Few Fpot Aro Mn to,
f "Few people's foot lire mnte,n mused
the Broadway ilioo dealer yesterday, m
a customer departed.
'Winch foot is tho largest!"
'That depends."
"But how do you manaiT"
Oh, easy enough. Tho difference
isn't great enough to cause, any serious
annoyance. However, the latest thing
in tho shoo line is intended for just such
cases. It is known a the reversible
hoe."
j "That's mid."
' "Both odd and even. This ahoe,"
added the dealer, "is made with a flnt
Bole. You will also observe that tho
shoo is not turned for the ritfht nor the
left, as in ordinary shoes, but, being ab
solutely straight along the inner edge of
the sole, may readily bo worn on cither
foot.
"Pliors of this pattern nro bolived to
be easier on the feet than tho common
article with turned soles. So f your feet
are not mates, as is tho case with most
people, you may sleep sound At night
now, for your enso has been attended to
in a scicutific manner." Xeu Fori
Worhl.
Five million dollars was paid out hist
season by summer tourists and boarders
in New Hampshire, alone.
Frances Willnrd nnd lr. Keolej.
Tie Womnn's ( hrlMlnn Temperance
t'nlnn Inrtnr.rs llio C.al4 Cure fur
Drniikmnrn.
Mits Krnniw E. Willar.1, Prosl.lent of the
World's nnd ftntionnl Woninu's Christian
Teinpvrnnro Union, recently drew down a
Storm of criticism and adverse comment
upon herwlf and the 0mnni7.nl Ion she repre
sents by announcing that tho Keeley cure
for drunkenn'K4 and the opium huldt was
being 'boomo-i" by tho press for political
purposes. This statement ho nmnile-tly
absurd that tho lending journals of the
country at once dented It in editorials, giv
ing as proof of its falseness a number of
cases of hnhitunl inebriety which hnve un
doubtedly bt-cn cured by the Keelev Hichlo
riiieof Hold. Miss Willard, who fs careful
to correct a mistake when tho makes one, baa
since investigated the Gold rare, and now
comes forward w ith a letter publicly avow
ing her faith in t ho Keeley cure, and declar
ing her sympathy with the great work being
done t y it. Hie Knstorn branch of the
Keeley Institute at Whilo I'lains.New York,
is coming to the trout with a most pratily
ing percentage of cures of drunkenness and
the drug habit. Men who have frequented,
institutions for inobrintes for years w.thout
tenent are, utmost without exception, cured
of thoir dbrase at tho White lMnins Keeley
Institute, and after the three or four weeks
of treatment return to their families with
health fully restored nnd ambitious tore
deem the past. The medical profession,
which was at first antagonistic to the Gold
cure, has been convinced of its effectiveness
by the cood which has been done at White
l'lains, and physicians throughout the East-
era States now send thoir pntients to the '
Institute. JJruukenness Is undoubtedly a ;
disease, and iu the Keeley Gold treatment a
remedy has at last been discovered. More- .
over the cure is effected without restraint or
physical puiu, the treatment consisting of a
hypodermic injection of the bichloride of ,
Oold, and also the remedy taken internally. I
It seems a very simple way out of a great
evil. Tho branch at White Plains is under
the direct supervision of the ixitent house.
The treatment is identical with that admin
istered by Dr. Keeloy.
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THE FATTENING OF STEERS
HOW CORN 19 SCIENTIFICALLY
TUBNED INTO TISSUE).
Tho Ilittnnlnjt in tho Groat Corn
Delt Tho Flnul Kndlnff At the
Blaochtcr House.
Weitern dressed beof, injt the New
York Tim, is found corn converted
into flesh bj scientific processes that
hare been evolved by a generation of
stock farmers and packers working hand
in hand. The best dressed beef is that
of the steer fnttene I upon the ranges of
the so-callod 'corn belt" which, roughly
speaking, inclujes a large portion of
Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas and Ne
braska. As ioclosure of five acre is considered
amply sufficient for the feeding of a herd
of live hundred or a thousand steers.
Feeders endeavor to include a portion ol
some natural water course within the
feeding pens. Otherwise, water is fur
nished by driven wells, wblcb, upon the
Western prairie lands, are sure to tap a
water bearing stratum a few feet beneath
the surface. The water is pumped by
windmills. The feedor also tries to in
clude clumps of trees and broken areas
of WuU within the feeding pen. In the
winter, when the blizxards come sweep
ing down from the pole, the shelter of
bluffs and trees enables the cattle to sur
vive an othorwiso fatal storm. In the
centre of the feeding pen is a large rack,
three feet across the base, and enlarging
toward the top. Thcso hay rack! hold
three tons of hay and also furnish shel
ter. They are kept filled with hay, and
the steer is at all times allowed to eat its
Qll.
After it has become accustomed to its
new lodgings it is fed with mm, not get
ting much at first for ir it may
"founder." Tho first fen -lays the steer
Is fed sparingly "snap coru," which ig
corn upon the ear with tte husk unre
nioved, each steer being alloweJ a half
dozen ears. This allowance is increased
day by day, and at the end of four weeks
the steer is disposing of half a bushel of
shelled corn per day. Hereafter it may
eat as muoh shelled corn as it wants,and
if it is strong and healthful it has passed
one of the most critical periods of corn
feeding. If a number of the steers aro
found to be sick or ailing, the herd is
deprived of much of its corn ration, and
the process ol "putting them upon their
feed" is begun over again.
No dogs are allowed about the in
cisures. "Scrub" Western cattle are
excluded from tho pens where the na
tives are being fed. Western "scrubs"
have a ttace of wild and lawless blood
in their veins, and upon the least occa
sion are liable to create a row. A steer
that is suffering from wet and cold does
not increase in flesh. It is, therefore,
necessary to have a part of the yard dry,
where the cattle may rest and find pro
tection from the win I. Feeding-cattio
aro allowed all the water that they can
drink, but as cold water checks the di
gestive processes, tho water is kept con
stantly warm by a fire beneath the water
troughs.
In tho winter time tho cattle huddle
together for mutual protection against
cold and wind. When ttore is any
protection in the way of bluffs or trees,
cattlo rarely freeze. Tho great fatality
among cattlo on Western ranches is due
to absolute lack of protection, and rarely
to the intense cold itsolf. Many ran-o
cuttle owe their death to tho fact that
they uncover the prairie grasses with
their noses rather than with their hoofs.
When the "northers" sweep down across
the plains the crust upon the snow bo
comes thick, and the cattle often strive
in vain to break the hard covering, and
die of starvation. It is a trying time
upon the feeding ranch when the banks
of gray clouds upon the horizon indicate
that a blizzard is at hand. These fierce
stirms often continue for three or four
days without intermission. During a
blizzard cattle in an exposed yard will
keep on the move as long as possible,
finally they huddle close together at the
lower end of the enclosure, and seldom
freeze when in good condition. If there
is a shed close at hand insufficient f 01
the accommodation of the entire herd,
the animals outsido push until many ol
those in tho bunch are thrown down and
trampled underfoot.
The steer is kept on full feed from
four to six months, as its condition and
tho constantly-varying mark at may de
mand. Under the most favorable condi
tion it will gain three pounds a day.
Ordinarily it will increase its weight by
a daily increment of a pound and a quar
ter or two pounds, and has gained 300
pounds during the stay in the feeding
pen. The quality of tho beef is better,
and a steak from the steer will bo fou.id
streaked with innumerable lines of fat.
This fat is hard corn converted into ani
mal tissue. Hogs are fattened with cat
tle. Like all other natural products the
steer attain a certain stage of perfection.
Such a iteer is "ripe," and should be
hurried off to the shambles without
delry. An experienced feeder is able to
tell at a glance when tho animals of bit
herd are ripe.
The steer, when "ripe," i broad acroa
the back, its body is large and round,
and its hide is sleek aud glossy. Il
spends a large portion of the time on the
ground,' rises with difficulty and soon liei
down again. It Is now a different ani
mal from the fierce steer that left tht
far Western range. From thirty to
thirty-four steers could then be trans
ported in a single cattle-car. Now
eighteen can barely find standing room
in a similar apace. The access of mar
ketable beef equals 650 pounds. During
the procesi of conversion the steer has
used up two acres of wild prairie pas
ture, has devoured a ton and a half ot
prairie hay, or millet, has consumed
ninety bushels of sbel'ed corn, and has
mado from four to six pounds of buuf
from each bushel of shelled coru.
Now that the steer is ripe, the feeder
is confronted with another serious
problem. He must hasten the auim.il
to the slaughter house, 600 miles away,'
and this tiansfer must be accoinplighedi
without the loss of an undue amount of
fat. Upon the day of shipping the ani
mals are turned out of the yards, and
upon their urrival at tho tracks are
driven into small pens, thence up a
shute, aud into the cattle cars.
The method of transportation is bar
barous. Cuttle are wedged into the
cars like sardiuus in a box. This is
necessary, because if the animals are per
mitted to lie down they are liable to be
trodden to death beneath the hoofs.
Long belore the car is loaded to its full
capacity it would seem impossible to
force auyther uniuial iu. Tim impossi
ble is dobu, however, aud the last steer
is pushed itito mere cruuk, whi ' tho
Hjit
feeder open up in tho file of ttanding
animals. The torments endured by the
cattla upon their two days trip to Chica
go can only be surmised. No steer has
yet been given tongue to voice its sor
rows. The whole body of animals
move as one at every oscillation of the
car. When the train stops suddenly
they are thiown violently against one
auother, and the liiial egress from the
car often shows tbeir ribs bare and
bleeding. After being tiirm-d out of tho
cars they are fod several times before ar
riving at their destination. Improved
cattle cars are slowly supplanting those
of the old-fashioned type. Trofit, and
not philanthropy, hits iuducod their use.
The now cars are dividod into compart
ments holding three steers each. Each
compartment is providod with hny racks
and water troughs, which aro filled from
the roof.
Upon their arrival at Chicago or Kan
sas City the cattle aro taken iu charge by
the commission men. Cattle shrink rap
idly In flesh in a strange yard, and the
price of stock-yard feed is exorbitant. It
is, therefore, necessary to sell the cattle
upon the day of their arrival. So tho
commission man rides about the yard on
horseback till he finds a customer. The
steers are sold by tho hundredweight,
tnd nro immediately weighed in a largo
pen which is balanced upon a scale. Bo
tore entering the weighing pen the steers
ire watered, and, as they have not tasted
water for twelve hours, they often con
tunie 100 pounds of water upon a warm
Ind sultry day.
After drinking, tho steer is forced
up an incliued plane and enters tho
laughter house. At Armour's establish
ment a trained steer is employed to lead
the cattlo luto tho slaughter pen. The
decoy animal enters a shute leading into
into the slaughter pen nnd tho guileless
country steers follow coufideutly. When
they are once withiu the leader slips out
by a sido exit and the herd finds itself
Inclosed within a heavily planked alloy.
The animals are driven ono by one into
smaller pons opening upon cither side,
flcavy doors b:ir their egress. A man
passing along tho c luse nay above strikes
the animal with a mallet and it falls to
the floor. Four butchers ruih in aud
pass keen-edged knives across tho throat
of the steer. A chain is attached to a
leg and the body of tho steor is swung
up into tho air. Tho carcass is then
skinned, the bead is cut off, tho body is
cut in half and allowed to cool, is then
quartered, and, after hanging in cold
storage for twenty-tour hours, is stand
ard dressed beef, ready for shipment.
No portiou of the steor is allowed to
go to waste. Tho hair is used for plarter,
tho hoofs are converted into gelatine, tho
horns are steamed and rolled out for
various uses, the tongues are cannod, and
the shreds of meat about the head are
scraped off and utilized. The hide is
cured, the skull is burned for bone ash,
the tail appears in oxtail soup, the blood
is utilized in making raro and expense
dyes and chemicals, and the wasio is
used for fertilizer. Such exact and
scientific methods of feediug and slaugh
ter have driven the small feedors and
butchers out of competition in the West.
They can only afford to handle the poorer
grades of beef which nro neglected by
the larger firms.
Before entering upon his fattening sea
son the feeder lays out a detailed plan of
action. A leaf from the account book
of a Nebraska cattlo feeder will read
somewhat as follows:
830 range cattle.
To corn (Drill
To bay J 000
To oatmeal TOO
Total 1 1,311
Cost per bead to feed , (34
Original cost per bead 'M
Interest and cost ot hog and labor 3
Cost of hog 4
Cost to fatten one steer and one hog. fi7
1310 pounds beef at 4,' cents (on farm) . . b0
Loss per head on beet t 7
This is where tho hog steps in. In
following the steer he has increased from
150 to 300 pounds. Tho feeder's ac
count, therefore, reads as follows:
300 pounds pork at 4 cents per pound. . . 1 13
One steer (total selling price) 60
Total selling price hog and steer.... (73
Total coat bog and steer 1)7
Total gain on hog and steor (0
Total gain on 330 steers and accompany
ing hugs (1050
Uow England Could Take Chicago.
In two weeks after a declaration of
war, asserts Colonel Theodore A. Dodge
la the Forum, England could place fifty
gunboats on the Likes aud more than
thirty armored vessels in the harbors of
our leading cities, and could concentrate
75,000 regular troops in Canada, backed
by a sturdy militia renly to march across
our border; while in twice that time
part of her Asiatic squadrou could sail
through the Golden Gate. Our Like
frontier is a cobweb. No laud defences
of such towns as Chicago, situite.l oa
the shore itself, could save them from
bombardment. The best army could not
protect Chicago agaiust a mediocre mod
ern fleet. Tiie shipping and commerce
of the Lakes is attractive. The goods
afloat and ashore suffice to pay a huge
war indemnity. They are all at tho
mercy of an English flotilla. Some peo
ple imagine that modern war has been
humanized out of such measures as
bombardment. lint Paris was bom
barded in 1870; so was Strasburg, and
its beautiful cathedral spire was seriously
injured. War has uo w-ithetic maxims.
The occupation of a seaport leaves no
alternative but submission and the pay
ment of a heavy ransom or bombard
meat. In a town liko Chicago this
would bo followed by fire, and wo all
rumember tho $3UJ,000,O.K) lost iu tho
firo of 1871.
Perennial Rye.
Tho Russian investigators, A. F. Bata
lin, a naturalist, and member of the Im
perial Botanic (iarden of St. Petersburg,
Russia, aud I. F. Kundouroff, a farmer
of Stavropolsk proviuce, are said to have
made tbo discovery that uiu'e- certain
conditio rye becomes n pen uui il plant,
and ulso tuat with proper culture several
crops nny be harvested in one year. Thuso
conclusions uro the result of observations
and experiments extending over a period
of several yeirs. Their importance, if
true, is obvious. Tne plant known a
Sicilian mouutuin ryo grows wild in,
Bicily, Spain, Morocco. Greece, Asia
Minor, Persia and tho Caucasus, and is
very similur in qualily to Russian rye.
True perennial rye has loug existed in a
fluid form. l'iavjune.
More than 600,000 pirnsiou certificates
have bixn issuod for disabilities iucurrud
during the Civil War,
TEMPERANCE.
y DOCTORS WBO Diumr. - -.
' Aoenrdlng to roonnUy enacted taw to
Georgia do pbytddan or surgeon, if once
convieted oforunkeooeas. u ver aanin
trnctio his jirofewlon in that State. The
Hncinnntl Jm -Star, In miggMting a simi
lar law for Ohlc my: "It is but a few days
n.nce a Cincinnati pbvsician was tnken olf
the street sufTring from delirium tremens
while still another Is locked up In the work
houM, convicted of habitual drunkenness. It
In not many years since one of the most
prominent men In the Cinoinnati Medical
locity, conscious of hts oonramtng appetite
for rum, invariably wrote his prescriptions
twice, each time keeping a copy, thinking
thus to escape any mistake which h was
fearful his dipsomania might lead bltn Into."
TOTAL ABKTINSNOK LIAOtTES.
The Masjaoh ii witts Total Abstinence So
'clety hs iimurtd a plan of work looking
to the organisation of temperanca Imgues in
very city and town in the State. The plan
of work eintiraran the following depart
ments! Public meetings, work among chil
dren, circulation ot the total abstinetnoe
plege among adulta, the distribution of tem
perance ami no-license literature, securing a
large no-license vote in all the cities and
towns and the enforcement of existing laws.
The membership will consist of residents of
cities and towns over eighteen years of age.
The constitution is flexible and adapted lo
very locality. The necessity of such or
ganisations Is apparent when one realises
that less than tun per cent, of the population
under forty years is pledged to total abstin
ence. The society invites all classes of tem
perance workers to co-operate with this
ellort to establish local societies.
A mother's fortitude; tested.
It is doubtful if a mother's fortitude and
endurauce can be put to a stronger test than
to be obliged to fight single-handed against
starvation, whilst shielding her children
from the brutalities of a d.-unken parent.
Huch a woman hardly ever manifests her
bitter anguish, except, perhaps, to a spirits
uui auvin-r, wiio can uo nine eiso lor her
' than couueel patience nnd resignation. Her
vinue ana nor sunering are not known to
the world. Even her own children, whom
the sottish behavior of a drunken parent
has prejudiced against all the surroundings
, vi nome, are soou eager to leave her. i h.y
gladly embrace the first opportunity to cast
I their lot among strangers.
I i The Catholic Church cannot refuse to give
. .her hearty support to a movement which is
'destined tO HpllVaP Imm lilLnro mnn.-w.
Mass of virtuous mothers and their helpless
infante it is not too late if the demon of
alcohol has not already buried its crooked
'harpy claws in the vitals of society. Rev.
Licorge Zurcher,
DRINK AND TIIK UflVl RACES.
A member of a Naval Lodge of Good Tem
ples, on board of one of the British naval
vessels on the west coast of Africa, in a let
ter read at tho late anniversary meeting of
the Drink and Native Races Association,
writes
We are out hers on the spot, and can see
for ourselves the immense evils arising from
this devilish traHic. In the steamers which
brought us out to the Cape ot Hood Hope to
join our ships were two missionaries with
cases of Bibles, etc., to bring the glad tid
ings of great joy unto the poor benighted
heathens, and down in the hold of the same
vessel were 2100 gallons of Holland gin and
1500 gallons ot rum intended for the self
same heathens. Now, my brothers and
sisters, please ask yourselves, What
good is it rending our missionaries to
enlighten the nero when we allow the
devil and bis agents to send out that which
utterly destroys the goo 1 they may be en
abled to dof We seamen, although, as it
were, on the scene of battle, are helpless to
do anything in this matter except to urge
the poor blacks to abstain fro:n the drink;
but when we speak to them on the subject,
they tell us, "White man bring it, white
man drink it, and the black man drink it.",
And black man does drink it and dies in con
sequence. One ot the objects for which our
ship is stationed here, is the sunnression of
I the slave trade, but the ships of all sorts that
pass in ana out or tne rivers nave on boar I
that which biuds the noeroes witn worse
chains than those which Wilberforce broke
:asunder, which holds them in stronger
bonds than Abraham Lincoln untied in
,America, and which binds them in slavery
more degrading, mors debasing and more
damning than any for which the brave ine?
of the Northern States went to war with
their Southern brethren to abolish.
( SAD LESSON FROM LIPS. -j
'The Women's Christian Temperance
Union is very well," said a gentleman to
me, "but women make more drunkards than ,
their society reforms.1' It was a sweeping'
statement, and I asked him to explain.
'Women like their cordials and their tonics,"
said he, "and alcohol forms an important
part of all of them. They are apt to keep
them on hand, for their stomach's sake and
often inllrmities, and mix what they call a
harmless m-diciue for their husbands or sons
when they come home tired or out of sorts,
so that the liquor habit is formed and the
men go to saloons, where they can get
stronger drink. Here is a case iu point. I
knew a man, honest and capable, a good
husband and father. His wife was weakly.
Very often sho would ask her nurse
to make hur a whisky punch,
and to give some to Jamie it he came in
tired after a day's work. The habit graw
on him. he drank stronger liquors, business
failed, he neglected his family, and they be
came very poor. His delicate wife would
have sulf area from actual want, but an aunt
dying about that time left her (3000. Her
husband wanted the money to begin business
again, but his wife would not trust him; she
was consumptive, her children might be left
destitute.
"There was a stormy scene when he de
manded the money and she refused, and
partly under the influence of liquor, be
struck her. They separated, and she never
saw him again. Borrow developed her dis
ease, aud not long before her death, she sent
for me. '1 want you to be kind to Jamie,'
said she, '.or it was my fault that
be took to drink; I see it now.
He did not care for liquor till
I coaxed him to take it. But I did not
dream it was more than a medicine.' Again
and again she would moan iu a heartbroken
voice, 'It was my fault, Jamie would never
h:. ve been a drunkard if I had not given him
a taste of liquor I' And this sorrow went
with ber to the grave. Jamie did not need
my care long. He was taken up in the street
intoxicated soon after his wlfea death, and
being sick in the jail, I had him sent to the
hospital, where hiss rrowul life soon ended,
but it women would be careful about the
brandy in preserves, the wine in sauces, the
pleasant tasting tonics, the little sip before
going tobed.there would be less drunkenness
among the men, and fewer heartbroken
womeu to sob out, 'lam to blame t 'It is
my fault f "ii-actical Farmer.
TIMPXRANCIt NEWS AND NOTES.
The road to ruiu is broad; but its entrance
is generally through the side-door.
The English syndicate has bought another
brewery iu St. Louis for (10, 000, (W.
A prohibition clause in title-deeds has been
decided to be valid by a far-off court in In
dia. Frances E. Willard has cancelled her fall
engagement for addresses, owing to the
f e bkuemi of her aged mother.
The Indiana Orand Lodge of Odd Fellows
recently decided to exclude liquor-sellers
from the organization iu future.
The aggregate whisky production of the
Kentucky distilleries for the year endiug
June UO, ISM, was 33,3,J--',.VJ'J gallon.
Great Britian aud Ireland last year drauk
507,000,000. gallon of beer, 4,000,000 gallons
more tUau were consumed iu Germany.
"Saloons on wheels" are a new invention
In Sum City, Iowa, for illegal liquor-selling
and evading the legal penalties therefor.
The police report states that the licensed
bouses in Loudou, England, number 14.0B5,
giving one to eyery 414 of the population.
Of the 30,000 criminals in German prisous,
14,000 were arrdsted tor crimes committed
under the iullueuce of intoxicating drink.
Of OOO cases treated for inebriety, at the
Fort Hamilton (N. Y.) Inebriates' Home,
205 had one or mure relative addicted to in
toxication. "Liquid bread" is the very illusory name
given by au eiiierprising brewer to his bot
tled beor, as "iWl tor the sick aud beverage
for the well,"
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
CLEAR SEtlt WATER.
Rain water, it is well known, is tha
best cosmotio. A good substitute is to
let some orange, lemon or cucumber peel
soak in wator used to wash tha face.
This need not bo especially prepared for
evory ablution. Keepawido-mouthed bot
tle or jar of it on your toilet stand and
use daily for the face. It soften the
skin and gives a becoming glow, whilo
healthfully stimulating the action ot the
skin. tfea Tork Journal.
WOOD STAIN.
Porhap you have a hardwood floor, or
a floor which you wish to stain so that
it will have the semblance ot natural
wood. A very serviceable, dark, red
dish brown stain is mado by dissolving
one and one-halt ounces ot permangan
ate of potash in a gallon of boiling
water. Stir the solution thoroughly with
a stick, and put it down with a painter's
flat brush, working rapidly and with tho
grain of the wood. If the stain is not
dark enough apply another when the
first is dry. Afterward "set" the stain
by rubbing In three coats of linseed oil.
Rub the oil in along with the grain of
the wood and let each coat become thor
oughly dry. Finally, polish with bees
wax and turpentine: Apply with the
flannel and polish with a brush. The
polishing should be repeated onco a
week. The floor should be dusted daily.
iVets York Commercial Advertiser.
AN EXCELLENT WAT TO COOK CABDAOR.
The following is an excelleut way to
cook cabbage : Choose a firm, nice cab
bage, pick off the outsido leave and
plunge the cabbage into boiling wator,
pressing It down in the center to allow
the water to peuetrate and loosen tho
loaves. Then place the cabbage on a
meat board and open each leaf gontly
until you reach the center, out of which
cut a piece about tho size of an egg. Fill
this space where you have cut out the
heart with a mixture of mincod cold
meat or chicken, chopped bacon and two
well boaleu eggs; bring the nearest
leaves well over to reform the heart and
fill each space between the leaves with a
thin layer ot tho mines bringing each
leaf back as nearly as possible to its
original placo. Lay two strips of bacon
sidewise over the cabbage and tie it all
around with thick thread so it cannot
fall to pieces. Make a nico brown gravy
and pour ovor the cabbage; in this sim
mer the cabbage gently for four hours.
Jiei York World.
A GOOD CLKAN81NO PREPARATION.
A lady called for tbi mixture at a
drug store: One quart ot deodorized
benzine, one drachm of sulphuric ethor,
one drachm of chloroform, two drachms
ot alcohol, and just enough cologne to
make It pleasant. When she hid gone,
the clerk remarked to aspoctator: "Dj
you know what sho wauted that prepara
tion for! You would not be far out of
the way if you guessed sho was going to
wash some soiled glovos. That is one
of the best and cheapest preparation for
cleansing that I know ot. You pour a
little ot the mixture into a clean bowl,
aod wash tho gloves in it as you would
wash anything with soap and water. If
the gloves are of a cheap kind, it is best
to dry thorn on the hand, but a fine
cloth, after having boon rubbsd to
smooth out the wrinkles, may be hung
on the line to dry liko an ordinary gar
ment. Tho preparation is an excellent
thing to have handy, not only for reju
venating gloves, but for removing grease
spots from clothing and carpets, and for
sponging coat collars and felt hats. Tho
ladies iu this town could save constdor
ablo raonoy by following that ono's ex
ample." Christian Union.
BKCIPB3.
Broiled Ham Slice thin, it very salt,
soak in cold water, wipe dry, lay on a
gridiron, sprinkle with pepper; broil over
a very hot Are. Take up and pour molted
butter over.
Hamburg Steaks Take ouo pound of
round steak, chop very fine; add a table
spconful of onion juice, halt a teaspoon
ful of salt and a pinch of black pspper;
mix well; moisten the hands in cold
water, take up two tablespoontuls of the
mixture and form In small, round cakes.
Fry in boiling lard, and whon brown
on one side, turn. Serve with brown
gravy.
Lemon Pie Two tablespoon sugar
and one teaspoon butter creamod to
gether, and yolk ot two eggs well
beaten. Dissolve a teaspoonful ot corn
starch iu halt a teacupful of swoet milk
and add; then add the juice aud grated
rind from one loraon and bake in a lined
pie plato. When baked, add the whttei,
well beaten, with two tablespoons of
sugar ; return to oveu and brown.
Fish a la Riene Pick a pound of flsh
to pieces. Put a tnblcspoonful of butter
in a frylng-pau, let melt and stir in a
tublespoonful of flour; stir well, pour in
half a pint of milk aud stir until it boils.
Add tho fish, with three chopped mush
rooms, a little salt and pepper, and set
the frying-pan over boiliug water. Beat
the yelk of an egg lightly, add It with
a tablespoonful ot copped parsley. Mix
and sorve in shells.
Raspberry Vinegar Take ripe rasp
berries, put thorn in a pan and mash
them with a large wooden spoon or
masher. Strain the juice through a jelly
bag, and to each pint of juice add one
pouud of loaf sugar and one quart ot
vinegar. When the sugar has dissolve I
place the whole over the firo in a pro
serving kettle and let it boil a mlnuto or
two and skim It. Whon cold bottle it,
cork it well and it will bo fit for use.
Real Boston Baked Beans Boil one
pint of beans in a half gallon of water
an hour. Then pour off water; put the
beans in a large pau, pour over them halt
a pall of cold water aud wa?h thor
oughly. Repeat this several times, until
the skins of the boaus are all washe 1 o I.
Place the beans in a half gallon stoue j-ir
or crock, cover with water, add a pound
of fat pork or bacon, a tablespoon of
molasses, and a little salt and bake all
day. Must be kept covered tightly, and,
if it gets too dry add mora water.
Pistachio Cream Cake One-half cup
butter, two cups sugar, ono cup milk,
whites of three eggs, two aud three-quarters
cups flour, two teaspoon baking
powder, one-halt teaspoon almond.
Cream the butter, add the sugar, milk,
eggs beaten till foamy, almond and flour
mixed with baking-powder. Bake iu
shallow pans, aud fill with one cup rich
cream, half cup powdered sugar, half
cup pistachio-nuts, half cup almonds.
Whip the cream stilt with a beater; add
the sugar, and tho nuts chopped aud
yullfldttd fibt).
Them are rabbits in Tasmania which
have developed toe-nails by climbing
trees. The climbing also keeps the nails
worn down, so tbey do not have to be
cut. Here is A solution for the trouble
tome loe-nail problem which some hu
man being may desire to imitate.
Buffalo Expreu.
There is rigorous and determined
movement on foot among the men in
Philadelphia against the promiscuous
surrendering of seats in public convey
ances to women.
K. II. Walthall A Co., DmRglt,!1nme Cave,
Ky., say? "Hall's Catarrh Curs cures every
one that takes It." Hold by LlruKKists, 75o.
OtiKEN Victoiiia baa fifty living descen
dants.
The demands of society often induce ladies
tnuxeatiack stimulants when feellnir badly.
They sre daiwemusl Lydla E. l'lnkham's
Vetretable Compound
casus.
1b adapted to sucb
I'ontmendnhle.
All claims not consistent with the high char
acter of Syrup of I- Igs are purposely avoided
by thcCal. Fig Syrup Company. It acts gently
on the kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the
system effectually, but it Is not a cure-all and
makes no pretensions that every bottle will
not substantiate.
A Kins ! (he Family.
Dr. Hoxslc's Certain Croup Cure for colds,
ooutfhs, croup aud pueumonia hns no rival.
Cure without naum-a or any dlHarraiiuemeut.
Bold by driiKKists or uiAllod on receipt ol M eta,
Address A. i'. lluxlo. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Oanveaience si Milt i rains.
The Kris Is ths only railway running solid:
trains over its own tracks between New Vork
and Chioago. No change of cars for any class
of passengers. Kates lower than via. any other
ArsV-cloe line.
FITS stopped free by I)n. Kl.tna's (Ihkat
Nkhvk Rkstohrh. No fits alter flmt ilny's uxo.
Marvelous cures. TreAttse and (- trial buttle
The happiness of mother and child depends
upon the health of both, a lady writes: "My
boy and I are splendid, thanks to Mrs. link
ham and the Vegetable Compound."
From Father to Son.
Scrofula Is a blood poison which
t is a taint
which must be
eradicated from
the system be
fore a cure can
be made. Swift's
Specific, S. S.
S., drives out the
virus through
throat and noso,
was so sore that
entirely well."
the pores of
the skin and thus relieves the blood of the poison.
BOOKS ON BLOOD AMD SKIN DISEASES Fit KB.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta,
DR.TALMACE'S"LIFE OF CHRIST."
Oortring htaffrMt trip Tt Tbrnnjih, ftnd from lhti
nil ncraTinc. sUso a arrtvnd picture of Jotumu
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m tm
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II PBLLS
Tbc Great Liver an! Stomacli RcmeJy
For the oura of all dlttorxton of the stomach, Llvar,
Howell, KldneyH, Hlatider, NtrTotii OIm-imo, IobH of
Appetite, lli tulache, Conntl paUon, ('(MtlrcnttMa, Id
dlgtMtton. HUtoiiHutws. rVver, lun&mniHtloa of the
Bowel), Piles) ami 4J derautfemeuU of tne Internal
Vleeerav lurely vetretahto, ouuttttulug do mercury,
mineral, or deleterious drug.
PERFECT DIGESTION TOayrjStia
wayi P1IU every morning, about tun o'clock, aa a
dinner pill. Uy ao doing
SICK HEADACHE
Dytpepala, Foul Stomach, nil .nuance, will be an tided
aud the food that l rat en oon tribute Its nourUtiln
gropertiee for Ute aupport of Um natural wate of the
FOhaerre the following aymptoma roauttlng
from Dutettae of the DlKtutivu OrgAU ; ikjuntlpuLlon,
Inward 11 lea, Fuilne of the liloot. In Hie ll?ai,
otdlty of the Stomach, Nausea, Iltarthurn, Ulfttfust
of Food, Hullnena or Wultrht In the btomucli. Hour
Eructatlona, Mule In or FlutterlUK of tho ileart.
Choking or Suffocating Keusntioui when In a liu
posture, lilraneator YMoii, Lkituor W-U$ herons the
Sight, Fever aud Dull 1'aln In (he Head, DrnVIenry
of IVrspl ration. Yellowm-na of th Skin aud Kys
Pain In the Hide, Cheat, Unit, aud buddeu Flu.thea
of Heat, .turning In the Flesh.
A few doaetsof KADWAY'K PII.KH will froo
the aystm of all the above named d aonlem.
Price litl rta. per loi. Sold hy all druggitta
Senfa Intter atampto I. KADWA i tV TO.,
Ko. 3'i Warren afreet. New .irk. W Informa
tion worth thousand will be aeot to you.
TO THK PUHUO. He mre and auk for KADWAYri
and aue that the name " HAD WAY " u ou what you
buy.
"German
Syrup"
Those who have not
used Boschee's Ger
man Syrup for some
severe and chronic
trouble of the Throat
aud Luncrs can hard
A Throat
and Lung
Specialty.
ly appreciate what a truly wonder
ful medicine it is. The delicious
sensations of healing, easing, clear
ing, strength-gatheriug and recover
ing are unknown joys. For Ger
man Syrup we do not ask easy cases.
Sugar and water may smooth a
throat or stop a tickling for a while.
This is as far as the ordinary cough
medicine goes. Boschee's German
Syrup is a discovery, a great Throat
and Lung Specialty. Where for
years there have been sensitiveness,
pain, coughing, spitting, hemorr
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip
ping down hill, where doctors and
medicine and advice have been swal
lowed and followed to the gulf of
despair, where there is the sickening
conviction that all is over and the
end is inevitable, there we place
German Syrup. It cures. You are
a live man vet if you take it. ii
TO KEKP
-CIDER
Of PllEVRKT
r KltMEN ra
TluM. IT
SWEE
USE IMPROVED
PRESERVING POWDER.
It doeanot Impair the taste or flavor. In thoroughly
reliable and nbsuluU iy harmbms to the human utrm.
bend 8 vim. for a miiinle. forwarded free; mi ro
dent for 40 g 1 1 loan. Vuv pound, KumVW-ut for 8 Hoist.,
fl.&u, ieoeivi-r to pay eharKi-a, or $i.m by mull, pro
liiid. Price lower lu litrer uiiiititltle.
V. KINf-SKlt & (''., lut WtllluiiiHt.. N. Y. city.
Mwutlon thin paper wh-u wrUliitf.
PATENTS;
V. T. Fltxiierald.
V'kmIiIuiIhi, 1.
u-pugeaattU tree.
Boat Couch Medicine.
Cures whore all else fuila.
taaui. Children tuko it
F V
I 1 1
Cleared awatf 1
all the troubles and ailments that
mako woman's life a burden to her.
SIio'b relieved, cured, and restored,
with Dr. Pierre's Fnvorite Prescrip
tion. Periodical pains, weak back,
bearing -down sensations, nervous
prostration, all " female complaints,"
are cured by it. It improves di
gestion, enriches tbo blood, dispel
aches and pains, brings refreshing
sleen. and restores health ana
strength. 1 1
It's a powerful general, as well a
uterine, tonic and nervino, Imparting
vigor and strength to tho entire sys
tem. Contains no alcohol to inebri
ato; no syrup or sugar to derange
digestion ; a legitimato medicint
not a beverage. j
If you're a tired, nervous, or suf
fering woman, then tho "Favoritej
Prescription " is tho only medicine)
that's guaranteed, in every case, to
bring you help. If it doesn't give
you satisfaction, yon have your
money back.
descends from parent to child.
AFFLICTED FROM CHILDHOOD.
Mrs. N. Rltchey, of Mackey, Ind., says! "Justice com
pels me to say that 8. 8. 8. has worked littlo short of
a miracle in my cose, In curing me of aggravated Scrofu
la, which afflicted me from childhood. It attacked my
and threatened my lungs. My throat
I was compelled to subsist on liquid
food. When I began B.8.H.I was in a wretched condi
tion but commonoed to Improve at once, and am now
Ca.
niiirtrmted with ow 400 wood"
tha du of th onicifltton, in 12 oolura and tm ft in
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