Ayers 20th Century Almanac ( Not the ordinary kind) A handsome yeir-book filed with beautiful illustrations, and a complete calendar. It is sold on all news-stands for 5 cents, and it's worth five times that amount. It is a reliable chronology of the progress of the 19th century and a prophecy of what may be expected in the 20th. Here are a few of the great men who have written for it: Secretary Wilson, on Agriculture Sen. Chauncey M. Depew, on Politics Russell Sage, on Finance Thomas Edison, " Electricity Gen. Merritt, " Land Warfare Adntl. Hichbom, " Naval Warfare "Al" Smith, " Sports You will enjoy reading it now, and it will be a book of reference for you through the years to come. Sixty-four pages, printed on ivory finish paper. If your news-dealer cannot sup ply you with it, cut out this ad. and send it with three one-cent stamps and receive this elegant book free. Address J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Tb First Steps. Before encouraging children to use their feet we should look to their actual strength, not deciding how far they should be urged to walk by the actual number of months they have lived, if a young child once acquires the art of crawling, it will soon do more, and try to use Its legs. It will soon raise itself by the support of a chair or stool, will then totter up from one side of it to the other, holding It self up, and by repeated exercises of this kind, the limbs will gain the re quisite power, and the infant will gain courage to trust to that power; then to walk alone. However, in beginning to walk a child must have some assist ance. This should be given by hold ing it flrmlv under, not by the arms. Peculiarity r Snake*. A snake tamer who had trained a serpent to follow him around the house and even out of doors happened one day to take it with him to a strange place. The snake, unused to the local ity, suddenly seemed to forget all his training, and, escaping into the bushes, resisted capture with bites and every Indication of wildness. When caught It at once resumed its tame habits. The tendency to become wild immediately upon obtaining their freedom and to again become tame when caught is said to l*e a necullarity of snakes. Smallnftt PoHtofflce. California claims to have the small est poßtoflice in the United States. It Is located at Virginia, on a beautiful stretch of road between Kscondido and San Diego, and consists of an old piano packing case, in size about seven feet high, six feet long and five feet wide. In its front are the locked doors to five private boxes, in addition to the general delivery window. No money order business is transacted there, but the office has the monopoly of Vir ginia's stamp trade. The groat army of Smiths in the United States is well represented in the Peerage of England. No less than six Earls' daughtrs have acquired the sur name of Smith by marriage. Dr. Bull's ■ Tho best remedy for VsOUgn Consumption. Cures Coughs.Colds,Grippe, w Vril D Bronchitis, Hoarse- J r 11 ess. Asthma, Whooping cough, Croup. Small dosrs ; quick, sure results. l)r. BullsJ'tllscure ConUipalion, J'rtal, 20 fur^c. omen- Bo.ilc of testimonial* and 10 days' treatment Vree. Dr. H. H. GREEN'S BONB. Bos B. Atlanta. Oa. What do the Children Drink ? Don't give thom tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O ? It is delicious and nourishing and tak©9 the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distrib ute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly propared tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about as much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c. Try Grain-O! Inaiit that your grocer gives 70a ORAIN-O Accept no imitation. FIRING LINE ETIQUETTE WHY SO MANY BRITISH OFFICERS ARE KILLED IN BATTLE. Tho Regulations and Traditions Demand That American and English Command ers Shall lleiunln Erect and Kxpoeed -In Continental Annie* Officers Hide. Continental army officers recently bave been busy criticising tho British battle system which ordains that on the liriug line when the men have Bought what little shelter the confor mation of the ground affords the offi cers shall remain erect and exposed. The European military critics speak of this daring habit of the queon's officers as though tho custom were confined wholly to the British army. Many a hard-fought field on the western frontier and the battles in Cuba attest that the Amoricau officer is guided on the field by the same feeling and the same rule of conduct that prompts the Englishman to make of himseli a conspicuous target for the Boer bullet. To one unacquaint ed with the field tactios of European armies the wonder is how an officer lying prone behind a rock ou the missile-swept tiring line is able "con stantly to direct and encourage his men," as reads the "tactical injunc tion" to the officers of armies of all English-speaking people. The major ity of the officers of the United States army of middle age and younger, West Pointers and civilian appointees alike, received their early soldierly sustenanco from Emory Upton's Blue Book. There was no paragraph in the whole volume, from "the points of a soldier" to the "evolutions of a brigade," that was so thoroughly crammed into the brains of the cudets in the section-rooms at West Point as was that which in terse language said that for the eucouragement and heart ening of his men it was the duty of an officer to expose himself at all times of danger. Tho same rule is laid down in tho United States army drill regulations which have recently succeeded the old tactics of Upton. ..... The position of a captain on the fir ing line is ten paces to the rear of the center of his men, who seek what shelter they can while the captain stands erect. An officerof the United States Army was onoe court-mar tialed for cowardice because it was said he sought tho shelter of a tree while his command was skirmishing with the enemy. If the American captains and lieutenants had sought sheltcr during the preliminary skirmishes be fore Santiago the British military at tache on the field never would have liad the chance to write so sympathetically in his report of the death of the second lieutenant of dismounted cavalry who, whilo his little command was under the shelter of the rocks, stood erect watching the enemy through a field glass. His men begged Uim to lie down, but he stood there uttering words of encouragement until a Man ser bullet gave bim bis death wound. Had continental firing-liue methods been followed at ElCaney the same Brit ish officer attache never could have told the story of that hot corner of the field where amid tho flying bullets Colonel A. B. Chaffee, standing erect and calmly smoking a cigar, suggested to the non-combatant Englishman that be lie down. "A bit of advice I no ticed," afterward wrote the military attaohe,J"thatJ tho imperturbable col onel did not deign to follow himself." Down in tho mountainous and desert Apache conntry in the year 1885 Pow hatan H. Clarke, a Louisiana lad just out of West Point, rode at the head of twelve blaok troopers of the Teulh Cavalry into a narrow, rocky defile. There had been no sign of an Indian. When well into the gorge from the rocks in front, behind aud above came a shower of bullets. The enemy was invisible. With enrbines unslung, the little baud of troopers made its way back to the open. The first ser geant, shot through both thighs, drop ping from his mount just as the en trance to the defile was reached. Clarke led hiH men at a dead run for a distance of 150 yards. Then they were dismounted and thrown into a skirmish line. The trained horses lay down upon the desert sand and tho men used them as shelter, Clarke, however, standing erect in the centre of the line. The instant that the lieutenant had dismounted and given the order for deploying the men, with straining eyes, saw him ou ;foot dart forward along tho path over which they had just come. He was running like a deer straight for the gateway of the gorge. His troopers as one man started to follow him, but he wnOd them back to their shelter and kept on. Clarke's pathway toward the de file was marked out all the way with spiteful little sand puffs as the bullets from the rifles of-tlio hidden savages pattered about him. He reached the objective point uninjured. Once there he lifted the wounded black sergeant to his shoulder and staggered back across the 150 yards of open to his command. Tho way back was made through a perfect fusillade. The escape from injury was a marvel. For this deed Powhattan H. Clarke afterward wore the coveted medal of honor, and he wore it pinned on his blouse when six years afterward he met his death in the Northwest in the sight of the samo troopers whom he had led in Arizona, General Nelson A. Miies would not be wearing his medal of honor to-day if he had followed out the plan which the officer critios of the continental armies declare to be the proper one for the English officers in South Af rica. In the early part of May, 1863, the general, then colonel of the Sixty first New York Volunteers, was in command of skirmishers. A line of abattis had been built, and the New Yorkers, with their Massachusetts i commander, were behind it holding off a horde of the enemy. Things were getting warm for the federal | force. In order to encourage his men Miles kept jumping on to the abattis, thus making of himself the only hn man mark which the enemy could see. Miles ran along the abattis inspiring his men by bis voice. Ho simply was following out the instructions which every American army officer receives. Miles fell finally, so badly wounded that for a long time it was thought he could not recover. 1 • • • • • In the late '7os, during the ca.tr-' paign against the Nez Pcrces, it be-' came necessary in order to dislodge the Indians to send some troops up the shelving side of a mountain that was utterly without cover and was slippery with ice. It looked like cer tain death for all the command en gaged. Before the start was made Lieutenant Frauk D. Baldwin, a staff officer, volunteered, in order to put heart into the men, to go up the icy incline alone to show tho command that it could be done. He started, 1 and the savages opened on bim from every crag aud peak. The men did not let him get far before they were following in his footsteps, but the whole savage fire centered on Bald win. That impalpable protecting arm which seems sometiws to be thrown around heroes saved ; -n. He would bave boen given a raedm of honor had not ono already been pinned on his I blonse just outside a pocket which contained a certificate of merit for personal gallantry ou the battlefield. The examples given nre few. The rule is general and is always followed. It may be that the military critics of the continent must find some recipe for changing the Anglo-Saxon charac- ( ter before they cauliopo to change the methods of American and British offi oors on the battlefield.—Edward B. Clark, in Chicago Times-Herald. CURIOUS FACTS. The Denmark dykes have stood the storms of more than seven centuries. No poet except Shakespeare ever 1 alluded to the lamb as an article oi food. It is no unusual thing for a vessel | plying botweon Japan and London tc ; carry 1,C00,000 fans as a single item of its cargo. There is a mound on the banks ol Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio, which represents a serpent in the act of swallowing an egg. A peasant called Makaroff, wbc alleges that be is the Messiah, has! made his appearance in the Bussian province of Samara, ou the Volga. I A scientist has calculated that the eyelids of the average man open and shut no fewer than 1,000,000 times in 1 the course of a single year of his ex- : istence. The biggest redwood stump in the world is located twelve miles from San Francisco. It is 144 feet around the base and forty-five feet in diameter. A New Brunswick (N. J.) burglar, I being unable to secure any money in u ' house he broke into, accepted a small check in lieu thereof from the owner of the premises. The reading of romance is for bidden by the Koran, hence popular tales are never put in writing among Mohammedans, but are passed from one story teller to another. The athletes of Greece in ancient times, when training for physical con tests, were fod on new cheese, figs and boiled grain. Their drink was warm water, aud they wero not allowed to eat meat. A Georgia convict, working with others in a contractor's brickyard, escaped by piling bricks in a hollow square, aud thus shutting himself in until the couvicts had been locked up for the night. A philosophical statistician calcu lates that in the year 2000 there will, be 1,700,000,000 peoplo who speak English, and that the other European languages will be spoken by only 500,000,000 people, Among many of the tribes of the ' interior of Luzon it is considered saorilegious to disturb the earth, for which reason they bave not them selves dug for gold and have pre vented others from so doing. One of the masterpieces of musical docks has just been completed for the Emperor of China, in whose palace, besides pointing out the correct time, it will play Belsctions with a fully equipped automatic orchestra. Professor Schiaparelli declared in n reoent lecture that the Turin museum contained fully 10,000 papyrus frag ments that have not yet been pub lished. Tils, jf include a literary anthology, aud belong to the nine teenth and twentieth dynasties. Workmen while razing an old house on a farm owned by Mrs. Jane Wright, in the village of Greene, Me., found a pewter cup upon which are the figures "1382." The year in which the house was built is not known, but the barn on the same farm was constructed in the "forties." Nftw Words For Old Tiling;*. The young woman whose vootbulary is mostly adverbs and adjectives—we have all met her, or her sister—was with an excursion party on the Poto mac Biver. The Washington Post treasures a fragment of her conversa tion: "This is Alexandria we're coming to now," said Margaret. "Ton must go over there before you go away." "What is there to see?" asked tha young man. "Oh," said Margaret, "there's an 1 old graveyard there—the funniest old place yon ever saw, with just a lot of the cutest old gravestones in it. It's just perfectly grand!" 'EDUCATION FOR MODERN BUSINESS. Address by President lladley. of l'als University. I President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale University, recently responded to the toast, "Education (or Modern Business Itespousibilities." He said in part: "The two previous speakers have told you better than I can do your greatness and the greatness ot your responsibilities. It is for me to suggest how in the future men may .be tried who shall fill worthily tho | places that you now occupy. It is ' oue of the interesting things to any ' one who looks at the catalogues of the colleges of the country to see how they are becoming each year, more aud more, the educators of business men. A generation agu the great ma jority of college graduates went iuto professions. To-day a large part of them go into commercial life. There are two reasons for this. In the first place, a great many of the men who go to college to-day without having any other idea thau of making the most of their life find that the busi ness opportunity and business re sponsibilities of the present genera tion are so large that there is no ob ject of their ambition so worthy as business success. And, on the other hand, a great many men, who intend from tho first to go into business, find the responsibilities of business so difficult, the vastness of its problems so great that they I prefer to take many years instead of few in preparing themselves for these responsibilities. The com bination of these two things has j brought our colleges iuto closer con nection with thewoild of commerce at 'present thau they ever were iu the past. Aud now the question comes up how shall they fulfill, how shall the | colleges fulfill the new duties which ' are laid upon them by the necessity |of preparation for this wide worth? Now, to begin with, it is very easy to say what they shall notdo. They can not do their work by undertaking to instruct the boys in the details of what they will find it necessary to do in the \ office. If they learu these details from books they would have to learu them over again, to unlearn all they ' had learned and loam them better from the experience of practical life. | "That education is best and high ; est which most fully brings home to J the boy by illustrations of history, by j inspirations of literature, by the teach ings of the every-day life of the pres ent time, that none of us liveth for himself; that possession means power, j and that power means duty. (Ap- I plause.) I "Whatever form the education of the next generation may take—aud there I are many unsettled questions before I the woik of our colleges—of this oue thing we may bo sure: They will and they must educate men to take your places who will have from the begin | uiug the conception to which you have uttaiued in your business life of busi ness success as a trust, of power and influence in the country us a duty to the country and to God." (Ap plause.) I WORDS OF WISDOM. I A little snake is as apt to bite as a big oue. The busy man never finds the day too long. Character is determined by what we say no to. Love is bliud, but vain regret has good eyesight. The man can never do what the boy .might have done. Many of the world's best gold mines j have not yet been found. All philosophy is a failure when tho philosopher has the toothache. Too much cars has kept more thau oue house-plant from becoming a tree. The goose that lays the golden egg generally belougs to a fool who kills it. If every horse with a fault were | knocked in the head, nobody would , ride. The more poetry a man has iu lira, the more it tries him to put up stove ] Ppe. When the schoolhouses are brought , nearer together,the jails will bo farther apart. Every man of character makes un written laws that others have to live up to. No man fails from lack of talent. Tho thing that floors him is lack of purpose. Every man ought to give the man who follows him a safe path iu which to travel. Women jump at conclusions, but the philosopher gets there on his hands aud knees. Wherevor gold has value, brass will be found shining up and trying to look like it. When a man is starving it is a waste of breath to talk to him about the chemistry of bread. Whenever great men have come to the front, they have come from the smoke of battle somewhero. Going to tho bad begins in short steps.—Ram's Horn Brown, in Indian apolis News. Boston Boy's Bottled Wrath. "You tallow-faced slob!" snarled the bad boy of the neighborhood. "For two cents I'd break yer face!" "I shall go and consult the loxioons in reference to that word 'slob,' " re sponded the other, a little boy from Boston, wrathful, but self-possessed, "aud if it has an opprobrious significa tion I will return and chastise you."— Chicago Tribune. Ail Icelandic Club. A woman's club in Iceland, known as the Thorvaldsen Society, look? after the poor, keeps up a sewing school, visits the hospital and carries on various philanthropic enterprises. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Blake Excellent Cleaning Material. Every one knows that soft bread crumbs make an excellent cleaning material for soiled wall papers, bat it is not so generally known that pic tares may be cleansed in the sama way. Professor Church, of Loudon, to whom has been intrusted the clean ing of the pictures in the Houses of Parliament, has invented an instru ment to blow upou the soiled pictures a perfect cloud of bread crumbs. This is said to be the most effective way of removing the soot and dirt. Flower Vale, for the Table. The day of heavy floral decoration of massed green and ribbon bows has passed, and simplicity is now the de sirable effect. The flowers which decorate the table are now arranged in tall, slender Bohemian glass vases, extremely effeotive in shaded green aud pink. Two of these vases are placed at either end of the table, and are charmingly filled with long stemmed pink rosebuds or pink tulips. To complete this arrange ment, in the centre of the table is a low jardiuiero of pink Bohemian glass, made with an adjustable zinc lining, filled with moss, and overgrown with the delicately colored and sweet scented sweet peas, or a waving mass of pink poppies shading to deep red. For special occasions, when elabo rate decorations are desired, there may be used garlands of the princess evergreen festooned about the table, giving a charming effect against the white cloth, and if one lives near where it grows the dining-room may be trimmed with it also. Arrangement of tlio Ulniiic-Itoom. AVomeu who nre the delighted pos sessors of large, low-ceiliuged dining rooms, old oak furniture and precious china are the envy of their less for tunate sisters. A parlor never appeals to a woman as a dining-room does. She is always concocting some scheme by which her dining-room can be made more homelike. As the dining room is frequently the liviug room also, it should receive all possible care. If it is fairly large, has a hard wood floor and a deep window or two, it may be made a thing of beauty. The floors should be polished or waxed, preferably dark, aud strewn with a bright rug or two. The furni ture should match the floor, although a lounge and chairs upholstered in blue and white cretonne are desirable for comfort and cheer. The lounge must be broad and low, with several durable pillows. Wallpaper in Delft blue is most ef fective, although the color scheme may call for a different style. In the windows have a few growing plants. Let them be vivid greens and reds. They add much to the cheeriness of a room. One or two carefully chosen pictures may hang on the walls. Their choice is apt to be a nerve-racking operation unless the housewife has confidence in her good taste. Copies of fruit pictures, game and fish are permitted and an old family portrait in oils. If one is in doubt about pic tures the walls may be covered with Delft and Spode ware or even less pre tentious china, strung on wires and arranged iu rows on hanging shelves. The sideboard is spread with fringed damask doilies, and set with tlietreas ured silverware and cut glass. In the china closet—one with swinging doors and dark velvet linings—is dis played the choice china. The contents must be arranged with care. Do not place together the heavier and daint ier wares, but grade them gently, so as to give the best effects. Between meals the table should be spread with a blue and white denim cover, set with the fern-dish. This adds a home-like touch to the room and destroys the formality which a set table gives. Keel pes. KNUCKLE OF VEAL WITH RICE. —Boil a knuckle of veal, two turnips, one onion, six peppercorns, a head of celery and a cupful of rice together very gontly for about three hours, skimming occasionally and adding a little salt. Serve with a border of rice. Save the stock in which the veal was boiled for soup. MOULDED BREAD PUDDING.—But ter a border mould. Sprinkle over with currants. Nearly fill the mould with stale bread crumbs. Beat four eggs a little; pour over them one pint of milk, and add three-quarters of a cupful of sugar and one teaspoonful of vanila extract. Pour this over the bread crumbs and bake in a moderate oven thirty minutes. Let cool. Turn out on a platter. Serve with a fruit sauce or cream. RICE GRIDDLECAKES. —Take two cupfuls of flour, one cupful of cooked rice, two and one-half cupfuls of milk, one teaspoonful of bakiug powder, three eggs and salt. Beat the white and tho yolks of the eggs separately. To the yolks add the rice aud the milk, and after these have been stirred together add tho flour and the bakiug powder. Finally, beat iu the whites of tho eggs aud the salt. SPAGHETTI BALLS. —One piut of boiled spaghetti (that which is left over will do nicely). Chop into bits a half-inch long aud mix with a half cupful of thick cream sauce, seasoned with a haiC teaspoonful of salt aud a saltspoonfnl of paprika. Add a table spoonful of grated cream cheese and a pinch of pulverized summer savoy. Make iuto balls, roll in grated cheese and fry in deep fat. Place the chickeu on a heated platter, surround with tho spaghetti balls, garuish with parsley and serve hot. An Unfortunate Recollection. "Whom did you marry, Billy?" •'A Miss Jones, of Philadelphia." "You always did liko the uame •.Tones;' you used to tag round after a little snub-nosed Jones girl whou we I Went to school together." 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On one sloop arc five young men, who go j to a skyscraper building in Nassau i street every morning and take out j two or three vivacious typewriter j girls when work ia over to make j the evenings merry. They rented ! the boat on condition that they ; would not take her outside the j basin, and hired a retired sea cap- ; tain, who lives near the basin, to I look after the boat during the day I and to "mess" for them. They find it 1 cheaper than paying board in the city, | and ever so much pleasanter. Three families wintered on yachts in the Bay ; Ridge basin last winter, and they en joyed the experiment so much that I they talk of trying it again. The bliz- j ..ard and the rough weather had no terrors for them. One sloop, the Peri, j was housed above decks very much like I those in the tales we read about Arc tic expeditions. The families who lived j in this way were on terms of sociabil- j ity and visited every night for games and cards. 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