(id* a Medal for Speed.
Engineer William Tunkey, who
jmllcil the Lake Shore's record-break
ing train from Erie to Buffalo last
October, has just been given an elab
orate silver medal by W. K. Vander
bilt andW. Seward Webb. Mr. Tun
key's ability as an engineer caved this
trial of spted from being a failure,for
■when I be (rain reached Erie it seemed
irretrievably behind tho scheduled
time, and Mr. Tunkey's quick work
saved tho day. The medal given to
Mr. Tunkey i« of solid silver, weighs
ncnrlv two pounds, and is a work of
art. —Scientific American.
Hired Swains.
A curious custom prevails in some
provinces of Holland during the car
nival season. Young women of the
w irking class, especially domestic ser
vants, who have no sweetheart of their
own, are in the habit of hiring "fol
lowers" for their Sunday out, or for
the whole of the carnival period.
These lovers are by no means to be
had very cheap. Often two or three
naids will club together and share a
Jover among them if he comes too ex-
I ensive for one girl.
This temporary lover has many duties
to perform. Of oourse, he must be
good looking and well dressed, aud an
efficient and indefatigable dancer, "fit
to be seen with anywhere," he must
likewise possess good conversational
powers. Besides receiving a variety
of valuable presents from his "girls,"
he is "found" by them in victuals and
drink. If a young woman can afford
to engage a "swain" all to herself, so
much tlie better, for the*hireling often
develops into a real lover and ulti
mately into a husband. It can thus
be said that, in some districts of Hol
land, the girls do all the wooing.
Bitch fur Alle.
President Clements B. Markham, of
ihe Royal Geographical Society, bat,
probably risked his life oftener than
uny other civilian in Great Britain.
He is a great adventurer and was
trained in the navy with McClintock,
the illustrious Arctic explorer, as a
comrade.
Fro I, Frolic itii <l Jlusinegc.
Tho wind over frozen pouails and lakes,
<;ver snow-fields of plains and open country,
is heavily charged with frost and flna par
ticles of frozen matter. It is the most pene
trating wny for chill to pet in. Sudden
warmth, sudden chill, and severe colds.
Girls aud boys skating, driving for pleasure
< r business, and men at work atlelrl know
the difference in temperature. Yet tho
youngsters skate away aud with mouth open
laughing take in a dose of sorethroat.
Drivers aud workmen throw aside wraps and
all know the next day from soreness ami stiff
ness what sudden cliill means. Now the
best thing to rio when housed is to rub well
at once with St. Jacobs Oil. If you do, you
will not have sorethroat; or if you aro stiff
and sore, it will cure by wanning the surface
to throw out the chill.
The bicycling clubs of New York State
have an estimated total membership of 75,-
COO.
The object of tl'- manufacturers of Dobbins'
Electric .*icap uas been for .l years to make this
soap of such tuptrior quality that tt will pive
i: Titucrtat Balit/aclion. Have they succeeded?
Ask your grocer for it. Take no other.
The gob* mines of Cherokee, Ga., are now
engaging tho attention of English capita ists.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Koot cure
ail Kidney and Bladder troub'es.
Pamphlet and Consultation Iron.
Laboratory Cinghainton. N. Y.
Nebraska prohibitionists have started a
boom for C. K. Beutley for President.
TNE (lEM'tNF. " Brown's Buonciuai.
1 koches" are sold only iu boxes. They are
wonderfully effective for Coughs and Throat
Troubles.
England proposes to spend f50,000,000 on
her navy this year.
Tlio World'* Karliest l*otato.
That's Seizor's Earliest, lit for use in 28
days. Salter's now late potato. Champion
of tho World, is pronounced tho heaviest
yicl.ler in tho world, and we challenge you
to produco its equal! 10 acres to Salter's
Earliest Potatoes yield 4030 bushels, sold in
June at 41 a bushel—slooo That pays. A
word to the wise, etc.
Now IF YOU WILL cur THIS OCT AND SEND it
with 10c. postage to tho John A. Saltier Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis., you will get, free, 10
packages grains and grasses, including Teo
einte, Lathyrus, Sand Vetch, Giant Spurry,
Giant Clover, etc., and our mammoth seed
catalogue. (A.)
FITS stopped freo by Dn. Kline's Uhfat
Nerve Restorer. No tits after tirst dav's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise Hnd $2.00 trial bot
tle free. Dr. Kline, I'lil Arch St.. l'hila.. Pa.
IF you want to bo cured of a cough use Hale's
Honey of Horehonnd and Tar.
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in ono minute.
March
April, May are most emphatically the months
for tnking a good blood puriller. because the
system is now most in need of such a med
icine, aud because it more quiokly responds
to medicinal qualities. In winter impurities
do not pa«s out of the body freely, but ac
cumulate in the blood Tho best medicine
April
to purify, enrich and vitalize the blood, and
thus give strength and build up the system,
is Hood's Sarsaparlila. Thousands take it as
their Spring Medicine, and more are taking
it today than ever before. If you are tired,
"out of sorts," nervous, have bad taste in
May
tho morning, aching or dizzy head, sour
stomach and feel all run down, a course of
Hood's Sarsaparllla will put your whole
body in good order and make you strong and
vigorous. It is the idoal Spring Medicine
and true nerve tcnic, because
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1
Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowall, Mass.
llaaiC* Dili* Hre purely vegetable, carc-
HOOQ • I*lllß fully prepared. *5 cent*.
N Y N Li-9
inn HAIjKHMKN town New ('asb Itegiflter (cut
lUU prlcej. Wk pay. National C. Co., Winston, N. !
AHKIIU Mor J I,IIn(> Habit Cured in 10
lllf lllflfl to 30 riayf. Nopay till rnred*
VriUm PR. J.BTIPHEN9, Ltbanon.Ohio.
DRY EARTH ON FERTILIZERS.
A few inches of dry earth oyer a pile
of fermenting manure will effectually
prevent loss of ammonia. This is a
muoh more common cause of loss
where manure is piled than is leioh
ing. We doubt whether during sum
mer and until cold weather the piles of
manure left out of doors get more
rainfall than is good for them. This is
especially true of horso manure, whioh
will burn into ashes and lose most of
its manurial value if kept where rain
cannot reach it. The waste from leach
ing of manure occurs mainly in winter
and early spring, when tho melting of
snows and heavy rainfalls drenoh the
soil with water.—Farm, Field and
Fireside.
A SUCCESSFUL TENANT FARMER.
I began on a run-down Vermont
farm of 165 aares with thirteen oows,
two yearlings, two shoats, ten hens
and now have fifteen cows, three
springers, six yearlings, fourteen hogs,
eighty hens, and plenty of rough fod
der to keep them, writes L. S. Glynn.
This year I sowed five acres of fodder
corn, planted eight acres of flint corn,
began feeding green fodder August 10
and roots later on, and am now feed
ing cured fodder and about seven
pounds of grain (composed of equal
parts cob meal, wheat bran and gluten
meal) three times a day to each cow.
Am milking thirteen oows, six of them
farrow, and carry the milk to the
Marshall creamery. Last year the
hens brought in about SGO. Next year
I eholl sow ten acres of Sanfoid com,
haviug raised my own seed, and am
working to keep forty cows on this
place. lam in favor of tho silo but
cannot afford one on a rented farm,
go will run my fodder through a
shredder. I think soiling is the only
way to bring up a farm. I shall try
sowing about four acres of oats to out
green and make hay of, and shall ex
periment -with muck, as wo have a
large amount of it and adapted to its
use. Tho great trouble with farmers
here is, they are too apt to sell their
stock if short of fodder. Now lam
in favor of buying grain and keeping
the stock, as more stock means more
hay, and more hay means better farms.
—American Agriculturist.
THE EFFECT OF SALT OS MILK.
Salt given tc cows has some effect
on tho quality of tho milk. This is
necessarily so, as the salt aids very
much in the digestion of tho food, aud
it is tho quantity of the food digested
that regulates the quantity and quality
of the milk. Salt is indispensable to
the health of any animal that feeds on
vegetable matter, and the milk is af
fected greatly by tho health or oppo
site condition of a cow. When salt is
given to excess, it is injurious and
causes an intense thirst, but this does
not necessarily make the milk moro
watery than usual. If the cow drinks
more water than is enstomary there is
no reason to believe that this excess of
water dilutes the milk. The milk is
not made in any such way as would
make this possible. It is produced by
the braalnng down of"tho glandular
tissue of tho udder and this novel - con
tains more than a normal quantity of
water. The kidneys are charged with
the removal of any excess of water
from the blood, and this drain, or out
let, if in good working condition, will
always attend to its own business,
and if it does not or cannot, for any
reason, the milk glands cannot per
form this function, but tho cow be
oomes diseased at once. But is athis
question that the careful farmer will
never havo to consider, became he
will always take care that such a sup
posed mistake will never happen. It
is only the careless farmer who runs
risks of giving his cows, or permit
ting them to get, too much salt,—
Farm and Home.
STRAWBERRY CULTURE.
As to planting strawberries, about
whioh we havo many inquiries, thero
are several ways. Of course, tho
ground must be dug a good depth, and
pulverized carefully, having applied a
liberal quantity of barnyard manure.
The beds can be marked out three feet
wide and made as long as may be de
sired. Let the footpaths between the
beds be eighteen incheg apart and re
move from them all the runners as fast
as they encroach. Set the plants firm
ly but not too deeply in the ground,
one foot apart each way. Get any of
the following varieties : Captain Jack,
Seth Boyden, the Great American, the
Monarch of the West, or Triomphe de
Gand, for private purposes. If a crop
is wanted exclusively for marketing
choose the Albany Seedling by ail
means, ft will produce geuerally a
greater quantity of fruit than any
other and will bring in the most
money. Strawberry beds can be
planted out as early as the ground can
be got in suitable condition.
Many persons prefer the hill system
of planting out strawberries, and with
some very strong growing varieties it
is probably the best. When this is
adopted the plants should be set two
feet apart each way. But from our
own experience we prefer the broad
cast planting. It has several advan
tages. The plants keep the ground
moister, it requires less labor to culti
vate, and the beds last twice as long
by producing now bearing plants every
yenr. The disadvantage is, the weeds
cannot be removed so easily, lu t ij <•
hills the old plauts aro fruited yeat
after year, aud its a consequeuce the
berries yearly get smaller.
One thing must be particularly
borne in mind: The beds must, bit
kept dear of weeds. Two weeks after
the crop has beeu secured, say some
time iu July, mow otf the vines, not so
closely as to injure the crown, and let
them remain as » mulch. Late in the
autumn the beds should be covered
with strnw or light manure ; andiutiie
spring tho very coarsest portions
should either bo removed or carefully
placed about tho plants. Wheu thii
is done, should the plants have been
distiubii rjy the trust, cess over them
a light roller, apply about an inch of
fine soil to the whole bed.
If any top-dressing is applied it
should be in the spring, and then there
is nothing better than a light coating
of ground bones. —Germantown Tele
graph,
TO DRAIN A CELLAR.
A cellar in wet soil must neoessarily
bo drained so as to prevent the water
from rising in it through the floor.
It is not the surface water that settles
down into it, but the subsoil water
that is forced up by the pressure of
the outside water sinking from the
surfaoe. So that by laying a drain
tile all around the cellar under the
walls the drainage is not complete.
Several drains should be laid, one all
around olose to the foundation and
some cross drains about six feet apart
in the cellar floor and connecting with
the main drain at the walls. These
drains should be at least sixteen inches
below the floor of the cellar. Some
times water percolates through the
wall, especially if it is of briok, and
to prevent this and keep the walls
quite dry the outside should be thor
oughly saturated with hot tar to make
them waterproof. This should be
done with every cellar wall when a
house is built, as it is a costly job to
do afterward, but easily done at the
right time. In laying a cement floor
in a cellar it should be done in this
manner: First, a layer of coarse
gravel or broken stone is well rammed
down and made level and smooth.
Then the samo kind of material is
wetted and mixed with one part of ce
ment mortar to six of it, and this is
laid at once in small quantities, as it
is made, and smoothed and beaten
down with a broad rammer to make it
solid and firm. This material is mixed
in small quantities as it can be laid,
or it will harden prematurely. Tho
finishing coat is made of a coat of the
mortar, which is of ono part of the ce
ment aud two of good, sharp sand,
laid one inch thick. It is smoothed
with a piece of board having a suitable
sloping handle, which is rubbed back
aud forth as the cement is wetted with
water. This gives a nice, smooth
finish.—New York Times.
THE ORCHARD.
Many of tho orchards of otir coun
try aro shamefully neglected, and it
would naturally appear from obvious
inference, that the farmer is unwilling
to give lii 3 fruit trees even as little
care as is ordinarily expended upon
crops of corn or potatoes. An estab
lished orchard, consisting of standard
market varieties of fruits, is one of
tho best paying properties the farmer
can maintain. It should bo borne in
mind, however, that something can
never come from nothing. Fruit can
not bo produced, except the soil con
tain the proper materials for tho form
ation of the samo. A continual taking
away will surely tend to emptiness in
the end; and that soil, that has pro
duced mauv crops of apples or other
fruits, must soon become sterile and
unproductive, unless a restoration of
plant food is regularly made. Why
not feed the orchard every year as
well as market garden crops? As a
fertilizer for fruits, nothing surpasses
a mixture of hard wood ashes and
ground bone. This produces sound,
large, richly colored fruit of a firm
texture, that brings the highest mar
ket price. Let an annual application
of from one4ialf to a whole ton of
ashes, and from two hundred to fivo
hundred pounds of ground bone bo
made on each acre of orchard area.
The winter season affords excellent
opportunity to make this dressing, as
it may be broadcast on tho surfaoo of
the snow, which will materially aid in
rendering it soluble and available as
plant food. If a tough old sod has
formed iu the orohard, break it up by
plowing shallow furrows, or by scari
fying the surface with a sharp cutaway
hurrow. The idea is, of oourse, sim
ply to loosen and mellow tho surfaoo
soil without disturbing many roots of
the trees. Every orehardist needs to
give some attention to pruning. The
time for this work is during the in
fancy of the tree, when undesirable
and unnecessary shoots may be re
moved with thumb and finger. After
a tree has attained fiaaturity, it should
not be, required: to sever any large
branches, but .merely to cut out any
dead wood or shoots, that iuterlook or
render the head of the tree too denso
and oompact. It should be remem
bered that a treo with a rather low
head is much more handy for pioking
apples from than a high, rangy growth.
—New York Observer.'
(Jotham's Army ot Bicyclers.
Talk about bioyole inventions—it is
claimed there are now about 400 dif
ferent kiuds of wheels now on the lo
cal market, and at least 200,000 riders
in the oily. Nearly every great wheel
manufacturing house in the oountry
has an agency in the metropolis and
the bnsmess has grown to an immense
volume. Branch houses and agencies
have sprung np-all oyer the city and
all are doing a wonderful business.
One year ago there were but 3500
members of the New York division of
tho League of American Wheelmen,
while now that number has increased
to 10,000. New York has become the
headquarters for the sale of bicycles.
—New York Advertiser.
Antelope Fast Disappearing.
Sioux Indiaus aro slaughtering deer
aud antelope oy the hundred along
the North and South Moreau Rivers
and among tho Slim Buttes and Cave
ifills, in South Dakota, according to
j the stockmen in that region. It is
reported that more than 400 hides of
antelope were seen in one Indian camp
recently, and the whole region is scat
| tered over with carcasses of deer antX
' antelope, the Indians killing the ani
mals solely for tho hides. The stock
: men say that these animals will soon
oe exterminated iu that region if the
| Indians are permitted to continue thtir
' ruthless slaughter.
COULD ONLY EAT PEPTONOIDB
BUT"PINK FILM MADE IT FOHIBII
TO EAT ANYTHING.
Get Tour nitoitlon Kl«hi and Ton* Health
Will Take Care of ItMlf.
From the Star, Wathinjton, D. C.
"Dr. Williams' Pi alt Pills miraculously
oured me of two diseases and have othei wise
done me a vast amount of good," said Mrs.
E. A. Meeker, of No. 207 Third street, South
east Washington, D. 0., to a Star reporter
to-day.
"For many years I was a sufferer from
muscular rheumatism in its worst form, and
in addition had stomach trouble to such an
extent that for a long time I could eat noth
ing stronger than beef peptonolds. The
rheumatism commenced in my baok and not
only extended into my left arm, almost para
lyzing It from the shoulder to the elbow, but
attacked my hips and limbs with such ve
hemence that it was impossible for me togo
out on the street without being supported
by an attendant.
"I was attended by four different physi
cians—not all at one time—of both the allo
pathic and homeopathic schools, and there
were times when I was ooverod from my
neok to mv feet with porous or some other
kind of plasters, lor I tried everything of
the sort that was recommended by my
friends.
"During the greater part of this time my
husband and son were urging me to take Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills but I steadily refused to
do so.
"About two years or two and a half years
ago, the physician who was then attending
mo, and I have had none slnoe, said to me,
'Mrs. Meeker there is no use for me to come
and see you any more, you have muscular
rheumatism, a disease incident to old age,
and you cannot bo cured. I will give you
gome iron for your blood, and when this
prescription runs out you can get it renewed.
If you get much worso you can send for me,
but I will not again call until I am sum
moned.'
"Of course I was muoh discouraged, but
still I tried a noted massage treatment thor
oughly, but without the slightest effect. At
last mv husbund persuaded me to try the
Pinlt Pills.
"I want to say that when I began taking
tho Pink Pills it was without the least faith
In their efllcacy tor good or belief that they
would benefit me, but simply to please my
husband and son by taking something. How
ever, I took them lis directed by the makers,
and about the end of the month I found, to
my great surprise, that my stomaoh was so
much batter that I had no longer to subsist
on beef peptonolds, but could begin to in
dulge in more solid food.
"3o I told my husband that as the Pink
Pills were evidently doing me good, I would
try them for another month.
"I continued to use them as dlreoted and
during the seoond month my cyosight, whioh
had been very bad for a loug time began to
improve, and it was much more pleasant for
me togo on the streot, though I still had to
be attended on account of m.v weak limbs.
"How many boxes of the Pink Pills I took
in all X could not begin to tell as there were
periods when I would stop using thorn for a
week at a time. But from the timo I com
menced until I felt I oould safely cease taking
them was about fifteen months.
"Sometime after my eyesight began to
grow better, my memory, which had been
defective and caused me much trouble for a
long time, returned and became ns good as
when I was many years younger. Dur
ing the period to which t refer I had
great difficulty in remembering where I had
put anything, but. as I said before, this
trouble entirely disappeared and has never
returned, While my eyosigbt also continues
excellent.
"My long cottinued illness had reduced
my weight from between 130 and 1-10 pounds
to 112 pounds, but while I was taking the
Pink Pills I gained 30 pounds, and I now
weigh 138 pounds.
"Some of my friends freely asserted that
my flesh, as they noticed my increasing
weight, was not solid and predicted tlli.t I
would speedily lose if. Such, however, has
not been the case, although I have not taken
any of the pills since last December. All my
rhoumatism having by that timodisappaarod,
since which time I have bad no return of the
dread complaint. 1 have been told that the
disease will visit me again, but if it does, I
shall again resort to the use of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills.
"With my experience with Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills I have not hesitated to recom
mend them to others who were afflicted. My
nieco, who lives near Hillsboro, Londouu
County, Va., suffered for a long time with a
peculiar disease of the hips and limbs. I be
lieved the medicine whioh did me so muoh
good would cure her also, and I bought three
boxes of them and sent to her. She took
them and was cured completely of her com
plaint."
Dr. Williams' Pink Piils contain all the
elements necessary to givo now llfo and
richness to the blood and restore shattered
nerve?. They are sold in boxes (never in
loose form by the dozen or hundred) nt 50
cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may
be had of all druggists or directly by mall
from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schenec
tady. N. Y.
" Hall-Hanged Maprsrle."
A curious instance of tho hangman's
rope failing to perform its fatal work
gave to Margaret. Dickson, an English
woman of a century and a half ago,
the nickname of "Half-Hanged Mag
gie," a name by which she was known
throughout the British Isles. Maggie
had been convioted of some capital of
fense (there were several such offenses
catalogued in the English statutes at
that time), und was finally taken to
the gallows on the hill nt Edinburgh.
After the drop fell she was allowed to
hang several hours before friends
claimed the remains and started with
them in a cart for Musselburg, six
miles away. On the way some drunk
en apprentices rudely halted the oart
and opend the coflin in order to see
the woman who had been hanged.
This let in fresh air, and the air and
jolting of the cart combined to revive
the suppossd dead woman long before
tho home of the relatives was reaohed.
Arriving there she was carried into
the house, alive, but very faint and
barely conscious. A minister was
called to pray for her, but she soon
recovered sufficiently to demand that
the preaoher be dispatched for a doc
tor. The physician soon arrived and
Maggie quickly recovered, but was
never again iried or even arrested for
her crime. Later on she married and
becamo'the mother of several children.
She lived to bo quite old, but thoniok
name of "Half-Hanged Maggie" stayed
even after deoth, being engraved on
the sandstone slab that marked her
grave. —St. Louis Republio.
The Ijnrßfst Bicycle.
What is said to be the largest bicycle
in the world has been made by a
bioyole compony in Providence, R. I.
It is madn to carry six persons. Its
length over all is 156 inches, aud its
wheel base is 125 inches. The diameter
of the wheels is thirty inches, the tires
are 2 J inches in diameter, the gear is
compounded to 153, aud the maohine
weighs 137} pounds.
A Hog Sold lor SBOO.
lowa's prize hog, "King Medium,"
belonging to a famous Poland-China
herd on .T. A. Bonson's "Norwood"
farm it O'Brien County, of that Stato,
was sold this week for SBOO, probably
the largest price ever paid in this
country for a hog. The rest of the
herd averaged 870 a piece.—Washing
ton Pathfinder.
The first theatre in the United States
was opened in Virginia in the year
1762.
HOUSEHOLD A.FIAIB9.
gWBMTUM POLISH.
Hera is a reoipe for making a good
fnrnitnre polish. Take equal propor
tions of linseed oil. turpentine, vino
gar and spirits of wine. Mix well
together. When used shake tho mix*
tare andrab the fnrnitnre with a pieee
of linen. Then polish with a olean
soft oloth.—■New York World.
LAUNDERING EMBROIDERY.
bee that the silk handerohiefs,
scarfs, etc., are washed by themselves
and not plaocct* with linen articles to
be laundered, no uistter how fine and
dainty the articles may be, with their
delicate embroidery. Soak the silk
articles in Inkewarm water for a cciplo
of honrs. After soaking squeeze
lightly with the hands, and if still
soiled soak in warm water in which a
little good soap has been dissolved.
If it oan be avoided do not rub soap
on the silk, no matter what the quality.
After a second washing and rinsing
give a third rinsing in Inkewarm water,
in whioh a little common salt has been
dissolved. The salt will help to set
the colors in the silk and in the em
broidery, giving the whole a brighter
appearance than if simply rinsed in
clear water. Press the handkerchiefs
with a warm iron before they are per
fectly dry.
SOUPS MADE EASILY.
Sonps add much to a dinner, and in
volve neither the time nor the expense
that young housekeepers imagine. A
soup kettle will take many bits that
cannot otherwise be made use of, and
a common stook is a foundation for
many sauces, soups and gravies. A
soup stook should be cooled quickly,
and left unoovered until perfectly
cold. Cream soups are made with and
without stock, and have come into
great favor, largely taking the place
of clear soups.
To make green pea soup without
stook: Turn a oan of peas into a large
saucepan and cover them with hot
water. Add a small onion sliced and
let them boil until the peas aro soft.
Mash them and add a pint of water.
Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and
stir into it one spoonful of flour. Stir
until smooth and add to the cooked
peas with two cupful? of rich milk.
Season with salt and a little cayenne
pepper. Let the soup boil up once
after the milk is added; then rub
through a course sieve and serve with
tiny squares ot friod bread.
To mako croutons, or fried bread,
for soups: Cut bread into slices a
quarter of an inch thick, remove the
crust, and cut tho bread into cubes
and fry them in smoking hot melted
butter until they are crisp and golden
brown in color.
To make a thick tomato soup : Put
into a saucepan a quart of cannod to
matoes and add a pint of water, one
bay leaf, some piecos of celery, and a
teaspoonful of sugar. Cook slowly
until the tomatoos are soft. In an
other saucepan put a tablespoonful of
butffer, and when it isjhot add a sliced
onion and fry to a light brown. Stir
into this a tablespoonful of flour and
a little of the juice of the tomato. Add
this to the cooked tomatoes. Season
with talt and a dash of cayenne pep
per. Rub the whole through a siove
and reheat before serving.
For cream of celery soup : Wash a
bunch of celery and cut it into pieces
and boil it in a pint and a half of
water forty minutes. In another
sauoepan heat to boiling a slice of
onion and a small piece of maco in ono
pint of milk; mix ono tablespoonful of
floor with one of butter and moisten
with two tablespoonfuls of cold milk
and add to the boiling milk. Cook ten
minutes. Add tho cooked oelery and
water Jin the cooked; milk and season
with salt and pepper. Strain and
serve. A cup of whipped croam added
after straining makes tho soup much
richer.
To make oream or barley soup:
Fat in a granite kettle three pints of
white stock, an onion sliced, a small
piece eaoh of cinnamon and mace, and
one teacnp of barley. Allow these to
cook very slowly four hours, then rub
through a sieve and add one pint of
boiling milk and half a pint of cream.
Season with salt and cayenne pepper.
The yolks of two eggs beaten light
with two spoonfuls of cream and added
to the boiling milk just before the
soup is taken from the fire make it
very much richer.
To make bisque of tomato: Putin
a sauoepan one quart of tomatoes and
an onion sliced. Place them over the
fire and let them stew fifteen minutes.
Meanwhile put over the fire in a dou
ble boiler one quart of milk. Cream
together two tablespoonfuls ol flour
with the same quantity of butter and
add to the milk when boiling and stir
constantly until it thiokens. Bub the
tomatoes through a sieve and return
them to the fire. Add a teaspoonful
of sugar and salt and pepper to taste.
When it is time to serve add holf a
teaspoonful of soda to the tomatoes
and then the boiling milk. Stir
quickly and serve at once. The soup
must not stand after the ingredients
are put together. Serve croutons in
the soup.
Any one who lines onions will enjoy
the following simple soup, which is
quiokly made: Slice two or three
good sized onions and fry them in a
little butter until they are soft, then
add three tablespoonfuls of flour and
stir until it is a little cooked, but not
brown. To this gradually add a pint
of boiling water, or Btook if you have
it, stirring all the time so it shall be
smooth. Boil and mash three good
sized potatoes and stir in them one
quart of boiling milk. Stir the two
mixtures together and season well.
When very hot pour through a collon
der into a tureen. Sprinkle over the
top a tablespoonful of parsley,
chopped fine, and a little fried bread.
For egg balls to put into soups:
Boil four eggs until hard. Drop them
in cold wator, and when cool remove
the yolks and mash them to a paste.
Season with a little salt and pepper
and mix the paste with the white of
one raw egg. Form the paste into
balls the size of a hazel nut, roll them
in flour and fry to a light brown in
hot butter.—New York Sun.
To Prevent Cold Feet.
Plunge the feet into oold water, ruV
briskly and quiokly, put on your
stockings and shoes, is a formula
which it followed will insure you
against cold extremities when you go
out.
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Chat's so, the editor hears Mr, Mftrlcot
Gardner My, Well, why don't you have
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IR YOU WILL CUT IBIS OUT AND SEND IT TO
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call and 81 for medicine. Onu
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lasts me a month, and I woul 1 not
be without thein if it were my last
dollar. They are the only thing
that ever gave me any permanent
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ojnmen Hug them to any one
similarly affected.
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