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S PND AY MORNING. Dear Mother Nature gave to me A Bweet spring gown. If you could see Those colors soft and rare— The damty pink and pearl atftl white— -1 wore it with a proud delight All through the springtime fair. “Babs”—A Passing From Trib ulation to Happiness. CHAPTER I. /\ BRIGHT girl of eighteen. /\ tall, perfectly proportioned. f ' : '\ with a small head benuti , fully poised upon her shoul ders, delicate-hands and feet, and a smile tlia't softened a rather Arm little month and revealed rows of pearls. She li:#l been “Babs” as long as she could remember, and remembered neither father nor mother. The for mer. a man of great wealth, lived In one of the most insalubrious of the West Indian islands; her mother was a Spaniard of extraordinary beauty, to judge by the only portrait sne pos sessed of her, and all her life nearly had been spout at school. She had. in a way, been brought up in the lap of luxury; Miss Mlltou had been a gecond mother to her, and now the school was to be broken up for good, and news had come that her father had been ruined, and his monthly cheek must cease. “What am I to do. Miss MUton? 1 have not learned enough to go out as a governess not that that is your fault,” she added, with feeling. “A crow would blush dead white witli envy If he heard me try to sing, and I haven't an accomplishment in the world, and all my money is spent, of course,” and her eyes shone the more brightly for the gathering tears. The oldish lady looked at the sweet, plaintive face and then kissed it. “That Is just what puzzles Caroline and myself, dear,” she said, gently. ‘ Your father wishes yon to go to his brother's, Major Glldeu, whom he lias not seen for twenty years but 1 know the Major is not well off, and his sec ond wife ” and she paused. “Caro line and I would gladly take you with us were it possible, but for years past the school has only paid its way; your father's checks alone kept us afloat, and now——” ; “Oil, you poor dear. Now. Just let 4me have a good cry. and—and just give ■ino three minutes ly your watch, Miss I Milsou,” and shortly afterward she * dried her eyes, picked up her hat that she had thrown down, and declared she felt better, even laughing softly. In a few days Balls’ pony had been sold and the little pony chaise, a pres ent from her father, and she stood on the platform, alternately hugging Miss Milton and Miss Caroline, her eyes suffused with hot tears, her lips trem bling so that she could not speak. As she stepped into the carriage Miss Milton banded her a letter with a “God bless you, child: read this in the train.” and she was off. y The envelope contained a portrait of "the twin sisters and a bank note for twenty pounds. How they must have scraped and hoarded to save that, she thought with a swelling in her throat, and reckoned up her available capital. . The ponies and trap had sold well. She l was starting the world on a capita! of ■pearly seventy pounds. The future did ftiot look so very gloomy after all. If Htil trades failed she would buy and a sweetshop. Someone had told that was a paying business. and she rra-hed si;.- was laughing. B ****** • [ Two months before the events re corded above Talbot Gilden read and re-read a letter from Miss Milton witli knit brows and anxious face. “Balls simply has no idea of the value of money,” it said, “and I really wish you would decrease or stop her far too am ple allowance. A more sweet and lov able girl does not live; she has excep tional ability, but no notion of apply ing her talents. She. is. of course, inno cent of the world and its ways, and a short spell of comparative poverty may do tier good, as you suggest.” “It’s a confoundedly dangerous ex periment." he muttered, “but, by George! I’ll risk it: the old girl mar lie right, after ail.” and sitting down he wrote a long letter to Miss Milton, an other to Ills brother and then called his boy. “(Jet these off in time for to-night's mail,” and said, “and book my passage bv the following steamer. Tell Mr. Carey to parade all the. hands to-mor is sharp.” But the overseer on lie veranda as lie spoke, cigar month, and hugging a leather ! I'm glad you've brought your 1 he said. “Sit down and play eart Bowed Down;* that always me up. I'm going home nest CHAPTER 11. Gilden. welcomed her niece In nving room with a certain, or an uncertain, amount of eordlal be was a massive woman, who one time been good looking, but inflexion was rather fiorid, she rge hands and feet, her ample was covered with small steel s that clattered, ar.d. as Babs herself. “She creaks every time ■athes.” here are the Major and Ella." ned her hostess, after a desul onversation. during which she ver taken her eyes off the girl, ibs rose. a girl of about the same ago as was a bright little being with a large month, small hut very, blue eyes, and an Impertinent ose; she kissed their guest nois- APPLE TREE. And see me now! In nridc I hold My apples, shining red and gold,. Come to me, children fair. And all my bounty freely take. With love and smiles for her sweet sake Who kindly hung them there. —Youth's Companion. Ily and heartily, and Babs took a fancy to bar. The Major—she wondered if he resembled her father at all—was tall and thin, with long legs, over which be seemed io have little or ire control, and a quick. searching, almost covetous way of looking at one; lie seemed always on the defensive. He greeted the girl kindly enough, and then Ella conveyed her to her room chattering the whole way. and in live minutes Babs possessed the wholi family history. A young artist. :i Mr. Royce. who had a studio close by. loomed rather large in her prattle, and. as it was mother's "at home" day. would probably call that after noon. “Whore am I to put all my things, Ella?” Ella, perched on the edge of tlie bed, looked round with the air of a robin on the trail of a fat worm. “1 can lug a couple of trunks into my room," she said. “and. oh, do let me help you unpack!” When she saw tho ivory - backed brushes, silver mounted, the costly knick-knacks that soon crowded th - toilet table, she gazed with wide open eyes. "Your father must have been awful ly rich. Babs." "1 believe he was—once. See here, my initial is 'E.' the same as yours. Will you accept this brushV" and she handed her one of her ivory trio, and Ella impulsively kissed her. What ever her first slight awe of her statu esque cousin. It was brushed away now. At lunch—and bow Babs hated hash and its flabby Hits of saturated toast— the Major was talkative and spry, glancing keenly at his niece from time to time. She had brought a few pres ents for the family, a pair of earrings for her aunt, and she handed him a cigar case. “I am sorry I do not smoke cigars, Babs,” he said, “but 1 shall value your present ail the same.” Something had evidently milled Mrs. Gilden, for she said aloud, icily: “No, dear, half a dozen packs of cards would be more in your line." and Babs wondered if she had been al lowed a peep at the skeleton in the family cupboard. “I have just had a letter from my brother handed me by a namesake of ours, a very dlstaui cousin, introducing him. I have asked him to dinner to night.” "Does he come from the West In dies, uncle?” came from Babs. “Yes. he can teliwts all about poor Talbot.” “Poor father is really ruined, then?” “Irretrievably, 1 fear.” “Then good-bye to our occasional checks.” thought Mrs. Gilden, sighing heavily and creaking. To put it mildly, Mrs. Cllden's recep tion was not: a crowded function, for no one blit Mr. lioyce called. How this handsome, refined man came to find himself in this third rate makeshift kind of society was a marvel to Babs. Guy Royce sometimes wondered vague ly himself what brought him there. Ho, a lonely man. who made few friends, had met the trio at an unfash ionable watering place, nud Ella amused him. When he entered the room, a smile upon his lips for the adoring Ella, and was introduced to Babs, his manners for a moment de serted him. All the artist In the man. all the Intense love of the beautiful awoke iri him: he had instinctively taken her hand and looked Into her dark eyes. Sensitive and proud ns was the girl she did not resent the glance, for it was an almost reverential look, Guy Royce. like most men in Ids' pro fession, worshiped beauty, and in Hubs lie thought he had found its very in carnation. Conversation languished, and Ella was Inclined to pout: Mrs. Gilden, too, grudged the admiration Babs had evolved, when suddenly a bright idea struck the artist. “Mrs. Gilden.” he said, and liis was a wonderfully persuasive voice, “will you nil come round and have tea at my studio? My •Prosperine’ goes off io Paris to-morrow.” “I cannot, of course, get away, hut If Mrs. Grafton will play propriety there's no reason why the girls should not.” and the \iris darted off for their hats. * Guy proved a most courteous host, and showed them everything. Babs was specially attracted by uu old fashioned carved oak cabinet contain ing china. “None of these specimens are really valuable,” said Guy, deprecntingly. “but to me they are very precious, and have a history.” "Thauk you for your hospitality, Mr. Royce,” said Babs. in her smooth, even tone. “You have taught me more in the last two hours than 1 have-learned i as many years.” “Why. Ella. ! do believe you have been trying net to cry. My dear girl, what is the matter?” and then, as a happy thought, the schoolgirl remedy for grief suddenly presented itself to her mind. “Come and gorge ices. Ella!” ■ v CHAPTER 111. On their return and descent, to the drawing room, a few' minutes before the dinner hour, the girls found that, the stranger had arrived. He was a tall man of about fifty, his beard thickly sprinkled with white hairs; he had dreamy blue eyes, and. as far ns could be seen a sensitive, sweet mouth, Babs was in a white cashmere dress that, like all her costumes, fitted her like wax; a small diamond sparkled in either ear. Her dark liafr and glorious eyes were enhanced in beauty by her attire, and Mr. Gilden started, anil a hot flush rose to his cheek as. he took her hand. “You are the image of your mother —may I call you Babs? We are cou sins"—and there was that in his voice that caught the girl's sensitive ear. She woMlorcd if lie. too. had fallen a victim to the wonderful charm o*' her dead mother. “Now, 1 want to see this artist friend of yours. Balls. Your father would like your portrait. I know, and—and I intend to pay for it. Wo will go round to-morrow. I something of young Boyce's people.** After dinner the Major led the way to the smoking room, where cards lay upon the table. * "What shad we play. Gilden—cn clire?" Tim eider man rolled his cigar be tween his lies and leaned his back against the door. "No, thanks Mortimer: i never gam ble." “Good heavens—Talbot I" “Precisely. Now listen to me. It you till any ore, even your wife, that 1 am your brother, you get no more money from me. 1 have been in town for some days. 1 called at the Junior. I found you were posted there; I have paid your subscription. At the Circle, ditto, ditto.” “Then you are not rubied?” “Never mind whether 1 am or not, hut keep your mouth shut." “Talbot, you arc generous.” “1 always was eccentric. A man must lie eccentric or mad to reward the fellow through whose lies and ma chinations lie. was out off from the fam ily and sent abroad. Still, we are good friends, my dear Mortimer. Now let us join the ladies." * <t a iy * ■ 111 After this Talbot Gilden called near ly every day. sending the Major and liis wife to one theatre, while lie tools flic girls to'.‘mother, ami l’abs Idolized him. One day he had accompanied her ta the studio to watch tiio progress of the portrait when a telegram which had been s oil on from the house was handed to him and he left, the studio. “Miss Gilden." said Guy. throwing down palette and brushes, “our picture is nearly finished, and 1 am sorry life has been very sweet to me.” “We shall never meet again," sho said gently. "My aunt can afford to keep me no longer. 1 i tn to teach in a school," and tears rose to her glorious eyes. “Balls, dear, 1 am a poor man, but.l can save you from being a governess, at any rate. I love you. darling, em blem of everything that is pure, lova ble and good. I will not ask you for an answer. If you will have none of me break this cup." and lie put it into her hands. Shn gently touched it with her iips; ho understood. In a moment his arms were round her, ids lips lay upon liers. “Guy, Guy," she said, brokenly, “heaven is very near to tne now. dear one. Heaven is very mar.” "Weil, girlie, you might ask your old father's consent,” and Gilden entered. “Father - father', are you my father? Oh, father, my heart is full.” She kissed him again and again, and then turned to her lover, moist-eyed, her bosom heaving. lie clasped her hand. “We are going to be poor together, father. Guy and I will help you, and Tiie genial old fellow hurst into a loud guffaw, and clapped tlie artist on i he shoulder. “Artists, ns a rule, don't know much about finance.” lie said, “but i lliink I can show you some figures that will rather astonish you.” And Ella? The generous, unselfish little soul, when she heard the news, first had a good cry, then laughed, and said she was a little fool, and then thought that for the iasi three months she had been rather unkind to Tom Daeres. whom she had known all her life, and who was “something in the city."—New York. News. The Aulomobilion* Yocabuliry. Patrons of rile motor car seem deter mined to enrich the language with more new words, the generic names of their vehicles, the appellations of the drivers of them, and the various tenses of the ver!) “to motor.” We have seen iii an automobile journal "niotoruien” written without the hyphen, like press men. “AutoinobHism." signifying the pastime or business of motor ear driv ing, appears to have come to stay. Various manufacturers of motor car specialties allude to their goods as “motorities,” “motralities” and “mo torccssorlcs,” while two of these tradesmen have named their factories and shops “Autornobiliu” and "Mo torin'' respectively. "Motiflc," which caught, oh# eye the oilier day. was. we fancy, only the motorist's telegraphic address. But who knows that that fearsome word may not yet come into extended use, a person in the motiflc state being one taken with mofor car fever.—Westminster G nssette. Value of a Broken Xoek. A Chicago court has decreed that $35,000 is the price of a broken neck, when the victim of such an accident does not. die. Such damages were awarded recently to Frederick Thoer* fell. a carpenter employed by the T'uion Traction Company of Chicago, About a year and a half ago Thoerfell fell from a scaffold and broke his neck. He is one of the few cases where such an accident had not brought death. HE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. An English company has perfected a kerosene burner for steam vehicles, which, in experimental trials covering over 1000 miles, with four passeugns in the carriage, showed an average cost for fuel of but onc-flfth of a c ut a mile, as compared with two an* a half cenm a mile when gasolene was used amt but two passengers carried. Full steam pressure was kept up con stantly. regardless of the demands t f tb.e engine. There is at least one lighthouse i'i the world that is not marked cn any mariner's chart. It iif away out in tlie Arizona Desert, and marks the spa: where a well supplies pure, l'resh rr ter to travelers. It is the only place where water may he had for forty-live miles to the eastward and for at least thirty miles in any other direction. The “house" consists of a tall cotton wood pole, to the top of which a lan tern is hoisted every night. The light can be seen for miles across the plain iu every direction. -V writer on nature tells how eats help the growth of red clover. The tube of the blossom is too long for the honey bee to get at the nectar at the base of the flower, so it is left to the bumble-bee to do this, aud tints fertil ize tiie plants by carrying the pollen from one to another". But the field mice destroy the homes of the bumble bee and eat their stored-up honey, and if left to do this unchecked would soon by destroying tiie bees deprive the clover of its means of fertilization. The farmers' eats, however, catch the field mice, and tints help to save the | clover. . It is said that hundreds or people | gain a livelihood in the volcanic dis trict of Middle Italy by digging up ptunico stone, which is a volcanic | product. Volcanoes furnish many | products that are of value In art, arclii j lecture aud commerce. Anjong them are gypsum, or plaster of parts; basalt, \ chalcedony,' porphyry, jasper, feldspar and rock crystal. The diamond, as is | well known, is of volcanic origin. The I various hot springs, where sufferers | from disease find relief, are produced , by the same natural agencies that I cause volcanic eruptions. Scientists I say that they occupy the sites of an cient volcanoes. A promising method of reducing hearing friction is the use of some j form of a roller bearing. One of the i latest types, tiie Ilyatl. says the Iron i Age. has, instead of solid rolls, a series jof coil springs. These are so flexible j in use that a slight derangement of | the axis of the shaft will not throw | the journal upon one edge of the roli ! ci's, as is the case when they are 'solid: but tiie springs will retain con tact along the entire length, thus mini mizing wear on both .loui’iia’ ‘bnd bear ing, Another advantage lies in the facl that the roller nets as an oil reser voir. while roller and spiral together perform the function of an oil carrier, j This makes perfect lubrication auto | malic and largely diminishes the 1 amount of attention required by the | hearing. |, Two plumb-lines, of No, 21 piano wire'Njd 1250 feet in length, were re- I ceutly in the Tumarae!: Mine, at Calumet, Michigan. The lines each curried a fifty-pound iron hob. and were hung twelve feet apart. Measurement showed that the lower ends of the lines diverged about three quarters of an inch. Various reasons were suggested for this, but none of them were wholly satisfactory. To avoid possible magnetic repulsion, bronze wires carrying sixty-pound load bobs, and 1440 feet in length, were suspended in another shaft of the mine, and they showed a slight con vergence at the bottom; but when tiie same wires were suspended in the original shaft they diverged as the steel wires had done. The conclusion readied is that the divergence was due, neither to gravitation nor magnet ism, hut to the influence of almost im perceptible air-currents in the shafts. Carious MonstroßltleN. “For flip lirMt limp 'within tin* ‘rmin* ory of the oldest inhabitant' of Hart laud or Barnstable.” writes a corre spondent of the Westminster Gazette, “a double-beaded snake (Vipern herus) has been killed near the former place, where those reptiles abound. I have only seen one abnormality of the same kind, aud that was found in the Island of Arran in IS<i,S. The late Frank Buckland Imd In ills museum at Re gent's Park a double-beaded snake, but that was a ring snake (Tropidoaotus natrix), which, strange to say, is more liable to develop monstrosity forms than our common adder. The Devon shire curiosity, like Dockland's, lias one head larger than the other, the smaller one growing out of the side of the breast.” “It is a very.curious faef." continues the correspondent, “that in animal life double-headed ness is more common among fish than any known terrestrial mammalians or insects, and even double-headed salmon have been arti ficially bred and reared, i have been double-headed rats, mice, one pig, sev eral calves; and two-headed human beings are not unknown. There is one peculiarity about these monstrosi ties not yet fully understood. In the case of snglces the curious-brutes ap pear to live a normal condition of ex istence, in the case of tile lower mam malia they rarely survive many days. The most extraordinary monstrosity I have ever seen among birds was ft pheasant chick with its eyes inside its upper mandible; in all other respect* it was a perfectly formed bird ” i / LATEST ' New York City.—Blouse jackets are ilways jaunty, always smart and very generally becoming. The excellent May Manton .model illustrated is of woman’s tucked iu.ou.se jacket. sibeline, in brown with threads of tan •olor, collar and cuffs of brown velvet Hlged with bands of tan cloth, stitched with eorticojli silk, and makes part of t costume, hut the design suits the odd wrap equally well and is adapted to all lie season’s materials. The collar Isa ipeeial feature and is both novel and dylish. The jacket is made with fronts and lack and is smoothly fitted at the hack, tint blouses slightly over the belt at Ihe front. Fronts, back and sleeves ire laid in tucks, in groups of three 'iicli. and arc finished with machine stitched edges in tailor style. The right front laps over the left and the closing is effected by buttons and but- LONG COAT WITH CAPES. on holes in double-breasted style. The neck is finished with the big turn-over foliar, aud to tiie lower edge is seamed tiie basque. The full sleeves are gath ered into shapely cuff’s at the wrists, and the belt conceals the joining of blouse and basque portions. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four yards twenty-one inches wide, two and an eighth yards forty-four Inches wide or ills and seven-eighth yards fifty-two nclies wide, with seven-eighth yards if velvet for collar, cuffs and belt. Woman** I.ong <’oat With Cnp(‘. Long coats arc much in vogue and ire both protective and comfortable. I’ho stylish May Manton example -liown in tiie large drawing includes lie becoming and fashionable capes ind becomes syited to traveling, gcti *ru 1 use, evening or bad weather wear is it is made of one material or un it her. The original, from which the drawing was made, is of Oxford grey melton cloth, with collar of velvet, and handsome curved metal buttons, but -loths if lighter weight and of various colors and oravenette materials are all appropriate. The edges are finished with double rows of machine stitching in black eortlcelli silk. The coat is made with loose fitting double breasted fronis and backs, which outline the figure stylishly and are joined by means of under-arm gores. The under arm seams arc left open for a few inches above the lower edge to allow greater freedom, and at each front is inserted a pocket under* Ticath u lap. The sleeves are two seamed, and are finished with roll-over cuffs. Over the shoulders are arranged triple capes that are cut without ful ness. The neck is finished with a regu lation collar and lapels that turn back over the edges of the capes. The quantity of material required for the medium size is live and a half yards forty-four inches wide or five yards fifty-two inches wide. New Model Muff. The tails which once decorated the ends of a muff, where they long swung in triumph, have now been removed. Our modish muff shows three fine bushy tails, all strung lu line, on the front of the muff. One is in the exact middle, and the side pieces are not far off, at quite a little distance from the ends of the muff. Such a muff made up in sil ver fox is all glorious. -Do not try this In ermine, where the tails are small. It requires a full, fluffy tail to display tiie style. Dark mink, blue l'ox aud black fox can all show off the new model muff which will be worn the coining winter. Handy and Handsome. In the shape of a suit case is a hand some bag of black leather for a wom an's use. The inside is finished witli dark blue velvet and leather. On the inside of the cover are three pockets with flaps of the leather, marked re spectively “handkerchiefs,” “gloves” and “veils.” On either side of these are straps, and in one a glove stretch er, aud in the other a paper cutter. Across the top of the body of the case is a something iu the nature of a tray, and in straps are the various toilet ar ticles, bottles, etc. A London Idea. The girls in London have a clever Idea for their whiter veils. They line them with the thinnest of tulle of a Hash tint, taking care that it is done imperceptibly. The two are folded over tiie face together, and the tulle takes a\yay the frozen, pinched look that on a cold day shows through the ordinary dotted veil. Rut.tofiH of Old Silver. Beautiful filigree buttons of old sil ver are used on coats of squirrel. In fact, all the fur garments are en hanced by exquisite metal or enamel buttons. Cliilfl'rt Double Itreaftteil Cape. Capes make by far tlic most conve nient of all wraps for wee women as well us for lliose of mature years, for no other sort allows of slipping on and off with such perfect ease. This styl ish little model can be made suited to cold weather or to the milder days, as It is made of heavier or less heavy ma terial. As shown it is of cadet blue cloth, the hood lined with bright plaid silk and the collar of blue velvet, but wools of various weights, colors and weaves are appropriate. The cape is circular and falls in graceful ripples at the lower edge. The hood is seamed at the centre arid is ar ranged over the shoulders, the tipper edge being’seamed to tiie neck that Is finished with a roll-over collar. The original is lined throughout anil is finished with machine stitching done with eortlcelli silk, but the edges can be turned under, stitched and pressed when that method is preferred. The right side laps well over the left in double-breasted style, and the cape”is closed by means of buttons and button holes. The quantity of material required DOUBLE BIIEABTED CAPE WITH HOOD. for the medium size (six years) is one and seven-eighth yards forty-four Inches widd or oue and seven-eighth ■yards fifty-two Inches wide. DECEMBER 7 Our. Budget of Humor. Mini'. Link .ml Woman’* Buck. Poor-woman! She is “Mrs.” whea j Siu: leaves her single state, 4 And so is suffered by the mem ( To sit around and wait. But man. more fortunate by far < Is "Mr.” all his days— L Though wedded, there is stil! no bar • ' liis title serva. to raise. —ChWoco Record-Herald. Strict Attention. “Why don’t you look out at this beautiful scenery?” “Oh, I am traveling on business and not for pleasure!” -Fliegende Blaetter. lie Wasn’t Olio of tlic Two. Uncle George—“ You are always com plaining about your wife's bnd temper, but you know it takes two to make a quarrel.” Harry—“ln this ease the two are my wife and my wife’s mother.”—Boston Transcript. Tlic Soui. Daintleigli (at the hoarding house) — “Beg pardon, Mrs. Skinner, but isn’t this the same soup we had yesterday warmed over?” Mrs. Skinner—“No, sir, it is- what was left over from yesterday.”—Bos ton Transcript. A Sense of Superiority. • “Doesn't it annoy you to have alt these more-or-less literary persons criticise you so severely?" “Not at nil,” answered the poet lau reate. “They are Jealous because I don’t have manuscripts declined with thanks."—Washington Star. Depends on Circumstances. She—“Do you regard marriage as a necessity or a luxury?” He—“ Well, when a man marries a cross-eyed girl who says silly things, whose nose turns up at the end anil whose father is worth about $2,000,000, I should say it was a necessity.”—Chi cago Record-Herald. Siffna of Prosperity. “How do you get the reputation of being so much richer limn you are?” asked the intimate friend. "Very easily. I wear my old clothes as long as possible and never admit that 1 have any money that I could lend. People take it for granted that I must be prosperous."—Washington Star. Kpf? No More Suspense. “Why did you insist on getting me an upper berth in tiie sleeping car?” asked the habitually austere lady. “Well,” answered her irrepressible niece, “you have been expecting for so many years to find somebody under bed that I thought It might re lieve your mind to have all doubts on the subject removed for once,” . > .. ..j,. , <4 > A Northern Clime. —Detroit Free Press. A fair Philosopher, “And you really think that the ignor ant may be successful in life?” said the man who enjoys abstruse discus sion. “Certainly,” answered Miss Cayenne; “the man who thoroughly believes in himself has a great advantage. And self-esteem is frequently based on the ' grossest sort of Ignorance.”—Washing ton Star. From Sole to Upper. “What is this 1 leathery stuff?” tiie diner asked, when the second course of the dinner was served. “That is a filet of sole, sir,” replied the waiter “Take it away,” said the diner, after attacking it with Ills fork, “and see if you can’t get me a nice tender piece of ■ the upper, with the buttons removed." —What to Eat. The Ant ami the Sluggard. “Did you go to the ant?” “I did,” replied the sluggard, “and my visit convinced me that industry has a pretty hard row to hoe. When 1 arrived people were sweeping 'the ant’s .castles and store houses off the brick walls and scaring the bustling throng of workers away from the house by means of cayenne pepper and other painful or poisonous drugs. I must say that, rather thun be as un popular as an ant I’d be a sluggard.”-. Washington Star. Uncolonlal llames. Mrs. Plngey—-“I don’t see how you can manage to go to church three times :m Sunday.” Mrs, Bland—“l do It, simply by doing no work of any kind on the Sabbath, f think it positively wicked for women to stay home and cook dinners for their husbands on Sunday.” Mrs. Plngey—“l suppose, then, yon have a cold luuch at noon?” Mrs. Bland—“ Oh. dear, no, I always take dinner at Mr. Bland's sister. She's a splendid cook, and she always tries to do heftiest on Sundays.”—Boo ton Transcript.