Bohemia Nugget I.EE.W. IIKNIir, Krtllor nl Vtmp't. COTTAGE GROVE. . . .OREGON. "What's good to enl In bad lo cnt," nys n chronic dyspeptic. If Hnll Onlne has collapsed It must have been from top heaviness. When ft mnn tolls you nil his trou bles ho becomes ono of yours. No disappointment can bo qulto so In tolerable as disappointments In one's Hnppy Is tho man who finds satis faction in doing good things that no body notices. Tim nonulation of Siberia has doubled during tho past twenty years. but not of Us own accord. Tho-gluo trust will have to havo both cohesive and adheslvo qualities In order to make a success. Ono of the hardest things In the world Is to acknowledge n blunder which turned out to bo proQtable. There arc times, after nil, when dl vorcos aro Justifiable. A man has se cured ono because his wife smoked cigarettes. About tho only man In this world who always gets Just what's coming to him Is tho villain In tlie mouern melodrama. AnotherFrenchman has been scratch ed In a duel. The Kronen, duel may yet become deadly. There Is always the pos sibility of blood poisoning. Noah, Columbus and J. Plcrpont Mor gan have been referred to as the three great masters of tbe sea. Why should Noah and Columbus be mentioned? So the Knlscr simply went to Eng land to arrange for the marriage of his so n I In democratic Amerlcn such match-making Is usually left to the women. "No task rightly done Is truly prl vnte," sold Dr. Woodrow Wilson, at bis recent Installation as President of Princeton University. A noble Idea fitly clothed. Tbero Is something about the name of that boy burglar Pawpawllckl re cently taken In charge by the Chicago police, which suggests n paternal duty that may have been neglected at home. True, one may find scriptural war rant for using a number of musical Instruments In divine worship, but Da vid seems to have drawn tbe line at the base and snaro drum part of a brass band. work now liolng done by tho general land offlco In protecting these reserve and tho recommendations for their fur ther preservation made In the report of tho Land Commissioner. On Oct. 1 thero were flfty-four forest reserves, cmbrnclng 00,173,705 ncres, nn Increase of almost 14.iXKi.tKK) ncres sluco tho last report. In tho Inst fiscal year 1,003 forest fires wero discovered, which burned over 87,700 acres. Tho con stantly decreasing nren burned over appears to demonstrate tho ctllclelicy of tho government forestry forco and fully warrants a more extensive po licing of the forested lands. Tho Com missioner shows that with tho ptvsent Inadequate forco the work has not only proved self-supporting but has brought revenue to the government, that It has placed needed timber supplies within lawful reach of tho people and has practically stopped timber depreda tions within the reserve limits. In addition to urging a large lucreaso In the number of special agents to pro- vent timber depredations and to pro tect public lands from unlawful entry the Commissioner recommends legisla tion to protect gauio and (lsh In forest reserves, tho extension of tho boun dnrles of Yellowstone 1'nrW, legislation giving tho Presldcut nuthorlty to set apart as national parks tracts of pub lic land having scientific or historic Interest or containing medicinal springs. The Commissioner also re ports gratifying success In the work of reforestation of tho denuded areas that has been undertaken by tho general land office. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Dottlo as Mnn and Autocrat. D We rush through life In such a hur ry, theso days, that thero Is little tlmo or thought for tho refinements ami courtesies that In the good old days of our grandparents were considered nec essary to good manners. The man or woman who has really good manners. nowadays, we distinguish as being of the "old school." Unfortunately, the old school Is passing away, and there Is no now school to take Its place. We seem to be drifting Into the Idea that good manners are a rather boresomo and Indefinable something In tbe way of an affectation which we may put on with our best clothes for weddings. parties and other such affairs, but not to be carried about with us on ordin ary occasions. We havo cut It out of business hours. We have come to re gard common courtesy as a time-con sumer and a waste. Ilapld communi cations have corrupted good man ners, for the speed with "which we can travel or transmit news has aroused a nervous Impatience of delay which Is fatal to courtesy and manners both In spirit and form. We no longer write the good, long, wnrm, soul-satis-fylng letters that were written In tho old days. Kormerly letters were digni fied and Interesting, but now they are neither. We Imagine we have no time to write elegantly and In a spirit of Impatience we scribble a few lines to some friend when there Is no escape from the painful necessity. And the letters of to-day show that their writ ing is a task, not a Dleasure. Once The daughter of the former Mayor upon a time It was rood manners to of an Eastern city recently surprised bold old age In reverence, but It Is not her father by telling him she nail been I go any more. Whatever we may actu- marrled Just n year. There Is somethlng- olmost uncanny about a woman wuo can keep a secret as long as that. And now It is the 8ultan of Johore who proiKJses to make a tour of the United States. This thing Is growing so common that we will soon make no more fuss over seeing an eastern po tentate than we do now over one ol our own Justly celebrated kings of finance or Industry. Now that the Doukhobors of Canada have appealed to the Sultan of Turkey for hospitality and shelter on the ground that they wish to live where they would "not bo compelled to obey laws made by man," many will And additional evidence that the sort of asylum they need Is one with a wall around It Tbe present volume of Immigration mostly from the countries of eastern Europe, should receive the considera tion of Congress at the coming short session. It Is not what a man eats but what ho digests that makes him strong. So It Is with nations. Can the United States assimilate Into IU political system the tribes that art now contributing three-quarters of a million a year to the population? "Kather will get everything In ad vance, boys," little Alexander of Mace don used to say to his companions when news canie of Philip's victories; "he will not .leave any great task for me to share with you." Nevertheless, as Alexander the Great, ho discovered that bis father had but touched tho rim of achievement. General .William Uootb, founder of the Salvation Army, stands as one of tho striking figures of the English-speaking world; but in the tremendous fight for good, for the res cue of the lower half of humanity, ho has not pro-empted the Held. Ills dis tinguished sons and daughters, In dif ferent lands under whatever banner, aro carrying on what Is at heart but one great task In which workers throughout tho world may share. A Japanese gentleman named Suglm ura, living In Hawaii, Is a great lover of truth. One day ho caught his wife In a lib. He wrote her a tender little note, enclosing his little finger, which be had cut off with a meat ax, and tell ing her that he would cut off one linger every day until she promised to quit lying. That Is characteristic of the Japuncse, whose ways are not our ways. They are a gracious folk and wlso In their generation. Hut did the wife tell any more fibs and did the hus. band loso any more fingers? Certainly a llngerlcss husband would be a stand ing reproach, to say nothing of his lack of ability to mnke tho wife a Hying. Can you Imnglno nn American husband making this sort of a vicarious atone ment? Or nn American wife cutting off n finger every time the husband tells "a little lie" In business? In such a case the poor wife would probably be a hope less cripple Inside of n week. Tho growing public appreciation of the value of tho forest reserves, not only for tho needed timber supplies of tho futiiro but for tho preservation of tho sources of rivers and streams, will Attract wore than usual Interest to tho "ally fecnrrthirlienrtrBurTittirnae" tff ward the old Indicates that Instead of regarding them with reverence we con sider age a synonym for Incapacity and boredom. Maybe we mean all right, but our manners are such that we must often cause bitter heartache in the old, who, bred In a different school, can In terpret our thoughtless Inattentions only as downright disrespect It Is an age of Ill-manners In both men and women. ADVOCATES CURRENCY REFORM. Hon. Charles N. Fowler, a Brilliant New Jersey Congressman. Attention has lately been drawn to Hon. Charles Newell Fowler, of New Jersey, by his advocacy of currency re form. Mr. Fowler Is the representa tive of the Eighth District of N e w Jersey, and ever since ho entered Congress In 1804 has been connected with the Commit tee on Hanking and Currency. It was by his efforts that the financial bill c. if. rowLEn. ns made a law In January, 1000. lie is a man of vigor ous physique and mentality and bis speeches are full of vim. Mr. Fowler was born In I-c'iia. III., In 1852. Through his own unnldeil efforts be educated hlmxelf at Vale College, where he was graduated In the class of 1870. He studied law at the Chicago Law School, and then prac ticed his profession with marked suc cess In Kansas. From the law he pass ed Into Important business enterprises, for. In the wonderful commercial ac tivity of the early '80s, there was n demand for sturdy, honest manhood, capable of Indefatigable toll, undis mayed by defeat, not Inttated by vic tory, which In physical, mental and moral qualities ho fulfilled. Hu went East, settling first In Cranford, and IVKSTKD of Ills mantle nud other accessories, Dowlo Is, In fact, a Scotchman, n former minister of the Congrcgattonnl Church, n falth-hoalcr, nud tho Gen eral Overseer of the Christian Catholic Church In Zlon (John A. Dowle, owner and proprietor.) Pos sessing nil the usual characteristics of the first threo of these, nnd being the only example we have yet had of the fourth, he Is susceptible of ready analysis nnd examination, He has a long bend for business, n cnnnlness that passes belief, nnd n bump of acquisitiveness that recalls nt once the fate of Mnrk Twnln's three Glasgow Jews, who could not get car fare to escape from Scotland. He has Implicit, unquestioning faith In God, a teudency to believe that too largo n share of this world's good things cannot come his own way, and another tendency toward finding the hand of God lu all that pleases him and the unconquerable force of thcAdvervary In nil that docs not. He has a piety that Is not caul nnd n sincere goodness (when he Is uncrossed) that wins the love of nil who become Intimate with him. As n falth-healer ho has n power which, with the present slight understanding of such phenomena, approaches the marvelous, nnd which, by virtue of hypnotism, telepathy, or some subtle suggestion, actually does relieve great numbers from pain. As head of the Christian Catholic Church In Zlon (It Is as General Overseer that ho Is almost nlwnys referred to by his followers), he (wssesses the most auto cratic power It Is possible to wield In this republic, having absolute spiritual and temporal sway over all who believe In htm. In his city of Ion, which Is the capital of the world to the "Dowleltes," he Is supreme. Wherever a dollar Is In the pocket of a Dowlcltc, there is ten cents that belongs by right to Dowle. nud ninety cents more that he can have If he really needs It as he often does. Wherever the cross nnd crown of .Ion are found, there no alcoholic leverage or tobacco Is used, no pork or oysters or drug Is consumed, no enrd game played, no profanity Is heard; for these thlngti Dowle, as General Overseer, has tabooed. Moreover, he Is plain John A. Dowle, citizen of Illinois, a very human man, and one well worth studying and know ing. Century. It Is nn old habit of corporations of this sort to make arbitrary rules which they forco upon their patrons, lu some States tho courts havo compelled railroad companies to give transportation for which they hhvo been paid re gardless of the nrtlllclnl limit of tlmo which they put upou tickets, nnd In others It has even been held that they can not divest themselves of llnblllty for accidents by nny form of agreement with patrons, even with tho recipients of free transportation. Theso decisions perhaps go too far In limiting capacity to contract nwny rights for n fair con sideration In the wny of passes yr reduced rates. Undoubt edly, however, tho tendency to forbid contracts freeing n company of responsibilities Is In the direction of sound public policy. Tho corporations having practical monopo lies of semi-public business nre In position to dictate their own terms of service to the people unless tho law restrains them, not only In the matter of rates, but nlso In tho matter of liability fof failure to do their work properly. Now York Tribune. Our Inndeqtinto Schools. distinguished president of Harvard A VISIT FROM ROYALTY. Honlh Puclflo Klnu and Uucsii Aboard nil ICusfllstti Warship Nine, more commonly known nn Sitvngo Island, lies ono thousand miles uorth-northenst of Now Zealand and threo hundred miles soutli-sotllhfnst of Samoa, lu tho loneliest spot In that part of tho Pacific. Its Iron-bound const tempts no vessel to call for sup plies, At raro Intervals great four. masted timber-ships pass In tho oiling; more rarely still Hchoouers call to re plenish tho stock of thu traders and to carry hway their copra. To this lonely Island Mr. llnsll Thomson was sent on business for tho English gov ernment. After nil formalities bad been attended to, tho king of tlio Isl and, who had never been on Ixmrd of n man-of-war, nuked If ho might visit tho ship. His request was granted, Mr. Thomson describes tho visit: Their majesties were punctual. All went well until their boat nenrcd Iho ship, when tho queen, after n whim pered consultation with her consort, began to take off her boots. Ai this operation was still In progrc-ti 'otig after tho bont was alongside tho gang way, faces began lo peer curiously over tho side, but tho bluejacket Mil tloned nt tho foot of tho ladder pre served an admirable composure, nud when her majesty had pnddlcd up thu Clinrcont lllscults, Thero Is nothing better for thoso who nro subject to Indigestion than clur. coat biscuits. They may bo made as follows! Take half n pound of corn Hour, ono ounce nud a quarter of tho best powdered charcoal, two ounces of sugar, one egg, nud n little milk. Heat the egg well with n tablespoonful of milk, mix nil tho dry Ingredients to. gel her, mid Iho egg, nud knead Iho whole tutu n stiff paste; roll It out about n quarter of an Inch thick, cut It Into biscuits about two Inches In diam eter, and bake on buttered paper In a slow oven until quite crisp. When cool pack lu n tin box nud keep for use. lu cases of heartburn or Indigestion tako ono biscuit after a meat. Jellied Apples. Peel, halvo nnd core six Inrgo apples. Mnke n syrup by iMilllug a pound of sugar nnd n pint of wnter. Let boll up once, then put In the apples with two lemons sliced, half a dozen cloves nnd a n j ii a i tne distinguished president of Harvard 'steps In her stocklmis. ho urovclv fid l Ml I ITnU-..llv I....I ... .i. .... . .. . . .. V. . J j uui nnmuiiu nuiuui lliwill mi) proCCSSlOU, carrying IIIO fnw stlel. nf elniininnii As .iwiii (tin mf " "- . IHHIUI li r lllll HIT Vllif Ul U llll I'. Ill I III! flllIlliriBKI(i lll'irlllll'IlL ..11.- clsm did not simply Incite our derision. Is not of his fellows, who wero drawn up ' ,, r school system tho Inner nrk of our covenant with our-to receive tho royal party. . h 11 ves that we nre the world's leading nation? President When tho Interpreter hnd hinted to'J, 0 Consolafons of Old Age. LD age bns Its consolations no less than youth. Sup posing the windows are darkened and the light has gone from tbe west. Some prefer the soft starlight to tbe 'glare of day. It Is something to have lived nnd seen nnd been a part of many things. What man having lived would begin again? The test Is good. The fearful schoolboy. looking ahead to the advancing years, dreads the added tasks that are set before htm. Hut the years arrived, the tasks at hand, all seems easy and natural and right Providence has made it so. It Is doubt ed If a man ever feels truly old. The spark of youth some where within us burns to the end, and feelings and desires belle the face In the looking-glass and the pitying looks of friends. No matter how slow, stealthy, and Insidious the approach of the Pale Pretorlan, when he comes he Is un expected, unlooked for. As long a; life Is In him, man is filled with the thrill of the living. Therefore, why fear old age or give It thought? It Is snly a scarecrow at liest. It will come upon you before you know, and even when It comes It Is doubtful If you will realize. Hear Stevenson: "A sort of equable Jog trot of feeling." he says, "Is substituted for the violent tips and Jowns of passion and disgust; the same Influence that re trains our hopes, quiets our apprehensions; If the pleasures ire less Intense, the troubles are milder and more tolerable, mil. In a word, this period for which we are asked to hoard lipj!very.thlncaaJor-a-tli-f-famInels,.itt4ts-.wn rights the richest the easiest, and the happiest of life. Live so that when the so-called evil days come, you will still be ible to rule yourself." Des Moines Ileglster. r Liability of Express Companies. HE decision In tbe United States Supreme Court de claring that express companies may not arbitrarily limit their own responsibility for the goods Intrusted to their care Is In accord with good sense and plain everyday Justice. The express companies nre com mon carriers. They perform a seml-publlc duty and are well paid for tho work they do. When they take a pack age and contract to deliver It they should not be allowed to say how far they will suffer for their own carelessness. They should be held to deliver the goods which they nre paid to carry or forfeit their full equivalent In money value. our set vi Kllot finds It wanting, nnd holds It responsible for mob tho klmr that It was time to take leave. violence, gambling, Intemperance, the siwlls system, In- tho king, producing n dollar from his deed, most of the worst Ills of the body politic. And nlso waistband, signified bis Intention of "It has failed to cultivate sufficient reasoning power In ttnnlnc the contain for Ihn iili-ir-uit en. employers and employed to prevent strikes, violence nnd tertalnment ho had enjoyed, nud tho loss." Interpreter hnd tho grentest dl'llcuity i ne uni or particulars is run nmi explicit, nnd drawn as In persuading him tbnt such mi act It Is by an educator who at thirty took embargo of n college would Ihj contrary to European ens- w men lie lias maile one of the world's great universities, It torn. A dollar was n very precious is me expression ot one competent lo senk. The remedy ocslon lu tho king's eyes, and It proimsed Is more money to provide Iietter primary cduca- puzzled htm, after many years' expo- uonai facilities ami to improve the personnel of the teach- rlence, that any white man should re or. "Greater effectiveness means greater costliness," he fuso money when It was offered him says, -lint could nny one Imagine It to he unreasonable- Tho king was half-way down tho ness to spend for the morn! and mental training of a child ladder when he turned back, und ho as much as Is spent on his food? If that equality of ex- smllu faded from the cuuntcniiuco of pcndlture could be established over the Union there would tho captain, who thought that (he result n prodigious Improvement In the public schools." Tongln had suddenly rcmcmlK-rcd Iho " hen we desire to think with pride of our educational foreign custom of giving precedence system shall we be obliged, after all. to took hack to tho to ladles, nud ho gallantly mntlomd to little red srhoolhnuse whence our Cloys and Webster and tho queen to precede him, and handed I.lucolns came? What the Instruction of that period lacks her boots down after her. In frills wns compensated for In character bulldlug. New York World. arrange In a dish, hollow sldo poonful of currant or npplo Hull down the syrup, let cool a little nnd pour over Iho apples. treed by a Wildest. A party composed of Frank Meldrou, Copt. A. M. Cox, Sam Griffith, 8. Itay, Nick lleekcr. Frank Score. William Neldermiirk nnd J. McGluuls returned from White Salmon Itlver recently, M-I,p. tlti.i- am.t,f ,i liiiitflin .....I we can cheerfully ami hopefully nccept and ills- , Mmi..., i .:,imw. charge the duties and responsibilities, often Irksome i,,i ,11,,i.,,. '.i,i,. n, i- nnd unpromising, that environ us here, lu the great ma- .,,. .... tt., . K(ulI1 fnr, ., riw T Success. HE Impression that they alono are successful who amass great wealth or achieve marked distinction Is an error of education which must be corrected before Jorlty of addresses nnd npH-nls to young persons tbe co- mulued lu camp with his dug ono day r- o. m u '""". ...m-u u...-.i uy superior ,,,, tll0li0K ,mM ,, wildcat near by. ai.u -.u. ... ... ......... K nre in up lor (Umh cl,til the tree, thinking emulation 1 he corollary to such appeals Is that only the ,,,, ,ollro . cnt outi ,, gln " 7 '- the dog it chance nt him, but the table the world arc worth essaying, and that lives not thus glorl fled arc hopeless failures. To make the most of ourselves we must havo high Ideals; but tho true philosophy of life, which Is learned by experience nnd from broad views of Tunn'on-capacity nnn ncntiiij-.- longtime nur tiirportnucc or discharging the small dally duty consclentously and with nut undue concern for tho repute Hint comes sooner or Inter to nil who give faithful service. This Is a trite Injunction, and has lost much of Its force by Iteration; yet, like the familiar virtues which constitute the character of n good man. Its observance lies at the foundation of and consti tutes every really successful enreer. A successful man Is he who Is nltluent In friendship. In goodness rather than greatness, Victor Hugo, In closing the volume de voted to the reminiscences of tils full and varied life, says that he tins grasped the hands of the most famous and tho most obscure of Frenchmen, nnd Hint before heaven thero Is nothing worth kneeling to hut goodness. A worthy aspi ration "Is n possession ns solid ns n landed estate, n for tune which we can never exhaust." That way lies tho most satisfying success. Philadelphia Public ledger. A NEW YEAR RESOLUTION fc BT X.BT X. WILKIXS. 0Yl Y brother Lemuel married Me hltaLle Pierce when he was quite along in years. Nobody thought he'd ever get married nl all, any more'n my brother Hen- ben and Silas. The three had lived to gether nnd kept bachelors' hnll ever sitae our mother died. I was married and uway from home long before she died. I d on t know now tney would get along at first, but all of the boys had hc-il UM-d to belpin' ma a good deal, and they were real handy, and when I asked If they wasn't goiu" to have a housekeeper, they wouldn't hear to It They said they wasn't Eoiii' to have no strange women round in mil's place, nohow. So Silas he took hold and did the wnshin' and ironin', and Iteuben did the sweepln', and Lemuel, he was the youngest, next to tne, did the cookin. He could cook a dinner equal to any woman, and his pies lieut mine. My husband said so, and I had to give In they did. Well, tm-y seemed to get on so nice, and uono of 'em had ever seemed to think much about the girls, not even when they was hoys, that I must say I was aston ished when Lemuel ho up and got mar ried to Mehltnble Pierce. She was a little along in years, too, rather more so than Lemuel, and a dreadful smart piece. Kli. wns prMxI lookln' and sliu hnil tiroo. then In Elizabeth, N. J., working with 1 crty, hut she was dreadful smort and up extraordinary Industry, but not stilling I an' comln'. I could never sec how Lcm- his nature by work ma: nnd when, at uel ever tot tho courage to ask her to tho age of 40, ho felt that ho had bare hhn, he was always a kind of mild achieved such a competency as would Ii'","1,","!f fl;'iow' Hliu.,!cn. I'u'.T ii ii i, ... .i hi . ed he didn't. Ho vowed that Mehltuhle enable him to carry out the Ideals of Mked ,jIm Iiem.lf nU ,lu knew his boyhood, this nature, broadened by for fnct, and he sold It with tho tears experience, yet kept freo from moth rollin' down Ids checks. Iteuben was tho nnd rust through humane Interests, re- oldest and lied always been terrible fnnd spunded buoyantly to tho call. of Lemuel. "That poor hoy would never have got In scch a fix cf tluf woman hadn't up an' asked him, an' he didn't have spunk enough to say no," said Iteu- llabblt Skins for Hots. Fur liiitu nro made almost otpIii. Blvely from rabbit fur. not from tho.1"'"; ynu lie swniicreu unru. . . I f i.lil t nl. lis litiil n tilta Imlisn nf lint ltl'll American rabbit, however, because tlm" Ver 'f other left her, all furnished and tho plucking of tho long hairs from cvt,ryti,I)g, 0f co,lrse Lemuel he went the skin which Is n necessary prelim- to live with her, and Mehltnhle's houc Inary, cannot, because of the high was pretty near where I lived, so I -ouM cost of labor, bo done profitably here, see everything that was goln' on. It A machine Invented for the purpose '"' vcrJr ,on before I said to Han- proved a failure. So hot fur from this !'""., 5r?r,?e' ''ushand s old maid sis- country's makers Is derived from Kug. , M V ' " k', Huh and Australian skins which nro ti.oug), i uadu't anythln against Mo- m-iu in mo cum. uc-ut ui Europe io pe bitable. plucked by cheap bands. Tho world Is getting so highly edu cated that It Is now possible to find a woman who makes a perfect pumpkin pic, and who docs not pronounce It "punkln." Thirteen Is never considered unlucky by the man who gets that number for tho price of a dozen. I don't see what else anybody that married Mehltahlo Pierce would expect," said Hannah. Sho spoke real sharp for her, I've always kind of wondered If Hannah would have had Lemuel if ho'd asked her. "Well," snld I, "I hope poor Lemuel will be happy. He's ulwuys been such a good, mild, wlllln' hoy that It does seem a pity for him to bn rode over rough-shod, and have all tho will he ever did have trodden into tho dust" "Well, that Is what will hnpprn, or I'll miss my Kiiess," said Hannah Morse. For a long while I thought she was right. It was really pitiful to see Lemuel. He didn't havo no more liberty nor will of his own thnn a 5-year-old boy, and not so much. Mehltohle wouldn't let him do this nnd that, and If thero was nuythhi' be wanted to do, she was sot against It, snd he'd always give right In. Msuy's tho time Lemuel has run over to my house, and tils wife come rncln' to the fence and screamed after liim to (nine home, nud he'd start up as scared as lie could he. And mauy'a tlie time I've been in there, and he'd started to go out, ami she'd tell him to set down, nud he'd ket without a murmur. Mehltahle she bought all his clothes, an' she favored long-tniled coats, and he belli' such a short man, never looked well lu 'em, and she wouldn't let Mm have store shirts nnd collars, hut made them herself, and she didn't have ver)' good pntterns, she used her father's old ones, and he wasn't no such built man as Lemuel, and I know he suffered ev erything, both in his pride an' his feellu's. Iemuel began to look real dowutrod. He didn't seem like half such a man ns ho did, nnd the queerest thing shout It was: Mehltahle didn't 'pear to like the work of her own hands, so to speak. One day sho talked to mo about It "I diinno what 'tis," snld she, "but Lemuel he don't seem to hare no go-ahead anil no ambition and no will of Ids own. He tries to please me, but It don't seem ns If he had grit enough even for that. Some times I think he ain't well, hut 1 duuno what alls Mm. I've been real careful of him. He's worn thick flannels, and he's had wholesome victuals; I never let him havo pic." "Lemuel was always dreadful fond of pie," I said. I felt kind of sorry, for I remembered how fond poor Lemuel had always been of mother's pics, und wh.it good ones lie used to make himself, "1 know It," said Mehltahle. "Ho wanted to make some himself, when wo were first married, but I vetoed that. I wusn't goln' to have a mon messln' round makln' pies, and I wasn't goln' to have him catln' of 'em after they wero made. Pies ain't good for him. Hut I dochiro I duuno what docs make him act so kind of spiritless. I told him to-day I thought ho'd better make a resolution for the New Year and stick to it, and see If It wouldn't put some spunk into him." Pretty soon she went home. I could see she was real kind of troubled. She always did think a good deal of tauiuel In spite of everything. The next day was New Year's, and In the afternoon Mehltahle came again, Shu didn't have her scwln as she generally did, she was a very Industrious woman. She Jest set down and begun twUilug the fringe of her shawl as If she was real nervous. Her face was pucke.-ed up, too. "I don't know what to muke of Lemuel," said she, finally. "Why, what's the matter?" sold I. "Ill sars bo's made a resolution for the New Year," said she, "and that he's goln' to keep It." "Weli, wnat Is It?" said I, "I diinno," said she. "Well, If It's a good one you don't core, do you?" snld I, "and It could bo anything hut a good oue If my brother tnado It" "I duuno what It Is," said she. "Won't ho till?" "No, he won't. I can't get a word out of him about it He don't act like him self." Well, I must say I never saw such a chnnge as come over Mehltahle and Lem uel after that. He wouldn't tell what his resolution was, and she couldn't make him, though she almost went down on her knees. It begun to seem as If she was fairly changing characters nlth U-m-uel, though she hnd a spell of belli' her self moni'n ever at first, tryin' to force him to tell what the resolution was. Then rho give that up, and she never nsked hhn where ho wns goln', an' he toiild coma in my house an' set Jest ns long ns ha wanted to, and. she bought 111 in a short-tailed coat and some store collars and shirts, and he looked like another man. He got to stnyhi' down to the store nights, an' tolkln' politics with the other men real loud. I heard him myself one night and I couldn't believe It was Lemuel. Well, Lemuel he never gave In, anil he never told till the next New Yenr's day, when he'd said he would. He'd said all along that he'd tell her then. I'd got most ns curious ns Mehltahle myself by were turned. He climbed well up, when the wildcat suddenly started down nnd passed Griffith. The dog at the foot of the tree prvvi'iilcd the animal from reaching the ground. When Griffith started down, the cat assumed n bellig erent attitude, mid he hnd to stop. This was repented several times, but each time the wildcat threatened to spring on Griffith. The animal's eyes Hashed tire, his tall became us thick as a man's leg, ami the claws extended over an Inch, says the Portland Oregoulnn. It looked to Griffith like going up ngalust a buzz-sow to get past the cat, nnd al though he grew hungry and liiilf-faiu-Ished for water, there wns no way lo get down out of the tree. The faithful old dog nt the foot of the tree never re laxed his watch, nud there they were until the rest of the party returned. Griffith wns up In the tree for nbout half n day before ho was released. Coffee I.nyer Cake. Put Into n bowl two cupfuls of sift ed Hour, add lu It two level teaspoon. ruts of linking powder, bent Iho yolks of two eggs, ndd to them one cupful of sugar; beat well, then ndd the rind and Juice of one lemon, add Iho flour nud powder to this, half a cup of cold water, n pinch of sntl nud Iho whites nf the eggs beaten stiff; pour Into greased Jelly rake tins nnd tuike lu a quick oven ten minutes. Anchovy Tottst. The French mode of preparing anchovy tonst Is ns follows: Melt nn ounce of butter In n pan nud n table spoonful of nuchovy paste; thin It out it Hide with hot water: add the Juice of a lemon: pour over the toast nd serve. A holer wny of preparing It Is to spread n thin layer uf the paste over the toast und pour over it the milk pre pared at for milk toast. Kliuliarh. Wash mid cut lu small pieces one pound of fresh rhubarb. Put In a link ing dish with one cup of sugar, n cup uf water, the thinnest mmIIiIo shaving of lemon ped, Put two tablespoons of gelatine to soak In cold water, ami then dissolve It lu n little hut witter. Add tu the rhubarb with n tablespoon nf lemon Julie. Pour Into n mould and let It harden on the Ice. Servo with whipped cream. l'nttrd I'lsli, Pick to pieces cold cooked fish; sen ion with salt, pepper and n very llttlt mace. Tlicn put It Into n Jar: tlo tight ly wtlh a piece of muslin) t lion cover Ibis with n paste made from Dour mid wnter. Stnnd tho Jnr In n pnn of wnter nnd bake In n moderate oven for one hour. Stand aside till cool, then pound the tint) to n paste; pack It back Into thu Jar nud cover with melted butter. l-cactl Hot-111-. Put n quart of sweetened yellow pencil pulp Into n glnss dish Hint tins been temiiereil lo tho heat of oven. Cover with n rich egg custard tu tho depth of two Inches; then with the white of Iho eggs left from the cus tard, beaten to n stiff froth, piling It up roughly; dust with powdered sugar mid place In a slow oven until the egg whites are a delicate brown, I 'as try. Into n pound of Hour chop n half- pound of cold, firm butter until you nave a coarse powder. Wet with a leocupful of Iced water, work with a spoon to a paste, turn upon a II on rod Iward, roll out,, fold over and roll out again, and repeat Ibis process three times. Put for two hours or longer In the Ice, then roll nut nnd make Into pies. Have nil Ingredients Ice cold. Fried Coil HtcuUs. Trim the stenks well nud flatten; cor- . . . ' . er each with n coating of oil, Id which n Llphs bog. nnd when I come along ate ,,., Juc(l( , ,,, Jn sot back In his kerrhlgu ami watched that time, and New Year's niornln' I run '! n'"1 1 11,11 yu- slr- " Pretty over real early tlu-y wasn't through gooiu hrcakfost I knew the mhiiilo 1 saw i av, ,, Money's Worth, them- that ho hadn't told. Ho sold ho . m.vv(,r m.UBrny HUiB t..., .,, wouldn't until he was through his break- . ,,, sffr, .. i , , , ., fast He was most through-was finish- ' ".n' v . bnV , n cnsu cl,c'' ' log up with a big piece of minco pie, and Philadelphia Times ono wits forced to he'd mndo It himself, too. When ho'd reverse) the order. His success lu no do- swallowed tho Inst mouthful, ho looked lug wns good evidence of IiIh Utiles up and lie laughed,' real pleasant und for his calling. sweet, and yet with more manliness than When this particular lawyer was first I'd ever seen In hhn. Htriiggllug ulong In his profe. "S'pose you want to know what that B ,u received n call from w will New Yeur's resolution was?" said Lem- ..,, farmcP( ,v, WUH , ,.,, ,)f j,,,, "I guess I can stand It a while long,r," """'J" r'Bl,t'!' said Mehltahle. Now the tlmo had eou.e " tboi ight had been Ignored by tho she didn't want to act too eager, but I sectlon-Jinnd on a Pcnnsylvnnhi .nil- showed out Jest what 1 felt. road. Tho lawyer looked up tho Kat- "For the land sake, Lemuel Ilabhlt, utes, nnd told tho farmer what bo what was It?" sold I, I should do. Lemuel ho laughed again. "Well, It "How much?" queried tho farmer, wasn't much of anythln ." ho said, n his Wu, Iet.,, cn, lt tUtcu Uoltnrs." ro. S tl n Wreo lyWy' " ,lll'J tl,u ""'J' " "What,' Lemuel Habblt!" cried Mehlt-1 ' T" """f 11","(,c,, PVcr . nule, Iar bill. Tho lawyer seemed embiir- "No," said ho; "1 couldn't think of none rnssed. Hut after senrchlng through to make, so I made a resolution not to his pockets and tho drawers of his tell that I hadn't made any," Tin desk, ho roso to tho occasion nnd pock Housewife. ct,, tho bill ns bo reached for n dl- 'iB -gest. When a man returns from bis "vaca- "I guess, neighbor," ho ronmrkud, tlou," bo usually looks ns fagged oul as bo resumed his sent, "I will havo iih n girl who Is getting ready to b to glvo you two dollurs' worlb mors married. ludvlco." It Itcstrd Hint. "Folks that talk ngnlnst long-tennis and guff and such gnmes .have got dif ferent feelings from what I have,'' said I'phrhim Htone In a talk nt dusk tilth his nearest neighbor, "for I i)p ptove of 'em I enn tell ye." "Al vnys appeared to ma kind o' foollsh-klnd o' flighty," volunteered the neighbor. "That ain't tho point," snld Mr. Slone, quickly; "the point Is how they muko mo feci. This whole enduring day I'd been picking cranberries down I ...... ll.n l..l. ....... .,!. I ....... ....1..... I.ufi ... I...U h"". "s ll-l-llllK mvoiuin Iw.m.ni. m.,1 .W II l... lame and mud. And I come rig it upon ,10llr lll0 ,louM , , , a mess o the summer folks hard t U(f U)0I1 ,.,, 1 d , it w til long tennis and goff. , , ,, "() f Bf "There wns n couple o' girls bnttlug ,,reft.rr,(, to ,lnvc ,t ,)ro,u, url t and Jumping and scrnbbl tig hero nn from e o), nnU , f t " ,l(J ,a. thero. red In tho face nnd all worked ron 0Vl,r ',10t 1 up. .tun ii.eru .inn uvu young men plowing tho field with sticks, nud one on his hands nnd knees, hunt lug lu thu blackberry bushes for a ball that bad got lost. "Thinks I, 'Every dog has his day, nnd mine's como right now,' And I got out and hitched old Null to n tree; und whllo those folks worked and fussed nnd got all bet up, Kph'lm Htono Cullfiirnln Cookies. Ono cupful of molasses, ono-half cup ful nf milk, ono egg, one-half cupful of butter, nuo-half cupful of sugar, ono cupful of chopped rnlslns, one-half tensponuful each of ground cloves, cin namon nnd nutmeg, one tenspoouftil of soda. Mix lu Hour like soft ginger bread and drop tu spoonfuls on butter ed tins. Ilaku quickly. To Destroy Hectics. TO destroy beetles put plenty of chlo ride of lluio about the places they In fest nnd drop n little of It Into tho crev ices from which they emcrgo. Bptln klo It upon the lloor nnd everywhere, In fnct, where beetles nro found, ex cept where food Is kept. If you will wngo war on beetles with chlorldo of llmo you will soon rid your house of them. Whipped Potato. If you hnvo two cups of cold tnnshod or rlccd polnto, put n tnhlcspoou of butter nnd four tnhlcspoons of milk or cream In a double boiler, then ndd tho potato. In ten minutes It will bo hot. Heat with n sliver fork till light nnd fluffy. Servo as ordinary mnshed po lnto, or uso It ns n border for any dish. It tnstcs exactly llko newly cook ed potato. Itoust Ilccf with Dressing, Get a pleco from tho round, nbout ono and one-half Inch lu thickness. Prepare a dressing of bread crumbs seasoned with salt, pepper nnd sage nnd .wet up with (iite egg, four tablespoons sweet cream nud n little cold water. 8pre.ul tho dressing on tho beef, roll up, fasten with skowcrs nnd roast until well tlouo. Borro with gravy,