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- / TRI WEKLY EDITION -sa - - * TRI WEKLYEDITIN WI NS -.. *N . 90 TALSD184 MY HEART COES ROUND THE WORLD SAILINC." Wry heart goes round the world sailing, However the winds may blow, And searches with teirs from clime to clime For the love of long ngo; Goes round the world, ro.ind the world sailing, With passion its pulse to thrill, All round the world, round the world sail ing In auest of the old love still. My heart goes round the world sailing, As ever in days gone by, Did Fancy sail in her dry ship To the realms where treasures lie: Goes searching thecold world 'er and o'er, Wherever fond wish may go, And calls through the length of desert years For what years cannot bestov. Calls to the sea that's swept by storm Till Its billows roar with pain, t calls to -the wind-vexed mountain W height, That frowns on the tranquil plain; ut never the sea gives back responso To the words that burn as fire, And the mount uprears in silent scorn Of the dole of vain desire. Yet a-sailing and a-sailing, Through storm and through summer shine, Shall go my heart with a fearless trust, Till that joy again is mine; All round the world, round the world sail ing, Till it faint at last with years, Ana learn how idle are human hopes, And how unavailing tears. Mv heart, around the world sailing, Hoping and worshiping still, Shall seek that love of the olden time, Till death shall the dream fulfill; All round the world, round the world sail ing, With patience that nmocks at won, All round the world, round the world sail ing, However the winds may blow' -Mary E. Blanchard, in Bcston Traveler. 0 8 is Majesty, ? 8 Bob, of Yale. 8 00 00000000030000000 ROWING more and more persistent, Mr. Robert West e n m a r k, Sr., looked across the table at his wife reproachfully.. "My dear, I can't see what pos - IT1 sible harm it could -9 do the youngster!" "Well, if you ould ston to con sid~enthe ' he ther o vhiiiaz a iftbi eih the world for Ai baby, that there are about forty summer diseases especially designed for infants, and that your son is only Fix months old, you might see," "The evidence is certainly crush ing, but if we took Maggie nnd half a dozen trunks full of preventives I confess I don't see why it would hurt him a bit-and just think how it would please the fellows." "I don't think you have any right to run risks with your own child even 'to please the fellows." S"My love, you seem to forget that your son is class baby-Yale, '97!" "Well, he's my baby, first, last, and all together, and I'm not going to have a whole lot of fellows handling him and bouncing him aro'und." "One might suppose from your tone, Mrs. Westenm'ark, that they intended to play football with him. I've been coanuting on showing him to the fellows for weeks-but, of course, if you feel this way about it we woni't go; I'll telegraph the boys this mor'ning that we woa't come." Mr. Westenmark gave his wife a chilly kiss and departed for the oflce, leaving Mrs. Westenmark lost in thought- -until his Highness came in and deumanded audience. Latei in the day, when his High ness, tragether with his suite, vent out to trake the air, a short hal. was made et his Highness' maternal grandmother's, where M?'s. Westen mark, W'ith tears in her eyes, ex plained the unreasonable desire of Robert Westenmiark, Sr., to expose his Hig:hness to the dangers of New 'Haven 'luring commencement week, "just 1ecause he happens to be the clss bs,by," she concluded. "W'el, and why not take him? It would b~e fun for you, and think how it would please Robert." "But mamma, he might catch cold -or sconething, and then I'd never forgive anyself." "Catch, nonsense! He won't catch anythirig there that he couldn't catch here. ~Take Maggie along; she knows what to do for him, and go." "I think it would be a foolish thing to do myself." "D)ear child, don't make Robert feel that the baby is always first." "But this is a question of exposing him." "With the faithful Maggie along there's little danger of that. Be care ful that it isn't a question of selfish ness on your part." Mrs. 'Westenmark decided that the soldl-hearted world was against her, and went home aggrieved. She found four telegrams there directed to Rob ert, and within the next six hours others arrived. Mrs. Westenmark became alarmed and called her hus band up on the telephone to inquire anxiously what it all meant. He laughed and told her she had better! open them and see. The ten tele-I grams all read the same, only the sig-' natures weie different: 1 "Hang it, we must have the boy. Bring him on the 4. 20, or a delegation of fifty will call for him." At first Mrs. Westenmark wvas in Idignant, then she laughed, and that niight when Mr. Westenmark came Jhome and said he had received forty lgramns during the day she gave in, a - ws how it happened that his Highness and the suite started io Nen Haven on the 4.20 train. Such a racket "as never was on land or sea" greeted tl.t 4.20 train as it rclled into New Haven on Friday sfternoon. His Highness and his suite descended from the train to the accompaniment of "Rah! rah! '97!" which made ;As Highness' eyes al most pop out of his head with aston ishment. Mrs. Westeninark was sur rounded for a moment, and when she turned to speak to Maggie she saw this is what she saw, and shuddered -Haywortb, '97, the famous centre rush, making his way through the crowd with his Highness held high above his head. Before him went a man with a horn, and behind him came '97, a hundred strong, lock-step, yelling: "Brickety kax, co-ax; brickety kax, co-ax, co-ax; hoo-rah, hoo-rah, hulla baloo-Yale!" Maggie, breathless, and irate, with pillow and blanket, brought up the rear. His Highness' mother, with fear on every feature, dragged her grinning husband after them, only to see Hayworth climb to the top of the seat of a tally-ho, the baby still in his arms. The trumpeter blew a blast, '97 took hold of the shafts, and the triumphal procession began. His Highness had evidently forgotten his suite, and there he sat, holding on to Hayworth's bigforefinger, and smiled his appreciation of the whole affiddi. The yelling was fast and furioul everywhere they met other crowds, which vied with them in lung power and enthusiasm-and still his High ness smiled. He was finally handed over to his mother, who had never expected to see him alive again. ind who, by the way, had already registered a vow to take him home the first thing in the morning. She was a wise little wom an, however, and said nothing, bu just put him to bed early and fol lowed soon herself, while his High nezs' father went to the class supper. About 11 o'clock a man tiptoed into the Westenmark's room, pinned a piece of paper on the crib bearing these words: "Will bring him back in a minute-Bob." Noiselessly he wrapped Robert, Jr., in a blanket and departed. A few blocks in a cab, and then this man burst into a brilliantly lighted dining room with the bundle in his arms. He was greeted with a cheer, and then father, his Highness and all, were lifted on to the shoul ders of the crowd and borne to the place of honor at the, head of the table. On a raised platform was a high chair,-and before it was a huge gold lovigg cup with "Yale, '97," in d ami -Gy Timis timle, was -foroughk&AIem" to. the jollity of the occasion, wa,. gravely seated on the throne. Some body offered a toast-his Highnesf rinned. Somebody else filled up the loving cup-his Highness gargled and plunged in his fist. "A toast, old man, a toast!" saut his proud father to him. Then hii Highness wrinkled up his face anc sneezed-"co-ax, co-ax." And witl one accord '97 finished it up-. "Hoorah, hoorah! Hullabaloo. Yale."-Ohio State Journal. She Rules. Whether the average man knowsi or not, or admits it or not, it is heli that he is absolutely under the con trol and guidance, either directly oi indirectly. of some woman. If 11< happens to be a yoong man all of his energies are directed toward securing the partnership of some young womau who will exercise a &espotic rule ovei his future. If he happens to be: married man, he will scarcely take any important step or begin any im portant enterprise without consulting his wife. It is held by deep students of thit question that the more assured a mar ried man feels in his independence, te more certain it is that he is a slave to the opinions, the prejudices and the dictations of his wife. These care. ful and earnest observers of the rela. tions between man and woman insisi that not only does many a wife aii her husband by determining for himr how he shall vote, but that, if she is interested in political questions. sh< is not content until she influences th< wives of other men, who in turn in iuence their husbands. The womei of this country, more than the womnel of any other country, know their owr minds and have their way oftener thar even their husbands suspect. In fact the clever wife manages her husband so as to leave the conviction in hi~ mind that he is managing himself. What more can the American womar need, and what more ougrht she t( want?-Chicago Inter-Ocean. Dinner Was Ready. "George, dear--" "Don't bother me, Laura. I'n reading, and I'd rather read than tall just now." An hour dragged its way into thc dim, misty past, and the voice of MIr. Ferguson was heard calling loudly: "Loura, how much longer have I goi to wit for dinner? It ought to have been ready an hour ago!" "It was, George," responded M~rs. Ferguson from the dining-room. "That was what I went in to tell you, but you didn't want to hear me talk. We have all finished and everything is cold, but you needn't wait another minute if you want your dinner. " Chicago Tribune. Cubains Protet Their Feet. It is stated in Havana, Cuba, thal no matter how much or how little tht children or grown people may have or they are never seen without their feei being protected. The reason givet for this is that in the streets, whict re in a horrible condition, there ap p~ears in large umbers the lockjau germ. The kind of footgear the pooi darkies wear is rope-soled shoes. which can~ be bought for fifteen cents, TALES OF PLUCK AND ADVENTURE. The "Lost Child of Wyoming." ERY interesting monumer is soon to be dedicated on high knoll overlooking th .valley of the M1ississinev River, in Wabash County, Indianm An address will be delivered by th Governor of the State, and many di, tinguished people will be presen The monument marks the burial-plac of a woman of singular and romanti history-kuown as Franxce Slocur among the white people, and as Whit Rose among the Indiaus-who wa stolen fron Quaker parents in th Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania i 1778. and brought among the Indian in the West. Her parents were JoL athrn and Mary Slocum, of Connect cut, who had moved to Wilkesbarr( Pennsylvania. when that was a smal frontier settlement. There, whe Franess was a young girl, their dwell ing was attacked by Delaware It dians. Two or three members of the famil were killed, and little Frances wa carried away first to Ohio, and latE to Indiana and Michigan. Soon afte her capture her father was killed b the 1ndians, but her mother, aided b Frances's brothers and other whit men, made a persistent search fc Frances, who became known in thos parts as the "lost child of Wyoming. She was not found. For meantime the Indians had cai ried her far away, over mountains an through forests. They treated he kindly, giving her blankets to slee upon at night in beds of leaves. A length, too, they gave her a horse t ride, and dressed her in garments buckskin, decorated with bright beadi All this pleased her; she dried hE tears, and became happy in her ne life. She was taught to fear and hate tb white men, and whenever she saw on she ran away. None of the white me who visited her tribe suspected, then fore, that they had a white child amon them. She learned to shoot well wit the bow and arrow. When the Deli wares had a war with'the whites, ab was run off into the North with th other women and children. She di not lament this. When she was sixteen years old ab arried to a Delaware chief, Li il n . .. ell, rrre Oisage ~c1he1 Olfep kenah, or "Deaf Man." He was goi to her, and she remained with hi through a long life. She re'membered the wars of the I dians against General Wayne and Ge eral Harrison, and in both her syi 'Vathies were with the Indians. Aft the last war her husband and his pe pie settled on the Mississineva, at place called Deaf Man's Village. To this place in 1835-fifty-sevi years after Frances had been carri< away from the Wyoming Valley there came one night a trader nam< George Ewing; belated on the roa he sought a night's ledging. The o chief took him into his cabin. TI chief's wife busied herself about il room, and as the trader waited f-i h supper he watched her. He notic< that she looked like a white woma Once she raised her arms for som thing: her loose sleeves fell away, r vealing arms that were suspicious white. The trader could speak the Italli tongue, and as she made no respon when he addressed her in Englis he questioned her in that languag She admitted that she was a whi woman, and had been stolen in h girlhood. She remembered her nam and the names of her father ax mother, as well as that of the pla from which she had been taken. & Ewing, much interested, wrote the Postmaster of Wilkesbarre, askix if there were any people of the nan of Slocum still living in that vicinit It took two years for his letter to is into the hands of Frances's survivix relatives, but at last it reached thei In due time her brother and siste came to her cabin. An aff'ecting inte view took place between her at them, and they were instantly sati fiedi that she was indeed their Ion lost sistcr. They implored her to home with them, but she refused. "'I am old," she said, "'andl ha lived all my life with these peopi They are my people. I love my hu band, and am happy with him." She even refused to go with the as far as the neighboring town Peru. apparently suspecting a tra They went away sorrowful. Not 10] afterward her husband died. H relatives came again, once more it poring her to go home with them Pennsylvania. But now she declar< that she could not leave her hon esewhere than by the side of hi husband's. She lived there until 184 when she died. Her story is often told in Indian and the monument to her memo will be not only a reminder of romantic history, but the memorial a woman who was steadiastly fait ful to a people who had won her lo as well as her loyalty. A Hleroine. The drinking fountain just erects in Tacoma, Washington. by the Daug ters of the Revolut'on, in memory Narcissa Whitman, is a new incit ment to the emulatiou of brave deeC From a luxurious home in the Eat this heroine went, as the bride of ? Marcus Whitman, to work as a m sionary among the Oregon Indian After six months of incrediible har ship they reached Walla Walla, Mi hitman being the first woman setti fore she received t .eteir fror . her parents, Her child - was drow-ned in the river @ the house, so that when Doctor'Phitman became impressed with the imirtance of say I ing the country to thyrWUited States, I and started on his pAgporable ride across the continent#she Vas ift en tirely alone, with no intelligace of him during his whole absence. Doctor Whitman justly ranki with Fremont and the -great pionees of: the nation, a but tlc magnificeut; courage of his e chil!. is wife, left lhib4. to endure a that x .ar of terribl i 'on, also I deserves recognition. e Three years later ai emigrant wagon passed their door. -Ya it were seven children whose parta had died on c the way. Mrs. *itman adopted them all; Other .idbeers settled inear them, and life btin.to take on d i~wjoy.afiht Suddenly, without vtraing, a fright e ful massacre took plye The Indians, a instigatel by theii medicine-men, s sought to deetroy the entire vanguard of civilization. Trm chiefs went to the mission-house firr medicf~n e, and when Doctor Whitmaurrose to pa 1, it, buried their tinahawk/in his brain. Mrs. Wbifian, hurriWg to the spot, beheld a kene of inesdzib" able horror. Likeyi angel Ofnery she went from hi husbandto Mhe. Y children, and fromuiamto herfefllow, s missionaries, stan ing -the. bloodof r the Niounded and iving comforfMIN r the dying. Shot, 4 last, herselft.h# Y crept to her unc scious haapend) F and kneeling at side, off h'~ e final prayer. A 16, later,: p r by a dozen bulle she he'erfel4t e dead. Thus 0 on reedived: its bloody baptism. The country of ;rs. Whitmba's - patient toil and he W'death is to-dS one of ,he riche Portions iot. r laud. Had she be hi to P her trust, Orego t would not have be it D territory, and the our country woul - their most inspir r brave, self-sacrific 7 in the performan e Peter Gr~j the e The early his a contains no recor bravery than th g noted Indian fig L had- many shrill 6. numerous hairb e encounters with e none of them a greater danger cessfully thagl e brave compan - dians at the D-. The vine > aroused by the repatedma m early settlers during the closi of the Indian troubles on the or - and West Branches of the Susque a- hanna. After a particularly atrocion! a. murder of a family of settlersfrao r secured the aid of hig :etkir Michae o- and two other men and the part, a started in pursuit of the Indians. Thi start of the expedition was made fron - near Sunbury. The Indians travelei a rapidly, but on the evening of th4 -third day they came in sight of then d and ascertained the party numberec , twenty bloodthirsty warriors. d The numnber was large for four mei e to attack opernly, so Grov~e and hi: e party delayad the attack until a mori is favorable .opportunity offered greate: a chances for victory. The opportunit: a. came on the night following. The In e- dians camped near a fine spring, nnd e- feellng secure on the knowledge tha ly they were three days' travel from the settlements of the whites, stacke< in their guns against the trunk of a tree sand wrapped themselves in thei a blankets, laid themselves down an< e wer e soon all asleep. The Grove part: eof avengers had been car tiously await r ing this movement andt rushed upoI e the sleeping Indians. Id A hand-to-hand conflict ensued, in :e which a number of the Indians wer4 killed with tomahawks. The Indian~ o finally retreated, and the four bravt ig scouts, having secured the. scalps o e the Indians they had killed, startec y. to return. The Indians in some waj 11 learned the party who had attacke othem was small end started in pursui of Grove and his party. The former, rhowever, eluded them and reschet. r- their homes in safety. ti Raced by a Panther. s- Falton B. Allison, a young man, o San Rafael, Cal., met an adventur< swith a panther on Balinas Ridge earl: on a recent morning, which, but foi ehis presence of mind and the speed o e- his horses, would have had a fata termination. Allison started out fron Bolinas early, stopping at Little Car m son G'ilch to water his team. He hai fgot off to fix the bridles when his at. . tention was attracted by a stealth: ig jfoLtfall on the side of the hill behini er hi:n. Looking round, he found him - sef face to face with an immense SFr aer moment the beast seemet e paralzed at the encounter. Taking radvantage of this, Allison sprang into , his wagen. At the same moment the horses scented the panther and, wild a, with terror, plunged forward 3ust ii . time tc avoid the animal's murderou: a impact, its claw, however, laceratius of: Allison's hand. From Little Carsom hGuleh to Liberty Station is foni e miles of steep down grade, and a race for life followed for the entire dis tance, the horses, urged by theil teitied driver, straining e very muscle a and the panther following the flying -wagon in huge bounds. At Libert: o Station the brute gave up the chasi e- and slunk oif into the woods. s. Some luurs of rest were needes t, before the exhausted teamu could star r-again, and Allison's hand to-night i: s-extremely painful where the p)anther' -- eaws struck him.--San Francisecc d' Cal. __ _ _ _ _ _ . - ____ er A woman's negative is generall; TO.,A'fIGOF BIRDS THEY EXHIBIT THEN EVERY PKSk OF THE HUMAN SPECIE;.W )rank 3. Chapman'f tnteredtift on Bird Life--The Bekson of Co WitnesseS *a'uW Peculiar .uersq ancesaTheir Vocabulary. N the Lowell Institute courween "Birds in Nature," Frank D Chapman spoke on theto or "The Nesting Season; and Types of Nests of North Am Birds." He said: "The theory that migration origi nated through range extension undI the impelling impulse of a des. seclusion in the season of tion may or may not be acoe tbere can be no doubt tha1s made to the nesting place. ing birds during the matint. one must constantly bear in id at that this time they are a physiological regene. affects every cell in the "With the migratory a creased vigor which Atts productiou only at this faciently. powerfual.to, thousands of -miles, lowed by the many p ances of.the seasoY birds leave the, of obtaining m they may rear Ahlr. "In bird life phase and c human species. .7e&A our -Sonh Pocks, buil# gether im 0_' rearing to'thed ,gisti&M - rfor, 0ar >gro -retained onlintiir ating season, the males immediately after and the year appearing similar to conducted by actions in inor of eahers, way of adorn woodcock, ordinarily a quiet bird performs curious aerial feats during the nesting season. The crane dances the prairie chicken "booms," the tur key struts, the nighthawk "booms' and performs fanciful aerial evoln tions. All this is done as an expres sion of wooing. The most commot form of courtship, however, is song which is of two sorts, instrumental, a: the wing beating of the nighthawk, o1 vocal, as the music of the thrush o: nightingale. Song power of birds is due to the number and attachment oj the muscles of the larynx. "Birds are great mimics. The song of the marsh wren bears resemblance 'to the gurgle of rippling water. The red-beaded wookpecker reproduce: the noise of the wood toad. In Souti Amerita one bird imitates exactly th< crac'kle of the limbs of the forest it which !ie lives. "Birds have far greater vocabula ries than is supposed. The crow, thought to have a limited vocal range, is capable of a largeinumber.of cal: notes. Bobwhite's song is uttered only in the love season. After th4 nesting period it utters an entirely diff'erent sound. Cal! notes are uttered for the purpose of rejoining other biris. "An English sparrow roared in the companionship of two canaries Iearned 'to sing their call better than they could. A red-winged blackbird reared in company with a rooster learned tc crow. It is proper to suppose that the calls of our birds are older than the birds themselves; yet the calls are made true to the type in every clime. Thus fifty or sixty kind of orioles scattered throughout the globe sing the same song. Song is an ex. pression cf the intense vitality of the nesting season. Thus we have a season of song. When the eggs are laid the English nightingale ceases to sing. Other birds stop when the eggs are hatched and others when the young leave the jiest. o"The caeahsmd it possible tphotograph nssas they actually arsomething wihtextbooks hv never been able correctly to describe. The grebe builds its nest near: the water. They represent one of the rudest types of nest. "As the structure is improved so do we find the character of the bird increases in complexity. The puffn burrows a hole in the ground. Mother Carey's chicken digs a similar bur row. Gannets place their nests on the ledge of rocks and lay but one tgg. Gulls sometdies also nest on rokis; in .unusual cases they have heted in trees. D~ucks'as a rule nest on the ground. Herons build in trees, usually, sometimes in bushes. The net is composed of sticks and is un usually buiry. Tie least bittern ties bough's above its dwelling in an arch to hide its eggs. The large bittern lays its egg on the ground or marsh; the snipe does the same; tbe plover carefully prepared the ground before nesting. Ruffled grouse place their iets at the foot of trees. Doves, who iloun are care aihe marsh-ha*k d; the sparrow t in trees. Cac at nest of primi ers place their a burrow. The awk make no * eggs on leaves; on pebble roos. ag .nvariably lays two nest-on the ground. an old tree. It usu Gidgn -, ra evine bark in build ed blackbirds nest in ps. The elm is the chsrafensiojkome of the oriole; tho slightly below the un'd. Song sparrows at adW es to escape cats." WSE WOMDS. e a body of a limb. -aipisenough.-Bea enters but where ;ellt en. nicationis corrupt good Paul. heart maketh a cheerful Proverbs. te grief'cares with au ish.- peare. 4ttle o ivta han a great threak-Sb0apeare. s the ' o'fnobleminds, aini ones. -Col* ,ks arjt be tasted, others wed and some few to be dge". -Bacon. .isnndnaade as the statue ' ofick dif sner and chip of m wiftout, but the soul is is own jigrowth, as a peach *W. Wir& h -_ to me wasted wi my having spoken d s fy, without having one.. name, be it e en. 3fr AMoi the million. nObI0t at the world re ii martyrs, its in f , its poets, or 'me .s It is from the - !e por that all 'these 6 rnegie. the World. 01-iiin the world," IUUist the other gigaitic seaweed, eis tis, which grWst alteightof nore hun~ed fes. Th- atem are dried and sed as rope by the in habitante of the South Sea Islands, where the curious vegetable ropes are lound. This seaweed usually grows to a depth of from two dred to three S soon es root a Epear-shaped balloon is formed, which grows with the stem toward the surfac" of the centre. This balloon frequently has a diameter of six feet or more. It has, of course, an upward tendency, and therefore keeps the stem growing until it floats on the top of the water. This enorious weed grows in sneh quantities that large meadow-like islands are formed, whicth are often so big as to impede navigation. The ropes made from the stems of the plant are used for building purposes, and the ballooins when dried make very serviceable vessels." Animal Chiv~slry. No self-respecting dog will bite a female, except in the extremest ned of self-defense; though the female, as a rule, has no scruple whatever about punishing, to the full extent of her power, an individual of the opposite sex that happens to be inferior to her iu size or strength. So strong is this unwillingness to strike a female that few male hounds will attack a she-wolf or even follow her trail. Something of the same deference to' the gentler sex may be seen among horses. Although a horse will promptly attack any other horse that may interfere with him, either in the field or in harness, he will very sel dom attack a mare. Farm horses, which cannot be worked alongside of any other horse on account of their savage tempers, may be safe'y yoked in double harness with a mare. Mares, on the other hand, will attack their own or the opposite sex without the slightest hesitation whenever they feel disposed, yet I have never seen serious or retaliatory resistance of fered by the latter. -Contemporary Review. Loulsiana's Moss Industry. One of the interesting industries of New Orleans is the manufacture of moss, a vegetable hair for upholstery purposes. It has been carried on for some years down there with success, but during the past two or three years the manufacturers have branched out considerably, and their wares arte now finding sale in all parts of the United States, and some of it is being shipped to Canada. The cypress trees and water oaks of Louisiana (as all travel ers know who have been through that country) are beautifully draped with a natural gray moss. Before the moss is marketable it is necessary to elim inate all the spores and impurities'. Some of the moss gatherers (10 this by boiling the stuff, and others bury it in the ground for some weeks, thereby rotting the gray covering off. The moss is then carefully washed and passed through a special form of gitn from which it comes clean and elastic and a formidable rival of curledl hair. Rienewinu an Old Quarrel. As soon as aman has patched up a quarrel a woman will try to begin it again by telling him that he was most to blame for starting it first.-New YnkPress. -For Loose Lamp Burners. Afte. constant winter use the decorative lamps, loosened burners will begin to prove troublesome, and in many cases the bowl will become separated from the standard. This can be secured with a-cement made by stirring lime in the unbeaten whito of an egg until the mixture is about the consistency of bread dough. DJ not move the lamp after applying un. til the cement hardens,' which ,will take a day or two. . Another good plan is to clean all the old cement. from the loose burner, pour melied alum in the groove, press the lamp down into it, and hold it still and Aw. a few minutes. Best Way to Furnish a ouse -. - When about to furnish a house, one of the first things to be considered is the amount of money thAt shall be de voted to the purpose. After deciding this, make a list of the essentials, and then a list of the desirablp secessor ies. Naturally, the essentials are *h - that should be purchased first It is stop there util one has lived in the . least hort time. It will.then be possa e to the possibilies and necessities o each room, and as time, opportuAlty and money permit, one'can add sick things as are necessary. In this way The purchase of undesirable and inharmonious articles will be avoid- - ed.-Ladies' H6me Journal. Stains on the Tahbleloth. There are few things that make a table appear so uninviting as a soiled cloth, yet the housekeeper -who does her own work or employs tut -one maid cannot afford to change the linen every time a coffee stain or a spot of _7 gravy mars its fairness. hodgravy been spilt upon the cloth,. the spots bhould be removed immediately after the meal by putting a basin or.saucer under the soiled place and pbaring a little boiling water through the stai. he.wet-partif $he. lhkAmLhek* be ribbed dry, an&1 ~oth foldd -' quite straight and *ewed to dry, or an iron may be run over the damp 4 part. By this method.the untidy ap pearance of a stained-loth will be done away .with, when, from eco , aomical motivis, the sas cloth must be used ff a week. TE1 method is especially good - Old cane aot regarded obe wo i profossin Mp bytbe Df aue, and, if necess thorough scrub arge ne , edi t a edit 'withstu make a knot at the end of e string. Now work backwards and forwards through the holes, crosswise from side to side, and from right to IIt, till all the holes are filled. Then when the weaving is finished, varnish the chairs and set them aside till per etly hard and dry. The seats should look very nice as .ey are, if good string be used, but ft the weaving leaves anything to be desired, it may be as well to make a mshion of pretty cretonne for each chair, and to fasten it in place with bows of ribbon. Pe wter Aaain in Fashion. There is a fashion -for pewter just 2ew: pewter made into all the kuick cnackery that we have for the past ew years been seeing in silver. There is about pewter a softness and plia Ality which make it a fascinating ma erial with which to model, and, there ore, besides its use for sniall piece4 irtists are working out some of their yest designs in it. In fact, reduced igures from life and after the antique' re being exhibited, along with those f bronze and plaster. Smaller pieces; iappily within reach of many are bon yonieres, trays and ash receivers, nugs, plates and small figures. Alt f these are presented in innumerable hapes and designs. . Collectors of mugs are being made iappy by this revival of the use of pewter, and little short of a madness is about regarding the number and rarity of those seen at informal even-. ing parties, or at other times decorat ing the side walls of dining rooms. The plates also are mostly seen as wail decorations and produce a stun aing effect when well hung against a rilliant background. It is not difficult to keep these pewter ornaments clean. A good r abbing with chamois every fortnight i all that is necessary. It is not de hirable for them to have the shining ister of silver; the tones of pewter hould be soft and gray.. (Household Hints. A saucer of charcoal placed in the r efrigerator will purify the air. The more carefully soupsand broths are skimmed, the better they will be.' Before cooking) sweetbreads soak them for an hour in mild lemon juice had water. Bronze articles are -best cleaned with a paste made of powdesed chic ury and water. A stale angel cake makes a dainty dessert if served with a soft custard. Or it may be steamed and served with a sugar or marshmallows sauce. A child's ears should never be "boxed;" the sudden concussion ofI air may rupture the drum of the ear and cause permanent deafness. A lotion which is designed to keep the complexion clear and free from spots is made by mh ing two drams of tiacture of benzoin with one pint of rosewater. Cold steak may be acceptably served as a leftover by passing it through the ieat chopper and arranging it neatly on a platter, garnished with parsley. r waterress.t