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Agatha Redmond. opera singer. starting
for rn ,nut drive In New YFork. flid a
stranger sent as her chauffeur. I,,alntg
the Sr. she goes Into, the park to rer.l
the will of an old friend of her mother.
who has left her property Ti. r, .he is
acoosted by a stranger, whI' foll.os htr
to the auto, climbs in and chll,ro,frms
her. James Hanmbleton of Lynnr M~ss..
wltnesses the abductin of Agatha it- I
mond. Hambleton sees Agatha forcibly
taken aboard a yacht. liHe st.ures a tug
and when near the yacht drops iver
board. Aleek Van Camp. friend of Ham
bleton, had an appointment with him. Not
meeting Hambleton, he makes a call upon
friends. Madame and Miss Melarne Rey
nier He proposes to the latter and is re
fused. Melanie explains that she is of
high birth In a German principality, from
which she had fled to escape an unwished
marriage. The three arrange a coast trip
po Van Camp's yacht, the Sea Gull.
Hambleton wakes up on board the Jeanne
rYAre, the yacht on which is Agatha
Redmond. His clothes and money belt
have been taken from him. lie meets a
man who introduces himself as Monsieur
Chatelard, who is Agatha's abdluctor.
They fight, but are interrupted by the
threatened sinking of the vessel.
CHAPTER V I-Continued.
There followed hours of superhuman
struggle to save the Jeanne D'Arc.
Her crew, sufficient In ordinary weath
er, was too small to cope with the
storm and the leaking ship. Ballast
had to be shifted or flung overboard.
Repairs had to be worked incessantly.
It transpired that the yacht had gone
far out of her course during the fog
the night before, and had tried to turn
inshore, even before the leak was dis
covered. No one knew what waters
they were that lashed so furiously
about the disabled craft. The storm
overhead had abated, but the rage of
the sea was unquolled. Before long
the engine was stopped by the rising
water, and then the hand pumps were
used. There was some hope that the
leak had been discovered and at least
partly repaired. The captain thought
that, if carefully managed, the yacht
might hold till daylight.
Jimmy ,oined the gang and worked
like a trojan, helping wherever a man
was needed, shifting ballast, untack
ling the boats, handling the pump. It
was at the pump that he found himself
some time during the night, working
endlessly, it seemed. Not once had
he lost sight of the real purpose of his
presence on the yacht. If Agatha Red
mond were aboard the unlucky vessel
-and he had moments of curious per
plexity about it-he was there to watch
for her safety. He pictured her sit
ting somewhere in the endangered ves
sel. She could not but be terrified at
her predicament. Whether shipwreck
or abduction threatened her, she must
feel that she had indeed fallen into
the hands of her enemies. He worked
his turn at the pump, then made up his
mind to risk no further delay, but to
search the ship's cabins. She was in
one of them, he believed; frightened
she must be, possibly ill. He had
done all that the furthest stretch of
duty could demand in assistance to
the ship. He would find Agatha Red
mond at any cost, if she were aboard
the Jeanne D'Aro. Again he thought
to himself that he was glad he was
there. Whatever purpose her ene
mies had, he alone was on her side.
he alone could do something to save
her.
It was now long past midnight, but
not pitch dark either on deck or on the
sea. The electric lights had gone out
long before, but lanterns had been
swung here and there from the deck
fixtures. As Jimmy came up, he
thought the men were prepar
ing to lower the boats, but when
he asked about it in his dif
ficult French, the sailor shook his
head. There were more people about
than he supposed the yacht carried;
several seamen, three or four other
men, and a fat woman sitting apath
etically on a pile of rope. He went
from group to group, and from end
to end of the yacht, looking for one
woman's face and figure. He saw
Monsleur Chatelard, examining one of
the boats. He ran down the saloon
stairway, determined to search the
abins before he gave up his quest
ut moment he prayed that the words
of Chatelard might be true, and that
she had never been aboard the yacht:
the next moment he prayed he might
find her behind the next closed door.
As James searched below deck, a
house palatial disclosed itself, even in
the dim light of the little lanterns.
Cabins roomy and comfortable. fur
nishings of exquisite taste, all the
paraphernalia of the cultured and the
rich were there. Some of the cabin
doors were standing open. and none
was locked. Jimmy beat on them,
eafled from room to room, finding.
nothing. Every human occupant wa,
Workings of the Camorra
Mow an Englishman Was Politely
Mulcted of 300 by Italian
Society.
A paean of rejoiclngs has gone up
in print over the verdict on the Ca
morra prisoners at Viterbo, and it is
stated-rather previously, I fear-that
the great secret society of Italy has
been scotched. That Naples will no
longer be its headquarters is proba
ble, but It is so widely spread over
the whole of Italy that it can be no
more killed by imprisoning its Nea
politan leaders than you can kill an
octopus by cutting off one of its ten
tacles. The society has local branches
in every town of Importance, and it
adapts its methods to the status of
the people whom it bleeds.
How polite the Camorrists can be a
true tale of how an Englishman sub
scribed to its funds will show. The
g>ilLshman in question, a married
man, took a house in one of the sea
ort towus of Italy, not Naples, and
gone. Sick at heart, he again rushed
on deck. Was he mistaken after all?
Or had they hidden her in some se
cret part of the ship where he could
not find her?
When Jimmy got back to the deck
he saw that the groups had gathered
on the pcrt side. Sharp orders were
being given. He crowded to the rail
ing, straining his eyes to see, and
found that they were transferring the
ship's company to the boats. A rope
ladder swung from the deck to a boat
beneath, which bobbed like a cork be
side the big, plunging yacht. Two peo
ple were in the boat, a sailor standing
at the bow, and a large muffled figure
of a woman sitting in the stern. Jim
my at once knew her to be the
apathetic fat woman he had seen a
few minutes before on deck. His eye
searched the company crowded about
the top of the rope ladder, and sudden
ly his heart leaped. There she was,
at the edge of the deck, waiting for
the captain to give the word for her to
descend to the boat below. As Jim
my's eyes grew accustomed to the
darkness, he saw her more and more
plainly, a pale face framed in a dark
hood, a tall, cloaked Agure waiting
calmly to obey the word from the su
perior officer.
It was the third time Jimmy had
seen her, but he felt as if he had found
one dearer than himself. His eyes
dwelt on her. She was not terrified;
her nerves were not shaken. "I am
ready," she said, turning to the cap
tain. It was the same fine, free voice,
suggesting--Oh, what did it not sug
gest! Never this dark, wild night of
danger! Jimmy thrilled to it again as
he had thrilled to it once before. He
waved Jubilant hands. "Agatha Red
mond!" he called, across the space
and heads that divided them.
Whether she heard his call he did
not know. At that moment the word
was given, and she turned an almost
smiling face to the captain in reply.
She knelt to the deck and got footing
on the slippery rope. Men above held
it and helped as best they could, while
the sailor below waited to receive her
into the little boat. She was steady
and quick as a woman in such a peril
ous position could be. As she de
scended, the rowboat, insecurely held
to the Jeanne D'Arc, slid sternward
a few feet; and while she waited in
midair for the boat to be brought up
again, the Jeanne D'Arc gave a
mighty plunge. The captain shouted
from the deck, a sailor yelled, then
another; the dipping sea tossed the
yacht so that for an instant the boat
below and the woman on the ladder
were hidden from Jim's view. He
climbed over the rail and edged along
the narrow margin of the deck until
he was a few feet nearer the rope,
his heart thumping with fear of
calamity.
And even as the thought came, the
thing happened. The wrenching of
the ropes, insecurity of ;heir fasten
ings, some blunder on the part of the
seamen-whatever it was, the rope
loosened like a filament of gauze, and,
with its precious burden, dropped into
the angry water. Before a breath
could be drawn, the black waves
churned over her head.
As. for the second time, Jim saw
disaster engulf the Vision that had
such power over him, he was seized
by a cold numbness.
"Oh. you brutes!" he groaned
aloud: but his groan had scarcely es
caped him when he heard loud alter
cation among the men, and in a mo
ment, the usual tones of Monsieur
Chatelard commanding:
"Never mind! Quick with the boat
on the other side!"
The seamen rushed to the opposite
side, now impatient to make the
boats. In the fear that was growing
momently upon the men, there was
no one to give a thought to the van
ished woman. Jimmy clung to the
rail for a second, peering over the
water. With a cry of gladness he
saw her pale face rise to the surface
of the water several feet away and
toward the bow.
"Keep up a second! It's all right!"
he shouted. Quick as thought' he
snatched a life preserver from its
place on the rail, and ran forward.
He called thrice, "Keep up, I'm com
lung!" then threw the cork swiftly
and accurately to the very spot where
she floated. A second longer he
watched, to see if she gained it. It
seemed that she did, and yet some
thing was wrong. She was not able
to right herself immediately in the
water, but floundered helplessly. Jim
my knew that her clothes were ham
brought his English furniture with
him. A month or two after he had
taken up residence, a very polite Ital
ian gentleman called on him and pre
sented him with a bill for $300 for
furniture bought from an Italian firm.
The Englishman said that there must
be some mistake, for he had bought
no furniture in Italy. and his visitor
then explained that the bill was the
means by which he might subscribe to
the local branch of the Camorra, and
thus obtain its protection. There was
no hurry about the matter, said the
polite Italian, and if the Englishman
did not care to pay at once the matter
might stand over for six months.
The Englishman went to his consul,
who referred him to the local head of
the police The local head of the po
lice, talktng as an oficial, promised
him eve1f protection if he did not in
tend to give the money, but as a pri
vate individual, suggested to him that
$300 was not very much to. pa to
avoid all the anxiety that was entailed
pering her, or else that the rope lad
der had entangled her feet.
He turned and got his balance on
the narrow ledge, pointed his hands
high above his head, and took a
good breath. Then he dove toward
the floating face. When he came to
the surface she was there, not ten
strokes away. He swam to her.
placed firm hands under her arms.
and' steadied her while she cleared
her feet from the entangling rope.
"Thank God'" he breathed. "I'll
save you yet!"
CHAPTER VIll.
On the Breast of the Sea.
"Can you keep afloat in this rough
ness?"
"I think so. now that I have the
life preserver. But the rope scared
me for a minute. It got wound about
my feet."
"I thought so. But we are drifting
away from the boats, and should swim
back as fast as we can. Can you
swim?"
"Yes; better when I get rid of this
cloak. Which way is the yacht? I've
lost my bearings."
"Behind us over there. Put your
hand on my shoulder and I'll take
you along until you get your breath
So!"
The girl obeyed implicitly, "as if
she were a good, biddable child,"
thought Jim. There was none of the
terrified clutching at a rescuer which
sometimes causes disaster to two in
stead of one. Miss Redmond was
badly shocked, it may be: but sue
was far from being in a panic.
"Now for the boat. Can you swim
a little faster? They'll surely come
back to pick us up." said Jim. with
an assumption of confidence that he
did not feel They could hear voices
from the yacht, and could follow, par
tially, what was going on. Miss Red
mond cast loose her cloak, put a hand
on Jim's shoulder, and together they
swam nearer "Ahoy!" shouted Jim.
"Give us a hand!" But the boat with
the large woman in it had put about
to the other side of the yacht.
"Ahoy! This way!" shouted Jim.
"Throw us a rope!" he cried: but if
any of the seamen of the Jeanne
D'Arc heard, they paid no heed.
"Come this way," said Jim to his
companion. "We'll catch them on the
other side of the yacht."
"I can't swim much in all these
clothes." said Agatha.
"Never mind, then. Hold on to the
life preserver and to me. and we'll
make it all right." On the crests
of the swelling waves they swam
round the dark hulk of the vessel, and
heard plainly the clamor of the men
as they embarked in the small boats.
Two of them seemed to be fastened
together, raftlike, on the starboard
side of the yacht, and were quickly
filled with men. Prayers and curses
were audible, with the loose, wild in
flexion of the man who is in the
clutch of an overmastering fear. As
long as there had been work for them
to do on the ship, they had done it,
though sullenly; they had even con
trolled themselves until the attempt
was made to place the two women
in safety. But after that their self
restraint vanished. The orders of the
officers were unheeded; the men
leaped and scrambled and slid into
the boats, and in a minute more they
had cut loose from the Jeanne D'Arc.
James dimly perceived that the
boats were moving away from them
into the darkness. Then he called,
and called again, redoubling his speed
in swimming; but only the beat of
the oars came back over the water.
The heart in him stood still with an
unacknowledged fear. Was it podaible
they were absolutely leaving them be
hind? Surely there were other boats.
He raised his voice and called again
and again. At last one voice, careless
and brutal, called back something in
reply. Jim turned questioning eyes
to the girl beside him, whose pale
face was discernible on the dark wa
ter.
"He says the boats are all full."
"Then we must hurry and make for
the yacht. Where Is she?"
The Jeanne D'Arc had slipped away
from them into the darkness.
"She was this way, I thought. Yes,
I am sure," said Agatha, pointing into
the night. But though they swam that
way, they did not come upon her.
They turned a little, and then turned
again, and presently they lost every
sense of direction.
In all his life Jim was never again
destined to go through so black an
hour as that which followed the aban
donment of the Jeanne D'Arc. His
courage left him, and his spirit sank
to that leaden, choking abyss where
lights did not exist. Since the im
mediate object gf saving the ship, for
which he had worked as hard as any
other, had been given up, the next in
importance was to save the woman
who, for some mysterious reason, had
been aboard. It was beyond hisl pow
er of imagination to suppose that any
other motive of action could possibly
prevail, even among her enemies.
That they should leave her to drown,
while they themselves fled to com
parative safety In a boat, was more
than he could believe.
"Surely they do not mean it; they
most return, for you, at least."
The girl beside him knew better,
by being in the black books of the Ca
morra The Englishman paid his $300
and holds the bill, duly receipted, for
purely Imaginary furniture, bought
from a purely imaginary Italian firm.
Another Name for Sunlight.
Insects are often susceptible to
ultra violet light (which is, of course,
a component of sunlight), as expert
ments by L. Raybaud have recently
shown, this fact perhaps explaining
the aversion of some species to
strong sunlight. In the rays from a
mercury vapor lamp, such creatures
as snails, houseflies, and tadpoles
soon became torpid, and In the
course of a few hours were quite
dead. Young grasshoppers perished
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after a week's exposure, and spiders
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Its Kind.
"Do you get all kinds of money from
your rich old uncle?"
"No; I get only one kind."
"What kind's thatt"
"Aerimoon."
but she was conscious of the paralyz
ing despair of her companion's heart,
and made a show of being cheerful.
"When they find they are safe they
may think of us," she said. "But the
men were already crazed with fear.
even before the leak was discovered.
One of their mates on the voyage
over was a fortune-teller, and he
prophesied danger to them all on their
next trip. After they had come into
port, the fortune-teller himself died.
And who can blame them for their
fear? They are all superstitious; and
as no one ever regarded their fears,
now they have no regard for any
body's feelings but their own."
"But we are in the middle of the
Atlantic, no one knows where. We
may drift for days-we may starve
the Lord only knows what will hap
pen to us!"
Agatha, who had been floating.
swam a little nearer and laid her
hand on Jim's shoulder, until he
looked into her face. It was full of
strength and brightness.
"'The sea is His also.' " she quoted
gently. "Besides, we may get picked
up," she went on. "I'm very well off
for my part, as you see. Can swim
or rest floating, thanks to this blessed
cork thing, and not at all hurt by the
fall from the rope. But I must get
rid of my shoes and some of my
clothes, if I have to swim."
It is awkward to kick off one's
shoes and divest oneself of unneces
sary clothing in the water, and
Agatha laughed at herself as she did
It. "Not exactly a bathing suit. but
this one black skirt will have to do.
The other" must go. It was my skirts
that caused the mischief with the
rope at first. And I was scared!"
"You had a right to be." Jim helped
her keep afloat, and presently he say
that. :reed from the entanglement of
so many clothes, she was as much
at home in the water as he. Sud
denly she turned to him, caught by
some recollection that almost eluded
her.
"I don't think we are anywhere
near the middle of the Atlantic," she
said thoughtfully. James was silent,
eating the bitter bread of despair, in
spite of the woman's brave wish to
comfort him. They were swimming
slcwly as they talked, still hoping to
reach the yacht. They rose on the
breast of the waves, paused now and
then till a quieter moment came, and
alwtvs kept near each other in the
pale blue darkness.
"Old Sophie said something-that
some one had tampered with the
wheel, I think. At any rate, she said
we'd never get far from shore with
this crew."
James considered the case. "But
even suppose we are within a mile
or two, say, of the shore, could you
ever swim two miles in this heavy
sea?"
"It is growing calmer every min
ute. See, I can do very well, even
swimming alone. It must be near
morning, too, and that's always a
good thing." There was the shadow
of a laugh in her voice.
"Morning? That depends," growl
ed Jim. He was being soothed in
spite of himself, and in spite of the
direfulnes of their situation. But bad
as the situation was, and would be
in any case, he could not deny the
proposition that morning and day
light would make it better.
"Eut aren't you tired already? You
must be." James turned closer to
her, trying to read her face. "It was
a long night of anxiety, even before
we left the boat. Weren't you fright
ened "'
"Yes, of course; but I've been get
ting used to frights of late, if one can
get used to them." Again there was
the laugh in her voice, under all its
seriousness, even when she added:
"I'm not sure that this isn't safer
than being on board the Jeanne
D'Are, after all!"
It was characteristic of James that
he forbode to take advantage of the
opening this speech offered. The pos
sible reason of her abduction, her
treatment on board the yacht, her
relation to Monsieur Chatelard-it
was all a mystery, but he could not,
at that moment, seek to solve it Her
remark remained unanswered for a
little time; at last he said: "Then
the Jeanne D'Arc must have been
pretty bad."
"It was," she said simply.
Jim wondered whether she knew
more about the crime of which she
was the victim than he knew, or if
she had discovered aught concerning
it while she was a prisoner on the
yacht Granting that her person was
so valuable that a man of Monsieur
Chatelard's caliber would commit a
crime to get possession of it, why
should he have abandoned her when
there was plainly some chance of
safety in the boats? He could not
conceive of Monsiear Chatelard's
risking his neck in an affair of gal
lantry; cupidity alone would account
for his part in the drama. James
went over and over the situation, as
far as he understood it, but he did
none of his thinking aloud. It flashed
on his mind that Miss Redmond must
already have separated him, in her
thoughts, from the other people on
the yacht; though perhaps her trust
was instinctive, arising from her own
need of help. How could she know
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that he had risbed his seck twice.
now, to follow the Vision?
Swimming slowly, with Agatha's
hand at times on his shoulder, James
turned his mind sharply to a consid
eration of their present position. They
had been alternately swimming and
floating, hoping to come upon the
yacht. The darkness of the night was
penetrable, so that they could see a
tairly large circle of water about
them, but there was no shadow of
the Jeanne D'Arc. Save for the run
ning surge of the waters, all was si
lence. The pale forerunners of dawn
had appeared. Their swim after the
boats of the Jeanne D'Arc had warm
ed their blood, so that for a while
they were not conscious of the chill
of the water. But as the minutes
lengthened, one by one, fatigue and
cold numbed their bodies. It was a
test of endurance for a strong man;
as for the girl, Jim wondered at her
strength and courage.. She swam
superbly, wtlh unhurried, steady
strokes. If she grew chatteringly
cold, she would start into a vigorous
swim, shoulder to shoulder with
James. If she lost her breath with
the hard exercise, she would take his
hand, "so as not to lose you," she
would say, and rest on the breast
of the waves. The wind dropped and
the sea grew quiet, so that they were
no more cruelly buffeted, but rocked
up and down on its heaving bosom.
Once, while they were "resting" on
the water, Agatha broke a long si
lence with, "I wonder-" but did not
at once say what she wondered at.
Jim said nothing, but she knew he
was waiting and listening.
"Suppose this should be the Great
Gateway," she said at last, very
lowly, but quite cheerfully and nat
irally. "I am wondering what there is
beyond."
"I've often wondered, too," said
Jim.
"I've sometimes thought, and I've
said it, too, that I was crazy to die.
Just to see what happens," Agatha
went on, laughing a little at her own
memories. "But I find I'm not at all
eager for it, now, when it would be
so easy to go under and not come up
again. An" you"
"No, I'ie never felt eager to die;
least of all, now."
Agatha was silent a while.
"What do you think death means?
Shall we be we tomorrow, say, pro
vided we can't keep afloat?" she
asked by and by.
"Why, yes, I think so," said Jim.
"I don't know why or how, but I guess
we go on somewhere; and I ratlqer
think our best moments here-our
moments of happiness or heroism, if
we ever have any-are going to be
the regular thing." Jim laughed a
little, partly at his own lame ending,
and partly because he felt Agatha's
hand closing more tightly over his.
He didn't want her to get blue just
yet, after her brave fight.
But Agatha wasn't blue. She an
swered thoughtfully: "That isn't a
bad idea," and then cheertfully turned
to a consideration of the possibilities
of a rescue at dawn.
James had evolved a plan to wait
till enough light came to enable them
to reach the Jeanne D'Arc, if she was
still afloat; then to climb aboard and
hunt for provisions and life preserv
ers or something to use for a raft.
If he could do this, then they would
be in a somewhat better plight, at
least for a time. He prayed that the
Jeanne D'Arc might still be afloat.
The two talked little, leaving si
lences between them full of wonder.
The details of life, the ordinary per
sonalities, were blotted out. Without
explanation or speech of any kind,
they understood each other. They
were not, in this hour, members of
a complex and artificial society; they
were not even man and woman; they
were two souls stripped of everything
but the need for fortitude and sweet
ness.
At last came the dawn. Slowly
the blue <urtain of night lifted, lifted,
until It became the blue curtain of
sky. endlessly far away and far abovr.
A twinkling star looked down on the
cup of ocean, glimmered a moment
and was gone. The light strength
ened. A pearly, iridescent quiver
came upon the waters, repeating
itself wave after wave, and heralded
the coming of the Lord Sun over the
great murmuring sea As the light
grew, they could see a constantly wid
ening circle of ocean, of which they
were the center. As they rose and
fell with the waves, the horizon fell
and rose to their vistopn, dim and uon
deEfined. Hand in hand they floated
in vaporous silver.
"The day has come at last, thank
God!" breathed James.
"Yes, thank God!" answered the
girl.
"Are you very cold?"
"The sun will soon warm us."
"Where did you learn to swim?"
"In England, mostly at the Isle of
Wight, but I'm not half such a
dolphin as you are."
"Oh, well, boys have to swim, yea
know, and I was a boy once," Jim
answered awkwardly. Presently be
asked, and his voice was full of awe:
"Have you ever seen the dawn-a
dawn like this-before?"
"Never one like this," she whis
pered.
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that chooolate does a vast amount of
harm, especially to the teeth, by being
eaten between meals and before going
to bed. He says it should be eaten
toward the end of a meal and should
always be followed by fresh fruit.
Twins an Evil Omen.
Igorote women have a strange sup
erstition about twins. They say that
Anito, an evil spirit, Is always pres.
ent in one of the babes when twins
are born. Napeek. twins are called,
and their advent is looked on as am
evil omen. Even wild buffalo--ar.
bao-have but one cal, say the super.
stitious Igorotes, so they take one et
the twins, usually the lamer, sad
quietly dispose ec MIL- r
Herald.
FOR SANITARY CELLAR
LIGHT AND VENTILATION ARI
THE THINGS MOST IN NEED.
No Apartment In the House Is of Sc
Much Importance as That In
Which Food for the Family
Is Stored.
The ideal cellar should be as light
and dry and clean as any room in the
house. It should have windows on op
posite sides, easily accessible and
easily opened. Air at night in sum
mer, as to admit air warmer than the
inside air causes moisture to form and
trickle down the side walls. Remem
bher a heated house acts like a chim
ney, the movement of the air being
from the bottom upward. If any one
doubts this, let him unstopper a bot
tle of ether or boil a kettle of onions
in the cellar, then go to the top o1
even a six-storied dwelling, and I think
his sense of smell would soon convince
him that there is an upward draught
of no mean abilities.
Indeed, a German inventor has
proved that one-half the cellar air is
found in the first story, one-third in
the second, one-fifth in the third, and
so on. which impells us to think of
the cellar as a reservoir of air for the
entire house. A good coat of lime
whitewash should be applied every
spring. No decaying vegetables or
rubbish of any kind should be stored
there. The cellar bottom and sides
should be preferably of concrete.
Where coal is stored, it should be light
and dry, as the decomposition of the
sulphides in the coal goes on much
more rapidly in a damp atmosphere.
Sulphides cause silver to tarnish.
The cold-air box of furnace should be
so located that the outer air admitted
be as pure as possible, and it should
be so constructed that through no
cracks or crevices could the cellar air
be admitted to the heating chamber of
the futtace.
¶IIe)pyper
The perfect apple corer has a wood
en handle.
White fish is, as a rule, more diges
tibe than any meat.
Water cress salad is at its best
this time of the year.
Cream taken after a meal is excel
lent to increase flesh.
Tomato juice will remove ink stains
from fingers; so will lemon juice.
Curry is a great resource among a
housekeeper's seasoning supplies.
Broiled green peppers make a de
licious finishing touch to a steak.
The nutritive value of fresh herring
iL greatly increased by the roe or milt.
Before planting garden seeds, make
sure of plenty of little wooden labels.
Rinse cut glass In bluing water if
you wish it to have the utmost sparkle.
Fruits of all available kinds should
make a large part of the spring die
lary.
Before beginning to paper a house
always see that the chimneys are
clean.
To make cut flowers last, set them
Ir a pall of water u to their necks
over night
Olive oil makes an excellent tonic
In the spring-a teaspoonful three
times daily.
To save the heels of your silk stock
ings, line the heels of your slippers
with velvet.
When buttering sandwiches, be sure
to have the butter soft enough to
spread smoothly.
Queen of Puddings.
One pint of stale bread crumbs,
soaked one hour in one quart of milk,
four egg yolks (whites for top) beaten,
one-fourth cup of sugar, one tespoon
of salt, one saltspoon of nutmeg or
cinnamon, and one tablepoon of
soften butter. Stir into the eggs and
then still all into the milk. Bake one
hour in a buttered pudding dish. Po
got to add one cup raisins before you
bake it After baking spread layer oi
jam over the top, then meringue of
the whites and brown slightly. I also
have one made with six egse and
flavored with lemon, if you wish it.
Shad Roe In Chafing Dish.
Parboil the shad roe in water to
which one tablespoonful of vinegar,
two or three cloves, and several pep
percorns have been added. When
ready, put into your chafing dish s
tablespoon of butter for each shad roe
and eaute the roes until delicate color.
If necessary add more butter and
when a light brown squeeze the juice
of half a lemon over them and add a
teuaspoontful of minced parsley.
Hamburg Cakes.
Hamburger steak, one egg, sait,
pepper and little onion grated; mit
together, make in cakes. Fry out
salt pork scraps, add a little butter
to the grease, then try your cakes
in this fat until done through and
brown. Remove cakes from the pan
to a platter, add some water to the
tat, so it will not be too rich, thicken
and pour gravy over and around
cakes on the platter. Flour cakes be
fore frying.
Rhubarb Cake.
Cream together one cup sugar and
one-half cup of shortening. Add salt
-nd spice to taste, one cup of raisins;
stir one teaspoon of soda into one cup
of unsweetened rhubarb sauce and
beat into other Ingredients. Now add
one and three-quarter cups of sifted
pastry flour. Bake in a loaf. With
the addition of citron this makes a
nice, rich fruit cake.
Quck Puff Pudding.
One pint flour, one teaspoon baking
powder, pinch of salt, and milk to
make a batter. Sift together dry in
gredients, stir in milk lightly, put into
battered cups one tablespoonful, add
jelly or any kind of fruit, cover with
batter until two-thirds full, steam 20
minutes. Serve hot with cream and
sugar.
To Set Colorl.
To set green, soak in alum water.
Before washing dissolve alum. Boak
some time in water. To every gallon
add a spoon of ox gall. Rlne with x
-all in each water and hang in shade.
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akin, the itching stops and
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quickly clears away all trbue*
ringworm, pimples,
tormenting, unsightly
the skin clear and healthy.
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is a doctor's precriptioa
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of "Our Pather" and "No
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body, as was his evetaig
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put your mosey into any
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facts to ourselves. The
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carryling where he got it
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Heavy or coahning work
the kidaeys, anyway. sa e
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the trouble keeps gettisg willi
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