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TWO SCHOOLS.
C I put mv heart to school,
Bjn the world where men grow wise.
?' .“•Go out." I said, "and learn the rule:
Hf Come back when you win the prize. ’’
| Mr heart came back again.
B “And where is the prize?” I cried.
B*“The rule was false, and the prize was
pain.
I And the teacher's name was Pride.”
F I put my heart to school,
i In the woods where wild birds sing,
! In the fields where flowers spring,
Where brooks run cool and clear,
( And the* blue of heaven bends near.
P '"Go out.” I said, “vou are only a too'.
But perhaps they can teach you here.”
And why do you stay so long.
My heart, and where do vou roam?”
The answer came with a laugh and a song,
f “I find this school is home.”
—Henry van Dyke, in the Atlantic.
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The Baleful Eye.
B.; Anthony P. Morris.
A PROMINENT store in Paris
was that of Jean Guilean,
baker, a widower with one
£ child, Hortense, just seven
teen years of age and very beautifuL
Jean wisely took no part in the com
munistic orgies running riot on the
streets immediately subsequent to the
Franco-Prussian war; but, with plenty
of provisions in his cellar, he philo
sophically closed the doors and win
dows, withdrew his sign of business,
and smoked his pipe contentedly in
the seclusive companionship and filial
love of Hortense.
One so pretty and piquant as she
could not be exempt from a besieging
of lovers. The two most prominent of
these were her father’s graduating ap
prentices, Henri Edouin and Guiseppe
—“dark Guiseppe” and “the baleful
eye,” the latter was frequently appel
lated by his intimates, because of the
treacherous glance in his hard, black
orbs and a lurking smile forever fixed
about bis lips.
To Henri, Hortense bad long since
given her heart.
It was quite late one night, when
Henri departed from the embrace of
liis promised bride. As Hortense re
treated through the narrow doorway,
an unexpected form, like an apparition
from the gloom, confronted her.
“Guiseppe!” she cried.
“It is I,” he replied, calmly.
“Oh, you frightened me! Whence
come you so suddenly V”
“From close beside, gill. All. thou
coquet! A word. I have heard all ”
“A listener—you? Shame!”
“Tell me—is it true indeed I need
hope no more to win you?”
“You say you have heard all?”
“Yes. I am not deaf.”
“And you have seen, too?”
“Yes. I am not blind.”
“Much good may it do you, then, for
you are answered!”
And, with the sharp speech, she
slammed the door in his face, angry at
Ills having spied upon what was to her
a sacred interview.
For many nights after that her
dreams were haunted by the baleful
eyes of dark Guiseppe, and in her
ears continually rang the fearful im
precation she heard him mutter,
coupled with the name of Henri
Edouin.
The favored lover was greatly sur
prised a few days later, at receipt of
a communication from the Versailles
Government. It was delivered by an
entire stranger, who whispered these
six ominous words:
“For your eyes only. Bo discreet!”
The sealed billet contained this:
“Last dispatches by balloon ac
knowledged. Inclosed herewith an
order for 000 francs, payable when
France is redeemed from her enemies.
“M. Edouin, Paris.”
Henri should have destroyed the
mysterious scrawl instantly. Instead,
he stood gazing at it in sheer amaze
ment. He had had nothing what
ever to do with the Versaillese, though
his heart was honestly with those
who struggled so nobly to save the
country from the doom of a bloody
anarchy.
The few moments’ stupefaction
proved his greatest misfortune.
There was a peremptory tap at the
door.
Guiseppe entered, grinning infernal
ly: behind him “dressed” three ruffians
of the National Guard.
“Ah, Monsieur Edouin!" he said.
“Oh, is it you, Guiseppe?” replied
Henri.
Guiseppe advanced with snaky
quickness, and ere Henri could antici
pate, snatched away the fatal paper.
Flourishing it aloft, he cried:
“Away with him! See what I hold
—a paper that will have him shot, un
less I greatly mistake!” And Guiseppe
hissed maliciously into his rival's ear:
“I am now a trusted spy of the Com
mune. Y'our death is certain. You
will never wed with Hortense Cuil
eau!”
Unfortunate Henri was soon in pris
on. He fully realized his danger, and
it required but little reflection to con
vince him of the foul trick played by
crafty Guiseppe.
The days of his confinement went
tediously by, while ever before him
loomed the horrid prospect of a violent
death. Then Guiseppe confronted his
victim, and accompanying him—could
it be reality?—was Hortense.
“I bring to you a gleam of sunlight.
Monsieur Edouin.” said the dark
browed villain, with grinning sarcasm.
Henri sprang forward to embrace bis
betrothed; bur Gub ppe interposed.
“Hold! I did Got bring her here for
a love-scem*. Give tar to m*. Minot •*.*> ;
for Henri Ed. min are valuabi". Jtidg- ;
me lit is to be given in your ease witl. i
in the hour. You know what it will j
fc.-*—death! I route to offer you life."
"You?"
“And pray, why not? i hold lie
document that Is to riddle you with
bullets. Say the word, aud I will de
stroy it. I will retract my charge as
a stupid blunder.”
“What word shall I say?”
“Henceforth you will work and fig’t.i
on the side of the Commune. That
will save you—if I choose. Guiseppe
the spy is quite another person than
Guiseppe, the baker’s apprentice. Mon
ey and influence both are mine now.
Besides, our prisons are cramming
with too many hostages. Exchanges
are slow aud we need men. So, come,
I have your sworn word?”
“Never!” burst from Henri's lips, in
dignantly.
Throughout, Hortens? had remained
passive. Now she threw herself on
i her knees, with clasped hands, before
| the man she so dearly loved.
"Oh. yes—yes!” slip cried, passionate
ly. “For me —for your own precious
life! Promise! Swear! Here on my
knees I beg you. Henri!”
Her voice was broken- with wild sob-
I bing; her eyes were brimming with
tears. The young man’s head dropped,
then raised desperately, while his eyes
flashed on the treacherous spy.
“So he it, villain Guiseppe! I give
my sacred promise as you ask.”
The mysterious and convincing let
ter was instantly torn into fragments.
Guiseppe had not boasted vainly. Two
days later. Henri Edottin was liberated
and mounted in the National Guard.
For a long time he found no oppor
tunity of seeing Hortense. When at
last the lovers did meet, it was to real
ize the greatest sorrow of their two
fond hearts. As the price of saving
Henri’s life Hortense had solemnly
agreed to wed with Guiseppe.
Ever memorable will be the 2Stli of
May. IS7I, when the following procla
mation appeared:
“INHABITANTS OF PARIS!
“The army of France came to save
you. Paris is delivered. Our soldiers,
carried, at four o’clock, the last posi
tions occupied by the insurgents. To
day the struggle is finished. Order,
labor and security will now survive.
“DE MAC MAHON. Due de Magenta.
“Marshal of France, Commander-iu-
Chief.’
Crowds and columns of prisoners
were being marched to Versailles. The
prisoners’ camp at Satory was an
anomalous picture, oven shuderful to
contemplate.
A man with baleful eyes and snaky
lips approached one of the entrances
to the stable-pens. The prompt “Qui
Vive?” halted him.
“Pardon!” was the affable, grinning
response; “but I am a quartermaster.
You have here, by a great mistake, a
good cousin of mine, who will answer
to the name of Henri Edouin. Be so
good as to summon nim to me. lam
not so great a fool as to ask his re
lease just now, but would speak with
him, if I may.”
Villainous Guiseppe, ever treacher
ous, and fearing that Henri might es
cape to annoy him in the future—and
jealous to insanity that the man
should live to whom Hortense was so
avowedly attached—he had sought the
prisoners’ camp with murderous in
tent. In Ills bosom he carried a pistol,
and with the weapon he was resolved
to slay the rival he hated.
His speech at the gate was inter
rupted by a savage cry.
A bronzed gendarme, who was
standing near, threw aside his mus
ket, and, springing forward, griped
the pseudo-quartermaster by the
throat.
“This wretch lies!” lie vociferated,
excitedly. “He is Guiseppe, of the
Commune—Guiseppe, the spy—who
ordered forty of my comrades shot. I
alone escaped! I know him well!”
A fierce struggle ensued.
There was a flash, a bang, and the
gendarme dropped dead.
But simultaneously a musket butt
crashed down through the skull of
Guiseppe. The baleful eyes were
dimmed forever.
It would be difficult to describe the
tearful pleadings of beautiful Hor
tense before the gentlemen of the Mili
tary Bureau iu Rue Satory. She knew
and revealed the trick which had
placed Henri in Guiseppe’s power; she
told the story of her heart’s sacrifice
to save her lover’s life, and his unwill
ing yielding to tiie proposition of his
arch-enemy. It was an appeal to
touch the deepest sympathy of her
hearers.
Henri Edouin was forthwith set at
liberty.
He and bis true Hortense were
shortly afterward wedded, and when
Paris liad subsided to comparative
quiet, old Jean Guileau gave a merry
feast to the handsome couple.—Satur
day Night.
Value oT Local Taper*.
A local newspaper reflects the busi
ness Interest of the town in its adver
tising columns. A business man look
ing for a location always examines the
newspaper to see bow his particular
line i 3 represented, says the Troy Bud
get. If he is a druggist he* concludes
there are no druggists, or, if there are,
they are all dead. If he is a doctor or
a lawyer he looks over the professional
cards to see if his profession is repre
sented. Among tlr* farmer subscrib
ers the home paper has a similar mis
sion. Tiie* prosper*, ire buyers like an
invitation .o come and trade with tin
merchants. A card of the professional
man is Just as essential as the sign in
front of his door. Xi is not a question
of being able to get along without It.
A hardware man need not heat his
store to keep things from freezing.
He might have a booth out on the
street or at the skating rink, and do a
let of business, instead of paying rent
at his store and buying fuel to heat it
with, but it night not be economy to
do SO.
Tlif FJr*t I) illy ppper.
Germany holds the recorrt so: flip
Hrsc daily paper. Ic was printed iu
THE lUKON ROADHOUSES
STRUNC ALL ALONC BOTH SIDES
CF THE RIVER NOW.
A Hollar a Rrd, a Hollar unit a Hull* it
Meal—tin* l.ed—The Meat—Enterprise
of the Hosts How They Turn a
Trout to Their Side.
“When the land was young.” says
Mr. Jack London, when ho wants to
tell a Yukon tale of men who have
traveled fifty miles a day on snow
shoes for fifty days, rating one dog
salmon and a handful of flour, and are
shivering under their blankets in a
cotton tont. the thermometer seventy
degrees below zero. The temporal
qualification is necessary to be true to
life. The Yukon country is no longer
young, though the remainder of Alas
ka is generally younger than tin* Yu
kon Valley has ever been since the
first steamboat ascended it in IStiS,
says a Klondike!* in the New York
Commercial Advertiser. It is quite
four years since it was the custom in
winter for men aloni? tin* Yukon to
sleep in cotton lenis and eat dog sal
mon. In the winter of 180!) 1000 the
thermometer at Dawson didn't once go
below sixty degrees below zero.
The “road-liouse" lias civilized the
Yukon Valley. If you start in No
vember with the great exodus from
Dawson to salt water, up the frozen
boulevard of river, you won’t take a
cotton tent, and it's nuggets to mar
bles you won’t even get a disli of
beans. You will spend every night in
a good-sized log cabin, with two or
three rooms and more or less sawmill
made lumber with rustic ornamenta
tion. The fare will be somewhat more
pretentious than in a New England
boarding house. A bunk will cost sl,
a meal will cost sl..”>(). and you may
got among other things, canned oyster
soup, caribou steak with cranberry
jelly*, and, of course, pie. The Yankee
makes the best pioneer, and he does
it on pie; and tlio Yankee has won
Alaska.
Every ten miles or so in traveling
up the river comes a road-house. On
foot or with a (log team, when you are
beginning to get a little hungry for din
ner or supper, cast your eyes ahead
along the hills of smoky amethyst,
and there is a blue spire of smoke ris
ing, straight up oh, how quiet and
slim!—into a sky of lacquered brass.
All summer the cabins are empty.
Travelers sleep on some of the stern
wheel river boats; from the rest, too
small to serve a meal on, they pile
. ashore three times a day with their
stoves and grub boxes, and at night
with the cotton tent. Likewise do (lie
scow-travelers. In September and Oc
tober the last steamboats begin to
make stops at the road-houses, and
unload crate after crate of canned
hash and tomatoes, “this year’s eggs,”
hams and flour. The proprietor, or pro
prietress, who has been running a sum
mer restaurant at one of the big
camps, or on one of the creeks, is on
hand, and -with him a gang of the
“unemployed” to make the woodpile
and fix things up.
But outfitting of a road-liouse is an
expensive matter and a great financial
risk. One should have such things as
eggs and tomatoes, for if you haven’t
got them, your reputation suffers, and
the dog teams and mushers walk
right on past you. Competition among
the houses is very keen. After the ex
penses of outfitting and keeping a
gang of men all yvinter efftrying your
wood and water, you must have every
person of the thousands going out stop
with you. The season is very short,
November to April, and the New Eng
land farmers could get points on how
to trap the city boarder from the host
of a Yukon road-house.
The road-house is there and ready
before the trail is broken, but whether
the trail follows the right, or left bank,
or keeps iu mid-stream depends on
whether the river is open or closed,
whether the ice is rough or smooth,
and on the whim of the first traveler,
whom the rest foiloyv like sheep. Sup
pose* the trail passes a road-house on
the other side. It does this to one out
of every four. The proprietor sees Ids
egg and tomato money going, so he
goes out into the woods with his little
hatchet. He chops down many hun
dred little spruces, and going a mile
or so hack and a mile or so forward on
the trail diverts it gently to liis side of
the river with an avenue of trees.
Then lie puts up a sign so only the
traveler approaching ids house can see
it: “% mile to Smith’s,” and another
so only the man going away can see it,
“2 miles to Smith’s.” Any one who
has traveled much in the nortli gets a
fairly good idea of how far lie goes at
his customary gait in an hour, and can
estimate distances fairly well. But j
the tricks of the road-house break him
all up.
“How far to the next house?” you
ask after dinner of Smith.
“Oh. it’s putty good ways, fifteen
miles, I guess,” drawls out mine host: I
and your partner adds: "We can’t
make that to-night.” Then the host j
ventures, “Now. I tell you one thing,
boys, you’ll be doing the wise thing if
you stay here and gel a good early
start in the morning. There’s nothing
like a good early start. I’ve traveled
a bit myself up in this country,” etc., j
etc. Then partner remembers some
thing gome one has told him once, and
says, “Hain't the Jones boys from
Hunker got a place about eight miles
on?” and mine host ; cratches ids head,
and says, “I believe there was sum
body camped on an island there, but :
they’ve only got a wood camp.” After
believing this ot!'*<*, and staying, when
vou hear of tie* wood camp, you run 1
for it. Ai tin* “wood camp,” Jones
may laugh at Smith’s story, and he ;
may say unkind tilings, but. depend
upon h, be will treat Williams, at the
next “wood camp” just as Smith
treated him.
Tie* bous’-a advertise on the timber:
“Hotel Savoy. Selkirk, best horse ai
deg f."d on the river ”
“Hotel Seattle, Indian Hirer: spring
beds, mattresses and pillow-shams."
The ltunks are built all around the
wall, in tiers three high. Sometimes
tlie bottoms are of canvas, very yield
ing to the body: sometimes of strip-
I lings and very well ventilated. It is
i unwritten law thnt no man shall re
i move his hoots. The blankets are ill
| ways dark blankets, no matter what
color they were once. Not except liter
the smoking compartment of a trans
continental limited, there are more
empires overthrown, more erttces of
religion, polities, economies, solved as
the Delphian tripod solved tilings:
more of those funny little anecdotes
about Adam and Kvo. told before and
after lights out in a Yukon roadhouse
than in any parliament or senate
chamber on earth.
it is a long, long march, and when
the fellow they have lodged with sees
the gossipers putting on t licit - parkas -
which are simply hooded nightgowns
of scarlet-striped bed ticking—and
drawing the fur-edged hood around
their faces, and tiling out into the pure
starlight of S in the morning, his heart
sinks as he stands in the doorway and
knows that ills ham and ids bread will
suffer that night twenty miles nearer
salt water.
A Wt'lnl Lawn Tennis Contest.
As lawn tennis players are not near
ly sueli a serious minded race as golf
ers. it is only to he expected that lawn
tennis should suffer where even golf
cannot escape. The writer remembers
seeing some icn years ago a weird
contest between a most distinguished
Irish lawn tennis player and an oppo
nent to whom under ordinary circum
stances ho could give enormous odds.
On tliis occasion, in lieu of the usual
odds, lie undertook to play him with a
soda-water bottle instead of a racket.
The match proved infinitely more ex
citing to look at than ii appears on
paper. The accuracy of the wielder of
the soda-water bottle was something
extraordinary, and in the end lie won
fairly easy. The experiment was also
interesting as showing the impossibil
ity of handicapping a player of the
lilgliest class and a fifth-rate perform
er. But though tills match had some
thing to recommend it. the same can
not lie said of a ridiculous contest
which took place In the early days of
lawn tennis at Brighton. In this match
one of the players rode a pony which
was shod with leather shoes for the
occasion, and is said to have appeared
to take a personal interest: in the af
fair, while his opponent, a life guards
man. was arrayed in the full panoply
of the uniform of that corps in heavy
marching order. They played the best
of five sets, and the mounted player
won by three sets to two. Ills opponent
at the end being absolutely exhausted.
—Chicago Times-llerald.
£ Truth* in Hu* I’lilll ppim*H.
American jewelry and watches,
which should be of decidedly showy
designs, are wanted by every native
who is able to pay for them. All man
ner of Ingenious American electrical
machinery and supplies have a waiting
market. Musical instruments, those of
wood being constructed to resist damp
ness, have only to lie displayed to find
ready buyers, for no people on earth
are greater lovers of music than the
Filipinos. Dealers in agricultural
tools can find fortunes ready for the
gathering in any part of the islands.
There are nearly 70,000.000 acres of
public lands, and already applications
from American investors show that
(lie Philippines will soon be one of the
great farming sections of the world.
Once Congress grants the necessary
authorization for selling tlie public
lands there will he a rush of American
agricultural capital, to the benefit of
nearly every other line of trade. Aside
from rice, tobacco and cotton, Indian
corn will grow in nearly every part of
the Philippines. In Central Luzon it
will ripen in eight weeks from the day
of planting.—Leslie’s Weekly.
Itelalive Coil of Public Lighting.
New York City will pay $5.22 each
minute for its street lighting this year,
which means seventy-eight cents for
each inhabitant, or $2,745,000 in all.
A big bill, the largest of its sort in the
country, but. not the largest in propor
tion to population.
Os the great cities of the country,
Baltimore comes next above Chicago,
and pays sixty-eight cents for each of
its 509,000 inhabitants, or $950,000 in
all. Then comes San Francisco's 343,-
000 population, paying $215,000. or
seventy-one cents for each one. Next,
above that is New Orleans, where each
ofthe 287.000 inhabitants pays eighty
cents, or $220,000 in all.
Washington follows with eighty t hree
cents for each of its 270,000 residents,
which equals $232,000. Kaeh Cleve
lander pays two cents more than each
\'Washingtonian, or $335,000 for the
382.000 inhabitants. We then jump
to sl.lO for each of the 501,000 Boston
lens, or *860.000 In all. Another Jump
makes the 321,000 persons in Cincin
nati pay $125,000, or $1.30 for each one
Tli« .Midget’* Solicitudc.
Ordinary folk were much amused
at an example of how seriously 11. M.
ships observe the navy regulations
which occurred during (he demonstra
tion to welcome the (Jovernor General.
As tin- seven war ships steamed slow
ly in line up Sydney harbor, the flag
ship Itoy a I Arthur, which was lead
ing, carefully took soundings every
few minutes. Knelt war vessel in the
procession solemnly “hove the lead,”
even the tiny gunboat Karrakatta be
ing most anxious to learn if the tide
(the water was evidently deep enough
for the big flagship in front of herj
was sufficiently high to enable her to
reach moorings. Sydney Bulletin.
Tlm* I*<f?i lift of tl»#i .North.
During the lasi century KNt human
lives. $125,(><(0,099 and 200 ships have
oeen lost In fruitless efforts to find tlio
Norib Pole.
ODD THINC3 SEIZED FOR DEBT.
Hoarder* in n Hnnsi*. nn I'! ngt n e mid'
KhUp Teeth T.evieil On.
A story comes from Australia of the
1 nited States ship Glacier, the re
frigerating ship of the navy, having
been seized for debt in the harbor of
Sydney. A naval vessel is not often
seized for debt, and the legality of Use
seizure might lie a matter of interua
t onal inquiry. The story is that when
the Glacier was at Sydney the officers’
mess ran up several bills on shore.
\\ lien they came to settle, before sail
ing, a bill was presented by a trades
man which the mess refused to pay,
on the reasonable ground that they did
not owe it. Knowing that the vessel
was to sail shortly, the tradesman got
a sharp lawyer, who procured a judg
ment against the ship for the amount
of the bill. A sheriff came on board
upon some pretext, and, drawing a
warrant for the ship's seizure from his
pocket, atfixed it to the luniumust.
After that to sail away would have
brought on international complica
tions. so tlu> mess paid and tried lo
look pleasant. The Bill was for $250.
Curious tilings have been seized for
debt. Some years ago there was a
foreigner of rank In Chicago, who had
fallen on evil times, and so set up a
hoarding house, lie was always In
debt, anil at last ids creditors discov
ered an Ingenious way of getting their
Bills paid. Wlien the hoarders were at
dinner an officer of the law appeared
anil levied on the table. The guests
were indignant, and the foreign noble
matt tore ids hair. Finally, as the Bill
was small, the hoarders clubbed to
gether and paid it, after which they
resumed their evening meal, amid pro
fuse protestations of gratitude on the
part of their noble host. The amount
paid was, of course, deducted from
their board bill when they came to set
tle. After tin - table hail been levied
on twice or three times It got monoto
nous and the hoarding house censed to
tlourlsh.
Some (line hack the proprietor of a
traveling menagerie in England re
ceived a Bill as lie was leaving Yar
mouth with his “aggregation.” Ifc
declared tßut the Bill was exorbitant
and refused to pay. At Bis next stop
ping place he was served with a sum
mons. and final judgment and execu
tion was obtained for the Bill. But by
the time the papers were made out the
menagerie was ai a third town, and
there the officer of the law went to ex
eetilo the writ. Now, a menagerie Isa
troublesome tiling ’to levy on, but it
was decided to seize a Malay orang
outang, as being the handiest article
of value. The officers hud no idea
what to feed the animal on, and as it
became hungry it raved and fought sc
Hull they sent ii hack to menagerie,
which by tills time bail gone to a
fourth town. All expenses fell upon
the people who had brought the suit,
anil they were giail to get off even at
that price.
A traveling theatrical company
which hail left a hill behind at Blr
mingliain, England, was “caught up’’
it tlie next town w ith a writ of attach
111 <-iit upon it - ; theatrical properties.
When the officer came to levy lie found
nothing of mill'll value except the wlge
belonging to the show. These he
seized, mill I But night “Uieliard III.'
was played 'by actors wit B up-to-date
close-cropped heads, making a most
ludicrous effect when combined will)
medieval dollies.
Some time ago the London and
Northwestern Hallway Ooinpany fell
a victim to the notorious litigant—
since declared Insane Mrs. Corbett
The woman, who was always suing
something or somebody, brought suit
against the company, anil as the case
was not defended, she obtained judg
ment. She got an order anil actually
seized an engine attached to a local
train. She field up that train for an
liour before the engine was bonded and
released.
In New York a woman was taken to
court charged with stealing a set of
false teeth from one of her boarders.
In her defense the accused woman
said that she had seized the teeth as
security for a board BUI owed her by
the young lady who owned them.—
Chicago f Ihronlcle,
Htnuici) 11.-f i jMm t!.v.
What do you think of an alliance be
tween a plant and an ant, a veritable
reciprocal treaty whereby the plant
furnishes food for the ant anil the ant
furnishes protection for the plant?
This is an actual existing relation in
Australia, where a small pugnacious
ant ami the bull's horn thorn live to
get her ttmler really remarkable eomli
t 101 l H.
But for the plant I lie ant. would la
without food, and but for the ant tin
plant would be destroyed by several
varieties of insects that, attack its
leaves.
Tim reciprocal plan anil agreement is
this: The thorn at the end of each leaf
has a pulr of hollow horns, around
which is secreted a substance filled for
food for the an!, and w’hb'h is renewed
by tin* plant as rapidly as It is con
sumed. In these horns the ant lives
and finds his natural nourishment
within easy reach.
lie olijei ts emphatically to tlie pres
ence of other Insects, and as soon as
any of the little enemies of tlie plant,
alight on the leaf whioß he lias pre
empted lie darts from his home In the
thorn and makes such a fierc' l attack
on the intruder that tie Is glad to make
a hurried escape or else loses Ids life
in the attempt to hold ids position.—
New York Herald.
fncrca-o- of Swiss Population.
The reeetit census taken throughout
Switzerland lias shown a remarkable
increase lii iße number of inhabitants.
Perhaps lii.'most extraordinary growth
in in tlie canton of Zurich, whose pop
illation in 1888 numbered 357,183, bu*.
u'tt now It is 128,1)30, an increase of
99.847 Inhabitants in twelve years.
Tills is considered a world’s record.
Geneva hit,- increased by 21.412 per
sons. during the same p tried.
.^HOUSEHOLD
fl| ™ TS:
The ITodprn Dining Isooin.
The modern dining room, according
to one of our best authorities, is too
apt to look like a china shop from tlie
too indiscriminate and over use of
decorative china. It should bo used
discreetly as any other bric-a-brac,
with a careful regard to tlie setting,
color of tlie walls, and pieces, A cor
ner cupboard tilled witli old china and
a few pieces cffccilvoly disposed are
oftentimes best, but where a plate
rail or china shelf Is desired much
study should lie given to its arrange
ment, especially avoiding overcrowd
ing; it sparse disposition is much more
to be desired.
Tlu* Cure of T;il*l«* l.inm.
It is almost as essential Unit table
anil lied linen shall lie properly hung
out as that they shall lie well washed.
If they are allowed to dry out of
shape, stretching and pulling them
straight wears them much more than
use. Hang tablecloths and sheets'
evenly across the line, ends down. The
warp threads arc much stronger than
the woof. If stretched habitually
lengthwise the things will split along,
the fold. II is the same with towel*
and napkins. Indeed, every tiling
washable lasts longer if Bung In dry
so Hull Hie weight while wet COUH'S
liminiy upon the long way threads.
Mnc Con-ring* For Units, j
For the outer coverings of beds therf’
are all sorts of novel and pretty tilings
in while nml colors The Marseilles
quills come in several colors in the
ordinary stylo, plain woven, lint Hie
prettiest are those which arc em
broidered. Tills embroidery, which is
and lias tln* appearance of handwork,
is really done by machinery, hut is
iiioNt attractive.
The imported quills have Hie con
ventional centre in white ami a wide
embroidered border In attractive dm
signs and in different colors. They
arc no more attractive than tlie domes
tic embroidered ijuiit. These Imve Hio
whole centre of the embroidery in
how knots and in smaller figures. An
attractive design is one in dark blue.
The lln«‘st and handsomest coverings
tire I hose of heavy linen, with hand
embroidery in white. The inosi dale
orute of these come with the whole
centre in embroidery, a broad em
broidered border outlined witli drawn
work, ami a wide hem, with a row of
drawn work at Ihe lieml. These quilts
on the brass licils hang down on all
sides, mid take the place of the val
ance. A muiiegniii) is fritipienlly
worked at one side of IBc embroidered
centre.
Sheets now till .'O lilies of fine solid
embroidery across Hie top. Home art
also made willi hemstitching, and
some witli more eliihornie drawn work.
Shams, which are still much used, if
they have not their erstwhile high
standing, show more or less elaborate
work. There are all styles of the solid
embroidery in flowers. The most
striking designs are (Bose with tho
larger Mowers embroidered in tin}
natural size.
Pillow cases now have embroidered
borders across the eml, with hein
stltcheil hems or drnwnwork, and
some of tßern patterns covering the
whole of one side. The handsomest
of these are the.cases into which the
pillows are lullloiicd. These are large
and square, mid are used for the bed
wit 1 1 <1 111 shams, while pillows with
plainer covers arc used at night, or in
tin - more elaborately kept houses Hn*
embroidered slip.-, are used and
••hanged daily. New York Times.
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Hoi SFHOL.D recipes
White Sponge Cake -One and one
half tumblerfuls of pulverized sugar,
one tumblerful of sifted Hour, Hn}
willies or ten eggs, one leaspoonful of
baking powder, a little suit, one trn
spoonful of lemon extract Bake from
twenty to twenty-five minutes.
<'renin Dressing Half a tablespoon
ful each of sail and mustard, threo
foiirihs of a tlililespoonfill of while
sugar, one slightly beaten egg, two
mid a half tuhirspoonfuls of melted
butler, three-fourths cupful of cream,
ami one fourth cupful of vinegar. Mix
well together and cook in a double
boiler until ii thicken- atruhi, am)
let get very cold.
Knimori Groqueil - Drain ail ihc
liquor from one cun of salmon and
masl, it. Beat up two eggs and one
fourth cup of milk. Add two table
spoonfuls of incited butter, .u dash of
nutmeg, salt, paprika and one dipt d
of line bread ertmibs. Mi Hie ulmoii
with tills mul form into croquettes.
Dip in crumbs, in heater egg, and ill
crumbs again ml Iry in deep uu.
Hot \nchovles Buy the small pre
served anchovies trial come in cans
or in niin'nture hnrriH- Free them
from tic* oil in which have in < n
packed by laying Hiein for a few mo
ineuts on soft pa|ier. Meat a talde
spooufnl of butter in the blazer, and
ei.ol: the anchovies In this until they
show signs of in coining crisp. Squeeze
ilie juice of a lemon over them before
serving >liein on toast or on fri
bread.