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The Brussels Post, 1906-5-24, Page 61111 the House SPRING SALADS. Spanish Salad. -Remove the skins from sis ripe tomatoes and put in a stetvpan with one onion and three sprigs of pansley, the Iwo latter chopeed flne; add, a good sized piece Of butter, salt and. pepper to taste, and boiltwenty minutes; dissolve a teaspoonful of corn- starch In a little milk and add this, stir- ring constantly; cook two minutes and remove from the Etre; then add three eggs, beaten lightly; add a little more salt; serve on toast. This is a. delicious luncheon dish. Cabbage Salad. -For one quart of Andy chopped cribbage use a dressing as follows Boil together one-half cup of Vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-ha)t teaspoonful of pepper; rub one-fourth 'cup of butter to a cream with one la - spoonful of Oour and add it to the boil- ing vinegar; boll live minutes; then stir in ono well beaten eng; pour while hot over the CAbliiied. Celery Salad. -Two heads of celery, four” hard -belled eggs; chop the celery and three of the eggs with it; cover with the 'following dressing: One cup of vinegar, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonftri - •of mustard, • three table- spoonfuls of sugar, yolks of two eggs, with a teaspoonful of cornstarch, small piece -of butter; when cold add one-half cup of cream. Cream Cheese Salad. Color the cream cheese a delicate green, using either ,the juice of boiled spinach or vegetable coloring, and form it into balls or eggs the size of a walnut; take a Oat salad dish and make nests of the tender leaves of lettuce, and in each nest put three or four eggs of the cheese. With these mem mayonnaise dreseing and criep, salted biscuits or water crackers. Oyster Salad. -Scald oysters until they are plump, and then put them in cold water while they are bailing hot so as to make them firm; put them to one side and boil five eggs hard; take oft the whites and chop fine; lay a bed of while Minim in a long dish; place the oysters in this; cover them with a mayonnaise dressing; over thern place the yolks of the eggs, which have been mashed fine, and lastly the chopped whites of the eggs. Do not let it stand long before serving. If you do the oysters and mayonnaise will become watery. Be sure the lettuce is thoroughly dried Beet Salad. -Boll six small beets un- til tender, and when cold chop them; boil sl eggs hard and remove the whites from three of them to garnish the top of your dish; chop the rest of the eggs, but' not in with the beets; salt and pep- per- the beets and eggs after they are chopped and mix them together lightly; put in dish and pour over any good salad dressing; garnish the top with rings out of the whites of the three eggs saved out and serve. Pineapple Salad. --Select a large, ripe pineapple, and after cutting off the top, remove the inside, leaving only the shell; next remove the skins and seeds from a few grapes; then take two ripe bananas, peel them, and cut Into small pieces; also cut the pineapple and grapes in small pieces; mix all together with -mayonnaise- dressing, replace in the pineapple shell, and serve. HOW TO USE SUET. The value:at-suet Is often little under- stood by the housekeeper, and much of it is misted' that ought to he made use of. It Is valuable for shortening and for frying in connection with lard, cooking oil orany oily fat. The grease from fowls, which is so oily that. many people never think of .using it, can be made a good medium for frying by adding an equal amount of suet which has 'been care- fully tried out. Food fried In It soaks fat less than when pure lard is used, and when filling up the frying kettle always use part suet. on that acentmt. Trying Out Without Oder. --Many th try out any kinceuf MI nn neeount of the odor penetrating lo every room, but there is no need of this. Cut (he suet in small slime and put in a double boiler or a pall with tight-Mting cover. Set in a dish of boiling water over the fire untied] the pease le tried out, then strain and the fat is ready for use. No odor M noticed in the house, and the fat can show no trace of scorching, Ways to Keep IL-Tn keep the suet on hand ready the use. salt it well after be- ing hied out, afterward pouring it into moulds, where it will harden and keep steed for a long Elmo. To keep 11 10 a ef, fresh slate- always ready for use in " doughnuts, biscuit, corn bleed or pud- dings, „prepare it in this wa-: Remove all skin and chop Very tine. To each oe suet when chopped add 1 table- speob salt -and X qt. flour. Mix thor- oughly and place in glass jars, lightly covered., When wanted for use, take 1 cup, of mixture to each 2 cups of floes To preserve ,suet in its raw state with - met chopping, place it in a pail of suit- able size, sift in !lour to surround it completely, thus making it air -tight. Cover closely and set in a cool place 'and it will keep indefinitely. As Shortenints-11 the suet is chopped so tine as to he dreamy, it can be used In almost any food requiring shorten- ing,..the usual trouble being that in food eaten cold the particles of suet if coarse . make the .food unpalatable Pie cruet when dads of the finely chopped suet Is we, as good as that made- of lard or cooking ' ail; and for meat pths it makes an ex- ,e celled, crust. Foe this use % cup finely ee chopped stiete 3 cups flour sifted with teaspoon -salt and (3 level teaspoons bak- Ing powder. Mix a soft dough with 1 l Cup Jaelectiet, then reoll- out to fit the lop " thf Inc baking dish. This 15 deo suitable for Inc crust, of fruit puddings to be se baked or.deamed. • • If Inc suet is used after being treated die less should be used as it packs so " practical garnishes, for they look well with elmod any dish. If parsley is not obtalnable fine celery tips may be used, Eggs are used either hard boiled and sliced or the hard-boiled yolks may to grated and sprinkled over or around a dish; the grated yolks are effective on spinach. Lemons are used more Mai ash than meats, such as fried nystenseend lobster cutlets. They are cut in quarters,. and a portion served on the plate of each person. Paper frills for decoeating broiled chops are made by folding and. fringing thin leiter paper, then wrapping around the end of the chop to keep the grease from coming through. Boiled carrots and beets, sliced with vegetable cutlers into fancy shapes, are nice for cold meats and have a pretty effect around a white eniede. Never use any kind of scouring soap to clean an enameled ball -tub. It will sone ialce off the enamel if the use is continued long. Ude kerosene on a cloth or ammonia. Tin boilers and other tin articles of household service must be thoroughly dried before putting away, or rust will quickly appear. Kerosene will remove rust from tins, irons, door -hinges, keys, etc. Bread and cake boxes should be well washed ones or twice a week with waren water and soap, and dried thoroughly, and left with lid open to air -well before being used, otherwise the contents will become mouldy and musty, and -the -box itself rusty. Dish and glass towels should be their- oughly washed every day in hot, very into a Uttle, cheap dry goods store, and they were coming out heavily laden with bunciles. I went in. On the floor were innumerable boxes. Socke, shirts, wotnee'swaists, boots and shoes, Wets, hats, table spreads, rnlls ot ,carpe( and oilcloth -everything was scattered a foot deep. I began to appreheud one of the first principles of looleng, whieh Is that you should haul a box from, the shelf, and if it does net contain anything that you want you should throw it on the floor and put your foot in it. Behind the counters the debris was three feel. deep. There were perhaps twenty men in 1110 sture-all busy. Four or five of them were soldiers. "Ah, he," I said 'to myself, "If the soldiers are looting, too, it must be all rigid. The meter that men found loot- ing shallbe shot is not, to be feared if the shooters ere themselves teethes." What did I need? Since the clothes stoodin were all, as I then thought, my earthly possessions,• the answer was not Mena, Shirts? I found my size and stuffed a dozen under my arm. Collars? Ditto. Seeks? I was beginning to be particu- lar about what I stole, so in my careless "Dick says," began Jessie, heseattng- way I flung many a box of "natural ly, "that he doesn't want his wife to wools" and such stuff to the floor before work." I found just what I wanted. "An' why shouldn't she week? Wark Around this loot of mine I wrapped a never killed no one yet. Luk al me- .bectspread-becisprends seemed to be fifty come Easter, all my lads nut i' th'd1 popular for the purpose -and went out. waled, an' me -at my stveshAub every Later in the day, when I had made my Monday reglar. Earn 'an' spend. I says camp in the squnre beside a scorched -earn an' spend. The Lord will per - trunk and a slightly warped typewriter, vide." with scores of others as homeless as my- 'Mrs. Anderson- brought her Iron down on the table with a sounding_ bang, and her daughter, who might not, come near the fire because it was ironing night, shivered by the window, meter° .there was a creek in. the woodwork, The peo- vision in the Anderson .household had always been of the scantiest. Jessie had known what it was lo go ill -clad and Pl- ied. She was a delicate -looking girl, the youngest of. seven. 'There had never been any proaperous tines at home In her day, and she had worked In the mill since she was fourteen. She was twenty now, and each winter it grew harder to turn out in the dark of the morning to face . the keen wind from the river -Lo start .her loom with fingers numbed and chilled. Bu( she was young, and other glris had been taken. out to the theatre, and though the Christmasholidays were over,- Diok had never asked her to go once: '"I wouldn't ha' -minded so much," she said now, with something "like a sob in her throat; "but Martha says he tut Mr last year." "Ay, an' willagen," said her mother. "Martha Cranfleld's uncle' can leave 'er a tidy bit." It was the lest strew. efessie threw dawn her sewing, and catching her shawl from its peg, she wound it about her head. pin' out," she seid. "The streets is better' then 'this. There's the shoes there-somethin' .to look at; there ain't nothin' here." The door dosed behind her with a. bang. Mrs. Anderson looked at it with mild astonishment. "Lor' bless nee,"she sald, "what tan- trums I An' all becose I gev her. a bit of advice. Gels all knows better nor their mothers to -day. Men's all alike - near 'or spencline What you get's just luck. A near man 'ell bury you 'and - some, an' grudge yo' yo'r bit while yo'r alive." She was' a hard -featured woman, ab- oustomed to the give and take of the world. She had no idea that" she had sown the seed of discontent In a 'girl's heart. Jessie was always peelcy and fanciful, and she was that set on Dicic Liversedge that .there .was. no, arguing with her. Dick was all right: --a poor, mild. sort, that hadn't got a fling in him. Al I • 1 d • Weighed in The Balance "Ho's near, is Richard." "tidy smite, mother." , "Sevin', is It? When 1 was a gel I wouldn't ha' looked at a chap that, me- nu ready -handed we 1' brass. When yo'r foyther and me wus coortin' IL wus over to Bartheldy for 1' wakes at, 'Whit - sun, a jaunt to 131aclqthol fer (ti' August holidays, me ate other lassies, em an' other lads. The young folk is a poor lot now. Them wus days." "Yes," said Jes.sie, enviously; "the wage wus bolter then." 'What's 1' wage got to do wt' at? If a chap's near lie's neae. Ilicitard's ram- ie' thirty shillire if be's earitin' a bob." self, I found that 1 had been too modest soapy, water. It at all greasy, they by half in my adventure in the art of should also be put over the fire in a loot. kettle of diluted soda or ammonia and Across the street to the square at in - water and allowed to boil, then rinsed tervais came men with greater and thoroughly, and afways hung out ite the heavier bundles than mine from which open air to dry. protruded the tempting looking necks of o cleanse speedily and effectually all bottles or appeared glimpses of tin cans cooking utensils, place on the range of meat or fruit -too tempting for - so immediately after removing the con- hungry and thirsty a man as L lents, pour in hot water and washing All with the cognizance and tech ap- soda, put on the lids or covers, and Id proval of the soldiers, they said, because stand until ready to wash thoroughly: the buildings would soon born or ue After wiping dry, turn upslde down on dynamited. And so 1 set but with nerves the range, before putting away in the steeled to the task to loot with deliber- closet. airiness and care the best that was to be A photograph which has become soiled had. by dust, or smoke, can easily be clean- The flan restaurant was not a very ed. Hold it underneath the cold water good restaurant, though Latin enough faucet, and gently wash U. with the hand to have a good stock of wine. But the or soft brush, as. the water flows over labels were not laminae on what looked it. Thoroughly rinse in Blear, cold wa- to be the best of it, so smash went n neck on the edge of a table and I tasted a little in a glass. I took five bottles along from there to the store where I had made my first essay in the art of loot, for I perceived that another bed- spread was a necessity to' a really effi- cient looter. 1 found- something better evon-a big coffee sack, and dulling into it some underwear for my personal usa, though certain peculiarities In the making pro- claimed that it was not intended for per- sons of my sex -underwear for mascu- linity had long since disappeared -I pushed along the brick strewn street to a place that bore the sign, "Blank & Blank, Fine Liquors." I entered through the broken window, where a. score of men had passed before me, and went. to work. Big, black bottles of Holland gin, whisky of all sorts, chartreuse in quaint bottles, tamarind°, • creme de menthe- - what a bewildering array to a thirsty man. But no champagne -it Wee evi- dently champagne that went to the spot with these Soldier men who had been fighting fire for three Long days, with these firemen who had dragged lend lines of hose back and forth, hither end yon, to no purpose; with those bine- faced men with dynamite who had fled from under toppling walls 100 times. So the champagne had all been looted, and I (Mee my sack with less aristocratic beveragae, light winos. that quenched thirst and served in place of water, which down there was virtually unob- tainable, and clambered out. Farther along, behind a smashed window, was a fine heap of °utile soap -a, glad sight to a dirty man. I thrust some In the sack and went on with my heavy burden. But things happen surprisingly in a burning elty under military rule. Sud- denly, from a block away, carne loud commands : "Out of here, all you fel- lows I Get out • Get out I" A soldier came running down toward ter, and the picture will look almost or quite as good OA new. Reef tea made this way Is very stimu- lating. You require one-half pound lean beef, cupful of cold water, pinch of salt. Wipe the meat with a cloth, cut it down very fine, taking away all the fat. Put it into a jar, and add the water and salt. Cover with a strong paper, and put into a pan of hot water, which must be three-quarters up the (tr. Let it cook slowly for two hours, then strain, and serve with a small piece of toad RUINED SAN FRANCISCO MANY CURIOUS FREAKS OF QUAKE AND FIRE. Man Who Admits He Was a Looier, Burglar, Safecracker, Housebrealcer, Yet Escaped. I am respectable. I never was ac- cused of thievery. I never was arrested. I never have been in jail. And yet I a.m prepared accurately to describe the sen- sations of the housebreaker, Um safe- cracker, the plain burglar. For I am a looter. It happened this way. I had labor- iously dragged a trunk to tha centre of a square in San Francisco when the flames were coming fast, and so when from Telegraph Hill, at the north of the city, I looked down and saw that wink 'the streets intervening between me and the square were hot and the ruins black and blazing, still a person of hardihood might venture on this hellish path with good chance of .getting back safely. I made down the 13111 afoot. The streets were hot under foot; hot winds now and then omade you hold your breath; at certain points one had to make a detour to avoid ruins that still burned hotly; wires and fallen walls impeded progress, but at length I came to the vicinity of the square, and beheld with amazement buildings un- harmed by the flames. This is one of the curious [realm of the fire. Just back of the Hall of Justice on Montgomery Street is what is known as the old Montgomery block, a structure erected in 1852. I remember once seeing an advertisement 01 11 in one of the first an Frannlsco directories in which it as ornately described -as Inc "finest ublding west of Chicago." It is four storeys high. It is jen- touched by the flames. It Was unharmed by the earthquake. Near it is mnothbe -block, the buildings in -which are o maeonry, also untouched by the flames. And more wonderful still, just across the street is a wooden apartment -house, good as new. It was very odd.. The city had beeri burning three dive. had ,stipposce that every single building in this dis- trict was destroyed. They were (thee- lutely enclosed by burning building and none of them of fireprod onstrucition. And yet here they stood, Indeed it was odd to see Nottingham lace curtains Whig from the open windows. of this yellow painted, flimsily consiSucted, cheap, wooden hetet. It belonge,.by the ay, to Abe Ruef, the boss of the San melee° that was. But I wander front ihe subject, which loot. (ln the ground. floor of this ooden hotel is a restaurant, In • its orway stood a man, whom one .toolc. be the janitor of the place.. I was tngry. "Anything to eat in this placer Id 1. "I dunno-I guess not," saki ,he. "Well, dm 1 take a look around ?" inured. You perceive 1 was not .0. lull- doer thee end Is liable titoo ne ante . As suet can be bought for 5 cents pound anywhere,. and.has tittle waste hi it, there quite a saving over lard at bi Dr 10 'cents, of pe HOUSEHOLD HINTS, dged looter yet. "'Yee be all right." I. climbed through the windetw. A illInn (lice Memel mom the fragments food al. Inc empty thbles. .1 went, ering along to the kande More ee, Also amens -Ugh 1 1 went out emptv-handed In the next lgactc mon wore going • Parsley tied Waterates8 are UM ttlat, 111 "Get out of here, you --e-1" he cried. "13itt—" I said. I never got any further. I tied intend- ed to shy that I only wanted to go a block to the square; that I' had goods there; that the police sergeant In cern- mond of the' quasi camp had given me permission to remain there and a blan- ket for tee nighte that I must get back there; and it was only a block. All this I Intended to say, but ell I said was : "But--" when the soldier. sold : "Curse you, don't you hear what say? Turn around there. We've got 'o clear these streets. Get back, now le I turned and I went back. Among things that three days in a burning city have eaught me is that you can't suc cessfully argue with soldiers, hotemmr reasonable your case. But how was I to gel, back to the square? I had to get beck there. and my typewriter had already been im- pressed into service in writing Messages for dispatch to seperior officers. Perhaps I could get back by making a detour. But not with my loot, a huge sackful; that was hopeless, quite helms - side. Reluctantly I put il, down on a heap of bricks, and by devloits ways at length won the square again. And so it happened\ that my nest, last and only loot consisted of six ehirts, six millers and SIX pairs of socks. Bet I shall- always remember with re - gra the contents 01 (3181 sack. 4 VERISIMILITUDE. "You tt good deal at wrangling et your lodge Mootinge, don't yriie 7" "Why, .'es; we have Or Agreements now' and then, 'of dowse." "Yet yeti Gall yoursdves brothers." "Well, 'why. ehou1c.In't wo 7 Some - limes we squabble and fight, as if we were real brothers." IE ANIMAT MIND. "De you think flatmate have prejel- diets ?" queried lire philosopher, "Well, rather!" said Inc farmer. "Didn't you ever try to start, a batik/ Isorse 2" • jef.eetete-e . The ead-an -gone mean, who in come home drunk regularly every Satur- day night, had been different to that. Everyone has their own standard. Miriam Alderson waled have chosen a son-in-law of -another pattern. But Jessie had chosen for berself, and now, walking up and down Fishergate staring at the hats in the shop windows, she told herself that she had chosen bad- ly. Her mother was right. Dick was "near," .and Martha Cranfleld, his cou- sin, who had been after 111m for yenta, would have a fortune. All Preston knew that. Three houses in 'Broad Street, a bit o' m000)' 15 the bank: ;Feed° sewed at a hat with a rose in it, and failed to see its charms through her tears, "f.ot him 'ave 'er," she said to herself. "I don't wantehtm if he don't want mo." She- turned suddenly. 'Someone had thrust his hand through her aree Dick Liversedge was looking at the hats, too. "Choosin' one fer Inc weddin', lass? What's your fancy, now 7" "What's yours," sntd Jessie. Her voice two hard, She did not look round at him; Ite seetned so ,rnighty .sut•o of her. "What do you say to that?" he said, pointing to one of plain straw, with a bow of ribbon on it. "Nice and neat and natty." • "And cheap," said Jessie. "And, cheap 1 That ain't. no fault,. You and me couldn't have it if it, was- nt." "Couldn't we?" said Jessie. "Martha Cranfield hos. one with two roses in it. I'm as pretty as her." "A sight prettier," said Dick,. "Mar- tha's got to be (Inc, case folks should forget to. look at her. When a lass has big blae eyes and yellow hair—" eemie turned ,a discontented shoulder to lifm. "It's rosy tallcine" she said. "Words is cheap, too." They walked the length of Fishergato has a, smooth stem sometimes twelve In silence, and, turning up New hall feat long. The fruit is about, the glee Lena, missed the mill where most ef at a poe., and when ripe is a bright red their daylight hours wore spent. The Odor. In calthration the plant is sup - But, words are useless when 0 willful woman has made up her mind to take her willful way. Jessie piled up all his sins of omission upon his head. Dick heard her in silenee, and when elle .spaald. tised foe breath he ventured to spank. "I' thought you an' me wus wun," tee "Well, we're not, we're two," wee the answer, "And new you know It, An' I'm goln' wl' Joe Briggs to Olympia to- morrow." 11. Jessie Alderson went to Olympia with The Briggs. She sat in all Lite glory of a sixpenny sod, when the other girls were In the threepenny ones at the beck. The entertainment was uproar- iously funny. Joe, rolled on his seat with laughter, and Jessie wondered why she wasn't enjoying it more. She was used to it now. Site had been there Uwe Umes in six months. The summer passed. The mill was surely hotter and dustier (hen it had eve(' been before. Autumn came, darker mornings followed. November was here. 11 was bleak winter. Mrs. Alderson, standing at her vaunted washtub, had caught a chill, and now lay Ill up -stairs, while Jessie, who wanted the money badly, was pre- vented from going to the mill. The chill developed into pneumonia. The parish doctor came, and sbook his head, The patient's strength must be kept up, and she must be nursed night and clay. Jessie did her best, but her resources were weak, and soon all the money was gone. Only the respectable poor know how soon the spectre Want 01111 make els appearance 15 Inc door. The spec- tre stood inside the Aldersons' kitchen now, and Jessie put her head down on the kitchen table and wept out all her despair. The woman upstairs, bad been hard and just -more ready to deal out blame than praise; but she was her mother. They loved each other in their way. And she must die; if Jessie .could not get her all. she ought to have. And then the tangle was all smoothed out. There was a knock at. the- door, and Dick Liversedge, with parcels in his arms, walked past her lute the kit- chen, and stacked them on ihe table 'in a pile: Ile turned and looked at her. There was triumph in his mild eyes. "Ioe Briggs can't give you notelet'," he said. "He ain't got 11 (0 give." He unwrapped the brown paper from each parcel In its turn. Jessie saw all the dainties of invalid food that she would not have been able to buy. "I met the doctor coming out," said Dick. "He tould me as 'ow—" He ceased to spealc, and looked at her, He sew the thin, pale cheeks; the eyes time were heavy with want ef sleep; the poor, thin frock that held no warmth M it. "Oh, Dicke' burst out Jessie, "what have you bought . all these for? And you that savin'—" "Sevin' 1" he said; and his anger blaze in his eyes, and he lold his hand s001 what roughly on her arm. IL wus-yte I wus savin' ler; •brass ain't nothin' to me. Why shouldn't, I give 11 where 1 want to. I ain't got no one to- save for now. I want- to give it, an' I can, an' Joe can't." It was his -great triumph, and it Was all he wanted. Dick marched to .the clooe And Jessie must let him go I 'See had sent hire away once. She could net call bib rti beck now. 'There are people who tell us that love is no longer roving in the world -the love that asks only to give, seeking no return. They are wrong, those poor, faint-hearted, disappointed souls, who will not meet God's sunshine because ef the clouds in which they are enwrapped. Dick Liversedge was -an everyday toiler in an -everyday world, but he knew how. 10 love a woman. 11 18 not a lesson which every man can learn.' He come back to the table. • "Lass," he said -"lass o' mine, wasn't I good enough to work for you?" Jessie -broke down then, sobbing all hoe own lack Of love and truse. He did- n't even wait for the poor little self-ac. aetisnlion. lee just gathered her In his n "Perhaps I wasn't good enough. God gives us e woman to love us. We get, as near to deserving, it as we can. Theer-theer, lass; donnot cry thi pretty eyes -away. If tha wants me, I'm here," "I do want you," said ,Tessie.. "I've wanted you always -not just now, Dick; 'don't think that. Joe and me's not been kind thls long while. I like the things heelked, and so—" was savine" he said, "and now I can. get the house I wattled, and you and me ern be wed Mod away." "I must ge," she said. "Mother wants me. Dbolo. she'll get well now," Yes; Miriam Alderson was indebted to the Man she once had despised Mr ihe- health thee was given back to her.. She gave din grudging thanks. He wits good, wus Dick -good and dull. She supposed the Lord had made hint that way. • But haste was older than she had been a yew, ago,and she had known the lack of Mee; she knew the worth of all she had Won. • They wore matted in the springtime; -London Answers. AN ICEBERG IN DELAWARE HUGE -510tINTA.IN OF ICH TOWED FROM NEWFOUNDLAND. Ono of the Strangest and Perhaps Mos Valuable lBy)riazcesilot1.er Taken In order that the city of leillitclelphi aught be rescued Muni an ice mitt a. powerful ocean-going tug has ae complisited the almost imposelble tea of capturing a huge iceberg, and Lewin In into port. Never lo the world's his- tory has this wonderful achlevemen been duplicated, and contrasted wet 13 rho ineeinding exploits recounted b 1110 marine historian Sinead, Inc suite appeer commonplece and trivial. tills mountain ef ice in tow, the tug passed up the Delaware lever creel - lug consternation amm; the floating world on the sheen, as observers could not imagine other than that the floating mountain was being -driven up the bay by -some freak of wind and current, to the great clangor of shippleg. lis up - preach was responsible for some- tren- ded telegraphIng, Which threw the ship- ping interests into a panic. - Orders were issued to hold • up • the suillug of every vessel due to leave, and messages were dispatched to lower Delaware. sta- tion to inteecept seem!outbound steam- ers and warn them to seek anchorage ant of tha berg's path..• • - NIA R ITIME INTE pEsTs' EXCITED. • For several Ileum. maritime. Interests were Intensely excited by the •unhearcl- of presence of an iceberg in the bay. Later when the true story 01 1110 wonder- ful feat. - was flashed over the wire it seemed so utterly Incredible that the ex- citement, it anythiag, was incrensed. It was not 101113 one of .the fastest tugs in the harbor had steatite down Inc bay end wired verification of the elder that Inc -panic was allayed. Only the providedial co-operation. of the winds and' tides, and 'the most fa- vorable' weather 'conditions enabled 'the lug to accomplish the feat. In spite of the almost inconceivable risks attendant upon the berg's capture, not a Member ol the tug's crew was injured. .. TWO MEN FROST-131TTEN. Two. mon suffered froM badefroste bites, but this was due to their own carelessness in braving the arctic tem- perature in the berg's vicinity .without troller clothing. Their experience was a warning to the rest of the crew, and when Um tug with - the prize passed rho Breakwater every man aboard- was muf- fled as i1 for a Peary • relief expedition. The length of the iceberg was 500 feet, .and it is estimated that it will yield fully 500,000tons,which. is nearly sutibolent. to make up the .shortage. in n 0 13 • 1' d ice crop due to tho mild winter. • The work of cutting up Inc mountain of Inc will have to be pushed because of the rapidity with which it will Inert under the spring senshine. The monster berg was captured off the GrandBanks of Netvfoundland. It was made fast at great risk by Inc daring men on the lege who, in small bode 'tied staunch ropes around the mountain of Ice, and then 161, out a long tow -line from the tug, and, with grap- pling hooks, secured a fastening winch held firm alter several attempts had resulted in failure. The crew of the lug will sbare in the money the prize will yield. As icebergs are broken off nor - Mons of glaciers, the ice yielded will be of good quality. 1 -IOW PEPPER IS PRODUCED. The most common and widely used of all spices is pepper. It is a. native of the East Indies, but is now cultivat- ed in various parts of the tropical belt el America. The plant is a climber, and girl looked -up at the grim building, with Its darkened windows and its chimneys looming ngainst the sky. "Ileleful old place I" she sad. "Them wheels grind the life out of you. I ain't never bin young." She tut'nedeo the Ind who walked beside her; her oyes blazed dl her rebellion at "You ain't never bln young, neither," dui 'said. "We're old afore our time. I'm sick •of it. I want to laugh like other girls. I want a bit 0' plenum before I'm dead." Dick flushed unfomfortahly at her ab - violet ecoro. "I hed II -fender ter a Muse Of me own," 110 ertid, "and, lass—" "Then you can have your fancy.," wild 3essle. "And Mettle', mnylm, 'ell help you to it. Thin sort o' winkle' out ain't good enough fer me," "Jess, eoom, now, liras 1" ported hy poles. In some localitles small trees aro used instead of poles, for Inc best pepper is grown in a cer- lain degree of slincle. The plant 18 pro- pngeted by cuttings, comes into bear- ing three or four years after it is set, and yields Iwo crops annually for about twelve years. Whon. a few of the berries tura from grope to red 011 of them are gathered, itemise if they were allowed to ripen any longer they would be less pungent. To fit them for the market they nee dried, separated by rubbing With thdhands, and cleaned by winnow- ing. •Poppor was lenoWn to the andante. n the middle ages 11 wee one of rho most cosily of spices, a pound of 11, log a royal present. 11 le ease foe a man to believe after ho breaks into the has-been elms. TAME DEER KILLED DEll, Thought.'NeWepeper7.1tag 'of Cakes and Bulled In.. On the verdict at the inquest to be held on the body of a man named Sad- ler, . e. hairdresser ot. Greenwich, Eng- land, hangs the fate of a lame deer, w -ho is at the present under arrest as .the cause of the man's death; and is atvalt- ing sentence at Greenwich Park, If the coroner erings in a verdict of malicious asseult, the unfortunate bead will suffer the utmost -penalty of the law, but if, as seems probable, the ver- dict is "Deceit by' Mleadventure,"' he will be absolved from all blame, end set at4amre 1.bertyaogdaytoie. swear that the deer is innocent of all malicious intent," said (he stmetentenithin. Of the park yester- day. "The only charge that can ,be made against, him is ea ewes of friendliness. "It Is the visitors in the park, and met the minds, who are to be blamed for atistet- ritaijiaultheltclocigselilto. lintegPcoltnetr%trytil,p e-setoripelle will insist on feeding the. doer out, of paper bags age parcels, and Inc animals have now coma to expect food, and look out for _people with parcels of any. dos - .was Walking. through the he wont on, "and the deer ima park engrossed in his morning p01101'," from •themanner in which he hold it, that (1 a. large and particularly In- viting- bag of takes, trotted up in the most friendly manner to be fed, end poked his nose through •the paper. "This so alarmed 'Mr. Sadler, who up to thee 'moment had not 'poticed the ani- mal, that he waved the paper. in the deer's face, Pius hoping ' to 'scare it gb s , iningen de turn that he was taietw,Unfort en, . unatdy It became entangled irt animal's horns, anti theeterrifted being attacked, charged his assailant, artcerilitirs, trlop aamlli met% vtiiinecega,o.heuntd. u -sunterin- teinient continued, "Is the -only possible solution, of the mishap, for Inc deer is art old.and trusted playmate of any little children, and one of the tamest in Inc herd." TAKING A RISK. • "How Medi money' will you get • Mt defending that etiont?" asked a friend. "Don't knew," replied the lawyer, "Depends alt hew MOM -herr get. get all he has." Miss Flirt: "I'm dory, but you'll end some other glri soon who will make you forgot me." Mr. Stingy 1 "Oh, I earl Matte forget you. Mise Flirt I "Yes, you Can, Yen did It Wt. Clultsimde SOME NOVEL CHURCHES STEAMER QUEEN ALEXANDRA IS A' FLOATING 0111111Cit, 0310 In England Encourages FROM, and One in Chicago Iles Opened a Nursery. The 1 -Myelin's Road, New Congrega- tional Church at Leeds, England', have gone rth far Oslo provide a speaking. tube for the deaf. 'J'his tube nensIsts 01 ordleary gas-Mping, winch is constrtic ere between thand e pews the pulpit, where there to a teuropetSike contri- vance which eels es the teansnetter, At the extreme end there is a funnel-like development of the spenbubng-lubn. 11 is suggested that 1n a short Unto It will be posstl4p to' dispense .with the churches to a large extent., All that will be necessater will be to switch on tele- phones front the various homes of the congregation nnd connect them with tit Mete Mid enjoy the 'set•nterl, having all the -comforts of their dim private room. It should be added, by the way, that eOl1teS61011S by telephone are not, per- mitted by the holy See. Some 111110 time ago the Holy See- was appealed Lo on the question whether it would lel considered valid to hear confession( made In this manner. As has been' more Stoned,' the derision was In Um Archbishop Kalhas =dyed another declaim from the same sonrce, on ..the subject 0'1' asking ,clispensations from canonical laws by cable and tele- graph. The answer 'from Rome. is that this practice canted be alloeved-, and, e In fact, it is now SPECIFICALLY CONDEMNED. The preachers ot .two of Inc "highest" churches in London -St. Mary Magda- lene, Paddington, and Si. Mary Magda- lene, Munster Square -are not in favor of the reperthig of delimits. A preacher at one of these churches has vehemently denounced Inc habit of Inc Press in re- cording dotting of servioes and criticid Mg sermons. Ile Wet .they ihus sin against "holy reserve." 1.01 them not talk about the music -or 'sermon, much less speak of publishing it. . . Possibly the most, novel- church in the world is a floating church which pos- sesses a tower and steeple. This church Is built on the decks of two large boats, andcan be moved from point to'point on the Delaware iliver as requieed. IL affects a. most striking appearance ns it Moires up and down Inc river. This is duo to the fad, 111(11 11 possesses a lofty steeple, rising from its square tower, while from Inc top of Inc steeple WEIVOS a flag with the word "liethele•upon It. This church is able to follow the sailors about on the SURFACE OF TILE wgren. A now steamer, -named the Queen. Alexandra, has been Med up especially as a floating church and hospital, for service with fishing fleets. She was built at Leith, Scotland, and was the. gift of an anonymous donor to the Royal National Mission to Deep Sett Fisher- men. She Is provided with the neces- sary gear for trawling. Tho Queen Alexandra is ningnifieently egtepped, and acts in a tirsbrate manner as a church to the thousands' of Men engaged in the deep-sea fisheries. . Another very curious church is to be seen at Galleywood, near Chelmsford, he EsseteEnglend. it stands •in the cen- tre of a racecourse, . Inc only other building being a windmill. The course rens Mete -close to the church, and two or three races are held there every year. Tho circumstance Is renderedmore re- markable by thet tact that the church was built after the racecourse was laid out. •11, is very probable 13101 10 order to attract people to the churches the ser- mons will lie made mitch' shorter. Lott Rosebery remedied that he had ecene time ego read that One of the biabops had issued h diarge to his clergy .com- platning of:the undue sbortriess of ser- mons' of the present day. This ..set'uck ten with k MELANCHOLY FEELING. tits toreship said that be should avoid that dioaeso, for he was ender Inc im- pression that the sermon that was leo short hadyet to be wietten. Whether flirting 131 churchwill be en- ‘oouraged as Demeans, of brining more people to worship is a debatable point. The Rev. M. 13. Williams, however, is dislinatly in -fever 'of flirting in church. Ile seise, "The' expectation. of seeing a young won= home: hes' beeughtetieny a man to church forethe 111,de-tenet One Yorkshire church, in order to. ate tract visitors undertakes .to"take care ot laycles and similar articles. A. Chicago minister has 'gone h'i'ther -than this, -for Ile. has opened a nursery for the benefit of mothers who. have babiM '80- young that they do .not We to leave ehem at Nemo. At Inc same time these mothers dee not' care to take them to 'church lest they disturb the congregation. Hence the necessity of the nursery which has been opened.--Pearson's.Weakly. SiereDDINGHAM. It is forty-five years since King Ed- wai'd-theri, 01 course, Prime of Wales -bought the Sandringham estate for $1,200,000. ('le has eonsiderably creased Inc beauty of the estate by plant- ing Innumerable trees, and one of the new -avenues, called The King's," will live in history, the it was begun, In Cor - enation Year, and ono day all the mem- bore of the Royal Family -the Xing, Queen, Royal ptencledies, ' Prince and Princess 01 Weide and their children - planted b. tree each In "The king's"and even the German Emperor; with ,chenced to he a guest at Sandringham on that octagon, -cienteibuted ri sapling. . Sandringliani is the King's favorite shooting ground, and he woe 11 freely tot. ninny ether sports. It eonIrrevis a gorr 660.0 of nine holed, ci.nd„he Is a Most ralthustastfli golfer, taking oueoesa end failure with equal good humor, Thas,ntAat, . popttler alt-the-yeer-rhand sport of the King is motoring, end the Sandringham made and earriagesirivel are probably the beat kept In Engiand. Nie Majesty n1alce 11 a pOtel, to under- stand not only the principles of driving dary ear he possesses bet 4180 the de. construal611.