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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-12-15, Page 6gi)E.e•o s"i'hn etSeteEk41keEQEEEGee About the 40 House A AAr Al A ul SELECTED RECIPES. Sheet Cal£o.-000 egg, one cup of 'sugar, two cups of butter or lata, one-half cup of miler, two curls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of bath;; powder. Cream sager, butter and egg mixing in milk and flour alternately until used up; beat in the bal.lug poivder. Bake in shallow pan. When cold divide into two sheets by cut- ting 'through with: a long, sliorp knife and fill with the following Idling: Boil, constantly stirring nntil spongy, ono, cup of sugar, two cups of Lultter, yolks of two eggs, grated rinds and juice of two lemons. When cold sprend on lower sheet, replace upper and ice -with the tem, whites beaten else, four tablespoonfuls of sugar added, flavored to Mete. Place in oven a moment to harden. Frte' Bread -Slice stale bread in rather thick slices. Beat up two eggs With three tablespoonfuls of sugar and ono pint of milk and lay the 'bread in until well soaked. Then fry in Het lard. Boiled Icing for Calces. -.Two cups of granulated sugar, one of water. ;Whites of two eggs. Boil in a sauce- pan until the syrup hardens when tlrnprea In ice water. Beat the willies of the eggs to a stIlf froth and ciro'l a little at a time of the bot syrup On, beating steadily all trio time. After all the syrup has been poured in beat a few drops o3 vanilla in. Spread on the cele at once. Care must be taken that the syrnn is boil- ed to just the rilrbi:t-point, If it team too long the icing will be stiff and dry; if not long enough it will sail: into the cake. Sponge Drops. -Beat to a frotif tifr•ee eggs and one cup of sugar. Stir into this one heaping cup of sifted flour, in which two teaspoonfuls of batting powder have been inbred. But- ter tin sheets with washed butter [(free from salt) and d'r'op in tea- spoonfuls three inches apart. Bake in a quick oven: Flavor with vanil- la, Soup Made from Turkey Bones. - Put the bones in a boiler with about two quarts of water, and boil until all the substance is out of then-, and then take them out. Auld to the soup one tablespoonihl of rice, one or two stalks of celery (chopped fine), chop- ped onion and pePner to taste. This makes a delicious rir-li soup out of a part that is usually thrown away. Braised Beef -The toughest, cheap- est steak can be made into a 'nost ckppeLieing 'dish if braised. Salt MAI pepper it, and put it in a little boiler, just covering It with water, and set on tho back of the stove, let- ting it simmer slowly for two or three hole's. By that time the thick, tough steak will be cooked into the tenderest of meat, and the water cooked down into a thick gravy. Prune Cornstarch -Soak the prunes over night, and boil them until just tender. Then make cornstarch of two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch. Put the milk on in a double boiler and bring to a boil. Beat the eggs and sugar and add to them tho cornstarch thinned with a little milk. Then add to the milk, stir until'it thickets, and take from the fire, adding a little vanilla- and the prunes, chapped into small bits, 'Stir well and pour out to cool, Hunters' Pudding. One cup of Suet, chopped fee; one cup of molas- ses, one cut, of milk, three cups of flour, three level teaspoonfuls of bak- ing powder, one-half teaspoon each of cit,ves, znace and allspice, one tea- spoonful of cinnamon, ane -ball cup 01 raisins, chopped fine; one-half elite of citron, chopped fine. Mix in order given. Steam three hours. Eat with lemon sauce, "01d Reliable" Cake Mi'rtare-Two eggs, one cup of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of milk, butte' the size of an egg, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, one ;teaspoonful of flavoring, salt, 11011 to make Stiff batter. Cream sugar and butter together, acid eggs '(which Mist Have been well beaten), then the milk; sift in cream tartar, soda awl salt, with flour, and add flavor- ing. This mixture may be, in turn, marble, chocolate, currant, harlequin or layer cake, according as you color, Savor and 'divide it. Cabbage a le Creole -Chop fine one head of cabbage, two onions, two green peppers, one bunch of celery, Leave in salt water over night. Then drain. Boll enough vinegar to cover, add. a little sugar, put into jars and seal. ^'w IIINTS 101'1 1IO;ISIE LIFE. Save fat from soup, as alien melt- ed down into dripping It is useful for basting neat or frying vegetables. Brushing mikes the stair shine and borax baths make it fiuify. Do not use borax too often or it will bleach and rot the hair. :When peeling lemons for flavoring to Careers never to cut any of the white shin, as it has a very bit- ter taste, Lemon rind steeled in the water in which you bathe is not only re- freshing, but of actual hencllt to tho skLin�, as it fens a splendid tonic. SaIt is an old-fashioned 'disinfect- ant, popular in our grandmothe•'S tray, It, has the advantage of being non-adororls, It is eepital for sprinkling about drains. Fete things are more soothing for ?turns or scalds than the white of tan egg poured over ilio injured plate. 114 is more cooling than sweet oil anal G Loog s' kirt. e1roya mors beeoming ?th'an short (!ESE to little Women. This stian75 to lrttsori, ler anything like n'1it'ailed cleats gives dignity to its Wearer. Oil 1Y 1trit0 flits e ae. *pa.por May 1)s re' moved by applying n paste mode of pipeclay and cold water. Leave on all night and brush ole 1n the morning, A second applicatiantnay bo necessary. To remove red 11th stains, nh)lstou the spots with strong alcohol lwidu- leted with nitric acid. It is always desirable to make a blank experi- ment first, as all materials will not take the same treatment, How clo the persons who so fear might air that they sleep in rooms with tightly closed windows expect to live should there bo an escape of gas while they slumeer? They do not give themselves one chance out of a hundred for their lives. Very few people know of the Mil- cacy of starch for toilet use. This is especially useful for sore feet, First wash the toes with tepid wa- ter, but do not soak them; wipe quito dry, and then dust with starch crushed to a powder. Scrub the Inside of the teapot with fine salt and then rinse it with boiling water. Tea will not be good vnless the inside of the pot is kept bright and elcan. After use the leaves should be taken out inuneci- ately mot the pot wiped quite dry. Two ways of removing iron mould from linen -Rub the spot with a lit- tle powdered oxalic acid and warm water. Let 'this remain to soak for a few moments and then ries° in clean water. Wash the spots in a strong solution of cream of tartar and water, Repeat if necessary and dry in the sun. To clean piano keys -Dissolve half an ounce of line white wax, shredded small, with turpentine by heat, till it become of the consistency of cream. Apply a small quantity of this to the keys with a flannel, and polish by rubbing well with soft rugs. Leave the piano open for several hours each week and the keys will not turn yellow. Lemon juice and sugar, thickly mixed, will remove hoarseness and cure sore throats, Lemons may be kept fresh for weeks by covering them daily with fresh water. A. lit- tle lemon juice in a spoon, then a dose of castor oil, and a little more lemon juice over the oil, will mask the disagreeable taste, A temperance ginger wine is made as follows :-Pour five quarts of boil- ing water on to two pounds of loaf sugar and three-quarters of an ounce of tartaric acid. When cold, add two drachms of essence of ginger, two drachms of essence of capsicum; color with a little burnt sugar and strain through muslin and bottle. The nervous housewife, who lives in constant dread of fire may, with very little trouble, make an extin- guisher that will put out a blaze if used at once. All she needs to do is to put three pounds of salt in a gallon of water, and to this add one and a half pounds of sal ammoniac. This liquid should be bottled, and when the fire is discovered it should be poured on it. Cut one pound of dressed tripe into square pieces and simmer very gently for two hours in one pint of milk and half a pint of water. Take out the tripe and place on a hot dish, thicken the milk with flour, stir while it boils for a few moments, add half a pound of onions, previous- ly boiled and chopped finely. Let all cook together for a quarter of an hour, add a good seasoning of pepper and salt and serve very hot. For simple Scotch haggis take a penny worth of liver, some of suet, one email onion, oatmeal, popper and salt, Parboil the liver for half an hour; when cold grate it down: add the suet shreded fine, also the onion; pour in a teacupful of the wa- ter in which the liver was boiled, add pepper and salt and as much oatmeal as will make it nice and firm; mix all well together, tic in a floured cloth, plunge into boiling wa- ter and boil for an hour and a half or more. This with a dish of mash- ed potatoes, makes a nice dinner for the bairns, AN ELECTRIC BOAT. Cuts Its Own Canal Ahead. and Fills in Behind Itself. Were that interesting and miscalcu- lating gentleman, Robinson Crusoe, to find himself upon ono of the sand slopes of the Pacific Coast, he would think that his toilsome building of a boat so far from water as to be unavailable when finished was being repeated ou a large scale. A pit 100 feet long by 40 feet wide and 12 or 15 feet deep has been dug, and in this, often miles away from any open water, is built a large, flat bottomed barge, seamed and caulked and made properly seaworthy. On the barge are erected derricks, and much strange machinery driven by powerful electric motors. By the time all is installed, water bas per- colated into the pit, and the boat, built under such queer conditions, is afloat. This is the gold dredge, The seed with which it is surrounded contains gold in quantities which would not pay to work out, except by such a scientific apparatus as this, 'When operations begin the sand and soil in front 0f the boat aro dredged up, dumped Onto sluiceways on board, washed, sifted and treated so as to scours valuable particles, and the debris (tailings) is then de- posited over the stern. Tho Work goes on continually, the unwieldy boat gradually eating its way through the morally slopes, fill- ing in the canal behind, as it works along foot by foot, and never having floating room more than a few feet beyond its Own length. The electric current is generated in a separate power house on land a short distance away, and convoyed to the motors on board by the usual conducting wires. THE IINEXi'ECTED. Ho --bo you remember your Old school friend, Sophy Smythe? She -Yes, indeed I do, A most ab- surd -looking thing. So silly, tool What, became of her? . Ile.e•Oh, nothing, Oniy-I married • her,, Tho price of nearly oVerything is high --sunless you want to dell, CHINA'S CRY FOR REFORM VNREST IN THE INTERIOR OP THE EMPIRE. Her Fate Dependent on Whether or Not Western Ideas are Adopted, The insurrection against the Chin- ese ese Government which !las just brok- en out in Kwang-si, a province in the south of China with a narrow fron- tage on the Gull of Tonkin, will call wider attention to the unrest arses dissatisfaction in tho interior of the empire. A week ago reports from Seeeh1ieu Province on rho upper Yangtso declared that another Boxer uprising was tlu'eetened there. One of the latest to speak of these tlisturbcel conditions is Dr, O. Franke, the official translator of Chinese in the service of tho German Government. He says that Chinese 01holars and agitators have been writing pamphlets, hooks and place ards and reports on needed reforms in which they present widly diver- gent views as to the political clan- gers of the country and the causes that make the empire weak. Many of these publications are is- sued from the treaty ports. Only a little while ago the Pekin Govern- ment made a futile effort to have certain Writes in Shanghai taken to the capital for trial because their writings were objectionable to the 0 ovemnent. Many of the writers think the only way for China to hold her prestige is to open. the doors to western know- ledge, machinery and ideas of pro- gress. It is interesting to .note how graphically they sum up the causes of China's troubles caul how thee contrast China with other nations t0 the great disadvantage of their own empire. EUROPE AND CHINA. The following quotations are taken from translation which Dr. Franke has just published, and in the iirst one the reformer, Rang Yen Wel, contrasts the European Powers with China "Groat European States have a yearly income of many billions, their well trained armies number millions, their armored cruisers count by hun- dreds, they • have modern sciences, modern machinery, thousands of now inventions, new books aro brought out every year; a multitude of peas- ants, handcrafts, merchants, sold- iers; scientists improve from year to year their respective branches of learning; women and girls, youths and children, all ]snow how to read and write, and We? "Our yearly revenues amount to 70,000,000, our debts to 200,000,- 000 (this refers to the indemnity of war with Japan in 1804-95); all this shows our financial weakness. "We do not possess well drilled troops, nor armored men of war; this shows our military weakness. Modern science, modern machinery are of no interest to tis; this shows our weakness in knowledge, "Our army has no educatinn, our educated men do not understand any- thing pertaining to military matters, om• merchants have no schools they need, our peasanthy leek education; and this shows the insufficiency of our educational system. The masses devote themseves to contemplation, and the -educated lack energy; and this shows the weakness of our cher- ector, For this deplorable condi- tion I will quote Chung ilui's words: 'The weak must be subiugated,' "We have not made any innova- tions for 4,000 years. In the foreign States new life rules, but we always remain the same ones LEARN NOTHING NEW, "Our high officials follow the rule 'Honor the Emperor and keep away the barbarians,' Foreigners laugh at our antiquated ceremonials and studied speeches which are meaning - "We have not learned haw to uti- lize time, hence the catastrophe in the wars with France and Japan; but these reverses did not teach us anything; therefore we have to suffer what is occurring to -day. OCCUPATION OF IZIAOOII'AU, "The 400,000,000 Chinese are gav- erned by scarcely 100 high digni- taries. There are General Govern- ors and Governors, but not one of them has ever travelled abroad or is familiar with the modern Works on European conditions, These aged 'nee, brought up in old-fashioned trays, do not consider it necessary to know anything of new inventions and modern ideas Or state of affairs in foreign countries." Tho following is an extract from the address delivered by Liang Xi Chao at the opening of the high school for modern science in the Pro- vince of Hunan : "Knowledge is power. The strength of a nation increases or diminishes in proportion to its wider or oar - rower knowledge. Tho colored races may serve as an example of this. "Tho East Tndiane are beginning to take high places in the land Whore they were occupying only subordinate positions, because they are constant- ly improving in knowledge. On the contrary, the African ncgroes, the Mexican Indians and South Sea Is- landers have been enslaved "again, "Formerly the ruling classes want- ed to diminish tho power of the masses, therefore they kept them in ignorance; now it is desirable to in- crease the peoples power; therefore woe knowledge is widened, It is essential before everything else to spread knowledge and diminish ignor- ance, "It is 110005sary to understand what makes a State powerful and what weakens it, how knowledge ie fostered and ignorance diminished, It is necessary to realize that China cannot exist as an independent na- tion if it shuts itself up in its old views and IDEAS OF THE WORLD, "Japanese and Saropean histori- cal works most be read in order to 000 that We must progress, Works 00 th0,laws of the country and those of other countries meet be read 10 order to get an idea of the 'universal law8 governing tlhehzi.: Only after this Os dor}e should ltttdntiadi be giv- en to tho old classes and old i'hi1- osophol's,'c Hero is a brief extract from a re- cent Chinese book, "Ilistory of Ito - farm Movement of 1808," The ex- tract is taken from a chapter head- ed "The Relations of Mina to tho k'ol'eign States." "A dying 111an 1Iee stricken in his desolate solitude, Over Hint circle vultures in wait; below, foxes with sharpened teeth are walling: Even the smallest vermin, flies and moths, mites and ants, Sw'arin in great num- bers and strive to get their share, Such Is China's position to -day, "To be sure, when the man sucl- cleniy springs up, the whole crowd flies away, but when he remains sti11, then foxes and vultures fall ole upon another, light and dispute the mor- sel, "China's existence or dcslruction is a question of the greatest impor- tance :n the world's politics. To -day Ilia decisive outcome of this ciuestion Is at !sand. What will be tho fate of the sick plan? "There .is a randy for him-; if ho takes it he will live; if not, he will die. He knows it, therefore ho wants to take it, He wants to gulp it down, but *harder matter sticks in his throat, If this matter is removed the invalid will bo able lives. He was wailing for them, to swallow and shall live; if not, he and in an incredibly short time his won't be able to swallow and shall SOME IMMENSE PARTIES A MAN ENTERTAINED AN EN- TIRE TOWN, New York Politician Who Invited 25,000 Youngsters to a Picnic, - Never, probably since the days of the fled Piper have 00 matey child- ren been gathered together by a sin- gle individual as Met June, when Senator James J. Frawley, of New York, invited to a grand picnic On Central Pal'ic no fewer than 25,000 youngsters. And they all came, too, many of them accompanied by thole n101120rs, who knew that they would also receive a warns welcome from the popular Senator. Each child wore a red and white jockey -cap and carried alt American flag (the gifts of their host), while, in addition, thou- sands of the children were decked in brilliant colors, gay sashes, and startling stock -legs. • By nine o'clock each child was waiting at a gives point In the dis- trict which claimed "Pop" as au elector, and w11ee ten o'eiook came all the youngsters marched to Ninety fourth Street, where the Senator "Trots life and death are in his case separated only by a hair's breadth. Such is China's situation to -day." The Chinese are also writing more than ever on religious questions and are giving special prominence to the view that Confucianism can be the only world religion and that in the course of a few hundred years all nations .0111 acknowledge this fact and embrace the teachings of confu- cies : then the world will be one brotherhood and wars will cease. —4 -- THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. 7,000 People Hear Him Tell of His Wonderful Adventures. "This was the most southerly point." The speaker was a Captain Scott, the explorer, at the Albert Hall, London, the outer clay. He waved his hand carelessly towards the gigantic screen on which had just been thrown a vivid photograph of hummocky ice, and in the foreground a sledge with a St. George's cross fluttering from its polo. Captain Scott was giving his first public nar- rative of his twee years' sojourn in the Antarctic regions to an eager crowd of about 7,000 people, Wonderful photographs of Ice clip's, glaciers, strewn with huge boulders, hills of ghostly ice, swept across the screen like scenes from fairyland. When winter was fairly established sledge expeditions were organized. Captain Scott, with Lieut. Shackle- ton and Dr. ,Wilson, Went duo south with sledges and dogs. On, on they event till the dogs began to weaken anal the food to become scarce. Then the dogs one by one had to be kill- ed, Finally, when the food was be- coming dangerously short; the little party had to turn back and retrace their steps, Their turning point, was 'Farthest South." On the way back to the ship the captain and the doctor had to draw the siedgo with their com- rade who hod become ill. They drew hien 150 miles, Captain Scott described the most adventurous day of his life. He Was out on a glacier sledging with two men, and as they were going down- hill one ratan slipped and was swept off his feet. The outer man was dragged down, and the sledge de- scended on to the captain, who was in front. The three Hien and the sledge went down the ice hill at a tremendous pace, sometimes leaving the surface for many yards at a time. They eventually reached a level patch, ai101 •pulled up safely. That same day they were all three pulling at the sledge which the cap- tain ordered one of the nrel to keep a few foot to the right to steady the sledge. Within a few seconds the captain and the remaining man walk- ed into a crevasse, and !hung over the edge, suspended in midair by their sledge straps. d• SENTENCE SERMONS. Lova cures many of our likings. Thr greedy church cannot grow, Faith always puts its feet on facts. We eon -keen only what we give away Terminology is apt to terminate tc u fteltf, e£.nnot keep ha,)piness to yew.sal (. Yon cannot measure worshl,) by tl,a cleric, There le no uplift in the holdup church. Economy in love results in poveity of life, There. is no liberty like the slnvery of levo, Living true is malcjng sure t,1 in,; triumphant. The man who is willing to ince fail:u'0 fonds 5ucc0S5. Fortune -good • or hotel-11illy hurts When it touches the heart, We all hold the doctrine of total (10- p1avity-as applied to our .neighbors. More good is done by dispensing good chow than by giving away ddl- let:s. HE NODDED TO 11E11. A; very pretty little story is told of the Gordon statue erected in Khartounn : An old black woman who had been a pensioner of Gordon's in the old days came home a bit belated ono day, and exclaimed, "Gori be praisers, the Pasha Gordon has coma again." These she related how she hacl sat long by his camel and thnt st11 he wouldnot look at be' --he who bad never passed her without a kindly word befoe, "Is he tired, or what Is 11?" 8110 said; but after many viiclts she Dane holes11 glad at last, for she maid 'the 1/110110 had marled his head 10 Merl lieutenants had the children in some- thing like order Bald the march tom- =need, Senator' Frawley preceded tho procession, and was immediately followed by a particularly vociferous band. Just behind rode the ILing and Queen of Flowe'land, on white ponies and gorgeously apparelled, They were guarded by twenty-four little girls, dressed la white and carrying flowers. Then, beneath a fine canopy upheld by six little girls, walked the Ding and Queen of Harlem, known in pri- vate life as James Ronny and Gladys Dreyfus. Their robes were held up by twelve little girls, who were dressed in white and wore wreaths of flowers - on their pretty heads. All this pomp preceded the main body, which STRETCHED FOR MILES, arra it was estimated that the Flue- ber of children must have' exceeded the 25,000 invited, Some idea of the strength of the forces may be gathered from the fact that It took the youngestors two hours to pass a certain point, As soon as the party arrived is the park each division. was conducted to a marked tree, round Which the children sat while the task of dis- persing some 15,000 pints of lemon- ade was commenced. For the pleas- ures of "refreshing," Senator Fraw- ley had provided 10,000 1b. of cake, 700 cans of milk, five tons of sweets, 80,000 bricks of ice-cream, 80,000 oranges, and about 00,000 sand- wiches. Among tho children were 2,000 pickaninnies, who had a whole band to themselves and a special corner in the meadow, where they played anmong themselves. At five o'clock the return was macre, ancf every child accounted for and delivered safe and sound to its parents, Not a single accident occurred during the entire day. Although Senator Frawley's picnic was so colossal, it has been beaten in point of numbers by Tammany Leader James J. Hagan, who, in the Bronx Park, lately entertained no dower than 80,000 children. The im- mense procession was headed by the (Sing and Queen in a chariot of flow- ers drawn by four fawn -colored Shet- land ponies. The King was John Conray, aged tell, while the Queen was Anna Donelly, of the same age. They wore Royal costumes of white satin, and their crowns, according to the spectators, WERE TIIE "REAL STUN" his agents informed him that he would have to provide for between four and five thousand, but told them to g0 ahead and arrange for the best dinner possible, As it was stuemer-tinie the tables were laid in the fields about a mile from the lawn, and were spread ever several acres, The Walters numbered 250, the dinner was declared 10 be excel- lent, cud as, with few exceptions, all the guests turned up, the gatherhlg has a right to be considerer( one of the most remarkable on record, ART 01 THE EGYPTIANS. Australian Chains to Have Dis. covered Mummy Process. There come New 'k from hos ono to Ae Yor r m Australia a small, grey -bearded loan • who assorts that he hes solved the Secret of the ancient art of Inuhmnl- fyh1g ]lunlahl bodies. leo !s Prof, At'tnt,1' Robert Taylor, of Perth, Western Australia, and ho has brought with him one of the most interesting and varied collec- tions of mummies over seek beforei11 this country, including two children, one five .months of age and the other two flays old. Both bodies have been 111U2101)111011 for more then. 20 years, and are wondrously perfect. The collection which hie has brought to New York is not so large or varied because of the Incon- venience of carrying a complete mus- eum across the Atlantic, but it is suillcieltly large to convince the American scientists of the value of his discovery. Since his arrival in this country he has embalmed live bodies by his secret process, three of them for Cornell Medical College, and the others for a large embalming concern. The embalmer is an Aus- tralian by birth, and is now almost 70 years 0f age. Ire has had the secret for more than 80 years, Tris father spent many years in rho study and experimentation of it, and in the latter part of his life was assist- ed by his son, the present Prof. Taylor. The latter one day organized a caravan and went away into the wil- derness of Australia, where he Mondcertain minerals and vegetables from which he manufactured a compound which, he says, proved to possess mummifying properties suchas were possessed by the Egyptians. To test the efficiency of the solution ho has buried certain animals 104' ,years after inoculating them with it to see what effect the moisture of the earth would have on the bodies. Two young children whose bodies Were em- balmed and burled were taken up lour years later, and found tel be the same in appearance as when they Were placed beneath the ground, Prof. Taylor claims that by his pro- cess hinnan bodies can be preserved indefinitely, and that in the case of birds and animals even the gloss of their skin or feathers can be forever retained, insuring the companionship of the dead pets fo' those who do not want to part with them. At Perth Pr'0f. Taylor has among his most interesting specimens a three -ton whale, which Inc 20 years has retained its original form and looks, but is a5 solid as a 1'001., consisting of gold, diamonds, sap- phires, and rubles. They were fol- lowed by 100 flower maidens, led by Miss Madge Hagan, the host's little daughter, The children were afterwards re- viewed eviewed by Deputy lire Commissioner Church, who said : "It's the finest army in New York," to which it2r. Ragan replier : "You mean the finest in the World." In order to provide for this huge mlmbcr of children Mr, lIagan had ordered. six tans of cake, three tons of ice-cream, 8,000 gal- lons of lemonade, six tons of candy, and 40,000 oranges. None of the children went astray, and the mar- shals declared 'beet among all the 80,000 there had not been a single "scrap" of any moment whatever, a remarkable statement, 0111011 possi- bly, could not have been .made had the guests all been "grown-ups, _" Apart from children's big parties, however, a few adult recept10135 may be mentioned which are no less sur- prising. At Athens, Ohio, for in- stance, Mr. George A. Beaton, Who had left that town many, years bo - fore and accumulated a fortune, re- eeltly 1'etureed on a visit, and in colebratiot of the event entertained at a sunituous dinner 8,500 citizens and former residents, who carne from all parts of the country, The capa- city of the town was taxed to the utmost, and practically eyelet house- hold was turned Into a lodging - house, Tho dinner cost 85 a head, but, be - Skies this, Mr. Beaton paid the ex- ponee5 of every guest 'Who had to come from a distance, so that it is estimated (hat the little celebrations cast trim at least $75,000. But he Dalt' the bills cheerfully, for he had been looking,• forward to the "little party" all his life, and the pleasure 3t gave him roalieed to the utter= moat ALT, HIS EXPECTATIONS, A couple of years ago a remarkable dinner -party Was given by John Iter- Tinian, who started his business life a5 a grocer's nssistant in a small country village in Maryland, Whiie still a lad he went to Chicago, be- came a big stacltyard dealer, pun- ,yesterday," Phased much real estate, and ulli- 1 110 you wonder that Mold's would maLclp aiOttsaod a fortune of between not eat his brenlrfast? $15,000,000 anri 1120,000,000, In 100•2 he returned to his native village, where he still hall many friends, anti expressed h15 desire to entertain the entire adrift, population to a dinner, The village had 1n- creasc(1 in nurubers'duce hes boyhood 11 boys are boistcr(ne it is up to but the was not at all dismayed When glebe, to be 511'1110'011s. HARD) ON BLODBS. It was late when 1ypr, Nobles got. up in the morning, and he hustled around his bedroom 111re 0wild man, When it wnS 11111e to put on his trou- sers he plunged into a wardrobe and pulled 'down all the garments that were on tho hooks. Then he fell on his knees and pawed the pile over nervously. He handled every garment twice and d15 not find 1vkrit he want- ed. 110 event red in the face, and then shouted "Meryl" There was 210 reply. Blobbs poked his ]read out of the door and yelled again "Marry!" 'What is it, clear?" askedsome- one at the rear end of the passage. "001110 Hero." Mrs, BMW's carne into the room. Her face was flushed with breakfast preparations, and there was some soot on her nese, "What do you want?" elle asked. "Where's trim grey t1'00001'5 of mine? "'What grey trousers?" " T7ien grey ones that's been hang- ing in that closet for two months." "Aren't they in there'?" "No, they ain't in there. Now, what have you done witli them?" "Wert they grey with a little red stripe in thein?" "You know well enough they wore. Don't stand thee° litre a dum- my, Where are they?" "Grey ones with red stripes," mus- es Mrs. Blobbs, "I'm sure I don't know, Oh, yes, 'I do, too; I exchang- ed them with a man at the 'door for 801110 crockery." "Yon what?" gasped li', Blohbs. "l xclranged them for some croak- e'y, You didn't want then, did ,your' 11r, 331011118 'tuns 80 broad (Hat he fh'011ied at the mouth, Fie raved and' shouted around tlic room. XIe kept this lip for ten minutes. :Chen lie saw that•Mrs. 23101>bs didn't care, and ho tried oilier tactics. "I'm sor- ry yell sold them, he said, "not be- cause I needed thein especially, but 120 0,lse yb21 diel' yourself an injdly.' ' 130ty s0?" aslre(1 Mrs, 13101eb5, fn- tereetefllv., "Why, I Had too doilar0 in one of the pockets of those trousers that I was going to 1r5e to got 3023 a birtlf- day s1nt wk. 1, kpt orn so Hpreaat T 350211(1next hnvo0en0 oep;)m'itttrthliity to spend it. Now, aren't you sorry You sold the footmen?" 110.1 ]tins. "Ori, 1 don't en nv," e.„ i31obb8, sweetly, for she saw through the scheme imnnediatcly, "Y011 see, I went Orwell the, pockets and tonne( the, ,Honey, I went shopping with it Alter listening to a poem yoileg man'e talo or woe 11:'04 up to the I.eire-'a to give him. a helping hand; IN THE NEGRO REPUGLIC LIBERIA IS STEADILY FORG-, TNG AHEAD, Sir Barry Johnston 1l aat..+fled With Its People and Prospects. Sir ):Marry Johnston Inas just re- turned to England feunl a visit to Libelee, whore he says 117/11811 trade wtereete, are eo:Oilerabl% Dealing with the influence of the Alne'ico-fiibel'ianns in the country,. Sir 11•enry said :- "Liberia was first conceived of in America as a 5oletion of the prob- lem where to repatriate freed slaves. "The settlers originally came main- ly from the United States, but after- wards there Set in a certain stream Of West 111dlan immigration, which has resulted in the establishmout 0f a good many families of West Bohan negro crescent in this country, and from this rather superior negro stock have arisen not a few notable- mote otablemen, such as the Ilan, Arthur Bar- clay, the actual President of the Re- public, who W05 born in the British island of llarbadoes, TWO AMERICAN NEGROES, "From an informal census which 1 have been compiling out of all the information I can collect, I do not think that the actual number of Americo -Liberians fn tus republia much exceeds 12,000; but their influ- once ever the tribes of the 111Lcrio0 is steadily increasing, and is being continually directed towards the opening up of trade and the main tenance of peace. "On tho other hand, the indigenous negro population of the republic can- not bo much less 111au two millions. Some estimates place it at 2,150,- 0(10; others, however, reduce it as• low as 1,800,000. About 800,000 out of this total belong to the line Mandingo type, who are remarkable for their sobriety, intelligence, and stalwart physical development, IS A. 111011 COUNTRY. "For myself, I can only repeat - i ot11 emphasis that I founts the Am- erico -Liberians a people meet easy to. get 011 with -polite, quiet, and in some instances well educated, and, well acquainted with all that was• going on in the great world beyond, "With regard to commercial pros- pects, there is a great future before. tho rubber trade of Liberia, as the whole country is one great rubber - producing forest. Coffee, palm, oil, cocoa, and cotton are becoming sta- ple products. Gold has been flip-, covered and some Iran. "The climate is distinctly pleasan- ter than that of the regions immed- iately to the north and south. It. also seems to be a healthier country for Europeans than other parts of West Africa. One point I should like to lay stress on is the remark- able absence of insect pests. There arepracticallyno mosquitoes, and the white ant is absent or vera scarce.” DEMAND FOR GRAMOPHONES. Sir Harry has brought back with him many pllotorgraphs of native. types, of forest scenery, and vege- tation; a number of sketches in col- or; and thirty phonograph records of native speech, song and music. Ho has completed studies by him in 1888 of the principal languages spoken ie. Liberia. According to hint, the most popu- lar article of trade on the Liberian ooast at the present time is the granophone. Every we'll -to-do na- tive possesses one or is expecting ono t0 arrive, and one of the first en- quiries made as to each fresh steam- er's arrival is. "Has she brought out any new records?" At the beginning of the present year the Liberian Republic, baying settled the frostier question with England, was anxious to have its northern and eastern boundary fixed by accord with Prance on the terms of the 1392 treaty. But a hitch has occurred owing to the desire of the colonial party in Franco to 'Hake use of this local delimitation of the frontier for the diminution of Liber-' tan territory, CZAR WITH ONE EAR. Very Curious Belief of Russian Peasants. The n11051esaled peasants in the Chersol provinces of Russia have an extraordinary belief that the Ozar has only one car. They are con- firmed in their belief by pletvres and photographs of the Czar showing a side face view and naturally exhibit- ing only one ear. They account for the ab50(nc0 of tho other in the following Man3100. Some time ago, they say, a deputa- tion from their province waited upon the Czar, and in the course of the meeting the Czar is said to Have stated that all Russian land would be divided equally among the peas- ants of the various districts, To this one of the deputation boldly said 1-"A5 sure as you cannot see your 02.71 ears you will not divide the land," The Ocoee reply to this was to cut off one of his (the Czar's) ears, which he placed upon the table, remarking as he did so e -"As surely as I now See my,eay 1 wfrl divide the 101311," To this clay the Chosen peasants firinly bgatee° that he has only one ear, and unless the. Ozar visits them in person and proves to then by ;optical deenolst'ation that he pos5055es the correct number, this extraordinary, belief will not be shaken, DEEDS TELL, Ile was a man, Ami he 5(5 what he COultl' SOntotmee it was bad- Sometimes it was good, He was often discouraged When things wouldn't 'go right, But as he wouldn't give up Iso continued his fight, Years passed anal ha died ol0 day. 01110 People Were sats, Soma people wore any - Tint he'd been a maxi And had 110110 what 1,, 00111d; And when 11e was :.W -,};;nal The easter said "Cott,"