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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-7-6, Page 6J. 8011 01111T8 8ithict !f. rini91 The MOJA Working away for dear life in the fading twilight that 'June evening wrote the magic word, laid down his pen, and looked about him for tbe first time; in two solid hours. At .last his wonderful spiv- heny was written. Yes; not another note would he add, not n siegle bar revise; it should go before tho judges in that big contest he Was striving might and innin to win just as it 'toil, tho best that was M hint, tie fair flower of his achievement that was surely destined to bring fame and iortunc, maybe something still 'nom precious, in its train. His chance; the golden opportunity of a lifetime) "Two hundred guineas and a gold medal for the best sym- phony by a British composer." AU unexpectedly it had fallen out, bring- ing with it a golden vista to his glowing thoughts. Once let him win that, and everything was simplified. There was no pinnacle at fame, no point of soaring ambition so high that to it he might not aspire. Old Farley Ainswoetie most generous of benefactors, would laugh now at the bare Idea of calling him son-in-law; such a possibility as the lad he had give inc. never forgive myself, lover befriended daring to fall since then I have lived in torture, in Moe to feeling disappointed that there hoping night and day that some with Ms own daughter had nevr3r en- was no letter; Clive was comly,. e tered tbe bead of the proud, music- round shortly, that was all. But the other might be successful; but you l see! Now 3ny cup of bitterness is oving old squire, or he would have hours passed, with no Clive, no coin- , ta full; am 'mashed tenfold. My speedy means to MP the ro- munication auy kind, and he grew mance in the bud. Bft But afterwards- lidgety; told himself that hfather— Here, look! I -I can't saye had been „ It seemed to Stepben ()tway that I harsh and ungenerous. In the after- all the face of Nature would be! noon, anxious to purchase veconcil- A telegram had Mitt ered from his , changed at that ono stroke. Rising' iation at any price, he went to the hand, otway picked it up me:Maui- frsoos at om the table at whith he had beeni money -earned by playing l"Father dangerously ill; come at bank, withdrew his Ettle stock Of catty, lit the gas, and read: worlcing, he went to the piano and began to play, A Chopin nocturnal occasional concerts or Citydinners- once.-Sybil. ' dreamy and elusive, first; then the and sent five t5 notes, with a few Next moment he had faced back Joyous rondo of the Waldstein son -1 hastily scribbled words, to Clive's sh,I,elici„ .ata, filling the little room with theaddress, fly night they were back at mueic of a hundred.rippling, sun -1 his own, with no word at all; and "I can't go, Stephen! I -I daren't " kissed brooks; and from. that he, for just the moment he was staring nowtIt was almost a scream " drifted softly, all 31=0138(1013a, into at them with eyes that seemed trans- The dear old governor had set his 1 a the other -his own. llis fingers! fixed, his lips quivering like a wo- heart on my winning this thing; nd I I scarcely seemed to touch the ivory man's. Only the momentcouldn't-couldn't toll 11 11e-"Pho keys, brushed. them with the airy had snatched up hat and gloves, and ; tben lie voice brolce off into a convulsive sob; lightness of a butterfly; yet the man was rushing round to Clive's lodging who had softly- opened the door and at top speed. The grim misuncier- stepped inside halted involuntarily standing must be ended once for all. clt sound of that strange, sweet "Oho Ainsworth?" he panted, as :melody, the door opened to his knock. "Is thought you recipe, =mit them too, should be aegry. Oonie and iiee me again tomorrow; we will talk it over when you are more composed." 'lNolit Ile had drawn himstelf apart; stood there, handsome and doilent, with a hectic little spot on either cheek, "No, we will uotl It's now or never, Otway-I mean itl Choose quickly -yes or nol" The other's belf-impatient shrug inconeed him beyond measure; lie waited for 110 more. "Very well! That ends it; remember it's your own doino,. Good -night -and good-byel"- Yes; that was it. "Gooetrnight- and good-bye!" Vull live inimites af- ter he had Rung out of the room the older man stood there in the gather- ing darkness trying to realive, to make himself believe that he had really gone. Clive eoeld surely never mean L. -never! Ile would be back In the morning, nay, to -night, with that. winning smile on his face, pour- ing out 'apologies for those hasty words. Not possible for 0, moment that he really meant them! Laughieg awkwardly be turiied away to light the gas and draw down the blind, and then went back it all out -that bitter, blinding scene trenchery dimming all else in his brain. What did it mean -what could It, meau-save ono thing? S toleni Three solid hours he traMPOd the streets, beating out that grim trag- edy of a lifetime. Ineredible, thinkable, that the man who had been his friend could nave carried paltry rage so fart And then— Ile had reached his lodgings, gone up the crealey stairs with the heavy, shuffling tread of one foot -weary and deepondent, thrown open the door of his room, and— "Olivet" That moment would surely live for over in his memory. There they stood a full minute, facing one an- other, neither seeking* to break the streining silence. Then -- "Stephen, you were there! Y.013 bearti—" "Yes; 7 heard!" A world of bitter accusation in the tone, Itis lips had framed invective hot and angry; but he beat the impulse back and waited to heon mese. "I wee. mad -out of my senses! It was that night you refused to lend ,e) 4,4<f sc E<IN 4Z.e 414 411424k4 014e About the so so HOU,Se eggs, one tablespoon grated chees Milt tableepoon butter, half a te sPooll salt; bake a low mieulee A shallow pane. Some soak an ileur two before Wolfing. Bakeci.-One small cupful of rie one quert of milk, ono teaspoonf of salt, One tablospoonfel of butte to bo used in buttering the puddin dish. Wash the rice In two wato and put into the dish; eold the mil and bake in a slow oven twe hour It nuist swell and be a item nuts If it browns too fast cover till nee iy clone, end servo hot; two larg spoonfuls of grated cheese are some timers added, Serve as a Yegetable Southern Manner.-PrePare th rico for cooking; allow one quart 0 water to ono cupful of rice, salt little, ena when boiling put in th rice. Boil twenty minutes, drai closely, sot the kettle back over th bed of coals, and steam fifteen min utes with the lid off. When don every Rernel will bo found pollee and tender, 1 felelete030,332,1lbeatiebti-i3- PIGEONS, Pigeon Pio-Draw, clot/nee, and truss four pigeons ueatly. Blatich and mince the livers with one ounce of beef marrow, four peeled inueh- roorns, one-half pound of veal, COMO picked sweet herbs, and one table- sop000niftul ii1111 Nnyeithbrie)azIpecit.•,uineohist., Sons- 01). o - grated nutmeg., and 1111x \veil. Put a tableepoonful of this mixture itito each bird, ancl lay the latter into a dieb previously lined with a little of the forcemeat, arranging little rolls of thinly cut bacon and slices of hard boiled egg between the layers and dotting the surface with tiny morsels of butter, Cover clown the me the "1"110Y, loll bad showed zne, Pio with nice paste, making a hole to those carefully -written sheets of the sheete and told me they were in the center, and decorating this manuscript. Just one more loolt to felled, and I sew the chance to -to with ornamental leaves of the Pas - make sure that be had copied them try. Bake in a moderate oven, Be- fore serving pour a gill of clear, rich gravy into the pie through the opening.. Scalloped Pigeons.-Ilemove the fil- lets from the breasts of four pigeons, halving each, and thus making eight pieces, rut these fillets, into a pan with two tnushrooms, one ounce of butter, one bay leaf, the juice of half a lemon, and a, tablespoonful of port wine, and let it siinmor till cooked. Meanwhile halve four eheep's kidneys, season with pepper, and dip each into liquefied butter. When the pigeon fillets are cooked lay a half fillet into a well buttered scallop shell, previously dusted with epicect bread crumbs, lay a halved kidney on each, then cover this again with three trimmed mushromne, also dip- ped in butter, and strew liberally with tbo spiced broad crumhs. 'Placa a little anunoma into the water, and the shells in a hot oven, and as soon dip tho brush -bristles only -into as the mushrooms aro cooked the this. Dry the brush 111 the open air. dish is ready, Serve the shells on Cover grease spots on wood or O eapkin garnished with sliced ietnon stone with fiour, starch or powdered and parsley, chalk, which will absorb the grease Pigeons in Cueennber.-Halve a Cold water thrown on grease as soon correct15e then he would wrap them up aed put them away safely till morning, till he could ccirry them with his own hands to the big col- lege where their fate was to be de- cided. Too precious to be trusted to the pow In the morning he Would not own be revenged. I atone back here after you had gonn out, They wore in that drawer, Joule up into a parcel amd addressed; and I took them out, put blank. 011e8 in their places—" "You stole them?" "Yes. I can never ask you to for - USEFUL HINTS. If the bands are rubbed on a stielc of Celery after peeling onions the smell will be entirely removed. When wriehing articles, the flan nels first, the calico mid muslin gar- ments neXt, lastly towels, clusters and rougher articles. A cloth wrung out of hotline; water and placed round a mould containing jolly will do much to bring it out whole and without sticking. Those who take cold easily after washing their head should rub a lit- tle eau de cologne or other spirit into the scalp after the hair is dried. To keep a fruit or seed cake moist, place it in an air -tight tin with a good sound apple, renewing the apple if it becomes in the least decayed. Those whose skin is inclined to bo yellow should never apply to it any lotion that contains glycerine. Elder - flower water, instead, will best suit such complexions. Hair brushes in daily use should be washed at least once a month. Put largo cucumber lengthwise, peel thin - the man was shaking like an aspen. Otway looked at him pityiegly; then let and hollow out each ball. Now croseed the room and began to finger slice the meat from the breasts of O railway timetable, four pigeons, season with pepper and "Twelve -fifteen from Ens -tone. Ito salt, and stew thean gently in rich stock with some [pulled out his watch; stood in sliced truffles. Whon Steve, you miracle, what s that? • he at— No more; there was not tthought a moment. "I'll go!" he Par -cooked pack the meat in four he tense, hushed whisper thrilled time. "Gone out!" the vinegary wo-/ blocks in one-half of the cucumber, across. "Not -not the symphony? man of the house had snapped, the; said' •curtly. "You can stay here if laying a dressed lamb's kidney be- tween each, and strew with sliced truffle. Clover with the other half cucumber, tying this into shape with tapo in. three or four places. Now place the cucumber in a shallow pan that will hold it without breaking, pour the liquor in which the pigeons were par -cooked over it, and simmer it gently -Lill tbe cucumber is tender. Now MO it out, dram, pour a. well lie caught himself wondering for the Second time that night if the whole beaten egg over it, dust with fine of it was not a dream -some subtle, bread crumbs, and set before the slinging spell that all at once would fire till of a nice golden brown color limiting it occasionally with butter in A time of strenuous work and. break and leave hini staries stupidly harcler waiting, „Jenne but the man at ,the vivid sense of actuality. the process. Dish on stewed arti- lihnself could ever know the bitter -1 ness of those dragging weeks, the No dream, howevev, that midnight abalcas, covered with thick brown journey into Warwiekshire; no dream gravY, and a garnish of watercress, hupes of one day that were fears the the white-faced girl who crept softly Pigeons in Spanish Onions -Pluck next, the ceaseless, well-nigh automa- tic swing, of the pendulum 'twixt happy conildence and black despair. YOU don't mean it! Why, man, it's sweeping sounds of the violin that 1 YO„ 111(01 1 You will'? Heaven bless you fur wonderful; no one else can over hope came from the room above giving her to 1010 1" o 1 -that Stephen!" said the other, bar - 10 the lie even as she spoke; and t'Von think so?" He had broken it was straightway closed in his face. I 3*ently. "You're a good fellow; it's off abruptly; swung round with lips Cruel -yes! Trudging back home in/ ten times inure than I deserve. Send I me word how -how things aro going, just parted, and the blue -grey eyes that queer agony of anger and des- l,on't you?" staring past in that seeming effort pair, it seemed to him that never, -to focus some dim, nebulous object again could the old close intimacy, I Five minutes later, an Stephen Ot- way hailed a hansom and told the in the darkness of the passage. -I revive; that olio rebuff had severed! man to di•ive full speed to Huston, do not know what to think. Some- it for aye. Small wonder that after - times I am full of confidence; ot wards there was only silence, and a others— Anyhow, it's finished; I breach that widened with the days. am grateful for that alone. Not * * * * * * * another stroke will I write; I 010 fagged out -want a rest, I have even thought of going down home for a day or two to—" "Yes; not a bad idea, old chap; it would do you good without et down the stairs ie that early dawn cleanse, and bone some young, small doubt." That hesitating, pause. "1 P. --I only wish mine had half such a to gi•set him, the steeled question and PilTaTicP„Pigt(h0e"s'brirernels°.re reeelheat31 thence! I say, Steve, talking of eve wo.a 1 mese win!" h„aio, staring from her eyes before ever home -----''she spoke a *word. blanch as many large onions as you hoarsely, to himself at times; and hen! leut is have birds, removing the centers and "Stepwhere Clive? He "Yes?" Stephen Otway looked next moment would be tortured with will be to !We!" His mumbled pressing the pigeons into the spaces ecross inquiringly; the change of tone the thought that tens of others must falsehood, and then: Yes very in thus left, Now pack the birds side was not to be mistaken, be saying just the same. -"I-I-oh, look here, how am I to illieu the fateful day had dawned indeed! A sadden heart attack; the by side in a Shallow ste1vPani lined (looter has been with him with sliced bacoe, the hearts of the half the say it? The fact is, I've been a foul at last his restlessness knew no re- . . onions, auel the livers ol the birds. and got into a mess again. Will straint. The hours literally cra3vled g • gO no minc i 63On lend me some money till my to • ol • ulglit. k?" this begins to hiss over the fire add I.eter .0110 Caine to hirn again. Ile next cheque comes? 1 must have fifty A quarter to eight! Heedless of the hall a pint of veal gravy. Let this pounds by to -morrow or else it's the steady drip -drip of the rain, he r°u"d Ittalsalf abadi°"tlY %IP ?oil ue, then draw it aside and keep stairs into the darkened room where ruin, arid I ['aren't go to the dear had hurried through the glistening old Farley Ainsworth lay, very still it simmering slowly for an hour. old governor again. It woeld break streets, paid his shilling, and was Dish the birds and keep them hot. his heart." mingling, an unknown unit, with tho and„.very foble. "Fifty pounds?" crowd that thronged the big concert- OStophen, boy, how are you?" 'Phe Meanwhile, mince the livers, add them to a little well made melted "Ye -es. I know I've hacl a run of hall. To -night would either make m. words were hard to catch; WI but in - butter, stirring into this slowly a ebetinet. "Clive is conelingesooz, °the v bad luck lately, but I'd no idea it mar him, which a few more minutes CILINA WILL HAVE A NAVY. uee good tabiespoonful of thick cream, • 1033.8 so much until to -day. I've would decide. pour this round the birds, and eery°. — scraped up seven from somewhere. At eight o'clock a rolling thunder mom, to tell him Iam proud -we are , — Wilt Closely Copy Japan's Navel WI mond. Ho won the medal, Stop- teve, you're my on/Y holm. See me of applanse. The bushy -haired con; Armament. through this once, and I promise elector had mounted to his desk; hen, eh? Couldn't help but win it, ILICE RECIPES, could he?" never to touch a card again as long sharp rat -tat, his stick poised for an Buttered. -This is a nice niade over A despatch from Pekin saYs that a as I lire -yes, honor bright. instant in the air, and the concert The wrinkled hand wits quivering schento has been drawn up for the entree. Boll rice in tho usual way Fifty poundal Stephen Otway's had begun. creation of a _new Chinese navy, feebly in Ms °Mi. B011(ling down to' f and after draining well press while ace grew grave as he turned away. The first two items on the pro- list"' S tephen Otway felt a lump his was not the first, time that gramme Stephen Otway hoard as in rise in his throat as he remembered _ warm into a bowl or mold, Next Prince Pulling, who represented n" C day turn it out carefully upon 01)10 China at the St. Loins Exposition, live Ainsivorth had COMO to bor- a dream, then, all at once, he stiff- the debt of gratitude ho owned the oameea plate and set in a quick oven. Winne is said to be the originator of it, sow from him. He paused a while ened, and bent forward with every old man lying there, Ite 11 Is bot alt through draw to the and he has been assisted by impor- before replying, nerve in his body stretched taut. A across at the girl standbig by the door of the oven and butter shun- taut members of the Government and "Look hero, Clive; I ant a poor tense, pregnant hush es that white- window, and made a sudclon grim elaetly. Shut the oven door and high officials. Primo Ching, Yuan - man, as you know. I do not possess shirted figure edged through the l'"e* Viceroy of rethili, and Tien - fifty pounds in all the world; and if swayieg body of fiddlers to the front "Yes, he won Re, he said, quietly. brown lightly, Rutter again and silt shikal, If lend yell What I have it will be on of the platform. "Ladies and gen- Later, walking slowly away from a thick coating of grated cheese (par- hang, all belonging to tho board for one condition only -that you never tleinem-After very careful consiclera- that house with the eloseci ;Iilitters 1105011! if you have it) over all, the organization of the new Chinese Leave in the over for a few minutes aelnY, are co-operating 01 working guarantee can you give Me—" handle cards or dice again. What tion, the judges in this interesting contest have awarded -the palm to him that either the :world had grown and the drawn blinds, it seemed to to i lasey with a, meringue of the whites nelt the cheese and heap irregu- the et ftehoodedenteaeioels e, oet;y1 d t 01 t ciaer,Sytticolutththaet ."Guaranteel" The other flared up the composition submitted by Mr, diffevent or he very Wel an Weary. of two eggs beaten up with a pinch itcheine have been arra:heed for. A I hotly in a moment, "Whet the Clive Ainsworth-- Nothtng mattered 31010; all the days dickens 410 you hinting at, Otway? To one man in that vast audience "uld hs alika-a (1)1001050, huurliAg spatula -under the mold and transfer of celery salt. Brown lightly, slip a sPecial Ministry of Marine will bo created, and its organization and t Have I not just given you my word?' it seemed as if his heart had comet drudgery, Ho recollected reaching "Yes -for the third time. Twice to beat just for the second. The rest 11003 00 and walkMg to Ms lodgings; pretty, yet a simple, side dish, good (I carefully to a hot plater. It is a tette it:Ault:I 11:yelgouwas rtio.onibe ejeuopploofi: before I have helped you out of a of the annotinconient never reached but nothing more that was dear It wad also intended to obtain the a and easily made. shnilar difficulty on similar terms. I see 210 UM in going on him; that sea of faces swung about Ilis brain rocked stupidly; there was Buttered, with Poppers.-Coolc an aerviees bf a Llepanose naval officer ; like this- him like floating wraiths within a a dull' head ache, and a geese of • no finality." mist, and the roar of mighty broWc- heaviness that bore him steadily . ev,011 c,,up,fia,1 0,1, rice fast in two quarts uf illgh rank to ad aa adViser. . Tho content office of 'the new naval e. water for twenty "I eeel" The sneer Ives obvious, ars WAR surging in his ears. Jose a down -down -till at last there camo 0" saae othAri.. minutes, or ontil tender, bet not achnielatratifin win 00 at Tientsin, % ."You do not mind my father spend- yeal. mice the hazeneyed gho had a heal blank, broken. Drain in a. colt:dieter nnd not with subordinate Wahl lithe:lents at t 3ng a hundred POUnde 011 you, send- looked up at him for that one in- a 0 * * * * * in an open oven to dry (in' foe five Shanghai, Chefoo, Nanking, in the ' leg you here to study and all thet stood of time with the strange new Ten whole day5 that grim anal) minutes grave ready 0110 large or Chemin archipelago, and al. Tapengi rest of Itbecausehe fancied he saw wondrous light. in her eyes and pro- of feverish enconsciatisnees remained t two sine' 11 green sweet poppers, seed- or Mies Bay, mar Hong Emig. The a spark of talent somewhere in you; mined to wait. All over-all! Ire wae and Iffe and (Tenth were playthings but when it comes to lending mo a beaten, his dreams for the future 'twixt which he hovered liko a, fret- a heaping tablespoonful of butter in eel carefully' and chopped dm Put existing statione of the fleet at Tien- , tsin and Nankime 15111 be fortified ' paltry ton dr twenty you hoeitatellshaiteeed imielevably, ann-irony of ful child, nneertain whidt to chooSe. a 11 1g pan; when it hems add the and noken oVer by the central nal - I Admire your generosity, your fate -it was Clive 'Ainsworth who When the 41ae cloud lifted 110 Imew inin'eed poppers; toss and stir (wee ministration, and .0avol sollools will pride! Or perheps you hetve forgot- had beaten 1thie• that he was lying' in bed; there 3vas -. Lee pee 1,111;1 snmein , hot ii he established at the six stat (113 Mid tho— Was a real, or qnly a a little table holding medicines by theoegle Put tho rice 11110 a, dish nalned 'under Japanese and foreign V "I havo forgotten nothiog." That trick of fancy, the plaything, of his his side. The dark-roboti figui.e sent- coal pOUr Lho 0011101)12 of the frying insirnetots. The eventual teethed 1 white, Set face Would have moved overwrought, imegination? That open- eel hy tho window heard him Move; another nian to pity it not shame, Ing phrase, those first few bars of turned rimed to look. Suddenly 51 with a fork to allow the sauce to pan all over it, hemming the mass aniel,ey1 ti,Jiirliot(liegeiclatol yeyirel'ytt;i3Labieto1313, cod wiiihoe. h "Your father has boon the kindest etruck him that the figura Was fam- penternto it. bee of divisiems, composing tWo or 11 Mar; What cored Sybil be dollife 11011011. -Put a Pint ar like Into more equadrons, to be teneetnined oe a melting (het the vision would dis- here? lie said her Immo, ball ex- nearly two 4,1111,8 of eoid milk an lette,)., 01;1311 In 0>111111(111 lon(i1L1313i*ItioyinstothA30:ectivue .1. hoer before dinner, add two tea- fleet, solve nt sound of Word. mm,d, still,,,co, 1,11,1010 for 51, mom- "Stephen!, 011, how glad 7 ern!" often; took on back part of stove or 9 1 9 . it' 1 1 1 '1 1:1 ' 81;11V0P;p11.:1';111-31.,V'f'4318(freciars("1113attn•ed, have ft ansi I) ent to melte,. the bitter truth, he sat She came to him with joy shining r„ngo 8, es to avoid burning and boon adePted from the Japanese, i the.re Maiming to the smooth no bravely in her fnro. "Them don't take it 1I1) into a Moki or betel wet it hose naval departimmt gas° hn- a dente, the tripping* allegretto, that try to talk; Ile still end get 1 lt Olet in cold weave a 001,1 time before Portroit assistence in the matter, and p milling rhytbmital finale with the titroim and well. I know everything, 1 seeemg, (e. atter cooking, drain 1 tee Viceroys of the different coast weird aromatic ecale-pastmges for -all the iniserable stolen Clive has!eareteileo 06,, in two wed 'beaten end riVer provincee are netivrly Co- P the violins -hie own, every 110101 told mo whet n hero You have been " operating wi 1-1) the eon tra 1 ti over)). 11 The priceleso aymphony on which ho Afterwited? Nay, the Story ie too q."^"I''''''''''''''''' • ''°°=- mont in carrying throligil the scheme, li hail spent SO teeny hours, built tio true. -needs none but the telling of little Sybil W110 nee COMO to 131 0833 . .-• a many hopee1 one'ii own heart. Stephen Otway and link theft, nom more eloretio has y Dead Sect fruit, that Morn of cheers and his wife are happy, antl 81100085 never seen thnt wondroes Thiele Clive Hattie --"That • henrid eild Me, il that ineiko Mote the audience at its hrte come to ben in plenty i 8.1150 who sendt, her frequent gifts ft On1 Ryche had the audacity to peppoee In dose.; gall and vvorm-wood those re. thon, rideee tinged, it Incie be, with far -away South Africa; hut yoother 10 Me 11et eight, Why, hoe; old meted tries al "Lertemed leecore1" the golden, glowing halo that would and tether often. tell her that mime enough to be my, graniffittliew." bnitt. Next thing he kimW be WAS outside haVe trOWned Viet fleet big Leek, but gay see alien do oo-when their sidp ,-"Yes, I sillitieeti 310, detiel but When g in the Wel, feefill ear, trying to think Mill SWeet, to both of thern, The comeo inieeLondon Tit011ite, io the Weeldieg to Mkt Placer w Put la ono ounce of butter, and when as it is spilled will hertlen it; tho greater part may then be scraped oft Don't give aildron medicine that has been ordered for a. grown-up person. This is always clangorous, as what has only a very mild effect upon the system of an adult is suf- ficient to upset a child for weeks af- terwards, If a can is allowed to stand with sour milk or whey it becomes so in- focted that the usual washing has but little effect, owing to the thin film of casein that forras on the tin and affords a constant daily supply of bacteria. See that the sides or wall of your meat safes are occasionally scoured with soap, or soap and slaked lime. All places where provisions are kept should be so constructed that a brisk current of, cool air can be made to pass through them et will. If you have a covered pan in which to roast meat, never open it to baste the meat. ICeep covered from first to last. The idea is that the pan is full of steam, which pene- trates the fibre of the moat. If de- sired to brown tho outside, leave tho cover off a short thno in a quick oven. At the first sign of a corn or bunion the feet should bo bathed every maiming in cold or warm wa- ter to which a little alum or vine- gar has been added. This is a sooth- ing bath, also, for swollen feet, and leaves a nice sensation of freshness. Picot that are inclined to corns or bunions should be bathed at night with laVender water or very slight- ly diluted vinegar. WITH POSTAGE STAMPS A FAD IN WHICH WE -ARE EAR BEHIND. In China They Make Wall Cover - Inge Out of Canceled Stamps. The inmates of charitable institu- tions all over Europe, alai especially iu Switzerland, halm for a long time been engaged in making fancy things Mom stamps, An or- phan asylum at Lode, Switzer- land, for example, is partly maintain- ed by old postage stamps. This hem resulted in the impression on the part of many tourists that 1,000,000 stamps would entitle an orphan to aelmiesion into tho asylum but such is not the ease. The asy- lum yeerly receives thousands and thousands of old stamps from pee- sene all over Switzerland who are interested in the charily. The ono hundred or more girls in the institu- tion arrange the steenps in little packets and sell them to colleetors. The imenne derived from this Source alone in SeVeral 001186111d (101 - lore each yenr. 'Po this sten is added that from the sale of the articles of fancy design which aro also turned out. It is said that in many of tho mon- asteries nattered all over Europe the monks occupy a groat deal of their spare time in decorating the walls with scenes entirely eomposed of postage stamps. The Chinese, as a matter of Met, bave gone in for stamp decoration more than any other nation in the world. They were early attracted to the artistic possibilities of old stamps. It is said that at first they asked missionaries for old stamps, and the missionaries resolved to turn this demand to account. They evolv- ed a scheme by which they could ex- chaege OLD STAMPS FOR FOOD to be supplied to various Chinese charitable institutions which they maintaieed. As the missionaries were well aware of the enormous quantities of can- celed stamps which nee yearly thrown away here, they wrote home tolling of their scheme, and the pastors here becalue interested in the movement. They set about the task of collecting old stamps from their parishioners with such energy that immense quan- tities wero soon sent to China, This movement bas become so gen- eral that the people in many parish- es 11010 collect and SELVC all the Old stamps that pass through their hands, and when a sufficient quanti- ty has been accinnulated they tmo at once forwarded to China, Last year it is said that more than enough stamps to fill a freight car Were col- lected and sent. But even this tre- mendous number did not seem in any 3vay to glut the stamp market, for tho Chinamen took all that were of- fered for sale and asked for more. The Chinamen use the stilinps as a substitute for wall paper, and it is not unusual to see the inside of a Chintunan's abode covered with stamps. In Canton a wealthy man- darin has three rooms of his resi- dence completely papered with 'differ- ent varieties from all over the world artistically arranged. For the borders there were accur- ate representations of dragons com- posed of the remelt bleak ten cent stamps. Then crosses, squares and tria»gles, made up of dilTerent color- ed varieties, supplied the place of tho usual wall paper pattern, Some of these designs indicated tbe expen- diture of much patient effort and skill. It was indeed owing to this cus- tom of covering walls with old stamps that some of THE RAREST ISSUES in the world have 130011 preserved. En one case a missionary to Hawaii had ono of the rooms of his house papered with the issues of different countries. .A. friend who was visiting 111111 disCoVered a millibar of Hawaiian stamps of a certain var- iety which had not previo-usly been known to collectors, among them the two omit stamP of 1851. Six of them stamps were removed from the walls, and they are said to be the only specimens of this particular ee-eee.o•eisiesee JAPAN IN THE FAR EAST Tun ItnvzvAx.. AszATIo rUESTIGE. The Name of the Mikado 18 Whie- perecl With Mysterious Reverence. It is new 111CYro than tweruty-three. hundred Yeats since Ilerodotile ex- pounded to the assembled Crooke hist celebrated theory that the cardinal Met in Metory Wee tho intevaction of Asia and Europe, the pendulum ol of ascendency swinging eon. to the - East and now to the West, From the fall of Troy to the memorable land and sea flglit at Mykule ho cle- Pictecl many a vicissitude, but of course lie could not foresee that the* grandsons of the men welo heard him woeld witness the destruction of the* Poroinn Empire by Alexander and. the peneteation, of India by the Mace- donian phalanx. .As could the, Westein peoples, which in dthil.iyolnaltnesid-, Meath century despoiled an China and wrenched open the gates. of Japan, have expected that. in. the e(111050 of a few decades a Far. leastein na ti on would exhibi a da -- gine of military and naval efficiency mostirpaseed, if equaled, in the an- naIlIsad0roun;altetnicotriee been more toner. clues, none of us would have taken for granted, as, most tif us have, that Asia Wee licoond the hope of resor-, rect.] oto doomed to permanent pros-, tration under the Emetmean heel. iSnucivicTicitrebEteadslYteri7Tubtileic°todeolfustlithen. Roman Empire long abided, al- though such defeats an thane of Crassus and Valerian ought to have excited deep miegivines. Everybody imagified that the Oriental wave bad spent itself when Hannibal was rout- ed at Zama, foul nobody could have' hnal'Itfi colpatcd stelivetlithfrt0ornnea.TaillesecTot of the seventeenth. century, Europe Aweoliodidiehe haunted with the dread of' FieVASION AND CONQUItIST. Yet more than a Unmeant! years were, to elapse from the seizure of Roman. Sonia by a successor of Mohammed. to Sobieski's reptiise of We Turks. from before the walls of Vienna. Of alt Aryan countries Russia hail least reason to arrogate an Innate super- iority over the Turanian stock. The Grand Dukes of 11ftlecoVy had been Mining tribute for two centuries to. the Mongol rulers of the Golden. Horde when the Turks took Con- stantinople, and somo three and a. liale centuries nioee wero to elapse be- fore the Russians regained control oe the Crimea. Even China in the sev- enteenth century, when the 'Manchu dynasty was young, 'drove Muscovite. Pioneers and Inerchrinta out of Mail- Churia and forced them by treaty to retire behind the Amor River, toi.y, therefore, will but repeat It- self when Russia submits to oimilar boundories at the command of the Japanese. It is incontestable, if -we consider the size and equipment of the armies despatched by Ruesia, to the scene of' war in the Far East, that we have- veitnessed the roost stupendous effort ever yet made by Europe in ite age - long strugglo for the mastery. of Asite Compared with the multitude - of disciplined soldiers massed tinder Kouropaticin or Linleviteli, the hop1 lites of Alexander, the legions of Tertian, the mail clad hosts of the CouRaders, seem insignificant an& impotent. At one time or another (luring tho last sixteen. 3fronthe Rus- sia has launched acrose Lake Daikat more than half a million disciplined soldiers, supplied Nvith the ripest products of military science -only to see them seiccumb to the tunnelling blows of Cyanic" like the snows of' Siberia beneath a Rummer's sun. In the camp, the hospital and the bet- tleflelei the Japanese have excelled'. their Enropean antagoniete. They have exhibited the virtues of ancient medieval anel modern soldiers com- bined, showing that -11001'1,W at once' more dauntlese, more chi va/rous andl more ocientific than the Ruselane. Here, then, at tho outset of thor variety Perhaps 'nowtheexbteaenttthi.ng 'of this kind proved themselves capable of beat - twentieth century, Asiatics have that has been see» in New York is a ing Europeans in emit of arms. This also has been large repi•oeuction of the Draish THE GAME OF WAR, inade of stamps of all denominations alike upon the land and on the ocean.., and countries, While nothing but We are witnessing a, fresh cenfirma- stamps has been used, yet the repro- tion of tho theory of Ilierotlottio that. duction ie accurate in the smallest the earth's surface is 'forever fated to, detail, oven the letterieg of the be ilia theatre of racial interaction. °genet "road soit pense" '3'110 veriginous rapidity with which. being perfect. Espial care has been the Japanese have assimilated and akon to arrenge the stanips in applied the economical, tho aneeliani- colors that bleed, and the efinct whon cal, the military, the neval and the, ono otands 502730 distance away IS medical science of the West, and the uch that it ie herd to believe that amazing facility with which they lothing but common postetge stamPs. hare oltamed their pretended masteree• las been used. throw a Mridatight upon the arro- yoltlyvicee1;ty out, - w "Pettey fifty yeara of Europe than a detail has been carefully gance which I.Ms flippantly asserted: Ito closest scrutiny. The crown ser- geant each win Mist n I cycle of Cathay!" A people like the nountbm the shield is especially well • epeeo,„eo. The Jewels eaeh mit; japanese, which hae learned 1110r6 in roni a stamp of the proper eeioi,, thirty years than tile Iteselano havo tho whole effect ie inest bril- learned 111 three hundred, may well NO REASON FOR TWO TRH'S, ratrick'e wife was "idling," and atriek put On hie Senility best and valked four miles to the doctor's oust, to tell him about her. "Now," said tho doctor, 30511 ho ed hoard all Patrick had to say, lid had prepared some medieine, 'here Is something' tn.' your wife. - 331081 melody thiat had floated softly across generMis of men to ray; mid I. the waiting hall! Never Clive Allis - can never by any chance forget, hisl worth's -never nuYone's but bis own! , geednesn. I would do anythiug to ! There was mime mistake, a ghastly ' saYe hilri pain; and If only I could blunder in the name; en eler-- think that you—" "011, don't conunence to preach! VIM heard the tole WW1 7'm tired 'of it. X know Pm no saini.-1 never wan-bilt I've never it friend go the wail yet; and mark my recede, Stephen. Otway, you Hindi 13e sorry sortie day that you refuned to help Mei I'll make you tegeet 0.1 You may think rye had mg oyes closed lately, but you're raistakee. All that 101teoneleing with Sybil -oh, I know how to epset yew' little garnet" "Iliere, that Will do, Olive! go -Mote, please' You aro slaying things that lattii you will regret, If I deem itself qualified to teach. 01' thie, at all evenlie lye tray be cer- tain, that about japen's (mention. - floes to play the schoolmaster and Ole paternal entoorat thee° is not. a trace -of doubt in Aelit. Nowhere mam the globe doom suc- cess mumnand holnage so profound end obedience so tailitlestioning as it does among Me Asia -lies. There is not a Oazaar in India, not a felt tent ive writteit the directions on the 111 TI1114%etab, alUah the 1107110 ol 01 Lk, and I Want hoi. to try jt the Mikado 13.1 not whispered with el/heels, for fortnight, Then, 11 reysterioes reverence. All &detentes 1 doesn't. 'relieve het come to 3110 01 00011 aro sunk under the electriFY° gain, and I will give you another Ng influence of racial gratitude and'. tustription." polde. Na lions long oppressed, 610- '''701)', (1(10111e)', RC() here,'' said spised and despairiiig, are awaken- atricic, standing straight mut look- ing from torpor and heaving a eight 1g glthlly at the physician. "If you avo your 41011151.5 0' this 01.15111' lielar,y it's ivident ytre haVe b3.y the 33701.3' relief, Ie It possible, theft. oyes say to onw e eedier, that 1115 day of repeisee upon IturoPe ,has come? (111 spake, why don't you give ine May tliee net, et the very Iectist, loolc rst What Voldte goin' to give me forward to tho falfilment of a hOPO et?" long dormant, OM hope of Aga for The bost frierid ls notethe one Who Ives us most cold omeh but the one ho impaeto eiost werni chew% the Aelaticee Religion bg eerolealsiOn reeulte int repulsion.