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IN DISMAL SWAMP
INTERESTING TRIP OF A BALTI
MORE INSPECTION PARTY.
A MARSHY WATERWAY
Extensive Work Tfcat Has Been Ac
complished in the Last Three Years
—Unique Canal —Healthy-Looking
Natives Who Inhabit the Country
Roundabout.
The party of Baltimoreans who made
an inspection trip over the recon
structed Dismal Swamp canal returned
to Baltimore yesterday, sayß the Sun.
From Norfolk, where the Baltimore
ans were Joined by a number of Nor
folk people, the party was taken in the
steamer Ocean View up the Elizabeth
river to Deep creek, which forms the
northern approach to the canal. This
as well as the southern approach is to
undergo extensive improvement by the
national government. The money for
th's purpose has been appropriated and
the work has been commenced. Al
though in their present condition the
approaches take care of the canal traf
fic, the Improvements are desired be
cause of the important development
which Is already in sight from the re
opening of the canal.
Leaving Deep creek the steamer,
which was accompanied by the torpedo
boat Talbot and the tug Nellie, en
tered the northern lock and was raised
12 feet to the canal level. There are
only two locks in the canal as recon
structed, the other being at the south
ern end. The old canal had four locks.
Apart from the magnitude of the work
executed by the I>ake Drummond
Canal and Water company in rebuild
ing the canal, the Inspection party was
impressed with the character of the
country traversed.
More than three years were spent in
reconstructing the canal, and the cap
ital and enterprise of Baltimoreans
carried on the work. The work of re
construction consisted in widening the
canal from 30 feet to 60 feet, lowering
the water level 7 feet, making a uni
form depth throughout of 10 feet for
the entire distance of 22 miles, and In
stead of four locks of 17 feet wide,
making two locks each 40 feet In width.
In this work the most modern ideas of
canal practice were adoptod, resulting
in giving a waterway Is already
looked upon by enginGPrs as a model
of Its class. The cannl in Its entire dis
tance has only one bend, and this Is so
slight as not to Interfere with handling
the longest tows.
From laike Drummond comes nn un
failing supply of water for the canal,
and the locks at either end preserve
the depth. There is lost at each lock
ing about 700,000 gallons of wnter, but
the flow from the lake quickly replaces
it.
In rebuilding the cnnsl the company
has provided an Inland waterway
which will permit the sending of car
goes by bnrges towed by tugs from
Pamlico Sound through to New Eng
land without breaking bulk. This
cheap means of transportation Is ex
pected to have a decided effect In pro
moting the development of the section.
There Is now about 200,000,000 feet
of lumber sent from the territory trib
utary to the canal. Peanuts, tobacco
and early vegetables are among the
other supplies sent out, while manu
factured products, coal and general
store goods form a steadily growing
tonnage of the Inbound business. The
lowering of the canal level has Induced
a number of property owners to start
the cutting of ditches tn drain and re
claim their Innds. Korie ’y the height
of the old canal prohibiten such recla
mation. Possibilities In the cultiva
tion of early vegetables to be sent to
market over the canal has stirred i p
interest In agricultural development.
The Dismal swamp has long been
one of the most noted features of the
eastern seabord. Embarking on the
Virginia side the counties of Nanse
mornl nnd Princess Anne and on the
North Carolina side the counties of
Oates. Pasquotank. Camden and Cur
rituck. this territory has in the pop
ular mind been generally regarded ns
a morass of appalling gloom. It wns
supposed to be Impenetrable anil the
home of fever nnd malaria. Deadly
serpents and wild beasts, and In
former days fugitive slaves, were re
garded by many the only occupants of
the region.
At many places along the canal the
Inspection party was greeted by little
knots of men. women and children,
whose healthy appearance disproved
the theory of unhealthfulness. So Im
pressed were the party with the gen
eral hardiness of the people that many
of them were ready to agree with *he
late John Doyle O’Reilly, who. after
making a canoe trip through the old
canal and to lake Drummond, said
that the section was intended by
nature to be a pleasure ground and
health resort.
The Junior water which flows from
the lake is of wine-llke appearance,
and Is drunk by the people as a pre
ventive of malaria. Members of the in
spection party recalled experiences
when on ships some 20 years ago of
sending up Deep creek for barrels of
this water to take to sea on account of
its wholesomeness.
At South Mills, near the south end
of the canal, is a thriving little vil
lage. A cut-off near here makes a di
rect line for the Pasquotank river. This
stream is followed to Elizabeth City
and out into Pamlico sound. It has
a wealth of natural beauty and a heavy
growth of timber lines its banks for
miles. At Elisabeth (Tty Rush I>elgh.
city attorney, made an address of wel
come to the party, telling of the appre-
elation of the people for the work, and
predicting that it would revolutionize
the commerce of that section. T. S.
Garnett, counsel for the canal, replied
in happy terms. Practically the whole
population turned out to meet the vis
itors, and there was general rejoicing
when they learned how successful had
been the passage through the canal.
A luncheon was served and a special
train took the party back to Norfolk.
The influence of canals on transpor
tation was generally discussed among
the inspection party.
Alexander B’.-own expressed the opin
ion of the best posted in saying that
canals, as long as they were kept out
of politics and out of the hands of com
peting railroad interests, were impor
tant factors and, properly located, of
fered good opportunities as strictly
business enterprises.
George F. Miles, president of the
Florida Coast Line Canal company,
agreed with Mr. Brown. Mr. Miles'
company is now building a canal that
will connect up and open to continuous
navigation 560 miles of inland water
ways on the east coast of Florida, ex
tending from Jacksonville to Key
West. The waters to be thus united
are the St. John’s, Mantanzas, Halifax
and Indian rivers, Worth, Hills
boro and New rivers and Biscayne bay.
A grant has been made to his com
pany of 3,840 acres of land to the mile,
so strong is the popular belief in the
influence of canals as developing agen
cies. The company has completed 60
miles of Its construction, and there re
mains but 17 miles more to be built.
There Is now an open passage by an
inland water route from Jacksonville
north to Charleston, S. C. Some easily
constructed links would carry the route
to the Dismal Swamp canal. Through
this canal to the Chesapeake bay Bal
timore Is reached, via the Delaware
and Chesapeake canal is Philadelphia,
arid the Delaware and Taritan canal
thence affords an Inland protected
waterway to New York. Through
Long Island sound the route is ex
tended farther north.
The passage of the torpedo boat
through tho Dismal Swamp canal at
tracted attention to the stragetic im
portance of Inland waterways to the
national government. With an inland
route from Now England to the Florida
const the terrors of a blockade In case
of war with a foreign power would be
greatly diminished. Such a waterway
would give a passage by water for a
class of fighting craft such as torpedo
boats to engage any fleet that might
blockade an Atlantic port. It would also
offer a means fog transporting muni
tions of war and troops, as w'ell as
general supplies, which might be en
dangered should the outside route be
taken.
THE EARNINGS OE PLAYWRIGHTS.
More Than One Drama has Coined Its
Author Over SIOO,OOO.
Dramatists of established reputation
write plays only upon order. Their
ordinary prepayments are five hundred
dollars upon the delivery of a scenario,
and five hundred dollars more upon
the completion of a play. “If the fin
ished work does not realize expecta
tions," writes Franklin Fyles, of The
Theatre and Its People, in the Indies'
Home Journal, "or if the manager for
any oth -r reason does not desire to put
it on the stage, the money paid Is
forfeited after a certain lapse of time,
and the ownership reverts to the
author. But if the manager decides to
produce the piece the author receives a
percentage of the gross receipts, us
ually five per cent., payable weekly,
after the amount previously advanced
has been deducted. Ordinarily it in
creases with the amount of money
taken in. More than one native
drama has earned one hundred thous
and dollars for its author. A dozen
have yielded fifty thousand dollars
each; three times as many, twenty
five thousand dollars, and a goodly
number, ten thousand dollars.”
THE AUDACIOUS KITTEN.
"Hurrah!” cried the kitten, "hurrah!”
As he merrily sets the sails;
“1 sail o'er the ocean today,
To look at the Prince of Wales!”
"O kitten! O kitten!" I cried,
“Why tempt the angry gales?"
"I'm going," the kitten replied,
"To look at the Prince of Wales!”
"1 know what it is to get wet,
I've tumbled full oft In pails,
And nearly been drowned —and yet
I must look at the Prince of Wales!”
"O kitten!” I cried, "the Deep
Is deeper than many pails!”
Said the kitten, "1 shall not sleep
Till I've looked at the Prince of
Wales!”
"O kitten! pause at the brink.
And think of the sea-sad tales.”
"Ah. yes." said the kitten, "but think,
Oh. think of the Prince of Wales!”
"But, kitten," I cried, dismayed.
"If you live through the angry gales,
You know you will be afraid
To look at the Prtrnce of Wales.”
Said the kitten, "No such thing!
Why should he make me wince?
If 'a cat may look at a king.'
A kitten may look at a prince."
Friend —Well, it's a good thing to
have the people interested in the issues
of the campaign.
Politician —Oh. yes! It would never
do if everybody was just looking for a
Job.
Mrs. Bargnne: “Haven't you got a
toothache. John ” Mr. Hargane: “No.
my dear; why?’ Mrs. Bargane: "O.
I am so sorry you have not. I bought
anew toothache cure today at a bar
gain. and I wanted you to try it."—
Jewish Commeflt.
MY DOG.
Beneath this turf, that formerly he
pressed
With agile feet, a Dog is laid to rest.
Him, as he sleeps, no well-known
sound shall stir,
The rabbit’s patter or the pheasant's
whirr;
The keeper’s “Over!”—far, but well de
fined,
That speeds the startled partridge
down the wind;
The whistled warning as the winged
ones rise
Large and more large upon our strain
ing eyes,
Till with a swoop, while every nerve is
tense,
l'ne chattering covey hurtles o’er the
fence;
’The double crack of every lifted gun;
The dinting thud of birds whose course
is done,
These sounds, that to his listening ear
were dear,
He heeds no longer, for he cannot hear.
None stancher, till the drive was done,
defied
Temptation, rooted to his master’s side.
None swifter, when his master gave
the word,
Leapt forth to track the wounded run
ning bird,
And bore it back —ah, many a time and
oft! —
His nose as faultless as his mouth was
so ft.
How consciously, how proudly, uncon
cerned
Straight to his master’s side he then
returned,
Wagged a glad tail and deemed himself
repaid,
As in that master’s hand the bird he
lam.
If, while a word of praise was duly
said,
The hand should stroke his smooth and
honest head.
Through spring and summer, in the
sportless days,
Cheerful he lived a life of simpler
ways;
Chose, since official dogs at times un
bend,
The household cat for confidant and
friend;
With children, friendly but untaught
to fawn,
Romped through the walks and rol
licked on the lawn;
Rejoiced, if one the frequent ball
should throw,
To fetch it, scampering gayly to and
fro,
Content through every change of spor
tive mood
If one dear voice, one only, called him
good.
Such was my Dog, who now without
my aid
Hunts through the shadowland himself
a shade;
Or, couched intent before some ghostly
gate,
Waits for my step, as here he used to
wait. —Punch.
MINING IN THE TRANSVaAI,.
Plan to Go As Deep As the Heat Will
Permit.
England has been charged with a
greed for gain as the power that is
pushing what it claims la the Trans
vaal. In view of this, the subject of
mining, which in the Transvaal is the
great industry of wealth, may be of
interest to many readers. Mining is
carried on in the Transvaal to a depHi
that far exceeds our diggings and it
is just this particular point that has
recently engrossed the attention of
scientific heads in South Africa.
In July last a paper was read by Mr.
John Yates before the South African
Association of Engineers, at Johannes
burg, that outlined a plan to develop
further the mines of the Witwaters
rand, in the Transvaal, by sinking the
shafts to a depth of twelve thousand
feet, and working the rich alriferous
beds. In the plan outlined by Mr.
Yates, it is proposed to go much be
yond the five thousand foot level, down
to the point where the temperature of
the earth is such that the work can no
longer be carried on. He proposes to
go below this level by a system of in
clines reaching down to the reef. He
believes that it will be impossible to go
to a greater depth than twelve thou
sand feet, because the heat will pre
vent men from doing effective work.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
believes that the mines in this partic
ular neighborhood may be carried down
to an even greater depth than twelve
thousand feet, and suggests fifteen
thousand as a possible limit. With the
opening of the workings, this paper
declares, the temperature would oe ma
terially lowered, and the feasibility of
forcing an abundant air supply to that
depth and circulating it freely seems
to be settled.
“Should the banket beds of the Wit
watersraud maintain their richness
over the extent which geologists and
mining engineers new attribute to
them." says the journal referred to,
“we think it is altogether possible that
in due tit’e they may be worked to
a depth of fifteen thousand feet or
more, the determining element being
the possibility of conducting work at
a profit, and it may safely be assumed
that the reductions in cost through
improvements in mining, handling and
transporting ore. will exceed the neces
sary increase in cost due to depth, and
that, consequently, it will cost less to
mine at ten thousand to fifteen thou
sand feet in depth when we get there,
than it did at a depth of one thousand
of fifteen hundred feet.”
But instead of a series of inclines,
either one long, unbroken, vertical lift
or a series of vertical shafts with land
ing stages may be feasible. With the
use of an electrical trolley arrange
ment it is maintained that a hoist of
fifteen thousand feet may be made with
as much ease and safety as attend the
five thousand foot hoists at the Calu
met Hecla and Tamarack mines.
Though the Yates plan contemplates
an outside limit of one hour in which
to lower a shift of men necessary to
supply a 400-stamp mill, the vertical
lift plan would effect a sensible saving
of time in this regard, as well as in
the hoisting of ore. If there are no In
surmountable engineering difficulties
in the way of mining at a depth of fif
teen thousand feet, the whole problem
resolves itself into the economic one
of whether or not the ore at this depth
will be rich enough to pay the in
creased cost of extracting it.
The whole question will soon have
to be thoroughly discussed, as the new
deep-level workings will have to be be
gun soon, if they are to be completed
in sufficient time to enable them to
keep up the gold output, as the upper
sections of original mines are ex
hausted.
BITS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Paderewski’s home is kept continu
ally filled with cut flowers, the gifts of
his admirers.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., has set a
new fashion at Newport. She does he;
own marketing.
When one of her friends is sick Mrs.
McKinley sends her a basket of flowers
daily from the white house conserva
tory.
One of England’s greatest men died
the other day at Macclesfield. His
name was Leo Whitton and he weighed
714 pounds.
Margaret Deland says she reads eco
nomics, history and the newspapers for
instruction, and novels only for enter
tainment.
’ Who is the weightiest bishop in
Christendom? Rt. Rev. Elezar Torre
gianni, formerly abbot of the Capuchin
monastery in Peckham, South London,
now Roman Catholic bishop of Armi
dale, in Australia, is probably the man.
He scales 2 stone 5 pounds. A parish
in his diocese once presented him with
a carriage, the bottom of which col
lapsed the first time he got into it,
leaving him in a somewhat undignified
and unepiscopal attitude.
WASHING ASPHALT PAVEMENTS.
Purpose is to Remove the Slime and
Harden Road.
Bicyclists who have ridden much on
the asphalt streets of German cities
say that the tendency to "side-slip” is
there much less marked than on simi
lar pavements in this country. The
explanation of this fact may possibly
lie in the statement which is made
by the American consul at Breslau
that the asphalt streets in that city are
regularly washed, t.he purpose of the
washing being to remove the slime
which the asphalt seems to leave and
to keep the street from being slip
pery. The washing has the further
effect of preserving and hardening the
asphalt. The care taken of the asphalt
by the city authorities contrast,
strongly with the methods usually
adopted in the United States. For
Instance, the space in front of the con
sulate is divided into four squares,
which are in charge of one man. After
cleaning the street early in the morn
ing he wheels out a barrow load of very
fine, sharp sand, and scatters it light
ly over the streets, to prevent slip
ping.
Rainy days the process is repeated
several times. Once a week the whole
street is sluiced and thoroughly wash
ed with sprinkling carts. These are
followed by ample roller brushes,
which sweep the water and slime into
the gutter, whence it is carted away.
After this the man who has charge of
the streets comes along with his
wheelbarrow and sand sprinkler. In
spring or autumn, when the streets
are often sloppy and wet, the washing
is done several times during the week.
The man in charge of the asphalt pave
ment is paid 5 cents an hour, the or
dinary street hands receiving 4 cents.
Nobody litters up the street or puts
sweepings on the pavement. There is
a box kept for these. Wire baskets
are fastened on lamp-posts, against
houses, fences or trees, in which the
public may throw waste paper while
walking along. The citizens are very
P>oud of their clean and sweet-smell
ing streets, and the householders have
to sweep to the center of the street in
front of their sidewalks every morning
before 6 o’clock. The litter is piled
up, and soon the city teams cart it
away—Boston Transcript.
MUNICIPAL CARE OF TREES.
The department of forestry of the
city of Springfield, Mass., has shown
commendable energy in the protection
of trees along streets in that city. The
city forester, William F. Gale, has
lately issued a circular letter saying:
"The cutting of roots of trees being
one of the most common injuries to
which shade trees are subject, the su
pervisors of highways and bridges, at
the request of the city forester, have
instructed the employes of the city
having the laying of walks and the set
ting of curbings, not to cut the roots
of trees without his consent. The at
tention of contractors, excavators,
builders, and all others having to do
with the laying of walks and grading,
is called to the order of the supervis
ors, and they are requested to instruct
their men that the cutting of roots of
trees within the highway is not al
lowed. except as provided above. Sec
tion 7 of chapter 5-t. public statutes of
this state, which forbids the mutilation
of trees, applies to their roots as much
as to any other portion of the tree.”
‘ THE WILD HORSE GOING.
Gradual Extermination in Washington,
Idaho and Montana.
Gradually, but surely, the great
herds of range horses on the interior
plains of Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana are being driven to the wall. In
the last two years at least 65,000 head
of horses have been removed from the
ranges of eastern Washington alone.
Their disposition has been approxi
mately as follows: Shipped to Chi
cago and other eastern markets, 20,000;
sent to Alaska during Klondyke rush,
8,000; canned into horse meat at Lin
ton, Oregon, for shipment to France,
9,000; driven to Idaho, Montana, Wy
oming, Colorado and Utah, largely for
Dai k and saddle horses, 10,000; broken
for use by new settlers in Washington,
10,000; died in the last two winters,
8,000. Loss from state in two years,
65,000. This loss has been double the
natural increase, reducing the number
oi wild horses in this state from about
125,000 to 80,000 or 90,000. At this
rate of decrease they would last for
some years, but the fact is that the
horses are being confined to a smaller
area each successive year, thereby in
creasing their chances of destruction.
At least 5,000 horses died of starvation
last winter in the districts north and
south of the Snake river. Fifty to 80
per cent, of some bands vanished un
der the conditions of short grass and
deep snow. The cattle and sheep, on
the other hand, are rounded in the
lower valleys during the fall and fed
during the winter. The range horses
are now confined almost entirely to the
thinly populated counties of Douglas,
Lincoln, Adams and Franklin and
parts of Yahima and Klickitat, in
Washington. These animals are worth
$3 to |2O, according to size and quality.
A large number of them are cayuse3;
others are strong, large-boned horses.
In June, 5,000 head of Douglas county
horses w r ere sold for shipment east at
$2.50 and $3 and $6 per head, according
to size. The horse canning factory at
Linton, Oregon, has converted about
9,000 head into meat for shipment to
France and Germany in the last two
years. A still larger number will be
canned in the near future, for the in
dustrial department of the Northern
Pacific railway has aided in the estab
lishment of another horse canning fac
tory at Medora, N. D. A home market
for many thousand head has been
caused by the boom in the wheat in
dustry, owing to the good crops and
good prices of the last two years.
Thousands of wild horses, weighing
1,100 pounds and upward, have been
broken to the plow by both old and
new settlers. The indications are that
this local absorption will continue in
a limited way for several years in
eastern Washington and Idaho. —San
Francisco Chronicle.
HER DRESS.
There are some wives who actually
begin to bother their husbands about
sealskin sacques in July.—New York
Press.
The contest among the women at
present seems to be as to which shall
wear the largest plaids in her skirts. —
Berlin (Md.) Herald.
The trouble with most women is that
they dress too old when they are
young and too young when they are
old. —Philadelphia Times.
It doesn’t much matter to a woman
whether clouds have silver linings or
not, if only her frocks have silken
ones. —Philadelphia Times.
When a woman goes out riding with
her husband, she is so much better
dressed than he that strangers get the
impression that he is the coachman. —
Atchison Globe.
When you see a girl with her hair all
mussed up, you mustn't think she
hasn’t combed it. It takes her many
weary moments to fix it in that tangled
fashion. —Glasgow Echo.
A woman writer asserts that a pretty
hdt can be made for 60 cents and a
neat dress for $3. It is also true that
man can live on mush and molasses
absorbed regularly thrice a day.—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
This is the season when the girl
who can sew can make a pretty dress
that will not cost more than 75 cents.
That is the tradition. We have never
seen such a girl, and don’t believe in
fairies anyway.—New York World.
ADMONISHING CHILDREN.
“The universal frailty of our human
nature which dislikes to be told of
faults must be taken into consideration
when we converse with our grown-up
children,” writes Kate Upson Clark in
Woman's Home Companion. “After
they pass the age of fourteen or fifteen
they usually betray a greater sensitive
ness than before to even reasonable
fault-finding. By the time they reach
eighteen or twenty this tendency has
become a marked trait. They have
then become substantially like the rest
of us. Even from the lips of loving
fathers or mothers and in strict priv
acy they want nothing but the same
sort of honey on which our own souls
love to feed. They wish no allusion
made to the facts that they are acquir
ing nasal tones; that their gait is awk
ward; that their taste in dress is un
formed and even bad; that they have
not good judgment in choosing asso
ciates. and so on. Private discourses
upon the wiles of the world and the
weakness of youth and its proneness to
wander they wish none of. Whatever
medicine of that sort is to be given
must be administered in small doses,
interjected with skill into conversa
tions upon ordinary matters, and
sugar-coated, if possible, with artful
compliment, though it should be al
ways deserved. Even the best and
dearest of our carefully-brought-up
young people are likely to have their
year or more of obstinacy and ‘pig
headedness,’ or their permanent
streaks of unreasonableness and con
tumacy. Therefore, they would better
receive most of the telling strokes that
mold into shape before they reach the
age of fourteen. From that time up to
the age of what is called ‘discretion,*
which does not arrive with most of us
before twenty-five (if then), the youth,
in judgment and sense, is really not
much superior to what he was at from
seven to fifteen, but he has no sus
picion of the fact.”
CAUTION IN INTRODUCTIONS.
Outside of one’s own house every one
should be careful in the matter of mak
ing introductions. A lady at a friend's
house may safely introduce two per
sons whom she herself knows well. A
man makes introductions more carei al
ly, and both men and women must
first, if possible, get the consent of the
persons to be introduced. An excep
tion to this rule, which hardly needs to
be noted, comes when three or four
persons are thrown together, some of
whom are strangers to all but one of
the others. In this case to save awk
wardness a simple introduction should
be made. Some persons of genial dis
position feel it necessary to introduce
all persons in their immediate neigh
borhood at any social function. It is
needless to say that this wholesale in
troducing is entirely a mistake, and
that those who engage in it usually
make themselves very obnoxious to
their acquaintances. A woman has al
ways more freedom than a man in
making introductions, and a man, for
example, will hardly offer to introduce
two ladies to each other unless he
knows them both very well. —Leah
Lanceford in Woman’s Home Com
panion.
ANOTHER SWORD FOR SCHLEY.
Col. Wharton J. Green favors pre
senting Rear-Admiral Schley with a
sword, saying that the hero of Santiago
deserves as well of the country as
Dewey deserves. Every whit as much,
for beyond all cavil or doubt Santiago
was as great an achievement as Manila.
We believed it surpassed it. —Wilming-
ton (N. C.) Messenger.
The mining of the natives of the
Philippines has been confined to the
alluvial deposits of the rivers, for there
is not a stream rising in the mountains
of Luzon and the other islands which
has not its gold-bearing sands and de
posits, from which for centuries the
larger portion of the precious metal
has been obtained.
HER KISSES.
If kisses convey microbes then the
microbes are onto the advantages of
rapid transit.—Central Illinois Demo
crat.
Don't kiss and tell. If you do your
friends may fancy the experiment is
so unique that you can’s keep it to
yourself.—Berlin (Md.) Herald.
He —“I knew you would make a fuss
if I tried to kiss you.” She —"How did
you know?” He —“I had been warned.”
—Detroit Free Press.
“Were you scared when he kissed
you?” “No; but I was just before it.”
“How so?” “I was afraid he wasn’t
going to.”—Philadelphia Record.
Aunt Hannah—“ Mabel, are you en
gaged to that young man who kissed
you in the entry last evening?” Mabet
Well, aunty, he and I were engaged
just at the moment.”—Boston Tran
script.
AN EXCELLENT SAVORY DISH.
Such dishes as beef or veal olives are
attractive and palatable. Sufficient
meat for them may be purchased for
a single meal; in fact, this is true of all
stews; but broils and roasts are not
good when small. Beef olives are
strips of thin round steaa with a small
piece of suet or bacon rolled and tied
within. They are first browned in a
little suet, and then stewed slowly un
til tender about one hour —in a brown
sauce made by adding two tablespoon
fuls of flour to the fat in which they
were browned. After mixing, add a
pint of hot water and a seasoning of
onion, bay leaf, salt and pepper.—
Ladies’ Home Journal.
COUNTED THE DAY LOST.
At Lausanna, Switzerland, after two
and a half years of consideration the
Anglo - Colombian inter - arbitration
court gave its award in the dispute
between the government of Colombia
and Punchard, McTaggart, Lowther &
Cos., engineers and contractors for pub
lic works respecting the Medellin-
Mugdalena river railway. Colombia's
claim of 800,000 francs was dismissed,
and the firm, a London concern, was
awarded upwards of a million francs.
A GRE.'T APPLE MARKET.
Leavenworth, Kan., it is claimed,
stands at the head of American cities
m the shipment of apples. Indeed,
more apples are shipped from Leaven
worth than from any other point on
either side of the Atlantic ocean. In
addition to the large number of local
packers engaged in the business at that
place, hundreds of packers flock to
Leavenworth annually from other
parts of the country for the purpose of
shipping away, fruit. There are two
immense cold storage plants in Leaven
worth, one of which is built to accom
modate 75,000 bushels of apples.
The remains of Emil Velth were
brought from Denver to Marshall. Mr.
Velth. who died of consumption, had
recently gone west for his health.