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The Sergeant's
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0A.w1se man," fluid the sergeant,
"willeofiten be h fool, but a fool will
never be anything else. And a few
wise men are "vot•th loore than a
heap of fools, or poi•haps even than
heap of misc Men. And It feW
foals are Wort& more than a heap
01 TOOIS. s bow ? Thus. When
_we were at Porde, im in what they
call the 1110 tei ! soul, beyond Bain -
boa, which is on the west. coast of
Africa, She lieutenant and I, aud
sergeant of the 'Lions, the kings
Own, and 200 of our Wawa made a
. reconnotesance. 'When we were three
clays' march beyond Porde we be-
came awaro of a big crowd of nig-
gers, who eeemed to wish to btu
our way. We judged that by the
afct thatno fewer tlian o
them came up againet us with all
the weapons they could mustet-
bows and airocre, spears and such
things'. Those of them who had
toade guns, withgallant clfsregord
of the danger to the mon at the butt
ands of the old gaspipes, tired them
off at us. At last the lieutenant.
Said:
" 'Seaga Handing, the Mon, for
raw blacks, have stood very well.
But they're getting a lilt out of
hand now, Lind there are at lenst a.
dozen down. Do yon think any of
yours have enough grit in them to
eover the-er-tretirement ?'
"9Vttll, sir, I don't feel sme of
them. Their fellow-heathene hove
put the fear of God into them, lint
I'll try with thous'
"'They stood -oh, yes, they stood
-ever so much better ha n ever
expected to see them t-tand. I retir-
ed them by alternate half -sections,.
Tho retiring half-so:000s did its
work thoroughly, and raised tor all
It was worth. The covering half -
section (lid not seem to have its
heart in, its work quite so much as
the other had, but when I saw a
man getting nervous I distracted his
attention from the enemy by attack -
ling film in the rear with ms• boot,
Shay woui'd rather face a Possible
bullet than a certain ammunition
boot: The difficulty with Inc was to
keep In touch with the two half-
settions. If I left the covering half -
section it had a tendency to be
afraid of bullets, and ii I left the
retning half -section it had a ten-
dency to keep on retiring. I3ut I
kept them up to the t.iortittch with all
the abusive terms that I had been
able to pick up out of their language
and. Oiled ep the gaps with a. little 1
Tommy language at the top of my I
voice. It is more the noise you 1
make than what you say. And, lan-1
geese of all kinds failed, I recollect- 1
ed that some philosopher before me 1
had said, 'Actionm speak louder thou 1
winds.' Now, I have always been 1
is with regard to other folles-and I
a bit of 0, philOsoplier 111;agelf-thlit
brought In the boot. When night ,
fell the attek dropped oh bit by bit 1
till it ceased, and we rejoined the
main. body.
" 'Very good, very good, indeed,
sergeant,' sald tile lieutenant.
" 'They're all plocky, sir,' said I,
'our niggers and the others, too.
They're very handy in it free fight,
and they enjoy it as if they were
Trio% members of parliament.'
" 'Nes, kergewut. But what I was
en:poised to see was how well they
kept on the defensive in retiring. A
rear -guard action is trying to tho
bast troops.'
••11, wus their fear for their rear
that kept them up, sir.'
"Oh ! said the lieutenant in a,
puszled way. It wonlit never do for
an einem to acknowledge to an N.
0. 0. that he didn't understand.
" Ore sewn to have beaten oh the
enemy, sir.'
" 'No, you mustn't congratulate
yourself on hackie done quite so
touch as that, eergeant. You ought
to know by now that blank men are
very eupeestitione, and that they
dislike So do anything at night for
fear of evil spirits. Even oar own
trained blaelse woe't do anything in
the dark unless they are led by
White mon. These natives who at-
tacked us have certainly formed a
camp for the eight; you can even
sec from Item the tires they have
lighted to keep off evil spii•its.'
" 'Yes, sir; I ledge them to be
about three utiles off.'
'"That is about it.'
" 'Couldn't we push cm a bit, sir,
wbile they are resting ?'
you had the best af the
men, and your men were kept going
by the Met that they were fighting.
But the bulk of the main body are
clean clone, 8,0d many of them
couldn't march another mile,'
'"Can't we leave them behind,
sir r
" 'Not to be killed and eaten,
though it would do the enemy good
and serve them right to let them
eat some of our niggers. There is
nothing for It but to camp till tho
mooning and then to carry on as be-
fore,'
"So the lieutenant and 7 and the
Liou took our rations together, fell
when you are sohabling naggers in
West Afrioa those IS more diffet•ence
between it White num oral a black
man than there ie between an officer
and en N. C. 0.
" reminds me, sir,said the
Lion, with bis moutb full, of what
mospened in or ill the mutiny Sto
my fattens who tv848 then corporal
in
'Thank you, sergeant,' said the
lieutenant, 'butt I've often heard of
things whinh remind you of what
happened to your relations. 'And I
meet say that I moor -out of the
engineerS, that is -knew, in spite
of tfhe foset that, an the austere, you
appear a little heavy a more lively
imagination in drawing parallels.
But please get that Maconochie out
of your mouth before tolling us any
'Mole/
1"1f yenetvl admitted to MieSri with
bilkers you hese to pay tor it.)
" 'Mercreochle, sir,' said the Licit,
indigo/ally; Seine's only bully heof.'
" there and :kale ainte
to -night,' Saki the liturtemant, 'so
king aa w have 110ronfiniaemexts.'
"I don't know, sir,' Said the Liox
steadfastly, 'that 1 eau petimise ye
00 eemielecenees, because they ma
do you good. AIM although yo
are my Mixer, I'm aluaym wliliug t
do sou y
" 'That's kind of you, sergeant,
Cenerally peoPle aro °mewed to
thoee over them.'
'• "Mere is a More important mat -
tor for me, mi'. they may do in
good. 'flame was a twaspaper ma
called O'Douovan, wile was elway
uosing about to get Information
The way he naked questione was 13;
t,,ning other people takes. And on
tale he told me was about a nun
' ealled Skolezleff, who made a bi
mune In the itusso-Turkish mu% 1
tosMars that, lite ourselves, a Rim
siast column was owe retreating-'
''Pile lieutenant frowned. I gave th
Lion a juidirdons kick, while th
lieutenant pretended not to see. Tn
Lion looked a little flabbergasted
then he understood, and went on :
nip,ht attack is the most swine
u shaking of flgliteal for irregular
3' troops, if their lines are penetrated,
u it moults destruction. The object
being not to cut to pieree, but to
strike terror, a minall aumber eau
make ae much noise as 11 largo one.
A small party is lees liable to (Ant-
iunion and to hIiliog eat% other. It
a small party is tiesteored, the
o structiou Mica nut endenger the
nmain body.
$ ""Thank sot:, eergeniel, very nutels
, Raid the lieuteeent. But I will not
%. tax your 1131, 1'' . es le
e shall recommend you for the D. O.
M.'
" 'Dietrict court martial, sir ?'
t • said the Lion, with open mouth.
o '"Not this time, sergeant -Dis-
tinguished Conduct Modal.' ''-L0011-
0 1011)1 Magazin°.
PERSONAL POINTERS.
" 'A Rusaian column was strate-
gically retiring undet. Con. Trotsky
from Nemungan, beectuse it number -
(id 0111S 800 101311, Skobeleil memos.
oa
it night attack on the 0000 Nilo
kandiaus who wore in pinata. Ile
earriod it out with 150 Cossacks,
and it mita oldie suteosuful.'
" 'Sergeant,' said the lieutenant,
like a daMt, 'that's your idea, and
you shall oorry it out to -night. Bow
maany men do you want ?'
'The Lion was knocked galley -
west.
- 'I'd rather you castled it out,
sits' said he, respectfully, when ho
1 isseovored his moral wind. 'It wants
1 a man who is quick at the uptalse,
1 and I novel; was a Skobeleff myself,
1 Now, if it had been my uncle in the
1 Horse C unties s—'
1 " 'I must stop with the main
t botlYi said the lieutenant. srbey'll
i (alt and run if theyare left in camp
without one of us.',
" 'Then I'd like Sergt. Harding
with me, sir,_ond the black serseaat
Big Toni, and sixty good men.'
" 'Do you think that will be
enough ?' asked the lieutenant.
" •I remember, if what Mr. O'Don-
ovan told me was right, sir, that
Skobeleff had only 150 against
0,000.'
" 'All right, sergeant. I don't
queation your reminiscences, but
what you ought to have. As you
yourself said, you are not a Skobel-
eff, so take as many as you think
you want.' Is
" 'Sertst.. Hasding, Big Tom and
Sixty men will be quite enough, sir,
said the Lion, who 'sae an obstinate
1 Ma"n;When will you start 7'
'About 12, sir. I shall take
1 twenty men on the right. flunk.
j Sergt. Harding twenty nten ott the
fiefs ila_nk end Big Tom twenty
men for a frontal ottack. The fron-
tal attck will be the easiest, if 1
judge the pound right. We shall be
all in posItioe before 2 o'clock. Al-
low' half an hour for delay or going
astray, and we shall attack at half -
past 1, when I sendup a rocket
from the right flank. That will be
at the darkost time.'
" 'Make it a quarter past one, ser-
geant,' said the lieutenant. 'If the
others are not up by a quarter of
an hour after time, they will either
havo entirely lost their way or tbey
will have been cut up. In either
ease they will be of tio utte to you,
and though our blacks will fight
when properly led, they won't bear
welting in the middle of the night.
Even trained svhite so 1 clears svitat
some nursing for that.'
" 'Very good, sir,' said the Lion,
and at 72 o'olock we Enarted.
With my twenty men I crept on
and on through the dense bush,
wherein we heard the forest beats
rustling their way through the un-
derwood. Once for a momeat, I
saw a pair of yellow eyes glare full
into mine, and I brought my rifle to
the charge, I was in mortal fear of
treadles, on a. snake, which is a
thing I hate. Taking one thing with
another, I think nigger's, when they
object to night expeditione, are cer-
tainly right.
'But at last we got close on the
left flank of the eoemy, and there
came a time of waiting which seem-
ed how's, I found the lieutenant had
been quite right in saying that a
quarter of an hour was enough. That
queer's wait in the dark as a C. 0.
without aeyone with whom to rub
shoulders, being miles above all
sympathy and advice, twined a
whole long night to nie. I give you
my word, it's more companionable
and cozier to he in the ranks than
to be an' officer. Tlie. only compan-
ionship I had was the chat -teeing be-
hind me of the teeth of the winces,
who were both cold arid afraid, and
it waS all 1. could do to keep my
own from chattering. Just when I
thought f could hold on no longer,
up went the Lion's rocket with a
whiz. 11; was better to Inc than
the Crystal Palace on o. Thursday,
or Brock's benefit, or oven the Pol-
iceman's fete. I never saw a finer
display of fireworks than that rock-
et. We tired a volley, jumped up,
and ran in with the bayonet. When
I met the Lion, five minutes later,
in the middle of the enemy's comp,
there was not a five and enwounded
adversary who was not running for
his life; for an untrained black man
who wakes up in the Middle of the
night, to seetwbat he think& is a fiery
eerpent In the air, and to feel what
he knows Is a bayonet in his stomach
or the Staudt of his back, develops
running powers not to 130 got by
training. And we let them run; we
were pleased to see it. Next lean-
ing, after occupying the camp an
night, we marched to our main body.
The lieutenant turned out to meet
us.
" 'What did you do, sergeant 91
" 'We buried three of the manly,
sir, and have ten prisoners and 120
guns.'
" 'Where are the reol: of the atm -
my'?" 1
" 'X don't know, sir,' amid the 1
!non, 'but 7 ShOUrd think they are 1
about hi Zanzibar by now,' i
" 'I'm proud of you, sergeatt,'
said the lieutenant. 'ft was a very 1
lieldleh operation with So feAV mem' )1
" 'No, sir,' .said the Lion, with 0. I t
bl 114111 'it reminde mo of what Bir. , t
1
WI/WW1/WI said Wu:holed said. Ir- o
regular troops even of the very 1
bravest, are subjeet 4,1 p0.111e8, A f
Notes of Interest About Some
I'rominent People.
Before his accession to the Chair
I of St. Peter, the Pope had accumu-
- ' latest t colleetion of over 10,000
Post-carde. Ile le still an callus -lite -
tie collector,
The smallest and oldest postmis-
tress in England -perhaps In Ito
world -is Miss Haworth, of Pendle-
ton Post Office. Miss Haworth is
but aft. Sin. in height and oVer
set enty years of age.
One of tho wealthiest heiresses in
the world is Lady Mary Hamilton,
only daughter of the late Duke of
Hamilton. She is a charming girl
of eineteen, and in two years ;will
be mistress of $1,000,000 a year.
Kubelik, the world-famous violinist
is the son of a gardener, to whose
wisdom the former attributes the
development of his genius. Kubeille
is the most grateful of sons, and
says he can play best when he ima-
gines he sees his father sitting in
the audience in front of him.
The Erameror Francis Joseph of
Austria is nine times king Wien a
grand duke, once a grand prince,
Mur times a =suave, and tho mul-
titude of his titles as count., moo uo
forth, is past entimeratton. in addi-
tion, as King of Hungary he hears
the title of "Most. Apostolic," which
is one of the four honors bsstowed
by the Popo.
Miss Helen Burnside, who has been
awarded a pension by the British.
Authors Society, has probably writ-
ten more ClariAmes-ected verses than
any other living person. Passion-
ately fond of music, she had the ter-
rible misfortune to lose her hearing
nt the age of twelve, end from that 1
time she began to write verses.. At 11
one time sho was literai`y editor to
Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons,
and her output for twenty years
was 400 verses a year. Her fu•st
woionte of poems was published in
11164.
The King of the Bolgians is a brit- I
'lent talker on any subject. His
habits of lire are -very sample. His
Majeety rises at six o'clock cuid
works for a couple of hours before s
breakfast, a meal which is served in
the Queen's apartments. It consists t
of coarse dry bread, teas and an aP-
ple. The morning is spent in the
transaction of State business. Lun-
cheon is of homely faro. The ICing
usually- drinks illtoted water, safety I
wine. He is very particular to take
outdoor exorcise in the afternoon.
Dinner is a plain meal, for the King
is fond of ordinary joints.
The Duke of Fife holds a record, oic
He is the only man who has over t
known to change his rank while he Ise
ate his breakfast. biter the mar- 10'
stage cosmos's, had been celebrated
in tbe private chapel of Bacisinghtun 01
Palace on the morning al July 27t11,
1850, he loci his Royal bride into
the dining -room, where the wedding
breakfast was laid, as an earl. 'When
the meal was half over, the late la
Queen, in raising her glass to the
toast of the young couple, conferred le
a dukedom upon Mart, and thus, as
he ate, he passed through two ranks
of the peerage -surely the quickest
promotion ever recorded.
Dr. 3. Wilson Swam P.R.S., the
inventor of the incaudescent electric
is.mp, has just entered his seventy-
sixth :year. It is nearly a generation
ago s'ince Dr. Swan first publicly ex,-
hibited the electric light which has
now become universal, There were
at that time only two houses in
the world lit with incandescent el-
ectrie lamps -the late Lord Arm-
strong's and his own. Despite his
great ser‘ice in the advanceMent of
science by Ills discoveries in, electric,- tl
ity. and photography, the only cram- w
try which has recognised Dr. Swan's 151
genius is Prance, tvliose President to
In
ti)
It is doubtful whether there is any ,(1t
other living person who cat) produce111
quite so much first-cha.
tss "copy" all c
Me. F. Station Crawford, the well-
known novelist. It is an ordinmy Itt
thing for Ifire. to write 5,009 words;
01
in 0, day, and he really "wi•ites" it. be
He tried dictating several Ulnae,
but somehow could never make any
headway. Hie "copy" 18
art, WOrlg
of t, but very unpopelar with tho
printing fraternity, Ile writes
beautiful, clear, cop/eyelet(' hand,
and when he starts out his letters
are of very good gee and. as legible
as typewriting. But as he proceeds
the letters grow smaller, until final-
aszessezzesInelateMleseeelafbeieettaleo
About the
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UNLEA VENED IMUSAD,
Graham Ceme.-You eyed a good
lirm
e, small iron gem pans, the cold-
est water, the m
best eal and plenty
of good common 50111e of "faculty"
for your work. Two and one -hall
cups cold water and about three
leVel cups of meat. Beat and 31(1few moments and incorporate all
the fresh air possible. The batter
should be thin enough to pour
easily from. the spoon. 10111 hot PLIAS
full and put in hot arm, ShoUld
rise above pans and le well demo In
half un bum. Remove from pans
and let cool a little before eating.
17 not light and spoegy, probably. ove
en too cool or bread not stiS enough.
Gems of Entire Wheat.- Three 103".
01 ten. cups entire wheato
t:, wcups
cold water anci tablespoonful liquid
shortening. Boat, make and bake
8(1100 03 the graham. gems. They
may need a spoonful or more of
cold water. When done they should
be a sponge that does not fall from
the erust. If these breads aro not
right, or too soft, they may be used
as a etweel, then tey again.
Bolls. -These are made in the scone
way, wm whether of grahaor entire
wheat, or white nour-except that
the two latter aro better with a
level spoonful of liquid shortening to
a pint of Hour.
Put two or three cups of flour in
yr mixingoubowl and slowly add
cold water to make a dough stiff
enough to handle well, 'Pure it on
your Loured molding board and
knead, rofi, stretch, fold and work
ten or fifteen minutes, until springy,
full of air and. with a satin finish.
If the dough is too stiff it will be
dry, if too soft, chummy, when done.
Bon the dough three-fourths of an
inch thick and cut strips an inch
wide and finger length. ^ form into
rolls, put in shallow pan, space
apart, prick and beim in oven hot
enough to brown soon afthe putting
in. If right they will rise, crack
open on the sidos and be the per-
feetion of art unleavened roll.
It IN not necessary to write out
page after page of recipes for mak-
ing things where the dough is el -
ways the same. Hence you may
rot this doegb thin for wafers, tt
quarter Inch thick for crackers, and
nsteced of elating rolls cut in very
small biscuit, rings or bolls sticks
or diamonds- but always small,
then they will be ligbt. Youmay in
mixing add a. little sweet fruit or
nut meats ground, and so from the
same dough have more than one vas-
-iety at a thee if desired. And the
same rtde holds with the gems. A
tablespoonful of fresh grated coca -
nut or of mit meats ground will
horten pan of enas• or 8310011
ruits may be used, if one likes mix -
tires.
ALL-AROUND WOMEN.
It must bo admitted that 80/120 wo-
Men and girls have no taste for
me:sok:vein, bet this is a distinct
misfortune, Tliey ought to have it..
hey should try to acquire it. They
are 110 reason to glory in such in-
anacity, not to look on it as a
ark of superiority, of an artistic
onmerament, a fastidious nature.
ot a bit of it. The reatly fastidi-
us people aro always good manag-
e, for they cannot endure to live
in discomfort and squalor, and, ree
tier than endure it, set bravely to
work to remedy it.
The young women who cannot cook
mutton chop, boil a potato, or
lake a docent cup of tea, whatever
er Station in life, ban no reason to
feel proud of her incapacity.
Some things every girl should
know, whatever her wealth and posi-
tion -how to make a ilro, how to
bind up a wound, how to cook at
'cast some simple dishes, cusd how to
act in case of tire or poison. • On
such knowledge Ufa or the loss of it
may depend, and she who does not
possess it is ignorant of an esseetial
to a woman's education.
sand possible accidents may Aniattclm-
euit
of the first importance.
The perfect woman. the woman the
world wants, Is the all-round Wo-
man Who can put her hand to any -
ling, should Um need arise, and
ho having a cultivated intelligence,
Licitly grasps how tasks unfamiliar
her should be done. The cultured
elY, accomplished equally at home
the drawing -room, the nursery and
O hotter, abl13 to entertain her
tests with ease and grace -no
'edge, no mere upper servant, but
pablo, womanly, versed in all that
becomes a modern woman to
low; mistrees, perhaps, of an art
• profession, but in addition to tied
Toro en that, a good wife a good
mother, a good mistress -that is the
kind of woman of Whom there can-
not be too many,
She may, not be required, by her
eircuinstances, to busy herself with
houeehold details, bot she knows how
everything should be done.
When sho finds fault it is with roa-
n end out of the fullness of her
exeleclge. Sho does not give itn-
ssible commands or expect raves-
sible perfections. She is jeet and
reasonable, 13111 if anything goes
wrong, she knows just why, and she
cait point out the reason.
She commands the respect and con-
fidence of her servants. If circum-
stances compel her; she le ready to
work for her husband and children.
She manages under all dreum-
stancee to preserve her grace and
refinement and to import, it into her
method of work. She makes the
poorest cottage pretty and homelike
and by a dolt touch traneforine the
dreariness of seen eheap lodgings,
She never sinks Witli her fallen fere
fume, bet bringe tip her thildree to
adern the society to Which they
Wong, She le eiMple and well bred
-a lady, every Of ber-and
re
therefofree train foolish pretense
bestowed on hun, twenty-two years
ago. tho decoration of Knight of the
Legion of I inner,
k0n
ly they are not 31111ell larger than a
pin -head. Some conception of the P°
infiniteness of his writing may be
had when it is stated that his copy
will generally run 1,750 words to a.
quarto page,
RULED BY WOMEN,
A remnant of the Sesis tribe of
ndiane inhabits the. Island of TI -
Amon, in the Cull of Celiforida, ,tu3d
s ruled entirely by the women. Por-
nerly the tribe numbered about 5,-
000, but iss 110W ehrunk to a few
iundred, living a life of almost com-
dete isolatio», and refusibg to in-
ormarry with any of the 'Indians of
ho mainland. 'Phu women is master
f the hooaehold, and a Council of
natrons 113 10 the head of publle al -
all's,
and affectation, cheerful, companion
able, well read, with a kind heart
and sound principles. "Eel, price
is above rubies."
ALPHABETICAL HINTS.
Add a little borax to the boiled
Atlutcal.
1111)1(1 13)1)5 be elevated by applying
sweet oil and powdered rotten stone.
Cement for tinware, whIto of eggs
and ashes to form a paste.
Dry Plaster l'arls mixed with flour
will kill roaches,
Kmiec:Ilea sauce pans can be clean -
tel with punice stone.
Por bee stings and pielee bites
use salt and soda.
0.00d disinfectant is 1. lb. copperas
8 ozcarbolic. acid, 1 gal. water.
'LIE a ears potato rubbed on cloth
will came mud spots to disappear.
In wing a nail to hang things cm
1clieral
is;c. th
it eough a spool up to the
'tweeters, should be cleaned with
8111111 01110. and Weter,
Keep 'vinegar in glass instead of
134. 0011.
Ammonia. end 31101a8SPS inIxed with
blackleg will prevent it, burning off,
Moths will not corrie near clothes
sprinkled with tuepentime.
Neatsfoot oil is excellent to soften
hardened loather.
frZiiilesof turpentine will clean giTt
Pineapple syrup is excellent for
croup.
Quite delicious sandwiches aro
made by placing chopped peanuts,
cheese end butter between thin slices
of bread,
Remedy for chilblains, turpentine
diluted.
Salt should not be added to milk
gravels till they are ready to serve.
To keep fresh fish sweet, wrap in
cloth wet with vinegar.
Use led hot Bat iron to remove old
putty.
Vegetables should be tested with a
knitting needle instead of, a fork.
Wenn broad and cake should be
cut Wall 1101; knife,
Exercise in the open air every day.
You can clean a sewing machine
by covering all the bearings with
kerosene, rub off and apply machine
oil.
Zinc is preferable for covering the
kitchen shelves,
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HY FUR 18 80 COSTLY
ALL
fiGuch
to
THE LABOR MUST BB
DONE By IIAND.
Work and Patience Needed
Transform the Pelts In-
to ,Garments.
There is a vast difiererme between
the crude skirt furnished by the trap-
per and the finished fur of the gar-
ment: supplied by the furrier. Which
of the many women who love to
drew the soft,' warm fur across their
rosy theeks woold touch oven with
line tips of their dainty fingers the
coarse end odorous pelt as it first
reaches the fur market ?
Tho story of the hunting down of
the animal has been frequently told.
Let us take up the subject from this
point. The first thing done after tho
animal has been dispatched is to
remove the skin, stretch it on a
board to dry after Liberally rubbing
it with salt to preserve it. The salt
is rubbed on the Inner side, not on
the fur. This is left to dry, and
Olen the hunting season is over all
the pelts are gathered into bunt:11w ,
and taken to the nearest market.
Here they are classified. All seal- t
skins of first quality are sent to
London for dyeing and unhairing,
fOr Seel is covered with a thick coat ,
of coarse gray hairs over the soft
fur. The work is stilt 1101)0 11111111
knives by hand, end is tedious, (11-.
way crippling the fingers of the
workers,
coot S2S0 apiece, and 1110113, neeOrd.
Sn
tii0(1311111011114W111111411101110P1;odl
13;:irshein'Yl 401
1.0
alT
Russia. The (sable Is reniarienble
for the richness and length of the
fur and the fact Out it (inn be blown
any way. is dark brewn, rather
darker along the back. A set of
sables of reasonable dimeneions bore
ow000tt.ld cost from $1.0,000 to
When the skins are ell prepared,
ready for the initlice uf garments,
111(07' are taken to the sub -cellar
Wilily feet below the surface, mid
kept in bins. One remit holds dress-
ed and dyed seal 81(105 for malting
Up, velvets' and rich. 11, would 00
difilcult tO hunting around among
20,000 Or 30,000 skins to end exact
matches if 0110 Were in a hurry, foe
all skins usee ill 0110 gerIllent 1110311
be of exactly the stone length and
shades, so they are carefully chosen
and matched as they 00010 from the
dyers. Otherns bicontain ermine
and sables.
ALL SCRAPS SAVED.
'Do the unsophistiented eye n. fur
garment appears to be 1111 of one
piece, without 800,111 01' 10141, but 1:110
inade 1)01(1(1 SliOW the patient and
Painstaking labor bestowed upon it,
In the first 1)1(100, every piece must
have the pile run the same way,
and bo exactly Lho same in color and
thickness.
One of the good points about a
fine garment is the smell number of
Pieces that go to 100.10.1 it up, The
reason for this is that they aro out
without stinv
t. 'However, every
scrap of fur is valuable, and sooner
or later finds its piece. Cheap fur
garments are made of the. leavings
of the gond ones. One piece of rev-
el= limb three-quarters of a yard
square was made Up of scraps, none
over half an inch wide. The back
was a labyrinth of seams, while the
face looked sznooth ea if of one
piece, Obviously, in the process of
weer some of 1.10700 seams are likely
to give way. When a garment is to
be made the in,ove is to select
the skin. This is laid out on a flat
board and wet. The fur side is
down. Then they toe stretched and
Pulled to the Runt, and literally
thousands of line, long pins are
ethels in to hold the edges, They are
left all night to dry. The next clay
Um patterns of still cartridge paper
are fastened down over tho skin
firmly, and the cutter, with a Iodic
as sharp as a. rosins cuts along the
edge of the pattern into the leather,
but never quite through, for fear
of injuring the fur. When this Is
done the parts me gently pulled
npart, and tho fur is ready to be
sewed.
HAND WORK TETE BEST.
There aro machines to sew fur,
but the best work is always clone by
hand. The edges of the seam are
moistened so that the noodle will
P015, and all seams me moistened
cosi pressed flat, generally with a
smooth shell. When the giument is
sewed it is stretched again, this time
on a model, fur aide In. and then
all edges are taped, and all seams
aro stayed by having a tape stitch-
ed back and forth so the seam is
firmly held, no matter what future
presSure may Come upon it.
Arouttd the top and bottom the
tapes are stitched, :Ws last being to
give a hold for the lining, Around
the arm -edge Is quilted a, haif-moon
of buckram. Another piece is quill-
ed to the rovers. A tailor would
scarcely put so many or snob. ease-
ful stitches in the (nest coat,
Tim sleeves are put on in the same
careful way, and each seam toped.
The cuffs aro furnished with edges
and buckram quiltings. The lining
s hemmed to the edge in the neatest
winner. Only the best silk or bro-
cade is lased -quilted setin being
"out," The putting in of the sleeves
to have them took as if they had,
iike 'lln'o,psy, "just grimed," Is pure
art. The lining of the jacket is then
put
Among all the seasonably priced
urs skunk easily 'takes the lead for
bettAty and general utilty. The fur
f this 0.11112101 is prepared by inter -
a
nent in the (11031(111 twenty-four
ours, after which it is tanned and
yed.
Dying is necessary, because there
Ire always white stripes, end the
1)1 is in different shades of (lark
rown in the natural staTh
te, e
kellk is of I ho same family as the
Salesian sable, and so near does the
Maness come that dealers eau
kunk "Alaska. sable." Thee fur
as one peculiarity, and that is the
(mg hairs ere prosmatic studight.
'Ws fur, soft and feathery, 18 beau-
tful for lborderings and neck pieces.
MUCH WORK NECESSARY,
Before any skin can be made into ,
a. garment it must go through many "
Processes. The first thing is to d
serape off all the dried flesh and fat
adgering to the poit and work the
leather into flexibility. All pelts, ,S
after having been scraped, arc tann- D
33(1 to make the skin tough. The ,s
skins nre put into vats (113(1tanned
until they aro:finished, and then
dried, rubbed, scraped and dyod. The
best are done in London, but many ft
(13,0re common Pelts are dyed in
l3rooklyn, where there is a largo os- t
tablielonent. All furs that are to
be made up in "natural" fashion
are, after tannIng„ Worked OVer and
made as soft as a kid glove, and
this Is done by sheer strength aud
patience.
Tho natural furs are then matched g
in bunchee anel sot aside. Dyed baby li
lamb, chinchilla, Miniver, 011111110 .0
and sables aro tied in bunches and
tagged with Papers showing quality la
and nuniber. It 1(241114(45 many of 11
111)001 110 Make a garment. Mink, B
sable, marten, otter mid ant- w
111811111110 simply dressed --that is, of
scraped, snivel and made non 011(1 11
pliable. They aro never dyed. Seal, p
skunk, fox, raccoon, nutria, imIslc- pl
t•ot, rabbit, oposenni and some bear so
are dyed. Itact000 has long hairs, ti
and a beautiful coal, of inner Skil' w
closely resembling beexce. It is m
plucked and the fur 0111011 1111(170(1 to p
infitate beaver for collars, comets, pe,
etc. Lately the furriers have taken
to dyeing it black without unholy-
ing it, and oposeten (101 well, leaving
the long liaise. It'ls rued to make
tails of. ;Muskrat makes the basis
hnitation of sealskin,
' OTTER MOS'I' EXPENSIVISI, no
With the 031.001)1110(1of Sea otter,
Sable is the most expettsive ettr,
This first is very rare, indeed, and
brings oVor S1,000 for a single pelt.
Sable 00111e0 from Siberia, throUgh
Russia; but we stover See the best bl
and finest ot those skins, as they
ale perquisites of the ceowts and the
emperor has the first cholte of all in
the outpttt. Sables take the place lel
of diemonds fit Ilussin, and personal
Wealth. is "Yammered ie settles aft co
oth11301131113)ere11301131113)theles 7)1001005 len
Stones. do
A. Sable side ie rarely ton Melee no
lohg aside from the tell, and thoy ch
• DOMINOES.
It is interesting to note thal; the
cone of dominoes' Is supposed to
eve originated throtigh two monks
ornmitted to a. lengthy seclusion,
hey beguiled the hours of continu-
ant by showing each other small
at stems marked with black dots.
y a, peoconcertcd arrangement the
inner would inform tho other player
his victory by repeating in an
nelertone the first line of the Ves-
ors hymn, In time the monks eons-
eted the mot and poefected the stiles
that when their term had expired
10 genle Was so interesting that it
as generally adopted by all the M-
ates of the monastory ats rawful
astimo. The first line or the Vee-
rs wits reduced to the eingle woed
Dcanino,''
ONE MODS; CHANCE.
2To was it flirt, and a Male flirt
vet. gets 11 kick amiss. The harder °
ou hit hint the betties
Ile asked the girl to marry him. N
"No," she said, promptly and SI
4-1)titYb. corona theatrical. 111
"You have 01.113111cl iny life at one la
ow," he murmured hoztasely, 0
"I fancy not," she responded.
"Ah, but you do not know," he
Meted. "You have killed 1110-00
Hod 111.0-1d11011 MO 1" 1
"Well, if I hare," she revealed, '1
olly, "you must be a at; for 1 el
ow Steven other ghee who have Is
1)0 tho Santo thing, and you ttre
1 dead yet. Yoe ve got one Moro
once."
TEE CITY 111?TEE FREE
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tvnAT :3447SX ECAVB
DONE FOIL 47017a KONG,
Privileges Enjoyed by Poreignere
-Story of the "Open
Be or."
71, 18 just 11. Mile more than ado
years 311110Hong Kong passed into
the posseesion of Beattie; two 5011.11)later the 'Uj
nion e* wtau
s nfurled
over Shanghai, anti 1800 saw the
storming of the Takti forts. Those
dates are memorable in history,
since they represent the original de-
elstration of the "open door,"
tem has come into special promi-
nence of late years, but the galley It
describes dates buck to the com-
mencement of the active intercourse
between Britain an -d 0121)111,a period
long. anterier to any other power's'
eolioection with the east.
The "opeu door" was Britalu's
Policy when 8110 07118 practically
alone in the east; the nations that
have gone thither inter Imve Per-
sistently kept closed every door they
have power ovor; and the British re-
sidents in China aro beginning to
Wilk that they 5111011111 bo taught; tho
lesson of the "open door" by its
being closed 14)1111101: them, at any
rate for a time.
PREVAILING OPINION,
The prevailing opinion le that
thre ehas been quite enough of the
policy of "give' without anything
being received in return, and that it
may be 311180 4.0 giro other powers a
little of their own medicine, so as
to bring them to a mote equitable
frame of mind.
The taking of Hong Kong was a
consequence of the outrages and
murders ill Canton, the capture be-
ing necessary to compel reparation
being made by the Chinese Govern-
ment. T110 city itself AWLS handed
bank, and all that was retained was
a bare rocky islet, wall a few fish-
erman's and pirates' huts, and an
anchorage which the British naval
officers of the time strongly urged
the Government to abandon as quite
timeless. It is not without interest
to note in passing how history haa
roPeated itself 113 this connection
with respect to Wei-hal-elei.
MADE DUTY FREE.
Hong Kong was matte duty free,
and the commercial Ift•iton was thus
enabled to do what 1115 official bro-
ther colAidereci hopeless, to make
something of the plane. It is now
the third best pert all the world,
and every indication goes to show
that it will continue to maintain its
position.
Than Bong Kong there is no bet-
ter typo of the "open door." It has
ne import duty at all, and foreign-
ers of all nationalities can trade
Without re51ric11011---a liberty denied
tO many of thee' in their own coun-
try. There are 301110 living in Emig
Kong glad to escape wasting years
In conscription; Mhos, duly appre-
, dve atiof tho entire absence of both-
ering officialdorn,, which in certain
countries confronts merchants at al-
most every turn.
NO PASSPORTS REQUIRED.
There are no passports required;
there is nobody to On011ire whence
yuu come and whither you go, no
army of uniformed nuisances 111111(1111(1 to every transaction of your life,
asking what your income is, prying
into all your business, and taking
your money for countless imposts
and exactions under innumerable
nafgerd otiniesguils.teingy. live years its
Hong Kong and hardly 10100' there
is such a thing as oilleialdom,
the sense that 11 man may never
know he has a liter, 311110101,011 as it
works well and newer troubles him
This is true particularly of the man-
ner in which the colony's revenue is
raised.
TAXES NOT PELT.
The - arrangements aro stich that
the vast 11111JOrity of the residents
are hardly conscious of paying taX08.
Tito owners of land and houses pay
a percentage, certain trades pay
license fees, certain documents pay
stamp fees, ships pay emelt lights
house dues, opium Is a. 1110110POIY,
and that is all.
Mich the Seine 111 the case in re-
gard to general regulations and
laws. 'Ibus, where officials of most
countries would say "this is the
law, and it 11.10110 is permissible,"
there aro usually open doors for half
a dozen different ways in Hong
Kong. And with the low of the
land, equity is a vertable open door
by 111111011to get out of any diffiaal-
ty. Not that red tape or interpret-
ing the strict letter of the law can
never be complained of le the colony
but so smooth are things made for
people there that life in every occu-
pation runs on with hardly a sleek)
jar„
BRITAIN NOT ASLEEP,
In all thts, there is an illustretion
of the British 11301110.33 of dealing
elastically with things in general.
Sometimes, indeed. Britain dons pot
p
apear to retain what is hers to
hold; het, after all, this is onl,v so
1)1 eppearance end net in reality. In
spite of her anparent laxity in Hong
Kong, 11111(113)is siU1 (10113111011311there and the foreign resitiertte clear-
ly understate:I that thre eis the Pea -
ability of the "open door" being
closed. If the contiogemy occur it
will not fail to affect. the trade of
all nations that have intereet in, the
far east.
SOL:EMT:Or 00164)7 TRAVELLE I
A daring adventure is contemplate
d by a Mr, ilietkoridge, who pro -
cases, eingle-hancled, 10 still from
ow Zeeland to England in a elettl I
eft, 22 feet in length, with a heart'
1 0 foot 0 inches. The vessol wcsi
ranched a short tittle ego at Mick -
lid, and wail christened the
(171 71 Is expo:Sett that the trip
o London will lake eve inm)ths,
lie only foods reviled will be cone
ntratod, mid there will So, 1/5
one ot fresh water, celetilti.fed fo tiet
80 days. The cockpit, 19 0110(1 with
ne, for sea baths, and it will oleo
ueed rot catching 'rain water.
'Freshness of youth ciften Bj1ul the