THE MELTING TEST FOR BUTTER. This test, E. Reich, is only | preliminary, and no claim is made that it is invariably conclusive, Pure, | fresh butter when melted is perfectly clear or only slightly cloudy, usually dark yellow, and has the familiar odor | of pure butter-fat. Pure stale butter | may be very cloudy and even opaque | when melted, is usually of a dark yel- | low color, and has the odor of rancid | butter. Melted the other 1, is very opaque, of a light yellow color, and has a characteristic indescribable odor. — Literary Digest. iC Snys on margarine, “DOUGLAS'S MIXTURE." The solution known as ‘“‘Douglas’s Mixture,” and so much in favor among English poultrymen as a tonic, is made by putting eight ounces of sul- | . “4 " | and cite many instances of his keep- phate of iron (also known as green vitriol and copperas) into a jug with two gallons of water and adding one ounce of sulphuric acid. This is to be put into the drinking water of fowls in the proportion of a teaspoon- ful to each pint. This mixture should be made and kept in a stone jug or glass bottle, and never in a metal ves sel. Bo soon as any disease breaks out poultry this should be given to the to resist it, together with more nu tritions and easily digestible food.— New York Sun. among PREVENT TREE have trees ne or two season in mind the impor that they the most aviest two which w who ox n the figure 8, so t} will otruank ¢ «THUNK Al is leaning over, showing irection of the prevail ing nds If orchard per straight wil you want to have your start. — Rural Life, HINTS FOR YOUR GARDEN, from the White clover and bluegrass make | | as readily as the grape. the best mixture for a lawn. Buy plants of hardy perennials Most of them are difficult to grow from seed. Prune y will be Bap. Make a den. Don’t pr skelter, tet a practic try roses; grow them in. Hollyh biennials, h OUr sever« The bridal wreath is a pretty shrub, whether in flower or leaf. Don't prune it and the slender branches will droop grace fully with the weight of their white foliage . Double petunias are beautiful flow- ers and delightfully fragrant. Juy a fow plants, as the seed is expensive and uncertain about growing. Single petunias, which very pretty, grow from seed weed, —New Yi rk Advertiser. w and the by the running for your in everything helter- HT a f i yon to . . " Cre al florist s advice 1 is a hard climate this ks do best when treated as y are less able to stand liraate after flowering. also are 11k a MAE BA CABBAGE, The several is a well root o’ plants of elub eabbage and the the cabbage family known and dreaded disease among Eastern farmers and gardeners. But, while more prevalent in the East- ern portion of the country, it is also known in the West and South, causing often heavy losses. A from the New Jersey Experiment Station gi in detail the results of experiments and investigations made on the station grounds and elsewhere, with a to nesisting farmers in fighting the club root. Ninny of the facts contained in this bulletin are of general interest to the cultivators of cabbage, turnips, kale, ete, Briefly stated, the malady is due to a8 microscopic parasite which infests the cells of the roots, eausing them to become swollen and distorted. The spores of the fungus, upon the decay of the part affected, tered through the soil, thence the enemy enters the host plant. The club root infests several plants of the cabbage family, includ- ing turnip, kale, radish, stock and candytuft,. Two common weeds issued Agricultural bulletin ves view become scat- and from list of piants infested with club root. Preventive measures must be relied upon, for the affected parts of a plant are below ground and not readily reached by any fangicide. crop is divensed all refuse at harvest time of roots, stems and leaves should be burned. All seedings from hot beds with signs of club root should de- stroyed, and, if possible, use only plants from beds in which there is no disease, Cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, turnips or radishes should not follow each other on the same land if club root is prevalent. Lime added to the land, seventy-five bushels per pcre, has proved effective. It is | He the | | farmer with | of healthy, to enable them | | and besi | better, wonnd | If the | possible that some commercial fertilizers may be found to check the trouble, Keep the land free from shepherd's purse and hedge mustard and other weeds of the same family, as their roots become *“‘elubbed” and thereby propagate the enemy.--New England Farmer. HOG FEEDING, nll there is to know feeding. Professor Roberts used to feed 600 head per 1 got to be a close observer. that pure food and cleanli- sential to the best success, e knows No on in pig SOY ~ year, an SAYS DOAK Are os | and that in feeding hogs the man who will succeed with them, of the general opinion to feeds them In spite the contrary, some maintain that the hog has a preference for being olean, or mg one side of his pen clean if at all encouraged or started with it clean, Here is one man’s idea in regard to a clean pen and pure food: Every 100 acres ought to feed from twenty to 100 hogs, The com- mon way of constructing the floors the pens insuitable, If they slope backward from the trough they will be kept wet, That means sickly hogs that do not thrive well, I pre- for to make the floors slant toward the trough. Twice the profit can be made when the animals lie dry all the while, les that their health is much Then the feeding trough its holding capacity in ud not in depth. It pays to with good, feed, difference between They ake the It does not do have it put h : eto, 18 honld clean will ¢ case, to barrel whi to be Ww 3 ) food sh me pound for every four and a f pounds of grain used; a man can whether it is paying to keep them to other sources of men feeds his hogs too ore than he can make Western Agriculturist, u gain at ’ hal tell his labor out of them. nanent keep your trees up | FARM AND GARDEN NOTES, Be kind to the colts and you wil have gentle horses, There is no fruit that can be grown | oan vessel, Big horns and a fleshy ndder are re- { garded as bad points in a milch cow, | A sick cow should be put by herself at once and covered with a warm blan- ket. Standard-bred trottersthat can’t trot are poor property for sny breeder to stock up with. Care and feed are just as important factors as pedigree in raising trotting stock at a profit. It is a pretty well established faet that a profitable butter itable cheese cow, cow is a prof. poultry d 14% keeper who does not bath A necossity, farnish =» deprives his chickens of The financial success of breeding the trotter depends upon the financial prosperity of trotting sport. Much of the failure of seeds to ger minste in the spring 1s due to the fact that they are planted too deep. When hens or hogs get weak in the legs it is often a sign that they have been fed two much corn and cornmeal, A farmer wants to know how much alsike to sow to the acre. Ten pounds of seed would be a great sufficiency on good land. If the hen house is overcrowded there will be trouble. Disease will almost surely appear and the hens will not lay. Tie up the horses’ tails whenever it is muddy, but don’t leave them tied up over night. It injures their appear. sauce to say the least, There is not very much difference in the cost of feeding a cow that makes 150 pounds of butter in one year and | | ome making double as much. Study the horse's foot proper methods of shoeing. and your blacksmith knows his business. four feet, and gooseberries the same, and be kept trimmed and cultivated. { Cut out old wood when it becomes nun- thrifty. The sugar beet is valuable asa food | for fowls. Served raw through the ] | sutamer it answers to the purpose of | green food when other vegetables are . | scarce, namely, shepherd's pursp and hedge | mustard-—are now to be added to the | kerosene, comes cheaper, and if often : , © : ir, ) Crade petrolenm is better than applied to your hen roosts and hen { houses will soon destroy all rats, : mites, ete, Turkeys will come home to roost if | fod regularly in the evening. Grain | may be fod entiraly, but if mixed with { bread crumbs and scraps from the table the birds will like it much bet- fer. * An average yield of black raspber- ries is about seventy-five to eighty bushels, red raspberries seventy, blackberries 100 bushels per sere, ac. cording to the estimates of Professor Baily, of the Cornell Experiment Sta. tion. | weather beam, sir.’ the | It will | then be possible for you to know if | CHASE OF THESLAVER CORA THE LAST SLAVE-SHIP CAPTURED BY THE UNITED STATES. She Fell Prize to the Steamer Con- stellation, and Was Taken In Charge by a Mere Lad, NE of those true romances of the sea that put to blush the best efforts of a Captain Mar- | ryat, on Fenimore Cooper or a | | Clark Russell, was the chase and cap- ture of the American slave-ship Cora, by the United Btates steamer Constel- lation. The Cora was a staunch bark, freighted with no less than 720 slaves, and she was commanded by a bold, resolute and resourceful man, At the time of the capture the captain gave his name as Campbell, avd that he was an English subject, and merely a passenger on the bark. By masonic friendship he managed to es cape from the Constellation at St. Paul de Loando, and in after years he | met the young naval officer who waa «detailed to command the prize. he was the painted and spangled per- former in a circus, the celebrated clown, William B. Donaldson, and he confessed that this was his real name. Says his captor: “He had been sailor, lounger, and psendo-gentleman of leisure on Broadway, negro minstrel, perl 14t but heart, utr clown, slave-captain I had better be closed ; faithful, generous IRS he He was a brave man, even though a statutory | pirate.” The Cora the last captured by the United States, and the young officer who play i RO prom- inent a part in the affair was Lieuten- ant Wilburn Hall, As tenant Hall, who was in the Cora, landed his prize York, he cast his fortunes Conf ie racy. After ! he Civil War he became American officers on the Khedive of Egypt. Wis ROOT AR Lie n- with 16 one staff Fach natio eapture the n upon proof whic officer of he violation of the laws, 1 point of this casionally used by British men-of still they seldom exercised and it yorchant ve h satisfied the naval n right Was OC War, $11 fact, while it against American vesscls, became al- most the rule that war should perform the duty, fact came about because the trade was largely carried on by Ameri And strange as It , seem, by way of parenthesis, ths American vessels were invariably fitted out and despatched from ports, only one in many years diately preceding the war, Southern ownership —tl Wanderer, which const of Geo American men-of- This imme- having ner the slaves he sch landed slaves on but these ria; were at once States — ARenS, he intervals in Madeira, or the Canaries; the long on Saud 14RD GF v f one ol Rive ry NOATr , in August, 1860, the ealm gave way to refreshing breeze, and Constellation, with all squaresail to a he royals, had just shaped her course St. Paul de Loando. It PI, Aas floor beautiful moon for about th as lit was ab he sea was HIN OM ] and a Tho erew and officers were all on deck enjoying the refreshing change. Songs were heard forward, messenger boys | were skylarking in the gangways, offi cers were pacing the lee quarter-deck. Suddenly from the foretopsail yard rang out the ery, ‘Sail ho!’ “Instantly laughter ceased, songs | ended, men jumped to their feet —all wns now expectancy. came sharply through the speaking: trumpet from the officer of the deck ‘About ome point for'ard of the Every eye caught the direction indicated. Sure enough, bright and glistening in the reflected moonlight the sails of the stranger were seen, hull down, with the upper parts of the courses in view, - » » “The slaver was well on onr star- board bow. Mr. Fairfax called me to | H | go with him on the gun-deck, where Currants should have a space of | J we ran two heavy 32's ont to our | bridle-ports ready for a chase dead ahead, which soon occurred. I was directed to carry away the upper spars and rigging, and under no ecireum- stances to hit the vessel's bull! ‘Aim { high and make your mark,’ he con- tinned. Ttouched my eap and smiled ; it was so like the admonition of an ambitions mother to her son. Woon one gun was sending round-shot whirling through the rigging. Suddenly our attention was attracted by dark objects on the water ahead of us. The slaver was lightening ship by throwing overboard casks, spars, and even spare masts, The sea ap- peared as if filled with wreckagd in a long line. All at once boats were seen. ‘They are filled with negroes,’ I heard some one ery on deck. Stoady on your course,’ I hoard the flag offi- cer shout on the forecastlo just above my head. Bure enough they were boats, and as we sped they seemed to be coming swiftly to us. My heart beat with quick emotion as I thought I saw them crowded with human claimed i Then | had a} > | slave-ship slave | me] Northern | gathered in by the United | the | waters with a splendor rarely seen, | ‘Where away? | they were crowded with people, but wo swept by, passing them eapidly. The slaver hoped we would stop to pick up his boats, and thus gain more time, but his ruse made us even more eager, Now, our guus redoubled, wo knew the end must come soon, but there seemed no way to stop the chase without sinking her, and humanity forbade a shot in her hull, Her cap- tain realized the situation, but even then his courage was wonderful “On we went, Suddenly, I saw her ing to windward her studding sails came fluttering down, her skysails and royals were clewed up, her foresail also, and as she wind and backed her maintopsail, the Constellation had barely time to get in her eanvas, and round to under her maintopsail, BOAT CH ly two hundred yards to windward. ‘Away there, first cutters, away I" ealled the mates, as their shrill whistle “I had barely time to get on | after the guns had been fore I saw the first | gallant first-lientenant boatswain's leck, bee cutter, with our hi Lh Mf like an ar- scoured, as the boarding officer, | row to the vessel, her scattering sparkling diamonds of phosphorescent water as they rose and fell. Every of- ficer and man was leaning over our low hammock-rails, breathlessly and watching. We round up to the gangway. ‘In bows ; WAY enough i onld hear Fairfax HAY distinetly, thongh his orders wers low. Then came the rattling of the oars as they were tossed, and the grat- ing af the cutter alongside, “Fairfax's active figure ¢ quickly mounting the mde, and then | he disapps ared as he 1 over the | gWay into the waist, F tillnea DOARr Ind pee ling ORTH wialting saw the cutter we oe uld be seen pL | gan threo minutes the ful. One conld in their excited hail, in hear ito Wis pain- n bre anthing least there prize, how : by her capisin, but by the ve to the vesse . in terrorofo . by order “It wa on board the crew, _ or, 1 of the flag office | nine men all told, one being a negro servant, ““The deck was cles of all kinds, been cast overboard ship. The crew con ealled to me. throats Spans | arti to have lighten the be secon as covered with which wer to were a aet o | yo ke nos a The . 1 REAT:Y | or ne Kiave- 1 terror a beards looking, sc ing native slaves | deck were iting and alo n id the WORDS, a WISE Capid is not a calenlat 1 No man can buy the ale rt to gx is too sh § Love i8 a sp mntans combestion The world is the tramp's treadmill poor. Economy was not b in the house. The hings. the milly fools Many absurdities an AX10InS8, ephbed as A gennine holi lay must be hone stly earned, The king can do no everybody knowing it wroug without | Pessimism is an es | stomach or of inherited taint, | idence of a sour All things come to the way of hin who does not expect too much. A house that is divided against itself | cannot stand outside interference. He who has schooled himself to si- lence has set his world wondering. It ean never be that everybody else {is wrong and you alone sare right, | oN . | Much harm is done by people who | think they are doing what is right. { A man who really loves horses and | dogs loves women and children next. | It is pitiable to see a poor man “ganged” wrong for a small income. The man who is sometimes too busy to hear the whistle blow is seldom ont of work. People talk little ills into great ones, but seldom talk little goods into great ones, It is hard lines to win a woman with bonbons for a year and feed her on bread and butter for a lifetime. ——— a — A Rhyme for «Massachusetts,” Referring to a statement in the Bos ton Globe that there is no rhyme for Massachusetts, and the attempt of a Massachusetts man to show that there is, a correspondent of the New York Tribune rite a rhyme which he thinks wholly beyond eriticism, It is as follows: A man named Heath Has, of false teoth, formas Men on deck shouted that | course begin to change; sho was com- | rounded up to the | ir two or | who | slaver with a prize crew, consisting of | | sagar, salt, soda and | Bleve, HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, TO MEND Table linen is best mended with em- broidery cotton of a number to corre- spond with the quality of the cloth. Under the ragged edges of the tear baste a piece of stiff paper, and make a network of fine stitches about an inch beyond thetear, Thin places and breaks in linen may be run with flax TABLE LINEN. | or embroidery floss, and towels should I be mended in the — Now York Journal, same way. TO DEFY THE MOTH, If you wish to defy that unpleasant little animal, the moth, away your furs and woolen garments, hero are a few suggestions to follow: First, beat out all the dnst from the garment and let it hang in the open air and sunshine for a day. After this, shake very hard, fold neatly and sew y in muslin or linen cloths, putting a small lump of gum-eamphor in the centre of ea bundle, Wrap newspapers about all. In addition to 4) packing barrel but strongly in packing up closely th ‘ 1 these precautic MTre 08 CARG A whisky or aleohol lately emptied and still scented by the liquor. Have head and &¢ it in noatly. Then set away in the garret. —New York World, AB, B¢ a close AN OLD BEWING MACHINE, Blessed is the plant lover that can count her poss ns an old sewing machine, exclaims Anna Lyman in the New York Indep nd Mine was dust and eo in when the happy though suggested itself to it into a plant stand. The top works and large wheel underneath taken away, and here was 8 strong, pretty looking table on iron legs with ters, the last being invaluable on zero nights to wheel my establishment nearer the stove, A box was made, hes hig! larger filled AMOng 8810 ent. gathering whwebs the garret, make were soon - Case omewhat half Fix ine Wis y put the make a fernery my no x In the summer it ved to the piazza, and I can have a {or for will geraninm in bloom, or some other pot t, and it will be a grand place for the chirysanthemums later. 1f I want stands or vases for my plants, 1 am pretty sure to find some discarded thing in garret or cellar that answers the pyprpose. et J RECIPES. | Hard Gingerbread—Otde cupful of sugar, ons of butter, one-third of a cupful of molasses, half a cupful o sour milk or cream, one teaspoon ¢ { ratus, one er, flour of sale tablesp onful o enough to rol Roll ut in oblong pieces and bake : Care must be taken that too flour is not mixed in with the All kinds of that are should have no m flour than essary to work them. se Fingers ~Take one-quarter mand of puff paste and roll it out 1 take two ounces of Parme ’ half » teaspo nful ) la pint of salt. Mix these Ald Aprinkie the cheese over half the paste, turn the other half over it and cut it with a sharp knife half an inch wide and any length you pl lnke in a quick oven aud serve hot, shaking a little grated cheese over them, The fingers must be piled ina dish, cross ie CAKCH Hed re is absolutely ne ’ Ol Calo, iy ght angles, Chicken Omelet the of meat left on the body bones of a bpked chicken after it has d« pervio® on the dinner table. Use the dressing left with it. Mince with the chopping knife. Beat ees light, and add spoonful of flour and one gill of milk. Mix with the minced chicken and fry in a well buttered pan on top the stove, When brown and set, fold over in half and serve at once. Omelets should never be allowed to stand and grow cold. Rice Muffins—One pint of milk, one quart of flour, one pint of boiled rice three eggs, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, one soda, two of cream of tarter. Mix the cream of tartar and rub through a and add to the milk. Stir gradually into the flour. When it makes a smooth, light paste, add the and beat thoroughly. Bake thirty-five minutes in buttered pans. This quantity will make three dozen muffins, . I — A Railroad of Curves, The first railroad west of the Alle- ghanies was built from Lexington to Frankfort, Ky., in 1831. The road was laid out with as many curves as possible, the engineers declaring that this was an advantage. The oars were in two stories, the lower for women and children, the upper for men, four persons being seated in each compart. ment. The cars were at first drawn by mules, but after a time a locomo- tivo was made by a Lexington me- shanio, The tender was a big box for wood, and a hogshead was provided for water, which was drawn in bnok- ots from conveniént wells. In place of a cowoatoher there two poles in front fitted with hickory brooms for sweep. ing the track. — Lancaster Eagle. acm IRR —— One of the pioneers of California is Won Yip Nong, who came from Kong in a sai vessel in 1844, ing each other at ri Serape { Ol me all fine two one 0 Ol flour Jeat the eggs with the roe | | | ARMY AND NAVY UNIFORMS OFFICERS’ OUTFITS ARE EXPEN~- BIVE AND CHANGE IS COSTLY. Fad is Whistles for the Have Been | The Latest Army Changes That Made Items of Cost, Y JHE latest fad of Major-Gen- ¢ eral Behofield is the army officer's whistle. The order G has gone forth that every in- fantry officer must equip himself with this useful article, and that i pet in the hilt of his ord, done “for the good and th 15t be This is service,” Il be Be OF Al ernmen When manding thi the CHAL ment, servi: the officers pay for it. If dered a change in the of the fli the regul cers would have to thro old coat or the old shoulder strap equip themselves anew. The sam hb pls $41 An offizes army o.dfit 8180, Very ¥e army o er ation sho tl ' NAVY atfit is exp yuld have to pas 1 feel officer won naval officer's outfit costs At the Navy Dey in round num rs mariment tf woul LT Dé & novelty r the War Depar plete the tinental uniform Up to that time the white, Under Washington's order the regu- lation nniform was to consist of “‘a | dark blue or black coat reaching to the knee and full trimmed, the lapels fastened back, with ten open worked buttonholes in yellow silk on the breast of each lapel and ten large regimental buttons at equal distances on each side, three large gin mental buttons cuff and a like number on each pocket flap.” At the same time an order was issued for the to equip with blue with red facings; red waistcoats 8; the coats trimmed The marine offi green coats with Dred ches € ged army button was vellow regi- on each 4 DAVY themselves CORLE, butt lay wore facings, white with green, le ts, black rg SRE Two years later Washington or lered another chang uniform of the J n coat thereafter cing buff or ons for the cavalry white This until 1782, when orders were issued to equip the in- fantry with white buttons, the coats to be of blue with red facing and white lining. By 1796 another change had been made. The infantry officer re a dark blue coat reaching to the knee, full trimmed with scarlet lapels, cuffs and standing eape, white trim- mings, white under dress, black st wk and cocked hat with white binding. In 1810 the officers of the general stafl were put into top boots with gilt spurs and other minor changes in their uni- form were made, Nowadays changes in uniform and equipment are frequent. The last radical change in the naval nui- form was made eleven years ago. But the officers live in daily dread of an- other, Here is the ontfit with which a naval officer would have to provide himself if a complete change of pattern was ordered: Special full dress, $80; full dress, $50; frock coat, $45 to 855; service uniform (extra blouse), $80; two pair blue trousers, $30: overcoat, $45 to S60 ; eap, 87.50; CiRpean, $15 to $25; epaulettes, $25 to $50; sword, $15 to £20; fall dress belt, 815; un iress belt, 85 ; sword knot, $2.50 to $4; helmet, $2.50; shoulder straps, $5, gloves (eight pair), $2 to $4; rain clothes, $10 to $25. The “‘special full dress” is a feature of the naval uniform. It is worn on the greatest state ocoasions-—in honor of the President of the United States or some foreign naval officer of high rank. With it is always oarried the clumsy chapeau. The army has no special full dress Here in the army officer's ont: Undress uniform, $25 to $60; forage eap with ornaments, $$ to 811; shoulder straps, $5; dress uniform, $45 to $20; shoulder knots, $8 to 813; headdress, $15 to 830; sword or saber, 810 to $21: dress belt, 810 to $15; fleld belt, $22.82; overcoat, $15 to 8005, «Washington Star. io ——— Southwestern North Carolina has a band of 1500 Cherokee Indians. They constitute an incorporated company, live in the mountains, but follow the white vous, silver ¢ paq- rs and white buttons, he lune, the red and the Ariny. was of white, wi less pursuits of white men,
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