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The Brussels Post, 1898-6-3, Page 3Juin 43, 1898 THE BRUSSELS POST, DISI UKE A VOMAN Vi Bee -steed had mane borne to die, Her half -meter, I';llice Stormont., sat at her bectsicic' holding ono of her white eat:4(48,Ler1 hanmIS. "Guy (:larder has broken your heart, Vt," siva said, "ant I will make it the ono object of my life to be re- venged upon him for your sake I" "Hush, Ellice, clear I" replied the dy- ing girl, in a whisper, "Vengeance is not ours. 13e will be surely and rapid- ly repaid withouC human aid. Don't make yeses, life miserable by harbor- ing such tboughLe. It was my own fault for giving my heart to such a roan," But Ellice sat with a determined face, and presently, when all was over, she stood solemnly looking down upon her dead sister. "L swear to search for Guy Charter," she cried, holding her hand upward, "and to wreak vengeance upon him I will break his heart as he has brok- en hers I" • • • • It was a rash vow, and, if not a senseless, a wickedone; but the beet of people do rash and senseless—aye, and wicked things el times, and Ellice Stormont was no exception. She bad never seen Guy charter, and knew little about him except that ho was a nephew of the wealthy Sir Kenelm Charter, of diamond mine notoriety. The last that poor Vi had heard of him was that he was iu Paris, and, in performance of her vow, El- lice, who was her own mistress and had 8considerable fortune, started for the il'rench capital. She soon found that Guy C'harteit batch left the gay city, and that he was supposed to be ria Monte Carlo, Se she journeyed on to the gambling principality ; but there she heard. ruin- ers umars of his marriage with a pretty flow- er girl who had Laken his fancy. She oouid, however, obtain no direct con- firmation of this; but it appeared certain that he haul returned to Eng- land. Undismayed, she hastened home .again, and, putting secret agencies to work, she was presently rewarded by hearing that Guy Charter was stay- ing at the famed west coast watering Meese Shoreport, and that he was cer- tainly not married. Immediately she went with a trav- eling companion to Shoreport, and put up at the Hotel Metropole, where among the names insorilaeti cm the visitors' book she stew that of "Guy Ch•t rtes,: ' Ellice was naturally inclined to be of rather a severe temperament, and, carrying her disposition into her dress, she generally wore plain habits. Her companion, therefore, was somewhat startled when she appeared at table delete clad in a superb style that was quite unusual to her. Could this beautiful, queenly girl be the hereto- fore rather plain -looking Miss Store mont with whom elm hod been trav- eling? it hardly seemed possible. But tee reason was soon apparent. Guy Charter proved to be a good- looking, manly, open-faced follow of about 30—quite the last man, one would have thought from his appear- ance, to trifle with a woman's affec- tions. Having been much abroad, his conversation was interesting and cul- tured, and his company was mush sought after by hes fellow guests. An introduction Look place between him and Miss Stormont in due course, and it soon became evident that she had found favor in his eyes. It wits noticeable that whenever op- portunity offared he was next to her at dinner, and he was, by some strange coincidence, constantly running across her palh out of doors. let first Ellice was frigidly polite. Then, little bye little, see allowed hor manner toward him to thaw until the intimacy got to bo quite cordial, and, before many weeks she had the satis- faction of seeing him hover around. her like a moth round the flame of a can- t, She was acting a part, and a most musummate actress she proved. But Cupid's darts are sharp, and there is an old proverb that iC ds dangerous to play with edged tools. Alas 1 she found the truth of Lt but too well, for what had at first been pretense 'be- en.= reality. Not only had she en- tangled the amiable, good-looking Guy Chiseler in the meshes of the net she had spread for him, but, in doing so, she had herself got as Cast fixed as her prey. She had fatten hopelessly in, love with the mad upon wbom elm had. sworn to wreak her vengeance! Yet her pe,rpose never faltered for an instant. She had started the game for revenge, rind revenge she would have -even at the cost of her own life's happiness. Then Guy declared his love. "Wats Lill Monday text," she ans- wered in a sweet way that was intend- ed to convey' assent without expressing it. "1 have to go on a short visit, and will then give you nay answer," The next morning Miss Stormont and her companion left Shoreport; but Guy felt assume of success, and for the few days that intervened he walked on vel- vet and saw through rose-colored spec- t'acles. .But thins came a rude atvak- ening, When Monday arrived Ellice did not return, but a letter came: I know you spoke the truth whet you said you loved me, I meant that you should dove tee; and, as you broke the heart of my sister, V. Bamford, i hope. I have broken yours. I shall never marry. ]ELL10E STORMONT. ':i'he blow was indeed asevere one for Guy*Churter. ,Ellieo's work had prov- ed only too succoestul, Per a day or two he wee too broken down to do anything, but then he sought her. Ile traveled aftet her, and wont to every place where she world be likely la have 'iieee: RecA br known of, bat in vain. She had iso t ea +ed, no one u h a d t 1.1 knew where. Guy little knew the letter tears elle shod Or 1110 broken heart. she herself alerted. Itad ho done so he acme) not have ett'leevured more eagerly to trace es,. After a %vhlle, when all his efforts had. prdved unavailing, he went abroad. • • • • Some twelve months afterward, among a band of ladies working in Hid slum of the east end of London, visit- in,s the :stets poor and doing what they could to relieve the suffering around prem, one, "Sister f;plica," was the most devoted and toLlsame of them all. The clergy end her fellow workers warned her that her health would give tray under the unremitting exertion, hut she paid no heed to them. In her secret heart she wished to die, Ona day she was informed of a fresh case of distress. A poor woman lay sink of low fever, brought on by hard- ship, want of food and the drunlceci- nese and neglect of ler husband. Taking with her some nourishing food, sister Ellice vvonded her way up the three or four flights of naked, dirty stairs to the aattio in which the woman lived, and she was soon listen- ing to the dismal tale of the poor crea— tes—sea life. Then the husband came in. Ile com- menced to grumble before he had reaclrerl the door, but when he saw the visitor his tone altered. The man bore traces of better things. Beneath his rags and dissipation there was something which told of gentler birth, but it was a mere shadow, as it wore, which was almost totally eclipsed by the reality of hes present s outs oe• vice one wretchedness. Much of the neglect of mothers by Throwing himself on a broken- their daugbtexs comes from want of backed chair, he at once started telling tboaght, and many a girl would be ap- his woes in a maudlin way. palled at her own portrait, could she "Poor Bessie I"' he cried hypooriti- see "h "herself the sfioothers st s see her ;emn aumad a$ caLly, for he oared naught for her.would. "She's very ill, and I've no money to conduct in another girl. Yet day by get her proper nourishment. 11 you day she goes on accepting and never can help us a little ma'am, I shall be returning, and ruthlessly trampling very grateful." upon• the heart of one whose every But nester :ew,lice had grown to know thought Is centered upon her hap - the ways of such as he. If she had Piness and advancement, and that one given money it would have immedl- ; her mother 1 Surety Ibis is not the ately been turned into drink. and she girt weeps over hersehe lf noblef henkind whotools not the slightest notice of him. So he went on. ' in general„ and is attentive to outside "Ali1 I've seen better days. To friends, even to other girls' mothers, think that a nephew of Sir leenelne How gladly we turn to the contrast - Charter should come to Ibis. He's ing pieture, where the daughter is a worth millions, and yet he won't help daughter, indeed. Dear girl, as you me. He's oast me off in my misfor- prize your own happiness and beauty tunes."of character, love, cherish, pet your Gisler Ellice started violently, I mother, show rlefereacs to her opinion, "Sir ICenel.m Charter 1" she said in- consult with her, take her into your g airingly. girl life; and she will grow strong and "Yes," he replied; "Sir I;enclne beautiful, and strong end beautiful for Charter, "Do you know him, ma'am?" You. Make it your business to open the "No, but I've heard of him," she windows and let in the sunshine into said. • her soul. Let her see that her daugh- "Well, I'm hes nephew. b1y name's ter is thoughtful for her, and enjoys Guy Charter." ' , her companionship. ELILce looked searchingly at the man Urge her to go out with you; and if to See if it could possibly be her Guy. she is too preoccupied with household But there was no need. There was duties to pay much attention to the not the trace of a resemblance. What prettiness of dress, you look out for could it mean? Were there two Guy her; see that her veil is gracefully ar- Charlers? Two nephews of Sir Ken- ranged; her gloves in order; her dress elm Charter, both of the same name? neat and attractive, not letting her As the ice. occurred to her, the room) give up everything "for the children." and everything in it seemed to whirl Make much of her at home and abroad, around her, and she would have faint- and you will bare double reason to ed but that by a mighty effort she be proud of the mother whom you have rose from her sent much walked about helped to keep young, its in the sun - the apartment. shine of a daughter's love she blos- soms with the beauty of the fall rose, nand blooms and flourishes for you. nephews named Guy, then?" she asked quietly, as she resumed her seat. EVIL SPEAKING."Yes," replied the man savagely. "There's a prig of a fellow, a cousin 1. I will speak no unkind or harsh of mine, who oats himself Guy. T'm', word o£ aryoue. the son of SirKenelffa.'s elder brother, E. I elle repeat no unkind remarks • he's only the son of a younger one. But hp's the favorite one now, and I hese of anyone, and discourage oth- he'll get all the money, while I am er's, as much as possible, from saying left to starve. I've meet with. misfor- trnkinca elegem, tune and the old hunks bas cast ma off I" 3. l will judge, my neighbors lenient - 4 -4-4-4-4-T . Young Folks. I -4'•- -0-,-. -..-.--0-0-d-0-. 4 HEFT Y01:111 M0'f'liiIlt YOUNG. Gles, do you realize that the happL- neSe. both present and future, of your mothers is Largely in your keeping? Of amuse, you all acknowledge that no dearer relationship exists Mau that between a loving mother Rail, daughter, but do all of you believe it ? A girl cannot Word. to let Chia bless- edness slip out of her life, And est many do, and by busty word, neglect, end even by continuous rudeness to their mothers, cast shadow's wbere they could so easily bring sunshine. Some mothers, wise mothers, assert themselves; but too often the wrinkled brow, the weary step, and the perma- nent look of sadness so noticeable in many mothers, comes from want of ap- preciation in their sons and daughters. So much of her earthly bappiness is banked upon her children, for whom she would yield her life, that wben this prop is 'knockedfrom under her, nil seems to go with it. And the home without a competent bead, and ex- perienced band to guide amidst the vicissitudes of joy and sorrow, 15 not the happy home that it could be and h He did not say how generous and , ly, remembering that my own faults kind his uncle bed been to him, and are probably far ¢realer. w'hut a base return he had made. 4. I will never say one thing to oth- Sistex' Ellice finished attending to' ere, and yet think quite differently; her patient; and as she left the room' this is hypocrisy, "Deceive not with she beckoned to the husband to fol- low her. thy lips." "Tell me," she said sternly, when i 5. 1 will make no injurious remarks they bad got outside the door, "did on the fallings of others, remembering you know a Miss Bamford?" these words, " Consider thyself, lest. The fellow, dirty and degraded as thou also be tempted." he was, blushed and hung his head, 6, I will pull the best construction "Poor Vi I" he murmured. "Yes, I on the motives and actions of all my knew her."' neighbors. Ellice Made for the stairs, but he , 7, I will net unselfishly, peaceably followed her. The chance of getting se shilling to buy whisky with was too good to be lost. "Could you spare me a shilling?" he asked. And, to be rid of him, she gave hite one. not only praotiw but bruins and studs. This, thea, was 'she oifencier. This was the Guy Charter who had morally The young man who is ambitious to suc- murclored her sister Truly; ren- ceed'10 his cltosen calling should con - Vence had follew'ed upon him nittek- Sider well the importance of brenk- ly. and without human aids as VI bad ing away from the associations whichsant Lt waul.d. And 7t11iccto pursu , ing ler rash vow, had wrecked an Innocent Lead him to squander the money, in bit- uutn'a happiness, and her own, too. I Gard halls and similar resects, which She never knew hoer she managed to should go toward the purchase of books she gat there she was put to beet and other aids to a higher edueetion. strieken with brain fever, • • • • Itt three inenths' time the doctors ordered Ellice to the seaside. She chose Shoreport. She hardly and forgivingly, obeying my master's command, " Love one another." • ATM TO EXCEL. To learn it trade thoroughly requires reach the "Sisters' Home;" but when A,cerlain amount of recreation and pleasure is, of course, desirable, as well as the society of helpful friends, but the young man, who cannot enjoy his own companionship orcnsionally is in knew why; but she feet a desire td; a brad way, '.Take a few hours every return to the place where her happt- ; week, if not every slay, to devote 'o nese had been shattered, the study of your trade, visit the !i Mere she gradually gained strength, ! rely and other peaces Where you con ana as warmer days came on 0110 was find valuable information—perfect able to wander on the beach that re- yourself in your selling, and make your minded her of her great mietaka. services indispensable, Aim to be aft One morning she ventured a little the top end help others to climb. further than usual, and finding herself; out 0f sight of the parade and the people, she sat down upon a boulder to think. Pi,eeently she bowed her head and wept. "Oh, Guy, Guy 1"' she, sobbed aloud, "I might have known that it: could not have been you. You were too noble for etch a thing; but I was blind. Oh Guy, Guy, where are you?" She lutd not been aware of a soft step on the sands, but she felt a hand Laid gently upon her shoulder, and elm heard the voice of him she loved, ".1 am here, Ellice, my darling. AN TN.T)TX TO CIHARACTI?lb, If I could see into a girl's room I could always tell the character of the occupant, for the mind almost invari- ably reflects the manner, just as the manner reflects the mind, says a wrie- st, Given a tidy, clean, neat, tcell- smearod root., I would argue a sweet, settled, welt•balanced disposition, and in nine cases out of tan I would be right, There are, of course, excap- It tions, but it is nit%'h the vast body of Baas a sadmistake; but I have found women I am dealing. On the other you at last l" hated, a dirty, .disorderly, disagreeable Happiness had returned to her; but room will usually find in it a tenant she had paid dearly during those weary like unto Itself. True, le girl with an months for lou rash vow. untidy room may appear .fresh as a daisy on the street, but that is only her public ohmmeter and ripest, In I'0 RESTORE f,AC.ICohmmeterprivate life and in her heart she is To restore lime that has become quite exactly what her room tells you she yellow, and yet should not le as white Must -become through w' es it Gt1. 1 surely r y g ash - rated by a young woman who appeared im snake a sees in a glass jar, dt' to be all dolt woe tied arid evince: and the lace lin acd istand the jar is the fresh anid graulous, but when be be- stial. catto better acquainted, with her, whenhe saw her i t ao h as h n the ma. ° w compelled t a to change Lia mind, evil his affeil ions PAW soon underwent a Outage. Depend upon it, your real alrarrieter will show itself some clay, You will be found out, no matter how you may bide your faults behind the lace -room door, Therefore, I say to all young women—Keep your roma Lily, and let it be a: true index of your mind and character. HAVING FUN UNDER FIVE, .%nitrites. 1 ;olden ls is 1111• felines Prussian woe anti the Itiel Rebellion, A retired Major of a foreign, service war talking the oilier night of ex- periences under tire. Fie devise -ea that it was nut all serious week, Ile said: "I have had fun when soldiering, and that tuo, under fire on the slcirclinh line, d remember ,nice in Franca dur- ing the Franco-German war, when we were with Bourbaki at Montleliord, 1 was surprised to bear some of my men laaghing when we were about 10U yards freta the Germane and while we were lying on dirty, damp grounds and with just the smallest. incline in our front to protect us from the enemy's fire. We were hungry and cold, and were obliged to hug the dirty ground in order to get cover, 11 was no place for hilarious amusement, and yet the men. kept laughing so lousily teat 1 am sure the enemy beard them, "1 could not stand up with any safety, and the only way 1: could reach the man was to crawl, which I did, and after crawling algae. twenty yards 1 found myself in a good-sized depression in the ground, %hec'e there was fair shelter, and there 1 fotmt. out the cease of all the amusement, We had been out on our post eight hours, and had used up a goad deal of am- munition, and I had ordered the men to keep what they had left for an em- ergency that £.expected any minute, This gave the men leisare to grumble or make fun, just as they thought 1e51;, and in this case it was all fun. "They were playing ninepins with the enemy. And they did it this way: They made nine pi104 of mad in the form and about the size of sugar leav- es, and tney latace11 these at distances of about a yard from each other. Then they made bets as to which pin would be first hit, or which, would be hit the most times, and as men pin was hit there was a laugh, but 1 found that each pin had been named after some unpopular member of the battalion, and when one of the pins was shattered the men would laugh anti say: "There goes Long Legs.' or 'Sawbones is ov- er,' or 'll•ly-by-Night is disembowel- led,' and so on. 1 stopped the game, "I remember an 'amusing incident during the Mel rebellion in the Can- adian Northwest in 1885. Tha Indians and half-breeds had dug pits at Ba- toche, and we were pounding at them for three days with little or 110 effect, During that time our men were on the skirmish line all day, and et night they retired to the corral we hurl built im- mediately in our rear. But the half- breeds and Indians were evidently hav- ing fun at the expense of our young- sters. "0r cuurse, even our militiamen were prepared for the olcl ruse about putting a cap on the enol of a stick, bur the Indians made dummies, and they would suddenly expose a pert of those dum- mies, the head and shoulder, or the aisle, or in one case the feet, and then our young fellows would begin an in- dependent firing raped enough to re- sist a charge of cavalry. But the best part of the joke env that a great many of the youngest soldiers who fir- ed at the diunmy were sure to say, 'I hit hint!' '1 hit him I" while there is no doubt even the stoivat Indians in their pits were laughing, and 1, too, enjoyed the joke, for 1 had an excellent field glass and could see the dummies very plainly," THE NEW GERMAN SABBATH. finite finlike 1118 Thine canniness titmouse It to Ile. Remember the Sabbath day. In Ber- lin one is not very likely Io forget it. When we read, the newest polite regu- lations affeeling the outer observance of Sundays and holy days, ono feels that the Scotch Sabbath is not in it. It is the Glasgow Sunday of Rob Roy when a man might be arrested for idl- ing in kirk time. The first restrictions quoted seem mild, perhaps even salut- ary. All noisy trades and callings are forbidden during tee hours of morning service so far as 01lley interfere with the Sunday rest. The beer Na nggon may not wag, anti the roll waggon may not roll, the furniture van must act ruln- hlo down the peaceful streets, and peo- ple may not change houses on Sunday mottling, .But wl10 that could pay his rent would want to? Some however, we come to a stricter ruling, On Sun- days, days of penitence, and through passion weak, private festivities are forbidden if they interfere 'with sash days. Into the house, the ilolkee don't exactly intrude, but if the different flats fail to agree on the question, then the police right conies in again. And finally, here is the gem of the whole doeuttent. People are graciously per - milled to tenth and water their flowers in their gardens and balconies on any flour of Sunday except tbo limits of morning divine service—then they may not, The moral of it all seems to be either go to the church or keep safe- ty in bed. A Di1SI•RABLE CATCH. Mr. Mellon -1 am afraid that young man who is so attentive to you is as poor as a chtixeh mouse. Ile smokes wretched cigars—can't cost over five Cents, Miss 113eltion—Na, indeed, pa, he pays twenty -neva cents a peace for tbem, but the deelers sheat hefty. Mr, Million•'-'lhesl it's all right. Ho's: Only.a fowl. . >......d.d.o sed.....d.d. • About the House. 0dd000.d140.0.00..0'Oel@000 NORTHWEST P1,0lVkllts, Moira O'Neill, writing of life on a rand, in tlae great Needle mt., says: " (1n'' of the great charms of the prairie is that the flowers grow in such masses and myria,ls over R. l'ntii 1 value here 1 never knew what it was to see as 011101' flowers as 1 could wish all at once.. . . May le the time when the violets bloom; blue, and gray and golden, they ram" up by thousands in the short grass, and at the same time tho'shooting stars' make long flushes of crimson where they stand in their regiments, nolding side by side. Some- ' times a pure white one bends like a hrlde among the rest, They are little winged flowers, reminding one of cy- clannsns, but ' American cowslip' is their misleading name. About the first of June it is worth taking a Jong ride to find the forget-me-nots that grow in certain high spots. One calls forget - me -noes blue at home, but the bluest I would look as pale as skim -milk beside ' these, Enamel or the deepest turquoise would be dulled by them. They shine from the ground. like gems, and you may see there quite a pang weer off, though they have none of Ihu transpar- ency of red and white flowers; they shine only from their pure, opaque in- tensity o:f blue. . . , So many other lovely flowers follow the forget-me- nots that the chief difficulty is to name them, and that is no trifling task, when you are without botanical knowledge of your own and without books of re- ference. I think the flowers are espe- cially puzzling here, because away of them are so very like some we know in alae old country and yet not exact- ly the same. Thera is One like a white violet, but it grows half a root high; and one with the smell of a bean -flow- er, but it seems to be a yellow lupin; and ono that behaves like the little pimpernel, but it as large as abut- torcop, and pure coral color. We cull i.t the ' coral -flower' for want of bet- ter knowledge, The 'soldier -lily' was also christened at home—an upright lily of a splendid scarlet that flames through the long grass in June. I "Here, as everywhere, June le the I rose month, Then, while prairie larks are piping their short, sweet tunes, the prairie roses blow in their myriads, white and pink, shell pink, blush rose, and deep carmine. The bushes aro low and thick—they have no long sprays like the hedge -roses at home, butthese low rose thickets spread land run wild over the prairie and along the edge: of , the trail you may be driving on, till the horses' feet scatter scented rose - teases as they pass. The scent is the , most perfect thing in the world, very buoyant, very sweat. and just per'cels- tibly aromatic, One little bowl of pra- irie roses will scent a whole room and remain sweet after every leaf is with- , tared. With July there arrives a flood of blue and gold. Lupins of every shade of blue stand thick up the sides of the coulees. Blue asters, short and daisy - 'like, rover the Karo and half -grassed places. Golden gaillardttts, dark -center- ed, with brilliant fringes, shine like miniature suns right and left, high and low-, everywhere. Then come the ' iaare.lells dim,' Instead of being shy and solitary, 115 they are at home, they come to thousands—in millions rather; acres of harebells and the delicate blue ' flowers wave together in the faintest breeze, and when the low sun strikes ' over them, if you happen to be riding , with your fare to the west you see them like countless of light transpar- ently twinkling in the long grass. Au- gust withers the faint blue flowers, but brings instead the fire -weed glowing on every hill and hollow-, and slender 'sunflowers clustering in the loops of the creek. These dark -eyed single sun- flowers are the most uueeriain of aut- umn's slaughters. One year they are everywhere, the next year hardly to be seen. Then sooner or later mines the inevitable September snow -storm, and after that you may say gond-bye to the wild flowers and turn your at- tention to shooting prairie chickens," SOME GOOD RECIPES, Croquettes of Veal.—Orn pound roast veal, awn ounces ]tam, two ounces of tongue, salt, pepper, nutmeg, 0118 ounce butter, one tablespoonful of cream, one tablespoonful stock. Mince the veal, hunt tendlonguefinely, sea - eon it and put It in a sa,utlepau with the cream, stock, butter and a little flour; sinner for one fourth hour, burn it on to a dish tend make into cro- quettes; egg and breade.rumb them; let stand for one half hour; egg and breaclrrumb them again, and fry in boiling fat till at bright golden brown. Strawberry Sherbet,—Steawberry sherbet. is very pn.laiable these spring days. Remove the stenos from several bores of strawberries, equal in weight to one pound or more, mash them, mix tvitli them the juice of a lemon, one tableepoonful of orange Clower water and three pints of water, in the course of four hours' ttute strain the juice off the etre wherries into another bas- in, pressing there to extract as much of the juice es 'pnssible. Add to the juice one pound of double, refined s ne- ar and stir it until, the sugar has dis- solvecl. Then strain anti park in ie0 for an hour, Orange Souffle..—Four eggs, four ta- blespoonfuls of sugstr, four tablespoon - fats of orange juice, two of water, the grated rind of one orange, a. pinch of salt. Beat the eggs separately; odd to the yolles the salt, granted; rind, sn- gar end hent to it mem. Next, et it in the, orange ,juice and water, lode Slight- ly healed; rnix well, and, lastly, fold into the same the stiffly beaten whites, 'turn et ante into a. buttered pudding d11111 and ltalta just 1.2r minutes lo a hot oven, Serve at ones, (Asparagus nue Eggs.—To each rg13 allow a large tablegpoonfal of rich milk or cream and a little salt, Beat eggs until llglzt, add alto cream, heat it a tabea,o better i as tier t o nful of u es, n I p until dpour in -L r»ixto ernc cook until thz'kenrd, Iluve reedy, boiled, the head, of a. launch of amt,,irtgus and stir in with eggs just: before rr'raoVing from. the fire. Serve on moistened toast. Itoae Leaf Cake --Take any plain cake batter, bake in stlell patty piens; nude, n thick trolling, adding a few drnpw of fruit calor ur eochineat to make a rich pink. lee the cakes, ex- cept ane, which should be iced with the yellotw of en 01.2-4 beaten stiff with sugar. arrange' them an alter calve dish, the yellow one in tho center and the pink ones around it like 11 rose. Nei UNG!IE 81A4 IS F IIT9MS OP INTISRIIST ABOUT I3USV YANIiB'B. S'Cighhorly Interest In Ills Goinge—Matkato of Moment and Hertel Gathered from We Gaily Record. VL'Iid blackberries were reported int bloom last month at Fulton, Or. Jl bay stumbled in a field and fel atGolden Ring, bd., anda brier steroGingsr 1rarkeas.-thee eanf oto- entered his ear, piercing the drum, lasses, half pound sugar, quarter pound At Wbatcom, Wash., a woman works butter, one tablespoonful ginger; mix Ing for an evaporating company peep butter and sugar to a cr'eaui, teen acid ed. 15,431 potatoes in twenty days and ntolneees and cringer. Laslly, flour en- earned by her work $20. ?ugh to make e. stiff dough. about one Two canaries in a cage at Portland, quart. Some brandy of flour taken Or., were Filled by a sparrow bowie little more and some less. fumbles.—Half pound flour, half which thrust its head betwe11n the bars pound sugar, ]tail pound batter, two of the cage, seized the canaries and wrung their necks. eggs; flavor according to taste. It le told without shame in Maine that an amateur- photographer of Wat- erville took a sliap shot at a friend who had lost his bulenee and fallen into a lake, before going to the res, 0110i While boring for water a tTennes• shows plant Spain owes ?hour one-third sena. struck what he thought trust as 8011511 as Eogdund, abuul one-half as be a lake, his drilling apparatus sink. much as Italy and. about oar -quarter the itgllidyslo uted he ffounduthnb LC as much as France in the way of nee was very pure oil, Hetet debt, and while the debt per sap- A placer miner on Ruby Creek, its of Spain es $73 that of Great Bri- Wbatcom county, Wash„ lost all his lain is 557, of Italy $711 and of Prance savings, about . $1,100, by leaving his $110. These figures are misleading, cahin one night in the care of a man for they do not take into account twowho suddenly became ?lazy and de - important elements—timet, the wealth stroyerd ma,ll the money, whieh was In bell fo of the country, and second, its credit. For instance the debt per capita of Hol- land is $95,5('1. That of Itn1y is $76.06. Ostensibly the burden of debt is heavi- er in Holland than in ftaly. but the facts are otherwise, Holland is a wealthy country; the people are thrifty; the internal taxes are light; the com- merce is large and the profits of its woman turned around to drive tinny colonial possessions are enormous. Italy away and found that her dress was is a poor country; it has few manufac- afire. A tub full of water was .cam at hand, and she jumped 10 and escaped turas and et hes erneti°ally no money harm. invested abroad, Tine aggregate wealth parts of Delaware a vary manly of Italy, ..eluding land, live stock, mer- greater acreage is devoted to tomatd Imhandise, ships, gold and silver, roil- raising this year than in former• sea- ways, buildings and personal effects, sons, some farmers having signed large averages about $500 for each inhabit- contracts with canning factories and ani:. In Holland the average wealth is I others having determined that the op. $1.500 for each inhabitant, and the en market offers good inducement. AS TO NATIONAL DEBTS. Ann nes Ptiwneini Condition Compared wl 111 'rhu1 of Other Nation,. A table has been published which When a deputy sheriff who wanted to arrest a negro near Tallahassee. had searched vainly altahout the man's house and yard, he kicked a bar- ren just for spite, as he was on his way! to the gate, and out casae the negro, Feeling her little dog tugging at the. back of her dress a Waukegan, ILL, Dutch can therefore much better sus- At Linwood, Del., an owl belonging thin lbe national debt of 395 each on - to a far northern species, very rare the average than can the ilallaos the in that vicinity, was shot reoently. It debt of $70. measured four feet from tip to tip, In the matter of luterest on debt oma- I was white on the breast. lege, and un - ligations, England's der the wings, and the wings theta - ligations, has long selves the head and the beck were pen- been an enviably one among European Gilled in brown and gray and spotted nations. English consols paying 23-4 Ln black and white. per cent, sell at about 112, and it stay, How tar off from the rest some parts be said roughly that the English Gov of the United States are was illus erntnent can borrow all the money it tented pointedly a fortnight ago when Des - needs and a good demi more, no doubt, Capt. Milan, keeper of the Mount Des at an average rate of 11=e per cent. I ert Rock light,�off the blains coast, The Spanish Government loins pay os- tensibly 4 per cent., but Spanish bonds paid his first visit of the winter to ars selling at Lees than one-third their the mainland and there first learned face value. Actually, therefore, the of the destruction of the Maine. He :Spanish Government is paying 12 per bought all the papers ho could find cont. on the money borrowed—a giving an account of the catastrophe ,urinous drote schen compa tred with N.ng- tor take to the small community of lug lan's 21-3. Spout's otal debt Ls egniv- home. silent to about. $1.250,000,000 and king- I Driving homeward, on a long jour land's to $5,300,000,000, but the wealth ht nay, a farmer of Warwioh, Md., stop - of Great Britain is four limes greaser pad at a farmhouse on the way and and its credit t five times as good, asked to be allowed Lo spend the ns, In all computations of national debt tug ht • another error has came to be gen- there. The onoupant of the house eral. France's debt per inhabitantis charged him witb being a horse thief now $116, while that' of Germany is took his horse from him, and gave him, only 51.37. Tills disparity would be a receipt for it purporting to be signed very difficult to explain. were it not by the Sheriff. The paper was a forg- known that melt of the countries or ery and the horse seas recovered, but Political divisions malting up the Ger- not until there had been a great deal pian Empire has a separate debt of its of trouble, own, 'Nor instanee, Bavaria has a debt The Rev. Thomas Skinner of Chester, Wurtem ergo, s a debt o0 marks, and i Dol, wefle on a b1cyc10 ran met some R urtemberg Las 11 dont of $00,000,000 both larger Haan the debt of the ems of his congregation crossing a bridge p[re, which is early $77,000,000. over Chester Creek. He dismounted THE PRESENT. We look back to past experiences in life with regret, thinking that we have missed some of the pleasure we might have towed in them if we had only devoted ourselves more to the present moment. And we look eagerly forward to the future, thinking that when it laps become the present we cannot fail to exhaust all of its many de lights. So looking always backward or for- ward we fail Le see 110111 the present moment contains something peculiar to itself, which we never head before and will never have again, and that only now c•sn IVO get all it contains; only now can we squeeze dry the fruit we was Luken from 'the streets of Wash - went of the future, when it conies, dint I M, Wharton and placed at the "Who- We bare enjoyed to its full the pees- • mover Farm" for orphans near ]Lary, eat. Nor do we cheat the past of Va. It is now said that she has fallen the fine aroma wbieb memory gives us ' $eir to. $00,000; dein of .her country.; ',then We get. the greatest amount of meat residing', hero got entity informa- gc'od we. can felon to -day. ' tion of the iortunu, and au effort was Rather the cultivate our eapecity far Gado to gat possession of iter, but it e 'o a cut' for it is a faculty which nd l n , o u t was thwarted and she was. handed over aiolisi can ho reserves. cultivated. dignity, egol ism, , to the care of an Italian Consul, un - standreserve's. fearnail these. often , dor whose direction sho'was taken to stance in i'ho war when we w•ouldy^field' Italy. ourselves entirely to tete joy to he got , i 1 r from the present mamma. le like i So brightly blazes mart a ardo tie oChalslcpierecninwn eanwdo. ualnd atlyhsriosw oof ffoutrhisfe1e0l- •'p•Tohorrtienrdeik00 1, etrhao., Btehlaftastth.e ocal cores - Age is unable i hs t s ourselvesolv es utterly into Ibis minutent'good, our memories of + to !told to his than? of spring, taut it would be as keen as the Brawn -up I breaks forth; "We not onlyhear the child's 'memories of his glad childhood, ; sweet warbling of birds to remind us And our joy 'it the future tveicld lie as : that spring hits come, batt than; Merl - great as were our childish Lose -colored blo scream of the Atueriean , eagle, visions of long ago. THE LARGEST HOUSE, and put in some good words with them about the virtue of prompt payment of a pastor's salary. Iia became eloquent and gesticulating, and in a grand sweep of his hand caught hes thumb in his watch chain anti the next mom= ant the watch sailed over his shoulder into the creek. S. G. Thnrlow of Belfast, Me., now nearly 00 years old, has just received permission to remove from the Cus- tom House 1.hei'e a desk which he bought and put there for his personal 1 use when he was Collector of Customs' Ithirty years ago, it had got on the inventory of office furniture through some mistake and when bis term ex- pired he was not allowed to remove it. Application after application for permission to do apo failed until now. Charlotte Grayni, an :italfan child, warning us that an insolent foe has nal only dared to pollute the fair vale ley of freedom with his vile end bar - T k has just built ! berous tread, beneath whose poisonous The Sultan of Turkeyy t footsteps the young planta of liberty al Meooa ILhe biggest horse hi the , pare sure to witha: anal die, but had world. It la intended for the accona- drawn largely from uncle Sam's storew modaLion of pilgrims, and is capable, of i polluted bus flag and unwoutly spines• sheltering 6,000 persons. 'Che next American blood, .Close .Spanish say., blgest house in the world is In a ages, reptiles in the. path a 'rogl•ossivl' g P• suburb of Vienna, It u000mmotlatols deme>oraoy, muss;: by hipped into olvi 2,.112 tenants, Next comes the throe . llzation, they have no riallt to thq Rmvton houses in London, with 800, , blessings of laarbarisan, at leeast enlists 1177 and 600 tenants respectively. side, a: tiro lent 4.•