SAND FOR CHILDREN. Tl»e Cheapen!, Mont Sall«t>l»lt and Altoicether Leant Ohjectlonable of All Plaiiblnga. "First in a child's outfit should be a •and heap if the young ones are quite young," writes Charles M. Skinner of •gardens for Children" in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Almost the first thing that human beings want to do, after they learn to eat, is to dig. A cartload of sand is one of the cheapest and most satisfying playthings in the world. It is worth a houseful of dolls, and painted monkeys on sticks. Watch Johnny and Kelly at their work and you will wish most heartily that you could find the same novelty and enthusiasm in your employments. That sand pile is very cosmos. Mountains are builded from it with the use of tin shovels and beach pails; there are caves in the cool depths near the foot of those Himalayas—caves big enough for the cat to turn around in; Johnny makes a fort on his side, and Js'elly lays out a garden on hers. John ny's fort mounts murderous clothes pins. and the garden has trees and flow ers and fountains made of burned matches, wisps of paper and broom straws, while china dolls walk abroad there and take the air. 'What trifling!' did you say? Not so. This is one of the most serious affairs in life. Don't you see that in this play the little ones are learning? Probably they acquire more exact information in an hour than they gain all day in school. They are gathering ideas facts about this BAKED SALMON AND POTATOES. A New Luncheon Dish for Those Who Are Fond of the Golden Orange Fish. If you want a delicious luncheon dish take the cold remnants of baked salmon left from the dinner of the day before and break up with a fork. Break it in pieces not too small after having removed the skin. Mix the pieces with the salmon sauce or gravy. Cream Trish potatoes until very soft, using considerable milk and butter. Place tn a baking dish ..nd leave a big place in the center for the fish. Smooth down the po tato with a buttered knife, leaving the salmon rough in the center, and bake in the oven until a light brown. Canned salmon can be used, but be careful not to have the fish too dry. l'laee a piece of butter the size of an egg on top of the salmon before baking. Serve hot with sliced lemou. FRANCIS TAYLOR. physical world that the}' must use their whole lives long, for all knowledge rests upon them; ideas about substance, gravity, density, form, distance." MARYLAND CHICKEN. A 1)1 nil Which May Well He Called the True Masterpiece of Amer ican Cookery. The old-fashioned cook of Maryland had a special reputation for preparing chicken in a superior manner. Select a tender, plump young chicken. Singe, dress and cut it up as if for a fricassee. Wipe each piece, season it with salt and pepper, dip each in nlelted butter and then lightly in sifted bread crumbs. Arrange the pieces on a baking pan and put them in a hot oven to bake. Let the chicken cook in this way for three-qmar kers of an hour, basting it every 15 min utes, and turn it after it has browned well on one side. While the chicken is cooking prepare corn fritters to serve with it. To make these fritters, cut off the cob a cupful of fresh corn, or if it cannot be obtained use a cupful of canned corn, drained a little and chopped. Add pepper and salt, two well-beaten eggs and also a tablespoon ful of if canned corn is used. Add a cupful of flour and half a cupful of milk. Divide the corn fritters and try 'hem in butter in a very hot pan, I turning tbem from one side when they •\re done !o the other. Prepare a cream tauce by pouring a cupful of creain in the dripping pan in which the chicken was baktd. Thicken the gravy with an even tablespoonful of butter m xed with a teaspoonful of fiour. Let the gravy ill us formed simmer slowly for five min ites Season it with salt and pepper tnd strain it and scatter in a tea*poon !ul of minced parsley. Set the gravy in (he oven a moment or t'.vo, then pour it iver the chicken, which should be gar nished.—N. Y. Tribune. Recipe for Spiced Cake. Yellows of seven eggs, two teacup ful.s of brown sugar, one teaoupful of A". O. molasses, one teacupful of butter, Jve teacupfuls of flour, one teacupful rf sour creum, one teaspoonful of soda, »e pound of seeded raisins, one-half ound of citron; cinnamon, ginger, nut neg and spice to taste. THE GINGHAM BABY. She I» the Kralml and Hoal Comfort able of All the Pretty Utile MalUa of Summer. The gingham baby wears a dresi made of three or four different kind* of gingham. Her yoke may be plain gingham edged with a baud of ribbon below which may be set out a bro«c ruff of figured gingham,and to the yoki THE LITTLE GINGHAM GIRL, of her dress can be sewed a double boJ plaited skirt of gingham. The prettiest trimming for this ging- ham dress is wash ribbon, which co-ines in narrow widths at six cents a yard. Sew it around the yoke in loops that lie close together so they form a sort of ruffle. The ribbon around the neck can also be wash ribbon. If the ging ham dress is washed carefully this wash ribbon will keep nice all summer, and you will have very little trouble .vith the drtss until it is worn out. How to Hound (he Tliront. To have a rounded throat exercise the throat by singing; sing, whether you have a "voice" or noit. deeming the exer cise valuable. At night wrap the throat in a linen cloth, wet with scented oil. This will nourish the skin and soften its outlines. Exercise the throat every day by turning the heat! from side to side slowly, and never fast. Try this ten minutes every night and morning. If the hair falls out change your diet and improve your general health. Friction is too rough treatment for ordinary skins. If used to prevent wrinkles iit should be gentle and with a little oil on the fingersv. Hoiueiiincie Crenm Cliorae. Cream cheese may be made at home, providingyou follow carefully the rules. Take four quarts of good, thick milk, pour into it two quarts of boiling water; turn into a bag and drain over nighit. Next morning rub this cheese to a smooth pulp and press through a fine sieve; add gradually a tablesjjuionful of melted butter or two tablespoonfuls of thick cream. Pack this into small cups and stand in a cool place for about two or three weeks; at the end of that time the top may be removed and ihe cheese turned from the cups for use. —Ladies' Home Journal. A Jfipnnene l'ot-I'onrrf. Lavender flowers, one pound; rose, leaves, one pound; ground orris root, half a pound; crushed cloves, two ounces; crushed cinnamon, two ounces; crushed allspice, two ounces; table salt, one pound. Thoroughly mix these several ingredients, and then keep in a tightly sealed jar till required to be used. For sachets, to place among clothing and house linen, this potpourri will be found very fragrant and refresh ing- London has 600,000 houses; Paris h&a 80,000, New York has 115,000. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1898. SUPPORT FOR TREES. Juat tlir Tiling lor OrchariU In \\lil«l» Holt*. Sheep nnd Oilier Aiitliiilln Are I'anlurril, The practice is becoming more and more prevalent of pasturing - hogs and sheep in orchards. The animals thrive on the grass and fallen fruit, and they In turn enrich the orchard and destroy ?ountless grubs and worms. With ani til :jbi . A SECURE SUPPORT FOR FRUIT TREES. mals in an orchard, however, it is im possible to prop up heavily-laden boughs, for such props will very quick ly be knocked down. Fig. t shows a plan that can be used in almost any tree. The central branches furnish a fulcrum for the support of the poles used. One end can be placed under the branch to be supported, or tied to it, TREE SUPPORTED BY POLE AND WIRE. and the other end brought down under a branch on the opposite side, or tied to a branch if it is not possible to con fine it under a limb. Another way is to fasten a pole to the trunk of the tree, as shown in Fig. 2. Wires extending from the top of the pole to heavily laden branches will support these in the best possible manner.—-American Agriculturist. FIRE BLIGHT IN PEARS. A lllnraae Thnt lliih llone More Diiiu itjlie to (iroiifrN Than All Other A lit lei ioiiM Combined. Bulletin 145, Cornell university ex periment station, Ithica, Js*. Y., gives some valuable information concerning that most pestilent disease, lire Might in pears, which has done more damage to pear growers than all the other af flictions combined. Fire blight has been known in this country lor a century, but was ascribed to a great many different causes until Prof. J. T. Burrill, of the University of Illinois, took the matter up and discov ered that it was due to the work of bac teria, whiehreproduce themselves in the cambium or new wood growth that forms between the bark and wood each year. This growth is soft and full of sap, and is exactly adapted to the re production of the bacteria—producing the blight. Here it increases very rap idly, extending its field from cell to cell and absorbing the uutrent juices of the tree to such an extent that the branches infected finally succumb to their attacks, the foliage showing this condition by turning brown as if burned by intense heat. The only remedy is the heroic one of excision, and the knife and saw should be used at any time when the disease manifests itself. Cut the affected branches off and burn them, and be sure .to cut them far enough below the vis ible effects to cut out any part that may be infected in the slightest de gree. It, has b«ten found that no pear tree is safe from the attacks of these bacteria, although some are sold as blight proof. If the affected branches are cut away as soon as the disease shows and a careful watch is kept all through tne summei to keep the disease from spreading, it will often be stamped out in a single season. lUddinK the Soil of AntN. In sandy soils especially, ants are oftentimes troublesome and more or lets of an annoyance on trees, shrub bery and plants. They may be de stroyed by pouring a tablespoon!ul of bisulphide of carbon into the aut hill and closing the opening with soil. The liquid will permeate the soil in every di rection and kill all animal life, while being harmless to vegetation. As it is exceedingly inflammable, it must be kept carefully away from fire. A rem edy quite as effective and less danger ous to handle is sweet oil. Place this where the ants can get it and they will come in quantities. The oil renders them unconscious, and those not killed by it may be quickly gathered and de stroyed.—Prairie Farmer. DRAFT OF VEHICLES. MrthudN of Hnrncanluu a Horde So BN to Uet tlie ll** M ( lieMiilt lle- Ncrihcil liy I'rof. I£«ljfertoi*. Prof. J. J. Edgerton, of the lowa ag ricultural college, lias been making a special study of the methods for har nessing a horse so as to get the best re sults. It is an old and popular idea, he says, that a loaded wagon will draw easier when the greater part of the load is placed over the front wheels. As a rule, the horse will do his work more easily if he is placed near it; there be- I ing less lost motion. The driver also will be able to keep his operations more completely under his control. In th» ease just cited the opposite of the gen eral supposition is true. This is due to a difference in the size of the fore and hind wheels. The surface over which a load is drawn being more or less thick ly set with obstacles over which the wheels must pass, it stands to reasan that a wheel with a diameter of five feet will be much more easily raised over a given obstacle than will one of four feet; the leverage being so much great er in the first case. If we suppose the load brought to a curbstone six inches in height, over which it must be raised, the load on tlu 1 five-foot wheels will be brought over one-third easier than an equal load on the four-foot wheels, be cause tiie leverage in the first case U one-third greater. It must not be sup posed, however, that the present ten denev toward low-wheeled wagons is a move altogether in the wrong direction, for the greater width of tire preventing the wheel from sinking so deeply into soft ground, lessening the height to which the load must be lifted, helps to counterbalance the evil tendency.— Journal of Agriculture. DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE. IllinulM l'li> Kldfiii linn nit Adventure Tlint Slioiilil Tench Country !•<■<> |> I»■ u I.enHou. The condition of country roads af fects the rural doctor perhaps quite as much as anybody, especially as his du ties compel him to use tliem pretty con stantly, no matter what shape they may happen to be in. A Uloomington pa per says that a physician in a small Illinois town has lately had life made a burden to him by the roads over, or rather through, which he had to travel. "In some places the mud is actually a foot and a half deep. It is at times al most impossible for a horse to get through it. Vet he has calls to make a distance of ten miles or more over that kind of roads. Recently he was on a good horse galloping through the mud, in spite of the fact that, at every jump the horse went over his angles— when the horse slipped and fell. The doctor was thrown bodily over a ditch of water, while the horse went into the ditch head first. The soft ground let both rider and horse escape unhurt, but they were both so covered with mud that it was impossible to tell what color they were. The doctor had on a waterproof and did not get wet. He caught the horse, mounted and went on. It was not an unusual oc currence." ALL AROUND THE DAIRY. Hoard says that if the cow has a bard, dry hacking cough, suspect tuber culosis. There is not much difference in the merit of churns except that some work easier and more rapidly. Oats and peas sown together at the rate of about three bushels to the acre, make nearly green crop for cows. If the calf is permitted to suck the cow more than three or four days the cow will be injured for dairy purposes. Educate the people to know that oleomargarine is a dirty, disease-breed ing compound, and then let the courts protect it as much as they like. 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