THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY. MARCH 35. 1891.
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ITBASELATED TOO THE DISPATCH. J
"Sidney," said Ethel as she walked in
the garden with her brother one beautiful
spring evening, "nurse has been tellins: me
such wonderful stories to-day about dwarls
and water nymphs, aud she says that the
fairies who "many years ago lived under the
rocks on Linden Hill have returned and are
Visiting their old home."
"I do not believe there are such beings as
fairies," said Sidney, "for I never saw any,
and never heard of any except in our story
books."
"But they do live." insisted Ethel, "for
crandmamma has often told me that when
she was a little eirl and there were only 8 few
cottages where our villace now stands, the
fairies would sometimes come to her father's
housp, and even now she has a pearl neck
lacewnich the Fairy Queen gave her."
"Well," said Sidney, "suppose we go out
to Linden Hill, and then if we see any
faries, we shall believe all the stories we
have heard; hut I am sure we shall nptfiDd
them."
"We must go at night," said Ethel, "."or
crandmamma says that the fairies sleep all
day, and then aiter the sun goes down,
especially moonlight nights, they have their
O'Trv
SIDSET STEALS
feasts and dances. I am certain we shall
see them, if we can go."
"Of course we can go," replied Sidney,
"I am not afraid, and to-night after every
one has gone to sleep, we shall steal quietly
out of the house. "VTe can be bick before
daylight, and no one will know we have
been away."
Jithel approved of her brother's plan, and
agreed to go with him in search of the
fairies. Linden Hill, which stood about
two miles out of the village, was a slight
rise of ground which took its name from the
many Linden trees growing on its summit.
Here, also, were several large rocks, form
ing a small cave, which was supposed to be
the abode of the fairies.
That night two little figures stole noise
lessly down the wide stairway, out the front
door, and into the village street. Here all
was verv quiet, and no one wjs to be seen.
As long as the children could keep near the
houses and knew that any rry for help
would be speedily answered, they were very
brave, and chatted gaily about their mid
night adventure. But when they had'
passed the last house in the village, and the
way lay along lonely country roads and
through quiet lanes, Ethel crept closer
to her brother, and (bought that
the moon had never before looked
so large. Sidnev, too, although he
would have scorned the idea of being afraid
thought rhat strange shadows the trees
cait, and wondered if it was always so still
in the country at nights. Even the birds
seemed to be sleeping, and no round was
heard save the dreary croaking of the frogs
in a pond nearby. Thechildrcn now spoke
only in whispers and hastened their steps
' toward Linden Hill. Fimlly the rocks on
the touot the hill apneared and Ethel cried:
"O, S'dnev, don't you smell something good
to tat?"
Sidney thought he did and said: "May
be after all we shall find the fairies, and
what fun it would be if they should invite
as to supper."
Suddenly the sound of sweet music floated
on the air, and as the Children drew near,
they could near voices joining in gay songs.
"Xor, Sidney." taid Ethel, ".liter this
2-on will certainly believe in fairies."
But the boy was loo busy wondering how
he should gel to the fairies to pay any at
tention to his sister's words. Through' the
crevices in the rocks, rays of bright light
shone; but the openings were so small that
the children could gain no view of what
was going on inside, and although they
walked round aud round the rocks, they
could find no entrance into the cave. The
sound of music and singing grew louder,
and the air became so fragrant with the
odor of good things that Ethel and Sidney
bccime very hungry, and they thought they
must turely starve if the fairies did not ap
pear soon, and invite them to the feast.
"Perhaps if we call thev will come and
show the entrance," said Ethel. Then the
children's voices sounded above the music
of the fairies: "Please let us in. AVe are
starving."
For a moment all was very quiet, then a
See voice said: "Who is there?"
"Two children, who are almost starving,
and who want to see the Fairies," was the
reply.
Shouts of laughter followed these words.
Then suddenly the rock opened, and a
dwarf, having but one leg, appeared, and
said: "Our Queen has heard your reqaest,
and says that vou may enter."
Ethel and her brother lost no time in ac
cepting this invitation. They could hardly
keep from laughing at the comical appear
ance ot their lutle puide. who hnnned alone
briskly before them through the narrow
passage, leading under the rocks' to the ban
quet hali of the Fairies. The children hud
expected to see great oplendor. but they were
almost dumb with astonisnment at the
wonderful and beautiful scene. Thewalis
and floor or the room were of white marble,
and many colored lamps furnished thelight.
Fountains, surrounded by flowers, and pour
ing forth crystal waters added to the beau
ty ot the place. In the middle ol the room
stood a long table, laden with the choicest
dainties, and around it sat the golden-haired
Fairies enjoying their feast and listening to
the music which the dwarfs, who sat near
the fountains, were producing on their tiny
harps.
When the strangers entered, the Fairy
Queen, who was more beautiful than any
oi her subjects, rose and kindly greeted her
guests. Sht'iben gave them places at the
table, and ordered that golden plates and
food should be brought for them. The
children spent a very happy hour, hearing
the fairies tell of their other homes, some
Miisr Iff -
even more beautiful than this, and they said
that thev came to the rocks on Xjindcn Hill
j only once in five rears; and that before the
&uu rose ine next morning, iney wouiix uwm
their journey toward the South. "When the
feast was over and the tables were removed,
the fairies joined in a wonderful dance;
after which the Fairy Queen exhibited to
her visitors her priceless jewels and rare
gems. Then taking a plain wooden box in
her hand, she said: "This is not a very valu
able possession; but it is very curious."
The Queen shook the box, and through a
small opening in one end, a shower o.f
choice bonbons fell, and although the box
was small, the rain of candies continued to
fall as long as the Queen shook the box.
"I should like to have such a box,"
whispered Sidney to Ethel, '"and I think I
shall take it when the fairies are not look
ing." "O, do not be so wicked," said Ethel,
"how could you act so, when we have been
treated with such kindness?"
But the boy gazed at the box with envious
eyes, and scarcely had the Queen put it out
of her hands when Sidney siezed it and ran
through the room, along the hali and out
onto the rocks. The fairies raised a cry of
auger and started in pursuit 6f the thief.
But they crfuld not run as swift as Sidney,
and the bov had soon reached the foot of the
THE MAGIC BOX.
I hill, with only the little dwarf with one.leg
continuing the chase.
"Catch him, Brother Oneleg," shouted
the fairies in chorus, "catch the thief."
But the poor little dwarf, who hopped
very rapidly on his one foot, could not over
take the lively boy, and he was obliged to
return, breathless and angry. Etbel was
greatly mortified over her brother's con
duct, and after begging the fairies that they
would not think that her brother was al
ways so naughty, she thanked them for one
visit to Fairyland, and was about to start
for home when the Fairy Queen said: "You
may keep the box which your brother has
taken aud enjoy its contents; but be careful
not to look inside."
When Ethel was joined by her brother,
who was waiting for her near the foot of the
hill, she repeated to him the fairy's words,
and the children agreed tnat they should hide
the box where they only would know to find
it. For many days Ethel and Sidney re
membered the Fairy Queen's warning, and
enjoyed the contents of the little wooden
box. But at last their curiosity to see what
was within conquered, and thev lifted the
lid. There sat an ugly green frog, which
at once sprang out and hopped away. From
that time the fairy box remained empty,and
although shaken many times every day, it
never again yielded its rain of sweets. And
now, when passing a small stream or pond,
the brother and sister always look curionsly
into the water to sec if they can discover the
frog which came from Fairyland.
Patsie.
SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS.
Puzzles for the Little Folks That TVI11 Keep
Their Brains Busy for Most of the "Week
ir They Solio Them Correctly Home
Amusements.
Address communications for this department
to E. R. Chadbourn. Lewislon. Maine.
14S9 AN HEBBAKItTM.
len Plants.
MlXNIE BTKOEB.
1460 ENIGMA.
A kind of wonnd that may be made
With a keen or sharp pointed blade.
Or a "sir mKchief" if you choose
No matter which of these yon use.
They both define a certain word
In kind of way that's not absurd.
Nor hard to guess; but now when we
Reverse the readintr. what we see
Is mammals, such as cannot run,
Aud such as never see the snn.
Helsonian.
14c.1 a hidden palindromic.
Foi one who reads the puzzler's tome.
Is hidden hero a palindrome;
Aud he who finds this buried name
May earn, perchance, the meed of fame.
And. round his brow, may early crow
The halo olden painter's show-,
Surroundine heads of saints and men.
Whose like we may not see again.
But if no shining mark he claim.
He will have found a vessel's name.
Of which the miner learns the worth
"While washing precious ores from earth.
Bex,
1462 eioht bhosiboid.
Across L A crown. 2. A ship. 8. A plant
of the genus Rubia, 4, A genus of birds.
S. Governors. 6. Regular method.
Down 1. Letter. 2. A verb. 8. A measure of
liquids among the Dutch. 4L The face of a
timepiece, a. An ancestor. 8. The middle,
long finger of the hand. 7. To answer. & Roe
bucks. 8. Skill. 10. Southeast, (Abbr). 1L A
letter. - (Solon. .
1463 ANAGBAM.
Are you a lover of choice food!
& Jgil0 ;
Have you an appetite that's good?
And are yon fond of company!
If so 1 pray you eat with me.
Delicious whole Vl treat you to.
Ana delicacies not a few;
A feast of fat things you will see
If you will come and eat with me.
X know that alt your taste will please.
It is prepared with batter, cheese.
And milk and eggs, such dainties we
Will relish well; come eat with me.
Upon my table yon will find
Varieties of choicest kind;
Nice veal ana ponltry there will be,
And rabbit, too; come eat with me.
Nelsoniatj.
1464 A QTJEEE UNION.
Onr Phil was settling down for life,
And only had one care.
Which was to get a willing wile
His happiness to share.
So Sophy he selected out i
His partner to be,
A huxoni damsel tall and stout,
Who knew no more than he.
For Phil was never fond of books
Thought learning but a bore;
By vigor, vim and healthy looks
He always set more store.
Borne at the sec-net marvel made.
For when the circle joined
The two In one, they bath displayed
A learning most refined.
W. Wilson.
1465 A PARADOX.'
Go Into a busy factory where the "wheels go
round" and yon will find a first. On a still,
drowsy night in snmmer, in a vast wilderness,
thousands of miles from any factory or man. a
tecond is making a first, from which it might
be called "a first second, yet it is not a whole, al
though this may seem to you a whole.
Bob Giglek.
1466 CHAEADE.
Some persons one the sight
Of boxiug pugilists.
And gaze with great delight
On a debate with fists.
And, although a complete
May be against the law,
Tbey at such show will meet,
To fill their brutal maw. ,
At anytime, they cry:
"A two.' a twoP' invokes
APrigbtness to the eye
Of these half-savage folks.
Bitter Sweet.
1467 TRANSPOSITION.
Take a most delicious fruit
And chance its letters all around,
And you will have a timid brntn
In Central Asia's forests found.
AlDYL.
1468 DECAPITATION.
Let not despair, my friend.
Total ambition;
Wait, e'en unto the end,
For sweet fruition.
Last not for love or gain,
Ever thyself restrain;
Haste may but cause thee pain.
Tears and contrition.
ANISE LANO.
ANSWERS.
1450 House-cleaning time.
1131 Keats, eats: Burns, urns; Saxe, axe;
Scott, cntt; Morris, orris; Sears, ears.
HW Courtesy.
1453 L Carpenter. 2. Baker. 8. Printer.
4. Mason. 5. Architect. 6. Merchant. 7. Black
smith. 1154 Pea (P), thus: Caret, car-p-et; Sark,
s-p-ark; pier, pi-p-er; male, ma-p-le; ears, p-ears;
lover, p-lover; pie, pi-p-e; I, p-i-p; polar, po-p-lar;
ray p-ray; arson, p-arson.
1inftA hnnrlnn
1456- Uses
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That
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D T E 8
M57-A bed.
1458 W-i-d-o-w.
TIPPLEBS OF B0DA WATEB.
Western Touths Fill Up on the Flu That
Does Mot Intoxicate.
St. Louis Republic
Strolling into a downtown drngstore late
one night last week, The Man About Town
noticed a crowd of boisterous young men
standing around the soda water fountain.
They were very dissipated looking young
men. Their coat collars were turned up,
their language was unwholesome and their
general demeanor that of reckless rounders.
One young man had tossed $1 on the coun
ter and asked the others what they wanted.
They took "vanilla," "crab-apple," "lem
on," and after tossing the drinks ofl",
stamped out of the drugstore. It was a very
cold night, and the Man About Town was
somewhat taken aback.
"What!" he exclaimed, "do you sell soda
water at this time of the year?'1
"Oh, yes," replied the drug clerk, "our
receipts are more than half as large in the
winter as our summer receipts from the
fountain." Then he added: "Those are
dissipated, youths who have been to the
theater and are now following a devious wav
home, taking in all-night drugstores en
route to fill up on soda water. In this way
they have just as much fun as the real,
earnest tipplers, and none of the' conse
quences." A BIT OF HUMA1T HATUSE.
The Man Who Asks to Bo Told of His
Faults Gets Mad If He Is.
Chicago Advance
"I want you now to be very frank with
me, and .tell me my faults, and if you see
anything adverse to my work, or myself, I
am especially anxious to know about it."
How often is such a remark made by one
who is just beginning his career. It is a
cautious remark to make, and is received by
him to whom it is made also cautiously; but
how seldom is it that one avails himself
of the right that is thus given, and also, how
seldom it is that one who makes the remark
would receive with grace and gratitude the
suggestion of auy criticism!
A man said to me, "My old friend coming
to work near me asked me to be iree in tell
ing him his faults and mistakes. After six
mouths I had reason to believe he was drift
ing in a wrong direction. M ventured to in
dicate to him this tendency. The result
was the same that occurred to the man who
lent a friend money. He lost bis money and
his iriend. I lost my friend and my advice
was wasted."
HBS. SHELDON'S AFRICAN TEIP.
I.axtinous Car in Which the Fair Explorer
Will Do the Country.
Mrs. French Sheldon is off for Central
Africa with only one European companion,
an attendant of her own sex. The sketch,
which is from Pall Mall Budget, shows Mrs.
Sheldon's African coach, which was made
at "Whiteley'i, having "been specially de
signed by Mr. Henry S. "Wellcome. It ii a
nnique specimen of strong, light, and artistic
cane and bamboo work. It oontains within
itself the comforts and luxuries of a Pall
man palace car. Mrs. French Sheldon pro
poses to be carried in this palanquin by four
of her Zanzibari porters.
A Proverb Improved Upon,
Blnjhtmton Leader.
The love of money is the root of all evil;
hut the need of money it the evil itself.
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iamam&issr
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-tu . u.ctuv 9 jijrioan car.
XT CTKfA. .-.
YARMOUTHBLOATERS.
Wakeman Describes How the Fa
mous Edibles Gets Into Market
A BIGHT ON THE KORTH SEA.
lets Spread at Even and Drawn Fall of
Wriggling Fish at Dawn.
THE STRANGE SADNESS OF THE FOLK
rCOEBEiP OSDKSCB OF TUB DISrATCB.l
Yakmotjth, England, Feb. 28. Pil
griming in many lands, I have been much
among their waterside folk with the fisher
men of Algiers, who are a conglomerate
race of Greeks, Italians,; Spaniards and
Arabs; with the fishermen of Sicily, gloomy
and voiceless as Gypsy dogs; with those of
Barcelona, the giants of the south of Spain;
with Biscayan, Breton and Cornish fisher
men, superstitious and sodden above all
others; with the brave, kind men of Clad
dagh, at Galway, aud those along the won
drous Kerry coast; with the lazy fishermen of
the dreamy Azores, who, transferred to our
own coasts, prove the most valuable recruits
to our east shore fishing fleets; with the cap-and-tasseled
Pescadores of Cuba, brigands
all in looks and ways; with the squatty
Eskimos of the Labrador coast, satisfied with
any fruitage of the deep which will barely
sustain, life; with .the crofter fisher of the
Korth Scottish and Shetland coasts; and
with our own brave Gloucester men who risk
their lives upon the Grand Banks, and the
'Quoddy fishermen whose chiefquarry is the
herring, all along the grand Maine coast to
the mist-wreathed crags ot wildManan and
I have been continually impressed with the
.almost indefinable and wbollv indescribable
sadness that seems to brood over and among
all this class of people.
Sadness Sets on Every Face.
It is in-their cabins and homely social life.
It is in their voices and looks. In repose it
sets on their faces pitifully. Boused into
some great activity, in storm, in takicg fish,
or in saying lives, they have grand, earnest
faces, these fishermen. But in the quiet
hours, there is something hunted, wearied,
worried, dreading and dreadlul to be read
in the lines of their faces, in the tremulons
ness of their voices, and in the light which
shines from their eyes, that all their brave
and hearty ways cannot hide or disgnise.
It is as if the sea, from which they live, had
whispered in secret to each consciousness
some savage threat of reprisal; as if over
every little comfort, home joy, or well
earned content, bung the spectre hand of
fate, coming closer to the inner vision
every time the fisherman's heart grows glad.
In whatever degree this i universal, it
seems to me to be more marked among the
hsbermen of Yarmouth than I have ever
lound it elsewhere revealed. I believe
Dickens saw and felt this here at this old
fishing port, when he created out of his
great and tender heart the pathetic charac
ters oi the ireggottys simple, tender, true;
scorning baseness; resolute in all manly at
tributes; majestic in suffering and forgive
ness; and through and over all. the pathetic
thread of sadness, quivering like an end
less plaint in a melodiou though mournful
song.
Their Battles With the Sea.
It is snrely here among all these thou
sands of Yarmouth fishermen, wives and
bairns. The upward, far look in their eyes,
has come as a heritage of centuries of dolor
and loss. The set, stern shutting of the
jaws and lips, tells better than history can
of the endless fisher-fight against the ele
ments and poverty. For that matter, all
old Yarmouth folk have the resolute, half
defiant expression that tells as plainly as
bdok can: "This is Yarmouth, as you'see
it, because we have battled with the sea a
thousand years!"
And so they have. A desperate and un
ceasing struggle against the elements was
necessary on the part of Yarmouth folk,
past and present, to retain their very exist
ence, as well as their trade in herrings. The
history of the Dutch in their battles for the
preservation of their dykes against the
gnawing of the sea, cannot surpass the rec
ord of Yarmouth folk in their struggles to
preserve their port. For hundreds of years
it was the ever-recurring victim of destruct
ive tempests and sifting sands. Seven
different harbors were excavated between
the middle of the fourteenth century and the
time of Elizabeth.
Rebellion, Pestilence and Famine.
While the storms and the sands were de
stroying one harbor alter another, war, re
bellion, pestilence and famine assailed the
brave Yarmouth folk ashore. In the old
books one can read how they sold their
church-plate, bells and vestments lor funds
to preserve the harbor. Again you
can nna wnere every innaoitant, save
the shipwrights at work on her
ringboats, were compelled to labor three
days of every week, on Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, at the excavations. They
worked first and worshiped afterward, in
East Anglia in those religious days. At an
other time, when the danger was most immi
nent, the precious sto.re of the town's gun
powder was sold for means with whicb-to
save the port. And again, when the sea had
almost buried the wharves and town in
sand, the entire inhabitants, divided into
four bands, labored day and night for
months, and. Yarmonth was saved. The
seventh harbor done, it has since stood, the
greatest monument to human pluck and in
vincibility that can be found in all Britain
to-day.
One cannot help having an admiration
and affection tor men made out of this sort of
stuff; and to know them in their humble
homes, in their haunts and resorts of the
quaint old town, and in their dangerous toil
of gathering the harvests of the deep, is to
possess a long-renienibcred pleasure and de
light. Herring Flshlnf the Big; Thing.
Their methods of fishing vary little at the
present time from those in vogue for the
past hundreds o' years; save that the little
open boats formerly in use have been sup
plauted by fine decked smacks; as is true
with the fishermen of the entire British
coasts, barring those of the west and north
west Irish islands, where the ancient cur
ragb, or skin-keeled canoe, is still in use.
Though loug-liue and deep-tea fishing is
prosecuted by many the year round, and,
during the winter mouths under the most
perilous circumstances known to auy fisher
men on the globe, the paramount interest at
Yarmouth, irom the fisherman's standpoint,
is centered in the herring fisheries of this
coast.
These made Yarmouth. Thev sustained
the city and its citizens. At the present
time it is reckoned that the city increases its
population three-fold, and houses 60.000
souls during the "season," two-thirds ot this
number being drawn here solely by the her
ring industry. Again, this number is
doubled by excursiouists and seaside loit
erers from the near manufacturing cities,
and even from far-away London Itself; so
that from June uutil September -it is no un
common tiling for Zarmoufli to hold from
100,000 to 120,000 people.
The Crew of a Smack.
Now, as of old, the merchants of Yar-
moutb,.Lowestolt, Gorleston aud other near
ports, ht out large decked boats of Irom 150
to 80 tons burthen, the Yarmouth and near
coast fleet numbering perhaps 1.500 of these
vessels, .cacn one is manned with a master,
mate, hawseman, waleman, net-rope man,
net-stower and about half a dozen laborers
or "canstern men." All these engage to
serve during the season, at stipulated wages,
with an allowance ol a certain sum in money
for every "last" of herrings taken, to the
master, mate, hawseman and waleman; some
vessels engaging with this allowance to each
vessel, the allowance being divided by the
entire crew, "share and share alike."
A"last" of herring is the Yarmouth stand
ard of reckoning. It comprises ten barrels
offish. Another method of computing the
"last," where the fish are' told out of the
boat, is to count out 13,200 herrings. The
vessels are victualled by the owners, and
are also provided with several tons of salt.
For the herrings taken at Yarmouth are dis
posed of in an entirely different manner.
from those secured by the Scottish and
Shetland fishers. The latter sell their
"takes" immediately to "curers," who, at
"stations" alongshore "pickle" the herring
according to the old Dutch method, in bar
rels, which, after receiving gov
ernment inspection and brand, are shipped
to the continental market. All'the herring
taken along the East of England coast are
marketed at Yarmouth, and are either
shipped fresh. In car-load.lots, to the Lon
don fishmongers, or are transformed by
salting and smoking into "Yarmouth bloat
ers," for shipment to all parts of the world
in the little pine boxes, which from time
immemorial have adorned grocery store
windows.
Rocked lu the Cradle of the Deep.
A night with the Yarmouth herring-fleet
is replete with interest and often with ex
citement. On more than one occasion have
LI been rocked in the cradle of the Korth
beam no gentle fashion aboard these
herring-smacks, but great storms during the
herring-season are rare exceptions. About
4 o'clock in the afternoon the mass of smacks
along the quays begin to swarm with men;
and half the city folk, after an old custom,
straggle up and down the quays to witness
the daily departure of the fleet. You will
fiud each crew particularly busy "laying
on" the nets, that is. folding them in a
great level pile in the hold. This is a work
of the greatest nicety, so that when the nets
are "shot," or cast into the sea, they do not
become entangled. While being "laid on,"
the nets are joined together knotting the
back ropes of each net The buoys are at
the same time attached.
This done, one by one the fleet, hundreds
upon hundreds of these smacks, drift gently
out of the Yare-moutb, and tbenca across
the Yarmonth Boads, into the open sea. As
the twilight falls the old city sinks from
sight into its sand-dunes. What at first
was a semi-circle of bright color from the
-thousands of pleasure seekers along the
leacb, gradually merges into a line of rose
above another of white; these blend into a
ribbon of purple; and then the city lights
show like faint, far stars lying across the
horizon, beneath the darkening purples of
the western sky, the Yarmouth beacon light
blazing brightly above, alongside St.
Nichola's grim, square tower.
Spreading Oat the Nets.
. Net after net flies over the side, as we
float with the tide, trailing at least a mile
behind us, like a majestic sea serpent, the
corks and buovs 'dancing on the waters
farther than the eye can reach. Then the
cook calls us below to the "den" for supper.
A queer little place it is. One can hardly
stand upright in it. On either side are the
sleeping berths for a crew of eight There
is a good American stove, and a tiny table
at which four of us can sit at one time and
eat. And how we do eat! Never before
have ham and eggs, potatoes fried in fish
grease, pretty tough bread and black coffee,
tasted so toothsome aud sweet. Then an
hour or so on deck spinning yarns, and all
but two or three of the crew ""turn in" be
low. About midnight we who remain on watch
"try" the nets. A half dozen or more are
hauled in. Perhaps not a single herring is
louud. 'ine nets are cast out again. Then
it is drift, driit, drilt, until 3 o'clock in the
morning, more than 1,000 silent smacks iu
company, trailing 1,000 miles of nets. At
this hour all is commotiou throughout the
entire fleet The daily drawing of the sea
lottery is at hand. On each smack's stern
is a machine called the "Iron Man,"
worked by one man, which hauls in the
back-rope over three pulleys, and is equal
to about two and one-half men'j strength.
Falling In the Wriggling Fishes.
The remainder of the creV are hauling in
the middle and foot of the nets, shaking the
wriggling, silvery, squeaking fish from the
meshes into the hold as the nets come over
the gunwale; the "scummer boy" with his
"scummer." like a salmon-landing net, eag
erly scooping up every herring "which by
mischance drops back into the sea, from
which service his entire wages are secured.
If! few fish have been taken, it is a weari
some task haulfng in more than half a
mile's length of dripping nets. If three or
four or half a dozen "lasts" are secured, as is
often done, the men work under the greatest
excitement and good feeling. Finally, as
perhaps the dawn is just breaking, the en
tire fleet is heading toward Yarmouth before
a spanking breeze, the light-laden, unlucky
cralt outspeeding those deep-sunk with their
precious freights, rendering easy and cheery-
the onerousness ot lagging behind.
The herrings are disposed of iu a jiffy by
auction; carted to the fish-houses; covered
with salt for 24 hours, and are then washed
iu vats by the curers, called "towers." Then
they are spitted through the head upon spits
about four feet long by women, glib of
tongue and dextrous of fingers, locally
known as "rivers." From their hands they
are conveyed to the huge "smokehouses,"
where they are hung in tiers in narrow pass
ages from 40 to SO feet high; and iu these
the process of smoking goes on in gentle
smudgings, with frequent intermissions,
several weeks. They have then become the
rich, juicy, toothsome "Yarmouth bloaters"
of commerce. Edgar L. Wakeman.
BTEONGEE THAN SAHSOK.
He Looks like a Fat Man, Bat His Fat
Proves to Be All Muscle.
Louis Cyr, the French-Canadian strong
man, is 27 years old, and though lacking 1
inches ol the 6 feet in stature, he already
weighs 22 stone 10 pounds. He is described
as looking more like "the fat man" than
"the strong man" of a show; but his muscle
is anything but soft and yielding to the
touch. The great man's hair is yellow and
curly, and he wears it long not, he ex
plains, because tbe original Samson kept
his strength that way, but because "it is at
tractive while exhibiting." At other times,
by a liberal use of hairpins, the golden locks
are put up in a neat knot under his hat
The lilting of heavy weights is the
forte of the strong Canadian, and his
last and biggest lift was 3,993 pounds, or
within 7 pounds of what thev call two
"short tons" over the water. When inter
viewed the other dav, be said:
"My first lift was in this way. There was
a load of briccs over a ton, I guess-stuck
in a hole in the ro.id, and the horse couldn't
pull it out I was only 17, hut was a big
tellow, weighed 240 pounds (17 st. 2 lb.),
and I got underneath the cart and lifted it
off the ground and got it out. Theu I tried
to see what I could do, and have never had
any difficulty in lifting 2.500 pounds since
then.
"For two years I have abstained from
liquor and tobacco: before that I used to
take thsm regularly. I am three times bet
ter off since then. I gained in strength
enough tolift 700 pounds more in these two
years. Liquor is a bad habit, anyway.
Tobacco, too much of it, is bad. I am three
times better off since I gave them both up.
I eat five or six pounds of meat a day eat
as much as three woodchoppers. It would
make you hungry, perhaps, to see me at
dinner. They charge me double board;
never mind, I pav it"
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MEALS FOR ONE DAT.
Three Menus Suitable for tbe Season
From.Ellice Serena.
HOW TO MAKE YARIODS DISHES.
Delicious Creamy Omelet, a Lemon Fla and
a Cream Bose Cake.
1 NUMBER. OF GEXEKAL RECIPES
rWHITTEN FOB THI DISPATCH.!
In this season of sackcloth and ashes the
ambitious housekeeper is not always happy.
It is not so easy to tempt the appetite in
Lent as it is at other seasons. However, I
shall try to give some hints this week that
will seem to lighten the burden of peniten
tial sorrow. Following will make up three
very acceptable meals:
Breakfast
Sliced Oranges.
Porridge. Sugar and Cream.
Fried Fish. Hashed Potatoes.
Hot Biscuit Coffee.
Luncheon.
Creamery Omelet,
Lenten Sandwiches. Beet Salad.
Lemon Pie.
Tea. Chocolate.
Dinner.
Creamed Oysters.
Roast Mutton. Boiled Bice.
Mashed Tnrnlps. Creamed Cabbage.
Mayonnaise of Lettuce.
Cheese Fritters.
Cream Rose Cake. Lemon Jelly.
Coffee.
Following are recipes that will help the
earnest housekeeper in her effort to have
palatable and healthy meals:
BISCUIT.
Sift together, twice, one quart of flour, two
heaping teaspoonfuls of good baking powder,
and one teaspoonf nl of salt.
Hub through tbe flour, thoroughly, two large
tablespoonfuls of cold, firm lard.
Add sweet milk enough to make a soft
dough.
Mix with a silver fork, and turn out on a well
floured molding board.
Handle as little as possible.
Boll out smooth, and cnt with a keen-edged
knife into small squares, fingers or diamonds.
Prick with a fork lightly.
Dredge the baking pan with flour.
Bake In a brisk oven 15 minutes.
CKEAMT OMELET.
Beat tbe yelks of four eggs lightly with a
silver spoon. For each egg add one tablespoon
full of cream.
Season with a scant teaspoonf ul of salt and a
little peper.
Stir in the whites, beaten stiff.
Have the omelet pan perfectly clean, smooth
and hot.
Put in a generous tablespoonful of butter,
and just as soon as it melts be careful not to
scorcli it turn in the mixture and at once
begin to shake tbe pan with regular motion.
While the top is still soft and creamy, set the
pan in the biker (which should be hot) and re
move tbe instant it becomes set, or just tinged
with brown.
Roll with a cake turner onto a platter that Is
quite warm.
Garnish with parsley sprigs.
If the complete directions given here are
carried out, a delicious omelet, entirely worthy
oi its name, win oe the result.
I.ENTEN SANDWICHES.
Cut graham bread into tbin slices.
Butter lightly and sprinkle with mineed water
cress and grated Parmesan cheese.
BEET 8ALAD.
Boll one-half dozen beets until qnlte tender.
Change Into Cold water and rub off the
Bkins.
When quite cool, cut Into dice and mix with
an equal quantity oi nard-ooiied eggs, minced.
Serve with cream salad dressing. "
CREAMED OYSTERS.
Put Into a double boiler one quart of oyster
liquor.
When the boiling point is reached skim care
fully. Pour in a pint of cream.
When about to boll add tbe oysters and re
move at once from the fire.
Have seasoning of salt, pepper and bntter In
tbe tnreon; also a pinch of cayenne
Pour in the oysters and serve at once.
, If thickening ia desired, add a little cracker
meal, or a heaping teaspoonfnl of flour mixed
with a little milir.
LSBOX PIE.
We hope the following recipe will be given a
fair trial. It has been well tested and pro
nounced most excellent.
ceat tne yoiKs oi lour eggs until very
smooth.
Add the grated peel of one lemon and one
and one-balf cupfuls of susrar.
Beat well and stir in two tablesnnnnfnli of
flour.
Add the juice of one large lemon (or two
small ones) and two-thirds of acupfulof water.
Stir well and ponr into pie tins lined with
puff paste.
Beat the whites of the eggs to a still froth
with four tablespounfuls of pulverized sugar.
Spread over tbe pits, when Daked.
Return to the oven and brown slightly. This
recipe makes two pies.
In using the peel of lemon or orange scrape
off lizhtly with a very sharp knife the yellow
part only which contains the oil.
By scramng or grating deeper bitterness is
imparted.
CHEESE FRITTERS.
Grate two ounces of rich, sharp cheese.
Mix with two dessertspoonfuls of bread
crumbs, a dessertspoonful of butter, a pinch of
cayenne and one ecg.
Reduce to paste, and shape Into balls about
as large as a walnut.
Flatten a little, dip into fritter batter, aud
fry brown in hot lit.
CREAK ROSE CAKE.
Cream- together one cupful of butter and
uiic uuiims uifjutvuerpQ sugar, i
out iuiu vuis mixture one small cupful of
cneam (into which it is safe to nut a ninrh r
soda).
Beat 5 minutes with the dover, until the
mixture is like whipped cream.
Flavor with vanilla and put in by turns the
whites of ten egzs beaten to a standing froth
and nearly five cupfuls of prepared flour. '
A ter taking out the two white layers, color
the remainder with a teaspoon ful, or less of
liquid cochineal, sift in (last) two teaspoonfuls
baking powder.
Bake m jelly-cake pans.
ICINO FOR CREAM ROSE CAKE.
Take two and one-half cupfuls granulated
sugar, and one-half cupful of water.
Boil three minutes.
Whea cool add the whites of three well
beaten eggs, and one teaspoonful of vanilla.
Grated cocoannt sprinkled in tbe icing makes
a very pretty effect.
LEMON JELLT.
Soak a package of gelatine with enonch mm
water to cover it.
Stir in tbe iulce of three lemnnt. nnH th
grated peel of one, and two cupfuls of white
sugar.
Pour over this a scant quart of bolllne- water
and stir until dissolved.
Strain through flaunel into a wet mold.
When about to serve stand the mold for .
minnte In topid water and turn out.
Surround wnn wnippeu cream.
Here are some general recipes:
CREAM CAKE.
One cupful of sugar and two eggs, beaton to
gether.
Add one cupful of sonr cream, two of sifted
flour, a teaspoonfnl of cream of tartar, a half
teaspoonful of soda, and a pinch of salt.
isauc, ana eat ucau.
BANANA PUDDING.
Line a deep dessert dish with slices of snontre
cake.
Alternate with sliced bananas and cake until
tbe dish is nearly full.
Pour over a pint of cold-boiled custard and
heap with whipped cream.
WHirPED CREAM.
Sweeten one-hair pint of sweet cream with
some lo'af sngar, which has been well rulibed
on tbe outside of a lemon and then crushed.
Put into a cold vessel with the beaten white
of one egg.
Whip to a stiff fmtb in a cold place.
CHICKEN FRITTERS.
Mince coid-lmiled chicken, seas on well and
mix ith fritter batter.
Drop by sDoonfuls into hot fat
BOILED CHOCOLATE CUSTARD.
Grate a quarter of a pound' of chocolate.
Add one-balf pint of hot water and stir con
stantly until it dissolves witbont boiling.
Beat together fonr eggs and one-half pound
of powdered sugar.
Adda quart of boiling milk and stir in tbe
chocolate.
Strain tbrough a sieve.
Return to the fire and stir with a wooden
spoon, without ceasing, for five minutes.
Set on ice until ready to serve.
APPLE CUSTARD FIX.
Beat together three eggs and one-half cupful
of sugar. '
Stir this mixture into one and one-half cen
tals of cold apple cauoe.
Add a pint of st w milk and season with nut
meg. I
Line pie tins with rich paste and glaze with
beaten egg.
Four in tbe custard and bake slowly.
CORN MUFFINS.
Into a cupful and a half of sweet milk stir
the beaten relks ot two eggs and two level
tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Add one teacupfnl of white Indian meal,
two teactipfuls of flour, one teaspoonfnl of
salt, and two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking
powder all sifted.
Stir in one tableipoonful'of melted butter
and tbe beaten whites.
Bake in well greased gem pans in brisk
oven.
TURKEY PATTIES.
Take some of the white meat of cold roast
turkey.
Mince, season with salt, pepper, a grate of
nutmeg, and a little grated lemon peeL
Stir in a little cream and gravy, let simmer
for a few minutes and then fill the patties.
Serve warm or cold.
CREAK TART.
To three well beaten eggs add three heaping
teaspoonfuls of sifted flour.
Four this mixture into a pint and a half of
boiling milk.
sweeten to taste, add a pinch of salt and
flavor with lemon or rose.
Line tart pans with puff paste and bake in a
quick oven.
Pour in the mixture, sift with sugar aud
brown.
TRIED CABBAGE:
Mince fine cold broiled cabbaee, season to
taste, add a half cupful of cream" and season
ing of salt and pepper.
Put into a buttered frying pan and cook long
enough to brown it slightly.
BEEF CAKES.
Mince underdone Doef with a little baeon or
bam and a small onion.
Season well and pnnnd tboroughly.
Shape into cakes and fry brown.
Serve with gravy. Ellice Serena.
QTICXSILVEB. OF MEXICO.
Mines Which Seat Those of Almaden In
Spain and Something About Them.
Illustrated News of the World. 3
Ho country of Korth America has made
more rapid progress in the last decade of
years than the Republic of Mexico; and
since the opening of its railway system
fresh fields of agriculture and mineral
wealth are constantly being taken in hand
and developed. Tbe recent construction of
the branch of the Mexican Central Railway,
between the State of San Luis Fotosi and
the Port of Tampico, on tbe Gulf of Mexico,
has opened up to theEnglish capital another
of the rich mineral zones of that cquntry. In
the center of this zone, a short distance from
the new railway, is the quaint old town
ot Guadalcazar, which, though, 6,000
feet above the level of the
sea, is situated in a fertile
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Specimen of the Mining Country.
and well-cultivated valley, securing for it
in these tropical latitudes an equable and
balmy climate, varying little irom 70 to
75 the year round. The district surround
ing Guadalcazar for miles is a great mineral
zone, containing gold, silver, copper, anti
mony and quicksilver. Except the silver
mines, the onlv developed portion of this
zone is the quicksilver mines of Guadal
cazar, which have been worked for over a
century by the Mexicans, and which have
lately been acquired bv an English com
pany The Guadalcazar Quioksilver Mines,
Limited. j
These mines are situated in a range of
mountains about six miles northwest of tbe
town. Here work is being energetically
proceeded with in scientific methods with
surprising results, and these mines now bid
fair to outrival the celebrated quicksilver
An Indian Breaking Ore.
miues of Almaden in Spain and New
Almaden in California. It should be ob
served that mining for quicksilver is quite
unlike mining for gold, silver, or other
precious metal. It partakes more of the
character of coal-mining, and is practically
an industrial enterprise.
The ceremony of taking possession of a
Mexican mining property fs interesting.
The new owner stands at the mouth of the
mines, and the late owner takes him by
the hand and leads him into the mine.
The previous owner then nicks up a hand
ful of ore and places it in the hands of the
new purchaser, therebv signifying that
he has banded the property over to him;
but, in case any third party 'may have any
claim, the' Jutlge In attendancethen reads
a declaration of titles, aud demands if anv-
one present knows of "any true or just im
pediment to speak now r hold his peace
forever." Preparatory to the ceremony the
picture of the patron saint of the mine is
worshiped at the mine chapel and bymns
are sung. Needless to say, the Mexican
miners are very superstitious, and, for some
reason or other best known to themselves,
will not allow a tern lie into a mine. In
deed, iu some remote districts of Mexico, a
female would be murdered by the miners if
she attempted to enter the mine, as her
presence would be considered a certain fore
runner of disaster. However, every morn
ing before the work is commenced all hands
join in prayer, and not a stroke of work
would be done in'tbe mine if this custom
were not rigidly adhered to.
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