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RECIPES FOR THE HOME TABLE,
"Sunday Tea" Eggs.—Take one-half
.dosen eggs and boil twenty minutes.
Remove end let cool; peel nod set In
' lee lone. Saturday nighl„ when ready
to servo, drop in thick mean actuca tor
leo minutes. Before placing on tattle
sprinkle parsley over them.
Sieringues.—The whites of three eggs,
Loalen Dor five minutes; add slowly 0110
cup of granulated sugar, Drop the unix-
thee in little molds, the size of a small
•egg, on ligla brown peper, and put
three peanuts broken in halves ea the
lop of each meeingue. Bake in slow
:oven until a delicate brown, These
meringue0 will keep a week in a dry
place, and are nice served with fee
01011111.
Whipped Ceeem.—When ceetim seems
too .thin to be whipped place it in 0
IR WI of cold water for a few minutes,
then place in 0 bowl of bot wilier for n
few minutes, and again In a. bowl of
cold water. 11 wilt then whin like nito
gie.
Veins and Mushrooms. Drepale
mushenoies Said place them in a spider
with batter enough to ceok them, stir-
ring !wound a littlo when nearly done.
, Rake to each side of the skillet end lay
in a thick, juleS sir101a steak, Do not
season until 11, has been turned, then
add sale and pepper. Take up on a
warm .platter and place the mushrootns
.over and mound She steak, which will
have the delicious flavor ef muslwooms.
Tapioca Puddingo-Soak one largo cup
ot pearl tapioca in one pint of water
twee night. U.se a quart ean el peach-
es, or fresh fruit if you have It; soul; a
layer of ponchos In your pudding dish,
then a layer of the tapioca, sprinkling
g enerously with sugar; continuo filling
your dish In this way till you 'tette
used all; bake slowly 101' 11140 or three
hours and serve with cream.
Mock Slaitole Syrup.—Ilickory bark,
hotted with confectioner's SlIgal. and
water,. makes delicious maple syrup,
superide to the peoduct which comes in
-cans.
Luncheon Dish.—Take one-fourth pool
soric and thiee-fourlhs parts veal and
beef. Put through a meat chopper. Mix
into 11 one egg; half a cup bread crumbs
or .ellaeleinS; 509011 10I111 SU 11 and pep-
e er to taste. Tide° two or three hard
boiled eggs, remOve Shells, and scat-
ter them whole themigh the meat loaf,
when +molding it into shape. Put the
leaf In the roasting pan and cook as
an ordinary roast
Independence Calce.—Cream two fable -
spoonfuls of butter, one and one-half
Cupfuls of segos tho yolks of two eggs;
stir in quickly one cupful of warm
wates two ar4 one/Mali cupfuls of flour.
Beal, for five minutes. Add two level
Mas000nfuls of baking .powder. Bake
in three layers. Put together with boiled
frosting, coloring it wilh red fruit col-
oring,
Banberry Tarts.—Two cups sugar, one
pound Of seeded raisins, two lemons,
grated ;rind and juice; four largo ;soda
crackers, Wiled fine, two eggs, and one
cup of English currants. Put the rab
sins through a chopper ond boat eggs
well. Ofix the raisins, currants, sugae,
and eggs. Beat them wen, adding
meeker, lemon rind and juice. Da not
cook thia mixture. Make a nich puff
paste; lake a large suety or pie. plate
and eta out 1110 shape. Take a large
tablespoonful of Una mixture, put on
000-lial1 of puff .pnate, turn ovev the
other half, and press the edges around
with o sliver fork. Bake Mem min-
utes in O. 1101 oven.
Banana Pie.—Take two large bana-
nas, peel end run through the colander;
one levet teaspoon stilt, ono sallapoon
Of mace, one teaspoon cinnamon,. ono
beaten egg; 11111X W011 and add one cup
el bolltng mem and one oup of boil-
ing ,milk; beat until perfectly mixed and
poue into a rion pie Crust end bake; no
top crust Mamma pie Call bo made af-
ter any good pumpkin pie lecioe, 'Us-
ing „bananas instead. of pumpkin.
"Left Over" Dish. -11 °retuned new
potatoes, left over tram dialler, are
sliced or diced and put La 0 hot, am/petit
skillet to brown, then turned with a
cake tomer and throwned 011 the other
skle, ono may serve a toothsome and
Mk/naive diall for luncheons or supper,
Silver Spring Calec.—One 01140110 -
hull cup sugar; ono sena half eup but-
ler, Whiles of six eggs; one-holf cup
roilk; two cups flour; ono heaping, tea-
spoon baking powder. Do not beat the
whites of eggs.
Floot.—Foin eggs; one teacup grains
le ted sugar; one quart milk. Put milk
on stove end let came to boil. Beat
yolk of eggs and sugar together, add
the scalded 011110 Take 011 11101 let cool
a little, lidding beaten white of cogs
lest Fluter,
MANY NEW IDEAS.
Fly Feper.--Coat phen while paper
with, tutiponline ?nerds's, then oil, to
keep 11 front sticking.
Fastening Seslt Ctirtains.—If wire is
Used to fasten sash .eertains, double
baelc the end of tbe wtre two or lifi'ee
inehes, rind wire will run in. smoothly.
Picture wire is excellent etiolates
will not Rag. E.,.
Tie Held in Place.—To ..prevent
man's tie froin slipping lip SOW twe
tIr-
dinary dress hooks on' the lower edge
Obeid, Iwo inches each side Of the mid-
dle and they will heck Under the Low-
e.' edge of the colter.
Remove a Glass Stopper.—Place the
stopper in the hinged pate of a door.
bolding the bottle in ono hand, eloalng
the door till it grasps the 8lopper; then
cerefully turn the bottle. The cork Is
lorsened easily with no danger Of break.
trig.
Screert Door Patch.—Take a piece of
ecreen the size of pateli required, allow-
ing a quarter of an Melt for 0011010,
whieh yoU fray out. iurp up the poInte,
place the patch on the bole 10 the door,
then p1e50 the points downon the in-
elde.
'P0 Drive Awity Vlies.—fitiVe you ever
nelleed the absertee o,f Mee from where
yeti tvoirre e0p;04 le see Them ebmgre-
fiaie.-the aide fountain; The Secret is
quantity of the e.s,sonee of seasafras. 'Vey
11)1" tha °Mist 6001)011 1(1)011(1 a 'Mail NARROW ESCAPES AT SEA
this and the flies will not bother you.
Aloove C,urtallna.—Receeses in bed-
rooms Mal be utilized bY tockLitg a 111111
stelp of wood at wall, either side, tip.
on Una tack cretonne (Pt Mircnonlzing
pattern, not setviog width. together, Thla
will avoid trouble In xelsing curtain,
always Making 11 eaay to reach ally part
iif vecess without liftieg the whole 01)1"
101)),
Whtle Window Shades,—These eon be
made al, home, Cheaper, more durable,
and kept </Jenne!' than these bought
ready made, out of Indian Head linen
at 10 or 101X, cents a yard, Buy Me
bare rollers if you have am old Ones,
lack the enalevial on perfectly straight,
hem one end, and Ineert the stick. You
can take them down when they becorne
soiled,
About, ilugs.--If a, rug Is Waived to
curl at the corners the difficulty army
be remedied with a thin piece of load
suell as is used et, the department
stores. Make a 0111011 pocket, shoped
et the corners, and lasert the lead,
wlech will weight, the corners suffici-
ently 10 keep them in place. Occasion-
ally the whole side of a rug win' curl
up. -In this case a strip long enough io
run the entire length should be put in.
A simple and inexpensive shade 100
110 summer porch, or for a window,
may be made by using Japanese mat -
Meg, eta in the required length, and
hound at each end with a piece 4.1
strong cotton goods. To roll the screen
up, lake IWO pieces of heavy string or
coed about three times as long as the
mat/ling; lack the end of each string
11b0111 IWO i110110$ above the shade and
about a foot from the edge; let the string
come down behind the matting end up
In front of it, 'and deaw through cm M..
dinary matting tack placed just beside
the first one. This simple device will
keep the perch cool, and serve to dark-
en any especially sunny window 111 llt0
1101180. Good matting for this punpose
may he bought for 10 or 12 cents a
yard,
CHEERFUL MR. SAUGGINTUAL
Ile Finds This n Very Pleasant World
to Live In, lilven Without Great Wealth,
"I heven't much money," sold Ste
Saugginttun, "but, thank [leaven, I have
d. Cheerful disposition, and I don't know
but what I got 111010 11111 out of life than
I would if I had to hire IA man, steady,
to keep my coupon shears sharpened,
"A5 1 1 10 1 don't hate to worry for Sear
FM going to lose my wealth, for I
haven't any to lose. I don't have to
fret and Ite awake nights for fear the
short (pops will cut 011 101100501 freights
and depress stocks and reduce divi-
dends, beceuse I haven't any stocks.
"When my house burns down. I alever
am the least bit afield that. I won't get
the insuraoce, because 1 haven't any
house. Banks may burst, but no finan-
cial cataclysm upsets me. My automo-
bile never blows up and leaves me
stranded on the road; my steam yacht
doesn't break down and keep me rolling
111 a seaway . till a clumsy tug collies
along to low me in.
"My valuable horses don't, pick up
nails, 1113' butler doesn't run away with
tho silver, and (Malty I don't have To
regulai.e my life by 1110 lives of others,
and I don't know but what that last is
the best thing of all.
"I don't have to follow the fastidious
and so I don't have to worry myself for
fear that I mey be a little bit 011 10 some
detail, while my friends are putting ma
to shame by being absolutely correct,
And I don'1 fret because Jones, being
richer, 1185 li bigger, floor, more luxur-
iously fut.nished house then mine, and
so 1 am not, a bit ashamed, as I might
be If I pretended 10 W0011h, Whell 0111'
friends came from Jones's house into
mine.
"Our crockery may be from Stone-
ebinaville Insteoct of Serves, but we
don't worry over that. Which Is to say
that wo doe't worry the least little bit
because, we're not in, the processims,
but on the contrary wo are glad wo're
not in 11.
"We don't. have to pia on a shining
11111101.111 and have it 011 just so, and
then be satisfied wills and see emly, just
the part we play In 11, no, We can Moon
in the street and see the whole pi'0es-
slhtj
go he, see it ell, and mills 1.'01
rather be spectator than Mayer.
"So we don't worry itecanse were not
rich and in it, not a bit. No sir, I
wouldn't want, to be dreadful 01011, hitt,-
way; anti 1 find 1110 world a yeey plea-
sant place to ltve in, even as I'm fixed.'
THE ROAD TO FORTUNE.
One Roy Who Struck 11 by Milking a
G00(1101) ot Sweeping a Sidewalk.
"The best boy I over hired," said the
store manager, "11011 0110 I chanced to
see once sweeping off a sidewalk,
"You know how many boys, and 11111 ny
triers for that twitter, sweep a sidewalk,
They leave a streak of dirt Isere and
them, 111/11i0 a poor job of 11 generally,
end pay no alleetion to the passerby.
They ate slack and indifferent and they
do wit/levee other work they have to do
yoe can make up your mind, in just he
same way. But this boy that speak.
ing of 10115 making onother seri of a job
of it
"Ile dug han the corners up by the
bullthog and node it .11100 end trim
there, and then, working quicklY, too,
without losing a ntinute's time, he swept
tha ,sklewalk absoltdely clean ; and at
the same 111310, 115 lie worked, he kept his
QUICK WORK THAT SAVED MEN
FI10111 DROWNtNG,
Thrilling Incidents S11o031110 the Dangera
of a Life on the Ocean
Wave,
01
allic!'soenlaPneloatifraftelisciNt\INntrilanglitaulieSeaolara� sn
1110, but the circumstances attending
them MeV materially and' thereto lies
the interest of each narrative. 1 will tell
of three Meters:es, writes IL G. F, Can
-
dap in the Boston Globe. 'rlio Brat oc-
curred In the Attaidie, eust 01 1110 Grand
Banks, In 1110 111011111 of February, Mille
on tile passage from London to New
York. The ship was running With
SQUOVO yamis before an eastem gale,
making 12 knots under double.reefed
topsails, 'rho sea was rough, the ship
rolled hettylly, and 1, as olllece of the
deck that.' afternoon, ordered tho jib lo
b
alnoo.sed and set to steady het. Orem
loffig
I sent one of 1110 sailors out, to loose
the sail and stood just abaft 1110 111.0111)
of the forecastle watching him. Ile east
off the go,s1:el. and 1000 ill the actof mak-
ing IL up, when hy a heavy tell of the
ship to starboard, the sail slipped from
the boom, struck him aod knocked 111111
from the [entrap.) overboard 1 1 saw 111/11
'NIL heard the cry of "Man overboard!"
and Pan as swiftly us possible aft for the
[Miran.
Upon each quarter were kept wheel
relieviag tackles, and my thought .was
lhat If I could retie!' one of those tackle
falls before the ship sailed past the man
1 might throw 11 10 him
AND PERHAPS SM•111 111014.
There were four stops of a ladder to
ascend in Wee to reach the poopdock,
and before I could ascend 1110111 and
reach the tackles Um man al 1110 1011001,
With I,I1C 501110 111011ghl, MI ItIs 81111I011,
took up tho tackle fall and luckily threw
!I over the 1110110 head and shoulters
just its the ship was passing him. 110
seized it with both hands and with his
teeth and hem. o11 for his life. Al. that
instant 1 reached the scene, and to-
gether the helmsman and 1 pulled the
senor out of 1110 11111101'.
'rho rest of the watch was soon an
Mind, a bowline was slipped under the
man's arms, lie was culled on deck end
was ,saved. During that time the ship
hod kept on her course with Ile one at
the wheel.
'Flielnoise and bustle on deck brought
up the captain and the pasengers from
the cabin to aseertein what it meant,
01111 they were astonished when told that
a settee had fallen overboard from the
jib -boom and lied been rescued in the
manner here des:m.11)yd.
The sailor was nervous bui uninjured;
the captain gave him 10 glass of brandy;
he weot forwarsi and chenged his clothes
and came back an deck and stood the
rest or his watch. it was a close call and
almost a miraculous reseue.
'rho second occurrence look place in
the Autumn of the 0111110 3'001' 115 the
first, in the. Pacific, on the passage from
New York to San Francisco upon 0110-
111e0 ship of which I was 011101 officer.
The ship was in Um southeast trades,
running down to the equator, with
square yards, studding sails set alow
and aloft, and making five or six knots.
Ail hands were busy refitting step and
in taming down the rigging, weather
fine and ship steady, excepi a gradual
rolling horn side to side'.
A sailor lad was sent aloft to ride
down the foreroyel stay 111 a bottlswain
chair and far the stay, and when he had
nearly completed his job lie slipped from
the chair overboard. The cry of
"A SIAN OVE11130ARD"
Was raised, the wheel wns put down, the
ship came to the wind and aback with-
out starling lack or shoal and laid quiet.
13y that time the boy win a milo 10
the wIndwited,, swimming and floating
lightly on the water, as could 130 Sall
1>01111 the spyglass front the poop.
Upo,a the Ship's maln hatch a' light
beat was slowed.bottom up, whieh in a
few moments was lifted over the side
and lotvered to the warer, into which
two Sailors and the writer descended
find pulled away to the rescue. The bet'
luol seen that the ship had hove aback,
1005 a good swimmer end kept up his
courage. We could see him when he
end the boat nose upon waves, and we
were nble to make our way directly to
the 13111110where ha was. ,
We rowed up to the spel, pulled him
into our boat, still ill fresh condition,
and Marled back tor the ship. On the
way. I jokingly said to him, "You young
luithey, what were you 0001'1,1001'd 11010
1.11'?" 110 0115100100 meekly and serious-
ly, as though he had committed a ciente
against the discipline of the 811111, "I
/couldn't help it, sir." I did not think
that he could, although lie had been
more 00 less clueless, •
Ho was 1111)011 1)1101) to the ship, the
boat 'wes hotsted in oil decks the yardo
100r0 11110C1 away and the ship kept upon
her emits() again as though nothing on.
0181101 Ited taken place. Uponarrivel nt
San Francisco the boy left the ship with
the rest of the crew, end I never beard
from him or of 111111 thereafter, hut that
1113 nevee forgot the experience of that
mansion it is fair Lo presume, •
'Die third occurrence about to be re-
lated happened in the Allniale in the
month of' January, on the pessage.fiera
eyes open, Mot some thought foe 011103' 111011110 10 L11'0111001 110011 1110 last way-
peolne besides himself ,and tome sense
vesponsi hiiii r. )10. w4a a worker and ege 111111010 at sett. We. were between
a good \vorkee. 'I'ou leneW he'd 110 What- 110> 6001101 13aaks anti Car6 C1613 r 101,111
evet: else he hail to do in jiist the same a Rale" easterlY gale was anaaoldered,
"About three months rifler that oe With.
A.,,tiletlY BAD CROSS -SEA;
had oecasion. 10 1110e enothee boy, and
Otto 51111) 11015 1101,0-10 011 the port tack
curiously enongh, es 11 seemed te tee,
11101. boy applied for the job. He didn't and headed well uP 10 the sea/ an
peened bow8 under, carrying Away jilc).1-
need any other recommendation; lo me
boom, forelopgallant mast, started ,stem,
than 1,110 work I'd seen him doing,
sprung bowsprit and started hotvehocks
sweeping that sidewalk, and wo hired
him on the spot and he's been with us and toPgallant foeecastlo dole.
evee since, advancing aleadily. IstteldlY 111° (Baas's(' IILPdnenaelldbannfidesr
oweat? No, 110 will a paroles yet, daylight in Ihe morning,
but he's going on, and . yoti can set it ti toho jilivb000rkrato, 0,1v0101111' aawattlynt.8.111ListeltemIca.goet.
down as a simple tact that, oily boy y011
100 making a good, square Job ot swoop-
ing off a sidewalk will do anything ho
t,trelertalies."
.1 1 . which. backed to north and north-west
•
of Men are-perverlers 01 1110 freak
101)0 1)0001' 010(4 tried to cold fish. joahle/S-IvisS IIirow ts lent f
rigging. and sett!, was under the leo boW
with °Moen; and crew feying to (Ann,
it when by a sudden hatel1 mid pitelt of
the ship, the first mate vvas teased even
board. I was near 01 11011101 with a part
of the foretopgallant elowline in ply
caught It and WIIS bawled in on deck and
Ms life 100111 saved.
Tho water was icy Mid and 11 wets
snowing at the Um; Ite luid on heavy
clothing, 11110 in all prebability he would
have bectn drowned bact net the rope
1101(1 111 my hand been thrown to hint
iiilloorwwisaos farlIgulidonntec,LIIyebrrulot 011110101
lett the siq and tepis peasage hone! by
steamer, The fright he reeelved, my
(Tilden, caused 11110 le do so,
10 my sea experience 1 bad 0000 men
washed overitarrl and full from aloft
overboard to be drowned, fall from aloft,
to the doelE to their death, 101 1111' three
here mentioned were overboard 111111 111
great peril, aod yet their lives were
sated witimut Injury lo themselves in
Pm remarkable mummy narrated,
41
"DONALD."
Pet Deer of the Famous Forty -Second
Illoblanders.
A regimental pet or a compnny "mas-
cot" plays a worthy and wholesome, port
111 army 10100100. IL provides /111 object,
al which 1110 soldier tont expend affece
men In a. common {Memel. 111 the long '1'.ark.
Loa ea revolver limeugh the fivel of New
lion and peroonal rare, and binds
lIst of the various 881(110 In devoted to The children of millionteres obvious.
the camp and bareacks, "Donald " the lo• present. many temptations 1,, the kid-
napping fraterm los and el Ito to to Lire-
eaulions are taken to prevent their dis-
oppearance. Last :mum foe inetanee,
when the three richosi children in the
world, the Iwo graodsous mid tile
granddaughter of the late Marshall
Field, visited London. they were never
Out of thee. gutudiens' roach for a 1(10-
1110111,
At the hotel where they were accom-
modated no one was allowed to speak
lo them or even le ;see them in the pas-
sages or rooms. The servants mad
strict orders, under pain of instant, dis-
missal, to allow no stronger to ap-
proach them, and the children, needless
1,31 say, were
NEVER ALLOWED OUT ALONE.
But It is not always the kidnapper
who 15 'drefided by the millionaire.
TI1P1'0 was If. C. Reek, one 11 1111' 1111111.
erous moneyed men of Pittsburg. It
was his misfortune to offend en anar-
chist, who 0 11011011 1%.15 13131111plod bo
shoot him in his °Mee. The enato11181
was, of course, appeellended and sent
LI) peison; but when the period of his
incarceration 0011.5 almost over, New
'York, where Frick had taken tip his ro-
RICH MEN'S BODYGUARDS -THE BRITISH SOLDIER TBRKISH WOMAN'S 14
(maw pitne,AuTioNs TAKEN TO I 1 8 TREATMENT compAimp Wall ftEMOVEs 1ffat vun, MOJA
PREVENT vioaNcH. °Um ARMIES, WIIEN SUE WEi)8,
Many Fear Kidnapping, and Others Stranoees aro Admitted to tint Ceren.1004
loatanece of Ilbtreantient of the Soldier!!
110ve Men Threatened \rill) les — After Which Dons
of Prime°, Germany and
. '11.thavellof,
Aasaaeillilliell. ‘lgI :.
I
Uneasy lies the head nod, wectrs 0 111 the land of the Sulilm anfliqe
0r0W11, and 04)11111 by uneusy tbroUgh life strange customs are lo to found, Ina
goes the num W110 ( 1 101 1 ti 0 bankbook
worth a 1111111011, Milli, Mil tees before p. temps none se tieloitishine• to Eng.:,
heti minds as Ihe manner vd celebrate
10114111111;01i11111.00 10011 kidnapped and held to ing the wedding (ley,
As is well linewn, Turkieli kvorneir
10 not surprising Mut. monet'ed men Tb tie homes aro gun rded by stalwart
live in the gr,alcst possible privacy..
In those einem. thowes, therennie, it
have adopted meny ingenieus devieca 111011, loot 0115' 11.1114.51I'llbk'S should pos.
sitly enter. 111 1110 long passages 011
far self.peolrelien. 1111107 lake eure
never to 1.0 Mono, und alwaya go absaft the houee lurk servants or govereossesi
atoned. Even the ladies shield them. In whom the 01011vr 01 Ille h01150 Is Mel
111 repose the strielest confidence. liler,
selves in this 0011y, 111101 just the other
year oirs, 111 bo Green, Ithe richest wo- On 111:11g is dome to prevent anyone iiil •
and received portnksion 10 011l'I'V 13 1011(I. mg intereouree with the ledtts of HA
itil: jeust,aiticisoldtl.e world from seeing or botch
Austria.
Tho eoldier has his growls,
To "gmose" is one of his privilegee as :1
lrumborn liriton, Del 4o1l0 Itong lie
might k, useanuneelly thankful for is
that he belongs le the British, end not
1,3 one of the iimilinen1111 armies, says
P41111'501.1.8
Here 'Delany and his ofilvers fire
friends. impereiltir ollieer is a eeri-
ly ; it lo j u.`,1 1110 reVerF1111100', GPI'.
many,' mut Austria.
In Ilesee ...Andres ollieere. end
inell have tittle or inehing in Exeintion.
Ths tritkies, espet,tany me young re.
remits, aro absolutely 1103 111111115 and
at Me notrey of the notimorniniesioned
olliecirs, and of the latter pee the
11108T Af'D.l.1.1.ING 13 IlLiTES.
In the Illingarion Chamber of 1301,11-
1,11111 in the United Stales, applbsi
deer, holds a adieu'. place, Mr. Archi-
bald Forbes gives his history/ in "The
Black Watch.'
Donald was adopled hy the Royal
Highlanders whim they were ordered le
Edinburgh Castle in 11116. He wag a
youngster with tiny' aollere. whist did
not have to be cut then, as they were
When the eligiment went to Glasgow,
Donald marched with them soon he
began to develop misolnevoue propensi-
ties. Ile objected strongly to intruders
when the company was exoreising on
Glasgow Green.
lit 1831 Donald discovered Ills true
onle. Without any previous training he
took his place at the head of 1110 regi-
ment, along side of the sergeantenajor.
Whether marching for exercise, out -
marching In wilder, or at guard -mount -
Ing, Donald was never absent. He ac-
companied the regiment on all gene...n.11
fteld-days, roaming off to feed while the
manoeuvres were gohig on ; wandering
sometimes a mite may, but always back
at his post in thne km the march, ex-
cept on ono ecenslon.
Ile mistook his regiment and trotted
along ahead of the 70111. He presently seienee, round ample food for wonder
discovered his error, and became uneasy
aire.
In the amazing tuttlens of the million -
So great. was his fear of the liberated
anarchist that lie converted his home
practically into a foiliess. Special
b(,11,5 11110 bars were fitted lo the doors
and windows, while detectives guarded
the building day and night. Feick next
became most, erratic in his movements.
fie shunned his fent door, and would
covertly leave and entee Ms house ey
hems of the day, boping tliis tvey
the hack entrance at the most unlilcely
io elude his enemy,
But no preeatilions compare for a mo-
ment with those of John D. Rockefeller,
the-besklialed millionaire on earth. He
fears alike the kidnapper and the as-
Isassin. FOr years lie hes been subjected
te constant. perseculkin, and, like the
Czar, he has knowii the eerie feeling
that comes from. findIng
TIMEATS OF DE,Vill
and arrogant. When the company
turned off to their barracks Donald re-
fused to accompany them, and the colo-
nel ordered six men lo hand their mus-
kets over to their comredes, and to es -
eon the deer back to his own Royal bri-
gade. He neva* made a similar mistake.
WIlell the regiment NV11.5 011 guard duty
ot, the castle Donald always went, with
it, making his nay easily through the
crowd in the streets. If any one inter-
fered wtth him lie gave chase.
0110 sad day Donald's regiment, went
abroad, and the deer was heeded over
Io a 110117 company. These' successors
did not understand him. They did not
give him litter for his bed or oats for his
dinner, and he soon deciarmi war
against the whole regiment. A brigade
[Ammer hattly dared cross the square
if Donald was in sight. At last he be-
came so ill-tempered it Ives derided to
turn him loose In a park. His lordship
who owned the stato promised to look
well after Donald's comfort.
Twenly-two years later the lieutenant -
colonel of Donald's old regiment eeturn-
ed to Glasgow, and one of the first
things lie did was to inquire after the
compnny's A
seer, The story whieh was
told him was a melancholy ono. Rein
the day he was set free In the park he
declined to. have anything to do with
man oe boast. He became so fierce, and
so many. complaints were entered
egainst him, that, at the end of two
years he was shot.
en the dressing-lable in the morning.
The peculiar secluded life that Rocke-
feller now leads has beat the canoe-
quence. No longer ean, he trust himself
In any hotel or public conveyance, but
always stays at one of les own numer-
/nub houses or travels in his own coach
ov private railroad ear stieroundect by
hie own paid bodyguard.
Ills homes, Wilk% 010 many, are all
fined with. the most ingenious burglar
alarms that the brain of man can de-
vise. Armed watelmicn petrol his es.
tales night and day, and for greater
aecurity his New York reakience in 54th
ILLITERATE LETTER cminfEns. Street is ocitiallys secretly connected
with the home of his, sister io 53rd
Better Yon Treat —Them. the More Mail Slreet. In this wily does Rockefeller
seek to weird off the designs ef his me-
imies, and yet, in spite of. all these eleb-
orate arratigemenisHie feels far from
ring sate.—Pearson's Weekly,
— ---
ENGLISH STILL SPREADS.
Enormous Inerense in Number el Eng-
lish-speaking People. •
NWithin 103 years the number of per -
suns spenktng 1110 Eliglisit language has
grown from 20,000,000 to 125,000,000,
During this limo no other language has
made the slighteat advance.
Al the beginning of the lest century
Pm leading langunges of Continental
Elamite were French, German and Span.
Isle the Spanish lunguage at present
is spoken by about, 11,000,000 in Spaln
onil 35,000,000 in Americo.
German hes heia its own and is spok-
en by about 80,000,000 people. Moro
than 20,000,1710 persons speak the tan-
gling° oulskie of Genunny.
Twice es 111ally persons speak Portu-
guese outside of Portugal as 111 the
country itself. French is the language
of 14,000,0110 peesons outside of Fa.ance.
It is estimated that at the daten of
1110 00111111'y the English
lenguage will be opoleen by 300;000,000
persons in the United Slates, while a
similar number sell be added in India,
where the learning of the language has
become campulaory;
UNCIONQUERF,D.
masa ft int"
sone you get_the cork 0111, waiter?"
"Yes, Sor, I'll get it 0111 11 I have to
Faith is something that enables a
1010I1 10 01050 1115 eyes to his Own fangs
and imagine his neighbors can't see
therm
Friend ; "I snould 1111010 having such
dull pupils lo teach would drive you
wild," Music Professor 1 "I liko dull
pupils, 'Do parents oeffer link .dat tear
children hat no mute in dem Dey phone
de piano, und den 1 eons dem netv vons,
Unklirs111.11‘lcatTianclaan0—Y4. can tell you this,
Mr, Wildman—if 7011 contimie in your
present life ei extreVolotnee you'll awe.
1.11)53' for II, some da'," Me. Wildman
—"I wish, my dear, that my oreditorS
had the same tan in' my geed .inten.
Wine," •
YON1 Receive.
Incredible as it seund.s to English ears,
there Is at least one European comery
in which niculy of the lettee are
tumble to read. This is a country <wee
which in the ordinary course of events
the latost ebyat baby will be :called upon
le reign.
Of the 20,000,000 people inhabiting
Spain only aboot 35 per cent, can rend
and write; another 2% per cent of the
population can read ttethout being ablo
to write, but. the remaining 52,4 per
cent, are quite illitorate. In tho South of
Spain it Is impossible to get a servant.
who mut read and write, and many of
the postmen, says the London Ta-lilta,
are unable to loll to whom the letters
they ,carey aro addressed.
They bring a bundle of letters to a
house, and the owner looks through
1110111 end lakes those ttivirleiscslied 010re 111(141111:
which lie thinks are) ad
The Swinish postmen nee not pakt by
the State; the recipients of the tenet's
have to remunerate them according to
the amount of their comespondence, and
each letter tests the addressee at least a
kelt-penny. It is a joke among the easy-
going Spaniards (hat he 10110 treats the
V151111011 130,41, l'0001VeS 1310 111001 letterS,
whether they are intended for him or
no I,
ln a population where 65 pee cent. ate
illiterates and Where me of the remain-
ing 35 pee cent, 'probably one in len elm
only read or tvelte very little, it Ls ob-
vious thitt the loony -paid and precarious
posts In the bower sautes of life aro not
likely to bo filled by 1110 comperalivo
few possessed of thee.e accoMplishmonta,
and herein Iles the resson for the other.
wise inexplicable foot thia nomy ot tho
individuals handling the nation's corres-
pondence ea:2_1ot ,l/css,a7.(1,
nussiAN viEw oF LON1)ON.
Tho City ot tandem with its tan, ugly
1100808, its innumerable sign -boards, its
appatently so disorderly but. really so
marvellously regulated traffic of men
end vehicles, monotenY of the ever,
changing sights, gives to ft newcomer
an impteseion of a lingo, crealeing
where everything that adorns
life is banished.—St] Poteealmeg Zei-
tung, St, Peterobtieg.
Tho tInflod &aloe produces 54 .gallone
aid ef esery gellons of the
ni • oli Mead 'hi Ont. 'NOM.
When paying a viell She Turkish wen
num is veiled front head to foot, Ups
acm
lie; some ghliallt +,1111i''11.r•s 00`1"' (18)11111e1gzidp(pAelebrsk‘' tarn :In eor4:
„ bet lliper-fold, lest inquisitive eyeei
given, proving the shoeking stale of
things m the Austro-Hungarian army.
During twelve months, in one gene -
son alone, ninety -Iwo orivales commit -
hal raticide, seventy mUlitaled them-
SelVeS 111 order to render themselves inl-
et for further senlve, forty went mad,
and over seven bundled deserted. See -
oral men were killed outright by the
brutality of their sergeants, and others
were maimed for life.
This is the sort of thing that happens
in the Austrian army 1 Ono hlazing day
le July the son of a wealthy merellant
10110 01115 doing his year's voluntary ser- 13111 Were Is one dasyheolisi aut:lit,ate3h,ea1Thsho
vice 111 a revelry rio,itnent, 10110 found
riliejli•elbrIsdalrmdarny, nt•tihaelii retirement, On
the latest Parisian fashion, she goes
from hoe father's house to meet her huge
band, without. the telmedhaf, for anCee
In lier hair she has twilled long 1coixj
gold thioad, orange bloeksm is sew
(it her dress, and a young wife Chose
Theproceedings lasted for three from among lice friends has placed the
weeks, during which lime the peisoner
10118 1101. allowed to SOO 11111 friends, and
the sentence was six weeks' solitary
confinemeet, with one fast day a week,
and to be chained hand and foot every
second week ! 80111100111 10 needless,
l'urn to the German army, and we
Ilud an equally abominable slate. of
s11111101 14, a blacji outline. She tent
"taken thh
e tcarchaL" •""
WHEN SHE TAKES THE VEIL.
IS is at the age of thirteen that 'shet
retires into this seclusion, and takaal
tire veil that hides ter ovorniore freat
1
the outside world, She herself may sell
others afterwards. She may go out in
lite streets in a shuttered carriage, MA
oven go on the water and travel, an
so see the life of town and country, -in ,
she must renmin hidden, a bled( spe)4
be among other black spectres.
overcome end slupeiled hy the intense
heat. Although it was not denied that
he allempfed saluto the officer who
passed, lie we,: acetused of sleeping at
his post and courionarthilled.
DRILLED BAREFOOT AT MIDNIGHT.
diumend,tiara on her 1,1010',11115 4
called "crowning the bride happli
(((111(3," for the friend is Wiesen on !tor
count of her supposed happiness Mime
marriage.
The friend recites a short passage
from 141.0Koran,-1,110 Turld.sh Sacred
Book, and, while expressing her wishes
things. A certain slaff-sergeant was for the bride's happiness, crowns toe
found lo have forced o. young soldier, wdll Then down the long
by kicking him savagely, to lie down corridor the bride goes tO bid farewell
to her father,
FIrIST SEES 11E13 HUSBAND.
fifteen times in succession on top 01 1110
barrack -room stove.
Whet did the sergeant get? Ten
years' penal servitude? 011, no. 'rhis
was not in. England. lie was sentenced
to a short period of imprisonment, and
was reduced to the ranks. This 1000
considered 'an. exemplary punishment.
Another Gertnan warrant officer's
sense of humor impelled him la lake
flfty men out in the middle of a cold
night, and drill thein barefooted on the
gravelled barrack swore. Still another
ease, which 001110 1111 about the seine
time, 1055 l -at of Lieutenant Richter, of
the 3rd Bavarian Begiment. Ile MILS
found guilty of hammering his men
about the head and body 101111 a heavy
slick, apparently for pure amusement.
What happened to him? 01), he WU
well punished . Ile was put under arrest
1,r 1\V MVO days.
NAILS FIXED IN THE SADDLES.
Matters are not quite so bad in France,
ea• the traditions of Napoleonic days
still linger, and in some regiments the
pincers look atter their men well. But
that this itappy state of things is not
universal is proved by a. court-martial
which Itas recently taken place al
Rheims,
lieutenant in a dragoon regiment
two °heroes wore proved against Man.
10115 accused of brutality to hie men, and
One Was 11151 110 had invented a stiff
leather collar with spikes inside, which
he had made his men weer to keep their
heads -erect ; the other was that he had
nails fixed in the saddles, points upper-
most, in orrice los compel the men to sit
in position when riding,.
The horror with which Con.litiental
pivasanta regard their term of enforced
service in tho army is proved bt. the
enortnous sacrifices which they tvill
melee to escape it. Many abandon their
homes 01111 property which they might
inherit ; others who counci1 afford to do
50 Will maim 1111C1 111111111110 1110M5011NeS
in order to render themselves unlit to
pass the doctors.
A year oe two ago 1110V0 WaA brought
to trial at Warsaw n gang which had
fa years battened on the lenTible trade
of recruit maiming. They had every
conceivable instrument and appliance
for permanently injuring various or-
gans. One WilS bureling the drum of the
ear, others for inoculating the system
with all sorts of horrible diseasas. By
inhaling 1110 fumes of a powerful chlor-
ide bronchitis Was illdlleed, 11t1 lo
some, oroton oil was administered in
onto* to cause eatereh of the stomach,
Once more let us be thankful 111(11 000
do 1115,40 things better In Britain.
COURTESY COSTS NOTHING,
it is not wise to rush into violent
friendships with everyone you meet,
but 11 1s e. greet mistake not to be on
friendly terms with those with wheel
yoe came in contact. There are certain
prelple you met every day either in a
/businenw or serial way0 it is nitwit wis-
er to make Mends ot them than lo be
merely an teems of cold civility. Show
them nny little favor or courtesy you
art tittle lo. 'You never 00/1 tell When
you need a 'return kindness from them
That is, of course, putting things on ra-
ther a sordid basis, but all the aarne it
Is wisdom. As you go through lite son
will 111111 Mat it Y011 11'1111 PeoPle to like
you you must do something b1 earn their
regard. 'rhea° who annke themselves
lovable aro the love.
The youngster wee lunching with his
parents when he gave his item 0. sitddert
jerk, and, splash! down wont his gloss
ot "I knew you. would do (1101 1"
said his elder blether ni. ft tone of re.
pleads "Well, it yeti' knew," queried,
the youngster, "whtsdidn't you
As she passes un Lo het carriage, sere
lents hold lip long strips of cloth sot
that casual passers-by may not see hert.
At the bn'degistom's :house servants
again screen her while she passes into
the hall, whom he awaits her, and con-
ducts Isar to a dais, on which is placed
the bridal throne. Here she .sits ready
to receive her Mends and :hear their
congratulations, having seen her bus.
band for the first time.
Then follows the strangest, part of the
proceeding. The doom ot-the house aro
thrown open. Any woman who wishae
to may enter, and many avail them-
selves of the privilege. A. carious me-
m/981ml plisses before the bride. Turk.
1St W0111011 01 all classes, eld and Young,
rich and poor, come in to look at the
girl Ito, ter the first and last time
since her thirteenth year, is to be seen
by strangers without the teliatrehaf.
European ladies come also, eager ,
sec Ihe strange ceremonies of onion
coutatries. Musicians play national 0100behind thick curtains 1111 the tkno cotne$
foe the weiiding supper, W11,011, hoe
friends and relatives toast tho bride am;
then depart, leaving her to don I,ho
tcharehaf again and look out oa tho
world, theough shattered carriage en
18111110(1 windows, but never face to face
with humanity at large.
DON'T LICK STAMPS.
This Common Practice is Sometime)1
Dangerous.
Licking postage stamps is a 0003' 00(01'
mon practice. and one that few people
1001131d 0850011110 with danger of disease
a any sort. Of worsts Airless trace.
able to 11)15 001180 is rare, but that it
ds sometimes occur no one can doubt,
but oside from the disease theory of alt»
staining from this practice, 11 certainly,
is not a cleanly habit nor is it a neces-
sary action. it is a good deal easter
and safer to lick the envelope, or, what
bolter, moisten the corner of it with
the anger lips and water and then oppiti
donmen the envelope. sufficiently to
make Um stamp adlieve. While great
care is taken in preporing the mucilage
that is put. upon postage stamps, it is
impossible to insure the perfect health
of the parsons who handle them. An
employe with. all incurable disease
might spread his Ill condition through
a whole counley. 11 1116)' not be neces-
sary to warn one, but those foto have
tower had their attention called to the
subject will not fail, upon a 110101110818reflection, to see the folly of licking pos.
loge stamps.
To TELL FISH'S AGE.
Scales and Ear Stones Afford Meanie elf
Determination.'
it has .boen found by lohthyologists
that iho ago of a fish rimy be rend front
Ile scales.' These Increase in size 1.1t1,
!loonier growths, two rings being term-
ed each year, The "otoliths" 01' 0)10
8101108, Which ite 111 two sacs On 0111100'side of 1110 base of the cranial cavity aS
fo.
rd anotherm
' eans of deterinthetion,
Like the scales, the 01041111.1 1110110080
1151 Memo. A. Wet 11101(11:01Thief
by WO rings estrtually. sPring-4
that 10, irons February to June—it white •
ring is formed, end each autumn—that '
Is, from July 14 Ocksher—e. Week ono,
Thus the number of either white or black
rings in an otollth gives the ago ot tho
fish in years, In the ease Of flattish the
latter Method has been found more re,
liable, whet* 111 1116 ease of 1110 cod.
111,' 110111180 g10e a better result. Although
varying moth in sive and Shape in (hi,
fent. S[180100 the obaltitts 811010 a re.
81001)81)11) constancy it the MUMS 51380101;hence they ale of octe ideraidO Vallae
01
• tho oittgaosn of csp01.