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VOL. II.
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Cloud and Sunshine.
Waiting in gloom and pain;
Weary, oil! so weary I
Steadily falls tlie rain,
Dark tlio day, and dreary.
The bitterest winds are wailing loud,
And the funeral sky is clothed in cloud;
Will the sun ne’er shine again?
Courage! in heart and brain,
Though the bay be dark’ning;
Waiting is not in vain,
If for Ood thou’rt heark’ning.
The dreariest weather will change some day,
And never a cloud but will pass away,
And the sun must shine again.
Be still, sad heart, nor mind
The heat of fiery trying,
The mystery entwined
With sorrow and with crying.
The costliest gold, by a method slow,
Must lose its dross in the hottest glow,
But it oometli forth refined.
—•[It. Kelso Carter, in the Observer.
A RASH ACT.
“So you’ve been bounced?" said
Mrs. Popover.
Marian Milman winced at the inele¬
gant word; but she understood enough
of the Popovcrstyleof dialect to know
that no harm was intended. Mrs.
Popover did not gauge her phraseology
by “Webster’s Unabridged,” but she
was a good soul, nevertheless.
“Yes,” she answered, meekly; “I’ve
been discharged.”
Mrs. Popover was stout and Bliort,
with no visible waist, a black lace cap
on the side of her head and her feet
thrust into carpet slippers.
Miss Milman was slight and grace¬
ful, with ruddy brown hair ami plead¬
ing hazel eyes, and looked every inch
the Jady in her shabby mourning.
“Pity, ain’t it?” said Mrs. Popover.
“This time o’ year, too!"
“Yes," sighed Marian; “but I am
not the only sufferer. Thirty oilier
girls have gone, too. Business is so
dull after the holidays. Mr. Meredith
says wo shall be re-engaged when the
stato of trade warrants it. But I
haven’t much hope.”
“And what yc gom’ to do now ?’
asked Mrs. Popover.
Marian drew a long breath.
“I don’t know,” said she, piteously.
Just then the door opened, and a
blooming young girl came in, with a
Batchel in her hand.
“Is this Mrs. Popover’s?” said she.
“Does Miss Milman— Oh, Marian,
you dear thing, I’ve found you at
last! Oh, how glad I am to see
you!”
Marian gave a little gasp.
“Juliet Powers!" she cried.
“Yes, it’s I!” beamed Juliet. “I
got tired of teaching school down in
Holbrook Hollow, and the trustees
were so exacting, and the children so
- dreadful, that I made up my mind to
come to you and sec if I couldn’t get
something to do in the city.”
“Well, I declare!” said Mrs. Pop-
over. “Here’s Miss Marian herself
jnst been throwed out o’ business. I’d
like to know how she’s to help any¬
body else?”
Marian gave the good soul an ap¬
pealing glance.
“t will do the best I can,” said
she.
And Juliet, an apple-faced, san¬
guine natured young country lass,
nestled close up to her.
“I knew you would help mo.” said
she, “because you know all about the
city. And oh, Marian, dear, I’m so
tired and so hungry!”
! Aud thus Marian Milman became
charged with the responsibility of au-
another beside herself. And the days
wetit by, and situations were harder
than ever to obtain, and the little
common purse was exhausted, and
Mrs. Popover’s account became larger
than ever for the vent of tho back bed¬
room, with its hideous green wall
paper, and its dispiriting outlook over
the roofs and smoky chimney
etacka.
“Marian,” said Juliet, “what are
we to do?”
She had come in tired and weary
after a long day’s work at the old bus
iness of looking for employment.
Marian sat gazing sorrowfully at a
clumsy parcel that lay on the table be¬
fore her.
“They have sent back mv poor iillle
screens and plaques unsold,” said she,
“with a polite note intimating that the
market for that sort of thing is oxer-
stocked.”
“Oh, Marian! Aud you worked so
hard at them!” with a quick burst of
sympathy.
“The more fool I! To (ell you the
truth, Juliet,” said Marian, with a
forced smile, “I begin to think that
the market for everything is over¬
stocked—life included.”
Juliet threw both her aims around
the slight young figure.
“Darling, you’re tired and discour¬
aged," said she. “You’ll feel hotter
after dinner.”
“But, Juliet, there is no dinner.”
Juliet ihrexv open the cupboard
.door*, and gave one exhaustive irlaiise
f
around its empty shelves. There were
the two china plates, tlio two cups
and saucers, the neat knives and forks,
the pewter spoons, tho nine-cent pep¬
per and salts—but that was all.
“I’ll go out and buy something,"
said she, cheerfully—“a neck of
mutton to boil up for soup, or an cml-
piecc of corned beef.”
“You can’t lrmko bricks without
straw," said Marian, sadly, “nor buy
soup-meat without money. At least
I’ve never been able to do it,"
“Is the money all gone, Marian?"
“All but iivo dirty copper cents,
Juliet."
Juliet clicked her tongue softly
against the roof of her mouth.
“Mrs. l’opover will trust us for a
few of yesterday’s rolls or a loaf of
stale bread," she suggested, cheerfully.
“No, Juliet,” said Miss Mil man,
resolutely. “Wo are already too
much in Mrs. Popover’s debt. I will
ask no more favors from her.”
“Must wo starve?” resentfully de¬
manded Juliet,
“I would rather starve than sink
into the quicksands of debt," Marian
firmly answered.
Juliet’s checks Hushed; she bit her
iips.
“There is a pawnbroker on Sixth
avenue," said she. “And I have got
my mother's old garnet ring and a
mosiac scarf-pin which my father
brought from Florence when he was a
sea captain. I’ll go and see what I
can do.”
“lint—a pawnbroker!” sobbed Ma.
rian. “Oh, Juliet, what are we
coming to?"
‘•No worse than many another has
come to,” said Juliet. “Cheer up,
Marian! Remember that it’s always
darkest just before daylight.”
And she kissed the pale girl and
xve.t cheerfully out.
The garnet ring and the mosaic
scarf-pin kept them for a week. Still
they were seeking for work—still the
same old answer was returned. For
every vacant place there was at least
a score of applicants.
They sought from place to place;
they traversed street after street, but
in vain. And on a dreary February
night, when the snow was turning to
discolored slush on the pavements and
a dismal fog hung over the streets,
Marian looked sadly up into her
friend's face.
“The soles of my shoes ave worn iu
holes, Juliet," said sho. “My feet
are soaking wet, and my head aches,
ami—I don’t think I can go out any
more. Iris of no use. I think heaven
has forgotten us.”
Juliet, stronger and more courage¬
ous, brewed her friend a cup of weak
tea, and produced two soda crackers
from the cupboard.
“Eat and drink, Marian, and you
will feel better,” said she. “I have
heard of a woman who xvanfs a book¬
keeper in her business, and I must go
there at once, this very evening, be¬
fore any one else has a chance to
crowd me out.”
“You won’t get the place, Juliet.”
“How do y u know?” cheerily.
“I don’t know it. I feel it.”
“Well, you’ll see. Eat and drink, l
say, dear. Don’t sit so mournfully
there.”
“When you are gone, Juliet.”
But when Juliet was gone, Marian
roso and put the soda crackers back
into the cupboard.
“She thought I didn’t know they
were (lie two last,” said she. “Juliet
was always a hearty eater. Sho is not
so good at starving as I am. But tho
end’s come at last!”
She took from tlio mantle a little
vial of dark liquid, labeled “Lauda¬
num” (Juliet had had ague in the face
a few days ago, and had used a little
of it,) aud looked at it questioningly.
“I hope it isn’t very wrong,” she
murmured; “but—but it must be so
hard to die by inches! Harder still
to go to the poorhouse on Blackwell's
Island! Oh, no, I could not endure
that!”
And removing the cork, she drank
the bitter draught.
Surely this would be a dose 6lrong
enough to silence all tlio pangs and
woes of a dozen poor souls!
“AVill it be painful?” slio asked her¬
self, nestling down among the pillows
of her bed. “Because I have not much
strength to endure.”
No, it was not painful. Heaven be
thanked for that!
A sweet drowsiness, like the breath
of poppies, overspread her being, and
with a half-murmured prayer on her
lips, Marian drifted into slumber.
“Didn’t I tell you it xvas always
darkest before daylight? Wake up,
Marian— wake and rejoice xvith me'”
Thr.ugh a sort of cloud, Marian
saw Juliet’s radiant face. She strug¬
gled into a sitting posture, and tried
to remember v, a-r had passed.
" as it true? or was it only a dream?
CARNBSVILLE, GA.. FRIDAY, APRIL
“Who do you think tho woman
was who wanted a book-keeper? Why,
my mother’s dearest school friend!
She know my uamo at once, and she
says ahojshould have known mo any¬
where from my resemblance of
mother. Sho is in tho perfumery
business—oh, such a nice big store! —
and she manages it all herself. Aud
1 am to bo book-keeper, with a nice
salary, and you aro to have a good
place there, too—right away, Marian,
dear! Aiul we can pay good Airs.
Popover now, and live like Christians
again; and 1’vo brought homo such a
nice little supper of cold roast chicken,
and hot potatoes, aud a pitcher of
smoking colleo. A real treat, Marian.
Rouse up, dear, and enjoy it.”
A fault, sad smile flickered into
Marian’s face.
Had all the sunshine como, now that
it xvas too late? Ami yet, how good
the little feast looked—how delicious¬
ly fragrant was Hie coffee.
With a feeble gesture, she pointed
io the little vial on the mantle. Juliet
would know what sho meant.
“Why,” cried the girl, “whore is all
my cough mediciuo? I got the bottle
filled only yesterday, for 1 knew that
I kept you awake, coughing at night.
Mrs. Popover gave me some out of
the children’s bottle; she’s such a kind
old woman. Laudanum? Oh, yes, I
know that’s what the label says, but
the via! got tipped over long ago, and
all tho laudanum leaked out! Never
mind, dear—we can easily get more
now. We arc not beggars any longer.
Here, sit up. Drink this hot coffee
before it has time to chill. And eat
the chicken—and taste this dear little
teeny glass of current jolly. You see
I’m getting extravagant, but we have
been starved so long."
“What a coward I have been!’’ said
Marian to herself. “Oh, thank God
that lie has saved me from my own
rash will—saved me to begin life
anew—saved tnc for new strength and
hope! Oh, 1 never, never will aban¬
don myself to despair again, no mat¬
ter how dark the future seems!”
And Juliet never knew how near
Marian had come to tho solution of nil
life’s problems. It was a seevet be¬
tween herself and heaven! — [Satur¬
day Night.
Telegraph aud District Messenger Boys.
An army of 12,000 boys is employed
in the telegraph and district messenger
service in and around tho metropolis.
These boys get from $3.50 to $4 a
week, but the cost of their uniforms
and the heavy fines which are levied
upon them for trivial causes would
irake their incomes very much smaller
were it not for the odd “tips” which
they get from time to timo. Then,
again, tho messenger boy is in the line
of promotion to sergeant, to clerk and
to telegraph operator, and with every
step his pay increases. Iu the up¬
town districts, especially in and around
the Tenderloin precinct, where the
district messenger service is only in
full blast in tho small hours of the
night, the small hoys do the day work
and the big boys serve at night.
These lads make more in presents in a
week than their wages would amount
to in a month. The Stock Exchange
pays the highest wages received by
boys in (lie messenger service. Its
boys get fvom $4 to $7 a week, their
uniforms free, a yearly Christmas,
present of $25, have only to work
from 9.30 a. m. to 3 p. m., and have
their Sundays and all public holidays
to Ihemselves.— [New York Times,
All Firecrackers Made in Ellina. .
Firecrackers are not made at all in
this country. They aro all imported,
and come principally from China.
About two years ago several maim fary
tutors of fireworks in New York intro¬
duced the making of giant firecrackers,
but the industry has not increased to
any extent. No one in recent years
has even attempted to make (lie small
firecrackers. Tho reason for til's state
of things is a financial one. There is
no secret about the making of fire¬
crackers, and Americans are just as
well able to do it as anybody; but
Chinese labor is so cheap that it does
not pay to mauufaettire (hem in this
country. The duty upon them is eight
cents a pound, which amounts to
something over 100 per cent, ad valo*
rem.— [Boston Cultivator.
Sentiment Gets a Setback.
They were walking out, on a per¬
fectly cloudless night, in the light of
the big round moon, xvtiich seemed
unusually bright and beautiful. He
was of a decidedly sentimenial tem¬
perament; she xvas more matter-of-
fact. Suddenly he clasped his 1 auds
and cried out rapturously; “Oh,
Maude, look at (ho moon to-night!
Isn’t it beautiful—beautiful?”
“Isn’t it, Henry!” she replied, with
equal enthusiasm. “It looks just like
a big fried egg—don't it, dear?”
OYSTER SHELLS.
The Bivalves Put to Many Good
Uses.
-
Remarkable Evidence of the
Indian’s Liking For Oysters,
jt lias been estimated that 23,000..
900 bushels of oysters are opened an¬
nually in tho United States, aud tliMt
this represents an accumulation of
shells amounting to not less than 24'.',-
390,000 cubic feet, which if spread
out would cover a space of more than
450,000 yards square to a depth of
three feet
No doubt tho .'majority of persons
who have assisted in eating tho oysters
contained in this enormous amount of
sholls seldom give a thought ns to
what becomes ot these rough, uncouth
coverings. A f6w, perhaps, if ques¬
tioned on the subjoct, would be likely
to reply that the only way in which
they had seen (hem utilized was in
filling up and making roads, em¬
bankments and wharves. Neverthe¬
less, this is but ono of their many
i
uses, ns they are extensively employed
in making “stools" for new oyster
beds, by spreading them on the bot¬
tom of the bays mid other bodies of
water in which oysters are propagated,
thus forming a bed upon which the
spawn settles and grows into maturity.
They are also converted into lime,
serve as ballast for vessels, and made
into fertilizers. In addition to this
they play an important part in the
poultry yard, where, in ;a.powdered
form, they are much sought, after by
those engaged in raising fowls of every
kind.
The early coloi«»ts,used nothing but
oyster-shell lime, and in maiiy parts
of New England there still exist mills
and kilns devoted entirely to tho in¬
dustry of converting the shells into
that material. They have been used
in making a hydraulic cement, when
mixed with clay and magnesia, and
gave perfect satisfaction, not only in
laying drains, coaling cisterns and (ho
like, but also’tn making garden vases,
fountains and other ornamental ob¬
jects exposed to the elements.
That these shells have been used for
fertilizing purposes for hundreds of
years is evinced by (lie fact that even
now, in some portions of Canada,
what is called “Mussel-mud.” is dug
out of the remains of extinct oyster
beds by huge machines adapted to the
purpose aud spread in thick layers
over the land. This is merely a sur¬
vival of an old custom, as we arc told
that in early times they were labori¬
ously dredged out aud used for the
same purpose.
Mr. Ernest Iujfersoll, a noted au¬
thority on the history of this favorite
bivalve, states that “along (ho Pamiieo
Sound, in North Carolina, when the
weather becomes warm and there is no
employment for their boats, the fish¬
ermen rake up boat loads of rough
‘bunch’ or ‘coon oysters’ and carry
them to the farmers to be sold and
used as a fertilizer, for which from
three to fivo cents a. bushel is paid.”
These “coon" oysters aro seldom
eaten, but are found in immense quan¬
tities in southern waters, every stake,
bit of sunken log, or the branches of
fallen trees being loaded down with
them.
In the northern and eastern stales
the immense mounds of oyster, clam
and mussel shells found in various lo¬
calities along the coast prove inex¬
haustible mines for agriculturists, who
use them as a top dressing for their
farms. In (lie neighborhood of Danta-
riscoltn, Me., (here are mounds which
are estimated to contain not less than
8,000,000 cubic feet of shells—a lasting
monument to (he red mao’s partiality
for crustaceous food. Prior to being
used the shell must be burned, which
is done in rude, home-made kiius.—
[Detroit Free Press.
Biding a Buffalo.
Lester V. Gridloy, a North Pla‘te-
(Neb.) stockman, tells a story of a
ride lie once took oil the back of a buf¬
falo near Fort Wallace, Neb. Return¬
ing from a hunt alone xvilli (he hind¬
quarters of a couple of young bulls he
had killed over hjp sTioulder, he acci¬
dentally ran into the herd again and
was surrounded before Le lealizcd his
situation.
“My dodging in and out almost
ciused a stampede,” lie continued. “I
knew if a panic took place among the
beasts I xvottld be trampled to death.
7 suddenly determined on a bold
stroke, and, edging up close to a
shaggy young bull, grabbed hold of
the long hair-on his foreshouklet s and
swung myself on to his back, Tiie
belloxv that came from the fellow made
tne wish that 1 had not decided on such
a risky push for liberty, The bellow-
ing was taken up by the rest of the
hotel, and soon wo wore flying
at a torritlc rato over gulches aud
hill and down. 1 was blinded by the
sand thrown by tlio hoofs of the beasts,
but with my oyos dosed hung on like
grim dentil. For half an hour the
herd kopt up a terrific pace, and dur¬
ing that fitne my logs were almost
crushed out of my boots by tho crowd¬
ing animals.
“I begun to think my time had oomo.
I was so weak I could scarcely keep
my seat, and was about to lot myself
full from tho back of my buffalo when
1 succeeded in scraping some of the
sand out of my eyes. I discovered
thou that we were running parallel
with the railroad track, and as tho
bank was high and stoop the animals
had not ventured (o climb the. ipeliuc.
The beast 1 was riding was the closest
to tho track, and l know if i reached
(lie top of the embankment 1 would bo
safe. I dragged myself together the.
best I could and prepared for aspring.
I got my feet on his back and jumped
for the embankment. I leaped at the
right time, for tho movement of the
young hull’s body scut me flying half
way up the bank, and there I was
safe in (lie sand. For live weeks after¬
ward I was confined to my bed."—
[Chicago Tribune.
Sen Flowers.
Although it may not ho generally
known, even to those who have lived
in the seaboard cities ami along the
coast of Great Britain, animal flowers
arc there found iu as great beauty aud
variety as anywhere in the South Sea
Islands. They are repeatedly men¬
tioned hv Sir J. Sinclair in his “Statis¬
tical Account of Scotland,” and by
Mr. Little, a minister of Covend.
Mr. Muirhead, a minister of Fit.
gives the following interesting account
of some of them which had come
under iiis notice: “About five years
ago I discovered in the parish of Co-
veud the animal flower, in even
greater perfection and variety (bait
I had ever soen them in Jamaica. The
lively eolors and (heir various and
elegant forms aro truly equal to any¬
thing related by the naturalists re¬
specting the sea flowers of tropical
countries. To sec an elegant flower,
perfect iu every outline, of purple*
green, blue, red, yellow and many
intermediate colors, striving to catch a
worm or a fly, Is really amusing.”
IteV. Marshall, a minister of Brittle,
says: Till of late, perhaps, it has not
been generally known that the animal
flower is even common along the shore
of Brittle, Covend, aud very likely
around the whole coast of Galloway.
The form of this creature is elegant
and pleasantly diversified. Some arc
found resembling the sunflower,
some the hundred-leaved rose; but
by far the greater part of them re¬
semble some species of poppy. Some¬
times our Galloway animal flowers arc
purple, frequently of a rosy hue, but
mostly of a light red or fleshy tint.
Visitors to tho coast often gather the
most elegant forms of these creatures
and carry them far into the interior of
the country, where, if properly fed
on worms, they have lived weeks and
months. Some have even bred after
being removed from their native cle¬
ment, and might have lived for years
if it were possible to supply them with
sea water.— [Si. Louis Republic.
The First American Railway.
The first railroad built in the United
States xvas three miles in length, ex¬
tending from the granite quarries at
Quincy, Mass., to the Ncponsot River.
It xvas commenced in 1820 and fin¬
ished in 1827. The gauge xvas fivo
feet; the rails were pine, a'foot thick,
covered with hard oak, which xvas in
turn strapped with iron. In January,
1827, a short coal road xvas couiploted
from tlio mines to Munch Chunk,
Penn. The rails on this road were
also of timber xvith flat iron bars. The
first locomotive for use on a railroad
was invented by Richard Previteek in
1804, aud first tried in Wales. George
Stephenson built the first really suc¬
cessful locomotive in 1814, and tested
it upon tlio Killingxvood road in tho
north of England. The first locomo¬
tive for actual service constructed in
America xvas E. I. Miller’s “Best
Friend,” built for the South Carolina
Railroad Company in 1830; Peter
Cooper built a little experimental loco¬
motive early in 1830, before the
“Best Friend” xvas completed.
The Middle Ages.
The “middle ages” is a term of no
definite period, hut varying a little
xvilh almost evevy nation. In France
it xvas from Clovis to Louis XJ. (481
to 14G1). In England, from the Hep¬
tarchy to the accession of Henry. VII.
(40.9 to 1485). In universal history
R was from die overthrow of the
Roman empire to the revival of letters
(the fifth to lifts fifteenth century).—
[Boston Cultivator, Jo,
!OU HIE HOUSEWIFE.
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ASt'AgtAGUS SOLT.
Open a can of asparagus, turn it
into a deep dish, cut off tho points and
set them aside till wanted. Cut the
stulks into smalt pieces, place these
with their juice in, a stewpan, add two
ounces of niinced|hani, btjil moisten with a
little water and for fifteen minutes.
Strain this, witk pressure, through a
sieve, moistening from timo to time
with soino white stock. It is pre¬
sumed that the acoiaipanying recipe for
chicken is used on this occasion, when
a veal bono may be nd&od to tlio chick¬
en, that a little extra broth may be
available for tho above purpose. When
sutllcicnt soup/bas beer, strained place
the saucepan on the five, bring to a
boil, thicken with a little butter and
flour, mixed into a soft, smooth paste.
Boil, and boat with an egg-whisk a
few minutes before serving; beat in
three yolks of eggs with a pint of
sweet cream; season with salt, pepper
and a little nutmeg. Add, lastly, the
points of asparagus, and serve. Crou¬
tons, or bread cut in dice and browned
iu tho oven or over the Arc, may he
served separate.—[New York I'res*.
HOW TO lltm. CAl.F’S IlLAD.
The head, after tho hair is removed
ami the skin scraped and washed clean
and while, is to bo entirely cleared of
skin and flesh, these being cut from
the bones in one thick mass, well
washed and loosely rolled in a wet.
cloth to be boiled. The tongue is then
takon from the mouth entire and then
the head is split open and the brains
removed without breaking, being laid
in a bowl of cold, salted water for the
present. Tlio teetli can he knocked
from (lie jaws with the back of tlio
cleaver or a hummer, (he nasal pas¬
sage scraped free from its membra¬
neous lining and the inner folds of (he
ears and the eyes cut away from tho
bones; these, after being well cracked,
should be put over tlio lire in a large
soup-kettle with enough cold water
to cover them and allowed to slowly
reach tho boiling point; then the head
wrapped in cloth can ho added, to.
getlier with a handful of parsley aud
celery tied in a hunch with a teaspoon¬
ful of mixed peppercorns, whole all¬
spice, a bay leaf, a blade of mace and
an inch of stick cinnamon; an onion
should be peeled and stuck with a
dozen cloves, a largo carrot 'Scraped
and two whito turnips peeled; nil
these vegetables aro to he boiled with
tho head; add an even tablespooufui
of salt, the tongue uncut and tho
brain tied iu a thin cloth; the latter
will bo done as soon as it as.
slimes a creamy, wliito color, and
may then bo laid in a cold place,
wrapped in a wet clolh.r, Tho tongue,
when.boiled tender enough to permit
tho skin to bo stripped off, should also
bo wrapped in a wet cloth until wanted
for service. When tho skin and llcsh
are tender they also can ho wrapped
in a wet cloth until wanted for the
several dishes that arc to be made
from them, After the hones and
vegetables have been boiled for live or
six hours the broth is to be strained off
and allowed to cool in an earthen
bowl. From the vegetables and any
bit* of flesli upon the bones a mince or
hash can be made both savory and
palatable. — [Chicago News.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To prevent layer cake from sticking
grease the tins and dust in a liitlo
flour.
In roasting meat, turn xvitha spoon,
instead of a fork, as the latter pierces
the meat and lets the juice out.
A teaspoon ful of corn-starch mixed
wiili a cupful of salt, will remove all
possibility of dampness in the shaker.
If sponge-cake is mixed with cold
water, it is yellow; but if the xvatei
be boiling hot the cake xvill bo xvhitc.
Scald the bowl in which the butter
and sugar aro to be creamed for cake;
the hot dieli heats the butter so that it
xvill blend much easier with the sugar.
When making white cakes use one-
half teaspoon more of cream of tartar
than soda, as this extra quantity of
cream of tartar makes the egg whites
stiller.
If doughnuts arc cut out an hour
before they arc fried to allow a little
time for rising, they xvill be much
lighter. Try cn'tingat night and fry¬
ing in the morning.
Gravy xvill geiienilly be lumpy if
the thickening is poured in while the
pan is over the lire. Set the pan off
until the. thickening is well stirred in,
then set it on the lire and cook thor¬
oughly.
Icing for Cake may be prevented
from cracking when cut, l>y adding
one tablespooufui of. sxvect cream to
each unbeaten egg. Stir all up to¬
gether, then add sugat until as stiff'as
nan bo stirred.
NO. 14.
HOW SOME MEN PROPOSE.
Ono Person Who Ts Interested In
the Subject.
‘•I am a creak, "•raid the club man,
“on the subject of proposals. 1 would
rather hear a story of how a man asked
the woman he loved to marry him than
to take a trip to Europe. 1 don’t know
why 1 take so strong an interest in this,
unless it is that 1 had such a hard time to
get my wife to accept me. I had been
in lovo with her for years. I had pro
posed to her seven times and sho toller refused
me evory time. Finally 1 went in
despair asked uud said; ‘Well, Mollie, 1’vc
you to marry me seveu times, and
you have declined my name. I’m going
to ask you once more, and if you don’t
marry me, I shall go out West and stay
thorc.’
“ ‘Well, Jack,’ she said, ‘if you feci
that way about it, I’ll marry you.’ To
this day sho cannot tell me why she re¬
fused me so often to marry me after
•ill.
“There’s my friend, Congressman
X-■. lie was a puor young man, and
ono day ho went to a young woman he
lmd known for a long time.
till “ ‘Nell,’ he said, ‘I have been married. waiting
I had enough money to get
My salary was raised yesterday. Will
you marry me next week?’
“ ‘Wait until next month, 1 she said.
“‘No, next week’; and they were
married next week.
“Brown, the lawyer, was a careless
young fellow. The woirnn whom be
loved would not marry him.
“ ‘You're the most reckless man in the
world,’she said, ‘about your money af¬
fairs. When you get 4(5,000 in the Lank
1 may marry you; if you still want me.’
“He went away and saved $5,0(8). Rhe
inurriud him aud to-day he’s a rich man.
Tie learned economy while winning his
wife.
“My friend Colonel II—-enlisted at
the outbreak of the war.
“ ‘Joe,’ he said to the gill he wanted
to marry, ‘I am going down South to
fight. Will you marry mo noxv or wait
till I come back?’
afternoon “ ‘Right he now, marched Sam,’ she said, and that
proposed away. cool
“My brother iu a mind way.
Ho hadn’t been able to make up his
what he was going to do iu life, and one
day the woman who is his wife now
said:
“ ‘Charley (they were second cousins),
what in the world are you going to make
out of yourself?’
“ ‘Just whatever, you make out of me,’
he said, ‘you’ve got lots uioro sense than
I have, Maine.’
“Has any one here any stones to tell
about proposals,” continued the story¬
teller. “1 don’t know of a single case I
.whore a man went down on his knees.
would like to hear of one. No one will
tell one, eh? Well, I’m sorry. I like to
hear about proposals.”—[New York Tri¬
bune.
Medicine Among the Mongols.
Medicine also are much sought aftci
by them. While iu I the was village at Dnlan-kuc
nearly every aud one people asked came f<n tc
sec m most of the
medicines whether they were suffering
from any complaint or no. the Blasters were had
in great demand, us all tighter villagers piaster!
rheumatism, and the tlio
stuck the better they were held to be. 1
had with me a bottle of Elio's fruit salts,
and tried to give some to the people, but
when they saw the salts boiling and fiz¬
zing they thought there must bo some
magic about (he medicine and would
have none of it.
Most of their troubles, sore*, and eye
diseases come from dirty habits,'but one
can never persuade them of the necessity
of keeping clean. A friend of mind was
once travelling among the Mongols, and
an old trouo came to him and beggeci
some medicine to put on a sore. He told
her that before applying the salve it
would be noees-ary to wash herself. She
gave it back to him, saying, “I am sixty-
seven years old, and 1 have never washed
in my life; do you suppose I am going
to begin now?”
Mongol physicians feel tho j atient's
pulse on both wrists at the same time,
ami never ask any questions; or at least
none concerning the origin and progress would
of the complaint, for if they did it
be held that they lmd shown ignorance
in their profession.-—[Century.
SOON OR NEVER.
Bulflnch—Hello, old fellow; I haven’t
seen you fora long time; let me congrat¬
ulate you.
.lenks—Congratulate me?
Bulflnch—Yes, I hear you're married.
Jenks—Well, that was six weeks ago.
Buliinch— But its not too late, is it,
to congratulate you on it?
Jenks—Well, you just take my advice,
and when you congratulate a man weeks, on
getting married, do it within two
or not at all.—I Boston Courier.
••The Bibi> on XVnII Coming*."
“And behold if the plague bo in the wails
of the house with hollow streaks, greenish
or reddish, then the priest shall go out of tha
bouse to the door of tho bouse and shut up
the house seven days. * * * Aud he shall
cause tho hoiiso to he scraped within round
about, and ttiey shall pour out the dust that
they scrape off without the city into an un¬
clean place."
This matter of looking to the sanitary na¬
ture of wall coatings seems to be considered
of much importance of late. A supplement
to the Michigan State Board of Health con¬
demns wall paper and katsomine for walls,
and recommends Aiabastine as being sani¬
tary, pure, porous, permanent, economical
and beautiful.
To each of the first five persons in every
city and town, who write the Aiabastine
Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, giv¬
ing the chapter containing the above pass¬
age of scripture, will be sent an order on the
Aiabastine dealer in the town for a package
of Aiabastine, enough to cover flfty square
yards of wall two coats, tinted or white.
To test a wall coating, take n small quan¬
tity of it, mix in equal quantity of boiling
water, and if it does not set, when left in
the dish over night, and iinally form a stone
like cement, without shrinking, it is a kalso-
uiine, aud dependent upon glue to jhold it to
the wall, the featunrso strongly objected to
by sanitarians.'
Continuing this sanitary wall-coating re¬
form the Tribune offices have been nicely
decorated with Aiabastine. The effect is
pleasing, aud the rooms are very sweet and
clean .-Detroit.Tribune