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FRUIT DAINTIES.
Spiced Peaches.—Four pounds of
peaches, one cupful of vinegar. one
tablespoonful of cinnamon, one
tablespoonful of cloves, three
pounds of brown sugar, one tea-
spoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful
of salt, and one-eighth of a tea-
spoonful of red pepper. Boil the
sugar and the vinegar. Scald the
.peaches, remove the skins and cook
an the syrup. The spices in a bag
and cook with the peaches. When
the' peaches are tender pOur into
stone jars, reheat the syrup every
day for a week, pouring when boil-
ing over the peaches. All kinde of
small fruits may be spiced in this
Manlier.
Huckleberry Pie.—Clean, pick
• and wash one pint of huckleberries;
then drain them. Beat the yolke
of two eggs and four heaping table-
spoonfuls of sugar until light, add
one tablespoonful of milk, 'then the
drained berries. Line one pie plate
• with rich pastry, pour on it the
berry mixture, put in the oven and
bake a. light brown; remove from
• the oven, spread with a meringue
made of the whites of two eggs beat-
en stiff and four tablespoonfule of
sugar added. Brown nicely. The
whites can be beaten with the yolks
and stager if preferred.
Bananae en Casserole.—Peel sia
ripe bananas, drape off the coarse
threads and cut the bananas in
halves, leagthwise, and the pieces
in halves, crosswise. Put the piec-
es into a casserole. Melt a small
,glass of apple jelly in one cupful of
boiling water and pour over the ba-
nanas, then equeed over them the
juice of half an orange; cover the
4dish and let it dok in a moderate
oven for half an hour. Serve from
the casserole as sa, sweet entree with
roast beef or mutton or with beef-
steak.
GrapefruR Sherbet.—Six grape-
fruib, three cupfuls of sugar, two
cupfuls of wade, two tablespoon-
fuls of powdered gelatin and the
whites of two eggs. Put ,the gela-
tin into a saucepan, add the water
and the strained juice of the grape-
fruit and bring to boiling point.
• When cool freeze partially, add the
whites of the eggs beaten up and
finish freezing. •
Apple Fluff.—Two cupfuls of grat-
ed sour apples, five tablespoonfuls
of powdered sugar, a quarter of a
teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and
three whites of eggs. Add the sugar
to the apples while grating them,
' then add the nutmeg and the whites
- stiffly beaten. Beat thoroughly for
ten minutes. Serve in dainty glas-
ses.
Pineanple Dainties.—Cook one
cupful of grated pineapple, one-
fourth of a cupful of sugar, the
• grated rind and strained juice of
one lemon, a pinch of salt and two
yolks of eggs until thick, but do not
allow it to boil. Chill and fold in
half a cupful of stiffly beaten
cream. Spread between slices of
fresh or canned pineapple, decor-
ate with a stet of whipped and
sweetened cream flavored with half
a teaspoonful of . orange extract.
• Put half of a walnut meat on the
top of each star of cream.
KITCHEN KINKS.
Elasticity is restored to rubber
by soaking it in one part ammonia
and two parts clear water until the
desired results are obtained. This
• is specially tate in the case of rings
•or other articles that have become
stiff and brittle.
• Keep a piece of sandpaper handy
-to the sink where the dishes are
-washed. It will prove invaluable,
When a stubborn spot on a burned
kettle refuses to move through the
•aid of a wire dishcloth, uee a piece
of sandpaper. It is an aid in clean-
ing a gas stove. Fold a piece over
a knife and you can quickly remove
all grease or dried food that sticks
^to the corners.
Out sheets of tinfoil and place
under the flower vase doilies and
you will have no trouble with any
• dampnessaffecting the best pol-
ished furniture.
Every woman knows the irritation
of finding a fa,verite waist, petti-
coat or corset ready for the laun-
dry just as she wants it most.
.A clever housewife, however, has
thought Out a way to launder such
an article of clothing quickly. Wads
, the ca,rmerit and starch as usual,
• but nestead of hanging it out. in the
.open air, lay flat on a very heavy
Turkist towel.
Then, beginning at one end, roll
-the towel and garthent as tightly
„as possible. If laid in a warin place
-the towel will ha,v0 absorbed enough"
moisture in a -very short time W
•-permit the garment to be ironed.
Before washing any piece of wil-
low furniture brush it thoroughly,
,so as to remove every particle of
'dust. Otherwise no amount of
washing will get the furniture
.clean. •
For very bad grease spots on the
front of a light blue cotton dress
.sprinkle plentifully with finely pre
pared starch and cover with brown
paper; iren • with a hot iron for a
few rnement7s, thee wash in the
asual way in warm soapsuds; no
-tra,ce of the grease remains.
WASHINGi DISHES.
The bacteriologist finds no kit -
ary methods of washing dishes he
is likely to call a "smear.'
Dishes have been tested to de-
termine the number of organiems
that remain on them after "ordin-
ary" washing as compared with
a method that requires an applica-
tion of hot water with the help of
soap or, better still, carbonate of
soda, a thorough rinsing in hot
water, and wiping with a sterilized
cloth (that is, one which has been
in boiling water since it was used
before). By this latter method the
diehes were practically sterile,
while many organisms were left an -
the dishes that were washed by the
"ordinary" method.
One might ask what harm will
they do. Oftentimes none, but if
the bacteria are those which convey
disease, dirty dishes may, be the
means of giving it to well persons.
But most of all, persons who are at
all thoughtful of such things do not
want any dirt which maybe pre-
vented by good methods, simply be-
cause dirt in itself is sufficiently un-
pleasant.
In washing milk utensils it is first
necessary to remove with warm
water all traces of the milk before
scalding water is used. Because of
the eream adhering to the sides soap
is used also, but the greatest care
must be taken to remove by repeat-
ed rinsing every trace of soap. A
telltale flavor of soap in the morn-
ing cream has more than once riie-
vealed careless habits in the kit-
chen, and made it evident that all
the soap was not removed in rins-
ing. The utensils must then be
dipped into absolutely boiling wat-.
er for a moment,
It is an important matter to wash
the milk bottle in which milk is now
commonly delivered to custonaers.
By this we refer to the washing of
the full bottle before it is opened.
It ia safe to say that this is seldom
done. But notice the bottle as it
is brought into the kitchen, the
milkman grasping it with his hand
over the top.
• These hands perhaps more often
than not have harnessed his horse,
have been gra,spieg the reins all the
morning, have opened and shut
doors, run along stair railings, have
perhaps wiped mouth or nose, and
yet the thoughtless housekeeper or
cook, regarding the white cap as
full security from the outer world,
pours out the milk over a very
dirty bottle brim.
Milk bottles should be put under
the hot water spigot for a moment
and •wiped dry with a clean cloth
before opening.
Most housewives agree that milk
bottles should be carefully rinsed
before they are returned, perhaps
more from a feeling for cleanliness
than for absolute necessity, as the
milk bottle e in all well-managed
dairies are thoroughly crubbed and
washed before refilling. If snail
violations of this practice as recent-
ly came under observation are
noted, when the driver of a dairy
wagon washed out some milk bot-
tles •in a public drinking fountain
provided for horses, refilled them
and disposed of them to other cus-
tomers, complaint should be made
to the dairy and, if this is not suf-
ficient, to the board of health.
DRUG ADULTERATION OLD.
Practice in Ancient Egypt Suggest-
• ed by First Century Note.
There has just been placed on
exhibition in the GraecosRoman
gallery of the British Museum, Lon-
don, England, a small letter which
dates back to the firat century A.
D. and which throws light upon the
medical profession of that period.
The letter is written upon a sheet
of papyrus about the ,size of a half
shed of ordinary note -paper. The
writer was a eertain Procleina,
resident of Alexandria, the recipi-
ent being a drug merchant named
Pecysis ab Oxyrbyncas in the Fay -
um. The missive reads as follows:
• Procleiu,s to his dearest Pecysis,
greeting!
13e so good as to sell at your risk
good quality of those drugs which
my friend Sotas says that he has
need of, so that he may brifig them
to Alexandria.. For if you do other-
wise and give him stale stuff, which
will not pass muster in Alexandria,
understand that you Will have :to
settle with me in regard to the ex-
penses.
Greet your family.
The letter was folded and sealed
with a clay seal and was indorsed
to Pecy,sis. It is conjectured that
Ile was one of those Greek mer-
chants who employed native Egyp-
tians to gather samples for them
and prepare extra,ces and decoc-
tions which they -supplied to the
doctors of Alexandria and other
great cities.
The discovery ef the,letter affords
a new illustration of the unchang-
ing character of life in the east.
Many dreg sellers of precisely the
same character are to be found to-
day in Akhrein, Girgeh, anel other
towns of the Nile Valley.
The toile of the letter indicates
that/ the commercial standards of
the drug dealers of that city were
open to criticism.
DID THEIR DUTY.
Summer Boarder—"Man, I have-
n't caughe a fish here in two
weeks."
Hotel Proprietor—"The fish here
don't let nobody catch 'em that
hasn't stayed at least two weeks at
this hotel."
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WHITE LAD
OR, WHAT THE THRUSH S/le ).
CHAPTER XIII.
The following morning—it was Rater.
aley,.and payday with most of tho troops
in garrison—I took a stroll round the
barraelerooius to see how the foilowe
lookedfor we wore to embark in a few
hours, and I was feeling strangely nerv-
ous, and strangely eager that the ethers
shouldbe as nervous as I.
Our company had a dissipated and rak-
ish air, and sheaved tousled heads, blotchy
faces, and bleary eyes in great profusion.
I weut inth joyce's room.
Audy White, very red ,in the thee and
eleepy in the eyes, was standing in the
ethers of the room with his shako on
wrong side before, ,crying th stuff ,a 'flask
of whisky, a quarter of a pound of thick
twist, three clay pipes, a box of black-
ing, a piece of soap, and a pack of caeds
into his expense- pouch, which would not
hold half of them; Jimmy Hamilton was
walking up and down, dressed ha march.
iug ordet, with a small poeket mirror
in one hand and a razor in 'the other,
calmly shaving hinisole; Cursing Scott
and Taffy ltoberts—a little Welshman --
were seated crosedegged on a form ele.Y-
ing brag for pennieo; Jath Bothwell—a
Yorkshireman—was walking about in his
shirt sleeves, with it bland smile on his
face and a basin of beer in hie hand,
singing:
Me name is Joe Moogins, a farmer ani I,
I yons went a corneae', and felt rather
shy;
and Cocky. Bose, Illimme • Bates, Tiger
Lyons, and Soft Joe, all lay snoring in
alooholic torpor on the floor. It was 9
a.m., and the battalion was th ,fall in at
twelve. Joyce had gone fot the color -
sergeant.
Presently the color -sergeant came up
stairs laughing, With his sap very much
on the back of his head, and his eyes
winking and bloodshot. Hehad a cigar
in his mouth, which he had forgotten to
light, and I notthed that hie gaiters were
buttoned on the wroog lege. But lie woke
up the sleepers by lathing them; .and he
ordered Smith and Roberts to put up their
pardp, and then turned to Andy White.
"Put that rubbish into some other
place," he said, "and don't be making a
baggage waggon of your ball youth."
"Whist, sergeant," mid Andy, "it's worse
tha-n a chess puzzle to stow my kit away.
I've had to leave out my Bible to make
room for the thick twist; and I'm think-
ing the Prayer -book and some of the
Cleaning tackle 'ill have to go next,,or
where the devil am I to put the whisky
flask?" And he opened hie valise to eee
what could be done.
The color -sergeant went round the
rooms and got the men together. There
was mull scrubbing of backs with rough
towels and holding of hot heads under
cold taps, but half an hour before the
time to fall in we were all out on the
parade ground, chatting and laughing,
and ready for anything Pato could send.
It was while we were etanding itlle in
this way that we caught the first whiff
of the coining excitement. Our barrack°
stood above the town level, and from the
square we had a view of a broad road
leading from Pratton past our gate and
into Portsmouth. From the far end of
this road came a faint buzzing, squealing
noise, at the fleet sound of which the
Dorsetehires pricked up their ears and
allowed signs of restiveness. It was the
whinny of the Highland pipes. The Ban-
nooltshire Highlanders, who were to leave
Lar the Crimea on Monday, had juet
ar-
rivel by rail, and were marching on the
town. •
Our men crowded im to the railings to
see them. The pipes grew louder and
shriller; the dense, quivering mass of
dark green, scarlet and black, crownemt
with flashing halos of steel, drew nearer
and became more clear. The boom of the
big drum, the rattle of the side drum
began to catch hold of us; the will. skir-
ling, singing, droning of the pipes became
triumphant and defiant; the tramp of the
feat fell soft but heavy oft the moiet
earth; and the s londid column, with
glittering arms aol daneing plumes, and
twinkling of white gaiters moving cries -
arose, and swaying of tasselled philabege
and sombre plaids and tartans, swept on
below our eyee. And then, as the guard
presented arms to them, and as the
colonel drooped his sword, our fellows
found their voice for the first time and
sent up a ringing oheer, to which the
Scots responded.
This seemed to reuse the Dorsetshiree.
They shook themselves in their heavy har-
ness, ,and wont back cheery and alert to
their own company parades, where the
sergeants called tho roll; the 'thoutiug of
the names and the dropping answers of
"here" and "here" 'sounding strangely
through the fading strainof "Johnny
Cope," which the breeze brought bask
from the way the Highlanders had gone.
But at last the drums rolled, and the
regiment formed up, and the colonel trot-
ted off towards the gate, and turning in
his saddle gave the command to march,
and the bass drum banged. and the brass
crashed out, and the drum -major twirled
his gorgeous cane, and spread his hand-
some sem, anl a great crowd of children
swarmed in front like flies, with a buzzing
noise, and tho tramping feet loll "eranch,
cranch" upon the gravel, and we were
012.
The crowd at the gate was something
tremendous, and loud shouts greeted us
tie the head Of the column same in view.
There is something contagions in the en-
thusiasm of a multitude, and' already our
anon began t,o grow excited. Moreover,
nine-tenthe of the battalion were in liquor.
Jack Bothwell shuffled his feet and
seemed tempted th dance; Corney the
Grig swaggered in his gait like an oper-
atic tenor. Andy White walked with one
shoulder forward, and look of unna.
tural solemnity on ' hie fat thd face;
ld'Namara laughed Willy to himself as lie
marehed, shaking his head at intervals as
if some subtle Joke wore hidden in his
mind; and the color -sergeant, who seemed
unusually flushed about the neck, kept
turning round to perform a series of coin-
plioated an& mysterious winks.
Passing through. the gate I noticed
many trivial •things, details of the
ture which prieted themselves upon my
mind hi the ' fraction of a eecond. Tho
chill, grey shadow of the archway curv-
ing upon the sunny, red gravel; the
heaped.up pyramid of dingy clothing and
hums strangely pink; the noise, waver.
ing, scrambling mob of men and woolen
swarming, all along the road; the wet
roofs of the town in the distance shining
against the 'banks of purple cloud; the
spires dim and taper, with a glint of Fold
on their points; a shadowy Varese of
mastsand spare behind them, and close
to my elbow two huge, red,faced sailors,
with their great mouths open sheering,
and a lame, old ma.n holding up a fra-
gile little girl, pansy -eyed and lily -check-
ed, to look at the soldiers going to the
"By your left, men. Steady, steady,"
cried the adjutant, in a sharp tone.
"Bang, bang, bang!" went the big bass
drum, Nobby Clark, the drummer, on his
mettle; While the piccolo screamed and
tbe cornets blared, and the side drum
rattled and throbbed, and through the
crash of the musk, and through the buzz
seSlei
of the crowd, came the "theme -champ,
ehampeliamp" of the matehing feet in
steady rhythm. . .
I began, now th S co what Joyce .had
meant by hie words the night before. The
brilliant victory of Alma had roused' the
nation to a pitch of high enthueistemeThe
'war was the one engrossing topic of
thought and conversation, e,nd we, going
out to fight for our country, W01.0 the
centre of a great ovation.
All Portsanouth was out. The 'streets
were arched with 'flowere and reetooned
with colored flags. The windows, the W-
eenie% the very roots along our route
were packed with ',people. The crowd up-
on the roads and.pavements was so dense
that we had hardly room to march. Tlos
excitement rose to fever point. The peo.
ple cheered continuously with a crash-
ing. booining sound like .the beating of
surf on a rocky shore, the bancle—we had
SIX of them—played their loudest, flow.
ors were strewn upon the column as. it
advanced. Many ladies in the balconies
wept from sheer excitement. Our men
grew wild, the blood seemed. to dance in
our veins We laughed, inanY of us, in
O fierce, exultant way. Even Joyce looked
flushed and proud.
• AS we came in sight- of the Dock Elates
the email of the bands grew louder, and
the colonel gave a signal for a cheer. BP
wont the baublemtick of the big drum -
major, and the Dorsetehireo gave tongue.
It, was a mighty shout; ehort and sharp
and solid, and °left the general hubbub
like t110 clang of a ekes volley. For a
moment the craved was silent, and the
itinei of feet and clangor of music filled
the air, and then with a orash the bells
of all the churches rang out, the crowd
began to .cheer again, and the cannon
pealed from the batteries above us.
The excitement became almoet delir-
ioue. Soldiers of other regiments, sailors
of the fleet, women, and, civilians of all
cheeses premed into the ranks and shook
our hands and forced peesente upon us.
Were we not going to the war?
It was at this moment.; when the blood
seemed boiling in my head,,and my heart
wes keeping time to the frantio throbbing
of the drum, that I became conseioue of
the fast that a woman had forced hor way
into the ranks, and was marthing between
me and Scotty Cameron.
She wae a tall girl, raltigh and smart,
of a gipsyieh east of countenance, hand-
sOme, but wild. She was singing, and
had linked her arms in ours. I can seer
her now in het dark blue dress, with her
shining blaclt hair tuinbled in a mase of
eurls under her broad white hood, her
lips parted, her teeth gleaming. and her
heavy thin held up, displaying her noble
throat.
When the sergeant told her th leave
the ranks, and motioned her to quit her
holsl upon our arms, she shook her heal
and laughed.
"I have as much right here as any of
you," she cried; "Tan a knapsack girl, and
could oaths,' a rifle too. These boys are
my comrades, and I'm going with them."
And she held her place, keeping step
with the miasma, and marching wild and
free, with her brave. mad face smiling,
and her bright eyes rolliug defiantly
around.
Nor did she leave us until we reached
the gates, when the guard forced her
back, and the shook our hands aud
cheered.
And then we trooped on board, and the
band formed up on the quarter -desk and
played "Rule Britannia," and the crowd
yelled, and the sailors manned the yards,
the harbor shook to the crash of caunon,
and Joyce pointed out to me young Simp-
son, the junior lieutenant, taking leave
of his widowed mother.
Poor lady, she held her boy soldier in
her arms, and sobbed upon his shoulder.
Her other son was idiot dead at the Alma,
and now her youngest IVILI3 going—whither
and to what? Well, slie was taken off 137
her friends with many other weeping wo.
men, and young Simpson walked away
biting linens', and twisting his fingers in
his sash, and the vessel swung from her
moorings and the' cheers redoubled, and
high up, on a. battery wall, the most
prominent .figure in the whole crowded
picture, I saw the gipsy girl, her black
curls flying in the wind and her long
arm raleed above them waving the white
hood as a signal of farewell.
CHAPTER XIV.
The weather was splendid, and the men,
in high spirits, crowded the decks of the
troopship ,as she moved slowly away from
the shore, There was plenty th 'see, and
all new to ue—the 10111 blue water, tho
curving belt of yellow sand, the serried
batteries, and the low green hills making
up a bright find pleasing picture.
The bane etill played on cur desk, a,nd
as we passed the rakish gunboats and
stately lino -of -battle ships by Spithead,
salutes were fired, and the blue -jackets
cheered. Pot NVO were going to the war,
and we felt proud of outheive%
But pride goeth before a fall. In lees
than an hour from our leaving the dothe
the swaying aud, even worse, the rising
and falling of the vessel Minato disagree-
ably manifest, a,nd the faces of the Dorset
boys began to be "giddied o'er with the
pale cast of thought."
Gradually the crowd on the upper deck
deereased, and those who remained grew
silent. We were out in the open now,
with the blue hills of the Isle of Wight
visible on our port side, and the low
batteries of the Hampshire coaet to star-
board. I was standing by the side watch.
a yacht as she rode lightly over the
lew waves, her white sails reflected in the
oily pale blue surface of the sea, and the
bright spray swirling palst her bows,
when I felt a sudden dizziness. The white
sails turned green, tbe blue shy flashed
red, bite deth seemed to sink from under
my feet, and I clutehed joyee by the arm
to save myself.
"Hallo, old chap," said Phil, theerilY,
"better get below and fled a pair of sea
legs."
"Rawl haw! hew!" roared a great ma-
hogany -faced old salt, who stood behind
us; "chuck us your baccy, mate, you'll not
want it to -day, and go to the sawbones
for a' little meter' ile.
I had no heart to answer. Joyce helped
me to get below, and I didn't see sky or
water again for twenty-four hours.
When, after a day and night of help.
loss and abject illness, I was shaken up
by the' eederly-corporal, looking himself
like a bad ease from a malaria hospital,
and was ordered to "fall ha for watell,"
I was so weak I could hardly stand, and
my head seemed to twin and hula like a
top. But °Mere are orders. I crawled
and climbed and scrambled up the nom-
panion, and wee dragged ou deck by a
good-humored bluejacket, who held me by
the collar and hip and bade me "open
my grog -shop and take 'a drink o' the
br06e
0z0h"
Aspoke I looked round. The bul-
wark of the vessel, having gone up and
up until it hid the sea., began to sink
again, end I saw, moVing right demi up-
on us, a 'Mtge eago-colored hill of water,
crested with white foam, and swelling in
its advance, as if alive. It was the first
great wave I lia.d seen, a.ncl I gave myself
up for loot. Clutching the sailor in my
S0.7115 FOR THE LErrucE.
Mrs. Newlywed ---"Good gracious, Clotilda Haven't soot washed
that lettuce yet? And your master ready for his luncheon I Here,
give it to me! Where's the soaral"
arms, I ktoanod, "Ood help us!" and shut
ho next iestant I was rolling along
the dock, ,wtth the sound of laughter in
107 eaee, and a feeling in the gide which
eauSed me to suspect -that had been as.
fasted in my 11201,02ne0LS by a litimay cuff
from Jack's flat.
However, I struggled to my kneea and'
holding on by the side, looked over thr
the wave and found that Yee veath rising
up the aide oh a round mass et dark
water, ''eVer the gleaming ridge of whieh
a sort of mist was flying.
We Were safe, then, 5 was justecongra-
tulating myself when the vebsea with a
leap and a shudder, reached the summit
of the watery hill, and before I could
oatch my breath dippedaher heed and
plunged at a tremendous speed into a
terrible gulf whith appeared to nave,
opened below to swallow us up for ever.
Again I shut my eyes, ,but beiore 1 open-
ed them a ,rudo hand seized me by the
oollare and I was hauled to my feet and
hold against the bulyaric.
"Why, bast my strtthe and whiskers,"
said a hoarse voice,_
ain't togoile to say a's prayers in -fair
weather. Why atop my grog ef the lubber
ain't afeared. Stand up, man, stand up.
Davy Jones '11 not take you. Ile' can get
men for the arskin.." •
Ill as I, was, this insulting speech servel.
to raise my anger, and otaggerine against
O gun carriage, I .gasned out, "If ever I
can stand up again, you brute, I'll black
"I'071a'f
0'
"llawwg haw!" roared the big etia
lor, "that's a 'better mettle. That's more
like a nian's talk. But get to 7001. duty
now, boy, and I'll swab the decks with
You when you find your eea legs."
"Fall in the wa•teli," said the bilious
'corporal, fellatio. -and amidst the gibes
and laughter of the bluejackets, about
forts ghastly, dielievelled, tottering ;midi.
ers reeled into a broken line, and stood
swaying and holding on to sash other
while they answered their names; after
which they crawled about the desk mak-
ing pitiful efforts to look as if they were
of some use
Down on the lower, desks the'men of
the Dorsetshire Reghnent 'were in -a mis-
erable plight. Not one in fifty had ever
been at sea before, and they lay in heaps
upon the bare boards, grovelling and
helpless, the' sailors striding over them
for lubbery swebe and land crabs, and the
vessel all the while rolling and pitehing
horribly. .
"Where are we?" I asked the corporal
of the watch.
Ile shuddered, and said, "In a better
place than we're gOillg tO. We're just en.
teeing the Bay of Biscay."
I shuddered in my turn, ana looked
around me. On every hand the huge grey
waves were leaping and rolling, while
overhead the ragged rain clouds raced
along betwen 05 and the pallid sky. The
Web sails were bellied out by the wind,
the cordage tweaked, the engines throbbed,
the churned surf rushed past the ehip's
side vfith a roar, and round and round
the great gulls ROW, screaming. The scene
wag a painful contrast to our grand tri.
umphal march through Portsmouth, I
huddled myself up in my great -coat, and
settled down to endure my misery as well
a 5 might
My philosophy was severely testod. By
sundown the wind wag blowing a gale,
the sky was clouded over, the sea had
risen. the ship was plunging and rolling
through the flying spume and rattling
hail, and I was etretethed out supine and
wretched amongst a heap of prostrate
comrades, not 0110 of whom could have
stood upright if the ship had been sink-
ing.
For three days and nights we thy about
in this helpless state, the weather all that
time being dirty ,and the sea tempestu-
ous; but afterwards there OLL1110 easier
winds and milder waters, and the sickneas
having worn itself out, we began to feel
our interest in life returning.
On the morning of the fourthday I
awoke early, and was surprised to find
myself hungry. Well, hungry is not the
Nvord,1 was ravenous. I got upon my
feet and went to seek Zero. •
He was up and about, and looked quite
fresh and cheerful. He gave me sotne
hot tea, a red herring, and some ship bis -
atilt, on wlithh I brealcfasted with great
gusto; and afterwards took a salt -water
batb, getting one of the sailors to pump
on me, to my great refreshment. I then
°leaned up my traps, and want on deck
clothed and in any right mind.
The other men were coming round, too,
and the officers had ordered a parade to
pull us together, We had found our seri
legs, and, which was a thing to be still
more grateful for, our BOP, 1#0111a0h1).
Still, it was dull. The weather was
grey and cool, and no land in sight for
days. We amused outsolves as well as
Nye could. In the evenings the band Plaaa
ed on deck, and we got up some games
of cricket and single-ettek, and occasion
thea .
ally joined the saiin some of their
rough sports, in whiM hard knocks and
pthnty of noise were the chief attractions,
But it was dull, and we sot tired of the
arched grey Sky and, the heaving grey
aVOR, and the monotonous thumping of
the enginee, and the all-pervading smell of
oil and tar.
We pruned Gibraltar late at night, and
saw only the loom of the land, the great
rock appearing like a cloud on our leo,
with a winking belt of lights at its base,
arn: days, that beheld nothing but sky
and water and laming ships for nine or
w
• Joyce, who had settled down into his
usual quiet cheerfulness, took thinge yen,
easily, and never seemed hipped or gad
except on 'ono or two occasions, wbon, as
Nye walked about the deck together under
the still night sky, he talked to me of
hie sweetheart in England. At these times
he became very grave, and would toll me
I was better off than he after nil, since
I had left no one behind. to suffer in my
absent:es or, as he expressed ia ato be
wounded 11 I was wounded, and killed if
I was killed."
When he spolce like that I did my best
to load him into more agreeable cenver-
sation, but he always saw my design, and
would laugh and ask me whether I ;dill
felt ne bloodthirsty as on the day when
we got the route.
To tell the truth, my thirst for battle
had quite left me, and if I ever thought
of the work we were bent upon, it was
with a haladefIned feeling of regret that
/ 01.09t soon etand face to face with men
against whom I had no animus, to kill or
tolijo
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drew nearer to our destine -
:leo:: something happened to awalcen in
our men the old sentiment of combative -
(To be eoutinued.)
HOW TO DEVELOP POWER.
Peet of .every day .spent alone, in
which you can make your own deci-
ded, is absolutely necessary to you
if aim. wish to develop pewee. High
temper is a draWback. You can
keep youeselft back many -times by
high temper, an ill-natiarect and dis-
agredhle meaner. After character
nothing counts for suedes more
thangood manners. A gracious
mannealasts all your life and is the
magic key that opens every door.
Never lose your temper, or, if you
do, hofd yew, tongue. The cool
head and quiet tongue always yin.
Keep your own secrets, If you can-
not keep them you cannot expect
others to keep thetas Donotbe too
positive in your- statements. You
May beavrong, no matter how euro
you may feel.
VALUE OF THUNDER SHOWERS
The thunder shower does incom-
parably more goed thn is poesihle
in the ease, of ordinary rain Fur
not only does it soften the hardened
soil and islake the thirsty plants
(says a writer), but it brings down
to these the nitrogenous food, with-
out which they would ,surely peeith,
being then unable to foena their
seeds and fvuits—without which, in-
deed, the life of animals as depend-
ent upon plants could not be sue-
tained on earth. It is the thunder
shower that brings down from the
atmosphere the aninaoida, the ni-
trites, and the nitratee that are
produced by the electric discharges
daring the thunderstorm.
Nearly every man thinks he gives
more to charity than he own afford.
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THE WOMEN DO ARTHE WORK
IN THE MOST UNCIVILIZED
KAFFIR TRIBE.
Possess Contaminating Influence
Which Only Hard Labor Can
Dissipate.
Sex in occupation is not limited
to civilized society. It is much
more. common among primitive peo-
ple. The reason for this is not that
men believe women are unable to
do the heavier work for they are
usually allowed these tasks, but it
le because they think bhe women
mar and even defile their veork.
A.mong certain Indian trilaes there
is an unwritten law which says wo-
men must , keep away from every-
thing that belongs to the men's
sphere of action. Most of the Afri-
can tribes will not allow women to
come near anything that can con-
taminate their .animals. The Be-
chunaa are extremely lazy. They
will allow their women to lift the
heavies!) loads without coming to
their rescue. The Xaffirs have such
strong feeling in this matter that
they will not even allow their wo-
men to come into their kraals for
fear of contaminating the cattle.
In the Marquesas Islands' the wo-
men do Most of the work wirde the
men spend their time making ca-
noes. The women never touch them,
nor are they allowed to ride in them
for fear of casting an evil spell. On
the other hand, in Nicaragua the
men do most of the work about the
hciuse, while the women do most of
the training. They have a reputa-
tion for driving far beder bargains
than the men do, All the market-
ing is done by the women. If a
man even enters a market he runs
the risk of getting a good heisting.
In New Caledonia it is considered
unmanly for men to do any work.
They believe that is
WOMAN'S NATURAL SPHERE.
The women do the housework,
care for the childion, raise the
crops, build their primitive houses,
and make the household furnish-
ings, The men spend their time
lounging ancl smoking, a,nd when
they get tired of that they go mit
for a' few week's hunti. After they
return they gorge themselves with
food, of which the women are not
expected to partake until the men
have finished, The Samoans are
somewhat more energetic. They at,
tend d the farming and hunting,
but leave all other work to the wo-
men. However large the family,
and however much they need clothes
a Samoan would rather see his chil-
dren stiffer from the cold than to.
help his wife do the weaving. It is
considered a degradation for a man
to engagc. in any such work.
The men of British Guiana con-
sider their -work limited to hunting
and war. They colander the great-
est humiliation any man can suffer
is to help his wife With her work.
The story is told that on one oda-
sion there was a .shortage of bread.
The men had to help the women
bake, but they were only forced to
this when starvation stared them in
Ilia face and these who consented
were ever after called old women.
The Motes believed that if they
see the \yeoman while starthig out to
fish or hen li, their work f. sere to
result in failure. In some South
American .tribes the men believe
that if the women even ]cols 011 their
weapons
THEY LOSE THEIR STRENGTH.
The Zulus only allow women who
have passed middle age to 0JCCOM-
parly them to War, for they say they
have become like men. This feeling
of sex in occupation is carried into
the political and religious rite. The
Australian tribes wad Fijians drive
their women away and beat them if
they see them near any of their pub -
lie demonstrations.
In the Marquesas Islands, con-
cludes John Trainor, the political
and religious meetings are held on
what is known as hoolah-hoolah
ground, and the women never are
allowed near them. On the other
hand, they Id tilde women carry
the logs and water and toil from
morning until night without ever
offering them any assistants). This
shows that the division of labor is
not based on the idea that the
heavier work naturally belongs to
man, for in most primitive lands,
these tasfa are usually handed over
to the women.
A.USTRALL1'S CAPITAL.
Will Be Modelled From the Best
Designs. s ^
Now that an award has been a
made by the judgee in the design )
competition for the plans of the fa-
ture Australian capital eity at Can-
Isiet.it is possible to describe the
successful arehitectts drawings. The,
competition was announced Iasi)
year by the Australia/a Minister for
Heine Affairs, and he received de-
signs from all over the world, many
espeeially fro rn America and Con-
tinental Europe. The winning ele-
sign will not necessarilybe the plan
of the future city which will be
modelled on the best features in the
best deeigns. The first award went
to an American, the sdond to a
German, and the third to a Frenoh-
man. In the winning design the
Parliamentary and Government
buildings are placed on a rise
known as Camp Hill, on the south
side of the Malone() River, and
overlooking other areas of the- pro-
posed eity. They will find a tri-
angular spaee on a slope down to
the lake front and facing the public
gardens. The lake is formed biome
the river waters. Near by, over-
looking another portion of the lake,
is the position set apart for the resi-
dence of the Governor-General, and
dill within the same area is the
Prime Minister's residence. The
two main thoroughfares from the
centre are .carried across the lake
at its narrowed points, one giving
awed to the municipal and busi-
ness centre, ths other to what is de-
scribed as the market area and the
railway terminus. To the west of
the municipal and commercial areas
of the city there is ample provision
for a University and its surround-
ing residential area. The main resi-
dential suburb is shown at a poiet
on the same side of the river as the
capital. The provision of as mann-
facturing euburb and an agricul-
tural suburb, special reservations
for military buildings, betray that
the designer has laid out his plans
in contemplation of the ultimate
growth of 'a large city. It is 'claim -
eel for the design that the plan of
oon,struction ie'euch that it will al- ,!
low the city to grenv naturally from
smali beginnings, without the ex-
penditure being made unnecessar-
ily large at first to preside for a
city beyond the possible develop-
ments of a generation.
DOMESTIC PROBLEM,
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