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GOLDEN IDOLS,
A CoVNTISY STONY.
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"A awan 1" I -Ignite Freshwater clapped Ino
hand to hie weenie) pock 04 and jumped (Ipso
%Wherry Hue the little family of Plymouth
Rocks gateiered ashont his feet fled eltrielcIng
to their mother wee wail propecting con tent •
edly in Blaelt Prince's meager. "1 clean
forget thet hatter; now thet's the naked
truth, beehlare 1 I didn't mean to Forel t the
gal that, way. Moat likely the's out in the
Hiving house; it's eliurnile day. )to 111 take
it out therm ohe'll Want to read it right off."
A meaner later he tiptoed away from the
ePrinehonse, silent and melon "(rood feardr,
II, mud, taking grope etridee down theingli
the orchard. "(Mod Lord I novel -el a believ-
ed it,
Somethingseemed to ail the equire
that, day. leis wife noticed it, Mettle,
too, caught him Moltieg hard at her at tho
dinner table. "Well, father,' she askolgood.
natnredly, "is my hair done wrong 1"
"Your beir ?No, 'taint your hair, my gal,
'Mint your hair."
Mettle reared 0 little at this, but forgot
it a mimeo later.
That night after the rest had gone up to
bed, he went over reel shut the stair door
carefully,
"I ray, elarthy," he began, miming his
brown fingers through his hurricane of white
heir, "clic' you ever think—die yeti ever no-
tice anything wrong hout our Mantle 1"
Et wag ote now, and he wheeled round
and faced her deeperetely. else banked up
at him through her silver -bowed glasses with
It gentle ether of amazement,
"Mettle I" she said, "anything the matter
with ber 1 What do you mean ?"
'I mean this, I—there's soinethire the
matter with her—soul. I'm afraid she's an
—infidel—a 1100113011—tlitst's
A seade of oleos crept over les wife's
fawn
"Yon see " he wont on, "T got is letter for
her last eigle, and clean forgot to give it to
her till the middle of the forenoon, tee then
knowin' she'd be in the springhouse, I took
it out to her, that IS, I went to the door, an'
—now I'm aseellin the naked truth—our gal
were nestmulin' there by the table. She'd
made an idol, mother, it little 1(101 1(1(1')] the
11 It e a a see wers aeatandin' there before
it, at-washtipire it, It jest minded me of the
Isntelites an' their golden calf. Bute good
Lord 1 is it It thing to laugh at, woman?
Are ytm termed heathen, too 1" •
She choked diem her laughter in a min-
ute and sat up in her chair. "I do declare,
Nate, I never hoed anything so funny In
all my born days I
"Funny 1" he berm, with a sudden stern-
ness in les tone.
"But 'tweet an idol, she interposed ;
"that's what's funny. It's your mistake.
You :00, Nate, when Mantle W318 (101011 to
Elmwood to the high school, she took a
greet foamy to weed curving and seelpiewe
and such things, and so once in a while she
tries her hand at t while she works over
the butter."
The squire put both feet squarely cm the
floor and laid his hands carer ally on his
knees, inspecting them atteetively to see
thee each was properly placed, and square in
the middle. SquIre la'reshwater &there'd
anything crooked or out of plumb.
"Mardis," he mid, preseutly, " I'm abig
fool. Let's go 1,0 bed,
Oot in the fragrance and coolness of the
springhouse, Mettle sang and worked in
the fresh epring mornings. The spring
bubbled up crystal clear in its desk sliste•
Atone basin in the corner, and then slipped
away wider the wall, end with a happy
gurgle at beitig free again, it, ram off sinong
end sparkling through bird -haunted orehard
and meadow. Ornsule the dome the apple
blossoms Ming in all their -pink and white
loveliness, reul among them Rebin hid him-
self, mid sent out drifts of song through the
fragrant air.
Round and round went the handle of the
yellow churn, "che-elurg, ebe-chirg" anal by
an11 by,ulter tt few satisfied peeps and
clashes ofcold water, the golden lamps were
lifted out into a big wooden bowl,
Down in the "south patch," her father
caught, now and then, snatches of her sing-
ing, (11211 10(111021 on his hoe to listen.
"Dee -darer' Ile mid with a satisfied
smile. "It makes mo feel a powerful sight
better 1100' that's the naked truth, to know
01100211 right, I thought 5111e she seas a.
washupin' that butter figger likethem Israe-
lites. '
By and by the song was hushed. Over
aud over, and round and round, she worked
the yellow mass 1 then with skilful touch
and2pat it began to shape, end she stood ba,
tore ierapt and tager, changing and shaping But the downpour WaS eontinuOUS, the
till the little model 30118 perfect and cone steady rush and rote' of waters did not cease,
pieta, areet thenderons gusts of wind, in grand
A month before, yoting Dr. Brook had crescendo, swept up from the fer reaches of
tole her that he loved her, After the first, field and meadow, ancl hurled themselves
otartled heart-throbs, she had said that sho against the house till it shook and trembled,
thought every girl oeglea to know how to The great ma-ples outside writhed and twist -
earn a, living,and 111131. 0130 bad never proved od in the gale ,• the lain dashed heavily
thee she could, against the window anti 0311111111. 1110 firelight's
"But cen't you trust yourself to me?" he glimmer as it streamed down the glass,
had asked, and then went on to tell her how But within was peace. The pleasant fire -
he had waited till he could get a little home, light flickered mid did. merry battle with
and a little store laid by to begin 011, and the soft brown shadows ; there were friendly
now that it 11/110 accomplished, be wanted yob:100.a face in a shadowy corner half re -
her and wanted her very soon, yealtsf; and in and out, through roar of
The young lady had some very deeided incoming winds end soft rain -filled shellacs,
opinions, mid this was te pet theory of hers the words taf an old song sung themselves
and One 111211 0110 had much advocated of lath, over and over in his brain,
00 0118 shut her red lips very tightly, and
aaid she wouldn b merry him till she lute
proved that she could be independents if
necessity demanded.
"But I've waited so long,"he seicl with hio
eyes shining oven in the dark, "and now,
you oay Imust wait %gain. I'm afraid -1
believe—I have heard it saki that women Bed time came, and the storm still reged.
aro false, but I thought I had found a true Squire Freshwater, after a brief survey of
one," the windswept outer world, came back re-
Matie drew away from 111111 litio hanght- marking that 'two " the worst ekinokshul
ily. "Atn 1 the less a true woman because storm he over see," When he opened the big
of this?" she (15131 11, With o midden 110.911 in family 13ible forprayersthabeppened 10 0110000
her eyes, the fourth chapter of li.oseas Slowly his
"Bet you know how lonelyI ant, how corn- brown finger crept down the page and Mar
foreleg any life is, and yen will not come ;deep vorce followed it, Dr. Brook listened
to me. You don't care for mel" idly, with his eyes on the shadowy facie.
"Oh, 1 do 1 I clo 1" she stria " Ephraim IS joined to his itiols,"read the
Aed then he 11021 gone back to the very Squive, "lot him alone."
begenning with arguments and persuasions Dr. Brook 81110 a sudden light sweep over
and coaxing wet& Tho end of it was,— the downcast fame, 041d 1101' OYOS 1110t IllS, f1111
0110 3001(1(111 1), That IS, she tvould only give of team Then oho slipped noiseluosly item
the very uneertain promith of "Sometime, her seat and vanished through the open
perhaps, when oho had proved certain kitetteu dome Some way, after nevem, he
things," and with that lie had to be con- found his way out to her, where sho stood
eon t. faletly outlined against the pitchy bleakness
MS bearding house atElniwood 1w1120001' of the window. And then and there, in the
seemed so dingy and comfortlese as ft seem- soft glootn and shadow, sweet and humble,
0)1 111 the menthe that followed, nor his thole she rave her hand into hilt, Mid the golden
so dark mid dreat7, idols were dethroned.
Mettle had gone to 'work in earnest, She \Viten morning broke, clear end shining,
drew her fifty donat'o from tho ciey batik with bless skies and jebilault song of birds,
and bought, another cow, (101. 21 full-blooded IViettio peeped bito the panti7 whore her
jersey because her father thought thoy mother WM 131. 10011;,
"wa,n't likely to be Pe heelthy nor do as -well " Ion% keep chiekone anil cows in Elm -
as pert aleroeye The red eoW, Cherry, Wood, mother, whin ant /going to (10 33.1)01(1.
belonged to her, also little Spot, that she it ?"
had begged from her father when in ItS celf- Iler mother look up With 11 pick, plameed
hood it had gone Wm aml been emulemned glance,
te dwelt Cerefel 18000111(1 11011 brotight the "So you ere goihg to merry Brook!"
little creseure theough, end eow she wtso (10
"port a °reeler° as time wag on the place,"
'She made scene eldelthe etmes foe het big Now wo are lowing tartan suretis for,
Plymouth Roche 1.0 gO.to housekeeping be melee elle,
rine WIVE, dolen more of them note full
of big brown egge to brood ever,
One Maturality, olio had harneseve Meek
Primo to the buggy and gone to the eity 011
a Secret. vented, 10(1.1, 11 mysterious wooden
box on the thee beside hers in the box was
a roll of the 11011, little Jersey's butter, hard
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HOUSEHOLD. „lie° apples enough to nearly fill a blight
Lt C SPRING SMILES,
Bonny May, . lake light bisterit teat einaigh eover,
Kr, Stauley's lionntnoe—Thti Queen of fo
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tin er granite iron enabling dish; allal eup-
a el, t 3311 11 N111441 sour,. e
J,3 ('2100 of butter, and 12 ,..prjohle of InIllneg.
BY A NI/1 a 1.. .1401/ 1 s 1 le 1 1 tlf i 1 '
, ter a erten end. get 011 top of the stove with
Tunci,44 1 6 (1 lu-dY 1111.8" ""•11 "18 t" ',"' IntHil1 the Wile siSs ttirned ever the top,
"I'd Yell'w' wrl'Ird I" a fr'""wY 01"th iu",1 married in elay, she Mal "Do peeper. isny i ';',„, „ ,,,,,,k our 1.1,, 01,1,/,.0 01.1. (140,... ow A,
lying in as nod o fresh, green grass, mu on
blossom severe eat'ved that nen•ning in the ,,,,eneme.)„, ,q1„,„, ,,,b, mi ti,„ 1„„it they. am . ,,,,,..),
rapvingeouse, They were deligRod, mith it at „se got, /eel Oran she waked if 1 knew holt sitgar and waist' . a' ',1 Aling to
size t,f pudding. Serve with eseam end
thu eVointees Exelittuge, end promised to 0,, es,,00 ,
take all she would. briug; so, When she term easa 1 i ornonaten. One reason given ls 8,,,r.
11 i'mnew"rd' ilic" w"' 4 1.I 41° tri"mill'aig and there dedieuted 10 youth, also that being' 1
that May is the month of old num ,liajori hex, 1 Ni‘ii eg f!..idc.. - 2 eggs, 1 imp sager, I cup
sparkle ht her eyert,
faith in the superatition that e ay re an un: i„ 1,„ „s.„1, be% s„ ,segliey
toP of 111,' een le" Ow Peett4"t- 4E12'11 leeks, month ler marriage ?" attsr,""it belIVI1 the erust, 'This ea err a twaquart
In due time, the little dwellinge its the
orelterd were filled with peepieg, downy Iamb
lies, and she warrIsusyas a bee, too buoy to see
Dr. Brook when he rode by and bowed Oho,
Hosts of new ideate came flocking down te
her in the springhourna, reel elm day she
carried out at new one; and 101011 the Mgt
touch ears put on these were twelve little
golder liens on iedividua ketter plates. It
Was noVer warm in the springhouse, Bo they
kept firm and hard.
Next day the drove to town in the early
morning, 'There happened to be a yoneg
woman at the Exchange looking for some of
this very butter, the "Frethweter lnitter "
baring already made iteelf a name et the
Exeliange, told -when she saw Mattie's box,
she spoke quiekly and said she was very
sure her mietress would buy the little lions
because the was going to have hoe friends to
lunch. Theo Mattie disposed of her little
family of lions,
Summer wo»t by, The ebiekos loet their
Chrispau rattle aud sc! great wee his Success cup subal 01 1110 11.8805, I egg, teaspooneful
flrst fluffy prettiness, anal got, " themselves soda, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoonful
nat 10,0101001(2 baptized in one day. Ho
shortening. Stearn it two and one-half hours,
then bake 11 112111 an home
CieteeRrtnY Pese -A delicious cranberry
pie is made as followe eprnikle sugar on
the bottom of at pie tin, then put on layer
of fresh cranberries. Add a little flour,
sinallpiece of butter, and a spoonful of water,
then eoVer with a crust. Wham the pie is
baked, put ft, plate over the top of the pie
and turn it quickly upside down, and you
will have a pie with a well -baked under
crust. Ice it over the top with fleeting
made as for take,
moIasees, I aiun butter, 1 cup rawest 'Mlle
lietween April and 2f une, the forma' eolith- 1.? .0 0,, ,,,,,,,j, 01. nainann ,,,0,, „Inman, 5, ,,,,,,,,,,
crated to VOI11111 the letter to dune, thee:, e,`.,,,I 1 '0,1110.1),,,,,,,, 004 ,d'giut,,,,,,,, ei,,,s,,,,lien,
were ;rot to be slighted, Ovid (1(18 »' rion "" '
anal eleves, 1 teitopoon oda, a ninth of ealt,
to marry in May,
Ile nee extraet and finely -chopped citron to
'11. proverb', weigh with you, (ho ;iconic 2151,,3", „ taste. The raisins; should be gleaned, anal hoth
'Ma bad the WIVes tom 01,1 who wed In aat.V• raisins und eurrants sleuth! 110 dredge.1 With
The Seidel) are very etreng in this super.flour before being added to the elk,.
stitio
not 'careen the fa sling, it ;,,,viog taken paw" ieg made of bread crumb, spatt•sleyean egg,
1
n and 1 he unfert meet e marriage ad MesY eel -mem Mgr:01nm tc, - -Ponoti a good rump
Que,ell a seed"vi'll •1•11"" 8"th"."11 1111 remit until tender, anal Tonal on it 11 3111180.
on the I Gth id Ably. 0Vid's 1111,0 il,'"I'l sage,pepper, sat and butter. Beat the dress.
above were litLited to the gate 111 1 101Y3'3mt jug to a cream before spreading it on the
Palate. Anal yet no sovereign le lenglenal steak. Beall the steak 1,10,,ely, 2(11.1 1111121 it
has died in this Inenth, the 241,11 and 2011t
being 1)0423(11(11 ly happy days. with twine, then lay it ill EL pie tin and pour
over 11 (3110 (resifts] of boiling wider, Carver it
M")' let i'I (113 (1511,1 '107 "f tw0 well'kem,w" cloely and let it bake forty 01:1,1(300,berating
parries, St. Philip anal St. items, an" t "V, it remittently, Remove the coves and let it
3e1 is 011e anniversary of tlia• allesovere 01 heeonle brown before sending it to the table,
the 11(113' 0001' l'Y Helene. Illetless' of, (--'''',I" Thicken the gravy with 0 little browned
standee the (11111,1, Another sane tety.ts flour, awl eurve with baked potetoes,
the 20t1, when sr, Auge„see. 11,10 1110 special Corte 112111.311. --.21 eups 001.11 meal, 2 cups
honors, He was trent lay teeglary to lead .1.0
flour, 2 101)5 50211' milk, 1 amp eweet milk, 1
nissionuries to °oat Britain, to sin'end the
cunning little gray wings. A thieving Meek
captured two or three, but the rest grew up
happy anal cheerful, playing "hide aud seek"
anal hunt the grasshopper all day in the long,
hish grass, and at night 0111011)1111 111111830 their
mother's wings with sleepy little "cencep,
the -e -p," which the mother angweree with
e lent, deep. voiced crO011ing note like a Mlle -
'The little new e010 proved a regular
,.,laisy," and:Matti° christened her "Daisy."
Daisy wee the pet of the farm.
When the county fair t1100 came, Mollie
died in A. f). Gee, and is buried at Canter-
bury. Tire spring poet sings of tide month
in varying ;entitle and to my mind emus
Lowell's telling words,
eltreir I'd give more for one 1100 1)01)3,21(110
ine a square 111130 01000, 111 prillter's ink,"
18 makes me thinkour first faTTLY iS may,
Which 'faint ferall the Almanaseke ran say.
'This kr 13 beatnifel notate whether in th
advanced stages of vegetation south and
west, or the budded growth of the east, and
even the backward 1100111 semetimee lias its
was Mier of mysteries than ever, only H110 l'eP31""/13.0c1 spring beauties in sheltered
took her father into her contidence, and be woods; the hot of thentiontle Then eome
;0,000, 1102110 mr,terioue 202110ee0ge in lee the trilliums anal violets, the latter sprin(1's
001)0011)1 favorites, Surely H wedded bliss
wagon, wrapped in old eltrpeta 210)1 packed
needs any reassurance it could have no bet -
in boxes, and on Tuesday he drove oft to the
ter 0121011 to overcome old time superstition
fair with a great sweeten box in the wa-on.
than the regurrection of the flowers, the
month of violets. And through my brain there
rings a poem sent to One of our hoesehold
lately—
"Gott does not 002111 01',, 'strange flowers every
Whcietilier'spring:Wind blow 000 (110 pleasant
places,
The sfianenee,,, dear things lift up the samr
e fair
Tito violet is hare.
IL all comes back the odor, grace and line,
Bach sweet relation of Its life repeated,
No blank is loft, no looking (ores cheated;
It is the thing we knew.
The chickens flourished, the cattle throve So after the death winter 11, 2113101, bo,
and the little g,olalen lions grew in groat God will 1101 put strange signs in 1ea0-e813'
demand. Four months later, when 0110 03381
3211 h1171101, accounts, she found that she1111(1Tu 011shall leek Out trom the old faes.
voilthen 1 I shall have thee,"
even two hundred dollars, besides the cows ra
,furn,itorAv Que.
and the thirty lams, and sho announced the
fact with a gleam of triumph in her eyes.
Dr. Brook fared badly next time he saw
her. lehe had grown so very independent
that she 111331 (111(1001 decided not to marry any
man. \Yemen 10-110 21121117 wove better
off slowadays anyhow. But when a few
minetes later she stood at the sitting -room
window 0,1131 11000(1 his horse's hoofs go tear-
ing down the frozen yerce she turned and
ran up the stairs and never stopped till she
was in her own room with the door locked,
When the clattering of the hoofs had died
wholly away in the distance, she turned and
threw herself on the bed and neither moved
nor spoke for au hoar.
With the core ing of winter clays, the spring -
house had been deserted, and the butter had
to bo made in the wide, shining, farmhouse
kitchen. "When next churningday came,
there was no 0111(1111(1and lingering over the
task, no toying with the golden MASS, but a
sober perststeme till it was done and put
away out ofsight. Golden idols had Met their
eharm.
The March night was shutting down, cold
and gloomy. There WM no sunset, but a
swift, downewoopinee darkness that blotted
out the world with sudden night. Tho
Squire had been having "a tech o1.10001',"
and Ds. Brook had stopped 10 000 him. Be-
fore he was ready to go, the evil promise of
the day had been fulfilled, and they forbade
his venturing forth. So he sat down again
to remit till the fury of the wind and storm
ohould spend itself.
The rest were all curiosity, but Mettle only
elinolt her head.
(Inc of the prettiest exhibits in the nen
Products department w•as 1110 11101,1(33' of but.
ter. It wits in a smell glass show coo, that
had been peed with crystal Meeks of ice,
anal o01 this crystal foundation was a castle
built of solid golden butter, tower and turret
and bettlemented wall, all complete, with
two tiny sleeping lions at either side of the
entrance, The card on it bore Mattic Fresh -
water's name, and late that afternoon a gay
red card was tied on the corner.
"And her face it is the fairest
That e'er tho sun shone en,
That e'er the sun shone on,
And deep blue is her ee,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay nie clown and slee,"
Wastefulness.
Not long since I made is few visits with
friends and was surprised to see the ex-
travagance of scene of them. Otte that is
always in need of money, melon seeno way
to got it, wastes groceries to the amount of
from ten to twenty-five cents a day. I ean
never pity the poor when I see them throw
so much away that could be made into good
dishes. Then there are many who bake their
bread so hard that the crust is em off and
piled beside nearly every pieta at the table.
When the table is Cleared these geraps are
thrown into the slop. I once knew a lady
who kept a paper sack, and all scraps of
bt'ead were put into it to wait till there
were enough to make a bread pudding or
stuff a chicken, and I thought it a grand
plan. You will never see crusts wasted at
my table, for although I bake my breed till
11 10 done, rent will not be soggy, the crust
is as palatable as the rest.
When I mould the bread into loaves, I
grease them all over with butter or lard and
then set them to rise and perhaps butter the
tops again before placing in the oven. This
will make the cruet a lovely brown. I always
wet a cloth largo enough to wrap around the
bread, just wet enough so the water does
not run off, 0,0(1 111 this the bread (1008 05 soon
as it leaves the oven eud stays there till it
is cold. This bread has a soft crust that
any one 0.411 eat, no matter how bad the
teeth are, and Neill stay moist a,nd fresh for
a week or ten days; if kept in a tin box or
stone jar, well covered testis cloths. Never
out bread while it is warm. It only wastes
it, and it is not healthful.
I wonder how many cooks in paring pota-
toes, apples, ete, take a paring a quarter of
all 1110)1 thick, and do Dot take any notioe of
the small ones, but throw them into the slop
pall with the parings ? It 10 1101 very cheap
mg -feed, when we think 121 the many poor
hungry ones who world be glad to have a
peck of potatoes or apples ono in Ib while,
Red it does not tithe long to throw a, peck
teeny in quarter -inch parings. 1 try to save
every scrap, and my hesbaud enjoys hash
and soup matle of scraps as march as if they
were all fresh.
Do you know that the bones of a turkey
or chicken roast will make 0 splendid soup?
Boil them in plenty of water tell the meat
falls off the bones ; then pick the bones out,
and geason the liquor with plenty of pepper,
salt, turd chopped celery, and thicken with
a little flour and water, letting it simmer
till well clone, and you have a splendid soup
out of almost nothing.
How different, the tastes 01 1)0050115 1 Mrs.
A. has a small boy who keeps 2.11) 0. continual
fuss, the livelong day. She eau eit end seem
to enjoy such 0111010 05 a tin pan makes when
used as a dem, but holds her 1103311 311121 says
"What a fearful racket 1" if her neighbor's.
canary 811(8 01010 than usual.
AN Onsenve.
Tested Receipts.
Sroxos OARR.—Eoer eggs, ont and ono -half
cup; Aggar, ono and ono:half mpg flour, five
tablespoons water, two teaspoons beking
powder, Beat the yolk011120 eggs and the
anger to & cream, add the flour, water and
baking poWder, then the beaten whites,
Thig makers a good °aka Bake in layers.
Spreed with jolly or any rich filling.
CANNI/D COHN pouncl canned
corn, 2 eggs, 1 cup sweet milk , 1 teaspoons
fel salt, 3 teaspoonfelo baking powder,
flour enollgh to snake is stiff batter. Fry
ill boiling lard, 10 epoonfel at a time, They
do not need ft dressing,
Panitxir FRITTER/L.—Roil till tender, in
salted water, what will make when chopped,
a mint of parseips. Make e better of a
pleb of aour milk, oue teespeonftil soda,
olio tablespoonful salt, and flour to make a
stiff' batter, Stir in the chopped parsnips,
end drop from spoon into hot lard, Send
to table hot. .
House Gleaning,
Tiegin in the chambers, cleaning out the
closets first. All clothing should be taken
out, put on the lines out of doom, to he
brush( al and aired. If to be put away for
the season, let (hent be laid nne side. 11 001
to be WOrll any moo, pat 1 bem into the
"charity -box," to be attended to later. As
to boots end shoes, if too 11111011 worn to be
useful, have the buttons cut off, good pieces
of leather cut out, and the rest burned. The
buttons.go into the bat:On-box, thc strips of
leather into bile "handy -box," where ham-
mer, tacks and SereWs are kept and are
ready for the garden, to tack up the grape
vine and the climber with, or make lenges
for a box.
The closets cleaned, things put bank, and
WO are ready for the next thing. The bu-
reau dolma are taken out, the eontents also
are looked over. Underclothing too worn to
be useful may be out into suitable pieces,
hems and seams ent off, and it thengoesinto
the sink -box. Worn flannels go into the
same box. 17hese will furnish plenty for
sickness when needed, and provide some to
give away. The stockings, if the feet are
past darning, may be ern off, pnt ,into the
kitellembag, and used for steering off the
stove and for other purpoace. The legs are
often good when the feet aro beyond repair.
These are put into the "Oharity-bag," to
Make over for small feet. It is easily done
if the child's stocking is carefully pinned on
and cut oat, allowing for seams. The bot.
tomo of the feet may be made of flexile] or
cut from another pair of legs. The hand-
kerchiefs should be looked OVOr. If 1110031,
the hemstitched borders may be cut off, and
the rest cut into pieces. The narrow strips
make the nicest kind of a "reg" for a cut or
sore finger. These roll up and put bito the
siok-bag. Kid gloves no longer useful may
have the thumb and fingers cut off for "cots"
tor sore fingers. The hand, 0111 01)011 on the
side, makes a. good silver polisher, espeoially
if the glove is an "undressed 101(1." The
buttons may go to the button -box, and are
useful when an extra buthan iS wanted
WHAT AN INDIAN CAN STAD.
The Hereto Treatment limed with a Half
Women heti Man.
To allow what an Indian can stand When
ho has to, / may tell of an incident which hap -
pence duringthe winter I was with them.
Toward evening on a very cold winter day,
when it was snowing juat a little and drift-
ing a good deal, an Indian came to tbe log
home with a•jug 112111 11111 of whiskey and with
his rifle, imagine that the jug had been
entirely full of whisky when he started, and
by the time he got to the house) ho was in
rather a jolly conditioe. The jug and the
rifle were takee away from him, and he was
ordered to get to his wigwam as soon as he
could before darkneos °tune on. He left, and
was supposed to have gone to the Clamp, bet
early next morning his squaw appeared at
the hougeand said he hadnot 00100 110(212, that
night, and, a,s the eight was very cold, she
hadbeenanxiousahout him. Then the search
began.
Ha was found in one of the sheds near the
barn under a heap of drifted snow, and the
chances aro that the snow thab was above
hinthad helped to save his life, The smolt-
ers for the hakes lutd (10(10 110 different (11100'
11008, and it was his own squaw who, with
true Indian instinct, had traelted him out,
and she waft alone when she found him. Ap-
parently the Indian 'WAS 11 1.l'OZ011 corpse. She
tumbled him out of his snow bank and pull-
ed off his blankets and dragged him down to
the creek, whore a (1 cep 11010 3005 onb in 1.110 100
for the purpose of watering the cattle. Lay-
ing the Indian 0)31 011 the snow, she took the
paii that was beside the ice hole, and, filling
it repeatedly dashed pailful Niter pailful of ice
water over the body of the Indian. By the
time the other unsueuessful searchers had re-
turned she had her old man thawed out and
seated by the fire wrapped up in blankets.
'There 18 110 question that if ho heel been fountl
by the others, arid taken 1110 th0 )101150 fr00011
as he WtIS 110 W011 ld 11530 died.
Serious Accident,
0101,1100, May 29, —Hugh Mix, a artesian -
tore workieg on a imildiug oe the edge of
eliff.like bank of (110 01.1(1010. river, lost his
footing on the sealfolclieg mei fell 90 feet.
About halfsway down Me fall WILS broken
by one of the hoards of the scaffolding, which
went down with him, lodging for OM instaet
in the fine of the elite He wee picked up
liVe, end regained his sonsee 1)1 a comperes
tively resort erne. 110 cotnploins of plena in
the back and chest, 1)(11 is doing remerkelAy
l'hat ho was not killed must bo re.
garded as little short of a miracle,
The deonstive art erase of the English
woman at tho moment te wood coring,' 3,
taste Whieb bas been fostered by tho Werk
of the South kensingtm Meareem in this
1(111 Arap ksinn)(vO,—Part, core, and Opertment, ej art study,
the Iligidands A Dog m a LaWenit
A Crazy Mau Souds a Proposal
Marriage to the Queen.
Tho annono..enumt mr,
gagement to Ihneelty Tennant hes taken
London by sUrprise, 01though malty of his
friends 11010 14111(3411/01. OW What, little
preferertee lie ever ovnied to have for the
other awe was for the beautiful woman he is
about to marry. Miss Tennant is, in fael,
jute the 1001112111 to 10181I110 a hero'S heart, as
Sill.' IS j1111t the woman to wait for a hero
before losing her own heart. She IS (1)11 31301
stately, though tether of a dashing type of
homy. She iat about 30 years of age, and
is the driughter 01 111,' htte Charh-s Tennant.
She lives with her mother in a beautiful
Immo eo Richmond Terrace, where ahe has
a studio fitted up, for elte is known 110 an
11»110111t117 elever artist es well as a lady of
fashion.
A n American bizmark
Spiees tare net RH 11110 noisy, but you
have all heard the giegeramap.
T1111 mn.quith Will 140011 show the tlapadj.
pceple 'Whether 1.11,31 are free or teat.
f 011mi the man Who does not know hlow),
11141,1 hati tqleitileli a very dierepartable lee
plantain,.
'lfer ham or just toe sweet for anything. "
"Ail, indeed 2 Perhaps she dresses it w:th
:14a -it ',in eine and 10(0(1 (23(1) eh eulal
be rode 1.3 shag 01111144 the 00111) Ire knows
its 'A mile La a ri "
'The people whe always mealier. what they
peewit seem somehow not 11)1)11(1(1031(1111110.
ya,g.n.mrLeee1,.301(e,kt„iiring,s2113lue,t,fill:yertiip:aqii.l.ttir;La.
1)31])))' 11(111
41,1
(101021 1,, say that I trill be a grandmother to
girl to the dude. "but I w111 be a—" "Not
a teeter to me; :het say that." ".NO: I Was
our girls way he Mei a delightful touch."
etem up." eine Joker • .""e'ex. Everybody
team badly smelt."
1014,1110111. who toe in the glue business', hats
that new (101011, 1.0,01101'," Mr. Prim—
I•Why so, Maria ?" Mrs. Prini—"I here/
"I cannot merry you," said the ballet
Aire. Erini -.John, we meet dieeharge
'.1 have an aunt wlin is very unfortunate,"
said eiantle. "sere i$ slightly deaf and very
near-sighted" "Gracious: ' responded Malmo
"Whalers lovely chaperon she would make."
Mrs. Simpson —"Iiro your servant has run
off 1 How foolish in her to leave a good
home like this. Don't you thirds she'll re-
gret it 't" Mrs. Sampeon—oyial iny hus-
band went with ben
Hal lloirane—"I never see you at the
play, 13010." jack Bloodgood—, 'No, I don't
go to the theatre much now. I prefer tO
Stay Itt 1101110." "I sur.poSCI you think there's
no plays like hotne,"
'The weather seems to 110 111 the agricul-
tural implement and oraluance meting busi-
ness." • 'Wiry alo you think so ?" Becanse
it had no Sooner ceased raining pitchforks
than it began to blow great guns.'
elle doesn't care what people .say -
The Spring is here, love B in the air ;
The birds with songs the morning wake
Anti oft we see the maiden fair
Out 111 the garden with 11 rake.
Old Bond Clip—"Things were very dif-
ferent when I was your age, I used to go to
bed at eleven and be up by four." Young
Bond Clip —"Well, I keep just about the
same hours except that I go to bed at four
and get up at eleven."
An aristocratic dog figured in the premed -
legs of a &Midi eourt of law hust week.
Earl Aniresley's terrier, revelling home front
an early mooing walk on Thursday, unlaw-
fully unneweleal, 51110 a cat in his master's
shrubbery, and with the redden zeal of
youth tried to reach its enemy by a short
cut through the railings, in which he stuck
fast, with hie etil end banging over the
Queen's highway and the other over the
Earl's private garden. The dog's howls at-
tracted the Mem Hon of a policeman. The
animal's signalling end was maleniably on
the public Way, and beyond doubt the 011-
11131001(111 other end wan on private property
and not amenable to law. The pincer decid-
ed that there was enough dog in the 1011 10
justify him in setting the newhinery of the
few in 1110U011, Ulla the noble Earl was stem
mooed to Marylebone Police Court to :an-
swer the charge of "allowing a dog to be in
a public place unmezzled, contrary to the
provisions 01 01(0 rubies order 111 the Comutil
a 1889."
Count Herbert Bismarck, relieved from
cares of State, 18 1201? seeking.rest anal pleas-
ure in England, spending his time among
friends, who appreciate 1)1211, and giving con-
fidentially those interesting details about
his father's resignation or diontinal which
have already become public property. He
has visited among others Lord Roseberry,
tier Charles anal Lady Dilke, maned Ed -
mend Fitzmiturice, all of whom have, at
0110 time or other, had the foreign
alinirs of hinglancluncler their control. Her-
bert looks forward 31010, he says, to spend-
ing six months of everyyeas in England,
and the report is still circulating that his
father will visit England before the year is
over.
Qaeen Victoria, although over 70 years of
age, has found favor in tee amorous eyes of
Alfred Carter, a young man who has been
study jug for the Christien ministry. Carter,
who is a. Leneashire lad, weut to Windsor,
and failing to obtain an interview with the
object of his affeetions worte her several
loving letters, proposing marriage. Sad to
tell, the letters were hamlet to an unroman-
tic and iiinthearted police Menet:tor of the
appropriate name of Savage, who found
Carter wandering,. about Windoor fields
signing the name N. tetenra, andhauled him
off to prison on tho charge of being a innate:.
The Queen and court will start next week
Lor Behoove' in the ecotell Highlands whore
Victoria alwitys spends a part of the spring
and summer. The castle and 051.32(00 3305 her
private property, hexing been bought out of
the savings of her privy purse. The Prince
and Princess of Wales will, nauseate perform
the Queen's social duties during her absence.
The Czar has been having relatively a
tranquil time 01 10.08, and has this tveek been
paying marked attention to the helium
Crown Prime 1101? on a visit to Russia.
Guns and Their Dee.
130 MAURIOn THOMPSON.
The best rill° for boys is a 32 -calibre
breach -loader, which uses sheet metal shells.
Su& a gun, if of good make, will be quite
accurate at any range within 150 reds,
and will kill any game that boys art
privileged to hunt. I say tide because
game that is large or clangorous should never
be followed by the young or inexperienced.
If, however, a boy must shoot large game,
let him More is gun of large calibre. len
deer, antelope and the like, a 44 -gauge is
quite limey enough, but, for be and all
large and dangerous animals the guns
to be used ore extra heavy express rifler
which none but strong men should try to
handle.
For target -shooting ee short range a 22,
calibre or even a, mallet, riflo may be used,
and these small grins are very effective for
'squirrel-ahooting in low timber or for killine
rabbits.
The l'ifle may be used for shooting 0.1. 11100'
lnit
ingo.bjecte, but it requires great expertness
mid there are few who can attain to success
In choosing a shotgun, the chief thing ft
to get one of excellent workmanship, and
to do this requires some knowledge of thc
poets of the weapon. Of all the parts tin
barrel is the most important, though fol
that meter nearly all the reputable token
tem ont good ones and en other sort. Ordel
O gun with Damsons or leminatee sten
beerels end rebounding leeks ; have Hu
loft barrel "choked" and the right witl
cylinder bore. .A. choked barrel is bored st
111311 11 throws tho shot very °lose together
and with even distribution. The eylindel
bore is of the same diameter throughout itm
length, and it scatters the shot over a larg(
surface.
Boys will find a gun of the size called 20
gauge the lightest and best for shooting al
game not larger than quail. For all ordinar3
Inland shooting, however, the potholer
weapon is the 1 0 -gauge, weighing about
seven, or better, oix and a half pounds. Lo
the stock be as straight net yoo can well Ilse
feel the barrels should be twontyhight 01
not under twenty-six inches long. I hay,
toed tt gun of the heavier weight mettle=
for years end here found 41 )1101 the thins
for all small game, and have used it succes8.
fully on fowl. Rill, for shore and boat
when water fowl are flying high and fast, 11
is much more satisfactory to 1(111(1110 0. heav-
ier grin.
Tho sefe racig‘e of a ahotgon loaded witl
small shot is from fifty to sixt;
yards et the greatest, though yoi
will hear mon boast of their !gun'
killing every thee 11 11101011 greater din
thrice About forty yerds i the more pro
ba,ble limit of safety for light goes, lode/
with, say No 8 shot, The pellets go witl
groat force When they first leave 1110 (1(151
but lose speed repidly 05 111011 distance Iron
theme/do inoroacs ; moteover, they eprem
apart 00 scatter as they fly, 50011 gaffing sit
wietly Annotated Huth theee eon be 110 003
Minty o thav laittingtho object 131.1114)4 211..
Cycling and Health.
Dr. B. W. Richardson, in The Aselepiad.,
points out that unless certain essential condi-
tions are observed cycling is inevitably
injurious to health.
He thinks that it is elway best to delay the
commencement of eye:ding until the body is
closely approaching to its maturity. Even
adult cyclists who are too 0111011 in the saddle
almost invarieley acquire what may be calla('
the cyclist's figure, which is not graceful mid
is not indicative of tire full possession of
perfectly balanced bodily powere. Hence I
should not recommend cycling as a pastime
of tlie schools, and I should not favor it as
an exercise, evening during holiday times
from sehool, except in the most moderate
degree. The systematic moon of cycling
should never be fully commenced until the
rider has arrived at znaturity—that is to say,
until the age of 21 years has been attained.
The effect of cycling on the upper extrem-
ity of the nem aud forearm is to slightly bend
the litnb, the deformity taking place in the
armhole) and in the fingers, and to bring
about an unnatural curve of the shoulders.
On the lower Ihnbs cycling tell as markedly
aa it does on the spine; and, its the lower
limbs perform the greeter part of the work,
they usually feel the effects of it most dis-
tinctly. Riding brings out and exaggerates
and deformity, however slight. The pelvis
of the rider, 11000 practically a part of the
machine, is fixed to it, and is lamest es rigid
as itself. In Otis position of things the thigh
bone is placed under unusual strain. The
large muscles in the fore part of the thigh
are employed hi extending or lifting up the
leg at great disadvantage of leverage. What
the strain is on these inuseles every young
oyclist knows to his cost, and it ie not an-
ti1 they get a kind of extra natural power
that riding is easy. The pressure upon tl,e
thigh bone causes bow-loggedoess.
We stilt maintain a basic error in the
machine, by heving it so constructed that
the pelvis of the rider becomes a fixed part
of the machine. 'rids is well shown whorl
tile cyclist has to meet a hill. In Climbing
we push the machine or drag it. We want
two entire changes in construction of tho
chino, one by which we can bring the whole
weight of the body into the propulsion; the
other by which WO 01141 sall tOlth all that
muscular power which is used with such
°not in walking and running, but is lost it
eyeling. If theoe two objects were attained,
Ltrul there is not the slightest reason why
they should not be atthened, climbing would
bo just as easy on the machme as it is 'off it;
while the degree of speed that would be
rendered applicabie would at least, be doub-
led; that is to say, if now in ordinary riding
the four miles an hour of tbe pedestrian is
changed into eight, it would then, with the
same [mount of exertion, be turned into six-
teen; while the twenty miles an lemr of the
fastest rider would be turned into forty, if
that Were (350.10 place to travel.
PERILS or nu SEA.
!fishermen Adrift en 1108 Itanits—A Scheme"
er Sinks in Five Minutes.
Caterso, Nova Scotia, May 16.--T1e Cap-
tain and crew of the schooner Ossipeoof
Gloucester'which was wrecked off Isaao's
/Tarbes on Tuesday night, reached here on
the steamer Princess Boattice, The Captain
reports that the vessel struelt during %dense
fog rind sank in less than five minutest. The
crow with difficulty saved their lives. The
Nahum 100.0 1101111d to Cape North for fish.
Accidents among the fishing fleet on the
'bulks aro reported. A dory which hael
erayed from the Hattie E. Wooster of
eloncester on Middle Bank on the 511) inst,
welled here yesterday, It contained Al.
trod Cameron and Fred Walsh. The men
lied drifted about its the fog, cold, wet and
hungry, for three days,
Later in tho day another dory belonging
to the schooner Marguerite of Gloneester
e01111(1 its way through the breakers to one
if the outlying islands, and its occupants.
Freeman Herkin and Bon Amio, were oared
for by the fishermen there and Were tater-
ward brought to this place. They left their
vessel on Quer° 011 Tuesdity morels% to get
„heir traWl. After securing a dory load of
fish they started to return to the vessel, but,
soon found they were lost lis the fog. They
leeided to row for lamb and after being
enne sixty boon without food or ilro
Sgtelled here.
lknUetS eOntinUe 1,, grow smaller, hats
sargem