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\ . | THE n? sc j IBCllUKEi'S j CORNER ^-e I Bread Sauce. For bread sauce to serve with poultry or game scald a large minced onion in two cupfuls of chicken stock and stir in a good cupful of fresh soft bread crumbs that have been rubbed very fine. No crust should be used. '.Cook over hot water for five or six minutes. Then add a bit of ground mace?as much as one can lift on the end of a spoon?salt and paprika. Eeat with one of the revolving egg .whips until the mixture is perfectly smooth. Add a tablespconful of butIter and serve at once very hot. Milk is sometimes used in place of the stock.?New York Sun. Apple Roll. Mix and sift two cups of flour with two teaspoons of baking powder; rub 1n two tablespoons of butter or lard; make a dough by adding three-quar ?r nf milk: roll thinly about twice as long as the dough is wide: brush over "with softened butter, spread evenly six chopped apples and add sugar and nutmeg to taste; roll like jelly roll, cut In slices an inch thick and lay cut 3ide up on a greased baiting pan; bake in a moderate oven . and serve hot with a sWeet sauce. Sauce ? Beat two egg3 until very light, add gradually one cup of sugar and beat again; add one teaspoon of vanilla or lemon.?Boston Post. Chocolate Padding. Soak one cup of stale bread and one of stale cake crumbsrin four cups of scalded milk for thirty minutes. Melt two squares of chocolate in a saucepan over boiling water, add onequarter of a cup of sugar, and squeeze into this a little of the milk from the crumbs and milk, so that itliis chocolate mixture will pour. Add it to the bread mixture with an additional quarter cup of sugar. Then add one-quarter cup salted, blanched &n?l shredded almonds, one teaspoontful of vanilla and lastly two beaten ?rx _ T... 4.X J .egg*. irour lliu> a uuueieu uiau auu bake In a moderate oven one hour. .To be served with cream or hard sauce.?New York Press. St. James' Pudding. Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter and add one-half cupful of molasses. one-half cupful of milk, one and two-thirds cupfuls of flour i(mixed and'sifted) with one-half teaBpoonful of soda and one-fourth of a fteaspoonful each of salt, clove, allspice and nutmeg, and one-halt pound of dates, stoned and cut in pieces. Turn into a buttered mold, cover and steam two and one-lialf hours. Serve with the following sauce : Beat the whites of two eggs and add gradually, while beating constant^-, one cupful of sugar; then add onefourth of a cupful of hot milk and one teaspoonful of vanilla.?Indianapolis News. EmSSSSDa IBS ''HINTS'* ! When broiling halibut cover the fish with minced green pepper. The seasoning will be found to be deli? cious. To preserve parsley for winter use, . put the freshly picked leaves into a jar and sprinkle salt on each layer, It will keep fresh all winter, and is better than drying it. When the cheese i3 too dry to serve with pie, grate it and spread a layer over the pie while it is still warm. Do not make the cheese hot, as that makes it tough. Tn order to heat vour irons ciuickly place a roasting pan over them and lift the pan up each time you want to take one out. You will notice th? difference immediately. Save stray cards, and when baking cake or other pastry, use a card to clean the mixing bowl and you will find it will yield to any curve or angle as nothing else will, making it possible to save every bit of the batter. One tablespoonful of chloride ol fime added to an e'ght-quart pail of water will remove stains when nothing else will; even pear stains of long standing will succumb. Let articles lie in this water for a day or two, or until stains are gone. If you take thechildren on the train and wish to feed them oranges, which tend3 to quench the thirst, prepare the fruit at home and wrap the sects - Jr. movail r>o nor Tt is tedious to tlUUd 1U ?? U.kOU ~ __ pare them on the train and one is likely to soil the clothes in doing so. In trying to whip thin cream, says a writer in Suburban Life. I have found, that adding the white of an egg makes it whip very quickly. After it is stiff, by adding a little milk at a time and continuing the whipping. you can make a little cream go a long way. Porcelain ware can be mended with ordinary putty mixed with oil. /Work a small particle into the worn place, set it aside for several days and food can be cooked in the vessel ^without danger of the unpleasant taste one naturally supposes will tako place when putty is used. When a vegetable burns, or, in ^ct. tvhen any article on your stove has burned, place the vessel containing the burned substance immediately in a Fan of cold water. Let it remain there some minutes and then remove it to a clean pan. The burnt or scorched taste will have disappeared. Always keep a small slip of whjte paper and a magnifying glass In the sewinf* machine drawer. If the ma china Is in shadow, slip the piece of white paper behind the needle and thei hold the magnifying glass at the right angle between the cye3 and the n^dls. The threading hole will come out into perfect distinctness and the ^eedle can then be threaded with e.?The Delineator. V '^f, "&?. ? t. - T. . ft im imyS MARRIJiGE IS POPULAR. But the Wonder is That Nine-tenths of Thein Still Hold Good. Answering the query. Why so many divorces? Life offers six answers: First, becauso of the decline of authority. Everybody in the country wants to be his own boss, and is so, as far as possible. Nobody wants to obey unless obedience matches in- I clination. Second, because there are so many more ways than there were | a generation, ago for a woman to make a living. Third, because the I price of living is so high. Men abandon their wives'in shocking numbers because the job of maintenance is heavy and they get tired of it. Fourth, because women require much more j and give less than they did a generation ago. They have been carefully ! endowed by law in most States with rights and privileges proper to independence. Fifth, because distractions have greatly increased in American life in a generation. Sixth, church Influences, for the time being, are weaker than they used to be, and dramatic influences are more pervasive; church influences favor continuity in marriage; dramatic influences favor variety. There are plenty more reasons, but six are enough. The wonder is that, in the face of such convincing reasons as these, about nine marriages in every ten still hold good. All things considered, marriage seems incorngioiy popular even in this restless and progressive ; country. The united state being dif? flcult and expensive to achieve, it is bad business for those who have attained to it to relapse back into the condition of the untied. The Shelley Legend. Most Englishmen, then frightened by the Terror, thought that Atheism, Republicanism and what we now call Free Love were all symptoms of a new kind of wickedness which threatened to destroy society. They were ; only too glad to make an example of Shelley as a monster in whom all these symptoms were united; while he himself, condemned as consistent in vice, was the more firmly convinced of his consistency in virtue. After his death, when the fears caused by the French Revolution died away and his music began to enchant the world, the old legend of a Shelley with horns and a tail gave way to a new one of a Shelley with wings and a halo. This has been accepted even by his detractors, and Matthew Arnold made skilful use of it when he called him a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating ,in the void his luminous wings in vain. ... I am not prepared to emasculate him thus. I treat him as a human being, and try to prove that he was one, interesting because of his very imperfections, because of the ceaseless struggle of hi3 not omnipotent win . . . 1 nave criticised him freely because I believe that all men, even the greatest, are imperfect in all things, and that unless we understand the nature of their imperfection we cannot understand the nature of their greatness.?Mr. Brock's "Shelley." Rabbits in District of Columbia. Anacostia and the southeastern suburbs of the District are overrun by rabbits, and unless the Police Department overlooks some of the police regulations and gives the residents permission to fire a few shots into the swarms of animals it is feared .the vegetation will be destroyed Until November 1 the police game regulations prohibited tho shooting of rabbits and exposing them for sale or having them in possession, thus protecting the animals which have caused so much havoc. Another police regulation offers them additional protection., me regulations stipulate tnat no gun or pistol can be fired in any sec1 tion of the District within 500 yards of the public road, school, church or residence. In certain sections of Coni gress Heights only can a location be found that is 500 yards from a residence. As the rabbits do not frequent this section, but confine their habita, , tion to the more densely populated , quarters, the police cannot give a permit to the residents to fire it the alleged pests.?Washington Post. Adventures of Stolen Money. To avenge himself on a bank which he held responsible for .the loss of his | savings, Louis Teodule Lelongt, a j Paris bootmaker, entered the service j of one of the partners in the bank and I succeeded in stealing ?3000. He ' placed this money in an iron box, which he concealed in his mother-in| law's vault at a cemetery and fled, after informing his wife and stepdaughter. At length he became tired of concealment, gave himself up to the police and confessed all. When the police searched the vault they found the box gone, and Mme. Lelongt admitted that she had removed it to her Bi3ter's house. The police hastened thither and recovered the box, only to discover that it was empty. They have now ascertained that the stepdaugb^r took the money, which was in notes, from the box. and sewed the notes into the lining of her petticoat. ?Paris Correspondence, London Standard. Marriage at Sea. Captain J. W. Winter, of the Brlt! ish steamer Stowford, was married i yesterday at sea off Algiers. He had arranged to meet his ! fiancee, Miss Mary Eliza Duncan, a j sister of the first officer, to be married : at Algiers, but the vessel was sud| denly ordered to Valparaiso. There i was no time for the ceremony on I land, so the English chaplain, the j Rev. A. P. Brownyn, the acting Con[ sul and Mrs. Graham sailed out in the Stowford. The ceremony was ! performed five miles out at sea.? ' London Daily M?il. At t A. M. Wifey (red hot)?''Don't try any I evasion with me, sir. Where-have| you-been?" Hub (raaudlingly)?"M'dear, wlia's sbuse! If I ansh'er your ques'hn, you I will ques'hn my ansh'er."?Boston j Transcript. \ * : -* . New York City.?Bodice decora- r tlons such as these are extensively worn and are extremely handsome. 0 [n .this case the one to the left is ^ made of material braided with silk joutache, while the one to the right Is made from embroidered net with Bnish of ball fringe. Both garnitures are suited to all materials that are p appropriate for such accessories, how- c Bver, and either one can be made from fancy material or from plain, , either braided or embroidered. Sou- L' tached net is a favorite for such gar- c nitures and with a finish of fringe a makes an exceedingly handsome ef- f feet. The garnitures can be worn r over either decollete and high ^ guimpes or bodices made from net, t chiffon or other thin material or from I the soft silks and crepes de Chine that are so much worn. t The upper garrtiture is made in t JjAI ileal f i 9c%> ? ?$*> kSmm^m three sections, which are joined and ( closed invisibly. The lower garniture J Is made with the bolero-like portions, ( the centre front and centre back and the pointed front portion, all of which 1 are joined and closed invisibly at the * left of the front. t ti>a ouantitv of material required i for the medium size 13 one and one- f eighth yards eighteen or twenty-one, ? one-half yard forty-four inches wide, i for either decoration, with four and one-half yards of banding, two and f one-half yards of fringe for upper f decoration, six yards of banding, one s and one-fourth yards of fringe for t lower decoration. One-Piece Dress. In costumes the one-piece or simulated one-piece dress with irregular and concealed fastenings Ls the sort which exclusive tailors are advancing for all hours and occasions. A trim, severely finished wool serge dress with long coat for morning wear; Gomething in richer and softer material (silk serge, voile, corded moire i-oauoo fashmerfl or corded silk), (pith elaborately trimmed waist portion and a draped sheath skirt?are ;he new styles. Gloves With Circles. The smart gloves that many fashionable women are wearing have the back heavily embroidered with circles In colored silk. This is in the color, If not tone, as the kid of the glove. s Morning Suit. ^ Corduroy may be developed in y some plain coat suit model, and will a not be bai )ed out for morning, al- \ though quite rich enough for after- t -?)on. , s ' . " *"~"" , al Hut Shaped Hats. ^ F; Where two imaense roses appear . tl< 11.. AMi Tlf n tne same nat tney are uBuauy u<tt ? a shape. cc ? m Buttons and Lace. gi Irish crochet buttons and lace ap^ ear as trimming upon some of the repe-llke tissues. ln ai Draped Turbans. g< Many turbans of draped panne veK of et are seen; they are to be had in al- P' lost every shade of every color. li< ti Slipper Rosettes. tt Many of the new slippers have for-? al lal rosette bows of ribbon,' shaped a' ike a daisy or a small sunflower. se v ol Simple Felt Hat. *a "The Curtiss" is a simple felt hata tllleul, turning up slightly, with * elvet scarf and bow. Conventional ut chic. Plain and Fancy Sleeves. ai The present might well be dubbed , season of sleeves, for it shows at ;reat variety. Here are three, one ?' ilain and two fancy, that will be ound invaluable, both for new gowns 2< nd for remaking. The sleeve that is A rimmed with soutache is peculiarly is veil adapted to two materials, al- N hough as illustrated it ic made of repe de Chine throughout. Tucked w hiffon could be combined with mes- ^ aline and combinations without num- v/ ?er might be suggested, cloth and repe, cashmere and chiffon, velvet si ind silk, indeed, almost any two ? abrics that are harmonious. The fc (lain sleeve is simple and can be used b< dth or without trimming, while the ni hird 3leeve is novel in the extreme. i? n the illustration it is made of lace to elth. the drapery of crepe de Chine at teld by large buttons, but its possi- ol dlities are many. Either the drapery hi It m s' Ir . ! >r the under portion can be made to ai natch the blouse, a"S may be most jonvenient. J; The sleeve to the -left is made in , ;hree pieces, the upper portion conlisting of two, which are joined under b he trimming. The plain sleeve ia # nado with upper and under portions ind the draped sleeve is the plain s* ileeve with trimming arranged over P1 t. ni The quantity of material required or the medium size is two anC three- ^ 'ourth yards twenty-one or twenty- ^ even, one and three-eighth yards for- N y-four Inches wide for tucked leeves; one and one-half yards twen- ai y-one or twenty-seven, tliree-fourth , N ard forty-four for plain sleeves; ono i " >nd one-half yards eigb oen inches ? ride, with one and five-etehth yards wenty-one for drapery for fanny Jeeves. i n ' X - I *VV : ' : -r - : " '' 5. \ ;-HJ ' ' ' . 4 ' . ' . ' j,'V c .........................TT Spoils of South Georgian j , Waters. J oasoceasoaeaMtMistHM The island of South Georgia, lying ist outside the Antarctic circle and )Out 800 miles east-southeast of the alkland Islands, is an important staon for the Norwegian whalers who ork in the southern latitude. It imprises 1000 square miles, has a ean temperature of thirty-four de ees Fahrenheit, is frequently visit1 by terrific gales, and has practicalno vegetation. This unprepossessg land is claimed by Great Britain, id she maintains there a resident jvernor in charge-of the little colony sixty persons. He is authorized to otect the seals, sea leopards, sea dus, sea elephant# and other animate iat are found on these coasts, but* le great number of whales that jound in the waters of that locality *e fair game for the adventurous lamen. Fourteen thousand barrels > ~I1 A AAA /\K_ . Uii, vt%Lucu aw f6au(vvv| nuio vulined in four months' time by three earn whalers recently, and the enre quantity has been sent to Buenos yres in a storeshlp, or floating staon, which accompanied the boats acvely engaged in the fishing. This nount of oil represented a catch of )0 whales. / The plant that has been established i South Georgia Island Is conducted j Norwegians ftnd has a capacity of DO barrels per day. From Buenos yres, the usual destination, the oil trans-shipped to Europe and to ew England. Narwhals, humpbacked, and right hales are the species most frequenttaken, although a magnificent blue hale that measured ninety-five feet i length was taken by one of the lips. The right whales are the trest, as well as the most valuable, ir it is from them that the whale?ne of commerce Is obtained. The ime "right" was given them to des;nate which were the proper ones > search for. Their bone is valued ; $7500 a ton, while the fluted tusk ! the narwhal brings $3200. The oil is a ready market at $20 per barrel, i addition to the regular wages, each an engaged in the whaling industry at Duth Georgia Island receives a bonus E half a cent on every cask of oil. his is an acceptable present when iv , considered that the average yeari* | roduct reaches 20,000 barrels.? arper's Weekly. , WANTED THE VALUE KNOWN. . "A' * hipper Didn't Object to Having the Girl Know What Gift Cost. A young man lirought a package ito the main office of an express comany on lower Broadway the other ay and asked the receiving clerk to md It to a towh up-State. The clerk weighed the package and lan asked the young man if he dered to declare the value of it. The Dung man said he would and put the gure at $75. Then the clerk marked i a corner of the package in very nail letters, "V75." The young man asked the meanlg of "V75." . "That is the abbreviation of value 75," said the clerk. "But why do you print it in such nail letters in an out of the way lace?" "Because most folks do not care > have the value marked in letters lat will attract attention," replied le clerk. "Well, I tell you, if this was just q ordinary package I would not ire," said the young man, "but the uth is that this is a present I am j ending to my intenaeci up-oiaie, so u is agreeable, will you kindly mark lat 'V75' in big letters up near her ame, where she'll be sure to see it?" -New York Sun. The Morgan Horse. The Morgan Is the horse that made ermont famous. In the history ot | le Green Mountain State the name j f Justin Morgan ranks almost as igh as that of Justin Morrill, which i saying a great deal. But fashions change in horses as in verything else, and for a time it >oked as though the Morgan was lipping into obscurity, and that there as danger of the entire loss of the ure Morgan type. Happily this has een averted, partly by the aid of the hited States Government, and at le White River Junction Fair the 00 animals entered in the Morgan asses included many which would e recognized at once as true descendQts of the founder of the family. No breed of horses ever surpassed le best Morgans in their concenated combination of endurance, luck and power. A strain of the lood is valuable in a trotting pedi-' ree as indicating the stamina which lould accompany speed. It was lown at the Vermont fair that roper handling is all the Morgans eed to make them successful as show orses. But their great value, and in lis respect it is not probable that ley ever will be surpassed, is as the ew England farmer's all-purpose orse among our everlasting and ;rength-testing hi'ils. In our opinion the Morgan horse epartment alone at White River unction is worth to the State of Verlont all the fair C03t3 it.?Concorn [onitor. Bees in a Glass Hive. In the heart of the East End of ondon is a most successful bee hive, i Sat affords immense interest and oiusement to hundreds of children. The entrance to the hive is in a nail garden adjoining the Town [all. Cable street, but the hive itself i in a museum. After entering iroueh the wall, the bees pass along glass-covered way. In this can be atched the skirraisheg with and Icillig of hostile bees by the orderlies iaoed at various points, the house taids can be seen at their work of leaning the hive, the young bees >nding their younger companions, nd the workers laying up the honey, o part of bee life is shut off from le child observer.?New York Teleram. In the course of his aeronautical Kperiments M. Bleriot has met with fty accidents. i > tfv*+r''Y. r ^ 'ft *? '\ . 'f /' .. ** , ..'. \ v ' '-. ' ; .. . :. ': " : '. ' ; * J A test was recently made in [England of a steam engine designed to work at pressures of as high as 1000 pounds to the square inch. An air steam engine has been Invented by a professor of engineering in one of the Western colleges of America. In this invention a cylinder is filled with compressed atmospheric air into which saturated steam is introduced. The chief merit claimed for this system ic that cylinder condensation is almost totally avoided by the high temperature of air compression and the hjgh superheat of the mixture. / The great tidal waves observed at Marseilles on June 15, 1909, appear to have been caused by the unusually high electric charge of the atmosphere which is known to have existed during the period of the earthquakes which de'vastated the south of France. The powerful attraction everted on the surface of the earth by this elect.rfr. chares caused earthauakes on land and tidal waves In the Mediterranean. A Washington, D. C., naturalist has made a singular collection of fossil teeth from drug shops in various parts of China, where they are sold under the name of "dragon's teeth,", and are valued for their Supposed curative powers. Upon examining them, it was found that they W6re the remains of many species of extinct animals, such as the ancestral forms of camels, sabre-toothed tigers, three-toed horses and other creatures. Professor Percival Lowell has noted at his Flagstaff Observatory that the antarctic canals om Mars are disappearing. This waning of the much-discussed canals seems to be a well-recognized phenomenon. Long ago Professor Pickering suggested 8hat we see not really the canals, but rather the vegetation which fringes l&eir banks. The waxing of the canals in, spring and summer and their waning in autumn and winter is not unreasonably attributed to the growth and decay of this vegetation. The Agricultural Department has for some time b?en engaged ln the investigation of the subject of the preservation of eggs with the view of putting the official stamp of approval on some particular method. In the course of this work it has been discovered that the amount of moisture held by the air surrounding the eggs In storage is a very great factor In their preservation, and an effort is now being made to arrive at some mechanical means of regulating the air supplied to the eggs being held for later consumption. THE PRICE OP PEACE. Its Victories More Expensive Than Those of War. Peace has her "victories no less renowned than war," and they seem to be vastly more expensive. The civil ized world is rapidly reaching a condition in which armaments are infinitely more costly than actual hostilities. Last year the United States, England, Germany and France spent $1,000,000,000 on their armies and navies. Since the war with Spain we have increased our own naval and military appropriations by $1,072,000,000. This year seventy-two per cent, of our aggregate national revenue will be expended in preparing for war, and on account of past wars. During the present fiscal year we have expended over $110,000,000 on the army and land defenses, and over $96,000,000 on the navy and naval defenses. ? Only twenty-eight per cent, of our national revenue is available for national administration. And it must be remembered that we are just be^ glnners in this war game of beggar my neighbor. England is increasing her burden; Germany Is increasing her burden; Japan is increasing her burden; we seem destined to do as those countries are doing, and the dreary competition will go on until the cost of it becomes Intolerable to some civilized countries, and our bullous of dollars of preparation will vanish In the fl^me and anguish of war. Think of it deliberately and it Is an inconceivable condition; but it Is actual; a pregnant and pitiable fact.?Denver Post. Subordinate Themselves to Fashion. Charles Bruce-Winston, an English ,actor who has left the stage to take charge of a dressmaking firm, says that women make the great mistake of subordinating themselves to fashIon instead of "binding fashion to their chariot wheels." Actresses, he thinks, are the best dressed women, because, while .they sometimes overdress, they at least study what suits them and nay attention to "those tiny and apparently insignificant points which make the difference between a charmingly and a badly dressed woman." The stage, he thinks, has a great effect on dress, but the good is often nullified because the woman who tries to copy the dress she has seen on the stage has failed to mark the details, noting only the general effect?so the dress is a failure.?New York Tribune. To Thread a Needle With Wool. Although it is almost impossible to draw wool through the eye of an ordinary needle, however large the latter may be, the needle can sometimes be threaded with fine wool, if cotton is used as a "decoy." Both ends of a piece of cotton should be passed through the eye until only a short loop remains, the end of the wool being then run through the loop and the whole gently pulled through, the eye of the needle.?San Francisco V_yU.il. Because the demand for machinery fa exceeding the product, in the domestic market, it is likely that this country will soon be buying foreign machinery. f MELODRAMA. ' ^ Modest hamlet; blacksmith shop 3 Painted on a canvas drop. (. >jB Pretty Jane is talkinp -ndth | Honest Jack, the village smith. j | Comes a well-dressed city chap With some oily talk on tap. ~'"S Cuts, out Jack, the village jay., H Jane decides to go away. 31 act in. ' J Paper snowstorm; railroad track ? v>fl Pretty Jane is walking back. 1 Cardboard engine makes a stir; '."'vjB Jack arrives and rescues heri 1 Pretty Jane to altar led. 3 She and honest Jack are wed 1 Out before the blacksmith shop Painted on a canvas drop. I ?Kansas City Journal. j Teadher ? "How many makes 9 | million, Johnny?" Johnny ?"Not: many."?Judge. I "Do you and your husband ovei .3 disagree?" "He never does."?rCJeve* v$jl land Leader. '^1 "My footm&n left me without any i warning." "Mine left me without 1 any spoOns."?Baltimore American. A I The Litest fad in color ^ j (A new thing under the nun) j Is "messenger Doy," a shade of blue, -3 And warranted not to.run. . ja| ?Boston Herald. ? . gSISj Lady (who haa jumped on the top r] of another)?-"Stupid woman! Came j down just in front of me, and nearly .J gave me a bad fall!".?Punch. j "What do you do for a living?'* j 'Trii a former." "Oh! A scientific^, ' '' j up-to-date farmer?1' "Am I? I pasteurize my milk-weed!"?Cleve- ? land Leader. Blobbo?"Harduppe says he owes ' everything to his wife." Slobbs?1 {'Harduupe is a double-distilled prer ? varicatoi-. He owes $10 to me."? Philadelphia Record. r She (sternly)?"I heard a noisa ' . i$? very late." He (facetiously)?"Wat it the night falling?" She?"No, it -wasn't. It was the day breaking." ?Baltimore American. Mr. Sillicus?"Every time I read a tiftTOonanof T ?of cr\rrin nanr fhnnohfa ** }> >' iiv it uyMj/vi a qvv ev?juv ?v n Kuvwgwvw* rx-r ~ '' \f ~ ." \wu Miss Caustique?"Indeed! I don't suppose you find time ,t0 read very much."?Philadelphia Record. He grinds no dismal epics out To ?ea or skv; \ Bui sings & little lay about > An apple t>k>. ?Philadelphia Bulletin. "So you don't care for mother-ofpearl, eh?" asked the salesman in the jewelry store. "No;" replied the sad- M looking customer, "I married a girl named Pearl."?Philadelphia Record. Little Johnny attended church and 4jS< heard a spirited political sermon. At $ dinner the same day, after one of his unusual quiet spells, he exclaimed"Pa, what are we, anyway, Republicans or Presbyterians?"?Life. uur new 5111 uujouwj tv uuiug ic ^ ,i?na ferred to as 'the "help/ " saift Mrs. Crosslots. "Let qs respect her phile- ' logical scruples," replied her Bu)?* band. "Hereafter, we will caH hat (\$ha 'the hindrance.' "?Washington Star. Mrs. Stubb (poetically)?"Ah, John, the dun skies, the. dun fields pad th* dun foresta. Everything Is dun these autumn days." Mr. Stubb:?"Blamed 7, if they aren't, Maria. Here comes another bill collector now."?Chicago / :* Daily News. "Do you know, Mary, that we are spending every cent I earn?" "Well, I don't see why you should complain. All the other people in our set are spending a good deal more than they. earn. What's the use being so penurious?"?Chicago Record-Herald. \ Little Willie?"Say, pa, what is the difference between a farmer and an I Do '< A format. clgriL/llliui 13L ; x a a xaimci, uij son, makes his money on a farm and spends it in the city; an agriculturist makes his money in the city and spends it on a farm."?Chicago Daily News. ' ~ - " ' t! To Live a Century. "It is easy to live to be a hundred ' years old?if you know how to do it." So says Seymour Andrews, a wealthy retired merchant of Centralla, 111. As Mr. Andrews is only eighty-five years old, he must wait fifteen years to de?; monstrate to scoffers that his method is the right one. Here i? his recipe for a 100-year life: "Don't worry. "Live a plain life. "Don't brood over the next life. "Be a moral man. "Use tobacco, smoke cigars or a pipe and chew the weed. "Eat and drink everything you care IU1. "Don't hurry through life. "Don't work tog hard. "Eight hours' sleep is sufficient. "Don't swear?that leads to other evils. "Be careful of your health. "Take exercise a-plenty. "Be good natured, not a 'grouch.' "I am eighty-five now," he says, "but there are no grey h^irs in my head. I am still active, younger, too, than many who have not lived so long. I never had an ache or pain, and I live a comfortable life."?Leslie's Weekly. A One-Legged Soldier. A soldier witn only one leg wouin seem to be an anomaly, but .the " French town of Ranbalx can boast of one in the person of Alexandor Murth, a Reservist of the 161st Infantry Regiment. Murth broke his leg *somr months ago owing to an accident while digging a well. The limb was amputated and replaced by a wooden substitute. Recently Murth was called upon tc i undergo the usual seventeen days of ! tminlnp- at St Mihipl. He dulv nre sented himself, expecting to be discharged, but to his surprise was detained at the barracks and set to mending shoes, despite his ignorance of the craft. The Colonel even threatened him once with eight days' "cells" because he was not prompt enough in vising to tli9 salute.?London Evening Standard. 'Although the steamship is a century old there are stii? more than 66, | 000 sailing vessels on the high 2 - IMIIUBUI