KEEPING CELLARS SWEET. About the time vegetables and fruit for winter use are being stored in cel. lars, the prudent housewife removes milk, cream, and butter upstairs. She usually says it 18 because it is not now go hot above ground as to do injury, and they make better butter and butter that will keep better than that from the cel- lar. It 18 really bles and fruit are put into cellars they begin at once to give off because when vegeta. odors that are injurious to milk, cream and butter, in- jurious ere long to the health of the family living above.—~Ametican Cualti. vator, COMMON SENSE PLANTING. Le farmer who plants a few apple or pear trees, or a ten or a dozen vines, will probably not have much fruit | to sell, but when y ing he will have the best food for his family that the largest capitalist in the world for and Hie profit may not come in the selling, but sureiy come in the added pleasure to his family and their better health. The more good fruit we the better our the higher tha Lie L y come 1 ongs have lth, be our enjoyment, the Jess and necessity his medicine. an ample supply an i man's Rural World. as well on fully eel i and best is dug tubers, 18 well mas tatoes to f sec p twentr-four' hours in 8 mixture ¢ of saitpetre and sulphate i nds of eacta salt to tv of After this waler. soaxKing to drain, and Dours wmbers’s Jour. : 11 “ QO SWell, --uil have aal. tune v is pure Jersey it mont t her pedigree is rec If it is not, g vidend d be re- quired to her pure blood, as 80 much more than ove cot recorded that it cannot b i the breeder would ded woul . re corded animal is worth Suppose neglect to But valuable point give his yourg animals a record. if the cow has the of these cows, which is rich high cclored the only desirable to the bre eder maker may be satisfled if he gots th product,—New Yerk Times, mont t mai and pedigree is the butter butter, FARM Ny Much tir t on many farms fron a failure to provide in the best for the ready passage of teams mals {rom one | other, at large considerable ENIENCRS, 8 los mann n art of the farm an Whether stock is allowed to ru mn the public highways or not a of fore quired on every farm in the proper divis jon of fields age. Access to each made enay, ard Maocunt ng In re for cultivaticn and pastu field ought to | often there should be en trances at more then one point. At» points there should be ean b quit kly opened an 1 closed, jostead of bars that must be removed one at a time, thus « men and toams. Then, again, for want of a gate it i» often necessary to make a gap in a feace in order to get into a field at a cor tain point, when another delay is « and the fence iteolf is injured every it is taken down. It cots but more to make a rough gate on a fara than to make the samo length of fence, and the gate iteell becomes a part of tho fence, which is a good reason for making gates wherever they tre likely to iw wanted, Large losses iu time are in many instances also oceasioned by the want of proper facilities for readily wa tering stock, In such cases it scemt 10 me it should oceur to every farmer that a prosont expenditure sufficient to pro vide them would be a profitable outlay fo the end, New York World. ates tha wsing delay to beth LUA, Linge A DOZEN SOXT'S, Don't try to grow choice roses in the bouse if you have naver made any study of the habits and wanls of the roses Don't begin with roses if you hav never bad sony oxpericcec growing plants in the house, Don't try to get along without a good thermometer in the room in which your plants are, and don’t forget to take the trouble to look at it once in a while, grape- | into bear. | sh LH I Sa—" | attention to the temperature of the rooms lin which they are kept. Don't torget that the midwinter sun | coming through glass is too hot for some | kinds of plants, and that they should | be kept out of if in the middle of the | | day. | Don't give all your plants the same amount of water. Find out through in- quiry and observation the needs of the plants in this respect. Don't buy plants you never heard of simply the advertised | pictures of them are so pretty. Novel- tics are often the destruction of all the enthusiasm of young flower growers. Don’t try to force your plants too much. Nature works in her own way, and forcing plants often kills them. Don't expect your flowers to bloom in a week or two, nor yet in a month after you have potted them. It takes some plants several months to adjust them. selves to the conditions of life in a flower before because cannot surpass, | can do de a hundred nditions that At put a year oid geranium into a ¢ 1y or four inca ¢ ha for the on't talk pot 18 Arye geranium luck” if Ten t« “had not doing weil. about your n. 0 asparagus early spring, We pre- | an be ad wre is usually beds and for all kind, pressin 4 zh n wd stable ma it to 1980 I ten faches | for sspara- hich is usu. the ground, Ww below as pra } this vere is 19 raise r LWO years « ] opeaed with « them n with rake moderate n HHberal quantity yald often prac not descend to it in fer No manure sh be 16 pants, as will placing it. All applied to the surface y loft to be carried down in with the light soil is for asparagus, or merely worked cultivator A ¢ to a heavy one grow almost anywhere except » in very wet land. New York Sua. ) GARDEN Watch out | cK ness A sickly fowl iv no y aitry yar Do not fowls in as NOTES, in the fl x. profit in the » morning mash to the py © wd ition, It 11 not Rily 8p broilers. ing Dampness is the cause of many of the diseases in the poultry yard, If the hens in moulting thom as {ree a range as possible, Young fowl need meal to velop pood blood, flesh and feathers, When laying regularly | lime shou'd be left before them all the i i are lute give de. bone the bens are time, Oeleet your turkey hens for breeding by their style, development and move. ment, ick food for mileh cows makes a rich manure heap, and tha: makes rich land, which ought to make a rich farmer. A scrub may yield a profit, but a pure | bred animal would have yielded a larger profil, under the same circumstances, Make wheat the priocipal food now and corn a little Inter. Wheat is the best gealn for ogys, aod corn to main tain animal beat, Very often good butter Is spoiled by | the quality of the salt which is worked {ia it. It is better to pay a few cents more i for good salt and use that, There are a good many animals in the dairy which are excellent milkers, but | they Jo nol possoss the power of trans. | mitting this quality te their offsprings, One of the grostest mistakes made by dairymen is the neglect of winter dairy« ing. It is hard to maintain an oven tem. perature fn the dairy during the warm summer months, but in the winter time Oue cannot succeed without paviog some | this van be easily done by Leak Loo ¢ arly to start incubators | : : THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. A Woman in the Case, Always Natural Doubt—Vor Women Will Talk-—It Will Rattle, Ete, Eto, They talk about a woman's sphere, As though ic had a limit, There's not a place in earth or heaven, y# not A task to mankind given There's not a blessing or a w “lig ’ Ther A whisper, yes or no, There's not a lle, or death or birth, That has a feather's weight of worto, Without a woman in it Kate Field's Washington. HIS CURRICULUM. She-'‘lias your college work yet, Mr. Sophly?” He-~**No, not yet. wet and sl ppery.” begun The ground’s too Puck. RATTLE. Dacks—*‘Did you Lear that Brownejy put a bullet in his head?” Bracks——*‘Yes, pcor fellov It be noisy and tre waltzes, alter this.” PROVO Outraged your abuse of planation!” Candid I read it. almly)—— -Truth. Critic (¢ " dod 5. NATURAL DOUBT. ‘Hallo, Vanderloin, son ng in DURISG A LIVELY First Speaker—**I thin} knows more about things thse than any man I ever heard 1) Opponent I think the speaks are 80 than A DISMAL BYENING. Hilow (U returned earlier all sroke uj . £7 od youl” —'*No, but "ae Detr insisted sit Free Pross. Glim she on sing- r LO me. Justice Guffy—** tion, prisoner WOMEN ti . Kir vimming lessons. What part think will be hardest for learn, Husband —** dear? * \ © . 1 mouth should keeping your shut," Chi loter-Ocesn. RORRIBLE CRUELTY. Miss Prim—*"Mr. McLane, I came here to inform you that the 8. P. C. A is preparing to sue your company.” McLane (R. R. President)—**Indeed ! And may I ask why!" Miss Pnm-—''For running many frogs with your trains.” —Truth, over =O SLY DOG, Spatts—'*How on earth did Hilow get to be such a favorite with Mm, Smal He doesn't pay his board in adwvaace, does het” Bkidds behind, “+t Xo but he frequently second helping of prunes, "Truth. He's always two weeks asks for a A MILD REPFROOF. Slangleigh-~**That is out of sight.” Precise—*‘Craze?’ Slanglaghee Of did you think sof” Precise—** ‘Out of sight, mind,’ you know." — Detroit Free Pros. girl course not. Why out of WOULDX'T WASTE Tato struck head against some marble without hurtipg himself much, however, “You did not ery! brave boy!" mid his mother, No," said Tato; ‘‘there wasn't any one there to hear me!" Boston Courler. Ir. his FRATERNAL The Loys have been making a great deal of noise, aod at last their father appears with a strap, and seizing Tommy begins to thrash him, “Don't wear yoursell out, father” says Tommy. ‘Remember that Billy and Johnny have to get some, 100," Texas Biftings. SOLICITUDR. CHANGES OF FASHION. “Yeu,” smd Mrs. Rubens to ber friend, “I don't like to interlers when Angelo | changes thiugs around in the house to make the effect artistic, but this last step is too much for any woman to bear, even if ber husband is an artist,” "What has be done!” “Why he has cut favorite eal's whiskers Van Dyke," Express, SOUEME TO DRAW A CROWD, “Yes, I'm io the lecture business,” said the long-haired passenger, “and I'm making money, I've got a scheme, I have, and it works to a charm. Big houses wherever 1 go,” “A scheme?” “Yes. I always advertise lectures are especially for thirty years of You just people come trooping in. that my women under ' age and mea out of debt, the way " ought to see the IT WOULD NEVER Miss Elder—*'Well, I maintain women can do anything that men can,’ Mr. Gazzam—*‘‘Oh, no. The aue- tioncer’s business is one woman cannot go into.” Miss Elder—‘‘Nonsense, She'd make avery bit as good an auctioner as a man.” Mr. Gazzam-——‘‘Just imagine an un- married woman getting up before a « rowd i and exclaiming: ‘Now, gentleman, all eT DO. that ’ want is an offer — Yankee Blade. A HUSTLER, Old Stuttering Gent (entering MAN e)—**1 wu wa-would lke Young Den | visitor, shoves him and § [ P| tist—¢*Quite right! (Seizes int chair Ah, I to th.) ) Ops rating tabs forceps. )—'* Which is Out (Pulls y a ' BOE Comes please!” Gentle found you, want a tut { One dollar, Old man-—-**Bat « sir, I dud-dud—I Atut-tooth pulle n" “Well, what did hosts, our fmmous stockwoman Middy Morgs 1, W that lit an wonder fant it WNL an opinion pin 1, gentlemen,” the oracle ¢ solemnly, “I'll bet £500 and throw in my boot that that there steer was New York Herald. ————————————— i — Bins Glass Hozs, experiment made with differ. { light rays will he soothing different remain | 0 t that blue Tect upon the male, If a where nothing but blue mys are admitted can feel this soothing effect in a short timo, he Ireamy. If you have a little wiry, nervous pig who has resisted all your efforts to fat. ten h out of ten his ner- vousnoss causes the expenditure of IAys exercise a of will nerves an person he very If he be merry and nervous will shortly be melancholy aud m, in nine cases 80 { much of the energy which he gots from the feed that to fatten him will be costly and unprofitable Now, that will bavé the required soothing ef- feet upon his nerves and thus check the something, wasteful expenditure of nervous energy will contribute as much toward making s large fat hog of him as several bushels | of « ra would, If you have hogs of this kind it wil | be profitable for you to try this experi. ment, which has been tried and found to be successful, Build your hog pen so that no light can gain admittance except that which passes through blue grass. Keep your hogs In such a pen, feed them in the usual mauner and they will fatten fa. mously. Do not expect them to fatten on | blue light alone, but be reasonable in | your expectations and careful with your | experiments and you will receive ample { pay for your trouble and expense. A { pen of this kind will not be found ex. | pensive, and it may be used with profit lin fattening all your hogs. Try it. | This is not idle theory, but an actually tested successful experiment, —St. Louis Republic, EE —— cam Artificial India Rubber. Dr. W. A. Tilden discovered some months ago that isoprene, which oan be prepared from turpentine, under certain circumstances changes into what to be genuine (odis rabber. Bouc had also found that the same chan HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, INTERIOR DECORATIONS, There is a growing severity of simpli. city in interior decoration that is very welcome, for until recently most parior have looked like curibsity shops, aud the ornaments, if one may ro misapply the term, have been really fit for the rubbish heap. It 1s a good id to dispense with all | furnishings until they « for housekeepers most necessary an give beauty, comfort and quality first consideration, and this remark is equally true when it is applied to articles intended solely for decoration. Pictures ornament a house m , books and palous we than anything else, but photographs ana family por traits should be relegated to the living for whatever may be or might have been the beauty of the minds and characters of our kinsfolk and friends, their physiognomies aro frequently such terror to the heart of the ~ Brooklyn Citizen. rooms, strike HOW TO CLEAR BRAS Brass, to be should be cleaned at least once while 1t is the custom in households with well-trained andirors, furniture day. relieved of a whi order, a week, proper have brass other domestic "5 {10 3 i fenders and fire-place rubbing mu every In cies 3 ! sit 1 t first De h the metal is sul with acids, ex CALS 5. spirits of will ¢ on brass, metal in some to absorb | moving of imposmbility. no more cer application { and oil. In A Cx old-fashi bosst that not or broken, cracked seven years. The maiden the chins the {amily, of dishwashing is cot All the edib pretly, creamy ci gilt band I» scrap of and Oh are wouid b place mops, [4 dishes and pouring they are worn Coss Invesls of poetry.—St. Lo lishwashing sort RECIPES Ginger Snaps~—Une cup un cup sugar, six four tablespoons cold water, one table- tab espoons spoon ginger, one ta lespoon cinnamon, one tablespoon soda; flour to Roll thin, cut small and even. bake in ho Lemon and Vanilla Wafers—One tea- cup of granulate 1 sugar, butter, one-half rubbed gether; one CAR sour cream, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon of extract of wanilla or roll thin, small, two t ablesp One lemon ; Apple Porcupine-—Pare and core » dozen apples, cavities with sugar and spice. Cover and bake. Ar range them in a dish for serving. Pat quince jel them, ( a meringue the whites of eggs and hall a cuplul of sugar, blanched almonds in the meringue. filling the ly among made > Stick Lemon Custard Pudding--Osne cup and a hall of milk, yolks of three eggs, the juice and grated rind of oue lemon, half a cup of sugar; add the lemon last. Bake in a pudding dish, Beat the whites of the theeo eggs, and add three spoons of sugar and spread over the top when baked; return to the oven and let it slightly browa. Panned Chickens—8plit tender chick. | ens as for broiling, and skewer through the wings to keep in shape] put them in a dripping pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, put in a fow tablespoonfuls of broiling water and a quarter of a pound of butter. Cover closely and bake. Baste occasionally, and turn the chick ens. Orange Jelly Allow nine oranges and three lemons, cut in balves and with a lemon squeezer extract the juice. Put four ounces of gelatine to soak in one pint of water, Add one pound of sugar to three pints of water, cook together and skim; add the gelatine when dis wived and the orange and lemon juice; boat the whites of three eggs sad stir in. Skim and boll ten minutes ly; thea test with a skimmer; when th wdagh strain through cheese cloth sad put ja jolly tumblers, | mix hard. } cup | beaten out | wer with | | four | SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LE SON VOR NOVEMEER 2%. ie tothe Gentiles Lesson Text: * Apostles Turning 14-52; Vote nLary Sots xii xiv 1 xin T=1301den Text 17 Comm 44 most “And the the w word of God The apo spoken LW many in private through the week, and those who had beard the preceding Sab. bath had not been quiet about the wondrous resurrection story, and the consequent great redemption »o fuliy and freely proclaimed. It became the talk of thet ari fem. mense congregation assem! the wisdom nor the oratory o but to hear the word of God 45. Buch manifest working Bpirit could not but pr to envy and | 88: vil, 54 of a the they are all wonderfully Christ, or that the prea Tim, il, 12 40 “To the Jow 1 ale ir She Joubt, 4 { ne aN aa, no lasphiemy If none of the nn ty 1 Bre slirre preac git} in Col, iy Li first” acted apon in all aposto i. 10). then the power of great ; life which provide 1 infinite cost, but if Judges himself unworthy of life, | to judging fhi.. 36; Rom 47. Paul 11x name of the Lord of Isra to Grenti iasting death ry aivi ¢ death and vy hoar, that nay be gathered, be made up earia ev, #56 ROBOrAbIG Women thought that by this eva just selves azalost God the seventy were ' Jesus said. “He th claring the Christ Whe His ont jos inett i%th Me, and he 1 th Him that ws it this rough wind woul scntioring yet wrath a. wrely tt ‘ xx But they shook off t ust them, and came chapler xvii setions in Mark wi, 11, J ir privilege to procisim the gis h make known the love to offer to il in His name sternal life, eternal redemp- and while expecting that some will re- i" ui Aly Jesve results to Gs | feet aga Compare a of God Cd 4 slled upon 1 pony and His truth sh for He has taugh and esp for Joy, ath «Ww, 13 1 Having passed ‘ as usnal first amo that a great mui yd Gentiles believed, t found in the last filled with the Holy Spint poh promises as be us in these days stirred and HONngE some uld give us great SDCOUrAge- wd preached prov wes the adversary on the other hand, if the wWaRlers are have reason to fear that there is no healing power pres at. here a Jong time, the Lord LE ting them power wding to Mark Une has said that . wield ourselves fully © God He oid Himself fully 0 ws, and thas id cause us to inquire very carefully as woether we are yet withholding aught Him and thus osing the enjoyment of ness vided city, some believed and some Jd not (chapter xxviii, #4), Abel bee leved and Cain believed not (Heb, xi, 41 John Hi, $0 it has been and will be till the kingdom come and God's will is done on earth as in heaven Jesus taught followers to expect suffering and even death for His sake Math, x. 98; John xvi, T And by His spirit He taught them to take pleasure even in these things, Neaschapters v., 41; xx, #4; II Cor inthians xii, 13 6. Being made aware of the coming storm they fad to other cities, not because they feared death, but because Jesus had taught them “When they persecute you in this city, flee vo into another” (Math, x All law. fal yneans to preserve life are not Inoonsis. tent with readiness lay down our life when He calls us to it. Many times they sought to take His life, but omid not wll His bour came and then He gave it up 7. “And there they proached the Ghompel They also lived the Gospel, for Paul could say to the Thessalonians, and doubtiess to all others, “Ye are witness, and Gol also, how holily and justly and uobismably we behaved ourselves among you that believe” i Thess. ii. 100. Like Jesus, they first did and then taught (Acts i, 1; Mark vi, 35, If the church would give herssit to living and preaching the Gospel, instead of amusing and entertaining the people, bow the Great Head of the Church wonld delight to show Himself strong on ber behalf (I Chron, xvi, # and so basten her comple- tion, = Lesson Helper A TELEGRAPH operator recently rilded down Pike's Peak on the cog track, using a ride but active tobog- gan, whieh he steadied with his feel. He made the distance of nine miles and descent of 8,000 feet in 114 min. utes. When his breath had caught up with him he used some of it to re- mark in effect that the scenery en route had not Impressed him much, but a knowledge of how big a fool he wns had been burnt into his very sole. Trose who have kept a careful oye on Nancy Hanks have about cons cluded that the mare will nover be entirely happy until she has kept up her two-minute gait for four consecs utive quarters. be thease anemy is t the devil is the while, t disturbed we ment when 1 hey abode sing His Word a rps and wonders “yg ’ and Heb, 0, 4 haje His 23 184] "
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