The whole tendency of values in agricultural products is upward. Contrary to the commonly accepted belief, the percentage of feeble-mind edness is much greater in the male sex Ihan in the female. \ienna, perhaps even more than Paris, is a city of epicures. A fashion paper published there offers prizes to the amount of 10,000 crowns for new recipes. Germany imported twenty times more American apples in 1896 than in any former year, and that, too, in spite of assertions from her native or chardists that our fruit was unsound und contained the germs of disease. Ihe American apple did not beg for German approval, but simply com pelled it, adds the New York Mail and Express. At their recent dinner in New York ( ity the jewellers drank to "the re turn of prosperity aud the confusion of the bicycle erazc." They seem to think, observes the Suu, that it is owing to the latter that people are not buying so many diamonds us hereto fore. 44 There ought to have been a doctor present to tell the diners that diamonds cunnot give you an appetite, while a wheel can. Rut then the doc tors resent the vogue of the bike as much as the men of Maiden lane." The antidote for the rinderpest which Dr. Koch is reported to have discovered in South Africa, if it should provy as successful as Pasteur's meth ods of eradicating diseases among ani mate, would, the New York Tribune believes, lead to larger results in pro moting peace and prosperity in that part of the world than the most in genious compromise which Mr. Cham berlain could devise for the reconcili ation of foreign races. In compari son with a triumph of science like Dr. Koch's, the British success at Bida in bringing another littl3 war to a close is insignificant indeed. How the Germans got the reputa tion of being ••alow" it is hard for •''arm, Field and Fireside to under stand. "In reality," it says, "they arc the most progressive nation on earth. Many of the things whioh in this country are looked upon as wild ly radical have been in practical and successful operation over there for years. Government ownership of railways, postal savings banks, com- ! pulsory insurauce for government em ployes and pensions after retirement for age, are all beyond the experi- j mental stage in Germany. The recent official reports show that the railways are paying eo well as to be a large source of revenue to the government, and reductions in both freight and passe£2er rates are contemplated." The steady development of Siberia is about to bear fruit, and for the tirst time in the history of the world the tide of emigration is turning toward the east. Ever since the day that tho erring couple were turned from the gates of Paradise, muses the Atlanta Constitution, their faces, and those of their children, have been turned west ward, until now the shores of the Pacific have been reached, and west meets cast. During this progress old lands have not only been thinned of their population, but have been utterly abandoned. It was reserved for Russia to make the first exceptiou to the rule, not willingly, but under force of •lrcumstauces. The growth of the half-Tartar tribes on the Asiatic line into a compact empire, found its western boundary closed and walled. All the wiles of Russian diplomacy have only succeeded in the acquisition of a part of Poland. There confronted her there the German, the Austrian, the Turk, behind whom was England. I'he conquest of the far southwest is the dream of Russian statesmanship, but it must await the slow awakening of time. In the meantime, Russia has had free rein toward the east. Her Asiatic territory is even more vast than that of Europe. For a century the ears of civilization have beeu pained with tho terrors of Siberian exile. It was a deportation as terrible for prince as for peasant, return from which was as hopeless for one as for the other. Now, however, we are told that the work of the century is about to bloom in the opening up to the world of a country reclaimed from its original terrors. Cities, well-tilled farms, rail road.-, have all done their work, aud instead of deportation to Siberia, we see the face of the voluntary emigrant turned that way. The emigrants of eastern Europe, finding that they wore not welcome to America, have been induced to seek homes in Siberia, where the Government is doing ull it can for them. It marks the first return of tho human race toward its cradle, and it will have a big effect upon the future history of the world. THE GOOD TIMES. Let's sing about tbe good times—the happy times to be— As sing the rivers rippling on in music to the sea! As sing the birds—they know not why—when springtime days begin; 80 let us sing the sad timos out, aud sing the glad timos iu! Lot's sing ttbout the good times, when ovory cot aud clod Shall send a benediction to the living skies or Ood! When tlie world a brighter beauty and n rarer graco shall win, Aud life shall sing the sad times out aud ring the glad times in! Lei's sing about tii" good times! They'll greet us on the way - throughout the day: When life springs liko a blossom from the color of The clod.- Aud tbe worid roll. on in music to Hie shin ing gates of God! —Tronic L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY. BY r.UQRNIA I). RIGHAM. WOULD rather fl hear that old man tPj talk about his early N life than listen to a play at a lirst- class theatre, said an iutelligent-look iug gentleman, ad dressing the hotel 1 glanced in tho '* direction indicated by a nod of his head, and I saw a silvery-haired old man with a stout walking cane pass slowly by on the sidewalk. 1 was an utter stranger iu the vil lage, but a month of enforced idleness was ahead of ine, and I determined to become Irieudly with the old raau. This did not prove hard to do, for ho was genial, aud I have always had a liking for elderly people. Short and stout, ruddy of face, with perfectly white hair and whiskers, and blue eyes quick to light up with laughter, he was very good to look at. In talk ing, he had a trick of occasionally re peating the last words of a sentence, a habit amusing to straugcrs, but rather pleasing than otherwise on closer ac quaintance. When I had put myself 011 a fairly good footing with him, some two weeks after our introduction, I found him one afternoon in an easy-chair 011 his front piazza. Sitting down on the steps, I leaned against a post aud econ led him to talk about bis young days. "Well," he said, "I will tell you the story straight, for I ace you have had several second-hand nibbles at it al ready. "When I was a young blood, like jourself, I lived on a large plantation in Georgia, my father being one of the richest planters in his State. On the same road that our house faced, with about two miles of field and woodland betweeu, was another exten sive farm. This was owned by the Grantlands, a family who were our bitter enemies, though we had ouco been on the friendliest terms—yes, friend liest terms. The oldest son of that house had killed the oldest sou of my father's house; that caused the en mity, bitter to the core. The young men had been bosom friends; one wouldn't go 'possum hunting unless the other went. 1 remember the morning when my brother's body was brought home. I was about sixteen then, and he twenty-three. My father Btood by the corpse and swore eternal hatred of the whole Grantland family, and the rest of us partook of his spirit. 4 4 4 Why, you married a Grantland, didn't you, Mr. Bearing,' I asked, "Not so fast, young man, not so fast! You are like one of these eloc trie machines; didn't have such in my day. 44 T0 go back to my story. Of course none of the Grantlands came to the Itinera), and tho young fellow who had done tho killing had skipped the coun try. It was a tine thing for him that he got away, and his family took good caro that he did not come back—good care, T tell you. They hold their beads as high as we did, for none of them believed the killing had been inten tional. Wo took our membership away from their church, going five miles further to another. They would not get. their mail from the same otlice where wo got ours, but seut fourteen miles to another office, and neither family would attend an entertainment in the neighborhood where the other family might be met. "All this went on, and at last I found myself twenty-two years old. Then something happened that was like gall to my taste—like gall. "Mr. Grantland had a daughter who I was about eighteen years of age at that time, a girl named Henr'etta. Living so near together, of course there were times when members of the two fami lies were obliged to see each other, j and it seemed to me that I was forever seeing Henr'etta Grantland. I would pass her, face to face, both of us on horseback, run across her at a picnic where I did not dream she'd be, and meet her iu town at tho home of some mutual friend. Pretty soon I fonn 1 myself watching out for her, looking at her ou the sly, wondering what it was in the set of her head that was ho taking, why it was that her hair seemed to catch and hold the glint of the sun- 1 shine—and all the like of that, you know, "It ma le me angry every time I found myself watching her, for I hated her, you see—hated the whole Grant land generation. Despite all, however, j there was something about the girl ! that compelled mo to look her way and |to think about her. I just fairly des j piaed myself for it, felt worse than n 1 traitor—worse than a traitor. Ami j father, ho began to notice me; said he could see I was troubled. 4, 1t was one night when ho and I were together on the front piazza, he smoking, that he asked mo about it. We always were companionable, and I just made a clean breast of it; told him I wanted to go away, that it seemed to me I could not turn around but that Henr'etta Grantland was coming face to face with me, wielding a power over me a little short of torture. "Father pitched his freshly-lighted cigar into the flower yard and sprang from his chair. 44 4 Does she try to attract you—does she try?' he asked excitedly. "I told him no, that she treated rae like the sand under her feet—never noticed me at all. Father walked up and down the porch as if driven by the wind, but halting suddenly in front of me ho said : • 4 4 \ou would better go away. How would you like a trip to the gold mines among the Rockies? The mountains might put you struight. Suppose now von go. lam sure your mother could get your things together by Thurs- j day.' "The idea pleased ine, pleased me no little, and when Thursday came I was on my way to the Rocky Moun tains. I pretty soon fell in with a party of young bloods like myself, and for a while I did not bother much about mv attractive enemy—not much. All the time, though, I was traveling just as directly as I could toward an event that would bring her vividly be fore my mind, and would show me in a white light a truth I was then look ing at through a very foggy atmosphere —very foggy. "Perhaps it was two months after I left homo f became separated from my party during a bunt and was lost. It was an unhappy experience, young man. I hallooed until I was hoarse, climbed a tree and tied a handkerchief to its highest limb, aud did all the other things that lost people do, you know. At last, strikiug aimlessly down a ravine, I found myself at sunset emerging into an almost circular de pression among mountain peaks. And right at mo was a wigwam. It startled me so that I jumped behind a tree. The next moment somo one called to me, told me to come 011; that I would meet fricuds. An Indian boy advanced toward me. and in the wigwam T found a sick Indian. Both spoke English, and I was glad of the good supper the lad gavo rae. None of us cared to talk much, aud 1 was soon fast asleep, worn out. "I suppose it was long toward mid night when I awoke, feeling some thing punch mo in the ribs. It was the sick Indian's bony hand. Enough light fro 111 the lire without came through the crevices to make the in terior ot the wigwam dimlv discerni ble. " 'What is it?" I asked. '.Shall I call the boy?' " "'No, I beg,' ho aiiswered. 'Give me water. I believe lam dying.' "1 gave him the water promptly enough, meaning to call tho boy just as promptly—just as promptly. Rut while 1 was putting down the tin cup ho uttered words that were paralyzing in their ofiect on me. I sank down 011 my blanket and clasped my hands mound mv knees, and gazed as best I could at tuo poor fellow. " 'I am not an Indian ; 1 cm white,' he said. 'My name is Garland Grant lan.l, and because I killed by acci dent the man I loved best in all the world. 1 was forced from homo to livo an outlaw's life. Under mv head is a tin bir;; I trust its contents to you.' "He began gasping painfully then, and 1 tried to raise him, though I was | tremblin , violently. " 'Promise to help the Indian bury me, aud to bury me deep,' ho said. " 1 promised him that he should be buried as nearly as possible like the people back at homo were buried, aud that the box should be my care. There were a few struggles, poor fel low, and ho died while trying to thank me. Then I sat there and thought about him until my heart throbbed itself tender. It Seemed to me I had traveled all those miles from home ! just for this. Life is a strange mix ture, young man, a strange mixture. I don't know what your faith is, but mine is au over-ruling Providence. My meditations during that night de stroyed my enmity toward tho Grant | lands. "I buried Garland two days later, at sundown. And I buried him in a coffin. Yee, it was a rude afi'air ; the boy and I made it from the seasoned trunks of trees long since fallen. The wood was not difficult to split with the tools they had concealed among the rocks. The lad was greatly impressed by my care of tho body of a half breed,as he thought his one-time friend i was, ami it won his devotion—won his devotion. "Ho finally guided me to a camp of ] miners, and ho would have followed me home had I allowed it. I was so ; fortunate at the camp as to hear of my party who were searching for me, and jto communicate with them, letting I them know my luteution to return home. First, though, T had a secret commission to fulfil, "In the dead man's tin box I had found a letter addressed to his mother, i nd a note addressed, 'To the friend who receives this box.* Both had evi dently beeu written during his illucss, and the contents of my note made my voting, hot blood tingle in my veins, it contained minute directions as to how to reach a certain place, and to j find a certain crevice between two gigantic rocks, a crevipe not extending straight down, but almost at once curv ing westward. With a stout, Hharp j hook attached to a pliable rod, I was 1 to drag this orevico and fish out five skiu bags containing gold dust and , nuggets. 1 was to have ray choice of | the treasure bugs, and the others were , lo be forwarded to Mr. Grantland.' "Of course I knew that no matter how the hate had vanished out of my own heart, it burned just as fiercely as ever iD the hearts of all at home. 1 meant to do all that Garland had re quested, but I meant to do it secretly —do it secretly, yon know. Then I meant to go home and live as usual. I was not so wise then as now. It is true that I found the treasure crevice, fished out fhe five bag®, kept one for myself and sent the others to Mr. Grantland, Mrs. Grantland's letter pinned to one of them. I had pen ciled the date of Garlaud's death on the letter, thinking they would liko to know it. I say it is true I did all those things, and did them secretly; but I did not go home to live as 1 had in the old days. "After being there a few weeks, after hearing l'rom neighbors about the mysterious coming of the letter and the gold, after seeing Henr'etta dressed in deep black, the self same poise to her head, the self same sweet ness of fact, I learned a lesson—yes, I learned a lesson. I learned that miners' camps, nor hunting parties, nor mysterious crevices of treasure, nor the Rockies themselves, cau crush out of a life the emotion called love; not even if it spring to existence where hate is rife. "I became more unhappy than ever, and was continually brooding over schemes to heal the breach between the two families—heal the breach. Else, how was I to make Henr'etta so much as soern conscious of my exist ence? All this time my father watched me so olosely that it made me nervous. Guess that hurried things—guess it did. Anyway, I was not very good humored one morning, and when my father said something about it I wheeled round and told him all about Garland's death and the things I had I done afterward, ending with the bold statement that I loved Henr'etta and could not help it. "To this day I wonder that my fiery old father did not fell mo to tho fioor with a chair, for he was a quick man —a quick man. He stood and looked at me pretty much as he would have looked at a cur that had dared to bite him. Then ho turned on his heel and went away, took his hat and left the house—went straight to the woods. Needn't ask me how I felt; mean enough, that's certain, mean enough •—mean enough. He didn't come home to dinner, aud 1 did not eat any. Toward night I saw him coming down the spring hill from the direction of the family burying ground, and I knew where he had been last, if not all day. My elder brother had been his idol. "You can talk about bravery, but I tell you it took bravery to make nie face my father at the supper table a few minutes later. Ho said next to nothing (luring the meal, and his hands tremblod when he passed the plates. I do hope I'll never again feel like I did during [that meal. After it was over the big horn was sounded, u very un usual thing at such an hour, and the hands from all over the plantation came pouring up to the house. They gathered cloue about the back porch, uud the house servants and the tamily were on the porch. "I felt like running—felt like run ning; didn't know what on earth was coming; felt liko I was to be cursed and sent from home. Father stood close to the old water shelf, and here's what he said, the words fairly burning into me: '• 'I have called you together to put you on notice that the trouble between Mr. Grautland's family and mine is nt an end. Hereafter there will be peace. His family will dine here uext Tliurs day; and the day following his hands and mine will have a barbecue in the spring grove. You may go to your places.' "I can't tell you how wo all dis persed ; but amid the pleased ejacula tions of some of the servants I found myself wiping the tears off my faco before the whole crowd. Perhaps 1 was shedding tears because mother was sobbing ; never could bear to see her cry. "Well, this about ends my story. The bag of gold dust and nuggets that fell to me helped to buy this house, young man. And you needn't think we're lonesome when you pass by hero late in the day and see two old folks sitting close together, for they're Honr'etta and me. We haven't been enemies now for many years—many years."—Waverloy Magazine. Ilulloon Lifeboats The big ocean greyhounds will soon, it is thought, be equipped with life boats harnessed to balloons, so as to be practically unsinkable. Cylinders filled with compressed gas will be placed in compartments of the life boats, and from these the balloons, which will be harnessed with cords to a hollow mast connected with the cylinders, is inflated. The mast, which is iron tubing, is adjustable, and, when turned forward, the big balloon acts as a sail, oars proving quite unneces sary. The combination boat will doubtless prove of the greatest ser vice in saving people far out at sea. In a recent test it was shown that, even with the boat tilled with water to the gunwales, the lifting power of the balloon prevented the craft l'rout eithor sinking or upsetting. Man at His llcst. Said George Du Maurier once in a private chat: "I think that tbc best years in a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. I should add that in order to enjoy life after forty it is perhaps necessary to have achieved, before reaching that age, at least some success." Great Place for Shipping. Over 1000 ships of all kinds aud sizes pass up aud down Hie English Channel every twenty-four hours, and there are scarcely over less than 200 near Hand's End, leaving or bearing | up for the Channel. A WOMAN STATE LIBRARIAN. Some criticism was aroused in Mary land a year ago by the appointment of a woman—Mrs. Annie R. Jefferson as the State Librarian. But she has justified the appointment by the ad mirable way in which she has fulfilled the duties of the office. "Her suc cess," says tho Baltimore Amerijan, "is another proof of the fact that in work of this kind a woman can prove herself l'ully as capable as a man." THE SLAUGHTER OF BIRDS. Tho outcry over the slaughter of birds for milliuery purposes is said to bo without causo. The honor of sup plying a large part of the demand is claimed for the humble barnyard fowl, while a large pirtof the paradise plumes and ospreys are clever imita tious. Regarding the real osprey, buyers say tlfat it is absurd to sup pose that it is obtaiued by killiug the mother bird on her uest, since that would soon exterminate tho species, whereas the supply is increasing iu response to the demand. While buy ers and storekeepers claim tho above is true, the members of the different soe'eties to prevent the killing of birds declare that the little animals are now being slaughtered in greater numbers than ever before.— New York Tribune. SHE READS lIIEROULYL'HICS. Airs. James llobottom, of Jersey City, is ou indefatigable student of everything Egyptian, having made such progress in her work that tho great Egyptologists of Franco and Germany have written to urge her to complete her investigations by an ex tended stay in the laud of the Pyra mids. Ten years ago somebody loaned Mrs. Robottom. "One Thousand Miles Up tho Nile." She read it while con valescing Irom a sickness, and became so enamoured with tho subject that she has pursued it vigilantly from that day to this. She has lectured in Jer sey City aud Brooklyn several times, und has been invited to speak at Cor nel). One of her talks is about Queen rl 'ittisse, a legend of whom adorns one side of the obelisk in Central Park. This Queen was tho daughter of one of the warrior kings of Egypt. Mrs. Kobottoiu reads these legends easily, having long since familiarized herself with hieroglyphics. THE PREVALENCE OF GRAY, T fiud that gray lias been generally adopted as the color for the season. This, 1 fancy, is because gray accords so well with the popular chinchilla, i which, in spite of all assertions, I do not think is shown to its best advan- ] tage with black. There is comfort to j be found in the thought that this year. ; at least, it does not matter whether or not the season's gowns are of a dark shade. With the exception of the severely tailor-cut, nearly all the bodices are trimmed with light-colored material. With gray dresses, especially, cerise satin or colored silk belts of a good j depth appear below the bolero with j its edgiug of fur, and above this is j lisfeo or crepe or some other variety of j the kind. Many of the boleros have j oblong rovers, and overyoody now . seems to wear a lace cravat or lace tie I fastened with a jewel. Stripes arc uot at all assertive on this hide; indeed, the striped materials seen hero are few and far between. Tuis must bo regretted by our shorter sisters, but they, like us, must suffer. Entrezuous, I am awaiting with horror the return of the hoop skirt. Our Paris correspondent says that i stripes are absolutely a fad in the gay capital. Vicuna cloths, which have a hairy surface, have been brought out in decided stripes, which have been made up the wrong way cf the stuff, horizontally, while the sleeves show perpendicular lines, and the waist is cut on the bias. No one but a first-rate dressmaker would dare attempt to raako such a costumo, and I am bure only a few of tho most advanced loaders would care to wear one in this country, at all events. —Philadelphia Times. TOOK WOMEN LEARN TO COOK. The cooking class uuderihe auspices of tho Helen Heath settlement met Monday afternoon from 4 until 6 at 3301 Halsted street. Fourteen poor women and girls were present to learn from Misj Bullard the best way to prepare nutritious and appetizing dishes at a small cost. The ciass meets in the kitchen and is shown every de tail of preparation of the lood from the time it leaves the market baeket, until it is taken from the range and , parsed to them. Miss Bullard first showed them tho proper way to get meat ready for boiling and uoups, r.fter which sho made a potato soup and a rice pud ding. These two dishes, with the ad dition of bread and tea or coffee mako a substantial meal for eight persons. The estimated cost of the soup is tea or eleven cents, and that of the pud ding is seven cents. It is intended to teach the class two or three new dishes each week, and so enlarge their menus without adding to the cost of living. Totato Soup—Boil six potatoes in two quarts of water for half an hour before mashing. Slice au onion in a quart of millr and set on tho stove in another vessol. Stir one tablespoonftil of flour iut# three tablespoonfuls of beef drippings until it makes a smooth paste. To the mashed potatoes add the milk and beef drippings, salt and pepper to taste and let all come to a boiJ. Run through a colander and serve. Rice Pudding—Put three table spoonfuls of rice into three pints of milk, add a pinch of salt, three table spoonfuls of sugar and nutmeg to taste. Set in the oven, stirring fre quently aud let it cook for four or five hours—tfce slower this cooks the better it is. When done it should be of a croumy consistency.—Chicago Record. GOSSIP. Russiau women are said to be the most brilliant and accomplished in Europe. Washington State has a woman who is making an energetic canvass for the United States Senntorship. Miss Zinrlel, of New York City, is a traveling saleswoman. She represents a large shell goods house. Mrs. Kate M. Green, of New York, has been for many years a drummer, taking orders lor washboards. Beatrice Harredon, author of "Ships That Pass in the Night," has com pletely rocovored from her long ill ness. Princess Maud cf Wales, who mar ried Prince Charles of Deumark, wants to live in Euglaud near her father, the Prince of Wales. Miss Helen Gladstone has just given up her life work, the principalship ot Nownham College, Oxford, England, iu order to remain with her futher and mother. Pope Leo XIII will this year award the golden rose of virtue to Duchess I'hiliji of Wurternberg, who is a daugh ter of the of Austria. It is 6aid that a poor woman who keeps a small fruit stand in New York City contributes regularly $25 a year to missions. Her whole income is between $250 and $llOO a year. The first club in which women were admitted in London was the Albe marle, founded in 1875. It has always been a mixed club, but of the 800 present members the majority are wo men. The Queen has sent a present of twenty pheasants for the use of the patients of St. George's Hospital, says an English paper. Evidently Victoria knows that dainty fare is appreciated at other places as well as at Windsor. Paris has a woman's club where homeless women can spend their even ings and get their meals. There is a good library, and for sl2 a year a womau may become a member. All the employes about the place are wo men. Jenny Lind is said to have suggested the idea of the private railway car riage. Wishing to escape from the ever-present interviewer during her honeymoon she had the seats removed from the car, and it was fitted up as a drawing-room. Dr. Lydia Rabinovitch, a Russian Hebrew, has taken charge of the new bacteriological laboratory in the Wo iueu's Medical College, Philadelphia. Dr. Rabinovitch pursued the course of study at Professor Koch's labora tory, in Berlin. Baroness Burdett-Contte, according to a vote taken by a London news paper, is the most popular woman in England, outside of the members of the royal family. Ellen Terry, Adeliua Patti, Lady Warwick, aud Lady Henry Somerset come next, iu the order named. Professor Klein of Gottingen has found women students in mathematics "in every respect equal to the men," and Professor Mycr of Kiel has maoo up a list of twenty-one women who havo gamed prominence iu pure and applied mathematics, from Hypatia to Sophie Kovalevsky. FASHION NOTES. Satin ribbon is pretty for frills, for alpaca skirts. Velvet ribbon edged with lace is used for trimming silk waists. Linen frocks will be much worn this summer, and aie very servicea ble. Pale silver-gray moire is very fash ionably used for elegant Lenten cos tumes. Guipure is popular, and has been for several years. It makes a hand some trmming. Fur coilars are much longer, higher and broader this season than duriug the previous seasons, and protect the neck aud back of the head most thor oughly. Broad waists, so-called, are adorned with jeweled trimmings made of pre cious, or else of imitation preciou* stones; the front of a boarded waist if us smooth aud stiff as aboard. Trimmed skirts will be very much in evidence among forthcoming gowns both for day and evening wear, but not to the exclusion of the plain, ele gant, nudceorated models so long fa vored, and still preferred by many of fashion's leaders. Many of the warp-printed summer fabrics already displayed are far prettier ami more delicate in offect than the deeply woven patterns. This process appears as well on heavy as on vory diaphanous textiles, and the vague shadowy designs are particularly beautiful on French organdies, batistes, and semi-transparent silk*. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. HOME-MADE CHEWING GUBL Take of prepared balsam of tola two ounces ; white sugar, one ounce; oat meal, three ounces. Soften the gum in a water bath and mix in the ingre dients ; then roll in finely powdered sugar or Hour to form sticks to suit. TO MAKE TAKRAGON VINEGAR. Tarragon vinegar is made by placing % large handful of fresh tarragon iu a }uart glass jar, covering with strong vinegar and letting it stand four weeks. Then pour off the vinegar and bottle it. I would advise you to buy the vinegar ready-made. One bottle if Tarragon vinegar lasts a long time, is it is used mostly iu seasoning sauces ind salads, a small quantity at a time. —New York Press. A SWEEPING CAP. A sweeping-oap that is a model of its kind has a deep cape attached which buttons under the chin ; a visor piece crosses the face just below the eyes, buttoning at the unattached sule, this to preveut the dust from entering mouth and nostrils. Such a cap is provided by neat housekeepers for their maids' use as well us lor their iwn occasional handling of the broom. Of the two the maid needs itthe more, unce her dusty hair and skin are not likely to be so quickly remedied as iu the case of the mistress, a point house keepers often forgot or ignore, in tail ing to provide all possible aids to jlcanliness iu the housework.—New tork Tost. STAINS ON L.'NKN. Ink marks or iron mould stains may bo removed by placing a plate on the top of a basinful of boiling water. Thou spread the articles on the plate, wet the spot and rub it with u small quantity of salt of lemon. As the ar ticle dries, the stain will disappear. If sue application is not quite successful, repeat the operatiou. A small box of jalt of lomou shou'd have a place in 3very household. Mildew may be re moved from linen by the followiug process: Rub the linen well with salt, then scrape soino fine chalk and rub it ilso ou the stained part. Lay the linen on the grass, and as it dries wet it a little. Tlio mildew will in all pro oability bo quite removed by one or two applications.—New York .Journal. RECIPES. Parsnip Chips—Cut parsnips into thiu slices with a potato cutter; soak iu cold salted water. The longer they stand in the cold water the crisper they will be. Dry between towels and fry in hot fat. The fat should not bo so hot as for croquettes. Stir them with a fork until they are crisp. Kve Breakfast Muffins—One cup of rye meal, one cup of flour,a toaspoon ful of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, two teaspooufuls of baking pow der, one cup of milk, one egg well beaten. Mix all the dry materials. Add the milk to the beaten egg uud beat all together. Bake twenty min utes in a quick oven. Pottage a la McDonald—Pound in a mortar or chop iu a bowl a cooked calf's brain and two cooked onions ; mix with three raw egg yolks and a tea spoonful of curry powder. Press through a sieve and add slowly to three pints of white broth, taking care that the eggs do not curdle; lastly, add a peeled aud baked encumber, cut iu tbin slices. Serve immediately. Turnips, OKI Style—Pool t lirce largo turnips aud boil them in milk; boil half a pouudof macaroni in salt water ; mash ihe turnips, put tbonx in the hot torn of a baking dish, sorinklo minced onion and red pepper over them ; then lay iu the macaroui, spread over with grated cheese, stale bread crumbs ami bits of butter; pour over a teacupful of milk aud set iu a hot oven until brown. Brumbies—One orange grated whole, one cup of raisins seeded aud chopped tine, one-half cup of sugar, one egg, one tablespoouful of cracker uust. Mix thoroughly. Roll puff paste a-: thiu as possible, spread with the mix ture and cover with another Hat of pastry. Cut iu fancy shades and bake in a quick oven. When cold cover with a thin icing. Delicious with cocoa. Marsh mellow Pudding—Dissolve two tablespooufuls of cornstarch iu oue julf cup cold milk; add a pinch of salt, three-fourths of a cup sugar and half a teaspoon lul of butter. Into oue quart of boiling milk turn this, stirring rapidly. Remove from fire and divide into two equal parts. Into one part stir the stiffened whites of two eggs ; into the other four table spoonfuls of melted chocolate. Flavor with vanilla. Put iuto a mold in alter nate spoonfuls and servo cold, with cream. Tattooed Eyes. The latest discovery of scientific medical men is that tne human eye may be tattooed nny color. It is now quite within the bouuds of possibility lor doctors to tattoo a man's eye bright scarlet or green. Of coarse, eyes are only tattooed in cases where one of them is blind, and has assumed in con sequence a peculiar dead and ghastly appearauce. An eye in this condition will entirely disHguro a laco; but a modern oculist may color one of these "dead" eyes, and restore it to its natural uppeurance, so that nothing but the closest scrutiny cau detect the difference between it and its fellow. The operatiou of tattooing is per formed by Hrst treating the eye with cocaine, until it becomes absolutely senseless to pain. When all is ready the part to be operated upon is eov ered thickly with India ink of the re quired color. The tattooing is then performed by means of a little elec trical machine, which operates a spcci ally made needle
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