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ONLY A KKBKKT BEP plier stepped In to the Fifth ave nue stage a t Bleecker street one afternoon in the earl- spring. He diil not tare how long it took him to got up town. For he last four day he had lost all In terest in life, and time waa no longer of any importance to him. He was young, lewasflne-lookiug.he was a rising law yer; his mother had been a Van Beus aalaer yet he sat moodily gazing at Hie handle of his umbrella, while the years seemed to stretch away before Situ in unbroken weariness. He noticed it was legiiining to sprin lle when they neared Twenty-third street, and then Cornelia Winchester eauie Into the stage and sat down di rectly opMsite him. She gave a little tart of confusion as he gravely raised his hat, and then turned her atteuion txedly out of the window. Herbert Sad cogitated a good deal over which would be the most trying way In which a meet the girl who had rejected bin). He had shivered over Gilason'a man forced to take her in to dinner, but now tliat he sat opposite her in a Fifth ave nue stage he did not know what to do. fl could not bolt. That would hurt aer tender heart, and be cowardly be sides. He knew she had a tender heart, Although It did not beat for him. His eyes were lifted no higher than the hem of her heliotrope gown, but he saw thai it was the same one that she iatl worn that day at Mrs. Vaughn Smith's tea. when he had beguiled her into the conservatory to see the violets. She had hoped that they might always be friends, anil he meant after a while, when he was a little more used to it, to go and see her, just to show her that he h id no feeling. But It w as too soon as yet for him to find It easy to see her again, and thought he would leave the Mage at the club. That would be per fectly natural. He could stand it un til then. If he had looked at her face lie would have seen that she was not entirely at awse either, ller cheeks alternately 3ished a ml paled as kIic pissed persist ently out of the window. But he did ot see that, as he lifted his eyes no feigner than the tip of her patent leath er shoe and the edge of that heliotrope gown. He was thinking of her as she looked when they went Into the con aervatory that day. with her golden hair coiled under a bewitching hat all green leaves and violets. She seemed the very incarnation of spring to him. i . The driver growied "Fare:" down through his peephole. She started cou aeion.sly and took out her purse. Her vis-a-vis hold out his hand with "Allow mmT and the purse slipped to the floor. Their eyes met as he restored her prop erty, anifwhe blushed vividly. He puz aled over this as he took his seat again after depositing the fare. "Why should fte be discomposed? She is sorry for aie," he thought, "she is so sensitive." He must set out for her sake as well as His own. Where were they, anyway? Oafy at Thirty-fourth street! The rain ) coming down heavily, and she 2thd.no timbri'lhi! lie could not got out, os" coarse, iinh'ss he could leave his tini Snsll! with her. But that would look so fi'M. Very likely, by the time they Te&cltci her street, the April shower would be alt over. Well, he would ride ac 'iite longer and see. On1 Siey went past Sherry's, where 8s? hint jf.tneed with her so ofteu; past the club, where he saw Billy de l'eys ttr and Remington looking out Billy, whom be had decided upon for bis "best man;" on, up Into the fifties, past t. Thomas, where they would never fee married now. The rain wan falling elentlessly. They were almost at her treet He had decided what to do. Just before they reached Fifty-sev-antb afreet he lent forward. "Miss Winchester, please take my aaobrellit." and he held the silver head toward Iter. How alie started! "Oh, no, no, thank IB,." and she hurriedly pulled the trap, without giving hltn time to do tt, and fairly sprang out of the door. What coc.1.1 he do hut follow? A be unfurled the umbrella over her they were otf the sidewalk, and he Inanely: - Ton muao't apoll jour gown, you taow." "Ok, I don't care about that." ahe aaid tapntleurly. "Sat tt'a too pretty to apoll," be went aav "1 like that color particularly." Off fax ad at htm curiously. Her r?aa aakt "I wonder If yon remem t:r"V her words wart: T m always aotlca tha color of rrT fcrw tf jroara," la ' aald SHOWER. simply. He thought he was getting on beautifully in his role of friend. They were walking along Fifty-seventh street She was very near him under the umbrella. He hoped he would be ! saved from saying anything that he! would regret afterward. Fortunately, it would not le much longer. "This is very kind of you after " She hesitated, and her voice was very low. "Not at all," he said in a cheerful tone. "No one could have done any thing else." There was a moment's pause and then ahe said hurriedly: "I am glad of this chance to tell you that I have reproached myself a great deal aim the other day, lecau.e " "Oh, you m-edu't think of that again: you were as kind as you could be." Why would she talk about It? She went on: "You took nie so by surprise that I was afraid I was ab rupt, and and I answered Inconsider ately " "Oh, no." he Interrupted: "you were gentleness itself. I suppose I did star tle you. I didn't say anything that I meant to. Perhaps a man never docs." "You know," she pursued, "you had never given me any reason to think you cared for me In that way, and-1 had a feeling you were speaking on Impulse." "Impulse!" he broke forth. "How could you think that? Why, I'd never had a thought for anybody else since that day we first met. Every case I've won has be-n for you. I've worked and lived just for the day when I could speak. Impulse! Can a man feel like that and not show It? I thought of course yon understood but" he cheeked himself 'I beg your pardon I ought not to go on in this way only you see It wasn't Impulse. I made a great mistake, that was all. You couldn't help that, of course. It was my own fault. But you needn't worry any more, it's all right." They were going up her steps now. J and he was holding the umbrella so I that a little stream of water was trick- j ling down her back. She did not seem j to even notice It Neither of them spoke as he pulled the bell. Then she turned a face In which shyness and despair were mixed. "But it Isn't 'all right' for me!" He looked at her with such a bewil dered gaze that she laughed tremulous ly. "Y'mi don't understand now," sue said, and then Just as her meaning dawned upon him the April sun burst out, the butler opened the door, and they went in together.-Household Companion. Kt'-rne's FlaiciurisrtiN. The following instance of Sterne's unblushing conveying" has not, I think, lieeti hitherto, recorded. In "Tristram Shandy." Volume I., Chapter 12. is the following well-known pas sage: "When to gratify a private appetite it is once resolved upon that an inno cent and a helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed to make a fire to offer it up with." In the introduction to "Bacotiiana." London, in?:), T. T. 'I. e.. Dr. Thomas Teiiisotii. in comment on Bacon's words to King .lames. "1 wish that as I am the first, so I may be the last of sacri fices in your linn's." write as follows, (page lUp: "And when from private Appetite, It Is resolv'd that a Creature shall be sac rificed; it Is easle to pick up sticks enough, from any Thicket whither It hath atraied, to make a Fire to offer It with." There could not lie a more audacious example of literary theft Notes and Queries. Natural. In showing how one sense la sharp ened to Btipply the loss of another. Dr. 8. Milllngton Miller writes that Alexan der Huuter, of the land offh-e at Wash ington, though entirely deaf, spelled without mistake 130 words read to bim from the dictionary. He has become able to rend the motion of the lips of those addressing him. The faculty la not rare among the deaf, and by means of It some of them, like Mitchell, the chemist of the United Hta'es Patent Office, have been able to understand the lectures necessary for their gradu ation at college. Coal. Coal la dearer In South Africa than In any other part of the world; It la cbeap eat In China. Flair of the Daaos. The oldest national flag In taa world la that of Denmark, which haa baaa la mat aloca tha yaar 1219. WW CHATTF-li VII. -Continued. "That is a long price, uiy dear Jim. Uuthveu." "Not too long. I think; there are some fields attached which insure privacy at present, and are north a good deal as building Intnl. Then there is a good deal of handsome old-fashioned furniture id the bouse." "Oh! if your solicitors are satisfied, 1 have nothing to say agaiuat it. My buai nesa fa-ultieii are of the lowest order. I fear, however, that I cannot return before Saturday week. Yon will be ai.rry to bear that my friend He Meudon has lu dan gerously ilL I will try to return by Fans, and hnv a look at him." "Yea, I am aorry," aaid Mra. Uuthven. "Then, I may oidy get on the tra. k of your jewels, and have to go further a held Kv the way. have you any note of ihelr giz. Bnd weight T -OiiIt of aotne a few. But 1 wish you oald uot go off on such a wild giHiiw' chase. Aa for nie, I am weary or ine uu ject, and inclined to let them go! 1 he whole affair has depressed and exhausted me. I feel pursued by an evil fate aa if everything waa insecure I never feel safe!" "Merely morbid feeling. " 'ou accused tne of indulging, and proves that you ought never to be left alone! Why (to ron think of going to so heathenish a ' place aa Folkestone? My "ister will only ! Vw. too dclichted if you will go to C'hed- worth, Dorrington's place in H shire. They will be there in about a fortnight, and get sou pleasant people to meet you." "Yon are very kind! But, at present. I want to be quiet and " "Captain Shirley." announced a waiter. Marsden elevated hia eyebrows inter rogatively, and Mrs. Uuthveu replied with a smile. "I beg a thousand pardons," aaid Shir ley, a sullen look of annoyance clouding his face. "I thought you were alone." "I assure you I am very glad to see you." cried Mrs. Uuthven, gaily. "I have been trying to feed my inexorable trustee, here, into good humor, to get his consent to my new purchase. Come and help me; and prsy, take some luncheon. "I have already lunched, thank yon." "A glass of Burgundy, then? Tl is. I assure you, is not to be despised." Shirley condescended to take a glass and began to thaw. "Come into the next room." said Mrs. Uuthven, leading the way; and, nestling into the corner of a large sofa, she pro ceeded to coquette with lith visitors. "Mr. Marsden is going all the way to Amsterdam, on the rhnm-e of finding my poor rubies," she remarked, after a little dweursive chatter. "Is it not good of bim?" "We would all go further tlmn Amster dam, if we thought e could find them," said Shirley, gallantly. "If? Yes, that is just it. But It is too far for a mere chance. By the way, how far is Amsterdam from Ostend?" asked Mrs. Uuthven, in a curious mocking fctue. "I really do not know, returned Sjhir- ij,, antl ,kiK T,.ry straight at her, bis face darkening. W hy do you ask?" Mrs. Uuthven was saved the difficulty of answering, as her courier came in be fore she could reply, and handing a card to his mistress, asked: "Will you receive the gentleman, niad- amer j "Oh, yes, show him up." Then, with a little confidential nod to Shirley, she add- j ed: "This is my engineer!" "1I- has lost no ti ." he returned. "I ahull not let him slay long. I will tell you all about bim afterward" to Marsden. Shirley looked aharply at the door; but Marsden seemed too much occupied with his own thoughts to heed what was going on. In a few minutes a middle-aged man. of average height, with iron-gray mustache and whiskers, his right arm in a s!ing, came into the nntm, and made a deferen tial, though clumsy, bow. "(hfnl morning. Mr. Colville," snid Mrs. Uuthven, who had risen, and was standing beside a table near one of the window. "You have lost no time in an swering my mite." "I was anxious to ihntik you for your kindness in writing." he returned, in s low, bourse voice. "And how is your little girl?" continued Mrs. Uuthven. "Let me see, she must be nearly eight?" "No, ma'am, she is nearly seven, and looks less. She is a delicate, weakly little creature, that's why I am anxious to keep her away in the country." "Very naturally. I am sorry I cannot attend to you to-day, Mr. Colville," gra ciously. "You see I am engaged with this gentleman and Captain Shirley," bending her head in the direction of the latter. "But if you will call to-morrow, I can give you half an hour; do not be later than twelve. "I shall be punctual, and I thank you." "Wait for a moment," said Mrs. Uuth ven. "I have a little gift here for rr7 god -da tighter." She went to her writing table, and took from a drawer a small packet, tied with ribbon, which ahe placed in bis hands. "You are very good, madame," he said, as with another clumsy bow awl a look at each gentleman, he left the room. "Do yon not remember him at all?" ask ed Mrs. Uuthven. "No," returned Shirley. "I never saw him before, and 1 cannot aay he looks the sort of man I should be inclined to tniat." "Yo are too suspicious, Tha poor fel low has been unlucky. His arm waa broken In some machinery, and ha la out work." "1 havs a fellow-feeling with tha on- cky," amid Marsden, rousing himself "I've not had ranch good lock myself." Why, yoa awem to ma a remarkably Vaeky man," aald Hblrley, "By the way. Captain Rhiney." began Ufa. Battvren. la a languid ton. "1 aaa yoa will aicaaa aw for breaking my igagetnent; but my Lead u ipnte ! bad to drive down to Twickenham. It would nut worth wl..le going in a closed carriage, and with my neuralgia an i-u one is out to be thought of." "I'ray do not dream of iiiooiuinodhig yourself on luy account." fcaid Shirley, turning unite. "But as you do not need me, I have business to attend to in the city, and will hid you gcsid nioruing." lie laiwed to Marsden and went quickly away. "How cross lie is," said Mr. Uuthven, as the door closed to him. "Yes, poor devil," returned Marsden, carelessly, "you treat him rather badly." "Why does he court bad treatment? I do not want him to come here." "There is a wrong dash of cruelty in you. etiaruiiiig though you are." "Io you thiiik so?" looking down and Ieakiiig softly. "Yes, I am capable of taking uiy revenge, believe me," her lips quivering as she aisiko. "I aui quite sure these pretty velvety little bauds could strike uiitiinehiiigly; but they could caress tenderly, too." "Clifford!" she exclaimed with sudden emotion, then, correcting herself "I mean Mr. Marsden." "No, no." he said, smiling on her. "you have broken the ice, and I will not have the colder appellation." "Not yet," she said softly, withdrawing her hand which he had taken. , "1 may call you Clifford one day but not now. Tell me, when do you go on this rather wild-goose chase to Amsterdam?" "To-night. I cross to Calais, and shall get to Amsterdam some time to-morrow. I shall not write, us I hope to see you so soon again. I trust you will go and amuse yourself somewhere. I can't bear to think of your moping in an hotel at Folkestone; do go to my sister." "Well, perhaps I may, but I am anxious to settle alsjut this place." "We must also arrange about a second trustee; I feel my responsibilities too heavy." "Oh! we can see all alsiut that when you come back." "!ood bye, then, my dear Mrs. Uuth ven. Wish me success." He pressed her hand and was gone. Mrs. Uuthven grew very pale, as she st'M.d for a moment in thought, and press ed her handkerchief to her eyes, then she looked in the glass, smiling at her own image. , "I should never be alone," she mur mured. "Ifcies he mean to lie my con stant companion? 1 am to select another trustee. Ah! Marsden, if you but loved me, 1 could forgive anything. Sometimes I almost believe you do. Be that as it may. you are Isuind to me for love or for revenge I will never let you go." CHAI'TEB VIII. The result of Miss I.'Fstrange's self cmimuue was very perceptible, at least, to herself. The can-fill watch she estab lished over her own words and manner, how ev er, w as too delicately exercised to be iu any way remarkable. She was bright and frank as ever, but she slid easily I away from any npprouch of sentimental subjects, though talking readily on other ' topics. The chief change was on increase of animation and a tendency to mock at what used to touch her. Mrs. L'Kstrnlige only noticed that Nora was in remarkably good spirits. Wintoti sometimes looked a little sur prised, mid bestowed more of his conver sation on his older acquaintance than he used. The quiet weeks w cut by swiftly, their monotony broken by occasional dinners at the houses of the cathedral dignitaries 1 at Oldhridge, where -Nora s songs und j lively talk, mid Mrs. IKstrange's gentle tact and sympathetic "listening made both welcome guests. j October was more than half over, and i hunting had begun a congenial amuse meiit which interfered a good deal with Winton's frequent visits Jo Iirookdale. The rapid falling of the leaves, and s succession of stormy nights, mads Mrs. IKstrange think seriously of s-iiding November and Ilecemher in town a pro position which Norn originally urged. Mrs. Uuthven wrote at length, very amiably. She was detained in town by business, she snid. She was in treaty for a pretty villa on the Thames, snd would be de lighted to have Miss IKstrange'a counsel u ml assistance when she set aliout fur nishing. Mr. Marsden had been so good In try ing to find her jewels, and had gone to Amsterdam in search of them, but all in cain. Was he nt Kveslelgh? for no one seemed to know what had become of him. "Ito yoa know, I think It would be very nice to help Mrs. Uuthven In choosing her furniture? Shall I tell her we are ihinking of going up to town? Perhaps she would take rooms for us," said Nora, when ahe had read this letter aloud at breakfast. "My dear Nora! she would not care for the trouble: and what a price she would agree to give for rooms! We must be very prudent; my little savings during the latter part of our stay In Germany will not go far. "Oh, yes! I forgot. Yoa are really a wonderful woman, Helen; I shall never be such an economist; but aa to not car ing for the trouble, I do not think you quite do Mrs. Uuthven justice; you and Mr. Winton are always of the same opin ion, and I think you have caught his prejudice against her." "I am not as much fascinated as you are, and I must say, I am a good deal influenced by Mark Winton; when I look back" she stopped abruptly, Nora, who longed to hear her reminiscences, gazed earnestly at her, and Mrs. L'Kstrange, raising her eyes suddenly, encountered those of her stepdaughter fixed upon her, and colored through her delicate pale skin, to Nora's great surprise. "Home day," aaid Mrs. L'Estrsnge, quickly, and with aome confusion, "I must tell yoa my little history; every one has some touch of ro mance in their lives, even so prosaic a person as I am," "Do, dear; tell It to me now." "Now ? Oh, no, I must Interview cook, and plan the dinner; the romance of the past must give way to the needa of the preaent, vulgar though they be; some even Inc. by tha firelight, 1 will prose about daya gone by. It la Boa and calm to-day; let ua give Baa a holiday, and walk acroaa the park. The meet is at t n.wiann , and e will the le.tueis throw oS." By sll luesl.S, I feel ss if 1 ssnted to I be Hi the oieu air." ! Mrs 1. F.traiige tn aay to tr , household duties. Nora sauutere.' into the drawing room and aat do r at the piano, but she did not U-gin to pli I 'or , some u.ou.euts. - Waa it possible Umi her quiet. u.i Itish step neither hsd had luriil ing -ri.-m es'f Hhe was reao"ji;ide, , ie iii a simple way. tbat .V-rl could never imagine the irregulariti -tnd re- i duudaiice win. ii .-..ustitute r-'iiiance gath ering round her. How good she had si- , au been! i-M-u from her nrst entrant int.'. the t;imi!y. H"W she had si.hhI be tueei, eer.i one snd her husband's nasty irnialioir. iiovv iiimh N r herself owed to her justiii- and gen. rosity. What a g I influence she had Ih-.ii. how much she loid i no. .red fr-.m her selfish, unsjm pill belie hur.:.lld. who h.ked 1I1 her 8 a shne t houi he had iH.ught. and w ho hsd no rights, no title to consideration. , lim he had married to is- an upir ser ( ..,.,1 Wlml a life of sunnressioll, of care : ful conscientious sick nursing ' hsd had. without the reward of gratitude or re, ointioii.' From how much she umi saved Nora herself! li"W strong and i patient sin- had been. "If I can reward her 1 will, though! Nora. "I do loving child; no woman w hooe Ilea will be a good. , .1... like iiiv father. Imt ul.l I as selfish and trou- blesome as he was! perhaps his bad health made him worse. 1 wish 1 were busier! my life is t.si easy; it leaves no- ! much time to think: ). must not think." And she applied herself diligently to a piece of Chopin's bristling with accident als and crahls-d passages, till Ilea, wuh a radiant face, came to tell her it was time to get ready. The walk through Kvesleigh WismIs and across the park was delightful. It was a soft, autumnal morning, slightly leaden in coloring, like one of Wouver man's landsca-s, as if nature gently uioiirned her departed youth, the pines and larches gave out their aromati hrs. the ground was thickly strewn with red. withered leaves from the bee. h trees, for which Fvesleigh was famous, and when the trio reached Crowlnud Gate, which opened on a wide common, where the woods ended and sn undergrowth ot brushwood and fure afforded abundant cover, s tolerable lieM had assembled, but not many siiecta'ors. The rector's daugh ters on horseback, the curate's little chil dren, with their governess, on foot,-the banker's wife from Oldhridge, iu her smart carriage, with s couple of visitors from Iomlon. F.very one knew every one else, and greetings were exchanged. Winton, who rode a powerful chestnut, with the teiu mt that color is usually supismcd to en tail, managed to keep the fiery creature still for a moment beside Mrs. 1,'Kstrangc. "Very glad to have caught a glimpse of you. I am going off to-morrow to Icv onshire, an old Indian chum of mine has asked me to share his hunting quarters is a splendid country. 1 hope I shall find you in town next month. You'll let me know your movements?'' "Yes, certainly. We shall miss you very much." "I how- you will, unlikely though it seems. We must do some plays when we meet. Good-bye. Miss lKstrange." He stretched out his hiuid to Norn, who had taken a vantage post on a stile, pressing Ilia horse with heel mid knee to make it approach, but the animal kicked and re sisted, glancing round with wild, wicked eyes. "Consider yourself slink' ti hands w ith," said Nora, laughing and shrinking. "I am afraid of your horse." At that instant the hounds gave tongue. "They've found; they're away." cried every one. Winton's horse, wildly excit ed, tried to boll, and strove by every de vice that could enter into the heart of a horse to unseat his rider, rearing straight up, buck jumping, lushing out with his heels, in vain. A hand of iron controlled him, and the firm grip of 1 lie knee was not to be shaken. At last he darted off in the direction his rider i hose like a bolt from a catapult. During the struggle Mrs. L'Kstrange covered her eyes, but Nora could jiot remove hers. She turned deadly white, for at one moment it seemed ss if the horse would have fallen bmk. then she knew how little ail her self-control had done to uproot Mark Winton from her head. I low splendidly he sat. She had not observed before what a fine figure he had. Would he come bm k safe after a run of such n vicious animal? (To be continued.) The Ink Is I a ling Away. "Some of the earlier if.l year lenses made III this city were written in Inks that nre In great iliuiger of fading out long before the lease expires," said a iiilcruscoplst and expert In handwrit ing. "There Is not an Ink on the mar ket but will fade seriously In thirty years. My business requires nie to be Informed, and I purchase sample of every ink I bear of and submit them to microscopic and chemical examina tion. I base what I have said on the results reached Iii those examinations. The Inks made thirty or forty years ago were not so good as rtust; of the preceding imve centuries, ror iimny ibs-iiineiits written III the latter are ex- taut the lines In whKch nre clear and bright The Inks of the present day are lsirer than those of a generation back, because iu this age of adulteration nothing escapes the adulterator. The same Ingredient are used, but In a weakened form. Iron and aniline dyes are the basis of most Inks. Where Iron Is used time produces a process of cor rosion and oxidation gradmlly fades to a pale brown. The logwood disap pears. If documents written In these inks are kept In Taulta where ventila tion Is iiad, certain gases that are de veloped by the conditions act directly on the Inks and hasten their disappear ance. If In the middle of Ihe next cen tury a future biographer wants to c. amine the correspondence of tiny Chl cagoan living to-day It Isn't unlikely he will find In It pieces of paper that once was covered with writing which has passed away, leaving only pale, faint llnea. Aa to leases, probably there Is some understanding of these facts, for Instruments that have a long time to run are now printed." Hca-uiiciuoiics and some other marine creatures of low degree Increase their species by budding. A small knot or wart appeara on ho body of the animal, and by and by dvelos Into a perfect though minute, animal of the same ape rlea, separates from Ha parent and aeta up la bualneaa for Itaelf. Home-Mad So. In the manufacture of bard soap !' ;tnnt care muM be taken to j-rois-rly .repare the ingredients, and hav- tle-m ssH-i:il tjuallth-s 111 ord-r to viiro (he b-st results. SoHp is lii.fl" lot ind cold iirmvw. the latter Is-ii.g !. lcsirable lava use there may l- inipurl lics. not to lie rec ig-lii-.eil by the l e, but which, nevertheless. oXlst, ih;i s n dangerous tpiautltics. I.' and thorough boiling, while it greHiy ....,. tlo riUs from imicirc "h-iueiils , ,r t j,,,,;,,! be relied on to ch-mi- .!- 1 rlill'S. Cottonseed oil makes a title s..Up, but It will not keep. It turns rancid, and ., disagreeable odor. (J selnolet ; . " " iii'O i,-s ion,. .... , Hid one may be perfectly sure ,,f its purity. All that Is necessary Is caustic soda lye of specific gravity alemt 1.1". This is placed in a kettle and heated ilmost to the Isdling point, then select ed oil is put ill, a very small quantity it a time. The pron-r propoi l..n is about one suind of oil for three pounds of lye. or, according to the old formula. lie pint of oil to three pints of lye The kettle may be drawn a little from the tire, and the heat kept up slo .Uy but steadily. After a time a heavy froth rises on the surface and the soap will boil over If the heat Is continued. I-t it giinlu a 1 1 v ci sd until It merely simmers, then kii-p it Iu this way until the froth dis npiicars. then add lye until the ps-ilic ! gravity of the w hole Is brought up to 1.11. This lye must he added in small quantities, and the soap should be kept boiling until It Is -rfcc!ly smooth and slrtipy. Boll until If is transparent, then scatter salt over It and allow it to "tatid for some hours at a beat just be low the boiling point. l l It co d. drain off all the liquor that will run off. put in a little fresh, strong lye and boll again. It may then Ik- made Iti'o cakes or put Injo one large cake ami cut up w hen m arly or quite cold To (Iran Windows. To Iwgln with, have the -.vitidous thoroughly dusted evry day. when the rest of the room Is done--window sills, ledges, sasln-s and all. If this is at tended to properly, they will not re quire to be washed or cleaned nearly so frequently. When the chousing is In evitable, have ready a mudin bag full of whiting, and two w-i-h leathers. Iiiil the gins thickly with the whit ing, then rub It off thoroughly with a damp-not wet - b ather, and finally polish with fl clean, dry one. This Is the method pursued by workmen when cleaning the windows of a new house, mid givs a polish unknown to the glass washed In the ordinary way. Another excellent method for giving brilliancy to glass Is to damp a rug with spirits of wine, rub the glass well with this, and then polish as lH-fore with a ch an, dry bottler. Newspaper Is also said to be an excellent "r iIiIkt" for glass on account of the printer's ink; but whether this is true or not 1 cannot vouch from personal experi ence. Paper Is certainly capital for cleaning decanters, carafes, etc., so very likely 1 tur case Is the same with window s. Delicate Klstl of CahliMuc Cut a large head of cabbage into four parts. Cut out the heavy stalks In the center. I'lutige the cabbage Into a large pot containing aliudamt of boiling water, into which a handful of salt has been sti'-r.d. Let it boil therein stead ily for ten minutes nftep the water be gitl-i to bubble. I hen remove it with a skimmer Into a pan ,f cold water, and when It has thoroughly cooled draw It from the water, prcs-dag It a little with the bands to oMni' t the moisture possible, and chop t Into coarse pieces, l'ut It In a clean sauce, pan. add two large tablesp loiifuU of butter, and when the butt-r js melted a tablespootiftil of Hour, a le l poonful of salt und a salupoonful ,,t pcp-r, and finally, after these have I n add ed, a cup of milk. Stir tin- cabbage slowly, and when It boils set II hack where It will cook slowly for three quarters of an hour. It should Is- fre quently stirred. Anicel I like. Tiik the whiles of ten ir twelve eggs and beat them until they are foamy, add six ounces or seven eighths of a cupful of sugar and continue beating, using a wire whisk In preference to any other egg beater. Fold lu half a cupful of pastry flour and a generous quarter of a cupful of cornstarch mixed p,. gether and sifted with a rounding tea spismfiil of cream of tartar nml a half saltspoonful of salt. Add one teaspisui fttl of vanilla, and bake In nn titibittter ed pan In a moderate oven from forty. live to fifty minutes. Wet the p,, fore the cake Is put In, using the regu lar angel cake pun wlh the hole In the middle A Illsh of Lamb I hop,. Trim a down lamb chops md brow n them lightly on each side In a very lit tie butter in the frying pan. When th,.y are quite dry. for there must w a small quantity of butler, pour over them a little stock, or beef essence reduced in hot water; let them simmer in n,, M lamb takes long cooking, turning t',Pln from side to side until this also Is dried up and the meat quite lender. I'm them Into a dish and potir around them the contents of a can of button mushrooms that have been quickly heated, and a little butter added. Arthur waa a close student and ei. celled In scholarship. He waa fond of athletic aporu and hunting.