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Delicious. BISCUIT. MUFFINS. WAFFLES. CORN BREAD. GRIDDLE CAKES. Can always be made with Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder. And while cakes and biscuit will retain their moist ure, they will be found flaky and extremely light and fine grained, not coarse and full of holes as are the biscuit made from ammonia baking powder. Price's Cream Baking Pow der produces work that is beyond comparison and yet costs no more than the adulterated ammonia or alum powders, Dr. Price's stands for pure food and good health. . Curium CulntiM) Matlluluea. The mi.thomen of Cunauiiun civiliza tion art) derived iroin many a cnnotie origin, but ( you wimt to find funny things utilized ua rmnmliM for dirttwse you will discover them in the Chinese liuurniHOOjiujitt. MudioHl auivnce in that country Iiim been noniewhut impeded by tbe rufqiect whiuh the Chiuetie pay to h dead body. Worshiping their anoeBtorfi iw they do, their jihymciuns would never think of cutting np a corjwe, CoiiK-quentlj they know nothing of anatomy. Huch know edge on the mibjuet an they protend to poHHew ib denved, ausordniK to their own lira unit, from a lriuu bom some ceiilnni-B iij0, wlio hud the lumfurliiiit' to tie of a trunitpareiit coiiHiHteney, phymrally ppi'iiking;, an if he were made of glnwi, no that it was powuble to flee jiut how ttiinpj went on m bin inmdes. From observation of this extraordi nary freak it was diwiorereil that cer ium ehitimelit ran to each part and ci treuuty of a human buing. and that by these ohanuoU it was Rouble to convey any remedy that might Iw ueeeaxary to anyiii'gnu or iiiemiier requiring treat ment internally. Ever mnoe then celes tiul duotore have been able to tell junt what sort of pillfl or deeoetionfi were in tended for the euite of this or that dis order. The glims mull dimblless snffered from the uxtHiruuenls tried upon hnn by cicnee, but medical knowledge wh benelited inexpreeHibly, ' . Probably the (Jhmeue phnruiHeopwia is more elalmrate than tliat poNWHHed by any other people. I'hysieiaus m the Flowery Kingdom mix up together such extraordinary things tor remedial pur pose as we should never dream of. One of their cures for liver complaint is ob tained by administering the tonsil tooth of various uniuials. which we known to them as "dragons' teeth." Antelopes' horns, powdered, they believe to be ex cellent for rheiiinatisiii, and gluo from the hides of asses Is supposed to be au admirable tonle ami diuretic. The shell of a certain fresh water turtle made into jelly is a sure thing for "misery m the joints." A deuoetum from the hedge log's hide is excellent for skin diseases, and tigers' bones mixed with hartshoru and terrapin's shell in the shape of a jelly is a first rate tonic in oases of dis eases of the bones and of ague. Wash ington Star. Where the AM Aiuiimi a Crowd. The common people of Cairo . resort to the exhibitions of mountebanks who teach camels, asses aud dogs to dance. The dauelug of the ass is diverting enough. After he has frisked and oapered sufficiently his master tells him that the aultan means to build a great palace, and will have to employ all the asses in car rying mortar, stones and other materials. Dpon this the ass falls down with his feet upward, closing his eyes and extend ing his ohest as if he were dead. The owner loudly bewails his lues, and appeals to the bystanders for alms to make it good. Then, having collected as much as possible, he announces that the ass is not really dead, but being sen sible of his masters necessity has played a trick to secure proveuder. He commands the ass to rise, but the brute remains motionless in spite of all the blows he can give Iiim. At last he proclaims that by virtue of an edict of the sultan all the handsome ladies are bound to ride out the next day upon the comeliost asses they can find 111 order to see a triumphal show, and that the ladies are to entertain their heists with oats and Nile water. : These words are uo sooner prouounced tlidii the iih rises up. prances and, leaps for joy The master then declares that the ass baa been pitched nuon by the warden of his stt to (informed mid slie ase lowers 'lie lee as If larkinar that iirer of hand- nm to single ompany, aud S6 1 :. s DUMPLINGS. POT PIES. . PUDDINGS. CAKES. DOUGHNUTS. How to Auk Hot) Have. - "Oil ! 'tin time f should Utile u j our mother, Bweet Mary," saysl; , "Ob: don't talk to my mother' snys Biary, Beffiiiniug toci-y; "Fur my mother says nvw an; deceivers, And never, I know, will uonsent; '.: BlisyH(flrlB(ii b hwry wliii marry At leisure repent. " "Then, suppose I should talk to your father, , Hweetittry,"biyn 1. "Oh! dcut'E tulk to my father." says Mary, liHeliiDlnpiorry; "Fur my fathur, liu love me k.) dearly, He'll nsver iwimtiiit I shall po If you talk lo my father,"'' says Mary, ''He'll surely uy 'Sa'" "Then how shall I jjet you. my jewel, : Hwtwi UlNryr say , "If your father uliU mother' so cruel, : . MoHlHimily i'lhlle," ,, "Oh! never nay die." wiys Mary,." . "A way to mve yon I sou: fiiuuo tii'-' pumiU are htitti no unulrary You'd twnwusli iiiti.'V - -HamtH'l Im-r In f'liicajo Mai. A WholoHouifl Knur. The many manholes which have blown np from time to time and the sensa tional ehuructer of the amHtenr electro cntioim which hitve takeu place iu the city have together pnidunod in the mindH of the jwople u well grounded f eur. I ww forcibly struck by a scene in Broadway rwently. A crowd had col lected at the corner of Canal Btreet for some unknown wtuwu, im crow da will, wheu muldenly there wan heard a rum blingiioineiinheiwer. The firing of a battery of UathtiKS fonld not have dis pertwd the (roncounte with rreater dis j Hitch, aud in fact wveitU of the iieople tell over earh othnr in their desire to es cape, , ., One exctfHKtvely Rtout man attempted to patw between a hydrant and a lamp pom, and, there mtt being room, met with evidently very painful results. The contubiou of panic is sometimes very funny, always providing you are nut yourself sutfrriUK from it. An innocent wire lying atiroaH the sidewalk will turn the stream of travel into the roadway, no matter how muddy it may be, us effectually as a barricade of boxes in the dry good s ditnc t. N ow York Telegram. NIlgliUKl, It is hard fur us, whether we are old or young, to see our best efforts ptuts un appreciated; and what older people fee) youuger people Hay. Little Mary, who is ouly 4 years old, had a new hat given to her, of which she felt very proud. On the following Sunday she wore it to church, but her pleasure in the event wat greatly lessened by the fact that a certain lad on whom her childwu affections were just then set appeared not to notice her splendid adornment. Monday moruuig-flhe saw bun going by the house driving a cow, and at ouce she clambered upon the fence. "Oh, E1," ike called, "that was me to chnrob yesterday, with a new hat on!" Youth's Companion. One Way t 41t New Tuva The two children of a well known writer, whose temper is us quick as bis heart is geueruus, are used Co receiving armfuls of toys after they have been punished for any misdemeanor, Of lute they have been very good, or their father's mind luut been uncommonly calm and unrunltid, and as a uaturul eonsetLienue thuHtouk of playthings has run low. One afternoon the mother overheard the curly haired boy saying to the blond little girl, as they sat on the Moor and ratted a three legged horse against a wooden cow with two broken horns: "Can't we plague papa some how tonight, Resect We really must tlje it no s to get a whipping. "New York Recorder. IJiiHSAiiomiblft Gurlttilty. Before a young man marries lie should learn not to ask foolish ques tions. - - . ;j ;': "What, my angel, " exclaimed a youthful husband bursting into the kitchen, "doing the cooking yourself I Why. itidgar. how JixjIU Av' THE PILGRIM OF LOVE. I ww Love Hloeping whrn-e the wilfl bem fead, Olose, clow I drew to graHp-tJie empty sir( r. Bi shadow flitted o'er the dewy mead, I looked, and oaly saw a swallow there. ' Love whlnpered to me once, beside tbe sea, ; , 8o tender iweet hln accenM to mine ear My heart stood ntill to lirften then, ah met Only the waves' low plashing could I hear. One pamed me.'riiipinf?, In the woodland green- Such wild, pUid noUis ne'erchantd mortal bird; LonK, long I tracked the miaMrelay unseen In vainthen knew I It was Love I heard. Love wrapped me to hiu heart, one balmy night That, soft tiftresK awoke such joy supreme, My soul brimraed over with her new delight; But tnorning broke, it was but a dream. So Love I follow nil the wide world through Hiu pilgrim, though but these of him I hold A dream, a song, a whisper yet, 'tis true . . Who follows on shall yet his face behold. Augusta Clinton Wlnthrop. GIUWA'S STORY. "So It seems Fred Hayes lias finally jilted Fanny Howe," said Grandpa West, one rainy morning, as he stood shaking off the drops from bis great "coat on our kitchen stove, "Yes," replied I, as I filled a pan with ap ples and prepared to cut tben 'and more sbaiDP to him, too. Brought hor clear up to an eupiagempiit, and then left town with another girl, and without one word to Pan." 'Hhamel" rapeatod good Grandpa West, with an indinnnt flah from eyes blue and clear as at 21 ; "it's a disgrace to any Chris tian church to let one of its members go on so, Time wrb when be wouldn't have gone Bt-ott free as he has now." "But what could have been doner I in quired. . "Done? He'd have had the full broadside of church discipline on his shoulders fifty years ago. He ought to be dealt with as Harmon Page was," concluded grandpa, meditatively. . "How was thatf inquired I, interested at once. . "I wonder if you never heard that storyp said he, with a curious glance I understood better afterward, "Bee here; it's a rainy day, and mother won'tbeexjwctitig me home. Hand over a knife, and 111 help you with your apples and tell that yarn at the same time." . : -.. Well pleased with the plan, I took another pan, aud our fingers flew as grandpa went on with thB true and authentic history of Har mon Page. "You see, he began, "all this happened fifty years ago, and Amity ville wasn't then the slow going, dull little place it is now. It was comparatively new, and was as lively and enterprising as the new places of the west are to-day. There were a good many old aristocratic families, though, and I toll ye they hold their heads high. The very meetiif house slips had to be gauged accord in' to the rank of the buyer, and I tell you old Deacon Avery would never have got the scowl out of hi forrard if 'Squire Page had happened to had a seat in front -of his. -"Deacon Avery had a daughter a quiet, geutle girl, with a slight, graceful figure and a face well, you don't see tnuih faces uow' days; a clear, fine complexion, with a deli cate puik trembling up into her lips, when she was spoken to. Her eyes were great lim pid wells, changing with every thought, and her hair was a soft chestnut brown, waving about her face iu its own wavward style. "She was a lovely girl, became a professor young, and was al ways to be mn in the end of the deacon's pew everv Sunday, ram or shine. 8h'd nwer had much company, for there was a kind of dignified reserve about hor that kept the fellow at a distance. But wheii she was long 'bout 18 or ao Harmou Page began to go with her, "He was a handsome, high spirited chap, lively and full of talk, and as different from Merey Avury as two tersons could well be. But they loved each other; there's no doubt about that. Jdany's the time I've seen her' grand ejos sparkle and pretty cheeks flush at Harmon's witty speeches, till she was really brilliant Aud he, with all his proud spirit, always grew strangely gentle with Mercy. , "8u, iu spite of the rivalry that had always existed Iwtweeu the two families, no one would have disturbed the two, had it not been for Virginia Wake. She was a cousin of Col. Foul's first wife, and came there visitm' from the south. "Virginia was milled a handsome girl, with her brunette face, flashing black eyes, and heavy black curls she was never tli-ed of jingling around heineck. She had a good deal, too, of what you call 'style,' and Amity ville folks who didu't know as much of the ways of the world as they do now were com pletely fascinated with her taking ways. The young fellows in particular hovered around her like moths around a candle. "All except Harmon Page. He had en gaged himself tu Mercv, and at first gave the now comer to go-by. The Pages and Fords had a family feud of a good many years' Btandmg, which kept them apart for one thing, and Virginia had pleuty of company besides Harmon. "But I suppose Harmon's Indifference piqued the girt, aud she suubbed the other boys and exerted all her charms on Harmon. "She came in the fall, and along about Christmas time, the neighbors began to notice that Virginia was mighty thick at the Pages. "The two houses were prettv near to gether, and she used to .run over to Mother Pago's on some excuse or ether twenty times a day. Perhaps 'twa'nt strange that Har mon began to be fluttered by it. He had as good a turn out us any chap in the place, and ho got iu the habit of taking Virginia con siderable. ' 1 "You see position's everything in more cases than one, and Virginia was right there handy, while Mercy lived at the top of one of our old fashioned Connecticut hills, with a dreadful bard wad loading to it. . ''Whether she knew how much Harmon was taking the other girl, wasnt known; some thought not. Sue didn't got out much, except to mcetm' that winter, and she had enough of her father's spunk about hor not to leton;that.8hofiav Harmon fooiitf1 with Vir giniu Wake at the uoouin's. "T&ere was splendid sleighing that Boason -tfco kind we dotit have these days and -"V of the ytmng folks wanted to have a - ..tf fi-om tune prayer meeting, and after the time of the ride was all settled Harmon, who was the only proleswr in the imrty, tried a little to have it changed. But Viruima Wake de clared, with a wicked shake of those jingling curls, that she could say her prayers just as well in a sleigh as she oould coopedupinthat stupid barn of a meeting house. "Everybody thought afterward she fixed the ride for that night to show Mercy Avery the power she had over Harmon Page. "Well, the party started from Amityville long about & o'clock. They were all m a big two horse load, except Virginia and Harmon, "tihe had arranged for them to go ahead In his cutter alone, and I'll admit they were a splendid looking couple he, with his fine eyes and teeth, and she, in a neb crim son hood that set off hor dark beauty to per fection. . - "Our route for I was one of the party lay straight up the hill toward Beacon Avery's, Just as we turned into it, wbc should we meet but the deacon and Mercy. "Tbey were late, for the meeting was alus appointed for early candle -lighting but Mercy had probably waited awhile for Har mon, who, for a year back, had taken her to Thursday meel in' as regular as the day came round. "Hhe sat up straight and queenly, beside her father as they passed, and seemed not to hear the malicious sally Virginia called out to her. , "We, in the Ijark team, were near enough to catch the ornful glance she threw from those deep eyes gray as steel that night "As for Harmon, he turned white to tbe bis. aud for a mile hardly answered the banter that Virginia kept np After that he seemed to grow perfectly reckless, laughed and joked louded titan any of the rest, and was so careless that he drove on a stone wall; and we, following, were all ujmet in a heap together, and hod hard work to get tied up so as to make our way borne toward morn ing, more dead than alive. "It was a sorry dav for Harmon Page. He was waited npou by a church committee, headed by Deacon Averv, who denounced his whole conduct toward Mercy as unchris tian and highly inconsistent in a church member. 1 "He didn't have much to say for himself, and they churched Mm on the spot He was pretty down in the mouth, but kept up some hojw, till he saw Mercy Avery. "He had refused to km; Virginia Wake, and that night he went up tbj familiar hill to Dwacon Avery's stone house. 1 . "Mercy herself cam to tbe door, calm and self-iKissesKfxl as if nothing had happened, and showed him imo ihe silting room. There was a steady light in her gray eyes, though, that made Harmon tremble, and, without boating about the bush a bit, be came right to the point, aud risked if ail might be for given and forgotten, sad they become as good friends as before. Ho worked himself into a passion, cried, aud took on likeachild, they said. "But law, it didn t move her en atom. She had the genuine old Avery grit, if she was mild mannered, aud sho told him that, aslotigasthet'huivh had put him out, she, of course, couldn't in conscience take him back. .., 1 "He pleaded and entreated until 10 oVIock at night, a bite hour in them days, but it didn't make a mite of difference. Hhe wouldn't overlook what ihe church had considered a gross breach of in i f h. lie went out a crashed man, and from tint time his spirit seemed to leave biiu utterly." "And what a bont Virginia Wake P I in-ten-noted, -unconsciously cutting my finger in mv eager interest, - "(ib, after the girl had done all the mis chief possible, public opinion toward her changed 'mazui' quick, and she left town in a tew davs, and was never heard from in these parts again." ' "And Harmon Page; what becama of Mmf ...... j "Ho never got over the shock. lie became silent and melancholy, and finally had to be taken to )ho Hctt oat, He grew worse, and the siht of a handsome woman with red cheeks aud black curls would always throw him into his most violent tantrums. He died in the asylum at lust." "Now, 1 think that was real mean,1 said I, wrathi'niiy winding cotton around my bleed ing thumb, "if Mercy Avery hadn't turned him off. his life might not have ended so sadly. I. think she ought to have taken him back." "Ah, ha " stud Grandpa We&t, quizzically; 'do you mean that" - "Certainly," said I, with dignity, "why Shouldn't l!" .. "Oh, nothing," he replied, "only if she had, Harmon Pago would have been your grandfather instead of me," "Aly grandfather why then," said I, la some confusioiij "Mercy Avery must bo"- "Mercy West, your groudmotber," said grandma, chuckling inu under my chm. "Confess now that 'ail's welt that ends well. ' " I "1 tiupjMMM so,-' said I reluctantly. --Littde M. Whittlesey in Ki-w Kngluud Magujtine, I Why tli I.eMrs Nevr Cauie, 1 If there is auv man in the city who is par ticularly proud, of the Flood building Jis Admiral Cornelius O'Connor. A source of great satisfaetiou to this gentleman were the mailiug facilities of the building. It is only necessary lo drop a letier in at the fifth story when, Now York style," as O'Connor says, "it is takeu out at the ground floor by the earner." A gentleman in one of the upper stories is in the hubitof mailing checks to New York every week. Some time ago he received a telegram from New York asking why a certain cheok wlnoh ought to have been mailed tour weeks had not arrived. The local mau telegraphed that the check had been sent as usual, and, fearing that something was wrong, stopped payment. Kot long afterward he was again mformed that the ustud check had uot appeared, Iu the moautime complaints were getting com mon in the Flood building that letters sent from there were not delivered, I One day reueutjy the Ktienittuly sender ' of checks, whose ftiitli in the eighty foot high mail box had never wavered, dropped i his letters iu the mail box, and had the curi , osity to look into ic To his surprise the box seemed to be full to the top.. Thinking it strange that so much mad matu-r should j leave the building in one day, he mentioned the fact to some ol his ueihtHtrs, and antbx ! ammtf.iaou was made of the attenuated pillar ', post a&eatdt iory '''-sr?v i the lowor two s U'' .'." . was a froufrou sort til' sound,' ., J v seconds about WW letters were i mail box at the foot of the elev 7 over the tiocr. An examination f- . York style" of mail box shower $ ; :' tion of the inside lining of tlie b come loose, and, projecting across-7' ,". hadamfited one letter after anoti they had piled up three stories hiai , : Francisco Chronicle. ; '?" THE LITTLE LOVERS. I think she has fallen asleep In the shad- . (Hlng low, sing low-you'N awake ber.l Oh, she's (he loveliest little maid; And her father's our family baker. Such beautiful buns anil chocolate cakesC . (Hin(f low, very low-jou'U alarm her.. And oh. such elegant tarts he makes! And his aame is Jiuhua Farmer. , And her sweet name Is Elinor Jane, And her step is as light rs a festher; Aud we meel every day iu the Mine lane '. ,; And we go to our school logci her. ; And now and th(n she brings me a bnn- ' (Hin low or shw'll hear what we're sayin(f.i, And after school, when our tasks are don, la the meadows we're fond of straying. Antl I make her a wreath rit cowslips there, As we sit in the blossoming eiover, -v1. And then she binds ft around her hair And twines ft over and over :- She's wu! I'm sit; but lam as tall As she is. I guess, or nearly. And I cannot mr Mint I rare for her doll; - Hut oh, I do love her dearly. We were tired of playing at king and queen, (8in low, for we must nut awake her.) And she fell asleep In the ffrass so (rren; . . And I thou till t that I wouldn't forsake hr. And when I bid grown to a big, tall man, I mean to be smart and eleven. , -h :; - And then 1 will marry her if I can, . v , And we'll live upon tarts forever. j- '-.v' ; -C. P. tJrauch iu St. Nicholaa. Guards Around Treasures Few people who gaze upon the-' treasures inclosed within the fragile glaas cases near the main entrance of J the National Museum dream that any material protection guards them from burglarious and predatory paws save that a watch is kept, as a matter of course, by persons in charge. Gold and tsiiver by the hundredweight are there exposed to view, while the m- . trinsic and historical value of the ex hibits mounts up into the millions. Yet all is open, with only thin sheets of crystal between the avaricious visitor and the precious property of the ' American people. '''' ;v..'- "-'7 ! i Let the would be robber try it then;, let him wait, and when Jie is rterftietlr ! certain the gimnl is not looking, lay ; hands on so much as one pmull copper Derinv of historic date exnosed behini the glass. Lo! an alarm riiifrs througU the building, and from all sides the at- I tendants flottk to the rescue. The thief learns, too late for protiuible informa tion, that .eaci copper, silver or gold piece in every case has a separate at- racnineiit io trie ourgiur alarm in t(m building. The accessibility of the costly objects is only apparent; the entire police of Washington Is guarding them I day and night. lu the same way with the major .is ' well as with the minor treasures in thd Smithsonian museum. (Jold and silver articles and ornaments, jewels ami vases, everything of value, hi fact, are : guarded in the same way. . It is practk 1 colly an impossibility for anybody to", getaway with them. Washington Star. Toiiv Cliaiiai tit Hills. as t was oeiiig enaveo uy the torn barber in a Sixth avenue shop one 'afternoon the customer In the next chair alighted and tendered a ten dnk lar bill to the tousorinl artist. i "Take It to tJie bootblack outside," said the boss barber. 1 questioned my shaver about the bootblack's financial standing. Me answered t "lvry is well able to change the bill as most the storekeepers in the neighborhood. Me has a good sized bank account am plenty of casii in hand," ,. i J nst then the other barber came v with.rhe change. As I passed out'l rf., tioed Tony placing the X in a well rill' wad. -New York Herald. . They Uke Smelts, A family in West Wuldoboro wouldn't n a. ...(-! .f..l II... i . .,u ajiva n MviiLiiicuLai in nun a Ku,u J"ie Ion their rocky acres; that is, not aa . long as the smelt swims the briny wa . ters. During the winter this family captures over six tons of suiulte. They : dispose of their catch in the city mar ' keta, and receive fwin seven to fourteen ; Journal. ; Kceelfits of tho Krooklyn ttiidg, f The revenue of the Brooklyn br amounts to amiition and a (jimrtf liars a year, derived uhnost exo,' j froui farm " The other items of during 1890 were $82,000 fro; -aud f 13,000 from tolegrapl ; :" .'phone companies. The li !,V:t ; in tlie year lor ousiness? a, . Is July. New York Sun V, . i ' ' r ' - .--'ti -. .'v- Thcra is a tract $ . : southern : Oregon J "' f: . : 16,000 squm'O mVf, . sold at $1Q perf' - the natioifjvr " , : . tvsti mated thf r - '" . . v, - :, t able timber' . ;. . :m, " J. . '.