TH £ FULL I : CU R. When a woman is bc.fc a tiling For a i iu.i to fir.-..'fie and pet, Lot her dance an ! fi:s — Her hour is not vet. When a man is but a staff For a woman to <fiir. . to, dumb, Lot him strut and lau.di— His hour is not come. —Louise Morgan Sill, in Harper's Weekly. si The Binsntien c! j? *j "Jimmy the Lift." | r-rtr iw VY, Cap!" There was more I than :i shade of annoyance In the tones of Deteetive r~-Sergeant Brannan, and the F ' U-'l Captain looked up, 44 ' Ji mmy, the Lift' Is hack again." "Fiddlesticks!" said the Captain, or something that sounded like that. "They let him off the Island two days ago," Brannan continued, In explana tory fashion. "I'd forgot his time was : • up. I saw him down the Bowery ; i :y. and he's out for business." ' ell, what did he say?" asked the < ::iu, who had acquired some of muan's annoyance. "v !:. he claims lie's going to reform. he's going to got a job and work on the level." "Yes, lie knows that by heart. llow many times have we had him In here, do you think?" the Captain asked, with evident curiosity. "I don't know. He had a record be fore I came to Headquarters, and I've brought him in regular every holiday ami every other chance I got for ten years." Brannan spoke In weary tones. "And to my remembrance," the Cap tain took up the narrative, "lv's ben; tried about ten times and cost.the cuu ty a barrel of money and has been sent J up only once." "That's It. First conviction this time. : Been doing busin r lit along, but j we can't get him with the good r | B! sse.l nuisance." Brannan delivcrc ' judgment with disgust. "Well, bring him in first time you rm liiin," said the Captain. "We'll see if wo can't think up some game to get rid That is why "Jimmy the Lift," sud denly ceas'ng his nrdm: • Irs': of work ing himself into the midst of a crowd oil a Broadway car, lo< i: ! up to find the well-known features of Detective- Sergeant Brannan set benignly above him. It was a shock to "Jimmy," be en use just then he was engaged in pri vate business in which he did not wish any of his acquaintances to partici- j pate. It iti to be su-qieetcd that thn: business had to do with the stout gen tleman who had carelessly put a com fortable roll of bills into his waistcoat pocket after paying his fare. "Why, hollo, Barge!" There war every accent of pleasure in ".Bmmy's" voice, although it is to bo feared that his eyes expressed something else. •'Nice, bracing weather, isn't it?" "Yes, quite; but if people ain't strong they oughtn't to he out in it." Bran nan had a fund of sarcasm when nec essary, and "Jimmy" felt that he was being made the target of it. "Now, that's unkind," he said sooth ingly. "You know I ain't doing a thing." "Well, anyway, the Captain wants to see you," retorted Brannan, a remark that gave little room for discussion, and made it sufficiently evident to "Jimmy" that It was Intended ho should follow when Brannan began edging to the door. lie followed, but Injustice welled within him. and all the way to the yellowish white building i;i Mulberry Street he protested his in nocence. "Sorry, old man, but I can't help It," was all that Brannan would say. "The Captain's wanted you bad all day." "Good Lord! What ho does lie want me for? I ain't done nothing." But Brannan would only elapse into deeper silence. There was much for "Jimmy" to think about when lie got to the Central Office at last. He knew the place well, for lie had been there many times, but lie never bad been treated in just the fashion that marked his reception in this instance. There was a marked deference among those who had deal ings with him such as he had never known to be employed toward a mere pickpocket before. He was kept in the outer room while Brannan saw the Captain. Then the Captain walked out and looked at him in silence and then lie was taken out and down into the basement and locked in one of the strongest cells. "Good Lord, what is It?" lie asked in awed tones, as Brannan looked all about the cell to see that it was secure and that there was nothing In it which might he used to aid in escape or any thing else. "You'll find out in the morning," was all that Brannan would say, as he walked out and gave the policeman in charge instructions to keep his eye on that cell. Bo "Jimmy" sat on his cot away into the hours of the night, his shifty eyes trying to centre themselves ou some place in the cell and ills thoughts try ing to collect themselves into some harmonious condition. It did not de crease his wonder any when his jailer gave him such a dinner as he had never before enjoyed in prison and re sponded only with mysterious silence when he ventured to ask questions. He went to bed at last, but his mind kept working, and there were hut few moments when he slept soundly. It was a haggard "Jimmy," then, who was taken up into the long room in the Central Office next morning tc face the detectives assembled there He had not been able to eat mud breakfast, although a sumptuous om was provided. He did nor. feel anj better either—for the mystery wat deepening-—when he found himself | standing with men whom he had com j sidered far above him In his chosen ; field of life. He grew posititvely l'aint j when one detective after another, men j who hml known him for almost a score j of years, camo up and scrutinized him i closely as though they had never seenl him before- When he was finally led I up to the room to bo placed under the hands of the man who keeps the meas ure of the heads of those who are at , odds with the law lie was almost too > weak to walk. | "Say, you've got mine," he mumbled I to Brannan. ; "I know," returned Brannan gently, as he placed him in the hands of the measurer, "but that was only as a pick pocket." i "Jimmy's" brain was working as It had never worked before when the ex amination was finally over and lie was taken down stairs again and led into the Captain's room. This was another honor he had never known before, one accorded only to the men who do mo mentous things. lie was overwhelmed. His sharp eyes tried to dig into the brains of the impassive Brannan and the equally impassive Captain, but they could not. The Captain gave him one long, searching stare, then took up some papers on his desk and looked them over, glancing up now and then at "Jimmy." "Great Heavens. Captain, what is it?" lie faintly cried, when he could stand It no longer. "Come, now, don't give us any of that. You'd bettor make a clean breast of it and throw yourself on the mercy of the court." The Captain spoke sternly. "But I ain't " "Shut up!" said the Captain." We | know what you've done." S > "Jimmy" sat, his brain nwhirl, ; while 1 lie Captain's eyes seemed to 1 search him through and through. De i te'-tivrs brought I:i other 11:0:1, and he I jv.r ■? s. >.l n') with them, and a man | cam in and !• a 1 them over and j ; pb-kcl ; -:n out, saying; j "Tint's tlie i. an!" j lin a Inn t: fell o the floor. His eyes j I were starting fro m his head, every bit | < i' si t . ;th In Ills body seemed to ho ! oozing out when they let him drop into j "i'm surprised at you, 'Jimmy.'" < finally spoke up the Captain, when the I others had gone. "I thought you k ;o the pickpocket game. I wouldn't have looked for yon In this Harbhu i do;:! If everything wasn't such a cinch against you." The Harbison case! "Jimmy" gasped. He had read all about it in the morn • c newspapers !:••> day before—liow a |-a cak thief r;ar. in a house shot of tiie city was ou the lookout for Lis "Cap, you're kiddin'," he finally g.a , -;: i, l l though his tongue seemed d mble Its size and his mouth and thr. id were parched. "Net a hit of it. No use trying to skin out of It," said tije Captain. "Y\Vve got plenty of evidence, and you've been identified by the man who saw it done. Sorry, but I guess you'll have to go to the chair." "God above, Cap. you know I didn't do it. You know I couldn't do It. It ain't in my line. I never knew how." "Jimmy" was groveling on the floor, gripping the Captain's knees with Ida hands. The Captain only looked at him sternly and rang a bell that brought a policeman. "Take him down to court and ask them to bind him over another day as a suspicious person," the Captain or dered. The policeman lifted him up and half dragged him out through the office. Ho managed to walk after that .as the.v went out and up the street and took a car leading down the Bow ery. The policeman had put on hand cuffs that bound the two together, though it was scarcely noticeable tc others on the car. They stood on the roar platform. There were tears in "Jimmy's" eyes as ' he passed places that he knew. He was just beginning to realize the lior • l'or of the whole thing and the possl- I bllity that he might, after all, he sent , to the electric chair—for ho knew the police could do strange things when • they had a mind bent that way. i He had just reached the conclusion ! that lie was in a very serious situation - when something happened. lie felt • the handcuff that held him to the ■ policeman give on Ids wrist. lie looked i down. The steel hand was open. lie • waited a moment until the policeman t looked tlie other way. Then he gave j i a quirk jerk, was off the car like a :> flash, and was racing down the Row j cry. Before anybody had time to j raise a cry he was through a dark door -1 j way that be know led to freedom, l j Somewhere, perhaps, an unhappy !' man :s wandering longing for the Row i | cry. Maybe detectives In other cities -1 are puzzling their wits over the work | of one of ihe cleverest pickpockets that s | ever Hole a woman's handbag. But | New York knows "Jimmy the Lift" no i | more anil Sergeant Brannan and the :: | Captain smile whenever his name is J mentioned.—New York Times. S In Jotitfiineftbnrs;. e Housewives who complain about the •- "price of things," may bless their stars e that they are not In Johannesburg. i- From a letter recently received is r ! taken the following: "The hens at Ma li | delra provide uh with so-called 'fresh - eggs,' which we get retailed to us at o . SI.OS a dozen; new-laid eggs, when you j are fortunate enough to get any, are d from $1.70 to $1.1)0 a dozen. Borne >v I bow Hie hens very much neglect their j obvious duty hero. Mutton is sold at l, ; thirty cents a pound, hungry-looking ;n fowls $2 each, and turkeys about sls :o each."—Chicago News. :ll j Widowhood. Ie The sparkle which goes out of wife ly 1 hood partly returns to widowhood.- is New York Press. | OBLDREN'SDEPARTMENTi WEEK BEDTIME COIIES. ] Juat when I'm having such good timet < I never had before, I With all ray playthings spread around | On table, chairs ana floor; When it's dusk behind the sofa back And black dark uuder the stair, I And I wonder what strange animals | Perhaps are lurking there; j Aud think I'll go a-hunting them, And begin to clean my gun, j Then mamma shuts her book and say 3, • "It's bedtime, son." , Outside the window by my crib I T see the sky all red, Where the poor old sun, like me, I s'pose, j Has been carried off to bed. ; He never sees the fireflies dance, Or hears the whipporwill; j He never sees the rockets dart i Straight up from Signal Hill; I He never sees the wee star eyes I Wink open, one by one. I wonder now who aavs to him, "It's bedtime, sun." < —Youth's Companion. TIIB STOLEN LACE. | A workingman reared a young blnck | bird, not shutting hot into a cage, but ! letting lier fly in and out at the win j dows. When she was a year old. one spring morning she appeared with a mate, who, seeing liow bold bis wife I was, ventured to perch on the kitchen I window-sill, though he could not make 1 up his mind to come any further. The ; hen-bird cln&e the kitchen dresser for 1 I her home, and built a beautiful nest i between two plates which stood on it. | The good woman of the house wanted to use her plates, and in taking one : j down she pulled the nest to pieces. But | the blackbird was determined to have her way, any!milt another in the same j place. This time she was left alone. ! One day the woman, who took in wash i ing* went out for a little while, leaving ; some lace which she was ironing on the ! table.' She missed it when she came j back, and after a time found that Mrs. Blackbird had taken a fancy to it as ' a bed for her little ones. It was nicely j woven in and out, and she was sitting ; on it in triumph. Loath to disturb her | FIND HER_ SWEETHEARTS. Two young men are watching this young lady. Where are they? pet and yet afraid of offending the lady • to whom the lace belonged, the laun- i dress went to Its owner and begged her < to come and see where it was. I am i glad to tell you that, nfter admiring ■ the little sitter and her home, the lady allowed the bird full possession of the ■ stolen goods till she had reared her i young. The male bird did his duty by < his family in bringing food for them to ] the window, whence the ben fetched it. i In return for this she would often carry • to him some of the food which her friends in the kitchen put upon the table for herself.—The Christian Kcgis , ter TRICK WITH PENNY. i | Balance a card on your finger with a e penny on it and take away the card, leaving the penny. This can be done r by striking the card a fair, smart blow t with the middle linger of the unen c gaged hand. 5 THE STAR PUZZLE. Print the letters of the word "re deem" on six bits of cardboard; place : a letter on any vacant point, as on 3, < and jump It over either of the adjacent points to 5 or 1, and there let it ll*. Continue In this way, placing letters on vacant points and jumping as in check ers. The letters are to be taken in reg ular order, and the puzzle is to so place j them that they will still spell the word "redeem" when read around the cir cles.—New York World. A GARTER SNAKE'S STORY. Said Mr. Robin to himself one sunny fall morning: "I'm so glad I decided to build my homo beside this girls' col lege. Girls are always good to birds, and college girls aren't afraid of any thing—not even of eats. If I should ever get in trouble I'd just as soon call on a girl to help me as not. There's a dandy girl lives right in front of my house. Her window is near the ground, and she gives me all the crumbs she lias left from her spreads." Just then Air. Robin spied a small garter snake sunning himself. Mr. Robin grew quite excited. "Wliy, dear me, what a big, fat, long worm! Seems lazy, too! I guess I'll take him to Mrs. Robin. No, I guess I'll cat him myself. Mrs. Robin is getting too fat. I only measure one inch more around the waist than she does. The man of the house should al ways be much the larger—lie owes it to h!s family." Mr. Ro'.in pounced down on the garter snake, and swallowed the surprised reptile's head, neck and three or four inches of body. The garter snake did not like being swallowed without warning, so he bit Mr. Robin severely, and Mr. Robin choked and coughed and tried to cough up the hor rible worm, but the garter snake wouldn't he coughed up. Then Mr. Robin called to the college girl who threw him crumbs, and she came quickly in answer to his call. With one firm pull she drew the garter snake from greedy Mr. Robin, killed it, and sent wounded Mr. Robin home to his wife.—New York Tribune. JACKSTRAWS. c CZ3 o=— n , a ® ===3 J cC==— —Washington Star. They Rear! Nc A Western railroad man who spends nearly all of Ills advertising appro priation for newspaper space is quoted as saying: "Not one man out of every five I meet ever saw the tine booklets I got out and distributed, but four men out of every live are newspaper read ers." STORY OF A HERMIT PRINTER. Ufa Paper Printed in a Ilarren Place, Miles From Human Habitation*. Captains Spencer anil Shaw, the local United States Inspectors of steam holl ers and hulls, on a recent trip up to tire headwaters of the St. John's River un earthed probably one of the most unique newspaper plants in the State of Florida. The plant was discovered In the midst of a wild, barren country. Captains Shaw and Spencer ran upon the hut In which it was located acci dentally. It was the'only house, such as it was, within a radius of many miles, anil naturally the inspectors thought that they would pay a visit to the tenants. When they entered the front part of the house It seemed as If the place was not occupied, hut on going back Into a rear room, which had been transformed Into a print-shop, they came upon an old man of unkempt appearance, who was bending over a printer's case, evidently busy setting type. The old man hail long matted hntr, that hung down on his neck and partially concealed his face. His clothes were frayed out anil worn. The old man was of kindly visage, however, aud stopped in his work to give the vis itors a welcome. It required only a few questions to get him stnrted telling about his print-shop. lie said that he was getting out a magazine. He said that the publishing of the paper was his life work. lie hail set tled down in the wilds, bought a small printing outfit, second hand, anil spent his days alone at the case or at a desk putting Ills thoughts into shape. The paper is published once a nionili at the subscription price of fifty cents a year. The lone printer is unmarried and there Is no other hitman being within several miles of Ids habitation.—Jacksonville Times-Union. WISE WORDS. The truest wisdom is a resolute de termination.—Xnpoleon I. Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turn them up.—James A. Garfield. The crowning fortune to a man is to he horn with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness.—Emerson. Never dou't do nothin* which isn't your fort, for of you do you'll find yourself splashln' aroUuil In the kannwl, figuratively spoakin'.—Arte inus Ward. Never desert your lino of talent. lie what nature Intended you for, aud you will succeed; he anything else and you will ho ten thousand times worse than nothing.—Sidney Smith. The one serviceable, safe, certain, re munerative, attainable quality in every study and pursuit Is the quality of at- j tentlcn. I never put one hand to any- ] thing on which I could throw my whole , self.—Charles Dickens. The talent of success is nothing ! more than doing what you can do well, ! anil doing well whatever you ilo, with out a thought of fame.—Longfellow. I never did anything worth doing by accident. Anything I have begun is always on my mind, and I am not easy while away from it until it is finished.—Thomas A. Edison. Mirth, Not Mligrj, Loves Compauy. I have always doubted the proposi tion that "misery loves company," and have believed that such a statement was first put forth by some arch-hypo crite whose misery was but a pretense, aud who was becking some other sham sufferer into a quiot corner whero they could both be jovial on the sly. However slight my knowledge of uni versal misery may be, I can attest from personal experience that my own mis cry claims solitude, and slips away all by itself, and turns the key upou the curious world, asking nothing so much to be "let alone." I do not care to weep In company, nor would It cheer me to have a chorus of other weepers tq sob In unison with me. Rather would I remain In :nmolested wretch edness until my tears had vanished, and my eyes und nose assumed normal appearance. 'Tls mirth, then, and not misery which pines for company. Fun cannot thrive alone, and flourishes only among congenial spirits. Our laughter must be shared, our smiles responded to, and every glance of merriment needs recognition to make It worth the while.—Caroline Tieknor, in The At lantic. Picking mid Chnmilntr. Dr. John Bascom, ex-President of the University of Wisconsin, was noted at the university for his abseutmind eilness. Many stories arc told of him in this regard. One of them concerns a reception that he ohee gave to the students of the freshman class. Lem onade was served In the course of the evening, and when the maid—an inno cent creature fresh from Ireland— -1 Lauded the tray to her master he put out his hand to It, and then, forgetting what he was about to do, he let his fingers play aimlessly for several min utes among the glasses, while he talked warmly upou some subject that mueb interested him. But the maid misunderstood Dr. Bag com's hesitation. She thought that she would help him out of it. "I think this is the largest, sir," she said, and she thrust luto his hand the glass that contained the greatest quam tity of lemonade.—New York Tribune, Tlm C<Mt of Improvements. Rents are going up rapidly in Atch ison. It is said that every time a woman hangs a new curtain up, and improves the appearance of the house ill doing It, her landlord decides thai he deserves more rent. Atchison (Kan.) Globe. The Silent Man. Under some conditions a man tan make more noise iu the world by ' keeping liis mouth shut than iu any other way.—Chicago News. I —HOUSEHOLD CLEANING WHITE FUR. Make a lather of soap and water with a small piece of sotla (lis- flved In It and a tlat of blue. When cold, wash -s/ I the fur in it, and if not qui e clean, j ' I take a fresh lather, and a third, if ' necessary. Draw the fur to and fro in it and shake it about in the water until quite clean. Then rinse in fresh cold water and hang up to dry in the wind. If possible. Shake the fur frequently, and when dry brush and comb it very gently and carefully. See that the brush is absolutely clean. FAULTY BREAD. From the appearance of the bread we think the whole trouble lies in the im perfect mixing of the ingredients, par ticularly the yeast and flour. Tho kind of yeast Is not stated. If a dry yeast be used it should first be softened in a little lukewarm milk or water, then 1, stirred into the rest of the liquid to be used in making the bread. Add the - salt, sugar and shortening, if these used, afid then stir in the flour. When all the flour has been added knead the dough from ten to twenty minutes to bring out tho elasticity of the gluten and to insure the even distribution of all the ingredients.—Boston Cooking School Magazine. now TO SPLIT PAPER. Paper can be split into two or even three parts, however thin the sheets. It may be convenient to know how to do this sometimes, as, for instance, when one wishes to paste in a scrap book an article printed on both sides of the paper. Get a piece of plate glass and place it on a sheet of paper. Then let the paper he thoroughly soaked. With care and a little skill the sheet can bo split by the top surface beiug removed. y. The best plan, however, is to paste if* ) piece of cloth or strong paper to each *• side of the sheet to bo split. When dry, quickly and without hesitation, pull the two pieces asunder, when one part of the sheet will be found to have adhered to one and part to tile other. Soften the paste in water and tire pieces cau be easily removed from the cloth.—The Household. QUITE THE THING. It is noticeable that nowadays on well appointed tables it is becoming more and more the tiling to serve a va riety of fruits with a dressing as a | salad in place of tho more common place lettuce, celery, etc. Grape fruit, j with niaiaga grapes seeded, or with I green plums and bits of angelica apple I and celery on a bed of white lettuce I hearts, with creamy dressing, apple r.ntf. j orange in nests of curled celery, wit* l mayonnaise dressing, are among the varieties served byway of a salad course. But the ingenious housewife can easily devise others quite as whole some and appetizing. Thero is also a reaching out for novelties to replace salted almonds, which have been eaten so long that people have got rather tired of them. Salted English walnuts, pecans, brazils, green pistachios and hazelnuts are now served, sometimes with almonds mixed in with them, of ten without—Now York Tribune. Compote of Oranges—Peel and cut six large oranges Into slices, the pits, sprinkle three tablespoonfclso of granulated sugar over them; let stand one hour, drain oft the syrup, put It over the fire; add the julee of half a lemon and boll slowly Ave minutes; let cool and just liefore serving pour the syrup over the oranges and send to table in a glass dish. Tomato Sauce—Put one cupful of tomato and half a cupful of water in au agate pan over the fire; add two cloves, one slice of onion, one bay leaf, half a teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper; cover the pan and let simmer ten minutes; rub one tablespoonfui of corn starch in a little cold water, add it to the tomato, stirring until thick cued; cook five miuutes longer, strain and serve. Minced Veal with Tomato Sauae— Mince one pound of veal; put two tabic, spoonfuls of butter in a frying pan; when hot add tho minced veal, one small minced onion and one green peft k. per minced; when brown add two table. \ . spoonfuls of flour; then add one cupfnl ' of broth or water; one teaspoonful of salt, and a little pepper; let simmer for five minutes and add half a cup of to mato sauce. Chocolate Fromage—Boil four table spoonfuls of grated chocolate in one cup of water; add half a cup of sugar and one teaspoon of vanilla; have soak ing one ounce of gelatine in one cup of cold water one hour; add it to the choc olate and boll a minute; pour into a bowl and when cold mix it with one pint of whipped cream; turn into a form and let staud In a cool place sev eral hours; serve with vanilla sauce. Plain Milk Soup—Put two quarts of milk over the Are with one teaspoon of sugar and oue teaspoon of salt; niliW' half a cup of sifted flour in cold milk; ' when smooth stir It into the scalding milk, and stir until thickened and boll ing; add a (lash or two of nutmeg and a little pepper; beat the yolks of two eggs; add a little of the hot soup to i them; then return all to the Arc and i stir one minute; do not let boll; If liked a slice of onion may be cooked in the milk when removed; serve with wafers,
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