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"Gosh almighty!” be roared, so loud
tt that
I beard him above the noise of
native platinum
I
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
MODESTY OF THE GREAT.
ILAKE,
MsrriTr
lE^aariae aaa
H4H>K NKWH
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papers
the gale. "Couldn't the firemau get Ta« “EaM»” M«t»i« Kalra. i, d S'ru.a
UlaAalaaa aa» Darwla Fait Th«m- MUFFII i
WR1TÌN« an<
WRAPPING... * *• GSJ
let«ltl»«»t DI.hwa.hlBa,
This raeaU»< Sabaiau«-«.
aalvaa “Oraiiaary rareaaa.”
down an’ open the switch 'thout callin’
tTIWNE
.. .. ..........
Household
work,
especially
kitchen
OARO STOCK
Ou
the
slopes
of
the
L'ral
mountain-'
a man all the way up from the hind
Iu "Studies In Contemporary Biogra­
work,
may
be
so
much
simplified
by
a
end? Mebbe you think it's fun to and in Brazil. California, A uhii . i
phy,” by James Bryce. there occur two
...Straw and Binder»' Board...
I Canada aud many other countries a pe­ Uttle method and beginning at the stories which caused some of the critic«
nr», Mrv^i
waller round In this snow.”
I told him to cut the itigiue off and culiar substance know u as native piati right end! The woman who starts to to express astonishment at the “mod­ Tel. Mele lint. «J HAN ERANCMba
waali
diahe»
wbeu
they
are
spread
all
bold everything on the eastbouud track I num is found. Thia la an alloy of the
esty of the great ” The stories are
tt
till I got buck from the Selden water I metals platinum, palladium, iridium over tlie kitebeu table makes herself these:
plug. As we pulled over the switch I osmium, rhodium aud ruthenium, to- uuuecessary work, How mauy false
“Meeting Mr. Gladstone in the lobby
I getber with a little gold and iron. All motions d s she make and what an and seeing his face saddened by the I i
Harry shouted:
»
jiuiecess.
y
number
of
steps
she
takes
of these except the last mentioned are
"Hey, Davis!”
troubles in Ireland, Mr. Bryce tried to
Davis looked up, squinting comically the “noble” metals. They do not tar­ Ibe will reach for a plate, scrape it. divert hla thoughts by mentionlug a
re-
Crop
the
knife,
wash
the
plate,
then
CupertpM, Uut, bn
»
into the teeth of the storm. Harry nish In the air and are not soluble In
recent discovery—to wit, that Dante Oo Your Ankle, or Limb. Swell?
Herbert K. Hamblin
threw him a kiss and yelled, "Turkey!" I any slugle acid. The most plentiful Jeat tlie process, perhaps picking up had been saved from want in his last
Are Your Eye. Puffy? We ar.
The conductor's reply was luaudible, metal occurring In native platinum la liislies indiscriminately as to kind or years by a lectureship at Raveuna. Mr.
th. Sole Agent» for the Only
llse.
and.
no
mutter
hrrrr
much
she
may
I
that
from
which
it
takes
Its
name.
but we knew what it was, the most
Gladstone's face lit up at ouee, and he
Thing Known That Cure, tho
common expression In railroad use.
This metal Is of • grayish color and hurry, she is working at such u disad­ said. 'How strauge it is to think that
Kidney Dhaeasea That Cause
vantage
that
It
is
uo
wonder
dish
­
When we got back from the water I with one exception is the heaviest sub­
HE train was reported half an behind the two bead curs in the siding.
these great souls, whose works are a
Dropsy, vlx.t Pulton Compound..
hour late. We eluted the cab I bad the brukemau cut these two off. plug. 21, the mail, waa waiting. We stance known. Its fusing point is ex­ washing has a terror for her.
Contrast this way of stepping around beacon light to all the generations that
windows and dropped the cur­ and I "stoked” them out on the main followed ber, getting good wheeling tremely high, and thia property, to­
have come after them, should have had
tain. Harry y.ut the blower track ahead of the engine. I ran ahead until she got so far ahead that the gether with Its freedom from tarnish­ —and It Is no exaggeration—with the cares and anxieties to vex them In their
It !• now well known that drepay la not tn
way
another
woman
will
prepare
for
causes
It
to
be
largely
used
for
the
ing.
until
snow
drifted
in
lielihid
ber
again.
We
the
two
cars
behind
the
engine
ou a quarter of u turn to carry off the
daily life just like the rest of us com­ Itself b dlaoBse, but ia nearly nlwaya a Nyoip-
lier
work.
Slie
clears
the
sink,
scrapes
I
manufacture
of
crucibles
and
other
tom of kidney diaeuse that BccuiupauieK the
gas. We lighted our pipes, cocked our were over the switch. 1 backed them loaded the tender at the Holton coal
mon mortals!’
chronlo stages heretofore Incurable. Hence,
heels oil the lioiler butt uud listened ill In on the siding, leaving the other two platform, piling on top big lumps that vessels required by scientists to stand and piles each kind of dishes by them­
“The words reminded me,” adds the np to tho discovery of the Fulura Compounds,
selves;
her
towels,
plenty
of
them,
are
comfort to the liowllug blast without. out on the main track. Then I came couldn't blow away. My watch drop­ a very high temperature. It is also
author, “that a few- days before I liad dropsy was incurable. It Is now, however,
As I sat and puffed ou my fragrant old i out with the engine and went back ped out of my |>ocket on the shovel. 1 sometimes used as a substitute for gold clean and at hand; plenty of hot, soapy heard Mr. Darwin, in dwelling upon curable tn nearly nlno tenths of all cases Here
water
In
the
dishp.n
and
the
drainer
lu
photography,
and
when
deposited
in
threw
it
Into
the
tender,
aud
Harry
after
the
rest
of
the
train.
brierwood my gaze became riveted on
the pleasure a visit paid by Mr. Glad­ ta an InterestLug recovery, to which we refer by
I had a four mile back up in the tossed u heavy lump on top of it. After a thin film on the interior of the tubes clear to receive the clean hot dishes, stone bad given him, say, ‘And be talk­ permlssLon.
the only thing visible, the steam gauge,
which
require
very
little
drylug
after
of
telescopes
it
forms
a
dead
black
we
hud
found
it
and
stepped
back
on
Mrs. Peter Goy hen lx of WS Fillmore street,
like a spectral face suspended iu the teeth of the blizzard. I couldn’t see a
ed Just as If he had been an ordinary
Francisco, became alarm lug y dropsical.
Center of the uniform blackness. The thing and never knew where I was. I the engine he asked, looking at the surface, which preventa the light from their two successive hot baths. First person like one of ourselves.’ The two Suu
Her physician had finally to tap licr every few
the
glasses
are
washed,
rinsed
uud
being reflected by the polished sides.
days. She was lapped nearly forty^imes Mud
soothing bum of the blower, the didn't dare go fast, for I expected ev­ clock:
, Palladium is of a lustrous white wiped while the silver soaks in the men were alike unconscious of their crew worse from day to day. Tne physician
"Is that all ’tis—10:15?"
warmth aud sense of coziuess, combin­ ery minute to hit the train, and I could
dually told ber husband that she had Bright’s
color. It Is the most easily fused of suds, then tlie sliver, each relay being greatness."
I
looked
at
my
watch
—
11:37.
We
not
force
myself
to
go
slow
enough
to
of the Kidneys, that it was iu tn ad­
ed with the hypnotic effect of my fixed
It Is only the little who think them Disease
vanced chronic a'si-jaud beyond medical aid.
wiped
as
soon
as
rinsed
and
drained,
the
metals
found
in
platinum
ore,
and
hail
left
the
curtain
up
while
coaling,
stop
without
punching
a
bole
In
a
new»
gaze, set me to dreaming.
Her beurt also gave her the usual trouble and
selves
great.
They
are
like
those
who
Tomorrow would bo Christmas, and pujM'r. Snow aud coal dust swirled up aud the engine clock, less than two feet I can even be volatilized. A curious while tlie next is In the dishpan. The do not know much and therefore im­ she was in Much a serious condition the relatives
sent for. They pul her on Fulton's Com­
mother was with us. It was ber first under the foot of the curtnin. blinding above the boiler, had frozen up and I quality which this metal possesses Is waters are changed frequently, as are agine that there Is not much to know. were
pound. It stayed on the stomach, the first
I j that when heated to redness it is the towels, and in thia way dlshwasli
thing that had done so for a week The second
visit since uiy marriage. Katie, liet us, and tlie lioller might have been an Stopped.
week the dropsy declined a little and the Im­
During the next hour we nearly I ¡Mirous to hydrogen gas, allowing It to Ing becomes [flea san ter work, and the Tlie great do not think themselves so, provement
poor little heart a-flutter ut the pros­ ice cream freezer for all of its effect on
waa then gradual till her recovery
just as the learned are overwhelmed by wus complete.
Thia case was examined into
pect of u visit from that dreaded in­ the temperature. I tried to Invent a stalled In big drifts twice. This set me I pass through somewhat in the same array of shining glass, silver and china their Ignorance.
by
representatives
of the San Francisco Stax
spector general, her mothcr-iu-hi w, bad suitable reward for the yardmnster at to thinking aliout train 19. She must manner that blotting paper permits the is a delight to tlie eye, proving that
and the Overland Monthly, and the geuuiueursi
of the case and the recovery were fully attested
slaved herself nearly to death. Three- Tabor’s for not giving me a shove, only be nearly due. I looked at my watch— I passage of water. The silvery white there can lie a satisfaction even in dish­
Snake la a Street Car.
lu their columns.
year-old Bob liud nearly wrecked his to remember that engineers seldom 11:37. It hadn’t turned a wheel since I color of palladium and Its freedom washing. and it is done In much less
Mrs. Thuinas Chiistol of 426 Twenty-seventh
The snakes with which I have gen­
• that lump of coul hit It, aud now I had I from tarnishing render It useful for time and with far less effort than in a
mother's wonderful patience by hla have a chance to get square.
Suu Francisco, wus ulso swollen with
erally associated have mostly been the street,
making scales and division marks on haphazard way.—Cooking Club.
dropsy, us the result of chronic kidney disease,
The crew hud tied a red lamp to the no time on the engine.
persistent efforts to render ber labor
to
more
than seventy-five pounds beyond hei
little
chaps,
such
as
the
lively
two
foot
Seeing me looking at my watch, Hur- I scientific Instruments. A mixture of
futile, und I had “flggered" ou the run, brake rod of the head car aud gone
weight, aud hud to be moved in slteett
garter snake that I had In a Kansas normal
Aa directive Dimin. Room.
and was close to death's door although she had
for a mouth to make sure of l>eing back to the calioose. Long before 1 got ry asked ize if it was broken. I told this metal with mercury is sometimes
physicians. She was put on the Fulton
A white and yellow dining room la City street car one day. I had picked four
home on this the greatest Christinas back tlie lump was transformed into a him it was. “That’s nothing,” said be. used for filling teeth. Osmium is a
Three weeks showed improvement
him up in the suburbs of the city, and Compounds
metal
which
possesses
two
remarkable
and
in
six mouths she wus well, aud peimils
decidedly
something
of
a
novelty,
miniature
Iceberg,
but
I
didn't
happen
"So
’
s
the
record.
”
I
tried
to
grin,
but
It
that ever wus. For a wonder, 1 had
before taking the car back to the busi­ this reference.
I
properties
—
It
Is
the
most
refractory
is
difficult
for
decorators
aud
home
to
hit
hard
enough
to
smash
uuythlng.
just
then
sbe
plumped
into
a
cut
at
the
not figured in vain. Everytliiug had
Ii you have dropsy don’t temporise. There is
ness section of the town I buttoned )ul.v
one thing known that will cure the clirouic
come out exactly us I bud hoped It We found the drawhead of the other foot of n slight grade that was tilled of the metals, resisting fusion at the makers to get away from the Idea that
him
in
the
Inside
pocket
of
my
coat.
cut
noy dim-use that is behind it and that is
most
intense
beat,
and
it
is
also
the
car
banging
to
this
one
by
the
link
and
a dining room should be treated in a
twenty feet deep with “the beautiful.”
would. I* would get home early enough
r uiton’s Compound. The Reuul Compound for
Now.
anybody
who
has
ridden
over
for Christmas dinner mid late enough pin. We got it up in the tender after I had no longer any need to worry heaviest substance known, being twen- markedly dignified if not a somewhat the streets of Kansas City knows tliut Bright’s and Kidney Diseases, |1: for Diul elt a.
|1.5U.
John J. Fulton Co..
V Washington
to preclude tlie ¡Missibillty of being sent awhile and coupled it. I culled the about following trains. I was anchored ty-two and a half times heavier than subdued and heavy style. Yellow and
San Frauclseo, sole compounders. Send
in places it seems as though the cars street.
water.
Together
with
Iridium,
It
oc
­
flag,
and
Davis,
nearly
frozen,
climbed
white
is
not
necessarily
flippant,
and
good
and
solid.
I
bad
a
full
tank
of
I
for
pauij
blot.
Vte
uru
the
sole
agents
lor this
out aguln before the next day.
were climbing up the roof of a barn. city.
A curling wreath of blue smoke float­ alssird. He said there wus no flag out, coal. We wouldn’t freeze, und there I curs principally In a peculiar variety of when the room to be treated is In the When I got on the car it was full, and
lug across tlie face of the gauge arrest tlie tall lights being in plain sight from was water enough for a long siege ex­ native platinum called osmlrldlum. country and has a green and shaded
i This mineral differs from ordinary outlook Hie effect is really charming. so I had to grali a strap in order to
ed the Hellish course of my thoughts the yard, and he commenced to criticise cept for those leaky flues.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
i platinum ore In that it contains a An apartment of this sort in a cottage stand up. Presently a seat became va­
and directed them to the boy ou the my solution of the recent difficulty, say­
larger proportion of osmium and Irid­ that is perfect in harmonious effect cant beside me and I sat down. As I
other side of the eub. Hurry Mcrvin ing I should have backed the whole
The mortality among babies during th<
ium
than platinum. Osmlrldlum Is throughout has the wall puneled to did so I glanced up gnd there was my
train
down
into
the
yard
and
demand
­
hud been on the roud only a collide of
ASKING QUESTIONS.
thiee teething years is something frightful.
found
in small particles, varying in within seven Inches of the tops of the poor little snake hanging to the strap The
ed
the
services
of
a
pusher.
There
monttra, mo-i ut which time be had
census of 1900 shows that about one io
seven succumbs.
been tiring for uie. lie was bright, may’ be n time for all things, but that Tbe Art of laterrovatloa shoald Ho weight from one-sixth to one-third of doors, and all the woodwork is painted I had just left. Various other people every
The cause
is apparent.
With
baby's
noticed
him
at
the
same
time,
and
the
Devoid
of
liaprrHorace.
a
grain.
These
particles
are
extremely
didn't
seem
to
me
to
be
the
time
to
lis
­
Ivory white. Above the paneling is a
pleasant and willing. It now occurred
bones hardening, the fontanel (opening In ths
”lk> not ask questions” is the worst hard and are used for pointing non­ stenciled frieze in shades of daffodil, ensuing exhibition would have enabled skull) closing up and Its teeth forming, all
to me ttiut I rather liked lilm, hut that ten to switch sliunty railroading, so I
coming at once create a demand fuf
orange and chestnut. The rug is in any person in the car to secuv a job these
I knew absolutely untiling about him. shut him and drove him buck to his piece of social auvice which age can wearing pens.
bone
that nearly haJf the little
Metallic iridium possesses a white tones of brown and dull soft blues. as a circus acrobat at a handsome sal­ systems material
are deficient In.
The result la
It wasn’t so very many years ago that doghouse. By the time they got the give to youth. A man who never asks
weakness, sweating, fever, dlar-
I was u strange isjy on this same roud drawhead back into its place In the questions is the dullest fellow in the steel-like appearance. The knife edges The tilts] flreplace is In yellowish ary. After they had escaped I put peevishness,
rhoea,
brain
troubles,
convulsions,
etc., that
myself, and this was Christ inns eve. 1 ear and we got away from the .siding world. He had better ask too many of dellgate balances and other bearings brown and the chair seats of chestnut tlie snake back in my pocket. The prove terribly fatal. The deaths In 1900 under
conductor
was
a
hero
and
stuck
to
his
three years were 304,98«, to say nothing of
we
bad
been
four
hours
coming
a
little
which
require
extreme
hardness
are
than
too
few.
We
can
defend
ourselves
brown
leather.
Filmy
fabrics
in
daffo
­
made a pretense of getting a light for
the vast number outside the big cities that
my pipe at the gauge lamp and leaned over four miles—a magnificent begin­ against curiosity, but no armor avail* often made of it. An alloy of 10 per dil aud white form the window hang­ post, but be put me off the car and were not reported, and this in the Uuitud
kept
my
nickel.
—
W.
S.
Dunbar
in
Out
­
States
alone.
ning
truly.
against indifference. We must resign cent Iridium and 90 per cent platinum ings. A flue old silver lamp adapted
across tlie boiler.
When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry
"Our turkey ’ll be cold, Alec," Hurry ourselves to be bored to death.
has been found to be very little affected for electricity Is suspended by long sil­ ing.
'Where are you golug to spend
out In sleep don't wait, and the need ii
neither medicine nor narcotics.
What the
What is the secret of the art of ln- In volume by changes of temperature ver chains above the hospitable ruupd
Christmas, Harry?” I shouted above remarked jokingly after we had start­
No Room For Him.
little system is crying out for la more bone
terrogation? Putting aBlde quick sym­ and Is the substance of which the table, and a more charming and invit­
the uolse of the gale mid tlie slutting ed again.
material.
Sweetman’s Teething Food sup­
Several
relics
of
exceptional
value
"Frozen.” I replied slowly.
pathies, which He at the root of every standard meter kept In the Internation­ ing dining room, especially for warm and of unusual interest to archa?ol- plies it. It has saved the lives of thousands
of the curtain.
of babies.
They begin to improve within
I couldn't get them going over twelve social art, we believe the most essen­ al metric bureau at Paris is made. weather, can hardly be imagined.
The tire glowed brightly in tlie bowl
ogists were discovered in a small town forty-eight hours. Here is what physicians
tblnk of it.
of his pipe once, twice, before he an­ miles an hour, and from that we ran tial quality for those who would rxcel Rhodium and ruthenium are metals of
near Nuremberg, and as soon as the
DM Washington St.,
A Cradle Rocker.
swered. He leaned against the lioller down to about the speed of a slow in it is directness. The art of asking little practical use. The former occurs
San Francisco, June 2, 1^02.
news reached him the director of the
For any mamma who Is given to such Nuremberg Historical museum went Gentlemen—I am _ prescribing _ ___
your food tu
on his side so that I could barely dis­ walk. She didn’t steam very freely, questions so as to' learn, Instruct, please in platinum ore to the extent of 5 to 0
the multitude of baby troubles due to tra-
cern his features In the dim light mid which was to be expected. The weath­ and Influence is not the art of beating per cent. The latter is found only in unhygienic actions as rocking herself to the village and Introduced himself peded
dentition. A la
___
rue .
percentage
_____ _ of
.
in-
er would have chilled a boiler Jacketed about the bush. The questions which osmlrldlum and averages about 5 per or her child there could be no more
replied cheerlessly:
fantile Illa and fatalities are the result of
to the mayor, saying:
slow
teething.
Your
food
supplies
what
ths
with
a
foot
of
asbestus.
She
kept
call
­
offend and silence are the questions I cent of that mineral. The metal which quaint piece of furniture than the mis­
“Oh, In the bourd’n’ house, I guess.
“I am In charge of the museum at deficient system deirîHnds, and 1 have had
Where else? They’re ngoln' to have ing for more water, so I was not sur­ which suggest some ulterior motive. It ranks next to platinum in price is «ir­ sion cradle rocker. It’s old tlmey Nuremberg, and I’d like to”—
surprising success with :t. in scores of cases
prised
when
while
oiling
I
discovered
this diet, given with their regular foed, has
roast turkey an' eraulierry sauce an'
is a found out scheme which makes coniuui, which occurs in hyacinth aud
“You’re too late, my good sir,” in­ not failed to check the infantile distresses.
bor
flues
to
be
leaking
badly.
After
men angry. Anything of the nature gome other rare minerals. Uranium Is
plum pudd'n’, I hear."
Several of the more s»rious rases would. 1
terrupted
the
mayor.
“
We
’
ve
already
sure, have been fatal without It. It can­
1 booh knew his story—a stepmother that I never passed n water plug, and of a trap keeps us on our guard. If remarkable for its high atomic weight,
got here several merry go rounds, a feel
not be too quickly breugnt to the attention
three months after Ills own mother's the plump vision of my Christmas tur­ we once fall into one we resolve it the heaviest known.—Chambers’ Jour-
of the mothers of the country. It is an ab-
bearded
woman,
a
theatrical
company
death and. I mentally added, a red­ key faded in Inverse geometrical ratio shall be the last time, Suspicion kills nai.
composed of apes, a troupe of trained solute necessitv.
L. C. MENDEL, M. D.
headed stepson. He had picked up a to my progress.
confidence. Interrogative hints are ut­
dogs and a band of Hungarian musi­
Daylight showed us a white Christ­ terly useless. The average man does
guueral idea of tiring while beating bis
Petaluma.
Cai..
September 1. IMS.
SIR JOHN SOANE’S WHIM.
cians, so you can readily see that we’ve
Dear Sire—I have just tried the teething
way on here from Wisconsin, ami. bap mas with a vengeance. The storm was not dislike to be questioned. He hates
got
no
room
for
your
museum.
”
food In two cases and in both It was a suc­
pening to arrive nt our roundhouse
to be startled, crossed, interfered with, The Practical Juke a Celebrated Maa
One wan a very serious case, so crltl-
And with these words he nodded to cess.
Played on Posterity.
cal that It was brought to me from another
just us a man was urgently needed,
reproached, wearied or betrayed. He
the
director
and
went
away.
city
for
treatment. Fatal results were feared.
One of the most famous of postmor­
be caught ou.
hates the questions which are not ask­
In three days the baby ceased worrying and
commenced eating and Is now well. Its action
tem Jokes was that perpetrated by the
"They’re callin’ us,” he concluded,
ed with a simple intention.
Natare and Deformity.
in this case was remarkable. I would ad­
and, giving the bellrope a Jerk.
There are questions which are asked I donor of the celebrated Soane museum
Nature is very particular to conceal vise you to put it in every drug store In this
Stepped down to hook up hiB tire.
not because the asker wants to know, of pictures and other valuable objets
her deformities, and all that is worth­ city. Yours,
' M. PROCTOR, M. D.
I.
When 1 got coupled up and
but because he intends to tell. Others, d'art to England, the late Sir John
less or ungraceful generally drops off
step|>ed up in the cab again. 1 said:
while ostensibly directed to find out a Soane, who died In 1837. In his will enough to api*eul to the lover of old from a tree unless It be an injury to the
Sweetman’s Teething Food will carry bab>
safely and comfortably thruugh the most dan­
"We ex|M*et to have a little time
man’s opinion, are really intended to
Sir John made provision for the open­ furniture and quaint enough to inter­ trunk. From such effects the tree nev­ gerous period of child life, it renders lanc­
our house tomorrow. Harry, und
reflect upon his character. Some men
ing of the gums unnecessary. It is the safest
est
anybody.
Until
baby
grows
Into
a
er
recovers.
Go
Into
the
forests
aud
plan and a blessing to the baby to not wall
should like to have you come up and
inquire as to their neighbors’ projects ing of three sealed cupboards on cer­ famous pedestrian it is big enough for how often we see deformed trees, some for
symptoms but to commence giving it th«
tain
specified
dates
In
the
presence
of
take dinner with us.”
in order to put difficulties in their way.
two. The little one may kick its pink bent and twisted, some parted till tlie fourth or fifth month. Then all the teett
the
trustees.
will
come healthfully, without pain, dis
Strings of meaningless questions are I *Le
In 1866, that Is to say toes in the shut In end of the rocker
“Thank you, Alec,” he replied,
or lancing. It is an auxiliary to theli
will.”
poured out by those who desire to pre- almost thirty years after the death of while mamma sits at ber ease in the original trunk becomes like two, tach tress
regular
diet and easily taken. Price 60 cent
tend an interest in some subject which I *•>*’ testator, the first of the n^sterlous chair end. It is rush bottomed. The crossing and recrossing the other. This (enough for six weeks), sent postpaid on re
There was an Inch of snow on the
was
done
by
depression
or
injury
to
the
celpt
of
price. Pacific Coast Agents, Inlant
they neither know nor care anything I receptacles was with much ceremony ensemble is very complete, but just
rails when I got my orders to "run as
Drug Co., Mills Building, Ban Franciaoo.
about
and breaking of seals opened in the whether maumm will take to knitting tree in its young and tender years. Na­
an extra, keeping out of the way of all
ture has no power to right a broken
We believe the conclusion of the mat-1 presence of a commltteeftf men, with
regular trains.” But Davis, the
just to I»e in the picture is not easily
ter to be this: The art of interrogation I the then president of the Royal acad- determined. The old homemade rug is law either in the animal or the vege­
ductor, said he had a nice, light
MERRY MEALTIMES.
is a serious branch of the social art. I eniy, Sir F. Grant, at their head. In- right in line, and so is the austere china table organism. Punishment follows,
ning train, the cars all londed
and
deformity
results.
The Table No Place For Fault Find­
Well asked questions sre of the essence I stead of a priceless treasure or some cat on tlie mantel. Mission furniture
whlsklinxinis and straw lints. I
ing, NaKglsf aad Strife.
of agreeable intercourse, but the in- I evidence that would throw an entirely la delightfully simple for the sitting
glad enough to hear It, for there were
The DIEereaee 1a Two Words.
Has it ever been your lot to sit at a
terrogatlve mood will not justify an new light upon some doubtful incident room or for the nursery.
175 miles of Iron, slippery with the
Did it ever occur to you to think of table with a group of young folks who
Impertinence, an interference, a verbal I In ¡»olitlcal history the contents of ths
heavy falling snow, between old 18's
the difference In significance of the two ate the meal in silence or, with a few
assault—nor, for the matter of that, a I cupboard proved to be worthless ac-
pilot and home. If 1 averaged the
Coacersisg Fites.
words “seems” and "appears?” We
bore.—London Spectator.
I counts, letters and stationery.
maximum of freight train speed, twen­
The common bouse fly Is above all say “it seems to be true” or “ft appears constrained remarks, looked askance at
‘ Twenty years pased by, and the In-
the head of the family before ventur­
ty miles per hour, 1 would arrive home
things else a scavenger. No doubt the
crest that bad smoldered after the flies were Intended to serve a good pur­ to be true." Are those expressions ing on any remark? I have seen such
by 9 o’clock In the morning. l>ut it was
ODD
NOTIONS
OF
WOMEN.
identical,
or
if
there
be
a
difference
/ gave him a bucket of fire.
disappointment of 1866 was again pose by destroying filth and waste, but
a sight on more than one occasion.
a bad night, and I should never lie
what is it?
able to keep them going nt that gait, sUII raging with uudlminlslied fury,
Doctors have told us over and over
Rosa Bonheur treasured a small lead fanned Into flame at the prospect of in their work they are liable to do seri­
There is a difference, and it consists again of the beneficial results arising
so I promised myself not to I; lek If I the sandlike snow continuing its end- image of St. Anthony of Padua as a breaking the seals of the second cup­ ous harm, to say nothing of the con­
got home by noon, a very liberal nl lets horizontal drive.
board, at which' rite there were pres­ stant annoyance which they cause. It chiefly in the strength of the expres­ from a meal eaten with a contented
lucky charm.
sion. If we read a story and say, frame of mind and with cheerful sur­
Iowa nee.
ent
among others Dr. Alfred Water­
Seventeen would be due In half an
Caroline Herschel firmly believed that
is believed that files are effective dis­ “That story seems to be true,” we roundings; but, sad to say, there are
It was a hard pull out of Tubor’n hour. There wasn't time to get to the
house,
R.
A.,
and
Sir
(then
Dr.)
B.
W.
If she met a cross eyed beggar in the
seminators of disease germs. Coming, mean that it has the semblance of truth
Junction. When tlie yardmaster bap next siding ahead of ber. but there
morning It presaged the discovery of a Richardson. Like the cupboard mention­ we will suppose, from a heap of offal and we infer that it Is true. If we many households where each meal la
peued to lie feeling just right, lie would was a cross over switch a mile ahead
ed
In
the
well
known
nursery
rhyme.
Sir
a constant acene of bickering, nagging
new star that night
let one of the switch engines get In be- where 1 decidl'd to back over and let
John's second cabinet proved “bare" which contains the germs of typhoid say, “That story appears to be true,” and fault finding.
fever,
they
enter
the
dwelling
house
George Eliot was a slave to the In­ of any sensation, the contents being
we mean that the statements made in
hind n train mid give tier a shove foi her ¡M bs . My flag, the head brakeman,
This Is not only the case where there
half or three-quarters of a mile, but had gone back to the caboose, a trip fluence of the hunchback and club­ chiefly composed of letters relating to and light upon some article of food. Is it or the incidents related go to show are young children, who require a
Davis was no crony of tils, so wj' over the top of thnt train that I would footed man and did no literary work certain long forgotten family quarrels It not reasonable to suppose that they Its truth.
reprimand occasionally for careless
In other words, “appears" refers to ness. but I am speaking of those homes
didn't get Jt.
that had not even th« merit of being may bring.with them some of the mi­
not ha ve takeu for a controlling in* upon the day when she saw one.
el
e-
nute
organisms
which
develop
this
the
actual
presentation
of
something
Lady
Millais,
the
wife
of
the
great
It was a fearful night. The gal»' terest In the road. I commenced
interesting. If some of those author­
where the girls and boys are well into
to our view; "seems” refers to an Infer­ their teens. Wrong la that parent, ei­
howled and the snow drove horizontal whistling for the switch as soon as painter, was convinced that the crack ized to be present at the opening of structive disease?
If
the
fly
could
be
confined
to
hla
ence of our mind as to the probability ther father or mother, who chooses the
ly, like a sand blast. The wind was on I got to it. Ten minutes after 17 of doom would sound for any one who the third and last receptacle of mys­
the fireman's side, which made It pos was due Davis ein«rç~! froæ tini stepped on a ersek tn the sidewalk.
hour when all are assembled round
tery were dubious about the profit that proper place, width, as I said iu me be­ of a thing being trua.
Harriet Beecher Stowe bellved that it would accrue by lotting the light of day ginning. la that of a scavenger, he
Bible for >ne to look out. but all i e«»<:lu whirling snow, seeking information.
the table to mention some half forgot­
First
-ry*»
Cast
Ia
Aassrlea.
see was an Impenetrable white mteen His faculties seemed to have become was bad luck to throw away a tooth­ fall upon the contents thereof after would serve a valuable purpose; but.
It was a good man, Christopher ten grievance or to And some fault.
made visible in otic small s|s>t by the benumbed. 1 bad to go into all the brush which had outlived Its useful­ sixty years’ darkness one at least, Sir like some human beings, he may cause Sower, who made the first punches and
If any trivial tiling lias lieen done
trouble
when
he
goes
outside
his
ap
­
headlight. I had been easing tlie tiirot details before he could understand ness and, to the anguish of her house­ B. W Richardson, looked f'-werd
matrices and cast the first type In Wiulig or any uuiy otmiied wail until
pointed
sphere.
—
New
York
Tribune.
tie when she sllp|Hsl for I should need that J tainted to
me uFaseman hold, preserved every one that she had with unabated Interest to that day in
America. The anvil be made them on dinner or tea Is over before you «-old.
*!! the baud ■ liud IWIore 1 got home I out ahead to protect
ever used.
1896 when the last seal would be
Is still preserved. They were for n blame or reprimand. Let tin- food
us
when
crossed
aaeeotaah.
Until she nearly stalled. That wouldn't over.
which God gives us for the purpose of
Queen Victoria cherished a number broken and the mystery solved, but he.
To make an excellent succotash take German Bible which he published.
do, so. I gave her a bare taste mid
I carried the man out half a mile, of superstitions, and, among them, she alas, died just two days before the one pint of young lima beans, one pint
“The price of our newly finished Bi­ nourishing and sustaining our bodies
leaued out to hear the gratify big gave him a bucket of
believed that the removal of her wed­ ceremony was performed, and the fact of corn, half pint of cream, a level ta­ ble, In plsln binding, with a clasp, will have the opportunity of accomplishing
lire
aud
told
him
crunch of It under the wheels
that end. which cannot is- the case If
that Sir John bad played a practical
to burn fence rails or anything
_________
be ding ring would surely bring calamity
blespoonful of butter, salt and pepper be 18 shillings.” he said, “but to the
Harry gripped my shoulder nnd could get bold of to
keep himself and that a pet Manx cat would bring joke upon posterity wsa duly confirm­ to taste. Soak the beans and cover poor and needy we bare no price. every mouthful is swallowed with el
shouted:
warm, but umier no circumstances to good luck to the royal household.—Ev­ ed by the presence of a collection of them with boiling water, add one tea- John the Baptist sent the message to ther a sarcastic word or an un<-ompll
"Merry Cbristmne!"
mentary remark. More indigestion,
perfectly worthless letters and papers.
erywhere.
desert his post until called In.
spoonful of salt and boll thirty min­ Christ, ’Art thou he that should come, nervousness and other derangements
I wished him the same and many of
After a lot more whistling, fuming
utes. Add one small nip of baking or do we look for another?' and Jesus are caused by the too common fault of
them and notlcetl that It was Just 12 and fussing I got the train backed
So Ml««
aympothetle.
Shs Ost ths Wool.
soda and drain. Scald the corn and sent back word, ’The poor have the uncomfortable mealtimes than many
by the engine clock. She hadn't slipiwd over, and we clisuxl the cab tight and
A
gentleman
whose
one
glass
eye
“A young American girl, on her first
since I gave her the sand, but was puff ate our lunches. While gnawing at trip to Italy, entered a shop In search has served him for years had the mis press It from the cob. measure one pint gospel preached to them.’ ”
people would suppose, and It is our
Sower’s German Bible was printed
Ing along with suspicious fnedotn. for the kiln dr’isl Ismrdlng house sand­ of black darning wool," says a writer fortune to drop it. It smashed to and add it to the beans, add cream,
positive duty, which we should all try
in
1743
and
was
the
first
Bible
pub
­
to remember, to mnke those hours of
ws were not up the grade'yet. I told wiches and laughing at Harry's non­ tn Harper’s Baur. "She spoke no Ital­ atoma. This happened when he waa butter, snlt and pepper. Stir continual­
lished In America In any European the day cheerful and agreeable to the
the brakeman to go back on top of tlie sense a I »out white or dark most 17 ian, the clerk spoke no English. She far away In the country. He inquired ly over the fire for firs minutes and language.
serve.
train ami see If the caboose were com­
children and to set them an example
came puffing along, almost noiselessly, pantomimed darning a bole and point­ of a friend where was the nearest
Blas »«tat»».
A» Kqalaa Paaale Solved.
ing. He went off growllug. but he like a polar bear towing a string of ed to her stocking. The clerk brought place for him to go and get refitted.
which you would lie the first to notice
“Papa." said small Elmer. “I know
Aunt Margaret—And If you’re good- and approve In others. - Scotsman.
went, which was the main thing. From Icebergs.
“Why don’t you call upon the girl
white darning cotton. She showed
why some pistols are called horse pl» real good—you'll go to heaven.
the luick of the tender he gave me
I had lost nearly a gauge of water that ber stocking was black, and black you were flirting with all last night?"
Little Dorothy—Oh, is that all? I
what I expected ms] dfeaded, a signal through the leaky flues while lying darning cotton was produced. But she his friend Inquired. "She has a flrat tola,”
Prayer of the Ceavrrt.
that the train bad broken In two. I then*. A broomstick Inspection showed wanted wool. A long pause, then claas reputation for making eyes.”—
"Well, my boy, why are they so call­ .’bought maybe you were going to give
A south sea islander nt the close of
me a quarter.—Puck.
whistled the flag back to protect the less than six inches In the tank, and 'Ba-ar bleated the American girl. Sbe Punch.
ed?’ asked his fsther.
a religious meeting offered the follow
rear ami kept on. I took the cars I bad the nearest water plug was five miles got the wooL”
“Because they kick." replied the little
Ing prayer: “O God, we are about to
Arter
a
Baraala.
to the next siding, four miles away. 1 «way. Again I worked the whistle
philosopher.—St. Ix>uls Poet-Dispatch.
go to our respective homes, Ix-t not
It W»s ■ Draw.
The new woman had applied for a
had two more cars than the siding coni. After awhile Davis catn» ahead.
Red Golcb Joe—Did you say that the words we have beard be like the
"John Henry, I'll thraab you soundly marriage license.
Less Rv»e»ai«e.
would hold. I backed them all in hard He was mottled up In all the old rags
tbar fight between Scar Faced Sam an' fine clothes we wear soon to be taken
tf
I
ever
catch
you
telling
another
“
How
much?
”
she
asked
In
a
busi
­
"He
said
he'd
rather
face
father
agalust the stop block. Then I cut the the calHiom- lockers could furoMi ami
off and folded up in a box till another
Lasso Bill wuz a draw?
¡than elope”
nesslike way.
two head cars off, pulled them out of was a ¡HTsmbulatlug mountain of story that Isn't true.”
Brimstone Ike—Yes, an’, unforcbln- Sabbath comes around. Rather, let
I
“
And
what
did
you
say?
”
“
And
yet.
ma,
I
heard
you
say
to
the
"Two
dollars.
”
replied
the
clerk.
the switch and luicked down the main snow and k-e. He was mad at last aa
Itly fer Sam. Lasso Bill drawed fust.— thy truth be like the tattoo on our
minister that I had great imagination.”
"Mske It I1.8K” sbe said, “and I’ll I ”1 said that father would rather have Baltimore American
track with them until the engine was mad aa I had lieen all night
bodies Ineffaceable till death.*'—Carl»
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
, M elope.”- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
take two of tbetu."Chlcago Post
ton's Magazine.
tt
u
«
n
Christmas on the Rail «
DROPSY
a
n « n n n « «
T
Save the Baby.
■
*