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| of education at any time in their lives.
But they learn fully the mysteries Of
cooking, making beds, preparing poul-
tices for the sick and attending to 9TH
er details of household life. They prac-
tice with enthusiasm the art of writ
ing menus in French, they experiment
in dressing the table with flowers and
learn a kind of first-aid-t to- the injured
system adapted to their country. AS
tronomy and the exact sciences have
not yet reached this country of un-
emancipated womanhood. But the ed
ucaton they receive is the best kind
to suit them for their work in life as
they step from the school to the
head of their husbands establishments.
These royal pupils range in age from
10 to 10 years This latter age IL begin
ming to betoken the old maid in Siam
and there are few of that age in the
school. On Friday the nurses from the
royal palace, reinforced by other female
attendants and guards, begin to arrive
at the school to escort their mistresses
back to their homes. Here they remain
until the same domestic delegation
marches them back to their English
teacher on Monday. In the meantime,
she Iau All tne WORK recurring llaScu-
line participation attended to during
the absence of the pupils, for men are
never allowed to approach the building
while the royal young ladies are inside.
No masculine eye not related to them
by blood is allowed to fall upon their
artless Siamese beauty until after mar
riage.
French and English are the two lam
guages these young women learn and
it is after the fashion prevailing; in
these two countries that they acquire
their ideas of European life and man
ners, Some of these fashions have
through this English school teachers
influence been introduced into the court
at Siam, where the French and English
cuisines have made their way in spite
of Oriental prejudice. This has, of
course, come from the early education
of the young princesses in their royal
boarding school. This much is said,
that no ambition to initiate the women
of the Western world has ever recon-
ciled them to sitting in chairs in prefer
ence to on the floor.
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SCHOOL FOR PRINCEssEs.
At Bangkok, Siam, and Is the Only
One of It's Kind.

From the New York sun.
Princesses are numerous enough in
Europe to suggest that school for
them might be profitable undertaking,
but it is fact that the only institu-
tion of this kind is not i'm Europe, but
in Asia. 1t is in Bangkok and is kept
by an English woman who looks after
the intellectual and physical needs of
her boarders, who are fifteen princesses
belonging to the royal family of Siam.
Like other less aristocratic young lady
boarders, they are allowed to return
TO their homes on Friday and remain
until the time for their classes to be-
gin on Monday. They are returned to
the care of their English teacher by
the servants of the family.
They learn only elementary reading
and writing at school, and, indeed,
rarely progress beyond these elements
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high above your head, and on looking
up you will remember how surprised
YOU were to behold a small bird with
big wings falling straight toward the
earth and then how much more sur
prised you We're when the bird sudden
ly turned in a graceful upward curve
and went straight back again into the
darkness above. That was the night
hawk on a hunt for its supper After
that first meeting you will remember
how familiar it grew to you and yet
how you never learned of its habits of
living.
These birds winter just south of the
United States. They arrive in Indiana
with the heading of the oat and wheat
fields, and stay until September Some
times they summer as far north as
the Hudson bay and winter as fes
south as Brazil. They travel from one
place to another as rule in scattered
tlOcks. TO see these birds travelling is
"a sight not soon forgotten. They will
follow river or stream for miles and
seem to use these natural highways as
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-05
Dakota Corn Bread.

This is recipe which has proved sat
isfactory in using western corn:
Use three cups of sour milk. or not
too rich butter milk dilute the butter
milk if very rich, with watep; take
half cup of molasses, one teaspoonful
salt, one heaping teaspoonful of soda
and equal quantities of cornmeal and
entire wheat flour to make stiff bat
ter. Bake in deep pans in moderately
hot oven for one and one-half hours.
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Old Plantation Johnny Cake.

Beat two eggs and quarter of. d cup
of sugar together, add one cup of sweet
milk and one cup of sour milk in which
you have dissolved one teaspoonful Of
Soda add one teaspoonful of salt: then
stir in one and two-thirds cups of gran
ulated corn meal and third of a cup of
flour Put a skillet Cor spider) over the
fire and when hot. melt in it two table,
spoonfuls of butter. Turn the pan
about so the butter can run up OH the
sides. Pour in the corn-cake mixture,
add another cup of milk, but do not stir
1T in. Bake in a good oven for twenty
five to thirty minutes. When done this
cake will have a streak of custard
through It,
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BURGLARS STEAL $4,000.
Daring Robbery of the State Bank
at Greenwood, Wis.
By Exclusive Wire from The Associated Pres.

by Exclusive NHe from Inc Associated Presa
Milwaukee, Wis. Nov. 4.-The state
bank OF Greenwood, Wis, was entered
by burglars at an early hour today
and $4,000 in gold was stolen. Five men
were implicated in the work. They
blew open two vaults with dynamite
The noise of the explosion attracted
several citizens, including the cashier
of the bank who happened to be on
the street at the time.
AS soon as the burglars We're discov-
cred gun fight ensued but the rob-
bers succeeded in making their escape.
The sheriff of Marathon county spread
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-05
A Maize PARTY.

This is one of the most delightful Of
fall entertainments and can be ar
ranged with little trouble.
For the menus cut piece of maize
colored paper the shape of a small ear
of corn, write on this the menu, then
with a drop of mucilage fasten the
menu in the center of leaf of corn
husk, fasten a little silk floss or fringe
of silk paper to the point of the leaf
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GOOD THINGS FROM CORN MEAL

u yHILE corn is inferior, from a nu-
M tritive standpoint, to hard
w wheat, it is said to contain
about the same amount of ntrosenous
matter as the soft varieties of wheat
and at least five times as much fat.
Its lack of gluten prevents it's success
full use in the making of yeast-raised
breads. But this fact need not, in the
least, interfere with it's usefulness. and
it Is much to be regretted that it is not
more generally used In every section
of the country, as it is not only one OF
the most valuable of our cereal foods
but one of our most abundant products,
and therefore one of the cheapest.
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We do not know just what you have
in mind, as you say, like the real
creams one buys Do you mean
eclairs filled with whipped cream, or
the regular cream puff filing? If you
will kindly be more explicit we will be
pleased to send you the recipe for what
you want.
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SUGGESTED MENUS.
WEDNESDAY.

WEDNESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit.
Cereal. Cream.
tIam Omeet. Creamed Potatoes.
Popoveis. Coffee.
LUNCH.
Escalloped Oysters Griled Tomatoes.
Butter Cakes. Cocoa.
DINNER.
Clear Vegetable Soup
Roast Duck. Stewed Apples.
Glazed Onions. Mashed Turnips.
Celery Salad
Compete Of Pears. Whipped Cream
Coffee.
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of the chestnuts, then put them In
saucepan with sufficient cold water to
cover them and bring to the scalding
point. Drain off the water and careful
ly remove the inner brown skin. If
you wish to keep the cnestnuts whole
be careful not to cook them too much
or break in peeling
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Southern Corn Breakfast Mullins.

Measure two cups of sifted meal, add
a tablespoonful of salt, well beaten
egg, one pint of sour milk in which you
have dissolved a teaspoonful of soda.
Then add a tablespoonful of melted but
ter. stir thoroughly, pour into hot, we'll
creased pans and bake in quick oven
until brown. This may be used for
corn bread also. The bread should not
he more than an inch thick when done,
and the crust should be brown and
clusty on both sides.
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THE NIGHT HAWK.

F" Ao - VIC VI Iue FARMERS Best
Friends-He Destroys the Greedy
Runners of the Crops.
From the indianapolis News
The night hawk is bird often seen
and yet a bird of which little is COM
monty known. It's name would lead
one to think that it is a night bird, but
this Is wrong, as it does not roam
about during the night at all. Like the
familiar song birds of the woods, it
rests at night. 1t received its name
on account of its habit of appearing
only during the late afternoon or on
cloudy days. A proper name for this
bird would be "a twilight bird" as it
can not be said to belong to either
night or day.
III you have ever lived ON farm you
VIII recall hearing on some still, hot
evening, whirring, long-drawn note,
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water Tor Boiling Beer.
Mrs. j. C.-1f you wish to retain all
possible nutrient and flavor in the meat
the following method is applied Put
the meat in boiling water and allow it
to boil for a few minutes; then lower
the temperature and cook gently until
done. In this way the outer surface of
the meat is quickly coagulated and in
rer juices retained. If you desire some
of the goodness" in the broth or water
put the meat in cold water and bring
quickly to boiling point then lower the
temperature and cook gently until the
meat is tender. In this way the stock
or gravy will be rich and well favored
while the food value of the meat Is not
destroyed.
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and roll up the leaf to look like an ear
of corn. tie with a piece Of pale green
or maize-colored bebe ribbon. Or the
menus can be written on maize colored
paper and either an ear Of corn out
lined on each card, or IL YOU are handy
with your pen, little harvest or farm
scene sketched in the corner.
The menu may consist of cream of
corn soup made yellow with yollt of
egg. corn oysters, corn pop-overs egg
crOquettes, with cream sauce, Indian
corn pudding. coffee, popcorn cake,
maize pudding.
Use unbleached cheesecoth for table
cloth. Have ii double, fringe the edge,
draw out threads and run in, for bor-
der, two or three inch maize-colored
and green ribbons. The napkins may
be made of maize -colored crepe paper.
fringed. Golden-rod, cat-tails, grains of
corn strung on thread and southern
smilaX may be used to festoon chan
deliers, etc, and little corn-shock
with small gourds and vines used for
the center piece for the table. Sum
flowers, stalks of corn, cat-tails. pump
kins and golden-rod may be used in
decorating the hall and rooms for this
affair. IF 1t Is an evening function. use
the pumpkins as lanterns in the day
light for holding flowers and plants.
For the popcorn cake. Use jelly cake
mixture: when cake is cold cut it in
strips about an inch wide and four long.
make little layer cakes by filling with
orange icing, cover each one with soft,
boiled icing and cover thickly with pop
corn. If you want a little bright color,
cover few of the popcorn cakes with
popcorn rolled in red sugar. Do not
forget the real red ear of corn. which
should be suspended. like the mistletoe,
from the chandelier by maize -colored
or green ribbon. A center piece for the
table may be made of popcorn balls
heaped In pyramid form: have some
balls white, some red and some yellow,
using orange or yellow icing for latter.
These. with border of green leaves,
will give the effect of chrysanthemums
grouped together.
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Spider Corn Cake.

Sift one quart of Indian meal into a
bowl. Make a hole in the center and
pour in pint of warm water: add a
teaspoonful of salt and gradually mix
water and meal into soft dough; then
stir briskly for fifteen minutes or more
until it is light and spongy. Then
spread the dough evenly and smoothly
out on a straight fiat board: and place
1t before the open fire and bake it well;
then cut into squares, send to table
very hot. split open and butter. This
can be baked in the lower oven of a
gas stove Very successfully. but must
be placed low down from the fire.
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THU RsDAY.

THURSDAY.
BRE,A1iFAST.
Sliced Peaches. Cream.
Meat Cakes Baked Potatoes.
Griddle Cakes Maple syrup
Coffee
LUNCH.
Eagout of Duck. Celery.
Baked Apples.
Tea.
DINNER.
Okra Soup.
Soiled Salt Tongue. Tomato Sauce.
Stuffed Green Peppers.
Creamed Turnips.
Fruit Salad
Cheese. Waters.
Coffee.
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TABLE AND KITCHEN.

CONDUCTED
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FRIDAY.

Fruit.
Cereal. Cream.
Goldfish Cakes. Stewed Pota toes
Corn Bread. Coffee.
LUNCH.
CScalloped Salmon Green Peas
Potato Salad.
Grape Juice.
DINNER.
Cream of Tomato Soup.
Ilanked Fish. Creamed Potato Balls.
Baked Tomatoes. Spinach
Lettuce.
Scotch Apple Tart. Coffee.
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CHAPTER Xiv.
Enid Speaks.

81 am going to tell you the story of
our lives, out shall have TO go a long
way back to do it," Enid said. ct 80
back to the troubulous days of Charles,
as far back as the disastrous fight at
Naseby. OF course, am speaking more
from a Royalist point of view, for the
Littimers ware always followers of the
Court.
Mind You, there Is doubtless a deal
that is legendary about what am GO
ing to tell you. But the ring given to
my ancestor, Rupert Littimer. by Prince
Rupert himself. g an actually.
"Naseby was over, and, so the legend
goes, Prince Rupert found himself des-
perately situated and in dire peril of
capture oy Cromwell's troops, under
one Colonel Carfax, a near neighbor Of
Rupert Littimer; indeed the Cart TX
estates still run parallel with the prop
erty round Littimer Castle.
Now, Carfax as hated by all those
who were attached 70 the fortunes Of
the king, Seeing that he was of aristo-
cratic birth, II was held that he had vi
clated his caste and creed by taking
sides with Roundheads. History has
told us that he was right, and that the
Cavaliers, picturesque as they were,
were fighting q dubious cause. But
need not go into that. Carfax was
hard, stern man who spared nobody,
and many We're the stories told of his
cruelty.
He and Rupert Littimer were espe-
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deed. nobody seemed 60 know until af-
forwards, that there was insanity in the
roor girls family, thouth Hatheriy
Bells friend. DR.. Heritage, who then
had practice near Littimer. warned US
as well as he could. Nobody dreamed
how far the thing had gone.
Then hose letters of Claire's fell in
to Lord Littimer's hands. He found
them and locked them up in his safe.
Frsrk. furiDls at being treated like
boy, swore to break open the safe AMI
get his letters back. He did SO. and in
the same afe, and In the same drawer,
was Priuce Rupert's ring. When Lord
Littimer missed the letters, he missed
The ring. also. and q large sum Of mon
ey in notes. that he had just received
from his tenants. Frank had stolen the
ring and he money, so II seemed. /
shall not soon forget that day.
After taking the letters Frank had
gone straight to Moreton Wells. and 1t
looked for little time as though he had
fled. Within an hour of the discovery
of his loss Lord Littimer met Claire
Carfax on the cliffs. She was wearing
Prince Rupert's ring. Frank had sent
IL TO neT, she Silus AiiyDOdy DuN a
in a furious passion would have seen
that the girl was not responsible for her
actions. Littimer told her the true cir
cumstances Of the case. She laughed at
him in a quarT. vacant way and fed
through he woods. She went down TO
the beach. where she took boat and
rowed herself out into the bay. A mile
or more from the shore she jumped into
the water. and from that day to this
nothing has been seen of poor Claire
Carfax."
cor the ring. either" David asked.
cor the ring, either. The same night
Lady Iittimer started after the boy.
Ljttimer was going to have Frank pros
eCuted Lady Littimer fled to Longdean
Grange, where Frank oined her. Then
my uncle turned up. and there was
scene. II IS said that Lord Littimer
struck his wife but Frank says that
she fell against his gestic ulating fiss.
Anyway, il was the same as a blow,
and Lady Littimer dropped on the floor.
dragging a table down with her flow
ers and china and all. You have seen
that table IN ~4ongdean Grange. Since
that time it mas never been touched; the
place has lercr been swept or busted
or Earnished. You have seen my aunt,
and you know what the shock has done
for ter-the shock and the steady per-
secutions Of Reginald Henson"
CTo BE ContInucd)
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WHY SHE SOUGHT HIM.

judge Job Hedges the Victim of n
Joke-woman Came tn XIII Him.
Judge Job Hedges was the victim of
a Joke last week whose point he does
not yet clearly see.
A woman came into his Office and
started on a tale Of woe.
As he was in evident mental distress,
ne had not the heart to turn her away,
hut sat listening patiently for a solid
half hour to her rambling story.
Unable TO make any sense out of il,
he said, at length:
Madam. / should be glad to help you
in any way I can. but l can't see what
you're driving at. Kindly tell me. in as
few words as possible, the object of
your visit"
Certainly, sir she answered, po-
litely. II went first to Lawyer Emanu-
Ell Friend, and he sent me here. and SO
T.
But the object OF your visit ?" inter-
rupted Heiges.
"Oh. yes!" she said. recalling il. at
last. Now you speak of 1t, remem-
Der. came here to Kill you"
she is the thirty-fifth crank that
man Friend has sent me in three
months" sighed the judge. afterward.
II don't generally kick. but when II
comes to killing it's time to draw the
line."-New York World.
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TELL TIME BY CATS
CLOCKS NOT REALLY NEEDED IN
CELESTIAL EMPIRE
Eyes Of Time-keeplns FeIines p.,,..
the Exact Hour of the Day-o,I.
One Drawback to Be Noted in N.
Case.

According to the delightful Franoh
missionary Hue, who recorded s.
many queer things about the Celeste,
Empire, no man needs q watch n,
clock, II he has the right kind ~ :
cat. In certain parts of China thov
can tell the exact time of day or uigb,
by looking into cats eyes. The ppnII
OF the eye, assuming that the creatnra
in question is Just what it ought 70
be, gradually diminishes as noon an
proaches, until II loses completely Il.
oval form and becomes a thin nor.
pendicular line. When that line i.
plumb IL is IL o'clock. Then the punl
begins to grow very gradually and
finally becomes as big and as round as
a marble. Then it is midnight. With
patience, practice and good mathemat.
ical perception the happy possessor Of
a time-keeping cat can tell the hour
of the day and of the night, because
the thin perpendicular line which tbe
pupil Of the cats eye assumes at noon
gives him clear starting point.
Unfortunately NJ. Hue did not tell US
how to know the living timekeeper
from any common roof-walker or boot.
jack dodger, and that Is a great mis-.
fortune. IL may be that he did not
discover all the ms and outs of the
secret, or, If he did, he selfishly kept
them to himself. How fine it would
be If, instead of paying half barrel
OF money for a good watch, a man
could get an infallible cat for the TAX.
ing away of the thing! But this Of
course, would involve the necessity Of
carrying bag for the cat and of keep
ing poor puss inside with care.
The missionary discovered this val
liable piece of feline peculiarly by
pure accident. He noticed little boy
minding a calf and asked him il he
knew the time. The child looked up
and remarked that the day was too
hazy, he couldn't see the sun. But
wait a moment" he said; we will
know precisely in a moment" Then
he ran into the nearest hut and came
out with a big cat in his arms. 1T is
just half-past H." he shouted, and
running up to the missionary he placed
the cats face under the holy mans
nose. See for YOURSELF" said he.
Sure enough" said Hue, who had Sc
rious reasons for concealing his aston.
ishment and his ignorance, 1T is just
as you said, half-past H."
Later on, when he got among his
converts. he asked them to explain the
mystery. They did 80 and showed him
some living specimens of the precious
time-keepers. The good man, however,
was not altogether satisfied with the
proofs. He was always worried With
the thought that too many cats might
be cock-eyed.
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SAVAGE DOGS Protect Sultan.

Guards sufficient to protect king.
dom surround the palace; sentres
ready for instant action parade the
corridors, and huge and savage dogs
lie before the portals of the royal
chamber. But these precautions DO
not suffice to ease the troubled mind.
The sultan has In constant readiness
score of bedrooms, and nobody
knows until the last moment which
he will occupy for the night. All are
brilliantly illuminated, so that none
shall differentiate between his retlr-
ing chamber and the rest of the 20.
Each room is fitted with hidden places
Of escape, in the ceilings. floors ana
panels. These were fashioned by
English workmen, and none but the
sultan has the secret to their position
and fastenings. But with all such pre-
cautions he is tortured by ever.gnaw-
ing fears, trembles like a child IN tne
dark and dare not attempt sleep win
out person of the highest RESPONSE
bility reading to him. Listening 10
stories he sinks to sleep, to wake IN
agonies of fear through nightmare
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The Crimson
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II cannot. You viii ruin me. Have
you not had enough? Give me the
ring"
Henson, smilingly held the gem aloft.
Mrs. Henson raised her arm, with the
dust rising in choking clouds around
her. Then, with an activity astonish-
ing in one OF her years, she sprang upon
Henson and tore the ring from his
grasp. The thing was so totally unex-
rected from the usually gentle lady
that Henson could only gasp in aston
ishment.
II have III" Mrs. Henson cried. At
have II, and am free!"
Henson sprang towards her. With a
quick fleet step she crossed to the win
dow and fed out into the night A rag
ing madness seemed to have come over
her again; she laughed and she cried.
as she sped ors into the bushes. followed
by Henson. In fear and desperation the
latter had quite forgotten the dogs. He
was in the midst OF them, they were
clustering around himself and Mrs.
Henson before he was aware of the fact.
Give me the ring" he said. You
can't have II yet Some day / viii re-
store IL to you. BE sensible. IL any
body should happen to see YOU" Mrs.
Henson merely laughed. The dogs were
gamholing around her like so many
kittens. They did not seem to heed
Henson in the joy OF her presence. He
came on again, he made a grab for her
dress. but the rotten fabric parted like
cobweb in his hand. A warning grunt
came from one of the dogs. but Henson
save no heed.
Give 1t to mel" ne Kissed, cor 1 will
tear IL from your