THE PlTTSFOBGr DISPATCH, SUTTOAT, ' ATTGrtrST 16, 1891
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vague indications obtained at Harry Snel
len's deathbed. In her interview with the
Governor General Mrs. Allaire had been
called upon to answer this supposition, to
wit: How was it possible that Captain
John, during the nine long years that ha
had been held a prisoner by "these bavages,
had never found an opportunity to make
bis escape. Mrs. Allaire's answer
had been specific and to the
point. According to the testimony of Sbel
ton, during all this long term of years but
one single opportunity of escape tad pre
sented itself to tin captain and his mate
en opportunity which Allaire had not been
able to take advantage of. As to the other
argument that it was not the custom of
Bavages to respect the li es of their prison
ers, the fact remained that they had done so,
os testified to by Harry Shelton, as his re
turn alive irrefutably proved. Besides,
there was a case exactly in point, the case of
the explorer and pathhnder, "William
Classen, who had nowbeen missing for 83
Tears, and who was still believed to be held
a prisoner by one of the tribes of northern
Australia. This was in truth exactly tho
case of Captain John, since, outside of mere
speculation, there was the positive declara
tion of Harry Shelton. Other explorers,
too, had failed to mako their wav back after
once plunging into the depths of' these vast
wildernesses, but tlierp was no proof that
thev had been slain by the savages.
The train dashed past the smaller stations
leaving the bow-shaped Lake Torrens on its
left and coming in Bight of the peaks of
the Flinder's Ilange. The weather was
Tarm the same temperature that is met
with during March in countries of the
northern hemisphere traversed by the
thirtieth parallel, such as Algiers, Mexico,
or Cochin China. There was a threat of
xain in the atmosphere, even of one of those
violent thunderstorms which the expedi
tion would long for in vain when once it
had entered upon the plains of the interior.
Under such circumstances was it thatthe
train bearing Mrs. Allaire steamed into
Inrina Town, the terminal station of the
road, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Zach
ITrench and his men were waiting at the
station, and as SI oily stepped from her com
partment they lifted their caps into the air
end sent up a hearty cheer. The shaggy
brows of the honest" old sailor were knit to-
ether upon first catching sight oi Ucdtrey
y Molly's side, but when he saw the trans
formation which had taken place in the
Bailor lad and noted his intelligent and gar
laut bearing as he swung his rifle across his
elioulder and aided Mrs. Allaire to alight
ttpon the platform, his heart shed its
wrinkles ana he grasped the lad cordially
by the hand welcoming him as one
of the band of searchers. But how great
was his joy at finding himself again in the
presence of his loved mistress! For 12
cars, 13 long days, ho had not seen Captain
John's wifel Such a thing had not hap
jcned to him since the last return of the
Molly's Hope to San Dieo. Molly herself
was "delighted to meet her faithful friend
end tervitor again, whose devotion to her
bordered upon a veneration, and she
pressed his hand warmly and rewarded him
by a smile as sweet as it was pronounced
and long continued. Zach could hardly
"believe his eyes. It was the first smile he
hid seen on that beautiful face since she
Stepped on board the steam launch years
r,go! He was altcost startled by it. "Was it
a good omn Had the captain's wife
flipped fr-u that lofty standard of solemn
end religioui devotion to the great task ot
her life" Anl immediately his thoughts
xcverti.1 to the handsome lad standing by
her sid , and his shaggy brows drew darkly
togetho.- agai.1 and his bronzed face took on
a look of almost wrath. "Was not his noble
mistress weakening tmder this sailor
hoy's influence? "Would she not, after a
few hundred miles had been put behind
them, become eoft-heartea, irritable and de
tpondent like any ordinary woman and
fret over and complain of tlie hardships of
the journey across these arid plains? He
feared so, he greatly feared so, and turned
Bway lest the captain's wife might read
these misgivings in his countenance.
' Tom Marks and Zach French had done
their work well. Everything was in readi
ness for the start Molly was deeply
touched when upon making a personal
examination of the long line of pack
dragon;, her eyes rested upon a seaman's
chest bearing upon one, and the words:
Captain John Allaire. She turned with
parted lips and tearful eyes inquiringly
toward Zacii.
"An outfit for Captain John," said Zach
in a low tone of voice.
Mollv could make no replv, but she
reached out and took the sailor's hard,
touch hand tenderly within hers.
"Mrs. Allaire," said Marks, "so long as
re follow the Government roads the country
trill iumish us with all the forage we need
for our cattle, but when we enter the wilder
ness it will be necessary to abandon our
horses and oxen and replace them by pack
iind saddle camels; these we have sent on
chead. The wells in these vast arid tracks
nre cften days apart and it would be im
possible for us to make our way from one
nation to another except by the use of
camelc"
"I have complete confidence in your skill
end experience as a pathfinder, Colonel
Marks," replied Molly. "I understand
that w e are to exchange our horses and
oxen for a camel train at Alice Springs
ttation."
"Precisely, Madam," answered Marks,
"and the moment you have sufficiently re
covered from the fatigue of your long rail
way ride, you may give us the signal to
hre'ak away, for everything is in readiness
even to the motto painted upon our pack
vagons: '2Co Step Backward.' "
A faint smile spread over Molly's face as
the bent her shapely head in acknowledg
ment of this thoughtful bit of sentiment.
"Move at once, then, Colonel Marks,"
the cried out cheerily, "it too late to-day,
let it be at sunrise to-morrow."
Tom Marks bowed in acquiescence, and
-ttiringing lightly on his hosse rode away to
give the necessary orders.
Farina Town was one of those villages
tvhich spring up mushrcom-like in a single
night along the route of an Australian or
American railway, and in a few short
tnonths arrogate to themselves all the dig
niiy ol a city a century old. The cunning
of the surveyor and land agent is visible
'from fheiery start, and the incongruous
.legend, "city'lots for sale," makes its ap
pearance the day after the town is located.
Jf othinc is left to chince or individual taste
far settlement, but streets, boulevards and
squares are laid out with a geometrical and
mathematical regularity which, as the town
is built up, gives it a monotony that Is as
"depressing as it is valuable commercially
peaking The whole population of Farina
Sown assembled at sunrise the following
iav to xritness the departure of the brave
lady and.her band of intrepid searchers.
.About one-h3ll of the men were white, the
others being half breeds or semi-civilized
natives well acquainted with the language,
(customs and habits of the wild people who
isrerc supposed to hold Captain John a close
prisoner.
The progress of the expedition was, on
account ot the thick forests and rugged na
ture of the country, necessarily slow. The
(whites were well mounted, the negroes fol
lowed on foot. From Farina Town to Alice
Springs station it was a good 350 miles, and
several weeks were spent in covering this
distance. But, although the advance was
clow, the members of the expeditlon,thanks
to the admirable precautions which had
hecn taken by Colonel Tom Marks, contin
ued in the best of health and spirits. Early
end late in her saddle, sharing the fatigues
of the march without a murmer, cheering
iind inspiring everyone by her indomitable
courage and inexhaustible confidence in
her own ability to accomplish the mighty
vork which she had set herself, Molly
hovered around and about the little band
like a angel of light and sweetness, like a
tuiding spirit deputed by heaven to sustain,
circct and preserve.
Next to her it was Godfrey who knew
how to work himself into the rugged, but
honest, hearts of the members of the band.
The skill with which he rode, the accuracy
of his aim as rifleman and the readiness and
ease with which he took to this life in the
Australian bush were soon all powerful
enough to chase away the last frown from
Zach French's face
"A wonderful resemblance," he muttered
to himself, "if JC had not buried little "Walt
myself; I'd believe that lad was Captain
John's own boy. "
But if Godfrey's success in making
friends with the white members of the ex
pedition was such as to carry for to Molly's
heart, she, as well as Colonel Marks and
Zach, was astounded at the devotion shown
to the lad by the half-breeds and Indian
guides. To them this wonderful bov was a
constant source of surprise and delight.
His courage, his surprising strength and
agility, his horsemanship, his marksman
ship, his kindness and gentleness charmed
and fascinated them. The daintiest
tidbits of game and the ripest fruits were
laid at the door of Godfrey's tent. And, to
add still further to the long list of the boy's
accomplishments, it was discovered that
since he had been in service on the Aus
tralian coast he had picked up quite a
vocabulary of the native dialects, so that he
now had experienced no difficulty in under
standing the jargon spoken bythe native
guides.
It might not be out of place to state here
that this was far from being the first camel
train that had been sent into the Austral
ian wilderness. It was in 1802 that Mr.
Elder imported from India a large number
camels, together with their Afghan drivers.
These large animals have done well in Aus
tralia, and beyond all doubt it was due to
the fact that Colonel "Warburton made use
of these ships of the desert that he was
enabled to accomplish his daring ride from
Alice Springs station to JRockboune,
"Sichol Bav, on the coast of DeWitt Land.
If David" Lindsav, at a later day, suc
ceeded in crossing the continent from north
to south with the aid of pack horses only,
it was because he kept close to the Govern
ment roads and telegraph lines and did not
risk himself in the wilderness, which would
have been powerless to sustain the life of
his train.
The expedition reached Alice Springs
station in good form. Here a halt was made
in order to transfer the baggage and sup
plies to the backs of the pack camels. Col
onel Marks took this occasion to make a
most searching examination of each member
ot his band in order to weed out any wno
showed signs of breaking down. A week
was thus consumed, when, at a command
from Mollv, the camel train moved slowly
and silently out Into the sandy wastes of
the Great Victoria desert.
As Molly, from her lofty seat on the ships
of the desert, cast her eyes over this appar
ently limitless waste her heart sank within
her ibr a brief moment as she asked herself
the question: Am I not warring against
Heaven, am I not rebelling against the will
of God in thus penetrating this awful soli
tude in search of a human life which only a
miracle could have kept from destruction?
Are not my attempts as foolhardy as they
are presumptlous?
Godfrey made answer to these doubts
and misgivings, for at that moment his
clear, ringing voice reached her ear, carry
ing balm and comfort to her anxious heart.
She hesitated no longer, she turned an en
quiring gaze toward the horizon of this vast
ocean ot sand as sho had often fixed her
weary eyes upon the limitless expanse of
the sea, hopiug and praying that the white
sails of the Dreadnaught might come slowly
into sight.
Upon drawing near to the Mnrchison and
McDonall ranges, the native scouts made
known to Colonel Marks the appalling fact
that they had already fallen In with strag
glers of a native camp, from whom they had
learned that in a quarrel between one of the
chiefs and his brother a white captive had
been slain. Colonel Marks dared not make
known to Mrs. Allaire the dreadful news.
True, there was a possibility that this white
prisoner might not be Captain John, but the
name of the tribe and the additional fact
that it was accustomed to pay yearly visits
to the northwestern coast gave the awful
tidings the stamp of likelihood. It was
nearly two months before the camel train
reached Tennant's Creek station. Several
of the wells along the route had been found
dry and the animals suffered greatly, being
barely able to drag themselves along at the
last.
Scarcely had the tenta been pitched and
the exhausted men thrown themselves npon
the ground for long needed sleep, when one
of the youngest of the native scouts crept
Etealthily past the guard and roused God
frey. '"Quick, little master," he whispered,
"quick, bring gun, follow me, no talk!"
It seems that in making ohoice of God
frey the native had done so solely
on account ot the youths extraordi
nary courage, agility and quickness of
movement, just as one might choose a cer
tain doe or horse to attain a certain end.
The chud of the desert knew exactly what
was needed. He had no faith in the grown
.members of the band. They might, in their
supposed superior knowledge, stop to
reason, rouse the band, raise a voice above
a whisper, or be too slow in advancing on
their hands and knees.
Godfrey had not removed his pistol from
his belt. Beaching for his rifle, he joined
the scout and stole silently out of the camp.
Once out of sight and hearing, the scout
made known to Godfrey that a white cap
tive had not been already put to death, as
at first reported, but that he had been de
livered into the hands of the chief's brother,
who, with several of the tribe, were to put
him to death that morning before the rescue
party should become aware of his presence
so near at hand.
It called for the greatest precaution on
the part of Godfrey and the native scout in
approaching the Indian camp. A single
startled outcry of bird or beast would De
sure to warn the savages of the approach ot
an enemy. The last quarter of a mile it be
came necessary to advance by crawling
through the tall grass Although hampered
by the weight of his-rine, Godfrey, by great
exertion, succeeded in keeping up with the
scout.
The execution was to take place at sun
rise. Already, as Godfrey and hiB com
panion threw themselves on their knees in
order to reach the spot unseen by the sav
ages, the first rays of the sun shot faintly
upward like spectral spears.
Godfrey caught his breath as his eyes fell
npon the white prisoner seated on the
ground and encircled by half a dozen of the
savages, each of whom grasped two spears
in his hand. The man's face was hidden
beneath a long growth of hair, which in
matted strips hung over his brow, while a,
grizzled beard, tangled and wide reaching,
covered his entire breast. His fbrm was
Eitifully emaciated, and it would seem to
ave been a needless precaution to pinion
his arms, so near death's door was this cap
tive. As the first ray of sunlight waved like a
6word of flame over the wilderness, one of
the ravages rose from the ground where he
had been squatting, and with, a terrible yell
raised his spear. But a rifle shot rang out
clear and sharp, and the man fell backward
like a log. The others sprang to their feet
in the wildest terror, and, as Godfrey and
the scout burst upon them with loud cries,
mingled with pistol shots, they fled dis
mayed from the spot, thinking that the
whole band of white men had suddenly
fallen upon them.
The white captive was quickly released
and tenderly stretched upon the ground.
"Father, fatherl" cried Godfrey, "do
you know me, I'm "Walter. Speakl mother
Is her?. She has come to take you home I"
But the man had sw ooned and the lad's
words were lost upon him. Jfot until Zach
French had reached the spot and had made
hurried examination of the white captive's
features was the glad truth known that Cap
tain John Allaire, of the Dreadnaught, had
been found at last
"Mother, mother!" cried Godfrey burstiqg
into Molly's presence, "We have found,
him, we've found Captain John at last"
"I knew we would; I knew we would!"
exclaimed Molly, tailing upon her knees
and bowing her head in prayer.
Altera moment's pause, Godfrey lifted
her tenderly, saying: "Come, mother, let
me lead you to him."
t,"Ycs, my son, yes, my beloved "Walter,"
replied Molly clasping the boy closely to
her bosom, "and another lost one has come
to life, too, for look!" she cried, pointing to
a cluster of soft gold brown curlslying upon
the ground, "that hair was never cut from
your head, my son. It was somebody's else
child that honest Zach and dear, Mr. Hollis-
ter followed to the gravel"
Two year have past. A magnificent villa
stands in the neighborhood of Prospect Oot-
jjafie. It is the home of Captain Jchn
Allaire and his family, of which Kate
Barker is now a member. Charged with the
murder of Edward Manson, her husband fled
to South America where he died of yellow
fever. The reader needs but to be told that
the black nurse, whom little "Walt had re
membered was none other' than the mula
tress Nanny. The child had been picked up
by the owner of a fishing smack which was
crossing the bay at the time of the drowning
accident A large sum of money from Lew
Barker had caused the fisherman to consent
to suppress this fact and to pass the child
offashisown. "While it was yet a question
whether Mrs. Allaire would recover her
reason, Nanny had made frequent visits to
the child at the fisherman's nome. Upon
Barker's flight from San Diego. Molly's re
covery of her reason and establishment of
the "Walter Home, the man had carried the
child to that institution, claiming that as an
old sailor, he had the right to ask the Home
to care for his child.
THE END.
A STORY OF THE STAGE.
THE DISPATCH has been especially for
tunate In securing for its readers a story
from the popular actress and author EM3IA
V. SHERIDAN. It Is entitled "Freda Sona
day, or In the Footlights' Glare and Shad
ows," and will commence next Sunday.
It is a story of theatrical life brilliant and
engrossing in manner truthfully descrip
tive in its treatment of incidents behind the
scenes neither heightening nor destroying
the popular illusions, and possessing great
excellence of plot and characterization. It
is a clean and polite story, although it intro
duces contrastingly good and bad person
ages, and embodies a realistic account of the
actual experience of actresses.
Miss Sheridan is a writer of ability. Sho is
a daughter of General George V. -Sheridan,
an accomplished actress and a beautiful
young lady. Most of the literary matter pat
forth as from the pens of actresses is fraud
ulent, for it generally consists of their ideas
formulated by professional -writers. Miss
Sheridan's work is wholly original, and her
published sketches, poems and stories have
been highly successful.
FACTS ABOUT TEA.
Very Few Cnps That a Celestial , Would
Approve Are Brewed in America It
SInst Never Boll Recipes for Its Prepar
ation Some Useful Recipes.
rWRITTKN FOB THE DtSrATCH.J
A high authority on the subject 'of tea
making says, "The only truly hygienlo
manner of making tea is to infuse the leaves
in boiling water, either by pouring the
water over the leaves, or by throwing the
leaves into the boiling water. The time
necessary for the infusion depends on the
quality and quantity of the tea used and on
the taste of the drinker. It must be
freshly made and not left to brew."
For tea-making the water should be used
at the first boil The ordinary earthen or
porcelain pots are the best to make tea in,
and when made in large quantities it should
be decanted in a warmed earthen teapot to
prevent the tea becoming impspgnated with
the tannic ncid which the leaves contain.
Tea is not regarded as a proper breakfast
beverage, some of the best physicians de
claring that it is suicidal to drink it for the
morning meal. From time immemorial tea
has been used by the Chinese. In the reign
of the Emperor Fitzong, who ascended tho
thronein the year of Christ 724, tea w as sub
jected to a tax, which the Chinese historians
inform us was loudly complained of by the
people as a grievous oppression because it
fell on a necessary of life.
Baron von Llebig, the German chemist,
says: "We shall certainly never be able, to
disoover how men were led to the use of tho
hot infusion of the leaves of a certain shrub
(tea) or of a decoction of eertain roasted
berries (coffee). Some cause there must bo
which would explain how the practice has
become a necessary of life towholenations."
Andiger, the French author, who was re
garded as one of the greatest authorities on
tea and coffee, gives a simple remedy which
insures a perfect cup of tea. It is:
Take a pint of water andmake it boil; then
put in two pinches of tea, and immediately
remove it from" tho Are, for the teamustnot
boil; you let it rest and infuse time enough
to say two or three patera (Ave or ten min
utes) and then serve it with powdered sugar
eo that each one may sugar to his own taste.
A tea expert says that a pound of tea will
furnish 800 cups of liquor, if it is made prop
erly, but the maximum benefits of the leaf,
both in tho matter of quality and quantity,
are seldom enjoyed because of the cpneral
hrnoranco of what appears to be so simple a
process as to require no care, the method of
brewing.
Tea Punch.
Make a quart of strong tea, using six, tea
spoonfuls of the best green tea to a quart of
boiling water. Let it steep for ten minutes.
As soon as the water boils add the rinds,
juice and pulp of three large lemons, taking
out all tue eeeus. jvs soon as tne tea is
drawn, strain it and sweeten with two
pounds of loaf sugar. When quite cold add
a quart of Jamaica runi, and three sliced
lemons. Thicken with finely broken ice and
serve at once.
I append some general recipes that will
be found reliable:
Chow-Chow.
Chop Into small pieces onions, cabbage
and encumbers. Add any small vegetables
which will do to pickle, nasturtiums, radish
pods, small green tomatoes, Chile peppers,
pieces of cauliflower, etc. Lay them in
strong brine for 2t hours with enough
turmerio to color them yellow, stirring fre
quently. Drain dry and pack into Jars. To
every quart of vinegar allow a tablespoon
f ul of mustard seed, one of turmeric, and a
handful of whole black pepper and a pod of
red pepper. Spice to taste with mace, cloves
and horseradish ground and put in a bag.
Boil the spice, etc., in tho vinegar and pour
it over the pickle. Allow the yelks of three
hard boiled epgs to each quart of vinegar,
and mash them Into a thin, smooth paste
with pure olive oil. Mix well with a cupful
of the vinegar after it becomes cold and
pour it over the pickles. Use after three
days.
Yellow Cabbage Pickle.
To every gallon of vinegar allow two
pounds of brown sugar, quarter of a ponnd
of whito mustard seed, two ounces of ground
mustard and of white ginger, one ounce
each of mace, nutmegs, allspice, cloves,
white popper, turmeric and celery seed, quar
ter of a pound of scraped horseradish, two
lemons sliced thin and two large onions
chopped lino. Select small, hard cabbages and
take off the outer leaves. Cutthemin quai
ters and scald them in boiling brine on the
flro for five minutes. Take out, drain,
sprinkle thickly with salt and lay in the sun
to dry. Sun them for several days, then
shake off the salt and soak for two weeks in
cold vinegar, to which enough turmerio has
been added to color it, in order to plump out
and extract the salt. The spiced vinegar
should be made at least ten days betore it is
to be used and kept in the sun as much as
possible. This pickle may be used in two
months.
Hints for the Household.
The simple boxwood spoon and "fork are
the best for mixing salads.
To quickly and thoroughly dissolve soda
use a very little boiling water.
The best way to prepare a-potato for an
Invalid is to roast it.
Mast a good dish Is spoiled by an Ol
sauce.
Makh brown sauces for warmed-up dark
meats, and cream sances for white meats.
Whet the shells or pods of peas begin to
turn to a lighter shade or look rusty they
are too old.
A jteob of horse-radish put into a jar of
pickles will keep the vinegar from losing Its
strength.
Lettuce has soporific qualities. A lettuce
supper is very conducive to repose.
Decayed cabbage leaves should never be
suffered to lie about In the vicinity of dwell
ings, and the water In which this vegetable
has been boiled should not be retained on the
premises.
To test the quality of potatoes drop them
Into brine. The good ones will sink, the poor
ones float.
Oslt a pinch of salt should be used In egg
custards. . Ellioe Serena.
Beyond the Hill.
Beyond the hill lies lotos land,
Sweet summer skies, and golden sun.
Soft seas caress the shining strand
And bud and fruitage blend in one.
No carklng cares there scar the soul.
There fly no fatal shafts of harm
Diro discord never mars the roll
Of symphonies divine to charm.
There darkness never conquers light
Nor fall fond yearning of the heart.
The soul, with wings wide plumed for flight,
For this fair land would fain depart.
Allen H. BosExrKUAas.
Pxjrnxxn, Px, August IS.
ON. PLYMOUTH .EOCK.
Bill Nye Stands Where the Pilgrims
Stood and Thinks Thoughts.
SOME EFFECTS OF PURITANISM
Expert Criticism of Some Art "Works Con
cerning tho Mayflower.
THE WAYS OP THE TOMG BANE CLERK
CCORBESroKbENCB OP THE DISPATCH.!
Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 13. Here on
this hlstorio ground the Pilgrims first
landed on the shores of the New "World.
Here began the colony which has grown,
under the blessings of heaven, to be a pros
perous and self-supporting nation. Ply
mouth, since the landing of the Pilgrims,
has grown to be quite a place. Business
has picked up and trade is more active. In
those two centuries and a half what changes
have been wrought! Houses have been
built, stones which interfered with farming
have been picked up and placed on some
other man's form, trees have been cut down,
meeting houses have been built and the inf
provement is noticeable everywhere.
If the growth of Plymouth has been so
great in 250 years, what may we not expect
in 2,000 years? New goods will be put
into the stores, no doubt, new cars put on
the railroad, and new fresh air into tho
cars, real estate will advance to unheord-of
prices and farms will many of them be re
sodded at great expense. Looking back
now upon the broad and liberal platform
upon which the Pilgrim Parents erected
ineir aitar lor tne worship ot a (Jolomal
God, I am not surprised that they suc
ceeded. SOMEWHAT ASCETIC ET CHABACXBB.
It is true that they were in some respects
severe. They allowed themselves few
methods of relaxation aside from the con
templation of a superheated hell for those
who disagreed with them. They even de
nied themselves the pleasures of a prayer
rug, preferring to suffer oertain depriva
tions publicly in order to get good notices.
The Pilgrim was a queer mixture of iron
indurance, patient industry and pious pig
headedness. I saw yesterday the pond at
Cohasset wherein these devout men
drowned their witches, and the pnblio
square in which they burned them also.
"Will not the generations of 200 years hence
possibly see where we, too, have been over
zealous, hidebound and intolerant? Of
course we joke tho pilgrim now regarding
his mistaken zeal in burning old people by
means of green birch wood, which is a poor
fuel and apt to spoil the best job of roasting
that we can imagine, but supposing that
your eagle eye had discovered that your
own luuiuer snoweu signs oi Deing a wiion.
Most anybody would resent the hurning of
his mother, if she had been a kind and
obedient mother. I suppose that there can
be nothing more painful than to stand by
and see one's mother bnrned at the stake.
Especially is this the case if one should re
sent it and write a piece regarding it, and
then either find it marked "communicated"
or thrown out altogether.
CAN SHOOT DEER THEEE YET.
The result has been in Massachusetts, I
believe, that in the past 100 years there has
been more liberality than almost anywhere
else a sort of reaction from the spirit
which led to the use of the baked old lady
where now the baked bean is found to be far
superior.
Plymouth is beautifully situated (so also
Is Sc'ituate) and in summer is a very popu
lar place for the flannel-covered health
seeker of the bargain counter, as well as the
overworked but purse proud newspaper
man. You would hardly believe that the
fishing and hunting were still good around
Plymouth after the growth of 250 years, but
they are said to be so, and within the past
ten years at least 200 deer have been killed
within a few miles of where the Pilgrims
landed. That shows that Plymouth has
been a quiet town. See what 'Chicago has
done in one-fifth of that time, and without
bragging over It either. No matter what
Chicago does she is never boastful Chi
cago lets her work show for itself. That is
what Chicago sees most to adml re and ap
plaud in herself. Attached to Plym outh is
Thinktna of the Mayflower.
8Tery enjoyable harbor, which has not ma
terially changed since the deckhands of the
Mayflower, with that painful deliberation
which marks the efforts of the deckhand who
does hot swear, made fast the gallant but
pooriy ventilated little craft.
A SOLILOQUY OIT THE MAYFLOWER.
In fancy now I see the Mayflower tacking
to and fro, and moving toward Plymouth
hock, wnere sne naa advertised jo make a
landing. As I look over the placid bay
with half closed eyes I seem to sec, as the
boat gets nearer, the faces of those whoso
children are so soon to be successful and
point back with pride to these parents who
stand upon the decks of the Mayflower.
Let us look for a moment at these fathers
and mothers of the future aristocracy of
America. Here is one of them engaged in
holystoning the deck. His haggard face
shows how nard it has been for him to be a
sailor in rough weather and under adverse
circumstances without the use of plug to
bacco or profanity. Here i another head of
a great American family line. He is just
going aloft to close reef the scupper boom
on the off Bide. But what is this he has
with him? Ah, now I see, as the boat gets
nearer I am able to distinguish more clear
ly. It is a bright new jag. It is in honor
of the successful trip. Many others are
now seen to be on the deck. All of them
need complete change of scene and linen.
They could not any of them get a chance
to-day to sleep in the coachman's annex on
the grounds of their swollen descendants,
nor on any other grounds perhaps. The
whole boat needs airing, and so do the pas
sengers. And yet they are the heads of.
what will some day be the hyphenated but
bilious aristocracy of this timid and shrink
ing little republic.
EOME THINGS THE INDIANS LEARNED.
Clark's Island is where the Pilgrims spent
their first Sabbath, holding an all-day ser
vice and forming a Bible class of aged In
dians, who had not seen a Bible, a bathtub
or a backslider during the history of the
country . Borne say that they had never
seen anybody burned at the stake till the
Pilgrims "'came, but that I heard at Cape
Cod, which is jealous of Plymouth and also
trying to get up a boom on Buzzard's Bay.
On the left hand side of the street, if you
go as I did I do not know which is east
and west in Plymouth but on the left hand
side if you go along tne street as J. did, and
on your right, of oouna,- If you come the
otherway, vou will see a rough granite
building with Doric columns and a portico
to it. It reminds me of a Greek temple
which I once lived in while in Europe ac
quiring that polish which is so noticeable
in my manner and carriage since I came
back. It is more noticeable in my carriage,
I thinkj than anywhere else.
Thisis Pilgrim HalL It is not the first
and original Pilgrim haul, but we will not
dwell on that Before entering let us wipe
our feet carefully on the grass at the road
side in order to avoid unnecessary wear on
the scraper at the door. Upon the pediment
of the porch you will Bee a fine allegorical
group in demi-relief representing the land
ing of the Pilgrims. One of' the Adamses
is just stepping ashore with a spiral cane
and a concordance. Others are following
him.
GOT A NEW PLYMOUTH ROCK.
The building was erected in 1824, but 11
years ago it was thoroughly eave over and
at great expense refurnished and refitted
and a nice new Plymouth Kock that had not
been used was put in the place of the old
one, which was much out of repair. The
name Plymouth Eock was suggested to the
Pilgrims by Eutherford B. Hayes, an elder
ly man who came over on the Mayflower to
gether W'th a uew school of large Percheron
Hens. These hens he called the Plymouth
Bocks, and as it was a rule among them, and
one to which they strictly adhered, never to
cackle till they had laid an egg, this
wonderful characteristic of keeping faith
with the public so endeared them to the
Pilgrim Fathers that their name is forever
identified with the place where they first
set foot upon the soil of America.
Inside we find a very good picture of Oli
ver Cromwell, from a kodak study by Sir
Edwin Landseer. Of Cromwell I can only
At the BanJb,
say, in a wholly unpartisan way, as fid the
editor of a paper in Mississippi who, by
some strange oversight, in an unguarded
moment paid his way in to hear me lecture
once, "Some liked him and some did not."
The signature of Cromwell was torn off the
corner ot this portrait by some fiend in
human form in the days when visitors were
admitted free. Now that admission is
charged, we find that relics of the pilgrims
do not have to be replaced so often, and a
Plymouth Bock, if carefully selected, lasts
five to eight years.
THFY CROWDED TOO MUCH.
Fronting the entrance at the east end of
the hall hangs the large painting of the
"Landing" by Henry Sargent. It is a good
picture, there being but one criticism that I
could offer, and the artist is not to blame,
for he could hardly be held responsible.
In arranging themselves for the picture the
Pilgrim Fathers, evidently learning that
there would be no charge for the picture,
crowded themselves too much into the fore
ground and worked in members of their
families in whom the public does not feel
an interest. The picture is valued by those
who make painting a business at 53,000, and
was given by Mr. Sargent to the Pilgrim
Society in 1834. In 1880 the frame was
dusted.
"The Embarkation is another good pict
ure, the original being at "Washington. It
is the model of a steel engraving used on
the Government currency so I am told.
It was made by "Weir, a great painter, from
whom sprang Ikey "Weir, the Spider. It
is a wonderful family, unmistakable genius
hanging out like intellectual wens upon
their massive skulls from generation to gen
eration. The sword of Miles Standish Is here. It
has an inscription on it which was not
translated until 20 years ago, when Prof.
Bosedale, a profound scholar and a native
of Palestine, the popular summer resort for
clergymen, visited Plvmouth and translated
it for the society. It is Cufic Arabic and a
part of it Mcdiasval Arabic, he said, and I
agree with him. It means, as nearly as we
ore able to translate it, "With peace God
ruled his si vee, and with the judgment of
his arm he troubled the mighty of the
wicked." The professor thinks that the in
scription dates back about 300 years before
the Christian Era, though I would say that
the eipression was used as early as the
autumn previous to thnt.
The intolerance of the Puritan did not
crop out at all during my visit m the State,
except in a Boston bank where I tried to
fet a New York check cashed. It, was
rawn on the Shoe and Leather Bank,
which is extremely solvent, and by a man
who is worth over a million dollars. I was
identified by a well-known depositor of the
Boston bank, who has dealt with it contin
ually for ten years and who is worth half a
million.
TROUBLE AT THE BANK.
The cashier scrutinized the check, looked
through it at the light to see if I had raised
it the tenth power, smelled it, tried it
with acids and showed it to an old gentle
man who was trying to get a stamp off an
elderly envelope by breathing on it so as to
use it again, then ha said that if the deposi
tor who had introduced me would indorse
the check they would cash it. This made
me impatient and I left the bank after mak
ing some stinging remark which was totally
unworty of me.
I did better, however, with the next bank
to which I took my business, as did also, I
Lam pleased to state, the customer who had
so courteously introduced me to his own
bank and then been so nastily treated over
my shoulders. I do not think it pays to
suspect everybody. Why is it that a fresh
young teller or cashier, who is just trying it
for the first time, seeks to awe and astonish
yon by his courtesy, while the old head of
an old institution is first to oblige you?
HOW THE FOREIGN BANKS DO.
I landed in Erance one time with no
money and a strong Skowhegan patois to
my French. I did not know a soul in
France and I wanted to take the first train
for Paris. I stepped into a bank at' Havre,
where I presented my letter of credit, iden
tified myself by means of an old envelope,
got ?500 and inside of four minutes was on
my way the depot for the Paris train. That
was not all. It was done as though it had
been a pleasure and a delight to the bank to
be of service to me.
In Paris it was the same way. I was not
even suspected of any crime, so far as I
could judge, while dealing with the Credit
Lyonnaise. A fine reading and writing
room, swell stationery and easy chairs were
always at my disposal, and my feelings
were not even hurt but once, and that was
not intentional.
It wasone morning when I was feeling
slightly depressed, and while sitting in the
parlor of the bank the President of the in
stitution brought m,e a late and specially
dismal number of Paneh to read.
He did not know how it would pain me
or he would" not have done It. I cried it
full and returned it to him. Bill Nye.
There are spiders no bigger than a grain
of sand which spin thread so flne that It
takes 4,000 of them to equal In magnitude a
Jelnhjiix.
M IDEAL' BOHEMIA.
PrettyrOpteora High Up on the Side
of a Catskiil Mountain.
ARTISTS DWELL THEEE Ef PEACE.
Founded by Those Who Fear the Summer
Girl and Her Escort.
AS KIAE TO NATURE AS POSSIBLE
COnBKSrONDEUCB OP TUB DISPATCH.
In the Catskills, Aug. 12. Mrs. Can
dace Wheeler has done a great many things
for the benefit of suffering humanity. She
has founded schools of art needlework; she
has stirred up capitalists to build a hotel
for girl bachelors; and she is the inventor
of Onteora. This last would entitle her to
a croud place on Fame's eternal bead roll
if she had never done anything else, for it
is an ideal Bohemia.
I may write explicitly about It because it
is not a publio resort. No stranger is ad
mitted, no meals or lodgings are on sale to
outsiders, and no exploitation can benefit
it. The way It came" about was this: Mrs.
Wheeler, I may say In parenthesis, was
born in Delhi, not in the Delhi of "India's
coral strands," but in a cool little town in
the Catskills bearing that hot little name.
Her nativity and her love of pure air and
picturesque scenery gave her a fondness for
the Catskiil Mountains, and after she mar
ried Mr. Wheeler she was Miss Thurber
in her youth she and her husband, with a
party of young artists, now gray-bearded
Academicians, would spend their summers
among the Catskiil Mountains.
ARTISTS SLEEPINO ON HAY.
The Catskills had not at that timebeeome,
as they have now, the prey of the summer
boarder. Only people who had been born
among these mountains and a er artists
knew of or appreciated the beauties of this
earthly parauiseat their very doors. When
the Wheelers and their artist friends spent
their summers there they lived in a farm
house where the Mountain House is now
situated. It was a small house, for farming
on the rocky mountain sides wa3 not a
profitable business, and when more artists
came up from the hot city than the place
could accommodate, they slept on the hay
in the bam and bathed in the brook that
bounded over the stones only a few feet
away.
Time makes great changes among the
mountain tops as well as on the plains, and
it was not many years before the ubiquitous
tourist discovered the beauties of the Cat
skills, and the artists of the Wheeler tmrtv
could not set up their easels in front of a
splashing waterfall or beside a rocky glen
without being surrounded by a bevy of
young women in red hats and young men in
striped "blazers" who peeped over their
shoulders and criticised their work with
charming frankness and accentuated their
criticisms with dangerous flourishes of their
alpenstocks.
WANTED TO BE MORE PRIVATE.
So the Wheelers and the artists put their
heads together and decided that it was time
for them to "move on" and leave their old
haunts to new comers. Mrs. Wheeler and
her brother, F. B. Thurber, knowing their
Catskills well, chose a spot high up on the
mountain side, 2,500 feet above the sea
level, which commanded a view that swept
over a valley seven miles broad, bounded
by a range of mountains from the center of
which High Peak and Bound Top raised
their pine-capped heads. If, by the way,
you have any difficulty in knowing "which
is which" of these mountains you" may set
yourself right by remembering that High
Peak has the round top and Bound Top has
the high peak, which shows the perversity
of nature, human or otherwise.
On this mountain was a plateau with an
unobstructed view of miles in extent.
"Eureka!" exclaimed Mrs. Wheeler. "Seek
no further," replied Mr. Thurber, or words
to that effect. They went to work at once
to build them homes on this beautiful spot.
Their cottages stand about COO feet apart.
That of Mr. Thurber was designed by his
wife, Mrs. Jeannette M. Thurber, founder
of the National Conservatory oi Music. It
is built of logs with the bark peeled off, so
that time has given them a silver hue that
is very effective and very lovely.
A DELIGHTFUL COUNTRY HOUSE.
This cottage has been added to and Im
proved so that It now has a big music
room, besides a drawing room, a living
room, endless bedrooms, piazzas and every
thing to make a country house delightful.
The Wheeler house is built of clanboards.
painted a dull red. A wide piazza faces the
mountain range beyond the villey, and you
enter from this at once the principal room
of the house. This is drawing room, library,
dining room and everything combined.
Opposite the door a wood fire crackles In
the big chimney-place, unexpected win
dows let in the sunlight around the wall,
and expectant lounges invite you from
nniet corners to rest and eniov vourself.
L On the walls, which are a pale terra cotta
color, Miss Dora Wheeler, now Mrs. Boudi
not Keith, painted the portraits of friends
who have visited "Penny-KoyaL" for that
is the modest name of the place. There is
the head of a handsome matron, and here is
the strong face of Mark Twain. Growing
plants and wild flowers adorn the room and
mingle their perfume with that of the burn
ing pine boughs. Around the corner of the
house, just beyond an enormous bed of
ferns, is the studio that Mrs. Wheeler built
for her daughter. Its great glory is its fire
place. The chimney is built of rough stones,
and the fireplace is wide enough to take
in huge logs lour or five feet long.
AND THE OTHERS FOLLOWED.
Here the Wheelers and the Thurbers
lived for several years alone; that is, there
were no houses near them. Alone, without
guests, they never were, for the artists who
had camped in tne iarmnouse Darns came
up the mountain side and stayed under their
hospitable Jroofs. Their cottages were al
ways full, and finally their friends began to
ask why they couldn't buy and build there,
too.
"We should like to summer in the Cats
kills if we could only get. away from the
regular summer boarder the girl in the red
felt hat and the young man in the yellow
striped blazer. Why won't you let us come
up here?"
After talking the matter over the Wheel
ers and the Thurbers decided to found a sum
mer village, over which they should have
control so tney could choose their fellow
villagers and not be crowded to the wall by
Tom, Dick and Harry. The name Onteora,
which means "Hills of the sky," was given
to the settlement, and then the-merry rim;
of the woodman's axe and the carpenter's
hammer was heard from among the trees and
cottages sprang up on every side. To-day
there are 25 of these cottages:
DEN OF AN EDITRESS.
Among the pioneers was Mrs. Mary
Mapes Dodge, the editor of St Xtcholas
Magazine. Mrs. Dodge's cottage, like all
the cottages along the thoroughfare, backs
upon the road and faces the view. In
Onteora they do things unconventionally
and rationally. Mrs. Dodge's cottage is a
little more pretentious that is not the
word exactly, but I can think of none other
at the moment than most "of the others in
its fittings up, but then she occupies it for
five months of the year. Its' walls are
plastered and tinted, and low bookcases
filled with choice books and laden with bric-a-brac
run aronnd the sides where they are
not crowded out by wide lounges. A gay
colored hammock swings in an alcove.
In the center of the room is a large table.
Around this latter the household gathers at
meal timej around it they sit at night when
the lamp is lighted and the fire crackles on
the hearth, for one room serves as dining
room, drawing room and living room in
Onteora cottages. The fireplace is the
center of attraction In these cottages, for
there is never a day when one is not lighted
on the hearth. It is always cool enoueh in
I the Tening fox one, and very often la the
daytime. Wood is cheap In this part of the
world.. Two dollars a cord is all I paid, and
that is cheaper than hiring a man to split up
what you have about your place.
EVERY WRITER TTAS A DEN.
To return for a moment to Mrs. Dodge's
cottage, I mav say without being too per
sonal that sha has a "den" fitted up on the
second floor of the cottage, and there she
edits St. Nicholas, which is published away
beyond that distant mountain range. Mrs.
Dodge has always had a "den" to work in.
Hers was the first room of this sort that I
ever saw. That was 20 years ago, when I
lived in Newark and she a few miles out in
the country at Waverly." Dens" were not
so common in those days perhaps because
there were fewer literary lions to occupy
them. Now every girl who write,s sonnets
iu ine moon nas a "den nttea up to write
them in. .
The charm of thii nriv.itp resort in the
Catskills is that it is unlike any other
place. There you can "rough it" amid re
fined surroundings. The people who go
there do so because they want to get away
from the whirl of fashion for at least three
or four months of the year, but who at the
same time want congenial companionship.
It is the aim of the organisation to suppress
any evidence of wealth on the part of its
members. The poor and proud have as
good quarters and live as well as the nch
and great, Most of the cottages are built of
slabs. Perhaps vou don't know what slabs
are? I confess that I did not until I visited
the mountain settlement.
EVERYTHING HAS THE BARK ON.
They are tho first cuttings from the log
when it is taken to the sawmill to be turned
into boards. Every log has four slabs and
the bark is, of course, left on them for
building purposes. There are no cellars un
der the cottages they are not needed. The
cottages are mounted on stone legs so that
the air has full play underneath them. The
frame is first set on these legs, then rough
boards are nailed on the frame, and over
these boards, on the outside, the slabs are
nailed. This naturally gives the appear
ance of logs and is much less expensive.
The inside of the cottages is finished to
suit the taste of the owner. Very few are
plastered. Usually heavy terra cotta col
ored paper, such as is used by builders, is
tacked over the rough boards, and where
the paper is joined "hoop poles" of white
birch, with the bark on, are nailed over the
joints. This makes a capital background
for such interior decorations as are to be
found in the mountains wall pockets of
birch bark, filled with ferns or golden rod
or purple aster, or later on with gay colored
autumn leaves. The railing of the stairs
which run from the living room is made of
birch saplings, and the pegs to hang hats
and coats on are cut from the same material.
LUXURY ENDS WITH A BATH TUB.
A carpenter from Tannersville makes
tables and window seats for you with planed
board tops and bark covered legs. The bed
steads and mattrasses come from a factory
12 miles away, and are as comfortable as
you have been in your city home, and you
have an, English bath tub sent up from New
xorK, out witn these luxury ends, or should.
There are some people who fit up their
cottages with bric-a-brac and upholstered
furniture, but to me the charm of the thing
is the absence of anything that reminds one
of city life. The entire furniture of my
cabin cost 5200, and this included every
thing but bedding sheets and blankets I
mean and I kept house, or I could have
kept house if I wanted to.
What I did was to have breakfast and tea
at home and take my 2 o'clock dinner at the
club house. This enabled me to get along
with one servant, which is always a con
sideration in a summer outing. My cottage
was so situated that I had an'uninterrupted
view of the wide valley and the distant
mountain range. I speak of it in the past
tense, for I have sold it, and it now belongs
to Mr. Laurence Hutton, who has changed
its name from "Cloud Cabin," which I gave
it, to "Lookout," the name of of his father's
home in the hilji of Scotland.
A MOUNTAIN PARADISE.
When I sat on my piazza at "Cloud
Cabin" and gazed off into the mountainous
distance it seemed to me that the only world
was the one that lay before me the one be
yond that range of hills was of no interest-to
me this was Paradise that beyond Baby
lon, and the protecting mountains stood be
tween us. Bo,t a busy writer cannot spend
the whole day, even in vacation time, in
dreaming dreams.
In the middle of my living room a huge
chimney protruded its stony breast, and on
the wide hearth a fire of birch logs and pine
boughs shot out grateful flames and per
fumed the place. In a big bay window
stood my working table, and there I tried
to do my duty; but who can work with such
a view as mine at his door and such a fire as
that on his hearth inviting his attentionl
My nearest neighbor was John Brooks
Leavitt, of New York, whose family occupy
the cottage, which they call "Upenough,
from the time the buds appear in May until
they can exclaim with Miss Thomas, as they
look out upon the red and yellow leaves
IIow cold a touch hath set the woods on Are.
SOME OF THE HABITUES.
TJp a lit'le higher, on a rock-bound
plateau, stands the cabin and studio of Car
roll Beckwith, the painter. Sir. Beckwith
and his wife have lived a great deal abroad,
and have never reallykept house until they
set up their mountain home. Here they
have gathered their lares and penates about
them, and they have a fascinating place. In
the late exhibition of the Society of Ameri
can Artists was a very life-like portrait of
Mark Twain in a flannel shirt and with a
corncob pipe in hi3 mouth. This was
painted by Mr. Beckwith at Onteora last
summer. Mark liram had a cottage there
then, and every morning he gave readings
from Browning "Browning free-and-easys"
he called them, because every one in the
settlement was free to attend, and flannel
shirts were "full dress." This year Mr.
Clemens is not at Onteora, and we mourn
his loss. He will return, however, but will
he resume the free-and-easys?
After dinner you stroll along the cottage
bordered wall to the open beyond to see the
sunset behind the mountains. On your way
back you stop at a friend's piazza and finish
the evening among the pillows of a low
swung hammock. Then you stroll up to
your own cabin, and if it is your first night
at Onteora you marvel at the enormous fire
flies flickering through the woods, only to
learn that they are the swinging lanterns of
cottagers who, like you, have been spending
the evening with friends, and who, again
like vou, are now on their way home and to
bed, where they will sleep the sleep that
only comes with pure air and a clear con
science. Jeanette L. Gilder.
THE CIEVELANDS BY THE SEA.
Some Difference In Tastes, tratThey Manage,
to Equalize the Pleasure.
Boston Globe. J
Mr. Cleveland and his wife appear to have
come to a most amicable arrangement for the
most enjoyable pursuit of their special
pleasures and pastimes. He takes a drive
with her around to the Jefferson, not so
much because he is so fond of driving, for
he is not especially so, but more to please
his sweet better half. On the other hand,
she is not especially fond of boating, fishing
or the water. Dry land with plenty of
water close by, meets her pleasure rather
better.
But Grover must go fishing. He usually
goes alone in his small craft, but when a
more substantial craft, like the steam yacht
Oneida, heaves in sight down the bay with
a well-known and jolly crowd aboard, it's
different with her. Then Mrs. Cleveland
repays her husband for his kindness in en
joying her pleasure drives with her. She be
comes interested at once in the water, or
rather what is upon it. The fair young wife
is in healthy spirits. She likes company
and vivacity to accompany her recuperative
days in fair proportion, and the couple ap
pear to take advantage of circumstances
most cleverly to unite the fancy of the one
and the other and of both together.
Mr. H. 33. "WeUs. of Imlay City, Mich.,
who enlisted in a Michigan regiment and
was captured during the war, has not shaved
since he left Andersonville prison. His
beard U now SXeet nine Inches fa length.
PUMPING OUT SHOALS.
Interesting Process by "Which Dia
mond JKeef Is Being Removed.
SEIMMLNG THE SEA FOR FOOD.
Bound-Shouldered Feaple Can Straighten
Up by a Simple Exercise.
TAOTG COLD BATHS IN THE MOEXEfG
rwiurriuf tor the dispatch.
Ono of the mo"St useful pieces of apparatus
now used in the removal of dangerous shoals
is the sand pump. This pump is of the cen
trifugal type, provided with a long suction
pipe, and It comes into play when the re
moval of the softer materials that mav form
part of the reefs and shoals beins operated
on is required. Through the long suction
pipe a stream of water mixed with sand and
bowlders is drawn, which rapidly removes
all such matter from the neighborhood ofiu
operation.
This pump constitutes a n. rt if an exten
sive plant carried by a scow detailed toeffec
the removal of the Diamond Keef, one of the
most dangerous shoals In Xew Torfc Harbor.
The operations of the scow are four-fold,
and consist of drilling in tho rock; hoisting,
sounding and sand-pumping. The drill bars
are introduced into tubes suitably placed
and worked from drilling engines on tho
upper deck of the scow. They accomplish
their work by their own impact, exactly as
In drilling an artesian well, the tubes acting
as guides. In this way holes of any desired
size are bored rapidly. Cartridges charged
with dynamite or othoroxplosive are placed
in tee holes and exploded by electrical de
tonators after tho scow has been withdrawn
to a safe distance, the charges having been
placed in the holes by a diver. After the
explosion derricks on the deck of the scow
are brought into use. Divers are sent down,
who load the rock upon platforms, whence
it is hoisted to the surface and dumped into
the scow, to bo removed.
The Camera and the TVheeL
TV. I. L. Adams gives some useful hints to
wheelmen who are also devotees of the
camera. By carrying a cameTa, a traveler
through an interesting country is enabled to
secure souvenirs that are invaluable. There
are a number of cameras especially designed
for bicyclists. Tho pocket photographic out
fit, consisting, as it does, of a 3.xl5-inch
camera, with a double dry-plate holder,
hinged ground glass, and weighing only 13
ounces, is about the best. This little outfit
contains an excellent lens. It may be car
ried in the pocket when not in use, and in
photographing it can be adjusted to the han
dles of the machine by an adjustable snp
port. It makes capital pictures. larger in
struments are carried packed, attached to
the wheel by a spring carrier, which is a kind
of skeleton irauie work on springs, mounted
in front of the handle bar. t'welve or 15
pounds may thus bo carried without danger
of breakage, or without putting extra weight
on tho pedals. Tho larger cameras may also
be used on the handles of the machine, a
steel support being furnished for holding the
wheel rigid while the exposure is being
made: or, if a tripod is earned, which some
wheolmen prefer, the camera is set up on ita
legs and the photograph is made in the usual
manner. Most cyclists prefer, on the whole,
the hand cameia. It is usually supplied with
a good instantaneous lens, so tuat "snap'
pictures nuy bo made at the right hand or
the left during tho run in the country.
Dish for Travelers on the Sea.
The Prince of Monaco, who has for some
years devoted himself to scientific explora
tion, has pointed out that a food supply of
immense value has hitherto been almost
entirely overlooked. He says that the Cope
poda, that swarm in enormous numbers in
the surface waters of the sea; offer nutritious
matter that would be very acceptable to
shipwrecked sailors, who otherwise murht
starve. This view is now confirmed by the
letter of a correspondent, who describes an
experienco off the Xorth Cape, (Xorwav):
"The not, when hauled in. contained tbout
three tablespoonfuls of a large red Copedod
(Calanus fininarcliicns, I think), appaiently
a pure gathering what Haeckel would call
a monotonic plankton. AVe convoyed our
material at once to the callev. washed it in
a flne colander, boiled it for a lew minutes
with butter, slt and pepper, poured it into
a dUb, coveretl-it with a thin layerof melted
butter, set it in ice to cool and stiffen, had it
this morning for breakfast on thin bread
and butter, and found it most excellent.
The taste is less pronounced than that of
shrimps, and has more the flavor of lobster.
Our 20 minutes haul of the small net through
a milo ortwoofseamade, when cooked in
bntter, a dishful whiclrwas shared by eight
people."
morning Cold Baths.
A writer in tho Lancet states that several
patients have came to him complaining that
from time to time, especially in winter, in
the early part of the day, they have expec
torated mucus tinged with blood. In each
caso there was no loss of strength or weight
and the che3t sounds were healthy. The
men, however, were not of a vigorous type,
and they were all accustomed to have a cold
bath summer and winter. The assumption
arising from this "fact is, that the sudden
application of intensely cold water to th
whole surface of the skin, raised the internal
blood pressure too abruptly, and hence the
oozing of the blood through the walls of the
capillary vessels lying beneath tho lining
membrane of the throat or larynx, or possi
bly the lungs. It was found that the un
pleasant symptom disappeared as soon as
the temperature of the icy cold water
was reasonably increased. The practice of
taking a cold bath is now so universal that
It is as well to know that although the
strong man may indulgoin it with impunity,
and even with benefit, the weak man must
exercise some little discretion.
To Straighten the Shoulders.
Round shoulders are so objectionable from
every point of view that any practicable
and easy way of preventing them should be
widely made known. A cotemporary
statos, however, that those who have round
shoulders may make themselves shapely
and healthy if they will but bestow a litt'o
trouble and perseverance on the process.
This consists in going through the simple
and easily performed exercise of raising
ono's self upon the toes leisurely in a per
pendicular position several times a day. A
perfectly upright position must be taken,
with the heels together, and the toes at an
angle of 45". The arms must be dropped life
lessly by the side, perfectly relaxed, the
chest must be drawn to its full muscular
capacity and the chin will be drawn in The
further instructions are to slowly rise np on
the balls of tho feet to the greatest possible
height, thereby exercising all the muscles of
the legs and body; then to come into a
standing position without swaying the body
backward out of the perfect line. Repeat
this exercise riersistently and good effects
will soon be noticed.
A Model letter Box.
All who havo suffered the annoyance of
having their morning papers stolen from
the front door steps will welcome the relief
which is assured by a new form of letter
box. This box is attached to the Inside of
the outer or street door of the store or dwell
ing. It is accessible from without at all
hours, access to it being gained by means of
a swinging door or gate, which may be made
as ornamental as desired, and if necessary
may have the owner's name engraved upon
it, and serve as a door plate. The width of
this combination door plate and letter slot
is BUfliciefit to admit, beside letters, papers
and small packages of merchandise. The
packages, by an ingenious arrangement, fall
behind and below the box fnto a receptacle
placed there for their accommodation, and
the letters fall directly into the box, which
a clever device guards so completely that
the improper abstraction of its contents is
impossible. This object is attained by
swinging gate, which, while easily pressed
In by the weight of the letters, in the car
rier's hands will close tightly as soon as the
hand is withdrawn.
Cnspldor Carrier and Cleaner.
A novel instrument has been designed for
the manipulation of cuspidors or similar re
ceptaclos without soiling or the hands or
dress of the operator. The Invention con
sists of a shaft made of suitable length, and
mounted to turn at its upper end in a frame,
with a handle for carrying. A semi-spherical
brush is removably secured to the lower
end of the shaft, and adapted to pass into
the receptacle to be cleaned. A bevel gear
wheel fixed on the handle imparts a rotary
motion to the shaft and revolves the brush,
and a series of rods extending downward
therefrom engage the inside of the recep
tacle at its neck, and thus enable the oper
ator to carry it. AVhn it is desired to clean
a cuspidor the operator takes hold of tho de
vice by the handle, pushes the brush into
Sosltionand turns the handle. The brush
then revolved inside the cuspidor and the
work of cleaning is accomplished.
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