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.
It is said that placing fresh water be
fore cows in the stable, so that they can
drink a little whenever wanted, in
creases the yield ( of milk sufficiently to
repay cost of pipes and appliances in a
very short time.
One dairyman raises his calves on
separator skim milk, with a little white
middlings stirred in, after they are two
weeks old, and until they are four
weeks, when he adds wheat middlings
and old process meal. —Western Plow
man.
<ioo«l KOIMIM f«n<l Vn<*nt ion ist*.
Communities That look for income
from the summer boarder cannot afford
to ignore any feature of their sur
roundings that will add to their at
tractiveness. Times change and we ail
change with them. Nearly every fam
ily going away for the summer takes
several wheels along, and the thou
sands who get away for a two weeks'
vacation look for localities in which
they can use their machines to best
advantage. With all the character of
the roads is of first importance. This
fact makes it possible for less alluring
spots to rival their more popular com
petitors, by providing superior roads
and advertising their excellences, and
each succeeding year will make this
plan increasingly effective. —L. A. \V.
Bulletin.
The llorMcrndlfth Crop.
In growing horseradish the land
should be rich, well manured, plowed
deep, harrowed and free from lumps
As it is a great vegetable to spread,
plan' each root in a roomy space by it
self. Make rows 15 inches apart anj
plants 12 inches *r»m each other
Plant shoots about five inches long,
making holes for them with a stick, ynd
set them about two inches under the
soil. Have the shoots cut squarely
across the bottom, but cut slanting at
the top in order that one side may be a
little longer than the other. Keep free
rrom weeds for the first and second
seasons, after which the horseradish
will take care of itself. —Dakota Field
ind Farm.
RECONCILED TO EARTH.
An ICaa;-G«liiK Indlvldtinl Who Had
No Umlre to Visit the I'lnnet
Jll filler.
"What did you Kay those are?" inquired
the man with the old-fashioned derby hat
who had paused to patronize the curl) stone
astronomer.
"Those are the moons of Jupiter," replied
the proprietor of the telescope.
"Let me see. Jupiter—tnat's one of the
planets."
"Assuredly."
"Well, there's a great deal to complain of
on this earth, but ! t might be worse. With
ill the drawbacks, I'm glad I live here in
stead of on Jupiter."
"Of course; you have no assurance that
the conditions there would be adapted to
your kind of life."
"It isn't that. I'm one of the sort of
people who can bunk down anywhere and
be comfortable with a piece of hard tack
and a cup of coffee There's only one thing
that gives me the blues, and that's seeing
the new moon over my left shoulder. It's
bad enough on this earth having to be on
the lookout for one moon every four weeks,
but if I lived on a planet where there were
four of them I never would know where I
stood. Tt all goes to show that no matter
how bad things are they might be worse."—
Detroit Free Press.
I'ropoHcd Alliance witli Kiiglnnrt.
If the United States and Kngland should
form .1 ri alliance, the combined strength
would be so great that there would be little
chance for enemies to overcome us. In a like
manner, when men and women keep up their
bodily strength with Hostetter's Stomach
Hitters, there is little chance of attacks from
disease. The old time remedy enriches the
blood, builds up the muscles, steadies the
nerves and increases the appetite. Try it.
Nearly every man has a grievance, arid
you will find it out if you touch him right.—
Washington (la.) Democrat.
Dropsy treated free bv Dr. If. IT. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy
speeiafists in the world. Head their adver
tisement in another column of this paper.
An extraordinary haste to discharge an
obligation is n suit of ingratitude.—Roche
foucauld.
There jt a saving -,hat nr. *«rly riser is
likely to be healthy, wealthy ;&i. wise. Most
very poor people are early rises*. —Atchison
Globe.
"Have you finished plowing the ton-acre
lot?" asked Farmer Richland »112 his son.
"Yes." "Then yoi* may now attend to the
harrowing detain!."—Pittsburgn Chronicle.
Long sermons are not considered so if in
teresting and short ones are considered long
if they are uninteresting.—Denver Times-
Sun.
Lionel Brough tells a story of an old coun
try sexton who, in"showing visitors round
the churchyard, used to stop at one particu
lar tombstone and say: "This 'ere is the
tomb of Tiwnmas 'Ooper an' 'is eleven
woives." On one occasion a ladv said:
"'Pleven ? Dear me! that's rather a lot. isn't
it?" The old mail looked at her gravely,
ami then replied: "Well, mum, yer see, it
war an 'obby of 'is'n." —Tit-Bits.
A Dainty Refusal* —The young inan was
nervous and exaitcd, but still he had the
courage to turn out the light. The dear girl
knew the symptoms. "Photographic meth
ods are unnecessary, Mr. Hammerer," sail'
she; "you don't need a dark room tc develo'
this negative."—Philadelphia Record.
fliop Talk.—"Papa's mind is full of busi
ness all theti-me." "Mow does that trouble
you?" "Well, when Harry asked him for
me he said: 'Yes, take her along, and if she
isn't up to our advertisement bring her
back and exchange her.' " —Chicago Record.
Something Tie Needs.—"l think we really
ought to give our attention to making things
that will be of value to the boys at the
front," said the one in pink. The one in blue
laughed scornfully. "Has that just occurred
to you?" she asked. "I began on something
fur Charlie the very day he left with the
troops." "t)h, do tell me what it was," ex
claimed the one in pink. "An embroidered
sofa pillow," answered the one in blue,
proudly. "He always used to say that there
was nothing so comfortable for a tired man
as a real good sofa pillow and a hammock."
—•hicago Post.
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ii •«
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; Sacred Heart, Minn. j J
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