HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1899-10-12, Page 2THE DEAR CHRYSANTHEMUM.
After the auMmer flower* are geatett"
The deletes and the violeta,
The 1140rointOgloriee aweet att deettl*
The „roam wbieh no heart forgetee"
1-(4,4 44403OW orls1) and :mkt!, ale',
• e While yet the frost is Pet before,
0:40 faatea lifting bright and. fair,
Behold a throng at vitiator* doer!
TheO dare him, with their laugbter
gala
Te enter,. briagtzig tee aud ariotte
Theo bid bine wait, arid day be day,
The braver groWs their oplentlid
shoW,
Ohl radieet; rich eltroeentheMOM.
We Wye thy reign, tlay spell we
own 1
Still linger, though the bires are dotal).
And WOOdland litraye are chill and
kne.
BC= COOK.
* few months ago there wae a new
lamily reeved -iiote our neighborhood,
and. the Men fOlks were soon changing
work with the neighbors as the others
did, writes Mary L. Kimmerly, Every
men who bad eaten at Mr. )3's table
wee loud In the' • praise of lea, E'S
cooking, saying everything was the
beat they ever ate. .This very natur-
alb' Made evety laay in the neighbor.
hood who had the least pride in ettlite:
ary 'mattere look to her laurels. One
lady ventured so far ae to ask Alm B.
for her recipe for malting a certain
cake waleh bad been. the talk Of 'the
community, To this request she • re-
plied: "1 oannot possibly tell You,
for I never leas:dee thing. just
_Put the ingredients together area the
result is generalle all right': This
the lady believed to be only a way
ate had of refusing to give others her
recipes-.
One diay I met Mrs. E, at theohome
of soother neighbor, whete we had.
both gone to e.emst about the wOra as
there was sickness Le the familY.
When Mrs. B. asked whet -the could
do for them, the mother- said she
would like some baking dime foe. a
lune& kr those wits° would eit up, at
night, This Airs. B. said sloe would do,'
and r went to prepare the vegetables
for dinner, and in the meantime t had.
my eyes open: The first thing Mrs..
B. did *as tO go at the stove. She
cleaned it thoroughly of athes from
top to bottom, then built a geed fire ,
and closed the oven doora• Wilts el CI
• of the materials tor the baking were '
brought. to tae table she began as fol-
lows: Site scooped some sugar into a. ,
large bowl, then broke in the Whites
of three eggs, eu to. good steel of !but-
ter from a roll, poured In graze milk;
out of a piteher, dipped somth baking
powder out of the can With a knife,
poured in some vanilla, sifted ie
• flour, Then she began ' ?Mating or
stirring all them together briskly un-
til it was a smooth Mass; thee butter-
- arta tin and put In the batter, She'
tried. the' heat of the Men by holding
her hand in -it a short time,i then lidd-
ed anothee otick of wood te .the
then put her cake in the oven.. In 20
minutes,the opetted the oVenetiled the
oaks with a hroom straw, removed it
from the oveno turned it out of the
tin and put it to cool on the hottom
of the tin in which it was baked.
Then she made dougbeins in . the
mine offhand way. Tbe ottly thing she
seemed at all particular about was the
fire, end thee:teat of the lard in iviltich
the cakes weee to •be fried. Then she
maae pie -cruet. She sifted some flour
iato a pan, scooped some lard:into it
poured. in a little water, added a pineal
at salt and in less time then pan'
write about tt, it was ieade foe the
ties. After three pies were made
there • woo a little :ergot left, so ahe
scooped a littk auger into a bowl,
sifted in a little flour, added the yolks
of the eggs she bad ased lot the cake,
poured in -some milk,. beat it a Mo-
ment. and added a little. nutmeg, and
, a custard roe Was made. .There: was
not tis inuali flour left 'on 'the board
as would &use over' one hand,nothing
bet the egg shells. left tO show the
amount of baking wbich had • beet
' done, and whet I came to eat- of 'these
goodies, I said with the erste they ere
as perfeet as can be made -no matter
how much weighing and oneatheing
tiny cook may do, 010 Malt cannot be
any better, hadpaicaolose attention
to all her Work but with all I had
tried I. could nOt tell how math 'elle
had used of anythingexcept the eggs.
Now I have come to the conclusion
that tato most itaportatit thihgs about
ca e ma ng e ire, an o gat
the cake Made and instaer twen in Um
least time possible. .
SOME HousElIOLD
Opal, eider vateger quOthlo, Ole save
Grind or beat yoier Nettie* ma Mouth
hutI de not prees, Instead elithe them,
44 4 bogetleed uttell at the top end
I a eutall bode altar bettoln en eide Of
. hogeb,ead, No yoU can draW oft juice
IWhen title otelnet. Let pninace re -
meta in liegilhead iota ilsya. then dra'W
biff Alpe through tin! note veer 140vo
tom; then -plet OW beak in hole 0,ritt
idireW oft Mere the Ilext day, Repeat
thie fee a deer ote aie till Mt titiee, re -
Inane In ho.gslioad. But in. the mean.
time have a 'barrel similar to -old-
1 faaahhated kratzt. barrelei terra at tOP;
I raltr11714ovvid134'efftliaPtfl"It" 143 dt:hlt'a
ver - op,. an in
1 two or three weelre you have vinegar.
1 HO-Vir TO MAKE LIA.BD WATER SOFT
Put a Was,13-boiler three-quarters tull
i
a eleer well -water dyer a iarnalt fire
Ito beitt, Take three goarts et weed
Mlles and. Out them in an iron kettle,
and after oovering there witb water --
hot is best,-Stit, Remove a griddle On
the heek of the Move and aet the tote
tle in and let it boil for net less: than
tee minutes. Then temove to e bloelt
on the fleet, or mum conventent place,
to cool, att otherwiee the lye will tot
settle, rut vitt etdd water, ae full Its
passible. to ab u,t five minutea Wont
with a :skimmer, Whenthe water in
the boiler be -COMM as w6rra aa yen mu
bear your hand to be 10, and the aye
in the kettle Ms settled clear, take
ia bowl and dip lye leto the boiler,
stirring with a cleat) stick, Do this
,u,ntil,small substances that 'look like
piece% of wool rise in the water. Let
the boikr reznain on the stove ten
minutes longer, or uutil a thick sewn
has team on .the water and been re-
moved with a gamer two or trate°
toots, Then dip into.thrthen ja 8 or
granite pails, if you, have them, el-
tbough others will do, If done right -
le, the water will be -so clear that a
fine, white secliinent can be seen at
the bolt om.
Where the water requiring to te
eoftened is heeted .as directed above,
so' lietle lye ia requited as to be hard-
ly perceptible, undo if perfectly siriM-
med and given sufficient time to set-
tle after being remoted teem tbe fire,
may be used for, every purpose for
wbicki eofavireter is desired except the
washitig of flannels or bright cali-
coes. -
As this recipe gives direcstions kr the
softening of but om boiler of water,
the processs may be reeseated until as
much as iet required is obtained. i
Where coal is used, and wood ashes
are net obtainable, a little "concen-
trated lye," that oan be bought in
.small boxes may be dissolved and inade
Ito euswer inateed.
, . Wben using: this water for wasbing
I the. best way is to give the clothee on
, extra rinelng in hare water, shaking
i theta Well after wringing, so that they
will not dry in streaks. When poor
: wood has been used, a larger qiiantity
1 of lye fie sonaetirnes needful before a
1 proper resalt tei obtained. •
•
.
Ta thin the buokwheat pancake bat-
ter with sweet milk is to Imake the
cakes tender, and they will also Mom)
more delicately.
One of the best mouse pteventives
is the foliage of the walnut tree. Even
after the foliage •has been dried, it is
said to be effectual in scaring away
mice. .
.ABOUT
1 •
.New England Pumthin Pie-Tbree
egg', three-fourths cup of sugar, four
Melt, that has beeeop t through a
lea,rge tablespeonfule f upumpkin, or
sieve, and a pint of rich milk, seesoned
: with oak aria One teaspoonful' of gin-
ger and cinnanion. The pumpkin Or.
1 aquath will be • better if it . is bakett
intitead Of Mile& • • .
1 Mince Piet -The miece pie le often
feerfully ,and woOderailly made, and
tao "stbre mince pie" we long -to for-
gete..bet pies made front' the kilt:Mt
Mgr Meipt are thee to be, good:' Take
esix pounds of bed hearts or .a cheap
tie& piece or use belf beet an& latilf
pork; boil, gently in water to cover
until veer tender, Skimming from tinie
te time, and, ending a Itttle more•
When necessary, also turning' it aver,
'Occasionally. The next day when Mid
chop it very fine, then chop three
pounds of beef ,stiet, removing all the
skins and strings, very fine, also elthe
as fine& aa.pessible about ten peunes
•aaf good 'sour cothing apples', peeled
, and cored of cou.ree befme they ere
ellOpped. Pour boiling 'water on four
poinidasforaisins-and then seed.thera
and add to- the other materials. After
they have aeon all chopped separately
d ti 11 b t tb ; dd
fou,r pounds stif well teethed Currants
and one of citron if you choose, 'two
oundmi ot cinnamen, pelletized oessia
buds leyou Mt get them, one of cloves,
-the of ginger tour grated nutmegs,
the greted yellow rind and the juice
1
end twe poands Of sugar. Now place
in a large porcelain kettle or better
Mill, a granite iron dish Pan', one :melt
of boiled eider, at bidet vinegar if you,
haven't the boiled cider, otie quart of
canned corrants„ or &ape ot therry
*es at any othea kind of fruit Suite
that you Islay happen to Mace cote
:Mart ef molasses, and all the water
• that the 'meat was boiled in: Iloil
gently until the apples are cooked,
aading More' sugar if neceeeary, and
a 'little more seasoeing if you thoose.
. Ties may be packed in crocks and coy.
To Mead sponges thoroughly dist
solve a hapidtia of coarse sta-ts in a
pint of Water, Soak apd ktead the
sponges in this Mixture for some lit-
tle thee; theft rinse under a • water
faucet, end they will be as, geod as
new.
Thin. and valtiable glass can be hard-
ened after this fashiop. Tie it arteind
with bay, place Over a fits in cold
water and alio* the Water to comeoto
a boil. Then let the glassware re.
main. in the WatAor until it bemuse
mid again.
Can a kw apples early in the semen.
Choose those that will cook tender, and
will areep their shape. • These put ea
early have a finer flaeor than those
Left to get insipid..., and tastelese .to.
ward spring. ,
There are no less than thirty ways
°Uprooting potateeth for, tbe tabs.
Hunt up and try some of them, and
don't always sortie your family with
plain belled • potatbes, 'Mashed pota-
toes or friee potatoes. ,
A hem-eke:Ter advises Mating up
'pumpkin for pies without paring it,
Stew in the asual fashion until. ten.
der, then part throtigh a colander, This
will remove the outer rind, and it has
to go through a sieve anyhow. An is
well keown• the Oest part od the pump-
kin Heed:me to the Skin.
A headache will almost invariably
yield to the simultaneous applicatioe
of .hot water to the bat* of the neck
Ind 'the feet. A large glass af hot
Water takeo, before retiring la mud.
better that; cathartics in cosies of ob-
stinate Oanstipation, and taken night
Ind morning is .eXcellent .in , ordinary
iaties dyepopina. ,
A good badOil piekle ie mede as fol.
Coo: To eaeh peek of salt tidal' tWo
Maeda of refined saltpeter, and Otte
thtt half pounds a brOwn sugar or
nbittaScs. • Make the brine strong
Mottgh 60 •flOat au egg, /toga' the
susat In tide plokle for elfir weeka then
etko eat and. einoket ea When dry rub
vith wheat flour and put in. dry
time,
Ktitting Wilot aan be made fast
'odor by *baking it in w etrorig
of salt and. water, taking' it rint
titer a few sathrates' immerision and
04tiging to drY in the open air.
Pe* Cooks know the seeret of "the
thieken pie," /Sake a bieettit
ttilettett MOW as yen would prepare it
tor beking powder or ahott bisoitit.
Bell It bait an thiek, line tt Intain
or pan With It, pat in the Chlekenttliat
luta tilresitly been; dooked tender and
Seasoned, fill the dish half fstil of the
goos, add a .gutierons lunip Of but-
ter, ,jeilit tal the top cruet? cutting a
Alit fta, the Steam tO toMapit, and bake.
Sett% the rettinhuler of the gravy
Vtith it. The gravy that la put itt
With the ehniken tshoUld be slightly
thicksraed.
4/4, aerSaVondent tents heiw to Make
. • .
ered when cold with molasses; cover
well and ,keep frozen if •poasible.
will keep all winter and you can make
your pies at leisure, with two musts
of course. The pies will keep for
weeks after baking itkept frozen and
thould be warmed &tightly in the oven
before serving. Of course the trait
jukes ma be despemed with. or you
. .
,
may use the strop of SWeet pickes in-
stead.
Custard Pie -This ls,an excellent re-
cipe tor custard pie, and if one hat
plenty; of egga and milk, this aelicsiotts
dish iney be often inclulged in: Heat
a quart of milk in your rice limit-
er, beat six or seven eggs Well, add
five large tableapportfuls of sugar,
flavor "with nutmeg ar entail rtea-
spoonfel of vanilla, and white hot pour
into yout crust azid bake alowly.
not forget to add a little ealt.
Pie Cruse -One and one-half oups of
flour and a generous one-third cup of
lard will make the cruet for one pie,
Add eiat and onethalf teaepoonful of
baking powder to make the crust light.
If a strictly hygienic crust desir-
ed, discard Iard mid water and use
sweet cream instead.
t
GOT TIM 'JEWELS,
A New Game Recently worked on a rarlt
liroweler.
A swell young woman not long ago
drove up in a handsome private ear.
riage to a well-known Israelis astylum,
aituated a few natal from Perk, and
reetuisted to see the proprietor. Her
wish being acceded to, sh,e informed
the doctor that she desired to place
her kutsband ender hia care to see if
a cruel mania, under wiliets he labor-
ed, via, "time he had .last 6 large
quantity of jewelett could not be re-
moved..
After some hesitation the dootor
comented, end the woinan dreve away
directly to a jeweler's. in' Paris, and
Otiketed jewels to the value of setreral
thousand dollara and requested one of
the shopmeri to go with her in her oar-
riage procure the money for the
geode shb had tate. She drove with
him te the asylum, and, arriving there,
he was ehoWn into a robot
The lady then sought the doctor,
told hint of the arrival of her husband
and, getting into her earriage agent
drove away. The,reet may be meant.
ede but the poor fellow WAS 00rifilled
several days before it was found they
hoth had been "sold," and the lovely
Iady never Came back..
PAINTS AND DISEASE.
Recent experintents in rieruitiny have
shown that bacteria die off More
OttiOkly On Walla Mated With oil /Witte
than on time° where lime, else, or en-
amel Palate, and varlotts proprietary
paint preparations. are used. Prates.
sot Looter, in oehtleottatioit Of these M-
orita:tato, has resetattiended the use of
ell palate only for dre interior of
Wanes, and partioniatly for hospital*,
eolieols and barrecks.
rrrestolutlen frames a thousand hot..
embodylag Marty*
8110110 WAR B NT, THE RETIRED BURGLAR., 80018 ALDEEnot
r
flearect ,Away ay eityesertenti eettans, Whose ma*
OREAT BRITAIN AND THE TRANS., *serene, oeart aesor, wore ineyoesoe. TOMMY ,OKINS AT BRITAIN'S PAM,
VAAL CONTRASTED.
OHO WAR SCHOOto
"A.e a rule." paid the retired burglar,
epee "I did• not Vallee to look at pictures
lea Waite Pie 'Wee asnoneet a Grelt$ XI' In the T tee,. ee, Kew Emelithare *0 4 Are Trottmod ter
et171,,er
i*ffir 9f "1"44°"-"1"‘ Yr°414 )116** tirae eve.; -had-it-04."713;InVlieWitatillomn; 11Wer lte $4:117:1114)41sugyttaeutlitlr,
the Desertion sof thie Vountry,
It war between Great liritain and but tiomethues one's attention would, ton rev a Hard Campaign,
: the Tranevaal ehould come, its dopier- be flaefl t:ta a picture bY eircuMetalle, ProbablY before thin anneare In tyoe
• ettoli would be attended with an (NCO. 41g, For ttletanote am wail peseing the roll of the drum willbe heard on
dus to which history affords but one $747 lamp one night along a parlor the Plains of South Attica, calling the
Parallel -the flight from Egypt, The Shelf to me if there was anything there, regimente of Eritain to arme against
" good Solite at home,0 ae, a earetorla the light fell, at the ;same =most, on the Beare. But it will not surarlse
eorrestontdent of the DellY TelekraPh A enter sttOft box and a daguerreo. Tommy Athtus any, ote bee beer' ex,
recently pointed opt, can „ ecarcely t?lie of a man ba ustiferm that stood Footing It for etnee thale, not only in
realize the situation. If England Vvere 'Weide it, and. as X drolaited the Cape Colony, but lame Alderehot
aV/Proaching nostilities with a Euro. "01 PaX in tat pocket beld the light plaioa, ears a reOent letter.
Pean nation, an ineignifleaut traction 00 the Plettare for a Minato and In- When there la a war on hend the
ef People npUld' haVe to clear out of sPeeted it a little bit more closely. It average British eoldier generally linds
the enentera country, In the Trans- ilitereeted me, OareehOW, though there tiotosooner than many ot the govern.
veal whole towne would be pearly de- wasn't anYthirig very remarkable about tomtit efficient, oh 8000itat of etertain
rierted. , it one way or the other; just the pie* orders iseued from, the War. Oflice. The
Practically the nearest place ce re- ture of a Youngish, self-satisflea loole. orders call for preparations Whicb
peint to one thing -trouble abead. ,To
flute would be Durban, 488 miles away, lOff Man in a military uniform. ,
from Pretoria, while Cape Town IS "Wilita X. turned away from the tlat) civilien they might meat nothing,
1,014 reseal. The ratiwa7 fare (shelf I walked acrasta the parlor to but the grizzled , Sergeant* Perhalis
to the °Refit C Colon is Oa the hall Of the house and out Into the Just back from.Ind/a, on who was with
for a eingle Mau, and the Britieh int- hell to ire upstairs, but just as I put ICitohener in Africa, shrugs bis shoole.
lender working Man WW1 a wife end my toot on the bottom ateil I .beard dere when he sees what is posted on
the oarapany bulletin about , extra in -
family would. find the cost of remov- , wlmt 001Intled lihe.
al come vere high, particularly if as A FAINT GROAN. , spections, 18SIAOS of wernteweather
te probable, be had to seertitee his Well, nOW. Yell, undeletand, I ata net clothing, inetenbtions to the ammuni-
honsehold geode, and had no Oros' Int44/3 "414et4uhed bY etrohge Wands, be- thin aflame, etc. All have the same
Nets of initnediato eittPlatantent on ar-icause a man in my business gets, so to meaning to him, Three walls ago
iriveati inorgritis,hi terrsit,ory. Dyuringlithbe, Vaal; useci te the, unexpected, but here at Aldershot theeld soldiers were
settling the question a's to bow long
a lio war n le 1 Man Eng a that groan stopped me, I stood.there"
New *foe a minute, •with one •foot on the it would take to whip the, Boees, be -
men remained in the couotry.
howeier, feelitio is embittered, ati fleet ef the hall and the °thee on, the tween their Pilate after mesa 'while
west a ep a,nd waited, I didn't heer the younger Atkins:3s stood. around' in
only those would stay who abitolute- al
, Y nutfe 41144 then I thoeught I might silent groups in. mhairing Beene,. Pero
ly could eot get sweet ' . . have' been mistaken and I starteci up, some of the officials ati London
e .110 ementaa aolt wiaa. 1 thaattI ailed scarcely raised that foot h.av
To a largo section of the Uttland-s
the grean again, this time for throe Mons, for the veteran fighterri appre-
li w s on the floor before I heard might heve profited by tbese slims-
diate disaster. According to the anth-
ers, therefere, war would spell imme-
OM otber instead of Putting it lit:i 02.4.1te eirula, :it. it_theatia th roneup.against
end I was gied to put that foot down
oeity already cited, the Boers, else are 13
ation has arisen which hes learned ii.j.
a adteli,hann wheal waited again awhae `''''"I'et it ettroes, and they know it will
t en I started up once more, this not be like qu,elling an Indian mutiny
serlouely afraid of war. A new goner-.
at Majuba Hill were not the whole "e""
that the four hundred men defeated teihtg et 11.:•ee:coitot e, Nt oow,gI9 hethrecladth. e gl:rhoaiitn's-
nd o, doubt and o n ' •
fairreolgvioniliel,alg the Samoans with rapid-,
But Tommy Atkins io not afraid and
he has not been taken by surprise.
Thanks to his experienee right here, he
British army. " They have,' saYethe louder and louder as I went OPstairs,'
Telegraph's correspondent, " a lust mud and sometimes with a sort of grewl
not lishonoutable. apPreheman c'± mixed in like sbrae great savage ani-
Itrunthustthnaott tdkiesi tell you that. As far as that's eon-
gwuaire 'e ,wihtelow ehlviaegrl, a nt tc,• male and I didn't like it a bit, I can
!the vteh epi la e ti tnyv i hgeepurtayl .1 yT ha e pBerouedru bbealiviee corned, if I had followed my incline-
mb eielint a"r y shdibsturlyl.Y .Tfobretiurnaetneeminimthteeure met begun
tions I should have, turned rouna and
skipped the ranch wben the groaning
but I thought I ought
Zulus and the British have done ex -
*softy what they all about, anyway, and. I kept on till
to go ahead ands- find out what it was
One 'of Clotn Paul's tattiest recolleo- .r jiad got pretty near to thetop, of
would have wished.
dons, when he was a mere hoY, 'was the stairs with the groaning grow-
. the fight of Vechtkop, Battle Bill, ing lbuder all the time, with my inter- y Iva xo on e . le , , _ a
Pulsed bo a handful of the fore°'•my desire to investigate the cause of lt f a long campaign: of it-suoh, as he
whee five thoosand Mat:theta werere-
at all in all, he is in prime 'condition
est not decreasing by a long shot, but hir
trekkers. He there learned how easy decreasing rapidly, ' . • will plobablo heve.
it vvas, for men accustomed to the , ewhen e got within a step or two Aldershot is probably the finest
Ab Weseen; Eniglish. WeePing, In ' that 1 cohldn't understand at all and fe t 'Th 'I • to I
is ready for the stouggle ahead, His
muscles are hardened by the long '
marches, his nereas -so steady from ,
it gaping itt the air of the pmey woods
that he can drop lus man at 500 yarde
easily with the servioe rifle. Expos-
• are during the forced marches and bi-
vouacs in dog tents his toughened tam
against the climate whieh he must
helat. He arias like a reachtee from
-774treTalataa
THE OOLD HOARDERS OP INDIA.
Mimes midden sseergrovies-wirreesares
or roma,* or Gvetuee.
About fifty milliards ot trane* Is
eaid to be the total anamant Of the
prodlont of the two worida eine*
the dieeovery of America stays a Frenen
paper. Aod, 'strange to Amy, ete this+
oniPouring of gold which during" tour
oeaturies has been matteree all over
ithmeewiorn itdaina inunwiznoseitoerhotoionbereenMaeitana.
bedded, Ln India the pole returna to
, the earth and remainti there more com-
pletely bidelea than it .Svas in its
• etate,
The amouut of gold lerougbt into
India eating the Past itixty years,
that is to say, from 107 to 1898, is
greater by three Milliards nine buna-
red and forty-three millions. at trance
than the ameont mit:uteri,. The soil
01 India, absorbi the floods of gold just
as the sand of tbe detterts swallow
the overflow . nf the great rivers.
'When. it is reMembered that this work
of absorption has been going on with
little interreptiosa tor ten ;auguries
and still continues under our eyes, it
imay, toter= ap idea of the itnrasnee
treasures that are hidderif in that
country. All thiS gold mmains sterile
and; consequently, is lost, at le Mee
surd, ta Say that it 13 brought into
tumetary oirculation or that it paeses
throughi the hands of the native gad-
• smiths. It Is dissemipated Moult-
mable .hiding • plaices' front whith 'ate
neLeraLmittenir tisanes and up. tio the period'
of the oonquest andi Qcoupatioa by the
Angliste individual property was not
Pooketed. The °ow:dry from One end
to the other was the
FREY OF RIVAL FACTIONS
wbo ravaged it ceaselessly aud. With-
: out meaty. Princes and potentates as
well as -the smell fry were squeezed
and sheen ceasstantly.. To escape team
tee general xabbery the natives, great
mad small, carefully concealer' their
money and their values mider graund.
This habit imaine' bereditary
; among them, so that to -clay the natives
do• test what their ancestore did in
past ages. It is estimated that mil-
liarde upon milliares ot franos in gold
Ile idle In the hiding plaothe of India,
and it is known that this colosme treat
sure is M coin that aates' back several
centuries. '
116 the suffering and wretchedness
that poverty ordinerily creates the
natives of India add the tortmes,
ocitially painful, ef an' Ineurable
avarice, That is the thing whioh puz-
zles the obserastr end throws hint' off'
the right track, In that country all
the Poor and indigent have. little hid-
livrtitarts-welleaspitittl:rP'd ut--4tvi'"guart14''tthhlr;
watehing their growth and never draw.
leg from ,theat, even in the fete of
ialronteorddtilishem"91trOd"artbaovere tohronadeaatre
the prohd and. the rich. wile do just
as their, .entiestors did on& retrain ex-
actly tae SaM8 aa duty were, that is
to say, . insatiable' thorerdets, suspiel-
• aed eepel iiiizers. Theo. hide their
gold in the vaulto of old pets aad in
eitadele and addto it front generation
to generation, frein century to cen.
tury. ttke that of Harpagnon • their
eioved treasures,• pessess. for them-
charrcis far more fascinating than those
eenfehtheenirominagtiapherttias.l h. quirk and of. their
The persistence of the :Maharajah of
Sindiii in petitioning theeBritish Gov-
era,ment ta give bath te aim. the feet-.
mess of Gwatior. pethaps remenabere
ed -a persistenee that seemed
STRANGE INDEED, • •
not to see suspieious, betause GI/taller
wee not one of the holy _places,, like
So many othefaliniidia. 'Atter limn-
erous petitions and intrigues the Ma-
harajah at fast won his ease, The fax -t-
ree* of ' Gwatior was given back to
him. And now quite recently the
:secret of his persietent effort has be-
come clear to everybcitty who teads.
He had concealed in tbe fortress of
Gwalior an immense treasure in coined
gold, and this gold had•beet pet away
--"t""T-
t,
EOM WITH A RISTOBT, BELL BLOB'S BS
*OW.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OP THE CARR.
WE1414 Or SWANSEA,
reeeetime
The Ocoee et* To steittliy-lhert sew
Meth Wake last etheesey, atm Hee
sox state *eel% lateral On
With the disappeerance ot the bar-
, OM Camel). of Eiveltieeas Whieh left
WaMas in rebrotiry of tbis yegr,
and bas not since ;beets heard , of,
there vatilshee the scene of one of We
rewboisettitt341illitangbmtirnriettaav:furntilyetott
ed says a London letter.
;Twenty-three Oearo 'ttote jantie
ary 1st. the Caswell sailed, from Auto.
fageste, Chili, witb a earipo et nitre,
Among the bands shipped at the port
were a C4reelt mama Btg George, two
tither Greeks named, Obristes end Moo -
lite Bamboo and two Maltese brethere,
:rtlitsi:PeareannudzathQer4edliPtIns MPe4,Stpre"hB
Zleirweeeedoatrusdeoettstr9oinwin.r BrtioCoaeOatragine
some work, The 'Greek was on the
bulwarks. and, jumping down, he
plunged a kuife late the captain a body.
This was evidently the first ,steP in
the terrible plea which had bese
;led: for some tinot The nautineere
were: the five kereigners, and all were
now at hand armed with knives anct
revalvers. Witham Wilson, the mate,
who was foeward, rah: aft, bat as ale
wee 'passing the gelley. he Was seized
Christos Barabos OudeNicoles,
The mate cried tor .nieroy, bat tly3y
Said "No ; no mem,'" and Nicoiae
plunged a. long galley knife into the
poor fellow, stabbing tam to death,
The Maltese brothers now (same on'tha
scene with revolvers., and ae they ,Pass-
ed the atiatain lying on' the deiik, at.
Most disembowelled, they shot him in
•
the head. The aeomidonate, Allan Us -
Lean, was nWt in the arm and thee
stabbed the back, Big George call-
ed the steward, Edwited Griffiths,' OP
gzhth:n7e ionthabetwiPciapls:ioann4hawther ehaeugage
the hair of the head, and almost oat
harmed hayt
•
JICUBDEttED THE CIIEVO.... •
'te. Puedletebritatleatratgnorh,htibreeeexuartaiweibtecyr, e.ftasi-7
ed "Cerpenter, 'carpenter!". bet MC-
Gtregor would :not op'e,n the • door,
eo they tett him 'alone. They ap-
peared to come to the conclusion' not
to kill allY =TO, itt any rate just then,
but . McGregor, finally coming oot
ot his roona, they made halt kneel dowe
ire the blood of the captain' atol swear
haehitjt.alti. bele them to
The bodies of the four meet -were Lay-
Orilag. on tnedeek, thou -fah -the. secend
Leer. did not npPeer to. be dead,. A
• rOoto was tied by. BigOeorge round ea
the victims, andi the bodies, with •a
kedge anther attathed to •them, Were
thrown 'overboard. The kedge eechor,.
howeveee became 'detached, and the
bodies were 'see to teat past the stern
of the :mama •
The enuitineeria except Cheeks Bara-
boo' eow occupied -the .officeth :quar-
ters, and •eut du some M the clothes
which they rowed in: the rooms: Dam-
ped etteed in the formaptle, so that
the Britithers eoold nest' confer to-
gether fusee:sting theii terrible situae
tion, The nattae Caswell WaS painted
over, tindaVerything On beatel with the
tuhaelesee,nOasavell,SO was' thrown. into
On Febritary 19th the„ two Maltese
tett in a lifeboot.,: The night before
leaving they tad • t*o of ' the men,.
Dunte and °smith. not .tci go fo
as the i•Greeks intended, 'to murder,
• . BECAPTURED .
.On, March 2n4 the 'Englishmen arm-
ed themselves with hammers. The
cal -pouter took it hatchet, 'and Carrick
an adze; and they rushed forWard. Big
George met them half -way with a
knife in his hande one it was then a
_eerie Of life ot deatbi for: all; McGee.
gor struck lag Geoige on' the head
with the: aate, fatling hint to the deck,
and the- others strack ititn, with rivet: -
1)3,g hammers, aed lett hun tor dead
on the deck. -• • • •
The Englishmen : then. went to the
itate.room far Nitolitoand Christos,
Nicolas ftrea three slices, which lodged
in the 'cabin Side. The adze and hatch-
eteow 'did torrifio -work,: an& all the
me:Papers were in, than:meet et 'the
Rog -lade Big Geoege and Nemita:s died,
Christioe Bombes reeoverechand he Wm
kept behind: tind mane:clod "on deck.
Christo,s afterwards confessed that the
Greeks intenaed to. take the vessel' to
Samos .and try end sell heir -quietly,
With her cargo of nitre, tO a Greek
piterdeehdatenahritthief Eth4ogylisfhataileeditat jaYs.
the Vessel.
On May 13th the Caswell was brought
safely to Ousenstown by the three
prentices, =maid and Itergeson. s
British laeroes, assisted by two ;7
- • •
tette to mow down the naked Zullted Mt he top there was a sort of A boom place in Britain or on the .continent
'hist as I stepped up the hist stgp on r a graa camp'
'Boers achieved their crowning victorY to the floor of that upstairs hall there
Natal, a little ater, • five' hutidred
not stay on 'mot Paltaittit-foe a aw-
e soi is na ea -
over Dingaen's forces by acting• la came a sudden booming' burst of souod II porous and so sandy that •water can
th ' • purely On the defensive. that was many times repeated, rtt idly 2164 6ifiber th'e fratmbne cresi ifboreswt4s8
the Boers have never faced . over a through it, and smashing- around in it, se with he'elth-giving odor. • . Wheal
e Same way, .
"The English have been equally tic- i.and that made the whole house shako
P 0 origum y one, o evo p pe ,
eonvalotlating. So . far as I sem 'learn, as though there was thunder rolling trees remain enough to permeate •the
d t 11 d ' bl th f th
... r
tbousetd of the • taoteeiree ae they call and then, my son I went away. A the Briti.sh War Office secured the
'the British. • When Sir Harry Sraith don't, shy at things 1
ly fonr.hunared were engaged. 'Sir ,terioas. , • . * conditions are nearly perfect. gach
George Cot
beat theta, at Boomplaats,„in.1848, bare- :but I haveyery little -use -for the mys- sewerage system, so that the sanitary
can understand, camp site it constructs& an extenstve
ley, had Scarcely one thou -1 "Well, I, neker• saw -that town • compeny keg a substantial brick 31Orde.
sand whet he wile driven bath in the again for three years, The next. time; Ate one end is tbe kitchen, where
attempt .to kites Laing's Neck, 'still I . went there was in the time Of, - . I eneu,gh is cooked to give eyery, priv-
hundred in the miserable. fiasco tot
fewer at Ingogo, and less than 'five A. POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. ea
ate a ood-sized chunk of reast beef
aju a. To good marksmen, s rougly
tht iht d rd. dtht
meeting toere or oth r meat; at least two vegetables,
a half -pound of bread and: a pint of -tea
They wete having a big
n g an a pa a e an a nor •
th were easy 1 nothin of ais ortion of
postee es they wore, ese they
9f thing, and; I stood in a good place dal' y, to say g P
vietories. Against the Zulup , ot in the crowd end' Watched the proem, .
laagered, ageinst the British t er g mem, and whea tbe band came elellg ' tan every
biter' or stout hardteelt, as -well .as
13.13h1:14F
sThEeEltris" 6
ITS,AND MM. drum? My man Whose Picture I'd Been
' lvv4o do you think was piateste. the aaos. 1111)armalade;
day; and is in shape usual -
He has a good solid ra-
An Englishraan who has been le the on the mattle-shelf that night I nip- t d bunk with sprin s to
I 1 to eat every ounce of it: Each man
las a loeker far Ms accentrements and
"I
.estimate that the Transvaal, without the mesterious moaning.and.Oroaning
can now place fifteen tho d %tea i "I'd droned a spoon or a 41.1e, The batiks are placed int -row% and aft -
alio •essietitiace from the Pr e Stake, ana thunder Mtachmentte .
ameed, men in the field. heY maY or something in the dining room Inehia er the call for inepeotion in the morn-
vveie, but; ia-the- event of wax,. if We and he'd heatd it, and got up and Saw
dead shots as thetx fathere ati if the work were peeforreed by an,
eidiveg erattl he founds aa neatly made up
chambermaid. As Alderoh.ot
not be suck house before I streck into the- eerier,.
-large. proamtion of them will kill or the drum, He .had hiti eye on me e y
PAM Ile -the same taratice as of cad, is ueed•PrineiPally foe movements in
the spring,'oaxaraer and fall, the cone
. .
a me and then he bectded me off . wIth
wound their Man. have, no ou ti from eomewhere, and, when / set foot
than a Waterloo. The Boers, would, drum gently, the loysogrean;it'westuisy rheat. The buildings, like the beds, ate
also arranged iii rostra ecoasequentlY
.the isautt, but at might eost Us rdore on that lowei step he ruffled the big
fight in the open; each regiment is a littlevillage in it,
-of Cotirse, follew their old style-neter for him, and these growth -grew under sett. Ahout five. of these ',villages
clothes an a
country a good many years tiaYs pee the ,heirloom snuffbox, and. heard himself in the rest 'at the quarters.
aka always on the ilia hand Div' advanced, till he hit eamerise a divithiop in front :of which
defensive.. They will show nothing if that whaok lien I Wari near the top, • officers' building, a substantial
twces orey , s rooms
they can help it bot the nautzlei of the and then beat it' with frantic) ener '
e w a a s ge thunder..
nfle and the chance of hitting them whoa h se th t th t in
burst didn't atop me. .
"Was he'scared? Well, now you, bet
your life he was„ and I could imagine
him gay and gallua Els he was now,
, walking along, beating away on the
I binagssednrdumtb,eytiteithmtehne esekhydernetesvnaustojahrg-
' around °him, staltding tbat night in a
dark room in his own house and beat-
ing the big del= as he,esever beat it
before' or since; ifut I'll bet a thousand
dollars to a cocoanut that t• was worse
is agouti equal to that of hitting a halt
mown piece two huidred yards Off.
And, of course, we Shall commit the
usual folly of piesenting our men in
ooraparativele dose order end attempt-
ing to rush theee positions."
In, reply to the question what might
to be done, this Englishmee, said:
".Why, take all -possible shelter; en-
gage them in the 'font and attack on
'the flank. The Boers will never wait
to be surrounded or outflanked."
• ,
hovvever, are names tOa awaken
g g g , an
such sad memories in the Englishman's
miud that Generat Sit Erode:tick Wile'
liam Porester-Walker, who has lately
been appointed to the chief cousmand
in South Africa, in place of Gtheral
Sir William Butler,' is not likely to
k Vett b
had considerable experience 'in South
African warfare, and .niay be trusted
to be -better prep -a -Ad for the business
be may, have to take in; hand than vvas
Dr. Stimeion, At the outset of hip
fanlous raid he boasted that " his five
hundred troopers and Maxims would
kick ten thotisand burghers roend the
TeroasvaaL"
, NO IMO; OF MAXIMS.
However, Dr. " Jim," being entirely ,
ignerant of Boar teaks end of their:
feat of any flanking Movernent, March--;
ed Krugersclorp straight at the
rifles pointed at his men. After sev-
Tor the General commanding and the
different Colonels arid. theix staffs,
Each Captain bas aroont to bine:self,
while. the Lieuteuants bunk two in a
rooinO The offieere eau pass. the tate
pleasantly, as the ample grounds proe
'Tat eVltatin sevafale&ini°
w w u are a one b a
TO4Mia a well -stocked refrigerator Mad
•
with, such care near the corner stone
of the fort, to *kith a subterranean
pastsage led, and closed op with such
akin and cunning that nobody in
ignoranc.e of the secret cbtilid possibly
discover the treasure.
In the presidency. or province of Bom-
bay it is estimated that there are three
hapdxed millions of francs azi geld
soveteigns erhieh etre preserved mai
a club room tor taunt:dig, smoking and extreme care: not only on account of
itatd..playing. The Queen allowa her their intrinsic value, but on account of
ofticers plenty of latitude -and they the fact, withott counting the image
seldom abtote the privilege. • of Saint George, there is starapect up-
somed than he was; but that wasn't This Ald hthsb to on them the 'ef-fig of a dragon in
camp ground of from 20,000 to 25,000 India, as in Chiriao he dragon is a hole:
men at various times. Such a num. creature of celestial orgin, an induce-
ber gave aa oppertunity for -elaborate ment to be faithful to become enroll-
teanoettyres, such as, marches over the.- ed among the beatified. so that they
distant bills, coveting fifty to seventy- can live With dregons in :peace and
Live miles in area, also simile battles, prosperity:
cavalry dashes aud held movements, But unfortanately, the gods thent-
with infantry, cavalry and artillery, selves, and especially the gods of
In fact., the cemmander, probably real- India, are •very fond, of gold, They
izierwhat is in prospect, has pot the whistle for 1,6 through the lips of their
various forde.s through about every- prieots. Obe&ient te the diviae call,
thing in 'the art of war except actual it comes, rippling frOind peints until
fighting, and Tottuny has had but little it reachee the sacred pattvis. ac -
time to saunter over to the town it- oinnulates id the subterraneatt pas -
self, .with cane wake one arm, and his sages of the teMples to which the
latest dd the °titer. The principal priests alone have accees, Thence it
drill granucis are tbree in number. The overflowa and takes its place, like a
smalleat will allow 2,000 men to be proud conqueror, upon the altars where
handled by regiments or battalions, it shares with the gods the incense and
witheett difficulty, walks the Queen's the hostage of the men wilona it bas
parade will accommodate a division, hewitek,ed,
with voora to epare, It is a perfect s
field. from a miltto.ry standpoint, with
a slight eminence containing a clutep '
an oneSolaftheP8bigSICAir"ousleNsGt.here le a
of trees from which the cotamander
ei‘vneetystarfetgilaenutv.iewohteheeeeerttoielentioninsthoet big elephant that has not lain dowo
for twenty years, All the other tile.
plionts lie clown tO sleep, but this ene
eartin has been arottided with butts /or sleeps standieg up, the most he has
title practice, also for artillery work,
end the reedit of the programme oar- ever been known to do being to lean
against a post to sleep. Wten hie is
tied mit here will tell When the rifles,
large and small, are tarried on Krug- awake be stand8 gentlY swaYing to
• men and towns, tor some remark_ and fro, neeer reading till he Moses
1
stale recaords have been allown at Aid- his eYes.
ershot this year.
the worst of it,
eAs long as it was a mystery, Why I
could - stand it. very well; ha I've
never, from that day to this, never met,
a Mass band in the street ' without
feeling aort of sheepish when the man
with the bess drtim went by."
Z
t
PENALTY OP CURIORITY,„. .
•
A Toeing Manes Experience With It Pah'
Or INOVidefillilo
A tomewhat. distressing but un-
doubtedly righteOus retribution, re-
cently Overtook a clerk in the British
postal serVice at Bienlingham. Among
the packete reCeived at the office one
day was one contaiting a pair of hand-
cuffs, which were being font from Dee -
oral hou,rs' firing from the maxims 1 by to amanufacsturer in Biemingham
only two or three' of the sheltered to be fitted with a key. The Paper
Boers were killed, and their comredes covering of the Parcel had been torn
were heard to say after this, theit first during, teansit, eo that the handouffi
experiencei of the neer destructive were exposed to view,
weapon, " De Maxim is Wets warirde," They were an object of curiosity to
the Maxim is no goOd. 1XOwever, aa the, clerks, and presently one -of the
has already been said, General Pores- Young men Jocularly clasped one of
ter -Walker may he expeoted to klaow the cuffs around his left wrist, It was
better than Dr, " Jim." then that he discovared that there wee
On his side, the Boer come:land:nein' no' key. tq unfasters it. The haittleuff
chief, General Aubert, is an old war- waa Oh hie wrist " staye,
honk, and there is no' doubt that if
he has to fight he will do se to -the The young man went to the Police
station, and an Oficer found a key
beet of his ability, In a rod:alit let- that he thoteght would fit but in Min-
ter to the Standard and Diggers' News, ing it round, he broke it off in the
•
ie y, as he is affeetiona cuff, Now the broken key would have
called by the burghers, said Let to be drilled, out, or the handcuff 111 --
us not glorify weapons. . . the ed through, before the clerk could. get
horrible murder weapons, the utidestr- it oft,
•
able Mventith of sinful, PeoPle. elle- The 'day was Sunday, and all the
Mies, Whoever they ate, bout of their shops, includittg the manufactarer'S
might and murderous weapone, re. Placeewere 'closed. The 'clerk returned
gret to have to be prepared." . to the post-offiee, and eXplained his
TAICE CAPE TOWN AND ENGLAND. plight to the superintendent. „ This
Prepaeed he uedotibtedly will be, Official ordered him to take the first
though not to the extent' of a plan train to Deftly the text morning, ex.
'of campolgn ouch as Was imagined by plain the whole cireuttistatees to the
a burgher whose warlike appetite had owner of the hail:Mottle apologize to
got the better of his diteermaent, The him, and then return to Ilintirighate,
FAO* IN told by Mr. Puller, a well atd go to the maaufaeturer's and have
known South Afrioatt. The burgher the handcraft filed off.
In question, said to him thet in case of
war the Beers weuld oautere Cape
Town mad then take England. DECAY OF TEETH,
"Put," said Mr, Puller, "it is a long A rapid tendenoy to deeity, hitherto
way to England by sea, and you have
Unknown in eocknt, is taking place in
no Alpe."
What • of that t Cannot the tord the teeth of the children and youth
make a pasSage: for us as tie did for of the present generatioa: Of the
the Israelites across tbe Bed Sett t'' !children ey a large number of pato.
"Of course, of course. hope it will ehial, industrial and otVer schools in
be a wide one, or else you might get
,, England over 10,000 mouths were Orr
a broadside from the British fleet,
awned and tbe condition ef (mob tootb
„ „was marked open a alert, Less than
15 per teat of smelt boys and girls of
SEWING RAGS. an average age ef 12 yenta did Md.
Cut your rags' aa they accumulate, fetaire same t.'eatioont 10r deeaYed
and when Om have enotigh °incite take "te"4'
yout sewing machine, with Irate rage
at your right hand and a MIMI box or sluing As gat2Tglits,
basket et a abaft to catelt the rags es .
they fait Lap the ends of the rags Snakes are the profettional rat.
tindtad together. Lerigthon the ;stitch eatithersi in the Philippines. 'Nearly
arid sew the folded rage about an inch, an at the elder bungalows ih
P II th tit clis t I posaesa what ate caned mums outtkos
60 Out them off, ands 8W the rages.
before, When you have thellgh tor tt ..-liatge reptile*, getteralty IA or 14, feet
bell take the latit rag gain& and be. tong and as this* as a lite engine
gin to Wind, lsreaking the threeds as hose -that permanently reside up la
Et go. 13y tine .tnethod three times the roof and live On rate. Thete
eletatent „ be Merest ut a oteatutet ars harittlearle awl rarely,
Y's I atitt, Won their Idstaiss,
• - COST Or LIVIN04 cEpiL RHODES' IDEA,
Vienna the citelieost caoltal In Piratic, Iiis keastai for beaming a tarink,ik the
in IVIa ch to Lim.
tarty IMO or the nomocricy
An investigation into the. compare- In conoection with tke foundation of
titre cost of living at the various Bur- Cecil Rhodes's colossal westatet there is
opean eapitals resulted in the hollow= story told by an old. miner,
ing facts; ,,Aft Vienna the price6 hiMaelf lately, a Colonial Minister of
most articles of food are lowest; at kittens:a, whiCh illustrates at least one
Madrid they are dearer than in' any trait ila the chum:ter of the great
other eapital, and mirth things as South African finanoier and politician.
bread, meat, sugar and. coal are 'Tell Duriag the early days of. the
aelxspeo nethievepriirLdeoefa.brAeatd.Sits. Lento:Lb:rag; boiler diggings it was the custom
Mann a Miner found a Partieularly tie°
ered luxury above the means of the gem to invite those about him to the
working biasses, Next to V1001110
attidottStetiBUiatitatnle ehxillgelan:riVielf °ties ; _cearreizterinygoeth'e'inivevettsit tahte tehteo ei
While London la still more expensive. expense, with the idea that it would
An American spends; Oh an average .
$60 a year for food, a Frenchman $48, bring goOd luek la the discevery of.
a German: $45, et Spam:tett 038 an another trerniure. la the adjoining
Italian $24 ;rad tt Russian $40,, Of claim to that first taken up by Mr,
meat the Amerioan eats 109 pounds a Blades, in the very cehtre or the ma -
year, the Frenchman 87 pounds, the for haldingthe precious blue dirt, tbis
German 84 pounds, the Italian 28 levitation Ited upon e certeirt oreation
pountle and the Itassian 51 poundo. Of gone forth, and the men were going
bread. the Araerican cOnsuMes S80' their way up te the betel. when it
nounds, the Prenoluntin 540 pounda, the was noticed that Rhodes stood aloof.
Geretan 066 pounds* the Spaniard 480 " Hullo I Come on Ithodits1" shouted
prattle, the Italian 400 Olinda and the the lucky finder of the gem, Aren't
Ruseien 055 poUnds. Outside of Stir- you coming up to 'wet tile stone,' for
ope, In tittles of peace, Manila is cheap- good luck V' To winch, however,'Ceell
e r to live in than say other city 'in ithodes only, shook hie head,
the Weed* "/ say, eome on; theres a good. fel-
low '" peraisted his neighbor,
nurgitort smnomestx, " °What are you going to dot" ank;„
ed Rhodes, looking uP.,
The Emperat of Austria Is the onlY "'Wet the stone with eliampagne, of
member of Abe Austrian imperial fem. course."
ily who is 116Var ettell Walking in thee, Ittglied the futiire Magnate,
streets of the cities and large towns deeleivelysl• a aid net come out here
frnleWeApeohePleWaktitanr"ttbgthe fematuare° sanedf thusi ultoeetArtti ath"448.1went'ebn'41**1•4i-th1111:41keewtolort
beyond all
imatintiebowsifyiesh!h4revolootttrisgrot:Itht airtoawdttrassi, 4tutone.awa.
Ire Always avoids 'Utah the imallest as. !Nth
taw
whatt t Str. Rhodes has artteeeeded
fab i* *OW
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TASTE SENSATIONS.' •
-
.
*bet; littntlibitted 'It Ils Impossible te
Telt Food and Minks. -
There are only foar simple taste
sensations -- namely, sweet, bitter,
itour and salt. It is said • by senle
(let" there are only two, sweet
and bitter. All other een.sationsi
whieh are only called tastes
cora
are complex _ esitIts of sensations,
of smell, tou .h, temperature and
eight. the means by which we
dietinguish almost all of our common
food and drinks is not the sense of
eaten, touch, temperatu.re and eight.
All the firs differences by' vvhich vire
distinguish the various fruits, meats
and drinks depend got upon taste at
ell, but upon these other eenses.
A proof of theM fauts may be given
by merely blindfolding the Om and
closing the 7.10,10 and taking various
kindsu, of feeds and drinks into the
mouth without ewallovviett them, It
will then be found Diet it 18 quite Ira-
. compossraiboletiostot idoloscitsinagnudisdhrimuka:y lett ist,heef
Maras, generally known that vvhat ie
popularly muitaken for the taste of
,scornffelties,. tea, and wine, is only their
.
,.
CHANGED THE SUBJECT.
He gentlY-Are you not afraid some
um May tuctrry you for your Moneta
She, aweetly-Oh, dear, no, Such an
idea never entered my: head.
tie, tenderly-thl, in your meet in-
nocence you. do not know how coldly,
;trustily mercenary some men aro,
She, quietly-Perhape "not,
He, With atippressesd emotion -I I
would not for the world Mee such a
terrible fate happen to you. The man
wise wins you ohould love you for
yourself alone.
hatte to. it's my cousin
Jennie who has Money. not I. You've
got tla mixed, I haven't a cent,
Ete-Er - Very pleasant weather
we're having.
Tall LOST AXD P01711/41D,
Madge -Did Ethel find d' hatband.
while she Was away, •
Doily -Yes, but unfortunately she
discovered later that he belonged tO
another woman.
•
NO POTIST On4
.1
lieferMer /f every; drop of honor
were et the North 'Pole the world
wield he better off.
The Other relieve... And bet the
North Polo Would Ise ttisoortirea la a
huffy, Oa.
•
AnEAD OP MINS/UNE.
Spain hes more etteetilte than any
country in Europa, The yearly over -
14000 holm Li Attlerice, it itt
AN IRON DEPOSIT WHICH HOST NE
OPP,RATED DTSAIITE,
estemite. Shanties reetuties..colis OM*.
Mg mid (leave:tames te OmmaGes INerloa
Gale to LesVe rof Totst
One of .the moot reMarkable
Mines in tile world haa been pitrehae-
ed receittlY bythe Whitney syndicate
11,000.000, . Title is the hematite
iron deposit of Bell Island, Newteund.
land, wliere the eyotlioate le eatablish.
log a great eiraelting 'enterprise.
Tbe bed or quarry contains 28,000,000
tons of ore, underlaying a eurface de.
ptrait of two teet 018°11. Whet thlithee
been uncovered a vest terrace bf the
mineral. 500 feet wide arid three
miles long, will be exposed. It la the
natural forma Non of the ore, however,•
whieh is most remarkable. It ie in the
tarot ot °tines a few inches in direorst
sions.'Taese cubes lie in perfectly retro-
- ler, horizontal order, like a titan floor.
The line of jancture Is as !dearly
marked as the Cement itt a laid. no"
or wall, The appearanee sliggesta
the work of a akilled meabenic. The
lateral vtew shows the same regulate,
order of tier upon tier deep into the
earth, .
Two miles 'distant trent the mine ia
a sheltered cave, where a pier has been
construoted. At ,,the end et this pier
the
' WATER IS 234 FEST DEEP.
Tie pier is a straeture of Soutbeen
Pine 60 feet :square and 90 feet higa.
It °ordains ten pookete,' each with a
capacity of 200 tons of ore. The out-
let is moveable .thute, wbiela teade
directly to the 8421p s hold.
Tbe ore is ciontey.ed to the cove by
a tramwae worked hy, an endless cable,
The ten pockets can baemptied hi two
Mum, On the shore behind is a re-
servoir with a capacity of 10,000 tons.
This is connected with the pier by a
seeiee of automatics hoppers, welch
clutnp directly into the ship's bold.
The Output of the mine ie 2a600
boos a day, and a ship et that 'capacity
is usually loaded daily. But all records
were broken last week, when 6,300 tons
were kaded into thnsteamer Claudiu.s
Maohiner 'and me:Menlo:it devices'
haVe.er? minimized labor that the cost
of naming and loading the Ore is only
26 cents .per ton, The ,eo.st of trans- , •
porting it to Sydney,- the site of the
proposed smelting works,' is 25 cents
more. This, at the market prices, Be- "
cures a profit of at least 81 a tom
The estiraated output for this year is
300,000 tone. '
:Next year the syhdioate proposes al
Increase the output to 1,200,000 tons
and the present workinE5 force Of 550
men 64 2,000. A new. pier of similar
capacity ta the one noW in use will
be built and anothei of the ore will
be. uneavered to feed ittee
in seven and one-half hours.
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POISONS IN MURDER.
The Dee tho Sithttor D1W,S Seldom Mord
. of Exeopt lu Nove?s luta Plays.
.._ •
"A eeitsent ,riewepaperarticte, s,
a playSiolan, " called .atteetion totera
curious faets;. ot rethee, 'alleged feetii, •
abotit poison: O First,. that 'it is so set-
,„ ,
dem; resoited to by murdererst and •
seeped, that its use is elmost invert.
'ably foikiwed by detection. •Orie might
answer ball statements with the latest
tioet How -do we knew'? .Idow. do We
know that the. few oluaii3y, Cates that -
Mine to light represent the sunl oi that -
Itizid of crime? -It is undeniably true
'that theett are certain drsigs which, if
admitastered .with skill, would be al-,
Most bripossible to estecti Their semi:a:4:
pule are praoticalte identieel with
those of faMilier diseeees, and e. hetle
nwhile. after. death they .daeorop
'change tot= and disariPear. It would
,bith possible, too, to. inimenlate a victim -
with tae germe of sonie deedly malady.
He woold then go to his greys with *
real ease hi consultation or pne.uraonia,
oe looltjatv, and there vvoeld be noth-
ing to armlet the Shadow ei• suspicion.
I.helieve firmly that mesa Crimes are
'ememitted aed never discovered, but '
I believe also, tied they. are vete. rare.
The real sitteguera. ot othenlonity, •
plieeessratheefareetqutihemittesae:kfielly: murderere
e" Educated people aeldcm oommit de-
liberate reorder," centintied the doe -
tor," and the unedueeted mine:thetas-
tively associates poison with two soh- •'•
stanees-arsenie and strechnine. They
are the deadly drugs most familia', to
the publics, and 'fortunately' '
THEY ABE EASILY DETECTED. -
Murder' by areenic.is' infinitely elurasy.
Teltegin with, the symptom:4 are mark- .
ed and peculia,r, and being a naetellie
product, its eraces remain in the body
an indefinite time. Lost sunimer a wo-
men in J3arcelona, Spaie, confessed, that.
she bad -poisthed, her sister with arse-
nic fitteen years hetet°, The grave was
opened and the coffin found to contain'
nothing but dust and ashes, but a
chmakal test shelved' unraisteltabty the
wpraesseanocceuse°61dthoef dale g hrtr hlzgain43ksi
witla erectile, and the test revealed it
Plaiely not only in the rem:tins; but
in certatn Medicines, The demonstra-
tion was so conclusive tbat she final-
ly arose in court end adraitted giving
hire a white powder,' but initiated thae
the followed las oWn• express direcee
tions, One of the moat ingenious oases
of poisoning I have ever heard of oe.
°tared some years ago. A. young phy-
sician plotted to kill a wealthy term.
er. Ite -knew the tatter was eaking
gullible, toe o, told, and meeting him
one dey, asked to see what site cape
sides he used. While preteeding to
examine theni, he slipped in one con-
taining strychnine. The farznet hap.
Pened on, it nearly a week later and
died hi convtilsions. An autopsy re-
vealed the polecat, hut the :Weir was
a. deep myetery-attatil the doctor eom.
lmeistetieudzsuielde, leaving a written con-
e The poisonings that occur in nov-
els and on the stage are Usually very,
amusing to a student of toxicology,e •
said the physician, in minelosion, "I
remember in "Samuel. of Posen,t whieh
was produced with such seams by Id,
B. Curtis, the drummer here was tem-
porarily knocked out by
A POISONED CIGAlt,
Efe took two or three whiffs and over
he rolled. would like very much to
know the name of the drug that would
produce that eort of effect, Nearly all •
the loasouing 40 Salon is equally our.
prising. There is a well-known Bog-
lish romance la which the 'heroirie
hales the fragrance of a bunch of roiled
end instantly hale dead. Neediesa to
say, the 'poisoned perfume is wholly
unknown. to eelenee. Another story --
but reouId keep Oh citing 'thatatteett
all night. Elatory isn't much better.
wiMeoodiettiet vuo arriallemoetentehhethttegeisalteret
ly time abOtIt tit)140)10d gloves, poirzon.
ed tapers and other applicatioas of
drugs on' things that are tonehed or
handled., The tide of the book which
was allointed On the Margin* With MOM
deadly oubliterme that killed the pot.
son' who moistened his fingers to turn
the leaves,'" has proleibly fouridetion
in truth, but / confess would be
puttied to know how to prepare seat
volunle. Ahead anything thet might"
be used would 'instantly betray itself,
by its taste. In the middle awes pow.
tiered glans is Wild to have been atm".
orite material with, whieh to ' doetoty .
food, and you'll find ^some interesting
data on the Aubject the artteitio.
graphy Cellinl, the goidsitlith.
• oecationally used by interest, eight e
here in the'Sonth, Of course, powdet.
'ed glees. len't trite poision. /t /mane. ,
tiMee kills 14 tiettiNt iniftrAtt
fikuituittco. ott,*st It ha* no effeet
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