THE MIDDLEiiUKGII POST. T. H. IIARTER, Knrron aud Pno'n. MJiiu:m i;ii, vi.. ikc. 5. iHM. There are ti') cottons mills in the South, c Tisuiiiin 2.).", 000 bitles of cot ton. It is announced that Secretary Blaine, in consultation with I'uitcd States Minis ter Ryan, has iirnci ged a comirch"tisivc plan for tho promotion of rccijirocnl tr.ulo between this country nml Mexico. Tho hitler Government will unquestion ably accept. Suicide ns a ri.sk to life decreases rap idly nftrr thr thirty -lift li year, nml the very old take their own lives ns rarely ns he very young. Under ten nml over verity years of ngc, suicide is extremely i.'itnl (akc.i.iii insigriliennt jdaco in ;ititical labUs. lVmerieiii nation uses more roiij " a than any other on tiie globe, p.je Knglish u-cs four jiotini'.s jut C W ( '' 'IV ' " s" ,,!'" 1 i over tim e pound to our live. f 1,",M least of nil. nml Hu-si.i beat It save an I Is ' 11 few 011:11 c. V.'hoopi - " Afien is coming more nr.il move fe.Torni V (:, f'"i".V, in flitc of tile (m.iil'Iiii. I certain 1' gal diilicuUios to be the . , ((Tereil to ,l4 performance in some Levis, Drug impossibility. At Gotha UnrtZJO '""" medical skiliuring the present year. ;(. A few ' ' little trouble promptly 1"11, it lnsliinLr Minouri 0 1 1 wenty-two years, has the same rem1 " Iv? l'ovel, of ti-stlmi.nyfi.r t.il. ir. l'Vel, who is VHictril. ' I- I luble Knck, Nef age, was compelled "For ciilMrertUio.OOO in seruritirs vuiglis, sore tltr . , ,, , , Utiow of any rcl-"l-11. who wm edit 'iiore s-mIv r.-ll.jH Vl.ry .r-:it i .'til rcctoinl. I have . i!'ie iii nixes of gruiid'hildreit old".-;-Allll I.ovejnv, r.'.i I'.'sioit, Mim, "Avit's Cherry . " ninni kitl.ly elTee'tiv Kabul Austria invnliiitlile ns n fa, 1'. M. I'.iyuiu, Cliicoj there wants to Ayer's Cherry go from every- ne linn has just 'iln-l'esth nml rRKrAHRD Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.,' es coulil not fcolJ by II IiruuKliw. I'rlcc 1 Prof. Lois usu to eaeh peak German, ir Czech. At got over by n II he used. UMU Li UMU Kt authority DISCOVERY AND TRAIN m t, ., In spit of aitnltmtea ImlUtionk .1,. I ttranrr. and prvtlral muluef th Oi"ie L "HOI Kingdom nt $,7&7?7'i quarter, ami thu quantity available for consumption, niter tiediieling (wo bushels nu acre lor need, lit 8, OlIS. 5 15 ijuartfrs. Taking the popu lation for the current htrvc.-t year at rather over oS, 01)0, Odd, the amount re quired for consumption, nt sixty-live bushels Jier head, will he 'Jli.lirii'i.'.Mll quarters, leaving nearly l'.l, (',', Ou t to 'oe provided by ule at in stock and imports. lulike most cuuntiies, China liolds the suicide in honor. ai"l by her laws ex tends to him the most lenient considera tion, having regard in nil casts to the motive which jirompted self-slaughter. The motive is not unfiecjuently revenue, its the Chinese law requires tho house holder on whose premises thi dead body is found not only to provido the funeral expenses, but to coinpen.'ate the relatives of the deceased. As suicide, is thus a means of rescuini; one's rrlatir from poverty, it has been made in China a tine urt. A curious devel ipment of it is the jiraetiee of oilcriti;; oitu'.s self as a sub stitute for tt person under sentence ol death. This vienrious payment of leyal jienalttes is, of course, much npjirei iated by rich criminals who nru enamored ol life. Secretary Kusk, although not the first Secretary of Agriculture to sit in tin Aineiicaii Cabinet, is the first to issue ar annual report. The Washington .stui asserts that "it will attract general atten tion from lite fact that it enters with some miinilciu'ss into subjects which show tho real value, to the country o such n dejiartmcnt, condueled with (-kill at the executive end of the line and lib erality at the Congressional end. It it ridiculous tit claim that tint usefulness of it jiieco of k'ovcniincntal machinery like this one ends with thu collection ol (statistics and few general advisory func tions. Tho Secretary jirojioses to nine his tiejiartment from that level. He wants a national meat inspection law, for example, which shall eaablu public offi cers to locuto tho centre of itny disease which breaks outniitoiip; American cuttle, and jircvrnt tho shipments of live and dead incuts unlit for consumption. An other excellent rccoinmendatron is that tho forestry interests of tho Government bo xiven more intelligent attention. A they tiro now, there is Absolutely no way in which timber thefts ami forest tires can bo prevented; and tho loss to tho (lovermncnt trout these sources, as shown by Chief t'eruow's figures on rejtenlcd iictitsions, is greater every ycur than tho cot of a fair supervision would be." c nn if. DY AND HY. Down tho ntraim whprs thp tldn In rlmisar, Farther on whore the shorn ara fair. And the gracious fornix we vould fain bs nenror, Thu nmnffl we npiak In the vole, of prayer. 0" the vnynste Ion they will Iw tho dearer When aftr wltilo wo shall groct them there, Farther on where the tide Is elmrer, Down the stream wlmre the shores are fair. By and by when the sun is shining, After while when the skies are clear, When tho cloud unfolds its silver lining Ami shores of the pencefnl isles draw near, Wo shall free our tongue from their dull re pining Anil fill our hearts with words of cheer AfUr wltilo when tho sun is shining, iy and by when tho skLn ore e!nr. Chiritijit Herald. Sopliv's Transgression. BY MAItY T. KAttXSWOItTII. "Oh, uncle, can't I go?" Sojthy Allerton leaned over her uncle's chair, with pleadinij ryw, and hands un consciously clasjied over tho carved knob upon its top. She was a small rosy damsel of eighteen, with luxuriant brown hair, eyes of tho velvety brown that you ses in a ripe chestnut that has just burst its burr, mid a bright conqilexion, none the worst! for a few touches of healthy min'oiini. And her dress, though only of shilling calico, was tastefully made, and she wore a "butterfly bow" of ro.se-coloied ribbon at, her collar, ami a carmine-blossomed clove jiink in her hair. I'ncle Joshua shook his head gravely. "Child," saitl he, "you know, before hand, what my answer will be!" "lint, um le, nil the Halts girls are going !"' " Well, let thrin go. I'm not retponsi bln for Siah Hates's girls. Hut I niu for vou, mid I don't approve of these balls. Now don't tease me tiny more. Wlr'n I've ftid no, no it shall be. And Sophy Allerton went back tos'.rain the night's milking into the row of glitter ing milk pans that Mood on the snowy buttery shelves, with eyes too full of re bellious tears to see what she was about. I'ncle Joshua lbtlc and his niece lived all nhme in the old yellow farm-house under the butternut trees. I'm le Joshua was a sixty-yo.irold bachelor, who nasstd his time alternately between bed und j chair, a helpless jiaralytie, so far as his lower limbs were concerned. Hut, as ho was wont hopefully to observe, lie wasn't paralyzed at the to, and by the aid of u sturdy inan-of-all-work, who canto before daylight, nnd went home at night, when the chickens climb:.d their roosts, the farm jirogrcssed bravely. "1 aint a miser," t-ititl Uncle Joshua, "but I kind o' want to leaven little suth in' to my sister's orpha:i child. Sophy Hint one to rough it much, und I mean she shall bo jirovidcd for when I'm gone." Uncle Joshua took ti;t his jiajter und began to unfold its columns us Sojihy crept spiritlessly uway. "It goes to my heart to thwart her," ' said he, "hut 'taint right to let her get into tho way of running to such places. A girl ns is till alone in the world, like my Sojthy, jmor lamb, can't be too care ful. She'll jmitt a little at fust it's only natural she should ami then she'll see that her old uncle was in the right of it, after all!" In the meanwhile, Sophy was sitting on tin. back kitchen dour-sill, listening to a whip-poor-will repeating its plain tive refrain on the edge of the maple swamp below, anil watching, as well us she could through her tears, a great golden star lift its shield through the jturpli! of thi! inid-siimiiier hori.oii. When, all of a sudden, Oimdiah Car- : stairs, the hired man, came upon her like n shirt-sleeve vision for no mort il ever sawOba liah with a coat on between thu months of April and November. "I've fetched a ham up from the smoke-house," said he; "ami Squire Martin is goiit" to leuimehev a fore-quarter oi lamb for Wednesday." "Yes," saitl Sophy, listlessly, "it's nil right, I dare say." Hut instead of going into tho house to lielji Uncle Joshua to bed. as Sophy ex pected ho would, Oimdiah shifted him self from one leg to thu other, like a meditative fowl. "Goin' to bo great doin's down to Swnmj) H:tsin, 1 hear," saitl he. "To .norrer night, aint itf" "I believe so," Sojihy answered. "You're goin", 1 Miijipose?" "I don't know why you should sup jtoso so," retorted Sojihv, soinewhut tartly. "Well, I vum!" rnitl Oimdiah. "You ain't n-goin', then? There's to bo tew fiddles and a cornet ; nml Squiro Dicker man's old barn is filled up with Hags mid evergreens and jiink cambric festoons so s ye wouldn't know it; und a hundred candles, all a buriiiu' at once!" "Uncle Joshua don't ujtprovo of such things," sighed Sojihy. "All the young folks is goin'," per sisted her Job's comforter. "Old man thinks it dreadful sight of you. I should a'jtoso he'd let you go!" "Well, he won't, then, nnd there's no uso talking auy mora about it," said Sophy, rising and going back into tho house, with some manifestation of tetiier. "Well, I vum!" iigain rejieated Obndiah Carstairs, looking hard ttt tho big golden star. Not more consolatory was I.izlo Lark spur, tho pretty daughter of tho nearest neighbor, two good mile awity, wheu the came tho next day to borrow Sophy's pattern for & lace fichu. "Not going!" said Lizzio. "Why, everybody will bo thero 1 Albert Hates ami Mark Lennard, nnd deur me, Sophy, what does make your undo so cranky f" "I dou't know, I'm sure!" said Sojthy, despondently. "Look here!" cried Lizzie, lowering, bur voico to a iny.ste.lous whisper, 'thero'i no earthly reason you should stay, at home, unless you please, Hophy Aller ton I" "I don't understand what you mean, Lizzie!" Doesn't your undo Joshua always re tire at eight o'clock t" "Of course ho does. What of thatt" "Why, how on earth can he know tvhero you are. when ho is asleep and dreaming? Slip quietly out. on the sly. I'll wait, until hnlf-jtnst nine for you; the fun will bo only just beginning. And you can be at homo and in bed long Iks fore your fruity old ttiiclo is awake in the morning." Sojihy hired n littlo nt this. Vexed as she was at thst pnrtioulnr moment with Uncle Joshua, she knew that ho did not deserve the scornful epithet ap jtliod to him by Lizzie Lnrkspur. Hut the tcinptittion to accede toLizzia's plan was almost overmustering. "Do you think I could manage it?" she questioned, tho color coming and going rapidly on her cheek. "Manage it? Of courso you could. A child could mitnnje it." "I've n great mind totry," said Sojihy, drawing a quick breath. Nine o'clock, of n starry August mgne tho night of the ball nt Swnmp Basin nnd n shadow, stealing softly down tho butternut shaded walk, whirli was not the shadow of tree or bough, fojihy Allerton hail succeeded in Teejttug out of the house without disturbing Uncle Joshua Hale's consciencu sweet slum bers. "There!" cried Sojthy to herself, fore she had reached tho. big white pino tree nt the Cross 11 tails. "I forgot to blow out my candle, and it's too bite to go back now. Hut it's nil right; it will burn down to the socket nnd go out. And, after all, it will be no very great waste, for the candle was only uu inch long." And so Sophy kejtt on her way to where Lizzie Itrksjtur and Albert Bates that young lady's sturdy cavalier were awaiting iter coming, not without impatience. Well, t:ie bail was a grand affair, as country balls go, with jtlenty of lights, hunting, evergreeu boughs, and fiddles. Sojihy had never danced so much ut one time in nil her life before: and nil was g.ting "merry as marriage bell," when, standing by the door, fanning herself lifter a quadrille, she heard a man, who had ridd":t up on horseback, say some thing to another man uboiit a "big firo" ujt toward Llt's Valley. "Fire!" cried Sojihy, eagerly. "What lire? Where i lit?" The until could not exactly say. Ho was a stranger in these parts. Hut as ho rode through the little settlement of Lee's Valley he hud heard tidings of a lonely farm-lions': being just burned to the ground, nnd its only tenant, a solitary old man, burned to death. Kvtry drojt of blood in Sojthy Alter ton's veins seemed to congeal to ice as she listened to this unconscious messen ger of evil tidings. Poor, heljilcss Un cle Joshua! And tho caudle she hail so carelessly left burning! At nnco her mind reverted to every possibility of evil; sho could sec the red shafts of lurid flame rising upward; the clouds of smoke; she could he.r Undo Joshua's unavailing criei for help, and it was all through her wild, wicked folly 1 Sho looked around for Llzzio and Al bert; they were whirling through tho mazes of n polka at tho other side of the floor. "I can't wait for them," sho mur mured, unconscious tlmt sho was speak ing aloud, nnd catching up tho shawl that lay nearest, sho mutilcd herself in its folds, nnd set olT, nil alone, through toe starry dark of tin! summer morning. For it whs well-nigh uu to three o'clock by this time. And, through all the surging confusion of her thoughts, ono horrible reflection rose up constantly. If Uncle Joshua dear, kind 1'niie Joshua, who was the only father she bail ever known lay dead i.i the ashes of the burned farm-house, what better was she, Sojthy Allerton, than a murderess,' It was only about five miles, and Sojthy, like most country girls, was a good walker, but the last utile, ufter sho had (tossed the old stone, church, with its square tower, seemed actually intermina ble. Hush! Footsteps! Xo need to shrink behind the tall growth of elder bushes that skirted tho road, for in nnother sec ond she recognized tho round-shouldered figure ami slouching gait of Obudiah Car stairs. "Wall, I vum!" quoth that personage. "Blest if I didn't think you wus a ghost! Been to the ball, eh?" Site caught his urm. "Tell me, Oba diah the lire!" "Just toiiiu from there," said Oimdiah. "All burned to the ground, and Kliakim Hawley only just saved. Ho would go back arter that old leather money-bag o' his n. Serve him right to let hint burn, j 1 say if he was so sot on it." ! Sophy caught for breath. "Then it was not our house?" "Your house ! Xo, not by a loug chalk. It was Kliakiiit Hawley 's, down by tho Valley jtostoilicc. And you was afeerd it was yourn, e'n, jioor child? No, no; your house is nil safe enough. (Join1 home, eh? Wall," with a chuckle, "young folks will bo young folks, und I won't tell your uncle notliin' about it!" Sojthy colored tin angry und mortified srarlet. "I shull tell him myself," said she. And when Uncle Joshua opened his kindly blue eyes ou the soft light of tho summer dawn, his niece- wus kneeling sobbing by his bedside. "Why, Sojihy, child?" cried Undo Joshua, scarcely certain that ho was not yet wandering in tho mazes of a dream. "What's the trouble?" And Sophio confessed all to him her temptatiou, her fault, tho horrible hours of remorse sho had endured, her relief and gratitudo wheu sho learned nt last that God had been more merciful to her than sho deserved. "Oh, uuelo!" sho sobbed, "I will never, never attempt to deceive you again, if you will only forgive mo this ! once. I And Uncle Joshua's tender kiss ujxtn ; her brow sealed tho pardon without any 1 necessity of words. Poor Sophy I sho had learned through bitter experience that, however rose gsrlitnded it. may apjtear nt first, "the way of tha transgressor it hard." Th Ledger. Comparative Areas of tha Central and Sonth American Countries. Tho coming of the delegates to tho Pan-American Congress makes it jterti nent to remind our readers thnt Central nnd South America embrace an area a little greater than twice the extent of country in the United States nnd Terri tories, and a imputation of about fifty millions or about ono sixth smaller than the population of tho Republic. Mexico covers an area just about equnl to thnt jvirt of the United States east of the Mississippi River, exclusive of the States of Louisiana and Mississijtpi, and has 10,000.000 inhabitants. The five Central American Republics of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicar ntigua nnd Salvador cover an extent of country about the size of the five States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mich igan nnd Illinois, and have a population equal to both New York and Indiana. Brazil's area is somewhat greater than thnt of tho United States, exclusive of Alaska, nnd he- population is nbout that of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Argentine Republic, with about half the nrea ;( the United Stutes, hits n Imputation not quite ns large as Pennsyl vania. Colombia is nearly equal in extent to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indians, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, with a population probably a little less than that of New York State. Bolivia's territory is somewhat greater than that of the Atlantic States, Pennsyl vania, Ohio and Michigan, nnd has a population about Indiana's figure. Peru is a little larger thin the Atlantic States und Pennsylvania, and her popu lation is nbout that of Illinois. Venezuela is larger than Peru by about as much territory its is embraced in New Jersey, and her jtojitilation is about v jual to Indiana's. Kcumlor coulil contain Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illi nois, but her population is not quite up to that of Michigan alone. Chili's domain cut up would make States as extensive as Ohio, Pennsylvania nnd Indiana. Her population is some what greater than thut of Indiana. Paraguay is big enough to include Ohio nnil New York within her borders, but her entire tojiulation scarcely exceeds that of Cleveland. Uruguay is not quite ns largo us Ohio und Indiana combined, and has just about tho same number of inhabitants as Brook lyn. N. Y. Tho Guianus are Knglish, trench nnd Dutch colonics. British Guiana, twice ns large ns Ohio, has just nbout the Jiopula tion of Cleveland. French Guintm, somewhat larger than Ohio, has about as many inhabitants its Toledo. Dutch Guiana, nearly as large ns Pennsylvania, has no more inhabitants than Columbus. Vlettlmd l'luindtuUr. Getting Even With Clilckeu Thieves. A chicken raiser at Etmhurst, Penn., lost thirty odd broilers last summer by hen hawks. He found that tho hawks generally swoojted down upon tho young fowl nt nbout midday. An old woods man told him how to get even with the big chicken thieves. Out in tho lot near his barn he planted a round post with a Hat top. A rou ml the run of the top lie bored gimlet hoies two inches apart, slant ing them out wttnl a little. Then begot some steels out of uu old umbrella, made them uniform in length, tiled one end of each to a point us sharp us a darning needle, nnd inserted them into the gimlet holes, with the sharp points up. Inside of the circle of spikes ho stood a dead chicken, placing its head us though it was jitcking fond. Before tho novel trap hud been completed an hour tin immense hawk swooped down after tho dead chicken ou top of the post, striking so hard that five of the sharp wires ran clear through its body. During tho summer eight lieu hawks nml a big owl got im- jmle I on the sharp spikes, and tho poul try raiser lost no more chickens. Scours In Slam. "An American finds Bangkok, tho cap ital of Siam, full of thu strangest con trasts und oddest sights," said Mr. Perkins, a returned traveler from that country. "He sees the river banks lined for miles with floating houses, the homes of many thousands mid tho scenes ol busy trade. On ono corner is the splen did jmlaco of a nobleman, und ou the next tho hovels of tho very poor. Here ure groups of Buddhist jtriests in yellow gnrb, shielding their bices with fans at the sight of women, nnd near them art gangs of tho toughest of convicts clank ing their chains as they toil in the streets. Hero uro lepers horribly reiulsivc, unre strained, nnd clamorous for alms, nnd soon, jierhups, tho King jiusses with a brilliant retinue, sitting on his state chair of solid gold. Fine ladies have teeth ns black us jtolished ebony. When a member of the royal house dies the cre mation ceremonies cost a fortune, and wltilo thousands are witnessing tho im Jiosing display vultures are tearing dead bodies to jiioccs in tho heart of Bangkok, and tho poor nro burning their dead, a coujtlo of nrmfuls of wood serving as the funerul pyre." Xtn Yuri Huh. Not the First Discoverer. Hendrick Hudson was not tho first white man to sail the Hudson. An old French mnp by Dufosso has just been re. ccived by Btute Librarian Howell at Al bany, N. Y., which shows that tho river bearing his name was known as the Riviere Grundo before Mr. Hudson nnd his bold Dutch crow glided over the waters of it in tho Half Moon. This map is of great historical value, establishing, as it does beyond question, the locution of what wus culled Norumbega. Pro fessor Kben Horsford has lately given con siderable timo to locating Norumbega, und finally decided thut it was iu the eastern part of Massachusetts. This map, which was uiudu in 1005, locates Norumbega in tho vlcluity of the Gruudo or Hudson River. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. COLDS AMD BOW TO ClUR THKM. yeryone is more or less susceptible to cold, and now that the cold season has come the utmost precaution should be exercised beforehand to prevent colds, instead of taking numerous doses of medicine afterward to cure them. To eve colds or hoarseness grate horse radifh in a cup of vinegar, let steep awhile and add honey or crushed rock candy to sweeten; or, pour hot water over pino tar, cover and let cool, or drink warm with lemon juice and sugar. For singers and sjteskers this last is excel lent. Persons troubled with rheumatism will be relieved by rubbing briskly with olive oil, or olive oil in which "is dis solved salt and j tot ash in equal qautities. Tho psrta most sensitive to cold arc the chest and back which should bo covered with flannel. Many men when wearing overcoats, cither through disregard for health or negligence, leavo the 'fronts tin fastened, and exjtoso the chest to the cold, which penetrates to the tack and lodges there and is afterward felt in ex cruciating backaches. The same way with some women. Detroit Ves Vm. nF.os. The care of beds may seem a very sim ple thing, and doubtless every woman thinks sho knows all nbout it; but in this many are mistaken. It is by no means sutlicient to hastily spread up a bed, and bo content if it looks smooth anil neat. Once a week ut least tho mat tress and bedding should be removed from the bedstead, and it dusted und thoroughly cleaned. The mattress should be uncovered and aired every moruing. When ready to put in order, the undersheet should bo spread nnd folded under nt the top nnd bottom, then nt the sides. If a wide hem is jtut nt the top of the sheet, you can always sleep with the ujtjier jtart nt your head. Sjiread the ujtjier sheet so as to louvc sutlicient room to turn down, lay it smooth and straight, when the blankets and comforts may bo put on und folded under at the foot. The outside sjiread should bo tut on evenly, and the uimt sheet turned down over all. Then tho pillows, well beaten, should be laid on, A bed thus cared for will be jilensant and comfortable to sleep in, ami health ful rest will be likely to come to theoccu jtant. Courier-Journal. I.At'NDIlT HINTS. Buttermilk will remove tar spots some times. Riuse in soapy water. A jtasto of soft soap and starch will take stuins out of bed-ticking. Spread it on the spots, and when dry scrape oil and wash with a damjt sponge. To remove grease stains from silk hats, use turpentine and then alcohol. To iron a silk hat: Holding tho hat in the left hand pass a warm iron quickly around, following the lay of tho nap. To cleun silk: Tho garment must bo first ripped nnd brushed. Spread on a flat board an old blanket covered with an old sheet. Then sjtonge tho silk on both sides, rulthing any dirty spots jturticulnr ly, with this mixture: One-half cup of gall, one-half cup ammonia and oue-half pint tepid soft water. Roll the silk on a stick, un old brootn-hnndlo will do, be ing careful that no wrinkles hto left on it. Let it dry without ironing. Woolen goods may be treated iu tho sumo man lier. All fancy hosiery should no jiut into a strong solution of salt and cold water be fore wearing, well saturated and dried without wringing, either in the shade on iu a warm room. To clean coats: Tuke of ammonia two j ounces, soup one ounce, soft water ono quart, ami a tcaspoouful of saltpetre. Shako well and let .he mixture stand a few days. Pour enough on a coat to I cover the grease spots, rub well, wash olf ! with clean cold witter. i Two ounces of common tobacco boiled iu n gallon of water, rubbed on with a still brush, is used to renovate old cloth clcthcs. It is said to leave no smell. ltKCIPKS. Baked Custard Two tablespoon fills of flour benten with two eggs; one jtint of milk and sugar to sweeten; flavor with nutmeg and bake. Jumbles One cup of sugar, oue cup of butter, one-half cup sour cream, one TKi one toiispoonful of soda dissolved in hot water, one-half of a pound of desic cated cocoanut, flour to roll. Corn Gems Stir one pint of boiling milk iu one jtint of corn meal, add half a cup or less, according to the taste, of sugar, one tcasjiooiiful of salt, nnd let cool, add three eggs and bake iu gem JlllllS. Ringed Potatoes Peel somo largo sized potatoes, then cut them round and round as nn apple is jiurcd ; fry in clean, sweet lard like fritters until brown, drain on a sieve, sjtrinklo lino salt over them and serve. Pudding Sauce One cup of sugar, butter tho size of an egg, ono egg; Itcat tho butter and sugar to a cream, udd the egg; set on top of boiling tea kettle, c some vessel of hot water, and stir until it is like cream. Cheese Scallop Soak one cup of dry breadcrumbs in fresh milk; beat into it three eggs, and add ono tablespoon of butter and a half pound of grated cheese ; stew upon the tojt sifted breadcrumbs, and bake iu tho oveu a delicuto brown. Apple Tapioca Pudding Souk over night one cup of tHjtioca in six cups of water. Next morning add one cup of sugar, one egg, aud beat well together. Theu jtare, core and chojt five, six or more apple and stir with tho tajtioca iu a pudding dish and bake slowly. Boiled Sulmoti A pieco of salmon four pounds iu weight shtiuld su"ce for eight persons. Put it to boil iu spiced acidu lated water, covor and keep it simmering for thirty-tivo minutes. Then take tho fish from the water, skin it, remove tho bones, mask with a little cardinal sauce, and send it to tho table. The sauce should be separately served, Chickeu Puree Pick into small bits, bold roust or boiled chicken; salt aud jiejtjier. Boil tho bones aud skiu iu enough water to cover; strain and return w inn nn urn ti nous, .i;, . little celery salt, and stir i Z'"' ,1J He nru with noil trianln. . urss. viottsly fried crisp in very hot larj Fat of a Glass Eatr. Mack ft T Holmes, doserll.n.l t who have freotientlv seen I,;-. J fns pure-blooded American. . ,,7llir'.l Sweetwater, Miss., in a brawl ' nWit, it is said, by the iTt local mt'rchiint. wiiin ' n , , -'HUH)('P! being attracted from his storo M m hibition of Holmes's peculiar aeronmi-'i!' menu, which consisted ok.v .p T? ability to swnllow with inipunit, pleasure articles that would I , ous or repulsive to tho ordinary n.T In tho squabble Holmes received if, shot from somo unknown person ltl a!. . 1 . " iioiim-ss np teuio ior lacks nml , , , '-"iiirKulilp. if he doted on anvtliinir it ... , "M bnMln. .IM K I. " : " I"' from glass articles, and hml developed tasto for forty-rod i,i,L .... si..u, .mi it,r ruistmuhL j.urse made up by a crowd, he r-ts,-, llto MW chickens. Itoirinni .. I ....rrJ iwmo " n-j were still slivo At ono town in Delta rf.. t. '" .... .,.,,. . KuiMH mini ptiico ti, exhibiting himself) he varied th, . T notiitiv f,f fiia Kill .if f...... 1.. .. i . gallons of water ns fast . ' ' "-, """Kinetvit it c.iil, 1, UlltllCIl tlllt Htltl llltniteil In hi... T. .1! 1 A. 1 , 1 . bo told, however, he did this to bet of a pint of whisky. 1 t!K. M' town, after fitting a live chicken. l,..u nounced that on the following ,, bill of fare would consist ()f u lmir't especially mangy dog that w.w th,,, familiar object on the streets. The iiirtre nf tho pimm. r- --- -"i.iiiiiitiii v r. Ml mis, unci i tonnes was onti-ri tl ta w. Ilia ru- " " inn aiiitrv I that he had any aversion to unlaw,! loon, nut ratner tlmt he tisnl th- fling articles already mciitintirl a ntl and ordinary men do jtepper nml 6m sauces, solely ns condiment. Recently a circus offered him .V) wl week to travel with it, but iv iT,.A nantly rejected the offer when hi- It vil that to earn the monev he mint miLmi:. nuta his will and jilcuKurc to that ol tL-l manager. There is abundant evidence tlutl practiced no sleight-of-hand trick nag. I uudiences, out actually crushed uith b teeth and then swallowed glic-fuml i.vA hard substances. VukiJiurj (WmthI JIeril,l. The Tin Mines of t'ornwall. While tho glory of the Cornish tt mines has departed, it should nut lit fa gotten that they have jtlityetl an imp nut part in the world's economy fur cut centures. They used to give emjilujati to nearly 30,000 jteojtle, but cRiijrjij; to more remunerative fields alirmj ti the gradual extinction of the uiinn b greatly reduced that number. It calculated a few years ago thit th were over 300 till mines iu Cornwall. Ic most of these are now deserted ud til unused smokestacks aro now seattcretlsJ and down the country like the u s) ntents to a dettarted ihdustrv. In JSC. the Cornish mines prod need DODO tv: tin, valued nt tfi,350,000, while m 1 it was estimated thnt the vicltl century had reached the high ti;'n ! over .(i0,000,000. Lastly, it h-uldi-J bo forgotten that the Cornish m: have jtroved themselves ntt iinu-iu!:;: teliigent niul independent l.lvo!xJ They are iu request iu wliati-v.-r i-iiitl tho world mining operations i.rc tl ducted, nnd it may fairly be assi-rtoitbl the solution of every ititric.it.: lo in mining geology is geiterallv to n Cornish itgetit, and every iitiirinir skill, resource and imin.ul intrusted to a Cornish miner. m rl ctVu Chronicle. Curing for Men's Minis, I have only one ho'obv. said a St. Lei man, and that is shoe, or rather fashion. I have of wearing tin-in. 11-1 think that a man got the best smief of n shoe by putting on th-l-'t 'l shoemaker could make him ami wi-jtJ them constantly until the leather p way somewhere, but I now think thi' i tint most pxtrHVHrunt wav uf up!': feet. I um never without three or l' tuirs of shoes iu good, weamlili- f-l tton. I never wear the Ktinf p-""l days in succession, und nt b-t-t 'l month I l'o over each pair tutu "J dinned in vase line. Thus, with 11 .tairs of shoes. I irive each tuirM of work und two days of re't. ni '-A leather has time to regain it r: und stretch out tho wrinkle theft' made. These wrinkles becow hr thu leather when thu shoe is t eiiim- U-.FK Tim v.inlini. is Ill tt T thll 1 oil for flue leather. I used to '' four jiairs of $8 shoes a year. J ,., rl'lu. i.ii.i.i mini il l- lieu two years. (JliAic iJtmwriit. A Country Covered Willi Vuui.,rii.:ii. I,, tint , in n : i v nt ill'" ... j ...i..s ... ClniL in fentnil Asia, is l'' Gabriel Bouvnlot its covered It is seen in the walls of tin' tin the bunks of the rivers, mid lhf" ono drinks is salt. Trau'h"'-' makers go in summer from l'lj(f ''I wlierevcr tlii-v run tilltl material M I .. . t "ti. 'I upon. llteir mode in "l" j I roiiidi-aiid-rendv one. lie'"'' ' , ! . ..P. .. i t.,,il-r.. CHI-LIl MerVU US VlllS llll'l " : J 1...V- tli.iM.. urn i.l.i.i.id fiVett. A-'Ul of brushwood suiutlies iiiatenili TI... u-nrlivn collect from'"1' face'of tho earth heaps of a silt hii.I refuse. This 1 UJ". .1 .. :.. .....i..f thru H iwouiy-iotir Hours in it und then boiled for twcnty-letf 1 i :.. .1... mm. "1 cleansed ana itinceu in - -.a .i .I-. An """I niu nuirr liinjr coi' uut workman cuu make about fifty I J a day, aud this he sells nt u ' J i 't'ti.. worker M quite contented with their .'"V--,! industry is jireserveU m I generations. TUe asjiaragus Dei -. plants siiouui ne cHretun.. - , . . t'ao fall. This will aid nw- securing of a better growttt- i. At. . srti fA . .
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