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KLONC the mountains and far away, r In the regions of Ice and snow, Many a pilgrim is trudging to-day ] With a heart full of hope and snouting kA * iVUU _ For Klondike!" Over the mountains, beyond the plains, Where the great river winds to the sea, J Marty a pioneer jingles his gains, And sings in a frenzied ecstasy? In Klondike! Thousands and|thousands of miles away, In the land of the polar bear, Hany a man is digging to-day. Only to find that there's nothing there? In Klondike! -A i?A _ . . H AT 5EAKU ^ By HELEN FORI HERE must be no other boarders M taken," said Mr. g> cm McCorkindale. "I stipulate for that." "Oh, there will i be none!" said Mr. " BSSESFiF ~ Dewey, tiie boarding and real estate agent, nibbling the end of his pen. "I know Mrs. Sweetclover very well?a most respectable widow, in reduced circumstances?and I know all about Seafoam Lodge, a delightful place, on the edge of the ocean, where a man can't help being healthy." "Very well," said Mr. McCorkin- | dale. "Let her know that I consider the thing a bargain. I will send my trunks on Monday of next week." Mr. McCorkindale had been summering at the Adirondacks, and had found that mountain breezes, black : flies and dried pine-needles didn't agree with him. He was now resolved to try the Beaside. And he went home, well pleased with the bargain he had made. Now, Mr. Dewey was in a partnership?Dewey & Salter?and so neatly dovetailed together were the arrangements of the firm, that Mr. Salter, who dined at half-past twelve o'clook, came to "keep office" exactly at the hour in which Mr. Dewey, who dined at halfpast one, took up his hat and cane to depart. And scarcely had Mr. Salter ' lighted his cigar, and settled his chair back at exactly the right angle of the wall, than in came Miss Mattie Mil- ! foil, a blooming young old-maid, who 1 gave lessons in swimming at the Aqua 1 Pura Academy. ( "I want board at the seaside for a Tnnnfh " said flhf> "At. n nlcnco where there are no other boarders. Prices must be moderate, and surfbathing is a necessity." "Ah," said Mr. Salter, bringing his chair down on its four legs at onoe, "the very place! Mrs. Sweetclover, a olient of ours, has taken Seafoam Lodge, on the New Jersey coast, and has a clean, light, airy room to let, with good board, no mosquitoes?" "Yes, I know," said Miss Milfoil. < . "Just let me look at her references." The references proved satisfactory. Miss Milfoil atruck a bargain at onoe. "Let Mrs. Sweetclover expect me on Monday," she said; and Mr. Salter pocketed his commission with inward glee. "Anything doing?" Mr. Dewey asked, when he came back from dinner, with a pleasant oleaginous flavor of roast pork and applesauce about him. "I've let Mrs. Sweetclover's room for her, said baiter. 1 "Hello!" cried Dewey; "I let it, this morping, to old McCorkindale!" 1 "And I've just disposed of it to Miss ' Milfoil," sputtered Salter. "Why the deuce didn't yoa enter it on the ^ books?" 1 "A man can't think of everything," said Mr. Dewey; "and I was going to ' enter it when I came back." "But what are we to do now?" said ^ Salter. . "Nothing," said Dewey. "Ten to 1 one, one of the parties won't keep the 1 contract. We're not to blame, that I 1 can see." And Mr. Dewey, a philosopher after ^ v - his way, arranged his bulletin-board anew, and sat down, a human spider, < to awau me coming 01 any nies who ' might be disposed for business. Mrs. Sweetclover, in the meantime, ^ had swept and garnished Seafoam Lodge, until it was fresher than a cow- ' slip and sweeteT than roses. She had decorated her up-stairs 1 room with China matting, fresh muslin curtains, and dimity covers to the ' bureau and dressing-table. 1 "I do hope I shall be able to let it!" I said Mrs. Sweetclover, with a sigh. "But there are so many seaside lodg ings this year that?Dear me! here ; comes a gentleman and a valise up the beach-road, and as true as I live, he's making straight for my house!" 1 "Have my trunks arrived?" said the gentleman?"name of McCorkin- 1 dale." "Sir!" said Mrs. Sweetclover. "I engaged the room through Dewey & Salter," said Mr. McCorkz indale, "last week." ( "It's the first I've heard of it," said Mrs. Sweetclover, all in a flurry. < t>_l. .11 1 1 '1 x>ut you re4fc.muiy welcome, sir, ana me room is quite ready, if you'll be so good as to step up stairs." "Humph! humph! said Mr. McCorkindale, gazing around him with the eye of an elderly eagle. "Very clean ? tolerably airy?superb view from the windows. Upon my word I like the look of things." "Do you think the apartment will suit?" said the widow, timidly. "Of course it will suit!" said Mr. McCorkindale. "Here is a month's board in advance?ten dollars a week, 1 the agent said. You may serve dinner at one o'clock. Blue-fish, roast ' clams, lobster-salad?any sort of sea- ! food you may happen to have. I don't | eat desserts. And now I'm going out to walk on the seashore." 1 Mrs. Sweetclover looked after him ] with eyes of rapture. 1 "Tk/* ?11 T 1 XUD UUft. VIC1 Wi an UtUOU lUUb X would have preferred," said she. "I am in lack! I thought yesterday, when I saw the new moon over my right shoulder, that something fortn- 1 nate was going to happen." I i But Mrs. Sweetclover had not i c atnned tne blue-DBU lor baking, wiien i c -ft light, firm fuot-step crossed the I i ' <5 ^ ' * ' hke. " ] Many a husband, many a eon, ^ And many a father, too; Many a man who is dear to some one \ Is climbing the glaciers, leading through i To Klondikel Many a mother and many a -wife I And many a one that is dear, i ts dreaming to-day of a happier life A . ^1 nrnUInn f a linn m AUU uu^ciuaj najuug *\j uvui From Klondikel i Lnd thousands and thousands of golden hopes, And many a dream that is fair A.re destined to die on the frozen slopes And And their graves out there In Klondike! ?Cleveland Leader. | am Lodge, q W REST GRAVES. W W threshold, and Miss Milfoil stood before her, in a dark-blue serge dress, and a sailor hat of black straw, while across her shapely shoulders was slung a flat black satchel, travelerwise. "Mrs. Sweetclover, I suppose?" said she. The widow courtesied an affirmative. "I am Mattie Milfoil," said the lady. "I rented your room, last week, of Dewey & Salter." "Dear me!" thought the widow. "Am I dreaming?" "I like the situation very much," continued Miss Milfoil, looking at the curling edge9 of foam that crept up the of t.Via 1 off ond flion of. a. mnr muring grove of maple trees at the north. "I shall probably remain here until Christmas, if lam suited!" "But the room is let already!" faltered Mrs. Sweetclover, at last recovering her voice. "Taken already!" repeated Miss MilfoiL "But that is impossible. I have taken iL" "Thero'ssome mistake at the Boarding Agency," said Mrs. Sweetclover, almost ready to cry. "It's been let twice; and I never knew of it until this moment. Oh, dear! oh, dear! It never rains but it pours!" "But what am I to do?" said Miss MllIOll. Mrs. Sweetclover's faded eyes lighted up with a faint gleam of hope. "I've only the eligible apartment on the second floor," said she; "but if you don't mind the garret, there's a nice, airy room finished off there, with ' two dormer windows overlooking the ocean " "I'll look at it," said Miss Milfoil. She looked at it, and she liked it, , and she straightway sent to the village ' for her trunks, unpacked her books, 1 tier work-basket, her writing-desk and , tier portable easel, arranged some sea- : weed over the mantle and made herself at home. ^ Mr. McCorkindale, going upstairs from the dinner table that very day, heard a sweet, clear voice, singing the ( refrain of some popular ballad, from the upper story. , "Eh!" said Mr. MoCorkindale. "Is :hat your daughter?" "It's mv ladv boarder, air." said . ^ V ' 9 | Mrs.'Sweetclover. "Look here," said Mr. MoCorkinlale, stopping short?"this _won't go clown!" "What won't go down, sir?" Baid the bewildered landlady. "No other boarderB taken, you inow," said Mr. Corkindale. "That , svas my express stipulation." "I'm very sorry, sir," said Mrs. Sweetclover, "but?" "And I'm not going to be trifled with!" said Mr. Corkindale. "Either 3he or I must go!" I "Couldn't it be managed, sir?" said ^ the landlady, half terrified out of her 3enses. "No, it-couldn't" said Mr. McOork- ^ indale. At this moment, however, Miss Milfoil herself made her appearanoe on ( the scene, tripping down the stairs in ^ a, quiet, determined sort of way, and , facing the indignant elderly gentleman as he stood there. "What's the matter?" said Miss Milroil. "The matter," said Mr. MoCorkin3ale, "is simply this. I have engaged j my board here, on the express under- , standing that I am to be the only ^ boarder." i "I see," said Miss Milfoil. "And I j im in the way." , Mr. McCorkindale was ominously ] 3ilent. j "But," said Mattie, with an engag- , ing smile, "if I promise to be very j :juiet, and to refrain from annoying , you in any manner whatsoever?" , "It would make no difference," said , Mr. McCorkindale. "I object to ( young women." , "But," cried indignant Mattie, , "suppose I were to object to middle- ( aged gentlemen on no better pretext?" j "You are perfectly welcome to do ^ so," said Mr. Corkindale, stiffly. ' "You see, I am an old bachelor." 1 "And I am an old maid!" pleaded ] Mattie. s "It makes no difference?no differ- ] enee at all!" said Mr. McCorkindale. ( "I am sorry to disappoint you, Mrs. ( Sweetclover, but " "Stop!" said Mattie, resolutely. "Mrs. Sweetclover, if either of your hoarders leaves you, it is I. I came j last, and I occupy the least remunera- i 4; T 1 I . live luum, jl win ttfcxxo mj ucpai i ui u on the noon-train to-morrow." And Mattie weut back to her room 1 and cried a little; for she had become i very fond of her pretty little room 1 already. "At all events," said Mattie to lier- t self, "I will get up before daylight to- i tnorrow morning, and have one good j swim in the surf." She supposed, when she came out < the next day, in her dark-blue bathing- i suit and the coarse straw hat tied ' down over her eyes, that she would ] Lave the coast clear. But she was i mistaken. Mr. McCorkindale was paddling, like a giant purpoise, in a suit of scarlet and gray, among the waves. He had always wanted to learn ; * 1 i .1? *1 1 _ ,0 swim, ana nere was a most engioie opportunity. ( "He don't see me," said Mattie, to Herself, as ah crept cautiously down n the shado of the rocks. ' 'If he lid, I wppose he would issue a pro:lamatioft that the whole seashore beonged to him. ^3ut I hope there iflj. / room enotigh for us both In the Atlantic Ocean." And Miss Milfoil struck out scientifically, gliding through the waves like a new variety of fish, with darkl>lue scales, and straightway forgot '* * ? il- - J- 1-1 -1* 3 1 1_ ill aDOUt ine irouDiesome 0111 Dacu* elor. "It's very strange," said Mr. McCorkindale, revolving around and around, like a steam paddle-wheel. "A log floats, but I oan't seem to manage it without the help of my ari^s and legs. I've always understood that swimming was a very easy Kn Qi'noaa lint?Ponf??whilst? Bh?sh! Help! help! Pouf-f-f! I'm drowning! The undertow is carrying me out, and I oan't help myself! Whush-sh! Oh! ah! halp! he-e-e-elp!" And Mr. MoCorkindale's voice lost itself in a bubbling cry, while the deaf old fisherman upon the shore went on whistling and mending his net, and the solitary individual, who was picking up shells with his back toward the surf, never dreamed but that the stout gentleman was diving for his own amusement. But Mattie Milfoil, cleaving her way steadily through the waves, perceived in a moment that something was wrong. Mrs. Sweetclover fainted away when they laid the boarder on a pile of blankets on her kitchen floor. SIia wm nnfl nf thnse nervnns ladies who always faint away at the least provocation. Bst Mattie had all her senses about her; and, thanks to her courage and presence of mind, Mr. McCorkindale'e life was saved. "What is that rattling on the stairs?" he feebly inquired, as he sat up, the next day, in an easy-chair, with a curious sensation, as if a gigantic bumblebee were buzzing in his head, and cataracts pouring through his earn. "It's Miss Milfoil's trunk going away," said Mrs. Sweetclover, with a sniff of regret. "Tell her not to go," said Mr. McCorkindale. "Sir!" said Mre. Sweetclover. "Do you think I'm going to turn the woman who saved my life out of /I aavo 9" r\iiffo/1 M* ATnPnrlrin^oln uuvioi j^/uutu iaii i-uvvui uiuuaio, "But I thought you objected to women." Baid Mattie's cheerful^yoice outside the door. "I've changed my mind," said Mr. McCorkindale, with a fluttering semblance of a smile. "A man is never too old to learn. And I mean to learn to swim nest week, if you will taacb me." He did learn. Miss Milfoil taught him. And the old bachelor and the old maid spent their month at-the seaside, to use Mrs. Sweetclover's expression, "as quiet as two lambs." "I declare," Mr. McCorkindale pensively observed, on the afternoon before his term was up, "I shall be very lonely after I leave here!" "You'll be going back to the city, you know," cheerfully observed Miss Milfoil. "But I shall miss you!" said the bachelor. "Nonsense!" said Mattie. "I wonder if you will miss me?" 3aid Mr. McCorkindale. "Well?a little," owned Miss Milfoil. "Did you never think of marrying, Mattie?" abruptly demanded Mr. MoOorkindale. "Very often,"she answered, calmly. "And how is it that yon never have married?" Mattie laughed. "Because I never found the right Dne," she said. "Just my reason, exactly!" said Mr. McOorkindale. "But I think I aave found her at last?and it's you, Mattie!" "Is it?" said Miss Milfoil, coloring and smiling. "Don't you think, if you were to try me, I might suit you?as a husband?" he asked, persuasively. "I don't know," whispered Mattie. "Try mel" said Mr. McCorkindale, baking her hand in his; and she did aot draw it away. How brief a time "will sometimes suffice to turn the current of a lifetime! That, month at Seafoam Lodge made all the difference in the world to Mr. and Mre. McCorkindale.?Satur3ay Night. New Method of Preserving Meat*. A new method of preserving meat, proposed by Dr. Walker, of Monaco, 3onsists in washing it with an antiseptic liquid that may be removed with warm water, and then keeping it in air freed from bacteria. A two per cent, solution of persulphate of sodium has been found a satisfactory liquid. The meat, first placed in a specially-deeised chamber capable of being hermetically closed, is covered with the mtiseptic, which is drawn off through i cock at the end of ten minutes, when ivarm water is admitted through anither cock and allowed to run as long ia -if lvrinrra owott oritr fvano nf iVi? jhemical. The air which enters the jhamber through a tube is thoroughly purified by first passing through sulphuric acid or some other antiseptic, rhe germs of fermentation in the meat being destroyed, and all the manipulations having been carried on in a sterilized atmosphere, the meat may be eft in the closed chamber six months 3r more with the assurance that it will jontinue fresh and unchanged. Interesting Work of Mound Builders. The Dayton Journal says that Fort Ancient, which is picturesquely situited on the high bluffs overlooking the valley of the Little Miami river, near Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, is relieved to be the largest, best preiovvoiI niirl mnst. int.ftrflsfinfr work nf ibe Mound Builders. It has been risited and studied by the leading irchojologists of Europe and America, ind models of it are now on exhibition in the museums of London, Paris and j Berlin. The fort, which covers about jne hundred acres, and one hundred | ind eighty-seven acres outside of the walls, is now the property of the State, part having been purchased in 1890, ind the remainder in 1896Anclcnt Ornaments Found. Many gold ovnaments have been found in a tomb in the Etruscan Cemetery at Votulonia, making the discovery one of the most notable of re cent years. A necklace, eight large I clasps, two large earrings, some hairpins and other articles of jewely, together with a Hword, ,are among the objects. The treasurev-will to tJ??> Florence Museutu> ' - THE REALM OF FASEtO] I SOME LATE FEATURES IN FEMINII CARMENTS. Ladies' Fancy Waist off Cream Chall With Bolero Effect?Dainty Chil Drees of Flgnred Blue and White Ch lie?Charming Frockii for Little On All indications, writes May Mant< point to the continued popularity the bolero and imported mod show the genuine or the simulated FANCY WAIST WITH B0LEB0 EFFECT. che majority of gowns. The illust: tion shows a fitted waist with i'ri that give the bolero effect. The n terial chosen is cream challie witl dot of bleuet-blue and the trimmi is all of the darker color, in nam and wide satin ribbon and crei edging. The bodice proper is i ranged over glove-fitted lining smooth under-arm gore, separata the fronts and back, which have t slight falness adjusted in gathers the waist line. Over the bolero fro which extends to the left shoulder arranged three Rathered frills, t' uppermost one extending in rows P A CHILD'S DRESS OF FIGUJ Blurring over the closely-fitting colla The stylish sleeve caps are decorate with rows of lace and ribbon to mate the bolero decoration and give tt triple effect. Wide satin ribbon fu nishes further decoration in crushe bands and rosettes that pass artist cally across the bust and hook at tl left of bolero. The tight-fitting sleev< have moderate fulness at the top au the wide belt is made from bias sati to match ribbon. The skirt is tt favorite circular "Bell" shape havir the bias back seam. The suggestic for ribbon and lace trimming is or that is much favored for summer strei gowns. Almost any of the season fabrics are well adapted to the mod those of diaphanous texture being pa ticularly fascinating when made ov< a colored slip or lining to match tl ribbon trimming. To make this waist for a lady in tl medium size will require three ai one-half yards of forty-four-inch m terial. The skit will require fire ai five-eighths yards of the name widl goods. Child's Dregft of Blue and IVuite Clialli Figured blue and white challie ai ffirite surah, says May Manton, a here daintily combined and decorati ;vith narrow Valenciennes lace and i Bertion. A smooth short body linii shaped with shoulder and under-ar seams is the foundation over which tl full portion of white surah is arrang< tu round yoke shape. The full straig ?kirt is deeply hemmed and has a si ?le band of insertion above. The t( [s gathered and joined to the low edge of the full yoke, a band of inse lion concealing ths joining. Tl Heck finishes with a band and frill (ace. The two-seamed sleeves are Elbow length and are decorated 1 Beep ruffles an I bands of insertio: Pretty frill epaulettes extend over tt Sleeves finishing; with shoulder stra] ?f insertion and '.ace. The pattern provides for a shallo Square yoke, to be used when the ga inent is to be worn with a guimpe, i ohown in bask view of illustration. Charming little frocks can be mac pi various combinations or all of 01 inaterial in organdie, nainsook, lawi figured or plain taffeta. To make this dress for a girl of s: ' -ly !'i ^ years will require three yw.ClJJ St thirty-six-inch material. Wearing; FlannelFlannel should be worn during the warm months as well as the winter. ie> Many mothers think that on the aj> d's proach of the hot weather they should ai- at once discard all flannel garments. But this is a great mistake. The com3n, mon woolen flannel should be worn, of One color has no advantage over anels other. To wash the flannel put in a tnVi nrmr nnm<> ntrr>T)<7_ hoilinCT SOftTl UU ? D> o mt ? suds on it, leave it till the hand can bear the water, then pour it off and add clear water, boiling hot; let this stand also, as before. Pour off and add more boiling clean water, and ?anriflO'7Ck >V L1CU LUU1 JLU WCIJ ki^uvvuv the garment with the hands? no wringing or rubbing. Stretch it immediately on a line in the hot sun, or before a hot fire, and as the water settles at the most dependent part of the garment press it out with the hand, and be careful to stretch the fabric as soon as the water is squeezed out, aiming as much as possible to keep the flannel hot until it is dry. If woolen garments are treated literally as above, they will remain pliable and soft until worn out.?New York Tribune. military Cloth for Coats and Jackets. The fin-de-eiecle girl is rejoicing in the handsome white military cloth that makes such swell-looking coats and jackets and plain, heavy wraps. Tim in Vionri+.ifnl Anr? is said to he easily cleaned. In the lighter and more dressy wrap's lace is much/ used in the trimming, and so are ribbon, chiffon and silk net. Wearing Natural Flowers in the Hair. The wearing of natural flowers in the hair is a pretty and rather roman? tic style of ornament for young women. ra" A rich red rose in the dark tresses of a brunette woman is an exceedingly ia" attractive addition to the evening coif1 a fure, and a "dainty blonde may wear n8 soft blush roses and white ones, and )W look picturesque from the contact, tm ir- Comfortable Nightgown. je, This comfortable night robe is comag posed of fine white cambric trimmed he with embroidery. The full fronts and at DacK are joined Dy unaer-arm seams, nt the upper edge being gathered and atis tached to slightly rounded yoke porhe tions that join in the shoulder seams, of The front is gathered at yoke depth, *ED BLUE AND WHITE CHALLIE. r. the fulness being -.held in place by sd bands of beading through which is run :h narrow ribbon which finishes at the ie centre in a series of tiny bows, r- The bishop sleeves are gathered at td the top and again at the wrist, where i- the decoration corresponds with that ie employed on the front of the gown, is An attractive feature is the wide collar d that is cut from all-over embroidery, in and has free edges outlined with a ie deep frill of needlework. 'g The model, which is universally be n coming, can be successfully developed ie in printed lawn, with Valenciennes et lace and insertion for decoration, and 's worn as a lounging-robe. For night e, wear lawn, linen, nainsooK, oatisie r- and long cloth are among the materials e* selected. ie ? j of I )y NIGHTGOWN, WITH YOKE COLLAB. Q. " " ie To make this night robe for a woman )S of medium size will require seven yards of thirty-six-inch material, w ! - Separate Waists With Skirts. as Three separate waists are often made up to go with the skirt, and the economle ical woman will find this a great conle venience. One waist is intended for q, evening wear, one for dressy afternoon functions and the other for street Ix wear. _ _ . , HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. A Pi alt Season Hint. A timely hint when the fruit season is rapidly advancing is to save fruit stones?that is, of cherries, plums, peaches and apricots. A handful thrown among the glowing coals of an I open fireplace will make the lire send up a brilliant flame, which fills the room with a fragrant and pungent odor. Care of Old Churns. We would advise buying a new churn rather than trying to sweeten the old one after five years use. After so long a time exposure to sudden changes of temperature, as from cold water to scalding hot, the churn is ure to have cracks in it which will harbor impurities that it is hard to find cermicides to remove. A very small particle of cream lodged in the crevices of an old charn very quickly swarms with bacteria. In caring for churns it is far too common to use scalding water first. This sets the albumen in milk, which is deposited in a thin film which scalding water will not remove. The true way is to thoroughly wash out the inside of the churn so as to remove every particle of milk, which by churning has been made into an emulsion, and is finely divided as the butter fats are separated from it. Then use water moderately warm at first, and increasing in heat until the hand cannot comfortably be borne in it. This will be a temperature of 160 to 165 degrees, and will clear out all traces of bacteria, so long as the inside is free from crevices. When a churn begins to show crevices it is time to throw it aside and get a new one. What to Eat on Hot Days. "During the hot months," writes Mrs. S. T. Rorer in the Ladies' Home Journal, "the diet should consist largely of dainty, cold, lean meat, green, DUUUUtcai vggcuawioo, auv* ^ uivo, It is a popular fallacy that the free use of sub-acid fruits during hot weather causes disturbances of the bowels. No diet is more healthful than ripe fruit provided it1 is properly masticated and swallowed before or after bread and butter, but never with it. "The lighter wheat preparations, j such as farina, wheatlet and gluten, I should be substituted for the heat| giving oatmeal for breakfast. Cook enough one morning to last two, as they are just as palatable cold as they are hot. While fried food may seem a little out of place in warm weather there are certain little dishes that may be utilized for breakfast. Cornmeal or hominy croquettes, or even rice croquettes, may be made the day before and simply fried at serving time. Squash and cucumbers may be dipped and fried. In the chafing-dish one may have chipped beef, cream or fricasseed barbecued beef, cold mutton warmed in a little tomato sauce, and dishes of eggs, such as omelets, s ;rambled eggs, creamed eggs or poached eggs. "Fruit should be served in a flat dish, with, if the weather is particularly hot, a little chopped ice sprinkled over it. Fruit that is very acid should not be served too cold. Powdered Bugar and cream should accompany the fruit course. In the place of chops or steaks we may have egg plant, broiled or fried tomatoes, panned tomatoes, a dainty omelet with peas, omelet with asparagus tips, or with parsley following the fruit. Com oysters and corn fritters may also take the place of meat. Coffee, tea, chocoi late and milk are, of course, in sum| mer, as in winter the breakfast bever: ages." To Handle Lettuce. I Tifittnce Salad?Lettuce forms a eood | crisp salad that is easily obtained at all j times, and it should be found upon j the table once or twice a week from : early spring until frost; and there arc numerous methods of preparing it in | appetizing manner. If the lettuce i seems withered soak it in cold water I an hour before using, or half its flavor will be lost, and an otherwise tempting dish will be spoiled. Many prefer to eat it only with a little salt, afi one would a radish, and for this the tender bleached inner leaves of the head should be used. Chopped coaisely and covered with a dressing of sugar and cream it is delicious; sprinkle a little sagar over the top to give a tempting look and in dishing be sure to give each one a good supply of the cream. Hot Lettuce Salad?If lettuce'becomes too wilted to make a tempting dish when served cold, pick the leaves over carefully, wash and place in a vegetable dish and cut across a few times. Fry a small piece of ham until well browned, cut in very small pieoes; then pour into the frying-pan with the ham, half a cupful of good vinegar, half a cupful of water and a pinch of salt. Let it boil up and pour quickly over the lettuce. Cover closely and serve hot. Lettuce With Cold Dressings?Two ways of preparing the lettuce with cold dressings are as follows: Take the yolks of two hard boiled eggs, two tablespoons each of sweet cream and sugar, a teaspoonful each of salt and prepared mustard and half a teaspoonful of pepper. Rub together and let the dressing stand for five ten minutes, add half a cupful of vinegar and pour , it over the lettuce. Garnish with thin slices of pickled beet or hard-boiled eggWash the lettuce, chop and place in the salad bowl. Slice three or four hard-boiled ejLrgs over the top. Take one cupful of vinegar, (either sweet or j sjnr), turee tainespoontuls 01 sugar, a I tjaspi onful of salt, a dash of pepper; mix thoroughly and pour over. Fine I shredded cabbage is excellent with this j same dressing. Lettuce and Lemon?"Wash the let- | tuce and chop rather fine. Slice a lemon very thin after peeling, removing all the seeds. Mix the sliced lemon thoroughly through the salad, with two sliced hard-boilded eggs; sprinkle a handful of sngar over the top aud serve very cold.?St. Louis Star. Tea and I ml iff cation. It has been found l>y experiment that tea retards digestion. An infusion of one per cent, of tea causes a perceptible delay; a three per cent, infusion will delay the digestion sometimes as much as twelve times the normal period; a ten per cent, decoction arrests the digestion of all starchy foods. ?Home Doctor flHHnn HEARTS. WHO Man'a heart's an Inn; Its guests are (or a day Night falls, bugle calls, Saddle and away. Man's heart's an inn; Its guests are for a night. e;ve sup, stirrup-cup, Soon as morn is white. - ,'vr But woman's heart's a home; Its master aitteth by Fire-light and hearth bright, Forevrf and for aye. ?Post Wheeler, in New York Press. PITH AND POINT. She?"And when did yon first seo the light of day?" He?"I believe it was at night." Jack?"Oh. IsntJDose she has her faults!" Tom?"I thought you wer# In love with her?"?Puck. "I can't see| why you object to young Softly: I'm sure he ia constant. "Worse than that. He's perpetual." ?Truth. . "Berger seems to be spending his vacation in town?" "Yes, he spent all his money on outing clothes."?Detroit News. ,' fI Count?"My love for you is as deep . ) ?as deep as?" Constance?"Papa's v pocketbook, dear count."?Philadelphia North American. Jack Dashing?"The entries are: Slowcoach, 105 pounds?" Miss Askins (her first experienoe)?"Goodness! Ifl that all that horse weighs?"?Puck. Jones?"I wish old Richman would give me a tip on Stocks." Smith? "If he did you'd be wishing you could tell whether it was straight or not."? Puck. Drummer: "By whom was the play presented in the Town Hall last night?" Squam Corners Merchant?"It wasn't presented?it was perpetrated."? Puck. ^ First Dog?"This hot weather makes me nervous." Second Dog?' 'Me, too. Heat seems to drive some people crazy, and they develop a mania for shooting dogs."?Puck. Mrs. Distrait?"Dear me, thischicken salad seems very stringy!"' Miss Frankly?"Goodness gracious, I don't wonder! You're eating it through your veil."?Truth. "What does that man Slickly do for a living?" "For board and lodging h? does the hotels and for olothes he does his tailors Onfaida nf that he does the best he can."?Detroit Free Press. "I think it's absurd to say kissing is dangerous," gushed Mrs. Lillyton. "What possible disease ooiUd be spread by the simple aot?" "Marriage, madam," grunted Grumpy.?Philadelphia North American. "To save me, I oan't tell whioh Jones girl I want to marry." "What is the trouble?" "One makes suoh delicious strawberry shortoake, but the other one looks so lovely on her wheel."?Detroit Free Press. Wallace?"So your partner fell in the river and rose no more? Do you think the shock of getting wet was too much for him?" Perry Patettic? "Naw. Guess the disgraoe of it broke his heart."?Cincinnati Enquirer. Mrs. Eastlake?"You visited Yenioe while you were in Ear ope, I hear, Mrs. Trotter?" Mrs. Trotter?"Yes, indeed, and we were rowed about by H| one of the chandeliers for whioh that city is noted."?Harper's Bazar. J Ethel?"Well, Jimmy didn't blow his brains out, after all, because yoTy<^^H refused him. He proposed to Mi si Golightly yesterday." Maud?"Did he? Then he must 'have got rid' of them in some other way!"?London . Punch. "Am I to take this medioine internally or apply it externally?" asked the lady customer of the drug clerk who was filling her prescription. , "Whichever pleases you, madam; the j stuff is perfectly harmless."?Detroit Free Press. "I have come to have a serious interview with you," announced the would-be son-in-law. The old gentleman fell right in-with this idea, and made things so serious that the young man was glad to escape without his nat.?.ueiroit j? ree rress. A Suspension Bridge of Fence Wire. A carious suspension bridge of fence wire wa9 recently constructed across the Waukarusa River, in Douglass County, Kansas. This stream, like so many other Kansas rivers, swells to a torrent at every large rainfall, so that it was impossible for the children living across the stream to go to the schoolhouse. The county engineer was asked to provide a remedy. He bought qualities of fence wire, boards and timber. He used good sized oak j logs as piers. Strips of boards three | feet long were fastened together with J wire and over these strips was run a J plank walk two feet wide. Each end of the superstructure was then anchored ^ to the piers; the sides, consisting of a netwprk of wire, were then put up. J The bridge is two hundred feet long A and is sixty feet above the water. It 4 is certainly a daring feat of homemade i bridge construction.?Scientific American. Can't Chloroform Hornets. William Harrold, a cigar dealer, has jl just won a good hot figlit. For months L his country residence at Mill Valley u has been infested with hornets. Whence they came was a mystery, but every once in a while one would dart i out, stab someone and disappear as I mysteriously as it came. After months J of suffering Harrold discovered that fij the hornets had taken up their abode ffl between the walls 011 the shady side of his house. He made a small aperture and burned sulphur, but the disturb- A auce was onlv temporary, and resulted in more annoyance to the owner of the house than to its vicious little tenants^^^HB Then HarroM tried chloroform, the hornets only slumbered for a while^H|^B and woke with renewed energy.^^HHH Finally he was compelled to tear oui^BHSj the whole side of his house, remov^H^PH the pests and their mud houses, ancHKHH board it up again.?San Francisct^^fflEM Post. 5991 Whence the Expression? M (<rPr\ /Innlr liL-a o flcli M "Rnf. olr>nVml^^ESB^S invariably causes him to float wrong Vu9 side up. One per cent, of most deli* cate arnylic -will kill a sporting gold* H9| tisli in one hour and thirty minutes. Twenty per cent, will act like prussic j acid. It has been calculated by a I deep thinker that a pint of tanglefoot will do a shark, and a quart of forty- J rod a whale.?Boston Journal. A J