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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-8-5, Page 7HOUSEHOLD. Choice Recipes. Ae. To,xATo Soup,—To one quart of beetling water add one quart of tomeyoee ; boll again ad pat in oneteaapoaafat of Noes; as aon aro it has exceed foaming, add one pint of milk four- rolled'oreekerp butte er end malt, and serve very hot, r, Penner • A $10TRiTloirs EIIDTH.—A quarter of a eespoonfui of beef extract thyolk o n e beaten up,a on of entreat, weter as little salt add, and served with a elioe of hot least, makes a palatable and nutrittoue lunoheon, and an excellent repast for in vends. Q IEEN OF Pu Detnag—One uart of milk, one pint of bread crumbs,theayolk of two eggs. After it is baked spread y eli or any d of fruit over the to Beat the whited Of two eggs to a froth, zn x with eager, and. put on the top and set in the oven until a i little brown. Blume BREAD -Throe oupoo immolate, two cups of rye, halfa cup 'methane, li cup' each of tour milk and warm water. Mix mediate, milk, and water thoroughly, add- ing one teaspoonful of soda; then stir in the meal ; oto en four hoare. Be very care- ful not to'l the water atop boiling while "teaming., LEMON Tame -One' Dnp of auger, two lemons, all he juice, and a teaspoonful of grated peel, one teaspoonful of cern starch dissolved in a little cold water, and ens and one half dozen raking, stewed, out in two, and seeded. Beat rip well, andbake with upper and lower cruet. ORANGE TARTLETS—Two fine oranges, jnic° of both -and grated peel of one, ene cup of sugar—three-fourths cup if the orangee are very sweet—one tablespoonful of butter, one-half lemon—jalae only—to wet one teaspoonful of corn atarah. Beat all well together and bake in tartlet shells without never. , A DELICATE SOGFFLE—DIasolve a quarter of •a pound of chocolate In lake -warm water ; add the yolks of four eggs and a cup of powdered sugar,' and mix well to- gether until you have a smooth, frothy paste. Beat up the four whites to a stiff froth and:add them to the mixture. Pour all into a baking dish ; leave it for twenty minutes in the oven an serve. INDIAN PODDING WITHouT linos—Boll & quart et milk, and stir in a meant pint of in- ane meal mixed smooth with cold milk, boll for twenty minutes, add two table- spoonfuls of batter, ene each of ginger and cinnamon, and a tablespoonful of salt. Stir in a Dnp of molaeaee, and bake for an hour and a half. This may be varied by the addition of a • cupful of ralelue and our - rants, COFFEE OREAM.—Beat one quart of rioh, sweet Dream to a stiff froth, like the white of eggs for icing; then mix with ene- quarter pound of granulated sugar, and anortly before serving, beat Into it ene cup of oold coffee extract, which has been made by slowly filtering two cups ef boiling water through two ounces of finely ground ooffee, Serve in a glass dish, with lady fingers er fresh sponge cake. SHORT•CAXEs FoR STRAWBERRIES, BLACK. BERRIES, on RASPBERRIES—One teaonp of cream, one of soar milk, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaepaonfal of ealt, mix end beat in flour, roll out quickly enedhalf an Inch thick and bake. When taken from the oven lit ..spread with sweet butter, and then as berries ; lay the upper part on, ornat a de down, and cover with berries and sprinkle with sugar. Prepare your horrid with sugar half an hour before using. Be sure the berries are ripe. APPLE JELLY—Take any tart red apples and quarter them to be sure of no wormy ones, but net peel them. Nearly cover them with water and boil all to pieces. Strain through a jeliy.bag without using mnoh pressure, au it will net be clear if you get in mnoh of the pulp, Allow three- fonrthe pounds of sugar to ene pound of juloe and boil twenty minutes. Jelly from orab les to made in the same way, the littlri, les making the nicest and clearest all idle'. VEAL SALAD.—Mix ene half teaspoonful of mustard with half a cupful of vinegar. Beat the yolks of two er three eggs, with a little salt, until they are quite thiok and • light, then, stirring briskly all the time, slowly add twe or three tablespoonfuls of best salad oil, and four tablespoonfule ef rich, think, sweet cream. Then add mus- tard, vinegar, salt and pepper to taste, and acme very finely chopped parsley and tar- ragon. Pour this sauce over a heaping plateful of oold roasted veal, out into pteoes about an inch long and a quarter -inch thick, oever tightly and let it stand in a cold place for an hour or two. Serve on a platter and garnish with 'prfga of ortps parsley and elioea of a hard belled egg, The Rival Drummers. A Chicago drummer balanced his chin on the edge of the seat in front of him and tickled a sandy -haired passenger's ear with the remark : " You've been in Chicago, of oourie 7" " Where? An uncertain look came into the sandy - haired man's eyes. "Let me see," he mused retrospectively ; "'pears to I must have passed through there. I've traveled a goad deal. I know I've heard the name before. What line of read is it on 1" " Line of road. Why, it'e the biggest railroad centre on earth." "Net bigger'n Crestline, Ohio, is it2" asked the passenger with an amused ex- pression. ,.I've seen four trains to one at Crestline, waitin'to start off: ` Is Chicago a place where the traius stop for dinner 2" "Naw," said the diegustod drummer; "Chicago is a plane where tho pastengere atop for dinner. "Cf course, that's what I meant," ex- plained rho redhaired man gently, " Fact *le," he went on with confidential frankness, " I've traveled so much and been in so many different pitied in my life that I don't pretend to remember women a quarter of 'man What's the name of the hotel in Chi- cago? " There ain't any," said the drummer, gloomily. Then he walked forward to the filter, fill- ed his mouth full of water, gargled his throat, whooshed the liquid on the floor and hang his leg over the corner of the coal box. " Who le that evil eyed, pink -haired, lumpy -legged, prairie -oared microbe at the other side of the oat ?" he asked of the con- cluder, who was passing through the train - "Do yeu mean the gentleman looking out of the window?; "Ya'ae," "He's a fish marched from St, • Louie,"' All admit that a miser is not right to hoard his gold in a box when he might so invest it as to add to the welfare of multi- tudes, But every ono doe the same thing radically who holds in his own poseoesion anything from which he cannot or does net °street the value, thereby rendering It uSo- THE STOV,g.i'IPB HAT. relate Wrenn a stsenrlon 1* a Leadlati Swede raper. Duringthe t few weeks the columna of "the leden 1pa er In Glias ow have been Keened to Correspondents who desired to proeent arguments for and againet the wearing ot the tail eilk hat. To judge from the number of lettere that have been published on the nut jeot, one would suppose. that hundreds of people had devoted tho beet part of their lives considering tho merits of the proper covering of the heads ot men, and that nearly all eif them had come to, the conoluelon, atter diligent study, observation and reflection, that the tell silk hat poeaeeeed advantages over every form of headgear that had been worn in ancient or modern times. A oommeroial traveller etatee that when he firet took to the road he wore a suit ot light tweed cloth and a soft alouoh hat. Thede, he thought, would be very con• butane, well Gaited for travelling, and. euffiaiently dressy for a person engaged in hie 000upatiea. Hie tri was net euooe- g ful, though he abstained ea from all the aloe mamma to "' drummers" and attended ttrtotly to business. The few bills of goods he nold were to email dealers of somewhat' doubtful commercial etanding, He was so discouraged by his foliar° to aeoure trade. that he wail thinking of giving up the bud-- nese ust-nese when an English commercial traveller suggested to him that hie dress was not in hie favor. He recommended him to dis- card hia tweed sank and low plenoh hat, and to wear in their place a black frock- ooat and shiny stove -pipe, and to try " his luck again. He followed the advtoe, and euoceeded far beyond hie first antiotpatlons. Ho waa welcomed at planes where he was not received before, and generally made large sales.. THE VALVE OF GOOD CLOTHES, This statement is followed by one from a prosperous ottymerohant, He writes that he entered the house of which he is now the manager and senior partner as an effioe- boy, He atonce resolved f' to work -him- self up to the highest round," if that could be accomplished by study, care, industry, and the exorcise of all the ability he pos- eessed. His programs was slow at first,' but he attributed this to the faot that . he was young. When he became a man he dreesed plainly, ordinarily in tweed clothes and low hat, so as to aavo all he (enid out of hie. salary. He made himself usefulto the house and was more than once assured that hie service was duly appreciated. Still no- thing was said to, him about taking him into the firm or giving him an intoned in the busineee. Becoming discouraged at his prospect of advancement, he concluded that he might as well spend more of his eatery in drese and making a better appearance, He accordingly appeared at hie place of badness one Monday morning in a black broadcloth ault, while a tall silk hat was on his head. He entered on his duties as usual, and no remarke.were made about hie ohange of drese, but mere customers ad- dressed him than was customary, and be- fore the weak ended he was invited to be- come a member of the firm, A German commercial gentleman, tem- porarily residing in Glasgow, adds hie testi- mony in favor of the tall hat. He states that merchants from London and Paris are better received in Berlin than are these from Glasgow and Edinburgh, and he is inolised to think that the preference to them is due to the tall hate they wear, as the sett hats worn by the Scotohmen proaent a very cheap appearance. The testimony of these three men appearo to bo sufficient to estab. 7ish the valve of the tall hat in the world of trade and commerce. Its value in premot- Ing reepeotability and morality is declared by many persons. FROM A MORAL STANDPOINT, A woman states that she has for many years observed the men taken to a elation by the police, and that not ene in 200 Weare a tell hat. Another has noticed while travel- ling that the men who wear tall hate behave In a more dignified, respectful and refined manner than theme who wear caps or low hats., The former are not addicted to the nee ef profane or low language. A lady who has given much attention to the matter of drese thinks -that no covering for the head is so becoming or tasty as the tall silk hat, and she regrets that they are so expensive and so liable to cause headache and bald. nem. This letter oalle out communications from a physician and a dealer in second- hand goods. The doctor states that the tall hat is the most healthful covering for the head, and declares that the men who wear them very rarely have the headache. If the hat has a ventilator at the tep of it the wearer is not likely to become bald. It causes the top of the head to be surrounded by air, which is the peered conanoter of heat, thus keeping it warm in winter and cold in summer, The dealer in mond-hand articles ef dress states that he pays more than twice as much for cast off silk hats as he does for felt hate that originally sold for the same prioe. He thinks if they were generally worn that dealers would pay half-price for them when they bad seen six month's ser- vice. They would be cleaned up raid shop. ed so as to conform to the latest style. Fi- nally, the testimony ot a professor of sol- enoe and navigation is given in regard to the tall hat as a life•preeerver. He says it le more serviceable in case of shipwreck than any buoy he has ever experimented with. It now memo evident that the stovepipe hat is the moat potent agent in every de- partment of progress and reform that we posoess, We now understand why there is so much wealth, refinement, culture, and intellectual activity in Landon and Paris. Tho men who live in these cities generally wear stove -pipe hats. In view of the tes- timony that has been given on the subject it seeing likely that we have not yet discov- ered half the virtues of the tall hat. A Knight of the Bath. It is proposed in Canada that our dia- tlagufohed and enterprising Staten Island mihionaire shall bo knighted as a token of Canadian recognition for the benefit' he has conferred upon the Dominion. It is a fit idea, though, of oouree, we Yankees and Demoorate.would net think any better of him' because of his aristooratlo title, But Sir Eraatua Wiman would sound finely, and when Canada Domes to be annexed,' he would get the right to be elected Preai. dent, all the name as though he had been born South of the lino, Have the danadiane ever thought of that in their political speculations l—N, Y. Sun. A Detroit tramp, who for ten day° had boon driven from plane to place by the police, saw a little boy fall into tho river, and at onoo'plutaged in and saved him, although net until the boy in hie struggles had nearly drowned both. The tramp was assured by a policeman that he wouldn't be molested any more, the bystandera'•prettied him, and the boy thanked him, Ho looked hungry as he walked away to, dry his rags. P.ERSON'.A: Rea, Robert YatesThamion, M. A,, B. D„ Of Henaell, Ont, has accepted the new leo- turechip of linen College, Toronto, that of Old"Testament Introduction and Aualyyel"'.. Mr, Thomsen le a rain man of abilt ; he graduated In arta atgthe Universit of Toronto In leen has taken a degree in theology at Egtubur h, and has had ecu- sidereble experience in minion and church The first eleatenant•gevernor of the State of Illinois was n French Canadian, Mr. Pierre Maenad, a fur trader. A statue is to be erected shortly to hia memory, and Mr, Waahburne, the ex -American minister, is pushing it forward, Tt e pedestal le to be in pollehed granite. A bronze group will show the lieutenant governor etanding life•elze. Beside him an Indian, sitting on a pile of fuze, tends the merchant a buck- akfu. At Belleville and Kingston the queetion of whether there can be any :more wicked. nese in rowing than in driving to a camp meeting on Sunday bas been, taimed. The parties= of rowing point to a recent ao- cident caused, by the runaway of a team be- longing to Jesoph Snider, of Erneettown, by whioh Mre, Snider and Mies Shaw were seriously hurt, as a vindication of their view, and now the partisans of driving aro patiently waiting for a Sunday: drowning to square the account. The muss of the Knights of Pythias de- monstration ' In Toronto ie in a large mea- sure doe to Dr. John S. King of that city. In a speech at a meeting of the Knights, Tuesday night Dr. King acid ; " The cross- ing and recrossing of the boundary line by people of Canada and United Stares would contribute towards obliterating the barrier of national prejudice, but as to favoring the annexation of Canesla to the'United States I never could do so, and 7 never will be pre- pared to exohange the Union Jack for the Stars and Stripes. If there is to be any an- nexation, it must be the annexation of the repablio to the Dominion under British Government," A couple of tramps commenced a fight in front of the roeldence of a Brantford, Ont., phyaioian. The medical` man obeeotod to the locality selected for the flag, and be- ing engaged in operating a: garden hise, he turned the stream en the combatants. The move did not prove to be a wise one, for in a moment one of the paginate wrested the nozzle from the doctor's hands, turned the stream foil upon him, and oempelled him to retreat and leave the warriors to continue their fight in peace, Major McGibbon in an interview with a Regina Leader reporter the other day said " I mat many of these Saroeo Indians last Summer, was at the Sun Dance, and on many occasions Father La Combe, In the goodness of hie bears used to send Indian tamilies to the Fort with a request that I would give them some provisions, as they were very poor. I river sent them away without giving them a little baoon, tea, sager, biscuits and some tobacco, I well remember that so soon as they turned the corner they threw the biscuits away, show- ing that they were not very hungry, as thee° same bleouite were fit for anyone to eat. Says the London Colonial Exhibitor : �" A few days ago, by courtesy ot the pro- prietors of the London Times, a small party ef Canadians were invited to inspect the great estabiiehment in Printing-Honee Square, Tho invitations were the Hon. Hector Fabre, Canadian Commissioner for Frame, Hon. G. Outmet, Superintendent of Education, Qnebeo ; Dr. May, Eduoatfen Department, Ontario ; Ira Cornwall. Re- presentative of New Brunswick ; J. E. Marmette, Csnadian Librarian ; R. A. Payne, St. John Sun; M. Bremner, London Free Press, and E. B. Biggar, representing the Exhibitor and Canadian press generally. Mr, Macdonald, the mechanical manager, showed the visitors the various features or the office, Including the eight Waltef presses on whioh the Times is printed, and the type -setting machines, whish were first brought into really successful use here. The parliamentary reports are now diotated direct from the shorthand writers in the House by telephone, to the operator at the machine, than attaining the ahertest transi- tion known in journalism from the speaker's voice to the printed page." A Step in Advance. It IS said that the Canadian Pacific RaII- way Company has fitted up a number of cars with baths. This is a decided step in ad- vanoe, and it is not a little surprising that Mr. Pullman did not do the same thing long ago. The need of such refreshment as a bath alone furnishes must have been felt by all who have occasion to make long rail. read journeys. So general is tide want that bathing oars would be certain to pay well, and new that oar neighbours have introduc- ed them it Is to be hoped that they will soon appear on American railways, and ospeoially on the Pacific routes,—N, Y. Tribune A cdorm Blwgl h O&M T had just rat down beside some atm Medea who waro having their breakfast, and WWI a sardine to aryl lip., when Ca tails Fame came hastilyupandtold p ha Ino Oat there was an cinder dancing with rage on the water tins and calling for me ; and he added in a, whisper : " I think, by the nature of the language he le using, he must be a very blig ewelL" Sol pat the sardine down uncasted, and went ali to sea what wail the *natter. True enough ecmebody was there,; and I could perceive a large solar tope bobbing above the water depot like an agitated muehroom, Its owner wee a email man, And to secure a more Dom. mandipg pceition, had mounted on a pile of empty tine, from which point of advantage he fired off his remarks like shrapnel shell. " Leek here," he said, as Noon as 1 Dame within range, " did yen give orders'' for the mules to have water ?" " Certainly nob, sir ; animals are only to be watered when the wells have been captured." " Very well ; here iri your representative, the offioer 1e --with withering scorn-" you leave in °barge, breaking the orders and watering mules," 'Here the luokleaa A— wes understood to say that he was not doing anything of the sort, but wee only looking at a paper on r hieh some one had written a request for water for mules. " 1 don't care, sir 1 I saw you with my own epee take this paper in your hand, and if you were not going to water the mnlos, what werey doingu o with it 2" . "Pardon me, sir," remarked A --meekly, " but If. you are net more mobil those tine will come down ;" for he eaw;the pile beginning to tremble beneath hie superior's wrath. Down pumped the ether as If they were red hot,but as soon as he found himself on firm gound continued tee attack. " I'll tell you what it le, sir," he said, " this water is as precious as our life's blood, and there is only ene thing to do to prevent Its being squandered ; we must make an example cf an officer." Here he fixed hie glance sternly on poor A—, whose enor- mous big eyes and somewhat cadaverous facie gave him a most melancholy expres sten, " He must," continued ho slowly, " be taken outside the zareba and shot." " Why, certainly, sir ; a very geed thing, too," I replied oheerfully ; but just for decenoy's Bake, before consigning my friend town eariydeath, I added: " If you will truat me, I will be responsible that the mules get no water, and there is still a largo reserve in store." I did not dare to leok at A--, whe, notwithstanding hie solemn face, was perceptibly shaking with internal spasms of suppressed mirth, whioh threatened at any moment to be too mnoh for him, though he pulled himself together and managed to look as sober as a criminal at the bar, when the other replied, severe- ly : " I am glad to hear you say so, and I will trust yen ; but—" and here he again fixed A --with his eye before turning away, as though regrettiug hie leniency— " mark my word. If that officer attempts to give water to the mules he must be taken eutaide the zareba and shot." " You evidently are not good enough to be shot inside the zareba." I said to A--, as, bidding him prosper at hie port, I returned to my breakfaet. I feel I have deacribed this wine very feebly, but there was a fine, old-fashioned flavor about the idea of casually shooting ar offioer be- fore breaktaat that tickled me Immensely. Swedish Manners. One great peculiarity of travelling in Sweden is the extreme quiet and lack of flurry. The Swedes are a taciturn and noise - leas people, They de mach by signs, and never shout ; a Swedish crowd make singu- larly little sound. Swedes, even of the lowest olase, never push or jostle, It is the custom to do so much bowing and hat -lift- ing that one is obliged io move much more slowly than in England to give time to all this courtesy. When a train leaves a plat- form, or a steamboat, or a pier, all the look- ers on lift their hate to the departing pas- sengers and bow to them, a compliment re- turned by the travellers If you address the poorest persons in the streets you must lift your hat. Agentleman passing a lady on the stairs at a hotel muot do the same. To enter a shop or bank with mom's hat on is a terrible breach of good manners. If yon enter or leave a coffee -roam you mast bow to all the 000upants. Passengers on board the little steamers whioh ply about Stock- holm invariably raise their hate to the oo- cupanta of any other boat whioh passes near them. The very men in oharge of the looks on the canalboat' bow politely to the sailors as the boats go through. Imagine English bargees indulging in such amenities, "I am convinced that the world is daily growing better," remarked a reverend gen- tleman to a brether-olergyman ; "my con- gregation is constantly increasing." "Yes," replied the other, mho happened ;to be a penitentiary chaplain, "and se is mine." From Over the Peace r " S'rosE PEWTER 2" - Brer Pester r "Vito, PRETTY' MUCH ALL. Dtov. IS HAVIN' GREAT TIMES Dowty IN NOVA SOrTIA. YOH KNOW, Ds YAtn<eES "WANT TO NIsit BY DE SIIo&, AN' DE (IAN. ADIANS O0,7Eo5, Da ueriwu nANTS AM BOA)? MAD, AND WHEN 1)5 TW0 POWAD;EUL NAVIES COLLODE Do cIVILIzED WO'LD' WILL, STAN' OONELUMRRGATBD AT DE TER'BLE ouovioN 1' YOU S11 GOT ALL DI -0 news bra Bonn .rteMSOW The Astonlei elle IaxperieeSe of it leurR►e- On the evening of Jane JS, ladtie>,Gearge Wellington, a C4{iaheo fanner, had "gather- lag ef ftlonde mkt* house, He was a man 42. scare of ego, and of robust healde, and on ihlr evening' IL wag; noticed that he was In partioularie rod snlritei After the guests lied departed he remarked to ,ills wife that he r felt more like plasm$ and danoiug than plug to bed. They retired about he!f-past o oknmwas asleep before mid• nig11 t.olo Thho farm, aer d washo aiawaps out of bed at 5 o'clock, but on the morning following the perty the wife awoke at 6 and found him ,till eloping, When She attempted to arouse him she discovered that he was dead. ti deotor was sent for, and he arrived in the oourie of an hour to pronounce it a came of haso. Ho d than inbeep deadeart three hours wheumaithe wife.awce mlkee. The undertaker mime and prepared the body for burial. It was remarked that the. corpse re- tained a life -like appearance, and that none of the limbs grew rigid, but the two other physiolane.called In vlgoienely oeinbatted the idea that he wee in a trance and might bereatored to life, Neverthele+as, the wife and sons had a secret hope that death bad not really come to him, and the funeral was put two days ahead. During the interval the CORPSE WAS CONSTANTLY WATCHED for signs of returning animation, but nothing occurred to delay the funeral arrangements. The burial was to take place in a country graveyard, and moat of the'vehiolee gather ing at the house betcnged to farmers, The uanal ceremonies took plaoe over the dead, and the oeffin was brought out and placed in the hearse, While tho proceeelen was forming, a' team attaohed to an empty wag- on came down the road, running away, The wagon collided with the hoarse and the latter vehicle was upset and the coffin flung out. Four er five men ran to pleb it, ap, but before a hand had touched it a voice was heard Baying,: "For God's sake, let me out of this 1" The people at firet moved bank in affright, but as the voioe continued to address them the oeffin waa righted and opened, and Wel- lington was found straggling to get out. With a little " assistance he pulled himself out of the box and walked Into the hoose and sat down in a chair. In half an hour he had hia clothes en and was moving around among the amazed people, to wham he related this experlence "I did not fall asleep until sometime after midnight. When I awoke the olook was striking 5, I made a move to get out of bed, but, to my great amazement I oould stir neither hand nor teot. I had the full use of my ears, but I could net open my eyea. I argued at first that I was not yet wide awake but WHEN MY WIPE SHOOS MB and palled me by name and I could net re- spond by even moving an eyelid, I became satisfied that I waa in a trance. My mind was never clearer, and painfully acute, I made effort after a ffort to threw off the great weight which seemed to be holding me down but I could net bend a toe or crook a finger. However, it was only after the dootor had pronounced me dead that I felt any alarm. Up to that time It had seemed as 1t I could soon manage to get rid of the weight. Had a pistol been fired in the room I am sure the spell would have been broken. After the doctor's ultimatum I felt that I ehoald be buried alive. But was I alive ? All of a sudden this query flashed across my brats, and I was troubled more than I can telt yon. As I had never diad before how was I to know the eeneatiene 2 Could the dead hear and think ? Was the mind of a corpse in motive operation 2 It was a problem 1 could net solve. " Not a word was spoken near nae which I did not catch and fully understand. There waa a great deal of weeping, and I failed to satiety myself as to the cause. I had died, but it did net seem as if this was a sufficient excuse. When my wife bent over the coffin and grieved and refused to be com- forted, I did not feel bad with her. Oa the contrary, her action surprised me. When the two other doctors pronounced me dead I made up my mind that I was dead and that THE END HAD COME, I had been taught to believe that the spirit of the dead ascended to heaven, and that the dead were dead in mind as well as body, It was a base deception, I felt indignant that it was so, " As an instance of the acuteness of my hearing, let me explain that after 1 was planed In the coffin the receptacle was moved over to an open window in the parlor, where it was supported on sawhorses. Two of my neighbors took seats en a wagon hex in the barnyard, fully 200 feet away, and for an hear conversed of my death in ordin- ary tonea of velem. I did not miss ene mingle word of the conversation, as beth afterward admitted. I could hear every tick of the kitohen clock, and much of the conversation of the women in the up -stair room. On the night previous to the funeral about half past 10 o'oleak, and while the two men sitting up wl' h the corpse were reading, I heard two men climb the fenoe into the barnyard, cross the yard, and en- ter the barn. After a few minutes they came eat, and I heard the jingle of some- thing carried by one ef the pair. I could not make out what was going on, but learn- ed afterward. The two men stole a horse from a field opposite my barn, and they en' tered my premises in search of a bridle. " I heard the people assemble for the fan, ral, and as I caught a word from this one or that one I identified them by name to myself, I - LISTENED CLOSELY TO THE SERMON, but when the minister rpake of me I could, net take it as personal. It waa as if the name and person belonged to some one 1 had known years before, I knew when I was parried out and placed in the hearse, and I am certain that I heard the platter of the team running away before anybody sighted them. When the :people began to oall out in affright I felt that Mame fear of being hurt that any live man does. I beard•'. them trying to back the hearse out of the way to let the team go by, but they were not quick enough. As ; the oollieion Dame my eyes opened and my apeeoh was restored and from that moment I was all right." He Wasn't That Kind of a Hindoo. " And do you," acid the visitor to the drone to the ewarthy Hindoo in the Mother Hubbard pants, "do you actually worship yonder white elephant f Do you heathen go oat each morning to offer orisons while clustered around hie feet? Do you actually worship such ungainly animals on the fedi- aged banks of tho sluggish Nile 1" " that 1" inquired the exhibition. Hindoo. " Do you—eh-hold those white elephant' at snored animals in the land of the Lotus Retire?" 2" "Be jabore, an' that's all poppycock to Me. That kind uv guff bo yez givin' me ? bl am horn fur $10 a �veek an' found an'. whin I quit worahipin the Virgin Mary and feel to.aria' me respiate to a runt lie, phant yez may lese all faith in Paddy O'Hara." Tho baby orae doubled up by the OMIT* end yelling et the rate of a mile a minute es the tattier and n:otterstood ever the crib with the laudanum bottle between. these. " No, ,Julia," he said gently but firmly, you pour it out ; that child is growing so much dike yen; mother that I oan't trust myself." My dear," said ap erxfone wife to her husband, who le running for "disc, ""wire must economize in every passli?ie way." '' I de coanoreizs," to replied. " Yea," she replied bitterly ;' "" yen ~pend $10 or $15 a cl4Y trewtin a lot of bar -room ofors to end whisk Just to get them to vote for you. Do you call that coo one ! ".0 rtainl - y p y a y.,. that's political economy," Afield° Traveler (to neighbor ina railway osri--Your name is very familiar to ne Mr,—.er--ah-- Quiet Stranger -My name is Monc n.,uotekiost Koreczootcotber. I am a Pole, Affable. Traveler -Yes ; er—it isn't your name o eo mach as pour face ; I was about to pay your face was very familiar to me Quiet Stranger—Yes ; I have been in prison fourteen years. I was discharged this morning. Affable traveler keeps on traveling, but quits affsbling. A little 7 -year-old Bridgeport' girl saw a young woman, drop her puree in a street oar and a man piok it up. She told the man that the pane belonged to the young woman, H+, sand nothing. Site repeated the asser- tion, and he told her to diet up. Then she oalied the attention of Pomo gentlemen In the car to the ogee, They said he must give up the puree 3he saidhe hadn't t found rens. The litole girl stuck to it until the map u ll- ed the purse from his pvohet, threw it on the teat, and quit the oar. Theurse was weer. restored to 1 s owner, p A little girl greeted hers mothers return from a shopping 'expedition the other day with the news " Mrs, A. mad Mrs. B. call- ed while yon were gone;" " Did they ! I here you answered ' Quite well, I thank you, when they asked how you were." N,o, mamma, I don't think I did." "And didn't yen hiss them nicely;' N -o, mamma, I didn't." ," Well, impatiently, " what did you do, you ill mannered little girl? a' fear you quite disgraced your poor mother." "Oh ! no, mamma, I, did not; I talked to them in the name drersy tene that; you neo when company comes," Why Some People Marry. Some marry for the fan of the tbing- an,i never see where it cameo in. This is discouraging. Same marry for the aake of a good com- panion and never dieoever the mistake, This is lucky. Man le a fickle " critter." Even Adam who had hia wife made to order, found more or less fault with her. Don't marry a man for his reputation, It ' is liable to be only a second hand affair bor- rowed from hie ancestors, Many women have married men for their fine exterior. But that's all there is to an ancient egg worth mentioning. Marriage resulting from love at firet sight is not generally wedded Wise en a par with sour milk. One or the other geta swindled, and often both. Many a man has married for beauty only to learn that he paid twenty dollars for what can be purchased fortwentyfive cents at all druggists. This is hard. Bat fewe p cele mazes for pure love, and they in after years suepioion that what vers at the time promptings of the tender pas - tion were, la all probability, but the first symptoms of cholera morbus. The man who marries a woman simply because she is a handy arrangement to have about the house does so from: a pure busi- ness stand point, and in the end, if net com- pelled to support him, she bae done better than many women I know ef.—H. V. Nam by. DIAMONDS OF.THOU(IHT, Choose the right way, however rough, it will certainly prove easier than the wrong way. He who has learned the science of silence may hide ignorance, and oven acquire a re- putation for knowledge and wisdom. We inetinotiveiy applaud the courage of self-assertion ; we should honor with a still higher approval the courage of "elf-re- stratnt. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be rfght, he will grow daily more and mere right. It is the condition en whioh all men' have cultivated themselves truly. Impracticable tb eoriee grow mut of thought without knewledge er lack of cenecience. The men who riehes to help the world must bear a part in the world's Interests and oc- cupation. Equal to the Occasion. " Who is that horrible whiskey bloat ? " asked a female of 'man acquaintance, while they stood viewing the guests at a fashion- able receptien. " Which one t" " That ene with the red moustache and awful nose, den't yon silo 2" " He Is my husband," "Oh," laughed the lady, " 1 see yen aro not sensitive," although she saw vengeance in the eyes of the insulted lady. " Several nights ego a friend of mine made a similar remark about my husband, and I became very angry, I declared it would anger any woman, but my friend maid that you, hovire the best hueband in the world, would n Dare, and I wagered a pair of gloves th yeu would, but you see 1 have leer. Ih that your husband is epolren ef as an m' able candidate for the City Council, lie clever he must be 1" memeeaea Lots of Fan. A Cambridge mother sent her mall be into the country, and after a week of anx+ iety has received thie letter :` "" I got here all right and I forgot to write before ; it a very nice plane to have fun, A feller an I went out in a boat, and the beat tipp over, and a man got me out, and I was full of water I didn't know nothib' fa good Ten while, The other boy has got be burled after they find him. kilo mot oome from Chelsea, and she ories all time. A hose kicked me over, and I got to have tome money to pay a doote thin' my head. I lest my watch, and very sorry, I shall bring home some turtles, and I shall bring home a woodchuck, if I can get 'cm in my Ir No man knows the date of another; always of some more or less imaginary;; that the wisest and most honest Is e Ing, therefore we should be careful of. we say. Doing any ono thing well -even ting "bitches and plaiting frills—pt key into one's hand to the opening aomo other different secret ; and we never know what maybe to conte c the meaneat drudgery.