Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1890, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, vine JULY 12, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES, FRUITS FROM STRANGE LANDS. Brought to Washington From Many Parts of the World. LIMES AND LEMONS FLOM THE SUNNY TROPICS— ALSO ORANGES AND BUNCHES OF BANANAS, WITH TARANTULAS THROWN IN—HOW Cogoa- NUTS ARE PREPARED FOR MARKET. TIS a very funny thing,” said a fruit dealer a day or two ago to a Stan re- porter, “that people in Washington and ‘all over the north have no liking for limes. Three barrels of limes will stock the mar- ket in this city with that kind of fruit at any time. And yet there is no question of the fact that the lime, employed for the same purposes Precisely, isa fruit infinitely superior to the lemon. Unfortunately, it is a cultivated taste, and hardly any one in this latitude has taken the trouble to acquire it. Where both limes and lemons are grown it is not considered that the latter are at all to be compared with the former. Try alimeade for once in place of a lemonade and you will be convinced. But you must take care to buy your LIMES YELLOW AND RIPE, and not jn the green condition, as they are wsually seen here. Use about two to a glass of water, with ice and the requisite amount of suger, and you have a drink for the goda. Sach limes as reach Washington come mostly from Jamaica, though a few are brought from Florida. You can judge how litie prized they are by northerners when I tell you that I have @ften seen them sold, ready pickled, for 75 cents per barrel. Most of them that come to this country from the West Indies are bought up by manufacturers for rendering into bottled lime juice, which tastes no more like the fresh article than chalk docs like cheese. In old times schooi girls used to be Very wuch addicted to the usnaily surrepti- tious consumption of pickied limes, which they bonght for a penny apiece at the little shops; put my impression is that this fashion has gone out to a great extent. A lime, though so much smaller, has about as much juice in it as a good demon; it is so excelicnt a fruit that Washing- ton peopie really ought to educate their pal- ates to an appreciation of it, particuiarly in this hot summer time, when it makes so deli- Giouws a tluvoring for drinks of many sorts.” WHERE FRUITS COME FROM. “Where do you get your lemons from?” “From Italy mostly, though a comparatively email number come from Florida. The big Jemons, with thick skins and no juice worth mentioning, used to fetch the biggest prices, but people have been learning better. and now the little ones with the smooth skins are chiefly in demand. Oranges also are imported from Italy wnen Florida and the West Indies re not producing. Jamaica and other islands im its neighborhood supply the market from September till November of each year, Florida is drawn upon from November to Mu and for the rest of the twelvemonth Italy sends us the golden fruit. Bananas come from the West Indies and from Port Limon, in Costa 7 ‘The greatdealers in them have war houses in New York city and have lines of ti own vessels rnuning from the producing points tothe metropolis. One steamship company makes it an important part of its business to carry bananas for sule on its own account. It owns great plantatious, as do also most of the big dealers I spoke of. BANANA PLANTATIONS. “During the last few years many enterprising persons have been going to Costa Rica aiid the West Indies and buying plantations for ba- Banas with great profit to themselves. You see the banana isa vegetable that yields enor- mously in proportion to the iabor expended and the acreage employed. It has been esti- mated that one acre planted with bananas will actually produce twenty-five times as much food per annum as the same space de- voted to corn. You may remember that & distinguished political economist once de- elared the banana to be the insurmountable obstacle to the prospective civilization of the hative of tropical Africa. ‘So long,’ he said, ‘asthe untutored black of that region is able to produce by one day's exertion enough bana- Bas to feed him for a year he will decline to toil’ We get our bananas here in Washington by rail om commission from the New York dealers, HOW BANANAS RI “Tn a green state, of course’ “Always. We ripen them artificially in win- ter. Insummer, when it is very hot, we put ice about them, lest they rot; in winter we hans them in the same boxes which are used for sefrigerators during the heated term and keep the boxes warm with steam pipes. Aspin- wall, on the Isthmus of Panama, used to be the great place of export for bananas. but the busi- Bess of growing them in that part of the world has almost died out in recent years, largely because the digging of the great eanal took away all the available laborers. From Aspinwall are brought the long, thin bananas, which have so delicate a flavor; some consider them betier than any others, red bananas come from Baracoa, on the island of Cuba: they are not as good as the white ones, though it is somewhat the fashion to consider them very superior and often they bring higher prices." Here is a buuch of plan- tains—the banana is « variety of plantain, you know—which are so much prized in the tropics. You will observe that they are two or three times as big as a banana, and the ‘jackass plan- Gain’ sometimes grows to a huge size. In tropi- cal climes fried plantain is a favorite dish AN & “Quite often we find tarantulas in the bunches \CHISTIC TARANTULA, of bananas as they arrive. They make their way into the bunches on the tree. Luckily they lose their venom daring the voyage, and by the time they get to this country are harm- less. At all events, I never knew any of my employes to be bitten, though it is no unusual thing to see one or two of the great hairy spiders, with bodies a+ big as the palm of your hand, crawling up the wall of my shop. That reminds me of an adventure I once had at Aspinwall, where I killed uo less than seven taraniulas in my room the day after I took lodgiags at a rather respectable boardin; house. When 1 went down stairs te breakfast =I told the — landlady of my achievement; but she, instead of thank- ing me, burst into ed that I had rumed the luck meut for seven years—one year for cach tula slain, such being the local superstit Scorpions and lizards also we sometimes find im bunches I forgot to just now that a ry curious popular impression exists to the effect that the biood orange is a fruit produced artificially by crossing the ordinary orange with tue red-juiced pomegra + Dome people also immagine that the blood orange is a freak of nature oceasionaily found on a tree of the common sort, The fact ix, however, that a blood-orange tree beurs nothing but blood Oranges; it is « distinct variety. cCocoaNUTs. “How about cocoanuts?” “They are imported from the West Indios for eastern consumption, thongh the west is sap- lied via San Francisco from the South Pacific. Spon being unloaded at the dock they are carted to warehouses, where they are prepared for market. They get to this country with the busks on, justas they come from the trees. These busks are first removed by skilled work- men, who tear them off by impaling each nut pon an upright steel harpoon and giving it a yank. One man can husk in this way 1,200 cocounuts in a day, which ix marvelously rapid bat nd tough covering the uve NOt sprouted ai eré, but those which have sprouted have to go through some further prep- aration. t they are put into a steam chest to soften the shells, From the steam chest they go to the opener, who cracks the shell with his knife and removes the meat carefully so as not to wjure it. AFTER THE SHELL 18 REMOVED. “The aut, thus deprived of its shell, is then taken to another man, who peels off the brown skin with « spokeshave, leaving nothing but the white meat. Next the nuts are thorougb!: washed in tubs with hot water, after wh 4 they are worked up by machine into three Sager the dessicated for family use, a coarser for bakers and strips for the canay Cocoanut husks are employed in grapes 250,000 are iene any yoy oe southern Pineapples nearly all come from the STRANGE DEVICES. How the Perpetual Motion Cranks Worry the Model Makers. F ALL THE CRANKS who make life @ misery for the model makers around the Patent Office here, the perpetual motion maniacs are the worst They are the ones who are most apt to be afraid lest their inventions be stolen, and sometimes they go so far as to insist upon the mechanic's agreeing that their models shall be worked upon only when no other customers are about, precautions being taken to hide them at once if anybody comes into the shop. Even of the patent lawyers whom they are obliged to consult they are afraid, lest their ROUGHING IN THE WEST. A Washington Girl’s interesting Experi- ences in Wyoming. ATYPICAL WESTERN TOWN—RAWLINS ON SUN- DAY—INTERRUPTING A GAME OF POKER AT THE ROAD RANCH—PRIMITIVE ARRANGEMENTS FOR WOMAN'S ACCOMMODATION. Correspondence of Tue EvExtxe Stan. Lost Canin, Wyomrna, July 1. HATEVER sense of desolation may fill the mind on hearing the name of this ranch, I doubt if any place will ever again seem to me quite so much found as when Lost Cabin dawned upon my tired and expectant vision. It was after a three ideas, representing as they do gigantic for-| days and a half ride (what a comprehensive tunes, tempt the professional men to appropri- ate them. Occasionally they will not give the model makers any clear description of what | ing sage they want. by reason of the same dread. One of them tried to make a bargain recently for the construction of a model, but could not be induced to say anything more about it than that there was “pretty nigh as much work upon it as there would be on a mowing ma- chine.” The model maker to whom this man applied says that in many years of experience of such perpetuai motion cranks he has never known one of them to own up that his contriy- ance was a failure. The machine invariably wants only a little improvement to make it work, AN EXTRAORDINARY DEVICE. Perhaps the most extraordinary of the de- vices for perpetual motion turned out by this model maker was the invention of a crank who walked all the way from Georgia to Washing- ton to procure his patent, The contrivance consisted of a tall framework with four up- rights, in which was to be swang back and forth the entire trunk of a large tree. When the butt end of the tree in swinging struck a spring on one side the spring was set loose aud loca the tree back toward the other side, where it struck another spring which in turn flang it back to the first spring, and so on. The only trouble with the thing, the inventor said, was that it would go so fast and was so difficult to stop when once started. Of course the per- petual motion once obtained in this way it was an easy matter to transform it into power for running mills or for any other purpose. The model made according to his instructions wonid but that of course was the modei maker's fault. Another machine for the same purpose was composed of 200 long sticks, each pivoted at the middle, and an equal number of rubber bands connecting them together, It was simply necessary to start oue stick revolv- ing on its pivot, the result being such a multiplication of energy by the action of this original force through the other rubber bands and sticks, which were sup- posed toactas levers, that the inventor was afraid lest some terrific accident might occur and so refrained from putting in as many sticks and ievers ashe might otherwise have doue, Still another perpetual motion machine was a wheel from equidistant points, on the periphery of which hung heavy bulls on the ends of rods. The wheel being started revolving to the right carried the balls dangling on the ends of the hanging rods up around its left hand side to the topmost point of its circumference, when an automatic catch threw the rods out horizon- tally to the right, the heavy balls being thus cast over far out of the center of gravity of the wheel, which their weight pulled down to the right side; when each ball got to the bottom of the wheel it fell into the wheel's center of grav- ity once more and was carried up and around again, Given a succession of balls throwing themselves one after another out of the center of gravity of the wheel and you ought to have perpetual motion. The reason you don’t is the same that prevents you from lifting yourself up by your boot straps. OTHER PERPETUAL MOTION DESIGN®, Yet another interesting perpetual motion model that he had made, the mode! maker said, was a pivoted board on which a little car ran back and forth. When it reached one end of the board it loosened a spring, which tilted the board the other way, so that the car ran back to the end from which it had started, where it touched another spring, tilted the board the other way, was sent back again and soon ad infinitum.’ One spring that winds another up while it runs down itself and vice versa reciprocally without ceasing is another form of perpetual motion contrivance offered in many editions. Also an inclined plane down which six cars ran while three are hoisted up to their starting point on an endless belt prin- ciple, Six cars running down ought certainly to be able to lift three others up, though they don't somehow. The inventor who finds out how to ‘ethem doso will earn his ever- lasting fortune. One of the most plausible machines of this sort consists simply of a big wheel pivoted on a point at the center with a metal ball running around the periphery. According to all reason and common sense that ball, ouce started, ought to yo on forever. Model makers and patent agents sre frequently violently abused by inventors for constructing unsuecessful models or for venturing to doubt the value of original ideas. By the way, the latest thing in the inventive line to appear in Washington daring the recent hot weather was a fan for an attachment to the steering piece of a bieyele, to revolve automatically and keep the rider cool as he proceeds along the as- phaltum streets upon the flying whee! Great Style to Avoid, From the New York World. De Panty—“Whore did you get those twou- sabs, Chollie?” Chollie—"What do you want to know that Chollie; only so I for?” De Pauty—““Oh, nothing, could go somewhere else, don’t you know. Cycling for the Little Ones. From the New Haven Palladium. Two or three young fathers who are included among the safety bicycle riders of New Haven and vicinity make a practice of taking their little sonsand daughters out to ride. They have attached to their machines and in front of them a wicker scat with a canopy top, and in this attachment a boy or girl of three or four years can be carried as @ passenger with but little extra exertion. eee Queen Victoria’s First Trouble. From the Lady's Pictorial. One of the earliest troubles—perhaps the first crumpled rose leaf in the queen's royal couch—was the proposed dismissal of hez bed- chamber ladies on the fail of the Melbourne ministry. Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wel- lington tried to persuade her majesty that ner ladies were on the same level as her lords, but the queen would have none of it, and wrote the famous letter to Lord Melbourne, in which she veg Rawk baccyy wil to fame me fg my ladies, su deprive me next of my drewsers and house maids; they wished to treat me like a girl, but I will show them that I am Queen of "The Elizabethan ring about these words has echoed down the years until today, and her majesty has ne failed to remember, and to make others remember, that above and before all else she is “Queen of England. ——e0—_____ Scriptural Precedent. His Mother—“Johnny, you musn’t throw stones at Tommy Trot; it’s wicked.” The Terror—“No it ain't either, ma The Bible tells about a boy who threw stones at his ee ae The Terror—“David,” word that is now; once it only sug- gested pleasure) over dusty plains, jolt- 6 brush, treeless, stony moun- tains and, most of all, those patches of alkali, in which our wheels sunk to be white- washed and our horses’ hoofs clogged. The dust bleached our lips to a ghastly whiteness and made our eyes proportionately red and watery, Like a warm friend the sun stood by us—I might say, on us—as long as we had a leg. When he had to “set” (everybody sets here) we excused him without a murmur, While he was ap he did his duty like an gb- sconding cashier, He drew out what he could—then silently stole away. In my case his efforts were rewarded by nine white blisters ranged over the top oi my nose like a bas relie? of the Alps. Had my portrait been done in color after that ride I should heve entitled it, “An Alpine Sunset,” the ‘bas,’ was so red. I cannot truthfully say, however, that I regarded the blisters in any sense asa relief. Notwithstanding this un- solicited facial decoration the trip was not without interest. LEAVING RAWLINS. In the first moments of our jolting we were conscious of a great happiness. We were leay- ing Rawlins, that prairie city, that child of the Union Prcific railroad, where the eye of the wanderer is greeted by an unfenced se: jnil, several sigus reading ‘License bins a chemist shop, over is the encouraging notice Whisky, and Prandy soid all day Sunday for’ sic ress. longer in us would catch What it was I have ne felt that if we remained a moment the place that the one or all of prevalent disease, found out, butit was raging. Everybody seemed to have it, — After the novelty of our escape from the elutches of death, as it were, had worn off, we spent twenty minntes in calling my brother's attention to prairie dogs, As he has only been in the country ten years he was delighted—iis excitement on od and fifty nbsided, y discovered that exclama- nied by more or less dis- seeing the first hui We simultaneou: tions were accon comfort. Each one acted as an inlet for a quantity of dust which clogged conversation. So we tried silence and then I slept until I was awakened by a scusation of not being jolted. We had reached A ROAD RANCH, To the unii Washingtonian I will here state thata road rauch is neither built nor run upon the seme plan as a city hostelry, although one might find a strong similarity in the pro- prietor of the aforesaid ranch to tie clerk of any hotel where the rooms are “all full!” For instance, here if one suggested he would like anything he did not see he would probably be told that he was ‘too d—- pertickler,” and that he'd “better turn out in the sage brush,” On this oc on, however, we so much wanted tid see that we had no thought t visible upon the table at the and eggs, canned tomatoes, ble stewed dried fruit and are. what occupied our atten- tions at the first meal on the road. he suc- th one exception, when we had ‘Apropos of “tea or cof- * there is a popular story told in this coun- try to the effect that a certain proprietor of a road ranch always asked of a tenderfoot in a mild voice when serving him at table, at Or coffee, sir?” And when that forlorn individual had expressed his preterence, said in a voice to shatter the crockery, *-D——'you, you'll take milk!” PRIMITIVE SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS, However, the food was luxury compared to the sleeping accommodations at these hostel- ries, As they are sometimes thirty and even fifty miles apart we did not arrive at one the first night out till nearly 10 o'clock. When we entered we found ourseives in a kind of room the halls and ceilings of which were of logs and mud, I think there was a board floor, and on it stood a billiard table which nearly filled the room. This was kuown as the saloon. Across one end of it was a primitive sort of bar, and near the door was a rough, round table, about which sat four cowboys, armed to the teeth, sombreros on their heads, ob- livious of everything but their cards and money, playing poker. A new hand being dealt at that moment they looked up, and as we were led through to the kitchen we were conscious of having caused a stir among those men, some of whom had probably not seen a white woman before in a year, The bunk room, commonly used by all the men in which to make their beds, was vacated for our use, and, having transferred our bedding from the wagon, we lay down to sleep, unmindfal of the crumbling mud which dropped upon our heads from time to time. The next night our accommodations were somewhat better, there being two or three women onthe place. We slept ina bed in a large room divided by a cur- tain into two apartments. This time the mud tumbling had been prevented by the tacking on of cheese cloth, which gave the room a clean look, to say the least, The bed on the other side of the curtain was occupied by the “lady what cooks for the out- fit,” as she described herself, She inquired anxiously if we had, on our journey that far, met a “gentleman what herded mules,” called Hanks. On hearing that that pleasure had not been ours she elapsed into slumber—perhaps to dream of him, CAMPING OUT. During the next day’s drive my brother shot three young sage hens, ‘That night we camped out. Fortunately we had a cask of water with us, as we found but the empty bed of the creek, From the torrid heat it had gone to the clouds, We stumbled about in the half light and athered the dead sage wood, which makes the | rerecey tes imaginable, while my brother got the camp outfit in readiness. We broiled the game and cooked canned vegetables, steamed stale bread, ate off tin plates, washed the dishes and went to sleep on the ground un- der a canvas cover and a starless sky. What a night it was, In that cold, yellow light along the horizon, which in this country lasts so long after the sun has gone down, we could see the white alkali plain stretched out before us like a tarpaulin over the earth. The air was full of the cries of calves too weak to go for water, and the bellowings of the mothers, who would not leave them. How we ever went to slee with those melancholy sounds in our ears don’t know, but I suppose fatigue will drown the cries of any suffering not our own. The following morning we were up at5 and after a second feast of sage hen we started on the last fifteen miles of our journey, Fifteen, did I say? They seemed a hundred and fifteen, ‘The sun shone hotter, the dust rose higher, the water was all gone, {'was too thirsty to sleep, when suddenly on the hill in front of us I spied Lost Cabin. Can you wonder why I talked of rechristening the ranch for a week after my ar- naval? Sr. Cram Oxe, soe GRIP AND THE SEASHORE, The Results of the Malady Will Fill Up the Seaside Resorts, From the New York Herald. The grip will this season fill the seaside resorts, or, rather, the effects of the malady will, Physicians say that the resultant lassi- tude, nervousness and prostration of the system of those who have had the grip is widespread What is true in this respect of the city is also true, say the doctors, of the suburban towns and country. Persons who had been attacked Jast winter are all flocking or going to flock to the seaside, where the balmy breezes and peace and rest from business cares will restore shat- tered health, The men, it seems, have suf- fered far more than the women. For one woman who has be tacked by the at least fifteen one eons § scent During the spring and right here at the be- | ginning of the summer not a few. faltered « Prego and have die: ects of the mysterious malady. Gas Gh Sree cere ocean are just what the enerv: ones want Festore their statiored health ie “There is ove thing I shall not tolerate,” said physic onsulted b i TEN YEARS OF SCRIBBLING. The Writers of Books Increase Faster Than the Population. THE RECORD OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGaESS— AN INCREASE OF OVER ONE HUNDRED PER CENT OF COPYRIGHTS ISSUED IN TEN YEABS— THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. OME expert statistician might figure it out to his own satisfaction that it is but @ question of time when we aball he a community of authors. The growth of the population does not begin to keep pace with the growth of the nation’s literature. Books, books, books; in time the whole com- munity will be rushing into print with his- j tories, books of travei, biographies, books of Poetry, books of prose, works ‘on political economy and volumes of romance. The popu- lation of the country during the past ten years has increased perhaps 30 per cent, perhaps ‘a little more. The number of new books has increased more than a hundred per cent. The number of copyright entries in the national library in 1879 was 18,000, In 1889 the number was 41,000. These copyright en- tries do not all represent books, About one- fourth ara for books, but the ratio is main- tained, Decade after decade, year by year the increase in the number of new books and new authors goes on with a growing per cent of in- crease, In a few centuries, perhaps, say in the year four or five thousand and something, the whole community may have leave to print and each man be his own author. Books may be exchanged instead of visiting cards and cold type take the place of conversation, The man who has anything to say will write it and he ae funny story to tell will be given leave to prin STILL BEHIND GERMANY, buteven with the present prolific production of authors it will be some time before this all can come about. Germany now has a greater pro- portion of authors to its sane population than we have, The empire 18 overrun with authors, We have caught up with and perhaps passed England, however, in the proportion of authors to our population, ASTAR reporter was talking the other day with Librarian Spofford, who is custodian of the copyright and authority on most things concerning books or to be learned from books. MR. SPOFFORD'S OBSERVATIONS. He says the growth of literature in this coun- try year by year isenormous, The increase 18 in every branch of literature and new branches are developing, The progress of invention and the development of industries, science and art is accompanied by a special literature suited to each particular branch of thought and en- deavor, One striking thing in connection with the increase of the population of the book world, which Mr. Spofford remarks upon, is the progress of woman in letters during the past decade, The number of women who write is, he says, increasing rapidly and the direction of their endvavor is more ambitious SOME BAD FACTS ABOUT EATS. How They Make Trouble for Land- lords—Curious Things About Them. ON'T say ‘Rats’ to me,” said the landlord to a Sram reporter. “The Deasts are to me acon- stant and most aggrava- ting source of expense, About once a month on an average I get a com- plaint from one or another of my tenants that a dead rat under the floor or in the wall is making itself impos- sible. If I don't attend to the matter imme- diately I am pretty apt to receive within a week notice to the effect that the house or flat has been rendered uninhabitable and that the peo- le will be compelled to move out unless some- is done without further delay to remove the nuisance. Now, I admit thats dead rat is unpleasant, but it does not take one such crea- ture more than six weeks to become entirely inoffensive through the ordinary processes of decomposition, Thus, I sometimes think that tenants might exercise a little patience rather than compel me to go to the trouble of everything up, often at considerable cost, and all fora miserable deceased rodent. Why, I do assure you that I have been obliged to spend literally thousands of dollars within the last few years in finding dead rats, for which I certainly had no use whatever and which would insist upon maliciously dying on prem- ises owned by me. There was one house in par- ticular that cost me half its rent for two or three years in rats. It was occupied as a tenement by several families, and they would ali of them threaten to move about once in three months on an account. Time after time I sent carpenters to the house and aid big bills for having the offense removed, ut regularly after a few weeks had elapsed the trouble would be renewed. SoIhired a new carpenter and went to the house with him to watch operations. He quickly found the rat underneath the stairs in a box-shaped inclosure built under the steps for some purpose, the nature of which I did not learn, The box was about two feet deep and rats, running thro ahole they had gnawed in the wall from t! next house, fell in sometimes and were unable to jump out again. They could not gnaw their way out, either, because the box was of cedar, which, owing to the manner in which it splin- ters, defies rats’ teeth, aud so they starved to death. Every time the carpenters were sent to the tenement, after their first experience, they had gone straight to the box, fished out the rat, nailed down the step again and sent me a good round bill for the job. I simply sealed up the hole that led from the next house her- metically and there was no trouble after that, LOCATING THE CORPSE. “The great difficulty in the case of a rat that has died in the house is to find out where the corpse is, So penetrating and diffusive is the peculiar odor produced by it that it is often Well nigh impossible to locate its source with any degree of accuracy. I have known two ENGLAND’S LITERARY LION, HE THOUGHT AMERICANS WERE VERY XICE PRO- PLE WHEN NE WAS HERF, ONLY THE GIRLs WERE “FRIVOLOUS”—HI8 APPEARANCE AND TRAIT#—DISTRUSTEUL OF PERMANENT SUCCESS. an From the New York Herald. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the Present hour, landed in America last June. He entered it through the Golden Gate and re- ceived his first impressions of the new world in the state famous for its prodigal produc- tions in fruit, flowers and gold, and he so- journed there when “the giorious climate” was at its level best. Perhaps these favorable conditions might have inspired, ina small way, the enthumastic admiration he expressed for America and Americans. As to his personal appearance, admiring pens have made the world familiar with the blue Bray eyes that Jook at one with a keen, pene- trating gaze through spectacles with divided lenses; “the resolute chin,” the broad fore- head, surmounted with dark brown hair. the aggressive nose, a trifle small and tipped from the perpendicular, the erect form, below the medium tor a man, the active. nervous, ener- setic stride, the businesslike dispatch in man- ner and movement, the manly self- in bearing, with a dash of boyishness withal. and the inevitable cigar, hese characteristics may be described, but to appreciate the pleasant, healthful, likable Personality of the man one must chat with him at bis ease. As a flashlight photo often catches @ more graceful pose and beauty of form and expression—-that scem to elude the artist in the photographer's studio—so a romantic hittie in- cident showed up finely some of the best traits in the character of the young writer who is be- ing lionized at the present. moment with even greater eclat than that which ushered Byron into fame. and there is no woman at the bead of it, either, A MAN'S MAN. No Lady Caroline Lamb, “with » warm heart and fanciful head” to herald Rudyard Kipling. He is eminently a man's man. His booke appeal to men and are written for men, Although a clever woman can appreciate the satire, the tenderness, the comedy and sug- gestivencss of his writings, men will enjoy his Stories better than women, and his strongest admirers will be, and are, among his own sex. He'd rather smoke @ pipe and “swap a yarn” with achummy man comrade than talk to the prettiest girl in christendom, To quote from one of his admirers, “His poems and stories are not merely clever de- scriptions of the barrack and socicty life in India, they are moral hits against the fatal system of military and civil bureaucracy which England hangs about the neck of her torrid colony.” Men can more understandingly ap- preciate that sortof thing. “But when he un- veils the horrors of asummer campaign (the thermometer, you understand, at 120 degrees in the shade), or when he ¢ wes the weak- histic faith and believes somewhat in the theo- sophic philosophy. His fereweli remark was characteristic of hie belief. He said in heery, nonchalant way, with # emtle of good comrade- ship: Good-bye; if it a so written we shall meet agai.” soe HOME MATTEKS. Seasonable Suggestions and Every-Day Recipes for Practical House Keepers, Buaxkers axp Fors put away well sprinkled with borax and done up air tight will never be troubled with moths. _ Lamy Cauawevs aur Easity CLraxnp by hold- ing them over the steam from « tea kettle, rubbing them with a soft cloth and polishing with paper. CARELESsxEKs In Muastaixe and preparing S dish is often the cause of failnre. When o recipe is found good it should be followed ex- actly. Tue Exceuuexcr or Baxep Porators de- pends upon eating as soon as done and not be- fore. They are worthless till cooked and ary rapidly as soon as baked through. Ir ts Nor Oxy ax Economy for home-makers to keep au account book, but it isa great satie- faction to know, from year to year, exactly what has been eapended Ir vee Far ty rae Fayixe Paw is hot before you are ready for it, put ina dry crust of bread, It will not burn as long as it bas something to do, only when it is left idie. Frowrns Cay pe Kerr Faren for some time if a pinch of soda or saltpetre is added to the water. Wilted roses will regain their freshness if dipped a moment or two in hot water, To Remove CLaner Starys from table linens rub on salt as soon as possible, and wash in the usnal way. If not entirely removed, apply lemon juice and dry in the sun. ASrarvia on Paverre Kyrre is the best thing for scraping batte Porridge, Ac., from the sides of bowls or pots; itis not expensive aud s00n saves its cost by preventing waste, Waar ts Mork Disacrecante to use than a rusty flatiron? Rub them with fine emery dust and sweet oil, If you cannot make them smooth send them to a factory and have them ground, Jewevey Cay px Beavrivviur CuEaNep by Washing in soap suds, in which @ few drops of spirits of ammonia are stirred, shaking off the water and laying in a box of dry sawdust, This method leaves no marks or scratches. Iy Lrowrine a Kenosext Lamp never tonch the wick with the match, as it hasa tendency to roughen or spread it, Keop the wick turned down below the top of the burner, except whea in actual use, if you would not have oil on the outside of the Lainp, Keer a Crasr Kwire or a knife with a handle different from those in common use for the sole Purpose of peeling onions, and so avoid the flavor and odor of them where it is neither expected nor desired. sil than eves. A very large number of women | entire floors of a dwelling to be torn up before writers iiave developed. Many are engaged in | a rat that lay between the beams could be work for the hour in papers ‘and periodicals; | found. {f it has perished in the wall the prol many others in light fiction or poetry, but their | lem is likely to be very serious. ‘There was @ best achievement is the entry into the more | man in Baltimore ouce who had a dog that serious work of history and biography—work | possessed an extraordinary accomplishment in in which they have been very successful, some | this way. The animal was trained to find dead having won’ fame others having shown | rats by scent, and when he had come to the marked ability, who are, as yet, not widely | place in wall or floor where the objectionable known. Tho esses of some have encour-| object was hidden he would pause and point. aged others to attempt literary work, and the | In’ another city there is a very extraordinary ratio of increase among women writers is prob- | persou who earns a large income by the skillful ably considerably greater than among men, | employment of his own nose for similar scent- and the development of the character of |ing purposes. The organ so valuable to him women’s literary work during the decade has | in this way is naturally acute, but owes its been more marked, ternatural sharpness to habitual rat hunting. SERIOUS AND FRIVOLOUS, When = gnters ee is to Nei oon i gated he first gives a few sniffs ind oul apere fas born a srendy grows otveectous | 7 a general way the whereabouts of the corpse work by both men aud women, but Mr. Spof-| sought for. ‘Then, after finding in this way the ford says that itcannot be held that the ten-| particular room or passageway to be seriously dency of our literature has necessarily got | suspected, he noses around, keeping a lookout direction in more serious channels. The in-| for such likely spots as those beneath fire- creased production of light literature has kept | places, where rats often go for warmth in win- well abreast of the other. Our literature has | ter. Having spotted what he thinks is the right become more diversified, more extensive and piace he bores an augur hole and sni it, more varied with its rapid increase. It has | If it isa find it simply remains to make the extended into nearly every branch of research, | hole bigger and take out the offensive carcass, thought and fancy. Of course a great number | His charge is always @5 for each rat removed, of those who have blossomed ont as authors | whether it takes him five minutes or a week to have got small fame for their labor and their | find it, If he lived in Washington I should be works will not enrich our literature greatly. | glad to employ him at that rate; it would save ‘There have been some very bad poems pub-|meagreat deal of money. There is a fine ; Harr a Teasrooxrct oF Svaan will nearly ness and intrigucs in a society—the saddest z and most lunguorous, the most exciting, even | “47* revive a dying fire, and, unlike the few the most degrading that England can boast— | Tops of coal oil, which servants are so fond of his touch is teuder and his love for England | ¥*'2@ aud which have caused so many sad acci- melancholy. dents, is perfectly safe. But the romantic incident? It was in this] IF THE Srove 1s CnackeD @ good cement is edema — Badgend Kipling made for it as follo: Wood ashes and salt o¢ ‘died soon after Rudyard Kipling al an lett San Francisco,” Ho was to do.a service fof | coigieayeropontions, Fedicod to paste with her in India, that ‘hiding place of all nations,” | Stove is cold. ‘It will soon harden as he called Akcus aa Sespensn ho ee appeal that the | AFTER Cooxixe 4 Meat @ person will feel man’s spontaneous generosity, ready sympathy | tired and have no appetite. For this beat « and willingness to serve where he could aid in| raw egg until light, stir ina little milk and the common cause of lightening sorrow showed sugar and season with nutmeg. Drink half an with telling clearness, hour before eating. A raw ogg well beaten HIS GENEROSITY. and stirred into a glass of lemonade is re- One could readily understand the spirit of | {reshing and helpful to one who has little or the tender prelude to his “Departmental Dit- | 8° *PPetite. ; pds Wuex Oxe 1s Fatiove tea is an efficient restorative. It forms an agreeable, warm Thave caten roar breed and — drink, which is neither heating to the blood The deaths ye died I ha : nor oppressive to the stomach, particularly if And the lives that ye taken slowly when one is sitting quietly, ‘Woe there cught that 1.414 net chase Large quantities, however, induce nervous In vi«il or toil or disorders. ee ae Tue Oxp-Fasmroxep Inga that burning sul- cies iagiiiee tas caer phur is a disinfectant is pronounced by phy- For a shel! ople sicians of the present day to apply only to the rooms and closets of a house, but will not did not know, he seas? In Jesting guise—but ye are wise, lished in book form at no great profit to the author—or to the reader—and novels have ap- peared and disappeared without creating a sensation in the world of letters. Histories and biographies have been badly written and inaccurately or slovenly. In the multiplicity of authors the increase in quantity of our htera- ture hax been in greater ratio than the devel- | low man and may fairly be classed as ‘domes- opment of quality. NO GREAT LIGHT HAS APPEARE! Speaking of this Mr. Spofford said: “Ten years is too short a timo within which to con- fine our search for superior authors, Within the past twenty years this country has produced many fine thinkers and writers, and a quantity of very creditable work has been di have produced as good men as has England during the same period. Books have been written which will live and do credit to our literature. But during that time we nave not produced asingle author of great genius like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and all those great authors who belong to the first half of this century. There are but two or three writers of great genius now living, and they belong to that period. No new ones have been developed as yet. In this we are not be- hind England. She has given birth to no new genius, DOOKS THAT ARE NEVER WRITTEN, “The number of copyright entries,” Mr. Spofford said, ‘‘does uot represent books pub- lished, for among the entries are copyright for music, pictures, &c. Besides many books which have been copyrighted have never come into existence. Many rejected manuscripts are preserved in copyright entry. Many copy- rights are got out for books which the ambi- tious author never is able to write. A man is struck with a brilliant idea, He gets a great novel, a great drama or some wonderful work of aserious character in his head. He has sowething that is going to make a sensation in the world, and is much excited over the idea, He gets up the title of his book or play, pre- pares the title page, before he has written the first line of his work, and then for fear that some one else sl ike upon the same line thought of him he gets his But he e8 ahead copyright. attempts to write the book the thing hitch somehow and he never quite gets a start. I have no doubt that men have spent the best part of their lives trying to write a book to correspond to a copyright already secured, The great ideas won't take shape on paper and the man who becomes an author before he has written anything meets with disappointment and misery. It would astonish you to know how many copyrights represent nothing—not a scratch on paper. Many plays are copyrighted which never see the light ot day or appear be- hind the foot lights. Some of them have been written and rejected; some have never been written at all. BOOKS THAT ARE NEVER READ. “Of course many, very many books get into type but find no readers, The books that meet with wide popularity are not as numer- ous, but the growth of Lire literature in this country is rapid and healthy and gives charac- ter to our book world. While, as I have said, we have produced no great literary gonius during the past two decades, the number of good authors and good books has increased astonishingly. The tendency of the period seems to to treat subjects with a nimble touch.” Deserted by Her Lover. Miss Genevieve Green, who killed herself in Newnan, Ga., Wednesday, went to West Point, Ga., from Vermont last November, and during the winter and spring taught an art class. She was about twenty-one years old. She had a opening in Washington for Itis not a considered, ich a rat hunter. leasant occupation, sentimentally ut there are dollars in it, 48 PETS. “I have read that peopie in Siam keep rats for pets instead of cats. The animals seem to fol- tic.’ They came from Asia originally, where the human race had its origin, and wherever mankind has gone they have pursued. They are of two great varieties, the black and the brown. The black rat entered Europe by way of Astrachan four centuries ago, and the brown or ‘Norway’ rat followed 200 years later. Cor- rectly = irered the brown rat is not a Norway rat at all, but a Persian rat. The brown rat being larger and fiercer than the black rat has almost driven its weaker cousin out of exist- ence. Not very many yearsago the common rat in this rpeay was the black variety with the long tail and big ears, and the brown rats were only known as ‘ship rats’ and ‘dock rats,” But the black rats have almost disappeared since then, while the brown rats are spread all over the inhabited part of this continent. The black rat went over to England with William the Conqueror, and the brown rat accompa- niedthe Hanoverian dynasty in its voyage across the channel. These facts are historical, Frogs were formerly very plentiful in Ireland, but the rats ate them all up, so that now there are none at all. In Paris a grand rat battue is made a tremendously festive celebration once a year below the streets and pavements in the great sewers of the city, but it is not true that the skins are ever used for making kid gloves, though such a statement has been gu persist- eutly circulated, The bite of a rat is always dangerous, but that of a sewer rat particular! 80 because its teeth are apt to be poisoned with decayed garbage.” —_——»—___ THEY WENT PARTNERS, And the Money Thus Gained Kept the Weekly Banner on Its Feet. From the Chicago Herald. One day, after theeditor of the Weekly Bane ner and Home Journal had returned to the office from atrip around the village, he announced to me that the paper would suspend with that issue, I was an apprentice at $2 per week and “found,” and he was in debt to me and every- body else, and could raise no more subscrip- tions or advertising. We were discussing the gloomy outlook when a young man with hawk eye anda thin nose came bustling in. That he was down on his luck could easily be told at a glance, but that he was discouraged was not so clear, “I want two or three days’ credit for a little inting,” he promptly announced. Poon can’t fave Fi growled the editor. The young man was turni away, seeming not at all discouraged, when the editor asked: “Who are you?” “A fakir.” “What's that?” “A man who travels and lives by his wita.” “Well, yo hit the wrong town. You couldn’t raise a quarter here in a week's talk- ing. I've worked like s jackass for a year to establish this paper and she busts this week.” = d,” said the stranger as he sat down, “let's go pards,” ‘fou’print labels and dodge ou me some an Tl do the eelling and we'll whack up.” “What haye you got?” “A liver tonic.” 2 ” rs and love affair in Vermont and the man she-was to | american Liver Invigorator sve tera noone marry joined the United States army and never some editor agreed to communicated with her. It was this man’s | tho partnership. I went to the drug store and heartlessness, and not want of money, that in- found 100 bottles of « certain size One thou- duced her i send mipecrt oar we! heart. “et exci a — hed for at pene | Her parents were wel lo ant 1 money come ».D. e up alabel out oes yas She arose one morning and told her and 4 hgd at cousin she had no! had studied all night self with ber cousin Wi ——_—_—+0e—_____ Saved From the Gallows. Governor McKinney has commu sentence of Joha Booker, sentenced gt id i of that “In ,” working other beeline our svn, Ta tee and he had three or four to but he aid all alone. Children they ever had a liver —. two then came back for = one. I saw NOS cunaten Sonn sm Be eee eae oaieer, at Wa Vane See me is im fore equared ap he paper Seat ‘and today it is one of the omall the state of Ohio, ——_—_re+ ___—_ tallow house and fat rendering | i And ye know what the Jest is worth, The one who sought his ~~ was a stranger to him. He was hard pre: for time. ie was writing at his full bent and was socially in demand, but he made the time to doa kindly service. which neither promoted nor served his interests to any mentionable extent. In ar- ranging what she wished to appear in the paper circulated in India Mr. Kipling showed the masterful journalistic instinct that has so signally advanced him. He detected a “story” with the swift surety that leads a bloodhound on in the hunt. FRIVOLOUS AMERICAN GIRLS, His observations on America, and American women particularly, were delightfully amusing, “It's awfully jolly to see the boys and girls together asTdid last night at a party,” he said. “In IndiaIam not accustomed to it, My only society was among married women as far as the fair sex goes. Squads of charm- ing young women come ont from England os- tensibly to be married. It is an understood thing, 4 respected and accepted fact, and a man who enjoys the society of women, but is nota marrying man, must keep in the back ground, or his meaningless attentions might spoil some other fellow’s chances and lose ‘an opportun- ity’ for the girl. It is immensely entertaining to see the boys and giris together,” he repeated, “they seem to have such jolly times and are happy, but although bright and clever, they seem frivolous, so frivolous,” he added, with a little deprecatory gesture almost pathetic. In making some of his criticisms on Ameri- cans it became necessary to remind him that American human nature at its best is the same as English human nature at its best, and that Theophile Gautier was right when he said: “Human nature is the same everywhere, it is only climates, thieves, slang and the police uniforms that differ.” A WONDERFUL COUNTRY. “Where did you hear of Theophile Gautier?” he asked ina surprised way, very amusing to an American girl who had read everything she could find all her life. “Read his books,” was the response. “American women are marvelously bright,” he said. ‘I am constantly wondering how they learn so much and tell it so readily, It does not seemed to be confined to any class, either. The girls down where I am having my type. writing done are intelligent, well read and seem to know a little, at least. of every subject mentioned. It is a wonderful country. A fellow goes into a business office and he is re- ceived by a woman whois a lady in manner aud movement and talks like a philosopher and seems to understand business methods like a man.” Mr. Kipling is a man with an intellectual passion. He could tell whether the American girls are brainy, but he never stopped to de- cide whether they are pretty or have large eyes or small. “Have you ever heard of Burne-Jones?” he asked in that same extremely amusing naive way. “Yes; he is the greatest artist of his par- ticular school of painting,” was the school- irl answer to the question. “-Yes, Uncle Ned a fine artist, but he paints women with im- possible chius”—a criticism which will be sec- onded by many of the artist's admirers in America and elsewhere. “I've knocked around Uncle Ned's studio a good deal when in England and absorbed the philosophy of The- ophile Gautier in the air,” qaid Burne-Jones’ nephew. ‘Fe mast have absorbed Sancrit in India, or at least his readers will have to geta glossary for some of his poems, especially if there are many like this: Tshe eround the ba ‘That harmingly unintelligible as the happy ja in “Alice in Wonderland.” te ul I § Hi Pet Ae answer for clothing and blaukets, which should be washed m a solution of carbolic acid and left in the air several days. To Sroxe Rarsixs Easicx take a cupfal at a time, put them in a bowl aud pour boiling water over them; let them stand a moment, then proceed as usual to remove the seeds, which will drop out of the raisins perfectly clean without sticking to the fingers, It saves time and trouble, and you do not waste a parti- cle of the raisins, and it cleans them as well. ‘ue Importance or Lerrixe rue Soxnuewt Fax into all parts of our dwellings cannot be too highly estimated. Good health is depend- ent on sunlight and pure air, Au eminent phy- sician bas said: Sunlight should never be «x- ciuded except when so bright as to be uncom- fortable to the eyes. Siiver, Waswep Arter Eacu Meat, in very hot water, with sometimes a little ammonia in it, will be brightand shining for a long time without other cleaning. When amore thorough cleaning is necessary use any good silver polish, being sure to rub lightly, as the bright luster soofl weurs dull, and if it be plated soon wears off. Manton Hartaxp Apvises those who use what grocers catalogue as canned goods to always open the cans some hours before cook- ing the contents and empty into an open bowl, set in acool place, ‘This removes the close, airless, smoky taste. Dram the liquor from peas and beans, cover with fresh, cold water and let them soak fortwo hours. It freshens them wonderfully. To Kerr rae Burout, Grrex Coton of sum- mer cabbage and some other vegetables boil fast in plenty of water in which has been dis- solved a piece of washing soda the size of two peas; cover until the water boils and then take off the lid. If the steam is shut in the cabbage will be yellow and unsightly, Tomato Catsur.—Take two quarts of skinned tomatoes, two tablespoonfuls of salt, the same of black pepper, same of ground mustard, one tablespoonful of allspice, four pods of red pep- per; mix and rub these ail thoroughly together, stew them slowly in one piut of vinegar for three hours, then strain the liquid through » sieve and simmer it down to one quart of cat- sup; put in bottles and cork tight. To Avorn tae Horrmiez Opor which too often fills the house when cabbage or other | Breen vegetables are boiling follow these simple | direction Put your cabbage in a net and when you have boiled it five minutes in the first pot of lift it out, drain for a few seconds and place carefully in a second pot, which you must have full of fast-boiling water on the stove. Empty the first water away and boil your cabbage till tender in the second. Beer Sxret is very tender and good if nicely cooked. Cut it across in thin slices, Mix a tablespoon of flour, a teaspoon of salt, one- aif teaspoon of pepper on ® plate, and dij bach alice of meat in this mixture. ‘Holl ‘up tightly and pisce in a dish, keeping it well in the center. Fill three parts fuil of water and leover. Cover: Flour, lard, baking | powder, pinch of salt, mix well together; add water to make stiff paste. Bake two hours. Serve hot with potatoes. Gruman ‘“Kiossx” somewhat resensble dump- lings, but are much lighter and more delicate | than those as commonly seen. Let « pint of new milk boil; stir in « tablespoonful of sugar with flour enough to thicken it; boil umtil the mixture no longer hangs to the sides of the pan; then turn it out and when cool stir in four well-beaten eggs. Haves pintand a half of milk boiling ina stewpan, and with « spoon, dipped each time in boiling water, cut kiosse out of the mass aud simmer them in the mi