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fflE ?flTIQNflL B?NK OF AUGUSTS j L. C. HAYNB, Pres'L F. O. FORD, Caabier. j Capital, $250,000. i turpins and | (hi OC (]()(] Undivided l'ro?lts s M> I ?J?UUU ?i Facilities of our magnificent NP* Wilt containing <110 :-afety.Loclc i-.o.xcs. Dl0>r f>nt Sizes ari- offered to our patrons sud ? tho public ut 43.iv to ?10.00 per annum. VOL. LXVIII. ED GE FIELD, S. C.. ^JEDNESDAY. JUNE 3. 1903. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUttUSTAj GA, rays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. |L. C. Horne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. NO 23 The author is oue of the only two o visited the Russian prison-island of Sal eight thousand murderers among its ! a most Impressive picture of the terrill] of despair am! desolation. ll |f F all tho ponai settlements lu Silieria the Island of Sakhalin has the worst reputation. This is not surprising when wo re member its great distance Ir?m the* central administration und flint it is tlic prison-islaud to which ali the worst criminals are sent. There arc probably not a dozen free-born in dividuals outside of the convicts, re convicts, their wives and children, and the oilieinis and native tribes. On January 1. ISOS. there were on the island i!2.!<i7 convicts and ex-convicts. Of these 7080 were engaged iii lund labor, ti:.u of* ihis number alone no fewer than 2S?? were convicted of murder, go that out of the total number of convicts and ex-convicts a moderate estimate? would give S.>Ot) as murder er;:: Of the 2S30 murderers the loree pro portion of 63-1 were women. Perhaps this is to he explained hy the brutality of husbands ruder the influence of did uk and passi.m. for mar.y of these women had stabbed or poisoned their partners in life. It is uoi surprising, therefore, timi Sakhalin is a name not to ho mentioned in St. Petersburg. To do so is a greater faux pas than h> talk of Botany Bay lu Sydney. Rut bad as things were reported to l>e. I was fully await- that great strides had been made in Hie reform of prisons and prison management since the time "when Mr. George Kennan visited them on the mainland in lSS-">, but I though! lt extremely probable that the foot- ! steps of reform had lagged behind the! farther east ono tracked them, amil that on Sakhalin-if one could only get there-the condition of affairs would reflect the state of things that existed on the mainland ten years "ago. And so I found it. No Englishman, with the exception of Mr. dc \\"iu< who paid a Hying visit to the island in 1S?>C. when his ship called, had vis ited the prisons, and none had ever penetrated into the far interior. After sundry adventures and many difficulties overcome, I succeeded in getting away from KIRolaevsk, which ir H tr nt mi- >^--the mainland, near the mouth of the Rivrr-rriimrrru-Tnv At the very last moment I was pacing the deck of a tramp steamer which stood in about two miles freu the shore, and the captain was signalling again and again, lie despaired of being able io lind me. though-he good naturedly delayed, and ut length a tiny tue. used for dragging lighters loaded with convicts, ptrt out, and to my sur prise I was allowed to board it; but no sooner lind I ascended the steps of the woodeu jetty than a military officer stepped forward and demanded m? business. To him I made reply in thu scantiest of Russian that I had a letter of introduction. to an ex-convict mer chant. His was a strange and sad story, for in early days he had been heir to large estates, through which the traveler from Berlin to St. Peters burg passes. The only answer I re ceived was that the ex-convict mer chant was now nt the coal mines and would not return for another twenty four hours, and that I must remain there in custody. I looked around the log-built room and thought I had slept Ia' much worse places than that: then I went to the door, but was stopped by a sentry, of whom, however, I de manded my baggage. From the win dow I could see ray ship p .'paring to leave, .and in this lay my great hope: for although the authorities might lock me up they would not be able to send me away for some time. "Here I "was a prisoner, but how rn THREE LONG-SENTENCE CONVICTS. viable was my lot to that of those wi had to spend the remainder of the lives on the island. As I stood lookii out to sea the sun was setting behil a fiery-red cloud-bank. To nie it pl tared the passionate longing of tito exiles whose eyes were straining ev westward to the land of the sunset, the homestead, the land of friends ni loved ones, so long ago left behind. Some weeks later I shared the lc house of a petty official engaged the jetty, and so was able to Wend i way to the place of my late detent! to watch the batches of convicts arr lng. One lot from Siberia had tramp the two thousand and seventy-ll uiil< s from Nertcbensk to Nikolaevi with au occasional lift from a steam and the. journey had occupied thi three months. I know what it is to have had struggle for a bare bench in a four cln?s Russian railway carriage who ou to sit and try to sleep nt iiij;lit. ?1 this was my home for a couple weeks through a frozen country. I what was this to the lot of those p .convicts who, hungry and weary af r turee Englishmen who have ?r khalin, which numbers no fewer i small r"Pulatiou! Mr. Hawes ; s le life led by convicts in this grli ;.4id In long day's march, failed in the wild I scramble to obtain one of thu miser* ; able plank resting-places allotted them, j and had to lie on the llltby iluor. Even j there a stronger neighbor often crushed ; them, for the most brutal tongue, the ? hardest list, got the host place, and the timid and weak went to tho wall -or the floor. Such is the description we have hoard in thu past. Is it true to-day V In the malu-no;" but lo my j experience-yes! 1. One of the Native Trackers. ??. Th viols Chaired to Russian convicts arc drossyd In uu 'blencbed cotton shirts and troiMeri1, with socks-or pieces of clclb WMUIIJ j around their legs, puttee fanhion-mxl shoes. Over all they wear the "kha lat," or long, ulster-like fries?. All ar?? in chains. One degrading form ol' pun ishment, that of chaining ti\e convict to 't wheelbarrow, which is never de tached cither by day or night, ha? beril abolished on the mainland; but 011 Sak- ? halln to-day there are still two men who are undergoing this miserable punishment. Thia form of punishment, tho ofllcials say, is necessary to keep them from escaping. The clean shaving of bnlf tho head is also intended to render escape more difficult and Identification easier. Only one hundred out of thc six hun? dred convicts in thc worst prison wore being sent out to do hard labor in the mines or road-making; it was not sur prising, therefore, that the dreadful ennui drove some of the remainder Imo risking attempts at flight. The night to choose for an escape was when a storm was rairing. It was on one such night of my stay that six in the Alcxnn drovsk Testing Prison, under cover of the darkness and the howling storm, lassoed the tops of the twenty-foot stockade and. clambering over, dropped down and successfully evaded the patrols. The Storm that night did ns as good a turn as it did the convicts, for returning from a seven hundred mile journey, mostly accomplished in a dug-out canoe, we (my interpreter ami Ii had entered on our last slap; wlrieli took us through tho forest Into which these six convicts had plunged. There were two roads before us, one travers ing the forest and tho other being merely the sandy beach. The lattei was impassable at high tide, and had this advantage, that one had only le defend oneself from human-or. rather Inhuman-assailants on one side. Ar ex-convict who had given us hospital' ity begged us not to take this fores road. Now. oT course, there is free masonry among the convicts and ex convicts, mid while he told us that tho; were armed with guns more particu lars bc would not divulge. Seeing n still unpersuaded he backed up hi statement by telling us how? the post which I have seen leaving A loxa II drovsk, twelve miles distant, carryiu beside the driver one armed official an two soldiers with bayonets fixed, wa held up on this road, a few miles ot of Alexandrovsk. So AVG determine to take our chances of the rising lid and try th:- beach route, though w had just heard that the youth who live willi us at Alexandrovsk had been mu dered on the sands for the sake of tl glin he carried. We started in darkness with no lai tern, for that would have rendered t a mark, and the wretched telega mov? along at a snail's pace. We sat ba? tf) back, revolvers and daggers ham in our belts and loaded rifles in han We had Instructions from the poli to fire if we should sec any movli form. Little, indeed, could Ave ma! out-though we could imagine a gre deal-as we peered into Ibo dark l'< est mi our way lo the beach. We li; dragged* on at Ibis miserable pace f about a mile and a half, longing for troika with its galloping steeds, wh soddenly thc storm burst upon us. To koop our guns dry and be ready for nu attack was impossible, and I Con fess I was not sorry to be compelled to take refuge lu the hut of a convict, which the howling of dogs announced to be near hy. It is almost impossible for these "brodyagas"' (passportless vagabonds) to get away from the island. From the prison they escape into the forests, and there in summer they manage to exist on bilberries, cranberries, mush rooms and roots, and add to the little given them by comrades, whoso sen tences have expired, by waylaying passers-by. But when winter comes on, with its seven feet of snow and a temperature occasionally touching forty degrees (Fahr.) below zero. With no food to be obin?ned and rags for clothing, they lind their way back to the prison. After giving themselves up hero they are flogged with the cruel .'plot.'' and received back agiln with an additional sentence. The photograph shows the Instru ments of the executioner-the "Icobila," or bench, ou which the convict is strapped; the birch-rods, which arc dipped in hot brine, and the heavy, th ree-thonged "pict." with leaded ends. These arc the instruments in use at ltikovsk Frison. Another photograph shows (lie pub- | lie executioner at Alexandrovsk, (Jo ie Executioner's Instryiaen s. 3. Con V.'heelbcirrows. husky by name. The "palatch," or executioner, is chosen from among the convicts themselves. Prisoners who are refractory in prison are birched, but sometimes this punishment is given for no other reason than that the chief of the prison, OL whom ir would be difficult to say anything too bad. hap ! QOIiIXSKX, THE EXECUTIONER, WITH XIII: TEICKWLE "l'LKT." pens to be in a lit of ill-humor when they go before him to prefer some sim pie request. My own Interpreter, him self a man of rani;, told me that it common with all the rest of the con victs and political exiles he paid tributi money in Hie shape of food to the ex CITY KITCHEN i- ____ One of tho best municipal instit? kitchen in Chr'jtiania, opened last ye? no less than 1,(XM,?MQ. me?is were sor sold .?it six cents a meal. The buihlin vcutions mid mosl up-to-dillo machin laundry machinery, etc. Our cut si where eight boilers ere Installed for ecutloiior, so that-, should lie bo orderod tho "pict,*' the leads should he brought down on the underside of the board and not on his bare body. Corporal punishment for women has beeu done away with by law in Russia, b?t lu February of last year two women were flogged with birch-rods dipped In brine, and afterwards put lu chains for refusing J obey their villainous overseers.-World Wide Magazine. MURDER CROSSES. Gruesome Memorials That Dot New Mexican Plains. lt is one of the charms of travel in the out-of-the-way districts of the United States to encounter picturesque customs undreamt of in the philosophy of the Well-populated regions tributary to the great cities of .the North and Fast. Particularly rich in tb.>"" quaint ways is the Southwestern * J try, of which New Mexico is the geographical centre hud which draws its traditions from old Spain. Among the peculiar custom* of thal territory is 1 lie practice of planting crosses on spots where murders have been committed. Not infrequently, as one rides across some lonely plain bare of vegetation save for the ubiquitous sngehush and groasewoud, or through some wild pass ill the hills made wilder still by thc desolate ruins of an aban doned adobe hut or two amid thc cac tus. Such crosses arc met with rising out of small piles of stones. They arc constructed of wood, without inscrip tion of any sort, and often beiug taken to the church by thc relatives nnd friends of the murdered mau and blessed by the priest, are set up upon the scene of the murder, there to re main a continuing memorial of the un holy deed and a mute appeal to all pious passers-by to con tr ite a prayer for the unshriven soul that has gone beyond. An Armchair Formed by Natural Growth. The armchair pictured in the accom panying Illustration mny be said to have partly grown out of the ground, although its shape was furnished by twisting and turning a ? ne out of which most of its framework was formed. It was brought to the United wi a Korean crcy.-J.m i HMM- .O .... CHAIR FORMED BY NATURAL GROWTH. or ornamented with seeds of the ging ko tree of various sizes, which have actually grown to the liber of the vine. A Korean gardener, familiar With the adhesiveness of the seed, took a native vine, noted for its toughness, and rude ly made lt Into the form of a chair, holding lt in place with branches ol small trees. The seeds, fresh from thc tree, were bound to the vine until they had firmly fastened themselves to it, the vine being allowed to grow In the meantime. After the seeds and boughs had become attached, the vine was cut from the roots, and this natural chair exposed to the sunlight until the sap had dried from thc liber and all of the material had hardened into a substance as solid as oak. It was then polished until Its surface glistened like mahog any. Although but three feet four Inches in height and twenty-five Inches In width, thc weight of this curiosity is over a hundred pounds, on account of thc hardness of the material of which it is composed. The armchair may well be regarded as a striking example of thc garden ing skill of the Far Fast.-S.u'.'iitiik American. You can't liquidate n debt by paying compliments. IN CHRISTIANIA. itions lu Norway is no doubt the elly ir. Dlieiug thc last six mouths of 1 ! lui* ved to thc poor, while 7(5.000 meals were gis throughout lilied with the latest |U cry. Including a dish-washing machin?, hows one of the large kitchen rooaiF tb?1 supply of heat, nnd hot watej. ?THE ILLS OP HORSEFLESH riKOW TO DETECT DEFECTS IN |c ANIMALS OFFERED FOR SALE. ome Valuable Hints to ?uyers-One of the First Blemishes To Look for Is the Spavin-The Poll Evil ls a Fatal Disease. The ills which horseflesh is heir to ;form an important pprt in the market j value of man's faithful friend. These lils, too, aro of quito a numerous and strongly marked character, being part nd-parcel of the anatomy of A consid erable percentage of the equine fam " y. A perfect horso physically is enough of a rarity to causo comment and much boasting on the part Of his owner, while thc parfect horse in form, Action, manners and disposition is an invaluable creature to his fortunate roaster. V In thc regular sales conducted in .horse centers tho dealers become so expert in judging the animals that their parts are passed upon with light ning rapidity as the offerings appear |n the ring to bc sold at the hand, or, rather, at the mouth-of the auction eer. A subject i? then listed as hav mjs this or that blemish, or is simply "sold to the halter" at. the buyer's risk. Putting aside the blemishes of a rse in disposition or training, which y properly be called blemishes in e abstract-like viciousness, balki ss or awkwardness-and looking ?olely to the deformities which mar guiare and concrete usefulness of thc |t>ur-legged servant, it is found that ?nc of the most, common blemishes is the. splint-a small, bony formation g* button, more or less clongated.which is found usually just below the knee rm the inside of on? or both legs, ano lying between the .wo main bones of the forelegs. The splint is a minor blemish thal is usually an objection in that it mars .the smoothness of the log in tho eye 6l the horseman. It is interesting, too, as a study in evolution, many re garding it as merely a rudimentary remnant of what was once an extra member in the prehistoric horse-the undeveloped horse of early creation. Quite certain it is that in a numher of strains of the horse family thc splint ia regularly inherited and appears on nearly every foal. A splint can be reduced all or in part by carly manip ulation or later surgery. 70ne of the first blemishes looked for bj* the horse buyer is the spavin, com mjpnly called a "jack." The hind leg Isrthe home of tho spavin, and then t?fere is the "bog" spavin which is not. of bone. The former is the bad one, and as a rule makes the horse lame. Tho spavin comes on slowly and in creases in size ana its power to crip its possessor as time passes. It fitows on the hock, inside and just be low the big joint. In rare cases it ap iT>-rs on the outside. Cures arc' bony growth s?m?T?mesTiipptf?TS"* between the fetlock and the hoof of the horse and is known as thc ring bone. It may be scarcely apparent, or it may come to entirely fill up that, space with a rough, unnatural growth of bony substance. Tnc blemish is a bad one, quite incurable, and makes its victim lame, xhe hind feet aro mora commonly affected than the front. A little lower, next to the hoof, ot tener in front than behind, is thc seat of sidebone, a blemish less familiar to the ordinary eye than any of the foregoing. It has como into notice in this country more conspicuously with the advent of the heavy draught breeds. Heavy weight and work on hard pavements are conducive to the sidebone, which is not more nor less than the upper and new growth of hoof rendered tender and diseased. In ex treme cases it leads to the quitter, when it renders the worker useless. Taken in its early stage, it submits to treatment and rest. Pasturage often puts the hoof back to its normal growth and effects a cure. A disease that ends in a queer growth on the very poll or top of the head of the horse is called "poll evil." Thc trouble is quickly observed, owing tc the habit of the horse in stretchint his neck straight out in front, ant makes a pitiable spectacle of thc pa tient. There is little left to do for th< poor creature except lo put it out of it! misery. A common blemish is the curb-; rounding of the bone of the hind leg just below the back joint of tho hock This formation docs not injure the ser viceablencss of thc drivpr appreciably If patiently rubbed when it first ap pears the curb can be reduced, th bone absorbing the growth, if not to prominent. A wind-broken horse is one that ha been permanently injured in breathin power by overdriving. Violent exercis reveals the weakness to the horsema who listens to the breathing. In OJ treme cases anyone can hear the brui roar a block away. In purchasing a horse tho careles man may neglect to note whether c not the animal is deaf; his eye may nt be expert enough to seo that the o fering is a "swayback," is notched 01 where the collar rests, has blisten shoulders, "string halt," so-calh "capped hocks," is a cribber-as he wi find out when the purchaso ls take home and oats up the mangers. Overheating may bring on the bili staggers, and overdriving and suddi cooling off may develop sweeney soreness and stiffness of shoulders ai front, legs that crippleo a horse si ficicntly to ruin him as a member good standing among his kind. The heaves come on as years go 1 like asthma in man, and is incurab I The ailment is not necessarily fal ! and considerable service may be c ! acted from Old Dobbin if care is ext cised in driving slowly and in fcedi him only dampened food. A horse may be "blue" or blind ono or both eyes; he may have, w marks as remembrances of his days pastures fenced with barbs; he m have a breach; he may have corns; ! may be sore-footed from various catii or his ears may not be mates; or j tail may he carried to ono side I these defects which debar him fr sale or show ring constitute "hie .abes" in the vernacular of the ho dealing profession and are taken v iccO'.i??t In the buying and selling of th? noblest end greatest of all the anima; Kingdom-man's best friend, the horse -Chicago Record Herald. JAPANESE CHILDREN. Deforcncc to Elders and Helpful With Each Other. Tho' children of Japanese homes are well bred. ? foreigner never fails to notice it. As a nile they are obedient and deferential to their elders; sweet and obliging among their equals, and patient to a degree tnat is philosoph ical, yot no moro genuino children arc anywhere to be found. No child ?3 without iU responsibilities, and in most cases these are strapped to its back and it bears them cheerfully. There is a beautiful spirit of help fulness between brothers and sisters. I think tho children have more real affection for each other than they do J for their parents, for whom their re spect is unbounded. Although the Japanese take great pride in their babies and their growing sons arni daughters, they strenuously endeav or not to reveal it, and if you had ru ,ght but their word Tor it you would think they were quite harassed and disgusted with their offspring. I suppose," said a friend, before I left for Japan, "'you will have to re fer to your baby as 'my dirty, insig nifiicant and troublesome little son.' ' Still, after all, no one can withstand j tho blandishments ot an infant, and / many a Japanese mother have I en trapped into glowing details of tho ac complishments of her small children. The mother docs not often give them all the attention which mothers should. She is over at the hock and call of the head of the family, to the exclu sion of all other requests. At such times if tho babies protest they are stuffed with sweets and turned over to the servants, and such times arc nearly all the time. The servants are not refined, but they are kind-hearted women, and they are closer members of the household than our servants are or would Uko to be, and for that, eason they mother the children aid naturally get the greater half of their love. Much of the discipline of the family is turned over to thc elder brother. It is summary and sound. Occasionally the father devotes him self to the children on a picnic or a waik or in the evening tellinr them stories or playing games, but never under any circumstances will he lay aside his pipe and his dignity to crawl about on his hands and knees in the similtude cf a lion. "Ototsan" is al ways Imperturbable. Mothers and fathers often speak admiringly and wistfully cf thc care and love that are bestowed upon the children of the west, and it may come to pass some day that their own will figure more as human opportunities than as issues and heirs. A Japanese -SJW;.&Ojri.h^mjs the most homesick His friends? No. these arc too easily"" put on and off? It is Japan itself. All Japan is home to him. and no wonder. Never did any nationality in any age become more amalgamated. Its ra cial instincts exactly correspond to family pride and family affection. Its former exclusiveness bred these in the bone. Besides, Its blood relation ships arc so closely interwoven that it is. in reality, ene huge household and family.-Thc Congregationalist. Municipal Works in England. A Parliamentary report gives the fig ures of municipal works in England up to one year ago. It appears that 29!) corporations with a population of 13, 003.870 persons had gone into munici pal trading with $000.000.000 of invest ment. This money was borrowed upon bonds, but $S0,000,000 more has bren repaid, and some $10,000,000 more had been put away in sinking funds. The average income was $65,000,000, the average cost of operation $40,000, 000. tho surplus of income over ex penditure being more t ian 4 percent. But. some of the corporations neglect to include in receipts the value of ser viere furnished and municipality, such as street lights, water for public parks and buildings, etc. If these were in cluded thc returns would be higher. The average interest payments wen $14,500,000, tho average annual "write off" for depreciation $050,000-consid erably too small, but more than Ameri can trusts have has yet usually al lowed. Thc annual principal repaid wa: $0,000,000. The principal works included in tb statement were markets, cte., 228 bor oughs; water works, 193; buria grounds. 143; baths and wash-houses 138; electricity, 102; gas works, 97 tramways. 15; harbors, etc., 43.-Ne^ York World. Driving Large Rivets. The rivets through the keel of th seven-masted schooner Thomas \\ Lawson, that was launched from th Fore River shipyards a short Hm ago. were nearly five inches in lengt by 1 1-4 inches in diameter. It wa not possible to upset these proper! with an ordinary yoke, one arm c which served as thc anvil to resist th blows of the pneumatic Hammer ca ried by the other arm. To have th anvil heavy enough to accomplish th purpose would have produced one tc extremely awkward and difficult t handle in the cramped quarters undo neath the keel. The difficulty wi overcome by doing away entirely wit the anvil and substituting a secor pneumatic hammer. The two hat mers, one on the end of each arm tho yoke, worked perfectly, and the was no further trouble in making tl rivets fill the holes completely. Tl Stroker of the hammers were ?o c coodingly rapid that it made no diff< once whether they worked synchro ousiy or nut.-The Iron Age. Old Age In Ceylon. Centenarians are fairly common no ndays, hut it may bo questioned whel er any country can boast, of so ma as Ceylon, which, according to thc cent census returns, has no fewer th li? inhabitants over 100 years of a; Seventy rino of these are males a 71 feinalcs. Of Ihci'o 48 men and women claimed to be exactly i willie tho highest age returned u j 120. uggies FURN Large Shipments of the best makes of wagons and buggies Just received. Our stock of furniture, housefurnlshlngs ls com plete. Large stock COFFINS and CASKETS always on hand. All calls for our Hearse promptly responded to. Ail goods sold on a small margin of profit. Call to see mo, I will save you money. O. P. COBB, Johnston, S. C. paralleled Chance. The Greatest Bargain Ever Offered. hundred and forty-five thousand of Closes July 1st. Between now and July 1st we will sell our concent grand each instrument. We have over ono our instruments now in use. For over twenty years our pianos were one ot (he leaders of the well known south Pright Mendelssohn piano for one ern house of Ludden & Bates. Wo hundred and seventy-five dollars and ah* sell organs and our world re? will prepay freight and furnish stool, nowued Sterling Pianos music hook and handsome scarf with' For full information address THE STERLING CO., Derby, Conn. W. J. Rutherford. R. B. Morrfs. AND DEALERS IN Cement, Piaster, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Ready Roofing and Other Material. Write Us For Prices. Corner Reynolds and Washington Streets, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. RECIPES. Vanity Puffs-Put one cup of milk jver the fire; when boiling add quickly ind stir in rapidly half a cup of flour; took until a stiff dough; lot coo!; add dirce eggs unbeaten one by one, beat ng well after adding each; then add me tablespoon of melted butter; dip I i spoon into hot fat; take up some of i -he batter and drop into smoking hot ard; when brown remove with a skim I ncr; drain on paper; roll in cinnamon ' md sugar mixed. Snow Pyramids-To one pint of ! :o!d cream add four tablespoonfuls of jf powdered sugar, one teaspoon of ranilla extract and one-fourth box ol I platine that has been soaking In a Mittle cold water; when lt begins to j'.'nicken a little whip until light; turn i into gkvsses and stand in a cool place; ? |uct before serving beat the whites of ?six eggs to a stiff meringue, with six I ?ablcspoonfuls of powdered sugar, ad j ;ling gradually half a cup of rurrant ?felly; drop one spoonful of this on the j :op of each glass of cream, heaping it ap like a pyramid; this will make a I iarge quantity. I Hickory Nut Macaroons.-Chop fine j ind'pound six ounces of shelled hiek I sry nuts, with three-fourths pound of ! powdered sugar and one teaspoon of jninilla extract; mix well and add the ?neaten whites of eggs; the mixture ?should be a stiff paste; drop small ! spoonfuls on greased piper in a shal I low pan and bake fifteen minutes in a I moderate oven. Apple Pudding-Grease a baking I dish ; put some grated bread crumbs or ] ?hredded wheal crumbs over the bot ?tom. then a byer of chopped apple, j Kiding sugar, nutmeg or a grated ! lemon rind; continue with Ibo alter cate layers, and when Hie dish is fall put small pieces of butter over thc top ind, one cup of cold water; hake in a rather quick oven thirty minutos; jerve with thin cream or bard sauce. Cocoanut Cake.-Poa? half a cup of ratter, ono and one-half cupfuls of mgar and tho yolks of four eggs lo rdlier until light; add one cupful of milk, alternaiing with two cupfuls Of Sour and the rind and juice of ono emon; beat well and add two cupfuls if grated cocoanut, the whites of the *ggs beaten stiff and three ?eve! lea ipoonfuls of baking powder; turn Into Daking pan and hake ir. a moderate n-en forty-live minutes; remove from :?ie oven, let stand in the pan two ninnies I hen turn out. One hundred and sixty-nine centen arians died last year in Ireland. CARE OF THt? FLOOK. Floor borch.-rs should not be stained lurriedly. Do not apply a thiele ?oating. Two or .three thin coatings dve much better results than one. They should be applied carefully with :he grain of the wood, letting each iry before another is applied. After he coats are dry thc floor should be tarnished and then carefully waxed, .he wax being rubbed on with a piece if chamois leal lier. Daily dusting ind a weekly rubbing .with a little jarafim will keep the floor in good >rder. Painted floor borders should be riven two coats of paint and one of rarnish, and they need a daily dust ng and a wiping over with oil once i week. Other coverings for floor borders ire India and China mailings in limpie designs. These are especially niited for bedrooms, morning rooms ind boudiors. These mattings are Gur ible and can be had to match any color )f rug-although tho plain mattings, ire the prettiest in contrast to th* igured rugs. Carpets for sunny rooms should be chosen with a view to he durability of the dye. Tie cheaper Japanese makes of carpets and rugs ind the art squaro and similar makes lade quickly and should not be ex posed to the sun's rays. Carpets can )C; kept fresh and their colors bright by .libbing them about once a week w^th. i chamois leather dipped into warm vater containing a very little ask? nonja.-American Queen. British officers in South Africa are complaining bitterly of the class ol recruits now arriving. In one draft the average of the soldiers was eigh teen, and there were a few who were far younger, mere boys of fourteen, although they were enlisted as being of proper age. The officers say that it Is impossible to train these growing lads, as they are unable to bear the strain of hard work in a now climate. Thc Dutch openly scoff at the youthful appearance of the recruits, while the older soldiers christen their boy com rades after the secretary of war, Brod rick, whose name has become i\ genor lc term for them. VALUE OF CHEES EOT X>TH. - Cheesecloth is of the greatest sw rico in housecleaning, as nothing ls .o nice for polishing mirrors, win lows, furnituro, silver and cut-glass i.; this ab^obent cotton which is even >etter after it is washed.