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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-8-23, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST, AUGUST 23, 1889, axtsaatariir raura easturawa , nromr el kettle, a layer of potatoes alternately till p'1 are used. Season ooh layer with salt, popper and oprinkle with a little flour, Pour enough boiling water into the kettle bo oover rho oantents, Cook slowly till the pontoon are Bono, then odd one pint of scaldedSmilk. dip them riiit a (keen ter mad lay in t tureen. Pour the chowd- er er on the oraokton, Servo the pork with it, a,l.. nawa athatl`� .cadwarthef es 'aR'erasou 'amewa YWlIfi 7tothanweeirosa he otS arethemeASS7at oak plass in ale HOUSEHOLD. 1 t works . said [ALL atoms 1t6SER1•ED•) E SUNI Ali A UNDER Thr GEORGE MANVILLE FENN. 'CHAPTER III. way up a path through his grounds, follow. 's Yes, my dear sire, L cannot conceive a ed unwillingly by Fraser, tc a seat out iu more delightful slimabe. Winter le unkaowa, the steep atone, from whioh they could gene and you can suit your baste by selecting the right away to sea and over the sleeping town. "Peak looks well to-eighb," said Red. grave, pointing to what seemed like a faint loud where the last raye of the departed day still lingered. "It's a beautiful world thio—a bud world." "Paradoxioal," said Fraser dryly. "Yes, air. We spoil it, and make it bad." whioh There was a long silence, during they eat end emokod ; and from time to time, faintly heard, Dame the tinkle of Helen's guitar. ' You have been so friendly to de, Mr. Redgrave," said Fraser at last, "and you seem so isolated "— "Yee ; this is Isola," said the other with a half laugh. ' A stranger among strangers, that I take the liberty of speaking," d Fraser, without heeding the interruption. " You are in trouble ?" " To the very oyes, sir." "Can 1, as a fellow•oountryman, help you ?" ' No," said Redgrave shortly. " I beg your pardon. I meant well." "Of oouree you did, my dear sir, and I thank you; but you aen'b help me.—I have two greab troubles—debt, and my daughter," " A aurae—and a blessing,' said Fraser dryly. ' Call it so if you like, sir," cried Redgrave alinosb fiercely; "but I sae that Spanish dog more than I oan ever pay him, He has led me on in my foolish desire to epeoulate, tempting me to borrow of him, as if he were lave esb no friend, ofand I could not see proving ID; bub It feel morally certain that he has used hie greab influence as the richest man in the island to undermine me in my Bales. And now he demands payment in full," " Well, sir ; pay him.,' "I cannot." " You have nob the means ?" "Yea, I have ; bub I cannot pay him." "May I ask why?" "Because he will nob take money." "What do you mean?' " What did old Shylook insist upon having ?" "Hie pound of flesh?" " Yes. I mighb borrow and pay him ; but he insists upon having my daughter's hand." "Ha I" ejaculated Printer, ail they eat there in the dark. "And the hates him" -- There was a pause, "Ae mush as you, sir. "Hal" ej'aculated Fraser again. " There : come book, and join the young folks, Fraser. I feel better, now some one knows my trouble, --Humph 1 there be is again." For Ramon's voice was heard speaking loud enough, and directly of ter the four men encountered. That night Ramon and Redgrave walked part of the way book with the two visitors ; and after they had parted, Ramon stopped abort. "Good -night," said Redgrave, "No, senor; ab is not good•night," said the Spaniard haughtily. "How long do those English stay here?" I don't know ; they are their own masters." "Yee, Senor Redgrave; and I am yours, Chair presence here displeases me. Lob them Bo." He strode away ; and as Redgrave walked slowly back, he struck the palm of his left hand a tremendous blow with his fiat and said something English—only one word, but it was very Englleh indeed. heat you prefer. Afrboa down by the shore ; Italy where you stand ; a few hun- dead feet higher in the mountains, France ; then Eoglaud; and Norway and ibe snows at the bop of the volcano. A man ought to be happy .here.' "And you are nob?" said Fraser dryly, "' No, and yes, Of course, I'm happy in any garden with my ohild, but-- There, hang it all, my dear boys I" he oried, in good-humoured angry tone, "how can a mum ho happy with a load of debt ?" Dlgby listened, bub his eyeo were directed to'the garden. j"Yea," continued Redgrave ; "I've been eo confoundedly unlucky. Tot epeoulabive, perhaps ; but I came oub here twenty years ago as a apeouleeion, and I'm a stubborn Sasser man, air : I will not be beaten. But I've got hold of the righb thing at last." "And what's than ?' "Sulphur, sir. I'm working up that at the top of the mountain. You shall see the plane, rr you'll oome.—Ah, here's Nally. We never ventured to import a piano, gentle- men ; bub we have a guitar, and I'll be bound to Bay if we petition rightly, we shall get a song.' "Do you wish me to Bing, tether Y" said the girl, colouring alightly as she met Dlgbv'o earneeb gaze. "Yee, my dear, if you are not too tired." "' "Oh no," she said hastily ; and she orossed the room to reach down a guitar hanging by its ribbon from a nail in the wall. The two Englishmen had been a fortnight in Isola, and, attractive as the place .`had proved with rte wondrous vegetation, gorge, hill, and crater, Rsdgrave'e pretty half -Eng - Bah villa seemed to be the epob whioh drew them to it again and again. The deers would be passed in penetrating the most out -of -the- way parts of the island and adding to Fraser'° collection ; then they would return, tired out, to the little yenta, where their lack- eyed mouataohed landlady had prepared a substantial meal ; after which there would be ohoeolate and a cigar, followed by : " I my. Horace, what do you say to a walk up to Redgrave'°? He will nob see muob English society when we are gone." hesitated, Fraser always looked uneasy, and eeemed on the point of refusing • but he invariably ended by rising to go, till it be- came almost a matter of course for them to find father end daughter standing starting by the rough gate between the prickly -pears, Hedgravemokiug one of hie homemade cigars, and Helen watching witha Badness of ex pression° in her eyes which seemed to grow ,nighbby night. Then there would be more chocolate out there, in the deliolous evening, with the scent of orange blossom floating around, and rho boom of the greab Atlantio billows, soft- ened by the distance, coming up like a base murmur from far below. Delicious dreamy evenings, with sea, sky and shadows of the coming night, and the slowly developing stars, all tending to give an indefinable something to the place whioh seemed to bold the visitors as in a thrall. 11 hod been so nighh after night, with the only drawback to the pleasure in the pre. ten0e of Senor Ramon, who seemed to be quite at home at the villa, and polite and friendly, to a degree ; but whose warmth ne- ver seemed to thaw the two Englishmen. This night, Ramon was absent ab his home a quarter of a league on the other side of the little port ; and as noon as the guitar strings had been tuned, Helen sang first one and then another of the old ballade of home, the room growing darker, and the faces of those present more indistinct, till suddenly Red. grave started up as his ohild's sweet gym• pathetic voice oeased, the last note of the guitar vibrating in the fragrant air. " Room's too het," said Redgrave hook- ily--" Come and have a walk round, Fra- ser." ' Poor papa 1" said Helen, rising as he left the room, followed by Fraaer with un- willing step. 'Ie anything wrong?' said Digby, lay �uhis hand upon the guitar, as if in pro. "11 was my mother's favourite song," said Helen sadly. " She used to sing it. I re membered the air, and found the words one day in ber desk. I sang it to him one even - dug as a surprise, and his emotion frighten• ad me ; but ever since be makes me sing it whenever I take down the guitar. He soya it brings him back the past ; but it always makes him sad." There was a few moments' silence, ember• raesing to both. Digby had words rising to his lips whioh be longed to speak • bub he checked them, ELS he felt that he had no right. Let us join them now," said Helen, try - fog to draw away the guitar. 'No, no ; nob yet," oried Digby. "One mare song—will you?—may I ask you ? the little Spanish song I heard you singing that day you were gathering flowers," Helen drew her breath eo sharply that there was a sound in the darkening room as of a painful sob. Then there was eilenae as Digby Sauk baak in his chair with a feeling of misery crushing down upon him much as he had never felt before, "I'm an idiot 1" he said to hlmsel "What business had I ever bo harbour euoh thoughts? But if 1.1 had been another, I should not have oared." He knew he was thinking a lie as he seemed to start back into ooneofouenees, for the chorda of the guitar rang out in a wild half -minor refrain, and before him he oould dimly see Helen on the other side of the room, seated oppoeibe the window, while the sweet pure notes thrilled him through and through. Bub the song Beamed different now. In place of the vivid greenery of the wood, and the face of the singer looking bright, happy, send surprised in the encounter, everything was dark and oppressive ; even the song seemed tad, while it was au if a blow had been otruok as the last note rang oub and a vofoe from the window oried " Brava I brava 1" with the addition of hearty plead. its. Digby sprang to hie feet with the hob blood in his oheake. a' Ah, my dear Senor Digby, I did nob knew you were there.—le not Helene voice delloioue ?" Digby tried to speak, but bit his lip with rage, for the worde� would not oome ; and Ramon continued . Come, senor, nano Mho singe our Spanish gongs in a way whioh throws yours in the shade ?" "Mies ltedgravee singing fa a plasube to bear," eaid Digby coldly.—" Shall we join your father in the garden?" "Thank you, Mr. Df g by ; not, thie even. ing," said Bolen, her voce sounding as if it had caught the infloabion of hie, "But you will come, my deer senor, said Ramon. "t hexa brodghtyou a foe of hay latest maria oigare," In the meantifne, Redgrave had led the trip o your7" d Fraser ono even - looks whioh Digby directed at Helen, the "EhI Ah, when you like," eald Rod grave, "To morrow be ib then," said Fraeer. "A trip ---a walk?' said Ramon, turning sharply "Yea ; only to the works." , "Ah, yes; very interesting.—You will take them to.morrow, Redgrave?" The latter nodded. " I wish you a pleasant day. You will Mart early, as lb le far ?" "Yoe. Soon after sunrise. I shall have everythinu ready, gantlomou, eo be here In gond time." Ramon smiled to himself as he wont o,vey in the beat of humor that night, hub he smil- ed too aeon. Rodgrave now it, end he wee very thoughtful as he bade his other visitors good- night. "Nelly, my darling," he said as they re entered the house,'eit 1a very cold up the mountain, and the way there is ecorobleg and dusty; bub if I had the side-saddle slapped on one of the mules yon could go with us." The sad aspect fled from Helen's face on the instant. "Ah yea," she oried. "That's right," said her father. "Then be ready. Think boobs and oloak ready for the oold." Helen flung her arms about his nook, and hid her face for a moment in his breath be- fore kissing him and saying "Good night." "I've seen him smile bsfote," said Red- grave to himself ; "end Ib means mischief. As soon ae we were oub of the way, he would be here pestering my poor girl. Checkmate there." "Treaoherouo enemy at least," add Ramon, as he returned home. " Tom," said Fraser suddenly, as the two walked bogebher down the steep elope, "Eh? Yes ?" Laid Digby with a stare. "Whab do you may to getting back to Santa Oruz and trying bo catch one of the Castle boats home?" " No.. Wenn, both D and Helen wondering how fb was that they had noo notated chat it was bit• terly oold, the wind boisterous, and the dant ti.ab resp painful and wearying to a do gree. They wore conscious of nothing save that they were together in an idyllic dream, with a world of beauty spread out below. Eight thousand feet, they had been told, wan the height of the quiesoeub volcano ; but the words had fallen upon deaf sero, for there was a gaeation ening itself as the portals of their hearts : 'How is this to end ?'' The sun was gothirg low iu the west 00 the pine 0100 upon the mountain was retool), ed ; and ono more in the dim obsouri y they eeemed more dreamy and sweet than ever. Fraser and Redgrave were well on ahead ; the traok wound hero and there; but dim as the wogdlaud beame, the mule was £a - rainier with the way, and paced slowly on with its bridle upon its neck, and D[ by walking now with his hand upon iho saddle- bow. "Helen 1" he said, and hie voice was e whisper among the glues. She did not speak ; but hex hand was bimidly resigned to his grasp, and the next moment hie arms were about her. " Hly darling 1" were hie words ; " I lovo you with all a man's first true love 1" There was no reply, a timid shrinking, and with a sob Helen let her lead rest upon hie shoulder, as if that were the place whore she might find safety from the fate that seemed to her worse than death. There was a ebrange grating noise, eaoh as mighb have been made by a frightened bird, bub it was caused by ivory gritting and grinding upon ivory. Digby started round bo see dimly, half•a- dczon yards away, Ramon standing by the bole of one of the bhiokeeb pines, while a cheery voice ahead shouted bank : " Come, you people ; doo'b lose your way." (To DE CONTINUED) The Larder of A " Liner." " Eh?" " I said No. I'm very bad, oub of sorts, Horace ; and this plane le doing me worlds of good. Emphatically, No. Beeidee, you have not half -dome the island pet. You said ao the other day." "True: I did." " Then do 11 properly while you are here; and don't bother. Why, you are always wanting to go home." Framer's countenance grew more sad as he gazed sidewise at hie companion's happy taoe, and he sighed gently. "Young—hand- some—volatile," he said to himself ; " and he loves her dearly ; while she"-- He seemed to have oome upon a confused mental tanglement, and it was some minutes after blindly blundering on through a maze of thought, than be:said softly : "Matters are getting in a knot," CHAPTERS' " Going with us—you l cried Dlgby ae he entered the pretty room ab Redgrave'= the neat morning, to find a delicious break- faab spread, and Helen standing ready to re- ceive him in a rlding•habit specially adapted to `fee place. You will nob think me in the way?' she said playfully. Fraaer'a countenance looked more sombre as he took the hand extended to him, and smiled sadly as he followed Digby'= example and expressed his delight. To both men that day was a dream of a wondrous journey upward along a flower- atrown traok towards a dense cloud, whioh soon after enveloped them, and through which they laboriouely climbed to find them- selves in a new region, where the air was cooler, and fragrant with the odour of the resinous pines through which they passed ; and as Digby led Relen'e mule, they talked little, bub listened to the music of the birds and the gurgle of water, and caught from time to time among the tree -tope glimpses of the dazzling blue sky. They spoke bub oeldone but went on wibh their eyes fixed upon Fraser and Redgrave, who led the way some fifty yards ahead, bub stopped from time to time, for the laggards to overtake them, and ad. mire some fresh view. And all through that temperate summer zone the birds sung around them ; and to Digby they sang only of love, and to Helen of what mighb be. Bub the sadness in her breast suffused her eyes, with tears. There was a black shadow always before her; and when, after riding her mule through some rougher port, Digby turned to seek her gaze, she averted 11 wibh a sigh, bub to own bo herself that all this was very oweeb, and she knew that she had never before enjoyed a day like this. This fir -tree zone came to an end ; the 000l darkness and soft silenoe of the shady glade gave plane to a rugged pumice. drown danert, where fine dust rode ab every step, and the sun poured down wibh blinding power. A weary, weary tramp to come ; bub to those two who hung be. hind, a dreamy time of Wise, through whioh they journeyed on hour after hour, till a wooden but was reached, where the mule wag tethered; and Fraser now, at Red. grave's euggestton, offered hie arm to help Helen up a cindery elope to the edge of the mountain crater, the party then den:ending a hundred feet or so into a hollow, where Fraser forgot everything bub the delight he found lm gathering specimens of sulphur crystals—pale straw Dolour, rich yellow, and brilliant ecarleb, "Yes, this k, my last venture," raid Rad - grave suddenly. "My men come up hero to dig the sulphur, of whioh there is no end, stere it for ma in the tent below, and we ship it off home. But you had better nob stay long ; the sulphur gas memos up otrong to -day." "Whab would happen if there wag to b0 an eruption now, Mr. Redgrave?" said Digdy. ' Thie party would never know," was the scrim reply. " Then I wish bo goodneos Senor Ramon wore here, and this party safe ab home, if it did blow up," said Digby in a half-whieper as he glanced ab Helen, who shook her head ab him sadly; and he naw her eyes fill with tears. Fraser was a dczoo yards away, stooping to pink up yet another crystal, while Rad. grave WAS walking towards him. " Forgive me," whispered Digby, " They were the words of a thoughtless boy." Her look said so much that he caught her hand and raised it to him lips, but only got it to be drawn timidlyy. away. " Well, Fraeer, when you're ready," said Redgrave, It's a long way book ; the wind's high ; the gases bad, and the duet blown. Ib'o very sold boo,—Shall we go book 7" Prosier absented ; and Digby gave way to him as he came forward to help Helen to climb up the aide of the orator to the edge, whence, after a brief gage round ab the glorlouo view, they all descended to the hub, and partook of the luncheon they had brought. Heien remounted rho mala, and Digby took the bridle ono mere as her father and Venn went Mt. The filet part of the descent Henle Made Portieres. The most elaborate effects may often be produoed with very ordinary materials, and Ole le the secret whioh, once mastered, gives unlimited *cope to the inventive talent of the home deoorator. A portiere for summer is often desirable for oortain roaeous:le loaves moll a gap in the rooms when the heavy winter drapertee are taken down, and yob they must bo die - penned with in order to have the neoessary oirouletion el air during the summer menthe, In this one .pretty substitute for winter drapery is a portiere undo of ropo,—bite or. dinary mitten olobhoe-linos will do nicely if rho macrame rope, which is sold for hummock hangings, ate., is not attainable, A rope portiere is nob difficult to make. Cut the to within ppbbbonGnthe sreach from Mx inches of the floor, the and attach each length to a ring. Make a baeeol at the lower end by fringing out the rope about eight inohee and tying a knot above. Variety may be afforded by using alternating lengths of rope, or arranging then in graduate ed lengths so that they will form points ab the bottom. If a curtain pole and rings aro too ex ensivo, use a rustic pole and wow in it in a straight line, as many sorew•eyee as there are lengths of rope, and ebtach eaoh length if rope bo a sorow•eye; then festal the pole ap to the door oaslog with leather bands or a loop of rope. The expense of this really ar tietio hanging ie onlythe prise of the rope and a few cents for thesorow-eyes. Tho portiere can bo parted anywhere, as those of Jap- anese bamboo and beads are, and needs no looping, as 11 looks better hanging perfectly straight. We grumble at a hotel or on board ehip if our fc•od is nob exactly what we desire, but few have any idea of the provision needed on one of the American liners. The passengers on the Royal Mail steamship Umbria, on one of her rooenb voyages from New York to Liverpool, consumed the following: 9,500 pounds of beef, 4,000 pounds of mutton, 900 pounds of lamb, 256 pounds of veal, 150 pounds of pork, 140 pounds of piokled lege of pork, G00 pounds of corned tongues, 700 pounde of corned beef, 2,000 pounds of fresh fish ,20 pounds of niece' feet, 18 pounds of calves' heade,450 fowls, 240 spring ahiokens, 120 duck°, 50 turkeys, 50 geese, 600 squabs, 300 tins of sardines, S00 plovers, 175 pounde of sausages, 1,200 pounds of ham, 600 pounde of baaon, 10,000 eggs, 2,000 quarts of milk, 700 pounds of batter, 410 pounds of ooffae, 87 pounde of tea, 900 pounde of sugar. 100 pounds of rice, 200 pounde of barley, 100jam of jam end jelly, 50 bottle° of pickles, 60 bottles of sauces, 20 barrels cf apples, 14 bcxes of lemons, 80 boxes of oranges, 6 tons of potatoes, 24 barrels cf flour,—[Pall Mall Gozatte, CHAPTER IV, Another fortnight had passed. Excursions had been made along the shore to where the huge billows thundered in. Digby has mas- tered his antipathy so far as to allow him- self to be let down by a rope in company with Fraser to inspect the mummy cavae, where, in the most inaccessible spots, the ancient inhabitants of the island buried their dead ; and here Fraeer had descanted upon facial angles, prognabbio jaws, width of cheekbones, height of forehead, and the like, as be stood before Digby, Hamlet-Uke, holding an antique tknll. Botanical speci- mens had been procured ; geological exam. plat oolleoted, and packed in boxes for thaw sit home ; insects had beeaoaptured,anddnly etuak ; and the troglodytes of the island visited in their cavern villages, where they dwelt dirtily and securely in caves, whloh were similar to thorn used in the past by the Guanohee as catacombs, belog really huge ruptured bubbles formed by volcanic gases in the molten stone, when the great mountain of the interior poured forbh in eruption the rook -formed fluid of the interior of the earth. While ever, night after night, as if drawn by a magnet, the two visitors found their way to Redgrave'° house, where the master wan gravely friendly, as he noted bow his child's ead oountenanoe lit up ao the familiar foot- steps were heard upon the silvery pumice' path. Ramon raged and stormed. Redgrave for gob his CanarySpanish education, and grew more Eoglioh, displaying a bulldog obebi- naoy. Then Ramon threatened as he showed hie white teeth. " Mischief may come, my dear Redgrave," he whispered. In an instant Rodggrave's strong hand gripped him by the shoulder, and his gray eyes flashed fire into the Spaniard's dark orbs. "Don't try it," he said fiercely. "You have an Englishman and a Soot to deal with, air, and those two together can beat the worth, let alone Spain. Read your history, sir, if you don't believe. Your Spaniards fight with knives ; wo Englishmen with our fists. naives break, fiats break too, but shay break people's heads. That's metaphorical, Senor Ramon, bub therein a good deal of truth in it, all the same. Don't threaten, sir. You've got me down, but I might be dangerous if you tempted me to klek." "My dear Redgrave, thin ie absurd," said Ramon. "You mishndsrsbend me. We aro the beet of friends. 1 will nay no more. Wo two cannot afford to quarrel. I look upon you as my father, yeb to be." From that moment Ramon was smiles and good -humor combined, Placid au one cf rho voloanooe of the island, Bleeping and covered by time with grass and flower°, wibh nothing to toll that they were not pleasant mounds, till a obiek was thrust in deeply, and then a faint vapour arose, invisible to the eye, but diffusing an odour of sulphur that wan strangely suggeetive of heat far down b°low. ltedgravo was aiwaye friendly to tho two mon, but he made no propoaalb for tripe in the island ; he never invited them be come. "I'll do nothing," ho need to mutter to � himself, My abbeenptm always fail, rIl lave everything to fate." " When are we to have thin long•balked• of Plower Pro,—Ono and ,slftpounde of of rump steak, two or three pigeons, of oold boiled ham, popper and salt to taste, two ounoee of batter, four sage, puff or other poste. Cut the etaah into piocoe about three inches square, and with it line the bottom of a deep pie disk, seasoning it well wibh pepper end malt. Clean the pigeons, rub theta with pepper and salt inside and out, and pub into the body of osoh rather more than half an ounce of butter ; lay them on the steak, and a piece of ham on each pigeon. Add the yolks of four eggs, and half fill the dish with good stook ; place a border of puff prate round the edge of the dish, put on the cover, and ornament it in any way that may bo preferred. Clean the feet, and plane them in a hole made in the crust at the bop ; this shows what kind of a Die it is, 0.1azo the cruet, that is to say, brush ib over with the yoke of an egg, and bake it in a well• heated oven for aboub an hour and a quarter. British Investors in the II. S. British capitalists have been investing their money in the most wholesale meaner of late in the Gaited States, Twentyaeven millions sterling are said to have gone into breweries alone; largo snag have been ex- pended on flour mills, and en immense par• chess of dry goods Rousse is now proposed, In the midst of the flow of wealth into the Republic comes a note of warning bo the eepitalieto who are thus pouting their money into a country whioh is anything but friend- ly to Britain, and of whose differing State laws and State rights they have little know- ledge. It is pointed out that many of the in- divdaal States of the Union have adopted an extremely hostile abbitude towards alien in - enters in their real estate, and that while the British oapibeliab will find himself safe in some States, in otltere bo will run grave risks of losing his entire inveabmenb.. The laws of the State of Pennsylvania aro extremely harsh in this parbioular, and the Minnnoba Legislature has reooably enacted thab ib shall be unlawful for any one who is not a citizen, or who does nob propose to become one, or for nay corporation nob created by or under the lawn of the Republio or of the State, bo ac- quire, bold or own real estate. While means aro often found to evade these requiremenoe of the law, 15 will shill be evident that oon- siderablc danger exist for the incautious or ignorant investor, and that if any hosbile feeling should be aroused in the country, and it is easily done during election times, the British oapitaliob might nave bitter cause for regretting his faith in the friendship of the United Staten people. A recent cartoon in a New York paper hits off the present situation very well. John Bull is represented with a number of bags of gold hanging from his belt as ap- proaching Uncle Sam with tbo remark I It's a lot of brouble to buy you up piece. meal ; what will you take for your whole blooming country, anyway ?" Canadians cannot but wish that the British investor, in his own interest es well as in onre, would utilize more of his wealth than he now does in building up the greab mining and other industries of which this country is oapable, and whioh would afford }rim a safe and pay- ing investment. The Care of' Shoes. A woman who understands the e0outemof of dress will never buy a cheap p shoot. No poorer investment eau be made, for besides giving out in shorter time then a firetoli ne article it will look shabby and worn long before it should do so. But any shoe, no matter how costly or well -shaped in the beginning, will lose its freshman speedly if not properly oared for. This is especially applicable to those made of French kid, whioh every little bruise and touch burns purple. A rule observed by many women, and a good one it proves, too, Is never to wear a street shoe in the house. Ib receives harder treatment, strange to say, from numerous inevibable collisions wibh artioles of furniture than it would in double the amount of street wear. Another sensible custom is to reserve a pair of boots for web -weather wear leaving them to rest in a comfortable bag between times. Nothing tells against the beauty of footgear eo much as getting it wet, and even with rubbers no amounb of diligence will prevent the dampness from the skirts reaohing the ankles. Shoes should be re- moved immediately on arriving at hemp, the dust and Boil wiped away with aolesn, sofb rag, mad then they should be planed to- gebher in a separate pockeb of Oho shoe -bag until wanted again. If this oovrse is invari- ably pursued a considerable saving of money, time, and temper will be added to the in- creased oervioe derived from even an infer- ior quality of leather. Never wear a shoe unbuttoned if you out for its shapellaees, and never be satisfied when you do button ib if all those little necessaries are not in place. The wearing of a ahoe even ono or twice with a pair or trio of buttons gone from it tells on its ap- pearaaoein the long run. Patent button - banners are unsatisfactory, for if the thee draws even the leaeb bib about the ankles bbe mental stamps abow, and even the most persistent system of blackening fails to keep them from looking braggy. A small box of round shoe -buttons with a curved needle and lengths of ammo linen thread already out ebonld have a plane in the top drawer of every woman's dressing - ease, or chiffonier. Then the task of replac- ing a missing button simplifies itself wonder- fully. On children's shoos particularly the patent fastenings should never be used, for in their romps buttons, fasteners, leather and all are apt to disappear. A good plan to carry out regarding shoes for the little ones ie to rub them well with oaebor oil be. fore they are worn at all. This makes the leather pliable, fills up the pores, and pre- vents it from cranking. For their every- day veryday oboes once in two weeks is nob too often to oil them. Ab first the oil will give them a gray look, but after an hour or so is passed the finish they show le nice and soft. If shoos get wet =tooth them into ao good shape ae possible and place them in a me- dium warm atmosphere to dry. This takes a longer time than if dried close to the fire, bob they will be in mush better condition when wanted. Leather hardened by drying too suddenly can be restored by the applies. tion of castor oil well rubbed in, - Two or three breadths of ingrain carpet, awarding to the size of the space to be oov' Bred, and of the length required, sewed to- gebhor, and hemmed at each end or bound with carpet binding, make a very nice rug, and so do lengths of Chinese matting put together in the came way. The breadohs of matting will have bo bejoined together with twine, the two edges overhanded together loosely wibh a sai]•needle, eo that the edges will mod flatly when bho matting is laid down. Tho ends may be bound with strips of soarieb or gray sloth, and the matting rug, when not in use, can be rolled up and set on end in a oorner of the hall, Artifioial Silk. In the Paris exhibition is exhibited a collo dion product cf a remarkable character, neither more nor less than an artificial silk. To manufacture it pyroxyine was fireb prepared by the conversion of a specially pure cellulose, obtained from certain parte of young wood, and then diasolved in a mixture of thirty-eighb parts of ether and forty two of alcohol, Through a aeries of concentric tubes the oollodion is forded onb, under pregame, in a stream, and then immediately solidifies by contain wibh water, the thread eo produced being wound off on a bobbin. Next, this thread is deoitrated by being soaked In weak nitric acid, which renders 16 insoluble in ether and alcohol, and also non• explosive. The threads aro now dried and used as ordinary silk ; they are capable of being dyed, and are about three•quarters of the textile strength of ordinary 00000n Bilk. In appearance it is stated to excel the nature] produce of eilk'worm. Oharaoter the Key to Success. Two fundamental psychological elemente to bo always studied among any people are oharaober and intelligence. Character is in- finitely more important to the moans of an individual or a rase than intelligence. Rome in her decline, oertainly possessed mor sup- erior minds than the Rome of the earlier ageo of the republic, Brilliant artists, elo- quent rhetorioians, and graceful wribers ap- peared then by the hundred. But she was lacking in men of manly and energetic (Ant- eater, who may perhapo have been careless of the refinement of art, but were very care- ful of the power of the city whose grandeur they had founded. When it had loot all of these, Rome had, o give way to peoples much less intelligent but more energetic. The conquest of the ancient, refined, and lettered Grleoo•Labin world by tribes of semi -bar. barons Arabs constitutes another example of the came kind. History is full of such. A Submerged Forest. During the late ;violent storms in the ohannel the sea washed through a high and hard sand bank near the Isle of St. Malo, France, nearly four meters think, laying bare a portion of ancioab forest which wee already passing into the condition of coal. This forest ab the beginning of our era cover- ed an extensive tract of the and ; but with the sinking of the land it became submerged and covered up by the drifting sand. Mont Saint Miohol ono stood in the middle of it, The forest had quite disappeared by the middle of the tenth century. Occasionally, at very low tides after storms, remains of ib are disclosed, just as at present. It is be lievod that some maunders ago the highest tides roes about 12 mebree above the level of the lowest ebb. Now the high water level is 15.5 meters above the lowest. Popular Broke, Many people deplore the that that fioticn is by far the most popular sorb of rending mutter with pabrono of public libraries. It is safe to say, moreover, that they lay the blame for this state of affairs to the younger readers. Bub there is evidence to show that this is a mistake, The New York " Com• merolal Advertiser " reaenbly sent out a serious of questions reepeoting the class of books taken from public libraries, and the following answer given to one of them by he librarian at Indianapolis is substantially the same as bhab given by the officials a' Columbus and Boston : "The popular belief that boyo and girls use the public library for the purpose of steeping themselves in notion is nob held by, librarians nor borne oub by fade. It is a common everyday eight to see a boy or girl pass proudly out from the library with a book mush beyond their years, to be fol. lowed some time later by their kind, binder mother, or their hard headed father, with a very light novel. The sbabisbioe of reading in public librarian show that in every thous- and volumno of fiction oiroulated, two-thirds are taken by adults and one-third by young readers." It is to the seniors, therefore, that we must look for improvement in this matter. Choice Heoipes, CREAMED Eaoe,—Sling in quite bhick slioee four hard boiled egos, roll eaoh aline in melted butter and coat with flour. Bring to boiling point one quart of sweet milk, add one teaspoonful of minded onion, two table- spoonfuls of butter, salt and popper to sea• son, and la=b of all add the eggs, Boil five nehmen end serve hot. The Manohester Ship Canal, Anyone unoonvinoed by a sight of the oanal itself bhab bbe task of making 11 le a anions one would assuredly bo converted if he naw the plant and machinery ab work. Though the canal ie only 35 miles long,. there aro about '200 mil=e of railway line laid down on or near its banks, and 150 loom motives are ab work upon them to remove the soil dug oub by 15,000 human and 80 steam navvies. One of glees latter hoe been known before now to feed full 050 railway waggons, holding four oabio yards apleoe, in the course of a day, But when there are 50,000,000 onble yards to bo excavated 2,600 las morn flea pita. In all the ground ab the present moment is valued ab upward E00,000.—[Murray'° Magozine. A Surprised Bond Street Boarder. "Mrs. Soraggs, hand me the butter, pleases. "Mr. Derringer, lb's ethaueted." " Why, yon surprise the 1 1 thought it wee strong enough to last a long time. The English sparrow ab home is being disooyered painted yellow and being sold as u eatery, COFFEE CARE.—Ona pint of bread dough, one-half sup of butter, ono sup of sugar, one teaopoonful of cinnamon; mir all well to. gather, rolling into a thin shoat ; after ria• beg until light, pine in baking pane, Let, the sake rise until light, then cover the bop of eaoh wibh thie mixture : two bableapoon- fulo each of sugar end butter, one teaspoon. ful of cinnamon ; boat well bogebher, then spread over eaoh sake and place 1n the oven five minutes, Serve warm or sold, Evidenoe that a Man is Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. An old preacher, after services one Sun- day ,announced his reading for bbe following Sunday, During the weak, some mischiev- ous boys obtained his bible and panted two of the loaves bogebher, right where he was to read, Sunday morning corning, bho aged divine opened his book, and read as follows: "and Noah took nnbo himself a wife who was"—and here he burned the leaf—' forty oubibe broad, one hundred and forby cubits long." With a look of astonishment, ha wiped hio glance, re -read and verified the paesago and then ,aid ; "My friends, al- though 1 have read the Bible many times, this ie the fleet time I have ever seen this passage, but I take it as another ev]denoe of the faob that mall is most fearfully and wonderfully made." Defensive Theology. Bennie is a bright five-year-old eon of an editor. The other day he Dame home from a pretreated tricycle ride. "Bonnie," said his father, "didn't your mother tell you not to go so far away from the house?" took m "Y -e•4, papa, but the devil }' breath away and wouldn't let the remember." "That's the old story about the devil, h said Mr. Hvghoe, brying to look stern. afraid I shall have to opank that devil out of you." "Oh, the devil flow out of hie just as I entered the house," protested Bennie. "Be0a said,' Bennie, you're in for a spanking, eater a Spanking turbo, and 1 guano you'd bake it yourself.' STEAMED INDIAN PUDDING,—One pint of granulated cornmeal, ono pint of sour milk, ono pint of chopped mot, one cupful of mo. lasses, onetablaepoonful of sale, onto teaopeon• ful of soda dissolved in one tablespoonful of hot water and added to the last thing (this ie consideredbetter than mixing soda with milk.) Steam three house or longer and poste with mol,asoo mune. In eumtnor•timo add one pint of herei=n and ono pint of apples. In using unoovorod molds in steaming, the surface eau be kept perfectly dry if the steamer 18 noioVersd during the steaming, Fagg C1soweirm— Cub three-and-athelf ..� pounds of haddook into about eight pieces; fry three thick ellen of salt pock slowly and take them up, chop a gtod•alzod onion and fry bit bus fob, thou having pared and sliced eight potatoes, pub a layer of flop in the Then and Now. ib "In 1816," says a London escallop, " took just one bushel of torn to buy ono pound of nails ; new ono bushel of earn will buy ten pounde of nails. Then it required sixty.four bushels of barley to buy Ono yard of broad- cloth ; now the game amount of barley will pay for twenty ens Fordo of broadcloth, It the required the prion of one bushel of wheat to pay for one yard of calico ; now one ;Mahal of wheat will buy twenty garde of alioo. „ ...,