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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-04

CoACHMAN, GARDENER. USEFUL
MAN.--Understands care Of horses. car
riages, &C.. good references; single;
Scotch. Y. c., 8.3ii 3d-ave.
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First talk it over with your mother
and get her advice and cooperation.
Girls can always carry on affairs of
this sort best if they have their moth
er's help and sympathy. 1t is very
nice to talk all ones plans yer with
ones mother.
If ami approves, write notes to
your most intimate friends. asking
them to 4 meeting at your house on
the first convenient day. Saturday
afternoon at 4 o'clock, for instance, is
a good time for girls to spare an hour.
OF course there ale some girls whom
you can invite verbally. 1t is not
worth while to write Il note to Mary
Adrain, whom you walk to school with
every day, or to Susie Spader, whose
seat in school adjoins your own.
Having brought your friends togeth-
err, appoint n young lady to take the
chair, and then state. as clearly as you
can. with her permission, the object
of the meeting. Tell about the chart
ty you wish to aid. 1t may be a ba-
bies' hospital, or a poor family, or a
crippled child who is in need of medi-
cal attendance and relief. More mon
ey is necessary than any of you can
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give outright, SO you think II would be-
nice to have a fair, and devote the
money gained to the excellent pur--
pose you have In view.
Probably there will be objections.
The question of funds will come up.
and If each of you donate a small sum,
say 20 cents apiece, you can buy WITH
the whole amount sufficient material
to make a great many pretty and east
ly saleable ~articles-as dollies, tea
cloths, center pieces, carving cloths
cases for brushes and combs, crochet
ed slippers for the bedside, and othar
dainty bits of handiwork. These viii
furnish your fancy table. When the
time comes for your fair, make a
quantity of delicious, homemade can
dy, and put it in pretty boxes. daintily
wrapped up in raraffiDe paper. Take
orders beforehand for your candy.
You will have no trouble in selling car
amels, chocolate creams, peppermint
creams and old~-fashioned moIasses
candy. / am sure about this part OF
the fair, for l know that homemade
candy, if good, vanishes like magic
when little cooks are the saleswomen.
Dolls, prettily dressed. will find
many willing buyers, and, with the
holidays just before us, you ought to
secure orders for dolls among your
friends. Dolls dressed in costume. as
queens, shepherdesses, fairies, and
sailors, are very attractive.-Harper's
Round Table.
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A Feat in Horseback Riding.

The Russian Kogak officer, Kenike,
who In June last undertook to ride on
horseback from Krashoe Selo, a sub
urb of st. Petersburg, to Chltta, IN
Eastern Siberia, q distance OF ABOUT
5000 miles, has, according to the NO
voc Vremya, accomplished a third OF
the journey, having arrived at ia.
Kenike's enterprise is interesting, not
only on account of h great Instance
to be covered and the speed at which
he is riding, but also because Of the
SIMPLICITY with which he is accom-
plishing his self-imposed task. The
motives which prompted him to I'M
dortake the ride are as follows: Hav-
ing exchanged his regiment for one
chartered in Chitta, Kenike was for a
long time exercising in his mind as to
the means by which he should reacn
his new and remote headquarters. TO
ira vel by sea to Vladivstock, on the
Eastern coast of Siberia, appeared to
him inconvcnient, as the distance from
NladivStock to Chitta would have to be
covered nv post horses. and his six
months furlough would not have suf-
feed for such a journey. The ordinary
direct route by rail. and afterwards by
post horses was too costly an under
taking for his purse. An opportunity
presented itself of acquiring a horse,
on which he at once determined to un-
dertake the long and difficult Journey.
The horse is an Anglo-Arab, a descend
ant of the famous Count Rostopchin'S
stud. He is not a young horse, but
has all the qualities necessary to ac-
cOmplish the task laid upon him. The
saddle which he carries is of the ordin-
airy rough type of the Cossack. The
kit consists only of absolute necessi-
ties for rider and horse. and an extra
set of horse shoes with shoeing imple-
ments. His master groOms him and
shoes him himself when necessary.
Kenike expects to complete the entire
distance in $50 days, thirty of which
he reserves for halts. The horse and
rider are reported to be in capital con-
ditiOn.
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1t is very difficult, even for a dealer
in cheap clothing, to get the better Of
Pat, as the following story. told by a
London journal, we'll illustrates:
Pat was Il witty Irishman, who had
just arrived in London from the Elmer
aid Isle. He was aimlessly wandering
about the town, when he perceived a
suit of clothes at a shop door inscrib-
ed: "This superior suit for h%alf-price.'
SO in Pat walked and inquired the
price.
".Just sixteen shillings, sir" replied
the shOpman.
"Begorra, that's chape enough!' said
Pat. I'll take it,"
When the parcel was tied UP he put
it under his arm, and laying eight
shillings on the counter, was going out
at the door, when the shGpkeeper in
tercepted him and demanded another
eight Shillings.
Didn't You say, you spalpeen, that
the price of the suit was sixteen shil-
lings, and sure haven't given you the
half Of it? And by this and by that, I
won't give up my hargain!'
A scuf1e then ensued, and Pat was
taken to the police court, where he
pleaded his cause so ably thai the
magistrate dismissed the complaint,
and advised the tailor never again to
ticket his goods with "Half-price!"-
Harper's Round Table.
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THE DOCTORS RECIPE.
BY GEORGE MANVILLE FEM.

Lady Mount Dennistou was the
making of me wheL l was a young
doctor newly started to practice in
Willowly. She was very rich, resided
at 1.-The Park" four miles from the
town, and kept up quite an old Eng
lish family state with her retinue of
servants, carriages and horses, besides
having the finest gardens in the II
try. l was plodding on, glad of the
parish work, and terribly looked down
upon by the principal doctor Of the
place, a pompous, old-fashioned fellow,
with a fine gray head Of hair and a
lordly presence.
All at once there was a change in
my affairs, for Lady Mount-D Dennis
ton quarreled with the doctor, who
had made quite a fortune out of the
old lady, and sent her carriage to
fetch me.
1 went, of course, and, to my rivals
great disquest, treated the old lady SO
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list and the keeper, and it was done
with comparative ase and with little
pain to the lion.
About 2 o'clock the keeper went
into the cage, followed by the admir-
ing eyes of the great crowd, among
them several hundred m He had
everything arranged, and with the
help Of his assistants drove the other
occupants of the lions den into the
rear cage and shut the door.
After fondling Major for a while, to
get him into a good humor, the keeper
called for the ropes, and the task of
tying the beast to the side of the cage
began.
In a few minutes they had his four
feet through the sides of the cage, and
he could scarcely nov Once he
chewed the rope in two, and with his
jaws pulled out the knot that tied one
foot. The rest was comparatively
easy.
Ropes were placed around the upper
and lower jaws. and the mouth held
open with a piece of heavy timber in
the hands of the keeper. DR.. Berner
then came into the cage with his in
struments, and was cheered by the
crowd.
He first lanced the gum around the
liberated tooth, cut the flesh loose,
and, after applying Il few drops of
chlorofarm, began the work of extract
ing the tooth.
With the first strong pull with the
forceps DR.. Berner brought out a
tooth two and q half inches long. But
1t was only a piece of a very bad
tooth, and it took three more trips
with the forceps to get the rest.
Then there were more cheers, but
Major was quite docile by this time,
and cared very little for what was
going on. The chloroform had begun
to work and he felt little of the pain.
DR.. Berner left the cage, the ropes
were united, and Keeper De Vry and
the lion played together for a few
moments before the former left the
cage,
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mo, you don't, sir. anything of the
sort. l was in agony, and you refused
to come"
Il am very sorry, very sorry, Lady
Mount-Denniston," 1 said.
"Nery-very-very sorry, indeed!
What's the good of sorrow to a dead
woman! l know; stopping away when
L wanted you, to doctor a poor dress
makers brat fer nothing when /
wanted you, and would have paid you
well for coming. It's shameful. sir;
abominable, and I've a great mind to
send you about your business"
IF your ladyship is dissatisfied with
a medical man who tries to do his
duty to all his patients" l said rising.
'Sit down, sir" she said angrily.
mo, come here and look at my tongue
and feel my pulse. l was taken hor-
ribly bad-eXcruciating pain"
Really, Lady Mount-Denniston," l
began.
"NVin you come and look at my
tongue, sir, and tell me if you think
it was the gorgonzola cheese? 1t was
a new one and very nice. There,
shake hands; we two won't quarrel;
never mind the tongue. Stoop down,
| want to kiss you. There you're a
uCais Soou DoN III NOu VIC SINtH lHc ii
deal more confidence in you than l
had before. Now tell me how the
poor little child is
l told her.
"Hah!' she cried. I'm very, very
glad and very proud of you. Old Min
son would have let it die. Look here.
doctor, if you want port wine and
jelly and things for your patient they
shall be sent. Now, then, you'll come
owe and dine with me tonight"
"No," l said. Il must go and spend
some time with my little patient"
every well, sir; if you are deter
mined to slight me, pray go. I'm
thankful to say I'm better and can
do without you now" But she shook
hands very warmly when we parted,
and that night | sat up till = with the
child, though he was mending fast.
During the weeks which followed l
had plenty of opportunity for study
ing patient and mother; and by de-
greeS l learned that two years before
the young husband had died, leaving
his wife and child in penury, and that
since then Mrs. White had been max
ing a brave struggle for existence,
but with very little success, for in a
country town to be a stranger is often
to be friendless.
l tried hard to serve her, but my adj
vances were rejected quietly and l
found a disposition to shrink from me.
Even Lady Mount-Denniston's offers
of assistance We're gratefully declined,
while l went on thinking more and
more deeply day by day, with that
| pale, wistful countenance rarely out
of my thoughts, while the child l had
brought back to life obtained a strong
hold upon me.
Three years passed, during which l
could see that she was working her.
self to death for the sake of that boy.
A young dog! How he used to run
after me and beg for a ride round
with me in my chaise! He often used
to come, and somehow l was very
proud of him, for l felt that in my
fight with death l had won, and that
In some respects he belonged to me.
But the distance between me and his
mother seemed to grow.
At last the young dog came to me
crying one morning to ask me to see
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"Some one for me?" I said, rising
from the bedside. Il will go down."
She looked at me in despair, and l
went down and opened the door, to
find Lady Mount-Denniston's carriage
there and the servant.
Il have been to your house, sir"
said the "Ladyship's sent the
carriage for you. She's very bad.
Took soon after dinner. You're to
come on at once."
At this moment q cold damp hand
made a snatch at mine from the pas
sage and drew it back into the dark
ness, where l felt it passionately
kissed.
l felt the appeal and knew what ii
meant. To refuse to go was to offend
haps, to save a child, whose case was
petty well hopeless. l was in tho
horns Of a dilemma, but | did not hcsi-
tate.
IF Lady Mount Denniston is dan
gerously i'll, DR.. Minson must see her.
Tell her ladyship, with my respects,
that | am attending a ease of life and
death, and that l regret that l cannon
come"
I heard a sigh behind me. and as
the carriage drove off l followed up
bedside and keep on taking stronger
measures, with the result that as the
first golden rays of the sur came into
the Don and it lit up the child'S
white face we could both see that the
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CHINESE KITES.
The GrOtesGue Forms in Which
They Arc Generally Mnde.

The GrOtesque Forms in which
They Arc Generally Mndc.
In the making of kites shape is no
consideration. A square, a circle, a.
man, a star, a fish, a dragon, a horse
or a shield will fly equally well, but
they must be equally proportioned. In
Japan one sees a whole menagerie at
once in the air-horses, cows, monkeys,
bats, crows, fishes and snakes, as we'll
as dragons, babies that cry, boys with
their arms and legs spread out, hun
tiers and soldiers.
"Fighting kites" are seen every
where in both China and Japan.
The armed kite is usually made
about 2a feet high and covered with
cambria or silk. The tail may be made
of strips of bright colored cloth about
one inch wide, securely tied in the.
middle to a strong Irvine. The de-,
%structive part of this kite is the tail,
to which are attached sharp pieces Of
hroken glass called knives. Fasten
three of these knives together with
wax, so that each shah point in a diff
ferent direction, bind on three slips Of
thin wood lengthwise to hold the wax
and glass firmly, and cover with cloth
OF kid.
A much simpler weapon is made by
DIPPING the ten feet Of string next to
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He Caught the Lion.

Life is still adventurous in the wild
er parts of the West, rs witness Il sin
gle paragraph in a late issue of the
Arizona Sentinel: Juan Romero. aged
fifteen, had gone, with his dog, in
search of a horse, when n big noun
tain lion sprang out of a bush and at
tackled the dog. The boy was I'M
armed, but he had no thought of rim
ming away. The dog was his friend,
and friends are not lightly to be de-
serted.
Juan was unarn,ed, we say. but he
had a %lariaet, and knew how to use it.
A quick and accurate throw. and the
COS was around the lions neck, and
in another moment was drawn tight.
The beast jumped and plunged, but
the boy held on, and, by and by. in
one of the lions wild leaps. it landed
in a dense and stout mesquite bush,
over which the lariet-and the boy
held it until it was strangled.
Then the boy took off the skin.
which was found to measure nine feet
from the tip of the nose to the tip of
the tail, a pretty fair trophy for Il boy
to win single-handed and Inarmed.
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Stoop Down, 1 Want to Kiss You.
mamma, who couldn't get up and was
so cold and strange she frightened
him. He did not quite say all this,
for he was too young, but his earnest
young face spoke, and l was so pleas
ed with the young rascal for flying to
me as his great friend who would help
him in his trouble that l bent down
and kissed him.
He frightened up directly and
smiled, though his eyes were still wet
with crying; and he trotted along be-
side me, chatting away, as if he i'll
stinctively knew that all his troubles
were passed, while l felt very thought
full and strange.
"Willie,'' l said at last, 'did your
mother tell you to come to me?'
He shook his head.
'"Then, why did you Gomez
"'CauSe mas very bad; and she's
often told me that when | was i'll you
came like a good angel and made me
we'll"
"Did-did she say good angel, Will
lie?" l said huskily.
He nodded.
My mind was made up, and | walk
ed on so fast that the little fellow was
obliged to run by my side.
Five minutes later he had led me up
to the bedside, where, pale and ghast-
Unlocking. his mother lay-the same
bed beside which | had knelt three
years before. Her eyes were half
closed, and I went up so silently that
she had not heard my coming, so that
| had time to glance round and in
dorse my preconceived opinion of what
was really the matter. There, upon Il
chair by the bedside. was the new
dress upon which she had been at
work for their daily bread, till utter
weakness had compelled her to desist.
The little fellow crept softly to the
bedside frowning and holding up his
finger to me to keep silence. and then,
with the thoughtleSS i~ncOngruity of n
child, he began softly to stroke the
soft brown hair, which lay abundantly
upon the pillow.
She uttered a faint cry, and caught
him to her breast.
"Oh, my boy! my boy!' and then,
with widely staring eyes, she gasped
out: "Doctor!!'
Yes, madam" said roughly. Evil
lie knew better than you did. 1t was
quite time came"
She uttered a cry now of horror and
dread as she stretched out her hand
wildly to me.
AN l going to die? No, no, not yet
for his sake"
took the hand and held it in mine
as | felt the weak pulse.
81 must know; tell me the whole
truth" she cried.
Utter weakneSS-eXhauStiOn-pr0
duced by overwOrk and neglect of self,
even TO sending for medical aid when
you felt you were failing fast. Am |
right, MADAME" | said, and l pointed
to her unfinished work.
She locked ut me wildly and as if ap-
pealing for mercy, and L. | had not
kept to my hard firm way, | should
have made myself look stupid, for |
never felt so much moved in my life.
81 have tried-So hard" she muir
INJURED al last. 81 must not die; save
me, doctor-save me, for my poor boys
sake
l nodded. l could not trust myself
to speak, and l sat down, took out my
pocketbook and pencil and wrote slow
ly In a large round hand, which a sick
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person could easily read. my recipe,
which l honestly believed would re-
iieye the terrible strain upon her mind
and work a cure.
This briefly done. l tore it off and
held it to her, saying:
You are not bound to take this.
Mrs. White; for God knows, whatever
you reply, l will do my best to save
your life-for Willie's sake"
My voice shook at those last words,
and l saw how keenly her great, wild
eyes were trying to read me through
and through.
Then she glanced at the recipe, and
held out a feeble, trembling hand.
For Willie's sake!" she said family.
And her boy crept closer. looking
wondeTingly at us both as he placed
his head beside his mothers, softly
passing his arm beneath her neck.
For Willie's sake" | repeated, land
the rest will come, Willie" l said.
will that other arm go around my
neck, too?"
In a moment it was there, the child
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AN TOY.
The Artificial Spectrum Ton Per-
pleXes Scientists.

AFtlHcIa1 spectrum Top Per-
plexes Scientists.
Scientists of England have been Civ
ing a great deal of serious considera-
ton lately to the study of a mere toy
which they are still unable to explain
satisfactorily. 1t is a top called the
artificial spectrum top" in which
mere tracings of black and white are
made to assume colors when in mo-
ton.
The top as now constructed consists
of a revolving disc, half black and half
white. On the white side are short,
%concentric arcs of black. When the
top revOlves close under a bright lamp
these arcs appear, not as gray lines,
as might be expected, but as lines of
color. To most eyes the effect is as
follows:
% When the revolution is such that
the black line is preceded by the black
half of the disc and followed by the
remainder of the white, it appears red;
C) when the direction of rotation is
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The Mysterious Ton.

reversed it appears blue; 90 when the
lines are on the central portion of the
white $50 as to have equal white i'm
mediately on each side the color is
green; a. intermediate positions give
approximately the intermediate colors
of the spectrum. A few people see the
colors differently, and one or two peo-
pie, by no means color blind, can see
no color at all. Curiously enough. a
few people who are somewhat color
blind can see the colors on the top
very well.
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HEATHEN GODS MADE.
A Factory at Birmingham. Eng
land, Which Manufactures Them.

A Factory at birmingham. Eng
land, Which manufactures Them.
There has been discovered in Birm-
ingham, in the very center of Chris
tan England, a factory where idols
are made for heather nations! Many
attempts to obtain admission to the
factory nave been made, but a strict
watch is kept upon outsiders anxious
to pry into the secret chambers where
the heather gods are made, and re-
porters, especially, are prevented from
entering the works.
Idols of all kinds are turned out, rep
resenting the gods of all heather ma
tions, from TOkai to Timbuctoo. The
export trade to heather countries is a
fairly large one, although more gods
are SEN out to foreign dealers in
curios in the bazaars of Cairo, Damas-
Gus, Colombo, etc, for sale to unsus-
pecting travellers anxious to take home
some mementoes Of their stay abroad.
The price of gods varies greatly.
You may get a Birmingham-made one
in a London curiosity shop for half a
crown, or you may run up the pretty
bill of $10O for an especially ugly one,
stolen according to the dealer, 'by
a sailor during the Chinese war;" In
the Cairo bazaar, however, the price
of a first-class god of this kind may
run up from 500 to anything. A trav-
eler says that there is little difficulty
in detecting a god of native make
from one of Birmingham manufacture.
The firm generally displays some
slight ~irregularity or change of design
due to the native working by hand,
while the Birmingham god was correct
in form.
The trade in idols is kept such a
close secret that it is difficult to esti-
mate the output, but there is no doubt
the trade is a fairly large one, and that
some enterprising Birmingham men do
very well in the business.
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1 THEE.
For the earth and sil its beauty,


For the earth and sil its beauty,
The sky and all its light;
For the dim and soothing shadows
That rest the dazzled sight;
For unfading fields and prairies,
Where ense in vain has trod;
For the worlds exhaustless beauty,
l thank thee, . my God.
For a eye of inward seeing;
A soul to know and love;
For these common aspirations,
That our high heirship prove;
For the hearts that bless each other
Beneath Thy smile, Thy rod;
For the amaranth saved from Eden,
l thank thee, o my God.
For Thine own great gift of Being,
/ thank thee, o my God!
Lucy Larcome.
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|F0R THE Y0UNG|
PULLING TEETH FOR A LION
A Plucky Dentist Tries His Hand on
the King of Beasts.

Major, the star of the Lincoln Park
troupe of African lions, had an expert
ence with a dentist recently, says a
Chicago paper, that was not unlike the
experience sometimes encountered by
human beings.
He had the second molar in his left
jaw pulled by his keeper, Cy de Vry,
and DR.. Jacob Berner, a South Side
veterinarian. Two or three thousand
people gathered about the lion cages
and witnessed the operation.
The operation, which is thought to
be the first of the kind on record, was
in every way successful. 1t occupied
over an hour of the time of the dent
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Recent statistics go to show that the
tenure Of office in the railroad service
Is about as uncertain as it is in poll
tics. During the last three months
1910 changes were made among the
T.035 officials Of that sort in the coun-
try, which indicates an average term
Of less than two years. OF course a
good many Of these changes were pro-
motions. but the fact remains that
railway officials lose their places with
remarkable frequency, and are never
secure against sudden removal, no
gseatfer how well they perform their
1nfkea