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The Exeter Times, 1886-3-18, Page 12AN EGYR7IAN ROMANCE. Story of Love and Wild Adventure founded upon Startling Revela- tions in the Career of Arabi Pasha, J v 4he 414thor o; " NINA, UE titan IgT,u 44 Hua llim r$. RIU1;7,i," "" 1114 Blain" ,grirs" Ego., ETD.. CHA.P.TER. XXXIX,—(CoATINuson) red window lookiu,g ontat the blee and trau- gafl a0a, whose waves 'Wad the base of ".6 u mal We win lin you ant one husband, the wall that couetituted that aide of her there, when your present one and ale othtr prison Cell and open the three euormeue the ee hee nnbeliavera have been driven bete u.ouclade Cell, .in the bright Union Jack of the area. Know yea not that the conqueror Gid England, which laysome )ilio diatauce. ha*h ,,disputed right to all alio goods and oft, but with esteem np • d the gapinag' possessions of the conquered, including hie mouths of her huge cannon to all appear - wives, his daughters, his maters, his mid. ;,aces pointed directly at the to al e. tresses, and in short the whole of Pia wo- ;,aces near were they that ahs could even mankind': Such is the custom of all East read the great gold letters upon chub proses ern nations, and it has bean so throughout and make thein oat to leo the Alexandra, all ages. Your countrymen should not have the S.dtan and the Superb, and whilst she come to no and so have made thomaelves ©he Saled to gaze a band of made struck up they came to can laws. Allah thekur est of aboard one of them, Had the strains, mellow• they came ,ypth5 unmindful, like all ed byb b cis water, reached unhappy Egypt's plagues, but they will he soon got rid of, whilst you will remeia be- hind." "Rather would I perish then. Aye, ie thousand times rather would I perish with them." " Very probably ; but you will not be al- lowed the option. Fate loan decided that we both shall belong to the same man, but en account of my rank I shall take prece- dence of you, and as Valide Khenoum, or head wife, be able to treat you as I please. Yon have a lovely white akin, I own it, but though your flesh be as snow it shall feel the sole of my slipper none the lees frequently, and sometimes i will force you to oat stick." " Oh, your highness, why do yon feel this deep and terrible „malignity towards me ? How have I incurred it ? I ani on. conscious of having Injured you in any way," cried poor Ladle as her courage, suddenly forsook her, and tearing off her green veil she mat herself on her knees before the Egyptfau, her face bathed in tears. "I will tell yen how you have incurred it, You shall know how you have injeted are and why I hate you. Your baby face won from me the only man whom I ever truly loved, be who saved my life at the risk of his own, That auolr love was born an a moment I am aware, but we Egyptians are warmer blooded than you Franks, and our race are as sudden in their loves as in their hates. I am aware, too, thathe never loved me in return, but I could have made him do so in time had not you altogether monopolized his heart, and as his wife I should have gone to Europe and Been the life of its gay eftiee, and have been able to ishow my face unveiled and to win homage and admiration, as the Frankish women do, instead of being a prisoner inside the walla of a harem all my life through, which as maid, wife and widow is the llealem wo• man's lot, This is how you have wroaged me, and this is the reason that I hate you." Nellie would have made some answer to this epeecb, but the princess was in no hu- mor to linten to one. Springing to her feet with the mingled vigor and grace of a tigress, she seized her lovely captive by an arm and dragged her acre s the room into another, and from thence to yet a third, this final chamber being supplied with au apparently strong door. Ehna:r had bounded on In front to un- lock and throw open the door, so that the enraged princess bad only to threat her prisoner into the room, which she did roughly enough, for she was possessed of great strength. Bat not contest with this she dragged her up to the window (ene that, alas, was strongly secured with iron bare) and pointing out she exclaimed in ao- cents that rage had almost converted into a shriek : "Behold at your very feet the sea that forme the highway to your distant home, yet a pathway that you are destined never to traverse. Behold, too, lying motionleas upon its waves, the Eagliah ironclads that are meet emblems of the grip that your spec- ulators and your extortioners think that they have fixed npou the land cf the Phar- dohs : but nearer atill to us are the stone forts whose eannon,tworked by patriots, will - when the destined hour arrive¢, eiuk them one by one at their anchorage. Where that has been accomplished another than my im- becile brother will be the supreme lord of Egypt and I shall be his wife and you hie mistress, for ao hath he sworn unto me." With those words she gave Nellie a shove that sent her reeling into a corner, and then leaving the little chamber she looked and bolted the door thereof in her rear, CHAPTER XL. FRANK DONELLY BEARDS TIIE wAR MINISTER Left alone in her chamber, or rather her prison cell, poor Nellie gave way nnre- strainedly to her grief, and fora long while she felt as if the was positively going mad, She had come to the very natural conclu- sion that her young and gallant husband had been butchered by the mob, even as °there had been butchered, his faithful aer• vent sharing his fate ; thin she felt that she was widowed, indeed—friendless, and the captive of one velars) hated her with a fell malignity and gloated ever the time when they would be the wife and mistress of one man, and she (the princess) would be invested., through her higher position, with full power to permeate and torture her. Nellie knew inotinetively who that man was, for tbo Flacon had spoken so plainly that oho felt that she could gases correctly, He was Arabi Pasha, the war minister, and then it came upon bar like a conviction that the wicked princess, failing through marriage to obtain her daring with of. eman- cipation from Mohammedan thraldom, and of dazzling with her beauty the fashionable circles of Paris and London, had resolved that at all evento she would be the : fore moot woman in her native land ; and, in or- der to become a Khedive's wife, had oon spired against her own brother. Nellie felt, deep down in her heart, that the woe re/rater loved hor and only her, but the knew oleo that he loved his down- trodden country more, and she thought it probable that he would make any sacrifice or concession tor its sake, took it even the form of a merriego with the pretreat Elsa dive's slater and the inatalling her as the hoed of his harem. But, on the ether hand, the could nob no much an hope that he would relfngaiah hie cleirn over her, especially that he was nogg' the de leoto ruler of Egypt and could defy both European protest and interferenee. Yet, if Providence did not ecpcciali.y in- terfere Inhas behalf the was convinced that alio would shortly ba the war ministeh'e clave, or at the best his third wife, whilst the prinoest who bated her so much, would be his Value Khanon , end' as suoh be in e position to tyrannize over, bioult and °von punish hor, from hoar to hour and from day to day as long as she lived, pondered,mourned and fretted over all them eee acv erl thingr! whilot seated. on a pile of oaslrioneat the little orosabart e.t this moment she would have been safe with her parents in nay palace at Cairo," "Her parents had no right to sell her to you against her natural inclinations, as though eh° watt a mere bate of merohan diee, We had laved each other for menthe, wo were all in all to each other, we felt that death would be.abundred times better than separation, and for these reaseno, rather then remain at Cairo and bo coerced by her parents into marrying you, she dared a thousand perils to escape with me." "The blood of youthiw hot and the brain of youth is weak, on which account 1 for- give both of yen," reaplied the war minister with a sneer. But, ho added, "1 tar from rooign my;olaim to Miss Trezarr, for it is a child's duty.to obey her parents: in all things, and In that point your Bible and our Khoren are et all events agreed. That you have done wrong in thea affair eau therefore be proved out of your own Scrip- tnroa, and. a few woeke of colitary confine- ment will give you an opportunity of study- ing the question therein end of convincing yourself that I am right. When at the proper hoar I have the privilege of petting you free Miss Trezarr will have become my her ith woedroue dietinotneas, but with wife and the meat lovely inmate of my bar - the result cf drawing another flood of teare from her eyes, for the air was "flame, Sweet Home," and of all giro, that was the one leapt adapted to oheor or comfort her on an occaalon like the present. So distressing, indeed, was its effect upon her over -excited nerves that oho throw her- eeif down upon the floor, buried her fade in the pile of velvet, gold -embroidered cush- ions and pushed her fingers into her ears, ao that not a single note of the well -remem- bered and beloved strain should reach her, and thus and there we will leave the lonely and uufortnuate girl, in the throes off her mental but client agony, in order to return to the fortunes of her husband and his faith- ful dependent, * a * * * * * The speech of the cavalry officer stayed the nsurdercua hands of the mob, and it is likely that its oonolueion, which was to the effect that " in the end the two Europeans would in all probability be hanged whether er no," had mere weight with them than either the beginning or the middle of the harangue. Be that as it may, however, Captain Don - ally, who had been felled to the ground, was raised to his feet again, whiffet Pat Monaghan was also picked np and restored to his senses by a few hearty cuffs, and then the cavalry officer called up a few infantry soldiers who were lounging about doing nothing (they had shortly before been amongst the moat active of the rioters), and intrusting his two prisoners to their care, ordered them to be marched at once to the arsenal, whither he accompanied them. Perhaps had he not done se, by some nth - chance they would never have arrived at their destination. They were not suffered to speak to each other on the road, and a buffet rewarded every attempt to do so. At last, however, aftsr following exactly the same route as Nellie and the eunuch aga had done in the caleche, and after witnessing very aimiher sights on the way (though now cavalry of- ficers were galloping in all directions and apparently doing their utmost to save life and reatoro order), they arrived at the great gates of the arsenal, where artillery soldiers stood on guard, passing whom and being conducted across a paved court to a large and barrack -like building they were admit- ted thereinto, and presently found them- solvec in a bare , black looking room, as destitute of furniture aa an empty barn, and where they saw many other Europeans in oa evil care as themselves, Ere Captain Deneliy osuld hold converse or esmpare notes with any of them the:doar they had entered (tlie room had two) was again opened to give admission to the war minister, closely followed by two armed orderlies. Arabi Pasha walked silently to and fro amongst ,the prisoners, as though looking for some one whom he expected to see there, and no sooner did his gaze rest on Captain Donelly than, walking up to him, he said anz touoly : "How is it that you are alone ? What has become of your companion, Mina Tre- zarr ?" "You had beat ask your eunuch aga that question, nine 'twee at hia instigation that our carriage was attacked, and 'twos he also who made away with her therein," And here it may be obeerverl that Frank labored under this misconception because that he had heard Osman Ogion deolare to the mob es they were attacking the oar- riege that his master wap " the Saviour of Egypt and the Chosen of the Nation." This answer to the war minister's ques- tion seemed, however, to guzzle that exalt. ed personage immensely, " Come with me into the next roam," said he. " This is a matter that requires looking into, and the sooner that we under- stand oath other the better, perhaps, for all parties." With these enigmatical words he strode on in front, and tanning a deaf ear to the many who would fain have hold speech with him, he entered the inner room, closely followed by Frank Donelly, who pat constraint nn his • feelings because ho had no sword to vent thein with. He now looked round upon a room far• Wished in Egyptian official fashion, but hardly had he taken note of the many mod- els of ships upon the walls when the war minister, vvho had thrown himself into a chair, said In cold., ,tarn tones : em, and thus the matter will have been fin• ally decided. For the present I go to sot her free." "Dare to move from that chair and I will etranglo you, The lady of whom yen speak is Mists Trezarr no longer, but my lawful wedded wife, and l: domead to be at once allowed to go to the Khedive so that he may force his sister to deliver her up to me, "You told me just now that Miss Trezarr had been carried off by my aga, but that cannot be,. 'because my ago and my entire harem remain at Cairo. How was this aga drooled. ?" "Such was the tumult and confusion that I had to keep my eyes en these who were actively assailing us. Still my eare wore at leisure, and I hoard him declare that he was your age." "The rascal lied. But have yon no idea whatever off his general appearanoe?" "I caught a momentary glimpse of a huge head and a showy dress et scarlet and white." "Maloom 1 Maloom ! then ie she by this time in the power of Primrose! Zeenoh," The war minister ejaculated the wore more an though he wase communing with himself than addreening Frank, and there was an expression of oath keen anxiety upon his face that our hero, who had been endlotou ty alarmed by his words, grew still more ao by reason of his look, and inapati- eptly broke forth with : "In the power of that cruel and vindic- tive woman? As God is myjudge, I would Mather of the two that oho wee in yours. I must go to her brother the Khedive at onto, You dare not detain mei" and the young, officer moved toward the door al he epolce. "It is looked bynow on the other aide sand guarded as welli" tail the war minister coldly, "Bodies,"i he added, ",I oda servo Mies Trezarr better than you can and as she is my affianced wife, it is mere fit- ting that I should move in the matters tied you not induced hor to elope with you this misfortune would not have happened, and IN wllicH CHAPTER NLI, MR. DONELLY IN TURN IS PLACED UNDER LOOK AND KEY. Captain Doneily's outburst of pasaiou mot with a similar one on the part of the war minister. "Slava—€aaadel-unclean Keffir," he ex- claimed, foaming at the mouth with rage the while. "So you have dared to de this wrong to the girl in defiance of her parents and myself combined ? You have taught me to regret the caving of your worthless life." "The saving of my life ? Your saving of my life ? Your excellency fa pleased to be facetlons," retorted the dragoon officer, in accente of fiery scorn, and then he quickly added : "It seems to please you also to make a merit of that which a dire necessity has driven you unto, the securing of a few Chriatian prisoners, so that the threat of hanging teem in Dasa the British fleets should open fire upon your forts may deter it from knocking them to pieces." "By Allah end the prophet you either intentionally or through ignorance wrong me, you Kaffir dog, for far from beinu afraid of the British fleet, or what it can do unto us, unless it shortly withdraws and permits Egypt to settle her own private bneinese in the way best pleasing to the vast majority of her inhabitants, I shall open fire upon it from our forts, and I firmly believe sink the huge ironclsds at the moorioge, and swear mato you that my role object in and myself to make prison• ere was to attempt to save es many of your unfortunate oeuntrymen'e linos as poesiblo. To do this I had to win an exouae that would induce the enraged populace to spare them, and I could think of none better than the ono which I used and that you now fling back in my face." "If I have wronged your excellency I apologize, and if I owe my life pato your excellency I return you my best thanks for the saving of it, and, having, done so, all my thoughts revert again to my sweet girl wife, whom I believe to be in the power of a female fiend who thirsts to execute some dreadful vengeance upon her." " Why should she wish to be avenged on her ? Perhaps 1 know, but how do you guess it ?" " That I may not tell your excellency, for whilst it is possible that I may mis- judge another, it would be dishonorable to betray that other's confidence," anawered Frank Donelly. "It is well said of you, and I stand re• proved," rej einedArabi Poch 0,, with a. state- ly bow. Then, after a moment's thought, he continued : "I trust, Captain Donelly, that your captivity will be a short one, but, however short it may be, von may depend that it will be the sieving of your life, and that many stirring events will happen during its continuance, I shall now go to the res- cue of my affianced wife, pad 1 stili nma that term because I regard the ceremony that Iran been performed betweenyou two as a mere farce, inasmuch as there was no con- sent of parents, which la a chief essential of Egyptian law, and since tester morn all who arm abiding in Egypt have become pub. jeot to the laws of Egypt, even as all ,for. signora abiding in England are subject to the laws of England. You cannot oall this 'injustice. beoanao, if it be so, why would similar treatment be meted out to ut in your land? "I cannot argue such matters with a shrewd diplomatist. I am a blunt soldier and, like the conquerers of thie land, am ac- customed to out knotty problems with my sword, Instead of attempting to untie them with my tongue. If your excellency will, therefore, be good enough to order my sword to be returned to me, I will willing- ly leave to the tent of cold steel the subject of our-diacuasion." Arabi spat upon the floor to avert any evil omen that these words might contain, one then replied quite, oalmly "The dog who cannot is always prone to bark. Inshailah, ba it as God wills; for we are all in the hands of Allah." The Egyptian;, orderlies would now have proceeded to drag the 'young Iaishman along, had, he not saved them the trouble by moving in the direction indioated of his own free will. He farted that this was not to be the way in which he had porno, but straight aoroea the large bare looking room to a door that vvaa exeotly opposite to the other one. It gave admission to a damp stone paw sego tlrrt seemed to gradually trend down- ward, and they had not prooeoded along, it very far when they came t0 what looked like oell doors on either side, all of which were closed, ns though the interiors wore 000upiud. At last, however, they arrived at one which etood'ajar, mod Fronk was eiiently informed that he had reached his own domi- cile through being introduced thereto by a sudden' and unexpected above, which pro- pelled him into its furthermost corner, and ore he could turn round the door was look- ed and bolted upon him, and he could hear the Egyptian scidiers leugiaing at what was doubtless to them a very good joke as they walked away. Frank Donelly set himself to a vigilant inveetigatlon of his prison chamber, which., however, did not take him very long, for it was about twelve feet square, with stone walla, a stone floor, a eligntfy vaulted roof, a door that looked as massive as though it was that of a banker's atroug room and which had a little half window about a foot equare let into it (for the passing in and out of food, as Frank supposed), while exactly opposite thereto wan the window Proper, which was of about the same dimensions and defended with stout iron hare. (To BE ooNTINUED. ) A MURDER MYSTERY. 1:07,31ItS diollcials Alleged t0 be Imep11cateai—A Newspaper's Strange Story, A despatch from San Antonio, Texas, says : Apropos of the brutal mardor in Austin of Mre. Eula Phillips on Christmas Eve, for the commiaaion of which her hare band, Janreo W. Philips, who was found unconscious in bed from a horrible wound received at the same time, has recently been committed on preliminary examination to jail without 1011, the Figaro of this city has produced a profound sensation by pub- lishing the statement of a prominent citizen of San Antonio to the effect that the man who accompanied Mrs. Philips in a close carrlage from a certain house an hour before she met her horrible death is a very promi- nent offioer in Governor Ireland's] Cabinet and aepiroe to become Governor of the State. The gentleman making the state- ment says : "Detectives engaged en the cane disoov ered the infidelities of Win. Philips and a lady friend and that their partners were tae important officers of the State of Texas, both married men. One of these men is the bead of an important State department, the other is a clerk in that department and is a candidate for a State at the next election. As soon as it wap discovered that those of- ficers were implicated the large reward for the apprehension of the murderer was with- drawn and a police officer was dispatched to the principal witness to bribe her to leave the State; but the deteotivos kept watch on her movements and compelled her to attend the preliminary examination and 'beatify. She was extremely cautious in her testi- mony ; and, though she partly let the se- cret out, she artfully concealed the amen of the principals. Tho Stato'e Attorney re- frained from arose -examining her as to who was the partner of the murdered woman, and did not calf on such partner to testify, although he knew he could give important evidence. If the witness could have been kept eat of eight Phillips, the husband, would have been discharged and the whole scandal suppressed. But now it cannot be dons. While every effsrt is being made to shield these State officers, I hope the truth will out." The Figaro editorlally denounces these important officials, and demands the expo- sure of their groins immorality, so that they may be driven from their positions of honor and trust by the condemnation of an out- raged public. The publication is the talk of the town to -day, and may lead to startl- ing developments at Austin. "Yong man, as I saiki to you onus be- fore, I dare not cross ewerrls with you, be- cause I rim the property of the nation ; and I do not think I flatter myself when I add invalu•abie to the nation as well. It would bo, therefore, criminal on my part to risk in a private quarrel a life that to devoted to the public good. I shall certainly not, however, yieldmy affianced bride up to you, but rather place you for a while where yon can neither disarrange my plans nor do either ofus any injury ; ' and as he con- cluded he (struck a gong that stood on a table in front of him, and in immediate an- swer to the summons the lock was heard to turn and the two orderlies entered the room, carefully looking the deer again be- hind their. As both mon were armed to the teeth, and he had not a weapon of any kind about him, Frank Donelly saw that to offer reeistance would belittle short of madness—in fact, a direct invitation to the Egyptians to murder him, and perhaps his faithful follower, Pat Monaghan, as web. Id the untoward dilemma in which he found himself he retnembered the fable of the sapling that yielded to the blast and so escaped destruction, whilst the sturdy oak which tried to resist ie wast torn up by the emote, and bending, in like manner to the in- evitable, he said in accents of subdued but bitter Contempt " I will leave my country 10 avenge me. There fs an inner comothitrg which tolls me that when we again meet I shall have a sword in my hand, and that Instead of be• itn the idol of this misguided nation you will be considered by all men as ite bitter cures, Porhapt in that boor I may repay the good turn whioh you declare you have done me by caving you with my good steel the dlegraoo of swinging by a hempen rope, EKE IToUsEIIOLI), Hints, A good mixture for chapped hands is coin, posed of carbolic acid, fifteen' 'grains ; the yelk of one egg ; glycerine, three drams. A little of this is to be rubbed into the hands sevoril timea a day if the, akin la not broken, Wash the nickel trimmings of your stove in strong soda water and wipe them off with a dry flannel or a newspaper; then wasla. the zinc with the same water. Before sweeping a carpet sprinkle it with bran dampened with water, This absorbs the dust better than anything I over tried. Penmanganate of potash is not only a good disinfeotaxrt, but a atnall quantity of it mix- ed with the water for •watering noes or other plants in pate or vaseu promotes lunar• fano° and health. Sprinkling the foliage with the acme mixture drives away the green fiy and keeps off mildew. One word as to the bealthfulness of dish• washing. There is no ouch oartairi cure for a poor circulation,'' the constant and varied exeroiae with hand!. in hot water, sending the bleed to the extrmmitlea uwiftly and free- ly, and neuralgia will fly before it, A young lady who is an onthuaiastfo pianist tells me her fingers are never so supple as on Monday morning when the has a pan of hot water brought into the sunny breakfast room and "takes Katie's place washing up the breakfast things." Do not be afraid of it, only lot your dith•waehing be done de- cently and in order. A Wife That Didn't Say a Word Against Her Husband's Late Hours. A party of gentlemen were discussing do- mesticaubjeots, One of them said : of course, when a man marries he may naturally expect to surrender many of his liberties. He cannot stay out late at night, nor can he go to so many places of amuse - men as he could previous to marriage. I don't suppose there ever was a :woman so sweet.tempered that she refrained from scolding her huabend for staying out late at night." "You are wrong," some one elaa'remarked. "Ne matter how late I stay out, my wife does not scold me." "She may not scold you, but she shows by her tone of voice, if not by her words, that ails does not like to be loft alone." "No, sir. The other night I stayed cut until twelve o'clock, and when l went home my wife did't say a word." "Didn't elm ask you where you had been ? "No, I te11 you the didn't say a word." "She must be a very remarkable person." "Oh, no, nothing remarkable about her, and she penalises no peculiarities, only that she hi deaf and dumb." Choice Receipts. FRIED BEETS,—Peel two or three baste. Grosse your frying -pan, slice the beets very thin into it, Add a teacup of water; let it nook out, then fry them a little. They are very nice. BROWN BREAD (very good). -Two Daps of graham flour, one oup of wheat flour, one. Oath of, salt ; two cups of sour or batter milk, ono and orae -half teaspoons of soda or saleratuo. Bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. It in very, very 'good. Seoeten with sugar or molasaes, if liked.' BOILED BISCUITS,—Put a quart of good dried -apple sauce, prune sauce, or almoet any dried -fruit mace into a kettle and add two quarts of water. Drop into this a tin- ful of light bread biscuit and boil one hour. Serve hot with sugar and dream. Or you can spread a white cloth on the top of the sauce and lay the bine€t on it to boil, BREAYFAsr HAsa,—hash made of two parte potato, one part corn -beef, and one part beets is an appetizing dish for break- fast. The potatoes and beets should be boil- ed the day before, as it apody their flavour to be chopped evarm. Chop them and the beef fine; season with butter, pepper and salt, and Soma hot vinegar and mustard may be added if you choose. BEEFSTEAK CAKE,—One oup ex natter, two cups of sugar, whites of three eggs, three end one-half cups of flour, ens cup sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, Bake two-thirds of the mixture on two round tins, and to the remainder add three yelks, three tablespoons of molasses, one cap of raisins, half a cup of flour, and all kinds of apices. Bake In one cake and place between the other two with jelly between. This is very nine. Boss BUNS,—TWO caps of water, two cups of auger, one oup of yeast, one cup of English currants, one cup of butter. Mix yeast and water with flour to make a thin batter at night, and let rise until morning ; then add bettor, auger, currants, and any flavour yon like, and sufficient flour to make a thick dough ; let rico until light ; then knead and roll in a sheet a little thinner than for biscuit, out round or In squares, plane in tins, and rise (again. Bake in a moderate oven to a light brown. Times Have changed, but Young Men Haven't. "Now, Mary, 1 want you to stop keeping company with any young man, Why good - neon sakes ! jilt think of the idee of a young girl only sixteen years old a keepin' com- pany ! I'll not have it ; and ye needn't sot up ahawlin' about it." Well, !mother," aald Mary, between sobs, "1 think that's pretty hard on me, when I heard you tellinglrs. Combs that you run off and got married when you was sixteen," "Yen but ;times then 'wasn't like they be no'wade.ye. Them liwaa ,romantic times, and it was the' fashion them days to run off and et married young. People in thigh norclet like haze nearly, all done that then ; but new thine be changed altogether, and theytung mon nowadays habil-, a. bit better than they wan who'll was a girl," mes for an elopement --A cut- awayPrepOr Ooai,a p jacket, A Chinaman walked into the pabifa school at Ellensburg, Oregon, the other day,, with books and slate, and wished to be enrolled as a student. The teaoherermitted him to i otor told then the direeters stay until noon, and him that the Chino() must go. SOFT GINGERBREAD,—Into four cups of flour put one teaspoonful of ginger, one of cinnamon, and a little salt. Heat one pint of molasses to the boiling point, and in it melt one ocant cup of batter. Pour the mixture upon the flour and stir it well. Add one cup of non. milk in which is de - solved two teaspoonfuls of soda. Add two well -beaten eggs, mix all thoroughly, and put into the oven as soon as possible. It may be baked in ordinary cake pans, but io ratherbetter salted for the very amalletins, such as "hearts and rounds." POTATO BISCUIT,—.Eight potatoes of me dlum eke mashed very fine,four table- spoonfnLe of butter melted, two cups of milk lakewarm, one cup of yeast, flour to make a thin batter, two tablespoonfuls of white sugar;, stir all the above ingredients togeth- er except the butter, and set the sponge nag til light; four or five hours will be,requir- ed ; then add the melted butter, . with a little salt and flour enough to make a soft dough, set thia aside ,for four hours longer, roll out in a sheet three quarters of an inch thiok; oat into cakes ; let them rise one hour and bake. BREAD JELLY.—Bread jelly is a simple delicacy which comes under the head of cookery for invalids, and is thus prepared : Take a French roll, cut it into thin sliced and test them on both sides to a golden brown, then put them into a eauoepan with a quart of water (spring water, if it can 1 e had) and simmer over a fire until they be. come a sort of a jolly, To . tell ` when this stage is reached take up a little on a spoon and allow it to cool. When done strain it through a thin cloth and flavour with a little lemon j aloe and sugar. A little sher- ry maybe added: if liked. BEBI' CASES.—Take some rare -cooked, cold roast beef and mince it very fine; then bail and mash some white potatoes and add them to the meat, making the mixture threo•fourtha meat and one-fourth potatoes. Now add a couple of sprigs of peraley, mined fine, mix all well together, and bind it with the beaten yelk of an egg. Form the mixture into canes about half an inch thick and about as big round as a teacup, dredge them with fleur, and fry until nicely. browsed In hot beef-drippinge. When done serve garnished with fried parsley. WIRTBR WRINKLES, There 10. many a stlent,' throbbing cern beats beneath a nice dress boot,. A husband eheidd.never judge the warmth of hie wlfee lovo by the ooldaeic of her feet. The "wife" woe once the ,"weaver of the family. She doesn't looin up in that way much nowadays, It used to be, "Seo that my grave's kept green." The new and popular version be "Oh, troop my ashes bottled, love," ilei, Marla, 1 thought you despfsod Mr. Simpson, " ,So I do.' Then what did you merry him for?" "So that he would stay down town evenings and not hang around me all the time." "Have you heard Miss Simpson sing since she returned from France.?" "Several times." "De you think the has Improved 2" "Very much." "In what particular?" "She does not sing as much as pipe mod to," "Do you ever sweep under film bed 2" in. quirod the head of a family of her young domestic while examiningthe spare room. "Oh, yes, often. It's ao4ntooh easier than a dustpan, you know," replied the ser- vant. "I didn't say, your honor," replied the witness! , "that the minister was intoxicated ; no, not by any rnoane but thia I will say, when last I saw bine he was washing his fade in a mud -puddle and drying it with a door mat. "Your little boy rooms to be very intern gent," said a grocer to a customer whose eighteen menthe old child, had in pointing, paid, "lug jug.,, "Oh, yes,,, said the ountomer, "he drnowe what a jug a!; He was born in a prohibition town.," Wo find in a renont poem that "she fell, alas ! and hundreds wept." Wo don't be- lieve it. If she fell, which looks reasonable enough, and there were hundreds standing around, which we have no cause to doubt, we'll wager that evexy mother's son of them laughed, Overheard at a fashionable ball—"1 do think my new dressmaker is jest too perfect for anything," "But I fancied the old one fitted you pretty well, my dear." "She did nothing of the kind. Why this one can cut a corsage three fnohes lower and do entirely without sleeves." A boy was asked which was the greater evil, hurting another's feelings or his finger. " The feelings, " he said. " Dight, my dear child," said the questioner. "And why is it worse to hurt the feelings ?" " Beoeuee you ccn't tie a rag around them," answered the child. A boy placed a big apple on the front stops, and went across the street to eee who would take it. A gentleman who had ob- served the action, maid ; "You shouldn't do that, my son. Some poor boy may be tempted to steal it." "That's what I'm fish- ing for, sir. I've hollered out the inside and filled it with mustard." Angry Land Purchaser (to real estate agent) : "You told me that the tempera- ture in this part of the country would aver- age about 50 ° the year around, and here the thermometer is down to zero." Real Estate Agent : "Yea sir, z+"co in the winter and 100 t. in the shade in ti Timmer. That makes the 50 0 average all'right." A certain divine who had wandered in the course of his travels beyond the conveni- ences of the railroad was obliged to take to a horse. Being unaccustomed to riding, he said to his host : "I hope you are not so unregenerate in these parts that yon would give me a horse who would throw a good Presbyterian minister?" "Well, I dunno," was the reply, "we believe in apree,din' the gospel I" So Close Together That. They Bloke the Vase. 00 Who broke this vats?" askod MIso Fas• sin -feather's father, -at he entered the parlor ono morning and found his daughter gather- ing Up the pieces a of a majolica vaee. " George and I broke it between tis last night," WAS the maiden's innocent reply, "' Broke it between you, didou i Well, n you eat the he calls: better not to. close." And be left his daughter to ponder en what he meant, "A coat of paint," cried Mr. Denham looularly, apoaking from the ladder, la the only coat you can put on without buttons." Ya as, " replied the householder, dubious ly, ne he examined the work on the side of the house, " .but I reckon, you'll have to put the buttons on this gone if you want it to stay on eater it dti0 d," Ona day a publisher's errand boy brought up from the cellar a trap 4 raining a large rat, just as a well-kno society belle, wishtug to look at one ref Lytton 's most popular novels, said to the new shopman, "I want to see 'What Will He Do With It ?' " "Very well, mica," was the reply : "If you will walk to the back part of the shop and look out of the window you will see him drown it." A well-known Baptist minister of a Went - ern city relates that some time ago a con- vert was made of a somewhat ignorant girl, and at a prayer meeting subsequently he anked her what she would do if eke heard another girl reviling the, Lord Jeans, Straightening herself np, she paid : "If she was larger nor me I would tell her to shut up; bat if she was smaller I would slap her right acmes the mouth." Col. Snmptey McBride while in the city on a visit, read the advertisement of a clair- voyant in a morning paper. He went to the female fortune-teller to have his horo- scope cast, She oast horoscopes with a dirty pack of cards, which she spread out on the table. " You will marry an unusu- ally wealthy lady, and be very happy, Everything in your past, present, and future is an open book to me." I suppose you know everything about my future 2" said Colonel, "Not only about your future, but about your pant and present." " It's won- derful, incampreheneible. Good morning, madame." " Hold on there. A dollar, if yon please," maid the female wizard, holding out her hand. " Well, that is strange, You know everything about my past, pre- sent, and future, and you didn't know I left all my money with the clerk of the hotel be- fore, I started out to have my fortune told. It's wonderful, incomprehensible 1" remark- ed the Colonel, as he passed out. GABTRONOMIO GOSSIP. Oysters were never better or more palata- ble than at the present time. The consumption of MIK,- heat cakes is now said to be confined to th oral districts. k t but oom3"to lnar a Southern shad has , does not amount to muoh in the eyes of the epicure. The 'Intel Mail says that frezen fiah or game is about as fit to elt as stewed shin glee with shaving sauce, Finely chopped celery with French drama - ng is what thoy hold in Baltimore to be the tooled to eat with small game. They understand the art of 000king ter- rapin better in Philadelphia than anywhere elae, and Baltimore comes next e d lettuce forms a distinct Cil etle ana Ot OOnree now at some of the moot elegant and nota- ble private dinner parties of the season. Rotten cheese, soya Kitohner, the culinary authorit, toasted, in the no plus 'ultra o haut gout, and only eatable by he thorough- bred gourmand in the moat inverted state of his jaded appetite, Die Lewis says an Englishman, without observing the laws of oxeroiaa or clasp, will agent an onoirnaoiia dinner and proebrve his stomach booauoe of his two home' ohat and good followahip afterwards, A colored woman, Mies Carrie Bragg, is editor of the Virginia, Laneel, pabiished in Petersburg, Va.-the only newspaper in the Union, conducted by a colored woman,