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i l : Household. Little Things. A good-by kiss is a little thing. With your hand on the door to go, But it taken the venom out of the sting Of a thoughtless word or a cruel fling That youmadc an hour ago. A kiss of greetin is an ect and rare After the toil o the day. And it smooths the furrows plowed by care“ The lineé on the forehead you once called fair, In the years that have flown away. C 'Tis a little thing to say: "You are kind. 5 love you. my dear," each night. But it. sends a thrill through your heart, I find, I" :- love is tender. love is blind. (.355 we climb life’s rugged height. “'e starve each other for love‘s caress. We take, but we do notlgtivqfie“ t seem: so easy some son 0 ., lint webole the love grudgingly less and less, ‘l‘ill 'tis bitter and hard to live. Laundry Hints. In order to do up a shirt properly, iron every part of it before the bosom, being careful not to stretch the neck. Then slip. in the bosom board, and with acloth wrung out of hot water rub the bosom well, clean- ing off the surplus starch. If the bosoms anywhere rub them toward the Iron quickly with a hot iron, but {alas wrinkle bottom. not hot enough to stick and scorch. the plaits with the blunt edge of a .knife and iron again, polishing until there is an even gloss over the entire surface. An ironing cushion helps diminish “that tired feeling ” on ironing day. It is simply several thicknesses of old carpet tacked to‘ gather, and used to stand upon, and it is a great relief to the feet. Such a rug or cushion before the table at which dishes are washed, or any work at which one must stand is to be done, is also advantageously employed. A pair of old loose kid gloves should be worn while ironing. If flat irons are rough and smoky, lay a little fine salt on a flat surface, and rub them well. It will smooth them and pre- vent sticking. Ordinary iron rust may be removed by applying lemon juice andOsalt. Care must be exercised in using this on colored fab- rics. If machine oil stains get. on white goods, rub them with lemon juice, cover with salt and place in sunshine for a_ time. If fins clothes become scorched in the ironing, often the yellow look can be en- tirely removed by hanging the article in the bright sunshine. ' ‘ If you have black or tinted cambrics or muslins which you hesitate to trust to the laundress, give them a first dip yourself in water with which you have stirred a tea- spoonful of black pepper. This is also said to save gray and butllinen from spots when rinsed in the first water. I Making starch with soapy water is the been way to produce a gloss, and prevent the iron from sticking. . A new method of cleaning clothes is suggested: Dip the clothes brush in the yolk of an egg, so that the bristles are quite wet. Allow it to dry, and then use. This treatment has, it is said, the effect to make the brushing especially efi'ective. To Waall chamois leather dissolve a little soda in warm water, and after rubbing some soft soap well into the leather, soak it for two hours, covering up the pan. Move the leather about and rub it gently; when it is clean, rinse with a slight lather of soap in a weak solution of soda and warm water._ It requires no other rinsing than this, as it is the small quantity of pure soap adhering to the leather that helps to soften it. W'ring tightly in a rough towel, and dry quickly in the sun or near a fire. Cottons in the Laundry. French sateens will clean beautifully by putting them in a lather of lukewarm soap- suds in which there has been a cup of salt diss'olved ; rinse in water also having salt in it : dip in very thin starch, and roll up in a clean sheet; in two hours iron on the wrong side. Remove coffee stains from a white dress with the yoke of an egg mixed with twonty drops of glycerine; ,wash off with warm water, and iron on the wrong side. A tablespoonful of sal soda in a gallon of cold rinsing water will brighten blue and purple lawns, while a toaunpful of vinegar toagallonofwaterwillimprovegreen and pink ‘shades. If the color has been taken out of a linen bodies by careless washing, it is claimed that it may be re. stored by dipping the article in a solution of one part of acetic acid to twelve parts of water. Remove scorch stains from your summer niuslins by soaking the cloth in lukewarm water, says Ladies' Home Journal, squeezing lemon juice over it, and sprinkling a little salt also on the stain ; then bleach in the sun. Clean black and navy blue lawns and batistes by washing in hot suds containing a cup of salt : rinse in ver blue water and dry in the shade ; than ip in a very blue and thin starch, and, when nearly dry. iron with a moder- ately warm iron on the wrong side. When you have cleaned allthe materials on hand, the most difficult. part of your undertaking will have been overcome, and you will not find it a very difficult matter to make your old clothes appear now. Your nice ging~ hams and percales should be washed in moderately warm water having salt in it to "set" the colors. Dry them in the shade, and use very thin. warmâ€"not coldâ€"starch ; iron on the wrong side with a medium warm iron. Do not soak them overnight. Useful Recipes. Beef Sanitationâ€"Clear all skin from llb. of beef snot, and mince it very finely with 211). of raw lean beef : season it with about lot. of salt, lot. of pepper, and a heaped gill of mixed herbs. Mix this all well together, lnake it into fiat cake. or rolls, and fry till nicely colored, about ten minutes. Corn Dodgortâ€"Put a pint of white Indian meal into a bowl with a tesspoonful .world to cook krout,"so say they who have of salt; pour over just suficient boiling water to scald it, having every particle, moistened but not soft; while hot stir in a teaspoonful of lard. Beat an egg until very light, adding half a gill of milk, stir this into the meal. beat thoroughly and drop very far apart by spoonfuls on a greased pan. Smooth out until the size of a small saucer, making them very ihin, and bake a golden brown in a hot oven. Keeping the Juice In.â€"I have found it, â€"â€"tho most approved method of keeping pie juice in its proper place, namely the pie. After wetting the crust and cutting the edge as usual, loosen the crust from the plate and "crimplc" it as you would for pumpkin pie, and if the juice runs out please tell me. The next time you make a prune pie mix with the prunes a quarter of a cup of raisins, seeded and chopped. Baked Spare Ribs and Kront.â€"-Trim and wash a spare rib, crack the bones through the center and again on either side for con- venience in carving. but do not cut them before cooking. Lay the rib in a baking pan. Put in it aquart of sour krout ; fold the rib together, add a cupful of boiling water, cover the pan with another of equal size. Put in a hot oven and bake one hour or longer. When done, carefully slip the whole rib on a platterand send to the table as it was baked. “The best way in too eaten it. W CRIME IN THE STAT ES. Crime in the Republic ls Aggravated by Their Judicial and Political Systems. Much has been written concerning social conditions in the United States, and those of us who have the good fortune to belong to the British Empire areaccused of unduly magnifying the general unrest, the con- tempt for law,and the insecurity of life and property which, in our British view, are the distinguishing characteristics of United States institutions. To this charge, a sufficient reply is that the censures are based on evidence supplied by the Ameri- cans themselves and ought to form at least some basis for foreign criticism. For example. The Chicago Tribune has of late years kept a record of criminal events reported in the daily press, adds up the totals at the year’s end and publishes them. THE RECORD FOR 1894 has appeared. 0f lynchings there were 188, which shows some improvement on previous years, the highest point having been reached in 1892 With 235 lynchings. Last year ‘24 of the 188 lynchings took place in the northern states, and the number of white victims in all the states was 24, showing that the crime is not a mere southern anti-negro crusade. The causes of the lynchings are given as 151 for murder, 37 for rape, and the other crimes and alleged offences for which sum- mary vengeance was taken include larceny, arson, and in the case of negross “ conjur- ing, kidnapping writing letters to white women, introducing smallpox, giving in- formation, politicsl causes, enticing ser- vants away, asking white women in marriage, conspiracy, etc." The feature of this part of the record which strikes a foreigner most forcibly is that of 151 lynchings for charges of murder, indicating The number of suicides was 4,912, against 4,460 in 1893, 3.860 in 1892 and 3,331 in 1591. No doubt the hard times has a direct bearing on this, for nearly one-half the suicides are ascribed to despondency. The amount of money stolen by embezzlers, defaulters, etc., was $25,234,112, the high- est on record. There was a startling in- crease in the number of murders. In 1894 these amounted to 9,800 against 6,615 in 1893 and 3,567 in 1889. It is but fair to bear in mind that increases in crime so appaling as thismay partly be due to a better method of keeping the record. \Ve have no wish to paint the situation any blacker than The Tribune itself does. The inference that may justly be drawn from these statistics is that crime in the republic is aggravated by their system, Judical and political, and by other condi- tions, which even a radical alteration in the constitution could hardly hope to amelio- rate. You cannot, by statute or executive measures, inculcate a national respect for law and order when it is absent, and what the millions of law-abiding property-owning people in the States have most to fear is the undermining of the material interests and social stability by the lawless element. 00 Is the Word “America” Peruvian? Dr. John Murray has made a most inter- esting contribution to the discussion of the origin of the name America Hcpointsout that the oldest but one of the maps of the New World bears the name Tamarique upon it- Even to-day the title “ Sierra Amerrique" is given to a mountain range in Nicaragua, once inhabited by a tribe called Amerriques: 'I‘he sacred books of the Peruvian show that the national name of this once impor- tant race was Amarca, or America Tamari no is, therefore, supposed to stand for l‘erra-.~\mcrique(the land of Am- erica). In the day of Vespucci nicknames abound- ed. They were given to nearly all, on all manner of pretexts and for many reasons. The Christian name of Vespnccx was Amer- igo. \Vhat could have been more natural than the sight alteration to America Ves- ncci! And the scholarly Dr. Murray lives that instead of his giving his name to the Western Hemisphere, the hemis- phere's most ancient title Was bestowed upon him by alliteration. We have often felt sad for Columbus' sake. His contemporaries showed the Genoeso scant courtesy. And one has wondered that even his name was not given to the land he discovered. But if America is older than he or Veepucci, this reproach is removed. THE [HIDE 0r HUNUUR. the lack of confidence in the regular legal powers for punishing these crimes. In other departments of crime The Tri- bune's record shows 1894 to have been A “pass YEAR THAN USUAL. HOW IT RECEIVED ITS QUIETUS IN ENGLAND IN 1836. llutlle leetlug or the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of WInchelseaâ€"Publlc Condemnation o! the Code Resulting From the Experience of Captain Scop- er. Dueling in England was on the wane at the date of the hostile meeting between the Duke of “'ellington and the Earl of Win- chelsea. That occurred in 1829,and marked an epoch in the modification of such an appeal to arms. Our readers may have forgotten the occasion and result of this meeting, and we therefore recapitulate its general features. Wellington was Prime Minister. He had brought in the “ Roman Catholic relief bill.” Winchelses opposed it and said the thing was done under false pretenses. A wearisome correspondence ensued, ending with the Duke writing. “ For this insult I believe that His Lord- ship will be anxious to give me reparationz” a Without retracting, however, the Earl continued beating the bush until he received a note in these words : “I now call upon Your Lordship to give me that satisfaction for your conduct which a gentleman has a right to require and which a gentleman never refuses to give. I have the honor, &c., WnLLixo'rou.” To which the Earl replied ; “The satisfaction which Your Grace has demanded is, of course, impossible for me to decline. I have the honor. &c., “ VVINCHELSEA.” The parties met at Battersea Fields next morning, the Duke attended by Sir Henry Hardinge, the Earl by Lord Falmouth. Ground having been measured and places taken by the principals, at the word “Fire” the Duke raised his pistol, but seemed to hesitate for he saw that the Earl kept his pistol pointing downward, evi- dently not intending to fire. He then fired at random. The Earl did not discharge his pistol. Thereupon Lord Falmontn stepped forward and delivered a memorandum to Sir Henry Hardinge, expressing THE EARL’s REGRET . And the parties separated. Upon a subse- quent inquiry by a committee of the House Lord Falmouth stated the condition upon which he consented to act as second to the Earl was that the latter should not fire at the Duke. He also said, “The Earl of Winchelsa thought that the injury he had done the Duke of Wellington was too great for a mere a ology, and that he ought to receive his re i” That was the idea of “honor” 65 years ago, and it was said the “ Iron Duke” regarded it as the most absurd transaction in which he ever took part. The irrepressible conflict that for many years existed between the civil and the military Courts is the stangest chapter of the history of duelingiu England. Queen’s Bench decided one way, the Horse Guards just the reverse. At Westminster Hall any death resulting from a duel was pro- nounced murder. At the same time an officer in the army who omitted to resent an affront or declined to receive a challenge was invariably dismissed from the service. In 1836 Justice Dampier presided over an English Court which tried Captain Henry J. Sooper for killing a brother officer in a duel. The grand jury had found a. true bill against the prisoner for murder, and the case wasabundantly sustained by proof. The Justice laid down the law with unus- ual firmness and severity, and Sooper listened to his charge with anxiety. The prisoner had watched the earlier P proceedings of the Court with no little indifference. Against his seconds the grand jury had ignored the charge,and in his own case he looked for his ordinary resultâ€" either a verdict of acquittal or, at most, of manslaughter, followod by a short impris- onment. The tones of the Justice’s charge aroused 'him'from his dreams. He fully understood the import of every word that fell from the Bench, and listened with constantly grow- ing alarm. The jury was out about half an hour, a delay which induced hope of a favorable result. Upon their return their names were called by the Sheriff and a verdict demanded. The foreman said: “ We find the paisoner GUILTY or MURDER." Captain Sooper stood facing the jury. No sooner was the verdict rendered than, turning deathly pale, he fell as if shot With a mortal wound, and, amid the pro- found silence of the Court and spectators, uttered along, loud groan. But he was soon sufficiently recovered to receive sent- ence, and Was called upon in the usual form to say “why sentence of death should not be passed upon him according to law.” He made alogical and remarkable ad- dress, beginning with an apology for the interruption he had occasioned to the busi- ness of the Court, an incident he hoped would not be imputed to his fear of death, which he had braved unmoved in battle. But he had a dear wife and beloved child- ren to whom he had trusted to bequeath his only fortuneâ€"the unstained reputation of a soldier and a man of honor. Y et, now he was to die the death of a felon, and leave to his family the inheritence of a innrderer's infamy ! He sdverted to the circumstances of the duel, some parts of which had come out during the trialâ€"that the dead man was the aggressor, and had publicly offered him an insult, which he dared not overlook ; that he had been willing to accept any apo- logy, but could get none ; that he had no alternative but to lend a challenge or lose his commission ; that it was well known to every one acqn1inted with the army that if he had not sent a challenge to vindicate his honor and the honor of the service the next post would have brought an intimation from the Horse Guards that the King had so srarnaa oocssros for his services, and he pointed out strong- ly the bewildering contrast between the practice of the armyâ€"not only authorized and encouraged, but expected and exacted by the highest powersâ€"and the stern sen- tence of the civil law in reference to the same transaction. He spoke of the deceased with affection and regret, and declared that nothing but a sense of what he owed to his profession would have led him to send the challenge, and he bitterly lamented that a false idea of honor had precluded a friend from yielding the apology, which would have ended the quarrel. We give only the mersst outline of the points made by Captain Sooper. It was a remarkable plea, presented with firmness and in a manly way, and made a profound impression. Tests were seen upon many faces, and even audible sobs testified to the deep sympathy of those present. The Justice, an able and good man, and full of the kindest feelings, was quite taken by surprise. He listened attentivoly, and ob- viously was much affected. 'Finally tears started from his eyes, and, covering his face with his hands, be omitted all remarks on the offense when be pronounced sent tence, and simply said: “The sentence of the law is,” &c. But while the Justice yet had his face covered with his hands, the prisoner had said : “And for this I am to be led to execution like the vilest felon.” The Justice, overpowered by the appeal, said to himself, unwittingly loud enough to be overheard by the Sheriff: “No, byâ€"! You shall not die!" There was some difficulty in procuring a remission of the sentence, but the Justice was firm, and Captain Sooper was ultimate- ly pardoned. Facts which came to light in his trial and during the effort to save his life stamped the dnelio with infamy, and abolished appeals to the code from the Eng- lish army. 'â€"â€"-e-â€" HEROISM OF A LUMBERMAN. Carrying a Wounded Comrade Forty Miles Through Cold and Snow. A young man, Henry Brault, a resident of Peterboro, 0nt., recently performed an act of heroism, actuated by friendship, which is worthy of record among the heroic deeds of heroic men of any age. The Man- chester, Wis., Union says that Brault and another young man, John Jamieson, were at work in the wild Madawaska region for the St. Anthony Lumber Company. Jamie- son met with a severe accident which ren- ered him delirious,‘and Brault started with him for civilization, where surgical treat- ment could be bad. They had traveled on foot but a few hundred yards when Jamie- son’s strength gave out and he became helpless. Brault, determined to save his companion if in his power, shouldered the invalid and started on his long, cold tramp of some forty miles to the nearest railroad. Without a. moment’s sleep, and bearing, besides his human burden, apack of provi- sions, Brault continued his journey for four days and nights, through cold and snow, almost as helpless from exhaustion and fatigue as his friend was from illness, he had the supreme satisfaction of reaching the end of his journey and placing Jamieson where heiwas able to be properly treated. Such a feat of endurance seems almost incredible, and only a seasoned woodman, inured to hardship, could have accomplish- ed it; and among those capable of it it is rare to find so striking an example of disin- terested friendship, even when a human life is at stake. Whatever his station in among nature's noblemen. Statistics as to Language. Almost one-third of all humanity,or about 400,000,000 people, speak the Chinese language. The Hiudoo language and its various dialects are spoken by perhaps, 125,000,0C0, the third place being accorded the English language, which is now used by not less than 112,000,000 people. The Russian language comes fourth, 89,000,000 ersons daily using it to the exclusion of all others. The German language is the audible expression of 57,000,000 human beings, and the Spanish of about 48,000,000. Among European languages French now takes fifth place, and when the languages of the world are considered it is the seventh in the category. Breaking it Gently. “Really, Mr. Stalate," she p time this evening." “ Vi'hyâ€"erâ€"upon my word 1 So I have. The hours pass like minutes when 1 am with you.” “You were telling me that since your promotion your time is valuable." “ Yes.” “Well. papa doesn’t allow me to ac- cept expensive presents from young men.” The Fad. Collectorâ€"“See here,whcn are you going to do anything on this account '2" Miidgeâ€"â€"-“I don’t know. I have been hypnotized so that I can’t go through the performance of paying, even when l have the money. I’m awfully sorry, I assure you." An Unfair Advantage. Chinese Emperorâ€"“ Why did you lose that battle 2” General Wun Runâ€"“ The Japanese at- tacked us in our rear." " I was informed that they attacked you in front." “ Y-e-s, but that was our rear when they got there.” Couldn‘t be Genuine. Guestâ€"“ That still life study is it won- der. Nothing could be finer than that table, the book, the pipe, and the purse. How perfect the bank-bill is ! By Jove ! I believe it is a real bill pasted on.” Hostâ€"“ Impossible ‘. I bought it of an artist.” Her Chance Game at Last. “Are you mine 2" he whispered. “Yours,” replied the end-of-the-century girl, "in huts.” life may be, young Brault deserves to rank . “you have given me four hours of your 01‘ elementary. hfl-B y . ' there can not be any doubt that a striking SUIENUE 01‘ LAST YEAR. SPLENDID PROJECTS RATHER THAN ACCOMPLISHED FACTS. â€"â€"... Flying lachlles. Aulttoxlne. Ilerirlr lu- ventloas, the New Air lite-sew. and Astronomical Progress-at large Teles‘ cope. - “ Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point," may not unfairly be accepted as the summary of the year 1894. The year has not been remark- able for exploration of new ground or for the epoch-making discoveries that stimulate thought and extend the range of intellectual Vision. Some of the larger enterprises of the year remain splendid projects rather than accom- plished facts. Mr. Maxim has proved that a machine weighing 8,000pounds can develop power sufficient to lift itself off the earth, yet he is probably more fully aware than any of his critics how much remains to be done before a practicable flying machine can be produced. Bacteriologists believe themselves to have discovered in the blood of inoculated horses a specificfor diphtheria, and statistics of c‘ures effected by this agent are accumulating With considerable rapidity. The note of caution, if not of actual skepticism, has, however, been sounded in more than one authoritative quarter, and past experience shows that remedies may fall into complete discredit after extensive adoption by the medical profession. The year has been prolific of schemes for applying electricity on a great scale to manufacturing processes : and, given the command of abundant and con‘ venient water power it would be rash to set limits to THE INDIE TRIAL REVOLUTION that may be effected. This condition, how- ever, is absolutely essential, and the invest, ing public will do well to see that it is unquestionably secured before listening to the most seductive prospectus. Sir Andrew Noble has continued his remarkable investi. gation of pressures in the bores of guns, which must cause considerable modification of previously accepted beliefs and methods. It is satisfactory to find from Sir Andrew Noble’s experiments that the cordiie now in use in our army and navy shows greater freedom than any other explosive from an approach to detonation. Its erosion, of which so much is sometimes said, also ap- pears to be less for equal energies than that of its rivals ; and it is of a uniform charac- ter like “ a washing away of the surface of the barrel,” while brown powder produces a surface resembling a “ plowed field in miniature." The most remarkable original work of the year in the department of chemistry and physics is Mr. Philipp Lenard’s appli- cation of the discovery of Hertz, that me- tallic films are transparent to the dark rays issuing from the negative pole in the case of electric discharge in a high vacuum. He closes one end of the vacuum tube with an aluminium film sufficiently thick to resist atmospheric pressure over a small area, and studies the cathode rays after passage through the metal. These cathode rays do not affect the eye, and produce no sensation in the skin, yet they are PHOTOGRAPH ICALLY ACTI \‘E, and when they impinge upon the tongue or nostrils produce the taste and smell of ozone. They: are sharply discriminated from or- diiiary light by the fact that they cannot pass through quartz plates which are trans- parent to light. In Ebert's luminescent lamp an attempt is made toiipply the cath- ode rays to the purposos of practical illumâ€" ination. The inventor states that a. ser- viceable light can be obtained from this apparatus with an expenditure of one two- thousandth part of the energy consumed in the acetate unit lamp. Should even a fraction of the economy of power here indi- cated be realized in practice, a wholly new start will be given to electric lighting. The sensation of the scientific year has undoubtedly been the announcement made at the meeting of the British Association that a new constituent of the atmosphere had been discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Prof. Ramsay. Whether science is to be rotested, enriched With a new substance, compound at to be seen. But novelty has been contributed to the method of scientific investigation. In electric. science the advances during 1604 have been in the direction of quiet progress rather than in REMARK ABL l'l DISCUVERI ES. The practical development of electric light- ing proceeds without any indications that there is likely to be acheck in its extension. In Great Britain ninetyâ€"five electric sup- ply stations are now working, of which sixteen are in the London district. Eigh- teen others are in course of erection. At the beginng of 1804 there wore in use in London alone about three-quarters of a million of incandescent lamps;and the num- ber will probably be increased to consider- ably over 1,000,000 by the end of 1805. Through the past year can not be marked with red In the calendar of astronomical progress, as remarkable for any great dis- covery, it has been one of increasing activ- ity and of steady advance. As the result of recent individual munificence, much larger instruments will soon be in the hands of some professional astronomers. Mr. McLean has offered to the Admiralty for the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope a large telescope, with complete modern appliances ftr photographic and spectroscopic work,together with a suitable light observatory for the instruments. The Royal Observatory of Greenwich is about to be enriched by £5,000 given by Sir Henry Thompson, for the erection of a telescope of 26-inch aperture, specially constructed for phot’ographic work. __.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-.â€"-â€"â€"-â€"-â€" The Back-Court Rivals. Little Miss Freckles (proudlylâ€"“M y new doll winds up and walks." Little Miss Maggi (airily)â€"”If I’d no known that kind was bein‘ sold, I'd a-got one for a waiting maid for my dolllc." f: . J. 1 m»..- «.‘n Sun- «Jul flai- '