The Rio News, commenting og the
recent arrival of French-Canadian im
migrants at Sao Paulo, Brazil, says
that "they are not tho people for the
country." In the meantime, the
Government has suspended the Cana
dian immigration until further notice.
The statistician of the United States
estimates that the school population
of this country is 20,091),383. Of this
number there were enrolled in 1891
13,900,288 pupils in tho ' district or
public schools, uuder tho instruction
of 388,331 teachers. The average daily
attendance of tho pupils in these
schools is 9,208,890.
The No-Two-Alike Club is tho name
of au organization of women in South
ington, CQDU., who profess to abhor all
the opposite sex and any assistance they
might render. Just how the title of
the club came to bo adopted, whether
the members individually have no two
opinions alike as to tho men folk, or
whether no two men have similar at
tributes, is a mystery.
The late General Eli H. Murray was
a Southerner by birth, and was the
youngest general officer in tho Union
Army. As United States Marshall ho
freed Kentucky of the Kuklnx Klan,
and as Territorial Governor he settled
tho ultimate fate of polygamy in Utah
by refusing a certificate of election to
Congress to George Q. Cannon. The
General died recently at San Diego,
OaL
There is ample food for reflection
on the part of the bachelor maid in
the following resolution, which was
debated recently by the students of
the Women's College at Baltimore:
"Resolved, That all bachelors 30 years
of age shall be subject to a tax ; that
such tax shall be 5 per cent, of the
annual income of every bachelor from
30 to 35 years old ; 10 per cent, of the
income of every bachelor from 35 to
40 years old; 15 per cent, of the in
come of every bachelor from 40 to 45
years old, and so on in an increasing
ratio."
The French War Minister has asked
for an appropriation of $40,000,000
for the improvement of the navy.
Speaking of this item of foreiga news
the Pittsburg Dispatch says: "The
fact is appreciated by all civilized Gov
ernments that the warfare of tho fu
ture will be more largely upon tho
high seas than by invasion of an
enemy's territory, and more attention
is being given to naval than to military
equipment. In this commercial age
tho more eflectivo fighting is that di
rected toward tho destruction and in
terruption of commerce and the inter
ference with colonial relations. Great
Britain was the first of the great Na
tions to see this vantage ground and
to occupy it,but the others arc follow
in? briskly after her lead."
General Andrew Jackson, shortly
after the battle of New Orleans, wrote
an account of the engagement in a let
ter to James Monroe, afterward Presi
dent. This letter is published, it is bo.
licved for the first time, iu an article
on "Napoleon's Interest in the Battle
ol New Orleans," in tho Century. In
this battle, although the opposing
forces were about equal, tho English
lost 2117 killed and wounded, while
the American loss was only six killed
and seven wounded. Mr. Monroe
showed General Jackson's letter to
Napoleon, and when the latter learned
that the victory was mainly due to the
deadly aim of tho Americans, he'planned
the formation of troops of sharp
shooters, armed with guns of the
American pattern. Waterloo prevented
the carrying out of the'scheme.
Says London Truth: "An Old-
Fash ioned Patriot" writes to say that
the attention of persons who love their
country has lately been called by arti
cles in American magazines to the
systematic manner in which the senti
ment of patriotism is developed in
their higher schools for girls. The
pupils are regularly drilled to perform
on exercise of ".saluting the flag" in
military style. They are made familiar
with the past of their country, and in
its very short history everything that
is glorious or can be a subject of Na"
tional pride is brought before them
till an enthusiasm for the "star
spangled banner" glows in every young
heart. Wo copy America in many
things; would that wo might copy her
in educating the young to know the
glories of tlieir country's past and to
reverence its flag. Our people do not
care for their flag. They do noFknow
the meaning of the union jack. To
them one (lag is as good as another—
anything that has a bright color—and
when a town is draped for some festiv
ity any flags aro made use of; tho
greater nurabe' always have tho French
tricolor. "1 had rather," this patriot
3ays, "see tho American stars and
fitripes. They aro our brothers in
blood "
LIFE'S MISTAKES,
Wfl plant sweet flowers above the spot ,
Where rest our unforgotton dead,
fluid whilo tho roses bud and bloom
We beautify their lonely bed.
A*o rear tho snowy marble shaft
That every passer-by may learn
flow sacred memory keeps her trust
Iu votive gift and storied urn.
But oh! the hearts that ache and break
Through all the long bright summer day;; ;
For some sweet word of tenderness.
Some generous and outspoken praise;
And oh! the bitter tears that fall
O'er life's mistakes and cruel fate.
That all things which the heart most craves •
Or love and glery come too late.
Then take the rose that blooms to-day
And lay it in some loving hand,
And wait not till the ear grows dull
To toll the sweet thoughts that you >
planned. ' j
Ono kiss on warm and loving lips
Is worth a thousand funeral flowors,
And ono glad day of tender love
Outweighs nn age of morning hours. I
—D. M. Jordan, in Indianapolis Journal,
TRYING HER POWER.
RY CATHARINE EARNSHAW.
. CAN hold him
I against tho world."
, \ |J The speaker was
£-VFV B A TA^
SgjEl dark face, from
]>QJr which eyes of
witchery looked
bad lips
Vffll't which were now
_rf?——l slightly compressed
118 B h° finished the
I ~ ' sentence.
"I would not bo
so sure, if I were you," was the re
spouse of the other person, who stood
on tho path which led to the road
from the country house behind them.
Tho two girls had strolled down the
walk in the crisp winter sunlight, and
thev looked as unlike as two people
could well be.
Julia Stallo turned her head with a
quick, imperious movement as she ex
cUiined:
"Why would you not feel sure, since j
I am sure? Do you think I would give
my promise to a man who did not
adore me?"
"But men may adore at one mo
ment, and be indifferent the next,"
returned Miss Branch, stopping to
twist more closely about her head the
blue, llully mass of wool which pro
tected her from the cold.
"The man whom I love will not do
so," was the quick reply.
Miss Branch, who was four or five
years older than tho magnificent bru
nette, looked at her curiously in si
lence for a time.
Miss Branch was small. One at
first would have said she was plain,
but might discover that her face pos
sessed a wonderful power of expres
sion ; thcro might be a concentrated
spark in her eyes that would possess
force in whatever way she chose. /
After a pause she said quietly:
"I should imagiueit might be eafy
for a man to be faithful to a creature
like you. Is Mr. North coming to
day ?"
"Yes."
"I think you make a great raistako
in loving any man BO much. Ah! what
i 3 that?"
The exclamation was caused by the
sound of something rushing through
tho shrubbery of evergreens at the
right of where tho two girls were
standing.
Julia Stallo shrieked a little, and
shrank to ono side, and at the same
moment a huge, dark-colored dog
dashed out from tho cedar hedge. His
head was down, his mouth scattered
foam, and his eyes emitted sparks.
While Julia, who bad sprung away,
had gone directly in the path of
tho infuriated animal, Miss Brunch,
who had remained where she had been
standing, was several yards from him.
The brute was going on with that
unswerving leap which is so terrible to
see, and he had passed Miss Branch,
who had not moved, toward Julia
Stallo, who seemed petrilied with ter
ror in the spot where she stood.
"For God's sake, jump out of the
way!" cried Miss Branch, shrilly.
"He will not turn 1"
If Julia hoard she gave no sign ; Bho
was incapable of moving.
Miss Branch could not stand quiet.
There was a dash of physical courage
in her which enabled her to spring
forward, slipping off tho crimson shawl
from her shoulders as she did so, and
theu flaunting it fall in tho face of tho
wild-eyed animal, who moved one
sidor and wavered in confusion, while
Julia Stallo sauk down to tho ground
in a heap, and her white face was like
tho faco of the dead, save for the pro
truding eyes of horror.
Tho dog, bullied for tho moment and
uncertain, now turned toward Miss
Branch. It was useless for her to try
to run. She clasped her hands and
stood still.
Only for a breath of time, however, j
The sound of a footstep on the frozen
gravel might have been heard by the
girls, if they could have heard any
thing.
The footstep was that of someone
running furiously. A man appeared.
Ho had a pistol in his hand, and
though there was a terrible fear in
his mind that he might not aim cor- I
rectly, he could not hesitate.
The flash, tho report of the pistol
and tho dog rolled over with a moan,
his teeth sot fast in the skirt of Miss
Branch's dress.
It was to Julia Stallo's side that the
•fcau sprang, hardly glancing at Mhs
Branch, who coolly drew a penknife
Irom her pocket, and, stooping, care
fully cut her dress away from the grip
of the dying dog's teeth.
"That, I suppose, is Mr. North,"
she said to herself, looking at him at
tentively as ho bent on one knee over
Julia, whose senses had come back to
her sufficiently to enable her to recog
nize ber lover. "Yes, evidently be
loves ber. I wish sbe bad not been so
sure of bim. It is snob a temptation
to prove ber words false."
That was wbat the quiet-looking
girl was thinking, as she again
wrapped ber shawl about bor and
walked slowly down tho path.
In a few moments sbe beard bor
name called, and pausing and looking
back, she saw the two coming toward
ber.
When they were a little nearer the
man hurried forward, and, raising bis
bat, said, in a tone which was not
quite steady:
'*l do not know what you will think
of us. I confess I was, for the mo
ment, capable of thinking only of Miss
Stallo. You will forgive that, I know.
I cannot tell you bow grateful I am to
you."
"Indeed I Why?" asked Miss
Branch.
Although her words were abrupt,
the voice in which sbe spoke them was
far from being so. There was a silky
softness in it that Julia Stallo bad
never beard before, and which made
her look quickly at the girl who bad
spoken, while a pain, that was almost
like a knife thrust, suddenly went
through her heart.
Miss Branch had only glanced at Mr.
North as she had replied, and he had
not given any thought to her, so pro
foundly was he absorbed in the danger
which had so recently threatened the
girl he loved.
When tho two walked away Miss
Branch turned into another path and
walked rapidly toward the house.
There was a flush on her cheeks and
a sparkle in her eyes that gave her an
aspect altogether different from that
which she had worn au hour before.
When she reached her own room
sho sat down before tho fire without
removing her wraps. Looking into
the burning coals with an intent gaze,
her face grudually changed, until Julia
Stallo would hardly havo known it.
Tho white hands were held tightly
together until their beauty—and they
were very beautiful—was marred by
rude pressure.
"What do I owe to any man among
them?" she uttered, at length, in a
half whisper. "And as for Julia, sho
is a baby in her feelings, and will not
suffer much."
She rose and walked with determined
air across tho room. Some ono
knocked. She opened tho door and
Julia stood there.
"May I come in?" sho asked.
"I was just coming to discover if
you were still frightened," responded
Miss Branch, taking Julia's hand in
her own, and looking with more than
ordinary keenness into the girl's face.
"Don't speak of it," cried Jniia,
with a shudder. "I shall never be
able to see a dog again without a
fright. Think of what might have
happened if Luke had not come 1 Ho
says ho admires you for your presence
oi mind, although you are— But how
I do chatter!" catching herself up
with a blush. "Ho admires you so
much."
"Even though I am so plain,"
calmly remarked Miss Branch, no flush
staining her cheeks as she spoke words
so difficult for a woman to accept.
"But I did not mean to tell you
that," caressingly said Julia.
Miss Branch laughed, not bitterly
to the eur in tho least.
"Oh, I don't mind it at all," she
said, lightly. "I am plain, and I know
other people know it."
In her heart she was saying:
"He shall pay for these words."
In the days that followed it would
have been a curious study, for one not
vitally interested, to have watched tho
change in Luke North's manner toward
Mis 9 Branch.
Gradually, from a polite listening
to her, he came to turn with an appar
ently irresistible inclination toward
thut part of tho room where she hap
pened to be. ,
He stood near her chair ; he looked
at her if he spoke; ho listened with a
peculiarly vivid look upon his face
whenever she made any remark.
This attention was not marked; on
tho contrary, it almost seemed as if it
were desirous of concealing even from
his own consciousness the attraction
which Miss Branch held for him, and
which every day ho felt more and more
powerfully.
Had he ever thought her face un
prepossessing? When Julia reminded
him, one day,that ho said Miss Branch
was plain, he uttered an exclamation
of astonishment, but he made no other
reply. His betrothed, in a troubled
tone, persisted in dwelling upon tho
subject.
"I suppose she must bo fasofnating,
is she not?" sho asked, wistfully.
The man's face wore a strange smile.
He averted his eyes, as he remarked,
in a harsh voice :
"Fascinating ! Yes,l think that must
be fhe word by which to describe your
friend, and she is your friend, is she
not?" asking the question, suddenly.
Julia Stallo trembled a little and
turned pale. Sho seemed to struggle
for a moment with herself, and then
she said, faintly:
"Oh, yes! Of coarse she is my
friend."
The winter days ran on. Miss Branch
had come to stay with her friend until
the spring.
How did it happen that Mr. North
could now sometimes come to the house,
and remain, perhaps, for a couple of
hours before Julia would come into
the room? Ho always scrupulously
called for her the moment he came,
but he appeared to forget that she had
not come.
On one of those days when Jnlia had
not come, -North had been strolling
about tha room in silence. Though
he did not speak, his eye* returned
again and again to the girl who sat so
quietly on tbo sofa. There was a reck
less resolvo in her face, and that look
was mingled with something which
could not be interpreted, which any
woman might do well to fear, even
though 6he could not understand it.
North came and leaned over her.
His voice vibrated, as ho said:
•'Miss Branch 1"
She looked up ; a light, bewildering
and enthralling, was in her eyes, and
diffused in a lovely glow over tho
hitheto unlovely face.
"What would you say to me, if I
were to tell you that I love you?" ho
asked, quickly.
There could be uo mistaking tho
expression in her eyes; there could bo
, but one reading of the curves about
her mouth. Tho blinding loveliness
that was in her gaze at that instant
made tho man's heart almost stand
still. Did she really lovo him?
"Need I answer?" she asked, softly.
"Yes; answer!" imperatively.
"Then I should say that I lovo
I yon," was the low-spoken reply,
i Something in the man's fuce made
Miss Branch suddenly rise to her feet,
while her face grew pallid and the
glow died from her eyes.
"You are mocking me 1" she cried,
in a smothered voice. "You do not
really love mo!"
"1 am thinking of a young man, my
half-brother, whom I loved more than
brothers usually love," returned
North, in a stern voice. "You may
recall Morris Loring. Ah, I see you
do ! You killed him that you might
be amused. Perhaps it was not man
ly of me to resolve to avenge him in
some slight degree. But I did not
think of so base an action until I fan- |
cied you wished to play with mo. I
do not love you, Miss Branch, but I
can understand how a man might bo
infatuated with you. It was beneath
me to stoop to such a course as this.
I don't ask you to forgive me."
"No, no," said Miss Branch, her
voice husky and Btrange, "Do not
ask that, for I never could do so."
"Why?"
"Because I lovo you. At last I love.
Do not speak to me. I tell you that,
for the first time in my lifo, I love.
Do you think I am sufficiently pun
shed for trying my power? Do you
pity me, Mr. North?"
She stood looking at him for an in
stant, then turned and hurried from
tho room.
North gazed blankly at the door
which had closed behind her. He had
uot known how much he could despise
himself, and thero was a curious pul
sation iu his heart which made him
unwilling to see Julia.
It was a week before ho returned to
tho house. When Julia informed him
of Miss Branch's departure ho would
not allow himself to manifest any in
terest. The few weeks that had
passed had formed an episode in his
life which he could not wish to re
member.—Saturday Night.
Hot Air Treatment.
It has taken the medical world a
very long timo to become alive to tho
fact that hot applications and hot air
aud water treatment are among tho
most useful forms of medication known
to the human family. A great many
physicians are fond of speaking in a
semi-indulgent, half way contemptu
ous fashion of what they are pleased
to term "home medication" and "old
woman's remedies," but there aro a
few doctors who aro willing to ndmit
I that medicine is quite a secondary con
j dition in the treatment of disease.
I They are frank enough to acknowledge
new what their brethren in the pro
fession will bo forced to do at some
future time, that the system has more
effect ou the medicine than the medi
cine on the system, and that tho great j
chemical laboratory of the human
body is able to change a beneficent
drug into a poison or the most viru
lent of the toxines into a means of re
lief. There are scores of cases of ill
ness where tho application of intense
heat would put the chemical forces of
lifo at work and restore tho functions
to their normal condition without the
aid of one partiolo of medioine. That
doctors do not act upon this knowl
edge is uot altogether their fault.
When a patient is suffering severely
there is an imperative demand from
the friends for something to be done.
It is often the ease that there are no
facilities for applying heat, and if
there were, this might not be alto
gether satislaotory to tho family of
the sick person. People like a doctor
who comes and does something him
self without taxing others to do for
him. He is supposed to have the moans
of relief in his hands, and as an old
lady ouco expressed it, "He goes right
to work and does something himself,
and doesn't expect the family to do
his work for him." What does one
have a dootor for, to be sure, except
he is able to givo something to stop
the pain at once? A great deal of suf
fering might be avoided if people
could only bo made to realize that a
cup of hot water or a hot bath would
almost immediately remove many of
the more violent symptoms of disease.
Every family, especially those where
there are children, should be provided
with some means for taking a hot water,
hot air or steam bath.—The Ledger.
Polish Thrift.
Scotch thrift has never been ac
counted one of the characteristic of
the Poles, but they may possess it, af
ter all. A voung Pole who had saved
the life of General Skobeloff was of
fered*his choice between 100 rubles
and the cross of St. George. The Pole
deliberated a while, and then asked
what the decoration was worth. When
informed that its intrinsic value was
about fivo rubles he said: "I'll take
| the cross and ninety-five rubles."
Sawdust for Fuel.
I Sawdust is turned into transporta
j ble fuel in Germany by a very simple
process. It is heated under high steam
! pressure uutil the resinous ingredients
| become sticky, when it is pressed into
i bricks. One man with a two horse
! power machine can turn out 9000
! bricks a day.
SAWDUST FOR BEDDING.
It is a common practice for liverv
men to use sawdust as bedding for
horses where that is abundant and
straw is bard to get. But as you raise
grain we should advise you to save
what is needed for bedding, no matter
though the sawdust be offered free.
Sawdust with manure makes it very
hard to rot, much more so than is
straw, though both being carbon have
scarcely any manurial value. Market
gardeners object to having sawdust in
manure piles, though they always
compost their manure before using.
It is better to uso either bedding as
economically as possible, and without
doubt long straw bedding can be used
with less waste than can sawdust,
partly because it is less ab
sorptive. The manure, either liquid
or solid, passes through the straw
without doing more than discolor it.
So by shaking out and drying the
straw can be used repeatedly uutil it
has rotted and broken up. The liquid
manure is best saved, not by absor
bent bedding, but by a layer of three
or four inches of wood loam under
neath the horse or cow. This also is
much better lor horses' feet than
standing on hard floors, either of wood
or concrete. A little chopped straw
lying on the earth will prevent the
unimal from being soiled with it. The
earth flooring should be cleaned out
once a week and replaced with new.—
American Cultivator.
CHARCOAL FOR CORN-FED 11033.
Whole corn is the hardest of nil
grains to digest, as it is also the cheap
est carbonaceous food. It has lt?ss
husk, in proportion to size of kernel,
than any other grain. Neither is the
corn made more digestible by being
ground and fed in musb, cooked or
uncooked, as is often done. Then it
paoks in the stomach in masses too
large for the gastric juices to pene
trate, and, of course, the coru fer
ments or sours. Old-fashioned farm
ers used to theorize about this in very
queer ways. The acid from tho
stomach they often attributed to eat
ing sour apples, as both tho apple
feeding and tho corn feeding came
about the same time. Then when this ,
acid rose to their mouths and made !
their teeth sore they attributed that
to chewing hard corn off the oob. So
they fed soft corn or had the corn
ground and fed meal. Bat tho teeth
continued just as sore as before until
the timo for butchering cume, and tho
poor, overfed hog was mercifully put
out of his misery by the butcher's
knife. It was while suffering the dis
order of a stomach full of soured mat
tei that many farmers found that
feeding charcoal was a good remedy.
Hogs will cat charcoal readily. It
contains beside its carbon some ash
which neutralizes acids. A little soda
mixed with their feed will do the work
still better. But this is only a tem
porary remedy. In the end soda will
demoralize the stomach worse than
will anything else. The true remedy
is never to overfeed even a fattening
hog, and to givo him variety, especi
ally when corn fed.
THE VALUE OF COAL ASHE3.
From my own experience and many
inquiries from neighbor farmers I
have reached a delinito conclusion
that coal ashes have truly a commer
cial vnluo. Some years ago we hauled
a number of loads of coal ashes aud
scattered them thickly on a low, wet
piece of land. The following winter
the bottom was plowed for coru, the
ashes turned under, and the result
was that where the ashes wore put
there was a marked differenoo in the
yield. The following year the same
field was put in corn again, and as tho
ashes had brought forth such wonder
ful results we covered another plat
before plowing, and the same marked
difference the following year, in the
increase, was noted on both plats that
were covered with ashes.
The most wonderful part of tho fer
tility of coal ashes is yet to come.
After the second crop the bottom was
sown to wheat and grass, and whilo T
will not say that any difference could
be noted on either wheat or grass, 1
will say that after the land had re
mained in gross for three years it was j
again plowed and put in corn, and the
very spots that had been covered with
the ashes could be notioed in the
yield. This goes to show that they
ure beneficial for years, as they had
now been in the ground lour and live
years respectively.
Before tho ashes were applied the
ground was heavy and soggy, but tho
following summer in tending the crop
a marked difference was noted in the
condition of the ground. There is no
doubt whatever in this latitude. South
ern Ohio, that coal ashes are beneficial
on wet or clayey laud. Ah one farmer
puts tho situation, while there may
not be much substance or fertilizing
properties in thorn they aro an excel
lent neutralizer, and odds that ho has
used them to marked advantage where
ground is heavy, as they have a
tendency to loosen it. —A. B. Harding,
in the National Stockman.
CAMEMBERT CHEESE.
Camembert cheeao dates from the
last century only. It owes its name
to the place of its creation. A certain
Mme. Harel, with her husband, culti
vated sone farm land in the commune
of Camembert in 1791. This new pro
duction was sold at first only in the
commune and at Argenta ou market
days. But the demand for it in-
I creased so rapidly that; a few years
later it was necessary to ostablish a
depot in the latter town.
In 1813 Marie Harel, the eldest
married daughter, continued the
mother's business, and was publicly
rewarded in 18G1 by the Normandy
association. She started four moro
depots, and her father-in-law, M. Pay
nel, introduced tho first Camembert
cheeso in the town of Caen, while her
goddaughter, Mme. de Leseert, es
tablished the first Camembert cheese
manufactory in Calvados. In order to
succeed well in tho making of this
cheese it is necessary not to skim the
milk, which should coagulate, and to
leave the butter-making for the
months from May to August, at which
time of the year only dry cheese con
bo made. Rennet is added to the
milk, which is gently turned and af
terward lett in repose in vessels with a
wooden cover till the coagulation has
arrived at the proper point. To as
certain this ono place the baok of a
finger on the surface, and if it is not
stained with tho milk it suffices. Next
comes tho process of putting the cream
into forms which are open at both
ends, and placed on rushes so as to let
the drops of thin milk run off easily.
Tha cheeses are afterward carefully
salted and taken to the drying place,
where they are left from three to four
weeks.
On the third or fourth day they bo
gin to bo covered with small brown
points. After a week or ten days
they are full of soft white vegetation,
with a few blanks between. When
thoy begin to sweat and don't stick to
the fingers, they are placed on planks
and carried to tho cellars to arrive at
a state of perfection. This occupies
another twenty or thirty days, during
which time they must be carefully
watched and tended. When they are
ripe they are placed in half dozens
wrapped in paper, and covered with
straw fastened with string, ready for
their journey. They are also packed
iu rush basketsor white wooden boxes.
Tho price of tho Camembert varios
with tho season. In the summer thoy
may fall as low as a dollar a dozen and
go up again sometimes to $1.60 and
SI.BO. When well made it is one of
tho most agreeable and wholesome of
cheeses.--London Standard.
ROULTUY POINTS.
Burn a pound of sulphur in each
pen the first day of the month, so you
will not forget it. Clean up the drop
pings every morning. Kerosene the
roosts and nest boxes once a week.
Change tho litter in the nest boxes
every week or two, and Hprinkle lib
eially with insect powder. Scald the
drinking vessels once a week.
Sudden changes are apt to make a
big difference in tho egg records.
Sudden changes are readily noticed by
laying stock, especially of the lighter
built varieties.
The early hatched pullets should all
be laying now. If thoy do not begin
early the chances are thoy may not lay
before tho last of February.
Market poultry raisers should visit
at least oue exhibition. They will
enjoy the outing and profit by tho dis
play.
Tho incubators on tho majority of
farms are now in full blast, and tho
brooders are being put into operation.
Watch closely the condition of your
fowls, and nip in tho bud the first
symptoms of disease. A sneeze, a
cough, a swelled head, scaley logs,
stiffness of the joints, dark or pale
combs, looseness of bowels, are all
warnings of danger, and the proper
remedies must, be applied. To neglect
now may mean an unprofitable wiuter.
At this time of year it is a good idea
to put rusty irou iu tho drinking
water. It furnishes a good tome.
When the nights are cold, an even
ing feed of cracked corn will serve as
a fuel for the body; but make the
fowls scratch for every bit thoy get
do not ullow them to gorge them
selves.
Do not expose the fowls to wet or
cold weather, as such conditions will
be apt to bring on canker, cataarh or
roup.
See that the houses, especially tho
scratching sheds, are not uncomforta
bly warm, and that tho fowls are not
suddenly exposed to cold, damp
storrus. Nothing would briug on pneu
monia quicker than such changes.
Close up the poultry account and
seo how you stand. What was tho
value of stock ou hand at the begin
ning of the year ? What would be tho
interest on that at six per cent? What
did you pay for food, labor and sup-
I plies during the year? How
' much money did you se
cure for eggs? How much for
birds? Foot up the oxpeuses; place
beside the receipts—and what have
been your profits?
Clean up the premises, sell off the
surplus stook, close up the year in
good shape. Those who sowed rye in
the full view with great satisfaction
tho pleasure aud benefit the fowls get
from it. A rye patch for poultry
pays good interest. Coming in just
at the time when green, tender grass
s scarce, it is certainly an attraction.
The hotbeds, too, should be grow
ing lettuce for the brooder chicks.
There is no green stuff that will pro
duce better results tbau tender, crisp
lettuce.
Finally, do not forget, on every
clear, sunny day to open the doors
and windows of all the houses for a
few hours, to give thein o good airing,
—Farm Poultry.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
"BAKED LEO OF MUTTON.
Leg of mutton, six or eight pounds;
cut down the under side, remove the
bone; fill with a dressing made of
four ounces suet, two of chopped ham,
six ounces stale bread, two eggs, one
onion, a bit of sweet herbs, nutmeg,
salt and popper; sow up, basto with
butter ; cook threo hours. Old mut
ton loses the strong flavor if steamed
awhile. Do not use the liquor.—
Trenton (N. J.) American.
A SQUASH SWEETMEAT.
Cut a good sweet pumpkin in')
pieces, remove tho seeds and pare H.
Then cut into small squares or ob
longs. Weigh, and to every pound of
pumpkin allow one pound of sugar
and tho juice of ono lemon. Put the
pumpkin in a deep dish in layers with
the sugar, and thin yellow rind of
lemon peel sprinkled between tbem;
pour the lemon juice over tho top.
Allow to remain for two days in a cool
place. To every three pounds of
sugar allow one-half pint of water,
boil all together until tho pumpkin
looks clear and is tender, but do not
break the pieces; pour into a pan and
allow to remain covered for a week;
drain of the syrup, boil until it is
thick, put tho pumpkin into jars and
fill the jars with the boiling syrup. A
few spioes, such as ginger and cloves
may be added to the boiling syrup.
Eleanor M. Lucas.
MAYONNAISE DRESSING.
This is the way Miss Emily E. Col
ling, the teacher of cookery, makes
mayonnaise dressing:
Put the yolks of two eggs into a cold
soup plate, beat or stir a moment with
a silver or wooden fork, then add half
a teaspoon lul of suit, a dash of cay
enne, and, if you liko it, half a tea
spoonful of mustard. Work those
well together, then add, a few drops
at a time, from a half to a pint of olive
oil, stirring rapidly and steadily all
the timo. Stir only one way, as re
versing tho motion may cause it to
curdle. While adding the oil add al
HO, occasionally, a few drops of lemon
juice or vinegar. If too thick when
finished, add vinegar or lemon juice
until it attains the consistency you
desire. The more oil you use, the
thicker tho dressing. If tho dressing
should curdle, begin again with one
or two more yolks in another plate,
and after stirring well add one tea
spoonful at a time of tho curdled
mayonnaise, and when all has been
stirred in continue adding oil as be
fore until the desired amount is ob
tained. Everything used in making
the mayonnaise dressing, dish in
cluded, should be ice cold, especially
iu hot weather.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A cloth wet with ice water and laid
across tho eyes is often a cure for the
most aggravated oases of insomnia.
Vinegar added to the water in which
fish is boiled will make tho fish firmer
and add to its flavor. It will also make
tough meat more tender.
To remove the smell of onions on
the bands, ground mustard, slightly
dampened, rubbed thoroughly on
bands, after which wash with sand
soap.
Lamp wicks soaked in vinegar some
twenty-four hours beforo being called
into use will give a clearer flame and
a steadier light than those not so
treated.
Tho rubber rings of fruit cans will
recover their elasticity if soaked for a
while in weak ammonia water. This
is quite an item when canning is being
done, and the rubber rings are found
to bo stretched out of shape.
If you want your pet canary to sing
his best and look liis prettiest feed
him occasionally with boiled eggs,
chopped flue and mixed with cracker
crumbs. Do not give him moro than
a thimbleful of tho mixturo at a time.
Housekeepers puzzle over bow to
whip cream without changing it into
butter and tho secret is to have tho
cream churn ice cold. Ono good cook
always fills her cream churn with ioo
and puts it in the refrigerator before
using.
Wash willow furniture with warm
water and castile soap, wiping very
dry with a soft cloth, then dry in the
sun or near a fire. To bleach it,
after washing in warm suds, set in a
box without drying, put a small disb
of burning sulphur inside and cover
tho box for half an hour.
In washing grained woodwork use
clear water or weak cold tea. Where
there are linger marks to be removed,
such as around tbe door knob or on
the window sill, a little fine soap may
bo used, but only just enough to do
the work, for soap should not be used
on this woodwork if it oan be avoided.
Careful cooks remove the cores oJ
eggs, tbe tough, milk-white bit found
in the whites. These become bard and
indigestible when cooked. Another
small kitchen pointer is to know that
puddings, cakes and such compounds
of which baking powder is an ingredi
ent, should be baked at once when
mixed.
Fruits are generally healthful; thej
cool the blood, and by their aperient
qualities aid in digesting other foods,
but they do not agree with all sys
tems; in that instance they produce o
sour stomach, ferment iustead of be
ing digested, cause irritation audofteD
produce eruptions on the skin. Un
ripe and decayed fruits are not eat
able, but good fruits aro generally
wholesome. A well person must know
what to cat and what not to eat to re
main SO.
It is said by Brewer that tbe Papal
cap was first encircled by a crown in
11(50,
Harmonies in dress are more effec
tive at all times and in better taste
than contrasts.