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STANLEY HOWARD.
I was leaning against the railing in
the park, enjoying a cigar and watch
ing the carriages aathey passed. It
wax the fashionable hour and this was
a favorite occupation of mine.
Had I beeu younger, I might posai-
bly have indulged in a dream of the
time when riches and luxury should be
mine, "When the inner circle of society
should be my world; but I was no
longer youug. At sixty one is content
ed with sufficient, and wealth loses
much of ita fascinations. I have found
it so, at least.
There was a block for two or throe
minutes, and the occupants of the car
riage which was standing just in front
of me, arrested my attention. There
were two ladies and a gentleman hus
band and wife aud daughter, I took
them to be.
The man, who was about my age,
was exceedingly good looking, and the
young lady was pretty, but it was the
elder lady who particularly interested
me. Her hair was quite white and her
face pale, but so handsome, and so ex
quisitely sweet in expression, that in i
moment my old brain was weaving a
romance about her.
Many people looked at the carriage
and several bowed. Evidently the oc
cupants were people well known.
"You seemed interested," paid a man
touching my arm, as the carriage mov
ed on.
"Yes," I answered shortly. I have a
rooted aversion to entering into conver
sation with strangers.
The man looked at me curiously,
with a smile upon his face. He was
tall and thin, and only fairly well
dressed, but of gentlemanly bearing,
and there were deep lines under his
eyes and about his mouth.
"I have been looking for you for two
months past," he said.
'For me? You have made a mistake,
I think."
"You have changed little, Mr. Har-
graves, I must have changed much, or
you would remember me."
"Certainly I have forgotten you," I
said politely, hearing him call me by
name.
"Robert Denmore."
For a moment I was sileut Den
more !
"Of course yes. We met in Vienna,
didn't wt?"
I fe nodded and we shook hands.
"Vienna twenty years ago," I said.
"How time flies! What have the years
brought to you"."'
" living death," was the strange
aiswer.
I looked inquiringly at him.
"True," he said. "Come to my rooms
and renew our old friendship. I have
not a friend left iu the world except
you; aud I cannot let you go now I
have found you. I have been looking
for you for two mouths two mouths
to-morrow. I can fix the time to an
hoar."
Jiobert Denmore had always puzzled
me he puzzled me uow.
As I walked home with him, my
mind slipjied back twenty years. He
and I had met in Vieuwa, and finding
our tastes agreed, had traveled about
together for a few mouths. We be
came very good friends, but he told
me little about himself.
He seemed to have done with the
past altogether, aud thought very little
alxut the future. I remember him say
ing ouce, "I never think about what I
did yesterday; I don't care what hap
pens to-morrow; to-day is all I trouble
myself about," and he carried this sys
tem of existence to such an extent that
arrangements were often upseL
No doubt there was a secret in his
past life, but I found him au interest
ing companion, and his secret did not
concern me.
After dinner that night we sat and
smoked.
It does me good to see you agaiu,"
he said. "The fact of the matter is.
that I want to tell you a story. Were
you never curious about me iu the old
days?
"Yes, ofteu."
Well, I want to tell you my history.
I was a disappointed man then; I am a
broken down one now, without friends,
almost without money. Oh! I am not
going to borrow. You remember when
I left you and returned to England?"
"I do, and you promised to look me
up in Loudon, which promise you
never kept."
"Xo; but you received a letter from
me telling you that I was going
abroad."
"Yes."
"That letter was a lie. I have not
been out of the country aiuce. I knew
I was not going wheu I wrote that let
ter."
He flpoke as if the statement was the
keynote to his whole history. His mn
ner quite startled me.
"You wonder why I took the trouble
to tell you a lie? Weil, I wanted to be
forgotten; I did not want you to try to
fiud me."
"And yet you have spent the last two
months looking for me," I said.
"I don't want to be forgotten any
more. I want to nave a menu in me
world to talk to."
He was silent for a momeut and re
lighted his pipe.
There were two of us," he said,
"twin boys. I was the eider by ten
minutes, and we were born three
months after our father's death. We
grew up great friends, as twius often
are, and yet we were very ditl'ereut, I
developed into a quiet, studious, grave
faced youngster. I was slow at learn
ing, slow of sjieech, and nobody's fa-
yorite. My brother Richard, on the
contrary, was bright and clever; even
as a b;y his conversation was account
ed brilliant. He could do anything
aud ever thing, was full of fun and
laughter, and generous and thought
less to a fault. Richard Denmore was
petted by everybody. When we were
about sixteen my mother died. I re
member the night before her death as
if it were yesterday.
" 'You are my eldest boy, Robert,
she said, taking my strong hand iu her
feeble one. You are, perhaps, not so
clever, naturally, as Richard, but you
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SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
have got balance, which he has not.
Richard troubles me often.'
V 'Everybody likes him, mother,' I
answered.
" "That makes all the more danger ;
and I want you, Robert, to look alter
Richard.'
" 'I shall always love him.'
" 'And you will help him?'
"More than once that night she
made me repeat the promise, and I
took an oath, little knowing what the
oath meant.
"Time passed, and we both got on
well. I had, perhaps, the most mon
ey, but then I did not go out as much
as Richard did, and he gave away more
than I did, too.
"The humbrum round of my daily
life was suddenly disturbed pleasant
ly so. Alice Eversham came into it,
aud from the first moment I saw her I
loved her. I had never eveu cared
about a woman before ; had never even
as a boy, had a preference for one of the
pupils at the seminary for young ladies
we passed every morning on our way
to school. For a long time I loved iu
silence. I feared to put my case to the
test, and wheu I plucked up my cour
age to ask Alice to lie my wife, I was
too late. Bhe was kind and gentle, but
her 'no' was final.
" 'Rut, Alice, I will wait. You will
change you must change,' I said, in
my despair.
" 'I shall never change.'
"'Who is the other manr
" 'I cannot tell you that. A woman
does not confess her love for a man be
fore that man has asked her.'
"Life has been black enough for me
many times, heaven knows, but never
so black as it was then. It is the one
great passion I have knowu, and it has
made me what I am to-day.
"A week later Richard bounced Into
my room one night. He threw him
self down in an easy chair aud began
to laugh.
" 'Got the blues, Bobbie?'
" 'Xo.'
'"Well, congratulate me. I'm the
happiest fellow in the world. I want
you to lie my best man. I am going
to be married."
"Marriedr
" 'Yes; I am caught at last the dear
est little girl living. You know her
well.'
"'Who is it r
" 'Alice Eversham.'
"I sprang front my chair and brought
my clinched fist down upon tbe table.
ISlind rage took possession of me for a
moment.
"Hallo!" he exclaimed. "Wlrat'a
the matter? Are you in love with her,
too?"
" 'No; I was thinking,' I answered
stupidly.
"If you thiuk like that often you
will smash all your furniture. Come,
tell me the truth, Robbie. You are in
love with Alice j-ourself. I cannot
blame you. Anyway, she will be your
sister, old fellow.
"His words were intended as a ou-
solation, but they were simply mad
dening. "It was only afterwards, when I be
came sane euough to think calmly,
that I felt Richard had as much right
to happiness as I haL We Unit loved
her, and she loved him. It was all
fair, honest dealing; I could not com
plain.
"Richard's wedding day was a tor
ture.
" 'Good-by, Robert,' Alice said, just
before they went away. 'You forgive
me?'
"There is nothing to forgive,' I
answered.
'And you wish me happiness?'
"With all my heart r I said. 'We
shall not see much of each other, Alice,
in the future; it is better not; but re
member, I am your brother more,
your friend. If you should ever want
me, send for me. '
' 'When we come back I shall send
for you at once,' she answered.
" 'And I shall not come. Iu trouble
you shall find me ready, but otherwise
I shall be out of reach. I leave Eug-
land to-morrow, aud I do not know
when I shall return.'
1 'I shall have to get into trouble
quickly,' she said. 'Good-by.
'I left England and wandered about.
trying to forget. Alice had been mar
ried ten years when I first met you,
Hargraves, and during that time I did
not see her, but I heard constantly
from Richard, and beggared myself
almost in helping him. He did not
seem to have an idea of tbe value of
money spent it as if there was no limit
to his income. '
"It was a letter I received from Alice
which made me leave you so suddenly.
Richard was again in serious difficul
ty, and she wrote to me without his
knowledge, he having told bertheu
for the first time how often I had help
ed him before, saying that he could not
ask me again.
"I went to her, and found matters
about as bad as they could be. Richard
was desperate and half ashamed to see
me. By a terrible struggle, and pledg
ing my credit to tbe utmost limit,
managed, as I thought, to set him
straighL I believe Alice would have
gone down upon her knees to thauk
me had I let her; aud Richard thanked
me too, but did not seem quite at ease.
I was glad to get away from them,
and I made arrangements to leave
Englaud again.
"To be perfectly truthful, my resourc
es were so reduced that I meant to set
tle in some continental town where
living was cheap. AU my prepara
tions were made, when 1 received a
telegram:
" "Come to me at once. Alice.'
"Wondering what new complication
had arisen for I could read trouble iu
the message I went. . . .
"Alice was alone.
" 'Robert,' she said, clutching my
arm, and there was a look of horror lu
her eyes, 'is it true?'
' 'Is what true?"
' 'That Richard is a thierr
"No. Who has said so?'
' 'We were dining out last night and
I overheard two men talking about
Richard. They were surprised to see
him there. One of them said distinct
ly that he had committed forgery with
regard to some company matter, aud
set
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was liable to be arrested at any mo
ment' "'Nonsense, Alice! You are mis
taken.' "They mentioned his name R.
Denmore, Oh ltobert? I have lieen
brave through my troubles heaven
knows I have but If this Is true it will
kill me.' ;
'"Did these men appear to know
Richard well." I asked!
" 'No. They heard his name, and
then began to talk.' '
" 'Have you said anything to Rich
ard about it? . i
" 'No. I ought to do it, but I am a
coward, aud dare not If it is all a lie
he would never forgive me for doubt
ing him. If it is true ltobert, you
once promised to always lie my friend
you must save him, for my sake and
my child's.'
" 'I am always your friend,' I an
swered, taking her hand in mine. 'I
will find out about this story. It is
all a mistake, probably; and if not,
there Is more than one R. Denmore,
for instance.'
"I was terribly afraid that the story
was true, but spoke to lessen her anxie
ty. The look of a startled hare came
into her eyes, but I did not think about
it until afterwards. How the men
Alice overheard obtained their infor
mation I do not know, but it was in
substance true.
"A heartless fraud had been corn tint
ed, and apparently by It. Denmore. I
was helpless. What could I do? And
then Alice's words and look took pos
session of me. I think for a few days
I was almost mad. I need not tell you
how, link by link, the chain of evi
dence was forged I helped to forge it
myself. It was easy. The fact of my
preparations for leaving England, the
uncertainty of my destination, my
pledged credit
"I was arrested, tried, convicted.
There was no mercy for the man who,
by a heartless fraud, had brought ruin
and destitution to many death by
suicide to more than one. I was sen
tenced twenty years' penal servitude.
Two months ago to-morrow I regained
my liberty."
He stopped his tale was told.
"Denmore!" I exclaimed, starting
to my feet "You did this for a broth
er's sake?"
"No; for the sake of the woman I
loved."
"It was a monstrous folly. It was
wicked."
"It Is over."
"And your brother?"
"He remained silent has been silent
ever since. Things have prospered
with him fortune is his. Twenty years
is a long time to remember. He has
quite forgotten ma."
"Scoundrel! And his wife?"
"I do not know, Hargraves, but I
think she must have believed me guil
ty. You see, the evidence against me
was 7ery strong. "
I was sileut, Presently Denmore
took some papers from his pocket
"I saw this in a shop window yester
day, and bought it," lie said, handing
me a photograph. "On it was print
ed, 'Hon. Richard Denmore and wife.'
He has become" famous. Do you rec
ognize the picture?"
Then I remembered the occupants of
the carriage iu the park.
"I think I have kept my oath, Har
graves." I took his hand and pressed it, but I
did not speak. A lump was in my
throat, aud words would not come.
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A Bachelor's Beliefs.
Meddlesome mothers are pretty apt
to have cuddlesome daughters.
The average woman's idea of politics
is finding something thatVhecan "pro
test" against
At some time in her life probably
every girl sews something or other onto
her garter for luck.
When a rich girl's hair looks like
streaked molasses candy, it is said to be
of the color of spun gold.
Train up a hired girl iu the way she
should go, and she will depart from
you aud go to the neighbor's for a dol
lar a mouth more.
Down at the bottom of every wo
man's prayer is a reminder to the Lord
that He kuows that she has put up
with so much from her husband. N.
Y. Press.
S or charged With Electricity.
A Carlisle butcher thinks he is sur
charged with electricity. He does not
look on the thing as a joke. He says
it is very annoying. When he brushes
his hair it cracklts like a house afire.
When he walks across a heavy carpet,
he says he can feel the sparks fly from
the tips of his fingers, and when he is
in a train a regular battery is created.
The Georgia Postofflce.
"Any letters for me?"
"No."
"Any postal cards?"
"Xo."
"Is my paper come?"
"No."
"Got any almanacs?"
"No."
"Well, does you know a nybody what
wants ter buy a live Jgator"."' At
lanta Constitution.
JLY 28. 1897.
Two Mothen of President..
With the inauguration of William
McKinley as president of the United
States Ohio may claim to take rank
with Virginia as a "mother of Presi
dents.'' Virginia may still justly
claim precedence, as the time occupied
ia the Presidency by her sons during
tbe 1W years from 179 to 107 amounts
to thirty-five years and eleven months,
or almost exactly a third of the nation
al life of the republic a record lu point
of time far surpassing that of any other
state. The four Presidents duly elected
from Virginia were each re-elected.
The fifth, Tyler, was a vice-presidential
accident, as were Millard Fillmore and
Chester A. Arthur of New York, and
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee. As
regards Ohio's presidents, the first,
William Henry Harrison, was born in
Virginia, and served but one mouth;
President Hayes served but one term ;
Garfield served only a few months, and
William McKinley, the last of the four,
is entering upon his first term.
The parallel between Virginia and
Ohio Is still further extended iu the
fact that six Presidents were born iu
each of the States, William Henry
Harrison claiming Virginia as his
birthplace, aud Ohio being the native
State of Grant and Benjamin Harrison,
though Grant as a president is to be
credited to Illinois and Harrison to
Indiana. In point of eminence and
enduring fame, indeed, Illinois is the
only Stale that rivals Virginia' as re
gards presidents. Lincoln the eman
cipator, and Grant, the commander,
take a station second only to Wash
ington iu American history and iu the
affection and admiration of the Amer
ican people, while Ohio's presidents
cannot be said to have left a marked
impress upon the nation. What the
fourth president from Ohio may add to
the luster of the State as president it is
yet too early to predict
In another respect tbe inauguration
of William McKinley is remarkable
in that he Is the second president the
famous Western Reserve of Ohio has
furnished the nation. William Mc
Kinley was born at Niles, Trumbull
county O., whose chief town, Warren,
is popularly called the capital of the
Western Reserve. James A. Garfield
was also born in another county (Cuy
ahoga) of the Western Reserve. A still
more interesting coincidence is that
the eighty-two veterans of the Twenty
third Ohio volunteers who followed
the carriage of the new Prescient as he
rode from the capitol to the White
House for the second time, had the
happiness of seeing a President chosen
from their regiment, Hayes aud Mc
Kinley both having belonged to that
famous organization.
If it were asked why Virginia and
Ohio have furnished nearly half the
Presidents of the United States the
answer would not be difficult Vir
ginia occupied a central position among
the original thirteen States, just as
Ohio for years has occupied a similar
pofeiliou ic regard to the greater nation.
There are many other reasons that
may be adduced for the preference
shown these two great Commonwealths
in the matter of the Presidency but rank
in population and central lMatiou were
great general factors, eiqiecially as re
gards Ohio, aud thesie elements are
likely to be more ami more prominent
in the election of Presidents i. the fu
ture. The question of "availability"
is always a prominent one iu President
making, and availability takes into
consideration the prominence and lo
cution of the State, as well as the char
acter and fitness of the man. Chicago
Record.
Smiles Made to Order.
Tit-Bits.
There is in Loudon at the present
time an individual who can scarcely be
described otherwise than as a "smile"
doctor. For a small fee he will transfer
the most uncomely laugh or smile into
a dainty aud elegant playfulness of
the lips only he must have his fee
first
As many know, it is no easy matk-r
to control the gambols of the lips and
mouth, and small wonder, thee,' that
the services of a "smile" doctor are
greatly in demand.
On the occasion of every visit, this
gentleman puts his subject through
certain lip aud mouth exercises which
are of his own invention, and by con
stant practice the desired pretty smile
is obtained in a few weeks. Actresses
and music hall artistes largely patron
ize this smiling tutor, and rumor has it
that the individual in question is, In
this way, fast amassing wealth.
Something to Depend on.
Mr. James Jones, of the drug firm of
Jones & Son, Cowden, 111., in speaking
of Dr. King's New Discovery, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with
la grippe, and her case grew so serious
that physicians at Cowden and Pana
could do nothing for her. It seemed
to develop into hasty consumption.
Having Dr. King's New Discovery in
store, and selling lots of it, he took a
bottle home, and to the surprise of all
she began to get better from the first
dose, and half dozen dollar bottles
cured her sound and well. Dr. King's
New Discovery for consumption, colds
and coughs is guaranteed to do this
good work. Try it Free trial bottles
at Snyder's drug store, Somerset, or at
Brail ier's drug store, Berliu.
The Wronged Immigrant.
Cohen Sec here, meesder; dere wad
a misdake in mein dax-bill alretty.
County Tax Collector I don't see
but what it's all regular enough.
C-hen Loog aken, meesder. You
god me sharged von tollar Poll tax
und I am a Heprew. Judge.
A Jubilee Novelty.
A novelty brought out by a South
Shields brushmaker to commemorate
the Jubilee consists of a small brush to
be worn on the watch-chain. On
touching a spring the bristles open and
show 3C5 other brushes inside on which
are engraved the history of the Queen's
reiffii. The words are invisible to the
naked eye, but can hi easily read by
the aid of a ruicrosope.
or
All Around the Farm.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The white cabbage butterfly takes
care to deposit her eggs on the kind of
cabbages that form loose heads, aud
where the worms, when they hatch,
can easily find their hiding place un
der the loose leaves.
One plowing on dry soil will do as
much good as two on clay or heavy
loam; here is where extensive farming
should come in: prepare the soil before
the seed is put iu.
Experiments made this season in
forcing Easter lilies with Electric
light prove that it will probably pay
commercially to use electric light
when the buds are an inch long in or
der to hasten their expansion, and that
the light must pass through gloss to
avoid burning the petals.
Little things in agriculture represent
the difference between profit and loss
a few more bushels of grain an acre,
a little heavier yield of butter from a
cow, a little faster gain in fattening cat
tle; proper care will proeure all thew.
Much of the baled hay that comes to
market is musty. Most farmers when
they bale bay think it need not be very
dry, as the bales are small. The amount
of hay packed iu them is always suffi
cient to get up a violent ferment unless
the hay is properly dried before it Is
put into the bale. If there were more
care used iu baling hay the price for it
would lie much U-tter than it is, as th
hay itself would be better worth it
As the breeding season approaches
(it usually begins in October) the
ewes, beiug in thin condition, require
some grain. The best grain for the
time is clean, sound oats, about 0.5
pound per head daily. If the ewes are
brought into a uniformly good condi
tion by grain feeding they will breed
uniformly, which of itself is an appre
ciable advantage.
Sometimes we see trees which dry
up the grass under them, while in the
same neighborhood will be trees under
which the grass will grow greener
than where they are not thus shaded.
An orchard that has long been plowed
deep has most of its feeding roots lie
low the roots of the grass. On the
other baud, under the trees where
grass has long grown the true feeding
roots come near the surface, and, when
a dry time comes the grass under it
lacks moisture aud is very soon killed
out
The old saying, choice articles lire
put up in small packages, applies
equally as well to hogs as to anything
else. The nice blocky pig Is always
sought after. The large raw-boned,
ettn peeler hog has seen his best day,
and what iiie people want now is as
near a perfect hog as possible, one that
will fatten easity and sell rapidly.
Because the level valley is richer
than the hillside it is quite common
for fanners to suppxe that there must
be each year a heavy deosit from the
hillside in the valley lielow. But if
if any one manures a hillside with the
expectation that it will appreciably
fertilize the soil farther down the hill
he will learn his mistake. We have
several times tried it, aud could never
see that the manure had any appreci
able effect more than two or three feet
below the line where it was applied.
American Cultivator.
An ice-house is a necessary adjunct
to every creamery. It should be built
separate from the creamery. A house
2D feet long, 16 feet wide and 10 feet
high will hold about bX tous -of ice.
If an abundance of very cold wat?r is
at hand less ice will be needed. It is
always best, however, to have plenty
of ice, and for the ordinary creamery
100 tons is a safe quantity. Professor
John H. Trueman.
Almost all practical growers now
agree that the level culture of potables
brings the largest crop. This is espe
cially true if the season be dry, as of
late years it almost always is. If the
ground is cultivated often euough no
weeds can appear above the surface.
That will make it easy to keep the
crop free of weeds without ever need
ing to cultivate more than an inch be
low the surface. This is the best way
to subdue the perennial weeds, quack
grass and Canada thistles, as well as
the annual weeds.
It is difficult to cure a horse of crib
bing. If only just begun, tie him iu a
stall where there is no manger aud no
projecting edge which he can grasp
with his teeth. Feed him in a box,
which must be removed directly after
each meal. If confirmed in the habit,
buckle a strap one and a half inches
wide tight around his neck, near the
head, allowing room for him to
breathe while his head is in a natural
position only.
The manure from hens, unless grain-
fed in summer, Is usually less valuable
than it is in the winter. But it is
none the less worth taking care of. It
will heat very rapidly in hot weather
if kept in piles. As it U usually defi
cient in phosphates, it is a good plan
to mix some of the commercial phos
phate with the manure, as it is heat
ing. It always contains euough sul
pliate of lime or land plaster to absorb
the ammonia, while the phosphate
with the nitrogen which the hen man
ure abounds iu will make a fertilizer
very near equal to guano.
An illustration of what change of
seed does for the potato: The Iowa
Experiment Station planted seed ob
tained at a fair in Canada side by side
with seed grown for seven years on the
station grounds, the former yielding at
the rate of 751 bushels to the acre, and
the latter at the 109. The variety was
Rural New Yorker No. 2. Making al
lowance for difference of time in plant
ing, there is still plenty of credit to the
effect of the change of seed.
From recent ex pertinents it appears
that a meadow will yield about four
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WHOLE NO. 2400.
times as much feed in bulk if made in
to hay as It will if pastured. But, an
it is well known that the young tender
grass of the often cropped pasture Is
more nutritious than the older and
tougher hay, it was found by careful
test that the advantage in nutritients,
digestibility and freedom from cost of
harvesting, housing aud feeding of
pastured llel Is will nearly balance the
greater yield of hay fields, except on
very high priced lands.
Sheep affected with the grub in the
head appear to be crazy at times, the
eyes swell, become weak and have a
watery appearance, and violent efforts
will be made by the sheep to clear the
nostrils. They will often raise both
hind legs when the pain is unusally
severe. Dry lime and ashes should lie
kept where the sheep resort Slacked
lime, if scattered freely, will set the
sheep to sneezing, and many grubs
will be thrown out This should be
done in the morning, as the grubs are
lower down iu the none then than at
other times.
There are two ways iu whieh stable
manure is most likely to t wasted.
One, the most obvious, is the wasting
by rains, which will wash away all
that is soluble in it But the other,
less thought of, is even more danger
ous, though unseen. That is the wast
ing by the passing away as am
monia of all the nitrogenous parts of
manure. The ammonia is very vola
tile. Pour some into a saucer and
k-ave it exposed to the air, and most of
its strength will disappear after a few
hours. If some potash is put with it,
that will absorb part of it, turning it,
if the potash lie caustic, into saltpetre.
But the far greater part of the ammo
nia is given off by decomiosiug ma
nure heaps and escapes into the air,
where it becomes useless as a fertilizer.
American Cultivator.
Siils lose water in three ways per
colation and drainage, consumption by
the plant, eventration from the sur
face. A German authority fiuds that
for every pound of dry matter produc
ed by the plant there are 310 pounds
of water lost or taken from the soil.
Professor Kling found that in Wiscon
sin dent corn required 319 tons of wat
er per ton of dry matter produced; red
clover, 452 tons; oats, oil tons. An
inch of rainfull on an acre is equal to
about 113.4 tous of water. It would
seem, then, that less than three inches
of rainfall would be necessary to pro
duce a ton of dent corn to the acre.
Household Hints.
A mustard plaster will not make a
blister if mixed with, the white of an
egg.
Stains may be removed from the
hands by rubbiug with a slice of raw
tomato.
All cold vegetables left over should
be saved for future use in soups and
sa tads.
Lamps should have the same watch
ful care during the summer as iu the
winter.
Hot, dry flannel, if applied to the
face and neck, will relieve jumping
toothache.
The tone of the piano improves when
the instrument is removed from the
wall of tlif room.
Sweet oil with a little vinegar added
will restore the leather backs and seats
of chairs.
A squeeze of lemon improves scram
bled eggs and it should be added while
they are cooking.
Great attention should he given to
the seasoning aud flavoring of food
prepared for the sick.
Use bacon fat for frying chicken or
game.
Stale cake may be set ed with brandy,
sauce for dessert
Cold water put into glasses or dishes
from which eggs have been eaten will
soften the egg and make washing
easy.
Poultices should lie mixed with boil
ing water and billed for a few min
utes. It helps them to retain the
heat
When putting away the stovepipe
for the summer it should be rublied
with linseed oil and put in a dry
place.
A smooth piece of whalebone is far
better for curling ostrich leathers than
a knife, as it Is not likely to cut or
damage them.
For neuralgia, in the face or jaw, a
flannel bag filled with very hot salt,
heated in a pan, applied frequently
and with the head kept well covered,
will relieve it.
Oli People.
Old people who require to regulate
the bowels and kidneys will And the
true remedy iu Electric Bitters. Tais
medicine does not stimulate and con
tains no whisky or other intoxicant
but acts as a tonic and alterative. It
acts mildly on the stomach and bowels.
adding strength and giving tone to
the organs, thereby aiding nature in
the performance of the functions.
Electric Bitters is an excellent appetiz
er aud aids digestion. Old people
find it just exactly what they need.
Price fifty cents and $1.00 per bottle at
Snyder's drug .store, Somerset, or at
Brallier's drug store, Berlin.
Tame Game.
Gunner I was hunting yesterday,
and tiagged 17 ducks.
Bunuer Were they wild?
Gunner No; but the farmer who
owned them was. Up-to-date.
Backlen's Arnica Salve-
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe
ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale at J.
N. Snyder's drugstore, Somerset, or
at Brallier's drug store, Belln, Pa.
?MfaIHint.
To remove a refrsetory wrew from
wood beat a piece of iron red hot, and
hold it on tp of the Tew for a minute
or two; then the wrewdriver will
ea-ily take out the screw if use while
the screw is warm.
The cleanest way in drive water bugs
or roachei from Iuksu drawtis or
closet shelves is to sprinkle powdered
borax over and around the shelves, and
cover with clean paper.
Fat will not burn if it has something
to do, so if It has to be left idle for a
few minutes put a crust of bread or a
slice of raw potato Into the kettle.
Do not mend a kid glove with sewing
silk, for the silk cuts tbe kid snd shows
the mend more plainly; while a Iu
cotton thread gives a much more satis
factory result If a glove U torn, put
a piece of silk of corresponding shade
under the torn part, baste carefully so
as not to reveal the stitches on the
right side, and then draw op the rent
with cotton thread.
Soap used on the hair is apt to make
it brittle. If any is to be used tar soap
is the best, aud after using rinse tbe
hair in several waters, in which a little
powdered borax has been disolved.
Chemists say that it takes more than
twice as much sugar to sweeten pre
serves aud sauces if put in when they
begin to cook than it does if the sugar
is added after the cooking is done.
Always fold a dress skirt right side
out for packing, as it will not wrinkle
so much.
A few drops of tincture of benzoin in
bowl of water is an admirable tonic
for the face. The benzoin whitens the
skin and prevents it from wrinkling.
Water that Is left standing in tbe
kitchen or bedroom, aud, above all, ia
the sick room, over night. Is liable to
contamination by the absorption of
impurities afloat in the air in such
rooms, and to be rendered wholly unfit
for use. No matter that the water is
wild even to near freezing; it is so much
the more liable to absorb and bold iu
solution the foul gases and organic
particles to which it has been exposed.
It is dangerous to use such water.
Water should not be so left; but if it by
chance so be, it should lie thrown
away. Freshly drawn water only
should be used for culinary purposes,
as well as for drinking, wherever prac
ticable. Moreover, the faucets over
sinks aud wash-basins are always more
or less liable to contamination, hence
the first water that flows on opening
them after they have beeu left all night
without use should always be let flow
away it is dangerous to driuk and
unfit for the teakettle or for cooking
water; even lioiled disease germs are
unwholesome. The Sauitarian.
Useful Things to Know in the Can
ning Season.
In canning fruit rememlier that it is
hard and disagreeable work at best,
aud unless you can come within sight
of its higtiest possibilities "the game is
uot worth the candle." Whether it L
good, bad or indifferent depends upon
your owu knowledge and skill. Ex
cluding the air to prevent fermentation
Is only A B C of success. t ruit must
look as well as taste delicious, and, in
order to do this, it must retain its
natural flavor and appearance aud be
sweetened with granulated sugar.
Fruit for canning must be freshly
picked and a little under rather than
over-ripe.
All berries except strawberries should
be large and firm. With these the
smaller the better. Blackberries, no
matter how fine or what kind, are
never satisfactory and palatable.
Cherry pits aid much to the flavor.
aud when removed from the fruit a
handful should be tied in a piece of
net and put iu the centre of each jar.
Pear seeds should be used in the same
way if the core is removed. Cherries
are richer and handsomer colored if
the syrup is made of half currant
juice.
The skin of green gage plums should
be left on and pierced with a fork be
fore they are cooked. The skin of all
other common varieties should be re
moved. If plums aud peaches are
immersed iu boiling water to loosen
the skin only a few should be treated
at once and these should be put iu a
wire basket or sieve. After remaining
two minutes or so dip in cold water
and gently rub off the skins.
A silver knife should 1 used to shred
pineapple aud to pare pears and
ijuiuees.
Peaches should be put in syrup as
soou as pared, aud pears and quiuces
in cold water to prevent discoloration.
'caches are firmer aud richer if allowed
to remain over night in the syrup be
fore they are cooked. Five or six pita
should be distributed through each
ipuart jar.
The niost delicious and natural flavor
is obtained by cooking the fruit in the
jars. This method always does away
with the breakage from handling, and
adds greatly to its appearance. Pears
and quinces are uo exception to this
rule, but, as both are more quickly
cooked tender iu clear water, it is more
convenient to do so before they are put
in syrup.
All old iars should be thoroughly
cleansed with soda and boiling water,
and the air-tightness of every jar should
be tested with water be.ore they are
filled with fruit, which should be
placed in the jar as fast as it is prepared.
and the jar filled to the neck, witu
syrup.
A flat-bottomed kettle or an ordinary
lothes boiler is convenient for cook
ing, and a board fitted to the bottom
loosely aud closely rilled with inch
auger holes obviates all danger of
breakage. Put the rubber aud cover
in position, leaving the latter loose;
till the boiler with warm water t the
neck of the jars and boil gently until
the fruit can be easily pierced with a
fork. No dehnite rule Tor cooking can
be eiveu. Ten minutes is usually toug
enough for berries, while the time re
quired for larger aud more solid fruits
depends upou their ripeness. Ex
perience soon makes one expert Take
each jar out onto a hot plate, fill to
overflow tug with boiling water, and
screw down the top. Tighteu as it
cooks, and invert to be sure that it is
airtight
The jars should be wiapped in paper
to exclude the light, which is more in
jurious than oue is apt to think, and
keep iu a cool, dry place. The flavor
iif I
fruit is much improved if the oxygen
is
restored by removing the cover an
hour or two before it is needed.
If rich fruit Is desired, tbe following
quantities of sugar for each pint jar
will be satisfactory, but as the sugar is
not the "keeping power," much Jess,
or i
even uoue, may be used. M raw-
bci
Tries, 7 ounces; cherries, o ounces;
peaches, 5 ounces; Bartlett pears, 6
ounces; sour pears, 8 ounces; quinces,
8 ounces. Elizabeth Moretou in New
York Times.
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