The Enid Democrat. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 84, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 1, 1897 Page: 6 of 8
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lbUy. Bchoeflfol A- Orau. limited. are
rp to be given u r *ii«'Wftl Tor next season
-•f their present loam* of tin- Motropolltan
qptra house, and th «y will abandon all
farther operatic entcrprlms They will
iwecd shortly either to wind up their
Vw ln"HM altogether or eonflne their at-
trition to the Tremont theater, lioaton
/which th« > own, above :• mortgage for
fWKKXi.i They w ill run the Boston house
tr an endeavor to make Its earnings pay
ml the creditors. or thev may decide to
It and compnimlH*1 with the rr«*ditors;
m the creditors them-.Ives. who are In
f4Trrt tho corporation now. may ash a
•ki! dissolution of the corporation on the
frTMind of default In heavy payments
*cat will become due from time to time.
The Metropolitan directors will not
the house next season. They are
•rtermined to Rive opera at the Mctro-
*Mlt;m. and nr. . x. r. dingly sorry to find
<*k t the corporation is unable to mako
vrh a showing us will warrant a renewal
tho lease Tli \ have been greatly
#ft as<d with the quality of the operatic
■•■son which Mr flrau has provided, and
hare no fault to Ind with anything that
appertains to the artistic direction of tho
/*«npany. All that « ,n b< said ;it present
U that the lead In ■. m« mhers of the Met-
ropolitan board of directory have been
••formally considering individually, not
*5 the opera direct ore—the formation of a
m*w company with i « ish capital of sev-
eral hundred dollars su.TO.tMH) is the mln-
mi:m capital mentioned and SotKMiOO has
>een suggest'd nud with this fund wlth-
t+ call the company will inaugurate a
Vrm of s« \ «• r-•«I vi -it's oi onera at the
Metropolitan Who the director is to be
iwi not been dot i mined, but it is said
flfcat a proposition 1 been made to Mr.
I>au to assume the management of the
*w company, he jind his friends taking
*alf of the stock In the new concern and
•e gentlemen connected with the opera
Veuse taking the l alan< • ind so much
■f the capital to be called for as may be
accessary.
Lillian Nordlca sailed for Europe last
"Wednesday. Sh- will visit Paris, appear-
ing on April 1! sit the Opera as Elsa,
nd remaining In France until the open-
lag of the Covent garden season. Herr
Otto Lohsc has presented to her the
Brunnhllde and Isolde costumes of his
wife. the Inte Fran Ivlafsky.
YK\ns ti) II %K TO 4MHITIOR
*1 orh M«y Be
impll«hr4 A r
Middle
Cfcic.igo Tribune: The brief article an
Col. J. Henry M
tmr Rtirope, prom
tvmn with a new
H-j will conduct a
l*anc. I,ondon.
ip|c«on sailed last week
sing to return next au-
fjillan opera company,
i op*ra season at Drury
to unaccompanied part songs. In the field
of chamber music Brahms left a large
number of his most characteristic compo-
sitions; many volumes of songs, which
arc among his most est< • mod productions,
also several sets of short piano pieces,
complete the list of his compositions. His
work represents all brunches of music,
except the opera, lie also did considera-
ble annotation and editing for the great
editions of tho classics published by Broit-
kopf & Hartel. Ills published composi-
tion extend to the oyus number 121. the
"Four Serious Songs" that were published
a few months ago.
In 1880 the degree of Doctor of Philos-
ophy was conferred upon him by the Uni-
versity of Breslau, and for his academic
thesis ho presented his "Academic Over-
ture"—an audacious and ainuslng piece of
musical comedy. He also received vari-
ous orders and decorations from German
ruling princes, and was a member of the
Academy of Arts of Berlin.
■+• + -+-
Mme. Emma Eames-Story. accompanied
by her husband. Julian Story, sailed on
the French line steamer I.a Champagne
for Havre. She will go directly to her
home In Paris, where she will rest until
the London Covent Garden season opens,
May 10. Afterward She Will visit Italy,
turning here for the regular season be-
ginning Nov. 4.
Anton Soldi has tlnully brought to a
sflnlnte conclusion his plan to conduct
t Bayreuth this summer. He will lead
certain of tho "Parsifal" performances,
and after a visit to Budapest will return
to this country In spite of Wagner's In-
junctions as to the performances of "Par-
sifal," he had no doubt that Mme. Cosima
Wagner would consent to the performance
f the work In this country. Anton Seldl
Is at work now on the composition of an
opera which he says he is going to keep
for his own entertainment. Knowing the
attitude of the New York public toward
novelties, he says that while he might
possibly get one audience to hear It, he Is
certain he would never got another. The
libretto of the work has been entirely
completed for some time. Siegfried Wag-
ner. who will be one of the conductors at
Bayreuth with Mr. Soldi, Is said to have
spent several months recently in Florence
engaged in the composition of an opera.
+ "t- -t-
Arthur Plnero has at last entered Into
definite agreement with D'Oyly Carte to
rite, In collaboration with ('omyns Carr.
the book of a now opera for the Savoy
theater. The music will bo composed by
Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Johannes Br■ahin the well known musl-
t§i 1 composer. Is «'■ :hI lie had been HI
Her a long tim« lie suffered from Jaun-
ttco last fall, and went to Carlsbad, but
tb cure was ioetY« olive, and he Intended
X* go there again the coming summer.
Tbo disease developed Into cancer of the
Ivor. Tho sufferer was attended by Prof.
"Xothnegol, who had abandoned all hopes
pt tho recovery of his patient. The lat-
>-r was able to read almost until the last,
sril was kept ill ignorance of hla serious
vendition.
Aihannea Brahms, who is generally con-
i d. red to bo the greatest contemporary
mm poser, was born at Hamburg on
March 7, 18,'U'l. Ho was th- son of a
* able-bass player in the city theater,
fend his musical education was begun at
«n early ago He displayed great talent
for the piano, and was also carefully
trained In musical theory at first by one
8* • "ousel of Hamburg, and afterward
■aatfer Edward Marx en of Altona. He
KUtde rapid progress as a pianist, and ap-
peared In public for the first time at tho
age of fourteen, playing among other
ihings, a set of variations of his own
vein position.
In 185;$ Brahms start.d on a concert
tour through Germany with the violinist
fcomenyl. They visited Hanover, Gottln-
ten and Woima: and Brahms, by his
paying, attract- 1 the interest of Joachim
I'm Liszt. What especially aroused the
formers admiration was the feat per
Juruied by the young pianist In Gottlngen
*ften. having t-i pi ty Beethoven's Kreut
r Sonata with Remcnyi. he found the
u.o half a tone fiat, and transposed
V* part, without the notes before him,
ftroiu A to B flat A result of his acqualn
(fence with Joachim was an Introduction
to Bohert Schumann, then living In l>us
•eldorf. There he played to the elde
master his sonatas and scherzo for p4ano,
and' exhibited several books of his songs.
Schumann's enthusl sm at the evidences
*f Brahms' genius Jner. as.d with every
hearing, and took tanglbl. shape in the
famous article In the • None Zeltschrlft
fur Muslk," entitled "New Paths,"
which he announced the . tuning of a new
genius to the musical world, and pre
Jteted for him a great futurr
In 1854 Brahms a. . opted the post of
music master and choir director at the
Court of the Prince of Llppe-Detmold,
where he devoted much time to study
•nd composition He kept the pout only
a few years, and for t time lived In his
native city and afterward in Swltxerland
publishing little Ho played his first con
eerto for pianoforte in LU pslo in 1850. but
without great sue. . - - In 1&V2 he went
to Vienna where he has wr since made
fc's home, and where ho ha- attained hla
great fame. In tlv next year he became
•onductor oi tho Vienna Slngakademle,
%ut he resigned the post In 1^0* He made
frequent short Journeys spending much
f his time In quiet towns suitable for
fcard work, oc islonally conducting hla
compositions. Tin- ri to tnoe of his
"German Requl. m" in 1H * S at Bremen
freatiy enhanced hi* fame, lesser com-
positions wen fre«iuentl\ • omlng from
Ms pen at the sam" tlm ill tending to
raise the admiration of his originality and
power Ills life In Vienna for twenty-five
fears and more has l>. - n quiet and un-
eventful, mark.m1 on!, by performances of
Ms compositions. fn-qu.-ntl> under his
awn direction and by his oc. aslonal np-
fearancoa as i pi ic ' wiiUii have been
•t constantly Increasing rarity. In 1872
James Scott of Crow Harbor. Guyaboro,
N. 8.. which appeared in the Sunday Trib-
une of a few weeks ago. has called out
several Instanc s of a similar sort At
the advanced age of sixty years Mr. Scott
has entered upon the regular course at
the Mtlne modi al school In Portland to
fit himself for tbe practice of medicine.
That this Is not an Isolated ca*e of the
preservation of enterprise and ambition
after passing middle age is proved by the
following instances, called to mind by Dr
C M Haynes:
"JJploiilists have been telling us for
years." paid I>r. Haynes, "that the brain
ceases to grow at forty, and that at fifty
It begins to shriek, and therefore it is
Impossible to bogle new enterprises lat«
In life and carry them to a successful
issue. Facts stand for n.ore than theo-
ries, and the following demonstrate that
elde'ty people can do something else than
sit In tho chimney corner, patiently await-
ing death. Theru is a woman on the
South side who lived on a farm until shp
was sixty. She hflfd no opportunity to
cultivate her tast^ In rt. but'was con-
tinually occupied from early morn to late
at night with th • prosaic details of wash-
ing. lr< nlng. cooking, sowing, butter-
making. and the lik<\ which every farm-
er's wife ,s "X e 'ted to h ok after. When
her children were grown and farm work
became too laborious for the husband tho
couple removed to Chicago. The wife
then began to take lessons In china paint-
ing, later In crayon, and then In oils, and
her homo la ornamented with the work
I of her own hands. This 1? not crude and
i hideous, as might be expected under the
circumstances, but, on the contrary, Is
beautiful and artistic. Her genius Is re-
garded as remarkable by her intlmato
friends, who alone know of her former
life, while strangers suppose she must
have always been devoted to art to have
attained the degree of skill exhibited In
her work.
"When I graduated in medicine, many
years ago, ono of my classmates who re-
ceived his degree at the same time was
seventy-two years of ag \ it was a curi-
ous coincidence that on the same date,
at tho age of twenty-seven he had gradu-
ated at a theological seminary. He had
for forty years preached in the city of
Buffalo, N. Y. Superannuated, he was not
content to uwait in idleness the summons
to depart, and ho began the study of
medicine. He practi—d several years
after receiving his diploma and proscribed
for patients the day ho 6lod.
"The mcst striking example of what
can be done by the aged that ever came
to my notlla the wondt rfu' work now
being doie by a retired presiding elder of
the Methodist church in Greenville. Pa.
At the age of seventy five he is busily
engaged In perfecting the largest micro-
scope lens ever constructed, which Is de-
signed for the Methodist university of
Washington, D. (' It will he, when com-
pleted, flxty-lw ) Inches In diameter. Two
years more will be required to finish It.
He has alreid.v b-en wcrUng upon It
three years. It is said that there are but
two men In the world wli > can complete
It If he should bo taken away before his
task is done. The astonishing feature of
tills undertaking Is that Its projector
never had training as an optical mechanic
and yet has done all the rrore important > gwim
part of tho work unaided."
IN WHALE'S STOMACH.
CAPT. DAVIS VISITED THE
TERIOR OF FIVE.
Ilovr Hla Call I>lffer«d from .Jonah'a—
All of th* Huge Animala Were
- Fr«*«h l lglit on Their Habit* In Told
by * Victim. V
SUGGESTIONS FOR
KITCHEN
! er; N, towel racfc; f, pantry; R, rang*;
I 3. link; T, hinged table; V, veranda.
THE SHEEP OF LEBANON.
Tbcjr
UniSTKIAI
Zelle do Lussan has signed with Mr.
Orau and will go to America next season,
as well as appearing ut Covent Garden
the coming June. The present season will
terminate Milo, do Lussan'* connection
with tho Carl Rosa Opera company. The
artist made her first London appearance
nine years ago as Carmen, during Sir
Augustus Harris' first s« ason at Covent
Garden.
Tho entire Northwest 1* interested In
tho May musical festival at the Exposi-
tion building, Ma> 17 and 1*. The man-
agement proves that every effort will be
mado to provide for the comfort and en-
joyment of the public. Business men have
not been annoyed with requests for guar-
antee subscriptions. The railroads have
made very cheap ••xcurslon rates, and as
tho festival Is extensively advertised
throughout this aid the surrounding
states, large crowds will undoubtedly
come. There will be three entertain-
ments, Monday evening. May 17, Tuesday,
matinee and Tuesdaj e\ nlng. May 18.
Among those that will appear are such
great artists as Mine, t'alve. Mme. Lil-
lian Blauvelt. Mrs. Katherltie Bloodgood,
Miss Rose Stewart. Miss Jennie Mae
Spencer, Miss Miiml* Lit11. Slgnor G.
Campanarl. Barron r.erthold IIenrich
Meyn, J. H. McKlnle> and Charles Mor-
enhout, accompanied by tho Boston Festi-
val orchestra of fifty or more skillful
musicians under the direction of Kmil
Mollcnhauer, and . well trained festival
chorus of about four hundred voices.
The programmes arc not yet complete,
but the "Stabat Mater" will probably be
given Monday evening. May 17. for the
first part, with Mme. Blauvelt. Mrs.
Bloodgood. Mr Mr-Kinky and Mr Meyn.
soloists, the Boston Festival orchestra and
full chorus of four hundred voices. Fol-
lowing this, selections from "Pie Melster-
slnger," "Romeo and Juli t " "I'Pagllac-
ci" and "Luol " by Mme Blauvelt. Mrs.
Bloodgood. Si nor Campanarl. Barron
Berthold and others
The popular priced matinee will also
have an excellent programme, with Rose
Stewart, Jennie Mae Spencer. H. Mc-
Klnley and H.inrieh M- yn. soloists. Miss
Minnie Little, pianist. Mr. Charles Moren-
hout, violin virtuoso, and the Boston Fes-
tival orchestra.
Tuesday evening will be devoted en-
tirely to grand op- ra. with Wagner, Bi-
got and Verdi predominating "Lohen-
grin's Narrative monologue from "Pal-
Staff," the entire fourth act from Am-
brolse Thomas opera 'Hamlet," with
Mme. Calve n the leading role, sung and
acted In cost m> >1 scenes from "Car-
men," and " oust by Mnie. Calve, Slg-
nor Campanan and B mon Berthold. will
comprise tho programme
The seating' arrangement for the chorus
anil orchestr will '< olapted so that It
can bo remov d qui kly .ind as the opera
I'ROtiRFSH It 1**1 A. |
ii roe* of tho Conntrf
\nfiirnl lloNoarri'H of tho i
ltdnu rtfllsed fo the 1'tmont.
The recent Industrial growth of Russia
has been one of the marvels of the pres-
ent decade. In addition to her extensive
stilphnric acid Industry Russia Is opening
up Important manufactures of chromata
salts, vitriol, phosphates, lead, zinc, tin.
strontium and copper salts and mineral
dyes, and platinum Is almost a Russian
monopoly. In medicinal plant growing
the progress in Russia Is very great. Six
castor oil factories, all working from na-
tive grown seed were represented at the
exhibition, and oils of peppermint, worm-
wood. caraway, fennel, anise and plna
needles were also shown. The output
of Russian benzine has grown from 31,-
50^ gallons In 18S2 to nearly 1,570.000 gal-
lons In 180-1. The petroleum Industry la
the second largest in the world. One
firm alone owns 188 miles of petroleum
pipe lines. It has an enormous fieet and
owns 1,157 tank wagons for the convey-
ance of Its products by rail. The indus-
try of the dry distillation of wood In
^ AI*T. S. A. SWIN-
nerton, having sail-
ed the sea for many
years, Is now keep-
er of Lightship No.
23, o ff Noank,
Conn. During his
sea life Capt. Swin-
n e r t o n was a
whaler, says the
New York Herald.
Naturally he knows
other whalers, and when he read Dr.
Lyman Abbott's sermon on Jonah and
the whale he bethought himself of
Capt. James R. Davis of Noank, a re-
tired whaling captain, 75 years old,
who has been "five times a Jonah,"
which is Capt. Davis* own way of say-
ing that he has lived in the bellite of
five different whales. Unfortunately
for the strictest possible application of
Capt. Davis' experiences to the scrip-
tural story, but no doubt fortunately
for Capt. Davis himself, his whales
were dead. But he was in them -of
that there is no doubt—anil he has
lived to smoke a pipe and tell about
it, and Capt. Swinnerton tells the story
of his friend's experience thus:
"I dined yesterday with a man, new
75 years of age. who has been in the
bellies of five different whales. He is
Capt. James R. Davis of Noank, Conn.,
anil this was done when he was a
young man of 23 years of age. He was
one of the crew of the whaling ship
Tiger, Capt. William Brewster, of
Stonington, Conn., whidh left that
place in 1845, sailing direct around the
Horn to the whaling grounds of the
Pacific. Afterward the ship sailed to
Magdalena bay, off the Lower Cali-
fornia coast. The gray back whales
use it as a breeding ground and are
found here in great numbers. The
cow whales float up on the sandy shore
or the still waters and when the tides
fall the young whales are born on the
beach. The calf when born has its
flukes bent up like a hook, and it is
several days before this hook straight-
ens out enough for it to use it to
swim. The mother whale will sport
about the bays until her baby gets the
crook out of its tail and then teaches it
The trow whale when about
to calve is very fat and valuable and
yields about forty barrels of oil from
the blubber and seven barrels from the
inside heart fat and that about the
liver and entrails. The mother whales
never desert their young and thus be-
come easy captures. After being kill-
ed they are towed alongside the ship.
A cutting-in dhain Is fastened to the
side fin, a tackle from it to the main-
yard hauled tight and one strip of
blubber cut into. This is called a
blanket piece. Then the ribs are cut
at the backbone and the blanket piece
and the ribs are hauled up from the
carcass, leaving a hole In the upper
part of the body just back of the head.
A man enters this hole and cuts all
the fatty substance from about the
head, which is shaped like a chicken's
gizzard, but from two feet to thirty
inches In diameter. Capt. Davis told
mo he was in a different whale each
day for five days, being Inside each
iCopyrlghtPd, 1S97. by The Co-Op«r«-
I'vb Building Plan Association.) j t Ar# ,.lkc ttl„ ru
Very little attention is given to tn« i
furnishing of the kitchen, even in the Harry Fenn, the' artist, has written
most particular households. If a new ^ Nicholas an account of his
house is being built the careful house- vjgj^ t0 |.jjP famous cedars of lebanon,
wife may charge the architect with place is also noted for its silk,
certain conveniences for the room, but p'enn gays: Wherever a handful
generally the matter is left wholly to earth can be made to rest upon a
his directions; unless he is a tyro he there a mulberry plant grows.
Is not apt to disapiKiint expectations. jt a picturesque and thrilling sight
Modern improvements in plumbing see a j0Wered by a rope over the
and in ranges provide the most con- precipice, carrying a big basket of
venlent of permanent fixtures. It i* earth and cuttings of mulberry twi^a
scarcely necessary to warn one against to pjailt in his hanging garden. The
the old style of shut In plumbing, that crf>p 0f leaves, fodder for the worms, is
left innumerable crevices and crannies gathered in the same way. By such
to give lodgment to dirt and vermin.
The very best results are obtained
from the use of iron pipe instead of
lead, and if this be used there is mr i
less chance of "sweating." and the
consequent rotting of the adjacent
wood, particularly if the pipes be paint-
ed. The woodwork of the kitchen is
fully as important as that of any of
the rest of the house. Pine is gen-
erally chosen, and is aa good as any
other wood; It should be oiled and
given several coats of hard varnish,
or else painted in yellow or buff.
Particular attention shoultf be given
to the use of thoroughly seasoned
Russia Is only just beginning. Tti North- , , . . . . , . « .
ern Russia, away from tbr railways, there 1 mammal about an hour doing tills
are still many thousands of square miles
under wood, yet up to the present only
one-half per cent of all the resin, but a
slightly larger proportion of tho turpen- i
used in Russia has boon of homa
manufacture. Ii has generally been as- •
sumed that the Russian fir could not b*
made to yield turpentine and rosin of
equal quality or abundance to the French *
or American pines, but « xperlments show
that Russian turpentine, if collected by
the French process, does not differ ma- i
terially from the French except that It
Is dextrogyre to the same degree that the
French Is la vogyre. Moreover, a balsam
was obtained from on« variety that will '
advantageously roplae. Canada balsam
for technical and microscopic purposes. ,
The day of the chemical exploitation of 1
tho Russian forests is then-fore dawning, i
and within a few years the country of
the csar may export, instead of buy from
abroad, acetle acid, wo ul naphtha, ace-
tone. wood vinegar and aertate of lime.
The Importance of the Russian licorice
Juice and licorice root Industry Is gen-
erally known.
work, and that It is a common custom
for a whaler to be for a time a Jonah
In the whale's stomach. Capt. Davis
has been a Jonah 011 live different oc-
casions. Now, if a young man of 23
years can live in a whale's stomach,
even though the whale be dead, why
could not tho Jonah of the Bible live
three days and as many nights in that
famed whale of scripture? Capt.
Davis* five whales had not been dead
very long when he was in them."
scenes will
the stage w.ll 1-
that nothing m. y
tho actors or th
t h*
. |e tred
programmes,
■omplotely, so
with the view.
if 1>i
he was elected e, nduct' r of the tVsoll- j oarpets ur> and i
achuft dor Mn uki v node in Vienna, tho Into dUTareui
concerts of whl.-h were made notable by th# kU<.hon rays--
'tis production of the great choral works
p( Bache and Handel, lie resigned this
post in 1R7r , since which time ho had
flevoted himself almost entirely to com-
position, spending his winters in Vienna
and his summers in lsehl. the center of
a brilliant coterie of musicians from all
parts of the world
Brahms' first symphony, that In C
alnor, dates from 187fi. a late product of
ails genius, bearing tho opus number 08;
the second followed the next year, the
third !n 1883, tho fourth and last In 1880.
For orchestra ho h-- also written two
♦Tortures, two serenades and a set of
variation*, and two concertos for piano-
forte and orchestra, one for violin and
%nd orchestra ami a double concerto for
violin and vlollneollo. with orchestra. Be-
tfdes the "German Requiem" there are a
•umber of choral works of smaller dl-
wanalons, from elaborate cantatas down
No Hope for Thcon |tliiiita.
New York Commercial .Advertiser: The ap-
pearance of the thoosophi'-ttl missionaries who
set sail a year ago t>. .\irr> the ili?ht of their
gi'*|>el around tlie W"iht w.ll probably revive
thin fad among certain iin.stabl" women and
eccentric men. Occult hooks will lie consulted
and much of the trash stiui.peU <*: oterio wis-
dom will come again into . Irrulatlon.
The thoughts .i tl pim-is may be "long,
long thoughts." nr.t w. II .. laj tHU to the lit*
of tho Hunt, wli r. every hegKar can attain
Nirvana, at every siroei . .-nier. merely by
I going to sleep In the sun, but the) an- nut
adapted to Western eondilloii- «it living. Ths
average American ha- only juMt time enough
to be moral and Indu.ntrloie \\ ben he ha«
| fulfilled all his obligation:- us a good neighbor
I and a good clll/.en w).•■ he him attended
strictly to his bushi* -* or his prmewdon: when
he bus looked alter all the iveda t his faintly,
I and has gone to rhiirvh one« on Sunday, he
I hasn't much margin lefi In which to uonder
on the difference hei• n lim astral and physl-
i cat body, or to calculate wli r he and hit
1 wlt'rt had inet In a foini. r ti anatl- n on th«
chores of the Nile.
American women, if thev nl.v knew It, havt
no more ttnu than Anvrb an in n to Investi-
gate the purple myneii-'.N i theosophy. The
mother wh > looks w.H afte« h-n children and
her hoiiHtihold. wl'o uudet>? . ids the vital quea-
tl ns of the do. w 1 . U-. t,« be of use In
society as well a> In l.i h will have tu>
minute* left in whii Ii to ,i the feet Of
Mahatma and learn .1 . V v • ; .i >n< \vhl« h may
have been of valu« hundr. Us of y nrs ago to
a dreamy oriental, but which am have no
value to her
Pwellem In mystic lndl.i may And consola-
tion In tbeosophy. but U- teachings are not
for the people of ti -,. I'nlted States. The
crusade of the Theosophlcnl mh lety Is as much
of an anachronism u a Kur. iHan cmsade t«
the Il>ly Sephulchre would ho In this last de-
eade of the oentury
These Ire (ieoil.
A little vaseline rui>b- I upon patent leather
pho-s makes then as t.ri lit and glossy as new.
If a burn t* sprinkled freely with powdered
charcoal, the ha ml ^ nsuti n will be relieved
almost Immediately
A little ammonia dd >d to the paste used for
i .1 m i cleaning silver *111 hilve the labor, double
that at an atiuaie • ante.- h id recently at luster, and ti lr th- time It will keep
Fremont, County Cork i man named James J
<"hloken «•
Exchange:
tlary" la the s..
freak In crlmlna anna
but startling
Col. lletts of r.itho',. 'id
country reaiden t"*-n
and his family left their
furnished last * >**en i
city. On Sunday. K«d. 7
Islt to the pi
one of the
Upon further in
some of the colon
several handsome
the mountings t i .
chickens -
tho bedrooms.
With the nasi
who lived on i
was arrested. M
ens In the bo •
been mlsstnu
evidences In
had been kll d
quantity of C r
summer use.
i in the penlten-
in ad Ward, a new
1 < a veer was short
■wns a handaoine
i>lest« wn. Pa. lie
- dencc completely
d returned to the
7, 'V colonel paid a
s surprlhod to find the
• furniture moved
. ting in
•mir Ward occupying
• \ t' wns found that
Kthlnir had been used,
ha: a- v* mutilated and
and that half a dozen
>n a bureau in one of
1. so Walton and aons,
hung property, Ward
n Identified the chlck-
e of his flock that had
n two weeks, while
wed that a number
n. together with a
ne \ g.. ds stored for
th;
Dinners That Cost .Honey.
I.ucius Lucullus. the Roman general,
once gave a dinner at which wine was
served costing $20 an ounce. The
young pigs eaten were roasted over a
fire burning nuts aud raisins. Among
the select dishes were peacock's
tongues, live fish from distant seas,
oysters from Britain and fruits from
Arabia. The cost of the feast was
about $100,000. Caligula also gave a
dinner which is said to have cost $500,-
000. Vitellius, the Roman emperor,
gave a dinner costing $200,000. An-
other dinner by Aulas Verus, a Roman
noble, cost $250,000 and Klagabalus
one at which a single dish cost $200,-
000. When George Nevll was Installed
archbishop of York, in 1470, he gave
a feast that cost $150,000. The guests
during the day and night of the festi-
val consumed SO oxen. 300 hogs. 10,000
sheep, 2,000 chickens. 4,000 ducks, 4,000
bucks, doeg and roebucks, 200 tons of
ale, 104 tons of wine and other things
in proportion. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Much Deviltry Uncovered.
A feature of the religoim revival In
progress at Hortonville, Ind., is that
the conversions have had Hiu effect
of uncovering more or lo.-s dishonesty
and other offenses. One penitent paid
back $40, which he had taken from
the owner of a steam thrashing ma-
chine. Anothor acknowledged to the
injured party that he had sworn false-
ly against him In court. Confessions
of the. theft of hams, chickens, etc..
have been lively and still tho good
work goes on.
rassMciivjs VIEW..
wood, for the dampness and stain are
trying, at best, and joints should be
open as little as possible. All closets
and cupboards should be built from the
floor to the ceiling without the slight-
est opening above or below. The doors
should cover just as much of the front
as possible, leaving room only for a
narrow jamb and a shallow sill in
order that when they are opened the
entire exterior should be exposed to
view. Earthenware tubs are cheaper
in the long run than wooden ones, al-
though their initial cost is considerably
greater. But if wooden ones must be
used, be sure they are put in most
carefully, as under the best of con-
tractors they give more trouble than
any other kitchen fillment.
The drain pipe and traps below
should clear the floor so that one may
easily clean around them. The coping
should go close to the wall and rising
from it should be a high splash board,
while a quarter round beading should
cover the joint between the two. The
hot water boiler should not be jammed
tightly into the corner, but should
stand a few inches from the wall. This
will permit it to be cleaned on all sides,
an important'eonsideration if the boil-
er be of copper Above all things do
not stint money in laying the kitchen
floor; this mu.rt be constantly scrubbed,
and if the wood checks and splinters
the task is heart breaking. Only the
highest grades of Georgia pine shoifld
bo used, in narrow strips, and it should
have frequent dressing. It is no econ-
omy to lay a cheap floor with the Idea
of depending upon a covering of oil
cloth or other similar material.
A very common mistake is made in
putting in a sink that is too small
and in providing no place for the
draining of dishes, a sink is never too
large, even for the smallest family, and
if space will permit it it is well to put
in one that is a couple of sizes larger
than needed; at both ends should be
wide draining shelves, an admirable
feature, if one can afford it is a panel
of tiling adjoining the sink. This
should be capped with a strip of wood
containing hooks, from which may be
hung basting spoons, collander, meas-
ures, etc. As to furnishing proper,
this is a very simple matter, although
many people seem to think that it is
sufficient to tramp Into the kitchen
the dilapidated and' broken down furni-
patient and dangerous Industry have
these hardy mountaineers been able
'o make their wilderness of rock blos-
som into brightly colored silks. Not i
single leaf is left on the trees by the
time the voracious worms get ready to
spin their cocoons, but a second crop
comes on later, and a curious use is
made of that. The tree-owner pur-
chases one of those queer big-tailed
Syrian sheep, the tail of which weighs
twenty pounds when at the full matu-
rity of its fatness; and then a strange
stuffing process begins, not unlike the
fattening of the Strasburg geese.
When the aheep can eat no more tho
women of the house feed it; and it is
no uncommon sight to see a woman
going out to make an afternoon call,
leading her sheep by a string, and
carrying a basket of mulberry leaves
on her arm. Having arrived at her
friend's house, she squats on the
ground, rolls a ball or mulberry leaves
in her right hand, and slips it into the
sheep's mouth, then works the sheep's
jaw up and down with the other hand
till she thinks the mouthful has been
chewed enough, when she thrusts it
down the throat of the unfortunate
animal. The funny part of the busi-
ness is that probably half-a-dozen gos-
sips of the village are seated around
the yard, all engaged in the same
operation. Of course the sheep get
immensely fat, and that is the object;
for at the killing time the fat is tried
out and put into jars, as meat for th
winter.
tcheh
DIGNITY OF DINING.
Some 200 or 300 years ago Italy led
in cooking and Prance laughed and
mocked at the Italian devotion to ths
science of the kitchen. Then came
days in France when masters of the
art of cooking, such as Bechamcil,
serving Louis the Magnificent, and
Vatel, the famous steward of the prince
de Conde, ruled over the diuner table,
and great ladies thought it no indig-
nity to prepare a favorite dish.
The princess of Soubise invented the
soup now called after her, while the
princess of Conde gave her name to a
particular mode of serving a breast of
mutton. The duchess of Mailly, vying
with her, invented a special way of
dressing a leg of the animal. Louise
de ia Valliere was skilled in the culi-
nary art.
Mme. de Maintenon liecame so
alarmed at the delight of Louis XIV
over the breast of mutton a la Conde
that she called in Pere L.a Chaise and
Pere Douillet, and the trio evolved the
duck au Douillet; this dish is famous
in history as the means of weaning
the susceptible monarch from: the
princess de Conde to the triumphant
Malntenon.
Moderation in manner of eating and
choice of food has not always charac-
terized men of history. Both Na-
poleon I. and CarlyIn are said to have
ruined their digestions and tempers by
rapid eating. On the other hand, the
care with which Gladstone partakes of
the viands set before him has been ac-
knowledged over and over again as one
of the greatest factors which, has
worked to prolong his life.
Thrifty to the I.ant.
An old Lancashire miller, noted for
his keenness in matters financial, was
once in a boat trying his best to get
across the stream which drove the mill.
The stream wns ftooded, and he was
taken past the point at which he
wanted to, land; while, farther on, mis-
fortune still further overtook him, to
the extent that the boat got upset. Hla
wife, realizing Ihe danger he was in.
ran frantically along the 3lde of tha
stream, crying for help In a pitiful
voice; when, to her sheer amusement,
she was suddenly brought to a stand-
still by her husband yelling out: "If
I'm drowned, Polly, dunnot forget that
flour's gone up 2 shillin' a sack!"—
Tit-Bits.
ture from other parts of the house.
When this is done It Is unreasonable
to expect that the servants will take
any pride in the room or make the
most of its possibilities. There is
Hints to Young Authors.
There is but one way for an author
to get his wares before the editors, and
that is to send his manuscript to the
perolieal to which he believes it to be
best suited. If he deals with tihe prin-
really no excuse for this course, as the | publication.-, he can always feel
cost of excellent new kitchen furnl- j certain of courteous treatment and
ture is merely nominal. There should honest dealings. Prices vary arid de-
be two plain deal tables, a large on.' pend entirely on the value nf the ma-
OUI, but O, My!
Tho Dublin oorr^sponednt « • the Lancet Mys
Loder, eighty-t > •■■nrs old, covered thirty
three feet In three t.idlf; ium|>3. Su.nAl
yoimg men fall. I • • .. n. • within thr«?« fseet of
thlB distance Old I. ler weighs only 112
pounda ftnJ la remark ibiy v g-imug
clean.
Chloroform I* the \er; best thtng to taka
grease apots out > cloth. - It will not Injur*
the 00tor or av*n tit m ial <*lh te shadaa af
, silk
IVban Contradiction la Nsfsty.
"Dah's only one time," said Uncle
Bbcn, "when It's safe ter conterdlct a
man, an' dat's when he puts on a
melancholy look au' stahts In ter tell
'bout how old he's gettln' t« be."—
WMhlofton Star.
and a small one, the latter just about
ihe height of tho range or stove. This
will be found extremely convenient In
cooking if drawn close to the range,
to held utensils. The chairs should
be «'f Ihe kind that have solid wooden
Bea'.s, but there should nli>o ba at
Iea t one comfortable rocking chair,
anything that is in the" nature of an
orbaraent and thai has no utilitarian
uiie Is wholly out of place and should
bt 'banished from the kitohen. The
dwtgn presented has a kitchen arrang-
Ml In accord with the suggestion con-
taland In article.
X. description of cut A, movable ta-
bic; B, boiler; C, closet; B, low table;
F, 0Mlt«r shelf; II chairs; M, dross
torial to the periodical. Editors are
always glad to examine manuscripts
sent to them, and, all talk to the con-
trary notwithstanding, are anxious to
discover unknown talent.—-Ladies'
Home Journal.
Katlier Mlted.
A local preacher of the west of Eng-
land recently offerod tip the singular
prayer "that the spark of graee might
be watered with the dew of blessing
from on high."—Saturday Review.
One ol lb*
liogan "How did yaz get tiiot oyaT'
Brogan—"I clllbrated mo blrt'day
lasht «T«nlu'."—Judy
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