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TIMES ENTBftPmsfc, tttOMiASViLfc,
h«* uttered So many and aweet: If I had but said them
a a *rierin t,d b!tter * ,01 i i!r* 107 hcart thcr * would ** aT *
and acorn and pride. What a deur of blessing would fall upon it
my heart retnemlxred _A« the day’* remembrances gather '
rei>entancc more unavi
the words I did not My.
rib.
And I .It _
Hy all tbs word, thnt I did not any.
Tbe word of cheer that I might luve wills- Tho mprrow will com. with it. new ...
| To a heart that waa breaking with GiaiFand 'grand, through the morning's
t of woe, gates— *
[hope that I might have glren Shall I not then with this thought bceide
o one whose courage waa ebbing low, me
J Yu nl ot T &rnin *J Jb«r« apolcen Go bravely forth to the work that walU?
" 1 helpful word, that I-did not »ay; So that I never will grieve at twilight
Over the words that I did not nay.
—L. M. Montgomery, in Bam'a Hoi
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THE RAID OF,
THE RHINOCEROSES
By Count Stanislaus Schembeck. . .
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„, .CAn nut-oMhe-way adventure which befell a
Africa. On their way to the river a herd of rl ’
the nutlior’a comp, whereupon I they attsoked'it Count
‘ hnpppiud when the infuriated monatera charged down upon Ma'partyJ
what
1 My love of big game (booting bns led
me to all parts of the world In search
of It, amongst oilier places to the coun
try around tho Wo so Nylro Hirer, In
Hast Africa, where rhinoceroses
abound. After a long march through
a nioro than desolate country, Inhab
ited by superstitious natives who tell
blood curdling stories about witches,
vampires, mad such like pleasant folk,
wo camped one evening on a alope
near some trees.
. Two friends of mine who had accom
panied mo on my race round tho Dark
Continent—Monsieur do Hubempre and
UacIb fVStiflltrnn lusth ttiam rnlni,.lt.t
Bcvls O'Sullivan, both of them splendid
eportsmen-ihared one small Are with
me, while our carriers and other at
tendants made merry a little distance
away.
I was sloeping tho sleep of the last
nfter a ineol oft a delicious rhinoceros
tongue when I was suddenly awakened
by a hideous yell, 'sitting up, 1 saw
Be Hnbcmprc and O’Sullivan come
dashing along In very scanty attire,
running as If they were competing for
n championship. As they passed me
they shouted somethtng-what I could
not gather. Aatonnded, I gazed round
In n dazed, hnlf-ileepy fashion, and
presently saw my flying friends take
refuge behind the sycamore trees which
shaded the camp. Booking In the op
posite direction, I was-horrified to see
a huge rhinoceros moving briskly about
^ at the other end ot tbe camp. Need
less to say, I hurriedly gpt out of bed.
I was toe sleepy and flazed to (Sink of
weapons, and was nbont to Join my
friends among the trees when the
rhinoceros, with an odd 'little lamp,
disappeared In tho hashes, leaving one
of onr fires Stamped out and some of
tho packs knocked as fist as pan
cakes.
Tbs sxdtement gradually subsided
after the departure of the huge ani
mal, and once more slumber fell upon
the camp. Bnt It was apparently de
creed that our peaoe wns to be dis
turbed continually during that night,
tar I had Just gone to sleep again and
t waa dreaming of shooting rhinoceroses
with one shot each, like pheasants,
when I heard my name pronounced In
a ghostly whisper. Opening my eyes,
I saw Ds Hubempre being over me,
“What’s tbo matterrvt asked, sleep-
. Ily.
“LogK, man!” hofanranred, excited
ly! “Iherblnoeortaita returning with his
trhble family!",
t ‘Ob, lather the rhinoceros!" 1 said,
turning over lastly; bnt the Frenchman
shook me nntll I set up-wlth very bad
grace. Not far off, clearly visible In the
bright moonlight, f beheld a whole
herd of rhinoceroses, apparently exam-
Into* the tamp. Their looks did not
please toe, ’and, rising to my feet, I
•nstohed up my gun. I discovered,
hosfever, that with the deceptive light
to was Impossible to aim with any cer
tainty. Moreover, I reflected that If
once the great brutes became Infurlat-
•Q And charged down on tho camps the
Zulu saying, “Yon shall he stamped
Hat," would not only he figuratively,
hut literally, exemplified.
I don't think I have ever been so un-
Jagy as at-that'moment, tor I felt
helpless before this mighty avalanche
. "«h and bone, which tbe least acci
dent might send rolling irresistibly to
wards us. Do Hubempre eaw the dan
ger, too; and although he has proved
bis bravery over and over again, ho
paled, and anxiously looked at the
trees. O'Sullivan only, with hit In
fections Irish gslsty, did not tor a
Minute think.of the danger. /
Preaently we detected a movement
amongst tbs herd; the huge brutes
seemed to be lining up in some sort of
order.
“Ikioks as though they were going
to reproduce the charge of Balaclava!”
observed the Irrepressible. O'Sullivan,
and I was Inclined to agree with him.
For half an hour the Tblnocerosea
came no nearer, slthongh Hbey moved
round end round ns In clumsy circles.
The scene was strikingly wolrd-tboie
bulking grey bodies flitting, through the
darkness all sbont ns.
Suddenly there wss,a shriek of
"Faro I” from onr natives, and with one
accord they made tor the trees. The
ponderous animals were charging down
toward* tbo camp!
“Here come the gallant six hundred!"
observed. O’Sullivan, and hurriedly
swung himself Into a tree. The French
man and I also clambered up sod got
our heavy guos ready.
O'Sullivan waa literally babbling
over with gaiety. In spite of tbe seri
ousness of tbe sltnation.
VHooroof’ be yelled, as tbe great
t came tearing through the brush.
wood, leaving a dear space behind'
them. “Hers com* the road-makers.'"
“Ami hero goes the grave-maker,’!,
•aid pe Hubempre, coolly taking aim,
with his rifle resttag on a branch. On
came the monsters at a lumbering gal
lop. A shot rang out and down went
a heavy mass, raising a thick cloud of
grey dust trod shaking tbs ground.
“Bravo! Good shot!” shouted O’Sul
llvan. “Your turn, Schcmbcek.”
I had been aiming already, and when
be spoke I pressed the trigger, but as I
fired tho brate I was aiming at
stnmbled over a fallen trunk and came
down on bis knees, so that my bnllet
only bnrled Itself In the broad back.
“Bad luckl” cried Bevls. “My turn
now. Here's for the leader!”
The Irishman’s bullet brought down
n glaht animal, which lay on the ground
struggling, kicking, and making an aw
ful uproar. The scene was now s veri
table pandemonium. Stamping rblnoc*
eroses, screaming hatlvca In trees,'
Bevls shooting out mad Jokes, and tbe
rapid reports of the rifles combined to
produce s bewildering nproar. Cloudl
had by this time hidden the moon, and
w« could hardly sea ta shoot The In
truding animals wire now in ampng
the campfires, and In the twinkling of
an eye the flames to tbs last ember
were trodden out Dimly we could see
our beds bring stamped trader foot and
scattered, and tbe packs hurled this
way and that Then tor a few minute*
we fired a little mors surely, for the
moon showed Itself again, and five
dead anlmala soon lay stiff on tbe
ground, while not a few otbera were
badly wounded.
Having vented their rage on Inanl
mate things, tbs great brutes began
to think of tko Men.
"Dnt of tho natives, paralysed with
WA1*, had been unable to climb a tree,
and was now staring at the rhinocer
oses ovfir the top of a thick prickly
bush. Our attention wns drawn to the
man for tho first time by one of tbe
animals stopping short and sniffing
round. It did not see Ibe men, bat
scented him, and with a Bellow of fury
It went for the bosh like a hurricane.
•We yelled out to the native to «ave
himself, and, roused from his stupor,
he sprang to his feet and raced away,
ttlth the animal after him. I slipped
a little farther down the tree and called
to him, whereupon he swerved rapidly
from his course andf came towards me,
while tho leviathan stopped short,
plowing np the gronnd with Its hoary
feet. Finally It turned, for all the
world like a clumsy mastiff puppy,
and resumed the chase.
Tho screaming native ran towards my
tree, and I held’ ont my band and
dragged him up, telling him to climb
up higher. He did not need to be told
twice, and went np as high as he could.
Luckily for him, as the sequel will
show, It was not a tall tree.
The great animal, with ponderous
tread, came on after him.- Arrived at
the foot of tho tree, It stood still, ap-' \
patently astonished at tbe native's die-
appearance, and then aimed a vicious
blow at the tree trunk with Its sharp
horn. I did not Intend to let It de
molish my perch so easily, so I slipped
down to tbe bottom branch, and lean
ing forward, held my rifle point blank
at Its etr and pressed the trigger. Bach
a shot Is fatal, end I had the satlafap-
tlon of seeing It waver take a few
steps, and then fell with a crash, Its
whole weight resting against the tree,
which bent like a cane. I clutched
wtldly at the branch to prevent myself
falling; and nearly ■ dropped my rifle,
while a crashing, rending noise, fol
lowed by n shriek from above, told
that some one had been dislodged by
the shock. Branch after branch wss
•napped by the falling ot some’heavy
body, until finally It hit the atronger
bought and bounced off to the gronnd.
I realised then that the native In his
terror bad climbed too high np, where
tbo branches coold hardly bear him,
•nd the sudden Jerk had burled him
dawn.
For a minute I thought another
rhinoceros would come and crash hbn
before he could get np again, bnt to
my astonishment he rose to his feet
and limped sway at a good rate Into
the boshes. Evidently he did not In
tend to trust to tree-tops again-
For a short while longer the rhinoc
eroses wandered about the camp, and
then their Interest shifted, to our
wagon, which they surrounded with
tbe evident Intention of upfietilng it
They had not snfflclent sense, however,
to realise that if they poshed on both
sides at once It would not go down, so
they did not succeed In overturning It.
All this time we fired at Intervals [Into
ihe mast of animals, meanwhile specu
lating among onrselTes as to why such
a large number of rhinoceroses had
banded themselves together.
Presently, to our great relief, they
tired of their 'sport and . moved on
farther into the wtldaMtn. Do
Rubempro and O'Sullivan followed
them for some distance to seo whit
they would do next, while I ordered,
coaxed, or bullied the frightened na
tives into descending from their lofty
roosting places, whtre they much rfc
scmbled a flock of crows.
One by one they WfiSi down snd
gathered toOnd tee, shivering with cold
nnd tenor, and casting apprehensive
Blancos In tbe direction whence the
marauding animals had disappeared.
After a time, littWWer, I induced
them to relight the fires, and then a
te# Of them wont to fetch the wagon-
O'x’en. These by a tacky chance had
bed'n picketed ist a distance In Charge
of five men, because Of tbe more plenti
ful pasturo there. Tbe damage to onr
caup waa not so great as It might
have been, although tbo low tents un
der which we btd been sleeping, onr
beds, aud all the cooking utensils left
outside the wagons, besides a few
packs thrown down by the carriers,
had been so trampled out of shaps that
It toook a certain uuottnd ot divination
and a vivid imagination to goes* what
‘hey wore.
When De Hubempre and O’SulUvan
came In they reported that they bad fol
lowed the herd for tame distance. The
animal* Itemed to form ■ fairly regu
lar phalanx, following a given road.
They bad gone down to tbe river, drank
and bathed, and then crossed by a
ford and disappeared at a rapid paca
on the other tide.
Having hauled the wagons to a fresh
camping place-tor the old ope was
trampled Into mud by tbo huge feet—
we lit great fires end got to sleep at
lost, With Our bones aching from tbe
nocturnal gymnastics we bad been
compelled to Indulge In.-
Next morning we discovered a sort
of path leading through tbe country
which we had not hitherto noticed be
cause of tbe spring growth covering
the roughly made way, trampled out
by the feet of niany wild animals dur
ing eonntlesi ages. It jras apparently
an animal trail leading .to the river.
That wss as much of the secret of ths
huge beasts as we could fathom. Wo
had'camped across their pathway, bar-'
ring their way to the water, and they
Uatnrally resented onr conduct.
And. so ended onr adventnrs.—Tho
Wide World Magazine.
hunters in East
route blocked by
SHIP’S WOHST TIME RECORD.
WISDOM’S WHISPERS.
Trlflers miss tbs truth.
To-day Is the root of forever.
The firm In faith never (tend still.
No sane man Is an optimist at all
tlmea.
Codfish aristocrats are ths spawn of
codfish republics.
The course of human liberty never
yet did ran smooth. ’
In speech, quality Is everything;
quantity a mere detail.'
Form good habits! Our lives or*
moulded by our habits.
An hnmble attitude glv.es no dew to
the rosl feeling underlying It.
Too much firmness of character pro
daces sn Impression of pedantry.
Tbe beet way to be grateful la to
give another occaelon for gratitude.
It 1* well to remember that tbe al
mighty dollar la not the eternal dollar.
Tbe worth of a man’s learning de
pends on the light It gives to ths world.
Nice things can be cold In a way
which make* them fall without -effect
Few things cost less than encour
agement, and fewer still an worth
more.
T-
▼sriabla Stan.
There are certain itars which show
more or less conspicuous variations of
brightness. Among tbe six thousand
easily visible to tho naked eye there
are between fifty and a hundred ot
which this Is true; shout half s dozen
' them were known before 1800. If
we Include the telescopic stars, tho
number of known variables Is at pre
sent at least thirteen hundred, and
this without taking account of aeveral
hundred more which have been, de
tected In certain star clusters within
tbe past five or six-years. Ten years
ago Dr. Chandler’s catalogue ot vari
ables Included only about three hun
dred objects. The roll Is now Increas
ing with extreme rapidity, between
two and three hundred having been
added within the laet twelve month*.
This swift growth Is due largely to the
utilisation of photography which,
through the comparison of photographs
' given portions of the heavens taken
different time*, continually brings
out new- variables. When thus de
tected the astronomers proceed to
study them In, detail with photometers
attached to their telescopes, enabling
them accurately ta compare the bright-
nees of each suspected object from
time to time with that of Its neighbor
ing start, and thus to determine tbe
amount and character of Its variation
represented by Its so-called “llght-
enrve.”—Professor Charles A. Yonng,
* Princeton University, In Harper’s
Weekly.
Vaastlsa Work For Bays.
Senator O. G. Laugen’e bill offering
13 reward for killing rattlesnake*
wgs recommended for panage by the
Senate Committee on Agriculture yes
terday.
The purpose of tbe bill It to rid the
State, especially the southwestern
part, of rattlesnakes. It It argued
that the bill at the tame time will
furnish means of employment for boys
during the summer vacations. The
advocates of the bill sey that rattle
snake* are so numerous In the •oath-
western part ot tbo State that an av
erage boy can make excellent wage*
hunting tbm-gt Paul Pioneer, j'fti*.
T It a long way from Kobe,
oh tiie Bojr HI Otago; even
when you make the trip un
der steam; but It la' the
longest on record when yon
mnke It In the bluff bowed
Dutch built British three-masted ehtp
Julianna; which arrived thl Saturday
night. Two years ago, ou a voyage
from Iloilo to this port, tbe Johanna
accumulated an Incomparable lot of
barnacles In n drift of 200 days. She
was out 210 days this time and her
skipper, Captain Melvor, u Highlander,
who is not much Over live feet tall,
says be tblnkc that she eah do worse.
Tbe men before tbe mast are sure of
It,. All bands are anxlons to see her
bnrnacles, which the cook says ought to
be big enough, served single, for a
'imenl for a famished ledhtaU,
Being on the Jiphanna was somewhat
like sailing through space on a planet
without wireless. She spoke only one
ship, tbe Sierra Lucens, from Cardiff
for Ilong Kong, Tbe greetldg wss by
bunting only, and each ship merely
asked tbe other to report her. Alto
gether the Johanna coveted 21,000
miles. When she was ten days out
ahe ran Into a typhoon, lasting three
days, importers who gyoped down
tbe bay through tbd fog to find tbe
Johanna asked the skipper what be
carried wlilln tbe typhoon was raging,
and besnldl
“Carry! Why, you couldn’t carry a
hair ou your bead unless you reefed
It. We bore her to undw naked (pars.
Jaet Imagine yourself down In Park
row (I’ve been here before, young man,
and know something of your blessed
old skyscrapers) looking up at tbe tall
est building there. Tbe eaves of that
building scorned Just as near tbe side
walk ns the crest of those waves ap
peared to ua. The squalls were simply
terrific. The barometer went down like
an express elevator. All hands were
on deck standing by tor anything. At
8.30 on the morning of August 37 we
thought the blow bad about exhausted
Itself nnd we set two. topsails and a
foresail to steady the ship, which was
telling a good deal.
“An hour'later the gnlc came eat of
another quarter worse than before, and
we 1-ihI to sacrifice our aalla to save
the ship from going on her beam ends.
We let go tbe sheets nnd the wind
whipped Ac sails to ribbons. The ship
may be alow, but she Is a steady old
tub, nnd she did not tremble under the
aVrful ducking she got when the seas
got up on end. Our pinnace was
washed overboard, a lifeboat gnashed,
the cab'ln flooded, the sidelights washed
away, but she was is steady ae a
church or a thirty-story skyscraper.
“She was too blamed steady, in fact.
It was a shame the way the only two
sailing craft going our way paased us.
One four-master that we had on Our
port quarter at'noon went by almost,
It seemed to us, like an expresi train,
nnd three hours Inter was hnll down.
That was a bit discouraging. But what
can yon expect of a Dutch ship!
After the tumult of the typhoon came
a riot of monsoons In tbe Indian Ocean.
The skipper thought at first that he
would make New York by way of tbe
Oape of Good Hope. Twc weeks' bat
tling with monsoons, In which nearly
two tona of potatoes In tbe potato bouse
on the forecastle head were carried
away, caused him to change Ills mind
and his course. He came by the Horn.
All bands were living on salt horse.
A committee of one from the fore
castle, consisting of John Bohn, A. B.,
of Finland,' watted on the skipper and
asked him to put Into the Fslklands
for fresh provisions. Tbe skipper said
that that wan bit Intention, and that
If any man aboard tbe ship knew of
any shorter route than he was taking
he would be obliged If that gentleman
would come and take the helm. All the
ship's flour had been spoiled ta tbe
rumpus of tbe elemeots and .the men
suggested that flour also might be nee-
essary. The skipper declared that he
would attend to everything.
He made Stanley Harbor, In tbe
Falklnnds, on January 10, and got tbe
news of the world, as recorded In a
Buenos Ayres newspaper, np to De
cember 0. Port Arthur bad not fallen
then.
Thereafter It was a problem of how
to make the old hooker move with all
her muslin on. The new supply of pro
visions Inspired Able Seaman Jack
O'Connor to go aft ten days after the
ship left the Falklands and „ suggest
that the long abstinence of the crew
from the good things usually served
on a voyage of a good British ship en
titled them to “plnm duff” snd things.
O'Connor says that the skipper said
that he bad decided to charge all bands
a penny more on tbe tobacco he bad
sold them “far Interest snd expenses.”
Thereupon O'Connor was Indignant,
declaring that It was not a square deal,
as the crew bad been giving the Anglo-
American Oil Company, which owns
the ship. Interest on. their wages tor
the last fifteen months.—New York
Sun.
I turned In. Onr nlnetee'fi MftteW all
squatted In a circle to the right of th#
tent, onr horses were tethered near to
them snd onr twenty-one men lighted
three or four fires, cooked their food
find Ifi f down ta sleep around the cam
els. Wfi fiisd had five donkeys tethered
to twq_or three saplings, wbldi were
growing sbont two paces In front of
the tent, and therefore, toward ths
centre of the sareba.
"About 2 o'clock In the morning I
was fitirfikehed by two feeble brays,
tallowed by a thtta. Lighting a candle,
I tumbled ont In my pajamas and got
hold of my rifle and a couple of cart
ridges, to meet the Somali banters
Shoring their woolly heads through the
tent door, saying 'WarsbaP (hyena).
Deep growls were going an snd I at
one* felt tore that It wae no hyena, but
a lion In the sareba. Fortunately, the
camels did not stampede.
“It was pitch dark, bnt I saw that
one of the five donkeys tethered ta
front of the tent wss gating Intently
toward the left and centre. There was
a black mas* discernible In the centre
of the sareba, which, however, I found
In the morning to be limply a mass of
Old dried thorn branch**, ao the tlx or
eight-shots I fired at it In the darkness
did little harm. The men were now
bashing the fins, and the cook sup
plied four or five of the men with
sticks snd with kerosene or rapidly
made lom* torcbee. I then noticed
that tbe donkey was gazing more tp
the left of the centre, and, golded by
the growling which wae going on con
tinuously snd furiously, I crept on my
hande and knees past the donkey for a
couple of yards. The men with the
torches were a little behind my right
ahoulder.
Suddenly the torchee flamed np
brightly, aud, the light being behind
me somewhat, I was dot dazzled by It,
bnt saw the lion dragging off a donkey.
It did not take me more than one sec
ond to snap both barrels at him, and
hla growls at once ceased. After put
ting In two more cartridge* end having,
the torchee retrimmed, we again ad
vanced, to find tbe Hon laying on hla
side, giving a few expiring gasps. Hla
nose tonobed the donkey’* throat, a
trickle of blood flowed down from un
der hla left eye, and—ae I afterward
found—he had gof my second bnllet
in tbe nape of the neck.”—Chicago
Newe.
^HOUSEHOLD
IRS
TO MEND A KNIFE.
A loosened knife handle can be satis
factorily mended by filling the cavity
in ffie handle two thirds full of pow
dered rosin and brick dost, heat tho
■tianv of the knife, and while very
hot, pro** it Into the handle, holding It
ta place until firmly set.
A HANDY RECEPTACLE.
Thp tin boxes ta which sweet wafers
are purchased are handy receptacles
in which to stow awty sandwiches for
evening lunches. Packed carefully,
with lids nicely adjusted, and eet on
ice until needed, the sandwiches are
temptingly moist and cod! ,
TO CLEAN HOT FAT.
When hot fat Is spUIed on table or
Hoot, pour cold water Or drop ice on
the place Immediately to harden. the
grease and , prevent Its soaking Into
the wood, then when attention can be
given to-It wash ont with very hot
sods water and scouring sand.
SNAKES IN HIS BOOTS.
"On at least one occasion I had
NIGHT FIGHT WITH A LION.
“When In 8omsllland, Africa, I had
an exciting adventure with a black
maned lion," writes a correspondent.
“I had intended to reach a village one
night, hut It waa getting dark and we
•were a couple of honra' march off; so,
finding an old sareba, or thorn Inclos
ure, we went Into 1L This sareba
covered half an acre. It was only four
feta high and four Vest thick, the
thorny branch** composing It having
sunk down snd fallen apart
“We repaired sbont 100 yards of it
pitched onr tent end tbe cook got his
fire lighted, gave m* tope dinner and
snakes In my boots," said tbe man with
the red nose, to a reporter of the Wash
ington Star, “and It was no wild, de
lirious fancy, either. The snake* were
genuine. They were very much alive,
could crawl, and did crawl, and they
had eyes and fanga and forked tongnes
and all tbe other things which go with
well-made and/ complete member of
the reptilian species. I had gone on
fishing trip with some friends np In
Arkansas, snd we were quartered In
tent on one of the best likes In the
southeastern section of the State. It
waa during the hot seaaon. I never
saw so many snakes In all my life as
we found around that lake, and they
were of all sizes, shapes and colors.
Tbe heat was-so intense—It was daring
severe drouth In 1881—that all the
snakes of that section gathered around
the lake In an effort, no doubt, to keep
cool They would slip down to ths
water's edge, burrow In the mud and
cut other curious capers because of the
prevalllhg drouth. Late In the evening
they would take a whirl at iwlmmtag,
wriggling out Into the lake for some
distance, and then pull back to the
shore again. I mention these tacts
merely to show that snakes ware plen
tiful in that section. Tbe heat had
made them desperate, bnt we never an
ticipated any trouble from this source.
“We pitched our tout at the head ot
tbe lake, and were Inclined to gloat
somewhat over tbe splendid location we
had secured and the cosiness of oar
surroundings generally. Of ooarte we
had tbe usual quantity of stimulating
things which belong to a firsf-cUsa fish
ing outfit, and, to tell the 'truth about
the matter, I had been palUng away at
the jng and popping beer bottles until
I wns jnst a little shaky. After ws
had been out about a week I began to
tee things that a man under ordinary
circumstances could not tee. I was
Jnst In' this condition one morning
when I rolled ont of my cot to begin
Ihe day’s sport. The sun had been pp
for some time. My hoots were standing
beside tbe cot, where I had pnt them
tbe night before. In throwing my legs
over the side of the oot I knocked both
boots over. Yon can guess how I felt
when two or three snakes wriggled
out of my boots. I simply went np Into
the air. My nerves were In no condi
tion to be tampered with. I couldn't
get out of the cot and I couldn't stay
in Ih. I simply tolt.like melting Into
thin air. One of my frienite witnessed
the whole thing, although I didn't no
tice it st tbe time. I wus ashamed
to say anything about the makes until
be brought the question up. Finally
be said something about makes that
had spent tbe night ta my boots, and
I’ll swear to you that I never felt bet
ter In my life, for up to that time I
wns very much In doubt about the
genuineness of the vision. I was gltd
to know that the snakes were real live
snakes.”
SAVED BY FLIPFLAPS.
Policeman Alexander Gllkerson, ot
the Thirtieth atreet station, who used
to be a circus tumbler, and who saved
his life by turning back fllpflaps from
In front of a trolley car. Is recovering
from his bruises, snd will report again
for duty soon. He was crowded from
the rear platform of a ear directly In
front of another. He had no time to
save himself except by throwing him
self sideways on bis bands.—New York
Snn.
THE KITCHEN SINK.
Be sore tbe kitchen sink Is a comfort
able height—espectaUy If you own tho
house—so no one need stoop over If
the dishes are to be washed there.
Four or five Inches In hanging It, make
no difference to the builder, but tbe
dally annoyance needlessly wears op
the nerves of a woman.—Pilgrim.
POTATOES IN THE SHELL.
Potatoes In the shell arc very good,
besides being wholesome. Bake large
potatoes, and when quite done cut off
a piece from one end and scoop out tho
Inside. Mash with salt, pepper, butter,
a little hot milk, and the white of nu
egg to three potatoes, the egg beaten
stiff. Refill the shells and return to
the oven for a few minutes.
' RAG CARPETS HIGH IN FAVOR.
Colonial dames, the genuine article
of Colonial days, fine ladies and good
housewives of old, would be amazed
at the vogue of the rag carpet of today,
which was never before considered so
distinctly smart as now. The rag car
pet helps to furnish summer bunga
lows, mountain camps and seaside cot
tages. It Is made Into large rugB for
entire floors and Into smaller ones to
go over polished wood or filling. It Is
to be found by the yard In various
widths.
Rag carpet, to be sure, goes by a
different name these days than form
erly, but as a "rag-style" carpet It la
still hit or miss and much of a mys
tery as In Its early days. It Is more
often qow, however, made up .with an
Idea of tho effect and different mater
ials are used to produce the desired
result A charming rug Is made of
ontlng and canton flannels. The warp
of tbs rug Is white, while the wool Is
In the outing flannel colors. Tbe tones
are • soft pink or pale green, with the
white canton flannel woven in for a
velvety border at each end. One must
to appreciate tbe beauty of a .white
canton flannel rag carpet
Ratal* bat eighty-six general boU-
Oays Ins year.
Banana Layer Cake-One email cup
of butter and two cups of sugar beaten
together nntll light; then add one cup
ful of.milk and four eggs well beaten:
then odd three cups ot flour Into which
have been sifted two teaspoonfnls of
baking'powder. Bake In layer tins.
Hlloe bananas and place between tbe
layers; covering toe bananas with
tahipped cream.
Blackberry Cake—Cream together
two-thirds of a cop of'butter and one
cup of spgar; add three eggs, whites
and yolks beaten Separately, four table
spoonfuls ot milk, in which has been
dissolved a small teaapoonfnl of soda,
s cup and a half of flour, a half tea
spoonful of cinnamon and the same
amount of nutmeg, and lastly one cup
of blackberry Jam; stir but lightly after
adding the Jam; bako slowly In a mod
erate oven.
Date Patty Cakes-Mix a third of a
cupful or soft butter with one and one-
third cupful of brown sugar, When
partly-creamed break In two eggs and
beat ths mixture until very light Then
add half a cupful of milk. Add one
and three-quarter cupfuls of sifted
flour in which has been mixed two
tea spoonfuls of baking powder. Beat
to a smooth bitter, then stir In half
a teaspoonful each of cinnamon and
nutmeg. Add half a pound of dates
which have had the stones removed,
cut small, and mixed with a little
flour. Then beat hard for two or three
minutes: Bake In small fancy patty
pans, In a moderate oven. When cold
cover with vanilla Icing.
Good For tbe Chafing Dish—Pnt one-
half pound cheese In chafing dish with
a lamp of batter the else of a walnut,
and after well mixed put In another
half, pound of cheese, adding from time
to time enough water to thin if cheese
should become thick. Have prepared
llefore seasoning as follows; One egg
well beaten, add a very small portion
of Dutch mustard, one teaspoonful of
Worcestershire sauce, about one-halt
teaspoonfnl of salt and a dash of cay
enne pepper. Hare toast hot and cov
ered with drawn butter. Put one-halt*
seasoning In chees and mix well and
pnt other hajf on toast. Cover toaat
with cheese and serve.
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It the camphor bottle becomes rollly
it Ji gVlng to storm.
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