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:^H \ Hints for Busy Housekeepers. KedpM Mul OtiMr Valuable laformatloa •t tteticHlar lataraat to Wmms Polk& '<. ME\TS. Smothered Chickea. â€" Take •chicken and cut ap as 'or [rt€as?2e. Season each oiec«, ro'! in fioxkr and .lav in double pan. TLea lay on «hicken thre^ ,:t F ur Alices 4if rait pork and corer mi'\ wat«r. Put •OQ cov«r and roast UMtii ten<i^r. Cheaper Cues oi Mo^t. â€" Now «lDce meat is so expeoiiv?. it is -wise to buy cne^per cuts. S|.&f« ribs are not so steep aci are good -when made nioe. Here is a goc>d -way to prepare the-n. Have tlie libs cut in short lengths ; <^o-jk un- til tender, cookiiig slowly. Xhcn remove from brine, dust with flour, «alt and p^per. Place in a bak- "iu^ pan; ardd one Oni'>n, »'iocd. a 'Cupful of the brine in which ribs -were boi|^, and a cupful of strained tomatoes, and place in â- CTen and brown, basting frequei.t- ly. Serve with pota^^uss that fa<tve 3>eea pari>oUed and browned in -oven with ribs. Meat Economy.â€" In these clays of Jigh priced meats perhaps a caie of 'Scheming may help other families -if two. Buy two pounds boiling Ibecf, lean chunk, 10 cents per |9cund, and three-quarter pound pork chops, 15 cents, and from them have meat for six meals and stock for soup. Three-quarters pounds of the beef and two chops <we get seven to nine chops to the pcund, according to size). Put thri^ugh meat chopper, taking out enough of the ground meat for Fruit Salad. â€" One-half pound of white grapes, one-half pound of wilauts chopped not too fine, two pounds of apples chopped, one I small can shrimps in small pieces.! Dressing-Six yolks of egg, one-Ho »<> *'»<' y* *»*'« *'»*â„¢ pe"«ct- half cupful of vinegar, teaspoon- Don't forget to rub the bottom ful of mustard, one teaspoonful of! »' '!»« preserving kettle freely with salt, pepper, black and red, and o^L^e oil to prevent sticking. serves "hit or miss"; they require great care combined with the best materials and exact measurements tu insure success. Don't expect preserves to cook ever a hot fire and not expect them to stick and scorch. Don't let them cook without stir- ring, even when the %Te is slow. Don't cook preserves on a gas range without an asbestos mat. Don't use a thin agate sauce pan ; an old-fashioned porcelain lined irun preserving kettle is best. Don't think you can hurry pre- serves; it is out of the question to about a quarter of a teaspoonful, one pint of sour cream ; cook to- Don't pare peaches, pears, pine apples, or even apples with a steel gether egg, vinegar, mustard and ' >t.''»*e ; it darkens the fruit; use a salt; nux all when co!i Dandelion and Oraoge Salad silver knife. Don't neglect to drop apples. Crisp three cups of dandelion ix»". peaches and all light color- leaves. Cut into shreds with acis-! «d ''">' in a bowl of cold water as scrs. Cut the quarters of four }"«» do them to prevent discolora- sweet oranges into small pieces. £ub the salad bowl with a bit of garlic, add a leek cut into tiny rings, with a level teaspoonful each of salt and pepper, in the bottom' Courage the Only Virtue the Au- of the bowl, and covered with a tK n before cooking. * TnACKER.4.Y AND GEORGE 11. thfff AUewed the Kiag. tahlespoonful of French wine vine- gar. Now add drop by drop twe tablespoonfuls of olive oil, then a' things hard boiled egg cut into rings, and Georges" is his description of the last of alljhe orange bits and dan-! circumstances in which it was an THE S S. LESSON IKTEHNA'nONAL LESSON, JUNE 28. LeaaaB XIII. Lesson of the Tares, Matt. U. 24-M, 3C-43. Goidea Text, Matt. 13. 4S. Verse 34. A man that sowed â€" The outstanding feature of the parable throughout is the personality of tcii>> sower. He is the antagonist of Satan, the householder, the master of the reapers, the Son of man, the Lcrd of the world, the absolute ar- biter of the destiny of all men. Good seed in his field â€" ^The qua- l.'ty of the sower's seed is the same as in the former parable, but here the soil is presumably all good. 25. While men sleptâ€" Not all the details of a parable yield to inter- pretation. Only a discriminating judgment is able to decide which ate significant and which are not, and it is easy for the imagination to create supposed references which do not actually exist. In the sower, Jesus explains about every and must not bo too narrowly inter- preted. In verse 24 it is that sum of divine truth embodied in life which Jesus endeavors by the par- ables to define. In verse 43, it is the perfected and finally established kingdom of glory. 40. Burned with fireâ€" .\ figurative description of the awful doom of the wicked. 41. All things that cause stumb- lingâ€"This is to be understood in a personal sense. FAMOUS POLICE DOG. "Four-footod Sherlock Homes" Bring.i Thieves to Bay. Tref, the famous St. Petersburg THE GRAND OLD ADMIRAL DEATH IN ENGLAND OF S» WILLIAM Ll'ASD. He Had a Most Stirring and Ad^ veatBToas Career in the British Navy. The death took place in England a fortnight ago of Sir William Luard, "The Grand Old Admiral." Sir William had a most stirring and adventurous career. He entered the Naval College at Portsmouth in 1836, at the age of 13, and two police dog, was taken to Voronesh 1 1^"\ ^^^^ T'" appointed to th« from Moscow and successfully j ^'^^^., American station tracked down the murderer of one' ^hile at Valparaiso, having ex-^ of the employes on the property of ;?''»''»^ ,^ . *^® Samarang, Mr. Prince Vasiltchikoff, in the borough; ^i^^^rd walked the 3C miles to Cas» o? Pavlovsky. On the train , ; Blanca, covering them without » which Tref travelled a passenger i [**? i° six hours. Then he walked was robbed of a pocket-book con- 1 ^*<=^ "^' ^^^\»- 8l»<>rt rest, cov- taining about $250. The services : e'-^d the last eight miles in an hour of the "four-footed Sherlock 1 *'^,.*'*^°*y â- ='""*«»â-  At the same Ifomes," as h* is called in the pa-f ^t*^"^° '^^ ^«^ a marvellous escape pers, were at once brought into re- ! ^J''"' J^*^* ^ Y^''« ,«°'r^t^ ""t' quisition, and. after spelling allif'^f^"! f**^ of cliff-climbmg. In the passengers, Tref went for one '^-"^ *»* ''^ promoted to the rank One of the most entertaining fj^^' '"'* '° »^» tares several ^c ^^^ „ ^ \^^ ^^ " ^^: ^mijte, aad th» Samarang was or- lings in Thackeray's "Four things, such as the enemy*,, going, ^^^ ^^-^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ dered to China to Uke part in the I. una lu i -*.-.t 1 » iu. . .» ^t iu. 1 â€" -^ 1 o 'operations there. On the way the away, the servants of the house- j ,. „ ,, - ^, ,. .,, I J ^ Ai TT iu ^ u »''*> 1®^ uointerpreted. So, this dchon. Toss all together lightly, r.ouneed to George II that he was,,,^ -^ ^j ^j^^ ^^ -^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ with a fork and spoon. This salad now King of England. Thackeray, j,^^^ ^ .^j meaning. Certainly should be served as soon as mixed J tells us how one June afternooa m, .^ ^^ ^^^ condemned; sleep is na- N.. salad has a beter medicinal; 1727 a "broad-faced, jolly-looking, j ^^,^^, ^^j^^ j^^^^ ^^-j (compare the ami very corpulent cavalier ' rode S holder, the binding of the bundles,] x-..^. • , • . â-  ^^r j, i-L _• .. ^_i^j D- ^l:' I found in nis possession. Hardly a possession, week parses but that some fresh exploit of Tref is recorded. value than this, as it is a splendid spring tonic. THE LAUNDRY. To Clean Corsets. â€" Corsets often get soiled, especially around the waist, when they are perfectly up to Richmond House, and asked to see the owner of the mansion. The mistress of the house and hor ladies, to whom our friend was admitted, said he could not be in- troduced to the master, however, pressing the business might be. The -•«^ iou, salt and pepper, make Ham- burgs. The remainder of the chop- ped meat is made into beef loaf oy adding two eggs, a little sage, tninced onion, salt, pepper, milk, and breadcrumbs. The first meal is the boiled meat at noon. For sup^r that evening the Hamburgs. The next noon the beef loaf; that evening the pork chops. Eat about en ;-half the loaf at one meal, so the following day you can reheat tjie remainder, cover with tomato sauce, and serve. Then the left- over boiled beef is made into dry "hash or Irish stew for supper that evening. When boiling the meat take out just enough broth to make gra%-y, thus saving enough for foundation for soup. TOMATOES. Rice Tomatoes.â€" Take cold boiled rice, add some tomatoes and enough onion to flavor, butter, salt and pepper to suit taste. Bake in oven one-half hour. Green Tomato Mincemeat. â€" One peck green tomatoes chopped fine, two pounds raisins, four cupfuls granulated sugar, one and one-half cupfuls vinegar, one teaspoonful of «ny kind of spices you would like ic aad a pinch of salt. Cook about ten minutes, bottle and seal. Stuffed Tomato Salad.â€" Six ripe tomatoes, one-half pint cream dressing, two cucumbers, lettuce, salt, and pepper. Scald the to- matoes so that the skins can be re- move * easily. Cut a slice from the tup of each and with a spoon re- move seeds. Pool the cucumbers and cut into dice, season highly, and mix with half the dressing. Fill the tomato cups with this and put another spoonful of dressing pn tcp. Sprinkle a litte finely chop- ped parsley over and serve on a bed of lettuce leaves. Tomato Macaroni. â€" Break two ounces of macaroni into short lengths, throw into boiling water, aid boil rapidly twenty minutes, rub the hard boiled yolks of two eggs to a paste, add gradually four o; five tablespoonfuls of cream, then rub one tablespoonful of but- ter and one of flour. Add the egg and half a cupful of milk, stir over Lot water until you have a thici golden sauce. Add half a teaspoon- ful of salt and a dish of pepper. Chop the macaroni fine and add to the sauce, cut a slice from the stem ends of good, solid tomatoes, scoop out the centers, stand the •tomatoes in a baking pan, fill the centres with macaroni, dust with bread crumbs, and bake in a mod- erate oven for thirty minutes, un- til the tomatoes are soft but not broken. Serve on slices of toast, either plaiu or with cream sauce ; eheese may be added to tlv) macar- oni, which will give it • greater food value. SALADS. Orange and Date Salad. â€" Re- move the pulp and inner skins from fix oranges and one grapefruit and break t^e flesh into small portions, mix with one pfiund of dates, ston- ed and cut in bits; small quanti- ty of figs, three apples cut fine, pecan nuts cut fine. Serve on )>lanched lettuce leaves with the following dressing. Salad Dress- ingâ€"To the yolks of two eggs beat- eu light add one-half cupful of pow- dered sugar and one cupful of wine, or of orange juice heighten- ed by a dish <it lemon and grape jaioe. slumbering of the ten virgins). It suggests, at any rate, the subtle arc unseen ways in which Satan makes the most of every opportu- nity presented by human nature. His enemy cameâ€" This is the con- sistent New Testament teaching, from the fourth chapter of Matthew to the twentieth of Revelation. Never is there any tendency to T," r ".-trTd!"^ ^V^"" " '^'â- """ , .minimize the force of evil, as di- J*! ?"*'^^I«^*°f • .^^^ °7^ "»? ,^ ^ ^ ,„ , , terrupted him. Nevertheless, ourj rocted by a cifnning personal pow- °^* ^^'^'^ *^« inhabitants for per- Tub Dresses.-To preserve colors stout friend of the jackboots put ^r. The scattering of the tares is °'*P?. * y**"" ?^*.'L''• - "''^^' ^.°™*i in fine gingham, lawn and linen ,l.e affrightened ladies aside, open-; pot the work of an unfavoring wind! *r*^'°« ves.sel drifts m that direc-j oresses wash them in flour starch, | ^^ the forbidden door of the. bed- 1 hut is the carefully executed act of .^' *°*? by _that means acquaints three pats, which with minced on- ^'^9^ every other way. Get what is' master was asleep after his dinner; called art gum at art stores. Rub^ he always slept after his dinner; this on the soiled part and the dirt »nd woe be to the person who in- } minimize the wil! disappear. ... â€" ... ship was CAUGHT IN A TYPHOON, and young Luard behaved with such gallantry as to win warm ap- proval from his captain. In the following year he was pre- sent at the storming of the forts of Tycoktow, and, for bravery, was promoted to be lieutenant. In 1845, while serving on the Isis at the Isle I of France, Lieut. Luard jumped j overboard in full uniform after a :_ „,.„!, f, » „ 1 ^1. T... i sailor who had fallen from aIoft.j l°;!!!'T.L*!:f7!LP!^'! *J *>, -^.^*-! The crew of the Isis drew up a tes-j DON'T KNOW KING IS DEAD. In these days ot. cables and wire- les."* telegraphy it is almost impos- sible to believe that there are por- tions of the British Empire where the news of the lamentable death of King Edward is not known. But cairn Islands and Tristan d'Acun-' use no soap unless there should be seme obstinate spots, then rub a little white soap on them. Five tablespoonfuls of flour make a disfa- p&nful of starch, by adding a little odd water to thin and cool -t, which is sufficient for one dress. Rub on washboard and rinse in new mixture of starch made same as first. Requires no other starching. pocm, wherein upon the bed lay a little gentleman ; and here the ea- ger messenger kuelt down in his jackboots. He on the bed started up, and with many oaths and a eftrong Ger- man accent asked who was there, and who dared to disturb him I "I am Sir Robeit Walpole," said timonial, and, although the regula>.< ticns of the servioe forbid officers receiving manifest;ations oS regard or presents from the men, the do- cument was forwarded by Sir John Marshall to the lieutenant's father a malicious agent Taresâ€" More accuratel-; the bt-arded darnel, a weed which in its eirly stages so closely resembles : . , • , • , - , , wheat, in the midst of which it *T*°'. "S'^^^.?,*/'''""? *t* .""l'^" commonly grows, that it is well nigh impctssible to distinguish them. Often it breeds a poisonous fungus which produces dizziness, convul- ths messenger. The awakened stons, and sometimes death. Dry m the shade. Moi,t delicate^ ^^^ ^ated Sir Robert Walpole. shades can be safely laundered in tLi« way. Use of Lye. â€" Many housewives arc afraid to use lye to break the hard water for the weekly washing. Tlie reason for this fear is that they do not know how much lye to add to the water. If they will follow I have the honor to announce to your Majesty that your Royal fa- ther. King George I., died at Osna- burg, on Saturday last, the 10th in- stant." "Dat is one big lie!" roared out Went away â€" After the seeds of poison have been sown in the heart they will develop with little en- couragement. 26. When the blade sprang up â€" Referring to the entire grassy crop of the field, including tares and ftii Sacred Majesty King George wheat. •If.; but Sir Robert Walpole stated] Brought forth fruitâ€" Referring to instructions they will be amply re- t^e fact, and from that day until j the period of the heading of the -paid. Have ready a real large gal- three-and-thirty years ^ after, kernel. It was then, and not till K"L^l"^!i!?'l"'^^^*Jl^â„¢^ George, the second of the name, j then, on account of the resemblance to the wheat, that the tares appear That is St. Kilda, off the Hebrides. the people. There is one spot not | ^^-^^^j^^-'l;^";";-^---.- .---jj", 8C far removed from the British: .^^^j.^,^ * J.lands where there is a large com-, *- j^ ^g.. \^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ munity unacquainted with the great ^^^^^ ^, ^^^ Indefati|able. and Bade another effort to save the life -if a sailor who had fallen over- board. He jumped into the sea, d»^ tpite the fact that sharks were seen a the vicinity of the ship. later on Luard was decorated with the Order of the Southern Cross by the Emperor of Brazil, and he subsequently was in charge of a party that attacked twenty- THINGS ALTERED. It is customary for parents in the rural districts of the south to help cut the teacher's salary. "This is done by giving meat, meal, pota- toes â€" in fact, anythinir thev may .. • i. , • , ^ ,-.l- have. In a certain community there; *V?u ^T^^ ^"°^V' Chiu-a-poo. hved a large familv. All the chil-^.^ t^«,I-800 men who manned the dien were in school', but the parent P"*"** ^««s«'3. never gave anything toward the 400 WERE KILLED, bucket or water pail. Two large buckets of hard water require one teaspoonful of lye. Let stand over night. Next morning take clear water from the tub, but do not stir the contents in bottom. Place the clear water on the stove, begin washing,^ and boil your clothes in this water. You will have beauti- ful white clothes and your hands will be uninjured. Flatiron Help. â€" Anv housewife can have smooth, clean flatirons. Buy S cents' worth of pumice stone, k«ep it in the kitchen soap dish; there is where it will be the most convenient. Before beginning iron- ing, after the irons are heated, rub the bottom of the iron well with the pumice stone, then have a cloth with a little grease on it to wipe the iron. You will find the iron polished and free from sticking. PRESERVING DON'TS. Don't make a mistake and wait until the special fruit in season is nearly over and then pay the high- est prices for it. Don't think overripe, soft fruit makes good preserves or jellies. Dcn't ever use anything but the best materials for good results. Don't use what is called "A" or "soft" white sugar or brown; use granulated white sugar for all pre- scives or jellies. Don't use granulated white su- gar for spiced fruit; use light brown only. Don't make spiced fruit too sweet ; four pounds of light brown sugar to seven pounds of fruit is a good proportion. Don't use an overabundance of spices ; too much makes it taste bit- ter ruled over England. Courage, by the wav. is about the «<1 in tl»eir true character only virtue which Thackerav al- 28. An enemy hath done this â€" lews the second of the Georges. This kind of revenge, so far as can ^ be learned, has never been known BRUTALITY IN GERMAN AR.HY. in Palestine. It stands as an un- e.vampled outrage. ^. „ . , . «^ ^ .. Wilt thou . . . that we . . . gather Non-commissioned OflJcer GuUtylthem up-Jesus offers no interpre- tation of this zeal of the servants. But there are always those who are ready like the apostles who would call down fire from heaven, to bring forth drastic measures to suppress real or imagined wrongs. 29. Nayâ€" Weeding out wheat must ef 260 Acts of Cruelty. ! A court-martial sitting at Glo- gan, in Prussian Silesia, has sen- tenced a non-commissioned officer, Franz Libowska. to two years' im- piisonment ((nd degradation for perpetrating 260 acts of cruelty oni. . , ... , , ., • , members of the Fifth Battalion of|*t^\P^^« ^''^^'^ ^.^'T' *^^ P«,"*^ g of the formation of the kernel or The evidence showed that Libo-^I^'' *^« ^T^l^"^ i""^^^ matured. , , i;. ... , J „.. ..„ It IS not a questioa here of pulling wska hU a recruits head fifty times i ^j^^^^ ^^ ^-^^^^ ^^J^^ ^^f in succession and then fruck his .^^.^^ „f ^^^ g^,j ^^^ reached that victim m the face with the flat of ^^^^^ -^ ^^^^^^ ^he tares can be dis- tiiiguished. The danger is that the wheat, whose roots are intertwined v.ith those of the tares, should be his sword. Libowska also mal- treated the same recruit by kick- ing his head with heavy knee boots. Another recruit received thirty blows in succession on the head pulled out of their their hair head* One of Libowska' s habits was to throw bags of cartridges, swords ami other similar missiles at the men's heads while they were clean- ing the barracks. He once com- pelled his men when drilling to hit ^^.^e another on the head, while he looked on and enjoyed the combat. lAfter a hard day's drill he would compel the men to get up at night and sing to him. Those whose voic- cs or songs displeased him were Don t cover preserves or jellies beaten and systematically iU-treat- while,cooking; they are apt to boilj ^j ^^ tj,© following days. In many cases Libowska forced disturbed while it is in the forma- tive state. From the point of view , . of the practical farmer, therefore, ano face, and Libowska dug hisUi.e question of the servants was .nails so deeply into the unhappy ^ne of folly. The lives of good and s Idler's cheek that blood was bad are so often closely bound up drawn. Many recruits and young • together that the violent removal •soldiers had to submit to having „[ one is sure to cause harm to the salary. One day the oldest daugh-;and the remainder dispersed, tcr, Mary, came up to the teach- 1 In 1363 Captain Luard had ei's desk and said: "'Feasor, pa's; to the Crimea, but Vas refused, gwine sen' you a pig." "Tell himj and he was given command of the I'll be more than obliged," said the i Star, bound for the South Ameri- sur prised teacher. A week or two ca.i sUtion. The crew of thia ship passed and the pig did not getjv-ere in an unsatisfactory state of around to his house. "Where's 'discipline, and verv unwilling to that pig your father was going to 1 sail. After a "harassing fort- send me?" he asked Mary. "Oh Mary replied, "that pig got well." asked RATTLED. "What's your order sir?' the waiter. "Bring me," said the wild-eyed customer, "some medium boiled! potaoes, and simie eggs with the* jackets on." "Sir?" "I don't know whether I got that right or not, waiter," said the wild-eyed man. "but do the best yo.i can with it. A big red automo- bile had to jump out of my way about two minutes ago to keep me from running over it, and I'm a bit flustered." night" at Sheerness, the ship was taken out to sea by the officers in the early morning, before the crew were on deck. Once at sea, their captain had very little trouble with the men, and the Star was favor- i ably reported on when she reached jRio. In 1853 Luard applied to be sent charge of the Conqueror, and took a battalion of marines for the war in Japan. The captain assisted in the bombardment of the forts ot ( Yokohama, and received the Order of the Legion of Honor from the French Emperor, and was made C. B. over Don't use cold sugar for jellies; measure the strained fruit juice; to each pint allow one pound of the best granulated sugar; put it on a platter in a warm oven to heat ard add it to the boiling liquid. Don't put hot preserves in cold glasses or jars and not expect ac- cidents ; have the glasses or jars in scalding water, rinse well, then fill as quickly as possible. Don't allow preserves to stand about after they are cold ; put melt- ei paraffin on cover with lids, wash off every trace of stickiness, and put in a cool, dark, dry* place for future use. Don't expect to make good pre- his men to lend him money, which he never repaid GOOD PLACE TO BUILD. Our house should be on the hill tops of cheerfulness and serenity, fo high that no shadows rest on them, and where the morning comes so early, and the evening tarries so late, that the day has twice as many golden hours as those of other people. He is to be pitied whose house is in some va^ ley of grief between the hills, with the longest night and the shoiteat day. COAL FOR 500 YE.iRS. After That the World's Supply will be Exhausted. The L^nited Kingdom is not, as many suppose, the world's great- est producer of coal. Although rats is a trap into which the ahtmal! Gre-at Britain turns out between walks, attracted by an electric light 250 and 300 million tons each year, o« r 1. L .u i. lu iri. 1 ""*' a display of food. Once in he valued at the mines at s<imething . /:J^®* . u*^!^7_ °f?j__!_T- :!l«a°°ot 8«*^ o"'- and an electric cur- 1 like £130,000,000, the United States ELECTROCUTE RATS. One f the latest ideas for killing other. .\ sharp-tongued married woman, \\ ho had been i>psnly commiserat- ing an elderly spinster on her love- It ss state, went on to talk volubly ab ut her husband's health "Poor man, he has been a great sufferer hastiness of human judgments is, ^ent kUls him in fifty or sixty sec Condemned by the patience of the | ^^jg divine. Whether the bad may be- come good is not hinted at. But, that the rooting up of any is pro- hibited, is a merciful provision in- dicating that God is willing to wait ti'.l every man's chance is exhaust- e<l. I will say to the reapers â€" In the explanation (verse 39) we discover f> r the first time that these are different from the servants. The tares would be separated from the wheat either by weeding, or by "carefully picking out the stalks of darnel one by one from the cut grain." 33. The fieldâ€" There has been con- tinued controversy here over the question of church discipline. But it is ruled out entirely by the fact that the field cannot be interpret- ed narrowly as the church, but is the< world. The sons of the kingdom â€" Those who treasure up in their hearts manifest in their life the word of truth. Of course these are a part of the world of men, which Jesus claims rightfully his kingdom ^41). la the parable the word "king dcm' fir fifteen years," she remarked. "I can quite believe that, dear,"} gaged in coal-mining than in any beats this by a good million tons. The total annual production of coal in the world is over 1,000 million tons, the value being estimated at about £350,000,000. With the exception only of agri- culture, building and works, and th'; various food, tt)bacco, drink and lodging industries, more peo- ple in England and Wales are en- said the spinster, still smarting un- der the married woman's sarcastic "sympathy." "Let me see; it is just fifteen years since you mar- ried him, is it not?" As young Smithers moved outvne card-table he asked, casually: "Where rs the bright red table- cover we u'sed to have ? I always liked that." "You wouldn't like it now," interposed little Totnmy. "Tommy," said his sister Clara, "run away and play, there's a dear." "I won't," answered lit- tle Tommy. "Sister's ""Hush, Tommy, hushl" "Wont," an- swered Tommy again. And as he was hustled from the room he ysUed, "Sister's made a petticoat U used sooMwhat loos«ly, out of tikiA tableMtloUk." other industry. These number considerably over 600,000, and con- stitute about 5 per cent, of the male population ot over ten years of age. Altogether, five and a quarter million people in the world are em- ployed in mining work, and it ii estimated thait within five hundred years the coal supply of the world will be exhausted. After which w« shall have to freeze in winter, and €»*•• raw beef and apples, unless ra- dium, or some other frieiKlly uiin.. cral, conies to our aid. « "Witl you never give up smoking, dear Adolphus?"' "N-.%," replied the depraved smoker and punster; "I shall smoke ju«* %» 'ong as I chews."