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Show A and chose the shortest route to the valley, babbling with all Its little ; taight- - It was Joined, before It had Y M ARC N H AffiL Kk Eone many feet, by other 5 rivulets, and ' " V. rX. 'j Ill rrom a point r AttiJ midway in the descent, w here the cliffs were steepest, c&me up f save t the shout of a waterfall. This, and the relesa murmur of the INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION can tr evergreens, made up the music of this c litff' upper sanchad young visitors tuary, until Constances voice rose from ' 8n.d there fLis it would be better for me 'the dullest My t the rocky table, sweet, to con-th- e full, exultant: am I betif, if .rflM8e likely ' sole change my dress, finj """ The hour," ld '? wild streams leap with headlong 111 de bands and ' man', ! .. t her chamber door. i spend her sweep f onte,mp,atlon her In their curbless ProtaC my cousin would She b course o'er the moun18 0( tvl X exclaimed her em- tain steep; igDizej I 1 All fresh Then .he amended maid. ? Z, and strong they foam along, J tathJ or ridU Advertence. Of course, Mrs. cule. The , vaklng the rocks with their cataract id not t' Is is the proper judge of her own couple her name ATh song. "A d My eye bears a glance like the beam on nd I would not appear to die- - "dependence sho tlnotiuc I housebold a lance cousin is punctilious on cares Mr Wltho a sr lilngs J - As I 5nw and the matter of ladle.' watch the waters dash and dance. f bl tn I burn with glee, for I love to see And the mistress of by a.l'.j the mansion was The path of left to her own devices? that's free. or By no means. I love I love anything I love the free! If oh, her husband were nny Hi fastidious, he was I love I love I love the free! also tyrannical. He dictated cm that 1 not only what dress his wife should Iced bj J appear in The skylark bo a springs with dew on hla daily, but also hat laces and nj wings, she should sport; at what lensc, nj hours And up in the arch o their of heaven he she should take the air; whom she sings lice ot t must visit and whom Invite; what ; same Oh, sweeter far songs she should sing to him when lie Than the notes that come ore com. asked for music In the through a evening, and golden bar. iply the when the day should close the so day The thrall and the state of the we hivi palace wearisome in its similitude to all that I, underbred and a meddler, gate ad are tr a made while she had Constance, preceded and those which should Are what r all otv my spirit has learned to I hate to be addressed In follow it. jllet. hate." a It form I thought rd person. "My cousin is a man with aspirations ii. confined, In this country, to above the frivolities of fashionable The strain ceased abruptly, rh and, ln tr been and dry goods store life, and excitement is n maids of the rapt musician, borne above place to his Injurious slty, hai health, Miss Field notified the bride the power of earthly woes to crush and t flogged in the that re she could invest herself day after her I petty vexations to sting, a woman grovhe folk dress that lay uppermost in her fear Mrs. Withers will tire of the even elled upon the mossy cushion, t'ded bj i weeping he bell rang to summon her to tenor of our way. hot, fast tears, and beating against the "I like quiet, Constance replied. rough rock with a child's folly of desnlng meal, and three minutes !llt bein; er the footman knocked at her But she did not mean his ion. stagnation. peration the white hand that wore the Wlth-seth the message that Mr. She was married In April, and on the badge of her servitude. desire u for her. first of July the trio removed to Mr. What was she but a caged bird, bidon couM Tell him Withers country seat Here Constance den to all be down directly. t at that preen Its feathers and warble wait for me, she said, hurrled-dl- d was to find that the dead level of her the notes Its master ell bad dictated between not expect to be taken at existence had yet a lower plane of dulltie flue t golden bars? A slave to whom state d, but upon her descent to the ness. There was not a neighbor within ed wltb and thrall meant one and the same room she beheld her husband four miles, so to rr abhorrent a farm lu house thing? What had she to do hardly Jat the foot of the board and Miss sight. henceforward with dreams of beauty m down the bead. The latter laid down We recruit here after the dissipa- and freedom she, who had slied as if be p ladle and Jumped up, fussily, tion of the winter, Miss Field said, away her liberty of spirit and person, ot whirl she Is. now. I resign my chair enjoylngly. "The solitude is enrapturvoluntarily accepting In their stead Ismail tc who will fill it more worthily ing. One can sleep all day long If she the most foul captivity a pure and upd said li rave ever done. likes. right woman can know? She felt herlanner, This proved to be her favorite meth- self to be utterly vile plague-spotte- d ight yon od of recuperating her exhausted ener- in soul and flesh ln the lonely sublimreconeil, ity of this mountain temple a leper, gies. Mr. Withers, too, liked a condlfr a chair at his left prandial siesta, "prescribed by his condemned and Incurable, constrained uld come for Constances occu- - slclan as eminently conducive to diges- to cry out at the approach of every at be it Unclean! unclean!" tion." Constance was not more lonely passer-by- , It when they slept than when they were would have been better for her to beg awake. The horrible sterility of her life her bread upon the doorsteps of the was not to be ameliorated by their so- wealthy, and, falling that, to die by the ciety. If commonplacenesg be a crime, wayside with starvation and cold, than Mr. Withers and his cousin were of- to live the life of nominal respectabilfenders of an aggravated type. Harr- ity and abundance, of real degradation iets affectations and Elnathans plati- and poverty, which were now hers. tudes were to the tortured senses ot the The tears were dried, but she still sat third person ot the party less endura- on the gray carpet, clutching angr'ly ble than the cicada's shrill monotone at It and the wild flowers peeplne through the hot summer day, and the through the crevices of the rock, ren katydid's endless refrain at night. Her ing them as passion had torn her; h chains, which had hitherto paralyzed bosom heaving with the unspent wav her by their weight, began to gall and of excitement and a mutinous po fret Into her spirit. She grew unequal upon her lips, when a crackling amo: In temper, nervous and restless, under the brushwood thrilled her with an u the restrictions Imposed by her spouse. comfortable sensation of alarm. An Insane Impulse beset her to defy his Before she could regain her feet and set at naught his coun- - concert her scheme of defense , authority yet comprehend your marvel- - j BeiB: t0 ruBh into some outrageous flight, the nearest cedar boughs we nee the courage with which i freak that should shock him out of bis pushed aside, and a man stepped ln propriety and provoke the prudish toad the area fenced ln by the hardy mou eater to natural speech and action. tain evergreens. With subsiding feai This madness was never stronger as her quick eye Inventoried the vai than on one August afternoon when she oua particulars ot his neat travel)! escaped from the house, leaving the suit, gentlemanly bearing, pleasa cousins to the enjoyment of their re- countenance and deferential asp cuperative naps In their respective toward herself, Constance arose, vlsib chambers, and took her way to the embarrassed, but dignified, and awal mountain back of the villa. She had ed his pleasure. The stranger betrayi never explored It. tempting as was the neither surprise nor confusion. Wal shade of the hemlocks and pines that Ing directly up to her, he removed h grew up to the summit, and the walls hat, bowing low, with a bright, cord! of gray rock revealed through the rifts smile. "Unless I am greatly mlstaki of the foliage. A current of fragrance, I have the pleasure of seeing my brot the odor of the resinona woods, flowed er'a wife. And you are more famllli down to greet her ere she reached the with my name and my handwrltli outskirts of the forest, and the lulling than with my face. I am Edward Wit: murmur of the wind In the evergreen era! :to as cosTixos i.i bougha was like the sound of many and wooing waters. The tender green tassels of the larches tapped her head Coining of P.nnle. as she bowed beneath their low braneh-- 1 U not It generally known that all the l u hB' mre patlent ,u1 'es, and the wide hemlocks were spread minor coins of base metal, such as I "lihtrs, am sure, re-- 1 n benediction above her. She was pennies and nickels, aro made at the I arrlet, "Mrs. Withers will alone with nature free for one short Uhiladelphla mint, and that nearly I xcePtlon to my honest en- - hour to think her own thoughts and 100,004,000 pennies are coined there act out her desires. She laughed as a every year. TbU large number Is ocbushy cedar knocked off her hat at the casioned by the fact that thousands of Instant that ah tore her dress upon a pennies are lost annually, and the goV' bramble. ernment has some difficulty In mainwith legal my are leagued "They taining a supply. The profit of the buBlnesa proprietor In the commendable government on their manufacture la of repressing the lawless vagaries of Urge. The blanks for making them those who cannot get their fill of nat- are purchased for l a thousand from ural beauties through the windows of a Cincinnati firm that produces them a state chariot. But I shall hgve my by contract. Blanks for nickels are frolic all the same. obtained In the same way, costing UnAnother and a higher penk tempted cle Sam only a cent and a halt a piece. her when she had sat for awhile upon Cold k coined In Philadelphia and San a boulder crowning th first, revelling Francisco. Not enough of It cornea inin the view of valley and hill, Includto the mint at New Orleans to make the ing the bnaln In which nestled the coinage of It worth while, Cold house, and the plain opening eastward pieces are the only coins of tbs United toward the sea and civilisation. The States which are worth their face value second height was precipitous, in some Intrinsically. A double eagle contain From 20 worth of gold without counting the places almost perpendicular. from and h rapidly part copper. treading fearlessly hercrag to crag, she cam to pulling at self up gravelly banks by catching tUtrocredtns. the stout underbrush, and steadying Nocount (proudly) I can trace Lord herself among rolling stones bjr tufts from William the Conquerdescent my and of wiry grass. Hut she kept on, "You have been a long breath and or. Cynlcua forgot aching feet, scant downward path." Truth. the on time blistered hand when she stood finally of fee upon a broad plateau hundtrds had that houe. above the has threatened to kick me jlf.X Into a toy cottage, and the environing In an next time he meet me In society. If I like patches of trees plantations ire him walk In what should I dor herb garden. In a sun- - "Sit down." Sundaid. out fried she life! "This Is fecr tlf0A . - .den transport, and she st , : mow of gray ,u) lhM cushion Wlrif liiwlfc inriti-n- U Pnn the ond r ,h entertainment shadow of a crd r. to i." l gfe on'1 The caterpillar are great eatere, the dew f "dm!11' from five ,!nv'plicre of re- - and rejoice wuiuav A different aperies ronrtimng IW I A of prnentljr. cry 'I own di.ro their made weight Fh tlm 'd cp to twenty m,"k of her new spring, dear and Impetuous, burst 4,. , each day ,iod "'Mia hou.o .bo had from betwc n two tivct hanging rm-- , 0 -- , rn-rco- imsca, i o,d L5Sr L, ; .i.'T.f li thSLi, ; m. I Tdr' ea i ! orna-tnen- ts i . 3 home-bringin- g. nt lng-roo- jt : ed ,; one-tent- : ? k .,.w.,aw,v.v.w jwwj HOUSEHOLD 5 9 MATTERS ij 9 TRAINED HIS WESTERNERS MULE PET THAT CAME TO SAD END. Sw.v.w.v.v.,.v.v.v.v.v Peach Dumpling. Brainy and Accomplished, He Might Peach dumplings are made of a Still Have Been a Joy to Hie Owner, pint of flour sifted wltb two table But He "Butted In at a Prayer spoonfuls of baking powder and wltl; a tablespoonful of butter rubbed care fully through It. Mix with a half-cuful of warm not hot milk. Roll ou: the paste a quarter of au inch thick, and cut It Into six pieces. Iut n heap ing tablespoonful of cooked or canned peaches In each piece of paste aud sea', them lu It. lut the six dumplings lq a steamer aud steam about half au hour. Dish them and servo them with an aprieot sauce. This cousists of four tablespoonfuls of aprieot marmalade, mixed with half a cupful of water and a teaspoonful of butter. Strain the sauce after heating, and add a teaspoonful of earameled sugar. When the caramel melts, the sauce la ready to serve. p For Meeting. " Taint right to expec every man to think like you do, an that's the reason I never say nothin when I bear a feller cusaln' a mule, Bald the old Westerner the other evening as he stood watching a driver trying to make one of the obstinate St. Louis pets pull up a little stronger. "I got a good deal o respeo fer a Jackass, I don't caro where you find him, nor rinilcklng. Do not take everything you can thiuk of. Pick and choose and prepare carefully. Tlx boxes and waxed paper will prevent musslness. The value of tin boxes will be evident when the foods are taken out un- feast If a fire Is to be built, there may be surprises. A broiler takes up no room, and with It one may produce hot chicken, baron, ham and the like. For frying one of the tin dishes does won ders. Philadelphia Record. Four Entity Mnl SnIndt Egg Salad With Cream Cheese Rub together the yolks of eggs and an equal quantity of Neuchatel cream cheese. .Season with salt aud cayenne, and roll Into little balls. Arrange some lettuce on a dish and cut Into very small pieces the whites of the eggs, making a bed of them upoq the lettuce. Place the cheese balls on It. Just before serving pour over the salad a mayonnaise dressing. t imld-bolle- d Veal Snlad Let the veal be thoroughly cooked and use only the best part containing no gristle. Equal proportions of cold veal and chopped white cabbage served with mayonnaise dressing Is a very palatable salad. Another way Is to cut the cold veal Into balMncb pieces aud soak In oil and vinegar for two hours; then dress wltb three spoonfuls of oil. one of vinegar, one teasponful of French mustard, and two of pounded anchovies or anchovy sauce. Sprinkle with chopped . , pickle and capers. Carrot Salad Boll very young carrots ln a little water until tender. Cut Into narrow strips lengthwise. Sprinkle with mlnred chervil, tarragon, cress, or any herb desired. Cover with a French dressing. Serve cold. Iot Cheese Falad Mix the cheese with mayonnaise dressing, and when cold place a teaspoonful on a plateful of lottueo leaves for each guest. If the cheese Is dry, It can be mixed wltb cream or butter and served with boiled dresMlng or mayonnaise separately on leaves of salad. American Queen. RECIPES He aaw an old buck. who hla owner is, though I'll admit some of em la purty bad off when theyll have the kind o owners they do. "I never owned but one and he wua cusa out ln give to roe by & cross-eyeWyoming what had shot the owner an didn't, have no unt fer the beast, but 1 learnt to love that Jackass like a brother, though 1 never had no brother an I dont know much about them kind o affections. "First I named the ol brute 'Broad-aide- s frum the way he could haudle hie hind paws, but mules ain't much on fancy names an I babtlzed him agin to the name o Fete, which aint a bad name fer a mule, and la one about auted to bla temper and usual allaround cussedness. "I recollect oncet I rode Pete down to a camp, an Fete was a trampin along as lazy aa a coyote on a June day. All to oncet he spied a ole buck, and he liked to Jerked the daylights outen me afore I could grab them reins. I never seed a mule run like Fete did. A Jackrabbtt an a pack of within a mile houns wouldn't Inside a, minute. 1 froze onto the pommel o the chariot what covered the mule from withers to crupper, an it wuz darned hard slickin', on at that Fete run bouten a mile an a half an then stopped an looked aroun to see !t any Injuns was a cornin. He was the feardest jackass I ever Beed, an when 1 tried to turn him back to the Injun layout he let out a whistle from hla lungs that shook a ton o rock loose on a hill a mile away, let have hla way, fer Ive found that between a Jackass on four legs and a Jackass on two that the four legs has the mos' sense. There aint no greater philosopher than a wellsea-sone- d mule, an' you remember that if you want to keep outen' trouble. "Its powerful strange what you can teach a mule to do with his voice. Its alius been supposed that a rooster wua bouten the only natural hut Pote born alarm clock wuz better's any shanghai that ever cracked a egg. lie brayed every hour an' never missed the time a minute. He would cock one eye at the sun, brace hlsself In the sand, and start em poise pumps Uke mad. If I wanted to rout out at 4 o'clock In the niorntn' all I had r do wuz to say to Fete, Howl a little louilcrn usual, an be never failed but oncet. "That mule wuz mighty wlze, but he didn't have much aense o pro yrletlo, aa he showed oncet when d ln -- J The sermon (topped right there. This kep up fer boutea three minutes, when nobody wus out, an everybody wuz everybody elset. a picnic, but It "Fete wus didnt last long. Finally a feller pulled a ugllookln slxshooter, an then a dozen other fellers did the same, an before Fete could duck away from that wlndor he weighed abouten eight pounds moren when he begun brayin, fer I dont think a single bullet missed blm. It wus a awful blow-tme, an It wus a awful blow to tb Ohioan, fer the people got to thlnkln thar want no devil after all. I never said nuthln, fer I knew that Pete wus In the wrung, an had no right to be a singin st a mootin'. But be mule. Yes, wus a awful sir, he wuz. fer a fac, an Ill mlae that Jackaaa as long as I Uvs.Ch . cago good-hearte- Inter-Ocean- 1 Provisions from Trees. There Is a tree which grows la Sumatra Algeria and China which la known at the vegetable tallow tree. ITom its fruit large quantities of oil and tallow ore extracted, and the fruit Is gathered la November or Docomber, when all tho leaves have fallen. Excellent randies are made from tb berries of a tree which grows in some parts of Routh Africa and the Azores. At Hlerra Leone is found the cream fruit tree, the fruit of which la very In Ceylon there la agreeable In the bread fruit tree, from which a food Is mad In the same way that w make bread. It Is said to he equally good and nutritious. In South America w And the milk tree. Bread Ramekins Rub together four of grated cheese, the yolk of one egg. one tablespoon of melted butter, a little anchovy paste or one anchovy; a little salt and pepper; rub until smooth: spread on toasted bread, aud brown In the oven. Buttermilk Cakes Bent one egg; add U to the buttermilk with otip teaspoon of salt; mix well; dissolve one teaspoon Of soda In two tahlexpoonfut of boiling water; add gradually flour enough to make a batter that will pour smoothly from n spoon; heat well and bake on a liot griddle; serve with sugar aud butter. Delmouiro rotntoes-lle- at two cupfuls of eold boiled potatoes, rut Into Plsature for Divorced Wife. dice, In one aud a half cupfuls of white Pete went to kicking, Btanuard of Weetbrook, Conn., Frank a when sauce; thoroughly heated put he didnt wake me with hla tingin. called to talk over matters with hla layer In a buttered baking dish; I guess he must o tired reachln divorced a wife got few days and ago, and with salt sprinkle grated cheese; fer them high notes, end whea he some mishap fell down cellar, put In alternate layers until all the didn't see me cornin' out ee usual he through which caused a had fracture of hie leg. potatoes aro In the dish; spread with to the cabin an brayed Now he Is forced upon his divorced buttered crumbs and brown ln the moseyedI up heered him, but I wuzn't In wife to be nursed until be can walk ag'ln. oven. a hurry to roll out. I yelled fer him away, which may not be for several Veal and rtgo Soup Tut three cup- to go away, hut he never heard me, months. fuls of veal alotk over the Are; souk an' be went aroun to the tide o the two tablespooufuls of sago In a little hack where my bunk wtis He hackImmense Puff Ball. cold water In the back of the rouge ed up to that cabin end went to W. O. end Herbert Ore of Vergen thmi one hour; stir It Into the veal klckln. I thought he wus agoln to nee. Vt, recently found a puff ball stock and cook until It U clear and knock the joint down, for I never growing In the woods which measuror bent one the yolks of transparent; heard such a tattoo In my life, en he ed 4 feet 9 Inches In circumference, 11 two eggs n little, add a little of th kop' It up till I struck my head outen Inches across, and weighed 16H hot soup to them and pour nil back the winder. That come purty near be- pounds. Into the kettle again; bent thoroughly in' the finish o me, fer Jos' aa I poked but do not boll; season well. .y head out them heels o ivtoa Citizens Llvts Gusrded. whizzed a past my head an Jarred No married nmn ln Vienna, It Is Til !(i that cabin like a avalanche had struck said, 1 allowed to go up In a h:illton mi1i How many ii day will It It. I spoke to the mole an he turned without the formal consent of his take to Keep him looking respectable? armin' and walked 'way. wife and children. -- Baltimore Auaqlcun. s tat. wh , long-winde- d ade-Bcrlb- named. Wise people do not picnic In places ivhere ice and spring water are not convenient, unless they go In a wagon of other vehicle and carry these necessities. For Iced tea the beverage should be made at home very strong, and carried in a small glass jar. It Is easily weakened with spring water. Lemon Juice, sugar and whatever other fruit juices one likes should also be carried ln a small glass jar. Squeezing lemons and slicing fruits is so messy! A person who draws the line at a paper nnpkiu has no business at a picnic. Small fruits, salted nuts and almonds are among the easy and delicious things to carry. Dainty sandwiches packed ln waxed paper are the staudby of the cold plcnlq "Civilizin Influences killed Fete If hadn't been fer churches Pete yet. I never might V been seed a jackass die a natural death, an, aside frum hla trainin', Fete wus ;es' a ordinary rabbit. But Injuns an mules can't stan much civilizin, an poor Ieto had to go. "Pete met his Waterloo at one o the firs churches lu the West. A star guide frum Ohio come out there and held meetlu ln a log but, an bein a curiosity, we all went to hoar him. I rode ole Pete to the services, an Jest turned him loose, fer he woudn't go away thout me. The cabin wuz filled to suffocatin, an' ln them days there want no shoottn at an there want no preachers, standln outside an bein disrespectful. But that preacher were a cuss an as hed been ever' day fer two weeks, the people wuz kinder o tired o the prayer sp'eler. But he wefo uncommon at makln men sco the error o their ways, end he had em all that night that hell wuz about due to break loose n swallow em all. "Thar wa'nt much light in the cabin, an' that Ohioan wuz not moren able to see half his layout o sinners. But his arms and an he war ter good, an' he wus about his the dovll an long horns an hla pitchfork an the fieiy furnace an all that, an' he had 'em stirred up. "Then somethin happened. The most onearthllest noise I ever heard broke out right to one able o the church, an everybody looked that way. Poked through the winder wua somethin, nobody could tell edzactly what, In the dim light, an' it waa makln a terrtfflc heller. I knowed what It wus, but nobody elect knew. It wuz Fete, an his ears wuz the air, an' his bray wus ap raisin the rooft. Well, sir, that sei mont stopped right thar. The star guide went over that pulpit like a antelope, and the crowd broke fer the door. Everybody wuz an a yellin, an' the preacher ahouted, 'Its him,' an I knew he meant th devil had come sure nough, "Well, sir, everybody pllod together thar at the door, tryln to get out, an nearly every sinner of em wuz afeard c bis life, fer he expected to be pulled Pete kep ln any minute. them high notes, an th? crowd hep' It |