturber of the vitreous humors, thou green goggle! Thou relentless maker of rivulets in the furrows of the cheek! Thou blinder to all on earth that should * look pleasant! Thou parcher of the tongue! Thou drier of the lips! Thou shriveler of the cockles of the heart! Thou cir rhosis! Thou friend of colds, of chills, of agues!- Thou aid to indi gestion! Thou destroyer of appetite! Thou friend of insomnia and foe of sleep! Thou deadener of perceptions! Thou weakeuor of brains! Thy ruin ation of memory! Thou hater-maker of all mankind. Get out!— New York Press. i HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. The Luteat Tea Tables. The newest tea tables for the draw ing room come now with an oval glass | removable tray on the top. The tables are of mahogany with plain inlay. The lower shelf projects several inches more than tho upper shelf, which holds the tray for the cups and sau cers. On either end of tlie tray are handles, which make it easy of re moval and carriage. YorkHliirn Pudding. Put six large tablespoonfuls of flour into a bowl with one saltspoonful of salt and stir in slowly one and a half pints of milk, taking care to keep it free from lumps. Then add three well-beateu eggs and heat for five minutes. Tour the mixture into a shallow pan, rubbed with beef drip pings and bake for one hour; then place it under the rack on whicli the beef is baking, that it may catch the drippings and let it bake for another half hour. When done, cut into squares and place around the beef. A Modern Fry, Parboil chickeu fifteen minutes r sprinkle with salt and let cool. Make a batter by beatiug light the yolks of two eggs, with half a saltspoonful of salt, stirring in gradually one table spoonful of oil, adding one cupful of flour, and lastly one cupful of cold water. Set batter away un hour, and prepare the vegetables. Chop very tine one small onion, three sprigs of parsley and two tomatoes, with seeds left out. Stir into batter, and add last whipped whites of two eggs. Dip each piece of chickeu in batter and fry slowly in a spider iu butter. A nice accompaniment for plain fried chicken is supplied by hominy balls and tiny slices of crisp bacon, alter nating around tho edge of the platter. To Make Mince Meat. Half a pound eaoli of finely chopped cooked lean beef and suet, two quarts chopped apple, one cup each of stoned raisins, currants aud sliced citron, of sugar, molasses, strong coffee, one teaspoon each of cinnamon and mace, and one-half teaspoon each of allspice and nutmeg. Dissolve a glass of cur rant or other tart jelly in one pint of water, „ and mix all thoroughly to gether. Put in porcelain or agate kettle and heat slowly. Reserve what is needed for use and seal the rest in cans. When making the pies, strew raisins over the top and a little sugar. slowly one hour. Mince pies have one advantage over others; they may be baked a dozen at a time and be piled in the refrigerator, heating when wanted. But they are too rich for frequent use. l*oacli#<l KKI;* With Sauce. Use a deep frying-pan three-fourths full of boiling water, to which has been added a tnblespoonful of strong vinegar and one-half teaspoonful of salt to each quart. If you wish them nice, place small mullin rings in the pan, and carefully slide an egg into eaoh, after having broken it into a saucer, a wise jrrecaution at all times, when one has to depend on the grocer for eggs. Let the water sim mer for three minutes, when egg and ling may be lifted out together by slipping under a perforated skimmer. Drop each one on to a slice of freshly made and buttered toast, and remove the ring. For the sance, melt a tablespoonful of butter aud flour till well blended; i pour on half a pint of hot milk, a lit i tie at a time, stirring constantly. Add a spoonful of finely chopped parsley (dried will answer), a little salt and a dash of celery salt. Boil up once and pour over the toast which has been laid on a platter. Garnish the edge with parsley leaves. Try tliin; you will be surejo like it. Uou.eliol.t Hint.. l'ie crust will not be soggy if it is brushed over with the white of an egg before the fruit is put in. If a shirt bosom or any other arti cle has been scorched in ironing, lay it where the bright sunshine will fall directly upon it. Clean decanters and other glass bot tles with small pebbles instead of shot, whiofi leaves behind it a portion of oxide of lead. Half a cup of vinegar in the water will rnako an old fowl cook nearly as quick as a young one, and does "not injure the flavor in the least. When you take thread from a spool hold the end of the spool whero the thread was fasteued in your hand and you can draw tho thread with no dan ger of its catching or of the spool be ing jerked out of your hand. A window raised very little at top and bottom is better than a wide space. A transom opening upon a ventilated room is excellent for deli cate people who cannot bear a direct current of air through the room. Cocoa is frequently used in place ot chocolato for icing cake. Add to the white of an egg a tablespoonful of cold water, two teaspoonfuls of cocoa and as much confectioners' sugar as is needed to make it of the consistency required to spread well. If an especially light dressing is re quired for a fowl, allow to every two cups of tho stuffing one teaspoonfni of bakingpowder and one level table, spoon of flour mixed all through tha dressing. In seasoning, allow a half teaspoonful each of thyme, marjoram and summer savory. Sawdust or tho cork used for pack {ng are excellent polishers for glass, which may be left to dry, without rubbing, iu a bowl filled with either. Brass and copper may be cleaned with polishing paste—never with sil ver powder. The old-time mixture of rotten stone and turpentine is also good. Of British birds the cuckoo lays the smallest egg in proportion to its size.
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