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time. Snatching her husbands pocket
book from the drawer she hastily
thrust it into her bosom; then she
darted to the window and threw it
open.
A huge apple tree grew close to the
house, and the great. branches of it
swept the roof Mrs. Nettie had been
a perfect hoyden in her girlhood, SO it
was only an instant till she was among
the snowy boughs. 1t was none too
soon, for the robber was already at the
window.
Come back, curse your he cried:
''come back, or I'll put bullet through
you"
Nettie's only answer was frantic
effort to get through the treetop to the.
ground. She did not think the bur-
glar could see her, and the wind howled
so she had little fear of his hitting her
it he went by sound and shot at ran
dom. So she set her little white teeth
firmly together and recklessly clam
bered downward, determined to keep
the pOcketbook in her own possession
or die in its defense.
Hanged if she isn't too plucky to
shoot" muttered the robber. ''I'll
have to follow her, or she'll slip me,
money and all, before can go down
stairs and round the house. So here
goes"
A great crashing in the branches in
formed Mrs. Nettie of his movements,
and spurred her to yet greater efforts
Reaching the bottom limbs she grasped
one firmly, swung herself downward,
and dropped unhurt into the drift be-
meath. There was only one thing to
think of-f1ight. Bareheaded as she
was, she stumbled on out into the road
and started after her husband.
There was no sound of pursuit as she
fled, but as her tensely strung nerves
began to relax she grew nearly frantic
with terror. Blindly she staggered on
ward against the storm At first she
scarcely noticed the cold or the drifting
snow, but her waning strength and
failing breath soon brought her to a
sense of her danger, alone at midnight
in the snowy highway, bareheaded and
thinly dressed, with the pitiless wind
of a smothering storm buffeting her
with all its fury and q masked and
bloodthirsty robber behind her.
On and on she struggled through the
storm and cold in the desperate en-
deavor to find assistance. Still on she
staggered with sinking heart and
shortening breath, while the numbing
cold crept into her very vita!s. On and
onward yet.
just as she felt she could go no
farther, but must sink down and die in
the snowy highway, her tired feet
stuck in the clogging drifts and she
STUN bled and fell fairly into the arms
of man approaching in the opposite
direction. Then her hus bands voice
rang above the bowling of the wind,
and she'fel that both she and the
pocketbook were safe at last cAnd then
the brave but exhausted little woman
tainted dead away.
When she came to herself again it
was daylight and she was safely in bed
at q neighbours house, while her hus-
band was bending Over her with q pale
face and anxious eyes A few words
told him everything.
A party Of armed men was hastily
gotten together and started immediate.
~ for the Gibbs homestead. Every
thing seemed still and peaceful when
they arrived, and the whole party en-
tered unmolested. Seeing no one they
ruah ID at 0S"e IN the sleeping room
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FlREslDE FRAGMENTS.

When acid has dropped on any arti.
Gle Of clothing, apply liquid ammonia
to kill tho acid; then apply chlorotorm
to restore the color. ~ = =
Fried Calls Liver: Cut . calls
liver in thin slices and scald; wipe it
dry. Dust with -four, salt and pepper,
and fry in bacon grease. Take up on .
heated dish; make brown gravy and
pour oxer.-Farm and Fireside. T..
Tea Cake: One egg, ono cupful
each OF sugar and milk, one-h.lf cupful
OF butter. one pint Of hour, ono and one
half teaspoonsful baking powder. one
cupful of raisins (stoned and chopped).
Good Housekeeping.
Steamed Apples: Pare and core with
an apple corer good tart apples, which
are not too juicy, sprinkle we'll with
sugar. and steam till tender. Served
with rich cream. whipped or not, moth
ing would be better than that for des-
sert- Or, prepare the apples tho same,
and bake, adding few Jumps of good
butter Homestead.
French Peas: Turn one can of petit
Pois in strainer and let about . quart
OF cold water run over them. This is to
rinse off the water with which they
were surrounded. Put them in the
cha8ng-dish with one tablespoonful Of
butter, one teaspoonful of sugar. one
gill of water and one level teaspoonful
of salt Place over the lighted lamp
and cook for five minutes - Ladies'
Home Journal
Scrambled Oysters: Buy the small
estrsized oysters Crush crackers to fine
dust and dredge it upon the oysters
Season. Put good, big piece Of butter
in frying pan, pour in the oysters and
keep stirring continually until they are
done through (which will be ~ soon as
they are hot). adding moro butter if
that already used is absorbed by the
crackers These are nice. - Detroit
Free Press
Cranberry Tarts: Nothing makes .
more dainty tart than cranberriea. Pre-.
pare pastry shells not over two or two
and one-half inches in diameter, from
puff paste. Prick them on the bottom
thoroughly to prevent them from rising,
as puff paste will, if left to its own de-
vices, in an uneven and unseemly man
ner: The edges, of course, must ,bo loft
to rise as they please. Fill each tart
with tablespoonful of cranberries,
after the shells are cold and the cram
berries are hot. Set them away to grow
cold.-Boston Budget.
Bread Omelet: Break six eggs, sea-
son them with pepper and salt, or
sweeten with sugar, if preferred; add q
good tablespoonful of finely-grated
bread crumbs made of stale bread. Beat
the whole well together and fry in the
same manner as the plain omelet This
omelet requires little more attention
in the dressing than those which are
made without bread, being more liable
to burn and break. 1t is an excellent
accompaniment to preserved apricot OF
any other description of rich JAM
Christian Inquirer.
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THE ffARMER's SONG elRo.

.=s
You may talk about the music Of the thrush
Singing from q shady nook in June,
You may tell me how in early mornings hush
Robins threats their melodies attune;
You may even praise the chatter Of the wren,
But to me the sweetest warbling in the world
Is the cut cut cut cutdawcut,
Cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut
OF the ordinary hen!
1have naueht against tho bobolink to soy,
Nor the blackbird's crazy Quiverings;
can listen quite enchanted all II Q day
If the oriole above me sings.
'Gainst the nightingale I've not q single word
Put 1 claim there is no singing in the world
Like cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut
OF our gallnaceous bird!
Tis a.pean and q promise all In ono,
5''Iis IN Invitation to feast.
It's an honest boast of useful labor done,
And 1t tells Of capital increased.
Oh. praise no fancy bird with tongue or pen,
For to me the noblest music In the world
Is the cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cutdaWcut
Cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut
dawcut
OF the common barnyard hen!
True It's not o cultured operate song
Like the Gagged canary shouts and trills,
But it oftep>makes city fellow long
For his boyhood back among the hills.
While he dreams he's barefoot. hunting eggs
:;nin
To that most pathetic music in the world,
TO the out cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cutdawcut
Cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut
dawcut
OF his mothers speckled hen!
George Horton, in Chicago Herald.
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THE MAN WHO ARGUES.

We Can Stand About Every Other Kind
of Human Being.
A thief and liar can be endured, be.
cause one can not be perpetually lying
and stealing, but the man who was
born with the spirit of argument in hi.
composition follows the business OF
arguing continually. You can not risk
saying that the grass is green, or that q
rats tail is longer than mouse's with.
out being contradicted and challenged
to prove your statement
He will discuss the subject pro and
con to show you that you are in error,
and if you don't see it he will insinuate
that some folks are intellectually blind,
and then your temper will rise and his
likewise. and you will say something
hot, and so will he and there will be
trouble in camp" When it comes tc
married life it is safe to say that two
thirds of the divorces are caused by
arguments.
People who do not argue seldom ap-
pear in divorce courts. 1t has been said
over and over again that no two per-
sons can be found who agree upon
every point, and probably it is true
assertion. Nor is it necessary that they
should.
Peace and order can be preserved in
house by forbearance and tolerance.
even if one member of the household
insists that white is black. We should
always be willing to grant freedom of
thought and belief to others
gether will before long discover that
there. are points upon which they al
ways disagree, and these subjects
should always be avoided in converse
ton. They are rocks upon which many
bark of happiness has been wrecked.
Change the conversation whenever
you find it drifting toward these fatal
channels, just as you would change the
course of ship if you were q pilot and
saw cleaning in your course the warn
ing buoy attached to a sunken reef.
Whenever it can consistently be done it
Is best to avoid the man who argues
1t is extremely unpleasant to feel that
you are on the witness stand of cross
examination and to be obliged to prove
your simplest proposition by all the
ologies and isms known to science
Argument is in its place in lyceums
and debates-sometimes il the pulpit
but not as a steady diet among friends.
1t is the essence of contradictions; and
the person who is continually contra
dieting will act like an east wind on
peace and sociability. We think we
could endure abuse, billingsg.te, and
eggs which had passed through the
chemical laboratory of decomposition,
but from the man who argues, good
Lord deliver us-N. Y. Weekly,
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CURIOSITY OF CHILDREN.

1t Gives Them . Mentsl Superiority Over
the Average Adult.
The little children of the race are
intellectually more respectable than
the majority of its adults. To be sure,
it is their attitude and not their achieve
ments that makes them so; but in esti-
mating the human being as a mind
rather than as a screw in the social
machine who can help thinking the
attitude more important than the
achievement? The Astounding intel
lectual curiosity of children, and thei,
continual return to the biggest and
deepest questions-theo origin of things,
the sources and ends of being-these
are what make them superior: What
if the questions can never be absolutely
answered? Is it not infinitely more 70.
spectacle to have them earnestly in
mind than, accepting some mumbo-
jumbo reply, to dismiss them altogether
and to devote existence wholly to the
frivolities we call business, or pleasure,
or learning? What else was Carlyle's
fundamental raison d. etre but his
power to call us to degree of the seri-
GUS reasonable wonder with which we
start in life?
Upon my word, sometimes think
that if the world were started now on q
new plan, and peopled altogether with
the middle-aged, religions. after going
on short time through the impetus of
custom, would die out all over the
world from this simple lack of interest
in the questions they primarily under
take to answer: As it il. the children
force us to keep some sort of theory Of
existence furnished up-Century.
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ruined my husband. saw tho danger,
and plead with him that he should not
give such m example to his admirers
Death settled that, but it was too late
Tor poor E. Az ! looked upon the mo-
BILE form, and thought Of the unvary-
Ing courtesy and gentleness Of the de-
ceased. and Of his wrecked life, ire
trtevably ruined by the example of
good man. l realized something Of the
power each individual exerts; for their
example lives long after they sleep the
sleep which knows no waking.
=. J. Richmond, in National Temper
ance Advocate.
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WHISKY DIDN'T HELP HIM.

Tho Almost Fatal Result OF Depending
on . Stimulant.
/ saw an exhibition of nerve and
pluck the other day which ought to be
recorded in black and white. From
the cornice of one of the tall buildings
was suspended a painters scaffold.
They are raised and lowered, as you
know, by the painters pulling on q
tackle at either end. Few men can
look up from the walk at the scaffold.
swaying about under the cornice and
the men coolly playing their brushes,
without feeling the flesh creep little.
The breaking of rope meant death to
the men on the scaffold and. perhaps,
to two or three pedestrians below.
Should one of the men lose his balance
and fall he'd strike the fagstore and
have every bone broken.
Three or four of US were looking up
from doorway opposite, when one of
the painters dropped his brush and
lurched about as if drunk. The other
cried out to him sharply. and he lay
down on the scatfold as If helpless.
The man had either taken sick or was
overcome by fright There was no one
on the roof. We saw the other painter
look up and around in an anxious way,
aud then he crept along the scaffold to
his partner If he tried to brace him
up it was a failure. He took the slack
OF the rope and passed it about him so
that he could not roll off, and then he
began hosting up the scaffold. He
pulled that end up about two feet, and
then crept down and raised the other
to correspond.
There was a lift of ten or twelve
feet, and he passed from end to end of
the scaffold five or six times before he
elevated it to the cornice and could
step off. The other man lay as if dead
and was pulled off on to the roof so
helpless that he could not stand. He
when l got up there, and no dead
mans face was ever winter: He trem-
bled in every limb, his teeth chartered,
and his eyes seemed to have lost all
expression.
whats the matter?'' 1 asked the
other partner. who was calmly adding
little oil to the mixture in his pail.
New man. he brusquely replied
"How do you mean?'
Its his first time on swing
scaffold," he explained, land he was
foolish enough to take drink of
whisky to brace his nerves."
And didn't it?''
'For half an hour so; then it COL
lapsed him, as it always does every
body, and he went to pieces quick as
wink"
us it your first experience?''
mot BY a dozen! Most of 'em act
this way the first time. You've got to
give 'em sharp talk and tie 'em on or
they'll do something desperate"
"And weren't you at all rattled?"
''Shoo! Feel my pulse.''
And he whistled merrily as he
stirred the mixture and waited for an.
other man to come and 20 down with
him.
"How do you feel?'' ask the other.
He tried to reply, but his tongue
seemed to have lost its power, and
after two or three efforts he began
weeping like child He was utterly
unnerved.-M. Quad, in N. Y. World
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Cod-liver oil suggests con-
sumption; whichis almost un-
fortunate. Its best use is be-
fore you fear consumption
when you begin to get thin.
Consumption is only one of
the dangers of thinness.
SCOTS Emulsion of cod
liver oil makes the thin
plump, and the plump are
almost safe.
Let US send you a book on
CAREFUL L1v1NG-free.
Scorr / BowNE, Chemists. 13a South 9Th Avenue.
New York.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion Of cod liver
ol-all druggists everywhere do. Fl.
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WON'T "CROSS A FUNERAL. -
Funny Notion OF Some superstitlous
PAonlA.

A Funny Notion OF Some Superstitlous
People.
You may get some idea of how wide
spread is the superstitious belief that
crossing funeral procession" brings
bad luck if you will stand any day at
the New York or Brooklyn entrance
to the East river bridge and wait until
u hearse and long line of carriages
appear. You won't have to wait very
long: So many mourners pass over
the bridge that it is almost entitled to
be called '"rhe Bridge of Signs"
And when your patience is rewarded
by the arrival of the cortege, if you are
on either the New York or the Brook
lya side you will observe that, though
the horses are moving slowly and
though there is plenty of room to pass
between the carriages, many men and
women who have been walking rapid
ly halt suddenly and wait until the
last carriage has gone by. Some do
not stop, but hurry on They are the
Indifferent or the ignorant or the reck-
less ones.
On the Brooklyn side one day I saw
crowd of certainly two hundred
superstitsous persons awaiting the
passing of a procession A number of
those who waited were evidently an
noyed at the delay, and when the rear
vehicle had passed they ran to make
up the time which superstition had
caused them to lose.
"Does that always occur when u
funeral procession is passing?" asked
of bridge policeman.
''Oh, yes" he answered. "Some-
times there's more and sometimes less,
but don't believe a funeral ever
crossed the bridge without somebody
stopping
when 1 first came on the bridge"
he went on, 81 didn't understand it. I
used to stop the carriages and motion
to the people to cross over But they
wouldn't. They'd stand as If they were
glued. don't bother about 'em now.
One day as a funeral procession was
leaving the roadway a couple of girls
came up. One of them stopped. The
other ran across.
"'Oh, Mamie" shouted the one who
had stopped, you have crossed funer.
al
"'G Zoo me- says Mamie,
Come back quick before it gets BY
says the other one, and Mamie ran
over in front of the last carriage
Il suppose" said the policeman,
''they thought that would put the
Sibosh on the hoodoo."-N. Y. Herald.
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THE CAT IN HISTORY.
Grlmalkln, from Csesar's Day to Our Own
in Literature and Science.

Grlmalkln, from Csesar's Day to Our Own,
In Literature and Science.
The Romans recognized the economic
value of the cat. and during the mid
die ages several countries in Europe
had laws to prevent the killing of cats,
the fine in some cases being as much
wheat as was needed to form a pile
sufficient to cover over the body of the
animal to the tip of it's tail, the cat be-
ing held vertically, the muzzle resting
on the ground.
The domestic cats of the present day
are probably the descendants of the old
domestic cats of Egypt, which, as the
granary of the ancient world, might
we'll have been the place where they
were originally tanned.
When Caesar landed in Britain the
forests were full of wild cats, but there
was probably not single domestic cat
in any British town or village, and for
one thousand years after the Roman
invasion, although wild cats were plen-
ty, domestic cats were rare.
The literature of Shakespeare's time
abounds in superstitions of cats as the
favorite agents of witches. Thrice
the brindle cat hath mewed," says the
first witch in Macbeth" when she
would announce that the time for &C.
ton had come. Times.
A Difficult Task.
Hoppner, the portrait painter, had to
contend with a chronic state of ILL
health arising from a constitution
naturally weak; and much of his pro-
verbal irritation, if not produced, was
aggravated by, the ailments which at
tend diseased liver. He must have
been often tried by his sitters. He
told the critic Clifford. as an example
of his annoyance, how a wealthy stock
broker drove up to his door, whose
carriages emptied into his hall in
Charles street a gentleman and lady,
with five sons and seven daughters
all samples of pa" and ''ma"-as we'll
fed and as city bred comely family as
any within the sound of Bow Bells.
''Well, Mr.. Painter" said he, ''here we
are, a bakers dozen; how much will
you demand for painting the whole lot
of us. prompt payment for discount"
why" replied the astonished painter,
viewing the questioner, who might be
ikened to superannuated elephant,
why, that will depend upon the di-
mansions, style, composition and"
"Oh, that is all settled" quoth the en-
lightened broker. 1--WE are all to be
touched off in one piece, as large as
life, all seated upon our lawn at Clap.
ham and all singing: God save tho
King. "a Century of Painters.
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HIRING a GIRL.


The Queries ofo 0othaD Domestic 0eesfnaa,
= coagsaial sitsa&ios.
The crossrexaminstion 10 not always
on the side Of the lady. The servant il
frequently more Of an expert in that
line than her would-be mistresa Mn.
h OF Lexington avenue, near 54th
street, on her removal from Washing.
ton. advertised for . servant The first
respondent was . girl with m astonish-
Ing pullback" and IN elaborately deco
rated hat She answered Satisfactorily
MrA rs few questions. Then It was
her inning:
"How many have You in family?''
asked Mfss Pullback. while ono Of her
plumes nodded hercely 1T tho lady of
tho house.
"There arc my husband, ono child
and, ~ you see, myself"
'How old is the child, mum?"
"Three years, one month, four dayA
dve hours and 1t her watch
about ten minutes"
But this was said 80 pleasantly that
Pullback did not SEQ the sarcasm.
boy or girl?''
"Boy."
"Of course you have q nurse for him,
num-
''Of course"
'Have you any dodgers, mum?"
'Oh, certainly not; Mr.. II. is not
lodging house keeper"
IAN I expected to do all the cook
IMP"
II think So"
DO you have any comply to din
ner?''
occasionally"
about how many, might ask,
mum?"
''Oh, that depends"
Gan have all the things 1 want for
cookin? You don't lock up the pantry,
NUM-"
III you desire it will leave it un.
locked"
II would like to go to church every
Sunday morning; they wero very re-
ligious in my last place"
1--WE are rather religiously inclined
ourselves, and would rather prefer that
you occupy our pew on the Sunday
morning."
And can have every other Sunday
out and one day in the week?''
If you insist upon 1t, yes"
you've no objection to me receivin'
comp'ny?"
Not the least"
''You SEE, mum, you gives twenty
dollars"
YES"
DO have = different bedroom to
tho nurse?"
yes Would you like to see it?"
And tho lady at once led Miss Pullback
upstairs, but to her own elegantly fur
nished cham Der. isn't this lovely
room?" said Mrs. H., with the least sus-
picion of irony in her tone
Yes" stammered the expert servant.
girl, beginning to get little mixed "
''Now come down stairs and I'll show
you something else"
Arrived in the hall, Mrs. H. asked the
coarse-featured, bold-eyed girl:
do you see that door?" pointing to
tho street door. "Now open it and get
through it as quickly as you can, you
impairment young hussy."
Miss Pullback was dazed, and when
she waggled down the iron stoop it was
evident that her spirit was as limp as
tho feather in her hat."-N. Y. Herald.
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Like a venomous Serpent

Hidden in the gra S, malaria but waits our
approach, to spring at and fasten its fangs
upon US. There IS, however, a certain anti
less for evil Hostetters Stomach Bitters
Is this acknowledged and world famed spe-
ci6c, and it u.s. besides this, thorough
curative for rheumatism, dyspepsia, liver
complaint, constipation, IL grippe and nerv-
business. In con, absence and age it is
very serviceable
IT doesn't often happen that you meet q
man who is considered hero at home
Rams Horn