saHsa F-YWWTfr ywtm wfsrt'?? T'T THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 189L XT rer " """ I'WEITTZir FOR THE mSFATCH.l Haymond was a Tery queer boy; at least, so said his schoolmates and his friends in the Tillage where he lived; and he was cer tainly different from other children of his own age, never caring to join the lads in their sports; but enjoying rather quiet walks in the field, and sitting alone by the brook watching the waves, and the fish which never seemed to fear him. Perhaps, this was because when Eaymond was very Young his mother had died, and since that time he had lived alone with his father in a small house not far from the village. As Eaymond grew older he became more quiet, seldom speaking to any one, and having but few acquaintances. But he was not un happy, nor did he feel the need of company; for when he walked in the forest the birds sang of distant lands which they had visited, and when he rested by the brook, the waves would murmur wonderful stories of the fairvland hidden beneath them. One night Eaymond fell aleep under an old willow ncarhis home, and he dreamed that he saw a large swing, made of a golden rope, and fastened to the stars. On the swing sat a beautiful fairy, who, every time she swung past Eaymond, smiled and threw a red rose at him. "When Eaymond awoke, he found a large quantity of sweet, fragrant flowers at his side. For many nights the boy had the same dream, and upon awaken ing always found the roses. Finally he thought: The fairy must live somewhere, and when I am "older I shall go in search of her." And when not long after the father sud denly died, leaving his son entirely friend less,Eaymond left his home, and went in quest of the fairy he had seen in his dreams. He had gone but a short distance into the forest, when he heard loud groans and cries of distress as if some one were in great j . , , ., , - THE GIAKTS TOOK TO FLICHT. trouble; and going in the direction whence the sound came, he saw an old man being cruelly beaten by two angry giants. Eay mond thought his efforts would be useless in the presence of such powerful enemies; but he picked up a stick lying near and bravely advanced to aid the old man. To his great surprise his small club became a powerful weapon, at the sight of which the fiants fled iu great haste. Eaymond then ooked curiously at the old man, who was dressed in a long, white robe and wore a roldcn crown upon his head. His hair and beard were snowy white, and a kindly smile lighted his wrinkled face. "I atu the King of Dreamland," he said, "and ihes-e two giants have always envied me my kingdom. Had you not arrived when too did, they would surely have killed me. For your kindness and bravery I shall take you into my realm, and show you the won ders of Dreamland." Eaymond willingly accompanied the old man," and the two traveled on until they came to a place where the clouds seemed to reach down to the earth. Here was a small trapdoor, so concealed by the bushes as to be almost hidden from view. The King opened the door, and led Eaymond down a long flight ot stairs, more than 500 steps, into a "brilliantly lighted valley, which extended many railed iu each direction. It was won derfully beautilu1. In the midst of a broad blue lake were llauds upon which were built the most magnificent palaces. The islands swam about the lake like ships; but at a word from the King, they sailed to the shore and remained still. Other palaces teemed to float among the clouds; but when the old man cave the sign they descended l the earth. Then there were gardens, in which bloomed flowers that during the day Ireathed forth rich fragrance, and at night chine like Mars. Many birds poured forth sweet melodj : and there were so many other wonderful things that Eaymond could scarcely speak Iron, astonishment. """"ow you shall see some ot my subjects, the dreams," said the King. "I have three kin 3s of dreams good dreams for good peo ple, oad dreams for wicked people, and tricky dreams, which delight to teaze peo ple. Let us go in here first, for these little fellows are sure to amuse us." As the- entered the palace they could hear shouts of merry laughter, and the Kins said to one little elf, who was busily turning somersaults: "Gome here, little man,and tell my young liiend about some of your tricks." "The little fellow turned over three or four times and then said: "List night I went into the parson's house, and taking his son out of bed, threw him downstairs; but when he reached the bottom I was there, caught him in my arms and carried him back to bed. "When he owoke he cried, 'Oh, papa, I dreamed that I fell down stairs.' " Alter bearing many other stories from thes jolly little men, Eaymond and the King went into the palace of bad dreams. Here were large giants, who, stretched out on the ground, were sleeping soundly. The old man approached one of the monsters, aad shaking him by the shoulder said: "Wake up, and tell me how you spent la- night." The giant slowly opened his eyes, and w'iph he saw that his King was near, he answered: "1 sjs punishing a very rich man, who is E tni.seily that he allowed his old father to start ." "What have you done to him?" asked the Ki g. "I carried him," was the reply, "into a den of wild animals, which growled and threatened to tear him in pieces. I offered to take him away if he would give me three gold pieces, but he had no money with him. Alter giving him M blows with" my cane I carried him back to bed, where he awoke the whole household w ith his cries, declar ing that lie was surely dving, and sent in great haste for a plm,ician. " Other giants told of many more punishments which they had inflicted, and then Eaymond and the King entered the palace of the good dreams. Here all was wondrous fair. In the gardens were countless fountains of crystal water E laving in the sunshine, trees and flowers lling the air with sweet perfjime. and children carrying beautiful flowers, books and toys, which they would that night give as dreams to good people. As they were passing along a shady avenue Eavmond'suddenly paused and gave a crv of delight. "Vhat is it?" inquired the old man. "There is my Fairy," said Eaymond, pointing to a graceful little creature swing ing in a golden swing,-and having in her hand a bunch of red roses. "Let us go to her." "Tes," said the King, "you have often seen this beautiful Fairy in your dreams, and now you may talk with her, while I visit another part of my realm and see that all is in order." As Eaymond approached, the Fairy waved her hand in greeting, and with her fair face glowing with pleasure, she said: "Ah, Eaymond, you have come to find me. I have been watching a long time for yon. Come and sit here beside me, and all day long we shall swing between heaven jmrl pnrth " Eaymond needed no second invitation, and soon he, with the fairy, was swinging high in the air. In the distance could be seen high mountains, broad seas, busy cities and quiet villages. From time to time the fairy would point out places where she had visited and carried her beautiful dream to deserving people. The day passed all too quickly lor the boy. Shadows began to fall and darkness spread over the earth; but it was not dark in dreamland. Every flower was a 6hining lieht, and all places were as bright as noonday. Many of the dreams were preparing for their nightly visits, and some had already gone, but Eaymond and the fairy were still swinging when the King approached and said: "I am sorry, my young friend, that we can no .longer allow you to remain here. It is now night, and Boon all my dreams will have started on their missions. I shall, lead you through the gate and show you the way home." "Can I not take the Fairy with me?" asked Eaymond. The old King shook his head and re plied: ""So, no, she is my most beautiful dream and I cannot spare her." "But I saved your life," pleaded Eay mond, "and will you not grant me this one request?" , The King looked thoughtful for a mo ment, and then said: "I certainly owe you a debt of gratitude, and you shall have your wish. Throw this silver veil about you, and you shall reach home in saiety." Eaymond threw the veil across his shoulders', and taking the Fairy by the hand, left the beautitul land of dreams. "When they reached the tittle cottage it had become a splendid palace, where Eaymond and the Fairy lived ever after; and every night the King of Dreamland sends them the most beautiful dreams. Paysie. SOME ENIGMATICAL NUTS. Puzzles for the little Folks That "Will Keep Their Brains Busy for Most of the Week If They Solve Them Correctly Home Amusements. Address communications for this department to E. B. Cuadbourn, Leuriston, Maine. 1715 EKpiiAJTD'S BEST rXSTITDTIOir. 171C 3CUHEBICALS. I. A citizen, rich, or at least well-to-do. Had a daughter Diana, he called her 1, 3; She had no tabte for fashion, for dress, or display, But sue would bo an artist, she always would say. Now this was no great S, 4, 5, that I see. But her father was angry, as angry could be; No daughter of his should go "smudging and smearing," t, 5 C, 7, 89, 10 would be past bearing, And if sho persisted, ho cried In his choler, .She should not t, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, one dollar; 10, 11, 12 should have all, for this promising youth Did not paint, or do anything else, to toll truth, And 12 would be free to go paint, beg, or delve, 1,2,3,4,5,0,7,8.0,10,11,12. II. The pl.is3 was adjusted the razor was keen, The soap it was "l'ankee," the youth seven teen; .... When in came a 1, 2, 3 gayest of frlskers, Who, unlike his master, had very fine "vyliislvGrs i, 5, this intruder walked airily in, And looked In the glass with a quizzloal grin. The vexed "shaver" threw his 5, 6, 7, 8 9; 10, 11. meant it for punishment BWlft and condign, But it shattered the miror. What poet can write A 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 of the fright, The clamor and outcry both parties set npT Tor the other chap stepped in the hotwater cup, And with anguish announced, with a voice as of seven, This 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8: 9, 10, 11. M.C.6. 1717 CUKTAILII EXT. A person who Is devoid of tact May total out a brutal fact Ho might have left alone. And leave a one upon the joy Of those he needed not nnnor Perhaps they ne'er had known. IXIwfe' y It surely's not a pleasant thing 111 or unpleasant news to bring, Then let the taotless know; That unless urgent be the call. There is no need to speak at all, No duty does he owe. BlTTEB SWIET. 1713 TRUJf CATED IlTVEItTED PYRAMID. Across 1. Greek sculptures in the British Museum. 2. Tho body of vassals liahle to he called to arms. s. Pertaining to a man free born. 4. Trifles. 5. Money of account among the Anglo-Saxons. 8. Forked pipe fittings. , ,, Down 1. A letter. 2. A musical syllable. 4. Anything very small. 4. Augers. 5. A kind of snuff. 6. Posthumous fame. 7. Palm cockatoos of Australia. 8. Separations. 9. An abbreviation. 10. Awager. 11. A type measure. 12. A letter. Ecoesk. 1719. TRAirerosrnoir. In the Buckeye State is primal, Primal I have learned to love; And the next in Alabama, City like to Prime above Holds within it homes and treasures, Dear to many a loving heart; As we near those sacred portals. How the pulses thrill and start. Now, whene'er my muse is wayward, Seel She third my jingling rhyme: As with bloodhovmds, so with muses, Ibtrrth will bring them all to time. Her she leads, and there draws backward, Forward springs, then starts aside, Till the average poetaster Has his temper sorely tried. Men may fc'er forget the letters Wives have given them to mail; Not pav off the debts maturing, But at fifth they never fail. All the sixth of genus homo Come in this forgetful class; And, as I am one of many, Why not let their failings passt Seventh, old and somewhat ancient, Obsolete it now is classed: Tis defined "paints in enamel;" Let us seek the eighth and tart, And a "skin disease" wo find it, Marked by "livid spots or blaok;" Eicht words from these same five letters Dost thou still these letters lackt H. C. Buboes. 1720 BEHEAOTIEltT. "All Is fair in love and war," The way the adage goes, But aWs a difference plain to see, -As a pimple on your nose. In love and on this point, no doubt, Experienced as a lover, The fighting does not last commence, Till after the engagement's over. Asraio. 1721 PROGRESSIVE DIAMOND. L In "prize-winner." 2. Township, Miami Co.. Ks. (Webster, 1890.) 3. A wood or forest. 4. Of the upper part of tho oolitic series. 5. Township, Erie Co., N. Y. (Webster, 1S90.) 6. A retreat. 7. In "prize-winner." H. C. BcnaiR. 1722 CHARADE. It oft Is not the total paoe That wins the race. For if the rider one his two That spoils his cue. Or if the steed should make a one His part is done. Then those who were more sure and slow, Anead may go. A. L. 1723 TRAssposmoas. gome scamps well in wicked ways, Have in prison many days. ii. That they be from all their friends They richly; their pity ends. in. They must know that sin imparts A dark cloud that ne'er departs. IV. So they who In halls of stone May take this as all their own. Etthl. 1724 DIA3IOKD. 1. A letter. 2. Through, 8. Furnished with rattan. 4. Fortresses. 5. Gave an excited character to (rare). 6. The act of winnow ing. 7. Charging again- 8. The bony part of the teeth. 9. A net. 10. An animal. 11. A letter. Fakot Frbe. 1725 CtntTAILED DEOAPITATIOS. All fs the color of health, And htalth is far better than wealth. If It you'd not shun. Center long in the sun; For you need not acquire It by stealth. A. L. AKSWERS. 1705 1. Be-gln. 2. Be-tide. 3. Be-trap. 4. Be-head. 8. Be-nign. 6. Bee-line. 7. Be-tray. 1706 American, African. 17071. Cot, colt. 2. Cur, fur. 8. Bear, bead. 4. Plot, lot. 5. Chaff, inch. 6. Stacks, ss. 1708 Hear, ear. 1709- C DOB CARES CURRENT D A R K E N H R S CORRELATION R E EN AC TED 8KKIIBD T R I ED SOD N 1710 Peace-fully. 1711 Asp, weasel, wasp, easel, 1712 Rescue, secure. 1713 A ONE ORATE ANAGRAM E T R U R I A .HARD RUM MI R ADOR AUDITOR M O T A C I L SOGKCOD R I C I N I C LONGBOW D 1 B B LER COLON WEN R 1714-Oliver, Olive. (O, live!) FASHIONS IN HAIR. Much Less of the Fake Article Used Now adays Than Formerly. If yon want to be fashionable your hair must be fluffy, and if nature has not kindly provided you with wavy hair you must call art to her Assistance and have it at any cost even of losing all your hair, as you certainly will do by washing it every week, as many women do now, to coax that care less look which the prevailing style require?, says the New York Monthly Journal. The more artless, careless way you can arrange your hair the more a la mode you will be. Very young girls have a short bang all around their heads, which they curl loosely and fasten down with gold or shell fillets. To some this exaggerated hirsute halo is ex ceedingly becoming, but only a round, pretty and youthful face should affect it. The "Kussian" bang still firmly holds its ground, curled, of course the straight bang has long been a thing of the past. The hair must be waved on the sides and drawn up into a knot, a coil, or else braided, Taut it cannot be smoothly brushed. The low coils at the back of the neck are not so much favored; It must be admitted that less fake hair is worn than in the days of chignons, but what is worn is better worn and more de ceptive than ever before, adds the New York Sun. The fancy for fluffiness and the art attained by the hairdresser is producing it in straight hair do away with the neces sity of abundant tresses. Hut beware of the loosely coiled knot of hair with its escap ing curls. Don't set your affections upon its perfumed prettiness, for ten to one if it isn't store hair. And" that little curl that always falls so softly; against the white neck you long to caress might come off in your hand without shears and without agony to the head it adorns. Fake bangs have pretty well gone out, for with caretul cutting and curling most hair can be trained into a pretty bang. But there are some tresses that will be perversely straight on warm days, and the naturally curly hair of Borne girl who can't afford to go to the seashore sometimes adorns the straight-haired girl who can go. Good Little Lord Fauntlerov. Philadelphia Press.! The play doesn't exactly say this, but it . implies it: "Fauntleroy, where have you been, darling?" "In ieaven, dearest." "And why did you not stay there? Did they not want you?" "Oh, yes, daarest, they wept when I came away; but they said they were not fit to receive me yet; they might be up to me in about 600" vears." Hangs up his out-of-door smile and looks so good the average man wants to murder him. THE BANANA TRADE. Five Hundred Millions Come to New' York Alone Every Tear, THEY MUST BE HANDLED QDICKLY. Orders Are Taken Far in Advance of the Arrival of the Ships. DANGER OP EOTTING AND FEEEZING COBRESFONDENCB OF THE DISPATCH. New Yobk, Sept. 12. Five hundred million" bananas'! That's about what comes to this country through the port of New York eyery season. New Orleans probably handles quite as many. It is only of late that Boston, Philadelphia and Balti more have engaged in the banana trade. The banana trade is the growth of the last 15 years. It is true there were bananas im ported previous to this, but the biggest trade then didn't run more than 2,000 bunches every ten days or so. Now it aver ages upward of 100,000 bunches a week for this city alone. A heavy importer tells me that Uie trade increased for several years quite as rapidly as means were devised to satisfy it The smallest increase was for this year, being not over five per cent over last year's product, whereas that year was at least 25 per cent better than theprevious one. The slight increase this year is due to the dry season that caught the banana far mers and the consequent decreased produc tion. SUPPLYING THE DEMAND. Very great improvements have been made in banana farming in Cuba and Jamaica and other homes of the luscious fruit. Yet, with all jthe rap idly increasing production, it cannot keep pace with the growing appetites of the northern consumers. There has recently been constructed in Cuba a narrow gauge railway from Givorro eastward for the ex clusive use of the banana and cocoanut trade. According to Mr. Baldwin, agent of the Allan Line of steamers, there are now some 26 ships engaged in the banana trade to this port, and this number will be in- cresrsed materially within a short time. 'If you want any idea of the demand," said Mr. Kerr, a Murray street importer, "I need only say that we took off 10,000 bunches from one of our ships yesterday and haven't a binana left to-day. There are banana ships unloading somewhere every day, too. There are seven houses here en gaged in the business, and all together run some 30 steamers. These steamers carry irom 10,000 to 20,000 bunches each trip. Most of them return to the banana country in ballast, though we own our vessels and send them back with breadstuffs and pro visions. We handle about a minion bunches a year. There are about a million and a half more handled from piers 3 and G on this side, and across town on the East river, at piers 7, 9 and 10, perhaps 2,000,000 more. In round numbers, close on to 5,000,000 bunches a year come to this port. These bunches weigh from 15 to 70 p-oundB and contain from 40 to 135 bananas to the bunch. FOUB CEOPS A YEAS. 4- good many erroneous ideas are enter tained as t6 the banana trade. Some people suppose that bananas, like oranges, appear only within certain seasons and are pre served by some mysterious process so as to last the year round. Others that they are reproduced, crop after crop, perennially. Neither of these suppositions are wholly right or wholly wrong, for the Cuba trade is only during the summer months, opening about March and closing about Oc tober 1, with only an occasional stray steamer outside of those dates. "Whereas the Jamaica and Port Lemon, on the South American coast, near Aspinwal!, continue unbroken the year round. To illustrate this it must he said that it takes about ten months to mature the fruit, and that when the fruit is matured the plant dies; but the banana farmer permits the growth of a certain number ol sprouts at different stages, so that one plant follows another from the same root at short in tervals. For instance, when a plant is about mature and the firuit ready to be re moved, there is a second growth of say 6 months and a third of say 3 months and a fourth growth just starting all from the same root The climate and other condi tions being favorable, the same root will thus produce four crops a year, though the same stalk produces but a single crop and its usefulness is over.i As every oncoming shoot is in a different state of progress from its fellows the harvest goes on all the time. PRODUCERS GET THE LEAST PROFIT. As may be supposed, banana farming has proved very profitable, though the ex ceedingly low prices at which they are sold by the importers and jobbers and the waste in transit would seem to indicate that the producer gets tho smallest profit of the whole business. The New York importer meets the New Orleans importer at the competitive point of Chicago. Very few New York bananas reach Chicago and the competition is sharp even at Cincinnati. It is a fluctuating com modity. It must be handled quickly. Therefore the jobbers get it into the re tailers' hands as soon as possible. Although the fruit comes here green and hard it will begin to turn yellow and soft within three summer days and in five days is dead ripe. In this stage a great deal of waste follows every handling, for it bruises easily. The slightest bruise turns black and rot follows. All of this damaged stuff goes into the hands of the street venders, who never con sider a banana too far gone to sell to some body. Of course, the damaged bunches are disposed of for whatever they will bring. TOO MANY SHIPS AT A TIME. "Now and then the simultaneous arrival of several shiploads by accident makes a glut in the market," said the Murray.street importer, "and.then we have to hustle. If this is in the summer time we must get rid of our cargo at any price and right away. In winter we can hold, and jobbers can move more leisurely. In fact, in winter the green bananas have to be .artificially ripened for the maiket. This is done by hanging the bunches in a tight room and employing gas stoves to maintain an even temperature. The summer difficulty of spoiling bv over-ripeness is offset by the winter difficulty of spoiling by freezing. The bunches are packed in hay to obviate both difficulties. "While we have lost and are always in danger of losing entire cargoes of tropical fruits the danger decreases every year from, the fact that we book our orders in advance. For instance, as I said, we unloaded 10,000 bunches yesterday. All of these went right from the dookj mostly on cars on floats alongside the pier, to fill orders. We have a cablegram to-day saying another of our vessels with 13,000 bunches sailed. We no tify'our customers that she'll be here Tues day. They'll send in for what they think they want Jobbers used to hang back for a glut, but they often had to pay bigger prices for doing so and now it is mostly a question of orders. OBANGES AST) COCOANUTS. "During the orange season, which is from September to April, we handle from 2,000 to. 3,000 barrels of oranges a week in con junction with bananas. There is another thing people know very little about. Cocoa nuts now largely come here incidentally with bananas. They are packed in at the bottom of the ship and form a sort of ballast The bananas are then packed in layers, the bunches on end four or five layers deep. The cocoanuts bring very little money and it wouldn't pay to ship them alone. They are heavy and make excellent material to trim ship.. From 12,000 to 20,000 coeoanuts are often brought that way in a single ship in the banana trade. Sometimes 'there is no sale for the nuts and they are then ex ported." It is a great Bight to witness the unload ing'of a banana steamer. The cargo being perishable is handled with great celerity. All the 'longshoremen who can work con veniently are put at it As the jobbers also want to handle rapidly there is an army of trucks and a pandemonium of sounds and confusion. There are lighters loaded with freight cars bearing the signs of all the trunk lines in the country alongside the pier, and into these cars the big bunches of fruit are hustled and packed on end. AN ANIMATED SCENE. The truckmen howl and the 'longshore men howl and the bosses on deck and below howl in unison. Everybody howls and everybody is on the dead jump. If there were any banana peelings on that banana dock there would be a score of broken legs every day. But the fruit is green as green as grass. You couldn't peel it with a butcher knife, and, as for eating it, you might as well eat raw sweet potatoes. It is so green that it turns everything else green. The decks are green, the wharf is green, the whole aspect is green. And when you look down the open hatches and see ana smell that mass of green stuff packed down to the keel you feel an almost sickening sensation. It turns the stomach green. I think the banana is largely a cultivated taste with Northern people. I know it was a long time after I had first tasted one be fore 1 could truthfully say I enjoyed it. But if the beginner could start in with a sight of these big green bunches and, get a sniff of that sickly green smell that comes up from the banana ships' hold he would never go any further. Yet no simple diet goes farther than banana and milk. In summer it is most healthful, nutritious and agree able. If I lived in a banana country and had a cow I should do no work to speak of, and if I starved todeathit would be because I would be too lazy to milk the cow. Chaeles Theodore Mtjbbay. ONIONS BY THE BARREL. A Physician Buys Them In That Way for Family Use Better Than Medicine for Children Elllco Serena's Column of Useful Recipes. WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. A prominent physician was seen buying a barrel of onions, and being guyed about his purchase, said: "1 always have boiled onions for dinner for the- benefit of my children. I like onions, too. They are the best medicine I know of for preventing colds. Feed onions raw, boiled or baked to the children three or four times a week, and they'll grow up healthy and strong. No worms, no scarlatina, nodiptheria where children eat plenty of onions." I append a recipe for onion soup: Slice a couple of Spanish onions, powder them well with flour, and let them take a turn or two in the frying pan with plenty of butter. Before theybegin to brown add wa ter and seasoning of salt and pepper to taste. Boil until the onion's axe tender and serve over slices of bread or toast. Following are some general recipes: Quince and Apply Jelly. Take equal quantities of qninces and ap ples. Stew the fruit separately till tender, strain the juice, mix and boil 20 minutes. Add the sugar, which has been heated in a slow oven, and boll to a jelly. Pried Green Tomatoes. Select large, round tomatoes, cut off both ends and out in slices, not too thin. Dredge well with flour, season and fry brown in hot butter. Garnish with fried onions. Delicate Padding. Spread thin slices of spongecake stale may ho used with sieved apple sauce or apple jelly. Make in sandwich form, ar range in a deep dessert dish, and smother with boiled custard. 'Keep in a cool place until ready to serve- Kippered Herring. Put the herrings in a pan, pour over enough boiling water to cover them; take them out immediately and put them skin down in a frying-pan. For two herrings put half an ounce ot butter and a tablespoonful of hot water into the pan and haste frequent ly with it for 10 minutes, taking care that the Are is not strong enough to boll tha fish the Blower the cooking the better. Place on a hot dish, spread a small piece of butter over the flail, sprinkle lightly with pepper and serve hot. Celery on Toast. Cut fresh, crisp celery in half Inch pieces, put into a stew pan, cover with boiling water and add a pinch of soda. Boil 20 min utes, pour off the water and boil 30 minutes longer. Turn it into a colander to drain, then remove to tho stew pan, add cream, butter and seasoning. When quite hot pour it over toasted bread and servo at once. Following are some frugal dishes: Cold Boast Beef With Potatoes. Mash potatoes with hot milk, add the yolk of an egg, butter and seasoning. Slice the cold beet and lay it at the bottom of a baking dish, with some sliced onion, salt, pepper and beef gravy. Cover the whole with a thick paste of potato, making it to rise In the center above the edge of the dish. Score the crust In equal sizes and bake in the oven un til brown. Apple Tart. Cut the remains of cold apple tart Into tri angular shapes and arrange in a dessert dish, leaving the center to be filled with cus tard Cold Pork. Cut the poik into neat slices and arrange on a bed of apple sauce. Cold Lamb. Fry slices or ohops of lamb in batter until they are lightly browned and serve them on a dish of spinach. Fotatoes and Spinach or Cabbage. Moisten cold mashed potatoes with a lit tle white sauco. Take cold cabbage or spin ach, and chop either one very fine. Moisten with brown gravy and place in layers in a tin mould. Cover the top -and put in a pan of boiling water. When quite hot, turn out and serve at once. Cold Bice Pnddlng. Eemovo the crust from cold rice pudding. Pour over the pudding boiled custard, and tuft with jelly or preserves. Babble and Squeak. Cut into pieces convenient for frying, cold roast or boiled beef; pepper, salt and fry them; when done lay on a hot drainer, and while the meat Is draining have In readiness n cabbage already boiled in two water: chop it smill and put it In the frying-pan with some butter. Add seasoning, and keep stirring it that all may be equally done. Bomovofrom the lire and place in the cen ter of a dish, and arrange the slices of meat neatly around It Beef Blssolcs. Mince and season cold beef and flavor It with mushroom or walnut catsup. Make a very thin paste of beef dripping, roll it out in thin pieces about four inches square, in close in each niece some of the mince, cut neatly all round and fry in dripping light brown. Potato Carry. Mash cold potatoes with minced onion, salt, pepper and curry powder to taste: form into smalkballs with egg and bread crumbs, fiy brown and Berve with gravy flavored with curry powder. Plain Bice Podding. Put Into a baking dish a quart of new milk, four tablespoonfuis of rioe, washed and picked, a tahlespoonful of moist sugar, some grated lemon peel, a piece of stick cinna mon and two or three pieces (small) of cold butter. Bake in a slow oven for three or four hours. Snow Cake. Take the whites of two eggs beat well, add one cupful of sugar, a cuplul and a half at cornstarch, a half teaspoonful of soda, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one tea spoonful of lemon extract. Bake 30 minutes in a brisk oven and then test with a straw. It may require a few minutes more. Bints for the Household. Meat used for salad whether of flsh, flesh or fowl, should not be minced, but picked or cut, not very fine. In selecting mutton if the fat breaks easily it is young. In o'od mutton the flesh is rather dark the.iat white. Fat may be used over and over again by training as long as it lasts. The b8st flour Is the cheapest. Tomatoes contain one of the strongest acids. They should never be cooked in tin. Fbesbness counts more with fish than with any other kind of food. The best kettles for pickling, as well as for preserving, are those lined with por celain. Never under any oircumstance use tin In connection with red fruits. Boil or steam sweet corn ten to 15 minutes. Lone: boiling renders it bard and destroys the flavor. Elliot Seeeha. he drew a Parallel How Bill Nye Treated a Member of His Staff Who Got Impertinent. LETTERS THAT TELL THE STORY. The Trouble Was All About an Entertain ment With Ice Cream. A MODEL OF -ENGLISH LITEEATUEE rcORRESPOXnENCE Or THE DISPATCH. Buncombe County, N. C, Sept. 10. Biding on the Eichmond and Danville Kailroad the other day for an hour or so, I was slightly startled on seeing the some what faded features of Mr. Corundum J. Heltz, a former fellow townsman of mine, who used to help me run the paper at home, up to the time the foreman took it in part payment of his salary. Mr. Meltz now lives in North Carolina, and is editing the much obliged column of a Tarheel exchange. The much obliged column is that depart ment which acknowledges the receipt of a rutabaga in the form of a kangaroo and then takes the rutabaga in payment tor same. He says that, on the whole, he has done better here than he did in "Wyoming, and really lives higher. Last week six speci mens of deformed fruit and a sack of hulled com came into his department. Besides this, he "was shown" a stalk of corn over 9 feet 5 inches in height and a pair of twin colts connected at birth by a natural neck yoke. Though some of these things, of course, are not edible, he says he does well, and that he thinks the climate alone is far more nutritious than that of "Wyoming. Looking over my papers when I got to my flat, I found "copy'' of a little p'arallel col umn sendoffj which I was just about to print on Mr. Meltz when the foreman took charge. This is it: To the Editor of this To Sir. Corundum 3. Paper: Meltz: Sir My attention Sib Your note is has been called to a printed adjacent to most unwarranted these words of cheer, and indecent attack which will show how made upon me by it was that we spoke your paper In its last of your ice cream issue regarding the scume in a free and ice cream which was nntrammeled style, had on my lawn for The first of our artl the children of poor cle, Mr. Meltz, yon property holders and will nptice appears al voters of this place most verbatim as you on the 19th Inst. wrote It, but beiore When respectable going to press our and law abiding jpeo- reporter who went pie are attacked in down to do your this way it ia tima to debauch, suffered call a halt. so keenly fr om The pain I felt on the effects of having my attention your condensed milk called,tothereference and cornstarch, to can hardly be over- gether with the lining estimated. Foryears of the freezer which Ihavobeenaconstant he had scraped off in reader of yonr paper, order to allay the and also have been its pangs of hunger, that friend. When others he added a few lines about mewasdo wning regarding yours tyle of it on every hand, I threesheetgenerosity. have said, "No,I think We well recall the you are a little off in day we first met you regards to that." And here in this office, and sometimeswhenltwus when you became a as much as a man's member of our staff. life was worth to stand You said thent hat you up for your paper I shrank frompubiicity. would stand up for it. You have been in the The reference to me shrinking business and the doings which ever since, was had at my house Youhadbeenpolnted was scurrilous in the out to ns by our fore extreme. We had in man, and wa still re every regard what call your appearance might be called a rat- as you sat there in our tlingtime.andforyou revolving chair with to attack it and make the gladsunlight shim it a personal matter merlne through your was, tome, mostpain- asparagus whiskers, ful, and I think to be You even then wore real low. as also does that same old bunch all those with which I grass beard instead of have been thrown Into anecktie, andthehor contactwith since the nets built their nests issue of your paper, in it every spring. It I hate to be all the used to delight our time in print and see then devil to come my name before the upon yousnddenlyand people.andithas been scare a rabbit out of such a little while yonrwhiskers, Corun since I appeared in dum. these columns lathe You also wore a lit tie capacity of a contrib- peachstone charm in ntor, askingforapor- the form of a basket tion of yonr space for on your watch chain, the. purpose of thank- The chain was made ing my many friends, byone of your deserted whohaddonesomuch wives. Itwasmadoof to make the last ill- horsehair, and was as ness of my wife a sue-pliable as an iron cess bridge. As I say, I dislike to After that w met be constantly before you on the street the people in the light during a thunder of a contributor, but shower. You explain when the leading pa- ed to ns your idea per of our town sours of divine wrath while on my Ice cream and ydu booked us with attacks my motives, your forefinger 1 n as I said, I think it is our buttonhole time to call a halt. and held an ambrella I have lived in this over yourself with place now, boy and tho other so that man, for over seven one of the points took years, and I have yet ns Just below the to know of any paper bosom. We can still ever before speaking reraemberwhatacold an unkind word re- rain it was, and how garding my course of chilly it felt on- our conduct. It was my stomach, idea to have a good We remember that time on my own your first idea regard- f rounds, and to do all ing business was to could to make it a prmt in our paper a success, and I spoke to short advertisement you about sending regarding a remedy down a man to write which could be used it up more as a joke at home, and which 'than anything else. you said would catch When lie says that a goodmany suckers, mymotives and my ice especiallyyoung folks cream were both adul- and country people, terated ha does me a Do you remember great injury, attereat- that? ingwnatlthoughtwas Do yon remember anungodly amount of how we had a concert the same. for the fresh air But let me be brief, fund and asked you to Ihaveheenhereinthis loan us your cabinet place sevenyears.and organ and how you Ibelongtoeverything said certainly, and that is worth belong- how we got a drav and ing to. When a man paid four iaollars to that amounts to any- moveitto the hall and thing is buried here four dollars to move it you will always see back,and how we had me in some kind of to move'it to a differ uniform following his ent house, as you had remains.ormayhaoas moved iu the mean a pallbearer. I have a time, and had got us larger and better rec- to move your cabinet ord as a pallbearer organ tor you at eight than most any other dollars, and when we man with so lew ad- tried to play on it at vantages as I have, tho hall we lonndthat I. have also shaken you had removed the hands with everypres- bellows from it? . ident of tho United It is only as a matter States except Halford of courtegyon the part since James Buchan- of thepostraasterthat an, and I believe that we got your letter, for I have been a consist-' he says that the stamp ent professor and un- had been used before, swering believer in a and so he wishes that burning hell, with a jou would not do that dralt to it that must w ay any more, lie certainly give to one also says that where who leels that he is you lived before you wellsavedamostcom- came hero, they say fortingand delirious-; hat your eldest son ly soothing sensation, broke Jail and cam0 As I say, 1 hate to home, and that when be before the public a reward of $200 was offeredyonturnedhlm over to the sberlff.ana that Is the way you got your start. AtLIt- A KAflhAl. Whftfft VOn citizen of some promi nence herelor the pait seven years, boy and man, against wnom the tongue of scandal has never to my knowledge been lev eled, I must protest, and at the same time say that I do not pro pose to stand it. lived prior to that, the nnfltmaster aavs VOU got shot in a water melon paten witnrocK Bait, and that before hot weather comes again you onght to get another dose. Airing and Disinfecting the Office, My lawyer will also The general lmpres call upon you to-day slon is that yon have with a writ, which yon been trying for sixty may possibly under- one years to get hold stand better than this of a scheme whereby courteous note, which, yon could do a kind If you use, I hope you act In secretandgetlt will see Is spelled cor- Into the papernext to rect. In my caTd to pure reading matter, the puhlio after the You can trot out loss of my recent wife, your lawyer, and wo In which I said that I we will meet him on hoped at an early day grounds of social to return the favor to eqality. To-morrow those who had been so we will publish an ac thoughtful as to come count of how the nnd tend out and fuss White Caps whipped around and arrange yon .in Vigo county the deceased so that and put tobacco sauce she was'flt to be seen, on the place, also in which I said We do not fear you, God moved in a mys- Mr. Meltz, for we re terious way his won- gard you as an lntel ders to perform, your lectual eggplant, priateruseda small g You have wielded for the name of the too much Influence DIety.andmade other over this paper nl hreakswhich hasbeen ready, and visitors a source of levity ever who came here while sense. yon wore waiting for Youwillpleasewrlte the pfoor of one of anapologeticeditorial yonr commnnicationa for the next Issue of last week say that you your paper or be pre- are the same man who pared for a sickening was tarred and feath deathwhlchwillmake ered in Wayne county, yonr relations turn and that yon have away and look out of never settled for the thewlndowduringthe tar. funeral. We can stand a good I hate to be all the deal, Mr. Meltz, in the tlmebeforethepublic, way of free hand cor andifl could have my respondence, hut we own way about it I learn that on the would keep in the strength of yonr-com-background. Public-munications, which ity has no charms for have too often ap me. For over two peared in these col years I have seemed nmns(weregrettosay to live in a glass case, because we could not My course, therefore, think of pieces to run has been of course in their stead), you criticised.bntlwould have been accorded rather not be made so transportation and re prominent. I would freshments for man rather that others and beast, would introduce the Itis now time to call lectuier when he a halt. Your atten comeshereandletme tion will naver more off. Of course I always after thisibe called to have Introduced lee- any allusion to your turerstkat came nere self in these columns, andwithsomesuccess. We now have another often doing it in such party who is going to a way as to make the take yonr place. He lecture itself sound came yesterday with a very flat, but I would sash of honey and a rather of not done it. desire to avail himself I would rather keep of our columns. You in the background, are therefore excused, Yetlhaveal ways been Mr. Meltz. Yon may kindofa favorite hero return to your former and had a seat on the avocations, if yon platform, often Intro- know where they are. ducingthe speakerfor We have aired the two seats and a local, office since yon went It is rather sad at away, Mr. Meltz, and tne age oi sixty-one nave attached an years to be attacked atomizer to a Babcock by a paper to which I Are extinguisher have contributed off loaded with chlor and on for seven Ides. Now teams do years, boy and man, not shy as they pass brightening i t up the office, and times from week to week are better with ns. when the editor's Yesterday we sold a brain seemedjnfested page of advertising with cockroaches and to a circus, and also everything known to agreed to run the science except ideas, name and date ding perhaps, onally across the first So now, If yon will page in red ink for $6. print this letter as a We do not see that sort of introduction we need you, Mr. toa well-worded apol-Meltz. Another man ogy, yon willnot only has been raised up stand better in the to take yonr place, community, but yon will avoid a lawsuit and a very untidy death. Mr. Meltz claims to Please print this on write the jrarest En theeditorial pageand giish of any one con I will be -op there at 3 nected with the press o'clock to look over in the United States, the preofs for typo- and Is the author of graphical errors. So the astounding head no more at present, line over .the murder sir. Respectfully, of an old lady: "Drug Cobtodum J. Meltb. from her bed and stuck with a stab knife." I am glad to know that he Is doing well, and that he has not missed an editorial ex cursion In 10 years. Bill Ktz. A PALACE MADE OF HAT. It Covers an Acre of Ground and Its Towers Beach 90 Feet High. Chicago Tribune, The second annual inter-State hay palace will be opened at Momence, 111., September 16, with an address by Governor I'ifer. This palace is built of baled hay and straw, and a framework of lumber. The build ing is twice the size of last year's palace and will run 221 feet north from The Hay Palace. the entrance, with a maximum width of 224 leet. It will cover one acre of ground. The palace will be 32 feet in height, sur mounted by three towers running np 90 feet or more. Great efforts are being made to make the interior decorations equal to any thing of the kind yet seen in the country. A highly-decorated gallery, 500 feet in. length, will extend around the interior of the palace. Various cities and localities in this and adjoining States have been asked to erect booths containing exhibit represent ing their agricultural and industrial inter ests. In the construction of the palace there will be used 210 tons of hay, 190,000 feet of lumber, 15 tons of decorating mate rials and eight tons of roofing paper. The palace and grounds will be lighted by means of 250 electric lights. Transmission of Power. Gisbert Kapp, in a recently revised work, lays down some useful maxims in connec tion with the transmission of power. Ho holds that it pays to transmit cheap water power by wire rope if the distance Is less than a mile,and electrically if tbn distance is a mile or more. This applies to all powers. It pays to transmit Cheap steam power if the amount of energy required at tlio receiving station does not exceed ten horse power. If the distance is less than a- mile wire rope transmission should he adopted, hut for distances of one, two and three miles the transmission should he doiie electrically. Beyond this limit a small local steam or gus engine is recommended by Mr. Kapp to be preferable. through the medium of the nress. but as a ; RAILWAY ACCIDENTS May Be Preyented by the Use of Electrical Communication. HOW A COLLEGE CfiEW WON AEACE. Uses of the Balloon and Telephone in Engagements at Sea. - THE U5DEBGR0TOD "WIRES OP CETSX warms ron tot dispatch. The recent agitation of railway employes to England for shorter hours has led to the appointment by the Legislature of a com mittee to inquire into the hours of railway servants. That overwork for engine drivers, firemen and conductors can be entirely abolished is doubtful, hut there Is no ques tion that tha existing conditions can be greatly mitigated by improvement In tne apparatus for the working of the trains. Although it is to be desired in the interest of safety to shorten the hours of railway employes, it Is a fallacy to ascribe to ex cessive hours any great proportions of acci dents. The inquiries of the British Board of Trade prove that only a few accidents can really be ascribed to overwork; also that accidents have happened with men quite fresh to their work. It has been frequently shown, however, that signal men and engine drivers are not so much overworked as overtaxed, and that this overtaxing of the men Is the primary cause of accidents. The ear of the engine driver Is always listening keenly for certain sounds, his eye is strained to catch the first glimpse of each signal and to see that all is right with the train, ana his mind is con tinually exercised whether any of the sig nals may not be delivering a false message, only to lead him and his passengers forward to destruction. The case is worse with the signalman; not only has he to undergo the same mental exertion as the engine driver, but in addition he has in some cases to suffer no mean strain on his muscular power. In order to remedy this state of things It is now proposed to call in the aid of elec tricity. As matters stand at present, when once a train has left Its starting point it can rarely be communicated with until it reaches the next stopping place. Were a system provided for rapid and direct communica tion between the Btatiop master and the engine driver, greater regularity of service could be secured and delays or break-downs would be quickly reported. Thus the sta tion masters would be enabled to adapt the service to these changed conditions, and If excessive hours could not thereby be totally abolished, they could at least be reduced to a minimum. A system mignt be adopted by the railway companies for providing tele phonic communication between the station masters and the trains on the line, which would he more generally useful than tha present train telegraph, and if a thoroughly practical apparatus of thi3 kindoouldhe adopted, the outcry against railway over work might be soon a thing of the past. Underground "Wires In China. It Is well known among electricians that the telegraph wires in China are run under ground, and it has been remarked as singu lar that what it has been foundmost difficult to even partially accomplish in this country by means of stringent municipal enact ments, has been done years ago in the land of the' wily Mongolian. There are no bury ing grounds in China, and the bodies of the dead are laid In yards or gardens or any con venient place, so that In some thickly popu lated districts they are resting beneath every few rods of earth. When the tele graph company that bpd the task of putting up the first poles went to work, the workmen wonld be embarrassed every now and again by the onslaughts of wrathful Chinamen, who would rush furiously upon certain poles and chop them to the ground, warning the workmen with menacing signs that they would put them up again at their peril This form of opposition at last became so serious that the work was suspended and an explanation was demanded from the author ities. It was then learned that the poles which were cut down had cast a shadow some time during the day on the graves of revered ancestors of Chinamen, and the in sult could be wiped out in no other way hut by summarily removing the poles. It was found that this superstition was too sacred among Chinese to be overcome by persua sion or bribery, and at length, the telegraph company as a matter of economy and self protection, laid their wires beneath tne sur laoe, where they have been ever since. Balloon Telegraph and Telephone. The French are devoting great attention to the use of balloons for telegraphic and telephonlo purposes on land and at sea. Borne French officers who recently made a balloon ascent from a man-of-war stated that they had no difficulty in making out with the aid of telescopes not only the move ments of all the vessels visible to their ex tended horizon, but that they could even discern their nationalities and the courses they were steering. All this information they transmitted to their ship below by means of a telephone, the wires of which were strung alongside the rope that held the balloon captive. The observers stated that no building or shin for 20 to 23 miles round could escape the notice of the balloonist, and they also reported that they conld see vertically downward toward the bottom of the sea to a depth of nearly 100 feet, the water, from a great height, appearing trans parent. Such a means of observation would manifestly be of the utmost value in time of war. For Instance, in case ot a fleet lying on blockade duty, or intending to attack a fortified place, the observer, looking down upon the coast, can discover batteries, the number and caliber of the guns, the sea force ensconced behind points of land ready to dash out to tho attack, and the torpedo operators maneuvering their deadly weapons. In approaching a coast the ob server aloft can act as a pilot, indicating the route, so as to avoid submarine mines and other submarine obstructions. An Electrlo Coxswain. An entirely new feature was introduced In an eight-oar shell race rowed last week on the Passaic river. As Is well known.it Is the custom for the coxswain to instruct the rowers of a racing boat, and to Ineite them by earnest adjurations to redouble their efforts to push the nose of their craft first to the winning buoy. In doing this a damaging hint of the tactics employed is often given to the competing boat, and such a hint has often been the means of wrestling the vic tory from the boat of the too vociferous coxswain. It occurred to an electrician, who was also an-ardent oarsman, tnat this danger might be avoided by the exercise of a little ingennity, so he made his arrange ments before the day of the race, and when the boat in which he rowed came off the winner, the rest of the competitors won dered at the unwonted silence of the victori ous coxswain. This was explained by an examination of the boat. A code of electrlo signalshad been predetermined on by which the coxswain, on pressing a button, conld communicate with each man of the crew. Under each seat, except that of "So. 7 and No. 8, who were near enough to the cox-, swain to bespoken to in a very low tone of voice, wa3 a "buzz," and the pressure of the bntton controlled by the coxswain, by its longer or shorter duration, conveyed to the occupant of each seat the necessary injunc tion. Portable Electric Lamp, A portable electric lamp and battery, which Is one of the newest electrical de vices, 13 destined to be very useful under many conditions where hitherto the ap pliances available were clumsy or inade quate. The sphere of usefulness of such de vices as these are remarkably wide, as will he seen from the fact that it is proposed to produce various other types for street car fighting, wreckers' use, medical batteries for cauterv purposes, carriage and cab light ing, propellfngpleasure boats, lsloated light ing, and small batteries for stage and spec tacular effects, and for bicycles. Electric Cars for Sciatica. A correspondent of a medical paper states that he has had great success In the elec trical treatment of sciatica. He maintains that if tho positive pole of a galvanic bat tery, having the pole (carbon preferred) covered with absorbent cotton and moist ened with chloroform, be put over the parts sufferins from sciatica, and five to ten milll amperes of current be passed through it everv other day for a short time, a cure. will he effected If there is no constitutional trouble. "Electric Registering Till. Some time ago an electrlo till was brought out in England which materially decreased the possibility of tampering, and at the same time afforded an excellent check on the day's receipts. The Inventor has made sev eral improvements on the original device, which will now register accurately every coin received, for a cent to a 20 piece. By s simple arrangement the till can be placed in any part of the store, and as an Indicator It la said to work perfectly. M mMwmuJ
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