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EMi* LIFE-TIME GRUDGE Br R- 1- BUCKLEY, AtitKor of "The Spy.' ^Copyright, by Joseph B, Bowl®*.) Richard Hanna, of Gallinagh, CJmmty Donegal, was a country gen­ tleman, and head of his family, jovial, popular, open-handed, and beloved by the peasantry. Though a downright good fellow he was not perfect, his fault being a congenital hastiness and A tendency to punch the heads of all am! sundry who aroused his ire.- A wiaower o.4 60, he had a son of 25 and a very lovely daughter of 20, mined respectively Robert and Mar­ garet. Rob was a captain in the Royal Irish Rifles; Mag was the prettiest •girl in the county and, moreover, was a just as sweet as she looked. At the time to which I now refer-- "the fatal time--the captain was -•pending his furlough at the aittestral ball, and the private rifle range in the valley between the house and the lake re-echoed to the ceaseless deton­ ations of the rifles, with which the Vcaptain and his friend Dr. Terry, of t^e Army Service Corp&, competed against each other. It was a happy home; hither and children were wrapped up in each other, and respected by the whole country-side. Conceive the shock sus­ tained by the children and the whole liousehold when, one fine morning at 11 o'clock, the squire of Gallinagh, •without a moment's notice, without a groan, without a sigh, sank to the «arth stone dead. He had never had a day's illness, and, though 61, was apparently hal^ and sound. After breakfast he had •walked outside, and having taken a few turns in the gardens had seated Umself under a spreading chestnut tree to read his morning newspaper. This seat in the shadow was his fa- varite resort in summer, and on this •particular morning he had just settled himself to con the iiews, when he was ohnBirrtl to sink forward as though devoid of will or muscular control. The poor squire was removed to the house, and great was the wailing at Gallinagh. The lovelr Mag was crushed, but brave, and the captain bore himself like a man, though in anguarded moments his heart-break was terrible to see. But Dr. Terry was, from one aspect at least, the most Smportant of the trio, for, as a medical ma of uncommon attainments, he nat- waily took some interest in the case trt/ya a scientific point of view. From the first moment a doubt as to the •cause of death had existed in his Brfnd. The squire, in his opinion, was iaot a likely subject for apoplexy. A short examination not only con­ vinced him that apoplexy counted for ^nothing, but also revealed the aston- fact that the 3quire had been "Tllie Squire Had Been Shot Dead His Chair. dead as he sat in hi* ' that a most foul and cowardly murder bad been perpetrated. • No doubt could possibly exist. A ;bullet had traversed the body, passing "directly through the heart and had Sodged in the hole of the great tree Ibehind the unfortunate squire's gar- -•den chair; a modern bullet of the thickness of a lead pencil such as leaves at the most a red mark as big raa a barley-corn, owing to the almost immediate closing of the Bkin. But *, JDr. Terry knew all about such wounds. . it seemed that the squire used to ! "boast that from his garden chair un- | *der the chestnut he could Bee for 40 I miles without a break or a brick, save v -and except one solitary cottage, which was built of stone! And this, he said, .Just served to vary the desolation without destroying the beautiful | loneliness of the scene. One Dennis | O'Gorman lived there, and though the ' bouse was but half a mile or so from I "the farther edge of the lake the dis­ tance from Gallinagh to the white •eottage was over four miles by land, though as the crow flies, under a mile ;«nd half. When the squire's body was brought the squire's valet, one Millar, an ^Englishman who had served his mas­ ter faithfully for many years, swept lake and the opposite shore for Abe sportsmen without seeing a living igoul except Dennis O'Gorman placidly digging turf in the bog behind his bouse. The captain and Dr. Terry had ®ot, in fact, returned until five in the evening, crossing the lake in the canoe, having sustained existence by a rough and ready meal at O'Gor- inan's cot, where they had rested and smoked from 12 to 2. Imagine their amazement and sorrow on returning to Gallinagh and finding the squire, .who in the morning had so heartily wished them luek, a pale, cold corpse. The squire had been shot in broad daylight and from the direction of the rifle range and the lake. He had also l»een shot with the service bullet of the Lee-Metford rifle, which was the .arm carried on that day by young Hanna and Dr. Terry, who had been •*eeu to cross the lake and disappear TOP ynntintaii^B qjx fcjie Other Side; who \ad, moreover, called at O'Gor main's formatches on their outward march, ana" for refreshments on their return.. Now,'as every action of Importance has a motive, It follows that when we see the act we guess the motive, not always correctly. first, who would benefit pecuniarily by the squire's death? Answer, his son and heir, and his daughter Mag. The money tack having failed, I turned to another motive: revenge. Here we groped blindly for days with­ out one single cheering ray. At length the old vicar of Ballyoran said quite casually, but in Upton's hearing, that the squire had in his youthful days practised boxing, and for years was a handy man with his fists; also, that years ago he had thrashed Denny O'Gorman within an inch of his life for that the said Denny would persist in poaching in the squire's preserves, and that Denny, himself a notorious, fighter, had thereafter been held in such derision that he had forthwith emigrated to America, from which he had only returned a year ago, in order to take possession of the small farm left to him by his deceased father, after an absence of 25 years. The revenge motive was clear enough to anyone who understood the long memory of the Celt; but the thing would hardly work in connec­ tion with O'Gorman, who was digging turf behind his cottage when Millar swept the country with the telescope in search of the captain and the doc­ tor. Moreover, the cottage was a mile and a half away in a bee line. "As to O'Gorman," said Upton, "that cock won't fight. Besides the alibi, which is proved, he was on the best terms with Squire Hanna, and often refer­ red with glee to the hiding the squire gave him a quarter of a century ago. It seems that his Kathleen threw hin? over because of it and that he nevei married, an escape for which he de clares himself deeply indebted to the squire! He's alone in the cottage, an<) is trying to sell the farm. America is the only country .fit to live In, says O'Gorman." Yet somehow I felt that to search O'Gorman's, cottage would <^e a benl- son to my struggling soul. And so 9(rong was this inclination that I took immediate measures to Indulge It, and to get O'Gorman out of the way in order to obtain a favorable oppor­ tunity. This was easy enough. He was ad­ vertising the farm, and I arranged.for a pretended probable purchaser to meet him at Ballyshannon. O'Gorman rose to the bait, and departed in peace. He would be absent for the night, and the search over so small an area was easily feasible in the time. Upton and I rowed over In the night. We were rewarded. In an up­ per room were two chains with deep marks on the upper bar of the backs. I asked Upton to look out for the small vises that had made those marks, and presently one turned up, under the bed. Upton did not under­ stand. He had never studied scien­ tific rifle-shooting; did not know that Sir Henry Halford had put 18 bullets out of 20 into a mark at 2,000 yards. Upton was not prepared to find that a grudge oould be borne for a life­ time, ami notwithstanding protests of frlemlNhlp r*nm\ lie paid off at last by means of rifle shot from a fixed rest, the weapon carefully laid by means of a telescopic sight Tet so It was. We found the other vise; we found the rifle in the thatch, with the marks of the vise on the stock; we found the cartridges, and books which led to the belief that O'Gorman had been employed in an American rifle factory. And as the summer morning dawned we looked across the lake, and In the clear mountain air discerned a newspaper had spread on a chair at the fatal spot where the squire had fallen, with the naked eye. The distance was af­ terwards found to be exactly 2,247 yards, and there can be no doubt that the squire had long been the object of rifle practice from O'Gorman's cot­ tage. It had taken O'Gorman some time to get the range, even with the help of the Bquire's newspaper,which would be a conspicuous object against the green background, especially through a telescopic sight. Will you believe me that O'Gorman gave us the slip? With the marvelous instinct of the Celt he divined something, and got clear away! We waited, and waited in vain. The appliances found in the cottage were undeniable when compared with the cause of the squire's death. Capt. Hanna is a major now, and the lovely Margaret (she was the* for­ ty-ninth Irishwoman who stole my heart away) runs the old hall of Gal­ linagh under the wing of a maiden aunt, who spends half her time in re­ ligious observances and the other in making herself obnoxious to the housekeeper. Of course O'Gorman lost his farm. A curious sort of pun­ ishment, though probably considered not too dear a price for his long-de­ ferred and carefully considered re­ venge. MitbiLtl PATTERSON STUDYING AGRICULTURE. Young Millionaire Socialist of Chicago ^ Student at Wisconsin Unlytf* ."V" sity--Plans to Run a 'ytJifi Model Dairy. Madison, Wis.--There camato the Wisconsin state university last fall a young man who told the professors that he wanted to learn how to milk a cow and plow and sow and mix bran-mash for hogs--he wanted to learn to be a farmer. This was nothing extraordinary, be­ cause there are several hundreds of farmers' sons there now taking the course in agriculture. Very many of them are earning their own way. But when the newcomer gave his , name even the staid professors who teach the rotation of crops and the methods of preparing ensilage were surprised. The new student didn't need to learn how to work. He is a million­ aire and has an income now of $50,000 a year, with more to come. His name is Joseph Medlll Patterson, Yale grad­ uate, who intends to live what he calls "the honest life," despite his fortune and his expectations. He means to do his share of the everyday labors of men less fortunate than he. His golf clubs are left to grow rusty in their bag. His automobile has been disposed of. Society is a closed book now. What he purposes to do is to es­ tablish a model dairy on a large farm near Chicago. He expects to supply high-class dairy products to the sick and ailing. To begin, with, he is living the sim­ ple life. He took his family to Madi­ son, and they have taken an eight- room cottage near the university. Any carpenter or dairyman could well af­ ford to live in it. Four or five times a day the young man walks over from his modest home to his dairy work at the university. - ' The household consists of Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, their two baby girls and two maids. What little leisure the young man enjoys Is spent at home, playing with his babies or read­ ing. Occasionally he finds time to write for the socialistic press. For these articles he refuses pay, but when he writes for the every-day magazines he demands the regular recompense that would go to any writer. Just now Mr. Patterson is working BO hard over the problems of scientific dairying^ and up-to-date agriculture that he hasn't had any time to write about his socialistic ideas. The course he Is taking is arranged for two years, each term lasting four months. The other eight months of the year are spent in practical work on the farm. Mr. Patterson thinks he can get all he needs in one year. , S-' ' V -'i*"5 '* Dean W. A.' Henry nas arranged a special course for him, and it requires 36 hours a week. The usual coufae takes only about half as many hour*. The studies include the value of dif­ ferent feeds for livestock, dairying, livestock judging, plant life, soils, se­ lection of seeds, agricultural engineer­ ing, veterinary science, farm mechan­ ics and similar subjects. The young millionaire pays a tui­ tion fee of $42.75, of which $35 is be­ cause he is not a resident of Wiscon­ sin, seven dollars for general inciden­ tal purposes and 75 cents for the priv­ ileges of the general gymnasium. He is regarded by the faculty as an excep­ tionally good student and by his fel­ low students as an agreeable associ­ ate. Few of the latter, however, really know who he is because of the short time he has been at the university w JOSEPH M. PATTERSON. (Millionaire Socialist Who Is Studying to Be a Farmer.) and because of his rather retiring dis­ position. He mingles .freely with the 3,000 students in the institution, meet­ ing many of them on the campus, In class-room, at the gymnasium and libraries. Mr. Patterson has bought a farm of 220 acres at Libertyville, 111., 35 miles northwest of Chicago, and will make his future home there. He is building a new house and a number of stock barns on it, and intends to stock it with thoroughbreds and make it a model farm in all respects. Mr. Patterson's father is Robert W. Patterson, , editor of the Chica­ go Tribune, a graduate of# Wil­ liams, and a son of the late Rev. R. W. Patterson. His mother is a daugh­ ter of the late Joseph Medlll, one of the founders of the Chicago Tribune. Young Patterson was editor-iji-chief of the Tribune during the absence of his father in Europe in the fall of 1904. ARE NOT CURIOUS Thunder Castle to be Razed. Once Sheltered the "Three Graces," America's Most Beautiful Women. • " Baltimore, Md.--Thunder castle, the home of the Catons, th« notable old buildings from which Catonsville de­ rives its name, has been purchased by §i Pood That Reaches London. The secretary of the public health committee says tha& the total amount, of foodstuffs that*reaches London yearly is between 2,500,000 and 3,000,- 000 Ions, of which rather more than two-thtrds arrive by water and less than one-third by rail. Three-fifths of livs whole quantity is consumed by the Londoners, the remainder merely pc.33ing through in the course of tran­ sit elsewhere. \ , V I . .M, , • II _ Fish's Snout Like •Shi/1 A very curious ray, and one quite abundant off the Florida coast, is the sawfhih. This aniaml has a sharklike body, but its most curious character­ istic is its snout, which is horizantal- ly flattened and projects far beyond the mouth. On the edges of this snout stout teeth are inserted, so that the resemblance to a two sided saw Is all but complete. Thunder Castle at Catonsville, Md. former Senator John Hubner and will be torn down to make way, it is said, for a more modern cottage. The building is in the western part of Catonsville. It was the property of a relative of Gen. Winfield Scott, and many persons have believed it be­ longed to Gen. Scott. The old general used to spend considerable time at Castle Thunder. The old house, tradition says, was at one time the leading hostelry of Catonsville. There the stages used to leave many a weary traveler west­ ward, who desired a night of rest be­ fore continuing on. The property originally belonged to Charles*- Carroll of Carrollton, first signer of the Declaration of Independ­ ence, and came into the possession of Richard Caton through the marriage of Mr. Carroll's 16-year-old daughter, Mary Carroll. Beneath the roofs of Thunder castle have been sheltered three of the most beautiful women of America. They were the three eldest of Richard Caton's four daughters, who married abroad and were known as "The American Graces." Before the civil war a private school was conducted at Thunder castle by Mrs. Carfie Coale and her daughter. Since the war it has been occupied as a private dwelling. The building is constructed of stone. Several years ago a large frame wing was added to the structure. The old house is located on what was known in early days of the village $s the national pike between Washing­ ton and St. Louis. It was the govern­ ment mail route through Maryland, the western part of what was then the state of Virginia and the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and was the first great internal improvement that the government of the United States undertook. HEADS NEW RUSSIAN DOUMA. Feodor Golovin, a Constitutional Dem» ocrat, Elected SpeaKer. St. Petersburg .-- Feodor Golovin, who was elected speaker of Russia's new douma, or lower house of parlia­ ment, when that body met and organ­ ized in the Tauride palace, St. Peters­ burg, recently, is a man of great ener­ gy, and throughout the long-continued reign bt turbulence has managed to hold the confidence of the people. He is a constitutional democrat and, al­ though this faction has only 100 mem­ bers, Golovin received 331 votes, against 91 for the conservative candi­ date, the socialists throwing their strength for Golovin. The new speak­ er represents the Moscow province. He is 40 years old,' aristocratic and clever. During the regime of Grand Duke Serglus he was president of the Moscow zemstvo and is said to be well qualified to preside over what threatens to be a stormy session of the douma. What He Wanted. The victim in the barber's chair ThuB spake in brief retort: "Your conversation and my hair-- ^like you may cut short." --Chicago Daily News. Great Croton Dam in Winter Chamois for new Zealand. An attempt is about to be made to acclimatize the Austrian chamois in the New Zealand mountains. Eight animals are to be sent there. They have been slowly habituateji to the diet which will be necessary for them during their long voyage. mmtm WASHINGTON CITIZENS SI^OW. LACK OF INQUIS1T1VENE3S. LeadlrtgLfghts of thee Nation T#o Common at the Capital to Com­ mand More Than Passing Attention from Residents. Living in Washington is a man 99 years old who has passed nearly 80 years there aad has never set foot, in­ side the eapitol. , At the Virginia end of the Aqueduct bridge, across the upper Potomac, is a woman past 80, who, living within half a mile of Washington all herlifife, has never been in Washington. % The old Washingtonlan, who is hale and intelligent, said when questioned that he'd never cared to go inside the eapitol. There was no business call­ ing him there. He'd always been perfectly willing to let the folks In­ side the eapitol go their ways if they'd only let him alone. The old woman at the other end of the Aqueduct bridge observed iq re­ sponse to an interviewer's inquiries that she'd never crossed over to Washington because sh$'d never cared to. She'd always had enough work to do without gadding about. These two old persons fairly repre­ sent the lack of lnqulsiveness which Is perhaps the strongest characteris­ tic of the people who live in and around Washington. Washingtonians are probably the least curious people on earth. On New Year's day, when the presi­ dent received the general public, the double line of people. eager to grasp his hand curved in two directions out of the White House grounds and upon the streets till four or five o'clock in the afternoon, though the reception began at nooi. Of the thousands in those two patient lines hardly any were Washingtonians. Washingtonians don't attend public receptions at the White House. The lines were made up of visitors who came here especially for the purpose and of folks residing here transiently. If, by dropping a cent in the slot, the average Washingtonian could be in­ stantly whisked to the White House, there to receive the double mitt from the president, a "Dee-lighted!" or two, and a little narrative about a bull moose or the art of hitting a tim­ ber wolf or a fawn In the left shoulder with an express bullet, it isn't in the least likely that the average Washing- Ionian would be attracted by the in­ vestment. This feature of Washington's char­ acteristic indifference is a growth of comparatively recent years. Wash­ ingtonians did go to Mr. Mckinley's public receptions In quite consider­ able numbers. They attended the pub­ lic levees of Mr. Harrison and Mr. Cleveland, too, and they fairly swarmed through the east room when Mr. Arthur was president. , Bnt they have entirely remained away from these affairs at the White House in recent years. Washington folks don't flock to the eapitol at all. The big people don't appear to interest them. Washington­ ians are pretty close to the wires of government, and this may account for* the lack of interest in the wire manipf Ulators. A representative of congress is ah almost inconsequential figure in Washington. A senator Isn't so much, either. * Every day the vice president of the United States walks down Pennsyl­ vania avenue from the eapitol, accom­ panied by some senator or other. The vice president is a very tall person--: so tall as to make him an unusual fig­ ure, on account of his stature and the silk hat atop of the stature, al­ most anywhere. But never a Wash­ ingtonian wheels around to gaze after the vice president. Hint for Vice President. A New York man visited the senate gallery in Washington and from his coign of vantage there had a good look at the vice president's carefully concealed bald head. On returning home he wrote to his congressman, saying: "If you have any Influence with Mr. Fairbanks, for heaven's sake get him to cut off that scalplock that he drapes over the top of his head and admit that he is bald. The people will elect a bald-headed man president sooner than they'll elect a man who tries to deceive them as to his bald­ ness." Few Senators Hear Prayer*. Attendance at prayers in the United States senate is not large, but it al­ ways includes Senators Piatt and De- pew, who usually sit together and withdraw before the business of the day begins. Sometimes there are only five or six who assemble to hear Dr. Hale's invocation. Upon a re­ cent occasion there were seven, and a curious observer made a memoran­ dum of their names. In addition to Piatt and Depew there were Perkins of California, Smoot of Utah, Dick of Ohio, McCreary of Kentucky and Clark of Montana. , Room for Improvement. Some friends of Speaker Cannon were discussing with him the news that "Len" Small of Kankakee had been converted by Evangelist Sunday, ex-baseball player. It was suggested that perhaps Mr. Small's conversion might interfere with his usefulness as a party man, but the speaker did not see why such should be the case. Mr. Cannon went on to say that he had no doubt of the genuineness of '.Us friend Len's conversion, he being a thoroughly sincere man »in every re­ spect. The conversataion drifted on to the subject of conversion, "Uncle Joe" expressing the opinion that it would do no harm if a few conversions could take place in the house. How­ ever, he did not wish to mentU>tt»aAy names.---Chicago Chronicle. "U9M iC[|JBUJpJOBJ^X8 S2ujq} iC-IBU -jpjo 3u]op U} ;nq 'sSu(q) XJBUJPJOBJJXO Sujop Uj jCiuo ion g}S|xa uoi)33jja<£ •Wpm ,5lJOM »BMJ. ®I«U i £>k"- i rtarcogmph, copyright, by Undanrood A Undarwood, M. T. Close view of the terraced spillway showing the new viaduct wtU supply New York city with drinking watfti ; , This dam •'• '"'4 • Folly of Covetoosness. Covetousness swells the principal tc no purpose, and lessens the use to m imriH***- HEAD TAX IS REMOVED* Secretary Straus Does Away v*lth ? Cause of Friction. Recent# there was a little notice Issued by the secretary of the depart­ ment of commerce and labor announc­ ing that the head tax on foreign diplo­ matic officers coming to America had been removed. It did not mean much to the average man who read it, few residents of this country knowing that there was such a tax or realizing what a long-standing source of an­ noyance it has been to foreign diplo­ mats. As a matter of fact, however, there, is such a tax on all aliens enter­ ing this country, and while it it only two dollars, is included Ih the price of the steamer passage, it is still regarded as an affront by foreign dip­ lomatic officers, putting them on the same plane with steerage passengers, when they are theoretically the guests of this government and people to be treated officially with marked con­ sideration. Secretary Straus having been In the diplomatic service himself, knew how this trifling impost was regarded, and his action in removing it is im­ portant as removing a decided and useless cause of friction. It may be said also that most of the steamship companies manage to make a trifle out of the general tax on the tfide, It being only two dollars, but always be­ ing charged as $2.50 additional on the ticket. This extra 50 cents, of course, the steamship company pock" ets. It does not claim that all of the tax is paid to the government, but ap­ parently grabs the extra half dollar merely because it can, and there Is seldom any row over It, because the afhount is too small for most passen­ gers to raise a kick over. FAILED TO MAKE CONVERf^' Washington Crowd Had No Uie for "Revivifier." A tall, shivery and angular Individ­ ual of the man kind blew into the Capitol during the session and made a vain search for the member from his district. It was explained that the reason he did not find his representa­ tive was that his representative saw him first. The man carried a strange- looking package, which he said was his "revivifier." A curious crowd soon collected and i)lied the bearer with questions which he answered readily. In fact, he seem­ ed glad to be plied with questions. He explained that mankind had been making a great mistake ever since the world began by eating, sleeping and drinking. These things, he added were utterly unnecessary to life and happi­ ness. ' "Why," he exclaimed, "by the use of my revivifier man can live without food, drink, or sleep, just as the in­ habitants of Mars and the planets In space do. We are of the earth earthy. Instead we should be of the spirit spiritually. Now if there are any of you here who want to get out of the eating, sleeping and drinking habit, I can tell you--" "So can I tell you how, to do it," broke in a hard-faced, muscular man in the crowd. "The answer is simple. Just get out of the Jiving habit." A Drum Major General. At a White House reception last winter the wife of a new representa­ tive from the west had a rather ex­ citing experience. She had never at­ tended a White House function be­ fore, and arrayed herself Wtth consid­ erable care. Her gown was a dream of beauty, 'and there was a wealth of lace and fluffy things such as are said to delight the feminine heart and are the despair of the sterner sex. As the lady was taking her departure„she passed close to a major genera] resplendent in full dress and wearing on his breast a score of medals and decorations won for brave and gal­ lant conduct in the field. Somehow, the lady's decorations got tangled up. Her husband, who wa3 several paces ahead, called to her t6 hurry up. "I'm coming, my dear," she said, "just as soon as I can get loose from this drum major." The "drum major" laughed heartily. He and the lady afterward became great friends, although he said that It was the fii'st time he had ever mistaken for a drum major. Letters Are His Name. "Now and then," said a prominent member of the Cosmos club at Wash­ ington, "inquiries are made concern­ ing the - names of members of our club and I am embarrassed In en­ deavoring to explain the name of our distinguished scientist, Prof. W J Mc- Gee, whose eminence has placed him in the front ranks of geologists of the world. Every one assumes that W J are initials and almost invariably they printed with a period after them." "The fact Is they stand for nothing at all. Prof. McGee's name Is W J, and that's all thejre is about it. But I never expect to see the day when the newspapers will acknowledge the brevity of his npme by leaving the usual period off' after each letter." Senator Tillman's New Name. Senator Tillman sfses more with his one eye "than many men see with two, but nevertheless those who see the fiery southerner cannot avoid no­ ticing his misfortune. The other day he clapped his hands for a page from the cloakroom door. A new page who had not mastered the senatorial names responded. "Tell Senator Clay," he said, "that I want to see him in the cloakroom." The page ran oil the errand, on his way stopping to ask the head usher where Senator Clay sat. Then he asked: "Who's this that has only one esre?" The usher, thinking it a question in myth­ ology, replied: "Why, Cyclops, of course." The page delivered' his er­ rand in this astounding ^ay; "Sen­ ator* Cyclops wants to see yott in the cloakroom." Chief Justice Fuller Protests. Chief Justice Fuller thinks that the newspaper men are a little previous in their announcements of his pend­ ing resignation from the supreme bench. He says that when he is ready to retire he will himself he the first to tear of tt. :fw». ^ t «Q| vS it* v "y*> ' "$* .» , « . "4 .« . ^ „ A, Aa , V/» ,.v„- . * ' < .... i , „ , t ,vVi„. ' TAKING OUT A STAIN. Dry Chloride of Lime Good In Gbafciiv ate Casea? • When e stain proves unusually stinate and absolutely refuses to come out by ordinary methods, wet the spot thoroughly and then cover with dry chloride of lime. Let it remain a few moments, rubbing well with the finger meanwhile, and tfoen rinse until the lime Is out. It will generally be found that the stain is also gone. If not, apply again. A second application will remove anything that is removable. Owing to the nature of the remedy, however, it is far better to make a second Application than to leave the first one on until the stain Is all gone. The chemical action of the lime re­ moves a portion of the Internal fiber of the material and thus eats up the stained part. The proportion of fiber removed is so small as to do no injury but if left on too long the lime will insinuate if,aelf, taking a strong hold, and finally bite through the fabric, or weaken it so it will soon wear in holes. Chloride of lime is the base of javelle water, which is so often recommend­ ed for the removal of stains, but using the powder itself is more satisfactory in many ways; and, as it can be bought in small cans with a sprink­ ling top, it is quite as conveale«t ii^ when in solution. - VK' FOR THE NURSERY DESSERT. !?<rune and Batter Pudding la 4J', Vary Good. v- ..V h pint of prunes over night, drain and remove the stones. In your wooden bowl chop two ounces of beef suet very fine, add four ounces of sugar (half a cup), tie same of flour, four eggs, a saitspoonful of ground cinnamon, half a saitspoonful of grated nutmeg, and If you use liquor, a dash of best rum, about two table- spoonfuls. Mix this thoroughly with a wooden spoon for Ave minutes, then beat in four tablespoonfuls of thick cream and two ounces of T»read crumbs (two heaping tablespoonfuls), mix thoroughly and then add the prune pulp lightly. Butter and flour your pudding bag or a stout cloth, and, drawing up the four corners of the lattter, tie them tightly. Drop Into a pot of boiling water twice and half the depth of the pudding, and oil two hours and a half. Then hang it up to drain about ten minutes, suspending from a hook over a dish. Untie, turn out on a deep dish, dredge over with powdered sugar and serve with hard or foamy sanice, flavored with lemon. Filet darning is the favorite work for woman's leisure hours at the present moment. If a knowledge of a netting is possessed the foundation fabric is made by the worker, but If not, the square meshed is bought at the lace counters, and Is then darned in historic patterns to imitate an­ tique lace. The articles oftenest made are doilies and centerpieces, but pil­ low covers, table and bureau scarfs offer themselves for adornment with the filet squares, and even bedspreads and curtains are sometimes attempted by the ambitious workers. When eyelet work and the padded French embroidery are used in conjunction with the filet lace the result is very decorative. The foundation net must be stretched over a frame to be darned to best effect. Some lingerie blouses show insets of the filet lace with awfully good effect. silk MA A New Color. J&. golden tan in a soft, beautiful shade, is going to be one of the lead­ ing spring colors. It goes by the eu­ phonious name of dead apricot, show­ ing somewhat the same peachy yellow tints as that fruit. One can get an idea of it by look­ ing at the tan shoes for spring, which are in this new golden yellow effect. A charming gown in dead apricot silk was worn on the stage in a not­ able production. It is not a color to be rashly attempted, but if one Is sure of its becomingness it is an up- to-date choice for an afternoon? ipf evening gown. Creamed Dried Beef and Celery. One-quarter pound dried beef, one cupful celery, cut into half-inch pieces, one and one-half cupfuls of milk, one and one-half tablespoonfuls each of butter afid flour, one-eighth teaspoon- ful pepper. Scald the beef, if too salt, and drain well. Melt the but­ ter, add the celery and beef, and cook, stirring occasionally until the celery is slightly browned. Add the flour, mix until smooth, pour in the milk, stir until foiling, add the pepper, also salt If needed, and serve hot, garnish* ed with toast points. Oyster* and Celery. Cat up and stew two cups of celery until It Is transparent and the water is all absorbed; season with salt and pepper. Simmer a pint of oysters in their own juice until the edges Curl; season these also and add to the cel­ ery. Thicken half a cup of rich milk and pour over all and serve on rounds of buttered toast.--Harper's Bazar. What Salt Will Do. Salt sprinkled on any substance that Is burning will stop the^ smoke and blaze. • Salt sprinkled upon coals that are blazing from fat or broiling chops will cause the flames to die down. Salt used upon carpets when sweep­ ing will prevent moths and will also brighten the colors. . * Glazed Sweet Potatoes, c tjfelect medium sized sweet potatoes, boll until done, take out and cool, re­ move skin. Have an egg beaten with a dash of salt and pepper, cut potatoes in half lengthwise, dip in the egg, dust with granulated sugar, arrange in a generously buttered pan, put in oven and bake until brown. Serve hot. A Cure for Corns. Solvine Is good, and you can get it made up by your chemist Really, though, ihe best way to cure corns is to remove the pressure which causes them. Get your shoemaker to stretch your shoes on his last, put­ ting on an extra piece of leather where where tho com comes. " ^ >1 ,...t.. . jkiV'