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After this, nothing was lean or heard
Of the man -ape for upwards of a week;
but ten came a piece of startling
news indeed. Lady Deere's mansion,
which was situated ab tut a mile and
a half beyond the town boundary, had
been broken into, and jewelry of the
estimated value ut three, hundred
Tweeds stolen Therefrom. Brom the
evidence there seemed little or no
doubt that the man -ape was the thief.
It appeared that while the family
were at dinner, Lady Deere's dressing -
room, which was on the second floor,
bad been entered from the window,
and the jewel -ease rifled. The window
in question overlooked a lawn at the
buck of the house. The wall outside
was thickly covered with ivy, said to
be nearly as old as the house itself,
by the aid of which the thief had
doubtless been enabled to reach the
window. A shaded larap was burning
In the room et the time. The robber,
in order. no doubt, to secure himself
from interruption, had locked the dour
whieb opened into the corridor, but had
omitted to notice that the dressing -
room was only divided from the bed-
room by a portiere. Through this por-
tiere Lady Deere's maid presently ap-
peared on the scene, just as the ras-
cal was fn the act of rifling the jewel -
ease. For a moment the two stood con-
fronting eaeh other, then, with some-
thing between a snarl and a cry, the
man -ape took one stride towards the
woman, who thereupon gave utterance
to a loud scream and fainted. The only
description she could afterwards give
of him was that he was exactly like a
doge monkey, except that he stood per-
fectly upright like a human being.
A detective came down from Scot-
land Yard, and after lingering abut
Deere Flamm and its neighbourhood for
nearly a fortnight, was seen no more.
Then Lady Deere. in her turn, of-
fered a reward, this time of fifty ed by the starlight. Whatever it might ! the: flame of the lamp, I was able, to or shouting by noontime, so that the
pounds, for e such information as be, it was advancing swiftly, and ap- see that he bad a cast in his righteyo, smoky and powder fumes might have
would," ere., but most people were of parently in a direct line towards me,' and the healed scar of some old wound
TEE ;BRUSSELS POST.
Ara, 25, 1899
tery, if It were possible for human in-
genuity to do so,
The Bret step towards Meng so was
evidently to take up my watch in the
churehyard itself. This, however, I
was unable to do for some nights to
come, in consequence of my father's
illness having taken a turn for the
worse which made it undo irable that BlamesBlamessuddenly out, clear and steady;
than
twenty garde awe
I should be out of rale, The fire, night but this Uand in a dtL was not more thn
it seemed safe for me to leave him, I y'
let myself quietly out of the house line with it. My theory was verified.
abut half -pant ten o'clock. I had my The light proceeded from a small air -
father's key with me. which admitted outer grated(peuing in the outer wall
Inc into the churchyard through one of the abbey about a couple of feet
of the side -doors. I was warmly wrap- above the level of the ground outside.
The aprxture in question was an air -
hole, ur it might even be called an un-
glazed win.luw, to the family vault of
the Deromes of Standish, one of our
great county families. This vault,
cautiously among the graves, I pros- like three or fuur others pestnining to
ently took up a position between two families of distinction, had originally
large family tombs which I had pre- been farmed by enclosing a portion of
viously fixed upon. The point to be the crypt, which at one time had ex -
borne in mind was that I should be tended under nearly the whole of the
able to see while myself remaining un- abbey. Aileen could he had from the
seen. A little way behind me was a churchyard to any of these vaults by
tall headstone, but in front there was meane of a low-browed, iron -studded
nothing but a few lowly mounds be- door, below the level, and reached by
tween myself and the abbey. Crouching a descent of three or four steps. But
in the long grass, with my back sup- whenever a funeral took place, a por-
ported by one of the tombs, I began lion of the flooring of the abbey im-
my watch with such patience as Icoulti mediately over the required vault was
summon to my aid. Now and then I removed, and the body lowered to its
raised myself cautiously and peered, last resting -place below.
around. The night was starlit and I now found the value of my opera -
windless, and around me reigned sil- glass. By its aid, a certain section of
rove the most absolute. Eleven o'clock the interior of the vault was clearly
boomed forth in deep musical throbs visible to me. On a ledge behind the
from the abbey tower, and then, af- grating a lamp was burning. Close
ter what seemed to me a spare as long by stood a man with une of the most
as three or four ordinary hours, mid-' unprepossessing and evil -looking faces
ily to the particular headstone I had Demmer; and found myself once more
marked out beforabaad, It was a under the Owe swoot air of hon -
very old stone which bed settled down veto.
a little en one side, no that it now To be Contiuued.
stool eumewhat aslant, while the
mound whose inmate It was intended
to commemorate had by this time
sunk nearly to the original level of
tbe eburehyard, Ilere I spread MY
overcoats, and wrapping my cloak
about me, 1 hay down upon them. Any
passerby who might have observed me
by that dim light would merely have
taken mea fur one mound more among
the scores that surrounded me,
Eleven o'clock — midnight. Ten
ntautes later the myslereuus light
ped up in a dark overcoat, and wore
on my head a elose-fitting rap. Ihad
provided myself with a stout cudgel.
in view of any possible encounter at
close quarters. Threading my way
night struck. d heti raised my head 1 It bee ever been my lot to behold. He We were drilling a set of holes in. the
and sonars above to eve b ]d b v ti level of the was close shaven and his short black
AWFUL FALL OF A MINER,
PLUNGED DOWN A ONE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY FOOT SHAFT,
r-•-/
Sot a mete Wits woken In the Roily or
the plot lieu, Uunw 'Through Thin
Terrible experience.
A miner paned Hartz, living in Oak-
land, Cal., has had what is probably
the most remarkable fall that a man
over experienced and lived to tell
about. That he could bet precipitated
a distance of 150 feet and not be fatal-
ly injured sounds fishy, but it Is true,
and the shalt down which, he fell and
himself prove the assertion, It was
last April that Frederick Hartz bad
this experience. He is badly, bruised,
but not a, bone in his body was broken,
and he will recover, Hertz's story of
his thrilling experience is best told in
his own language, and is as follows:
"I was working in the Mount Jef-
ferson mine in Tuolumne county. I
had been there about a month and was
considered quite an old hand for that
place for the fact wee that few men
would stay in the mine, after they be-
came asvare of the dangers that sur-
rounded the work, They would gen-
erally work a few days or two and
thea demand their time and leave, us-
ually with very few words in the way
of explanation. ,
MISTAKE OF THE ENGINEER.
"My partner was Mr. Dick O'Neil.
tombs for about the hundredth time � hair came down to a point in the mid -
Aloe of the vein matter of the ledge,
when suddenly my eyes were taken by j deo of his forehead, When he lifted and had made some baste to get the
a dark movable objert faintly outlin-, his heart fora moment as if to observe blasts in these holes ready for firing
opinion thatnothing would come of
It, even as nothing had come of Squire
tare was at its pranks again as and
Sure was at its pranks again as mid -
venue as ever. And yet, as people ask-
ed themselves in dismay, what was it
Possible to do under circumstances so
unprecedented that not even the old-
est inhabitant creed remember the like
of them I It seemed as if the whole
town lay helpless and at the merry of
one daarine- and unscrupulous ruffian.
It was a veritable reign of terror on
a small scale. Ncbndy guessed. I least
of all, how soon and by what singu-
lar chain of events it was destined to
be put an end to
My father's house, which was the end
one of a row of cottage tenements all
alike in size and appearance, might be
said to abut on the churchyard, see-
ing that it was only divided from the
wall which enclosed the latter by a
gravelled footway. From iheThaek of
our house, and following the line of
the churchyard, ran the high wall
which on that side shut in the old
grammar-scbooi and its playground.
Along the base of the churchyard
flowed the little river lien. On the
farther side, shrouded by its elms and
beeches, stood the vicarage; while on
the fourth side was the mein entrance
with its beautiful wrought -iron gates,
of which the townspeople were justly
proud.
In the gable end of my father's cot-
tage was a window which looked full
on the churchyard; it was the window
of my bedroom. One night when my
father bad been more restless than usu-
al and unable to sleep, I sat up with
him for company's sake, till between
twelve and one in the morning. When
at length I went to my room, I went
without a light. It was too late to
think of reading, and I could undress
as well in the dark as not. I drew AP
the blind and stood looking out for a
little while, not thinking much of what
[ was doing, but rather wondering how
long ti time it would be before I should
he able to get back to .1vlr. Ayseeugh
and my beloved flowers. Then, all ;at
once my eye was caught by something
which broke up my waking dream tin
an instant, and brought me back to
the place and the hour with.a sort of
shock. What I saw was a faint yellow
disc of light, evidently emnnating from
somewhere in the churchyard, and
nearly in a line with my window. Al]
the. stories I had heard shout the
man -ape flashed at once across my
mind. Motionless and almost breath-
less, I stood and watched the tight,
tvhioh shone with a faintsteady glow,
and never varied its position by as
much as a hair's breadth. l+or a spare,
of about two minutes I stood thus
without taking my eyes off it c end
then all at once it was gone, and though
I stayed watching for upwards of an
hour longer, I saw it no more.
I said no word to any one of what
I had seen; but next morning I made.
a careful examination of that portion'
of the churchyard which was visible
from the window of my room. Not the
slightest sign or token did I find of
any unhallowed midnight intruder. Tho
grass grew rank and green on the
quiet graves; tombstones of various
shapes and sizes were scattered about
as if they had been dropped at ran-
dom, but nowhere was there anything
which told of any recent living pres-
s/ice. There was an old right of way
through the churchyard; but as it
led to nowhere in particular but the
river, it was but little used. At sun-
down the gates were locked, and re-
mained so till morning.
My curiosity had been eo much ex-
cited, that the next night found me
on watch at my window again; but al-
theugh I sat there in the dark and cold
for upwards of two hours, my patience
went unrewarded. The same thing
happened next night. Then I made up
my mind that. should the third night
prove as fruitless as the first and see-
and had done, I would trouble myself
no further in the matter. But that
third night, and close upon same' long enough to shroud) mo' from head
the same
hour. I beesld agaitl the appearance to foot. I was uow ready for my en -
which had so puzzled me before; a sub- terprise. The evening, however,
clued, yellow light, or raelanem, almost brought wind and rain, which before
like a harvest moon seen through a midnight increased to a storm, and
hese, only not, perhaps ,quite so large, the next night proved nearly as bad,
though circular ricer of it would have been madness to take
51 was as t
a furnace in wheel the fere, had begun . up my watch under such afreum-
to burn IOW bad been opened for alit- stances. The third night was fair and
Ile while. As ese,e,, it wee visible for clear, and at half -past ten I let nay -
a space of from two to three minutes,: self out of the house, carrying with
ani) then it disappeared as instant ane- mo net 001y my "inky inky cloak," but a
coaha
mile as it d coma, Then end there eeuple COOld overcoats 10 spread on
r made up my mind, to solve the rays- the ground. .1 made my way stealth -
My head went down again in an in- et • gash'
stant ; I drew closer to the tomb. and , sort of loose pea -jacket, which just
grasping my cudgel more tightly, kept` now was unbuttoned, exposing a pore
my eyes fixed on the opening in front 1 tion of his chest, which was thickly
of me. half -a -dozen seconds latera hu- matted with long brown, coarse hair,
man form passed swiftly across my line as it might be the chest of some wild
of vision, which, in my crouching poli- animal. a thrill ran through me from
tins, was bounded by the tomb on each head to foot. I could no longer doubt
side of me. The figure had come and that. I was om the track of the mys-
gene almost while T had time to draw tery which had baffled all Westerfield
a breath --come and gone, too, without for three months past. What ought I
a sound. for not the faintest noise of to do? Waal step ought 1 to take
fnotsteps had reached my ears—but next? II I ceul,l but be tbe means of
that might perhaps be accounted for bringing this seouudrel to justice 1 If
by the fart that it was walking on I could but succeed in securing the re -
the grass. Hardly had it passed before
T raised myself cautiously and peered
the way it had gone; but already it
had vanished—the darkness had swal-
lowed it up as completely as if it had
never been. I waited a full half-hour
longer, but saw nothing more.
idly watch the next uigbl prol•ed of
no avail; but the night following that
I was more fortunate. I had taken up
the same posttitm as before; midnight
had struck; a cold wind swept over
the churchyard and moaned drearily
among the tombs. I was chilled
through and through. At length Isaidl
i❑ his Upper lip. IIs wore a time to clear away while we were at
ward 1
In my excitement I bad risen to my
knees, and waa still gazing with the
glass to my eyes, when a sbrill cry
rent the air close beside me. 1 was
on my feet in an instant. 1 had heard
no one approach, but not more than a
yard or two away stood a woman;
evidently the long grass had deaden-
ed the sound of her footsteps. 1 was
nearly as much startled as she was,
but there was no time for tbinking or
wondering. Scarcely had . her cry
shattered the silence, befure the light
to the vault disappeared, and scarcely
to myself: "I well wait another guar- was I o,l my feet before -the woman
ter of an hour, but not a momeat long- had screamed out; "Boil, wo are be-
er." Scarcely had the words passed my
lips when alt at once I saw again the
same faint disc of yellow light whieb
I had seen twice already from my bed-
room window. Now that I was closer
to it, it shone out more clearly than
before; still, I was utterly puzzled to
know whence it emanated. It was not
much raised above the level of the
ground, and seemed as if it might pro-
ceed from the interior of some tomb,
and yet I remembered no tomb just
there which could lave been made to
serve such a purpose. I found that I
had somewhat miscalculated its posi-
tion, that is, assuming it to be in the
trsyed 1" Then was I aware of a sec-
ond figure springing towards me over
the grass, whtoh I kuew could be note
other tinsel the man Ihad seen in the
vault, and 1 felt that L was on the
point of being attacked; but my cud-
gel: was on the ground, and 1 was en-
tangled In the long cloak, and before
I had time to do more than fling up
one arm iesttuetk'ely, there came a
crashing blow on my head, which fell-
ed met like a senseless log.
When I came to myself 1 was in
darkness. 'key'. head ached as it had
never ached before, and my dazed
senses refused for some time to tell
same position as when I saw it first, me, more than that I was alive and in
which was a point I could not be quite great pain. Little by little, however,
sure about, and that from the place the evening's incidents began to recall
where I now was I could only obtain themselcen brokenly to my memory, so
a side -view of it. If I wanted to find
out more about it, I must get nearer
to it, be the risk whatever it might,
I had seen nothing of the mysterious
being who had came and gone so
strangely two nights before, but might
that, after a time, 1 was able to piece
them into a consecutive whole up to
the ,point of my having been struck on
the head and rendered unconscious.
But what had befallen me after that?
Where was I now? By-and-by I
he not appear at any moment? It was contrived so sit up and stare around,
needful to proceed with the utmost eau- Everywhere darkness the most pro-
tein. Slowly and carefully I began, to found. I was chilled to the marrow
creep forward on my hands and knees and ached in every limb. The atmos -
through the wet grass in the direction phare I breathed was cold, but not
of the light. About half -way towards with the fresh frosty coldness of the
the point for which I was malting was open air; it was the coldness of aplaoe
a tail headstone; behind this I paused long shut up, which no sunlight ever
for a moment while I took a care- penetrated ; there was about it, too, a
ful look round. I was on the damp earthy flavor which could al-
pointof setting out again when, cast- must be tasted. Then all at once it
Ing my eyes in the direction where the flashed across me that the place in
light bad been but an instant before, which I was oould be none other than
I found it gone. Not the faintest the vault of the Deromes. Scarcely
glimmer of it was to be seen, I wait- had this 00noluaiun forced itaelt on me
ed where I was for half an hour long- when the abbey clock struck three, the
ex, but nothing more came to pass. sound reaching me with a sort of muf-
I could mot sleep till long after I• got fled clang from somewhere overhead.
to bed but by next morning 1 had I had lain there unconscious since a
worked{ out a certain theory in my little after midnight.
mind which I determined to put to the Presently 1 contrived to get upon my
test at the earliest possible moment, fent, although my head felt strange-
Aoeordingly, in the course of the fore- ly'dizzy and I seemed to have no pro -
noon, taking eny tape with me, I made pen control over my limbs. Once be -
my way to that part of the church- fore; when a schoolboy, I had been in
yard where I had kept watch the the Derome vault with nay father, and
night before. Not knowing what: un- I had a clear recollection of what it
seer: eyes might be takiug note of my wee like; for it was part of my fath-
movemtmts, I proceeded to measure a er's duties to visit each of the vaults,
space here and there with my tape, as a matter of form, two or three
as though I were selecting a site for times a year. I knew that, ranged
at grave; in reality I was deciding on around me on their black marble slabs
a spots for my next hiding -place. Suet lay some score or more of dead and
thereabouts, es it happened, there were gone Deranies in their leaden coffins
no large family tombs behind which eased with oak. But it was a thought
might be found a convenient shelter, that had no terrors far me. All my
nothing, in fast, but a few scattered Lits 1, had been too familiar with death
headstones and row after row of and the grave to feel myself thrilled
nameless graves. Such as the settee by any touch of the supernatural or
tion was, I must make the best of it. any ghostly
fears, oven now when I
In the course of the day 2 went en- knew in what p ace I was at that hour
to the town, and from the tradesman and alone,
wee bad tare of the abbey eltolr I bor- With groping oulstretohod arms I
rowed a powerful opera -glass, and went' forward slowly, stop by step, till
from an undertaker a mourner's cloak presently my fingers, encountered 0
mid smooth substance, which I at once
guessed to be one of the slabs already
mentioned, All 1 bad to do now in or-
der to f1nd the door was to keep on
feeling my way forward, slab by slab,
till I should roath ie. My eery fear
was that I should find it locked, 112
which! case I should be a prisoner, at
the very least, for several hours to
comae, Happily, 1: found it merely shut
to, and was able to open it without
difficulty. Never in n2y life bad I felt
More thankful than when I stumbled
out of the last borne of the Menet
dinner. We had finished, the worst,
and, it being my turn, I started to go
up to the 300 -Coot level to get the
powder used in blasting, I made the
trip up safely enough, and, having se-
cured what 1 wanted, got into the skip
with my load, intending to go down
again.
'L gave the signal, two bells, to the
engineer for descending, but ue has al-
ways declared that he never got but
one, though, as he left the place very
suddenly after I was "are I can-
not help thinking that he knows he
made a mistake. Ono bell would raise
instead of lowering me, and at once I
felt myself ascending through the
black darkness toward the surface.
TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
"This did not alarm me seriously, for
S thought I would simply go up to
the next level and there stop, and see
if I could find out whab was wrong
with the signal bells. I had proceeded
upward perhaps thirty feet when I
felt the skip, a sort of freak in which
I was riding, leave the track upon
which it rode, it trembled for a mo-
ment in a staggering way upon the
edge of the track, and then, quick as
a Leash, it turned squarely bottom up-
ward.
"Instantly the light of my single
candle was snuffed out and I found
myself in total darkness in mid air
and standing upon nothing, at least 150
feet from the bottom of the shaft.
"Of course, I fully understood what
that meant, Death, sure, swift and ter-
rible, was upon me. In a few sec-
onds its cold fingers would be clutch-
ing at my heart, and then would come
for me the end of all things.
A LIFE -TIME IN VIEW.
"I have read that peraons in such
situations have declared that the most
important events of their lives, and
especially matters where conscience
had condemned had passed swiftly in
review before them but I had never be-
lieved the statements. Now I know
that such things do happen. In that
awful. moment 1 saw numerous phases
of my•past life. Many that I thought
long forgotten loomed up before my
mind's eyes. They were far too num-
stouts to mention here, but I will say
that among them I saw my wife as I
had left her in my Oakland home, and
oven my mother in the old cottage
among the hills of Germany_ Tho 'al-
ter has long sines been dead, but I re-
member that I wondered then if I
should see her im a few moments.
"Of course, I was plunging down-
ward all the time•that I was doing
this. Down, down, I fell, with such
frightful rapidity that the very breath
seemed being sucked from my body,
and yet I remember thinking that I
seemed a long time in reaching the
bottom of the shaft.
'Finally, when it esemed to me that
I must strike the ground the next in-
stant, I drew myself together and
braced my body for the shock, I re-
member doing this, but I remember
notbing more for some time,
UNCONSCIOUSNESS SAVED HHvf.
"Either the swift descent, or being
beaten against the sides of the shaft,
or the terrible fright, or all these com-
bined, had deprived me of consciousness
before I struck the earth, for I had
no recollection of the collision,
"The next thing that my senses
told me was that my partner was ex-
amining my bruised limbs by the light
of the candles in the stope where we
had been working. O'Neil said that
be hadheard the awful shout I gave
when the car left the track, though I
do not remember uttering a sound, and
that ho rushed to the edge of the pit
justin time to see my body shoot past
and plunge into the dark below.
"Recovering consciousness, the first
words I uttered were: "Where is the
powder?' thus showing that I remem-
bered my errand upward first, not-
withstanding the many other thinge
that I have described as passing
through my mind In my fall. I had
been terribly bruised and beaten about
it my descent, but, strange to say, not
a bone in my body was broken," .
•
me
RED CLOVER,
Crimson clover 1 dieeover
By the garden gate,
And the bens about )tor hove
But the robins wait,
Sing, robins, sing,
Sing a roundelay—
'Tis the last flower of spring,
Coming in the May.
Crimson clover I discover
In the open field,
Mellow sunlight brooding over,
All her warmth revealed.
Sing, robins, sing.
'Tis no longer May -
Fuller bloom doth summer bring,
Itipened through delay.
A PARENTS ERROR,
The dispositions of children are spoil-
ed by ignorant and indulgent parents
who set out deliberately to arouse en
children a jealous disposition. They
offer the peevish child something,
which, because of bis peevishness, he
will not take and then they make a pan-
te*
ro-text of giving it to some one else, that
they may induce him to take it out
of envy. Tha effect of such training
may be imagined. After a few such
lessons the child wants only those
things that others possess and dur-
ing his 'childhood days he generally
manages to get them by crying and
sulking, Grown a little older, the child,
if a boy, associating at school and in
play with children of his own age, de-
velops a domineering or oringtng dis-
position according to his physical
strength. He is grasping and envious
because of his earlier training, but can
no longer get things by crying for them
because his parents are not there to
help bin, but if strong enough he takes
them by force, and if not he tries to
get them by diplomacy. Ruled by self-
ish desires implanted in him by vic-
ious early training, he pursues his own
epds either as bully or sneak, unless
pxevidentially he should fall under the
heeds of a master capable of undoing
and converting the vioious work of his
parents during his early days of train-
ing. Much of the work of school teach-
ers is imposed upon them because their
pupils have had bad preliminary train-
ing from ignorant or careless parents,
gent discrimination than can be ex-
hibition of selfishness and greed on
the part of infants, The kindergartens
find a justification for their existence
in that they put children of very ten-
der age under the direction of presum-
ably competent instructors, who look
after their habits with more 'intelli-
gent discrimination that can be ex-
peoted from young or inexperienced
parents. Home influence of the right
kind in very precious, but the home in-
fluence that takes a child at its most
impressionable age, during infancy,
and develops in it an envious, selfish
disposition, does as much harm as could
come to it from absolute neglect.
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LATEST PEACH DELICACIES.
Peach Sponge Pudding—Put one cup-
ful of milk in a double boiler, and
when it is scalding hot add one table-
%aoentul of sugar and a pinch of salt;
wet two tablespoonfuls of flour with
a little cold milk, pour slowly into the
prepared milk, stirring constantly un-
tie it thickens and is smooth; remove
from the fire, add half a tablespoon-
ful of butter, stir until it is dissolved
and set aside to cool. Pare, halve and
pit half as many ripe, soft peaches as
you wish cups of pudding; butter
pudding cups and place one sectionof
fruit, cut side downward in Gaeta,
pressing to position. Beat the yolks
of three eggs very light, add half a
teaspoonful of vanilla extract, and beat
.them into the pudding until the mass
is light and smooth. Then stir in
Tightly the stiffly beaten whites of the
eggs; fill the pudding cups, set in a
pan of Lot water and bake. Serve
cold with whipped cream, or hot with
creamy sauce flavored with vanilla, as
preferred, In either case turn the
pudding out of the mold, fill the cavity
of the fruit with sauce, and pour the
same around the bottom.
Peace Foam Pi.e,—Line a deep pie
plate with paste; brush it over with
white of egg and bake. Pare and rub
through a coarse sieve enough ripe,
soft peaches to maks two cupfuls of
pulp 1 beat the whites of four eggs to
a. stiff froth ; add half a capful of
powdered sugar, and by degrees the
peach pulp. Serve very cold with
whipped cream heaped over the top.
Poach Tartlets,—Line deep patty
tins with rine pie -crust ; fill them with
dry raw rice or wheat bran and bake;
empty out the filling ; return to the
oven to harden the bottom a little and
set aside. Pare and halve half as
many ripe peaches as there are patty
shells; chop the peach kernels fine,
cover with gold water and simmer 15
minutes. Strain off the liquid, add
granulated sugar enough to make a
rich syrup, boil ten minutes and dip
it over the fruit. When the latter is
cold., make a meringue of the white of
one egg, or two, ono tablespoonful of
sugar and a little almond extract; put
one section of fruit, out side upward,
in oath shell, heap a teaspoonful of
meringue in the hollow of the fruit
and set in the oven until it yellows
prettily. Servo very cold, in fancy
paper cases,
Fried Peaches.—Pare and quarter six
large ripe peaches, sift half a cupful of
sugar over and let them stand half an
boar. Put two tablespoonfuls of
sweet butter in a frying pan; when
hot put itt the fruit and syrup, cover
closely and fry a rich brown, being
careful not to scorch or break the
fruit. Serve hot, This is an appe-
tizing luncheon dish.
Peach Fritters.—Pure and halve ripe
peaches, sprinkle sugar over and lot
stand for ohs hour., Do not make the
Mamma Dear me, Nay 1 lice have batter until ready to fry and serve.
you tore that groat hole in your pina- Sift one teacupful of flour and a pinob
fore? It wasn't there this morning, of salt three times; beat the whites of
Nelly—Where do .you suppose it was two eggs very light, add half a cup
titers, MalbnlO doa;f? tut of very; cold water, and by degrees
the prepared Hour, add one even
tablespoonful of soft butter. llcat
vigorously for three minutes, then fold
in lightly the stiffly beaten whites
of two eggs; dip cavil piece of fruit
in the batter separately, and took to
at golden brown ,u deep, boiling fat,
Peach ltualnd.—fare, halve and stone
six large, rile peaches; arrange in it
salad bowl, cut side upwiu•d 1 fill the
center cavity with powdered sugar, add
two drops of lemon: jobs and sot in e
cold place one boor. Put half a cup-
ful of water over the fire in a double
boiler; wet one teaspoonful of corn-
starch with one tablespoonful of cold
water ; add the yolk of one egg and
ono' -'half a cupful of sugar and beat
vigorously five minutes. Pour the
egg mixture slowly into the boiling
water, and stir constantly until it
thickens and is smooth, Take from
the fire, add a piece of butter the size
of a walnut; stir unbil dissolved;
strain, unless perfectly smooth, and
set aside until cold, Just before car-
rying the salad to the table, add the
juice of half .a lemon to the dressing,
beat briskly, and pour over the fruit.
OUT OF THE RAG BAG,
Years ago, before women's clubs
flourislied, patchwork quilts and " hit
and miss" carpets were made to the
babble of feminine tongues and the
clink of tea cups. To -day, alas I we are
all too busy fur such a waste of time,
yet really artistes portieres can be
made by knitting long bits, with two
large needles, into one another. It is
not laborious and is quaint enough to
be interesting, A beautiful curtain
can be made from thin silks, a holly-
hock or sunflower on a btekground of
like stuff, cut out, Iaid on a design
and joined with narrow black velvet
ribbon, Against a north window the
effect is excellent.
A few yards of clean new rag carpet
is infinitely nicer than a cheap rug of
crude colors. It barmonizes with the
wicker chairs, the log fire and the
bowls of wild flowers In the sumtner
ltvtag room. —�
A HINT FOR IRONING.
For fine pieces of table embroidery
of anything soft and thin which needs
to be stiffened slightly, this may be
obtained by wringing a cloth from
borax water and laying it over the
piece to be ironed and pressing it with
a loot flatiron until it is thoroughly
dry.
WONDERFUL OPERATION.
ltabblt's Eyes Sneeeaafally Transferred In
:t 8111,0 Girl's Sonnets.
An extraordinary operation has just
been performed on the eyes of a blind
girl in a London hospital. It involved
the transfer of parts of a rabbit's eyes
to the blind sookets of the girl's. The
operation has been pronounced a ,suo-
cess, and it is believed that the sight
will be restored, She had, been blind
in one eye for 15 years, and totally
blind for six.
The transference of the eye of an
animal to the socket of a human being,
with the possibility of restoring the
sight, has been one of the many dreams
of surgery. Such has been done many
times, and the operation, so far as the
veinal transference goes, has been
email time successful, and, though the
transplanted eye bas grown into place,
and the muscles united, yet none of the
patients operated upon has been en-
abled to see. One thing has always
been regarded in relation to this opera-
tion, namely, that the animal eye was
a better substitute than the glass eye.
Said a surgeon:
"The optic nerve of the human being
and that of the animal have hitherto
refused to make practical connection.
When it was deoeded to make the al -
tempt in the present instance a nom-
ber of physicians and surgeons were
asked for their opinion, and almost
without exception all pronounced it
useless, but admitted that the at-
tempt could do no herrn.
"11 was deoided to operate on the
eye that had been blind 15 years. Both
the girt and the animal were put un-
der the influence of chloroform. The
whole front of the diseased member
was then removed, while the correspon-
bag part from the rabbit's eye was sub-
stituted for the human portion out nut.
The lid was then carefully pulled over
and the eye bandaged so that. there
50uld be no motion of the lid and no
light could penetrate to the wounded
organ.
AI. the end of a week a careful ex-
amination was made, when it was seen
that to all appearances the grafted
portion of the eye had united, and the
girl could distinguish light from dark,
"The operation proving so suooessful
from the surgeon's point of view, it
was decided to opearte on the second
eye. That organ was in much worse
condition than the first one, and near-
ly the whole eye had to he removed
end the rabbit's eye substituted. As yet
no examination of the second eye has
been made, lest the healing process be
interfered with, but I am greatly san-
guine of success."
EAT MORE SUGAR.
Strength Producing 141011 That 55 lrsteally
Ilnilrrl•atetl,
According to Dr, Gall, every one is
constituted so that he cannot assimiIate
more than a certain quantity of sugar
Interesting for Women.
Sarah Ilcrehardt, according to an
enterprising lereneh scholar, is domed -
ed. from a Bohemian king who travel"
led around with a train of dancers,
Creaks and wild beasts and was famous
for Isle wit, Mme. Bernhardt's grand-
mother is said to have been one of bis
many ohildren. Aunt Lange Griot
was another; Aunt Lange was not
exactly an ornament to Mme. Bern-
lferdt's household in days gone by. She
hod, pin inherent fondness for the kiteb-
en, ifnd it needed all oto her niece's
eloverness to persuade her to adopt a
Marc dignified role. She was finally
established in a groat sedan chair in
the Ball, and there Aund Lange, in a
white lace mine and a superb white
brocade gown, sat and said yes" or
"no" t0 people who asked for Mme,
Bisrnhardt. On a little shelf in her
allele she kept the photographs of
those who were not to be admitted,
Only in the evening did she get out of
her gilded prison,
Gee of the wives of the Sultan has
eloped, Her name was Zulfahra, ebe
has run away with an Englishman and
nobody knows where she is. • It is a
most exciting event in Turkish society,.
where elopements are rare. Zulfahra
took advantage of the confusion at-
tending a holiday to slip out of the
Yildiz lioisk, It seems about almost
certain that her escape could not have
been accomplished without the con-
nivance of one of the servants. It
was impossible to tell which, one of
them had aided her, so the Sultan
ordered the entire palace staff to be
flogged doily for a week and to be put
on a diet of bread and water. It
wasn't so much grief at the loss of
Zulfahra herself; it was the fear of al-
lowing such an idea to take root and
spread, Any open door policy of this
sort will bo rigorously suppressed io
Turkish harems,
It is said that the wife of Li Rung
Chang possesses more gowns, to say
nothing of her supply of extra coats
and trousers, than any other living
woman, Mrs. Li is credited with hav-
ing. no fewer than 2,000 gowns and is
said to have 1,000 waiting women in
attendanco on her. P.t•obably 500 wo-
men are hired to kpy on the other 500
and ]seep i.hem from, making inroads
on Mrs. Ll's wardrobe. Tho ,Princess
of Wales has an extensive supply of
gowns, but the Princess of Sagan is
said to be still better supplied with
frocks, The Countess of Castellano
has one of the largest wardrobes in
the world, if the gossips may be believ-
ed. They say she, never wears the
same evening gown more than two of
three times. --_
An exploded theory is the old one
that the Ping—or Queen — oan do no
wrong. It takes the Free Kirk of
Scotland to dispose of any ofd -fashion-
ed fancy of that sort. The Presbytery
at Oban has been scandalized by the
Queen's conduct and has not hesitated
to say so as follows, "The Queen and
the royal family, it is greatly to be
deplored, have not shown a happy ex-
ample to the people in the matter of
Sabbath observanee, Her Majesty's
recent journey to "'ranee and, arrival
there on a Sabbath must have beer a
grief to every enlightened Christian
subject: of her own and very perni-
cious in its Influence over the giddy
end godless French." The giddy and
godless "'ranch have not been heard
from in regard to the matter.
Menelok, King of Abyssinia, has a
phonograph. It came to him with a
message from Queen Victoria, and the
Icing was as pleased as a baby with a
new rattle. Re had the Queen's mess-
age ground out about forty-two times.
listening first with the ear, tubes. and
then receiving it in a blast from the
big brass trumpet. After he had
heard it over and over again he re-
lapsed into a solemn silence for a
while, then ordered a royal salute to
be fired, and remained standing re-
spectfully during the booming of the
seventeen guns. After the King bad
listened until he was satisfied, he sent
the phonograph in to his wife's part of
the palace so that she might hear the
wonderful thing. It was a great day
in Abyssinia. —�
This is the costume worn by the Geier
man Empress at a bazaar in Berlin:
"A gown of oinnamon-colored velvet,
Lim bodice being strapped across with
narrow bands of silver embroidery,
the skirt of the new tight fit, whish is
becoming to such an exquisite figure
as the Kaiserin now possesses. The bat-
tens of the dress were formed of large
rubies. Her Majesty's toque matched
her gown, and was turned up at the
left side with pink roses and a bunch
of brown and heliotrope tips." Cinnamq
on, ruby, silver, heliotrope and pink.
Not bad for a variety,
"Gyp," whose interest in the Drsy .
bus case resulted in a fine for libel, is
a woman of a striking personality,
She is a very herd worker, but does
all her writing at night, She lives in
a suburb of Paris, in a house surround-
ed by an inclosed garden. See does
not begin her writing until midnight,
She works steadily until 4 o'clock in
the morning, when she takes sturn
or two in the garden and than goes to
bed, Beatrice being a writer the is a
pleasant,oaricaturist an enthusiastic,
sportswoman and well-known le so -
Without the sugar remaining in the 01013', Her real name is Comtesse
blood, Beef gives musole, but sugar Mattel do Danville, Her 'first sketch-.
and other hydt'ooarbons give es were published try the editors antler
the impression that they wore written
by an offlaer,
strength. Sugar is good to take when
one has to make an effort for a long
time, Aloohol is a hydrocarbon, but
It depresses after elevating, and it doe -
treys :resistance to disease. Begat
does not depress, and is a food. If
workmen tools more sugar they could
do with less beer. horses are now
fed on gnaw in Paris, : A ration of
nearly two and one hall pounds a day
with corn, straw, or hay is Sound good
by a nab company of that city. Horses
thus fed drink less. Franco, following
Germany, is adopting sugar as at ration
for soldiers. Worktnatt of all kinds,
cyoiists and others ought to take: more
sugar.
:Cho number of recent fire has stir -
rod up the keepers of Queen Victoria's
castles and a bad state of things has
come to light, .At. Balmoral Castle
"there are no fire appliances of any de-
•sorption throughout the whole ]tie
leder of the building with the (MOOD -
Lion of three unsuitable .ahemioal
machines." So reacts the report. As far
the exterior of the building thorn Is, of
coarse, generally a Scotch mist, but
that never dampens anything in Scot.
Iand, not oven at body's spirits,
tee