El Reno Daily Eagle. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 61, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1894 Page: 3 of 4
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SMITH WAS A BAD MAX. MRS brown s nerve/
He Had Learned One Game
Which He Could Boast.
How mi Kx|»r«*»H MPHHiMtger Dlnpoui't! of
Two Would-llo Train Bobber* They
Were I)<*:m1 Before They Got
a Chance to Shoot.
“But spaaking of train robberies,”
put in the colonel, “reminds me of a
man 1 met when 1 was in command at
Port I). A. llussell, at Cheyenne. lie
was an express messenger named
Smith, ahd his run was on what they
called out there the ‘high line’ of the
Burlington »!i Missouri railroad. Smith
oiu’t much of a man to look at, but he
was great in action, as you'll agree,”
says the New York Sun.
“I'd heard of Smith before I met him.
He’d killed two men down in western
Kansas, and they were saying around
Cheyenne that he was ‘bad.’ So I was
curious to get him to tell me the story,
and after awhile he did.
“lie used to have a run on the Santa
Fe down where it crossed into Colo-
rado. All the messengers, you know,
carried guns in those days—they do
yet, for that matter—but Smith under-
stood the use of a six-shooter better
than some of his mates. Things had
been so smooth on his run for so long
that he got a bit careless at last and
used to leave the door of his car un-
locked so that the brnkemen could
come in and talk with him whenever
they liked without his having to go to
the end of the car to unlock the door.
“Smith had one game, though, which
was all his own. He told me that ho
had practiced it a good deal, so that
he could shoot within a fraction of a
second after hearing anyone say: ‘Rut
up your hands.* You know those fellows
Single Handed She ruptures an Armed
Burglar in ller llnnie.
Mrs. Walter R. Brown, of 1192 Shef-
field avenue, Chicago, deserves a medal
for her presence of mind and bravery,
for if it hadn't been for her Thomas
Jones, a burglar, would be still at large
to prey on householders.
Most women faint when they find a
burglar in the house. Mrs. Brown is
tin exception. She keeps just as cool
as a breeze from off the lake, aud be-
AX INDIAXA MYSTERY.
Courageous Mon Driven Away by
Strange Sounds.
Eahorer* Disturb the stony Grave of Sur-
mill Wonderful Phenomena Ke-
ll tilt Natural Gun or Out-
raged spirit*?
Singular aud unexplainable phenom-
are great in skylarking, and Smith
had warned them never to try to play
that joke on him, because, he said, the
first man who came into his car and
took him unawares with that remark
would he likely to die.
“One day he was sitting behind his
little square iron safe checking off his
money packages. He had the safe in
a corner of the ear facing one end. He
always sat with his back against the
front end of the ear. The front door
was always barred. When he raised
the lid of the little trunk like safe the
messengers used then lie always put
his two big six-shooters on the corners
of the safo in front of the lid. Any-
one approaching him from the rear end
of the car couldn't see the guns, but
they were ready for instant use.
“Well, this day I'm telling you
about, as he was cheeking off the
packages he heard the ear door open
and some one come in. He took it for
granted that the visitor was the brake-
man whom he was expecting, and
without looking up went on with his
work. He checked two or three more
pack:? tcs and was almost finished
when he heard the sharp command:
‘Rut up your hands!’
“IJe looked up on the instant and
saw two men, not in the least dis-
guised, covering him with six shooters.
His own hands were behind the lid of
his safe. ‘All right, boys,’ he said.
‘Don’t shoot. They’re up.’
“They went up, that was true, but as
they came over the lid of the safe there
was a six-shooter in each one. Doth
six-shooters cracked the instant their
inuz/.les came above the safe lid. and
both bullets killed. The robbers tired,
but they didn’t pull until after they
had been hit, and their bullets went
wild.
“It was all done so quickly that there
was no outcry or noise, and when the
brakeman went into the car a few
minutes afterward he found Smith
washing up the blood from the floor.
,Tho dead men were on a blanket in a
corner. That was how Smith got his
^reputation for being ‘bad.’ ”
An Eel Fifty Year* Olclf 0*^1
An eel whose age of fifty years is
vouched for by trustworthy witnesses
has l»een on exhibition at Groton, Conn.
»It died on being taken out of a well in
which it had lived so many years, and
probably would have lived to a still
greater age had it not been disturbed.
This eel was caught fifty years ago by
C. 0. Harris, of New London. Conn.,
and by him put in the family well.
There was no way of escape for it and
it seemed perfectly content to remain
in its walled domicile. In 1870 the well
was cleaned and the eel was observed
to bo in a state of good preservation.
The other day the well was again
cleaned and the eel was brought to the
top in a bucket of water. It was then
removed and placed in a bucket of
Konomoc water. This transition prob-
ably caused its death, for within live
minutes after being placed therein the
eel gave up the ghost. The skin will
bo prepared and stuffed. In spite of
its age the eel had not increased much
in size, being no larger than an aver-
age-sized one.
Sl ump t'lmlr.
The camp chair used by Gen. Lee has
been presented to the Si ary land Con-
federate home by Joshua Thomas, of
Baltimore., who was a member of the
distinguished southern leader’s stuff.
The chair was originally captured from
the federal troops.
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LITTLE ROSA’S CRUISE.
I'athrtlr Story of » St. l.nuU Toddler'*
YV underlng* f rom Homo.
Little Rosa, the four-year-old baby of
Ferdinand and Walburga Cross, of St.
Louis, has been away from home fur
two days and two nights. She strayed
away last Saturday evening, and yes-
terday she was found. She is a sweet
little thing, brave and fearless looking.
She was picked up on O’Fullon street
at the home of an Italian carpenter by
ena are again attracting attention to the officer who walks that beat.
fore long has the satisfaction of seeing
the intruder hustled off to the police
st ation.
Such was Mrs. Brown’s experience
the other afternoon. She had been out
shopping and when she returned home
about 3:30 o’clock she heard strange
noises in one of the rooms upstairs.
Certain that she had locked all the
doors before going away, she concluded
a burglar was in the house, and im-
mediately laid plans for his capture.
As quietly as possible she directed
her thirtecn-ycar-old daughter to go to
the corner drug store and telephone
for a policeman. Then she saw that
all the doors and windows were secure-
ly locked. Then she went upstairs,
taking along a six-shooter, which she
concealed in the folds of her dress.
Several rooms were explored without
success when finally Mrs. Brown got
sight of the head of a man beneath a
bed. Neither spoke a word. There
was no use for argument or parley.
The lady's revolver had been brought
into play and the burglar dared not
move. Five minutes elapsed and Mrs.
Brown wan still on guard.
Meanwhile officers from the Shef-
field avenue station were hurrying to
the house and just about the time the
lady was considering the real danger
of her position they entered the room
and dragged Jones from his hiding |
place.
Searching Jones, the officers found
that he had a revolver, which he had
feared to use. a bunch of skeleton keys
and a number of articles he had col- j
looted in the Brown residence. Justice
Mahoney held the prisoner to the crim
inal court in bond of $500.
ARGENTINE TO CHICAGO.
Eonx Pedestrian Trip Now Being .Made by j
Two Hungarians.
Two-adventure-loving Hungarians—
Antonio Blim and Louis Budinich— ;
early in August. 1892, started to walk
from Buenos Ayres to Chicago. They j
propose to write a book when they
have complet ed their long pedestrian
trip, recounting not only their experi-
ences on the journey, but giving as
well data of the countries through
which they shall have passed, that they
hope will prove of value to prospective
settlers in the southern countries.
They have recently reached Panama,
where they were made much of by cer-
gl
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the stone quarry on the lands of Charles
Carter, a wealthy farmer residing a few
miles south of Osgood, Ind. The quar-
ry is located in the bend of Cedar creek,
at the bast* of a steep and broken hill,
ami was first operated nearly fifty
years ago. The stones were then re-
moved in the tedious old-fashioned j
process of pioneer t imes.
One day an effort was made tore-
move a ledge of rooks by blasting with
gunpowder. A heavy charge was fired,
resulting in the dislodging of a vast
quantity of stone and dirt and reveal-
ing several unsuspected graves that
had been rudely fashioned in the buried
rock. One of these subterranean vaults
contained three skeletons. Two of the
fleshless and crumbling forms were of
giant proportions; the other of the
trio, supposed to be that of a female,
was of medium size, but encircling the
bare bones of its lifeless limbs were
numerous bands of silver and copper
that had evidently been worn on the
arms ana ankles during lifetime as or-
naments or tokens of rank. With the
bodies of the stalwart companions, who
had apparently been consigned to the
tomb at the same time, were relies of
rude weapons used by the Indians in
early days, and were supposed to be the
remains of warriors or chieftains en-
tombed with the corpse of their queen
or prophetess.
The other vault contained a mass of
commingled bones and appeared to be
the remains of a number of human
beings buried indiscriminately at dif-
ferent times. The long period that has
elapsed since the interment had al-
lowed tons of earth to slide over and
accumulate upon the rocky receptacle
of the unknown dead and completely
obliterated all trace of its singular ex-
istence.
The ghastly find attracted crowds of
persons to the spot, but in time it was
forgotten*save by those whose ghostly
superstition reminded them of the se-
cluded tombs that had been disturbed
by the ruthless hand of civilized man.
and around which lingered the haunt-
ing spirits of the strange dead, in-
censed at the exposure ami destruction
of their resting place.
Several of the workmen refused to
labor at the quarry after the removal
of the crumbling remains, and for some
years work was suspended at the old
“stone diggings.” In time the old
premises changed hands, and the new
owner, on coming in possession, re-
sumed work at the abandoned quarry.
For several years the labor of getting
out stone was continued uninterrupt-
ed, but one day when Chris Salless,
who still resides in that vicinity, was
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tain high officials, who aided them in
raising a eon.Jderablc sum of money to
continue their journey, for their funds
had become sadly depleted.
Leaving Buenos Ayres, Blim and
Budinich traveled first to Bolivia, stop-
ping nt the chief points of interest on
the way. From Bolivia they journeyed
up through Peru, Ecuador and Colum-
bia. Thus far they have traveled 8,900
kilometers. Much of the country
through which they have passed is
practically uninhabited and they have
been exposed to all manner of hard-
i ships. _____ __
I Fad*
The latest fad among the fair sex in
this region is to wear a rabbit’s foot,
says a writer in the Louisville Courier-
Journal. 1 have seen several young
ladies who were equipped with this
sort of an amulet. It is handsomely
set in gold and used us a clasp pin for
holding a wrap. The orthodox rabbit’s
foot has to be from an animal killed in
n graveyard in the dark of the moon,
between the hours of eleven and one
o’clock, when the ghosts walk.
Whether those that I have seen were
procured at that witching hour or
whether the fair wearers procured
them themselves I am unable to say. If
the fad spreuds the graveyard rabbit
! will have a hard time of it.
The ('olilcut Spot on Eurtli. *
The coldest place in the world Is the
region about the mouth of the McKen-
zie river, in British North America.
The thermometer there has been known
• to sink to To degrees below zero.
engaged with a force of men drilling
down below the bed of the creek a
rumbling sound startled the laborers,
kind soon the earth about them began
At* shake as if in the throes of an in-
fant earthquake. Filled with alarm
the men rushed from the locality, and
as they retreated rapid detonations
disturbed the air, although no
explosives or combustibles of any
character were about the place.
For days these strange sounds aud
rumbling reports seemed to roll from
the bowels of the earth, and then a
weird stillness followed that cast a de-
pressing dread upon the returning
workmen and forced them, by the pow-
ers of a preternatural fear, to forsake
the somber shadows of the stone-
girted glen. Once more the old stone
quarry became deserted and aban-
doned. For nearly twenty years no
stone has been quarried from its mys-
terious depths, but at varying inter-
vals the singular sounds and peculiar
commotions would recur, and, contin-
uing for days, again Vubside with the
stillness of years. During some pe-
riods of these eruptive disorders small
stones, dirt and accumulated debris
would l»e hurled into the uir a distance
of thirty or forty feet. Perfect quiet
From little Rosa’s story it seems that
down Broadway she wandered, stop-
ping once in awhile to gaze in at the
pretty things in the brilliantly-lighted
windows, but always moving further
and further away from home where the
prostrated parents were too much
stricken for tears. The hours wore on
The stores were closed, and there was
nothing but darkness all around. She
was cold, hungry and sleepy. There
was no mamma to tuck her in her little
cot, and papa had not giv«n her the
usual good-night kiss. She was so
sleepy, but still she wandered on, say-
ing:
*Tse so seepy. Where’s mamma?”
But mamma and papa were far away,
and could not see their baby’s tears nor
hear her voice.
At last she turned aside, and, drop-
ping on her knees in an areaway, she
said her prayers, for “mutter” had
taught her to do so since she could re-
member.
Sunday came, and when the people
moved about and the noise began she
came out of her little house. She was
hungry and wanted her breakfast. It
was then that two small colored boys
saw her .-fitting on the doorstep crying
and took her to a store, where they
bought some candy. This she ate and
said the blnVk boys were nice.
At last the kind and friendly carpen-
ter took her, and thinking some one
had abandoned tin* little one said
nothing until he beard that the police
were looking for her. Then he re-
porte 1 to the officers, who in turn told
the half-era zed father.
Li.tie i.'i) a. however, is quite satis-
fied that lu* world i. too big for her to
go cruising around in, and tells her
mother that she don't want to go away
any more.
ALMOST A MIRACLE.
THE CHEERFUL CALLER. ’
UniriruHiH'Hs iiml Tact in lh** Exchange of
Social CourtcmIon.
No social pleasure is enjoyed so sadly
by the average woman as that of pay-
ing calls. And the worst of it is, she
is at no pains to dissemble her sadness.
Nine timbs out of ten she tells the
friends on whom she is calling that site
las been meaning to come and see her
this long time, but it is so hard to get
started. And then she goes on to say
that it is such an effort to pay calls,
and her list is so large, and she is ap-
palled when she thinks of the calls she
owes, and she never likes to make very
“formal" calls, and so she does not ac-
complished anything to speak of in an
afternoon; some ladies whom she
knows (and evidently envies) can make
twenty visits in one day, hut she can
not. Then she says, as she takes her
leave:
“Now. please, do not be so long
about coming to see me. I did not
mean to he so slow, but 1 waited for
my cousin to come with me. it seems
so much easier to pay calls with some
one. I love to see my friends at my
home, but 1 must confess that I make
hard work of going visiting myself. Do
come soon.”
Such speeches state, in more or less
plain terms, that the visitor finds call-
ing a stiff, dull, burdensome task; hut
no offense is meant and generally none
is taken. Nevertheless it a breach
of politeness to tell your hostess that
it was an effort to come to see her or
that you have so much else to do that
vnu can hardly make it convenient to
visit her. or that, while it was almost
too much trouble to go to see her. you
Two I’igs anil a Goo*;* Curried Two Hun-
dred Miles by tin* Wind.
A strange occurrence, illustrating the
force of tlu* storms that have been visit-
ing the west recently, has just been re-
ported at Elmwood, Ind. Last Fri-
day’s lVoria (111.) Transcript contained
the following: “Last night, during the
heavy storm two hogs, each weighing
fibout 72 pounds, and a fat goose be-
longing to Sam Wain scott were blown
from his barnyard, and they have not’
been heard from since.”
However unlikely or remarkable it
may appear, the-, very pigs and tJie
identical goose blown away from Pe-
oria, 111., are now in excellent condi-
tion and living on the farm of T. J.
Hancock, west of El in wood. They were
dropped the*re by the storm which
picked them up from the barnyard of
Samuel Wainscott. They arrived in an
exhausted condition about two o’clock
that night.hu ving been hurried through
Thursday, when the singular phenom
ena again attracted public attention.
A Cincinnati Enquirer reporter con-
versed with Mr. Carter, the owner,
Chris. Laller, Attorney Creymile,
Deputy Auditor Sliuch. James Folsom,
John Bradshaw, and a number of other
ITS DARK SIDE.
Some of tin* shadow* in (lit* I Mature of Ne?
York Life.
The visitors were in a foreign city
The sho signs were in foreign tongues*
in some streets all Hebrew. Onohancf
news-stamis wen* d i split \ ed newspapers
in Russian. Bohemian. Arabic. Italian^
Hebrew. Polish, Herman none in ExH
glish. The theater hills were in 1 lee
brew and other unreadable type. The
sidewalks and the streets swarmed
with noisy dealers in every sort of sec-
ond-hand merchandise vegetables that
had seen a better day, fish in shoals.
It was not easy to make one's way
through the stands and push-carts and
the noisy dickering buyers ami sellers,
who haggled over trifles and chaffed
good-naturedly and were strictly in-
tent on their own affairs. No part of
the town is more crowded, or more in-
dustrious. If youth is the hope of the
country, tlu* sight was encouraging,
for children were in the gutters, on
tlu* house steps, at all the windows
The houses seemed bursting with hu-
manity, and in nearly every room of the
packed tenements, whet her the inmates
were sick or hungry , some sort of indus-
try was carried on. In tlu* damp base-
ments were junk dealers, rag-pickers,
goose-pickers. In one noisome cellar,
off an alley, among those sorting rags,
was an old woman of eighty-two, who
could reply to questions only in a jar-
gon. too proud to beg. clinging t<> life,
earninga few cents a day in this foul
occupation. But life is sweet even
witli poverty and rheumatism and
eighty years. Did her dull eyes, turn-
ing upward, seethe Carpathian Hills,
a free girlhood in village drudgery and
expect her to he more energetic about villa •« '.ports, then a romance of love,
coming to sec you, or words to this ef-
fect.
If a courtesy is worth paying at all
it is worth paying gracefully and gra-
ciously. The woman who realizes this
has mastered an important secret of
social popularity. When paying a visit
sin* does it cheerfully and brightly.
She does not apologize for not having
come before, in the mistaken idea that
this sound* friendly and cordial. Sin*
children, hard work, discontent, emi-
gration to a new world of promise?
And now a cellar by day, the occupa*
pat ion of cutting rags for carpets, and
at night in a corner in a close and
crowded room on a flock bed not til
for a dog. And this was a woman*!
life.
Picturesque foreign women goinp
about with shawls over their heads ant*
usually a bit of bright color some-
is sufficiently <l« .ironsof being friendly where, children at their games, hawk*
and cordial to take pains to say the ers loudly crying their stale wares, tlqj
right thing. A few moment's study of click of sewing machines heard through
her hostess tell-, her what are some of i a broken window, everywhere anima-
tlu* holy's present interests, cares or tion, life, exchange of rough or kindly
tastes, and it is easy to say a syinpa- : banter. Was it altogether so melan-
fhetie, pleasant word about them. If choly as it might seem? Not every-
she feels in her heart that she has been body was hopelessly poor, for here was
*im s in delaying the visit she says to lawyers’ sign t and doctors’ signs doc-
herself that actions speak louder than i tors in whom the inhabitants had con-
tvords, accordingly she makes no ex- { fidcncc because they charged all they
could get for their services—and thriv-
ing pawnbrokers’ shops. There were
parish schools also—perhaps others;
and off some dark alley, in a room on
tin* ground floor, could he heard the
strident noise of education going on in
high voicc*d study and recitation. Nor
were amusements lacking notices of
balls, dancing this evening, and ten*
cent shows in palaces of legerdemain
and deformity.
It was a relenting day in March,
patches of blue sky overhead, and the
sun had some quality in its shining.
The children and the caged birds at
tin* open windows felt it—and there
were notes of music here and there
above the traffic and the clamor. Turn-
ing down a narrow alley, with a gutter
in the center, attracted by festive
sounds, the visitor came into a small
stone-paved court with a hydrant in
the center, surrounded by tall tene-
ment-houses, in the windows of which
were stuffed the garments that would
no longer hold together to adorn the
person. Here an Italian girl and boy,
with a guitar and violin, were
recalling la belle Napoli and
a couple of pretty girls from the
court were footing it as merrily as if it
were the grape harvest. A woman
opened a lower room door and sharply
called to one of the dancing girls to
come in,when Edith and the doctor ap-
peared at the bottom of the alley; but
her tone changed when she recognized
the doctor, and she said, by way of
apology, that she didn’t like her
daughter to dance before strangers.
So the music and the dance went on,
even little dots of girls and boys shuf-
fling about in a stiff-legged fashion,
with applause from all the windows,
woman friends a tedious, burdensome I and at last a largess of pennies—as
undertaking, hut make the visits with ! many as five altogether—for the musi-
a determination to fjnd and give pleas- cians. And the sun fell lovingly upon
puses, but extends to her friend some
pleasant invitation or other attention.
She acts as if the visit were a pleas-
ure to her. and she makes it a pleasure
to her hostess. She does not discuss
the effort that it is to make calls, or
the hired girl's lapses from ideal stand-
ards of cooking and conduct, or her
husband's dyspepsia, with its usual
and distressing symptoms, or the trials
of spring house-cleaning. Not that
sin* avoids commonplace subjects, she
knows that they are universally inter-
esting, but she tries to seize upon the
original and entertaining side of them,
and when tin* commonplace details of
a commonplace subject are interesting
to no one but herself she has the sense
to realize it, and not to tire anyone
with them. She deserves and wins ad-
miration and friends because she is
cheerful and interesting. Of course,
not every woman can be cheerful and
interesting, but women fail in those
qualities far more often from lack of
effort than from lack of natural gifts.
One would not think of giving a
present and saying: “It was a good
deal of trouble to go down town to get
this,” or “I had to economize a long
time before I could buy this,” or “I
meant to have given you this little
present a long time ago, but I could
not find time to attend to it,” however
true these things might be. There is
no excuse for making equally ungra-
cious speeches about paying calls. Any
social courtesy should be given U« the
same spirit in which one makes a gift.
If it has cost us something, it is more
generous and dignified to say nothing
about it.
Think it over, sister women, and do
not consider a round of visits to your
Effort and common sense and kind-
ness of heart are necessary for the ox-
the pretty scene.
But then there were the sweaters’
dens, and the private rooms where half
l ereise of tact. There is not much ex- . a dozen pale-faced tailors stitched and
euse for a lack of it, and it is its own pressed fourteen and sometimes sixteen
reward, for it wins and holds friends hours a day; stifling rooms, smelling
and makes sunshine in the heart from j <>f the hot goose and steaming cloth;
which it springs, and in the hearts rooms where they worked, where the
which feel its gentle, almost i in percept- cooking was done, where they ate, and
ible touch. Education in polite rules late at night, when overpowered with
is good, blit tact is an infallible guide, i weariness, lay down to sleep. Strug-
for it is equal to emergencies where cs- gle for life everywhere, ami perhaps
lnl.l ml M.tl.w (f> 1 1 9 I ' l . . . I (1i.4 (ill mi I _ ... .1 ! i .. .. i 1 L — .. A. ___ I —
tablished rules fail. The tactful per-
son does not err in the mere forms of
politeness because he is guided by the
true fine spirit of it.—Alice L. Clark, in
N. Y. Ledger.
the air 200 miles at lightning speed al-
most. and when tin* storm's fury had
been » xpended they alighted without
injury and none the worse for their j
strange adventure. It was two o'clock ;
at night when Mr. Hancock was
had prevailed in'the shunn/d localitv I mlt 1ht' lot '>**»’,idlnjr to some stock,
for more than five years until last I it in <nr of the storm, when the
three animal: dropped down on the
ground from the roaring blackness of
the clouds, surprising him beyond meas-
ure. lie made inquiry of all his neigh-
bors, but could not find where they
eamc* from.
Finally the ii i in the Transcript
Intelligent and prominent parties, and | n"' '"V* h“ V'rotu "“«»
recent disclosures lead them to the !" Mr.' /""T f"r a .Cscrip-
turn i»f the strange animals in Ids lot.
theory that probubly the peculiar dis-
turbances are occasioned by the pres-
ence of natural gas, that at times mi-
ller an increased pressure is forced
(through fissures in the rock und pro-
duces the explosions that agitate the
locality. But a majority of persons who
know of tin* singular facts connected
(with the place an* positive that the pe-
culiar occurrence Is produced by oc-
cult forces under the control of super-
.natural agenees, seeking to revenge
S<* thoroughly is he convinced that they
art* the property of Mr. Wainscott that
he has written that gentleman to come
and get his stock. The distance from
l’eoria to where they were dropped is
over 200 miles, and the occurrence is
little short of miraculous.
These Were Yeffetarlun Cannibal*.
The people of Marquette, Mich., be-
came indignant because a traveling
circus advertised that at high noon the
desecration of the stony sepulchers of cannibals would be fed, and when high
the savage dead, and with nupersti- noon came they were fed on potatoes
1 Itiots awe seek to avoid the place as | Instead of what was expected. The
strenuously as they would the abode of proprietor said he had converted them
the damned. to vegetarianism.
Proper Gamlnhe*.
Some cooks never know just what to
serve with different meats as relish.
Following is a table of things con-
sidered the proper caper: With roast
beef, grated horseradish; roast mutton,
currant jelly; boiled mutton, caper
sauce; roast pork, apple sauce; boiled
chicken, bread sauce; roast lamb, mint
sauce; roast turkey, oyster sauce; veni-
son or wild duck, black currant jelly;
broiled fresh mackerel, sauce of stewed
gooseberries; boiled blue fish, white
cream sauce; broiled shad, boiled rice
and salad; compote of pigeons, mush
room sauce;
with cream sauce; roast goose, applo
sauce.—Chicago Tribune.
Knrou rug I ng.
He—I had a queer dream about you
last night, Miss Louisa. 1 was about
to give you a kiss, when suddenly we
were separated by a river that gradu-
ally grew as big as the Rhine.
x She And was there no bridge, no
boat?—Fliegende 1 Rutter.
I*roof of It.
Von Blumer—Are those new night
shirts your wife made you a success?
Witherby—Yes, indeed! I wore one
of them to church the other day under-
neath my regular, ami l didn’t sleep a
wink.— Puck.
no more discontent and heart-burning
and certainly less enuui than in the
palaces on the avenues.—Charles Dud
ley Warner, in Harper’s Magazine.
I.ate*t l iul In < iifthioiift.
Not only fashions, but common sense
and experience, too, have decreed that
the softest und most luxurious filling
for a sofa cushion is the down of milk-
weed pods. The farmers will no long
er he troubled with the multiplying of
this one-time troublesome weed if the
pastures and country highways over o
large part of the country arc as thor-
oughly gleaned of it this season as a
few sections were last autumn. The
pods should be gathered just before
they are ready to split open. The
green husks must be stripped off the
pods und the seeds pinched off careful-
fresh salmon, green peas ly with the fingers. Have ready some
hags of coarse net, and strip the down
from the cores into them. Every
seed and bit of core must las re
moved, us their oily matter might he
come disagreeable. The hags should
hung in a warm, dry place for two
weeks or more, after which they are
ready for use. As every one knows,
the down is very light, and it will take
a half barrel of pods to fill a cushion
twenty inches square. To fully appre-
ciate this dainty tilling, the softest sill#
or brocade should be used for the cov-
er. Besides the advantage of its light*
ness and softness, some persons claia
that this vegetable down is much coolei
to the head than the down of feathers
— Dc more si's Mairuziue.
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