LADIES' COLUMN.
A HAPPY DAV RECEIPT.
fake a Ntt dash of cold water,
A little leaven of prayer,,
A little bit of sunshine sold.
Dissolved In morning air.
AM to your meal tome merriment.
Add thought for kith and kin,
Ard then, as a prime Ingredient,
Plenty of work thrown In.
Flavor It all with essence of love,
Asd little dash of play:
Let a glance at the good old nook
Complete the well-spent day.
Soma Health Hints.
A well known physician advises thin
tosia to eat before going to bed, a
there must be continuous nourishment '
prevent the waste cf tissue. A nor
aJ quantity of light, easily digested
taken before retiring, will also
prevent or cure Insomnia.
A tactful nurse will never speak In
load tones, nor yet In whispers. In the
presence of the patient. She will not i
Useorts the disease, the medicine, nor
the food, nor tell stories or anecdotes
that would excite the one under her
charge. Especially will she exclude
the knowledge of all family troubles,
anxieties, or vexations from the ears
already too keenly alert, the nerves
already strained.
Trained nuTses, and other women
who are forced to observe long hours of
work, with consequent Irregularity of
meals, find much benefit from carrying
mall tablets of chocolate In the pocket,
and letting them dissolve slowly In the
month. It ts a matter of history that
Napoleons' soldiers large sustained
their strength with' chocolate when
crossing the Alps.
RV and Raisin Croquettes. Stew
raisins till tender, then stir them into
the boiling rice. When cold, form Into
croquettes, sift powdered sugar over, or
serve with a sweetened sauce.
Kidney Toast Cut in pieces four veal
Kidneys with half a pound of calfs'
ver, and see to it that both are of the
freshest Make a little butter hot in
a frying- pan and toss then until cook
ed, but not overdone. Remove from
the Are, add the beaten yolk of one
egg, and a seasoning of salt, pepper
and lemon Juice. Have ready some
squares of hot buttered toast, spread
With the mixture and serve with stew
ad potatoes and hot cornmeal muffins.
Strawberry Short Cake (Mrs. Ben-
ett'a Recipe.) One quart sifted pastry, aissoivea; now seir in iwo leaspovu
sTour, three level teaspoonfuls baking ! ot vinegar. Arrange the bright
powder, butter the size of two large inside leaves of the lettuce around a
eggs. Sift the powder through the flour a!ad bowl; cut up the outer leaves,
two or three times, rub In the butter mix them thoroughly with the dressing
and mix with sweet miik about the J ar.d heap on the leaves. Those who do
amine as biscuit dough. Bake In a f.at
sake tin or dripping pan In two layers.
Tls.ee the first layer in the pan and
spread the top with melted butter be
ttor patting tbe other one on, so that
you will not have to split the cake
when done. Also mark it on the top
wttk a knife Into squares of the size
you wish the pieces to Be when served.
Upon taking It out of the oven separ
ate the layers and spread the sides
tftat were stuck together in baking with
patter. Sweeten to taste one quart
berries and add one-half cup cream,
axing all well together and washing
and cutting the berries with the spoon.
Spread this between the cakes a,nd
eerve with a sauce made of one pint
f strawberries and one-half pint of
cream sweetened to taste, having the
merries slightly cut and mashed.
Value of Old Lac.
6M lace la much more valuable than
feew, for this reason, among others, that
S. is generally all woven In "lost" pat
terns. It is frequently as fine as a spi
4ers film and cannot be reproduced.
The loss of patterns was a severe check
t lace making in France and Belgium,
and was occasioned by the French rev
elation. Before that time whole vil
lages supported themselves by law
making, and patterns were handed
down from one generation to another.
They were valuable heirlooms, for the
moat celebrated weavers always had as
many orders as they could execute In
a lifetime, and they were bound by an
eath taken on the Four Gospels to
work oaly for certain dealers. When
Ike reign of terror began all business
af this sort was interrupted for a time.
After the storm subsided the dealers
I workers were far apart some dead.
lost, and some escaped to foreign
and such of tbe women -as re-
saslarrT were bound by their oath to
week, for but one. And this oath, In
spile ef Robespierre's doctrines, was
1 by the poorest of them to be blnd-
, and there are instances where they
I actual want, rather than break
t word. Soma, however, taught their
and grandchildren, and many
were In this way preserved.
, ef tbe daintiest and finest pat-
aever recovered, and today
ef these laces are known to
(a fMrtfe their weight In diamonds.
Woman's Ac.
: Is taw nest Interesting age In
if wag a question recently dts-
f-pii fey aa artist, aa author, and a
jsai C ssessty. Tbe artist said that
f I CJ mat K3 ta aalat the portraits
jr'l gist sun the ages of tt and 40.
tsssatty jea the (ace has aa ex
--9 wtfes enarms. It is looking
J ant J7wa freshness and
y;t'fc3 af aaUiss premiers.
i f J C CmnMt Is termed, and
' fi C9tmsmM ate strong
4 J'-,yj&tmri
it : It loa Ka ar-nt
study women between tha agi of 'jl
and 40. They had thi n had the experi
ence of the world and the Joyuusres
of youth. In those yars they wer
brightest and most interesting. 1 he
socMy woman thought tht It was im
possible to make keneral answers to the
question, as individual women differ In
regard to the most attractive ase.
Some are most charming at sixty years,
while others have passed the prime at
twenty. The best answer would be,
that women are always beautiful V
the friends who love them.
Soma Good Redaipts.
Fried Chicken. If ve'.y young, clean
and cut up into ten or a doen pieces,
wash and wipe dry, rub a little salt
on each piece; have two spiders ready
with the bottoms well covered with
melted butter. When hot, la.y the
chicken in and watch closely; loosen
but do not turn It over until brown
after it has been In a few minutes add
a spoonful of water to each spider and
cover clossely a few minutes ta steam;
uncover and see If the pieces are well
browned on the under side; if so, turn.
Sometimes you need to add more but
ter. When brown on both sides, re
move to a warm platter and serve hot.
If your chickens are older, it Is beat
to put them in hot water and boil half
or three-fourths of an nour first, then
sprinkle flour on them and fryi or you
can steam them awhile instead of boil
ing. Kscalloped Eggs are excellent. Tht
ingredients are one doien hard boiled
eggs, one pint of cream, a heaping cup
of bread crumbs, a tables poonful of
flour (large), butter size of an egg. salt,
pepper and extract of celery to taste.
Slice the eggs and arrange the layen
in a baking dish, sprinkling lightly
with bread crumbs and bits of butter.
Make a sauce of the cream, thickened
with flour and seasoned with salt, pep
per and celery. Pour this over the last
layer of eggs; strew the remaining
bread crumbs on top and bake until
brown.
Asparagus on Toast. Roil one bunch
of asparagus in salted water until ten
der. Drain, and cut off all but the very
tender part Put this into a bowl with
three tablespoonfuls of melted butter,
and a sprinkling of black pepper. Mix
together well, and lay on squares or
rounds of hot buttered toast.
Lettuce Salad. With a fish dinner,
lettuce Is nicest with a Fiench dress
ing, which is made as follows; Put
half a teaspoonful of salt and a quar
ter of a teaspoonful of black pepper in
a bowl or soup plate, add five teaspoon
fuls of olive oil and stir until the salt
not like oil can use melted butter. Let
tuce is also very nice eaten with brown
sugar and vinegar.
Graham Gems. Cream together one
and one-half tablespoonfuls of unmelt
ed butter and two heaping tablespoon
fuls of light brown sugar. Add one
well-beaten egg and one cup of milk.
Sift together one saltspoonful of salt,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one
cup of white our and three-ourths cup
of graham flour. Bake in gem pans in
a quick oven. These are excellent for
little-children who desire "a bite be
tween meals, as well as a welcome ad
junct to breakfast or tea.
Bavarian Cream. Cover half a box
of gelatine with half a cup of cold wa
ter and let it soak one hour. Whip a
pint of cream. Put a pint of milk on
to boll, to which add the gelatine with
any fruit desired, or, if preferred, two
ounces of chocolate Take from the
fire, add half a teacup of sugar and
flavoring. Put in a tin pan and set to
cool, stir until thick, then add tne
whipped cream; mix thoroughly and
pour In a mold to harden. Serve with
whipped cream.
Chocolate Cake. Two cups of sugar,
one cup of butter, Ave eggs (reserving
whites of two), one cup of sweet milk,
two teaspoons of baking powder, three
and one-half scant cups ot nour.
Bake In square loaves and frost with
the white of two eggs, one and one
half cups of powdered sugar, five table
spoonfuls of grated chocolate and twe
teaspoonfuls of vanilla.
Pop Overs. These, with a sauce.mak
nice and inexpensive dessert, or they
may be eaten hot with butter for
breakfast or tea. They take one scant
cup of sifted flour, one small cup of
milk, one egg, one saltspoon of salt.
Mix the salt with the flour. Beat the
egg very light; add the milk; beat
again; pour it gradually on the flour,
stirring carefully to prevent lumping.
Beat the whole batter well and pour in
hot. welNgreased gem pans. Bake in
very quick oven ten or fifteen minutes.
This quantity will make one dozen.
Salads for Springtime.
In the spring of the year one cannot
eat too many green salads. Salad in
somt form or other should appear on
the table dally. Young lettuce and
chicory dressed simply with oil and
vinegar Is delicious. Dandelion leaves
served la this way also make an ex
cellent salad.
Spinach served cold with slices
boiled eggs aad a French dressing can
scarcely be surpassed as an appetiser,
and the same might be said of aspara
gus served in the same manner.
Thick cream and mayonnaise dress
ings are not advisable for salads at
this season of tbe year. In the first
place they are too difficult to prepare
to admit of dally use, aad la tbe sec
end place they are aet nearly so re
freshing er wholesome aa oil and vine
gar ifastja
It to casar Oat the algAest priced
FARM NEWS NOTES.
Changes In Farming.
In all the industries that go to mike
hp the business of the world theie
have been within the memory of many
of us who will not admit being old. a
great many changes in methods and J
results. It is not strange therefore !
that changes similar in kind should
have occurred in farming. One series
of changes cf a very marked character j
is that which has taken place in the
scale of living. Farmers live better
ami tavi mttrt tVion f.,rmoilv CH,tn I
the farmer goes to town now It is usu
ally upon necessary business, and in
stead of wearing his working clothes
he puts on a suit that is as good as is
worn by those whom he expects to
meet. The farm wagon and team used j
to be good enough to go to church or
lown in, oui now trie majority 01 iarm
ers have a comfortable rig for these
purposes, as they have a right to have.
Formerly when the farmer's hair got
too long his wife put a large bowl over
his head and with the family shears
cut off all the hairs that extended be
low the edge of the bowl. Now te
farmer goes into the barber shop a:;d
g"ts his shaving and hair cutting done
like '"folks." His wife and daughter's
don't go to town any more in a sun
bonnet and a calico dress in summer
and a llnsey woolsey in wlter. They
have things in the house to live on, to
do with and to enjoy, and we are glad
of It. The farmer works hard and the
service he renders the world Is one of
the mcst Important that can be ren
dered it, and he and his family there
fore have a right to the good things of
this world and to enjoy a fair measure
of them as they go through life. Any
one, however, who remembers forty or
fifty years back can recall without dif
ficulty hundreds of changes of the kind
which we only here hint at.
Changes in fanning methods are no
less notable. In former days the essen
tials seemed to be muscular strength.
great powers of endurance, a willing
ness to work sixteen or eighteen hours
a day and a good deal of fondness for
privation. Now health, strength and
vigor arc as valuable as ever they were,
but they are not everything. The im
portance of brains in farming has come
to be cleariy recognized. The aid that
science can render agriculture meets
with substantial recognition In some
sixty experiment stations that have
teen established all Over the cauntry,
and the importance of agriculture! ed
ucation Is testified to In every state and
territory of the country by the estab
lishment of at least one col'ege that
shall teach agriculture. There is also a
clear recognition of the fad that the
farmer of today succeeds or falls ac
cordingly as he pursues or neglects
good buslnc s methods. One must not
only know how to grow crops and
stock, but he must not put in eighteen
hour3 a day doing It or he will not
have energy left to enable him to do
his thinking so that he may know how
to manage and handle them proltably.
One does not need to have lived so very
long to realize that great changes have
taken place in this aspect of farming.
The sum of it all Is that the successful
fanner of today mut be in and of his
age. The methods of fifty years ago
lll no more eufflre now than the scale
of living of that period will satisfy
now. The farmer of today must keep
up with the procession, and the pro
tension Is moving. He must avail hlm
solf of the advantages of agricultural
education, of the aid that science fur
nishes farming:, of the machinery that
Ingenuity so abundantly supplies, of
the good agricultural paper, and he
must be a thinker and must develop
for himself good business methods In
his calling. These ere some of the
terms upon which success is now ob
tained in farming. The old conditions
have passed away and the old essen
tials to success will no longer suffice.
To Keep Irish Potatoes.
The Southwest gives the following as
i. good inexpensive recipe for keeping
potatoes: "After digging the potatoes
and storing in cellar or dark place,
scatter slaked lime over them. A sieve
could be used for sprinkling on the
lime. Etlr up the potatoes so that ail
will be covered. It Is better to have
the potatoes ten to fourteen Inches deep
on shelves or In boxes. So treated the
potatoes will keep keep pound and sweet
all through the winter. Tobe Stearns
and 8. A. Peck treated their potatoes
this way with perfect success. Mr. Peck
aays this treatment did not Injure them
the least for planting. Mr. Stearns tells
the experience of two neighbors In the
Indian Territory. One limed his po
tatoes, the other did not. The limed
tubers kept until they were eaten; the
unllmed rotted Inside of two weeks.
Many have let their potatoes rot In
the ground believing tney would no
keep. Here Is a positive remedy against
rotting at almost no expense. The
Southwest will vouch for the reliability
of the tests referred to. Hundreds of
our readers could save money by trying
It.
Tha Tomato Worm.
, The tomato worm which bores Into
and eat the fruit is identical with the
bug or ear worm of corn and boll
worm of cotton. Hence we can use
the trap corn method as Indicated In
tbe accompanying outline to protect
the tomato crop, with these differences:
First. It wl'l ordinarily be found that
only two need to be planted In corn,
and hence two plantings. Second, we
ase some extra variety of sweet corn,
as It can be forced Into silking more
quickly If necessary. Plant one row of
earn now, so ss to catch the first brood.
aad the second row a month later, so
as to be In fresh silk about tbe time
tag nam crop of tomatoes come in.
CaaM Tree F
ITEMS Or FAHM INTEREST.
There are farmers w ho believe that
It Is not necessary to have a hone
fat In order to Bell him a horse buyer.
They think they can break up and put
In spring crops and then sell the horse
for as much as they could have done
when the winter fat was on. This la a
mistake. He may be sold to another
farmer for farm work, but for shipment
to eastern markets he will not do un
less he Is fat. Simply some flesh will
not do, but he should be fat.
Rhubarb pie seems to be necessary
In the spring of the year. It seems to
fill a long felt want and take the place
of fruit that cannot be had at this sea
son of the year. The main thing about
it is to get It early and in order to do
this beds will have to be rich and warm.
I saw rhubarb pushing through the
ground long before the frost was all
out. Had pies some weeks ago, and
Just this day (May 7th) we had fried
chicken and rhubarb pie. The bulk of
the chicken crop will not be ripe until
the rhubarb Is all gone or out of sea
son. There Is at present an unusually good
demand not only for all good youns
female cattle, but especially for good
milk cows. It has ift?n been a matter
of surprise to us that there were not
more peisons who saw how great would
be the business advantage of engaging
In the growing of good milk cows. A
man who understood the business ul
breeding along dairy lines and develop
ing the heifer calves he secures, could
without doubt make as much money
by breeding good grade dairy cows as
Is made by the breeders of most of the
bieeds of pure bred stock, and that,
too, at considerably less expense. Of
course, we do not mean that he could
secure the prices that are obtained for
the few really superior animals In the
btcf breeds, but he could come close
to getting whut the run of the pure
bied stock has, until recently, been
bringing. By the run of the stock wt
mean that kind that la Usually callec
"useful animals."
There la a god deal of talk about the
Importance of secuiing foreign tradt
(or our dairy products. The facts are,
however, that for the greater pat ol
the time when then; Is reasonable pros
perity In this country, our home mar
ket Is better than any foreign market
for the same clans of goods. During
the past year a large number of pack
ages of butter have been exported and
then re-lmportcd again, simply becaus
they would bring more money at hom
than they would abroad. Of course U.lt
invited a loss of freight both ways.
As the pasture season cornrs on own
ers of dairy cattle should be on their
guard against the cov.'s eating those
weeds which injure flavor. Such weeds
are found on all low fields and swamps,
and they are found, too, quite fre
quently in pastures that are pretty well
worn out. When the grass has become
thin weeds spring up in abundance, for
it is not nature's policy to allow (he
earth to go naked. Many of these
weeds are a kind that injure flavor, and
some of them make the summer vari
ety of bitter mil kand bitter butter.
The winter kind of bitter milk and
bitter butter Is usuully due to one of
several species c bacteria.
Making Meaoows and Pastures.
One of the commonest complaints in
farming is in regard to the difficulty in
getting a stand of cra.-s-s for hay or
pasture. Much of the difficulty Is un
doubtedly due to an inaulIHient pre
ptiraliun of tbe ground- to n-ceive the
seed. To make a really strong stand,
fine tilth is Important, Grass seed arc,
as a rule, very small. The stored up
nutriment on which initial growth sub
sists Is quite limited. The roots that
are put forth are quite tene'er and have
little capacity to push themselves. The
soli therefore should be In a condition
that will enable the tiny rootlets to
promptly lake hold of the fertility it
contains, or thc-y will die of starvation
before they have cstab'Uh d connec
tion with the outside source of nutri
tion. Many failures, too, are due to
insufficient seedln. Grass seeding
should be liberal, bc-caure if It does not
thoroughly occupy the soil something
else In the shape of a weed that is a
better hustler is pretty certain to do
so and smother the gmss that does
come. In England, where the climate,
speaking generally. Is much more fa
vorable to grass production than our
own, seeding that furnishes from 10,
000,000 to 20,000,000 of seeds per acre Is
quite common. The larger number
provides about four seeds to the square
Inch. With the amplest seeding, how
ever, the condition of the s. II Is still a
contiolling factor, for it is not the
amount of seed that Is put on land that
makes the stand but tha number cf
them that grow and take hold. These
is also a lack of appreciation of the
necersity for fertility In lands that are
to be put In grass. Grasses do not en
rich; on the contrary, they call for rich
ness. They make their growth wholly
from the materials they find in the
soil, and If these materials are not
there the results are certain to be un
satisfactory. Poor soils will not pro
duce grass In large quantity or of good
quality. A chief reason why grasses
so frequently fall ia that there is in
practice a sort of an assumption that
they grow of their own acord and do
not need Intelligent study and atten.
tion as most other crops do. -
Sibyl Sanderson has abandoned an
Idea of going back on the stage, be
cause she Is engaged to be married to
Henry Volsin, a Swedish artist, barely
20 years old. The two became Infatu
ated three months ago at Pau, when
both wer guests at tbe same bouse,
Volsin, It Is said. Is a tall blonde sta
letc. belonging to a wealthy family,
who oppose the present match, beoaast
the young awn to already engaged to
Sweat girt, wfca tattta Ueir approval
trrrtss i.sos years old.
Agrlppa's Letter To Chrlet and tha
Latter's Reply.
The New Tork Journal Rome corre
spondent in Rome cables:- Prof. Bohr
man of the Vienna university told the
achaeologlcal congress In Rome that
the following letters referred to by
F.useblus in the fourth century had
been rediscovered after being lost for
1,803 yesrs:
King Agrippa to Christ 'i have
heard of Thee and the cures wrought
by Thee without herbs or medicines, for
It Is reports dthat Thou restoreth sight
to the blind and maketh the lame to
walk, cleanseth the leper, ralseth the
dead, casteth out devils and unclean
spirits and healeth those that are tor
mented of diseases of a long continu
ance. Hearing all this of Thee, I was
wully persuaded that Thou are the very
God come down from heaven to do such
miracles, or that Thou are the Son of
God and peiformeth them. Wherefore
I have sent thee a few lines entreating
Thee to come hither and cure my dis
ease. Besides. . bearing that the Jews
murmur against Thee and continue to
do Thhe mischief, I Invite Thee to my
city, which Is but a little one, but it
beautiful and sufficient to entertain us
both." , '
Christ's reply to Agrippa "Blessed
art thou for believing In He whom thou
hast not seen, for It Is written of Me
that they that have seen me shall not
believe and they that have not seen
Me shall believe and be saved. But
concerning them thou hast written, this
is to acquaint thee that all things for
which I was sent hither must be ful
filled and then I shall be taken up and
return to Him that sent Me. But after
My ascension I will send one of My
disciples that shall cure thee of thy
distemper and give life to all them that
are with thee."
Prof. Bohrrnann announced that the
letters had been discovered In stone
over the gateway of the old paalce ol
the king of Ephesus, and that they
were undoubtedly the letters referred
to by Eur-eblus, and the other early
writers, according to whom they were
written In the Syro-Chaldaic characters
and originally discovered under a stone
eighty-four miles from the city of Ico
nlum In the year S7 and then lost.
Fragments purporting to be of the
original were declared spurious by
Pope Leo III. Prof. Bohrrnann says
that this discovery proves that such
letters were written and supplies the
full text. The Ephesus Inscription Is
In Doric Greek. The first letter Is
signed by Abgarus, who Is the Agrippa
of the biblical text.
TO WATER THE DESERT.
A Machine To Irrigate the Deserts
Is Announced.
Several machines have been Invented
for making the het of the sun prt
duce steam or electric power, but a
Washington man Is the first to turn
such a device to practical use.
William Calver Is now about to set
up one of his sun-power machines in
Arizona, near Phoenix, and dig wells
In the desert. Ills plan Is to make the
Intense heat of that hottest pnrt of
the Tnlted Ptates develop the power
to pump up water enough to Irrigate all
the barren land.
Everybody knows what a transforma
tion a little watr makes on a dewrt,
producing an oasis of tropical verdure,
while all beyond this watered snac Is
desolation and denth. It is usually an
expensive to drill wells and pump the
water on a desert that It does not
pay to reclaim the waste land. But. If
the overabundance of sunshine on the
desert can be utilized, the problem Is
solved.
Mr. Calvers' machine consists of a
set of bl? mirrors and lenses, by which
he focuses the sun's rays es a boy
does with a burning glass. The heat
which can be generated by Mr. Calver't
machine l said to be equal to a fur
nace for a 500 horse power boiler.
With such a power as this available
wherever one sees fit to set up his
plant. It Is easy to se how well drill
ing and water pumping can lie done on
a large scale. Geologists have found
In recent years that out southwestern
deserts have almost numberless subter
ranean streams flowln gat depths vary
ing from 25 to K0 feet below the dry,
parched surface of the earth.- So there
need be no lack of water If the borings
are Intelligently directed.
The amount of arid lands which lie
in. Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Texas and Colorado Is estimated to bt
at least five hundred millions of acres.
This Is rendered useless by the need
of water, and the reclamation of this
land would add billions of dollars to
the wealth of the country.
In many sections of Colorado and
other states in which irrigation Is used,
the best farming lands in the country
are those which were formerly worth
less and are now artificially watered,
and the very finest crops In the land
are grown there.
A BACHELOR'S REFLECTIONS.
New York Press; No girl ever Jilted
a man that be didn't live to be glad
of It.
The devil Invented heresy so that the
churches would be so busy they would
let blm alone.
In this world the kicker always gets
the things that the man who hates to
kick doesn't deserve to get
When a woman ends by not marry
ing a man It Is always either because
he haa got too wise or else because she
has got too foolish.
Every man who Is In love has timet
when he envies the ancient Britons.
When an ancient Briton saw a woman
be wanted be went for her with a club
an8 brought bar home slung over bis
sJkeaJaar.
Tragi Ufa ef Jeka Meersra reyae
. Aasfc-er aad Aeser.
A man in whose life the "irony of
tile" has iiirured conspicuously
John Howard Pajrne.auibor of "Home,
hwrrt Home." Several years ago the
House committee on claims stated
that a balance of $205.92 was due to
the heirs ef Payne, who was consul at
Tunis at tbe date of his death, April
8. l.ii. The committee said that ap
propriation should be made for pay
ment of this balance, "long standing
to the credit of the faithful oftcer
whose fUme was world-wide, and
whose memory Is dear to every Ameri
can home, where it is revered) and
loved by old and young alike."
John Howard I'avae was born ia
New York City, June 0, 17. His
early life was spent on the shores of
1ang Island, where bis father was
principal of an academy, and while
Lyman Heeeher was a preacher there.
The Payne family ultimately moved to
Boston, where the falher won distinc
tion as a teacher. The son vras char
acterized at this time aso clever, poet
ical, Bohemian lad, withniilit-ary as
pirations. He was captain of a com
pany which, on one occasion, was re
tiewed with the veterans of the Revo
lution. At seveneen Fayne made- his debet
ss an actor at the Park Theater in
New York, playing subsequently ia
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston,
and appesring at DruryLnne, London,
in his twenty-first year. For a while
lie wns editor of one of the first dra
matic papers, the "Opera Glass." Then
he devoted himself to 'the composition
of dramas and wrote a tragedy, "Bru
tus," for Edmund Kean, a prominent
actor of that time, Among his other
plays was one called "Clari, the Maid
of Milan," which wns brought out
with music by Bishop, May 8, 1823, at
Covent Garden.
It was in this play that "Home,
fiweet Home," first appeared. Tbeevir
was commonly described ss a Sicilian
melody, but many attribute it to
Bishop. However, this may be, it is
safe to say that it would probably
never have been known beyond its
tMtive shores had it noH been linked to
the beautiful words composed by
Payne. The song brought the original
publishers $10,000 in two years, snd
yet tbe author was forced to live in a
i'aria attic at the point of starvation!
This was at. the time the song wtea
first introduced. Payne used to say
that he often heard the song in Paris,
I,ondon and Berlin when he had not a
shilling nnd was himself homeless. In
1S.12 he returned to his native lnnd
in 1841 was appointed American Con
sul nt Tunis. When he died there in
152 there was not enough money to
tbip his body home, and had not a
millionaire of Washington come to the
rescue his ashes might hove rested
forever in that far-awnv land. Wis it
not fitting that ns the ship which bore
his body reared the harbor there
should come from the shores the
strains of that immortal "Home,
Sweet Homes."
Catching Smelts l.f
KerVly one hundred men and boys
tnpether hve been engaged winters
fishing at, Surry. Me., nnd in thirty
five years more than $10,000 worth of
smelts have been tnken. Tbe smelts
are nil caught with lnok snd line.
Taking tbem otherwise, such ns by
seine, would be regarded lv the fish
ermen there ns a grrtat wrong. The
fishing is all done In tents, Ihe tenia
being nbout six feet long, five feet
wide, and high enough for n msn to
Ptd tip in them, says the New York
lletrrttii.
These tents nre covered with cloth,
heated by a stove snd lighten1, usually,
by .3 lantern. The temperature pf a
tent has been known to vary, how
ever, 60 degrees within ten minutes
during s cold dnv. A hole nhmt six
feet long and eiht inclie wide Is rnt
in the ice. and the ter,t t lengthwise
of Ihis, Six lines attached to a pole
fastened to the plates of the tent
hang into the water nearly eight
inches npari. These lines, during flsh
intr hours, nre always kepi In motion.
The way the fishermen handle these
lines, how they can bail the hooks and
slut merits, when, as they sav, they
sre "taking bait," is certainly won
derful. One man has been known to
rnfch 100 pounds in less thnn one
hour. This mentis at lens. 1,000 fish,
or shout seventeen a minute. One
smelter has been known to catch 500
pounds during one tide's fishing.
Somn have made $25 to $.10 a day
and others $?00 in a few weeks. Biit
these big catches are only made by
those expert in fishing. The chances
are thut a green hand would starve
ithe first winter, if dependent wholly
on what fish he rnnght. During the
fishing season politics, religion, war
and all other subjects generally dis
cussed in the stores are dead issues.
Nothing but smelts is talked abont;
nothing but fish discumed by tha
fishermen. The usual salutation when
meeting another Is: "How many?"
It is a lM-Biiliful sight' some still,
cold morning to wntch the streams of
white smoke rise out. of a hundred
stovepipes and slowly ascend almost
perpendicularly loo feet In the air.
From a distance nil these little houses
huddled together remind one of some
miniature city. Sometimes when tfes
bay first freezes these villages coma
into existence with as little notice aa
that of a mlnlnar settlement lm
melts sre all shipped to Boston ass
New York Markets.
aertaaea Vagaries.
"It's strsnge. slirhrd the tmlin
fliictor, "bow, when two boys atari
ont with equal chances, one of them la
bound to forge ahead while the other
lag behind. There waa Jim; Jin
and I were fast friends as youths, bat
iook si me now. Kuai aa our et
were, Jim is abend"
-What is be dolngr asked the
enger who nsci paid bis fare.
"fle's the motorman up front. Dkf
t gwt your nlcktl? Yea, sir, ifa
strange.
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