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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

The modern navy, with its scientific
electrical and steam appliances, the
breech-lOading rified cannon and revOlv-
ing machine-gunS requires much more
intelligence in its personnel than did
the wooden frigateS and line Of battle
ships thirty years ago. The men OF
our white squadron" are young IN
years, but they are vastly superior IN
knowledge 10 the grim sea dogs who
pulled n rope or stopped a ball in the
DAYS when ships fought yard arm TO
ward arm. Jack to-day has learned
tha the steel projeetile is SUI
periOr to the boarding pike He has
been taught 10 use his head Is well as
his hands, and he understands that in
war efficiency in handling HOtchSiSS
gun would be more valuable than skill
with the cutlaSS. Apprentice boys on
any of our cruisers can give SurpriS-
ingly accurate description Of the arma-
ment. In the engine and furnace rooms
there is the some familiarity with the
dynamo. diStilling apparatus, forced
draught and other Improvements in
steam navigation and the sailor on the
gun deck shows in explaining the
hydraulic recOil buffer of the gravity
gun carriage.
But this is Christmas morning. and al
quarters" the officers may substitute
for the arm OF fire drills the simple ser
vice of the church. The men are mus
tered aft on the gun deck, and the
chaplain, standing a little apart from
The officers. at the foot OF the companion
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

eter To adapt the great hearth TO the
use of coal false back of brick has been
put in, and coal crate in front extends
the whole width of the opening. Before
this lordly blaze a flaming sheet of red
coal eighteen feet long and four feet
high-the joints are rested upon splits.
These are kept turning, not by hand,
but by a device which dates back to
Wolsey's time and proves him to have
been quite sixteenth century Yankee.
Suspended in the throat of the chimney
is circular fan wheel, constructed pre-
cisely on the principle OF the turbine
water wheel or the modern wlndmills
so common in America. AS the hot air
from the great mass of flaming Goals
rises it causes this wheel to revolve,
and by its revolution it keeps all the
splits. geared to it by wheels and pull
leys. busily turning.
Hand 'ere's where we make the
Mayonnaise sauce" went on the cook.
Mayonnaise sauce in a Tudor kitchen.
Time does move, even in England.
Magdalen College has another fine old
kitchen. with an open timbered roof
and chimneys only less spacious than
Woolsey's, and at many of the other OK
fordzcolleges modern meals are served
from very ancient kitchens. 1t is this
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
FAN Mreel

External conditions for Christmas
cheer are apt enough in all these places
but reach their perfection in the stately
homes OF England. What place fol
the revelS is the hall of Warwick Castle
sixty feet by forty, and as high as wide
with a cord and half of logs heaped
up before the open CRATE, and kithen
almost equally spacious Just far enough
away so that one can trace the stately
progress Of the roast goose thence by
the slow deepening of the delicious
smell. hesitate no longer. If
had the magic carpet and the
,giftof invisbiity to boot. would spend
my Christmas in Warwick Castle.
Yet it is not 2 walk-over for Warwick
by any means. There is the Blunt
family's Elizabethan house at Maple
Durham in OxfordShire, where the
Joints are still roasted before big open
blaze, as in the days of Pope's Martha
Blunt, and no other meat is so iii for
the good holiday coming as the savOry
Joint that the fire has. In many such
old houses q tiny tread-mill, turned by
a patient dog, trained TO the work, is
used to keep the spit Affirming, and to
give the roast that perfect flavor whose
acquaintance is never made by range
baked meats. In Hampton Court Palace
are housed and fed at the public ex-
pense lot of poor relations OF the royal
family, and OF reduced "gentle people"
generally. Hampton Court partly dates
from Wolsey's time and partly from
Christopher Wren's, and one notes the
growing scarcity of fuel in the fact that
the later chimneys are only seven or
eight feet across, but the cooking ar
engagements are in nearly every case
quite are antiQuated.
The kitchen of the Harcourt family
at Nuneham Courtenay is old enough to
have curious bit OF family supersti-
ton connected with it. Lady Nuneham,
the daughter of Simon, Earl of Har-
court-ths was in the time OF George
U.-dreamed one night that she saw her
father lying dead In the kitchen at four
o'clock. OF course the dream came
true: else it would never have been re-
membered. The Earl went out in the
morning to mark trees, his little dog
fell in well while he was at work, he
tried TO pull the dog out, and at four
o'clock his dripping body was laid in the
kitchen in front of the yawning hearth.
which exists this day-to prove the
story.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

The wind is rising fast now. Ii has
shifted Il point more to the eastward
and will soon blow Il gale. Matches are
covered, ports closed, and every gun
fastening inspected TO see that the bat
terry can by no chance get adrift during
the storm. For there is no doubt now
that, as Jack would say, lit is coming
on 10 blow" and every precaution is
taken to make the ship secure. The
daylight of this wintry day has gone;
the electric current is turned on again;
in the smoking corner of the gun deck
the officers are gathered, making them
selves as comfortable as the violent
rolling of the ship will permit; while
forward the men are keeping as near
the galley fires as possible,
II this Christmas story seems to neg
lect the ward room and officers mess,
it is not from lack of appreciation.
There is no better type of the American
gentleman than a naval officer; but it is
upon the brawny arm and loyal heart of
Jack that the efficiency of the navy de-
ponds, and this holiday yarn shall be Of
him and his surroundings
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

Supper is eaten at five O'Clock. Then
the gun deck is swept down and every
thing is made snug for the night. The
men off watch light their pipes again,
and many Renaissance is exchanged
of Christmas days in other seas and
ports. There were holidays in the navy
ward. when the sailor had "shore leave
and improved every minnie of it; days
in the tropics, where blazing sun Shone
down upon green palms, long stretches
of white sand and a curling line of roll
ers breaking over coral reefs. Other
DAYS are remembered spent on board
water logged merchant ships and storm
swept pilot boats; and, rareSt of all, a
Christmas day at home with wife and
little ones. Z. HILLS WARDEN.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

days of Wyclitie and the Black Prince.
During visit TO the cathedral some
weeks ago it occurred TO me that such
and old room would be an interesting
sight.
"Can | see the kitchen?" | said to the
verger, or whoever he was, who opened
the door TO the choir.
"Ho, no, sir!'' was the smiling reply.
'Hit's private
"How so?"
"Hit's the kitcnen of the Deanery,
and in use hevery day"
Great Scott. Do you mean to tell
me that are still cooking nineteenth
century dinners in a fourteenth century
kitchen?" l demanded,
..Ho, yes. SIR he replied, with his
Observation-Disclosures smile. ''liand
hits very good kitchen, too
England is country of surprises,
but. after this expression at Durham, |
was not at all surprised during lying
trip to oxford some days later to dis
cover that Cardinal Wolsey's kitchen at
Christ Church College, the Oldest part
of the existing buildings, is still in
daily use. The cook was glad, in pros
pect of fee, TO show me about the old
hall, where so many digestive props TO
learning have been prepared.
Wolscy may not have known how to
keep his place with Henry WILL, but he
knew how to build kitchen in coun-
try where wood was plenty. The room
is some forty feet square and has high
ceiling, carried by great oaken beams
black with age. Larders, store rooms
and closets open from it, and high win
dows let in abundant light. The floor
is of stone, and there are traces of the
old opening in the middle of the
roof which used to let the smoke
out when fire was kindled in the mid
die of the floor for any purpose. The
three beams are still framed around the
opening, but it has been rooted ever
since floor fires became questionable.
Three enormous chimney openings, each
eighteen feet across, fill the center of
three sides of the room. Two of these
have been partially filled up with COM
paratively modern ranges. but the third
yet remains open, and through its COW
ernous mouth one can look up at the
blue sky through fue dark with the
SCOT of centuries and three feet in diam
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
affectionate clinging to ola ways which
malzes Oxford so interesting.

affectonate clinging 10 ola ways which
makes Oxford so interesting.
Scattered through England are many
civic buildings which have an interest
ing culinary arrangements as the semi
monastic quadrangles at Oxford. The
town hall at Coventry, where a king
once sat in state, has one where again
is seen the blackened smoke hole in the
roof, covered over by more recent tim
bering and sheathing. The twelve PEN
sioners of Leicester's Hospital, in War
wick toast their shins before a match
less open blaze ten feet across in a
kitchen whose oaken beams are black
with age. What magnificent place to
sit upon one of those old settees, just in
sight of Amy Robsart's pathetic bit OF
embroidery and watch Christmas
goose browning on the turning spit. L
am afraid, though, that the pensioners
don't appreciate Christmas as they
ought, for in the winter there are no
tourists and no sixpences for the Wild
owls Fund and pot Of ale.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

hatch reads the impressive ritual.
Then he prayS for the safety OF the gooa
shin and her crew and for the dear ones
ashore. The sermon is snort one, ouV
it goes home to every man before hIlh'
for be tells the simple story OF the cross
of the Christ-child, borne earthward on
that wondrouS ChristmaS-tide, that mas
ebbed and flowed through two thousand
wears. The church service never seems
more solemn than at sea. Jack may DC
rough and ready, aye, and reckless, 100
he deliberately breaks the rule OF the
shin and is punished by week In irons
in the brig" but his heart is simple as
a child'S and the chaplain'S voice Is 10
him only an echo of the message ne
hears in every wind that blows, the love
and power of the God of sun and storm.
There are traces of tears on many Il
bronzed cheek when the chaplain says
Amen
A "mess" on Shipboard consists OF
eighteen or twenty men who, Tor con-
venience dine together. They have a
cook and his assistant or striker. The
gear" consisting OF plates, Knives
forks. spoons, etc. are kept in wire
faced lockers on the lower deck; ana at
the order. "mesS gear." the cooks ana
strikers swing up the tables, which con-
sist of a single board, to hooks over
head. spread oil cloths over them and
bring on the food. The men of each
mess sit on benches ranged on either
side of the table. The dinner on Christ
mas. like the breakfast, will depend en-
tirely upon the forethought of the men
and the time that has elapsed since the
ship left port. There may be fresh
meat and vegetables, but the chances
are all in favor of canned goods.
At o'clock the men on watch tumble
up on deck and busy themselves about
the ship, lust as on other days.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

The hole in the roof of Wolsey's kitch-
en- at Christ Church College is a sort OF
connecting link. Not.so many years be-
fore the time Of that shrewd prelatical
architect chimneys were a comparative
ly new invention. Not more than half
a dozen cases exist where fire-places
have been found in Norman residences.
There is little doubt that William the
Conqueror ate venison cooked by an
open fire in the middle of the
room, as his subjects did for
some centuries later. Another seat
of the Harcourt family, Bablockythe,
built in the latter part OF the fifteenth
century, only fifty years before VOL
sey's time, has big kitchen absolutely
without a chimney: or rather the whole
room is one. hole In the roof serving
as the smoke flue.
Naturally this primitive cooking is
not now in daily use, but it is astonish-
ing to what an extent one can still find
almost equally primitive methods sur
viving, even in the humble homes OF
Britain. have seen Manx
cottage where the chimney was
an entire end of the one room.
In the highlands of Scotland
the open fire-places with their smell of
peat and other suggestions Of cheerful
ness are striking feature of cottage
life. In the homes of the workingmen
in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and in
the older London houses, which poor
people occupy, stoves and ranges are
unknown, and all the cookery possible
is that which can be managed over the
tiniest Of coal CRATES. The English
people are satisfied with the ways OF
their fathers, and their fathers didn'i
have ranges, and went TO bed by candle
| light.
The old ways are not all bad ones
either. have never eaten Of the ia
nous roasts with which the Bencher.
of the Middle Temple here in Londor
are RECALLED fresh from the spits and tn,
roaring hearth and eaten in the hall O
the crusaders, but ! have carved bi.
slices from a seventy-pound hauHch il
an old English inn kitchen, and there Il
nothing in America like 1t, except, per
haps, at Virginia barbecue. 1t was o
such beef as this, roasted whole befor,
the Goals, not baked in an oven, tina
the poet must have been thinking wheI
he wrote:
But when Iwish 10 assuage some mighty grief
Grant me, We gods. royal round OF beef
Yes, and at Christmas, too, when no
body should be grieving.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
JOHN BULLS XMAS.
THE CONSERVATIVE BRlT0N LEANS TO OLD
STYLE COOKERY.
Christmas Cheer Means Blazing Open HearthS
With Yawning Mouths, Up Which the
Flames Go ROaring-KitchenS
With Legends.

Special CorreSDOadence Of tie Sunday REGISTER.
LONDON. December 10, 1s70.-If mer-
nv England is not the home of Christ
mas, it is only because she has taughtthe
rest of the world the act of Christmas
keeping, so that its home is everywhere.
And vet. even in these days, when the
Jingle of Santa Claus bells are in every
! land. il is not hard TO believe that there
is a special flavor in an English Christ
mas TO be found nowhere else.
Where, but in England, will one find
such great kitchens, five hundred years
old, and still in use, such yawning
chasms of fire-places, before which half
dozen mighty barons of beef can be
roasted all in a row, keen with flavor
which no cast iron bars can impart,
such famous old Christmas bowls, where
gallon of burning brandy and any
number of quarts of raisins make the
game of snapdragOn such an uproarious
delight. When the great bOar's head,
garniShed on its platter, comes from
one of these old kitchens, there is fit
ness in it precious TO three senses. n
boar's head in the Spick and span new
hall of Tuxedo cottage" is an affec-
tation.
The old kitchens of England. If l
were a poet l would sing great song
in their praise; and if | had a magic
carpet to transport me wherever |
might wish, it would puzzle me to know
from which of the great ones | have
known, | would wish my Christmas
roast to come. There is the old monks
kitchen at the southwest corner OF the
cloister yard of Durham Cathedral.
1t is splendid octagonal room thirty
five feet in interior diameter, with
walls from three to eight feet thick and
a fine vaulted roof of the middle Eng
lish Gothic period. dating from the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
WOMAN AND HER LATCH KEY.
An Amusing Scene Caused by the Strug
gle OF Girl With "a Lock.

Ne5c YORK IeteGTdW
III YOU have never had the pleasure OF
watching a woman open her front door
by meins of latch key it is worth the
fifteen minutes she requires for the
operation to be amused at the thorough
femininity of her actions. The other
evening, shortly before dusk, a
bright-looking girl, buttoned up in an
English walking jacket, swinging an
umbrella and carrying half dozen
small parcels. passed briskly along
West Twenty-third street, assembled a
flight of stone steps, and opened fire on
the front entrance with the skeleton
key.
She first shifted the responsibility of
purse, packages. umbrella and handker-
chief on one hand, while she used the
other TO ranSack both coat pockets for
the key. They failed to yield it, and
one bundle and the tiresome umbrella
lay half way down the stoop as result
Of her endeavors. With slightly flush
ed cheeks the girl picked up the awk-
ward parachute, leaned it against the
StoOp rail, took a tirmer hold on the
slippery panels and examined the palms
Of her Snugly fitting gloves.
This process gave her handkerchief
20 the breeze, and, installing the trifle
fer a miniature sail, the zephyrs play
fully caught it up and waited it half a
dozen PAGES down the street. BY this
time a sad expression developed about
the young lady'S lips. She paid no heed
70 the results Of an afternoons induStri-
Gus shopping now lying scattered at her
feet. but plunged boldly into the intri-
cacieS of her smooth draperies and in
Stituded immediate search for the mys-
FERROUS pocket within which she sup
posed the key repoSed. She pulled at
one fold after another, until finally q
section gave way, and with lurch her
hand disappeared in the depths of some
hidden recess.
The triumphant expression beginning
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
A Picture of Mrs. O,shea.
Boston Transcript

Boston IFGHScftW.
was amused to see in the room where
the ladies left their wraps at the STAN
ley reception in the Aldine, New York,
large photograph of Mrs. O'Shea,
framed and hanging on the wall. /
don't suppose for moment that the
owner Of the room had the faintest idea
of who the portrait was intended for,
and l should not have known it if |
hadn't been told only the day before. 1t
is one of the best known Of all the fancy
photographs that are sold in the shops.
You have probably seen it dozen times.
1t represents young woman with a
wealth of golden hair, resting her head
on her bare arms, and looking out upon
the world through large and supposedly
blue eyes.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
Thwarted by a Bustle.
B0slon Irare.fr.

"Say, Chimney" said the bad boy to
his friend, you oughter come ter school
terday. Dere's goin' ter be a new
teacher, an we'er goin' ter make it hot
for him."
I'D like ter" said he, but I'm goin
skatin'."
Next morning.
The Bad Boys Friend-"Say, Tom
my, did yer have any fun wild de new
teacher"
Tommy-Naw. put pin on de chair
and waited for him to set down on it,
but"
Didn't he?"
''Twasn't him; new teachers wo-
man.
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to dawn upon the girls features gave
way. first to one of dismay and then 10
one of modification, as memory seemed
to point to the exact spot on her ur ,
ing table from which she had not taken
the key that afternoon. Indignant ana
disrusted, this independent young
woman gave vicious pull at the bell
bowed humbly as sympathetic man
gathered up and restored herdisordered
belongings, and passed out OF slght
through the door held open by the
eu,iIipp maid
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
Why He Did Not Hurry
Detroit Free Press.

"Oh, sir" gasped boy who ran up to
a policeman on Gratiot Avenue, there
is an awful fight going on over here III
ST. Aubin,"
who's fighting?"
MY father and another man."
''How long have they been at it?"
"Oh, half an hour
''But why didn't you come before?"
why, because he was getting the
best OF it all along up to ten minutes
ago."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

THE lily is as white as snow,
The rose is as the crimson red;
But neither can surpass in glow
The color or the brightness shed,
BY the sweet lips and teeth allied
That SOZODONT has purified.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

Ladies' and Gents Initial Handkcr-
chiefs. Gents japanese Handkerchief,
in Plain, Hemstitched and Initial.
Ladies' Embroidered Handkerchiefs
from Zoe. to $500.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

New YORK. December 10.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
HERE'S A CHRISTMAS FEED.
Cook IL Yourself and Eat 1t With More
Relish.
Chicago Herald.

Chicago Herdd.
Since McAllister has confessed MS devo-
ton to the culinary art 1t IS the corIecs
thing to learn how to COOK. l nave aS Sas,i
one Of the best private chefs in New YORK
t 70 Give me an inexpensive and cosmopoli-
t ~ menn for Christmas dinner with full
directions for the preparation OF each dish
1t is as follows:
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-22
RAISING HOGS AND HOMINY EFT
CETERA

Some years ago witty and sar
castle representative of Michigan
in congress, Roswell G. Horr, dis
cussing political outrages in the
south on the floor of the House,
told the Confederate brigadiers
that the south sought to raise
more hogs and hominy and less
HI" It was a profane utterance
but it fitted the situation so thor
oughly that it was re-echoed over
the entire country. 1t is recalled
now by the curious coincidence
that the men of the south who
took Mr.. HorI's advice and went
in for hogs and hominy are just
now raising the other thing also.
The Farmers Alliance has captur-
ed gubernatorial nominations in
democratic conventions in three
southern states and has a fair pros
pect for nominating Mr.. Tillman in
South Carolina, if the brigadiers
do not assassinate him as they
threaten to do. In every southern
state the alliance is sending the
bourbons and the fire eaters to
the rear, and it threatens to
capture not only the state
governments, but the federal
representation. 1t has, in fact,
nearly broken up the democratic
party in the south by Selling the
organization itself. 1t is worm
wood and gall to the bourban dem
ocracy, but 1t is a pleasing spec
tacle to republicans. We rather
like the idea of the alliance rails
ing hogs and hominy and sheol in
this sort Of way.-New York
Press.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-22

The Records of Marion county show the
plating of many thousand acres of land in
small tracts of from five to ten acres.
Capital City Fruit farm of $40 acres,
Sunnyside No. l, 800 acres; Sunnyside No.
2, 800 acres; Sunnyside No. 3, 300 and a
number of others have been placed on the
Records by the Oregon Land Company of
Salem. Oregon. This company is also
doing business in Portland and Albany and
has numerous other small tracts. The
great advantage of this plan is that it
brings together in one community the class
of people who are all engaged in the same
business, viz: fruit growing, consequently
there springs up large drying and canning
establishments similar to those in the city
of Salem, which advantages make profitable
market for the products of these fruit
farms. Consult your interest by buying of
the Oregon Land Company of Salem, Port
land or Albany. 6-25-lm.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-22

A WRITER in one of the reviews
speculating on the possibility, and
the results of an attempt on the
part of Great Britain to subdue
the United States to compliance
with her wishes, estimates that the
Job would cost her not less than
$7,50o,ooO,OOO. He arrives at this
conclusion by figuring on the
basis of what the Revolutionary
war cost the mother country per
capita of the population of the
colonies. AS the debt of the en-
pire is now nearly $6,000.000,00O,
that country would be ripe for a
receiver by the time it got through
with new war subjugation with
this country. This would be a
pretty costly job.