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ROLLED CAKES.
Easily Prepared" If You Only Know How
to Proceed.

There are several species of rolled
cakes which require special treatment.
The best known of these are the rolled
sponge cakes, which are usually spread
with jelly, custard, soft chocolate or
some fillings rolled up while warm,
and when cooled out off in slices from
the end. These cakes are easily pre-
pared, although the amateur is often un-
successful because of her failure to ob-
serve two or three simple things neces-
sary to success. .. -

Beat the yolks of four eggs with two-
thirds of a cup of powdered sugar. This
portion of the work can be done effec-
tually with a patent beater, because all
that is necessary is a vigorous stirring.

Beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff -

froth with an egg whip, add a table-
spoonful of lemon juice. to the yolks and
sugar. Stir it in. Fold in the beaten
whites of the eggs, being careful not
to stir or you would break down the
whites. Sift two-thirds of a cup 10f
pastry flour with half a teaspoonful of
baking powder twice, then sift it into
the other ingredients. Mix it in care-
fully with an egg whip. Spread the
cake batter evenly on a flat biscuit
tin and bake it 15 minutes. Take it out
of the oven and spread it while warm
with jelly. The edges of the cake are
apt to be dry and hard; trim these 01f
evenly. Begin rolling a little firmly at
first and continue until the roll is
formed. Pin it in compact form in a
napkin or a strip of clean cotton, when
it will stay in place. Cut off slices half
an inch thick from the ends. Currant
or crab—apple makes excellent jelly.
When the cake is flavored with vanilla
use a soft chocolate to spread on it.
Soak a tablespoonful of gelatine in
three tablespoonfuls of cold water foi-
two hours. Add a quarter of a cup of
boiling water and one and two-third
cups of powdered sugar. Scrape finc
two ounces of chocolate and melt it
over the fire with two tablespoonfuls
of water, and stir it with the other in-
gredients until a smooth paste is formed.
Spread it on the cake and roll it up
rapidly. This cake is very nice spread
with a boiled icing in which a cup of:
grated cocoanut has been. stirred.
Flavor this cocoanut cake with orange
ext-raCt.—-N. Y. Tribune. afi‘," . ’
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43 SPRING WRAPS.
Capes and Jackets Will Both Be‘Worn;
5. . with the Latter in the Lead; -'.
E“ It is too early for genuine novelties in
spring wraps which can be accepted as
the reigning style. of the season, but a
few models which are at least new may
serve as suggestions of things to come.
Capes and jackets will both be worn,
and the latter, cut with loose fronts and
sack back, seem destined to lead the
styles in coats. They are made in
smooth-faced cloths and in velvet as
well, when the yoke is usually trimmed
with jet. The plaited back is much
more graceful than the straight out,
and the yoke of the velvet coat is cov-
ered with colored silk passementeric,
while accordion-plaited chiffon forms
the epaulets and full neck ruche.

‘Another coat of black cloth is slightly
curved at the side seam to fit. in to the
figure, and the fullness is arranged in
two decided box plaits. The epaulets
are of white satin, closely beaded with
black. Capes are cut reasonably full
and more sloping on the shoulder to
hang gracefully over the drooping
sleeves, and finished at the neck with a
ruche of ribbon and chiffon, unless
made of cloth, when they have a high
standing collar. One model is carried
out in black duchess satin, decorated
with applique figures of colored passe-
menterie, and has a V of black velvet
down the back and front, edged with
a frill of black kilted chiffon.

The second cape is decidedly a sum-
mer garment, and is made of gauzy
black grenadine over a black glace silk
lining. Chine silk flowers are applied
at intervals with opal colored beads
and black paillettes, and the ruffle on
the edge and ruche around the neck are
double, of black chiffon over white.
Tailor~made capes are in all the shades
of fawn cloth, stitched around with
white silk, and a stylish high collar is
cut out in squares around the edge,
where it is faced with velvet—N. Y.
Sun.

 

Glazed Chops.

Procure a dozen French chops; have
the end bone entirely taken off.
Fasten all the chops together with a
skewer and tie them tightly in a good
shape. Put them in boiling water,
add a sliced onion, bit of celery and bay
leaf. Boil hard for five minutes, and
then simmer for one hour. Take out
and cool. When cold separate chops
and trim neatly. Make a half pint of
cream sauce; add to it while hot 3.
quarter of a box of gelatine that has
been soaked a quarter of an hour. Stir
the sauce until it begins to thicken.
Dip each chop in this and lay on aflat
dish and put in the refrigerator until
wanted. These will stand for one or
two days. When ready to serve ar-
range them around a mound of mayon-
naise of celery. Garnish each chop
with a bit of tomato espic and serve.—
St. Louis Republic.

 

A Brain Association. .

Prof. Wilder, of COrnell university,
is the founder of the most unique asso-
ciation in the world. It is known as
“The Cornell Brain Association,” and it
seeks to induce educated and eminent
persons to bequeath at death their
brains for scientific examination for
the benefit of mankind. Up to date
eight. brains have been secured and 25
persons of note have promised the so-
ciety their brains when the owners have
no further use for them. Among these
25 are Mrs. McGee, daughter of Simon
Newcomb, the astronomer, and Rev.
Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira~ Blank
forms of bequest are constantly sent

i cut, with circulars explaining the ob-

jects, to the men and wofnen‘who are

. acknowledged leaders in the literary,

artistic and sciemific‘world.—Chicago
Inter Ocean. . . ’

 

ADVANTAGES OF LIBERIA. -'

Prof. O. F. Cook Speaks of the‘Afrlcan
Republic.

Prof. 0. F. Cook, of Huntington, L.
I., who has spent the winter in Liberia,
Africa, studying the plant and animal
life of that region, has returned to His
home. ‘ He says, according to the Repub-
lic, that the advantages of Africa as
a place of residence, even for the white
race, are but imperfectly understood.
Liberia is naturally no more unhealth-
ful than other tropical countries, in
which civilization has taken root, such
as India and South America, and, as in
these cases, the healthfulness increases
as the forests are cleared away and bet-
ter conditions of life rendered possible
through improvements in transporta-
tion. Mr. Cook has spent several sea-
sons in Africa in pursuing his investi-
gation in the interest of the American
and the New York State Colonization
societies, with a view to ascertaining
the possibility of resuming, under new
plans, the colonization of Liberia with
negroes from the United States». He
says former movements in that direc-
tion have failed through want of proper
management rather than on account of
any insurmountable difficulties inher-
ent in the idea of colonization or in the
nature of the country Where settlements
of American negroes were attempted.
That something is possible, he says,
is demonstrated by the fact that many
colonists who left America 15 or 20 years
ago with nothing have now coffee
farms, yielding incomes greater than
their owners can spend, while others
have achieved independence in much
less time. ~

MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT.

President McCosh's Novel Method of Com-
plying with a. Request.

President McCosh, of Princeton, is
the subject of this story, says the New
York Call, which is vouched for by old
Princeton men: “The venerable doctor
was accustomed to lead the morning
exercises in the chapel every day, and
during the exercises in the chapel gave
out the notices to the students. The
closing exercise was a fervent prayer
by the doctor. One morning, after he
had read the notices as usual, a student
came up with another notice t1: zit Prof.
Karge‘s French class would I": at. nine
o’clock that day, instead of 9:30, as
usual. Dr. MeCosh said it was too late,
but thé student insisted that Prof.
Ilar‘ge would be much disappointed if
the not-ice was not read. The exercises
went on, and the doctor forgot all about
the notice. He started to make the final
prayer. He prayed for the president of
the United States, the members of the
cabinet, the senators and representa-
tives, the governor of New Jersey, the
mayor and other officials of Princeton,
and then came to the professors and in-
structors in the college. In the mean-
time. Prof. Krage's notice came into his
mind and the assembled students were
astonished to hear the venerable presi-
dent say: ‘And, 0 Lord, bless Prof.
Karge, whose French class will be held
this morning at nine o’clock, instead of
at 9:30, as usual.’ ”

CH EERFUL PROSPECT. .

What a Young Minister Had to Inspire
Pleasant Thoughts.

A nervous young minister, in visiting
a neighboring village, had an unpleas-
ant experience. The old lady at whose
house he stayed, in showing him'to his
room, said:

“It ain’t anybody I’d put in this room.
This here room is full of sacred associa-
tions to me,” she went on. “My first
husband died in that bed with his head
on these pillows, and poor Mr. Jenks
died sitting in that corner. Sometimes
when I come into the room in the dark
I think I see him sitting there still. My
own father died} layin’ right on that
lounge right under the window there.
Poor pa, he was a Spiritualist, and he
allus said he’d appear in thisroom after
he died, and sometimes I am foolish

enough to look for him. If you should

see anything of him to-night you'd
better not tell me. It’d be a sign to me
that there was something in spiritual-
ism, and I’d hate to think that. My son
by my first man fell dead of heart dis-
ease right where you stand. He was a
doctor, and there’s two whole skele-
tons in that closet there belonged to
him, and half a dozen skulls in that
lower drawer. If you are up early and
want something to amuse yourself
with before breakfast just open that
cupboard there and you will find a lot
of dead men’s bones. My poor boy
thought a lot of them. .Well, good-
night, and pleasant dreams.”

EXERCISE A N ECESSITY.

Early Decline of Physical Powers Due to
Neglect of Athletics.

Beyond the age of 40—at a. period
when so many are physically lazy—the
superior value of exercise is apparent,
but ordinarily this is just the time
when the hygient of athletics is neg-
lected, aptly observes Rev. F. S. Boot.
There is no reason why apunching bag,
rowing machine, pulley weights and
other apparatus should be relegated to
college boys and clerks. But, having
done a good deal of work in his time,
it is almost impossible to persuade a-
business or professional man turning
40 to give any sort of attention to phys-
ical culture if such training has been
previously neglected. It is an inexora-
ble physiological law-that we can only
retain our bodily or mental powers by
properly using them. Exercise is not
a matter of choice, but of necessity.

 

Drinking by Instinct.

Some discussion has lately occurred
in scientific journals on the question
whether ' newly-hatched chickens wi.
drink water if the mother hen does not
Set them the example. Mr. H. W. E1-
liott, in a letter to Science, answers
positively that chickens will drink of
their own accord. He has frequently
placed a dish of water before a brood
hatched the day before, and observed
the chickens, without aily maternal
teaching or assistance, putting their
bills into the water and lifting up their
heads to swallow it, in the manner of
full-grown fowls.

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sucCEss OF. THREE SISTERS.

Reverses in Fortune Induce Them to
Open 9. Lunch Room.

The city of Cincinnati possesses a
striking example of what can be done
by woman’s pluck when accompanied
by practical common sense. Twelve
years ago the Misses Stewart, three
young women who had been reared in
wealth, were by business failures
thrown upon their own resources.

They- secured a room in a business
block and established a lunch-room,
where they made a specialty of home
cookery. Most of the work they did
with their own hands, and the excel-
lence of their supplies soon created a
demand. The little lunch-room became

a success, and at the end of five years,

when the great Chamber of Commerce
building was put up and there was to be
a large restaurant connected with it,
the Misses Stewart boldly applied for
it. They were backed by many of the
best business men of the cit-y, who had
known them in their days of wealth

and been impressed by their ability as

business women. Their bid was ac-
cepted, the Misses Stewart assumed
charge of the “Glencairn” lunch-room,
and have conducted it without a break
or a. failure for the last seven years.

The clientele is very large. For rent
and services alone the yearly expenses
are $10,000. The prices charged for
food are very reasonable, yet the sis-
ters not only paid all expenses, but live
in comfort and are becoming wealthy.
They have never lost social position by
going into business, and during their
entire career have never had to borrow
a dollar. '

POISONED AIR.

What Produces Discomfort in a. Crowded
Room.

A very important investigation into
the nature of the substances contained
in air expired by human beings, says
the London Graphic, has just been
completed by two prominent men of
science in America, Dr. J. S. Billings
and Dr. S. I’Veir Mitchell.
of their extended researches they de-
clare that “the discomfort produced by
crowded, ill-ventilated rooms, in per-
sons not accustomed to them, is not
due to the excess of carbonic acid, nor
to bacteria, nor in most cases to dust
of any kind. The two great causes of
such discomfort, though not the only
ones, are excessive temperatures and
unpleasant odors.” But though the
air actually expired by healthy men
and animals contains no more poison-
ous substances than carbonic acid gas,
experiments on the air in inhabited

rooms and hospital wards are said to

show that an important source of con-
tamination is the minute particles of
dusts, in which there. are micro-organ-
isms, and it seems probable. that these
are the only really dangerous elements
in the air. These views, and the con-
clusion that the presence of carbonic
acid gas is not a trustworthy criterion
of the existence of other and more poi-
sonous exhalations, are likely to be
questioned by many students of ventila~
tion.

As a result -

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' WIG RIovs.‘

Troubles Among the Hairdressers of
Olden Times.

A long chapter might be written on
hairdressers, their rights and wrongs
and revolutions; but they have always
been stanch tories in their hatred of
wigs. England had her wig riot in the
reign of George 11.; Milan had hers in
the reign of Maria Theresa. It arose
from an audacious attempt by some
restless innovator to cover every
fashionable head in Milan with a wig
of steel or silver wire, warranted to
save some three hours’ daily toil and
endurance in the dressing of the hair.
Up rose the hairdressers like one man,
and petitioned the empress to save
them from the threatened ruin of their
art.

The empress listened to their prayer,
and straightway decreed that anyone
wearing one of these new-fangled
periwlgs must pay a fine of fifty
sequins or be thrice scourged in
public. She further empowered the
police to search private houses for the
offending article, and to destroy it if
found. To this imperial legislation
Goldoni alludes in the doggerel lines:

In that great day it came to pass

That a gentle countess was forced, alas!

For her hairdressers sake to forego her
mass.

He kept her too long at her toilet.
Ten years later another satirist pub-
lished an “Account of a Prodigious
Comet Lately Seen at Milan,” the
comet being a transcendent specimen
of the hairdresser’s art, erected on the
head of a certain noble dame—Mac-
millsn’s Magazine.

H.

TRANSPORTATION INTERESTS.

DURING the hot week in May the
rails on the drawbridge over the Pas-
saic in Newark expanded so as to lock
the draw.

ON July 13 the Empire state express
ran from Syracuse to Albany, one hun-
dred and forty-nine miles, in one hun-
dred, and forty-nine minutes, including
a stop of eight minutes at Utica.

THE Pennsylvania company has a
new rule which prohibits road agents
from selling anything except news-
papers and periodicals on its Sunday
trains.

THE Pennsylvania company has is«
sued a rule forbidding the use of freight
cars not complying with the federal
law concerning grab irons and the
height of the drawbars.

THE inventor of the Reynolds ven-
tilator, now in use on all Pullman cars,
was a colored man, who at one time
was a porter on one of the Pullman
sleeping cars.

In order to create travel for a branch
line that is not doing very well, the
Detroit Citizens’ Street railway com-
pany has made a two-and-one-half-cent
fare during the hours from seven to
ten p. m.

I; is reported there is a car on a Den-
ver road which is making two hundred
and eighty miles a day, turns sixteen
right-angled curves every twenty-min-
utes, and has been on the line for
months without repairs.

 

 

 

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_ Ull UNEVEN RACE.

The Desperate Run of a. Brave
California Bronco.’

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He Keeps Ahead of a. Thoroughbred Race-
,horsc Until Ito Falls from Exhaus-
tion - A Thrilling Narra-

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An exciting story is told by Crom-
well Galpin, in St. Nicholas, of a race
between a bronco and a big thorough-
bred horse. The former was ridden
by a mere boy, a Californian, who had
to file a certain paper in court before
noon in order to retain possession of a
farm. The writer says:

There was still wanting the one
thing that stirs a racer to his utmost
endeavor. Felipe had almost forgot-
ten the horse behind him. Two-eyes
had not. He had been on the alert,
horse fashion, with one car now and
again turned, and increased his speed
as the thoroughbred drew near. Felipe
turned his head with a. sick feeling
that in a. minute more he would not be
obliged to turn his head to see. One
sidelong glance showed him a. bay
horse with his head in the air, his
dainty ears upright and his frothing
mouth wide open. The rider stood in
his stirrups, leaning over his horse’s
neck with the reins wound around his
hands. White foam had gathered at
the saddle girth, and sweat dropped
from the horse’s body as he ran.

Felipe shut his teeth, and turned his
face toward Los Angeles. He did not
need to look long nor to know very
much about horses to see that this one
was a. true race horse, and the man a
steady and a skillful rider. rev

And Two-eyes? Two-eyes heard the
quick hoof-beats, andthe “huh-huh,
huh-huh” of a. horse at speed, and felt
hot breath on his flanks as the thor-
oughbred drew alongside.

Not the unmusical cry of Tomas, not
the fierce shriek of the savage who in
the old days rode him—neither beating
with knotted rope, nor ‘cruel stroke of
sharpest spur—could have gained from
the bronco horse "the response he gave
to the challenge of the thoroughbred.
The big head came down closer to-the
ground, the hairy ears were laid back
till the mane concealed them, and the
deep lungs labored as, through blazing
nostrils, the horse sucked in the strong
salt breeze.

So far the race had been run over level
ground; but as the riders approached
the city, the country became hilly and
the road rougher.

It was not for nothing that Two-eyes
had spent five wild years in the Sierra
Madrcs, where the gray wolf and the
mountain lion are always swift and al-
ways hungry; nor was it without ad-

vantage that Felipe’s tomboy sister,

Ignacia, had raced the pinto horse over
this road till it was as familiar to him
as the stableyard at home. To the
bronco horse, used to the mountains
from colthood, the hilly road appeared
to be rather a relief. He galloped la-
boriously up the little hills and rushed
down the opposite sides with a speed
that took away his rider’s breath; he
jumped from hillock to hollow, and
across the little gulches; he dodged the
spots where reedlike grass showed that
the ground was .wet and soft; and
whether running or trotting or pro-
gressing by irregular jumps, he went on
his way with scarcely lessened speed.

The thoroughbred had never been al-'
lowed to run except on a. smooth and
level track. He refused to leap the
first gully which crossed the road,
though it was scarcely a foot wide.
When Harry made him face it again, he
jumped ten feet farther than was nec-
essary, and stopped stock-still upon the
opposite side. Then he bolted side-
wise, and ran in the wrong direction;
and Harry felt as if his arms were be-
ing pulled off as he forced his horse to
return to the road.

As -for Two-eyes, he did what he
could. He was old, as horses’ years are
counted. He had run many races for
Apache masters who jerked his head
from side to side, and threw him out of
his stride, in their ignorant and fero-
cious efforts to make him go faster. ' In
all his life there had been but one year
in which his feed was regular and good;
of all the masters he had ever known
this was the only one who had called
upon him for speed, riding with steady
hand and watchful eye and inspiring
voice, sparing him needless pain.

It is bronco nature to respond
heartily to these things, and Two-eyes
tried desperately to keep away from
the clattering hoofs behind him. His
breath came in gasps; his mouth was.
dry, and his sight was dim; his trem-
bling legs grew weak as side by side the
horses raced down the street leading to
the courthouse, now hardly a mile
away.

As in a nightmare, Felipe saw-the
thoroughbred forge ahead, the bony
head outstretched and— down to the
level of the withers, the dainty' ears
laid flat, the crimson nostrils widely
spread, and the eyes glaring with fierce
eagerness:

The bronco ran on, but unstea‘dily.
Felipe drew his legs out from under the
rope, and as he did so the bronco’s feet

- sank in the soft earth where a little

stream crossed the street. The horse’s
courage was greater than his strength.
He plunged forward half a. dozen
stumbling strides, and fell just at the
edge of the little stream.

Felipe slid over his horse’s head into
a patch of tules, and lay, half stunned
but not hurt, while the thoroughbred
horse passed out of sight and hearing,
and the dust his flying feet had raised
settled down upon ‘the quiet street.

 

Singular Case of Blindness.

Mrs. Jonathan Rowe, of South Atkin-
son, Me., who has been totally blind
for twenty years, experienced an odd
partial recovery of he'r sight a few days
ago. She suddenly became able to see
quite distinctly one afternoon about

two o’clock, but her vision was,~ totally"

obscured again in two hours}. SinCe
then she has been able to see everyday
between about two and four o’clock in
the afternoon, but during the r st of
the twenty-four hours is as ind as
formerly. _, ‘ r

 

 

AMONG THE .APACHE‘S.‘

 

An Arizona Miner’s Experience

with the Indians.

 

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How He Rescued a. Mother Squaw and
Her Twin Babies from Death at '
the Hands of Her Super- 1

stltious Tribesmen. i‘ .

 

“Superstition forms the greater part
of the Indian’s character,” said J ohnI
Elwood the otherday. There are few
people that are in closer touch with
the Indians, and especially the
Apaches, than Jack Elwood. as he is
familiarly known'through the Rockies.
Jack is a. character. Early in the ’60:
Jack went west to California. ”His
fortune did not come at once, and
finally Jack drifted back toward the 3
land of the rising sun. He finally,
landed in Arizona, and for years has.
been one of the best-known pros-
pectors in that territory? He lives at
Phoenix, and is getting almost too old,.
one would think, to keep up his efforts
to uncover a fortune, but it would not
be safe to tell Jack Elwood that. In.
the latter part of the ’80: Jack had an
experience while crossing the plain:
that led to his close relations with the
Apaches, and since then he has been
one of the few who have the friend-
ship and confidence of this band of
warriors. ~ ‘ H

“ ‘How did I get my great stand-in
with the Apaches?’ Well, I’ll tell youI
I hardly know,” continued Elwood.
“I sort of grew into their confidence,
and have shared it more or less since
about 1886. ‘Long in January of that
year I had an occasion to get pretty inc ~
timately acquainted with the Apaches.

“ In PhOenix in a back street stands
a little adobe houSe. It is of! by itself
and its occupants have no communion
with any of their neighbors. It is the
home of an Indian by the name of
Melo, who, with his wife and two chil-
dren, live a quiet and solitary life.
They, like all Indians, are claunish.I
They do not want to associate with the
outside world and have little or noth-
ing to do with their own people. I am
about the only one who ever gets in-
side ,the threshold of that little adobe
cottage. From its doorway to the
east can be seen in the distance ‘Four
Peaks,’ with their summits covered
with snow. Between Phoenix and
these mountains is a broad desert.

“Early in January, 1886, I was cross‘
ing that desert with a. team. It is
quite a. trip, and the valley is quite
warm even in January. It is necessary
to carry water across this plain, and I
had a goodly supply in a barrel on the
wagon. Everything was going along
in good shape until nearly noon. when
an accident resulted in the loss of every
drOp of water we had. It was impos-
sible to proceed far without water, and'
yet to remain there would be equally,
as serious. We did our best. ’Long in
the evening I was picked up by a. band
of Apaches in an almost exhausted con.
dition. They gave me water, and one
young couple who seemed to be supe-
riorto .the others in intelligence fed
me. I, however, did not have'my full
senses. The terrible strain on a dry
alkali plain without water and in a
burning sun was enough to turn any-
one’s brain, I want to tell you.

“Indians are superstitious, illogical
and childish to a degree of which no
civilized man hasany conception. This
was to my advantage. They thought
,,me insane. and as they regard one out
of his natural mind as something su-
pernatural and to be revered they
treated me with the greatest kindness.
1 did not trust the Indians, and hence
when I began to recover my mental
balance I tried to give no outward evi-
dence of this fact and wandered among
them in a solitary and speechless man-
ner. I was shamming to get away all
the time.

“A few days after my arrival at camp
twin boys were born to the young wife
of the_Indian who had fed me and
cared for me. This is not any more
uncommon among the Indians than
elsewhere, and, although the red man
is passionately fond of children, yet
the appearance of twins and a. crazy
man (as they thought me) forebode
them evil, and the medicine man said
that Mrs. Melo was a witch, and. that
she and her infants must be sacrificed.
Melo pleaded for his wife, without
avail. She did not attempt to escape.
I was not yet able to understand the
Indian language, and it was some time
before I was aware of what troubled
my young friends. Already the dance
had commenced, and only a. few hours
remained before the mother and her
'children would be burned. I made my _
escape, and succeeded in reacniwr the
agency. Here, With much Lou-ole, I
secured a detachment of cavalry, and
led them back to the Indian camp. I
had no hope of being in time; but,
fortunately, the chief had eaten some-
thing that did not agree with him, and
the sacrifice was postponed afew hours.
When we rode up the noise of the beat-
ing of tom-toms and the singing of
dancers drowned out the sound of our
approach. In the distance we could
see the young wife and her two chil-
dren being driven into her shack, and.
the warriors, with burning firebrands,
gradually closing in to ignite the fun-
eral pile. At this moment we were dis-
covered, and the dance was brought
to a standstill. The presence of the
troopers was sufficient. I persuaded
Melo and his wife to return to Phoenix
with me. They have lived there since,
and aided me in gaining knowledge of
the customs of the Apaches. ”—Chicago
Inter Ocean. '

 

 

, Russian Proverbs.

Many familiar proverbs ohthe Rus-
sian people have a. cynical flavof. Here
is a little group of them:

Words are not arrows,
farther.

After the fight, there‘are lots of brave
men. .

The bread of others is sweet.

Seat- a lout at your table and he will
put his feet on it: . .'
The rare visitor is a jolly companion.

' He who robs, sins once; he who is
robbed, sins ten times

Pure gold makes itself known. even‘

but the}: dy

 

in the dirt.-—-Youth’s Companion. J‘