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THE WISDOM OF THE SPARROWS.
Twaa a city sparrow, wise rind dobon-
Idly nalr, the country with
loafing through
bis mate,
Stupid countiy birds were building every-
For wbnre, growing very
tbu nesting-time was
late; the with his lady
But sparrow, shady,
In a tree-top, cool and work and
Hazed with scorn upon the
twittered: "Stuff!” chirruped shrilly:
To his mate he
“Isn’t all this labor silly, night Is Quite
When enough?*' n roostlng-placo at
Twas a motherly old robin, noar at
band, at her building with ,
Who was busy
the rent, the sparrows to de¬
And Blio turned upon
mand hatch their eggs
How they meant to
without a neat. half sadly
"Such impertinence,” "and yet gladly
Said the sparrow; knowledge that
IT! impart to you the
you beg " haughty condescension.
Then, with need but mention
Ho remarked: “I the egg.”
That It's possible to <*ivtate
Twas a congress of the birds of every
sort, Indignantly assembled to protest . .
AJ1 the robin made
Their displeasure, when
Of report threatened abolition of the neat;
tti.! of it “awful
And they spoke as "unlawful,
"Selfish,” “scandalous.” "the country s
And they prophesied fall.”
speedy quite disdaining
But tbe sparrows, complaining,
All this Igmu-ant unmindful of it
Simply went their way,
all.
"Twas sage old owl—a very solemn
a
bird— w'rllc bis feathered
Sat and listened
fellows fought. mouth to say a
Never once he ope’d his
word, lot of thinking—and . he ,
But he did a
thought: think It best
"So the sparrows nest.
To abolish eggs and isn’t theirs at
Well, perhaps the wisdom
all, of good Dame Nature s
But eliminate a plan such creatures.
To their The loss is
Let them have way.
mlghtv small.’’ Philadelphia Record.
—T .A .Daly, in the
ord.
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When Dennis Went
1VJ to Glasgow.
A REAL IRISH STORY.
IlY THOS. M’EWKN.
'Twas the terrible bad luck I’d been
havin’ for some tolme, wid no work
to be had at all at .all, whin I got a
letther from me Sister Bridget, who is
afther bein’ housemaid in a gran’
house in Glasgow.
Whin I gets to Glasgow I had some
tay in a coffee house on the quay, an’
thin I wint straight to Park circus, to
the foine houso where Bridget is
housemaid.
Whin 1 rings the bell a wee gossoon
about the height av two scrubbers, an’
dressed in blue clothes wid brass but-
ons on thim, opens the dure.
Sez he to mo as quick as loightnin,’
“We’ve nothing for you today.”
“Arrah now, haven’t ye, me illigant
apalpeen?” sez I. “An’ who’s your
tailor now, if I moight ax the ques-
thiou? ’Tis the gran’ advertisement
ye'd be for him intoirely. Are ye
lu’ther sleepin’ in thim clothes wid
the brass sovereigns on thim? They
fit ye loike n glove, me son."
“You imperent fellow!” sez the
crathur; “if you don’t move on I’ll call
a policeman!” him,
I couldn’t help laughin’ at so
J couldn't.
“Polisman!” sez I; “faix that's the
very koind av gintleman I’d be deloight-
#d to see. If all that me sister
Bridget writes home in her letters is
tbrue, tis the polismen are her best
friends in this durty ould Glasgow.”
"Hush!" says the bit crathrur,
loike a flash. “Are you Bridget Flan-
nigan's brother?”
I shteps inside an' he shuts the
dure an’ takes me through a gran’
passage wid chairs an’ tables in it.
Bridget was sittin’ at a table beside
the fire, havin’ her breakfast.
“Och, ’tis deloigjited I am to see
ye, Dennis, me dear!” says she. Thin
•he puts on the fryin’ pan.
I was just at me fourth egg whin I
hears a bell ring behind me. At that
Bridget gets off her chair.
Bridget goes away, an’ I was just
makin’ mesllf at home with me
breakfast whin into the kitchen
comes the purtiest wee colleen I ever
seen.
"The top av the mornin’ to ye.
acushla,” sez I, gettin’ up an’ offerin’
her a chair.
“Thank you," sez she, spokin' loike
the wee fella wid the buttons, but
folner; “I won't sit down. I thought
Bridget was here.”
"She is not,” sez I. “Wan av thim
bells forninst ye Is just after ringin’,
an’ off she wint, sayin’ her ladyship
wanted her.”
"Are you her brother?” sez the col-
leeen, smoilin’ as swate as ye plaze.
“I am,” sez I, ‘‘an’ no wan <^e.
Blissed be the day 1 left Belfast an’
Ink the steamer that's after bringln’
me. saysick all the toime, to be cured
by the soight of the luvliest colleen
that iver was, an’ that’s yoursilf now!”
"I’m afraid you’re a dreadful flatter¬
er, Mr. Flannigan,” sez she, shtill
•moilin’ in a curious way. “Is your
borne anywhere near Blarney castle?
"Not a bit av it,” sez I; "but ’tie not
l*r from Shanes castle on Lough
Neagh, If ye knows the spot, But
may ] sup sorra if in all ould Olreland
there's a pair of bewitchin’ beauch-
eous eyes the ayqual of them that’s
fornitwt me! Phat do you do here?”
‘'Well,” sez she, “I am engaged here,
but not exactly like the rest of the
servants."
"Och, thin, ’tis supposin’ I am ye’re
her ladyship’s own attindant—what
they calls lady’s maid maybes.”
‘‘You’ve very nearly guessed cor¬
rectly,” sez she.
“Arrah no, alannah, ’tis the sin an’
shame to waste your luvely charrums
on a mimbt r av your own six. Sure a
luvley bit crathur loike ye wud be the
most illigant gintleman's companion
that iver was.”
“I'm afraid you’re too late,” sez she.
‘‘I've already agreed to be a compan¬
ion of tL*s kind you speak of.”
“Ach, ac/ishla, ’tis terrible dis¬
tressed I am to hear av it! But
maybes ye-ve put no shtamps to your
agraymint, an’ in that case av coorse
ye wud n’t be afther tninkin’ it
bindin’.”
She said nothin’ to this, excep’ to
burst into the hearty laughin’, which
sounded loike silver bells tinklin’.
The table was betwixt us, bad scran
to it; if it hadn’t been, begorra, I’d
have been afther kissin’ her where
she stud, an’ faix I believe she’d have
enjoyed it! But just I was gettin’
ready to go round to her the kitchen
dure opens an’ in walks Bridget. Whin
she sees the wee colleen standin’
laughin’ forninst me she comes for¬
ward an’ sez to her:
“Beg pardon, me lady, this is me
brother Dennis that I told ye av; 'tis
hopin’ I am ye’ll be able to give him
the futman’s place.”
Och, och, och! when I heard that I
knowed I’d opened me mouth an’ put
me fut in it wid a vingeance. Here
I d been afther makin’ luve**o me lady
hersilf, an’ now—well, I was shtruck
spachless all at wance. % But begorra
twas wan av the roight sort me lady
was, for she sez to Birdget, sez she;
“Well, Bridget, I’ve just been hav¬
ing a little conversation with your
brother Dennis, and I think he is far
too clever a young man for a foot¬
man; but I’ll speak to Sir Charles
about him, and perhaps we may be
able to give him a situation in which
liis abilities will have greater scope
for exercise.”
Thin she turns to me an’ sez,
smoilin all over;
"Good-bye, Mr. Flannigan. I shall
be sure to tell my husband what a
pleasant companion you have been
this morning.”—Detroit News Trib-
une.
LATEST FREAK BANQUETS.
Rat Carnival—Rooster Supper—Fake
Dining Car Dinner.
The third annual rat carnival of the
Monroe Yacht club of Monroe, Mich.,
says What to Eat, was celebrated re¬
cently with a great rat feast. A dele¬
gation of Chicago yachtsmen, about
20 in all, were the guests of honor.
They sat down to a dinner of musk¬
rats, 6000 of which were prepared for
those attending the carnival, Mash-
ed potatoes, corn coffee and bread
were on the side. Persons were there
from all parts of the world. C. Oli¬
ver Iselin, well known yachtsman,
headed a delegation from New York
city.
A rooster supper was a novelty re¬
cently enjoyed by the “Eat ’Em All
Club," a men’s society of Paoli, Ind.
The menu was artistically designed,
with a rooster feather attached. The
decorations contained similar #m-
blems and each guest was required to
come with a rooster feather in his
hat. The menu consisted of:
Rooster. Rooster on Slickers.
Boiled rooster. Slickers on rooster.
Stewed rooster. Rooster hash.
Fried Rooster. Rooster salad.
Rooster Punch. Rooster cocktail.
The "Eat ’Em All Club” is compos¬
ed of married men, each of whom in
turn gives a dinner every two weeks,
that the men may all get at least one
good square meal every now and
then. The meals are prepared, serv¬
ed and eaten by the men, and no wo¬
man is permitted to have anything
to do with them. Not a female mem¬
ber of any of the households of the
club members is allowed to partici¬
pate in the preparation or serving of
the meals. Members of this club are
firm in their convictions that women
are wofully deficient in the culinary
art.
With all the comforts of a raHroad
dining car and one of the discomforts,
one hundred friends of Charles Fred¬
erick Daly, recently appointed gen¬
eral traffic manager of t*he Vanderbilt
lines east of Buffalo, dined sumptous-
ly and toasted their colleague on the
eve of his departure for the East.
The dinner took place at the Audi¬
torium, the banquet hall on the sixth
floor having been transformed into an
excellent imitation of a dining car,
without forgetting even the view from
the windows. There was the occas-
ionaly toot, toot and clang to remind
the diners of eating at the rate of a
mile a minute; but there was none of
the smoke, cinders or rocking.
Six million pounds of adulterated
and harmful foods were destroyed by
tb© Health Department of New York
in tht last twelve months.
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MAKES EXCELLENT CHOCOLATE.
A woman who makes excellent
chocolate, stirs a beaten egg into it
just before it is served anil then uses
a muddler for a couple of minutes to
beat the liquid into a froth. The idea
originated with a chef.
NEW POTATO SUBSTITUTE,
cutting old potatoes into small
balls, allowing them to soak for three
or four hours in cole! water, then
boiling in cold salted water and serv¬
ing with cream sauce, a good sub¬
stitute for new potatoes is obtained.
A TASTY CHOP FOR AN INVALID.
Trim away every particle of fat from
a neck or loin chop, melt a piece of
butter on a plate, sprinkle the chop
with pepper and salt; dip both sides
in the butter, and sprinkle a little lem¬
on juice over the top, leaving it in the
butter for at least two hours. Put the
yolk of an egg on a piate, with a tea-
spoonful of grated cheese. Mix it to¬
gether, and mask the chop freely with
the mixture. Have ready some boiling
drippings in a frying pan, lay in the
chop, and let it cook thoroughly, first
on one side, and then on the other; it
will take quite six minutes to cook,
the fat being kept boiling tbe whole
of the time. Drain it on a piece of
clean paper, and serve on a little
mound of nicely mashed potato, as hot
as possible.
AN EXCELLENT BREAD.
When enfeebled by personal illness,
or inconvenienced by moving, I have
found that bread made in tbe following
manner was considered very palatable
by all who partook of it. To every
pint of good flour add one level tea¬
spoonful of salt, and sufficient soda to
neutralize the acid of the clabbered
sweet milk, or tee butter milk you pro¬
pose using. Make dough soft enough
to mix easily with a large spoon, and
jf t 0 b e vised while fresh and hot no
j shortening need be added. Pour into
! a suitable baking pan, well greased
with nice sweet lard. Exercise good
judgment in cooking, as the lack of
shortening will cause the bread to be¬
come tough and indigestible if allowed
to remain too long in the even. With
the addition of No. 1 butter I hare en¬
joyed this cheap and easily prepared
bread as much as I have a slice of
famous Sally Lum.—The Epitomist.
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INTS
Vanilla should be kept in the dark.
A cloth and a little turpentine will
clean all varnished woodwork better
than soap and water.
In laundering ecru lace curtains do
not blue them, but add clear black
coffee to the starch.
No fruit or vegetable can be util¬
ized for winter/ feeding in the poultry
yard should be wasted.
In washing \ .adows put a little ker¬
osene oil in the water and it will give
them a beautiful, clear lustre.
If the juice of a fruit pie runs out
try putting a small funnel of white
paper in the centre of the upper crust.
If your linoleum or oilcloth has be¬
come dull give it a coat of good var¬
nish or hard oil, and it will look like
new.
To brighten gilt picture frames use
raw onion, rubbing the surface well
over wiu- it. It will also keep the
flies off.
Bananas fried in the fat remaining
in the pan after sausages have been
fried make a very nice dish to serve
with the sausages.
When the sitting room stove is taken
down give it a coat of turpentine. It
will prevent rusting. All nickel should
be cleaned and rubbed with lard or
any grease, then wrapped in tissue
paper. Store in a dry place.
If two tiny spheres of rubber are
tacked to the back of a picture, just
out of sight on the lower edge, that
wicked black streak on the wall is
obviated, or small bunches of tissue
paper may be substituted for the rub¬
ber nubs.
To remove grease spots from very
delicate fabrics which it is not advis-
able to wet: rub a little fresh dry corn
starch on the soiled place to absorb
the grease, brush off carefully,
the process till the spot has
peared.
Do not fail to have the
tray very daintily arranged,
no pains to tempt the falling or
ricious appetite. This lias been
many times, but it is so easy to
into careless ways in this regard
I reature to repeat it
KIDNAPER IS FOILED.
Stock Broker Stole Boy But
Was Landed in Jail Instead of
Securing Ransom.
Freddie Muth, the seven-year-old
boy, who was kidnapped
school in that city nearly a
ago, was r%jovered from his cap-
in a sensational manner Monday.
several days the identity or the
was ISuown to the police, |
despite the efforts of 4W men
have been working on the case,
was not located until Monday af- !
Accompanied by one of his
Chief of Detectives Donaghy
to 426 North Sixty-second street,
Philadelphia, and there found
Joseph Kean with his captive,
attempted to escape, and was
at by the detectives. The bullets
their aim, but Kean surrender¬
and was taken to police headquar¬
The kidnaper, who is 42 years old,
described as a former stock broker
had recently been a real estate
He has a wife and three chil¬
and it is believed that his des¬
financial situation drove him
his crime. In communications to
father of the child, he demanded
for its return, and in a letter j
on Friday declared he would
himself if the i
the child and mon¬ j
was not forthcoming. Kean’s terms j
acceded to in a personal” in-j
in all of Saturday’s papers^ In
subsequent letter Kean proposed
terms and these were likewise
and another “personal” was
inserted in Sunday’s newspapers.
Meanwhile misleading stories were
given to the public by the police in
erder to serve their purpose.
The boy was unharmed except that
he bore evidence of suffering from
hunger and exposure. When the kid-
naper and his victim were
before Superintendent of Police Tay-
lor, the little one still had in his
hand the school book which he car-
vied with him when he was enticed
from school by a decoy note pw-
porting to be from his mother, and
stating that she was in a hospital
suffering from an accident.
The capture of Kean was primarily
due to the publication in Monday’s
newspapers that the police had aban-
doned their search for the kidnaped
boy and his abductor. This threw
Kean off his guard and he ventured
outside the house. Blair pounced on
him and succeeded in forcing a con-
fession from him.
When the boy was found in the
house he was extremely dirty, He
said he had been kept constantly in
the house; had been given bread and
milk to eat and was not mistreated,
Kean kept constant watch from the
windows of the house. When anyone
approached he would carry the boy
to the roof.
After making a statement Kean was
locked up and the boy was taken to
the home of his parents.
RIOTING CAUSED BY AGITATORS.
President of Copper Company at Cananea
Explains Recent Race War.
In a letter filed with the state de¬
partment at Washington and dated at
Cananea, Sonoro, Mexico, June 11, W.
C. Green, president of the copper I
company at whose mines in Cana-
naa the rioting occurred early this!
month, charges that agitators from
the western federation had been
through the mines inciting the Mex¬
icans and telling how he was warn¬
ed of the plot to dynamite the bank
and to inaugurate a revolution
against President Diaz. He reviews '
details already published and says,
among other things;
“On the night of May 31, I was
informed by a man working in the
Cobre Grande that a Mexican there
had told him trouble was going to
start in Cananea on the morning of
June 1 at 5 o’clock; that a socialist
club had held three meetings at
rfght on the night of May 30, at
whioh a large number of agitators of
socialist tendencies were present;
that agitators of the western feder-
ation had been through the mines
inciting the Mexicans and that they
had been furnishing money for the
socialist club that had been estab-
lished at Cananea. He also gave us
a couple of copies of a revolutionary
circular that had been widely distrib-
uted together with a number of other
details."
Mr. Green adds that all federation
agitators were ordered out of town,
and “I think there are about SJ of
the agitators (Mexican) now in jail,”
that many of them were deported
from Mexico and southern California,
who have previously taken part in la¬
bor troubles; and that all of the rev¬
olutionary club that stirred up the
feeling escaped across the line the
first night. He estimates that “about
twenty Mexicans were killed for each
whit® man.'*
First Floor Unpopular in Chicago.
Chicago landlords are experiencing
difficulty In renting first floor apart-
ments of their buildings. To the po-
lice porch .climbers have long been
known as “second story men,” be¬
cause^ most of their robberies are
planned and executed on the second
floor of (houses and apartment build¬
ings. the
Peoplo who have kept track of
robberies during the past year, how¬
ever. say the first floor is more often
"worked” by the thief 'than any of
the others. And for this reason there
are more "for rent” signs displayed
in the windows of the first floor apart-
ments than ever before.—Chicago
The Telephone Voles.
The “telephone voice” must now b©
Added to the long list of penalties paid
by the community for the luxuries of
civilization, shrill
There is some excuse for the
parrotdike tones of the young woman
at the exchange, who pipes “Have you
finished?” just when a business man
is beginning to make himself inter¬
esting to a good client,. for she is
sorely tried.
There is none, however, for the
man or woman who shrieks into the
receiver and makes himself or her
self perfectly unintelligible to the lis¬
tener, says the Philadelphia Press.
A business man who may he con-
sidered an expert on the subject, see-
ing that he transacts most of his busi¬
ness through the telephone, says that
there was no- necessity whatever for
putting one’s mouth near the receiver
DOr f or shouting,
“in order to be heard distinctly on©
should speak in a very low voice.
The words should, of course, be dis¬
tinctly ennunciated and the lips used
as if one were addressing a deaf per-
sons,”he said. “The combined re-
ceiver and transmitter now in general
use should be held at such an angle
that the mouthpiece is below the chin,
The message should be spoken above
and several inches from the mouth-
P^ce and not into it.
“ In Public telephone boxes, Where
the old-fashioned mouthpiece is used,
it is not only unnecessary but danger-
ous P 11 ^ *-he mouth close to the
transmitter, which is, as a rule, lade a
germs '
The Antiquity of an Egg.
A simple method of finding out the
age of an egg is by means of the air
space which is situated towards the
broad end of the shell. If the egg is
held up between the hands before a
light in a dark room the air space
can be easily discerned, and by its
size the age can be determined. In
a perfectly fresn egg the air space
is very small, but as age Increases
it extends, until when the egg is three
weeks old the air s P ace occupies about
a sixth of the entire contents. With
P ractice the age can be told to " thili
twenty-four hours. — Agricultural
Economist.
It seems especially incredible to the
editor of the Success, that a strong,
sturdy, self-made man, who has had
to fight his way up from poverty, and
who feels the backache in every dol¬
lar he has earned, should let his sav-
5n S s sll P through his fingers in the
most foolish investments, with
scarcely any investigation, often send¬
ing his money thousands of miles
away to people he has never seen and
about whom he knows practically
nothing, except through an advertise-
ment which has attracted his atten-
tion, or through the wiles of some
smooth, unprincipled promoter.
THE DOCTOR’S WIFE
Agrees With Him About Food.
A trained nurse says: “In the prae-
* ice of m 7 profession I have found so
man - v points in favor of Grape-Nuts
food that I unhesitatingly recommend
it to all my patients.
"It is delicate and pleasing to the
palate (an essential in food for the sick)
and can be adapted .to all ages, being
softened with milk or cream for babies
or the aged when deficiency of teeth
renders mastication impossible. For
fever patients or those on liquid diet I
find Grape-Nuts and albumen water
very nourishing and refreshing. This
recipe is my own idea and is made as
follows; Soak a teaspoonful of Grape-
Nuts in a glass of water for an hour,
strain and serve with the beaten white
of an egg and a spoonful of fruit juice
or flavoring. This affords a great deal
nourishment that even the weakest
stomach can assimilate without any
distress.
"My husband is a physician and be
uses Grape-Nuts himself and orders it
many times for his patients.
“Personally I regard a dish of Grape-
Nuts with fresh or stewed fruit as the
ideal breakfast for anyone—well or
sick.” Name given by Fostum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
In *:ny case of stomach trouble, ner¬
vous prostration or brain fag, a 10
days’ trial of Grape-Nuts will work
wonders toward nourishing and re-
building, and in this way ending the
trouble. “There's a reason,” and trial
proves. the famous little
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