, LIGHT AND SHADOW,.
XTo light e'er shines without its shadow casting
A gloom as deep aifd dark, the other way.
No earthly beam can make its force so lasting
But that the night may shroud its fading
ray."
ITo human joy without its shaded sorrow",
To spread as wide and deep its withering
blight; '
The fullest p'easures tinges often borro
From coming grief which darkens like the
night.
No sounds of laughter with their echoes wak
ing The sunlight air in surges of delight,
3hit there are moans to show that hearts are
breaking,
As if the transient folly to requite. '
The chandelier can never in its glowing
Light up the splendor of the balls of pride,
But that the tallow dip is faintly showing
The ghastly squalor where the poor reside.
At the first dawn of the creation,.
The evening and the morning made the
day.
Bo thro' the world in every rankand station,
The light and shadow hold alternate sway.
Here though the shades -their sombre1 palls
nre casting,
Wo should not droop or falter thro' despair.
Here though the. frosts the sweetest lu ls
are blasting,
Their shadows eoaio not, for no light is
there.
. v Providence Journal.
, GRANDMOTHER'S SIGNS
. BTJ. L. IIARBOUK.
We were all very glad when Grand
mother Ryder came to live at our house.
She was my mother's mother, and one of
the Icsfc-intentioned little o!d women in
the world. When grandfather died, my
brothers and. sisters, as well as myself,
were afraid that giandmothcr would make
her home at our Uncle Nat's or at our
Auut Mary's, and there was great re
joicing when the letter came in which
she wrote:
"I did think at first that I'd better go
to Mary's, but the grounds in ray colee
cup never pointed favorably to it, and
last night I had a dream that I've dremp
three times running, that made it clear to
my mind that I'd better come to you. I
would start to-morrow if it wasn't Fri
day, and I sometimes think the Friday
sign runs into Saturday, too; so I will
not start until Monday, which will bring
me to your house on the day the moon
fulls, and I take that to be a good sign."
An amused smile came into father's
face as re. id this letter aloud- to us chil
dren, and he burst out lauhin when I
said
"I'd just like to know what coffee set
tlings and areaim and the moon have to
do with it?"
"Nothing, my dear; nothing at all,"
said mother, laughing softly. "But
grandmother has odd notions that we
need not pay anything about, or mind at
all, wheuisheis here."
We lived in the country on a splendid
farm. On the next Wednesday afternoon,
to our great delight, we saw father driv
ing up the long lane leading to our house,
with (Jrandmother Uyder seated on th.e
spring seat by his side.
Clin . . . . . , I l. i ... . j 1'..C ,1 -
juv; viiy.Ai utui uuuuci muci, uuu six.
eager children set oS on a run to meet
her. W3 had not seen her for thret
years, and as soon as we were near enough,
ta hear she began saying :
"Why, bless my soul, ihow you have
f rowed! I declare I don't know tother
rom which, but I guess that3 Bertie,
and that little girl with the ruffled, apron
-,is Jiamie, ana mat s lommy wuu tne
red ribbon to his neck. Looks 'zactly
like the ambrotype of him I've got.
Bless all your littlo hearts, anyhow!
I'll know which is which 'fore two
1, ))
When father helped her out of the
wagon she struck her foot on something,
and would havealle'i had he not caught
her. -
"Mercy oa us!" shu said. "I'm glad I
stubbed my right toe. If it had been
the left it'd been a sure sign I was going
where I wasn't wanted."
"You know that jou are wanted here,
no matter what the signs say," said
mother, asshi too)t graudma into her
arms and kissed her many times.
"cs, dear, I know it, I know it,"
said g:rtndma; "but all the same, I
couldn't have helped worryin' some if it
had been the left toe." "
We Boon discovered that grandmother
had. a sign for everything that happened,
and for much that didn't hapne.i. When
anything unusual occurred g.aadma sud
denly recalled somthing in. thje manner
in which she had previously beau fore
warncdlof it. The fact that her signs
and predictions generally failed of fuftil-
xnent ma not disturb her in the least.
One day I overheard mother say:
"Don't you often notice, graudma, that
your s:gns do not come true .' You said
yesteichiy when you saw the cat scratch
ing the fcu-c, that it would rain, sure,
before night; but there was not a cloud
in the sky all dav, and not adropof rain
fell." ,
"Why, Susan !" cried grandma, in a
tone of great surprise. "The morning
paper says there was a perfect flood yes
terday in Alabama."
The-proof was incontrovertible, not-
withstanding the fact that Alabama was
fitcen hundred miles from our home.
My youngest brother Vas but three
mouths old when grandma became a
meml cr of our family. She was very
fond of baby Danny, and wa gratified
to know that the signs she hacThad re
gurdinghim were favorable to his future
happ'nes.
"Jf he lives to grow up." she said,
"he'll be a smart aud a r;ch man. See
that mole oa his n ck. That's a splen
did sign. And he's going to have a
'cow-lick1 too; that's another good sisrn.
I hope- to goodces, Susan, that you
hat'eu't allowed him to look in a looking-glass
yet.''
"I don't know, I'm sure," said
inotl.cr.
"Why, Suan." cried grandma, ' he
must not see him-e!f in the gias until
his first birthday! You'll never raie h; n
if he docs. I'm glad he's alrea ly tumbled
out of bed ; it's a sure sign he'll never be
a fool."
Lira idmolhcrs sins and omens were a
source of uncaps to- herself onlv.
Mother early took ocensjo. privately,
to. instruct us older children on tht sub
ject Sh3 tdld us dreams ln.l no mean
ing, and that "s'gns" were silly and
meinmgless inventions. We were not,
she said, to mind what grandma said, but
woroto bvifaal r;spect her under .all
circumstances.
I! a by Fai was a -winning I 'ttle fellow,
whom we all loved so dearly that we were
glad grandma's omens did not portend
anytnmg disastrous to him, evea though
we dtl not believe in signs. But one
day grandma KP.me down to breakfast
Without her us.ial morning smile- and
cheery greeting. She looked very solemn,
and spoke soberly when the spoke at all.
' Are you not well ? asked father.
"I hope this whole 'family may keep
Veil for a year tocome a"l am now,"
3 said, "mysteriously.
as
he
Eaby Dau sat in his high chair by
grandma's side, and in the midst of the
morning meal she suddenly dropped her
knife and fork, threw her arms around
the baby, and burst into tears. '
" Why, grandma, what is it? "cried
mother in leal alarm.
"Poor little dear," she cried; "he
ain't long. for this world! I've dreamed
three nights of white colts. I tol I you,
Susan, what'd happen if you cut his toe
nails of a Sunday, or let the other
children raise your pafasol in the house.
ItoWyou!"
Grandma's distress was so evident that
none of us felt like laughing, and mother
said:
Don't worrv, mother. You know
that .all signs fail at times."
" Mine don't." said grandma, in atone
of deep conviction. "And as T waylay
ing in bed this morning, a little bird flew
in at the window, and lighted on my
bedpost. t know what that means,
Susan. Danny ain't going to be here very
long;. you'll see that he isn't. And the
worst of it is that he'll be took off sud
den, and in some uncommon way."
No reasoning could shake grand
mother's conviction in the leisr, and her
continued depression and gloomy, predic
tions made us all very uncomfortable.
Indeed, so strong is a superstition that
not one of us children could help look
ing upon dear little Dan as a doomed
child, in spite of mother's arguments to
the contrary.
Grandmother had other unfailing s'gns
indicatiug Danny's early -demise. A
white kitten came to the door one day,
and grandma shook her head gloomily.
"But I have always' heard that was a
sign of good luck to have a kitten come
to the house," said father.
".Not a white k tten," replied Grand
ma. "A black or gray kitten is agoo l
sign, but a white one is a sign of '
She stooped over, caught Danny up in
her arms, and hastily left the room.
Ah old white rooster that wt had,
crowed on the doorstep that day, aud
grandma ordered his instant execution
as the only means of averting his share
of the disaster threatening Danny.
Grandma s signs multiplied fast, and
were of a positive, never-failing charac
ter. She came clown to breakfast one
beautiful June morning, bowed down
with the dreadful conviction that the
end would come that very day.
Danny's condition did not warrant an
expectation of death from disease, at all
events, lie seemed J.o be snapping his
little pink lingers at all kinds of sign3 as
he lay in his c adle, kicking up his heels
and crowing gleefully. He was almost
a year old at this time, an 1 grandma
had said that he would never live to see
his first birthday.
During the forenoon we were visited
by several of our relatives who had
driven a dista-ce of ten miles Ao spend
ihe lay at our house. We were delighted
to see them and gave ourselves up to a
day of enoyment. Even grandma .'oined
in our pleasure, seeming to forget her
doleful prophecies of what the day would
bring forth.
After dinner, which was the great
event of the day, the entire family, with
the exception of grandma and baby Dan,'
strolled out into the orchard with our
visitors. Prom the orchard we went on
over a narrow b.t or meadow iana in
search of wild strawberries, which were
ab'indant.
Th?n we went up a gnyssgJluilside and
into a little grove of oak and elms.
Thero we all sat down on the grass and
enjoved whit we called "a real so iable
time"," until father, bethought him to
look at his watch, and said :
"Why, it's nearly four o'clock. We
have been away three hours. Danny
will have quite worn grandmother out
-with the care of him. We must hurry
home."
When we reached the hoase we found
grandma fast asleep in her roekiug-ehair
on the pia za, a lock of her gray hair
blown over her face by the June wind,
and her wrinkled hands crosse 1 peace
fully in the sunshine that fell across her
lap. She heard our footsteps and was
awake in an instant.
"Where is Danny?" asked the mother.
"It isn't possible that he has slept nil
this time."
"I guess he has," said grandma; "I
haint heard a sound from him."
Mother stepped hurriedly into the
room in which Danny always took his
uoonday nap. She came out instantly,
quite pale, and saying, in a trembling
voice: "He isn't there; h;'s goneP
"What did vou sav. Susan?' asked.
grandmother ris:ng to her feet and speak
ing with painful deliberation.
"He's irone '." said mother
Grandmother gave a low moan, sank
back in her Chair, and said solemnly : "I
knew it would be so. You laughed at
mv sisns. Susan. You wouldn't hear
to them. I feel in my bone3 that Danny
Bertram will never be seen again on this
earth. The signs don't fail mc."
I semember that I set up a dreadful
nowi, in wnicu 1 was joined by ray
brothers and sisters. Father and our
friends besran an immediate and thor
ough search for Danny, but no trace of
him could be found.
Grandmother encouraged us by saying,
from time to time, between her broken
sobs: "It's nouse to hunt for him. He's
g ne. He'll never be seen again on this
earth."
Mother br ke down entirely after a
short time, an 1 lay crying on a lounge,
with one of my aunts bathing her tem
ples and ilking soothingly to her.
We looked evervwhere in places
the little feet could never have strayed
into.,
"In the highest and the lowest and the lone
liest spot,
They easerly sought, but they found him
not.''
"It looks to me like a case of. kidnap
ping," said one of my visiting uncles to
father.
"So it does," said father; "and yet it
don't seem possible that''
' It ain't possible, David," interrupt
ed grandmother. "I'm satisfied that I
hadn't been asleep ten minutes when
you folks came home, and I know that
no one was near the house be 'ore vou
came. - No, no,
David, human
hands
didn't
never touched our Danny. I
dream of white cblta with four wings
'apiece, for nothing."
"What on earth would colts of any
kind want with Danuy?" askt?d one of
my aunts.
An hour and more passed, in d Danny
w.is not found. AVe hurried to the near
est neighbors. They had not seen any
suspicious characters in the neighbor
hood, and knew nothing about Danny's
di-appearance. They came to our house
in great numbers, full of sympathy and
h :r owing rcm niscenses "of similar dis
appearances in wn:cn the missing chil
drcn were either found
never found at' all.
The evening drew on.
down. Mother had" sard
dead
a
or
were
The sun went
over and over
again thai we must find her baby bef. re
night came on. She could not endure
the thought of
having
him away when
the 'darkness aoie.y Father began to
grow pail and his voice trembled when
he spoke.
Parties of men and boys were search
ing the neighboring woods and planning
to drag the streams. It was nearly dark,
and we were sitting, tearful and anxious,
in' mother's room, when we heard a loud
coTimotion outside.
In a moment f he door was thrown open
and there stood our big, jolly Uncle
Darius Bertram, and, high on his shoul
der, laughing and making a desperate
effort to talk, sat Danny!
"Well, such a time and nobody to it !"
said L'ncle Darius, as he put Danny into
mother's outstretched arms. -
"O Darius! where did you find him."
cried mother. .
"I found him lying in his bed about
half-past three this afternoon. My wife
and i were driving into town and called
here to see you, but found no one at
home bat grandmother and babv. Grand
mother was asleep and baby seemed to
be having a lonely sort of time of it
kicking up his heels in his crad e. So
wife and I thought we'd take him out
for an airing, the day being so fine. I
wrote a little note on a leaf of my pocket
diary, telling you we had him. Didn't
you find it?"
".So," sail father; ""where did vou
put iti" .
lsVhy, I pinned it to baby's piilow,
didn't X if I know wife said for me to.
But I'm such a forgetful fellow that I
don't know really where I did put that
note. It was written oa a small leafjike
this.". He drew out la's pocket-diary as
he sj oke, opened i and sat down look
ing very fooIisHt
'"Well, I swan!" he said; "ef I didn't
clean forget to tear the no'e after I'd
written it. I mu-t be getting loony 1"
"We were detained in the village much
longer than we expected," said Aunt
Harriet, Uncle Darius's wife; "and I was
afraid you would worry about baby, but
he hajs been just as god as he could be,
and he seemed to en joy the ride so very
much. I couldn't find his cloak to put
on him, but I had a light shawl with me,
and I found his little ever-day sunbon
netout in the yard. It was good enough
to wear. To think of the anxiety the
1 ttle chap's ride has cost you !"
Grandmother was down on her knees
crving over Danny, and of course not
one of us said a word to her about those
unfulfilled omens. It was months be-
fore the words "signs" and 'omens"
passed her lips. Then she spoke of them
as though they were things beneath her
notice.
They certainly had no power over
Danny, for I have often heard him tell
ing this story to his own children.
Youtlci Com au oK
A Duferminea1 Snicide.
A gallant French officer has just taken
his life under the mist extraordinary
circumstances, prefering death to dis
honor. The occurrence took place at Lisieux,
Calvados. France,, on the road to Cher
bourg. He was accused of a flagrant
breach of military discipline.
The charge, so far as it concerned that
orh'cer, was turned over to the military
authorities. General Duniont then sent
for Uutfet and informed him of the ac-
i-cusation that had been made against
him. He added that, as the matter had
gotten into the public prints, it would
be necessary to make a formal investiga
tion, aud that during its progress tha
Colonel must consider himself under ar
rest. "General," was Ruffet's reply, " I am
the vict m of an outrageous attempt to
levy blackmail. Not a word of the
charges is true, but I will not allow my
nanie &nd my reputation to be tarnished.
If you-order an investigation I shall
blow my brains out."
"You understand, sir," General Du
niont answered, ;that I must do my
duty; the investigation must te held;
and'iu order, that you may not carry out
your threat. I shall at once place you in
confinement." .
No sooner sa'd than done. Ruffet was
consigned to the military prison, and
strict' orders given that he should be
constantly watched. In order that this
might be done, the Colonel was given a
cell with a loophole in the door, through
which an eye could literally be kept qra
his movements night and day. Durf11?
the evening that followed his arrest his
trunk wa3 brought to him. He oyened
it in the presence of the guard, bur it ap
parently contained nothing mor,if than a
change of linen and a few toilort articles.
Suddenly the guard, seeing Riffet thrust
his hand rapidly under sonye dothingis
if he were trying to lay 'iioJd of some
concealed weapon, sprang ,on him and
seized his hand, in wlvich. the prisoner
clutched a loaded evolver. A wild
struggle between" two men then
ftnsnpd for the possession ot tne nrearm,
during which thy rolled over and over
on the floor ofythecell. For a second
the Colonel seemed to have gained the
mastery, but' by a supreme ellort the
guard succeeded in opening the latter's
clinched fist and getting hold of the
weapoa.
Ruffet appeared to bear his disappo'nt
raeat calmly, and the guard con
gratulated himself that all danger was
uveneu. Alter supper tne Uolonel re
tired -for the night, the guard was re
lieved, and toward morning a third took
up the unintermitted watch. Buffet had
apparently resigned himself to the fate,
aud was sleeping quietly. What guard
No. 3 did not see, however, was that the
prisoner had half opened his cye3, and
cautiously thrust one hand under his
pillow. He thus grasped a jasor, that
had been in a concealed compartment of
the trunk, and whirh hnH
. I vigilance; of the prison authorities. The
u.um, uuu mc mum mat neiu ii,
again disapp arcd under the bed cover
ing. Buffet' lay on his back, his eve3
closed, but with the sheet drawn neatly
up to his lips. He seemed to be asleep.
The eyes of the soldier were not re
moved from him for an instant. He
could see the slightestmovement of the
muscles of his face, and yet at that very
moment the prisoner had committed
suicide by cutting his throat.
His head rolled over on the pillow,
over which the guard saw a stream of
blood suddenly flow. He shouted and
threw open the cell door. It was too
late; the Colonel seemed to be in the
agonies of death.
In spite of this terrible wound," how
ever, he lived an entire day long
enoush to enable his brother, an officer
of higher rank, to reach the prison in
time to receive his words.
"I have been slandered," he gasped,
"for money, but I would not permit our
name to be tarnished. I wish my body
laid by the side of our sainted mother.
I swear that I am worthy of it."' Then
came profu-e bleeding and death.
Xew York S en:
A Curious Manx Custom.
An English writer quotes a curious
custom, which is to be found in the
ancienj records of Castle Mona, showidg
that for many centuries Manxmen have
had a chivalrous regard for the rights of
women. A decree in the black-letter
book ordains "that if a man was proved
to have wronged a maid the Deemster
was the hand to her an ax, a rope and a
ring, that she might deal with the recal
citrant lover. She had the choice to
behead him with the ax, to hang him
with the rope m marry him with the
ring. Tradition says the mrdds were
usually lenient. "-Westminster Review.
UOUSEUOLD MATTERS.
To Clean Laces.
Great care should always be used in
cleansing and doing .up expensive lace
or line embroidery, so as not to break
the meshes or threads in the work. They
must never be rubbed, but patted in the
hands. This will take out the soiled
places. : Then put into an earthen dbh
and pour boiliDg hot water over them.
Let them stand till cool, then rinse in
clear or blued - water, i-f they are white;
if the yellow tint is desired, a little
strong coffee put into the rinsing water
will give the right shade. Laces should
never be starched very, stiff; it spoils
their beauty and makes them look un
graceful and old. The figures must be
picked out smooth; then spread on a
clean white flannel and press with a cool
iron. Laces treated in this way will
preserve their beauty until entirely used
up by old
age.
How to Can Beef.
Beef may be canned in the following
manner: The meat i3 cooked by roast
ing, baking, or boiling, and cither fresh
or corned. When well conked it is cut
into suitable pieces and packed firmly in
the cans, without the head, so that the
contents can be made solid and fill the
can completely. The covers are then
soldered oa aud the ca is are put into a
boiler with a solution of chloride of lime,
which boi's at a much h:gher heat than
water, or in water under pressure. This
produces a heat which destroys all germs
of decomposition and leaves the meat in
such a condition that it will remain un
changed as long as air is excluded from
the cans-. For domestic use meat of any
kind may be canned or preserved by cook
ing it thoroughly, cutting it up free
from hone and pressin r it while hot in
glass cans and then pouring hot me'ted
lard or tallow to fHl the bottles. The
bottles are immediately sea'ed.
-t t 1
Meat i
thus put up will keep a longtime. This
is a good way to put up sausage-meat
and game when it is plentiful. Nexo
York Times.
Bright Hints
Jewelry can be made to look like new i
by washing in ammonia and water or '
alcohol,' then rub and dry, polishing'
with prepared chalk applied with flannel i
or chamois skin. Silverware to be kept
blight should never be washed in soap- j
suds; clear -Svater is best. To prevent;
articles from tarh'shing, warm them and
apply with a soft brush a thin solution
of coUodium in alcohol. The ware can '
be brightened by rubbing' with a flannel j
or chamois skin dipped in whiting or j
chalk, then with a newsp.ipcr. Krass !
can be cleaned by scouring with ashes :
and soapsuds and afterward with vinegar j
mixed with salt heated to a foiling point, j
then dry thoroughly and brigh'en with ;
a newspaper. Lime free from gri m ed I
with alcohol' applied with leather will j
g ve a beautiful polish to steel. To give !
stoves a good lustre add either alum or '
susrar to ;ood
. ish. Tin pans can be
nrevented irom rustinsr bv heatinir them
t r, . ,i -x i- i-i i
and rubbing well with linseed oil and:
heating again. Wood ashes or whiting
fwhich is better) mixed with kerosene
will brighten them. Detroit
raft Free Press.
Some Simple remedies.
For a sore throaLicut slices of fat,
boneless bacon, pepper thickly, and tie
around the throat Tvith a flannel cloth.
When stung by " 'bee or wasp, make a
paste of commf" earth nd water, put
on the place once and cover with a
cloth. For . cold on the chest a flannel
racr Avrunn cut n boiling water and
sprinkled ,y't1 turpentine, laid on the
chest ci e tlie Sreatest relief. AYrhen
a felon 3t keSms to make its appear-
:1 Vn o lmrn flit r fT t n o vnl 1-knf
nnro ...... " ' vii. I ' v
the f ln a
i,
o iue uener. r or a cou
JYrain and aid a little hoacy, one ounc e
of rock candy, and the iuirfi nf tbrn.
iice oi najsfien in n. t-i
lemons; mix and boil well. Drink as
hot as possible. Often after cooking a
meal a person will feel tired and have
r o appetite. For this beat a raw egg
until light, stir in a little milk an sugir
and season with nutmeg. Drink half an ;
hour before oatinjr. For a burn or scald
make a paste of common baking soda.
and water, apply at once and cover with
a linen cloth. When the skin is broken
apply the white o'an egg with a feather;
this gives instant relier, as it keeps the
air from the flesh. At the first signs of ; trie I the turning- of a handspring and
a run-round, take a cup of wood ashes, .'umPmg UP ad dowu, flopping his
put in a pan with a quart of cold water, ! hands, and resorting o other unhunter
put the pan oa the stove, put your finder like measures. He had been told pnee
in the pan, keep it there until the water that a hunter had frightened a mountain
begins to boil, or as long as it can be i lion away by similar absurd movements,
borne. Repeat once or twice if neces- i and he found thatit worked to perfection
sary. Good Housekeepin g.
Ilccipes.
Det.iciou? RrCE Pl'ddixc. Wash an
nick a cupful of rice; put into a pudli no-
mold with one quart of milk; steam for
two hours. Eat with cream and sugar.
B istox Bkown Bhead Steamek
Cut into slices a loaf of sta'e I5oton
brown bread. Put a kettle of hot water
on the range. On it place the steamer,
put the slices in it, cover and steam fif
teen minutes. AVhen done butter quickly
and serve on a hot plate
Bakeo Cheese. Take one cup and a
half of finely chop;:ed or grated cheese.
add half a cup of bread crumbs, oner up -
ful of mi k, one egg, beaten light, a lit-
tiered pepper and salt to ta te. 1 ut it
in a buttered dish and bake fifteen
minutes in a quick oven. This is a good
way to use the last of a piece of cheese,
when it becomes too dry to be nice
alone.
Penrith Puddixg. Cut thin slices of
bread and butter, spread them with
stewed cnJubrriei. Make a custard by
mixing one p'nt of milk with two well
beaten eggs and four tablepoontuis oi
sugar.
If this is not enoush to cover the
bread and butter double th3 quantity,
C-
Bake until the custard is set.
good way to use stale bread.
puddiDg cold.
Sweet Pjtatoes Sauce.
very fine way of utilizing
This is
Serve the
-This is a
left over
sweet potatoes: Fry a slice
of onion in
a pan; then remove it
Ut UI) tWO
uoneu sweet poiares mio slices, men
into dice, and try them Tightly in the i
pan. Shape them as you would an ome- j
j let, aaa salt and pepper and a little
j chopped parsley, and turn out on a hot J
: dish. The onion flavor removes the pe- j
I culiar flavor of the cold potatoes without :
j its own flavor being recognized. If the j
I onion is not objected to it can rema'n i
and be mixed with the potatoes.
Kidney Beans in Ouavv.- The red
kidney bean, which is called the French
bean by some dealers, is a very nut ri
tious and wholesome vegetable, and may
be cooked a3 our ordinary white bean,
but with a gravy it is more desiiable, as
it may be served at almost any meal.
Put in the frying pan an ounce of but
ter, half a teapoonful of dry flour, and
a teaspoonful of minced onion; brown
slightly, and add half a p:nt of beef
gravy or rich soup stock ; add the neces
sary salt and pepper. Now add a quart
of cold boiled beans simmer long
enough to heat them thoroughly ; add a
squeeze of lemon juice, and they are
ready for the table. If the beans are
very dry they , should be soaked and
boiled before using them.
Pure a la Reise. Boil a fowl in two
quarts of water until tender; add two
sprigs of parsley, a leaf or two of soup
celery, a quarter of an onion, one young
ca rot, salt and six whole peppers; sim
mer slowly and add more water as the
quantity in the Saucepan evaporates,
hemove the fowl when done. When
cold, skin and cut up the meat. Soak a
quarter of a loaf of home-made bread
and chicken together. Skim and strain
the broth ; place it on the range, but do
not let it. boil. Now rub "the paste
through a fine sieve, add it to the broth,
whisk into it half a pint of lukewarm
cream, and a teaspoon ful of flour. Some
of the chicken pulp may be roUed into
little ba'ls and served with the sonp.
According to the traditions of the kitchen
this soup owes its name to no less a pcr
nora?re than the wife of Henrv IV..
" - - - - - - ' I
Margaret of Vaiois, who was sai l to be !
very fond of it. A la 1 cine is a term
a;ip!iel to dishes prepared a?cordiug to
the Quee.i's instiuctions, or that which
is especially the food of her Majesty.
No Senator Ever Arrested.
A Washington letter to the Philadel
pnia Le Ig -r says : If a Senator's arrest is
ordered by the chair he remains in the
custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms until
the Senate directs his release. The Presi
dent pro. tern, has no more power: Once
in arrest the on y motion that could reach
the case under the rule? would be to dis
chirgehim from ci.stody, to refer his
case to a committee to suspend or expel
him. No man has ever been actually ar
rested while a member of the Senate or
House of Representatives. John ( haun
ccy. who has been an As-istaut ecrgeant-at-Arms
in the House since 18o:5, told me
that throughout all the stormy scenes,
that have occurred in the halls of t on-
. Vinrl npvpr
&:e. tne exneme ri"sui-c j
p ' Vpn Tlrnoks
oeen resmeu i-o, ui vn
assaulted iruniner. or dining the many
fights that took place on the floor in the
days preceding, and "succeeding si-cession.
At one time McDougall, of Cali
fornia, caused such a disturbance on
the floor of the Senate, while
that body was in session, as to
interrupt the proceedings. He was
drunk andt did not know what he was
doin"-. The Vice President called him
to order repeatedly, and, as he would
not obey, ordered-the t ergeant-at-Arms
to take "him into custody, but before the
order was executed Uncle Isaac l'assett,
who at that time as now was Doorkeeper
of the Chamber, too"; him by the arm
and led him qu'etly away. A resolution
was af erward introduced to expel him,
but it was never a ted upon. On the
4th of Maich, .1871, Willard Saulsbury,
the Senator from Delaware, and the
brothers of the present Senator from
that r-tate, caused a similar disturbance.
II is te rn expired at noon on that day.
He was very drunk and did not realize
th? situation. The succeeding Congress
Kl Z m ' i fill tt f V n nV1T!l-
,. P , i Mv ini-
. .... 1 . ,
bury, sti l supposing mat ne was a
, v , .... u
e-
nator. attempted to make a speech.
The
vrfsid!mr o'bt er. IMr. Colfax, called mm
to order and informed him that he was
no longer a Senator. This Mr. Sauls
bury disputed with a good deal of vigor.
Again "Mr. Col fa k called him to order,
but he still refused to sit down, and the
Serereant-at-Arms was directed to remove
him.
Scared Gr'zzles.
J. -H. Inman, a former fur contracting
agent of the Hudson's Bay Company,
said to a New York Sun reporter:
"AVhile I believe that a grizzly bear
will in a majority of ca es wait for a
fight with a man and take
mins to
sret
kind I head of once, where a famous
! Manitoba iruide courageously advanced
I "poo three grizzlies, an old she one and
two half-crown vouri? bears, and bv a
series of ridiculous, monkey-shir.es and
acrobatic nvinfeuve.-s oa the ground with
in a rod or two of the bears filled them
with sucK astonishment and apparent
fcarshat thj tlire; retreated into the
1 wtds with all rapidity. The guide's
gun had snapped in both barrels, he hav
ing drawn on tb.3 old bear before the
young ones appeared. He afterward said
that it was in a tit of desperation that he
in the case of the bears, although he did
not
fnrnnr4ao,o unrnnp tn rr-k
to
hunting
! grizzlies ar'iied w!t!i nothing more thin
d j a capacity to turn somers aults."
New Economical -Plants.
The Directors of the Siharumpur Gar
dens, India, are cultivating a number of
new plants, lor acclimatization. Among
them is the Acacia Senegal, which, be
Mdes yielding the best gum arabic, fur
n'shes a redd sh-brown wood, " which
takes on a fine polish, and is used foi
weavers shuttles. The Cedula adoiata,
or West Indian cedar, hns a li"-ht wood
! of a mah iiranv color, even trained. easilv
: worked, and fragrant the wood from
which Havana ci'-ar boxes are made.
t-CDchens cathartrnn- i a mnrli vnlnwl
folder-plant, whih grows in sandy
desert tracts. It is the Tuart of Austra
lia, tree of magnificent proportions,
which furnishes most exec ilent hard
wood timber. The Mvrica:, or wax
myrtle. of Xorth and South America.
-iu,aiea lor the
wavu pviulntinna
i r. 'ue r -ruits, from which the wax
'' l,arate J'J boiling and skimming.
, .. '" cupinuus saponana, or
! ' n'n sap-berry, contain a larjfe
' II Tl 'I II I II T7 y . . '
j : : , ? J' -pouacc ous matter, which
u,vu ur viasnin? clothes. The hard.
roun i. i.iack seeds are worn as be Is for
necklace.. ,JU ar C-tnue Monthly.
A Promotive of S oep.
3Ionotonqus, contir.umi
! .nnnmmcll lfd w i-., ,:.. .
are
ger it is kept , Ju luu waJ Vl unJ iere are limes wnea
ii"-h boil one wl seem to think better, of it and
. . ' . I 1.., i. ..i. . : t.;
i . u - jt a i a. i
mt nf w-itr . vaistL wuu, rumarnauie lUMance oi mis
i: ' .w,llv" ':- r :T..rj persons a; pro-
i motive
mouve o Any one Avho has ex-
nerienced the murmur of thi ir,eo,.t
a - f auu
leaf life of a forest knows- how quieting
it is. So the purling of the waters, the
humming of a h.ve of b?es, the buzz of
a spinning wheel, and the murmur of a
distant factory, all act as lullabies. And
Mr. S. X. Stewart asserts in the &un,tfie
Jtmiri-'U that there is no better sleep
guard than machinery. A person having
a spring or electric or water motor to run
her sewing machine need only remove
the needle, place the -machine near the
patient, and let it run. Popular tk lease
Mohthlj.
The debating club at Centralia, HI.,
recently discussed the proposition: "if
my hen flies over into your yard and lrs
an egg, and vourhen hatches a chicken
from it, which hea is the mother of the
chicken'" -
One of the latest uses to which paper
has been put is the building of chimneys.
It is made in the form of blocks -which
are joined with silicious cement.
. Tne Funereal Month or Marcli.
An observant metropolitan barber says tin t
ho can tell one's physical condition by tho
stats of his hair!
The Bible tells us that with his: hair gone
Samson lost his strength. The Romans con
sidered baldnes a serious affliction and Julius
Cesar was never quite satis Set with himsau
because his poll was bare. ' .
The face, howeveris the open book, ana
one can nalily trace in its various "Prf!"
sions, lines, hanjes and complexion the staro
of the svstxn. ,
The eye that is unusually bright and ye i.
hns a pallid brightness, ths face upon wno?i
cheeks nature paints a rose of singular d"
fLiicl flush, inor 1 s
appearance
nose and lower part of tne lace, w
those whom the skuled physician wUl ten J u
physic
be fun
then tt
month of
isumption
wi i some uayurB-Ji" rVcimnt nn
lUftrrh. because it is then that consumption
.reap its richest harvest.
Consupton th?y
ricnesi . " the nthV
tell us is caus?d by tns, wt -'"-5;r
thins bv microbes in thaai, V;." " f
!Th?blood. by deficient by a
thousand and one things but whatever the
Aav be-ins with a cougn anJ the
Sv that wurfffectaally stop the cause of
hafcLgh cures the disease of the lungs. .
That is all there is of ic
TKoon,i Th is an evidence of a wasting. To
stop
it effectually, must oa use j
that will searcn uu "' -ua.,, luiuuve mas
and then heal the lung and do away with the
couh. This is the power, special to itself,
possessed alone by AY arner's Log Cabin Cough
and Consumption remedy, 'lhis is no n?w
f angled notion of narcotics and poisons, but
an old faslu'onel preparation of ba!sam3,
riKts and herbs, such as wa3 used by our
ancestors many years ago, the formula of
.which has been secured eic'.u: ively by the
present manufacturers at greav 'trouble and
expense. It is not a mere cold dryer. It is a
system-searcher and upbuilder and a con
sumption expellant. Where others fail, it
wins, because it gets at the constitutional
cause and removes it from the system.
J. AV. Hensaw, of Greensboro' Pa., on Jan.
15, 1SSS, reported that " he had derived more
real benefit for the length of time, from
AVarner's Log Cabin Cou?h and Consump
tion remedy than he had for years from the
best state physicians." if
If you have a cough night sweats, "posi
tive assurance in your own mind that you,
oh you,- have ho consumption," and yet lose
Mesh, appetite, courage, as your lungs waste
i way. you may know that soon the funereal
month of March will claim you, unless
promptly and faithfully you use the article
named. If other remedies hava f ii'ed try
this one thoroughly. If oihers are o Jered,
insist the more on trying this unequaled
preparation.
Some persons are prone to consumption,
and they should never allow the disease to be
come seated. ' ;
HORRIBLE DESERT SCENE.
Floating Arms and Legs and Other
Queer Things Encountered.
"Whoop up the romping spooks out
east of Barstow," said John Carson, an
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad man, to a
reporter yesterday. "I saw you had
something in the Examiner several weeks
ago about the mirage on the Mojave
Desert and the myriads, of people that
were seen in boats about there. Well,,
they're thickening up. Jn winter time,
you know, they always et thicker. For
eight months now I havd been running
the hundred-mile division out east of
Barstow. The spooks used to loom up
about every, other day. Now we see
them nearly all. the time. They're the
ghoulest lot of things, too, I ever did
see. They appear in all sorts of shapes.
At first they were a tolerably respectable
lot of ghosts, clad in white, with faces
and hands, that looked vcay much like
apparitions as shown in pictures, only
they appeared and disappeared, floated
horizontally and in every other position
in the air, and always stayed about a
auarter of a mile away from ns. Now
vou can get within an eighth of a mile,
and some of them are trigged out like
Jndiapsj with feathers in their hair and
sometimes with a streak of red around
their bodjios The sgienti-fs gay that the
increase in tne phenomena is owing: to
the peculiar atmospheric changes at this
time of the year. Whether it is or not,
I know they would have a very hard
time convincing the people of it who
travel over our line. A woman last week
who was from Illinois fainted dead away
when she got a glimpso of a lot of them
Bailing on an imaginary lake. Lakes and
green trees appear without number now
on the Colorado Desert. Fringing these
lakes with a circle of green and with the
strange characters floating about on
them, a queer sight is presented. You
never can get nearer than an eighth of a
mile to these lakes. There rose up in
front of the engine last Saturday, how-'
ever," said Mr. Carson, "the strangest
conglomeration of figures that, I pre
sume, mortal eyes beheld. Ever see
pictures of Dante's Inferno as illustrated
byDore? It was something like that
the weirdest, awfullest sight, an ad
mixture, of floating arms, legs and pieces
of shrouds. Three or four white-faced
women, as many grayrbearded men and
a solemn-visaged priest in black robes
floated in blue ether with the masS. Sol
Anderson, our engineer, was the most
scared man yoa ever saw. He put on
every pound of steam he had, and ,wo
went tearing over the desert like mad.
Wells-Fargo's agent, I thought, would
have died. Lucky for us that the awful
mirage hovered by the engine and ten
der; else we should have had a howling
lunatic asYlum aboard the train. Do you
suppose 1 could have convinced them
the things were not genuine ? Not
much. Fact is, I had all I could do to
hold my own self level. Every time I
looked at them I said: 'My God! those
things are real! There can't be anything
so clearly represented as that and not be
genuine!' Well, they hovered there for
full twenty minutes and then disap
peared like a flash. Beyond were noth
ing but our green-fringed lakes. The
desert just now is unusually hard and
parched. The sun shines clear and
warm. If the apparitions thicken I don't
know what we will do with our people.
Some of them are likely to go raving
mad." San Frandieo Examiner.
Bartholin's Great Work.
The statue of Liberty enlightening thi world,
which stands on Bedloe's Island, in the harbor
of New York, is one of the most sublime artis
tic conceptions of modern times. The torch of
the goddess light the nations of the earth to
the
deal
ailments a hundredfold more tyrannical than
anyiero. losuch sufferers Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription holds "forth the jpromis of
a speedy cire. It is a specific in all thos-i de
rangements, irregularities and ' weaknesses
which ma"ke life a burden to so many women.
.The only med cine sold bv druggists, under a
positive guarantee from the manufacturers,
that it will give satisfaction in every case. or
money will be refunded. He guarantee printed
on wrapper enclos nj bottle.
F-i?ri'1a estimates say, that 60,000 tourists left
50,000,000 there during the season.
Best, easiest to use and cheapest- Piso's Rem
edy for Catarrh, By druggists. 50c.
Paring one week in Chicago, III., a dozen men
ud women committed suicide.
7JACOBS
WW
THE LEADING REMEDY.
THE TRADE SAYS SO.
The Suffering Class Says So To The Trade.
XTS VIRTUES ARE PHKXOMEXAX.
ITS CVHKH AKK MAKVKLOUS.
Chronie Cases 40 Years' Standing Cured
Permanently
&M bf DrugitU and lHalert Evrryichere,
TO Charles A Vogeler Co.. Ualto., lid.
peace prosperity and progress, through Liber
ty. But "-liberty" is an emDty word to
thousands of D wr women enslaved hv nhv
3s. Ci
Cotton Tire?.
Notwithstanding the ggneral idea that
cotton U capable of spontaneous ignition,
it is nevertheless a fact that this phe
nomenon has never yet occurred. Owing
to the recent fifty disaster?, Mr. Dupre,
chemist at Liverpool,.1 England, was
commissioned to ascertain the cause of
tbe'burning of the packet boat, 41 City
of Montreal." Without any success, he
made all possible expeiimcnts to provoke
the spontaneous ignition of cotton. Ac
cording to the chemical analysis, itwas
admitted that Indian cotton would be
more liable to spontaneous combustion,
however it never ignited,V the American
and Egyptian cotton having alone this
unfortunate privilege. We are sure now
that cotton is quite as inflammable as gnu
powder; a spark faling on a bde at the
moment of its being put oa board or un
loaded on the quay, will suffice for a
fire to break out at sea. on the quay, or
even tn the factory. Cotton often burns
slowly,stopping smoke and smell, and
fire does not burst out often for some
time. The remedy consists in avoiding
the presence of fire of any kind in the
locality of the cotton, and in inclosing
the bales with a more or less combustible
matter. The result is perfectly satisfac
tory Jot Indian cotton, which never ig
nites when the bales are inclosed in a
special wrapper of linen cloth, manufac
tured at Dundee, Scotland. Moreover,
the bales should be lighter, like those of
India, fo that they could be more readily
mmceuvred without the aid of hooks
which tear the covcring.r French paper.
Cod "Liver Oil.
Prof. Joel, of St. Petersburg, calls
attention to the falsification of cod liver,
oil, by pekroleum. This., spurious pro
duct bought at druggists, contained
50 degrees of mineral oil and yet showed ,
no suspicious signs from iis outward as
pect, taste or smell. Tr.c sick person
who had been taking it had a rising in
the stomach which smelt of petroleum.
This caused the fraud to be suspected.
According to Prof. Joel the adulteration
of olive oil by petroleum is also much
practiced in Russia.
The Five Sisters. -
There were Ave fair sisters, and each had an
aim . . -.
Flora would fain be n fashionable dame;
Scholarly Susan's selection was t oka;
Co mettish Cora cared more for Rood looks;
Anna, ambitious, aspired after wealth; - "
Sensible Sarah sought lirst for good health.
So she-took Dr. Hercc's (iolden Medical Dis
covery and grew healt.iy and blooming. Cora'a
beauty quickly faded; .Susan's eyesight failed
from over-study; Flora became nevous arid
fretful in striving after fashion and a sickly
family kept Anna's husband poor. Hut sensi
ble Sarah erew daily m re healthy, ehanuinir
and intelligent, aud she married rlclu
The amount on deposit in ho snvingri banks
of the United States is 1,835,247,371.
Consumption (Surely C'urrtl.
To the Editor: Please inform your readers
that I have a positive remedy for the aim ve
named disease. By its timely ue thousands of
hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I
shall be glaa to send t wo uomes oi my remeay
hike to any of your readers who have con
sumption if they wil1 send ine their Express
and P. O. address Respectfully,
T.A. SLOCUM. M. C..lli'earl St.,.N. Y.
The recent New York blizzird cost the New
York, New Haven and Hartford It. It., $400,000.
The three R's brough , Regret Reproach and
Remorse to a great politic party in HW4. The
three P'a, when signifying Dr. Pierc 'a Purga
tive Pe leta-brna Peace to the mind. Preser
vation and Perfection of health to the ho ly.
By building a $400culvert atChatsworth, 111.,
it would have saved 00,UOO damages.
Consumption,1 AVuatlnv Diseases,
And General Debility. Doctors disagree as to
j. . . ... . . ...
ne r. lauve vaiue oi . oa Liver un hiiu nyio-
phosphites: the one
supplying strenjrlli ana
flesh, the other trivim
as a tonic to t he diuvsf iv and entire nvstem
nerve power, una acting
But in Scott'sEmuij on of Cod Mver Oil with
Hvpophosphite the f vo re combined, and the
effect is wond-rful. Thousands who have de
rived no pe manent lwK tit I rom other prepara
tions have been can d b thi. Scoit'a h mul
sion ifl Perfectly nalat;.l:e m:d is easily diiret.
eu oy iuo
. . r . - - : - . - -. - - -r-f
lose who cannot tolerate plain Cod Liver
Oil.
The rrlnce of Wale.
WIlV th Prlnf nf Valu tiVa rlnnr1w
day? He is likely to rclgn. Taylor's C herokee
Kemeay oi bweet Uum and Mullein is now the
Kingoi ail cougn meaicines, and la a croup pre
ventive. .
pmbound
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PRB3 Nervous Proitratlon.NervousHead.
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Ws Cream Balm
6i ' V9BrVm i, M I vle reuei l ones idu cunn
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Catarrh and Hay Feier.
Not a Liquid-or Snuff.
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to the firit pwwm naming th hort
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