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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.