FAKM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Miscellaneous Home Hints.
When white linen becomes mildew ed
it should be washed in warm water,
with a little borax, and then rinsed in
:lean water. After this put it into a
;ub of water containing a little hydro
chloric acid; then rinse and dry in the
sun.
When the rubber rings used for clos
ing preserve jars become so hard as to
oe useless, their elasticity may be re
stored by leaving them for half an
aour in two parts of ammonia and
3ue of water.
Oil-cloth may 'be improved in ap
pearance by rubbing it with a mixture
af a half-ounce of beeswax in a sau
.erful of turpentine. Set this in a
warm place until they can be thor
aughly mixed. Apply with a flannel
cloth and then rub with a dry flannel.
For adhesive labels dissolve 1 1-2 oz.
common glue, which has laid a day
in cold water, with some candy sugar,
ind 3-i oz. gum arabic, in 6 oz. hot
water, stirring constantly till the
whole is homogeneous. If this paste
:s applied to labels with a brush and
allowed to dry, they will then be ready
'or use by merely moistening with the
ongue.
Ants can easily be exterminated by
putting about two ounces of lard oil
n a small tin can without a top and
jurying the can about half-way in the
iarth near the ants' nest. Leave it
antil the next day, and, if any ants
ure seen outside of the can, pour a
ittle more oil into it stir it with a
stick and let it stand a little longer,
.when the last ant within traveling dis
ance will be drowned in the oil.
If you are troubled with sleepless
less, times of mental confusion, head
aches, (especially headaches aggravat
ed by eating, and relieved by open air) ,
swimming in the head or vertigo, and
irritations affecting the sitrht or hear
ing,perhaps you ore drinking too much
coffee. It is an article of such com
aion use, and one so generally thought
well of, that people are slow to attri
bute to it any of the ordinary ne'-VOUS
listurbances which it may be the cause
af; and especially because it has, like
many other narcotics, far more effect
:or evil upon some constitutions than
apon others.
For burns and scaHs nothing is more
soothing than the white of an egg,
which may pe poured over the wound.
It is more cooling than sweet oil and
cotton, which was formerly supposed
to be the surest application to allay
the smarting pain. Kansas Farmer.
If powdered nioves are scattered
where red ants are it will be found very
5ectual in driving them away.
A leading dentist says the teeth
should be washed with a stiff brush on
rising, and with an old used brush im-
- mediately after each meal always em
ploying lukewarm water or holding
sold water in the back part of the
mouth until it is warmed. Never eat
an atom alter the teeth have been
washed for the night. Always use the
brush slowly, lest by a slip a tooth
aiay be scaled or broken. After
.-neals let the bristles of the brush be
moved up and down by a twisting mo
tion, making each one a toothpick. A
yellowish tint to a tooth is proof of
its soundness; hence, do not seek to
keep them of a pearly whiteness. It
destroys them.
Cuttings of geraniums may be made
it any time this month or until the
time of frost. By making cuttings
and rooting them now good flowering
. plants can be procured for the Winter.
The later cuttings, if kept from bloom
ing in the Winter, will make budding
plants for next Summer.
A Boy's Sleep.
It is a mistake to awaken children
too early in the morning. If a boy
-sleeps until 8 o'clock, because he does
aot go to bed until 10 or later, the
remedy lies not in waking him early,
but in putting him to sleep early. It
he goes to bed early and sleeps late,
that fact alone is reason enough foi
not waking him. A great deal of harm
may be done by applying to growing
children the term of "early to rise,"
"rising with the sun." etc. In old
times, when artificial light was scarce
and dear, and many people were
obliged to go to bed with the fowls,
lying abed in the morning was a sign
of laziness. This tradition has come
down to us with so much force that
many believers in it think it a virtue
to cut short the rest of even young
children; whereas sleep is absolutely
necessary to their health anddevelop
ment. If a boy who does not sit up
'late sleeps until 8 o'clock, it is a sign
that he needs more sleep than most
boys; and it is too sweeping, as it is
cruel, to say "wake him early." A
parent has no more right to starve a
:lnld of sleep than of food; not as
much, in fact, because a child is often
;n danger of eating too much, but sel
dom in danger of sleeping too much;
certainly not when his sleep is a part
-of his regular night's clumber.
Ladles' Wraps.
A London letter in the Hartford
Times-says: Wrraps play a much larger-part
in stylish dressing in London
than in New York, and to Ameri
can women upon a first visit the
seeming incongruity of light dresses
accompanied by heavy wraps and
even nsr capes is a constant subject
of remark and sometimes ridicule. But
Knglish women know what they are
about. The sun through the day is
wry ho'!;; ths air out of the sun's di
eci influence very cool, and over the
whole atnvosphere, the moment the
suii has gone down, falls thin, trans
parent, vaporous mist, followed by
clear, eooL refreshing eveiihigs and
mghttf., when covering for comfort is
actually needed. An English woman,
therefore, never goes out without a
-wrap; ot necessarily for wear, bat
for emeasetniies. Wraps as part of the
costume are less common than in New
York, but there is much more style
and expense put into independent
wraps, or rather this kind of wrap is
more commonly worn. For example:
Upon a recent afternoon at Lord's
where perhaps 10,000 people were as
sembled and from twenty to thirty
drags, the toilets were all of the light
est and thinnest material thin, open
worked embroideries over batiste,
lace over silk, transparent wools and
gauze or net embroidered and' draped
upon satin or china silk. With such
costumes in cream and canary, pale
blue and strawberry, flesh pink and
terra-cotta were carried long cloaks
of ruby plush, wide capes lined with
plush, with hoods and long ends that
can be thrown over the shoulders, and
dolmans of chuddah cloth or India
wool, silk lined and fringed or trimmed
with pendant braids in the color of
the cloth.
Courtesy at Home.
One is forcibly reminded, in going
from place to place, how small and
seemingly trivial often are the things
which go to make or mar the comfort
and peace of home. In some house
holds there is a genuine good will and
kindness which only wofks out half
its mission, for the reason that it does
not express itself in little courtesies of
speech and action. These are more
important than some of our busy
men and women may realize. The
ready "thank you," "if you please,"
etc., at table and elsewhere, the quiet
"excuse me" when obliged to pass di
rectly before or inconveniently near
another; the loving "good night" and
cheery "good morning" although
little things, are helps in making a
happy home. Courtesy is but a ready
overflow of kindness and good will to
all, and is therefore but a natural ex
pression which costs nothing, but
which often cheers an aching heart,
and which never fails to make home
brighter and more attractive to the
old and young.
Raising Calves.
There is no subject in connection
with the diary of greater interest to
the general reader than that of rais
ing calves. This is one of the points
in the diary farm. With all the mod
ern notions and undoubtedly correct
ones, too, if we had a wife who loved
to feed calves, we would like no bet
t er business than buying up the can
ditates for "deacons" and making
good profitable veal of them, says the
American Dairyman. ' Prof. Henry
gives some fresh ideas on the subject.
He says that, from carefully conducted
experiments, he finds that skim-niilk
is worth 25 cents per 100 pounds for
feed to calves. More calves, he says,
are injured by over-feeding than by
under-feeding. Feed t hree times a day
moderately, not colder than 98 deg.
Farenheit, and find this out with the
thermometer. Teach the calf to eat
whole oats by the time it is three
weeks or a month old, by slipping a
few small handfuls into its mouth just
.after it has drank milk. When it has
learned to eat them, keep a supply
before it in a little box. If you
haven't oats enough for the horses
and calves both, let the horses go
without rather than the calves.
Don't waste time to grind the oats.
Bran, oil-meal and same other arti
cles are good, but oats are the most
satisfactory of all. He never knew of
a calf eating too many.
Selection of the Best Seed.
The season of harvest is with us,and
there are a few things that it will pro
fit us to bear in mind. From many
of the crops, selections should be
made for the next year's seed. As the
potatoes are earthed, we will be best
able to select the most vigorous seed
from the strongest hills. Theevidence
as shown by the N. Y. Experiment
Station is, that the stronger the po
tato, the stronger the hill from which
it grew, other things being favorable,
the greater and better will be
the progeny. The cereal producing
the strongest plant, the most
and best ears, and the maximum
stalks, may be expected to produce
progeny superior to the plant less
robust or less prolific. The finely
formed, good-sized, early-ripening
squash, cucumber, pumpkin, or other
vegetable, should not be overlooked,
if seed is to be sought for in the crop.
A wise man will judciously select his
own seed, in the manner that best pro
motes his own interests; he will care
fully store it away from mice and
other vermin, in a place where its
vegetative powers will not be impaired,
and on the advent of another season,
will be properly equipped for planting.
But if a farmer's crop be poor, and
the seed inferior, the wisest course will
be to get better seed from another
source, as a profit will result in the
next crop that will over-balance the
money expended.
Farm Hints.
The least painful way of slaughtering
a calf is to hoist it up by the hind legs
over a pulley and then immediately
cut thethvoat with a sharp knife so as
to sever all the veins and arteries at
one stroke. This suddenly arrests all
sensation because it stops the supply
of blood to the brain and paralyzes
that organ. The blood escapes very
quickly and the flesh is drained com
pletely, leaving it white and clear.
Professor J. W. Sanborn refers to
the cooking of food for farm stock as
having been, after innumerable trials
by farmers, "in most cases abandoned
in silence" and "living again only in
the praises of new beginners." In proof
of this statement he quotes from cer
tain "hill and satisfactory tests" at
the Maine Agricultural College, con
tinued during nine years. Without
entering upon the philosophy of the
matter," Professor Sanborn contents
himself by "warning against this infatuation."
'Apples and Abstinence."
The most prolific source of disease
among human beings as well as ani
mals, is over-eating. We are ever on
the watch for dainties. Web. meaning
housewives are eager for recipes for
dishes and confections to tempt the
appetite of persons not hungry. The
consequence is lives wasted by chron
ic dyspepsia; sick and cross children;
malarial ailments so called which
are produced or encouraged by bilious
disorders; the frequent diarrhoea and
dysentery of the summer season; and
who knows how many cases of fevers
from too great plethora and head
aches from overworked stomachs?
Eat only when the appetite is good,
and simple food. When one rejects
oatmeal mush or plain bread and
butter and wants cakes and dainties,
he or she is suffering from gluttony.
F. Warner.
Take the advice of an old man, 0
dwellers upon farms, and substitute
fruit for fat. in your summer cooking.
Overloading the stomach and over
working the liver with meats, gravies,
cakes and pies that are half made up
of greasy ingredients alluring to the
taste, through being aggravated by
sweets, is the chief source of headaches
and all the wretchedness of dyspepsia
and tax of doctors' bills. One of the
best physicans I ever knew said once,
in a moment of confidence, that he
never took any medicine but "apples
and abstinence." For myself, after
having for years endured the mis
erable effects of diet supxjlied by lard
dispensing cooks. I have not had oc
cassion to consult doctor or druggist
for nearly twenty years since living
wholly on plain, regular, limited diet ,
and now, in old age, I begin to really
enjoy life. T. Yokefellow.
Some Feeding.
Mr. J. M. Murcey of the Iowa Agri
cultural College, gives the following
feeding experience and some observa
tions thereon: "Aug. 28, 1884, 14
shoats, weighing 1,935 pounds, were
bought for 5 cents per pound. Dec.
1884, 13 sold for 3.15 per 100, the
average weight being 340 pounds. For
convenience deduct 138 pounds from
the total weight of 1,935 and there re
mains 1,797 pounds, which cost, at 5
cents per pound, $89.85; 4, 49S pounds
sold for 3. 75 per 100, S10S.67; gross
receipts, 78 82. The growth of 2,
701 pounds from Aug. 28 to Dec. 31
must have required, according to re
liable experiments, at least 225 bush
els of corn. This at 25 cents
per bushel leaves a net profit oi
only $22.57. These figures are
valuable. They show that a splendid
gain can be made on buttermilk and
dry corn, which was their feed almost
the entire time. It seems to me that
those farmers having splendid con
veniences for breeding swine will gen
erally make the greatest profit by sell
ing shoats, weighing say 90 to 110
pounds, for 1-2 to one cent above reg
ular, market price. Such prices are
readily obtained of other farmers in
this locality. All young animals are
the most profitable, givingthegreatest
increase in live weight from the least
food. This statement is not generally
believed among feeders and yet it re
mains a scientific truth nevertheless.'
THE JAPANESE FLOODS.
Harvesting Onions.
When the tops of onions begin to
turn yellow and fall down, it is time
the bulbs are harvested. They should
not be leit in the ground much longei
than this, as they are liable to com
mence a second growth, which very
much injures the keeping quality.
They may he pulled with a wooden
rake, or light diggingfork. Some grow
ers let them lie on the ground after
pulling, two or three weeks to dry;
others put them in small piles after
three or four days, to sweat; leaving
them thus two or three weeks, after
which they are again spread for a day
or two, and than stored. The bulb;
may be put into barrels, or spread
upon the floor of a loft, or store-room.
If on a tight floor, they should not be
piled more than a foot deep, though
they may be safely piled 3 or 4 feet
deep in bins having slatted bottoms.
If kept over Winter, they should be
protected from severe freezing.
Men's Full Dress.
Boston Herald.
The evening full dress suit of the
coming season will vary but little in
actual appearance from that of pre
ceding years. The coat, as a rule,
will be made of fine diagonal worsted
cloth, although for elderly gentlemen
broadcloth is frequently worn. The
fronts of the garment are so cut that
when lying ciose into the body the ends
of the roll will meet. The well-peaked
lapels are to be exceedingly light, with
five button holes, a trifle below the
third of which they are made to turn.
Silk facing covers the lapels to the but
ton holes. The collar is to be made a
trifle less in width than the top of the
lapel, its outer edges ranging very near
ly with the outside edges ot the lapel.
The edges are bound about one-eighth
of an inch in width, and thegarment's
corners are all slightly rounded. As
has been stated, the garment should
be made of worsted, and the trowsers
"and vest of the same material. Should
the coat and vest, however, be made
of broadcloth, the trowsers are to be
made of doeskin.
Within the last two years there has
been a gradual but marked change ir
the cutting of trousers. The change is
undoubtedly for the better. The "skin
tight" garments of the last few years
are to be known no more. Man's leg
covering is still to be shapely; that is
neither verging on bagginess nor tight
ness. . The trousers for full dress wil
follow this rule, and at the botton:
will, this year, end with a very slight
spring, and in many cases a narrow
binding will be sewed on the seams al
the sides. The vest varies but slight
ly from those heretofore worn. Tht
opening is very decided, and in forre
should be somewhat of the shape of a
shield. The buttons are four m num
ber, and are about two inches apart
The garment is finished with a collaj
that rolls slightly.
A Description of the Awful Calamity
Clipped from a Hiogo Paper.
The last mail from Japan brought
the Hiogo News of July 9 last, which
contains the following description of
the great flood at Osaka Fu:
The magnitude of the late calamity
that has fallen upon Osaka Fu makes
it desirable that a full account of the
disaster should be given to the public.
And yet it is very difficult at present
to do more than to state some of the
fasts that have been obtained from re
liable witnesses, and also to give some
of the hasty estimates made by high
er officials as to the extent of the de
vastation. On Saturday, the 27th of June, after
the first week of rain had ceased, the
view from the mountains ten miles
east of Osaka revealed what seemed
to be a great lake extending many
miles north and east from the foot of
the Castle. A large part of the
fruitful valley between Kyoto and
Osaka was flooded. The damage done
at that time was so great that the
sympathy of the whole nation began
to be expressed in substantial offer
ings, and it was hoped that the worst
was passed. But two or three days
of heavy showers followed by the
many more of drenching rains result
ed in one of the gravest calamities
that has befallen the Empire for a
century.
On Wednesday, the 1st July, the
road north of the Castle was literally
jammed with thecrowdsof men, wom
en and children that were being driven
before the flood like sheep. The rain
fell in torrents and the wind blew a
gale, while the wretched people, de-sertir-
one thing after another that
they "ad tried to save, at last left all
and ran for their lives. It was evi
dent by this time that, if the storm
continued, the Concession too would
be in some danger, and the foreigners
began to send their families to Kobe or
up to the higher ground of the city.
Next morning the whole Concession
was flooded, the deepest place being
three or four feet. The authorities
kindly put boats at the disposal of the
foreigners, and these, with canoes, took
the place of wading and of jinrikisha.
With this depth of water the current
in the river was violent. The wooden
bridges, one after another, were washed
away in great sections, and came drift
ing down with tremendous force upon
the three iron bridges of the Conces
sion. Thousands of spectators gather
ed on roofs, or waded out into the
streets to see these bridges strike, ex
pecting of course that they would go
through with hardly a check in their
speed, but they struck as if against a
mountain. Every effort was made to
break in pieces these wooden bridges
and to save the iron ones, and in the
dangerous work it was exciting to see
the utter recklessness of both men
and officers, and admirable to note
the forgetfulness on the part of
the officers of their dignity as they
J'oined with the coolies hand to
land. The immense strain on these
iron bridges, however, made them lia
ble to break at any moment, and as
the water was rapidly rising on the
Concession, and the streets were be
coming swift rivers, the Fu authori
ties, who had already repeatedly
offered their assistance, sent once
more about midnight to beg the resi
dents to leave the Concession, stating
that they could not at all foresee
where the calamity would end, and
when once the bridges gave way it
might no longer be in their power to
do anything for the safety of the set
tlement; they kindly offered to put a
policeman in each house, and if the
worst came they would save what
property they could. And they put
at the disposal of the foreigners the
roomy North Honganji, the highest
ground in the center oi the city.
Hardly had this exceedingly kind
offer been made when General
Takashima sent two military gen
tlemen to express to the foreigners
his deep anxiety over their situa
tion, and to beg them all to remove at
once. He most courteously invited
them to use as long as they desired
thenew and commodious hospital near
the Castle. The residents gladly yielded
to these warning and generous offers,
and by 2 o'clock A. M. on Friday, the
remaining women and children except
one household had crossed the Seifu
bridge and were immediately escorted
to the Castle hospital.
By this time over one-third of the
city was flooded, when in the sur
rounding country most heart-rending
scenes were taking place. Thirteen
villages just northeast of the castle
were entirely blotted out of existence
not a vestige remaining. Another
village oi 500 houses has hut one left
standing. The miserable people were
driven to the river banks, and into
trees, and crowds of toads and huge
snakes were their companions. A na
tive paper has an article entitled "The
Misery of Hell," in which a man who
had climbed a pine found the snakes
above him and the flood beneath.
Thousands of people took refuge
in their cramped second stories
and on the roofs of their houses
and as no instant relief was
possible for so many, they re
mained there without food for three
days in some cases. Many at the
sight of the awful calamity, or from
the stain consequent on seeing their
children swept away from any help,
where crazed by grief. Seventy-live
poor creatures where rescued from one
godown so emaciated that some of
them were unable to stand. Children
were born on the relief boats, and it
is reported that births took place on
the roofs of houses during the typhoon.
It is also said that every man, woman
and child of one village where caught
in the flood and perished before help
could arrive. Among the rumors
which are hard to verify we hear that
scores of helpless women and children
where swept away at once by the
breaking of a large section of the river
bank beyond the Mint where they
were huddled together.
A high official estimated that the
number of bodies recovered was 1,000,
but the number of lost is now roughly
placed at 15,000. The damage done
ments of dens people, an
the old Ford Theatei
was put at $10,000,000, but nowon i SKULLS AND BONES.
would hardly care to suggest any sum
that would cover the total loss of : n.. Cbastly Collection in the Army Medi
property. cal Museum.
j Washington Star.
There is one place in Washington that
very few Bight-Keens visit. It is a mu
j seum with a very extensive and novel
collection, composed entirely of frag-
and it occupies
r, on Tenth
j street, in which Lincoln met his tragic
i death. The once gay theater is now
i associated with skeletons and death.
The first floor, where the pit was, is
; occupied by the clerical force of the
j medical department of the army. The
: dress circle contains the library, and a
few articulated skeletons, while the
: peanut gallery, where the street arabs
! used to assemble at night to applaud
I the acting and drop peanut hulls and
' orange peelings on the bald heads in
i the pit, is given up exclusively to the
' fragments of dead men. There is sel
I dom anybody in tho museum except
the attendant. At the entranceof the
j library a group of skeletons stand
I grinning a sepulchral welcome, those
I in front standing in a careless attitude
1 "too naked to be ashamed," while
I those behind leer over their shoulders
with an air of familiarity that is of
I fensive to a person of delicate sensi-
bilities.
I Near the door is a sign and an index
finger, which tells the visitor that the
museum is up-stairs,and these grinning
gibbering skeletons seem to feel acyni
cal satisfaction in directing the way to
the upper room where are collected the
relics of ruined men. One tall. fine look
ing fellow stands with his foot on a
skull. The rest stand with their toes
turned in and their long, bony fingers
spread out at their sides or twisted to
gether. Some of them are young, spry,
dandified skeletons, with head erect
and polished white foreheads and a
full set of pure white teeth, while others
are hollow chested snaggle toothed old.
creatures, and others again are black
and shrivelled up, like witches' imps,
j They all have that offensive, familiar
j grin which seems to say that they
j hope to know you better later on.
Up stairs there are rows of glass
! cases all the way around the wall.and
j close together from east to west across
the room, there are large glass bottles,
like preserving jars. Some have human
j hearts in them, some hold the longs
j and liver. Others hold kidneys,spleens,
i eyes, noses, ears or fingers of men who
j have been a long time dead. Among
; the spleens is that of Guiteau, which
j is a third larger than any of the rest.
I One case is devoted to arms and less
that have been amputated, and show
how nice and slick the surgeon's knife
and saw went through. Someofthem
are all lacerated and torn to pieces by
gunshot wounds most of thecxhibits
are the scraps of men picked up off
the battle field. One heart has two
big ounce bullets imbedded in it.
Another has a deep gash in it and near
by is a dirk knife. Another case is
devoted to horrible looking hands and
feet put up in glass jars. All are
swelled up and lacerated. Some have
the flesh torn away and the bone and
sinews left bare. A solitary thumb
reposes fci a small bottle, while a little
finger is crooked up in another. An
eye torn from its socket by a musket
ball is soaked in alcohol; odds and
ends and all sorts of fragments of dead
people are collected there like the
scraps for a crazy quilt.
But the chief of the collection con
sists of small fragments of bones.
There is a section of the backbone of
Booth in a glass case not many feet
from the spot where he shot Lincoln.
There are all sorts of human bones
shattered by shot and shell. Skulls
with great big lead balls sticking in
them; big bones with fragments of
iron shells crushing them into powder;
joints broken apart by musket balls;
there are skulls, ribs, legs, and arms
shattered and shivered by all sorts of
missiles of war, and in some cases the
lead and the bone have become wed
ded together. There are over 9,000
specimenes of bones fractm-ed in cur
ious ways by shot. There are plaster
casts of different cuts of the human
body that make the eases look like a
butcher's stall. Then there are more
articulated skeletons. There is the
great French skeleton, a giant in pro
portions, every bone as white as ivory,
teeth all perfect like pearls, toes turn
ed out, and palms of the hands ex
tended with all the grace of a dancing
master.
"Look at those teeth," said one of
the attendants to the reporter. "He
is proud of those teeth. None but a
French skeleton could have teeth like
that. Yon can always tell a French
man by that. There's a Yankee. None
at all!" Only one canine, and half the
jaw rotted away. That's because they
use too much tobacco. If Americans
knew how it ruined their skeletons
they wouldn't chew so much. A
Frenchman has a right to be proud of
his skeleton. I should be ashamed to
be a skeleton without teeth. That's
a mighty fine looking woman there,"
and he dusted the glass case that pro
tected a set of delicately fashioned
bones. "She's French. See her teeth;
like pearls. If you want to make a
good skeleton takecareof yourteeth."
These articulated skeletons are the
only actors now on the stage that
used to afford amusement to Abraham
Lincoln, and their bony fingers point
out the spot where he met his death.
A Sketch of Hettie Green.
From Washington Letter to Cleveland
Leader.
Hettie Gr.een is the sharpest woman
on Wall street and the richest woman
in New York. She is over forty years
old and she numbers her fortune by as
many millions as there are years
in her life. Her mother was somewhat
of an heiress and her father had in
creased the family pile to 9,000,000
at the time of his death. This fortune
Hettie, as the only child, inherited,
and she at once went to work to in
crease it. Much of her fortune was in
vested in ships, but these she consider
ed dangerous and sold them and
placed the proceeds in good interest
paying mortgage. She bought these
mortgages of small towns all over
England, traveling about and investi
gatingthesecuritiesfor herself. Short
ly after her father's death a maiden
aunt of hers died and left her $4,000,
000 more. The $13,000,000 that
Hettie Green thns inherited she had
increased by careful speculation to
about $20,000,000 at the time she
married E. H. Green, of New lork.
Miss Hettie had an ante-nuptial con
tract with him whereby he agreed to
pay all of the household expenses
and to leave her property of
$20,000,000 and more in her
own name. After her wedding she
kept up her business work, and
through her husband got into Wall
street speculation. She did the spec
ulating herself, however, and made
while her husband lost. She could
buy large blocks of stock and would
bull and bear the market as she
thought best. She has made money
right along, and is now said to be
worth forty odd millions. She is very
economical withal, and though her in
come must be several millions a year,
her total household expenses are not
over $5,000. She rides down Broad
way in a five-cent 'bus, carrying per
hans $100,000 in her reticule, and she
used to walk to parties through the
snow, pulling old woolen stockings ov
er her shoes to keep her feet dry and
save buying rubbers. When she got
to the place of entertainment she
would pull off her socks and hang
them on the hat rack to dry. She
kept her silver and securities at John
Cisco's bank, and the bankers say she
came periodically to the bank with a
box of whiting and polished her silver
herself. When Cisco failed, not long
ago, it took two cabs to carry awj'.y
the plate, and the securities which
Mrs. Green had on deposit were found
to be over $2o, 000,000. Hettie Green
has two children, a boy and a girl.
The girl is 13 and the boy 14 years
old. The boy is an invalid, but his
mother says she intends to make him
the richest man in America. If she
keeps on piling up money at her pres
ent rate she will probably succeed.
He Felt Discouraged.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He had a wearied, sad-eyed expres
sion, as if booked for a funeral, and
was awaiting the hearse and mourn
ers. A sympathetic friend sought to
sound the secret of his woe. The
wearied man responded:
"I feel discouraged."
"Tut! You mustn't give way to
grief in that despairing way. You
know what the poet sang: 'Hope
springs eternal in the.human breast.
"Ah, yes! But it ain't for me. When
a man's seen what I'veseen hope ain't
for him."
"Bless my soul, what can have hap
pened?" "I'll tell you. Mayhap it will give
relief. You know how steady I've
been sitting up to MissHopsnood?"
"Everybody knows you sat up to
her like a sick kitten to a warm stove."
"She encouraged me, and I felt I was
solid till first one and then another
got to whispering that she was sitting
Gus Tombell out 'n out. I wouldn't
believe a word of it. Didn't she go with
me to ice cream parlors two or three
times a week and picnics, and didn't
that show I was solid? So I believed
she was all right and wouldn't hear to
a word contrary."
"That's right. Don't never listen to
busy talk."
"That's what I was determined till
to-day. A person told me a little while
fhaf ho Qaw T'nm Mill esf'nrtin.T
Kate home from the matinee. That
didn't worry me. I knew he was all
right and thought everything of me.
So I started up to call on her. It
wasn't my night to pay my regular
visits, but I wanted to go, just to show
them I knew it was all right. I met
her ma at the gate. She said I'd bet
ter not go in. That sounded queer,
but I did not let it bother me at all.
Then the old man he was smoking
his pipe under a tree he chipped in;
said he guessed Kate wasn't expecting
me to-night. That was quee-, too.
Still, I wouldn't allow myself to be
discouraged. I was sure Kate could
explain everything, no matter how
it looked. On the step I met Kate's
little sister. She kind of snick
ered, and had a curious, cute look in
her eyes as shesaid: 'Kate won't best
like to see you to-night.' This was
the queerest of all. But still I
wouldn't give way. Something told
me to keep a stiff upper lip and not
be discouraged. And I determined I
wouldn't . So I walked right into the
parlor, and then "
"What?"
"I saw Kate sitting on the lounge
with that Tom Mill he with his arm
round her waist and she with her
head flopped down onto his breast."
"Then you gave way?"
"Then I felt discouraged and came
away."
Mr. Jones, the revivalist, in his ser
mon in Cincinnati said: "I don't be
lieve any of Darwin's theory unless
you invert it. Invert it, and my
judgment is. it's a fact. We came
from the blessed hand of God perfect.
But I look about me and I think the
world is running to monkeys."
A published portrait of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Jr., one of the early
settlers of Ohio, leads to an old remin
iscence in the Hartford Courant: His
father was a resident of Middletown,
and his singular nameoriginatedthus.
In the early history of Middletown,
Mr. Jonathan Meigs asked a lady to
become his wife. She refused him, and
Meigs felt so badly that he left her house
weeping. She, observing his grief,
cried out to him when he was a few rods
from her, "Return, Jonathan Meigs."
He went back, she accepted him, and
they were married. He declared that
the words uttered by the young woman
gave him more comfort than any
other he had ever heard. Therefore,
wishing to express his gratitude, ha
named his first child Retuu Jonathan
Meigs. The son became postmaster
general of the United States and
governor of Ohio.