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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-12-17, Page 2TEE ROUSEHOLD Christi/294 rare. The plenum of Chrbitmas roommence at the find mato of preparation for the eventful day, end ita hifiramme la,ste long after the fun, frolic, and feastiny have become dim Memoriam. It is empluatleally a day et good cheer and merry.roak"rig. In many homes It Ina day of family reunion, end * time when old friends and merry young people wither in old hoineateacia and sit around generous widempread boa;ela telling anirthiprevoking irteriee of the long ago, and amoying the happy preseet. What wale once a day of fasting has now become a day of feasting, and the clinuer ie considered the crowning event of the daY. Dia fitting that at snot times the larder should groan with plenty, and t/ae thble showln ati ita appointments that a time of pleasure and festivity Is et hand. The lerg- eat turkey, the yellowest pump/rim the red sleet crenberriess, and the eiwieest fruit ho he fauna in the market's, together with the niosthavory cakes, richest puddings, and Spiciest of pies, are brought forward to do honor to the oeoasion. Turkey and. pumpkin pie have from den- te:mooed custom betrome an incitepeesable t of the bill of fare for Chriatmea dinner. hey are, however, ably Bestehen!, by a vari- ety of other althea, to all of whach the wel. come guest is expected to do justice to an notelet which is not demarecied of hien at any other time, Any hind of soap eau be served for A first course. If oyster rioup 1d those); it can be made loiter title reek°, end 11 most excellent result be seemed: Cut two medium-sized bung/lea of celery into smell pieees add one quart of water, and atew briskly'for fifteen minutes. Straio the juice from two quarts of oysters ; relllOYA all bate ef Abell foam the oyetere ; add one pint of water to the oyater igloo ; piece it over the fire and mid aleo one level tea- alt°0-40-1 ;oh, half thotquentity of 'pepper, one-half pouted of butter, and four tilde - spoonfuls of milk into which one teble. spoonful of flour has been inixed smooth. As soonas it boils, drop in the oyeters and add the water from the celery, etralning it off carefully so that no bite of celery erop in. Serve so tOall AS it bone up. Reautlegie the general way of aerving the Christmas bird, end variety is chiefly nmile for ening and gravy. A metammetzed turkey will reemire two And 4 half or three hound roasting; a large OM will need to be cooed an hour 10111 Whoa pieced in the oven the pen thoulci be covered over the bottom to the depth of an Inch with water, and more added from tint to time nu it 00010 away, Thu turkey mita be heisted frequently with the gravy in th dripples-pera, an at least con with col butter. A good plebe atuffirm is made by cutting * loaf of othle bread into small plectra, addiag enough salt and peppee to senora it high, and water suincient to moisten thoroughly, but not to make it ao wet that it will not mould up into a finn ball. Stuff the turkey with this, filling the body and the opening for the grew. The above forme the bads oraeveral kinds of filling, which are variouslyllavored with age, sweettaarjoram, or thyme. It is well to omit all such. herloa online it la known that they will suit the taste of all the com- pany, for it its better to have only ra plain istaffing than to reek° it unpalatable to even am or two. A nice stuffing Is made by moistening two nupfulaof bread-ortitibs and the same, quan- tity of crackers, rolled, -with belling railk, adding salt, pepper, and two hard-boiled eggs chopped fine, and mixing lightly but thoroughly. Whole oysters mixed with brrad-onenbe make a mod excellent stuffing, width la liked• by almoat every one. Select smell oysters, free them from all bits of shell, and drein theta dry; add one-third AS muoh bread - crumbs, moistened, as oysters; a liberal supply of melted better, salt, and pepper. „Avery good addition to the above is e cup - n1 of very finely chopped celery, roast turkey. They are mash better whoa prepared as, follows them when stewed the ordinary wey Put them on the fire ha a large kettle with cold water sufficient to cover them well, cover closely,aud stew untiltender ; then pat through a sieve to re- move the skins, return to the fire, and add enough auger to aweeten to tsetse EtAMOY4 from the fire as soon as theeugale thorough- ly diseolved, whiela, unless it Is in IninPa, will he as aeon es ;he fruit boils. wi—onereareeesi ITEMS Or INTEREST. The 'short hair (Mae SanOng Vralnen ie sub - 'siding. 'levet/Rah is largely used for fowl in tfaueheeter, England. Ginseng is worth $1.80 a pound. China is the principal market. Rev, Mr. Kennard says he knows of 1,200 gambling places In Cuicago. By a new invention blind people oan play whiat as well as those who can see. Ralf of this year'e cotton crop in the South has been raised by white labor. Spiritualists have become so numerous at Atlanta that they propose to build, a temple. A farmer in Ohio says be has developed a breed at chivicer. s which lay two eggs a day. The rector of 4 fashionable church in Utah is Beckon cf as the "Apostle of the Genteel's," It le illegal in Paris for a -newsdealer to lend ant a newspaper to any One for reading purpoisee. Spurgeon has cut dower hie allowanee of cigars and saya his health is much better ireconeequence. Over the grated door of the county jell In Winona, is the mett,o, "God Bless Our Home." An alligator two and a half feet Imag was found the other day in the 11atoborg City Watetplile. Over a rainioudallare worth of Austrellau vereigue wive been received at San Fran. clean this week. Piccadifly, London, wail mimed from Prekedile Hell, a shop where plocaddlas tece rue were sold. A ieryman in Boston was so drunk in the hex lest week that he had to be removed aucl the trial pootpooed, Two oentering ago the population of Bar- na was 17,400, of whom over 5,000 were Frauebe chiefly' Huguenot exiles. North Carolina is as largo as England, e yet it haa may 1,500,000 inhabitant. while t the "tight little late" contains 26,000.000. 'Wild coffee, viable proved to be of good " quality wheu mated end made up, has been tetrad growierg in Butte county, CAI. A pearl as large at it pigeon egg was ahem) in Paris recently. There were 114 others lathe bivalve from which it was taken. Prezio grata is now turned into roper. A millet Qtancy, Mo,has used (400,000 tons of the gram for that, sine June. The lead mines of Ragland are wooing to pay. Within it few years, 169 mina have beer closed and 30 000 men throivit oat of employment. A new induatry has sprung up at New Orionis. Heads of large flah are dried. mounted and sold for table and mantel ornamenta. "I will give any man $100,000 who will produce anything that will prevent a wall of peened brick from turning white," says a prominent Chicago arobited. The Braziiian women are free from the &lopping vice. 'When one happens to want a bonnet, the shopkeeper aencls to her house a box fait of the West Perisian styles and she seleota what she wants, A new explosive has been invented that is said to be about the same as twin brother to an eartbquake. The nation dodo t need anre death at a mile and a quarter half as badly as it dna some sort of a reliable contrivance for getting a boy up in the morning. It is said on good authority that just be- fore the outbreak of cholera in Toulon the swallows suddenly dieappeared from the locality. An officer in the Bengal Cavalry said in reference to this that during a ohol- era epidemic in India he had noticed that, though mauy of the dead remained unburied, all of the carrion -eating birds had dis- appeared. It must be borne in naind, howerer, that variety is always more acceptable than same • nese, and if celery le used in the oyatir soup, it should neigh° appear in the stuff- ing. nor flavor the chopped cabbage. White or brown gravy may be made, but the latter is to be preferred. For white gravy pour off into a pan a cupful of the clear gravy ; addone cupful of boilingwater, two teaspoonfule of flour mixed smooth in one cupful ottmllk, and the juice of one large lemon. Stir all together until it has boiled for five minutes. To make brown gravy, pouredI ail the oontents of the dripping pan excepting about two cupfuls of tee brown gravy at the bottom; to this add one cup. ful of belling water, and two temspoontule of flour atirred smooth in half a cupful of mold 'water. Cut up the liver and gizzard, and add. them to the gravy when ready to pour into the bowL This gravy should be thin, smooth, and very brown, The taste of mincepies is a$ varied as their contents, and they are good, bad, or indiflerent according to the way the ingre dients arsproportioned. Mince -meat should not be spiced too highly. It is better to take a small quantity of each of a variety of apices than to depend on a larger supply of one or two kinds to give flavor. wininommeat which has been much prais- e by every one who has tasted it, is made asfoilows Take three pounds of cooked lean beef, 'two poen& of beef suet, five Irelands of ap. plea, two pounds of carrante, tbree pounds of robins, one pound of citron, three pounds of Inger, one heaping teaspoonful of cinna- mon, same of ginger, same of nutm-g, one scant half teaspoonful of Moves, same of mace, same of allspice, one level teaspoonful of salt, two wine glassfuls 'of strong brandy, four of 'sherry, the juice of two lemons, one pint of water in which the fresh peel of two lemons has.been boiled for three minutes, and into whioh has been stirred one tumbler of currant or goorseberry jelly, and as nittoh cider as is neecied to make the mhioe-meat sufficiently juicy. The meat, Bizet, apple's, and raisins must be chopped as fine as pos- sible, and the citron out into.arreal thin bits. All bite of skin and gristle must P30 carefully removed from the 'beef and. the suet, and the suet especially nmet 10 minced to it powder. To insure the spices being:evenly distrib- uted, mix them with theadry mum then MIX sugar and meat togetber. loefor& 'adding the rest of the ingredientii. Mix all' toagether thoroughly, said set over fire lentil heated through. Pumpkin for pies should be fino,grained and have it demo rioh oolor. If squash is used in place of pumpkin, the pin will kiwi a ranch richer Savor than if made out of the vegetable by whose name they are called. Peel and out the squash or pumpkin into long strips'and steara until tender ; then put through afine sieve. For each pie allow one egg, hall a cupful of squaah. one cupful of boilbog milk, two teaspoonfuls of auger, and a quarter of a teaspoonful each of nut -- meg and oinnamou. Beat together the %easel 'sugar, egg, and spice; then pour on the boiling milk, stirring quickly all the time. Cranberriee should alwaye ba served with Clothing that Prevents Sinking. The Lord Mayor of London and a large company of naval and military officials and others witnessed some experiments in the Thames at Werstminsteron Saturday afternoon, Oeb. 25, from the decks of river steamers. Six or eight peraons, clad in costumes of ordinary appearance and not one of them able to SWilli, embarked in a email boat. Then the tall figure of a woman rose suddenly in the beat, and with a frantic wave of her sunshade tum- bled overboard. Two of her fellow -pas sengers. who seemed to be naval and mil- itary Mauro, threw themselves into the water to reacue her, esihich, had she been sinking, they might easily have done, al- though they knew no more about swim • ming than herself, for clothed as they were, they found it imipossible to sink. All the others, one by one, followed until they all were floating comfortably about with their heads above water. 11 was ex- plained that the clothing worn by the ad- venturers was made of a fabrio in which fine threads of cork wereinterwoven with wool, silk or other material, and without preeenting any conspicuous peculiarity of appearance, rendered the wearer perfect- ly buoyant. The inventor, Mr. J. W. Jackson, is an exhibitor of the inventiono xhibition. The Dead Brought to Life. Senn fourteen months ago JosephDyer, aged 20years, of Cape Elizabeth, a suburb of Portland, was thrown from it, wagon and wite picked up dead, as wars supporsed, The,body was interred in Evergreen Ca- rnetery. A ohort time ago his parents were warned that he was alive and well, and wooldmoon be home. The coffinwas exhumed, and when Is was about being 'opened at the Dyer residence, young Dyer walked into the house, and when he maw ;what wars being done, said: "Don't open. It, for here 1 am." His appearance caused an exciting scene. Ib is supported that neediest Stll• dents dug up the body for the 'invoke of dissection, found Dyer alive, and treated him -until he thoroughly recover- ed. The young man remembers nothing of what took pine while 10 the doctor"? hands. THE FOREST our. Bo wee enomrson. In the yr 1827, Peter McGregor, a Sootohman, with two or three egaimietie pioneers, erected a log shanty near the juno- tiou of two branches tif a stream that then flowed through a rugged wildethese, From so humble an otigin has grown the flourith- ing and beautiful metropolis of Weetern Ontario, with a population, including its suburbs, of Loudon Wed and South, of bout 40,000. The primitive log structure, over moiled with tall forest treee, nerved the double pow pose of 4 dwelling and a tavern; but, lack- ing apace Within, A atunap outside the door was utilized AS a bar, upon whiele stood the whiskey jug and the veesela necessary for the refreshment of the prospecting settler, The origieel survey of the looelity was meth, In 1826 by poi. Burwell, and Col, Talbot had the authority for grautieg patents of town Iota at $30 each, Toe log shanty of seer story was located near the corner of the present King and Ridout streets, One Abraham Carroll built the aecond log hearse, on No- des street west, and 'scarcely we it roofed before fire swept it away. It was ,rebuilt, and, after that the aettlement rapidly inoreas. rech being accelerated in its growth by the ematence of settlement& in the eurrounding eQTwahterYfiret crime reported was in, connec- tion with the building of WestrninsterBridge, in 1828, the pioneer thief stealing an axe belonging to a workman. He WAS captured by Levi Myrick, the arobited of the bride, and Was chained to a dump all night, covers OC1 Only with a blanket. Next morning a court of justice was logarovnied, mei the culprit was Muni guilty, but WAS allowed the option of twooty lashes or of leaving the legality for the locality's good, Be left, The erection of a jail and court -borne woo commenced in 1827. They were needed structures—the femora loge and the latter of frame—but were eobsequeutly replaced by brick buildings. At a later date the old court house was converted into 4 grimmer school; followhig which county buildinge and the femme "Robinson Hall," so gamed Meer the late Chief Justice Robinson, made their appearmace. All tinge evidencee of the development of civilization were sn'oecte of wonderment to the roaming bande of Indians on hunt. Ing or wardiere expediticura through tide region of the cottony, and as the place be- come more thiekly peopled. the droves of wild deer were len frequently seen, while the growl of bridle, arec the ware blood. curdling howl receded farther and farther into the recedes of swamps and aural of reate. Among the evilest bud/leas men of Lan. don were Hon, G. J. Goodhue, Dennia O'Brien, John j ening% Simeon Morrill, loovrenceleiwration, for many years anbae. queenly Police Magietrate, and Major Schofield, the latter being the original Peat. master. Mail came onoe a week, being car- riedbf a horseman to this outlandieh piece at lent so it would to regarded be this ad- vanced age, when letter's and papers come by awift express train from all directions two or three times per day. For many years the place wall:mown AB "The Forks," so called from the union of the north and south branches of the Thema. lido/my WOO a rare article and buainess was chiefly done by barter,—a bushel of wheat, for io- date°, being paid for a yard of cotton. Saab has been its progress that to -day Lan- don dam% foremost among the mercantile centre of the Dominion.. Therprosperous de- velopment of the city has been, au a iarge measure, due to the splendid agricultural country by which it is surrounded, *notably the counties of Middlesex, Perth, Oxford, Elgin, Kent, Lambton and Huron. Sal:tools and places of Christian worship were intro- duced at an early date in the new Bettie - dement. A vieitation of cholera devastated the place in 18321 when the population was but 400 parson moludieg three doctors, who decamped, being overootne with fear. Hav- ing attained the population of 1,000 in 1835, London secured a representation in Parlia- ment, Mr. Mahlon Burwell, who defeated Mr. John Seatcherd, a merchant, and -father of the late Thos. Scetcherd, M. P. The William Lyon Mackenzierebellion of 1837 proved eventful for London, and at one time more than one hundred persons, reeidents of the locality, were confined in the jell, large numbers of them without a shadow of just cause; but norm were exe- cuted nor were any banished. Seven pris- oners brought here front elsewhere in the western peninsula were hanged, and many transported for treasonable practices. London PAW iong a post ofthe regular British Army, the first regiment,—the 32ad--bring stationed here in 1838, under Col. Maitland, The place was incorporated as a village in 1810, as a town in 1848, and as a city 10 1855, Mr. nittrray Anderson being the first mayor. In 1844 a large portion of London was des- troyed by fire and in the following year three-fourths of the town was sivept away by a still fiercer conflagration. In cornmeal with the development of most new localities, London experienced a "boom" in property values, occurring at various times between 1852 and 1858, when /ate in the city and for miles around ran up to fabulous prices, succeeded by a collapse in which hundreds were ruined. Actual values then reassedrte themselves, and since that time the city bas steadily progreseed. From an assessment of $34,380 in 1835, it has grown (including the newly acqnired:No. 5 Ward, late London East ) to $12,563,615 Before the Great Western Railway was opened in 1853, the L. & P. S. R. In 1856, and the Grand Trunk in 1858, all traffic was carried on by teaks of horses or oxen toiling slowly and laborionly from Toronto ana Hamilton to Lendon, or between the latter and Port Stanley—for many years a thriving port, but now it modeat summer resod. A plank road,‚ constructed of the finest pine lumber ever grown in Canada, at ' one time extended all the way from Hamilton to Port Stanley, passing through London. . In September, 1860, London was honore with a visit from the Prince of Wales, and since then has often enjoyed the presentee of Royalty, and the various Governora of Can- ada have likewise found their way to the "Forest City," chiefly on the ,00casion of the great annual Agricultural aod Inchustriel Exhibition, which has made London and vicinity femme from one end of the Domin- ion to the other, Two eVents of thrilling interest mark the tamale of the city during recent years—one the awful calamity known throughout the world as the " Victoria Disaster," in which a pleasure steamer plyieg between the city and Springbank, a few miles westWard, wae capsized and completely wrecked, 181 -per- sons losing their lives within a few Yards of the shore. The name' of the ill-fated oraft was the Victoria, and the 'day was May 24th (the Queen's Birthday), 1881—a sad. and singular coincidence. Two years later, or in June 1883, a flood of unparalleled vol- ume and severity swept, without warning, through the peaceful valley of the Thames, tearing away hundreds of bridgen destroy- ir g farms along its bank's, and completely submerging London West, a thickly port - Wed retidentiellehugVer the city. Many housea Were carried *way in the reorilig torrent, property was damaged or deetroy- toted to an extent almost in calculable. and w arly a dozen penmen were drowned, the small loss of life being attributed to tlat heroic efforts put forth by oitizenewhe were moused, from sleep, or villager's reddiug on the upheld districts. Any anoxia of the wonderful promote al Loreloo nuanufaetnring, commercial, banking and other enterprises would be in- compUte without a mention of its daily papers, the 4drertior and the Eno Prebs),, widely known and infl000thel. London is remarliable are the fOrtunate pounder of what is regarded none of the moat perfect Water'WOrkS eyeteeth on the continent, the supply being drawn from pui e and inexhaustible springs. Allusion Jaaa been made to the commercial import - mice of Leodon. Its whoiesale trade ia extonuons, and ite monetary institutions are as well eatohliseed and important ae they are numerous. Of public edifioes erected within rt cent years, the Mesonie Temple, which inoludes the Grand Opera House, end the St, Peter's (R. C.) Cathedral are most noteworthy. The businees blocks of Lon. don, its parks and ptiblic improvements, its wi 1 peivate atreete ornamented with redly kept boulevarda and Mamie trees, its substantial, residences, costly educational etruoturea and handsome churches, together with the inaoy and important manntactur- ing establiehmente that have grown up here, chiefly during the past twenty -Ove years, have made it lemon as a oity of beauty, progress and debility. About Notions; " I (loon go touch an inettoee an' deb a said Brother Gardner as he opened the moot- ing in the mina degree and wiziked to Sam. tea Shiro to miser tee elley witidow. "Ince kuowed it man who pot out in life wid de motto ; 'Excelsior.' Ile Was pr9114 Of it, an' be stuok to it, An' de las' vim° I saw him he was in de poothooae. Re got so tired of leggin' deli motto around dat 10 couldn't -work obfir three dams in de week. "1 onca louvred it man who bad de mot- to a Tine is Money' hung in ebory room in bia house, no invariably rushed in hta tenders too early, an' den tried to 'average up tieing'shy plautin' hie Utterer twenty days too late, De only occeslion when he got even wid time was where be jumped is clock half an hour ahead, Da only time when he hada decent orap wan when he lay sick au" hie wife worked de truth patolo "1 once knowea a, man who carried de motto of 'A Penny Saved tuna Penny Aim, ed' in all his pookete, an' no pitman eber found him wid it dollar in cash to his name, He was abi On de save an' muffin on do airn. "Doan' you git de ideal inter yor head dat it motto or a xnaxim at Revile° ter feed an' clothe ye whoop up rent and doctor bills. It's :no' in de man clan in de maxim. I kin show ye fo'tv reason in my naybur- hood who sot on de fences all summer an' keep deir eyes on do maxim : Industry am de Road to Wealth.' lithe show ye fony mo' who hang up de motto of Providence will Putvide 1' and sot down fur Providence to do ao. If de wife airns a dollar det's Providence. Stidy work at fair wagee, wid a domes. tic wife to hose de kitchen, am motto en' maxim,'enuff far any of us. If anything birder am wanted let us strive to be honest, truthful, °limitable an' virtuous. We needn't hang out a 5150 on de fences chit we am strivinh but jiat git der' evident anyiFolli of July firework* to attraot publioattenahun. Let US now purceed," Pirates on a British Steamer. The following advicea were brought by the atemner City of Peking, which arrived to -day from Yokohama and Hong Kong: The British steamer Greyhound. Cap. twin 0. W. Bleier, trading between Rang Kong and Pekhoi, lefo the former port on October 17 on ane of her regular tripe with 120 paesengers and a general cargo. When the steamer was about seventy miles southwest of Hong Kong about for- ty apparently innocent passengers who were scattered over the vesael suddenly opened fire with revolver's on the nuns. pecting officers. The eaptain attempted to reach the chart room to arm himself, but wati met with a volley from the pirates and was stabbed and thrown overboard. The only other white cfficers on board wete the first and second mates and the chief and assistant engineers. The ohief officer and, the assistant engineer were forced at the point of a revolver to work the vend, while the othen, with the re- mainder of the pansengere and the Chin- ese crew of twenty-five men, were placed in the held, and the hatches battened down. Tbe pirates then ransacked the steamer. The vessel was turned about, and when about forty miles from Hong Kong three junks came alongoide, took off the pirates and their plunder, valued at 510,000, and sailed away. The pirates were in possession of the vessel nearly nine home. The Chinese authority have captured two junks containing property taken from the Greyhound, and alx men who were concerned in the outrage. The prisoners have been taken to Canton where they will probably be beheaded. How He Decided. I once heard a wealthy farmer telling of his experience in hiring' c ,boy. He Add while workbag in his barn one morn- ing a boy of about fifteen year's of age came to him inquiring for work. He was much in need ot it boy, and he liked this one's appearance, but being an entire etranger he was mach in doubt about hir- ing him. He said what he wanted to know most was if the boy would be faith- ful in the little.daties. The fanner show- ed the boy through the large, barn, Ieav. Ing him to pees last through the deem. He stopped and carefully :closed • evert', door after him. Two or three tools that • °me one had • carelessly left on the barn floor the boy picked up and laid to nne side. Tbe farmer said that as U110011 - aliens ati, the boy was that he was &sing, anything in his favor, then little acts de- cided the question of doubt in his mind. The boy WAS hired. He proved to be a careful woxkminolwhicla fact was awappre- elated by his employer that he asslatedthe boy in obtaining an education, and re- membered him aubstentially when he started id life. Lady, in yegistry office—" I am afraid that little girl won't do for a. nurse; the lo too email. I ahould hesitate to trust her whale the baby." Clerk---" Her size, madam, we look upon as her greatest re- commendation. You should remember that when ehe drepo it baby it doesn't have far to fall. " TUE S,VLTAN, THE VERT UNIXARPT MAN Ww.0 FATI,f1 VIE OTTOMAN 114111ajesty, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, us a most hig.hand puiesant mon- exch. His will is law, and his nod is death. He has many pelages; he rules despotically over A vast empire; he makes qualities of pushes cross their twain hands whenever he looks at them; he hoe hhe power to do anything to any one of his faithful subjects --except xecall him to life niter he hao killed him. But onial power he has none. His Ile is passed in an endless round of cffialal drudgery, nay, positive servitude. Each minuted detail of business, from the highest visions of diplomacy down to the opening of it new o fiee•house on the shores of the Breather. us, panes through his august hands ; and each incident of every trausaction forms a focus of intrigues which, in their conglom- erate nia•s, it would take twenty Sultan's with a introlred theme Abdul-Ramicl'a power to disarm and defeat. Whattiree, hildrefore, can he have to spare for sod. ely ? The Commander of the Faithful may be seen: any week as he goes ;to his Friday's prayer. Then, before the gaze of a,n adoring populace, through lines of splendid troops, crowds of brililant aides- de.camp and pashas, fair veiled ladies, playing brass bands and screaming clogs, there passes a thin.faced, lang.nosed, griz- zled -bearded, pale men, in a half -cloud carriage, nervously flattering his fan by way a eaiute and receiving the low eala- ADIS Cf all in return. Be hurries intothe mosque, ,scarce -giving himself time to throw a half.frightenea glance round, and so is lost to view before he can well be geenl Wen one coueiders why that face is so worn and so pale, while then hands ArO ao llbrVOUS, how the heart behiud that blue military coat must b beating like it roll of drum, one feels grateful that one 18 but it private individual, and not hie Im- perial Minty the Sultan Abdul -Hamid IL, living 58 10 does in perpetual fear of assasainetlon. The head of the Slate neither paring nor darleg to alltalnlA his poaition 181 nolety, no other Turk essays the role of octal leaderaidp. Not only might such an attempt cause him to be unfavorably regarded by his sovereign, but the Turk hats neither by temperament nor custom any inclination, tomixin Euro- pean society. it is too gay, too animated or him. Ile ia a quiet, sober, ri Ready° creature, who, after his days work, likea to return to his house, put On his old slippers and lila old, coat, and, alter hia evening meal, devote himself to contem- plative smoking among his women folk sea children. Or, if he is iu a room im- olai mood, he will perhaps invite sera° of his intimatea to ;smoke and chuckle over ohildish stories with them in the outer chamber. Again, he cannot return hos. pi a !ty; the harem system puts that out of the question. Finally, he likes to go to bed and to rise early—habite incom- patible with social duties, Tropedo Scandal In Northeastern Asta. A. correspondent- of the Nom Vreraya at Viadivoatook has provoked it sensation in Russian naval °Ireton by disoloaing the followine incident A few weeks ago the Gennan ateamer China set out for Port Porssiett, unaware that the harbor Was closed bye, double row of torpedoes, which. had been placed there during the war soare in the spring. Ozr it's arrival the boat Motioned to warn eff vessels Was not in it's pine, and the German Captain did not obaerve the red flag hoisted on 'shore, where also the naval picket was alma. Two or three people, observing the clan. ger into which the venal waa running, ahoubed out, "Mint 1 Mini 1" ("Minis 1 Mines ) but the Captain did not realize what they meant until close to the firsb torpedo barrier. It was then too late to reverse the engines, and, amid. a panio among the passengers on board, he decid- ed to trust to luck and steam full speed ahead. A terrific pause followed, succeeded by a feeling of astouisinnent when the steam- er was seen to have travelled both rows of submarine mimeo, and to be calmly making hor way int) the harbor. The torpedoes were supposed to be of the best quality, received from Russia last spring and they were laid down by experienced cffiaera, who had reported that it was im- possible for even. the smallestfishing smack to enter the harbor without being blown to pieces. None the less they proved a dismal failure when tested by the China, and the Russian Admiralty have tele- graphed that the most searching investi- gation shall be made into the affair. At SI. Petersburg it is not believed that the officers bungled in laying them down, but that the mishap was due to a repetition of what occurred more than once with the submarine mines Russia need against SI: Charles Napier hothe Baltic. Failing to cheek that gallant officer's operatone, they were hauled up and examined, when it was found that the rascally Mauro ashore hadpurloined the gunpowder and replaced it with sawduat. At the 'iamb meeting of theloonundrurn club the following wair propounded: "What is the differenee between a wo- man's sphere and a woman's fear 1" After along ,and severe struggle the conundrum was given tip, and the perpetrator eaW: "One le a Ilona, the other a mottle." "How do you come to sell- yeuewiiite • wine cheaper than your ted wine?"t asked a easterner of the new waiter at arestaur- ant. "Just kink at flit color. Do you think We get that for nothing 1 Do you thbak chemical° and logriood and doh don't cost money 7" "You look weak, Brown. What's the matter?" "Bought a horse last week. Ugly beast! Kicked me on t the cheek." “So1 I see the bruise." "Yes, but I'm bn excellent health—strong as a herse." "Indeed!" "Oh, yeo emery a horn -soar without the Ind trouble!" "Weeny, I have heen twying to think where we met." "AI, indeed? It waa at Saratoga, last summer. " " Weeny, Miss Meath, I beg yeah pahclon. I had quite fawgotten, don't you know, and eawn't undahataad how you could we- membah no well." "Quite easy, Mr. Morgan ;even know the slinpler anything is the easier we remember it." TUE BIL1t‘14 %JO' KIT. A FACTORY THAT IYIANIIPACTORES17461* tARS TooLs ExcLusivnr, , The mininfactuee of burglars thole hes grown to be a highly important one in the Unite ci States, the expert} value of the machinery of this kind made in tio coca., try and aunt to foreign lands In 188,'e rune: fling up to a total value of $275.2t84 Yet few readers probably have ever bler inside oil% factory of this kind. Ith‘rder to let the great mai rity into one emote of the art a reporter enterted an establish, wont. He was cordially received by sim foreman of the thole, whokindly escorted him through it, explaining at the emus ulnae the diibrent articles turned out and she mariner of making. " Thie,", aea the foreman "lei row electric saw and, an implement who_ I feel safe in prophesying will revolution- ize the burglaty business. The reporter exeminei the saw oarofut, ly, but could see nothing AIR ut it dittoing weeny from an ordinary tibbon saw, wren the catizeceeipgbebnotn.hot there were xxo teeth th "Thi e ribbon," said the gentlentar "is made of plaintunt. Its design la saw eaks open. By the ordinary ruse a. ttilizue eluelewil,l'kteuetieifuewo;nia. LABa441414; 11pla4tee lief: an essentliti element, ini the tattiness ef is burAiry, something s edier is needed. Now what le Ireede a to iricreaae the (gutting power of the Reborn aThle will ebte od:,.crnicei tbyl, 11 elaVtit IfIlh; ale wabeintee b tird wLetket aefe properly insulated the hardest burg iar,procf wife can be sawed open as easily AM though made of wood and in ieaa time." "But where le the electricity to be bedl ' "EAsily enough, Mod Jorge otoroo are lighted. 'with electric lights, and all the teirglar will have to do v111 be to di. rviertanelriburrteautuitoomtheentra,aawthottriko„,,a matter g chin'? ciw does the Oectrici y aid the ma. . '44 Why it fortes the ir011 it 0011204in WM. tact with. Juat look here." The foreman Matted the =athlete a motion, at the same time throwing on it currtnt of electricity from a dynamo ma. chine. The ribbon at ()tee became a piuk white. ile then started it In naotion by teaming a crank with his hand. The ribbon monad up 021 its frame until it Mlle in C011t144 with a hooter arttil, s from wilioh a portion had been OA away previously. The ribbon moved into the anvil with as much we as though it were a cake of cheese., and paned through it, dropping Cif A large Mice to one alcle and ' falling with a dull bat not sickening thflas, : I ateel crowbar was tried next and it fragment taken eff of it with almost as much ease. 4 It's a daisy," said the elucidator, "and will excrete° the ingenuity i,f the safe -makers before they manage to got ee 1 tteriacteehdagrocl.,e, nough to withstand Ito elei ; I ' "How long would it take to tuf through a safe with tido I" 4( ot more than an hour on any lige that I have yet nen "But would it no be a little awkward for a burglar to car one of these ma. chines around with h ' / ' "Oh, bites you, no,,not fax the least. You acre, thio is made in secliona, and handmatehei. It rents to either take doer again." carried in any ordure requires but a few m lb apart and put it to "Are there any of eso fax use? "Not yet. Thiti has only juat been perfected, and we are now arranging for their manufacture on an extended rioale." "le it patented r. "No. Owing to a prejudice exiding in the patent cffice at Washington 'we do not notedly patent our articles. Here is one, however, that we have had patented. Thin la an automatic apray fountain, and Is designed for filling a room and chloro- forming people while they 'sleep. We turn out a very large number of these,they' being fax use in jails and insane asylums for gaining control of dangerous inmates." "What is this?' asked the reporter. "Oh, that? It is a little implement greatly fax demand by house breakers of late. The screw there is intended to briug pressure to bear upon the hand of the 'subject sufficient to make him ready to give up his money." "But is it not painful?' "lb is extremely effective, and is only resorbed to when suoh mad measures as holding a lighted candle under the feet fails of its porpoise. But here are our . cutting bars, the finest made anywhere in the west. There ie a bar with whicl the least skilful burglar can out his wee through the grating and gain access * o the baaement of any store in the city ' five minutia' time." ° "Is there much demand for these?' s "I should say so. A. large part of 18 oomea, however, from firemen, who form- eriy found great clialtliby fax getting into basements fax fighting fires. That hook ,t there is capable ot muting any bar at a single twist." • ts for vaults? ' as useful for vault fronte But what are these, fro "Oh, no, although ab the purpose as moat ot are. These are screens, see, of oiled cloth, and ar used for bur- glars while operating on • ank vault doors. The screen can be rolled up into the shape of a cane, and when 131 use is rang- ed moron in front of, the vaultdoor, which it so closely reeembles &ate, while the burglar 'weeks ;behind it, the night watch- man never dreams that he is not gazing upon the real vault front, A° displayed xi large numbet of other tooie and paraphernalia's in demand among burglar's, including maelcs, darkdanterns, crowbarr, drilla, steel knuckles, sling -shots, eta. "How many men do you employ 1" aliked the reporter. "From twenty to fihy, depending on the condition of the trade. Oar busineast Is liveliest when everybody elae's is dull- est, and we are now running with a fair- sized force." "Where does the demand for your in- etruments come from mostly." "They are handled locally metely through aorne of the pawn shops, but there are a number of &dome which do a good business in outfitting burglars. The same might be said of outside places, then two elation handling moo trade." -.eP"