in
UI1ERE ARE
WE GOING
oaa-iin 1
the Benstbla, thinking man east
f&o aaswllgat of dispassionate and un-
enBjsJndlced thought Into the future In
dBBStrisJ and moral condition of this
-eBBBssUjr without some misgivings as to
tJto future? To my mind be cannot.
I am no statesman, philosopher or fa
asstta. One la not compelled to be
snBtlme think for himaetf. In day
-ansa by the American people hare been
a pro no to let the politician, mlnla-
krs and other professionals do their
ing for them. But that ta chang
The politics of our father Is not
ours: the religion of our moth-
i to not always Indorsed by ua. Why
i doing more thinking.
i are look tag more to our pri-s -nt
I future condition, and In doing so
are showing no disrespect to our
We are ltTlng in a differ
age; In a different atmosphere
it conditions confront ua and
be met condition that grow
complex and uncertain as the
go by.
now there are thoee who see
S1 the very near future an impending
-Sanson, Some who are not gifted with
fjraphetlc sight ate led to wonder just
: will happn Why should we not,
i we look about us and see the dls-
eleroenta In our country
la no gainsaying the report that
nave reached a period of distrust
1 unrest. This is true of those who
r weemlng-Iy satisfied with present
atlona. They do not talk, but in
r unoccupied moment they do some
thinking;. If one could read these
one would be surprised
anst Chat the thoughts are uncommon,
1 that they are unexpressed.
Bar err day the common man sees
"Ms lot crowing; worse, or if not worse
-enartslnly no better. The rich man
SJJBttlrHf richer and the poor man poorer,
BBd yet how can we blame the rich
Ssaan for getting richer? Would we not
dh the same thing If the opportunity
eastered? Tet we are selfish and cannot
Mp entertaining a dislike for our more
-ajartnnate neighbor. We probably start -
esfl out with equal chances, but luck
eawcnmstanoea or something was
1ml us.
Deep down In our heart we know
-What our rich neighbor should not be
assured. Better censure the condition
"Osmlcb we have helped to bring about.
It Is not my purpose to say harsh or
things about either rich or poor,
it there are some facts that confront
I of which we cannot lose sight We
worn that every day Increases the
unber of Idle men; every day adds
be list of trusts and monopolies
' day- sees more women employed
cast adrift to become
ape; every day see a
and one other untoward
that do not always bespeak a
and happy future for the
I am sorry that these condi-
extet; so are you. Would they
- vjanaa otherwlae. But whose fault Is it?
I A It the fault of the lawmaker or
eswesaton? Could It not be both? There
'Ms seldom a disease without a cause
sssldom a disaaae without a remedy.
flDsnetlsses we do not always thorough.
saT understand the disease and often
the rich remedy Is not applied
we do so. To do Is often too
trouble: it would Interfere with
of our right or traditional coo-
ama more men
JRfc itinss ourselves and our neigh-
we do not always do our
We are ruled too much by oth
1 convenience, can It custom m
tr to be popular. We do things we
aid not domany things just be-
one else does and we know
: we have the same rights as the
fellow. We know w are doing
but stUf-necked pride tells us
tdogotpan. To be outdone would, to our
saw si nsltlva mind, be nothing less than
uneraaable spot on our
and dignity as an American
"Theoretically this to all right, bat It
Bsss not always work to our advantage
r-day practice. We forget that
Ufa a lffe of self-sacrifice if
your lea fortunate neighbor. Our let
never get so hard but w can look
about us and see someone worse off
than ourselves. Even kind words bring
sunshine and cost us nothing. Don't
be sparing with words of enoourage
ment and praise. Begin at home. Try
it on your mother, sister, wife or any
other member of the family. Wear the
bright side out One gloomy person
can cast a shadow over aa entire house
hold. He can even Infect a whole
neighborhood.
Let us be hi nest with ourselves and
our fellow being. Suppose we do a lit
tle calm thinking and see If there are
any existing conditions we have not
brought about or, at least very materi
ally assisted in bringing about Good,
bad or indifferent let us be candid
and see If we are not Just a little at
fault We do not like to' acknowledge
our faults, but we always feel better
after we do. My condition would be
Unproved if I had taken advantage of
the opportunities aa they were offered
so could youra
Instead of taking advantage of the
opportunities presented. I have abuBed
the advantages that foroed themselves
upon me; so have you. Every one has,
no matter whether he be rich or poor
at the present time. Suppose you are a
boy and your Inclination Is toward
mercantile lines. You secure a clerk
ship where honesty and integrity are
rewarded. At first you only earn a few
dollars a week and you take home your
earning and they are spent wisely, but
by and by you are promoted, your -alar
Is increased. You get in with a fast
crowd, you have to keep up to the
standard of your associates. You drink,
gamble and dissipate in other ways, and
it begins to tell on you. You lose in
terest In your work. You no doubt
think you are a part of the concern
and your employer could not get along
without you. Just at this time prob
ably forbearance has ceaed to be a
virtue with your employer and you are
discharged and a woman or girl takes
your place. Why? Because she will
work cheaper. Is more attentive to busi
ness and does not abuse herself or her
privileges.
Whose fault is it?' Your dissipation
has done you no good. It has wrecked
you morally, physically and every oth
er way. You lose courage and are mis
erable. You know what has brought
this condition about, but you have not
the moral courage to break away from
old associates and be a man. You have
not the nerve to improve the future. I
not this so? Have you ever known a j
man to lose his place anywhere except
through his own shortcomings?
Suppose, on the other hand, you are a
worklngman in a factory. You have a
family to support and your wages are
barely enough to support that family.
Yet you do not hesitate to spend one-
fifth or perhaps more of this amount
fo drink. - Yet you know that you are
depriving your wife and children of the
necessaries of life. You grow discon
tented, you abuse your employer be
cause he Is rich, you abuse your wife
and children, you hate yourself and
everybody else.
Some walking delegate come along
and recite your troubles In highly col
ored pictures and you. with others of
your class, decide to strike. You are
Idle for a month or more, maybe only
for a few days, but your have got be
hind with your landlord and your gro.
ceryman, and your wife and children
are denied more necessaries until you
are square again.
Your liquor bill connat be curtailed.
because you are not man enough to
acknowledge what you know that you
and your family would be better off
wHhout It A a cltlxen of the United
State you have a right to drink when
ever you please, and you are going to
do It, no matter who has to suffer, or
how much happiness the money thus
spent would brine to the dear, patient
little housewife who so much needs it
Then you have won your strike, or
maybe you have "hot, and you feel elat
ed. It 1 different with your employer.
He has been having this thing happen
or. If not happen, brewing for years,
and he has encouraged some inventive
genius to Invent a machine, which If
It does not work automatically, - does
the work of a number of men. Who
Is to blame If the machine crowd you
TWO STORIES
OF DEWEY
DBWKY'S FRIENDLINESS.
Men In Manila who have associated
frequently with Admiral Dewey have
begun to realize the greatness of the
man. His simplicity, naturalness and
affable manner, almost approaching
familiarity, invariably mislead one at
a first meeting. Go aboard the flag
hlp, ascend the gangway, step upon
the deck, as white almost aa the duck
uniform of the officers, and send your
5arl to the admiral. You half fear
thl famous idol of seventy millions of
people will not see you. You take a
eat aft and wait a few minutea Mr.
Brumby, the admiral' flag lieutenant,
suddenly interrrupts your reverie.
The admiral will see you," he says,
and you rise and follow him down to
the admiral's spacious quarters. The
door opens, and a beautiful Chinese
chow" dog bounds through before you
and Jumps upon the admiral's legs, for
the hero has arisen and Is advancing
to meet you. "I am very happy to see
vou," he says. "When did you come to
Manila, and what is the news from
America? Take this chair." And the
admiral, having shook hands, gets you
a chair, and, after you are comfortable,
takes one himself and continues, al
most before you have had a chance to
answer him, "What do you think of my
dog? Bob, get down, charge there.
Isn't he a beauty, though? He was sent
me from China Bob, behave" for the
great bouncing pet Is trying to lick his
hand.
a daily practice among the officer to,
in turn, take her driving In the cool
of the afternoon. As the principal
drive of Interest lay In close proximity
to the flring line the excursion was
not without the element of danger so
dear to the heart of both officer and
adventursome women. The admiral
looked on for some time in silence, but
eventually, meeting the fair charmer
one day, reproached her for taking such
risks, thinking perhaps in this way to
stem the practice so rapidly becoming
popular among hi men. .The young
lady promptly replied that she was not
at all afraid of bullets when protected
by one of Dewey's officer.
Weli," replied the admiral. "If you
do not object to being killed I have
nothing to say; but I cannot spare any
of my men."
The young lady does not know yet
whether this was a compliment or a
reproach.
THE DREYFUS CASE.
In one respect the Dreyfus case Is
unique In the history of the world.
Never before lias the simple question of
the guilt or Innocence of one man of
no great station or Importance pro
duced such astonishing developments,
such a bewildering morass of assertion
and contradiction, plot and counterplot
murder and sudden death. What other
affair In all the absorbing records of
crime ha so enthralled the whole civi
lized world?
We have seen the courts of august
monarch agitated, and the diplomacy
of Europe on the alert while France
herself has been divided as with a
sword. But it is not a little curious
that the warm hearted champions of
Of course you feel at once at home , Dreyfus, both In England and America.
and quite at your best You launch ; should have Ignored so completely
into all the news at the end of your i what seemed, to observers who knew
tongue, and go away , after half an France well, one of the most striking
hour's chat to And yourself surprised
at how intimately you know him.
His mind once made up, his Judg
ment never falters. I know of more
features of the affair almost from the
very beginning. Fortlgn opinion, with
few exceptions, condemned the anti
Drevfusards In a body as either knave
mlral Dewey's affability for weakness, the anti-Dreyfus flag has formed the
any to regret it bitterly. A well known rallying point of the most extraordl-
OJB fiiild do our duty to our fellow men i Mt; Don't you think you have con
curs! ves, Not the seu-saennce i buted a little to the cause?
One might go on Indefinitely citing
Instance like those above, but If you
only take the trouble to do a little
thinking on your own account you can
easily see that ta cause of ths present
condition to not sit one-sided. Every
on to the author of his own fortune.
Unselfishness, self-denial and strict
economy will make any man better and
eventually bring the proper reward. If
he only has the patience to wart a
while. You and every one can Improve
your condition and that of your fellow
man by Improving yourself. You have
only Just started on the down grade
now. Ton can stop If you will and get
on the road that I smooth and lead
up to things higher, better and nobler.
Which road do you think It would be
best to takeT It U a little harder to
start up aa Incline, but It is ever so
tuck pleasanter, one yon art started.
WUbnr T. Hicks, Winchester, 111.
inds our dignity and makes our
condition worse, but the self-sac-
that makes ua no worse off and
much to the happiness of others,
the llttto things that count the
and tho ones to which ths vast
gtvw nttl or no attention. It
always becaus we do not wast
4k, but because w do not think.
Agate, we allow our minds to be ta
asstr aad bllndry follow prevalent cus
'dkaaa, no matter where they mar lead
esja, Wo have not the courage to break
Vans from ths usual practices of our
yet ww cannot help woader-
at time where w art coins;. Yon
- Capa only to look about you and recall
r Cat few thfcta la roar present and
t caat KB to rsTlitt you would have been
rOMar tt bars done as roar ooa
4K2oaco dictated, or weald have dlctat
C had yoa thought sensibly, rather
flowed the leadership or some
or u nasas more blind, thought
ft- a aad 1 1 girl a thaa roareeif. ui
th past to pats, t-aa taere is a
oast tt to asvar Is lata ta do
rr i n nail IsMinrri T"IT t T"
'- ;3I saat irnt Impion yourself. lav
:.-- Cto atari hasW at
Sa O fwar satad to do your
2,1c andaetantkoy wSX
erJrzz C3 raw wsmaw
- :-1 tZZL C t work
Princes Null Hanun, says the Wo
man's Journal, paralysed Cairo society
by giving a reception to which both
mm and women war Invited. She to
the sdoos of Ian-ah Pasha and wtf of
th ox-mlntotsT of foreign affair at
Ooaataatlaopte. The roooptioa was
I moat of the dtotla-
peopto of alt nations ta Cairo
rho rkM s to said to
b soopta vsrasd ha
KtoraMM aad art,
ssssA ahaw af ataoarwtlia aad a
Instance In Manila was that of a prom
inent newspaper correspondent who
was permitted the freedom of the flag
ship. One day this correspondent who
was freqently In the habit of chatting
Informally with the admiral, sauntered
Into Dewey's quarters and. Interrupting
nlm in his work, blurted out
"Well, admiral, what are your plans
regarding future action here?"
Plana? Plans?" the admiral replied
m surprise. "How dare you ask the
plans for publication? Get off this ship,
nl don't you let me see you here again
until you know more."
The correspondent realized his mis
take, but too late. He got off, and has
ilnce been allowed to resign from the
paper he represented. Admiral Dewey
is one of the best specimens of Amer
icanism our country has produced. He
(s fearless to a point little short of
rwckltssiM'sa Wot once, but every
week he visits the firing lines, and he
takes chance that make every one
present fear for his safety. His char
acter show that simplicity and ap
proachabllrty are attributes of true
worth. He is not averse to fondling his
pet dog, nor is he wanting when the
harsh measures of war are needed.
When, one day, I showed him a number
f photograph of the dead Insurgents,
fee exclaimed:
"Poor feUows! Too bad, too bad!
tant it a pity we have to do It?" Then
se added, entreattagly: "Don't send
them home; they are too horrible."
The admiral is quite proud of his
'gallery of beauties," as be call the
trray of photographs that decorate his
sabins on the Olympla. "Thl one.
ae said, "writes me she I a distant
jousln of mine. Isn't she pretty? I am
orry she la so distant I wrote, thank
ng her, and told her I was proud to
acknowledge the relationship. Wouldn't
rou be?"
The admiral's cabin Is stored with re
membrances from admirers, and. to
me, It seemed greatly to hi credit that
se was gratified by the gifts that were
sent him. "I am afraid, though. If 1
kept them all aboard I should have to
enlarge the Olympla," he said. And so
he would. For there are book by the
hundred, vases, cups, albums, statues,
table services, embroideries, painting
and knick-knacks galore, to say noth
ing of the hundreds of button and pic
tures of himself adorning everything
from a medal to a beer-tray
nary diverse elements. H was, to those
who knew France, as If Mr. John Mor
ley, Mr. Kenslt, Cardinal Vauirhan,
Mr. Balfour, "Nunquam." Mr. Hooley,
Sir Walter Beoant, Mr. G. R- 81ms, the
Duke of Argyll, Mr. Harry Marks, and
Lord Cross, all took the same view of
some public quetfU) and publicly ex
pressed their agreement. Obviously
any opinion held In common by men
differing so widely in Intellect, charac-l
ter and pursuits would deserve at anyi
rate careful examination. t'nfor.
tunately, the majority of English ob
servers did not pay sufficient attention
to the remarkable variety of the ele
ments which went to make up anti
Dreyfus feeling in France, hurt were
content to see in It the intrigues either
of Jesuits or of the army, or of the;
pretender. No doubt a certain nuraW
of persons in Prance adopted an anti
Dreyfus attitude from Ignoble motives,
but it is manifestly unfair to attribute
the same motives Indiscriminately to
every one on the same side.
DEWEY'S HINT TO A LADY.
Manila, March 20. Admiral Dewey
M not, like Napoleon, a woman hater,
although many naval officer' wives
are almost convinced to the contrary,
rhe admiral does not hesitate to any
that he believe the presence of a wo
nan Interfere with a man' efficiency
ts an officer in war time. Many offi
cers' wives, as soon as they became
convinced that their husband would
remain an Indefinite period at Manila,
ost no Urn In hurrying over to Join
(hem, and some, 'Us said, even though
ihelr husbands cabled "no to their pe
titions. The admiral did not look with
!avor upon their arrival, for to bis mind
It meant Impaired efficiency la some
tt his best officers. They cam, how
ever, and before the outbreak of hostil
ities between the Insurgents aad th
Americans, dance and yacht aacur
llons In th bay and up th Pant river
cam quit frequent, ova th ad
sjiral himself giving a largo hall on th
Olympla. He. aoworsr. always main
tained bis postttoa. aad ao woman was
allowed aboard ahip whoa oho weat to
bb ordartKS tho tabseqnmt parted
bo Cat was la battto
f3ar
iadjr, engaged &
draw heavily 0
rsa Jaator oCV
taWoharmo. J.lCiSH V-
Largest Passenger Locomotives.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad has Just put in service two
locomotive which are claimed to be the
largest ever constructed for passenger
service. They are to be used upon the
Denver express and upon the fast mall
trains, with which an enviable record
has been made during the past winter.
The engine are numbered 15'Jl and
1592, and their general appearance 1
shown in the accompanying Illustration
from a photograph of No. 15S1, fur
nished by the courtesy of the Burling
ton officials. ,
The new engine are of the Atlantic
type, and are compounded on the
Vauclain system, having been built by
the Baldwin Locomotive worka The
weight Is 127 tons. The cylinders are
23 and 2 by 30 inches, and the driving
wheels are 84 Inches In diameter. The
trailing truck wheels are CO Inches in
diameter. The boiler is designed for a
steam pressure of 220 pounds to th
square Inch. It 1 fitted with 294 tubes
2 Inches In diameter and If feet In
length. The tender carries 12 tons of
coal and S.OOO gallons of water. On th
first trip No. 1581 with the Denver ex
press hauled a solid vestlbuled train
consisting of two small cars, one com
posite library and smoking car, two
sleeping car, a total weight of 371
tona The working 1 spoken of as ad
mirable and excellent result are ex
pected when the "Umbering" procea to
completed.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
There I one branch of a housekeep
er's education that I fear Is much neg
lected. At least one might think It
was from th frequency we hear womey
remark that they do not know one piece
of meat from another. For a woman to
go to the butcher wagon to buy, and
not know what part of the animal is
tender and what tough, is to acknowl
edge that she I not an adept in the
ut of cooking: for she must know the
quality of her meat ere she can know
now to prepare it properly for the
table.
A long while ago, a butcher who had
erved us with meat for some time,
very acceptably, told me one morning.
In a little confidential gossip we had
at the meat wagon, of a neighbor ot
)urs who did not know much about
meat She always wanted to get it two
cents a pound under price, though, he
laid, and didn't like It if she couldn't.
He liked to make people happy when
he could Just as well as not. so he stop
ped over by the woods under a certain
tree, that the horse had learned to
Know, and always drew up there wlth
)ut a hint, while he cut steak for her
from a chuck roast
lie asked eighteen cents a pound for
it, and then generously knocked off two
;ents. and she was happy and so was
he. He got sixteen cents for twelve
cent meat Of course when she came
to chew on the steak, she belabored
butchers generally for the tough beef
right to know tho weight of her par
cha and what sbs pay by th pound,
she Is entitled to polite treatment, aad
should not have to buy and pay for
more than she needs, and so rob her
husband to enrich the butcher.
If a piece of meat I boned and trim
med after It I weighed the bone and
trimming are hers, and not to be
thrown back and carted away. Bones
flavor and help any soup she might
make, and the fat la better to use for
frying purposes than lard alone.
The American housekeeper should
learn some of the thrift that I said to
be practiced In French and German
homes. The day i coming, and now
Is, when it is bard enough for th
farmer to meet the demands made upon
him and his land without any waste in
the kitchen.
The politicians will see to It that he
Is taxed sufficiently without hi wife
taking a band In It This is a study
any Intelligent woman may acquire by
her own energies, Indeed, there l
scercely any branch of knowledge but
may be secured in that way if we
choose; but we are rapidly rising above
self education, and send our children
abroad to anatomise bugs, stuff dead
birds, etc., but to carve a chicken and
manipulate the side bone- gracefully
Is beyond the skill of the average grad
uate of the schools, and the different
parts of eatable animals are almost
unnamable by the habitue of the class
room. It is the ornamental ana imprac
ticable parts of an education that take
the parents' hard earnings to provide,
they sold nowadays; but her own mind I whlle we mu8t ,ook eewbero for that
was at rest she had at least saved two "now.eoge wnicn . 10 oe ne....a, io
cents a pound, which would go a little 1 husbandmen and housewives, those oc-
ways toward repairing teeth, and the cupaiions mat wnuam i-enn aw,
... nklM.A. VvA...A let Inlllfl-
butcher was none the worse for her i ""-, "
scolding, not being there to hear. On j tlou. healthy, honest and of good ex
the whole It was the most satisfactory j ample." I like best a country life and
cheatlnr that I ever heard of: but ll faie ior my cnuaren, sam ne, ana
------- -
wouldn t work well on a woman wno is
Fred Wellhouse of Topeka I the larg
est apple grower in the world, say the
8t Louis Post-Dispatch. He ha 200
acres In apples alone. Hi orchard
are In Leavenworth, Shawnee and also
In Osage counties. His largest orchard
consists of 800 acre at Wakarusa, In
Osage county. He ha over 100.000 appl
tree. In 1890 Mr. Wellhouse raised
0,000 bushel of apples. Thl year, he
says, the Indication are that he will
raise 100,000 bushels.
Mr. Wellhouse grows other fruits, but
apples are his specialty. He was tho
first Xansan who had th courage to
engage In fruit raising to any extent
and he ha been well rwarded for bis
faith and enterprise. He ha made a
handsome fortune, has retired from
active business, leaving hi orchard In
charge of his sons, and lives In a IIS, 000
residence In Topeka.
Mr. Wellhouse consider tho Ben Da
vis apple the bast staple, aad has a
third of his orchard planted In that va
riety. Four hundred and nine acres
are planted to the Missouri pippin, 1M
to tb Jonathan, is to tho Oaao aad
Tho rellhoua apple are sold la Mow
York, Chicago, St. Louis, San rraaeto
oa aad tka citv of Mexico, aad a con
sider-hl quantity noes ta too markstt
of Bursas.
Mr. WaUtMMss to from
lad. Owaoaaaoedit of the
booked up on porterhouse, sirloin, rump
and round steaks. No butcher could
sell shoulder blades at hlfth prices to a
woman who knows where good steak
are located. Nor could he palm off a
tough Btew for a good roast if the
buyer knows what Is what
If women are willing to remain Ignor
ant and not study this meat matter
they will often get a piece worked off
on them that they do not want, for
butchers have been built that way from
the earliest recollection of the oldest
Inhabitant
Your Ignorance Is their bliss, their
harvest It Is not to be expected of the
young girl Just setting up housekeeping
to know much or even anything about
the different cuts of meat Standing
ribs, briskets, plate, rumps, shoulder
clots, cutlets, chops, tenderloins, fillets,
saddles of mutton, and lotns and knuck
les and racks of veal are all Greek to
her, but she should begin at once to
take an interest in this important
branrai of her work, and every piece
he buys find out where it comes from,
and Its name and quality. She must
know that a piece that would make an
escellent dinner if stewed and nicely
browned, would not be eatable roasted
or fried. She should also familiarize
herself with all sorts of hashes, Ham
burg steaks, pressed meats and cro
quettes. Every part of the beef, veal,
mutton or pork can be made into good
reilshable dishes if the cook under
stands her work. If she give half as
much attention to meat lore as she has
to give to the rise and fall of her
sleeve to keep them nelgbbor-llke, she
will soon master the situation.
Providing food for a table is one of
the penalties of matrimony. There is
an unexplored region In man calling
constantly for good fare; and through
vigilance in this line, a woman may at
tain great heights in her husband' es
teem, and thereby conduct him through
the devious way she wishes him to go,
even after hi pate is polished, and she
seems to have no hold to guide him by.
Meat I a leading article In diet, sec
ond only to bread, and the moet costly
of any.
Buying meat Of the butcher is one of
the most trying task that a housekeep
er has to do. Butcher are a knowing
set and a timid little woman that ha
not overly much faith In her own abil
ity dreads to come In contact with such
astuteness. She may think she knows
Just what she want when she goe out
to buy, but find herself lugging In Just
the reverse. He has convinced her that
he has a piece that would suit her
much better. If she ask for two pounds
of steak he will make It thick enough
to weigh three; If she desire a six or
eight-pound roast, he has a ten or
twelve-pound one that I Just the thing;
and so on through the list. Women can
face danger without flinching, but I do
not know a single one who dare to
blurt out to her butcher, "I'll have
what I want or go without anything."
They make miserable coward of us all.
I once bought meat nearly a whole sea
son of a butcher who never told me
what a piece of meat weighed. I told
what I wanted, steak or stew or roast,
and he cut and weighed and flopped
It down, saying It will be so and so, and
I paid the bill; It was all the Interest I
was permitted In the transaction. One
day I screwed myself up to asking gent,
ly as I counted out the money, What
.did this weigh? I saw at once that I
had mad a mistake; It was not a pro
per question; he grew red la the face,
said he forgot and Jerked up the steel
yards and weighed It again, and said,
"Oh, It I more than I thought It was;
It will be ton cents more than I said."
Th head of the Sidney said, "Maybe
be thought a woman could bold her
tonga aad qul prying Into things If
It coot her ten cents a pry. Bui she
can't, and I won't have my wlfo depriv
ed of this privilege of her an; we'll try
another butcher next summer." And w
did aad proAtof by th change.
Now that I am old oaough to too
nor eJoarln 'aad bold enough to speak
advised his wife "to keep an Ingenious
person In the house to teach them,
rather than send them to schools, too
many evil impressions being commonly
received there:" and the tendency of
the schools Is Just as evil today, hedged
about as they are by saloons an4 night
Junketings.
The time that those who are to be
farmers or housekeepers spend in the
modern boarding school rooms seems to
be wasted, for they get there neither
observation nor Instruction In their line
of life work, and lose while there the
practical application, which is best of
all, that their own homes with parental
guiding affords. This may be treason,
but it is true. "What would college
graduate Seward weigh In any scale
against Lincoln,, bred In affairs?" saM
Wendell Phillips.
HOU8BKEEPI.NO ACCOUNTS.
T ie habit o' keeping a strict account
of every cent received and spent Is one
of the rnowt effectual check to unnec
essary outlay. If it is to be of any ser
vice this account must be kept regu
larly and precisely. The entries, how-
ever trifling, should be made dally, and
at the end of the week the sum total
on either side should be added up and
balanced, care being taken to notice
whether the cash on hand agrees with
the statement of account At certain
fixed dates, such as the end of each
week or the end of each month, the
details of payment should be examin
ed, and each hem carried out and
placed under Its respective head, such
as meat, bread, milk, etc.
By this means a comparison can be
easily made between the expenses of
one week and those of ann.her, and ex
cess of unnecessary expenditure can be
at once discovered and checked. When
the ready money system is not adopted
In the family, and bills are sent In for
payment, a separate book should be
kept. In which an entry can be made
of every article supplied for household
use, and this book should be compared
with the tradesmen's account when
they are presented for payment, so that
any discrepancy between the two may
be pointed out and rectified.
FEMININE PERSONALS.
,1
i an that it to a
'
The oldest queen of Europe Is the
queen of Hanover, who was 81 year
old In April. Queen Victoria come
next, being 80 this month, while the
ex-Empress Eugenie I 73.
Mrs. "Jeb" Stuart, widow of the con
federate cavalry commander, ha re
signed the princlpalshlp of the Ylr.
gin la Female Institute, the diocesan
school of two dioceses. She has oc
cupied the position for many year.
Mra Oliver Combo of Ocean Side,
L. I., was born on the same day a
Queen Victoria. Both women married
in the same month and each lost her
husband after twenty-one year of
wedded Mfe. The similarity In personal
appearance of the two women i strik
ing. In build, In height and in feature
there I a marked resemblance, so
much so that If It ever becomes nec
essary to personate the queen her
Long Island counterpart could do it
with remarkable success.
The ex-quen of Naples was much
disturbed by the cat of Cardinal An
tonelll' mother and In her desperation
purchased several rifles and air guns
and proceeded to shoot the disturber
of btr rest The old countess, f ran tie
with rage, appealed first of all to her
son, the secretary of stats, and then
to th lata pope himself. Insisting that
some check should be put upon th
porting proclivities ot the royal Diana
and that she should be debarred from
potting oats under tb shadow of tho
wall of tt. Peter's aad tho Vatican.
But tho good pop declined to Interefer,
Intimating that tho cats should not
have made ouch borribto noise and
that they practically damrvod their
fata.
A haadaomo cottar bnohto of told la
tho ahapo of two niU to art with