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O 4. 'Ong hie foot into the topmetit rig-,
+ 0 ging, he began to crawl, With free
quent breathless, stops; hie passage,
; A Midnight 0
. + up those eh:reticle had elle dying taa-
• certainty, of the trect4 of a bluebete
+ + tie when it clitabs a• sheet a glass
al . 0 0 11.1, October.
4. Visitor
. + "Oa a sudden he eame down into
ce' the top very faSt. 1.1liere he stood
+ ,
O + staring aloft Les though fascinated or
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electrified; then, putting his foot
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f. shrouds, and trotted dowa an deck,
all very quick. The captain stood
"There are more terrors„at„sea near the elude. hatch, looking, *tin,
than shlPwreek and lheemore inteets The mate approached laim, an& in a
and horrors, imeteys, than famine, whisper of awe and terror, exclaim -
blindness, and eholmn,” said the °4 ed, whilst his eyes sought the shad -
seaman, eith a slow motion of his ow up in the foretopmast erosstreeS:
'I believe the Dutchman's eight, sir,
and that. we've been boarded by, the
devil himself.'
" 'What are yer talking about?'
" 'I never saw the like of such a
thing!' said the mate, in shaking
tones. ..
" 'es it a man?' said the captain,
staring up with amazement, whilst
the seamen came hustling close in a
sneaking way to listen, and , the
Dutchmen drew close to the mate.
" 'It has the looks of a mane said
the mate; 'yet it sha'n't be murder
if you kill him.'
"She vos no man, eir. I vos
close. 1 vent closer don you. I me-
pect, sir,' said the Detainee, 'she's
an imp. Strange dot I did not see
him till I was upon her,'
*eves round anent the little company
of sailors. "I remember once being
aboard a ship hi the Indian Ocean.
There was mem' a moan that eight.
The ship rose faint and hushed fei
the stare. It was one' bell in the
morning watch. Scarce air miough
raol-ed to dive life to the topmost
canvas. As the ship bowed upon
the light swell the sails swung in and
swung out with a rush sound of
Main* wings up in the gloom. Yet
the vessel had steerage way in. that
hour. Shall 1 tell you why? Be -
Cause 1 know!"
The grey-hairee, respectable sea-
man closed his eyes in silence, filled
with significance, and, after a short
semice, thus proceeded:
"Some of the watch on deck
sprawled about in the shadow out of
Sight, curled up; asleep. Only one
'figure was upright forward. 'Tanis
the shape of the man on the look-
out.
"This man thus standing, by no
means asleep, yet with his head sunk
and no doubt his eyes closed, was
11,
"The captain went swiftly to his
cabin for a binocular glass. The
lenses helped him to determine the
motionless sbadow in the crosstrees,
and he clearly distinguished an ap-
suddenler struck on the side of the ,parently large human shape, but in
face by somettneg hairy, damp, and what fashion,, or whether or not
cold. He sprang into the air as habited, it was impossible to see.
though he had been shot through the How had he come into the ship ?
heart. Oh, heavens! 'What was it? The captain went on to the poop
A naked figure, shaggy as Peter and searched the silent sea with the
Serrano, wild with hair, furious with glass with some fancy a Rang a
a. grin, terrible with the red gleams -boat wthin reach of his vision. Noth-
the starlight flung upon his little ing was to be seen.
eyes. The sailor shrieked like a. "It got wind in the forecastle that
midnight cat, and fell in a heap something wild, unearthly,
down upon the deck in a -fit. was aloft, and the watch below turn -
'The ship was in commotion in. an ed out, too restless to sleep, and all
instaiet. Suoh. a 3.7ell as that was through those hours of darkness the
worse than the smell of fire. sailors walked the decks in groups.
'"What's the matter?' roared the "Why don't the captain let me
znate. shoot him?' said the second mate
'Here's Kennedy M a fit, sir,' at four o'clock, 'I cannot miss that
sung out a voice. mark.'
" 'es that all?' saicl the mate. And " 'No,' said the chief mate. 'I've
be went forward to look at the man talked- of trying what shooting will
e"It's a fit, certainly,' said he. do. The captain means to wait for
'Give him air, lads. Get a. drink of sunlight. But how did it get on
cold water into his mouth, lt.'s board?' Said be, sinking his voice in
epilepsy." awe. 'There's no land for hen.-
"Wben the mate was told the man deeds of leagues.'
bad his senses and was sitting up, 'It was not long before day whit -
he went forward again and question- ened the east. And then, and even
oci him. Ire was sitting on the foot then, what was it? There it sat up
of a cathead, and was too weak to in the crosstrees-a hairy, selky 'bulk
rive when the mate- stood before of man or beast, black; and the crea-
him. time looked hard down,whilst all
" 'What is this you're rambling hands were starieg hard up.
Aimee?' said the officer. 'Aren't you " 'Seized, if it isn't a gorilla!'
quite Well egt?" said the mate.
" 'Blow me, thed, .jt slapped me " 'No,' said • the captain, letting
fair over the chops, like flretinix Ter fall his binoettlar. 'Look for yo•tua
with the wet sleeve of a iacket-. He self. Yet it's not a mom either.'
reee ,yr foot when I swore -Lc -lee eTe He burst into a latiefir as elemigh for
Might lia' been nacre an' he might relief. 'It's a huge hairy ba..90112
ha', been less. Darkness put him one of the biggest I ever saw in my
out -only that I recollect,' said the life. Hell be as fierce as a .mutin-
Man, turning up his pale face to theous crew, and strong as a frigate's
stars, .`taking notice of a couple of complement. What's to be done
eyes like red lights floating in water,
and a grin of teeth wide as the keys
of a picineye
" 'He's mad,' thought the man, who beast through the glass.
stepped, nevertheless, into the bows I " 'By that, 'maybe, sir,' exclaimed
pee loteeeld over, le °thing. was to be
se'ii. TI sttieeeyecl the (Reim by the
light of the stars, and glanced
along the deck and up aloft, then
told the look -out man to go below
and turn in, and went aft, reckoning
the thing an epileptic's nightmare.
" 'Just then a catspaw blew. It
was so faint that it scarcely chilled
the moietened foreflnger of the officer
it had to be reckoned with, never-
theless. It was an air of wind, any-
how, and someone sung out that the
ship was aback forward, on which
the mate went to the break of the
poop, and yellect to the seamen to
trim sail. Something weet wrong
in swinging the yards on the fere.
" `Jump aloft, a hand, and clear
"A. seaman went up the rigging;
his shadowy shape vanished in the
gloom that blackened like a thunder-
cloud upon the foretop,
"Suddenly. when midway the rig-
ging, he yelled at the 'top of his
voice. His cry was,more dismal and
heartshaking than even that with
, which the man Kennedy had terrified
the ship. He caught hold of a
backstay, and sank to the bulwark -
rail as though handsomely lowered
away in a bowline,
" Jingo!' he roared, flinging
clown his cap, whilst those who peer-
ed close saw that he trembled vio-
lently; 'der toyfel is on board, dis
ship! 1 have seen ber mit mine eyes!
If 1 hov not seen her, den I was a
nightmare, and she was mad! Look
np riar!"
`lee obtained n� answer. The sea-
men, attending- the indication of the
Dutchman, were to a man gazing;
aloft with hanging chins; for on high
up in the crosstrees, a visible bulk
of shadow, there sat, squatted, hung
-what?
'"What'e wrong aloft forrad
there'd' bawled the mate, And now
he sung out with energy and deci-
sion, for the figure of the captain
WaS elongslee at him,
" 'There's something aloft that
looks like a inanl' howled a seaman
-one of the unete ring crowd about
the Dirtchneare. eteoine forrard, sir;
you'll see him.'
"The mate and the captein went
fol -Ward and looked 'up.
'It is a man!' exelaiined the cap-
tain, 'Aloft there! What are you do-
ing elcylarking up in those, cross -
:thee? Come down!' he cried an-
grily,
'You sick-hearte, what dye, sea
to stare ate Or seeinge why don't
you go for iVd' thundered the Mete,
after a rattec, during which the lig-
'are oil high had amide no eesWer or
fpotiOn. And as he Woke the weeds
the otitcat %entitled et to the bill -
„Werke,. *eel ran up the fore-sheoimbe
"Itle tee:Jelled with heroic speed till
he get:. as high the foretop, There
with hien?” •
" 'How in Egypt did be come on
hoard?' said the mate, viewing the
,
reee.e.
OffiliESE BUSINESS WAYS
THEIR WORD IS AS. GOOD AS
TiaL'IK BOND.
Keen Sense of justice and, and
Conscientious Objections to
Progress.
The •Chinaman is' a eoneplex pro-
blem, and it is -not within the scope
of the European to do justice to
any one side of his character!but
we are perliaps--thoee of us who
live in the Easte-better able to ap-
preciate his business capabilities, for
the reason that it is in this eapaeley
that we most ? nearly come into
,thecli with -
Successful training is the aim and
ambition of the middle class China-
man, and he devotes hiMself to this'
end with an .eneeenr of which few
'Europeans, with their many other
interests ixi life, are capable.
Th.e greater part of my life having
been spent in the north of China,
says H. Vulford Bush in the 'Shang-
hai Times, it must be understood
that my remarks bear upon the nor-
thern native merchant, wbo is a
More phlegmatic and cautious man
than his southern brother and the
more typically Chinese, in that .he
is less familiar with foreigners and
their' ways. ,
The strong gambling instiect in-
herent in every Chinaman prompts
him to a baldness in trade specula-
tions which foreigners do not care
to emulate, and which-emeombined
with that intimate knowledge of past
transactians. and apparent. intuitive
forecast of conditions. governing
prices, exchange, northern. and south -
era demand and supply possessed by
every native trader -would inevitably
lead to disaSter. The Chinese • Mer-
chant, however, going on the broad
principle, which experience of years
has justified, that continues intelli-
gent trading in the staple exports
and imports will yield a return of
eve years' profit as against two
years' loss, enters into forward con-
tracts, purthases in large .quantities
and stakes the greater part of
HIS CAPITAL AND CREDIT
on the correctness of his estimate of
the present, vis-a-vizni
ethe ter% mar-
ket, winning five times out of seven
cuta waxing Pi-espial:0es on the fruits
of his bold reliance upon. his busi-
nees perspicacaity. •
The foreigner cannot hope to com-
pete with the Chinaman in hie own
linen without adopting methods
.
the neva pale, poieting to some
object floatieg Ma and yellow, 'faint
and far out upon the starboard quar-
ter.
"Tlie captain levelled the ship's
telescope. 'A. large raft.' he ex-
claimed, after some minutes of silent
examination. 'May be.'
"The captain said: 'The beast
don't seem. faint, but I guess he's
thirsty, and.he raag fall mad, come
clown, and bite some of us. So,'
says he to the chief officer, 'Rend a
hand aloft with a bucket of water
for the poor b-rute and' a pocket:fel
of ship's bread.If we can civilise
him, so much the better.'
".But never came to it, for he
refused to come on deck. He bared
his teeth, and his eyes shone with
!nalice of hell if the men attempted
to approach Ulm. It was impossi-
ble to let liim rest aloft throughout
the night to command the ship, so
to speak; for he might sink to the
deck stealthily, as the shadow of a
cloud blown by the wind; and he
was strong enough and beg enough to
tear a sleeping man'0 throcit out.
"'Ho must be shot,' said the cap-
tain. And he told the second mate
to fetch his rifle.
"The second mate, that be might
make sure of his aim, went aloft in-
to the foretop. The beast was then
sitting on the topgallant, yard. He
had been in comuzand of the fabric -
of the fore all day. Had it come
on to 'blow so as to oblige the cap-
tain to shorten sail, the cleave a sear
man durst have gene aloft to stow
the canvas. The second mate, ate, stand-
ing in tile top, was in the act of
lifting Lis rifle, when the , monstme
running on all fours out to the dizzy
topgallant yaidarea, stood erect a
breathless instant, poised -inhuman
posture -a marvellous picture of the
man -beast against the liquid blue,
then serang into the air. •
" 'Come down,' roared the captain
to the second mete, 'and shoot him
throtigh th'e heed, for ,God's sake!'
"As the beast MSC with a wild
grin after having been so long out of
eight throtigli , the fi•ightire height
he 'had lumped from -you'd haVe
thought he'd have risen with a burst
ificire-the captain bawlecl out, "Blees-
ed if he's not making for his raft!'
"The baboon, with a fixed expres-
sion, and with eyes askew uPon the
ship as he drove past, fewiniming
Very finely with long, &ley flourishes
of hie Vets and dexterous. thrusts of
his lege:, *hate the end ef his tail
stood tip astern of him as thougheit•
was eeMe comical little man there
steering -J. -the baboon, I say, was no-
itd with aniazing Saga-
city, uktaite straight itit the' raft)
having taken, ite bearings when aloft;
but at, the moment the seeded mate ,
lieelt to 1eee1 his piece, meaning to
irairdee the poor Waite Mit of pure
eie Stead nt geeie lereeettly, after Morey, the thing uttered -01a etectr-
which to the estmu mind appeal
unpractical and opposed to all busi-
ness precedent. The native does not
trouble about bank -guarantees, de-
livery of goods against documents
and accepted drafts, elaborate .book-
keeping and fixed hours.
Dealing largely on the barter sys-
tem, he delivers imports -against ex-
ports, each firm making a memoran-
dum of the transactioxi in a rough
day book, without any bank iiiter-
vention; and every xnerchairt is pre-
pared to do buslaess at any time in
the twenty-four hours, at .hie home,
his hong (business residence), the
ten shop, opium house, theatre, or
public bath. There is no sign. of
"rush" -why rush when you have the
titele day, and if necessary the
whole night,lor deliberation and
conclave before determining your line
of action? Arid yet, •wlfee an op-
portunity offers such as a sudden fall
in the prices of produce, or ex-
change, or freight rates, the native
merchant can make up his mind and
act as promptly Reid withal as calm-
ly is the smartest 1Vesternee coulee
wish.
Though extremely .conservative and
opposed to any innovation, the Nor-
thern Chinameu is beginning to
adopt such Western improvements as
recommend themselves to his sense
by reason of their money -saving
qualifications -and the last few years
have witnessed great changes in the
bean 011ie factory inachinery-which
is now constructed M Hong Kong on
a semi -foreign plan -improving the
output of oii. and allowing of a. re -
deafen M the labor
HUMAN AND ANIMAL,
man of no class distinetion, The uSe
of the pronoun was absolutely in-
exeusable but the foreiguer did not
underStand Chinese, and the Vice-
roy who slieuld have
nyns,ENTra) THE irTsuia
to his guest passed it OVer as being
doubtless good ceougli for a eon-
Chieeeeeepeaking foreigner: •
In no country in the world is eti-
meet-to nore rigidly observed and
held in honor than in China, but the
foreigner is a, walkuoion (a Man from
without, in. slang parlance, an out-
sider), and as such not entitled, un-
less aequainted with the language
and etiquette, to any great consider-
.
ation.
This May be a somewhat extreme
instance, but it eerves to demon-
strate a faet which foreigners desir-
ous of doing business in the country
cannot afford, to ignore, viz., that
the average Chinaman, whether offi-
cial or merchant, considers himself
superior to the European, and that
the latter must therefore be careful
to acquaint himself with tho lan-
guage and manners of the people.
With such knowledge, he will find
that he can cause an entire change
of sentiment in bis individual case,
and put through matters of moment
with an ease which is conspicuously
lacking when an interpreter is neces-
sary. But it must not be inferred
that any over -discourtesy will be
sho-wn to the European who is ignor-
ant in these essential matters; on
the contrary, the impreseion he will
receive will be that the Chines mer-
chants he has visited have been kind-
ness and courtesy personified.
They will doeibtless have plied him
with tecre cigars and cigarette, the
while they have listened with an air
of charmed interest to his imperfect-
ly interpreted utterances; and. he
will take his departure convinced o
their 'willingness, circumstances per-
mit, to do business with nim and his
fli•in exclusively. He cannot, of
course, be expected to realize the
fact -that the conversation between
the merchant and interpreter, when
the mutual exchange of compliments
has been exhausted„ has been confin-
ed principally to matters of local
business interest.
THE EXCHANGE RATES,
the resolution of promissory notes
into hard sycee (silver), the proba-
ble cause of the detention of the
bean craft up river, and its effect
upon produce prices and so on.
One of the most striking character-
istics of the Chinese merchant is his
business integrity. Much has been
written and said on this theme,
employed, as compared with the old
Process. There is still ;vast Town for
improvement in this direction; but,
though fearless to a degree when em-
barking upon enterprises purely Chin-
ese in their nature and working, the
Celestial is timorously cautious in
the matter of striking out a new line
in which the apsistarice of foreign
methods is 0. necessity. It is pre-
cisely this seemingly contradictory
trait .in his character which baffles
the majority of Westerners, who en-
clea,voe by their rhetorical efforts to
over persuade the possible purchaser,
whose hesitancy is due as muck to
their only too apparent eagernese as
to the dictates of his couservative
and superstitious mind, which looks
upon all things foreign as partaking
or the nature of the evil one.
The traveller lies under a heavy
handicap M North China, where the
lenglish-speaking Chinaman is a rare,
avis; and the employment of an in-
terpreter is merely an additional
bandicap in that the Chinaman has
a hearty, if tiereasonable, eontempt
for those unacquainted with his lan-
guage. Good and trustworthy inter-
preters are, almost inmoseible to get,„
the. average, interpreter'e rendering of
the loquacious foreigner's disserta-
tion showing up the weak points of
his argument and entirely emitting
his eleoquence.
Apropos of interpreters „tied their
unreliability while present et a big
official reception in the north of
China given by a nalyive ericeeoy
overheard the interpreter appointed
to the principal foreiga gueet con-
vey to the Vicerey the geed eueelde
conalimentater remarks tipcm the ex-
collerice of the entertainment provid-
ed by the host, prefacing, his later-
pretatien by the words "'lee Shim"
(he says). Be would thus have
quoted the remark of a coolie, a
teeetatiewi
AbOUt the
_....tiouse
tsvess%
TA3310K ETIQUETTE.
Celery, olives cheese racliehes, etc.
are 'always eaten from the fineere.
It is not good form to serve bread in
whole slices, but cut in two, or even
smal I er
Glasses should be filled three
fourths full of 'fresh cold water Just
before tee serving of the meal.
Open a boiled egg either with the
knife or spoon. The top should be
neatly taken off at one stroke, }
exec:has inarethecatceansefio•Ofinsttileieky
bayer-
cailiz3iis,e(twhen a fork should always be
sil
Bread ehoulcl never be brolcen into
„soup, and the last drop of the latter
should never be greedaly taken up
with the spoon.
In eating peaches, pears, (ace re-
move the skin, out the fruit up with
the • dessert -knife, and convoy the
pieces to the mouth with the fork.
If a silver knife is not provided for
the fish course, and the fish is bony,
two Saks may be used, The knife,
however, should always be supplied.
For a high tea, savory dishes are
introduced, such as ham, tongue,
ehicicen cutlets or croquettes, oyster -
patties, etc., also hot cakes, toast,
biscuits, preserves, honciy, etc.
It is not necessary to wait until
all have been served 'at the table.
One may begin to eat' leisurely as
soon as served, only observing care
not to get through before others.
Each mouthful of bread or biscuit
should be broken off when needed,
and a small piece of butter put on.
An entire slice or a whole biscuit
should never be spread at once.
If out to dinner, at the end of the
meal the napkiit should not be fold-
ed, but placed unfolded at the left
side of the plate, If visiting, ancl
a napkin -ring is given, the napkin
should be neatly folded and placed in
it.
When a plate is sent up the second
time, the knife and fork may either
be left upon it, side by side, or they
may be held in the hand. Usage
in ti•iie little matter -varies, but the
former method is the one generally
preferred.
In passing loaf -sugar and olives, it
is always more elegant to provide
and it is impossible to -extol tool an olave-spoon and sugar -tongs.
highly the absolute reliance that Can' Some b.oztesses oznit these, but it is
be placed upon the merchant's bond.
The writer's father,. Henry. E.
Bush, for over thirty years in con-
stant touch with the merchants of
North. China, never experienced a.
bad debt he all 'bus many business
transactions with the VariOns native
Hones. .
' Dir Ewan Cameron of the Hong
Kong and Shanghai Banking Cerpor-
avben speaking of his tenure of
office in China, extending over many
years, said he has never lost a cent
through his native constituents.
'When it is considered that the said
bank ie the leading bank he China,
ciod the one with which native as
ve1l.as foreign mexcliants • are •the
most anxious to do business, it will
be. achnitted that no, finer tribute
could well be paid to the integrity
of the, native trader.
'At the time of the Boxer outbreak
the Russo -Chinese Bank at, New-
chwang lead over 5,000,000 thole en -
vested itt the native ' city, and de-
spite the business stagnation result-
ing .from the disruption of the usual
commerce conditions since that date,
that money has all been accounted
for. •
The main cause of this admirable
state of affairs is, in nay opinion, the
guild organzetion. Every merchant
is a member of a- guild, every trades-
man has his guild, and what the
guild ordains is faithfully carried
out by each of its members,
No Chinese merchant can afford to
lose caste, or "face," .as he,.would
express, it. His "face" is literally
hi's fortune. 'Were he to be engaged
in any discreditable transaction, and
be reported to his gelid, he would
les° "face," an with et credit, bus-
iness .standing and •his entire clien-
tele.
The Chirdse merchant has a keen
sees° of justice, in spite of the fact.
that the Chinese official tease is sin-
gularly..deficient in that respect; and
if the foreigner can but show that he
has "li" (right) on his side he will
find it an unfailing argument, one to
compel a body of Chinamen. for the
sake of their "face" to decide in his
favor, their sympathy with their fel-
low mercha•nts notwithstanding.
ens; what e horrible cry!' -and van -
jelled, and a etraetity of blood rose
.end dereda bl.ctek • patch epee the
calm, blue. No more was felon Of the
baboon, but a little later the back
eCeithe-like finis of three eherke showe
ed: in the spot Wheee; lie had detail,-
peared."--tergion A.nswere, •
almest impossible to help one's self
with the fingers without touching
anore than one takes, .and this is ob-
jectionable.
Mustard and salt should be, placed
upon the side of the plate. Meat
and vegetables Can either be taken
up by the fork and dipped into ,the
condiment, or the point of the knife
can be pressed into the salt, must-
ard, catsup, etc., and then applied
to the food on the fork. ,
The same sort of dishes served at
a party supper are suitable for a
wedding -breakfast. Salmon or lob-
ster With inayormaise dressing, coed
fowl --roasted and boiled -bare, ton-
gue, pigeon pie, pressed beef. chicken
salad or patties, lobster cutlets, oys-
ter -patties, jellies, creams, tarts,
trifles, ices, etc., may be, selected
from, and. of course, the weelclieg
cake.
The knife should eever be used in
eating lettuce or salad of any kind.
With a very little' practite one may
Soon acquire the art of manipulating
an entire lettuce -leaf with the fork
and wafer alone. The salad is quite
as pretty, however, and !much more
daintily .eaten, if several lettuce -
leaves are placed together, and then
torn across in strips. A. slight
twist, and the prettiest of green
roses may be made. to line the salad -
bowl instead of the pieta leaves.
TOOK THE WARNING.
"Charles," said a sharp -voiced wo-
man to her husband in, a railway
carriage, "do you know that you and
1 once had a romance in a railway
carria ge?"
"Never heard of it," replied Char-
les, in a subdued tone. •'
"I thought you hadn't; but don't
you remember it was that pair of
slippers I presented to you the
Christmas before we were married
that led to our union? You eemern-
ber hew nicely they fitted, don't
you? Weli, Charles, one clay, when
we were going to 0, pierec, you bad
your feet up on a seat, and when
you weren't looking 1 took our
measure. tut for that 'pair of slip -
pct don't believe we'd ever been
ina
A youn g unm arri od man , sitting
by, inintedicitely, took down his feet
-from a seat.
WITH CHERRIES.
"eelellereeee
eut very, thin, and pour over tin%
wbole "i qt.. boiling water. (knee
the bowl arid let, stand for five hoers,
then strain and fievor with 1 team
spoon retafia, extract, Serve ice
cold, Thio makes a refreshing and
delicious drink,
CherryJam-Stem, wash, and pit
the cherries. Allay: 1 lb. loaf sugar
to each lb. fruit. Put the cherries in
the preserving kettle with the sugar,
and let it heat slowly to extract the
juice. Keep stirring well from the
bottom of the pan. Bring slowly
to the boiling point,. and let simmer
very: gently for three-fourths of an
hour. Seal in small jars like jelly.
Preserved Cherries -Select laige,
ripe, sour cherries; stem, wash. and
pit them. Crack a cup of the pits
and remove the, kernelsl Add thein.
to the cherries. *Allow 1 lb. sugar
to 1 ilk. fruit. Place the sugar and
cherries in layers', and let stand for
'one hour on the back of the range.
Then. simmer very gently in a pre-
serving kettle until the cherries are
clear, and the Syrup .is rich and thick
Seal bailing hot.
Canned Cherries -Select fine, • ripe,
seer cherries, stem, wash, and pit
them For each qt, cherries allow
* lb. white sugar, and half pint wa-
ter. Put the fruit and sugar in lay-
ers en the preserving kettle, and let
"For ten years, said the new
bOarlier, "me hagits• weye as regular.
ae; ebeelteeol•k. I, teen be. the stroke
of siX,. half cut. hoer' later wan cit
breakfast,, Seven 1' was et week,
dined et one, had etipper a.t &X, and
evaS in. bed at niticethiety. 'Ate only
plain food, tied liediaet day's libiete
all tbe e"Denv mei" said a
hearer,' in " pyrimatbetie tolles "Arid
Whet tette you in for'?"
,A eelf-incid,e sel d o . fees
'modesty With the. a -teetotal used ih
his constructioth
CANNKD PINEAPPI•ES.
This is a very delicious fruit te
can, is easily, prepared and Very sel-
dom spoils. They should be dead
ripe, anti this is determined, by pull -
on the wines at the top of the
ff they come out readily the
fruit is ia a lit stage to be eaten.
They are usually 90 cents and $1
per dozen at this season of the year,
aud one dozen fine pineapples will fill
fifteen pint eans and have sufficient,
Syrup.
Begin at the large end and pare
them all over, not stopping to pie*
out the eyes until all are pared. A
sharp pointed knife is best for going
over them the second time. When all
are ready commence slicing from the
outside toward the center. You will
find a sort of pith or woody stem,
but the pulp will cleave away from
this, for it has no value WhateVer.
Put tbe fruit in a preserving kettle
with sufficient water" to just cover
nicely. Cover closely and let boil
gently for about half an hour, or un-
til it is -easily pierced with a fork,
Usually one teacupful of sugar to a
pint can is enough, but &pewee
largely upou what degree of sweet-
ness the family likes, Let this sim-
mer for another half hour, when the
fruit will be clear, something like
Citron, preserves. 13e sure that the
rubbers are new, the tops in good
condition, and the cans perfectly
clean and sweet, and there will be
ao trouble with the keeping.
Pineapples are quite' an inexpen-
seve fruit for everyday use on the
table. Should be prepared in the
forenoon if desired for supper, cutt-
ing it in fan -shaped pieces' and wrin-
kling with powdered or fruit sugar,
then Cover closely and set in the ice-
box. It will make its own juice, and
when one is fend of it it is delicious.
The only trouble ie they're so
plentiful and cheap just when straw-
berries are in "full blast," and one
is undecided which to invest in, so
it must ever remain a matter of
taste.
PineapPle shortcake is meth liked
by many, and in the inceken.g the
same method obtains. They 'aren't a
very bad fruit to eat out of hand,
without a grain of eweet, and 1 often
think that we spoil our taete per the
too lavish use of sugar, don't you?
WASHING LACES.
To wash white or cream lace make
a suds of white soap and teptlit wa-
ter, adding a solution of bo6ax in
the proportion of a teaspoonful of
the powder to a cup of water. It
will be necessary 1,o 1isso1ve the, bor-
ax in boiling water. Cool the liquid
before using it. Baste the lace on a
piece of white flannel.
To two quarts of suds put the one
cupful of borax water. Put the lace
in it and leave over night, In the
morning remove the flannel teeth the
-
lace from the water and rinse in sev-
eral waters without squeeming it.
Tack it on a board to dry rind put
it out in the sun. To take the ,dead
white color off lace, coffee or tafirore
may be used if a yellow tint is de-.
sired.
The bast starch for lace is made by
dissolving one-lo-urth ounce of gum
arcibic in a cep of water. Strain
the liquid through a cloth.
You can wash the neWer laces, if
they are 'much soiled by wearing in
the necks of dresses, by making a.
warm pearline suds and _Washing'
lightly in your hands. Rinse itt
warm, clear water and while wet
place upon your window 'pane -or
mirror, and leave there until *quite
dry, then peel off, and it will look
like it had just been bought.
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OLD BRITISH STRONGHOLD.
Fortress On.ce Occupied by the Roe
mans for Sale.
Two buildings -the one fam.ous itt
history', and the other full of' inter-
esting associations that date . back
to the tatirteenth century -are at
present prominently before •the 'pub-
lic. The on.e, Dunstanburgh Castle,
is about to be offered for sale by
auction, while the other, Bentley Pri-
ory, Stanmore, Middlesex, is await-
ing a tenant.
On a bold headland of basaltic
rock on the Northumberland eoasti
stone the ruins of Dh
einstanburg
Castle. It was first a British strong-
hold, then a Roman fortress, and at
a much later period was garrisoned
for Queen Margaret, after the battle
of Ilexham, when it was besieged and
taken, after an assault lasting three
days.
The legend of "Sir Guy, the Seek-
er" -told in a ballad by M. G. Lewis r
-is connected with the castle. "Dun-
ston diamonds" are crystals found
in the neighborhood. A deep chasm
stand for one hour. While waiting, lin the rock at the east of the castle
rough weather the sea rushes in, and
great clouds of spray are thrown uip.
(Bentley Priory, has the distinc-
tion of having been a royal residence
and an hotel. ln the middle ages
there was a pridry, but it came to
in the reign of Miley VIII.
from. the cherries while pitting them, it in 1.706, and "converted it into a
nfidrst Marquis of Abereorn bought
'Add every drop of juice that, drains rarnhee
and simmei' for half an hour. seal ntolla,le mansion." It was visited by
rieldeci chercios_oifoose large cher_ fewi:rdeVsilGliaeemrglelativai,l)t,onw,ftPhitttirleAce;:iiing-g,
in small jars.
ries, ripe but uot soft, wash tuld ezi and the 'Prince 'llegent (alter-
pit.them. roe ,every 5 Ms, fruit al-
low :3 lbs. sugar, 1 pt. eider vinegar,
1 teacup water, and 1. tablespeon
each ground intice and cinnamon. Tie
the spices in a piece of ,rxitiel in, and
boil them with the vinegar, sugar
and water for 15 minutes, Add the
simmer in the water to be acldecl to is known as the "Rumble Gliu'rn." Itt
them 1 tablespoon stones for
every qt. water. Strain, add to
the friiit, bring quickly to a boil,
atid let boil f01' five minutes. Seel
boiling hot.
Cherry Catsup -To 2 qts. stoned
chopped cherries add 2 cups each of
sugar and vinegar, 1 tablesPOon cin-
namon and 1 teaspoon ground cloves.
of Prussia to meet Louis XVIII.
Scott corroded the proofs of "Mar -
mime." Rogers wrote some of
his "Pleasures of Memary," and Sir
10. Landseer painted there. Di 1848
queen Adelaide took it on. lease, end
died there on December e, 1849,
The house afterwards became , the.
cherries, place on the. back of the property of Sir J. Ilene, the rail-
range'and shelter for 15 minutes, way engineer, aed in 1888-4. was d
Seal boiling ilea Many cooks., pre- eesidential hotel, and finally the
ler to ietive the stones in the 'cher- home of Me. Gordoe, the well-.•
rive they do look Matti:en but they known hotel proprietor,
'are Muth nice!' eating when pitted.
Cimeee Drink -Wash 1 lb, ripe cher-
Hee, stone Wein, and bruise in a Girls 'intiY net convert „ailing seen,
bowt. 'Add e lb, sugar, some of the but they at least draw thew /0
kernels intuscd, a little lemon peel churelf,