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9000000000000» About the House. WOWOM” 00 5A LULLABY. Sleep sweet, birdikin, In the nest, mother's breast, Silk-soft for birdikjn, - With- wind in the east. Hush, Oh, birdikin, Sleep away another day, Much too cold for birdikin Is east-wind day. ooooeoo Sleep soft, leafikin, Softly curl not unfurl, Silk sheath for leafikin 01’ pink and pearl, Hush, Oh, leafikin Nor unclose, baby rose, Much too harsh for leafikin, East wind blows. Creep close, lambikin; Nestle, hide by mother’ side Till upspring, for lambikin, Daisies pied. Hush, Oh, lambikin, Safe in fold from the cold Till south wind for leubikin Her wings unfold. Hush, 0h, babykin, Mother's joy, father’s boy, Pearl of price is babykin And winds are keen. Dream, sweet babykin, Golden head in rosy bed, Over sleepy babykin, Angels, lean! A DIET CURE. It is a deplorable fact that many children of the present day suffer as much as do their elders from stomach troubles. A weak stomach and indi- pestion are by no means confined to grown persons. Sometimes the symptoms are such Is to make it easy to locate the trouâ€" ble, as in the case of sick headaches, nausea and the like, but often the symptoms are of such. a nature as to leave a mother quite in doubt as to their origin. Sometimes there are sev- ere pains in the back and limbs, weak- ness and pain in the eyes, and general listlessness and debility, all arising from this fruitfuf source of trouble. In such cases, whether of occasional local distress, or of more chronic and serious disorder, a strict diet will work greater wonders than medicine. It is only reasonable to suppose that the stomach when out of order needs rest, Just as we when sick or over-.have killed a worked, need rest. _ , .A child of our acquaintance, who? had occasional and slight disorders of ’ the stomach, became, one winter, utterly listless and lifeless. lained of pain in the back and limbs, or eyes were not as strong as they had been, then she began having in- tense pains in her head. The family , physician was consulted again and! different medicines were given, without effect. worried and then alarmed. ed drain, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and serve at once. Celery with Tomato Sauce.â€"Cut the celery into inch pieces and cook in bpiling water until tender. Drain in a colander. For three cups stewed cel- ery make a sauce with a pint of stew- ed or canned tomatoes, heated to boxi- ing and thickened with a tablespoon of flour rubbed smooth in a little cold water. Add half cup hot cream or milk, season to taste, pour over the celery and serve. Celery Vineganâ€"Cut abunch of cel- ery very fine, and pour over it one quart, bot, seasoned vinegar. Cover and let it stand two weeks. This is very nice with oyster stew or with cold meats. Jacket 01 biscuit doubleâ€" breasted, Numerous rows of: stitching ornamen the bottom, pockets, sleeves and re- vers. Storm collar with turnerâ€"over corner. inches wide, 2 yards. and 38 inches, bust measure. 10 cents. ,cloth, - - - _ I or. tnmmed With blag [Oldst é when Freeman and Pollock lurchcd into â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"+â€"_._ PERSONAL MENTION. .â€" lntvresllng ltcuis About Sonn- ot’ the Pro- minent People of the “’orlll. Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the " Gatling gun,” which is estimated to quarter of a l I t | l l l A PAIR OF BULLIES. AND HOW THEY WERE WELL SETTLED BY A TENDERFOOT. The Blue Eyed Dude Took Their In- sults Until They Went Just 9110 Step Too Far. and Then Game the Tragic Climax and Retribution. “The bad man down my way haven’t been fooling with tonderfcet; much of late years,” said George Craig, an Arizona man. “Tenderfeet have a. way of coming to life once in awhile, and the wolf eaters have found this out. I remember the case of a tenderfoot who arrived at himself in Phenix back in 188?. He was a towhead, With white eyebrows, a. peachy skin and a slight lisp, but he made good. He had struck Arizona straight from a mining school somewhere back east. He hadn't made the ‘mining engineer’ proposition stick, and within a month after he landed in Arizona he found himself broke in Phenix. So he got a $5 a day job pound- ing the piano in the back room of Joe I-Iardesty’s Palals saloon. He was a pretty fair piano sharp and earned his wages. His name was Algernon Montclair, and he looked the name. with his girly skin, big blue eyes and mild, inquiring expres- sion. The boys got to guylng him a good deal, calling him ‘mamma’e angel cliild’ and that sort of thing, and they tried pretty hard to gel; 3 rise out of the key puncher, but; he stood for the whole thing and never stopped playing when they were guylng him the hardest. J on Hardesty called the gang down once in awhile for ridiculing the piano player, but when Joe wasn’t around they poured it into the tendorl’oct pretty hard. His two chief tormcntcrs were Buck Freeman, a genuinely bad man, and Chop Suey Pollock, a. bad proposition from San Francisco. Both Were killers with records. They had both been warned to cease their picking on the tenderth piano player by Joe Hardesty, who was pretty quick with a. gun himself, but; one Sunday the pair, who were thick friends for some reason or other, went down to the Palais. They knew that Hardcsty was out of town, and they want- ed to have some fun with the piano whack. The tenderfcot was thrumming away, the back room of the saloon. “‘Hey, sisl’ said Freeman to the ton~ M term] r ,1. 1 10th, 9 . derfoct as soon as he got into the room. a mu (3:2; fr, 3,, 36 ‘You thump that; thing purty well, don’t Pr’i06_ ‘ you? But there’s one thing I never seen you do, an that’s play the piano an waltz at one an the same time. Never touched you to do that, did they? You ever seen lhlm do it, Chop?’ he asked his pal. turn- i log to Pollock. " ‘Not any,’ said Pollock, ‘but it sounds as if it ought to work pretty good.’ “ ‘I don’t know how it ’ud work,’ said Freeman, ‘becauso I never seen it; did, but; I got a powerful hanksrin to see it. Sis, I . million s’pose you [leave us one of them doublin men, is alive and well at the age ofgup stunts I’m n-talkin about. I’ve hearn eighty-one. He is hard at work in Chi- i you do the key punchin end of it; now I ca-go arranging for the manufacture want; some ballay with it. of one of his latest inventions, an do the work or eight men and a dozen imitating the tenderfoot’s lisp. horses. Lieutenant-General French is the g i She Com- automobile plough, which, he says, will ‘ ! Go ahead!” " ‘1 don’t danth, ‘ replied the tcndcrfoot. " ‘Oh, ycth, you do l' chimed in Pollock, ‘You can dunth all right. You got; to duntli.’ “ ‘1 they, you fellowth,’ began the piano fourteenth officer now on the ac“velplaying tonderfoct, ‘I'm not; feeling well a“ , list of the Army who has been promot- ; Th6 parentfl became from ra.nk 0f Major-General! together, Ruddenly l for distinguished service in the field. ‘ guns, and both of the bullies planted balls tonight, and thith ith no time to’-â€" “ ‘Danthl' shouted both Freeman and At last a friend said to the mother I The others are Lord Wolseley’ Lord within an inch of the tcndcrfoot’s heels, that she believed the trouble all arose from the child's stomach, and advised a strict diet. It was tried as a last resort, and the child soon began to improve. She ; kept on improving, and at the end of six weeks was well. She has had less trouble with her stomach since that time than ever before, and has been strong and hearty. Her diet for the first two or. three Weeks was nothing but broths and, fresh milk. There are some stomachs that milk does not agree with, but not i many. Duringr that time she took no, solid food of any kind. After the third week crackers bread, not fresh bread, were crumbed into the broth and milk, and from that time on a greater variety of foods was gradually, very gradually, permitted. These were all of anti- (cure to be easily digested, and not un- . til the end of the six weeks was the ordinary diet fully returned to. Of course it was hard for the child, for she did not like broths. and for the l mother too. ‘It takes time to make broths, and when they are the sole diet, there must be variety. So she! made mutton. veal, beef, oyster and! chicken in turn, seasoned them welli with salt and pepper, but no button} and tried to make the time of self. denial as easy for the child as she; could. Of course in a less severe case than this it would not be necessary to continue the treatment for so longa time, but a day at a time, three or four days, or a week. as the case may be, will accomplish wonders, and cer- tainly as experimenting with medi~l clues. and “ l i CELERY. Srtewed Celeryâ€"Cut the celery into. inch pieces, cover with boiling water, ‘and cook in a. covered stewpan until‘ tender. It should simmer slowly un- til done. \Vlien cooked, add apint of rich milk or cream, season to taste, and when boiling, thicken with a te- blespoon of flour, rubbed smooth in a little milk. Bail up once, stirring con- stantly, and Sril‘Ve. Stewed Celery No. 2.â€"-L‘.ook the cel- ery as directed above and drain. Heat one and a half cups milk to boiling in a stewpan, then stir into it the beaten yolks of two eggs and half cup cream. Cook until it thickens, pour it: over the celery and serve. A little nutmeg is nice to Mid to the sea- somng. ~ielei‘y Frittersâ€"Mix one cupfulfine- ly chopped celery, with one cup hatter. ' 05 the mixture, a. tablespoon at a e, in boiling fat: when well brown- } voice, Roberts, Sir Redvers Buller, Sir Wil- bury, Sir George White. Sir Francis Grenfell, Lord Kitchener, Sir Archi- bald Hunter, Sir Leslie Rundle, Sir Blnden Blood, the Hon. N. G. Lyttler ton and Sir Herbert Chermside. Mr. Thomas VVhilttaker, cently died, was born two years before Waterloo, and had a. terribly hard time in his boyhood. Before he wasg seven, he was obliged to get up at five winter and summer, to go to acotton 3 mill near his home, and he did not re« turn from work until eight o’clock at night. For this he received half a crown a week, and lived with his fam- ily “ in a cellar six feet; below the level of the street, where the sun never shone and the birds never sang." A‘ good story of the Duke of Devon-l pl'm'ed “3- shire is going the round of society at this very moment. Some inquisitive and indiscreet friend calmly asked the Lord President of the Council what had been done at the Cabinet Coun- cil that day. The Duke kept both his countenance and his temper and re- plied, "’Well the truth is, Lord Sula Isbury is getting old and so am I, and as he speaks in rather a low tone of and as I am rather hard of hearing, 1 can't tell you. my denrfelâ€" low, anything about it!" Lord Roberts is a striking instance of what an active life in the open air will do for a man. As a youth he was extremely delicate, and had to take liar more than his share of grucland physio Yet to-day, alter "forty-one years in India," he is as hale as pee- sible, and has few equals in the Army at lemon-cutting, tent-pcgging, and other kindred sports. Someone point- ed out the other day that if present Army measurements had been enforc- ed in his early days, Lord Roberts, who is a very small man, would have been debarred from entering the Army. to array herself in any fabric which 300 years ago was the property of a Queen of England. The Countess of Pembroke had, however, this proud privilege at a recent Drawing Room. when her nagnificent white and silâ€" ver gown, and light-peach velvet train were trimmed with old point de Flan- dre which had once belonged to and had been worn by Queen Elizabeth. It was in admirable preservation,and consisted of deep flounces, partly of floral design, and also displaying a terrace walk, with birds on pedestals quaint and curious. the well- known temperance advocate, who re-; 1 er pair of bullets through the floor close to l i l r x l i l l x l the bullets boring through the soft pine .. fl . gliam Lockhart, Sir Henry Bracken~§ our “Algernon Montclalr struck up ‘On the Beautiful Blue’ on the piano, at. the same time shufiling his feel: about clumsily in time with the music. His gymtlons tic- kled the two devils behind him to the limit. They roared out directions, and when the tenderfoot’s movements seemed to slackcn from weariness they put: anoth- his feet, and he Went on with reneWed en- ergy. There were a number of men in the front part of the saloon who didn’t like the thing a little bit, but) they kept out of it from motives of prudence. The tenderfoot played the waltz through and danced to it twice before his tormentors grow weary of the fun and let up on him by walking up to the piano and bringing their paws down on the keys together They had put away their guns. “ ‘Tliat’ll do you, sis,’ said Freeman. ‘1 knowcd you could danth, an you’ve You danth like you were born to it. Your mother must have been u. bal- lay dent-her, or else'-â€"â€" "Freeman was walking toward the front room with Pollock as he said this. “ ‘1 they, you,’ called Tenderfoot Algor- non Montclair after him in a quiet tone of voice, and Freeman turned around to see what the key puncher wanted. As he did so he saw the tendcrfcct sbuiidlng with his back to the piano and a gun in ouch hand. There were two almost simultaneous re- ports, and both of Buck Freeman’s arms were broken closetothe shoulders. Chop Sucy was quick on the trigger, and he had his two guns out before the tender- foot’s pair belched forth a. couple more flashes, then Pollock’s twin guns fell to the floor like so much junk Both of his arms were broken too. “ ‘You dirty dogth,’ said the tenderfoot- to the two helpless bullies as they stood and looked at him savagely with their shattered arms at. their sides, and then he walked over to them and spat in their faces one after the other. Freeman gave a. sudden reach out with his right- boot as if to trip the tonderfcct, his idea probably being to get the piano player down and stamp the life out; of him, but- the murder foot. whose mild blue eyes were now blur. lug. was too quick llc hopped back out- It is not often that, a woman is “me ; of reach like u. boxer, and with his right - hand gun he bored :1 hole fair and plump through Buck Freeman’s forehead. Pol- lock begged for his life like 0 our, and thc tonderfoot, after looking him over doubt- fully fora full minute, gave it to him The piano player surrendered himself to the night marshal and was looked up over- night in the calaboose. A coroner's Jury was got- together at 10 o'clock the next morning, and inside of exactly eight min utes the verdict was reached that ‘Buck Freeman had met a justifiable death at. the hands of a. underfoot, who is hereby acquitted.’ The jury having been dis solved. the members of it repaired to a 300m and formulated resolutions of thanks I l to the tondert’oos for having wiped two hard citizens out of the town’s population. When Joe Hardesty came back the next day and heard how his piano thumpcrhad lined up to meet an occasion, he gave Al- gernon Montclair $200 and a ticket; up to the Colorado mining country. where the tenderfoot wanted to go. “Tcndcrfcct haven’t) been toyed with much down here in Phonix since that thing happened.” The only artisan buried in Westminster Abbey is George Graham, the instrument maker, who invented an improved clock- work in the your I700 POETRY WHICH BURNED. The Successful Scheme of it Rhyme- Iter to Make Money. A’ very wealthy, sedate and enter- prising manufacturer ln Pennsylvania has a brother who is trifling, dissipat- ed and of course a spendthl'ift. But the fellow now and then displays re- markable ingenuity in “making a raise." All his life he has indulged, among other bad habits, that of writ- ing execrable verse, much of which, however, be has managed to get printed. Lately be conceived the monstrous idea of having all' his stuff printed in a book and with the aid of an unscru< pulous printer succeeded in bringing out the “work” in quite handsome shape. But in the most affectionate terms he “dedicated” the book to his wealthy brother, who regards his near and dissolute klnsman’s “poetry” us really the most reprehensible thing that the incorrigible fellow does. But the rhymester and his “black art” accomplice knew their business. They printed a large edition of the book and 2 sent a copy to the wealthy man. who immediately purchased the entire edi- tion and the plates and made “words that burn” of the “poems” by means of a bonfire. He also sent to his cruel brother and induced hlm to accept a salary to do nothing but throttle his verse fiend. The wicked printer obtained capital enough to go to Chicago and carry on a reputable printing establishment, and the bad brother is earning more money by keeping his verse fiend si- lent than better poets do by keeping their muses constantly at workâ€"Wo- man's Home Companion. A Hawaiian Temple of Refuge. Kawalhae’s one remaining point of interest istlie ruins, back on the hill, of a temple of refuge built by Kaine- hameha the Great. It is the very last of the hciaus, where in the old days, during strife, the peaceful sought and obtained immunity from harmâ€"for into these temples a man might not pursue an enemy. This ruin indicates a very substantial structure. in paral- lelogram form, about 220 feet long by 100 wide. Entrance is gained through a narrow passage between two high walls, and the interior is laid 011’ in terraces and paved with smooth, flat stones. The wall up hill is 8 feet high, and on the down hill side 20 feet high, and both are 12 feet thick at base.â€" Caspar Whitney in Harper’s Weekly. See How Long; You ‘Vill Live. There is a very simple rule for find- ing the average number of years which persons of any age may expect to live. if the present age be deducted from 80, two-thirds of the remainder is the answer required. This result is not absolutely accurate, but it is near enough. For instance, a man aged 20 years longer, which is just what the latest actuarial tables give. At 40 the expectation of life works out at nearly 27 years. while the tables give it as more than 25 years. At 60 the above rule allows just over 13 years, and the table shows a little less. Forest: of the North. The finest area of all the British posâ€" sessions in America is estimated at about 800,000,000 acres. The settler has woodland, but his depredatlous are nothing as compared with the terrific scourge of fire which has rampagcd through it at different times. Did you ever notice how the man who ls too lazy to'knock the ashes from his cigar will have to spend sev- oli.’ his clothes ?-Ca1nbrldge Press. We apprehend that black cats. take them rough and running, have brought more fleas than good luckâ€"Detroit Journal. ' Bo Natural. One of the surest ways to be awk- ward "in company" is to try to act dif- ferently from one‘s accustomed man- ner. ll.’ one's everyday manner is not good enough for company, then it should be changed. but the most de- lightful company manner is the nat- ural manner when it is natural to be charming. One of the charms of an agreeable manner is to seem to be un- afl’ected. Another is to listen appre- ciatively when others speakâ€"The Gen- tlewoman. The clock at the houses of parlla. meat is the largest in the world. The dials are 32 feet in diameter. The pen- dulum is 15 feet long. The hour bell is 8 feet high and 9 feet in diameter and weighs nearly 10 tons. The ham- mer alone weighs more than 400 pounds. ' might by this rule expect to live 40! cut his way into the fringe of the vast . era] moments later in brushing them, THE BOERS’ PHYSIQUE. , Not Elegant or Scleuliflcally Developedâ€" “llet There" Slurdlnen. The Countess do Bremont contri- butes an article on physical culture among the Boers. The Boer, she says, is a sturdy son of the soil. He is brave and he is athletic, but he cares not a jot for physical culture in the accepted sense; still, he is an interest- ing study of physical culture “on na- Of the scientific side of it he The 8001‘ is turel." is supremely ignorant. an adept at climbing. He is a skilled a marvelous shot, and capable of astonishing feats in the way of lifting heavy weights. He can fold a heavy stream of rushing water with an ease born of constant practice and endurance. in a word, the Boer is a formidable opponent where the chances are in favor of pure grit and natural athletic ability; but where the science of physical culture is demanded he would fail utterly. Fresh air is an important essential to the perfection of physical culture; of this the Boer has a sufficiency. As a set-off to this, he inhabits close, stuffy dwellings, whore windows are at a premium, and the door opening on the family rough rider, stoop is the principal source of Ventilation. At night he ‘slecps with every opening securely closed. Then, again, he is an inveter- ate smoker, an inordinate eater. and «'deeply, hopelessly lazy. He takes no exercise but what is absolutely neces. sary; the consequence follows that he is rarely an example of perfect physical Condition, being i EITHER T00 FAT Uit T00 LEAN. lThc Boer, however, has one great point iin his favorâ€"he is strictly temperate gin the matter of drink, taking little lor no stimulants, drinking mainly lstrong, pure coffee. Drunkenness is {thel'elul‘e the exception, not the rule, iamong the Boers. ' ' “Not long ago i- had an interesting gchat,” continues the writer "on the gsubject of physical culture among l'the Boers with one who has known the :lloer under many aspects. 'The Boers gas a people," he said, ‘are totally fignorant of the law of physical cul- lture; in fact, they ignore it. They pride [themselves on their riding and climb- 'ingr. in this way they acquire a pro- digious amount of'physicai and mus- lar training. This being of u spasmo- ldic sort, results- in no very great perfection. They are certainly very .fine fellows, and often of great Qstature. They have enormous hands ,‘and feet; the climbing of kopjes ls gcertainly good for the development jof the limbs. Their free-and-easy ,way of carrying a gun develops a cer- ituin rude skill in the way of- shooting. ,1 remember one old Boer who could not shoot straight at a target to save his life, but put him on a horse ‘and let him have a race after game, he would bring down his deer at every shot. Of course, his erratic style of lmarksinanship came more from long jpractice‘ than through any special ,skill. Their riding is likewise devoid ,of any science. The Boer is person- ::illy the laziest and most looking in muscular energy of all the different; sorts and conditions of men it has been my lot to meet. He'll not work, even [for money. lie lets the natives do the Iworking, and, barring that, imposes it -upon his "Womenfolk." An acquaim {tunes with the science of physical geulture would certainly make the EBoer more humane and teach him the :true value of muscular power. As it gts now, the Boer understands only the Epower of brute force." -m LONG STEMNIED FLOWERS. l The Iris is nothing unless the cut ’stems are long; then it is incompar- able. Dahlias bear the buds bending grace~ fully on curving stems, the full-blown flowers and rich dark green leaves all on one long stem. Lilies, Roses and Carnations are al~ so long-stemmed flowers that have substance enough to fill a. vase. each one alone. Clear crystal vases, tail and simple in design, filled with clear water, each with a queenly Rose. a stalk, of stately Lilies or a limited number Olf spicy Carnations form a very pretty flower combination which, to the lover of the romantic, W1” lead the mind to the sentiment of the poeple of Eastern countries who make water their emblem of purity. ,When the long-stemmed Rose has shattered, pull the sweet. petals apart and set. them- adrift in a shallow basin of water. It is beautiful to see the conservation of perfect beauty there will be, in petals that on the calyx seemed faded and dull. Nearly all Rose leaves are colored gold at their bases, and some blend from rich- est tints to a creamy-white. that no- where else is seen. _.._â€"â€"o___ Senators Turner, of Washington, and Carter, of Montana, are the only confirmed snuffâ€"takers in the United States Senate. Brigadier-Generul Bra'ount, who has been doing such brilliant work in the Cape Colony at Dor-d.renht, has seen forty-five years’ military service, hav- ing entereed the 2nd Derby Militia as an ensign in 1855. He proceeded to South Africa, the following year,aud joined the Cape Mounted Rifles. in 1873 he retired from the Rifles, and was elected member of Parliament for the Port of East London, and appoint- ed‘Field Commandant of the (‘oloniai Forces in 1878. The gallant General was-made a G.M.G. in 1880. and has been a Volunteer enthusiast during his career at the Cape. 4 .4. '3" -I_‘,lr;‘l“.'k _. - z .~ g. ieLaLQ‘J «mag-,2“, t..- 7,5:- ~_;;=a.:-‘._.,..,.:. ~,« ‘- r“ it"">._, ,_ . _. ._. ._â€"_...‘w_â€"c-.r:. mag“... . ... u [5. . . , , . I ,V . MW “mwvw.wu~ Nv‘w‘. Ȣ'~q_w~ xi. ,MW, “1 a“. M’ -- - '25:»? M V .. . 1:3. AAAA‘AA