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DOMESTIC SYSTEM.
Upon Which Every Young Woman
Should BE Posted.

Upon Which Every Young Woman
Should BE Posted.
1t should be a part of every young
woman's training after she leaves
school to devote one hour daily to an
swering letters, examining accounts,
looking over and fling house and per-
scnal bills, recording visits and engage
ments in their proper books, and noting
the minutiae of social obligations Of
each day, keeping up to date the vari-
Gus changes, addresses, etc. The fol-
lowing hour, or half-hour, according to
the requirements of each family, should
be reserved for business visitors, in
terviews with dependents, attending to
business accounts, paying bills, inter-
viewing tradespeople and being accessi-
BILE to whomsoever finds it important to
have a personal interview on any
urgent matter. An hour and a half a
day, or two hours daily, spent in this
orderly, systematic way in every house.
hold, from the highest to the most
modest-for the same s. irit should gov
ern all-would revolutionize their in
terror domestic economy in startling
way, would prevent the greater part of
housekeeping annoyances and vexa-
tons, put an end to much marital fric-
ton, which is engendered by careless
habits and needless Indifference to in
terror order and comfort-nine times
out of ten-and restore to woman her.
self the qualities without which no ad-
vancement in knowledge will avail her;
and this is perfectly intelligent. or
derby, kindly rule over her special king
dom-her home.-Vogue.
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such voyage are more than invalids
can endure. Under these circumstances
1t has long been a wonder to Inc that
the merits of Key West have not been
more recognized; the temperature in
winter is that of the finest summer
weather in New York, and it would be
impossible to conceive more agreea ole
climate than that afforded in Key West
during the period of the year from De-
tober to the middle of April, the Their
mometer rarely rising above 70
or falling below 80 degrees. The island
is just off the southern extremity of
Florida and is in a direct line of all the
steamer routes leading from the Allan
tic to Cuba and the gulf ports.
1t is true Key West at present can
only be conveniently reached by rail
to Tampa and thence by steamer max
ing a run of II hours by sea; but as the
island is only separated from the main
land a short distance by an endless
chain of keys and coral reefs with very
shallow water intervening, it could
with ease, and at moderate cost, be
connected by rail to the main stem
via Cape Florida. Such railroad has
been projected and surveyed, and it is
only question of short time when it
will be completed. Twenty-Five years
ago made my first visit to this island,
and found the town then but COM
parative village. Now it has grown to
the proportions of the largest city in
Florida. with evident signs of further
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forest to where the Cuban camp was
:situated-in q strong position ii: Z the
hills to the east. ~''''
All night long we travelled, pausing
only occasionally for brief rest, or to
drink at some stream. And most of
the tramp was up hill, too. But dark
as was the night, and thick though the
forests through which the alleged path
lay, the Cuban guide pushed on with
out faltering, the carriers following
and the horsemen bringing up the
rear.
The forenoon was we'll advanced
when we came to an open space on a
hilltop where, amid some bushes
shaded by clump of palms, we found
some Cubans on the watch for our
coming. This was but an outpost, the
camp occupying a strongly fortified po-
sition across little ravine further on,
above which steep precipices rose. On
closer inspection found that the only
practicable way to that hill top was
that by which we had gone, and hun
dred men could have held it against an
army corps.
To my establishment. l found that the
Cuban soldiers were all well dressed
and armed, their only trouble being
for ammunition and horses, there be-
ing very few of these animals left in
the east. This was a,detachment of
Garaa's army of the orient, which had
been sent thither to communicate with
Jamaica and get in ammunition. Three
successful voyages had already been
made, and another was to follow be-
fore they struck camp. They needed
ammunition and medicine for 1000,
and proposed to get it before joining
the main army which was to move
westward.
Two days after we started back, but
before leaving witnessed the execu-
ton of the traitor. He was tried, con-
victed and hanged on a tree. AS we
were leaving, five minutes after, the
captain of the escort suddenly vaulted
from his saddle and sent several bull
lets into the swaying body.
"Ah! That's for lucky trip to u.s.
he cried. exulfantly, as the last shot
cut clear through the cord and let the
half-dead body fall with a sickeninq
thud.
At this there was chorus of yells,
and "Vivas!" upon 'Vivas!" rent the
air. The whole camp seemed to be in
an uProar of delight. OF course, it
was really all the rottenest supersti1
ton; but the Cubans believed it to be
an omen of good luck, and went on
their perilous way rejoicing.
For my part, did not feel so well at
ease. bethought me that there were
more spaniards left in Santiago to look
after us. Sure enough, however, we
got through without hitch. and also
sneaked into Jamaica unseen and IN
suspected. T. p. PORTER.
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PICTURESQUE KEY WEST.
Eventually It Win Be ths Great
American Winter Resort.
An Interesting Letter from Lieut..
IS Auciep $Young.@U. $: n. About
FlOrida's lslaHA kle-
tropolls.
Especial Key West Ola y L.tter.l

Especial Key West FLA L.tterl
In consequence of the great NUMBER
Of people in quest of health and rest
during the summer. pleasant spots tor
that purpose exist in almost infinite
variety and within easy reach;
but localities possessing warm
climate as winter resorts are
few in number, and those that
do exist involve long journey to reach
them. However, with increased facili-
ties for travel and extended knowledge,
the requirements Of civilization for win
ter resorts will be met by the discovery
Of localities adapted for the. purpose.
Thus within the last few years we have
seen the popularity of Florida as a
winter resort steadily growing, large
hotels erected, and many places within
her borders created into winter SAM
tariums.
In all these places, as we'll as in the
towns and cities of the southern states
bordering on the gulf, the winter eli
mate is generally too cold and variable
to meet all the requirements OF those
in search of radical change. In con-
sequence Of this inequality, many are
induced to seek more uniformly warm
climate in Bermuda or the islands OF
the West Indies, which involves long
journey by sea, and the incidents to
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the Cuban shore high ahead of us. I
now found that our destination was at
a point along the Santiago coast, and
that we were carrying 100000 cart
ridges, small lot of clothing, medi-
cines and delicacies for Calixto Garcia,
and important mail and later cable dis
patches from New York. What a
scoop for the Dons if they had caught
us! And they very nearly did, too. as
the sequel will show.
1t was late in the afternoon when we
made the shore, through veritable
labyrinth of coral reefs. and beeched
the unwieldy punt on a long stretch of
sandy beach. Instantly all hands COM
menced to tumble the cocoanuts and
packages ashore. whilst the leader of
the party sent up rocket that trailed
high above the trees that grew densely
to within a few hundred yards of the
sea. BY the time the cargo was landed
some so Cubans were on hand, and,
without ado, start was made for the
camp in the interior.
But only start. There was stop
page.
"a bugle sounded down the beach
around the bend.
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Fear in Animals.

Back in prehistoric times our ances-
tors probably knew fear as constant
feeling, They fought to defend their
lives and homes from one another. With
the beginning Of agriculture and the do
mestication Of animals, fighting ceased
to be the chief object of existence, gen.
tier feelings had a chance to grow, and
fear was not so common state of mind.
But we are not in the condition of saw
age tribes. We do not live in fear our
selves, and we understand that the ami
mails we have domesticated must be
treated with uniform kindness. The
horse is exceedingly nervous; while cat
tie do not appear 50 nervous, any dairy
man will tell you that the utmost gen.
tleness is necessary in caring for them.
We can reason away most of our fears:
neither the wild nor the domestic ami
mails can do so much. The one way to
teach an animal to conquer fear is to
let him feel that he may trust us. It
is the true and only way, for it leads to
love-and perfect love casteth out
fear. Our Animal Friends.
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and have a hand. But my services are
not wanted. Younger men, and men
without families to put forward impor-
tunate claims in the event of unpleas-
ant contingencies. are to the 'front.'
Thus am shelved.
But all things come to him who waits.
And the other day my opportunity
found me out, all on the jump. Few
people, even in Kingston, have any con-
ception of the frequency of the open
boat maitland other service-that is
maintained between the Cuban insur-
gents and the Jamaica junta. Now and
then an inward boat is caught and it's
occupants quarantined; and occasional
~ one hears rumor of the police hav-
ing nearly captured an outward expedi-
ton. But that is not all. In point of
fact scores of boat loads of ammuni-
ton, medicines, clothing, and even
arms, have been safely shipped hence
to Cuba; and only on two occasions
have the police effected capture.
OF course, for obvious reasons, l do
not propose here entering into details
of how the oracle is worked. Suffice it
to say that one day recently was mott
fied-after frequent applications and
many favors done-that if pleased to
take passage from certain outport on
boat that was shipping cocoanuts to a
Boston fruiter at Port Maria, the
chances were even that would either
see Cuba and an insurgent camper
fall into the hands of the police.
So, in broad daylight, within sight of
the police station, stepped into huge
punt-like craft, and, before a brisk
breeze, started for Port Maria; The YES
sci, an ordinary coast drogher, was
heavily laden with cocoanuts. A few
miles down the coast we landed. A
quantity of nuts were cast ashore and
replaced by several packages, and the
native crew exchanged places with a
dozen Cubans. Then HE for the open
sea! But not before squad of be-
lated policemen came tearing through
the bushes. The expedition had been
discovered, but too late to stop it-as
| usual. But the cocoanut racket was ex-
ploded, and some other dodge would
have to be invented. For every one of
sAA>SS ~0~Oon U.S. S@NSSPI VIC ucCOJS dl-
ready thrown away, had been carefully
scooped out and filed with rifle car
tridges.
Whilst kept out of sight, the Cubans
returned derisive replies to the calls OF
the police to return to shore. The in
spector snapped revolver at us. and
the bullet whistled over our head as the
sail was Tapping to catch the breeze.
Instantly dozen rifles covered the as
tonished policemen, and Cuban yelled
that If another shot was fred they
would blaze away. It was sight to
see how those policemen vanished into
the BUSH.
The escape proved good augury,
and, without sighting the smoke trail
of any of SPANS vigilant cruisers. early
in the morning of the third day we had
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asked our leader,

..The escort2'' asked our leader,
anxiousiy.
They are yonder, was the reply, in
scared voice. .
A moment later party Of Spanish
g,,elrillas, about 20, or even more,
swept, into sight. ! s3
J run for the bush" cried the leader,
suiting the action to thesword.
This was fine ending Of my adven-
ture, l thought, as under shower OF
bullets we dashed into the thicket. But
the end wassnot yet. AsI instinctively
looked back, from the opposite side OF
the beach single horseman. dressed
in the Cuban uniform, and waving. q
heavy sword, dashed into the open.
"Al machete!" he cried. Then the
tramp of horses sounded DULY on the
sand, and squad of dozen Cuban
cavalry thundered after. -.
Form squared" yelled the Spanish
officer.
"Ah, traitor, it is thou?" shouted the
Cuban, as he rushed past:where stood.
A cloud of flying sand now enveloped
the scene. Only the clatter of Spanish
carbines, the snap-rip-rap Of American
repeating rifles and the clash Of steel
told how hotly the fight waged. In ten
minutes it was all over. The guerrillas
had no chance before that furious on
slaught, and they could not even run or
double on the heavy sand,
Only two prisoners were taken, one
a young Spaniard scarcely out of his
teens, and the leader of the guerrillas-
q Cuban and deserter from Garcia's
camp, as soon learned The boy was
treated with the greatest considera.
ton, and promised his liberty as soon
as convenient. But the Cuban was
CURLY told that his life had been pur-
posely spared in the fight so that he
might be hanged.
Three or four of the Cuban troopers
had been killed, and these were hastily
buried under the trees. The Spanish
boy begged that his comrades be also
buried. This was refused, but when
he asked to be permitted to pray fol
them. no objection was raised. And il
was touching sight to see that youth
kneeling on the bloody sand and re.
peating, with fuency, the solemn Cath.
Ollie burial prayers in Latin. On in
query, l found that he was an eccle
siastical student, who, at the call Of
patriotism, had volunteered to go t.
Cuba. And that was his first battle.
Leaving the dead to bury their dead
we started to ''track' it through thu
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Occupation for 1nvalids.

Invalids often need some object to
take their attention for long time. We
suggest, when they live in the country
and havel land, that they try experiments
in planting trees, and we suggest the
black walnut as tree which grows rap
idly and will soon return profit. IT.
quires a rich soil, in which it grows
very fast. w. j. Moyle tells us that he
has taken the measurement of 20 trees
set out Al years ago. They have at
tanned a height of so feet, and for
beauty and shade almost equal the
elm. They furnish, besides, many bush
els of nuts for the boys and girls of
the village. For 20 feet from the
ground the trunks are without a limb,
and an old logger estimates that the
lumber from each tree is worth $500.
The walnut is fast and robust grower,
and when the value of the timber is
taken into consideration, it is surpris-
ing that. this tree is not more largely
planted.-N. 7. Ledger.
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THE RETIRED BURGLAR.

An Ingenious C0ntrivance That Did
Not Work Very Well I'm Actual Use.
IT always carried set Of climbing
irons in my hand bag" said the retired
burglar, Ito get up veranda posts with,
where there wasn't any railing around
to stand on, but I had often felt the need
of some continuance which could carry
and which would enable me to go right
up the side of house to second-story.
window in case there were no veranda,
where the cellar windows were covered
with gratings, or where, for any rea-
son, I wanted to go in at such win
dow. So set about rigging up an ap-
paratus that should be light and strong,
and easily portable, and that could
easily operate myself while I was
standing on it.
1T was of steel frame construc-
ton, the contrivance that got up,
with little shelf on top to stand on,
and it worked telescopically, the side
rods rising in sections, carried up in
guides, and held in ratchets. I could
stand on the top of this thing, and, by
turning a:wheel raise myself up, lifting
a section at a time until it was all ex-
tended, if I wanted to go that high,
which was about IA feet. tried it on
my own house before took it with
ire. had good deal of trouble with
it at first and some pretty bad falls,
but I got it so finally that it worked
all right, and then started to pull 1t
to practical use.
1.-THE first house I tried it on was in
the country, a good, big, comfortable
looking house that might have got
into almost anywhere, but I had the ele-
vator along, and I thought I might
ground alongside the house and settled
it down firmly and got on to it and
started, turning on the wheel. 1t
worked smoothly, and raised myself
gradually until the platform with me
on it was about halfway up the
frst-story window; that brought my
head about on a level with the sill of the
window above. Then something hap
pened. I don't know just what, but a
ratchet slipped, or something, and the
elevator just collapsed and settled down
with more noise than I liked, but it
didn't seem to attract anybody, and
when I'd given 'em time and nobody
come tried it as well as could under
the circumstances, found it all right as
near as could tell, and made another
try, and it worked just beautifully I'm.
til was with my feet not more than a
foot below the second-story window
sill, when all of sudden the thing
smashed down into about 100000
pieces, flying in all directions and land.
ing me about 20 feet away.
"'Say, you didn't do thing but bus,
it,did YOU? heard somebody say, and
looking up, I saw the man that said it
throwing open the blinds and leaning
out of the window next to the one I'd
been trying for. He'd been looking
at me all the time. And you pretty
near busted me laughin,' he said. i
hain't had so much fun in 40 years. Now
you come right in, ole, Sportin' Blood
and pick out anything you want in the
house. It's worth it,
''But I didn't go in; Invent away, and
left him to clean up the wreck of the
elevator, and never built another one. >
IN v Sun
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MONUMENT TO FEDERAL DEAD AT
KEY WEST,

progress and a steadily increasing
commerce.
The streets have been graded and
paved, street railways inaugurated, the
number of substantial buildings in
creased, cigar manufactures estab-
lished, many of which employ more
than 500 workmen, and imposing pu bile
buildings erected. The private resi-
dences are typical of southern luxury
and are surrounded by. tropical trees
and flowers. The many churches and
the courthouse near the center of the
city would be regarded as ornaments
to any city, and are evidence of the law
and order that pervade the entire COM
munity.
On the west side, facing perfectly
safe harbor capable of admitting YES
sells of the heaviest draft, is the naval
station or storehouse, having fine iron
pier or wharf extending out to deep
water where men-of-war repienish their
supplies. This naval station was es-
tablished in the early part of this Gen.
fury by Commodore Porter, who made
it the headquarters and base of supplies
for his fleet, then occupied in suppress
zion of piracy in the West Indies.
Just to the southwark of the naval
station is the new and elaborate Gus
tomhouse and post office, of style of
architecture more in accord with the
rigors Of a New England climate than
that of the tropics. A little beyond
the customhouse and facing the har-
Dor is the marine hospital, very COM
modious building, we'll ventilated, and
in every way adapted to the health and
comfort of the sick. OF the southwest
point of land, and connected with It BY
. narrow causeway, are the picturesque
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ENGLISH HANDS.
"A Well.knOwn Palmist Finds Fin.
Qualities in Them.

A Well-Known Palmfst Finds Fine
Qualities in Them.
Nine. Thebes, the well-known pa1mist,
went to England recently with the in
tention of studying the hands of certain
prominent English people, her ultimate
object being to ascertain, by means of
such study, the causes of Great Brit
aims greatness. She has now returned
to Paris, and has given a curious ac-
count of her experiences in England.
"The average English hand,' she says,
"clearly denotes happiness. All these
hands are firm and slightly red, and
the fingers are square, which is the
token of punctuality, good sense, energy
and activity. Honesty is also denoted,
and this will not surprise those who
know how upright Englishmen are
The English women have long thumbs,
which is sign of strong will unless
contrary lines in the hands modify this
tendency. Now, all these qualities
which>I have mentioned are good, and
those who possess them are naturally
happy and fortunate.
Furthermore, I examined nearly
thousand hands among all classes of
society-courtiers, as well as working
people-and in all I found one very
characteristic sign, namely, the senti-
ment of unity of the Anglo-Saxon race.
This sign is not to be found in French
hands. According to a, PERSONS rank
and social position in France will his
or her hand be. By means of the hand
I can always, in France, distinguish the
aristocrat from the plebeian.
'In English hands there are no traces
of organic diseases. In the thousands
which examined found only one case
of typhoid fever, and in this instance
the disease was contracted abroad. No
one who knows the progress of hygiene
in England can be surprised at this alb
sence of disease. Neither did I find
in the hands of members of the English
court any .presages of accidents, such
as have found in French hands, nor of
revolution, such as have found at the
court of Italy. 49,, "
"In what respects the English hands
differ from the French and Italian
hands cannot yet say, but intend to
return to England and to- Italy, and to
study the subject thoroughly will
also go to Germany and to Russia, and
expect to make some curious discov-
cries.
''The usefulness of such work is mani
fest, though at the same time it is GER
tain that many of the casualties fore
Swallowed by the hands cannot, as a
r11e he avoidad nersnn xUhn in
threatened with violent blow on the
head will find it very difficult to escape
it. Still, by the use of will power and
by taking all necessary precautions it.
may be avoided. I have seen in the
hands of many young women unques-
tionably indications of injury through
some iron instrument, and, asallof them
rode bicycles, unhesitatingly advised
them to give up the amusement" IN. Y.
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