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Ny TRIWEEKLY EDI~TN WIN NSBORO. S.C., DECEMBER 4, 1900.ESALHD184 .- THE FOREST. 2 knew a forest hoar that broods From trodden pathways far apart, .Into whose inner solitudes Yoa may retire with open heart; .'lece-ive from the unbending pine - W.a .e'er "i rectitude you ask; And tarnetr from the strenuous vine The arengtn to cleave unto your task; earr patience frorr the tireless rill That through the bed-rock wears its way; Dz)rv harmony fromn throats that fill The leafy transepts with their lay; 'From the sweet bloom of mint and balm Gather the attar of content: And with the vastnesses of calm Find healin for the spirit blent. Come, let us climb the rising land Whe-:e still (lawn's dewy opals cling, Till e -:erv tree holds out a hand. k id bird and flower rive welcoming! -Clir ton Scollard, in Youth's Companion. 000000000000000000000003 8 A N;~t Encounlr 8f - 0 01 I,.y Franklin W. Calkins. 0 ~~0 0000iC0000000000000000000 IE adventures of the lone prospector in our mountain countries bave been varied and thrilling, and too few of them have been told. "Our prospec tor," as we call Hank Elmore, who spends his winters at our Wyoming horse-ranch, has met, in his camps and tramps, with a number of encounters, which are well worth describing. Perhaps I should explain that we 'have "'grub-staked" Hank for a num ber of years, and so share in the profits inf his finds, which have not yet much inore than paid expenses. They con Est of a minor silver lode in the Uin tih Mountains, and a "topbed" of fiirly good coal within reach of the Union Pacific Railroad. But Hank is young and- learning the business, andl we have good hope of his finds in future. It was when Hank was prospecting In the Uintah Mountains that he metI with the curious adventure of the boil er. Among those rough-and-tumble inountains lie was encamped, with a pair of blankets for his bed, a skillet -coffee-pot and horse-hide grub-sack fol his kitchen, when, in prospecting 4 small but rapid stream, he sttonble Upon the site of an old Mormon 4 mnill. This had been burned, i ably by Indians, and all its machin ibroken or carried off, except a huge. -old-fashioned, flueless steam-boiler. Nearly -half-buried in debris, this rusty but stout old structure had withstood a storm and lay intact, save -ral -wherepipe n iank rejoiced In this discovery, foI whe boiler offered him shelter from stt'rms and from the frequent chilly Jghts of a high altitude. The gasket, 4as big as a wash-tub, which fitted Imi-o the manhole, was .lready thrust talf way in, but was so rusted to Ps plates that it required an hour 4r two of pieking, prying and puncbing to loosen it. When It finally dropped inside, however, Hank crawled in, to find a dry and warm room room which would suit his purpose quite as well as a house made to order. - The prospector made no delay in ~ etching his camp effects and taking 3oss~ession of this armored abode. When he had covered one end of the boiler bottom with feathery boughs of the pinon, he had an ideal camper's i night bivouac. On cool nights he closed the manhole, and on warm ones left it open, andi this big hole and the steam-pipe apertures at the other end * .gave him excellent ventilation. * The site of the mill was upon a creek-fiat with pine-covered mountains crowding the valley, and the only signs of civilization for miles aroundl were the burned and tumble-down relics of * an abandoned Mormon settlement. The mountains were lively with big game; * . bears of several varieties, "lions." bob -eats and mountain-sheep were especial ly abundant. Doubtless the bears and big cats were accustomed to the smell of iron, and the rusty boiler must have been a familiar sight to many of them. Thus came about Hank's perilous ad yenture. .As he lay sound asleep one warm night in August, a roach-backed silver ip came dlown to the boiler, and smell g Hank's fragrant bacon, cut for early morning meal, discovered the '1 manhole, and made haste to tum 't p-a-thump! hung-bang! lie * rol d some three feet upon the boil er bot om. This clang and clatter brought Mank to a sitting posture with eyes wide open. The conical room was dark as a pocket in a mine, save for a faint twinkle of stars at the man * hole, which faced a cleft in the moun tains. A puffing breath or two, a gruff sniff-sniff sounded in the man's aston ished ears: and then a dark object rose and blotted out the stars. Bob cat, "lion" or what not, some beast bad certainly e'nteredl his domicile. "Yee ough:" yelled Hank, hoping to * scare the creature out. He was an swered by a rasping "Whoof!" of sur prise, and instantly understood the character of his visitor. As quickly as possible he scratched a slow match, and put firelight between himself and the dangerous prowler. A snarl of surp~rise, mingled with fright, greeted this action, and the prosp~ector found himself looking into the savagely twinkling eyes of a good sized grizzly. The bear crouched. slinking back under the manhole andl 3 showing his teeth, while he growlcd.I fierce threats which made the boiler resoun. Evidently the animal was afraid of j 7the light, and was equally reluctant to 1 turn its back in scrambling out. Hank's * match went out: ne struck another bastily and at the same time shouted r at the bear. 1 . Al now bear and man vied wita z e other in noisy threats whert ref d in the boiler until its rusty mail j: Iled. Crouching clos: under the n hole, the hear, snarling frigtht f y. steod with one big pIw uplifted 5. wise ready to crush the fire-foe ' en it should approach near enough, eing that 1he could not frighenen t grizzly away, and not havin ItehAes eriough to burn all night.Hlank ermined to see what he could do t h the six-shooter, which he had -etady drawn. 1i scratched a fresh match, held its I ht above his head and sighted care :;y, aiming to hit the bear as near one twinkling eye as possible. Che report of the pistol nearly made ink deaf; but having got his self- 1 ating genm "a-going." he pulled the trtger three or four times in rapid I srecession. t Vords would be inadequate to de sdbe the din in the boiler. Whten its clugor ha-1 subsided, the prospector, 1 ereloped in sulphur smoke. heard his C urvelcomie visitor scrambling out at c t manhole. Y 'lainly the grizzly was very much S ave. But it had been hit, and hit f lid, and once out in the open. it be- i! ene thoroughly enraged by wounds. C Taised a tremendous racket, in fact, 0 ming back after its first retreat to 11 Int its fury upon the boiler, which N seemed to hold accountable for its I ifferings. h The grizzly hammered and batted ] ith its great paws. mauling at the h iler's convex surface until it ran. a ke a big muffled drum. This was 1) ost unpleasant for Hank. The l azy creature was likely to tumble h to his quarters again at any moment. ir thought, of course, of closing the P natfole, but there was no way of ' rastting the gasket, and a thrust of c< -he ear's paw would put down the fi barrr. it Piferring to fight from the open,the 01 pro<ector made a hasty and rather fr reckss exit from.his smoke-filled re- f( trea Almost before he could regain b] is ft. the wounded grizzly was upon tl [im. Hank met the bear with a shot, gi lelired at half-arm's length, but was of whird into darkness by a sweeping d( ;trok which cracked two of his ribs fi wid nocked the breath out of his t! body. ni It s uome time before he recov- Ca ered ms0ousness, and battered and th -10 1 '.s gain able to ru hE his or so was back at work ain.l But after this adventure, when nJights were too warm for endur arce with the manhole closed, he ,Aced a big stone upon the gasket plate, so balanced that it would tumble in should any larg:e creature attempt to enter it. The boulder was shoved in. one night by a prowling lynx, but it is hardly necessary to add that the cat was frightened off by the din, and Hank admits that lie was quite as much startled and nearly as badly frightened as when the grizzly rolled into his domicile.-Youth's Companion. Tomato Culture in England. When an early em-op of tomatoes IS wanted, a sowing is madle in January, and other sowings may take place at intervals until the beginning of Septemnber. From the last sowing a supply of fruit is obtained during the winter months. Market gardeners raise crops which will be ready for sale at seasons when they expect good prices will be obtained; they know that when crops like aples0 and Dranges are first offered a decline in the price of tomatoes is certain. It is also found exp~edient, in gardens wvhere tomatoes are the principal cr'op, to have other crops5 on which to rely to make up for losses andl to occupy he staff of workmen throughout the rear. Hothouses for grap)es, Ipeaches mmtd cucumbers, and for forcing straw erries and chrysanthemums, are built ide by side- with tomato houses. A ortion of the ground is also frequent y set apart for mushrooms; and this 'rop is gathered from the sides of -idlges which are from three to four 'eet high. As the mushroom, unlike he tomato. does not thriv-e in sun hine, the ridlges are littered with oose straw to protect them from the un's rays and begavy falls of rain. a several gardlens apple andl pc~ir rees are planted; but as the groundl s in a high stare of cultivation, only hoice varieties are raised.-Chamibers'sI The Discrim inati n; Lady Elephant, Mr. Dimond Braine, writing abhout lephant hunting in Siam, says a large >ercentage of Siamese male elephaints re without tusks, while others alre cry handsomely armed. Those with ut are said to be larger and strong r, and have beeni known to brealk ff the tusks of thleir opiponent s iln ght. The dlirec'tor' of thle hunt in ormfedl Mr. Uraine that line t uskers re more attr'activ-e to the females of he herdl, andl as the success of the rive dlepend~s so largely on this it essential that they should he em lIcyed as trained decoys.-Pall Mal' ;azette. ~An Old Luther Bible. A very old German Bible has just een discovered at Wischreihe in the ossession of an aged widow named tegmla. The Bible was printed in thei ear 1344 by Hans Lutft at Witten erg. This rare copy' undoubtedly be >ngs to one of the earliest editions f Luther's Bible, as the reformer's rst German Bible appeared in print in 534-onily ten years earlier, The copy ot only contains Luther's prefaces to everal of the Biblical books, but also umerous marginal notes by Luther pon the Bible text.--Westpiinsow Ga ste. PERPETUAL MOTION MYTH. ks Many People Trying to Solve thr Problem as Ever. "The perpetual motionl myth is full. .s attractive as it ever was," said a etr model imiaker and all-rounl ieehaelc of this city, "and I really he. ieve there are just as many pwople rying to solve the probleIn now al. orierly. It is a great mistake re haracterize all such folks Is eratk ind fools. Anybody with a fair work ng knowledge of ,nathematics ear IaSily demonstrate that perpetual mG ion is a physical impossibility, but toi t man w1o has 11'd no special mathe nitical traiing the thing seeis en irely feasible. and it is very ditctilt o make him understand why it can ot be accomplished. During the lasi wenty years I have made models aml , octions of nodels for at least fifty or ixty different people. all of whom y elieved firmly they were on the track f the great secret. Some were cranks. f course, but many of them were ien of superior intelligence who wvere imply delicient in the mathematical lculty-and that, let me assure you, a deficioney which is extremely )4mn, and no indication whatever C general mental weakness. One of iy customers. to illustrate the point, as a lawyer of acknowledged ability. r e is dead now, and if I mentioned is name you would be astonished. e was a scholar and a thinker, but a had no t.aste for mathematics, id, after he had figured out the per- b tual motion proleni to his own sat faction, it was Impossible to make r im see ti-e flaw in his line of reason fr p g. He had proceeded on a familiar -inciple known as the 'counterpoised heel,' and until I assured him of the ontrary he supposed that he was the, -st person who had ever thought of The device seems plausible enougim i its surface, but, as a matter of et, each revolution of the wheel calls r a trifle more power than it is capa e of generating. I tried to reason a thing out, but the lawyer couldn't asp It, and he att'ributed the failure the model to some mere mechanical b feet in its construction. I am satis- t d he entertained his delusion up to e time of his death, and I could al me a dozen other cases of practi ily the same character. As a rule, i e perpetual motion inventor believes el has struck something entirely new. know that theJour or five ss s upon which such ye been thre d ousands else -New Or ri "poerat. -.Ne .. Or, 26- -0,ke t. Among th tiustel and efficient at taches in the oflice of the street rail way headquarters is one Millikin. H1e also has a partnership interest in a North side grocery. After keeping tabs on cars and their operators each day, 1r. Millikin waits on customers at the grocery store. Saturday night is usu ally a busy one. and. of course, every thing is (lone in a hurry. This prob ably accounts for a slight over-sighlt of 3Ir. Millikin in tilling an order for a little, fat girl, who canme into the store as the kind-hearted Millikin was about to close the donors. "Mister Mil-li-kin, my mamma sent after a <iuarters' worth of mul-las-six,' sa1id tile child. "All right, little gil, let's have your bucket." said tihe genial clerk. With thits theL little 1lady3 handed over a good-sized tinl bucket. Mr. Millikin diseppeared among some barrels, and1( adote considetrable grinding he reap "Thmere's a big measure, little girl. Do you think yotu can c'arry it'" 'Yes, sir," said thle mlaiden, as she0 starited toward'( tile door. "'I.ittle girl ,where's thig moneyy' said Millikin, as5 he followed up his ens toweri. "In the bmucket, Mr. Mil-li-kin," naively replied the chlild.-Colunmbus Dispatch. In-:.ects and Prehistor-ic F'orests. It is nlot untlikt-Iy thatl some1 of the( iurious atlteramt ions in the distribiut ion raf forest trees wichl geologists hav'e recogn ized maty have heen due 10 thle evelopmelnt in former amges of the :rypsy moth11 or other like destr'uctiv;e piecies of insec-t. 'Thus1 in the early \lioc(ent Tort iatry Eurtop~e waOs tenanitedl by a hlost of species c'losely akin to hose that now form. our admilirabmle mie~ricanl broaud-loaved forests, The naaznoliams, t he gums and tile tullipi Iis were' the 11a1is we'll develoed in urttopi as thi:y are inl thi~s -ounltry. Mudenly all t hese speciesi~~ dippeared rom the0 Old W~or'ld. There is no rea Otn to belev-e tha t thle (-hangle wa s due o an alteration inl ('hima:te. Therte ar uanly ev ide'n-es indAIed t hat such'l was tot the ase-. It is a very reasontable -nje]i ture thatt that alteration was rougthit abomut by, thte inlvasion of an' n11el enemyv wVihib ay have heer: hie anicest or of thle gytpsy imoth.t-Pro (essor N. S. Shaler. in The~c F-orester. MIarked With Bleedn;; Iecarts. In one of the (-ages at LinIolnl Park. 'hiieago, ari' two pigeons or doves nlest e'culiarly mtarik-d. Theyo b elonlt o thle va riotyv knowni as t he "bleed1 nllear't." Th'lir h a'-ks and winy r'e of a blui-s sh:te enlar. while their reas-ts crc whime, save for a spot of vidl cruison in the c-entri-. This ofi is precisly li ke the stain wich ouldl e p1rodulc-ed by a wound. It aboutt an inl-lh inl length 1, and the oluor fades out at the edges softly' a little st riaks. Onie can scar(-ely be h-ye the little -reaitures atre not v-ie. itIs of'.ole ('rnel thir:ust. Uses of the' Beard. We cant see much sense in a sngle :an who buys hlis own neckties wear ng a long 1:earri.T-Denrit Journal. 3OGUS GEMS C0411O1 '0 WELL MADE AS TO DEFY D TECTION EXCEPT BY EXPERTS, 'y Using Them a Lavish bispaf is P itible-Falso and Real Peariasn Sai String - DIamonds That Di't C Much-Jewel-Studded Belts. In the lavish display of jgwels 1 ected by women of fashion Sere is nagniticence that is inpressiA whti ver one may think of It from ie poi if refinenient. Fortunes are ilvestl n rmgs. collars, tiaras, penddts at very sort of jeweled ornameit th. an add to the splendor of a Woman (iHet fand dazzle the beholder TI i-earing of conspicuous gen is' n, ontinc d to the ball room or to oper ut everywhere on the streel n pr aiscuous gathering3, by day ell y night, the flash and glitter' Cf gen nd precious stones are seen. A fe ears ago such display woull ha' icen considered the height of.rulga ry; to-day it passes unchallenled. But although jewels of :abulot rices are worn with recklee profi ion, all the stones that sp e a] ot diamonds. There are inay Joort :insnien of the ar stocratic th. ave come into favor along 'i tl age for display, and help to0 er lie gorgeousness in which thoi sup iors take the lead. Moreor, tI iost lordly of precious stones tre im ited with a cleverness that l4s n< een approached heretofore, anj eve tose who are rich enough to ofn th al thing do not hesitate to mlgle ti retended article with that wich eks to imitate. . . One of the things that alw~s ha een considered most difficult ti cout rfeit is the pearl, the only suistitut iat resembled the original enuigh t eceive any one but the merat tyr eretofore being the Roman pearl -hich were beautiful at first, nit di 3t wear well owing to the frax ii ieir composition, that causes tem t elt from the heat of the bot'. I utly, however, a new procds ha ,en perfected by A French minufac trer which turns out pseudo p ris o ich quality as to defy Adete on b, iy but experts, fish scalbs anisilve: !ing used In their compoitic. S< osely do they resemble the "nuin dt they *ve been strung Ci rn yn with t4em without betray* thei cret. Pearls a e so highly prized nd s< any ca woan without ovrdoinr a even those wonfn whc - acep and colls cost ad to their so iecorr a strands at 'a more mod These Frenh pearls are n cheap, either. A string of t great pretensions costs about ., -0 it were of real pearls it would co! least ten times that amount, hI w In a great many cases the p< I :Irops that my lady wears a t -lever imitations. If the sti' e been pierced for the setting t be pretty sure that It Is the oou feit, for the real pearl Is sel pierced, the aim being to presers Intact and to show that It is so. The same firm that imports remarkable French pearls brings rhinestones of great brilliandy beauty which easily may be mists for diamonds. They are used e3 sively for belt buckles and c clasps, for brooches, for combs, the little pins for catching up s locks at the hack of the hair, andt< for rings. A popular fancy is to mitation andl real stones, for exan 1 well-counterfeited pearl with :liamonds or pseudo diamonds and ptearls. This is only carrying to extreme the tendency to enrich arl ready profuse decorat-ion of expen ornaments by deftly arranging anm them orna ments of a less costly cha ter that will not suffer by contrast ' thle precious stoney andi will add tc richness of the effect. The w] front of a rich evening gown may emblazoned in this way without gia a hint of the eonomny practiced. Amnong the recent importations the most prominent dealer in si preious andl high-grade Imitation. real gems are some magnificent colars, cons:sting of six or n strings of medium-sized pearls clasps of brillia'nt stones set in si: or platinum, the whole making a and effective collaret costing front. to .800, whereas if it were wha seems to be i: would cost from $'.5 to $20,000. The pendants to be wu on a small goldl chain, which are mn approvedI by fashion. are imit: skillfully, even to the pear-sha pearl of conspicuous size which is in many of them. Some new belt buckles are extren beautiful, having a moriaing glory some other flower design in nati colors inciosed in a circlet of" mnonds." These buckles cost from up. andi are warranted to keep ft brilliancy and color indefinitely. ilar dlesigns are shown in slides neck velvet or ribb~on. Large hearts composed of smalli tation dliamonds are popular, and be bougtht for as little as $25. or much as $130. Scintillating but fies can be had for about the s: price. Emer-ilds can be imitated cellently. but opals, with their elur lights, dave baffled the most cuna counterfeiter: of gems. . Turpluoises are creeping into fasi again. both in combination and 01 .ewels. and by themselves in stri for the neck andsimilaruses. Bronc 'onsisting of fine, small miniatu pa'ntedi on mother-of-pearl and set imitation dianmon(,s -'re finding ti waty here from Paris, where they much worn.-New~ York Press. Arbor Day owes its origin to th~ I pie of Nebraska. In a single year~ planted 66,037.494 forest res SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Dr. F. Larroque reports to the E French Academy of Sciences that his studies of the action of sounds upon the hinan ears prove that the audi tory apparatus of each ear operates ni Independently of the other. This ap a pears to have a bearing upon the ques tion whether the loss of hearing by f. one ear exercises an injurious effeci e upon its mate. it a The Superintendent of Yerkes Ob c servatory, G. W. Ritchie, has recently icperfected a device which renders it possible for astronomers to use the ordinary visual telescope for photo graphic astronomy. The device .con sists of a color screen than can be ad a justed to the lens of a powerful tele D. scope, thus adapting it for photograph i use. In the little furnace by which Gold semidt obtains a temperature of over r- 2000 degrees Centigrade, the fuel is aluminum mixed with iron rust, and this is ignited by a shellacked bead of the aluminum (which is pulverized, of course) and peroxide of barium, in to which a piece of magnesium wire is inserted. There Is scarcely a metal known that cannot be reduced in this furnace. The containing vessel may be of wood lined with sand and the heat can be regulated by varying the quantity of the mixture. According to an English expert dia monds are in process of formation in Hawaii. He spent much time and some money following up the first indica tions that attracted his attention. In many respects, he says, the formatiou S here is like that of the diamond fields of Kimberly. But after researches ex tending over several months he came to the conclusion that, while the for mation there is like that in which dia monds are found, the process has not yet gone far enough, but is still going on, and that in the course of 100,000 years or so Hawaii will be a great dia mond field. A new process for the production of nickel has been announced by the French Metallurgical Society. The ob ject of the process is to obtain pure nickel in two operations only, starting from the nickel matte. In the first op eration the nickel is treated in the Maubes converter, the iron being thus totally removed, and a crude sort of pig nickel obtained, which contains about three per cent, of sulphur. In the second operatio the crude nickel is pla ed in an open hearth furnace, f no 3 X If the . um Ind ;t at been imported into on rver. extensive scale as a suit o i ear- covery of new oil fielAs in the provinc hese| of Echigo. In Kashiwazaki, the cit; has nearest to the new fields, seventy pr< may ducing and thirty refining companic iter- have been started and a number o dom drilling companies organized to pu 'e i' down wells b~y contract for owners Japan consumes annually about GO0, hese |000,000 gallons of refined petroleum over Iof which amount about one-thirdi and produced by local refiners. This show ken Ia marked increase over the ratio o :ten- the native and foreign product a yea thier |ago, which was then one to ten. Th for |lpresent daily product of petroleum I: tray |Japan is stated as follows: The Nag ven amine and Kanmada (new) fields, 240< mix |barrels; the Nagaoka rend Mitsu East pie, era) fields, 1000 barrels; minor field real |in other provinces, 000 barrels; tota) real 1000 barrels. the al- Australia Wants Domestic Help. sive The British Women's Emigration So ong eiety offers free passage to Westeri rac- Australia and profitable places whei vith they have arrived there to good, stroni the domestic servants. But it adlvises serv aoenuts who are seeking light places, witl be no scrubbing, a regular evening out igas well as all day Sundays, to bid' *by the mother country. Women whi by want Paris gowns, grand pianos an "at home" days are also cautione ofagainst availing themselves of thi do~ advantages of travel offered. Strong iepractical women, who are willing t oret work hard and take the rough with rith the smooth, are the ones wanted riWages are high, but the work is ap rich to be hard. New Zealand is also call t0 ituig for domestic help, and Intelligen women who will become companou orn helps are at a premium in Canada. uch "Hie was My All." td Baron Von IKetteler was shot througl ped the head. Word was sent at once t< een the Tsungli-Yamen and they onl3 found the two chairs, badly crushed ely The interpreter saw the Minister sho or and saw him fall. It fell upon mn iral to bear the word to his sweet youn; dia- American wife. They had been mar $25 ried three years. leir She saidl: "I have lost all, and ib im- a strange land. He was my husband for my mother, my brother, my children my all, and lhe is swept from me. miI- I helped her pack some things and w< can went together to the British Legation as --From Mrs. Conger's story of the Ger ter- man Minister's murder, in a letter t< me a friend. lye Worthy or HIs Hire. ig A stranger got off the car, and1. ac costing a newsboy asked him to direc1 inhim to the nearest bank. her "This way," saidl the newsie, and ngs turning the corner, pointed to a sky les scraper just across the street. res "Thank you, and what do I owe inyou?"- said the gentleman, pulling i iei penny out of his pocket. are "A quarter, please." "A quarter! Isn't that pretty high for directing a man to the bank?" >eo- "You'll find, sir," said the youngster. ey "that bank directors are paid high in Chicago."..- Chiengn Trihunn. IIOUSEHOLD .,AFFAIR$ Attractive led Coverlrgs. The new showings in bed cover ings never were more attractive or varied. The Anatolians are specially pleasing this season, and from tho great ease with which they may be laundered recommended themselves to many. Pique or diiity triimed with white )il fringe is a new idea in bed spreads that As very pretty and quite la mode. Then tle kld reliable Mar seilles, with its weight and launder in- difficumes, but lasting qualities. is to in had in very new and novel designs, many different in effect from those ever offered before. Water For Wasing Wcrblenp. Many people sincercly believe that it Is impossible to wash all-wool uni dergarments without their shrjniking. This is a popular error. With an abundance of soft water, keeping every water through which the fan nels pass at the same temperature, with pure white soap and careful dry ing. there need be no shinAkage. To soften the hard wate: obtained from the rivers and springs from which most cities get their water supply use a tablespoonful of hous .hold ammo nia to a gallon of water. If the wa ter is exceptionally hard more ammo nia will be required. Having ready the softened water, heat as hot as the hand can bear comfortably and pour into two tubs. Make one with a strong soapsuds, using a borax soap-never a resinous brown soap. Washing Colored Caliconi. Colored calicies should b w'ashed in warm, not hot, water. :is and greens are stren-thened by the use of vinegar in the rinsing or iuing water, allowing one tablespoon of vin egar to a quart of water. With other calicoes or cambries salt L';ay be used to set the color. Miss Parlos declares that- the ideal way to treat delicate colors, dark sateens or inourning oods is not to use soap at all, but the following ;iarch mixture, which leanses and stiffens at the same time: For two dresses make one gallon of starch by mixing one cupful of flour with one pint of cold water. Sir un til all the lumps are (i:-solved and pour over It three and one-half qluirts )f boiling ivater. Cook until clear adi smooth, then tre n tbroug3i cheesei nine st - se in t'vo cle out to dry, whxen th ii und to be about as stiff wl n new. Sprinkle only an hour a so before ironing. Calicoes shoidi r be ironed on the wrong side.-Was - ington Star. 3 ,RECIPES SSponge Sandicihes-Make cottai cheese in the usual way, but after Shas drained mince thoroughly in clea Scold water to remove the acid; p 2 in a cheesecloth andi squeeze dry. ' a cup of the dIry, sweet curd adld 0o fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, a dlas -of paprika, if liked and half a cup< sweet cream. Spread thickly betwee thin slices of sponge cake. Cabbage Salad-Boil one-half cupfl of vinegar, the yoke of four eggs. tw tablespoonfuls of sugatr, oue teaspio: ful of mustard and a level tablespool ful of I~utter until the mixture is lin pid. Season with celery salt, au when it is cold add one cuphu.< cream that has been whipped. Pot over the shredded or chopped cabbas and garnish with stoned olives at hard boiled eggs. Cheese Souffie-Melt three 1'thespooi fuls of butter; when bubbling ien In three tablespoonfuls oi flour: si in gr-adually one-half pint of scaldin milk and cook slow.ly for live minute stirring constantly: add onie cupful grtdcheese, pe1pe ri sailt taste, and the heaten yolks of thre eggs; then fold in lightly the beate whites. turn into a buttered dish an bake In a hot oven for about twent minutes. Serve himmediately. Ravioli of Spinach-Use ten tabb spoonfuls of seasoned, mashed an whipped potatoes: add six tablespoo fuls of flour and half as much lbu ter; mix well, t hen lay the mass upo a floured board atnd roll out an inc thick; cut in circles the size of a sal cer and moisten thte edges with ti yolk of an egg; place a talespoonfi of cooked spinach on and fold turi over sty-le; brush the top) with th white of an egg and lake till a nie brown, then arrange around the fis platter with a heaping teaspoonful whipped creom on each. Spinach a< quires a mellowness of flavor by rt -peatedly warming over. Confection Cake-Cream two cup of sugar with two-thirds of buttel add a cup of sweet milk. two and half cups of flour, two roundin spoonfuls of baking powder. thi whites of six eggs beaten very sii and half a teaspoonful of flavoring e tract. Bake in four layers. Boil tw cups of sugar with half a cup of wate till like thick honey, pour graduahl; on the stiffly beaten whites of tw eggs. heat till cold. In half of it put candied cherries, figs and raisin chopped fine, with a few hickoryna and almond meats, also chopped, an, flavor. Spread betw;een the layer: Use the other half of the icing to cove the top of tlpe cake. This is a delj oinS aka. HERE'S A NEW DISEAS. levator Consumption" Adds Jte Toro rors to Life in the Metropolis. "Winter Is coming," said the man in charge of an express elevator In one. of the skyscrapers in lower Broadway.' As he spoke he wiped the perspira tion from his brow with a dirty hand kerchief, and the winter seemed far off indeed. "Why don't you ask me whether it's warm enough for me?" growled the grumpy tenant; "or whether I-wouldn't like to be the iceman?" "I didn't mean it that way at all, sir," said the elevator man respect fully. "k was just 'wonderin' how many of us would go next winter." "Go! Go where?" asked the grumpy man. "Don't they run as many elpar tors in winter as in r?" "Lord, yes!" *as the a er...."1 didn't mean thak we'd lo ur jobs, but that some of us will go here we won't want any jobs. .We'r doomed lot. we elevator people, a no one . seems to have noticed IL" "I don't understand how that is," said the grumpy man. "You have al most no accidents now, with your elec tric brakes and safety catches." "Did you ever hear of 'elevator con snunption?'." asked the elevator man. "That's what is the matter with us. It comes from shooting up and down these draughty shafts for twelve hours a day. Most of the time we're bent over, and you can't keep the cold air out of your lungs, and there you are. It was last winter that N'e began to notice how the new elevator disease was takin' the boys off. I'm havn' a' doctor watchmy lungs, and if I get-a' trace of it I'll quit my job and go of to the country." "Humph!" exclaimed the grumpy in a s he got off at the top floor. "Eevator consumption, indeed! Next thing we know the newsboys will be ettiig blood poisoning from the red painL on their extras, and the boot blacks will refuse to bend over for fear of spinal curvature."-New York Tribune. ISiWQRDS. Wild oafs will nver yield wheat. Helping others is the best self-help. Dullness sometimes passes for-depth. A cocked hat just fAt$ a lop-si brain. Ground that is barren to Is rich in gold. - Hypocrisy is ,reachery respectability. A vice is a t., s not the the blossoms. SIt is vain bo ap less you produce the To substitute the good is hd best way to eradicate the bad. Ill The good seeds that fail of fruit aM' 11. but a reproach to tne soil. There is no individual liberty apart from social responsibility. The taste of the fruits of the tree of Life forever spoil the appetite for the bitter weeds or the world-Bam's Horn. How He Enjoys the Opera. .e There is a man in this town who ~ t tarely misses an opera at the Metro , politan, although he has no more hear t ing than his liat. He has heard "Car o~ mern" about a hundred times,.yet he Scannot tell the toreador son* from' hi "Johnny, Ge': Your Gun ",3ie enjoys t-Lie opera immensely, howev-ar, and is nalways among the first to bry a season ticke't as soon as the box cifice opens. When asked about the solt of pleas ure it affords him lie answers phiho "You hear the music and I imagine it. 'rhe noise of the orchestra and the dsingers, the jumble of color on the st~age, the dazzling lights and, the rcrowds of spectators in the various Sparts of the house melt in my brain dinto a world of beautiful images, I'm no poet, but when I sit in _th:iepera ad the orchestra srikest nythe 'ever ture a thrill runs thrdugh. me: I behold r mllhicns of things which are beyond my faculty! of expression. Oh, I en joy the opera very much, indeed. Of' cour'se you relish the sounds, the har monies, the melodies, while I get some- ~ Sthing entirely different out of It. But" what matters it so long as I enjoy it 1as much as; you do?"-New Yorham mercial Advertiser. The Barber's Tally. A suspicious-looking indivIdual en d tered a barber's shop in Manchester, ~ iand whuile being shavcd casually re . marked: -. a "I suppose a good many of your cus h tomers forget to pay?" -' "No, sir," the barber replied. "There e was a time when I used to give credit, ml but I never do now. In fact, nob jdy .asks for it any more." e "How's that?" e "WXell, you see," said the barber, try ha in'. the edge of the razor on his thumb *E na il, "whenever I shaved a gentleman -who asked to mark it up I put a nick -in his nose with my razor and kept tally that way. They v'ery soon dIdn't want to run up bills." There was a tremor In the customer's voice as he asked from beneath the lather: "I)o you oh.ec~t to being paid in adlvance! Sewing Machines in Mexico. -Ahout $1,500,000 worth of American ) sewing machines are sold annually in r Mlexico. A prominent American .com E' pany contemplates ..reieting a factory ) at Dtrango, so as to avail itself of the t limitless .supplies of Iron. Mountain. i situated within the corporate .llgits ot" '4 t the city.-Buffald Express. Shoes and the Feet. r 'A man's feet make his shoes; a womn -c an's sthoes make her feet-New York