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SkoheleE.

He had a delicate, handsome face,
a fair beard, blue eyes, dark hair. He
looked like an Apollo as he rode
into battle "on awhile horse, and dressed
in a white coat" "a practice which won
him among the Turks the title of Akh
Pasha, or the white General, y "look.
ing as though he had come dressed fol-
a ball. is not a battle the soldiers
ball?' he asked some one. "Now, al
last, I feel happy" He was described
as lighting like an ensign" The an.
swer given was, eyes, but he does not
hide himself like a general
He was always in the thickest
of the rain of bullets and shrapnel,
cheering on his men, and showing the
way to the enemy's batteries. But
though he was careless of himself. he
was always careful of his men. His divi.
sion was always the best provided with
fur coats, with soup, tea, and corn
brandy" He refused to have anything
to do with the Commissariat Depart.
ment, and made each of his regiments
do it's own commissariat. Some n sug-
gested that the commanding officers
mightembeZZle. His answer was: III
my men get as much bread and meat and
tea and brandy as they want, if the in
habitants of the district are satisfied
let them embezzle; what do I care?
After the famous passage of the Balkans,
i'll which Skobeleff and his division play.
ed the first part, when they passed in re-
view before the Grand Duke''in splendid
condition, while the other divisions
looked pale and starved" the Grand
Duke exclaimed: "What reduced fel.
lows! One can see they are well filed
Thank God that some at least do not
look like corpses!" Flogging and cuf.
fling appear toprevail still in the Russian
army. Skobelef would have none OF
it in his division. He told one Of his
favorite Colonies, who was beating 6
soldier, that if he found him doing
it again he should dismiss him. After
Pleyna one of his men was ordered by
his Colonel to be aogged. The mar
appealed to S%kobeleff, confessed his
crime, and asked for q court-martial
Skobeleff told him a court-martial
would condemn him to death. His an,
swer was: ave are all in Gods hands
Every day of our lives We are under
fire here. I don't mind being shot, but
if | am to be disgraced, your excellency
lshall commit suicide. The Spectator.
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Story of "chinese" Gordon

An old British army pensioner relates
this story of General Chinese" Gordon:
On the first day on VIII I'll fire was opened
at Sebastopol from :!n twenty-one gun
battery, the sand bags forming enc Of
the embrasures caught fire from the
fash Of a too closely mounted gun. A
corporal and q sapper Of the engineers
were told off to repair the damage. The
corporal ordered the sapper to mount
the embrasure, and proposed to hand
up the fresh bags to him. They were
under heavy fire at the time, and the
sapper, with some want of discipline,
certainly, demurredt to this arrangement,
and suggested that the corporal should
get up, and that he (the sapper) would
90 on with the handing up business.
There was a bit of q wrangle over it.
Gordon, who was passing inquired into
the matter, and quietly telling the cor
poral, Never order q man to do what
you are afraid to do YOURSELF" got up
on q pile of bags himself and said,
Come up here, both of you," and then
ordered the men who were working the
gun to hand the bags up. The storm of
bullets swept ver Gordon and the two
men, but his charmed life seemed to
protect the trio. He finished his work
and came down as coolly as he had
mounted, but the lesson was never for
gotten, and there's a fine ring about the
words, "Never order man to do athing
you are afraid to do yourself"
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Coal Tar for Boots.

Let one who has triedlt we'll strongly
advise farmers and all others who have
to tramp through wet soil in the miry
months of spring to give their boot
soles a good painting with common gas
tar; two or three coats will soon be alb
sorbed where the leather has been
pared. 1t has the same effect as on a
pavement or a roof-it repels moisture,
keeping the leather dry and durable as
a pine-knot. More than twenty years
ago L soaked the very thin but good
soles of q pair of morocco boots with
gas tar. After ten years the
soles We're still quite sound
and firm as horn, but the tops were
shredded away, for the boots were the
easiest and p~leasantest s~hoe-coyering |
had and SO We're much used for smooth
walking. The edges of the soles and
the seam connecting the uppers should
be coated. l nev tried it on the up
pers. 1t would reduce their pliancy.
The oder of the tar disappears after
a few hours use of the shoes on the
naked ground. Another important use
VI CodI-ttI Is loT ue 'lFoNiNS outer oioTS,
in which it does special and remarkable
service. Pans used in earth closets, and
soil-pipes and sewer connections should
be coated with it. Urinal slabs and
floors, too, and where a tin or iron YES
sci is used in shops, etc, for similar
purpose, a dip into gas tar, when dried
on, will show q wonderfully permanent
Observation-Disclosures.
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"Catch the Colt"

Some one commenting on the shrewd.
ness of the Friends and the temperance
of the Jews, says, "a soft Quaker would
be as great a curiosity as a dissiFated
Hebrew" Perhaps the cause of this
shrewdness may be found in the fact
that young Quakers are trained to OBJ
serve and reflect. An incident will il
lustrate this fact:
A thief stole a mare which had a colt.
Mounted on her back he was galloped
away, followed by the colt and the vii
layers, crying, "Stop, thief"
AS they passed a lanyard, a Quaker
apprentice called out, Catch the colt. u
The colt was caught.
AS the quick wit Of the young Friend
had OWNED, the 1nnre, missing hor foal,
stopped. In spite of the kicks and
blows administered by the alarmed thief,
she would not move q step. The thief
"a caught. That young Friend had
eyes which saw and a brain which re-
fected on what the eyes reported to it.
One ofthe finest old tales of the Scot
fish Border is founded on an incident
like this.
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Tho Savoy

The caulihower, the most delicious of
all varieties OF the cabbage, is Of too
much uncertainty to be recommended
for the farm garden. But the Savoy
cabbages, says the American Agricultur-
list, ARE almost as tender as the cauli-
flower, have q distinct flavor, and q mar
rowy consistence of their own which
some prefer to caulifower. These be-
ing as easily raise as the common cab
bage, are within thereach Of all. Those
who have cultivated Savoy cabbages
need no advice; to those who
have not, We say, by all means
try the Savoys. The English authors
of works on gardening regard them as
30 different tlist they class them by
themselves, under Savoys, end not
among the cabbages. When VT first
knew them there was but one kind, the
Savoy" now that there area dozen or
more Savoys. including early and late
kinds. Perhaps the Improved Amer
ican Savoy will be best for those who
try Savoys for the first time. After
wards they will be glad to test the early
and late kinds. The seeds are to be
sown and the plants treated exactly as
those of the ordinary cabbages."
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Benefit Of Early Planting.

Peas may be OWL as soon as the frost
is out OF the ground. 1t is cheaper in
the beginning, as well as in the end, to
buy the early cabbage plants, and those
grown in cold frames may be put out as
soon rs the soil feels warm to the hand.
A little mulch of warm around
each one of q dozen or two of early cab
bage plants, and some shelter-if only
a newspaper pegged down over each
plant-will protect them from a frosty
night. A mulching of ma
Ire and some covering of straw will
force asparagus ahead fully two or three
weeks Of the main crop, and q row or
two car be easily covered in this way.
1t is quite possible to get two successive
crops of vegetables and small fruits by
protecting in this way q sufficient num-
Der of plants to afford an early supply.
A liberal mulching of warm manure
will start the growth very quickly, or
at least will force o rapid growth after
it has started naturally. As the garden
is the most valuable part of the furm
it is proper that warm. sheltered place
should be selected for it and that the
ground should be very rich. Any
one a grow vegetables and fruits,
but some forethought, provision, and
skill are necessary to grow early and
good ones, and the pleasure of having
fine vegetables and an early supply Of
them is worth far more than the thought
the labor is the same-that is requjs-
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Gowns for Judges on the Bench.

The New York Court of Appeals has
followed the example of the justice OF
the Supreme Court of the United States,
and the members of the Court will here
after wear a silk gown when on the
bench. The highest judicial tribunal
Of Pennsylvania will, it is reported, in
a short time also adopt this custom, and
it is likely to spread into other States.
Judge Bryan, of the United States Dis
trict Court for South Carolina, wore
the gown for a long period, but he gave
it upa yearor two since, because United
States Circuit Judge Bond, who was
frequently on the bench with him, would
not put OF one. OF late, however. the
propriety of adopting gowns rs the ju-
dicial costume has been agitated among
the United States Circuit Judges, and
it is understood that Judge Bond is
now not %disinclined to favor it. Chief
Justice Waite of the Supreme Court of
the United States has been approached
on the subject by some of the Circuit
Judges with a request for an official ex-
preston in regard to it, but the Chief
Justice, while undoubtedly favoring the
proposition, said it was not in his pro-
vince to make any suggestions on n
matter which rested entirely with the
personal views of the Circuit Judges as
to e%xpediency and propriety.-Balti
o Sun.
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One Of the Pap Merrill Stories.

A couple of senators was swapping
yarns the other day, when one Of them
related the following of Pap" Merrill.
of the Milwaukee road. He was going
over the road ONE day, and while the
train was standing at a station, he was
moving about taking general observa-
tons. The car wheel tester was busily
moving from wheel to wheel, giving
each n quick tap with q hammer to test
their soundness. Mr.. Merrill watched
him q few moments, and said, Here,
Mike, let me show you how to do that.
The fellow did not look up from his
work, but kept pounding away. Mr..
Merrill repeated his request several
times until the fellow had reached th1
end of the train, when he cast a most
indignant glance at Merrill and went
over to the other side, where o train
man asked him why he did not let the
old man" take the hammer, "Is that
Mr.. Merrill, did We say?" said Mike.
Faith and Til go and spake with him."
Approaching tho general manager very
r~everently, Mike made a most humble
apology for being 80 aisrespectful.
"Indade, sir, " said he, II didn't know
who you at all, at all, sir, and If /
should stop to pay attention to every
d-n fool that comes along, I wouldn't
have time to attend to me bust
ness. "-Des MONIES Register.
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FARM and HOUSEHOLD.
Tested Cooking Rseipes.

10 Cook PoTAToES.-Taket five or six
raw potatoes and cut into pieces as large
as snap beans, then mince n medium
sized onion very fine and cook both
onion and potatoes in the frying-pan
with as little beef drippings as will
brown the potatoes lightly, md keep
them from burning. just before they
are done, CRATE any kind of hard cheese
over them. season with salt and pepper.
cover and cook until done. Cold boiled,
or baked potatoes may be used, but the
raw potatoes are the incest.
CoFFhE cAKE.-Nicely made coffee
ont cup. brown sugar and one-half
cup; butter, one cup; molases, one cup;
raisins, or English clrrants, one pound;
flour, five cups; soda, one large tea
spoonful, dissolved in the coffee; CHINA
mon. cloves and allspice of each one-
half t%easpoonful; one-half nutmeg.
Mix and bake in a moderate oven.
Excellent" so says my husband.
CREAM CAKE.-Sugar, n cup; good,
rich cream II cup;t two eggs; soda, one
teaspoonful; flour, two cups; salt one
small t~easpoonful.
INDIAN PUDDING-To BAKE. Sweet
milk, one quart butter, one ounce; four
eggs, we'll beaten; one teacup c: Indian
meal; r%aisins, one-half pound; sugar,
one-fourth pound Scald the milk, and
stir in the meal while boiling. Then
let it stand until blood-warm and stir all
well together, and bake about three
quarters of an hour. Eaten plain OF
with pudding sauce. This is good and
healthy.
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London Dancing.

What q wild scamper is the last new
valse, says a London letter. The vari
Gus couples dash and tear through it
and, after two or three rounds, come t.
abreathless stop, scarlet and gaspine
for breath. There are but few who car
dance a quick valse with true grace and
those few do not always succeed in find
ing congenial partners. The conse
quence is a scene of wild confusion
that. to an initiated onlooker, mus
avo of bedlam. A few couples still
practice the chandelier crawl" cir
cling slowly round and round benentf
q group of lights with languid rhythm
and getting heartily detested by the
rushing couples in whose way they get
Apropos of the French word, / may
mention that it is now highly
questionable in London to speak
or write the word in its English form
"waltz." The cotillion reigns, espe.
cially in the houses of those hostesses
who like to find themselves some modi.
cum of fame by the beauty and costli.
ness of their cotillion gifts. Such 9
height has this sort of an advertisement
of ones wealth and generosity now
reached, that an unwritten law has
come in force in the best circles, by
which it is enacted hat only flowers
may be given in the cotilion, and that
costly gifts shall come under the cate.
CORY of vulgar show" In the same
way, it is nov considered the best style
to be married in the morning, as the
nouveaux riches always make it a point
to he welded by special license, which
is the only mode ~ofhaving the ceremony
performed in the afternoon.
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Old Riots Recalled

The Cincinnati riots may recall Sir.
Walter Scett's description Of the lynch
ng of Captain John Porteous By the
people of Edinburgh for ordering his
soldiers to fire upon them. But a much.
closer parallel is to be found in the
great riot which the h~alf-crazy Lord
George Gordon headed in London IT.
self in 1880, as described by Dickens In
"Barnaby Ridge" During four whole
days the city wore the aspect Of 8
stormed town, thirty-six fires being
seen raging at one time. The prison
at Newgate, then just built, was burned
to the ground, and it's 800 prisoners let
loose to swell the furious mob that held
every street. Three other iails, sever
al public buildings and seventy-nin
private houses were demolished and the
destruction of property was enormous
Lord Mansfield's town house wa sacked,
and his splendid library (including the
finest collection of rare manuscripts in:
all England) wantonly consumed. At
length, on the fourth evening, the
Guards were ordered ont, and q regular
battle ensued between them and tho
mob close to the Bank Of England it..
self, which the rioters had l~nsuccessfully
attempted to storm and plumber. The
close fire Of the troops, followed by q
charge with fixed bsyonets. soon brought
the fight to an end, though not without
heavy loss on both sides. Many scores
of the rioters were shot or bayoneted,
almost an equal number captnred and
subsequently hanged, and Lord George
Gordon himself, as the chief author ofl
the outbreak, was sentenced to imprison-
ment for life.
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characterization for Walls ana Table.

A beautiful table cloth for a small
table can be made of crimson cloth,
trimmed with a wreath of leaves in
cloth. bits of flannel sewed on with silk,
and old artificial flowers, cut, steamed
and retouched with color, sewed on
with the leaves.
Hanging baskets have gone out Of IA
vor because of the untidy drip from
them, and Outstanding ~jardinieres,
tastefully filled, are better liked, since
to look into a plant is the only way to
appreciate it's loneliness. In filling n
jardiniere bulbs may be buried in the
soil, which will give us later a truss of
hyacinth, a crocus ora dainty snowdrop.
Ladies who admire beautiful boquets
Of grass will appreciate the following
recipe: Take one and one-half pounds
of rock alum, pour on three pints of
boiling water; when quite cool put into
a w1de-mouthed vessel, hang in your
grasses, a few at n time. Do not let
them get too heavy, or the stems will
not support them. You may again heat
alum and add more grasses. By adding
a little coloring matter it will give q
pleasing variety.
Broad slips of brocade or Genoa vel
vet are cut to suit the tops of tables
mantelpieces and pianos, and edged
with fringe cunningly woven in "old"
tints to harmoniZe.
A pretty fan for a wall is made by
gliding a large palm leaf fan and decor
airing it with a ribbon bow.
Among the popular flowers to be in
troduced this season is a golden-colored
carnation named "Buttercup." tits ex-
ceedingly scarce, aud will only be seer
in the most costly places. Orchids will
be used TO a greater extent thar hereto
fore for decoration, from the fact that
they are in more general cultivation than
formerly. They are extremely rich and
fanciful when placed nenr mirrors, where
their curious and often grotesque shapes
are reflected. Last week the butterfly
orchid was, at a wedding reception in
New York city, SO disposed about a
chandelier that these dainty flowers, on
their frail trembling stems, seemed to
dance about the lights like living insects.
The new foliage plants, asparagus plu-
mosa, o climber, with leaves of a fern-like
texture and charming grace, will find its
way into decorations where choice plants
are required.
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Funny Tanuss.

"You say the lady wears a glass eye?"
Eyes" "And false hair?" "Yes."
And false teeth" "Yes." And has a
false figure" Eyes" But her tongue ?"
"Ah--that is her own"
"Who is that lovely girl?" exclaimed
the witty Lord Norbury, in company
with his friend Grant. miss Glass"
replied the learned counsel Glass"
reiterated the facetious Judge, "Ishould
often be intoxicated could place such q
glass 70 my lips,
Lille Deverenx Blake says that
"Joseph E.. Mcdonald, of Indiana.
is the man to whom women owe most
Mcdonald must be in the millinery bust
ness, then.-Lowell Citizen.
A Philadelphia confectioner has two
big cards in his window. On one is
inscribed "Girls Wanted" andthe other
"Taffy." He evidently knows how to
capture the girls.
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Visiting Portland.

! Among the wits of the olden time was
Seba Smith, -Majo Jack Downing.
He thus describes his first journey to
Portland. Me-, and his call upon the
editor:
In the fall of the year 1929 1 took it
into my head I'd go to Portland. l had
heard o good deal about Portland, what
a fine place it was, and how the folks
got rich there proper fast and that fall
there was a couple of new papers come
up to our place from there, called the
Portland Courier and Family Reader,
and they told q good many queer kind
of things about Portland, and one thing
AID another; and all at once it popped
into my head, and Iup and told father,
and says
II am going to Portland, whether or
no; and Ill see what this world is made
of yet"
Father stared a little at first, and said
he was afraid i would getlost; but when
he seen 1 was bent upon it, he gave it
up, and he stepped to his chist and
opened the till and took out n dollar,
and gave it to me; and says he,-
Jack, this is all l can do for you
but SO and lead an honest life, and l
believe l shall hear good of you yet"
He turned and walked across the
room, but l could see the tears start into
his eyes And mother sat down and
had ahearty crying spell.
This made me feel rather bad for a
mint or too, and / almost had a mind
to give it up; and then again fathers
dream came into my mind, and l must
cred up courage and declared I'd go.
So [ tackled up the old horse, and
packed in a load of axe-handles and a
few notions, and mother fried me some
doughnuts and put 'em into n box, along
with some cheese and sausages, an6
ropped me up another shirt, for I tolG
her l didn't know how long l should be
gone. And after | got rugged ont, ]
went round and bid all the neighbors
goodbye, and jumped in and drove of
for Portland.
Aunt Sally had been married two OF
three years before and n1o7ed to Port
land; and / inquired round till I found
out where she lived, and went there
and put the old horse up and eat some
supper and went to bed.
And the next morning I got up and
started right off to see the editor of the
Portland Courier, for I know by what
had seen in his paper that he was just
the man to tell me which way to steer
And when / com to see him, / knew
was right; for as soon as l told him my
name and what I wanted, he took me by
the hand as kind as if he had been q
brother, and says he
mister" says he, Ill do anything
can to assist you. You have come to o
coed town; Portland is a healthy, thirty.
ing place, and any man with a prope,
degree of enterprise may do we'll here.
But" says he, stranger" and he
looked mighty kind of knowing, says
he, eff you want to make out to your
mind, you must do as the steamboats,
do"
well" say I, chow do they do?'
for [ didn't know what a steamboat was
any more than the man in the moen.
"Why," says he, "they go ahead"
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rruits - Food and Medicine.

J.. s. Wilson M D., in Southern World
OF all the fruits with which we are
blessed the peach is the most delicious
and digestible. There is nothing more
pslatable, wholesome and medicinal
than good ripe peaches. They should
be ripe, but not oyer-ripe and half-rot-
ten; and Of this kind they may make a
part of either meal or be eaten between
meals; but it is better to make them
part OF the regular meals. It is a mis-
taken idea that no fruit should be- eaten
at breakfast. It would be far better if
our people would eat less bacon and
grease at breakfast and more fruit. In
the morning there is no 9rid state Of
the s~ecretions, and nothing is so well
calculated to correct this as cooling sub
acid fruits such as peaches, apples, etc.
Still most of us have been taught that
eating fruit before breakfast is highly
dangerous. How the idea originated l
do not know, but it is certainly a great
error, contrary to both reason andfacts.
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Prince Albert's Thrift.

The reluctance of the late Prince Al
bert to disburse money was only equaled
by his eagerness to Obtain it, according
to the London Truth. It is not gener-
ally known that he held the nominal
post now filed by Count Gleichen for
many years, and, although in receipt of
an annual allowance of EDO. 900 he regu-
larly drew his salary of FL 200 as gov
ernor of Windsor Castle down TO the
very last hour of his life. The value of
his estate has never yet transpired, nor
have the provisions of the princes will
ever been made public. 1t is not easy
to understand why Queen Victoria
should have made such a profound mys-
terry of the matter, but it is q fact that
the most stringent precautions were
taken, and have been continued, to keep
everything connected with the princes
property and its disposition a dead se-
cret.