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WASHINGTON CATTLE MARkEr

NAoEItfV V-' " TIL 4ALNEAL %
CATTLE-Extra. per cwt. 5.5Oa5.75; butcher. 80
s5 Co. common. Z5j1300.
HOGS-Per cwt., gross, 675a700; ordinary. s0o4
$50
SHEEP-Clirped. Sjrai.00; common 250a3O0.
LAAlRST spring. choice. 7a7's medium 6lza7
CALVEs-Prirae per h.. S. medium sa7Is: Grass
lalz
C0ws-Prms, fresh, each. loOosa.0; eOnmen,
2o.Q9a2900; old and dr.. sQoal0.00,
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CURB MARKET.

Quotations are furnished by T. r. Chapman d
Co., members New York Stock Exchange q. Bowie
Chipman. manager 1871 street northwest
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COTTON MARKET.

ASKED IBID.
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The Worthy Cranberry.

1t seems to be up to the good old
reliable cranberry to furnish one
bright spot on the horizon of the eco
nomical housekeeper.
With butter and eggs at prices
that soar every day, milk and cream
creeping up a cent at a time, meat
becoming a luxury instead of a ne
cessity, and everything else going up
in proportion, the wall of. the house
keeper is heard on all sides.
Let the housekeeper cheer up,
though. There's one article Of food
that is cheaper now than it was this
time last winter. The cranberry
merchants report that present whole
prices are but little over half of those
prevailing last year, and are low COM
pared with other fruits.
More than that. They say that
consumers can count on obtaining
this popular fruit at a very moderate
cost throughout the whole winter.
Therefore, o careful housewife, lay
in a supply of cranberries, and when
your expense book shows startling to-
tails and a wild desire to be economi-
cal takes possession of you, fill your
largest kettle with the toothsome ber-
ries, shut your eyes and empty in
your bag of sugar, then eat stewed
cranberries and cranberry jelly com
Portable in the knowledge that you
are making the most of the one arti.
Gle of food that is really cheap
American C%ultivator.
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Ventilation.

The ventilation and height of a
room have 10 necessary connection.
In large and small rooms alike the
air needs to be changed frequently
by being kept in perpetual motion.
Fresh air from outside should always
be taken in place Of the used-up air
inside, and mean must be provided
for the one to get in and the other to
get out.
Fortunately fresh air, to some ex-
tent, insists OF forcing its way in,
eve when no legitimate entrance is
provided for it. People complain of
draught from keyholes and doors,
whereas If they opened a window the
draught would cease to exist. In the
same way a draught from a window
which is slightly opened can often be
cured by opening it wider, the reaso
being obvious.
One of the best means Of ventilat-
ing a room is a fireplace. A fire car
ries off the foul, warm air and makes
for the cold fresh air to take it's
place, especially if at the same time
a window is open. For this reason a
fireplace should never be stopped up
with useless screens and fire orna-
ments, and a necessary warning
should be given to servants on NO &C.
count to shut down the registers. A
fire needs fresh air to support COM
bustion, and often a fire which Is
burning badly is really starving for
want of fresh air, and an open win
dow would remedy matters. - New
York Journal.
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QGo0deTkl\QS
WEPto EAt

Toffee-One pound brown sugar.,
two ounce butter, half teacupful
milk. Boil for twenty minutes; do
not stir it; add essence of vanilla OF
lemon. Pour on buttered plates or
roll into balls.
Apple Ginger-Two pounds hard
apples, two pounds crystal sugar, N
fourth pint water, two ounces pre-
served ginger. Boil sugar and water
till it forms a thick syrup; then peel
apples and cut into quarters, and boil
with ginger in syrup till transparent.
Dreamed Potatoes - Cut freshly
boiled or cold boiled potatoes into
one-half inch cubes, put them into a
saucepan, nearly cover them with
milk and cook gently until nearly all
the milk is absorbed. Add white
sauce, stir for one minute, sprinkle
with finely cut parsley and serve.
Cream Cake-One cup of maple
sugar, one egg, one-haif teaspoonful
salt, one cup sou cream, one and
~one-fourth cups of flour, Ii tea
spoonful soda. Add the soda to the
cream, when it foams add the egg,
we'll beaten; next the sugar and salt,
last the -four. Bake in a quick
Beef Timbales-Trim the fat and
gristle from cold meat and put
through a meat chopper. To one
pint of meat add one teaspoon of
salt and a dash of pepper. Put into
a saucepan half a cup of stock. two
tablespoons of bread crumbs and
one tablespoon of butter; heat to-
gether over a slow fire and add the
meat. When hot take from fire and
stir in carefully two eggs, we'll beat"
en-. Put the mixture into buttered
custard or timbale cups, place them
in a pan half filled with hot water
and bake fifteen minutes in a mode
rate oven.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
In the Desert.

A grim, silent desert-a great level
horizon, lifeless, waterless, hopeless.
The sum-, a scorching ball of fire, was
now almost touching the unbroken
line of sand, and yet the heat he gave
forth was so strong, as %parching, and
terribly merciless as that of the hot
test autumn noon in England.
Over the trackless plain a traveller
was plodding painfully. One hand
held the bride Of a limping horse.
and on the poor brute's back was
huddled a human form. This sorry
! calcavade was steering toward thu
| setting sun a little to the northward
of it.
The man who led the horse was
| slightly above the medium height: a
and dirt; his short pointed beard
was dull and dusty. The huge tur-
ban on his head overshadowed the
upper part Of his face, and from be-
| meath its shade there looked forth a
| pair of eyes dark with sullen despair.
The man on horseback was of
slighter build. He was all huddled
up on the saddle. while his chin lit
orally rested on his breast. His tur-
ban had come partly unrolled, and
the end of it hung down over his face.
| Both hands grasped the high pommel
| of the Tartar saddle; his legs swung
helplesSly with each movement of the
horse. i
Since sunrise they had been on the
march, and the horse-a mere skel-
eton with tapping ears and ungainly
neck-showed fatigue more than the
man walking at It's side. Every now
and then the p9or brute stumbled
forward as if about to drop from
sheer WEAKNESS, and on each occa-
, sion the rider would slightly raise his
head. For some hours perfect 81
lence had fallen over the two men;
their blackened lips we're so hard
and dry as to render articulation
nearly impossible. Suddenly the
horse gave a great lurch forward,
and failing to recover himself, col
lapsed sideways with a piteous groan.
The man at its head dropped the
bride and with marvellous rapidity
slipped his arm round his compan-
ions dropping body.
Look out, PAUL" he exclaimed,
| hoarsely, in Russian.
! The rider made no attempt to as
| sist himself, and as the horse fell,
his full weight came upon his com
| panion, who. however, managed to
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His .Kiddies."

A striking story was lately told on
the platform by Eyangeline Booth
commander of the Salvation Army in
America. One night, while 3 Miss
Booth sat In her own room, ineone OF
the worst parts Of London, a poor
woman ran In to tell Of a friend near
by who had just died.
'"They say she died of cancer. but
it amt So" said the woman. "HesfE
done it with his drink an his fist
He's drunk now, too. The minute
she died he come an tux the clothes
off of the baby an put ,em up the
spout!"-the local slang for paWningE
them.
Miss Booth, following her visitor
went to a cellar, where she found
near the body Of the mother two chill
dren, too young to talk much, curled;
up together OF the damp floor. She
took them Immediately. to her OVID
room, bathed and fed them and put
them to bed.
Three. nights Gfterward came the
father, still intoxicated. HIS aniabie
plan, as he announced 1t, was TIC
wiring Miss Booths neck.
Miss Booth told him firmly that he
could not have his babies, but that he,
might look at them If he wished. She
then led him to her room, and showed
him his babies, their hair combed,
their faces rosy and clean, curled UP
in bed, dressed, in little white
"nighties," like two angels, or two
ordinary happy little ones.
The man continued to be abusive
for a time; then the words came more
slowly.
Finally he stopped short, and then
burst into tears-not maudlin tears
Of drunken men this time, but tears
marking the shock Of an awakening
manhood.
"Are them my kiddies?" he asked,
finally, in a subdued voice.
Miss Booth finished her story by
the simple statement-"He never
drank again." NJ
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Eggs For InvalidS.

Here are two excellent methods Of
preparing eggs for invalids, either Of
the ways bringing it to just the pro-
per soft-boiled state:
Put an egg on to cook in a sauce
pan of cold water. AS soon as it
comes to the boiling point the egg is
done and will be found neither too
watery nor too dry.
The second method is slightly diff
ferent. Let the water come to a very
lively boiling point, take it from the
fire and let the egg stand in the hot
water, we'll covered. for exactly five
minutes. The egg will be cooked to
perfection without making the white
hard and ~indigestible.
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From Doubt to Faith.

DR.. James Orr, of Glasgow, whose
remarkable work on the "Old Tesla
ment aud Modern Criticism" took the
Bross prize Of $4,000, and is thought
to be the greatest contribution to the
subject made by any one, has deliv-
cred several times a powerful address
in which he maintains that on the
part of leading scientists there has
been for thirty years past q tremen-
dous reaction from skepticism toward
faith. He instances such men as Vir-
chow, Haecke1, Romanes, Sayce and
others as examples.
No man perhaps commands a wild
er horizon than DR.. Orr, and he is
peculiarly calm and judicial. He
sees a very decided trend in the d.
rection Of faith. The darkness and
blackness of despairing doubt, ma
terialism, and virtually, atheism, ap-
peal to many who have been drifting
away from all spiritual veritics and
certainties. If DR.. Orr is right, this
is among the brightest indications of
our day in the religious and intellec.
tual sphere, a sign of the times, for
which the whole Church has pro.
found occasion to be grateful.-Mis.
sionary Review of the World.
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Being Is Greater Than Doing.

Our lives are the stronger part Of
us-or else the weakest A man
knows the least of the influence Of his
own life. Life is not mere length Of
time, but the daily web Of character
we unconsciously weave. Our
thoughts, imaginations, purposes,
motives, love, will are the under
threads; out words, tone Of voice,
looks, acts, habits are the upper
threads; and the passing moment is
the shuttle swiftly, ~ceaselessly, re-
lentlessly, weaving those threads into
a web; and that web is life. 1t is
woven, not by III wishing and will
ing, but irresistibly, unavoidably
woven by what we are, moment by
moment, hour by hour. What is your
life weaving out? Is it attractive be-
cause of the power in it of His pres
ence?-S. D. Gordon, in Quiet Talks
on Power.
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To Ministers and Others.

Once get into the habit of giving
Just a little less than your best, and
failure has its mark upon you. You
cannot reserve your best. When you
try to hold back it withers.
You are a minister, and a bright
idea comes to you when you are pre-.
pairing for prayer meeting. But you
hold it back. You will not spend it
for the few who will gather that
rainy night; you will save 1t for the
crowd on the Sabbath. But when
you prepare for the Sabbath, 10, the
beauty of your thought has vanished,
and your best is not what You
dreamed it was. Had you yielded
up your best that night, it would
have suggested a better best for the
following occasion.
1t Is not so much on stepping
stones of our dead Selves" as on
stepping stones of u best Selves"
that I'VE rise to higher things" Give
out the very best you have to-day,
and you will have a better best to-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Christian Guar
dian.
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Religion No Excuse.

A certain theatrical manager OF
Chicago tells of an Irish policeman
in that city. possessing Dogberry-like
traits.
On one occasion. at midnight, the
custodian of the law overhauled a
sleep walker who was promenading
a principle thoroughfare clad only in
his nightrobe. When the officer had
awakened the unfortunate man,
placed him under arrest and was
hustling him of to the station the
sleep walker exclaimed with indig-
nation:
Surely you are not going to lock
me up"
"Surest thing you know" airily
responded the bluecoat. .
why, man, I can't be held, re-
sponsible for the ~predicament you
find me in! I'm a somnambulist!"
Sure, it makes no difference what
church you belong to-" sharply re-
turned the officer, I'VE can't parade
the streets of Chicago in your
nighty!"-Harper's Weekly.
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Paul and Daniel.

Seems to me that Paul made short
work of self. He gave self notice to
quit, and gave up the freehold to his
blessed Lord. And I mean to try
and follow his example, and to say
to my own self:
Daniel, I won't have you for a
tenant any lenger; you're more
trouble to me than all the world be-
sides. You're so hard to please, an
so uncertain, that if you happen to
be all right to-day, there's no know
in what you'll be like tomorrow. I
shall turn e out, neck and crop, with
all your goods and chattels."
That's what I want for my own
self. My heart cries out: my Lord,
come in, and live in this house, not
like a great visitor for me to enter
tain, and ask a favor Of now and
then; but come in and be the Master,
and I'll be the servant, an all I am
shall wait upon Thee"
That's what / want for myself; and
then when anybody knocks at the
door an says: "Dan'l Quorm live
here-does he?" I should dearly
love to say: "Dan'el's gone. away,
and he's dead and buried" Never
theless I live, yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me."-Daniel Quorum.
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One Printers Experience.

A New Orleans paper tells of a
printer who, when his fe~llow-work-
men went out to drink beer during
working hours, put in the bank the
exact amount which he would have
spent if he had gone out to drink
with them. He kept to his resolution,
for five years. He then examined his
bank account, and found that he had
on deposit s521.S5. In the five years
he had not lost a day from Ill health.
Four or five of his fellow-workmen;
had in the meanwhile become drunk
ards, were worthless as workmen.
and were discharged. The water
drinker bought a printing office, went
on charging his business, and In
twenty years from the time he began
to put by his money was worth $780,
600. .
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THE E DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABoU13
THE VICE OF INTEAiPERANCE.

What the Abolition of the Saloon Did
For Fargo-An Ex-Mayor's FesI
timony-The Present Mayors
+ Testimony.
At a public meeting the late Mayor
of Fargo, N. D., made the followtngI
address, which is singulariy eloquent|
in its facts:
"Mr. Mayor, Ladiesand Gentlemen:
I have been invited to come and say
to you, If T understand the subjects|
what we are accomplishing in Fargoi|
without in any way receiving aid, I'M
revenue from the liquor traffic.
Fargo has prespered without a|
saloon far better than 1t ever did with
it. Instead of being depopulated ftl
has more than doubled In population|
since the saloons left us. Rents have
not gone down, but have gone up,if|
there is any difference. There is not
to-day in Fargo, nor has there BEEN
a vacant house fit for a mouse to live
In, or a vacant store, since the saloona
left. In the past four years more
than one million dollars have been
invested in new buildings in Fargo.
! "When- the saloons were with us,
We did not have a.single yard OF paw
ing in the city; we had no sewer sys-s
tenn, and did not own our water
works. To-day we have more than
fifteen miles Of streets, with a sewer
under every yard Of paving, and miles
Of sewers where the paving does not
extend. We own our water works
and they r more than seif-sustaipes
ing. We have done all that, and at
the same. time our taxes are lower,
than in a great many cities wherB.
they have the saloon"
In a recent letter addressed to Hon
E. H. Libby, of Charleston, Wash.
Mayor Johnson, of Fargo, speaks I'M
no uncertain tones regarding the hens:
efts of prohibition to that city. The
statement of the. Mayor follows
There are no places in Fargo
where liquors, wines or beers can be-
procured. Nor has there been for
ten years or more. II the question of
admitting a~,saloon was 10 be SUBJ
mitted to our voters the votes favor.
ing the establishment OF saloons
would be. hardly worth counting.
We have comparatively no crime In:
Fargo. During my incumbencySo OF
the Mayors Office between 1896 and
1s02-was out OF office four years
there was not a hold up, stabbing.
shooting, assault on women, In fact
there were practically NO }feloniea
committed during that time. Our
police records show q number of.
DRINKS, but we are unfortunately so
near Moorhead that they will wander
over there In spite Of all we can do
to prevent it. They do not, and can
not get anything to get drunkso on oD;
this side; they can, and do 60 to
Moorhead and bring liquors. over In
bottles and drink It here. That We.
cannot prevent. Yours truly,
~. A. JOHNSON, Mayor:
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Hired NfournerS.

"It pays to be a mourner in St.
Petersburg, and there are agencies
which employ great numbers Of
Migrants and tramps for the puT-
pose" says a writer. These agencies
supply suitable clothing and pocket
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., in fact.
except boots, which the tramp must
show on his feet or he will not be
hired. When there is a more or less
important funeral the tramps gather
at the Nikolski market and are Sc
lected by an employe Of the agency.
The wage for the occasion, with tips,
generally equals about thTee shll'
lipgs,"-London Mail: a..
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I "He came that night-wlth the
| Baroness Nantille."
Eyes, I remember her"
LENA is now having singing les
| sons with the baroness
At last Charlie lost patience. He
threw his cigar into the fire, and, ris-
ing from his seat, stood in front OF
his host with his liable" arm resting
on the mantlepiece.
81 wish he said, without raising
the level tones of his voice, but
| speaking rather hurriedly, that you
| would tell me what you suspect, what
you know, and what you wish to
know. If we are to help each other,
| there must be no reticence between
US. Of what has been going on dur
ing the last year I know absolutely
nothing. Mrs. Wright's letters have
rarely alluded to Lena. The colonel
| never wrote-Lena herself rarely.
| My mother has been away in France.
You, and you alone, are the only
| source of information that I have.
/ need hardly tell you that 1 am as
| uneasy about this matter as your
| self. All I know is that Lena is diff
| ferent; all I suspect is that her
mother is no longer her %confdante
in everything"
Laurance Lowe looked slowly up
into his companions face, while the
hand that held the cigarette shook a
little.
"Seen that too?" he said, i~nterroga-
lively. "All I know is that since she
has been taking lessons there has
| been something wrong. Before that
| she was anxious about your brother.
| We have all been anxious; but now
j. is something more than anxiety"
And what do you suspect?'
Seems to me that jacob has suc-
ceeded in establishing some influence
over her. The girl is afraid of him.
LENA goes to this woman's house
| for the lessons?" asked Charlie.
Eyes" e.
could we not get that altered?"
suggested the sailor, whose ideas
were quick, though his speech was
slow.
Tried it."
"You have tried it? And who OBJ
jected?"
"Lena-piano or something"
"Did any one make inquiries about
| the Baroness de Nantille before this
| arrangement was made?" asked
Charlie, who now turned and re-
| sumed his seat.
Eyes. She had a long and severe
| illness. Found, when she got better,
that her property, which was all in
Russia, had been co~niscated, father
banished, mother dead. Reduced
| circumstances, took to giving singing
lessons. She sings like an angel her
self"
"And have you done anything
about Jacobi?"
Lives by teaching violin. Has
many foreign friends. Eminently
respectable; is supposed to be con-
nected with several foreign political
societies"
"Um-m-! In fact, he is a shady
character" suggested the sailor.
Internal swindler!!"
They sat and talked in the same
aggravatingly unfinished" manner
until late into the night.
81 think you and l can settle ia
| cobi," the old mar said, as he shook
hands that night with the young
sailor.
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Nav Try Penny School Lunch.

The penny lunch kitchens, which
are being maintained by the Wom-
ems School Alliance, Of Milwaukee,
Wis, are featured as model institu-
lions which are being copied through
out the country. The latest inquiry
as to their conduct comes from New
York City, the committee on welfare
OF school children of the United
Charities Office having written to Mrs.
C. B. Whitnall, of Milwaukee, asking
for information about the penny
lunches, with a view to Duplicating
the system there. The New York
people want to know just what is the
apparent effect mentally and plysi-
cally upon the school children.
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CHAPTER XVI.
Continued

Continued.
! cts it." he asked, anything to do
with Charlie?"
Mrs. Wright appeared to be buried
in thought. She uttered no reply
but leaning forward over her hus-
bands shoulder, she placed her finger
On the map, where the red and black
lines met beneath the word Bokhara.
A pitiful SILENCE followed, such as
leaves it's mark upon the human
heart.
Good God!" whispered the col
onel.
Mrs. Wright went toward the win
dow. The band that held back the
heavy curtain was twisted and some
what out of place. Slipping it off the
hook, she deftly put it right, and then
she turned her face slowly toward
her husband.
"Then you think-he has failed?"
she said in a monotonous voice.
The colonel sat at the table with
HI: chin resting on his folded hands.
He was staring at the map.
1--WE should have heard from him
six months ago." vas his reply.
Mrs. Wright crossed the room, and
sat down on a low chair near the fire.
For nearly an hour they remained
thus, the white-haired old warrior and
his comely, gray-haired wife. After
twenty-four years of married life
they were lovers still; and as" they
sat there-he looking out into the
yellow mist, she watching the change
full flames as they leaped up and fell
again-they were recalling the weary
years of waiting they had passed
through, ignorant of the love that
lay hidden in either heart.
Presently the door opened, and,
with a food Of warm light, Lena en-
terted.
II verify believe you were both
sound asleep!" she exclaimed, with
q cheerfulness which for some reason
made her mother vince. as it not
dreadful-lamps at eleven o'clock in
the morning."