A RAO RIA » FARM NOTES. It is too early to plant corn to feed to the cows next summer, but it 1s not too early to select the ground and ma- nure it, It may not pay you to build a silo, but it will pay you to look into the mat- ter closely and see whether you will be the gainer by so deing. Raise all the colts you can. It isan ancient saying that one strong, gentle old mare has paid off the mortgage on many a poor man’s farm, To reduce muck let it be exposed to the air for several months, 1f1t is well mixed with air-slacked lime it will be in condition sooner than If heaped up and left undisturbed. American swine breeders should breed more for quality of meat than for quantity of fat. European countries will continue to take more of our meat if the quality is to their liking. Good toothsome bacon and hams come of good breed as well as skill in curing. There is such a thing as driving too slow on the road. Some people starve their horses because they are too mer. ciful to drive them fast, hey have them out ona journey when the journey shoulda be finished and the horse in the stable resting and eating. When pear trees do not grow rapidly they should have an application of wood ashes, while trimming the ends of tne young branches will induce them to send out shools and thicken the tops, rometimes the working around the trees with a cultivator will give them a new start. No lawn can stand cropping contin- ually without fertilizer, Wood ashes make the best fertilizer for lawns that abound largely in white clover, while all Jawns are benefitted by a mixture of wood ashes and superphosphate, 1n the fall the lawn should be well dressed with fine stable manure. Lime has so little direct value as a fertilizer that if applied alone to land which is destitute of the elements of vegetable growth, its effect would scarcely be perceptible, But on soils of moderate fertility lime acts very bene- ficially. It changes the mechanical condition of both light and heavy soils and liberates latent elements of fertility already in the soil. }Nearly all ordinary soils, even those lylng on limestone for- mations, are benefitted by applications of lime at intervals of three to five years, CLEAN QUARTERS. —Pigsup to their eyes in filth and mud won’t grow, won’t do any good and will become diseased. They must have clean quarters, If they are confined in small outside pens, it 1s best to have their sleeping quarters ralsed a foot from the ground with a slab stone as a step into the house, Use wheat straw for bedding, as oat straw will produce mange, and change the bedding as often as is required. For Whe outside or run you may throw in old hay, corn fodder or any other litter that will keep the pigs clean and make manure. Cleanliness is the watchword in swine raising, and it is far better to guard against disease than to invite it, Putrid and fermented swill go hand in hand with dirly quarters. Where you find one you find the other, SPRAINS.—From slipping the heavy or fast driving horses are especially lia- ble to sprain of the tendens or liga. ments, causing lameness, The parts are feverish, hot, tender and painful, In all cases of lameness In horses, the foot should be carefully examined, as nails, defective shoeing, or injury of the foot are the most common causes of lameness, In cattle or sheep the feet may also be the most frequent seat of injury. If the heel cannot be put down level on the ground, the strain is located in the back tendons,and if not of recent injury a high-heeled shoe will relieve the strain upon the tender tendon, In acute cases hot applications should be GALLS BY DARNESS. — When the har- ness rubs the skin it should be softened by a good soaking with hot water and then well oiled with castor oll. A plece of sheep skin with the wool on it should be fastened on the tugs where they press on the skin, The galls may be dusted with calomel, which is the best applica- tion that can be made. It may be ap- plied by means of a puff made of cotton batting. Collar galls may be prevented by softening the collar as above sug- gested, and by washing the horse’s neck every evening with salt water. Pads are objectionable, as they produce sweat- ing, which eauses the skin to be chafed. POULTRY FOR MARKET, — Before poultry is sent to market it should be well fattened, as there is a great differ- ence between the price of fat and that of poor poultry, and ina fully stocked market good poultry, well fattened and for finishing off , 88 it gives & Grmer flesh and yellower color than buckwheat and grains, Feed nothing from twelve to twenty-four hoursbefors kill- ing, so that the crops will be perfectly here 13 much to be learned about g poultry, says Field and Farm. For dry picking, kill by bleeding in the mouth,and immediately strip the feath. ers off clean while the fowl Is warm, ling, which Is, after dry Hed Bes at aldin php She more thoroughly free * HOUSEHOLD, RAacour Pickre.— Two gallons of chopped cabbage, two gallons of green tomatoes, twelve large onions, chopped or sliced thin, ona gallon best cider vinegar, ore pound brown sugar, one tablespoonful ground black pepper, half-ounce of tumeric powder, one cunce celery seed, one tablespoonful ground allspice, one teaspoonful ground cloves, half-pound white mustard seed, one gill of salt. Boil eabbage, onions, to- matoes, vinegar, salt and sugar togeth- er until the vegetables are perfectly tender, then take from the fire and add the spices, T’ut into glass or stone jars and cover tightly. ——— I ———— Correg CAKE. —One cup of butter, two of sugar, one of molasses, five cups of flour, sifted, three eggs, one cup of strong, cold coffee, one-half pound of raisins, stoned and floured, one-half of currants, one-fourth of citron, chopped or sliced fine, one teaspoonful of pow- dered cinnamon, one of cloves, one-half nutmeg, grated, one teaspoonful of soda, good measure. Good cake bakers always cream butter and sugar thor- oughly, sift flour and beat eggs repa- rately very light, adding the whites last A cough syrup which we have used in the family since my childhood, I also give thee: One-half eunce each of senna, anise-seed and flax seed, one ounce of licorice, one pint of water, simmered down to three gills, Strain and mix with it one-half pint New Orleans molasses one-half piut Jamaica rum, and heat all together, covered for a few moments, Then bottle and use part of a wineglassful at a time. A very good thing for a feeble person, troubled with a cough, is a glassful of hot milk taken at bed-time, with a fig or two, CORN AND CHICKEN. PIE —Take eighteen ears of corn, cut off the grains, season with salt and pepper. Cut three spring chickens into quarters and par- boil with thelr gizzards and livers, Have ready a deep baking dish: cover the bottom with cron; then put in the pieces of chicken, dotted with pieces of butter; next pour over it the walter in which the chicken was parbolled. Sea- son and cover with the rest of the corn; bake for about an hour. When done the corn on top should be a del- icate brown, This is a most delicious dish. —————— CORN FRITTERS.—Score a ears of corn down the centre of row of grains; then, with the knife, press out the pulp, leaving half a pint of milk, the yelks of two eggs, a little salt, pepper, and a teacup of flour, stiff, and stir them with a teaspoonful of baking powder into the fritter. at a time, quite effective, For that purpose strong infusion is made of the berries which have been ground and and It is sipped while very hot. at the same time, s——— of sugar, three of flour, one cup of sweet milk, the whites of five eggs, beaten separately, very light, one cup of chopped hickory-nut meats, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Lay some whole meats of the nuts on the icing of the cake. Asis MA QUICK PuppiNe.—Two tablespoon. fuls of corn starch, yelks of four egLs, one-half cup of sugar. Mix and pour over one quart of boiling milk, stir quickly, take off from fire, and pour into a pudding dish;beat whites of eggs to a froth, and pour on the top; brown in the oven. : PUDDING SAUCE, —One cup of sugar, butter, the size of an egg, one egg; beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the egg; set on the top of boiling teakettle, or some vessel of hot water, and stir until it is like cream. LEMON BAUCE,—One teacupful of sugar, one-half teacup of butter, one tablespoonful of flour, all well mixed together, Add also grated rind of lemon and & plot of boiling water, Boll five minutes. When ready to serve squeeze into sauce juice of one lemon. AP. Frozex CURRANTS. —Mash a quart of red currants, add two pounds of sugar, the julce of three oranges and one lemon, let stand one hour, add a quart of water, stir until the sugar is dissolved, turn in the freezer and freeze, I—I—— RIPE CURRANTS, —Select large clus- ters of cherries, rinse them by dipping in and out of cold water, then place on a seive to drain, Amonize on a glass dish. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, sit on Ice; serve in small saucers around a little pyramid of sugar. STEWED GOOSEBERRIES, —Stem and top ove quart of gooseberries; put them in a porcelain kettle; add ons pint of bolling water; cover the ke close and stew ten minutes. Add one pound of sugar, stand on the back of the stove where it is not too hot for fifteen min- utes, I A» CURRANTS AND RASPBERRIES (for tea or luneh)—To every quart of . red allow a pint of currants and a pound of sugar. Put to a boil, the juice should ToMaro Wine [By nest, |--To one galion of juice - trp oo sugar and two tablespoonfuls Let it ferment strain carefully, tle in about six weeks, of yeast. a few days, then up close and bot od corn. with salt and pepper. in a little hot butter, Strawnenrny Oneam.—Soak one-half box gelatine in one-half cup of eold water, Dissolve in one-half cup of boiling water, then strain. Mash one- quart of strawberries, add a cup of sugar and rub through a sieve. Now add the gelatine water and stir until thick, Then add a pint of cream whipped. The juice of half a lemon is an improvement. This eream should be allowed to cool thoroughly, when it will be like a fine sponge in texiure and of a beantiful pink color. Srrawpenny Sronae.—Cover half a box of gelatine with half a cupful of cold water, and soak for thirty minutes; then pour over it half a pint of boilin water, add one cupful of sugar, an stir until dissolved; add one pint of the strawberry juice, and then strain into & tin basin; put this basin into a = of cracked ice to stand until cold and thick, stirring occasionally. Then beat to a stiff froth, add the well beaten whites of the eggs, and beat until smooth; turn into a fancy pudding mold to harden. Tomatoes wires Mik Gravy, —Scald some fine tomatoes and remove the skins; put them in a dish and sprinkle over them some pepper, salt and bits of butter; let them cook on top of the stove for fifteen or twenty minutes, take them off and turn them, dredge with flour, add some more butter and milk enough to make a gravy, also a slight pinch of soda, set them back on the stove and let soald for ten minutes. CARRAWAY SHORTBREAD, —Beat half a pound of butter to a cream, stir in half a pound of fine sugar, half an ounce of carraway soeds, one ounce of blanched almonds, and enough flour to form a stiff paste, loll out, cut into shapes, put a strip of candied lemon peel on each, and bake quickly on buttered paper. Cuerry Puppia, —Secure a cup of sour cream for this pudding and a gen- erous pint of sweet milk, two large cups brimming full. Stir a quarter of a tea- spoonful of soda into the milk, add two cups of flour in which two teaspoonfuls of baking powder have been mixed, add two eggs, lightly beaten, without sep- arating, half a teaspoonful of salt, the sour cream and another scant cup of flour. Beat the batter vigorously, and when it is full of blisters add a pint of unstoned cherries. Steam the pudding for three-quarters of an hour, and serve it with foaming sauce. Use a steamer It For tae Weexry Bausmixae or Cor- moved, pass a scouring cloth, wet with It preserves the color. Most people do A long- broom on msttings. To Borrex 4s Waren.reoor Croax— it before the fire, instead of efting it dry cold, when wet. It will again become quite soft and phable It is only hard, but this process keeps them in same prooess should be repeated, hold- When death was hourly expected from Consumption, all remediss having failed and Ur. H. James was experimenting, be accidental. ly made a preparation of Indian Hemp, which sured his only child, and now gives this recipe free on receipt of two slampm to PAY expenses, Hemp also cures night sweais, nausea at the stomach, and will break a fresh cold in twen. ty-four hours, Address Craddock & Co. 08 Race St. Philadelohia. Pa... naming this paper. Poet Tenpyson Las given his auto graph to only 600 people since he be- came famous, He has had atleast 100,- 000 applications, Thousands of people have found in Hood's Sarsaparilia a positive cure for rheumatism, This medicine, by its purifying action, nen tralizes the acidity of the Licod, which Is the cause of the disease, and also builds up and strengthens the whole body. Give it a trial, ns — Wheat bran fed to cows produces a good flow of milk, but does not make butter, J.8. PARKER, Fredonia, N, ¥., says: “Shall not call on you for the $100 reward, for I believe Hall's Catarrh Cure will cure any ease of eatarrh. Waa very bad.” Write him for par ticulars. Sold by Druggists, 75e. bt. Louis is the terminus of twenty- seven railroads, Fraser Axle Grease, The Frazer Axle Grease is better and cheaper than any other, at double the price. Ask your dealer for it, and take no other. Slippers are now made of fray un- dressed kid, which is bought from the glover and made up by the shoemaker, -— Siz Novels Pree, sent by Cagin & Co., Phila, a, t Pa,toanyonein U, 8, or C pos jaid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins's klectrical Nrappers, foe list of novelson circulars around fac . is soap for sale by all grocers. Montana 1s the only one of the new States without a dollar of indebtedness. Cann's Kidney Cure for Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, Bright's, Heart, Urinary or Liver Diseases, Norv ousness, &c. Cure guaranteed. 831 Arch Street, Philad’a. $1 a bottle, 6 for $5, or druggist. 1000 certificates of cures, Try it. Early hatched chickens bring the best prices, and bring in money at a time when you need It, Jaf icted with sore eyes use Dr, Insane son 'sEye-water. Druggists sell at 2, per A mileh cow should have all the feed she can digest and assimilate, Eupture cureguaranteed bh Dr, Th Mayer, 831 Arch St. Phila, Pa. Ease at once, no operation or de- lay from business, attested by thou. sands of cures after others fall, advices free, send for circular, A cow is very much like a barrel or a ONE E oYs Both Sho metiiod 8 and Jomlts when Byrup of Figsis taken; it is pleasant and a to the taste, Pe acts fond yet promptly on the Ki er and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Byrup of Figs is the only remedy of hl find ever duced, pleasing to the taste and ao b th , i ation nd ily Veh Bie effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com- mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Se of Figs is for sale in 500 and $1 bottles by all leading drug. gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- eure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute, CALIFORNIA Fie SYRUP CO. BAN FRANGIBOO, OAL, : \ SPWYILLE, £Y. SEW reas, a8 Ely's Cream Balm is worth $1000 10 any Man, Woman or Child BUFFERING FROM CATARRH. Apply Balm into each nos tril Ely BROS, 8 Warren St. N.Y. "THE BREAT ENGLISH REMEDY, BEECHAM'S PILLS For Bilious and Nervous Disorders. "Werth o Ouines 8 Box" but sold for 25 Cents, BY ALL DRUGGINTS, Piac's Bemety fur Catarrh a the Bost, Eaatost to Use, and Chespast, Soild by droggisis or sent by mall “he. ET. Haseltine, Warren, Pa Spool Holder ; W PATENT, Saves time and troutle, An in. i dispensable articles for § « very household, No iady should bs without it, Saanples can be seen Other Things Besides Soap. MARY W. EARLY, While soap is the most widely-used of all cleansing applications, there are others more potent and more pene- trating in their effects, —for instance, extract of lye, dissolved in hot water. This should be used with caution, how- ever, as the hand wonld be mueh hurt or perhaps even excoristed by coming in immediate contact with the lye. If you have a greasy kitchen-table, or a very greasy floor, nothing can so effect- ually cleanse them as a little coneen- trated lye, dissolved in hot water, and rubbed on with 8 mop, or floor-brush, Dissolved lye will also clean stained marbleslabs in the nicest manner, I have seen it successfully spplied to washstand, bureau, and sideboard slabs that had become badly discolored. When you are going to make a pot of soap, it is a good plan to take out a little of the Nh lye before you add the grease for the soap, or it would be well to keep a box of lye, broken up into lumps, expressly for scouring purposes, and dissolve some of these lumps whenever you wish to scour something unusually dirty or greasy. Dipped lye would also answer a good purpose for scouring, and would not so stinging to the bands as the concentrated. Any old- fashioned country housekeeper, or negro ‘‘mammy,” knows how to prepare dripped lye, oh is one of the most power- ful and valuable of all cleansing appli- cations, and it is susceptible of an as- tonishing variety of uses. In the first| place it is a very valuable adjunct to the toilet. A spoonful or two poured into the bath renders it much more re- freshing as well as more cleansing. It! is especially nice for washing the hair, serving to cleanse the scalp thoroughly of dust and dandruff. Nothing cleans hair brushes half so nicely as ammonia. Add a few dropsto a basin of water, wash your Sr in this water, and they will come out as clean as when | they first left the druggists glass case. | quart of hot water and soapsuds will | IMABLEr, and a valuable one for the smmonisted water after you have finished using it for pose, after it has gotten cool, Over your roses or geraniums and it will stimulate them into fresh beauty and vigor. Again, in cleansing woolen or removing stains, I find ammonia of great value. Altogether, there are few things more serviceable to a house. keeper. Keep two bottles of it on hand, one of a refined grade to use in sickness, —as for nansea, er kind for cleansing purposes. Balt is cleansing for some purposes for instance, it will remove the spots produced on silver spoons by eggs, and china from long or careless plece of raw potato. A piece of coarse sand-paper, is also ascent ing knives, Kerosene oil, among other valaable properties, possesses that of cleansing. at this oiics, ECTIVES Farewd wen ie sel saber N Jomn w. mon: ah a S37 nt war. 18 adjudionting sate. sity snot WANT A CANVASSER (or thts own ; and vicinity. Someth sure to lake. Write for full particulars to Es 8, D.ABRMBRUSTER, Pn i Woman's Ex- change, Iv 8. 15th Street. phi, " Kure relief KIDDER'S PASTILLER =. 5 Ast Maks. ——— Insect Superstition. Insect superstition 1s very anclent. The Koran says all flies shall perish save one—the bee fly. It is regarded as a death warning in Germany to hear a cricket's cry. The Tapuys Indians in South America say the devil as- sumes the form of afly. Rain is, in some parts of the country, expected to follow unusually lond chirping of crickets. Flies are regarded as furnish. ing proguostications of the weather, and even of other eventa Spaniards in the sixteenth century believed that spiders indicated gold whea they were found in abundance. Although a sacred insect among the Egyptians, the beetle recel ut little notice in tolk-Jore, It 1s unlucky in England to kill ope. In Germany it is said to indicate good luck to have a spider spin his web Sownward $e Jou, but bad luck when he rises to you, grasshopper is a sufficiently unwelcome visitant of himself In this country, but in Germany his presence Is further said to announce strange guesta,. A Welsh tradition says, bees came from Paradise, leaving the garden when man fell, but with God's blessing. so that wax is in the celebration of mass, The an- cients generally maintained that there was a close connection between bees and the soul. Porphyry speaks of ‘those sonls which the ancients call bees.’ It is said that upon the backs of the seven-year locusts there sometimes ap- r marks like a letter of the al tb hen this looks like a W it is ht that war is imminent, German tribes regard stag beetles as diabolic, and all beetles are detested In Ireland, Lion cA —Half-cup of butter, half-cup of sugar, three n separately, one cup of sweet m cups of flour, three ing po Yellow fans in satin, silk, per or feather are a novelty. 0 {If you have a smeary table, I know | of nothing that will clean it so nicely as kerosene, and you may afterwards | seed oil and spirits of turpentine, mix- ed in equal proportions. Nothing kerosene oil : a woman ought to take her machine to pieces, or get her husband to do so ing with machine oil. at ————— A Real Panacea, ane able to purily the blood by removing con estion of the liver, Kidneys, bowels, skin and ungs so that nature may resume healthy action, There is no mystery or secret about it and the old fathers who were skilled In the medical riies of herbs knew more about natures methods than we do now when they com jounded the great universal blood purifier, nown a8 the 58 Bernard Vegetable Pill. The com ent 8 of which have been recognized by ail schools of medicine from Galen down, A sample of the St. Bernard Vegetable Pills will be sent free to all applicants ™ Address, St. Bernard, Box M16, New York. but it must be carefully fed or it will injure the flavor of the butter. clean house without it is THAT Health and Strength Boon replace weakness and languor, if that re- Hable medicine, Hood's Sarsgpariila, is fairly and faithfully tried. Tt is the best medicine to keep the blood pure and to expel the germs of scrofula, salt rheum, and other poisons which cause 80 much suffering, and sooner or later uti dermine the general health peculiar enrative power, Plood's Barsaparilia strengthens the system while it eradicates disease “I think Hood's Barsapariila is just the medi. cine for women or anyone who has bad blood.” Jexsie E. Smit, East Broad Top, Pa y Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by dil druggists. $l:six for 8. Prepared only by C. 1. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass 100 Doses One Dollar iY its m— osy ervinin and a re Dr. "HENS, Lebanon, HA BTR OPIUM 00 LENDYOUREAR TO WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY. MORK ITZZS BEST LOW-PRICED German and English Dictionary, FUBLISHED, AT THE REMARKABLY LOW PRICE OF Only $1.00, Postpaid, 650 Pages, Or only $1.50, Postoaid, 1224 Pages. 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