Highest of all in Leavening 11 Prfp ACCGiaJTOtY PURE THE HUSBAND. At a So routs dinner recently th tody who responded to the toast "Our Husbands" gav Mm following verses: Who weds because we are so dear And then forgets when it is here The anniversary every year? The husband. Who when he's donning evening clothes Would with an angel come to blows And lets the whole house hear hia woes? The husband. Who sometime makes us quail and quake With tales about the bread and cake Hia mother used to make and bake? The husband. Who calls the landlord with a frown And then slips out and goes up town. While wifey talks that landlord downf The husband. But when the clouds are dark and gray And ruin seems not far away, Who takes the helm and saves the dart The husband. Who grumbles lots, as well we know. That here no wine shall ever flow. Vet in his heart is glad 'tis sot The husband. And so. In water pure and clear. Fit emblem of our sisters here, I drink the health of those so dear Our husbands. Detroit Free Press, BEHIND THE SCENES. "Yon see, my boy, " said Uncle Ho bart, ' 'matrimony is a dangerous thing. Ton take a bonse for, say, a year, and if it doesn't suit at the year' e4." it is altogether different. Yon can nei ther sell nor exchange ber it's a life long bargain. " "Bat, Uncle Hobart, " said the nephew and beir apparent of that gentleman, "let's take another view of the matter. Suppose that she is all that is lovely, excellent and desirable?" Uucle Hobart Rensbaw rubbed big nose. As an inveterate bachelor of five and fifty he was naturally inclined to take the less sanguine view of the case. "Paul." said he, "it's of no use to argue the matter. A young man in love is a young man mad for the time being. If you've made np your mind to get married, not all the arguments in crea tion will avail against it Only be sure yon make a right choice. Remember how much depends upon it " Paul Fontaine laughed good humored ly. Like all young men, he thought so much caution qnite unnecessary. "There are two sisters of these Lind leys, you Bay?" said Uncle Hobart re flectively, polishing his glittering spoo taule glasses. "Two, sir Emily and Esther." "Both of 'em pretty?" "As twin blush roses, sir. " "There you go!" said Uncle Hobart testily. "Right into sentiment, just like a three vol did e novel. " "Well, sir, isn't it natural enough to compare a pretty girl to a beautiful flower? If I could think of any other comparison" "You needn't trouble yourself, " in terrupted Uucle Hobart "Whatlwant to find out is what they are like. " "Esther is bright and sparkling; btniiy is all softness and refinement Esther is a brunette, with the blackest hair I ever saw. Emily has chestnut ourls and blue eyes, and a lovely, fair complexion. "Exactly." Uncle Hobart hummed an old tone which had been popular in his youth: Black eyes most dazzle at a ball ; Blue eyes most please when shadows falL "And which do yon like best, Paul, eh?" "Tbey are both of them charming!" energetically answered the young man. "Upon my life, uncle, I sometimes wish that the Turkish system prevailed here, and that I conld marry both of them. " "Difficult to decide which is the most fascinating?" questioned Uncle Hobart "But the thing is, my lad, which will wash and wear the best for everyday life?" "That is a question which the future will deoide, nncla Unfortunately we have no chemical test to decide the mat ter." "Think not?" said Uncle Hobart dry ly. "Look here, Paul, up to the present time you have only seen these girls through thecbiarosouroof visiting dress and company manners. What would yon give to behold them as they really are to get a peep behind the scenes?" "Half that 1 am possessed of, uncle!" cried out Fontaine, with animation, "if only to be able to satisfactorily prove to you, sir-bow pure and noble and high bob led jtiey are. Bnt all this is non sense Ofcpnrseit is an impossibility!" "Nothipg-of the sort," said Unole Hobart "Yon say that up to the pres ent these girlsjdo, not know me personal ly or of my oonneotion with the board of "health. -WeJU.it is true that lam neither a wizard inor a magician, but I am what is quiteirs useful in this mat ter a sanitary official. I go into peo ple's back doors wberrlwish it I stride remorselessly through their kitchens and oellars when 1 want to ..Bee for myself rather than trust, my'ihspectors. I am at liberty to take a don ttairs view of the world. Eh; youngjhjBn, what do you think of that?" ''..'.i' i ; Paul Fontaine stared. - i c "I don't understand hoW'ii "Buttyou will.-doubtless,' When' J tell yon that the Lvndleys' house -is ia'Jtny distriot; that I have deoidtfd to go thffe, tomorrow morning, to 'see peronatl-i ! that all tne drainage is perfect ' If yop choose to volunteer a little help,, I'll disguise you as one of my men and!' "With All mv lionrr. nnilot" 'With all my heart, uncle!" cried the yonng man, with glittering eyes and heightened oolor. "I fear no ordeal to which yon can subject Esther and Emily. Believe me, the metal will ring trnel" . . . m i . til 1 1 ; J w n I well, we i boo, emu xur. nensnaw- "In the meantime suppose you ring for tea." -.. : 1 ; ' Mr. Hobart Rensbaw was a man of property, bat be was also a man of pe culiarities. One of these was to earn Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report n Eschew anftFi afe k r w his borough surveyor 's salary as bun estly as if he depended on it for his daily bread. People call him a miser, bnt little cared he for that The widow, the fa therless and he that was ready to perish could tell a different tale, and Hobart Ronshaw, qnaint and eccentric though be was, conld read the book of human character with an almost unerring eye. "Run, Betty, run! It's that nuisance of a drainmau again. It does seem to be as if he came about a great deal of tener than is at all necessary. " The Lindleys were people who kept up a grand appearance npon a compara tively disproportionate foundation. Their sitting room was elegantly fur nished; their hall upholstered in Persian patterned B'nssela, with rosewood rack and Gothio hall chair, but the kitohen was a gloomy, subterranean apartment, scantily furnished and uninviting in aspect Moreover, the Lindleys were strug gling to keep up appearances on a mod erate income, and Betty, the little work house girl, in her print frock and thick shoes, was the only servant they kept "Dear me! what is the young man sticking his nose in here for?" cried out Esther indignantly. "Does he expect to find drains in the fireplace or under the washtnbs?" "Please, sir, the sink's iu the collar, sir. This way, sir!" said Betty, clamp ing on ahead and turning open a cellar ''" whence rushed out a blast of ihrally damp air. nvvoi the one glance into the kitchen hod been enough. Esther. ia greasy pink dress, and her hair in a bristle of curl papers, sat before a tray, with bowl in her lap, eating a 10 o'clock breakfast, while her pretty feet, tbrnst into a pair of badly worn slippers, dis played sundry unmended holes, and soiled pocket handkerchief tied aronnd ber neck did duty in place of the neat collar or frill generally supposed to be necessary. Mrs. Lindley was bending over a hnge kettle of bubbling and boiling preserves upon the range, and at the washtnb stood a slight, trim figure, with an apron tied around ber waist and sleeves above the elbow, Emily herself, scrub bing away with the energy of a laun aress, ana net sliming nair wound in lustrous braids around and about her small head. Uncle Hobart, following olosoly at the heels of his nephew, was just in time to bear Esther's petulant voice from the other room sounding shrilly on their ears. "It's too bad, mamma! The toast is scorched to a cinder, and the coffee isn't drinkable. I must have some fresh made!" "Ob, Ettie, don't!" coaxed 'Emily. "Mamma is so tired, and she has so much to do! Won't a glass of milk do?" "No, it won't! I must have coffee, and decent coffee, too!" asserted the brunette, tapping her pretty foot on the floor and knitting her jetty brows. "Then I'll make it" said Emily, "if you 11 wait nntil I get these collars rub bed ont" "I'd be ashamed to turn washerwom an," grumbled Miss Esther. "I'm not ashamed of anything that is useful!" cried Emily, with spirit. "when papa works so hard and the washing bills are so heavy. It won't hurt either of ns to do a little honest work and spare mamma all we can. "Do leave off moralizing and get my coffee 1" snarled Esther, who had evi dently risen in no amiable mood. And the borough surveyor and his bogus assistant, having no excuse for remaining longer, beard nothing more. Paul Fontaine was silent as he walked along the street, but Uncle Hobart chuckled softly to himself. "Nothing like an inside view I" said he. " The up stairs angel often turns into a down stairs demon, eh? Ha! ha! ba! Paul, my boy, beware of brunettes. There's mischief behind the arch of those black brows. If yon're determined to have a wife, take the one at the wash tub, the little girl who wanted to help her mother." "I believe you are right, Unole Ho bart, " said PauL . "But tell me, Paul, bow you came to choose me instead of Esther?" ques tioned the blue eyed bride as they stood together by the sea at Brighton the week after their wedding. "Esther is so much prettier, so much lovelier than ma Every one likes Esther better tban they do me. And do you know, darling, I half think that Esther was just a lit tle disappointed that yon didn't prefer her?" "Do yon think so?" said Paul care lessly. "We can scarcely acennnt for our preferences. Esther is very brilliant and beautiful, and when first we be came acquainted I was fairly bewitched by her. But now I value the steady shining star of your love above all the will-o -the-wisps in creation I" But he never told ber of his amateur sanitary inspection and Uncle Hobart 's test of character. London Tit-Bits. Neatly Trapped. Dr. Black, once the leading minister of Glasgow, and another clergyman, having a holiday in Cumberland, attend ed a little Scotch church and purposely went late and got into a remote corner of the ohnrch so that they might not be seen by the officiating minister. They learned, to their dismay, that they had been "spotted" when they heard the minister say in the intercessory prayers, i"Lord, have mercy on thy ministering Servants who have popped in on ns so unexpectedly, one of whom will preach irj'JJia atteruooxi, and the other in the evening t? san rrancisco Argonaut v. The. Present Moment. " The mill cannot grind with the water tn at is past As little can it grind- with what is to come. It oaU'grind onjy'with what Is -passing through it.' Wexan; make no-use'of time past;. Aslittle'use can we inube.pi time to come, r We can make use only of the passing moment. Ram's Horn. .. , ' FOR LITTLE FOLKS. A DEAL IN PEANUT BRITTLE. The Trading Venture of a Youthful Mem ber of the Gratebar Family. When they put the price of peanut brittle down to 13 cents a pound in the big stores, Maude Oratebar, the oldest of the Gratebar children, had an idea. Peanut brittle costs SO cents a pound in the grocery stores and confectionery stores up around where the Gratobars live. Maude's idea was to take some of her money sho is thriftv and alwara has a little money and bny peanut brit tle at one of the big stores at 13 oents and job it out to the children at 30. She thought that she conld rely on the trade of the Gratebar household, where she was well known, and the sequel showed that her confidence was not mis placed. Mande bought three pounds of pea nut brittle at 13 cents a pound, SO oents; car fare added, 10 cents; total invest ment 46 cents. Sold at 80 cents pound this would manifestly bring in bu cents, so tnat JUaude expected to make 14 cents on the deal. Tradeopened very briskly. Philip and George and Clara, the other Gratebar children, transferred their entire trade in peanut orntie to tne Home store. Maude sold iu any quantity asked for a single penny worm, u aesireu. mis made it verv handy for George and Clara, the two younger children, who could run into their mother's room and ask for aoennv ana tnen sooot into JUaude 8 room and buy peannt brittle with it Maude used a toy scale and weishta tnat Bad been given to one of the chil dren as a Christmas present This was bad, for the weights had never been sealed, and despite ber thrift Maude ii generous, and what between the un sealed weights and her own generosity, wnenever tne children bought 1 cent' worth she really gave them nearer cents worth, so that when the peannt brittle was half gone, and she should have had 80 cents, she really had only ii. line nils loss might nave been re trieved and the deal stil.1. 'laid ot prone ii : nau not "egun to give credit." Mande knew well enough that that wasn't business, but what conld she do when little Clara came along and said mother'd gone out, and she wanted a cent's worth of peanut brittle and asked Mande to trnst ber for it till mother came iu. Could Maude refuse to trust her own little sister for a cent' worth of peannt brittle? Why, certain iy not biie let ber have it At the end of a week George and Clara had rnn up a joint account of 10 cents. Then Maude shut down on them absolutely. No more peanut brittle, ex cept for cash and the payment of all back indebtedness. That threw them at once back upon their mother. Called upon for 10 cents all at once instead of for pennies separately, Mrs. Gratebar investigated. She found the two young' er children in debt to Mande, and Maude herself uncomfortable over the situation. Philip bad bought 10 cents worth of brittle, so that the total cash receipts had been 81 cents. Bnt even counting what the little children owed as good there wasn't brittle enough re maining on hand, even if sold for cash and at full price, to make good the original investment Things were getting complicated, and Mrs. Gratebar acted promptly. She paid ue cnuaren s cents, and tnen at once bought the entire remaining stock of brittle and divided it among all the children. Mrs. Gratebar paid 10 cent for this remainder, so that after all Maude closed ont the deal at a small profit, bnt it wasn't enough to pay for the bother, and that would have been sufficient to deter her from all such ven tures in the future, even if this had not been the express understanding with wnicn Airs, uratenar came to the res cue. New York Sun. Rose Colored Snow. Baid James In amazement, "I thought you told me That rose colored snow On the ground I could see!" "So I did," answered Arthur In tones of delight. "But did you not know That some roses are white! ' "A. Brother to Girls. Strolling through the city's streets on a sunny day a merry band of boys and girls issuing from Sunday school, each bearing a picture paper in hand, attract ed my attention. One among them, a stnrdy lad of 6, led by the hand a little tot of 4. Great pools of water flooded the crossings. At each one the little fel low lifted his wee charge, and stagger ing beneath the burden, bore ber safely over. Both by instinct and training the American boy early learns this lesson of care and attention to his girl playmates. Perhaps to this we owe the fact that the whole world over American men are held to be most chivalrous toward wom en, the most unselfish of husbands, the most indulgent of fathers, the most at tentive of brothers and the most de voted of friends, thus causing the lot of American, women to be looked npon as enviable by the women of nil other nations. Home Queen. 1 , Revenge. Customer Waiter, what is there for dinner today? Waiter (nnder notice to leave) Ob. the same as usual tough steaks, leath ery fowls, sinewy beef and flavorless mutton. London Tit-Bits. The most cultivated minds are usual ly the most patient, most clear, most rationally progressive, most stndious of icouracy in details. James Martinean. '. " M ., . rIn Brazil tberft aie said to be 800 lan guages and'dfalecti spoken by the In-dint, PERSONAL GOSSIP. Pillsbury learned to play chess while ne was a clerk in a Boston dry goods store. Archbishop Ireland is the only arch bishop who wears the button, of the Loyal Legion. General Cassins M. Clay has tired of having governesses in his bouse for his young wifo and has sent her to school. Abram S. Hewitt, the well known New York reformer, was professor of mathematics at Columbia college SO years ago. W. R. Hearst of Sau Francisco has one of the largest and most valuable collec tions of extra illustrated books in the United States. F. Marion Crawford is a broad shoul dered six footer, with azure eyes. He is 41 and is a prodigious linguist, a mar velous musician and au expert fencer. Puvis de Chavaunes, the famous French painter, is a tall, erect, broad shouldered man, with a snow white beard aud bair closely cut to his hand some head. M. Louis Coulon, a lawyer residing in Montlacon, Franco, began shaving when he was 13 years old, owned a beard a foot long by the time he had reached 14, aud it now measures nearly eight feet in length. General Sherman's daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Sherman Thackara, is a wom an of literary attainments aud has con tributed some practical articles on train ing school work to the magazines. She lives very quietly in the City of Qua kers. Mark Twain has been quite an in ventor. His first patent, tukeu out in 1871, was a strap for suspending trou sers. He has been assignee of quite a number of patents, several of recent dates. His patent scrapbook has been a success. Among living statesmen Mr. Goschen writes probably the worst hand. He is said to have taken up oua .ot memoraa v-- r- very shoi, mmnttmM, 'A who wrl4JJijliijBjl Hf tne puDiie service. " Liliuokalani, the deposed queen of Hawaii, had a perfect passion for the collection of rope knots made by sailors of different nationalities who visited her domain. The result is what is said to be the largest and finest collection of the kind in the world. It is a curious fact that Li Huug Chang, who is not a tobacco smoker, has one of the finest collections of smoking utensils in the world. He has pipes of all ages and from all parts of the world. He keeps adding constantlv to his treasures in this line. Mrs. Dorothy Tennant Stanley, the wife of the African explorer aud , new member of parliament, has not a green gown, hat, wrap or garment in her wardrobe. For some unknown reason Sir Henry has a strong dislike or super stitious aversion to that color, TURF TOPICS. The last race at South Bend, Ind., Oct. 4, had to be finished by moon light. Monroe Salisbury has acquired the racing qualities of Oakland Baron, Rankin, who took a record of 2 :U in a paoing race at Sidney, O., is a broncho. The difference between a cheap purse and a cheap race does not seem to be appreciated by some. This certainly has been the worst year for bookmaking that has occurred since the art was developed. Mrs. John A. Forepaugh, Philadel phia, has bought Pearl, 2:27), from Wood Campbell of Cleveland. At Fleetwood recently Nathan Strans drove his roadster Cobwebs to a pneu matic tire wagon a mile in 2 :21 Hiss Woodford, bay mare, by Sam Purdy, went a heat in 2 :09 at Balti more, clipping i seconds off her record. John Seely, Joe Patcheu's first train er and driver, has a "counterpart" of that famous horse in Frank Patchen, 2 years old. Hay in certain localities of Indiana is so scarce that farmers are turning their horses loose to starve or be taken care of by the humane. Sun Bernardino, CaL, is to build a mile race track in the form of a figure 8, on the model of those in Melbourne and Sydney. It will be the only one of the kind in this country. A horse never intentionally steps np on a man. in consequence of this there is a standing order in the British army that if a trooper should be dismounted he must lie still. It has been found that the whole squadron will pass over bim without doing him injury. Horseman. Lions, tigers and other rapacious ani mals resort to the nests of the pelican to drink water, which they do without any attempt to injure the little fledge lings. Cincinnati Tribune. Watts Do you think a man can be a Christian l a dollar a davf Fotts I don't see how he can anora to oe anything else. WHEN WRINKLES BEAM THE BROW And the locks trow scant and silverv.lnflrml. ties of see come on anace. 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There wasn't a cloud to bo seen, unlnva. a little white vapor far oft could be ' colled a cloud. All of a sudden the cap tain came up out of his cabin. 'dnt; all the liuht sail Off her n quick ns you cuu,' ho shoutcaVto the mate. 'Clow up tho royals autno'gal hint sails aud hour a huiitl lively, boys. ' ' 4 What's thonmttor with the old man now?" said the tailors as they looked around the horizon and saw nothing but sunshine and tho clear Hky. "Nevertheless all hands turned to getting in the light sail Thocnptaiu took tho wheel aud sent nie to assist. Of course we all thought it was a piece f fooliNhuoria, but we worked with a will bocaiiNO the captain, told us to. "Well, we hud no sooner got those pails iu than it struck. Right out of tlio clear sky cniuo an awful gale. It toFu our great mainsail and other sails to rib bons quicker than a (lush. It came 'butt eud to,' as the sailors say. "How did the captain kuow It was coming If Why, he wan iu his oabiu and happened to see hia gluss go down sud denly. That meant something, und ha hustled on deck. A good enptuiu watehos his barometer as a cat watches a mouse. " Portland Press. Fooling the Busy Dee. Mock boos and spiders! A writer shows that some flowers form a striking exception to the rule of oross fertiliza tion. The boe and fly orchids, for exam ple, which would ho much nioro com monly soon on our English chalk downs but for tho ravages of greedy collectors. fortili'A thiinitinlvii. nnrl t,l not u , be botlierml by bugmiitf beuH nut) (lion. So a cunniug duvloo has boon rusortod to. No brio will outer a flower iu which aiiotliur bee is already nt work. Thuro foro to protect the entrniioe tlio lip is oiilurttml iuto 0 proms oxnotly rosum- bling tho hind qnurtrrs of it boe (In the fly orchid it reiwtnblos a lnrtio fly). To tho ripidor orohldH, nnothor UritiHh spt'oici, it sooiiih to hnve ooourrud how a Htill morn trylns shook ntiuht be ml- niiiiinti'rod to the ncrvos of troublnsomn ItiNoots, so it dinplnys in its orifloo the ilkenuM of a largo ppitk'r. London News. Is or Will lie. Ouo of those frnmuiarinu friends met me the otluir day und nuked mo which Was oorroot, "Tomorrow is Sundny" or "Tomorrow will bo Soudny." I told him tho following atory: Ycurs ago the Reading Railroad company indued nn order requiring its brakenion, as soon as a train started from auy station, to call ont tho name of tho next stopping plaon. fur awhile tlio trainmen, inhtrnctod doubtless by some gTutmuuriua of tho road, would do this by saying, "Nt'kt station will bo" Allotitawn, Heading, eto. An editor took them totwk for it. pointing nnt the ahuirdity of using the future tunso in spunking of that which always is in the mime place. After that tho britkoMitu dropped "will be" and nriod, "Next station" Alleiitown. Roading, etc. Philadelphia CalL A Uif Brained Major. An amusing incident occurred while a company of a certuiu battalion sta tioned iu one of onr garrison towus were going through their muHkotry training. Owing to a strong wind blowing from the right, tho bullets kept fulling to the left of the turg.it. An old major, who was iu chargo ut the ranges, ounie over to tho color smgouut and inquired the cnute of the bud sliootiuii. On beinu told thut there was too much wind blowing from the right, causing the shots to full wide, he astonished the sergeant by asking, "Wouldn't it be a good idea if the targets were moved more to tho left?" The color seigeaut burely restrained a smile. Loudon Tit Bits. Pitt hud a fiery rc:l face and terrible scowl. COLUMBIAN PRIZE WIlsXEBS. 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