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WHEN DAY WAS DONE.
ST IHJSBE CHAXDUEB MOCLTOK,
Ifce clouds that watcbel In the West bare fled ;
The sna baa set and the moon is mgn;
Aad nothing it left of tbo day that is dead,
8aT0 a fair white ghost in the Eastern sky.
When the day was dying ire knelt and yearned.
And hoped and prayed till its last breath died ;
But ainoe to a radiant ghost it baa turned.
Shall we rest with that white grace satisfied?
Oae fair gbost smiles with a pale, cold smile.
As mocking as life and as hopeless as death
Shall passionless beauty like this beguile?
Who lores a ghost without feeling or breath?
I remember a maiden as fair to see,
Who once was all ve. with a heart like Jane ;
She died, but ber spirit wanders free.
And charms men's souls to the old mad tune.
Warm rbe was, in ber life's glad day.
Warm and fair, and faithful and sweet ;
A man might have thrown a kingdom away
To kneel and lore at ber girlish feet.
But the night came down and ber day waa
done;
Hoping and dreaming were over for aye ;
And then ber career as a gbost was legun
Cold she shone, like the moon on high.
For maiden or moon shall a lire man yearn?
Shall a breathing man lore a gbost without
breath?
Ebine. moon, and chill us, you cannot burn ;
Go homo, Girl-Ghost, to your kingdom of
death.
HER SECRET.
When that particularly shrewd and
businesslike young man, Mr. Thomas
Partington, joined himself in marriage
to Ada, relict of the late Isaac Abra
hams, his friends evinced considerable
surprise at the step. The widow was,
indeed, as they admitted, young and
fascinating, and had, moreover, inheri
ted .1 very substantial fortune from her
previous husband. But then she was
dreadfully extravagant in hor habits,
and had lately developed a perfect
mania for gambling.
In fact, her losses on the turf and at
the card tables were becoming quite the
talk of society, and it is certain that
even during the short period which
elapsed between her first husband's
death and the date of her second mar
riage her fortune must have been ma
terially diminished by the drains she
made upon it In another year or two
at her present rate she would, so Tom's
friends said, run through it altogether,
and then ho would find himself in the
unenviable position of having to sup
port a recklessly spendthrift wife en
tirely out of his own pocket.
A few of his greatest intimates im
pressed this upon him before he took
the final plunge, and urged him to back
out of-his engagemet ere it was yet too
lata But Tom turned a deaf ear to
their advice. He was very much in
love with the charming widow. And,
besides, he entertained a strong hope
that after their union he should be able
to reform, or at least control, his wife's
extravagance. Instead, therefore of
trying to cry off the match, he hurried
itforward to the best of his ability, in
order that she might have as short an
interval as possible in which to enjoy
the unchecked expenditure of her
money.
But when he was married to the lady
he found that his hope of being able
to reform her had been decidedly chim
erical. Self willed and headstrong, she
would scarcely endure advice, much
less any semblence of restraint So,
after a few months of useless remons
trance, he gave up all attempt at gen
uine reformation as a bad job, and had
to content himself with showing- silent
disapproval of her extravagances or
with throwing in their way such feeble
obstacles as he could. These were
slight enough, for her fortune was en
tirely at her own control. Still
they
were not quite fruitless.
And as time went on, people noticed
that Mrs. Partington's gambling trans-
actions were ou a much smaller scale.
Her best friends began to hoie that the
instincts of the mother were beginning
to assert themselves over the cravings of
the gabbler, and that it was thonght
for the little one whom she was soon
expecting that thus checked her in her
caresr of mad extravagance It is cer
tain at any rate, that, as time went for
ward, she grew every day more out of
spirits, and nothing was more likely
for, with all her faults, she was a. soft
hearted woman than that she should
be fretting over past selfish extrava
gance, as a sort of robbery perpetrated
on her unborn off-spring. Perhaps,
also, her weakened physical condition
contributed its quota to this altered
frame of mind. But whatever the rea
sons may have been, the fact was un
doubtedly there. And each day the
once lighthearted and reckless woman
grew more moody and depressed.
Tom appeared to notice this change
in his wife. His manner toward her,
always kind and attentive, became ac
tually tender in its consideration, and
he tried his hardest to soothe away her
gathering depression of spirits. He
was not able to be with her much in the
day time, for, shortly after his mar
riage, being tired of having nothing to
do, he had put some of his money into
"business" in the city, where his con
stant presence was now required; but
he regularly spent his evenings at home,
hardly ever going to the theater or to
his club.
His wife seemed to feel his consider
ate tenderness very deeply, for several
times as he sat beside her of an even
ing, with his arms thrown caressingly
around her, she suddenly buried her
face on his shoulder and burst into
tears like one whose remorse is awak
ened by unmerited and unlooked for
kindness. Ou each of these occasions
Tom felt by a certain subtle and in
palpable instinct that his wife was on
the very verge of making some confes
sionperhaps of sorrow and regret for
her defiant attitude toward him in the
past. But although by his comforting
words and soothing caresses he did his
best to invite her confidence, the con
fession which he felt to be hanging ou
her lips never issued from them.
Meanwhile, what was so clear to her
husband did not escape the notice of
Mrs. Partington's female friends. Of
these she had many, but by far the
most favored and confidential of them
was Mrs. Brandon, an old schoolfellow
with whom she had kept up a lifelong
intimacy. Mrs. Brandon, who was at
once a very lively and a highly sensible
lady, had, at an early period, detected
the unusual gloom which had come over
her friend's manner, and rallied her
upon taking her new position so seri
ouslv. "My dear Ada," she said at last in
the eonrse of an afternoon call, dnrinar
which Mrs. Partington had been more
dull than ever, l snouia never have
encouraged yon to accept Tom if I had
- foreseen what a deplorable effect your
second dose of matrimony would have
upon you. Do yon know that in the
"twenty aunutes I have been here, the
only original observation yon have made
was to ask me whether I had enough
sugar. What is the matter with yon to
day?" Mrs. Partington muttered something
about b "bad headache."
"But have yon always a bad headache
Bowadays?" continued Mrs. Brandon,
Btore ssrioBsly. "I should not have al
ladedtothe subject if this were the
first faate that I have seen yon thus.
Bat for weeks I have observed yon
growing Btore and more gloomy and de
pressed. Tow are getting quite unlike
yonr old self, and I cannot help feeling
tenamur uneasy about yon.
What does
To Mrs. Brandon's surprise her friend,
instead of answering, only burst into
tears and baned her face Lin ber hand-; "Very easily, my pet, ne answered,
kerchief. Evidently, thonght Mrs. kissing her forehead, "seeing that the
Brandon, the once gay and sprightly founder and proprietor of the ganib
Ada Ttsatft was very changed indeed. ' ling ctnb where you lut yonr money is
"Com, Ada," she said, drawing her no other than niy-elf !"
loser, bm taking esc of herl
friend's bands, "yon have aomettung on
your aiad. I thoagfct so before; bow I
am aire of it Tell bm all about it It
will do yon good to confide in someone,
and you and I have never had a secret
from one another during the last twenty
years. Is it anvthing to do with Tom ?"
"No, no indeed it isn't ! Pray don't
think that!" sobbed Mrs. Partington.
"Well, that's
Mrs. Brandon,
something to do
a mercy
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observed
Then it must be
with yourself. What
isit?"
There was a short pause, during
which Mrs. Partington's sobs slightly
subsided.
"Nell," she said presently, "it is all
your fault"
"My fault, dear!" exclaimed Mrs.
Brandon.
"Your fault," repeated Mrs. Parting
ton. "It has all come of your introduc
ing me to that hateful Pompadour Club.
Oh, how I wish I had never entered the
place!"
"You don't mean to say " Mrs.
Brandon paused and looked at her
friend.
"I mean to say that, unknown to
Tom, I have been playing there every
afternoon, and losing constantly, until
oh, Nell, promise swear that you
will not tell Tom this!"
"Of course not Have we ever be
trayed one another's confidence, dear?
But you must promise me something,
too. Promise that you will tell Tom.
"I? Oh, Nell, you don't know what
you are asking. You have not heard
all yet I would not have Tom know
it for the world. Bather than hat I
would "
Mrs. Partington's sobs had burst
forth again with renewed force. Sud
denly she sank back on the sofa with a
cry of pain which alarmed her friend.
Perceiving that she was really ill Mm
Brandon summoned assistance. Many
minutes did not elapse before one of
the servants was hurrying off for a
doctor.
Very shortly after the arrival of that
functionary, Mrs. Brandon herself left
She drove direct to the club where Tom
Partington occasionally called of an
afternoon on his way home from the
city. By good luck he was there now,
and the message which Mrs. Brandon
sent in quickly brought him to her car
riage door. A very few words passed
between them, but enough to make
Tom's face grow to twice its normal
length.
I will be off at once, he said.
Do," replied Mrs. Brandon. "But
mind, not a word yet! Not until she is
quite well again."
Trust me! cried Tom. He was al
ready hailing a passing hansom, and
with a hurried bow to Mrs. .Brandon he
jumped into it
when he reached home be sprane up
the steps and rang the doorbell sharply.
It was opened in about half a second by
the cook, who, with a look of deep im
portance on her face, gasped out:
"Please, sir, will you be as quiet as pos
sible. And and it's a boy!"
Before her bewildered master had
time to make any inquiries relative to
this information the doctor, who had
been descending the stairs when he en
tered, came np to him and shook him
by the hand.
"I must congratulate you, my dear
sir," he said, "on the birth of a remark
ably fine son. I am glad to tell you,
tool that Mrs. Partington is going on as
well as can be expected. But she is
naturally very weak. So if you go to
see her do not stop more than a minute
or allow her to talk. Anything cal
culated to excite ner must oe most care
fully avoided. I will call in again later
and see how she is progressing."
Under these circumstances Mr. Part-
incton was compelled to abandon for the
j present the hope which he had enter-
tained of inducing his wife to confide to
him the trouble which seemed to have
recently oppressed her. He accordingly
restrained his patience as best he could,
and waited until her strength should
return. At the end of the week, how
ever, it was evident that-Mrs. Parting
ton was only mending very slowly, and
the doctor was by no means satisfied
with her progress. Indeed, he expressed
his conviction to the husband that some
thing was weighing on his patient's
mind, the removal of which was es
sential to her complete recovery. After
this Tom resolved to endeavor at the
earliest opportunity to come to an un
derstanding with his wife.
So, on the same afternoon, as he sat
by his wife's bedside, with one of her
hsnds in his, he said kindly, "Ada, my
dear, you have something on your
mind."
A quick flush overspread her pale
face, and she averted her gaze, mur
muring in a confused tone, "What
makes you fancy that, Tom?"
"The eyes of love are quick to see
such things," replied her husband ten
derly, as he stroked her head with his
disengaged hand. "Did you think I
failed to remark it just now, when, as
your glance fell on the little one there,
a groan escaped your lips? And you
have shown by many other signs that
something is troubling you."
"Oh, Tom," she cried suddenly,
leaning forward and hiding her face on
his shoulders. "You will not speak so
kindly when you know the truth. Yet
I must tell you my my husband. You
have been so kind and gentle that I
cannot deceive you any longer, but try,
Tom," pleadingly "not to be very
angry with me."
"There is no fear of that," said Tom
encouragingly. "Come, little woman,
let ns have the murder out"
"Ah, you do not know what it is," she
went on in remorseful tones "else you
would not treat it so lightly. Oh, Tom,
Tom, I I have lost my fortune."
"How did you manage that?" he
asked quietly.
"You may well put such a question,"
she continued in a voice broken by fre
quent sobs. "Yon may well fail to un
derstand my folly and madness. Oh,
Tom, Tom, although I used to set you
at defiance in the matter of gambling,
yet your open remonstrance and silent
disapproval in time began to Tex my
impatient heart And when I discov
ered a secret gambling club, where I
could indulge my insatiable passion
without your knowledge, I at once be
gan to frequent it The game was rou
lette the one of all .others in which I
had always longed to join. I gave my
self up to its fascination, and staking
wildly incurred heavy losses day after
' day.
Then, as my fortune rapidly di
minished, and time went on, and
thoughts of the little one whom I was
soon to bear were brought home to me,
a chord of motherly feeling was touched
within me, and I hated myself for ray
wicked folly in having robbed my child.
"I Towed I would win back all that I
had lost, and with that intention (for
my strange gambler's craving was
somehow dying away) staked heavily
at the tables. But my endeavor was
nothing else than throwing good money
'after bad. I lost lost lost nntil my
whole fortune was gone. Do not" very
piteonsly "do not reproach me, Tom.
My own heart is reproaching me al
ready, almost more than I can bear."
"My darling," he replied, "I have no
thought of reproaching you. If I had
meant to do that I should have done it
before this, for I have known all about
(it a long while." "You have known
all about it a long while!" she cried.
I raising her tearful eyes wouderingly to
J his. "Oh, Tom how did you find out?"
bus regat-aea mm in speechless
amazement He went oa to explaia
hiamU farther:
"Yea. It is quite true. Whea I
found that advice and remonstrance
were lost on yon, my dear, I had to look
about for another method of saving yon
from the effects of yonr folly. And the
starting of that private gambling club
was the method which occurred to me.
It took some working out of details and
the employment of a good bit of capital
to get the thing properly afloat Bnt I
enlisted the services of a competent
agent, whom I paid well, and under
took to indomnify in case the club were
found out by the police. It had not
been discovered, nor now ever will be;
for, its object having been gained, the
establishment is finally closed. There,
Ada, that is enough to enable you to
grasp the truth. But tell me are yom
sorry to learn that all the money which
yon lost has passed back into my
hands?"
"Sorry!" she ejaculated, raising her
self in bed and wreathing her arms
round his neck in a joyful, fond em
brace. "Oh, Tom. how kind and gocd
and clever you are! I can never love
or tfaauk you enough."
Tom Partington gave the most con
vincing proof that he could have given,
of his belief in the sincerity of his wife's
repentonce. He handed back to her the
whole of her money without condition
or reerva: ion, and has never had causa
to regret it. Boston Courier.
An Jntllienaab'e Tree.
A line old patriaiclt of a hickory,
standing upon a bare, wind-swept hill
side, was blown down the other day,
at.d the little nut lovers of tho neigh
borhood were loud in their lamenta
tion?. Fur the hoary old tree, with a
trunk five or six feet thiotigh, wide
spread branches and hight of perhaps
150 feet, never failed to rain down
every autnmu upon the children a l er
feet deluge of nuts, sound and rich and
sweet It was amusing, yet pitiful, to
see them swarm about their prostrate
giant friend and bewail his hard fate.
Great pieces of the shaggy bark were
carried away and stored in "play houses"
as shelves and mementoes by the girls
and the boys came to petition my father
for bits of the wood to make
handles for their "little hatchets,"
axes, etc
Besides their value as nut-beating
trees and since nut culture is assum
ing such importance this is great the
hickories are among the most useful
and valuable trees in the world. The
wood which some of these trees yield
has no superior, if, indeed, has an equal
for certain important purposes It is
the hickory wood in the handle which
has carried the American ax around the
world and has driven, wherever it ii
known, all other axes out of the mar
ket The some wood has msde possible
those light carriages which in turn have
made possible the American trotting
horse, one of the marvels of modern
times. No other tree is known the w ood
of which is tough enough and strong
enough to stand the strain imposed
upon the American trotting sulky, and
without the modern sulky, aud its
heavier forerunner, neither breeding
nor training could have produced that
race of horses which every American
looks upon with -patriotic admiration.
The shell-bark hickory is considered
the most valuable species of the genus,
though its nuts are not esteemed sr.
highly as the pecans. The shell-bark is
the tree which people usually have in
mind when they speak of a hickory
tree, and the peculiarity of the bark,
which separates into great thick, loose
scales, gives to the tree a distinctive
appearance by which it is easily recog
nized. Tick's Magazine.
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He Could Not Ueail.
An old man stepped into a down-town
restaurant last evening and, seating
himself in the lunch department, took
up a bill of fare and began looking it
over carefully, says the Kansas City
Times. I sat next to him, munching a
frugal newspaper man's meal that co3t
15 cents.
The old man's studious persual of the
menu excited suspicion, which was
turned to a ludicrous situation a mo
ment later. The old man looked over
the bill a moment longer and then he
called a waiter.
"Here, boy," he said, "I want you."
The black youth responded promptly
and stood with the obsequious air of a
man who had not had a tip that day.
"Well, sir," he 'suggested respect
fully. "You may bring me," said the old
man, resting his finger on the Isst line
of the bill of fare "you may bring me,"
he went on with deliberation, "some of
that"
The black boy gazed at the place in
dicated by the elderly gentleman's fin
ger and could scarcely believe his eyes.
He looked again and a second later a
bit of native humor began to show itself
in the sparkling of his eyes and the
widening of his mouth.
"Some of that sir," the old gentle
man broke out, impatiently; "d'ye
hear?"
The waiter slipped back and laughed
the story to his chief. At the place in
dicated this line appeared:
"Unless otherwise ordered, cream will
be put in coffee before drawn, as it im
proves the flavor."
The old man could not read.
Clearing Off Snow with Six Knglnea.
A retired engineer, speaking of snow
storms, told a story about clearing rail
road tracks. The road on which he was
running at the time begins or ends,
at you chose, in Jersey City. At one
point on the line there is a deep cut,
wldch always gives trouble when a
heavy snow fsll occurs. Just beyond
the cut is a high iron bridge which
spans a very deep gorge. "We were
.driving an old-fashioned snow plow
with six of our biggest engines,'' said
the engineer. "It was regular battering-ram
work. We would draw back
and smash into that drift like a war
cruiser, until it seemed as if our string
of engines must snap in two. But we
just battered away for dear life, grad
ually opening the cut We had smashed
onr way almost through the big drift
when we backed np for another drive.
We came at the drift like a streak of
lightning. It seemed as if we threw a
million tons of ice and snow as high as
the sky. We did more than that We
cut through the whole drift as if it were
made of rotten cloth, and came out of
it on Ithe jump. Away we went for
that bridge, the six heavy engines
roaring like a tornado. I was driving
the first one, and when I thought of the
tremendous weight that would hit that
iron span like a great cannon-ball my
heart stood still. There was no stop
ping then, sol threw open the throttle
and let her so. We seemed to jump
from one side of that gorge to the
other without touching the bridge, and
six engineers and six firemen drew long
breaths wnen we found ourselves safely
on the other side, tearing along the
track." Kew York Tribune.
Don't Harbor This Conceit.
Don't imagine that some one yon hap
pen to dislike i hating you, or working
against you. It is more probable that
he is not even thinkiug of you, and
scarcely knows of your existence. It is
just as much the part of conceit to im
agine that every one in the world hates
yon, as to imagine that every one is in
love with yon, and far more disagree
able. Debtor to angry creditor) But, sir,
I have no money and cannot settle your
bill ! Yon cannot get blood out of a
turnip, can yon? Creditor ao, nr,
bnt i wii! get blo-jd out of a beat if that
bill isn't settled pretty soon.
THE "PEERAGE."
Castle I4sjer Shape Largely Owaad ay
KeMeaaea, riateerate, aad Byadtcatee.
An important public document was
issued recently, says a London corre
spondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser, giving a most startling rev
elation as to the gigantic proportions of
the liquor interest and its connection
with landlordism. It will be remem
bered that Mr. Goschen brought in last
year a foolish and ill-advised measure
which granted compensation to liquor
iealers on the extinction of their
licenses; and that this measure roused
such vigoroas opposition that its au
thors were compelled to withdraw it
We were then treated to piteous tales of
the poor but honest publican who was
to be deprived of his living and turned
at into the cold world, and voters were
asked by enormous placards posted
everywhere if they would be consenting
parties to such gross injustice. Appar
ently British voters were quite willing
to consent to it, and the document just
issued is the justification of their hos
tility to that compensation scheme. For
itisnow proved beyond doubt (what
the opponents of Mr. Goschen's bill had
all along asserted; that the compensa
tion would not go to the poor publican,
but to the wealthy brewer. The gov
ernment return, in short proves that
the liquor business is a gigantic monop
oly in the control of a handful of per
sons who wield enormous power, and
that a good proportion of these are peers
of the realm.
In London alone 100,000 liquor shops
are owned by monopolists, companies,
syndicates and wealthy individuals, the
nominal tenant being a mere bar-tender
who has no interest whatever in the
business. In Manchester there are
2,051 houses in the hands of absentee
landlords; in Liverpool, 2,008; in Shef
field, 1,102; in Bristol, 893; in Ports
month, 806; in Norwich, 005; in Sal
ford, 567; in Nottingham, Ml; in Hull,
460; in Leicester, 402. One single firm,
that of Greenall, Whitley & Co., the
head of which was made a baronet for
services to the Tory party, owns 534
drink-shops in three counties; another
firm owns 257 in Bristol alone; one
man owns 159 in Birmingham, and
another firm 143 in Liverpool. Two
brewers own 500 such places in the
County of Norfolk. In short the brew
ing and distilling trades are not in the
hands of great wealthy bodies, which
spread their tentacles iu the form of
licensed houses all over the land.
It is peculiarly interesting to note the
close connection between the drink in
terest and the House of Lords. Indeed,
it is quite usual now, to speak of the
peerage humorously as the "beerage."
You may be surprised to learn that the
Prime Minister is a drink-seller. Lord
Salisbury owns four drink-shops on the
Strand, and it is needless to say that, if
the County Council bad extinguished
these under Mr. Goschen's scheme,
Lord Salisbury would have received a
big sum in compensation a striking
comment on the absolute lack of moral
feeling which is, perkap, Lord Salis
bury's chief characteristic. Lord Derby
owns seveotv-two drink-shops, the Duke
of Bedford fifty. In one small Derby
shire town the Duke of Rutland owns
twenty and the Duke of Devonshire
twelve. Lord Hartington, the pseudo
philanthropic Duke of Westminster,
Lord Sefton, the Duke of Portland, that
young rip and gambler Lord Dudley,
Lord Portman, Lord Fitzwilliam, and
many other peers are all drink-sellers.
Railway companies and ecclesiastical
trusts also figure largely as owners of
this class of property.
Living tor a Dollar a Week.
There is a good time coming. The
millennium is not so far off as some pessi
miits would have us believe. Of course
there will be exceptions to the general
felicity and the good time will not be for
the $10,000 cooks, but the average man,
who is a slave to the cook and a victim
of dyspepsia, and the average woman,
who'is either a slave to the stove or
equally in bondage to the kitchen des
pot, are in sight of deliverance aud hap
piness, if they will only open their eyes
and see. Edward Atkinson, the emi
nent financier, statistician and econo
mist, of Boston, told how all this was to
be accomplished to a large audience,
composed mainly of women, in one of
the lecture rooms of Columbia Collego
the other afternoon. Dr. Atkinson is
not a dreamer, and he puts his theories
into actual practice before the eyes of
his audience.
The lecture was on the progress made
in applying scientific methods to the art
of cooking. Around the lecturer were a
number of curious arrangements that
mystified the audience greatly. The
lecturer said there were about 200
pounds of food of every variety, fish,
flesh, fowl, puddings and potatoes cook
ing in what looked like four cardboard
boxes bound with tin standing over four
ordinary lamps beside the platform.
There was absolutely no odor of cook
ing in the room and the audience were
curious but non-commital. The lec
turer said the cost of living to about
nine-tenths of the people in the United
States absorbs one-half of their income
and they did not get much satisfaction
even then. The solution of the food
problem, Mr, Atkinson said, will be the
solution of most of the social problems
that are troubling the world.
The lecturer told how a man could
live on a dollar a week, and live excep
tionally well on twenty-five cents a day.
The average cost at present, he said,
was 50 cents a day. A man could not
possibly cousume more than 25 cents
worth of food at present prices; the
other half is simply wasted. The stovo
is to blame for all this. "The Lord
sent the meat and the devil sent the
stoves." Mr. Atkinson has invented a
stove by which he claims the cost of
cooking wili be reduced to almost noth
ing, and the waste equally reduced.
He calls it the Aladdin oven. It is
simply an iron box 18 inches long by
14 inches in width. It is inclosed in a
case made of wood pulp. Under the
box is an ordinary lamp burning about
a qnart of kerosene oil in eight hours.
All the heat is retained in the oven, and
it is never higher than 3G0 degrees.
There is absolutely no smell, and food
is cooked without distilling the juices
or desiccating the solids. All there i
to do with this oven is to put in the food
and the lamp does the rest No atten
tion whatever is required.
After the lecture the food was taken
from the ovens, where it had been cook
ing, and distributed among the au
dience. In one oven was a four-course
dinner for ten person. Among the food
served were a th.irty-pon.nd sirloin of
beef, several chickens, fish, vegetables
and puddings. The delicacy of flavor
was retained in each dish, and, though
all the courses were cooked in the same
oven, everything retained its distinctive
taste. Indeed, Mr. Atkinson claims
that the flavor is intensified to a marked
degree by this system of cooking. The
cost of the fuel for cooking the 200
pounds of food was about 40 cents, and
of 36 pounds of food pat in the oven 32
pounds were taken out
In addition to the Aladdin oven Mr.
Atkinson has invented a workmen's din
ner pad. in which a dinner of two courses
can be carried to the workshop aud
cooked over an ordinary lamp during
the morning ready fur consumption at
the noon hour. Several of these pails
were on exhibition, and in them were
cooked the most delicious lamb chops
with tomato trance, halibnt steaks, pud
dings and a variety of dishes. The lec
ture was repeated before a number
of physician' at night A New Eitgla-.d
kitcneu on Mr. Atkinson's plau ban been
established in Boston and is much ap
preciated by the working people, who
patronise it largely. The lecturer ia
tends to establish a similar kitchen ia
Naw York. N. T. Recorder.
rat aad the "PHgstdiat.
The Washington Post relates a story
of an Irish volunteer who had been
wounded and sent back to Washington,
where lie was put upon guard duty till
he should be in condition to go back to
the front His beat was ia front of the
War Department
The Colonel in command instructed
him always to present arms to the
President
"To the Prizzidint, is it?" said
Patrick. "An how will I know him ?"
The Colonel tried to describe Mr.
Lincoln, and Patrick looked grim.
"Sure I'll present arms fast enough
if I know him," said the sentry, and
with that assurance the Colonel had
to leave him. Not long afterward, on
looking out of the window, he saw the
President pass Patrick, who took no
notice of him.
As soon as Mr. Lincoln had entered
the building the officer went down to
the Irishman. "Why, Patrick," said
he, "you forgot, after all, to present
arms to the President"
"The Prizzidint, is it?" exclaimed the
sentry, "was be passing me? Sure, I
seen many a man goin in, but nobodj
that looked like a prizzidint."
"Well, Patrick, when he comes ont
I'll follow him and give you a nod, and
then you'll know him."
"The saints be about yet honor; it's
the rale gintleman ye are entirely."
When Mr. Lincoln left the War De
partment, the Colonel followed him and
gave Patrick the signal for which he
had been religiously' waiting. At once
he put himself in position, and pre
presented arms so ostentatiously that
Mr. Lincoln nearly ran into him, and
then with his usual good-nature stopped
to speak with him, asking him about
his wife and babies in "Injeanny," and
slipping a coin into his hands as he
walked away.
Patrick was stupefied. "He sphoke to
me," he said. "His R'yal Highness
talked to me. Och! what a story that
will be to write home to Biddy an' the
byes!"
So he ran on for the remainder of his
guard, talking to himself when he could
find nobody else to talk to, about the
honor done him by bis "B'yal Highness
the'Prizzidint"
In the guard-room he made himself a
nuisance, and by night his sudden ele
vation, aided by all the whisky which
Mr. Lincoln's gratuity could purchase,
set him raving, and it was necessary to
put a ball and chain on his leg.
In a day or two he returned to duty
with a chastened remembrance of "the
proudest day of his life, when he talked
with his R'yal Highness the Prizzidint"
The History or Charity.
Among the few books, writes Walter
Besant, which remain to be written, is a
history of Charity. I have not the time
at present to undertake tub great work,
but these are the chapters into which
which it will be divided when it comes
to be written : 1. In prehistoric times.
When you give a beggar a penny be
cause he is a beggar. 2. When you
build a monastery which shall givo a
bed and a square meal to every beggar
because he is a beggar. 3. How the
beggar increases and multiplies and
blackens all the roads in consequence
of this humane treatment. 4. When
you hang the beggar, drop the beggar
into the river, pillory the beggar, and
flog the beggar, because he is a beggar.
5. When you found societies for relief,
but continue to flog the beggar because
he is a beggar. 6. When you send
cheques to the societies, but to continue
to flog the beggar because he is a
beggar. 7. When you send the beggar
to prison because he is a beggar, but
give him a penny when nobody is look
ing. 8. When you resolve to assist
none but the deserving. Yet the beg
gar continues, because he is a beggar.
J. When you give up sending cheques
about, give nothing to the beggar be
cause he is a beggar, and try personal
service among the classes which breed
the beggar. We are new beginning
the last chapter, and it really seems
hopeful. Manchester Times.
Madera Warfare.
A brief item iu the daily papers re
cently states that 500 persons were
killed by the sinking of the flag-ship of
the rebel squadron in Calladera Bay, on
the coast of Chili. The vessel was at
! tacked by a torpedo boat and destroyed
in a few seconds. This is one of the
first practical results of the years of ex
periment in perfecting ships and imple
ments of war, and it marks the fulfill
ment of the prophecy that war will be
come so destructive before long that
any appeal to arms will be sheer mad
ness. In this case 500 men were blown
into eternity in less time than it takes to
write it snd the torpedo boat had ample
ammunition left to destroy all the war
vessels in the Western Hemisphere.
In land warfare the advance which
science has made is fully as great It
would be a comparatively easy matter
to utterly destroy a whole city with a
battery of the new dynamite guns, and
no body of men on the field would
stand before the terrible rain of shot
which can be poured from the maxim
guns. Thus science helps on the
progress of morality and true civil
ization among mankind. In future
ages they will look back at onr times
as the dark ages, during which men
still killed each other like wild beasts,
and wonder how such things could ever
i have been.
Emotloaal Politic.
There's a young man iu Detroit who
will be a famous statesman one of these
days, if by some unlucky fate he is not
called upon to fill a premature grave.
The other night he was paying his usual
semi-weekly devoirs at the shrine of his
best girl, and the talk turned upon
politics, as talk will do sometimes when
trod upon.
"Tell me, Harry," she said, "what is
the difference between protection, free
trade and reciprocity?"
"Certainly, darling," he responded in
free, silvery tones, drawing about half
an inch nearer to her, which was all
there was to draw. "Yon ree it is this
way : If, for instance, we should kiss
t each other that wouid be free trade."
"Oo," she twittered with a dainty
little twitter.
"If," he continued, "I should kiss
you, and you should kiss me in return,
that wonfd be reciprocity."
"Oo, oo," she twittered with two
dainty little twitters.
"And lastly," he went on, "if yon
should kiss me and I should take a
dozen from you to pay for the privilege
yon enjoy, that wouid be protection."
"Oo, oo, oo, Harry," she twittered in
consecutive bunts of dainty little twit
ters, concluding with an explosive hug;
"I'm in favor of protection." and the
young man coincided with her unani
mouslv. Free Press.
A Good Bite.
A nine-foot shark in the harbor of
Charleston, 'bit at a dead horse floating
on the water and cut off piece of meat
estimated to weigh 150 pounds. The
little chap who acts as bank teller and
thinks he owns the earth would hardly
make a tooth-pick for such a monster.
Hn Maud is very yonng and in
gennon in her way, isn't she? She
Ye-. Her second childhood rests very
gracefully upon her, doesn't it?
You must hn tie to win. In the jack
pot of life the man who is shy is no
ia it
"No, old man., thanks for your kind
ness, but I can't afford to take that flat.
It costs too much to furnish It"
Why don't you buy furniture on the
installment plan?"
"But what'll I do when the bills come
due?"
"Move and begin over again."
BTaea Baby was sick, wa gave 1
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PERSONALS.
Gkesebai. Butler can repeat the four
gospels from memory. It is perhaps
needless to add that he learned them
in his far-off Sunday school days.
Goethe wrote Charlotte von Stein a
thousand letters In ten years. When a
man of letters goes in Tor tho tender
passion, how he docs squander his ink!
Mr. Abbott, the new premier of Can
ada, owns a beautiful estate at St.
Anne's, about an hour's ride from Mon
treal, which is stocked with Guernsey
cattle and Shropshire sheep.
Secretary Rusk calls tho attention
of the pork consuming public to the, su
periority of our hogs, which, he ob
serves are not confined in small pns.
This is true of the railroad variety,
which insists on having two or three
seats all to himseif, if possible, while
others may stand.
General Isaac Burbkl, who served
in the civil war as a member of tho
Forty-second Massachusetts regiment,
was forced to yield his sword to the con
federates at Galveston, Tex., in 1862.
He has recently received word from a
southerner that the present possessor of
the sword would be glad to return it to
him.
Cakomjb Durax, the famous artist
has all the exaggerated fondness for
show and glitter that characterizes tbe
natives of southern France. He likes
to load his fingers with rings and to wear
handsome silk linings to his coats. In
addition to his distinction in painting he
excels in several minor arts, such as rid
ing, guitar-playing, and fencing. He is
popular on the boulevards and every
body in Paris knows him.
J. A. JOHNSON, Medina, N. Y.. says:
"Halt's Catarrh Cure cured me." Sold'by
Druggkts, 75c.
CURRENT NOTE.
The man who lets his wife split all
the wood may mean well, but he
shouldn't be allowed to do all the talk
ing at prayer meeting.
Borrore "Well, I never borrow
trouble, anyhow." Lender "O, no,
you alwaps give that to the people you
borrow other things from."
A New York correspondent writes
about "well dressed literary women."
They certainly do not write the fashion
articles for the newspapers.
Choixy "I wondah what, is Wales
doing now, dealt boy?" Chappie "Pay
inehis debts. I hcah." Chollv "The
doocc, you say. That's 'demmedawk
wark, dontchewknaw."
First Convict (to his cellmate) "An'
yer never chawed or drank in ycr life?"'
Second convict (gloomily) "Naw."
First convict "Aw, don't try any o' yer
temporary insanity rackets on me! I
ain't no juryman."
McFixouc "I saw an advertisement
of Dullard's store in the paper this
morning' McFanglc "I thought he
never ad vcrtised. lie told me so, and
he said he never would." McFingle
"He didn't. It was in the list of sher
iff's sales.
Siiarik -'Say, Steele, we can settle
the case of Smith vs. Thompson forSlSO.
That's S75 for you and S75 for me."
Steele. 'Bt how about our client?
Where docs he come in?"' Sharpe (im
patiently) "O, give him S10. (Sudden
ly) No, promise to give him S10."
Best, easiest to aaa and cheapest. Piso'g
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists, 50a
Stolen, Perhaps.
"What has become of the sea serpent
hic ...rO" acbori thn truest, nt ilir land.
lnrd. '
"I dunno," was the reply, "but I
guess some of these awkward fishing
Mnacks miit have run up against her
and stove her in."
The King of Denmark tops Queen
Victoria by one year as the senior sov
ereign of Europe.
OTT& An fits stopped dm tor nr.Kline's Ureas
Notts Restorer. No fits attar flr day's nte Slar-
ellou. cure. Trestise aud tzm XAaX boUIs free to
nt
tiead to Dr. Uaa.hR Arab at. Phlla. fa
CerrftifcMY.te''.
A prompt, return
of your money, if you get neither
benefit nor cure. Risky terms for
the doctor, but safe and sure for the
patient. Everything to gain, noth
ing to lose. There's just one medi
cine of its class that's sold on these
conditions just one that coxdd be
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. It's a peculiar way to sell
it but it's a peculiar medicine.
It's tbe guaranteed remedy for all
Blood, Skin and Scalp Diseases,
from a common blotch or eruption
to the worst Scrofula. It cleanses,
purifies and enriches tbe blood, and
cures Salt -rheum, Tetter, Eczema,
Erysipelas, and all manner of blood
taints, from whatever cause. It
costs you nothing if it doesn't help
you. The only question is, whether
you want to be nelped.
"Golden Medical Discovery" is
the cheapest blood - purifier sold,
through druggists, because you
only pay for the good yon get.
Can you ask more ?
The "Discovery" sets equally
well aU the year round. Made by
tbe World's Dispensary Medical
.Association, at 663 Main Street
Buffalo, N. T.
The Soap
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Most
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WBeUMr Tea Travel ay Laad ar Sea
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cMmate or tasaparatnre, brackish water, aa
aaaal diat, draughts fron opea wtadewa that
sarly faUow passengers will aot elo.e-all these
breed ailmeats agaiost watch the surest are
tecttoa ia Hostetter's Stosaaeh Bitters, taest of
Medietas! fortifiers. Sea stekaesa. taad aausea,
are promptly counteracted by this agreeable
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agalaat scalaria, tbe effects at a tropical or
caflly tamperatare, daaap aad exposure. Per
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sariaera. saiaera, eaginetrs, froatlersaMB. per
iocs of every calliiu iBvolriag raaatal fatigue,
excessive bodily effort, aad liability to ua
heatthful taflueaces of any sort, regard it as aa
loeosaparable safeguard. Biliousness, constl
ration, dyspepsia, rheumatism, sick headache
and kidasy troubles are effectually subdued by
the great alterative.
Took Him Unawares.
Briggs Did you hear about Robinson
losing his new flannel shirt? -Griggs
No. How did it happen?
Briggs He got caught in a shower.
Ringgold, Ga., was visited by a won
derful phenomenon recently. Millions
uprn millions ot fire flies issued from the
neighboring mountain ridge and took
down tho course of the Chickamauga
river, which skirts that -city on the
southern boundary. The pyrotechnic
displtv was crand. Trunks of trees
skirting the river were plainly visible
a quarter of a mile distant, and the en
tire mountain side was illuminated. The
horde of fire flies was fully forty feet
high and it took a quarter of an hour to
pass dpwn the stream, extending over a
mile along its course.
IP afflicted with Bora Syes, ase Dr. Isaaa
ThoBBpaoa'aSya Water. Druggists sell It. Sse.
Ex-Goyerxor Ames, one of the rich
est men in Massachusetts, is likewise
the plainest in attire and mannerIIo
wears an .inconspicuous business suit of
quiet coloriug, and his head is covered
by a bread brimmed, Quakcrlike straw
hat. The general appearance of the
ex-governor is that ox a portly and be
nevolent farmer.
Good as Cold
So entbuiiastie are tboctandsof people orerths
benefits earl red from Hood's Saisspanlis. that tber
can hirdlr and words to express tbe.r confidence ia
snd aratitude for this medicine. Worth'it weight
in (told" is a favorite expression of these warm
friends.
If you are la need of a good medicine to pnrity
rnur blood. baUd rp yonr strength, cure dyspepsia,
or create an appetite, trr Hood's SsrsapariUa.
N.B. Besurctogton!7
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Sold by ail druggists. $1 : six for $3. Prepared only
by C. I. UUOD CO. Lowell. Mass.
KX Doses One Dollar
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and refreshing to the taste, snd acts
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Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
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aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
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ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
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Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
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