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
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{ 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
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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,
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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