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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1903-12-24, Page 3:f A Mysterious Postcard • FL. •": nnene The pest -Card lay upon tte f mt.-table, le bad, sent an unPlease an sticer through my grew°. I did not care to copeess that I was Afraid aeld yet I tuirait 1;110 any eoki seem- ed to have 'feet its senor and the eerie° it$ tate, HettYmy wire, looked at um with onwed eyes, "Whateter is wrong, tfillie ?" she 4044, in. a peaplexed tone. "You leek as though, you haul -mean A Omen" "Pintail yeur bre-41.14We," I said, i2 to te eak in a celm, impiety Manner. "Finieli your Ineahtast, and you sball lenow that this is the worn of some homi- cidal maniac." He tore himself away, elicarting as he weethat he was binned tor the police -Station. ' - I shrugged, my shoulders as he de- , Parted, for 1 kuew gone well that I' the police, who had been unable tO help me, weld be poweriees to offer 4. ester aid to my dietracted frieed. it * Tleree months paeseci. The year was approaching its end, APO be- gat), to feel terribly afraid. I pup - teamed a revolver, carrie4 ft on my persoa day and night, Ann rarely stayed Out after duek ft I eetild pos- eibly ;Wald doing eo., Meantime the authorities had dia. covered no duo to the identity euci whereabouts of tbe wi iter of the an- onyraous cards, aor 014 they gem likely to cle so. (lee morning Avben I was perusing my daily paper the following para- graph of A Sudden burned /Ate my brain. It ran thus :--- "Intense mystery is being causee throughout the Metropolis and the , country at lerge b the circulation When ie Meal bag worn to its coo of Seine extraoedieary airionyrooes handed the post -card to my wife. poeteards, The connoindcatione She read it, utteneil a, littlo scream. mem the recipients to prepare for and than asked, t"- death before the Ooze of tbe present # "Ohn Wlii, what can It lama year. We understand that all en Whet can it omen" ? forts to trace the writer or writers addrerin 4-434 V"3-; 1°1'01144-0 t4) le far been deemed to tellure. Varlotis *The card, whieh bore no nanile ro tee mvsterielts CONS halm thuS name *be Elul tfo Teen" theeites hone been put forward bv "Moan ?" 3 aoh9* "Prohald-Y* the pollee to explain tne eetrao1di4- deareet, it iS A fecilliSh boa.; /An ay occinTences, but the most feaele whemer is responsible Mr it ought bie would wow that the Calla t. ;WO to be ashamed of bimeelt I shell einanated from the band of a bell*, Can ill at the police -station on Inn' cicial lunatic. Further developments the inspoetine." Se Thompson and X were riot Way te taW11 0114 hand the thitig to wee he harmed with pcwor interevto "Yaet, de," 5te a"eit13; "and clone, thee, in our dire Meeitien, when the wretch who wrote tbe card nom, &SO, had rer.rivt4 these ter - is vought, 1 no bore OW% 5Udhim fyiug carde, and 1 confess tbe to prime for We. e itneweg ledge went a, loway towardo Iretty'a views of %b imue proce* simian* my fears. Mier ell tbe dere were rennewhat vague. ccouncIreh whoever he might be. ot his etnizewbat rubleinui hair when hole murder throe bout Great Dri- lospeeter Bates nested to the mote men not eery wen commie wheia. 3 .,(15iduevta TPA° Q..S post" tato mid Ireland, and, comforted by CAM 'La nStalnaae4 this thought. I slept luore peeeefidly "Tins will Mean pleety ot worlt touely. "Leave the card with zue. eirs and I Proralro ..noa that we shall dilven Iraq*. lavery urisspapet, the %tido. Oae eaterprising bult- tuisier.'54 r I ail" a shalt farehnile of the Hu eateadng card, whilst a sptritualistie journal pro - ducal a clairvoyont sketch purport- ing to be tbe litneets of the evil person who had unettered the Jaya- terions rommueleatioxis tbroughout tre iiingdom. Letters poured into the IlOWSParet Ones in eboals. All sorts and con- ditious of suggestions were put for - by enthusiastic; amateur detee- tivee. Some of the seggestions were than bad done tor months - fear the pelisse" be obeeeved portene pelt the helve of horror wilidt bad swept the country refused to to do ger bet to tra. e the writer of tbe laud teemed with refereneeo to "What Iti your opinion about the pehoy. hterhbox dany reproduced ta" 0. Ile eyed me Marin-- as be said, Mowry — "Po you Lebow any Inman who bon grudge enfant, you, fir ?" laughed einneWhat uneasily as I made no-Swer "Well, barely 'mow. 1 believe am on good tonns with most reopie. of it tore was ore Stay, temente Now 1 come. to thiol "Yee, ens," tried the online]. as he !morn brilliant num innetiene. For , rrodeced his lig notenmola inlo on, instance, one inventive geld" neg. sir, if you please." sestet' that ON'ery pillar -box and let - "Well, them was a little meaning ter -box In Great Britain and Ireland sboeld he watthed by concealed per - soya Another would -bo Sherlock HOlales WAS of opinion, that blood- hounds should be glom the scent by means of the ink upon the card. Ob- viously, the writer woula also cony mares of the mane luk, suggeeted this acute -minded reasolier, and by means thereof the hounds would quietly run him to earth. Them l , and similar etartling proposals were earOYi he would disguise 'lb ventilated in the Press, but, as XIS-. )1411(3,* 1 1`00041, amazed at the usal, nobody paid tbe elightest beed to tbern, mid they vimisbed into ob- scurity mid the knelien-ilre. Tee police, of conrse, came In for a, large amount of blame. Tlicy were Yard, sir, wbo can perceive eimilarie called all manner of unkind things. tees. Witch would be quite hidden to you or mon' Such adeeetives as "lethargic'," 'an- tiquated," "inett,'' 'quince" and onomite I answered. nyen Arai other terms more brutal than coin - fellow vatted Shielahe. whom 1 Nicited out of any office for tampeze ing with the enslehox. Ins last words ;is he marched out of the buirling new "You nhall pay for tnis, Mr. Leicester." "I tee, ree," returned Beteg, ihonglittelne "Er—by the way, do you think eon could, let me see some d this man's handwriting to corn - Pare with tbe poet -card 9" elopiclity of the queetion. "A num can't disguise Ins beed wizen an expert Is on the job," re- plied the inepecton in a elignified tome "We Moe experts in the ba.ve several specimens or s plinteutary were ehowered 'upon long - calligraphy by to-niglit's post." m 1 kept my word and forwarded to the station three letters indited by Shiplake during his °Mee sojourn severing Scotland Yard. People who bad Heed in Frame) fulminated on the wealomes of the English detee- Jive force when eonapared with the bailliant Gallic Methods, aud alto - But 1 might have spared myself the other everyone was very angry in trouble, for on tbe ,following morn - deed and wondered wily the Police ing there arrived a letter beating :the Ileibouree postmark. 3.t. was did not "do something.',' Mr. m from Shiplake himself, and it aSked piWilliaCures.% the million - for a testimonial. aire ll-Inanufacturer, filled by pub - New, of course, 1 did 414 wrat.i enthuseisann, actually offer - n ed a reward of neWO to any person the fellow's insufferable inpudence b3r cone -giving information which would lead granting his request, but his mnicaa" served a 118431 to the detection of the writer of the estrds, but even this magnificent offer and came at all opportune enoment. failedqo elict any useful facts. When Parliament met, a young member anxious to distinguish him- self brought up the question. It was reported as 'follows :--- THE ANONYMOUS POST -CARD SCARE. "Mr. H. J. Rennet (North Beim - ley) asked tbe Secretary of State for the rfome Department whether may special measures were being taken 'by the police to trace the origin of the mysterious cards with which the coentry was being flooded. -"The Home Secretary : I have no formation on the subject. (Opposi- tion . Even the august Ilou.se of Lords concerned itself with the episode, and several distinguished peers stated that they had been subjected to the anonymous writer's attentions. In a word, the whole kingdom talked of little save the mysterious communi- cations, and even the Continental journals referred to the business in a sarcastic manner. - Illumination 051110 1)1 the fulness of time. On the 31st pf 'December I rose from my couch, wondering what the day would bring forth. The card had said, "Prepare to the be- fore the end of the year," and now" the endof' the year was at hand. Perhaps it was foolish of me to ex- perience the slightest tremors, seeing that so many thousands of iny fel- low -countrymen had received simi:ar -unpleasant warnings, but, after all, each man carries his own little bun- dle of hopes and fc.sars within him, and 1 corfe.,,s that I was not alto- gether easy. But, the Powers be thanked, re- lief was at hand. When 1 arlivcd homethat evening I found my wife in a parox-ysin of laughter. ''0h, Will, Will,'' 8110 exclaimed. "It is too funny --too funny !" "What on earth is the inatler ?' inquired, woodeiing whether si.e was on the bordeland of hysteria, "Real-. ly, my clear gill, if you don't stop this nonsense I shall send for the My5t011CMS C57,(3 501130 WelekS SMCC. -,(1111Y Tfe4i0VC,'' he observed, Again her laugh rang out, long and lt nroded that the anonymous card did not emanate Irani him, seeing that some 10,000 miles of sea and lend stretched between us. Froin whom then? This was the question which agi- tated ine day and night. I went any way in fear and trembling. Ere - fluently I would awake in -the still watches of the night believing that T. should find an assasain bending over inv :pillow with dagger or re- eener in band. Natty, who had always loathed dogs, and who had been subjected to several attentions In the shape of more or less painful bites, was ac- tually heroic enough to suggest pro- curing one of the enemy to guard the house. "I hate the' weetcbed things," sbe said. "But your life. Wilhe dear, is more precious than all else. So buy a dog, and we shall be compar- atively safe." I acted on this suggestion. Towzer was duly- installed in my residence, and made night hideous by his un- earthly howls. Both my. wife ,and myself enjoyed scarce a wink of sleep ,but we comforted ourselves \Vial the reflection that di the writer of -the mysterious card ventured to ap- proach our strenghold he would find in Tow:cer orm who would "stick clbser than a brother"—to use a well 'known Phrase- llowever, no opportunity was oil -- en to the faithful creature to exer- cise his powers as a policeman, and was beginning to tell myself that the whole businees waz a hoax when met a l:eiglabor of rnine who SC,CM- ed teen with terror. "Look _hero, LeiCester," he cried, "look at this card. 1 received it • this morning, and it has given me a nasty turn, 1 Call „tell you." "Great Scot. 1" I ejaculated. “The same words—the same writ'ing 1" It was only too true. Thompson, on hearing my- remark, asked for OM explanation whereupon t told him that 1, also had re:solved a similar "Oh, dear, oh, dear, 1 think, I snail elle," she eecleimed, nriallst the tars reeldown her eheeke. "'It la the funniest thins that ever bapperied." eyed Ler with as much steruness aa 1 (andel Master, "Will you he good enough," X ex - deemed, "to enlighten, 2ne as to tbe cause of your mirth?" For answer silo went to the mare teleiece and handed me a lesteearch "What Another card I' I yelled, "Great Jupiter ! 'Phis is no lenah- beg emitter." **Read At, read et.' she Fel; Seleieg the card with tea:ending fingerea Teen the following words tio..1c1 former cath rd tip to e ; A amidee illuminetion began to break upon my misty brain. "The etler card, the other card," I shouted"Where is it?' "Ilhax, here," slie laughed. "Ob, Well, Will, I ehall remember tt/S AS loeg as I live." I I bounded towards the gas -bet, and , held the threatenims post -card which I hed IreCeared months befoee towards' the bright glow, 'Mae I. itotn buret auto a loug, maid, uncen- trollable peal of neirth. For when the card was tele them [there appearesl beneatLt tke words " repo. e ode bcfoie the esd o year," the followleg sequel l•— t "Wbich emit meet probably will do furileso you purebeee Cureall's Liver lithe la fid. rex box, at all Gizmo iets, or post fro, Is lOtl., front the meinufectureys, W, Copal.), awl Co„ Lereited, nt TileMAS a Street, Lon- , ,R "(VOL 'tenet do you think of it 7" asked my 'wife, with a merry =ilia, When at leitgtie the real meaning of the entraorfeinary poet-cArd 1aUAle teed into iny brain. "IYhat no 1 think ?" I echoed, "Well, 1 rather think thee alien instruct my brokers to boy ane another hundred shares in Citroen and Co." :Aeul 1 did.—London 1RUIES WORM' TEE 'PRONE PLEASANT VOICES BROUGUT BIG FORTUNES. Bermes NAZld a, Melt millionoire--Uverpool Lady's Luck, Among the thousands of fOrls who have taken to the "Halloo' business it is only natural that there eliould be many little re -silences connected with their occupation, though, as a rule, tbe actors In the ilrama usual- ly like to lieep their own secrets. Tese romances occasionally beeome public property, and one of the most rearierhable cases of the kind, in which a telephone played a prom- inent part, occurred last year when Miss Bermes lees Married. to an Ant- erican *olio bad fal- len in love with her voice as it %ono over the wire. Miss Bermes was a telephone epee- ator at tbe central calico in a. big Western, city In the States, while her two sisters were employee in a cot- ton factory some eight miles distant, She Was of German descent, the youngest daughter of very poor•oar- ents wbo bad emigrated to America, some thirty yenrs before, libse Ber- mes was possessed oi a remarkably inimical voice, the beauty and flexi- bility of which were most striking when heard over the long-distance wire. It was to this gift that she owes her present pefaion as Wire Of one of the wealthiest men in the world. Miss Bermes was frequently called up by a gentleman who, though she had never seen him, became, through familiarity with his voice, some- thing of an old friend. That he lived manr miles away, owned the factory in which her sisters worked, and was IMMENSELY WEALTHY, Miss Bermas knew, but otherwise she was ignorant oven of the place where he resided. Curiously enough how- ever, the two sisters knew his Meuse well, and they, with other factory girls, when returning from work would pause outside the gates and occasionally watch the guests arriv- ing in their beautiful carriages, and view with awe the ;dignified footmen as they paced up and clown the im- mense hall. The millionaire, however, cared no- thing for this grandeur, and when his wife died soMe two years ago he bethought him of the telephone girl whose beautiful voice had made so great an impression upon him, trav- elled down to the town where she was stationed, an4 called for the avowed purpose of sending a mes- sage. He discovered the girl he was in search of, found she was pretty, though by SO means beautiful, be- came acquainted in duo time, pro- posed, and, was accepted.. Not until after the wedding did he disclose his name, and it wias only when he took his bride to the maenificent hOuse which had so pleased the factory girls that she began tie realize the extent of her husbancVs wealth. , Mr. T. P. Phillips, president of the Chicago Federal Trust and Savings Bank, can lay claim to having won his bride by telephone, though it can hardly be said that he courted her by the seine • means. Many years ago Mr. Phillips became ac- quainted with Miss Mite Carnahan, of (ladle, Ohio, mai, „though there was no engagement between the two, their likinr, for each other was sin- cere. But, they said good-bye in the usual matter-of-fact way, and never Met again until four months .ago, when they accidentally _came face to f.teeill TPSTREETS OF CHICAGO They were , nun nal:1y pleased to see one another, but Miss Carnahan was on the oVe of departure, and the Sol-' lowing day returned to Cadiz. Some days passed., and then Mr. Phillips, who had by that time come to the conclusion that his affection was the "real thing," callert up Mise Cariia- haii on the long-distance telephone and there and then asked her to marry him. After some natural beet- tatioe the lady breathed "yea" tnrough the transmitter And htieg the receiver Up. Oa July lath, last the couple were happily married, amid the peal of wedding hells. But America is net tne only eonn- try where telephone romances are found. There is A lady known to the writer, now resident in Liver- pool, who was eveoed and won entire- ly through the falepbene, Ile" maid- en name was Miss Constamee Pratt, and for Mere than a yeAr She was in charge of the exchauge %lice not a bundred miles from Mencliester. Iner unfeeling good temper, nor melodious voice, and her musical leugb, widen could be heard when she was endeav- oring to smeeth Own a particularly irascible subscriber. must all be cred- ited with having helped to attract the attention of a wealthy Liverpool merchant, This gentleman, wimen we will call efte Smith, afterwards declared that he used to purposely "blow up"- Um girl a,t the excbaege in order that he might have the satisfaction et hearing her fly into a rage. But the more ho scolded, the pleeimoter be- came the voice cie Miss Prett. until Mr. Smith began to Oleic that any- one gifted with so remarkably Wee,. IA temper waist be Or little OUT Ole TIIE ORDINARY.• and Im pictured to liftmen the tind of- countenance which aliould go with such an amiable disposition. Filial- ly he deterndeed to satisfy hie curi- osity, and one afternoon entered the exchmige and "interviewed" the lady In charge. After that visit be called her up on the 'phone more frequentle, and when not busy 3fl5a Pratt Weald convene With liim for a teal rainutee. And *Van indulge in zoom milti flirta- tion, though sehe afterwards denied this. In less than three menthe from tbe time of calling upon her, elueing Which period they had lower again net, Kr. Smith rang the young lady up and offered his heed, heart, and nn0,000 per annum; bead- soneely agreeing that if the "full particulars," with Nthich he would furnish her later, were not eatisrac- torly be would have the option of "returning the goods." Under Vivo conditions Mies Pratt ko a seesible women, accepted the %lova, and everything turning out ecitialnetorily the couple were marri- ed two mentlis later. The bride begged Viet as many os possible of the teleplione girls who were with her at the exchaego should to invit- ed, a request which ber lover readily granted, and it is said that the num- ber of congraenlations will& were sent by telephone exceeded in event= anything in the memory of the oldest operator.—London Tit -Bits. UNIQUE InAlfileY CMOLE. A emall town in Bavaria san boast of what. may be described as ftunique family circle. A shopkeep- er reskinnt there inclutles among his bousehold tbree living mothers -in - /ow, each with a, mother of her own, his own mother, his third wife, and four daughters In their teens. Tile twelve women aro reported to live on terms of the greatest asaity, and the shopkeeper himself, who is for- tunately in good circumstances, pro- fesses to be perfectly contented, not- withstanding that he is. thus the thirteenth of his family. no inces- sant banter to which be is subjected he philosophically welcomes as tend- ing towards the better advertisement of Ids business. WEALTRY TEMPLE. At a missionary meeting at Bristol, Eogland, the other day Mr. Eugene Stock mentioned tbe surprising fact that a temple of Siva, whieh he visited in a, remote provincial town of India, had a revenue of $850,000 a. year, and supported twenty-five daughter churches." Its accounts are kept by a band of clerks, sitting in an office, with desks, cupboards, and ledgers, very like a merchant's office in London or Bristol, The jewel-cheet of the temple has twenty- four locks, the keys of whieh are kept by twenty-four different men. WEEPING TREES. The weeping tree of the Canary Ts - lands is one of the wonders of plant life. It is of the laurel family, and rains down a copious shower of wa- ter drops from it's tufted foliage. This water is often collected at the foot of the tree and forms a kind of pond, from which the inhabitants of the neighborhood can supply them- selves with a beverage that is abso- lutely fresh and pure. The water comes out of the tree itself through innumerable little pores situated at the margin of the leaves. BOLLING WITHOUT COAL. * Every day in London scores of workmen's kettles are boiled in Lane that will afterwards be used for its proper purpose. Just before the breakfast hour, say, one of the' work- men empties 5 imentity of the dry lime front a sack: In the centre of this lime he makes a hole, and into it water is poured. Then he puts his kettles into the water, and in a few minutes the kettles boil. In thous- ands of cases a fire is thus spared. HIGH PRICES 'FOR SEATS. Exorbant prices Were paid for sea's at the gala performance in the Paris Opera Rouse at' which the -Xing and Queen of Italy IliCl*C present. Certain box -offices sold Single scats in boxes an the, third tier for 160, seats in the pit for §180, a box ior hve per- sons on tile fourth tier for $1,000, and a seat in the fourth row of the I 0111 hi 11,11 10 tor .1 • The Duke • ,oT Cambridge, Who is fond of colleoting swords, always wears. 00 State occasions the d 1. a - mond -hilted weapOn which Was 'Pre- sented, to hiM by the Shah of Persia. EANDLING OF FOOD* metters little hew much care is exercised in the seleetion„ of foo4 or tbQ stini expeoded in its Purchase it it Is not, properly eared for after it reachee the house. Through care - and *yore:nee the leee is often great, proving that tbere is more thee A Waal of trail 421 the • adage, "A WOOltal can Wow eet on a teaspoon what a man brings in 'en a ebovel." Salads Axel vegetahlee that arrive in good condition are 4114A1Aped a hot kitchen to wit and wither until the coon gets "good and ready" to put them away. Meat is left in ite paper to absorb the taste ited get gilled fast to it, Fruit is bruised in emptying it out, butter Mt uncover - e4 to grow rancid, and stand- ing to Four. When green vegetables come they almond be sit at mice in the roller r tato the icebox. Salads may be wmapped Mn damp cloth., than in nowspapc.r. mut put in tbe air. • reels ebould be emptied in, their proper receptaclee of tin or glans and closely covered to prevent :needy gettiiig 111. Coffee eliouni go iramedl- attly into an Airtight canister order to keep it aroma. •Olive oil elioulcl be put iota a cool, dark Piece and salt, soap and einem) into dry rem. Dried fruit should be kept in air. tight glove sails; nnts hi a VOOL dry pines to prevent their growing rall- CUL And chocolate, COCOA and cocoa- shelle in cold storage. neolasses and syrups need to be where it is cool. ° Eggs should he baeolled carefully, 00 as met to break the membrene pareting the yolk and white, and kept in a dry. cool place. Fleur belong"; in a bin or barrel AiSoda few niches from tne neer. Wbile wheat flour may be obtained ja quantity, cornmeal or grAbelll flour should ouly he purcbeeed in moll quantities aod kept in tin or glass. (WOOS 814011d Oat be left cut, as they are great aloorbers. Neltber 0/4011S, bananas nor oausloricions should be put in an icebox with other food. Winter vegetables obould be fully matured when gathered, dried thor- °uglily and then stored in a cool, dry place. Carrots, beets and celery h'eeP better if packed in sand, Small and soft fruits should be attered on platters, not left in baskets as purchased, an their men weigh crusbes them And they de- cay. Peaches and fine pears should be removed to a shelf and not be allowed to touch one Another. To- matoes may be ripened by exposure to the sun. Milk and cream should be kept sep- arate from the other foods, as theY absorb odors. Butter, If purchased in quantity, should him) a cloth spread over the top and on top of that a thick lay- er of salt. When necessary to take out but- ter, lift the cloth il'Ota the side, cut out a square, even plime, and recover with cloth And salt. If only a IOW pounds are purthased at a time, keep In a tin or agate pain cover with a cloth, wrung out cr, salt water, and Om lid. Lard should be kept in tin and in a cool place. Fresh fish should never be permit- ted to soak In water. Put iu a cool plate directly on artificied ire. Meat should not be laid on the ice, as that draws out the juices, If fresh killed, allow it to get allied before putting in cold storage, otherwise the animal heat is driven inside and causes fermentation, which is poison- ous. Do not let chops and steaks rest against one smother, much less bam and steak. AU meats and poultry require a cool, dry atmosphere. /f necessary to hang them, suspend with the choicest and tender parts down. Hang hunb and mutton by the shook, and poultry by the feet. SELECTED REQEIPTS. Apple Butter.—Slice the apples as for pies, and put them in a crock, the plate. Cook three houas. Serving Saxlerhraut.—The usual way using 3 cups sugar to 2 gals. ap- ples. Put a plate over the crock and place in an oven. theep water in to prepare sucterkraut inthiscoun- try is to fry it, which ntak-es it very indigestible. This is the better way: Stew for at least one and one-half hours, with a piece of fat pork, fresh or smoked. When cooked nearly dry and soft, put to 2 qts. of the sauer- kraut 2 or 3 good-sized raw grated potatoes. Cook long enough to have them dobe. This takes up the sur- plus juice and makes it very palat- able. Sauerkraut should be cooked in enameled or stone ware. Dutch Paneakes.--Boat six eggs (whites and yolks) until very light. To this add one pint of sweet milk and a half -teaspoon of salt; wheii well mixed pour it very slowly onto ono -half cup of flour, beating all the while to prevent it from lumping— the bettor must be very thin. PUt • piece of butter the size •of a small hickory nut, io h•thin skillet, tip it from side to side so the butter is all oversit. When quite hot put a large fooking spoonful of batter in -the cen- tre or the Skillet, and instantly tip the skillet from side to side, so that the ono spoonful will cover the whole bottom, making a cake very' large around and as thin as paper, with a brown, crisp edge. As soon as the batter looks set, not moist, ,begin at one side and roll it up as you would la scroll, Tip it into a platter (you neoeouoldie.10,7 pTobt000wite eextr. an: bk-nig bard 10 Make. AS one might /manila°, en4 g • good butter and a hot skillet WO used are tine. , Met/tees Chicken Fie.—Cut up 1,,b0 chiotens AS for frieasee and cook in liseltect water until they are tender, and thicken the gravy, For the crust take I, quart, of tour in your sifter, mid 2 rounding teaspoone meant tartar, 1 round teAspeen ene ' da, and the ea= of Salt, AA4 Sift Al* i together twice. Rob in e eup of ' lerd, then wet up the whole With b imp eerie, Of thie3X. ereala and EfAlt. imilk. Yea May use either sweet or ,,sour, mere. It you want your crust Tidier use I* cups cream and i cup of sour milk, Roll out year batteal CraSt 141 iuch tbich and cover bete • tom and eidee ef your ilish. Po Pot trim on your crust until you are 'ready to roll the teal Ono. Put the [thicken in in layers and on eacb lay- er put. butter, pepper and mit. it I *NA needed, and add the gravy. The dish ebould no About half -fell 1 meat and gravy. ow tette a tharp of Caseknife and iziat oa ties doughtbet bangs over the pan, cutting off eveo nvitn the rim Bolt out tbe groat for top e met thick, spread with a piene ot lard size of an egg,. sprinkle thiCke ly with flour and a little foile aed roll it up like a. jelly roll, 4,14 tre halves, stand the two pieces clam toe getber and roil wit again larger enenoWi to cever the pie; Aimed on lanother piece of lard, dust on four and kelt as before and run yew rot - ler over it lightly two or three ;times; tut boleti for steam to offelene- It looks well to merit out a. epray of leaves on top or any other dein you may prefer, only he sure to cut clear in places. PlAW the top on and trim an even with tbe eldea of the rine; Much tiee cruet, onetime the edge with olle thumb. SO it will stick to the under OW: brusie over with nillic and belie in A moderato •11 about 40 or 50 oilootee. • 1TI*TS TO 31OUSEKEEPERS. To beep a ',NOLL theese from meelIcle nig pour into it u. little brandy Awl wimp it with oiled paper. Pure olive oil, mixed with a Milo ,glscerine, is recommended as a mom for massaging the face at bedtime. In 'feeds the Venues without yellowing the Ain. Vinegar and sugar will Make a good stove polish. Benton baked beans can be greatly improved by adding. a WPM at eweet creem the lest hour of belting. Everyday glassware with as tumb- lers goblete, etc., mazy be greatly toughened and breakages often pre- vented by placing them in a lame holler or pan containing cold water; ;set on the front of a stove, lettion them some to a. bon, and boil foe several hours, utter which -they may be removed back and remain in the same water until It is cool. • Tarragon vinegar may be made stt home with cider or white vinegar and dried tarragon leaves bought tit the druggists. Allow ball pint of leaves 'to a. quart of vinegar and ollow time an. eaves to steep for about two weens. Strain carefully, using a 'flannel jel- ly bag. Bottle and keep in a cool 'place. Cabbage cooked after the following recipe is palatable to many people who cannot ent the vegetable its or- dinariiy cooked: Chop the cabbage as for cold slaw, end put it into a pot of salted', boiling water. Boil exactly twenty minutes, not a minute Muger. Drain off the water, ail sua ficient milk to cover, a %mil of pap- rika, aid a little butter and flout mixed. When this becomes quite bot again Shalie in literally grated Par- mesan cheese. Let it, stand a few minutes and serve. This is a good lunch dish where little meat is eat- en. The milk and cheese inato it quite substantial. A clove or garlic boiled 'with cabbage gives it a most delicious flavor not at all garlicky. GOLD CaltOWING. It leust Have Water in Order Thrive. Gold, is known to have grown on mine timbers Which have long been imenersed in water. It is constantly being formed in rocks and veins and placers. Just what it is that the baby gold formation feeds on to ee lect its growth is not known; 11 It were, a new and wonderfully lucra- tive industry might be born and all other kinds of farming save the grow- ing of gold might temporarily be abandoned. The /Planation and growth are due to mectianical -and chemical action. Gold has existed in some state before assuming its pres- ent form. Waters which percolate through the earth's crust are said to contain substances from -which gold is formed. Thus gold, like the- ant - male and vegetables, must ha-ve wa- ter in order to thrive. The gold in the water is deposited when it meets the proper preeepitant. The precipi- tant may be an earth curreet of electricity in the teaks. • It has been claimed that the gets found in placers are the forma- tions from the waters that percolate through the gravels, and are not from decomposed quartz,.. as general- ly is supposed. Those who so con- tend cite the fact that in the eeetre of nuggets can often be found a small grain of iron -sand. This was the nuelen$ around which the earth =rent of electricity created or de- posited, as in electroplating. Mg long ages this influence was at work causing gold to form. around the• little grain di iron ore, and then grow to become a bright; nugget of gold much larger and pur- er than any ever found in the veull of ore. Frodclie-,;'.` I told Loveman that you said you were going to kiss him haye ' a cake long and narrow), 8priaRle with Sugar unleSs Maple syrup is to he used, then omit Sugar. The eW. Dutch saying. is: 'should be so, thin that twenty-five the next time he came to the house." Matid-,---"Yon horrid boy! What did' he say?" Treddie,---"Sald he wonhill't ibelievoi it • till le had it from yol'Ar owl/