ADNT CHILLY.

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My first remotnbr»ncB of our olU Aunt Chilly was when, as housekeeper at my grandmother's, she sailed about through the hall and library In a Wight dress and snovry apron, with an energetic fling to her brilliant turban, arranging flowers and dusting china; or'whsn she stood In the great kitchen with one hand raised to* her cheek and ' bossed de nlggahs." We children had such wholesome awe of her that W

i signal

' Aunt Chilly's coming.”

foi rapid rout.

Tho' 1 feared her twitching mouth and scornful eyes about as much os 1 feared sin and Satan, still there was a atrange fascination about her. and 1 would often stand In the kitchen door-

i hour at a time to see her

way for an hour at a time to see ucr scold brown Tilly, and cuff black Rando'ph, and occastoua..y mutter strange

things about my grandmother which It is hard to understand. Sometimes it

r "Pity ’bout Mrs. Gray. She had better mind how she asks folks to break-

fas' 'dout tellln' me."

Only at meal time did she throw off her habitual grimness. Then, seated at the head of a long tabla surrounded by wooly beaus, some turbaned and some bristling with plg-talls. she would brandish a chicken-bone and tell of her adventures in the great world— what she had seen In New York—when visiting my mother, how sha had traveled In elevated cars, and had been to the hippodrome, and seen a Uon and tiger and cooked In a basement kitchen, and ridden In an elevator. Her motions were so dramatic and her language so vivid that I wondered why I had not heard before what a realm of wonders 1 had lived In. and how superior we were to the other grandchildren who hau not ridden In elevated cars and dm not have basement kitchens. Sometimes a loud "Haw,

haw,' 'would ring around the table.

~ sten, and

sometimes strange queries came from

and row? of white teeth glistet

listeners "Aunt Chilly." said small Margaret -»nn, ner eyes glistening with eagerness. "Is it nicer out der den what It is In yere?" Aunt Chilly eyed the questioner contemptuously.

! quest

and, not wishing to commit hersey, bit a corn muffin In silence. Then the con.-

versation changed to * Punch and Judy," and still she took the lead. .With her head cocked on one side she squeaked “Judy's" song tiJ the laugh-

ter woke the echoes.

When sue had her All of applause, gnd Uiw chicken bones were picked, she would commence again to sail about, and frown and muttetvand whack. On Sunday afternoons, when we children and Aunt Collly were locked up In the nursery to be kept quiet, sha would condescend to tell us tales of former glory, of our uncles and father c "reed bird suppers." "Marso George was eo fussy, wouldn't hah nobodv

cook his supper but me."

"Do you remember Colonel Rombey, who died in the war?” I once asked. "I ‘member Colonel Rombey," said Aunt Chilly wrathfully. "Reckon 1 knows de las' time be was to our house. Had muffins and terrapin for tea Said I cooked 'em better'n Dclmonlco. Mrs. Cornelius Lockton. she said nobody nebbah cooked canvar ducks like me, and she’s been to Bo> ton." Then followed a long string of compliments which she had treasured, and which were familiar to us all. Sometimes we begged her to " ’apound de scriptures." and she would

talk about "bein' clothed wid de sun. and de moon under der feet," and 1:11

kow “SaU bar religious moods did not last long and were generally followed .by a gloomy silence, more ominous than

threats.

Once and only once did I try to conquer Aunt Chilly. I wished a certain

receipt, and though I had heard easier to wriggle a secret from Talley-

grandmother :

would

rand than a direct answer from Chilly, In my boundless conceit I determined to wrlnk It from her. Accordingly I

told Aunt Chilly how delicious Mrs.

receipt. Aunt Chilly sniffed danger from afar. She gave me one withering glance, and stirred more violently

the batter aha was mixing.

"Now, Aunt Chilly," I said, as t wrote "Cold-Slaw Dressing" at the top of the page. “What do you make it

“Miss Betty," said Aunt Chilly solemnly, *T don't know nuffln’ 'boat it” This being a usual form of response. I answered qolte cheerfully, "Oh, yes,

know. There la vinegar I

"Come, Aunt Chilly,'' I aald, getting a little excited, “I saw yoa mixing it " s stove. Yon most know what

on the t waa in it

Aunt Chilly stlrrso In gloomy alienee "Vinegarr 1 persisted sweetly, as I wrote down the “V." "Ntbah heard of cold alaw drestin' (Wldout wlnegah." was the answer given

I finished the word triumphantly, Ud then (a the most Insinuating toms inquired bow much. “ 'Cordin' as how mach yon's makin- Aunt CUHy dropped the batter complacently. "How much did yoa pat la yesterday?" I asked sternly. .

“I d Is remem bah," was the calm reply. Tactics bad to be changed. "Isn't it about half a cupful?” I suggested Innocently. Aunt Chilly looked up In scorn. "Laws a massy! Miss Betty; your not a makin’ sauer kraut!" "What do you measure It In?"

with a toss of the head. "How many teaapoonfuls would you

take?”

"La, child! Ain't you seed me measure It wid a tablespoon?” She turned her back. "Two tablespoonfuls?" “If It ain't too sour." Tremblingly I wrote down "two iblespoonfuls" opposite "Vinegar.” "Now. Aunt Chilly, tel) me the other things. There Is salt and pepper and mustard and sugar." "Mustard In cold alaw dreaaln'! My glory! Who'd eat It" Aunt Chilly seldom laughed. "How much sugar did you say. ^unt Chilly r' “I didn't aay." “Come. Aunt Chilly," I cried, getting wrathy; "I have no time to waste this nlng. How much sugar do you

generally put In?"

"Miss Betty, you Jeat b deaf," ahe cried half whin

bother me to

don't know nuffin' 'bout It. Ifa 'cording as how much eggs and butter I

puts in."

"Eggs and butter," 1 said, aghast. "Why didn’t you tell me before? Do you beat the eggs?" "Sometimes I does, and sometimes 1 doesn't." with a self-complacent smile “The whites and yolks separately?"

"My goody. Miss Betty! You'a not

»kln‘ cake."

cake.’

"How many eggs do you use, three' “You'd ruin it wid three eggs.' said Chilly, rolling ginger dough In grim satisfaction. "Two eggs; then?” "Ef It ain't too much." "One egg?" "One egg ain't always enough.” "Good gracious. Aunt Chilly!" I cried In despair; "la It one egg and a

half?”

“Nebah heerd tell of halt an egg" Aunt Chilly looked out the window. I wrote down "One large egg or two small ones." "Now for the butter. How mpeh butter do you use?” Mias Betty, don't ax me nuffln' 'bout de buttah. 1 nebah take no count how much buttah I uses." ' "Well, it Is not as much as a cupful?" I suggested, coaxlngly. ."I reckon not" “About a teaspoonful?" “Nebah heerd of measurin' buttah

"P'raps so. 'Cordin' as how It looks when It's melted." "Do you melt the butter?" I asked In surprise. “How

wldout meltin'de buttah?" She waved her bony finger. "You know, of course," I answered meekly; “but do you melt the butter.

“Ef you wants ta” She was dough again. "How long do yon cook It, Aunt

Chilly?”

"Tell It gets done.” Carefnlly she

cut the finished rolL

"And how soon may that be?" " 'Cordin’ as how hot de fire 1a" "Aunt Chilly!" I aald. as I tore

HART FOR BRAINY HEN.

NEW YORK A MECCA OF HOPE FOR THE UNFORTUNATE.

■at Their Brlcht X>sr* CewpUl*- , lr Disappeared, Teaiponullr at beaet. ■ad iher're Walling aad Watehlag far

Other So.llu tlmm.

Human nature fat franker

honester In a low-prloe hotel In New York than any place else in the me-

the pretences and subimlnatc temperamental dlT-

tropol terfug ferenc

The well-conducted cheap hotel la the refuge of those who have fallen.

"Aunt Chilly!" I said, as I tore np the paper. "1 don’t believe we shall

try this receipt."

Chilly did not raise her eyes, lut when I reached the door ane said composedly. “Bettah come back In half an hour. Mias Betty; de ginger cakes will

be doyp.”

This was our first and last tussle. Never alnce then, though she had confided many things to me. have I attempted to sound her through direct

questions.

Sometimes she will talk of her childhood, her far-away childhood, ao d m and unreal to me, each year more vivid and real to her. As ahe alts In my -room, after I have gone to bed. and gazes Into the fire, I often auggest thot she la" thinking how ahe lov.ee me. A faint smile brightens her face, and she shakes her head. "No, I was stndyin' ’bout de times I had when I was little” Then she" talks of the funny, dreamy slave .lays —pathetic In their happiness—end the wrinkles smooth away and aho looks young again. Then, when ahe alts in the window, and the setting sun flares on her bandanna turban, and I wonder what ahe Is up tw. the answer always comes, otudyln'.”—New York Independent

Blah Lights.

are the people who think they know us so mqcfa better than we know them. A philosopher ia a man who hellevet that be receives more spiritual Intimations than he needs for his own use. Even the woman who boasts that she earns her own bread and butter likes to have a man treat her to loe

i to be the absence of a »or Is oftsh merely the e'of propriety.

rich; red roses which odor. Pessimists are permitted to keep op-

“Tes. I call him a •

] “He Isn't Impressive,

j k« « I cage

not those who rise from the gutter. Those who make their homes In lodging houses are oftener than not men of considerable education, who have known better days. They ere human derelicts drifting about the Saragossa sea of misfortune. In one hotel In this £lty there are about 1500 persons cared for erpiy night In the year. The rooma are scrupulously clean, the beds comfortable and the rates are no higher than are charged In second-rate lodginghouses. But the gueeta are of a decidedly higher order. An air of rement pervades the place. In that reaped the hotel la in every way th* _*qual of the more pretentious hoetelries. It is those qualities that make it the temporary home of men who have not altogether given up hope or expectation of better days. Aa a rule, they are not communicative, but once In a while one of them will become reminiscent after you have gained his con-

fidence.

If you apeak of Africa, Asia. South America or any other part of the earth you are almost certain to find In the group of listeners at least one who has

been exactly in the place mentioned, and Ifa ten chances to one that if you

t him how he came to be here yon

ask

will get the stereotyped answer that ho made a failure where he waa and camo to New York to retrieve hla fallen fortunes. In a group of five men In the reading room one night last week one of them commented on the Boer war and some of hla listeners applauded hla criticisms on the conduct of the Brltlch side of the contest One man remained silent He carries scars made by throe Boer bullets at Splon Kop, and naturally concluded his views would not ■trike a popular chord. The hardships of war were discussed until a man bad opportunity to tell of his experiences while acting as a timekeeper while the work on the Panama canal was in

progress.

Another man told of horrid tortures idured for 16 days In an open boat.

opei .had

passenger bad been burned at sea A fourth had been In business In one of the South American republics. The usual revolution came according to the standing schedule arranged for those affairs down there. The American was accused of sympathizing with the revolutionists. Hu property was confiscated and he waa cast into prison. After a delay of several months he waa released upon demands made by the United States government But he never recovered any of hla proper 7. He returned to this country and is nsw one of toe vast army of "has beens" to whom New York la the Mecca of

hope.

The fifth man was one of the six survivors of an exploring expedition whose iste, if not its achievements, has become historical. It la still a mooted question whether the members of the expedition were forced to resor: to cannibalism. The narrator was silent on that point, but bis hearers Interred that this charges that bavo been made were not altogether groued-

A short distance from this group sat another man with a history, but those around him knew nothing about It He lounges around the hotel day after day anR week after week, hardly ever going oht of doors. He is a large, fine-looking man. always well groom*1 and always reserved, rie talks with none of the other guests, and so makes no confidants. It la said by a few of those who presume. to know what they are talking about that he waa, not mhny years ago, one of the best-known and most dangerous bank robbers In this country— the brains of a most notorious gang whose members, excepting himself, are dead or in prison. The story ia that his inactivity Is purchased by a syndHato of banka who prefer to pay..him a substantial yearly income tor Ufa to keep him from collecting a much larger one

himself.

It la aald h* goes to a certain bank ■vary Monday, receives hla "salary"

and returns to me hotel H«* it tent to accept his annuity and rest in

peace, after a most strenuous life. Another of the guests of this hotel, which ia no different from other hotels of cheaper grade, except that it is very large, 1* a man whose whole make-up been the unmistakable stamp of education and refinement He seems out of place, and he is. He has been at tha hotel several yean now, hft be could count up his acquaintances on the fingers of one hand In appearance he Is tall straight and exceedingly dignified. He la very careful of hie personal appearance, and if hla clothes were a

he eras well

Uon

Not so' long in one of the !

would

He appean to feel his posily. keeping well to himself

book of poetry and his name on the Utlc

very ia*

salve. bi>f my! ho* PM*-

decadence of meet of them can be traced to drink, but some, the professor, for Instance, have been overwhelmed for no apparent reason, and they find ft bard even now to realize that they no longer are a part of the prosperous aide of the human family. Most of them bear their mlsfonunes with considerable cheerfulness, and some are really happy In tljelr misery. That Is somewhat paradoxical, for they are Americana, and that means that

they feel quite aure they will be "on top” again before long and are waiting

with paUence and resignation for that time when they will once more be In tho upper strata of society. They are used to ups and downs. Mors than one of these lodgers at the cheap hotel has made and lost several fortunes. Others are members of wealthy families that have cast them off for reasons that were, to them, sufficient to JusUfy such a courae. There are many college graduates. Ones In a while one of them really does get up In the world, but the vast majority pass out of mind and memory, never to be heard from again. They are not missed, for their places are filled almost before they have disappeared.—New York News.

POVERTY OF THE TROPICS.

Bvarythlag la U>a Bol Connlrlu U Uurmfal ta Man. That the tropics are really poor In natural resources instead of being rich Is the argument of Dr. Semeleder, of Cordoba. Mexico. Hla arguments are especially Interesting Just now. when so much attention Is being attracted to the hot regions of the world as places for exploltaUon. The doctor. In a letter to the Medical Record,

"All men dream of the marvelous riches of the tropics, of the birds with rainbow plumage, of the extravagant flowers, of the elegant tree-fernc. of the banana and palms, with waving leaves, and of the cocoa-palm, which furnishes man with everything necessary for life. Indeed we pity him who has never seen a tropical landscape, aa we pity him who has never seen the eaa. Then we think of the enormous treasures the English. Spanish and Dutch have harvested from their tropical coloales. qpd. naturally, we think that tho tropics are the richest regions of the world. All this may be true, yet. nevertheless, in another sense. Instead of being rich, the tropica are fatally poor. Unable to se-

ple of tropical countriea are like man In whose hand everything turns to gold, yet who perisbes of hunger

and thirst.

"Of all the breadstuffa necessary for man the tropica furnish only corn and rice, and these only to a limited extent They have no wheat ryd, or potatoes. The banana may be, aa Humboldt aaya, 133 times more productive than wheat and 44 times more bo than potatoes, yet It cannot replace either as food. Nor can white men live for any length of time on rice and com alone, nor on bananas and palm-nuts. Native tropical foods can only hold body and soul together, as.they furnish but little vigor, energy, and power. No machine can do good work with poor fuel A man who baa neither bread nor moat cannot get life and strength and push from tea, coffee, sugar, vanilla, and all the precious spices. Tropical products are merely commercial luxuries and If the Inhabitants of cold climes did not buy them the people of the tropics would lack the necessaries and comforts of life and would yet choke with their

own riches.

“If we wish to know the effects of the poor diet of the tropica combined with the effects of the heat, we have only to look at the inhabitants of these countriea. As a ceneral rule they are thin, poorly built, and unfit for intellectual or physical laW. Occasional exceptions will only confirm the rule. "Even the foods which are produced are insufficient in amount, ao that the least Interference with the annual crops results In famines, as la the case In India today. Indeed. India has ai-

rs been the land of fabulous riches

lines

Hons. Until recently. In the cold coun-

waya of &

few and of famines of the mil-

tries thare were none of fabulous

wealth and but few famines.

“Everything In hot countries Is harmful to man: the ground, the water, and the air, swarming with miasma and vermin, and with torment and danger. Life la as much a torment aa a pleasure, for whatever' makes life worth living ia lacking. They depend for Indispensable necessaries upon the temperate zones, to which they fur-

nish only the luxuries.’,'

Convict'* Ad vie* to o Vann* Offender. Thomas Brady, wanted on threa charges in Louisville, Ky.. going by tha name of Flannery, when he broke jail and escaped to Detroit, Mich., alnce which time he baa broken Into no leas tnan 12 houses, -was given four year* Before sentencing him, Judge Murphy asked him to tfve some advice to a boy who was in a felon’s seat for the

first time. Brady aald;

"All I can tell him la that sinoe I was 19 I have had no pleasure or peace or comfort I can ten him that the game la not worth It I can tell him that It's always worry and fear and caution, and that it isn't worth the price. That is all I can tell him. and I advise the boy to keep out of a Ufa such as mine has been for the last five years." The Judge told him ho took one year off his sentence because be came of a good family and had a

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