The Clinton News Record, 1915-11-11, Page 7THE GOLDEN KEY
Or "The dventures •of Ledgerd."
By the Author of "What He Cost Her."
CHAPTER XXIII.
After six weeks anceseant throb-
bing the great engines were. still, and
the, Dunettar Castle lay at .anchor a
mile or two from the African coast
sael off the town of Attila The heat,
which in motion had been hard enough
to bear, was positively stifling now.
The. sun burned down upon the glassy
seaand the white deck till the var-
nish an the rails a:racked and blister-
ed,' and the sweat streamed like 'WA»
ter, frorrathe faces of the laboring
seamen.. Below at the ship' s ' side
kelt a dozen surf boats were waiting,
manned by Kru boys, who, alone
seemed perfectly comfortable, ,and
cheerful as usual. All around were
M•aaara ions for landing—boxes were
being hauled up from the hold, and
, People 'were 'going about it search of
ii 411 wends geld deck -chairs and
missing acquaintances. Trent, .in
white linen clothes and puggaree,
was leaning over the railing, gazing
towardg the town,' When ha Souza
came up to him— .
-' "Lust inorning, Mr. Trerit!"''
Trent glanced round and ,Siodded.
"Are adu disenibetakina here?" he
asked '•
Da Souza admitted the fact. .".My
brother will meet ine " he said. "He
is very' afraid of the Suraboats, or he
woelca have come out to the steamer.
You remeinber him?"
"Yes, I remember him," Trent an-
sweved. "He was not the sort of per-
a-asaasessesaorgets. • •
"He is a very maga diamond" Da
Souza said apologetically. "He has
lived here so long that he has become
alinott half a native."
"And the other half a thief," Trent
muttered.
Da Souza was not in the least of-
fended.
"I
an afraid," he admitted, "that
his morals are not up to the Thread-
needle Street pitcb, eh, llar. Trent?
But he has made quite a great deal of
money. Oh, quite a sum, I can as-
sure yon. He sends me some over to
invest!" I
"Well, if he's carrying on the same
old ' game," Trent remarked, "he
ought to be coining it! By the by,
of course he knows exactly where
Monty is?"
"It is what I was about to say," Da
Social assented, with a vigorous nod
of the bead. Now, my -dear Mr.
Trent, I know that you will have your
way. It is no use my tryieg to dis-
suade you to listen. .You shall waste
no time in searching for Monty. My
brother will tell you exactly where he
Trent hesitated. He would have
preferred to have nothing at all to
do with Da Souza, and the very
thought of Oom Sam made him shud-
der. On the other hand, time was t
very valuable to him and he might a
waste weeks looking for the man
whom (Sem Sam could tell him at c
once wham to find. On tbe whole it s
was better to accept Da Souza's offer. t
' "laara well, Da Souza," he said. "I I
have nu time to spare in this country I
ani the sooner I get back to England , t
the bettee for all of us. If your bros I a
thri o e., w eie Monty is, so much
the better foe both of us. We will b
land together and meet him." • ins
Already the disembarking had coin-,
meeced. 1)e, Souza and Treat took o
their places side by side on the broad, 11
fiat -bottomed boat, and soon they were e
off shorewards and the familiar song
of the Kru boys as they bent over :
their ears greeted their ears. The h
eacitement of the last few stecaces
was barely over before they sprang, k
upon the beach, end wen -suerounded M
by a little etowd, 011 the outskirts of
whom was Oom Sam. Trent was seiz-
ed upon by an Englishman who was t\
representing the Belcwando Land and el
Mining Investment Company and, v
before he could regain Da Settee, a h
few rapid sentences had passed be- • h
tweon the latter and his brother in I
Portuguese, Oom Sam advanced to o
Trent hat in hand— , le,
Trent nodded curtly.. k
"Welcome -back to Attra, Senor ?''i
"Place isn't nauch changed," he re- 0
mai co , a
"It is v.ery slowly here," Dont Sam si
said, "that .progress is made! The lo
climate is too horrible. It makes dead 11
.sheep of men."
"You seem to hang bn pretty well,"
Trent remarked carelessly. "Been up
country lately?"
"I was trading -With the King of
you about the contraets. My first,
business is a private matter with
these gentlemen. Will you come here
and breakfast with riasaa
The Englishman, a surveyor from
a London office, assented with enthu-
siasm.
"I can't offer th put you up,"
said gloomily. "Living out here
beastly. See you in tha mornin
then."
He strolled away, fanning hhnsel
Trent lit a long cigar.
"I understand," he said, tureing
Dom Sam, "that old lVfonty is all
still. If so, it's little sheet of a mi
aele, for I left him with scarcely
gasp in his body, and I was near
done myself.
"at was," Oom Sam said, "veree
wonderful The natives who were
chasing you, they found him, and
then the Englishman whom you met
in Bekwando on his way inland, he
rescued him. You see that little white
house with a flagstaff yonder?"
He pointed to, a little one-story
building about a mile away along the
doast. Trent nodded. '
"That is," Oorn Sam said, "a station
of the Basle Mission end old Monty
he
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things. Between you and me," he GERMANS ARE HARSH.
f• sidled a little closer to Treat, "I think
Rich Yet Delicate.
Can and Full of Aroma0
Ls blended from selected hill -grown
teas, famed for their fine flavoury
0 qualities. Imitated yet never equalled.
mustehave got into a bit of a scrape
to of somd sort—I feel as though there
ve was a blank eomewhere.
Again he becaihe
a Trent was silent for eeveral minutes.
IS' He could not understand that strain-
ed, anidous look which crept into
Monty's face every time he faced the
town. Then he made his last effort.
"Monty, clo you remember this?"
Zealously guarded, yet a little worn
at the edges and faded, he drew the
picture from its case and held it, be-
fore the old man's blinking eyes.
There was a moment of suspense, then
a sharp., breathless cry which ended
In a wail.
"Take it away," Monty moaned. "I
lost it long ago. I don't want to see
it! I don't want th think."
"I have come," Trent said, with an
unaccustoined gentleness in his tone,
"to make you thirac. I want you to
remember that that is a pictuee of
your daughter. You are rich now,
and there is no reason why you should
not come back to her. Don't you un-
derstand, Monty?"
It was a grey, white face, shrivelled
and pinched, weak eyes witlraut depth,
a vapid smile in which there was no
meaning, Trent, carried away for a
moment by an impulse of pity, felt
only disappointment at the hopeless-
ness of his task. He would have been
honestly glad to have taken Monty
whoin he had known back to England,
but not this man! For already that
brief flash of awakened life seemed to
have died away. Monty's head was
wagging feebly, and he was casting
continual little, furtive glances to-
wards the town.
"Please go away," he said, "I
don't know you, and you give ate a
pain in my head. Don't you know
what it is to feel a buzz, buzz buzzing
inside? I can't remember things. It's
no use trying."
"Monty, why do you loolc so often
that way?" Trent said quietly. "Is t•
some one coming out from the town
to see Iran?"
Monty threw a quick glance at him s
and Trent sighed. For the glance
is there. You can go and see him any
time you like, • but he will not know
--
"Is he as far gone as that?" Trent
asked slowly. •
"His inind,." Oom Sam said, "is
gone. One little flickering spark of
life goes on. A day! a week! who
can tell how long?' ..,
"Hes he a doctor?" Trent asked,
The missionary, he is a medica
man," Dont Sam explained. "Yet he
l
is long past the art of medicine." -
It seemed to Trent, turning at that
moment to relight his cigar, that a
look of subtle intelligence was flashed
from one to the other of the brothers
He paused with the match in his fin -
gees, puzzled, suspicious, anxious. So
there was some scheme hatched al-
ready between these precious pair! It
was time indeed that he had come,
"There was something else? want-
ed to ask," he said a nioment or two
later. "What about the. man FraDelS.
Has he been heard of lately?"
Dom Sam shook his head.
"Ten months ago," he answered, "a
trader from Lulabulu reported having
passed him on his way to the interior.
He spoke of visiting Sugbaroo, an-
other country beyond. If he ventured
there he will surely never eeturn.
Trent set down his glass without a
word, and called to some Kru boys in
the square who carried litters.
"I am going," he said, "to find
Monty."
CHAPTER XXIV.
An old man, with his face turned to
Ile sea,. was making a weary attempt
t digging upon a small potato patch.
The blaze of the tropical sun had be-
ome lost an hour •or so before in a
trange, grey mist, rising not from
he sea, but from the swamps which
ay here and there—brilliant, verdant
'etches of 'poison and pestilence. With
he mist came a moist, sticky heat, the
it was fetid. Trent wiped the per-
pirabon from his forehead and
reathed hard. This was an evil =-
ea for him.
Monty turned round at the sound
f his approaching footsteps. The two
len stood face to face: Trent looked
agerly for some sign of recog»ition
—none came.
"Don't you know me?" Trent said
uskily. "I'm Scarlett Trent—we
mist up to Bekwando together, you
now. I thought you were 'dead,
onty, or I wouldn't have left you."
"Eh! What!"
Monty meabled for a moment or
vo anci was silent. A look of dull
isappointment struggled with the
acuity of his face. Trent noticed that
is hands were shaking pitifully and
is eyes were bloodshot
"Try and think, Monty," he went
n, drawing a step nearer to him.
"on't you remember what a beastly
Inc we had up in the bush—how they
ept us day after day in that villain -
us hut because it was a fetish week
id how after we had got the comes -
ons those confounded niggers fol -
wed us! They meaat our lives,
fonty, and I don't know how you
seeped. Come! make an effort and
till youtaelf together. We're rich
en now, both of ue. You must dome
eck to England and help me spend a
Monty hal incovered a little his
ewer of speech. He leaned owe his
ade and smiled benignly at his
bi
Belcwando a month ago," Oom Sam
answered.
"Palm-oil and mahogany for vile sp
rum, I tempose," Trent said: vi
The man extended his hands and
sheugged his shouldere. The old gee-
' te re,
"They wilt have it," he said "Shalt
we go tothe hotel, Senor Trent, and
rest ?"
Trent nodded, and the three men
scvambled up the beach, across an
open space, and gained the shelter of
a broad baleony, shielded by A striped
awning 'which surrounded the plain
white stone hotel. A Mee boy wel-
comed them with beaming face, and
fetched them chinks upon a 13rum-
miagem tray. Trent 'turned to the
Fa/gash:nee who had followed them
up.
"To -morrow," lio said, "I sleet' see
seasseremeseeteasassme_masea
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me was a Deentham m the
uards," Ise said slowly, "the Honor -
le George Trentham, you know, one
peer Abercrombie's eons, but I
ought he was dead. You must cline
th me one night at the Travellersa
ve given up eating myself, but, I'm
ways thirsty."
He looked anxiously away towards
e town and began to mumble.
•ent was in despair. Presently he
San again.
"I used to belong to the Guards—
Ways dined there CU Jacques left.
fterwards the cookiag was beastly,
can't quite remember where
went them You see—I think I must
getting old. I don't remember
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Military Training Has Brutalizing
. Effect on Mem.
Owing to his curious mixture of
'emotion and stolidity the German is
far more easily exalted than most of
his ,enemiee. I read in English books
of the "stolid German," says a neu-
tral observer in the London Times.
"If the German ever was a stolid per-
son he *certainly is not to -day. The
German of to -day is noisy, shouting,
staring, and ,over -bearing, Partial -
!may is this so with the non -commis,
sioned officers... Downttodden foa
generations, they are now retailing on
such unfortunate inhabitanta of Rus-
sia, Poland, France, and Belgium as
come in their way. The German Gov-
ernment sedulously circulates photo-
graphs and cinematograph films of
posed German soldiers playing with
enemy children. I have no doubt that
in such cases such episodes have gen-
uninely taken pled°, because many a
Landsturmer has sympathy with little
people; but, on the other hand, I have
witnessed absolute brutality on the
part of German soldiers towards their
own people. . •
Here le an instance. I had occa-
sion to visit the, office of the aflame,
commandant at, Posen shortly after
the Russian retreat. It was interest-
ing to observe the cringing displayed
by an Unterofficer before his superior.
Immediately afterwards this man was
approached by an old couple, two re-
turned refugees, who humbly and
civilly inquired where they should
find a lodging. His whole attitude
changed. Turning upon them savage -
3', Yelling and screaming, he took
hem by the shoulders and lcielced
hem out of the building, saying "You
go to the right place to ask such
uestions. I have nothing to do with
uch people as you." This is a case
of German harehness to Germans.
he man had been browbeaten by his
uperiors all his life, and now the de -
ire to browbeat others expressed it -
elf.
One trembles to think of the atti-
ude such men would acloPt if they
ver cucceeded in their cherished am-
ition to land in England.
was full of cunning, the low cunning T
of the lunatic criminal.
"No one, no one," he said hastily, 8
"Who should come to see me? ritt 8
only poor Monty. Poor old Monty's s
got no friends,. Go away and let me
Trent walked a few paces apart, e
and passed out of the garden to a low, b
shelving bank and looked downward
where a sea of glass rippled on to the
broad, firm sands. What a picture
of desolation! The grey, hot mist,
the whitewashed cabin, the long, ugly
potato patch, the weird, pathetic fig-
ure of that old man from whose brain
the light of life had surely passed
forever. And yet Trent was puzzled.
Monty'e furtive glance inland, his
half -frightened, half -cunning denial
of any anticipated visit suggested
that there WAS some•one else who was
interested in his existence, ancl sonic
one, too, with whom he shared a se-
cret. Trent lit a cigar and ant clown
upon the sandy turf. Meaty resumed
his digging. Trent watched him
through the leaves of a stunted tree,
uncleeneath whith•he hacl tlmown him-
self.
For an halm or more nothing hap-
pened. Trent smoked, and Monty,
who had apparently forgotten all
about his visitor, ploddedaway
amongst the potato furrows, with
every now and then a long, searching
loolc towards the town. Then there
came a black speck stealing across
the broad rice -field and up the steep
hill, a speck which in time took to
Itself the semblance of .a man a Kru
boy, naked as he was born save for a
ragged loin -cloth, and clutching some-
thing in his hand, He was invisible
to Trent until he was close at hand.
it was Monty whose changed attitude
,and deportment indicated the ap-
proach of something interesting. He
hacl relinquished his digging and,
after is long, stealthy glance towards
the house, had advanced to the ,ex-
treme boundary of the potato )latch.
His behavior here for the first time
seemed to denote the hopeless lunatic,
Ile swung his long arms backward
and forward, cracking his fingers,
and tallcieg unintelligibly to himself,
hoarse, gut ural murmurings with-
out sense or invert. Trent changed
his place, and for the first time saw
the Kru boy. His face darkened and
an angry exclamation broke from his
lips. It was something like this
which he had been expecting.
(Ta be corainaed.)
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CHICKENS SIX CENTS EACH.
Egg's Offered at Three Cents a Dozen
Near Hankow.
Prices of eggs, chickens and other
poultry .exe so low in the laag-tee-
klang Valley, Chiba, that an English
company has developed a laege busi-
ness in shipping such products. ,Jo
Great Britain.
Virtually every Chinese family in
the remote country districts, as well
as in the towns and cities, keeps
chickena. The price of eggs in the
villages accessible to river transpor-
tation is now abont 3 cants, geld a
closan. Spring chickens sell foe about
6 cents gold each. ,Li remote interior
points, 'whore copper coine are still
largely in 'lase, the prices are much
lower. -
Many of the eggs purchased alopg
the Yang-the-kiang are dried for the
use of bakees in Europe and other
parts of the world. The wbites and
yolks are dried separately,
267 Potatoee Froin One.
Having a remarkable . number of
spears, a potato grown at .Northwood,
Kent, England, was cut into. 23 pieces
and planted on April 21. Each piece
grew, and when the crop was dug up
it wee fauna that the single' tuber had
produced 21'T potatoes, about 30 lbs.,
in W
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ko tha victors belong the spoiled
towns and villages.
Are the Russian army costs charged
to running expenseea
Speaking of eel:dyers, a body of
burglars shoulcl make n crack deeps.
And a corps of,, stokers should be
able to advance ul der it hot flea
Wha do soldie need blankets
when they can doe le themselves with
.1•1•1•101
About the Household
Dainty Dishes.
Steamed Indian Pudding.—One cu
corn ineal, one-thied cup sour naiD
one-half cup molasses, one-third eu
chopped net, one teaspoon salt, on
teaspoon soda, law grains ginger
Mix soda with sour milk, add, othe
ingredients, pour into buttered mol
and steam four 'hours.
Meringued Apples. — Prepare ap
pies as lee baking. Cook "until ten
der, but not broken. Fill centers wit
apple jelly or marmalade and coa
each apple with meringue made wit
whites of egg% and sugar, one table
spoon of sugar to one egg whit
flavored with lamon. Brown in oven
Cassel Pudding (English).—Pak
weight 'of two eggs in butter, io su
gar and in flour. Rub.butter and su
gar together, add to them grated pee
of half a lemon and yolks of egg
beaten light. Stir in flour and, las
of all, whipped whites of eggs an
one-half teaspoon baking powder
Grease small, deep patty pane an
bake pudding in these for about one
half hour; turn out on hot dish am
serve with hard sauce.
Johnnyeake.—One-half cup sugar
one-half cup thick sour cream, one-
half cup thick sour milk, one egg
one-half cua flour one cup corn eal
, en ,
one teaspoon soda, one pinch salt.
Beat egg until light, add sugar and
mix. Dissolve soda,in sour anilk
add to sugar and egg, together wit
sour cream. Add flour, corn mea
and salt, beat thoroughly, polls: int
well -greased biscuit " pan and bak
twenty minutes in hot oven.
Rios a la Medea—One pint cooke
rice, six slices bacon or salt pork
three eggs', one tablespoon butter
one-fourth cup milk, one tablespoon
phopped onion, salt, pepper and one
teaspoon parsley. Beat eggs, add
milk and pour into hot saucepan in
which butter is melting. Stir con-
stantly, adding onion, salt, peppes
and parsley. When creamy add rice
and when thoroughly heated again
mound in platter, sui•round with hot
fried bacon or salt pork, and serve..
Date Cake.—This cake is economi-
cal aid quickly' put together. One-
third cup soft butter, one and one-
third cups brown sugar, two eggs,
one-half cup milk, one and three-
fourths cups pastry flour, once sifted,
one-half teaspoon cinnamon, one-half
teaspoon grated nutmeg and one-half
pound stoned and shredded dates.
Put all in Mixing bowl and beat three
minutes, using -slatted wooden spoon.
Turn into buttered and floured cake
Pan and bake in moderate oven from
forty to forty-five minutes. Speinkle
top with confectioner's sugar after
temoving from oven:
, Carrot Soup.—Two, cups chopped
raw carrots, two slices onion, aprig
parsley, one-fourth cup raw rice, four
tablespoons butter, one and one-half
teaspoons salt, few grains cayenne,
two cups water, two cup's scalded
milk, two tablespoons flour. Cook
carrots in water until tender and
press through sieve, reserving liquor.
Cook rice in milk in double boiler.
Cook onion in butter. Add flour and
seasonings. Mix caerot mixture with
lice and milk and pour on to butter
and flour. Bring to boiling point,
strain and serve. Garnith with 'chop-
ped parsley. If soup is too thick thin
with mean or milk.
put in direct contact with the ice.
Sugar is present largely in bana-
nas, grapes, eta, aad their food
value is derived almost entirely from
that,
The juice of a lemon added to a
pan of water will freshen wilted
vegetables. Let them stand - in it
for one hour. '
It is wise to use either mustard or
red pepper in preparing baked beam
or lobster dishes, as these condi-
ments used spavingla render the
food more digestible.
-Delicious toniato sandwiches are
made by cutting the tomato vety
thin and spreadiag it with mayon-
naise. Cut the bread rounds with
a cookie cutter, spread and use the
slices of tomato for filling.
Keep a bottle of glyceaine in the
laundry, a tea, stain, however per-
sistent, will often yield to this when
other means fail. Wet the stain
first with water and then with the
glycerine. After a few hours wash
well with soap and water.
VERY SUCCESSFUL FARME'R.
Duke of Marlborough .11elping to
Solve the Food Problem.
Thre Duke of Marlborough, who
married Consuelo Vanderbilt, of New
York, is rapidly gaining the laine of
h Eritain s master farmer."
On March 17, 1913, the Duke seat
O an open letter to Winston Churchill,
e then Home Secretary, condemning
raclieal land measures, and announe-
d ing that he was about to put 1,000
steres of his estate, Blenheim Park, at
Woodstock, under the plow. He out-
lined an alluring sehete of increas-
ing the national food supply and cut-
ting clown the size of the army of
tho unemployed. Also he promised
he woula grant land. for workmen's
c°tthaegesli
Ttike kept his promise. The
scheme worked out, and is working
out far more successfully than the
Government, and probably the Duke
himself, had dreamed it would. e
A little more than half a year after
he had written his letter to Winston
Churchill, the Duke ordered 1.000
Breads.
Brown Bread. --Two cups of corn
meal, one cep of flour, one cup of
buttermilk, one of sweet Milk, one
egg, one teaspoon of soda, one tea-
spoon of baking powder, one-half cup
of sorghum; divide batter into three
equal parts and put into greased bak-
ing powder cans (pt. size). Cover
with lids and set in it covered bucket
or pot to steam for three hours, then
remove lids and set in oven to dry
for thn or fifteen minutes. This is
especially Mee for wash day.
Pocketbook -Rolls.—One cup of
yeast sponge, one cup aa sweet milk,
One-fourth cup of sugar, One egg,
one-half cup of potatoes, flour to
make thin batter; beat for five min-
utes or until smooth and light. Let
rise fear or five hours, or until air
bebbles cover the 'surface and show
that the batter is light. Now add
one-half cup of lard arid one teaspoon
of salt; mix in flour to make dough as' g
stiff as ordinary biscuit dough. Let
rise two haters, roll out, cut in bis-
cuits, dip in melted lard or butter,
fold together, let rise until ready for
oven. Cook quickly and brash tops
with cream or butter,
acres oa Blenheim Park to be plowed
for the planting of cereals.
This ground produced its second
harvest this year. The barley and
oats ere not quite equal in bulk to
the crop of last year, but they bear
about the same proportion to those
that preceded them that the present
harvest in general does to that of
1914, so the deficiency has a seasoned
explanation,
The Duke of Marlborough's :enter-
prise in restoring to cultivation a land
that had been under grass for many
years has aroused interest and ap-
proval throughout the British Isles,
chiefly becteuse he is pointing the
way to modifications in farming that
have good chances of helping to solve
the problem of the home productions
of ,breadstuffs and of increasing the
naticirt's security from its own re-
sources, a matter of vital importance
to Britain.
The Duke showed considerable fore-
sight in the working out of las plan.
The land he converted into cereal pros
ducing theme is light. The turf it
carried was of little value, its °weer
being' strongly against disturbing rich
pastures or meadows.
.The Duke is keeping detailed re-
cords, and the books show that there
is every justification for expecting
better returns from the reclaimed
area under the plow than it yielded in
Ms former state,
The Duke has subjected the admin-
istration of the Blenheim farms to a
thorough. evolution along industrial
lines, and the respite are equally as
interesting and instinctive as the pro -
0± .the farming itself. Together
with W. Gavin the Duke had intro-
duced important reforms, resulting in
the raising of heavier crops encm pro-
nounced improvement M the .quality
of the permanent pasture, leading to
a great increase in the total head of
stock carried.
On the lawns all around the palace
sheep have been substituted for the
mower, and when in June the grass
was bare the scanty feed of the eheea
was supplemented with cabbages
rown in the flower beds.
How She Got the Price.
"I suppose you were touched when
your Wife gave you that $80 easy
chaireamfa°sr tyootil'enhetdiena"fore she gave it."
Household Hints.
A quick and easy method of polish-
ing linoleum is to wash it over with
Change the lids of the kitchen
range frectuently, and you will pre-
vent their warping.
Cold meat minced fine and mixed
with mashed potatoes 115 potato
cakes makes a good dish.
A good idea is to have egg spoons
made of bled,: horn; Hu; silver ones
eliscolor so badly,
Comfortable living is not a mat-
ter of money so much as it is a mat.
ter of -foresight.
When -buying nuts avoid -the mixed
nets bait, They are generally made
up of the cheaper nuts.
Never storeany diseased potatoes
in the caller or anywhere else —
they A1,111 iiiin the good ernes,
Wood alcohol will take vaseline
etains from wash goods. Soak theni
a few minutes in the alcohol,
l'ack glass or china ia hay Whieh
is. slightly damp. Tbie will prevent
the articles from sapping about.
Rice flour or rice which has, been
boiled is excelleht added to the cup
of mutton beoth served the invalid.
The second and titled cute from
the top of the round of beef axe
not expensive, and they are not
tougis
Tea and coffee should bo, kept in
a cool dark place as far eteapossible,
05 this helps to prcsert/e their flavor.
Me it should be taken 1111 the
P1201 as soon 11) it arrives, never
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SHE KNEW COFFEE.
Sit Hiram March/es Stenographer
Was Delighted.
A great many people Who flatter
themselves that they are judges of
coffee or other beverages may learn
a lesson of caution from the experi- .
ments carried on by Sir Hiram Maxim
when he was trying to find a pala-
table preparation of wheat and cof-
fee.
It occurred to me, says Sh. Hiram
M "My Life " that very few people
knew much about coffee. One Sunday
I brought out front the Maxim Lamp
Works about thirty young men and
c women. My stenographer was also
!present; she was one of those young
ladies that know all—from whose de-
cisions there is no appeal.
I had cleared off a long bench and
arranged on it a large number of
cups, milk, sugar, cream, much coffee,
ancl plenty of apparatus for making
coffee. I got from the Army and
Navy Stores various 'kinds of coffee
that were supposed to be the very
best in the world, such as Mocha,
Java, and so forth, and I also got
from a dealer in coffee some of the
sweepings and siftings of his shop—
small, hnperfect, 'and broken kernels.
These I freed from dust and dirt,
roasted and ground, and mixed with
three times their weight of chicory.
I was ready for the test.
My shorthand writer came in,
tasted the Mocha, tho Java, the Costa
Rica, and pronounced them all very
bad. She then tried some of MY
wheat coffee, and some of what was
half wheat and half coffee, which, she
said, were also bad, but not so bad as ...
the others, But when she reached the
mixture of siftings and chicory she
was delighted. "That is coffee!" she
said, with an air of finality. "That'e
it That's the right stuff!" ,
in all probability Hte young lady
had never tasted a cup of genuine
coffee hi her life until that SundaY
morning,
le --
He --If you made the dress your-
self, what is this bill for?
She—Alterations, dear.
—
Economy.
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kind of animal," said Jimmie to the
amazed preacher. "Why, you should
not say that!" the good man exclaim-
ed. "Well," said Jimmie, "Mother's a
dear, the baby is mother's little lamb,
'in the -kid, .and dad's the goat."
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