Freeland Tribune Established IBSS. PUBLISHED LVKRY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TIIB rRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited Oyricc: Main Stiieet Above Ckntbe. FHEELAND, PA. fellilSClllPTl ON HATES: Oo Year 81.60 Six Months 7o Four Morrhg 50 Two Mouths .-5 The date which tho subscription is paid to is ou tne address label of each paper, the chaugo of which to a subsequent date bo- Minies a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. P.o port promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must bo puid when subscription is discontinued. Ma', call mon> y orders, checks, itc,, pay able to the Tribune Prinlinj Company, Limited. I A map recently issued, desigued to show the trolley roads of New Eng land, indicates that one may go al most the whole way from Boston to New York by these lines. Tho chain is practically complete after one gets about fifty miles away from Boston. The widow of the late President i Barrios lias only the jewels and other | personal matters held in her posses sion at the death of her husband. The vast estates of which the president had possessed himself during his brief career have reverted to his creditors. Such seems to be the for tunes of all Central American dicta- j tors ! i c Tde London humane societies are i agitating against tortoise-shell orna- ments because of tho torture the ani- * nuils are subjected to In depriving J them of tho shell. They are first f semi-boiled over a red ember fire until i the flesh that secures the shell to the * body is softened. The nuiraal is then J shelled clean, and, though the suffer- i ing must be intense, one rarely dies, but in a few months grows another 1 shell, of which he is deprived in the 1 same manner. Tho largest of the , shells are obtained in the islands near j Ceylon, and is a large part of the iu- I dustry of the natives. The information comes from Wash ington that tho American gunboat Wilmington, which is now cruising iu Venezuelan waters, is to be sent on an exploring expedition as far up the Amazon river as her draught of about eight feet will allow her to go. The highest point yet reached on the'river by an American vessel is Mauaos, 830 miles from the mouth of the river,and beyond this point very little is known of u definite character about the great river, which is more than three thou sand miles iu length. It is believed that the Wilmington will be able to cover at least two thousand miles of the length of the Amazon, and doubt less she will be enabled to clear up much of the mystery that attaches to the interior of Brazil. Wild stories of great mineral wealth, statues of gold and tribes of Amazon warriors have clung to the region since the days of Pizarro and his followers in the six teenth century, but it is doubtful if the explorations of the Wilmington will sustain any of these old traditions. In the more progressive countries.at least, the breaking of the shackles in which the investigating mind had been imprisoned for so long has led not i only to a greater number of scientific workers, but also to an increase in the fields of observation, observes C. L. Whittle in Appletons' Popular Sci ence Monthly. Tho methods of in vestigation have likewise undergone a transformation. In place of deduc tive reasoning, even as late as a few decades in the past, conclusions and generalizations are now founded on lines of thought more largely induc tive. Men of middle age are able to recall tho time when oven our leading institutions of learning required in struction in several branches of sci ence to be given by one teacher. It was possible 25 years ago for a man of great ability to master the essentials of the leading sciences and to teach them, but under the present stimulus for investigation no one can hope to excel in more than one subject. It has thus come about that in place of the many-sided teacher of science we now have in our larger universities specialists in every subject. Man's Expenditure* In Life Time. A resident of Kent, Md., who has; kept a careful account of his expendi tures, calculates that during the eighty-four years of his life he has consumed 28,500 loaves of bread at 3 cents per pound, value S3SG.SO; 20,880 pounds of beef at 5 cents, $1,240; 7,728 pounds of vegetables, eggs, fish, etc., at 2 cents, $154.56, and 11,760 gallons of water, tea, coffee, beer, wine, etc., at an average cost of 1 cent per gallon, $117.60; total, $2,468.96. He al3o fig ures that of the 30,660 days of his life 10,080 have been spent In sleep, 10.920 in work, and 9,760 in eating and pleas ure seeking. - y/ b> '*• —n . s 1 •',• . A DAY-TIME TUNE. Tii* sun slugs out In a dawn-dappled sky; And a fleeting moon croons a pule reply; While the star-crowded chorus Lenentli, round, aud o'er us, Conn's muffled, uncortuin, Through the day's drawn curtain; And the waking world lifts a workday cry To mate with the martlaling uiusio on high. Right good for the soul it Is; drifting 1 (trough dreams; Ilut it's braver to plow where the fat earth | teems, j The office is better Thau the lotos-fetter: And sweeter than ih bottle I Is the wide engine throttle. So, clerk, to your work! and, maiden, to Tradesman to your trade! and agent to There's tiaie for you to loaf when the sun's gone out; it's work-hours while it —Rupert Hughes, in the Criterion, OVERBOARD." BY O. P. EAVY chains V a were about his Z I -if ankles, li and (X v- ' cufl's upon his 1 ißXrvl iP wrists and the J brand of crime V \V^pXN" *" |I was on his fore- J 31- - head, on his features, —^'^r.and in his fierce, wolfish eyes. There he stood, an out cast from the pale of human kind ness, the convict, Mark Mold, on the deck of the passenger ship Britou, the captain of which for a certain sum paid by the law officers, had consented to take him, with several others of his stamp, to Botany Bay, as room could not he found for these criminals aboard the trausport vessel anchored a mile below and which had been packed to overflowing ere the prisoners were brought to it. While Mark still waited 011 the deck for the officers to stow him in the dark hold with his fellows a boat from the Liverpool dock came alongside with several passengers, among them h handsome lady of thirty, Mrs. How laud, wife of Colonel Howlaud, quar tered with his regiment near Port Jackson, Australia, where she was go ing to join him, and her little daugh ter Grace, a beautiful child of six years. As Mrs. Howland was assisted up the gangplank she noticed Mark Mold and shuddered. "You need not he afraid, ma'am," said the captain. "The criminals will he kept in the hold, chained; they cau do you harm." "Can you not send them away from | here? 1 wish you would." "I regret that I cannot, as I have agreed to take them." Descending into the cabin, the lady sat, unable to rid herself of the feel ing of alarm excited by the presence of the convicts aboard the vessel. She at length concluded to go ashore and endeavor to persuade the ship-owners to have the criminals taken off the craft; but ere she could proceed to executo her plan the Briton was under weigh. As day after day passed the bright little cherub, Grace, spread light and I joy throughout the vessel. The rough sailors would smile, their brown faces softening when she ventured among them. They always had a pleasant word for her, for her winning little ways had made her a favorite with all, from the cabin boy up to Ben Hayes, the oldest seaman aboard. She would walk forward the first tiling of a morning aud shake hands with each one, her mother smilingly permitting such freedom on the part of her child. One day, having heard that the crew did not fare as sump tuously as the passengers, little Grace, instead of eating her piece of pound cake at the cabin table, took it forward among the sailors and make each of them take a big Lite, saying she would tell the captain to send them a basket full. Soon she noticed on deck the con vict, Mark Mold, who, having been i taken ill in the confined air below,had been relieved of his chains and led up to breathe the fresh air. A pleased ' look crossed his haggard face as he I inhaled the pure breeze, and, looking out 011 the broad, blue, rolling ocean, . he seemed at once to get stronger and better. ' i "Won't you have some? Here, take it; you may have it all," fell a 1 jhildish voice on his ear, and, looking L down, he saw Grace at his knee, hold ( j iug up her piece of cake. j He seemed about to put his hand on 1 her head when Mrs. Howland gently, but quickly drew the child away. : j The man showed 110 emotion at this 5 action of the lady. It was natural the ; mother should deem there was cou -1 I tarnination poison in his touch; ; that she should not have permitted him even to lay his hand on the j golden hair of the child. "You must never go near that bad 1 j man again," said Mrs. Howland. "Why, mamma, isn't ho a little ? good? I've heard uncle—and he is a ■ minister, mamma—say that everyone > is a little good." i "I'ou have heard him say that the * worst person has some good quality; . hut I differ with him. I don't believe f that convict, who, I have learned from t | the captain, was a thief, housebreaker , 1 aud drunkard for yetfrs, has a single - ! good trait." e | Just as she spoke a heavy squall j struck the ship, hurling her down al . | most on her beam ends and driving I her through the water with everything humming. The wind blew with ter- i rifle force, and the vast ocean was i veiled for miles by the whirling, driv ing spray, which flew like snow-flakes all round the vessel, shrouding her in u white mist. Suddenly there was a wild shriek from Mrs. Howland as little Grace, who had attempted to ruu into the cabin, was literally blown to leeward into the sea. "My child! O God, save my child!" screamed the distracted mother, whose voice, however, was nearly drowned by the booming thunder of wind and ocean, tha rattling of canvas, the slat ting of sheets and ropes and the swashing, hissing noise of the sweep ing spray. The sailors looked with appalled j faces on the form of Grace as she was j borne along by the merciless waves, j Not one of them dared to venture j overboard in that tempest, and as to 1 lowering a boat, it was simply impos- | sible, as no boat could live in such a i storm. "•Save her! Will no one save my ! child?" screamed Mrs. Howland, con fronting the seamen with clasped hands aud frenzied, beseeching eyes. They looked at each other and not one moved, for all felt that certain death awaited the man Avho should plunge iu that wrathful ocean; but Mark Mold plunged overboard, and the mother clung to a backstay, eagerly watching for his reappearance; but, seeing nothing of him, she bowed her head on the rail, moaning and rav ing like a maniac. Still raged the storm and on toro the ship further and further from tho place where the man and child had gone overboard. The seamen ex changed ominous glances aud shook shook their heads. Soon the squall swept far away to j leeward, the ship righted and the sun gleamed from a clear sky upon a clear ing sea. From the captain, w r ho, having now brought his ship to, with main topsail aback, had run aloft, a wild cry went ringing to tho heavens, sending an electric thrill of joy to the hearts of • all on deck. "I see something two miles off the lee quarter. God grant it be the man I and child!" His boat was soon down with good j oarsmen in it, with Mrs. Howland,full j of wild, anxious hope, in tho stern j sheets. Nearer to thftt distant speck drew the boat. "There he is!" cried tho watchful captain, at last. "I think—l believe— but am not certain—ho—yes, yes, thank God—hooray! hooray! he has the child." Yes, there was the convict in the 1 water, holding up the child that the mother might see it. Such a scream of joy as burst from that mother's lips it would have done you good to hear. A few minutes later Grace nestled on her bosom, weak and faint, but showing signs of rapid recovery, as the happy woman strained her to her breast, showering kiss after kiss upon j her face. Almost exhausted to unconscious ness, Mark Moid lay in the bottom ol I the boat, scarcely hearing the mother, ! hardly feeling the pressure of her lips upon his hands, when, at length, she turned to him, warmly expressing her ! gratitude. Now sho recognized the truth of the ! saying that tho worst person is not without some good trait, aud very glad . she was that she had not succeeded in j having the couvicts removed from the 1 ship when she first discovered they | were aboard. Of course, had they; been taken away Mark Mold would j have gono with them and her child 1 would have been lost. , On arriving at Fort Jackson Mrs. 1 Howlaud related to her husband, the j , colonel, the gallant conduct of Mark j Mold, who thereafter was constantly befriended during his hard prison life I j by the grateful olficer. . This kind treatment, the first he had t ever received from a human being L since he became an outlaw, had a' softening effect 011 Mark's character,' and he conducted himself so well that the colonel at length succeeded in ob- I taming for him a commutation of his j j- penalty, which had been for tweuty 3 years, to half that time. t When at last, tho prisoner was dis* j charged the colonel procured his em-; . ployment and the liberated convict be- j j came a steady, honest man. 1 - 13 Victims of Cplluloid Combs. I A trio of accidents of the same kind e in tlireo different towns a few days ago | t resulted in the scalping of the girls ■ t who were tho unfortunate victims, j Miss Sallie Vanmetor, a charming i daughter of Judge Vanmeter, of Chit j . ) licothe, Ohio, had her hair all burned j a off, while leaning over a grate, by her | g celluloid corah catching fire. She is I - terribly burned. At Zanesville, Ohio, ' Miss Lnlu Moore, a society girl, got i a too near the grate; her celluloid coral) j t ignited and she was Bcatped before help could reach her. At Wheeling, \ s W. Ya., Miss Mary Conner, while 0 raking coal in the grate, got too near i . the fire, and her celluloid comb was 1; ignited, burning her terribly. It was ! d the second accident of the kind at e Wheeling in a week.—Louisville Evening Post, a Klce Hfl 1. Detector of Thieve., e Not being able to trace anything in a connection with the loss of the 2000 e rupees from the cash safe of the Su rati Bazaar Company, tho directors e have resorted to astrology and finally sorcery. Every employe of the bazaar e was given a mouthful of rice to eat, n which had been previously put through ir some magic preparation, the belioi be e ing that if the person who had taken the money ate the rice some very great II misfortune would befall him. It is I- not recorded that any of the employes g have yet met with a disaster.—Ran g goon Gazette. j I | TALES Of PLUCK I ADD ADVENTURE. 1 <•) (s; (v £ Face to Face With the Dnlton Gang:. Bey. K. B. Foster had long been known as a champion of law and tem perance when the little incident hap pened which is told below. lie en tered Kansas in the early days with John Brown. Soon after the war he moved into Western Kansas with his fauiily, and for twenty years stood for righteous ness and temperance, taking an active part in the battles for prohibition in that State. When Oklahoma was thrown open for settlement, ho saw a chance to throw his fighting weight against wrong, so he entered the Territory as a Congregational minister and stood for prohibition. About twenty miles irom where he wns preaching the notorious gang of bandits, known as the Daiton gang, had their rendezvous. For four years Mr. Foster had poured forth volley after volley of facts and figures into the camp of the enemy of all good —intemperance. About this time a desperate deed was committed by one of the Daiton gang in a saloon near by, and Mr. Foster used the occasion to express himself publicly upon the relation between the liquor business and lawlessness and crime. Not many days afterward lie' received an invita tion from the leading men of the vil lage, where Daiton was king, to corno and deliver a Fourth of July oration. To the utter surprise and discomfort of the entire gang, he accopted. The Da'.tons were ihere in full number. Dinner was eaten rather quietly. At 2p.m. th leader called the assembly to order, and announced Bev. Dr. Foster as the speaker of the day. Intense excitement prevailed. What would be the subject of his ora tion? What would he say? Would he daro beard the liou in his den, the Daiton in his lair? Almost deathlike stillness prevailed when ho announced his subject—"lntemperance the Child of Satan, and Lawlessness the Child of Intemperance: The Two Great Evils That Menace Our Free Insti tutions." The writer was in the audience, and he saw hands, as though involuntarily, grnsp their revolvers. The speaker Baid: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Fel low Citizens.—l am very glad of an opportunity to address this audience upon the subject of law and order, because my word 3 shall be appropriate to this assembly, and probably new to the most of you." A red-haired, fierv-tempered young man, sitting just in front of me, turned his head to a man of some fifty years of age, and said, "How dare he?" In a very calm and dignified manner the speaker went on to show how the very gang before him had its headquarters in a saloon, and many, if not most, of their lawless schemes were hatched out from brains excited by liquor. He showed how the very success of I hat band of men acted to stimulate lawlessness in the land. And as a republic was possible only among a law-abiding and intelligent people, these men were traitors to their coun try. As the speaker proceeded in this direct manner, he grew more and more fearless, but never careless of his languago. In the midst of the oration the speaker irritated the sandy youth. He grasped his revolver and started to draw it from its scabbard. When the old man sitting by saw the motion of the youth, he placed his hand upon his friend and said: "Jack, be careful. Look at that old man's eye. He knows whore he is, and what he is doing, and my word for it he is prepared for anything. Wo called the doctor, and wo must take our medicine with as much grace as the men do when we have tho drop on them." During the course of twenty minutes, which was the length of the address, I saw threo or four revolvers drawn. But their owners thought better of the act, and replaced them in the scabbards. After the address, wo drove home borne immediately, but we were followed for three miles by a party of bandits, probably acting as an escort.—Guy Foster, in The New Voice. Saved by Ills Powtler-Horn, An old sea captain affirms that he had an exciting experience twenty two years ago on one of the smaller islands in the Philippine group. During a voyage from Ban Francisco to Hong Kong, reports a correspon | dent of the St. Louis Globe-Demo i crat, his crew mutinied. They gave I him some food and water, a gun and a ilask of powder, and putting him ; into a small boat, set him adrift. After thirty-eight hours on the ocean, tho captain reached an island and was promptly seized by savages, j who conducted him inland. Except | that he was forbidden to go to the waterside, ho had the freedom of the | island and wns well treated. But af ter ho had been eight months with tho natives he learned, naturally to bis dismay, that they j 'auned to do him tho honor of sacrificing him to their god at their next great festival. Protestations were useless. He had just one chance for his life, and at night he made several secret visits to the ghastly spot on the mountain side where sacrifices were made. As his "turn" drew near, he tried to tell j his captors that he had communed I with inferior spirits, and discovered that their gods forbade his death. But although the savages listened re spectfully, preparations for the cere mony never stopped. On the morning of the fatal day he was aroused at an early hour by two attendants of the medicine man, and hurried toward the Bacred mountain. The sun was well up when the ascen began, and the captain dragged along as slowly as possible, often glancing at the sun, which was beating on the mountainside. As he came in sight of tho altar he craned his neck, and observed the sunlight ,dealing toward the stone. Turning, ho warned the.priests that divine wraty would be hurled on them and their altar if they attempted to proceed, buttheir only answer was to push steadily on. Below him, gazing upward, were the villagers, some watching the proceedings with anxiety, ■for they more than half believed what he said. They had arrived at the stone altar, and the captain had turned again to appeal to the priests, when there was a loud explosion, and the altar was hurled heavenward with a deafening noise, while the priests fell on their faces. When the smoke rolled away the orowd on tho hillside could be seen prostrating themselves and bow ing toward the captain. He was es corted back to the village and treated as a god. Nothing was too good for him. He was allowed the liberty of tho island, and two months afterward succeeded in fitting out his boat, and one night shoved off in the direction of Manila, where he arrived after u two days' sail. During his captivity tho American had employed his time mining the altar with tho powder from the flask he had preserved. A fuse waE made with a piece of reed stuffed full oi powder, and fire was furnished by the crystals of his chronometer, which he had fastened together and filled with water to form a burning-glass. Tho Ncwiboj's Sacrifice. There Vas a cvowil at the railroad station in Boston. Among the persons gathered was a bright-eyed, barefoot, smiling newsboy, who bad sold all his remaining papers but one. Ho had given half his supply to auother boy, who had failed to get any that morn ing. Just then a procession began to pass with a baud of music. The crowd pressed to the iron railing to see and hear. Among others was a little ne gro boy, who squeezed his head through between the strong rails and was delighted with his good view. A short distance above this company, just at the top of the incline on which they were all standing, was a large truck piled high with heavy trunks, no one attending it. By some means this truck was started down the incline. Unguided, and with rapidly increasing momen tum, it ran straight for the preoccu pied company at the railing. A loud cry of warning rang through tho sta tion. Every oue rail from the impend ing death. The negro boy alone re mained struggling wildly, but iu vain, to draw his head from between the bars. The quick eye of the newsboy, who had jumped to the other side of the truck, took in the situation—cer tain death to the pinioned boy if tho truck were not instantly turned from its course. Without a moment's hesi tation he sprang forward and firmly plauted his small bare foot in the path of the front left wheel. The axle turned; the life was saved, but there was a mashing of bones, tho blood spurted, the foot was flattened. The boy grasped his paper convulsively, staggered, aud fell—white and uncon scious. Loving hands bore him to the near est hospital, and sad hearts went to tell the widowed mother of the deed of her only sou. I'unUliing; an Frlltor. Curious methods of punishing in discreet editors are in vogue in some countries. In "South American Sketches" Mr. Crawford describes the interesting experience of an editor who had been unfortunate enough to give offence to the ruling powers by the freedom of his criticisms. Tho editor was arrested and con fined in a narrow passage between the cages of two jaguars, notorious for their bad tempers and their intense dislike for human society. The intervening space was so regu lated that neither of the ferocious animals oould get its paws quite to the middle lino between the cages; so that a spare, active person, if very careful to follow the classical advice about the advantages of steering a middle course, might manage to pass without special injury, though the achievement would be both exciting and dangerous. Our editorial friend happened to be stout, and therefore was the more easily reached by the occupants of cages. As if to add insult to injury, he was given a chair on which to sit, and at tho same time was furnished with a copy of his own paper, the issue which had brought him into trouble, in order that he might medi tate upon its contents. He tried to sit motionless and bolt upvigbt. feeliug those sleepy, cruel eyes fixed upon him. At the slightest movement, or the rustle of the paper, uneasy mutterings arose from the cages, and a paw would stretch stealthily toward him. Leaning quickly to the other side, he was sure to be met by tho ugly claws of the second jaguar. It was a case of Seylla and Charydbis. Every few minutes the jaguars be came wildly excited and clawed fiercely at the shrinking editor, who, do his best, could not escape those rending toe nails. His clothing was torn to shreds, but except for a few scratches he was not really Injured. A Matrimonial Musing. The average young man thinks he is in a position to marry if he has $250 in the bank and a steady job. Hope is a great factor in a love affair. After the man is forty he wonders how he ever did it, and when hejeats pie at night and has the nightmare he always imagines that he is marrying again on $250. —Atchison Globo. IPAEM TOPICS 1 OOOOOCOOOGOOOCOODOOOOOOCCO Foeclliiß Cotton-Seed Menl. Cotton-seed meal is extremely diffi ult of digestion, and should never be given to young animals or those which t'rom advanced age have a weak di gestion. The hull which is shown by 3arlc spots in the meal is almost en tirely indigestible. Calves and pigs have been killed by eating small imounts of dark cotton-seed meal. Buminant animals can digest it better, but it is so concentrated a food that it ought always to be fed with some bulky but less nutritious ration. A small amount of cotton-seed moal in a pailful of bran mash can bo eaten safely by a eow. Evil of lin perfect Milking. Cows that, aro impectly milked from whatevor cause, either careless or im perfect milking from the fault of the milker, soon degenerate into worthless animals. The milk that remains in the udder from imperfect milking is that which is held by the small pouches or milk-vesicles high up in the bag, and will form a curd which will excite inflammation and destroy the secret ing function of its mucous lining, or cause the adhesion and complete clos ure of the cavity or pouch. It is the experience of every dairy of twenty-five or moro cows milked promiscuously by three or four milk ers, that a contest is always waged for the privilege of milking "'old Bose," because she milks easy, and a shun ning disposition displayed by all in reference to eight or ten others that no ones cares to milk. To bo able to milk the hard ones with patience and skill is the qualification that should and must be attained by a successful dairyman. T.arge Hives, I am asked whether I think the eight-frame hive is largo enough to accommodate the breeding capacity of the average good queen. Emphatic ally I will say no. Neither do I think that tho bee-keeper who makes any tests at all, 110 matter who he is or where he is, would answer the ques tion in any other way. My experi ence is that about one-third of the queens are crowded in a ten-frame brood chamber, and that not over one tenth of the colonies can bo sufficient ly accommodated with broeding-room in au eight-frame hive; while perhaps only two or three per cent, of the healthy queens would liud this hive too large. Perhaps many people will disagree with mo, who have never used any thing larger than an eight-frame hive, because they judge of the possible strength of a colony by the experience that one may get with such a hive. I beg leave to say that it is next to im possible to judge fairly of this ques tion without first giving a trial to largo brood chambers tho year round. It iH useless to expect as populous a colony for either spring, summer or winter, on an average, in a small hive, or in a large one. A greater cluster, a larger space, and a greater amount of stores are bound to produce, witb a queen to match, a more satisfactory oolouy. There is one item which we have not considered. I have often heard it said that the size of the hive was 0 quostion of locality. Whether there is a point in this remains to be tested. It is quite possible that, in countries whore the winter changes suddenly, and in a very few days to summer, the prolidcness of qneecc may have but little chance of becoming fully devel oped. If suoh were the cose it would indicate that northern countries could better adopt small hives than south ern latitudes. But in my mind this is debatable. A stroug, large colony, wintered in a cellar, ever so far north, if safely wintered, ought to be able to develop the proliticness of its queen within a very short time; and as it takes only twenty-two days for the worker bee to hatch, a space of two or three months would be much more than arnplo to ropopulate a hive to its utmost. Are there very many locali ties where the height of the honey- How does not last beyond sixty to ninety day after tho opening of spring? 0. P. Dadaut, in Gleanings iu Bee Culture. Foultry Notes. Where are the young chicks roost ing! Get them up off tho ground and out of danger of colds, skuuks, minks aud other vermin. Bed raspberries do well in the chicken yard, give shado whon most needed, and the fruit is mostly out of reach of tho fowls. Keep posted in the poultry profes sion. Bead all you can find to read about poultry, and especially along lines of your operations. If you havo a heavy breed don't change them for a lighter breed bo eauso you will get moro eggs, for tho difference is made up other ways. In tho laying hen the food is the most important point to watch. It io not always the feed nor tho breed that makes a laying hen valuable. The thing to do is to keep her from get ting too fat. There is no danger of taking too good care of a flock of hens. The man who keeps them well fed and in clean quarters rarely finds fault about the number of eggs he gets, no matter what breed ho keeps. A good watering fountain is worth while. If well constructed it will last for years. Have one made of copper holding eight or ten gallons, closed at the top and with n cup Boldered on at the bottom, connected with the interior by a small hole. The tank is filled by dipping into a water ing trough. An International Oongress of Wom en is to be held in London in June. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, New Jileus In Saclict Ilolcl^rs, Imitation cloth anil silk flowers filled with sachet powder are novelties that appear in tho stores. Thus rose stems, leaves and flowers are filled with roRG Rachct, and a spray of hya cinth with the hyacinth sachet. They are made by cutting out the leaves aud flower petals from stamped cloth or silk, and then sewing them together and filling them with the sachet pow der. They make very pretty and ap propriate articles for tho bureau or drawer or even for ornamenting the top of the dressing-table. They come in rose, hyacinth, violet, orchids, heliotrope, lily and tulip odors, Tea ax It Should ISe. One may not with propriety c'lictnte to another regarding the kind of tea lo buy, but it is order to mention that the great tea-drinkers of the world— tfie experts who have cultivated a "tea-palate"—pronounce in favor of Oolong. Japan, or green tea, comes la9t on the preference list. For mak ing tea use either a china or eurthern pot, which you are never to wash, but clean by scalding. Pour foiling water in the pot, and stand it on the stove long enough to make siWe it is heated through and through', then pour it all off, and put in tho tea—one teuspoonful to each full half pint of water to be used. Now put in tho svater, which should just have reached the boil, take the tea-kettle off the stove, remove the lid, stand the tea' pot in the opening, and let it remain live or six minutes. Or send tho pot immediately to the table, and cover with a cosy for ten minutes. It is best in instructing a servant to tell her to look into the tea-kettle when the thinks it is boiling, to sec that the water is really bubbling. The above method gives an excellent jupful of bright tea, but an added step in the process will give a still finer re sult. It is to wash the tea by pour ing off the first cupful of water in ataetly after adding it, then proceed is above. This quick boiling-water rinso carries off dust impurities, and the tea when made has a3 n conse quence a finer bouquet.—Woman's home Compimiou. Too Much Furniture. There are many girls who, by the way, are exceedingly happy, whoso married life is one long study of the scienco of economy, with its various branches of "ways aivl means" and "how to make two ends meet," and "the possibility ot $1 doing tho duty of $5." There is net, however, the study of economy in money matters alone, but there are also the ecouomy of labor, the economy of time and the economy of health to be considered. When we start housekeeping aud begin to buy tho necessary furniture for our future dwelling places, we women, one aud all, have the same in tense desire to make our homes as beautiful and pleasnut to look upon as it lies iu our power to do, say sn write* in the New York Press, Unless one cau afford to keep plenty of domestics it is well to avoid furni ture that has much carviug upou it. Simple decorativo designs have a bet ter "bred" air about them anil, what is more important, are much easier to mako clean and keep so. Notliiug looks worse than little gray heaps of dust, accumulated in difficult corners of au elaborately ornamented piece of woodwork, especially if it belongs to the cheap and cominou order of things. It does not follow by any means that furnituro must be costly to be beautiful, but it is well when pur chasing to remember that it is not only the amount of money paid that constitutes "saving." Therefore one must exercise the greatest discretion. Crowding rooms with furniture is not only a sign of bad taste, bu.t it is positively unhealthy. All tho space taken up by chatties means so less air for breathing purpotes. ItecJpea.] Beef Fritters—Make a hftter of 0110 cupful of flour, oue piut of milk anil threo eggs. Chop lean cold roast beef very fine, season witk salt aud pep pei, and stir into tbu batter. Drop by spooufuls into boiling lard and fry a rich brown. Chiokon Sonp—Take the boues you removed in making the pressed chicken, crack the larger ones, place over tlie fire in a quart of coli water and let boil one hour. Strain out the bones by passing through a colander. Beturn to (lie fire, season aud add one enp rich milk. Ice Cream Cake—Beat to a cream tlireo-fourths cup butter aud two cups sugar; and cup rich milk. Sift two large teaspoons sugar twice with two oups pastry flour aud one small cup corn starch. Add to first mixture, and slowly fold in tho whiles of seven eggs, beaten stiff. Bake in layers. For filling: Have pint of cream whipped stiff, to wbioh has been add ed one tablespoon gelatine soaked two hours in tablespoon cold water, aud dissolve iu tablespoon boiliug water. Sweeten fiavor, spread between two layers and then frost the top, or cover with powdered sugar. Peach Spongef-Soak a half box of. gelatine in half a cupful of cold water " until it is Boft. Pare enough soft ripe peaobes to make two toacupfuls of pulp, after they have been rubbed through a colander, and sprinkle half a cupful of sugar over it. Boil one oupful of water and half a capful of sugar together fifteen minutes; add the gelatine, stir till dissolved; add the juice of one lemon, strain it. over the prepnred peach pulp aud stir well together. Set the bowl in n pan of cracked ice and beat with an egg beater for five minutes. Add the whites of four eggs beaten stiff, and beat the whole until in begins to thicken. Pour into wet moulds and set in a cold place for several hours to harden. Serve cold, with whipped cream.
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