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May and bring Iier back, I irathor, guess lie's ready by now, too. Maybe we'll get to eat a wedding dinner to­ day, yet--only a little late, of course." After some time had elapsed and; neither brother had "showed up," as the phrase goes in Texas, Jim, Smith, walked to the place where lie had left Joe. There the poor fellow 'was, still tied to the tree--but dead! The thirty; minutes' strain had Ifeen too much for. his, crippled leg to bear, and it had gradually given way, and this had al­ lowed the poor fellow to Glieke to death. Of course, Jim 'lost no time in rousing the quasi' wedding guests, and| in telling the real facts about May. It,| is not the first instance in the history; of the world where a man lias had the- truth told about him too late to do him, any good. A pursuing party Was put after^ Bill at once, but ajl was to no avail,. Some say he committed suicide shortly afterward in San Antonio; oth­ ers, that he is still alive in New Mexico; still others, that he is to-day in the in-V sane asylum at Terrell. I do not know what the truth about it is. Mr. and. Mrs. Tom Jackson still live in Cottle FRIENDS AND DOgS. iS&22£S' THE LIE JOE SAVAGE TpLD TO HAVE A CLUBHOUSE. the longest and give them the most camel-like proportions. Now a woman studies her curves and lines and buys a bustle to set them off to the best ad­ vantage. , r How to Hip a Garment, Most people think it is very easy to rfp. garments, but a fashionable dress­ maker thinks otherwise. This modiste says few women know how to rip up a dress for remaking. Many a good gown is spoiled by being placed in the hands of an unskilled person to rip up, she snys, Scissors should not bo U3ed, a sharp-pointed knife aoing the work better, isias seams should be carefully held I'm order not to stretch them, and alii threads neatly pulled out after they are1 well cut,. so> that there Is- no knot­ ting; resistance-. Hooks, eyes, buttons, clasps,, etc.,. shonld be taken off with especial care, as they are usually so firmly sewed that they resist, often tc theendiof one's patience. The material should then he carefully brushed be­ fore being sponged or pressed, proc­ esses which' im themselves- need spe­ cial; skill! r | 1 HE Ladies' Literary Chjb of Salt I Lake City is the first feminine or- ganization in rlie West to project a clubhouse of their own. These enter­ prising women recently purchased a de­ sirable downtown lot and have just ac­ cepted plans for a modern structure of gray stone and cream-colored brielt. Contrary to the devices of fair finan­ ciers in the East who have built ww- merous clubhouses by f drnii'ng' a 'stock STir.r, TIEX> TO THE TREE, BUT DEAD, County, Texas. Jfrrr Smith fs the man who first fcoi'cT me this story. Joe Sav-; age is buried on the banks of Plumi Creek, and on Ms wooden headboard you can still decipher the inscription: "He Loved Mutch." The Scripture had to be misquoted to suit the gender of the pronoun and the spelling is slightly peculiar, but I can not help thinking the inscription a good one. Many people consider love a very good' thing, and Prof! Drum- mond has written a book to prove that it is- The Greatest Thing in the World. If these estimates are correct Joe Sav­ age was certainly a great and1 good man-:for greater 10ve hath no man than this, that he lay down his- life' foar Ms friend.--Utifcii Globe. UTAH WOMAN'S CLUBHOUSE, company, these women will erect a home partly from club dues and partly from subscriptions within the club. The clubhouse is to be commodious throughout, from the coloniai veranda in front to the great auditorium on the second lloor. There will also be recep­ tion-rooms. library, committee-rooms, loungiug-room, dining-room and kitch­ en. That,there should be a sewing-room for the Ladies' Literary Club is unique, but some of its members take their fan­ cy work to meetings and industriously stitch, away in the calm intervals be­ tween parliamentary debates and ani­ mated discussion of papers. It is in­ tended to add another story to the building by and by. The Young Wife's Social Duties. To simply live alone, with 110 pro­ vision for the gratification of the social instincts, is apt to prove too severe a strain upon the reserve forces of even the happiest marriage. There is some excuse to be made for the man who seeks society outside of the home wherein no thought is given to social pleasure, while the wife is :y>t to grow petty and personal, and "so less at­ tractive as she shuts herself away from intercourse with others. This dropping out is very easy, but even when prosperity comes and large so­ cial functions are possible it is too late to gain that most valuable possession, friendship, which is entirely indepen­ dent of financial success. To have and to hold a place in the social life of the world is not only the right, but the duty of the young wife who desires to have a home in its truest and best sense.--Ladies' Home Journal. f . hower Bath for Baby. The grown-ups and club men are not the only ones in this world who enjoy a shower bath, but baby who is bathed in his own little tub cannot use an or­ dinary rose, and in such cases the por­ table shower of English design, here shown, comes in hainly. In England, where the stationary wash-tub is not-so ubiquitous as in America, this device is of great con­ venience alike for young and old. When filled with water of the proper tempeiv SUBSTITUTES FOR PRAYING. Parrots and Prayer" Wheels Amflnsf the Kalmuck Tartars.- Finally, if you spend most of yonxr time, as I did, among the natives on the hurricane deck, your attention will be attracted by a thiixi class of worsMp- ers, namely, the Kalmuck Tartars, who live in felt tents or kibitkas (kee-beet- kasj along the lower Volga, and' who> wander, with great herdS of cattle ami camels, over the steppes- of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. These flat- faced, ill-looking nomads are all Bud­ dhists; and not only do they pray, but they may fairly claim the credit of hav­ ing reduced deA'otion to a science. Pray­ ing five times-a day, as the Mohamme­ dans do, or even twice a day, after the custom of the fire worshipers, seems to- have been too severe a tax upon tile- energies of the original Buddhists, and they, set their ingenuity at work to de­ vise some means of lessening the labor. The first expedient that occurred to them was teaching parrots to pray and then claiming the credit of the prayers- thus said by proxy. This answered the purpose very well at first;.but teaching parrots was troublesome, and' besides that, the parrots, in spite of all precau­ tions, would occasionally pick up scraps of profane learning, which they intermingled with their devotions In a manner not at all edifying. SO' the Buddhists finally abandoned the in­ struction of parrots and calling in the aid of applied science' invented the prayer wheel. Nobody,, it seems to me, but the laziest of Asiatics would ever have-thought of introducing labor-sav­ ing machinery into the realm of the spiritual; but the Buddhists not only thought of it, but put the idea promptly into execution. The prayer wheel used by the Kalmuck Tartars on the Lower Volga is a small wooden cylinder six or eight inches in length and about two inches in diameter, turning upon a. v'er- : tical axis, the lower end of which is ex­ tended and thickened to form a han­ dle. This cylinder is stuffed full of short, written prayers, and every time it is turned upon its axis all the prayers that it contains are regarded as duly said. Could anything be more simple ; or satisfactory? There is no shutting of the eyes, 110 getting down 011 the ' knees in uncomfortable positions, no facing in any particular direction. All that the prayer has to do is to give his ' wheel a twirl and it grinds out prayers with a rapidity and fluency which leaves nothing to be desired. But from an Occidental point of view the whole performance is, of course, an absurdi­ ty. I could feel some respect for the prayers of the Mohammedans and of the fire worshipers, but the wooden wheels of the Kalmuck Tartars excited only contemptuous amusement.--Inde­ pendent. Borrowing Trouble. Borrowing is poor business at the best; but of all the unsatisfactory "110 return-for-your-pains" occupations, the very worst in the world is borrowing trouble. To begin with, it is based on fancy, crankiness, undue nervousness, or the mental or moral idiosyncrasies that should have been trained out of the individual long before the years of childhood were passed. There are few people in the world more depressing and disheartening then those who are always seeing some shadow of coming evil. The world is sombre enough even at the best, and it is scarcely worth wliile to go out seeking for shadows or. to conjure up purely imaginary ones. MUS. MINER VA\ T. HEBING-. Keene and Troy pike have made Mrs. Hering a present of t]ix> tollhouse in which,she has lived so: long, as an evi­ dence of their appreciation of her hon­ esty and long labors. Women Wanted Beards. Nowadays, when in every ladies' pa­ per 0110 sees perpetual instructions how to get rid of superfluous hairs, it seems almost Incredible that women ever should have desired: to. have beards. Yet this-really was the- ease among cer­ tain' of. the ladies of arueiienit Rome, whose morbid, ambition made them so crave fx>r these inappropriate appen­ dages that tliey used to- shave then- faces and smear them with unguents in order to cause the hair to. grow. Cic­ ero. relates, that to. such an extent did the beard, mania among women grow that it was found advisable to pass a law. against the "adornment." New Guinea Girls Can't Elope. Girls, in New Guinea have small chance of eloping. Every night they are put in a little house at the top of a tall tree. The ladder used to reach it Is then removed, and the parents' slumber is all the sounder for the fact that their daughters are unable to take their walks abroad until they see fit to allow them to do so. PNEUMATIC PORTABLE SHOWER. ature a finger is held over an aperture in the handle, and when released the water falls in a tine spray and with considerable force. Russian Wedding. A- Russian bride is not submitted to tlie trying ordeal of appearing in white satin a .id lace in cold, broad daylight. The wedding takes place by candle­ light in the drawing-room of the bride's mother. Thei;e is a banquet after, fol­ lowed by a kill, and after that supper, and this in many houses is an occasion for quaint old customs to be observed. Here, as in America,,a satin slipper (supposed to be the bride's) figures, but in a different way. A new white satin slipper is filled with wine and passed around to the bridgegroom's friends, who use -it as a goblet and drink the health of the bride. Bustles in Favor Again. Bustles are being universally worn again. All the newest gowns have a small bustle made in them, and where a woman's figure warrants it also hip pads. Some of the new bustles are long, some short, some fuller than others, and many round up the hips with small pads. All are made of fine quality haircloth, light in weight, and are small, neat and graceful. There was a time when there Was absolutely no individuality in bustles. Fat and lean women, women with conspicuous liipS, those with a conspicuous ab- eeiice of hips, bought and wore the bustle which looked as if it would last THE BI.OW DESCENDED UPON THE ARM, bdfeide a tree and tied him to it, so that his club foot touched the ground, while the other, the strong one, was doubled back in the coil of rope. "Now, you ungrateful whelp," said Bill, as he started to leave, "I'll be back in thirty minutes to see if you're ready to tell me."* "Didn't he kiss your band as you was tying him?" asked some one as they walked away. : "Dogged if I know," said Bill. "Did lie?" Hardly had they left when Jim Smith came up and at once began to untie the gropes. ^Don't!" said Joe. "Bill will be back in a few minutes. Just imslip this loop here. Thank you! The strain was on my right arm, and it hurt, because it Was sore. Jim, this is hard- but I guess I can stand it, for Bill's sane. I ain't liurtin' so much now, though, as I was. It's mostly all a joke. Bill was always a powerful fellow to joke. I wisht you'd go tell him when he comes back please not to bring anybody else with him." At the appointed time, Bill saddled his pony and rode off to where Joe was. "I'll take the hoss, so that if Joe's ready by now he can start off after Bathing an Elephant. F. Fitz Roy Dixon tells of "A Baby Elephant" that was capiured by friends of his in Ceylon, in an article that he contributes to St. Nicholas. Mr. Dixon says: Her daily bath afforded her great enjoyment. A broad, shallow stream, with a sandy bottom, flowed through the estate, and in a large pool Rengan used to scrub her down every day. Of course he went into the Water also, and she would lie down and roll, some­ times with all four legs in the air, but always keeping the tip of her trunk out of the water so that she might have air to breathe. When she had done enough of this sort of nonsense, accord­ ing to Rengan's idea, lie used to make her come out and lie down on a sand­ bar, and then lie would scrub her down --a process of which she seemed highly to approve--after which she would be once more washed down, and then she Would trot off beside her keeper, both clean and glistening, and remain a short while in her stable, whilst he went off for his dinner. He used to bring her back a handful of boiled rice, usually rolled up in V banana leaf, ..which she received with great satisfac­ tion. Belief of the Carlisfes. Willie--l'a, what do the Indians mean by 'happy hunting grounds?'" Pa--They are the grounds on which they take the scalps -f the other foot­ ball plpyers. \ People sometimes weep Witnessing a death scene upon the stage, but it is usually because they realize that it is only a sham and that the actors sitill live. ^ "Protect Yoiir Proprrty." Instead of the sign, "Do not deface these seats," seep in' some cities; In Glasgow the benches in the public parks bear the caution: "Protect your property;" This is supposed to put each user on his sense of dignity as a citizen and therefore part owner oitha « public property.