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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-4-20, Page 3taiteeeSeereeesaaseeaessfrean.e.neaneasteee, preceded by Antoine, clanked fluWa the atoll's. 'rile room into which the latter ushered him was large •enotigh to be fresh and airy on a hot steamer's evening, yet not too spa:floes for the panic:net or 41, =nail party. a friends, There were two perstoes pre- sent beside his host. One, a well-fed, dark num, with black, prominent eyes, a !leavy jowl, and a trick of frequently wetting his full, red lips with the Lip of his tongue. "Moasieur Meyer," said Ramo. The lieutenant bowed, idly speculating in what branch oS trade M. Meyer was miming:eh But the other person left AO doubt as to his lack of occulm.. tion, Dress of the latest fashion - fair beard of the latest cut -white, supple ihigers-fsoft, slow voice end Plowmen es -proclaimed lla ron Cor- nell nn idler of the boulevatels. All three welcomed Du Ile-ice:3 as an ac- quisition to their party, and Ramo laughingly bade him elsearel affairs of State in favor of cold chicken, and Beaune, "for," he said, "eare end aPPelite are deadly enemies," There was very little Dtt Geseue careil for except gaining, love -making and duelling, at all of which he con- sidered himself an adept. Rame quickly discovered it, and within ten minutes had turned the conversation into channels quite pleasing to his guest. He talked excellently; his blue eyes twinkled; his tongue was tipped with good-natured narcasm and laughing cynicism. To the young, soldier he was delightful. It flattered him, though he would not have owned it, that the man who could give him twenty years at least and knew every capital in Europe should treat liim as an equal in ago and experience. The wine paseed freely, too -excellent wine -and as the lieutenant grew talkative and ex- citable Rainexerted his conversa- tional talents more. Between them they monopolized the table. The Baron and Moyer only joined in fit- fully; it seemed to the guest that their wit was qe, trifle forced. Meyer especially was uneasy, and once so Palpably interrogated Dame with a lift of his eyehrows that the latter was forced to invent a reply for the lieutenant's benefit. He was proceeding to cover the contretemps by the narration of some of his companion and a grisette of Montmartre, when a clamor and a hoarse, angry cry from above brought them all to their feet. For a seeond they stood listening. There was a scufrling of feet, and the lieu- tenant, recognising the voice of Cor- poral Monett°, made a step thrward. The others, as if his movcinent had put life into them, orowded to the door, hampering his attemtt to leave the 'room. They heard a swift rusb of feet on the stairs, then cursing, as the corporal lumbered down, with spurs ripping the woodwork axtd scabbard clanking. The tumult pass- ed, and M. Rame, threw open the door and let his friends out into the narrow passage. It Was too late to stop the two men. Du Gescue, gazing after the king figures, thought he recognised in the fore- most Antoine, the valet, and said as much to Dame, who laughed and shrugged his shoulders. "Then Antoine will have a good drubbing if your corporal catches him. I suppose you left nothing of value in your room'?" he added, an- xiously. "All I have I carry on lila" "Good! Valets are prying folk the best are not to 130 trusted. " As they reeurned to the room Meyer touched Rame's arm. "Fail- ed?" he whispered. "I suppose so," was the savage reply. Ramo nodded in answer, and called aloud to the landlord to remove tho dinner and bring candles. Du Gescue looked at the clock. "Gentlemen, pray accept my, apolo- gies," he said, "Duty—" "Horrible word!" ejaculated the Boron, with a shudder. "Really, I am inclined to ogee° with you," the soldier confessed; "but it is a potent one." "You cannot travel on foot, lieu- tenant," cried Muer; and the horses will not be fresh enough." "They must serve, 'however. Cor- poral Nanette 3nust follow if I do not ovectake 11103.' "My dear Du Gescue,'' put in Dania quietly, "no doubt your man will return quickly, however irate he may be, and the horses will carry you farther for every hour of rest they have now, The lieutenant hesitated. ''11 will be a good investment,'' drawled the Bartel, placing a pack of cards upon the table, "Tem= my word, you =meet per - :made nie." "We shall be delighted," said Raine, "but I should uot presume to persuade.'' 'IN .1 THE • fON D 3 .e.eaeleaeleeeeeeas..eyee,a04,....aealeeeenea•n in "Avrieourt I" gasped the Corporal, fence pointing, choked with the dust of 1111108 the long, white road. rable, The lieutenant's horse stUniblecl 1 aro and limped worse than before. Du vs int (fescue swore and swung. himself front 3eitrcey the saddle, The corporal,. following e noT his alicer's eetemple, took the reins "1 , and brought the ceipplod horses to- ' lie gether. it ''They're done, lieutenant," said .rfort. he. 'The nue lee has ruined better animills than himself." is of , "The bungling fool' And forty nine miles to Strasburg' What did you to a Say lies yonder?" it ia 'Avricourt." '"rhen we go an feot. Bring the poor brutes along." So together they clanked ovor the stoinis of the town and halted at the Tete cl'Argent. The landlord and rage the 05t101'mat them at the door, atter bowing lower than psual when they • 1(1- saw the hot and tingly face of the iter- young officer. hem "Fresh horses!" ordered Du (les - Cue, pushing. past. and "Alasl we have none, lieutenant," 'Ong said the landierd, in a tone of des - and Pail% 8,- "Therl you must find them, On the hi Emperoe's service." isi Fram the window above came lay laughter and a clinking of glasses. The corporal had disappeared, Du ,o Comte turned in the doorway, frow- o aing. Dis mission t� Marshal tfac- Mahon was urgent. As he entered the house the cor- poral appeared in the passage, and seleted his superior officer grimly. rtirect horses in the stable, lieu- tenant," he said. The landlord started at the sound of his voice, and recoiled almost into his anus from Du Gescue's threaten- ing 'movement. bc "They belong to the gentlemen who arrived this morning, tt he stam- mered. " Then the gentlemen must lend them. Bring them out quickly." "They are not fit, m'sieur, on lily honor. They are worse cattle than Yours, and spent with overriding." "quite true, lieutenant," agreed the corporal. "But with a few hours rest they will take us on." "Lock the stable and keep the key. Show me to a room landlord, and warn yoer people that those horses now belong to the Einpetor." "Would it be considered over cur - 10(18 if one asked to which horses the lieutenant refers?" asked a smooth voice from the shadow of the stairs, where a short, gray -bearded man stood surveying the gram with a satirical smile. "I speak of those in the inn -stable, 5 monsieur " said the lieutentult. "To whom t'hey belonged the landlord, 10130 denied them to me, can tell you." 'rho stranger bowed in reply. "My 1134 name is Gaston Rama The horses ol are -though I think you put it in the past tense -mine and my friends.' " "Then, Monsieur Dame," the sol- dier tapped, coldly, "I have need of them on State service. I am Raoul Da Gescue, carrying despatches from Paris." in that case the orders of State must 130 obeyed, though I confess it would have altered me greater pleas- ure to lend my horses at Lieutenant Du Oresei'le's personal request," an- ewered Dame, amiably. "Your parden, Monsieur Rame. I will beg you now to lend them. A long tramp in the dust and heat is productive of ill -humor." "And the exci tement of coming battle not conducive to punctilious - 11088. Yes, I know. The animitls are yours. It is fortunate for my friends and myself that we arc about to dinan e d that the landlord has made no preparation f or other guests, It may procure us the pleasure of your company." 1)0 Gescue bowed' Ile accepted lightly, inwardly congratulating Min- den on the prospect of a pleasant in terlude. "I will take off some of the dust of he troad and join you iminediately," Lieutenant de Gescue mounted to his room with quite affectionate thoughts of his courtly host and of tho awaiting dinner, DU bad tem - Per had nw passed; ad when, a min- utesfelater, a man entered with water - can and clean towels, he vas lookingout out at the sunset on the hills and Iblunitiing gully. The servant stood by as the sol- dier unclasped his bolt, and without a word took from his hand the sword and sabeetasche, Da (fescue paused; Perhaps he knew that the soft, looked at him cm,iotaay. From nis cosy light and the cards Cornell had well-oiled head to his poliehed shoes commenced to shuffle deliberately the inan had "valet. stamped woe, would leave greater Infinonce than him and 'Tarislan," With tho acute- any words. Ile noted with satisfae- tess of his class, too be noticed the floe 810 indecision in Do Gescue's Moldier's expression. face, and the hesitating hand that 'My master, Monsieur Raine," he togged at his moustache, mentioned, deferentially, "ordered 'Deuce take it: I believe you're Imo to see that the lieutenant nerd, right, Brune," the young man •an - ed for nothing." swered, after a pantie. "At any rate "Ahl that explains. My itutel,s io I can make up for lotit Unice and it your master. Tour name'?" este, 1 Oa Gescue, as the valet relieved him :if his tunic. "Antoine, lioutehant," The ten filled the basin and stepped back to the table, wheel) he busied 11'331',1 with uniform and brush. The lieu- tettant revelled in the cool well- Waler; it; reit good after tho heet, dust, auel fatigue; he selaeherl and grunted with satiefeetion, giving 00 turther thought te the servant be- neath whoeie hands lay the despatches, to Strasleirg, till the Mash of a fall- ing sword startled him, Ile Wined, water showering from face and hair, just too late to tme VI, Remo's valet elide eoinething beneath the Couch aa he stooned to pick up the Weapon, Wi€h nit ateelOgy for hi8 elltinsitiees 'Antoine roPlarecl it, and hastened to hand it Weed tie Du Gesette, upon Whoin still:delay deemed the inadvie- nanny of plaeirtg cenfidence in a Strange valet. Tile Ilnitteneat dress- ed raffielly, ,asetirieff nimeolf as be heckled on Ida aweed that the prteket, GAMESTER of Still - 31111 met - )11 101 :ei 10 "Yea," said be, 'what you like." • "Gut," anewered Corlieu; end tho ploy began. Both 1(01.0 11110 Id tlyOrS, anti the cards ran evenly; neither gained much advantage during the first half hour, Then the limit wan raised, and they staked on points. Ramo watched the lieutenant closely, and nodded to Moyer from time to time to refill his glass.. Bet presently the brandy stood unheeded. DU Gescue was dead to everything bet the game; a run of luck was against him, and his notes dwindled to the last, Ramo came gently to his elbow. "Make Inc your banker," he said, sortie', and slid a fresh roll on to the. table. The lieutenant took it almost mechanically, "I propose," he said, playing. The Baron nodded, and the game went on. Higher rose the stakes; the faces of the players 'be- came strained and set. The clock saluted.his offieer. was upon the stroke of twelve and 'The fleepatches, lieutenant," said, had given the elick that, pree,ems the he, presenting a blood-stained coun- terpart of the paelset Ramo held. Du Gescue looked round wildly. With a choking cry he sprees to his feet. Ramo uttered all oath and tore seals and envelope savagely. "Illunk, by Ifeaven!" he cried, us a few sheets of whito paper fluttered to the floor. Tho corporal's eye look in the whole scone and Its meaning. "'rho despatches, lieutenane," he said again, sharply, ahnost com- nuendlegly. Du Geseue sprang for- ward with an operpowering sense of relief and clutched them eagerly. At the same time Meyer tried to ap- proach unnoticed. Corporal Manette turned quickly. "Back, there!" he cried. "My faith! With traitors these are the only cards of play," and struck him full in the face with his sword -hilt. Rame forced 0 smile that was half a snarl. "You bold the best hand of the evening, corporal," lie SA id. luck has turned at last." -London graepod the sealed packet. "Teo I IA% neel,eaenloeeeetE.C.efeeteenefeleAge<geare pain L9-( : illX10!" be 0110ti In tviaraPa laZ.' W The lieutenant sat stupidly star - . at dead, only ho swayed slightly, A 1- About the A! hIg at the fatal carde-ent es •- one most in fear they gazed at him., till A, 4, 2 buried We face in ids hands. ....House 4 A itame breathed a sigh of relief end , , took tho despatches from Ids coin- iiiiiiitellettailfolefiee•aleliee4003031.0 " panion. ...„,,,,, .,..........,:e „,, wi,,,i,„„ared. "Quickl molasses, one cup of sugar, one-balf "Ile's comeromieed, and W 21 he English Pudding -One-half cup of lyiw'oyc'e "it' 'e'073, a-nl, 'ne-arit up „g,,, '. null Of butter, two 0111)8 of flour, two 'rhe soldier stirred, and ettised a cline of sour WOAD), 0110 cup of seed - haggard face as Cornett placed paper and ink upon the table. name, kteee in hand, held the packet to tli:i light of a candle, when aharried step on tho stairs startled them, The door was thrown violently open, and Corporal Manette, tiwesci in hancl, stern-faced and threatening, with a giatlemodie gesture he threw out, bis armee Rweeping from the table everythleg within reach, told striking. of the gong; Meyer crossed the room, oPened be eaS0, and step- ped the pendulum. There was no sound from withont-norie from witb- in but the sharp tieMeneos or tho Players and the click of the cards, Du Gomm had forgotten ever3r- thing. The brandy numbed 1310 brain to all but the fascination of play. With fixed eyes he stared before him; his voice grew thicker nncl less steady with every deal, name's purse had been goon exhausted, and the lieutenant was signing his natio to slips of paper. Presently he stop- ped, his hand raieed in the act of cutting the cartls. "Flow much," Ile demanded, thick- ly --"how much there?" nodding to the pile of paper before his opponent. "Much do 0100, Baron'?" "Ohl only a few thousand franca, - twenty, thirty, perhaps," replied Cornet; lightly. "The Melee run- ning your way at last." The lien tenant gazed at him cl minkenly, "Play you for it," he said, "Dou- ble it alr on the next game." "You're mad," cried Meyer, inso- lently. "Cornea's the better player. Leavo it alone." But Ramo interposed. 'Pooh! take 110 notice of Meyer; he's drunk. After all, why play any more?" "I will play. Baron, are you afraid? Double what's there, if it ruins me." "'Donel " replied Corliou. "Celt ' The lieutenant turned the card and picked up his hand -the worst five cards he had held that night, and he knew the game was lost. Three min- utes later he dropped his last card. "May much?" he muttered. "One hundred and • fifty-six thou- sand francs," the Baron annou»ced. There was dead silence. 'rho three men watched Du Gescee closely, his whole body rigid. Then he turned his head and looked at them one by one, a pitiful smile upon his lips. Ramo handed him brandy; he drank slowly and dropped the glass front his nerveless fingers in blind at- tempt to replace it on the table. "I didn't know -it wits -so much" he faltered. "The fortune of war," Meyer mur- mured. "I told you." 'Come, Du Gescue"-Rame laid his hand on the young man's shout - der -"Is it so bad as that? Next time---'' "There will be no next limo. It's 10111, Rame-disbonor. I cannot pay." Moyer whistled. The sound stung the lieutenant to the quick; his white face flushed. Cornea had a eneer upon his lips, too. "I risked too much upon the last game, it seems," he said, drily. Rame apace up in defence. 93aron I will hoax nothing against the honor of Ylly friend. Meyer, be sil- ent. Think, Du (fescue, is there no way? The next ttn.n of the cards may retrieve evet.ything." "It is easy to play for ft stake one does not possess," Persisted Cor- nell, mockingly, "You champion hirri, monsieur, and speak of honor. Let us test it. I will wager all I have wou against something Lieu- tenant Du Casette does possess, this theta Will he have tho courage to stake something he can lose? I Play one hundred and flfty-six thousand francs against -the despatches to Strasturg." The soldim. started and half drew his sword. Bet Dame, cloee beside him, caught his hand and firmly Pressed the weapon back. `Take himl" Ile whispered. "It is ruin if you don't -a debt of honor unpaid Your ellance is equal to his. Whil ancl retrieve to -night's mi sfo 'tune -wipe t en lively, Win! I tell you. Stake and Hie mew ton= fired Du Gestate's clouded brain with hope. it was a chance of escape. He hastily chew from the inner pocket of his sabre- tesche the precious packet; but the sight of the seals brought a sense, however feint, of duty. Tie heattot- ed and half turned away, 'Meyer toughed contemptuously, Cornett shuffled the cards, obviously Waiting. " A8 ttl 0 11 gh t,'' he numbed, "He will risk 11ot:binge name." Du (fescue turnecl upon him, livid with fury 1111d 11111401111', &log the deep:881es upon the table. 11013111 he its well to know tvhat that 't ng hound( he mina and valet of yours has been. doing," staggered to the chair. "Wisely decided. NoW, Just a game Ramo and 'Meyer moved close to of °carte till he returns," 111,111, 0110 011 00111 141 (10, breathiesely Du Gestate sat (10(011 unsteadily waiting as the emels were cut, Int and, lifting hie glees, :Wank, Geseee's forehead WAS 11,011 With per- "Ill.h9 Mandy?" he said, totaling epiration; his wine Stood out acmes round. it, throbbing; his betide afloat as he replied Dame, intliffevoidly, dealt, by throis and twos. "What is it like? We've finished all "Cards," demanded Coelieu. the landlord's decent wine," 'rhe lieutenant's hand was good. p11,1.107hd good enoUgh. limy do we "I decline," he answeee.d, doggedly. "1 mark the kingl" replied the "Von and Cornett, thoeght. Ile 33aeon, emiling; and pla.yed. The prides himself oil his ecarte. You cards fell quickly, must leaeh him the game, "Three points to Corlieu," Meyer Gesene," cried, involuntarily. "What's the leeson Worth, naeon?" Gemeue breathed heavily and Moyer laughed, playing With a sec- eliteched` deeperately at, the next owl pack, "Twenty fiance a game?" hancl that fell to 111111. Ile ctit-a. "That is for DIT aeseee to say," four of hearts, The firot trick Was responded Cerlieu, taking 1118 seat, swept to his opponentne side, Ile drew the next to himself; and the OPPoeitee The lietttenant'a eyes Wore bright next again WAS 11111. Ile played the with Wien and tefeltement; 1118 line to of bearte, it fell to the nnave; parted tun lie Watched the glazed, the queen followed, and Cornett, at gr 0011 001140 ADPPDtg easily through the moment, he played, el:rotated his waif Salo 111 the SabreWcheg and, hie opponetit s CAIRO A PERPETUAL SHOW. Nowhere Else is There Such Color and Such Contrast, Cairo reminds one of an impres- sionist picture. It is so unreal; the colors are so unnaturally bright, and - the costumes and the manners of the people so different from what we are accustomed to. The scenery as well an the actors impear to belong to another world. For the first few days after y0111. AITIVal you are sat- isfied to sit on the terrace of Shep- herd's Rotel 811d watch the noisy restleae, ever-changing• crowd -half Oriental, half European -that passes back and forth on foot, on horse- back, in menages, on camels and astaide diminutive donkeys writes a correspondent. Every nation. of the earth seems to be represented, and the present touches lingers with the past where- ver you may look, Under the glare of an electric light you see venerable Arab sheiks wearing tho same robes and leaning upon the same sort of staff that was used when Abraham was a boy; and scribes with inkstand made from the horns of cattle and pens whittled .from reeds sit at the street cornere and at the threshold of the post office, writing letters at the dictation of patrons whose lin- gers have never been taught to frame their thonght in words. Go a block from the most modern of modern hotels end clubs, and you will come face to face with stately patriarchal figures in atnple tuthans, long vests of Syrian silk and outer rober, of cashmere that seem to have stepped out of an illustrated Bible, and as the stm goes down you hear the call of the muezzin from the bal- e:30Y of the minarets, and devout Moslems drop 013 the pavement to pray. Water carriers with the same sheepskin and pigekin bottles that were -used by the partiarehs rub up against English grooms in top boots and silk hats; sherbet and licorice water end lemonade sellers, with tin cans and brass cups, which they clink like castanets, gossip with peddlers of post cards and wax matches. Mer- chants, bankers, lawyers, solders, beggars, guides, policemen meet and dodge each other. Officials from the foreign office and the treasury, conscious of their im- portance and reeponsibility, and cheesed in the smartest of modern French tailoring, halt at the cross- ing to avoid an Egyptiem lofty riding astride upon a donkey with her bare feet in velvet slippers and her face COVOVed W th a l'1101,/ black veil. Syrians in long baggy trousers and braided jackets; Bedouins in flowing relies of brown and white stripe% whose turbane indicate the clan to which they 13010115; Persians with tall caps of brown camel's heir; Nubians with faces as black as cool; Egyptian fellaheen in ragged blue shirts anti foes of red Mt; Copt priests in long black gowns like thode worn by our judiciary end sham -edged stove- pipe hats; Englishmen in pith hel- mets and Iliialci suite; keen eyed :Al- gerians in white robes, and represen- tatives of every other ra00 and na- tion elbow ono another ee they paSs along the sidewelk, talking with nervous gestieulat ions. There is nothieg like it elsewhere in the world. It 1S 110W onct novol to the oldest. traveller, aml one must have neen the el range pictere for himself to affineciate how unigne and 'neatening it is, SLAVE ICING'S SON-IN-LAW. "Black Bill," the oldest reeldent of Fiji, lies died at Letellet at the age of eighty-six, lTe wns born a slave on a plantation in one of the South- ern States of America in 1817, bat he ran awny and got on board a ship bound for Berwick -on -Tweed, where he vaned himself William Berweek, A Berwick whrtlieg ship, on which he 8=1031 for the Pili, was wrecked on the STainrem bawds, Where "Meek 11111" married a Sam- oan. Ile len, Samoa fifty ;yenta ago end Went to Eiji, where, i flako- bait gene hint gee of his deughtere 111 marriage on condition that he acted as his intetpreler and became ether hand aerobe the table Rad his ifIltee for 80Ven Venni. pickle after six weeks and drain for a fidianyolto °Le gtr"0.4en bbeiretery BATUICii 0, T1so who like a flavor may add a few :Veen of Sassafrafl or Juniper berries. The smokehouse must be dark and air -tight, except the ehimney, This should be covered with wire mosquito netting. The stippers which damage farm mired meat most often attaok the meat in the smokeniouse. The parent of the skipper is 5i, fly whiele infests meat houses, but which May be welly kept out by 111011110 of wire netting and well closed framing. After smoking until a light brown ed retainer, one-half cup of curranta, is alta,thed, wrap each pieee of meat tenepoonful of node, ono small in brown pape tea - one large made of unbleached muslin. 'Pie or r and inclose in bags one-gdarter cup of citron, SOW these securety, then dip the bags for two minutes into a thick lime or ochre wash, to which 1313s been added a little salt and some liquid glue. The water used in making' this wash should have been boiled. Instead of bagging the smoked meat, it may be peeked solidly and deeply in clean, dry oats or ciliate spoonful of cloves, one small tea- spooeful of nutmeg, one-half tea- spoonful of cinnamon, 000 fUld 0110' 111111 teaspoenfuls of /tenon, one tablespoonful of vanilla, Sour eggs. Stir Molasses, sugar, and cream to- gether with the dodo, Beat eggs to a light froth and add the flour; last- ly, melted butter, Stip briskly live minutes. Steam three hours. Corn (loins -Coarse breads made front rolled oats, rolled wheat, whole wheat, and cornmeal are very veces- eary daily foods. They keep the lower bowel In healthy action, Peo- ple who use white bread constantly HINTS FOR THE HOME. When win:lutes are 11111111111 to open rub the corde with soft soap and the 8a81308 will run smoothly. For a shampoo mixture make a Meng to the clasn of people fouild; froth of good toilet soap, and when usually among dyspeetic.s, and that lukewarm add to it the beaten yolk other class !means headaches ahnost soffnralitis eogisna,snedniaarycl.essertspoonful of When the hair splits it should be cut by a good hairdresser and sing- ed. Have Gila troatnient carrie 1 out at least once a month, and the con- dition of the hair will soon imp ove. To keep sponges eat and white wash them in warm water with a little tartaric acid in it, then rinse In plenty of cold water. Caro must he taken not to ppt too much tar- taric acid, or the sponges will be spoilt. Borax water is motel for the toilet. Make it by dissolving as much borax as the boiling water will take up. Use a tablespoonful of this solution In about ono pint of boiling water for washing the hands at night. ... A good metal polish may be made as follows: Take half a pound of powdered rottenstone, one pound of soft soap, and one quart of soft water; boil all together for half an hoer, and then set in tins for sue. soft rags. Apply a flannel, and polish with t,,a graham mush -the btealefast food of I 011 for clocks should be very pure, my childhood. To be really good the and can be made so in this manner: water, salted to taste, should be Put a quarter of a pint of lime - boiling hard before the flour is added, water to a pint of all in a bottle, This nest be sifted in slowly through shake it well, and let stand for five the fingers and stirred copstantly* to days; then draw oEf the oil carefully prevent einms. If the mush cools for use, perceptibly during the mailing, WAR Fruit Stains on Linen -If applied a moment until it boils again and at once, powdered starch will take boils hard or the mush will not 130 out many kinds of fruit stains on so g, id, The stiffness of the mush linen. It must be left on the stained may be varied to suit individual part for a few hours, so that all tastes. As it needs only to be cook- discolorationis absorbed by the ed a few moments like "minute pud- starch, diem" it is a very satisfactory emer- t gency dish. Lemon Pie Without Lemon -Line a SA,VE THE 110ISTURE. pie tin with pie crust dough, prick — the bottom well with a fork to keep Importance of Forests Is Beyond it from blistering, and bake. The Computation. crust should be ready before beginn- ing to make the filling. For the fill- The rapidity with which a fresh, Ibingg, tbhee.wtc atthInieyolks foolksrstii of ftrnomeglgs, r s(Isaitvh- brisk wind will ciry clothes 011 the three-quarters dup sugar until smooth then stir in 3 tablespoons vinegar, and edd 2 heaping tablespoons flour and stir until thoroughly mixed to- gether; add 1 cup boilin5 water, stir well, then set over the fire until it thickens, being careful to stir well till the Ulna to keep it from sticking to the bottom. Now set it awaY and let cool while you beat the whites of 2 eggs to a stiff froth; add quarter cup sugar and stir just enopgh to unix the sugar In well. To the lemon pie filling*, which has been cooling, add 2 tablespoons lemon eetract, stir well, then put into the piecrust. Spread the frosting on smoothly and set in the oven, on the top grate, until a light broen. This fillieg makes one pie and is•very good. Most people like it better than when made of the 10111013, as it has a more pleas- ant flavor. Sweethearts -Make some nice puff paste, roll out quarter inch thick and out out with a heart -shaped cook*, cutter. Place in a pan, sprinkle with (Inc granulated sugar and bake in a quick oven. When done, the cakes will bo of a feathery lightnese, and of a pale bronze color. Remove them from the pan, and when cold spread tho underside 01 111(11 the hearts with jellyor jam, Place a plain heart on each (sande ich style), ancl press together, Chocolate or other icing may be used instead of the first 111(111" 0(1 filling. dally. If you use. coarse or granulat- ed cornmeal take one cupful of corn- meal and hien a cupful of bread flour, using the same quantity as given or ordinary muffins. Grape Fruit Preserves -When. eaten, Untie fruits are out in halves, cross- wise, well sweetened with gauulaed eugar, and the rinds are then ready to be preserved. First, clean out every particle of the tough, inside etins. Then grate the rinds edgewise on a coarse potato grater. Soak over night, Drain off the water and boil until tencler. Drain off the boil- ing water also and throw it away. to one ef water and let it boil uutil Make the se'ruP of two cups of sugar it begins to thicken. Add the grated grape fruit rinds to the boiling syrup and boil steadily for 20 minutes. The flavor is delicious. It is economical thid good and keeps indefinitely, Graham Mush -With all the many varieties of breakfast foods, new and Old, coolced and uneooked, we occa- sionally return to a dish of plain PRESERVING MUTAT, 'The old method of pickling moat in a strong saltpeter brine is still very CATERING FORA STEAMER SONE STARTLING FACTS AND FIGURES. Enormous Supplies BeqlllrQ3a On, An Ocean Liner for a Round Trip. Few people leave any idea, said 4 leading official of ona of 01)1' great Transatlantio steamship compturies, What a colossal business it is -to cater for a modern liner, whicit is no exaggeration to describe ati/ 0. "Boating town." The Deltic, for instauce, 111113 an- oommodation for no feWer than 2,- 850 passengers, to say nothing of her crew, numbering 385-0. total population of 8,194 souls, The Kronprine Wilhelm can carry 2,171 people, of whom 1,651 are (31155031- ((010; while the Oceanic Nes atapie room for 1,6211 passengers and a crew of 450. These numbers will in themselves suggest something of thle scale on which it is necessary to provide food foe a double journey acrosa the Atlantic. Leaving alone the stupendous fig- ures represenated by the Cottle larder, I will give you, in brief outline, some idea of the mountains of provisions you would have to lay in for the voyage to New York and back of a vessel carrying a couple a/ thousand people on board, says a writer in London Answers. To begin with, let us see to the meat supply. Of beef you should allow 30,000 lbs„ and of mutton from 12,000 lbs. to 15,000 lbs. -the egniyalent of about sixty bullocks and, taking the larger quantity of mutton, A DROVE OF 250 ST -HEP. Thus we make a substantial start, though our supply is not a peened too much, to be on the safe side; but, in addition to our beef and mut- ton, we shall want at least 10,000 Ms. of lamb and a couple of thou- sand pounds of pork and veal. We shall haVe to enlist the services of fifty pigs to supply us with 5,000 lbs. of liana and bacon; and, to ac- company our breakfast rashers, we will appropriate part of the 24,000 eggs required for the ship's larder. Let us now proceed to stock our poultry -larder with 5,000 birds of one kind or another, of which half will be fowls, while the balance will be made up of ducks, goslings, pig- eons, turkeys, pheasants, squabs, quails, and so on, the squabs and quails alone numbering at least 1,- 200. We cannot get along without fish, and of fresh fish of afferent kinds we must purchase about a ton and a quarter, or 2,B00 lbs.; of salt theta 2,000 lbs.; and about 12,000 her- rings, or, say, twenty-four barrels. Oysters will be in faaor, we may be sure, and of these we cannot do with fewer than 16,000-20,000 would be a safer figure -while of dame half the number will suffice, and to these wo may add 400 or 500 tins of sar- dines. OUR SPACIOUS LARDERS. deep down in the hold of the ship Almost intuitively one swings in the many fine is familiar to every housewife. axa now :being very important contributions rapidly filled; but air anything from which one wishes' are to comm. The bulkiest of them to have a trace of moisture removed. like a piece of writing when one has mislaid the • blotting -paper. From the scone principle it follows that where land lends to dry too rapidly, under the influence of constant breezes, rows of trees planted as a windbreak reey prove useful. It often happens on great plains, where the natural precipitation is hardly up to the needs of agriculture, that extt'a fresh evaporation, due te prevalent high winds, still further accentuates the difficulty. In such conditions the "shelterbelt," or wind- break, illustrates anew the maxim that "a penny saved is a penny earned." Tlie effect of the wind itt increasing the evaporation of water surfaces has long been known. Recent experiments show that it is the same with the moisture of the land, and that soil several hundred feet away from a windbreak dries up half as fast again as that near ley -a difference not wholly accounted for by the greater shade. A lake in the woods will evaporate only half as fast as ono in the open. This is by 110 11100118 the only ad- vfottinitagseo ofeotnlisopileitilioesusola tfrocuesturewhicoll rnany European landscapes. Orchards need protection against tho gales that often accompany the summer storna. Gardens are more successful whele thus surrounded. Domestic ant - mots, more dependent than man on nature's moods, derive great benefit from any tempering of the extremes generally used by farmers in putting of heat wed cold. produces a strong flavored, rather 3n regulating the flow of streams is The economic importance of forests up their annual simply. This method . ts a popular impreseion that salt- beyond computation. 'They prevent dry and indigestible proct. duThere peter is a. very powerful preservative wind and water erosion, and thus and that salted meat will not keep 1(110(31the soil on hills and mountains without it, In feet, saltpeter ie not to remain where it has (013010(1, a preservative at all. it is a stroeg natural sponge at the source of the astringent, hardening the meet fibres,, watercourses. expelling. the natural juices and ,1e- (1 e •, si tig the. nu tri Goes quail ties of the meet. When takee into the hu- man body in quantity, it acts as a Poweeful irritant to the inecus mem.- Manes of the stomach, bowels and kidneys. 'The lise of saltpeter epon A 1)01111 SCAPEGRACE, meat is unneceseary and undesirable. A good mother naturally wishes to cream of tartar, A.Tiontinelhaticeeetatet.good, safer Subetitute Is see her own traits reproduced 111 he r mild and whole- 0011: Miliaria Mrs. Babson, said to her some meat pie,kle take the following "Now, Tommy, 1 want Foe te be materials for each 1(1(1 primula meat.: good while I am mit," Common salt 8 raiment, brown sugar "I'll I3e good for a nickel," was 2 pounds, create of telt= 2 ounces, Tottinty's modest offer. water 4 gallons, First boll the wet- "Tommy," said the mother, "I er for 15 niinetes end then stir in want you to remember that you 'can- dle salt, sugar and cream of tartar. not be a scin of Milt° unless you are Weep hot until nil diseolvedj Let the good for nothing." piddle cool before using., Peek the (1111 1111011 AS S0111115 AS P05511110 ill a clean barrel. Place the larger pi [WS n tho bottom. No 0101 piece should measure over 04 2 inch- "Our satiety," said the prison ids - es. Pour on the cooled Nelda end itor, "1:1 anxious to help you. re completely cover the meaL Cover there anything you'd like us to •sceuro the 1)0(1 el etul set away itt 11 14• you?" cool, dark, dry place. The 1(11411 )0115 "Wel," replied the convict, retnni» hi the Pickle nail wented for Would like to heee permiesioie to in. use. If to be Simokod4; remove front vent a 1151115 machine Atui 1150 111 "It is the amount oi weter that passes into the soil," an expert says, "arid not the =nowt of rainfall, -that makes a region a garden or a desert." all and the most important are, first, about eighteen tons of flour, the equivalent, if it were all made into bread, of more than 12,500 four -pound loaves; and, second, fifty tons of potatoes. As you see, we sho'n't starve now if we stop our catering, but there are still many items to add. Of sugar to sweeten the voyage we shall want four tons and a half; of tea about 13 cwt., and of coffee at least a ton. The 81111< alone for our troubki voyage would weigh 8,000 a.nd the Jams and marmalade will turn the scale at two tons. I have not by any means included everything we ought to supply, but 1 hope I have given you sorne idea of the principal contents of our larder; and on a vessel equipped on this scale you may safely take a re- turn -ticket for New York, essured that neither you nor any of your fellow-pa,ssengers will be in danger ofAsittaeireigitiLni. jing these figures you will scarcely be surprised to learn that yom. vessel will carry at least 1,000 tablecloths, 1.4,000 serviettes, 4,000 knives, 5,000 forks., and, roughly, 6,000 spoona; or that dur- ing the twelve days you are at sea a thousand tumblers 111111 a couple of thousand plates will probably be broken. # Lxvn FOR ONE DAY ORLI'. Don't W0117. It is neither manly, helpful, or bnainess-like, and to good ever resulted from the habit. Worrying can be evercome by exerels- leg the will -power. People of sensi- tive minds worry over sonic trivial and thoughtless remark, and dwell upon. it till it is magnified into a grievous and intentioral insult. Past errors, and a gloomy anticipatioo of calamities to conic are other forma of013.11Pe oufntwhhets°tIn3;allynabitt. odeal with the many real calms of aUX101.15 thought is to be content ffe 1101' just a day at thc, time. With that rich wisdom which Sydney Smith could command, he advised us to take short views of life. Each day 18 an entity in itsclf. It is rounded off by the gulf of sleep; it has its OWn. HOME+ Whitt will never return: it stands separate with its own oppor- tunities and pleasures. John Wes- ley said he would as 30011 stool as worry--etteh tvas eentily a sin. And to worry is wasteful, foolish, anti wicked. 1110 GOOP POINT, tiirtics-"You don't seem to take to my little boy, lIe has some mighty tint points." Spinks-"Yes, Olive's one thing =mot him that tine. father (should be thankful for." Theugki, you'd ask. nowlodgo it. Whet is HIV' 18011 twin."