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WltttAdolpne d'Bnuery passes away
the last of the great French inelo
dramatists who were coeval with the
elder Dumas. It is not too much to
say that he did more to make the
drama of emotion by situation and
machinery widespread thau any other
playwright. He was content if his
ventures paid largely, and let art take
care of itself. His "Two Orphans"
showed him at his best. His heroes
and heroines were apt to be very much
of a kind, but oh! what villains he
constructed! He lived eighty-eight
years, and died worth S'i.ooo,ooo.
Virtue in his plays was never more
conspicuously rewarded.
In connection with the discussion
regarding the competition in trade be
tween Great Britain and the United |
States, the English and American
Gazette says: "There is hardly a
branch of trade in which America does
not now compete with Great Britain.
Sho has developed her native talent,
which now finds abundant outlets at {
home and abroad. In every single '
manufactured article that the States j
produce England could, if she liked, j
compete. That she does not is solely j
and wholly owing to her not attempt- '
ing to do so. Her sons, badly edu- [
cated, are fonder of play than of work; :
her technical schools are in their in- !
fancy, whereas in the States and in j
Germany they are flourishing and of ■
long standing, and properly State, j
subsidized. Until England adapts :
herself to the times, until trade strikes
cease, or until other nations are in- j
volved in war, so long will British
goods be replaced in other markets by 1
more of her competitors."
The news from Philadelphia of the I
discovery of tubing in the walls and
floor of Iveely's work-shop is, on the |
whole, rather mortifying. The Bhila- j
adelphia Press vouches for the story. !
It avers that the ICeely work-shop has
been ripped up; that under the floor I
was a steel reservoir capable of hold
ing compressed air at a high pres- i
sure, and that the tubing found was
small but very strong, and also eapa- :
Lie of standing a severe strain. The 1
sad inference is that Keely was a poor '
old fraud, and used compressed air to
produce the remarkable mechanical
effects with which he regaled his visi
tors. The investigators seem to have
been somewhat zealous to prove that !
he was a deceiver, and it may be that i
the believers in Keely, if there are }
any left, will doubt their findings; but I
the story as it is told seems fairly con
clusive, and the hidden tubes, if they
can bo shown in position as found, !
will require a deal of explanation, ob
serves Harper's Weekly,
It may be that a new fashion in
matrimony has been created in the
mountain fastnesses of Virginia. Not
long ago a comely young woman of
that region was wooed by two suitors,
one of whom she preferred. An
engagement and a marriage ceremony
followed in due time, despite the
adage about the course of true love
not running smoothly. As an act of
grace an invitation was extended to
the rejected swain to attend the mar
riage proceedings. He displayed his
fortitude by accepting, and, accom
panied by a number of friends, he at
tended. On one sleeve he wore a
broad band of crepe, symbolic of his
dead hopes, and throughout the cere
mony he and his friends expressed
their dolorous sentiments by a con
tinuous, subdued moaning. This dis
play of appreciation for the bride's at
tractiveness evidently aroused none
but the pleasantost sentiments in the
breast of the happy man whose name
she was taking, for there is no record
of a disturbance, and it is to be
nssumed that noue occurred. It would
be interesting to see this custom
transplanted to other spheres of so -
ciety. The suggestion affords many
possibilities of variation, tending to
add materially to the interest in these
usually gladsome occasions.
Olga Nethersole, in a recent lecture
before the University of Chicago's
Graduate Club, said uf Rudyard Kip
ling that lie was "as fan MacLaren had
declared, the poet laureate uf the whole
world."
SONG OP THE LOCOMOTIVE.
Blackness out of the blackness,
Fronted with llsht.
With a domoniah gronu and a vomit of
1111 mo
It toaroth through the night.
Splitting the vnlo with a mighty shriek,
Flying oVr glints of stool,
With n whirl by the edge of a precipice
Or a lungo where tho marshes rook,
Aud tho ooao is under tho wheel.
nigh in the air like n wounded bird,
Spanning the trestle's thread,
Ere it plunged through the mountain of
rook with a rout-
To glide by the river bod.
Ever and on like a haunted thing,
Trombling and crazed with fear,
With A fire at its heart that is outing deep
And the speed of a dragon's wing,
As it crosses the plain und inure.
Blnok out of tho blackness,
Monster of steam and steol,
Yet a thing that Is living aud human as
man,
A soul in tho shaft and wheel.
Servant of man that abides his will,
Child of his brawn and brain,
It has made of tho earth but a littlo place,
It has levelled tho granite hiil.
Till tho ends of tho earth are plain.
—Chicago Evening Tost.
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| LEE TOI,THE OUTCAST!
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BOOOOOOCCOOOOOSOOCOOOOOSOS
rABULOUSas it may !
seem, somo of the
leading citizens of ,
McCook, Arizona, j .
liaving made all j 1
11 10 money they | .
® could possibly use i
I'/1 la ' u remaining
i Jy I J| yoars of their
lives, decided to re
n ill bJ-Z\ form.
\ >4| In fact, we got
vi-l to be such a good
Tjwjf town that the worn
■®w?j en began to move iu.
No sooner had they moved in than '
fancy linen made its appearance.
The very next step in tho triumph- .
ant march of civilization was Leo Toy.
Lee Toy came originally from China. !
For a living he washed shirts and .
other things.
There was not a sigu of a cloud on t '
the horizon of reform when Lee Toy
oinaeto town. We hadn't had a shoot
in T or a robbery or oven a domestic
quar el in mouths So Lee, who was
for pe i ie, first, last aud always, wel
comed himself effusively when he
move i iu and settled down to enjoy
life
.uee built himself a wonderful little
hut on the very outskirts of the town,
"t consisted of one room, divided by a j
,ed cloth curtain. In front Loe had I
<iis office aud did his washing. Be- i
hind the curtain he kept his bed of I
pinon branches aud the comforts of !
his life, his pipes aud his cooking
utensils.
Lee hung up his shingle and went ;
to work. He washed well aud would I
stand any amount of credit, aud so he j
had a good business and thrived.
He was a little bit of a runt of a :
man, bent in the shoulders; decrepit;
and weak, with a skin like so much [
parchment and no more fight in him I
than iu a dead broncho. So that all j
1 the men had to do when they wanted ■
to have some fun without paying for j
|it was to go up to Lee's shanty. Then j
while they pulled his queue and kicked |
j and cuffed him Lee simply smiled |
' and looked happy and turned !
! the other cheek. The same aforesaid I
merrymakers never bore any grudge
1 against Leo for his uncomplaining
j good nature and had no false pride
i about thorn when they wanted a clean
[ shirt on credit. Lee gave them their
j fun and their shirts and never com
j plained.
Except to one.
j In the town lived Joe Johnson's
wddow. Joe lost his life up iu the
Superstition Mountains, and his
! widow took up his claim where he left
it* off. She had one child, Littte
Bess. There wasn't much about Bess
except a lot of skirts aud fluffy hair
and freckles. She wasn't a pretty
child, but she was all that Joe John
son's widow had and all that Lee Toy,
tho laundryman, had in this world to
love.
And to her Lee complained. When
her mother was away in the even
ings Leo used to watch the little
girl for her and then he used to
pour out his heart full of sorrows.
Bess didn't understand much of what
he said, for Leo didn't want her to
think he was too unhappy, and so he
always jabbered tho worst of his sor
rows in Chinese. Bess couldn't un
derstand the wolds, but Bess had a
little heart iu her breast, and that
heart used to get tight and hurt when
Lee jabbered in Chinese, until she
couldn't help letting out a tear or two.
Then she would pat Lee's ugly face
with her little hands and tell him she
wouldn't love the men who made him
unhappy.
That settled it with Lee. He didn't
care what happened after that. Bess
wouldn't love them! That was enough
for him. So ho bore their taunts and
their kicks with a smilo on his face,
and let them go on with their misera
ble lives, because Bess didn't love
them.
But Leo thought he had more phil
osophy than ho really had, and one
day the crowd found it out. Tho
blows and the taunts hnrt a little hit
too much and Lee came to his senses
to fliiA that he had thrown an iron at
one of bis tormentors and very nearly
killed bim.
That settled Lee'a acoount with the
town'of McCook.
The Vigilance committee eat as a
grand jury and beard the prejudiced
witnesses. Loo waa doomed. At
first there was lynching in the air and
it didn't improve the atmosphere very
much eithor. Then some of the more
merciful thought out a better scheme.
The result of it was that Lee was or
dered to get ready to leave town.
They offered him the four corners of
tho compass. Lee choose to leave
town byway of the Superstition Moun
tains. Away down inhis heart he had
a vague idea that out in tho moun
tains he might find refuge with some
of the miners. tip on top of all his
other thoughts was the one that per
haps he might catch a sight of Bess
as ho marched past her mother's
cabin.
Tho procession, formed and the or
der to march was given. Followed
by a hooting mob, Leo began his pil
grimage. Then the mad indignity ol
it all forced its way into his untutored
soul, and when he reached Bess's
home he hung down his head and
scurried by, ashamed to look her in
the face, afraid that her eyes, too,
might condemn him.
Without much thought of anything
except to get away as far as possible
from JlcCook, Lee stumbled along
over the rocky hills. Fiunlly worn
out aud weary he threw himself down,
not caring much whether he lived 01
died.
Then clown in a little valley ho saw
a light. Ho know it carao from a
miner's hut, and with one iast idea ol
food and lodging he made for the
light.
He hnd almost reached it when he
heard a fearful shriek, nud then the
door of the cabin burst open and out
of it poured half a dozen fiends 'in
carnate.
A moment later the cabin burst into
flames.
Leo knew at oneo what had hap
pened.
Cowering behind a great rock h
watched the Apache 3 as they danced
about the burning cabin, waving in
tho air what ho guessed to be the
gory scalps of their victims.
Thou from their actions Lee saw
that tho Indians intomlcd to descend
upon tho sleeping town from which a
few hours before he hnd fled.
A fierce glow thrilled his heart, all
his wrongs and hatreds came back to
liim. Now he would bo avenged, he
thought, and in his soul he rejoiced
that his tormentors were also to be
persecuted.
Then in the midst of the glnro of
the burning cabin n little face stood
out full and clear, and Lee's heart
thumped fiercely in his throat, and he
swore that though little Bess might
have believed him guilty and justly
dealt with, he could not let her meet
such a death. For tho others ho did
not care. They hnd almost taken his
life, but Bess—she had not wronged
him.
So he hurried back to the town.
With quick nud stealthy tread he
undo his way to tho Widow Johu
uoa's cabin, fie kuocked at the door
and in a few seconds the woman
opened it for him. She cried out
vhen she saw him and dragged him
into the cabiu. Then in a few words
lie told her what ho had seen.
"We must be off," ho cried, "they
will bo here in a few minutes."
The woman awoke Bess, who, as
j soon as she saw Lee, flow to his arms.
I "I'ou have come back," cried the
I child. "I knew you would not leave
j me without saying goodbye."
i "We are going away together,"
■ whispered Lee iu liis pigeon English,
i "And so you came hack to warn us
l after the way you were treated Hero?"
j "No, no," cried Lee fiercely,
j "Only you, only! The rest must die!"
I "That is not right," Bess ex-
I claimed.
Lee looked at her with wondering
eyes.
"No, no, no," cried Leo fiercely, as
he saw the sweetness of revenge slip
ping from him.
"I love you, so what does it mat
ter?" the child said, "because they
are bad is that any reason why you
should be, too?"
The proposition had never suggest
ed itself to the outcast's philosophy.
But Bess had said it, and so, wi'ih
downcast eyes, ashamed that Bess
should have had to rebuke him, Lee
Toy surrendered.
4n hour later when the Apaches
broke in upon the town they found it i
barricaded and well defended.
Tho first attack was aimed at a
little cabin on the outskirts of the
town.
When the townspeople camo to this
cabin to thank tho Widow Johnson
for giving tho alarm, they found her
and little Bess iu tears. On the bed
lay the figure of a man. In tho mid
dle of his forehead was au ugly red
blotch.
"It's Lee Toy!" they cried.
And then the woman told the truth,
how in tho first attack the outcast had
thrown his body iu Irout of little Bess,
and had died.
And now in tho town of McCook,
Arizona, (known to the world by an
other name), stauds a Christian
church dedicated to the memory of
the heathen Lee Toy.—ThoCriterion.
Women HH Harbors.
Women harbors are not a product
of the nineteenth century. In Gay's
"Journey to Exeter,"-published iu
i England in 1715, he relates that after
1 parsing Moreombo Lake travelers
reach Axminister, rvhero they rest for
! the night. The next morning tho
poet tells how they were shaved by a
"lady barber."
Earnings of tho llnllroads.
Fourteen of the sixteen leading
railroads in this country phow in
creased net earnings for 1898 over
I those of 1897.
S NEWS AND NOTES I
1 FOR WOMEN. |
*3fsiQtOKN©ie^©KsK3i©ieie;<Ne:QK
Acccpnories In the Tailor Costumes.
White cloth vests, revers and other
accessories impart an appearance of
daintiness aud distinction to the tailor
costumes they decorate. The gowns
so finished this spring are especially
attractive. All tho short natty coats
are very closely fitted in the back, and
on many of the imported costumes
the white cloth vest is double-breasted
and fastened with handsome gold but
tons, and tho white revers are edged
with a graduated design in narrow gold
braid.
Popular Newmarkets For Shopping.
Long, close-fitting Newmarkets,
that cover the wearer from neck to
feet, are very popular for useful wear
during the spring for shopping aud
traveling. They are double-breasted
with revers collar, and are cut without
crossing seams on the hips. Very
light tan kersey is used for these
wraps, with stitched edges for their
finish aud white pearl-button fasten
ings. Other long shapes of checked
cheviots have hoods or short English
capes to complete them, and thero are
fawn-colored models with a pointed
yoke of the cloth and a stitched belt at i
the back ouly.
A lleeoining Houao Dress.
A French house dress made of soft
Henrietta cloth of magenta shade
could be worn becomingly by a woman
of almost any type. The blouse vest
and petticoat are of beige vicuna,
tucked and briar-stitched in lattice
effects on the blouso front, and simply
briar-stitched at the hem of the petti
coat. The oddly shaped cape-collar
and revers are elaborately trimmed
with beige lace; loops of red satin rib
bon showing hero and there among
the filmy meshes. The elbow sleeves
are finished with a similar trimming
of wider lace and ribbons. Around
the neck is a pretty collar of black
chenille embroidery and at the waist
a chenille belt.
Silk Gowns For Summer.
No summer wardrobe will be com
plete without ouo or two silk gowns,
anil this is a very good time to buy
last year's patterus for one-half what
they were sold for last year or will bo
sold for later. The newest patterns
aud designs are very expensive as yet,
and will not como down in price until
midsummer. These silks are to be
fouud in glace foulards, surahs, aud
of course iu taffetas; but these last
come under the same head as the
glace silks. It is to be the fashion
for every woman who prides herself on
possessing a thorough wardrobe to
havo at least ouo black silk in her
outfit this year. These black silk
gowns are made up with some con
trasting color iu tho vest or introduced
in the trimmicj. There are also the
figured taffetas, rather heavier than
the usual taffeta, somewhat between a
gros grain and a taffeta. This wears
well, and iu some shops can bo bought
as low as eighty-five cents a yard,—
Harper's Bazar.
A Woman'* 111-form In lUlnol*.
Illinois club women linve under
taken a crusade against the use ot
woman's face or figure for advertising
purposes. It is proposed that no
woman's face, in other words, shall
be auv man's fortune. This unique
reform of the scandalized fair sex
bobbed up serenely at a recent moot
ing of the Fom-teenth Congressional
District Federation of Women's
Clubs, held at Lewistown. Tho pcti
tiou-loving club women who wore
present compared advertising pic
tures and promptly decided they were
enough to drive the youth of America
to corruption. Thereupon they drew
up a stringent set of resolutions, which
have since been printed for the pur
pose of distribution among the wom
en's clubs of the .State. After these
"face and figure" resolutions are suf
ficiently supported by feminine sig
natures they will be turned over to
their dear masculine friends—the
lawmakers in the State Legislature—
with an earnest little prayer that
there be issued a stern manifesto
against the use of woman's likeness for
commercial purposes. Chicago
Times-Herald.
An Klaborute Cloth Skirt.
Cloth skirts for spring costumes are,
many of them, most elaborate. There
is one design in blue serge that is par
ticularly effective and, of course, par
ticularly expensive, as well. The
skirt is cut with a gored effect and is
very flaring around the foot, Down the
front breadth at either side go three or
four lines of black braid. These lines
of braid turn and go around the skirt
about a quarter of a yard from the foot,
and above the three lines of braid is a
mass of braiding in narrow black sou
tache and narrow black satin folds,
making the entire sides of the skirt
covered with braid in an elaborate do
sign. This skirt is one of the French
models; has not yet become common;
is very handsome, but has the disad
vantage that it cuts tho figure and
mnkes a short person look shorter.
For ordinary everyday wear and a
useful investment the bell skirt is still
tho favorite, but it can be trimmed
with lines of braid that sturt from the
hem at the back of the skirt, extend
ing up only a little distance; in front
go tho whole way ns far as the belt,
but put on to meet in a point. They
must not go straight up and down, for
that would give too square a look to
tho figure; instead they must be put
on in such away that thoy give the ef
fect of gores, or, rather, follow the
lines of the gores.
A Husband's Taite.
Mary P., Baldwin relates this Bug
gestive little incident in the Woman's
Home Companion: " 'Oh, my dear,
where did you get that monstrosity?'
whispered a man to the little woman
by Lis side as he clung to a strap,
and she to him, AS they rode home
together in a street-car.
"The effect certainly was ridiculous
—tho wee face with its timid expres
sion under one of the largest of the
new styles of hats with its ilaunty
leathers and obtrusive trimmings.
The tears started to tho eyes of the
overtopped little creature; then she
recovered herself, and insisted that it
was just the thing—the very latest of
the fashions. It is not beneath the
thought of tho most intellectual wom
au, nor does it compromise personal
independence and taste to consult
the preference of a husband in the
choice of modes and articles of dress.
"There are husbands so constituted,
no doubt, that it is gratifying to their
pride and sense of authority to re
ceive perfect dependence from tho
wife; but the reliance of an ellicient
woman who is able to think and act
for herself is thoroughly appreciated
by a broad-minded, generous-souled
liusbaud. If his wife has a reliued
true taste lie feels honored when she
lays before him her plans for the
house-furnishing, or the gowning of
herself, and after the purchase, as he
regards effects, he takes pride in the
thought of having hud a voice in the
choosing."
Massiise a l'euuty Upntorpp,
Tho marriage of Adeliua Patti will
make the massage business more
popular than ever, for she tlrst be
came acquainted with her new hus
band by employing him in that line.
It has become very extensive in Wash
ington and all the cities of the East,
and in the West also, and is now re
garded by rich and self-indulgent
people as one of the necessaries of
life. Tho fashionable physicians in
Chicago prescribe it as a cure for the
grip, which leaves tho patient weak
and enervated. Nothing seems to
take the spirit out of a man so much,
and there is no inclination for the ex
ercise that is absolutely necessay for
the recovery of strength.
A new feature of the massage treat
ment, as practiced in Chicago, is to
restore youth and beauty in women
who are showing signs of age. A
good-looking women dreads nothing
so much as wriuklcs, and a massuer
thero guarantees to remove ihein by
an application of hot water and the
pressure of her lingers upon the flesh.
The operation requires a good deal of
patience and sacrifice, however, be
cause while under treatment tho
patient's face is swathed in bandages
of hot water for several days aud she
can eat nothing but liquid food taken
through a tube. There have been at
least three successful operations of
this kind. One lady in Washington,
who a year ago showed unmistakable
signs of age, blossomed out last fall
in tho fullness and bloom of youth,
or, as she said, sixteen years younger
than when she left tho city in the
j spiing,—Chicago Record.
Gossip.
Miss Kitty Reed, tlie Speaker''
handsome daughter, receives 51000
annually for her services as stenog
rapher to the Speaker.
Miss Frances E. Mason is President
of the National Rank in Limerick,
Me. It was founded by her father, J.
M. Mason, aud its interests have been
ably promoted under her leadership
Miss Florence Caldwell, of Cleve
land, Ohio, is said to bo the only
woman civil engineer in Amerioa. Sho
is the daughter of Judge Caldwell, 0110
of the most jn-omiaont jurists in
Ohio.
The mother of M. Jean de Ecszke
has built him a lovely home in the
Champs Elysees of Paris, where ho
and his wife may live. Mine, do
Reszke, senior, aud her son Edouard
and his family will also take up their
abodo in tho same house.
The report of the Membership Com
mittee of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society shows that forty
women were admitted to membership
during the past year, that being the
first year that the by-laws of tho so
ciety have permitted their admission
to membership.
Gleanlnßii Froin tho Shop*.
Lisle hose in checks and large plaids.
White tulle spotted with gold
sequins.
Neck clasps in greeuenamel clover
leaf designs.
Jeweled and enameled slides for
soft ribbon belts.
Hntpins in rich mosaic designs and
unusually large heads.
Gingham dresses for girls trimmed
with laee or embroidery.
Watch chains and fobs in combina
tions of gold and gun metal.
Imported skirts showing large plaids
of green and red combined.
Cloth suits for girls in smooth-faced
materials trimmed with braid.
Silk evening hose in conspicuous
colors with silk-embroidered insteps.
Beautiful organdies in designs of
black, white and gray arranged in
stripes or scrolls.
Safety slides for the hair made ol
tortoise shell, silver or gold, plain 01
jewel studded.
Superb embroideries on a satin
ground in combinations of pearl beads,
jewels and tinsel.
Embroideries of velvet, satin or
mousseline outlined with small beads,
sequins or tinsel.
Midseason toques of lace or richly
embroidered trunsparout materials,
flowers and aigrettes.
Fine quality dotted Swisses showing
narrow stripes in delicately colored
pompadour patterns.
Misses' frocks composed entirely of
lengthwise rows of shirring, with nar
row satin ribbons between.
Keady-made pique gowns with three
bands of open embroidery on tho skirt
and guim.pe of the same material.—
Dry Goods Economist.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
A Novel tie For l'Aper.
Crinkled .Japanese paper may bo
nsed for decorative as well as useful
purposes in the bedroom, dressing
room or boudoir. It can be used to
cover the tops of tables, shelves, etc.,
hanging down over the ends, and with
its slightly ruffled edges it makes a
most artistic appearance, especially
when selected to harmonize with the
wall hangings and draperies of the
room. One person had a very pretty
boudoir and dressing room combined
fitted up in greens, blues and dull
tans, which blend so well together,
and the walls, ceilings, carpets, rugs
and cushions were all of these tints in
pearl or blended patterns. Coverings
of all shelves, tables, dresser top, etc.,
were of the same tinge of green, with
the edges pulled out ever so slightly,
and the etl'ect was most pleasing.—
New York Herald.
IMitnnlnc For Sunday Meal*.
Arranging the Sunday meals on Sat
nrday is very essential, especially
where tho housewife must do all the
work without the aid of servants. A
salad is a great stand-by for a Sunday
evening supper, and the fish, meat,
or eggs can be prepared the day be
fore", and the cress, celery, or lettuce
washed and left in cold water ready
for instant use. Meat loaf is auother
standard and palatable cold dish for
Sunday night. The chafing-dish can
be called into use for a hot Sunday
tea. Omelets, hnsh, or other simple
dishes cooked on the chafing-dish,
with buttered toast and tea, make a
desirablo Sunday-evening tea. For
breakfast there is nothing better than
codfish cakes and stewed potatoes.
The codfish balls can also be prepared
over-night, and it requires little work
to cook them up for an early breakfast.
This leaves only the dinner to prepare
for Sunday.
A delicate dessert for Sunday din
ner is made by boiling a pint of cream
with a quarter of a pound of sugar,
and a little lemon flavoring. Mix this
with a paste made of two tenspooufuls
of corn-flour, and lot them boil a few
minutes, stirring thoroughly. Pour
this over a plate or bowl of mixed
fancy cakes, macaroons, aud strips of
citron, raisins, aud dried fruits. Make
successive layers of the cream aud
cake until the dish is full.
Inventory linnlis.
An "inventory book" is the latest
rouvenieuce for tho housekeeper.
This is a printed list, with columus
for date of entry, value and
description. It is systematically
arranged and makes the list com
plete in case of fire, theft or death.
It is next to impossible to remember
all that was in a room before a fire,
and the insurance companies always
require a sworn list before settling.
This housekeeper's inventory will set
tle the matter quickly.
Articles likely to be found in any
room of the house are arranged in
alphabetical order, with tho name aud
location of the room heading the page.
Two pages aro given over to each
room, beginning, with albums, an
dirons, brackets, bric-a-brac, book
shelves, bureaus, bedsteads, etc., and
ruuuiug through to wardrobes and
window seats. Special lists are also
arranged for bric-a-brac, books, cloth
ing, jewelry, ornaments, paintings,
pictures, silverware, dishes, chiua,
glassware, kitcheu utensils, bedding
and linen, while a miscellaneous list
and recapitulation of the value of the
whole finishes the book.
Every room in the house hns its
place ill the hook—chambers, parlors,
reception hall, other halls, dining
room, library, kitchen and pantries,
laundry and cellar, attic or store
room, aud even the closets. Trunks,
boxes aud barrels have their places
and space for lists of their contents.
Nothing is left out.
llccipes. '
Marrow Toast—Buy a large shin
bone and have the butoher split it so
the marrow can be taken out. Boil
the boiie for stock and use tho meat
to make potted beef. Mix iu a hot
dish a teaspoon each chopped parsley
aud lemou juiee, hnlf teaspoon salt, a
grain of cayenne aud several drops of
lemou juice. Keep hot, but do not
cook away. Havo toast prepared aud
hot. Now prepare the marrow. Cut
in slices aud boil in one quart salted
water just ninety seconds. Mix with
the seasoning, spread on the toast
anil serve at once. All must be hot to
be good.
Broiled VieDna Steak—Have two
pouuds of rouud steak cut medium
thick. Mix together four tablespoou
fuls of salad oil anil one table-spoonful
of minced parsley aud a minced slice
each of onion aud a half teaspoonful
of yellow lemou peel. Huh both sides
of the meat with this mixture and let
stand over uight. Iu tho morning
drain, but do not wipe, and broil.
Dust a half teaspoonful of salt and a
pinch of pepper lightly over the
broiled steak, dot over with a half
teaspoonful of butter broken iuto bits,
and serve on a hot platter. The flavor
of moat treated in this way is de
licious, aud it makes tough steak jucy
and tender.
"Bath Chaps"—Bath chaps is the
fanciful name given a pig's cheek
cured and smoked, though there is
nothing to prove that the title was
gained by the dish having been
particularly associated with the City
of Bath. They are an exceedingly
favorite cold breakfast dish, and can
be procured ready for boiling from
most good stores and provision mer
chants. They should be soaked in
cold water for a couple of hours before
cooking. Put them on to boil in tepid
water, and boil quickly from one to
one and one-half hours, according U
their size. Allow them to get cold in
the liquor. Then lift them out, re
move the skin and sprinkle all over
witli'bread raspings. Garnish with
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Incubator* For Karly Chick*.
HWever resolutely a breeder may
resolve to do without incubators, he
caunot very well dispense with them
if he wauts tho very earliest hatched
chicks. Any one who has tried to pet
a hen to sit steadily early in the spring
for sufficient time to hatch out the
chicks will know that it is impossible.
The broodiest hen after two or three
days on the nest will probably leave
the eggs and go to laying agniu. Yet
it is necessary to have the clicks
hatched early, so that they begin lay
ing next fall before the cold weather
comes, in which case most of them, if
well fed and given a warm, light room,
will continue to lay through the win
ter.
Threftliing; by Hand.
In the older portious of the country,
especially among those who grow lit
tle grain, the steam thresher is much
less in demand than it used to be.
Unless there is grain enough to make
a full day's work the job will not pay.
A great deal of extra help has to he
hired, and the money thus expended
will hire the small job threshed by
hand in winter, thus giving work for
several days when there is little work
to be had, and when for the poor the
necessity of earning something is the
greatest. There are other advantages
of hand threshing. Much of the
newly threshed straw will be eaten
by stock that would not ttfucli the
same straw if it had been threshed
by machine weeks before, and had
lain ever since in the stack.
Hoc* Sleeping; Up*tnlr*.
A neighbor of mine, in building a
new hog house, made a second floor
just abovo the first, high enough to
clear aman's bead. Fromeacb apart
ment he made a runway at an angle of
about forty-five degrees, with strips
to prevent slipping. The sleeping
rooms for the hogs were on tho upper
floor. Most hogs will keep their
sleeping rooms very neat, dry and
clcau. Sometimes yotiug hogs will
get into bad habits, but yon eau soon
break them of that by closing a trap
door to keep them down a littlo longer
after eating. Old hogs are very partic
ular about keeping their sleeping
room dry and clean.
New hogs introduced into the house
do not have to be taught to go up
stairs to bed, but they will find their
way up stairs within au hour after
they enter the pen. The discoverer
of this disposition iu a hog had con
fined several of them in an old log
house where there was such a runway
leading-to the chamber above. When
be went to look for bis hogs there was
none to be seen. He searched the
surrounding country, but no trace
could be found. Going back to find
where they had got out, he heard a
noise up stairs and the mystery was
solved.—J. B. Kice, in American Agri
culturist.
The Effs; Producers.
It is not altogether the chickens
that will produce the greatest number
of eggs a year, but tho breed that will
lay the largest number of salable eggs
between October 1 and April 1. In
other words, to make the poultry pay
wo want a breed that will lay eggs in
winter. This is not always considered
when we speak of the relative laying
powers of tho varioua.breeds. Winter
laying hens aro worth nearly double
the summer layers. If we cau roar
up a breed that will lay right through
the winter, and take a rest in summer,
we would make more money thau from
any now in existence. It is a very in
teresting question whether such a
breed will not eventually be pro
duced, for by artificial meaus wo cau
ndapt tho farm animals to almost any
thing. Then why uot induce the hens
to lay exclusively in the winter? If
they once got into the habit of it, na
ture would help to persist in this
course.
Experiments in recent years Eeem
to show that the best cgg-layiug
breeds are the Leghorns, Plymouth
Hocks and Wyandottes, and both tho
Brahnias and Minorcas have "dropped
to second place. This does not mean
that they are unprofitable, but they
are not quite equal to the first three
strains for egg-laying. Moreover, the
three breeds leading the list are the
best winter layers. When kept in
good, warm quarters, exereised prop
erly, fed warm and egg-producing
'foods, they will lay more eggs per
week than any other strain of chick
ens.
The past season has also demon
strated that certain branches of these
three great egg-producing strains of
chiokens have points of excellence
superior to any other. Thus wo are
gradually getting down to the true
egg-laying chickens. The White Wy
andottes lead the rest of the family in
this respect, the Barred and White
Plymouth Hocks stand first among
the Wynndottes, aud the BrowD Leg
horns first among the latter straiu.
Thus we have the egg-laviug families
pretty well defined. Starting with
these one hns every chance to suo
ceed in raising chickens for their eggs.
These several strains or breeds
have scored an average of 200 eggs a
year eaoh. Of course the birds were
selected, and the highest of their
class, but it shows what can be ac
complished with good bre%ls aud good
feeding. It is only by placing the
standard bigh, and then by striving
to come up to it, that we enn hope to
make a living in the poultry business.
Try to lop off all the dead wood, and
make eaoh hen a seleoted bird for the
business.—James 3. Wilson, in Amer
ican Cultivator.
If two tuning forks of the same
pitch are placed facing eaoh other, tho
one sounding, the other silent, in a few
seconds the silent one will be giving
out a distinctly audible note.