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Show SOME PICTURES OF IN MEMORY OF FLORA MACDONALD. I-.-. -itl f j t '. A I r US feSSfc I I. 1 Lest future K-n'-r;i? i.ns -hou'd forget for-get the romanitf story of Flora Muc-donalij. Muc-donalij. th.- nnbie sir! wl.n saved the life of the fuKi'ivi- Prince Charls after the battle of Culiod n. a statue has been erected to her rn-rnory on the castle hill of Invtriiss. I hs monument, monu-ment, of which a picture is herewith reproduced, stands m au imposing hit! directly In front of Inverness castle, and In It the highland heroine H rep- THE TRUCKMAN AND SWEEPER Indignant Karprlic of tlir I.-tt.T at the Nere of the rornier. "I am no painter." said Mr. War-bllngton, War-bllngton, "but if I were. ;wA somebody should give me a commission to paint a picture or Indignant Hurprise.' I should try to set down on canvas the face and figure of a street -sweeper whom I saw the other day in a narrow downtown street. While his handcart was standing against the curb on one bide, of the street, the sweeper himself being at that moment on the other plying ply-ing his broom, there came along young man driving a truck, who found that it wa:; going to be a very narrow tqweeze for him to pet through in the space that was left between the handcart hand-cart ami the outfit.-, passing on the other side, but he didn't hesitate on that account; he kept straight aiiead. and yet not recklessly; as a matter of fact, he used reasonable care about the handcart. There was. however, not room for liiru to pass; he struct the handcart, but he struck it very gently, and as he kept a-going his wheels drew the handcart partly around antl opened it. but it didn't wedge anywhere, -with Us wheels against the curb, or anything of the sort, where it would smash, but kept moving all the time, as pressure was applied, which the truckman saw, and, keeping a-going, but ready to stop at any moment, he continued to pull the handcart up and around and over until he had left it undlgnifiedly stranded on its side on the sidewalk. During t h 1 last of the handcart s clattering, truck-compelled truck-compelled gyrations the sweeper had stood over there on the other side of the street, looking on with indignant surprise, but there was nothing for him to do but to wait; the truck would be past long before he could get across the street, and in a moment it was gone; the skillful driver having turned the handcart over and over without harming it in the slightest degree, and without changing a muscle on his face In the operation." A FIGHTER'S SON FOR AFRICA. "Cook's son. duke's son and son of a belted earl" all of the best of the young men of England are now off In South Africa, it seems, fighting against the Boers. Sous of the best families In England have cheerfully volunteered volun-teered for service, and many of them have already been targets for the sharpshooters of the Transvaal. One ot the most popular and best known young Englishmen to go to the front lately was Hon. F. Roberts, the son of Lord Roberts, generally knows as "Bob," the most popular general in the Britiah army. This fighting son of a fighting general is a staff officer with Buller and promises to follow in the footsteps of his father in his pursuit pur-suit of military glory. Dining a Talker. Seven people make a very comfortable comfort-able company for a dinner, provided the seven are well selected. Two servants, ser-vants, even one. can attend to seven very nicely. And with that number the talk can be general. It can be, but It la not always so. There are so many people of many words in this world that it is difficult to get seven men and women together without Including In-cluding one monopolist of talk. He Is the worst kind of monopolist. When such a monopolist is a woman, her sex does not taake her more attractive. Such a person is a "weariness, a fever and fret." The host, however. Is responsible re-sponsible if such be Included at a small dinner. The large dinner is the place for such a person; then only two persons, per-sons, the one on either aide, can be made miserable. There is an idea in that a fiendish one. however. If It be desirable to punish two of your )&&f--t&- r rxH y a - - ,. S&SilNs s.' il.4 i-? .A --'-.-. t! -:. i, ' W --V5l resented with her rigt.t hand raised to her brow, gazing away toward the went, where the picturesque drama of her life was enaited. A tartan plaid hangs loosely from her right shoulder shoul-der and a Scotch collie stands look-ink look-ink up at her side. The statue itself, which is of bronze, is nine feet in heiil.t and was cast in a Roman foundry. foun-dry. Wiih its substantial granite base the entire monument is about twenty-five twenty-five feet in height. If AMERICA'S SWEETEST SINGER. I Bliss Carman, the recognized leader of that somewhat numerous choir of Canadian poets, has made his name familiar to Americans by the refinement refine-ment and delicacy of his work, which for the last few years has been appearing appear-ing in the different magazines of the country. Mr. Carman is just turning h;s fortieth year, and was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He studied at Edinburgh and Harvard and has been connected editorially with several American periodicals. His first friends, give a large dinner and put the most insistent bore in town between be-tween the two. John Gilmer Speed, in the January Woman's Home Companion. Com-panion. The Ku'siau New Year. The patriotic Russ, who believes in the civilization that has its cradle in the Ural and Irtish, is constrained to admit that in one respect he is behind the rest of the world. He is twelve days back in the matter of his calendar. calen-dar. The Muscovites keep to the Julian Jul-ian reckoning, having never agreed to be robbed of the twelve Jays to which the rest of Europe submitted, not without with-out a little rioting, it will be remembered remem-bered even in this country. So that the Russ is still lighting his Christmas candle when the rest of the civilized old and new world is at Twelfth Night, The reform of the calendar has several times been proposed in Russia, but the matter has, on each occasion been referred re-ferred to an imperial commission, a euphemism for getting rid of It. Another An-other attempt is, however, now to be made to adopt the Gregorian computation, computa-tion, and this time the subject is to be deliberated upon by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, under the presidency presi-dency of the Grand Duke of Constantly Constan-tly assisted by the ministers of state. What difficulties there may be in bringing about the change is. not very evident to non-Russians. If the government gov-ernment desired to make the alteration, altera-tion, a ukase of the Tsar would serve the purpose. Profitable Wolf Farming-. Up in Minnesota wolf farming is an industry to be engaged in with profit, according to a correspondent who tells of a man engaged in the business. The skins go to an eastern fur firm, while th county pays a bounty of from ?2 to $3 for the scalps and ears. In a favorable ravine a mile long and a few hundred feet in width, with a tamarack swamp at one end and a high board fence at the other, the hunter lures the wolves into his coral. The rucks and brush. In the ravines furnish gloomy dense. In which scores of young wolves are born, to ultimately ultimate-ly reward the wolf farmer for the feed he scatters about for them. Lamp chimneys are better if cleaned with alcohol Instead of soap and water. CURRENT MENELEK TO VISIT THE CZAR. The Greatest of All the Oriental Mouarcbs. It is announced that Emperor Mene-len Mene-len of Abyssinia will visit the jJaris exposition and that on the way to the French capital from his little kingdom in eastern Africa he will call on his friend, the Czar of Russia. The black emperor ia the most picturesque as he is the greatest of African monarchs. A giant in stature, he rules his empire with a rod of iron, and the great powers pow-ers of Europe are all gUd to be on j good terns with him. He has an army j of real figlning men, armed with niod-j niod-j ern weapons, and both England and ! Italy Know to their cost that he bas j skillful aaa daring generals and that I his soldiers are brave and impetuous. ! The emperor lives in the interior ot I his country, surrc-unded by a great j desert, so that it would be almost im-! im-! possible for an invading army to reach him. In the center of the royal city j he has caused a tall tower to be erect-! erect-! ed. To this tower he ascends at fre quent intervals and with a telescope observes how his people are behaving themselves in the city below him. Offenders Of-fenders are punished with great severity, se-verity, and. as a result, there is little disorder of any kind at the court or about it. The emperor awl most of his people are nominally Christians, and the Golden Rule is said to be the ruling principle of the government, in spite of the severity of the punishments punish-ments sometimes inflicted. New York Tribune. A Joke on the Operator. They are telling a joke at the expense ex-pense of an operator in a telegraph office in this city who, by reason ot his long experience at the business, should have known better than to do what he did. In telegraph offices it is customary for the operators, before leaving the office at night, to "cut off" at the switchboard in other words, to break the circuit. During a storm one night the wires tha connect Milwaukee Mil-waukee with Racine became crossed with the heavily charged feed wire which supplies the current for the Milwaukee and Racine trolley line. volume of verse was published in 1893, and was called "Low Tide" on Grand Pre." This was soon followed by "Songs from Vagabon,dia," a delightful little volume of lyrics in the production produc-tion of which Mr. Carman collaborated with Richard Hovey. Although Mr. Carman has since published several small books of verse, the great majority major-ity of his poems remain uncollected. The accompanying picture of this Canadian lyrist is from his latest photograph. pho-tograph. WHY THE MULE IS One of the necessities for active campaigning in South Africa is the mountain battery. Such a battery is made up of field guns that can be taken to pieces and transported over rough and broken country on the backs of mules, or sometimes horses, as shown in the accompanying illus- When, on the following morning, the operator went to cut in that is, to restore re-store the connection which had been broken the night before he found that the heavy current had caused a blaze at the board. He tried to blow out the flame, but, failing in this well-known well-known method, he lost ins head and threw a pailful of water over the switchboard. Now, as is well known, water is one of the best conductors of electricty in existence, consequently when the confused operator dashed the water against the board ,he crossed every wire in it with the railway line, causing a blaze of considerable proportions. pro-portions. Things looked bad for a few moments, and but for the timely appearance ap-pearance on the scene of a cool-headed lineman, who promptly pulled all the wires out of the board, thus breaking the current and extinguishing, the blf.ze, considerable damage might have been done. The associates of the luckless luck-less operator have since bad a good INTEREST. deal of fun over the affair, and so soon as the occurrence became known he began to receive pointed telegrams touching the matter. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. Armored Tralna Built In South Africa. The armored trains which figured so prominently in the fighting around Ladysmith were put together at the railway workshops at Durban. The train is composed of a powerful engine, en-gine, tender and three twenty-ton Iron trucks, the sides of which have been raised to over six feet high, with one-half-inch boiler plates, loopholed with vertical slots for the men to tire through. A NEW CUBAN STAMP. The most striking of the newly issued is-sued series of postage stamps for Cuba is the 10 centavo stamp, a picture of which is here shown. The design de-sign on this stamp is the scene of a Cu-ban Cu-ban native plowing a level field with a yoke of oxen, and in view of the era of re- c o n s t r u ction which Cuba has at the present time entered upon there is an appropriateness appro-priateness in such a design. This stamp has already proved a favorite fa-vorite with philatelists and it is recognized recog-nized as one of the handsomest of the stamps recently issued. The author of "In Northern India" tells of his experience at Bhagwaflpur, where he wished to poet four letters: "They were addressed to friends in England, who are stamp-collectors, and only contained a few lines to say I had sent them in order to secure Ne-palese Ne-palese stamps. The postmaster refused to accept them. Foreigners, he said, were not permitted to post letters In Nepal, the postal service being only for the use of the Nepalese. We sat on our elephant and reasoned, but he was firm, and the police and other officials all supported him. After long discussion, we at last persuaded him to let us post the letters and leave it to the government at Katmandu to decide whether they might be forwarded. for-warded. Then he went into his office, a mud hut, and sat on low stools, nearly near-ly the whole population watching in a crowd in front from the large open space. The postmaster redirected each letter in Nepalese characters, and taking tak-ing a large sheet of paper, prepared a full report for his government, the police inspector reading our description, descrip-tion, and so forth, from the 'permit.' We were particularly required to declare de-clare that the letters did not contain any political matter. Then came the very serious business of stamping them. He had to get out a large wooden wood-en box for the stamps, and another for the date stamp. There are stamps of three values, equal to one penny, twopence and sixpence. He assured us we could not pay beyond Nepal, so we desired to nut a one-penny stamp on each, and leave the excess to be collected col-lected on delivery if they ever reached England. Fortunately they arrived after some delay, and strangely enough, no excess was charged, and thus I had the pleasure of anticipating the penny post, which is not likely to be extended to Nepal for many years to come." Largest I'laut in the World. "The largest plant in the world," said an eminent naturalist to a Washington Star writer the other day, "is probably proba-bly a gigantic seaweed, known as the 'nereocytis,' which frequently grows to a height of more than 300 feet. The stem of the plant is as strong as an ordinary rope, and large quantities or it are dried and used as rope by the inhabitants of the South tea islands, where the curious vegetable ropes are found. This seaweed usually grows to a depth of from 200 to 300 feet. As soon as the plant takes root a spear-shaped spear-shaped balloon is formed, which grows with the stem toward the surface of the center. This balloon frequently has a diameter of six feet or more. It has, of course,- an upward tendency, and therefore, keeps the stem growing grow-ing until it floats on top of the water. This enormous weed grows in such large quantities that large meadows like islands are formed, which are oft- NEEDED IN WAR. tration, which is from a recent photograph photo-graph of a mountain battery in the neighborneod of Ladysmith. It was a section cf such a battery, it will be remembered, re-membered, that was captured by the Boers owing to the mules stampeding at Elandslangte. Correspondence ol the Chicago Inter Ocean. en so big as to impede navigation. The ropes made from the stems of the plant are used for building purposes, and the balloons, when dried, make very serviceable vessels." She Knew Ills Weakness. Head of the House You were very kind to buy me such a pretty bronze of Washington." Elsie "Yes; mamma mam-ma said she didn't know of anything that would suit you as well as a good, old-fashioned bust." Jewelers' Weekly. Week-ly. A Reasonable Supposition. "And why won't you marry me?" pleaded the lion. "WTell, to tell you the truth," said the lioness, "I'm afraid you'd be making a roar all the time." Kansas City Independent. Love is temporarily blind bnt self-love self-love is Incurably so. FOR WOMEN AtfDHOAlE IT1M3 OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. Stylish Street Outfit Dainty White Flannel Shirt Waist The Dainty L of Ferfnme That Becomes an xceed-tng xceed-tng Charm of Woman. The Old-Fashioned Girl. She's only an "old-fashioned girl," she says, (Is it enough-to disgrace?) An "old-fashioned girl" with womanly ways, And a winsome and womanly face; A girl who is innocent, modest and gweet. Who is sensible, honest and true The kind lhat will surely be obsolete In another short year or two. She isn't ambitious for questionable fame, She doesn't ape man in her dress. She doesn't read books that have a bad name, Nor herald her "views" in the press; She doesn't use slan nor smoke cigarettes. cigar-ettes. Nor loudly expound "Woman's Rights," She shuns all the fads of the "fashionable sets." And "home" is her chief of delights. She's only an "old-fashioned girl," you see. And not In the least "up-to-date," But she Is the kind of a girl for me. And the kind that I want for a mate. I know it's very "old-fashioned" to say Your wife is a "saint from above" But I own I am fond of her "old-fashioned" Way, And proud of her "old-fashioned" love! Arthur Grissom in St. Louis Republic Tne Daluty I e of I'erfuuie. I saw such a clever idea carried out in a home I visited yesterday that I want it to become general, says a writer in the Philadelphia Times. No girl could expect an exclusive right to it, even though she copyrighted it, for it is one of those things that are bound to be copied right and left just as soon as their existence is known. In a house with generous closets blessed belongings one of the most ample was placed at the disposal of a young woman, who is known among her friends as "Miss Daintiness." She always looks as if she had made a fresh toilet, she never gets mussed on long journeys or in crowds. She says that there is no magic in that, because It is simply due to the manner in which she puts herself together and ordinary care. She never trusts to luck, never pins faith to weakened threads and shaky buttons, never depends de-pends upon common pins to do duty where safety pins are none too strong. And she places plentv cc hairpins where they will do good service for her hair. When once arranged she takes the common precautions against personal misfortunes. However that may be, she is as fresh as a new pin all through the 24 hours. She is a sensible sen-sible young woman, inasmuch as she clings to violet scent, and every article In her possession is touched with the delicious fragrance. One day she conceived con-ceived the idea of lining her closets with white cloth to protect her gowns from contact with the walls, and then she said to herself, "Why not hang bags of sachet powder mixed with orri3 root back of the white linings?" which were suspended by small rings from a series of little hooks. That was quickly done and the sweet odor crept all through the folds of the clothing hung there. When this had been achieved she turned ner attention atten-tion to the drawers of the dressing case and the scent became a part of the room. I know women who carry their perfume in tiny little bags, slipped under un-der thviat lining, into he palm of the gloves, under a fall of lace, and wherever else they can be concealed. I know another woman who uses a rare French perfume and puts it only upon the palm of her hands, as did Beau Bruinmel, rubbing it softly into the skin and taking care to keep it away from her clothing. It is simply a fastidious taste of hers. Another woman prefers to place a drop of scent just back of her ear or over the eyebrows eye-brows or even on her hair, and all are fads. It really matters nothing, so long as the scent is perceptible, and no more it is better to search for an elusive fragrance than have it literally forced into one's nostrils. Carrying: Money. Many women, when traveling, carry their surplus money in an envelope pinned Inside the dress, but some one has now invented for the purpose a pretty case made of a bit of linen, eight inches long and Zy2 inches wide, embroidered with the heavy white Roman Ro-man silk in five-pointed stars, made by taking from the center live stitches, each an eighth of an inch long. If this is too troublesome, a simple cross-etitch, cross-etitch, made with this silk irregularly over the linen, about three-quarters of an inch apart, will give a pretty effect. Or the bag may have on the back the future owner's three initials, written with a fine-pointed, hard lead pencil to make the line as narrow and light as possible by the giver, and done in outline stitch heavy enough to cover the pencil marks, says the Baltimore Herald. Having embroidered the linen, hem one end three inches, and, be ginning half an inch above the pocket thus formed, round off the square corners, cor-ners, which will give the envelope shape. Commencing at one end, baste a piece of linen tape half an inch wide along the sides and around the flap of the envelop, and ornament it with a row of feather-stitching. Finish the hem across the pocket in the same way; sew a small pearl button one inch below the lem in the center, and make a white silk loop in the middle of the flap. Some Uses of Soda. Apart from the use of bicarbonate of soda as a relief for indigestion, both this form and the crude washing soda are useful to the cook and the housekeeper. house-keeper. A burn caused by a hot iron will cease to pain almost Immediately if a piece of soda, moistened with the tongue, is put on. A scald or burn, if the skin is not broken, can be cured by placing the burnt part in strong soda water. Boll greasy tins in soda water once a week, and use hot soda water for a greasy sink. Put a piece of soda the size of a walnut wal-nut to a tablespoonful of salt Into a basin and pour on boiling water. Allow Al-low dirty sponges to stand in this for a short time, when they will be quite clean and free from grease. Rinse in cold water. Dissolve a cupful of soda in a gal-Ion gal-Ion of water, and leave in a jar near the kitchen sink. Into this throw all pieces of soap and remains of packets of dry soap. Dip into the jar and add to the water used for washing and scrubbing very dirty pans, earthenware, earthen-ware, tinware, woodwork (but not paint), and for washing kitchen cloths and dusters. Common washing soda dissolved in water until the liquid will take up no more is said to be an excellent cure for warts. Moisten tne warts with it, and let them dry without wiping. A pinch of carbonate of soda put Into the tDot will increase the strength STYLISH STREET OUTFIT. I O te3 v it ' f; ! JriftiPr Dark red cloth, with seven box plaits stitched to knee, Eton jacket with box-piaited box-piaited front. Hood, cuffs and muff, trimmed with broadcloth. Hood lined of the tea. This applies particularly to places where the water is hard. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A Hair Tonic. A splendid tonic for the hair is made of glycerine, one ounce; eau de cologne (strongest), one-quarter pint; liquor of ammonia (8S0-882), one fluid dram; oil of origanum, oil of rosemary, of each one-half fluid dram; tincture of can-tharides, can-tharides, one fluid ounce. Briskly agitate agi-tate them together for eight or ten minutes, then add of camphor-julep (strongest), one-half pint. Electricity, properly applied, will often do wonders toward restoring vitality to the hair. In the case of a young girl who had lost her hair m spots after an attack of , . , . z . . . ... typhoid fever, a hair specialist advised . ' , . . .. tj cropping and electricity applied ... . through a good-sized sponge, three times a week, in conjunction with the above wash. The treatment resulted within three months in a beautiful head of new hair. The hair should be kept short for at least a year under the above or similar circumstances. now to Use Sachet. It is always in good taste to use sachet for the clothing, provided one uses the right sort. Violet, heliotrope, rose and clover are all right. Sandalwood Sandal-wood is too violent, but a little can be used provided discretion is shown. Stronger odors are tabooed. Dainty sachets are made of bits of wide ribbon. rib-bon. Several of these strung on baby ribbon are nice to hang over the hooks in one's closet. Dainty White Flannel Shirt Waist. Yoke tucked crosswise and full front. Deep red satin tie. Overskirt of plain goods, and underskirt mixed gray cloth. Gray hat, with white spotted ribbon or spray. 'Good Taste. It is not always costly garments that are the prettiest and most becoming. One's own good taste should tell one what to wear. An inexpensive gown, well brushed and well put on, will look a hundredfold better than one that cost a heap of money but is ill-fitting and slouchy ard trailing in the dirt. It is an easy matter to find what colors col-ors suit you best, and also what general gen-eral styles are most becoming to your figure. It would appear, though, as if half the women planned their gowns so that their defects and not their good points would be made more prominent. Don't be one of them. Reform, and mend your ways. To be beautiful is the ambition of every woman in every walk of life. It is not an ambition to be sneered at, for beauty does not mean merely a doll-like reproduction of rosy cheeks and wide, beaming eyes, but sweetness of character and a mentality men-tality that is worth the name. I wouldn't give a nickel with a hole in it for the girl who neglects the cultivation cultiva-tion of a pleasant, happy, inspiring disposition dis-position and spends six hours out ot the day experimenting with freckle cures and fretting" over a mole on ber left cheek! The freckles and the mole won't be noticed if she is sweet and dear and unselfish and lovable. Toilet Creams. It is a bad plan to keep quantities of toilet cream on the table for any length of time. The heat of the room with bright Oriental panne velvet Toque of black cloth and black pointed curved plumes. may affect the oils. Instead have small salve and cream jars, into which a portion of each cream may be put, to be renewed as needed. Put that which is not in use in a cool place and it will last longer and keep better. Jars kept for the use of creams should be thoroughly cleaned when emptied. Poisoned by Typewriter Ink. It may not be generally known that the by products of fruit stones are of considerable value. The pits of peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums and prunes which have heretofore been thrown away or used for fuel have a, 1Y M T'l." of irnino T'Vlia la cnoplGllv tfne. , . . . , . i of the peach and apricot pits. There . . , , , , Is now a strong demand for them at 4 . ,. . , I $8 to $10 a ton delivered in San Fran- i , , . , clsco' Te kef Jf of course what is j soht' . Fm he kel of the rl- j Turkish nut candy ' is made which i hot? Q tnAcf rllPrvlOrtoH V rt n IrvtriTi l Tl- ! 1 ,uu. AUC same substance is used for the adulter ation of cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg. nut-meg. Prussic acid, and essence and oil of almonds are made from the peach and prune pits and these flavors are used in many ways. The pits are cracked in San Francisco and the ker nels are then sent east. Care of Hair 1! rushes. For everyday use, and there is noth ing which can be used so advanta geously every day, one should buy the best bristle hair brushes with plain backs. These brushes cost $5 apiece, and will last for years with good care. To keep a brush in good condition it should be washed once a week. Fill a basin with lukewarm water, and drop in a tablespoonful of ammonia. Al low the brush to soak for an hour or two. OUR COOKING SCHOOL. Spare Kibs, Roasted. Joint it down the middle; sprinkle it with fine sage, salt and a little flour; put it in the oven and baste it well. Serve it with apple sauce, egg sauce or white sauce. Apple Sauce Pare, core and slice some apples; stew them with sufficient water to prevent burning; when none, mash them through a colander, sweeten to taste, add a small piece of butter, a little nutmeg or lemon. Bacon Omelet. Beat up some eggs (according to the quantitiy required), then add salt, pepper, pep-per, some finely cut parsley and green onions, and a slice or two of bacon cut Into very fine mince meat; mix all well together, fry and scorch the top with a red hot poker. To Cook Squash. If very young and tender, merely cut in pieces and core; otherwise peel and core, and stew it with a small amount of water. When tender press out the water through a sieve or in a coarse cloth, mash it fine, and dress it with butter, pepper and salt. Macaroni With Tomatoes. Boil one-half pound of macaroni till tender, pour off all the water, then add one-half cup of sweet cream, one-third one-third of a cup of butter; pepper and salt; let simmer for a short time, but be careful that It does not become much broken, turn into vegetable dish; have ready one pint of stewed tomatoes, toma-toes, season with butter, salt and pepper, pep-per, pour over the macaroni. Cauliflower. Break off the green leaves, cut the flower close at the bottom, from the stalk; If large, divide into four quarters. quar-ters. Put into cold water, let it li not over an hour, then put into boiling milk; and water, or water only milk makes it white---skim while boiling. When the stalk's are tender, take it np, which must be done befor it loses Its crispness. Lay it on a cloth or colander col-ander to drain, and serve with melted butter Points of View. "The soil," remarked the Economist, "is what supports us. Here the lawyer admitted that land is the cause of threefourths of the litigatlon.while the doctor did not deny that effluvia from the ground leads to much sickness. Detroit Journal. RAG TIME FROM WAGNER. Alio In fart From Mozart, Heethoien and Other Great Masters. From the Chicago Tribune. Ragtime Rag-time has been given its rating by F. W. Root, musical authority. He says it bears the same relation to the great things of the musical world that Mother Goose melodies do to the masterpieces mas-terpieces of the world's literature. While criticising this lowly but extremely ex-tremely popular sort of music, Mr. Root says it came from the great niaes-tros niaes-tros of the earth. Wagner lapsed into it much after the manner of statesmen states-men who sometimes get tired and drop into versification. Mozart also had moments of fatigue or exuberance, when he dashed off a few notes in the measure of the cake-walk melody. Some of the great litterateurs have written along the mental altitude of Mother Goose, says Mr. Root, and so have Bach and Beethoven yielded to the impulse to put their lofty thoughts into sharps and flats that would be appreciated in Halsted street. "I would not do away with rag time music," mus-ic," said Mr. Root. "If some one should ask me if I would blot out Mother Goose rhymes I would say unhesitatingly unhesitat-ingly I would not do it. Mother Goose is a good thing in its way. So is rag time. To make the matter plain rag time is syncopation. All the great masters have employed syncopated notes. That is all right, or the masters mas-ters would not have done it. But they did not write all of their works in syncopation. That shows that syncopation synco-pation is good for awhile, but we do not want much of it. Now, Mother Goose literature is a good thing, but suppose you had nothing else to read you would get tired of it after awhile." "What would you suggest be done about it?" he was asked. "Let it alone. The people who like it may learn after awhile to like something else better." "What objection lies against rag time music?" "It Is a repetition of the same thing, that's all. There is nothing else in the world the matter with it. As I said, if it were not a good thing the masters would not have used it." Among many oddities oddi-ties of rag time an example of its effect ef-fect may be seen in the setting of "Old Hundred" to that measure. 'There is no such thing as good music or bad music," said Prof. Emil Liebling. "You may set good music to bad or vicious wordings and the music becomes be-comes bad by implication. So with rag time. It is now lending itself to low vaudeville, in the main, and because be-cause of that association the music is denounced. The song from 'Carmen,' 'Love is a Wild Bird,' is one of the best examples of rag time in modern music. In the overture to 'Dob Juan,' by Mozart, Mo-zart, and in the sixth two-voiced invention in-vention of Bach we have good examples exam-ples of syncopation. Rag time is simply sim-ply having its day. It will be forgotten forgot-ten as a craze in a few years." SENTENCED A Dog to Jail for Sixty Days to Stay with His Master. New York World: It is of record in Recorder Stanton's Court in Hoboken that Kaiser, a mongrel yellow dog, was formally taken before him and sentenced sen-tenced to sixty days in the county jail, and a commitment was regularly made out. This was done that the dog might not be separated from his master, Edward Ed-ward Livermore. Time was, perhaps, when Livermore was good to look upon, up-on, but Kaiser was never anything but an ugly cur. The man is 52 and looks years older. Dog and man have starved together. Their bones are almost sticking stick-ing through their skin. Both bear the imprint of suffering from starvation and cold. The man was clad in rag3. Only when Livermore realized that he was so weak from lack of food that he must die of starvation or cold did he apply to Poormaster Brock the other day for admission to the almshouse. "You will have to leave the dog behind," be-hind," said the poormaster as he wrote out the commitment. "We can't part," said the old man, and his voice trembled, trem-bled, as if the suggestion that he would give up his dog hurt him. He turned to the dog. "If we can't live together we'll die together, won't we, Kaiser?" The poor, gaunt dog wigwagged his stumpy tail in acquiescence. "You don't understand," said the old man, gently. "You see, I was prosperous once and owned my own canal boat. It sank one night about six years ago, and I should have gone down with It had it not been for Kaiser. He jumped into my bunk and awakened me while the water was pouring into the cabin. We've been pals ever since, share and share alike, and we can't part now." Then Poormaster Brock's manner changed. He took Livermore and Kaiser Kai-ser before Recorder Stanton, and when the latter heard the story he sentenced man and dog to the jail for two months, and they walked off together, happier than they have been for months. Ostrich Spoiled His Speech. Anybody who heard Senator Allen of Nebraska, deliver his famous fifteen-hour speech against the bill for the repeal of the Sherman silver bill would hardly believe that anything coud stump him. Yet there Is an experience ex-perience in the senator's life which shows that, after all, he is like unto other mortals, says the Washington Post. "I was campaigning in my state once," said the senator, "when I had occasion to speak at a fair grounds. The grand stand was full, and the occasion seemed to be full of promise for an orator overflowing as I was with political gospel. Just as I had commenced a man brought out an ostrich hitched to a sulky. I don't know whether you ever saw the trotting trot-ting ostrich in the east, but out west he was a great attraction. Well, as soon as that bird began to run around the track I wasn't in it. The ostrich monopolized the attention of every man, woman and child. When the bird stopped the people listened to me, but when he threw out his long legs again there was a roar of laughter and applause which drowned every word I uttered. Finally, I gave it up. I let the trotting ostrich have everything his own way." No Charity Possible. Mrs. Church (after services) Well! the nerve of our pastor! Mr. Church (who stayed at home) What's ,Hp now? Mrs. Church You know, 1 last week we presented him with a horse and cutter? Mr. Church Yes? Mrs. Church Well, today he got In the pulpit and asked ns to pray for snow! Puck. - A. P. A. Cassidy Did ye hear o' the turrible thing that happened teh the Aherns' baby? Mulligan Hurted at the christ-enin', christ-enin', was it? Cassidy Hurted? Shure, 'twas ruined entoirely. They called the choild "Aloysius Patrick Altera." Think av the initials av it! PhJ.del-phia PhJ.del-phia Press. |