Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ TELL HIM SO. If you have a word of cheer That may light the pathway drear >Of a brother pilgrim here, Let him know. Snow him you appreciate W hat he does; and do not wait ^ Till the heavy hands of Fate Lays him low. If your heart contains a thought That will brighter make his lot, Then, in mercy, hide it not; Tell him so. ?J. A. Egertor rffiffTT iff*0"^ the"'recollections' of a di5 By Mary Mclnnis. Did any one ever pause to consic what a varied existence a dime neci x sarily leads? There are none of life's phases wi which I have not come into conta and now, although all my brightn* and individuality are worn away, a ( am so thin my circulation h ' nearly stopped, I am a veritable sih mine of experience and informatk It was a realization of this fact tt Induced me, in these, my last da; to cull from the past a few recoil* tions and coin them into a little stoi hoping it might make me appreciat beyond my mere intrinsic value. I suppose I am conceited to i tempt this, because all I know abc writing I learned from being strar ed in the pocket of a literary m? Eut his remarks regarding literatu were very forceful. I was a gre comfort to that man in moments desperation. He knew as long as stayed with him I stood between hi and starvation. One day he sold a joke for fii ;ents, and, with the base in&ratitu that mars some really noble naturi he swapped me over a quick lun counter for two doughnuts and a c of coffee! An old gentleman got me ne: ana, mistaiung me ior a ceni, ga me to a newsboy. The boy was so astonished he 1 me to see if.I was real; not satisfi with that test, he dashed me to t sidewalk. I cried out protesting and when he heard the silvery ri of my voice he was satisfied. 1 gripped me so tight I was all in * perspiration by the time he got hon - Such a miserable apology for t name?home? He had to clir flight after flight of rickety stai before he reached the one room tb to him meant home. "Pauly," he cried, pushing op the door, "are you awake?" A small, white face was lifted frc a heap of ragged bedding, and a p? of wide-opened eyes answered t question with mute eloquence. "Look here," continued the be breathlessly, "an old gent gave me true enough dime and I'm going buy you a lump of modelling wax!" "0?h," the long-drawn exclam tion was expressive of an inten emotion, "let me see it!" The boy laid me, all moist, on t outstretched palm of his crippl brother, who turned me over incred lously. "Don't you need it to buy som thing to eat, Louis?" he asked, he: tatingly. "Naw, I'm filled right up. A fell gave me a handful of peanuts, ai I'm going to get some buns for o tea." T.niiic riacheri rlnwn ctnirc acal and I was soon lying in the till of jeweler's shop where he took me buy the wax. I lay there all night, wonderii -why thor^ hungry boys had part with me for an insensate lump wax, little thinking I would ev know. The next day I was given to a bea tiful young lady, dressed all in gra I fell quite in love, and was glad wh she tucked me in her glove. I lik snuggling close to her warm hand ai feeling her dependent on me; t cause I was all the money she hi left from her shopping. Alas! As she stepped into a tr< ley car I fell out unnoticed. I re; ized that I. was lost; but, with r mercurial nature, I ran like quic siiver to me ieet oi a young man, w picked me up and started after t i beautiful gray lady. She bad disa peared into the car; he followe When the conductor came to colU the fares she discovered it was gon The young man leaned forward a; said politely: "Allow me the plej ure of paying your fare." S thanked him so sweetly, and ask for his address that she might retu the money. He gravely handed her his ca and paid her fare; but not with n He put me, still warm from her hac in his vest pocket. And there I stay until I wasr tarnished for the want use, all done up in tissue paper a: labelled: "Her dime." One night the erratic thumping his heart made me so restless that popped right out of his pocket. . soon as I touched the floor I saw t reason that I had been able to do was because he was stooping forwa to tie the beautiful gray lady's she She saw me and read my label as s picked me up. "Why, what does this mean?" s asked. "Is it yours?" His face g QUrfiilltf O r?/l V* n rk*ir-Vi a/3 a <*?**. tinj i auu xxk^ puouru mc ua in his pocket. The next thing I knew I felt som thing pressed against the vest pock where I was hidden, and I distinct heard the beautiful gray lady sa "'Let's keep that dear dime to buy t the first bread we break in our o\ home."' And so after another period of e forced idleness I was joyously e changed for a loaf of bread. What was my surprise when t baker handed me to?Louis! 1 knew me at once, because I still bo the marks of his teeth, but I shou never have known him; he look entirely different. He galloped off to show me Paul. They didn't live in the sar wretched room I remembered, ai Paul was sitting at a table absorb over a bit of modelling wax. J around the room wi-re exquisite! modelled wax busts of prominent pe< lpe, wonderfully conceived desigr for ornamentation and fantastic coi ceptions that breathed the soul of a artist. Paul was pleased to see me agaii for they both remembered I had bee instrumental in helping them get m< terial for their first successful mode In after years I often heard Lou and Paul spoken of, and always i terms of respect and admiration. ' And so I might endlessly go on r< calling stories from the book of lift but I once heard my literary frien say it was not so much what yo wrote as what you didn't write th? made a story.?Eoston Pose. jj: SHIP'S BELL CLOCKS. Xickel Plated, Some, ancf Not Exper | sive; Others of Bronze, More Costly In its most ordinary form the ship bell clock is a stout, well made clod a good timekeeper, contained in lev round nickel plated case six or seve es- inches in diameter, which is mounte on a board that can be hung on o ith screwed to a wall or bulkhead. Tli ct, face of the clock, the dial, is of Sn ;ss ished steel, and its pointers are o nd blued steel, so that with its nickele las case the whole clock has a metallic 'er solid, serviceable look. >n. Attached to a projection of th iat board upon which the clock is placed vs. outside the clock and immediately be sc- low it, is the clock's gong, with th ry, hammers?there are twp of them? ed brought down into it on arms extend ing through an opening in the clock' it- case and striking on the gong's inne iut side. It is a sturdy gong, two or thre id- inches in diameter, and it sounds wit! in.j a strong, clear, resolute note whe; ire the hammer strikes it. On this clock' >at face you can tell the time in the usua of way, but the hours are struck as the. i I are at sea on a ship's bell. im This is the sort of ship's bell clock costing about $S, that might be foun< :ty on merchant vessels, sail or steam, o de put up in steamer engine rooms or ii gs, J the pilot houses of towboats. and the; ch' are. used also on many yachts. Am up not a few are bought for use on th land by men who are fond of am st. have been more or less on the wate ve and who hang them up in their roon or in their home for the sake of pleas 3it ant associations. ed But there are now made also fine he and more costly ship's bell clocks fo ly, use on fine yachts, and fine clock ng with this strike are now made for us tfe as mantel clocks, these last beini a most likely to be bought by yachts ie. men or by others to whom the se; he appeals. nb One fine ship's bell clock was s< irs made that it could be used eithe at afloat or ashore secured to a bulk head or resting on a support on i en mantel. Used afloat, the clock wa removed from its base and screwei im to a wall in the cabin of the yach lir with screws running through hole he made in the rim of the clock's cas for that purpose. At the end of th >y, yachting season the clock could b a brought ashore and set again upon it to bronze support. Fine ship's bell clocks in bronzi ia- cases designed especially for mante se clocks are made in various sizes an< in a variety of styles. Here, for in he stance, is such a clock, base and cas' ed of bronze, and the case havini u- wrought into it an anchor, its fluke and shank of bronze, while its stoci ie- is of oak. with its ends bound wit! si- j bronze. The strike of the ordinary ship' er t bell clock is loud and sonorous, as i ad is intended to be; the strike of tb ur fine ship's bell is soft and musical Its gong, of a beautiful tone, is se in, inside the clock, and the hammer ha a a little patch of leather set in iii to face, not to muffle but to soften th< tone when the gong is struck. Th Qg effect produced by this clock strikinj ed is that of the sound of a ship's bel of heard from some vessel far off shore er coming musically across the water. These finer ship's bell clocks rang* u-1 in price up to as much as $150.? iy. New York Sun. en ?jj When the Officers "Hike." Those test rides and marches pre ; scribed to keep sedentary army offi fiom in a mnrfiUnn for fiolrt iliitv a 5l_ emergency's call are fine things. Wha l_ able bodied civilian does not envy thi two majors of the pay corps who hav< just completed their annual sortii ho out of Fort Sheridan, despite vhi ke stone bruises and lameness and i dash of rainy weather? Who woult not exchange three days in the offici jct fcr a tramp over autumn canopie: ' , highways? When the sedentary civilian doo! get an occasional day in the country he however, he does not have an ambu ed lance and a .detachment of hospita rQ stewards following; there is no troo] of cavalry to carry tents and ration; r(j and a bathtub; flags are not raiset ie along the line of march, and the vil [(j" lages do not declare a holiday. Somi features of an army officer's "hiking' Qt stunt remind one of "roughing it" ii QCj the Adirondacks, where the camp con sists of a half-million dollar villa 0y with electric lights, Turkish bath an< j butlers and valets. It's very magnif icent, but somehow it doesn't seen . exactly iiKe war. ? umcago necoru it Herald. rd j )e> That Fnmons Swim, he J "It Is a very dangerous thing. ? have found, to tell stories to the pres he ent younger generation," a Sunday ;ot school teacher recently remarked, ck "Now, I have always been fond o illustrating the Gospel lessons witl ie- little stories which helped to poin :et the moral, and a favorite with me wa ;iy ; one of a young Roman athlete wh< y: used lo swim the Tiber three time: he j every morning. This generally madi vn j a hit with the boys in my class, bu j one Sunday a new lad with Irish eye: n- appeared, and at the conclusion o ix- ' this story he snickered audibly. " 'You seem to think that this stor: he j is rather funny, Patrick,' I remarked ie severely; 'win you tea us in \vnai re re spect?' Id " 'Seems like he might have mad< ed one more trip and got his clothes Miss,' he replied with a cheerfu to grin."?Bohemian Magazine. ne nd England reports that her potati ed j crop this year is the biggest on rec U1 ord. 1 I /.WILD WHITES is iCONVICTS WHO ] LANGUAGE n I is Escaping Into the Bush They Li) n the Ways of CivilizationBroken in E d' Human beings, like domestic ani u mals, are kept up to a standard tha r.n. V>ir tho cnn it permits tnem co survive ... stant selection of the capable and th weeding out of the unfit. Let tha selection be for a time intermitted o removed, and the individuals sin' i. back to the lower level from whic! they had been raised. From philan thropic motives Captain Cook left i 9 New Zealand a number of pigs, in tending that they should serve th a needs of the indigenes or of futur n immigrants. The indigenes usei " them?they use them to this day? r but many of them ran wild, revertei 3 to their primitive type, and now fur nish the dangerous sport known ii ' Europe as boar-hunting and in Indi; rl as pig-sticking. < Horses and cattle in Australia hav escaped to "the bush," and in a singl e generation they have lost the fin> '? points scientifically bred in them, am !* resumed the old life of the species e In both countries domestic cats tak to the forest and soon reacquire thei " daring and predatory habits. Culti 3 vated plants are blown into inhospi r table places and forthwith lose thei e graceful forms, their bright color !l and their luscious scents. ri I Tt iq not otherwise with human be 3 ings. Wherever men have gon 1 among savages, some of them hav< y sunk to or below the level of thei degraded associates. They assumi ? their manners, wear their costum' * and carry their weapons, eat thei r food, assimilate their sentiments an< 1 speak their language. Sometime y they forget their mother tongue am 2 lose all recollection of their past. Ii e a few years they roll down the steej 3 ascent their ancestors had takei r fifteen or twenty centuries to climb. a Old New Zealand was an omniun - gatherum of all the ruffianism of th< South Seas. At the annexation of th r islands in 1839 it was estimated tha r there were 150 p&kehas, or half-will s men, scattered chiefly in the nortl e island. Some of them had gone in 5 land and were living as Maoris. Ye >- none of these were properly "will a men." Under a veneer of barbarisn some at least of them were civilize! o Englishmen at heart, who led sordi< r or maimed, but not savage, lives. The Three Australian Convicts. J , Very different from most of these ^ and truly wild men, were three Aus t tralian convicts. In 1833 a party o Tasmanian settlers who had shortl; before landed on the Victorian coast 1- IV. nf what is I10\ J.U LUC XIUI^UUV/IUVV/M W- ? e Melbourne, were startled by the ap 9 proach of an aboriginal, as h 3 seemed. He was a giant (six fee five inches without his boots, as wa ? afterwards ascertained); not black it soon appeared, but browned b; exposure; with long matted hair an< a patriarchal sweep of beard. H< 9 carried in his right hand two spear 5 and in his left a waddy and a boom 3 erang; and he was clothed In kan garoo skins. He sat down among hi 1 fellow-countrymen, for such the; were. They spoke to him and ques 3 tioned him, but no word of answe: 1 could be got from him. He remainei 0 ia a kind of mental stupor, the brail refusing to act. Not till after tei c days did the long-closed cells o s speech and memory begin to unlocl 3 and yield their secrets. Even thei 9 but little could be extracted fron 9 him. Partly from himself, but main ? ly from his black "gin," a few con 1 fused details were learned. His name was William Buckley Born at Macclesfield in 1780, he was 3 drafted from the militia into th< Fourth Infantry Regiment. With l1 he served on the Walcheren expedi tion and at Gibraltar. There he wai accused of mutiny and transported . to Botany Bay. From New SoutI Wales in 1803 he was deported tc t Victoria, whither a band of convicti j was sent under Judge-Advocate Col , lins. Very strangely, a little boj j named Pascoe Faulkner, son of i convict, was also with that party; he | is now honored as the founder 01 , Victoria. | One of Three Lived. ! Buckley, with two more convIct3 I escaped into the bush. Buckley's physique enabled him to survive hard! ships that killed the other two. Foi a year he lived on shellfish in a cave at Queenscliff, now known as Buck1 ley's Cave; then he was tracked bj ) blacks. The critical moment of his 3 life had come; Buckley proved equa! 1 to it, not by cunning or force of char acter, for he had neither, but by sheei 3 stolidity. "Are you Chief Bawron?' ' they cried to him, naming a dead J chief whom they believed to have - come to life again in Buckley. He , nodded and grunted assent. He an! swered further questions with the - same inarticulate affirmation. Thej i were satisfied, and acknowledged him - as their resuscitated chief. For thirty years he lived among them in all ! ways like themselves?in all ways but one. He was joining in a feast j after a victory of his people over another tribe, when his stomach and feelings alike revolted at the roasted flesh of the captured blacks. He j left his associates and wandered away j by himself, taking with him a girl t and a blind boy whom he had adopted. Eventually, he returned and reg j sumed the old life. A black girl to a whom he had been married proved ? faithless, and (to his grim delight) was speared, with her lover, by the 4 -U.? T-J a ?-?-? n vr? AW O eonnnH tlmn Vint | Li IUCi lie lllftlMOU Cfc OV.V,UUU WU1V, had no children by either wife. Twice ^ or thrice at the most did the oppor' tunity of escape present itself when ' ships touched at the bay, but each time he was baffled. 3 Thirty-two Years a Savage. Nearly thirty-two years had rolled I away when Buckley learned that a party of whites, who had landed on the coast, was about to be attacked. 3 He made a two days' journey to warn - them. When Governor Arthur soon after granted him a free pardon, the OF AUSTRALIA LOST IDENTITY AND /ed the Life of Savages, Forgetl -Those Who Returned Were ody and Mind. -1 shock was so great as'for some t t to paralyze his atrophied facull - At length he took service with e officer of the regiment he had c ,t belonged to, which had been sen r Australia. This he tired of, and k passed over to Tasmania, where h John Franklin found him sometl i- to do. On the strength of a pen' n of ?12. eiven him bv the Governn i- of Tasmania, and another of e given him by the Government of e toria, he married a third time d (white) widow, with a daughter. - was to be seen in Hobart "pa< i along the middle of the road with - eyes vacantly fixed upon some q ject before him, never once turi a his head to either side or salui a passerby; and seeming as one e belonging to the world." Little e formation about his past or the i e ages he had lived with could i gleaned from him. His faculties i. been hopelessly clouded by his 1 e sequestration from civilized life, r mindless lump of matter" was the - count given of him. He died of - accident in 1856. r Other Runaways. s Wild whites were .usually convi In 1825 the head of the convict tlement at Moreton Bay (now B e bane, Queensland) was a stern e Peninsular officer, Captain Lo{ r who governed it as it would h c been dangerous to govern a here e placid animals. Many of the n r dened convicts escaped, finding 1 horrors of life among the blacks ? terrible than Logan's merciless r 1 In 1859 it was decided to try to 1 cover some of these absconders. ? drew Petrie, one of the many Scot 2 explorers of Queensland, was sen the north on a joint mission of 1 covery and recovery. e Getting into the neighborhood e one of the fugitives between' Brisb * and Wide Bay, he sent a letter to * by a friendly black. The simple 1 vice was successful. Bracebrh whose native name was Wandi, a t running eagerly toward them. * was indistinguishable in appears 1 from his native companions. Fc * time he was unable to speak. T< * rolled down his face. Then, rem bering the horrors he had esca from, he asked whether punishn awaited him at the convict stat . His joy was unbpunded when he f told that transportation was at y end. ;f Eracebrldge was used as a de rr tn rprnvpr aTinthor man rPsMinc v r. a tribe at Wide Bay. When they e rived at the spot, Bracebridge t sent forward to meet the otl s Davis, or Durramboi. Apparentl: the native language, he explained Y Davis that the station was abolisl 1 and that Petrie had come to t 2 them back to Brisbane. Instan s Davis' suspicions were aroused. . passionately accused Bracebridge . concocting a falsehood that he mi s entrap him. In a moment Br; y bridge was again transformed i . the black fellow, and angrily san r challenge to Davis. The two st 1 there for a while, each the sporl ! contending natures in him?those ! the black and of the white man?] f haps as striking a concrete exan c of the conflict between the good i evil principlea as has been witnesi i In poetry and in fiction?in Tenny . and Kingsley, Ahriman vanquis . Ormuzd. It is not always so in r ity; happily, it was so now. white man conquered first in Da the last reclaimed, and he ran ofi Petrie's party, soon followed Bracebrldge. Petrie's words are vivid to be weakened by substitul or paraphrase: "I shall never forget his [Dav appearance when he arrived at camp?a white man in a state nudity, and actually a wild man the woods; his eyes wild and una to rest a moment on any one obj He had quite the same manners j gestures that the wildest blacks h f got. He could not speak his 'mithi tongue,' as he called it [the Scotl dialect]. He could not even i nounce English for some time, i ' when he did attempt It. all he co 5 say was a few words, and these of misapplied, breaking off in the mid of a sentence with the black gibt * ish, which he spoke very fluen During the whole of our convei r tion his eyes and manner were ct ! pletely wild, looking at us as if ^ had never seen a white man befc [ In fact, he told us he had nearly i | gotten all about the society of wi men, and had forgotten all about ^ friends and relations for years pi ! and had I or some one else brought him from among these s ages, he would pever have left the: Fifteen or twenty years ago Da who was the son of a blacksmith Glasgow, was still living in Brisba where he kept a small crockery sh His strength had been broken by hardships of his life among blacks, so that he looked ten ye older than he actually was. His serve about his past was invincible A tragical case was that of a p fessor of classics from Columbia C lege, New York, who lived in savs ^ isolation In Northern Queensla There, twenty-five years aco, he \ speared by the blacks. Few coi tries have witnessed su<*h awful in; 1 wrecks aa Australia.?Sydney (A tralia) Correspondence of the N York Evening Post. Xights at the 3Iusic Halls. The variety entertainment is, was the low comedy of the last gen ation, "racy of the soil." It con from the rich flesh and blood life the people, and has a bitter-aw sympathy with their sorrows a j their joys.?London Era. Switzerland has an estimated w er power of 1,000,000 horse pow Of this power 250,000 is already h nessed, while 500,000 more is c; ! able of exploitation. In the Philippines the Spanisi nounce "pulajanes" "pullaharn Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wise :ing Maine and Missouri, in the named, are the greatest produc lime. A device which forces water ime to the root3 of plants is said ti ties, duce wonderful improveme an crops. rnce . t to Charles II. it! said to have fir ke couraged the public appearan Sir women on the stage in Engla liQS 1662. sion lent Experiments with new macl ?1? qn the Chilean nitrate fields ,a ^c" pected to cut the cost of prodi a in half. He :ing Tbg average cost for fuel for ; k*s road train is ten cents a mile, ai ob" average fireman burns $2500 ling a year. ting nnt i <.i.i t . """ me jewisa popuiauon 01 ict in" ted States in 1818 was about 3av" In 19 08 it is estimated at ov be 000,000. had John McCleishy, seventy yeai A left Mount Vernon, 111., for Sc< ac" to wed his boyhood sweethear an declares that he has never kis woman. icts. More diamonds, are coming t< set- York City each week now thai iris- Ing any previous week in the la old months. Dealers are looking jan, greatly increased trade. ave I 'of One of the largest saw mills lad- world has been erected on the the Df ^Hawaii by a company which less contract to furnish a million ule. rear to an American railroad. re An- New York City's real estate tlsh according to the assessment, is i t to 000,000 more than the entir dis- sessed real estate values of a land west of the Mississippi Riv [ of ?*ane A letter written by Robert him and which was part of the M de- collection on exhibition at Coli Ige, University denied authorshii ime "Auld Lang Syne." An unpub He poem of Abraham Lincoln was < ince Ited. ?r a ;ars Several of Mrs. Louise Kaup's em- children made long journeys to ped ago to be with her on her nin lent' birthday. Thirty-eight grandch ion. were present and forty great-| was children. "Oh," I am so happy an r.ll my babies again," she said. i * scoy It is said that Emperor Willi vith Germany has always been c ar- that the ancestral cradle or th 'I i 11 _ 1J was ueiizuiierua suuuiu uc uo~u iui her, infant member ot his family ii 7 in cession. This cradle is over tw< 1 to turies old, and is of curiously c led, black oak. It is supposed to p ake the baby who sleeps in it fron itly, vulsions and other childish alii He The Country Life Delu lce* By EUGENE WOOD. Into g a The editorial writers of the 00d metropolitan dailies, who 0f plumbed the depths of every m; 5 0f and from whom no secrets ar< 3er. cannot conceal their vexation i lple inS unable to say why people an(j persist in being such awful fo< sad. to Prefer existence in six room 30jj a bath in the crowded, unwhoh ^03 city to living?really living, eal- y?u understand?out in the co Phe where you can get fresh air and vis, eSSout where the birds am t to northwest winds whistle, and by | children have room to play an too body to play with, while they :ion them wreaths of clover blossom poison ivy and get as brown is'] berry. By the way, what sort o our r*es are those brown berries you of so much about? Blackberries 0; blueberries I know, and strawbi Lbie are red, and 'most every kir eCi_ berry is green at the start, and tl ln(j a front yard bush that bears ave berries, but what for kind of be er's brown? ;ish In the spring and summer, in )ro- tion to these editorials bewailin ind clotted folly of the human ra Uld wanting to live in town, are h ten from reclaimed sinners who have die the error of their ways and now )Sr, little places of their own (subje tiy. a first and second mortgage a sa. mechanic's lien) out in the cou )m. where life is one grand, sweet ha Though meat and vegetables jre. groceries and clothing and- a 'or- other little things are somewhat lite er than in town, and you cannot his help except at the muzzle of a ist, gun, you can live so much more not P*ly and inexpensively. Why av- folks be so blind to their own be: -q ? terests? Come on in, the w? vis, fine!?From Everybody's. in ne Magnificent Bathing Pavilioi 0p' "The new bathing pavilion at thej Ice, Cal., is one of the largest the most complete in the world," say ar^ Popular Mechanics in an illusti re_ article. "The structure, whic built of concrete blocks, is 239 ro- 'on? by 169 feet wide, and con !ol_ 6G1 enamel finished dressing ri lee and a warm plunge or swim nd tank 150 feet long by 100 wide. v-a3 tank ranges in depth from three Llh. a half feet to twelve feet, am atl_ sides and bottom are of solid ce: us- three feet thick. It holds 50C e7/ I gallons or water, ana is emptied refilled twice each Week. In add to this tank the bathers have ocean surf, which rolls up on a beach just outside the pavilion." ^ ? Pennsylvania Nearly Out of Di cf. According to the report of eot Sinking Fund Commissioners, ,n(j State of Pennsylvania has a net of only 247,000. To be precise, figures are 547,085.91. at. There is a gross debt of $2,1 617, but the sinking fund is reac ar* wipe it out of existence when ap. bonds fall due.?Philadelphia Ii rer. " V' ' '^Y:l ; t-y-.X^ I ii proes," Place Cards. Seasonable place cards are very onsin, handsome this season," and since the order water colored cards have been so ers of much in vogue, a very interesting and profitable field has opened for girls with talents in this lin* of art. Some down of the daintiest cards ere flower girls > pro- opening bix boxes of roses, lilies or nt in violets. Other pretty ones represent green jack-in-the-pulpits, colonial dames, Dutch girls , and birch bark st en- logs. For auto parties there are ce of numerous cards suitable -for the nd in table, also wedding and engagement place cards. 1'nery Photograph Frames. . re ex- . . . . di ,. me latest irames ror pnotograpns 11 10 from Paris have a light blue mat which makes an attractive setting for gl a rail- a P*cttire- A framer can easily duplild the Cate one' as the colore<* mat Is reall7 worth tbe thing and can be choBen-t0 match or contrast with any room. One often does well to supply their own Un. mat when having pictures framed, m 5 " for certain rooms, especially if tap- .. * estry is used. Many picture shops er can furnish handsome silk or cloth mats, and it is cheaper to use these . and quite as satisfactory, as one must s 0 ' purchase so small a piece for one ^ 5t picture.?New York Evening Post. ised a tl Lamp Shades Important. hi When choosing lamp shades for a j New fonm remember that color is of more I Importance than the material used, ist sit porcelain and colored glass are often for a fery satisfactory, hut softer and more di pleasing effects are obtained with shades of paper or silk. Be sure to in tne choose a shade which distributes the C island light properly, at the same time savhas a lng tbe eyes from glare. The coloi ties a 0; tjje shade should harmonize with the walls. Red trails reflect red light best, and green walls are best suited $1 value, jor green shades. Contrasting colors 5900,- (jim the light and make a room ap- tc e as" pear gloomy.?New York Evening II the p03t# er. Burns ^"ew ^ugs From Old Carpets. organ Our upper hall is a passage hall In w umbia antique oak with grefen and browa ) of biirlap. The carpet on the stairs lished leading to it is brown, old yellow and 7* exhib- green. In recarpetlng the hall it tats our wish to use the same carpet as on the stairs, hut when we wanted tc eight order it we found that the desiga Chic- was no longer on the loom and thai a etiet'a It was impossible to get any more ol w ildren It. Nothing else seemed to match in ;rand- color or design and we were sadlj to see perplexed. di At last a thought came to us. W? gathered together the Wilton and ye!< am ol vet carpets that were so worn and areful faded from their latest service in th? sc e Ho- laundry that(. the storage attic eacb wouldn't take them in. Even th< si l sue- rag man wouldn't pay his customarj sf 3 cen- cents for them. These we sent to t ju :arved rug company to have two new rugi rotect made of them in sizes of two and i con- one-half feet by fourteen feet and nents. two and one-half feet- by five feet These firms weave any old carpeti jy SlOn you may have Int0 durable rugs and are highly to be commended. Wher our old, faded, worn out, dirty rugi ^h were returned to us we found then k( great transformed into two beautiful rugi have of softest color/ They were wovet pstery aa a filler rnntalnftrl ctavp vel. 3 hid, lows, light browns and an old French it be- blue. They cost just $6. t ) will For weaving old carpets into new .u dIs as rugS j am told the ingrains and Brus< 1 s and Seis are preferable. If you have anj gc jsome old carpets about the house do nol , don't be ashamed of them and throw them ?. untry away. Keep them until you need a 1 fresh new rug. It is also well to tell thfl i the weaver that you want a blended coloi I the effect and what the predominating d no- tone should be. Then, if your cartwine pets do not have the requisite colorf s and the weaver can add the color in new o1' as a materials at a cost of eight cents a f ber- yard.?Good Housekeeping. . hear W i and TTt lere's ' "IT*- 4 bo white Ofer^TO Jkcsl to rr"V 13 TTGW'TO is addi. pj&PAjE.Tffm * g the Fried Squashes.?Cut the squash *? ce in into thin slices, and sprinkle it with jtters sait; let it stand a few minutes; then ! seen beat two eggs and dip the squash intc have the egg; then fry it brown in butter. I'v ?ct to Breaded Sausages.?Wipe the sau- gej n(* a sages dry. Dip them in beaten egg foi tntry, and bread crumbs; put them in the song, frying bucket and plunge into boiling an an<* fat. Cook ten minutes. Serve witb &n ?ew a garnish of toasted bread and parskege leyshe^ American Toast.?To one egg thorhaD. oughly beaten, put one cup of sweel UP wilJ milk and a little salt; slice light St in- bread and dip into the mixture, aliter s lowing each slice to absorb some of ter the milk; then brown on a hot but- ln? tered griddle; spread with butter and hoc serve hot. Yen- Pear Preserves.?For each half and bushel of pears take the juice pressed s the from four quarts of cranberries; sor rated make a syrup of the cranberry juice, ln? h is adding one cup of water to every feet quart of juice and two cups of sugar. tains Simmer the pears in the syrup til) doius tender and add one-third stick cinna- n? ming mon for every quart jar. Seal ait ^0! The tight. and Cream Pie.?A piece of butter the , * its size of an egg; two-thirds of a tearnent cup of sugar; one teacupful of cream; >.900 one tablesfcconful of flour. Stir but- mo( ter. sugar and flour together, then it.on the cream and flavor with tn1? vanilla; pour into a pan lined with Das try and bake. Let cool and spread ?n over the top a cupful of whipped ? DOS cream. el>t Potatoes a la Creme.?Heat a cuptlie ful of milk; stir in a heaping table- ^ tbe spoonful of butter cut up in as much debt flour; stir until smooth and thick; arQ 1 tbe pepper and sait, and add two cupfuls , of cold boiled potatoes, sliced, and a <<w 589,- little very finely chopped parsley. to Shake over the fire until the potatoes tlle are hot all though, and pour into a . "N* desn diah. ^The Pop Mixture.^ How to make a proposal You can't learn from books; It is made up of stammers, Sighs, gUrgles and looks. t ?Boston Transcript. .j Two Ways. "Some toil hard and work won? ers." "Say the rest of it." t "Others take It easy and work ickers."?Pittsburg Post. Signs of Jealousy. ' "The count must love me." "Why?." "He gets sulky whenever another tan wants to know how much pafca worth."?Houston Chronicle. ^ Innuendo. & "He says he spent. Thanksgiving 1th his folks. Dined quietly at ome." , ' i ; "Dined quietly, eh? Then Til bet lere was no;soup served."?Pitta* arg Post.. . No Detriment. \ j. "Ever been In jail?" "Countless times. But that's no etriment to d man In my business/' "And what is your business?" "I'm a chauffeur." ?. Houston hronicle. ? None Exempt. "I have my troubles." "Why, you are rich, healthy, r? >ected." "Still, I have my troubles. I have ^ listen to other people's."?Wash eton Herald The Same Jag. "Ebenezer," called out Mrs.'Jag- . ay from the floor above, "have yon ?en drinking again?" ^ "No, m' dear," answered Mr.'Jag- , ? ay, in the hallway below-, "Not ..i. aim ?? - 01*1X1* uuiva5u iiiuuu??; ? v;^ No Losa Attached. x? S "I dreamed laat night that I beat 4 . .3 \nan out of ten cents. I've been orrying about it all day." "You should, have paid him." "Sure I should. It was nothing but earn money."?Houston Chronicle. Though tfulness. Waiter ? "Haven't you forgotten imething, sir?" Restaurant Patron?'Tm glad'yon loke of it; my wife told me not to >end any money foolishly, and I was ist going to give you & tip."?Chiigo News. The Auto Typewriter. "The typewriter people are certainslow." "In what respect?" "To cling to the bell. Why don't ey introduce a. machine that will rnk at the end of a line?"?Washgton Herald. ( ' Hope Still. ' ' 'J TWro O'Tonlo?"She's talrln' nn aw. 1. Her husband got three years?, ' it he kin git twelve months off for tod behavior." Mrs. Dooley ? "Tell her to rest sf. Sure an' he may not behave inself."?Life. ? ________ i ... Domestic Chat. "I saw an old girl of yours to-day, ibby, and she looked?" "Like a frump, X s'pose. I saw an a beau of yours, and he borrowed i from me." Then the subjec. was changed.? 'A ashington Herald. ' Bohemianism. "A true Bohemian is a man who rrows a dollar and then invites you * lunch with it." "Wrong again. A true Bohemian a man who invites himself to lunch th you and then borrows a dollar." o . ^ Kansas City Star. Thoughtful Doc. ' Voice at the Other End?"Doctor, e tried everything, and I cannot t to sleep. Can't you do something me?" ' . ^ The Doctor?"Yes; hold the wire d I'll sing you a lullaby."?Worn's Home Companion. Must Suit Many. "It takes all sorts of copy to make a newspaper." ' T ; < "Quite so. The women wonder y they bother with telegraph matwhen there are so many intere&t: items to be culled from old scrap>ks."?Louisville Courier-Journal. . Her Mouth Was Closed. Tack?"Miss Peachy started to say nething about impropriety of kiss- ' ; the other evening, but she didn't Ish." . ' Pom?"Why not?" Tack?"Because I took the words ht out of her mouth." ? Boston 3t. The Woman Qnestion. 'I T7as handed another installment the eternal woman question this rning," remarked the benedict. ' 'What's the answer?" queried the mg bachelor. 'My wife asked me if her hat was straight," replied the freight-payparty of the matrimonial part.? 3ton Post. How the Fist Fight started. 3'Flanagan came home one night h a deep band of black crepe und his hat. 'Why, Mike." exclaimed his wife, hat are you wearing that mournful ag for?" 'I am wearing it for your first hus. id," replied Mike, firmly; "I'm ry he's dead."? Leslie's Weekly. ;