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Our yesterday in
fo-day we hear the long-dead song,
And now we understand
!t cadence, and know why it made
Our yesterday all grand,
i.
FOR LOVE OF A TOMBOY.
•a ' r t> @ < rr- a
nd Love Story. By JOHN FORD.
1 —\ EGG IE COUSINS and Man
-1 rice Blount had licen close
I \ friends as long as tlie former
ij" " could remember. In casting
ncntal glances back across those
rears of affection and dose union be
tween 1 bem I often ■wondered what
lad prompted tlielr Intimacy in the
Srst place. Blount was some five
fears older than Cousins, being a
itald, rather matter-of-fact man of
;hlrty at. the time when fate threw the
.wo friends Into the constant society
if Monica and Maudlc Finlay, the col
inel's orphaned niece*. Blount, how
tver, was a captain and Cousins mere
ly a lieutenant. He was extremely
Joylsh for his age, seldom taking any
thing seriously. The whole world
leemed to he to him “one huge joke,”
Is he himself expressed it, hut It was
tin hearty laughter, his mischievous
pranks and his good-natured tempera
ment that endeared hlin to all his fel
low officers. But llrst and foremost in
the young man’s heart stood Maurice
Blount. This affection was fully re
turned, and they were known ns the
“Inseparables.”
Of 'course It. was almost a foregone
Poncluslon that the arrival of Monica
snd Maudlc on the scene was hound
to make a difference to one or other of
Ihe two officers, although they had
hitherto been known to declare that
neither intended to marry, and that
each found all he could desire in the
close comradeship of the other. But
It was more than unfortunate that they
Should simultaneously lose their hearts
over the younger of the sisters. Man
die. Monica was, if anything, lovelier
than Maudle, her gray eyes were full
of a winsome wistfulness that won the
hearts of every one of us, always ex
cepting those of the "Inseparables,”
It wns apparently to be In their af
fairs of the heart 11s in all things—
Cousins followed in his senior's foot
steps, laying his hand and fortune at
the feet of Maudle Finlay,
It wns a puzzle how they came to
pass over (lie sweeter, gentler, older
sister, to fall victims to the boisterous,
rather tomboyish charms of the
younger. ,
Maudle only tossed her head at them,
delighting in their devotion, which
was clearly of the faitbful-dog-feteh
and-cavry order, merely because it
gratified lior vanity, she having pre
viously been well informed that
neither Captain Blount nor Lieuten
ant Cousins had ever been known to
fall In love before.
I was oh sick leave at the time this
was happening, but I heard it all,
with somewhat exaggerated details,
when I rejoined, and the odd part of
the business appeared to be that both
apparently saw' through the girl they
worshiped!
The elder man had lieen heard re
buking the younger for his foolishness
in allowing himself to be played with
by the heartless coquette. and the
younger man had been seen persuad
ing Blount not to go near (lie fascinat
ing Mandie on various occasions. It
.was mysterious, to say the least.
At dances they vied with eaeli other
In obtaining the greatest number from
the younger Miss Finlay. At picnics
they outdid each other to the best of
their abilities In carrying tempting
dishes to Miss Mandie. in seeing after
her eomtbrt in every possible way.
Neither of them entered for the
“Thread and Needle Race’’ at the
sports because Mandie could not he
partner to them both.
And all this while Monica was prac
tically left to herself, not that the oil
lire regiment behaved as Idiotically as
the “Inseparables.” hut because Mon
ica. quite early In the game, gave the
others to understand she did not re
quire their attentions. The fellows
chaffed me, saying it was only on ac
count of my age that she tolerated my
presence so graciously, that no one
would think if she was seen about with
a man old enough to he her father.
About the time that we received our
marching orders 1 noticed that Monica
had become rather paler than usual,
naturally I wondered at it and whether
our move to Egypt had anything to do
with it. Then one day 1 saw Blount
looking at her; Monica's face was half
turned from him, and the view he had
of it was perfect. 1 felt sure. I knew
her profile so well and could fancy any
man's heart living stirred by its
beauty; for all that 1 was puzzled by
the look in Blount’s eyes and his lips
were set in a hard straight line across
his teeth. Then, for one brief mo
ment Monica lifted her sad gray eyes
to his. and—lie sighed. The next —she
was gone, and Reggie Cousins slipped
his arm through that of his friend,
pulling him round with a jerk, and
they both laughed. The laugh I
thought a nervous one.
Soon after that we sailed.
The campaign of IS9- was the first
active service young Cousins had ever
■ V . ' jpr
pi l' 1 *■’ 11
pTt is not far tojKiterday,
” With glamor of the^se:
With haunting echo owffie song
That thrilled us to the close.
To-morrow and to-day will lose
Their darkness and their gloom,
And each will soon tie yesterday,
With melody and bloom. *
—W. 1). Nesbit, in Baltimore American.
seen, and I was interested in him and
his impressions more than in those of
our fellow officers. He was wildly ex
cited on the voyage out. and by con
trast his very excitement appeared to
make the captain’s manner more staid,
reserved and unobtrusive. They were
not. however, quite so much together
ns they had been formerly, and it nat
urally became the subject of comment.
“Blount is jealous, I believe,” said
one.
‘‘.More likely Cousins has been bitten
by the green-eyed monster. If they
are botli in love with Maudle
I should say that the captain would
stand the greater chance of winning
her, and Cousins knows it,” said an
other.
Already we spoke of the love affair
of the “Inseparables” with an “if.”
Cousins, like every subaltern leav
ing home and England for the first
time, had his ambitions, dreamed his
dreams in all of which “Heroes,”
“Medals,” “Victoria Crosses” and pro
motion figured largely in a delightful
jumble, and all In connection with
himself. And who has not dreamed
those dreams on the voyage out? Who
has not looked back on those dreams
with a weary smile of resignation, ac
knowledging, reluctantly enough, that
things are not wiiat they seemed—on
the voyage home?
As I had expected the campaign
was not of very long duration, neither
was It. of deadly peril or full of the
trials and sufferings so many expedi
tions are entirely made up of. There
wns the usual amount of trouble, work
and endurance to put up with, the fa
tiguing marches being the most active
port of it, and 1 felt almost sorry for
our juniors who had expected so much
—most sorry, not knowing what was to
come, for young Cousins.
Our wounded were few, our dead
fewer; the most terrible part being
that many fell victims to a dread dis
ease. losing their lives, if not in actual,
conflict with the enemy, nevertheless
while obeying the call of duty.
However. It is of one battle I wish
to write, no other event having any
bearing on my story.
It wns a Saturday, tlie 19th of Sep
tember, and we were roused from
sleep at !1 n. in. We had lain down on
the sand and among the lialfa grass,
too tired and worn out to think of ene
mies other than human, of vipers,
scorpions and such like. Four o’clock
found us creeping along in Hie dark,
uncertain of what we might come
upon, hut when the rays of the early
sun came to our aid a disappointment
wns in store for us. We discerned
K to our right, but not all Ihe noise
of the cavalry, nor the rumbling of
horse batteries awoke the apparently
sleeping Dervish camp.
We were unopposed.
The reason was soon forthcoming.
Had Bisharn had taken his men to
Hafir in the dead of night.
No rest was given us, no break in
the long march; our orders were to ad
vance two miles further, and then we
faced Hafir. It was nearly 7 o’clock
before we opened fire on the Der
vishes, but it was not till later in tlie
day, till the lead came splashing at
regular intervals into the water to our
right, rattling like hall against the
gunboats, ami bullets eauie flying
through the air, that I chanced to
come upon tin* “Inseparables.” I saw
them standing side by side, their faces
turned to the enemy. Suddenly, as I
looked, young Cousins sprang forward
and threw his senior on the ground
with the force which lie hurled him
self upon him. and then—the most
tragic event of the day—Reggie Con
sins rolled over mortally wounded at
our feet!
Quick as lighting I turned. .Tust in
the nick of time*
The Dervish soldier who had crept
unaware upon us, half hidden in the
long grass, had turned his weapon
upon me.
But 1 was before him.
I take a sort of grim satisfaction in
chronicling the event in those* few
words. Had I stayed a moment long
er nothing could have prevented me
from cutting the dead body of Cous
ins' murderer to a thousand pieces.
H ith Blount's help I got the young
fellow to the rear. and. once in safety,
stooped to s**e what could lie done for
him. The Captain knelt with his face
buried in both his hands, down which
the blood was trickling. He had re
ceived a wound as we lifted the boy
to carry him away. I did not realize
how bad aud serious a one it was.
Cousins opened his eyes and his lips
moved.
“You are hurt.” he said, looking at
his chum. “I—l wanted—to save—your
life. Have—l—failed?”
His voice was terribly weak.
Blount was sobbing in a heart-bro
ken fashion.
FT,;
you know—
the best —always lcuTthe best—for
me.” • )
“Oh, Reggie, Reggie, don’t!”
Cousins' eyes fixed Themselves on
me.
“It’s all up,” he said. “Tell—Mau
rice—not—to—be—long.”
With a great sob of unutterable mis
ery Blount fell across the body of bis
friend.
* * * *.* * * *
Every spare moment I had I spent
by Blount's bedside after that. But
life was despaired of for him. and
—he did not care to stay. Reggie's
dying words seemed to haunt us for
nights after, for v,-e knew Maurice
was obeying his churn's last request.
Rut from tin* lips of the captain a
very little while before the end I
learned the answer to the riddle that
had puzzled us for so long.
It was only a wonderful piece of
self-sacrifice on both their parts. Kaeli
had loved Monica iu the depths of his
heart and each had tried to leave her
—peerless as they knew her to be—for
file other.
“We blinded each other so complete
ly to the true state of affairs. ’ Biounl
said with a sad smile, “that I think if
we had gone home wo should both
have asked Monica to marry us, be
lieving the other to he really in love
with -Maudic.”
**•••••
Then one day I found myself telling
of the tragedy of Hafir to Monica, and
I told her of the love of the "Insepara
bles.”
Maudle was engaged to be married
to the rector of tlie place.
“It will not hurt you to know it?” 1
asked.
I was anxious, for she wore sc
strangely sad a look.
“It never hurts a woman to know
she has been loved.” she said, “even
though it comes too late.”
I knew then she had loved as well.
But which of the two, to tills day, no
ouo knows.—News.
Tlir Mttiincid of Societr*
A New Yorker who lias just re
turned from a fortnight's slay at New
port thinks that he has discovered a
new* tendency in tlie manners of so
ciety. He found that tlie old fash
ioned, sceptical and rather supercil
ious way of talking had quite gone out
of the mode.
“It is most refreshing to observe the
undisguised enthusiasm and amiability
that lias come to be the fashion in so
ciety there,” he said on iiis return,
“and there is never a word of criticised
or disapproval heard from any soured
about any person. In the language of
the dwellers at Newport, all the wom
en are perfectly beautiful or charming
while the men are most attractive and
handsome. Al! the parties are per
fectly delightful, nobody is ever bored
and the most unremitting good humor
and charity are exercised continuous
ly. Any person who happens to speak
unpleasantly or critically of n not lies
is heard in chilling silt nee or com
pelled to defend his opinions in heated
argument.
"What all this geniality and love for
their fellow men may mean among
the people of society nowadays, no
body can tel! unless the new manner
is so distinctly the mode that nobody
dares to talk as he or she may feel.
Of course, nobody believes that, these
remarks and admirations are really
genuine. There is merely anew style
which is luckily a little pleasanter id
its results than its predecessor. Carp
ing. fault finding and criticism are not
likely to lie heard soon in society and
to he bored now is also hopelessly out
of date. These qualities are distinct
ly vieux jeu; enthusiasm and loving
kindness just now are very much in
style.”—New York Sun.
Cnrlotn Hoist Customs.
In the domains of royalty, says the
London Tattler, the rigid observance
of ancient customs is not altogether
without its humorous aspect, lu the
Spanish court it is the custom on the
birth of a royal infant to place the off
spring of royalty upon a silver tray
and thus tender the child to its fhther,
who exclaims, "It is a Prince,” or
Princess, as the case may he. In
Russia the Czar, when going a
drive, must on no account pernflPany
one to know beforehand what,road he
Intends to lake; as the drive pro
gresses the driver is directed where
to go. In both the Russian and Aus
trian courts tio dish must he placed a
second time at the royal table, even
though it had not been touched the
first time it was served. Our own
court is fiver than any other from
such customs, which are usually re
tained at the sacrifice of common
sense. The sound common sense
which is as characteristic of King
Edward as it was of his mother has
always been opposed to antiquated
ceremonials at court.
Rockefeller Dislikes Automobiles.
John D. Rockefeller dislikes automo
biles, ami, with a view of preventing
them from trespassing on his vast do
main, called Boxwood, at Pocnntiec
Hills, he has erected signs on his prop
erty ordering automobile owners tc
keep off his land. The signs bear
these words: "Automobiles are not al
lowed on these grounds.” Mr. Rocke
feller has fifty miles of private drive
ways on his estate, many of which
cover serpentine trails and run along
steep embankments. Several times
the millionaire’s horse? were fright
ened by the machines, and this made
him decide to shut out automobile
owners from his lands. Watchmen
arc employed Jo enforce the rules.
The Great Wall Street Financier Interested in One \
Way. or Another In an Unexampled List of Prop-j
ertles,the Capital of Which Reaches a Stupendous
Total. : s : : : : :
When J. Pierpont Morgan was a stu
dent at Heidelberg University he de
veloped such an extraordinary apti
tude for mathematics that he was of
fered a professorship in that science
at the time of his graduation. His
father wanted him to continue the for
tunes of the great banking house, and
the cap and gown lost a shining light.
It is'told that a short time after Mor
gan hail left college a friend met his
father and asked how the boy was get
ting on.
’’Well, that boy will break the whole
world one of thgse days,” replied the
elder Morgan.
In the unpretentious corner office at
No. 23 Wall street, New York City,
where the firm of ,T. P. Morgan & Cos.
sits in control of the finances of many
of this country’s Industries, the ex
travagant prediction of the elder Mor
gan is never thought of. The whole
world already looks to that office for
its cue whenever any transaction In
volving millions—whether it he a war
or a coal strike, an amalgamation of
steamship and railroad lines or the
financing of a bankrupt kingdom—is
up for discussion.
J. P. MORGAN HAS A VOICE IN
CONTROL OF $6,448,500,000.
The properties in which J. 1\ Morgan &. ( o. are interested, either through
contro', through membership on their hoards, through financing them or by lea
gon of acting as their fiscal agent/?, are. with their capitalization, as follows, ac
cording to lists furnished by the financial agencies:
SHIPS.
Atlantic Steamship C 0.... 5<170,000,000
Total $170,000,000
RAILROADS.
Northern Securities C 0... 400,000,000
Northern Pacific 332,000,0C0
Great Northern 22,000,000
Burlington 260,000,000
Heading 320,0f0,000
Southern 300,000,000
Louisville & Nashville.... 170,000,00)
Erie 350,000,000
Ivchigh Valley 176.000.000
Atchison 450,000,000
British Electric Traction.. 2.000,000
Monon 15.503,000
Plant Systen 25,000,000
New York Central 235,000.000
New York. N. H. & II 100.000,000
Hocking Valley 15.001.000
International Traction ... 10,000,000
Total $3,088,500,000
INDUSTRIALS.
United States Steel Cor.. .1,400,000.000
American Can Cos 88,000.0(0
North American Cos 12,000,000
General Electric 50.000,000
Rubber Goods Cos 2-).000,000
IT. S. Rubber Cos f2,000.000
Pullman Cos 74.0(0,000
Adams Express Cos 24,000.000
Niagara Falls Power C 0... 10.001,00)
Coal Trust 100,000,000
Salmon Canning Trust.... 30,000/K)0
Amalgamated Copper Cos.. 156,000,100
Kevstone Watch Case (To. 3,250,000
Total $2,022,250,000
BANKS.
National City 43,000,000
First National 20,000,000
Bank of Commerce 20.000,00)
Standard Trust Cos 100,000,003
There are twelve partners In the
firm, and eleven of then look after de
tails of the various great schemes
which have given to the language a
new word, “Xlorganlzing.” There is
only one Morgan o:i whose life Eng
lish investors and speculators take out
insurance policies paying nine per
cent, premium.
The amount of capital under con
trol from the office at Broad and Wall
street is perhaps greater tban the total
amount of gold coin in the world. It
represents such wealth and power as
never before was centralized in the
hands of one man.
Seven of the twelve partners in the
firm of J. P. Morgan A- Cos. are mem
bers of the Board of Directors of one
or more of the great corporations and
trusts which mark this era of central
ized capital. The mere list of those
companies in whose affairs no move
can be made without consultation at
No. 23 Wall stveet inspires the defer
ence due from a dollar to a million
dollars.
But there are vast combinations of
capital, unions of powerful corpora
tions whose affairs are being handled
by J. I*. Morgan & Cos., in whose direc
torate no member of the firm ever sits.
They are known as Morgan compa
nies.
The members of the firm of J. P.
Morgau & Cos. are his son. J. P. Mor
gan, Jr.. George C. Thomas, Edward
F. Whitney, James W. Patti. Jr.. Ed
ward H. Robinson, Edward T. Stotes
bury. Robert Bacon, Temple Bowdoin,
William Pierson Hamilton. Charles
Steele, ,G?orge W. Perkins and J.
Pierpont Morgan.
According to the public records no
one of the first five named sits as a
director in any corporation. Temple
Bowdoin is named as director only in
the Chicago, Indianapolis aud Louis
ville Railroad and the South Carolina
and Georgia Railroad Company, but
George S. Bowdoin. whose office also
Is at No. 23 Wall street, has an active
hand in the direction of a dozen great
corporations as a member of the
boards of directors.
William Pierson Hamilton, another
partner, appears in the financial di
rectories only as a director or trustee
in three companies the National
Tube, the North British and Mercan
tile Insurance Company of London
and Edinburgh, and the North British
and Mercantile Insurance Company of
New York.
I Even George W. Perkins, to whom
P ORGAN NOW
LS $6,448,500,000.
the detail of the great coal strike was
referred by Mr. Morgan when Bishop
Potter broached the subject of a set
tlement on their recent trip across the
Atlantic together, is named as a direc
tor in only four companies.
But the remaining partners could
spend their entire time attending di
rectors’ meetiugs, had they na more
important use far their business hours.
Morgan & Cos. are interested directly
or indirectly iu a great many of the
leading concerns of the country. The
total capitalization of such properties
is estimated at $0,448,500,000.
Besides this vast sum other great
accumulations look small. The gold
eohi and gold certificates in tlie United
States Treasury only amount to abont
$550,000,000, and yet this is unprece
dented.
All the gold coined and uncoined in
the whole world is estimated at $4,-
841.000,000.
The total number of human beings
i.i the world is estimated at 1,320,000,-
000.
The public debt of the United States
on .1 ui’.e 30, 1900, was 5i.107.711.257.
The entire revenue of the forty-three
Chase National $4,000,000
N. Y. Security & Trust Cos. 1,000,000
Guaranty Trust (To 2,000,000
Total $187,000,000
MISCELLANEOUS.
West. Union Tel. Cos 97,000,000
Pacific Cable Cos 10,000,000
Mexican Telegraph Cos. ... 2,000,000
N. Y. Life Ins. Cos 290.000,000
Mutual Life Ins. Cos 363,000,000
Harper & Brothers 3,500,000
Met. Opera & R. K. C 0.... 3,250,000
Madison Sou arc Garden... 2,000,000
Associated Merchants* Cos. 20,000,000
Aetna Fire Insurance Cos.,
West Shore and Ontario
Terminal Cos., Jessup A
Moore Paper Cos., Lehigh
Valley Transportation Cos.,
M i ssou r i Rail \v a v Cos n
Ktruction Cos., New York
Standard Watch Co..Penn.
Mutual Life Insurance (To.,
Bank for Savings, Cata
ract Construction Cos.,
Commercial Union Assur
ance Cos., Commercial
Union Fire Insurance Cos.,
Niagara Developing Cos.,
North British and Mcr- •
pantile Life Insurance (To.,
of London end Edinburgh.
North British and Mer
cantile Insurance Cos., of
New York, Outing Pub
lishing Cos., and scores of
smaller corporations not
vet Morgunized into a
Total $980,750,000
Grand total $6,448,500,000
principal nations of the world for the
year 1900 was $5,888,392,563. New
York World.
Pre-Columbian HouLi.
When hieroglyphs a rif mentioned, one
naturally thinks of the records of an
cient Egypt; yet before Columbus land
ed on these shores the Aztecs of an
cient Mexico had a most elaborate sys
tem of writing in hieroglyphs. They
formed long strips of deerskin into
hooks folded screen fashion, on which
were depicted signs and representa
tions of ceremonials. These old pre-
Columbian books the Spaniards greed
ily collected and burned, so that but
ten are known to-day in the whole
world.
One of these lias only recently been
found in one of the libraries of Eu
rope. and an exact copy presented to
the American Museum of Natural His
tory in this city, where it will shortly
be placed on exhibition. The* text rep
resents Ihe history of the lives of sev
eral individuals. One recounts the life
of the Lady Three-Glints, who has
:'V# husbands aud a child, and goes
through elaborate ceremonies. Another
portion of this old “Codex,” as it is
called, treats of the life of a great ImiM
and eonquerer named Frie-deer. whm
in company with other chieftains,
makes many conquests. This old book
proves most conclusively bow love,
religion, and warfare went hand in
hand in the lives of the ancient Mexi
cans, just as in people's lives to-day.—
New York Times.
•
A Punctual Kird.
What tempts the little humming
bird that we see in our gardens to
travel every spring from near the
equator to as far north as the arctic
circle, leaving behind him, as he does,
for a season, many tropical delights?
He is the only one of many humming
birds that pluckily leaves the land of
gayly colored birds to go into volun
tary exile in the north, east of the Mis
sissippi. How it stirs the imagination
to picture the solitary, tiny migrant, a
mere atom of bird life, moving above
the range of human sight through the
vast dome of the sky. Borne swiftly
onward by rapidly vibrating little
wings, he covers the thousands of
miles between his winter home and
his summer one by easy stages, and
arrives at his chosen destination,
weather permitting, at approximately
le same date year after year.—Coun
try Life in America.
HOUSEHOLD *
* * * 9 MATTERS
Effective With Ught Oak.
Many housewives have a number of
light oak furniture pieces that they
are forced to retain and are at a loss
for a harmonious color scheme with
them. While blue Is perhaps the best
and red not at all desirable, yet green
is always effective with light oak, too.
To Take Oat Ink Stains.
Ink will yield to oxalic acid and
steam and to salts and lemon. If ox
alic acid Is employed, rub the spot
with a stick or cork which has been
wet ia the acid and hold it at once
over a steaming spout, which is ready
for the purpose. Unless all traces of
the acid are removed by thorough
washing a weak spot will result from
the treatment. „
ap** >
Wle<i Clotl, fiflnns.
For cloth gowns that are wrinkled
after packing draw the bathtub half
full of hot water, bang the gowns
above it to steam; in a couple of hours
the wrinkles will have disappeared. It
also freshens lace and chiffon gowns.
In packing always stuff sleeves with
a little tissue paper, laying the waists
flat in the tills. Also cover velvet col
lars, cuffs or vests to prevent marking.
—Good Housekeeping.
DeTlefs For Lightening Work.
“With all the multiplication of in
ventions for household convenience
we cannot keepabrenst with the wants
of the modern housewife,” said a deal
er. "When I began business, nearly
forty years ago, our women patrons
shrank from experimenting with new
devices, but the woman of to-day not
only seizes upon every novel idea with
readiness, hut assumes that labor sav
ing machinery iu every line is her due.
“She no longer, with Griselda pa
tience, drops oil with one hand while
she heats it and the egg together with
the other for the mayonnaise. Not
she. Instead, she uses one of tb? nu
merous implements devised for the
purpose, and does in a few minutes
what it formerly took her an hour to
accomplish. With the whipped cream
churns, fruit presses, vegetable cutters
and slieers, almond mills and the hun
dred and one other contrivances, the
work of the young housewife, as com
pared with that of her mother, in her
young married days, is greatly minim
ized; although, to keep the law of com
pensation balanced, there may be
more dishwashing and a larger num
ber of utensils to care for and ar
range.”—New York Tribune.
* (
The Safe Keeping of Poisons.
System is a uspfnl tiling to have in
a house, and in nothing is it more
necessary than In the proper disposi
tion of poisonous substances. A poi
son in the wrong place can do so
much damage that it is of the highest
importance to confine it to its proper
area.
It is not enough that all bottles of
poison should be labeled with a skull
and cross-bones, for in the dark, or in
a half-light, these devices are not no
ticed, and the bottle is likely to be
mistaken for medicine.
Some druggists have adopted the ex
pedient of using a triangular or hexa
gonal bottle for such liquids, the unu
sual shape of it being a sufficient pro
tection against carelessness by nigiit
or day. If the housewife will only se
cure a few such receptacles, and take
■are that they are never used for any
thing but poisons, and that poisons are
tlways kept in them, she will save her
self some dauger and considerable
worry and bother.
It is a good thing, also, to have a
special shelf in one's cupboard for
these things, and select one which Is
too high up for the children to reach.
Another useful device is a list of an
tidotes pasted up somewhere, so that
it will not be mislaid or lost, and will
always be readable if it happens to be
wanted in a hurry. Information such
as this is almost always wanted in a
hurry, and in such circumstances pa
pers and books have a way of slipping
into some corner where they are in
visible to the l'rar.tic seeker. New
Y'ork News.
fi. .recipes . :^j
Apple Pudding with Rice—Six sour
apples, one cup boiled rice, one pint
milk, one cup sugar, the juice aud rind
of one lemon, and yolks of four eggs.
Cove and chop the apples: add the
boiled rice and milk, beat the lumps
ont, add the other ingredients aud
bake. Beat the whites of the four
eggs with a little sugar, spread on top
and brown.
Brown Hash Chop remains of
steaks, roasts or stews very fine; put
a layer of mashed potatoes in a greased
deep pie dish, then put over a layer of
meat, then a layer of stale bread
crumbs: sprinkle with salt and pepper
and put over small bits of butter and
pour over a little beef gravy, then
more potatoes: dip a knife into milk
and smooth over the top; bake ia a
moderate oven half an hour; serve
hot.
Peach Blanc Mange—Steep a dozen
peach pits in a pint of milk for half
an hour. Take out the pits, add four
tablespoonfuls of sugar and bring to
i scalding point. Mix three heaping
tablespoonfuls of corn starch, with a
little cold milk, add a pineli of salt,
pour into the hot milk and stir till
thick. Cover and cook for ten min
utes, add a dozen ripe peaches pared
and cut in bits. Turn into wetted
molds and set away till cold. Serve
with cream.
Ambition 1? very often only another
name for greed,
OCTOBER 12