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HOME**/
FOR THE "CANNING SEASON.
Li the operation of canning and
preserving the most important thin
is the getting ready, and this be -
,gins far in advance of the actual.
canning day. Kettles, which have
never been used for any other pur-
pose than preserving, spoons,
knives, forks, skimmers, dippers,
funnels, jelly ,bags, , fruit press,
strainers, scales, measures, and all
necessary implements should be in
a state of perfect order and. clean-
liness.. Have enough miitable jars,
cans, glasses, etc., with rubbers,
tops and covers at hand, plenty of,
paraffin labels -and cloths for wip-
ing and handling utensils. A long-
sleeved apron of red ealico willtsnot
show stains. The table will be ab-
• should be moved as little as po
Bible after the covers have be
tightened. It is best to have
justable shelves. In this way o
may economize space and utilize
there is without crowding.
Tack a sheet of paper to the i
side of the fruit cupboard door. 0
this write the number of cans
each kind of 'fruit you put awa
Keep a small pencil hanging at tl
tdp of the sheet of paper, and ea
time that you remove a can mai
it off, You can then' see at a glass
what fruits you have on hancrwit
out moving the jars about.
When you want to open a fru
jar instead of prying open with
knife, Piet hold the jar top in war
water for a minute. You will b
surprised to see how easily the li
will come off, and besides you wi
avoid cutting ,our hands, ais often
times happens. -
A young housekeeper, venturin
on her first preserving, may lik
to know that:
Five boxes of currants will yiel
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solutely clean if several layers of nine glasses_ of jelly.
newspaper are spread over it. If Six ..pound e of peaches will yiel
there is ank danger of juice being eight Pint jars of Preserves.
dropped upon a good floor or lino- SevPn pounds of Peache4 wij
leum, papers may be spread down yield fifteen glasses of mairinalade
there also
Procure the best fruits and vege-
tabks. Overripe fruits never make
good preserves or jellies. 'Use
granulated sugar for all
sallies and jams, light brown sugar
Lor spiced fruits. Heat the sugar
for jellies in the cared before ad-
ding the fruit juice. Do not cover
while cooking unless you want
trouble.
• Put jars, covers and rubbers in a
pan of cold water and bring gradu-
ally to a boil. Boil 15 to 20 inin-
• utes. When the fruit is ready
empty the jars and place upside
'clown on a hot cloth. Put on the
sterilized rubbers, Place a, knife
in the jar while filling, so that bub-
bles will break. Fill and overflow
the jars. Remove the knife and
overflow again. Screw on'the steri-
lized" tops inimecliately. After
screwing the tops on, dip into hot
One peck of quinces will yiel
twenty-one glasses of jelly.
Pour pounds of plums will yield
five pint jars of preserves.
Four quarts of crab apples, mea
F3ured after.cutting small, will yield
ten glasses of jelly.
•
HOME HINTS.
Cabbage should always be 'boiled
in two waters.
To keep celery and lettuce fresh,
stand the roots in cold water.
Put castors on your woodbox if
you would have it handy to move
about. -
Change dish, water often—it is
better, both for the hands and for
the dishes.
Never bang an oven door, if you
don't wish your bread or cake to
fall. Close it gently instead.
• To keep Sowers fresh, cliptheir
stems and change the water every
paraffin over the rubber, thaw -fills day. Also a pinch of salt helps.
ing any tiny sir passage, Place Cloves placed- between winter
the jars upside down until cold. bedding, blankets alsol clothing are
, Wash off the jars and put in a dry, a better moth remedy sthan cam-
• cool place. A common error when phew. •
canning fruit is that of retighten- To get rid of the objeetionable
ing the covers of glass jars after
• the same have become- thoroughly
cold. This should never be done,'
as It loosens the ciement, which is
formed by the rubber ring of e,om-
mon fruit jars coming in contact
with the heat, which makes the jars
airtight.
The proper method is to fill Inc
smell of cabbage while cookang, Pat
a piece of charcoal in the seeMd
Water.
White felt hats can be °leaned
ii
by dusting them with white corn
meal and brushing the meal thor-
*uglily out. •
A spoonful of flour added to the
grease in which eggs are to be fried
jars to the top with the boiling will keep them from sticking to the
fruit, put on the_rubber rings and pan.
If -paper ehades for the lamp or
candle can be clipped in a solution
of alum they are less likely to catch
fire. •
An old Japan tray clan be rejuv-
enated and its usefulness prolonged
if you give it two coats of white
paint and one. of enamel.
If soot falls on a carpet, do not
try to brush it off. Spread ashand-
ful of well -dried *salt upon it and
sweep up salt and soot together.
If you wish to bring out the fla-
vor of vegetables to perfection,
screw the covers on as tight as pos-
sible. If this method' is followed
a spoiled jar of fruit will be a rare
thing. If old lids and rubbers are
used, it is well to test them before
rigking the precious fruit. Do this
' by first putting a little hot water
into the jars, screwing on the lids,
and turning upside down for sonic
time. A silver tablespoon placed
within a glass jar while beingsfilled
will render it crack -proof.
Much of the success of the can-
ning of fruits depends upon the ar-
, rangoraquts of the Preserve closet. add a teaspoonful of sugar to the
The position' is a serious matter. If water in which they are. boiled.
possible, the Closet- should 'face' a :Add a, teaspoonful' of baking pow -
or west all, never' a south der to old potatoes when mashing
•or east window, for low tempera- them and beat briskly. This will
• ture maintained, without special re- make them light Sand creamy.
frigeration is elsential. The shelves
o a model closet for preserves
should not be , deeper than six or
eight inches, just wide -enough for
one row of jars. ,When two or three
rows are placed on the shelf, it
necessitates constant moving. No
one needs to be told that presServes
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The Wringer ithard extends from tini rids,
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Do you Inc Manwellis 'Tovorine.-the
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• If a sewing machine needle sticks
in sewing heavy cotton goods rub
tile line of stitching to be done with
a bit of rather dry soap.
Cake -beaters should be rinsed as
soon as used, and any dish that has
had eggs in it should be filled with
cold water until time to wash it.
Fawn -colored suede gloves can
be cleaned with a mixture of ful-
ler's earth and alum. Then brusk
, off the powder, The gloves should -
be on the hands when ckanecl.
Every householder should have
plenty of dust sheets for cleaning
days. Sometimes old sheets can ,be
'utilized in this way. New dust
,sheets are best made of eiheap call -
00.
To take iodine stains out of cloth-
ing rub them with liquid ammonia
-and rinse well before, washing, An-
otlier method is to wash with al-
cohol and rinse with soap -suds and
then clear ,water. •
GRAINS OF GOLD.
Without adversity a nia.n hardly
• know,s whether he is 'honest or not,
—Fielding.
There is nothing in which people
'betray their character more than in
• what they find to laugh . at.—
Goethe. 1
Before the'State, before het bus -
band a mother is responsible for
her- children's upbringing.—Mrs.
Alice Hammond.
Man scan scarcely be under a
greater 'delusion than to suppose
;that he cam in any instance add to
his happiness by a sacrifice of prin-
ciple.—Dr, John son .
Education commences at the mo-
ther's home: anti every word spo-
ken within the hearsay of little chi],
clren tends toward the formation
of character. —hall on .
The race is divided into two class-
es—those who go0 ahead and do
something, and those who sit still
and inquire "Why wasn't it done
the other way ?"—Oliver Wendell
II4lines.
We must all be ready somehow
to toil, to Taffer, to die. And yours
is not the less noble because no
drum beats before you when you go
out into your dail, battlefields and
no crowds shout ,a out your comang
when you return from ,your daily
victory or defeat.—R. L, Steiven-
to
son.
THE WHITE
I,A1)Y •
OR, WHAT THE THRUSH SAID.
CHAPTER %X.
went back to London; wont back
more lonely, • more eorrowful, more s6e31t,
but lees bitter thou when X left it; went
back' to spend' some weary weelie of daye
In the vain search for work, and of nights
in the valuer Hearth for friendship.
By night and by day the result was
the same. London did not want me:, Lon.
don was sublimely indifferent to my ex-
istence; London rated me at a value be.
low the broken cab hack, fox, he could
be sold in the knacker's yard.
In ninety MOB out of a hundred when'
I asked foe work I was snubbed or in-
sulted; in every ease I Wan refused. A.
0011.118327Man, a dischargedsoldier, a lab-
orer with a crippled arra, Londoe, neem.
deudotned owunclistrciobtatbti;netnidint'en4; IiLoaandocrai-
warfare Was of the commercial kind,
wherein there is no quarter given and
none to caro. for the wounded. .
I accepted -the eonditione cahnly, and
took the nub e and sneers without a,
frown. Life was net so preeioue to rue
that X need °are to keep it. If I could
get work, sot If not—sol There was tit
river.
The loneliness Was the worst, and ti,
long nights. The long nighte when
wandered about the great city lookin
wietfully for a, crumb of human limn
thy, and Ending mina During my JIP
ehort stay in London this alienage ambit
urea me. / was wiser now, and knew
that the coldness and the caution o
those I met were often but the armo
without which they were not eafe al
etreets of the Christian capitaL Indeed
I wore this mail myself, and kept in
vieor down, For, though I knew tha
there were Itind' hearta behind rude an
etern Pronto, I hail also learned -that on
may smile and be a villain; and it wa
only at intervals, when the mime of lone
'loess became unendurable, when the
thirst for human intercouree under which
I -suffered in the midet of the great hu
man eea was past bearing, that I forced
my company upon some constable or
eho?,131ack, some prowling tramp or poster
10 it mipo.
It wail from a recontre of the latter-
lsind, a rambling convereation with a
boozy hawker in an Beet End tavern that
I got the clue which ma me out of the
dreary Babylonian labyrinth at , last.
We had een comparing notee, and I
had told my companion that I was out
of work, when he mild, in a thick voice,
and with many winke and mysterioue
grimaces, that if his tongue were loceen-
ed by another pot of porter, be, Sam
Sanders, might be able to "put me on
a mark." ,
I paid fey the drink, and was informed
that a, pal of Mr. Sam Sandere' was about
leaving hie employment, and that by an -
plying before the post was advertieed I
should be sure to "cop." if so be,I waen't
too stiff in the Matter of "braes and
The post in question was that of a
messenger at the shirt factory of Solo-
mon Brothers, in Shoredithh. I secured
the address, and called before nine en
the following morning.
The "sac:terra of Solomon Brothers con-
sisted of the second End third floors of a
dingy dwelling-houee in a back street.On
the second floor a small bedroom had been
converted into an aloe, and large bed-
room into a warehouse. The third floor,
a big attic, nerved as a, workroom.
In the office found a huge, pasty -faced,
black -bearded, bloated Sew, perched upon
a high stool, writing,' He Was in hie stiirt
sleeves. His shirt had not recently come
/rem the laundry, air skin seggeeted the
abeence of a lavatory from the pre-
mises, and he bad evidently mielaid hie
hair-brueb.
"It is work you want; or wages?" he
asked me. when I stated my busmen.
I said wanted ,both,
ealz;" he croaked, "we don't want any-
body, reallY. rte ' inetwellekee. qne leay
loafer, because ra no work for hini
7011 wont do. It's only a place for a
boY," and be turned to hie desk.
I said, "Thank you," and wathed to the
door.
You eee," be resiuned, sliding round
on hie Moo), "we, have to be very Part/.
leular. People's such reguee. Beeidee,
ave've bad forty-seven applications al.
ready; and we don't want anyone. But
you ean leave your name."
I said I would, and began to write it
down.
"Ali, hat" said be, "you're a scholar.
hTehreeyLre all rogues. We want se worker
I remarked ealm/y, that I was a work-
er. Ra eyed me suspicion/6Y.
'Well,' he aaid, "eve don't want any-
body; and if we did there's lots out of
collar that's known to us."
I repeated my thanks, and was gone=
wben 110 came down from his perch, read
my name and address, eYed ine over, ori -
Meetly, and began to ask me a etrine of
questions.
My age, my native, place, why I left
It. did I drink, die% media, could I find
references, did I knew London well, hoW
long had I been out of work, what wire
1117 greeriOUS CleelIP/Mion?
When / told him I had just lett the
army, he said. "Ohl had enough et it, I
fl'50Ser
"NO,' replied, "I Nall wounded and
discharged."
who worked on the prennees Were kept
continually under the laeh; the lash of
the Jewish robber's coWardly, brutal
tongue. They were ineulted, taunted,
bullied, and brOw-beaten without. mercy;
cheated out of their hard-eareed wagee;
named by the sheer pressure -of oiar.va,.
tion accept terms and endure intamies
which it made my blood boil tc, think
about Yet their condition Was less Dais-
Orable than that of the outside halide,
The instrument *Midi crushed the out-
side hands was called, by Mr..Soloinoa,
"the hang." and consisted in the deithil
of with up to the threshold of starva-
tion. By this means the unhappy women
and girls were reduced to a state of ab-
ject dependence on' the whime and the.
greed of the worst ruffian in all Londe
"Ah. my dear," the ,Tow would say, with
rt devilish grie, to, some poor girl, 'aroska3
:very slaok -today, we're only making to
stock—tust to keep You on, But if you'll
look round in a day or two I may be.
ahle to Sind you a 1little..,a,t a low price,
Just to keep the pot boiling."
The girls understood the system. Some.
times they would go away and starve out
e eir peno o pro Mien. Sometime**
they would eome. to the' point at once
o by 'askirig the terms. Sometimes, but very
at rarely, thOY would, weep and beg for
6 mercy; and get cursed for their palile.
a-, PaOn these latter occasions I often borax.
ed up from 'my work at th-e-great hulkineg
• slave.drivet, and hesitated an 10 wheth r
.1 or not should thrash him without fur-
' ther parley; but for a long time .8 kept
r ' znY handm off him, and put out my hatred
at interest, as I had done' in the cese of
dYt,i' Black_ J
'a
ck
.
ClIAPTB—R' XXX. ,
• In the semiel, X wee glad I waited. One
s! afternoon I had been with a parcel to the
railwog. etation, and on returning ,to the
'1 factory I heard the familiar sound of a
girl's Voice pleading with the ogre in bit
: "Mr. Solomon, you might giye. me a
thanee, I've, been hung up for a week.,
Sunt a few (townie, Mr. Solomon; only a
8 ow, 10 got n bite 00 bread,'
"I .tell you, no. You must wait. Now
cut 'it—get out!" •
I opened the office door and went in.
The SON, was lounging before the empty
firegrate, with a sneer on his fedi fat
face and a reeking eigar in his dirty, fat
fingere. Faeing him, with her back to me,
was a young girl, thin and poorly clad,
but very clean and tidy. She was crying,
and begging for work.
'Please, Mr. Solomon, ink, .a few dozen.
I wouldn't worry you only. for Ran. MY
little sister, she's almost dyin', poor, pallid
and not a bit o' bread in the rant'. DO
Mae me a elurce. rn take any price,
sir, any price.'
"Now, look here," said Solomon, 'just
you get out of this office. How dare you
come snivelling here? How, dare you?
Bit?"
M. Solomon," pleaded the poor girl,
"I can't help cryin'. Do give me a chance.
for GocPs' sake. If I don't get some money
before night my sister will die. She will.
Ob, do, do give ,rae some work."
The girl stepped forward and lifted up
her hands beseechingly. There Was a
small cracked mirror over the chimney
-
piece, and in it I eaw her face
It wan the face of little Carrie Gray,
the girl 8 had met on Louden Bridge,
So1mon took a fosr whiffs at hie ofgar,
and eyed the girl contemptuously.
"Yon know what I told you," be said;
you want, WOrk, Teti can have it,— CHI
those tame."
"Never," eMd the girl, vehemently.
"Then go and get it whore you can. Go
and get it on the streets." he snarled;
"You've missed your market."
I stepped forward. The Jew looked at
Ino, and hie jaw fell, "What do you
want?" he demanded, edging away,
laid my hand on Carrie's shoulder.
"Go," I said; "wait for me in t,he street.
I know you, and ru help you
**Itzt-went out weeping, and without look.
Ina at,*„
"Nov,' said 1.,`"Pqn_r"7 10 tA� 3.1..vr•
=note, wrearstyee,rokrndexivrbiyt. t epu " uploT2.u.rt aityoofu,
Re retreated, threatening and miming*
towards hie desk. 5 sprang at him,
knocked all the breath out of bie body
with one lunge, struck him several heave
blows in the face, seized him by tleo col*
las, dragged him into the centre of the,
floor, and thrashed him withhis owr
walking.stick until ray arra was tired.
Then / threw him into the ,fender and
left him. A erovvd of work -girls from the
garret above were on the stairs, arid great
was their de/ight when they heard that
I had given "Sheeny Sol" a biding; but
they crept bank hastily to their eeate, for
fear of the wrath to come.
In the street / found poor Carrie wait.
ing. I hurried her into an omnibus, and
w`e got away. / had 110 fear of Mr. Solo.
mon. He would not bo able to start a
line and cry for sometime.
"Carrie," I said in a low voice, "do Ati
know me?"
She preened ray arm gently and mid
"Yea," and WC Rieke no more until WO
left the °mulling., Then I said," "Now, do
:lust 00,5 tell yeti. Here .is a sovereign,
Get a little wine and some light food,
take a cebthome, let sour sieter have
something tO Support her, wrap her BP
and bring her to, Ieliegton. I will wait
for you at the Angel;
Gars -re hurried awa'y at once, and /
went to Islington and engaged a decent
furnished zoom for the two girls, paying
a week's rent in advance. 8 had Atli
above ten pounds left -of the money I had
saved id the Crimea, and 8 had a to.
tion that before it was expended 5 could
find a friend for Carrie and her slater,
(To be continued.)
"What for?" • .
"kf,r-1ft, arm is injured; AM I 111188 tor
service.'9
"Then you're unfit for work."
'No. My arm is etiff, but quite strong.
I am active and able.' I looked at him
with a grim smile, and felt tempted to
convince him of tbie in a practical Man-
ner. •
Ho considered, then said, "ti—o; you
79070± suit. Ito doret„.„ want cripples,"
"Very well,' said I, "good morning,"
and again I made for the door.
The Jew stood in the oontre of the
roam frowning thoughtfully. "Wait a
bit," he eaid, "Tf 5 ehould think fit th
give you a chance, I s'pose, as Yon're a
cripple, you'd take a nominal wage?"
'I will take what I can live on,' mad
The Jew langlied "We
15 aneWerad. "DO 9011 tyhoaige ike!iy"
get any more? Have o
'I have sixpence a day y fuer aapjzzeitIVI.
plied.
'rim; theta* better. Then You'll really
ot want much wages, only for pocket
money. 'as, you don't drink."
"I don't want much wahns," I said,
'but if / work I must live.
The Jew serewed up his face breathy
o.nd tapped his nose with his finger.
Look hero," he said, call it a,shilling
a day' and I'll give you a start."'
"fatMate for half-aacrown,"• said L
"Haff-a-erown 1 Man alive, do you .thinic
'we want a manager?"
turned to go.
"Here," he called out, slapping his 31 at
hands .together, "I'll' meet you haltwaY.
Clall it one -and -three."
'What are the hours?" I asked.
"Hours? Oh, no regatir home. • Just be
about .when wanted --making yourself use-
ful. It's light work : tine -and -three a
day and sixpence nenston'e eleven shillings
a week. You ought to save - money.
Then Ws a bragainP
"Well," he said, "just name your low-
est figure.'
'I hve named 'it'
Otto ," -
"Do you always stand out for a price
like this?"
"I always say what I mean."
"Then you're a fool, and you won't do.
Get out. Go to the devil. Beggars aren't
choosers yet Be off*"
I went away , without answorink, and
had got to the corner of the street, 'when
a slatternly, miserable girl overtook me,
and said, "Mr. Solomon tvalite you."
I went bath, and after an hour's hag -
sling was engaged at twelve shillings a
week; to go at six in the morning, and
stay as long as I was wanted.
"There's one comfort," / Vito -eight, an X
azane away from my now employer, "I
need not ston if I don't like, the place,
and I can always give the brute a hiding
if he needs it.' •
On the following Monday I began work.
An Mr. Solothon said, there, were "no reg -
lar hours"; but eighteen a day were
aliont the average do I Seldom get clear
of the business before midnight. The du-
ties also were vaguely defined, and in.
nhaled such tasks as packing boxes, load-
ing carte, counting shirts and handker-
chiefs, running errands, addressing let.
tors, cleaning the oflloe, and lying to the
hands and the eustomers.
Indeed, the work was so hard and so
disagreeable that I should not has en-
dured it beyond the end of the first week
butfor two very different considerations.
Inthe firet place, I hat.l. taken lodgings
at the house of it poor widow, a laundress;
with seven small children, a big rent, and
a bed -ridden mother, iund the money I
Paid this poor creature was oe sorely
needed that I had not the heart to with-
draw it, as I must if I left My ,work.
In the second place, Mr. Solomon • f.lolo-
mon was molt an utter seoundrel that
could not leave without kicking him and
woos ohblged to watt for an opportunity.
The opportunity came, but net until X
0fOlboon a'"entsPetan,r
y7na1:ndtlac7ua
o .1,1e7.1,.
The piace was a
elitvehme. Tho girls
HANDLORE AN» SYMBOLISM.
Signs of Wealin—ess and Strength—
When a Man Is Lying.
When a man is. not telling the
truth he is apt to clench his hands,
as few men can lie with their hands
• open.
A man who holds his thumb tight-
ly within his hand hais..weak will
power, Strong willed persons hold
their thumbs outside when shutting
their hands,
• Shaking hands when greeting was.
originally an evidence that each
-person was unarmed. ,
Among savake tribes when a man
holds up his hands it ie.& eign of
peace.; an evidence that he is urn -
armed or does not intend tot use
weapons. An outlaw says "Ffelci
"up your hands meaning thereby
to make his victim powerless, to re,
sist attack. .
When a man kisses the hands of
a woman he expresses 'hie siibmis-
eion. This is also the idea when
kissing the hands of kings. By this
act their superiority is acknow-
ledged.
When an oath ie taken it is done
by raising the right hand or laying
it upon a. Bible. '
In the' consecration of bishops,
prie,sits a,nd deacons and also in con-
firmation the laying of hands, is tho
essence of the Sacramental rite.
A bishop gives his ,blessing with
the thumb and first and second fin-
gere. In this the thumb represents
God the Father, the first finger is
the emblem of God the Son, and the
second finger stands for God the
Hely Ghost, the three together syin-
bolizing the Holy Trinity,
'I`hc wedding ring is placed upon
the third finger of the woman's
hand to show that after the Trinity,
man's love, honer and duty are
given to his wife.
Beside the deaf and dumb there
are manp people, notably of Latin
and Semitic race s, who talk with
their hands.
THE MASHER.
A masher is a despicable creature
who gets a good deal of encourage-
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DERELICTS ARE DANGEROUS
THRILLING STORIES OP THE
SEAMA.N'S DREAD.
What Became of the Twenty Per-
sons on Board the Marie
Celeste.
The extracrclinary- number of
missing and abandoned ships posted
at Lloyd's this year -incidentally
suggests one/of the. greatest dan-
gers of the sea—the derelict vessel,
says London Answers.
And the only 'official efforts made
to overeorae this peril is that em-
bodied in the Derelict Vessels (Re-
port) Act, 1896, by which, if the
wreck is within 100 miles from the
United Kingdom, the Trinity House
authorities sent out a vessel to de-
stroy it. And it is by no means an
easy task to destroy a derelict. One
way of doing so is by ramming, and
this is only within the power of a
battle•ship. Destroying a derelict
by blowing her lapis apt to make
matters worse at timee; huge
baulks of tiraber floating about are
as dangerous to shipping, and even
more invisible than the derelict her-
self was.
Among the Board of Trade re-
cords one reade of theRanny E.
Wolstion, which was abandoned on
October 15th, 1891, land travelled
about 4,000 miles before she was
last seen in December, 1893; while
the W. L. White, which was aban-
doned• on March 13th, 1888, eighty
miles from New York, and was re-
cognized by some forty vessels,
tossed about the North Atlantic for
roiontlis, and at last went ashore off
the Hebrides on January 23rd, 1889.
THE MARIE CELESTE.'
Some derelicts tell their own
story of tempest or fire which ba$
caused theta to be abandoned, but
others present ineerutable myster-
ies as to why they have been left to
their fate:
Take the etxtraordinary case of
the Marie Celeste. In February,
1878, she left Boston for Mediter-
ssanessn„portss, having on board
twenty persons, Mcludinlir
taink wife and little daughter.
but none of these was ever seen
again. Yet the ship sailed safely
across the Atlantic almost to her
intended destination before the
mysterious tragedy was enacted.
She wa,s sighted not far from Gib-
raltar by the -crew of a coaistguard
boat, -who rowed towards her.
Every sail was trimmed, and at a
distance there was nothing remarks
able about the vessel; but when
they approached ib they could tell
that something was amiss, for no
one was at the wheel, and there was
no signs of life anywhere.
• eA DEEPENING MYSTERY.
The mystery, deepened when the
vessel was boarded. Not a soul was
to be -found,. 'yet not one of the
boats was amssing, nor was a rope
out of place, or anything to indicate
that bad weather had been encoun-
tered. Continuing the investigae
tion below, they found evidence
that the ordinary' life of the crew
had been suddenly interrupted just
at dinner -time. A half -finished
meal Was also on the tale in the
cabin. To crown all, the captain's'
watch was hanging above his bunk,
and, as it was still ticking, the yes-
sel must have been deserted within
the previous twenty-four heirs.
Everything in the vessel was in per-
feict brder, arid the, cargo untsouch-
e,d. There was nothing to throw
the slightest light on the mystery --
no traces of fight or bloodshed to
suggest mutiny, and nothing ta in-
dicate piracy.
The coastguards made a minute
inspection of the deck, but, with
the exception of a, mark like the cut
of an axe on the forward bulwarks,
there was nothing noticeable.
Careful inquiries were later ma,cle
in every poseible direction, but
front the day the Marie Celeste, left
Boston to, -the present time none of
the twenty souls on board has ever
beenseen.
WAS IT AN OCTOPUS?
What happened •to them? Many
theories have been andvanced and
rejected. One of these—almost too
horrible to imagine, but which best,
fits in with the facts—was thatgthe
brig was attacked by ,a giga,ntie Oc-
teints• "
• Picture the vessel gliding quietly
along.. It is dinner -time, and only
one is on deelc—the man at the
wheel. -Suddenly the octopus
seizes him. Ffis cries bring the rost
of the crew t,o the de,ek with a rush.
One by one they are enfolded by the
terrible arms until all ".are captured,
when, it sinks to the depths with its
prey. The pi2miliar cut on the bul-
warks might have been caused by
ons of the crew striking cle,sperate-
ly at the greaten as its horrible
waving arms came over the side.
And who can say that this is a
fancy picture of what happened?
For seafaring Melt, when' they ga-
ther together, with no sceptical
landsmen uresent ecoff '50"sail-
exchange stories of
weird experiences afloat just as
strange as the unravelled. mystery
of the Marie Celeste.
Too Often it is the things we
shouldn't do that seem to make life
worth living.
FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE
LEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE.
LAND'S SIIODES.
Happenings in the Emerald Isle 01
Interest to Irish- ,
men.
A farmer has bean fined five shil-
lings for furious, driving at to fu-
nerai
Adeaf mute named Quinn fro
Abbey Tuam was kille,d by
light-
ning near Galway.
John Turbitt, harbormaster of
Port Stewart, was drowned by fall-
ing out of a boat.
Isaac Allen of Mount Shannon
while fishing in the Shannon land-
ed a pike weighing 25 lbs.
Mr. James, Cecil Johnston' has
been appointed Private secretary
to the Lord Lieutenant,
Cavan District Council has made
arrangements to build sixty-nine
cottages under the Laborers? Act.
Damage to the amount of $5,000
wits done by a fire that broke out
in the stares of John Atkin of BIM.
try.
The new polie,e station in Fitzgib-
bon Street, Dublin, which will ac-
commodate eighty Men, is now
ciomplete.
A school of music is to be estab-
lished in Limerick for young people,
episseaarticsu.larly children of the poorer
• Tr. Hayes, dispensing doctor of
Rathkeale Union, has resigned af-
ter a service,extending over half a
-century, ,
The death has occurred of Mr.
William Henry Butler at Dublin,
one of the oldest members of th
Northern Circuit.
Many provisiooi dealers of Dublin
have raised the price of bacon gd
in the pound as a result of the em
barge, on cattle. '
Thomas O'Neil, a farmer, was
knocked down by his horse and
trampled to death valhile driving
pigs do Liraeriek. '
'The Londonderry Nationalist dis-
trict has been disturbed ever since
Lady Day, when the 'police had to
inake two baton charges.
Mr. Robert Hall Jackson, of
County Kildare, who was 72, was
killed while riding his motor cycle.
He took up Motor cycling ten
months ago, , '
Mr. Marie Cocke, aged 80, who
was evicted from her, holding on the
Faris:ail estate- at Portlongfield,
Killeelandra, last April, has just
died.
Ferngal O'Dormatall and Manna
Coll, 'fishermen, were itt a skiff se-
curing lobster pots in Gweedon,
when th-e skiff capsized and both
were drowned.
The. Board of Trade returns of
p
auperism show Belfast ,to be the
lowest in the kingdom with 94 per
4wrh ;04• adr :0700def. second
Mrs. Olga B. Crichton 0 Offi'-
rowqurry, Ballisodare'has re-
signed her seat on the County In-
surrance CoMPany, to devote all he
ime, money and energy" to
wo-
man's ,suffrage work.
'A. FEARFUL VIGIL.
A Hindu Minter's Experience With
a ,Tiger.
An extraordinary tale of a Hindu
hunter's presence of mind and self-
control is told by Ernest Youn'g isi
"Adventures Among Hunters and
Trappere," on the authority ef
Colonel Campbell, a. British officer
in the Indiam service. A tiger had
carried off a number of cattle from
the vitinity oli a small village in In-
Buseapa, the ehief hunter, re -
Bellying to put sso end to these de-
predations, found where, the laea,sto
lair was, fastened up a young buT-
lock es a halt, and eat down near
it, -but well to leesvards-to watch.
His only protection in caise of at-
tack on the part of the tiger was a
small bush. Soon after sunset the
tiger put in Lie appearance,
pouncead on the bullock, v,nd began
his supper. While he was gorging
himself with the warm flesh And
blood of hie vioMrn Bussapa thrust
his long, clumsy match -lock
through the, bush and fired.
The, tiger was wounded, but not
killed. It rose -with to sullen growl,
peered round asif to try to discover
its, assailant, a,nd being unable, on
account of the bush end the gath-
ering gloom, to see the man with
the gun, once ,more greedily fell
upon the. .
Buisapa was kneeling „only a few
iyarde away, completely defencelese.
Had -he dared to reload, his move-
ments would have proclaimed his
whereabouts, and his wounded
eneray would have sprung upon him
at once, His bare knees were
pressed ag'ainet the gravel, •which
was cutting into his flesh; but be
dared net move an inch.
Therehe knelt, getting stiffer and
stiffer, while just in front of him
avas "the tiger, growlieg hoarsely
over his evening meal, and keeping
one eye on the bush, whom& he ap-
peare.d to suspect clanger. • The
wine' blew his hot breath into the
face of the almost crippled hunter,
but the wretched man kept perfect-
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inerea,secl every moment; sitspenee
became atmest intolerable bet the
motion of a limbethe rustling of a
leaf would have been death. Ile
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heard the gong of the Village strike
each hour of that fearful night. The
mosquitoes swarmed round his face,
but he da,red not brush them off.
Hours rolled on, and hie endur-
ance was well-nigh exhausted,
when at length the welooane dawn
began to, light up the eastern hori-
zon. On the approach of the day
the tiger rose and stalked away,
growling sulkily, to a thicket 181/
some edietances and then the stiff
and wearied Bussapa felt that he
was sale.
'One would'have thought that. al-
ter euch. IL night' of suffering he
would have been too thankful for
his escape to venture on any fur-
ther risk. But Bussapa, was not so
easily diverted froan his purpose.
As soon as he had stretched, his
cramped limbs and restored his
sluggish circulation, he reloaded
his matchlock, and coolly proce,ed-
ect 80 fi.nish his work. With his
match- lighted, he advanced alone be
the tiger, lying ready to receive
him, and shot him dead in the fore-
head while he wais in the very act
of charging.
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TENDERNESS MAUR: -• ---- -------
A Farmeett.--rindness Saved the
of 'Lis Little Daughter.
1 It was a glmioue day in the mid-
dle of harvest and the workers were
busy in the cornfield. The mighty
reaper was going its round, its
huge blades outting and slashing
with almost etia,rtiling rapidity and
speed. As it approached a corner
of the field several birds were seen
to rise suddenly from among the
long stalks. The farmer himself
wee there arid on noticing the binds
he thought that thel'e would be a
net thereHe was a kindly man
and as the reaper approached the
spot he felt a. twinge of pity for the
helpless little nestlings, but to stop
the reaper would mean trouble,
which he knew his men would, not
take quietly.
The reaper tore along mad was
almost on the spot, when the farmer,
sprang forward -4m could not let it
happen. "Stop!" he tried,'Stop!
There's a nest here. Stop till I re-
move it*" ,With grumbling and
oomments on his "eohtness,"
which were quite audible to the
farmer, his ram unwillingly obeyed.
The farmer !hastily strode forward
to the spot where the birds heel
risen, and ;there he saw—which
transfixed him with horror—instead
of a nest, his own little three-year-
old daughter, s•ound asleep, with a
posey of wild flowers clutchedin
her *hubby hand. But for hiskind
heart in wishing to save the birds
he would have seen his own ehild
torai to an awful death.
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QUITE ititifiT.
Inspector—"An abstract noun is
something we can think of, but can-
not touch. Can you give me an
example V'
Ternmy—'Yes, sir; n red-hot
poker 1"-
•Edneatioe begins' witls the cradle
and ends only with the grave.
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