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less lad sets out to find a home and a mother for the little girl tkat Providence seems to have entrusted to his care. And they come at last to the house of a stiff, severe, soured old lady, one of the righteously selfish kind, who thinks she does • her duty toward the world because she is very correct and orderly, and prim and industrious, and goes to church, pays her pew rent, makes a contribution to missions, and all the time lacks the divine Are of love in her heart: she loves no one excepting herself, and indeed she does not even love herself, but only the sygtem of existence she has built up around herself. Perhaps you know some people of this unloving and unlovable type. \\ ell, Timothy rings the bell and the hard, prim, self-righteous woman, with her unlovely face, opens the door. His heart sinks as he sees that face, but he bravely stammers out his little story; only to receive a cold, repellant answer. O, what a sin against the love of God does such a sour face mean. O, what murder of the soul has taken place where love and tenderness have been banished from the heart. God is love, and a love that goes into every part of life. Small and great as men think of them are not small and great before Him. The religion of Christ Is the every-day life of love, to be thinking of others and showing your love for them in all that you do. Such a religion does not bar out amusement and merry-making. Not at all. Because they are a desirable part of life, so they are aiso a part of religion. God made us with the need and desire of social intercourse and amusement, and we are not complete unless we satisfy that desire. Men and women who shut themselves up to themselves become stunted and warped in spiritual growth. They are apt to lose the power of loving, the highest element of our nature. They lose the ability to enter joyously into the happiness of others. They become selfish, ‘‘have their peculiarities,” as we say, which makes them very hard to get on with, which is, of course, only a polite way of saying that they think of themselves instead of thinking of other people. And if they think themselves great In so doing—if this is their idea of greatness —they have sadly missed the mark, litis was not the idea nor the teaching nor the example of Him who said: “It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master.” and "whosoever will be great among you let him be your servant.” Sonnet. As from th? unclasped fingers of a sleeping child The loosened playthings gently slip and fall, So over vale and meadow, over all The bosky thickets with song gushes wild. Descends the peaceful autumn reconciled To early loss, since fairer Creams forestall The goldenrod. and milkweed's bursting ball; And sad, mysterious splendor of the mild And sober aftemoois. On southern walls The grape's begin to purple, peaches turn Their crimson cheeks toward the light that falls Subdued and soft; the drowsy crickets learn A song of sorrow and the partridge calls As sundowns with a fainter fervor bum. Bay’s Crossing, Ind. —Alonzo L. Rice.

A LETTER FROM ATHENS. Interesting Facts Concerning Hospital Life and the Koyul Family. Below are given some excerpts from a private letter written by a Danish lady who is in charge of a hospital at Athens to her brother, now living in Indiana. As her point of view differs from that of the newspaper correspondents, he has kindly permitted their publication in the Journal. The letter bears the date of July 9. She says: Behind the royal garden Is a little hospital, called Princess Marie’s Hospital. Several ladies have contributed to its erection; the Queen gave 20 fi oo drachmas. We have had as many ass .enty-five patients at a time there. At first it was conducted by a doctor, an English lady, and some Greek nurses, sent from Alexandria by rich Greeks, but about four weeks ago these persons withdrew and the hospital was turned over to seven Danish female nurses of the Red Cross. * * * I could not begin to tell you how kindly we are treated, everything being done to make us feel satisfied and to further our work. Queen Olga and Princess Marie, her daughter, come over every morning and afternoon. Then they don white silk aprons, with the red cross attached, and help the patients, cut their food, carry it to them,' bring them wine and water and whatever may be needed. There is a young man who had his leg amputated trom the thigh. He came near dying, and the Que,en was overcome with grief at it. She sat at his bedside hour after hour, herself eating at the little table that is placed across the bed that he might also eat something. So far he is not dead, and, what is still stranger, he doesn't appear at all spoiled. The expression is often used here about these big men that they are “sweet.” That might sound affected, but only to such as don't know these big children—children in good as in evil. There is such a wonderful simplicity about them. * * * Especially noticeable are the soldiers that are called Euzons, or Fustanellas. They are mountaineers, and from them is formed the bodyguard of the King. They wear short white coats, with Happing leg-of-mutton sleeves, wide white skirts, a yard long, white stockings, and red, pointed shoes, with little black silk tassels at the end of the foot. The skirt is a very elaborate affair. It is made of pointed pieces of white cloth—as many as 1,400 pieces, if it is to be very stylish. The whole costume, v hich may come as high as 4.000 drachmas, is further set off by a profusion of embroidery, brass buttons and the like. Their wonderfully cool bravery in battle is admitted and admired by everybody. One of them waits at our table. Ho is an old man who served In the castle in the days of King Otto. He is splendidly bedizened with blue silk embroideries, blue gaiters and blue silk tassels dangling down his calves. We get the same dinner as the King. He arranges the menu every day, and, besides, sends each of us ice cream, n ineral water and such wine as he thinks we need. * * * The King is a very Interesting talker. He told me the other day how life here had changed during his reign. Fifteen years ago a lady was arrested In open street for driving her own horses with nor own hands; that was then considered scandalous. The King Interceded for her. and nowadays nobody would ever dream of objecting to ladies driving. As far as I can judge, the life of the higher classes here Is now quite cosmopolitan. The wives pay great attention to dress, social duties, etc. The children are educated by French or English governesses. * * * From my window I have the most fasclnating.view of the castle—which is on a mountain—and the city down below. Beyond that rises Acropolis, and farther down on the mountain the temple of Theseus and the beautiful columns of Jupjter Olympus. Behind it all. to the left, is the water, with Piraeus, where the men-of-war of the powers lie, sending up clouds of smoke as an ever-present menace. Between the castle and our hospital Is the garden, which wits in a very neglected condition when King George came here, but now is well kept. I had a walk with him there the other night. He knows every bush, tree and shrub, so many of which he has himself planted. Among the latter are the palms—rare trees here—which form two stately rows on each side of a road and of which two are the only ones that have ever borne ripe fruit in Europe. ‘‘My sister Thyra (the Duchess of Cumberland) called this the Garden of Eden.” he said. * * * You may be assured that all the aspersions upon the conduct of the crown prince and Prince Nicholas in the war are without foundation. All the men T have spoken to who have seen them in the field say they fought bravely, constantly exposing their lives in spite of remonstrances from some of the officers. History will seme day reveal strange things about the w iv the Greek military leaders were beguiled and betrayed by people both here and abroad, who, at present, keep out of the daylight. * * * Where the Molasses Has Gone. Washington Post. “Brown sugars have about disappeared from th>* trade, owing to the modern methods of manufacturing,” said Mr. F. M Gay. representing a big wholesale grocery house ] to a reporter at the Riggs. "So, also, has the molasses output rapidly declined of late y ars. It is very difficult now to find the old-fashioned open-kettle molasses that was so toothsome and palatable in our boyhood days. It has been replaced by sirups that are clearer than honey and beautiful to look at. but not half so good to eat along with batter cakes or waffles. “The molasses nearly all goes nowadays to the distilleries, where It is made into rum. the demand for that beverage being constantly on the increase, particularly In New England and for the export trade. The rum drinker wants no other sort of liquor, for none other, he declares, goes to the spot quite so quickly or leaves such a pleasant ‘farewell.' But people of old-fashioned tastes would greatly prefer that the ruin makers would not take all the molasses.”

FOR FEMININE READERS ♦ - SHOULD A MOTHER TALK TO HER DAUGHTER ABOUT HER BEAUTY t The Typical Southern Woman Is a Truly Feminine trealure--The ••Jersey” ( omiiig Again. - With what anxious solicitude do these mothers teach the art of graceful carriage of the young figure, and “due deference by degree” to the great ones of the earth, the etiquette and conventional “proper thing” at all the varying forms of social gatherings, says ‘‘ldler,” in the New York Post. What minute directions are given as to minor social duties, and what care of the lesser sources of personal beauty, the hair and hands, etc. Should a string of lovely pearls come to her by inheritance, she is taught their value, told how to wear them, and she learns how to compare them with the more or less costly necklaces of her friends; but the dower of her own personal beauty is passed over in silence, and the responsibility of her personal endowments of every character lie there untouched and unexplained. It is not often that she hears frorti her mother that she has had the unmeasurable gift of attraction which a lovely face imparts intrusted to her, nor learns that with it she has received the power to make or mar many lives, and that to win by it love and admiration entails a relative result for which she is answerable. Seldom, indeed, is she directed to fear that she will wound and hurt by the magnetism which draws men's hearts toward her, and yet more rarely is she bidden so to use her inlluence as to require that he who is received into the nearest circle of her friends must bring a clean record of manly life as his entrance title. From whom except a mother can she learn what she is, what she possesses, and what she is meant to accomplish with her great power? Her girls friends, the openeyed public, the lorgnette of the staring opera-goer, the fervid compliments of the world she mingles in, and, if she is the child of a man of importance, alas! even the public prints, tell her broadly enough that she is beautiful; yet constantiy you hear mothers say that they fear to make their daughters vain by speaking to them of their beauty. You cannot hide even from a child that she has this rare possession; surely then it is the plainest duty to dignify and ennoble the dangerous gift, to purify and uplift it by trying to make the owner use it with the unselfish sincerity which cannot deceive, with the modesty which banishes coquetry, and to live up her endowment, so that men must feel that her loveliness only symbolizes her goodness, and that only he can win who is worthy. I earnestly believe tnat to the lack of maternal counsel—counsel which is not for occasions, but which realizes that attaining maturity has transformed her child into a woman who has to encounter the problems of life, not as a spectator or passively, but as an active participant in the effort to solve them aright—are owing half of the miserable failures of modern married life. It aeems a clearly implied duty to make plain to the untried, unknowing girl that betrothals mean more than the receiving of costly rings, many congratulations, and increased freedom, and that marriages are not made up and defined by beautiful trousseaux, elaborate wedding festivities and a gay honeymoon. Why should not this entrance into the world be treated as a thing which, however great its interest may be as an episode in her life, is far more absorbingly interesting us the opening of the door through which her mind and heart are to find their place and work? Why should not her mother make her comprehend her possibilities, her dangers, her duties? Why should she not be made to realize what she is capable of for good or evil, as fully as she would be warned and guided if the world were a wilderness and her dangers physical? Let her know that her liberation from school and schoolmasters is not meant to give her leave to live like a butterfly and without rule, but that life is to be to her anew educator, and that she has duties and limitations under the new regime far more severe and defined than those she has left behind. Her heart will not be heavier for the higher hope, her thoughts will not brood over the exposed dangers; but she will develop a nobler, stronger character and imbibe a wholesome pride in her own Importance in the great drama in which she is to take part. I have spoken as if beauty alone was to be the mother’s ground for counsel, but wit, charm, the sorcery and magic of fascination, all lie waiting for the wise words and tender hand which are to guide them to ennobling use. The mother's heart needs little tutoring to find an inspiring, elevating way to advise the use of all the varying powers, half developed or sometimes yet latent, in her daughter's character, and only she is rightfully their guide.

The Southern Woman. New York Sun. In the typical Southern household the masculine factor is the pivot about which everythin# else revolves. The masculine factor may be represented by a mere youth of seventeen, may be only a baby boy, cr may be an infirm great uncle or irritable guardian or grandfather; it is all the same. Whether husband, cousin, brother-in-law, son or even relation by courtesy, the male factor predominates. “We would rather not have breakfast so late Sunday mornings; it makes us get to church late, but Uncle Billy never breakfasts before half-past 9, and he likes us all to be at the table,” said a young Southern woman in relating a household incident to the writer. “But I should prepare everything nicely for him and leave his breakfast with the cook, and consult my own convenience,” protested her friend. "And leave him to breakfast alone, the only day he has to himself?” The tone and manner with which this was said showed plainly that such a solution of the problem was utterly impossible. The Uncle Billy alluded to was not a vital factor in the household. His orphan nieces owned their home, and he simply lived with thorn and upheld the family dignity. You may be sure that his room was the sunniest and most accessible in the house and his favorite corner by the sitting-room lire a veritable harbor of comfort. with slippers and well-filled tobacco appliances kept always near at hand. In a Southern city where it is against convention for women to be out after nightfall without escorts a party wishing to go church or to visit or to walk, and, having no man to call on, borrows some small nephew or cousin or neighbor for the purpose, no matter how young or immature he may bo, and sets off, satisfied now that this masculine shape attends it. “Why do you not go out? The fresh air will do you good.” was urged- once on sisters scarcely over the first shock of a bereavement. "We haven’t decided about our mourning yet. It is not mnd'e up.” "Well, why not decide? It is suicidal for you to stay so close indoors.” "Well, the mantua maker suggests a fourinch crepe border for our Henrietta gowns, and Uouisa thinks it would be nicer to have them plain. Brother Tom is to come on again from Atlanta soon, and he will decide for us.” Brother Tom came on and decided. He decided in favor of plain-bordered Henriettas, but, having a wife and large family of his own to care for, it is possible that he does not give the serious consideration to the matter that it deserved. His three sisIVrs. however, one of whom held his gloves and hats, while another rubbed an ebstinate spot off his vest and listened breathlessly to his account of his last attack ot neuralgic felt sure that then- could lie no other brother in tho world half so kind and .sympathetic, and interesting. Family ties are strong in the South. In the same city there is a middle-aged woman to whom maturity lias brought, apparently. only additional charm. Hers is a beautiful nature, but sue has never married. and why? Because th*e man of all others whom site cared for long ago her brother did not like. He was a good enough man as mvn go. There were no fundamental objections to ids naraetvr er social standing, but her brother did not like him. so site gave him up. There are traces of such "giving up” discenlble about many other Southern women 10-day. Acquiescence to masculine authority does not desert the Southern woman, even when she is a grandmother, or. perhaps, a greatgrandmother. Her pride in her son’s praise of her new gown or cap is almost girlish, and her faee flushes with pleasure when he tueks the carriage robes tenderly about her and expresses concern as to whether her sunshade is large enough to ward off the afternoon sun. “Don’t drive fast, Tony, mother does not

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like it,’ he charges, and although “mother” may own the equipage and the ground over which she will drive, and knows perfectly well that her orders might be law, she is happy, because her masculine divinity has elected to regulate her life for her. If a woman holds the purse in the typical Southern household, and there are bpys and girls to be educated from the scant funds, the utmost effort will be made to give the boys every chance. The girls needs advantages. too, but it is felt that they could get along without them better than the boysThe native born Southern woman enjoys being pleasant. It is blind instinct with her to smile cordially on the girl who sells her postage stamps, and to utter some truism to the elevator boy as they swing upward that will bring a shade of interest to his automatic face. Some portion of this exuberance of temperament gets ground off when the world rubs against her: she teams to be not so much in earnest and not so dependent. She gets so that she can make a tolerable bargain, too, and even master the first, tho very first beginnings of the art of “pushing,” but that femininity of hers rarely gets rubbed out. It seems to be in the bone. In the Canning Season. New York Times. In canning fruit remember that it is hard and disagreeable work at best, and unless you can come within sight of its highest possibilities “the game is not worth the candle.” Whether it is good, bad or indifferent depends upon your own knowledge and skill. Excluding the air to prevent fermentation is only A B C of success. Fruit must look as well as taste delicious, and, in order to do this, it must retain its natural flavor and appearance and be sweetened with granulated sugar. Fruit for canning must be freshly picked and a little under rather than overripe. All berries except strawberries should be large and firm. With these the smaller the better. Blackberries, no matter how fine or what kind, are never satisfactory and palatable. Cherry pits add much to the flavor, and when removed from the fruit a handful should be tied in a piece of net and put in the center of each jar. Pear seeds should be used in the same way if the core is removed. Cherries are richer and handsomer colored if the syrup is made of half currant juice. The skin of green gage plums should be left on and pierced with a fork before they are cooked. The skin of all other common varieties should be removed. If plums and peaches are immersed in boiling water to loosen the skin only a few shouftl be treated at once and these should be put in a wire basket or seive. After remaining two minutes or so dip in cold water and gently rub off the skins. A silver knife should be used to shred pineapple and to pare pears and quinces. Peaches should be put in syrup as soon as pared, arul pears and quinces in cold water to prevent discoloration. Peaches are firmer and richer if allowed to remain over night in the syrup before they are cooked. Five or six pits should be distributed through each quart jar. The most delicious and natural flavor is obtained by cooking the fruit in the jars. This method always does away with the breakage from handling and adds greatly to its appearance. Pears and quinces are no exception to this rule, but, as both are more quickly cooked tender in clear water, it is more convenient to do so before they are put in syrup. All old jars should be thoroughly cleansed with soda and boiling water, and the airtightness of every jar should be tested with water before they are filled with the fruit, which should be placed in the jar as fast as It is prepared, and the jar filled to the neck with syrup. A flat-bottomed kettle or an ordinary clothes boiler are conve tient for cooking, and a board fitted to tie bottom loosely and closely filled with inch auger holes obviates all danger of breakage. Put the rubber and cover in position, leaving the latter loose; fill the boiler with warn-, water to the neck of the javs and boil gently until the fruit can be easily pierced with a fork. No definite rule for cooking can be given. Ten minutes is usually long enough for berries, while the time required for larger and more solid fruits depends upon their ripeness. Experience soon makes one expert. Take each jar out onto a hot plate, fill to overflowing with boiling water and screw down the top. Tighten as it cooks, and invert to be sure that it is air-tight. The jars should be wrapped In paper to exclude the light, which is more injurious than one is apt to think, and keep in a cool, dry place. The flavor of fruit is much improved if the oxygen is restored by removing the cover an hour or two before it is needed. If rich fruit is desired the following quantities of sugar for each pint jar will be satisfactory, but as the sugar is not the ‘‘keeping power,” much less, or even none, may be used: Strawberries, 7 ounces; cherries, G ounces; peaches, 5 ounces; Bartlett pears, 6 ounces; sour pears, 8 ounces; plums, 8 ounces; quinces, 8 ounces.

What Is to Be Worn. New York Post. This autumn the revived Jersey will have a successful inning. These trim, neat, rather smart and decidedly comfortable garments are a boon to women for many reasons. The former objectionable features of these Jerseys are now removed by the addition of slight trimmings both on bodice and sleeves, and they are thus made no more outlining to the figure in their style than many of the closely adjusted dresswaists formed with outlining darts and curving seams. While fitting the figure perfectly, they are the easiest garments imaginable to wear. A finely fitting waist can be selected in twenty minutes, with no trouble of standing by the hour at the dressmaker’s, no choosing of linings, buttons, trimmings, etc. The w'aist lies before you complete, and this year there are numberless colors, effects and styles to choose from. At a celebrated importing house in this city are exhibited an entirely new invoice ot'the very prettiest and most graceful Jersey models ever manufactured. They show the approved diminutive sleeve puffs, yoke or vest effects, strapped seams, braided bolero fronts, jacket-bodice fronts, double-breasted styles, buttoning from the left shoulder, box-pleated or Norfolk backs, etc. The price of these various garments is not more than one would pay the dressnmker for making a waist, and they will be found more than useful in the making of autumn costumes in black or colors for cycling, tennis, golf yachting and traveling likewise, for they slip very easily under a traveling jacket or ulster, anc! they are far more comfortable for long journeys than any sort of boned bodice, and a degree, at least, more "dressy” than any shirt waist. Among other models sent over as avant couriers of what is later to prevail in the domain of fashion are handsome polonaise costumes for the autumn and winter, showing very small sleeves, skirts slashed from hem to belt on each side of the front, close over the hips, full and expanding at the back, with very elegant accessories on the bodice part. Quite frequently the garment fastens on the left shoulder. The stylish redingote costumes open down the fronts, revealing petticoats and vests of the most expensive and elegant satin brocade or satin embossed silk in very beautiful Persian color-mixtures. Bits of this rich textile show as facings to the leaf points of the sleeves at the wrists and on the inside of the battlemented collars. Home Decoration. New' York Tribune. The difference in result from the expenditure of an equal amount of money in any one direction by any two women is often food for much serious thought to the man who has taken up the paying of bills as a part of his education and life experience. Take the matter of home decoration. An important room is to be partly refurnished, and the allowance is finally agreed upon in the family council. If the preliminary selections of wall papers and stuffs are made only on the general principle that something new' is wanted, the full sum is easily expended, and the things to be retained look older than ever. But there are women who take with them a piece of the carpet, which is not to be given up, a sample of the covering in use on the furniture, and, disregarding the effort of the shopmen to dwell upon the novel effects of the easily sold papers of the season, coldly calculate the color and design required to keep their present belongings from going out of date. And just here it seems good to say a word of praise for those who make up their minds-in advance on certain points which bear heavily on the final selection of papers or fabrics, said a prominent decorator. A little preparation for a shopping tour in search of decorative things is well repaid by the consequent ease of selection, for a clear indication of one’s requirements, given to an intelligent shopman, will often bring a prompt solution of what has seem* <1 a perplexing problem. At the same time, I think that women are apt to place too much reliance on what sal s people say as to style, and lack sufficient insistence on being shown whatever may even stvm to bt.tr on the ques ion under discussion. Clerks are only human at times, and naturally biased in favor of what goes with least pressure; therefore, it is the style, though some trick of design or accident of color may help the thing along, apart from any merit; they pass over lightly much that is good and’ serviceable in a decorative scheme, because it requires skill to harmonize and discretion to use. Thst’e things being so, it becomes women who wish to achieve success in their home

decoration and individuality in their surroundings to take heart in the face of much that is set forth to discourage research, and. with coolness and daring, to proceed with determination on the lines they have laid down beforehand as safe and pleasant. The general result of confidence in professional direction Is frequently expensive, and the usual sequel is the disaster of finding out what one really wants to do after the work is done in accordance with the ideas of another, whose interest ceases with the completion of the scheme. llow Long; Shull a President Serve f Harper's Bazar. It is through the summer leisure and the summer jaunting about that club women have an opportunity to reflect upon certain mooted questions of government, and also to meet and exchange opinions on such questions with other members of the sisterhood. A point for discussion between two New York club women who met at the seashore the other day was that of long and short-term presidencies. As each woman is at the moment at the head of a flourishing metropolitan club their words are perhaps especially impressive. One gave it as her decided opinion, arrived at after a considerable personal experience and careful observation of that of others, that two years, at the minimum, with tfiree or five years or longer in the case of large clubs, was the proper constitutional law’ in relation to the president’s service. “The choice of a president should be sufficiently permanent,” she said, "to insure getting the right person, and when she is in the chair she should feel that she has time to develop her position according to the effort and resolve with which every club president should take the chair.” inti other club woman, with equal insistence, thought the matter of sumcient importance, on the opposite side, to warrant the intervention of the state, or even the general, federation. ••Rotation in office,” said she, "is the life of toe club movement. Every club woman should try the experience of an official position in her organization, and, excepting in some notable instance, like that of Miss Willard, every organized body of women should change its head frequently. In the small clubs I consider it positively essential to their continuance. There is the greatest possible danger in these limited circles of getting into a rut. and nothing so eliminates that possibility as frequent changes of leadership. Until a woman finds herself at the head of a club she and her fellow-members have no idea just what sort of a presiding officer she will make. If it is demonstrated that she is a good one, it is easy to reelect her; if she is not, one year of her is better than three, or even two. The good that is done the woman herself remains about the same, whether she is a good one or a poor one; it has shown to her her own limitations, be tney small or great.” * i .i is almost impossible to come to a decision applicable to all clubs upon this question, which has been a vexed one from the beginning of clubs. The organizations differ so widely in usage that some demand almost a life term, while others thrive on frequent changes in the chair. Oilds anil Ends. The hair d*esser is responsible for the statement that dark hair burns much more easily than light. When a woolen skirt has been wrinkled in packing or any other way it can be made smooth by hanging it out of doors in the dampness on a day when there is not too much moisture in the air. A few drops of alcohol on a cloth are better than soap and water to clean a lampcnimney. Use the soap and water first and apply the alcohol for any spots remaining and to give a fine polish. The metal work of a lamp can be rubbed bright with its own oil. Corn starch will remove grease most effectually. Rub a little fresh, dry corn starch into the soiled place, and it will at or.ce begin the process of absorbing the grease. Brush the first used off carefully Horn the garment, and proceed, in the same way, with more, until the disfigurement has entirely disappeared. Strong efforts are being made to remove even the pretty little puffs and frills from the tops of dress sleeves, leaving them wholly plain. This is not likely to happen any more than is the return of the onebutton glove or the tabooed hoopskirt. There are still a few things which even the ultra-fashionable new woman has ceased to tolerate. In making bags or cases for silverware an unbleached material should be employed. Sulphur is generally used in the bleaching processes, and it tends to blacken and tarnish silver. Rubber in any form is another thing that should never be kept near silverware. Silver is I>est wrappped in blue, white or pink soft tissue paper and unbleached cotton hr flannel bags. To cleanse a white face veil, dip it up and down in lukewarm w ; ater to which a little ammonia has been added. Then rinse in clear tepid water and spread it upon a mirror or window pane. Patience and care must be exercised if the edges are scolloped so that each point will keep its original form. The best method is to hold the scolloped edge of the veil in the hands during the washing; then the scollops will not get so badly out of shape. Oilcloth and linoleum are ruined oftener in the cleaning than in any other manner. Too hot water and the free use of soap are the usual faults in the treatment they receive. Left half wiped, they look very bright while wet, but dingy and streaked when dry, and the colors soon crack and peel orr. A soft flannel and lukewarm water are the best things for general use upon oilcloth, anu you should make sure that it is thoroughly dried after washing. Equal parts of .milk and warm water used upon oilcloth brighten and improve it. Small pieces of fine embroidered insertion and edgings sewed together in whatever shape they happen to be, after the order of the crazy work, and then finished on the edge with a ruffle of embroidery or lace, make a very desirable bureau cover. Pieces of lace may be utilized in the same manner. In a house where there are many children to make clothing for, if the tinv bits that otherwise would be thrown away are saved, it will be surprising to see how‘quickly one accumulates enough odds to make a handsome cover at a trifling expense. %

The Old-Time Circuit. The circus thirty years ago was better far than Tfc&t"dep’hant was a wonder just to see! I could watch him half a day As he fed himseit witn hay, . And each separate beast was worth the price Never clown was half so funny, never monkey half so droll; , .. All the tinsel was pure metal then to me, Even’ acrobat amazing, every rider great, And that small trapeze man—what a man was And when the woman sang "e 1 arted by the Rivcrsidfi*' And "You'll Not Forget” and “You’ll Remember Me," She was really so pathetic r l wiped my eyes and cried; I wanted then to take her home with me. The shows we see in these days are never half so fine; The cost of tickets often bothers me; Though the man still cracks the whip Ar.<l the clown seems pretty flip, T here is nothing imiFh 1 care to hear or see. Thoughts of business, taxes, losses, rheumatism, other crosses, All combine to make the circus seem Quite flat; I ro longer love the songstress, with her paint and frills and flosses, . I no longer want to take her home, at that Eut I’d like to see the old-time show of thirty years ago, . . . When 1 wore no pointed shoes —my feet were bare. When lemonade was nectar And iieanuts were a joy— That old show wtthout a worry or a care! —Pueblo Post. FrnnkneNMt With Friends. The Outlook. It was once said of a very able and noble man that he was a lion in the presence* of his enemies, but that it was very difficult for him to combat the positions or views of his friends. This is the weakness of a generous nature; but it is, nevertheless, a weakness. One ought to be able to deal with one’s friends as frankly, honestly, and intelligently as with one’s critics. In the matter of honest dealing with common interests. for instance, nothing is safe except the most outspoken and uncompromising frankness. The compassionateness which sometimes inclines one to accept a frienu s point of view in the face of one’s better judgment is almost invariably calazjiitous to both parties. It often happens that a man is placed in position with relation to his friend which compels him to act upon his own judgment of his friend’s capacity rather than upon the judgment of that friend. Every man has his limitations and weaknesses, and when those limitations and weaknesses are in any way involved in the settlement of a question they ought to be taken clearly into account by a mans friends. It is no kindness to be pushed into a place for which one is not fitted. It is no kindness to be allowed to have ore’s way when that way involves disaster or disappointment. Real friendship is based on truth and nothing but truth truth always expressed in the language of affection, tenderness and sympathy, but truth nevertheless. It is kinder to point out to a friend that he is not fitted tor the place he is seeking than to let him secure the place and then fail in it: kinder to point out frankly to a friend that the course of action which he urges is not based on an intelligent judgment than to keep silent and allow him to persist in it with the certain result of misfortune and humiliation. We owe our friends the kindness of entire truthfulness; we owe them the immense help of cotnplete frankness, if they do not understand and appreciate our motives, the responsibility rests upon them, and not upon us.

THE LITTLE PROFESSOR AX IXCIDKXT OF A PROSPECTIXG TRIP IX ARIZONA. It Furnished Snpport to the Theory that Rattlesnake* Travel la Pairs —Ttvo Exhibitions of Serve. - New York Sun. “We had a good deal of fun with the little professor on our prospecting trip to Mala.v?rsa canyon,” said Estes Mutrfleld, a. mining man, formerly of Arizona. “A prospector had come into Tombstone from that section with such a show of gold and silver specimens that the Shurtleff Mitjjng Development Company asked me to make up a party to go out and explore the canyon thoroughly and report whether it wculd be worth while to buy the man's claims and begin operations there. Our party, when we got together, was made up of five besides myself—a cook, a packer, two miners and the professor. We had to pack our tools, blankets and provisions on the backs of burros, and when I saw the outfit that Professor Von Haufmann was preparing to take along I groaned in spirit and rose up to protest. There was enough in the way of retorts, crucibles and blow pipes to set three ordinary mine camp assayers up in business, and, as if this were not enough, ho had books for pressing plants and flowers and two jars of alcohol for preserving bugs and reptiles. “ ‘lt’ll take a string of burros reaching from here to Malaversa to carry all that truck,’ I told the company’s agent. But the agent jollied me, and said he was sure I could find some way to take the stuff along; that the professor was a mighty knowing man about minerals and analyses, and the company wanted the specimens tested on the spot, so that fair averages could be obtained. I gave in at last, hired extra burros, and we made our start. It was a six days’ journey, over the roughest kind of mountain country, to Malaversa, and on the first night out we came near shipwreck through Pete, the cook, getting hold of one of the professor’s alcohol jars and starting in for a royal drunk, with the other boys standing ready to join him. 1 got it away from him in time, and the professor and I passed the rest of the night on guard over the stuff, turn and turn about, with a shotgun across our knees. In the morning I set the boys to hunting, and in an hour there were centipedes and spiders and scorpions enough in the alcohol jars to destroy the taste for the liquor, even in Pete. But it rankled in the cook’s mind that neat spirits should be ruined in this way, and ho laid it up against the professor until the time when he thought he saw his chance to get even with him. THE PROFESSOR HAD SAND. “This chance came about two w r eeks after our arrival in Malaversa, on the day we moved camp from the lower to the upper canyon. The professor by this time had got to be fairly popular with the boys. He was a round-faced, German-looking little man, who was busy in every hour of daylight, analyzing, botanizing, collecting animal and mineral specimens and looking for Indian antiquities. In the evening he would talk, if we urged him, in a way mighty interesting to us, for miners, you know, never miss a chance to inform themselves in scientific matters connected with their calling. As for his ‘sand,’ we had had no chance to test it; but for a tenderfoot just come to the West he stood hardships well, never shirking or grumbling. At the close of this day, as we sat at supper around the cloth spread on the ground, in the open air, Pete, who was serving us, stooped beside the professor under pretense of taking up a disn to be refilled. A minute later he pitched a yell so loud and sudden that it made me spill the coffee I was just lifting to my lips. “ ‘Good Gawd, professor, don’t move!’ he shouted. ‘Thar's a rattier coiled right at yer elbow.’ “Most of us had thought of Indians when the cook made his outcry, but the thing was bad enough, for one of the party, at least, as it was. By the professor’s side, so near him that by dropping his arm he would have touched it, a large rattlesnake lay coiled, its head resting upon the coils In the attitude of waiting. The thing was so sudden and terrible that we all sat motionless except the man next the professor, on the other side of the snake, w r ho edged away until he was beyond reach of any possible stroke, and then jumped and run. “ ‘Keep perfectly still. He W’on’t strike if you don’t move.’ ‘Who can trust his aim to shoot the critter’s head off?’ ’No. that won't do. The bullet might glance in the ground and hit any of us.’ ’That’s so. And if the snake isn’t killed dead first pop, it's all day with the professor,’ was said by one man or another. * “The professor, the coolest man of the lot. was looking down at the snake carefully through his spectacles. Still keeping his eyes on the reptile, he reached his hand down to his tin cup of coffee, within a foot of the snake's jaws, raised it to his lips and drank calmly. Then, as we looked on astounded at this performance, he tilted his cup above the snake, spilling a little hot coffee on its head. “ ‘Don't let this incident disturb your supper, gentlemen,’ he said, politely. 'The reptile was dead an hour ago.’ “Pete, who had been holding in his merriment w’ith difficulty ever since he cried ‘snake,’ lost his chance to laugh. The rest of us saw the joke and where it had landed. and for the rest of the evening the cook was one of the best laughed-at men that ever served about a grub pile. He was glad enough when the last man had rolled himself up in his blanket to go off to sleep on the ground In the open air. Even this man did not close his eyes until he had given the cook a parting reminder; “ ‘Say, Pete, you’d better sling that snake clear of the camp. Rattlers are apt to travel in pairs, you know, and if this one's mate comes round in the night looking for him some of us may run up against a livesnake game more risky than a dead one.’ SAVED BY THE PROFESSOR. “Pete’s answer was a profuse one, but, lying half asleep, I heard him throw the snake’s body off into the brush. Then he tumbled into his blankets, and the camp was still. It was a yell from him that, some time toward morning, brought all of us to our feet, every man grabbing his gun and looking around for danger. It was a scary sight that our eyes rested on when we found out the trouble. In the bright moonlight, the cook, clad only in shirt and drawers, was standing still as a graven image, with his blankets fallen about his feet. Round his neck was coiled something that twisted and moved—something gray, and round, and long, and thick —and we saw that the thing that swung to the left and right, reaching sometimes beyond his shoulder a.nd again curving back directly in front of the man’s white face, was.the heavy, triangular head ot an enormous rattlesnake, uncertain whether to stay where it was or glide off and fall to the ground. “ ’Keep still, Fete. Don’t move for your life,’ was all we eould say to him, and this was unnecessary, for the man, after his first outcry, seemed paralyzed with tear. The danger was deadly and imminent, for the snake, startled at the sight of the persons standing around, was becoming active and restless, tightening its coil and extending its head threateningly toward one or the other of us. The mans agony was terrible; we could almost feel his shuddering where we stood, yet there seemed nothing that we could do for his rescue. Any move of ours that should anger the snake would be sure to result in the reptile’s setting his fangs into Pete, the one living object within its reach. “Then, as the snake extended its head toward me, reaching sidewise from Pete's shoulder, someone on the opposite side stepped quickly to tho trembling man, something moved above his shoulder quicker than my eye could follow, and the reptile’s jaws, opened now to their full width, tried vainly to turn upon the hand of Prof. Von Haufmann, clutched like an iron band around its neck. “ ‘Quick with your knives!’ called the professor, holding on like grim death. There was need that we move quickly, for the snake had tightened in a strangling coil round Pete’s neck in the effort to draw its head back or thrust it through the hand that gripped its neck. It took all the Professor's strength to keep his hold, but it was required only for a few seconds. Our hunting knives were out and the snake was in half a dozen pieces sooner than I can tell it. “The professor dropped the snake's head and its remaining half foot of body to the ground and laughed. “ 'His head will be a good specimen. I shall dissect it.’ he said. He turned to Pete, who had sunk to the ground in a state of collapse. What you think of the rattlesnake for a joke now?’ he asked. ‘You need some stimulant this time. You shall have it.’ “He searched among his stores and came to Pete with a flask in his hand. " ‘Here, take this and drink—drink well;

once more. now. That will do you good. I think I take a little myself.’ “This ended the professor’s novitiate In our camp. We went back to Tombstone in six weeks with an adverse report on the mine property; but in that six weeks nothing in camp was too good for Von Haufmann. Pete lay awake nights to think up good things to cook for him. and was prouder than a peacock when the professor engaged him. a week after our return, as guide and cook in a private exploration he had decided to take down across the Mexican border.” OUT OF THE ORDINARY. The 180.000 immigrants who arrived in New York last year brought with them an average of less than $4 each in money. The share of land falling to each inhabitant of the globe in the evvnt of a partition would be about twenty-three and a half acres. Tho only two civilized countries in the world in which a white man is not permitted to acquire civil rights or own property are Liberia and Haiti. The census of Egypt taken on June 14 showed a population of 9,700,000, an increase of 2 000,000 since ISS2; in other words, a gain of 42 per cent, in 15 years. The crystal palace at Sydenham is capable of holding a greater number of people than any other building in the world. More than 100,000 can be accommodated within its walls. A clock In St. Petersburg has ninety-five faces, indicating simultaneously the time at thirty different spots on the earth’s surface, besides the movements of tire earth and planets. The most costiv piece of railway line In the world is that between the Mansion House and Aldgate stations, in London, which required the expenditure of close upon £2.0u0,000 a mile. School teaching seems to be the most popular of all fields that are open to college women. In 1890 there were in the United States 735 women who were professors in colleges and universities. The British War Office is about to make an exhaustive test of anew gun. which fires 1,000 shots in two minues and three seconds, and which can in an emergency fire eleven shots per second. Every dollar of gold in the world has cost over $2. and of every fifty thousand gold mines in the world only two have paid. These are statistics which ought to stagger even a person who is getting ready to go to Alaska. Until a few years ago the wholesale price of ivory was $3 a pound. In consequence of the opening up of new districts in Africa to colonization the value has fallen to $2. An ordinary elephant yields about 120 pounds of merchantable ivory. The speculators who hoped to make a large fortune during the English jubilee by renting seats found that instead of making money they were lucky to escape total ruin. One concern which went extensively into the business lost nearly SSO.OOO. It is a curious fact that the delicacy as to mentioning the age of women is no piece of modern sensitiveness. In the Old Testament. although great numbers of women are mentioned, there is but one—Sarah, Abraham’s wife —whose age is recorded. The pass of Thermopylae was defended, not by 300, but by at least 7,000 Greeks, or, according to some writers, 12,000. The 300 wore the Spartan contingent, who showed no more bravery on that occasion than their companions in arms from other Greek states. All the flags for British ships of war, except the royal standards, are made in the government dock yards, and the enormous number required may be judged from the fact that in the color loft at Chatham alone about eighteen thousand flags are made in a year. The French method of administering castor oil to their ailing children is truly characteristic. The oil is poured into a pan over a moderate fire, as egg broken into it and the mixture well stirred. The omelette thus made is served with a little salt, sugar or a spoonful of currant jelly. In 1875 a law was passed prohibiting the use of the portraits of living men on the United States stamps, thus placing living men in the same position that women occupied, whether dead or alive, for no woman’s portrait has ever graced a stamp belonging to the United States, postal or revenue. Tobacco is now known and cultivated in the far East, but there is no trace of it before the journey of Columbus. At the present day th? amount of taxes our government has collected from tobacco since IS6S is about $1,000,000,000. France, Spain and Italy make tobacco dealing a monopoly. Tho library of Congress ranks sixth among tho libraries of the world in its present contents. France has the largest, England n cxl, then comes Russia and Germany follows with her libraries in Alunich, Berlin and Strasburg, the last named holding almost equal rank with ours in Washington. The little village of Hartford, on the Perquimans river, in eastern North Carolina, boasts the possession of the only floating bridge, supported by air-tight whisky barrels, in the-world. The bridge was the happy idea of an old inhabitant half a century ago, and its result still stands, a monument to his genius. Tt is a strange fact that while the teeth of the negro on the old plantations were remarkable for their whiteness, those of the freed negro of the present day are in an infinitely worse condition than those of his white brother. This is owing entirely to tho change of diet, and the colored man’s v/eakness for sweetmeats. There are 110 mountains in Colorado whose peaks are over 12,000 feet above the ocean level. Forty of these are higher than 14,000 feet, and more than half of that number are so remote and rugged that no one has dared to attempt to climb them. Some of them are massed with snow, others have glaciers over their approaches and others are merely masses of jagged rocks. The distance from Liverpool to London is 201 miles. On each side of the railroad, as far as the eye can reach, the most beautiful and most splendidly cultivatel farms present themselves. But not one foot of the land belongs to those who have thus brought it to such beauty and perfection. It all belongs to six men, who own it because they happen to be the oldest sons of their fathers. Stamps were put on the market in August, 1847, but were so little used that the government had to pass a law enforcing prepayment of postage, which went into effect in 1855. Before this action was taken scarcely one letter in a dozen was found with a stamp affixed. To-day the post offices of the country sell 4,000,000.000 stamps (counting postal cards, stamped envelopes and stamps of all kinds), valued at $75,000,000, during a single year. Salt cellars first came into use in medieval t.rnes; there was only one on the table, and it held from two to three quarts. The salt was placed about the middle of the table’s length. At the upper end sat the lord of the castle or palace and his intimates, and the salt cellar marked the dividing lino between the associates of the nobleman and his dependants, so that t© “sit below the salt” meants social inferiority.

Hl’MOIl OF THE DAY. A Greek Gift. Chicago Slips. Visitor—Does mamma give you anything for being a good boy? Tommy—No; she gives it to me when I ain't. Too Expensive. Leslie’s Weekly. She—Oh. how delightful it would be to drift on like this forever and ever! He (who had hived the boat)—Not at 75 cents an hour. Only a Hint. Judge. Mr. Gotrox—What would you expect me to do for my daughter if you marrivd her? Georgie Goodthlng (slightly embarrased) —You—er—■wouldn’t be willing to die for her, would you? A Compromise. Philadelphia North American. Carrie—He said he would go to the end of the earth for me. Maud—What did you say? Carrie—l proposed that he compromise and simply go home. An Inducement Wanted. Truth. She—What do you think of the proposition to tax bachelors with a view to encouraging matrimony? He—l think it would be much better to give a bounty with wives. Children of the Century. Judge. Mrs. Tenspot—l am so glad that you are engaged to Harold Willoughby. Was it a long courtship? Miss Skidmore—Not very. Mycyclometer registered about 100 miles. A I .our' Ways Off. Cleveland Plaindealer. “Mr. Joslin. I wish you'd dispose of that measly, worthless cur.” “Mrs. Joslin, you don't know what you are talking about. That noble animal is worth $3U —on th’e Klondike.” A Tricky Man. Cleveland Leader. ‘ That man Nlbley isn’t to be trusted. He'd take advantage of you quicker than a wink, if he saw a chance to do so.” “How do you know that?” “I overheard him and hla wife In an ar-

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Popular prices . . , On the Largest Line of Fine Carriages In the State. H. T. CONDE IMPLEMENT CO. . 1 .mi. ■■■ gument last night, and when h’e saw she was getting ahVad of him he yelled: ‘Look out! There's a mouse.’ ” A Natural Inference. Puck. “Did you hear what Whimpton's little boy said when they showed him the twins?’’ “No; what was it?” “He said: ‘There! Mamma’s been gettin’ bargains again.’ ” Suggestion* of a Scoffer. Chicago Tribun’e. Foreigner—l notice all your. policemen tvear stars. What is the special significance of that? Native American—None, I reckon, unless it is that you often see a star shooting and you never see it hit anything. The Retort Professional. Judge. Doctor Mugwump—But why isn’t th® country prosperous now, with McKinley more than three months in office? Patient Hardsense—You are treating me for a fractured leg. Why don’t you make me able to walk in three days? In Chicngo. Boston Transcript. Insurance Agent—You want the policy made out in favor of your wife? Her name, please? The Victim—Don’t you think we’d better leave the name out? It will save so much trouble from time to time, you know. , A Heavy Load. Judge. Ella—l thought you were going to Chicago to visit Bella. Stella—No, I have postponed my trip, as she writes that she isn’t well. Ella—All Chicago girls hat'e that tired, feeling from carrying their feet around. Correct. Puck. Teacher—A rich man dies and leaves a million dollars—one*fifth to his son. onesixth to his daughter, one seventh to his wife, one eighth to his brother, and the rest to foreign missions—what does each one get? Little Willie Briefs—A lawyer! Emlmssndorn unit .Ministers. Illustrated American. In the diplomatic service of the United States embassadors are now accredited to Great Britain. France, Germany and Italy, and our government in turn receives embassadors from these four nations. Prior to 1993, no diplomatic agent of higher rank than that of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary (which latter term generally means less than its derivation implies) ever represented the United States In foreign countries. Minister resident is the rank customary. The terms embassador, minister and envoy are often used rather indiscriminately. There is 'excuse for this vagueness, as it is doubtful whether the distinctions have yet been laid down with final and absolute Clearness. The following divisions of diplomatic agents into four classes is, however, generally accepted: (1), embassadors, legates and nuncios; (2). ministi rs, envoys and others accredited to sovereigns; (3, resident ministers; (4). charges d’affaires. Embassadors represent the person of their sovereign, and are received with almost equal dignity to that which would be accorded him. Ministers, in contradistinction, are regarded as representing their sovereign in his affairs rather than in his person. Tne ministers resident deal usually with the state department, and not with thv* person of the ruler of the foreign country. Charges d'affaires act in the absence of their ministers, and are. therefore, only what may be termed, substituted representatives.