WHERE TIME SLEEPS, CHARACTER STUDIES ON AN ISLAND, * Full of Tradition and the Romance of the Old Smuggler Days-~It Lies Off the Virginia Coast and Has Malntained All Its Old-Time Primitiveness, blooded horses was from Eng- land by the London Company to the colonists at Jamestown. While mak- il sent this ship was w Shoals. he 1 habited Assateague its island. Chincotea t vivors of the ¢ the bay to the ward were presented with of which they took then ti {i h savage masters who lians has gare CArZO ACTOSS horses, 0 MNCS, Ti { their 1 s 1 + y thelr isa 108¢ Under the h which they w teriorated ra yichi diminutive, stur are to-day. [t was these herds i that attracted settlers to Assa- teague Island. A small sprang up about eighty one-half of whi looked ponies, while others devoted themselves to fishing and hun These in many spects as primitive as their ancestors were. They are heedless of the la very hospitable and possessirt wou wild O18 first lement years ago, fter the sett “i the people to-day re rer Pes IZ MO r Il & id find among nore Ci to Assateague . Is- vw days at l life. | willet, yellow-legs and curfew almost | fly into your face in their eagerness to be caught; bluefish, weakfish, black perch, drum and flounders dart past one another in their anxiety to seize the hook, and | terrapin—Iluscious, $10-a-dozen dia- CHINCOTEAGUE ond-back terrapin—ere Capt. Matt ig to your 18er legs, en- most pitifully with their y be cooked a la Trenton and the and clun treatin f water (so hews said i? trou o eyes eaten, The next day I saw Ken Jester. Picture to yourself a man of 85 years of stout build, with ¢ ] beaten countenance, fringe of thicl undimmed by sarty smile by a bushy blu frank, like the man at first si 0 OVes age maaqe ht-—and th you have Ken Jester, I found hi + 11 - s cottage, a small, one-story a air, that boasted of o His wife, wh # p LY { gs » ASSOTEAGUE LIGHTHOUSE. ¥ round heal, an’ he's great on raisin wild ponies. Ef ye catch "im in the right spirit he'll tell yo some stories about the smugglers, He used t’ be one o' the they say, tell ns t' that, it being befo’ my time, Anyway, ye'll find Uncle Ken mighty interestin’ chap.” As | prepared to start ho said to me: Ye ik now stands across the another to hum walking his arm aroun and then, withou hoe } knew there trouble, but he it gol i on her Tom wasn t qui was na y COmMe, “He took the then joined When other girl he and silows in the boats. from the | ship Barah was standing on the shore | as if nothing had happened. I ““The next day Sarah wrot | to Washington telling all West India man and the smuggling the night before. Nobody ything about this until me, they all back came on letter about the 03 i an { al / Hz ht f: tant ste sail | 5 ; ay ad i t ! don’t Tha's an’ shoes. ye. Take care sand in yo’ an the place. Either ye settle thin’ happens “t ye, perstitious man, but ef ye take my advice, suli, ye'll be ea’hful not t’ get ‘ny sand in yo' shoes.” From the standpoint of a sports. man or a gourmand, Assateague Isiand is little short of paradise, Heine once said that heaven, accord- ing to the gourmand’s idea, is a place where roast ducks fly about in great numbers with a dish of excellent pavy in their bill. Although the is insist upon flying about in their natural state, there are enough of them to make a gourmand’s hoart Jean with delight give a sports. care LEaRLEYS WHERE ABSOTEAGUE ISLAND IS, weeks later, when two revenue chaps came to Assateague and went straight ito old man Field's house. When | they came out Sarah was with thom. | 8he took them down the road to | Thornton’s house, where Tom was | sitting in the sand, whittling. 1 re- member that part of it very well, for | 1 was sitting beside Tom. When Sarah saw him her face became ns white as a sheet of paper. “ “There he is,’ sho said. To horton “Tom jumped up, pale in the face, ‘What's wanted?’ Ted, “* ‘You'll bave to come along wit) TOV said. us,’ ony of the revenue “That's ‘You're wanted for smuggling.” Tom j opened his mouth as though he were going to say something, but instead he turned to me and whispered : ‘Tell | the boys it's all right. I'll keep my mouth shut.’ Then he gave Sarah Field a look whieh I shall never for. get, even if I live to be 100 years old. “The revenue men had come from the mainland in their own boat, and they Thornton back with them. hat was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, That night Sarah Field went into the woods to the same hill where she had caught Tom and to thinl matter HIOK the {lt pretty sorry took Tom sat over. for { down f1¢ wd done, but nobody aranh Field was that thers went i i i b 1 never night i 3 ]aine ii woods ti dous began to bark. few minutes i 15 lying cut and HOKE How to Squeeze a Lemon. lise rorrespon font. makes the juice i fase ine WOoOen ones Bes ou use a lemon squeoz- a lot of the rind and that is rank pois The best LY juice from a lemon is to till i ft. then cut off the end and in gert a silver knife and scrape the pulpoui into the dish That way on get all the good of the lemon and ofthe bad. Roll it under your hand on a hard table or put the lem- on down the and roll it lightly under your feet. Then wipe { it off belore squeezing. Never leave | the seeds of a lemon in the pulp that you take out. The seeds will make the juice very bitter in hall an hour after taken from the lemon.—{New York World. are a leave a bad taste, sides that, if €r you are i 31 essentiag sure otf out of he lemon, dtomach. wi is 8 \ J n £385 aii on floor An Enemy of the Pines. — The Paseagoula Democrat-Star telis about some mysterious worm, which, it says, bears a strong resems { blance to the army worm, and has attacked the pine forests near Van- | cleave, Miss. The worn made its appearance but a few days ago, and has already stripped the leaves clean | from large sections of trees. It is said that the worms are so numerous in some plices that the limbs of the | smaller trees bend beneath their | weight. So far their attacks have | been confined to the pine trees, and | the land owners and mill men are | very apprehensive as to what the sffect of their ravages will be on the | trees. It iz a matter that ought to have the prompt attention of the au- thorities of the Agricultural Depart. ment. So large a part of the wealth of Southern Mississippi is its pine ine | dustries that any seriouc mjury to | the pine woods would be a serious blow to the prosperity of the Stata - [New Orleans Pieayune, i f A FAVORITE ARTICLE OF FOOD FOR AGES. Cultivated. of Known of who The oyster is not a discovery modern times, It as un table delicuey since the days has been the ancient Greeks and Romans, highly of food, preferring for their use the ovi- ter of the Hellespont, Venice, and other parts of Italy, and of Rich. borough in Their 1 were th s in which the edoes it us an article England select firs numerou 1 are por. dwell ng- use of the RECOSSAry r the husband her. interior of the scow is a living and a cellar into which water ed off and by flood-gates. Into this cellar, which has the capa- : sf 400 bushels, the oysters are The men start from the island for their oyster-beds, which are recognized by stakes having their pounterparts on shore. are not only distinguished by their location, but also by peculiar marks two of which are alike. Each member of a family are allowed three acres of oyster ground, and these farms are of sufficient size to yield a good crop. As the men row away from the island they roan ! is tur on city stored. These stakes no i 3 ter. The seed is found in quantities clinging to the rocks or fasten ly upon the inside of the numerous mussel shells. This then planted by standing upright in the boat, scooping the seed from the bot- tom of the craft with a shovel and scattering it broadcast over the wa- ters with a backward movement of the wrist, ne farmers sow grain. This requires skill, and oystermen declare it takes five years to learn the busi. ness. After the oysters have laid two or threo weeks a fow are taken up to see if they are growing. If not el seed is ing and is necessary If the oysters have been sown too thickly. The seed must therefore be thinned or the germ of life will become extinct. When the oysters are transplanted the men usually own other gronnds that have been tested. If not new ground Is used, which will usually produce a better crop than the old. Sometimes oyster-beds wear out in ten years, but may last for half a © Most of the seed used for from Connecti i i I i The oystermen ship their product to market from September 1 to Decem- ber, and then their weokly trips to New York until March, ly tonging < ysters, COonRe oystermen ns ¢ guthess ing in of the crop, Standing upright in the boat as for punting, he inserts the tongs in the water, jeans on them heavily for a moment, its up or hauls in the load, and deposits it in the boat and at once beg i or separate tne After the are thrown remain from fore the tte La ins to et i market. ‘rn fl BO 3 4 { ten lo taken Press. Utility of an Art. this one has not yet'l a vear is the sum an- new loeation 'yY choose at aano- ment’s notice. That's the prime at- traction of having your wheels, All the cooking is done on a kero- you're not supposed to get hot food from a lunch wagon beyond your cup of coffee, The only outlay is in the beginning. A wagon costs about $250. and this covers rent for all time —[New York Herald. Dead Sea of the Northwest, shop on gene stove, but 3 Medieal Lake, so call of the remedial virtues of its walters, situated on the great Columbian plateau, in Southern Washington, at an altitude of 2.8300 feet above the jovel of the Pacific, is the Dead Sea of America It is about a mile long and from a half to three-fourths of a miledn width, and with a maximum depth of about sixty feet. The com-« position of the waters of this Alpine lake is almost identiend the Dead Sea of Palestine, and, like its oriental counterpart, no plant has 1t is all but devoid of animal “walking fish” being its only inhabi- tants. This walking fish is an oddity really deserving of special note. It has a finny membrane extending from head to head, even around both the upper and lower surface of the tall. It is provided with four legs, those before having four toes, the hinder five, ~~ St. Louis Republic. of spleenwort, it ia a lion A single plant will produce over claimed, A hl RAAT AA | THE GREENLAND KAYAK, Frail Cra’. and What Can Bes Done with Them. Greenland } i" certainly ious adapta- es Lo human lise vy nade It ir ns giiilion of the America. lopment, the and eta knynk ov s1110US AROe r be h various chase Or wiki Onis d ia epils 10 the entan- it har. ar ] after the penetrated the ani- vs detached from the nnected with a thong nunter. This thot oa float. con. sisting of the skin of some large ani- be air- tighs and inflated. This will float on the water and prevent the escape or sinking of the wounded animal. Various kinds of fishing-tackie are natural attachments to the kavak, when fully equipped. In the settlement where we were all these implements were of native manuisne- ture.— New York Post. ! motion et at which there 18 his the seal. whi 80 that ont the attached t rr is also at t mal sewed together so as 10 fan also Frozen Food Their Delight. In nearly all parts of the Arctic regions food is frozen, only for the purpose of preservation but also to increase as the natives believe, its nutritive properties. In Greenland, Siberia and Arctic Islands ish and seal fish are frozen and eaten in thin cut off bs or knife Mikiak, or seal fish hall decomposed and then frozen, is one of the Es gquimsux’s grestest delicacies. Wal rus liver, too, when frozen is held to ind the glLices, a power than pemtuicnn, and it is also | considered that cooking deprives it of its delicacy of flavor. The natives of the Titicaca Basin, in Peru, who in- them, then steeping them in water After this they are dried and become an article of food called chunus, After this oul they will keep any length of time, and are extremely convenient for earrying on long journeys. The Oka, another i v of the district, is
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