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UNCERTAINTY.
lThat rifts bag Fate In store for me?
(Tbe coming year dawns soon)
' Shall 1 at Icdian summer's fire
Forget the flowers of June?
Piess srapes throuph days of purple btM,
L)r am li.roi.rh the autumn moon?
Stir to the speckled quail's clear note
i On chill December s noon?
Khali I descry throurt bare black tree
That bhape I dread and know,
A cauut pray wolf w ith huncry eyes
A-bkuikiup through the snow?
Ah: down Ijread s lane Death sings a socjt
So stranpeiy sweet and low.
Ee savs: "Why hasten on thy path,
I give thee peace for woe."
And down Hope s lane Sleep binds a w reatfc
Of poppies wrought with bay ;
Be giVrs the pilgrim happy dreams
To ieed him on his way;
For hope, with tempting promises
Throi.gh summer' go;den day.
Fulfills in autumn's fruited store
The presage of the May.
Apast the lanes of Hope and Dread
V here Druid oak trees wait.
Fate sp us tLe thrt ad of destiny,
Sot pauses soon or late.
Xf ii a j t rand of rainbow bue
Or black as night grown late?
i:y heart is but a cow ard's heart.
1 uare not Question Fate.
Nancy 11. Waddle, in N. Y. Independent.
JUMPED BY THE SIOUX.
Hard Luck of an Exploring Party
in the Yellowstone.
My story begins back at Bozeman in
B4," said James Gourley at the Montana
lub to a .New York Sun re porter. "Boze
xnan was then a town where thing's
went on a run a regular bird with the
leathers on. It was a day all night in
the night time, as the poet, Cy Waiman,
wrote about Creede. The streets were
died with bull teams, fighting' freig-b.tr
rs, stampeders and strangers from
every corner of the country. The
g-atubling houses never stopped to clean
the bark from the floor, and on every
corner you would see groups of men
listening- to some orator who had dis
covered a new gulch. Everybody had
money and blew it, because he expected
to have loads of it before spring.
"Well, one day in the gold exchange
I happened to save a young- fellow
named Wiseman from a row, and we
6truek up an fcequaintance. He had
been sent out by the government to ex
plore an unknown region now known
as the Yellowstone park and bad come
to liozeman to start the expedition.
Be wanted me to make the outfit,
agreeing to pa3r for everything and let
me boss the train at a salary of five
hundred dollars in gold a month. 1
put up the figure because I knew we
were going to have trouble with the
Sioux. Then I picked out three good
men all devil-may-care fellows who
would fight to the line. There was
Henry Maloney, a young fellow who
bad gone wild in tbe east and whose
people paid him a salary to keep away
f.-om home; a freighter called 'Eight
Side Jack, because when drunk he
was always claiming to be right side
up, and a Brule who had come down
the spring before from the Red river
country and was a rattling good cook.
"We fitted out two wagons, loaded
with the best of everything that Uncle
Sam's money would buy, calculating to
live well anyhow, even if nobody got
back alive. We weren't thinking much
about that, but I knew it was risky
business. The boys gave us a good
send oil at the Gold Exchange corner,
and off. we started, going down the val
ley toward the Yellowstone, which we
expected to follow south until we
reached the geyser country. Nobody
in the crowd knew much about these
geysers then. Two years before a trap
ped said he came from there after hav
ing a tight with Indians, but so far as
we knew he was the only white man
that had ever been there. I recollect
his telling that these geysers were big
tr'eams that come from hell, and, ac
cording to what the Sioux Indians taid,
the water boiled only wheu the devil
was getting ready to cook the Chey
ennes. Then he said, besides, that there
was a big hole where be looked down
and saw big bars of gold all stamped, J
but we thought he -was crazy or lying
and didn't pay much attention to him
I remember Wisetnan we called him.
the professor saying that' it wouldn't
surprise him much V find gold, seeing
that the country had been sort of torn
to pieces by earthquakes, and of course
that set us all on an edge and kept us
thinking how we would go back home
and cut a figure with Vanderbilt and
the rest of them.
"Nothing occurred much to disturb
us for the first week out. The weather
was fine, for it was in the fall of the
year and the traveling was good for H
conntrv where there were no trails.
We found good game along the Yellow
stone, which we struck and followed
down. There were plenty of fine an
telopes, which were mighty shy. And
there was no end of black-tailed deer,
mountain trout and birds. We didn't
see any Indian signs for ten days, or in
fact until we got along about wherti
Cinnabar now stands for the entrance
to the park Then one morning when
I got up early to catch a mess of trout
for breakfast I looked over across the
range which lay to the west of us
about twenty miles, and I see a long
line of blue smoke curling ud into the
air in a funnel shape. The air was
cool and clear, and I could see the
smoke lined out as clear cut as a knife
This settled the question about In
dians, and after breakfast I told the
bovs we must be on the dead open
watch. They all said they didn't care
much and tried to get some fun out of
the Brule by telling aim that when the
Indians there got hold of a half breed
they cooked him alive the same as they J
would a hsh. 1 Ins joke turned out to
have more truth than poetry.
"We traveled alonp during the day
at a slow rate. Eight Side Jack riding
ahead of the train a quarter of a mil
or so, and I tin one side, so as to watch
out for signs. A Sioux Indian, you
know, beats the world for sneaking on
a wagon tram. lie don't follow up on
a crawl like other Indians. He goes
ahead to meet you, and then seems to
rise right up out of the ground and
tackle you before you know whether
you are on the prairie or in the queen'
drawing-room. We didn't see anything
out of the ordinary till along in the
afternoon, when two more lines of
moke appeared ahead instead of on
one side of us, but each on an opposite
ide of the range, which was narrowed
down close and not far from the
canyon. I sensed it that the Indians
had gone ahead of us during the day,
and were gathering to meet up at a
pass which 1 judged must be between
the two ranges.
"That night we camped close to a
big height of rocks so as to guard one
side, and after putting out the fires
moved a half mile from the wagons to
throw the Sioux off the track. Ma
loney stood guard, but the morning
came without any trouble and we
started on,
"In the middle of the day we got
right into the geyser country, and I
tell you it was a sight. The first
ge-ser we saw was what they now call
Oid Faithful, but which the professor
named the Abe Lincoln. It was run
ning then all the time instead of at in
tervals as now shooting tbe hot water
high in the air it seemed like a mile
and scattering it all around the lava
basin. All around tte ground was
torn and broken until it looked like
the devil's own home. The poor Brule
fell on his knees and crossed himself,
while the rest of us stood around and
listened to a lecture from the profeaaor.
We stood there maybe ten minutes
when there came a 'zim, im.'
" Drop to the ground, I yelled, 'face
down.
"Down they dropped and then came
another zim' and no more. 'Good God!'
says I to the boys, 'we're in for it now."
How under the sun them Indians got
rifles I don't krow, but I turned pale
right there when I saw what shape the
fight was going to take. There we
were in an open plat of ground and
nothing to prevent the swarm coming
down on us, but for some reason they
didn't come, and when we got to our
feet and ready to fight not an Indian
was in sight. But that didn't stop us
from being scared. The Brule kept
crossing himself until his buckskin
shirt was white from the marks of his
fingers, which had been buried in the
alkali dust. Tbe professor, I recollect,
said:
"Gourley, why didn't you tell us
these Indians had guns?'
"'When you get back to Washington
you ask the government where they
got 'em, says L
' 'He will never get back,' says Ma
loney. "That was about the talk, as near as
1 can recollect. After waiting a half
hour, maybe, we got back on our hands
and knees to the wagon, which we
found all right because the shots
seemed to come from the other side of
the range. Then we held a council of
war, and decided for the night to move
on into the opening of the canyon,
where we could see another mound of
rocks which would protect us. We
were never considering how to get out
of the cursed place, only thinking
about a safe place to live from one
hour to the t ther. Right alongside of
these rocks we found two springs, one
bubbling hot water and the other cold
as ice. Both springs are now dried fuit
That was the toughest out of a good
many tough nights I have ..pent We
again put out the fires after picketing
the houses a half mile away so that
their noise wouldn't bring the Sioux
down on us, and there we lay close to
gether cursing our luck for ever com
ing into such a hell mint as that was,
and doubly cursing the government.
The Brule moaned in broken French,
while Maloney, who wanted some fun,
kept asking whether he wanted to be
parboiled with or w ithout onions. The
professor, who knew nothing about In
dians, tried to cheer us up by saying
that maybe we had heard only chance
shots. 'Small chance for you,' I
thought, 'if you hear any more.'
. "Finally the morning broke, but it
took a long while for daylight to get
down through the canyon after we
could see the light on the hilltops. No
body had slept a wink, but we did not
seem tired; excitement, I guess, kept
us awake, and some way or other we
all felt more chetrful though knowing
that the danger was all the greater
with daylight. I had the same feeling
once after that when in a three-wceks-running
Indian fight in the Wolf moun
tains. It is a kind of don't-care feeling
that grows on you in danger.
"When the morning was fairly on we
got off our rifles, on which we had
been sleeping, and, after taking a
drink, began to think about breakfast.
I went over to the wagons, which I
found safe enough, and packed up some
coffee and canned stuff and some eggs,
which we had brought packed in salt,
After a few more drinks, the Brule
warmed up so that he could cook.
When he reached the eggs, 1 took 'em
and says what's the matter with boil
ing them in this spring of hot water?
They all agreed, so I dropped a bucket
in the spring, and then in a joking way
1 turned and said:
"How will you have your eggs
' Eggs? There came a Sioux war
whijop from the canyou mouth with a
hell's mint of bullets. Wow! It
make s try marrow bones shake now to
thin it of !t I saw Right Side fall to
his knees nd heard the Brule yell as
I s;ang tr. my feet and ran down that
cat. .von on jumps that would make an
elk tight l'or second place, and (lod
cnly knows why I wasn't killed after
the -first jump. Bullets singing around
me with on! in my shoulder, and the
yeli echoing from the high walls of
the canyon until it seemed like the
whole place was alive with spirits from
another world. I have been in hard
placet, br.-. I never was in such a jack
pot as that, thengh I had no time to
thnk of danger then. I ran down that
canyon without looking behind once,
and teemed to fly, never stopping un
til I saw by the sun that It was well
along in the afternoon.
"When I did stop, it was when a care
opened up so big that 1 ran right into
it, and there I fell, almost dead, on a
rock damp with the lime water that
was dropping from above. It seemed
like I was almost insane from fright
and exhaustion, but I still knew
enough to look out and Bee that there
were no Indians in sight, and then fell
asleep on the rock. That night I
dreamed the fight all orer, only think
ing that it ended in our clearing out
the Indians, instead of being whipped
ourselves. Then I thought that we
had found the gold bars and had gone
overland to Omaha, and there struck a
train of yellow cars which carried us
to New York, where we hart a time.
You can imagine my feelings when I
woke up on that rock, wet through
with lime water, and so sore and tired
and hungry that I almost wished the
Indians had got me.
"Well. I got out of there finally to get
something to eat, but there you see 1
was in another fix. I had dropped my
gun in order to run easier and had no
matches or a way to start a fire even if
1 had anything to eat. 1 found a few
berries which I ate, thinking maybe
they were poisonous, but not caring
much, and there was nothing else in
sight. Then 1 started boldly down the
canyon, having decided to take my
chances with the Indians instead of
starving to death there. 1 knew it was
no use to go back for the Indians had
taken everything, and my only thought
was to get out of the blamed canyon
and strike for Bozeman by the direc
tion of the sun, for my compass was
gone with the rest of the outfit. That
night I camped again without having
found anything to eat. and another
miserable night it was, and in. the
morning I was about ready to die.
However, I took a bath in the alkali
water of a stream running through and
made another start,
"About noon that day I reached
what looked like an outlet from the
walled sides of the canj'on, and fol
lowed this in the desperate hope that it
might lead somewhere. All day loug I
climbed up tbe wedged rocks, so that
the buckskin shirt was nearly torn off
from me. When night came the moon
arose, and by the faint light I could
see enough to worry along. Along
about daylight I saw the top, and after
no end of climbing, until my feet were
bleeding and my hands torn from hold
ing on to the rocks, I reached the top.
Almost the first thiug I saw was a bush
of Rocky Mountain plums, and the way
I went for it was a caution. I eat
enough of 'em to give a traiaload of
men the cholera morbus, but I was
braced up considerable and able to
start along again, having sighted the
sun for the north.
"Considerably to my surprise I had
seen no Indians, and I judged that the
ones that attacked us must have been
a wandering band, or that a big coun
cil was being held somewhere. The
next day, however, I came square into
an open plo protected by a small
grove of mountain pines, and what do
you think? Iiight in the center, on a
tree behind a pile of burned-out ashes,
was the body of that Brule cook, lied
with deerskin throngs and cut and
slashed in a thousand places. The
heart had been cut out and the ears
and nose slashed off, so that, alto
gether, it was a horrible sight. It
made me quiver to look at it and thank
my lucky stars that they had never
catched me alive. I tell you, I got, out
of there m'ghty quick after finding a
few slices of dried cieer meat on the
ground, which tasted mighty good, aud
1 guess Eaved me from starvation.
But I had a tough enough time after
that. It was a good ten days travel
on horseback from the nearest white
man, and I had given up all hopes of
meeting anyone on the way. I was
pretty well satisfied after seeing the
Brule that nobody but myself had got
away alive.
"To make a long story short, I got
out of the country after such sufferings
as 1 never want to have again. I lived
on berries and grass and fish which I
caught by making a small dam on the
Yellowstone and letting the water run
out until the fish were stranded. I
boiled them in one of the hot springs
scattered over the country, and worried
along one way and another until I had
begun to think that I was lost. 1 hen
one morning I felt a kick in the ribs,
and right there before me was a trap
per called Long Henry, on accoui.t of
h:a size. He fed me up and took n e to
Bozeman, and there I found that tot a
sign had been seen of the rsst of the
party. The next spring a party of
trappers came back reporting that they
had found three skeletons and the
pieces of the wagon and rest of the
outfit around an old camp V. Of
course that settled it, though I was
satisfied before that they wea all
dead. Anyhow, I made a report o the
government and to Maloney 's fo.ther,
who came out in the summe and
seemed to feel pretty bad over the
boy's death, saying that he hadr't use"
him right,
"Well, all this happened thirt? years
ago, so long that it had dropped out of
my mind until last year when f went
down to California to see if the climate
wouldn't help an old knife wound thit
I got in the Wolf mountain flpht. Of
course there ain't no need to say thnt I
was ready for a little fun when 1 go, to
San Francisco, but I didn't know any
body and got pretty lonesome like, and
was thinking of moving down to Sa
Diego. One night I was leaning against
the bar in the Baldwin house. I saw
a big. well-dressed fellow come in and
eye me pretty close and walk by in
tvice, looking sharp at me all the tin;-.
"Then he walks up when my back
was turned and got close to my ear aud
s uuict like:
' Hard boile.L
"Yes, that was the man Henry Ma
louey and we had a wreat old timi
down at his rani h near Mariposa and
fine ranch it is. Now it don't often ha f
pen that a man remembers .o answer
i, B'mple question after waiting twenty-eight
years. As to how Malony got
away from the Sioux who captured him
along with the Brule--well, that is an
other story."
THE TARIFF AND WAGES.
Falsa Alarm of Monopolistic American
Manufacturers.
From many quarters we hear of re
ductions of wages in manufacturing
establishments, and from more we
hear threats of reduction in case the
Wilson bill becomes law. The reduc
tions which have actually been made
are the results of the business depres
sion, which is due primarily to the
panic of last summer and the inevitably
slow and painful process of recovery.
The threatened reductions are vocifer
ously declared to be the necessary re
sult of the lower duties. For twenty
years it has been preached and pro
claimed that a high tariff makes wages
high, and that a low tariff means a re
duction -of wages to the pauper limit
of Europe. We are told that now we
shall have the proof of the pudding in
the eating. What is the truth of the
matter?
The notion that the general high
range of wages in the United States is
due to the high protective system is
really one of the most preposterous of
the many preposterous ideas on eco
nomic subjects which have had vogue
in this country. The reader who will
look in the books on political economy
to see what they have to say about
wages and about the causes which
make them high and low will find
plenty of difference of opinion on this
topic arnoug the economists; but the
one thing he will not find any reput
able writer to say is that the protective
system makes wages high or that a
free-trade system makes them low. If
the books are supposed to be the works
of abstract theorists, who keep far
from the realities of life, we need only
regard a few simple and obvious facts
of history to discover that a high tariff
cannot be the cause of high wages.
This country has tried almost every
sort of tariff system, beginning in 17SD
with duties which the protectionists of
our day would consider outrageously
low, and- ending a century later in the
McKinley tariff act, with duties which
the free-trader considers outrageous
high. Throughout all the vacillations
of tariff policy, under revenue tariffs
and moderate tariffs and extreme tar
ill's, wages here have been steadily
higher than in European countries.
The simple explanation is that this is a
country of rich and abundant resources,
developed by an active, energetic and
ingenious people, in which the great
productiveness of industry insures a
high range of material welfare. Wages
with us are high from permanent and
abiding causes, and. fortunately, do
not depend on tariff legislation or any
other artificial prop.
With th s it is not inconsistent to ad
mit freely that the wages of some par
ticular classes of laborers, in some
limited groups of manufacturing indus
tries, may be seriously affected by the
duties. The high duties of the last
generation have forced into existence
some industries in which the efficiency
of labor and capital is not up to the
general average, and in which the
manufacturer who pays high wages to
his workmen is not compensated by
their greater skill, energy and produc
tiveness. In industries of this sort the
free competition of foreign producers,
payiDg lower wages, would compel
either a reduction of wages or an
abandonment of the industry. Where
there is really such a connection be
tween the duties and high wages every
one would say that congress should
proceed with the utmost care, and
should not expose to a sudden reversal
of fortune or a sudden change of occu
pation the workmen whom our tariff
legislation has induced to enter into
weak-kneed industries. The same is
true of the capital embarked in them.
Vested rights should receive thtir due
consideration. We believe they have
received their due consideration in the
Wilson bilL There may be reductions
that go beyond the danger-line in some
particular duties; but have we not been
authoritatively told that even the Mc
Kinley bill made a mistake or two?
The common-sense and the political in
terest of the democrats may be trusted
to prevent them from making changes
that promise to be really destructive;
and the testimony of the protected
manufacturers as to the effect of duties
must be received with the same allow
ances as the pleading of a lawyer for
his client.
But the number of shaky and de
pendent industries, as compared with
the whole manufacturing system, is
insignificant; and in any case there is
no threat of free competition from
abroad. From the clamor which has
been raised it might be supposed that
the Wilson bill gave up all protective
duties entirely, aud that all foreign
goods were going to come in on easy
terms. The fact is that the Wilson
bill is a careful and conservative meas
ure, and that the duties, even as re
duced, stil leave a large margin ot pro
tection for the domestic manufacturer.
It must be remembered, too, that the
temptation to make partisan capital
out of reductions and threats of reduc
tions of wages is one of the many bad
results of that unfortunate alliance of
politics and manufacturing which has
marked the history of the last ten
years. The manufacturer who objects
to the Wilson bill because it will cut
down his profits, or compel him to in
troduce economies and ijaprove his
methods to meet foreign competition is
likely to proclaim that he will reduce
wages, just as he will virtually cemped
his operatives to sign petitions against
the tariff bill, aU with "the hope of
staving off the inevitable. No doubt,
too, many manufacturers are in good
faith fearful of the consequences of the
proposed measure. They have been
told for ye2.rs that their business de
ponds upon the tariiT, and that they
cannot p::y their wages unless bolstered
up by t;ie tarnf. They are fearful and
uncertain of what may happen, and
they jo.n in the general alarm. Under
the.-e conditions the thing to do is to
pass the tariiT act with all possible
i.peed, and get the element of uncer
tainty out of the way. When this is
done it will appear that the cry of
w-olf has been raised for naught, and
that the labor of the county is in no
i"u;ijrcr from a looeuing of the bands
which have fettered our industry and
enterprise. Harper's Weeklv.
STEVENS DON QUIXOTE ACT.
What u Authority on International Law
bays of Him.
One of the points most hotly con
tended for by the defenders of Mr.
Stevens is that he only gave his recog
nition of the provisional government,
as the de facto government of the
islands, after the committee of public
safety had taken possession of the gov
ernment buildings, archives and treas
ury, and after the provisional govern
ment had been installed at the heads of
these respective departments. Possi
bly this may be true, although very
strong evidence to the contrary is of
fered. It is possible that Mr. Stevens
may have actually deferred recognition
of the provisional government until
such occupation of the public buildings,
but that does not seem to be the only,
or indeed the important, question in
the case. If by his action he coerced
the feeble administration of the queen
to yield up its power and to succumb
before the authority of the United
States, then to argue that he should es
cape criticism because of this delay is
simply pettifogging. The expression
may be harsh, but it is the only proper
one. Tbe truth eceins to be that he
had arranged the matters with the in
surrectionists; that he had given them
his promise; that the soldiers had been
landed; that the moral forces at his
command were used and the physical
forces held ready for action, and when,
under these combined influences, the
government resigned, he appeared for
the first time formally to recognize an
administration of his own creation.
But even this attempt at palliation is
disposed of by Judge Dole, a gentleman
in whom Mr. Stevens places the high
est confidence, and Whose veracity he
must be the last man in the world to
impeach. Judge Dole writes on Janu
ary 17, 1893, the very day on which Mr.
Stevens had refused any longer to re
gard Mr. Farker and others as minis
ters, and says:
"I acknowledge receipt of your
valued communication of this day rec
ognizing the Hawaiian provisional gov
ernment, and express deep apprecia
tion of the same. We have conferred
with the ministers of the late govern
ment, and have made demand upon the
marshal to surrender the station house.
We are not actually yet in possession
of the station house; but as night is ap
proaching, and our forces may be in
iufiicient to maintain order, we request
the immediate support of the United
States forces," etc.
We must leave this highly respect
able man. Judge Dole, to reconcile his
statement with Mr. Stevens' declara
tion. If JuJje Dole was telliDg the
truth, at a time when there was no
reason why he should dissemble or dis
regard it, he was not in possession of
the station house at the time when he
was thanking Mr. Stevens for his rec
ognition of the provisional govern
ment. Until these two gentlemen have
settled this question, it mu-t be as
sumed, with all the probabilities in
favor of the assumption,' that Mr.
Stevens had actually, as he certainly
had in intent, promoted, encouraged,
aided aud abetted the insurrection.
The downfall of the monarchy may
or may not be a desirable event, the
queen may or may not be what her en
emies charge; Judge Dole and his asso
ciates may absorb in themselves all the
cardinal and other virtues, but it is dif
ficult for an impartial man to escape
the conviction that whatever good,
whatever credit and whatever praise
may attach to the downfall of Queen
Lil.uokulaoi belongs mainly to Mr.
Stevens. Judge Dole and other excel
lent gentlemen may have a just claim
to a small part of the success, but the
chief actor is undoubtedly Ir. Stevens.
Truly he did it; and if it be part of the
occupation of United States envoys to
act the part of international Don
Quixotes, to use their office and their
power to subvert governments that do
not suit their tastes, and to arrange
new establishments more to their own
liking, he has earned the gratitude of
his countrymen. In the meanwWile,
his zealous efforts have made it impera
tive upon our people to decide how far
they will ratify his acts, thereby estab
lishing precedents which are very sure,
if followed, to relieve our international
relations from the reproach of being
tame or monotonous. F. R. Coudert,
in North American lieview.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Speaker Crisp is not so brash in
the matter of counting quorums as ex
Speaker Heed is in furnishing the pro
vocation. The Iieed rules still tie
moldering in the crypt. Boston Her
ald. Assistant Secretary Reynold de
cides that a soldier, while hunting for
pleasure, is not entitled to a pension.
That is sense, and it is a pity that any
of I 'resident Harrison's assistants
ever held otherwise, Buffalo Express
(Rep.).
The republican members of con
gress are doing what they can to post
pone consideration of the tariff bilL
They are using the extreme resort of
preventing a quorum. They cannot
depend upon reason to accomplish
their end.-, for the reasons are all favor
able to democratic purposes. Albany
Argus.
The small politicians in Washing
ton who would like to drive Gresham
out of President Cleveland's cabinet
make poor headway in this business.
There happens to Ue a great obstacle in
their way, viz., Cleveland himself, who
partially bears in mind just how un
friendly these political intriguers have
been to him from the start. Boston
Transcript (Rep).
At last we have evidence that
McKinley did learn something, after
all, from the terrible beating his party
got under his leadership in 1S30 and
lSOi In his recent message to Uie
Ohio legislature, he warned the major
ity that it would be held by the ieople
to strict accountability. He said "it
should keep the expenses safely within
the revenues, evidently having , in
mind the awful blunder he and his
party made in congress in bankrupting
t:ie treasury. "There should be no in
crease in the rate of taxation," he add
ed, us though to say: "Take warning
by ins aud iriy bill and Avoid the fate
that overtoil; me." N. Y. Post.
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.
Cream Cookies: One teacupf ul eaoh
of sour cream and maple sirup, one egg,
one teaspoonful each of soda and cara
way seeds.and flour enough to roll out
thinly. Then bake quickly. Orange
Judd Farmer.
Marlborough Fndding: Six largo
apples, stewed and strained; stir into
it six ounces of butter, the grated rind
of one lemon and six tablespoonfuls of
wine. Beat up six eggs and six ounce9
of sugar, and stir it all together. Bake
in deep plates, with a rich pufF paste
and a pretty thick edging. Boston
Budget.
Fried Oysters: Take large, fresh
oysters and drain. Have ready a plate
of sifted cracker crumbs, in which mix
a teaspoonful of salt; take one oyster
at a time, roll in the cracker crumbs,
and lay on a board; let remain ten min
utes: dip in beaten egg. roll in the
cracker crumbs again, and let stand
fifteen minutes. Drop in boiling fat
and fry brown. Serve very hot- Har
per's Bazar.
Marbled Cake: One cup of butter,
two cups of sugar, three cups of flour,
yolks of six eggs, one cup of milk and
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
When the cake is mixed take out one
cupful of batter and stir into it a largo
spoonful of grated chocolate, wet with
milk. Fill the pan one inch thick with
yellow and drop in the dark. A little
lemon added to the 3-ellow improves it,
King Jumbles: One pound of but
ter, one pound of sugar, four ergs, one
pound of flour or enough to make a
soft dough, three teaspoonfuls of ex
tract of red rose. Mix all together,
adding the well-beaten whites of eggs
last. Line shallow tins with buttered
paper. Bake quickly and sift fine su
gar over them as soon as you take them
from the oven. With a teaspoon form
rings of the dough. Farm, Field and
Fireside.
Fig Pudding: Get half a pound o!
the best figs; chop them fine: add quar
ter of a pound of suet, finely minced;
half pound of stale bread crumbs: two
ounces flour, six ounces sugar and quar
ter of a nutmeg grated. Mix these well
together. Moisten with two eggs, well
beaten, mixed with half a cupful of
milk. Put the mixture in a buttered
mold (with a tight-fitting lid), tied up
in a stout cloth. Plunge into boiling
water and keep steadily boiling four
hours. Home Queen.
The "Louisiana Rice Exhibit' gives
the following recipe for boiling rice:
"Pick your rice clean and wash it in
two cold waters, not draining off the
last water until you are ready to put
the rice on the fire. Prepare a sauce
pan with water and a little salt. When
it boils sprinkle in the rice gradually,
so as not to stop the boiling. Boil hard
for twenty minutes, keeping the pot
covered. Then take it from the back
of the fire and pour off the water, after
which set the pot on the back of the
stove to allow the rice to dry and the
grains to separate. Remember to boil
rapidly from the time you cover the
pot until you take it off; this allows
each grain to swell to three times ita
normal size, and the motion prevents
the grains from sticking together.
Don't stir it. as this will cause it to fall
to the bottom and burn. When prop
erly bailed rice should be snowy-white,
perfectly dry, soft and every grain sep
arate." Fanrjr Odd WaintB.
Silk and woolen skirts are worn with
velvet or silk waists for dressy, house,
theater, or evening wear. An old black
silk skirt that is still presentable is ex
cellent for this purpose, as is a new
dotted black satin, a fine silk-warp
Henrietta, or serge. The velvet waists
are round, with a crush belt or collar,
and large puffed sleeves close-fitting at
the wrists. Another style has belt,
collar and sleeve puffs of the soft En
glish satin, now sent to this country
for dress accessories. In color the
waists are of the fashionable red,
brown, green, heliotrope and blue
shades, that may be plain or change
able. The satin is three dollars a yard,
while duchesse satin would be from a
dollar; velvet at a dollar and fifty cents
up to any price is selected. For an odd
silk waist the changeable figured satin
surah, at eighty-five cents to two dol
lars, is liked on account of its good
wearing qualities. The former price
given is very cheap, and the material
is not always to be picked up at such a
bargain. It comes in all mixtures, red
and green now being much in demand.
Ladies" Home Journal.
A Drtwinc-Room Srreon.
A lovely screen may be made for the
drawing-room by covering three panels
with pale pink plush, and appliqueing
large artificial blush roses in the fol
lowing manner: Buy as pretty roses
as you can get and of any color that
goes well with the plush. Press them
in a heavy book just as you would press
a natural flower. When considerably
flattened arrange them with their buds
and leaves in the panels and with heavy
floss silk to match, aover the edges of
the leaves that lie flat on the material,
fastening the rest down in their place
srifh a few stitches. The leaves may
be covered in the same way, and the
stems as well, so that when finished
the effect is of an embroidered bass
relief and is exceedingly effective.
Any other artificial flowers that will
lend themselves to this method of
treatment may be used in lieu of roses
and will look equally well. These
floral screens make a particularly pret
ty background if a low chair is placed
in front of one of them. N.Y. Tribune,
Lieut. Said Rute, recerjtly dis
patrhed by the German government as
military attache to the German con
Rila,e at Beyrout (Syria), is a cousin
of ti e present sultan of Zanzibar. His
mother, a sister of tbe late sultan, fell
in love with a commercial agent from
Hamburg, married him despite the
protests of her family, and returned
with him to 'Germany, w here her nus
f band w as killed by a street car running
over him. 1 lie Kinuiy oiu emperor
made provision for the exiled princess,
whom her family would not recognize,
and had her son, the Said Rut, edi
cated at his expense.
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