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EgByvivs: " s *> \ I I Swamp! \t/ WVWVWW\^ 0 A STORY OF TH /JS wwwww ^ *jy . Copyright by Bobert Bonner's Son9. 1; CHAPTER XXni. ' I CONTINUED. ? "One apiece for us, since Number [Six has thrown up his hand," said ^ [Wayne. 4 'That won't be so bad, after j ail, if we get them out of the swamp jail right. It's a lucky thing that we {hit upon the Big Swamp for a hidingplace. They havettn idea, about here, T that it's impossible to get a horse into it, so they haven't tnougnt 01 loomug there for us. Poor Number Six! I'm r eorry to leave him behind. - Let's see ?the plan of taking the horses down , ?he creek from the road till it got deep ^ enough to take them into the swamp 1>n a raft originated with him, didn't t? I wish he were going with us, but ! suppose it was his fate to be shot, and fate's something none of us can pet away from, I take it." j, "It'll be beginning to grow light t: ?oon," said the other. "I think I'd ^ better be on the move. You'll be t Ihere to-morrow night, then?" "I'll be there by midnight if nothing happens," said Wayne. "Have every- D fching packed and in readiness to leave * - - * - T\? ?? ?= as soon as x join juu. x/u juu a .where the settlers are makiDg their search to-night?" ^ "Some of them have gone np the week," was the reply. "Our men c look the horses into the thick weeds at r ^he-edge of the marsh, np the road, , and from that into the creek, and then Sown stream, and across the road, and Q if the settlers come on any tracks it'll ^ puzzle them to tell which way we went, 8 lor it's hard to tell which way tracks point in a marsh and running water. ri t hardly think they'll get on the right: ^ jjcent before we're safely out of the ^ country, if we leave to-morrow night." 1 "Well, take care of yourself," Baid Q. iWayne. "I'll be on hand by mid- j( pight, sure. Good night, Number _ *1 "Good night, captain," responded ? the other. 8, Then they separated, one going ej back to the bouse, and the other into ^ the woods. Rhoda wondered if she was really pi awake. She could hardly credit the ^ evidence of her senses. "So Wayne's the leader of the gang g. of horse-thieves?" said she to herself, in a frightened whisper. "And I've found out the whole tiling! Dear me! ^ It scares me to think of it! It don't seem as if it could be possible! I w must have dreamed if! Where can Nannie be all this time? I wish she C( could have been here and heard it ' ?"!" < ii "Rhoda!" came in a low whisper ' > from a fence-corner, not far off. n1 "Rhoda!" "Is that you, Nannie?" asked Rhoin a voice but little above a whis- ^ Per- W "Yes," was the reply. "Have they p " gone?" I "Yes," answered Rhoda. "Oh, ^ Nannie, did yon hear what they said?" "I only heard what they said when p they were .'about to separate," an- f( swered Nannie. "I came near run- ^ iiing right on to them, but I thought g I heard some one talking, and stopped ' to make surp, just in time to keep ^ from being discovered by them. What was it they talked about? Something r) about stealing horses, wasn't it? Tell me what it was, Ehoda?quick! I'm ^ just dying to know." Rhoda told what she had heard. -i "Oh, Rhoda!" cried Nannie, with radiant eyes. "It was the luckiest ^ thing in the world that I brought you ? home with me to-night! What you've ? t j _iii ?> JlUttTU Will BttYtJ JL/ita, a "That's true; isn't it?" cried Khoda. ^ "I hadn't thought of that, I was so c excited. It seems as if the hand of ^ Providence was in it, doesn't it? I used Diok shamefully, just because he ^ told me the singing-teacher was mak- y ing a fool of me. He talked to me like ^ a brother, and I got mad about it. ^ Now I've a chance to help him out of ^ his trouble, and also to get even with Mr. Wayne, and just to-night, at . camp-meeting, I was wishing a chance 31 to do that would come along. Only ? to think, Nannie, that I, of all per- ? sons, should be the one to find out who the horse thieves are, and how ? they got away with the horses they 1 stole! It's just like a story, isn't it?" ~ "Rhoda, I'll tell you what we ought x. a. M ?- 1 xt ?ui. ? to no, ?am rtaume, wim nuuucu wuviotion. "We ought to follow the men ? who're out hunting for the thieves, . and put them on the right track. ? There's no man here to send but the minister, and he wouldn't know where to go if we sent him. If we can find the men, we can tell them what we P have heard, and part of them can go ' into the Big Swamp, and some of them can come back and take care of Wayne. It won't do to tell any one what we've n heard till we find the men and tell it ? to them, for if an inkling of it gets out, Wayne '11 be sure to hear some- 8 thing, and before the men get back 8 he'll be gone. The best thing we can do is to follow the men. It mav be a P long tramp for us, but I'm not afraid ? to undertake it." " Nannie was brave now. She was c thinking how completely Dick would v be vindicated, and thia thought gave ^ her courage for anything. "I'll go," said Rhoda. "I'm not n > - > jnuch afraid when there's some one with me." * "Well, then, come on," said Nannie, ? eager to be off. And hand in hand y the two girls started down the road Q toward the creek that crossed it a mile ' or more further on in its way into the *Big Swamp. , CHAPTER XXIV. 1 A CLOSE CALL. '< Dick Brayton had been to the old v\ hollow tree near the pasture bars for w his daily rations. a He had reached the bank of the I creek near whioh he had constructed a p E ^ Secret. | kwww M/ E FRONTIER. 0 www. ^ REXFORD. W V#/ w** M ittle hut of boughs in an old tree-top. iere he had passed his nights . qnite omfortably since his enforced exile rom civilization. As he went down the bank he fancied le heard a preuliar sound behind him. t was peculiar because of its regularty. He stopped and listened. He had heard something. The sound was that of splashing raters. Splash, splash, splash! The sound seemed to be coming tearer, as he listened. "It can't be a cow," thought Dick. 'It's too rapid for that. It can't Jbe a leer, for he'd go faster^and stiller. He hid himself in a clump of willows iid waited. Splash, splash, splash. Nearer and nearer came the sounds, lid presently he saw shadowy figures q the dim light whioh sifted through he branches of the trees overhanging he stream, which was here about fifteen feet wide and perhaps knee-deep. "Horses, by all that's good!" exlaimed Dick. "Young fellow, there's aisohief in the wind, I wonder if I've ;ot on the track of the horse-thieves ,t last?" By this time the horses were opposite he place where he was hidden. He gave a great start of surprise, and ould hardly repress the cry whioh ose to his lips. For he recognized Nell and Dolly. He could not distinguish the features f the men who were riding the horses, be light through the branches being o dim. He waited until they passed a few ods beyond his hiding-place. Then e left it and followed them cautiously own the bank of the stream. Thfl "Ritr Rtramn'ii hnrdorn vata fnnr r five miles from the road. As the ind became lower the creek widened ad deepened, and the banks gradu[ly merged themselves into boggy ats. Thns, at the junction of the tramp with the hard-wood land on ither side of the creek,there was nothig bnt miry soil, with water standing 1 every hole, and it was almost imossible for a man to make his way trough the tangled growth of bushes per this treacherous semblance of terra rma. The men stopped when the water sepened so that the horses' legs were Ldden in it. From behind a clump of immense illows growing in the bend of the aream one of them shoved out a raft instructed of light cedar logs. With some trouble they succeeded i getting the horses upon it. This done, they proceeded to pole it 0f down stream toward the heart of le Big Swamp. "There isn't any use of my going ay farther," thought Dick. "I know here the gang keeps itself, now, and ve found out how it gets there. It's little strange that no one has ever lought of their wading down the reek till they reached deep water, lut it isn't so very strange, after all, >r nobody supposed it possible for lem to get a horse into the Big wamp in any manner." . He sat down on a fallen cypress and lought over what it was best to do. "I think the best plan is to go dijctly to Mr. Boone's,"he decided. "I uess I can get there without stretchlg hemp. It won't take long to get squad of men on the trail. I see how : oil id Tinw Wovno in loarloT nt ang. He hunts up jobs, and lays the lans, and keeps the other fellows osted. What I found on the old cotjnwood was his instruction to them fter the stealing of Deacon Snyder's orses had been settled on. It's all as lear as daylight to me now. I hope re can catoh them, horses and all. If re can, won't it be a proud day for me rhen I can stand up before allBrownsille and say: 'I'm the man you wanted to hang for a horse-thief, fow, what have you got to say about About a mile from the road, a bluff ltted out from the south, forcing the reek to make an abrupt turn. Dick allowed it around this point; and as e came to the open space on the other Lde of it, he fonnd himself face to if.A in the dull crrav litrht of breakincr ay with half a dozen men with Bill h-een at their head. There had been a difference of pinion on reaching the place where be creek crossed the road, and part of tie men had gone up the creek as the orse-stealers had planned for them to o, and Bill's party had started toward tie Big Swamp, on the correct euposition that the up-stream trail.was a odge to throw them off the scent. "They went up there a ways, an' ben come back in the water, an' a lile or two to'rds the swamp they'll trike high lan' an' put for downb'low. )hey want tu keep us a-dodgin' round o's they can gain time an' git a good tart of us." That -wag Bill's argument, and in art he reasoned correctly. On the trength of this belief he had come own the stream, inspecting the banks losely ,on either side, hoping to find rhere the horses had been out of the rater and driven on toward some of lie roads leading out of the settlelent. "That 's him?that 's Dick Brayon!" shouted Bill Green, who had ieen the first to recognize the man rho appeared so suddenly before them. 'We 're close on to the gang, now! ihoot bim ef be tries to run!" Dick had no idea of running. "You 're just in time," he said. "I ?e discovered the secret of the horseliievea." "An' we've jest diskivered one on *m a second time," answered Bill, as, rith a desperate courage which he rondered at even then and could never ccount for afterward, he knocked )ick's gun from his hands and grapled with him. Instantly ^others o' / the party came to bis assistance, and in a minute Dick was for the second time a prisoner. "Don't le' 's give him a chance to git away ag'in," said one of the men. "Strinor him ud to this ol' tree, an' make sure of him this time." "That's the talk!" cried Bill Green. "Efwe goto palaverin' -with him some o' the rest o* the gang may come along, fust we know, an' help him tu ' give us the slip. I don't b'leeve in trials fer hoss-thieves. Efwe hadn't a-waited fer one afore, mebbe Mr. Boone'd b'en a span o' hossesahead." "See here, neighbors," said Dick, attempting to becalm. "I can prove to you that I am as innocent of what has been laid to me as any one of you is." "Du it, then, an' be spry about it," said Bill. "We hain't no time to fool away." "I have just tracked the horsethieves, with Mr^ Boone's horses, to the border of the Big Swamp," said Dick. "I was on my way to Mr. Boone's to let him know what I found out." "That'& a likely story," sneered Bill. 4'But I reckon 'twon't go down with us. What du you think about it, fellers?" . "We don't take no stock in it," responded Mr. Balcom. Dick's explanation had fallen like good seed dn stony ground. "Hello, there's Perkins an' Speerfc," cried Bill, as two men appeared on the opposite side of the creek. "Come i acrost, boys." Bill met the men a little way from 1 the group which surrounded Dick, and talked with them in low tones for a few minutes. ' "Ye're right," Dick heard one of ' them say. "It's best to make short 1 work of it. Ef oP Boone or Porter 1 comes along afore it's done they'll ' want us to hold on an' give him a 1 chance fer a trial, an' I don't go in fer 1 sich doin's, I don't. Hangin's what J I go in fer, an' I go in fer it now!" ^ "My idee," said Speers, concisely. "Here's suthin' that '11 ans'er in place I o' suthin' better." As he spoke he unwound a leather 1 strap from about his waist. It was five or six feet long. Men often'tised these straps instead of . suspraders, i tying them or buckling them sufficiently tight to keep their trouserB from slip- x ping ovfer their hips; ( "Rill font +.>ia etxn.r> and wimp to i the waiting group. 'I've talked with Speers an' Perkins an' they ain't in favor o' waitin'," he said. "What d'ye say, men? Is it hang?" "Hang it is J" was the reply from every man in the party, i "For God's sake don't murder a man in cold bloodl" cried Pick, as pale as death. "I tell you I am innocent. If you'll take the trouble to-search the Big Swamp you'll find that I've told you the truth. Search and find out whether I've been lying to you before you hang me." "What's the use o' foolin' with him?" cried Perkins. "We 're only wastin' words an' time." "Tie his han's," ordered Bill. And in spite of his powerful struggles Dick's hands were tied, and the fatal strap fastened about his neck. "For God's sake?!" he began, but Perkins had thrown the strap over a limb, and two or three men had seized it, and he felt himself being lifted from his feet. At that instant a wild, shrill cry, fnll of mortal terror, rang through the gray gloom of the morning, and oansed them to relax their grasp. Turning in the direction whence it came, they saw Nannie and Rhoda coming swiftly toward them, with faces as white as those of the dead are, making wild gestures for them to release Dick. Dick's good angel had brought them at the very nick o* time. The men let go the strap, and his feet touched earth again. "It wasn't he," cried Rhoda, panting for breath. "We've found out? who the thieves are?and the ring? 1 TT7 D? leauer b nrajrue: Then she sank down on a log and burst into tears. "What's that ye're sayin'?" cried Bill. "Don't you go to tryin' to fool us. Ef you do " 1 "If we did I suppose you'd hang 1 us," cried Nannie, indignantly. "Was 1 that what you were going to say?" i "What is it that you've found out?" 1 asked Perkins. "If you've anything < to tell, tell it an' done with it." i Nannie drew a long breath and be- 1 gan. < What she had to tell the reader al- < ready knows. < [To be continued. ] ] i Vie for Scraps of Tin. ' A two-horse load of tin clippings 3 was being transferred to the rear base- J ment of a prominent hotel. It had come from a can factory, and the nar- ^ row, curling strips had become so 1 twisted and intertwined as to become ' a conglomerate mass that was moved J with the greatest difficulty by two sturdy fellows with stable forks. A i bystander who was curious enough to 1 enquire what use a swell hotel had for ^ such truck was answered by an attache of the house: "We use it for j rats; I mean the big gray fellows with whiskers. The hotel rat is bigger, ' bolder and wiser than any other rat. J He laughs at traps, fattens on poison, and the killing or chasing of dogs, 1 cats and ferrets is his pet diversion. 1 Even when energetic measures have 1 rid us of the pests, they are with us again in augmented force within a day ] or two. They will tunnel through al- J most anything for incredible distances. ! It is their boring ability that has given J us so much trouble hitherto. No matter how we close up their passage * ways the routes were promptly re- : opened. Filling the holes with broken 1 glass was considered a good scheme ' until we found that, with marvelous 1 patience, they removed the glass piece by piece. But we think we've 1 got them now. With this tangled up j tin we construct a sort of abattis, covering all places where the beasts are 1 likely to enter our cellars. They can't : get through it. They can't chew it, and they can't carry it away as they 1 do broken bottles, ior wnen jur. j*ai takes hold of a single strip of the tin he finds it an inseparable part of a net- ! work weighing many pounds."?Philadelphia Record. ^ An English vicar in Sunderland lfas added to his scant income by practising dentistry. He has already pulled over 25,000 teeth. HffiHBS 1 THF RFAIM i Medium-weight rough surface cloth in the popular Yale-blue, says May Manton, is here shown made into a Russian blouse wrap trimmed with as- | MbAa OADIES' AND MISSES' COSSACK BLOUSE. trakhan and black braid. With it is ? luit nf mnttlad nlnt.h AilffA and banded with velvet and showing a bnnoh of qnills at the left side.. The blouse consists of fronts, backs, underarm gores and separate basque portions seamed to the fronts at the waist, line. The sleeves are in coat shape, finished with epaulettes at the shoulders and with astrakhan binding and braid at the waists. At the neok is a bigh, flaring collar, and at the waist is worn a belt of handsome leather. The garment is lined throughout witbplaid taffeta, the silk being cut precisely as is the cloth. To make this blouse for a lady in the medium size will require two yards of fifty-four-inch material. Party Dress for Little *Glrl. In spite of the fact that light-weight silks, such as China and India, are held correct for small girls wear, ' 1 A PRETTY PARTY DRE3: tmtes May Manton, the greater number 'of party gowns are made from transparent material. The model shown in the large engraving is pecu iiarly adapted to organdy, moussennele-soie, colored net and 4he like. As illustrated, the material is the finest white organdy with applied trimmings >f white ribbon. The skirt is full and straight and hangs in graceful folds aver the under petticoat of the same material that is made somewhat less full. The waist, which is made over a Bitted lining, is moderately low at the aeok and has short, puffed sleeves which meet the long gloves of kid rhe foundation is fitted by means of ;he usual seams and consists of the isual pieces, the fulness, of the outside being arranged in fine plaits at i>oth neck and waist. At the neck is a aniah consisting of double frills of the material which are held in place jy bows of white ribbon. And at the >vaist is a sash bowed at the left side. With the gown are worn white silk stockings and slippers 01 wnue Kia. The pattern, which provides for aigh as well as low neck, shows perforations which indicate the line of the poke and includes long sleeves which ire used in conjunction with the auffs, I which make the only sleeves ivhen low neck is used. The skirt, as given, is three yards in width, which is ample for shirring. Accordion plaiting, which is much in vogue, requires only to be made fuller, [n place of making the skirt of the width given, it should be increased to sight or eight and one-half yards and jimply hemmed at the edge before be * mu.*_ mg sent to tQe pianer s. mm ana.a such as China and India, and colored aets are both effective treated in this svay and are singularly childlike and 3imple. If the material is silk it is ; accessary to make a second skirt of . ;he eame slightly narrower than the pattern for wear beneath. If it be net it requires an under petticoat of ! ;he same sort, either China or taffeta silk of the same shade. The silk skirts are more often left plain than ! irimmed, but net is rendered doubly jflfective by bands of ribbon sewed on ' aefore the plaiting is done. To make this gown for a girl of ten pears will require four and one-half pards of thirty-six-inch material. Hints About Hats. < Hats?well, there are no words in ] K ~ ' - - -- .v- ;...V ' r-'-v v ? i OF FASHION. I ft . TWC fashion's simple vocabulary "which can teai do them jnstice as regards any de- lay tailed description of their almost orn grotesqne features. Both large and thii medium sized hats with feathers galore int< were worn in the evening, and the wit broad effect prevailed, being especially noticeable in the smaller shapes, where bows of velvet, curving leaves of jet I ind steel, and ostrioh tips completed flo\ she regulation width. An occasional Eni poke shape, almost disguised with its ot J wealth of feathers, graced this assem- one bly of head gear, and flower bonnets oui with a heavy twist of bright velvet for oil. i foundation made brilliant spots of ano solor here and there. Birds and vin spreading wings were the chief fea- mb ture ot hats worn in the morning, and get there seems to be no limit to the size vin af the bird which can be perohed on tini ? - * -?-t ?:n:_ fVio one 01 metse now uuuiuoijf uvwm- ? dons. stir 'i the An Old Fashion Revived. ?n j Olive-shaped buttonb covered with to i gilt, silver, blaok and colored silks, are one of the fancies in dress trimming and is an old ~ fashion revived. 1 One pretty example of their use is in fab a collar band of white satin made in aft* two narrow bands, with several rows Ma of machine stitching for a finish, and bac pnt together with one row of little gold haL olives not mnch more than half an inoh fall long and a little distanoe apart, form- hot ing an oppn insertion. This collar is a lc shaped to flare oat a little from the pro neck, bat it is of the width and not at ool< all a high collar. * liqt ren Walit of Beige-Colored Faille. It C In spite of the favor in which added *i* basqnes are held the rpond waist holds < its place, and by many women is pre- rou ferred to any other style. The model an<3 shown is made of beige-colored faille. fh? Francais with narrow plastron, collar )mc and waist-band of Roman stripes and but trimming of passementerie which re- Boi peats the coloring. The foundation *dd is a fitted lining, showing the usual c. pieces and seams, but a single in place of double bnst dart, and which closes at the oentre-front. The outer portion C is fitted bj shoulder and under-arm thei Ing i ?4= , A to 3 FOR YOUNG 0IRLS. will : i seams only. The baok is stretohed mil! plain npon the lining, but the fronts goa are full and pouch slightly over the ?j belt. The plastron is tewed firmly at t the right side and is hooked over onto ^]a| the left. The right front is also caught into place, but?the closing is invisibly ~ effected beneath the left side which is ? fastened into placd over' the edge of ? the plastron. The sleeves are snugfitting to the. shoulder where they are A finished by slight puffs which support mac the stylish epaulettes. The crushed waa crei 8TTLI8H LADIES' WAIST. P0^ belt of silk is finished with a bow at pin ;he left side and above the draped for jtook is arranged a divided frill of clot ace. all To make this waist for a lady in the out medium size will require five and one- inji aalf yards of twenty-two-inch material deg jr two and one-fovrth yards of xoriy:our-iuch goods. The Free Library of Philadelphia f*10 jirculated 836,898 volumes during the 18 0 Srst six months of the year, an increase J160 jf 166,000 as compared with the same ,?n aeriod of last year. J aria " ~Yi ' i ' >'r:. ' >' - . vW * 1. . HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Brown Beauty. 'eel and slice six large, juicy apb. Bub fine between the hands ee cupfuls bread crumbs. Pat one er of bread crumbs and one layer apples into a pudding dish, with tablespoonfnls of sugar and half a spoonful of batter between each er, making the top layer of fine . mbs, sugar and butter. PoUr over 3 half a cup of boiling water. Put i slow oven; bake one hour. Serve h milk or pudding sauce. Pickled Cauliflower. tar three good-sized heade of caulirer use one-quarter of a pound of glish mustard, two tablespoonfnls auBiaru eeeu, uu? cupiui vii nugu, i-half gallon of vinegar, one-half ice of tumerio and one gill of salad Boil the cauliflower until tender L divide it into flowerets. Put the egar in a porcelain-lined kettle; i the mustard and turmeric toher; moisten with a little cold egar; stir into hot vinegar and conie until it begins to thioken. Add sugar, mustard seed and oil, and again. Pour this while hot over cauliflower. When cool put* away jlass or stone jars and it *is ready ise. Ltm Cod With Oyster Sance. 'ake the centre part of the cod out six pounds) from a live flsh >r it has been scaled and washed, ke four or fl.ve inoisions across the k, cutting down an inch and a f deep. Dredge the flsh plentiy with salt and let it stand two lt8 before using. Put it either in mg saucepan or a small fish kettle, vided with a grater. Cover with 1 water, add a little salt and let the lid come to a boil. Then at onoe love it to the side of the fire so that an quiver only. If the fish weighs, pounds it will take about an hour took. Drain it into a napkin, surnd it with small sprigs of parsley, [ serve an oyster sauce apart. For sauce take a quart of the oyster >e and flsh stock and thioken with ter and flour rubbed well together. 1 and stir until cooked, and then . oysters of medium size, according [uantity required. OUV JLWAI1 XfJ JLTiSUVS A'V> ?uv Divw. furled Oysters?Cook oysters in ir juice'for abont five minutes, adda half teaspoonful ef salt to a pint oysters. Drain, dash on a little per and season with batter. Serve. . toast that has been dipped in !ded milk; seasoned .with salt and ter. "lied Egg?Beat the white and yolk irately until very light, add a oh of salt and stir, together and fry ratter on a-hot griddle; turn the over to brown on both sides. ! "ruit with Whipped Cream?Put, i fruit in a dish. Use any kind of ries, grapes, currants, tart mellow Iao nr mnflk mftlon. ent in small 36B, or peaches or plums pealed in ish and sift on sngar to sweeten m. Cover with whipped cream, t has had a. little sugar and vanilla raet added to it. Plaoe a piece of fruit on top of the cream. . *? "rnit Custart.?Cover the bottom he dish with fruit, suoh as berries, ohes or grapes. Poor over them a imon custard with a little lemon act and sugar enough to sweeten berries added. reamed Bice?Cook your" rice in k. until soft; when done stir in the te of an egg ttiat nas oeeu w?wu ', with sugar and salt to taste, im until the egg is choked. Allow egg to a oup of rice. Serve with ik cream and sngar. t ' / Household Hint*. 0 whiten lace, stand in soapsuds osed to the rays of the sun. 'o remove paint from window glass a little vinegar on the spots, lamboo furniture can be cleaned ti a brush dipped in salt water, .table spoonful of kerosene oil added the boiler when soalding clothes 1 help to whiten them. 'o clean white silk lace, soak it in k over night, and souse in warm psuds the next morning. 'o blacken brown boots, out a raw ato in halves, with which rub the 3king in well, and then polish, 'wo bottles should be kept for a tie fed baby, xne one not in ub? uld be filled with cold water and a. i i ji excellent furniture polish is le by mixing turpentine with bees: to the consistency of a thi<5k ?m. 'o polish brown boots, there is no fcer preparation than melted beesapplied with a clean oloth and 1 rubbed in. trass stains may be removed from it summer frocks by damping the ed part in a little alcohol and rubg well until no trace of the green eft. 'ew people know how useful oil of perment is as a remedial agent. A le rubbed over a sensitive corn ainates the soreuess in a miraculous aner. .'wo or three drops of oil of pepperat mixed with au equal amount of t rubbed over baby's chest gives tant relief in case of a cold on the gs or a cough. t -unnr window class is lacking in - J ? w lliancy, clean it witli a liquid made methylated spirits of wine and itening, which removes specks and ea the glass a high luster. 'eople who suffer with perspiring k will find great relief if they wash feet every night with warm vineand water for several minutes. ;n dust over them a powder of one t salicylic acid to eight parts of talo fder. 'tit one ounce of oxalic acid into one t of water; one cup of this is enough one bucket of water. Put your ;hes into this water, stirring them the while, and when you take them rinse well. This mixture will not ire the finest fabric in the slightest ree. I Well Behaved Norwegians. "he Norwegians of all classes aze best-behaved people in Europe. Ii ften argued that an aristocraoy is easary to give by example a high e to society; but Norway is almost only country in Europe without an itocracy. or any pretensions to one. ARGUMENT. " ^ | Used to bare some big debates, 8ettin' 'round the store; Both the men wu heavyweights J Ad' had met before.'' " "j Wrath too great to sJnoiqM^ ' ) 'Biz an' Jake called Joshua nanlet. ' i*j An' Josh Bays, "Your another." Uset^r jes' git middlin' riled Id thoir tariff talkin'. Silver foand their teamen Stilled! i Left 'em both a-balklnV , An' while each the vlotory claims, : ArKyments seemed ruther Mixed, when Jake called Joshua name*, . I An* Josh says, "Your another." 1 Sometimes bigger men than they, When campaigns Is waralaf. Try ter sum It up an' say 'Tuther needs reformln', . *33 But, towards fact, thrmrh ftgnh '* They don't git much rather." / ,V VfMM 'N them when Jake calls Joshua nan^-1 #59 aii uuau wj?, xour ?notuur.' _ yn Philander Johnson, in' Washington StaR;^ PITH AND POINT. fellow mean when hejald "Did he have a triaj?" /fWelJ, | didn't have snch a trial as, the bad. He didn't have to lifcteii tolawyers."?Jadga. v ( The Wife was thrown from her. bicycle And, J knocked speechless," The Husband^ Jftck Buggby invited me- t^goto theatre with him last nigkC" Onttyngo?4 'How did you enjoy play?"?Puck. < 1 Glyder?' 'What a terribjjdiaebra^fj orchestra there i* At thw dan&J? !li Wurler?"Awful, isn't it? that's why they hid itbehinft they wfl potted palmed?RoibuijrGaiette. "I saw a bonnet that suited ttis^ George. , It ^wxsmng to pay a winpuatpiij-. bettor, Wm Blank J"? one ofWs cuto^ enough," the impecnnlooa cU^''JJfi?E| plied. "Considering the trtt^^B you're going to hare in getting ybiflfl money, yon ought to charge at ievtv twenty-five per. cent. more/-~Wa?fcr ington Star. I . Cragin?"I respect a man who i* ij really in search of informatk^i^j^a^fl there are some persons who ?eem . 1 ask questions simply for the:sake ;off J asking them." Digby?"That's ??v..S There's Ditmer, for instaqee. asked me to-day when I was going fc>:\4 pay that $10 I borrowed of liim Ja*t ;? month. "?Boston Transcript. I "When I heard the bioyLe belll jiiit- I stood on my rights and refuted to I move, threatening at the ?am^ time I that if he ran into me Fd smash his" I machine." "Well?" "I kjept *m* ,| word. He ran into me and I smashed 1 the machine. He gathered iitqgeiher. and they gathered me together, too." I ?Philadelphia North American. I Too Moolx MoiifooM< : In 1872 Mr. W. BancroftEspeutim- j ported four pairs of the Indian mon-'/ifl goose from Calcutta into Jamaica for I the purpose of destroying the ' C,cane- I piece rat." Ten years later it was ea?-,B timated that the saving to the colony throngn tne won, ui ? n~; - amounted to $500,000 annually. Then' I came a sudden change in the aspect I of affairs. It was foond that the I mongoose destroyed all ground-netting I birds, and that the poultry, as "well aa the insectivorous reptile and batra- I chians of the island, were being eiter minated by it. Injurious insects in- I creased in conseqaence a thousand- V fold; the temporary benefits of the in- M troduction were speedily wiped aw^yyjfl ? ??;? fVio mrniornosn heoaine a D68t. Domestio animals, including youn^H pigs, kids, lambs, newly-dropped^H calves, puppies, and kittens, were de-H stroyed by it, while it also ate ripe V bananas, pineapples, yonng corn, avocado pears, sweet potatoes, cocoas, yams, peas, sugarcane, meat, and salt I provisions and fish. Now, we are told, nature has made another effort to re- -I store the balance. With the increase H of insects, due to the destruction by the mongooses of their destroyers, has I come an increase of ticks, which are fl destroying the mongoose, and all I Jamaicans rejoice.?Nature. H Four New ?nflud Widows. I The chronicles offcirths and death* H kept by the minister of a New Eng- H laud parish in the eighteenth century H afford much interesting and sOme I amusing reading, even at this late H In the records of deaths in one H Massachusetts town are chronioled the H departure from life of three widows, H three successive years. Their names' H are so odd as to bring an involuntary H smile to the face of any reader who H may chance upon them. They are H recorded in the following order: H 1742?The Widow Duty. H 1743?The Widow Yell. 1714?Tha Widow Lull. A few wepks later in (he same tow^^H the Widow Silence Dnmm went to rest.?Youth's Companion. Dirlnt Record. H A record in British deep- ea diving H was created on the Clyde wbeu D>ver Walker descended 186 feat and was onder water for forty minutes. JH ~