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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1915)
The Wrong Rushville -By Bo Marlon Warrington (Copyright, ISifi, by W. a. Chapman.) ' "I am tired of It all," spoke Myra Cloyd, and she sighed and really looked weary and discontented. Mrs. Verner, her aunt, glanced at ber quickly, shrewdly. She traced signs of worry In the fair guest she had entertained through a busy social season. I "You need a rest, a change, dear," she remarked soothingly. "The change, perhaps, yes," admit ted Myra. "Rest? Oh, just the re verse of that, dear aunty. I can never thank you for all the trouble you have had to give me the grand time of my life, but there Is so much hollowness and Insincerity to all the people 1 have met, that I am not only disap pointed, but weary of It all." i "I am what they call a worldly wom an, Myra," spoke Mrs. Verner grave ly," but down in my heart of hearts 1 commend your point of view. My thought has not been to merge you into the social whirl, but to give you the experience that will enable you to contrast the varied issues of life. 1 bad hoped, though, that the pbilan tkroplcal work would Interest you " "Aunty, doar," broke In Myra pas sionately, "it is there that I have seen the weakness of the system followed. I will not say that good results in the concrete are not attained, but so much expense, so much time wasted by im petuous members with a theory to ex ploit. Oh, aunty, If only I could go direct to the poor and suffering! I would give my services, the fortune dear dead father left to me to relieve them." "You would be deceived, robbed on every hand," declared Mrs. Verner. "Good, kind soul that you arel spend a week or two with Aunt Martha at Rushville. It will quiet you and settle down your Ideas after the turbulence of the past three months." Myra had never been to Rushville, but she had twice received a visit from Aunt Martha when her father was alive. She recalled the plain faced but charitable-hearted old lady, anticipating guidance and help In framing tip her life work, for Myra felt that she had a call to assist In the great benevolence her fortune "Rushville," Sha Spoke. would allow. She was tired and had a headache and longed only for a rest ful seat on the train, when she reached the big crowded Union depot "Rushville," she spoke, approaching ono of the many ticket selling win dows, received a bit of stamped card board and was soon past the iron guard gate and selecting a seat on the shady side of the car. Myra let her mind drift Then she must have dozed. It was quite dunk and the car lamps were just being lighted when the train slowed up and the conductor sang out: "RuBhvllle." Myra caught up her satchel and stepped out upon the platform of a little (lag station. It was surrounded by freight trucks, there were no houses in sight, only a crippled flagman, whom she approached. This train had gone on. "I must have made a mistake," she poke fiutterlngly. "My ticket was for Rushville and the signboard on the little depot Is 'Way 22 " "Yes'm," nodded the old man, "Rush ville is a mile and a half west They have no railroad there." Myra looked dubiously across the level twilight stretch before her. There seemed to be no way of obtaining a vehicle, so she set out to walk the distance. She hastened her steps as the gloom of night began to develop the dreary landscape. She bad noth ing to go by except the broad direc tion from the Bagman that Rushville was "west" She was startled and affrighted as suddenly a vague form loomed up In her path. Myra came to an Irreso lute standstill as the figure confronted her. It was that of a haggard, at tenuated man, whose eyes glanced balefully and who kept muttering In coherently. Almost Involuntarily she breathed forth: "I have lost my way. I wish to reach Rushville," "Oh, easy, that I" cried the man with strange animation. "Come on, ma'am, I'll bclp you. Oh, yes, Indeed, I will I" He laughed in a queer, terrifying way, but Myra was willing to trust to any guidance to reach her aunt The man kept ahead of her. Abruptly their coune was blocked by a high tockade. Tha man lined this. At Hi end was a great gate which stood baraly open. Ha pushed Myra through the aperture. She shrank back, but he lied her arm and quite forced her Into one of many small buildings. There a light burned. Myra gated about her In consternation. It held half t down cots and as many reclin 1 IMF ing chairs. Each was filled with, an invalid the bloodless faces and lan guid poses told this much. "Ah!" spoke a sudden brisk voice, "you come back," and Myra noticed the speaker as a professional looking young man, who at once called some body from outside. Two men appeared and bore her guide away against his will The young man stared strangely at Myra. "I cannot understand why you are here," he spoke, and trembling, fear filled Myra explained. The young man looked serious and troubled. "There are two Rushvllles accessi ble from the city Union depot," he said, "on different railroad lines, and I fear you got a ticket to the wrong one. The Rushville just beyond here Is a poor industrial town. Typhus has broken out and I am Doctor Willis, in charge of the hospital here. I am very sorry, miss, but you have been ex posed to the disease through the folly of that escaped patient and will have to be quarantined." It came upon Myra with a shock, but never was physician more gentle and reassuring than her courteous, Intelli gent host He explained to her that the law exacted her isolation for four teen days. He assured her, however, that she Bhould have a room In the house himself and his sisters occupied. "I shall give you preventive medi cines," he explained, "and from your general appearance I believe you will be Immune from Infection, as I am myself." The sisters of the doctor were like warm-hearted sisters, indeed, to Myra. They gave her a room by herself. The next day she had recovered her nat ural poise and became Interested In their helpful duties. They took care of their brother's dispensary, nurBed the convalescents, and Myra felt really happy and contented as they gave her some cloth to make bandages of, and became a helper In good work of the stockade hospital. "It is my first experience in actual work among the poor and sick," Myra told Dr. Willis one evening. "Yours Is a blessed task." She regarded him with genuine ad miration. His tlreleBsness, patience and skill had made him a model in her eyes. "You are free to leave us tomor row," he spoke, and his 'tones were re gretful. "It will cheer my sisters to hear from you occasionally." "I will do more than that," replied Myra In her clear, truthful way. "They tell me that the typhus will be stamped out here within a month, and that you will take up a charitable work in the city. Let me assist you oh, please! please!" And from Myra's rough experience at the wrong Rushville grew the bless ing of finding her life's true work side by side with her noble husband. NEW IDEA IN EXCAVATING Hydraullo Mining Cartridge Is Said to Be the Most Powerful Yet Devised. . It 1b often hard, and sometimes dan gerous, to use ordinary explosives for mining and excavating In confined spaces, a fact that has led to the de velopment of the hydraulic mining cartridge as a safe and effective sub stitute. The cartridge consists of a steel cylinder containing numerous small pistons that expand when water Is Injected into them with a hand pump. After drilling a deep enough hole, the workmen Insert the cylinder, and then set to work at the hand pump. The tiny pistons expand until their free extremities bear against the mass of rock with constantly-Increas ing force, and the rock Is gradually rractured under the tremendous pres sure. The operation, it Is said, is not only cheaper than the ordinary blast but disintegrates a larger area of rock. Chlorine. Chlorine, which In its liquid form the Hermans are said to be using In their poison bombs, owes Its discov ery as an element, as well as Its name, to a British scientist, Humphrey Davy. It was in 1810 that he found the mys terious gas to be undecomposable Into other elements. Should we decide to flatter the Germans by imitating them there would be no dltllculty In finding the chlorine. The earth and the sea are full of it, In the form of salt It would Indeed be difficult not to find chlorine in one or other of its com binations wherever one tried. In earth, air or watur; but It would be Impossible to find it anywhere except In alliance with another element Workmen who split up common salt chlorine of sodium In ordor.to get the chlorine grow fat In the process, but as a set-off their teeth decay. London Chronicle. Why the Stars Twinkle. Although the twinkling of the star Is commonly referred to, they do not twinkle at all. The stars are really sum that throw out light, Just as our sun lights the earth. Wben the rays of light from the stars Btrlke the air which surrounds the earth they have to pierce many little particles which are always float ing about In the atmosphere. It Is this Interference between us and the source ot light which gives the ap pearance of twinkling. On certain nights the light ot the stars will appear so bright and clear as to attract particular attention. This Is because tbe air Is so clear there Is leBs Interference than usual with tht rays of light in reaching the earth. Its Kind. "I got the agent to give that in convenient apartment with only three rooms to the disagreeable tenant next to us." "That was what you might call a suits revenge." Such Ignorance. "Ahem! That dancer li wearing only a few beads. Do you suppose sha calls tbem clothes T "My dear fellow, certainly not! That's a costume." A Woman's Discovery. The wife ot Congressman Taylor ot Colorado sava that the women nf thai state have found that "It does not take as long to vote as It does to match, a piece of silk I" MR. FOX VISITS JACK RABBIT. Jack Rabbit had just the kind of an experience that Mr. Fox told him he would. In trying to grow a long tail by wetting himself in the brook and drying himself In the sun he caught so bad a cold that for 8 week or more be could not get out of his burrow, and finally, he Bent a squirrel to ask Mr. Fox if he would not come to visit him and bring some wisdom with him, for he was still too 111 to go out, and, more than that, he was lonesome from Btaying so much alone In his burrow. "Tell Jack Rabbit that I will come this afternoon," said the fox, when the squirrel had delivered the message, and early that afternoon he set out for the visit to the rabbit. Jack Rabbit certainly was glad to see him and set out for him the best that he had in his home. There were bits of lettuce and a fine bunch of sweet clover, and, most delicate of all to the rabbit's palate, were tender tops of some celery plants which had late ly put their heads above ground In Farmer Johnson's garden. Mr. Fox made believe that he en- "He Is Weaving His Web," Said the Fox. joyed the groen stuff, but really It was not at all to his liking, and he was glad when the meal was over and he settled back for a talk with Jack Rab bit. They were sitting very near to the opening of the rabbit's house and were talking contentedly when Jack Rabbit startled the fox by saying: "Look there at the opening to my burrow. There Is Bomothing growing across It." The fox looked and saw a spider In dustriously at work. From side to side of the hole he traveled, carrying with him the tiny thread, out of which he was weaving his web. "Did you ever see such a spider be fore?" asked the fox. "Never," snld the rabbit, "and what Is he doing and why should he come here to my house?" "He Is weaving his web," said the fox, "and a wonderful thing it is, too. No other Insect can make so wonder ful a fabric nor one so strong." "How strong is it?" said the rabbit. "So strong," said the fox, "that other Insects caught In it cannot es cape, but are held fast for the rest of their lives. What the net is to the hunter the web Is to the spider, though the spider Is more wonderful In that he makes his wob from mate rial which he himself supplies." As the fox and the rabbit watched the spider he completed his web and retired to one corner, where he rested. 'See," said the rabbit, "he has cov ered the whole ot the entrance to my house and we are both prisoners with in." Just then a beetle walked lumbor ingly up to the opening, intending, it appeared, to go out into the sunshine for a little while. As he tried to go out be ran suddenly against the web and stopped. Hunt where he would there was no opening by which ho might got out of the burrow. Next a bumblebee bussed along the ground and, seeing the hole, thought he would like to visit the rabbit's house, but when he came to the web It stopped him and he flew away disappointed. Jack Rabbit bogan to get alarmed. "How am I to get out?" he asked the fox. "And If I am imprisoned here I shall starve to death." "Do not be alarmed," said the fox. "You are about to learn a lesson that ought to serve you all through your life. You have seen the beetle and the bumblebee trying to break the spider's web lu valu. You have seen them try once and, not succeeding, have seen them give up the task. But what seemed impossible to them is really not hard at all. I have enjoyed the afternoon with you very much. I hope that you are on the way to being well again and now I must be going.' The rabbit watched carefully as the fox went toward the entrance, expect lug to see him unable to break through the wob and go Into the open field. But when the fox reached the wob he walked straight through without the least trouble. Jack Rabbit was much surprised, but not too surprised to rail to the fox. "Mr. Fox. you have forgot ten to tell me the wisdom you were to teach me today." "No, Indeed," said the fox, "I have not forgotten. Instead, I have Just given you an example ot wisdom which will be ot great service to you to know, which Is that nothing Is ever so hard as It seems." Looking for Mamma's Husband. Little Lola was standing at tha front gate, gating anxiously up and down the street, when a woman pass er-by paused and asked: "Are you looking for someone, dear?" "Yes, ma'am replied Lola. "Din- ner Is on the table, and I came out to see It mamma's husband was com' log." MYSTERY PARTY IS AMUSING While Weird Story Is Being Related Candles Go Out to the Amazement of Children Present If you are looking for some Xorm of novel entertainment, give a mystery party. Not long ago a hostess enter tained at a party which was a great success. She led us Into a darkened room, and, when all were seated, she brought in a shingle on which were placed three candles. This shingle was set on a low table, in full view of all, and the candles were lighted. When all was quiet, she began a weird ghost story, in the weirdest part of which the first candle went out; In a few minutes more the second candle went out, to the increased amazement of the spectators. When the story reached its thrilling climax and the third candle mysteriously went out, there was a rush for the door, and the hostess felt that her scheme was a success. The candle extinguishing is easily explained. The wick ot each had been previously cut, and each was cut a different distance from the top of the candle. This is done with a sharp knife, and the two pieces of the candle are then pressed together, so that the cut cannot be detected. If any diffi culty is found in making the two parts stick together, it Is overcome very simply by heating the wax very slight ly before replacing. ROBIN DEVOURS MANY WORMS Little Songster Includes In His Dally Menu White Grubs, Beetles, Wasps, Moths, Ants, Etc. Could you, upon demand, with your eyes closed, recall to mind, and de scribe accurately enough for identi fication purposes, Robin Redbreast, the cheerful companion of everybody, everywhere? Put to the test at a dinner recently not one of the diners could depict Mr. Redbreast In a way to set him apart from his bird fellows. And yet, Robin is the most common and familiar of our birds, recommended by orni thologists as a convenient size for com parison with other natives of birddom. His clear song Is held up to the be ginner In bird study as a standard of comparison by which the student may learn to distinguish the songs of other species. If you have any sentiment left In your soul, at the mention of his magic name you will fly away with Robin Redbreast to the land of your lost youth, where old-fashioned sweet- smelling posies bloom in the door- yard, and on the limb of the old ap ple tree, close by the open window, you will hear him persistently calling again and again far too early In the morning "Cheerily-cheerup, cheerlly- cheerup." Is he not worth saving for his beau ty and good cheer, alone? Besides being a general good fel low Robin Ib a most useful and Indus trious citizen. Mrs. Robin demands very fine grasses with which to line her cozy nest, and when the baby Robins arrive, they have such enor mous appetites it keeps both Mr. and Mrs. Robin on the Jump to supply their steady demand for fresh earth worms. The Robins Include in their daily menu white grub, beetles, cutworms, Rcbin Redbreast, a Good Fellow Who Rids Field and Orchard of Insect Pests. grasshoppers, crickets, moths, ants, wasps, caterpillars, larvae ot the gipsy-moth, the brown-tall moth, the forest-tent moth, canker-worms, leaf eating and wood-boring beetles, wire worms and army-worms. It has been noted that whon Robins are scarce, the army-worm advances, and on the coming ot numbers of tho Robins the army-worm disappears. lUost laborers ask more than board and lodging for their toil. For all his useful services (for which Robin only asks food and shelter, and hustles these for himself) some selfish snd un grateful folk begrudge the faithful lit tle worker the bit of fruit he gathers now and then for himself and family. Uncle Sam is authority for the state ment that the Industrious American Robins really prefer wild fruit when they can get It, and advises the man who wants his orchard free from In sects, to allow a Tew trees for the birds or plant some wild mulberries for these profitable tenants ot field and orchard. The Russian mulber ries, which ripen the Bame time as cherries, are preferred by the Robins to cultivated fruit. Home-Making Project Seven thousand boys and girls In Minnesota are taking part In some form ot farm or home-making project this year. They are engaged in corn growing, pig raising, bread making. gardening and canning, poultry, calf and other contests. In the corn con test alone 3,000 boys are enrolled. Ot girls engaged In bread making there are 2,000. More than 55 counties have already held bread-making "field days.1 Five hundred Minnesota boys and girls entered the pork-production contest His Intention. "Well, my little man," asked the new minister, "what do you Intend to be when you grow up?" "A bartender!" promptly replied Clarence Callipers. "Wh-a-a-at! A bartender?" "Yep! I want a change. I'm tired of being presldenUevery time company com tat Kansas City Star. , i V-SS aBBSBSBBI liiiHM A..i...-:..va 1 m KIEV, the wealthiest, most im portant and largest city In the path of the Teutonic invaders of Russia, is one of the oldest and most Important of Russia's towns. A statement given out by the National Geographic society describes this place, the famed "mother ot Rus sian cities." Kiev is beautifully situated on the broad Dnieper among a cluster of gold en hills. There are other cities in Russia to dispute its claim of being the cradle of the modern empire, out it is the undisputed cradle of ortho doxy, the birthplace of Russia's church, and it is still a first religious center. Holy Kiev is known as the Russian Jerusalem. It is a city of many churches, monasteries, sacred relics and of numerous saints. More than a quarter of a million pilgrims have regularly visited the holy city each year during times of peace. As a place of pilgrimage, Russian Kiev ranks with Mecca, with Jerusalem and with Rome. It is a prosperous city, a modern and a progressive one. In its newer parts the streets are broad and straight, and are built up with fine homes and public buildings. In the old quarter there are modern build ings from three to six stories high, which Is a rare thing in Russia. The Krostchatlk is a splendid thorough- tare, cut upon the most approved of western city plans. However, as In Petrograd, the wide, regular Btreets of the southern metropolis are a heri tage from the founders. Founded In Seventh Century. Take away the churches, with their turnip, pineapple and pear-shaped domes, take away the pilgrims and the Gcnerao. View or Kim in visiting peasants, and Kiev has little that is typically Russian. With the growth of its industry and commerce, it has adopted the modern city habit, a habit which Is the same the world around. Despite its obtrusive newness, Kiev is an ancient city. Its fortunes have been Intimately connected with the fortunes ot Russia. It was founded about the beginning of the seventh century, and Its authentic history be gins with the arrival of the two Scan dinavian knightB, Askold and Dyr, who left Novogorod to take possession of It. Kiev early became Christian, and the Greek faith was carried to the rest ot the Russians from here. In the eleventh century there are said to have been 400 churches wtthin its walls. The relations between Byzan tium and Kiev were close, and much ot the Greek culture that has mixed itself with Russian life entered the empire by way of this city. Kiev has been badly battered In more than 1,000 years ot wars and In ternal disorders, but it has had a sav ing way of quickly covering up its wounds and beginning afresh with re doubled courage. At one time It was the capital of the Russian state. It was subject for more than two gener ations to the Mongols, when it fell to the possession ot the Lithuanian prin cipality tor 239 years, for 85 years It was under the sway ot Poland, and was finally reunited to Russia in 1686. It Is by far the most important city la the Ukraine. Has Beauty and Industry. The city lies on the right or west bank of the Dnieper, In the midst ot He Knows It Now. "That fellow certainly needed a haircut," remarked a customer who had Just taken the chair occupied by an individual with a wondrous thatch covering, in a nearby tonsorlal atelier. "That man is the finest musician In New York," said tha barber. "Why do musicians wear long hair?" asked the Inquisitive customer. "Pshaw, I thought everybody knew that" an swered the man in the white coat "They wear long hair to protect their ears, of course their sensitive ears. All depends with musicians on the ears, the same as all depends on the eyes with painters. And the ears of musicians are delicate, liable to take cold, liable to aches. Inflammations and what not. So they protect them -with long hair, and you have no more right to laugh at the mane of a pianist or violinist than at tbe protective shlolds and pads ot your favorite halt back 1" New York Times. Decline ef the Roman Empire. To a certain extent the decline was due to the empire having outgrown its strength. Its ramifications In the jII1IIiiiiiiiiwihMiiiii .ixxsim ii iMimiBiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiii of li er ussian El es a fruitful region, which, during re cent years has been making rapid progress. - It is 628 miles southwest of Moscow by rail, and 406 miles by rail northwest of Odessa. That part of the city built along the riverside is flat, while behind, the streets run up and down the hills and through pictur esque gullies. Kiev is rated as one of the most beautiful cities in Russia. Kiev ranks next to Petrograd and Moscow In educational and scientific Institutions. Its university Is famous and has more than 3,000 students. The city is also the Magdeburg of Russia, the center of the empire's beet-sugar industry. This Industry has been steadily gaining in importance. In 1910, 10,000,000 tons of beet sugar were produced in the czar's realm, while Just before the war its production had risen to more than 140,000,000 tons. There are innumerable rich refineries in Kiev. Further, there is a consider able manufacture ot machinery, chemi cals, , hardware, paper and tobacco. The conserved fruits of Kiev have a European reputation, and during re cent years they have been successfully competing with EngliBh conserves. Kiev has a population of nearly 550, 000, and has been rapidly adding num bers through the last ten years. Plnsk a Waterway Center. Pinsk, captured by the Invading Ger mans, is probably the place ot greatest promise of all the cities of West Rus sia. The secret of the advantage of the little town is its wonderful water way connections. It can send the for est and agricultural products of West Russia, assembled in its warehouses, by water to the north and the Baltic sea or to the south and the Black sea. A line drawn east from' Brest-LI- the Agricultural college Gardens tovsk, through Plnsk, marks the low est depression of the vast, unhealthy marsh tract. In the direction of this line the Prlpet flows east, and numer ous tributaries flow to the Pripet from the north and from the south. Pinsk is joined by a canal to the west with the Bug, and thus with the Vistula and German Danzig. The Orginsky canal to the north connects it with the Niemen, while the Prlpet brings it in to connection with the rich lands of Little Russia. The Russian govern ment has been conducting workB tor the draining of the swamps around Plnsk since 1872, and some 8,000,000 acros have been reclaimed. To the east of Plnsk, however, lies a great stretch ot land almost hopelessly water-logged. While the Introduction of railways diverted some of the water-borne traffic of Pinsk, it still enjoys a consid erable commerce, and, before the war, there was every promise that its river and canal carried trade would Increase enormously. Grains, meats and other farm products; leather, timber and timber products form the bulk ot its commerce. The town has a number ol factories which turn out matches, leather goods, soap, beer and wood work. It has a population of about 30,000, more than two-thirds ot which is Jewish. The hand ot Mars has borne heavily upon the town, and it has been razed to the level of its own swamps several times In the fierce passage ot Invaders. Knowledge. A loving heart ia tbe beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle. western hemisphere rendered Rome peculiarly vulnerable to barbarian in vasion, and a deterioration ot the na tional character brought about by ex cesses and conceit in its Own nnwfln made the empire less able to cope with tne situation. The division of the empire into two Darts, the tlon being governed from Byzantium (Constantinople) and the western from Rome, added to tbe decay of its pow ers. Tbe provinces drained to Inani tion by taxation levied for army and court, and in disruption through in. testlne war, could not repel barbarian inroads. The policy at first introduced of conciliating the Invader and ptvin? him military command proved futile, and eventually Rome was taken by the Goths, A. D. 408. The Invader was bought out at a heavy price, but from that day the might ot the Roman em pire departed. New Artificial Leather. A substantial prize has been won by a Belgian Inventor In Italy for an artificial leather made of cotton, which Is said to be as durable and el&aUe aa tha genuine article. HOT WEATHER MEALS COMBINATIONS THAT GO WELL IN THE SUMMER. Hot Savory and a Cold Salad Are Al ways to Be Recommended Some Suggestions That Are Worth Remembering. A hot savory and a cold salad make a good combination for the summer luncheon, and the savory is a useful dish for the disposition of left-over scraps of meat, fish, etc. The foundation of a savory Is usually a triangle on a finger of buttered brown bread toast, or fried bread, pastry or biscuit. , The filling may be varied in definitely, and its arrangement de pends upon available materials. Here are a few suggestions for tha use of materials common to all house holds: Tomato Toast Half an ounce of butter, two ounces of grated cheese, one tablespoonful of tomato; paprika. Melt the butter and add the tomato (either canned or fresh stewed), then the grated cheese; sprinkle with papri ka and heat on the stove. Cut bread into rounds or small squares, fry and pour over each slice the hot tomato mixture. Ham Toast Mince a little left-over boiled ham very finely. Warm It in a pan with a piece of butter. Add a Ilt- the pepper and paprika. When very hot pile on hot buttered toast. Any left-over scraps of fish or meat may be used up In a similar way, and make an excellent savory to serve with a groen salad. Sardine Savories. Sardines, one hard-boiled egg, brown bread, pars ley. Cut the brown bread into strips and butter them. Remove the skin and the bones from the sardines and lay one fish on each finger of tho bread. Chop the white of the egg Into fine pieces and rub the yolk through a strainer. Chop the parsley very fine and decorate each sardine with layers of the white, the yolk and the chopped parsley. Season with pepper and salt. Oyster Savories. These make a more substantial dish, and are deli cious when Berved with a celery salad: Six oysters, six slices of bacon, fried bread, seasoning. Cut very thin strips of bacon; tbe bacon that can be pur chased already shaved is best for the purpose. Season the oysters with pep per and salt, and wrap each In a slice of the bacon, pinning it together with a wooden splint (a toothpick). Place each oyster on a round ot toast or of fried bread, and cook in tha oven for about five minutes. Serve very hot, and sprinkle with pepper. Cheese Savories. Butter slices ot bread and sprinkle over them a mix ture of grated cheese and paprika. Set them In a pan and place the pan In the oven, leaving it there until the bread is colored and the cheese set. Serve very hot. ; Uses of Pineapple Juice. The juice left from canned pine apple is fine for use during the cun ning season to impart flavor to taste less fruits, as the pear. A pint of juice added to the water in which pears are cooking gives it an excel lent flavor. For canning the pine apple is often put up in grated form, or after being run through a chop per. Although It may be served in various forms, the fruit Is so excel lent that the simplest form is as good as any. Sprinkle a little sugar over the Rlices about an hour before wanted and set in the refrigerator. If the fruit is quite ripe when served very little extra Bugar is needed, but, like all other tropical fruits when sent North, it has to be gathered in a green state and is Beldom found quite rip ened from tho field. No fruit lends itself with greater readiness than the pineapple to coax ing art of the canneries and the pre serving factories. Banana Cake. Make any one-egg cake, or better still make a sponge cake and bake in round tins, two layers; slice banana on cake and cover with whipped cream; simply lay another layer of cake on first and cover again with bananas and cream. Whipped Cream Take one cupful sweet cream, add the white of an egg to give it body, small pinch of salt, and whip all together until thick; sweeten to taste aud flavor with va nilla. Boston Globe. Pineapple Cake. Mix one egg, half a cupful of butter, three-quarters of a cupful of sugar, three-quarters ot a cupful ot milk, one and a half teaspoontuls baking pow der and two and a halt cupfuls of flour. Bake In' two layers and when ready to serve put grated pineapple on each layer of cake. Whip half a pint ot cream, sweeten to taste and put over pineapples. i Dumplings That Never Fall. Two cupfuls of flour, two heaping teaspoontuls of baking powder, one half teaspoonful of salt and one cupful of sweet milk. Stir and drop In small spoonfuls into plenty ot water, in which meat Is boiling. Boll with cover off for fifteen minutes, then put cover on snd boil ten minutes longer. These are very fine with either beef or chicken. Rhubarb Custard. Stew about one and a half pounds rhubarb and one cupful sugar. Make a soft custard of one pint milk, two eggs, halt cup sugar and one table spoonful (cornstarch In a double boiler. Let both cool, then pour custard over the rhubarb. Rhubarb Is much better stewed In double boiler, too, using no water. Sour Cream Dressing. One-halt pint sour cream, two table spoonfuls lemon Juice, one tablespoon ful sugar, ons teaspoonful salt one quarter teaspoonful pepper, one tea spoonful mustard. Beat the cream un til It is light and thick; add the othet Ingredients. Sweet cream may be sub stltuted if desired.