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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-8-9, Page 3t 4 About the House E+++++++++444+++++++++4 I -10W TO COOK CORN. and place• it, in a pot, a °old water, tootling the neck' by Illealla Of a slxiiilf. 4- 1 to the handle of the veseel. Boil thisA • e se e ' + ttlisiv+ for all hour and, a 1141f or two hours, Sub then pew' off the liquor and skim iL + Te this preparation mabe added spices, salt, wine, brandy, ole,, ccording to t the taste of the patient. 4. Veeeteble Soup. --Take erne turnip, , OO potato, an one onion; let them be sliced and boilea in one quart of water -T-Tnn'T'rn'ar-n+++-9-4-1-enele/neener. for an home. Add as Much salt as in As the door opened, Beryl Gray rose agreeable,- and our the whole npon a hastily from tier chair by the windaw .and stood in the centre of the neer, 'Her lever, oame to meet bee—a look of deep vanity on his elearcut lam She read his news in the linee about his mouth and her heart sank. Tenderly he put his arms about the slender figure and looked into the dark -brown enen In selecting corn, that with thick, piece,' of dry .thest. .1 his forms an short ears, green tender husks, end ageedahle substitute for animal feed, daek silk will be found the best. To and may -hee given when the latter is test the condition of the care, bend back inadmissible. the husks end press a nernel with some- Cancnen Broth—Cut 'up a fowl and thing sharp. lf the milk flows freely break the leg bones, Put it into a stew. the corn is in good condition, ' pan with a quart of cold water, a tea - Omen corn is a vegetable which, far spoon of salt, and the same quantity of most palates, is easily spoiled by over- white sugar. Boil gently, simmering cooking, since the longer the cooking constantly for our hones: Then grain period the less pronounced the delicate into a basin. When cold take off the Corn flavor. Corn, like peas, loses its fat. When required for use warm a sweetness after being broken from the cupful. ' stalk, and should not be picked any Savory Custard.—A savory availed, Jonger than possiple before eating. much relished by sick people, is made Broiled Sweet Corn—To broil sweet in the following ,manner: Take the yolks aorn take tender ears, cook in boiling of two eggs and while of one, and put water for three minutes, or ,steam for in. a small basin; add one gill of beef tea fifteen minutes, then lay on a well- and a quarter of a saltspoon of sane igreasen broiler, and toast over a good whip up the eggs and the beef tea; take bed of coal, turning them as •taey need a matt cup winch will hold the mix: ture into the cup and„.cover by tying a piece of white letter paper which has been buttered over the top. Put the cup into a saucepan of boiling water; let it simmer for a quarter of amhoue; serve hot. it. until they are brown. Cern Fiatters,--To every cupfui el fresh, sweet corn cut from the ear -al- low half a cupful of very lino bread - crumbs, ininen- with a hell cup of Milk. Add two well -beaten eggs and season With salt And pepper, Fry either in hot lard or book on the griddle, the same as for batter cakes, Green Corn and Chicken Soup. --Cat up a chicken into joints, put them into the soup pot with a quart a water, ben for an hour, or more, if the chicken is lough. Cut the corn from the cab ef twelve eat% Odd to the soup and stew for another hour. Take out the chicken when perfectly tender, eta the meat ed with brickdust, to rub eachiron on from the bones, and then into dice, add When it is 'put back on the stove, so it with a huneh of chopped parsley; four ounces of rice, and a seasoning of salt and pepper. Boil for twenty minutes and serve without straining. Green Corn Omelet..—Score the rows iron over the beesWax, even If no starch end scrape out the pulp of live small adheres, adds to the glossiness of the plump ears of corn. Beat up five eggs, linen _peat is ironed. ' •••••••••4. KEEPING IRONS CLEAN. When irons become rough or smoky, lay a little fine salt on a flat surface and rub them well. It will prevent them -sticking to anything starched, and make them smooth. A piece of fine sand- paper is also a good thing to nave near the stove at hard, 'smooth board cover - that no „starch may remain to be leernt on. If the irons get coated with scorch- ed sterche rub them over with beeswax and it will all come off. Rubbing the add the corn, salt and pepper to taste, and two tablespoonfuls of boilingewater. Melt, one tablespoonful of butter in an omelet pan, pour in the Inintures, and shake_ and tilt the pan until Dais even- ly cooked. Fold and serve at once on a MARBLE TOP WASHSTAND. Unsightly stains 'on Marble topped washstands can be removed by spread- ing a thin paste of fullers' earth, or whiting, and lemon juice over, and lure - hot platter. . Mg it for twenty-four hours, afterwards Green Corn Pudding.—This green corn washing if off with clean water. pudding calls for one quart of mak, five "' eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, an • twelve geed ears of green corn. Grate the corn from th.e cob, beat the whites and the yolks of the eggs separately, put the corn and the yolks together, stir hard, add one tablespoonful of melt - ,J butter, the milk gradually, the sugar, e a pinch of salt, and the whites beaten JAPANESE SECRET SERVICE. Story ot a Lieutenant Who Became Dis- sipated to Fulfil a Mission. "I require of you," .sad the Chief ef the Staff, in polished inpanese, that stiffly. Pour into a deep, well -buttered you should leave your present .mode of dish, bake slowly at first, keeping 1"- living, and become, on the contrary, A dish covered for an hour. Then remove dissipated. You nmst leave your studies with sugar and butler. and your books, and instead have for your haunts Lea, houses and your com- panions geisha." The young lieutenant was sad, for he was healthy minded and detested dissi- pation, but being a Japanese devoted UT his counfret, he set his teeth and obeyed orders. lie was to become dissipated in order to prosecute some secret service mission, the nature and object of which he could not surtnise. At flest he found that it is not so easy for the good to fail. He neither liked the goy costumed girls nor the warm sake they naively served to the accompaniment of many sweet smiles. Al last the day of evil came; the Lieutenant after all, was human, not of adamant. He actually fell head over heels in love with a geisha, says the Tokio correspondent of the eLondon Telegraph, un writing of .the Japanese secret service. From that day he ceased to be som- bre and silent, and went boisterously to the devil. His superiors at head- quarters dismissed him from the ser- vice, and with ignominy his father for- bade him the house, bis relatives polite- ly declined to see him, and his acquain- tances, many of them themselves mili- tary men, knew him not. HE WAS AN OUTCAST. "Now," said the. Chief of the Staff, "you bave reached the condition that I earnestly desired, and you will receive your reward. 1. am about to send you on e mission of high importance to the State. To-niglit, telling nobody—not even your father—you will proceed to Nagasaki. There yeti. will open the box which I will give you. It is cf lacquer, and inside are complete in- - DEATH TO MOTHS. Carbolic 'acid, one gallon to an ounce; is sure death to moths. But it cannot be used in delicate fabrics: and from its. inflammable character must be used with great caution. A hand atomizer is the easiest wily to apply it. The fumes of burning camphor gum or sulphur will suffocate moth millers. 11 is a disagreeable operation, but is so eftective that any room where they are known to be should be fumigated this month. To do this with entire success remove the contents of trunks and ward- robes and hang on backs of chairs; close doors and windows; set a, panful ef water in the middle of the room, at a safe distance from all the hangings and furniture; in this place a small iron pot hall filled with asnes and the camphor; for a room 15x18 feet use a piece as lar;-ge as a walnut; saturate with alcohol and set the camphor on, fire: It will burn fiercely at first, but in proper precautions are observed there is no danger; leen the room as on as you are satisfied that your furnitnre is in no danger .Df taking fire; allow the mass to burn it- self out, which it will do in half on hour; open the windows and doors ror an hour. Moths prefer soiled to demi narments. The first step toward the ,safety of garments before putting them away is to turn pockets inside out, beat out all dust, saturate- and - clean With benzine it necessary. Allow the clothes lo hang in the:sunlight for several hours Moths hate the light. They Work in the dark. "Oue worst fears are •confirmed," be said hopelessly.. "My father cannot live till the morning. I have jest left him. fie bade me send you to him. I think he has something on his Yon will go to him?" Beryl put up one little hand till it car- eseed his cneek. He understood -the ac- tion and knew that alt lier synipathies were his. Then he kissed eine and stood by the doer while she passed through. • A few moments and she was en the room where Lucas Wyatt ley, As his eye fell on hoe advancing flown ne Made a ,gesture with his hand for the nurse to withdraw, Betel sat down by the bed and looked intienthe face Pt line guardian. Already the hand of death had set its seal upon the patent cheek and gazing eye. She bent towards hin and tried to take his hand. But be drew at away hurriedly. • "Wait," he said huskily, "I have much to say. Are we alone?" . FRUIT STAINS. . With the frequent eervice of fruits, the table linen is -apt to suffer. Before send- ing to the laundry the tablecloths' and napkins should be examined carefully and the spots removed, as soap sets the stains. Most fruit stains, Laken in sect - son, can be removed easily from linen by putting the stained portion over a bowl and peuring a stream 'of boiling water through ia When the spots ore ebstinata, however, acide must be used. 'this part of the work envoys should i.e done under the supervision of the mise tress, to see that all needful precautiOns are taken .10 prevent destroying the fab- ric itself. Oxalic acid, allowing three ounces of the crystals to one pint of writer, will be 'found useful to be kept co hand lor this especial purpose. Wet the stain with the solution and hold - ever hot wateror in the sun. The in- stant the spot, disappears rinse well, Wet, the stain with anunonia, then rinse twin. This many times will save linen. Jo voile water is excellent for wit le goods ancl' may be made at home or purchased al the druggists'. A good rule for mak- ing it calls foe tone pounds of washing sane dissolved in tour gnarls of soft, water. Boil ten minutes, take from the fire, and add one ponnd of chloride f 'lime, Cool quietly, bottle and keep tightly corked. This is strong, ond must be handled With extreme care. Peach' stains are the beeriest of all frilit, steins to remove, but a week solution or Chloride of lime, • with infinite pati- ence in its applletilion, frequently will effect the cleeired result. rah vonio (mown', tielectie,0 of beet. --Lean 'beef, ehoppcil fine. Put u suincient quentily into 0 structions as to ,your future.", ' Those instrurtions were that he was to go to e certain country where a first- class Power was at war with' the na- tive,s. Here he joined the staff of the native cbiefa and his bravery, no less than his military genius, soon acquired for him a fame not altogether un - mingled with notoriety. As a matter ef the campaign that the, ffinteclass Power boat ruched us and we welcomed r1,* honor him all the days of my life; He smiled feebly in his great relief fact, his leresence counted eo much in beached our boat. That night a second opened diplomatic negotiations with eith shouts, but they brought sad id- aild gratitude, but his strehgth was breath, truly this men had einned egairtst, her, yet she was conselous et ne bitterness or shadow of ogee as tbe truth was disclosed. Presently he Went on again in the same remorseful. Lana: "It was so easy to sin, a second will took the place of the first. The signa- tures were traeed and few could have told which were genuine and wince false. I took advantage of the well- nnown iniendehip existing between your father and myself. This regard and es- teem were eet forth as the reason for leis bequest. She comforted him with a word. • "Ah, that is wen," he said, relieved, "my time is short, Beryl, and I dare not die • without confessing all that I have done. You. have seemed to love me sometimes, and my conscience has tormented me whenever I have seen it. For I have wronged you past redemp- tion, and now that it is too late, would undo all that I have done." She looked anxiously into his face. Was his reason deserting him in these last hours of his earthly life? "Donn think about it,' she said sooth- ingly. "There is nothing to reproach yourself with. You have taken the place of my dead father and I have_ barely felt the loss:" But he motioned her to be silent, and she obeyed. "You do not know," he said, "listen and I will tell you. You have beard the story of your 'father's death, but you cla not know all. We were crossing the AllantiC, I was 'his solicitor -and his dearest friend: He kept no secrets4rom me, and while he lived, was true. to him; but temptation came and I sinned meanest his memory and against you." He paused With a deep groan of de- spair and- repentance Beryl watched him anxiously as he continued: • "Your mother was dead and you were a child of eight. 1 had left a wife „at home and a promising boy of twelve; we talked of them rnany times during the voyage, and then your father grew suddenly ill. The doctor dirt all lie could to save him, but one day he open- ly admitted that he could do no more and that your poor father must die be - ,fore we reached our destination. I car- ried to him the news and Ile bowed his head resignedly. "Then he bade me draw up a will; I sat in his cabin. and wrote at his dic- tation. All his worldly possessions had been reduced to cash some months be- fore, and he was the owner of twenty thousand pounds. To you he bequeathed the whole of this little fortune; do not start, have much more to tell you ere I die.. "He charged me with your training and education, for this I was to draw -each year a SUM of three hundred pounds from the estate. When you ere eighteen, this num was to be dou- Ned for three succeeding years, then at twenty-one I Was to resign all con- trol •of you, and the fortune your father left was to be. yours uncreaditionally." Beryl's face was very pale, but she forbore to speak. Lucas Wyatt missed ene hand wearily across his brow and continued: "The will was signed and,attested to by two witnesses. Then a terrible thing happened, we were run down in the night by a great. homeward -bound lin- er The water gushed in with appalling swiftness and the vessel was doomea; the liner had slipped away under cover of the night and we knew not whether she too had sustained any damage. There was a rush for the boats, I ra.n telow to rescue your father, but I stood still on the threshold. -"Already he was past all human help, yet I bore him to' the deck and lifted him tenderly Into one of the boa1s. Then. we rowed away from the sinking ship, and tossed. for nye days in the wild waste of Waters that seethed nround us, At last we sighted an island and "You were confided to my sole care Until you were twenty-one. I was to maintain and educate you and take the, place of him you had lost. When you came of ego you were to have the sum of five thousand pounds, the rest was left to me. You know the rest already. The will was peeved', the death of the witnesses \vas passed over. 11Iy profession carnes with a certain guarantee of respectability; •would to God I had lived up to that standard. For years I have bitterly repented the, step I took, yet there has been no chance of retreat. And now my end is near and the shame will fall, not upon. my own head, but upon his whom love better than all the world—my son." He broke off abruptly, and Beryl heard him groan, For some time there Was silenve in the room, then be turned and faced her. have robbed you too, the happi- ness you thought was yours," be said humbly, "little did I think that in sin- ning I should blight the hope of your inmost heart and of his, I didenet then dream that you would. learti*- love him—that he would grow to Wership you and desire you for his wife. "And noW" the seed is bringing lona fruit and the sins of the fathers are vis- ited upon the children; he will make you, reparation to the uttermost farthing, and then he will turn bis face away from you forever,. I know his pride; be will inherit my Shame and never for one moment forget it or its bitter pen- alty." Beryl stood up; she was thinking ram idly. Too well she knew the truth of her guardians last words. The question of the money had troubled her little, but If it touched her love—if it robbed her of Iiim—the penalty of this man's sin n as indeed great. •She looked down, something was in the old man's out- stretched hand. "Take ii," he said huskily, "like many another guilty man I have kept the proof of my crime many. times have I ve- 'solved to destroy it, but always held back; take it., it is your father's true will." She took it from bim and opened it. A glance showed her that he had spoken truly. Suddenly a new idea occurred to her; she sat down and tried to think. Slowly the idea grew until it merged into a resolve, then she lifted her head. "Is this known to any save ourselves?" she asked quickly. "No," he said humbly, "I have hidden it even from him." , She hent down earnestly. "Will you promise to reveal it to none save myself?" she asked, "you, say you have sinned against me; if you die with the secret still unspoken I shall deem it sufficient reparation. Will you prom- ise me?" He looked at her in, bewilderment. "But tha.t will not help you," he said. She smiled. "It will save me frorn lifelong un- happiness," she said, gently, "it wen. prevent the separation emu fear." He looked at her fixedly. "But how?" he asked. 'Because I too will keep silence," she replied softly. He started and his dim eyes briget- ened. "But you would lose the money.," ne demurred. "And I shall gain something far bet- ter," she replied, "I shall keep the love have won and shall be happy." "And you will never tell—never re- proach birn with his father's guilt?" he said tremulously. • She smiled down into his face. "Look!" she said, and moved towards the fire. He watched ber with intent eyes; she held the WM in her hand and he saw her place it upon tba red coals of the fire. The paper Dared and blazed and O blackened masa, of ash soared into the Wide chimney. Then she came back to the bed and again sat down. "Let the dead past bury its dead," ehe said, gently; "the secret shall never pass my lips, Leslie shall never know." • The old man reached for her band and blessed her. "And can you forgive me?" he pleaded humbly. • She bent and kissed him. "You have been my father for twelve years," she said, "I have only kind thoughts in my beart for you, and 1 can- not forgot that through you has come my best gift. Rest content, I will make him a good. and loving wife and will TRICKS OF PRISONERS then get the better of re warder by sheer Tomei CUNNING MUST BE SEEN TO BE CREDITED. They Have a Complete 'Sign Language --How a Lazy Convict Fooled Um Beeler. Tile overage criminal, when in Pri- son, has nothing to occupy lets mind but nis work, which is usually of a Purely Meehanical character. Ile therefore bends ail his energies not, as usually imagined, to ideas of escape—the old leg knows that this is practically hope- les—but towards malchig his own lo1 more comfortanle during bis enforced seclusion. Some. convicts do their duty in the most exemplary, manner, winning gold- en opinions train warders and officers, gaining full marks, and so shortening their term; but there are many others who—astoniseing ae it may seem --care little or nothing whether they serve their full term Ox' not so long as they can, to a certain extent follow their own devices. The cunning exhibited by such men in breaking rules without being found out must tie seen to 1/0 credited. One of Lhe first rules of a collate, Prie SOLI is that no talking is permitted. Yet this regulation is infringed hun- dreds of times daily. Prisoners are constantly communicating between themselves, but they do it so cunning- ly that • THEY ARE RARELY FOUND OUT. In the first place, very many old "lags" are ventriloquists of no mean order. They have trained themselves by long use to speak in a low but perfectly dis- tinct voiee, without the slightest nein ceptible movement of the lips. It may not be generally known that it is even more difficult to control the movements of the eyes and ears while speaking than those of the lips. taut the habitual criminal practices until. he is perfect. You ma"en ask how he does this without the use of a looking -glass. The answer is quite simple. He uses Ibis tin plate, paned like silver, as a mirror. • Out of doors, in the quarries, or on the farm,it is, of course, easy enough for the convicts so employed to talk to one another without being overheard. The noise of the tools, etc., drowns their whispers. But even in the shops, the tailoring, basket -making, and the like, speech is not difficult. The rooms are large. In most of them not mare thantwo warders are on duty at the same tirne, and it is impossible for them to keep their eyes on tiny or sixty men at once. Old jail -birds have also a simple but complete sign language. A prisoner wants to tell another that someone is dead. He spells the name on his fin- gers, then gives a slight stamp with his foot. To convey the number el years of his sentenne, so many fingers are placed across the ear; for months a similar sign is made across the mouth. There is a whole CODE OF COUGHS AND SNEEZES, japan, contending scriotsly that a mil- itary officer was serving in a high position on the rebel chief's stain, Of course, the Japrinesa Government knew nothing &bent the matter, nor was it likely 101 seeing that no military offi- cer had been officially despatched on Jags of the two remaining boots; both bad founckred before their eyes. "They had reecued as many as thr ei Wit craft would hold., but many were &owned; and with them the two wit- nesses of vitae father's will. We had burled' hini that afternoon on a knoll such a curious miesion. He wns nom- of the island, and night fell back and Malty a rebel under the rebels' ban- cheerless on, our little camp." nee. In this' Way he secured the needed Again the dying man paused, Bevy] and valuable information about 'the win see that he Was nearing his con- topOgraphy Of the country, the enemy's fession; he tarried his eyes guiltily to plan • and scheme of operations, Ins the, walL Indies end hisstrategy, his ferlitica- "It was then that the, temptation began lions and his defence woriee, all cf to assail me," he resanned, "I was am - widen - were of the utenoet value to bilious and wanted money bedly: With it I could speculate and win move. IaPrahnea' the young °Meer, after many Donn be too bard on me, It Ives fornees-, adventures, made his way back to To. be 1 sinned, you intie know how 1 lov- pon, only to find that the Chief' of. the ed him. I told myself that you would -nem was deed and enother occupied not want the money—might never want ItiSPlata ee' 11. Ile was dieowned by 1110 rimy, but J"At least twelve years must elepse told privately that work like that he ere a, Penns; of it could be touched. 1 had just, aCeomplished would be found was Onlytheinterest—end hut pert of for him in nhinchurie. Possibly he thal---which would tali into my hands, thought he tied done enough for his end tenenty theism] pounds was to me country, however . He bus diseppeared, 0 great, emn leen, Dey by day the Comp- eted., strangely pnougit, ltie geitota with nItien grew, a vossei hove in 8ight and whom lie fell in 'love hes dieappeare,d wo ,were rescued. Yet till through the also, 'Together, fea !tom the madding veyege Mat followed T brooded upon cronal, the young lieutenant and the Whet 1 might eehieve with your tether's bonny of the tea shop- are living hap., kettle to fin up Its beely; Cork In loosely pr ever alter; 11)(1110,Y, and 11 the end I yieided. welanigh spent; elle went to the door and summoned Leslie to the room. The old men stniled again cie he saw his son, then be made a sign and they jolted hands: Once more Hwy SaW him smile, then' a gvey shade crept into hie face and they, two were alone With the dead. Leslie summoned the nurse and drew Beryl from the room. Site went with tears. in her dare -brown eyes, yet she was happy in what she had done, for love had triumphed over 'Wrong. and all was Wetted out. , The Secret Was hers. and hers alone, rind riOna Would ever know it.--Pearson'e Weekly. impudenee. A convict has only one pooket, and on one occesion, while searching 4 Men, a warder found in this pocket a pencil which the convict in question had forgoten o hale. Ile WaS at once taken to the governor. Did he make excuses? Not a bit of it, In a; 4 very injured tone he said; "Do you think, sir, that I, Who have been here all these years, eimuld be fool enough to heve a -lead -pencil in my pocket for the officer to find? Should I not have hidden it before parade? No, sir, The warder has a grudge against me, and I saw him slip the pencil into my pocket just to gee inn into trouble," The governor was staggered, He knew 11 10 be a fact that there was bad blood between this particular 0011VICt and the warder. The pencil was a Government one, snch as warders use. It is said that, believing the convict's story, he let him oft alict fined the war- der.—London Tit -Bits. THE GREEN ONE'S BUG. "Ile wuz blank. big as yet' net; had four legs loike Claws; flat head; short Lail Mt' had a cruel" was the deacription ef a 'Anne .given by a newly imported farmhand, a son of the Emeeald Isle. Tnc "bug" wits discovered stalking through the meadow En'eas, ead the new workman gave it, baltlea , "I denv its' head back info its erne," said "Thin I pickod it up by the tail an' threw it into lite hrook an &Owned it, and, Sir Continued the ex- cited Man, ''y 're luck lo git rid QUEEN ENA'S JEWISH BLOOD. Her Great-Geandlather Said to Havel Been of Rumble Position. The blood of prince and of peasant, so it is said, mingles every hundred. years. A striking instance is the case of Princess nem, now the wife of Alien - so of Spain. Hera is the story as given in Le Monde Moderne : "First cousin to the Emperor of Russia, to the German Em- peror and to the heir to the tbeone. of Great Britain, Pettiness Ena of Batten - berg is almost as nearly related to a far humbler family circle. "Toward thebeginning of last cern. tury a Polish Jew, Hauke by name, entered the service of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, and occupied a very subordinate position at the little court. His daughter, Julia Theresa, born in 1825. was, at the age of 26, married morganatically by Prince Alexander of Hesse, two years her, junior. "Renouncing the faith of her fathers, ,she was baptized into the Protestant church, and by the reigning Grand Duke was accorded the title first of Countess of laattenberg and subsequent- ly of Prineese. 'Prince Henry, the third child of this Innen became the husband of Princess Beatrice and, of course, father or Prin- cess Ena, King Alfonso's bride. SU' little was he considered as belonging to the inner circle of European royalty, that when Queen Victoria conferred upou him the rank -on Royal Highness protests arose on all sides. "Formal notifications were made by the courts of Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg to the effect that Queen Victoria's son-in-law, issue of a mor- ganatic union, could not be recognized as Royal Highness elsewhere than on British territory. Twenty years later the daughter of the man on whom this affront is put becomes Queen of Spain and treats' on a footing of perfect equality all the reigning monarchs of Europe 1" signs for having received or written letters, others for diet, floggings, and so on. Seeing that convicts are searched from two to four times a day, besides a special inspection about once a month, it might be supposed impossible for a man to conceal about his person any forbidden luxury such as tobacco, newspapers, or the like. Yet any war- der can tell you plenty of instances to the contrary. One man who recently served flve years in a southern convict prison carried about with him during the • whole of his sentence a consider- able sum in bank -notes. • This seems at first sight impossible, for prisoners' clothes are more or less common property. But this man was of extra height and girth. and so was granted the privilege of a special kit. He sewed the motes into the seam of his Shirt, and., as he did tailoring in his own cell, every Saturday he transfer- red his store from one shirt to, another. ,Another man constantly carried about London papers, which he wore under a cholera -belt tightly strapped to his. waist, an.demanaged to read during his work in the ',tailoring -shop by means tf hiding the journal in a half -open drawer of the table. Convicts cannot be watched the whole ihne,,and when a man takes it into his head'0 attempt, escape it is marvellous how he will defeat every precaution. Some years ago a convict named Sea- men plotted with three others to espape 'from Portland, and not only succeeded in purloining a number of pieces of �n. copper, but also in getting im- pressions of the prison keys and MAKING A SET OF SKELETONS. However, before an opportunity, arose for malting an attempt to escape one of tili:eerhoelendantitaaige:ga,ivse thaewalayzythe 'secret, the .011 tees metal about on him for some key's were found hidden in a shed, and Ilut, the mere fact that eSeamen carried days proves 'the 'marvellous cunning of the prisoners were severely punished. convict, who will. de anything rather than work. Ile sometimes Succeeds in humbugging not, only the warders, but °Van the doc- tor. And prison doctors are not easily deceived. Some time ago a man con- fined. in Dartmoor. and otherevese hi good health, complained of a bad leg. At first. he was 'treated. in his cell, bul he geese worse 00(1 was taken hito the hospital. Tee wound was constantly inflamed' and discharged freely, and for Weeks the patient lay in ned and was dieted sumplously. .But something aroused. the doctor's suspicions, and one night he entered the hospital with ,leur warders. Before the mien could awake he was' firmly pin- ned, then the doctor unbandagect the leg, • and .wtth a lancet opened the wound. Ile tound a piece of rusty cop- per wire inserted in the flesh. I1. had been -the mei in govern. era el ice to 'Attu 11)1,1 hl position every night and remove 11 '11:'11111?,111°Ctint..!';111<i'rOlgl;'' SOME CoNVicts SENTENCE SERMONS. Fear and fret make life's friction. Heaven helps those who help others Heaven despairs. of the man who des spises men. True religion nourishes the roots of right doing. The 'church that courts .the rich loses its' riches. - Sometimes hiding another's faults heals our own.. The man who is too previous is sure to get procrastinated. The hardestnevork some folks do is telling how busy they are. It does not make a man brave to lay his cowardice on his conscience. No amount of laundry in your reli- gion can make up for lack of love. You cannot keep your eyes on your watch and your heart on your work. There's no special merit in casting bread on the waters with a hook in it. Many a man's religion would be worth more if it bad more office prac- tice. ' It's no use looking for a inan's reli- gion when it doesn't -get into his looks-. TWo strings to your bow may be all right if .you can keep them. clear or your neck. Some loins never think of coals of fire until August, nor of cups of cold water until December. The world would have a good deal more faith in the church if the church had less faithnin figures. The fanatic would rather see the race go to the pit than that any should reach. heaven unlabeled with his fad. Many a man thinks he is doing a. grand equestrian triclt when Ins bad habits take the bit and run away wale }IABD ON BILLY. "Billy" has a Sweetheart. 13111y uted to smoke 1000550111174 and always con- sumed tile best of weeds. Consequently his clothes emelled of tobacco, the odor of which was detected by his lady fair. She asked Billy to stop smoking—for her sake. How could he refuse? But, though be stopped smoking he could not help accumulating cigars. which he stacked awny in his pooketa. The ' sweet one was bent on his reformation, and every night he called, after he had given up the weed for her sweet sake, she took the cigars from his poekets and laid them away on the motel - board, so thelo'nVillie, clear, they will not tempt you." William had noticed that, his pros- pective hither -in-law hod of late dis- carded n pipe end token no smoking fine engem, so he thought business was prospering with the old man. One night William stayed later than usuol. Just, as he was saying good- bye "for the last time," he heard the old gentleman, who thought he had gone, cell out to his daughter from the head of the steles :-- "limy about eigers to -night? Worn there tiny in his poolcete ?" Willie said nothing. hut is now smolt, ing cigars again. No men known half as mileh ithoe1 W(1)1)l as. ha Tries to inal“) them. bee, 'Beryl was listening new with bated that bog so 0 yl" • is siloplyr 0.1nazing, toot will now end hive he knows. ' - .