IN A TRAMP CITY.
TERRADELRHIA. A NOVEL IN
DUSTRIAL TOWN.
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Oat to shat aard to be tbe swamp
erne of Use toggeot and handsom* -t fat -
tone* to tka ntjr stands four stories
MO awumg anminailliiii of grimy
coni yards and tha accumulated refuse
cf railroad yuak Throughout tbe day
O* bam of its Industry sounds in the
aars of a man who sits la a little
chanty hack of one of the «al yards
ponag over his ledger with but one
dominant thought that runs through
all his labor; bow he may oare mors
tary that he built and owned and lost
i»d make It again a home for the
t bownaads of Ra former lodgers nos
scattered sorer tbe length and breadth
of the continent. The man is Thomas
If- Terradeil. and the factory building
with Its oarroiittdiiigs was formerly a
community which was to prove to the
world the indnatrial worth of tbe so
SIT® IM A LITTLE SHANTY,
cnilod wnrtfclm- *Ld nearly tor
years ago Terrade::, then a
maa at 22. waa aa etftaer «>n the
l^MMptVMl® railroad He had al
ready aaaa lit# la many phases As a
arhaal hay la Trenton he had blacked
***** aad arid papers to pay for bu
hiok* and cRdhes Thereafter he had
hewn aa Iron moulder a Jockey, a cir
ca* au. n minstrel and n jark-ofall
trades. wandering from place to place
and constantly thrown la with the
Banting population of trsmpdom
When ho went into the employ of the
railroad, aa a fireman first, and then
as an engineer, he found himself still
tn a position to nee much of tramp life
snd a certair. fellowship which he had
si ways felt for the knights of the high
road, desek^ed into n strong desire to
b» of some lasting benefit to them. In
his years of experience and associa
tion with the tramp fraternity he came
to ’.Le conclusion that the hobo, a* a
rises, was not a eumberer of the earth,
hat an anfortcaat* misfit who under
A WONDER FVL TRANSFORMATION.
the proper conditions might be made
of aa* to himself and the community.
While deliberating aa how to accom
plish hie purpose, he was caught In a
wreck and so severely injured that fur
irt-»*°t he sugared and was wholly
disabled for future service la railroad
ing. Daring the months of suffering
hie scheme for the redemption of the
hobo was grow tag and solidifying in |
hie mind, and to the Idea of making
srunilhtsr of this life for the tramp
vac added the hope of preparing him
tor the next, for Terradeil had joined
the cbwh. and had thrown himself
lata religion with the fervor character
istic of the man in whatever b« did
Ihoagh wUhoa* regular employment
he contrived to get together a 1 *r dol
lar* and with the faith which after
ward rasH-** him to achieve such
tWff..^«ff result* act out to build a
tramp* home. Ttr a ait* he selected j
a let of swamp land near the railroad
^ U» a»i. rnni, « ■«
thee* thoroughfares that his ex
pcstcmee taught him the tramp would
travel, partly bseaue* tbm land war
an worthless that nobody cored to
the ownership of it at that time
More he befit a wooden shanty which ,
he intended for a tramp's hotel, hav
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la the wort, after be had folly
they would work through a winter
faithfully, but the first sounds and
sw*-n:r of spring would set them back
cn the road again. The irreclaimable
touo, mho had no intention of doing
regular work, could find shelter there
for two days and nights conditional
upon doing a certain amount of work
la cutting wood or cleaning up about
the place. Three meals of coffee and
bread were given to him each day
while he was there. If a sick tramp
cauie there he was cared for and medi
cine that the establishment could ill
afford was given to him until he was
able to proceed or had qualified for
hospital treatment. Terradell held
religious services and tried, with vary
suceets. to convert his associates. The
27 cottages were rented at low rates.
Regarding his community as a city
of itself Terradell decided to name it
“Terradelphia.” For a time Terradel
phla flourished. Merchants and manu
facturers who were Interested in Ter
radell gave him orders and the output
of the place found good sales. The
cottages were filled and apparently the
community flourished. Terradell pro
jected another factory building, and
the fw<ure of the community seemed
assured, when hard times began to be
felt In ‘94. A year later there was no
question about extending Terradel
explained his purpose. These tramps
went the news to others and soon the
hotel was known on every high road
m this part of the country and lodgers
came in rapidly. None was turned
away by the proprietor but each man
who was able was expected to do an
hour or two of work about the place
with the result that it was soon com
pleted and a stranger looking build
ing was probably never raised since the
day when every mau was his own
architect.
The place was orderly, for the pro
prietor. while liberal in his allowances
for hobo nature, would tolerate no
riotousness. He was an unwise hobo
who attempted to disregard orders, for
T*rrade!l had too many friends among
the tramp* who were ready at any
; minute to take up his cause. Work
was found for T'-rradeU's tramps when
they wanted it. He set up a wood
cutting industry and made a little
money that way which he u-ed in im
proving his place. Trenton people,
who bad become interested in the ex
periment. found jobs for the lodgers,
and though by far the greatest part
• of the hotel’s clientage was of the
strictly transient order, some few from
time to time would express a desire to
■lay and make a regular living. It
was for this class that Terradell was
laboring and for them he set out to
establish a permanent plant. By what
.-low and painful steps, with what pa
tience irresistibly surmounting all re
versals and disappointments he
achieved hie ends he alone knows.
t'nremitting toil anil devotion
brought about, in the course of years,
the wonderful transformation wrought
by the penniless and unemployed Ter
radell. In the swamp land where hi*
' i urioua structure of telegraph poles
and boards bad sheltered bis hobo
friends rose the four-story building of
vitrified brick with brownstone trim
mings aud around it small cottage*
were put up. 27 in all, for such fami
lies as might fatal the new community.
Where and how did Terradell get the
money for such an establishment? Peo
ple aak«-d this question with wonder
but nobody ever answered it. Doubt
less there were rich men who, believ
ing in Terradell and his project, gave
liberally to help him. but the land
i which before was regarded as so much
waste svace* had acquired as a value
and nearly $50,000 was laid out on land
alone Terradell himself worked with
the builders, spurring them on by his
example and when the big industrial
building, as he called it. was finished
he wa« the proudest man in America.
There was a $50,000 mortgage on the
p.ace, but he bad perfect faith that the
worst of his work was over and that
success was close at hand.
To support the Institution rerradell
looked to the workshops, which took
up all the industrial building except
the dormitory space and the eating
rooms and office. There was a shop
for broom and brush making and one
for the manufacture of crates and
pa« king boxes, and in one or the other
of these any man who was honest and
would work could find employment no
matter how little experience he had
had. If he didn't know the trade some
t rk would be found for him until he
could learn It. Men out of employ
ment flocked to him and many of his
former hobo friends came and took
regular employment to his great joy,
th mgh be never felt sure of them, for
phia; the question was whether 11
could maintain itself. Workmen out
of employment poured in. but there
wa3 no market in the stagnation of ’95
for the products of the factory. The
cottages ceased to pay rent, for Ter
radell had net the heart to turn the
occupants out. Sometimes ne went
hungry himself that others might have
food, and throughout he worked with
undeviating courage and faith. Noth
ing else could have carried Terradel
phia through that year and into 1896.
But it was a hopeless fight. The friends
of the institution saw that it must
go under. The mortgage was fore
closed and “Glad Hand Tom.” as Ter
radell had come to he known by the
hobo fraternity, took up his hat and
went out into the world again.
“One comfort remains to me,” he
said as he left. “I never turned a hu
man creature away from that door.”
THE MILL HANDS’ FRIEND.
Mill operatives throughout New Eng
land look upon M. C. L>. Borden, of
Fall River, as their benefactor. It was
he who. by establishing a 10 per cent
increase in wages, forced the other
manufacturers of that city to aban
don their plan of a 5 per cent increase
and give the same advance he offered.
The result is that cotton mill owners
in other cities were compelled to do
likewise and thousands upon thou
sands of extra dollars will flow into
M. C. D. BORDEN,
the hands of the working forces of the
mills. His fellow manufacturers are
now seeking to belittle Mr. Borden by
impugning his motive, saying that he
did it to revenge himself upon them
because they insisted upon raising
wages 5 per cent while he originally
declared that wages were high enough.
When they refused to agree with him,
he became angry and the 10 per cent
increase was offered by him merely
to injure the market and cause a gen
eral wreck.
COLD IN BLACK SAND.
Oao Btlau Propones to Uet Rich ou WUut
Others Throw Away.
“There's millions of gold in black
sand.” said H. A. Frederick, a Seattle
man of experience in the Klondike,
“and I believe I have hit upon a plan
to get it out. You know thi3 black
sand is about as heavy as gold, and in
panning, as ordinarily done with cold
water, the gold and the sand either go
out of the pan together and are lost, or
they stay in the bottom and are of no
more use than if they were lost On
the claim I had in the Yukon country
we only got $32 out of the black sand
for a whole season, and I know that
we were losing a whole lot and that
there ought to be some way of getting
at it. So I experimented w-ith hot
water, which was not unusual, but I
added some salt to it, and found an
improvement. I took an iron bucket
holding two gallons, filled it about one
third full of sand, put in a double
handful of salt, filled it with water
and set it on the fire to boil. As it
boiled I stirred it, like you would stir
apple butter, or as we stir ‘dog feed’
in the Klondike, and then poured it
off into pans. I don’t know what effect
the salt had, but when I put a little
quicksilver into the pans I’ll be blamed
if I didn’t get every particle of gold
there was. Then I went at it on a
larger scale and with the sand that
w-as before practically valueless, I got
52 ounces for one’s day’s work by three
men. The gold was worth about $850,
or say about $1G an ounce. I’m going
to Cape Nome in the spring, where
there are tons and tons of this black
sand that cannot be or has not been
worked, and I'm going to utilize the
salt sea-water and get rich. You see if
I don’t. At the same time I want to
tell you that the Klondike country is
just beginning to be worth looking
after. So far there have been only
scrapings along the surface by indi
viduals with poor appliances, but when
the rich companies, that arc organiz
ing. get to work with big hydraulic ma
chines and the right kind of mining
tools, the gold will fairly run out in
streams. Dirt that is worth only six
or seven cents a pan won’t pay a
single miner to fool with, but a big
hydraulic on that kind of dirt can make
a million a day. It is estimated that
there are thirty-five claims around
Dawson that will have produced a mil
lion each as now worked, and there are
hundreds that are good for any amount
from a hundred th#«sand to half a mil
lion.”
A Clever Artist.
A clever American woman artist,
Miss Hutchinson, is said to be the on
ly woman in the country able to do the
decorating enameled on fine pieces of
jewelry. A workshop with the mer
cury in summer at 100 and 110 degrees
is the price one has to pay for the abil
ity to do this delicate work. Misd
Hutchinson is an indefatigable worker.
The greater part of her education was
received in this country, and later she
studied a few mouths in the Julian
studio, Paris. She was also admitted
for a time to the Sevres factory. Her
work there was so satisfactory that
she was given special pieces of the
Sevres porcelain to decorate.
Her Leaulug Was Pronounced.
Her mother—I think that Mabel has
a slight leaning toward this young
Mr. Smith. Her father—Slight? Great
Scott! You ought to have seen them
last night!—Stray Stories.
“Porter, call me a cab.” “With or
without, sir?” “Eh?” “Horse or
auto, sir?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE ROSE OF WILTON
A GIRL OUTLAW OF THE FAR
EAST.
She Has Given the Authorities Much
Trouble — Kemarkable Career of a
Young Connecticut Girl Outlaw Still iu
Her Teens.
(Norwalk Letter.)
Within the gloomy walls of a Con
necticut prison, drooping and pining
for the wilderness of the forest, lan
guishing for the lack of the sunlight,
is “the Wild Rose of Wilton.” Not yet
out of her teens, Minnie Sturm, brown
eyed and beautiful, has had a career
that well might puzzle a philosopher
to account for. Reared in a quiet, old
fashioned house near Norwalk, this
girl, with a rich profusion of dark
brown hair, with hands soft and white,
with a beauty such that many a maid
en of lordly birth might envy her, un
tutored and in tatters, is yet a queen
of men, lawless men though they are.
Not more than a mile from her home,
beneath the shelter of two great rocks,
was the rendezvous of a marauding
band of idlers. There this farmer s
daughter found them about two years
ago. She cast her life with theirs.
MINNIE STURM.
When a raid on neighboring cellar®
and hen roosts made provisions plenti
ful there in the rendezvous, it was
Minnie Sturm (Minnie Brotherton)
who cooked the viands over a tire of
logs. But the band became too daring.
The hand of the law seized them. Some
were imprisoned and the others scat
tered. Minnie Brotherton promised to
mend her ways and the lenient author
ities let her go her way. For a short
time she lived quietly, but not con
tentedly, in the old house. A few
months later she married Valentine
Sturm of Norwalk and went to live
with the family of her husband. Her
stay there was remarkably short.
Seven months after she left him, and
in the winter of 1898 applied to the
Selectman of Norwalk for support. She
was sent to the Town Farm. Even
there she showed her wild tendencies.
She fell in love with a pauper, ‘•Jim”
Collins, a gray-bearded man with a
wooden leg. One day they eloped from
the Almshouse, and for several days
there was no trace of them. Then Col
lins limped back to the institution and
was restored to his former place, but
the “Wild Rose” had no love for life in
an Almshouse, and she soon found a
companion in Howard Dauchy. A few
days ago Dauchy and the ‘‘Wild Rose”
entered the Norwalk Selectman’s office
and applied for admission to the Poor
house. Instead of accommodating
them the Selectman notified Sturm,
who preferred a charge against his
wife. It was learned, too. that they
had borrowed a horse and wagon to
drive to the Town Clerk’s office, say
ing they wished to get a marriage li
cense. The horse and wagon were not
returned, and a charge of horse theft
was made. The “Wild Rose's” indig
nation was aroused. She first plead
ed with the owner to withdraw his
charge, promising to bring back his
horse and wagon. He was determined
to send her to Jail, and refused. "You’ll
never see that horse again!” the “Wild
Rose” exclaimed. “I’ll go to jail and
stay there.” And she did.
Tills City Kntirely Owns Itself.
The town of Huddersfield, Yorkshire,
England, stands unique in the world
as the only town which absolutely
owns itself in every respect. Begin
ning life in a municipal artisan's
dwelling, the young man rides to his
work on a municipal tram. He gets
his gas or electricity from the city.
His wife rents a gas stove from the
city, purchases her produce from a
municipal market, and buys meat that
has been prepared by a municipal
butcher. Both use the public baths,
enjoy the city's parks, and send their
children to the city’s playgrounds.
Their house refuse is moved by the
city. When ill they go to the city
hospital; or. if unfortunate, to the city
municipal lodging room. Their letters
are collected by a city postman. And
in a thousand other ways their daily
life comes in close contact with the
city government. At last they are
burled in a city cemetery.
“Little Dorrit’*” Church.
The public authorities who are re
moving the human remains from “Lit
tle Dorrit’s" church in Southwark,
have cleared away upwards of a thou
sand bodies. In the process of doing
so they have discovered vaults the ex
istence of which was unknown or had
been forgotten, and these are chockful
of coffins. It is stated that the clear
ing out of the whole of the vaults and
the reinterment of the remains at Wok
ing will add fourpence a pound to the
rates of the parish. The bodies are
presumably those of persons of local
standing or distinction whom the
parishioners or the church in past
times desired to honor.
A Mile * Minute In an Automobile.
Chief Engineer Croker, of New York,
rides to fires in an automobile that
travels at 60 miles an hour. It is called
and is really a fire locomotive. It is
propelled by steam generated by gaso
line. The machine carries a pressure
of 120 pounds of steam, could be speed
ed to 25 miles an hour in any 100 yards,
and 60 miles in a furlong, and could
be stopped in its own length. In a
hundred yards it could attain the speed
of an express train.
NEWS SPREADS FAST.
Even the African Natives Have Their
Systems of Communication.
Both South African and British In
dian papers refer to the keen interest
taken by the natives of the two coun
tries in the war between the British
and the Boers. A regular system of
communication is said to have been es
tablished between stations on the west
and the northwest frontier of India and
the hill country, by which all informa
tion concerning the progress of the war
is transmitted with extraordinary ra
pidity among the tribesmen. How it is
done is a mystery yet unsolved; but
one Indian paper affirms that the news
of the beginning of hostilities in South
Africa was already known across the
frontier when it was received at Pesha
; wur by telegraph. The effect of it was
seen in the agitation that began among
the tribes, and in a call sent out by the
Mullah of Povindah for 3,000 men to
assemble, ostensibly to march against
some recalcitrant chieftains. He also
issued a proclamation ascribing the de
feats of the tribesmen last year to the
want of harmony among them, and
pointing out that if they wanted to re
cover their independence they must
rise all together. In consequence of
this agitation a British force has been
sent to the frontier to the point threat
ened. A Rhodesian paper, in announc
ing the outbreak of the war, laments
the absence of telegraphic communica
tion between Beira and the coast towns
of Natal and Cape Colony, by which
news could be received of the progress
of hostilities, and says that if all ether
means of communication fail, they will
have to fall back upon the native house
boys. It says that it has certainly been
more than surprising in previous Af
rican wars how early and correct was
the Information the natives seemed to
possess. An instance is given in which
during the last Mashona war, the Mas
honas in the Umtali district knew of
the battle at the Shangania river on
the evening of the same day on which
it was fought. How such speed of com
munication was secured is still a puz
zle. Whether it was done by shout
ing from hill to hill, or by fleet run
ners in relays, the result, the covering
of 40 miles in eight hours, was a mar
vel;
GENEROUS CARNEGIE.
It is a rare day that does not witness
a wise and generous deed at the hands
of Andrew Carnegie. It is generally a
large gift of money for public labrary
purposes, for this is Mr. Carnegie’s
special line of beneficence. Within the
past few weeks five such benefactions
have come to public knowledge, the
total amounts promised being not less
than $2,000,000. Of this, $1,750,000
was the enlargement of the Carnegie
library in Pittsburg, an institution to
which Mr. Carnegie had already con
tributed several millions. The addi
tional sum, it is said, will make the
library three and one-half times larg
er than originally intended, and the
largest and most magnificent building
of its kind in the world. In addition to
its use as a library, the building will
have departments devoted to the pro
motion of science, music, art and liter
ature. The four other library gifts
mentioned included one of $50,000 to
the city of Duluth, Wis.; $50,000 to the
city of Tyrone, Pa.; $125,000 to the
Polytechnic Library Society, of Louis
ville, Ky., and $25,000 to Tucson, Ariz.
All these donations were accompanied
with the condition that the cities thus
favored should furnish certain sums
of money for the regular maintenance
of the library.
CONKLING’S NAMESAKE.
A Negro Orator Whose Name Commemo
rates a Kind Act.
Roscoe Conkling Bruce, a negro stu
dent at Harvard, is proving himself
an orator of great eloquence and a de
bater of profound capacity. Harvard
has been amazed by his brilliance.
Y.oung Bruce is a son of former United
States Senator Blanche K. Bruce, of
Mississippi, who for many years was
register of the treasury. Young Bruce
was named for Roscoe Conkling out of
gratitude for a favor the eloquent New
York statesman once did for the elder
Bruce when the negro leader first went
to the senate. Bruce's colleague from
Mississippi declined to introduce the
colored statesman to the president of
the senate. All the other senators were
disposed not to interfere, and Mr.
Bruce found himself in a most embar
rassing position. Mr. Conkling took
in the situation and his generous heart
was touched. He promptly introduced
Bruce to the president, and the Mis
sissippi negro never forgot the kind
ness. The younger Bruce was prepared
R. C. BRUCE.
for Harvard at Phillips Exeter, and en
tered the university last year. His
splendid abilities were brought out in
the trials for the Princeton debate, in
■which hd' surprised everybody by his
mastery of thought and by the plain
evidences he gave of an inborn elo
quence. Last year he earned much
praise by winning the medal offered
by Baron Coubert, of Paris, to Harvard
students for excellence in knowledge
of French politics. It is predicted that
he will surpass the famous Frederick
Douglass in oratory.
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The children of the Boers, females
as well as males, are taught to use
the rifle before they are ten years of
age. This explains why the Boers are
such excellent marksmen.
IS A QUEER CHURCH.
THAT OF FAITH HEALERS IN
PHILADELPHIA.
Flasks of Whisky. Cigars, Crotches,
Corsets, Trusses, and Vials of Medi
clne In Profusion—As Symbols of Ke
, mtneiation.
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(Philadelphia letter.)
Philadelphia has the oddest place of
worship in the world. It is at 1344
Somerset street, and is the local branch
of the “Christian Catholic Church,”
otherwise the “Zionists,” who believe
in divine healing. The church is a neat,
new and well-lighted apartment, about
lSxoO feet in size. The wall back of the
platform, which is used as a pulpit, is
decorated in a unique manner. Flasks
of whisky, cigars, pipes, bags of to
bacco, crutches, plugs of chewing to
bacco, trusses.vials of all kinds of med
icine, corsets and many other articles
have places on the wall, interspersed
with Scriptural passages. Each of these
articles is said to be the symbol of a
renunciation of the use of liquor or
medicine, or the material evidence of
an escape from some malady. One
understands their significance at last
when men and women who have en
JOHN A. DO WE.
tirely given up the use of medicine
to rely solely on the healing power of
Christ, rise in the audience and bear
testimony to marvelous cures of con
sumption, cancer and other serious dis
eases which were wrought solely
through the efficacy of prayer after
physicians had .abandoned all hope.
The Zionists eschew all swine's flesh,
and the use of whisky and tobacco is
absolutely prohibited, and the use of
medicines of all kinds is considered
blasphemous.
The Zionists were founded less than
■ four years ago by Rev. John Alexand
der Dowie, who was formerly a Con
gregationalist preacher, and was once
a minister of education in Australia.
Their headquarters are at Chicago. In
their brief existence the Zionists have
grown to a membership of over 25,000.
They have a bank, a college, land as
sociation and other business institu
tions. The members contribute one
tenth of their income to the church.
TL-. is done through the bank. The
Chicago bankers are greatly incensed
at this feature of the new religion, as
it takes deposits away from them.
All of these are under the absolute
control of Rev. Dr. Dowie.who is called
; the general overseer.and whose powers
' extend even to the naming of his suc
j cessor.
Dowie poses as a prophet. At Zion
Tabernacle, Chicago, recently, the
faith healer predicted that in 25 years
the world would be ready for the “com
ing of the Lord.” "The telephone,
telegraph and other wonderful things,”
he said, "will make it so easy to spread
the Gospel of Zion that in a quarter of
a century the world will be prepared
for the great day.” He lately began a
two weeks’ war on the “unclean, un
godly and criminal press” of Chicago.
He explained that he would attack the
greater part of the denominational
press as well as the secular.
How Children Are Named in Persia.
In Persia the naming of children is a
matter of chance, a sort of lottery de
ciding what name the infant shall car
ry through life. In Persia this cere
mony, performed in the house of birth,
is important and elaborate. All the
relatives, even those living at a dis
tance, are brought together, and the
priests of the locality are invited. Aft
er the meal, which is served as a wel
come, is eaten, the new addition to
Persia’s population is placed in the
center of the room on a rug. The
guests form a circle around the child.
One of the priests w'rites five names,
previously agreed upon, on five slips
of paper, and distributes these among
the leaves of the Koran. He then
reads a chapter from the book end
at random picks one of the slips.
Whatever name this slip bears then be
comes the name of the child. It is
whispered into the ear of the new-born
by the priest, and the slip of paper
is then hidden in the baby's clothes.
I ———
Not There to Talk.
People who talk during a theatrical
performance, a concept or a "paid” en
tertainment of any kind, in a manner
to cause annoyance to their neighbors
before them, behind them, beside them
or w’ithin earshot of them, if they be
in boxes, are not mere disturbers and
nerve-raekers. They are plain thieves
and are just as much thieves as the
proverbial grocers (we never met this
kind of grocer in real life), who put
sand into their sugar, and they stand
in exactly the same relation to the pur
veyors of the entertainments as does
a malicious person to his grocer who
who puts sand in his grocer’s sugar
barrel with that grocer’s knowledge or
consent. This remark applies not on
ly to the loud talkers, but to the pes
tiferous "siffle—siffle—siffle” ers, who
speak in whispers.—New York Press.
Cimeli on the Plow In Germany.
Count Skorzewski, a wealthy land
owner in Posen, Germany, has recent
ly caused a sensation among the na
tives by employing a camel instead of
horses or oxen to draw the plow on
his estate. The experiment has proved
successful, and it is probable that it
will be followed in other agricultural
districts.
Toil is the toll ®t the gate of roc
cess.
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BIG CAKES AND PIES.
Some So I«irge That They Have Be*
eomc Historic.
Last Christmas, in North Enrl Road,
Fulham, there was on view an •-'Ror
mous cake that towered almost to the
ceiling of the confectioner's shop. It
was made to represent a fortress, and
weighed more than 4,000 pounds. In
its composition had been used 600
pounds of flour. 400 pounds of butter.
400 pounds of sugar. 600 pounds of
icing sugar, 900 pounds of currants, 450
pounds of sultanas. 300 pounds of can
died peel, 200 pounds of almonds, and
5.000 eggs. Gigantic, however, as was
this cake, it cannot be compared with
that with which in June, 1730, Frederick
William I. regaled his army. After a
huge repast of beef, wine and beer had
been partaken of. the guests, to the
number of 30,000, saw approaching an
immense car drawn by eight horses,
on which reposed a monster cake
eighteen yards long, eight yards broad
and one-half yard thick. It contained,
among other ingredients, 36 bushels of
flour. 200 gallons of milk. 1 ton of but
ter. 1 ton of yeast, and 5.000 eggs. The
soldiers, who had already eaten a
hearty meal, were able to devour only
a portion of this extraordinary cake,
so to their aid were summoned the peo
ple from the towns and villages in the
* neighborhood, among whom it was
distributed till not a morsel remained.
Last August the town of Paignton re
vived an old custom of making a plum
pudding for the benefit of the local
poor. After being drawn in proces
sion round the town, it was cut up and
sold. Its weight—250 pounds—com
pares, however, but poorly with Paign
ton's former efforts. In 1S19 a pud
ding weighing 900 pounds was made,
with unfortunately but indifferent suc
cess. for, after boiling three days and
nights in a brewer's copper, it was pro
nounced too “doughy” to be eaten.
However, in 1858 the inhabitants re
covered their prestige and beat the rec
ord with a pudding a ton and a half
in weight, and costing $225. In its
composition were employed 573 pounds
of flour, 191 of bread, 382 pounds of
raising. 191 pounds of currants, 382
pounds of suet, 320 lemons, 360 quarts
of milk, 144 nutmegs, 95 pounds of su
gar, besides a quantity of eggs. It
was cooked in sections, which were aft
erwards built together. In 1896 Denby
Dale, near Huddersfield, celebrated the
jubilee of the repeal of the corn laws
by making a Brobdingnagian pie,
which was served out to the thousands
that flocked into the village from the
country round. The dish employed in
baking was ten feet long, six feet six
inches wide and one foot deep, weigh
ing, with its contents, thirty-five hun
dredweight. The pie itself contained
1,120 pounds of beef, 180 pounds of
veal, 112 pounds of mutton and 60
pounds of lamb. In the composition
of the crust 1.120 pounds of flour and
160 pounds of lard were used. This is
the sixth huge pie that has been made
at Denby Dale, the first having been
manufactured so long ago as 1788, to
commemorate the recovery of George
III.—London Tit-Bits.
FLOWERS OF THE VELDT.
Anything Will Grow In the Transvaal
It Is Planted.
I’p in the Transvaal, if a farmer
cultivates flowers at all—and all Boers
are not as unappreciative of beauty
as their detractors suggest—he almost
always has on his stoop, or veranda,
a couple of tubs containing plants of
keitje perring. This is the gardenia
of the commercial London buttonhole.
The tuberose also flourishes amazingly
in the open air with but the smallest
attention and cultivation. The bulbs
shoot up their three or four-foot stems,
each bearing very sweet-smelling flow
ers, in an uncredibly short space of
time, says the London Mail. In Pre
toria roses are prolific—in fact, most
of the streets are bounded by rose
hedges throughout their length, and
they bloom with a frail, pink monthly
rose blossom for three-quarters of the
year. In public places, such as the
Burghers’ Park, the profusion of roses,
lilies, carnations and tuberoses is be
wilderingly beautiful. The wild or
chids of Swaziland are famous. They
are of at least 20 different kinds. They
are extremely curious, and with a
little care and extra heat they can be
induced to develop into very wonder
ful plants. Everything grows in the
Transvaal if the trouble is taken to
plant it. The sail being a:l virgin and
naturally rich, the very smallest
amount of attention is required.
“Out at Luncheon, Sir.'*
A physician writing to the Boston
Transcript commands the New York
World’s attack upon the heavy lunch
eon for sedentary brain-workers, and
points out that the “skilled physicians’’
who recommend the “three square
meals a day” are not “skilled dietists.”
“It is vastly better for the doctors,”
says this candid and sensible doctor,
“for men and women to eat three
square meals a day.” And he goes on
to show that science has discovered
that even the day laborer who eats in
the middle of the day does not really
digest his food, but gets rid of the
burden by an unhealthful fermenta
tion. A craving for food is no more
an indication of a healthful need than
is a craving for whisky or tobacco.
And how can food eaten at midday re
fresh or strengthen when it does not
digest? The Romans conquered the
world on one meal a day, says The
World, and the Greek intellect, fed
once a day. was bright enough to il
luminate twenty-three centuries.
The Hat Didn't Come Back.
“George, George, mind; your hat will
be blown off if you lean so far out of
the window!” exclaimed a fond father
to his little son, who was traveling
with him In a railway carriage.
Quickly snatching the hat from the
head of the refractory youngster, papa
hid it behind his back. “There, now,
the hat has gone!” he cried, pretend
ing to be angry. And George imme
diately set up a howl. After a time
the father remarked: “Come, be quiet;
if I whistle your hat will come back
again.” Then he whistled and re
placed the hat on the boy’s head.
“There, it’s back again, you see.”
Afterward, while papa was talking to
mamma, a small, shrill voice was
heard saying: “Papa, papa, I’ve
thrown my hat out of tha window!
Whistle again, will you?’”
