)ME DEPARTMENT. MS Or KNOWLEDGE FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. 'ml Isformstloa About Managing thm loumkold—Heclpes and Inatmotloaa Ota In tha Kltehan—Thn 1WII| Ircln Thera Wan Soma Ullfarenca. « following morsel is from try Topics, and illustrates very y the difference between the im breeds of fowls and the old *rn-yard fowl, as well as some ood hints: irt time ago I saw a farmer p to a poultry dealer's est&b t with a large coop full of and wishing to learn what were being paid, I walked over give you 4’■£ for them,” said aler as I came up. at’s that fur?’’ asked the farmer, ’t ye give Mrs. Johnson eight rn yesterday?” did,” replied the dealer, hen why ain’t ye goin’ to give me four an’ a half?” limply because yonr chickens are y not worth more than half what Johnson’s are. If you don’t to take 4% you can haul them The fact is, I’d rather you d than not.” ow look-a-here, if my chickens just as good as old Mrs. John I want to know why, by guml ens is chickens and meat’s meat, my chickens aint got as good on ’em as anybody’s I want ter it right now!” * iw, see here, my friend, don't get nder the collar, because it won’t u any good. The meat on your ens is as good as that on some s, but there isn't enough of it. s what’s the matter! If you had uch sense as Mrs Johnson you ildn’t be raising such scrubby, wny, mixed mongrels as these; d raise chickens like those she has. of hers is worth more to me than of yours Her chickens sell as cy’ at the top prices, while yours ‘poor mixed’ at the lowest ’ll be gosh wallowed if I can see' hern are better'n mine.” IPhy, of course you can’t. You t know a good chicken when you If you want to sell these for 1st them out and I will show you iifference between yours and Mrs. son’s” ey were weighed and paid for, and dealer called four pickera in. four of these chickens and bring back here in a hurry,” said he. lie farmer followed them out to see tt no “Bhenanigan” was played on and in a few minutes he returned Ith the birds picked clean. Poor, rawny, shanky things they were. [“Now, come here,” said the dealer, iding the way to the cooling room, ling to a shelf loaded with the nicest, |umpest, meatiest birds I ever saw, i laid the four among them, saying, I he did so, “there are Mrs. Johnson’s tickena See any difference, pardy? (you wanted a chicken to eat, which [these would you buy?” f ‘Ahem, yaas; thar is some differ* ee, I swan! What sort o’ chickens them o’ Mrs. Jphnson’s anyhow?” ^Those are pure Plymouth Rocks, if she had brought them in two Bks earlier I would have been glad five her 10 cents a pound for them, sold me fourteen dozen in August I paid her 94 per dozen for them. >w’s that for prices? f I don't wonder that you are hard and down at the heel. Anybody st raises bones and feathers and |es to sell them for chickens Jght to be. Now go home and kill every bunch of bones and feathers bu have in your yard, then go over to Ira Johnson’s and get a new outfit, (ke care of them like she does and >u will make some money.” I “B’lieve I’ll swap a settin’ or two of rgs with her, or trade roosters, or bmethin’! Hearn that she wants a pilar a piece fer her chickens, but irned if I’ll give it. Dollars is too teerce.” [ Now don’t rush over to the Mrs. Bhnson of your neighborhood and offer ‘swap” her a setting of eggs ifrom >ur mongrel hens ‘for a 'setting of fgs from her thoroughbred Plymouth Jocks—she won’t trade! Why? Be iuse the eggs from your hens are ily worth the market price—15 to 25 ents per dozen, and only fit for culi sry purposes, while eggs from Mrs. ihnson’s selected breeders are worth per dozen, for the purposes for ihich you want them, and are cheap L. that. B at* la a Cellar. Cellars should be built always with egard to safety from vermin, says iermantown Telegraph. Once those et a foothold in the walls or under he floor it is almost impossible to dis odge them, and if they are poisoned he dead eareasses are as bad as the ive animals. So that the construe** ion of the cellar is worth thinking of. The floor should be made of con* rete, over a layer of broken stone, veil rammed down. Eats can not bur ow under such a floor and gain en rance in that way. Then the walls hould be built up of stone laid in nortar, and all the crevices should be Hied with small chips to make the vail tight The foundation of the vail should be made at least 6 inches vider than the wall outside, as the ats will try* to make their way along he wall and never make the offset upward to get under it. The beams of the floor above the ellar should be bedded in the wail, nd the wall built close around the nds of them. This also insures Dundness in the beams and prevents 3tling,and there is nothing better for >e preservation of timber than lime. It hu been recommeneded that the holes made by the rata be smeared with tar, which is offlenstve to tnem, or to place some concentrated lye on the bottom of the barrows, by which the rats’ feet are burned. This so dis gusts them that they leave the prem ises But there will altvays be trouble unless the walls are built at the first in the way mentioned._ Canned Vegetable* The New York Journal of Com raerce says: There is hardly an article in the line of vegetables and fruit that can not be purchased more cheaply in cans than in natural condition, except during a short period each year when the market is glutted with the green stock. In the instance of vegetables the canned article frequently turns out to be more palatable, of better flavor and in every way superior to the green truck sold by the average retail grocer. This doubtless accounts in some measure for the steady in crease in the business in those partic ular lines. At the present time prices are comparatively low, or, at the least, moderate; and the impression prevails that as long as cost is kept within the means of the great body of consumers, the consumption is bound to steadily increase. It may be claimed, and properly, too, that the cheapness of dried vegetables and fruit is an obsta cle, since they are in favor where household economy is forced by cir cumstances; but, admitting this, enough facts remain to justify the opinion that the canned goods trade is more likely to gain steadily than to fall off. preserving milk.—The Herald’s European edition reports marked suc cess in a method adopted in France for the preservation of milk. It has been found that when taken fresh from the cows and placed in a receptacle with compressed oxygen and finally stored in twenty-five gal lon cans at a pressure of two atmos pheres, it will travel for months in perfect condition. It is said that milk thus treated and sent from Lyons to London develops neither germs nor ferments, while it will stand a temper ature almost up to the boiling point without coagulating. It is claimed by M. Villon, who has experimented in this way with milk on a large Beale, that when so treated it is freed from germs of tuberculosis. But this has yet to be conclusively proven. If the progress suggested by him is made practicable for dairymen generally it will be of great value to consumers. Some very decided improvement in the present method of canning and ship ping milk is desirable. Much will be gained if farmers at a long distance form great centers of population can be enabled to supply these markets with milk in a perfectly healthy and sweet condition.— N. Y. Herald. ▲ New Summer Drink.—An En glish dairy paper tells of a new use for Bkim milk. After the milk has been creamed by the centrifuge the skim milk is sterilized by heating to destroy all bacteria or germs of ferment or of other possible means of injury to its keeping. The milk is then charged with pure carbonic acid gas at a high pressure and placed in syphon bottles, from which it can be drawn at any time. The milk so treated, it is claimed, will remain sweet indefinitely. The medical profession has taken hold of the carbonated milk and is pre scribing it for persons who have not been able to digest whole milk. It is said to be very valuable and most easily digested. A Cause of Baldness.—The wear ing of tight, close-fitting hats and caps has been found responsible for much of the baldness among men. Men never lose a hair below where the hat touches the head. The close cap holds the heat and perspiration, thereby the hair glands become weak and the hair falls out Hence women’s bonnets are now pronounced a bless ing by some men afflicted with bald ness, since women are never bald ex cept by disease.—Ex. Danisa Pudding.—Put into one and a half pints of cold water half a teacup ful of pearl tapioca and let it soak for half an hour, after which boil it until clear and soft,which will take about an hour, stirring frequently while boiling; add a quarter of a teacupful of sugar, half a tumbler of currant jelly and a little salt, steadily stirring until all the jelly is dissolved. Put into a mold and serve cold with cream and sugar. Cocoanut Pudding, No. 3. — One pint of milk with the yelks of two eggs well beaten, two tablespoonfuls of cocoanut, half a teacup of rolled cracker crumbs and flavoring to fancy. j Bake half an hour, then spread over it a frosting made by beating the whites of two eggs and a teacupful of sugar. Put in the oven to brown. SWEET POTATO BUDDING.—Mix With one pound of sweet potatoes, grated raw, half a teacupful of molasses, two beaten eggs, one tablespoonful of but ter with two tablespoonfuls of sugar and enough milk to make a thin mix ture; add one teaspoonful of ginger and spice to taste. Bake one and a half hours. Coooanut Pudding.—Swell in two teacupfuls of boiling water, one of sago, and add one of sugar, one and a half teacupfuls of grated cocoanut; mix the whole thoroughly with one fourth peck of tart juicy apples chopped fine, and bake for one hour in a slow oven. Tapioca Pudding. — Soak seven tablespoonfuls of tapioca in one quart of milk over night; add half a dozen eggs well beaten, two grated lemons, sugar to taste and vanilla or other flavoring. Bake in a moderately quick oven. Cbacker Pudding,—One quart of scalded milk, five tablespoonfuls of rolled cracker, small piece of butter j four eggs; bake one-half hour, and | serve with any kind of sweet sauce. A lady at Maple Valley, N. Y., is | raising in a cage atalbino robin which i she found in the grass under a tree. Every feather is white and its eyes are pink. REPUBLICAN MATTERS. HIS WORD FOR SUGAR. President Cleveland** Indefensibly •Auda cious Letter to the House. President Cleveland's letter was remarkable for nothing else so much as its indefensible audacity. It is not the first time that he has under* taken the , unwarranted liberty of meddling with the constitutional duties of a co-ordinate branch of the government; that he should do so openly and make his act a matter of official public record is to say the least astounding. HeyondHfiie there is hothing surprising in Vho letter. He makes a partisan argument in favor of free ruw materials and then, as if'mcrely by incidental mention, declares in favor of the sonate sugar schedule. as 10 sugar, as long ago as re Dr nary 27, he was authoritatively pledged to the interests of the trust, even before the tariff bill had been re ported to the senate. On that day the Democratic senators held a caucus on the subject, and Senator White, jwho had already been ap pointed and confirmed as associate justice of the supreme court, parti cipated in its deliberations for tho purpose of announcing tho pres ident’s position towards sugar. He announced that the president had, both before and since March 4, 1893. promised toat there should be a duty on “both raw and' refined” sugars. He said that he had continued to act as senator after having been con firmed as associate justice of the Supreme court lor the purpose of explaining to the caucus the pledges of the president with regard to sugar. So the senators knew where tho president stood on that subject, says the Kansas City Journal, and the only purpose he could have had in handing this letter to Chairman Wilson was to notify the house that the sugar schedulo had his full coun tenance, and to let it be known by the senate's conferrees that he would have them save the sugar trust even at the expense of the iron and coal trusts. ' It was generally believed In the best informed circles in Washington that if an agreement could be made on the sugar schedule a report could be made within two days. Mr. Cleveland undertook to make such an agreement possible by openly pro nouncing in favor of the trust schedule which was originally writ ten by the secretary of tho treasury. Hogg;'* Revolution. Governor Hogg of Texas has been performing a public service again. In offering his prediction that a rev olution impends, in accordance with the prevailing fashion to which none yields more readily than Mr, Hogg, the governor goes to the extent of minutely describing the more palpable and noticeable effects of the same and specifies as a distinc tive mark of his revolution that Chi cago's “lofty buildings will be spattered with the hearts, lungs and livers of citizens.” This, says the Detroit Tribune, is a useful symptomatology. Nobody is going astray as to Governor Hogg’s revolution, and take it to be a Sunday school picnio or a common weal army. Now, when the people of Chicago wake of a morning and find the hearts, lungs and livers of Citizens spattered all over their lofty buildings, they may turn to each other in all confidence and say: “This is revolution,” and proceed about their avocations with the as surance that it is only born of a full understanding of, surrounding con ditions. Travelers, too, in proceed ing through the second city of the land, and noticing extraneous sub stance upon the lofty buildings which proves on examination to be the hearts, lungs and livers of citizens, will recognize the revolu tion at once and insist upon the usual excursion rates. With Governor Hogg's distinct specification of symptoms, there can be no misunderstanding. The sight of citizens without hearts, lungs and livers will mislead nobody. Unless those parts are spattered on tho lofty buildings of Chicago the oc currence will promptly be pro nounced a fake and treated as such. It is no time to inquire why the governor insists upon hearts, lungs and livers to the exclusion of other useful organs, notably the stomach, pancreas, and vermiform appendix; why he selects the lofty buildings of Chicago rather than of another city, or why the viscera of citizens and not of aliens orlndians are not taxed. The governor seems to know whereof he speaks. The only thing for the people to do is to extend him their gratitude and keep a sharp lookout for the appearances he indicates. On a New lack to tlio l'le Counter. No good can be expected from the Populist party, for the reason that it is made up pf misfits and freaks of all kinds who have no proper knowl edge of public questions and no ability to order public affairs. Many of them were chronic office seekers in Other parties, and’failing there, entered the Populist party in the hope of accomplishing their am bition. These men now seek to ride into power with a new party, but they have been tried long enough to show that their rejection by the old parties was wise, and that to again intrust them with official authority would be folly.—Denver Kepublican. PopuiUtic fc\onomy. Gov. Altgeld says he keeps posted on the uews of the day by reading only the beadlines in the newspapers. He doubtless also keeps up with the drama by reading the bill posters, gets his religion from church notices, and grows fat on pudding by chewing the string. The average Populist is a great economist.— Times-Star. k FREE LABOR. The Major Think* It Colt* the Em ployer Too Maeh a* It la. > I tee that the£ are (till -bavin •trikes and troubles union? the shop hands down at Birmingham In our state. These follows are alt out siders. Most of 'em is forrinors. I think it would bo a good time to ralso up and run the interlopers all out of the state. We don't want ’em and we don't want shops and factor ies for they always make trouble. Look at the condition of the misera ble Yankee country to-day! writes Major Randolph (lore Hampton In thoNow York Advertiser. Tho only peoplo in the world that are inde pendent are pastoral people. Agri culture is what tho South must stick to. Our soil is our pride and so long as we are agricultural, pastoral peoplo we can snap our lingors at tno rest or tne worry. The infamous Protection polloy ot New England has ground us into the earth, but when we are once more restored to our rightful condition under froe trade we will "bo the most peaceful and prosperous people ou God’s footstool. Wo pay our niggers very little now and when we got free trade established it will be merely board and close for them or nothin’, and you know how little close they wear. If the nigger fives with us— ana ho can't live any plats else—. he'll hare to work and if he works for nothin we'll be better off than we was under tho old system. They can't beat us, I toll you. The only thing that I’m afraid of is that within the next ton years tho South will be so prosperous that a lot of dirty Yankees will come troopin’ down and tryin' to declaro in with us. We don’t want'em, and, what's more to tho point, we won’t have ’em, dam ’em. * * * Cleveland's letter to Wilson which was read in the house hit tho nail on tho head. He ought to take a club and go up there and knock some of the party traitors on tho head. Why, if we ain’t careful we’ll lose the in come tax altogether, and that'll be just the same as givin’ up the flto against the Ncrth. What in hell are we here for anyhow? 1 never see such demoralization as there is in our party ranks here. Why, it’s worse than the niggers of the South was after the Freedman's burow busted. But while Cleveland is in with the sugar trusters it is to his credit that he wants more free trade and lots of income tax. That will pull tho South together, which was weakenin’ on him on account of his goin’ back on state’s rites. I toll you that old soap fat man is a mitey srued politician. An Impression. Debs l A splendid rhyme for "Rebs!” It always has occurred to mo In writing—well, say poetry— That there were words— by dozen i—herds— *■ That had oo rhyme Quite up to time But Debs. When rhymed with Rebs, Seems wondrous sensible, So reprehensible Is Debs It goes with ebbs, Which shows a tendency For tbe ascendancy. Ot (orernment o'er Debs Dear Debs doth show - Not In the flow Contrarlwlso, the tide Is low For Debs. We're on the brink, Some people think, Of anarchy; But as for me I don t believe it I'll confess It sometimoj teems so In the press. Tho Populists Would like to govern with their lists; But on the wholo. from Texas up to Maine, The anarchist's distinctly on the wane. From Florida to fur off Idaho Tho teuchtn ;a of that tribe have little p eta. V. H. atampa taken in payment. Addrees QEO. Q. gTEKKTKK, Urand Bapida, Mich. The bead of the comet of 1811 was nearly 1,200,000 miles in diameter. i educate gear Daughters. At this season of the year parents have * to decide upon and select the educational institution which their daughters are to at* tend for the coming years. In this conneo* ' tion we desire to call attention to the edu cational announcement In our advertising .. columns of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, Mo. Their buildings and grounds are attractive, locality health* , ful, touching in all branches thorough, and terms reasonable. Parents fortunate to select this school for tho education of their daughters will, we are sure, be fully satis fied. For further information, address Mother Superior, Academy of the Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, Mo. v Louisiana bos found it necessary to pass laws for the care of its lepers. Ilsgeman’aCamplior Ice with Glycerin*. The original and only genuine. Cure.Chapped Hands and Face, Cold Sort., Ac. C.O. Clark Co.,N.llavenICt. Crows never enter a cornfield without posting a sentinel on the outside. , , \ *• Hanson's Slagle torn salve." 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