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A True Lady.

Wildness is thing which girls cannot
afford. Delicacy is thing which cam
not be lost or found No art can restore
to the grape its bloom Familiarity
without confidence, without regard, Is
destructive to ali that makes woman ex-
alting and enrolling. It is the first
duty of woman to be lady. Good
breeding is good sense. Bad manners
in a woman is immortality Awkward
ness may be ineradicable. Bashfulness
is constitutional. Ignorance of etiquette
is the result of circumstances. All can
be condoned and not Danish men or
women from the amenities of their kind.
But self possessed, unshrinking and ag-
gressive coarseness of demeanor may be
reckoned as States prison offense, AMI
certainly merits that mild form of re-
straint called imprisonment for life.
1t Is a shame for women to lecture on
their manners. 1t is a bitter shame that
they need it. Do not be restrained. Do
not have impulses that need restraint.
Do not wish to dance with the Prince
unsought; feel differently. Be sure you
confer honor. Carry yourself so loitily
that men will look up to you for reward,
not at you in rebuke. The natural SEN
tment of man toward woman is rever-
ence. He loses large means of grace
when he is obliged to account her be-
ing to be trained in propriety. A mans
ideal Is not wounded when q woman fails
In worldly wisdom; but if in grace, in
tact, IN sentiment, in delicacy, In kind
ness, she would be found wanting, he re-
ceives an inward hurt.-GdH Hamilton.
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whining Il Bloch.

From a governing aspect the Bloch
| Is infinitely to be preferred to the
Afghan. Though physically in bulk
| and weight of body, he is the Afghan's
equal in courage, and his superior in
! endurance and intelligence. One
specially good trait III his character is,
| that he never sulks or bears malic long,
whereas the Afghan does both. Here
are illustrations in point. l never re-
member having an Afghan whipped in
| Jail without the fellow showing by his
sullen looks and scowling face that he
bore the striker, if not myself, a grudge
for it. But here, in the Derah Ghazi
Khan Jail, the punishment over, the
Bloch is as frank and pleasant as he
was before. One man, 1 remember,
who was in as a bad character, would
not work. He was warned that he would
be whipped He merely laughed, and
said, "That won't make any difference,
sahib" He was shown a man being
whipped he only looked grave. Finally
he was whipped himself He was taken
out of his cell, stripped naked, TIED
wrists and ankles to the triangle and
given twenty or thirty forget the
exact number-strokes with a rattan.
During the operation he bit at the wood,
bit almost through his tongue, but never
either groaned or WINGED. The punish
ment over, he threw himself on the
ground on his face, when the usual skin
of cold water was dashed over him, and
then the commissioning water-carrier
stood upon the beaten parts to deaden
the pain. Still he would not work /
saw him day or two after IN his cell,
looking happy and unconcerned, though
he still must have been very sore, and
for days would not be able to sit down.
He WAS pleased to see me. He seemed
to have an idea that, not being in Jail
for any specific and proved oifense, 1t
was not right to give him hard labor,
and so put him on the level of a con-
victed felon. l demonstrated with him
for his obstinacy, to no effect.
One day l observed his splendid curls
shining with oil or ghee. 1 asked him
how he had got it. He had saved ii
from his food, was his answer. l cut his
ghee still no effect. At last, as his ex-
ample was becoming infections, warned
him that if he would not work L should
have him transferred to the Multan
Jail, where l believed his Absolom-like
hair would be cut short. That threat
frightened him-his ringlets being the
glory of the Bloch he said he would
try to do work. He made pretense of
trying, and failing, was sent off to Null
tan, where, have no doubt he is now,
though prison cropped, as smiling and
light-hearted a do-nothing as he was
here. Now it is not in the Afghan
nature to behave as that Bloch did. and
and that Biloch's case is typical of
others. SIMILARLY circumstanced the
Afghan would have sulked, worked,
fallen i'll from frettiDg and some day
after his release, perhaps, killed the
human instrument who had beaten him.
I have known that to happen in Bannu.
Magazine.
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No Time for 1t.

Tt is a question whether we can fairly
or honorably plead that we have no time
to attend to duties. Our pleasures may
be crowded out, our plans for advance
ment or money-getting may not ind
sufficient time for their fulfillment, but If
we have not time to fulfill the duties to
others that our place in life demands
something is wrong. Either we are do
ing too much needless work, or we are
trying to do work that justly belongs to
others.
1t is told of Philip of Macedon that a
poor woman came to his palace many
times in vain TO ask redress for wrongs
done. After many attempts, she OBJ
tainedsan audience with the king only TO
be rebuffed by him, as she had been by
his attendants
81 am not at leisure to hear you, he
replied abruptly when she began her
story.
"Nol' was her exclamation; "then
you are not at leisure to be king"
This view of the matter quite con-
founded the king. A few moments he
thought upon it in silence; then he told
the old woman to go on with her case,
heard her to the end, and then gave
orders that those who had wronged her
should be punished and restitution made
to her.
And ever after this he made it a point
to listen TO all applications brought be-
fore him, repeating to his courhers who
objected to his troubling himself the
lesson that the poor woman had taught
him, that if he was not at leisure to hear
the plea of his humblest subject, he was
not at leisure to be king.
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USEFUL HINTS.

| NEVER wash raisins that are to be used
| IN sweet dishes. 1t viii make the pud-
! ding heavy.
JAPANESE napkins folded IN the shape
/ of fans and put in glasses at each end of
the top shelf on the sideboard, are light
and ornamental.
THERE is a greenness in onions and
! potatoes that renders them hard to di-
gest. For health's sake put them in
warm water for an hour before cooking.
To RESTORE CoLoH -Spiritsof ammo
MIA diluted with water, if applied with a
sponge or flannel to discolored spots on
the carpet or garments, will often res
tore color.
CELERY vinegar is made by soaking
one ounce of celery seed in half pint
of vinegar white wine or good cider vim
igar). This is much used to flavor soups
and gravies.
To CLEAN MARBLE.-A paste made of
whiting and benzine will clean marble,
and one made of chloride of soda, spread
and left to dry tin the sun, if possible),
Will remove the spots.
To MAKE A RUG.-For a rug use
piece of small-figured Brussels carpet
Around this place three rows of thick
cloth, cut in scallops three and half
inches deep and two and half wide.
Make the first and third rows of black
cloth, worked on the edge of each seal
lop in buttonhole stitch with scarlet
Germantown yarn. Make the second
row of drab cloth worked with blue.
Put a strip of drab worked In leather
stitch with blue. Cover the seam where
the first row Is sewed on. The whole is
then sewed on another piece of carpet
ing to keep it in place on the floor.
HoUsEKEEPERs fond of dainty napery
cannot lind anything more pleasing than
doyleys of fine linen, fringed or the
edge and hem stitched within, describ-
ing central square. The corners of
this hem-stitching do not intersect, and
much trouble is hereby saved to the
needIewoman. The inside is divided
into diamonds, with brownish yellow
silk IN outline stitch, and inside of the
diamonds are central rings with rays
and four-leaVed clovers also in outline
stitch. Other doyleys have punches of
cherries, flowers and conventional de-
signs, but these are all done In brown
tints, scarcely varied with other colors,
and in the finest of silks. Still others
have Chinese and Japanese pottery de-
signs, done In the lighter blues, red and
OllVe greens.
a PASTE That WILL KEEP. Wheat
-four, one ounce; powdered alum, one
half drachm; water sufficient, or eight
ounces :; oil of cloves, or wintergreen,
three or four drops. Rub the flour aud
the alum with water to the consisteuce
of milk place this over moderate fire
and stir constantly until the paste drops
from the wooden paddle in ielly-like
q g
While the mass is still hot, add the es-
sential oil and pour the paste into an
earthenware pot or open Jar. In the
course of about an hour a crust forms on
the top pour gently on this an inch of
water, more or less. When some paste
is wanted, decant the water, take out
the quantity needed and put some water
again on the remainder, repeating the
operation each time. Paste may be kept
in this way for months, and viii never
be troubled with flies.
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Nervousness in America.

Men prematurely bald, old, unable
to carry their own liquor" and anxious
beyond their face years are getting con-
spicCously common in America. The
slow, sententious Yankee Of the stage is
becoming rare in the cities, and the cool
individual who offers the suspicious
stranger a cigar light stuck in the muz-
zle of a revolver, is happily confined to
DeadwOod Creek or Cough Eye Gulch.
The women are more lovely than ever.
Their faces are the faces of angels
chiseled In marble but the pallor is
unhealthy, and the hveliness of the
American girl is, to a great extent, in
cipient disease. 1t is, like their beauty,
part of that nervousness which is afflict-
ing their race. Their minds are I'M
troubled by the cares of housekeeping,
for most of them live In hotels or board
ing houses. In Europe they contract
In marriages. But they soon fade, and
while the English matron, and even her
sister OF Canada, who leads much the
same kind Of life is still in her prime,
the once beautiful American is often
lean, hystericM haunter of health re-
sorts. The future Is not a pleasant
prospect. As men of leisure depart
from the busy multitude, it is difficult
70 see what they are to do with their
money There Is a limit to the number
OF greenbacks which a people can spend
on mouse, and even a modest fortune
cumbersome to carry about IN dla.
uon0s ana watch chains. They can, OF
course, always go to Paris, but Iuilerles
american, as this hybrid Gaul used to
pe called In Napoleonic days, ceases TO
pe an American, while If he stays at
nome, 1t Is hard to see how the rich
average republican is to spend his money
in any other way than that which has
produced. and is increasing the nervous
ness oi ms race. Competitive examIra-
IONS, which will, in time, add their
Worry 70 the endless voting and electlng
Oh the present time. are calculated to
lneensliy the trouble. But for long the
evu VIII not be much noticed. The
country Will be fertiHzed by contlnu-
GUS stream OF fresh-faced, simple-lvedi
1t 81, from "used-up Europe.
nnese VIII mingle with the humber ma
Yves and since the true-born Yankee OF
se" england, and the 'f ust family
fA OF the South are notorious
iol tne iewness of their children, Will
Sep up the population of the United
o.aees- Meantime, the learned folks,
mi.nout the fear Of patriotic papers be-
1pre tneir eyes, will affirm that the
uIoPean is not naturalized in the new
~oI,o- At best he is a nervous edition
VI ene gallant from which he sprang, and
We're It not for the new blood that is re-
~ ulans ms laded life. would dw1ndle
World. eA'l'
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Rochester.

No name in Britain, however, is more
interesting than that OF Rochester,
which admirably shows us how SO many
other Roman names have acquired de-
lusively English form, or have been mis-
taken for memorials of the English con-
ouest. The Roman town was known as
Durobrivae. which does not IN the least
resemble Rochester, and, what Is more,
Baeda distinctly tells rs that Justus, the
first Bishop of the West Kent1sh See,
was consecrated Gin the city OF Doru-
brew. which the English call Hrofaes
coaster. from one of its former masters,
by name Hrof." If this were all we
knew about il. we should be told thar
Bsda clearly described the town as be
ing called Hrof's chester, from an Ehgllsh
conquerer Hrof, and that TO contfaeict
this clear statement OF an early writer
was presumptuous or absurd. t0rtu-
nately, however, we have the clearest
possible proof that Hrof never existed,
and that he was pure creation of Bseda's
own simple chronological guesswork.
King Alfred clearly knew better, for he
omitted this wild derivation from his
English translation. The valuable frag-
ment of a map of Roman Britain pre-
served for use in the medieval transcript
known as the "Peutinger Tables. sets
down Rochester as Rotibis. Hence it Is
pretty certain that it must have had two
alternative names, of which the other
was Durobrive. Rotibis would easily
pass ION the regular analogies) into
Rotifi coaster, and that again into Hrof
coaster and Rochester; just as Rhutupi@
or Ritupae passed into Rituf burh. and
so finally into Marlborough. Moreover,
in a character of King Kthelbert OF
Kent, older a good deal than Baeda's
time, we find the town described under
the mixed form of Hrofi-brevi. After
such q certain instance of pathological
laundering as this, for one am not in
clined to place great faith in statements
as that made by the English Chronicle
about Chichester, which it attributes to
the my thical South Saxon King Oissa.
Whatever Cissanceaster may mean. it
seems to me much more likely that it
represents another case of double nam
ing: for though the Roman town was
commonly known as Regnum, that Is
clearly a mere administrative form,
derived from the tribal name of the
Regni. Considering that the same
veracious Chronicle derives Portsmouth.
the Roman Portus, from an IMAGINARY
Teutonic invader, Port, and commits it
self to other wild statements of the same
sort, 1 don't think we need Greatly
hesitate about rejecting its authority in
these earlier and conjectural portions.-
The CorTakiLt Magazine.
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Cooking CuIturc.

Some claim that if the entire thought
is not given to each minute, the bread
will be burned or heavy; the linen
scorched the vegetables half cooked,
and the steak parboiled instead of
broiled. In reply to this assertion,
offer few practical examples Mrs.
Stowe assures us she wrote Uncle
Toms Cabin" while attending to her
bread. Marion Harland Mrs. Terhune),
the wife of the pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church, in Springfield,
Mass, planned the architecture of their
owp home, and. although she had
amassed large fortune by her pen, she
is described by recent guest as "a
model wife and mother" While her
paintings adorn the walls, and the fur
niture is decorated by her own hands,
her kitchen Is the crown of her home,
for in this she is queen, and she affirms
the more a woman knows the better
house-keeper, wife and mother she can
be. With all these occupations, she has
class of forty young men in her hus-
bands Sunday-school, which numbers
500. Rose Terry Cooke, in her old-fash-
Toned country home, at Winsted, Conn.
Is equally famous as a cook and a poet.
She not only writes charming poems
about her garden, but is up before sun
rise to work in it. Her roses are her
especial PRIDE Cleveland Herald.
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Pug-Nosed Girls.

A young man who has evidently got
one on his hands writes as follows con-
corning pug-nosed girls Any girl IN the
wide world can have a snub nose with
out any trouble at all, but not one girl
In 100000 attains to the ravishing
delectability ola dear little pug. There
are inconsiderate superficial observers
who aver that snubs and pugs are very
much the same thing. This is absurd.
II would be as rational to assert the
identity of one of Camoens' dainty
shepherdesses aud a respectable but un-
interesting colored washerwoman.
The pug-nosed girl is distinct type.
and she knows it. Possessing a pug
nose. she possesses certain privileges
and immunities to which no other sort
OF nosed girl can lay claim. Occupy
ing the peculiar and elevated position.
she Is at once fascinating and harrow
ing. With her nose, by right divine,
goes rosebud mouth that anybody can
see at half a glance was made principally
for kissing Nobody ever dreams of
kissing lips which have long Roman
nose standing sentinel over them. But
the pug-nosed girls lips are not guarded
at all on the contrary, they are most
temptingly accessible. And when she
smles--and she has a great way
OF smiling, the dear thing; and
her nose sympathizes with the
muscular movement and tips it
self little higher, it seems just like
formal invitation. That is the fascinat-
ing part OF the performance. The har-
rowing part OF 1t IS when, encouraged bv
what seems to be so encouraging. Won
try to accept the invitation-and find
tnat she Is not that sort of q puQ-nosed
girl atall 1t is dismal business. this,
when the pug-nosed girl is put to the
Test OF actual kissing and her rosebud
mouth is proved to be but a delusion
and snare; The little ray of hope that
these melancholy circumstances is that
success can be comprised by irving
again. For, while she is known ali too
well to be mettlesome. unmanapeable
little body. there are facts recorded con
cerning the pug nosed girl which prove
tnat sne Is not persistently and irrevoc-
ably cruel. In a moment of contrition
herself sorrowing because of the sorrow
which she had caused, abe has been
known to quicker her pretty lips as they
ought to be puckered, and so to Weld
them allies to the invitation extended
by her angelic, unprotecting nose. HUI
mainly Is strengthened and stayed in this
Borrowing world by the fact that tba
Pug-nosed girl lives in it. She may be.
.hdeed she Is at times, rasping but in
the long run she is source Of exceed
ing cheer. Light-minded, httle-know-
ing folk may rail at her nose and affirm
that no charm whatever appertains to
ITS puggishness. But the wise are NOT
swayed from their wisdom by the patter
OF FOOLS and those philosophers whose
field OF study is the world know that the
pug-nosed girl is a delicious ethnolocio
success.
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Fiuauv Fouud the Rirht Girl

"when am big will marry Kitty"
But Kitty slapped me and ran away,
And. while wept for myself, in pity,
made up my mind would marry May.
For May gentle and May was tender,
Yet lightly she put my offer by;
"Im engaged TO George Bender
Perhaps I'll take you If he shDuld die"
By-and-by met Jennie Blatchell-
Jennie was thirteen and was ten
j used to carry her books and sachel.
And made up my mind 10 marry den.
But Jenny, her reign was quickly over,
And Kate, my cousin, became my fate;
] said " III propose, like n brave, true lover,
AS soon ever graduate"
Alls when took out my clean diploma,
The daring girl was about to start
On her wedding trip with young Will De Roma,
And no one knew of my broken hearth
At one-and-twenty again love found me,
But the angel face and the meek blue eyes,
And the threads of the golden hair that loved me,
Wen. fading back into paradise.
Hsrki into the house Lu, Kate and Harry,
With shout and scamper from school have come
And a girl never had meant to marry
Is wife and mother within my home.
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A YOUNG, rich, and pretty widow in
London, with plenty of animal spirits.
and in want of some innocent amuse-
ment, hit on the original plan of
inscribing her name in the books
of a matrimonial agency as a
wealthy but blind candidate for matri-
mony. The number of suitors was
legion, and the young widow amused
herself to her hearts content Some
came in shabby clothes, some stretched
themselves at full length ON the sofa and
made themselves quite at home, but
spoke in tones of the deepest affection.
The charming widow was, however, soon
obliged to cut the joke short, for one of
her suitors, after annexing pair of can
dlesticks introduced a bunch of long
fingers into her pocket and distracted
her purse.
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Wanted Advice.

A Hartford man went to a lawyer for
advice. After receiving the retaining
fee the lawyer said:
Estate your case"
"Well, sir, replied the client, ga
man told me to go to h, and l want
your advice"
The attorney took down a volume of
Connecticut statutes and, after turning
over a few leaves, answered.:
Don't you do it. The law doesn't
compel you to.'-Hdrif0Td Times.
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Few people have any idea of the num-
Der of women who own and sometimes
carry revolvers- Some ladies indulge in
pistol practice in their homes, using re-
volvers OF small caliber and popping at
sheet-iron targets with blank CARTRIDGES.
The wives OF travelling men, who are alb
sent from home sometimes q month and
perhaps three months at q time. are
also, as rule, provided with trust
worthy revolvers for the protection of
their homes and persons. One LADY.
whose husband is away for long periods,
not only has revolver decorating her
bureau top alongside of her toilet-set.
but carries small 22-caliber "pop"
hardly big enough to shoot q pea-hole
through pasteboard, against the top but
ton of her corset
Actresses ara seen to have q particu-
lar penchant for pretty and cleaning
pistols. The fact will be recalled that
when o well-known newspaper man
went TO interview the Polish artistic
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Perfectly snrazed.

In the San Francisco EUeHing BuLLe-
tin we observe that Mr.. Rosenthal, OF the
well known printing firm, Rosenthal &
Roesch, 538 California Street, that city,
said to one of their reporters We all
know of St Jacobs Oil, and are perfectly
amazed at the suddenness OF the relief ii
affords. If you know of any one who Is
suffering with rheumatism, bruise or
sprain, tell them to use St. Jacobs Oil.
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DR. LEM, after having lourneyed
through Morocco and Timbuctoo, Afri-
ca, declares the Great Sahara is not a
desert at all at no point is there de-
preston below the level of the sea, as
shown on the map of certain geog-
raphers, and which led to wild schemes
OF converting the so-called desert into a
great inland sea.
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No MAN with money about his clothes
should ever retire without having a
woman with him, a wife, of course, to
brighten off the burglars. A reformed
thief yesterday told us that burglar
would sooner enter a room containing
four men and twice as many revolvers as
one having only one woman in it-for
neither the men nor the revolvers can
squeal like a woman. State
Journal
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ASSAYS of several hundred million dol
lars worth of the native gold of Cali
fornia have shown an average proportion
of $50 thousandths of pure metal The
gold of Australia gives an average of $50
thousandths. "a
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Ar the Iowa Agricultural College girls
are taught to make good bread, to roast
and broil meats and to make cup of
coffee. Out this way if a girl is taught
to pink the edges of mince pie and
icing for cake it is considered that she
has thorough domestic fitting out
Ne,o Hd0ess Register.
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It is a well authenticated
fact that many medicines,
especially 9 bitters,' arenoth-
ing butcheap whiskeyvilely
concocted for use in local
option countries. Such is
not the case with Browns
IRON BITTERs. Itisamedi-
cine, a cure for weakness
and decay in the nervous,
muscular, and digestive or
gans of the body, produc-
ing good, rich blood, health
and strength. Try one bot
tie. Price 500.