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Exeter Advocate, 1904-1-14, Page 3eeeaseee-e-si iitiel:414410*1144414kelieeiteeelefiele.ele) ' The Sergeant's Idea.... l'IM41.'314WieeeeltelsWieelefe•W.W.40)0(411$ "A vvise man," said the sergeant, "willeiften be a fool, but a fool will .never be anything else. And a few seise men are worth Moro than a neap of., fools, or perlia.ps even thai. a heap of wise men. And a fesv foolare sv,orta more than a heap of feels. .As inny ? Thus. When we Were at Pardo, up in what they 041 tee; Hinterland, beyond Dern - bola whith is on elle west coast of Melee, the lioateeent and I, and a sergeant of the 'Lions.' 'the KEng's, Own, and 20e a our elegem 1114343 a ' reeoeueleeanine. When we were three day' mareih beyond Peerda we be- -came aware of a big crowd of nig- gees, who eee.med to with to bar -our way. We judged that by the fact that no fewer than 2000 of them came up against us with all the weapon e they could muster -- bows and arrows, spears and Such things. Those of them who had trade guns, wite gallant disregard of the danger to the men at the butt ends of the old gaspipos, Bred them of at us. At lest the lieutenant *said: • " 'Sant. Harding, the men, for raw blacks, have stood -very well. But they're getting a bit out of hand now, and there are at least a •dozen down. Do you think any of yours have enough grit in them to oovee the-er-tretheinent ?' " Vela, sir, I don't feel sure of them. Tbeir fellow -heathens have pet the fear of (fad into them. But I'll try with theme "They stood -oh, yes, they stood -ever so mulch better than I'd ever expected to see them stand. I retir- ed them by alternate half -sections. The retiring - half-saotions did its wer-k thoroughly, and retired for all It was worth. The covering half- aectotion tid not seem to have its heart in its work quite so much as the other had, but when I saw a. man getting nervous I distracted his .attention froni the enemy by a,ttacke ling him in the rear with my boot. 'They woufd .rather face a possible bullet than a certain ammunition boot. The difficulty with me was to keep in touch with the two half- :seettions. If I left the covering half - 'section it had a, tendency to be afraid of bullets, and if I left the .retiri-ng half -section it had a ten- dency to keep on retiring. But I kept them up to the ecratch with all the abusive terans that I had been able to plot: up out of their language and filled up the gaps with a little 'Toren:1y language at the top of my voice. It is more the noise you Make than what you say. And, lan- .guage of all kinds failed, I recollect- ed that some philosopher before me had said, eA.etions speak louder than wends.' Now, I have always - been a bit of re philosopher anyeelf-that .is with regard to other folks -and I brought in the boot. When night /ell the attck 'dropped off bit by bit till it ceased, and we rejoined the main body. " 'Very good, very good, indeed, sergeant,' said the lieutenant. " 'They're all plieeker, sir,' said I, 'our nigger's and the others, to.. 'They're very handy in a. free fight, .enti. they enjoy it as if they were Irish members of parliament.' ." 'Yee, sergeant. But what I was eutrwrised to see was how well they kept on the defensive in retiring. A rear-gua.rd action is trying to the best troops.' " It was their fear fdr their rear that kept them up, sir.' . "Oh ! said the lieutenant in a puZzled way. It would never do for an officer to acknowledge to an N. C. p. that he didn't understand. •" 'We seem to have beaten' off the 4nemy, sire '"efo, you mustn't congratulate yourself on having done quite so mach as that, sergeant. You ought to know bynow that black men are very superetetiotte, and that they ldisiike to do anything at ,night for fear of evil spirits. Even our own trained blacks won't do anything in the dark unless they .are led, by White men. These natives who at- tecked us have certainly formed a camp for the night; you can even sloe from here the fires they have lighted to keep off evil spirits.' ' Yes, sir; 1 judge them to be about three miles off.' . •" That is about if.' 'Couldn't we push on a bit, sir, while they are resting e' •"e''No; you had the bast of the men, and your men were kept going by the fact thee they were fighting. But the bulk of the main body are clean &elle, .and many of them oouidn't march another mile.' " 'Can't we leave them behind, sir?' . " 'Not to be killed and eaten, though it would do the enemy good and serve them right to let them eat vOlne Of our niggers. There is nothing for it but to ca -nip till the morning and then to carry on as be- eeere.' "So the lieutenant and I and the , „ eAon took our ra,tion,s together, for when you are schooling flingers in Nest Aerica there is more difference netween a whi te m an and a black eenan than there is between ail officer hand an N. C. O. rt" 'It reminds me, sir,' said the eeion, with his mouth full, of what ,exuppened in '57 in the mutiny 6to lLy father, who wes then corporal ily tile--' , ""lanit YOU, sergeant,' said the efettteriant, 'btet I've often:heard of things which remind you of what efnappened to your reletione. And I 4 most say Mae T. never -out of the /yennineers, that ie--ernesv, in spite :of the inert that, Oil the surface, you .: r.p.ppea,t) a little heavy a mere lively ,.:41sragirerition, in drawing parallels. '-eeltet please 'got that Ma.conothie Out rJif your mouth before telling us any , „i,et 'ore/ ("If peter() admitted to woes with eitielliciere you have to pay for it.) 1 " "Alleconothie, teire said the Lion, .1 enelenatly; eiiine's only bully beef.' I" 'Weil, we'll legatee and there altke e t,o-rdeeiel:e said the lienteenni, 'so 1,14,34 etiO v, have no reettinleteneelet "I don't, know, sir,' staid the Lion, stemdfaetly, 'that I ean promise you no reminiseencee, because they may do you egad. And although you are my officer, I'm always willing to do you good.' " 'That's leind of you, sergeant, Generally people are oPleoeled to ti10810 Ol'Or them,' " 'There is a more important met - ter for me, sir. They may do mo good. There was a newspaper man called O'Donovan, wile was always nosing about to get information. The way he asked questions was by telling other people takes. And one tale he told me was «hold a man oalled Skobeleff, who made a big name in the 1 -U1880 -Turkish war. It appears that, like ourselves, a Rus- sian ealuran was ()nee retreateng--' 'Vile lieutenant frowned. I gave the Lion a judicious kick, while the lieutenant pretended not to see, The Lion looked a little flabbergasted; then lie understood, and went on: " 'A Russian column was striate- gioally retiring under Gen. Trotsky from Namangen, because it number- ed only 800 men. Skobeleff propose ed e night attack on the 6000 Kho- kw-Wiens who were in pursluit. Carried it out with 150 Cossacks, and it was quite successful.' " 'Sergeant,' said the lieutenant, like a flash, 'that's your idea, and you shall oa,rry it out to -night. How maany men do you want?' •"The Lion was knocked galley - west. - " 'I'd rather you ca.reled it out, sir,' said he, respectfully, ehen he recovered his moral vvind. 'It wants a man who is quick at the uptake, and I never was a Skobeleff myself. Now, if it had been ray unele in the Horse Gunners—. " 'I must stop with the main body,' said the lieutenant. curt and run if they foa left in camp without one of us." " 'Then I'd like Sergt. Harding with me, sir, and the black sergeant Big Tom, and sixty good men.' " To you think that will be enough ?' asked the lieutenant. " 'I rexneraber, if what Mr. O'Don- ovan told me was right, sir, that Skobeleff had only 150 against 6,000.' " 'All right, sergeant. I don't question your reminiscences, but what you ought to have. As you yourself said, you are not a Skobel- eff, so take as paany as you think you want.' L 'Sergt. Harding, 13ig Tom and sixty men will be quite enough, sir, said the Lion, who as an obstinate man. " 'When will you start e' " 'About 12, • sir. I shall take bwenty men on the right flank Sergt. Harding twenty men on the fiat flank and Big Tom twenty men for a frontal attack. The fron- tal attek will be the easiest, if I judge the ground right. We shall be all in position before 1 o'clock. Al- low half an hour for delay or going astray, and we shall attack at half - past 1, when 1 send up a reelect from the right flank. That will be at the darkest time.' " 'Make it a, qua,rter past one, ser- geant,' said the lieutenant. 'If the others are not up by a quarter of an hour after time, they will either have entirely lost their way or they will have been cut up. In either case they will be of no use te You, and though our blacks will fight when properly led, they won't bear waiting in the meddle of the night. Even trained white soldiers want some reneging for that.' " 'Very good, sir' said the Lion, and at 12 o'clock we started. With my, twenty men 1 'brept on and on through the dense bush, wherein we heard the forest beats rustling their way through the un- derwood. Once for a moment, I saw a pair of yellow eyes glare full into mine, and I brought my rifle to the charge. I was in mortal fear of treading on a snake, which is a thing I hate. Taking one ehing with another, I think niggens, when they object to night expeditions, are cer- tainly right. 'But at hist we got close on the left flank Of the enemy, and there came a time of waiting which seem- ed hours, I found the lieutenant had been quite right in saying that a quarter of an hour was enough. That quieter's wait in the dark as a C. 0.. without anyone with whom to ,rule shoulders, being miles above all synipathy and advice, iseemed whole long night to me. I give you my word, it's more companionable and cozier to be in the ranks than to be an officer. Tbe only compan- ionship I had was the chattering be- hind me of the teeth of the niggers, who were both cold and afraid, and it was all I could do to keep my own from chattering.. Just when I thought I could hold on no longer, up went the Lieu's rocket veith a whiz. It was better to me than the Crystal Palace on a Thursday, or Brock's benefit, or even the Fol- icoman's fete. I never saw a. finer displa3r of fireworks than that rock- et. We fired a volley, juinped up. and ran in with the bayonet. When I in.et the Lion, five minutes later, in the middle of the enemy's camp, there was not a live and unwounded adversary who was not running for his life; for an untrained black Man who wakes up in the middle of the night to eee,what he thinks, is a fiery eerpent SO elle air, and to feel what lie knows is e bayonet in his stomach or the small of his back, develops running powers not to be got by training. .A.nd we let them run; we were pleased to see it. Next morn- ing, after occupying tee camp all night, we marched to our main 'body. The lieutenant turned out to meet us. " 'What dicl you do, seroenait ?' 'The beefed three of the eimety, sir, and have ten prisoners and 120 guns.' " 'Where are the rest of the ene- my " don't know, sir,' said the Lion, 'but I shored think they ere about in Zaneibae by now.' '"l'ea proud of you, sergeant,' Said the lietitenent, 'it wag 4 very ticklish operation With eo feW Mend ""Nei, fere said the Lion, with a, Well; 'it reminds Me of wh a t O'Donovan said SIcebelete said. Ir- regular trooPs even of the very bravest, are stlbjett to panics A night attack is the most nerve shaking of fights; for irregular troops, if their inee are Penetrated, It means destruci;i011. 'The objeet being not to cut to pieties, but to strike terror, a, small munber can make as much noise as a large one. A- Mall party is less liable to CCM' flAsiOrt. and to killing each other. 11 a, small party is deetroyed, the de- struction does not endanger the main body. " Thank you, sergeant, very much, said the lieutenant. But I will not tax your memory ere airtime. shall recommend you for the D. C. M.' 'District court martial, sir? said the Lion, with open mouth. " Not this time sergeant -Dis- tinguished Conduct Medal.' man's Magazine. 4 PERSONAL POINTERS. Notes of Interest About Seine Prominent People. • Before his accession to the Chair of St. Peter, the Pope had accumu- lated a collection of over 10,000 post -cards. Ile is still an enthusias- tic collector. The smallest and oldest postmis- tress in England -perhaps in the World -is Miss I-Iaworth, of Pendle- ton Pose Office. Miss Haworth is but 31t. 9inin height and over seventy years of age. One of the wealthiest heiresses in the world is Lady Mary Hamilton, only daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton. She is a charming girl of nineteen, and in Vivo years will be mistress of $1,000,000 a year. Kubelik, the world-famous violinist Is the sou of a gardener, towhose wisdoxu the former attributes the development of his genius. ICubelik is the most grateful of sons, and says he can play best when he ima- gines he sees his father sittian in the audience in front ol him. The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is nine times king, twice a grand duke, once a grand prince, four tunes a raargrave, and the mul- titude of his titles as . count, and so forth, is past enumeration. In addi- tion, as King of Hungary he bears the title of "Most Apostolic," which is one of the four honors bsstowecl by the Pope. . Miss Helen Burnside, who has been awarded a pension by the British Authors' Society, has probably writ- ten more Christmas -card verses than any other living person. Passion- ately fond of music, she had the ter- rible -misfortune to lose her hearing at the age of twelve, and frorn that time she began to write verses. At one time she was literary editor to Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons, and her output for twenty years -was 400 verses a year. Iller 'first 'volume of poems was published in Deere. ' The King of the Belelans is a bell- liant talker on any subject. His habits of life are very simple. His Majesty rises at six o'clock and works for a couple of hours before breakfast, a meal which is served in the Queen's apartaneuts. It eoheises of coarse dry bread, tea, and an ap- ple. The morning is spent in the transaction of State business. Lun- cheon is of homely fare. The King usually drinks filtered water, rarely wane. He is very particular to take oateloer exercise in the afternoon. Dinner is a plain meal, for the King is fond of ordmaiet joints. The Duke of Fife holds a record. He is the only man Who has ever known to change his rank while he ate his breakfast. Alter the mar- riage ceremony had been celebrated in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on the morning al July 27th, 1889, he led his Royal bride •into the dining -room, where the wedding breakfast was laid, as an earl. When the meal was half over, the late Queen, in raising her glass to the toast of the young couple, •conferred a dukedom upon bine, and thus, as he ate, he passed through two ranks of the peerage -surely the quickest promotion ever recorded. Dr, J. Wilson Swan, F.R.S., the inseettor of the incandescent electric lamp, has just entered his seventy- sixth iyear. It is nearly a generation ago since Dr. Swan 'first -publicly ere hibited the electric light evhich has now becoene univeroal. There were at that time only two houses in the world lit with incandescent el- ectric lamps -the late Lord Arm- strong's and his own. Despite his ginat service in the adviencement of science by his discoveries in electric- ity: and photography, the only coun- try which has recognised Dr. Swan's gerdus is France, syliose President bestowed on him, twenteetwo years agothe decoration of Knight of the Legion of ITonor. It is doubtful whether there is aay other living person who can produce quite so much first-class "copy" as Mr. P. Marion Crawford, the well- keown novelist. It is an ordinary thing for him to write 5,000 words in a day, and he really "wriees" it. lee tried dictating several thnes, but somehow could never make any headway. His "copy" is it wore of artbut very unpopular with the minting fraternity. Ile Writes a beautiful, clear , copperplate hand, and when he starts out his lettere are of very good siee and as legible as typewritieg. But as he proceeds the letters grow smaller, 'until final- ly they are not 1Y111011 larger than a pin, -head, Some &inception of the mintitebess af his writing nary be had when it ie stated that his copy will generally ruri 1,750 words to a cittarto page. let -LED 1317 NVOleteeea. A renment of the Sates tribe of Indians inhabits the Isleed of Ti- buron, in the Gulf of Califoruia,, end tided entirely by the Women. Merle' the tribe numbered about 5,- 000, but is tow shrtnik to a few hundred, living a life of fthetost come d pieta isolation, and refusing to in- S tciimarry svith any of the Indians of t the nictielancl. The women i$ netsier otirtsh.e ltousebold, ahcl a cotmeil of b teatinies is at the bead Of public - t t UNLEAVEeTED BItEAD. Graham Gems. -You mad a good fire, small iron gem pens, the cold- ese water, the best meal and plenty of good common sense of "faculty" for your work. Two and one-half cups cold Water and about three level cups of meal, Beat and stir a few moments and incorporate all the fresi, air possible. The batter should bo thin enough to pour easily from the s000n. /Pill hot pans full and put in hot oven. Should rise above pans and be well done in half en hour. Remove from pans and let cool a little before eating, If not light and spongy, probably ov- en too cool or bread not stiff enough. Gems of Entire Wheat.- Three lev- el tea cups entire wheat, two cues cold water and tablespoonful liquid shortening. Beat, make and bake same as the graham gents. They may need a spoonful or more , of cold water, When done they should be a sponge that does not fall from the crust. If these breads are not right, or too soft, they may be used as a cereal, then try again. Rolls. -These aro made in the same waY, . whether of graham or entire whe,at, or white flour --except that the two latter are better with a level spoonful of liquid shortening to a pint of flour. Put two or three cups of flour in your mixing bowl and slowly add cold water to make a dough stiff enough to handle well. Turn it on your floured molding board and knead, roll, stretch, fold and work ten or fifteen minutes, until springy, full of air and with a satin finish. If the dough is too stiff it will be dry, if too soft, claramy when done. Roll ,the dough three-fourths of an inch thick and cut strips an inch wide and finger length - form into rolls, put in thallow pan, space apart, prick and bake in oven hot enough to brown soon after putting in. If right they will rise, crack open on the sides and be the per- fection of an 'unleavened roll. It is not necessary to write out page after page of recipes for mak- ing things where the dough is al- ways the same. Hence you may roll this dough thin for waiers, a quarter inch thick for crackers, and instead of cutting rolls cut rn very small biscuit, rings or balls, sticks or diamonds- but always small, then they will be light. You may in mixing add a little sweet fruit or nut meats ground, and so from the same dough have more than one va- riety at a time if desired. And the , same rule holds with the gems. A tablespoonful of fresh grated coca - nut or of. nut meats ground will • shorten a pan of gems; or sweet fruits may be used, if one likes mix- tures. *Atte".2tReyeerie WOMEN. 'Tt must be admitted -tent some wo- mexi and girls have no-teceeneeter housekeeping, but this is a distinct misfortune. They ought to have it. They should try to acquire it. They have no reason to glory in such in- capacity, not to look on it as a mark of superiority, of an artistic temperament, a fastidious nature. Not a bit of it. The really fastidi- ous people are always good manag- ers, for they ctumot endure to live in discomfort and squalor, and, ra- ther than endure it, set bravely to Work to remedy it. The young woraen who cannot cook a. mutton chop, boil a potato, or Make a decent cup of tea, whatever her station in life, has no reason to feel proud of her incapacity. Some thitigs eyery girl should know, whatever her wealth ,and posi- tion -how to make a fire, how to bind up a wound, how to cook at least some sitaple dishes, and how to act in case of fire or poison. On such knowledge life or the loss of it may depend, and she who does not possees it i$ ignorant of an essential to a woman's education. A thou- sand possible accidents may make it of the first importance. The perfect woman. the woman the world wants, is the all-round wo- man who can put her hand to any- thing, should the need arise, and who having a cultivated intelligence, quickly grasps how tasks unfamiliar to her should be done. The &Altered lady, accomplished equally at home in the drawing -room, the nursery and the larder, able to entertain her guests with ease and grace -no drudge, no raere upper servant, but capable, womanly, versed in all that it becomes a modern woman to know; mistress, perhaps, of an art or profeesion, but in addition to and before all that, a good wife, a good mother, a good mistress --that is the kind of woman of whom there can-, not be too many. She may not be required, by her circumstances, to busy herself with holisehold details, but she lamws how everything should be clone, When she finds Melt it is with rea- son arid out of tee fullreiss of • her knowledge, She does not give iin- possible eommands or exneet impos- sible perfections. She is just and reasonable, but if anything goes wrong, she knows just why, and she nal point out the reason. She commands the respect' and cote ficlence of her servants, 11 eircum- stanees compel her, she is ready to WO) k for her eitieband and children. She manages ender all circum- stances to preeerve her grace and refinemett and to ieeport it into her metho(1 of wOrk. She makes the pooreet cottage pretty and homelike e alid by as deft touch transforms tile e- referiness ol even cheap lotiginge, he never sinks with her fallen fele onita, but bribee up her children to 1, doen the ,eotieley to wheel, thee 0 clone', She is 8tinplo and well bree s lady, every frith of her -end herelorei ire() from foolleh pretense 10 - eget $25'0 epiece, anti teen), accord- ing to quality and eupply. Teey are all stamped with the royal seal- of Russia. Tile *table is reseuarkable for the ricanefis end length of the fur and the fact that it ran be blow* Any way. It is dark brown, rather darker along the back. A set of sable e of reasonable dimensions here would cast from el0,000 to el5,- °°10Vhen the skins are all tampered, ready for the maker of garments, they are taken to the sulweellar, thirty feet below the surface, and kept in bins. One room boles dress- ed and dyed seal ekins for roakieg up, velvety and rich, It would be eiffiene. to go hunting around areteng 20,000 or 30,000 skins to find exact matches if one were in a hurry, for all elfias used in one garment, must be ' of exactly itth.e Berne leegth and shades, so they are carefully chosen aad matched as they come from the dyers. Other bins contain ermine and sables. , ALL SCRAPS SAVED. To the unsophisticated eye a fur garment appears to be all of one piece, without seaan or fold, but the inside would show the patient and Painstaking labor bestowed upon it. Tn the first place, every piece must, have the pile run the same way, and be exactly the same in color and thickness. On,e of the good points about a fine garment is the small numrber of pieces that go to make it up. The reason for this is that they are cut Without stint. However, every scrap of fur is valuable, and sooner or later finds its plaee. Cheap fur garments are raa.de of tho leavirigs of the good ones. One piece bf sian lamb teree-quarters of a yard square was made up of scraps, none over half an inch wide. The back was a labyrinth of seams, while the face looked as smooth as if of one piece. Obviously, in the process of wear some of these seams are likely to give way. When a garment is to be ieade the first inove is to select the skin. Thi e is laid out on a flat board and wet. The fur side is down. Then they are stretched and pulled to the limit, and literally thousands of fine, long pins are steel( in to hold the edges. Tbey are left all night to dry. The next day the patterns of stiff cartridge paper are fastened down over the skin Ormly, and the cutter, with a knife as sharp as a razor, cuts along the edge of the pattern" into the leather, but neva- quite through, for fear of injuring the fur. When this is done the parts are gently pulled apartesand the fur is ready to be sewed. . ITAND WORIC THE BEST. There are machines to sew fur, but the best -work is always done by hand. The edges of the seam are moistened so that the needle will pass, and all seams are moistenel and pressed flat, generally with a smooth shell. When the garmeat is sewed. it is stretched again. this time on, a model, fur side in. and then ' all edges are taped, and 'all searee are stayed by having is tape stitch -- ed back and forth so the seam is firmly held, no matter what future pressure may come upon it. Around the top and bottom the tapes are stitched, this last being to give a hold for the lining. Around the arra-edge is quilted a half-moon of buckram. Another piece is quilt- ed to the revers. A tailor would ecarcely put so many or such care- f u Tl hs'etjisClelieT-es4iaeitheP!P.tOn'c°at" e -- careful way, and each seam taped. The cuffs are furnished with , edges and buckram quiltings. The lining is hemmed to the edge in the neatest manner. Only the best silk or bro- cade is used -quilted satin being "out." The putting in of the sleeves to have them look as if they had, poultte iTno.psy, "just grieved," is pure art. The lining of the jacket is thee Among all tbe reasonably priced furs skunk easily takes the lead for beauty and general utilty. The fur of this animal is prepared by inter- ment in trie ground twentetefour hours, after which it is tanned and dyed. Dying is eecessary, because there are always white stripes, and the fur is in different shades of dark brown in the natural state. The skunk is of the same fandlye as the Russian. sable, and so near does the likeness come that dealers call skunk "Alaska sable." 'Tills fur has one peculiarit,y, and that is the long haire are prosmatic in sunlight. This fur, soft and feathery, beau- tiful for iborderings and neck pieces. DOMINOES. and affectation, cheerful, companion able, well read, with kit).4 heart and soiled "Hee price is above rubies." ALPHABETICAL IeleTTS. Add 4 little borax to the boiled stureil. Brass may be cleaned by epplying (-sweet oil and powdered rotteu stone. Cenient air tinware, white of eggs and ashes to form a peste. Dry Plaster Peels mixed with flour will kill roaches. Enamelled eauce pans can be clean- ed with punice stone. For bee stings and spider bites use salt and soda. Good disinfectant is 1 lb, copperas 8 oz. carbolic acid, 1 gal. water. Half ise raw potato rubeecl On cloth will cause mud spots to disappear. In using a nail to hang things on drive it through, a spool up to the Jewelery should be cleaned with ammonia and water, Keep vinegar in glass instead of stone. Ammonia and molasses mixed with blacking will prevent it burning 011. Moths will not come near clothes sprinkled with turpentinie. Neetsfoot oil is excelleet to soften hardened leather. Oil of turpentine will clean gilt frames. Pineapple syrup is excellent for croup. Quite delicious sandwiches are made by placing chopped peanuts, cheese and butter between thin slices of broad. Remedy for chilelabas, turpentine diluted. Salt should not be added to milk gravels till they are ready to serve. To keep fresh fish sweet, wrap in cloth wet with vinegar. Use red hot flat iron to remove old putty. Vegetables should be tested with a knitting needle inste,ad of a fork. Warm bread and cake shoeld be cut with a hot knife. Exercise in the open air every day. You can clean a sewing machine by covering all the bearings with kerosene,: rub off and apply machine oil. Zinc is preferable for covering the kitchen shelves. Fillt IS SO OUSTLI ALL THE LABOR l'IUST BE DONE BY HAND. Much Work ancl Patience Needed to Transforin. the Pelts In- to Garments. There is a. vast difference betweee the crude skin furnished by the trap- per and the finished fur of the gar- ment supplied by the furrier. Which of the many women who love to draw the soft., warm fur across their rosy cheeks would touch even with the tips of their dainty fingers the coarse and odorous pelt as it first reaches the fur niarket ? The story of the hunting down of the animal has been frequently told. Let us take up the subject from this eeint. The first thing done after the anliffale. bee been dispatched is to remove die Weill,' :streeeinie- on , boald to dry after liberally 'rtibbie'ree it with salt to preserve it. The salt is rubbed on the inner side, not on the fur. This is left to dry, and when the hunting season is over all the pelts are gathered into bundles and taken to the nearest market. Here they are classified, All seal- skins of fust quality are sent to London for dyeing and uneedring, for seal is covered with a thick coat of coarse gray hairs over the soft fur. The work is still done with knives by hand, and is tedious, al- ways crippling the fingers of the workers, MUCH WORK NECESSARY. ' Before any skin can be made into a garment it .must go through many processes. The 111.st thing is to scrape off all the dried fieth and fat adgering to the pelt and work the leather into :A,11 pelts, after having been scra.ped, are tann- ed to make the skin tough. The skins are put into vats and tanned until they are finished, and teen dried, rubbed, scraped and 'dyed. The best are done in London, but many more common pelts are dyed in Brooklyn, whore there is a large es- tablieliment. All fees that are to be made up in "natural" fashion a.re, after tanning, worked over and ina,de as soft. as a kid glove, and this is done by sheer strength and PaTbliteelleneatural furs are then matehed in bunches and set aside. Dyed baby lamb, chinchilla, miniver, ermine and sables are tied in bunches and tagged with papers showing quality and number. It requires many of them to make a garmett. Mink, Sable, marten, otter and similar ani - needs are simply dressed -teat is scraped, rubbed and made soft rui-t-Ll pliable They are never dyed. Seal, skunk, fox, raccoon, nutria,, musk- rat, rabbit, opossum and some bear are dyed. Reccoon has long baits and it beatitiful coat of inner fur closely reseinbling beaver. lt is plucked and the fur -used undyed to imi tate beaver for collars, capes, eto. Letely the furriers have taken to 'dyeing it black without mill:lir- big it, and oposeean as well, leaving the long haire. It is used to itia,ke tells of. nluskrat makes the best i tati on Of sea 'skin . OTTnIt :MOST EXPENSIVE, With the exception of sea, otter sable is the 11108t expensive fur. Ties fleet is very rare, indeed, aecl brings over $1,0.00 for a single pelt. Sable conies trona Siberia, through. leaseite; hut we never eee the best And finest Of these ,skine, as they re pelemisitee of tee eroWn, end the mperor has the fleet choice of eel he output. Sables take the !sleep diamobds in Thissie, and personal veteth S nteesured in sahlee as thers measure theirs in precious tones. A sable skin is rarely ten inches isa aside from the taile and they It is interesting to note that the game of dominoes is supposed to have originated through two monks committed to a lengthy seelusion. rrhey beguiled the hours of confine- ment by showeng each other small flet stones merited with black dots. By a preeoncerted arrangement the winner would informthe other player of bee victory by repeating an an eaclertc:2* the first line of the Ves- pers hymn In time the monks com- pleted the set and perfected the rules so that when their term had expiree the game wee so interesting, that it Was generally adopted_ by all the, in - metes of the monastery as it lawful pastime, The first line of the Ves- pers was reduce(' to the single word ONE MORE CHANtE. FIa we.s a flirt, and a male flirt neve(' gets a kick exalse. The hatder you hit him the better. 'lee aeked the girl to marty him, No she said, ProMPtee arid timnily lee became teeatrical. "You liceve crushed my life rt Ono blow," he murmured 110tus0y, , "I fancier not she responded, "Ab, but you do not 1010W," he insiSted. You have- ,e111.08 mn- lullecl nee -killed me I" 'Veil, if 1 have," she remarked, coolly, "you 'must be ft. 004 101` know 06V641 Other giele Wee done the 8a111.0 thing, and eeie) etre eot dead eiet. Yotee* got one tnetrilt tha*cib".