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m RILEY’S LUCK. Bll«y was a lazy fellow, Nerer workoj a bit. All day lont; In aome store corner On a cbalr he'd ait. Never talked onacli—too much trouble— Tired bla Jaws, you see. All of ua were making money; “Jest my luck!” says he. Some one offered him ten dollars If he’d work two days; Biley crossed his legs and looked up At the aun’a hot raya. ( ■ Then he leaned back in the shadow, Hadley shook his head ; ' “Never asked me till hot weather; Jest my luck!" he fltld. Biley courted Bally Hopkins In his lazy way; When he saw Jim Uodaon kiss her ‘‘Jest my luck!” he’d say. Leap year came, and Maudy Perkins Bought his company; Riley sighed, and married Mandy; “Jest my luck!” Bays be. Biley took his wife out iishiug In a little boat. Storm blew ut» and turned them ctrer; Mandy wouldn't float. Bilev sprang into the river, Seized her by the hair, Swnm a mile unto the shore, where Friends pulled out the pair. Mandy was so full of water Beemed she’(Fsurely die: Doctors worked with her two hours 'Kre she moved an eye. They told Riley she was better; Doctors were iu glee; Riley chewed an old pine splinter; “Jest ray luck!” says he. —Detroit Free Press. I The Other One. ^ IIV VIUOINIA LYNDALL DUMBAR. *• “Every marriage is hazardous, but I can conceive of no greater risk than was taken by that same handsome, mild-mannered woman.” Judge Watson was speaking of a smiling, elegantly-dressed lady, whom he had just bowed out of his office, and to her carriage. “Hhe doesn’t look to mo like one who had gone through many severe trials iu life.” “I am thinking of the chance she took, and what might have been. The story is worth listening to, although, perhaps, I will tell it badly.” “Let’s have it, by all means,” I said. “Very well,” answered the Judge; “take a cigar, and while we are smok ing, I will try to tell you the story.” '“The lady who just left has a twin sister who is now abroad. When they were girls together it was impossible to tell them apart, and when they grew to ioung womanhood they were literally hs mnch \alffcre Mf two peas, and then' mother was the only one aside from themselves that could tell which was which, when they were abroad in the same attire. They used to play jokes on the yonng men, for, being so much alike, this was easy to do. They were pretty girls, and had scores of young beam, ready and willing to have all sorts of pranks played upon them, for just the sake of their companion. “Howard Gleason was especially attentive to Maud, and he admits that he sometimes made the mistake of embracing the wrong sister when he happened to meet her suddenly iu a poor light. “The father, old Mr. Wardlow, was rich and proud, and only knew that Howard Gleason was courting one of his daughters. Now, Howard was not blessed with this world’s goods, and old man Wurdlow was ambitious for his daughters; so he very promptly issuetl an ultimatum. The young man could have neither of the daugh ters, until he had made a fortune, or at any rate, not until he had laid the foundation for one. “Maud wept and urged upon her father that he had money enongh for both, and though the old man agreed that this was true, he was obdurate, and refused to budge from the position he had taken. “Howard was proud and plucky, even if he was poor; he wasted neither time nor words. He soothed his sweet heart, and then went straight to the mining regions of the west, where So many have sought, and found the smiles of fortune. Maud was to wait for him, and she promised to be faith- fnl, no matter how long the time of waiting might be was half-owner of a mine that prom ised to become one of the richest in that country. Then he determined to go back borne and tell the girl of his heart of his good fortune. He would be his own messenger in carrying the glad news, so without a word, he put his things together and started east. “Of course, having no correspond ence with any one in town, no one was aware of Howard’s good fortune, and when he arrived at his old home he came unheralded. He took only suffi cient time to brush up a bit, and then he started for Mr. Wardlow’s. Ar rived at the house he knew so well, and the afternoon being warm, he found nobody about, save the old gardener, who was looking after the flowers. “ ‘Where is your mistress?’ Howard asked. “The old man hesitated. ‘“Can’t you understand English?’ Howard said impatiently. ‘Where is your mistress?’ “ ‘Hhe’s—she’s in the grove, sir, a-reading,’ said the old man, bowing obsequiously, and without more ado Howard went to seek her. You can perhaps imagine the meeting. He came suddenly upon a fair young crea ture swinging in her hammock under the trees and reading. Coming up quietly behind her he caught her to his heart, as he covered her face with kisses. “Then he held her off at arm’s length and said; “ ‘Maud, my darling!’ “While she answered, ‘Howard!’ and hid her face on his breast. “Howard had waited sufficiently long for his wife, and so they were quietly married the next day, and left at once on their wedding tour.” Here the Judge ceased his story, and sat silent, puffing at his cigar, so long that the other said; “Well, I don’t see anything 30 very ‘risky* in that.” The Judge smiled and then went on; “Wait. It was the ‘other one’ that Howard had married. Maud had suc- cumbered to the charms of a foreigner, had married and gone away with him. The ‘other one’ loved Howard had al ways loved him, and when she saw that he mistook her for Maud of course she pitied him. When she found, too, that he had not the slightest notion of the true condition of affairs, she con ceived the idea of marrying him her self, and explaining to him afterward. After much coaxing, and because she believed that her daughter’s happi ness depended upon it, Mrs. Wardlow consented to the plot. When they re turned from their * wedding tom . Howard's wifelold Jum everything.’ He’s a Sensible fellow and was quick .to see that what had happened was all for his happiness. “Five years have gone by, and to this day he has never quit thanking his stars’ that he didn’t marry Maud, but married ‘the other one!’”—St. Louis Star. passed youth is the tendency to wear a larger pair of ahoes—and this is necessary. The feet spread and really grow. To remedy this wear shoes as long ss can be nuuiaged, bnt not as wide as seem necessary. Never wear old slippers aronnd the honse, unless they are snog in the width, and be careful of corns. These ar* never necessary while the chiropodist exists. To Have a Fine Color’—Wash the face with the juice of preserved straw berries in the winter, and in summer rub a ripe berry on the face. For a smooth, White Skin, With out Dieting—Bathe the face daily with buttermilk. A preparation of tincture of benzoin and rose water is excellent for whitening purposes. There are very good prepared creams, but these are never cheap. Do not go under a dollar for them if you want them com pounded of flue and pure materials. To Have One’s Garments Sweet- Scented—Make sachet bags and slip them in the linings of dresses. They will, if good at first, keep their scent for a year or more. Fold the bodices of the scented gowns and lay them away in air-tight boxes. This fills them with scent.—Philadelphia Times. BUILT BY THE WINDS. the SOME BEAUTY RULES. MtMlrrn ICecIpew for Attaining Good Looks of Various Kinds. To Get Thin—Eat a great deal of chopped meat w ithout any potato in it. Drink little fluid of any kind except strong tea. Exercise a greutdeal with out drinking and do not eat bread, but ter, or candy. Lemonade,acid drinks of all kinds, and saline mineral waters are excellent. Drink a glass of cool water before breakfast. To Get Fat—Eat vegetables and sleep after each meal. Go to bed at 9 o’clock and lie in bed half an hour after you wake up. Laugh a great deal. Drink water by the pint or the qnart if you can. Drink weak and sweet tea with plenty of milk in it. Take cod liver oil and sweet oils as much as you can. Eat until you feel as if you would burst at the table. Put plenty of butter on your bread. This will guarantee a gain of live pounds a month, and, if you can sleep a great deal, of double that amount. To Have a White Skin—Eat no meat at all. Become a vegetarian; they al ways have beautiful skin. Once in six weeks or so eat a meal of fresh meat. This does away with the tendency to scurvy—that curse of the vegetarian. Drink as much water as you can, eat little grease, and touch HollaiKl's Vigorous Battle Against Advancing Sea. Appreciating the fact that the high chalk cliffs of England are no protec tion against the, sea, 'the Dutch engi neers did sot attempt ta place an arti ficial vertical wall against the waves and the storm tides, but coaxed the sea to deposit its sands on the shore and so build it up, rather than throw them inland and then, hungry for more, eat into the shore. They be lieved it best to satisfy its appetite, but induced it to toy with the sands, which its own flood currents and waves bring from other shores, and frt>m the offing depths. The sand thus depos ited blows, in the gales, over the in land country. The engineers induced it to stop and build a barrier for them against the sea. One of the heaviest dikes along the coast was built by the winds themselves. The sand formed between the jet ties becomes dry in sunny weather, and the snrface is blown ashore when the wind is in that direction. It was desired to build a strong dike to con nect with the sand dunes. This was accomplished by setting in the sand, in rows about a foot apart, tufts of the duue sea grass near by. The tnfta were placed about a foot apart—sim ply little handbills of grass; the place for each tuft was dug out with the iiAncU, the. {Ajt set into it, and the sand pressed Ground it. The whole surface of the' dry, sandy beach above high tide was covered with this plan tation, and, just back of it, at the highest point of the existing sandy area, one or two rows of reeds were set into the sand, their tops cut off, and the stalks left standing about four feet above the sand. The sand, drift- along over the surface, catches and in one windy day will almost bury the tufts of grass and stand up a foot along the rows of reeds. Then another plantation was made, and another, un til a massive dike was built up to the height of the adjoining dike. In high storm tides the waves will eat into the toe of the slope and pull down the sand, but, by the same process of building, the dike is again restored to its former size.—Engineering Maga zine. , no tea or coffee. Your breakfast mav rue futhei bad also commanued be oatmeal and oranges; your dinner > uk.mi.i — correspond- | fruit, nuts, fruit tea — preferably quince tea—graham muffins, cauli flower croquettes, marmalade, and dishes of stewed vegetables. The diet is not so bad when yon get used to it. In large towns you will find one or two restaurants catering to such as yon. To Become Very Mnscnlar—Walk a great deal, carrying so uething always in the hands. This develops the arms. To roll a hoop might be good if one were brave enough to do so in public. Practice lifting a little every day. Never strain or tire yourself. Eat meat, drink milk, and practice bending backward, forward, and side ways every day. At night rub about a tablespoon of brandy or mm into your skin on the under and tender part of the arms. To Have Plump Hands—Rnb them with sweet oil night and morning. Exercise them by rubbing together. Never wear tight sleeves or snug gloves. To Keop One’s Feet Small-*This is difficult. The first sign that one has that there should be no ence between the young people, dur ing the time of Howard’s absence,and this condition was respected by both. “The months crept by wearily, and to the young man working so hard for the woman he loved, this time seemed interminable. Day after day, and week after week he toiled uncheered by any message from the woman for whom he toiled. Sometimes he felt tempted to break his pledged word, and write to the girl, imploring her to send him a few words, if only enough to tell him that she was still* faithful. And then his pride would come to his resene, and he would say to himself; “<No, I will not write;*if she can’t be faithful to me better I should know it now than when it is too late.” So he worked, and toiled, cheered always by the belief that a fair, sweet girl was waiting to welcome him home, and couatiim the hours juat as he was do ing. “Luck was with tha young man,and in a little more than a year he and his partner had ‘struck it rich,’ and he The Siamese King’s Country Home. The country palace of the king of Siam is called Bang-pa-in. About forty miles north of Bangkok, on the Meinam, are two islands, separated by a narrow channel not 150 feet wide. On the smaller of these is a Buddhist temple and college, and on the other is the country residence of the king of Siam, which consists of three build ings—the official, the private and the Chinese palaces. Each is separated from the other by canals, with which the island is intersected, and which, in places, are enlarged into small arti ficial lakes. Sluice gates are provided between the caual and river, which serve to maintain the level of the water in the former, and also for flushing; for, although some seventy- two miles from the sea, the tide rises and falls between three and four feet. Through these pass the boats contain ing the ladies of the household, who, to escape public notice, are lauded a few feet from their apartments. The Ko-pra, or landing stage, is a wooden gangway,binged at both ends, and resting on a pontoon anchored in water deep enongh to allow large launches to moor alongside. At the top of the bank is a band Stand, close against a portico of classical design, which forms the entrance to the offi cial palace, and looks down a narrow strip of walks and lawn, shaded by mango and tamarind trees. On the occasion of a grand fete, this was the site of an enormous device that was used for an electric light illumination. [Cropping Orchards. While taking a short trip through our County a few weeks since, I no ticed a bearing orchard planted to corn, and I set the owner down at once as a man who did not attend onr fruit institutes or horticultural meet ings, or he would have known better and escaped the consequences. The corn was shaded and therefore sickly and slender looking, and as we had been having an extended spell of dry weather, both corn and orchard showed the effect. We are glad that such instances are rare*, and that the majority of the fruit-growers of Oceana County are intelligent men, men who are earnestly striving to learn and adopt all the best methods for success ful fruit culture. Yet there are those who think there is no harm in crop ping a young orchard from one to two, three and even four years; and often the crop has little reference to the good of the trees. pur most successful fruit growers say that after two yews neither crop nor orchard will pay. The first one or two years the tree occupies bnt little space and the ground may be planted, but it is advised to plant to potatoes, melons, squashes or some like crop that will not shade the trees. After three or four years the roots of the trees occupy fully twenty feet space and no other crop should oc cupy the ground. One must know something of the roots, their manner of growth, etc., to cultivate success fully. Yet different soils admit of different care. Careful study and observations are necessary, to be successful in the orchard; and once in a while a good lesson is learned from experience. We had one such lesson and that one was enough. It was in the early days of fruit growing, that, being short of ground to crop, oats were sown in the plum orchard. The trees blossomed full, and until midsummer hung full of plums; but an extended drouth coming on, the plains, many of them, after a little time commenced to shrivel it)> and drop off—none of them color ing up as usual. Iu fact, the crop was almost a complete failure, while several of the trees died outright; but it taught us a lesson—there have been no oats in the orchard since. What is taken from the soil of a bearing orchard will just as surely be deducted from the profits.—Jennie M. Wilson of Michigan. ten Yet Better Than a Queen. “Your lot,” said Sprockett, “is times better than that of a queen, you complain.” “I fail to see how it is better,” re sponded the nagging spouse. “Read the papers. The Queen of Holland is not allowed to ride a wheel”—Philadelphia North Ameri can. Care of Bees in Winter. If the bees are properly placed in winter quarters, which should be done before winter is on, there is but little to do during the winter. As a matter of fact, no meddling with bees in any way must be done in cold weather, and the only time we can work with them in safety is during a warm day when they are ilying. If bees get a good fly once a month they are likely to keep in good condition, but if cold weather continues along for weeks and months without any let-up, the bees are not in any way protected. Bees wintered out in thin hives, as a matter of necessity, must draw heavily ou their stores to keep the re quired amount of animal heat, and with such in every case, they must have frequent flights, or dysentery re sults, and the loss of such colonies follows. Those that are well protected can withstand much mire cold and do not become affected thus, and are in con dition to bear much louger confine ment. It is impossible to accomplish anything in the way of remedies when they become thus affected, and only warm weather so that they can fly freely will cure it. All stock of every kind should be excluded from about hives in winter, and the hives should not sit near a road-way, or near a railroad. Heavy losses of bees have been reported where they have been kept close to a railroad by the frequent jarring of tho hives, thus arousing the bees to activi ty, which always results in their con suming stores heavily, and this, con nected with long confinement on ac count of cold weather, is sure to result in disease. Good, healthy stores have much to do with wintering also, as some varieties of honey are not as good as others. The condition of the honey in the hive has much to do with the health- lulness of the bees. A large amount of unsealed stores is very damaging in winter. This is true from the fact that the moistnre that arises from the bees in cold weather contaminates the honey in the open cells, thereby rendering it unhealthy. Hence it is of importance that all the honey is sealed in the combs, or at least all reserve stores. Bees need good attention in early spring, as they are then breeding as rapidly as they possibly can, or that their condition will let them, and very frequently they become short of stores, and a little timely feeding will save them.—A. H. Duff. Hints on Dnlrjina. There is sometimes difficulty in get ting the butter to float in a mass on the top of the butter milk, so that the latter can be readily drawn off without carrying the butter with it. A little brine or a handful or two of salt stirred into the mass is said to be a remedy. The milk may be drawn oft' through a strainer, or the butter skimmed off from the top of the butter milk and returned to the churn— provided the milk is drawn into a clean vessel. Repeat the pouring in of cold water to an amount sufficient to float the butter, gently agitating the mass and drawing oft' the water until it runs clear. If one or more of these wash ings is in weak brine it will dissolve the caseous matter and thus aid in separating it from the butter. Strong briue hardens and fixes the caseous matter. After washing, let the butter stand in the chnra, without gathering, until all the water has drained out that will, it dropping very slowly or not at all; then ^ift on the salt at the rate of one ounce to the pound more or less, as may be demanded by the market for which it is intended—sifting on a lit tle at a time and stirring it in, or in corporating it with the butter by gently rocking the churn to and fro. It is best to use a sieve in salting for the purpose of keeping oat dirt, pan scales, [lumps, etc., which most salt contains. Use none but the best salt made • for dairy purposes. Salt should be as carefully kept as flour— in a dry, sweet and clean place, away from kerosene, fish and other rank smelling articles. By salting butter in the graunlar form all working is avoided, and the “grain” is preserved perfectly. If the right kind of salt is used it dissolves at ouce, covering every particle with a saturated brine. It is only necessary to press it together in a solid mass either before or when pacjfrwsfrmfor market, ^ Beware of salt that does not dissolve immediately. It is liable to remain undissolved and make the butter grit ty, unless an extra amount of water is left in the butter, which would be a fraud. Bo sure to use enough salt to satur ate the water remaining in the butter, even if you have to work out some of the brine. If you do not the butter will contain only a weak brine and will not keep well. If just enough water and no more is left in the butter to dissolve the salt, so that no -brine is worked out, the weight of the salt is added to the weight of the unsalted butter. No “brine-salting” method so called, or other method of salting butter, yet made public, is equal to the method here described, or as econ omical. It is practical and scientific brine-salting. Butter may be taken out of the churn and salted iu a bowl or on a table.—Farm, Field and Fire side. His First Cent. Mr. H. A Sylvester, of Rockport, offers to match pennies—not for gam bling purposes, though—with any man in Maine. His treasure is the first cent ever given him and it has re posed in his pockets for years. He withstood all the candy temptations of his childhood, and kept his pocket- piece unspent. When he grew up he went to sea for fourteen years and never lost his cent. At one time he was wrecked and was taken from a water-logged and dismasted vessel in so exhausted a condition that his res cuers had to remove his clothing: but he had strength enough to beg them to look out and not lose his cent. He carried it to California, where he was engaged in mining for four years, and on ^ trip through the wild country in Idaho and Montana. It is worn smooth, but he wouldn’t exchange it for a gold fc eagle.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. A Poser*. When the late Mr. Bradlangh once engaged in a discussion wit dissenting minister, the former sisted on the latter answering a qi tion he had asked him by a sin “Yes” or “No,” without any n circumlocution, asserting that ei question could be replied to in 1 manner. The reverend gentlei rose, and in a quiet manner s “Mr. Bradlangh, will you cllow m< ask you a question on t^ose tern “Certainly,” said Bradlangh. “Then, may I ask have you gi up beating your wife?” This was a poser, for if answ« by “Yes” it would imply he previously beaten her, and if by|“: that he continued to do so. I J