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I cannot come; this miserable pro
fessor intends I shall remain." la
ments Dora.
"You wretch!" and Dick makes one
spring forward, whereupon Professor
John is seen to sprawl flat upon the
floor, rolling over and over, to get be
yond the reach of that iron arm. and
the foot that seems to be propelled
by springs of steel, all the while chat
tering like an excited monkey.
Dora, thus relieved, flies to the side
of her mistress, and clasps an arm
around her in a protecting way.
though it would appear that the lady's
maid was more in need of protection
than her mistress.
"We wish you good evening, gentle
men. Your little scheme has been
nipped in the bud. Take care how
you follow me. Ladies. thl3 way,
please pass out ahead, as I wish to
watch these fellows as long as possi
ble." The ladies comprehend that it Is
not love that influences Dick, but
another feeling, and they are careful
not to come between their protector
and those upon whom he keeps hie
ye. Various expletives break upon
the air as the little party thus back
out of the room; it is not natural for
some seven or eight men to find them
selves cowed by a single party, and
not feel furious. As yet it is the
growling of the volcano when the top
of the cone blows ofT, look out for
squalls.
Now Dick Is in the doorway; the
ladies have passed down the hall
some distance; he gives one last lcok
around him, waves a hand In mocking
farewell to the baffled conspirators,
of the Morales mansion, and follows
Miss Pauline.
Immediately great confusion en
sues. Relieved of his presence. Senor
Morales and his guests fly this way
and that, some jumping from the win
dows, with the hope of yet baffling
the American by facing him on more
equal terms in the garden, others
shouting themselves hoarse with ex
citement. It does not unnerve the American a
particle to hear this racket; he has
So He Tells
seen packs of wolves before now;
where the water roars the loudest it
is always the most shallow; barking
dogs seldom bite.
They are at the door now, and with
a quick sprint Dick has overtaken the
two ladies. Together they all pass
out of the house, upon the veranda;
the steps are just beyond, and then
comes the vehicle.
At this moment Dick sees a dark
form darting forward; he is at the
horses, and a knife flashes in his
hand. A quick movement, followed
by others, and the traces are cut in
twain, thus rendering escape by this
means impossible.
Before he can take a shot at the fel
low the other has thrown himself be
hind the carriage, and no doubt crawls
away in the shadows. This sudden
catastrophe leaves them in a bad fix.
With ladies to look after, what shall
he do? They descend the steps lead
ing from the veranda. Perhaps once
beyond the gates, they may find some
way of getting back to the Hotel
Iturbe.
With this idea in view, Dick springs
to unbar the gate, and swing it open;
but he finds that this is a trick every
body does not know; the gate obstin
ately refuses to swing at his dictation,
in spite of his strenuous exertions.
They are shut in the garden of Mo
rales, with nearly a dozen enemies
around, seeking to do them evil.
Dick now realizes that he is in for
it, and that it may be necessary to do
something before the ame is won.
He has not expected sucn a situation
as this. How shall they get beyond
the garden walls and elude their foes?
One thing is certain, he will not de
sert those who have been left in his
, charge. Part of the victory was won
when he took them from the power of
the scheming Lopez, and he is bound
to finish it by landing them In safety
at the hotel.
"Miss Pauline, you are not afraid?"
he cries.
"No, no. Let me help you all I can."
comes the cheering answer, while the
din around them grows In volume as
the servants take up the cries.
"Thank Heaven for that! Come, we
must endeavor to find an opening back
toward the canal. I have an idea
there is a door in the wall there. We
will defeat these ravenous hounds
yet! Only trust me, and keep up a
brave heart, Pauline."
His words inspire the two -women
there is something in the very voice
of the young ranchero, who has seen
so much of life in the Southwest and
Mexico, to cause a feeling of confi
dence in his ability to accomplish all
he has promised, and more.
PAIUNE
FNEWKOBK
Therefore they fall back into the
shadows of the garden, densely over
grown with bushes as it is, and seek
to baffle the searching eyes that
would ferret out their position. All
around arise shouts. If it were a par
ty of Mexican vanqueros hunting
down a wolf that had taken refuge
in the motte of timber, there could
hardly be more confusion and alarm.
Dick Denver has had enough per
sonal acquaintance with these Mexi
cans to fully understand their nature,
and he knows that having once
aroused their animosity, nothing can
ever make them friends again. They
hate as the wolf hates, and are quite
as merciless.
"Keep as close to me as possible,
and speak no more than is absolutely
necessary," he says.
The first part of bis Injunction it is
easy enough to accomplish, but when
it comes to silence. Dora is unreliable
she could not keep still any length
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of time, if paid handsomely for iL At
first it is fear of their pursuers that
causes the animated creature to groan
and utter little shivering cries then
a branch jabs her in the eye, eliciting
a sort of shriek, and when all else
fails, she can positively feel a snake
run over her foot; and if there is any
thing on the face of the earth this
same Dora detests, so that the very
name almost sends her into convul
sions, she declares it is a snake.
Dick at first endeavors to hush her
outcries, but he might as well try to
dam the Mississippi. Even Miss Pau
line's words fail to have the desired
effect Dora must bubble over, or
swoon.
So they make their way along; Dick
wishes his companion could be with
them, and he finally gives the signal
again. Perhaps Bob may have failed
to hear it on the first occasion, as he
is not the man to allow any obstacle
to stand in his way when duty calls.
There must be a wall somewhere
near them Dick looks for it constant
ly. He can hear their enemies plung
ing hither and yon through the
bushes, which they beat with great as
siduity, as though hunting legitimate
game. More than once it looks as
though there is bound to be a colli
sion, and Dick nerves himself for the
ordeal, gritting his teeth and mental
ly making up his mind to astonish his
foes.
Fortune favors them the wall is
reached, and as yet they have seen
His Love.
nothing of their enemies, though it is
evident that they are all around.
If the door in the wall can only be
found now, they may have cause for
rejoicing.
It is too late loud shouts arise
some one has discovered the light
dresses of the ladies against the dark
er background of the wall, and his
cries are bound to bring all the force
of the enemy rushing to that spot.
At the same moment Dick hears
Pauline cry out Pauline, who has
just then preceded him a trifle, and
who means to take his place, in a
measure.
"It Is here the door!" is what she
cries, but immediately adds, in a dis
lEurojiran (Fraitr t
Matt important
By MR. ROBERT LUCE.
Traveler and Scholar.
will not make a gem out of a pebble, but nothing else so quickly cuts
the facets of a diamond mind. And rare is the intellect, that cannot
be improved by its polishing influences.
Desirable and important as it is to know one's own country, I
cannot warmly sympathize with the spirit that prompts ridicule of the
American who visits London before visiting Washington. To be
sure, lake Lucerne may be enjoyed the more by one who has crossed
lake George. There is pleasure in contrasting the falls of the Rhine
with those of Niagara, in comparing the Rhine itself with the Hudson
or the Penobscot, and our own rivers do not suffer in the comparison.
The Yellowstone park shows more of nature that is grotesque and
marvelous than any other equal area in the world.
Yet if in reality culture is the first consideration, the European
tour is more important than any in the states. So much of our litera
ture is European in origin or inspiration, so much of art is to be found
on the continent, so many of our institutions are of Roman or Ger
man or Norman development, in brief, we are still so much like trans
planted Europeans, that many of the purposes of travel are only thor
oughly accomplished when Europe is its field.
Let it not for a moment be thought that I would depreciate the
value and pleasure of travel in America. It is worth wliile to go both
to the west and the east, to cross both the Atlantic and the continent
He becomes narrow and provincial who does not know his own land
by observation. All I would hazard
der is to see the old world first, the new
world next, for it is logical to work from
the fountain head down the stream, to
study causes before results.
appjinted voice, "bat I cannot open it i
I am afraid it Is locked!" -1
Could Dick be given another mm-,
ute, he would spring forward and
manipulate that door so that it would
open. It has to be a sturdy structure
that can resist -his attack. Bat it
happened that the combined rush
is made from all quarters at that mo-nu-.nt,
and his attention mast of ne
cessity be taken up in this direction.
He can Just make out the dark fig
ures coming upon him they are' like
the spokes of a wheel, while he rep
resents the hob.
Dick is far from blood-thirsty by
nature, and while he holds the lives
of those on-rushing fools in his hands,
he does not care to take them except
as a last resort, besides, it is hardly
fair, as they are debarred from firing
back, on account of the presence of
the ladies.
So at the last moment he replaces
his revolvers, and meets the assail
ants with his fists. A better man to
take care of them could not well be
found.
He uses his arms somewhat In the
style of the piston-rods of an engine,
and with such remarkable success,
that he speedily creates quite a havoc
among his enemies. Then comes one
. . . . ,..jr., . .
who must have been lurking in the
garden; this powerful frame that op-
poses him can belong to none other
than the bull-fighter. Barcelona, How
eagerly he hurls himself upon the
American as though all that the past
has known, which rankles in his
heart, flies to the surface.
This is unfortunate, because, while
he is thus fully engaged, some of the
others may seize upon Miss Westerly
and bear her away. If ever Dick Den
ver struggled in his life it is now,
while the Spanish athlete also exerts
himself to the utmost, making this
a battle of giants.
Dick has worsted this man before,
and believes he can again, but it will
take time, and there is none to spare
at present. While he is engaged in
scientifically doing Barcelona up in
good shape, the other's companions
will doubtless be making themselves
scarce, with the two American girls
in their power.
Already he hears Dora screaming.
"Keep away, you miserable Picca
dilly bughunter! I detest you! Til
have my Bob shake you out of a
year's growth! Keep your hands off,
all of you, or I'll scream for help, I
will! Bob, oh, where are you?"
"Coming, darling coming as fast
as these beastly prickly pears and
Spanish bayonets will allow. Coming
like a wild horse of the prairie on the
stampede. Where's that wretch of a
Fitz let me fondle him like a grizzly,
and his mother won't know him. Com
ing, darling here!"
With the last word, which is ut
tered as a ferocious roar, Colonel Bob
bursts through the barrier that en
deavors to block his progress, and ap
pears upon the scene. "Dick hails his
coming with the greatest of delight,
since it relieves him in a measure, of
his worry.
The professor does not experience
the same feeling; he is a Briton, it
is true, but recent experiences have
taught him that fighting is hardly to
be placed in his line. Hearing the
threats which the terrible Sheriff of
Secora County bellows forth while
bursting his way upon the scene, the
professor wisely concludes to leave
for parts unknown, nor to stand on
the order of his going.
Colonel Bob finds work to do, how
ever there are a number of noble
Mexicans present who require looking
after, and in his present excitable
frame of mind he is just in the- humor
to satisfy all their longings in that
direction.
The darkness is not so intense now,
for the moon is peeping above the
horizon. Bob can see his men. and he
falls upon them with the power of a
thunderbolt Right and left he
plunges, knocking them down as a
ball well directed scatters the pins
in a bowling alley.
The varied outcries are something
astonishing, and indicate tremendous
excitement on the part of those con
cerned. Meanwhile, Dick has not been idle.
By his energy he has succeeded in
convincing Barcelona that once more
he is getting the worst of it all.
Dick avoids closing with the bull
fighter, since he has no lighted cigar
now to jab in the other's eye. He
keeps Tordas at a safe distance and
proceeds to hammer him with all the
scientific points he has ever learned.
(To Be Continued.)
Doubtless Shake
speare used a maxim
already ancient when
he said, "Home-keeping
youth have ever
homely wits." In this
spirit all wise men from
time immemorial have
agreed that travel is a
benefit to culture. It
is an opinion that the logical or
i opinion tnat the logical or-
THE METROPOLIS
SOME KOBE WOBK OF THE
WICKED AUTOMOBILES.
LIVING OVER A CRATER.
The Bisks Attendant on New York
Civilisation At the Metropolitan
Btnsenm Monetary Values
of -Paintings.
EW work. It is
quite possible, I
think, that Vesu
vius and San
Francisco had
something to do
with New York's
sudden deter,
mination not to
be blown up any
more. For a
long time the
city has been subject to disagreeable
eruptions, some of them fatal, most
of them seriously damaging. They
come out of the bowels of the earth
out of the entrails of the city to be
unpleasantly exact. Manholes blew
up, windows were shattered, street
cars and cabs were thrown over,
limbs were mangled. No man could
tell when he would see his fellow
man rising in the air, if he did not
have the ill luck to rise in the air
himself. The sewers were on the
rampage and investigation showed
that the wicked automobile, which
does so much damage on the surface,
was to blame for this sub-surface dis
turbance. The garages were emptying
gasoline into the sewers and the
liberated gases were doing the rest.
A vast section of the town began to
feel as if it were living over a crater.
At last the aldermen have taken
the matter up and it Is to be an of
fense against the town to empty gas
oline into a sewer under any cir
cumstances whatever.
The new statute may be obeyed.
It would be very difficult to catch of
fenders. But New York breathes easi
er. One peril seems to have been
removed. Many remain. It has been
figured out that there are a hundred
different ways of being killed in New
York. Probably the figures are con
servative. The Pennsylvania railroad
excavators for the across-New York
Bubway alone represent enormous op
portunities for killing. Twenty-four
doctors are in the relay system of first
aid and many accidents are recorded
In a single day. Civilization as New
York sees it comes high.
Home-Coming of a Mastodon.
NE day, some mil
lions of years
ago, a mastodon,
tired of fighting
the ice, and
grown old enough
to retire, laid
down and died
near the New
York city of to
day. In the mid
dle of the last
century they found his bones. His
legs were so much like those of men
that a great cry went up of the dis
covery of the remains of a race of
giants.
"There were giants in those days."
But when all the bones were put
together it was found that they were
not human. The mastodon stood
forth, the biggest of all mastodons.
The head and 16-foot tusks alone
weighed in the bones a thousand
pounds.
The great skeleton went into the
Spencer collection of Boston, and the
Spencer will kept the collection in
tact for 50 years. Now Pierpont Mor
gan has bought the mastodon for $30,
000 and presented it to the Metropoli
tan museum here. So that the masto
don Is home again back to his old
New York haunts. He Is a wonder
to behold, and the metropolis will
soon have an opportunity to look him
over. Surely he was a powerful beast,
relatively as powerful as the man
companions that were his in the stone
and ice ages.
It is not generally known that the
beginnings of the great Metropolitan
museum were laid by Pierpont Mor
gan and ex Ambassador Choate, who
for 30 years have devoted much time
and a great deal of their own money
to its welfare. Mr. Morgan's gifts
pass the million mark, I believe. He
is always giving something paint
ings, bronzes, relics of one sort or an
other. The museum is rapidly near
ing the point where it will deserve
the name of the greatest in the world.
"Joe Jefferson's Mauve."
HE sale of Anton
Mauve's painting
of the flock of
sheep for $42,000
has indeed made
a sensation in
the particular cir
cle of those who
watch picture
prices. It did
not astonish al
together those
who hare-watched the rise in the
value of Mauve's work, though it is
a record, I believe, in this particu
lar. These things happen now and
then, as they did in the case of Millet,
for example. No amount of theo
retical merit or of advertising seems
to make them happen when they are
expected. Mauve's work is beautiful.
Even those who can't understand such
prices can admit that it is not a
freak" fad that has to be explained.
Joseph Jefferson bought this Mauve
for $2,000. Most folks will think $40,
000 a pretty good margin of profit
The actor's heirs are well pleased.
They should be. Joe Jefferson was
not "merely a shrewd buyr though'
luck rather than shrewdness made
this magnificent rise but he was a
good painter himself, as everybody
knows. He was not so good at a
painting as he was at acting, but ie
was a wonderfully versatile genius.
This is more apparent now with a lit
tle perspective on his life and work
than it could have been, in his life
time, even to those who had the hap
py privilege of standing close to him.
Bis style was not especially ingenious,
bat It was efikient It may sat be
DP
km
fanciful to believe that it had the
characteristics of the man's acting
and his living. It had pleasant quali
ties. It was genial painting, I think
I may say, and there is no doubt that
Joe Jefferson's brush work will steadi
ly rise in value, in the end far beyond
any value it can have as work of art
Is Hew Tork Iionesomef
UST the othet
day a man named
Gebhardt a sub
urban farmer,
who bad steadily
resisted the ad
vance of civiliza
tion, decided thai
he must lose his
farm. In fact s
new subway sta
tion was likely
to come where his onion patch lay
Big prices were offered to him and
he yielded he yielded, not to senti
ment but to the mere pressure o
money. They offered him $200,000 foi
his little house and farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Gebhardt were sud
denly rich richer than any of the
Gebhardts of the family, richer thati
they had ever dreamed of being.
Are they happy? -
No. You might risk saying that
they are depressed. They have lost
their spirit The old farm is doomed
Still Mrs. Gebhardt rakes in the gar
den. SU11 Mr. Gebhardt attends to
the few cows and the horse. But
neither 'works with any spirit for in
the fall the old place must be deserted.
"Are you going Into New York?"
they asked Mrs. Gebhardt who has
a married daughter living in Man
hatttan. "No," declared Mrs. Gebhardt, strok
ing her apron. "New York's too lone
some." Lonesome!
Is New York too lonesome? Do Its
scurrying crowds, its everlasting hus
tle, its blind, passionate scramble to
"get there" make it a lonesome place
for the new comer who has had the
comforts of the country?
Very likely. Mrs. Gebhardt Is not
the first philosopher to discover that
one may be lonesome in a crowd, that
mere numbers of people, mere vol
ume of noise, more epileptic agitation
does not cure the blues, does not an
swer the human craving.
Too lonesome!
Fancy Mrs. Gebhardt, who has had
the companionship of her dog, par
rot, cows, horse, the suburban birds
and the suburban neighbors, standing
in Herald square, -or on "the saddest
street in the world" Twenty-third
street, as Ida Tarbell called it the
other day!
Yet Mrs. Gebhardt has $200,000.
Wholesale Eviction.
HE "improve
ments" in New
York, which real
ly do improve
but are never
finished, are
sometimes hard
on the lowly
folks. So also
are, the reform
atory movements.
For instance. 800
families have just been evicted in
obedience, it is said, to an edict of
the tenement house commission.
Sanitary Improvements are to be
made, and they need to be made, but
the 800 are in deep grief. The scenes
in the regions covered by the courts
action have been pitiful. In many
cases the courts themselves interfered
to give an extension of time in cases
where immediate eviction would be
disastrous.
It is the mark of progress over
again.
Meanwhile little is being done to
solve in a satisfactory way the old
tenement problem. New-fangled ten
ements have been built, but there are
few of them, and the tide of new New
Yorkers pour in by every ship.
"Where to live?" "That is the
problem. It Is prophesied that in 50
years only the very rich and the very
poor will live on Manhattan Island.
The time between is to see many
repetitions of the sad scenes of this
week.
PASSING OF ST. HELENA.
Island to Be Deprived of Garrison
and Support by British
Government
The British war office has resolved
to withdraw the entire garrison fronr
the little Island 1,400 miles off 'the coast
of Guinea where Napoleon died and
where, in recent years, the conquered
Boer generals had their habitation. At
first thought this may seem an insigni
ficant matter, but as it will be present
ly pointed out in the house of com
mons, it means ruin to the permanent
inhabitants of St Helena.
The total estimated value of the
Island's wealth is only $1,000,000, di
vided among about 10,000 inhabitants.
To keep this wealth productive tne
garrison, which in normal times
amounts to nearly 2,000 men, has been
a most active factor. This will at once
be seen when it is noted that the im
ports, including specie, are usually five
times the value of the exports, and
that the expenditure of the island is
almost double the revenue.
The presence of the garrison means
the active annual circulation of over
$300.000 just sufficient to keep up the
equilibrium. If this be annihilated the
products sold to the ships entered and
cleared at St Helena, while possibly
sufficient to keep the population from
actual want must curtail to a measur
able degree public expenditures, and
hence the civilization of the Island,
notwithstanding the paltry grant of
$2,500 annually from the home govern
ment for education, will inevitably suf
fer. Street Car Fares.
In 1905, 1,171.151,898 cash fares were
collected by the elevated, surface and
subway railways of New York city,
this number marking an Increase of
93,493,651 cash fares over 1904. This
means a dally average of over 3,200,000
nickels, Sundays and holidays includ
ed. Reducing these numbers to dollars,
the daily contribution to the railway
transportation systems of New York
city is seen to have been about $160,
000, sT.d the yearly revenue almost six
millions of dollars.
HP
TO EXTEND YOUR UFE.
ffhinkins; am Exhaustive Process and
the Seed the Brain Worker
Has of Repair.
According to the theories propound-,
ed recently by Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald,
of the University of Leipsic, in his;
lecture before the students of Colum
bia university, the length of human.;
life depends upon the store of psychic;
energy which is within the body. The.
prolongation of life at pleasure, ac
cording to his theory, should.be mere-;
ly a question of revitalizing- the body
occasionally with this mysterious,
force, which travels through the nerv
ous system, and which experiment has
shown to be closely akin to electricity.
'. Dr. Ostwald said in part:
"Thinking is the most exhaustive1
kind of work, because it consumes,
more of this force than any physical
process. It has often been found,'
upon stopping the process of thought,'
that this energy is transformed into!
heat in the body, and at the same time
there is less need of reenforcement-ofj
the supply of energy. When I am en-J
gaged in severe mental labor, as I havej
been since coming to America, I eat?
twice as much as I do when I am not
so engaged. This only shows that the'
brain is constantly using up a supply
of the energy, and to keep up brain
.work we must keep supplying the en
ergy from the outside.
"Most of this energy comes in
through the food which we eat, but
every sense impression, such as see;
ing, hearing or feeling, conveys a cer-i
tain amount of force into the body:
When the body once receives the en-j
ergy, it acts just like any other mat
chine in Its.transferrences. The ques
tion of long life then is simply a quesn
tion of keeping up the supply. As
Jong as the vital organs are able to
assimilate properly, thus providing
the body with the force that is used
up in mental and physical processes,
a person should remain young. Bos
ton Budget and Beacon.
BLANKETS AND WOOLENS.
How to Cleanse Blankets the Bight
Way and How to Put Away
Woolens.
Washing Blankets. When my lit
tle neighbor washes blankets, it is
a pleasure just to sit by and watch
the pretty, soft, fluffy things blow
ing on the line. The process is so
simple that I have learned to do it
myself. Choose a warm, sunny, but
windy day. This is important, if the
best results are wished. Wliile dry,
look over them carefully, and put a
safety pin in the center of the
spoiled spots. For one pair of blan
kets, prepare a suds with half a cake
of any good white soap, with one
tablespoonful each of borax and am
monia. The suds must be as hot as
you can bear the hand in. Let the
blankets stand in this for an hour,
and if the water is too cold, add
more hot water. Then look up 'the
places where the pins are, remove
these and rub between the hands
until the spots disappear. Do not rub
on the board, and do not soap on the
blanket direct; have ready a second
tub of suds, and paddle them around
in this, squeezing and pressing be
tween the hands; rinse in not less
than three waters of the same tem
perature, running them through the
wringer each time. Fasten with at
least a dozen pins to the line, and
shake frequently while 'drying.
Storing Woolens. This is the sea
son for putting away woolen clothes
and furs. No moth balls or other
vile-smelling substance will be needed
if the garments are hung on the line
in the sun, whipped with a light
switch, and in the case of clothes all
the soil spots carefully cleaned. Then
tie up in clean pillow cases or, better
still, fold over the hems and run
along on the machine. A chain-stitch
machine is best for this purpose, as it
is easily ripped; but if a lock-stitch
is used, have the bottom thread loose.
Country Gentleman.
Hotch Potch.
Hotch potch Is an old-fashioned
Scotch dish, made in the spring, when
there are plenty of iresh vegetables.
It Is a thick pufee-like soup. It tay
be made either from fresh or cooked
meat This is one way of making it.
Three or four pounds of loin chops re
put into a saucepan with about three
(quarts of boiling water. Peas, harri
cot beans, carrots, half a turnip, pars
ley, a little bit of cabbage and some
green onions are added. Boil this very
slowly for an hour and a quarter, sea
son with pepper and salt It should
be a thick broth whan done.
Whole Wheat Bread.
Scald one cupful of milk, add one
cupful of water, one teaspoonful each
of salt sugar and butter. When this
is lukewarm, add one-fourth of a.
yeast cake dissolved in one-half of a
cupful of lukewarm water, and enough
whole wheat flour to make a Ih'n bit
ter. Have this done oy six o'clock and
set in a warm place until ten o'clock.
Add enough flour to make a soft
dough, kneading well. Let it rise until
'morning. Then stir down and pour
into well-greased pans and let it rise
half an hour. Bake one hour in a
moderate oven.
To Benew a Mirror.
Keep for this purpose a piece of
sponge, a cloth, and silk handkerchief,
all entirely free from dirt, as the jeaSi
grit will scratch the. fine surface ot
the glass. First sponge it with a little
spirits of wine, or gin and water, to
clean off all spots; then dust over it
powdered blue tied in muslin, rub it
lightly and quickly off with the cloth,
and finish by rubbing with the silk
handkerchief. Be careful not to nib
the edges of the frame.
Moth in Carpets.
If the moths have got Into a carpet
it must be taken up, thoroughly
6haken, and pressed with a flatiroa an
hot as it will bear without scorching.
Then liberally sprinkle the floor where
it is to lie with spirits of turpentine,
pouring it into any cracks there may
be between the boards.
For Washing Brushes.
Dissolve rock ammonia In the pro
portion of one ounce to two quarts qi
water. Dip the bristles lightly la this
and move backward and forward.
Rinse thoroughly in cold water, sluks
and dry in the sun.
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AYIHG3 OF THE TOTS.
"Mamma." said little Ethel, who
looking at the pictures in a Sunday
school book, "how do the angels get
their night gowns on over their
wings?"
"I tblnk papa and mamma likes the
baby better thai they do me." said
four-year-old Flo.-sie to the visitor,
"'cause he lets 'cm do just as they
please.'
"Tommy," said the teacher, "don't
you know better than to talk aloud la
school?"
"But what Is a feller to dor quer
rled Tommy. "You said the other day
I mustn't whisper."
It was the roll of distant thunder
that caused little Margie to observe:
"They must be cleaning house in
heaven to-day, mamma."
"Why do you think so, dear?" asked
her mother.
"I hear the angels movin' the faral
ture around." replied Margie.
BOY'S HEAD ONE SOLID SORE.
Hair All Came Oat Under Doctor
Three Months and No Better
Cuticura Works Wonders.
Mr. A. C. Barnett, proprietor of a
general store in Avard, Oklahoma,
tells in the following grateful letter
how Cuticura cured his son of a ter
rible eczema. "My little boy had ec
zema. His head was one solid sore,
all over his scalp; his hair all came
out and he suffered very much. 1
had a physician treat him, but at the
end of three months he was no bet
ter. I remembered that the Cuticura
Remedies had cured me, and after
giving him two bottles of Cuticura
Resolvent according to directions,
and using Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment on him daily, his eczema left
him, his hair grew again, and he has
never had any eczema since. We
use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
and they keep our skin soft and
healthy. I cheerfully recommend the
Cuticura Remedies for all cases of
eczema. A. C. Barnett, Mar. 30,
1905."
XV OTHER LANDS.
An electric railway will probably
soon connect Moscow with St Peters
burg. In the insane asylums of Germany
more than a thirc of the patients owe
their condition to strong drink.
Last year there Tere 39,211 millions
matches sold in France, bringing Into
that nation's treasury $5,216,950, this
being a state monopoly.
A man of SO, elected a judge for
Frutlgen, Switzerland, is to go through
a university course in order to enable
him to pass the examination required
by law.
A proposal to enact that no newspa
per shall be edited, composed or print
ed from Saturday midnight until sun
rise on Monday nornlng, has beea
negatived in the French senate.
Denmark holds the record among
nations for thriftlness. Her inhabit-?
ants have, on an average, 10 9s.
apiece in the savings banks; English
people have only 3 2s. a head.
In Australian gold mines it is con
sidered that ventilation becomes bad
when the proportion of oxygen falls
below 20 per cent., or less than 70
cubic feet of air a minute Is supplied
for every man working ia a mine.
The city of London's chief inspector
of weights and measures reports that
the weight of all loads of coal test
ed last year was satisfactory, and that
"in most cases the weight exceeded
the amount specified on the ticket"
One of the labor party's members of
the new house of commons lately re
ceived from a constituent who thought
he had a grievance to which the gov
ernment should give attention, a let
ter of no less than 1.700 closely-writ-tea
pases.
The municipality of Orlamuade has
Just Issued a notice to the effect that
admittance to all cafes and public
houses Is hencefoith to be denied to
all who do not pay their taxes within
the legal limit of time. It is not al
together an innovation, for a some
what simJiar measure has been la
force for a number of years in Switzer
land, and has answered Its purpose ex
cellently. When Andrew Lang was a student
at St Andrew's he edited a weekly
college magazine, the greater part of
which he had to write himself. All
kinds of work came from his pen
abvels, poems, translations, essays,
reviews, etc. And he also drew some)
of the illustrations. It is said that
Mr. Lang made a point of reviewing
very severely any books written by
his professors while he was editor.
TRANSFORMATIONS.
Curious Results When Coffee Drimk
ing Is Abandoned.
It Is almost as hard for an old coffee
toper to quit the use of coffee as it is for
a whisky or tobacco fiend to break off.
except that the coffee user can quit cof
fee and take up Postum Food Coles
without any feeling of a loss of the
morning beverage, for when Postust is
well boiled and served with cream. It
Is really better in point of flavor than
most of the coffee served nowadays,
and to the taste of the connoisseur it
Is like the flavor of fine Java.
A great transformation takes place ia
the body within ten days or two weeks
after coffee is left off and Postum Food
Coffee used, for the reason that the poi
son to the nerves has been discontinued
and In its place Is taken a liquid that
contains the most powerful ekmeats of
nourishment
It to easy to make this test and prove
these statements by gtix from cof
fee to Postum Food Coffee.
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