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open the door, let in the air,
The winds are sweet and the flowers faIr;
Joy is ;broad in the world to-day,
if our door is wide ropen he may come this
way.
Open the door.
Open the door of the soul, let in
Sttrnng pure thoughts, whichI shall Ibanish sin;
They will grow and bloom with gracodiviuo.
Acnd their fruit shall hi sweeter than :hat of
the vine.
Open the door.
Open the door of the heart, lot in
Symrnrathy sweet for strauger and kin;
It will make thu halls of the heart so fat
That angels may enter unaware.
Open the door.
--Philadelphia Times.
DEVELOP ENT.
BY LUKI SHIARP,
S Stanmore turned
the corner and saw
the other man ap
proach, he thought
A. there was some
thing familiar in
thesetof his figure,
in spite of the
general dilapida
tion of his appear
anece. As they
neared each other,
Stanmore involun
i tarily paused and
the other looked
nervously at him, suddenly exclaim
ing as his eye lighted up:
"Good heavens, Mr. Stanmore, is
this actually you?"
"Yes," replied Stanmore. - "It is
some time since we met, Mellor, and
until you spoke, I wasn't quite cer
tain-"
"I know, I know," interrupted the
other, glancing at his worn, almost
tattered garments. "Most of my old
friends have some difliculty in recog
nizing me, but you were never one of
that kind, Staumore. When a man is
down in his luck, there are few who
remember him."
"I am sorry to hear that you are
down in your luck. Didn't that patent
turn out all you expected?"
A wan smile illuminated Mellor's
face for a moment. "Which patent,
Stanmore?" he asked.
"Some railway appliance, wasn't it?
You expected to make a great fortune
out of it, don't you remember?"
"Ah, that one. Is it then so long
since we met? I wouldn't have be
lieved it. How time does fly I Yes,
that was a great invention," he added
with a sigh. "But I never could get
anyone to look into it. It would have
made several fortunes, if I could only
have gotten it fairly tried, but bribes
were required and, as usual, I had no
money, nor could I get the ear of any
man of influence. I have never yet
had a fair chance, Stanmore, and am
beginning to tear I never shall."
"Has the patent run out, then?"
"Oh, it never got so far as patent
ing. A patent does not require much
money, but it was always more than I
could ever scrape together at one
time. I have iv'; j ti w ,-y " +,W
mioce tieri, frii I am a man who' has
never had a chance, and I ani begin
ning to lose heart now."
"I wish I were rich," said Stan
more, "I would then give you a chance
on at lcast one invention."
"You are rich enough," cried the
other eagerly, "to do me one favor.
You are evidently on your way to
lunch. Ask me to have something to
eat." *
"You don't mean to say, Mellor,
that you- Come along with me to the
club."
"I am not dressed for the club,
Stanmore. Take me somewhere else."
After lunch the two men talked to
gether. Stanmore, as the prosperous
man of the two, naturally took it
upon himself to offer advice, as well as
coffee.
"Hlaven't you bad enough of this
sort of life, ?Iellor? Why not give it
up, and get some regular employment
that will at least keep youn from
starvation, and give up this ineffectual
dreaming of fortunes? Remember,
not one invention in a thousand sno
ceeds, even when the invento- gets
someone to back him."
"Shall I sell myself as a packhorse?'
cried Mellor, who, being fed, had re
gained his normal enthusiasm, "when
1 know that I have the capabilities
of making a thoutand men rich?
There are honest laborers in plenty,
but you must not forget, Stanmore,
although you have paid for my lunob,
that I am one man in a million. No
amount of disaster will ever drive that
knowledge from my brain. I know it,
1 tell 'ou, and I shall yet meet the
man whom I will convince; but even
if I di'- in the gntter, I shall die as
contident in myself as I am at this mo
ment."
"You always were confident enough,
but what has it all amounted to?"
"Nothing, I grant you-so far. But
the time will come. You spoke a
while since of my railway invention.
That would have taken much money to
develop, and it is now superseded, but
it was great in its time. 1 have now
an invention that, if once put on the
market, would soon be used in every
household. It is as perishable as soap
and as indispensable and as cheap.
That is the kind of thing out of which
immense fortunes are made. Now,
how much do you imagine stands be
tween me and success? A beggarly
£40. If I had £40 in my hand to-day
I would use the first five of it to get
me a decent suit of clothes, a new hat
and a pair of booti; the rest would
make me a millionaire."
"You would certainly be sure of
your outfit, but I should doubt the
rest."
"'Pid you ever gamble, Stanmore?"
"I never did."
"I thought not. Then you must
have a little money in your possession.
(lamblo on me to the extent of £40. It
1 Brick Pav e!tis.
pa " ,c u ...ý . ý.,ue
wrong argument. I intended to use
hie that phrase with some one who put a
little on a horse now and then. But
never mind. Will you give me my
chance? If I fail, I will seek what you
call honest work and will pay you
back by installments."
20' "I'll do it, Mellor, for old time's
of sake and because I know you will
never settle down to regular work un
til you have had your chance, as you
call it. But you must promise me that
after the money is gone you will not
say that all you needed was that much
more. You promise to take to your
engineering trade and stick to it."
"I promise you."
"Very well. I will write you a
check for the amount."
"You must do more than that, Stan
more. You must give it to me in
money. No sane man would cash a
ad check for me. I look too much like a
1w tramp. Now 7 shall write you out a
,P- note of hand fr £10,000. The note
ht will be worth at amount inside of a
te- year or it will a worth nothing."
in "I shall ac t no note from you,
,e, Mellor. If it akes you easier in your
1o 0 mind write m an acknowledgment of
1a- the £10, but thit is a formality which
ir- will prove uni;ecessary. If you sue
oB ceed you will pay me; if you don't,
%r, you won't."
n- "I see you still don't believe in me,
ad although you ecegiving me the money.
ed Well, that is yl the more to your
n- credit, Stanmore."
Mellor wrote pn a sheet of paper the
is waiter bror 'if, him a note for the 1
amount and *4 ,ded the document to
is his friend who ', at it in his waistcoat
Id pocket. They ,vent out together to
r- the bank and ;'anmore handed him
the money.
he It was three t;' i2ths after that the
st two men met agln and once more Stan
ld more had some difficulty in recogniz
g- ing Mellor, but this time not on ac
of count of his seedy appearance. It was
is Stanmore who did the accosting, is I1
10o the other was hurrying by. Mellor
greeted him with great cordialty.
re "I Well, old man," he cried, "are you
nt getting anxious about that money? I
really believe you are going to get the
r' £10,000 I gave you the note for. Big
it, usury, Staunmoro."
"You forget that I refused anything
t? but the acknowledigment of the £10. I
ne am glad to see that you are evidently
getting on."
1g "It's all in the air yet, Stanmore.
e- You understand how this sort of thing
s, goes. Just as you get them to a
id point, they dissolve and there you
et are. This is an uncertain world, my
re boy."
ly "That's what I told you. But the
as money I gave you must be gone long
o10 ago?"
ty "It is, and hundreds more with 4,
et but I would niot take two h aiured
m thousand in my hand at this ;:noment
for my chances. I've got a little syn
dicate together and-well, it's too long
t" a story te tell just ?:ow, but every
,h thing's going my -.y, thanks to you."
I "I'm very Lihid indeed to heal it. I
re confess Lbt I looked on my loan as so
uicu money thrown away."
as "I know you did. , You never really
n- believed in mine, Stanmorc, and yet no
man knew me better. Well, I am not
n- yet eiactly in a position to repay you
cc at the moment, but-"
"I had no intention of dunning you,
li Mellor. I am not in need of the
r. money."
to "Quite so. I hope you didn't think
to I had forgotten it. Well, I must be
of--the syndicate meets at three and
'r, I am chairman."
he Stanmore stood and looked after his
friend as he hurried through the
b, crowd. There was certainly an air of
." prosperity about him. "It would be
o- rather odd if he pulled it off after
us all," Stanmore said to himself as the
it other disappeared,
as Months passed, and now and then
Staumore saw in the papers huge ad
lis vertisements of companies promoted
it to work various patents of Mellor's,
nt but whether or not the public sub
m scribed the enormous sums asked he
al had no means of knowing. More than
r, a year had gone by before he saw any
o* thing more of Mellor, then, as he was
ts passing along Lombard street, he no
ticed his friend standing with one foot
?' on the step of a private hansom, giv
e- ing hurried orders to a man on the
in pavement, who received them ob
es seqniously. In the hansom wayseated
i? an elderly gentleman of distingiutished
y, appearance. Something in Mellor's
e, manner suggested the millionaire.
b, Stanmore touched him on the shoul
Fo der just as he was about to step into
at the hansom. M~ellor looked hastily
I, round, a shade of annoyance on his
ie face. He1 wrinkled his brow, as if he
an recognized the man who accosted him,
as but could not recollect his name.
o- "You seem to be prospering, Mel.
lor.")
Li, "Ah, Stanmore. How are you?
IHow are you? I see so many people,
it you know, that sometimes I get a lit
a tie mixed. Anything I can do for you?
n. You catch me at rather a busy mo
to ment, My friend, Lord Raymon, is
at waiting for me; we have a board meet
'w ing on. Look me up, some time, won't
he you? You will excuse me now, I
Sy know?"
'p "Certainly. I had nothing partic
p. ular to say to you, except to offer my
,h 'congratulations, I suppose. The world I
r, seems to be using you well." I
e· "Oh, the world's all right, if you :
ly know how to take it. By the way, 1
iy there was some little matter between ]
et us, $1000, wasn't it? You got that all 2
at right, I suppose." · 1
Id "If you are talking of money, it I
was merely a matter of £10. No, I 1
of never received it to my knowledge. 1
oe But there is no hurry, you know." ]
"Now that is very annoying. That a
" shows how we are served by those we
pay to serve us. One can't attend to (
st everything o'v·'s self, and so things<
2. go wrong. I told my secretary months i'
fe avo to see to that. I will makLe a note 1
,,, ,ýt, O i6k e "up iheff sl have
"'.e. Good bye."
fI'he hansom drove away and again
Staumore stood and looked, unheed
ing the hurrying crowd. He turned!
at last with a sigh.
Again the secretary probably for
got, for as the months passed the
money did not come.
A friend of Stanmore's said to him
one day in the club: "You know
Mellor, don't you? He is a member
of this olub."
"I knew him once."
"I thought you know him inti
mately. You told me a year or two
ago that you lent him the money that
gave him bis start."
"I don't remember saying that, but
if I did it was quite true."
"Then won't you give me a letter of
introduction to him. I've got a little
scheme on hand and I want him to
lend his name to it. Anything with
Mellor's name attached goes now-a
days."
"I would rather not give a letter of
introduction to him."
"Flave you quarreled with him?"
"Oh, no."
"It would be a tremendous oblige
meut to me."
"I doubt if it would do you any
good."
"I'll take the risk of that, if you
will be kind enough to oblige a fel
low."
"Very well."
A week later the frienisaid to Stan
more: "I'm afraid I took Mellor on
the wrong tiek. I had great difficulty
in getting to see him, and when at last
audienco was granted me and I was
ushered into the presence of the great
man, I ventured to remind him of his
obligations to you."
"Oh, but you shouldn't have done
that."
"I know I shouldn't. He said he
never met you in his life, and swore
like a trooper. He said that every
second man in the city claimed to
have given him his start in life, and
he was tired of being pestered with
them. He was a self-made man, he
added, and no one had ever helped
him, or he would have been a million
aire years ago."
"He said all that, did he?"
"Yes, and much more."
"I shall have to call upon him and
stir up his recollection a bit. Where
is he to be found?"
"You will find him to-night drink
ing champagne with some of his
friends in the upper smoking room.
In fact, I have just left him."
"You don't mean to tell me that he
made these statements in the presence
of the men upstairs? You- ver pre
sented my letter tohlt here?"
"I hal ti' or not at all. He re
fused,to see me in his own office."
'"Ohcb, well, this serves me right for'
giving the letter of introduction. It
isn't usual to do business in a club,
you know."
"I am very sorry, Stagmore, but it
was a case of needs must."
"We will say no more about it, but
the worm ultimately turns, and I am
myself going to break through all the
rules that ought to govern civilized
society. Come up stairs with me and
you will see me collect a three-year
old debt."
Mellor was somewhat flushed with
wine when Stanmore approached the
table at which he sat, surrounded by
his admiring friends.
"Mellor, for three years you have
owed me £40. I want it, and I want
it now."
"Who are you?'' roared Mellor. "I
never owed you a penny, and if I did,
apply at my counting house for it. If
you are a member of this club I shall
have you expelled for your impudence
in-"
"You may take what notion you
please after; but now I want the £40.
I'll throw off the interest. As you
deny the debt, here is the note written
by your own hand, Perhaps some of
your friends may recognize the signa
ture. I understand it is a very valu
able autograph now; but it was not
when that was written."
Mellor, purple with rage, threw a
Ihandful of gold and notes on the
table, crying: "Take what you want,
you hound, then I shall have you
driven from this club. It is not the
first time I have been blackmailed."
"Oh, no, Mr. Mallor, You will
count out the notes to the exact
amount 'bf £0 and hand them to me,
after which I will give you your re
ceipt. I call on you to pay here, be
cause you have made statements in
presence of this company which are
untrue. Therefore, I want them con
tradicted before the company dis
perses. If you pay the money at
once and make an apoloy that is ac
ceptable to me. I will say nothing
more. If nos I shall publish the
whole particulars, with a fao-simile of
your note, and I will give the reason
why you refused my invitation to
lunch at the club the day that note
was written, and although the reason
is not so discreditable to you at all
as some of your actions since then,
still, perhaps, you would prefer it not
to be made public."
Mellor glared at him for a moment,
murmured an apology and handed his
former friend four £10 notes.-De
troit Free Press.
Don't Kiss Lap Dogs,
The danger of permitting lap dogs
to kiss and caress those who fondle
them has been again brought to the
attention of dog lovers by the sudden
death of a young girl in Moscow. A
pretty little pet travelithg in the same
railway carriage with the victim was
made much of during the journey, the
thoughtless girl kissing and playing
with the dog until its mistress reached
her destination. The next day a pim.
ple appeared on the young lady's face,
and in twenty hours, after frightful
suftering, she died, the physiciant
claiming, from a malignant diseasi
contracted from the lap dog's kisses.
This is worse and quicker than dyua.
mite or nililism.-Bmoston ulorld.
STREASUR '/TR"YE.1
flILTaIONS I C.(Tj Atn) JIVEL
iBURli ED IN T11I ' RED SEA.
Divers IHave Neve - Ceen Atilo to,
Ieach Thi's Vas FortuneC-At
tacked by Inmenuse Coinger
Eels-Vill Try Again.
SYNDICAT of English and
Continental capitalists has
recently be n formed bvCap
tain Temp c, of the Royal
N'avy, for the purpo e of recovering a
vast treasure, estim ted at the least as
amounting to $4,00 ,000,000.
It has been about twenty years now
since Captain Temp e began to think
about this problem f getting at these
four thousand millions in gold and
silver and precious stones. Thanks to
the recent progress in certain branches
of science, he has been able to forma
late a plan which has appealed to
timid capital, and the work of at
tempting to recover the treasure will
soon begin.
For four thousand years at least the
great sea route for trade between In
dia and Western Asia and Europe has
been through .the Arabian Sea to
Aden, and thence up the Red Sea to
Suez. As every schoolboy knows, the
source of all the gold and silver and
jewels of the ancient world was Asia.
And the richest and most famous
mines were in India.
Ever since the formation of civiliza
tion in the countries around the east
ern end of tf.e Meditoerranean ships
laden with the most precious com
modities known to man have'c een sail
ing over this route and laying down in
Europe their splendid cargoes.
To the ancients the Arabian Sea was
fraught with the gravest perils. As
the centuries went by thousands of
treasure-laden ships were sunk along
the trade route in the comparatively
shallow waters of that sea.
The moderns as well as the ancients
have found the navigation of the Red
Sea most perilous. It is a long, nar
row trough, in many places less than
twenty miles wide and nearly two
miles deep. The Re{ Sea is 121)0
miles long, but its bottom is thickly
strewn with wrecks. It is always full
of craft of all kinds and has been for
centuries. Until the use of steam a
considerable proportion of the craft
that sailed there went to the bottom.
And not a few of tbpse w,ere treasyre,
shi'y6.
The estimate that there are four
Sbillions of treasure at the bottom of
the two seas is based upon the known
catastrophies in historic times. The
actual records show that this sum has
been lost in that trade route. It is
sale to say that this gigantic sum
represents only a small part of the
treasure really there.
Buried under sand and shells and
bones of ships as old as history and as
new as the latest disaster there lie
tons of gold and silver, huge bags and
boxes of diamonds and rubies and
emeralds. Every year of the history
of the civilized world is represented
there.
If you could walk over those
abysmal plains you would see the tall
ships of the well-greavcd Greeks of
whom Homer sang, the gallant vessels
of Pharaohs lying under pyramids
these 3000 years, the galleys of Cartha
ginian merchants, of Roman Senators
who did not despise the grains of
trade, the schooners of the merchant
sailors of that period of which Colum
bus is the chief figure, and, last of all,
the two-funnelled steamships of our
own century.
Captain Temple will first try the
ahallow waters of the Arabian Sea.
Until a few years ago deep-sea diving
was impossible. But science has dis
covered some new modes which make
it possible for divers to go down
several hundred feet and work with
ease. As the Arabian Sea is very
shallow in some places directly under
the trade route, Captain Temple will
will send his divers down there. With
the experience he yill gain in these
attempts he hopes to able to penetrate
even the depths of the Red Sea. It is
there shat he expects to find the most
treasure. For even within the few
last years many treasure ships have
been lost in those dangerous waters.
There is not the slightest doubt but
that a fabulous treasure, equal to the
total wealth of many a great Nation,
lies in the depths of that very narrow
canyon. All that is needed, in Cap
tain Temple's opinion, is patience and
assiduity. He fully expects to pour
into the strong boxes of the syndicate
ten times as much gold as all the mines
of America have produced.
In addition to the other diflliculties
of deep-sea diving the Red Sea has one
danger that is peculiar gto itself.
When the Challenger made deep-sea
soundings there many strange and
fantastic forms of life never found
elsewhere were brought to the surface.
The waters of the Red Sea are very
hot.
The intense heat that is always best
ing upon the surface, the heat of the
land on either side, and the lieculiar
way in which the waters are inclosed,
all combine to make it the hottest
large body of water in the world.
Often the temperature of the water is
no less than 106 degrees Fahrenheit.
This fervent heat has no doubt had a
great deal to do with producing the
monstrous and terrifying sea creatures
who form the active and terrible guar
dians of the buried treasures. Of
these monsters the most terrible is
the huge conger eel, found there and
nowhere else in the world. This
creature is like a great boa constriic
tor. It often reaches the length of
thirty feet, and is as formidable in
fact as it is in appearance.
A few years age the P. and 0. mail
steamer Carnatic sank jn the shallow
water near the African coast. Divers
were sent down to recover the gold in
her strong room. They found that
meores of these fierce jand huge eels
were writhing 8nd tumbliang about the
ship eating the corpses of the drowned
sailors.
It was the first time that conger eels
had been seen in such shallow water.
Usually they patrol the depths of the
Ssea, never rising higher than three
quarters of a mile to a inile frcm the
surface. The divers tried to drive
them away. The result was a fearful
battle.
Several divers were enveloped in the
Sfolds of the monsters and were
Ssqueezed to death. Others managed
Sto fight themselves free and get to the
,I surface again.
a But the conger eels are only one
s species of the many equally formida
ble inhabitants of the red Sea depths.
v Captain Temple, however, has planned
k it all out, and feels, sure that every
e difficulty will be overcome.
a
o Strange Recovery of a Lost Ring.
S After having given up all thought
of ever finrliun a valuable diamond
0 ring which be lost in a singular way
four years Ago, Robert Groff, a chief
I clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad
office in this city, living at Berlin, N.
S.J., recovered the jewel on Thursday.
Mr. Groff was swinging Indian clubs
5 on the lawn at his farmhouse on one
0 November evening in 1892, when the
o ring slipped from his finger and was
0 lost.ih the grass. Despite the careful
d search made by Mr. Groff and two
i farm hands the ring did not come to
. light. The next day the plot of grass
was carefully raked off, and al ter being
Scarefully examined the dirt and grass
was deposited on a compost heap in
's the barnyard. During the winter a
portion of the compost was transferred
Sto the farm of Mr. Peacock, two miles
n away.
While playing in some weeds on the
S Peacock farm Thursday afternoon a
s twelve-year-old daughter of Farmer
f Morgan noticed a bright spark on a
g rank weed stalk about two feet from
Y the ground. Upon making a closer
examination of the weed she found it
Sencircled by a gold ring in which was
was set the spark that dazzled her
eyes. She realized that the ring was
° valuable, and breaking the weed off
° she ran into the farmhouse with it.
SEverybody in the neighborhood had
Sheard of Mr. Grofflosing his ring four
Syear ago, and owing to its value the
r incident was remembered by his neigh
bors.
The little girl's parents recalled the
loss, and upon Mr. Groff's return home
4r°n his office jtfgteening he was
overjoyted it finding sae lown'g sit dia
mond again safe.
Mr. Groff prized the ring as a gift
Sfrom the head officials of the Pennsyl
e vania Railroad Company beyond its
real value, which is said to be $150.
Philadelphia Timer.
Disasters at Royal Fetrs.
With regard to the causes of the dis
Saster at Moscow, a version has been
received in Berlin which sounds al
most credible in view of the well
Sknown corruption prevailing in the
Russian administration. According
1 to this statement the distribution was
purposely begun prematurely before
Sthe police were on the spot by those
l who were anxious to conceal the fact
that in the supplying of the provisions
there had been a great deal of the
customary Russian fraud and cheating.
Had everything gone off properly it
would have been discovered that large
supplies which the Government had
t paid for were lacking, and the rough
instinct of the masses had been craft
ily speculated upon when the throw.
· ing of parcels, apparently in fun, was
begun.
It is an odd coincidence that there
has been no similar disaster during
the festivities and rejoicingesattending
royal events since the marriage of the
B hapless Marie Antoinette and Louis
XVI., then Dauphin of France. On
· the evening of the marriage a vasit
crowd assembled in the Place de la
Concorde to witness a display of fire
works, and owing to the tremendous
pressure, and probably to the same
lack of proper police preiaution which
was the cause of the Moscow calamity,
· several hundred people in the inner
circles of the crowd were crushed to
, death and trampled upon.-Londou
e Daily News.
Had Eyes in His Mouth.
"Tom Hill's Queer Pig," the "Bull
dog Call" and the "Feathered Sheep
Sof Rond Valley, Moutans."have been
completely and forever "lsid in the
1 shade" by a monstrosity in the shape
· of a pig tarrowed on the premises of
L. C. Estep, of Easton, Ill. Estep's
queer pig is the eighth wonder of the
world, and was as much of amonstros
s ity as any one small piggy could pos
sibly be.
It had a perfect elephant's head and
trunk, the little imitation proboscis
being about an inch and a half in
1 length. No, it was not a perfect ele
phant head that finished off the body
of Estep's pig. Elephants have eyes,
"in fropnt or laterally, according to
species," so the books say; but this
queer creature's head was perfectly
smooth and eyeless.
When the little oddity was firat
born it had its mouth wide open, dis
tended to its utmost capacity. In mak
9 ing an examination to ascertain the
cause of the jaws being apart, Mr. Es
o tep made an astounding discovery.
Inside the mouth was one enormous
s eyeball and on the front of that curi
ously situated organ were the pupils
or "sights" of both eyes. Such a
a nightmare in reality was probably
i never before seen in the history of the
s world. -St. Louis Republic.
S IAvetd to a Good Old Age.
1 A well known centenarian has
passed away at Ayagarth, Yorkshire,
I says the London Graphic. Betty Web
v ster kept her 106th birthday last Feb
a ruary, when she was* surrounded by
a fifteen grandchildren, and numerous
*t great-grandchildren. Her mind was
a clear to the last.
" UVV0LI&WJZ *
A 'OLISr On L
A lnundry polish forshi
and cuffs may be made a
Melt together one ounce of ,40
land two ounces of sper nfeti'
large spoonfl of salt. i 'iseolt
ingredients over a slow fire a :o
into a wet cup to cool. May
starch in the usual Way, cookie
slowly for twenty minutes, and
every tablespoonful of dry starch a
put in a lump of the above prepa
tion about as large as a cherry,
no cold starch and do not spri
When the starched pieces are dry,
them in a wet towel for two hourse
bring up the gloss by rubbing eve
with the heel of a polishing iron.
great secret in glazing sterched go
is to use the polishing iron proper
HOUSEWIves sRoUD,
Try keeping vegetable with
stalks in water till cooked.
Try keeping eggs by burying,
salt.
Try keeping carrots and turnip.
burying in layers in a box of sand;
Try lfor seeding raisians pouring
ing water over them and then dr
ing.
Try roasting or boiling meat o
as hot a fire as possible.
Try roasting potatoes with meal
paring and putting on a rack
the pan.
Try hickory nut macaroons mad
five unbeaten eggs, one pound
chopped nuts, one pound of powd
sugar, one tablespoonful of flour,
small teaspoonfuls of baking pow
dropped in tiny cakes in waxed p
in the pan.
Try rubbing irons with a little
to prevent starch sticking.
Try rubbing ink stains from
goods by rubbing with yolk of
before washing.
T1v adding a pinch of salt to
white of egg in beating to mak
froth.
SOFT SHELL CBA4. -
"There is no danger of eating
shelled crabs," observed an epie
"if they are fresh, but they.are po
if they are not. They should be
seasoned; and an extra lot of pe
put on them as a precaution, espec'
if the weather is very hot when t
are eaten, or if they are eaten sho
before one retires. Itis the habit d
many persons to eat soft shelled or
at night time. I do not know "i
that they taste better then, Itpe
somewhat dangorousa'to many to di'Y
milk after eating crabs. Milk a
to develop the colic that follows Al
ing soft shelled crabs with some D
sons. 9
"Another thing that should co,
membered, and that is a sharp the a
storm will kill soft-shell crabs,
even the hard-shelled crab att
Unless the soft-shelled crab has
cooked before the thunder sto
think the safer plan would be t
cline to eat it. Under all other
ditions there is no danger in p
ing of them, for I do not thin. NC
one would be criminal enough to
a dead crab, hard or soft shell,.
proper way to kill a crab is tQ
him Into a kettle of boiling w
know that some people think n
cruel, but it is no more cruel lb a
to stab them with a needle or ki T
with chloroform, as I have hel
some extra sensitive persons to hei
Washington Sta. ha
IIECIrES.
Hominy Croquettes-To a iu o(
small-gramned boiled hominy ear
tablespoonful melted butter ubl
hard, moistening by degrees he
teacupful of milk. Potin ate ha
ful of sugar and a well-beate oI
Roll into oval balls with floured ho
dip in beaten egg,then cracker 0 o
and fry in hot lard. M
Bamakins-Bleat together two IL~
one tablespoonful melted but Lis
teaspoonful anctovy sauce, a boy
saltspoonful salt and halt as one
cayenne; then add three tabl the
fuls grated cheese, and, ll W
tablespoonful flour wet with am
Spread thickly upon ronzel of reg
to6ste4 bread and bioth lighti us
Chicken Fricsssee-qeep (he lis
ed pot in tihe diAu of broth. fa
into a dish, Add to the broth ea
beaten egg and a tablespoonfel, wi!
ter; boil this for a moment; no
tenspoonf l chopped parsle, all
spoonful of salt, half as much. is
and thicken with a teaspooD pu
flour. Pour over the chick
garnish with hard-boilehd eg wi
curled parsley. at
Corn Soup-Cut a chieh9 *'
pieces and boil in one gallot rin
till tender. Take out the
with one cupful of the liquid tn
the kernels from eight ears 0 do
patinto the pot and stew geP Li
an hour longer. Season yit at
spoonful of salt, saltspooniful lib
per and a sprig of parsley. ac
with a tablespoonful of rice so
send to the table without alr in
Potatoes al'Italienne-W- ax
medium-sized boiled potat le
with a silver fork. Beat in to
spponfuls of milk, a tables
bufter, the yolks of two We V
eggs, a small teaspoonful of. tl
saltipoonful of pepper, W w
creamy heap before addin* ,
few dextrous strokes, the k
whites of the two eggs. Pile gt
on a dish and brown in aq1 j
Crumpets-Three cupf1 u
milk, half cup yeast, two t
fuls melted butter, one sal
salt and the same of soda.
make a good ba'tter, Set
gredients as a sponge, les?
butter and soda. In the 00
in the melted butter and the
solved in a little water, ,
I) eupful sifted flour. Fill I
or mufin rings with the 0
them stand fifteen minutet .
