Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1889, Page 8

A CHAPT! OF HOREORS. How the Blind Goddess is Outraged by Chinese Oflicials. PECULIAR IDEAS OF JUSTICE BY BLOODTHIRSTY PUNISHMENT IN CANTON—A TYPICAL COUBT- ROOM SCENE—EATING BAMBOO—MOUTH SLAP- PING AND ANKLE SMASHING—EXECUTIONS. From Tae Stan's Traveling Commissioner, Reader, be warned. I have looked upon men being cruelly tortured; I have stood in the shambles where human beings are slaughtered like pigs; my boots have dripped with the blood of my fellow-creatures; I must exorcise memory with my pen. Therefore, gentle reader, unless your nerves are fairly strong and Your taste healthily gory, pass this letter by. Turn rather to the barmiess editorial. It was in Canton, a city like no other Chinese city I have seen, a colossal human ant-bill, an endless labarynth of streets a dozen feet wide and a score high, crowded from daylight to dark witha double streamf men and women, exactly like the double stream between an ant- bill and a carcase. All this mass of humanity is presided over by the most foreigner-hating viceroy in China, and therefore it may be im- agined what is the temper of the populace, es- pecially as the Cantonese are the most turbu- lent people of the flowery kingdom. THE STREETS OF CANTON. During the day the streets of Canton are in semi-obscurity, as they are closed in at the top by broad strips of cloth and long advertising streamers; but at night they are as black as Tartarus. ' Public safety and order are sup- posed to be preserved by occasional posts of soldiers, with a collection of weapons and in- struments of torture hung up outside to strike terror into the evilly-disposed. But, as may be imagined, crime of every kind is rife in Can- ton, and so bad is the reputation of the place that very often a servant from another part of China, traveling with his master, will rather forfeit his situation than accompany him there, And where the crime is, there is the punish- ment too. It by no means follows in China that the person punished is the criminal, but there is enough cruelty in Canton to glut an Alva. Respect for the presence of an occa- sional foreigner causes a good deal of it to be hid, and the spectacle of a man hung up in a cage to starve to death in public is not a com- mon one there, as itis in other parts. But I think I can describe enough to satisfy you. DISPENSING JUSTICE. The magistrate sat in his yamen dispensing justice. He was a benevolent looking. man of perhaps forty, with an intellectual forehead and an enormous pair of spectacles, He glanced up at us as we entered, visibly an- noyed at the intrusion and hardly returning our salutation, But as we were under the wing of a consul for whom Chinese officialdom has no terrors whatever, a fact of which the Can- tonese authorities have had repeated ex- erience, we made ourselves quite at home. Bere was little of the pomp of western law in the scene before us. ‘The magistrate’s own chair, draped with red cloth covered with in- scriptions in large characters, was almost the ouly piece of official apparatus, and behind it were grouped half a dozen of the big red pre- sentation umbrellas of which every Chinese official is so proud, Before him was a large open space and a motley crowd, in which the most conspicuous figures were the filthy black- guards in red hats, known as ““yamen runners,” whose business is to clear the way before their master in the streets and do anything else that he wishes, down to the administration of tor- ture. The ‘istrate himself sat perfectly silent, writing busily, while several persons before him gabbled all at the same time. These were presumably the plaintiff, the defendant and the policemen. EFFECT OF A WORD, After a while the magistrate interrupted one of the speakers with a monosyllable spoken in a low tone without even raising his head, but the effect was magical. The crowd fell back aad one of the little group in front of the chair wrung his hands and heaved a theatrical sigh. Before we could realize what had bappened half a dozen pairs of very willing hands were helping him to let down his trousers, and when was accomplished to the satisfaction of everybody he Iaid himeclf face downward on the floor. Then one of the “runners” stepped forward with the bamboo, a strip of this tough- est of plants three feet long, two inches wide and halt aninch thick, Squatting by the side of the victim aud holding the bamboo perfectly horizontal close to the flesh, he began to rain light blows on the man’s buttocks. At first the performance looked like a farce, the blows were so light and the receiver of them soindifferent, But as the shower of taps continued with mo- notonous persistence I bethought me of THE OLD FIENDISH TORTURE - of driving a man mad by letting a drop of water fall every minute on his shayed head, After a few more minutes of the machine-like rap-tap-tap, rap-tap-tap, a deep groan broke from the hanes Hips’ T walled ever toloos at bim and saw that bis fiesh was blue under the flogging. Then it became congested with blood, and whereas at first he had jain quiet of his own accord, now a dozen men were holdin; him tight. The crowd gazed at him with broa: grins on their faces, breaking out from time to lume into a suppressed “Hi-yah” as he writhed in special pain or cried out in agony. And all this time the ceaseless shower of blows con- tinued, the man who wielded the bamboo put- ting nota particle more force into the last stroke than into the first, At length the mag- istrate dropped another word and the torture stopped as suddenly as it had begun; the pris- oner was lifted to his feet and led across the court to lean against the wall. For obvious rea- sons hecould not be “accommodated with a chaar.” SHAM PUNISHMENT, The next person to be called up was a police- man. The magistrate put a question or two to him and listened patiently for a while to his rambling and effusive replies. Then as before the fatal monosyllable dropped from his lips, With the greatest promptitude the policeman prepared himself, assumed the regulation atti- tude and the flagellation began again. But I noticed that the blows sounded altogether dif- ferent from before, much sharper and shriller, like wood falling upon wood, rather than wood falling upon flesh. So I drew near to exa Sure enough, there was a vital ence. The policeman had attached a small piece of wood to his leg by means of wax, and on this the blows fell, taking vo more effect upon his person than if they had been delivered on the sole of his boot. The fraud was perfectly transparent—everybody in the room, including the mogistrate “himself, must have known what was happening. Thug another peculiarity of Chinese justice is evi- dently that the punishment of an ordinary of- feuder is one thing while that of an erring ficial is quite another. I learned that the po- Offic liceman was ordered to be bambooed for not bringing in a prisoner whom the had ordered him to produce. When the sl unishinent was over he Jumped briskly to feet, adjusted his clothing and duties about the court, RECALLING THE BRUTAL aGzs, While we had been watching the process of “eating bamboo” far different punishments were going on in another part of the court room, unnoticed by us. The bamboo is not so very far removed from still existent civilized deterrent methods, but what was now before us recalled the most brutal ages. In one cor- er aman had been tied hand and foot on asmall bench the length of his back, in such a manner that his body was bent as far back as it could ossibly be stretched in the form of a circle, back resting on the flat seat of the bench and bis arms and legs tied to the four legs. Then the whole affair, man and bench, had been tilted forward till it rested upon two feet and upon the man’s two knees, almost falling over—almost but not quite. The position of the miserable wretch was as gro- jue as it was exquisitely painful; his hands and feet were blue, his cis protruded, bis Foye geet convulsively eying feb, and he evidently been in that posi so Jong that he was on the eve of conscious- ness. And he was apparently forgotten, A few stood gazing at him open-mouthed, bat else paid any more attention to = than if he mas been @ piece of Secaiture. ‘his was enough for my companions and they left the room. But how 4 the w know what the celestial em; is resumed hig elf opinion, compeller.” This isa ie reserved exclusively the fair sex, shaped SS thick sole of a sli tf the sole part and fastened at the this the witness received a mouth which rang out like a pistol-shot, THE CHINESE THEORY. It is only fair to add that the Chinese havea sort of rational theory of torture,aithough they are far from adhering to it, By Chinese law no can be ished until he has con- feased his guilt, erefore they first prove him guilty and then torture him until he con- fegses the accuracy of their verdict. The more ou reflect on this logic the more surprising it omes. To assist in its comprehension I Procured, by the aid of the consul and a couple of dollars, a — set of instruments of tor- ture—light bamboo, heavy bamboo, ankle- smasher, mouth-slapper, "humb-equesser and sundry others, It is, however, the last act of the drama of Chinese justice that is the great revelation. I am inclined to think that nobody can claim to have an adequate and accurate appreciation of Chinese character who has not witnessed a Chi- nese execution, This is not difficult to do at Canton, for the Canton river swarms with Bi rates, and when these gentry are caught thoy generally get short shrift. ‘A few bambooings, to begin with, then several months in prison— and it is not necessary to explain what 4 C nese prison is—with little to eat and a stiff course of torture, and then one fine morning a “short, sharp shock” at the execution ground. If you care to accompany me there I will try to Place the scene before you. A CHINESE EXECUTION. The execution is fixed for 4:30 o'clock, so at 4 o'clock the guide comes for us at Shumeen, the foreign quarter of Canton, and our chairs carry us rapidly through the noisy alleys of the native city. Until we get close to the spot there is no sign of anything unusual, There suddenly we run into a jammed crowd at the end of a long and particularly narrow street. The chair coolies, however, plunge straight into it and it gives way before us till we are brought up bya huge pair of wooden gates guarded by a little group of soldiers. To hear these men talk you would suppose that they would die then and there rather than let us pass, but the production of a couple of ten- cent pieces works a mirzcle and they open the gates for us, vainly trying to stop the rush of natives that follows us in and car- ries us before it right into the middle of the open @. It isa bare piece of ground, fifty yards — by a dozen wide, between two houses, whose blank walls hem it on three sides, To-day itis the execution ground; yesterday and to-morrow the drying ground of a potter who lives there. There is no platform, no roped- off space, nothing but this bare bit of dirty ground so crowded with Chinese that we are forced into the middle, not more than 4 feet from whatever is to take place. It is no use to try to get further off—here we are and bere we must stop. ARRIVAL OF THE VICTIMS. Suddenly the gates are thrown open again and, welcomed by a howl of delight from the crowd, a strange and ghastly procession comes tumbling in. First, a few ragumuilin soldiers, making a fine pretence of clearing the way; then a file of coolies carrying the victims in small shallow baskets slung to bamboo poles, As soon as each pair reach the middle of the space they stoop and pitch their living burden outand run off. The prisoners are chained hand and foot and are perfectly helpless. ‘Vho executioner stands by and points ont where each load is to be dumped, He is dressed exactly like any other coolie present, without any badge of office whatever, The condemn men have each a long folded piece of paper in a split bamboo stuck into his pigtail, upon which is written his crime and the warrant of execution. One after another they arrive and are slung out, Will the procession never end? How many can there be? This is moro than we bargained for. At last over the heads of the crowd we see the hats of two pettyman- darins, and behind them the gates are-shut. ‘The tale of men is fifteen, and the executioner has arranged them in two rows, about two yards apart and all facing one way. All except one seem perfectly callous, and he had probably been drugged’ with opium, a last privilege which the prisoner's friends can always ob- tain by meleey: They exchenge remarks, some of them evidently chaff, with the 5 tators, and one man was carried in singing and kept up his strain almost to the last. ‘The ex- ecutioners—there are now two of them—step forward. ALL READY, The younger tucks up his tronsers and sleeves and deliberately selects a sword from several lying close by, while the other, an older man, collects the strips of paper into a sheaf and lays them on one side. Then he places him- seif behind the front man of the nearestrow and takes him by the shoulders, The younger man walks forward and stands at the left of the kneeling man. The fatal moment has come. There isan instant’s hush, and every one of the two rows of condemned men behind twists his bead around and cranes his neck to see. { will not attempt to describe the emotions of such a moment—the horror, the awfal repul- sion, the wish that you had never come, the feces fear that you will be splashed with the blood, and yet the helpless fascination that keeps your eyes glued to every detail. The knife is raised. It is a short bi -bladed two- handed sword, weighted at the back, and eyi- dently as sharp asa razor, TEE FATAL STROKE. Fora second it is poised in the air as the executioner takes aim. Then it falls, There is no great apparent effort. It simply falls, and, moreover, seems to fall slowly, But when it comes to the man’s neck it does not stop—it keeps on falling. With ghastly slowness it passes right through the flesh and you are only recalled from your momentary stupor when the head sprit ‘orward and rolls over and over, while for a fraction of a second two dazzling jets of scarlet blood burst out and fall ins graceful curve to the ground. Then the great rush of blood comes and floods the spot. As soon as the blow has fallen the second execu- tioner pitehes the body forward with a loud “Hough:” it tumbles ina shgpeiess heap, and from every throat goes up a loud “Ho,” expres sive of pleasure and approval of the stroke, But there is no pause. The executioner steps over the corpse to the front man in the second rank, the knife rises again, it fails, another head rolls away, another double burst of blood follows it, the headless body is enoved forward, the assistant shouts “Hough” and the crowd shouts “Ho.” Two men are dead. Then the headsman 8 back to the second main of the front row and the operation is repeated. ‘Two things strike you: The brutal matter-of- factness of the whole performance aud the ex- traordinary ease with which a human head can be chopped off. As a whole, it is precisely like adrove of pigs driven into the shambles aud stuck; and in detail it is—or seems—no more difficult than split: — be ae knife or lopping po chop, chop—the heads roll off one after another in as many seconds, When the seventh man is reached, either because the knife is blunted or the executioner misses his blow, ‘THE NECK 18 ONLY CUT BALF THROUGH. But still he does not stop, He comes quickly back, takes another knife, passes on to the next man, and only comes back wretched seventh when all th F i est re Hy 2? THE LONDON SEASON. How the English People Enjoy Out- Door Sports. THE HENLEY REGATTA—TENNIS TOURNAMENT AT WIMBLEDON—THE TENNIS CONTESTS IN AMER- 1CA—ENGLISH OPINION OF AMERICAN PLAYING— LADIES AT CRICKET, Special Correspondence of Tae Evewre Stan. The London season is now at its height, It has been a peculiarly brilliant season, com- parable to the queen's jubilee season of 1887. England, to all appearances, grows richer and richer every year, Go to Ascot, Epsom, Good- wood, Kempton or Henley, and you get a good idea of the immense army of land nobles and Money nobles of the present century. Here you see the long trains of coaches, drags and carriages, and the spirited horses burdened with their gold and silver trappings. At Henley on Friday I was amazed by the display of prodi- gality. In America we have no aquatic event comparable to Henley. Here one secs the fashion and wealth of London. The ecene of course is bewitchingly beautiful, yet one won- ders how it is that so many people, men in particular, can spend the money and time to ive in house boats during the regutta—periect laces, fitted with every convenience for Reusebebyia and for which an enormous rental is paid. One of these aquatic residences during the regatta cost its occupant $2.500 for three days’ pleasure. The bunting, the flowers, the electric lights, fireworks, the superb toilets of the women and the boating costumes of the men, the leafy trees, and the stream, alive with every variety ‘of craft, make up @ scene that cannot be reproduced anywhere else. The racing forms but a small feature of the entertainment. The chief attraction seems to be the interchange of hospitality between the house boats and the pleasure derived from traversing the narrow and shallow Thames by the myriads of boats which crowd the river aud jostle each other good naturedly. The scene at Heniey is entire unique, and is not scen anywhere else, Kvery- body goes, for it is a sight worth seeing, and you come away feeling that you have seen an aquatic carnival wherein the principal portion of London society and wealth congregates for three days’ incessant and resplendent enjoy- ment. OUT-DOOR EMPLOYMENTS. Other distinctive features of social life in Lon- don during the season are the cricket contests, lawn-tennis tournaments and garden parties. Of these there is no end. ‘This has been a most wonderful summer, and the Londoners will tell you that such warm and delightful weather has not been experienced here in twenty years, The city is fair and the country is a dream of quiet beauty, Itis a well-known fact that the English live out of doors and devote more time to pleasure than the Americans. Here you find the business man at any hour of the day at- tending some garden party or similar social fathering. He drops the cares of his life (if he hus any) and mingles with his friends in social enjoyments, He rides horseback in Kot- ten rowor drives in the able boule- vurds of London; yacht and his family on frequent trips during the eummer; he attends the leading cricket games and horse races, In mn the son is “on,” he is apace with his business either sleeps ile he is enj f or his partuer takes care of it in turn w mself, “And so the season speeds, In a fortnight this brilliant gathering will be dispersed to the loveliest parts of the worid—to retreats made ready for them before another season advances, Paris, Italy, the Riviera, the shooting, the Christmas gathering, and then town again and its busy ing on the stock ex- ptions and bails, tae lines of caste are more distinctly drawn, the rich grow richer, the poor grow poorer, and enjoyment and wealth rule the hour during the summer season, LADIES’ CRICKET is now all the rage in fashionable circles and several contests are on the tapis this month, Miss Garnet is considered the best lady pla; England, ‘he recently made over sixty ru playing against left-handed men, She is a inost sportsmaniike young lady and is a great courser. It is said she recently jumped 16 feet of water while running to hounds. Pew t are so amusing ag to watch @ ladies’ m They all lose thei rs most r dispute the umpire’s a man like tly what they no fines are imposed, as in base ball, and the umpire has to take a tongue lashing whether he likes it or not, MRS. BURNETT IN LONDON, It will be interesting to Washington readers of Tue Star to know that Mr. Burnett’s “Little | Lord Foun has been a great success in London, ) however, her new pla has, unfortunately, failed of popular su The London Sporting and Dramatic Newa sey “On the opening night an energetic claque was present, but whether the ciaquers were amateurs, well-meaning but mischeivous friends of Mrs, Burnett’s, or whether they were pro- fessional applauders sent in by some foolish speculator who had an idea of buying the iece, is Of course too preposterous an idea to e even worth contradiction. If they were friends they place the lady in a very talse end disagreeable position and do her a distinct in- jury, and in any case @ claque is an evil to be promptly suppressed,” THE AMERICAN BEVY OF BICYCLERS who recently arrived in London and who have been doing Ireland, France and Germany on their machines, have been the recipients of many kind attentions during their sojourn. It seems, however. that some of the penny-a- liners’ on sporting journals have not been especially pleased with the American visitors and have written uncomplimentary and un- truthful criticisms upon their professional skill and personal behavior, The Star. a lea d- ing nationalalist daily, comments as follows on their unbecoming remarks: “If these two or three writers of the London eycling papers who, after one dinner or one morning's ride with the American tourists, pro- nounced them socially stupid or unable to make a decent pace, had ridden with them as far as certain disinterested Englishmen, Irishmen or Frenchmen, they would have come to ver: different conclusions concerning them, bot socially and cyclically. Asa body of independ- ent tourists, merely using their machines aa a means to see Europe, they would compare very favorably with any other such party. That they were not ready to fall down aud worship, in fact were quite ignorant of the existence of certain English cycling lights, merely proves that these lights do not shine so brightly as they would like to im&gine.” TENNIS AT WIMBLEDON, The principal tennis tournament in England ended at Wimbledon to-day. The contests during the past week embraced all the leading players in Great Britain and Ireland, among whom were Campion, Lewis, Hamilton, Hill. yard, Grave, Barlow, Lawford, Wilberforce and the two Kenshaws, To everybody's sur- rise Barlow beat W. J. Hamilton (who was looked upon as the sure winner of the toarna- ment,) and it will be interesting to Washington tennis men to know how this success was at- tained. Hamilton, as stated in my previous letters, plays essen’ ay a base-line game and his returns are ver; ft, his usual stroke be- ing a longhard drive down the side lines, Barlow knew this and thus cave his Sepgnent no chance to play a Dase-tine eye ‘esimply lobbed the whenever possible, and in most instances Hamilton returned it into = ax or qurrnst am out i ont: on, 5 e sympat ° au dience was naturally with Barlow, as they desired to see the . and the champion- is is Hamilton’s first ship kept in England. defeat this 1 i r Ey i na i i i 2 8 s rs Hi i d to be outapoken, ior | “Tt is strange to find such an authority as Mr. Slocum recommending the ladies to master the volley in order to economize energy. In this Baity (England) no player of experience loubts that the exertion of running up to the net in the single game is much more exhaust- ing then playing from the back of the court. Ini , if is notorious that regular buck-court players seem able to keep going for an indefi- nite time, Such little points as these are signs of the crude and immature condition of lawn tennis in America, There are also other illus- trations in the plates with which, after the manner of transatlantic magazines, the articles are ilfustrated. Long vistas of serried courts are depicted with luxurious club houses in the background. but one notices with amazement that primitive nets and posts are and in a photo-engraving of a match for the cham- pionship the two competitors are plavi ina double court with a long double net without side sta; These relics of the dark ages are, to say the least, instructive. It will not, how- ever, be surprising if within afew yeate the Americans have as much to teach us about the game. as they have now to learn from us,” I only wish the last prediction might be fulfilled, but I ‘ear its accomplishment is v rob= Jematical. "s - nw 8. Sa rae TO KEEP THE BABIES COOL. Some Novel Suggestions at the Recent Hlinois Medical Congress. From the Boston Herald. The connection between heat and what is known as “summer complaint” was recently discussed at a meeting of the Illinois state niodical society, The fact was emphasized that continuous high temperature, acting upon the very delicate nervous system of children, seri- ously affects the digestive functions and so in- vites diarrheal disorders, Accepting this the- ory, cold, of course, suggested itself asa remedy, “We should not wait for the litle ones during warm weather to become sick, but begin the use of tepid bathing, cool or cold water. Use it freely and let it be of a temperature to suit each individual case, If these suggestions were acted upon and a more liberal use of the reme- dies at hand employed the lives of many child- ren wouid be saved,” One physician present at the meeting in ques- tion said that in his practice he teaches families to keep the babies cool, and they do it in this way: Just a3 goon as they begin to feel the ef- tects of heat—faces red and head tossing about, crying, &c.—instead of giving them extra food of some kind part of their clothing is removed; if it is excesMcly hot they take off more. The children are then wiped down with tepid water and allowed to lie on the floor naked. if suffi- ciently hot, and there they may remain all day, Toward e: %. when the weather becomes cooler, their clothing is put on. With this line of treatment the children had no diarrhea, in- digestion or any trouble during the summer, He is rarely called to see a case of acute diar- rhea in infants during the summer, ee A BRIGHT YOUNG WOMAN, She Goes to Europe on the Fruits of a Little Chiyga Painting Kiln. From the New York Evening Sun. ‘There is a bright young woman now cross- ing the ocean on a Cunarder who is having lots of fun out of avoyage she has fairly earned, A year ago, when the Paris exposition first be- gun to be talked of here, she suggested to her father the propriety of letting her go over this suinmer with a party of friends to see the ex- position and improve her French in Paris, Her father, with a masculine blindness to golden opportunities, declined on the thread- bare plea thet he couldn't afford it. “Very weil,” said his danghter with unex- pected amiability. “Will you give me the money I usually spend fora summer hip toward it if I carn the rest myself?” “Yoo, Pll do that,” said her father, readily. “Will yon give it to me now?” asked the er, Her father looked a little suspicious, 6 replied: “Yes, 'll give it to you now, if you'll promise not to spend itand strike me for a fresh supply next sumer.” The bargain was made and the long-headed young woman took the check and went calmly ou with her plaus for multiplying it, closely though secretly watched by her somewhat keptical pare ike most other Girls, she had her share of feminine accomplishments, She sang a little, embroidered a little, carved wood a little, But, » most other girls, she did one thing well, that was to paint china. She had stud- ied the art very carefully aud ‘nrned out many wnique and artistic Christma. and wedding presents for ber friends. But she was often disappointed in her most carefully-executed work by some blunder in the firing, and so, she knew, were many of her friends who painted jess skillfully than she. How to remedy this had long been a problem with her, and for some time she had cherished a scheme of hav- ing a furnace and doing her own firing, and perhaps her friends’ too, for friendship’s sake, ‘This scheme she now proceeded to carry out, risking init the capital her father had ad. vanced, But she had confidence enough is: ber own mechanical and business capabilities not to feel that it was a very great risk. She employed a reliable dealer, who built for her a compact and convenient little kila in the cellar of her father’s brown stone front, She experimented thoroughly with her own work before she took any other. When she found she could trust her own skill she let her friends know that she would fire their china for them at the same rates she had formerly paid herself. It was not long before she had patrons, The girls she knew came at first because it was so easy torun over to her house with a frail bit of porcelain and notrun the risk of sending it. She did each piece as if it were her own, carefully and lovingly, ewe from experience the startling changes produced on the delicate coloring by a degree too much of heat, Her friends brought their friends. Soon she could wait to light the furnace till she had enough china for @ day's work, She made from 35 to $10 every day that she worked, She paid the expenses of running the furnace, and when she was reniy 0 stars for Europe had money enough for her expenses, includin; a new Paris gown and an extra check of $1 besides from her proud father, who talks of peieg her into his business when she comes ack. a+ -t0e Tickle Your Appetite. From Table Talk. ‘This is the sort of weather for bouillon,which fashion serves in cups of frosted crystal with a slender silver spoon, Immediately after pour- ing the clear broth into the cups an inch of shaved ice is added and the guest is expected to get cool and refreshed, Notso much ass crust of bread ia served with it. Another cold delicacy is 8, sent straight from the ice box to the er table on a platter covered with a doyley. Cold butter gravy or a mayonnaise dressing is served with the plant, which constitutes a course by itself, many ladies using it as @ substitute for salad. ‘The manner in which the vegetable is taken in the finger and mouth is something of 9 test in table manners, and, 28 # rule, stamps the ele- ance of the’ diner, All cutlery is withheld ‘rom the service, and there is but one alterna- you escape the and co; four bad form. Fifteen are Written for Tar Evextve Stan AN ANGLER’S OUTFIT. Fishing Tackic—How and Where it is Made. A FLOURISHING BRANCH OF ‘TRADE—CMAT ABOTT FISH-HOOKS—THE MANUFACTURE OF FLIES AND LINES—WHRRE THE BEST RODS COME FROM— BOATS AND REELS—& FISHERMAN'S OUTFIT, {Copyrighted 1889.) The American citizen who has not gone fishing at some stage of his career is an en- tirely nnknown quantity in the national equa- tion, Presidente and pickaniunies alike delight in the sport, yet few folks know just how and where its implements are made. The making, carrying toand fro and assembling together of them isa distinct and flourishing branch of trade, to which the bubble reputation is as much a part of success as the polyhedral re- ality spot cash, Names and trade marks goa great way with fishermen, and in consequence are jealously guarded and widely blazoned, More than one New York house is known in every hamlet of the land, not to mention Can- ada and outlying regions, In any of them you may find an array of tackle and #0 Ot would make Isaac Walton's ghost turn y with envy at the thought that he was born several hundred years too soon, Notwith- standing American ingenuity and a protective duty of forty-five per cent our supply of fish- hooks comes from Bngland, Worcestershire is the seat of this manufacture, in the vicinage of Redditch, so long fimed for needle-makiug. HOW HOOKS ARE MADE, Hooks are made from soft wire, either iron or steel. A two-foot coil of it is cut in lengths, which are then carefully straightened, after which a knife set slantwise slices up the barbs arowata time, The points are then filed by hand and, after the hooks are bent to shape, the upper ends are flatted or ringed. Temper- ing comes next, with scouring just after. Then the clean hooks are either japanned by plung- ing into barrels of varnish or blued by heat, Nothing then remains but to pack and sort for sale, They range in size from the big mur- derous-looking shark hook, ten inches and over,to the tiny No. 12 that a midge will crave, Each sort of fish has its own especial hook, coming in twenty or more sizes. The sproat hook, the sneck, Kirly’s hoHow, Point Limerick, the Aberdeen, the Carlisle, and the Oshaughn- essy are among the leading sorts, Anew de- parture in hooks 18a patent barbless one, in which a spur, projecting from the shank to just inside the lip, takes the place of a barb, and it is claimed will both catch fish more certainly and let taem be taken off with more ease than the pattern which dates back pretty well to Tubal Cain. AS TO FLIES, their name is legion—a roster much larger than the moral law. The aristocratic salmon requires an imported fly, so the blarsted Briton sends us over our supply. For other fish, far and ng a the best flies are made this side of the sea. In price they run from ten cents to eight dollars a dozen, in color through the tints of ‘sunrise, a rainbow and a stormy day. Fish are as national as womenkind. and even more individual. The black and yellow of Lord Baltimore, or the scarlet tinsel of Silver Dortor may suit one trout, while his mate will rise to nothing but the duliness of Great Sun or Brown Drake. Nearly every sportsman has his favorite fly— often of his own making and quite outside the books, In addition there are rubber insects— flies, bees, grasshoppers, and so on—so wonder- fully natural-looking as to deceive the finny elect. Then, too, most of the big houses wiil make up any insect that may be sent them, so as to humor all vageries of ichthyological taste. Besides all this, there are for trolling spoons Salore, of brass, or German, or nickel silver, with wicked-looking gang hooks below, rubber frogs. and crawfish, and minnows of celluloid or silk, all fastened to the hook and ready to go into the water. Silk-worm gut for leaders is, of course, all important. Much of it comes through England, but one big firm has its own house in Murcia, ‘Spain, and thence brings over the finest article known to the trade. In cost lead- ers run from about one to twenty-eight dollars the dozen, and are either stained “mist color” or left white, FOR SALT-WATER FISHING THE BEST LINE is braided flax, varying in size and strength according tothe game. Only the finest fiber is used for it, Itcosts from $1 to $2 the hun- dred yards. “Laid” or twisted fax lines are a trifie ‘cheaper. The braided silk water-proof lines used in fly fishing sell at 7 to 9 cents the yard, Laid “grass” lines, so called, which are properly China sik, sell by weight at £1.50 the ounce for best grades and 81.25 for lower ones, Cotton Lines, white or drab, either laid or braided, are so ridiculously cheap that there is no longer the slightest occasion for Young America to lack a pee | so essential to boyish happiness hook and line all his own. Five cents judiciously invested will secure it, and doubtless yield him #s much pleasure as for- tune’s favorite gets ut of his $500 salmon rig. FLOATS AND SINKERS have pretty well adl shapes, all weights, all sizes for their own, In price they run betwixt 5 cents to $2 the dozen. Reels are as various, but far more costly. There are at the least 200 patterns of therm, costing from 50 cents to $35 each. They are mainly American-made, and many of the greatest improvements in them are due to American ingenuity and pro- tected by American patente. Polished brass, German and nickel ver, combined with steel are used in their con- either of brass or ingle, double or treble, and cost 75 cents to $1.25 the dozen. SPLIT BAMBOO FISHING RODS. Not so many years ago the leading cheap fish- ing rod was a reed cut from the southern cane- brakes, Japanese bamboo has changed all that and driven the home growth quite out of the market, Calcutta furnishes the split bamboo used for fine rods, ‘hey are round, six or eight sided and made of meny strips of bam- boo, cut l wise and fitted together with such nicety that the enamel outside hardly shows the seam. For butt and body the strips are glued together in two or three foot sections, joined by brass ferrule sockets. In the tips the strips are left separate, thereby secut the maximum of strength and elasticity, with the minimum of weight, Salmon rods, with which thirty-five pounders are often landed, weigh but fourteen ounces, very much less than their weight in silver, as the finest of them cost $100 each, Very good ones, though, may be had for $50 and a fairish quality for some thirty odd, Good Americans willrejoice to know that at London's fisheries exhibition a New York e: hibitor won no end of gold _medais and honor. able mentions, to say nothing of the ‘ial Burdett-Coutts prize. Further, that both the Prince of Wales and Princess Louise use Amer- ican rods for salmon fishing, and that his scape- grace of Marlborough took back a lot of Ameri- can tackle along with his American wife, TRE FISHERMAN'S OUTFIT, Trout and bass rods cost from $7.50 to @32 each. For wooden rods ash, lancewood, and Demera greenbeart are mainly used. A three- iece ash rod, in gatural color, 10 feet long, by just 10 cents; a salmon rodof 4 925, with a hundred intermediate Myo you may take choice at least HOME MATTE SRASONABLE SUGGESTIONS TO PRACTICAL BOUER- KEEPERS AND RECIPES WORTH BETAIXING YUTURE Ust—HINTS POR THE DINING ROOM. PANTRY AXD KITCHEN. PROPOSA Ls. J ROPUSALS FOR Shs—-VAK DEPARTMENT, SUPPLY igen Se nero, Rg \.—Sealed “projemaie in’ dep siya iS son TWELVE O'CLOCK ROOK Sy Cat STERN TS, ists for furpisl Rat ied Seach TRE Serenata cap caamiten a and full information Teas to style cases, Be Pre mea Treat Tinep on Ixrtamen Eves with a bath of warm water five parts and witchhazel one part, three times s day. Waue Zeruye Agricies, if but slightly soiled. are readily cleansed by rubbing with dry flour and hanging out of doors on @ clear, breezy day, As 4 Durssixa por Lapres’ Suoes glycerine Tenuers the leather soft and pliable without soiling garments whict. come in contact. A Warrer in the St, Louis Medical and Sur- gical Journal says a2 per cent solution of sul- mele copper applied to the skin and al- br ‘Yo dry on will cure prickly heat in a few It should be used night and morning. Tomato Omeret.—Three eggs, one cup flour (Scant), one tablespoon fine herbs, salt and cayenne pepper, one tablespoon sugar, juice of two _ tomatoes and one cup warm milk. Bake with meat as above or alone in a buttered pan, Cuemists Sax Tat rt Takes more than twice as much sugar to sweeten preserves, sauce, &c., if putin when they begin to cook as it does to sweeten after the fruit is cooked. Salt should not be added to oatmeal until it has boiled at least ten minutes. To Kis. Cockroacuzs axp Warernves the following may be used: Boil an ounce of poke- root in one pint of water until the strength is exacted; mix the decoction with molasses and Paice it in plates on the kitchen and laundry loors and in the closets or anywhere Where the vermin may trouble you. Tue Eatixo or Lance Quantities of potatoes has been tried asa means of relief from foreign bodies that have been accidentally swallowed. The whole intestinal canal is thus dilated pro- portionately, and the foreign body is carried through, Prof. Billroth and Dr. Salzer afirm that many surgical operations might be avoided in this way, such articles as » twenty-gramme weight, a set of artificial teeth and « needle having been successfully removed. CUCUMBER SaLap.—Peel and slice very thin two medium-sized cucumbers, place them ina deep dish, and sprinkle with two tablespoon- fuls salt; set on the ice or in a cool place two hours, drain on an inverted sieve and put in a salad bow]; dress them with four tablespoo fuls of oil, the juice of a lemon, a grated onic 8 pinch each of sugar and white pepper; mix these ingredients and poug over the salad; stir all well together and serve. Water Lines May ne Grows in any garden to perfection, You must first secure a few tubs that will not leak and will hold half a barrel; plant them in the ground nearly or quite to the top. Place in the tub six inches of soil, or any good garden sod, plant in thisa large piece of lily root, then fill up with the water, Kee the tub full as it evaporates and you have noth- ing more todo. When a tub is ‘crowded with roots divide, but they blossom best with the tubs well filled. You May Have a Nice Grass of soda water at | home any hot evenmg. Thus, put into a cool glass four or five tablespoons of fruit jelly | (plum or cherry is very nice), then diseolve | twenty grains of tartaricacid ina half glass of coo! water and mix it into the glass of jeily. | Next dissolve twenty-five grains of common soda in half a glass of cool water and pour into the glass containing the other ingredients, and over it will come effervescing us lively as you | could wish, Gegex Tomato Pxxserve is very rich and looks like preserved figs. Select those of uni- form size and shape and prick each with a coarse needle three or four times. To eight pounds of the tomatoes add seven of sugar. the juice of four jemons, half an ounce of ginger and half an ounce of mace. Heat all slowly together till the frait becomes clear. Remove from the kettle with a perforated ladle and cool without breaking. Boil the sirup slowly till thick and then pour over the toma- toes in the jars. Do not cover till cold. Sricep Marermeroy Kixp.—Take all the pink and green rind from the white portion. Cut this white into pieces about two inch: square; cover with @ strong brine for two or | turee hours, Drain and cook in clear water | for thirty minutes, Make a sirup from one | pound of suger, « balf pint of water and a gill of vinegar; add one dozen whole cloves, a half ounce of green ginger root sliced, a few pieces | of stick cinnemon and two bay leaves; boil ove | minute, skim and add the rind. Simmer until tender and put away for immediate use, Thix makes a nice dish for lunch, is inexpensive and quickly done. Cveumsers on Grezn Tomato Pricxir.— Two dozen large cucumbers, or green tomatocs, j whichever you prefer, sliced and boiled, in vinegar enough to cover them, one hour. Set asidie kn thw heb vinegar. To’ each gallon of | cold vinegar add one pound sugar, one table- | spoonful cinnamon, oue of vinegar, one of biack pepper and one of celery-seed. One ten- | 1 spoontul of mace, allspice aud cloves (each), one tablespoonful of turmeric, horseradish and garlic (each), one-half teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, Put in the cucumbers or tomatoes end stew two hours. This pickle will be re for use as soon us cold, though it keeps we It makes, too, an excellent pickle to mix the cucumbers and tomatoes, half of each. Stewep Potators,—The French call this way of cooking potatoes “ala bonne bouche,” It is @ very nice way to cook the small new potatoes, which are sometimes quite cheap, when larger ones are too high-priced to pur- chase. Scrape them; this may be done quickly by putting em in 'a pail with cold water, taking half brick and rubbing them vigor. ously with a sort of twist of the wrist, then finish with a knife and drop into clean, cold water, Boiland let them get cold. Place a| quart of them ina stewpan with three ounces of butter anda pinch of mixed sweet herbs; season with salt and pepper and shake for five minutes over the fi sprinkle with minced | parsley, squeeze a fe hwy = of lemon juice over them and send to the table, Cuow Cuow.—Half peck of green tomatoes, two large heads of cabbage, fifteen large onions, twenty-five cucumbers, one pint grated horse- radish, one-half pound white mustard seed. one ounce celery fifteen or twenty small onions Spe one-half teacup ground Pepper, ric and cinnamon each, Chop the tomatoes, cabbage, onions and cucumbers in wmall pieces and salt them down one the morning drain off the brine and to soak in vinegar and water for two days, Grain off again and mix in Sari Boil ig gallons of vinegar and 4 por weheoun ones together and pour over them hot, Do thi three m mix 2) pint of pure salad oil and add to it. Eoo Praxr.—This vegetable is not largely used, but when nicely prepared is delicious, For GRAN ND TING Pine’ it pee OWER F AND Fon 5 NSTRUCTING AIR. TECT's Orrice, duly 12 stone Work for Ty Proposals for Out Granite and Blue: to Air-Shaft, and De ALS FOR BINDERS—TREASURY SND. Seal, mai PEI fr, duly iv. 1 MENT, ¥ led for immediate a Koch's pateut, or similar therete’ one inches 0 inches: 1 wide, with fle: back 3 Se wartakr pricks met aUst, » AT » O'CLOCK EM. Pull, inforuss . ro sample of the fle now in use. « fowof Statiouery, Prim . ogale for Binders’ wbelverieg must be free of cake the Lreasur cate ty Sete i? ment feeerves the right to, weve defects snk Feject any or all bide. GE. 5. BATCH ing Secretary of the Treasury. 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