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CARLIE; —OR. - At Wliose Door Shall the Sin Be Laicl ? .A NOVEL. BY FLOBENCE ALDBN GrBAY. COPYRIGHTED. ALL RIGHTS RE3KBYKD.] CHAPTER II. The boy began low enough, but he never made » President. Mary remained a few moments, kneeling, trfter Carlie left the room, then she was roused out of her sorrow by the sound of top. birg on his return trip, and stepping out, she bells, which she knew rrow by tobethi i« doctor's stop- encountered him, just entering. One ijlance he gave her, and then: \I thought now it would be, and so I stopped. Is there anyone with you?\ \No; it was so Budden. We are alone.\ \I will go for my wife and Mrs. Brown, who will stay with you until all is done. But first, how does he take it?\ \Please go in, doctor, and Bpeak to him; be his never moved.\ Thus importuned, Dr. Graham went in, but it was some time before Janie and her father could be prevailed upon \to leave that room and retire; but, long before morning, both were sound asleep from the effect of an opiate given them by the doctor. When all was done, Mary, leaving the two women below who had came at Dr. Graham's bidding, went up stairs to Carlie, who had resisted all Janie's attempts to got her in bed. \She wished to be alone,\ she said; but when Mary pleaded with her to try and rest, telling bor that mamma had left her in her care, and wanted her to be a mother to her, \Did she say that?\ came feebly from the bedclothes. \Yes said Mary. \Will you lie by me and let me hold your hand, as she always did?\ \Yes darling, I will.\ And together at last they sunk into a deep sleep. And there let us leave them, and pass over that tad day, when they put out of sight the form so dear to-them all; pass over the breaking up of, the little home, pass over a gap of about two and one-half years, for, although in this lapse of time much occurred in the life of Carhe's friends that was worthy of note, we have to do princi- pally from this on with her own life, and, although I am tempted to digress, I for- pear, knowing the reader will be far more interested in following the fortunes of her whose name I have taken for my title; I do cot say my heroine, for there was nothing really heroic in Carlie's life for some years, If ever, but a sad romance with a shadow- ing of tragedy, of which more anon. At § resent she is Rearing her 17th birthday; a eautiful, mirth-loving, careless girl, and f et withal, possessed with that natural dig- nity which adds such a charm to her lovely maidenhood, and gives her the grace of far maturer yearn A trifle vain, perhaps, but rery lovable, making friends wherever she jhaiued to be. The tit at six months after ier mother's de th was spent with Mary, ihen came the death of old Mr. Stanton, fame's husband; then Janie had insisted anon Carlie making her home with her. She was lonely, so she said to Carlie, with only Mrs. Tucker, her housekeeper, for compauy. To Mary, who was reluctant to give her up, she urged still graver reasons. She was in a position to do more for her she said, but this alone would not have sufficed, but her advantages for an educa- tion at Frankfort, with Janie, were far superior to any Mary could hope to offer her, and as it was but a short distance by rail from Bradbury. Mary's home. : She soon withdrew her objections, albeit with many misgivings, fearing, as did her mother,-that the influence which would surround her in Janie's home, would hardly prepare her for the grave duties of life. The little which Mary saw of Carlie, how- ever, during the two years she was with Janie, did not tend to make her uneasy. At 16 she had graduated at the high school, then wishing to complete a course of study she had commenced in music, she stayed en with Janie, antil August set her free, and now she is »t libeny to go to Mary, for a visit at least, but she hesitates. She and Janie have a secret row between them—something, the latter owns to herself, she greatly fears Mary, with her old foggy notions, will not iprrove; \but still,\ she argues, \have I not done more for Carlie than she, and am I not looking out for her good now in this? \ Carlie is engaged—yes, and has been for two mouths. Janie had intended to write Mary immediately, for it really was an affair of her own managing, but the time has slipped by, until now, she says to her- self, she dreads it just a little. And Carlie. seated at the piano, idly drumming, is to leave her to go to Mary on the morrow, and after a short time join her father in New York, as Janie had thought it necessary for bet to see a little of the world before she married. It was useless to say settled down—Janie hoped she would never do that. Mr. Ramson (whose time was mostly spent with a brother's family in the great city.) had written for her to come to bine, and in September she is to go. Eight here a step in the hall roused Mrs Stanton from her reverie, and, rising frotf the easy chair upon which she was half re- clining, she was about to advance to see who was walking iu upon them so uncere- moniously, when the figure of a young man of perhaps 27 yeaiB appeared at the open door, and, entering, exclaimed: \Excuse me, Mrs. Stanton, but I found the doors open, and, hearing the music, ventured to step in without ringing.\ Then to Carlie, who had half risen from the piano: \Don't please;,, I should like nothing better than to sit herj in this shady rcom, and listen to suets music as you were discoursing.\ \It—yes interrupts Carlie, \it is trulv wonderful. Mr. Reimer, what a cultivated ©ar you are developing, the tune which eo particularly pleased you this time wais 'Old Hundred.' You have heard it before have you not?\ \Yes; ah! I don't really know. I see yoti are laughing at me again, Miss Carlie; \but Some time I hope to improve in these mat- ters. You will have to make me over at mother does her half-worn dresses.\ \And with just as much success, per- haps, \ thought Carlie,as Mrs.Reimer,senior, appeared before her vivid imagination in one of her latest made-over gowns, and then, aloud: \I will nkv for vou. Mr. Jttetuier. upo:i one condition, and that is that you sit where you aro in that chair, and keep very quiet until I get through. Janie, 1 am sure, is too languid to exert herself in conversation, and it will be some weeks before I shall again see a piano, as Mary has none.\ \The condition is easily complied with, Miss Carlie; this room is deuced comfort- able, on such a hot afternoon as this. I don't really see how you keep it so cool here.\ \We are so very cool ourselves, Mr. Rei- mer, that we actually produce a chill upon the atmosphere.\ \Speak for yourself Miss Saucybox,\ in- terposes sleepy Janie from her comfort- able position, \I am sure I am not at pres- ent in a condition to verily your statement.' \Well I hardly think you are in a condi- tion to argue the subject either, ma chero, Janie, so go to sleep while I go on with rnv practice.\ • And this Carlie proceeded to do, in a mannor which Janie might have protested hgainst had she not been so sleepy, for first tame a set of scales, then the live-finger exercises, and from these she went on to some higher studies. She really meant nc 'disre.-mect to the company; Janie would not anina, una air. xveimer, sne Knew, couiu no, tell \Hail Columbia\ from Gottschulk's /'Last Hope.\ He would tell her it was very fine when she got through, and with this thought in her mind, she traveled from one page to another in what seemed a tire- sj3 manner. And while this Mr. Reiinei /who is really Carlie's betrotnea husbandi Js apparently giving her music his 'undivided attention we will take a glimpse into th» young gentleman's past history, as he is tc figure most prominently ia the pages tc come. Clifford Reimer was left without a fathei at the age of 9 years, the eldest of three children, a sister two vears his iunior. and a little crrppiea Drotner, wno was out ;• years old when the father died. His moth- er was possessed of that indomftable will and untiring energy which is the main- spring to a nature, which never says die Many a weaker woman would have settled down in despair. The tumbled down house with its few acres which they called hjme, was mortgaged, an old lame horse anl one pig, they called their stock. The exnenses attendant upon tne senior Keimer's sick- ness and death had swept away the little they had laid by toward lifting the mort- gage, and now, to a casual observer, it would seem they had nothing to do but let the county provide for them, but if such an idea had been presented to Mrs. Reimer, she would have treated it with scorn, for the world is wide and I have my health, so thought this woman. She had always been ambitious, always been scheming, wasgooq at a bargain, and never owned to the word can't as belonging to her part of English orthography. Her little place was located in the vicinity «of Oil Creek, and for tho next two years, through the summer sea- sons, many of the settlers of that date will remember a woman who drove through the country, with a keen-eyed little boy perched on the nign seat oesiae ner, selling vege- tables, etc.—later on fish was added to her 6tock of merchandise. Little Clifford took his lessons in scheming, and perhaps in other matters, from his mother on these long drives. \I shall take you with me, she had said, \not because of the help you will be to me, but that you may learn a little something about the world you will have to fight.\ And so, in two years passed in this way, the mortgage was nearly paid, and the boy advanced so rapidly in the art of scheming and saving, had developed such ideas in regard to money-making and getting on in the world; that his mother one bright spring morning deemed it prudent to allow him to venture for himself. He was to go to Oil City, which was not many miles away; and, as he left his mother's door, her parting words were, \Don't let any one get the advantage of you, Clifford,\ and \never let any thing stand between you and fortune: do any- thing that will serve to advance your in- terests.\ He left his home with these words ring- ing in his ears, to trudge all the dreary way alone. He was to sell matches by the way, and scarce any one refused to buy of that eleven-year-old boy, and three good meals were given him, so the breaa and cheese his mother had tied up for him he kept foi future needs. He arrived at Oil City aboutnoon the day after starting, his stock of matches nearly sold out, his little capital increased to seventy-eight cents; and this he did not intend to use unless necessity compelled him to do so. His first work, which he obtained that very day, was rolling oil-barrels, and his success at thiB was only a type of what followed. At seventeen he owned a little restaurant and confectionery in one of the booming towns in that district, and in a few years more the little farm, now cleared of all in- debtedness, had been sold at a figure be- yond anything they had ever anticipated. A new oil field had just been opened up near it, and with the capital obtained in this way, Clifford, and his mother had been so successful, that at the age of 22 years, leaving his mother and sister <the little cripple having died in the interim) settled in a lovely home in Frankfort, Clifford sel^ out for the far West, for Colorado; he was gone three years, and of this period of his fife he was very reticent, even to his moth- er, never referring to it himself, and drop- ping the subject as soon as possible if it was broached by another. The general opinion among his friends was that he had lost money there, and as money had been his little godfio far in life, it was easy to see how it would hurt him to the very quick; but as one remarked: \He needn't feel so cut up ovtr it; he has $40,000 worth of oil property to-day, besides other interests.\ And so it was, he was considered rich, for a young man of those times, and had a good \prospect of becoming richer. He is not a fine-looking man, nor a man to in- spire one with confidence. He is a trifle stooped, has a comely face, perhaps, but seems to have acquired a habit of looking at everything that comes in his way as if he was deciding its market value. And while his eyes never fairly meet yours in a full glance, you feel some way .nat he is taking you all in on the sly perhaps. Le is not popular among men, although none among them can say he over went back on his agreements iu busiuess transactions, but but he never paid for nor smoked a cigar, he never treated the boys, and this of itself Was almost a sin in the oil country at this time. Since his return from Colo- rado he had seemed more retiring than ever; his time had all heen spent with his mother fcnd sister in Frankfort, and one year previ- ous to this introduction he had met Carlie and Mrs. Stanton, and tne acquaintance had led to the above result; he and Carlie are to be married. He had proposed to her (never once lifting his eyes to her face, so Carlie told Janie), she had asked for time to consider, and in one week she had ac cepted him. |TO BE CONTINUED.] Two Prophets. It is said that the weather prophets of the country are considering the pro- priety of meeting in a sort of general congress. It seems that they have dif- fered so widely in their prophesies that people have failed to pay them the at- tention they think they deserve, and. they now desire to try and arrange a schedule by which they may secure uniformity. The proposed congress suggests an inci- dent that occurred in Harris county some tima ago. Two weather prophets an- nounced that on a certain day a cyclone would whirl through the county. One declared that it would come in themom- ing and the other that it would come in the afternoon. On the evening preceding the day fixed by them for the cyclone's visit, they met at the court house in Ham- ilton. A warm dispute as to which prophecy would prove to ba correct took place between them, culminating in a fight in which b ;th were badly disfig- ured. Next day two cyclones visited the county, one in the morning and one iu the afternoon. The day following the prophets compromised their differences and formed a partnership for the publica- tion of an almanac.^— Atlanta Constitution. Advice from Fair Lips. He (meditatively)—\Miss Clara, sup- pose I were to go to your father and ask for your hand. What do you suppose he would say?\ She—\Do you seriously contemplate such a step?\ He—\I do.\ She—\Well I may as well tell you right here that father has been asked that question so often, and the men have all backed out so, that he is very touchy on that point. Bet'tcr ask ma; she's only had four applications. — Tld-Bits. Taking Big Chances. Coach (to College Athlete)—\Your muscles seem soft/ and your whole sys- tem needs toning up. Are you drinking anything?\ College Athlete—\Not a drop.\ Coach—\Smoking to excess?\ College Athlete—\No.\ Coach—\Studying?\ College Athlete—\Er—yes a little.\ Coach (indignantly)— \Great heavens, _ man, do you want to lose the race?\— i New York Sun. Wanted. «rK/Y •WSog? ivV'^ifeV'! N& By young man, who at present occu- pies a position somewhat difficult to sus- tain with dignity, a chance to rise iu the world, or get on his feet again.— Judge. Fun for the Court. The constable was sent out to bring an important witness on a trial before a Da- kota justice of the peace. He scon re- turned without the man. \What's the matter?\ demanded the justice. \I found him holding a man's coat during a fight and so didn't disturb him, your honor.\ \Sir!\ thundered the justice, \don't you understand your duties better than that?\ \Why your honor, I thought this was your ruling in such cases.\ '•No, sir! this court was never guilty of making any such order.\ \What was it then?\ \That you were to immediately bring the parties fighting into the court room, where they could have it out and I could see that they had fair play. Go right back after them. The jury will remain seated, and some of the spectators will please move back the chairs and form a ring. Any gentleman making bets must deposit the stakes with the court, who will retain ten per cent, commission. If this court knows herself, she is going to have her share of the fun that is goingfon in this tovmV'—EstelUne (Dak.) Bell. He Had the Symptoms. A TOUGH TAR?^ HOW HIS LIF E WAS SAVED BY A WONDERFUL OPERATION. Sewing u p a Severed intestine—A Story Illustrating the Great Progress Made in the Science of Surgery. Doctor—\What are your symptoms lir?\ Patient—\I can't sleep, though I try every way to do it. First I lie on one side and then I lie on the other.\ Doctor—You can lie on one side as well as on the other?\ Patient—\Oh yes.\ Doctor—\Ah you are a lawyer, then.\ — Si/tings. Metaphor^ In the Maiden, Mass., High School, not long ago, the principal asked the class in rhetoric to clear the following sentenc3 of metaphor: ' 'The sanctity of the lawn should be preservi d.\ The class set their wits to work, but no one seemed wise. The principal ex- claimed ; \Can no one answer the question?\ A bright lad of fifteen threw up his hand. - \Well Master S., you seem to be the only one in the class to answer. What is it?\ Amid profound silence Master S. said: \Keep off the grass!\— Detroit Free What She Was Afraid Of. A young woman, a visitor in St. Paul, refuses to leave the house directly after a rainstorm, although having, no aversion to going out during the progress of the rainfall. She makes no claim toward natural curly hair and is not particularly proud of her complexion, which appears tc be her own and not the work of art. A friend who knew the circumstances and did not understand the reason for her peculiar conduct, asked her. \Why!\ sighed the healthy but af- fected representative of womanhood, \I'm afraid of the angle worms. They are always out after a storm and so I keep In.\—.&. Paul Globe. Any Port in a Storm. Lightning Rod Agent—\It's danger- ous to be under this tree in a thunder storm. One of us might get killed.\ Victim—\Well if you are killed, you wou't be able to talk any more; and if 1 am killed, I can't hear you. So I guess we'd better stay.— Life. Biff, but Economical. \There! You see, my dear, one hat •nswers for all three.\— Puck. A recent issue of the Cincinnati .En- quirer has a New York letter containing the following story of a wonderful surgi- cal operation: He was an old sailor from the good old ship Tennessee. Big, strong, and pow- j erful, hardened and toughened by expo- sure to the air of every clime, and the active and dangerous work of a sailor's ' life. Bough Of speech and hearty in , manner, he was guided by the right as ' true as any ship whose deck he ever trod, ! and his great pig heart was as tender as ; a woman's. His name was Bill Spencer, and his mates knew him as \Bill the Square.\ He came ashore a month ago, having got : a leave of Absence for twenty- four hours. To see the eights was just the sheet anchor of h's desire. He dove ahead with every stitch of canvas draw- ing hard. There was no mistaking his destination. He was bound for the land of inebriety. This is the salors* trick every time they, go ashore, and Bill was never known to play it for any less than it was worth. The Bowery is the stamp- ing ground of every good sailor, and Bi I roamed around it, taking in all the mu- seums and everything else. When night came on Bill was up near Cooper Institute. There was a large crowd of excited people at the intersec- tion of Third and Fourth avenues, and Bill pushed his way in among them to see j what was going on. He found out. There was a big strapping fellow and a I little man in a fight. This was more than Bill could stand, and he was on the little fellow's s!de in a second, and with a well-directed blow he carried the big fellow off his feet. Then the gang set on Bill and knocked him every way. He fought, like the noble-hearted fellow he was, single-handed, until someone in the crowd rushed at him with a knife and stabbed him twice in the abdomen. He fell in a heap, and the gang walked over him until the police came. He was un- conscious, and was taken in an ambulance to Bellevue Hospital. He was suffering greatly from shock, and the morphine was fairly pumped into his body with a hypodermic syringe. In a few hours consciousness returned and Bill wanted to go to his vessel. This would have been fatal, but it was hard work to convince the old fellow that he was injured. Before daylight on the fol- lowing morning the assistant surgeon, who had been keeping a close watch on the patient, saw that the temperature was slowly going up, and the great ten- derness in the region of the abdomen in- dicated that peritonitis had already set in, and from tiuse conditions it was evi- dent that if somethmg was not done speedily the end would soon come. There could be no doubt from the symptoms that the intestine had been severed by the mad thrust of the knife. The consulting surgeon was aroused from his slumbers and came to the wounded man's cot. He heard the history of the case. It meant but one thing, the bowel had been lacerated. The advance in the science of surgery during the last year bad given a remedy in such a case. Two years ago there was nothing but certain death, but since then it had been shown that by a bold, heroic operation the wounded man had a chance for his life. It was the famous operation of ' 'resection of the gut.\ Without further delay the patient was taken to the operating room. The sur- geons gave him some idea of what was going to be done with him. He did not care what thsy did. His body was cov- ered with scars received in defence of th( old fla:* and a wound was nothing to him. They laid him on the table of hor- rors. He had no objection. When the ether cone was put over his nose he said nay with a big N. He told the surgeons they could cut all they pleased and he would guarantee to give them no trouble, but he would not take any thing unless it was a good horn of whisky. As the operation is an exceedingly delicate one it could not be performed without an anaesthetic, as no man, however strong his nerve, could stand the pain. After much persuasion and a consierable degree of force, he got enough ether to make him unconscious and then there was fair sailing. Taking a knife, the surgeon made a straight incision down the median line about seven inches in length. The mus- cles of the abdomen were unusually tough, and the edge of the knife was turned in going through thr m. When the lining membrame was reached a di- rector was employed to steady the course of the knife and keep it from slipping through the peritoneum and cutting the bowels. The internal organs were then seen through the incision. In order to keep all disease germs that are continu- ally floating injthe air from the wound, or to destroy them, a spray of carbolic acid was played from an atomizer directly into the abdomen. When the incised portions had been separated the intes- tine was carefully drawn out and exam- 5 ined. The sections, as they were exam- ined, were wrapped up in hot clothes and laid to one side. The wounded gut was soon found. It was in the ileum or small intestine, and the cut ran length- wise fully four inches, splitting it wide open. Nearly the entir<igut was taken out in order to be sure that there were ao more lacerations, and than the resec- tion was done. \ While a gentfcg tention was put on the ileum it was cut clean through by a ra zor-edge blade, just-to one side of where it had been cut by the wilful thrust of the old fellow's, assailant. The same thing was done to the other side of the wounded bowel, and about five inches of the intestine was taken out and thrown into a tin can for preservation. The two ends of the gut were then drawn closely together and the edges trimmed so as to make perfect fit. While held so that the two edges met exactly, the finest of cat-gut sutures were employed and interlaced in such a m sinner that the intestine at the point where it had been united wai stronger in theory than the gut itself. | The abdominal space was then thoroughly : cleaned with antiseptic solutions, and ; every particle of irritating substance, as i far as it could be found, was removed ; with sponges. The wound in the abdo- ' men being closed by silver and cat-gut ; sutures, it was carefully wound up in antiseptic bandages, so arranged that I when the patient would cough all the ! strain would be taken from the weakened ! portion. | There was no special shock followii the operation, and i>o serious sympton ! appeared at any time. The temperature | was high for a few days and there was '' some fever, but there was nothing shown that could not be renerly controlled. I He improved with wonderful rapidity, ' and in three weeks time was told ht might join his shipmate-. He was, ap pai ently, as sound as a dollar, and his mess-mates look on him with Wonder, Milk for Young and Old. Milk is popularly Considered a perfect food. This,-gays, the Live-Stock Journal, at first sight appears to be indisputable, since the young live and thrive on it ex- clusively. But if we look into the mat- ter a little we shall see that while it is a perfect food for the young and growing it does not follow that i t is a perfect food for sdults who have growth. In a cer- tain sense it may be considered too per- fect for the adult. It contains too much mineral matter, for one thing, to be suit- ed to the adult as an exclusive food. His bonps are already formed, and therefore he needs only just enough of the mineral elements to restore _ waste of boh e. But the young- have their bones to make, and this excess of mineral matter is just what is needed for the purpose. Then milk is highly nitrogenous, containing an abund- ance of material for constructing muscu- lar and other tissue. This makes it act on the kidneys of the adult too strongly, taxing them to throw off the excess of nitrogen, only just enough to restore waste being required, while this hitro- geneous material in abundance is just what children and the young of animals need, as they are building the whole sys- tem and must have these nitrogenous elements out of which to build it. Milk is, therefore, a perfect food in young animals and children,\ as it contains in the right proportions all the elements needed to promote their growth and de velopment. But for old people milk is far from a perfect food, containing as it does both the mineral and nitrogenous elements in excess. For adults, who are undergoing considerable exercise, and therefore requiring to replace a large amount of waste tissue, milk is better adapted than for the aged. Still for adults who may use up the nitrogenous portion through physical exercise there is an excess of bone -making material, as the waste of bone is but slight compared with both the waste and growth of bqne in the young. To sum up, then, milk is a perfect food for the growing young, but needs to be supplemented with other' more carbonaceous and less mineral foods for the adult, and is quite illy adapted to people of sedentary habits or much ad- vanced in age, as the excess Of nitrogen, more than the large per cent, of water which it contains, overtaxes the kidne3 r s. The aged should, therefore, take milk sparingly, which is the exact reverse of what the young should do. Tact. •\•'.:. ••- , 1 \You talk of tact?\ sa dtheshorth nd reporter. \I remember a case of tact that was as pretty as anything 11 a a im- agine. It was at the h use of the Governor of a Western State. His wife was one of the most refined and charming women I ever knew, and she was just 'chock full' of tact. The Governor had to give receptions to influential men in the State, and you can imagine that some of them were very uncouth and uneducated. One evening there was a large dinner party, and a rather rough old cove, a wealthy and important man, was the chief guest. The dinner went along very nicely. Beyond making a few rather gauche remarks, the old Western fellow behaved pretty well. But when the finger bowls were put on the table he was rather knocked over, and like many other heroes of such stories he took his up and drank out of it. Nobody hap- pened to see him except the hostess, and quick as a wink she signaled to the ser- vants. They removed every finger bowl before anybody couldl touch them, and the old fellow doean4 know to-day, if he's living, what a mistake he made. Now, that's tact!\ \That you call fact!\ said an Irishman, sitting opposite the stenographer. 'T can beat that myself. I got out of a scrape the other night at the Baldwin* theatre. I had a seat in the middle of a row, and there was a mignty pretty wo- man I had to pass to get there. I was squeezing my way along, and I couldn't help casting a squint at her as I went. While I was doing that I trod on her toe and she gave a little scream. The fellow with her looked as if he was going to'lick me. 4 ' 'I beg your pardon, madame, * I said, politely, 'I could not, judging by your hand, imagine your feet were «o large.* What are you laughing at?\ \Oh nothing.\— 8an Francisco Chron- icle. . •' ' '\.' - '-'\ - Photographing a Dog. Fof\ Telling Horses' Ages. The full-grown horse possesses twenty- four back teeth; that is, six in each side of each jaw; the?e are called molars or grinders. He has twelve front teeth; that is, six in each jaw. Mares have no tushes. The foal has either at his birth, or shortly afterward, eight milk teeth; that is, four in each jaw; at about twelve months two more milk teeth come in each jaw. These remain unchanged until he is three years old. The mouth of the yearling and two-year-old cannot be con- founded. The yearling mouth shows no signs of use, and the corner teeth are shells only; at two years old these teeth are strong and .well grown, and the cor- ner teeth filled up. A little before three years the two center teeth of each jaw fall out and are replaced by permanent ones. A little before five the two re- maining teeth are shed, .and in their place come permanent ones. The upper milk teeth usually fall out first. Thu3 the mouth is completed as to its front teeth; the corner tooth, however, is but imperfectly developed, being at present a shell only; this shell at six years old has filled up and is a complete tooth. This is the difference between a five and a six year old. The tushes ap- pear between three and one-half and four years old, and they take nearly two years to arrive at their full growth. These teeth, as the horse grows older, get blunter and shorter, and so to an experi- enced judge are a sure indication of age. Up to six years old the mouth is in a distinct and periodical state of struc- tural change. There is no difficulty in determining the age up to that date. After that the age must be judged by the shape of the mouth and the appearance of the teeth called the mark. At six years of age the cuts leave the two centre teeth above, at seven the next two above, at eight the outer or corner teeth above. At nine the two centre teeth below lose the cuts, at ten the next two below, and at eleven the outer or corner teeth below. After a little practice the close observer can scarcely make a mistake. The changes that occur are the same in all horses, or nearly so.— Sportsman. A Chinese Dinner. Within the past two months several prominent persons have given select din- ner parties at the Chinese restaurant in Mott street, writes a New York corre- spondent of the Troy Times. One given by Commodore Thomai J. Falls, for- merly superintendent of the imperial ar- senal 'at Tien-Tsih, cost Falls $850. There were twelve at the table v including six Chinamen. Birds' nests, sharks' fins, dried locusts, bamboo sprouts and smokedWid pressed .rats from the celes- tial shores'are said to have been on the bill of fare. The Commodore waxed en- thusiastic in praise of the rats. He has lived nearly twenty years in the Chinese empire. He says that Americans have very little idea'of the care taken by the Chinese in raising rats for the market. They are taken from the nest when young and brought up on a diet of milk and rice. A delicate air plant is fed to them for a week before they are killed, which im- parts to the flesh an exquisite flavor. To use the Commodore's words: \The dish is as far superior to a squirrel potpie as a fig is to a paw-paw.\ No puppies were served at the Falls dinner, to the appar- ent disappointment of hisChinese guests. The wines and liquors were of celestial brewing and distilling. The dinner wound up with (opious libations of rice rum, which wound up the intellects of four of the guests. One, a noted ship- builder, wound up in the police court on the following morning and paid $10 fine. Always Paid In New Money. The President always receives new notes direct from the Treasury. He never gets old notes, except in change when he pays a bill or rcakes a purchase. The Unite 1 States Treasurer, on the last clay of each month, sends the President hivsilary—$4,166.66—the odd change is bright new silver and copper cents, and the notes all new and of the latest issue. Mr. Cleveland, like his prede- cessors, keeps a private bank account withKi«g3 & Co., and the day after he t^ets his salary he make a deposit, reserv- ing -enough to pay current expenses. It is said that his ac. ount has shown as large a balance as $35,000, as he has an income besides his official salary. Be- fore he entered public life he made from $10,000 to $15,000 a year by his prac- tice, aud his expenses w^re not more than $2,500, He ha^s saved much of his first year's salary, but now. that he is married liis expenses will increase,— Baltimore Anterictn. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Baking Bread or Cake. The baking of bread or cake is some- thing that will not : take care of itself.. The old notion that you must not look at anything in the oven is erroneous; and antil you have learned by experience just bow to regulate the fire and oven, and the many tests by which every good cook determines when food is done, look at it often. Bake bread according to the clock from fifty to sixty minutes. Better bake ten minutes too long, putting a paper over the top to prevent a burned erust, than not long enough. Bake it brown, not black, nor pale whity-brown,, but brown all over. Rolls are often brushed with milk just before and after baking, to give them a richer brown color. Rubbing over with soft butter while still hot makes a crisp, delicious crust. When well baked, if tapped with the fingers, a hollow, empty sound will be emitted from a loaf of bread, the crust feels firm, aud, if broken apart, the in- side rebounds instantly on any slight pressure. •—Fliegmde BlaetUr. An Uneven Trade. A mule one day kicked a Chicago drummer on the cheek, simply as a bril- liant practical joke, but the drummer coolly Walked into a barber's shop and washed the dirt off his face, while the mule had to .be hauled to a drug store in an ambulance for medical treatment. Moral—This fable teaches that a daring general in attacking the baggage train of an adversary is liable to stumble upon his reserves, besides giving a hint as to the true seat of the intellect. An Unfortunate Conundrum. Professor Loggerhead—\Dis yere rev- olution is a fraud an' a snare. What'f the use of saying that I cum fiom a monkey? Do 1 look like a monkey?\ Voice—\No.sah.\ Professor—\To be sure not. What do I look like?\ Voice— \Bullfrog. \—Call. A Case of Downright Cruelty. Amanda—-\Reginald I understand you have been circulating the report that we are engaged, around town.\ Reginald—\And so we are my dear.\ Amanda—\Yes I know; but it seems as though a man who cared for my future happiness ought not to say anything that will prevent me marrying some good man.\— Tid-Jtit* ' Label and Use with Care. y One can scarcely be too careful in handling and placing strong or poisonous liquids. We have warned our readers many times regarding this matter, but at just this season the following words from the Cleveland Leader may prevent acci- dents in house cleaning and other preparations for summer: There are two or three volatile liquids used in families which are particularly dangerous, and must be employed, if a t all, with special iare.\ ; :'j Benzine, ether and strong ammonia I constitute this class of agents. The two Brst-named Mquidsare employed in clean- ing gloves and other wearing apparel, »nd in removing oil stains from carpets, curtains, etc. The liquids are highly rolatile, and flash into vapor as soon as ihe cork of the phial containing them is ^ removed. Their vapors are very com- ; frustible, and will inflame at long dis- ^ tancesfrom ignited candles or gas flames, and consequently they should/ never be used inr the evening, when the house is lighted. * Explosions of a very dangerous nature will occur if the vapor of these liquids is permitted to escape into the room in con- 3 iiderable quantity. In view of fhe great ?*g hazard in handling these liquids, cautious |? housekeepers will not allow theni to be brought into their dwellings, and this course is commendable. ^ As regards ammonia, or water of am- monia, It is a very powerful agent, es- :| pecially the stronger kinds sold by | druggists. An accident in its use has recently come under o«r notice, in which % young lady lost her life from taking ai | few drops through nustake. ^ >| Breathing the gas, under certain eir* ^ :i| eumstanees, causes serious harm to th e ; i l lungs and membranes of the mouth and ^ nose. It is an agent much used at this a| time for cleansing purposes, and ttfit^^q unobjectionable if proper care is used&fw ^ its employment. The phials holding ft ^ ; !'|| should be kept aj>art from others coa^ 'H taining the medicines, etc., and rubber ^1 stoppers to the phials should^ be used. Hi Oxalic acid is considerably employed | in families for cleansing brass and copper utensils. This substance is highly poison- ous and must be kept and used with ' great caution. In crystalline ^structure it closely resembles sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salts, and, therefore, frequent mistakes are made and lives lost. Every agent that- goes into families imong inexperienced persons should be kept in a safe place, labeled properly _* ind used with great care. Recipes. BAKED CXJCTTMBEHS—Pare the cttcum- oerSf chop them fine with a small onion; 5 put them on with very little water and itew for ten minutes. Prepare a rich dressing, as for poultry, of bread crumbs with herbs and yolk of egg; pour off all me water from the cucumbers; add the iressing and onetablespoonful of butter, ind bake in a deep dish. COLD DEVILED EGGS—Boil a number >f eggs very hard; When cold remove the shells and cut each egg in half. Take aut the yolks and pound them in a mortar with a few boned anchovies, pepper, salt ind a pinch of dry mustard, moistening with a little butter. Fill the empty whites cut in halves with this mixture and ar- range in a dish garnished with parsley. SABDINE SANDWHICHBS — Take two boxes of sardine? and throw the contents into hot water, having first drained away all the oil. A few minutes will free the sardines from grease. Pour away the water and dry the fish in a cloth; then scrape away the skins and pound the sar- dines in a mortar till reduced to paste; add pepper, salt and some tiny pieces of lettuce and spread on the sandwiches, which have been previously cut. The lettuce adds very much to tie flavor oi the sardines. CANNING SWEET CORN-—One quart of water to three quarts of corn. Let the corn come to a boil. Add one teaspoon- ; ful of tartaric acid to each quart of corn, Boil fifteen minutes. When wanted for use, add one teaspoonful of C soda to each quart of corn; let it stand .one hour before cooking. GRAPE BUTTER—Stew the grapes, and stew out each pulp from the skin^re- moving the seeds; keep the skins in a small thin bag; to each * pound of pulp allow one pound of sugar, half pint of cidar vinegar, teaspoonful of cloves, one uf cinnamon and one of nutmeg; boil this very slowly, putting in the bag of jkins tied securely; when it jellies by - dropping in cold water, it is done. Pa t iway in jars; for an ornamental dish it can be heated over and put into molds t o ' ell y- LEMON PIE—First prepare and bake the crust, then make the filling—the .'. juice and grated rind of one lemon, one cup of sugar, two eggs, saving the white yf one of them for frosting, one tea- ' -^ spoonful of butter, three even teaspoon^——>--** fuls of flour wet with a little cold waTer. _ * Mix all together. Add one cup of boil- ing water and cook until thick. Fill your cru^t with it. Let it stand until cold. Then beat the white of one egg to a stiff froth, stir in one tablespoon sugar, spread over the pie and set in the : oven to brown. They Cage Their Girls. Consul Griffin, at Sidney, New South Wales, contributes to the State Depart- ment an interesting description of the in- habitants of New Britain, an island in the South Pacific Ocean. One of their curious customs, he says, is that of con- fining their girls in cage3 until they are old enough to marry. The cages are made of twigs of the palm trees, and the girls are put into them when only two or three years of age. These cages are built inside the houses, and the girls are never allowed to leave the house under any cir- cumstances and are only taken out once a day to be washed. The houses them- selves are closely fencedXin with a sort of wicker work made of reeds. Ventilation under the circumstances is made very difficult. The girls are said .to grow up strong and healthful in spite of these dis- advantages. \
