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RETURN OF THE FISHING FLEET
The beats come sailing up the bay,
Aad no by one their anchor cwtf
Btnrn-heaten are their sides and grayi
Their flag are at half-mast.
And one by one they furl their nails.
And slowly pay their anchors out;
Rope, frayed and white, bang from
their rati,
- With broken spar about.
like phantom ships they cronn the bay,
- With bull and rigging weather worn;
See. half their lifeboats wanned away,
Their canvas stained and torn.
And of the men they carried out
But few. It seems, are there on deckj
They move at ghost might more about
Upon tome battered wreck.
Then from the shore the watcher cry,
"Where In my brother, hubsnd, font'
"htm on the bnnkn," the dread reply
Goes ba'k In word that stun.
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It was a queer old house, halt dis
mantled and overgrown with ivy.
Standing by Itself, on the very borders
l a dismal-looking part of the coun
try, where a few travelers came,
thane Underhlll had selected It as the
tost secure hiding place for the wom
an he intended some day to make bis
wife.
If he could have won her consent
she would have been his wife long
ago; but Alice Miles had a will of her
own, notwithstanding her low spirit
had been sadly broken by the treat
ment she had undergone, she still re
fused to listen to Thane Underbill's
protestation of love.
For three months she had been se
cluded In that ruinous old house, with
nly'one servant for company and
protection, and the dreadful thought
urging to and fro In her mind that
in one week more he would make her
bis wife, unless in that time she could
manage to escape.
' Out of her narrow windows she
could see the moon, and a white-robed
train of stars, that lighted up the dim
fields stretching away toward the sea;
ehe could catch the sweet murmurs
cf the winds that wafted by, drifting
away under the cool shadow of the
trees; far away there was the sound of '
a bell, rising and falling on the lone
some night air.
And as she sat there in the moonlit
stillness a host of happy memories
thronged her brain, whose perished
brightness brought tears to her eyes.
There was her mother, who mourned
her as dead, and who was going down
in sorrow to the grave and there was
Acton Lloyd, whose promised wife she
was six months before; he thought her
false first then dead and she bad no
knowledge cf him at all.
It was a long time before she even
knew so much. It was one night,
when locked in her lonely room, and
Thane Underbill had supposed her
asleep, that he had Jested carelessly
with the man who Jlad promised to
marry them, and revealed all his own
villainy to the shuddering listener.
"HuBh! not so loud" the second
voice had said. "She may hear you!"
"It wouldn't matter if she did!" and
that she knew was in Thane Under
bill's voice. "I have treated her with
kindness long enough, in the hope that
aha would learn to love me; for in
spite of the sneer on your face, I love
the girl, and would give half I possess
Jf she loved me in return. But she
never will, and so she must be my wife
without it."
"How will you manage it?"
"I shall take tea with her tomorrow
night, and put a powder in her cup
which will make her powerless to re
iBt us. It won't injure her, but for
the time it will so benumb her senses
that she will do as I command her.
"When the old clock in the hall there
strikes ten you will come in and say
the words that are to make her my
wife."
"And what do you propose to do
then? Live here and enjoy yourselves
like a pair of turtle doves?"
"We must stay here a week or two,"
Thane Underhlll rejoined, "until I can
settle my business affairs, and then I
shall take her abroad. Her mother
and her lover both suppose that she
eloped with me and was killed In that
railway collision. So they sit at home
and mourn, and give me a chance to
carry out my plans."
Thane Underhlll did in reality sup
pose that Ethelyn White, the girl who
baft waited on Alice for the last four
days, had given her a sleeping potion,
and Uvit her senses were locked in
lumber; but for some purpose of her
own Ethelyn bad withheld It, and so
Alice had beard every word of the
conversation In the next room.
When they went out she crept quiet
ly away from the door and threw
herself down on the bed In an agony
of weeping.
There was a slight noise at the door,
and the little waiting-maid came soft
ly in, holding up her dress lest it
should niBtle on the floor.
"Are you asleep, Miss Alice?" she
whispered.
"No," said Alice, aloud.
"Hush! Bpeak in whispers, and do
sot lose your ' courage, for you have
friends waiting to help you."
"Heaven be thanked!" exclaimed
Alice. "But who are you? Are you
one of my friends?
"You shall know who I am in good
time," the maid rejoined. "It I bad
not "en your friend you would have
bad a drink tonight that would have
aent you to sleep two hours ago. Hare
area gained anytfling by being awake?"
"Everything!" said Alice, softly,
clasping in her own the little hands
offered her. 1
The next evening in aceoraaaee with
bis plot Thane nderhlll took P the
supper tray, carried it Into Alice's
room, set It down on the round table,
and moved one cup of tea across to
her.
Just then a draught of air made
the light flare.
"What does that mean?" he asked,
quickly.
"I broke the window today, to get
a breath of fresh air," she replied
wearily, beginning to stir the tea in
her cup; "and I tried to fasten my
shawl up there tonight, to keep the
air out but It won't stay, I'm cold
now!"
And she shivered slightly.
He got up to fasten the shawl for
her, and in the Instant when his back
was turned she changed the cups.
"You shall walk In the garden to
morrow," he said, quietly, coming
back to the table and sitting down.
"I don't want your dear cheeks to grow
pale."
"I must have liberty at some price
soon, Thane Underhlll, or I think I
shall dlo! I don't suppose you mean
to murder me with your unklndness,"
she said.
"My darling, how can you say such
dreadful things when you know how
I love you how little life would be
worth to me without you."
But Alice would not answer htm.
She only sipped her tea and took a
smalt slice of cake. Then she drew
back from the table, and looked at
her tiny watch.
"It is half-past nine," she said, at
length, as he made no move to go, "and
I am sleepy."
Just then there was a tap at the
door, and Ethelyn White beckoned to
him.
"The minister Is wanting you to
sign a paper before before the time,"
she said, hesitating and blushing.
He went out, locking the door be
hind blm.
'See that you are ready at ten
o'clock. You will be wanted as a wit
ness," he said to her.
She waited and listened until she
heard him go down the stairs; then
hurrying round to the other door, she
unlocked it, and admitted six persona
Three of them were policemen, and
Ethelyn made them walk on tip-toes
across the room, where the other door,
opening, would -lde their immediate
presence. The next person who en
tered was the old minister who had
baptized Alice Miles, and behind blm
came Acton Lloyd!
For one moment they were speech
less in each other's arms; then the
minister, in low tones, began and con
cluded the ceremony that made them
husband and wife, Acton having pro
cured a special license.
Alice turned to speak to Ethelyn;
but the falBe hair had vanished, and
the old brown dress had been replaced
by a pretty blue and white lawn and
there was Unett Lloyd, her hUBband's
brave young sister, who had, in some
way best known to herself, come there
as Miss Miles' waiting-maid.
But there was no time for explana
tion. The door was thrown suddenly
open, and Thane Underhlll and his
friend stood In astonishment on the
threshold.
Unett Lloyd made him a curtesy.
"We couldn't wait for Btich a tardy
groom," she said, laughing, "and so
Acton has taken your place." Just
then the clock struck ten.
The hour had come, but it was not
an hour of triumph for Underhlll.
New York News.
SELF-SUPPORTING OLD WOMEN.
Gray-Haired Grandmothers Who Find
Work for Their Feeble Hands.
The little grandmother in clean,
ctlff white apron, and gray hair so
cmooth that it ceemod to be actually
stretched across her old brow, was
more offonded than pleased to be told
that she was attractive because she
was old-fashioned. But old-fashioned
she certainly was. and attractive, too,
sitting in the sunlight of a window
where a few brave red geraniums
were growing, as she wound ball after
ball of strips of cloth for rag carpets.
In the same corner of a part of the
building In the West Side district of
New York where the Charity Organi
zation Society provides employment
for indigent women, sat half a dozen
others, none of them as quaint nor as
"spick and span" as the little grand
mother, but all of them just as busy
with the raw material for rag carpets.
And out of this charity work, de
signed to furnish an opportunity for
earning a little money to women not
strong enough for harder labor, has
grown quite an Industry the making
of rugs. It is a curious anomaly that
women who are among the poorest
and most helpless in the whole city
are Important in the making of an
article that is constantly in demand
by the dealers of the very highest
class who handle this sort of goods.
Remarkably pretty and very ser
viceable are the rugs which are made
by these old women of the West Side,
but I must give credit for that to Mr,
Hinsdale, who is manager of this part
of the establishment. The rugs made
here are of the sort that are desired
for the floors of summer cottages, or
for rooms which are fitted with fur
niture of the mission style. Tbey are
woven as rag carpets are, but are
more carefully designed and mado of
hotter material. The old women have
only a part in the making of the rugs,
as the cutting of the cloth and the
dyeing and weaving are done outside,
Leslie's Weekly.
' The peninsula of India, which In
area is half, the sice of the United
States, has a. population of 300,000,000,
of whom 200,000,000 are farmera
JAP AHMY ON THE MARCH
THE ABLE LITTLE SOLDIER
THAT FIGHT FOR THE MIKADO.
They Can Go Long Distances snd Cr-
ry Hesvy Leads Without Fstlgut
Cavslry Held In Contempt by the
Infantry Hardships of War Borne
Cheerfully.
Kiml go yo wa chiyonl
Yachly o nl sazare
Isal ni iwaoto narete
Kokeno musubumarie.
Japanese War Song.
The Japanese "Bobby." as the Brit
ish Tommy Atkins rails the little fight
ing man of the Mikado, Is a great
singer, after his fashion. Whether he
Is tugging at the trail ropes of a 3.2-
Inch Hotcliklss on a rocky, slippery,
frozen mountain path or hiking along
30 miles a tlay with B0 pounds of
weight on him, he relieves the monot
ony of the business with a burst of
song, and his favorite ballad Is the
one quoted above, of which a free
translation Is as follows:
Our gracious sovereign
Shall reign a thousand years
Until the little pebble
Grows Into a mighty rock
Covered with ancient moss.
Bobby Is the most cheerful and will
ing marcher that ever carried a knap
sack and a gun. Away back In the
dim past there must have been a
Good Roads Association In Japan
which did Its work well. With good
roads everywhere It Is only natural
thai the .lnpnncse should have taken
to jLcdestrlanlsm. Generation after
generation of long distance walkers In
Japan have evolved the Japanese sol
dier of the 20th century, who astounds
the European experts by his march
ing.
If you have ever carried a 10-pound
rifle, a 20-pound knapsack and a cart
ridge belt full of ammunition, haver
sack and canteen, aggregating a total
of 60 pounds, on a long march, you
know what it is and If you have not
had the experience words cannot give
a proper Idea of It to you.
The first five miles are comparative
ly easy. The next five are hard, the
next distressing, and then it becomes
torture, but not to Bobby. His pedes
trian ancestors have bequeathed him a
pair of superb legs with muscles like
steel and the most marvellous wind.
Infantry companies travel stretches of
five miles at the double quick Just for
fun.
In all campaigns of European and
American armies it has been Impossi
ble to make the Infantry soldier carry
his knapsack when It tires him on a
forced march. The line of march of
European troops Is always strewn
with knapsacks discarded by exhaust
ed Infantry soldiers.
Such Is not the case with the Japan
ese army. Bobby never Wows his
knapsack away. No matter how fast
he has to travel, nor how far, it stays
on his back until he goes Into camp.
Bobby has no little contempt for his
brother, the cavalryman. He knows
that after a month or two of campaign
ing he will be able to outmarch the
cavalryman and leavo'hlm far behind.
The cavalry may clatter bravely for
ward for the first few weeks, but that
is all. Then the horses begin to go
lame, get sore backs and break down.
The Japenese Bobby laughs at the
troubles of the cavalryman, for he
knows no troubles of any kind himself.
Even his feet dp not give him any se
rious trouble. If his shoes become
painful or wear out, he puts on a pair
of straw sandals and then he is com
fortable and able to march even bet
ter than before.
Commissary carts with several weeks
supply of rations accompany each bat
talion. Those carts are orawn by pon
ies, but there are a number of coolies
with every cart, and )i tho horses
break down tno coolies are able to pull
the carts quite as well. The coolie Is
the man behind the man behind the
gun in the Japanese army, and al
ways Insures a good dinner when
camp is reached.
Shelter tents are carried by the men
for emergency purposes, but are sel
dom used, as tho commissary carts
are generally at hand with the large
tents, each of which houses some 20
men. The diet of the Japanese sol
dier Is a simple one, consisting large
ly of rice, beans, dried fish and salt
vegetable pickles, washed down with
tea ad libitum.
It Is surprising how cheerful the
Japanese Bobby keeps under the mo
notonous conditions of campaigning.
He Is, in common with all Japanese
people, the possessor of a wonderful
inborn philosophy, a certain quality of
mind which enables him not only to
meet any crisis with calmness and
power, but to endure with patient res
ignation, and even cheerfulness, those
long periods of watching and waiting
In camps and fortified places that are
the most trying experiences of a sol
dier in warfare.
To while away the time Bobby has
a variety of sports and pastimes. Of
the more strenuous forms of sport he
Is most given to fencing and wrest
ling.
The fencing practice in the Japan
ese army is done with bamboo staves,
which are wielded with both bands
TLe combatants wear wadded armor
and masks for protection.
The system of attack and defence
is elaborate and much training Is re
quired to attain proflcloncy. European
experts declare that the Japanese fenc
er Is the most formidable adversary
in the world.
Wrestling is a favorite sport and
one In which all soldiers exhibit won
derful skill. Wrestling matches be
( tweeo the champions of different regl-
ments are the great sporting events
of the year in the Japanese army.
The most popular pastime of the
soldier In the field Is playing "hanna-
awase," a Japanese game of cards not
unlike whist. The cards Ire 48 In
number. It Is more complicated than
whist and more difficult to master.
The gamo of "go," or Japanese dom
inoes, la also dear to the heart of the
Japanese Bobby, "do" Is played on a
board ruled off Into a 100 little
squares. Small black and white stones,
rut into little disks, are used to fill
the squares. The rules of the game
appear quite complicated to the for
eigner. "ShoJI," or Japanes-3 chess,
also Is a popular game.
The Japanese camps Impress the for
eigner as being very clean and order
ly. There is a marked absence of the
drunkenness and boisterous conduct so
common In the camps of European
armies. .Yet the Jppanese Bobby Is
fond of his sake. The discipline is so
strict that Bobby dues not dare to In
dulge his taste for sake except on rare
occasions.
In the evening, when circumstances
permit and the weather Is pleasant,
the men gather around tne campfire
and sing the quaint, monotonous Jap
anese folksongs. Perhaps some man
In tho company has a samisen, If so.
the Instrument is brought forth, and
to Its twanging accompanlcnt they
chant the old songs, which tell of the
deeds of heroes of old Japan and of
the beauties of nature.
As there Is no profanity In the Jap
anese language, the Japanese soldier
is not profane. In which respect he
differs from almost every other soldier
In the world.
The war cry of the Japanese soldier
when he charges the enemy Is "Ninon
banjal," which means "Japan forever."
New York Sun.
CUCKOO FOOLS THE CROW.
Story of a Bird In India That Robs a
Nest of Eggs.
A recently published book on India
thus tells how the koll. or Indian
cuckoo, fools the crow and gets Its
eggs Into the latter's nest, where they
are hatched and the young are reared
by the credulous crows: "When
everything is read." and a desirable
nest has been chosen the cock koll,
conspicuous in his shining black
plumage and crimson eyes, seats him
self on a prominent perch, while the
hen, In modest speckled gray garb,
lurks hidden among dense masses of
neighboring foliage. He then lifts up
his voice and shouts aloud, his voice
becoming more and more insistent
with every repetition of his call, and
very soon attracting tho attention of
the owners of the nest, which rush
otit to the attack and chase him away.
Now comes the chance for his wife,
who forthwith slips In to deposit her
egg. Very often she does this sue
ccssfully before the crows have re
turned, but every now and then she
Is caught In the act and driven off
like her husband, uttering volleys of
shrill outcries. The extreme differ
ences between the plumage of the
cock and that of the hen In this case
leave no room for doubt as to the
part that each sex plays in accom
plishing their felonious purpose; that
of tho male being clearly to distract
attention by his conspicuous appear
ance and Imperative outcry, and that
of the female to utilize her sober col
oring as a means of.lylng hidden until
she sees a favorable chance for In
vading the coveted nest."
Crows are so plentiful In India that
professional crow catchers are epi-
ployed to reduce their number. Tho
expert arrives about sundown, pro
vided with a sunicloncy of bird lime
and a bundle of bamboo rods fitting
into one another like the joints of a
fishing rod, and when the crows havo
settled down for A he night, but while
a certain amount of light remains, ho
sets to work. He quietly approaches
the foot of the tree he has chosen,
and having determined on an cllgllilo
point by careful scrutiny, applies
some of the lime to the slimmest of
his rods and goes on quietly and
steadily passing It upward among tho
branches fitting In joint after joint of
the series until the tip has arrived at
striking distance, when a sudden,
slight Inclination brings it Into ad'
hesive contact with his victim, which
la forthwith hauled down by main
force, struggling and expostulating
widely as It descends. The capture
and outcries of one after another
cause so little alarm among their
neighbors that several of them may
be taken almost from the same perch.
Of the Indian storks.oradjutantsthe
book already quoted says: "Their ap
pearance Is a strange medley a bl
zarre combination of the greatest
splendor with the basest squalor.
Were one to see only their wings
with their magnificent proportions
and their lovely tints of gray and
luvender, one would regard them with
unmixed admiration, but the bead
clothed In disgustingly scruffy skin
and straggling hairs, the malignantly
sneaking expression of the pallid
eyes and the ponderousness of the
huge beak have an almost mesmeric
effect In distracting attention from any
redeeming features In the picture.
Even the splendid gamboge, orange,
and Vermillion hues that paint tho
' distended pouch as it hangs down In
front of the chest, In place of redeem
ing the hideous and almost Indecent
character of tae appendage only
serve to accentuate the horror by at
tracting attention to Its presence."
Evidently a Mistake.
Him I envy Jack De Borem
takes life so easy.
He
Her You must be mistaken as to
his taking life easy.
Him Why do you think so?
Her He tried to talk me to death
last night Chicago News.
TOWER OF LONDON.
Famous Building Is Older Thsn Any
European Palscs. .
Possibly few persons are ' aware
that In comparison with the tower the
palaces and prisons throughout Eu
rope are modern creations. . Hep
worth Dixon establishes 'this fact
clearly in his admirable hlstnryi The
oldest bit of ralace In Europe that
of the west front of the Burg In Vien
na is the time of Henry VIII. The
Kremlin In Moscow, the Doge's pal
ace In Venice, are of the fourteenth
century. The seraglio In Stamboul
was built by Mahomet II. The oldest
part of the Vatican was commenced
by Borgia, whose name It bears. The
old Louvre was begun In the reign of
Henry VIII.; the Tulllerles In that of
Elizabeth. In the time of our civil
war Versailles was yet a swamp.
The ICth century claims the Eseu-
rial; the 1 8th. San Soucl. Jerusa
lem's Serall Is a Turkish edifice; the
palaces of Athens, Cairo, Teheran,
are nil of modern dale. So It is, too,
with the prisons. With the sole ex
ception of St. Anwlo In Home all are
of modern date as compared with
tbat one from which Ralph Flambard
escaped in the year 1100, the date of
the first crusade.
The crown jewels in the tower ore
worth, it may be supposed, some 3,
000,000. Everything of state regalia
Is there, with one notable exception.
The Koh-I-Nor is represented by a
crystal. Queen Alexandra wears the
original, on great occasions, as part
of her personal Jewels. The tower
has been the sovereign's strong room
for the storing of treasure ever
since tower dwelling monarchs were.
The old Jewel house itself was built
simultaneously with the royal mint.
when that establishment was with
in the tower walls.
The only attempt to steal the treas
ure Is historic. It was the feat of
that picturesque villain. Col. Blood.
He had Ingratiated himself with the
deputy keeper of the Jewels, had gone
so far as to propose a match between
his ward and the daughter of the offi
cial. All went smoothly. The bogus
swain turned up to be Inspected;
with him three others and the colonel.
They beat and gagged the old man,
secured the crown, orb and scepter,
and were JuBt making off. when, by
the strangest coincidence, the son of
the jewel keeper arrived from Flan
ders. The scene which followed would do
credit to the dramatist. The colonel,
disguised as a clergyman, had the
crown concealed beneath his cas
sock, and added his voice to the hue
and cry, "Stop the villain,'' be roared.
He had reached his horse before the
Imposture was discovered. When
they made for him be turned and
fired in the face of the men nearest
him. The pistol missed fire, and the
crown was saved; but not uninjured.
Trampled In the mud. Its Jewels were
all knocked out, and many of them
lost. An apprentice found the great
pearl, a scavenger the biggest dia
mond. "Well, It was a gallant deed;
It was to gain a crown," was all Blood
bad to say as tbey carried him a pris
oner to the dungeons.
But no ill befell him for this and
other treason. He bad played for
high stakes before, bad attempted to
surprise Dublin Castle and capture
the Duke of Ormonde, and that fail
ing, had coolly laid his plans to seize
and hang him when be returned to
Umdon. The outcome of all was
that, confessing to having plotted to
lake his sovereign's life, be was
granted a pension, and lived and died
in the odor of sanctity at court.
All this took place in the Martin
lower, which Is haunted to this day,
you aVe desired to believe. The
ghost Is that of Harry Percy, ninth
earl of Northumberland, who spent
14 years of his life a prisoner there.
Tho wizard carl, they called him. For
his companions ho had Raleigh, work
ing on his mystic preparation which he
hoped would produco an elixir of life;
and Herlot Allen, Torperley, his Magi,
as they were known. This llttlo co
terie discovered sun spots before tho
alert eye of Galileo had detected their
existence, and was the first to detect
the satellites of Jupiter. When, at
the end of his long imprisonment, the
earl returned to his home, he
founded a library from which half
the learning of following years bad
Us Inspiration. Only a sun dial,
fixed by Hertot's own hands, remnlnB
to commemorate that remarkable fel
lowship which did so much for the
glory of English science. St. Jnmes
Gazette.
Smart Women In Maine.
Somerset county is bragging a bit
on Its smart womtsi. An East Skow
hegan correspondent started the ball
a-rolllng and other towns are report
ing. For Instance, one of Larone'f
smart women ran the mowing
machine to cut 35 tons of hay, did all
the raking, helped load and unload
and did the housework for a family
of five, which includes a young child,
and is very much alive today. And
from Brown's Corner: Mrs. John
Richards has assisted in doing the
housework for 13 in the family and
did all the baking on four farms, and
when her husband cut tho hay on
tho fourth farm she did the house
work all alone for 21 men and did
the raking. I-ewlBton Journal.
Juat Like 'Em!
"I must have a new gown and coat
at once."
"Great thundoratlon, woman, how
can you ask for a gown and coat when
you have to testify In my bankruptcy
bearing next week?"
"I simply have to have them. Do
you thick I can fate tho people In
tho court room when I am wearing my
lid c'othes?" Indianapolis Pi n.
He 7
' Cocoanut Macaroons.
Mix two cups of grated cocoanut
with a cup and a half of powdered su
gar and enough cream to wet the mix
ture. Add the beaten whites of two
eggs and beat the mixture thoroughly.
Line a baking pan with buttered paper
and drop the mixture upon the paper
by the spoonful. Bake quickly, sifting
powdered sugar over the macaroons
while they are still warm.
How to Make Coffee.
The easiest and quickest way Is to
make It with cold water. Allow four
table-spoonfuls of coffee to one quart
of wad r; If you can spare halt an egg
or ha an eggshell, add to the coffee
in the pail or pot, pour the cold water
over It, shake vigorously and set on
hot stones over the bed of coals or
hang on a stout crane; allow It to
come to a boll vigorously three or
four minutes, and settle with two table-spoonfuls
of cold water.
Pickled Grapes.
Pick fresh grapes from the stems
without breaking, and put In a jar for
seven pounds of the fruit, a quart of
vinegar, three pounds of sugar, a ta
blespoonfnl each of whole cloves and
cinnamon sticks; boll the other Ingred
ients together for a tcvr minutes, then
cool till the finger can be borne In the
liquid. Pour tills upon the grapes,
which ore not to be cooked, put a
plate over the mouth rtf the Jar, and
set it in a cool place, where It Is not
to be disturbed for two or three weeks.
Pineapple 8auce.
A delicious hot pineapple sauce to
serve with Ice cream is made in this
way: Put a cup of pineapple juice
over the fire with a cup of granulated
sugar and cook 10 minutes. Set the
saucepan over a dish of hot water, add
the beaten yolks of two eggs and whip
until foamy. Remove from the fire
and mix gradually with the beaten
whites of the eggs. Pass with the
Ice cream for each one to help him
self or serve on the same dish with
the cream, taking care that It does not
stand a minute, as It would melt the
cream.
Household Helps.
No odor from onions will pervade
the house. It Is said, if a generous
piece of stale bread Is cooked with
them.
Eggs should be kept In a receptacle
to themselves since the shells (when
fresh) are so porous every strong od
or Is absorbed.
Use a small clam or thin-edged mus
sel shell for scraping pots and ket
tles and the cake turner for cleaning
off the molding board.
When the bars of the fire-grate have
burned red, a little sugar mixed with
the black lead will cause It to adhere
and last for some time.
An ingenious cook has a holder fas
tened to the dress belt by a long tape
while working In the kitchen, thereby
saving steps and burns.
After a can of condensed milk has
been opened, keep the lid raised, or
better still, cut It off so the contents
will be exposed to the air.
Porch or other small fish are much
better If fried quickly In deep, hot fat.
Larger fish can be fried slowly in a
skillet In hot salt pork fat.
For the meringue on pies use one
tahlcRpooiiful of granulated sugar to
the white of ono egg. It is more satis
factory than powdered Biigar.
If the cups In which custard is cook
ed are well buttered before the mix
ture Is turned in, it will be found
much easier to wash the cups.
When sweet corn is served on the
cob, leave a few of tho inner husks on
the ear when boiling as it will be much
sweeter and keep warm longer.
Stand the jar to be filled with hot
fruit on a steel knife blade or a cloth
wet with very hot water and there
will be no danger of a broken jar.
A novel pickle is made by combining
sweet corn and cabbage, each cooked
separately then scalded in sweet spic
ed vinegar and canned for winter
use.
The novice should memorize this
rule: white meats well done, dark
meats underdono, except in fowls
which should always he thoroughly
cooked.
One of those "In" and "out" regis
ters In the front hall and a little care
on the part of the member of the
household to keep them adjusted will
save the maid many unnecessary steps
as well as much valuable time to the
caller.
Folks who like the decoration on
chinaware to be In keeping with the.
use to which the dish Is to bo put will
probably fancy some recent additions
to the vegetable dish group In the
form of asparagus platters and plates,
each adorned with a bunch of aspar
agus, with a few radishes In the cen
ter. A long box, preferably a low pack
ing case, will be found a great con
venience by the woman who has not a
regularly fitted up sewing room. In
this she can place an unfinished skirt
at full length without danger of hav
ing it crushed during the Intervals of
work. Provided with a lid and cov
ered with crotonne, it ran pass for a
divan without a hint of Its utilitarian
purpose.
SCIENCE NOTES.
The so-called canals of Mars hare
been reproduced by M. A. Baumann
of Zurich, In the cracks and fissures
appearing In cylinders and spheres
subjected to great pressure.
A dentist . comes forward with the
suggestion that casts should be taken
of prisoners' mouths as a means of
Identification. He claims that the
mouths of no two people are alike.
A lake has been discovered on Kil
din Islnnd, Iapland, which contains
fresh wster on the top and salt water
on the bottom. The lake rises and
falls with the tide and Is evidently
connected with the sea by an under
ground channel.
Old-time notions receive another
rude shock from the strange theory
of M. Houssay, a French physiologist,
that meat-eating especially eating of
raw meat tends to Impart gentleness
Instead of ferocity. Ills experiments
were confined to fowls, part of which
were fed on grain and part on raw
meat, and the lutter proved decidedly
tamer and less combative.
A simple method of recording a '
ship's course it that advised by Mr.
W. Whlteman. The compass Is pro
vided with 3(10 electric contacts, and
Is connected by nine wires with a
registering apparatus. In which ' a
strip of paper Is moved forward one
millimeter every second by clockwork.
The paper is ruled with 3i0 lines, one
for each degree. The registering pen
always indicates the degree toward
which the compass needle Is pointing,
and tho lino drawn shows the extent
and time of every chatigo of direc
tion. The electro-steiillrtitor of M. Otto
Is an attempt to soi ,e the problem
of ozonizing water at the homo of the
consumer. The npp rtus Includes a
little box containing a transformer
and an ozonator, wit t a commutator
for reversing abou one hundred
times per second If the current Is
continuous. The o one generated
passes through a filt) . of wadding to
an cmulser, where tb water and cl
one are energetically mixed before
passing from the sj-'got The oz
onator may be conn cted to an or
dinary lighting circuit, and the cur
rent required Is ahot.t tho same as
for a simple Incandescent lamp.
"BONE-CABIN CUARRY."
The Greatest "Find" of Extinct Ani
mals Ever Made In s Single Locality.
In Central Wyoming, at tho head of
a "draw," or small valley, not far
from the Medicine How river, lies the
ruin of a small and unique building,
which marks the slto of the greatest
"find" of extinct animals made in a
single locality In any part of the world.
The fortunate fossil hunter who stum
bled on this site was iMr. Walter
Granger, of the American .Museum ex-'
petition of 1807.
In the spring of 189S, as I ap
proached tho hillock on which the
ruin stands, I observed, among the
beautiful flowers, the glooming cacti
and the dwarf bushes of the desert,
what were apparently numbers of
dark-brown boulders. On closer exam
ination. It proved that there Is really
not a single rock, hardly even a peb
ble, on this hillock; all these apparent
boulders are ponderous fossils which
have slowly accumulated or washed
out on the surface from a great dino
saur bed beneath. A Mexican sheep
herder hud collected some of these
petrllTed bones for tho foundations of
his cabin, the first ever built of such
strange materials. Tho excavation of
a promising outcrop was almost imme
diately rewarded by finding a thigh
bone nearly six feet In length which
sloped downward into the earth, run
ning Into tho lower leg aud finally in
to) the foot, with all the respective
parts lying in the nntural position as
In life. This proved to be the previ
ously unknown hind limb of the great
dinosaur Dtplodocus. In this manner
the "Bone-Cabin Quarry" was discov
ered and christened. From Henry
Fairfield Osborn's "Fossil Wonders of
tho West" in the Century.
A Frog's Appetite.
The frog's capacity for enveloping
bis comrades and assimilating them
was once shown by an Incident which
occured under the observation of one
it my acquaintances. He had return
ed . from the country with a lot of
frogs, large and small, which he had
obtained for one of the New York
educational Institutions. I have for
gotten how many frogs there wero,
but they numbered over 20 I am
quite certain. These he put Into a
largo bird cage, the wires of which
were close enough together to pre
vent even the smallest from escap
ing. On the third day he went to see
how his captives were doing and
round, greatly to bis surprise, that all
had disappeared with the exception of
two old "moss-backs," and they were
eyeing each other asknncn, apparent
ly in doubt as to which would be the
'last survivor of the whole ship's
company," as he expressed It.
As an Insect catcher the frog Is
quite expert, even such quick moving
species as the dragon fly often falling
victims to Its dexterity. Fishes are
also often captured, and good sized
ones, too, a flngerllng trout having
been found In the stomach of a frog
which was not more than six inches
in length. Forest and Stream,
The Czar has a brother, an uncle,
four first cousins, 10 second, 13 thlrj
and a great-uncle. His first and sec
ond cousins are "Imperial highnesses."
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