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Show nee shone with MUCH A FUNNY MAN. My gran'r Is a funny man, un expression of su- With preme content and enjoyment. won..er she ws'.rbed him devour the lust morsel, but her wonder was greater when she saw him deliberately break the earthen pot and lick the last vestige of spoiled rookery from the shards. She could not restrain a surprised try. and, discovering her, ns addressed Jinr: Oh, woman of women! Didst thou conceive this rnurvel of cookery, oi h has thy Instruc- ,, Hes Scott h as he can be, ' tries to teach him oil I ran, Dnt ha rant talk like me. I'v tolJ him forty thousand times. 1 Dm taint a bit of use, !! always iyi a mans a nun" And rails a house a boose.'' He plays with me most ev'ry day Aud riiltw mr on bis knre. lie took me to a picnic once And drrsrrd up Just like me. Ho says I am a bonny bairn" And kisses me, and when I asks him why he rant talk right He says, I dlnna ken. Kiuse-kur-lic- Being a roman, she bad the wit tc withhold the exact truth, but permitted him to believe whatever be would. Let me embrace thee," be cried, and upon his lips she tasted the first maple sugar. The discovery was made public, and kokba of sap were presently boiling in every wigwam. All were so anx:'us to get every atom of the precious sweet that they broke the kokhs and scraped the pieces, just as Woksls, tbi first sugar eater, had dune. And that is why there are so many fragments of broken pottery and so few whole vessels to be found. Atlantic sign-maki- iously Indicted a barbarous wound with roll or pound the shelled peanuts and his stone hatchet, and with a stone spread them thickly upon thin slices gouge cut out a place for a spout, so of buttered bread. Sprinkle lightly with far as setting the fashion, which was ealt before putting the slices together. long followed by white men, with only Still another filling is made by salting the difference that better tools made the powdered nut meats and mixing possible. Or we may guess that the In- them witli enough cream rheese to hold dian, taking a hint from his little red them together. Spreud this on squares brother, Nlquasese, the squirrel, who of thin bread or crackers. branches, To make peanut Jumhlea weigh s laps the smooth-lmrke- d broke those off and caught the sap scant haP pound of butter and a half in suspended vessels of birch bark, pound of iiowdered sugar, nnd atlr them than which no cleaner and sweeter to a cream. Add two beaten eggs and receptacle could be Imagined. Doubtless a little nutmeg. Take one cup of finely the boiling was done in earthen koklis, rolled peanuts aud stir them in with or pots, some of which had a capacity of a pound of flour. of several gallons. According to In- Break off pieces of the dough and roll dian myths, it was taught by a heaventhem in sugar on the molding board sent instructor. with the hand und form them into The true story of the dlsrovery of on s buttered pun, leaving a space rings maple sugar making is in the legend between them to rpread. Put four half of Woksls, the mighty hunter. Going peanuts on each ring and bake them in forth one morning to the chase, he a moderate oven to a very delicate bade Moqua, the squaw of his bosom, brown. Peanut wafers are delicious. to have a choice cut of moose meat To make them stir to a cream half a boiled for him when he should return, of butter, and one cup of sugar. and that she might be reminded of the cup a scant half teaspoonful of Dissolve lime, he stuck a stake in tfie snow and soda In half a cup of milk and add It made a straight mark out from it in to tho creamed mixture, and then atlr the place where its shadow would then in two cups of flour and beat the fall. She promised strict compliance, and, as he departed, she hewea off the mixture vigorously. Turn a baking desired tidbit with her sharpest stone pan upelde down, wipe it very clean, knife, and, filling her best kokh with butter It and spread the wafer mixture clean snow for melting, hung It over over it, using a knife to make the mixthe fire. Then she sat down on a bear- - ture smooth and quite thin. Sprinkle skin spd began embroidering a pair of the top thickly with finely rolled peain a modermoccasins with variously dyed porcu-pin- e nuts and bake the ate oven until browned. As soon as the quills. This was a labor of love, for the Hit is taken from the oven cut the cake moccasins, of the finest deerskin, were into squares and place them on a moldfor her lord. She became so absorbed ing board to cool. Put these wefers into a tin box to keep crisp. In the work that the kokh was forgotPeanut meringue shells are nice io ten till the bark cord that suspended it was burned off, and it spilled its aerve with plain ice cream. Beat tLe contents on the fire with a startling, whites of four eggs very light and stir of s pound of powquenchlug, scattering explosion that In Oiled the wigwam with steam and dered sugar, one tahleepoonful of flour, smoke. She lifted the overturned ves-l- and one cup of finely chopped peanuts. from the embers and ashes by a Drop the mixture by (he spoonful upon '(tick thrust Into its foureornered buttered papers and bake in a rather mouth, and when it was cool enough cool oven. Place a shell on each aite lo handle she repaired it with a new of a large spoonful of ice cream and pit ball of bark and the kokh was ready a little whipped cream over the toil in for service again. But the shadow of serving. (he stake had swung so far toward the mark that she knew there- - was not Dump II j nil. lima to melt snow to boil the dln-c- r. Many girls suffer great diecomfoit from damp hands. This complaint Happily, she bethought her of the arises from a weakly constigenerally great maple behind the wigwam, tution and highly nervous temperatapped merely for the provision of a ment. Excessive perspiration is not pleasant drink, but the sweet water might serve a better purpose now. So only unpleasant for the sufferer, but she filled the kokh with sap and hung renders the hands repulsive to others; It over the mended fire. In spite of therefore, anyone who has the misforimpatient watching, it presently began tune to suffer from thle complaint to boil, whereupon she popped the should do his utmost to cure it. It ample ration of moose meat into it Is usually worse in hot weather; but In and set a cake of pounded corn to bake most cases the pntlent suffers both in on the tilted slab before the fire. Then winter and summer. If it Is not s very the resumed her embroidery, in which bad case, it may be successfully treated $e sharp point of each thread supplied with ablutions of very hot soft water, and the application, after drying, of Us own needle. fullire earth, or a medicated powder The work grew more and more Inprepared as follows: Salicylic acid, teresting. The central figure, her husband's totem of the bear, was becom- three parts; talc, seven parts; starch, ing so lifelike that it could be easily ninety parts. Before going out Into soaibtlngulshed from the wolres, eagles ciety in the evtnlngs, when the handn and turtles of the other tribal clans. are likely lo get very hot and damp, In imagination she already beheld the plunge them Into water in which some moccasins on the feet of her noble powdered alum has been dissolved. In severe cases it will he found Woksls, now stealing in awful silence to resort to mrre stringent remalong the warpath, now on the neck bt the fallen foe, now returning Jubiedies. anJ the Inside cf the hand should lant with triumph or fleeing homeward be rubbed two or Mtree times a day from defeat, to ease the shame of fail-ui- e with a cloth dlppel in the following by kicking her, in which case she solution: Eau de Cologne, fourteen felt herself bearing, as ever, her useful tincture of belladonna, three parte; port. So she dreamed and worked, parts. stitch by stitch, while the hours passed It is well to awist this local treatunheeded, the shadow rrept past the ment with carofi.l diet. Avoid all fermark, the kokh boiled low, and the mented tea, coffee and ke gave forth the smell of burning. highly-spice- d liquors, pickles, dishes, and shun as much Alas! the cake was a blackened crisp, as possible all and overxcd lo! the once Juicy piece of meat rooms. heated jras a shriveled morsel In the midst of n a gummy substance. A very simple rule for making icing, She snatched kokh and cake from ured by a cooking tcachrr, consista of the fire, and then, hearing her husband powdered sugar softened with sweet coming, she ran and hid herself in the milk until It spreads readily. This nearest thicket of evergreens, for she Is a glossy frosting which dries easily. knew that when he found not whereFlavoring may be added. An expert with to appease the rage of hunger he cake baker dalma that Icing should bo would be seised with a more terrible spread with a palette knife. one against her. Listening a while Americas First Currency. The first with a quaking heart, and catching no alarming sound, but aware Instead of coined currency trade in this counan unaccountable silence, she ventry was manufactured in 1653. The tured forth and peeped into the wigmachinery waa sent from England to wam. Massachusetts, and pleceu of the vtiuo Woksls sat by the fire eating with of one shilling and Utrs'putee tfvvs his fingers from tha kokh, while bis mV). ; three-quarte- v . I Tha Theater list a liuna of toateatloa la Near Vurlc - Ulllrt Nw War 1'lajr Keeret Kervlre" I. a Saerewt-Oth- er 1'lajrs aud Talk About Ilaj-trm- . !' U-c- Iranul KerlMis. Peanuts are very popular Jnat uow and all sorts of palatable things are made of them. Physicians say that the nut Is an article of food rich in albuIt does not appear that any record men, of which It contains SO per cent, was made of aboriginal methods of with 20 per cent of fat and tapping the maple and converting Its extractive matters. Peanuts sap into sugar, nor is the oldest maple make fine sandwiches. One way of old enough to tell us, though it had making them is to roll the meats very infine and stir them thickly in mayon-als- e the gift of speech or can guess We us. only to telligible dressing and spread between thin that the primitive Algonquin labor- slices of bread. Another method Is to 1 NOTES AND COMMENTS ABOUT CURRENT EVENTS. HE question of the tor?" Hut me and him has lots of fun. He's such a funny man. I dance for him and brush his hair And loves him all I can. I calls him Anjrew thats his name . And he rays I rant talk. And then he puts my plaidie on And takes me for a walk. I tells him forty fousand times, Dut 'taint a bit of use, He always says a man's a "mon" And calls a house a hoose. J THEATRICAL LETTER. theater bat that time- - honored (heme for Jokes, the Instrument of eo much misery and the inception of so much profanity has been revived in New York and is now attracting considerable attention. Naturally it le a matter in which every theater-goe-r must take a great interest, and the wave of reform that is sweeping over our audiences is very gratifying. Ladies are beginning to remove their bats or wear small bonnets, but sven an aigrette, a bow of ribbon or a atandlng flower will render uncomfortable the person who has the misfortune to sit behind it, especially when the wearer will bob her head around In that familiar, tantalizing manner. The managers are In hearty sympathy with the new movement, and have promised to provide accommodations of hats in the ladlee parlors. This will scarcely find favor though, for it will entail ao much delay at the close of the performance In finding the hat again. Still more impractical ia the Idea of having hat boxes under the seals, for there is not single theater in New York City (and it Is scarcely likely that there la elsewhere) with space enough to admit of placing a hat box underneath the orchestra chairs. Some one has suggested that a sign be posted In the lobby requesting "young ladies to remove their hats. With this appeal perhaps every woman would enter the theater bareheaded. Managers could easily make a for the checking rs three-quarte- dark-brow- es ll. el gas-light- THE NATIONAL GAME. - rs nec-eesa- ty leading club and became or.e of the strongest teams ever known. They were scattered, however, and the Amerassimilated by the SAYINGS AND DOINGS IN THE ican association was Ahe with It. In the Von der league, BASEBALL ARENA. association councils Von der Abe had been a big factor, but he has little to (oma of tha Mrn Who Own und Op-m say in the league. He generally starts to tho Dig Imcw (Tulaa llo.lua'u for the meeting "loaded for bear, but Pumoau Triumvirate (I r inland' the nearer he gets there the smaller Owner tha Dluujuud grow hie grievances. Von der Ahe is a UuMlpuf Popular decided Teuton in conversation and apFTEX In the public pearance, and the numerous stories told eye the men who of him cannot be numbered. run baseball are ItoliinsuB m Wealthy Entlyilat. not really as well In Frank De Ilaaa Robison the Cleveknown as the players whom they hire, land club has a man who comes rear exand release being the ideal magnate. He is eo Not wealthy,' Is a baseball enthusiast, is change. much Is heard of popular in hie own city, and is by natheir characteris- ture active and aggressive. Mr. Robitics nor of their son is the good fellow" of the league, looks and actions, always cheerful end full of life. Jovial Few of the people. who could tell you however serious the subject at hand, Herand yet a fighter from 'way back If he eery readily what style of fielder is whether gets stirred up. He le a man cf strong Jennings or man Long la, Mr. a right or, left hand batter, know what convictions, but Is not stubborn. business is followed by President Sod- - Robison bas large street car Interests rn, who has been the head of the Boston In Cleveland, Columbus, Fort Wayne club for twenty years, or whether Mr. and elsewhere, and aaya he really Von der Horst of the Baltimore club is should not give the time to baneball a young man or an old man. The base- that he does. He never was known to ball magnates who will assemble in an- be at a league meeting on time, lint nual session at the Auditorium hotel generally geta there and becomes acWednesduy are a set of men much tively interested in the proceedings. above the average In business and or- Cleveland la not a good baseball cl:y, dinary sagacity; several of them are and a less sportsmanlike man than Mr. extremely wealthy; almost without ex- Robison would not have maintained ception they stand high In the business the club there as long as he has. That communities where they live, and as a It la not the money there Is in baserule baseball with them Is merely a ball which keeps him at the head of side issue a diversion. The National the club Is apparent. When the league league hai at least five millionaires, directors fined Capt. Tebeau Inst sumaccording to the generally accepted re- mer Mr. Robison promptly declared port of their holdings. Treasurer Ab- war and said he would fight the organells of the Brooklyn club is credited ization, no matter what it crs. Ho millionaire. wish being a three-timConaut of Boston and Robinson of Cleveland can scrape together a. qpuple cf millions each when their man is Xcthcrunl In My Udy Virtue, elected 'president, and Auten of PittsMiss Olga Xethersole began her American season in Boston a few burg and Von der Horst of Baltimore column. wtrka ago, presenting Mr. H. V. Es- ore rated in the seven-figur- e mond's new play My Lady Virtue." When she comes to New York later Writrrn Aaaurlullun Batten. The batting averages of the players of tlie western association of baseball j clubs were not made out by President I Hickey after the disbanding cf the last July, the president stating that he would not get them out until he was paid money he claimed was due him. Frank C. Landers of Rockford, who is recognized as high authority in baseball statistics, volunteered to make out the averages, and the official scores were forwarded to FRANK DE HAAS ROBISON. CLEVB-LANhim. The percentages show that the hitting waa much lighter than in 1895, meant it, too, although the cost, had when Ktelg led with .452. Krelg, who hlq associates seen fit to go to battle ia an old National leaguer rejuvenatwould have been heavy. Mr. Robison ed, is second this year. McFarland, was wrong In hlz quarrel.- and yet his who leada, is the outfielder loaned by loyalty to his own manager was adLouisville to Quincy. Preston, who mired even by those who strongly diswas signed by Minneapolis at the dis- agreed with him. It was only another banding of the association and who Illustration of the fart that there Is was secured from that team by Anson, something more than business in bae-baranks eighth, with .326. Old Paul Hlnea of league fame, le ninth, with .321. Hines Is so deaf that he cannot Mahdl of Banc Ball Irophmtjring. hear a cannon cracker go off under his O. P. Caylor In New York Herald: "I nose, but be can still hit the ball aa of believe that a sensational deal will he yore. Jackson, who ranks tenth, is a made at the league meeting, which will young Chicago amateur with a good concern SL Louis. The transfer of future. O'Connor of the Rockford team Breltenstcin to Cincinnati suggests is also a Chicago amateur of City of the kind. Von der Ahe's something league fame, who was chiefly remarkbaseball business was poor enough last able for hie bese stealing and fielding. year, hut Brcitenetein was the one pillar which held the club up and saved it Boston's Famous Triumvirs to. from absolute ruin. The present St. The Boston triumvirate, composed of Louis team without Breltensteln would Messrs. Soden, Conant and Billings, is be a big money loser. No one knows it an interesting delegation. Very quiet better than Von der Ahe. No one and unostentatious, they are none the knows better than he that a moderless powerful in Influence in the big ately strong team under popular manleague. They, too, have worked along agement would be a fortune maker in harmoniously for many years, and Bos- SL Louie, which, under encouragement, ton is one of the beat conducted and la one of the best baseball cities in the most successful dubs. President Ar- Union. It ia Von der Ahe's GILLETTE. thur H. Soden, being the oldest of the power to put beyond such a team into St. magnates, presides at all the league Lxmla. The belief is general, therefore, Mr. Young there acting In that some plan has been hit upon to she will probably make her chief pro- meetings, as Soden his Mr. secretary. capacity let outside capital in, and with the forduction Mr. Joseph Hattons When ia one of the most respected add ablest Greek Meets Greek. Miss Nethersola Interest will come good players. eign men in the league. He le regarded as le an actress of great natural talent one of Its old standbys" Indeed, and auperabundant animal splrlta. Her BtmlrnU of Law. himself such during the ordeal Carmen last season waa n wonderfully proved Dale Gear, the Kansas boy who has of Brotherhood days, when he and othpicturesque and dramatic performance, er Boston club owners went down Into been playing as pitcher for the Cleveand her Camille waa the very acme cf league baseball team, has returned their pockets and brought out almost land to Kansas university, where he hai pathos. 8100,000 to keep the league banner above ground. Although not at all been taking a course In the law school, and will continue Pretty Auiy Husky. talkative, either In league meetings or carried hia studiesbisas work. Young Gear much as he could Miss Amy Busby has attained a good elsewhere, he Is nevertheless a man of position on the stage partly by acting decided opinion!, and whn he says any- while playing baseball, and It Is his Inprettily, but more by looking pretty. thing it is known that he means It. tention to finish his work at school a quickly as possible. She comes from Rochester. A few yearn ago she waa playing In the companies Downer Downs Mill. The one hundred and fifty yard between A. R. Downer, the Scotch runner and champion, and W. S. Mills, of Rochdale, Eng., for 500, wae decided at the Hlgglnshaw Grounds. Oldham, London, Eng., oh Saturday afternoon. Oct. 17, and was witnessed by a great crowd. The ground was in splendid condition, having been rolled every day since th match waa arranged. Downer, who received three yards start, looked tha picture of good health, while Mills appeared to be fine drawn. On toeing their respective marks both men stooped with their hands on the track, anil at the crack of the pistol they got away I to an excellent start. Downer appear- His opinions are highly respected by ed to he Into hU running flrst. but for the other magnates and are nwaltcd fifty yards Mills held him, the Rochanxiously by the partisans of either dale AMY BUSBY. runner taking fewer strides than whenever an Issue is up before a side headed by Stuart flobeon nnd William the of the thiatK From representative league meeting. Mr. Soden Is engaged II. Crane, first with one and then with In tho manufacture of roofers' supplier, here, however, Downer gradually in-- i the other. She made a good Impres- pr.rt is creased his and forty yarJs from comparatively wealthy. He lives the finish helead, sion In The Fatal Card, when that was four yards in front j the Boston suberb of Newton. is lurid play was presented at Palmer's of the back marksman, who. seeing hit Theater a season or two ago and afchance hopeless, eased tip slightly, and Itmwna. of the Manager terwards In one or two melodramas at Downer, running all out. wn:i by flv St. Louis, the only remaining club in the American Theater. She le now in amid loud and prolonged checrx yards, William Gillette's company, playing the league circuit, is represented by the In "Serret Service" nt the Garrick most unique charsrter of sll the mag-natOtto Floerahctm writes in the Mu-the only Chris Von der Ahe. rlcal Courier that the Theater. best-pai- d of aC The latter was an obscure Germnn in European conductors at the present Louis he until became Ft the backer of time is Arthur Nlklsch. While we were in the country we who. durlni went to the theater. The play waa 'The a local team called the Browns. The the coming season, will make over f went into the latter American associaHe la in demand all over Ger Robbers, and It wee eo naturally given that when ere ceme out my wife missed tion. which became a flourishing organ- many, as well as In England r.nd Scan ization. The Browns were soon lie tlnavla. her bracejft!" Fllcgende Blatter. success cf the List named, written and produced by William Gillette some five or six seasons since, proml-r- i to be repeated in his new production, Secret Service." which hits already met with much favorable criticism and is in some respects more pleasing than "Held by the EnAny." Mr. Gillette plays the leading part (Lewis Dumont), a Union soldier within the line at Richmond on a mission for the secret service of the United States. His friendship for Edith Varney (Miss Amy Busby), daughter of a prominent Confederate general, awakens the enmity of Benton Amlsford (Mr. Campbell. Gollan) who also has a penchant for the lady, and is also in the secret service, hut under the flag of the Confederacy. The result may easily be guessed and it is on th rivalry between these two that the pay Is built. Incidental to the story is Introduced Caroline Mltford (Miss Odette Tyler), who has the comedy pait, and to whose unquestionably fine work is due much of the success of the drama. Mr. Gillette appeare in somewhat of a new role the heroic, and to those who have sen him in Too Much Johnson, it will be a mild surprise. His methods are devoid of the highly emotional, and perhaps all the more welcome because of this. What la lacking In this respect on Mr. Gillette's part ia amply made up by Mr. Gollan, who acquaints us with the fiery Jealous type of a Southerner in a realistic manner. The climax of the second act in which Dumont's brother (an escaped prisoner from Libby) shoots himself that hia Jailer.i may believe him to be taken prisoner by his brother, and thus preserve their tercet, is admirably worked up, and ote of the strongest incidents ever prn-s-c ited on the stage. The idea of making a hero of a spy is a new one for the stage, though Cooper's novel depicts Harvey Birch ae such. WILLIAM rule that no hate should lie allowed in the theater not limply large hats (for woman with her uaual consistency would don a cartwheel loaded with plumes and insist with her most charming smile that her hat waa only of medium size), but that every hat should be removed, and those women jwho were no discourteous ae to obstruct the view of others should be waited upon by a committee for that purpose and requested either to remove their hats or leave the theater. Ae the average woman detests a "scene, she would speedily comply; everybody would command a good view of the stage, the men would be happy, and the ladles, bareheaded, would be lovelier than ever. The Mummy" U Snrrraa. "The Mummy," the new comedy which Robert Hilliard is presenting this season, seems to have made a success. The play le said to he a departure from the conventional, and Mr. Hilliard's role Is thht of a revivified mummy. He Is probably a very lively one, for the plays and parte that he chooses for his use are never alow or lacking In fun. Lost1 Twenty-fou- r Hours, which he produced last season, was a rattling comedy and a good one. It la in Blue Jeans" and Mr. Barnes of New York" that the public remembers him best, but he has enacted a long line of parts. In special productions, touring companies and as a star. Mr. Hilliard 1s decidedly handsome, and what is more he Is a good actor. His work Is manly, energetic, and pleasing, but he is without the least professional vanity, and always has a word of praise for hie fellow players. It la this generosity and never-fallin- g good numor that hare made "Bob" Hilliard a man of many friends. j ! ! The War llay Three highly successful war plays: A Fair Rebel and Shenandoah, "Held by the Enemy " have made what might properly he called epochs ia the Jrgiu itic history of the country. The I 15.-00- |