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\ Year, =o :
a We BOR SR OR
was | increase may be fairly atfributed to our
‘| protective policy? I have already shown
: De of the ordinary enumerator will
| probably aggregate eighty or possibly
| ninety per cent. of all the manufacturing.
! duct of ntry. Manufacturing
y
{ ies, hence
sixty nt. of the
, but cannot’ well be
ecial agent
; der General
| 3 again employed in
entire supervision of the
1 possible we selected
ial agents for the
manufactures. Every
15 offi offers no apology and ex-
tends no sympathy. « We simply dedl in
FIGURES ON WAGES,
What are the facts? Here I have
added up the returns) showing the nnm-
ber employed and the amount of wages
actually paid in the manufactuting in-
dustries of thirty-five large cities, These
cities are not, selected, but are taken in-
discriminately in the order in which the
tabulations were completed. Further
reports may make it necessary to add
slightly to these totals, but nothing will
be deducted; :
Year, |
1800, iranian Favs stbesuva disuse inst; 000
1880... i cisosvasnonsssssesas 32,853
TNICTOASO sures css sasssssssssssennesds, 744
fa fn Hands Em-
Yeor, DH ployed.
1800, fase decinsnsaansionsanvs rarer]; 188,068
3 ; 7360
Increase ..ooesssivssavassnaonses 472,252
¥
BE
eriineiiees ss $384,840,018
: Average Annual
‘Wages per Hand.
ETS sera ore 3070.82
rien B9R.6T
Increase...
Masa ad
sesdassssvrdveniey
THCIERER. cas vnssnssssssssassnnsasnsSITA1S
Percentage of increase in average an-
nual wages per Band. Lo ciasenins. one 43.18
EXPLAINING THE INCREASE,
Taking without explanition such an
{ncrease would almost be beyond be-
lief. Buch progress is indeed marvelous.
Here we have in thirty-five principal
cities double the number of establish-
wents, an increase of 472,232 in the
number of hands employed, with au ac-
tual increase of $384,000,000 paid in
wages, ‘The system that males this pos-
sible ‘in ten years or makes half of this
possible ought not to bs abolished or
tampered with, ‘This is said in all seri-
b" Susness to free traders and revenue re.
formers. To wage-earners and bread-
winners of all shades of political faith,
however, the story that these simple
tables unfold is of far greater signifi
cance. Go a
Mark this! Tn 1880 these industries
in ‘these thirty-five cities employed 666,-
736 persons. According to. reports re-
ceived in answer to precisely similur
questions to those asked in 1890 these
artisans took home during the year 1880
in wages exactly $265,806,145.. And
now as to 1890. Instead of something
over half a million men and women and
youths employed we find over a million,
or 1,138,968, and instead of taking.
$265,000,000 home as wages, this in-
dustrial army received the sum of $650,-
155,158. An increase of $384,000,000
~more than double,
mployed in 1890, ac.
ey
Il this is due to the
Now 1 don't say
| Ihave shown an increase here in wages
|"may not be affected except in a general
'} strengthened the rates of duty, if not by
| explain these incontrovertible facts with-
| period of its history.
Total W.
$600,155, 155
25,800,135 | 488 804 persons.
In other words,
must be
" pe : ix
| ‘day’s labor. It is, indeed, microscopic
; weaken these. facts.
| mind they
GIVING PROTECTION ITS DUE.
per capita actually paid in the ten years
of 43.18 per cent. in all industeies, in:
cluding, of course, some industries that
way by the tariff. The question which
ow presents itself is: How much of the
F this series of articles that in 1883
what was called the tariff commission
bill passed. In many industries this bill
actually increasing the rate by substitut-
a period, therefore, of legislation friendly
to protection and culminating with prob-
ably the wisest and most far-reaching
plece of fiscal legislation of the century,
we find that wages have not only actually
but relatively increased and hundreds of
‘thousandsol a Dal ; o
given” employment. . With such facts
staring him in the face it will indeed be
a bold free trader who will undertake to
out acknowledging that under this system
the Nation has prospered ” in ‘no other.
HALF THE INCREASE FROM THE TARIFF."
A conservative estimate would indicate
that at least half of the 43 per cent. in-
crease in the wages of these 1,138,968
persons isdue to the tariff. Had the
licy advocated by the Democratic
preyailed in 1888 many of these.
industries would have been rent in twain,
wages would have tumbled, foreign
goods would have deluged our markets,
and hundreds of thousands of our own
laborers would have been standing idle
in the streets of these great centres of
| industrial energy. No unprejudiced
men can study these returns snd deny
that the condition of the wage earner
has improved. Especially is this true
when a study of price lists reveals that
in this period all articles of general con-
sumption have decreased in cost. And
the reason for believing that wages in
manufacturing have actually increased
something over 20 per cent. in ten years
is the fact that in industries in which’
complete returns can be obtained and in
‘which comparisons may safely be made
between 1880 and 1890 the increase
averages about 20 to 26 per cent. Take,
for instance, the wool, the cotton and
the silk industries. Both the tenth and
eleventh censuses employed experts for
these industries, and no change was
made in the collection of the items here-
with given;
IN WOOLEN, COTTON AND SILE MILLS,
For example, here is a table showing
the total wages paid in 1880 and in 1880
in the woolen, cotton and silk industries:
Manufactures or Ta] J ala 1a
Woolens,.\....... $16,080.743 $47,856,081
Cotton.... sesesse 66 42,040,510
veibecntassnces 19,048,240 9,146,708
Totals. ....s....816%,328,520 $98,576,303
MORE PEOPLE GIVEN WORK.
Now, what are the facts here? =~ Sim.
ply this: Under a protective ‘tariff the
employes in these. three important in-
dustries are receiving about $62,750,000
er annum more wages than in 1880,
But, says the free trader: ‘*‘There are
‘more persons employed.” - That is true.
In 1880 these industries employed 365,-
438 persons, and in 1890 they employed
; Thus we see that in
the decade the protective policy which
the Democratic platform pronounces ‘‘a
fraud ‘and robbery” has given employ-
ment, in only three industries, to 123,366
additional employes.
RELATIVE INCREASE IN WAGES,
Turning again to the wage table the
results are still more satisfactory. =~ Not
only have wages incressed actually, but
relatively. That is, the $162,000,000
received in 1890 was 23.11 per cent.
‘more wages per capita than ithe $98,.'
000,000 received in 1880. The percent-
age of increase in annual wages per
capita hasbeen 19.26 per cent. in the
woolen industry, 23.80 per cent. in the
cotton industry, and 82.49 per cent. in
the silk industry. These are facts that
{ cannot be discounted to any great extent
by the explanations given above. Some.
:thing should undoubtedly be allowed fot
the higher grade of workmanship, but
this will not help the free trader much,
The methods in gathering the statistics
of textile industries in 1890 were identi-
cal with those of 1880. Practically the
game men did the work. No change in
classification, admitting moro industries,
as in some other branches of manufac.
turing, was ‘made.’ Sn :
THE WAGES OF MINERS.
Few people realize that what is true
in respect of manufacturing is equally
true of the mining industries. The num.
ber of persons employed lin all the min
eral industries in 1880 was 231,709; in
1890 this number had reached 636,419,
an increase of 175 per cent. How about
the miners’ wages? If our fiscal system
admitted of this increase in numbers
employed we ought to ‘be thankful,
Wages, however, have increased at a
still greater rate, namely, 235 per cent.
Instead of $342 per hand employed, old
and young, as in ‘1880, the eleventh
census will show that in 1890 this greatly
increased number of employes each and
every one took home with them Saturday
night as their week's earnings twenty.
two per cent. more cash for their six
work to bunt around for arguments to
To the unbiased.
come with great force and
will play no inconsiderable part in the
| | MUCH CORROBORATED EVIDENCE.
Nor will it do to question
4
Wages
+ | ing specific for ad valorem aud ‘thereby |
dnsuring the collection of duties. Under
' ments.
“or less injured. .
sho gone |
SoA EE a HE
SOLDIERS’ ~ COLUMN
as. compared w
in 1890, and a net increase of
P
“tion of $31,315,130.68 in the year
over that of 1890. A simple analys
this table further dem
dustries covered seventy-seven per cect.
of them show an increase either of the
wages or product, or both, and that
there were no less than 89,717 instances
of individual increases of wages during
the same year. : :
Here we have a witness from the other
side, presumably an honest man and
careful statistician, appointed to his
, present position by the leading. free:
ex-President
trader of the couniry,
Cleveland. Not that the census figures
require Mr. Peck’s indorsement or sup-
port. Still it must be reassuring to the
doubting Thomases that the disclosures
of independent statistical bureaus are as
startingly satisfactory as those of the
census—at least to protectionists. There
has been talk that Mr. Peck’s report had
some political significance. This is non-
sense. The statistician intrusted to col-
lect data Yhe would doctor them to fit a
theory or for Partisen purposes is no bet.
ter than the Judge RD use the
judicial machinery for the same ends.
Such charges cannot be sustained. We
may all have our notions, both in
economics and in politics, but the facts
must remain unchallenged. Te
The Two Theories.
The revenues of the country do not
seem to be at all in excess of our reguire-
That is to say, we are not ‘col-
lecting more money at the Custom
Houses, and through the Internal Rae-
venue Bureau, than we need to pay the
‘necessary expenses of the Government.
There is no surplus, :
It seems necessary to say this because
the arguments used by the Cleveland
Party are calculated to create the impres-
‘sion that the people are oppressed to‘ac-
cumulate a vast amount of money for
which there is no immediate use.
is not the case. The contention is,
therefore, not that there is too much
money raised, but as to the manner in
which it is or shall be raised. Under
the McKinley law the dutiesare adjusted
80 as to collect the revenue from imported
articles the like of which are manufac-
| tured in this country, so that the home
manufacturer shall not be subjected to
an unequal competition. The free
traders, headed by Cleveland, contend
that we shall impose the duties upon
articles of necessity the like of which are
not produced in this country, so that
everybody shall pay a part of the tax.
Thus, under the free trade theory tea,
coffee and sugar, now free of duty,
would be taxed, and poor and rich alike
would contribute to the revenue. Under
the protective system the money is paid
into the National Treasury by the for-
eign producer, who wishes to enjoy the
privileges and opportunities of our
market. ‘The free trader insists, not that
we shall not raise the money, but that
| we shall raise it by a system which will
tax our own people, and all of them.—
New York Advertiser.
Gained by the McKinley Law.
Two years ago two pounds of sugar
cost sixteen cents. To-day that amount
of money will buy two pounds of sugar
and a loaf of bread. One loaf of bread
will keep a man alive for twenty-four
hours. The gain made by the McKin-.
ley law is one day’s subsistence from the
amount saved in the purchase of two
pounds of sugar. Mr. Watterson, of the
Courier-Journal, the great free trade
leader, says, with commendable frank.
ness, ‘‘Just as soon as the Democratic
Party gets into power they will restore
the sugar duties.” Of course they will,
and then .the poor man will be just:
one loaf of bread short on every two
pounds of sugar.
»
In Devonshire.
It is. said that the dialect of Devon-
shire is so dear to persons born within
sound of it that, whatever their after
training, they drop into its familiar
phrases when under the pressure of
strongexcitement. Anecdotes couched
in its rough and sometimes uncouth
expressions have a charm all their
own.
A colonel of the North Devon mi-
litia was one day reviewing his regi-.
ment, and seeing a hare jump out in
the midst of the men, he shouted,
wildly, ‘There he go'th, a lashing
great shaver!” Then, forgetting the
exact point at which he had ceased
giving the word of command, he
turned about and asked:
“Where wor I, drummer-boy?"
“Present, arms, sir,” responded the
youth, and the inspection went on.
At another time a yeomanry regi-
ment was enacting a sham fight when
a Captain Prettyjohn was ordered to
retreat before a charge of the eneniy.
*‘Retrait! what doth that mane?’
inquired | ‘the captain.’ + “Retrait
meanth rinning away, I zim; then it
shall never be told up to Dodbrook
Market that Cap'n Pridgen and his
brave men rinped away.”
Accordingly, as the enemy came on,
bearing down upon him at a rapid
trot, he shouted to his troop: ;
‘Charge, my brave boys, charge!
Us baint voxes and they baint hounds!
Ug'll face ’em like men!” : 3
The collision, as-one might guess,
was awful; men, horses, and accoutre:
ments strewed the ground on every
side, and several troopers were more
“Gentlemen ‘worthy
a the De
ut -
A FORAGING EXPEDITION,
In Which the Sublime and Ridiculous
are Badly Mixed.
: Memphis
Fast of
20 miles, near the
Memphisand Char-
leston Railroad, was
situated, in war
times, a three-story
frame structure,
known as Forest
Hill Female Semi-
nary. This lovely
and secluded spot
was. called Forest
Hill simply because
C—~ “the great primeval
)), forest” was afar off
= ’from it, and instead
ANS = hn
Nsw. up thereabouts, it is
k) 2 down in the valley.
~The country which
vo
ny LP Hill” was a goodly
+... land, and on every
© =: hand loomed up the
‘| stately home of ‘‘ye olden tiie Southern
gentleman,” and’its fertile soil responded
liberally to the touch of ‘ye olden time
‘nigger hoe.” ”’ - Here in this Eden of = the
Sonth was stationed for the Winter of 162-63
the 80th Ohio, the same ‘“hell-roarin’ 80th
which Major-H. M. Kenderdine, of the 17th
Towa, 80 graphically tells about in Jour is-
sue of March 17.. How vividly that terrible,
brief battle passes.before me now, and again.
1 see: 1he gallant ‘Boy Lieutenant,’ Harry
Kenderdine, in the midst of the fray—the
bravest of the brave. On'the 14th of May,
1863, near Jackson, Miss.,” was fought and
won by the 6th Wis. battery, 17th Towa, the
10th Me. and 80th Ohio, everything consid-
ered: the most heroic battle of the war. But
to my, narrative, ;
It was intimated by- that omnipresent in-
dividual, the camp clown, that the object
of Gen. Grant in quartering the 80th Ohio in
the midst. of this land of ‘milk and honey,’
was to stall-feed the boys through the win-
ter in order to have them in good fighting
trim by the time that they were to be turn-
ed loose ont the Southern Confederacy the
following spring; and I believe that subse
quent events proved this to be the case.
Not many days after our occupation of
Forest Hill, from amoog the riff-raff of the
stay-at-homes of that vicinity were gather-
ed together quite a company, who or-
anized themselves into a guerilla band.
hese ‘boys in gray’’ proceeded to mount
themselves upon such old scallawag horses
and mules as were left in the neighborhood,
sally forth in the darkness of night, tear up
the railroad track, burn a bridge; fire on our
pickets, and otherwise harass us, Then,
partly as a measure of retaliation, the edict
went forth from our headquarters that
henceforth the 80th was to live off the fat
of this goodly land. . Accordingly, one fine
Jannary morning, with Capt. K. in the van
Co. H went forth with our teams to do, to
dare, and to see what we could find that
might be good to stay the inner cravings of
man and male.
About three miles. out from camp, and
near the State line between Tennessee and
Mississippi, we came to a plantation which
had the appearance of not yet being touched
by the desolating hand of = war, A large
two-story white house, in the midst of
beautiful and spacious grounds, stood back
a short distance from the road. This was
the home of “Kunnel’” Anderson. We
found the ‘‘Kupnnel’” at home, ‘and in ac-
cordance with his fine, old-style Southern
manners, when he saw us coming, he don-
ned his hat and came down . to the gate
to meet us. Politely bowing be said ‘Well
Captain, I see that you are about to call on
me for supplies.” : )
“Yes, Colonel, replied the Captain, ‘since
your troops have interrupted our ‘cracker-
ine,’ we are compelled to depend on your
| people for rations.”’
Well,” replied the ‘‘Kunnel,”’ ‘“‘Consid-
ering the fact that I have over 100 hands
besides a large family to feed, I do hope
that you will be merciful with us, and not
take all that we have.’’
‘Well, Colonel, we will look around and
see what yon may have on hand in the pro-
vision dine,’ answered the Captain.
‘Yes, Captain, 1° will go with you and
show you zround.”’
We soon came to a long ‘'rick” of several
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes. ‘*Here,
Captain, are all the potatoes that I have.”
said the “Kunnel,”” and then we went back
tothe barn. ‘‘Here, Captain, you see all the
corn, fodder, and Dogs that 1 have,’ said the
“Kunnel.”’ “Now, I appeal to you again to
be merciful with wus, and leave enough for
us to live on till we can makeanother crop,”
begged the ‘‘Kunnel.”’
“Yes, Colonel, we will trv to make a fair
divide with vou,” said the Captain; and we
proceeded to divide the “Kunnel's’” sweet
“taters,”” corn, fodder and fat hogs, load
them into’ the wagons and start for camp;
but when we had gone about half a mile, we
were overtaken *by one of the ‘“Kunnel's’”’
1 darkey boys, all out of breath and panting.
“Well, Sam, what's up now?’ asked the
Captain. ;
“P's gwine with you all, and want to jis’
tell you, Capting. that ole marse didn’t show
ebryting dat he got dah.” :
“Well, go on and tell all you know about
it, Sam,”” demanded the Captain.
*T’s not Sam, but Tom.”
‘Well, then, Tom,’ said the Captain, ‘‘tell
us about the things’ your master did not
show us.” -
"Wal, way back dah toads de quatahs, is
a little ole log cabin wid a sottah of shade
sticken out ovah de end ob it. Right: dar a
ole well caved in, an’ in dat ole well issix
. barls of sorzrum ’lasses; an’ den back in de
woods about a quatah ob a mileis a lot wid
40 big fat hogs in it, besides seberal rail-pens
full ob con; and marse have fivesons in de
ary dats aroun’ heah a-pesterin’ you-
all.” tna
i Upon our arrival in camp the Captain
‘took our colored friend with him up to
headquarters, and duly reported all these
revelations.
‘Well? said the Colonel, “Captain, inas-
much as you have ‘been - there,’ have be-
come acquainted with the road and Col
Anderson's premises; I know of no man so
well qualified to take chargeof the expedi-
tion that 1s fo go out there to-morrow for the
purpos: of giving the old ‘Kunnel
thorough ¢ eaning out, as yourself. There-
fore, the orders are from these headquar-
ters that you take as many men and teams
as may be necessary, and go right back
there tosmorrow."’ Y)
Accordingly by 9 o’clock next morning,
with 60 men and all the teams we could
muster, we were on our way to the old
“Kunnnel's’’ again. Arriving there we
were met at the gate by the old gent, and in
astonishment he addressed the Captain:
“Sir, inasmuch you agreed to make a divide
with me when you were here yesterday, 1
‘think that your coming to-day demands an
explanat on.” Whereupon the Captain ex-
plained whv we were there again; that he
was compelled to obey orders; and. further-
more, it seemed that all had not been truth-
jay represeated tO us on the previous day.
In the meantime, we were moving along
and had come up to ‘*dat ole caved-in well.”
some boards; these boards were covered
with shavings, and over all stood a large
work bench. In.short order the boys had
the workbench and boards lifted from over
the hole; and there; lo and behold !' just as
the darky had told 1s, were the six barrels
of sorghum molas es, and fieold *'Kunnel”
standing by in’ astonishment exclaimed:
“Well, I declare, Captain, 1 had no knowl.
edge of those barrels bein;
ust have been. put there during my
ere loading the barrels
5, the old lady yf the Boye
rage, swooped down upon
first thing fro
of any hill looming [
surrounded ‘Forest.
Over this hole in the ground had been laid |
in there. They,
her that greeted our ears was: ‘Oh, yon
miserable, pusilianimous Jakes of perdi-
tion, turned loose from the jails of the
North, to come down here 10 rob and mur-
der us. . I have five sons ip the Confederat
During this tirade the old ''Kunnel’’ was
trying to quiet his irate spouse, and finally
su ed in persuading her to go the house;
but just as she came around the corner she
espied one of our boys—little Billy Bower—
vancing upon a chicken coop, im which
was the last and only hen remaining on the
premises. Tne coop was a small structure.
about 3x5 feet in dimensions, with a door
about 18 inches square and two feet from
the ground. As Billy opened the door the
oid hen retreated to the back end of the
cnop,:and as Billy tried to reach her with
bis feet on the gronnd, and the upper half
of him in the coop, his position certainly
offered the old lady a golden opportunity
for an attack in the rear. So arming hers
gelf with a cypress clapbeard, she immedi-
ately advanced upon Billy's works, and
whack, whack; she tet him have it. Billy
was now on his mettle, and, nothing daunt-
ed by the old lady’s bombardment, swore
that he would bring that chicken off with
him or die in the attempt. In order to get
hold of the hen he crawled clear into the
coop. Quickly theold lady shut the door
and locked it, and through a crack began to
unch Billy with the end of her clapboard.
I Billy seized hold of the board and pulled it
;away from her, and called on the boys (who
were looking on in high glee and cheering
the old lady on) to come to his rescue.
When we opened the door Billy came out.
clinging to the chicken;but the boys decided
that after such a gallant battle the old lady
was entitled to keep her hen, and Billy, very
muck crestfallen, returned it to the coop.
This little affair over with, our next move
was to trayel down ‘dat dim road tru de
woods.” We soon canie upon the 40 big fat
hogs and rail-pens: full of corn, just as our
col: red friend’ had told us. After we had
been down there about 30:minutes.’ slaying
the hogs and loading them and the corn into
the wagons, the old ‘‘Kunnel’’ appeared on
the scene, and apparently with great agita-
tion of mind began to warn us of impend-
ing danger. “Gentlemen,” he said, ‘‘ I came
down hrre to tell you that there is quite a
tore of Confederate cavalry in this vicinity,
and in case they happen to attack you be-
fore vou get away from here, I hope that
you witknot hold me responsible for send-
ing them on to you.” -
He then returned to his house.
gonmaster, upon hearing the Colonel’s warn-
ing. immediately became panic-stricken,
and commanded the teamstersto ‘“Whip-up,
break for camp; the rebels are coming.”
“Not much,” said our brave Captain.
“Not a team moves till the last wagon has
sbeen loaded!’ Whereupon the Wagon-
master put spurs to his horse and lit out for
camp. yelling back: ‘Wel, if they get you
I'll be — if they shall get me.”
The Captain put out pickets, and we went
on with our work till - all the wagons were
loaded, and safely arrivedin camp with
‘lasses, hog and hominy” enough to last us
many days.
The Wagonmaster’s heroic exploits were
reported to the proper authorities. and next
morning I hoticed an ex - Wagonmaster
marching in thé ranks of his company us
they were wending their way out to the
wcket-line.~Wn. Howanp, in Aational iri-,
bune.
The True Cure,” ;
There are two ways of dealing with
the evils in the world which we justly
deplore and wish to abolish; one is to
attack and try to break them. down
forcibly, the other to dissolve or exhale
them by the active presence of good.
The former of these methods appears
50. much the more direct and obvious
that it generally gains the first place
in our attention. We see a Wrong,
and our impulse is to crush it; we see
injustice, and we long to exterminate
it; we observe an unrighteous institu-
tion, and we desire to overthrow it.
The slower and less direct method of
overcoming evil: with good, of substi-
tuting a better way for that which is
bad, of devoting the same energy to’
building up that we would have given
to the work of tearing down, obtains
a gradual hold over us only with time
and experience.
Possesses- the Thickest Skin,
' The whale may claim to have a
gkin thicker than any other animal.
It has a skin nowhere less than several
inches, and in many parts fully twa
feet, in thickness. The distinction
of being the thickest skinned quad.
ruped belongs to the Indian rhinoce-
ros, whose hide has a knotty or gran-
ulated surface, and :is so impenctra
ble as,to resist the-claws of the lion
or tiger, and the sword or bullet from
old-fashioned smooth-bore muskets.
So stiff and hard is his skin that
were it not divided by creases ol
folds the animal imprisoned in its
armor cold scarcely move. The skin
of the hippopotamus runs that of the
rhinoceros _ very closely as regards
thickness.
As A rule city people pay for their
pleasures during their summer out-
ings. But there are hogs among men
as well as in the fattening pens on
on the farm. Thousands of well-to-
do relations in country districts are
every year discommoded by prolonged
visits of people who come simply for
their own convenience and “to save
expense.” The man or woman who
cannot afford to pay for summer
pleasures shoul¢l remain at home.
Made Her Left-Handed.
Three years ago a young lady ol
Fall River, Mass., was hit upon the
left side of her head by a falling sign
as she was walking along a street in
Boston. This was followed by brain
fever. After some weeks she was as
well’ in mind and body as ever, but
from a right-handed person she had
become so left-handed that she could
neither cut, sew, nor write with her
right hand..
Alaskan Exports.
Goods to the value of $8,941,515
were exported from Alaska last year.
The purchase of the country from
Russia would seem to have been a
pretty fair speculation on the part of
Uncle Sam, seeing that the price
paid for the whole territory was but
$7,200,000. ?
Ir there was some way of wrapping
up a baby so that it would look like a
game bag or a gun, the women would
have no further trouble in getting
their husbands 10 carry babies on the
street ie
SOMETHING happens every aay that
should convince the women that it
would be better to trust the other sex
less, and their own sex more. ,
You can often measure a man's
debt's by the size of his diamonds.
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service, and I wish to God that I had - 500.”
Qur Wa-
. Opén a can of pes, drain, and lay
them in cold salt water for half an hour.’
Beil them soft in three pints of hot sal
water, with a slice of onion and a stalk
of celery.’: A sprig of mint improves the
flavor. When soft, rub them with the
water in which they were cooked
through. a collander; put over the fire.
and bring to boil. Add two heaping”
tablespoons of butter rolled in threes
heaping tablespoons of flour; one-half
cupful of hot milk; a small tablespoon
ful of sugar; salt and pépper to taste.’
Simmer and stir for five minutes, and
turn into a tureen in which is some fried
bread dice.=—~American Farmer, =
FRIED TOMATOES. :
‘Wash and cut in half six nice, ripe
tomatoes. Place them in a baking pan
skin down. Cut a quarter of a pound of
-butter into small pieces, place over the
tomatoes, sprinkle with pepper and salt, .
and put in the oven ten minutes. Then
place over the fire and fry slowly. The
tomatoes should become tender without
turning. When done lift carefully and
place in a heated dish. Draw the bak-
ing pan over a quick fire, stir until: the
butter is brown, add two tablespoonfuls
of flour, mix until smooth, stir until it
boils, season with salt aad pepper, and
pour over the tomatoes. Tomatoes cooked
in this way will take the place of meat.
~Farm, Field and Stockman.
SNOW ‘EGGS.
Put one pint of milk in the double
poiler with two tablespoonfuls of sugar
and one small teaspoonful of vanilla;
bresk four eggs separately; whip the
whites until stiff and dry; then stir in
lightly four tablespoonfuls of powdered,
sifted sugar. With a teaspoon take up
the whipped whites—about the size of
an egg—and drop them into the boiling
milk. Putin as many as can be handled
conveniently. When they are firm on
one side turn them carefully and cook
until firm on the other. When all are
done, mix the well beaten yolks of ths
eggs with the milk, and cook (stirring
all the time) until the custard coats the
spoon. Strain into a bowl to. cool.
When cold pile the snow eggs in a high:
glass dish, pour the custard over and
around them and serve. In making soft
custard do not allow it to boil, as that
would cause it to curdle. If iv should
curdle pour in a litile cold milk, stirring
rapidly and strain quickly.—New York
World. r 1
: HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
‘Cold tea is excellent for cleaning
grained wood. ;
¢ Dampen a cloth and dip in soda and
rub tinware briskly, after which wipe’
Kerosene applied with a rag when you
are about to put your stoves away will
prevent them from rusting. E
_ To polish kitchen knives nicely, mix a
little carbonate of soda with the brick
dust and Tub them thoroughly. :
Castor oil has not failed inany case
to remove warts to which it was applied
once a day for two to, six weeks. Fk
By rubbing with a flannel dipped in
whiting the brown discolorations:may be -
taken off cups which have. been used in
baking. uy £
Silks and ribbons may be cleaned and
made to look like new by sponging them
with equal parts of strong tea and vine-
‘gar. Iron with a not too hot iron.
A great convenience when cleaning
house is a stick with a notch in the end
that will lift the picture cords off from
the hooks without so much stepping up
and down. :
_Papered walis are cleaned by being
wiped down with a flannel cloth tied
over & broom or brush. Then cut off a °
thick piece of swale bread and rub down;
with this. Begin at the top and go
straight down.
Four *‘nevers:” Never go to bed with
cold or damp feet.. Never lean with the
back upon anything that is cold. Never
begin a journey until the breakfast has
been eaten. Never take warm drinks
and immediately go out into the cold.
To¢lean hair brushes, dip them up
and down in soda water, rinse in tepid .
water in which a little ammonia has been
mixed. Place several thicknesses of
brown paper on the back of a very mod-
erate oven, set the brushes upon this,
bristles down, and dry. et
I¢ is the most beggarly economy to lay
a carpet on the floor without patting
papers under it. No carpet will stand
the hard wear which comes upon it when
it 18 put directly on the floor. Besides,
it softens the tread and renders it more
agreeable to walk upon. drs
To clean oilcloth it must be wiped
perfectly dry as it is washed. Use little
goap and this in tepid water; change
often. A good brush and a piece of
dry flannel will make oilcloth look like
new, especially if linseed oil or skim
milk is well rubbed in after washing. If,
in’ addition to these precautions, the
cloth is varnished annually it is almost
indestructible: :
Hot alum water is the best insect de-
stroyer known. Put the alum into hot *
water and let it boil until it is’ all dis-
solved; then apply the solution hot to
all cracks, closets, bedsteads. and other
places where any insects are found.
Ants, bedbugs, cockroaches and creep
ing things are killed by it, and there.ig
no danger of poisoning the family or in-
juring the property. : :
To clean marble, mix two parts of
powdered whiting with one of powdered
bluing and half a pound of soft soap,
and allow it to come to a boil; while
still hot apply with a soft cloth to the
stained marble and allow it to ' remam
there until quite dry, then wash off with.
hot water aad soap in which a little salts
of lemon has been dissolved. Dry well -
with a piece of soft flannel, and i
marble will be clean hite as when