Bellefonte, Pa., March 13, 1908.
ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES,
0 little child, O wide-eyed wondering child !
Well do I know you are a captured wild
Bird from the outer blue, that beats its wings
Against the barriers of material things.
How many miles into the awful vast
Your mother must have soared —to seize you fast
And bring you back with her, to be a white
Proot of the fearless journey! The sunlight
Still half bewilders you, snd in your sleep
You smile because the darkness is so deep
After the earth-giare, and the rest so kind
After the search for One you cannot find.
You are the Dresm made flesh, You are the grail.
Pilgrim—another, passionate and trail,
Leaving the House of Beauty for the quest
Of the high Vision by no man possest.
Indomitable must be God's desire
To realize Life's secret and acquire
Mastery, when He sends you one by one,
Eternally, to question the bright sun
And the dark earth and the indifferent stars!
O Baby, will you pass the golden bars
Guarding the pathway to the grea: abode ?
Or will you leave your dust to make the road
Softer for one who follows? [am blind,
Even as Love or Justice, and I find
No answer to the riddle that has wrung
The souls of mothers since the world was young.
~The Smart Set.
HOW JONES EARNED THE V. C
A cloud of dust appeared on the sky-
line. The corporal in charge of the amba-
lance came to the door of the hospital tens.
A moment later he disappeared, to return
again witha pair of field-glasses and ac-
companied by a trooper with a flag.
“What's up?’ queried the trooper.
‘Another idiot got a bullet through his
hide,’’ grumbied the corporal, as he took
down the message that was being sigpaled
from a distant kopje.
‘Any answer?'’ exclaimed the trooper.
“You muss be in a confounded hurry to
wag that dirty bit of dish-rag. Why can’t
you wait till I get the whole message?’
growid the corporal, as he gave a final
ourish with his pencil; then added: ‘‘One
killed—two wounded —send ambulance.’
All right ; signal ‘Orders received, under-
stood and attended to.’
The trooper smiled as he despatched the
answer. The corporal’s bustling waye
amused him.
Five minutes later the ambulance gal-
loped out of cump. The black driver was
going for all he wae worth—much to the
discomfory, of the orderly in charge, who
was being rattled about like a solitary pill
in a pill-box. One mule bad already shot
his bridle, but that was » mere trifle. The
ambulance was sure to get there somehow.
The ambulance baving departed, the
camp once more settled down-—all save the
corporal, whose dominating tones eould be
heard ordering certain black boys to do va-
rious duties under pain of eternal damna-
tion and imaginary surgical operations,
Gradually the cloud of dust peared the
camp. A stallion in the horse lines ceased
from his endeavors to kick the mule that
was nearest to him and, lifting up his voice,
whinnied to bis returning comrades. Sev-
eral dust-begrimed fignres turned aod
sthiouted compliments to those lefs behind
in camp, as they passed them on their way
to the aprait. The horses were watered
and the squadron came in. \
An officer walking between the lines es-
pied a wan groomiog a borse.
“* Jones, didn’t I tell you to report your-
self to the medical corporal ?"’
“Yes, sir.”
“Why haven't vou done so ?"’
“I thought you woaldn’s mind if I saw
to my horse first, sir.”
“Who told you to think ?”’ Then, turn-
ing on his heel, ‘Sergeant Patrick, see that
another man is told off to rab down Troop-
er Jones’ horse
Jones took his way to the hospital-tent.
His wound was a mere scratoh and he could
not see why the officer shonld makewuch a
fuss. It was all in a day’s work, he told
himself, and there was really no reason
why some one else should be told to clean
his horse for him
““Hullo, Jones,”" exolaimed the corpor-
al, “and what have you heen doin’ to get
daylight into you ?"’
*‘Oh, nothing. Just askin graze ; noth-
ing to make a fuss about.”
“Well, off with that shirt and get fixed
up before my corpse arrives.”’
Jones began pulling his shirt off, then
He knew that he had winced.
The corporal’s keen gray eyes shot
through him. ‘Bie sticky, lad, eh?"
“Yes,” replied Jones [faintly ; ‘‘you
might give me a hand.”
he corporal produced a pair of scissors
and with a few deft snips cut the shirt up
the seam to the shoulder. Then, with the
aid of hot water and a sponge, he peeled it
off his patient's ribs. “Well, you've got
the luck of the devil I"’ he exclaimed.
**How’s that ?'’ replied Jones.
““Not every man whose rins can deflect a
ballet,” said the corporal. :
While Jones wae having his wound dress-
ed, a face appeared as the tent door.
“‘Hullo, corporal ; how's your patient?’
“Ob, I think he’s all right, sir.”’
“Good!” and the officer went his way.
“Well, you're in luck,” exclaimed the
corporal. ‘‘Not often the captain leaves
his duty to inquire after a man.”’
Another moment and the tent door again
opened. This time is was the squadron
sergeant major.
“‘Hallo, Jones,” exclaimed that mighty
mau, with, for him, a most rare attempt at
familiarity ; then, turning to the corporal,
he added, “You've got hold of she right
man this time.”
“What in blazes have yon heen up to?"
exclaimed the corporal, as the sergeant.
major disappeared. ‘‘Been and made your
will in favor of the squadron, or spotted
the Derby winner?"
“Blessed if I know,” replied Jones. *‘I
couldn’t see anything strange about their
behayioras least, nothing worth mention-
ng.
The corporal whistled.
Jones cast an anxious eye round the tent.
Surgical dressings he could see in a-
sion, but his heart sank at sight of his tat-
tered shirt.
The corporal saw the meaning of his
glance as it rested on the filthy garment.
“How are you off for shirte?”’ he exclaim-
“It's my last,”’ replied Jones.
“‘What's wrong with your spare shirt?"
i otal ! I suppose
ell, su ou
expected to see shirts growing on =
veldt?" exclaimed the corporal with con-
temptuons superiority.
3 ." 0, but it was too dirty to keep any
“Well, look here! I don’t know what
ou've been and done, but I’ve one shirt
eft over from the store, and, if you'll
promise not to say where it came from; rm
let yoa wear it sill yon ges well.”
“I'll promise.’
“All right ! but i{ you so much as let on
where you got is, you'll never getanythiog
else from me ; #0 remember
The corporal bustied off, and retarned a
moment later with a brand new govern-
ment gray-back, into which he assisted his
patient, whom be released a moment later,
saying :
“Off you go, now! Here's my corpse
coming in, so [ don’t want to catch sight
of you before morning.”
As Jones lefs the tent, he observed the
squadron paraded between the horse lines.
Hurriediy taking bis in the ranks, he
stood at case aud waited for the word of
command.
Having stood the squadron to attention,
the officers proceeded to have the roll call-
ed.
This being done, the captain ordered
Trooper Jones to step to the front ; then,
addiessing the squadron, be told them that
be had called up Trooper Jones in order
that he mighs inform him of how he, and,
to his belief, the whole squadron, appreci-
ated she gallant conduct displayed by |¥
T r Jones in rescuing Cor |
Smith, since deceased, while i, Mu go
exposed to a beavy fire, adding that it al-
forded him much pleasure to report that his
conduos woanld be forwarded to beadquar-
ters, accompanied by a Strong recommen-
dation for the V. C.
Jones, tor the first time in his life, felt
that he was in a position from which there
was no escape. Hurriedly thanking the
captain for bis kindness in mentioning his
conduct, he confusedly took his place in
she ranks and awaio stood at astentiou.
The parade was dismissed, and Jones wan-
dered off in search of she cook.
Having bolted a hasty meal, he prooeed-
ed, with his saddle for a pillow, to lie
down and sleep beneath the stars.
The Colonial Carbineers were not, as a
corps, much given to sentiment, and no
one disturbed Jones to ask him bow he
felt or how pleased he was at the prospect
of obtaining the V. C. ; so Jones, shroud-
ing bimself in bis blanket, gazed up as the
stars and prepared to go to sleep.
From the horse lines came sundry squeals
and olicking of heel-pegs, accompanied,
now and then, by the curses of the picket
as they strove to right some ambitions
steed that had got itself hung up on the
picket-rope.
Jones did his best to sleep, but sleep he
could not. His wound itched and smart.
ed in a way that had seemed impossible be-
fore the camp had settled down. .
Now and again be sat np and peered at
the sleeping men as they lay between the
horse lines. Here and there a man mat
tered in his sleep, but for the most part
they slept the sleep of dog-tiredness.
Farther down the line he observed anoth-
er figure seated. He recognized the face in
the mooulight ; it was that of a lad who
bad ouly lately joined them.
Seeing that he could not sleep, Jones
picked up his blanket and walked down
the lines to converse with the new-comer.
“Come to keep me company ?’’ eaid the
boy.
“Yes ; but why the deuce don’t you go
to sleep ?”’
‘‘Can’s,”’ replied the lad.
“Why can’t you ?"’
“Well, to tell the truth, I'm all covered
with these beastly parasites ’’
“You'll get used to them in time.”’
“Never.”
‘Well, anyway, you won’t get used to
them by lying awake. Don’t be a fool,
but take my advice aud go to sleep—yon
can if you only try.”
The boy nodded his curly head and turn-
ed over on his side.
Jones wrapped his blanket round him,
and sat in the moonlight. He could oot
follow the advice he had just given. al-
though the corporal’s clean shirt had saved
him temporarily from the same cause of
wakefulness.
He looked at the face of the boy sleeping
beside him. What a girlish face it was!
The thought made him soliloguize. He
thought of various girle be had met in the
course of his wandering career, and won-
dered what they would say if he were
awarded the V. C.
The night was frosty, and be drew the
blanket round him for fear the frost should
get into his wound. What a strange world
it was and how oddly the changes in it
were rang ! That morning he, with all his
ten vears' experience of a wandering life,
was just Trooper Jones, a mere nouentity
and a forgotten member of the mighty cos-
mopolitay army ; a man whose previous
record nobody inguired into or cared about.
To-night be was looked upon as a hero by
the whole squadron—not that any of them
expreased that opinion, but they all showed
it—a hero because he bad picked np a man,
who was now dead, and carried him a bhun-
dred yards or so, onder fire.
The hoy by his side turned in his sleep
and muttered something about home and
the beastly velds. Jones looked at the hoy,
and then remembered that he,at all events,
knew nothing ahont his winning a recom-
mendation for the V. C. ; lor the lad iad
pot gone out that morning with the sqoa-
dron, hut had been left behind, too covered
with veldt-sores to be of any use.
Something there was about the hoy that
reminded him of his own early stroggles
and his entry into that ring known as the
world. Speedily he reviewed the last ten
years. Situation after sitnation flashed
through his brain, till suddenly he realized
that South Africa was but a ripple on the
sea of his experiences.
Perhaps it was owing to his wound, per-
baps it was fatigue; bus to his weary brain
it seemed thatsome great mistake must
bave been made. It was hardly possible
that he could have earned the V. C. He
compared various events in which he had
been a prominent actor, and told himself
that be was a lucky dog.
He remembered how, when cruising with
a trader in the South Sea Islands, he had
jumped overhoard and rescued a man from
am the sharks ; but neither be nor any
one else had thought much about it at the
time. He called to miud how he bad rid-
den through a forest fire to save the family
of a settler who was down country and un.
aware of the peril of his wife and children.
He recollected how, at imminent risk to
himself, he had descended a badly venti-
lated shaft to bring up a man who had been
overcome by noxious gases. And, in addi-
tion to all such deeds, was he not one of
the few men who had pioneered West Auns-
tralia in face of every danger that savages,
bunger, and thirst could offer ?
He drew a pipe from his pocket and
smoked, and ever,ae be smoked, he thought
deeply.
Pn he mattered to himself aloud
Cuppa 1 a 2 ke hy. gn
su ve e
it so me, but what is carrying a man
hundred Jade under fire compared to
Stole of ings I've done and seen others
0
The lad at his side stirred uneasily
“What's that about the V. C. ?”’ he asked
peevishly.
—e
“Ob, nothing at all I”’
“Yes, there is. I heard some one say
that a man had won the V. C.”
“You can’s believe all you hear. Why
don’t you go to sleep ”
‘Again { Why, I baven’t been to sleep
yet.
“Oh, indeed ! By the way, youngster,
what's your Dame "”
’
“Good vame for you, I should think.
Why the deuce you keep awake when you
might sleep beats me altogether.”
‘What's your name ?"’
“Jones.”
“Why, you must be the man who earn-
ed the V. C. to-day.”
“Didn’t earn it.”
“Well, you won it, at all events.”’
“Yoo know a dence of a lot for a man
who never went ous with the squadron.
Why didn’t you go out? Then you might
have bad your information first hand.”
“Well, you see, what with these para-
sites and veldt-sores, and the fact that I
have a high temperature, they thoughs I
would be best in camp.”’
“Oh! You seem to be alarmed about
ourself.”
“Well, I am rather. You see, we're an
old family, and I’m the only son, and it
would be a pity if I died.”
“What on earth do you come out here
for, if you don’t want to die? That's what
war’s for.”’
“Yes, but, you see, enteric is one thing
and bullets are another ; and besides, you
see, we're a very old family.”
“What tommy-rot!| Why, the Joneses
are about the oldest family in the world ;
and yet, yon never hear me talking snob-
bishly about my old family or the differ-
ence between bullets and enteric.”
‘“Well,” replied the boy, with a smile,
“if your family is older than ours, I'd like
to see your pedigree.’
“Pedigree ! To the dence with your pedi-
grees. e surest guaranty of age, as fam-
ilies go, is the number of members of a
family in existence; and, considering the
pumber of Joneses and those of various
names in other watiovalities which all
stand for Jones, I reckon ours is the oldest
family on earth.”
There was a look on the boy’s face that
reminded Jones of several faces he had seen
before, whose owners now olaimed in Africa
the only land that they ever could own.
Sympathy for the boy made him forges his
wound and the facs that he conld not sleep.
He bad had his slice of luck; he had appar-
ently won the V. C., even if he bad not
earned it. Perhaps his might be the future
path to glory, but that of the iad by his
side might far more likely lead to the grave.
What the hoy bad said about enteric and
bullets was true, and he, Jones, had al
ready had some luck with a bullet.
“Look here, Strange, do’ you think youn
could sleep if I got you a drink of grog ?"’
“It’s awfully good of you to think of me.
Have you got some to spare ?"’
“Yes.”
“Thanks awfully.”
Jones went to where his saddle lay and
brought is back with bim ; then, nostrap-
ping the wallets, produced a small flask.
‘‘Here you are, Strange ; finish this and
go to sleep.”
The boy took the flask and tasted it, then
put it down again.
“Why don’t you drink ?”’
“It’s awfally good of you, Jones, hut
somehow it seems to hurt me inside, and
what with veldt-sores and the other things
outside, I don’t think I could manage any
pain inside.”
Suddenly a wave of compassion swept
over Jones. He remembered how, as a
youngster, he had been tormented with-
ticks daring the shearing season—how he
had lain awake in the tropics, the prey of
fivas aod mosquitos. Then, nerving him-
Sel to a final pitch of heroism, he exclaim-
‘‘Look here, Strange; suppose we change
shirts.”
The boy stared in open-mouthed astonish-
ment, but the temptation was too great to
resist. Something suspiciously like a tear
glittered in his eye as he exclaimed :
“I would never accept but for the fact
that I haven’t slept decently for a week
and I think I've got the enterio.”’
“Never mind the enterio, but whip your
shirt off."
Catching hold of Strange, Jones slipped
off the dirty shirt, and then, taking off his
own shirt, he banded it over without a
word.
Picking up the garment that had lately
adorned Strange, Jones proceeded through
the lines to a hoard that hore a notice to
the effect that no shirt must be cleaned
within one hundred yards of camp. Later
be rejoined Ssrauge, still carrying the shirt
in hie band.
Strange looked up, and. observing Jones’
handaged chest, exclaimed, ‘‘S8o you did
win the V. C., in spite of what you said.”
“Rot ! At all events, I never earned it.”
“Well, you've earned it now,” exclaim-
ed the hoy, as he dropped off to sleep.
Half «0 hour later, Jones, tossing rest
lessly in his blanket, realized that be bad
earned the V. C.—By Edward Johostone.
There are times in every life when the
vital forces seem to ebb. Energy gives
place to langaor. Ambition dies. The
current of the blood orawls sluggishly
shrough the veins. It is a condition com-
monly described by saying, *'I feel played
out.” For such a condition there is no
medicine which will work so speedy a cure
as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
It contains no alcohol. It is not a mere
stimulating tonic. [It contains no opiam,
cocaine nor other narcotic. It does not
drog the nerves into insensihility. What
it does is to supply Nature with the ma-
terials out of which she builds nerve and
muscle, bone and flesh. A gain in sound
flesh is one of the first results of the use of
“Discovery.”
A Temperance BMedicine,
There is one leature of Dr. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Preseription in which it differs from
nearly all other medicines pus up for.wom-
an’s nse, contains no ol,
opium, cocaine, nor other narcotic. It is in
the strictest sense a temperance medicine.
“Favorite Prescription’’ has accomplished
wonders for women. It gives weak and
nervous women strength of body and nerve.
It cures the drains, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, and bearing-down pains which ruin
the health of women. It practically does
away with the pains of motherhood. It
makes ya women strong and sick wom-
en well.
—I¢ is bard to get hens to set in winter,
and it is almost necessary for the farmer to
incubators to raise broilers in time to
Loading an African Slaver.
The king, queen, royal family, chiefs,
and people were invited on board. They
bad previously been treated somewhat spar-
ingly with liquors. In the meantime all
the water-casks were filled and mostly
stowed in the lower hold afs, together with
all the stores and goods, on a platform rest.
ing on the keelson. A very large supply
of irons bad been taken oe board at Car-
denas. The trading has been proceeding
on the upper deck and a large supply of the
various articles of food laid in, and now all
was in readiness. The afternoon of the en-
tertainment bad arrived. Two large puo-
cheons were placed on the upper deck and
the heads knocked in,and about 25 or more
gallons of strong rum put into each pun-
cheon, also a handred- weight or so of ugar
and a bushel of cut limes ; to these were
added a specific quantity of a certain drug
which would presently produce a prolonged
stupefaction. The between and lower decks
were swept clean, and all was in readiness
for the company. They came—king,aueen,
royal family, chiefs, and people—to the
number of about 1,500. As fast as they
came on board they were plied with the
drugeed punch; many soon became stupid
or helpless and were placed below to make
room for others. When they were all on
board and most of them stupefied, they
were seized, ironed, and passed helow. The
first row were seated with the knees drawn
up close to the side of the vessel, ove arm
put through the becket, and irons clapped
on. In the next row another arm was put
through the same beckes, one holt and
becket thus answering for two persons. It
will be remembered that the wain hatch-
way was partitioned in the middle,and the
after part enclosed between decks, giving a
separate conneetion with the temporary
deck.
A wide and short ganghoard was placed
from the after side of the hatchway to the
temporary deck, well slanting, and the
captives destined for the lower deck were
placed on this and slid down, when they
were packed and secured. The between-
decks was packed full ~ith nearly 800,
aod about 500 were on the temporary deck.
There were still 200 or more that they bad
neither room nor irons for. They might
have heen dropped into the periaguas and
left to find their way ashore when they
came to their senses. It was too late; the
periaguas had been cut adrift as soon as
they began to secure the captives. Now
the anchor was tripped, sail hoisted, and
the Slaver Caribbee, as she was afterward
called, wae miles away belore the last were
secured. Many of thoee remaining were
now coming to their senses. Do you ask
what hecame of them ?"’ *‘They were shot
and thrown overboard ;"’ such was the rec-
ord.— Harper's Magazine.
Another Famine in India,
In parts of India the failure of the rains
is producing a scarcity which is expected
to attaiv the proportions of a widespread
famine. Even if the winter raius come,
much suffering is inevitable, and the ma-
ohjnery of governmental relief is already in
motion. Toere is, happily, no reason to
fear that tne coming famine will equal in
severity or extent those of 1897 and 1901.
In the laster year more shan 6,000,000 per-
sons received State aid, $35,000,000 being
spent, besides vast sums used in loans and
advances to cultivators, remissions of taxes,
eto. The loss due to lessened orops was
estimated by Lord Cnrzon at $250,000,000.
At present only 314,000 persons are re-
ceiving state relief, but during the vext
few weeks the figure is likely to inorease
rapidly. The brant of she famine will be
borne by the provinces of Agra and Oudh,
where distress will be general over an area
of 51,000 square miles with a population
of 21,500,000. Inthe Panjab there will
he great scarcity, but actual famine is ex-
pected only in the Delhi area. Bombay,
Bengal, Rajputana, Central India and
Orissa will be more or less severely affected.
It is gratifying to know that the problem
of relief is considered by Indian officials—
who have had muoh experience in fighting
famine—to be easily capable of solution.
exact science in India. Taxes are suspend-
ed, innumerable wells are sunk, seed and
cattle are boughs for the impoverished
peasants and employment is given in the
construction of roads, tanks and railways.
It was she hoast of the Indian government
in 1901 that hunger caused the death of no
one who was willing to ask for food, so
complete were the arrangemasnts for relief.
Maoy died, however, who were too prond
toseek’help in the prescribed way. It is
hoped that the coming ordeal will have
been so well provided against as to pro-
duoe none of the horrors of former famines.
In 1770 the failure of a single crop in Ben—
gal cansed the death of 10,000,000 out of a
population of 30,000,000, and when the
rains came nothin- was done to set the im-
poverished farmers on their feet again.
Happily, such a famine and sucha pro-
traction of its results is at present 1mpos-
sible, thanks to railways, canals and the
existence of a well-organized government,
anxious to use the resources of the rtate to
alleviate the calamities of the masses,
One by one the plagunes of Egypt are he-
ing abolished by science. The frogs were
abolished long ago by the draintile. The
flies are checked by insect powder, and the
darkness that could be felt has melted
away before the arc light. The sixth
plague still remains in fall glory. The fly
isalwayes with us. The great Dr. Rad-
oliffe used to declare that the three worst
annoyances of life were smoke, flies, and
irrelevant questions. Humanity has hith-
erto accepted these with a patient shrug of
the shoulders as among the inevitable.
At last the worm has turned. It is pro-
ceeding slowly to put on smoke consumers,
and hay declared a war of extermination
against the ly. The motives whioh whet
our hitherto easily blanted purpose are
supplied by science. They are, first, that
flies carry disease ; second, that their very
presence is a sign of dirs. That the fly is
frequently the Angel of the Pestilence has
long been , bat its most vivid
and impressive demonstration was furnish-
ed by the disgraceful death rate from ty-
pboid, one of the most scandalous of the
many murders of official stupidity, in our
camps in the Sonth during the Spanish-
American war.
It was clearly proved by the eminent
commission of experts, who investigated
the sitnation post-mortem, that the prinoi-
means of the of this dreaded
isease was the flight of flies from the ex-
oreta of the earliest cases to the food ex-
The work of relief has been reduced to an | OP
FOR AND ABOUT WOmEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Ah, March! we know thou art
Kind hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats,
And out of sight, art pursing April's violets!
~—Helen Hunt.
sm
Most of as are too old fashioned to ae-
cept the smart little walking stick that
fashion is trying to force upon vs. We
might become reconciled to 18 after a long
term of familiarity, but the fashion will
nos last long. Young girls who do nos
mind being conspicuous are making walk.
ing sticks a part of sheir ontdoor costume,
and old ladies are taking advantage of the
fad to vse the prop they really need. But
conservative women still pin their faith to
aclosely rolled umbrella, which has the
recommendation of being useful and looks
like a legitimate part of the feminine ward-
robe.
In order to hold stockings in shape and
in place it has always been necessary to
bave them canght up well at the sop, and
the clasps used on the supporters in time
break through the fine threads because of
the strain.
The beauty of this simple device is that
one can draw one’s hose np as tight as one
wishes and feel perfectly safe from *‘runs,”
which roin so many fine stockiogs. With
this plan the only places the sheerest hosi-
ery will wear out are in the fees,
There is another plan that is quite as ef-
fective, though less decorative than the
ribbon, for with the latter it is always easy
to natch the exact shade of the stockings,
and that i= to use tape instead of ribbon.
When tape is used it is made into loops,
fastened to the hem of the stookiogs, one
on either side. Through these the ribbons
from the elastios are passed.
The last scheme is perbaps less practical
than the first, because the supporters or
garters have to be changed, the clasps taken
off and ribbons or elastics fixed so that they
can be tied in on the loops.
If you are over-tired ‘‘to0 tired to sleep,”
as we sometimes say —bathe the neck
temples with hot water. Bathe the back
of the neck particularly. This seems to
relax the muscies and the veins that sup-
ply the brain with blood. Lie down to
sleep in peace, lor sleep will come surely.
The same treatment will wonderfully re-
fresh during the day. A headache may
often be relieved, even oured, by hot ap-
plications to the back of the neck.
Hot Ham Balle.—One cup sifted bread
crumbs, swo cups chicken stock or milk,
one small slice of onion finely chopped, one
level teaspoon finely-chopped parsiey, one-
fourth level teaspoon paprika, one-fourth
level teaspoon mustard, one egg, two cups
finely-chopped boiled ham. Cock the
orumbs, stock,onion and parsley in a dou-
ble boiler until a smooth paste is formed.
Remove from the fire ; add the paprika,
mustard, egg beaten slightly and bam.
Mix well and cool. Sbape into balls, dip
1 heaten egg, fry in deep fat. Drain on
brown paper. Serve with cabbage salad.
Nut Squares.—Beat one egg with one
cupful of brown sugar and a pinch 2ach of
salt and baking soda. Add one cupful of
finely chopped butternuts, black walouts
or pecans. Spread not more than ball an
inch thick in a shallow pan,and bake about
20 minutes in a slow oven. When vold
cut in squares,
A secret I learned from a Swede cook is
to sprinkle a little white sugar over sponge
oake before baking. It will come out of
the oven with that dainty orust over the
Be sure and try this, and you will be
greatly surprised at the result.
One of the most convenient articles for
use in the sick room is a sand bag.
Get some clean, fine sand, dry is thor-
oughly iv a kettle on stove. Make a
ahout eight inches square, of flannel, fill it
with dry sand, sew she openi carefully
togekiter and cover the bag with cotton.
is will prevent the sand from sifting
ont, and it also enables one to heat the bag
quickly hy placing it in an oven or even
on the baok of the stove,
It will be found very much better for
warming the bands and fees of invalids
than the hot water hottle or a brick.
It is especially good in neuralgia or rhen-
matism, and is also very helpful if one is
suffering from toothache.
For an invalid, or for one who has ocea-
sional fits of illness, there's no more charm:
ing gift than the bed jacket. These are
equaily desirable for the woman who takes
her matatinal coffee and newspapers in
bed. They may serve, too, as mere dress-
ing jackets. A pretty remnant of silk or
French flannel makes ap admirably, the
shape being loose, »quare and roomy.
Plenty of lace and ribbons, with perhaps
chiffon plaiting to barmonize, make this
listle jacket a thing of beauty. It should
come to the waist line at the back aud dip
a bis as the front. Kimono sleeves are the
best. Frills may be inside. Soch a jacket
may be slipped right on over the night
dress and is usually much more becoming.
Sachets and embroidered doilies and any
number of usefals in crochet are much too
well known to be here suggested. Suffice
it to say that the average woman never has
enough of either, as the fragrance and
freshness of the sachets pass, the value of
the doilies is soon lost in the mysterionsly
ruinous processes of the laundry, and arti-
cles in crochet succumb to wear.
It your ball is old, long and bas a closed
stairway, the only way to make a decided
is to have money to change the stair.
way. Have the oloset torn away and put
railings to the stairs. If the steps are bad-
ly worn, they must be covered; if not, they
can be refinished and varnished, for car-
Joke are no longer used on the stairway.
e steps at the bottom might be curved
to give a more graceful landing. Now, in-
stead of having the closet, have a window
seat back of the stairs. It should be
quite in the middle. The lower end of the
stairs can be boxed in with oak and panels
It the closet side has
to change the whole appearance
of the ol- fashioned hall.
FARM NOTES.
—The trouble in overstocking is not so
wuts matter of stock as it is a scarcity
of .
—It is good economy to save everything
the saving of which is not more costly than
its worth.
—March is the month for spraying with
lime, suniphur and salt mixtare for the
destraction of the San Jose scale.
—When a growth of clover is being turn-
ed under is a time when deep plowing is,
perhaps, more beneficial than at any other.
—Experiments in Nebraska show that
hogs fed on soaked coro and tankage made
greater gains per dav and greater gains per
Joo pounds of feed than hogs fed ou corn
aloe.
—Southern farmers know the value of
cottonseed meal, but it is making its way
in the favor of Northern farmers very slow-
ly. Fed in the right proportion, it helps
animals to gain flesh and keeps them in
fine condition. Fed to dairy cows it pro-
duces bard batter fat, but linseed meal and
gluten produce a soft butter fat.
—To ges the best flow of milk during
the winter cows should be bred so as to
come io in the fall. They begin to fall off
in milk io spring, but the grass will stimu-
late a larger flow, and they will keep it up
notil time to be dried off for the next calf.
In this way the non-milking period will
be at a time of the year when butter and
milk are the lowest.
—Mushrooms for Profit.—One of my
neighbors has been inducted to go into the
mushroom business for what there may be
in it for him. He has rented an unoccu-
pied brick barn with large hillside base-
ment for this purpose. He bas studied the
various hooks on mushroom growing, and
feels confident of success. The place is re-
ally an ideal one, and could not be better
if put up for this very purpose instead of
that of a farm stock barn. The bed space,
on floor and shelving, comes close to one
thousand feet, aod artificial heat for the
very cold winter days and nights, is pro-
vided from a cheap heater. Clear horse
manure is obtained from the Buflalo stock
yards in car load lots, and seems to be ad-
mirably fitted for the purpose. In shor,
the conditions all seem to be in favor of a
successful outcome. Whether the some-
what extravagant expectations of our friend
will be fully realized is to me a matter of
much doubt, vet under ench favorable oir-
cumstances fair profits should be secured
from a properly managed plant of this
kind. Iam going to watch the outcome
with considerable interest, and may give
more detailed reports with illustrations
later on. My own experiments with mush-
rooms in the greenhouse are of rather mod-
est proportions. What I mainly aim for is
to raise an abundant home supply, and in
this I usually succeed.
—For growing good vegetables, it is neo-
essary to have the proper soil, and good
seed : and to thoroughly cultivate and at-
tend to the work. For most vegetables,
the soil should be of a sandy nature, with
a good subsoil for drainage. Such a soil
will produce fine crops of lestuce, spinach,
radicrhes, ouncuambers, beets, asparagus,
rhubarb, parsnips, peas, beans, oelery,
tomatoes and early cabbages. A heavier
soil, with a clay subsoil, is best for such
orops as onions, late cabbages, early celery,
and summer lettuce. There, too, is an
advantage in the lighs, sandy soil in that
it can be cultivated much earlier than she
beavier soils, and will produce two or
three crops each season, while the heavy
soil, in most classes produce only ove.
Heavy fertilizing is recommended —20
to 30 cords to the acre. Stable manure has
proved to he a complete manure, but if a
second orop is to be grown on the same
land, an additional ton of some special fer-
tilizer should be applied.
Back of all, however, success in growing
crops depends more on the man than any-
thing else.
The right time to sow seeds in the hot-
hed depends largely on the location, the
kind of plants, and the way in which the
plants are to be handled. Sowing the
seed too early is very apt to cause a loss,
A successful Pennsylvania tomato grow-
er says he economizee hot-bed space and
labor by growing his early plants, ready
for the field, right where the seed is sown,
bag | 500 plants to the sash. He usually sows
his seed about the middle of March, and
the plants set in the field from the 1st to
the 10th of May, and abous the 10th of
July the first froits are sent into market,
selling at from 10 to 15 cents per berry
basket, retail ; or, from $1.50 to $2 per
bushel crate, wholesale.
He sows the seed in drills eight inches
apart, or five rows to the sash, usinga
liberal amount of seed. When well start-
ed the plants are thinned to about 100 per
row. The bed is carefally ventilated with-
ont severe drafts during the day, and at
night covered with straw mats.
For the first three or four weeks the
growth is very rapid ; as the weather be-
enmes milder the plants are more and more
exposed to the air, and as the time
for transplanting draws near water is with-
held so that on snonv afternoons the plants
have gnite a wilt:d look. Bat the resunit
ix a fine lot of plants measuring from eight
inches to a foot in height, with hard woody
stems, blossom huds showing, and tongh
leaves that will withstand a light [rost,
should one come.
In setting these plants in the field, they
are laid in the shallow furrows, tops away
from the prevailing winds ;a little soil is
drawn over the roots, a foot pressed on the
spot, while the rest of the stem is covered
all but three or four inches of the top,
which is torned upward. The footprint is
left open to receive a pint of water, which
Inter is covered to prevent evaporation.
Thus treated they scarcely droop, and soon
the whole stem, underground, is covered
with aim, resulting in a vigorous
web.
Nothing, however, would be gained by
bedding or sowing sweet potatoes, egg
plant or even peppers, before the 1st of
April. Neither is anything gained by
lanting these in the open ground much
ore Jane.
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Graduated from the Bible.
Octave Thanet tells a story of an old
darky in Florida who was anxious to learn
to read, so that he conld read the bible.
He said that if he could read the bihle he
would want nothing else. A friend of the
parrator taught him to read. Some time
afterward she visited his cabin, and asked
his wife how his bible reading was getting
on.
“Laws, Miss Fanny,” said this person,
“‘he jes’ suttinly kin read fine. He's dove
got outen de bible an’ into the newspa-
pere.”’—Indianapolis News.
Give your children a laxative medicine
whioh will not re-act on the system or
leave injurious after effects. Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are the best medicine for