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VOL. XXVI. riTTSBORQ, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY , JUNE 30, 1901.
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Copyright 184 by JSoemt Bonneb's Sous.'
CHAPTER V. j, -
" - Continued. 'Sr
"Oh, Annie is a few months younger
than I. When she -was about fourteen
her father apprenticed her In one of
the big drapery establishments in the'
Svest End of London, but -we don't
know -which. ' She didn't go to New
Zealand with her father. Further than
that we know nothing about her." '
! "Then I am not your youngest aunt?"
i ' I don't know, I am sure," was my
reply.
"I am twenty-six," confessed aunt
Gertrude.
i "Then, If Annie is living, I have an
aunt nearly seven years younger. As
II said, she is younger than I by a few
months."
Aunt Gertrude sighed, turned some
Vhat abruptly from the picture, and
walked through the open window on
to the verandah.
t The view from our verandah is prob
ably as good as from any point in Suf
folk distant from the coast. Accept
ing as truth a popular- fallacy some
will think this is faint praise, but
those acquainted with the county will
hardly so regard it. No part of Eng
land is less esteemed by English peo
ple than the eastern counties, but this,
like many other of our national preju
dices, does not admit of any explana
tion. The absurd fact remains. A
rolling country, highly cultivated herej
nnd there, interspersed with abund
ance of wild open spaces and woods
which shelter immense quantities of
'game, with a rainfall the most moder
nte in Britain, would, it might well be
supposed, attract many .visitors espe
cially from London, but it is not so,
and East Anglia is left very much to
East Artglians, particularly in that
part of it called Suffolk.
The weather was delightful, the clear
blue sky being streaked here and there
.with slowly moving white clouds, the
temperature mild and refreshing, the
sunshine brilliant a spring morning
"fraught with every condition to pro
mote health and buoyancy of spirit.
Aunt Gertrude shaded her eyes with
her hand and looked out toward the
old a-bbey town. Bury St. Edmund's,
eight miles distant, could be faintly
discerned, separated from us by a fine
stretch of undulating country.
, "How delightfully green everything
Is in England!" exclaimed my aunt ;
enthusiastically.
. "Particularly the people," observed
a voice at our back.
The voice belonged to uncle Sam.
Turning round we saw that gentleman
just within the room, standing in a
jauuty attitude," his hands in his pock
ets, chewing the end of an unlighted
cigar. My father was with him and
had a pair of field-glasses in his hand.
1 This unexpected interruption ap
peared to annoy my aunt. "You are
not very complimentary to your own
people," she said, slightly tossing her
delicately poised head.
Her husband perceived her mood.
"All right, my dear," he said, in his
most affable manner, as hje stepped on
to the verandah, "I forgot for the mo
ment that some Americans are more
English than the English themselves.
Just let me look at the boundary line
of this place and I am gone." So say
ing he took the field-glasses from my
father, who remained within, and sur
veyed the prospect for a couple of min
utes. Having completed his observa
tion he made no further remark, but
re-entered the room and disappeared
with his brother.
It was not long before my aunt and
I followed. We went through a num
ber of rooms, some of them named af
ter distinguished guests who had oc
cupied them long ago Camden, Swift,
'Addison, Butler, Purcell and others of
less note the lady evincing greater in
terest in the quaint furniture than in'
the historical associations to which I
endeavored to direct her attention.
In this way did I amuse my aunt for
three hours, conducting her at last
through the clean, dry stone crypt,
which formed the basement of the
house. This crypt was very ancient,
being the only unaltered portion of
the old abbey which supplied the site,
and in part the material, for Holden
hurst Hall. The stonework of the spa
cious arches seemed quite uninjured
by time; and, though they contained
much lumber, there still remained am
ple room for a procession of monks to
pass through them. Aunt Gertrude
was much interested, and constantly
plied me with questions about the hab
its of the original ecclesiastical occu
pants as I preceded her through this
strange place, lantern in hand.
"Why is that last arch bTicked up?"
ehe inquired.
I looked at the object of her inquiry.
"IJiaven't the remotest idea. I never
noticed it before." It is rarely anybody
comes down here,',' I said.
It was now time to prepare for lunch
eon, and we ascended the steps,
which led into the house. In the hall
:we again met my father and uncle.
"Well," asked uncle Sam, address
ing his wife, "what do you think oi
the old place?"
"Very interesting, indeed. I have
enjoyed myself immensely."
"I am glad to hear it," said my fath
er. "You must be very tired. Lunch
oa -will be served in a few minutes.
I have invited the Key. Mr.
WALTER ; BL'OQMFIELD
"The devil you havje!" exclaimed
uncle Sam. "Is he a good fellow?"
"The rector of Holdenhurst Major
has been my friend for ten years."
"I hate parsons," said uncle Sam.
chapter vi. ;r
UNCIiE SAM AND THE BEV. SILAS PULLER
My father's intimation that he had
invited the Rev. Silas Fuller to lunch
eon disturbed me. I knew Mr. Fuller
very well, and I was beginning to
know my uncle a little. Two men
6Ufferjngmrewidely in habit and
opinion-it would be difficult to" find,
and I feared that a conversation be
tween them" might afford my father
and me more embarrassment than en
tertainment. The Rector of Holdenhurst Major
was a thin, spare man, a little on the
wrong side of fifty, short of stature,
neat in appearance, formal and pre
cise in manner and speech. The def
erence which for many years had been
paid to this reverend gentleman by
the most tractable but ignorant peas
antry in England, had bred in him a
somewhat dogmatic style. Like most
ot his class, he had married early in
jlife, choosing for his wife a portion
jless lady about three times his own
I size, who, in lieu of dowry, had pre
sented her lord with seven daughters
and four sons in the most "rapid suc
cession permitted by the laws of Na-J
S ture. The living of Holdenhurst Major
; was worth 220 a year in money, with
'a tolerable house, and five acres of
land all told. Such were the means at
the disposal of this clergyman of the
' Church of England, and with them he
'had to support himself, his wife, his
eleven children, two servants, one
pony, one dog, and one cat, as well as
take a material interest in the well
being of the poor of the parish that
is to say, of the entire population; for
my father and the Rector were by
very much the richest persons in the
place. I remember also a canary, said
to have been the pet of the eldest
daughter, that was once a member of
this clerical household; but it died
whether from the draught through the
window, of inanition, or as prey to
the hungry cat, I could never correctly j
ascertain.
I felt that my worse fears were
shortly to be realized when introduc
tions over, seats taken, and grace said
my uncle opened the conversation
by inquiring of Mr. Fuller how busi
ness was looking, hastily correcting 1
his sentence, and substituting "church
matters" for "business."
"I thank you, Mr. Truman," replied
the Rector, with great deliberation, as
he slowly smoothed the puckers in h?s
waistcoat with his left hand, while
his right grasped the wine-glass which
he had been about to raise to his lips
when addressed; "I thank you, Mr.
Truman, for your kind inquiry. It is
very considerate of you to ask such
a question. Too little interest is taken
in the Church by persons, not imme
diately connected with the Church
far too little interest. Born in the
Church, if I may so express myself
(for both my father and grandfather
held curacies at Splashmire-on-Orwell),
and myself, I trust, a conscientious,
hard-working minister of the Church,
I fully appreciate the comprehensive
ness and. importance of the question j
with which you have been so good as
to favor me. It is only on the occa
sion of my visits to the Hall that I
find myself in a situation to be so in
telligently interrogated. I fear my an
swer must be somewhat different from
that which doubtless your position in
life and your proper opinions induce
you to desire. The Church, alas! has
many enemies; and among her ene
mies are some who should be her
friends; though I rejoice to inform you
that we of this district are rather ex.
ceptionally free from such adverse in
fluences. The unprecedented depres
sion in agriculture, however, and the
uncertain, though certainly unchris
tion, procedure of one whom I think,
without the remotest exhibition of par
tisanship, I may stigmatize as the evil
genius of England, Mr. Glad "
Mr. Fuller had only proceeded thus
far with his answer the bare prelim
inary to a fifteen minutes' discourse
whe:i uncle Sam's impatience, of
which I had been watching the growtii
with alarm, reached an unbearable
point, and he cried out:
"Was that your pony I saw coming
up the. path about half-an-hcur ago?"
"It was," replied the Rector, much
Surprised at such an extraordinary in
terruption. "The animal seems in a very bac
condition," observed uncle Sam.
"Madcap is rather old," said the
Rev. Mr. Fuller, looking very uncom
fortable; "we have had him a good
-aany years."
I think it must have occurred to my
'ncls that the subject of conversation
'.Iricli he Unci so ta witting" j started
ould not be effectually dismissed in
.his unceremonious -way, for after a
urief pause, he himself re-opened it.
"I suppose there are not many prizes
in the Church of England, and that
the few which exist are well pre
served by the cliques with a present
. s r
grasp on them, lor a processor 01
after all, Nonconformity offers th
best field; but for a slow man, with a
taste for a large family and a dull
ilfejloubtless the Church la best."
These words plunged my father and
me into great confusion of mind. It
Is true they were spoken by one who
knew little or nothing of the circum
stances of the Rev. Mr. Fuller who
indeed had never so much as heard of
that gentleman until an hour before
but their effect was none the less dis
astrous. My father coughed, I choked,
and aunt Gertrude asked me to oblige
her by passing the water.
"I suppose the collections in a place
like this are very trifling," said uncle
Sam.
i"We collected 8 last Harvest
Thanksgiving," answered the Rector.
"What became of the money?" asked
my uncle.
"AH 'our collections are given away
in charity. The 8 of which I spoke
the largest collection of the year was
paid over to the Royal Agricultural
Benevolent Society."
"Oh, I see," said uncle Sam. "Now
this matter of collections in churches
Is one -of the many things which" we
manage better on the other side f
the Atlantic. I am not thinking " of
Holdenhurst, for of course there is
no money here to collect anyway; I
am thinking of New York and London.
Why, I remember when I was a boy
in England in some churches the col
lecting boxes were fixtures at each
side of the door! Could anything have
been more absurd? Any effect which
the eloquent begging of the preacher
had produced died away like the mem
ory of a dream as one walked along
the aisles, and the posts supporting
the money-boxes were passed as heed
lessly as the lamp-posts in the street.
After that, if I remember rightly, the
plan was to place a plateholder at
each side of the door. This was better;
but the plan had two glaring defects:
nothing was easier than for the people
in the middle of the stream of passers-out
to affect not to see the plates,
neither was there any check on the
doings of the plate holders. The next
plan to be adopted, which I recollect,
was. the passing of a bag in front of
each person present in church. This
plan, though an improvement, was not
without a serious defect. A penny,
skillfully dropped into the bag, chinked
as loudly as half-a-erown or a sov
ereign, and produced as good an effect
upon the other occupants of a pew
as would have been produced by one
or other of the more valuable coins.
After a while plates were substituted
for bags, ouly partly removing this
objection; and this, I think, is as far
as you have got in England."
"How are collections taken in Amer
ican churches?" inquired Mr. Fuller,
with evident interest.
"By the envelope system. Two dea
cons pass round the church, the first
carrying-A. tray full of envelopes and
a. penOJflr the second an empty tray.
Each contributor places his contribu
tion in an envelope, seals it, and writes
his name on the outside. Deacon num
ber two collects the filled envelopes,
and at the next service the name of
each contributor, and the amount of
his contribution is publicly announced,
the giver of the largest amount first;
and so on. When there are several
persons who give a like amount, their
names are announced in alphabetical
order. It is a perfect plan, and I have
unqualified admiration for the man
who conceived it he read human na
ture well. It meets all requirements,
and nothing in it can be objected to.
The man who wants to advertise him
self is invited, as it were, to assist the
Church equally with the simple-minded
giver for I assume that the motive
for giving signifies nothing so long as
the dollars are scooped. Fraud is
checkmated, and it is impossible to
exaggerate the t importance, of that;
for surely no one will so abuse his
intelligence as to deny that in every
congregation Ananias and Barabbas
find more imitators than any other
Biblical characters."
"There is certainly a great deal of
villainy in the world," confessed Mr.
Fuller sadly.
J'You would say so with greater em
phasis if you were a member of the
Stock Exchange," said uncle Sam.
At this stage my father made a com
mendable but not very successful ef
fort to change the subject of conver
sation. Aunt Gertrude sat silent and
neglected, and everybody in the room
except uncle Sam appeared ill at ease.
As for myself, I was desperately un
comfortable, and desired nothing so
much as the termination of this mem
orable meal. My uncle, I knew,
would not prolong it by one minute
that was not one of his faults but
the Rev. Mr. Fuller, who was a mira
cle of slowness, had to be reckoned
with; and that gentleman ate as leis
urely as he talked, which is saying a
great deal. After some skilfui fenc
ing my father at last diverted his
brother's remarks from church affairs
to decimal coinage, of which monetary
system uncle Sam was a redoubtable
champion; and from that moment un
til tie rose from the table the guns of
his eloqu&nee played mercilessly upon
what he was pleased to call . the . ab
surd English chaos of fours, twelves,
and twenties.
To be continued.
"A Tooth for a Tooth."
Before artificial teeth were created
deficiencies had to be made good by
the real article, so body snatchers rav
aged the cemeteries at night, breaking
up the jaws of the dead to extract
their teeth to sell to dentists for inser
tion in live men's mouths. An army
of these ghouls followed Wellington's
army. They were licensed as sutlers,
but once night tell, out came their nip
pers and they prowled over the bat
tlefield extracting the teeth of the
dead or dying.
WIT and HUMOR
of THE DAY
Urbs in Kure.
I'm glad you city-people
Love the city as you do; -For
if you should desert it,
You would spoil the country too.
The Whim,
As to the Star.
The Soubrette "Does she make up
quickly?"
The Understudy "Well, everything
but her mind." Pittsburg Post.
The Mystery of Credit.
"Tactful?"
"Very. She lives as'far beyond her
income of $50 a week as most women
could live beyond an income of $100 a
week." Puck.
Not Quite the Same.
Old Grave "Are you thinking of the
future, my friend?"
Young Slave "No, to-morrow is my
wife's birthday, and I'm thinking of
the present." Boston Globe. .
By Proxy.
Boarder No. 1 "What's that
loud
thumping noise in the kitchen?"
Boarder No. 2 "It's the landlady
hammering the steak; and wishing it
was the beef trust." Chicago Tribune.
Sometimes.
Upgardson "Do you share the super
stition that opals are unlucky?"
Atom "The fine opal you're wearing
on that soiled necktie certainly seems
to be in hard luck." Chicago Tribune.
Her Mistake.
"So," said her new neighbor, "your
husband talks Russian?"
"Oh, yes, quite fluently."
"I had supposed the noise I have
been hearing was made by j-our girl
freezing ice cream." Chicago Record
Herald. Veteran Experience.
"I'll bet you never smelled gunpow
der !" exclaimed an excited veteran to
a comrade.
"Well, to tell the truth, I didn't," ex
plained the other; "you see, the day of
that battle I had a bad cold in my
head." Yonkers Statesman.
A Blessed Belief.
Dumley "Gracious! I'm glad I ain't
a Russian. It must be awful to have
to leave home and go to war."
Housekeep "Oh, I don't know; there
may be mitigating circumstances. Per
haps it's housecleaning time there just
as it is here." Philadelphia Press.
What Did She Want?
Mrs. Newliwed "I want to get some
salad."
Dealer "Yes, ma'am. How many
heads?"
Mrs. Newliwed "Ob, goodness! I
thought you took the heads off. I
just want plain chicken salad." Phila
delphia Ledger.
Wedding Anniversaries.
Hicks "So you're going to celebrate
your wooden Avedding, are you?
Wicks "Yes."
Hicks "Well, I guess I'll celebrate
my wouldn't wedding. It was just
five years ago that that girl from Chi
cago said she wouldn't marry rue."
Sonierville Journal.
A Worse Fear.
"Sorry, boys, but I'll have to be get
ting home," said Underthum, at the
club. "My wife expects me before mid
night." "What's the matter? Afraid she'd
go for you if you stayed any later?"
"No; I'm afraid she'd come for me."
Philadelphia Press.
A Frosty Atmosphere.
"I understand that prima donna
failed to give her farewell concert be
cause she had a bad cold."
"Yes," answered the manager.
"How did she contract it?"
"Well, it wasn't a n ordinary cold
It is Avhat is technically known as a
box oflice chill." Washington Star.
All Experienced Opinion.
Father "Daughter, Algernon von
Spook wants to marry you."
JDaughter "What, that man? Why,
papa. I wouldn't have him. He hasn't
any sense."
Father "Of course not; of course
not. You don't suppose he would be
wanting to get married if he had, do
you?" Detroit Free Press.
Easy to See Throwch.
"They haven't much show of winning
the election, but they're making quite
a bluff. They're going to have a torch
light procession to-night."
"That so? Have they any transpar
encies?" "O! yes; that word describes the va-
rious claims they've-been making."
Catholic Standard and Times.
Puzzled.
"I am just a little puzzled," she said.
"What's the matter?" asked her dear
est friend. : S
"Why, of course, if you become en
gaged to a young man at the seashore,
it doesn't count the following winter,
but does it count for anything if you
happen to meet him at the seashore
again the next summer?" Chicago
Post. ' ' .
Decidedly Fortunate.
"You rte trying to break my heart,
said the flirt.
"Yes," admitted the youth who had
just found her outr "and it will be a
fortunate thing if I succeed. As long
as it's whole you can't possibly satisfy
all the men you havo kept chasing
after it. Once broken, there "ought to
be a little something for each." Chi
cago Tost. . ' '
WJ SCIENCE p
Dr. Hamilton Brown of" Baltimore
has successfully substituted hard rub
ber tubes in place of the sixth and
seventh ribs of an eighteen-year-old
patient suffering from pus formation
after pneumonia, t is expected that
new bones will be formed. . .
Dr. Manaceine, the famous Russian
authority on sleep phenomena, says
that rocking is an artificvd methol of
inducing sjumber. The process fa
tigues consciousness by a series of
monotonous sensations and incidentally
deprives the brain of its blood supply.
Absence of blood from the brain makes
sleep.
Recent tests show that in fifty-one
per cent, of the cases the human right
arm is stronger than the left; in thirty-three
per cent, the left is stronger,
and in sixteen per cent, they are of
equal strength. Of fifty skeletons
measured, twenty -three had the right
arm and left leg longer; six had the
opposite, and seventeen showed mem
bers of equal length.
Dr. Roux of the Prste : Institute,
Paris, reports that at last :. microbe
has been found which : iay be relied
on to exterminate rats and other ro
dents without doing injury to other
animals. A district covering three
thousand acres wa. experimented on,
four tons of bread and ten tons of
oats, inoculated with the germ, be
ing used as bait, and ninety -five per
cent, of th-j little pests being killed.
Reduction by electricity of an an
eurism or dilatation of ue aorta, the
main artery of the body, has been at
tempted in nine recorded cases, but
only three of the patients survived,
In a recent successful attempt, . the
galvanic current was applied to a
Philadelphia man for one hour, reduc
ing an aneurism that extended three
inches above the base of the breast
bone and was three and one-half
inches wide.
REWARDS OF JOURNALISM.
Why the Average Newspaperman is Fit
ted For the l'ublic Service.
Iii my opinion, the most attractive
fields of profitable usefulness opened
up by the pursuit of journalism are
politics and the business of publishing.
Those who have tried to show reasons
why journalists should abstain from
active participation in politics, and
why they should refuse to enter the
contest for public office, have never
advanced an argument that will stand
the test of logic or common sense. If
a journalist, in pursuit of his vocation,
advocates certain governmental poll
cies which may be embodied in the
creed of a party, there is no reason
why he should decline to accept a posi
tion that will enable him to have a
part in the practical application of
these policies when they are ratified
by . the people' at the polls. The pro
fession of journalism requires extend
ed knowledge of politics and familiar
ity with the theory and practice of
government. The successful journalist
must of necessity be a constant student
of national issues and party politics
He need not abandon the profession of
journalism to enter a public service
for which years of study and training
have preeminently fitted him. Politics
and journalism go together; they are
inseparable.
As a matter of fact, the average
journalist is better fitted for the public
service than the representative of any
other profession. There is no reason
why politics or legislation should be
regarded as the exclusive domain of
the lawyer. There are a great many
reasons why the business of the law-
making should not be entirely con
trolled by those who make money out
of the practice of law. If public office
disqualifies a journalist for impartia
and fair-minded discussion of public
measures, then the lawyer who is
elected to Congress is disqualified from
practice in any court. There is no
reason why a journalist should ex
pend the energies of a lifetime in
helping men to secure public office,
when he is himself better qualified,
by experience, education and training,
for the public service than most poli
ticians. The proverbial ingratitude of
politicians should admonish news
paper writers that their surest hope
of reward for party service is in active
and aggressive participation in the con
tests for those places in the Federal
service that are usually claimed py in
competents -who have no especial fit
ness for them, and who have no claim
upon the party, outside that which is
established by corrupt manipulation of
caucuses and conventions and which
to the disgrace of modern politics, is
too often recognized. Mr. Truman A,
De Weese, in the Forum. - . ;
Ben Franklin's "Philadelphia Treat."
An interesting collection of invita
tions to and from Benjamin Franklin
during his visit to England has 'been
placed in the University of Pennsyl
vania Library. Among the letters to
Franklin are some from the peerage
for great and for little dinners, but
perhaps, the most interesting is one
from a gentleman who described him
self as "in lodgings" and unable to
entertain Mr. Franklin ?.t him home,
He therefore proposed a visit to the
Star and Garter, and then went on to
say that he would order a dinner at a
crown a head, evidently expecting
Franklin to bear his share. There is
no record of an acceptance. Pbiladel
phia Record.
Many Species of Fish.
The seas of Japan, Okhotsk and Beh
ring contain 333 distinct species of
fish.
Codfish Baked With Cheese.
.Bake into flakes two pounds of salt
codfish and soak one hour; change the
water once; make a white sauce with
two level tablespoonfuls of flour, one
and one-half cupfuls of milk; salt and
pepper to season; butter a baking
dish; put in it alternate layers of fish
and sauce, sprinkling grated Amer
ican cheese between each layer; then
spread over the top buttered crumbs
and bake in a quick oven over half an
hour. - - : i
' ' "
Potted Chicken. - .-
Boil the chicken in as little water s.
possible till very tender and well done.
Season while boiling to suit the taste;
then while hot separate the white
meat from the dark, and chop both
very fine.
Place the white part of a bowl, in
any design wanted, as a circle or a
cross; fill up with the dark meat, pour
over it enough of the liquid left in the
kettle to thoroughly moisten it; then
lay a small board over it and press
with heavy weights. After a few
hours turn it out on a platter and or
nament with sprigs of parsley. .,
Celery With Cream Dressing:
Wash and cut celery in inch pieces or
smaller; put in a cool place until
wanted; grate one cocoauut; pour over
it one pint of boiling water; allow it
to stand until the water is cool; then
with the hand squeeze the cocoauut in
the water; take it by the handful, press
It tightly, and throw away; strain the
mixture through a piece of cheese
cloth; stand this aside until cold and
the cream conies to the surface; at
serving time put the celery in a glass
dish, sprinkle over it one tablespoonful
of grated onion, a little cayenne pep
per and a little salt; skim the cream
from the top of the cocoanut milk and
pour it carefully over the celery; then
add two tablespoonfuls and serve at
once.
tllNJjS FOR, THE.
MOUSEKEEPERo
Always keep your celery roots and
dry them. They are good for season
ing soups and sauces.
An attractive way to prepare maca
roni au gratin is to bake the macaroni
in a shell of Edam cheese.
Cut flowers will last much longer if
a little carbonate of soda be added to
the water in which they are stood.
If the bread knife is hot new bread
can be cut as easily as old. But, if
you would not spoil your knife, do not
make it too hot.
One reason that an omelet is so often
a failure is the use of too many eggs.
The more eggs the more difficult the
matter of turning and folding. Four
eggs are all that should ever be used
at one time.
After rice or macaroni is cooked,
place in a colander and drain off the
water, then quickly turn cold water
through and you will find that the
stickiness which is so undesirable will
be prevented.
A good general ruli always to re
member in the use of gelatines is to
soften the gelatin in cold water, then
to dissolve in boiling water. Neglect
of either part of the process will cause
trouble in making jellies.
The coffee pot should be washed as
regularly as other cooking utensils,
but should not be put into the water in
which other dishes have been washed.
It should be cleansed with fresh, hot
water without soap, and then thor
oughly scalded.
. . To cook fish in water, do not boil it.
Plunge the fish into the boiling water
to sear the surface and retain the
juices, then reduce the heat so as to
keep the water below the boiling point
180 degrees Fahrenheit is the de
sired temperature if one uses a ther
mometer in cooking.
Tinware can be kept bright indefi
nitely if it is washed in soap suds, to
which a few bits of washing soda have
been added, and placed for a few
seconds either on the stove or in the
sun after being wiped lightly with the
dish cloth. When warmed through
it should be dried with a domet flannel
towel.
Glasses which have been used for
milk and eggs should never be plunged
in hot water. Immediately after using,
fill with cold water and allow then ta
stand. Next wash them in lukewarm
water, then in hot suds, and rinse. The
result, especially if linen toweling be
used, will be glassware that sparkles
as if it were cut.
To clean agateware put the ware on
the stove filled with water and into
the water put a tablespoon of salsoda
(washing soda)aud then after a while
use a scouring soap, and you will bt
pleased with the result. Also put your
beau pot on the stove and a good
generous tablespoon of soda and it
will wash as easily as a cup. A little
soda put; in your greasy baking pans
and keeping them warm while, wasshing
your other dishes will help along that
most disagreeable task. .
Method of Bnildioc.
toX. IE present general move
7t ment for better roads and
O I O the prospect of national
JR aid in road building have
"JfOlf greatly stimulated the
study of the best methods of road
building.
While to the general public the idea
of building permanent roads is to use
broken stone after the system first em
ployed by John McAdam, about the
year 1785, other methods should be
carefully studied in order to build the
best and Ynost durable roads at the
lowest cost.
It seems a remarkable fact in view
of the great improvements in every
thing connected with modern life, that
we are still building our roads the
same way they were built over 100
years ago. This resulted from the uni
versal introduction of the railroad,
which caused the improvement of
our common roads to be sadly neg
lected, as well as advancement in the
art of building them.
A great obstacle in the way of build
ing durable roads of crushed stone i
found in the lack of suitable stone in
most localities where good road stone
found. In New York State, for in
stance, where road building has been
very active in recent years, stone has
been shipped over 300 miles in some
instances in order to obtain stone of
good quality.
The lack of good road material has
caused careful study of various meth
ods of road building by experts, with
the result that for general use a mod
ification of the old stone wheel track
or tramway roads, which have been in
constant use for over 100 years with
out material wear or cest, has been
highly commended. The old tramway
roads could only be built at reasona
ble cost in a few localities having suit
able stone, but by substituting paving
brick for the stone slabs, this superior
form of road can be cheaply built in
every locality.
In fact, even in the favored localities,
where good road stone is abundant,
the use of these brick wheel tracks
considerably decreases the first cost
of roads, while they practically do
away with all rerair expenses, as well
as the dust and mud, and at the same
tiniG enable three or four times the
load to be handled with the same team
force.
This improved method of road build
ing has been adopted by a number of
localities and the cost has been found
to be from $1200 to $2500 a mile, ac
cording to the relative cost of mate
rials, labor, etc, while the average cost
of crushed stone roads has been about
$9000 a mile in New York, where the
greatest amount of road building has
recently been done.
A section of this brick track road
in the United States Department of
Agriculture grounds during the last
four seasons shows no material wear.
and has been uniformly free from dust,
mud and ruts during that time, while
an adjacent section of crushed stone
road has been nearly ruined during the
same time, partly by the washing .of
water.
For hilly roads these brick wheel
tracks are especially adapted, as by
depressing the tracks below the adja
cent road surface the water is suc
cessfully carried down the hills on
them without the use of the objection
able water breaks, besides enabling
three time's the grade to be used with
nit disadvantage. ,
Government road officials recom
mend that long term convicts "be em
ployed in penitentiaries in making the
brick, cement, etc., for these roads,
and short term convicts be used in
making the roads, to the moral and
physical betterment of the convicts,
and claim that In this way the build
ing of these superior and most durable
of roads should cost but $800 to $1200
a mile in many localities. This makes
an interesting comparison with the
cost of $9000 a mile in New York State
for crushed stohe roads, some of which
have been nearly ruined by two or
three years of use, while wheel tracks
similar to the brick tracks, built of
stone, near Albany, N. Y., in 1833, at
a cost of $1500 a mile, show very lit
tle wear in more than seventy years
of constant and heavy traffic.
If convicts trre thus employed in
such penitentiaries as Sing Sing, New
York, for instance, where the best of
brick clays could be delivered at very
low cost by boat, and from which the
brick, etc., could be cheaply shipped by
boat to nearly every point al6ng the
proposed New York and Chicago road,
that road could probably be built for
less than one-fifth of the cost of build
ing it of crushed stone, have three
times the smoothness and more thau
ten times, the durability of a crushed
stone road, and at the same time be
nearly dustless and mudless.
Brick made at Sing Sing could also
be cheaply delivered at all points in
New York State, and also be chipped
to all paints along Lake Erie by boat,
thus enabling the greater part of the
proposed New York and Chicago road
to bo built by this superior system,
and at a cost so low as to be insig-niuc.-.nt
when compared with its sub
stantial and lasting benefits. Wayncs-
uoi'o vPa.i Herald.
Knzlish Gold Coins. :
There" were 9,100,000 new gold sov
ereign! issued in England during
1903, as compared with 4,523,000 in
tKH Half sovereigns issued numbered
1,014,000. i gainst 2.U1.000 ia 1003.