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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

-Jellied Chicken: Line pint bowl
with slices of hard-boiled eggs. fill
with chopped chicken that has been
seasoned with salt, white pepper, cell
cry salt and melted butter. Pour over
one coffee cup of water in which one
tablespoonful of gelatine has been dis
solved. Set on ice. --Housekeeper.
-Jellied Peaches: One quart of
peaches after being peeled and cut in
halves. Two lemons, one cup of sugar,
one-third package of gelatine and one
pint OF water. Dissolve the gelatine in
one-half cup of water, mix it with the
sugar water and juice of lemons, and
pour it over the peaches in shallow
dish. Set on ice for two or three hours,
or longer if very hot weather -Chica-
go Record.
Baked Apple Jelly: Peel, quarter
and core two quarts of tart apples, put
them into an earthen baking dish in
layers. with sugar, using as much
sugar as the flavor of the apples re-
quires; pour gill of cold water over
the apples, cover the dish with plate
reversed. or with close fitting tin
cover, and bake the jelly until it turns
red. Then cool it, turn it out on
pretty dish, and serve it cold.-N. Y.
Ledger.
Chestnut Compete: Roast the chest
nuts and take off the shells; dissolve
one-half pound sugar with one-half
lumber of water, juice of lemon and
some chips of the rind, or table
spoonful of vanilla extract; put this
and chestnuts in a saucepan over
slow fire ten to fifteen minutes, so that
the chestnuts may absorb some of the
strip. Serve in a deep dish and dust
powdered sugar over the top. Orange
Judd Farmer.
Frying Fish: Use lard, clarified
dripping, or butter, separately or
mixed; never add salt, as it hardens
and prevents it becoming brown
Bread crumbs are made from crusts
and toasted bread rubbed against a
fine crater, or pounded in mortar,
and after wiping the fish quite dry it
is painted with brush dipped into the
white of egg beaten up, and the bread
crumbs are carefully dredged over
every part. Leeds Mercury.
Cream Cake: Two eggs, two cup
fuls of -four, one cupful of rich sweet
cream, two cupfuls of sugar, one cup
full of corn starch, two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder and one teaspoonful OF
vanilla. Bake in three layers and
spread the following cream between
each layer: The Filling-Half cup
full of sugar, three-fourths OF cupful of
milk, half cupful of grated cocoa
nut. one tablespoonful of corn starch
and three tablespoonfuls of cream.
Mix the corn starch with little cold
milk, boil the milk and sugar together,
stir in the corn starch and cocoanut
and boil until done Ohio Farmer
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01

necessities, merely put In to vocalize
the music, the incongruity of the Sc
lection did not strike more than three
or four people beside the preacher,
and they were not present. But the
Sunday morning following that the
leader came to the preacher before serv-
ice, with troubled face and said:
look here, Mr.. Seekpeace, this will
never do Mt ALL"
swell, what is the matter now?"
"Why," said the leader, this opening
hymn. 1t is:
% Brother. thou vast mild and lovely.
Gentle as the summer'breeze
Pleasant as the air of evening
When 1t floats among the trees
Now, there has been but one death in
this church in the past six weeks, and
that was old Dodd Swearinger, who
got so mad the other day while he was
beating his horse with pick handle
that he fell down in fit and died in
two minutes-a man with the worst
temper in the state of Illinois. We
can't sing that, Mr.. Seekpeace."
The preacher melted at the sight of
the leaders, appealing face. He smiled,
a pleasant smile that might have had
two shades of meaning in it. He may
have been pleased to meet man who
recognized the fact that a hymn with
out appropriate words is about as virile
and strong as human body without
skeleton. Or he may have been
pleased about something else. Any
how, he smiled without permitting a
CLEAN of triumph to shine across his
face. He said: Every WE'LL" and Sc
lected hymns for morning and evening
service.
There was never again the shadow
of trouble between the choir and the
pulpit of that church. Other leaders
came and went. The choir changed,
as choirs do; changing voices drove out
the boys who sang soprano or alto
soprano-we used to call it ''trible,
didn't we? Marriage closed the mouths
of the girls, who, womanlike, appeared
to consider it a solemn, religious duty
to forget their music after the first
baby was born. Bassos and tenors
came and went. But SO long as that
preacher was pastor the choir in that
church sang the hymnsappointed them,
and it was generally understood, al
though nothing was ever said about it.
that the head of that church was on it's
shoulders, and not on the neck of n
music-rack stand.-Ladies' Home j our-
nal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01
nal.
LOFTY MOUNTAINS IN THE SEA.
A Cable Detour Around a Range Seventy
Five Miles Long,

| A Cable DetOur Around Range Seventy
Five Miles Long,
| There exists in the great ocean be-
| tween Australia and New Caledonia a
range of mighty submarine mountains,
whose limestone tops rise within three
hundred fathoms of the surface. The
discovery of these peaks, rising sheer
seventy-five hundred feet from the bot
tom of the deep sea, was made by the
men who have just finished laying the
first section of the trans-Pacific cable.
Sir Audley Coote, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, who was at the head of
the cable expedition, arrived here re-
Gently on the steamer Alameda from
Sydney, New South Wales. He said:
"The sea from Australia to New Gale
donia has been surveyed by British
and by an American vessel. Your AL
batross went there and did some very
good work, but, as it happened, both
this expedition and the other missed
the strange feature of the ocean that
can describe. We had anticipated no
great difficulty in laying the cable Sec
ton, and did not find any until sud-
denly the bottom of the ocean began to
rise. We were forced to cut the cable
there in midocean and to buoy up the
ends. 1t was then found that what
had hindered us was a range of SUBJ
marine mountains.
"There is nothing else like this in
the world that know of. The noun
tains rise in abrupt peaks, and are hard
limestone and granite. BY careful
measurement we found that the peaks
were more than seven thousand feet on
the average, and the highest of them
seven thousand five hundred feet from
the bottom of the ocean. Less than
three hundred fathoms from the sur
face of the water we found the tops of
the highest mountains. The range ex-
tends for nearly seventy-five miles
that is, measuring from the extreme
northerly to the extreme south
erly point. To lay the cable around
this range took forty-eight miles
more of cable than we had counted
on. We had to go around the peaks
as a railroad would go around noun
tain on land"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01
KITCHEN LORE.
Some Fresh Hints for the Culinary De-
partment.

some Frekn Hints Tor tine culinary de-
partment.
There are no cooking utensils better
adapted to light housekeeping than
those of aluminium. They are so light
even in the large pieces that practical
ly no strength is expended in lifting
them; they are so thin that food is
cooked in them more quickly than in
ordinary utensils, and they are easily
kept clean and shining without scour-
ing. In using tin one has constantly
to be on the lookout for the corrosive
action of acids, or food is easily
scorched.
A better way to peel ripe tomatoes
than that commonly used is to put
them into frying basket, and plunge
the basket second into boiling water
to loosen the skins This is particular
ly the best way to do when one is pre-
pairing a quantity of tomatoes, and
wishes to keep them all firm and hard.
If boiling water is poured over them
in a pan, the tomatoes at the bottom
are quite sure to become soft before
they are peeled.
An excellent cottage pudding with
an apple filling, made by Swedish
cook, consists of a plain light cake
made in two layers, with thick layer
of tart apples peeled and grated spread
between. With these apples are mixed
the whites of two eggs, beaten to a
stiff froth, two teaspoonfuls of vanilla
and sugar to taste.
Rice and cheese are very good with
in,
the same way as we commonly pre-
pare macaroni aud cheese. Boil the
rice until tender in sailed water,
drain dry, then put in bakiug-dish
alternate layers of the rice and grated
cheese. The layers of cheese should
not be more than a sprinkling. Sea-
SON with salt and little butter, cover
with sweet milk. sprinkle with fine
bread crumbs, and brown.
That despised dish beef la mode
may be made really delicious, especial
ly for cold meal, if seasoned with
variety of suitable condiments.
Rub the beef. which should be
from the round, with salt
and fine spices. Put skewers
across the bottom of your saucepan,
and cover them well with thin slices of
bacon. Lay the meat on these, cover
with more sliced bacon, and two-thirds
of a cupful Of vinegar, cover tightly.
and simmer two hours Then season
to taste with few whole cloves, pep
per, two bay-lesves, mushrooms, half
cupful of tomato catsup, and small
SLICED onion. Simmer in this gravy
until the meat is tender. adding a
little stock if the gravy cooks away SO
much that there is any danger to the
meat being dry. If cooked 10 be eaten
only when cold, strain this gravy and
boil 1t down, then spread the meat with
tn Y. Post
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01
TWO WAYS OF LIVING.

In the meadow so green
~ might summer was seen
one ,ussors, both happy and gay;
TTona.angh the hot summer days
= tSs suns scorching ray
IL WY while the other would play.
u,.,s was Grashoppcr Green,
nv, uuV,I could always be seen
4 :. Sonped and he skipped oil the day;
And I'm sure that you all
Know Timothy Tall,
:, an Won We seen by the side OF the way
Ne'er did Timothy roam
Avay from his home,
4, was clad and content as could Do
0u' n You'd seen his long mead
Itnow you'd have said,
I, : = wise little fellow was he
put Grasshopper Green
IN mischief was seen
- morn till the close OF the day;
comical chap,
IN brown and green cap
wsa thought life was all meant for play.
"Inst come off with me,
Ne cried, in great glee,
..ra play all the happy day through"
But Timothy said,
As he noddedhis head:
n Iii live for the good can do"
Soon the mowers keen knife
Ended Timothy's life,
,rben the Grasshopper lived all alone,
Till the summer was past
And winters chill blast
came and Grasshopper's mischief was done
might tell you the rest.
But I'm sure you have guessed
rbs blessings which Timothy wrought;
While useless life spent,
With none to lament,
was The lesson that Grasshopper taught
Mary E. Eddy, in N. Y. Indepe ndent
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01

sacred to the day and the place, assem-
bled with customary decorum. One by
one the deacons walked up the aisles to
their places, timing their steps with
mournful squeaks that deepened the
solemnity of the hour and awakened
mirth only in the breasts of the younger
children, who were promptly thumped
to respectful silence by the catapult OF
some adult finger. : The hymn was
given out, and all the hymn books In
the pews rustled open. we hstened
for the usual little muffled commotion
of the choir getting into position with
its little business of small affectations'
but there was most fearsome silence.
We turned our heads, looked up and
saw a gallery as empty as the foreign
mission treasury at the close of the
wear. The presence of the singers
scattered here and there among the
congregation was explained. Some
lieht-hearted members of the choir
Uttered, but the rest of us were little
bit frightened. The preacher looked
ND quickly and understood! He quiet
" closed the hymn book, opened the
bible. read the Scripture, offered
nrayer. gave out the notices for the
week. preached his sermon and pro-
noupced the benediction. Calm and
unrufied and undisturbed was he, as
tbouoh that had been the order Of serv-
ice for a hundred years The evening
service was conducted in Hike manner.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01

everybody else sing. Everybody womb
sing anyhow, therefore it was useless
for The leader-nobody called him the
chorister then-to select new tunes and
spring them upon the audience sudden
ly. The congregation would join in with
all confidence just the same, on the Sec
ond word, and sing right along, only n
syllable or two behind. If the HYMN
was OF the usual length, by the time
they sang through the third stanza
they knew the tune as we'll rs the choir
did, and carried the remaining four or
five stanzas through with splendid
spirit. You see we weren't given to
short services in those days. There was
no reason why we should be. The
singing was. never wearisome, because
we did it all ourselves, and would as
soon have thought of hiring our Sun
day-school teachers as our singers. 1
never but once heard our minister chop
a hymn up into outlets and have us omit
the first and last stanzas and hop over
the third and fifth, singing it as though
we were playing game of musical hop
scotch, and that was because he object
ed to some faulty doctrine in one Of
the verses. When he preached he said
what he had to say without the least
regard for the clock. AS he always
had something to say which we either
wanted or needed to hear, or both, it
never occurred to the congregation that
there was great, roundfaced clock on
the front of the gallery softly ticking
its subdued "amens" all through the
service. Our preacher has been down
east great many years teaching
preachers how to preach, so we may get
back to the life-size sermons and whole
hymns again.
Well, that choir was so praised and
lauded, and deservedly SO, that Mt last
it exalted it's horn like the "horn of
an unicorn" and decided to take
entire charge of the musical portion
of the service. The leader, young
man of sublime confidence, splen-
did voice, long, curling hair tucked I'LL
der at the ends, as was the fash
ion with young men at that day, like
the jack of spades, if you know what
that is, and wealth of bears grease,
favored with bergamot, came to the
preacher and said: 'Mr. Seekpeace, l
must have the hymns for Sunday serv-
ice on Friday morning hereafter. have
changed rehearsal from Saturday to
Friday evening"
"But 1 can't let you have them Friday
morning." the preacher said, because
l do not always know at that time what
| will preach about on the Sunday fol-
lowing. You may have them Satur~
day morning, as usual"
But the leader would not have it that
way, and he said SO. The preacher
was man not given to controversy i'll
small matters. He said what he had to
say on the subject in few words Sc
lected from the English language,
principally monosyllables, and went
his way, as also did the leader, their
ways beginning at the same point and
running respectively east by east and
due west. The preacher sent the
leader the numbers of the hymns on
the morning of the Saturday following.
Sunday morning dawned. The con-
gregation, painfully arrayed in stiff
and starched and rustling garments
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01

Baptist church in Peoria. My legs were
short and the pew was high, and while
| listened to the sermon and swung my
feet shacl1led by the unwonted and
cruel shoon of the Sabbath day, | often
wondered how many hundred years 1t
would be ere could reach the floor with
my feet as my father did. There were
two footstools in the pew, but 1t was
considered wicked for boy to put his
feet on one of them. They were made
exclusively for grown-up people who
did not need them. They were also
| used to trap the unwary stranger who
came sliding softly and sideways into
the pew without an invitation. He fell
over one and kicked the other. That
notified the worshipers in the front
pews that there was q stranger within
our gates and they could turn around
and look at him. But for this automa-
tic system of signaling, many devout
woman would have gone home without
knowing the particular kind of clothing
the stranger wore.
Straight across the rear of the
church, high above the congregation,
ran long gallery. Here was the me-
iodeon, which was the pipe-organ OF
our day; here sat the choir, literally
and musically "out of sight" / re-
member we had an odd custom, origin
ating in some idea so old that nobody
could remember it, and the rest of us
never knew it. When the congregation
rose to sing the closing hymn, it about
laced and looked at the choir. Then at
inc end of the hymn we faced about
once more and received the benedic-
'loa l supposed this was done to
give the congregation opportunity to
See who was in the choir and what they
mad on, and also to enable the singers
70 complete their inventory of the con-
EDUCATIONAL adornments. 1t must have
oeen tantalizing to look at the backs of
heads all through the service and guess
a. tlle lace trimming of every new bon
net In the house. Because in those
Gays you had to walk all the way around
bonnet to take in the entire pattern.
iour mother, dear, did not wear post
age stamp with two horns on it, and
eau 1t a bonnet. Men talk about the
Oig nat you wear in the opera house. j
"isn your critic might have stood be-
nina your grandmother at baptism
ou' IN Peoria back in the fifties. He
oouiunt have seen the lake, nor very
uuch Of the woods on the opposite
~ s.ore' He might have caught glimpse
VI 'he sky if the day was fair and your
grandmother stood still. But when she
~. aOSe on her tip-toes to reach sc" in
coronation" he could see her bonnet
:. sHo mat was all. And that was enough.
~ a. 'nat day a bonnet was built to cover
'ue "earer's head. And neck. And a
.scuon OF the shoulders. And to over
: the face. And fiower-garden
= luil bloom blazed and shone and
clustered !. around, above and beneath
~ None Of your buds and grasses in
those days.
ana our choiri Well. now, there was
'.' eooir that could singh When they
y" IN good voice, which was every
~ als they stood up. you couldn't hear |
~ =, meiodeon- They read music at |
w as proof-rcader reads print.
'ney sang In = way that made
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01

No hymns were given out. No refer
ence was made to the subject. He was
so quiet and natural that we began to
wonder II that, hadn't been the way
we always worshiped, and had only
dreamed that we used to have q choir
and sang hymns Of praise.
OF course, that wouldn't do. The dea-
cons came together, investigated tie
trouble and proffered their services as
arbitrators. The leader was firm, the
preacher was adamant. Finally tie
latter said: "I'll tell you what I'll do:
l will give the choir the hymns for the
next six months, and the leader may
have rehearsal any time that best suits
him."
The deacons carried the proposition
to the choir; it was accepted; the
gallery and the pulpit were recon
ciled; the preacher was meekly sub
missive, the leader was radiantly tri-
umphant. But, being disposed to be
gracious and magnanimous, ne gave the
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01

Poverty is very terrible, and some
times kills the very soul within us; but
il is the north wind that lashes men
into vikings; it is the soft, luscious
south wind which lulls them to lotus
dreams.-Ouida-
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01
STRIKE IN THE CHOIR.
BY ROBERT J. BURDETTE.

HEN Twas a boy, away
back in the years
when the days were
so short that it took
fourteen or fifteen
of them to make a
week, I attended Di-
vine service with my
parents in an old
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-01

"Some folks has more money dan dey
knows whut ter do wit" remarked
Flooding Pete thoughtfully.
yes" replied Meandering Mike; Il
wuz dat way once"
"Git away!"
"sure. oncet had twenty-five cents
by me, and discovered wuz in pro-
hibition town."-Washington Star.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-01-26
TO HAVE A GOOD SERVANT.

If you like her, tell her SO sometimes.
Always say good morning" and good
night"
Never reprimand her before children or
strangers.
Do not talk as if your own way was tic
only right way to do things.
Do not expect her to DO a mind reader,
but tell her just what you want done.
Give her AS pleasant a room as possible
and let her have time to keep it in order
Never allow the children to treat her
with disrespect Or make her unnecessary
work.
A command given in an abrupt, disa-
grccable tone will often make her angry
or unhappy.
Give her as good wages as yoa can. Pay
her regularly OR give her reasons why slo
should wait
II she is cross or irritable, be patient
with her. She may be suffering acureay,
mentally or physically.
Always say ''plcase'' and "thank you"
when you ask her to do anything for you,
and insist upon the children doing the
same
Above all things, do not scold, blame or
ind fault With her any moro than you
can possibly help Nothing will discour-
age her 50 much. She needs encourage
ment thousand times moro than she
needs discouragcmcnt.- Boston Tran.
script.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-01-26
CYCLING CHAT,

''Calori1c canter" is the latest English
Ism for club run.
1t takes over 100 feet Of wire to form the
spokcs of a set Of bicycle wheels
pound and a quarter is added to the
weight of a bicycle by enameling
Tubes one-fortieth of an inch in thick
ness are sometimes used in milking light
machines
A straw bottle cover makes m excellent
temporary mud guard if tucked under tho
back Of tho saddle.
New Haven has passed bell and lamp
ordinance, with fine of $a5 attached to
any violation of it by wheelmen.
At Rochester, 6,11s cycles have been
registered since the ordinance recurring
registration went into effective years ago.
The Essex Bicycle club of Newark, N.
j., is the third Oldest organization in the
league, having just held its sixteenth an
nual meeting.
Englishmen arc still combating wood
rims in print because the introduction of
them in America dos not meet With the
theories regarding them in England
Sporting Life.