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any extra precautions.
be examined.
folded and - he saw all that took place,
is not
Butstill his songs full many a time 1 sung,
nd thought of him as one who has the lot
To be forever young. -
Until at last he stood before mine eyes
iu 8 age bons mas, who trembled oer his
My sghtrobeliod tos him In such gulse,
% Ripe for his epitaph.
grieved with Sit thabto s ath belongs;
~ How Time is stern Thad forgot, in truth,
48nd bow that men wax old, whereas their |
songs
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y Youth.
& Richard E, Burton, in the Century.
a BANK ROBBERY MYSTERY
= AXTERVILLE
was a 'town of about
1500 inhabitants—
“a staid, quiet place,
which never boomed
nor hustled. “‘The
> Bank of Raxter—
i ville,” as the sign
read, wasa two-story |
brick building, plain
and substantial, and
Carter, the sole owner of the
was personally known to almost
ody in the county. He was a
_of forty-five, unmarried, and an
old maid sister kept house "for him.
The banker was known asa methodical
‘man, careful in his investments, and
one had any fesr of disaster overtak-
him. Now and then he had
been warned that safe blowers might
pay him a visit, but: he had not taken
He had a large
fire and burglar proof “safe, and a man
‘slept in the room at night on the cot.
: On a certain April morning soon after
the close of the war Mr. Carter arrived
at the bank at exactly 8:30. That was |
his usual time to a second. The curtains
vere down and the door was locked,
and it was only after a panel had been
ed out of it that entrancewas gained.
There sat Davis, “the ‘watchman, bound
fadt to his chair and a gag in his mouth,
and the safe door stood wide open. A
le had been. drilled and the bolts
own back, and the $23,000 sately
docked up the evening before was gone.
i Davis ‘had all the particulars at his
tongue’s end. He had been aroused at
midnight by some one knocking on the
door Sd asking him for a light by
sich to mend a’ broken harness. He
denied that he had been asleep, but
timed to be “thinking.” Suspecting
evil he opened the door, acd three
. men rushed in and overpowered him.
Afte
r making him secure they got their
18 out of a i and begdn operations,
and in an hour or so had the safe open:
statement thus far was all right and
reasonable. | From thenco on it was a
er. I was sent down from the city
‘answer to the telegram for a detective,
and Davis was of course the first man to
He had not been blind-
ugh the burglars wore masks and he
not get sight of their faces, He de-
ed that they did not get a dollar in
money and that they cursed and raved
and threatened to burn the building in
.eonsequence.
. out of the safe and opened all the large
envelopes, but the sack they had
* brought along was lying on the floor as
They pulled everything
f of Davis's story.
_At 5 o'clock of the previous evening
Mr. Carter had placed in that safe $21.-
- 000 in greenbacks, most of it in small
bills. The packages would have‘filled a
lawyer's waste basket. Had the burg-
lars got them, the sack would have been
used, as that sort of men do not sit down
~ and count up and divide their plunder
on the spot. Davis was not only believed
to be honest, but Mr. Carter believed his
story. Itis "needless to observe that T
did not. I judged from his physiog-
nomy that he was chicken-hearted. He
had no marks to prove that he had re-
gisted the burglars. I believed he lied
“when he said he was not asleep. As a
matter of fact, I made up my mind that’
he had ‘stood in” with the burglars
and either been ‘‘left”’ on his share or
had secreted it around the building and
then let them bind and gag him. I
‘think the theory was not only reasonable,
but just the one which any other detec:
tive would have adopted.
+ Fortunately for the bank and its ‘de-
- + positors the proprietor had plenty of re--
- pervc, and business went on as usual, I
‘was told to go ahead on the case and
© work out anything I could, and my first
move was to search for Davis's share of
the money. Nosign of it could be found
about the building. In spite of all my
efforts he stuck to his story just as he
first told it, and I had to
to myself that he appeared perfectly
‘honest and sincere.
burglars as well as he was able he men-
| tioned that one of them was a very tall
man with a hacking cough.
“actly fitted Steve Pratt, a burglar, who
had been out of Joliet only two months
' after serving a ten years’ sentence. Steve
. had had his throat injured by swallow-
admit
In describing the
That ex-
ing a fish bone, and kept up a constant
hacking, even in hissleep. He described
| another as very short and stout, with a
; falsetto voice, and I suspecte
d he was
‘Taylor, who was then supposed to
Al Canada. The third couldman I
. While still suspecting Davis of having
aha@ in the job, and securing the ser-
ices of a local officer to watch him, I
Yeggan a hunt for the others. I got track
Bteve Pratt after a few days and lo-
"| cated him in Cincinnati, He was too
k for me,and I followed him to Chi-
; He got the start of me again,and
th way jo¥ Baltdlo, and there seemed
int abd txe long
] the In Hotel on | the
the peek Re Tr ion We were
seated in the office when there was a sud-
den outcry from the clerk behind the
railing. A man had coolly ‘walked m
behind him and taken all the money
‘| from the till and was walking out with
it. We had a pretty hot time to secure
him, as he was in a desperate mood, but
when we had him fast I recognized the
chap we had been hunting for. He was
Steve Pratt, and no mistake. He denied
it, of course, but inside of three days 1
produced such proofs that he finally
knocked under. I was never more as-
tounded in my life than when I came to
Bank affair. He verified the story of the
janitor in every perticular,
«I shall get ‘soaked’ for this hotel
job, anyhow.” he said, “‘and so I might
as well tell you about the other. - There
are three of us. We threatened to kill
Davis and overawed him.” We got the
safe door open, to. find we had been
fooled. - I'm a convict and all that, Yat
| Pm talking straight when I say that we
did not find a dollar. Here is what we
did find and all we brought away. I
took it for luck—a Spanish piece with a
hole‘in it.”
“But Carter put $21, 000 i in that safe
at 4:30 o'clock.”
‘Then he or someone else took it out
before we go there. Bankers Sometimes
rob themselves.”
I explained to him that it was not so
in this case, and he was as much mysti-
fied over the case as I had been. On
door from without and had carried the
key a mile before throwing it away.
They had gone away empty handed and
mad enough to kill Davis. I don’t go
much on the declaration of convicts
caught again red-handed, but in this
case it did seem as if the truth was be-
ing spoken. Had Steve got his $7000
ous of that boodle he would not have
been dead broke so quick, for unlike
nearly all others of his ilk he was a
miser and never gambled. I returned
to Raxterville with. my news and asked
Mr. Carter if it wae not possible that he
had placed the money somewhere else.
‘It is not, sir!” he replied, with more
acidity in his voice than the occasion
seemed to demand, **That safe was here
to put my money in. I putit there. I
stacked up the packages with my own
hand. I locked the door myself. I
alone knew the combination. My book-
keeper ever handles a dollar of the
money.”
“But you have searched elsewhere—
in these cupboards and drawers?’ 1
asked.
“No, sir; but you seem to wish it, we
will do so now.” :
For a long hour we searched desks and.
drawers and cupboards, but we made no
discovery. He was as sure that he put
the money in the safe as he was that he
was a living man, and the book-keeper
was sure that he saw him carrying some
of the packages back there. - What had
become of that money? If it was taere,
why didn’t Steve Pratt and his gang get
It? That they didn’t I was now pretty
well convinced. The only ‘way that I
could reason 1t out was that someone had
robbed the safe before the Pratt gang
got there. If so, however, it was done
by opening the door in the regular way.
The banker had said that he alone knew
the combination. I led up to the matter
again, and he admitted that his sister
alse had it, as’ a safeguard against acci-
ent,
I now began work on an entirely new
theory. I felt that the key of the mys-
tery was in the hands of the sister,
though I was far from hinting any such
thing toa living soul. Itook my quar-
ters in the town and began on the new
theory. - I soon found that Anna Carter
was a spinister ‘of thirty-five, and was
generally Tegarded as a strong-minded
womar. She had money of her own,
and she knew how to invest it to makea
profit. She now and then, so it was
said, gave her brother hints which he
found to be valuable in a business way.
Coming down to the burglary, I found
that she was under the care of the doctor
off and on for a month previous with
some nervous trouble. =
For some reason which she did not
explain Miss Carter refused to even see
me while I was consulting with her
brother at the house. = There are plenty
of people, ‘and good people, too, who
dislike detectives, but I take no offence
at it. Every man to his notion, say I,
provided his notion does not lead to
crime, Had I sat down tointerview the
lady, however, the cuse might not have
been helped along any. It had occurred
to me, as. you may have suspected, that
the sister had robbed thu safe herself
while 1n a state of somnambulism. Thad
a talk with her doctor, and he agreed
that her condition during the first week
of April favored such a thing. Indeed,
on the morning the robbery was dis:
covered he had been called in, to find
her very much exhausted, and she de-
clared that she was as stiff and lame as if
standing at the washtub all day.
1 was now satisfied that I was on the
right trail. * I found that Mr. Carter al-
ways carried his key Home, and that the
watchman never left his in the lock at
night. I went for Davis again, and he
finally admitted that he was asleep from
10 o'clock until aroused by the burglars.
‘the end of the case was as mysterious as
the beginning. One night when I had
reasoned it all out and felt satisfied in
my own mind, but could see no way to
secure proofs, I got so nervous that I
arose at midnight and went out on the
street for a walk and a smoke. I took
no heed of my direction, but at the end
of ten minutes I found myself in front of
the banker's cosy home. It was in total
darkness,as well as others in the village,
but I leaned up.against a tree box and
stood gazing = the windows as. 3 ex-
something ta happen to puil my
a Something did happen.
I was within six feet of the gate and
I suddenly saw a figure in femal dress
interview him about the Raxterville
leaving the bank they had locked the
on her arm. I followed a
few yards behind her,
steadilyon and went straight to the
bank, I was sure of her then. She
paused at the door for a few seconds to
unlock it and then disappeared inside.
Five seconds later Davis was shouting
and a woman's voice could be heard ut-
tering ‘shrill screams. I opened the
door and entered, and the mystery was
solved at last. There stood Miss Anna,
just’ aroused from sleep, and in the
basket on her’ arm was that missing
money. Davis was lying down, but not
asleep, when she entered, and he had at
once seized her.
How did she get the money from the
safe! Bhehad been reading about bur-
glars and gone fo.the bank in hersleep.
Bhe had entered and secured the money
and left again’ without arousing Davis.
The burglars came later on. She had
taken the money home and concealed it,
but in what spot she could never deter-
mine, She probably did not walk again
until the night she returned it. There
was anew safe and a new combination,
but as she knew the word she might
-have restored the money and escaped
unseen but for the vigilance of the watch-
man, To this day no one in that vil-
lage except brother, sister and Davis
knows how that money was restored.
They even declare that not a dollar was
ever recovered, and that I had to throw
up the case for ‘want of brains to strike
a clew.—8t, Louis Republic.
The Rock of Gibraltar,
The Rock is the most’ remarkable ob-
ject at Gibraltar. It is impossible to
describe the effect produced on the mind
/
| by the sight of those immense tunnels
crossing each other in all directions, bi-
furcating again and again, sometimes lit
up, sometimes wrapped in the deepest
darkness, forming an inextricable net~
work of galleries and passages, a con.
fused labyrinth, the way out of which
could be found by no one who did not
possess the clue of Ariadne. The slopes
by which we ascended were smooth and’
wide, better than some highroads trave
ersed all day long by passengers. Fre=
quently we came upon enormos heaps of
cannon balls providently stored in case
of need, or we found an embrasure in’
the living rock through which a gun was
pointed as though ready to begin work
on the spot, surrounded by all the neces-
sary ammunition. ‘Sometimes the dark-
ness was so dense that I scarcely dared
move my feet for fear of falling over
one or other of those iron monsters, an
on more than one occasion I was forced
to strike a match to find my way through
those gloomy caverns, while I found:
myself nearly always lagging behind my
guide, who, knowing the way and being
more active on his legs, kept going on
ahead till he reached the next loophole,
where he waited for me.
At last we reached a spot where the
passage was barred by thick timbers, and
-whera my guide told me we could go no
further, as this was the reserved part of
the fortress, where excavations are still
being made to continue the enormous
to all outsiders; and even the officers of
the English Army not actually on-duty
at the works are scarcely allowed to see
it. I had, therefore, to resign myself to
forego the sight of the greatest part of
that mysterious cavern, and approached
the pearest loophole—the highest we had
yet passed—to admire the delicious view
and breath the fresh air to which it gave
access, -
From the cursory examination, which,
considering the precautions necessary
there, was all I was able‘to make of the
immense fortress, I gathered that itis
an impregnable position, which, bristlicg
with cannon and Dioreed with loopholes
looking in every tion from which an
enemy could conceivably come, makes it
simply impossibly for any army to seize
it by force. To get possession of Gib-
raltar, T have not the slighest doubt that
it would first be necessary to annihilate
it.—Revista Contemporaneo.
CIT TI———
‘Scenery on the Danube,
Every bend of the river is the oppor-
tunity for a castle, and as these were
built about a thousand years ago, they
are now highly picturesque if not prac-
tical monuments. The Rhine suffers
seriously in comparison with the first. five
‘hundred miles of the Danube, but no-
where more than in this neighborhood,
for not only has the Danube ruins as
striking and extensive as those of the
sister stream, but she has more of them,
And what in ur eyes adds still more to
the charm of tae Danube is the virginal
character of its rock and forest—a rugged
grandeur not yet vulgarized by villas and
‘summer lodging-houses—and in addition
the picturesque peasantry whum we see
crowding the bridges at noon, laden
with scythes, rakes and forks, stalking
the hay fields after their mid-day dinner.
in the village home. The most secluded
part of the Rhine between Mainz and
Bonn has about it the flaver of being
prepared for Saturday afternoon visitors;
is infected with suburbanism; is pretty,
but painfully self-conscious. The Dan-
ube, on the other hand, is more like a
rustic and ruddy nymph, ignorant as yet
of her charms. She disports herself
where the average tourist not pass;
the Baedekers and Murrays have nothing
to say of ‘her many secluded nooks. It
is only by water that Iter charms can be
seen to advantage, for at times her
banks are so steep and rocky that itis
not possible to build a foot-path along
the edge of the Water, Harper 8 Mag:
azine,
REPRE tn ——
Silver Detects Bad Dratnaze. :
It is said that silverware furnishes one
of the most reliable means of detecting
defective drainage. If itis covered with
a black coating or tarnish soon after
being cleaned, and after a second or third
cleaning again bacomes darkened, one
may be certain that there is something
| wrong with the drainage system of the
ows, =Deftolt Free Press.
s she walked off up the street with |
‘and’ she held |}
‘keep.
it costs nothing.
trench. This place, he added, was closed | th
like an army. of rebellious rustics outinto
“Benjamin P. Ware says that young
orchards should be tilled, but when of
sufficient age they may be "Jaid down to
grass. He would plant forty feet apart
‘each way. Spraying with paris green is
complete remedy for the canker worm
and codling moth. The latter lays its
eggs in the calyx of the apple when it is.
small and has the eye uppermost, a posi-
tion in which-the spraying takes effect.
One spraying did not kill the tent cater-
pillar, but checked it; a later applica-
tion was necessary to destroy it com-
pletely. He used the paris green
stronger than is cemmonly recommended,
one pound to 125 gallons of water, and
did nos injure the trees, A new insect
has attacked the apple trees, perforating
the leaves all over the tree, without,
however, destroying it; spraying is a
remedy for this and also for other in-
sects.—New York World.
_ ' WATERED BUTTER.
‘The poor quality of creamery butter
as it comes from the churn is due to lack
of care and cleanliness either in the pa-
trons who furnish the milk, or the cream-
eryman, orit may be to the incompetency
of the buttermaker. These are faults of
ignorauce or negligence. But very much,
and the amount seems to be rapidly in-
creasing, of creamery butter that is
fairly good when it leaves the churn re-
mains 80 but a short time. It will not
This defect is due to the amount
of water purposely lett in the butter.
Eighty per cent. is the minimum of fat
for real good butter, yet very much of
the creamery butter when sold contains
‘gearce seventy-five per cent. Here is.
where the trouble comes in. Water
weighs more than butter, and as long as
it is mixed in the butter sells for the
same price, pound for pound, although
There is, therefore,
the constant temptation before the cream-
ery buttermaker to load his butter with
water. Against uncleanliness, careless
ness aud ignorance the law can grant no
protection, but the law can and ought to
grant protection against watering butter
as well as watering milk.—Jersey Bulle-
COLT WITH OURBY HOOK. -. _
In ordinary affections known as curb
there is at first a rather soft swe
Just behind the lowest part of the hock
joint. Later the swollen parts become
hard and firm, and the longer it remainsy
e more difficult to remove. The usual
cause is a sprain of the large tendon
‘which plays over the front of the hock,
great tenderness and more or
Tess inflammation. When first observed
the animal should be placed’ in a stall
and kept quiet, and hot fomentations
applied to the leg in cold weather “and
cold applications in hot, and then as
‘soon as the inflammation subsides apply
an active blister. It is customary to
tack on a high-heeled shoe to afford the
animal rest while under treatment, at
though this is not always necessary.
proper treatment has been neglected, ans
the parts about the hock become very
hard, apply cod liver eil two or three
times a day, and rubit in witha soft
rag, If this fails to soften the paris,
make a lotion of one ounce of acetic acid,
‘one drachm of powdered cantharides, :
and five ounces of water. A few applica:
tions of this will nsually soften and
cause the swelling to disappear. —New
York Sun.
HOW TO PLANT A TRER.
It is not unusual to hear people say
that they cannot understand why trees
die under transplanting, considering that
they give the Flanting the best of care.
‘What is considered the best of care is
often very bad care. It is amazing to
see the caretul planter without experi-
ence, occasionally on his knees pressing
the earth in around the roots with his
fingers, for fear of crushing the ‘fibres.
It is impossible to get the earth properly
packed around roots in this way. In
‘nurseries, where it is presumable planting
is thoroughly understood, a man stands
with a rammer while one is putting in
the earth, and haminers the earth in as
tightly as though Le was hammering ina
“post. This packs the earth in more
tightly. than can be done by either feet
or hands. Bomc are afraid of crushing
the roots with this hammering process;
but with the pressure all around, the
force is directed towards the roots,
and not away from them, Itis not neces.
sary, however, to go into reasons, as the
universal experience of the nursery is in
favor of hammering in the earth as rep-
resented. This ia the essence of good
planting, and any other planting is de-
cidedly bad. ‘Trees properly planted
need no staking. The fact that a tree
needs staking is a proof that it was not
properly planted.—Meehan’s Monthly,
in,
CARE OF DECORATIVE PLANTS.
Many of our finest decorative plants
are yearly stunted in growth from lack
of caro in one respect, namely, that of
cleaning the foliage. Plants w. ich rarely
bear flowers make up for the lack of
them by beauty of foliage, and it cer-
tainly is reasonable to suppose that this
foliage to increase in beauty must have
attention and care. ' Crotons, pandanus,
‘kentias, aspidistras and all palms require
that the a be kept clean by frequent
j this use of Waigh will many
I0W p= | in
Tacressed in beauty if the foliage is kept
clean.
Another point is the use of water, es-
pecially on bright days when the atmos-
phere of the room is quite dry and close;
at such periods those large plants will
consume considerable water if given
them. On dark days or in damp rainy
weather water should be given sparingly;
this rule holds good with all plants
grown in the house. These moist days
are often “beneficial to plants, giving
them the moisture in the atmosphere
they need and which they absorb through
the foliage; indeed this moisture will be
all that plants require during damp
weather if they have previously had
proper treatment.
An occasional application of new soil
at the surface of the pots, mixed with
plant food of some kind will enable the
decorative plants to make a better show-
ing.—Housewife.
TALE ON DISINFECTANTS.
The sense of smell is given to ani.
mals for the purpose of enabling them
to avoid injurious ' substances in their
food and for other means of self-preser-
vation. The human race, having reas
son to guide them, do not have such
an acute sense: of odors as the common
animals, and, not using their reason as
they should, frequently subject them-
selves to dangers by neglect of the
proper precautions. - On the farm there
should be fewer risks in regard to dan-
ger from decomposing matters which
are productive of various diseases than
in the large towns and cities. But even
on farms, by reason of neglect in this
direction, diseases often occur ' that
due attention and precautions. Wher-
is danger, and means should be taken at
once to disinfect the premises.
"One of the most useful disinfectants is
common copperas, which not only de-
stroys the germs of disease, but fixes the
valuable ammonia that escapes from the
decaying matter. A disinfectant is any
substance that destroys the unwholesome
matters, a deodorizer simply destroys
the odor, and the two are to. be thus
| distinguished from each other in regard
to their uses. Common plaster is a de-
odorizer, and is useful in combining
with the ammonia that escapes from de-
caying substances. But the ammonia of
the stables and manure yards is not so
ana hydrogen, such as the marsh gas
that is evolved from. decomposing ma-
nure, and is the same gas that esca
from marshes. This is productive of
fevera of various kinds thatare far too
prevalent in rural villages and on farms.
There are other injurious gases, as the
compounds of sulphur and carbon,
which have such an intolerable odor in
odor to the manure. But the worst of
all the odors of this kind is the drairage
that escapes from the yards and the hor-
rible cesspool, that is so common, and
which finds its way to the wells. The
1atal typhoid fever is a common result of
this impurity, and as the present time is
tha’ when these dangersare most to be
| dreaded, attention should be giveg with.
out delay. —New York Timess 1
POULTRY. &OTES.
Oats stimulate without fattening,
Ducks are good scavengers about the
farm.
‘Wheat maybe fed Whole, crushed and
cracked.
Millet rape and mustard are good for
young chickens.
Sunflower seed should be raised by
everyone keeping poultry.
The tool house and horse stable are
poor places for the poultry to roost.
If the hens lay well they must have
a good opportunity to take exercise.
If new blood is to be introduced make
the change as soon as possible now.
Young poultry of any kind will not
thrive if kept in close, dark quarters.
Lime is needed by all fowls for the
growth of bones and for shell material,
When the hens are confined it is es-
sential to give them. ooarse, bulky food.
Three-fourths. oats and one-fourth
corn makes a good ration for laying hens
now.
Air-slaked lime is a good disinfectants
scatter it liberally over the floor every
few days.
To keep the hens laying in the poul-
ty house be sure to provide plenty of
good nests.
Oyer-feeding not only keeps the hens
from laying eggs, but in many cases in»
vites ‘di . : ; :
Plan the duck hatchery so as to have
the earliest hatches come out. the early
part of March.
. Good eggs are the result of good feed,
care and thrift, and rot of condiments or
stimulating food.
Ducks have no regular laying hour,
hence they must be watched if all the
eggs are to be secured.
Vegetable trimmings, potato parings
and bread crumbs mixed with bran
make a good feed for ducks.
The great secret of getting eggs at all
seasons of the yearis in making the hens
comfortable and having plenty of them.
might be avoided by the exercise of
ever there is a disagreeable smell there
injurious as the compounds of carbon:
‘more of water, cool enough to sufficiently
decaying eggs, as these give the strong |.
A little cayenne or black pepper given | i
ood t three adayis |
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS,
* COOKING AS A PROFESSION. 0 ;
Now that the majority of girls wish
‘to support themselves, itis a pity that
‘more do not take up cooking 4s a pro-
fession, says a writer in Orchard and
Garden. Those. who have a natural
‘taste in this direction will find ita pleas-
.ant and profitable employment, while
the. knowledge and experience thus
ined will be invaluable all
At present the few professi
“cooks in the country. are enjoying large
!incomes as the result of their labors,
[there are not enough trained teachers of
a to supply the demand.
.usually includes not only practical cook
‘ing, but the chemistry of cooking as
‘well as its physiological side. The tui-
“tion is generally $100 for a six months?
course.
. Upon graduation the young woman
finds several openings. She may be em-
‘ployed to teach cooking in the public.
‘schools; she may have private classes or
give private lessons to individuals; she
‘may take a position as cook ina hotel or
boarding house, or she may go into
‘hospital and teach the nurses how to
cook for the sick.
With such: opportunities before o
girls we wonder why so few take adva
tage of them, while hundreds are pre-
paring themselves for the less remuner-
ative and more wearing work of the
ordinary teacher-—a Profession that
sadly overcrowded.
THE TRICK IN WASHING PFLANNELS.
That there is a trick in bringi
woolen garments of all kinds out 'of
lanndry soft and white and’ unshrun
no one will deny who has evér'in a
ment of blind feith trusted a s
dear bit of flannel wear to the enthusi
tic ignorance of the ordinary laundress
No more beautiful commentary on
irrepressible bubbling up of faith
human heart is required than the
that we keep on trusting our flannels
laundresses after one experience of |
stiffness and soddennes which can res
from her handling.
But the trick really is so simple, 1
depends on three things—tirst, the tem
perature of the water; second, the
dling of the gafments in the water; third
the rapid drying of the garments. Th
temperature of the water must be
as can comfortably be borne by the!
and all the water that touches the
nel from beginning to end of the performs
ance must be of an unchanged tem-
perature.
The flannels should not be rubb
a board, but washed gently between tk
hands until all the dirt is extracted. In
cleansing should" be used to wash the gar-
ments in instead of clear water and soaps
Take one-half of a small cake of ivory
soap, cut into small shavings and put
into two quarts of boiling hot wate
let it stand on the stove until the |
thoroughly dissolved. Into this mixes
put two teaspoonfuls of ammonia
one teaspoonful of turpentine.
removed from the fire add two gq
reduce the temperature of the mi
Then wash the flannels as directed,
in water of, the same temperature, and
iron while damp.
stays in the fiber of the wool, ng
likely they are to contract.—Chic
News. :
' CELERY.
As a winter and early spring ‘ve,
table celery. is more generally used ti
almost any other, declares Mrs. H.
Parker, in the Courier-Journal.
foliowing recipes for preparing it will
enable housekeepers to serve it with
vahity:
od Stewed Celery—Take the green stalks,
scrape and wash and cut in small pieces,
and soak in cold water for twenty-f
minutes, drain, put in a sauce pan,co:
with boiling water and add a teaspoonf
of salt, let boil half an hour, take:
‘drain, throw in cold water. Put one
'tablespoonful of butter in a frying pan, |
let melt, mix in a teaspoon of flour =
til smooth, add a pint of milk and. stir
until it boils, thin with half a cup of |
iboiling water, season with salt and pep-.
per, put the celery in this sauce, stir un:
til heated, and serve.
Celery Au J us—~Scrape and wash
on stalks, cut in small pieces, put in
sauce pan, cover with soup stock and
let boil half an hour. Put a tablespoon:
_| ful of butter in a frying pan and brown
add a tablespoonful of flour and mix x
til smooth. Drain the celery, add half
a pint of the water in ‘which it was boiled
to the butter and flour, stir until it boils,
season with salt and pepper. : Put the
celery in a heated - dish, pour the sau
over and serve.
Creamed Celery—Clean the hi
take off the course outer leave, cut,
and stew. When tender take up a d
pour over cream sauce. ;
Celery Fritters—Wash, scrape and
boil. When done drain, mash and mix
in egg batter; season with a little pep-
per, and fry in spoonfuls in boiling:
lard.
Celery Root-—Pare a dozen celer
and soak in cold water half an
Put in a ' saucepan, cover with oilin
| water and let cook twenty-five
Take up, drain, cut in slices and
over cream sauce.
Celery Salad— Cut off the roots /
four or five heads of celery; separate 8
wipe each stalk dry; cut in pieces
then in strips; put in a salad bowl
pour over half a pint of mayonnaise
ing. a
Celery Sauce Clots four roots of
ery; cut in pieces; put in a sauce
adda Pint of coid water and stew
for half an bour; then press through
colander. Put a tablespoonful
when ‘melted
mi