Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1889, Page 8

ee THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON = . Written for Tr Evexte Stan. PROGRESS IN ICE BOATING. a Speed of Fifty an Hour, HOW ICE MOAT’ ARE MADR—THE LATREX RIG TO BE INTRODUCED—SNOW SAILERS TO CARRY MAILS 5S AS A MOTIVE POWER—SAILING x ON THE ssow. The a of Jack Frost is at hand, and with the spreading of his white mantle over the earth, and his bard. glistening crust upon the water, the bob sleds, skates and to- boggans are brought out once more. novelties there ‘h consists of a aal adve: ‘ isthe Danish skate sa small light safl, m: by two feet wide, wh rods crossed tened toatl upon light he back of the skater and fas- around his body, An enthusiast ted this principle to a pair of large tos, specially designed to ou a railroad track. and with a fair wind ted or sailed from Milwaukee to Chicago in less then four hours. PROGRESS IN ICE BOAT ARCHITECTURE. The ice yacht is another device which has be- come almost a national institution, and one that other countries do not seem to understand, unless they are shown one in the act of sailing. The design of an ice boat, known as the 1846 model, was deemed the very height of perfee- tion, and when its speed was found to reach 50 miles an hour, under extraordinarily fave circum: ces, it seemed as if the utmost pos- sible excellence had been reached at a single stride. This was not so, however speed could oniy be obtained in Winds, and as the amount of resi ing y slow in an brains of our builders and voted to the task of getting the highest rate speed ont of # ten knot breeze ruther t breaking the record obtained in a favorable | ale, : The difference between these is like the rec- ordof a skater on u circular track and one | with the wind behind him. The latter breaks the record. but the former wins the race, and that is the aim of the ice yachtsman, Several ideas have been tried with more or Jess enceess; the skate blades have been ground | on different patterns from the old straight- edged blade, and instead of the under suriace whieh runson the ice being perfectly tat it bas been “hollow ground,” that is to say, the | center of the blade has been more or less eut away, leaving the outer edges sharper and harder, #0 as to diminish the lee-way in reach- | | to the kite and being and s0 obtain a good purchase, or, when run- bem eg the wind, item be left to trail be- hin; These boats sail very fast in a good wind, and are fatriy easy to manage, the only difficulty being found by inexperienced mari- ners in putting them about. If Lie agate § 0 sndden!y she will not get quite around. and will jamb right in the wind, and unless the oceu- Pants have snow shoes on board, and so can get out and boost her around, they are likely to have a hard time, Without snow shoes the weight of the boat will push the men into the Snow, instead of their efforts moving the boat, It will be readily seen ‘that this boat is Saply an adaptation of the itea of the Fijian in his double canoe, which is applied to the snow sur- face instead of water. it is expected that by means of the snow yacht the mails on the west- era prairies will this year be delivered during several months of the year when previously it has been practically impossible. KITES AS MOTIVE POWER FOR SKATERS. Another novel idea that should find favor with our boys this year is the adaptation of kite flying to the ice, We all know that many days, when one goes out for a skate, the wind blows too strony for any comfort, and we are obliged to just skim up and down some shady spot. so asto escape the buffeting and hard work of beating back against the wind. Ou such a day, if the wind be moderately across the river. a lot of fan may be had by means of the kite laid away since the summer; or better t ially made for the purpose. square or six-sided kite is the best shape. if specially made with extra stout ribs back, or, ifan old one is used, it should be recovered aud strengthened The cord should be longer than usual, for the much stouter and the kite go. Having everything in readiness, get 4 friend to hold the kite and start it in the short distance agninst the Then turn and iet the It is well known how very to keep a person on kkutes mov- being set in motion, and 1t will he readily understood what the motive power of a fairly large kite will be. Tho greatest fun, however, docs not consist in simply holding on irawn in a straight line along the ice; to get the maximum of pleasure learn to coust with it. Have the cord wound upon a good thick stick long enough to give a good purchase to both bands and at enough to bear the pressure with- breaking in the middle. Hold arms in front of your chest, aud slightly to the right. How far our own judgment of the pull of the kite must guide you, Li at isnot very strong it will be Possible to go nearly ina straight lino across the ice and. turning. come back nearly as is strong @ more slanting direction will be ing, which. of course, increases the speed by just so much. Hitherto the sloop rij style, aud it is yet be he fastest and most satisixctory rig kr This Year a new rig will be tried. which will be pro- ductive of considerable interest in ice yacht circles. It is a modification of the lateen ng of the Mediterranean feluccas, and the great vantages claimed for it are that it gives a great spread of unbroken canvas, is easier manipu-ated than the three or four sails of the sloop, and, better still, brings the bulk of the sail area and consequent resistance to the wind Fight down to the very point which modern sailing science proves to be most productive of bigh spesd. ‘TRE LATEEN RIO. The Iateen rig consists of a stout mast | ! stepped in the ordinary way, and the sail is spread upon abuge gail, or boom, which ex- tends in an are from the bow of the yacht up to the top of the mast and beyond, the sail covering the whole space from stem to stern. This rig is one of the fastest known modern Figs as applied to ordinary sailing craft, the feluccas of the south of Europe being’ pro- | verbial for speed. and considerable interest is | felt as to the result when the good properties of this rig are fully demonstrated. ‘ob EB. Buckhout, the Poughkeepsie yacht expert, loop rig against any other that may d. The ice boat is not a difficult thing to make and a modification of one that will sail well may be made by any one who knows anything of the nter's art. The rest is easy, as auy blacksmith will give estimates for a set of three blades, and, in a city, the hardware store will obtain quotations and goods from the makers, iry goods box about five feet long and wide and eut down to a depth of two mp the bottom and sides of th sof Irom, so as to make it sufi ‘o Lear the strain that will be pu o the sides of the beox-forwards 4 two planks, which meet at the points to form bow. These planks are shaved away 60 a3 to present an upward slant Under- sch a plank twenty four fee' neath the box, crossw: feet long with equal projections from the box on each side. This piank should be nine inches wide and two inches in thickness, ngthwise of the box, at point midway between its sides and at right angles to the long plan fasten another so that it extends under-| meath the box backward to form al keel and projects from the box rearward eight inches. In this projection cut a hole in which | to insert the stern post; at the base of this | © stern post is fixed one of the thr the other two are fastened at each end of the long plank. These skates are the bases of sup- rt upon which the craft resta, The stern post | fo adjusted that when the rudder handle is turned to port or starboard th ate turns also and directs the com of the tin the same way as would be done by a rudder. The mast is stepped into a solid foot, which rests upon a Jong plank running cross: neath the box, and this mast ts stron ened and steadied by passing through a gecoud piece of planking placed crosswise on tép of the box. The sail is simply the sail of a cat boat, only :nade smaller and lighter to suit the boa ny one with any knowledge of the carpen art and of the dinary requirements of « boat can make an ice yacht for comparativ w dollars outside of the first cost of the skate: tes, while SNOW SAILING CRAFT. One of the most intercstin; sailing inven- tions of the past yearis that of the snow ss which is stated to be the product ot the | ain ofa Kansas man. The ice yacht 1s de- | signed to skim over frozen surface of the lakes and rivers, but the snow has hitherto proved an impassable expanse, tion of the sleigh and the snow application of this new idea, however, the snow becomes equally under the subjection of the sportsman in any district where there is enough of itand where the country is open enough for it to be undisturbed. ‘The principle | ie almost the same as the ice yacht, but applied to the toboggan. A large tobogyan is made and the runner-planks are set 10 feet apart and are 32 feet long by 2 feet wide. These rest, of course, under the toboggan, which is about 20 feet long by 10 feet broad, and is only dit- ferent from the ordinary toboggan in the matter of lee boards about six inches in height, which run along each side. ‘The mast is stepped intoa wooden “foot” orsquare block of wood and is about 20 feet in beight. To such a boat the dimensions of the boom would be about 22 feet and gaff 12 feet. The boat is B peculiar one in appeatance, but sails well as soon a8 4 crust forms upon the snow. The one I say last year was fitted at the mast head with s aliarly bent Pomme of stout, flat iron wire, pheed to catch the telegraph wires as a cow- catcher catches an obstruction, and to lift them up and slide them over the mast as the boat underneath them. The great reason for is that the snow Leng begs feet in depth it, of course, decreases the distance between of pole about Jo fost in 4 fitted with « broad end, which can a ‘the will of the pilot, so as to dig into the snow, A NOVEL IDEA. | neceswary. It will be found necessary when the pull comes to incline the body from t kite, as if one were doing the -‘outward ed, to get more revistance, and then itis ind carefuliy and be aiden puffs, which, if not sult in an unexpected len jerk of the kite or equally sudden let up of the pull, perly managed, the kite Will take the Hyer skimming along. coasting here and there across the ice, or running straight ahead be- fore the wind. describing zig-zaga, or any other figure he pleases. This is a very popular sport amoug the boys in eastern ar middle Europe, and the boy here who first in- troduces it to his section will have an enviable time. Ihave also seen boys make a Itght frame work of lumber like a raft and put it upon runners made of a pair of discarded wagon shaftseutto an e and seeurely fastencd to the raft, and then getting their kites weil up, down in the rude sleigh with half a dozen of them sitting on it, their kites drawing them along, the steering being done by a boy's ieg dragging out behind, in the same way that a toboggan is guide Davy WrcusLer. ry to watch the look out for ticipated, 1 th at stint A Typical Horse Trade. From Texas Siftings, There is a colored man in Austin, Tex., by the name of Sam Jolnsing. He has some which he has made trading horses. at usiness he is an expert. One day Judge Peterby saw Johnsing trading with an itinerant horse dealer. Having some curiosity to know how Sam came out ia the trade. he asked him: *Did you sell that fell : “I did, boss, for a fac’.” ow much did you geti dollars.” Why, you are @ fool. That's a “Lemme tell you somethin’, boss, Dat huss is lame.” Judge Peterby happened to meet the horse trader afterward and said to him: id $20 for that horse?” 0 to the darkey. It's a pretty on have been swindled. The horse 1s | lame.” “1 know the horse is lame, but it doesn’t amount toanything. He limps because he hag not been properly shod. As soon as I take the shoes off of him he will not limp a particic, wouldn't take a hundred dollars for that horse.” Half an hour afterward Judge Peterby met Sam. Look here, Sam, you were swindled, after all, in that horse trady. The lameness of the horse is caused by hiv not being properly shod.” “i knows he ain't properly shod. 1 had him shod dat way on purpose, #0 as ter make dat hoss trader berlieve dat he was lame from dat cause, but de troof am dat he is lame, sure euough, and he am guineter to stay lame. He nebber will be waff nuftin’, Heabi heah! how I fooled dat hozs trader. The same evening Judge Peterby saw the horse trader at the railroad station. Just abont to leave on the train fo: “That horse is really away with you, after all,” «That all depends on circumstances, I think Tecan cure that horse, but if 1 don’t I'm not out anything,” replied the horse dealer. grin- ning. “Ask Sam, after he bas tried to change that 220 bill I gave him for the horse,” said the horse dealer, as he climbed into the car, more resistance that | | is applied the higher it will be necessary to let | anno’ pe explained in words, | straight, but if it is blowing hard and the pull | caeee z Shot Dead by Her Boy Lover. From the Pail Mall Gazette, A boy only twelve years old found in the streets of Madrid a one hundred peseta bank note, changed it at a money changer’s and di- vided the spoils with another boy, eleven years old. He then bought a pistol and bullets and began a quarrel with his playmate about a little girl of twelve years of age. the daughter of a well-to-do grocer, whom he called his sweet- art and whom he avensed of showing a pref- ence for hiscompanion. As they were dis- cussing the matter they happened to meet the girl with her female servant, and the older boy deliberately aimed at her head and shot her dead in a titof jealousy. Both boys were sent to jail. Despite his comrade’s and the maid- servant's testimony the accused says the pistol went off accidentally. soe President White and Foot Ball. From the New York Sun. This story is told by a Cornell student of President White and the college foot ball team of 74. A matchhad been arranged between tne elevens of Cornell and Rochester universi- ties and it was to take place in Geneva. When the captain of the Cornell team called upon President White for permission to go to Gene- va: “What, go all that distance to kick a bag of wind!" President White exclaimed. ‘Never, gentiemen, with my permission. Just think, and you'll see that it is ridiculous to go kick- ing a bag around a ten-acre lot, Then to think of going fifty miles to do it!” The gaine did not take place, —_—_—__ eee -_______ He Wanted to be Interpreter. From the Merchant Traveller. “Well, sir,” said the railway superintendent toa forlorn-looking man who had gained ad- perm o his presence, “what do you want?” “I would like a situation on your road.” 0 place for you, I think,” Erahmaeior by want to be interpreter.” The tendent studied minutes | j nounced that his excelleney would arrive in - g, YD. C., SATURDAY, , DECEMBER 7% IS89—SIXTEEN PAGES, THE CAPTAIN'S YARN. We were on our way from Hong Kong to Foochow on the coasting steamer Namoa, when Captain N., my “fidus Achates” of the voyage, looked at the gathering clouds to the westward and remarked: “I hope it won't rain before we get into Amoy; we are just 30 miles away.” “How do you know the distance so exactly, captain?” “Look at that rock, and over beyond it, you ean see through a rift in the clouds a little speck like a pin point on the top of that black mountain. The pin point isa tall pagoda on that high cliff, and the pagoda is as good a sign- board for this town as if that whole biack cliif Were painted in white letters a mile high and half a mile wide—A-M-O-Y, I never see either the mepees or the city that a cold chill does not run all over me,” “Will you tell me why, captain?” “Certainly, but it's a long story—well, here goes : Amoy was one of the first trosty | | China open to foreign commerce, and ports in ‘ora long time the noted hatred of the Chinese for for- cigners was more intense there than at any other port. I was then captain of a steamer on the first line plying between Amoy and the English colony of Hong Kong, some two bun- dred miles away. One cloudy evening in November I went ashore in Amoy to make afew final prepara- tious for my ship's departure th xt day, yam shore 4 nuteed ‘lat 1 footsteps logged by a disreputable looking coolie, »proached me with great earnestness in uner as soon as we had reached a com- paratively open spot, where the growing dark- ness shut out the teeming hordes of a Chinese : I saw that it woald be impossible to avoid an encounter if this strange follower should prove to bea highwayman. So carrying hand to my hip pocket, whore I felt the frie ‘grip” of wy revolver, I waited for the man to come closer. I then saw that the coolie was in great distress and, moved by bis earnestness, stopped to listen tok tale. The manex- plained in Chinese and “pidgin” English that ne had a brother in jail who was to be beheaded iw two days more for capsizing in a sail boat and drowning his passenger, u mandarin’s son. The mandarin, bent on revenge, had thrown the boatman into prison, where the farce of a trial had been gone through with and the innocent man had been doomed to die. ‘The cootie suid that his family were all wreteh- ed ly poor, but that they had managed, by th ie Of most of their beiongtngs, to raise money enough to bribe the jailer to allow the prisoner to escape, and nll that was necessary to save his lite was to get him awa el to the nearest foreign colony. poor creature fell on his knees and implored me to save his brother's Iife. He would give me anything— ything he had—oniy to give the ure a hiding place, to save a from the headmat or Man wept as only to 8 two more suus rise before the earth wou drink up his lite blood, Ifelt my sympathies intensely excited, and yet Lknew the treacucrons nattre of the Chi- d the danger in interfering with their eas of justice, and, wish either to test the truth of his stor: I upon the coolie to ely ms for his brother's im away and earry nx Tor 500 tae dont a price would be ut- e's means. The poor ered at the enormity of the fortune to one of his clasa, but he rallied in a momeut and said he supposed he would have to pay it: that it was a fearful sam, that he was very poor, and to ri o much aoney his family would have to sell all owned; but he must save his brother's li wn to Hong £500), thinking tha’ teriy b sum, a ihe captain insisted he would have to pay il My sympatis 4s were now still more ke cing that the unweleome ger would be sent, and not caring ¢ break my word or to profit by the poor | wretch’s misfortunes, [sai ell, do it | for the regular fare” (about $10), “bring him | down to the wharf at 11:30; 1 am going “off to ny ship then, ‘The coolie seemed overpowered with joy and | was still “kow-towing” his thanks as I moved away and he disappeared in the darkness, Thad no sooner reached the wharf. about 1145 p.m., than { was touched by the sine covlie, who now offered his services as “sampan” man, 'I followed him to the boat and there saw another man whom the dima larap light showed | to be as poorly clad as his brother. When we | shoved oif I noticed that both were very clumsy | with their oars, but as my ship was close to the wharf we were soon alongside. Here I handed my overcoat to the boatman | and he picked up a bundle tied Chinose fashion | in a large handkerchief and we went on board, leaving my new acquaintance in the boat. fent steward forward on an errand that | had the coolie deposit bis bundle in a smull closet in the cabin, and told him that that must be his brother's hiding place until we put to sea and that he must be quick to get into it, At a motion over the side the condemned man sprang out of the boat, which he had made iastat the gangway, and A noisclessly ate through the cabin and into the closet, I turned | the lock and put the key in my pocket. Bat as he passed tie cabin lamp curiosity had led me to take a searching glance at my strange passenger, and, in spite of his unkempt hair and soiled and tattered clothes, his light complexion and refined features revealed in the coolie’s brother (?) a Chinaman of the higher classes. ithen tried to serutinize the boatman, but the man’s back was to the light, and the etew- ard returning just then I paid my sampan fare and my strange acquaintance departed. 1 turned in, wondering who my mysterious Passenger might be, and my thoughts were not without vague mixgivings of the noted treach- ery of the Chinese, 1 woke early, and had hardly begun dress- before a herald came to inform me that the eroy of the province desired to see me at his semen” at 10 that morning. ‘This strange zmons I at once connected with my harbor- ing an escaped prisoner, and. full of vague dis- trust, I had almost decided either to put to sea two hours before the advertised time, noon, and so temporarily avoid any explanations, or to plead press of business and refuse to obey an almost royal command. Disturbed by such doubts, I hardly felt relieved when another herald came to say that the viceroy had con- cluded, as he desired tosee the ship, to visit the captain, and that my presence at the men” would be excused, Such a thing asa viceroy visiting in state a merchant vessel was almost unprecedented, and 1 began to fear that was implicated in the escape of a political prisoner of high rank, Now the customary official messengers began to pour in: Firat, two clad in robes of state an- halt an hour; then four more that he was com- ing in ten minutes; then four horsemen, gundiy caparisoned, rode down to the whart where Lwas now waiting to say that their master would arrive in five minutes; then a procession of liveried servants bearing aloft on high poles red sign boards, on which all the virtues under the sun were ascribed in Chinese characters to their lord; goldiers with flags and swords and spears; men with whips and gongs to clear the way; nandarings on horseback; lictors with long pheasants’ tails in their caps, and a large rabble on foot—all proclaimed that his excellency had arrived. ighting from a gorgeous green sedan chair, borne by sixteen men in livery, he groeted me most politely and accepted my in- Vitation to take passage in my gig off to the ship. A large portion of his escort followed, occupying a small fleet of sampans, The viceroy was ushered into the cabin and, strange to say, selected a chair immediately in frout of the door of the closet in which the refugee was concealed, After a few courtesies had been exchanged I was informed through an interpreter that Prince Ichang, the leader of an insurrection, my would pees him for a few moments and then | your servants. but they will find no such man on board my ship.” The search party went all over the ship, di- rected by the crew, and after probien into cor- ners and peering in amongst the bales of silk and boxes of tea, no stranger was found. This was reported to the viceroy, who said, “You have not searched this cabin; do so.” I was wild with excitement and alarm, but my relief was intense when my furtive glances showed me that the search party did not dare toask their master to move from in front of the door. This relief was of short duration, for he again asked if they hadsearched everywhere. “Everywhere except in that apartment behind your excellency’s chair. We will look there too; where is the key?” I now became thor- oughly frightened, and, fumbling for some | loophole to escape, I told the viceroy that that was a locker where I kept my wines, and— I was ashamed to confess it to so high a ruler under the ‘son of Heaven’—that I sometimes hid opium and other contraband articles there. Would his exceliency forgive me if I begged that that place be left unopened, as my peccadilloes, if discovered, would cost me my post as captain, “In that case,” said the Viceroy, “I willsave you from trouble by in- | Specting mys the key?” - Doubtful whether to confess my complicity or to brave it through, I thought of the mys- terious nature of the whole affair, and hoped that the strange passenger might, in some mys- terious manner, have escaped. This straw of hope that drowning desperation clung to saved the day, I reached in my pocket and with trembling fingers pulled out the key. The viceroy unlocked the door, opened it and ciosed it hastily behind kim. My nerves were then so wrought upon that I could almost have heard the dew fall, and I fancied I heard a word within spoken very low. Then the door opencd again, there wasa rustle | Of silk robes, the door closed, aud the viceroy said in Chinese: “No one ther Lfelt my heart throb with one great bound | and things seemed to reel around me. When I recovered my composure enough to look up | with pleased and grateful eyes | saw anexpres- | sion Pihought Lrecognized, and in an instant | Ikuew what my own trung nerves and the | regal robes had before concealed—the miser- ie coolie of the night betore was uone other | than the viceroy of the Province of Ful-kied, | the ubsolute ruler of twenty-five millions of people. I hadno lovger a doubt that my mysterious passenger aud the royal fugitive were the same, and that the viceroy himseif conniving at his escape. The ship sailed on time and Prince Ichang « landed safely in Hong Kong, where he Junderénglish protection until a severe let him have that privilege most mortals enjoy—of dying with his head on, Subsequent developments pointed to the fact t the viceroy wus iniluenced not only by personal friendship but by an enormous bribe with which the rm ‘ines bought his own head, and that. fearing the treachery of any of his subordinates, he had planned and executed the escape entifely alone, Of my betraying him he had no fear, as the word of a “foreigu devil” would then weigh nothing in a Chinese court, Two years afterward I received from the viceroy of Kwang ‘Tung a gorgeous pair of vases and some magniticent embroideries, ‘in grati- tude for past hospitalities;’ and 1 tound that my coolie friend had been promote: government of on the lar the empire. — Enxest Wink » USN. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. cod HOME MA‘ PES AND BEASONABLE BACTICAL HOUSE KEEPERS HELPFUL HOUSEHOLD HINIS FOR THE DINING ROOM, PANTRY AND KITCHEN. A Goop Homr Lrximenr for bruises, strains and rheumatism is made from one cupful of turpentine, one cupful of ammonia, two eggs. Beat well together und bottle. A Ctotiier Srares that the proper way to wash a flannel shirt is to souse the garment in hot soap water, never rubbing it, and put it repeatedly through awringer. The garment should never be wrung with the hands and never put in cold water, Wars Dress Waists ane Past Weantso they should be ripped to pieces and the linings washed and saved to line little dresses with, Ciams ox Toast.—Chop up two dozen small clams; simmer for thirty minutes in water enough to cover them, Beat up the yolks of two eggs, add a little cayenne pepper and a gill of warmed milk, with half a teaspoonful of flour stirred into a littlecold milk. Simmer all together and pour over buttered toast, PALATABLE PLaty Hasu.—Put one quart of cold cooked meat into a stewing pan, add one | onion, grated, anda half pint of hot water. 1] Stew five minutes, add two hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, « tablespoonful of butter, and a palatable seasoning of salt and pepper.’ Serve immediately very hot. Sournern Rice Warries,—Mix one teacup- ful of hot boiled rice and a quarter of a pound of butter, Let this cocl and add six beaten eggs, one quart of milk, one and a half quarts of flour aud a heaping teaspoonful of salt, Beat all together and bake in wafile irons, very hot, but not too much greased, or the watiles will be less delicate, Sweet Porato Prrr.—Boil and mash four sweet potatees, add to them two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two ounces of butter, salt and pepper to taste; beat until light. Fill the cups two- thirds full; brush over the top with a beaten egg; bake in a quick oven until a golden brown, Serve hot as a vegetable, Wusew Liven Has Turxep Yetiow cut up a pound of fine white soap into a gallon of milk and hang it over a fire in a wash kettle or boiler. When the soap has completely melted put in the linen and boil it half an hour, have ready a lather of soap and water, wash the linen in it, atter which rinse in two cold waters, with a very little biue in the last. A Noven Way or Baxixa Appies.—Peel a lemon, cut it in slices and take out the secds; lay in a shallow tin pan and on each slice a pared and cored apple; fill the pan half full of water and bake until the applesare tender. Lift the apples into a dish and place the pan with the lemon and water on the stove, add half a ound of sugar to every halfa pint of water; Boit for half an hour untul it jells; place a slice of lemon on each apple, pour the syrup over them and let them get very cold before serving. For Maxrixe Goop Corrgz.—Most connois- seurs prefer a half-and-half mixture of Mocha and Java, ‘Yo make for a family of four, wash one egg and break into a bowl, shell and all; beat with a fork until it is frothy, then beat in a pint of cold water, a little at a time, Add a generous half pint of coffee, mix thoroughly and pour into the pot. Set on the back of the range where it will heat slowly half an hour, keeping the spout closed to prevent the escape of the aroma, Then add about a pint and a half of boiling water and bring to a boil, stirr- ing down once or twice as the grounds gather at the top. Serve with plain or whieped cream or with condensed milk as preferre: Quire 1n Season is “fricasseed chicken a la Jamaique.” Joint a very tender chicken; lay for half an hour in weak vinegar and water and for another half hour in cold water. Wipe dry. Chop very fine one onion with a sprig of pars- ley; add salt and black and red pepper andrub this mixture well over the chicken. Make some sweet oil or dripping very hot ina frying pan and fry the chicken a light brown, Remove to aplate and season with salt, Slice a large onion and brown in a little butter; add two or three tablespoonfuls of tomatoes, some parsle and a sprig of celery. Lay in the chicken, wit! tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce and simmer, and two or three of water and simmer for twenty minutes, Serve in a border of steamed rice. Sour a ua Boxe Feaorr, an extremely whole- who had been captured and condemned to be beheaded, had made his escape. Suspicion, they suid, seemed to point to his being secreted on eae my ship; asampan bad been seen to go alongside of her the night before about mid- night; it reached the ship with two boatmen and one foreigner and returned to the shore with only one man, and he made off in great haste as soon as he had } leaving the sampan adrift. ‘Of course the captain knew nothing about the escaped prisoner, and so he could have no objections to allowing the ship to be searched,” This was subtly put. To refuse to allow it would be equivalent to acknowledging that the man was on board, and would cost me my place in a company whose interest it was to placate the unfriendly Chinese. To allow the ship to be searched involved the possible discovery of the man, and in that case his recapture and certain death, as well as my own dismissal from the com . Either course might en- the foreign community in against whom the hatred of the Chinese some soup which deserves to be better known. Cut a good sized onion into rounds and fry in little butter or fat taken from the top of soups, do not allow it to brown and when done add the finely cut leaves of a tender head of lettuce and a theg saa hoop stirs far meg and keep stirring for hen add half i of sorrel also cut salt and grated nnt- five minutes longer. a teaspoonful of sugar anda seth veal stock, give one boil and keep warm unt time of serving. Meanwhile dozen and # half very thin slices it bread, dr, about an inch wide andtwo inches , dry these in the oven, free the soup from fat, if there is any on it, set it to boil; when this it is reached remove from the fire and stir in the beaten yolk of an egg with one gill of cream i In all cases where eggs are added to soup they must be well beaten and stirred in slowly or they will curdle, Cizanino Wrxpows.—Two servants in adjoining houses were talking recently sbout their methods of K pamoup Miser id The one hose windows al: the test paid she selected « dull day for the a i eS 4 5 E 3 8 H if ee F it fs i i # i esis i *g es it F E VAGARIES OF WESTERN JUSTICE Rough-and-ready Methods Giving Way to Eastern Formality. From the New York Tribune, Several lawyers were chatting over a good bottle of wine in an up-town restaurant the other night, and as one of them was from Montana and another of them had spent some years of his younger days in Nevada the con- versation naturally drifted into a reminiscent channel. “I suppose your judges out west are a different class of men from what they used to be years ago when the country was more un- civilized,” said one, “I remember once we had great difficulty in securing a jury in a newly laid out town in Nevada, Nobody seemed willing to serve that counsel on one = = = oes creanierend realponasnest ey inally a desirable-! ing stranger was calle i il honor,’ said be, 1k am not qualified to we Ae re a oe Tee? bata ibe judge. “Where do you live?’ sai . “In my tent out on Washington boulevard,” was the reply. “ "Married? “ No." “Living all alone?’ Yes.” ‘For how long?” “ “Six weeks, “You'll do,’ said the judge decisively, ‘I never knew a tenderfoot yet to keep bachelor’s hall in a tent for six weeks but he bad accumu- lated dsj dirt to be a freeholder.’ So the man served.” ‘That's a pretty fair sample,” said the west- f the rough-and-ready style of the ime justice and it has not all died out yet y means, Not long ago a miner, who had experienced all kinds of fortune, from the hardest up, struck it very rich in his old age, married a young wile and started ona pro- longed spree which ended in his death, A will | executed a few hours before he died left all his | property to his wife. His relatives in the east began suit on the ground that the testator Was out of his mind when he made the will. The case came up before a judge who is known | usa good liver and a gallant man. Certainly | some remarkable freaks were proved to have | been performed by the old miner in the last few heey of his life and the widow was put on the stand. “*-What were your husband's last words?’ said her counsel, “Td rather not tell,’ said she, blushing prettily and hesitating. ““Why not?’ said her counsel, tell, ‘The judge will think will dataage your ease." “Still blushing the pretty widow declined to tell. Finally the judge himself argued with her and told her that if she persisted in refusing it would go far toward confirming his suspicions that the man was insane. “ ‘Well,’ suid the widow reluctantly, ‘he said “Kiss me, Puss, and open another bottle of champagne.”* cneible to the very last,’ blurted out the judge. And so he decided, aud would hear no more evidence,” The most severe rebuke I ever got from the ch,” said the first speaker, “was from one of those typical western judges who had de- termined that it was time to introduce a little more of the formality of the east in his court than he had formerly insisted on. It was my first case in court ‘anyway, Ihad gone out | there about as green as they make them and had purchased a half interest in the practice of «sharp lawyer, who immediately retired from practice in that town and made me a present of the remainder of his business, when he felt my mouey safe in his pocket. So I was thrown on hy own urces And was soon floundering | 80 deep in legal quagmires that the judge felt called on to interpose. A few months BBfore he would probably have poured out some choice abuse on my head, and would have offered to tight me if I did not like it. But now he was standing on formality. “Young man,’ he said, impressively, ‘the best thing you can do for yourself and for your client would be to hire a lawyer.’ I did so.” ‘That reminds me,” said the other, “of a re- buke administered by one of our old justices to a fly young lawyer who came out there from the east with a determination to show every- body just how things should be done. He was well connected and well introduced, but soon got into debt, and was an inveterate borrower from his friends and even from chance ac- quaintances, One day three justices were sit- ting on the bench together, and had also united in sitting on our young friend. who forthwith tried to get off the old gag about contempt of court, ***] wish your honors to fine me $5 for con- tempt of court,’ said he. “Why so, Mr. Smith?’ said one of the jus- tices, who did not at once tumble to the point; ‘you have not displayed any contempt.’ ‘But I cherish a decided contempt for this court and am willing to pay for it,’ said Smith with a rhetorical flourish. Your contempt for this court is not to be mentioned in the same breath with the court's Sey for you,’ said the second justic, “*And we won't fine you, Mr. Smith,’ said the third with a triumph in his eye, ‘because we cau't tell which one of us you would borrow the money from to pay it with.” “While the ushers were trying to restore quiet in the court out of the tumult of laugh- ter that followed this neat and cutting reply, Mr. Smith got away in bad disorder.” ~~ —so0 ‘You must you are afraid it Jewelry for Men. From the Haberdusher. A pin for the Ascot scarf is a long narrow or fine safety pin of gold or silver. A scarf pin of good value is shown that is made on a thread so the solitaire can be re- moved at will and worn in the shirt front. Plum black, bronze and green-tinted pearls are much sought after for full dress, A set containing the three colors is qnite the fad, Spats are coming out again this fall, Shoe makers have laid in large stocks which they ure now exhibiting. The untannued leather and buff-colored ones seem to be the favorites, Men’s watch guards are cut very short. You should have only enough length to go between the buttonbole and pocket. These chains are, as a rule, very light, weighing from ten to twelve pennyweights, For full dress the solitaire pearl, from eight to ten grains in size, on split drill mount, is the most popular. This mount is invisible and lets the pearl rest upon the shirt studs with no visible means of Lape Fancy stones, such as Ceylon cat's eyes with Bulcher setting, make very pretty stu Dia- monds are not worn any more for studs, In fact the solitaire diamond is exceedingly bad form in any shape, pin, stud, or ring. The better class of dressers are wearing medium-sized pins of expensive stones. Soli- taire pearls on invisible mounts, moonstones surrounded by diamonds, rubies, opals and Bay pies are some of the stones used, ie proper finger jewelry for a gentleman consists of two riugs worn upon the fourth fin- ger of the left hand. These rings are gener- ally odds—for instance, a gold band with one diamond and one ruby is put below a band of aluminum, which has one sapphire set in it. In Europe the one-stud fashion for full dress is still to a certain extent considered good form, It is also permissible here—in fact all the best jewelers show single studs. These are in small cat's eyes surrounded by diamonds, sapphire, or ruby, in like centers, and bronze pearls with diamond surroundings. In sets of two studs some show bronze and yellow pearls as favorites. —————+e4+_—_____ A Curious Jot About Grant. Everyone remembers the following conces- sion in the terms of conquest drawn up by Gen. Grant in his interview with Lee at the McLean dwelling, within a stone’s throw of Appomattox Courthouse: ‘This surrender will not embrace the side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or bi - Nicolay remark in the Grant says in his “Memoirs” that up to moment when he put pen to paper he had not thought of a word he should write. The he had verbally proposed. and which Lee had accepted, were soon putin writing and he might have sto; phrase which he had evidently not th and for which he had no authority, wi tically and every man in Lee's army—a he had os ar betas, ae which had been forbidden him in President Lincoln's order of or tn poveramaend tard hepesple to Grant cok his heroic army that his terms were accepted as he wrote them, and bis exercise of the ex- ta ee A Dude and a Johnnie. FOR FLOKA McFLIMSEYS. Modern Gowns Violate the Very First Principles of True Beauty. From the San Francisco Chronicle. You see we are grown modest and fearful of some nameless, imaginary moral evil. We have become ashamed of the way God made us, and we cover oursclves up just as if the human figure were a deformity. Who first invented clothes which make men look like stiff, forked, shapeless forms? The ancients showed the lines of the female figure and gave a piquancy to its pliancy, its graceful flexibility. Today the women put themselves in stays and load themselves with bustles and stick themselves out with all sorts of improvement until they look—still attract- ive, but falsely, unhumanly attractive. I don't believe the Grecian women, those from whose figures goddesses were modeled, had a bit bet- ter forms than the women of today. The race in California is simply wonderful in its development ot anatomical beauty, judg- ing by the display one sees any day on the street. But it would be a great deal more effective if the costumes permitted the supple grace of nature to be shown. Every now and again the female lecturer comes along to teach new fads about dress and to air new ideas of hygiene. The principle of ali bealti: is the freedom of action of the body and plenty of exercise. and the principle of health 1s, curiously enough, the principle of comfort and the p vle of beauty of form. When in the olden times men and women wore clothes that look odd and quaint in cut to us, if they sacrificed comfort it was to appearance. We sacrifice appearances and get no particular comfort, Lven men wear too many clothes, with an awful waste of material that does not embellish or add to the comfort, Some day the “biled shirt,” with its starched front, will disappear. It cannot go too soon, whe shoulda man wear a stiff board under his waistcout? It may be useful and orna- mental for evening wear, when it certainly looks clean, But with the wonderful develop- ment in the manufacture of materials why should soft white silk not take its place, Or, indeed, why should all colors be left to the female se: Between the gaudy and the taste- ful there is a great ditferenc: Oscar Wilde only carried his idens « little too far. He had sense at the bottom of them. We will come to it by and by. se One Man They Couldn’t Fool. From the San Francisco Examiner. “Let me tell you one on Congressman Clunie,” said Statesman Bill English, as he hooked a piece of lemon from the bottom of « glass with his index finger. “You know up the club—the Bohemian club—in a room re- cently decorated with much care and at con- iderable expense, a devilish clever artist painted a hole in the wall, He arranged a Step ladder, knocked a picture and an easel askew, threw a lot of plastering on the floor and awaited results, It looked for all the world as if some careless servant in endeavoring to hang a picture or wipe the globes on the clu had lost his balance and allowed the In crash against the wail. Evervbody was fooled, even the other artists, As each man dropped into the room after lunch the first thing his eye tell upon was the hole in the wall. The first thing his mind prompted his tongue to to berate the servants, Then he was quictly ied up to the damaged spot, shown his error, and given the privilege of treating the crowd. Of course he at once Sought another victim, “Clunie was one of the last to get caught. He treated, and at once started out to revenge himself on some poor innocent. Hegsked may after man: ‘Have you seen the frightful bole in the wail up in the red room?’ But each had been there before, Finally he tackled Amadce Jouili & ullin, have you seen that hole in the wall?’ he inquired, seriously, “What hole? Where?’ asked Joullin, a look of angelic innocence upon his face, “ ‘Why, up in the storeroom. It’s really too bad. The wall is rained.’ ‘No, you don't say. Well, that is too bad. How did it happen? “Oh, @ careless servant, I suppose, let a stepladder fall. Come up and see it.’ “Clunie led the way, fiercely denouncing the servants, aud Joullin plodded along, adding his voice now and then as the denunciation seemed to fag. When the room was reached Clunie threw open the door. ‘There,’ he said. pointing to the supposititious sear, ‘did you ever see anything as bad as that before?" ‘Yes, I painted it myself,’ replied Joullin, quietly. “Clunie is treating yet.” — ~ ses. An Episode of Teeth. From the Boston Courier. It was about 2 o'clock of a chill morning when Mr. X. presented himself at the door of a doctor in the village of W., and after a series of thundering knocks at the door with a good deal of vigorous exercise upon the bell handle succeeded in bringing that gentleman to the window overhead. “What is it?” asked the doctor. ‘Do you pull teeth?” Mr. X. demanded ‘Yes, when I have to,” was the reply. ‘Then I want a tooth pulled.” “Allright. Come back in the Tl) take it out for you.” “Come back ia the morning!” ejaculated Mr, X. “What do you take me for? Here I've been in torment for these two days, and for the last two hours I've been hunting all over this confounded town after a dentist, and now Td like to have the job dune at once if there is any way to fix it.” The dentist at first demurred, but at last he consented to come down and get the tooth out at once; and after a due interval, in which be made his hasty toilet, Mr. X. was admitted to the house, The chill of the night was every- where, but X. was too intent upon getting rid of the troublesome molar to mind that, and he was duly installed in the operating chair and an examination made, “Hold on there,” X. said, as the dentist, hav- ing satisfied himself which was the troubi some tooth, took up his forceps and prepared for work, “I want to take gas, This tooth has given me about all the pain I can stand from it.” “Well,” the dentist answered, “the gas is a little low, but if you insist I will give you what there is, It will deaden pain, though very likely you will feel it some.” The conventional breathing tube of black rubber was produced and X. proceeded to in- hale for dear life. For a moment the dentist allowed him to pump his lungs full from the gas reservoir, and then taking the breathing tube away he quickly whipped in his forceps and whipped out the tooth, “I did feel it some,” X. observed, when he was able to get his mouth in a condition which weDil you?” the: dentist ask a, th “Did you?” the dentist aske: eti- cally, “Not much, I hope?” Sie “Noteo very much,” X, replied. “Still, I knew when it came,” When, a moment later, X. prepared to pay his bill and asked the price, he was surprised tobe told a sum which was so small that it seemed that a mistake must have been made. “But is that all you ask for administering 2” he asked. “O, bless you,” was the — answer, “there wasn’t any gas there. I only let you breathe into the tube a little to satisfy your imagination.” X. did not at first know whether to be vexed or amused, but wisely concluding that the latter was the better policy he wended his way home chuckling, and got himsclf to bed as the first e coming dawn began to show in the sky. ——$_——_-9—_—__—_.. How They Carried a Million, From the Philadelphia Press’ New York Letter. ‘Two men walked rapidly down Wall street yesterday afternoonand entered one of the prominent banking institutions. They were sturdy, heavy-set men. One carried a small lack satchel, Both kept their eyes roaming from side to side. [followed them ii morning and A a oo ate =F Bie wagered “You nearly bills. is nob grost danger in —:0:—_ THE EVENING STAR ts a PAPER OF TO-DAY, not of YESTERDAY nor of LAST WEEK, It prints ALL THE NEWS, Local, Domestic and Foreign, LONG IN ADVANCE OF THE MORN. ING PAPERS, This is conspicuously true of all classet of news, but especially so in regard to Local News and District Aftairs. THE STAK has a very much LARGER and BETTER force of LOCAL RE- PORTERS and SPECIAL WRITERS than any other paper in Washington ever thought of employing, and 119 MECHA) L QUIPMENT AND PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS POWER. FUL AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY OTHER WASHINGTON PAPER. Kt is therefore able to print each day a full Feport of every transaction of public ine terest occurring in the District up te the very hour of going to press. —o: By the free use of the OCEAN CABLES for REGULAK AND SPECIAL Dis- PATCHES, and with the diflerence of time in its favor, it is also able to give its readers every afternoon the news of the WHOLE EASTERN HEMISPHERE for the entire day, and up to 12 o’clock midnight, thus leaving literally nothing in the way of news from Europe, Asia, and Africa for the morning papers. Equally does THE STAK lead all its contemporaries in the publication of the NEWS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY, Receiving the regular dispatches of both News Associations; with alert and enterprising special telegraphic cor- respondents at all important points; and with wires leading directly from its own office to the general network of telegraph system touching every city, town and hamlet in the United States and Terri- tories, it is enabled to receive and print atonce a full report of every event of consequence occurring during the day anywhere between the Atlantic and Pa cific Oceans. —— & NOTE THE RESULT: 2 —— THE STAR HAS MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS and MORE THAN BIVE TIMES AS MANY KEGULAR READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY PAPER IN WASHINGTON, It is de- lvered regularly by careful carriers at the HOMES OF THE PEOPLE, AFTER THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE SAY ARE OVER, and it is thus read leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. They kvow that it prints all the news, and has only the interests of the people of the District in view, with no partisan measures to advocate, and no private schemes to forward. They know it, in short, tobe THE PEOPLE’S PAPER, and nothingelse, Asan ADVERTISING MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSU- LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL, It is in fact worth more as a means of reach- ing the public THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN THE CITY TOGETHER, Furthermore, in proportion to the re- turns it gives its patrous, ITS ADVER- TISING RATES ARE THE CHEAPESt IN THE CITY. —:0: —— In conclusion, the public should bear in mind this one significant fact: THE STAK does not rely upon empty boasts toimpress the public. ITS CIRCULA- TION IS SWORN TO; its PRESS- ROOM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; and its BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED by any one having an interest in their examination. These are CRUCIAL TESTS, which few papers invite, aud which those that boast most are least able to stand. —o—— 2 The esteem in which THE STAR is held by the reading and advertising public is conclusively shown by the fig- ures given below. In the first six months of each of the