Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTINS COMPANY. Limited Office: llai> Stiieki Above Cextbe. FBEELAXD, PA. Sl'BSUtll'TlOS It.VTES: One Yenr $1.30 Hix Months 73 pour Mutt hi 50 Two Mouths . .23 The date which the subscription is paid to is on tue address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep ttie figures in advance of the present date, lie port promptly to tlds office whenever paper Is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Male all miaiy orders, checks, etc,.payable to the Tribun Print,nj Company, Limited. WltttAdolpne d'Bnuery passes away the last of the great French inelo dramatists who were coeval with the elder Dumas. It is not too much to say that he did more to make the drama of emotion by situation and machinery widespread thau any other playwright. He was content if his ventures paid largely, and let art take care of itself. His "Two Orphans" showed him at his best. His heroes and heroines were apt to be very much of a kind, but oh! what villains he constructed! He lived eighty-eight years, and died worth S'i.ooo,ooo. Virtue in his plays was never more conspicuously rewarded. In connection with the discussion regarding the competition in trade be tween Great Britain and the United | States, the English and American Gazette says: "There is hardly a branch of trade in which America does not now compete with Great Britain. Sho has developed her native talent, which now finds abundant outlets at { home and abroad. In every single ' manufactured article that the States j produce England could, if she liked, j compete. That she does not is solely j and wholly owing to her not attempt- ' ing to do so. Her sons, badly edu- [ cated, are fonder of play than of work; : her technical schools are in their in- ! fancy, whereas in the States and in j Germany they are flourishing and of ■ long standing, and properly State, j subsidized. Until England adapts : herself to the times, until trade strikes cease, or until other nations are in- j volved in war, so long will British goods be replaced in other markets by 1 more of her competitors." The news from Philadelphia of the I discovery of tubing in the walls and floor of Iveely's work-shop is, on the | whole, rather mortifying. The Bhila- j adelphia Press vouches for the story. ! It avers that the ICeely work-shop has been ripped up; that under the floor I was a steel reservoir capable of hold ing compressed air at a high pres- i sure, and that the tubing found was small but very strong, and also eapa- : Lie of standing a severe strain. The 1 sad inference is that Keely was a poor ' old fraud, and used compressed air to produce the remarkable mechanical effects with which he regaled his visi tors. The investigators seem to have been somewhat zealous to prove that ! he was a deceiver, and it may be that i the believers in Keely, if there are } any left, will doubt their findings; but I the story as it is told seems fairly con clusive, and the hidden tubes, if they can bo shown in position as found, ! will require a deal of explanation, ob serves Harper's Weekly, It may be that a new fashion in matrimony has been created in the mountain fastnesses of Virginia. Not long ago a comely young woman of that region was wooed by two suitors, one of whom she preferred. An engagement and a marriage ceremony followed in due time, despite the adage about the course of true love not running smoothly. As an act of grace an invitation was extended to the rejected swain to attend the mar riage proceedings. He displayed his fortitude by accepting, and, accom panied by a number of friends, he at tended. On one sleeve he wore a broad band of crepe, symbolic of his dead hopes, and throughout the cere mony he and his friends expressed their dolorous sentiments by a con tinuous, subdued moaning. This dis play of appreciation for the bride's at tractiveness evidently aroused none but the pleasantost sentiments in the breast of the happy man whose name she was taking, for there is no record of a disturbance, and it is to be nssumed that noue occurred. It would be interesting to see this custom transplanted to other spheres of so - ciety. The suggestion affords many possibilities of variation, tending to add materially to the interest in these usually gladsome occasions. Olga Nethersole, in a recent lecture before the University of Chicago's Graduate Club, said uf Rudyard Kip ling that lie was "as fan MacLaren had declared, the poet laureate uf the whole world." SONG OP THE LOCOMOTIVE. Blackness out of the blackness, Fronted with llsht. With a domoniah gronu and a vomit of 1111 mo It toaroth through the night. Splitting the vnlo with a mighty shriek, Flying oVr glints of stool, With n whirl by the edge of a precipice Or a lungo where tho marshes rook, Aud tho ooao is under tho wheel. nigh in the air like n wounded bird, Spanning the trestle's thread, Ere it plunged through the mountain of rook with a rout- To glide by the river bod. Ever and on like a haunted thing, Trombling and crazed with fear, With A fire at its heart that is outing deep And the speed of a dragon's wing, As it crosses the plain und inure. Blnok out of tho blackness, Monster of steam and steol, Yet a thing that Is living aud human as man, A soul in tho shaft and wheel. Servant of man that abides his will, Child of his brawn and brain, It has made of tho earth but a littlo place, It has levelled tho granite hiil. Till tho ends of tho earth are plain. —Chicago Evening Tost. OOOCOOOOOOCQOOOOOOGOCOOOCO | LEE TOI,THE OUTCAST! Q O j An Episode of Life in Arizona. § J p O | On 0 BY WJLT.IIEX MCVeigh. O J BOOOOOOCCOOOOOSOOCOOOOOSOS rABULOUSas it may ! seem, somo of the leading citizens of , McCook, Arizona, j . liaving made all j 1 11 10 money they | . ® could possibly use i I'/1 la ' u remaining i Jy I J| yoars of their lives, decided to re n ill bJ-Z\ form. \ >4| In fact, we got vi-l to be such a good Tjwjf town that the worn ■®w?j en began to move iu. No sooner had they moved in than ' fancy linen made its appearance. The very next step in tho triumph- . ant march of civilization was Leo Toy. Lee Toy came originally from China. ! For a living he washed shirts and . other things. There was not a sigu of a cloud on t ' the horizon of reform when Lee Toy oinaeto town. We hadn't had a shoot in T or a robbery or oven a domestic quar el in mouths So Lee, who was for pe i ie, first, last aud always, wel comed himself effusively when he move i iu and settled down to enjoy life .uee built himself a wonderful little hut on the very outskirts of the town, "t consisted of one room, divided by a j ,ed cloth curtain. In front Loe had I <iis office aud did his washing. Be- i hind the curtain he kept his bed of I pinon branches aud the comforts of ! his life, his pipes aud his cooking utensils. Lee hung up his shingle and went ; to work. He washed well aud would I stand any amount of credit, aud so he j had a good business and thrived. He was a little bit of a runt of a : man, bent in the shoulders; decrepit; and weak, with a skin like so much [ parchment and no more fight in him I than iu a dead broncho. So that all j 1 the men had to do when they wanted ■ to have some fun without paying for j |it was to go up to Lee's shanty. Then j while they pulled his queue and kicked | j and cuffed him Lee simply smiled | ' and looked happy and turned ! ! the other cheek. The same aforesaid I merrymakers never bore any grudge 1 against Leo for his uncomplaining j good nature and had no false pride i about thorn when they wanted a clean [ shirt on credit. Lee gave them their j fun and their shirts and never com j plained. Except to one. j In the town lived Joe Johnson's wddow. Joe lost his life up iu the Superstition Mountains, and his ! widow took up his claim where he left it* off. She had one child, Littte Bess. There wasn't much about Bess except a lot of skirts aud fluffy hair and freckles. She wasn't a pretty child, but she was all that Joe John son's widow had and all that Lee Toy, tho laundryman, had in this world to love. And to her Lee complained. When her mother was away in the even ings Leo used to watch the little girl for her and then he used to pour out his heart full of sorrows. Bess didn't understand much of what he said, for Leo didn't want her to think he was too unhappy, and so he always jabbered tho worst of his sor rows in Chinese. Bess couldn't un derstand the wolds, but Bess had a little heart iu her breast, and that heart used to get tight and hurt when Lee jabbered in Chinese, until she couldn't help letting out a tear or two. Then she would pat Lee's ugly face with her little hands and tell him she wouldn't love the men who made him unhappy. That settled it with Lee. He didn't care what happened after that. Bess wouldn't love them! That was enough for him. So ho bore their taunts and their kicks with a smilo on his face, and let them go on with their misera ble lives, because Bess didn't love them. But Leo thought he had more phil osophy than ho really had, and one day the crowd found it out. Tho blows and the taunts hnrt a little hit too much and Lee came to his senses to fliiA that he had thrown an iron at one of bis tormentors and very nearly killed bim. That settled Lee'a acoount with the town'of McCook. The Vigilance committee eat as a grand jury and beard the prejudiced witnesses. Loo waa doomed. At first there was lynching in the air and it didn't improve the atmosphere very much eithor. Then some of the more merciful thought out a better scheme. The result of it was that Lee was or dered to get ready to leave town. They offered him the four corners of tho compass. Lee choose to leave town byway of the Superstition Moun tains. Away down inhis heart he had a vague idea that out in tho moun tains he might find refuge with some of the miners. tip on top of all his other thoughts was the one that per haps he might catch a sight of Bess as ho marched past her mother's cabin. Tho procession, formed and the or der to march was given. Followed by a hooting mob, Leo began his pil grimage. Then the mad indignity ol it all forced its way into his untutored soul, and when he reached Bess's home he hung down his head and scurried by, ashamed to look her in the face, afraid that her eyes, too, might condemn him. Without much thought of anything except to get away as far as possible from JlcCook, Lee stumbled along over the rocky hills. Fiunlly worn out aud weary he threw himself down, not caring much whether he lived 01 died. Then clown in a little valley ho saw a light. Ho know it carao from a miner's hut, and with one iast idea ol food and lodging he made for the light. He hnd almost reached it when he heard a fearful shriek, nud then the door of the cabin burst open and out of it poured half a dozen fiends 'in carnate. A moment later the cabin burst into flames. Leo knew at oneo what had hap pened. Cowering behind a great rock h watched the Apache 3 as they danced about the burning cabin, waving in tho air what ho guessed to be the gory scalps of their victims. Thou from their actions Lee saw that tho Indians intomlcd to descend upon tho sleeping town from which a few hours before he hnd fled. A fierce glow thrilled his heart, all his wrongs and hatreds came back to liim. Now he would bo avenged, he thought, and in his soul he rejoiced that his tormentors were also to be persecuted. Then in the midst of the glnro of the burning cabin n little face stood out full and clear, and Lee's heart thumped fiercely in his throat, and he swore that though little Bess might have believed him guilty and justly dealt with, he could not let her meet such a death. For tho others ho did not care. They hnd almost taken his life, but Bess—she had not wronged him. So he hurried back to the town. With quick nud stealthy tread he undo his way to tho Widow Johu uoa's cabin, fie kuocked at the door and in a few seconds the woman opened it for him. She cried out vhen she saw him and dragged him into the cabiu. Then in a few words lie told her what ho had seen. "We must be off," ho cried, "they will bo here in a few minutes." The woman awoke Bess, who, as j soon as she saw Lee, flow to his arms. I "I'ou have come back," cried the I child. "I knew you would not leave j me without saying goodbye." i "We are going away together," ■ whispered Lee iu liis pigeon English, i "And so you came hack to warn us l after the way you were treated Hero?" j "No, no," cried Lee fiercely, j "Only you, only! The rest must die!" I "That is not right," Bess ex- I claimed. Lee looked at her with wondering eyes. "No, no, no," cried Leo fiercely, as he saw the sweetness of revenge slip ping from him. "I love you, so what does it mat ter?" the child said, "because they are bad is that any reason why you should be, too?" The proposition had never suggest ed itself to the outcast's philosophy. But Bess had said it, and so, wi'ih downcast eyes, ashamed that Bess should have had to rebuke him, Lee Toy surrendered. 4n hour later when the Apaches broke in upon the town they found it i barricaded and well defended. Tho first attack was aimed at a little cabin on the outskirts of the town. When the townspeople camo to this cabin to thank tho Widow Johnson for giving tho alarm, they found her and little Bess iu tears. On the bed lay the figure of a man. In tho mid dle of his forehead was au ugly red blotch. "It's Lee Toy!" they cried. And then the woman told the truth, how in tho first attack the outcast had thrown his body iu Irout of little Bess, and had died. And now in tho town of McCook, Arizona, (known to the world by an other name), stauds a Christian church dedicated to the memory of the heathen Lee Toy.—ThoCriterion. Women HH Harbors. Women harbors are not a product of the nineteenth century. In Gay's "Journey to Exeter,"-published iu i England in 1715, he relates that after 1 parsing Moreombo Lake travelers reach Axminister, rvhero they rest for ! the night. The next morning tho poet tells how they were shaved by a "lady barber." Earnings of tho llnllroads. Fourteen of the sixteen leading railroads in this country phow in creased net earnings for 1898 over I those of 1897. S NEWS AND NOTES I 1 FOR WOMEN. | *3fsiQtOKN©ie^©KsK3i©ieie;<Ne:QK Acccpnories In the Tailor Costumes. White cloth vests, revers and other accessories impart an appearance of daintiness aud distinction to the tailor costumes they decorate. The gowns so finished this spring are especially attractive. All tho short natty coats are very closely fitted in the back, and on many of the imported costumes the white cloth vest is double-breasted and fastened with handsome gold but tons, and tho white revers are edged with a graduated design in narrow gold braid. Popular Newmarkets For Shopping. Long, close-fitting Newmarkets, that cover the wearer from neck to feet, are very popular for useful wear during the spring for shopping aud traveling. They are double-breasted with revers collar, and are cut without crossing seams on the hips. Very light tan kersey is used for these wraps, with stitched edges for their finish aud white pearl-button fasten ings. Other long shapes of checked cheviots have hoods or short English capes to complete them, and thero are fawn-colored models with a pointed yoke of the cloth and a stitched belt at i the back ouly. A lleeoining Houao Dress. A French house dress made of soft Henrietta cloth of magenta shade could be worn becomingly by a woman of almost any type. The blouse vest and petticoat are of beige vicuna, tucked and briar-stitched in lattice effects on the blouso front, and simply briar-stitched at the hem of the petti coat. The oddly shaped cape-collar and revers are elaborately trimmed with beige lace; loops of red satin rib bon showing hero and there among the filmy meshes. The elbow sleeves are finished with a similar trimming of wider lace and ribbons. Around the neck is a pretty collar of black chenille embroidery and at the waist a chenille belt. Silk Gowns For Summer. No summer wardrobe will be com plete without ouo or two silk gowns, anil this is a very good time to buy last year's patterus for one-half what they were sold for last year or will bo sold for later. The newest patterns aud designs are very expensive as yet, and will not como down in price until midsummer. These silks are to be fouud in glace foulards, surahs, aud of course iu taffetas; but these last come under the same head as the glace silks. It is to be the fashion for every woman who prides herself on possessing a thorough wardrobe to havo at least ouo black silk in her outfit this year. These black silk gowns are made up with some con trasting color iu tho vest or introduced in the trimmicj. There are also the figured taffetas, rather heavier than the usual taffeta, somewhat between a gros grain and a taffeta. This wears well, and iu some shops can bo bought as low as eighty-five cents a yard,— Harper's Bazar. A Woman'* 111-form In lUlnol*. Illinois club women linve under taken a crusade against the use ot woman's face or figure for advertising purposes. It is proposed that no woman's face, in other words, shall be auv man's fortune. This unique reform of the scandalized fair sex bobbed up serenely at a recent moot ing of the Fom-teenth Congressional District Federation of Women's Clubs, held at Lewistown. Tho pcti tiou-loving club women who wore present compared advertising pic tures and promptly decided they were enough to drive the youth of America to corruption. Thereupon they drew up a stringent set of resolutions, which have since been printed for the pur pose of distribution among the wom en's clubs of the .State. After these "face and figure" resolutions are suf ficiently supported by feminine sig natures they will be turned over to their dear masculine friends—the lawmakers in the State Legislature— with an earnest little prayer that there be issued a stern manifesto against the use of woman's likeness for commercial purposes. Chicago Times-Herald. An Klaborute Cloth Skirt. Cloth skirts for spring costumes are, many of them, most elaborate. There is one design in blue serge that is par ticularly effective and, of course, par ticularly expensive, as well. The skirt is cut with a gored effect and is very flaring around the foot, Down the front breadth at either side go three or four lines of black braid. These lines of braid turn and go around the skirt about a quarter of a yard from the foot, and above the three lines of braid is a mass of braiding in narrow black sou tache and narrow black satin folds, making the entire sides of the skirt covered with braid in an elaborate do sign. This skirt is one of the French models; has not yet become common; is very handsome, but has the disad vantage that it cuts tho figure and mnkes a short person look shorter. For ordinary everyday wear and a useful investment the bell skirt is still tho favorite, but it can be trimmed with lines of braid that sturt from the hem at the back of the skirt, extend ing up only a little distance; in front go tho whole way ns far as the belt, but put on to meet in a point. They must not go straight up and down, for that would give too square a look to tho figure; instead they must be put on in such away that thoy give the ef fect of gores, or, rather, follow the lines of the gores. A Husband's Taite. Mary P., Baldwin relates this Bug gestive little incident in the Woman's Home Companion: " 'Oh, my dear, where did you get that monstrosity?' whispered a man to the little woman by Lis side as he clung to a strap, and she to him, AS they rode home together in a street-car. "The effect certainly was ridiculous —tho wee face with its timid expres sion under one of the largest of the new styles of hats with its ilaunty leathers and obtrusive trimmings. The tears started to tho eyes of the overtopped little creature; then she recovered herself, and insisted that it was just the thing—the very latest of the fashions. It is not beneath the thought of tho most intellectual wom au, nor does it compromise personal independence and taste to consult the preference of a husband in the choice of modes and articles of dress. "There are husbands so constituted, no doubt, that it is gratifying to their pride and sense of authority to re ceive perfect dependence from tho wife; but the reliance of an ellicient woman who is able to think and act for herself is thoroughly appreciated by a broad-minded, generous-souled liusbaud. If his wife has a reliued true taste lie feels honored when she lays before him her plans for the house-furnishing, or the gowning of herself, and after the purchase, as he regards effects, he takes pride in the thought of having hud a voice in the choosing." Massiise a l'euuty Upntorpp, Tho marriage of Adeliua Patti will make the massage business more popular than ever, for she tlrst be came acquainted with her new hus band by employing him in that line. It has become very extensive in Wash ington and all the cities of the East, and in the West also, and is now re garded by rich and self-indulgent people as one of the necessaries of life. Tho fashionable physicians in Chicago prescribe it as a cure for the grip, which leaves tho patient weak and enervated. Nothing seems to take the spirit out of a man so much, and there is no inclination for the ex ercise that is absolutely necessay for the recovery of strength. A new feature of the massage treat ment, as practiced in Chicago, is to restore youth and beauty in women who are showing signs of age. A good-looking women dreads nothing so much as wriuklcs, and a massuer thero guarantees to remove ihein by an application of hot water and the pressure of her lingers upon the flesh. The operation requires a good deal of patience and sacrifice, however, be cause while under treatment tho patient's face is swathed in bandages of hot water for several days aud she can eat nothing but liquid food taken through a tube. There have been at least three successful operations of this kind. One lady in Washington, who a year ago showed unmistakable signs of age, blossomed out last fall in tho fullness and bloom of youth, or, as she said, sixteen years younger than when she left tho city in the j spiing,—Chicago Record. Gossip. Miss Kitty Reed, tlie Speaker'' handsome daughter, receives 51000 annually for her services as stenog rapher to the Speaker. Miss Frances E. Mason is President of the National Rank in Limerick, Me. It was founded by her father, J. M. Mason, aud its interests have been ably promoted under her leadership Miss Florence Caldwell, of Cleve land, Ohio, is said to bo the only woman civil engineer in Amerioa. Sho is the daughter of Judge Caldwell, 0110 of the most jn-omiaont jurists in Ohio. The mother of M. Jean de Ecszke has built him a lovely home in the Champs Elysees of Paris, where ho and his wife may live. Mine, do Reszke, senior, aud her son Edouard and his family will also take up their abodo in tho same house. The report of the Membership Com mittee of the New England Historic Genealogical Society shows that forty women were admitted to membership during the past year, that being the first year that the by-laws of tho so ciety have permitted their admission to membership. Gleanlnßii Froin tho Shop*. Lisle hose in checks and large plaids. White tulle spotted with gold sequins. Neck clasps in greeuenamel clover leaf designs. Jeweled and enameled slides for soft ribbon belts. Hntpins in rich mosaic designs and unusually large heads. Gingham dresses for girls trimmed with laee or embroidery. Watch chains and fobs in combina tions of gold and gun metal. Imported skirts showing large plaids of green and red combined. Cloth suits for girls in smooth-faced materials trimmed with braid. Silk evening hose in conspicuous colors with silk-embroidered insteps. Beautiful organdies in designs of black, white and gray arranged in stripes or scrolls. Safety slides for the hair made ol tortoise shell, silver or gold, plain 01 jewel studded. Superb embroideries on a satin ground in combinations of pearl beads, jewels and tinsel. Embroideries of velvet, satin or mousseline outlined with small beads, sequins or tinsel. Midseason toques of lace or richly embroidered trunsparout materials, flowers and aigrettes. Fine quality dotted Swisses showing narrow stripes in delicately colored pompadour patterns. Misses' frocks composed entirely of lengthwise rows of shirring, with nar row satin ribbons between. Keady-made pique gowns with three bands of open embroidery on tho skirt and guim.pe of the same material.— Dry Goods Economist. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. A Novel tie For l'Aper. Crinkled .Japanese paper may bo nsed for decorative as well as useful purposes in the bedroom, dressing room or boudoir. It can be used to cover the tops of tables, shelves, etc., hanging down over the ends, and with its slightly ruffled edges it makes a most artistic appearance, especially when selected to harmonize with the wall hangings and draperies of the room. One person had a very pretty boudoir and dressing room combined fitted up in greens, blues and dull tans, which blend so well together, and the walls, ceilings, carpets, rugs and cushions were all of these tints in pearl or blended patterns. Coverings of all shelves, tables, dresser top, etc., were of the same tinge of green, with the edges pulled out ever so slightly, and the etl'ect was most pleasing.— New York Herald. IMitnnlnc For Sunday Meal*. Arranging the Sunday meals on Sat nrday is very essential, especially where tho housewife must do all the work without the aid of servants. A salad is a great stand-by for a Sunday evening supper, and the fish, meat, or eggs can be prepared the day be fore", and the cress, celery, or lettuce washed and left in cold water ready for instant use. Meat loaf is auother standard and palatable cold dish for Sunday night. The chafing-dish can be called into use for a hot Sunday tea. Omelets, hnsh, or other simple dishes cooked on the chafing-dish, with buttered toast and tea, make a desirablo Sunday-evening tea. For breakfast there is nothing better than codfish cakes and stewed potatoes. The codfish balls can also be prepared over-night, and it requires little work to cook them up for an early breakfast. This leaves only the dinner to prepare for Sunday. A delicate dessert for Sunday din ner is made by boiling a pint of cream with a quarter of a pound of sugar, and a little lemon flavoring. Mix this with a paste made of two tenspooufuls of corn-flour, and lot them boil a few minutes, stirring thoroughly. Pour this over a plate or bowl of mixed fancy cakes, macaroons, aud strips of citron, raisins, aud dried fruits. Make successive layers of the cream aud cake until the dish is full. Inventory linnlis. An "inventory book" is the latest rouvenieuce for tho housekeeper. This is a printed list, with columus for date of entry, value and description. It is systematically arranged and makes the list com plete in case of fire, theft or death. It is next to impossible to remember all that was in a room before a fire, and the insurance companies always require a sworn list before settling. This housekeeper's inventory will set tle the matter quickly. Articles likely to be found in any room of the house are arranged in alphabetical order, with tho name aud location of the room heading the page. Two pages aro given over to each room, beginning, with albums, an dirons, brackets, bric-a-brac, book shelves, bureaus, bedsteads, etc., and ruuuiug through to wardrobes and window seats. Special lists are also arranged for bric-a-brac, books, cloth ing, jewelry, ornaments, paintings, pictures, silverware, dishes, chiua, glassware, kitcheu utensils, bedding and linen, while a miscellaneous list and recapitulation of the value of the whole finishes the book. Every room in the house hns its place ill the hook—chambers, parlors, reception hall, other halls, dining room, library, kitchen and pantries, laundry and cellar, attic or store room, aud even the closets. Trunks, boxes aud barrels have their places and space for lists of their contents. Nothing is left out. llccipes. ' Marrow Toast—Buy a large shin bone and have the butoher split it so the marrow can be taken out. Boil the boiie for stock and use tho meat to make potted beef. Mix iu a hot dish a teaspoon each chopped parsley aud lemou juiee, hnlf teaspoon salt, a grain of cayenne aud several drops of lemou juice. Keep hot, but do not cook away. Havo toast prepared aud hot. Now prepare the marrow. Cut in slices aud boil in one quart salted water just ninety seconds. Mix with the seasoning, spread on the toast anil serve at once. All must be hot to be good. Broiled VieDna Steak—Have two pouuds of rouud steak cut medium thick. Mix together four tablespoou fuls of salad oil anil one table-spoonful of minced parsley aud a minced slice each of onion aud a half teaspoonful of yellow lemou peel. Huh both sides of the meat with this mixture and let stand over uight. Iu tho morning drain, but do not wipe, and broil. Dust a half teaspoonful of salt and a pinch of pepper lightly over the broiled steak, dot over with a half teaspoonful of butter broken iuto bits, and serve on a hot platter. The flavor of moat treated in this way is de licious, aud it makes tough steak jucy and tender. "Bath Chaps"—Bath chaps is the fanciful name given a pig's cheek cured and smoked, though there is nothing to prove that the title was gained by the dish having been particularly associated with the City of Bath. They are an exceedingly favorite cold breakfast dish, and can be procured ready for boiling from most good stores and provision mer chants. They should be soaked in cold water for a couple of hours before cooking. Put them on to boil in tepid water, and boil quickly from one to one and one-half hours, according U their size. Allow them to get cold in the liquor. Then lift them out, re move the skin and sprinkle all over witli'bread raspings. Garnish with DODOOOOOOOOOCXXJOOOOOOCiOOStra IPARM TOPICSf BOOOOCOCOOOOOOOCDOOCOOOOGO Incubator* For Karly Chick*. HWever resolutely a breeder may resolve to do without incubators, he caunot very well dispense with them if he wauts tho very earliest hatched chicks. Any one who has tried to pet a hen to sit steadily early in the spring for sufficient time to hatch out the chicks will know that it is impossible. The broodiest hen after two or three days on the nest will probably leave the eggs and go to laying agniu. Yet it is necessary to have the clicks hatched early, so that they begin lay ing next fall before the cold weather comes, in which case most of them, if well fed and given a warm, light room, will continue to lay through the win ter. Threftliing; by Hand. In the older portious of the country, especially among those who grow lit tle grain, the steam thresher is much less in demand than it used to be. Unless there is grain enough to make a full day's work the job will not pay. A great deal of extra help has to he hired, and the money thus expended will hire the small job threshed by hand in winter, thus giving work for several days when there is little work to be had, and when for the poor the necessity of earning something is the greatest. There are other advantages of hand threshing. Much of the newly threshed straw will be eaten by stock that would not ttfucli the same straw if it had been threshed by machine weeks before, and had lain ever since in the stack. Hoc* Sleeping; Up*tnlr*. A neighbor of mine, in building a new hog house, made a second floor just abovo the first, high enough to clear aman's bead. Fromeacb apart ment he made a runway at an angle of about forty-five degrees, with strips to prevent slipping. The sleeping rooms for the hogs were on tho upper floor. Most hogs will keep their sleeping rooms very neat, dry and clcau. Sometimes yotiug hogs will get into bad habits, but yon eau soon break them of that by closing a trap door to keep them down a littlo longer after eating. Old hogs are very partic ular about keeping their sleeping room dry and clean. New hogs introduced into the house do not have to be taught to go up stairs to bed, but they will find their way up stairs within au hour after they enter the pen. The discoverer of this disposition iu a hog had con fined several of them in an old log house where there was such a runway leading-to the chamber above. When be went to look for bis hogs there was none to be seen. He searched the surrounding country, but no trace could be found. Going back to find where they had got out, he heard a noise up stairs and the mystery was solved.—J. B. Kice, in American Agri culturist. The Effs; Producers. It is not altogether the chickens that will produce the greatest number of eggs a year, but tho breed that will lay the largest number of salable eggs between October 1 and April 1. In other words, to make the poultry pay wo want a breed that will lay eggs in winter. This is not always considered when we speak of the relative laying powers of tho varioua.breeds. Winter laying hens aro worth nearly double the summer layers. If we cau roar up a breed that will lay right through the winter, and take a rest in summer, we would make more money thau from any now in existence. It is a very in teresting question whether such a breed will not eventually be pro duced, for by artificial meaus wo cau ndapt tho farm animals to almost any thing. Then why uot induce the hens to lay exclusively in the winter? If they once got into the habit of it, na ture would help to persist in this course. Experiments in recent years Eeem to show that the best cgg-layiug breeds are the Leghorns, Plymouth Hocks and Wyandottes, and both tho Brahnias and Minorcas have "dropped to second place. This does not mean that they are unprofitable, but they are not quite equal to the first three strains for egg-laying. Moreover, the three breeds leading the list are the best winter layers. When kept in good, warm quarters, exereised prop erly, fed warm and egg-producing 'foods, they will lay more eggs per week than any other strain of chick ens. The past season has also demon strated that certain branches of these three great egg-producing strains of chiokens have points of excellence superior to any other. Thus wo are gradually getting down to the true egg-laying chickens. The White Wy andottes lead the rest of the family in this respect, the Barred and White Plymouth Hocks stand first among the Wynndottes, aud the BrowD Leg horns first among the latter straiu. Thus we have the egg-laviug families pretty well defined. Starting with these one hns every chance to suo ceed in raising chickens for their eggs. These several strains or breeds have scored an average of 200 eggs a year eaoh. Of course the birds were selected, and the highest of their class, but it shows what can be ac complished with good bre%ls aud good feeding. It is only by placing the standard bigh, and then by striving to come up to it, that we enn hope to make a living in the poultry business. Try to lop off all the dead wood, and make eaoh hen a seleoted bird for the business.—James 3. Wilson, in Amer ican Cultivator. If two tuning forks of the same pitch are placed facing eaoh other, tho one sounding, the other silent, in a few seconds the silent one will be giving out a distinctly audible note.
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