The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-17

together at the doctors table,. III BuCn Is nsr
success, what an artist was lost TO- the world ia
the New Epglsnd housekeeper | Attempted to
described Delicate to etherealuess, accurate
to mathematical severity, she might have
wrong ht marvels indeed had she been initiated
into the mysteries of the modern cuisine.
Therefore, above all things, let the co-opera-
tive housekeepers appoint one of their mum.
ber, at liberal salary, to the Office OF cook-in-
chief. II possible, let them afford her every
advantage of astronomical education such as
20 through the great French chefs, who learn
sauces from one master, entrees from another,
connections from third, and so on. If the
CO. operative kitchen should ever become uni
versal, We shall probably see American ladies
by dozens going out to Paris to study under
just such artists as the great Sophie above
mentioned and then returning home
to benefit the whole country with
their accomplishments. 1t is we'll
known fact that no nation in the world
has such variety and abundance of the best
food that Nature gives as we ourselves. She
teens with such bounty to her adopted chill
dTen that it has often seemed to be misnomer
to call our country 'Fatherlsnd' '--Ifother-laud
she is for the whole earth, with her broad lap
of plenty sloping from the Rocky Mountains
down to the very Atlantic shore, as if inviting
the hungry nations to come over to it and be
fed. What feasts fit for the immortals might
grace every table, if we only know to turn our
treasures to the best advantage; and to think
that millions Of us live on salt pork, sour or
saleratus bread, and horrible heavy pies !"
Mr. Edward Everett Hale, in "The First and
the Last" gives graphic account Of the hor-
rors of the slave trade, and how it was put an
end to by the execution of Gordon as pirate,
under Mr.. Lineoln's administration. Speak
ing OF the innumerable victims Of the infamous
traffic, Mr. Hale says:-
81 dare not try to count the numbers. No
body dares. Nor would it make any differ
ence If did. Beyond very narrow range,
dear reader, numbers do not affect your sensi-
bilities nor any mans. | tell you that one
hurdred thousand people were killed in the
earthquake in Peru, and you are sorry; if
tell you that ten thousand people were killed,
and can give you some little account how
one of them suffered, you are much more
sorry; if tell you one hundred were killed,
and that saw them killed and heard their
cries as they died, and have here the orphan
of one, whom l brought home with me,
you begin for the first time to feel
that it was indeed terror of terrors;
and if there were only five killed,
if those five were your own Dick and Fanny
and Frank, and the rest, why there is
sorrow that you will carry with you . ,.o,,.
sIrs srHuG, ~ Thera mLa iio' .secute you with the
numbers nv ~! mere were three hundred years
~ 'iAS ''AHS --AIe6 SIllpS blaL sailed carried,
as we saw, three hundred slaves; and the
las. that sailed carried one hundred and fifty
| two, of whom one hundred and forty-nine
! lived to reach Cuba and to be set free. Many
and many ship, in the three hundred years
! between, was loaded with thousand and
more Of the POOR wretches. Buxtons esti-
mate in 1880 was that the Christian slave
trade Christian, good God that the Chris
tian slave-trade then carried one hundred
and fifty thousand slaves across every year,
| or stated with them; that the MOhometan
! slave-trade of Eastern Africa took fifty thou
sand more. This was long after the trade
had been pronounced piracy by all the COM
mercial nations, and even after England and
America had vessels on the African coast to
arrest it, What it had been before no sta
tistios pretend to tell. In 1853 the new town
of Liverpool employed one hundred and one
vessels in the trade. Those vessels that year
took 30, 900 slaves to the British colonies; and
the estimate of that year was that LONDON,
Bristol, and Liverpool took 100, 900. The
estimate on this side was the same-that the
American colonies of England received one
| hundred thousand slaves in year. Besides
these there were the French, Spanish Dutch,
and Portuguese American colonies to be sup
! piled. BOnezets computation is, that thirty
per cent. of all these died on the passage
or in aecmation. Then the cruelties of the
system of slavery, and the opening up of new
lands, kept up steady demand for them, so
that l do not see that we can escape the in
! ference that for much of the last century the
number of negroes annually brought across
! by the African save-trade was as great as is
now the number of emigrants from Europe to
North America, namely, between three hun
dred and four hundred thousand every year.
In the preceding century the English alone
carried from Africa to America three hundred
Thousand slaves and the Spanish and Por-
tuguese trade must have been very much
larger"
Miss Jane G. Austin has clever story
entitled "Caleb's Lark" and fourth install
ment OF "The Face in the Glass is given
"a Day at Consulate" describing the way
things are managed at the American Consul's
Office at one of the principal Italian ports, is
amusing as well as instructive. "a Gothic
Capital" by Theodore Bacon, is description
OF Ravenna "Our Paris Letter" is an anu
sing little story, and the magazine winds up,
as usual, with some appreciative reviews and
literary notices.
SOUR Young Folks"
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