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only upset Pet Marjorie and spoil Miss Leslie’s pleasure bv anxiety for you.” In fact, some twenty minutes later, when we came up with the other two, i Quasimodo and Vindex were quietly walking side by side, rubbing noses, and doubtless discussing the quantity of oats and quality of hay as earnestly as their riders were arguing the often mooted question ns to whether Omar Khayyam were Omar Khayyam, or if Omar Khayyam were not Omar Khay¬ yam, then who Omar Khayyam could be. No further prank:; on the part of the quadrupeds marred our long and delight¬ ful ride, until, ns wc were returning, some one proposed that we should take tho hurdle four abreast. This was most successfully accomplished, and after jumping wo halted under the bridge just below to let Marion Dovereux dismount and take a stone out of his horse’s foot. He was bending down, thus engaged, when Walter cried out, “Take care, Miss Effingham!” _ rr in a second, lxffore Lesli;' could gather up her reins or use her whip, Quasimodo calmly lay down on his left side, thereby allowing Les time to twist herself from under lief ore he rolled over and over in tho wettest place he could find, smashing the saddle to bits, and covering himself with mud from head to foot. Stately Les was a spectacle as she rose from her undignified roll. Her shining yellow hair was plastered with black mud; hat, habit and boots wore one muss of sticky wet clay, but her good humor was unruffled, and she joined heartily in the shouts of laughter which greeted her as she rose. Needless to say, Walter and Marion l>oth sprang at onco to her assistance, but lx'yond wringing out her hair and wiping oiT the worst of the soft mud, little could be dodo, Such incidents as this never troubled Leslie; but when the saddle was found to bo a hopeless wreck, the ques¬ tion was how to get home. Leslie re¬ fused point blank to go up the foot path ; and get 0:1 an Eighth avenue car, saying ! •lie would walk to the entrance of the park, ami let l lie groom ride on and lead Quasimodo back to his stable. Marion Devoroux at once proposed to put Leslie on Vindex (she could rido quite well side¬ ways on a man’s saddle) and walk by her. To my surprise Leslie did not reject this plan, nor when Walter suggested that he and I should ride forward and send a carriage and wraps to meet her at the gate did Leslie raise any objec¬ tion. As it turned out, that carriage must have waited a long time. Perhaps Les¬ lie and Marion took tho “long jxith” that our Autocrat tells of—the path that it takes a lifetime to follow to the end. I Certain it i ■ that hours passed before | Leslie reached home, and it M as not long ! before the columns of The Gotham Chit I Chat published as a social happening the | engagement of Bliss Leslie Effingham to Mr. Marion Dovereux. When, where and how Walter and I j arrived at a life understanding must ever | remain between ourselves. Suffice it to say that this conclusion was not reached until Walter had acknowledged that the asking me to exercise Pet Marjorie was a mere device; that ever since class day ho had wished to meet mo again, and that ho had only deferred speaking so long from the fear of losing the happi¬ j ness of seeing me every day. Leslie's ring was a sapphire set in a gold four leaved clover, and mine a soli¬ taire set in the same way. We had a double wedding, which many still re¬ member, calk'd but by those in (lie secret it was always “The qnatrefod wedding.” —Allspice in Harper's Bazar. I can think much better when there tf no ceiling over my heed.—Dr. Wm. A. The jessamine has succeeded tht orange flower at weddings, according ta a l aris iu wspRjvr. Demons of tlie Wood. From the Tyrol, from Switzerland, from Germany or from Brittany, come well ascertained accounts of the popular belief in certain wild spirits of the wood, who are painted in aM the most frightful shapes tlie imagination can suggest, and are characterized by their delight in every possible form of malevolence. They kid¬ nap and devour children, bewitch the cattle and lead men to lose their w ay in the forest. They can assume any size, from the diminutive to the most gigantic; nor is any form of bird or lieast an im¬ possible personation of them. TheSkong man, the forest spirit of Sweden, is like a man, but tall as the highest tree; he decoys men into the wood, and when they have hopelessly lost their way, and begin to weep for fear, leaves them with mocking laughter. The conception is well nigh identical with that found among the natives of the forests of Bra zil, showing with what uniformity sirni lar conditions produce similar effects upon the human mind. But tlie Russian spirits Ljesch (from a Polish word for wood) are even more significant; for not only are the usual diabolical attributaries assigned to them, shell as the leading of men astray or the sending to them of sickness, blit also the conventional dia bolical features. Their bodies are after tho human pattern, but they have the ears and horns of goats, their feet are cloven and their fingers end in claws, The Russian wood spirit is, in fact, the devil of mediaeval imagination and noth ing else, a fact which strongly supports the inference that it is from the wood and from the wing rustling over the tree tops that the idea of the supernatural agency of devils first took possession of the imagination of mankind. It is in no way inconsistent with this theory that besides devils of the forest there are those of the air or the water, The conception is one which would have met with no barrier to the extension of its dominions, and the devil of the tree or forest would from the first be closely associated with, if at all distinguished from, the spirit that moved in the trees and was powerful enough to overturn them. Iir this way the wild spirits of the woods would pass insensibly into those spirits of the air which our ancestors identified with the Wild Huntsman, and which English peasants still often hear when they listen to the passage of tlie Seven Whistlers.—Gentleman’s Blaga zine. Squint Eyes Are Going. “It may seem a singular statement to make,” said an optician, “but it is truo that there is no need of anybody suffering from strabismus, that in, being squint eyed. And it is also a fact that squint eyed people are comparatively rare nowa days, as compared with the time when I was a boy. You can go a score of blocks now without meeting one, whereas I re member that I could not go a street dis tance to school M’ithout encountering half a dozen crooked eved children. The reason is that people have come to tlie conclusion that it can lie cured, and they take the steps to be cured. “Is there not some danger of losing their eyesight in the operation?” “\erv littie; not over one chance in a hundred in the hands of a proper oper • “But aro not the charges for such op¬ erations very high?” asked the reporter. “At the Polyclinic ami some other in¬ stitutions, those who are M’ithout means aro treated for nothing, and even outside of the institutions a great deal more of gratuitous work is done than oculists get credit for.”—New York Sun. lVheio Dakota Stanch. Dakota among the state's ami terri¬ tories stands sixth in the number of bushels of wheat produced. Only eleven states raise more oats, sixteen have more schools, fourteen more newspapers and but twelve have more miles of railroad.— New York Commercial Advertiser.’ HOW NORMAN BREAD IS MADE. Bread, Cheese and Cider Essentials of French Peasant Hospitality. One summer’s day we stopped to call at the stone farm house of Monsieur Duval. Ernestine, (he eldest daughter, was housekeeper in her dead mother’s place, and she it was who brought out the amber colored cider, the goat’s cheese and the heavy, hard country bread. It is an essential of French peasant hospitality to offer these things to visitors. The loaf she took from the shelf was one of a half dozen others leaning against j the black wall. These loaves resembled cart wheels, and had been baked in six quart milk pans. Ernestine cut the loaf with a small saw made for the purpose, Nothing less than such a saw or a pirate’s cutlass could sever that homely, but wholesome pain rassis. baked j These loaves, wo knew, were only once a month. Bread day in a Nor man peasant family is like washing day on an American farm, in the respect that it comes at regular periods. We judged that bread clay in tiiis cottage was ap proaching from the fact that only six loaves remained of the original thirty, or thereabouts. After our little lunch, Ernestine took us through the orchard to a picturesque stone building, wliero the bread M*as made. This building had once been part of an ancient abbey, and amid its ivy covered ruins we could still trace fine sculpture and bits of armorial designs, but inside there M'as no trace of art or architecture. It was really a Norman lien house. We saw several pairs of sabots or wooden shoes hanging from the wall and looking as if they had been white washed. In one corner of the place was a large apace inclosed with boards. This was empty, but, like the sabots, it suggested whitewash or mortar making, Ernestine told us that this was the family dough trough. Here, once a month, came..her Rit her Rising. and the hir'd man £o “setT I Ip- yeast Flour and water were staron together with the huge wooden spades like snow shovels, which hung with the sabots upon the wall. When tho mass, thoroughly beat en together, had risen and assumed a dark leathery consistency, then came the tug of war. The two men put the sa hots on outside their ordinary shoes, jumped in upon the dough and com inenccl the kneading. The u T ay they did it was to jump and prance and nour¬ ish like opera dancers; to stamp and kick like horses, to exercise themselves till the perspiration streamed off them and they had no strength left! After this process the dough was put into tho pans, and then baked in the huge oven at the rear of tlie abbatial henhouse!—Cor. Epoch. --------1 j w«ii Protected. Jt Lt all too common to misunderstand the truo nature of a medicine, as any one must nursi remon tierin'* tho adw of the who awoke her jmtient in order to administer a sleeping potion. When shower baths became an active fashion, a certain physician one day met a Kei"hbor. a:i-l inouired “Well, Jack gon, how did your Mife manage her new shower bath?” “Oh, she had real good luck. Mrs. Smith told her how she managed with hern. She made an oiled silk hood, Mith a big cape to it, that came down over her shoulders. * « “She was a fool for her pains,” said thc doctor, impatiently. “That’s not the wav.” • * So my wife thought. • ! * % And your wife did nothing of the kind, I hope.” G Oh no, no. My M’ife she used an umbrelly. % « —Youth’s Companion. The eight pin factories in Nevr Eng land produce 0.720.000.000 pins a year, In England the veariv production of piuj isaat at L 000,000. Garments Made Waterproof. ■ For many years I have worn India her waterproofs, but will have noS for I have learned that good I tweed can be made entirely I have# inmjJy to rain; and moreover, folio! how to make it so, anu the a pound the recipe: of In a of bucket lead and of water half p|j aH sugar a of powdered alum; stir this at infel another until it becomes bucket and clear, put pour the it gfl cjfl therein, four hom*s and and let it then be hang there it for tMj wl up without wringing it. Two of a lady and gentleman, have worn ■! ments thus treated in the wildest of wind and rain, without gettirM gl! The rain hangs upon the cloth in In gentleman short, they fortnight are really waterpro|B walkeBl a ago vvinfp miles in a storm of rain and as you seldom see in the south, and { he slipped off his overcoat his under Paper. was as dry as when he put it on.—Ejj iV In the Con so Basin. Many of the Baluba are adopting) dress of the whites and are fashion their Luluaburg buildings Station. on the Dr. model Wolf of sajyjj th°|| possess qualities that render thenliS pupils in learning the arts decide#* of cr/,f It is these people who _ jfs years ago that drunkenness wa^dl and a disgrace, and who at once «*§!( the most energetic prohibitory bibulouMgj measiu Tlie stimulant used bv the tribe bers of attacked the tribe the evil M’as palm its roots wineij fj at ting down all Baluba the palm trees today in thUfl reinl try, and the .are York able for Sun. their temperate habits.—1| 'TM Using Money Sensibly. | The great majority of inert J nearly up to the full measure of fi come that losses by reason of sicki other causes put them on the dow^ track, which" once begun is so diffic retrace. It is far easier M’lien mo plenty to learn me! hods of i new £ ture than to reverse the probe art of using money sensibly is dii Probably in the cases of the poorel larger share of their scanty earning! for what does them more harm* good.—Boston Budget. Always Carry Small Change.! G Keep yourself well provided sma ^ c .°hi. s * Every guide book hshed gives this advice to tourists vfl foreign ^ countries, words. in To substance it if is jPjj k 1G vei T many the best hint one can get from a 2 book and worth heeding not only all but are squandered at home. Abroad in tips and considerable in other j j because travelers are ignorant of till coppeis th^k in nine aie quite cases oat as m of cigiify ten two as*a orj . P^ 0 * Many persons continue awj to 4 money ,iwa* even after they this neglecting to keep a sj - 011 hamd. They med necessity foi bestowing upon a servi porter or a coachman a gratuity, ad forced York Mail to pait and m Express. ith a silver piece^J Ij ■' V Paper Glass Windows. Although paper glass windows seem to be a contradiction in terms an exchange, they r.ro really an at plishcd fact. A window pane fflLM df * i of white paper, manufactured ton or linen, and modified by action. Afterward the paper is m a preparation of camphor and which makes it like parchment. this point it can be molded, and - remarkably tough el.eeAT entirely parent, and it can be dyed with £ the whole of the aniline color:’, the being a transparent sheet, showin more vivid hues than the l>est gla* hibits.—Boston Budget.