Some recent statistics on the unem ployed of Loudon showed that a largo number of those who were without work had drifted out of employment for which they showed no special ap titude and at the same tune showed no inclination to take up other work. The Bussian government has de cided to transform its artillery arma ment and to adopt the new quick tiring French cannon. The cost of this innovation is estimated at $40,- 000,000, and until it is completed, it is unlikely that Hussia will take part in any great European war. The suicide of a Texas schoolgirl because she feared she coyhln't pass uu examination gives pretty good ev idence to the St. Louis Star that there is something wrong with the system of pushing children too rapidly. More physical and less mental train ing should he the tendency. It is costly luxury to insist on speak, ing even the truth ou all occasions. Silence is often golden in more wavs than one. Henry Labouchere, thQ editor of London Truth, and an M. P., a man who has guined a world-wide fame as a fearless exposer of shams, says ho has spent $200,000 in defend ing actions for libel brought against him, all unsuccessful. There is a standing premium on compromises, and it means true bravery to speak up what we sincerely believe at, all times. It may be of interest to know what chnrch in the world is accounted the wealthiest. This recognition is gen erally assigned to lhe Orthodox Church of Russia. As an evidence of this, it is stated "that it could oasilv pay the National debt of the empire, amount ing to about *200,000,000, or nearly $1,000,000,000, and yet not he im poverished." This seems almost in credible, bat it must be remembered that it has some very lucrative sources of revenr-e. One of the most profita ble is the sale of candles. The millionaire is appealed to by Professor A. C. Haddon to save tbe vanishing knowledge that is to be ac quired only now aDd will be oi ines timablo value to future ages. Ooloni cation, the spread of commerce, and the intentional or accidental importa lion ol animals and plants, are rapidly changing the character of the in digenous life of many parts of the world. In many islands the native forms have been largely swept away already. Investigation of even tbe best known portions of land and sea is yet far from complete, lint there are men rompetent to record details of lifethat are disappearing if means were avail able. The Trenton (N. J.) American saysr That historic building ID New York Pity, which for lwo generations past has been the place of detention for of fenders against the laws, known as the 'Tombs, is to give way to a new struc ture en the present- site. The present building was modeled on tbe front alter tbe style of an Egyptian temple or tomb, and hence its name. In ap pearance it is very mneh like the front of our own State prison, a style very much affected at the period when these buildings were erected. The new Tombs will present a very diflercnt appearance, and while it may not be regarded as "ID ornament to the city," it will be very much more com modious than the present structure, and constructed upon better methods of sanitation. A German scientist has tackled the problem of the stovepipe hat. His ex planation of the place of that piece of headgear in the genera) scheme of things will fill a long felt want. Inci dentally it may cause a social revolu tion. He says that man has gone a step lnrtber than woman in the social evo lution, and that whereas he once wore, as woman does now, flowers and feathers on his head, he has now come to the conclusion that his cranial beauty is "when unadorned adorned the most." Hence the- shiny stovepipe. Alas that this explanation, though plausible, is not convincing! A Ger man scientist is, of course, generally speaking, a mere mucbiae lot > which you feed facts and get out theories, bat in such a matter us this he is only frail humanity, and is liable to have his judgment warped by his prejudices. What a tale of domestic tragedy may lie wrapped in the pessimism of his theory ! The idealism of the courtship, the rude shock of the first post-nup tial milliner's bill,the rapid succession of similar shoekH throughout the mat rimonial experience, comparable only to an electric battery gettiug in its fine work, and then finally utter and ungnllaut cynicism. Why, asks the New York Tribune, does not some woman rise like bim with ponderous scientific verbiage to the defence of the theatre hnt? It needs it. THE MEN WHO LOSE Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly planned Aud watched with zealous care, So glorious halo crowns their efforts grand; Contempt Is failure's share. Here's to the men who lose! If triumph's easy smile our struggles greet. Con rago is easy ther ; The king is he who, after fierce defeat, Can up aud light again. Here's to the men who lose! The ready plaudits of a fawning world King sweet in victor's ears; The vanquished'?! banners never are un furled— For them there sounl no cheers. Her *s to the men who lose! The touchstone of true worth is not success: There is a higher test- Though fate may darkly frown, onward to press, And bravely do one's best. Here's to the men who lose! It is the vanquished'* praises that I sing, And this tbe toast I choose; •'A hard-fought failure is a nobie thing. Here's luck to them who lose.'' —George H. broad hurst. An Unusual Burglary. BY MAUY K. r. IMTCH. EOPLE are decry ins tllo eopbisti- Sjf cated Btate of the country, nn d by people I mean writ 'rs l mrt icular. (™ They my that there esqueness except in "" —- lhe backwoods and in districts far removed from the en vironments of railroads and electricity, and that dialect peculiar to each lo cality is being flattened into monotone by the omnipresent schoolmaster,who, they complain, ljaa his way fur too much in this proudly new world of ours. Hat if this he true, us a whole, there are delightful exceptions. A carriage drive of a few hours, or tbe whirl of one's bicycle an hour, brings one to the home of folk lore and pro vincialism capable of causing ecstatic thrills in the heart of the dialeet-mon ger. Huch were my thoughts ns I alighted from my wheel at nightfall, one cold autumnul day, and rapped (there waH no bell) at the door of a low-browed cottage, behind which clumps of bushes shut oil the horizon aud seemed to narrow the world down to the little house, the yard, and myself, with a heavy heart,standingbefore it, steady ing my wheel, for I was tired. Presently an old lady name to the door. Her comfortable, rotund form and mild blue eye but decided chin impressed me with instant respect, while the inborn ladyhood of her nature was evidenced by her courteous greeting and invitation to enter. "Ho you ever keep travelers over night?" I inquired after a decent inter val had elapsed. "We do and we don't," she replied ; "hot you eau stay in welcome. Sit up and eat with me if you hain't had no supper." "1 haven't," WBR my reply; and presently the old lady and 1 were dis cussing her homely but toothsome supper, and doing it ample justice in tho way of testing its qualities; at least I did. "My husband has gone to town," re marked my hostess, "and if you hadn't come I should a ben here all alone to night." "Would you have been afraid to spend the night alone?" "Oh, no I But to-night I feel dif 'runt, for, you see, at last we're ready to lift the mortgage. It's two hun dred and thirty-three dollars an' one cent. That last cent I got by selling an aig," she said with a happy laugh, "and now it's altogether 'twixt the straw bed and featherbed in my room; and husband, he's gonter pay it off to morrer—if he lives," Bbe added, with the reverence felt by the old who have eeen so many hopes fade and friends die that they never dare to speak even of almost certainties without an "if." "But are you not unwise to speak of your money to a stranger?" I asked as a warning. "Oh, no ! ' she said, lahghing pleas antly, "I know an honest man when I see him, and I was glad the minute 1 see your face and knowed that you wanted to stay all night. 'Taint likely auybudily would steal from me but stragglers. One has been seen 'round, and I feel a little mite uneasy." My hostess and I spent a pleasant evening together. Sho showed me many an heirloom which had been handod through five generations from an ancestor who hud been a great man in colonial days. There was a silver pnnch bowl and a gold snuff box, either worth more than the sum treas ured so carefnlly in the owner's bed ; but 1 suspect she would have parted with her life as quickly as with either of tbem. "They are Jameses," she said, "or will be when husband nnd I are done with them. James is my nephew, and he's out to Chiny now. He's bail lots of pnllbacks, James has, or he'd helped ue. But yon look tired, Mr.—" "Bradley." "Mr. Bradley, yon look zif you doughter be to bed. I'll light you up." Asceuding the short flight of stairs, I learned that my room was exactly over the old lady's "settin"' room, as she called it. There was a sort of reg ister over it, through which tho warmth straggled agreeably enough. How ever, I should have closed it had not a sense of the old lady's unprotected situation impressed me, and so i re tire! to bed and dreamland, where I wandered lazily until awakened by voices beneath. Evidently the first word had roused me, for as I sat up in bed, wide awake in an instant I heard the old lady say in a mattet-of fact tone— •*Goocl-eveDin\ Setup to the fetove ADu more at ease than sLe appeared no* as she bustled about, setting him a chair, putting wood into the stove, and other wise mystifying her midnight caller by her careless, friendly manner. Admirable as was her acting, I knew that she bad not dared to retire; and while regretting that 1 had not sus pected her intentions, it now seemed wisest to remain where I whs unless she should need my assistance, as she probably would very soon, 1 reasoned. Cocking my pistol and otherwise pre paring in^self lor the emergency, I sat down on the floor, where I could watch the couple without myself being seen. •'lt's turrible cold out for a fall night, ain't it?" ' Yes, it is," said the man. "Wall, jest set here by the stove while I set the teapot for'ard and git yon somethiu' kinder warniin\ Mebbe you're lmugry, too," she added. "Mebbe 1 be." "Wall then, I'll set onto the table eomelbin' to eat," she said, moving about the room with a pleasant, bust ling movement which must have filled the burglar with wonder, as it did me. "Pher now," she remarked at length, "set right up and make yourself to home. Mebbe you'd like to wasb, though. I'll git you some warm water j outer the teakittle." " Twould seem good. I hain't i washed for a week," he replied. "I wnnter know ! Ben trav'Jin' and biin't hud no chunce, most like. Here's the soft soap, and there's a cake o' hard I keep for comp'ny." "I'll use the comp'ny soap," said the man with a surdonic laugh. And then he sat down to the table. He must have eaten ravenously, for where I sai 1 could see his elbows working rapidly, while his hostess remarked voluntarily,— "Poor cretur! How hungry you be!" "It's the first square meal I've had for sis weeks," he said with his mouth I full. % "I wante: know !" And rising, his hostess brought from the pantry a plate of cold meat and ket it before him. But at Inst the menl was ended, and the couple sat down by the stove on opposite sides, she with her knitting, an.l be fingering uneasily his old hat. "Say!" he broke forth at last in the midst of some friendly inquiry re garding the state of the roads. i4 Quit your loolin'. You know what I've come for. It's that money you've got hid in your bed." "How do you know I've got any there?'' she asked, without a quaver in her voice. "I see 3'ou pack it away just before your husband loft. Then I crept into the cellar when you went to see him off, nnd here I bo come for it. I've ben bid there six hours. Come, hustle round, old lady, and fetch it out, or 1 shall have to git it myself." "I know better." "Kuow better?" "Yes. I know you ain't no sech kind of a man as to steal from an old woman like me. You are too much of a man." "I be, be I? Wall, I guess not! You won't never miss it, and it would be tbe making of me." "How long you sp'o3e me and Josiah's ben gittin' that together to lift the mortgage?" "I don't know. Ain't your place paid for?" "No, and we've ben twenty years a scrapin' together two hundred and thirty-three dollars and one cent. \ou see Josiah's lame and can't earn much, nnd I ain't so smart as I was once, and we bnf to live. The times got hard jest the wrong time for us. We used to have enough, and so we used to take a child from the poor house every fivo years aud fetch him up. Four of 'em we got started, and all smart children, every one, and dreadful good to me and Josiah. "Why don't they help you?" "They're jest beginnin' to do for theirselves, and we don't want 'em to. James is in Chiny, liben's workin' bis way through college, Philaster's clerkin' down to the Corner, and Horace's jest married and come in debt for a little place of his own. Cau't you get no work?" "No, I can't. I've tried for weeks, and tramped miles; but nobody wants a tramp when there's them they know ready to work." "That's so. I see how 'tis. I wish I could do for yon, but I don't see how I can. 1 s'pose I might lend you our sick money." ".Mck money?" "Yes. We've always kept laid away fifty dollars to bury us with, which ever goes first, Josiah oi me; but we don't like to speak it right out, and so we call it 'sick money.' I could lend yon that." The man did not reply at first, but after awhile said in a strangely altered tone: "Do yon really mean that you would lend mo that money with the ex pectation of getting it back?" "Yee, I would. I think if you can get work you will pay it back sure." m "Maybe you'd like a not for it." "Of course! I 'most forgot that. Here's the ink bottle and Josiah's pen and a half sheet of paper that's scarce ly got a mark ou't. Set right here." And the old lady pushed the dishes back into tbe middle of the table to give him a better chance to write. "You know, don't you, that I could take the whole of that money you've got hid between tho Mraw bed and feather bed if 1 wanted? ' "¥es, but you wen'f, because yon are too much of a man to steal two I poor olrl creturs when you can borry i it." •'That's so, I be. You shall have ■ that money back if I live, old lady, I and int'rest too, I promise ye. 1 feel like a mati ag'in, and it's you that j made me." "Oh, no! You was a man afore, but ! kinder unfortunate, that's all." "Well, here's your note. I've wrote it to pay in a year's time, if that will (lo." "It will, 'less one of u.s should die, and then 'twouldn'fc be as if we hadn't got that note to show." The man laughed a laugh of amuse ment and reliof. 1 watched him as be went, to the door, and this time his head was up and his shoulders were square. In listening to the colloquy I had entirely forgotten or overlooked the fact that I had constituted myself the guardian of the old lady's slender fortune. What to do I did not know. The man seemed anxious to pay the borrowed money, and she was ready to trust him. Perhaps I would bettor let the matter rest as it was, and in ease he did not return to pay it in a ! year pay it myself as a fine for my negligence, which would then have been proved culpable. When I descended, which I did as poon as the mr.a had u9en gone several minutes, I found the old lady to be very nervous. "Why!" she said, starting to her feet in alarm at ray entrance, "I clean forgot there was anybuddy in the house but me." "So you wish I had come down be fore and prevented the loan you made?" "No, I pitied the poor cretur' so. FTe'Jl pay it buck if he can, and if not it'll be jest another orphan we've I helped. Most like bein' so old, both of us up'ards of seventy, we shan't do lor no more a3 we have done, and we shall git buried some way." "Don't worry. If he doesn't pay it I will," was my reply. "Yon needn't think nothin' about it. I've saved the mortgage money and given a man a lilt ou the road to heaven, and I'd oughter be satisfied. I be satisfied," she said fervently. "And you have reason to be," I said. We did not go to bed, either of us, | and in the morning I returned to the I I Put I did not forget the old lady | nor the burglar. 1 felt convinced that he would return the money on the exact date when the note was given, if at all, and accordingly, in just one year, I made it convenient to visit the old lady at. her residence. This time I was so fortunate as to see her husband, and I immediately discovered that he was just such an other guileless person ashereelf. They were expecting the man to pay the note, and it lay ready for him on the maDtel when I entered. Sure enough, at ten o'clock a firm, stalwart man walked up to the door, where the old lady met him with u cordial grasp of the hand. "You did git work," she said. "Yes, I did, and it was you that saved me from crime. I had tried every way to tind something to do un- i til that night, and the fifty dollars put mo on my feet square and firm. I got a chance in a shop where I got good pay, and here's the money and 1 the interost." "The interest! I didn't aßk you no interest." "But I mean to pay it." T uo not know whether he ever heard that 1 was in the house that night or not. It doesn't matter. I saw him several times afterward, and he seemed both prosperous and hocest, and I don't doubt that he was. The fact did not tend to make me neglect my hobby, which was that crime, when it is not a disease, is either the result of inherit ed evil tendencies or of misfortune, and that circumstances keep and make some men honest and others dishoueet. —Wavcrley Magazine. Cause a Bun on Thermometer?. "Extremes in the weather," re marked h druggist who handles a large line of thermometers, "either in cold or heat create a run on thermometers, and though I had a rather large stock on hand, the fall in the weather which started on Sunday last nearly cleaned me out. On Monday, 1 think, I sold more thermometers than on any other day that I have been in business. Or dinarily people give but little atten tion to thermometers, but let a very severe change come and they will have them,itraattersuothow much they cost. I don't exactly understand it, but it appears that many persons are more thoroughly convinced that it is very cold or extremely warm when they read their own thermometers. Another thing is that they seem to enjoy see ing the mercury go down or rise an 1 lor that reason like to have the weather measurer in their possession. Trade was exceedingly dull in thermometers, but somehow, though, they are gen erally boaght freely at Christmas time, there were but few purchaser* until about Monday last. Then it was very active."—Washington Star. Woman's Position in China. A paper published at Shanghai say* that "in China a woman is not her hus band's companion and cannot be so, as society is at present constituted When a young wile is introduced to a new family her husband seems to be the last person with whom she bus i anything to do. He would be ashamed to be Been talking to her, and if he should exchange views with her he would be laughed at by the whole family." British Postal Savings. One of the greatest bankers in the world is the British government. As a bank it holds nearly §500,000,000 in postofiice deposits payable practically on call, and pays interest at the rate of two and a half per cent, per an num to iff depositors. Last year the deposits incicased §50,000,000. —San 1 Francisco News Letter. TOP DRESSING I*OOR KNOLLS. ! it is often hard wjrk to get a clover Beeding on the dry, elevated Knolls in grain lieldp. Lack of moisture is usually the cause. Bnt the evil may be remedied by drawing a few loads of stable manure and spreading over these knolls. The manure not only pro tects the young clover plants, but it also holds the moisture in the soil by checking evaporation. A few times seeding the knolls thus will make them as rich as any part of the field. It is usually the lack of clover seeding on such places that ha 9 kept them poor. nOW TO GRAFT. On many farms there are fruit trees that bear fruit that is of little value for any purpose. Many of these fruit trees could bo grafted with great ad vantage with some of the well-known varieties that are known to do well in each respective neighborhood. Every farmer should know how to graft fruit trees. A good plan is to visit a well know gardener or horticulturist that understands grafting, aod see how he does the work. A writer in the Farmer and Biverside gives the following di rections : Prepare yourself with a sharp knife, a small wedge, a saw, a ladder, scions j and wax. JScious will keep best on j trees. Cut as wanted until the buds ' begin to start, then cut, stack in cellar covered with damp moss. You are now prepared to graft until apples set. Graft cherries very early, splitting limb. All limbs must be split before sap starts. Alter the bark peels all thick barked limbs should be set under the bark. Cut tree sbape'of umbrella, not too far in or out; give room for grafts to grow. Cut scion to a thin, one sided wedge; be careful and take the outer bnrk ofl' from the point, then insert by peeling bark from wood with point of knife; cut side to head, two or more to each limb ; nick bark back of scion if very thick ; spread wax on all cuts and a little down the limb back of scion. When the limb is split make a true wedge by cutting both sides, leaving side next to heart thinner. Have three buds to every scion. Trim the sides that are split smoothly, insert, keep inside bark even. Put on wax and it is done. Loss should not amount to more than one in five. Leave on two or three small limbs and all twigs to keep the tree alive. To make grafting wax: First get your resin, beeswax, kettle, linseed oil and a pail nearly full of cold water. Pound resin into small pieces. Shave beeswax (the size of a large hen's egg to a pound of resin), put in kettle with euough oil to wet, melt, being careful not to get it afire. Drop a few drops into the water with the stick you have stirred it with. Now oil your hands, press the wax between thumb and finger, thin as a wafer, snap when cold; if it breaks, add oil, stir; try again until it will bend. Turn the wax into the water. Oil your hands; when coid enough pull. Add beeswax to tough en, resin to harden and oil to soften. Try it. You will not bother to weigh much. RAISING EGGS AND BROILERS. To keep up the vitality of a ilock neces*ary for a steady supply of eggs —all old roosters must be disposed of every second year at least, writes Mrs. M. A. Decon. Procure a new lot from unrelated stock. This is one of the essentials. When spring comes and hens grow broody, remove each one to a small house prepared for hatch ing. Never leave sitting hens among t> e layers. Around the lloor of the hatching shod arrange boxes half filled with earth and straw, in which are two or more china eggs. Corer the heus lor a night, or until well settled agaiD, then exchange the false for fresh eggs. Keep a supply of shelled corn continu ally in this sitting-house, that hens may feed at tboir pleasure and get back to eggs before they are chilled. The result is much more satisfactory. Also have plenty of fresh water aud oyster shells. Strong chickens will' usually begin to hatch on the twentieth day, though some will be a dny or two later. Be move when dry aud keep covered in a basket in the house. If loft in the nest the hen becomes restless, and is likely to crush them. When all are hatched put the hen with her brood of fluffy beauties out in a coop, on grass if possible; but at least separated by six-foot poultry netting from the other yard. In a week let them run at large in their own division. Never feed raw cornmeal slops. It is deadly. If cornmeal must be used, bake it first into a crumbly johnnycake The best feed is cracked grain, fed dry, cracked oats, cracked corn, cracked wheat. After the first week whole wheat may be fed, to which, when four weeks old, add whole corn, shelled. See that they have fresh water, oyster shell, and coarse gravel or grit of some kind. When yon notice any chicks going around with droopy wings, peeping plaintively, you may be sure the dead ly lice are at them. Lose no time und go to work that very night. Have a cup of lard, in which is mixed one half teaspoonful of kerosene, and greuso every chick and hen under wings and tail, down head and neck. A drop of clear kerosene on the head may be necessary to destroy the big and terrible head lice. This operation Tvill need to be repeated in a week; but that generally finishes the busi ness. The greasing is too severe on chicks less than a week old. For their tiny bodiee, a bit of lard rubbed un der the mother's wings will answer. Ten weeks old is broiler age. After that the quantity of food eaten will more than make up for the difference in weight. Keserve the finest pullets lor increase of stock. New England Homestead. TRF.VENTING SMUT WITH HOT WATER. The smut diseases of small grains are minute parasitic plants, which grow inside the grain plant ana come to maturity in the kernel. The spores or seeds cannot live through the win ter in or upon the open ground, hence, the disease is propagated by germs, which adhere to the seed grain. A large loss is caused annually by the presence of these smuts, which can be prevented by immersing seed in hot water kept at a temperature of 130 to 133 degrees. The time of exposure will depend upon the grain being treated. The process of treatment is very simple. Place a large iron kettle in position so that a fire can bo started under it. At the right and slightly to the rear, place a barrel which will hold water, sinking it into the ground about half way. Place another at the left of the kettle and to the rear, leaving sufficient space between the two bar rels for standing. Still back of the second barrel, place a bushel basket upon some kiud of a support so that the water may drain from it freely. Diiectly over these barrels and kettl\ erect a tripod, made by fastening three 2x4 scantlings or poles together at one end by means of a and spreading,them apart at the bottom. From this suspend a rope and at the lower end of the rope attach a lever and to the short end of the lever a vessel, In which the grain is to be placed lor immersion in the water. Fill the barrel to the right over half full with water and keep it*t a tem perature of 110 to 120 degrees. In the kettle keep the water at 130 to 133 degrees. In the burrel to the left have cold water. Place the grain to bo treated in the vessel on the end of the lever. This vessel must have a cover to prevent the grain getting out. Immerse it in the barrel of warm water. Churn the vessel up and down until every portion of the grain has been wetted. Lift the basket from the water and hold it for a few moments until it has drained slightly, then shilt it over and im merse in the kettie where the water is at a temperature of 130 to 133 degrees. NVhen treating oats allow to remain in the hot water for ten inin utep The stinking smut of wheat re quires the same treatment as oats, ex cept that the grain should be placed in a vessel of cold water first and the smutty grains which llpat on top, skimmed off before treated with hot water. Barley requires an immersion of only five minutes at 130 degrees. After the grain has remained in the hot water for the prescribed time, lift up and allow to drain, then immezeeinthe barrel of cold water on the left. Allow I it to remain hero for a few moments until the temperature i 9 lowered, so that thcro will be no danger of injury to the graiD. Then, empty the grain" into the bushel basket and let it drain. If it is to be sown at once, take direct to the field, but if not, spread on a barn floor where there is good ventila lion and stir occasionally until thor oughly dry. The object of immersing in the first I barrel is simply to warm the grain up ; to somewhere near the temperature of j the water in the kettle. When it be- j comes lower than 110 degrees, raise it ! by adding hot water. The exact tem perature of the water in the kettle, or scalding vessel, is of great importance and must be closely watched. If it gets above 133 degrees there is great danger of injuring the germ of the seed, and if below 130 degrees the smut germs will not be killed. Attach a good thermometer to a paddle and use this to Btir the water irequently. Keep close watch of the mercury and see that it is at the proper point. In reading, keep the bulb under the water, lor if taken out, the evapora tion will cause a sudden falling. To keep the temperature at the proper point, have u fire under the kettle which can be increased or decreased at will. A special vessel for holding the grain during treatment can be pre pared, the principal point to be ob served being that it have a cover and thai it be as open as possible, so that the water will pass in and out freely. A coarse gunny sack is frequently üßed, bnt a milk can, with a large number of holes two or three inches in diameter and the entire ineide lined with wire mosquito netting, is prefer able. This treatment is BO simple and BO effective that it should he applied in all eases where smut is Euspected. Every farmer has a large iron kettle and barrels. In fact, everything necessary for the process. The grain can be treated during the early spring days, and will then be ready for use ftbeu needed, or it can be treated just before seeding.—American Agricul turist. In Greece, teachers contribute five per cent, on the salaries, and the State rinds the remainder, in order to super annuate teachers after twenty-one years of service, regardless of age. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. A LINEN riLLOW-COVEH. A(1 niutv square pillow lias a cover of white, embroidered with small sprays of fl ewers carelessly scattered over it. These are worked with wash able silks in soft, pale colors. The pillow is finished with a four-inch ruffle of the linen, the edge of which is worked in scallops. TO CLEAN OILCLOTHS. Cut into pieces half an ounce of beeswax, put in a saucer, cover en tirely with turpentine, and place in the oven until melted. After washing the oilcloth thoroughly with a flannel, rub the whole surface lightly with a bit of flannel dipped in melted wax and turpentine. Ihen rub with a dry cloth. A polish is produced, and the surface is lightly coated with the wux. When the floor requires to be cleaned, the wax is wushed oft', together with the dust or dirt that may have gathered, while the oilcloth is pre served. IN A SUNNY WINDOW. The sweet pea may be used ,as a lovely and fragrant screen against the ugliness visible from many windows. Given a long, narrow box for this purpose, with a simple trellis work of ordinary wire or twine, well pulver ized and enriched earth, with u small addition of Baqd and a moderate amount of sunshine—sweet pea vines being easily scorched, and if not ac tually dying, losing ull their beauty in consequence—and a pretty window and a fragrant room and plenty of blossoms for cutting may be secured. A peculiarity of sweet peas is that the higher they are trained the more pro fusely they will bloom, and if all fading blossoms are removed before they can go to seed a constant succes sion of bloom is secured. VERY DAINTY NEW HEDSPREADS. Dnintiuess and perishability seem ta / be the characteristics most sought af ter in the bedspreads that bear thf mystic stamp "imported." The latesj and perhaps the most frail is made of fine French swiss over pale-colored silk, pink, blue or yellow, finished with a deep frill about the edge, and with insertion or honitou lace in a delicate pattern above. As is the case with all the best house hold furnishings, whether for the table or the bed, its beauty is made to de pend rather upon exquisite fineness of material and perfection of finish than upon elaboration. Simplicity is con sidered essential to true elegance, but, alas, it is the simplicity that meaus greater outlay than do the more ornate designs. Silk beneath and cotton above is always indicative of the high est degree oT elegance. It is only the wealthy who can afford to hide their fine wares, and these lovely spreads are no exception to the rule. Their lining must be of the best, and their simplicity is only a cloak for a more generous expenditure than would bo required lor many a more showy cov ering.—New York Journal. RECIPES. Oatmeal Porridge—Stir slowly ono half cup of oatmeal into three cups of freshly boiling water in double boiler; add one-half teaspoonful of salt. Boil one hour and serve hot with hot sugar and cream, or simp, as preferred. Orange Jelly—Soak half box of phosphated gelatine an hour in cup of water. Add cup of sugar, juice of three oranges and one pint of boiling water. Stir, sweeten more if not tVtq right flavor, put in small cups of ue. Turkey Pot Pie—Warm the pieces of turkey meat—torn in strips us largo as possible—in a little butter. Lay in centre of platter. Make a nice cream gravy with care, having it smooth and well seasoned. Dip pieces of stale bread or halves of baking pow der biscuit, and lay around the edgq Serve hot. Corn-Drop Dumplings—Chop th{ contents of a can of corn very fine. Add two well-beaten eggs, two table spoonfuls of flour, a tablespoonful of salt and one-eighth of a tablespoonful of pepper; mix well and drop a tea spoonful at a time into a kettle of boiling water; let them boil for ten minutes and serve with the chicken. Pork and Potato Cakes—To one cup of lean, cold pork that has been chopped yery fine add two cups of mashed potatoes. Season with one half teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter teaspoonful paprika and one teaspoon ful of onion juice. Form into cakes, dip into slightly beaten egg, roll in silted bread crumbs and fry in smok ing hot fat until a golden brovun. Baked App ee, with Walnuts—Peel six large apples, scoop out the upper half of the cores; place them upright in an earthen dish* Put into each cavity one English walnut, broken in small pieces, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of butter; sprinkle with sugar and pour in the dish one cup of cold water. Bake for twenty-tive minutes in a quick oven. Baked Cheese Pudding—Two enp fuls of broken crackers or stale bread, one cupful of grated cheese, Gruyere or any mild variety; place in a but tered baking dish alternate . layers of crackers and cheese, a dust of salt and pepper and small pieces of butter. When the dish is full pour in sufficient cold milk to two-thirds fill the'dish and bake forty-five minutes in a kct oven. Milk Biscuits— To one quart of flom dd two heaping teaspoonfuls of bak ing powder, one teaspoonful of salt. Bub in one tablespoonful of shorten ing, mix with sweet milk, about one and a half cups, into a soft dough. Knead lightly, roll out into a sheet, cut into small biscuits, place in greased pans so they will not touch each other, brush with milk and bake in a quick oven for ten minutes.