Bellefonte, Pa., April 17, 1908.
Where is He, the Rose of Sharon,
He, the valley's Lily, where?
All the earth is dark and barren,
None can with my Lord compare.
Through the city I have wondered,
Watchmen told my anguish sore:
But, alas! the hours were squandered—
Who my lost ove will restore?
Seven wounds His, when you have found
Him,
Wounds the Roman soldiers gave;
And they spices wrapped around Him,
Bore Him, weeping, to the grave,
Wounds and spices! Thus you'l! know him.
I the guest room will prepare ;
If on me ye will bestow Him,
Meet Him well with song and prayer.
He alone can bring me healing,
Blot the stains of sin and death,
All my sorrows from me stealing,
Softly as the garden's breatn;
I will hasten to adore Him,
Bring him gilts and spices sweet;
I will run and kneel before Him—
1 will weep and kiss His feet.
—[J. E. Raxxix.]
MRS. GOODWIN'S EASTER.
Mis. Goodwin walked rapidly down the
nerrow path to the ssreet, and withons a
backward look shut she gate behind ber.
She was not one to linger at the hour of
ting, and to-day Mis. Goodwin was leav-
ng the home of fifty years.
‘I suppose you have heard the sad news,
Margaret,’’ said a voice as her side.
Mrs. Good win turned and looked into the
face of her old friend and neighbor, James
Wilson, who stood leaning on his cane, his
long white bair blown about hy the wind.
.. “What news, James ?'’ she inquired, dal-
ly. “I bave been so taken up with my own
selfish cares that I have not thought of a
soul in the village for the last fortnighe.”
*‘It is the old story of a good mau taken
and a bad one lefs to fill bis place,” an-
swered James Wilson. “No one will find
us having dealings with John Wilbur, eb,
Margaret? We know too well the wolf in
sheep's clothing.”
“Do you mean to tell me that Henry Wil-
bur is dead,” said Mrs. Goodwin in a
trembling voice. ‘‘He ssopped at my house
last night on his way home from East An.
drews, and he told me that he never felt
Yettar in bis life. I muss see John at once,
James Wilson's faded biue eyes took no
note of his neighbor’s confusion. *'See John;
well, pow, I wouldn’t, Margares. But if
thas ne’er-do well of a Merrick were here,
I would run my poor old legs off to drop a
tear on his hand. Well, good morning,
Margaret ; and James Wilson tottered off.
Mre, Goodwin s:00d where he left ber,
unmindful of the suow that was beginning
to fall and the wind that made the branches
of the big trees orrak. Wish lightning ra-
pidity her mind was going over the events
of the last twelve hours, Henry Wilbur
bad heard that she bad sold her home,
which war all that her husband bad lefe
her at his death two months previous, and
the object of his call had been to make
friendly inquiry as to her plans for the fu.
tare. In the course of the conversation
Mre. Goodwin bad told nm of a matter
that was bothering her not a little. The
well-to-do farmer who bad bought ber
bouse, farmer like, had paid ber for it in
cash that afternoon. There was no bank in
Andrews, and in order to deposit it she
would bave to go to East Andrews she uext
day at no small inconvenience. Moreover,
she was more veivons as having sv much
money in the house, even for one night.
Out on the State road a woman nad been
murdered io her bed a few weeks before.
To relieve her anxiety Henry Wilbur of-
fered to take the money home with him
that night, and, as business called him to
East Audrews the next day, to deposit is
for her. And now Henry Wilbur was dead
and there was no way she could ever prove
that she bad ever given the money into his
jon. An appeal to John Wilbur
would be worse than nseles-; nevertheless,
as soon as decency permitted she would call
upon him,
Mrs. Goodwin shivered and drew her
lain black cape more closely around her.
Wit ohilled bands and benumbed fees she
started again on ber way to ber new home,
two small back rooms at the Widow Bird's.
O, why had Henry wos been allowed to live
till he had deposited the money ? Bus
what was she, to question the wisdom of
the Almighty ? Her lips moved in a silent
prayer for grace. *‘O Lord, forgive Thy
servant, for she i» a very old woman. O
Lord, help ber to realize that if the way
grows hard it is only becaase she is nearing
the summit where she can see the laud of
Canaan, and, praise Thy name, be soon
within is.”
The forenoon after Henry Wilbur's fun-
eral found Mrs. Goodwin in Jobn Wilbur's
law office. When she met the glance of
his cold eyes her heart died within her.
The eyes had not cbanged in expression
since, as one of her scholars in the school
house at the Corners, he had daily outwit.
ted her. Her mind reverted to that time,
ard she unconsciously addressed him in she
manner of that period.
“Well, you bave lost as good a father as
a man ever had, Johnnie.”
Jobn Wilbur straightened up his thin
listle figure and frowned. ‘‘Johnnie” did
not accord well with she added dignity that
had come to him with the death of his
father,
‘You know that your father and my poor
bushaud and I bad most of our schooling
together,”” Mrs. Goodwin continued, ner-
vously fingering the ribbons of her cape.
Jon Wilbar lifted a pad of paper from
his desk and turned the cover back sug-
gestively. If Mrs. Goodwin had come to
talk over reminiscences of his father with
him, it was well to give her a hint that he
bad po time for such trivialities,
A epark of indignation flashed from Mrs.
Goodwin's still brilliant eyes. She stopped
fumbling with ber ribbons. ‘‘But my er-
rand this morning is a business one, Your
father was kind enough to call on me the
evening before his death. You bave
heard that Timothy Black t my
home; that afternoon he had paid me for is
in cash. I told your father how fretted I
was at the thought of keeping it in the
house overnight, and he offered to take the
money with him to deposit in the East An-
drews hank the next agy. Yon must have
come norose the bills in his safe, John.
The amount was three thousand dollars.”
Mrs. Goo” win eyed John sharply during
thie recital, and she ohserved with satisfao-
tion the color that came in his sallow
cheeks when she mentioned the passing
over of the money to his father. She felt
“Can yon give me the money this morn-
ing, John ?"’ The calm assurance of Mrs.
Goodwin's voice gave no token of the fears
that were weighing her down,
“Did you bring the receipt with you ?’
#aid Jobn Wilbur. “Of course my father
gave you ope."
‘No, yon know that he did vot, Jobn.
What did I want of a receipt from an old
friend like your father ? How were we to
know the mysterious ways of Providence?"
“Then youn have ahsolutely nothing to
show that the money passed into my fath-
er's bands.”” John’s voice bad 8 metallic
click now,
“Nothing hut my word as an honest
womau. You cannot tell me that you
doubt that, John Wilbur?"
*'It is rather a queer story, you know.”
John Wilbur smiled after a fashion that
made Mrs. Goodwin shiver. * It would be
pretty hard to make some people believe
that a woman—pardon me, I mean vo of-
fense—a woman who bas the reputation of
being as bard-headed in a business way as
Margaret Goodwin, would be so deplorably
careless as to trust any man with all the
money she bad in the world even for a
night. Now if is were rattle-headed old
Grandma Pickard the case would he differ-
ent. Mind, I am not saying that I do not
believe your story, but in justice to the
other heirs I could not notice a claim
founded on such slight evidence—in fact,
no evidence at all.
, The “other heirs’’ were John Wilbhar's
five motherless children and his young
brother, Merrick, whose long and freqnent
absences from home were generally acconnt-
ed for by his dislike of John, which he
took no pains to conceal.
Mrs. Goodwin thoughs of Merrick, warm-
hearted and impulsive. *‘Merrick Wilbar
is nos the oue to take the bread ous of an
old woman’s mouth,’ she exclaimed, scorn-
fally. *‘Is thas all you have to say to me,
John?"
“I think we understand each other,”
John returned, suavely.
A mist fell over Mrs. Goodwin's eyes as
she tarued toward the door. She could not
sce to open it. John Wilbar hastened to
ber side and politely bowed herons. With
the mist still banging in front of her she
traversed the few rods to Mrs. Bird's house.
afternoon she would call ou her pastor
and ask him to intercede for her with John;
bau not now, she was too crushed and hope-
88.
As she opened the door of her room its
brightness and cheer made a friendly ap-
peal to her. Thank God, she had her
health, There must be work enoangh in she
village for a faishfal pair of bands. The
next instans she fell to the floor.
When Mrs. Goodwin opened her eyes she
was lyiog in bed, and Mis. Bird was
looking at her with sender concern. *‘Now
don’t you go to worrying, Mrs. Goodwin,’
Mis. Bird exclaimed, trying to hush her
deep voice to an appropriate degree. ‘Yon
will be all right in a little while, ‘ceptin’,
of course, your side. You have had a stroke
hat, land, that ain't anything. Jest you
lie still aud don’s worry, and the doctor
tays you will come out all right. You
ain't got a thing in the created world to
worry about. Well, now, if it was me I
would bave to do considerable thinkin’
while I was a-lying there, Everybody says
how lucky you were to bave Timothy
Black snap up your place so quick. Every
body knows that when Timothy sets his
heart on anything he ain’t one to les money
sulnd In the way of is.”
Mrs. Goodwin's eyes opened wide, aud a
frightened look came in them. ‘You muss
tell everyone, Mis. Bird,” she stammered,
‘that I bave lost all the money Timothy
Black paid me.”
“There, there, honey,” murmured Mrs.
Bird. “Yon most not talk any more,
Poor thing,’ she added to herself, ‘‘her
mind is beginning to wander.”
al Dat you must,’ Mrs. Goodwin repeas-
“Sh, sh, else I shall have to go righs
away and leave you. Tomorrow you can
tell me all about is.”
Mrs Goodwin closed her eyes wearily.
Mrs. Bird was right, tomorrow would be
time enough to tell her. *‘O God, send
Merrick home,’’ she whispered. ‘They
*ay no one knows where he is, but Thon
knowest and Thou canst pat it in his mind
to come 10 help the poor old woman. Mer-
rick will not see me delranded.”
Within an hoor after Mrs. Goodwin had
told her trouble to Mis. Bird, the whole
village was ringing with the story, and
John Wilbor became the recipient of na-
merous calls, one from Mrs. Gondwin’s
pastor, the Rev. Mr. Steele. To each one
he made the statement that be koew noth.
ing of the transaction and bad found no
Snel amount of cash in his father’s posses-
son,
Plainly there was nothing to be due,
‘*Exoept to pray the Lord so change John
Wilbur's heart,” as Mr. Steele remarked
to Mrs, Bird in an nndertone when he was
leaving the houve after making Mrs. Good-
win acquainted with the result of his call.
‘‘ludeed, it is not right to pray to the
Lord for impossibilities,” she good woman
returned, warmly.
Mr. Steele she 2 his head reproachfully,
but she was pleased to note that he could
vot efface from his countenance the glow of
satisfaction thas her vehement language
had evoked.
Mrs. Goodwin bad not looked for any-
thing else. Her conversation now turned
on Merrick and his return. The days were
flying swiftly. All her wants were supplied
by the ohurch people, but the fact was fore-
ing itself upon her shat perhaps only the
summer wounld bring back ber days of use-
fulness. How could she endure to depend
on the bounty of even her sisters in the
charoh till thas time? Hour after hour she
eat by the window watching with concious
eyes for Merrick’s handsome, sensitive face
and lithe, erect figure.
“I bave had such a beautiful dream,”
she remarked to Mrs. Bird on Easter morn-
ing. “I thought that Merrick stood right
here in the room smiling at me, just as
bright aud sweetas ever, and then he spoke
to me as plainly as could be, and said,
‘Mrs. Goodwin, don’t you worry about
that money. It will ali come out some
day.’
“0 the dear lad!" oried Mrs. Bird, put.
ting her handkerchief to her eyes,
What is she matter? Is there bad news
of Merrick?’ Mrs. Goodwin drew a deep
sigh as she read the answer in Mrs. Bird’s
griel strioken attitude. The painful si-
lence was broken by the fires sad tolling of
the bell. With her eyes fixed on the ohuroh
belfry, which showed through the bare
of the trees, Mrs. Good win counted
the strokes. Twenty-four gay, loving
years. And thie was the answer to her
prayer? Then her sbarp sorrow for Merrick
orowded ous all selfish thoughts,
At the same hoor Mr, Steele was mount-
ing the steps to John Wilbur's house. I$
was the old homestead that his father had
80 lately lefs.
100s for news. A brief ilidess, a burial at
sea; surely shat could not be all?
In the room where Mr. Steele awaited
John's appearance were many reminders of
convinced that John had found the bills,
that stal wart Christian man, John's father.
Mr. Steele’s hears was anx- | al
On the table w “The
nal’ and the books that
lesson helps. Beside them
There they were, jnst as
left them she night of his death; for Mr.
Steele knew shat Henry Wilbur bad never
failed to turn to the study of the Sunday
school lesson on Tuesday evening.
Mr. Steele put on his glasses and drew
the Bible toward him. ‘Henry was what
1 call a Bible Christian,” he mused. “Now
I think I will preach a sermon on that sub-
jeot sometime—Bible Christians.” A sheet
of paper slipped from out she Bible and
dropped to thie floor. As he stooped to
it up a name caught Mr. Sieele’s eye, which
cansed him to scan the whole with deliber-
ation:
Goodwin in trust
Received of Mrs. M.
this night, to deposit ae Andrews bank
tomorrow, three thousand dollars ($3,000,
March 1, 1899,
Mr. Steele smiled pitying. ‘‘Ab, John
Wilbur, there was just one place in this
honse where this bit of paper was safe from
r evil intentions, and that was vour
er’s Bible.” A moment more and the
mivister was walking toward Mrs. Bird's
with a speed thas would bave done oredis
to bis printing days in college. Up she
stairs be bounded, $wo steps at a time.
“*A joyous Easter, Margaret,” he oried,
waving the sheet of paper before her he-
wildered eyes. Then dropping into a chair
he told his story, while he langhed and
sohbed like a ohild.
Mis. Good «in turned a radiant face to-
ward Mrs, Bird. “Didn’t Merrick tell me
it would all come oat right? she cried. —
By Flora Longfellow Tuarknets, in the
Chistian Advocate.
Hexny WiLsun,
Clara Barton is Eighty-six
About six miles outside of Washington,
among rather peculiar sarroundings, a
famous woman bas just completed the
eighty-sixth year of her remarkable lite, If
her present excellent health continues, 1t
is toss-up whioh will outlive the other—
Miss Clara Barton or the big Ferris whee!
which overshadows her house.
The wheel is not a part of Miss Barton's
establishment. The facs is that ber grounds
are bounded on two sides by a so called
amasement park, which appeals to the
average person as somewhat oppressive for
80 olose a neighbor,
The Ferris wheel hangs like a phantom
over the house in winter days, and the
coaster railway, creeping along close to the
fence, is as silent asa hibernasing snake.
Bat in summer timr the amusement park
must he far from amaosing to its famous
neighbor, according to the New York Sun.
Miss Barton’s own house is an extraor-
dinary structure. It looks as if it might
be a summer hotel or 8 park casino. Is
stands on a high bank above the Potomac,
at the edge of a little suburban village.
An electric car runs ont from Geoige-
town, and the visitor descends at a post
where hangs a sign **Red Crosse.” That is
the name the trolley has given the station.
The Red Cross is now a government organ-
ization, with its offices as the War Depart.
ment in Washington,
Mies Barton looks, aots and talks like a
woman of seventy-six rather than of eighty-
six, Many persous have a vague idea that
she was a sort of American Florence Night-
ingale during the Civil War, and she is
often spoken of asa nurse. She herself
says she was never a nurse and kuows little
of nursing.
‘‘My work, she said the other day, ‘‘has
always been to get supplies to people who
needed them. It has been a work which
has tanght me the value of things. Io al-
most any catastrophe—in war, in flood, fire,
earthquake, pestilence—it is not money so
much as things that tbe sofferers need.
They want food, clothing, shelter, medi-
cine. To bring these things to people has
been my work.’
Miss Barton has followed out this idea
throogh two wars—the Civil War and the
Franco-Prussian —and also through twenty-
five years of Red Cross relief to the snffer-
ing caused by catastrophes. In this field
she counts the Johnstown flood, the Sea
Islands disaster and Galveston tidal wave
as the greatest catastrophes with which she
has had no deal. —8aturday Evening Post.
Authors In Maine,
The coast of Maine appears to bave a pe-
ouliar attractiveness for authors. William
Dean Howells, for example, has long had
his summer bome at Kittery Point, whiob
is nos far from Portsmouth. His house is
surrounded by a fine old garden, in which
the veteran aathor way often be seen at
work. His library is located in au old
barn set iu the midst of an apple orchard.
A little farsher up the coast at York
Hasbor, is the summer home of Thomas
Nelson Page. It ie located on a high poins
vear the tea. Here, too, comes John Fox
every summer to be the guest of Mr. Page.
Still farther on, at Kennebunkport, is
the home of Mrs. Margaret Deland, who
lives in a charming, old-fashioned house,
surrounded by a real New Englard garden.
Mrs. Deland has been particularly success.
fal in raising jonquils. In fact, ebe had
such a large crop the past summer that she
held a public sale of them and gave the
proceeds to obarity. Meredith Nicholson,
the Indiana novelist, also bas a home at
Kennebuokpors.
Various suthors live on the many islands
that stud the beautiful barbor of Portland.
The best known is Mrs. Clara Louise Burn-
ham, whose home is on Bailey’s Island.
On another island, not far away, lives
Commodore Peary.
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‘Blood tells.” That old saying may
have many applications. When the face is
blotohed with pimples, the body vexed
with eruptions or eaten by sores, the blood
is telling of ite impure condition. By pari-
dy blood with Dr. Pierce's en
Medical Discovery you can have a smooth
skin, clear complexion and healthy body.
The ‘‘Discovery’’ purifies the blood and
removes the ous substances which
cause sores pimples.
A Philosopher,
Louie says he basn’t any luck as
“Indeed! It’s something unusual for him
to complain.”
‘Ob, he waen's complaining. He says
he'd rather have no luck than always have
it bad.”
Another Butter Scoring Contest,
The pure food agitation is cultivating a
more critical spirit on the part of the buy-
ing public. Butter dealers report a con-
stant demand for more of the best butter,
and the growing tendency to discrimin-
ate between the best and that not quite
so good in the matter of price,
The moisture content of butter is re-
ceiving a great deal of attention since the
National Food Laws have fixed a legal
limit.
The investigations by the Dairy Divi-
sion of the National Department of Agri-
culture have shown great differences in
the amount of over run-secured by differ-
ent butter makers,
Believing that a study of these three
subjects, quality, moisture content and
over run, are of vital importance to
Pennsylvania butter makers, many of
whom must compete for a market with
the milk shipper, the Dairy Husbandry
Department of The Pennsylvania State
College will conduct an Educational Con-
test during the ensuing year. Five
pounds of butter to be sent by each con-
testant every two months, Package will
be furnished and express charges pre-
paid by the College, the butter to become
the property of the College. At the end
of the year a sterlingsilver cup will be
awarded to the butter maker receiving
the highest average score and a prorata
fund divided between all who take part
in every scoring. (Six during the year.)
Butter makers desiring to take part
should address Prof. H. E. Van Norman,
State College, Pa., at once for package
and blanks on which to report method
used in making. Score, criticisms, sug-
gestions and report of moisture content
will be furnished to each butter maker.
Names will not be published if so re-
quested.
Wins Stiver Cup.
In the Educational Butter Scoring
Contest, conducted during the past year
by the Dairy Husbandry Department of
the Pennsylvania State College, E. C,.
Wivel, of Fulton House, Pa., made the
highest average score, namely 92} out of
a possible 100 points, judged on market
standards.
In this Contest butter was sent to the
College periodically, where it was judged,
criticisms and suggestions for improve-
ment were sent tothe butter makers,
38 butter makers took part, though only
a small part completed the year by send-
ing every time.
Smuliton.
Renben Smull is making improvements on
bis home here.
Harry R. Brungart is attending select
school at Spring Mills st present.
Wm. Shull, who has heen critically ill for
some time, we are glad to say, is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Smull were at Flem-
ington, Clintoa county, Sunday and Monday
to attend a funeral.
Mrs. Harry Burns, who had sale last Tues:
day, left for Centre Hill where she will
make her future home.
Isrnel Haugh spent some time pleasantly
with his daughter, Mrs. C. M. Bierly, at
Dents Run, Elk county.
J. W. Brungart, proprietor of the Smullton
furniture and novelty works, is turning out
some fine furniture, besides the repair work
he does.
News from this place has not appeared in
the columns of the WATCHMAN because of
neglect of the correspondent, but we hope to
do better now.
Rev. J. Max Lantz, the new Methodist
minister for the Pennsvalley charge,
preached at this place Sunday toa fair
sized congregation.
Joseph Beckenbaugh and son, of Franklin
county, expects to make their future abode
with Mr. and Mrs. Bierly here, he being a
brother of Mrs. Bierly.
Those moving last week were: Herbert
Smull to Rebersburg; J.W. Brungart occupy+
ing the place left vacant by Small; J. W.
Bair recently moved into the home of Thos.
Brungart here.
H. H. Stover expects to rebuild and en-
large his Studio and printing establishment.
Last spring he added an addition, but be-
cause of the increase of patronage and to
make more commodious quarters he will
make the addition.
At last! What? At last the citizens of this
place have awakened to a sense of their own
interests, and while it has frequently been
talked, "and never done,” we can say today
there is existing now a “Smullton Water
Co.,” composed of men who will and have
done everything possible to bring about this
end. The company has sent for its pipes and
fittings, and if they are shipped promptly,
Smulliton will have water supplied to every
home in town that wants it by Easter.
There could be no better move made than
this by the people of the town. We feel
thankful for men who have backbone
enough to do what their conscience tells
them is right.
Hablersburg.
John Walkey was seen in our burg over
Sunday.
Our primary school,
Hoy, closed Monday.
The Thad Stevens library society held
an interesting meeting Friday evening.
Harry and Roy Calatban visited their
uncle, Frank Carner, during the past week.
The farmers are commencing to do their
spring work and less loafers are seen on oar
streets.
Rev. H. I. Crow delivered an able sermon
to the graduates of the '08 clses Sunday
evening.
Nevin Hoy, who is attending Bellefonte
High school, has been housed up the past
week with illness,
J. L. Walkey and wife have returned
home after spending the winter months ia
taught by Calvin
the southern part of this State,
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMRMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Good nature is worth more than know ledge,
more than mooey, tothe persons who possess its
and certainly to everybody who dwells with them,
in so far as mere happiness is conceraed.— Henry
Ward Beecher,
Easter week, socially and hospitahly, be-
lougs almost exclusively to college maid
and mao ; they form the social pivots.
Boarding school miss and lad, come in sec.
ond hand, and are made as happy as oir-
cumstances admis, but she great swath ix
cat hy the big hrother and sister, who
sweep the entire domestic field with feast-
ing avd pleasurivg. Very individual and
jolly are she table decorations in homes
that invariably keep up Easter traditions
by entertaining friends to luooheon and
diuner. The present supply of table favors
and symhols for such ncoasions exceeds all
past records. Every kind of entertainment
by this means bas heen wade so that a
hostess bas but to scan her list of guests,
make a note of their fads and pecnliarities,
to select without delay suggestive repre-
sentations for each individoal.
For girls, who have a craze lor new hats
every month in the year, there in a dainty
miniatare hat hox onntaining a Viros or
Rehoux creation. For maids and men,
daft oo tennis, are fignrines of men carry-
ivg bate and balls, and for the game of
wolf, figares on the golf order. Persistent
matinee goers, may receive tiny opera
glasses in cases. Youths, who “swore off"
at the beginning of the vew year, will
find toy pottery mugs at their plates, with
this legend : “I'm on the water wagon,”
in legible letters. Symbols for the navy
and army, for lawyers and physicians, for
poets, and preacher, in fact, for all vooa-
tions may be bumoronely turned to ac-
count. .
It is at the Easter morning hreakfast
table that gifts from she family to each
other, and from their friends, have their
time, place and opportunity. Apropos of
sach gifts, an innovation one guite unex-
pected has been introduced this season, by
Fifth avenue jewelers It in no less than
the getting up of their own exclosive East.
er cards. They represent an upstanding
sofs, silky, plashy, Bunny, extremely sleek
and well groomed, wearing the slickess of
furry coats, black, white, gray, and tan-
brown. They clasp in their forepaws one
of the various emall silver gifts—a pencil
case, a book mark, a paper-cutter and so
on. Bunny is so well mannered, appar-
ently, that no one would acouse him of a
commercial intent, or soggest that he,
being the fashionable card of the season,
would refuse to be sens off unless some
silver tribute was exacted to the sender.
It is no doubt one of the polite attempss to
proclaim alond the abundance of spare
oash in the community, and it is fair play
to draw the line against plain giftless
Easter cards, on the principle that
words, however five, butter no parsnips.
Following in this saite, high-mark hook
shops have caught the inflection, and have
dressed up their booklets in rihbon, ready
for the parohaser to slip in a visiting card,
or an Easter greeting tag.
In makiog cookies, if the dough is thor-
oughly chilled it will not only be lighter,
but will nos stick to the board when roll-
ing. Some housekeepers also ohill their
doughuats before frying.
Never iron silk with a hot iron or on the
right side. It is bester, in fact, not to
press directly on the silk, bus to cover
with a slightly dampened cloth.
In cleaning ribbons it is hetter not to
iron them at all. Sponge with gacoline or
ether and wrap around a large bottle,
It is a blightiog fact that pigue, that
stiff, unconciliating material which makes
summer days miserable alike for the wom-
an who washes it. bas been revived and
that some of the very smartest suits oconr
in it. Indeed, it menaces the popularity
of linen, which all last summer was the
correct thing for tailored costumes.
Violet and gray isa favorite combina-
tion.
This alliance is particularly becoming to
the silver-haired woman.
Among the ash, smoke and elephant
grays that tint must be selcoted which is
most becoming to the complexion.
Very pretty bate for the elderly woman
cowe in braided straws of lavender trim-
med with a bunch of white ostrich tips.
A single aigrette is also much used.
Berthas of lace or pet or silk and linge-
Se cape collars are charming effects avail-
able,
These will transform a morning blouse
into an effective afternoon gown.
Lace scarfs are again being used to throw
over the head.
The pansy or hearteease is one of the
oldest and most popular of garden flowers.
The brilliance and variety of their colors
make them most useful as border plants.
The amateur may now sow seed in the
spring where the soil is moist and nos too
warm, and he will ges plants thas will
blossom in summer and keep blooming
until fall. The flowers must be kept
picked closely to insure steady blooming.
It earlier blossoms are desired plants that
have been carried through the winter in
cold frames should be obtained from the
florist. The plants should be ses out as
soon as the ground is in condition for
working and the danger of frost is past.
The only cnitivation necessary is stirring
the ground to keep it from baking and
keeping the bed reasonably free from weeds.
The grower who wishes to have his own
early plants should sow seed in Angnst or
September and transplant the seedings to
pots to be kept in the house, or, better
etill, to cold frames with good soil, where
they may remain until winter, when they
would be protected by glass and boards.
For Prune Fluff.—Take four tablespoon
fuls of sofs, stewed prunes, mashed fine ;
a
® e whites wo ; put
into small battered dishes or onstan)-cups
and bake ; serve hot.— Harper's Bazar.
For Scalloped Oysters.—Take one level
tabl butter, one-third cup thin cream
or milk, one pint oysters, one cup buttered
oracker orumbe, salt and . Melt the
butter in the blager a the oream.
When hot add half the oysters, whioh
should be cleaned and Shargughly drained,
okie with salt and add balf
the crumbs. Add remain
salt and pepper and remain oerumbs.
Cover and cook until the oysters are plump
and serve at ouvoce.
more | peggi
R——
—Don’t plans old garden seeds. Get a
fresh supply.
—Ges the spray ready for spring work.
Spraying is she orchardists Sg
~The finer the soil, the better the veg-
etables, both in quantity and quality.
—Wark the sarface soil over after each
rain, sud shus retain all the moisture.
—Green peas and onions should be sown
at the fires opportunity, if not already in
the ground.
—For all-around farm work, the horse
that is low and compact is better than the
one that is long-legged,
—Vegetables delight in havi 8 warm
deep, rich and mellow, soil, and will gen.
erously pay for the privilege.
—A hoe is the best thing yet for stirring
np shorts or any feed that is inolined to be
pasty when mixed with water.
—Three rules for success in gardening
are : Freedom from weeds, thinnivg ous
and keeping the ground mellow,
—Now is a good ¢ime while other work
in not pressing, to make frames for use in
the flower and vegetable gardens.
—Asparagns demands a rich, deep, well-
drained soil. It iv a gross feeder, and will
take almost any amonns of fersilizer.
-~Have you invsstigated Jersey Red
hogs? They are easily fattened, very pro-
lific and the sows make good mothers,
—Horses that are worked to the limit of
their ability, should have all their grain
ground and fed on moistened ont bay.
—Dn not prune grapevines during April
or May, as the bleeding will occasion a
wasteful and an injurions expenditure of
sap.
—Two orope can often be planted on the
fame ground by planting early and late
varieties, removiog the carly as soon as
mature,
—For heavy breathing or rattling in the
throat of poultry, nothing is better than a
teaspoonful of glycerine, to whioh is added
four drops of turpentine.
—Potatoes that are kept for seed must
uot be allowed to spront. If kept in a
cool, dry place sprouting will nos ocour.
Dip all seed potatoes in the formalin solu-
tion.
—When the weather is favorable, beet,
carrot, cress, kale, leek, onion seeds, extra
early peas, potatoes, radish, spinach and
early tarnips can be sown in the open
| ground.
—Kainit is an excellent thing for aspara-
#us beds, as is contains a considerable per-
centage of sulphate of potash, which is a
direct fertilizer ; it also contains a fourth
of ite bulk of salt.
—When planting trees and shrubs on
the lawn keep in mind the habits of the
trees. Remove all hroken roots, when
trees are set, with a sharp knife. Make
the top smaller than the roots.
— Asparagus culture is profitable, and it
yields ready cash at an early season of the
year. The ontting term begins (as Phila-
delpia) in the middle or latter part of
April, and covers a period of six weeks.
—It ie a good plan to apply the fertilizer
to the land a week or ten days before sow-
iog the seed. In all cares it must be thor-
oughly incorporated with the soil ; other-
wise injury to young plants may resuls.
—Cucon:hers and squash have the same
enemies, but the beetle will leave the on-
camber and prefers the squash, which in-
dnces some growers to plant a few squash
vines near cacambers in order to trap the
beetles,
—Take a chilled lamb in by a good,
waim fire, on a bed of sttaw. Rub them
tharonghly. When they are alle to take
a little hot milk, give them a bottle far-
nished with a rubber nozzle. Often this
will save them.
—Old pieces of baled-hay wire are not
vice things to have lying around in the
barnyard. Sometimes both ends may be-
come embedded or frozen in the ground,
making a dangerous loop for you or an
animal to get a foot in.
—White Dutch clover is very desirable
as pastarage for bees. The seed may be
sown any time in April. It resists drought
much better than most of the g and
forms a close green turf for the lawn, if
kept out after it is well roosed.
—At this season cows that are about to
calve should have especial care. Should
the cow he fat, remove all grain from her
ration and give a hot bran mash and a dose
of Epsom salts, ginger and molasses a day
or two before she calves and also the day
after.
—When we find a hole in the milk buock-
et the size of a pin-point, we hasten to the
tinemith and have it soldered ; but we go
right on feeding high-priced bran and meal
to cows that dribble a few cents’ worth of
milk into the pail, without any thought of
stopping the leak.
—For open ground onlture in April,
asparagus, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts,
early cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery,
oress, endive, kale, kobhlrabi, leek, lettuce,
onion sets, omion seed, parsley, parsnip,
peas, tomatoes, radish, spinach, sage, salsify,
and early turnips.
—Are your mangers half full of ‘‘orts,”’
when the cattle get through with their
day’s work? Then you are feeding too
much, or else your hay is poor. Better
shorten up a little in the first case, and, in
the second, try cutting the bay and feeding
it with some bran and meal coattered over
it.
—Salt is often used on asparagus beds,
and is sometimes an indirect fertilizer, act-
ing upon fertility already in she soil, and
having a distinct tendency to attract and
hold moistare, but it has no direot fertiliz-
ing influence. However, it has a benefi-
oial effeot in helping to check the growth
of weeds.
— Low headed apple trees are now gener-
ally grown in commercial orchards. The
time to stars the trees to be low headed is
in the early maturity of the young trees
when ted to the yonng orchard.
It often takes courage to cut back the top
of the young fruit trees but it should be
done when a low tree is desired.
— Watercress can be easily grown in the
shallows of any pure water stream that has
a sandy or gravelly bottom, a steady flow
and a moderate current, if thoseeds are
a
level ;ora may qu y
ng re : in an inch or two
of water till they take root. After plant-
ing no cultivation is needed excepting to
keep [ree from weeds and aquate grasses.