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Quests of Big New York Hotel
Caught in Death Trap.
SCENE OP WILD PANIC
Ncajly a Score of People Arc Killed and
Forty-two Injured.
Gotham Hostelry , Crowd
ed with Guests and SiRhtscers , Burns
ttnpid Spread of Flames Cuts Off
ICscap by the Elevators and Stair
ways Men and Women T cap from
Windows of Upper .Floors to an
Awful Death.
The Windsor Hotel , occupying a square
311 Fifth avenue , between Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh streets , in Xcw York , for
acarly thirty years one of the most fam-
> us hotels ill this country , if not in the
world , was completely destroyed by fire
Friday afternoon , and at least eighteen
persons .were burned to death , and prob
ably more than half a hundred were in
jured. There were rescues by the score ,
some of them the most thrilling imagina
ble. Among the rescued were Mrs. Abner
MeKinley , wife of the brother of the
President ; their da lighter , and Miss Helen
McKinlyy , the sister of the President.
From the roof and windows , from the
ire escapes and cornices , frenzied men
ind women threw themselves to the pave-
aient five , six , seven stories below. Be
wildered guests within the roaring fur-
aace were carried down to death by fallIng -
Ing walls , and all the while 50,000 human
beings watched the tragedy.
THE ILL-FATED WIXDSOR HOTEL , XEW YOKE.
Massed into solid lines , men and women
Hied side streets , avenues and doorsteps ,
here to watch the parade of the day , but
'ated to witness the most grewsome fire
STew York has ever known.
The roll of dead is long. Private homes
around the place of sacrifice became field
hospitals spacious mansions , including
the Jay Gould home , were made tempo :
rary morgues. '
John Fey , a waiter employed at the
\Viudsor Hotel , in a statement made after
{ he fire to Coroner Bausch declared that :
{ he hotel was burned through the gross
carelessness of a guest. The waiter was
In a corridor of the second floor , walking
toward 47th street , when he saw a man
near the end of the corridor strike a
match to light his cigar. The man threw >
( he match to the floor and walked on with
out waiting to see that it had gone out.
Fey noticed the action , and he also no )
ticed that the match was still blazing
when it left the man's hand. When the
waiter reached the spot the lace curtains
were ablaze. He tried to extinguish the
flame , but it was quickly up the curtain '
and caught the woodwork. The carpet
raught fire , and the walls seemed to burn
ike tinder. Fey gave the alarm and ran
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1 flown stairs and out of the building to
reach a firebox. O )
An hour after the fire started the ruin w
was complete. At ten minutes after 3 si
o'clock the head of the parade reached tl
4Gth street and Fifth avenue , opposite the le
f Windsor. An instant later a policeman leT ?
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j" saw a tiny blaze and a puff of smoke in w
. " a bow window in the drawing room on the dc
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second floor , on the 4Gth street side. He w
turned in an alarm. Before he could re ot
turn to the hotel the drawing room was otas
' a sheet of flames. The room had been
crowded with guests watching the parade. fc
i / - , When the curtain ignited for that is said se
* to have been the start of the fire instant to
panic came over all. Men and women tobj
ifed to the stairways and the flames leaped rein
after them. Up the stairs and elevators in
sped the guests up air and light shafts to
raced the flames.
In an incredibly short time the whole as
building was enveloped in dull , roaring et
tongues- fire and heavy stifling smoke. et
'It seems as if the fire must have been etw
burning under the floor a d in the walls , w
for on no other hypothesis can the sud
denness of its spreading be accounted for. al
The width of the corridors made it easy in
to run , and the guests filled them in their lo
rush for the streets. The elevators , al th
though they were run until aflame , lit
brought comparatively few down in safe
ty. The road out of the death trap was
down the splendid marble stairs. And
down these stairs poured a terrified pro
cession.
Meanwhile through the tangled mol
outside the fire engines had forced their
way. It was after the first wild rush tha :
swept so many to safety down the broat
staircase that the most awful events of
the great fire occurred. All of the wom
en had not sprung "from their rooms with
the first alarm. Some had stopped to
dress , some to gather their most precious
belongings. And these were doomed
Then , too , there were sick persons in the
house , bedridden men and women. When
these belated ones got into the corridors
they were for the most part bounded by
walls of fire.
Up the great central well roared the
flames. Right at the stairways , the logi
cal and accustomed avenues to the streets ,
were the terrible sentries , curling and
swirling with threats to all who dared to
pass that dread picket line. Then these
belated guests took to the fire escapes ,
throwing open windows and reaching
their arms out to the sea of people who
groaned below.
Many of those who came to the windows
dews were saved at last by daring firemen
and citizens. But the fire was too swift ,
the time too short. While the firemen
were helping some to safety , others felt
the touch of the red hand upon them from
behind , and threw themselves from the
windows. The firemen displayed the ut
most heroism and daring in saving life at
the most imminent risk. *
The Windsor was the resort and dwell
ing place of rich people , and there may
have been half a million dollars' worth of
jewels alone lost by the women who lived
there. Among the dead are the wives of
millionaires , as well as the maids , who
were shut off in the top story. Abner Mc
Kinley , brother of the President of the
United States , with his wife and daugh
ter , Miss Mabel McKinley , occupied a
suite of rooms on the ground floor of the
hotel.
Among the dead are Mrs. Warren Leland -
land , wife of the Windsor's proprietor ,
and her daughter , Miss Helen Lelaud , and
Mrs. James S. Kirk , widow of the million
aire soap manufacturer of Chicago.
Panics Within , Panics "Without.
The fire occurred in the middle of the
afternoon , when Fifth avenue was jam-
ned with people from curb line to house
iue , and from curb to curb with St. Pat-
ick's Day paraders. To this fact is due ,
perhaps , some of the loss of life and a
rood deal of the serious injury to person ,
! or the crowd interfered with the police
md the firemen ; but so suddenly did the
ire start , and so quickly did it sweep
hrotigh the big hotel from floor to floor ,
'rom street to roof , from side to side , if
here had been no crowd there , and noth-
ng to hamper the work of the officials ,
here would still have been many acci-
lents and some fatalities. With such
iwful rapidity did the fire spread , once it
started , that people no higher up in the
milding than the floor above the street
lad to fly for their lives. Only by a search
f the ruins will the extent of the dis-
ister be known , and so complete was the
vreck wrought by the fire that this will
c a long and tedious work.
The fire started , according to the best
nformation , in a dining room. It was
lue , it is almost certain , to the careless
ossiug of a match into a lace curtain. Be-
'ore an alarm could be sent in to the fire
lepartment the building was doomed. Had
t been a tinder box the fire could not have
aken hold quicker and completed the
vork of demolition in less time. Yet the
mildiug has been called fireproof. It was
itted , according to the building and fire
fficials , with all of the equipment for u
ise in case of fire that the law requires , n
t had sufficient fire escapes and the halls a
vere equipped with electric alarms and s
vith colored globes that should have a
hewn everybody how to reach the es- d
apes. Yet they might almost as well not o
lave been there , for of all the persons eiT
escued not than T
more half a dozen were
aken down by means of the fire escapes , \ \
rhile scores jumped or slid down murder- tlP
us rope escapes , which burned their P
lands and compelled them to drop many
eet above the street.
Within two hours of the discovery of a
he fire the hotel itself
was a total wreck , u
ud the walls had fallen out on every side uc
xcept the eastern side , where adjoining yr
mildings shored them up. Those two 3f
ours were as full of thrilling incidents 01
s any that Fifth avenue ever witnessed. lu
ver 25,000 , and perhaps 50,000 , people 01
rere jammed together In the smallest 01Ol
pace that they could be jammed in , "and
liey saw women and children and men 4 (
aping from the windows of the , hotel.
hey saw firemen climbing up the outer
rails with scaling ladders and bringing
own panic-stricken and often struggling
'omen. They saw rescues almost with- reT
ut number , and they cheered the firemen redi
s they worked. For a time the mob di
wamped the police and surged back and
orth through the streets , now rushing to
ee this unfortunate falling to death , now
witness another caught in the life nets IKfil
y the firemen , and again to look in hor- fil
or upon another impaled on the iron rail-
filSi
igs that surrounded the hotel , or dashed
death on the"huge iron flower urns. Si
This mob was as panic stricken almost ce :
the people-in the hotel. They scream- ju
as unfortunate after unfortunate leap- th
out ; they mingled their cheers now and Pi
gain with the cries for aid of the people CO :
-ho did not jump.
The loss on the hotel is estimated at
bout $1,000,000. Several adjoining build-
igs were damaged considerably , but the ofA
ss on these is comparatively small. All ofW
lie papers and books of the hotel are be * W
eved to have been saved. prS
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BECKER TELLS ALL ,
Killo Hia Wife with a Hatchet and
Jiurns Her Body.
August A. Becker , the Chicago wife
murderer , made a second confession to
the police Tuesday night. In a detailec
statement to Inspector Hunt he told of
a crime so revolting that for some time
even the police oflicials refused to be
lieve it.
In the presence of Chief of Police Kip-
ley , Inspector Hunt , Captain Lavin and
Assistant State's Attorney Pearson the
burly sausage maker broke down and said
he had killed his wife by striking her on
the head with a hatchet in the kitchen of
his home. He then cut the body to pieces
and boiled it in a large kettle. After
watching the disintegration of the re
mains for several hours , and when noth
ing was left that resembled a human body
Becker says he took what remained and
burned it in a red-hot stove , the jfire hav
ing been prepared by him. The bones ,
which would not burn , he buried on the
prairie near his home.
Becker asserts the crime was not pre
meditated , but that he quarreled with his
wife , and in the heat of passion he struck
her on the head with the hatchet. Only
one blow was needed to cause death and
after that had been struck the sausage
maker says he thought of the way to dis
pose of the remains of his wife in order to
destroy all chance of detection.
August A. Becker killed his wife Jan.
27 , but was not arrested for the murder
until after he had married a 17-year-old
girl named Ida Sutterlin. When Becker
brought his wife home it caused gossip ,
which reached the ears of the police , and
finally led to Becker's arrest. At first
Becker denied having killed his wife , stat
ing that she had left him and gone to Mil
waukee. Under pressure he finally made
a false confession , in which he said that
he had pushed his wife into the lake at
the foot of the Randolph street pier. This
was not believed , and until Tuesday night
the true story of how Becker killed hia
wife was not known.
TOOK 400 PRISONERS.
General "Whcaton Inflicts Heavy Lessen
on Filipino ; ; .
Gen. Lloyd Wheaton , commanding the
United States flying column , attacked and
defeated a force of 2,000 Filipinos at
Pasig Wednesday afternoon , inflicting a
heavy loss upon them. The American loss
was slight. The Americans captured 350
Filipinos. Many bodies of rebels killed
in the engagement floated down the river.
Gen. Wheaton's brigade continues the
work of clearing out the rebels around
Pasig. The Washington volunteers cap
tured and burned Pateros , meeting with a
sharp fire from the enemy while crossing
the river. The fighting was like that of
the last week , the insurgents occasionally
making a stand , but eventually fleeing.
The progress of the Americans' advance
has been slow.
Three thousand insurgents moved down
Tuesday night to towns of Pasig and Pa
teros , on shore of Laguanda bay , fronting
Wheaton's troops on Pasig river line. By
heavy fighting Wheaton dislodged and
drove them back , taking 400 prisoners
and inflicting heavy loss in killed and
wounded. His loss was very moderate.
He now occupies these rowus with suffi
cient force to hold them.
Oflicials at the War Department are
gratified over the victories of Gen. Whea
ton , and predict further successful ad
vances in the near future. It is under
stood that the policy of Gen. Otis is to
drive the insurgents without cessation in
to the uncultivated region before the rainy
season sets in. There they will have noth
ing to subsist on , and it is thought they
will lay down their arms. This has been
prevented heretofore by a general belief
among them that they would be shot or
imprisoned if they surrendered.
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It has been determined to withdraw all
the volunteer troops from Cuba with all
possible dispatch , orders to this effect hav
ing been issued by the Secretary of War.
There are two reasons for this decision ,
one being the reorganization of the army ,
and the other because the unsanitary con :
ditions which will exist in Cuba at the be L
ginning of the rainy season. It is expect
ed to have all the volunteers out of the
island within a mouth and certainly by :
May 1. There are now about 25,000 vol [
unteers and when these are withdrawn
regulars will not be sent to relieve them )
at once , as the President wishes to garri
son < Cuba with as small a number of troops
as possible on account of the health con
ditions. This movement will begin at
once and all the volunteers will be return
ed as soon as transports can be supplied.
When the troops reach this country they
will be mustered out at the port at which
they arrive , and given two months' extra
pay , together with their fare home. "
The customs receipts' the government
are : climbing daily , according to the treas >
ury bureau of statistics. They are now
coming in at the rate of 9300,000 ji day , h
more than half the daily expenditures hy
the government , as shown by the rec
ords of the last few years. During the v
latter part of the year 1898 the war rev a
enue tax brought in $55,280,831 ; the duty
tea amounted to $2,779,787 , and the
Pacific Railroad sales footed up'$14,841- n
101. All told the total receipts of the iirr
rear 1898 were $442,631,251. rr
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Senator Fairbanks of Indiana was the it
ecipient of a Spanish sword , gilt handle ,
Foledo blade , the gift of a grateful sol-
Her whose discharge he had procured. ;
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Under the new army bill there .will be
L01 second lieutenants appointed , and Eltl ;
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icarly 20,000 applications are already
iled.
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Colonel Charles L. Jewett , former
speaker of the Indiana Legislature , re- 0 ]
ently from Manila , \vhere he went as
udge advocate , expresses the opinion that
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he work of reducing the recalcitrant Fili-
lines is an arduous one and will require
onsiderable time. ei
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The grand reception of the Daughters a
the American Revolution at Corcoran
Gallery was a gala event of the
iVashington social season. Among those P
resent were General Miles and Admiral d
5chley , whs received nn ovation.
JOSEPH MEDILL DEAD.
Veteran Chicago Newspaper Man Em
pires in San Antonio.
Joseph Medill , for almost half a century
editor of the Chicago Tribune and formei
Mayor of Chicago , died at his winter home
in San Antonio , Texas , Thursday. The
great journalist was 70 years old. and the
cause of death is assigned simply as oil !
age , with its attendant weaknesses.
Mr. Medill decided last fall that he
could not risk the severely cold wcathei
in Chicago and went to San Antonio. The
deaths of his wife and his favorite daugh
ter , Josie , were shocks from which , it is
believed , Mr. Medill never recovered and
he had been growing perceptibly weaker
for the last three years.
Joseph Medill was born in St. John ,
X. B. , April 0 , 1823. His parents , who
were of Scotch-Irish descent , moved to
Stark County , Ohio , in 1831 , establishing
themselves upon a small farm near Mas-
sillon. Joseph helped his father with the
work and made his pocket money by get
ting up clubs of subscribers for the New
York "Weekly Tribune. In the winter asd
spring for several years he taught school.
The law had great attractions for the
young man and in 1840 he was admitted
to the bar in New Philadelphia , Oliio.
Mr. Medill did not engage long in the
practice of law. Becoming interested in
politics and having a natural bent for
writing he determined to enter journalism.
In 1849 he bought the Coshocton Whig ,
which he renamed the Republican. It
was a free-soil whig paper. In-the win
ter of 1854-55 Mr. Medill sold his Ohio
paper and , going to Chicago in May ,
bought a large interest in the Chicago
Tribune , a paper which was then almost
bankrupt. It was placed on a paying
basis by the new owners. In 1874 Mr.
Medill secured full control of the paper
and through it made a fortune.
NEW LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ,
Herbert Putnam , Head of Boaton'9
Public Library , Appointed.
Herbert Putnam of Boston , has been
appointed congressional librarian by Pres
ident McKinley. Since he became head of
the Boston public library in 1895 that in
stitution has been greatly improved a
high compliment to the librarian's merits ,
for Boston has always prided itself on its
library. Mr. Putnam began his career as
custodian of books in 1884 , when he was
called to Minneapolis to take charge of the
Athenaeum Library in that city. When
HlittBliKT PUTNAM.
Minneapolis created her public library the
jooks of the Athenaeum were used as a
melons. There were but 12,000 volumes
n the collection. Seven years of labor on
Mr. Putnam's part swelled the number to
50,000 choice books and lifted the new
ibrary to the fifth place in circulation
imong the concerns of its kind in Amer-
ca. The new director of the National
Library is a lawyer and a man of high
mlture. He knows not merely the titles
) f books , but their contents , too. He islet
lot yet 40 years old.
NINE NEGROES SHOT.
Bloody Work of a Masked 3Iob of
"Whites at Palmetto , Ga.
Early Thursday morning a mob of
nasked men stormed a little house used
is a jail at Palmetto , Ga. , and shot nine
icgroes. Four were killed outright and
he other five were badly wounded. There
vas great excitement and Gov. Chandler
vas called on for troops , the militia from
Atlanta arriving about 11 o'clock.
Two fires of incendiary origin have late-
y occurred. Fourteen business houses in
ill were destroyed. Nine negroes were
irrested on suspicion and taken to John
son's warehouse to await preliminary-
rial. The mob rode into the town about
o'clock. The little house was near the
center of the town. The guard was call-
id upon to turn over the nine negroes held
here for trial on the charge of arson.
Jpon his refusal he and his assistants
vere quickly overpowered. The negroes
egged for mercy to the leaders , but the
ippeals were passed over , and drawing
juns those of the mob who managed to
ret inside the building quickly shot the
u'isoners down.
Lord Salisbury was the first English
remier to visit Australia.
Gen. Sir Arthur Cotton is one of Eng-
and's oldest soldiers , being in his 90th
ear.
The Prince of Wales' breakfast never
aries. It always consists of tea , toast
tnd one egg.
Prof. Blumentritt , through whom Agui-
laldo and his colleagues have been mak-
ng their cause known to Europe , is a
nember of the faculty of an Austrian uni-
ersity , and has made a thirty years'
tudy of the Philippine archipelago and
ts history.
Don Carlos has taken a curious and
r
triking advantage of the foreign "post-
ard craze" to further his cause , having
iad some printed with portraits of him- .
elf and his wife , with fac simile signa- l
ures below , under which communica.-
ions are written. ' i
Count and Countess Boni de Castellane
lave just leased for three years , with the
iption of purchase , the Chateau de Ma-
ias , belonging to the Due de Noailles.
Dhree million dollars will be spent in re-
itoring the estate. c
Queen Victoria possesses two of the old *
ist watches in the world. Both have silt
rer dials , and are about as large as half f
crown , one being a blind man's watch j
ind the other a repeater.
Mr. Hall Gaine shows that carelessness
ermitted to genius in his dress , but Lon-
lon has few more handsomely Downed " \
yemen than Mrs. Caine. 1
TWINS MURDERED BY LAW.
According to African Superstition
Their liiriu Proves Witchcraft.
Miss Slessor , of the United Presby
terian mission at Old Calabar , was a
passenger on the Elde Dempster liner
Orou , which left Liverpool recently ,
and had with her four black children
whose case reveal a painful part of
West African history. Miss Slessor
has now worked for twenty-two years
in Old Calabar. The children are aged ,
respectively , 2 , 3 , 5 and 10 years , and
each is one of twins appointed at one
time to die , in accordance with a super
stitious custom prevailing in the Niger
coast protectorate.
In the course of an interview Miss
Slessor said that all twins born were ,
according to the native laws , to be put
immediately to death , and it is only
those who have been rescued by the
missionaries and placed beyond the
reach of the native power who have so
far escaped. The children in the Oren
were four of these. Altogether , Miss
Slessor has herself saved the lives of
fifty-one twins.
AVhen the twins are born they are at
once taken from the mother , and , if
no one interferes , they are taken by
the feet and head and have their backs
broken across a native woman's knee ,
in the same way as one would break a
stick. The bodies are then placed in an
earthenware receptacle and taken to
the bush , where they are devoured by
the flies , insects or animals. Sometimes
the little victims are put in these re
ceptacles alive , and are then eaten alive
in the same way. The mother becomes
an outcast. If she does not at once
take her own life , she has to flee to the
bush. If she ventures near the town
or village , she must see that she does
not remain in the path when any other
native is coming. Her presence , ac
cording to the superstition , would de
file the place for others. She must not
drink from the same spring , must not
touch anything even belonging to her
own relatives , and there is little cause
for wonder that she takes away her
life , which has become a living death.
Miss Slessor is accompanied on the
Oren by Miss Mclntosh , and together
they are going to establish a home for
these native twins. The natives' su
perstition is that the birth of twins is
the result of witchcraft and deviltry.
Formerly the mother , as well as the
children , was put to death. The inter
vention of the white missionaries and
traders had saved her life. Miss Slessor
said : "It is really impossible to at
once put an cud to the horrible native
customs. There could be no better
governors than we have at present.
Sir Ralph Moor and Sir Claude Mae-
donald have helped us all they can.
We don't want them to kill the natives ,
to make them abolish the shocking
practice. We iiope by saving the chil
dren and bringing them up like other
children to show the natives that they
are wrong in their belief. It is their
religious belief that makes them kill
their children. " London Chronicle.
LUCKY DEUCE Or SPADES.
Remarkable Kun of Xnclc , but All for
the Other Man.
One by one the old superstitions are
being torn from us. People nowadays 1
walk ostentatiously under ladders and !
suffer no evil consequences. Friday jo
is quite a popular day for the com
mencement of a long journey , and sit
ting down thirteen at dinner is fre-
quentlj' unattended with untoward re
sults. A deeply rooted superstititon
among card players is a belief in the
lucky properties of the two of spades.
The present writer's faith , however , t
was severely shaken by a phenomenal o
coincidence which occurred only a few o
days ago. S
Sitting down to a game of whist , he P
thoroughly shuffled both packs of PE Pg
cards , and happened to notice that the E
two of spades was the bottom card of n
one of the two packs. t
"This ought to bring me luck , " he Iic
remarked to his friends. Iia
He then took up the second pack , and a
was astonished to find that the two
of spades was also at the bottom of
that. Words failed to express his
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amazement when , in drawing for partfl
ners and deal the cards had been "
shuffled again he once more drew
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the two of spades.
The odds against this triple event occurring -
curring must be enormous , but more c ,
was to follow. The deal fell to the
writer , and the turn-up card was the n
inevitable two of spades ! q
After this the dealer felt justified in a
believing he was in for a good evening. a
As a matter of fact , he lost six rub
bers in succession. London Mail.
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Mr. Gladstone's Nose.
Lord Sherbrooke , -when Mr. Lowe ,
displayed a classical clearness and
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brightness of speech. When he was
contemptuous his sentences had teeth \
in them , which left their mark upon a
the mind. In the gray of a morning in afl
1868 , when the Liberals had deserted fl
Mr. Gladstone , and left him with only f (
a majority of five on a question of ti
state , Mr. Gladstone , with his usual tiJ
high spirit , at once resigned. The
alarmed deserters thought they might
reassure him by a vote of confidence
in him , and as Mr. Lowe emerged into si
the lobby they asked his opinion of the ir
idea. His answer was , "I think , iitl
gentlemen , that you cannot unpull a tltl
man's nose , " which ended that project. tl
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He Stood Corrected. A\
"I sentence the prisoner to be lynch A1)
ed , " said the rural justice.
"But you can't do that , yer honor , "
objected the lawyer for the defense.
"Come to think of it , " said the jus
tice , "you air right ; fer my bailiff in tl
forms me they ain't three yards o' rope 31
in town ! " Atlanta Constitution. ii
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Invention of the Ballet. ti
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The ballet is said to have been in Ii
vented by the Duchess of Maine ID 6
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Paris. of
How to Kemove Stains *
Ink. Dip in boiling water , rub with
salts of sorel and rinse well.
Blood. Soak in cold water. For
ticking and thick goods make a. thick
paste of starch and water. Leave till
dry and brush off.
Scorch. Dip in soapsuds and lay in
the sun. If fibers are not much in-
jnreil , dip repeatedly in saturated solu-
.tion of borax and rinse.
Paint. Turpentine for coarse goods ,
benzine or naphtha for fine.
Grease. Moisten with strong ammo
nia water , lay blotting paper over and
iron dry. If silk , use chloroform to re
store color or cover with powdered
French chalk and iron.
Fruit Boiling water as above. If
ineffectual , rub with a solution of
oxalic acid and rinse in warm water.
Coffee. Lay the stained portion of
the cloth over a bowl and pour boiling
water through it.
To Wash inankcta.
It is not compatible with sanitary
principles to have blankets that are
constantly slept under dry-cleaned ;
they should be washed. Cut in fine
pieces some good soap and boil to a
jelly with soft water. Put some of the
boiled soap in warm soft water , to
which add two large tablespooufuls of
borax , this being to every tub of water.
This makes good lather , in which give
the blankets two washings , after
which rinse them in plenty of warm
water , slightly blued. Wring out thor
oughly , giving a vigorous shaking and
hang out to dry. Take them in if
weather is inclement , place them in the
clothes basket , cover with a cloth and
stand in kitchen. They should be given
four or five days of sunshine that they
may be thoroughly dried. Bpitomist.
Oatmeai Scones.
These are largely used by ( he Scotch
peasantry in place of bread , and are
baked on a griddle suspended over au
open fire. A frying pan over a slow
lire ir.ay be substituted for a griddle.
Take two pounds of oatmeal , a tablespoonful -
spoonful of salt , a tablespoonful of
lard and enough water to make a stiff
dough. Rub the lard into the oatmeal
and add the salt and water. In roll
ing , the palm of ihe hand should bo
used instead of a rolling pin ? Press the
dough into a round cake about a quar
ter of an inch thick , cut into segments
and cook on the griddle until a light
brown. Oatmeal scones properly pre
pared will keep for weeks.
Stuffed Cabbaxrc.
Scald the cabbage until the bones
iose their crispness. Open the heart to
ihe very center. Have nearly a cupful
of rice ; add a cupful of chopped meat ,
and season with salt and pepper. Put
a teaspoonful of this mixture in the
center of the cabbage ; fold over the
cf
first little leaves , then add another
layer : of the mixture and fold over the
second leaves and so on. Tie in a piece
of cheese cloth and throw in boiling
water ( with a little salt ) , simmer gen
tly one hour , remove the cheese cloth ,
drain dish and pour over a pint of
cream sauce or drain butter sauce.
Oysters a la Ponlette.
Put three dozen freshly opened oys
ters < in a saucepan , with a pine of their
own liquor carefully strained. Add one
ounce of butter , half a teaspoouful of
salt ; and the same quantit3 * of black
pepper. Parboil for three minutes ,
gradually stirring in a half-pint of
Hollandaise sauce , and stew for two
minutes , being careful not to allow it
to < boil. Before removing the oysters
irom the range , put in a teaspoonful of
chopped parsley and the juice of half
lemon. Then stir slightly and serve.
Baked Prune Pudding.
Stone half a pound of prunes or dates
nnd chop fine. Add half a cupful of almonds
mends bleached and chopped , and the
crumbs of a quarter of a loaf of bread.
Beat one egg well , soften a heaping
tablespoonful of butter , and add sweet
ening as desired. Put in a bulered pud
ding dish and fill it up Avith milk , stir
ring carefully. Cover and bake three-
quarters of an hour , then let it brown
and serve with sugar and cream , or
any kind of pudding sauce.
Home Made Gintrer Ale.
A simple way of making plain ginger
ale is to boil fresh ginger root in water ,
.
one ounce of the root to each gallon of
water. Just as you take it from the
ire , and after it is quite spicy , add the
graded yellow rind of half a lemon.
When cold , strain ; add to each gallon
pound of sugar and the spice of two
lemons. Dissolve half a yeast cake ,
add ( it to the mixture and let It ferment
for about three hours. Bottle , cork , and
tie down the corks. Ladies' Home
Journal.
Steak Smothered with Onions.
Have ready a sufficient quantity of
sliced onions , and when the steak is re
moved from the spider turn the onions
into it at once , covering it closely to let
the vegetables cook in the grease and
their own juice. Set the platter of meat
into the oven to keep warm. The onions
will cook in five minutes and may then
turned over the meat on the platter.
Send to the table at once.
Kat Spinach.
It is claimed that spinach is the most
healthful of all vegetables , and pos
sesses great medicinal and strengthen
ing properties. The salts of potassium
it give it emollient and laxative vir
tues. It is said to be excellent for the
liver , and freshens the complexion.
Spinach is also used as a part in , some
the modern popular tonics.
