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v’ta/fc .1 Li'*' LEFT UNDONE. It Isn't ths.thlnR yon do, It’s tho thing you've left unilonn Wblch gives you a bit of u heartache - At tlio setting of the aun. The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, deaf, Are y«ur haunting ghosts tonight. The stone you might hare lifted Out of a brother's way, The bit of heartsome counsel You were hurried too much to say; The loving touch of the hand, dear, The gentle and winsome tone That you had no time or thought for, With troubles enough of your own. ♦ For life is nil too short, dear, And sorrow is'ali too great To suiter our slow compassion That tarries until too late; And it’s not the thing you do, dear. It’s the thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of a hoartacht At the setting of the sun. f The * Brakeman and the Squaw. Bt CY. WAHUAH. >9 f t i * Hero’s the story of the building of a branch line on u mountain railroad. Conductor McGuire,being a new man, was in charge of the construction train, with Kugiueer Westcott in charge of the engine. N. C. Creede, afterwards famous as the founder of Creede camp, had located the Madonna mine at Monarch cam}), and created a necessity for the branch road. They hud rushed the work, but the tirst snow caught them still three miles from the booming •ilver camp. A wandering band of Indians, hearing of the excitement, and not understanding it, had strayed into the Monarch county, and down the gulch as fur as Mnysville, then a wild and thriving village at the edge of the Arkansas valley. One day, when it was storming, an old squaw rame to McGuire, and wanted a ride up the hill. It was a cruel day, and the kind-hearted conductor carried the Indian to the end of the track. It was a mouth later when one of McGuire’s brakemen, named Bowen, who bud been hunting in the hills, rushed into the caboose with the start ling aunouncemejittbat his partner,the d been captured by said McGuire, in,” said Jack, e’s a million; y tied Jp a s separated. I rocipice, lookin hea l brakeman, the Indians, “Look here, J “are you lyiug?’j| “Honest Inj^ there’s one th| they’ve got Mi We hed beco standing on a Mickey, when L round him. ” Mow, Jack Bowoli had lied so frequent ly and luminously to the conductor that the latter was slow to believe this wild tale; but dually he was persuaded that it was true. Keturniug to Maya- ville with the engine, he gave the alarm, and the sheriff of Chaffee county made up a posse and set out iu search of the brakeman. The sun was going down behind the range when the engine and the they hru gone within 109 yard* of the Inmans, A ho had not heard them walk ing ujsm the rauffied earth, they stopped to disenss the work that was boforethem. The Indian, putting her hand on the sheriff’s rifle pushed it to the ground aud,shook her head, mean ing that she would not have them kill the Indians, whom they outnumbered two to one. The sheriff was at a loss to understand how he was to capture this band without tiring, for he had no doubt the Indians would Are upon him the moment they caught sight of him. But the squaw was equal to the emer gency. Hhe began to form the men in two lines. Taking hold of their coats she would place a man on the right flank and another on the left, until she had divided the sheriff’s posse. She then placed the sheriff nt the head of one column and the con ductor, whom she regarded as a sort of captain, at the other, and then made sign to them to go forward, one half to the right and the other to the left. Then she made it plain to them that she would have them surround the Indians. She brought her two bony hands together slowly, with the fingers spread out, and when they were quite together she closed her fists. So the sheriff made out she would have them steal upou the In dians and disarm them or awe them into surrendering at the muzzles of their guns, and he gave instructions to the men accordingly. Of course each individual must now use his judgment, aud so the little band sur rounded the Indians. In the meantime the squaw stole into the camp and squatted near the tire. At* the sheriff’s men closed in upon the Indians the squaw leaped to her feet and put out a baud as a signal for the band to 1>o still. The Indians listened, but the sheriffs men seeing it all, stood still in the snow. Now the squaw spoke tp the Indians, say ing that she had seen a great many soldiers coming down the hill that evening and giving it us her opinion that the camp would be surrounded and that if the Indians resisted they would all be killed. When she had succeeded iu persuading them that it would be best to surrender in case the soldiers should come, she sat down again. This, the sheriff concluded, was a signal for the men to advance, and the posse moved forward. When they were quite near,the Indians were made aware of their presence by the snapping of a dry cedar bough, and the sheriff, knowing that delay would be dangerous, shouted advance. , At tha sound the In^iftns sprang for th when they had got them and got to their feet again, the sheriff’s posse, coming out of the woods from every direction, held the glittering steel barrels of tbeir rifles in the glare of the campfire aud the Indians laid down their arms. The brakeman, who had concluded that he was to be butchered or roasted, was almost wild with joy. When asked by the sheriff why they held the brakeman, the leader said the white man was lost, they found him and were only waiting for daylight, when SHE TURNED THE TABLES. for sat oeiay would to &is posse to d eff bill voice 1 th Air rifles, bull The Uanbaiifl'* Iinprenalve I.caaon HU Wife Was bout. It eeetned to him au excellent time to impress the lesson upon her, so as he started for his hat he said to her: “Suppose you had wanted me to spend the evening with you before we were married and I hod planned to do something else.” “Suppose I had,” she returned. “What of it?” “You wouldn't have sulked, would you?” he asked. “No-o, I suppose not,” she replied hesitatingly. “You wonldn’t have got cross and been disagreeable about it, would you?” “Probably ndt.” ’ “You would have been just as nice and sweet aud clever as you possibly could be,” he asserted. “You would have been both lovable and loving and would have tried to coax me to give up my other places. Isn’t that so?” “Perhaps it is,” she faltered, “but” “Never mind the 'huts’” he inter rupted, feeling that he was gaining his point. “What I am trying to im press upon you is that a woman doesn’t seem to think it worth while to try the same arts on a husband that she does on a lover. That’s where you’re both foolish and nhjnst. Now, you admit that before marriage” “Before marriage,” she broke in, “if yon had spoken of going any where and I had pouted just the least little bit what would yon have done?” “Um—ah—well, I suppose” “If you had noticed what seemed to be even the merest trace of a tear what wonld have happened?” “Why, my dear, I” “If I had merely looked at you pleadingly what would have happened to that OTBer engagement?” “Really, you don’t give me time to answer. I must confess that in all probability I would have” “Oiven it up, of course,” she prompted. “Isn’t it worth while to make the same sacrifices for a wife that you do for a sweetheart?” Somehow he couldn’t help feeling that h:1f little lesson was lost on her, but it is worthy of note that he told a business associate the next day that any man who went on the theory that a woman can’t reason as clearly as a man was laying up a large store of trouble for himself.—Chicago Post. caboose full of amaienr Indian fighters „ would uke him bllok to hiB returned to the end of the track, iak- | ^ lo J an(1 rnm .. TKa ing Bowen as guide, the sheriff \*f scoured the hills, but found no trace of the missing man. The storm in creased with the darkness, and the sheriff’s posse was forced to return to camp. It were ustdess to put out ngaiu iu the face of such a storm, and the sheriff was about to return to Mays- ville, when the old squaw, whom Mc Guire had helped up the hill, put her head in at the door of the way car and signaled McGuire to come out. She could scarcely speak a word of Eng lish, but, pulling at the conductor's sleeve,she started as though she would lead h m into the hills. ^\s often as McGuire would stop the squaw would stop. He tried to persuade her into the car, but she would not. Now the sheriff came out, and when hA saw the signals of the squaw he guessed that she would lead them to the captive, and when McGuire had told how he had helped this Judiau o i her way up the hill iu a storm, he kuew that the Indian was trying to re]>ay the con ductor for his kindness. The unfor tunate brakeman, McGuire explained, had given the Indian tobacco and whiskey; therefore, she would not see him die without making an effort to save him. The sheriff railed his deputies, and fekinga half-dozen volunteers from Oortield camp, madA sign to the In dian and followed her away into the wilderness of snow-hung pine and cedar. Now and then the squaw wonld pause to get her bearings. The snow had ceased falling and the stars were out. After tramping for an hour or more, the Indian signed to the sheriff to stay, and then disappeared into a cedar grove. Presently she returned end led them to the edge of a preci pice. Just below them, in a little basin, they could see a pine fire burn ing and Indians dancing in the light of it. Hitting upou the snow hard by, they saw the brakeman with his fet tered hands over his knees and his head bout forward like a man nodding in a pew. The sheriff asked the In- . &.an to lead thorn on and she unade jeign that they must go far around for ;lbt) bluff was steep, and they followed her. They had been a half hour out of sight of the Indian camp, but always going down and down, so they knew now the/ an*£t be near. When pie and get “heap rum." The sheriff pointed to the white man’s fettered hands and asked the Indian to explain, and the Indian said that the man was “heap mad,” and they were afraid that if they left his hands loose he would iake their guns and kill them while they slept, and if they left his feet unfettered he wonld wander awsy in the storm and be lost. After consulting the conductor’and the more important members of the posse, the sheriff concluded, as it was manifest that the'Indians were only holding the brakeman for ransom,that he would allow them to go their way, after exacting a promise that they would return at once to their reserva tion on the other side of the range. The Buh.v He*. Dr. Watts was right. The bee is really a very busy insect in spite of recent attacks made upon its character. A plodding statistician has found out that each pound of honey secreted in volves the necessity of the bee visiting 218,750 flowers. This in itself is no mean labor. That the bee is not gluttonous and does not consume more thau it earns is prdved by the fact that 164,000,000 pounds of honey are an nually sold throughout the world for the enjoyment of the human race. The United Btatea stands at the head of the list of honey producers with 61,* 000,000 pounds, and Germany comes next with 40,000,000 pounds. Eng land’s production is so small that the statistician has not taken any notice of it, but somehow or other the best from all other countries finds its way to the London market. It was long supposed that bees col lected the wax direct from the dowers. Now it is known that if they are kept from plants and fed on sugar only they will form wax.—Atlanta Journal. Adulterations of tho Products of Flour. With4ha products of flour, such as bread,' liras, cdke? ffjfrfriiiU celli, ete., tho adulteration, while more frequent, is likewise not very pronounced. Bread is said to be adul terated with alum, sulphate of copper, ammonia, flours other than wheat, and inferior grade of flour. It is ques tionable if these adulterations are practiced to any extent in the United States. In England and on the Conti nent o-aqmber of cases are on record in which tbe above adulterations were : found, and the offenders prosecuted. Where coloring principles are a do- ' sideratum, the adulteration of bread, i. cake, etc., while not frequent has been "very marked. Possibly all of my hearers may remember tjie flagrant adulteration of buns and noodles with chrome'yellow, which was brought so prominently to the notice of the Phil adelphia community several years ago. Dr. Henry Leffmaun at that time found eight grains of lead chromate iu a pound of a sample of soup noodles, placed there to give au imitation egg color, and two grains of the same poi son iu each of the tea buns tested by him. Seventy-eight cases of lead poi soning were reported by Dr. Stewart from eating chrome yellow pound buns, sixty-four of which were directly traced to tho use of chrome yellow by two bakers, in the family of one of whom six deaths occurred, and ho himsdlf was made seriously ill. Be sides this coloring, macaroni has been found to contain saffron, turraenic (which is considered injurious to health,) and Martin’s i.i[’u clay and kaolin have been found as adulterat ing constituents.—The Sanitarian. XT omen In tho Presbyterian Church. A recommendation has gone before the Presbyterian Board to the effect that women be forbidden the use of pulpits for public addresses to mixed audiences, and that it be considered improper to give notices of such meet ings from the pulpit. Women, how- over, are still to bo permitted to give public testimony for the benefit and in the presence of the privileged sex. Feather* Iu Women’* Hat*. What a comment on woman is this item! Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, has compiled a list of tho birds which he saw on tho hats of women in this city during two after noons. Forty species were represent ed, inclnding thrushes, warblers, shrikes, fly-catchers, tanagers, swal lows, waxwings, grosbeaks, sparrows, orioles, woodpeckers, jays, owls, grouse, doves, qnails, shore birds, herons, gulls, terns, and grebes. In all he saw 173 wild birds, or parts of them on hats. Of these birds at least thirty-two varieties are protected by law during all or a major portion of the year. A Boston court has de cided that it is unlawful to wear feath ers of a bird that is protected by law, and a similar law is proposed in New York.—Popular Science. Improveil Sowinu Machine*. • Anything that4Hin the nature of an improvement, especially from a hy gienic point of view, upon tho exist ing sewing machines will bo welcomed as a boon to our population, so many of whom have to labor at these ma chines many hours each day. Accord ing to a recent report, such an im provement is announced. The old treadle, with its up and down movement of the entire limb, aud wearying, cramping strain directly upon tho muscles of the calf and front of the thigh, and indirectly upon tha lumbar region, is to be aud its place taken by a tform, swinging pendulum pon this swunfe bad: omentum being ;ht of tbe foot alone, in stead of by that of the entire limb as before. Tho thigh remains almost motionless, and the economy both of effort and discomfort is most decided. Either foot can be used alternately, or both together, thus giving relief from the monotony of the constant move ment.—The Ledger. abolished, hanging p vermi- fashion. —’ ” easily' and ward, theu j by the we: Hi* Helpmate. Neighbor—-What’a the matter. Where yer going? Jinks—BurglarsI Going for a po liceman. Neighbor—Did yer leave your wife alone? Jinks—No, she’s holding the bur glar.'—Harper’* Weekly. Asphalt pavement is slippery only xrlwa it is not kept clean. I.ongcit Fence in the World. The longest fence in the world is probably that which has just been fin ished by the Erie Cattle company along the Mexican border. It is 75 miles in length and separates exactly, for its entire distance, the two repub lics of North America. The fence was built to keep the cattle from running across the border and falling easy prey to the Mexican cow punchers. Al though it*cost a great deal of money, it it estimated that cattle enough will be saved in one year to pay for it. It is a barbed wire fence, with mesquite and cottonwood poles, and for the en tire length of it runs as straight as • crow flies. IlrttUh Warship. The new British warship Canopus, is so armed that iu flve minutes’ con secutive flrd she is able to pour forth nine tons’ weight of projectiles ahead or astern, without exposing her broad side. But the great feature of the vessel is her ram bow, which is placed much higher thaa in any other ship, being only seven or eight feet below Would Ton Grow Flump, Madame? Eat for breakfast oatmeal swimming in cream. Drink not tea or coffee, but cocoa, chocolate and milk. Spurn toast, especially if it be made of graham or gluten bread. Eat freshly made wheat bread with butter and honey. Eat fruit for your breakfast, but not the tart grape and the tarter grape fruit. Eat baked apples with plenty of sugar and cream, and all sorts of stewed fruits, which require sweeten- ing. Eat meats with fat on them. Eat fish with white sauces. Eat potatoes, cornstarch, simple puddings and ice creams. Drink milk and cream whenever yon happen to want them. If you don’t care for those nourishing drinks, culti vate a taste for them. Avoid lemon ade, lime juice and the like. Wear warm, luxurious clothing, but bo careful not to have it so warm os to induce perspiration, for that will prove thinning. Do not let it bo too heavy, either. Do not take more exercise than is absolutely essential to health. Take the air—yes. But let it be in a car riage whenever you can, or on a sunny bench in the pi dr. Violent exercise is the worst pi 'sible thing for the woman who would fain grow plump. ^ Don’t worry. Don’t lie awake at night to think of your shortcomings and other ± -tple’s sins. Don’t care -iolently tor any one. Hearts and co^ -nances ara fees to rounded contours au I shapely uecks. — New York Journal. The Art of Darnlnr. The proper darning of a routln cloth Is au art that can not be eesi 1 ” picked up and should be taught to , .is as an essential part of their p- deal home training. The expert d icr of woolen cloth will make a rent practically in visiblebyweaving together torn edges, matching them as carofully as possi ble, and afterward pressing the rent. A fine sewing silk is used to darn woolen cloth in preference to any wool, which would not bo strong enough unless the thread or raveling was too coarse. Where tho cloth is thick enough, endeavor to conceal the thread carefnlly and drawing the edgee closely together, but not so that they overlap. If there is any nap on the cloth, brash it back while you are darning and then brash it down again. Lay a damp cotton cloth on tho wrong side of the cloth, over the darn, and press it down once, then remove the cotton cloth and press next the woolen surface, being careful that yon do not press it perfectly dry, but that a very little steam arises after the iron is re moved. If the cloth is pressed per fectly dry the work of the iron will be shown on tho right side. A piece of cloth is usually darned with vortical and diagonal stitches, rnnning with the threads of the cloth. The “np- aud-down” thread is usually tho strong est way of mending a bias darn. Use no piece of cloth under the darning unless the material darned is thin. In that case a piece of silk of the same color is less clumsy as a backing to darn the wool, unless the wool is sheer.—New York Commercial Adver tiser. Gossip. The Woman’s Law Class at thfr University of New York has been largely increased. The Queen of Belgium milked a cow at a farmhouse recently, because tho old woman in charge was paralyzed, and the Qneen was thirsty. Mme. Diaz, wife of the Mexican President, has founded a home where girls can always find employment, a nursery where children of working women are cared for, and a Magdalen home for repentant sinners. Th» venerable English actress, Mrs. Keeley, whose ninetieth birthday was publicly celebrated at the Lyceum Theatre on November 22, 1895, still enjoys general good health. Sha resides in Pelham Crescent, Bromp- ton, where she has lived for over half a century. ’ The amateur photographer who has not a ruby lamp for nse in the develop ing room or closet may envelop the ' ulb of an electric light with a red- ^ shade, with, the *a«na result as to orkmabship, an entire freedom from oke and also a much stronger and ktesdier light. There are special costumes for al most every sort of amusement nowa days, but bowling has apparently been neglected. That is a fault easily remedied, however. A pretty girl who belongs to a suburban bowling dnb attends its meetings whenever tho weather will permit on her bicycle. “And it is so mneb easier to play in short skirts,” she says. California has added many to tho list of renowned w^men, but not al ways with such wholesomely famous names as those of the Klumpke sisters. There are four of them—Dorothea, who is one cf the chief workers of tho Paris Observatory; Anna, a portrait painter in Boston; Augusta, a physi cian in Paris, and Julia, one of tho most brilliant pupils of Ysayo, tho violinist. th© surface of the water. It is | si l k thn&d between tho free and back sheathed with a two-inch thickness of | th® cloth. Begin about half an inch nickePsteel armor over the ordinary f rora th® edge of one side of the tear, v-£4c!ad skin. • and run the needle the same distance ! fcoa tha other edge, concealing the Fashion Note*. For older women there are somo very stuuniug combinations in net and lace. Belts of fancy ribbon are passed onco or twice about the waist-line aud tied in short loops and ends at the left aide, using two aud one-fourth to three yards of plaiu or fancy striped ribbon, two to four inches wide. Miroir velvet, gay ribbons, flowera and foliage are manipulated skillfully in the decoration of noth velvet and felt hats. Jot and steel ornaments follow in size and device the rhine stone and gilt novelties so highly fa vored. Gloves in cherry red, salmon pink and bright bine are oat—in th© shops. They are not to be seen in prodigious numbers. There are not many woman who care to have such an air of busi ness about them as to be taken for dyers’ apprentices. Polished copper for large pieces of bric-a-brac, snch os lamp standards, candelabra, nrna and so on, is more satisfactory for general nse in tho homo than much wrought iron, which is rather funereal in appearance, un less it is very discreetly disposed. A half-worn light silk waist may be very satisfactorily refurbished by striping it crosswise with black velvet ribbon, putting velvet ribbon around the plain collar band as previously de scribed, and adding a new chemisette neck of lace and a velvet belt. In Paris fur is being slightly gath ered into deep frills and flounces and placed on tho hems of heavy winter gowns, cloth capes and wraps. Tho effect is novel and pleasing. Ot ter, beaver and gray astrakhan are are among the fashionable furs, and grebe is also being maoh used, though it has been oat of favor for several year*.