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P MAKINC COOO COFFEE.
New York Hote’s Have a Man Especially |
For That Purpose.
If there Is one particular branch of
the culinary art in which the average
nous ife prides herself, it is her abiti-
ty to make good coffee. As far as com-
pounding the favorite breakfast bever-
age is concerned, she nine times out of
tcn do^s not delude herself, but ask
any man who is the least bit of a bon
vireur and he will tell you that not
one ter-dinner woman coffee in a hundred that can make aft j
is fit to drink.
The coffee that is set before him at the
family table is as different from the
clear, brown-black stimulating liquid
that is served in the clubs, restaurants
and big hotels as is water from wine.
He wonders why this should be, but
were he to pay a visit to the precincts
sacred to the stewards of our large
hotels, and there learn just how much
time, care and money is devoted to the
preparation of this one concomitant of
a yell-served dinner, his respect for
the housewife’s efforts would probably
Increase, while his enjoyment of the j i
post-prandial nectar would doubtless
be augmented. I
One of the most Important officials
in every large hotel and restaurant in
the city is known as the “coffee man.”
Hss sole duty consists In buying, blend-
mg and making the gallons of coffee
FiV are consumed daily by the guests,
lie is very apt to have pronounced
ideas regarding blends and mixtures,
bui his fad par excellence is the partic-
niar kind of coffee pot or urn to be
used in concocting the beverage.
The views of the Waldorf coffee man
differ from those of the superintendent
of the Imperial; at the Fifth Avenue
another blend and another mode of
compounding are adopted, while at the
Arena the method of coffee making is
peculiarly their own. At the Waldorf
the blend favored for breakfast coffee
is two-thirds of a pound of Mocha to
one-third of Java. The Waldorf cof¬
fee man does not favor coffee that is
finely ground, soaks it in cold water j
*or a full hour before it is put in the
la of the countless huge sil- j
ver urns of the establishment. For *
breakfast he uses about one pound of
coffee to five quarts of water; this is
poured through the sieve and strainers,
which are arranged In the urns in the
regulation French coffee-pot fashion,
four times. The result Is a clear, am-
b oiored liquid of excellent flavoi
and strength.
For the after-dinner coffee he pre¬
fers a blend that is composed of rath<r
more Java than Mocha, and but four
parts of water are allowed to the
pound. The process of making is the
lame.
At the Arena coffee is made on the
tab! s in Viennese coffee pots, by wha*
i: nowu as the steaming process.
Tin re the mixture consists of equal
parts of Mucha and Java. About one
ounce is allowed to each individual pot.
The pots themselves are quaint-look-
lng affairs of hammered brass, porce¬
lain lined, and with glass tops. Un¬
derneath is swung a small spirit lamp.
In the body of the pot is placed a suf¬
ficient quantity of cold water, while
the allotted entice of Mocha and Java
is put, perfectly dry, and very finely
ground, in the glass top. When the
water boils the steam slowly ascends
th h a tube, and as it permeates
the dry coffee, drop by drop the pure
coffee essence falls into a receiver, with
the result that a perfectly pure, full-
flavored coffee of the richest strength
is obtained. This process is also used
by many of the quaint restaurants af¬
fected by the foreign element, but the
coffee used is the strong black blend
popularly known as Turkish.
At both the Imperial and the Fifth
Avenue the Mocha and Java mixture
is favored, but at these hotels both
French and Viennese pots are tabooed.
and the old-fashioned method of
straining the coffee through a flannel
bag prevails.—New York Times.
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Till- franchise of easy digestion one of the
.nost valuable in the gift of medical science—
can he secured by any person wise enough to
use Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, either to
suppress growing dyspepsia, or to uproot it at
maturity Bilious, rheumatic and fever and
ague sufferers, persons troubled with nervous-
n and the constipated, should also secure
the health franchise by the same means.
Although a needle has an eye in its head, it
is not able to see its own point.
You may not know it but there are large
numbers of people who have made fortunes
in Wheat and Corn during the last few
months. There are equally good opportuni¬
ties now. Why should you not do so. Heury
Mttgrldge A Co., US Commerce Building, Chi¬
cago, make a specialty of advising their cus¬
tomers on the condition of the market.
Write to them for full particulars. All orders
tilled on Boanl of Trade Floor. Bank Kefer-
ences.
I can recommend Piso’s Cure for Consump-
♦ ion to sufferers from Asthma E. I). Town-
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CURED HIS CATARRH
Getting Better Very Soon After Taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
**Mv son had catarrh very badly and we
could get nothing to do him any good. lie
was much rundown. I decided to give him
Hood’s Sarsaparilla and after he began
taking it he was soon getting better and is
now well.” Mrs. J. M. W. Hills, Antrim,
N. H. Remember
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Half size bottle, 50c.
COMMUNITY OF ZOAR.
Old World Organization That is Flourish-
ing in Ohio,
Among the communistic societies of
-Africa none are more interesting
thau this one of Zoar, located about
fifteen miles southeast of Massillon,
Ohio. It owes its existence to a reli-
gious society not unlike that of the
Frierds, founded in Germany 100 years
ago and driven from that land by re-
Jigious persecution. In 18J7 about 250
of the sect left Bavaria, Wurtemberg,
and Baden, and after many weary days
of travel reached one of the most beau-
tiful places in Ohio, where they decid¬
ed to locate. •
This settlement was named Zoar,
and Is 8tUl In a flourishing condition,
although they have not increased in
numbers, as many of the younger
members, dissatisfied with this small
world, have cut loose to make a name
and fortune for themselves, Those
v/hf separated themselves from the
colony cannot lay claim to a share in
the property- The society, however,
usually makes a voluntary gift, which
l<5 sufficient to establish the deserters
in business. Until recently there were
no difficulties, but some of the young
people urged a division of the proper-
ty and that each one be allowed to
xr.t.rage his own for himself. The
original charter, however, provided
that the property could not be divided
so long as three members wished to
hold together. The place has the at¬
mosphere of the old country from the
garden, with its old-fashioned holly¬
hocks and bower covered with grape
vires, to the old Dutchman sitting at
his back door on a high, straight-
backed wooden bench, smoking his
pipe. There is an air of cleanliness
and comfort about everything, for each
has the same pride in the whole as in
the spot where he abides. The society
at present owns 7,000 acres of land.
0a the whole the co-operative tys-
ten. has been a great financial success,
although last year the society was
somewhat in debt. The crops have
teen exceptionally good this year, and
so enough may be realized to cancel
the debt and the balance laid aside for
a rainy day. They have about .‘HJO
acres sown to wheat, 100 to rye and
200 to oats, and this year the wheat
yielded 50 bushels per acre. Toward
evening one may see about 200 fat
cows wandering toward the stables
and filing into their stalls in the most
perfect order. Each stall has the
tame of its occupant painted above it,
and as the names become duplicated a
number is added to the name, as Daisy
1 and Daisy 2. Each cow knows her
owr. stall, and always walks into the
right one. The milking is attended to
by the women, each woman having a
certain number of cows to milk. After
this task is finished the milk is car-
ried to one of the cleanliest of dairies,
where some is apportioned to the dif¬
ferent families, and the remainder kept
at the dairy for butter and cheese.
Besides the farm conveniences the
people have their own flour mill, saw
mill, w-oolen mill, and dyehouse, tan¬
nery and brewery Their woolen mill
pr/-duces cloth for their clothing, blan¬
kets for their beds and also for their
horses. The surplus from their mills
finds a ready sale through the eastern
jobbers. The Tuscarawas River flows
through their land, and furnishes pow¬
er tc run the machinery of the several
mdrs which they operate. About fifty
hards are hired from outside the col¬
ony to help run these different mills.
Formerly these people were gov¬
erned by a “general agent,” who lfved
in a large mansion, that is still stand-
* n g At present the colony is gov-
e. ned by three trustees chosen by bal-
lot. The colony is divided into two
Classes, one consisting of those -who
are competent to vote because of their
good behavior and age, and the other
Q f those who still enjoy the benefits of
thR colony but have no voice in its
government on account of their ques¬
tionable character.
W hile all speak both English and
Gc-’-raan the foreign language is spo¬
ken almost entirely in the homes. In
the village school English is taught
three days a week and German two.
A Simple Fire Extinguisher.
Hand-grenades, the simplest form of
fire-extinguisher, can be made at home
cheaply and easiJy. And it is well to
have at hand a simple contrivance for
extinguishing a small fire at its start.
Take twenty pounds of common salt
and ten pounds of sal ammoniac (ni¬
trate of ammonia, to be had of any-
druggist), and dissolve in seven gal-
Ions of water. Procure quart bottles,
Of thin glass, such as are ordinarily
used by druggists, and fill with this,
corking tightly and sealing, to pre-
ven ^ evaporation,
The breaking of the bottle liberates
a certain amount of gas. and the heat
the fire generates more, thus work-
own destruction.
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Ran No Risks.
The boy hung back when the visitor
spoke to him, and his mother was nat-
«r*lly annoyed.
“Won’t you go to Mrs. Brown, Wil-
lie?” she asked.
j “No,” replied the boy, shortly.
“Don’t you like me?” asked Mrs.
Brown, good naturedly.
“No, I don’t.” answered the boy.
j mother," “Whv, Willie’” exclaimed his
reproachfully.
“Well, I guess I got whipped for
not telling the truth yesterday, and I
ain't taking no chances today,” pro¬
tested the boy.—Chicago Post.
1 A Sure Thing.
A man dropped his wig on the street
and a boy who was following close be-
hind the loser, picked it up and hand-
j e<i it to bim. “Thanks, my boy,”
I said the owner of the wig. “You are
I the first genuine hair restorer I have
i ever seen. ”—Roxbury Gazette.
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR
LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
Married Now—Only Enough For Two—
Her Advantage—How Ton Can Tell—
Too Personal—Consideration—Admires
the Sentiment—Intimation. Etc., Etc.
Ah, once when Julia read aloud,
Mv doting srAll was rapt and proud;
But now, although I love her more,
When J alia reads I doze and snore.
—Chicago Record.
Only Enongh For Two.
Landlady—“What part of the
chicken would you like, Mr. Hardy?”
Hardy—“Either. ”—Puck.
How You Can Tell.’
“You can tell how old a tree is by
its rings.”
“Yes; and that’s the way you can
cell how young a girl is, too.”
The Terrors of Baldheadedness.
Gadsby—“Your hair will be gray if
it keeps on.”
Woolfin—“Oh, well, if it keeps on
I’ll be satisfied.”—Roxbury Gazette.
Her Advantage.
“Your daughter has an angelic dis¬
position.”
“Yes; we always let her have her
own way about everything.”—Chicago
Record.
Too Personal.
“What a singular nose the new
boarder, Miss Perkins, has!”
“Yes; she looks so much like a par¬
rot that I didn’t dare pass her the
crackers.”
Admires the Sentiment.
“That man singing ‘Only One Girl
in the World For Me’ has been mar¬
ried three times.”
“Well, that’s all right; he means
only one girl at a time.”—Chicago
Record.
A Burst of Speed.
Street Car Conductor (to driver)—
“I wonder what that man is running
so hard for?”
Driver (looking back)—“Mebby the
fool wants ter git on. G’lang!”—New
York Weekly.
Intimation.
“This newspaper says that a young
woman ought not to sit at a piano
more than fifteen minutes at a time.”
“Here, cut that out and let’s send it
to that family in the next flat.”—Chi¬
cago Tribune.
Consideration.
“Which would you rather have
around a flat building—a dog or a
baby?”
“That would depend entirely on
which one of them was mine. ”—In¬
dianapolis Journal.
A Sure Indication,
“By George, Mrs. Monger must be
telling our wives the most awful scan¬
dal.”
“What makes you think so?”
“Why, they are both listening with¬
out interrupting.”—Life.
A U»eful Art.
“Of course,” said one old farmer to
the other, “your boy is Iearnin' Latin
and Greek at college, but is he gettin’
anything practical?”
“Oh, yes. In the last letter he writ
he tells me he is takin’ lessons in fenc¬
in’.”—Detroit Free Press.
Endowed With Reason.
Professor—“Where did you acquire
the information that microbes possess
a high order of intelligence?”
Student—“It is a deduction of my
own.”
Professor—“From what?”
Student—“From their being found
in kisses.”—Puck.
The Little Critic.
“Why, papa,” said Frances, who
was looking at the album; “surely this
isn’t a picture of you?”
“Yes,” replied papa; “that is a
picture of me, taken when I was quite
young.”
“Well,” commented the little girl,
“it doesn’t look as much like you as
you look now.”—Harper’s Bazar.
Computation.
“What I want,” said the man who
was talking about taking a flat, “is
some place where the rooms are big
enough for me to turn around in.”
“Certainly,” replied the agent.
“That can be easily arranged, as you
are not an miusually large man. Stand
up, please, and let me get your exact
measurement.”—Washington Star.
What He Needed.
Mr. Woodware—“That young fel¬
low you have in your office is the most
conceited puppy I ever ran across.”
Mr. Queensware—“Yes, I know;
but you must remember he is young
yet, and his character is not fully
formed. He has never been tried by
fire.”
Mr. Woodware—“Then you’d bet¬
ter fire him.”—New York Weekly.
Expensive Diet.
‘ f No, I can make you no contribu¬
tion. I don’t believe in sending out
foreign missionaries.
“Bat the Scriptures command ns to
feed the hungry.”
The man of wealth shrugged his
shoulders.
“Well, I'd feed them something
cheaper than missionaries,” he re¬
joined, with the brusquerie that char¬
acterizes his class.—Detroit Journal.
.“It is a Wise IFather,” Etc.
A certain learned professor in New
York has a wife and family, but, pro¬
fessor-like, his thoughts are always
with his books.
One evening his wife, who had been
out for some hours, returned to find
the house remarkably quiet. She had
left the children playing about, bat
now they were nowhere to be seen.
She demanded to be told what had
become of them, and the professor
explained that, as they had made a
good deal of noise, he had put them
to bed without waiting for her or call¬
ing a maid.
“I hope they gave you no trouble,”
she said.
“No,” replied the professor, “with
the exception of the one in the cot
here. He objected a good deal to my
undressing him and putting him to
bed.”
The wife went to inspect the cot.
“Why,” she exclaimed, “that’s lit¬
tle Johnny Green, from next door.”—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Gras* Paving Blocks.
Paving blocks made of meadow
pass are now manufactured. Their
inventor was a clergyman, and the
meadow grass, impregnated with oil,
tar and resin, is pressed into blocks
and finally bound with iron Btraps.
The advantage claimed for these
blocks is that they are noiseless and
elastic, resist wear well and are im¬
pervious to heat and cold.
A Place to Avoid.
More men have died and are buried
in the Isthmus of Panama, along the
line of the proposed canal, than on any
equal a mqgflt gi te rritory is the world.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
The paths to God are more in num¬
ber than the breathings of created be¬
ings.—From the Persian.
A soul’s rays, looking Godward, must
blend with all other rays thus tending.
It is the only abiding nearness.—Trin¬
ities and Sanctities.
The regeneration of the world will
begin when humanity fully realizes
that its humanity is divine, and that
life, in its true sense, means simply
and always divine life.—Lilian Whit¬
ing.
Pleasant retrospections, easy
thoughts and comfortable presages
are admirable opiates. They help to
assuage the anguish and disarm the
distemper and almost make a man de¬
spise his misery.—Jeremy Taylor. J
Solitude is a good school, but the
world is the best theatre; the institu¬
tion is the best there, but the practice
here; the wilderness hath the advan¬
tage of discipline, and society oppor¬
tunities of perfection.—Jeremy Taylor.
The needful thing is not that we
abate, but that we consecrate the in¬
terests and affections of our life, en¬
tertain them with a thoughtful heart,
serve them with the will of duty and
revere them as the benediction of God.
—James Martineau.
When God sends darkness, let it be
dark. ’Tis so vain to think we can
light up with candles, or make it any¬
thing but dark. It may be because of
the darkness we shall see some new
beauty in the stars.—George S. Mer-
riam, in “The Story of William and
Lucy Smith.”
Glory is the crown woven by the
self. A soul in which the spirit of a
divine purpose is at flood glorifies
everything it touches, enhaloes every
place and act, lifts the meanest thing
to be divine, sends the thrill of its
energy through the dullest, puts life
into that which means death. Such
soul transfigures, if it may not trans¬
mute, everything it comes in contact
with.—J. F. W. Ware.
The loftiest test of friendship—un¬
derstood as companionship—is the
power to do without it. And in this
world of external confusions and separ¬
ations there is often such a need. We
do not yield the friendship, but we
must again and again forego the com¬
panionship. Then comes the proof of
our capacity for sacrifice, our loyalty
to the Highest of all.—Lucy Larcom,
in “As it is in Heaven.”
The Great Ribbon 3Iuddle.
He entered the shop hurriedly, with
the air of a man whose mind was filled
with a weighty commission.
Those whom he passed at the door
heard him muttering under his breath
a formula, which he seemed to fear
might slip away and be lost. He ap¬
proached the counter like one who
wishes it were well over.
“I wish to get,” he said, boldly,
“some ribbon for a red baby.”
The shop girl’s blank stare seemed
to arouse him to a sense of something
lacking.
“That is,” he said, “I would like
some baby for a red ribbed one.”
The shop girl was smiling broadly
now, and four errand boys, a shop
walker and seven lady customers gath¬
ered and smiled in unison. He began
again:
“That is—of course—you know—I
mean—some red ribbed baby for one
—that is—Some red ribs for one baby
—some one’s red baby’s ribs—some
baby for one red rib—some—thunder
and guns! Where’s the way out?”
He departed on the run.
“I wonder,” said the shop girl,
thoughtfully, an hour or so afterward,
“if he could have meant red baby rib¬
bon?”
Odd Death of a Sparrow.
A little English sparrow met a tragic
death one day last week. A number
of teams are stationed in Root street
to help the passing street cars across
the- railroad tracks. Two or three of
them are at rest most of the time in
the cool shade of neighboring build¬
ings while their drivers lounge and
talk.
Now, a sparrow thinks nothing is
quite so nice for nest building as long
horse hairs. A number of them visi¬
ted the corner every day, and gleaned
the hairs from the ground. Of course,
this was slow work, and one of the
birds, more ambitious than the others,
finally concluded to go to the fountain
head of horse hairs, and so he tried to
pull a hair from the tail of one of the
sleepy horses, No doubt the horse
thought that a fly was biting him, and
switched his tail vigorously. In some
way, no one knew just how, the spar¬
row was caught, and when the driver
came back he found the poor little
bird hanging quite still and dead, with
one of the long hairs twisted around
his neck. And the old horse didn’t
seem to know that anything was the
matter.—San Francisco Post.
Uses of Emery.
For many yeais most of the emery
has been brought from Turkey and the
Greek islands. Its value for cutting
and polishing has been known since
the beginning of history. Very crude
methods are in use for obtaining this
substance for market. Enormous fires
are built on or against the rocks,
which are then cracked or broken by
throwing jets of cold water against
them. Emery has many uses, among
which is its employment in polishing
and cutting. Being so unmanageable,
it for a long time defied the efforts of
man to put it into available shape, but
at length it was cemented into usable
forms and it was molded into wheels.
Emery millstones are a later-day im¬
provement. They are the most prac¬
tical of all stones, because they are
not affected by heat and the face is al¬
ways sharp. As cutting and polishing
powder, emery is of great value, and
emery sandpaper is an important arti¬
cle of manufacture.—American Culti¬
vator.
Pneumatic Trousers.
One of the most novel uses to which
compressed air has been put is that of
pneumatic-seated trousers patented by
Moses R. Isaacs, of Philadelphia.
These trousers will, when ready for
use, have in their lower middle portion
an air cushion, and a suitable tube
connection extending up the back por¬
tion, whereby the owner of such pants
can at will inflate them for his com-
fort and convenience. When he desires
to mount a horse, bicycle, merry-go-
round, or anything with a jolt in it,
he simply pulls from his pocket a
handy pump and churns air into the
cushion ad libitum.—The Pathfinder.
A Bee in His Stomach.
While Peter Carson, of Kalama,
Wash., was eating his dinner a yellow
jacket got into his mouth and was
Bwallowed, or at any rate went down
his oesophagus, and, according to the
Western chronicler, stung him in the
stomach. It took a physician’s ser-
vices to give the bee its quietus. Car-
son described his sensations as those
a man might feel who was blown up
by dynamite just as a house fell upon
him.— ye? York Sun.
WOM AN’S WO RLD.
A Gallant 9arant.
When Professor Tirchow was in
Russia, a few weeks ago, he was wait-
id on by a deputation of female phy¬
sicians, who came to thank nim for
aaving thrown open his lecture room
and laboratory to a Russian woman at
a time when the German universities
did not yet a dmi t female students.
Virchow, in reply, invited Russian fe¬
male physicians to make use of his
pathologic and anatomic museum at
Berlin, which has been recently en¬
larged.
Education of Women.
Mrs. Robert E. Park, of Macon, Ga.,
who has been spending a week in New
York, was a leader in a recent fight in
her State for the university education
of women. To a Tribune reporter she
said: “It is university privileges we
seek, not co-education. If Georgia
can sustain a woman’s university.well
and good. But that is practically out
of the question, sinee she does not
properly care for the one she now has.
Oar correspondence has been exten¬
sive on the subject of co-education in
universities, and the testimony every¬
where, but especially in the South, is
emphatically favorable. The dire re¬
sults to morals and manners predicted
and feared by many do not follow. As
Chancellor Jesse says, ‘Only those ob¬
ject to co-education who have not tried
it.’ This is the testimony of a Southern
man—a Virginian. ”—New York Tri¬
bune.
The Season’s Big Mufls.
The muff of the season is big. It is
drawn up at the top into satin bow
and a cascade of lace. Inexpensive
shoulder capes are made entirely of
mink or sable or Persian lamb paws.
These are lined with brocade and
finished with lace or ribbon. Ruffle
collars in mink, twelve-tailed necklets
in the same fur and white-tipped fox
boas to set over dark coats are among
the most novel fur accessories.
I have seen a few fur-trimmed
dresses, green tweed and Persian lamb
being one of the best, writes Ellen Os¬
born, of New York. A theater party
that burst into a restaurant the other
night for supper brought some good
gowns. One, of *old rose silk, was
slightly trained. A band of jeweled
lace insertion edged the skirt behind
and ran up on either side of the front
to the wai.st line. Across the bottom
of the front was a line of sable. The
blouse bodice of old rose velvet was
cut with a large square yoke of silk
outlined with the jeweled insertion.
The yoke was prolonged into epaulets,
edged with sable. There was a high
collar' of unique shape made entirely
of insertion and standing in a flat ruf¬
fle of old rose ribbon. The large hat
of old rose velvet wa3 trimmed with
feathers.
A second costume was of fawn-col¬
ored cloth, with the lower part of the
skirt sprinkled with irregular spots of
green velvet. A green-velvet blouse,
corselet belt and sleeves of cloth and
a poke hat of brown felt, faced with
green and trimmed with upstanding
feathers, completed the outfit.
A pink-face cloth dress was charm¬
ing. Its skirt was trimmed with bands
and bars of golden-brown velvet. The
bodice was tucked round and round
and was finished with a velvet belt and
a tabbed, collarlike top of brown and
pink figured silk. This also had vel¬
vet garnitures.—Chicago Record._
Administration Curls Stylish.
All the femininity of any conse¬
quence in Washington are wearing
their hair cropped, curled and held at
either side of the parting by tiny
combs. This is because Mrs. Mc¬
Kinley, as the first lady in the land,
wears her hair that way, and, of
course, should be copied. The curls
have come to be known as “Adminis¬
tration curls.” At the various sum¬
mer resorts these dames from the
capital were gazed at in horror at first,
because the fashion is certainly unbe¬
coming to almost every one, but when
the “why and wherefore” was learned
maids and matrons rnshed to their
rooms, combed out their Merode curls
and cut them off. Now the McKinley
curls have made their appearance from
Maine to the Rio Grande and from
Key West to Klondike, and will doubt¬
less hold their own unti the arrival of
some new social or theatrical star.
Why women should change the
fashion of wearing their hair is incom¬
prehensible, because to every face
some one style is absolutely suited
and ail other modes are more or less
unbecoming. But let a professional
beauty or a French music hall dancer
adopt some curious and' wonderful
method of aranging her hair and
women the world over will make this
method “the fashion.” It is many
years since Mrs. Langtry started the
fashion of chopping off all the hair on
the top of the head, curling the short
ends into little rings and waves and
producing what was known as a
“bang.” The much-abused tresses
have had time to grow long, and now
women are looking out at the world
from behind straight bands of hair
drawn down over the ears, because
Cleo de Merode, Parisian music hall
dancer and favorite of a king, has set
the fashion for so doing.—San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle.
Fashion Notes.
Corded silks and ribbed woolens
and velvets will be very fashionably
used for handsome gowns, entire
street costumes, redingotes and wraps
this winter.
A gay and pretty coat for a girl of
five years is of scarlet cloth, double
breasted and ornamented by military
frogs of black silk braid. A cape of
scarlet velvet, under heavy cream gui¬
pure lace, falls from a yoke braided
with black. A rolling collar and deep
cuffs of the cloth, both braided, com-
plete this pretty little garment.
Some of the new fur capes are made
very short and full on the shoulders,
and many models show a fur ruffle
and standing collar attached to a
rounding yoke of deep moss-green,
wine-colored or golden-brown velvet.
Other pelerines have inlaid yokes of
jet, bronze or vari-colored Persian
beads, or the yoke is nearly covered
with rich, heavy-silk-cord arabesque
patterns en applique.
Facings, revers and vests of white
or cream cloth still appear on some of
the handsomest cloth costumes for
special wear. This is an easv and
most effective addition to a gown, and
always a becoming one. Some of
these gowns show the white or cream
portions bordered with rows of white
and gold braid; others are almost hid¬
den by an intricate arabesque or ver¬
micelli design in hand-braiding.
A smart afternoon frock for a girl of
ten is of bright blue cloth. The blouse
front is a separate piece which is fast¬
ened to the shoulders by bretelles of
the cloth. A square yoke of finelv
plaited bright red satin and sleeves o*f
plaited red satin give a charming touch
of color. The edges of the bretelles
and of the blouse where it touches the
yoke in front are adorned by a fine de¬
sign in narrow braiding, which also
fimahes the bottom ofjhe skirt,
THE OKDER OF MULLAHS
REMARKABLE WHITE-BEARDED MEN
OF THE INDIAN FRONTIER.
They Are Schoolmaster, lawyer, Judge
and Priest All Combined, and Exer-
eisa Strong Influence Over the In-
a Hills.
habitants ** the Afghan
During the spring of 188/ I accom¬
panied a survey party which set out
from Peshawnr to penetrate the coun¬
try north of the Khyber, and examine
such routes aS would be available in
the event of the pass Daring being that held, time by I
powerful enemy. opportunities of studying
had many the Mul¬
the manners and methods of
lahs—those remarkable men who are
at present using their fanatical follow-
ers to drive them to revolt against the
encroachments of the Feringhees.
The visitor to the towns of the in¬
dependent tribes will often see a ven-
erable white-bearded old man, fol¬
lowed by a crowd of yonng Pathans,
who show every sign of respect for
their leader. In his right hand the
venerable figure, carries a staff, and in
his left a large volume of the law ac¬
cording to Mahomet. When the pro¬
cession reaches a public place the
leader seats himself; his disciples
stand around or sit at his feet, and
the genera’ public assemble at a little
distance to hear the gems of wisdom
that fall from the holy man’s lips, or
the world-wide “chestnuts, ’
to roar at
not always of the most decorous char-
acter, which ho sometimes unbends
sufficiently to tell, Such a man is a
mullah, one of a class who exercise an
influence over the inhabitants of the
Afghan hills so passionate and wide
that to Europeans it is beyond belief.
The Mullahs are collectively known
as the Ulima, or learned, Thev are
the schoolmasters, lawyers, judges, as
well as the priests, many' of them be¬
ing men of great ability and scholar¬
ship; and as they are all passionately
devoted to their order, it cannot be
said that their influence is altogether
evil. They are great peacemakers in
a land where fighting is the breath of
a man’s nostrils, I once saw one of
them in Lalpoorah rush between two
bodies of Mohmunds who were drawn
up to attack each other, and, by pas¬
sionate prayers to them to remember
their common God and their common
country, make these desperate men
forget their purpose and go away as
quietly as frightened schoolboys. conferred
The position of Mullah is
on such candidates as have undergone
a special course of study in the intri¬
cate Mahometan law and successfully
passed an examination therein, The
principal part of the ceremony con-
sists of the most saintly Mullah pres¬
ent investing the novice with the wide
flowing gown of white cotton and the
peculiarly shaped turban.
The Mullahs marry and live like the
laity in most particulars; though some
of them assume the most ridiculous
austerity, frowning on the simplest
amusements, and even condemning
all music except the warlike drum and
trumpet, as being effeminate. To
such men the merry fiddle or the sigh¬
ing lute are as the horns of the Evil
One.
One rich source of revenue with the
priesthood is their fine collection of
charms and incantations. It is no un¬
common sight to see an ancient Afridi
or Mohmund sitting with a Mullah
and vigorously repeating a charm or
performing a subtle incantation to en¬
able him to fix the affections of some
fail* lady who is not enamoured of his
gray hairs.
A Mullah’s most sensitive point is
the dignity of hi' office. When that
is outraged there is trouble in the
land. He calls the brethren to a coun¬
cil. They suspend all the rites of
public worship, denoxince their enemy
as a dog and an infidel, cover him and
his people with their maledictions and
practically excommunicate him. If
this does not bring the unhappy man
to his senses, the Mullahs don their
sacred robes, and can-ying the green
standard of the Prophet, go up and
down throughout the land proclaim¬
ing the Mahometan warcry, and calling
on the faithful to avenge the honor of
the apostle of the Prophet. To those
who flock to their side they promise
eternal bliss; to those who ignore their
appeals everlasting torture. The Mul¬
lah’s voice is not raised in vain. He
soon has a frantic army following the
green flag, willing to go anywhere and
do anything their leader pleases.
When a Mullah dies the place of his
death becomes a sacred shrine at
which miracles are worked. There is
not a village throughout the whole
Pathan country which has not its holy
spot to which the sick, the halt and
the blind resort for relief.—St. James
Gazette.
Sea Water of 3Iany Colors,
On a bright, sunny day visitors are
often puzzled at the numerous colors
visible on the surface of the sea.
There will, perhaps, be some four or
five streaks of green, blue, yellow,
black and so forth, making the water
appear as though it were painted in
color-stripes of mathematical precision.
To the initiated these several stripes
have their meaning. They are nearly
all produced by the character of the
ocean bed, and as a rule are only seen
in close proximity to land.
If you see a deep blue or green
patch, you may label it deep water,
the blue usually being deeper than the
green. A yellowish tint signifies a
sandy bottom, and, if it is very pro¬
nounced, indicates a shoal - or sand¬
bank.
Black indicates rocks, although sea-
weed or cloud shadows will sometimes
produce a similar effect.
On the east coast it is no uncommon
thing to see a patch of bright red
where the sou has reflected the color
of the deep brown sand on the sur¬
face.
Where the bottom is muddy, as on
the Essex eos-f, a streak of bright
silver-gray ia often seen.
Many people who cannot claim inti¬
macy with the sea imagine these col¬
ors are in the sea water itself, whereas
its intrinsio tint is bluish-green.__
London Answers.
Method For Discovering Forgery.
This new method has been devised
by Professor M. Bruylauts, professor
in chemistry iu the University of
Louvain. The portion of a document
which is suspected of having been
altered is first moistened, and then,
after being dried, is' exposed to the
action of vapor of iodide. The por¬
tion thus moistened, if it has been
altered, assumes a violet tint, while
the other portion appears a brownish
yellow. Thi3 action is evidently due
to the removal of a portion of the
starch contained in the size of the
paper. The same process will even
reveal the existence of pencil marks
erased by rubbing.—Public Opinion.
Corn as Fuel.
A Minnesota farmer insists that corn
makes a better and cheaper fuel than
coal. He raised enough corn on ten
acres to heat his house and feed two
horses aad a cow through the winter,
ideal grandmothers.
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Mr*. Pink ham Says When We Violate Nat-re-* r.
Oar Punishment Is Pain—If We Cont;a **
A a ,
m to Neglect the Warning We Die.
'M/, m Providence has allotted us each at least scy—,
L years in which to fui£:l our mhvLo" V“ ? f,
life, and it is generally our own f a
we die prematurely.
r Nervous exhaustion invites disg...
This statement is the positive truth
When everything becomes a bt-G
and you cannot walk a
4 I without excessive fat in and v
Z7-\ I break out into perspiratzoni ;as n
% 1 and your face flushes, and von
w excited and shaky at the least pr
If 1\ tion, crossed and in anything, you cannot bear to <C. • ,
! you are h
ger; your nerves have given out: v~.
i * need building up at once ’. To fc'-n
V. up woman’s nervous system sad r-
store woman's health, we know of no better or more inspiring medicin than
ne“lected g H^in ronSTiho Your ailment taken in l —- cti. b»
great^uffering^nd pa;^.
tation of the heart. I could not stand but a few moments at a t.me vi;Lo~*
^-Wheni ^ommen^takhig Lydia E. sit Pinkham’s half Vegetable day; beicre. Compound I
onlv willed 103 pounds, and could not up a h-.verer.t
had useda whole bottle, I was able to be about. I took in all about three hot-
ties of the Compound, and am entirely cured; now I weigh 131 pouncs and f^
like new woman, stronger and better than ever in mj, life.
a virtues of Mrs. Pinkham’s
So it transpires that because of the wonderful
Compound, even a very sick woman can be cured and live to a green old a ?e
.
Why He Belieyes in the Supernatural.
A resident of Brazil, Ind., writes to
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
“I have read the story of a twelve-
foot white ghost that walks at mid¬
night on a dismal Eastern beach. It
reminds me of a bit of experience that
belongs to my boyhood da> s. I did
not believe in ghosts then and nothing
could convince me that supernatural
appearances ever stalked abroad in the
gaze of earthly vision, My disbelief,
however, was dispelled one lonesome
night late in November. The moon
was not shining, but the star-light fil¬
tered down, uninterruptedly, through
cloud masses and slightly tinged the
dark, heavy air so that objects were
visible to the steady gaze. On some
quest I had gone to the barn alone.
Just before reaching it, however, I
saw a sight that turned the currents
of my b'lood back on themselves and
made the very hair on my head stand
up, as it were. Just in front of me,
with arms outspread and supporting a
thin, unsubstantial vesture of grayish
white, loomed a spectre whose head
must have been at an altitude of three
times my own. There was no doubt
about the matter. Riveted to the spot
I, at first, gazed awe-struck. The spec¬
tre moved not nor did it vanish. My
disbelief in ghosts asserted itself, how¬
ever, and I found myself emboldened
enough to question the spectre, after
a short spell. I did more. My foot
struck a hard substance which, on ex¬
amination, proved to be a brick-bat.
It occurred to me to test his ghostship.
I did so. Moving a pace forward I
deliberately hurled the bat full at the
body of the apparition, thinking, if
it were a tangible fraud, practicing de¬
ceit. I would get even with it The bat.
true to the aim, struck the spectre, but.
to my great consternation, it passed
through it and hit the barn beyond
with such noise as I thought I had
never heard before. I thought I heard a
sigh, and, in the uncertain light, I
thought I distinguished a rustle of the
airy robes, but this was all. There
stood the spectre still; but I did not
longer tarry, leaving abruptly and In
firm faith in the supernatural.”
How Beriiners ’’Spruce Up.”
The men of Berlin have an odd habit
of brushing and combing their hair
and whiskers in public. In the rest¬
aurants and cafes men pull out their
implements and “spruce up” while
waiting for their orders to be filled.
They do not take the trouble to leave
the table, either. In the foyers of the
Berlin theatres there are many mir¬
rors. Theoretically they are placed
there for the convenience of ladies. As
a matter of fact the men are the prin¬
cipal users. Five minutes before the
curtain goes up a man may be seen
standing before every mirror Indus¬
triously using brush and comb. One
minute before the curtain rises all
hands place brush and comb nack in
their pockets, and with a well-groomed
appearance and self-satisfied smile
they march down to their seats.—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
THE OLD SILVER DOLLAR.
“How dear to our hearts is the old
silver dollar,
When some kind subscriber presents
it to view;
The liberty bust without necktie or
collar,
And all the strange things that to
us seem so new;
The wide spreading eagle, the arrows
below it,
The stars and the words with the
The strange things they tell;
coin of our fathers, we’re glad
that we know it,
For some time or other ’twill come
in right well—
The spread eagle dollar, the old silver
dollar,
That almighty dollar we love so
well.”
—Exchange.
A Nonsensical Notion.
Some folks actually believe that they can
cure skin diseases through their stomachs.
It s absued on its face absurd on the face of
the man who believes, too, because his disease
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s certain cure
for Tetter. Ringworm, Eczema and other
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, but 4 this is not the the han< opinion I is worth of the two bird. in the bush;! j
Rudyard Kipling.
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