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”1 """ When they pat th* price of peanut brittle down to 12 cants a pound in the Mg stores, Maude Gratebar, the oldest of the Gratebar children, bad an ide*. P**nnt brittle cost* 20 cents a pound, in the grocery stores and confectionery stores up around where the Gratebers j Mve. Maude’s i^e* was to take ream of bar money—»be to thrifty and always has a little money—and buy peanut brit tle at cm of th* big stares at 18 cento and job it out to th* children at 80. She thought that sb* could rely on the trad* of th* Gratebar household, where she was well known, and th* aeqnel showed that her confidence was not asto- Maud* bought tbre* pounds of pea- ntabrttttost 13cMts a pound, M centos carfare added, 10 cento, total invert ment. 4« cents. Sold at >0 cents a pound this would manifestly bring in 60 cento, so that Maude expected to make 14 centa on the deal. Trade opened very brtakly. Philip and George and Clara, the other Gratebar children, transfmred their entire trade in peanut brittle to the borne store. Maud* Bold in any quantity aak*d for—a aingl* peuy’a worth, if dudred. Thia made it very bandy for George and Clara, the two younger children, who could run into their mother’a room and aak for a penny «A then scoot into Msude’s room snd buy peanut’brittle with it Meade need a toy scale and weights ttatt had been given to one of the chil dren as a Chrtotmaa present This waa bad, for the weights had never been scaled, and deapite her thrift Maude to generous, and what between the un run a stationary engineand "fire” when the fireman to sick as well as any man cm earth. Sbe to the only woman engi neer in the country, it in said, and ahe knowa her budnaso from th* ground up. Bar love of mechanics was tan in bar. and when other girls of her age wore playing with paper doll* sad making mud pirn she waa studying ovary piece of machinery ahe could get MM, b tima ah* married A. H. mtam, engi near of Havliu’s theater, Chicago, and h* gave her all th* opportunities in his power to study machinery. In 1881 she accepted a position as stationary engi neer of the panorama called "The Cruci fixion" and was placed in charge of the entire plant Sbe waa later employed at Havlin a theater, and when the World's fair opened was appointed to the very re- ■ponsibl* poet of engineer at the Wom an's building. She had charge of tho sn- the oBiidrep bought 1 cent’s worth she really gave them nearer 8 cents' worth, so that when the peanut brittle was half gone, and she should have had 80 cents, she really had only 81. But this lorn might have been re- trieved and the deal still clpeed at a profit if Maude bad not begun to give credit Mand^knew well enough that tabitati» ÏSM» of the» wasn’t business, but what could ata befare a teay. with a sbe do when little Clara came along and r taa, anting a 1* o'clock said mother’d gone out, and she wanted a cent’s worth of peanut brittle and asked Maude to trust her for it till mother came in. Could Mande refuse to trust her own little sister for a cent's worth of peanut brittle!1 Why, certain ly not She let her have it At the end of a week George and Clara bad run up a joint account of 10 cents. Then Mamie shut down on them abaolutely. No more peanut brittle, ex cept for cash and the payment of all back indebtedness. That threw them at «toe tank open their mother. Called upon for 40 cents all at onoe instead of for pennies separately, Mra. Gratebar investigated. She found the two young er children in debt to Maude, and Bitnation. Philip had bought 10 cents' worth of britti», no that the total cash receipts bad been 81 cents. Bat even gating what the little children owed *a good there wasn’t brittle enough re- ■Mining ta hand, even if »old for cash and at Mi price, to make good the original investment Things were getting complicated, and- Maa. Gratebar acted promptly. Shepaid the children’s debts, and then at once bought the entire remaining stock of brittle and divided it among al) the children. Mra. Gratebar paid 10 cents for this remainder, ho that after all Maude closed out the deal at a small profit, but it wasn't enough to pay for the bother, and that would have been sufficient to deter her from all such ven- tarss in the future, even if thia bad not been the express understanding with which Mrs. Gratebar cam* to the res- ouo.—New York Run. Archbiahop Ireland to th* only arch bishop who wesre tho batten of the Loyal Legtoo. * General Cassius M. Clay hm tired of having governcBse» in his bouse for his young wife sad has sent her to school Abram 8. Hewitt, the well known Now York reformer, waa profeseor of matbematica at Columbia collage M take. Whether vtotere er vanqutotad, they eeaseqnt *f a. e* ut **t teuimd from btaq «» foot- Thattaeh mta abould be b **X with all th* blu* spots cured crema marvatons, until w* know tart tb*y bar* n*dEIJ mom OU. Everyon* knows th* vtrtus *f th* great rearedy and that it will mire bratoae, and th* morel to all «an profit a* ma be toeaauy «urea, it la a l**e*n to all subject to hurt*, th*y will lore oo tlm* from work if they uro it _ W. R Heantof San Franctooohm one of the largest and moat valuable eo ll ee Uoaa of oxtea illtatratod book» in tho United State*. F. Marion Crawford to a broad ahoul- dered Mx footer, with amro oyee. Ho Ie 41 and to a prodigiow Mngutot, a a*ar- v»loup muaician and an expert fencer. PuviB de Cbavenne*. the famoua French painter, to a tall erect, broad abouktarod man, with a beard and hair closely cut to hie hand some head. ~ Moutlacou, France, began shaving when he waa 18 years old, owned a beard a foot long by the time he bad reached 14. and it now measures nearly eight feet in tangth- Genend Sherman’s daughter, Mra. Eleanor Sherman Thackara, in a wren- an of literary attainments and has con tributed some practical articles oo train tig school work to the magasinee. She lives very quietly in the City of Qua 7— MKH SLIZABKTH GKKTTOJt. tire plant and filled her position to th* entire satisfaction of the board of lady - 1 EBADAE BH* ' During aB th* time that sbe bas been employed at her trade, as ahe cilia the workUfrfovQMI® dreeaea and continued to keep hone* as usual. In bar work in th* engine room ■he has never shirked any task nor avoided aay responsibility. She has been inside boilers and has worked aronnd moving machinery whenever required. If the fireman failed to show upon time, she would shovel coal Into the furnaces and run the entire plant single banded rather than have the wheels of industry clogged- In spit* of her predilection for man a work Mrs Gretton ia a very womanly woman and ia devoted to her family and her home. Her ambition now to to be come an expeft electrical engineer. "A is not an article." remarked a ;hiId the other day to her mother, who was helping her with her school lesson. "Fancy your not knowing that it's a liatinguiahing adjective I” We asked a «mail schoolgirl the other day if she Iqarned astronomy- "AH^onomy! Of aoureenotI Tbat’s an infa ’.subject," contempt the answered, with gra “Have you read Pope Man!' " we inquired latel 18. "Pope I Why, nobod replied. Paradise JEWILRY WOVELTItfi. The English walnut and the hickory nut in enamel ere mounted m etick pine. Silver, gold and platina wires, with or without the addition of precious ■tones, tent into the shape of rosaoew form pretty pattern« for brooches, ear ROTBD FOR— . * rings and studa. SIMPLICITY Flower vaam of chased gold and ail STRBNCTH ver are made in many original ahapaa. ■CONOMY < Some oonsirt of aeveral cornucopias SUPERIOR WORK- symmetrically arranged. On* show» MANSHIP— three ma nymphs bolding up pretty IN KVINY DKTAIL «long*ted sbelto. Thaw »agiMS are BoknowltasuJ by eapsrt Flocks of butterfltoe and dragonflim have settled down to the Jewetare’ show- eosm. Th* dragoufii«* sre newer and especially interesting. They aro ell in Mi*mel and frequently studded with precious stow*» —Jewetors* Oircolar. r-Tovre this t W b effkr On- Hundred Dollar* Reward for any cm * of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall'* Catarrh Cure! V J. CHENEY A OO., Prom., kers. Mark Twain baa been quite an in ventor. Hie first patent, taken out in 1871, waa a »trap for appending tron- orabl» in *11 basineM ■ere. He bas been assignee of quite a Inonciaily able to carry uumber of patent*, aeverkl of recent oat aay obligation date*. Hia patent acrapbook Ima been a Whole»*!» micociM Ameng Ifvlfig tttaunnrnMr. Garbon Internally writes probably the want hand. He to Hall’s Catarrh Oar* mid to have taken np one of hia own memoranda th* other day, and, being very short sighted, exclaimed, “A man who write» like that ought not to be in Ibe public service.” . LHiuokalani, the, deposed queen of tTATIIIUTAII UBIIE EMIIEI —uasvaacroato av— American Type Founders’ Cb collection of rope knots made by sailors of different nationalities who visited her domain. The result to wbst to said to be the largest and finest collection of the kind in the world. It to .a curious fact that Li Hung Chang, who to not a tobacco smoker, I1AS 0116 of the finest collections of smokipg utepiils in the world. He bas pipes of all agea and from all. parts of My daughter was troubled with scrofula. th* world. He keeps adding constantly A swelling formed in one of her ears to hie treasuree ia thia line. ,nd brokeoP<n I Mra Dorothy Tennent Stanley, tbs 1 dis< wife of the African explorer and new ^KrSmiBRS^S^k free'y «nd the mtaiborof parliament, hm not a green 'ibol» «ids of gown, hat, wrap or garmtat in her faWRy W h»r head b*- 1 wardrobe. For aome unknown reaeon »five’ed. Sir Henry has a strong dislike or super -»a^y Tb* trouble stitious aversion to that color. yr | continued ten [ i ImU J \ years »nd »he j From Infancy TURF TOPICS. The last race at Sooth Ben^Ini, Oct. 4, bad to be finished by moon light. Monroe Salisbury baa acquired the racing qnaHtiee of Oakland Baron, 8:1<K- Rankin, who took a record of 2 ;34X in a pacing race at Sidney, O., to a broncho. The difference between a cheap puree and a cheap race doesnot seem to be appreciated by some. Thia certainly haa been the wont iga 1 The worst of s childish dictum of this year for bookmaking that haa occurred lortiatbat you feel yourself m abaolute since the art waa developed. ly quenched. There to no getting any Mra. John A. Forepaugh, Philadel further in the argument, for no pigbead phia, haa bought Pearl. ^:2T«, from edneaa equals the pigheadedness of th* Wood Campbell of Cleveland. very young person—in fact, of the new At Fleetwood recently Nathan Straus child. And then he—or ah»—is never amused with the simple games that need drove bls roadster Cobwebs to a pneu to delight us. Modern children are will matic tire wagon a mile in 2 :21 ing to play if only to please their elders, but they are mildly and politely bored. Purdy, went a beat in 2 Æ9* record. They are bored with moot things. They more, clipping 4^ seconds off have 80 picture books where we had one John Reely, Joe Patchen's first train- —none of vonr garish, crude illnstra er and driver, bas a "conuterpart” of tions, but .esthetic designs, and yet they that famous horae in Frank Pateben, 8 don’t seem to care about them. years old. There ia a good story of bow an old Hay in certain localities of Indiana to gentleman with much toil and trouble so scarce that farmers are turning their manufactured a large'kite for his small horses loose, io starve or be taken care grandaon. He and another old friend, of by the humane. with the boy, went out to fly the kite. Sim Bernardino. Cal., is to build a The twoold men were deeply engrossed, mile race track in the form of a figure but the grandson got so bored that 8, on the modal of those in Melbourne he quietly absented himself, and after and Sydney. It will be the only one of some time th* two old fogies found to their disgust that they had been larking the kind in this country. A hate» never intentionally stepe up about all alone with a kite, much to the amusement of th* passersby. And an on a man. In consequence of thia there other story—of a little girl of 8 who ie a standing order in the British army said to her mother (an authoress), i hat if a trooper should be dismounted “Oh, mumsey, why not call your new he must lie stilL It has been found that book ’The Rod of Love!’ "—does not the whole squadron will pass over him ring quite pleasantly. Ah, There to without doing him injury. —Horseman. - _— / PORTLAND, OR. Bend lor eatalogw* Always WINS HOSTS of FRIENDS wherever its Superior Merits become known. It is the Safest FOOD for Convalescents I os. iMvaovan sunn loet the hev- *“* v lng in ,hat \ ft er an attack of typhoid V Jf f fovvr »he wm left wry weak. Sh» coughed and rai ed a great deal- Wo reaorted to Hood’» Sorta psrilla and after taking el* bottiee »bo ^waa greatly improved. Now the »ore» are perfect ly healed and ■’ e haa good hearing in that oar.”—Maa. M. WiLKisaoa, Pat him, Tann. LIVER PILLS mlMSERf Portland, tralla Walla Is the Only True Blood Purifier p emi nently In the publ'c eye. Prepared only by C. I. Hood A Oo. Apotheciries Lowell, M—-. P- » 8. NEW MÍA V EASTs.^ S crofula filli SIDDlll! SIIPI Hood’s Sarsaparilla writes: I hers elwm fTjg tesss remedies» si* physieiaiM,b«it aoae reliersd me. After y sr loos told tapay, MRS. WINSLOWS something terribly nnchildish about th* "new child t"—New York Times. -Bo 1 did.” aaewered Artbar In tarns of deUfht. “Bat did yea not know That atm» nm * are white» One of the most wonderful of the many feats performed by Hindoo jug glers to the egg dance. Usually it to ex ecuted by a girl, fantastically dressed. She makes use of the willow wheel, around which at equal distances sre threads, and at the end of each thread there is a noose, held open by « bead. This wheel the girl places on her bead, while she carries a basket of eggs on her arm. When the music strikes up, she begins to dance, and the wheel be gins to spin aronnd. She then takes an egg from the basket, places it in one of the thread nooses and throws it from bee with sufficient force to draw the knot tight. The spinning of the wbee keep* the thread stretched, with the egg at the tad of it She then takes another egg from the basket, places it in another noose and repeats this until there to an egg in ev ery noota Her fantastic costume, her perfect motion and all the eggs swing ing on the stretched threads at mses pre CMtomer—Waiter. w|mt to there for amt a very pretty sight indeed. It re- quires much art to execute the dance, dinner today! _ v qgaiter (under notice to leave)—Oh, fm at one false step th* eggs would bo dashed together, the dance spoiled and tke game « usual—tough steaks, l*Ath ay fowta sinewy berf and flavertem mattao. —Ixmdcu Tit-Bite. The meet euMivrtedmiHde are usual- Allcock’s r*rh»»idrtw*m»n retal»? bat wh»» "iwntaptw» tart too. . FERTILIZER UTIUKOE | r " lT OutïwD FOR OKI Porous Plaster 7»«f St.... PORTLAND ^4 7*5^ uta ws «smww*: ausacMr.MMUrl who M» only -nBVr WElNHflRD’S WELL-KNOWN BEER DON’T BORROW TROUBLl" BUY SAPOLIO T1S CHEAPER IN THE END.
