ill DIE DEPARTMENT Ct'MS OF KNOWLEDGE FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. I »*rnl Information About Manaslnx tho kloorrholil Kerlpes Slot ln*t ruction* for t)»e lu tbi Kitchen—Tim Family Circle. Beauty la a Power T>. O Northrop, writing In the New York Independent any*: Striking Il lustrations of the happy influence of home adornment* and of the and elTect of their neglect hare often come under my obs«i vaeion. Two instances must here mfllco. When surveying a town In New Hampshire, in order to adupt my lecture to local needs, an we passed • larg i jouso and spacious l>*rns, with all the surroundings neglected and forlorn, my escort said: "Here llvew the richest and meanest man of our 'town. Twenty years ago ho brought here a refined young lady ns a brida For a few years it was her ambition and delight to adorn her now home within and without. At length her strong Innate love of the beautiful wa» cruelly crushed, for this thought less. if not heartless wretch would no longer permit ‘such waste of her time on good-for-nothing posies.’ Driven to despair, she has been for years in j the H»ylum among tho Incurable in sane." When In Nebraska City, tho guest of ex tlov. J. Sterling Morton, now secretary of tho department of agriculture. I found a happy contrast to this miser's wrotched home. To Nebraska, when a territory, just ceded by the Indians to the United States, and still a wilderness, ho brought his tbride, a cultivated lady from Detroit, who cheerfully mado tho best of their log hut. Soon flowers, shrubs, and vines sprang up on evury side, uotil a veritable Iiden, largely planted and tilled by her own hands, surrounded th it humble home. In a few years a stn:ely mansion, beautiful within as well as without, rose in its place, iiow much did her love of the beauti ful and her purposo to create this Eden, on which her heart was Bet j when she first saw this spot, and saw ton its possibilities,lighten tho burdens sinl lessen tho privations of a pioneer life, bright visions of a beautiful home were an inspiration and a bene diction to that happy household, year* before they were fully realized. It seems fitting that auch a home, well named “Arbor Lodge” should be the ^^thplsce of Arbor day. Italian* lltiiartl. nana fritters are not to be de <1. and banana shortcake Is a dish >• which the glories of ambrosia he this delicious shortcake mix ' Hour, a large teaspoonful of ntwder and a third of a cup of mg. Moisten with milk. While '•king slice bananas In propor of three to one orange, grate a e lemon peel and mix with a cup uigar. When the cake is baked split nd fill with the fruit. Ueat enomrli ^p.arn stiff to pile over the top of the ^cake. l*'i led bananas also have a flavor which the raw fruit entirely lacks. They should be pared and split in two. A pan of melted butter should be ou the stove, and into this the bananas are plunged. When they are wown on both sides they should bo spread for a few minutes on absorb ent paper, to rid them of the grease, spriukled with powdered sugar add served. Hananas may also be baked. A tablespoon ful of sugar and a teaspoou ful of hot water should be allowed for each banana. The fruit should be pared and slit in two. They should be placed in a shallow dish. A table spoonful of butter melted in hot water should be poured over the fruit and the sugar mixed with a little srtice sprinkled oyer the top. About ity minutes is required for baking1, inana cake ia made by placing d banana between layers of cake ared by the ordinary rule for jelly nana fritters are made by drop little slices of banana half an Ei mica into ordinary miter batter, ng in boiling lard, draining and •mg hot with powdered sugar. Wuy Cuoi.kra Kills—When an ad venturous scientist declared that he had swallowed any amount of cholera cultures without injury, there was a good deal of incredulous head-shak ing, and while the doubters could not really dispute the statements made, they insisted that there must be some thing behind it all; for if cholera bacilli were really themselves and no body else, why didn’t the man die? And now it appears that it isn't the well-bred properly conducted bacillus that does the mischief, but a substance that they manufacture from the con tents of the human interior where they take up their abiding place. The bac’lli proceed to form what is known as nitrite, a most deadly poison. This substance is by the bacilli generated from many vegetables, especially cauli flower, lettuce, beets and turnips. Meat contains but a limited amount of convertible material, hence the pre vailing idea that vegetables are to be eaten with prudence during the cholera seasons, while meat in small quantities and Indian corn, barlev and the like are much safer articles of diet, it is further asserted that there are other bacteria found in the intestines of nun and animals that are capable of generating nitrites, but that the chou-ru bacillus produces over forty thousand times more than any other creature. If there is no suitable sub stance found by the cholera bacilli upon which to work, they form lactic j and < tlier acids, but these rarely cause seii.ms ills. They sometimes give rise ! to u liat is known as cholerine, which j \ frequently prevails to a considerable extent during epidemics of cholera.— N. Y. Hedger. "ati Rrnonr CEM.Ans—A cellar can be ao constructed as to be waterproof if the bottom, or the floor, is first cov ered with cement, the nails built thereon laid in cement and the exterior of the walls covered with cement. Tills makes practically a water-tight basin. The cement used must be the best 1'ortlsnd cement, one part; clean, sharp sand, one part. After a cellar is built it is not so easy to make it waterproof. .still it can be done, i Cover the exterior of the wall with the i above cement, ditto the bottom, and I work the cement in under the bottom I of the walL If these directions are I followed you will succeed. Hut if cheap materials are used and the work badly done, you will be sure to fail. A drain put around the outside of the wall, or even Inside, below the cellar floor, may be efficient in carrying off the water If you can give It a good delivery.—The National lluilder. Test kok Oi.ko.—Most people can easily distinguish between genuine butter and its various imitations by the flavor. Hut there is an immense amount of very poorly flavored butter which is no better than oleomargarine. A test that will always distinguish genuine butter from its counterfeits has been discovered by Dr. Jlenry He ft man of Philadelphia. A spoonful or tw< of the sample is put In a nar row cup and quickly lieu ted to the boiling point. If it'is true butter it will boll quietly and foam up in a mass of lino bubbles, often overflowing over the side of the cup. If it is butterine or oleomargarine the sample when heated will foam up but little, but will crackle and sputter as it boils. After one or two trials, any one cun decide with certainty what the sample offered Consists of. No fraud can escape the test.—American Cultivator. • ItiTTKit Chkam—The reason for bitter cream is that it is the result of keeping it too long, or, In other words, of hav ing old cream. Cream kept from thirty six to forty-eight hours is very likely to be bitter. It is produced by fer inentntlon, which takes placo at low temperature rather than high when the change is sufllcient to produce bit terness, While thero are other causes for bitter cream, as, for instance, bit ter weeds which the cows may feed on in the pasture, yet the main cause is old cream. Cream Bhould be churned within thirty-six hours of the time of skimming, and taken off the milk in side of twenty-four hours.—American Farmer. Ika.—Put into a tea*ateepor a very little boiling1 water,and into the water a teaspoon ful of tea>for each person. Pour ovor the tea boiling water until the steeper is about half full; cover tightly ami set aside to draw, but do not let it boil. After not to exceed ten minutes pour into the tea urn, adding boiling water in the proportion of a teaoupful of water to each teaspoon ful of tea that was put into the steeper, and serve. A pot of boiling water should be kept at hand on the table to weaken the tea should any person so desire. Cofekk—.The quality of coffee to be used must be governed by individual taBle, but as a general rule one table spoonful to each cup of coffee will give satisfactory results. Pour on the water boiling hot, adding the white of one egg and crushed shell; stir well together; set aside for a moment and throw in a little cold water to drive the grounds to the bot tom. In five minutes it will be clear. Colfee should not be allowed to boil also the aroma will be lost. Queen Pudding.—lteat well together the yelks of four eggs and one teacup ful of sugar; add one quart of milk and one pint of bread crumbs with a piece of butter as large as an egg. When baked spread with jelly, and on this a frosting made of the whites of the eggs whipped to a froth with five tea spoonfuls of sugar, and the grated rind of a lemon for flavoring. Put into the oven and brown. If ho ad-St in UK d Plea Beetle—It is a small jumping insect, striped some what like the squash and cucumber vine beetle, but is very much smaller and more active. The pest is supposed to breed in the ground, and is not usually abundant enough to cause serious injury. Dusting the plants at tacked with Paris green mixed with flour, and applying kerosene emulsion are the remedies. Spinach on Toast.—Wash well, cooking in salted, boiling water. Drain and chop fine. Put a tablespoonful of butter into a sauce pan with seasoning. Stir in the spinach and beat smooth. When hot add a teaspoonful of cream, or two of milk. Pour upon buttered toast. Dread Pudding.—Cut into dice half a dozen slices of buttered bread and put into a baking dish. Pour over it a custard made of a quart of milk, a tea cupful of molasses, half a teacupful of currants and a little nutmeg. Bake brown. Use with it any sauce desired. Chocolate.—Dissolve three table spoonfuls of scraped chocolate, or equal parts of chocolate and cocoa, in a pint of boiling water and boil for fifteen minutes; add one pint of rich milk; let scald and serve hot Although the Japanese form but a very small proportion of the popula tion of the country, numbering only 2,039 in 1890, it appears that there has been some complaint in California and other Pacific coast states of Japanese laborers having come there in viola tion of United States laws These complaints have led the Japanese gov ernment to issue an ordinance to re strain and regulate emigration from Japan to other countries. Under the new ordinance it is understood no emigrant will be permitted to leave Jupin to go to any country where his coming would be iu violation of the j law of that country. ! HIS STREAK OF FINE LUCK. A Millionaires fttorjr of a I’lvotal Kxprrl enra In BoyhiHxl'* •■What Is tho luckiest thin? that ever happened to you?" u Herald man asked of a Xew York millionaire. “Ho you mean sheer, unadulter ated luck—somethin? that just hu|> pons without uny geokin? on your part?" replied the millionaire. •■Well, yes; let It go at that.” ••I am generally accounted a very lucky mun hy the thousand and one people who know more about mo than I do myself. Hut. on my honor, what I cull a genuine piece of goo 1 luck happened to me only once in my life. It didn’t amount to much, though it mount much to me at tho time. It was when I was tilling my first job—that of an errand boy at a week—and I tell you I have never singe folt so rich as'when I carried homo ray first $11. I had been given a chock to cash and a bill to pay. After paying tho bill I had ♦•t7 of my employer’s money left. I had just • crossed Hroadway, when, happening to look back, I saw two men fighting in tho street. I was enough of a boy then to take keen interest in anything like a •scrap. ’ I retraced ray stops to sco what it was all about. To ray amazement and surprise I discovered that tho two men were fighting about tho $117 and tho receipted bill, which In smni) mysterious fashion had dropped out of my pocket. A policomun happening along nt thut moment I was able to prove that I had a better right to tho property in dispute than either of the two combatants, and recovered it forthwith. They ha 1 each grublio I for it nt, tho same time, an I each was bound to got all or none—luckily for mo. I have often speculated upon what might have happened if thoy hadn’t quarreled. I should never have rocovero I tho money, and in consequence, I should certainly have lost my situation, i tint might have changed tho whole current of my career, and instead of being a rich man I might to-day have been a poor devil, or I might have been twice as rich as I am. \N ho knows? Anyway, 1 regard it as tile only pleco of downright, simon pure unmistakable good luck that ever befell me. Hut any Tom. Hick or Harry that you chance to moot will be able to tell you lots of luckier things that Uavo happened to me. Soma of thorn things that, I had worked at for years.” Kwpt'i * rlrolesi Musoum. l or many years strong protest has heon made to the Egyptian govern ment by antiquarians and hosts of other interested peoplo the world over against the continued housing of the priceless government collec tion of Egyptian antiquities in the old wooden museum at (ihizoh. Tho c dloetion comprises tho choicest of all tho ralics that havo been discov ered in Egypt. It is and has been formally years exposed to the great est possible danger from fire. Tho government has hitherto declined to remedy tho mattor, but a few days ago tho council of ministers agreed to the appropriation of $750,000 for tho building of a new liro-proof musoum at Cairo to contain tho col lection. Drunken 11 nipt. Lawson Tait exonerates tho humat face from tho imputation of being tho only creatures that naturally tako to drink. \\ asps, he says, have tho proclivity. Mr. Tuithas watched the wasps oagorly attacking overripe fruit, when tho sugar has in some degree heon converted into alcohol. Around such fruits, especially rotten plums and grapes, the wasps may be soon * fighting and struggling for precedence, and aftorivard, when they are actually drunk with tho spirit, they crawl away in a torpid condition and hido thomsclvos in the trass till they havo slept off tho orgy. Mstorly Sarcasm. ••Havo you a sistah?” said Willie Wishington. ••No,” replied his friend. “Then you cannot ivealizo what it is to bo uttahly humiliated. I was telling my sistah lahst night about a young woman that I sometimes call upon. I wemahked that sho made me feel like a fool.” “And wlmt did your sister say?” “She said I was too solf-conseious." A Coleatial **ll»rkor. ** An Egyptian shoemaker had a de ity to whom ho ottered sacrifice every morning, and whoso duty it was in return for this reverence to stand in front of the shop during the day, a sort of celestial “barker,” and direct the attention of the peo ple passing by to the shop aud its contents. Fart of the Bird. The Young Housewife—Have you any nice chickens? The Poulterer—Yes, ma'am. The Young Housewife—Well, send me a couple in time for dinner, and 1 want them with the croquettes left 3 and April lit, 1SP4, he made 1<>7 appointments from the states. Civil. SKUVIt'K KKKOK.M PROCLAMATION’, NO. or iNeuraska and tieurffia. 1 hat the combined salaries of all amount to $>*(), 070. (See Sen. Kx. Doe., No. 105, 2nd Ses. 53 rd congress, pages 1 to 13 inclu sive. ) To Nebraska, 1, Thomas II. Gillun, a census clerk, at $720 per annum. To Georgia, 100 clerks, (not includ ing myself at $8,000.00) with salaries amounting to $70,1)50. Here the voters of Nebraska have an | objeet lesson in civil service reform. t • corgi a in 1802 cast 120,000 demo- j cratic votes for the Cleveland electors, j If we divide the amount of salaries paid which, including the secretary's salary, is $87,050, by the democratic vote cast, we find there is returned to each voter in the state of Georgia by way of com pensation through this reform move* mont, $.0G*:1 annually. While iu Ne braska the $720 being the annual sal ary paid to one clerk appointed, when divided, as an annual compensation to the 24,048 voters, amounts to $.02 und*a fraction for each democratic vote. In other words, democratic civil ser vice reform as administered by Hoke Smith paid 3M>»> dividends annually to the democratic voter in Georgia, while the same dividend to the democratic voter in Nebraska is reduced to the min- 1 imum of $.02. I CIVIL SERVICE REFORM PROCLAMATION, * NO. 3. | If it were not for the possibility of i involving the civil service bureau iu \ what might appear to be the disrepu- ! table business of meddling with pro- | gressive politics, we would suggestthat | they incorporate in their next annual j report a short chapter explaining to | the people of Nebraska the glorious benefits of democratic control and civil scrvico reform as enunciated by Grover Cleveland and Hoke Smith. Market, of tile World. The liritish market is as free to Amer ica today as to all the rest of the world, ll is open to the wheat-producers of the I’nited States just as it is open to the wheat-producers of Canada, llussla, j India and all other wheat-producing- i countries. The English consumer will make the | best bargain he can, regardless of the country from which he purchases. Englishmen usually buy, not out of gratitude or kindness for those with whom they deal, but where they can secure the best bargains, but it some times happens that they prefer other countries than the United States as their customers, for truly the United States lias caused them more anxiety iu holding their place in the markets outside of Europe than all other coun- • tries combined. No free trader who lias happened in public during the present tariff contro versy has yet pointed out a single av enue by which the United States might expect to tiud the markets of the world more open or freer titan they are today to the product of the North American continent. Every country, Great llritian includ ed, lias some form of tarriff or custom house laws, none of which appear at present to be burdensome to them, an I least no talk of repeal seems to be ap | parent in the legislative departments | of otliereountries. Canada has strength- ! cued her protective system rather than | the loweringof her duties. The United ■ Mates has one great lesson to learn, w hen clamoring tor the open markets of the world, namely the same rule that gives to the United Mates au open market, also opens the markets of the United Mates to the world. While otliereountries are protected, how fool ish it appears to us that we should be clamoring for free trade. Our markets at home afford us the greatest security, '.ill percent of all products from the ground are consumed by our own people. The 7 per cent of surplus which we offer to other coun tries must come in competition with a like surplus from other governments. Here the cheaper goods must sell. American wheat produced by the high er wage and higher level of American agriculture, offers its surplus of 7 per cent of its whole product in comoeti-j tion with India’s product, produced by : serf labor and cheaper system of agri- ; culture. l'lie reader is cautioned against the fallacy which some men teach, that be cause of this one-seTenth being our sur plus going into the markets of the world in competition with the cheapest products of the world, does not prove that all our products are forced into a like competition. The best proof of this fact is that our protective system prevents the countries of the world I trom landing upon our shores this same ' cheap product with which our surplus competes from coming into active com petition by reason of a high protective duty, secured in the McKinley law. a single instance is sufficient to show the operation of this principle. ’1 lie returns for the custom house at Detroit, Mich, show that for the year ending June ill), ISSfi, when there ‘was no tariff on barley. 410.055 bushels valued at S250.000, passed the custom house at that point. The McKinley 1 bill, wnicligave a protection of 20 cents oer bushel, went into operation in 1801. 1 he returns for the year enning Jute 3(), 1* assault amt nearly killed a mine boss ami furem; at -Mill * reek, l'a. Tile mob was armed \vl guns, pi-tols and clubs. .lust eight years before these out breaks. Mr. Cleveland, in a sp&eial message to congress, had informed the millers of Fniontown and of Mill Creek that "the discontent of the employed is due, in a large degree, to the grasping and heedless exactions of employers." The Halitnee Sheet. New York Sun (Deni.): If the tariff, bill were td become a law as, it stands tod.i\, the net effect upon the fortunes of the individual American citizen would be this: No appreciable reduction in the cost, of living-: no material diminution in the market price of the commodities upon, which the consumer now pavs his.indi rect tax for the support of the govern ment. but. on the ottier hand,a uewtand, hateful tax directly imposed upon.every citizen with an income of over -M 00U and upon every citizen, rich or poor’ whose thrift has saved and whose pru dence has invested ins savings, in any of the ordinary ways. J An unreformed tariff and am. unnec essary income tax’. No gain on one and on the other, a new. direct, exas perating burden that will make every man who pays it the enemy of the party responsible for its imposition. That is the whole story up to d»y> as it affects the American taxpayer. ’ Political N.ites. Democrats persist in -eferring to the populist representatives in the senate as comprising only senators Allen. Kyle and fetter. What has become of Senator Stewart? Mewart has time and again proclaimed liis fealty to the populist party and |is antagonism to his former associates on the republican side, but the democrats prefer to ignore his own statement of his position Hive Stewart the credit of belonging to the populist party, in which he gloriea so greatly. Power of Sympathy* It is acknowledged that most women' possess the quality of sympathy to a re markable extent. Mrs. Browning pos sessed this gift; it vibrated on the chord of poetic expression in her. Jane Aus tin and Charlotte Bronte led retired lives, but they hail the power perpetual ly to pass out of their circumscribed in dividuality to that of others, and the genius to retain and turn to account the fleeting impressions of their passing contact with individuals. The darlings and the ornaments of society are the women who can throw themselves beat into the interest of the moment; if to this sensitive nature belongs a native sincerity, confidence is attracted, friend ships are made and retained. Mme. Becamire is, perhaps, the best type of this gift of social sympathy allied to a certain reality of nature. She attracted the best and most gifted of her time. When age had marred her beauty, pov erty succeeded wealth, and partial blind ness rendered her infirm, her salon in the Abbaye aux Bois was still the resort of eminent men and women of the pe riod. She was not a wit, she was always somewhat shy; but she had the wish to win love rather than admiration, and possessed the taot of drawing out the bust gifts in others. She bad the genius of friendship, her steadfastness could not be shaken. Sympathy gives an an gelio grace to virtue. Irregular honesty Is harder to handle than regular dishonesty. Love is a i reature of circumstances. I Can’t Sleep I have a tired, worn-out feeling. This means that the nervous system Is out of order. When this complaint is made, Hood’s Sarsaparilla is needed to purify and vitalize the blood, and thus supply nervous strength. Take it now. 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