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The Sioux County Journal,
VOLU3IE VII.
HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1895.
NUMBER 44,00'
Bent lnvtilmcnla for Firncn.
Col. Francis Vinton Greene has re
cently delivered an address on the sub
ject of good roads In tlie Butterfleld
practical course at I'nlou College. Id
the course of bin remarks lie showed
that while Massachusetts annually ex
pends $;; a mile on roads outside of
Cities, New Jersey $4.1 and New York
30, the average expenditure In the
ther State Is much less. If It Is only
1S a mile this means an expenditure
throughout the country of JJO.nm.rxH),
and much the larger part of this vast
gum Is literally thrown away on roads
that are not only the cnuse of vexation
and dlM-omfort to those who drive over
them, hut Hint entail actual loss upon
those who are compiled to carry goods
over them to the market or to the r ill
way stations. The enormous drain
made by had roads on our resources
was estimated ly Col. Greene, and his
figures will not lie doulited by anyone
who has paid any attention to the sub
ject He said: "It has been proved,
not only by mechanical experiment but
by actual (est. that the same force which
draws one ton on a muddy earth road
will draw four tons on a hard macad
am road, (in the Improved roads of
New Jersey loads of four to live tons
are hablnially drnwn by a two-horse
team. This effects a saving of fully
three-fourths of the cost of hauling
to the elation and reduces the cost of
road transportation from .'Ml cents to "Mi
cents per ton per mile. What this sav
ing amounts to can be Imagined when It
Is known that the New York Central
Railroad carries nearly 2ii.(hh),(hxi tons
of way freight In a year. If this is
hauled only two miles by road, to or
from the station, and a saving of 22
cens er ton per mile could be affected,
It would mean a total saving of $9,000,-0."-Harper's
Weekly.
The Financial Hide.
The question of roads In many of our
agricultural communities Is a question
of farming at a low or at a profit. And
there Is not a community or town in the
thickly settled parts of the country that
cannot provide Itself with thoroughly
good highways by anticipating Its road
taxes for fifteen or twenty yenrs. Mon
ey borrowed on fifteen or twenty year
bonds, to be paid off from the annual
road taxes, would be sufficient for the
work In each locality, while the ex
penditure would Involve little. If any,
Increased taxation. The plan that Is
here suggested has been tried In towns
near New York, and It Is noticeable
that every piece of gisid road that has
been constructed In those communities
Increases the sentiment In favor of
spending money In this way.- Harper's.
The I ncrennv.
We were told a few days since of a
good farm that for ten years or more
had given figures for a purchaser at
$10 an acre and wllhln a month of the
building of the road to Third Creek, It
was sold nt $.V an acre, and the owner
now refuses $11) an acre for It. Hut
there can be no need of praising so
axiomatic a proposition, as good roads
pay better than any other Investment
of public funds.- Knoxvllle (Tenn.)
Tribune.
EFFECT OF THE WAR ON CHINA.
Native Ht-lieve that the Japanese
Will Knin Their Connlry.
The Iiepnbliqtie Franca lst publishes
nn Interview with a Chinese scholar
who lives In Paris and Is the author of
a volume on the Parisians.
"You wish to know," said he "the
opinion of our philosophers and sages
In regard to the effect of the war Just
ended upon the condition of the Chi
nese. Well. I will give It to you. I put
aside all humiliations of defeat and
place myself ujKin more solid ground.
The war has robbed us forever of our
tranquility and our happiness. We
were happy and led simple lives; but.
by bringing to us what you may call
'benefits of civilization,' the Japanese
will destroy our traditions and our
hereditary virtues, confuse our minds
and mode of living, and make us like
themselves, ambitious, restless and eag
er for conquests. And what will we
gain by 'hat? Yon fancy that the Chi
nese fire Ignorant, poor and. wretched,
but you must remember that happi
ness exists In the Idea that one forms
of It. Id other words, a man Is happy
when he believes himself happy, when
lie confines his desires to the few Joys
which are within his reach. The peas
ant who eats his rice at the close of his
day's work Is satisfied wth his fate pro
vided he keeps his eyes away from the
riches of others and closes his heart
gainst covctousness. The evil senti
ments of envy, Jealousy and social ha
tred have never yet penetrated our
population, assure you that you
wrong the poor Chinese. They are gen
tle, mild, good humored, honest, scrup
ulous, loyal, sympathetic and charita
ble. You may hare reld the accounts
of certain cruelties and barbarities, but
they belong to the laws of war, which
are equally barbarous In all countries.
Ill a condition of peace, when their
quietude Is not disturbed, the Chiuese
are of marvelous benignity, which 1
only equaled by the gentleness of their
wives. I fancy that I know the Paris
ian ladles, but I do not hesitate to say
that the Chinese women are superior
to them. In the first place, our ladiea
have little feet They are good natured
and are devoid of all coquetry. They
have a deep sentiment of modesty and
their existence passes along without
disputes and without quarrels. The
woman who makes scenes Is unknown
In our favored climate. Our women
are contented with the dresses that
their lords and masters give them, and
they never run up bills with dressmak
ers or modistes. Moreover, luxuries In
China are not costly. A furnished house
with all the modern Improvements can
be rented for ISO francs a year. For a
few cents a day you can have the most
sumptuous dinners. The victory of the
Mikado means the dlsnpiiearanee of our
golden age. He has thrown down our
walls. Now. the walls of China were
symbolical: they sheltered the country
against the winds from without. I
mean those winds that bring with them
pests and civil war."
I Micks Nesting In Trees.
"At last I have been able," writes a
correspondent, "to decide by personal
observation a point that has often been
discussed by London naturalists. Many
of the ducks In Hyde Park and Kens ng
ton Gardens prefer the trees as nest
lng places to the low lying thickets
where dogs and lsys might molest
them. The question was, how the
youtig brood got conveyed to the water,
some of the keepers asserting that they
were transported on the back of the
parent bird. On Saturday evening I
happened to pass one of the old elms,
encircled by a railing about 'Joo yards
northeast of the boat-house on the Sor
peutine, Just at the moment when one
of these family flitting took place. The
nest was In a hollow about twelve or
fifteen feet above the ground, and at
the moment of my arrival the fond
mother, in a great slate of excitement,
had already got three or four of her
youngsters on terra flrnm. Then she
flew up and brought down another In
her beak, repeating this operation half
a dozen times; but meantime the other
ducklings, Impatient of delay, scram
bled over the edge of the hole anil tum
bled Into the grass, much to their mam
ma's distress. An Intelligent police
man now came up, and we found that
out of the broisl of fourteen only one
seemed a trifle damaged. In a minute
or two the whole party waddled olT com
posedly to the water's edge." .St.
James' Gazette.
Cats that 8ee No Daylight.
"It may not be generally known that
there Is a remarkable aggregation of
cats In the big city postoftlce In New
York," said .Mr. I.artibert at the Nor
mandle'to a Washington News reporter.
"I served In that ofliee once and been me
so Interested In the ."ii or 1!ni cats in the
basement of the building that I began
to make a sort, of study of the animal in
general. These cats are kept there to
prevent the mice from chewing up the
contents of the mall bags. So necessary
are they regarded that an appropriation
of $20 a month Is availalrte for their
support. The light of day never strikes
the room In which the cats are allowed
to roam, and from year In to year out
the electric lights are kept burning.
Those cats know very well that the
light Is artificial, and no one can tell me
to the contrary, for, as I say, I have
made a study of them. The conse
quence Is the animals labor under the
delusion that all time Is night time, and
in spite of the fact that several hundred
persons are at work In the room con
stantly, those cats are not deterred
from Indulging In their nocturnal ser
enades. They howl and light and
scratch exactly the same as If they
were stationed on a back yard fence
with the darkness of Egypt about them.
Oh, yes, the clerks become used to It
after a while and pay no attention to
them."
At a lJendlock.
When war was declared between Chi
na and Japan a lix-al daily send Ed
ward A. Murphy, the well-known Jour
nalist to the land of the mikado as a
special eorrcsio!iilent. The paper re
ceived some few letters from him after
his arrival In that country, but the
number of drafts It received exceeded
the number of letters by a good large
majority. Finally the manager decid
ed that something must be done In or
der to get more news for his money,
and, nt the expense of about $5 a word,
he sent this cable message to Murphy:
"No sluff, no money."
Murphy promptly cabled back (col
lect): "No money, no stuff." San Frandsco
Post.
Lent,
The observance of Lent Is one of the
oldest customs among Christian na
tions. It Is, In fact, a custom of such
antiquity that Its beginning Is Involved
In obscurity.
Cheap I'arrot.
A parrot only costs 10 cents In some
parts of South AJiierle.
TALM AGE'S SERMON.
AWAKENS THE SYMPATHY OF
LOVERS OF HUMANITY.
He Choose a for Hia Subject " Sistera of
Charity," and Discourses Eloquently
Upon the Kights Vouchaafed to Wom
en aud the War Tbej Puraue Them.
Full of Good Worka.
In his sermon at Beatrice, Neb., last
Sunday, Her. l)r. Talniage, who is now on
his summer westers tour, chose a subject
that must swaken the sympathies of all
lovers of humanity via., "Sisters of
Charity." The text selected was Acts
lx., 30, "This woman was full of good
works and almsdeeds which she did."
Starting now where I left off last Sab
bath in reciting woman's opportunities, I
have to say that woman has the special
and superlative right of blessing and com
forting the sick. What land, what street,
what house has not felt the sinitings of
disease? Tens of thousands of sick beds!
What shall we do with them? Shall man,
with his rough hand aud heavy foot and
impatient heiiring, minister? No. He
cannot soothe the pain. He cannot quiet
the nerves. He knows not where to set
the light. His hand is not steady enough
to pour out the drops. He is not wakeful
enough to be a watcher. The Lord tlod
sent Miss Dix into the Virginia hospitals,
and the Maid of Saragossa to appease the
wounds of the battlefield, and has equip
ped wife, mother aud daughter for this
delicate but tremendous mission. You
have known men who have despised wom
an, but the moment disease fell uKn
them they did not send for their friends
at the hank, or their partner in business,
or their worldly associates. Their first
cry was, "Take me to my wife." The
dissipated young man at the college scoffs
at the idea of being under borne influences,
but at the first blast of the typhoid fever
on his cheek he says. "Where is mother V"
Walter Scott wrote partly in satire and
partly in compliment when lie said:
"O woman, in our hour of ease.
Uncertain, coy and hurd to please,
When pain and anguish wring the brow.
A ministering angel thou."
The Muthirs in Sickness.
I think the most pathetic passage iu all
the Bible is the description of the lad w ho
went out to the harvest field of Shunein
and got sunstruck throwing his bands
on his temples and crying out, "Oh, my
head, my head:" and they said, "Carry
him to his mother." And then the record
is, "He sat on her knees till noon and
then died." It is an awful thing to he ill
away from home in a strange hotel, once
in awhile men coming to look nt you, hold
ing their hand over their mouth for fear
that they will catch the contagion. How
roughly they turn you In bed! How loud
ly they talk! How you long for the minis
tries of home! I knew one such who went
away from one of the brightest of homes
for several weeks' business absence at the
West. A telegram came at midnight that
he was on his death bed, far away from
home. By express train the wife and
daughters went westward, but they went
too late. He feared not to die, but he
was in an agony to live until his family
got there. He tried to bribe the doctor to
make' him live a little while longer. He
said, "1 nm w illing to die, but not alone."
But the pulses fluttered, the eyes closed
and the heart stopped. The express trains
met in the midnight wife and daughters
going westward lifeless remains of hus
band and father coming eastward. Oh,
it was a snd. pitiful, overwhelming spec
tacle! When we are sick, we want to be
sick at home. When the time comes for
us to die, we want to die at home. The
room may be very humble, and the faces
that look into ours may be very plain, but
who cares for that? Ioving hands to
bathe the temples. Loving voices to
speak good cheer. Ioving lips to read
the comforting promises of Jesus.
In our last dreadful war men cast the
cannnu, men fashioned the musketry, men
cried to the hosts: "Forward! March!"
men hurled their battalions on the sharp
edges of the enemy, crying: "Charge!
Charge!" but woman scraped the lint,
woman administered the cordials, woman
watched by the dying couch, woman wrote
the lust message to the home circle, wom
an wept at the solitary burial attended by
herself ami four men with a spade. We
greeted the general home with brass hands
and triumphal arches anil wild huzzas,
but the story Is too good to be written
anywhere, save in the chronicles of heav
en, of Mrs. Brady, who came down among
the sick in the swamps of the Chii kiihom
iny; of Annie Boss, in the cooper shop
hospital; of Margaret Breckinridge, who
came to men who had been for weeks
with their wounds undressed, some of
them frozen to the ground, and when she
turned them over those that had an arm
left waved it and filled the air with their
"Hurrah!" of Mrs. Hodge, who came from
Chicago with blankets and with pillows
until the men shouted: "Three cheers for
the Christian commission! (tod bless the
women at home!" then, sifting down to
take the last message: "Tell my wife not
to fret about me, but to meet me In heav
u. Tell her to train up the boys whom
we have loved so Well; tell her we shall
meet again In the good land; tell her to
bear my loss like the Christian wife of a
Christian soldier;" and of Mrs. Sheltoii,
into whose face the convalescent soldier
looked and said, "Your grapes mid cologne
cured me." Men did their work with snot
and shell and carbine and howitzer; wom
en did their work with socks ond slippers
and bandages and warm drinks ami Scrip
ture texts anil gentle strokiugs of the hot
temples and stories of that land where
they never have any pain. Men knell
down over the wounded and said, "On
which side did you tight?" Women knelt
down over the wounded and said: "Where
are you hurt? What nice thing can I
make for yon to eat? What makes you
cry?" To-night while we men are sound
asleep In our beds there will be a light In
yonder loft, there will be groaning in that
dark alley, there will be cries of distress
in that cellar. Men will sleep, and women
will watch.
Woolen In Charity.
Again, woman has a suiwrlative right
to take care of the poor. There are hun
dreds and thousands of them iu ail our
cities. There is a kind of work that men
cannot do for the poor. Here conies a
group of little barefoot children to the
door of the Dorcas society. They need to
be clothed and provided for. Which of
these directors of banks would know bow
tnany yards it would take to make that
little girl a dress? Which of these mas
culine hands could fit a hat to that little
girl's head ? Which of the wise men would
know how to tie on the new pair of shoes?
Man sometimes gives his charity in a
rough way, and it falls like the fruit of a
tree iu the east, which fruit comes down
so heavily that it breaks the skull of the
man who is trying to gather it But wom
an glides so softly into the house of desti
tution, aud finds out all the sorrows of the
place, and puts so quietly the donation on
the table, that all the family come out on
the front steps as she departs, expecting
that from under ber shawl she will thrust
out two wings and go right up toward
heaven. Com whence she seeniB to have
come do-.-, n. O Christian youg woman,
if you v uld make yourself happy and
win the ' -ssing of Christ, go out among
the deal' i.te. A loaf of bread or a bundle
of soekr . ay make a homely load to car
ry, but angels of Cod will come out to
watch, ami the I-ord Almighty will give
his messenger hosts a charge, saying:
"Ivoo1; after that woman. Canopy her
with your wings and shelter her from all
hiiim," and while you are seated in the
ho; se of destitution and suffering the lit
tle ones around the nsim will whisper:
"Who is shelf Ain't she beautiful?" and
if you listen right sharply you will hear
dripping dow n the leaky roof and rolling
over the rotten stairs the angel chant that
shook Bethlehem, "(ilory to (.Sod in the
highest and on earth peace, good will to
men." Can you tell me why a Christian
woman, going down among the haunts of
iniquity on a Christian errand, never
meets with any indignity? I stood in the
chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter
of the celebrated Ir. Chalmers, in the
most abandoned part of the city of Ediu
bur.' and I said to her as 1 looked around
upon the fearful surroundings of that
place, "Do you collie here nights to hold
service?" "Oh, yes," she said. "Can it
lie possible that you uever met with an in
sult while performing this Christian er
rand?" "Never," she said. "Never."
That young woman who has her father
by her side walking down the street, an
armed policeman at each corner of the
street, is not so well defended as that
Christian who goes forth on gospel work
Into the haunts of iniquity, carrying the
Bibles of bread. Clod, with the right arm
of his wrath omnipotent, would tear to
pieces any one who should offer indignity.
He would smite him with lightnings, and
drown him with floods, and swallow him
with earthquakes, and damn him with
eternal indignations. Some one said: "I
dislike very much to see that Christian
woman teaching these bad boys in the
mission school. I am afraid to have her
instruct them." "So," said another man,
"I am afraid, too." Said the first, "1 am
afraid they will use vile language before
they leave the place." "Ah," said the
other man, "I am not afraid of that. What
I am afraid of is that if any of those boys
should use a had word in that presence
the other boys would tear him to pieces
and kill him on the spot." That woman is
the best sheltered who is sheltered by om
nipotence, and it Is always safe to go
where (Sod tells you to go. It seems as if
the Ird had ordained woman for an espe
cial work iu the solicitation of charities.
Backed up by barrels in which there is no
Hour, and by stoves In which there is no
tire, and wardrobes in which there are no
clothes, a woman is irresistible. Passing
on her errand, God says to her, "You go
into that bank or store or shop and get tha
money." She goes ill and gets it. The
man is hard fisted, but she gets it. She
could not help but get it. It is decreed
from eternity she should get it. No need
of your turning your back and pretending
you don't hear. You do hear. There is
no need of your saying you are begged to
dentil. There is no need of your wasting
your time, and you might as well submit
first as last. You had better right aK;y
take down your check book, mark the
number of t he check, fill up the blank, sign
your name ami hand It to her. There is
no need of wasting time. Those poor
children on the back street have been
hungry long enough. That sick man must
have some farina. That consumptive must
have something to ease his cough. I meet
this delegate of a relief society coming out
of the store of such a hard fisted man, and
I say, "Did you get the money?" "Of
course," she snys, "I got the money; that's
what I went for. The Lord told me to go
in and get it and he never sends me on a
fool's errand."
Women in F.niericencies.
Again, I have to tell you that it is wom
an's specific right to comfort under the
stress of dire disaster. She is called the
weaker vessel, but all profane as well as
sacred history attests that when the crisis
conies she is better prepared than man
to meet the. emergency. How often you
have seen a woman who seemed to be a
disciple of frivolity and indolence, who,
under oue stroke of enlmity, changed to u
heroine! Oh, what a great mistake those
business men make who never tell their
business troubles to their wives! There
conies some great loss to the store, or
some of their companions in business play
them a snd trick, and they carry the bur
den all alone. He is asked in the house
hold again and again, "What is the mat
ter?" but he believes it a sort of Christian
duty to keep all that trouble within his
ow n soul, oh, sir, your first duty was to
tell your wifp all about it. She perhaps
might not have disentangled your finances
or extended ysur credit, hut she would
have helped you to bear misfortune. You
have no right to curry on one shoulder
that which Is Intended for two. There are
business men who know what I mean.
There comes a crisis iu your affairs. You
struggle bravely and long, but after awhile
there comes a day wheu you say, "Here
I shall have to stop," and you call in your
partners, and you call in the most promi
nent men in your employ, and you say,
"vVe have to stop." You leave the store
suddenly, l'ou can scarcely make up your
mind to pass through the street and over
on bridge or on the ferryboat You feel
everybody will be looking at you and
blaming yoa and denouncing you. Y'oo
hasten home. Y'oo tell your wife all about
the affair. What does she say? Does she
play the butterfly? Does she talk about
the silks, and the ribbons, and the fash
ions? No. She comes up to the emer
gency. She quails not under the stroke.
She helps you to begin to plan right away.
She offers to go out of the comfortable
house into a smaller one and wear the old
cloak another winter. She is one who un
derstands your affairs without blaming
you. You look upon what you thought
was a thin, weak woman's arm holding
you up, but while you look at that arm
there conies Into tbe feeble muscles of it
the strength of the eternal God. No chid
ing. No fretting. No telling you about
the beautiful house of her father, from
wnich you brought her, ten, twenty or
thirty years ago. You say: "Well, this ii
the happiest day of my life. I am glad I
have Kot from under my burden. My wife
don't care I don't care." At tbe moment
you were utterly exhausted God sent a
Deborah to meet the host of the A male
kites and scatter them like chaff over the
plain.
Her Kpsponslve Heart.
There are sometimes women who sit
reading sentimental novels and who wish
that they had some grand field in which
to display their Christian powers. Oh,
what grand and glorious things they could
do if they only had an opportunity! My
sister, you need not wait for any such
time. A crisis w ill come in your affairs.
There will be a Thermopylae in your own
household, where (Jod will tell you to
stand. There are hundreds of households
where as much courage is demanded of
woman as was exhibited by Grace Darl
ing or Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc.
Woman is further endowed to bring us
into the kingdom of heaven. It is easier
for a woman to be a Christian than for a
man. Why? You say she is weaker. No.
Her heart is more responsive to the plead
ings of divine love. The fact that she can
more easily become a Christian I prove by
the statement that three-fourths of the
members of the churches In all Christen
dom are women. So God appoints them
to be the chief agencies for bringing this
world back to (Sod. The greatest sermons
are not preached with an audience of two
or three and in private home life. A pa
tient, loving, Christian demeanor in the
presence of transgression, in the presence
of hardness, in the presence of obduracy
and crime, Is an argument from the force
of which no man can escape.
The Best Kiicht of All.
Lastly, one of the specific rights of wom
an is, through the grace of Christ, finally
to reach heaven. Oh, what a multitude of
women in heaven! Mary, Christ's moth
er, in heaven; Elizabeth Fry in heaven,
Charlotte Elizabeth in heaven, the mother
of Augustine In heaven, the Countess of
Huntingdon who sold her splendid jewels
to build chapels in heaven; while a great
many otherB who have never been heard
of on earth or known but little have gone
to the rest and peace of heaven. What
a rest! What a change it was from the
small room, with no fire and one window,
the glnss broken out, and the aching side
and wornout eyes, to the "house of many
mansions!" No more stitching until 12
o'clock at night, no more thrusting of the
rhumb by the employer through the work
to show that it was not done quite right.
Plenty of bread at last. Heaven for ach
ing heads. Heaven for broken hearts.
Heaven for anguish bitten frames. No
more sitting up until midnight for the
corning of staggering steps. No more
rough blows, across the temples. No more
sharp, keen, bitter curses.
Some of you will have no rest in this
world. It will be foil and struggle and
suffering all the way up. You will have
to stand at your door fighting back the
wolf with your own band, red with car
nage. But God has a crown for you. I
want you to realize that he is now making
it, and w henever you weep a tear he sets
another gem in that crown, whenever you
have a pnng of body or soul he puts an
other gem in that crown, until after
awhile in all the tiara there will be no
room for another splendor, and God will
say to his angel, "The crown is done; let
her up that she may wear it." And as the
Lord of righteousness puts the crown upon
your brow angel will cry to angel, "Who
is she?" and Christ will say: "I will tell
you who she is. She is the one that came
up out of great tribulation and had her
robe washed and made white in the blood
of the Lamb." And then God will spread
a banquet, and he will invite all the prin
cipalities of heaven to sit at the feast, and
the tables will blush with the best clus
ters from the vineyards of God, and crim
son with the twelve manner of fruits from
the tree of life, and waters from the foun
tain of the rock will flash from the golden
tankards, and the old harpers of heaven
will sit there, making music with their
harps, and Christ will point you out,
amid the celebrities of heaven, saying:
"She suffered with me on earth; now we
arc going to be glorified together." And
the banqueters, no longer able to hold their
peace, will break forth with congratula
tion: "Han! Hail!" And thsie will be
handwritings on the wail, not such as
struck the Persian nobDmen with horror,
but with fire-tipped fingers, writing in
blazing capitals of light and love and vlc
trv, "God has wiped away all tears from
nil faces."
Santa Ana's laggcr.
Andrew J. Houston, of Dallas, Texas;
son of Gen. Sum Houston, has present
ed to tbe city of Cincinnati the dagger
which Snnta Ana surrendered to bis,
father nt the battle of San Jacinto. Tile
dagger has a twelve-Inch blade of thi
linest Toledo steel and a six-Inch In tulle
mounted with gold. The scabbard
Is made of tortoise shell, with numer
ous bands of gold and sliver encircling
It.
Humboldt had a broad, well-fed, In
tellectual countennnce, that showed a
love for the good things of Ufa.
Drn't Make Work.
"There are women In this world wh
seem to think that they are never really
accomplishing anything unless fhty
make hard work of it They scorn all
easy ways, characterizing them O
'slack-twisted' and 'shlrky,' and tak
to themselves great credit for getting
through an enormous amount of hard
work." This remark was recently colled
forth by a wordy encounter between an
experienced housekeeper and a woTnan
to whom she had given a great deal of
work. From tbe first there had beo
an effort to make the labor as light a
possible, but it was at last given up as
a hopeless undertaking. "In all my ex
perience," said this lady, iu narrating
the circumstances. "I never met wltb.
a woman so set and obstinate as the
one I have Just been employing. She has
resolutely refused to have the clothes
put to soak, preferring what she calif
'elbow grease' to all manner of labor
saving appliances. Then she grumbled
about the work in one breath and boasts
ed of her ability to do It In another, un
til It became so wearisome that I gav
her up In disgust." New York Ledger,
Cbicken Fricasee.
Cut a fine, well-cleaned chicken of
three or ffiur pounds into teu pieces; put
them into a large saucepan of boiling
water for three minutes; then drain in
a colander and instantly plunge into,
cold water, letting thera remain five
minutes; take out the chicken, place It
In a clean saucepan over tbe fire, cover
with boiling water, add one tablespoon
ful of salt, two white onions and a
bunch of herbs; cover and boil slowly
until tender; drain off the broth and
strain it Melt two ounces of butter
In a saucepan, add two heaping table
spoonfuls of flour, stir and cook two
minutes; add the chicken broth and halt
a can of mushrooms, and cook fifteen ,
minutes; then take out the mushrooms,
remove all the fat from the sauce, add
more salt If necessary. Mix the yelka
of three eggs with half a pint of cream
add it slowly to the gravy, and, lastly,
the Juice of half a lomon. Arrange th
chicken on a hot dish, pour over ths)
gravy, lay the mushrooms In clustert
around and garnish with sprigs of
parsley.
Canned Strawberries.
To every pound of berries allow one
half pound of sugar. Put the berrlea
in a porcelain-lined kettle, cover them
with the sugar and lot stand one or two
hours; then add oue-fourth teaspoonful
of powdered alum to each quart of
fruit. Stand over a moderate fire and
bring to the boiling point. Skim and
can in air-tight cans. Heat the Jar
before filling them, and stand away In
warm place over night; in the morning
give the toiis another turn and put
away in a cool, dark closet
Preserved Cherries.
Take the stones out of the cherries,
a,nd to every pound of fruit allow three
quarters of a pound of sugar. Strew
about one-third of the sugar over tht
cherries aud let them stand all night
Set them over a slow fire with the sugar
nnd Juice that has run out and bring
them to the boiling point Take them
out and put them Into Jars. Boll the
syrup until it is thick, aud pour it over
them. Put them iu air-tight Jars.
Pineapple Sherbet.
Pound a pineapple till smooth; add
to it half a plut of water, quarter of a
pound of granulated sugar, the Juice ot
a lemon, a good wiueglassful of cur
acoa; strain it and set ou Ice till nearly
solid all through. Garnish with diced
pineapple, which has been spriukled
with sugar and placed ou the ice to get
cold.
Gooseberry Ice Cream,
Stew a quart of green gooseberries)
with eight ounces of sugar and a very
little water until they are done: rub
them through a hair sieve, and mix
with a quart of whipped cream aud two
tenspoonsfuls of maraschino. Frees
the ctvnra In the ordinary way, but It
must not be too hard.
Useful Items.
Drawers that open badly should haro
the top edges rubbed with a piece ot
dry blacklead.
Onions should not be eaten after they
have lain about peeled and cut, as they
absorb any bad odors or Infectious con
dition that may exist.
Cucumber peeling should never be
thrown away where black beetles ex
ist, but should be spread about neat
their haunts, as they eat and die.
The leaves of tbe buy tree make ex
cellent flavoring for rice puddings and
cornflour blancmanges. They are also
used with many savory dishes, are good
in stewed eels, cutlets, stewed veal,
sautes, etc.
To remove wine stains from linen
put the stnltied parts In boiling milk and
let the stains soak in it. If soaking
onc does not remove them boll more
milk and put the stains Into It a second
or third time. The pan Into which the
milk should be poured boiling, 'ovoi
the stains, should first be heated.