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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
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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.
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1710 Peace-fully.
1711 Asp, weasel, wasp, easel,
1712 Rescue, secure.
1713 A
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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.
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