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?HE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUv:7 L. C. HATXE, Pres't. F. O. FORD. Cusl.ler. Capital; $250,000. Snrplus and / <M OC HOO Undivided Profits ) vp I i Facilities of our magnificent Hex Va-tit Icoat.'iliitii?; 410 r-sie ty-Lock R?xes. DlQVr lent Sizes ari* offered to our patrons and j tho . VOL. LXVIII. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUWUSTA, GA, rays Interest on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Hoyne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. EDGEFIELD. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 3. 1903. NO 23. The author is oue of Hie only two o visited rlie "'usslnn prison-island of Sa eight thousand murderers among its a most impressive picture of the'terrill of despair and desojatiou. tF all ?lie penal settlements 0. In Silieria the Island of Sakhalin has the worst I reputation. This is not surprising when wo re member its great di-?tancp from the- central administration aud . that it is the prisou-islaud to which nil Hie worst criminals are sent. There are probably not a dozen free-born in dividuals outside of the convicts, ox convicts, their wives and children, and the oiiiciais and native tribes. On January 1. IS?S. there were on the island 22,1(57 convicts and ex-convicts. Of these 7OS0 were engaged in hard labor, and of ibis nu in ber" ahme no fewer than 2f?li were convicted of murder, so that out of the total number of convicts and ex-convicts a moderate estimate would give SUOO as murder ers: Of the 2S:;<> murderers the large pro portion of 63-1 were women. Perhaps this is to be explained by the brutality of husbands under the influence of drink ami passi.m, for maur of these women had stabbed or poisoned their partners in life. It is um surprising, therefore, that Sakhalin is a name md to iie mentioned in St. Petersburg. To do so is a greater faux pas limn to talk of Botany Bay lu Sydney. Birt bad as things were reported to be. 1 was fully aware that great strides bad been made iii Hie reform of prisons and prison management since the time When Mr. George Kennan visited them on the mainland in 18S?, but I thought it extremely [.obahle that the foot steps of reform had lagged behind the farther east one tracked them, and that on Sakhalin-if one could only get there-tim condition or affairs would reflect the slate of things that existed on the mainland ten years ago. And so I found it. Xo Englishman, with the exception of Mr. de Windi, who paid a Hying visit to the Island lu 1SCG. when his ship called, had vis ited the prisons, and none had ever penetrated into the far interior. After sundry adventures aud many difficulties overcome, I succeeded iii getting away from Xikolaevsk, which ^-liie mainland, near tht inontb of the RlTcr-^innv-ip-urt: gmitr At the very last moment I was pacing the deck of a tramp steamer which stood in about two miles from thc shore, and the captain was signalling | again and again. Ile despaired of being able to land me. though-he good naturedly delayed, and at length a tiny tug. used for dragging lighters loaded with convicts, pwt out, and to my sur prise I was allowed to board It; but r.. sooner liad I ascended the steps of tho wooden jetty than a military officer stepped forward and demanded my business. To him I made reply in the 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 lie had been heir to large estate?, through which the traveler from Berlin to St. Peters burg passes. Thc only answer I re ceived was that the ex-convict mer chant was now at the coal mines and would not return for another twenty four hours, and that I must remain there in custody. I looked around thc log-built room and thought I had slept lu- 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 my ship preparing to leave. ,and ia .his lay my great hope: for although the authorities might b>ck me up they would not be able to send me away for some time. Here I was a prisoner, but bow en TIIKEE LONG-SENTEXCE CONVICTS. viable was my lot to that of those who had to spend the remainder of theil lives on thc island. As I stood look in? out to sea the sun was setting behind a fiery-red cloud-bank. To nie it plc ttired the passionate longing of those exiles whose eyes were straining cvei westward to the land of the sunset. t< the homestead, the land of friends nm loved ones, so long ago left behind. Some weeks later I shared the log house of a petty official engaged oi tlie jetty, and so was able to wund ni] way to thc place of my late detent im to watch the batches of convicts arm ing. One lot from Siberia had trampe? the two thousand and sevonty-tiv miles from Nertcbensk to Niko|aevsk with au occasional lift from a steamet and the. journey had occupied then three months. I know what it is to have had t struggle for a bare bench in a four tl cln?s Russian railway carriage where ou to sit and try to sleep at night, an this was my bonn- for a couple o weeks through a frozen country. Bu what was this to the lot of those pon ?wnvicta who; hungry and weary afte r three Englishmen, who have ever khalin, which numbers no fewer than small r"PulatIou! Mr. Hawes paints le life led by convicts in this grim laud In long day's mareil, failed In the wild I scramble to obtain one of the miser* I Obie plank resting-places allotted them, I and had to lie ou the filthy Moor. Even j there a stronger neigh her often crushed j them, for the most brutal tongue, the hardest list, got the host place, and the timid and weak went to tho wall -or tile floor. Such is the description we have heard in Hie past. Is it true to-day? In the malu-no;* but in my experience-yes! One of the Native Trackers. ??. The victs Chaired to \ Russian convicts arc dressy] in no bleached cotton shirts and trottter*. with socks-or pieces of ciel h wtSuirS around their legs, puttee fashion-ni>:l shoes. Over all they wear the "kha lin," or long, ulster-lilce fries*'. AU np? in chains. One degrading form ol' pun ishment, that of chaining tile convict to a wheelbarrow, which is never de tached either by day or night, ha? berti abolished on the mainland; but on Sak halin to-day there are still two men who are undergoing this miserable punishment. This form of punishment, the officials say, is necessary to keep them from escaping. The clean shaving of half the head is also intended to render escape more difficult and identification easier. Only one hundred out of the six hun dred convicts in the worst prison were 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 remaludor Imo risking attempts t.t flight. The night to choose for an escape was when a storm was raging. It w:is on one such night of my stay that six in the Alcxan 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 thc patrols. The storm that night did us as good a turn as it did the convicts, for returning from a ;:ovcn hundred mile journey, mostly accomplished in a dug-out canoe, we (my interpreter and I) had entered on our last singe which took us through (he forest into whlci. these six convicts had plunged. Then were two roads before us, one travers ing the forest and tho other being merely the sandy beach. The latter was Impassable ;:t high tide, and had this ad va n tn gc, that one had only to defend oneself from human-or, ra thar, Inhuman-assailants on one side. An ex-convict who had given us hospital ity begged us not to take this forest road. Xow. of course, there is free masonry among thc convicts and ex convicts, and while he told us that they were armed with guns more particu lars he would not divulge. Seeing us still unpersuaded he backed up Iiis statement by telling us how?thc post, which I have seen leaving Alexa 11 drovsk, twelve miles distant, carrying beside thc- driver one armed official and two soldiers with bayonets fixed, was held ui) on this road, a few miles out of Alexandrovsk. So we determined to take our chances of the rising tide and *ry th: beach route, though we had just heard ihjit the youth who lived with HS at Alexandrovsk had been mur dered on tho sands for Hie sake of the glin he wirried. Wu started in darkness with no lan tern, for that would have rendered us a mark, and the wretched telega moved along at a snail's paco. We sat back to back, revolvers and daggers handy in our belts and loaded rides in hand. We had instructions from the police to fire if we should sec any moving form. Little, indeed, could we make out-though we could imagine a great deal-as we peered into the dark for est on our way lo the beach. We had dragged on at Ibis miserable (?ace for about a mile and a half, longing for a troika with its galloping steeds, when suddenly the storm hurst upon us. To keep our guns dry and be ready for m attack was impossible, aud I con "ess I was not sorry to bc compelled o take refuge In the hut of a convict, ivhich the howling of dogs announced o be near by. It is almost impossible for these 'brodyngas" (pnssportless vagabonds) 0 get away from the Island. From he prison they escape into the forests, ind there in summer they manage to 'xist on bilberries, cranberries, mush .ooms and roots, and add to the little riven them by comrades, whose sen enecs have expired, by waylaying .assors-by. But when winter conies >u, with ?ts seven feet of snow and 1 temperature occasionally touching orty degrees (Fahr.) below zero, with io food to bc obtained and rags for ?lothlng, they lind their way back to he prison. After giving themselves up ?ere thej* are flogged with the cruel 'plot." and received back again with ni additional sentence. The photograph shows the Ihsfrti rients of the executioner-the "kobiia." ir hench, on which the convict ls trapjied; the birch-rods, which are lippnl in hot brine, and the heavy, .nee-thonged "pict." with leaded ends, 'hese aro thc instruments In use ol tikovsk Frison. Another photograph shows the pub ic executioner ai Alexandrovsk, (Jo ?'"? /I?.If!' i fe-im ; I m ?S fe;,' Ka Executioner's Instruyen s. 3. Con Vfoee?barrows. ishy by name. The "palatell," or 'cdutioncr, is chosen from among the luvicts themselves. Prisoners who 'e refractory in judson are birched, it sometimes this punishment is given ir no other reason than that the chief ! the prison, o? whom it would lie moult to say anything too bad. hap KXLIXSEY, XIIE EXKCUTIONElt, WITH THE TEltKIUUB "l'lsKT." ions to be in a lit of ill-humor when hey go before him to prefer some sim ile request. My own interpreter, him self a man of rank, told me that in -outuion with all the rest of the con icts and political exiles he paid tribute noiiey in thc shape of food to the ex CITY KITCHEN I ^_ One of the best municipal iustitutlo kitchen in Christiania, opened last year. no less than 1.02-1,2-1Q meals were served s<dd at six cents a meal. The building i rcutions and must up-to-date innchiiicrj laundry machinery, etc. Our cut shov where eight boilers ere Installed for tb* ecutloiior, ?o that, should ho bc ordere?! tho "plot,'' tho loads should bc brought down on the underside of thc board and not on his bare body. Corporal punishment for women has been done* away with by law in Itussln, but In february of last year two women Were flogged with birch-rods dipped 1 In brine, and afterwards put in chains for refusing to obey their villainous overseers.-World Wide Magazine. MURDER CROSSES. Gruesome Memorials That Dot New Mexican Plains. lt is ono 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 Norlh and Hast. Particularly rich In these quaint ways is the Southwestern country, of which New Mexico Is (he geographical ?nitre lind which draws its traditions 'rom old Spain. Among the peculiar custom* of thal erritory is thc practice of planting .tosses on spots where murders have jeen committed. Not infrequently, as j me rides across some lonely plain bare ; )f vegetation save for the ubiquitous ?agobiish and grease wood, or through onie wild pass in the hills made wilder lill by the desolate ruins of an aban loned adobe hut or two amid the cac us. Such crosses are met with rising mt of small piles of stones. They arc (instructed of wood, without luscrip ?011 of any sort, aud oftcu being taken o the church by the relatives and riends of the murdered man and dossed by the priest, are set up upon lie scene of the murder, there to re iain a continuing memorial of the un loly deed and a mute appeal to all ions passers-by lo contr ite a prayer or thc unshriven soul that has gone eyond. n Armchair Formed by Km ural Growth. Thc armchair pictured in the nccom anyiug Illustration may be said to ave partly grown out of the ground, Ithough its shape was furnished by ? wisting and turning a vine out of fi rhlch most of its framework was ;! wined, lt was brought to the United i a gerara m.' ?-J. m en- ?? .? - a cn Ala roitMED nv KATUBAL GKOWTH. jr ornamented with seeds of the ging ;o tree of various si/.es. which have ictualiy grown to Hie liber of Hie vine. Korean gardener, familiar with the idhcsiveness of Hie seed, took a naiiv? inc, noted for its toughness, and rude y made lt into Hie form of a chair, milling lt in place with branches ol ?mall trees. Th:- seeds, fresh from Hie rec, were bound to the vine nulli they iad firmly fastened themselves to it, he vine being allowed to grow In the neantime. After the seeds and tiengha lad become attached, the vine was cut 'rom tho roots, and this natural chair .xposed to the sunlight until thc sap tad dried from the ?ber and all of the uateria] had hardened into a substance is solid as oak. It was (hen polished until Hs surface glistened like inahog liny. Although but three feet four inches in height and twenty-live inches in width, Hie weight of this curiosity is over a hundred pounds, on account of tho hardness of Hie material of which it is composed. The armchair may well be regarded ns a striking example of Hie garden ing skill of the Par East-S.rt?ntlfic American. You cau't liquidate a debt by paying compliments. W CHRISTIANIA. ins In Norway is no doubt the elly Dilling the last six mon I hs ol' NKEi I to the poor, while ?t?.OO;: meals were s throughout lilied with Hie latest Iti , including a ilish-wasliing machine, .3 one of the huge kitchen room? supply of hen? and hot watcii. 'EE ILLS OF HORSEFLESH fOW TO DETECT DEFECTS IN ANIMALS OFFERED FOR SALE. Some Valuable Hints to Buyers-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 brm an important part in the market lue of man's faithful friend. These s, too, ar? of quite a numerous and strongly marked character, being part jand- parcel of the anatomy of a consid erable percentage of the equine fam ily. A perfect h?rsa physically is ^enough of a rarity to causo comment and much boasting on the part Of his owner, while the parfect horse in form, Action, manners and disposition is an ?invaluable creature to his fortunate master. , In the 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 in the ring to bc sold at the hand, or, rather, at the mouth-of the auction eer. A subject i? then listed as hav ing this or that blemish, or is simply poid to the halter" at the buyer's risk. Putting aside the blemishes of a horse in disposition or training, which &ay properly be called blemishes in $h? abstract-like viciousness, balki ness or awkwardness-and looking ?Ple,y t0 tne deformities which mar figure and concrete usefulness of the four-legged servant, it is found that ono of the most, common blemishes is Che splint-a small, bony formation Sp.tiutton, more or less clongaled.which Is found usually just below the knee nu the inside of one or both legs, ami lying between the ..wo main bones of the forelegs. ?>-|The splint is a minor blemish thal is usually an objection in that lt mars the smoothness of the leg in tho eye s the horseman. It is interesting, t$o, 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 number of strains of the horse family the splint ia regularly inherited and appears on nearly every foal. A splint can be reduced all or in part by early manip ulation or later surgery. One of the first blemishes looked for by the horse buyer is the spavin, com mpnly called a "jack." Tho hind leg lsjthe home of the spavin, and then there is the "bog" spavin which is not of bone. The former is the bad one, and as a rule makes thc horse jame. The spavin comes on slowly and in creases in size ano its power to crip f?? its possessor as time passes. If !;z*yws on the hock, inside and just be \[w the big joint. In rare cases it ap iTH*s on the outside. Cures are bony growth Bomctimes'^PT)cifTr*j between the fetlock and thc hoof of the horse and is known as the 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. Tne blemish is a bad one, quite incurable, and makes its victim lame, A he hind feet aro more commonly affected than tho front. A little lower, next to the hour', or tener in front than behind, is thc seat of sidebone, a blemish less familiar to the ordinary eye than any of tho 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." The trouble is quickly observed, owing to thc habit of thc horse in stretching his neck straight out in front, and makes a pitiable spectacle of tho pa tient. There is little left to do for the poor creature except to put it out of its misery. A common blemish is the curb-a rounding of the bone of the hind log. just below the back joint of the hock. This formation docs not injure the ser viceableness of thc driver appreciably. If patiently rubbed when it. first ap pears the curb can be reduced, the bone absorbing the growth, if not too prominent. A wind-broken horse is ono that has been permanently injured in breathing power by overdriving. Violent exercise reveals thc weakness to thc horseman who listens to the breathing. In ex treme cases anyone can hear the brute roar a block away. In purchasing a horse tho careless man may neglect to note whether or not the animal is deaf; his eye may not be expert enough to sos that the of fering is a "swayback," is notched cut where the collar rests, has blistered shoulders, "string halt," so-called "capped hocks," is a cribber-as he will fina out when tho purchaso ls taken home and oats up the mangers. Overheating may bring on the blind staggers, and overdriving and sudden cooling off may develop sweeney-a soreness and stiffness of shoulders and front legs that crippler, a horse suf ficiently to ruin him as a member in good standing among his kind. The heaves come on as years go by, like asthma in man, and is incurable. The ailment is not necessarily fatal and considerable service may bc ex ! acted from Old Dobbin ir caro is exor cised in driving slowly and in feeding him only dampened food. A horse may bo "blue" or blind in ono or both eyes; he may have, wire marks as remembrances of his days in pastures fenced with barbs; he may have a breach; he may have corns; he may bc sore-footed from various causes or his ears may not. be mates; or his tail may bo carried to one side-all these defects which debar him from sale or show ring constitu?e "blem ishes" in the vernacular of tho horse dealing profession and are taken into iccO'.ml in the buying and selling of tho lioblost cud greatest of all the animai Kingdom-man's best friend, the horse -Chicago Record Herald. JAPANESE CHILDREN. Deforcncc to Elders and Helpful With Each Other. T?O' children of Japanese homes arc well bred. ? foreigner never fails to notice it. As a rule they are obedient and deferential to their elders, sweet and obliging among their equals, and patient to a degree tnat is philosoph ical, yet no more genuino children aro J anywhere to be found. No child ?3 without, its responsibilities, and in ..nost 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 thc children have more real affection for each other than they do for their parents, for whom their re spect is unbounded. Although the Japanese take great pride in their babies and their growing sons aud daughters, they strenuously endeav or not to reveal lt, and if you had naught but their word ?or it you would think they were quite harassed and disgusted with their offspring. "I suppose," said a friend, before 1 left for Japan, "you will have to re fer to your baby as 'my dirty, insig nifiicant and troublesome littie son.' ' Still, after all, no ono can withstand thc blandishments of an infant, and 1 many a Japanese motlier 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 ever at the beck and call of the head of the family, to the exclu sion of all other requests. At such times if the babies protest, they are stuffed with sweets and turned over to tho servants, and such times aro nearly all the time. The servants are not refined, but they are kind-hearted women, and they are closer members of thc household than our servants are or would like to be, and for that, reason they mother the children and naturally get thc 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 p.icnic or a walk or in the evening telling 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 similtudo 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 I to pass some day that their own will ! figure more as human opportunities than as issues and heirs. A Japanese iiojH}Jhom_is_ the most homesick His friends? No, "these are'Too easily"~ put cn and off? It is Japan itself. All Japan is home to him, and no wonder. Never did any nationality in any age become moic 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 aro so closely interwoven that it is. in reality, one hugo 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 29U corporations with a population of 13, 093,870 persons had gone into munici pal trading with $GOO.OOO,000 of invest ment. This money was borrowed upon bonds, but $S0,000,000 more has bren repaid, and some $10,000,000 more has been put away in sinking funds. The average income was ?65,000.000, thc average cost of operation $40,000, 000, tho surplus of income over ex penditure being more than 4 percent. Bm. some of the corporations neglect to include in receipts the value of ser vice furnished and municipality, such as street lights, water for public parks and buildings, etc. If these were in cluded the returns would bc higher. The average interest payments were $14,500,000, tho average annual "write off" for depreciation $950,000-consid erably too small, but more than Ameri can trusts have has yet usually al lowed. The annual principal repaid was ?ti,00O,00O. The principal works included in the statement were markets, ete., 228 bor oughs: water works. 193; burial grounds, 143; baths and wash-houses, 138; electricity, 102; gas works, 97; tramways, 15; harbors, etc., 43.-New York World. Driving Large Rivets. The rivets through the keel of tho seven-masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson, that was launched from the Fore River shipyards a short time ago, were nearly five inches in length by 1 1-4 inches in diameter. It waa not possible to upset these properly with an ordinary yoke, one arm of which served as the anvil to resist the blows or the pneumatic Hammer car ried by the other arm. To have the anvil heavy enough to accomplish the purpose would have produced one too extremely awkward and difficult to handle in thc cramped quarters under neath the keel. The difficulty was overcome by doing away entirely with the anvil and substituting a second pneumatic hammer. The two ham mers, one on the end of each arm of tho yoke, worked perfectly, and there was no further trouble in making the rivets fill the holes completely. Tho stroke.: of the hammers were go ex ceedingly rapid that it made no differ ence whether they worked synchron ously or not.-The Iron Age. Old Age in Ceylon. Centenarians are fairly common now adays. Inti it may be questioned wheth er any country can boast, of so many as revlon, which, according to thc re cent census returns, has no fewer than j 14S inhabitants over 100 years of age. j Seventy one of those are males and j 74 females. Of thc-o 43 men and 52 ? women claimed tn be exactly too, j wliile Hie highest age returned wan ! 120. Large Shipments of the best makes of wagons and buggies just received. Our stock of furniture, housefurnishings ls com plete. Large stock COFFINS and CASKETS always on hand. AU calls for our Hearse promptly responded to. Ail goods sold on a small margin of profit. Call to see me, I will save you money. . Ot paralleled rhe Greatest Bargain'Ever Offered hundred and forty-five thousand of Closes July 1st. Between now and July 1st we will sell our concert grand upright Mendelssohn piano for one! hundred and seventy-five dollars and j will prepay freight and furnish stool. ! .nisic book and handsome scarf with' THE STERLING CO., each instrument. We have over ono our instruments now in use. For over twenty years our pianos were ono ot thc leaders of the well known south ern house of Ludden & Bates. Wo also sell organs and our world re nowned Sterling Pianos. For full information address Derby, Conn. MANUFACTTP^fio sna _ i 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 bolling add quickly ind stir in rapidly half a cup of flour; ?ook until a stiff dough; lot cool; add ?bree eggs unbeaten one by one, beat ng well after adding each; then add me tablespoon of melted butter; dip i spoon imo hot lat; take np some of ?he batter and drop Into smoking hot ard; when brown remove with a skim mer; drain on paper; roll in cinnamon I ind sugar mixed. Snow Pyramids.-To one pint of j :o!d cream add four tablespoonfuls of j )f powdered sugar, one teaspoon of ? ranilla extract and one-fourth box ol i gelatine that has been soaking In a j it tie cold water: when lt begins to j '.bl?ken a little whip until light; turn i mto glasses and stand in a cool place; ! hist before serving beat the whiles of Uhr eggs to a stiff meringue, with six tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, ad ijing gradually half a cup of currant i (elly; drop one spoonful of this on the :op of each glass of cream, heaping lt ;np like a pyramid; this will make a I iarge quantity. I Hickory Nut Macaroons-Chop fine j md pound six ounces of shelled hlck ?ry nuts, with thn'o-fonrtbs pound of ?powdered sugar and one teaspoon of J t-anilla extract; mix well and add the neaten whites of eggs: the mixture ?should be a stiff pasto; drop small I spoonfuls on greased p iper in a shal low pan and bake fifteen minutes in a ! moderate oven. Apple Pudding.-Grease a baking ;lish; put some grated bread crumbs or ?hredded wheal crumbs over the bot tom, then a hyer of chopped apple, idding sugar, nutmeg or a grated lemon rind; continue with the alter nate layers, and when the dish is full put small pieces of butter over Ibo top tm] one cup of cold water; bake in a rather quick oven thirty minutos; serve with thin cream or bard sance. Cocoanut Cake.-Beat half a cup of Duller, one and one-half cupfuls of lugar and the yolks ol' four egus io ?ether until light; add ono cupful of milk, alternating with two cupfuls of Sour and the rind and juice of ono onion; beat well and add two cupfuls if grated cocoanut, the whites of the ;ggs beaten stiff and three level lea ipoonfuls of baking powder; lum Into jaklng pan and bake in a moderate >ven forty-five minutes; remove from :hc oven, let .'land in thc pan two ninnies then turn ?nit. One hundred and sixty-nine centen arians died last year in Ireland. CARE OF TH ri PLOOK. Floor bordi.Ts should not bc stained ?urriedly. Do net apply a thick :oat!ng. Two or .three thia coatings rive 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 leather. Daily dusting ind a weekly rubbing .with a little xiraflin will keep the floor in good irder. Fainted floor borders should be riven two coats of paint and one of .amish, and they need a dafly dust ng and a wiping over with oil once i week. Other coverings for floor borders ire India and China mattings in limpie designs. Those are especially nilled for bedrooms, morning rooms ind houdiors. Those mattings are Gur ible and eau be liad to match any color )f rug-although the plain mattings^ ire the prettiest in contrast to thd igured rugs. Carpets for suuny 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 )? kept fresh and their colors bright by .nibbing them about, onco a week w^th i chamois leather dipped into warm vater containing a very little asi? nenia,-American Queen. British officers in South Africa are ?-.omplaining 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 agc. 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 clhnate. Thc Dutch openly scoff at the youthful appearance of thc recruits, while thc older soldiers christen their boy com rades after the secretary of war, Brod rick, whose name has become tv gener ic term for them. VALUE OF CHEESECLOTH. Cheesecloth is of th? greatest sw rico in housecleaning, as nothing is ;o nice for polishing mirrors, win lows, furniture, silver and cut-glass i.; this scsobent colton whick is even \etter after it is washed.