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use the best of headlight oil. If the
wick is soaked in vinegar, then dried
thoroughly before it is put into the
lamp, it is not likely to ever smoke.
When you wish to clean the Ilues and
founts, chimneys, etc., wash them in a
suds made of one teaspoonful of pear
line to a pint of hot water and rinse
and wipe dry in soft towels, and polish
lastly with newspapers. Such a lamp
will give a cheerful, brilliant light and
will attract all the family to its light
S. H. H., in Farmer's Wife.
Homely Wrinkles.
Work up the old dry pieces of bread
Into bread -puddings, soups or cream
toast.
. A child's thimble makes an admir
able kVove-darner when that conven
ient little article is misplaced.
There is usually, "just one thing"
that a woman's wardrobe lacks, and if
it Isn't that it is something else.
A pancake turner is very useful in
taking cookies from the board before
baking and lifting from the pan after
ward. Now Is the time to do much of the
sewing for next summer. Choose the
light colors to work on evenings and
thus spare your eyes.
It Is estimated that the world's sup
ply of coal will give out about A. I).
2000. Then electricity will have to
serve for heat, light and fuel.
Keep your most restful chair in
the kitchen. It is lots cheaper to sit
than stand while waiting for some
thing to cook or getting the vegetables
ready for dinner.
The Household Physician.
Pneumonia has become so prevalent
- that in the United, States it claims
more victims than tuberculosis.
Dangerous burns have been caused
by using benzine 4n the presence of
much heat. Always keep away from a
lighted lamp or a fire with this liquid.
N Ordinary slippery-elm bark is put up
in tablet form and is quite useful. It
will often allay an irritating cough,
and at all events is a cheap and harmless-
remedy.
Carron-oil, which Is much used for
burns, is made of lime water ,an;l
sweet-oil, equal parts. If ten drops
of carbolic acid be added to each
ounce of the mixture so much the bet
ter. Most of the sure, home cures for al
coholism, the morphine habit, etc.,
contain either the drug they are ad
vertised to supplant or something
equally injurious. The exercise of
the "will is very necessary in accom
plishing the cure of any habit.
It is said that the fumes of burning
camphor gum will relieve a cold in
the head. Place a piece of the gum in
a saucer; crush- into granules. Appply
the match and after burning a moment
extinguish the flame. The fumes may
then be inhaled.
In washing a sore, never let the
dirty water run back into the wash
bowl. Either apply with a bulb or
fountain syringe, or dip pieces of ab
sorbent cotton Into 'the water, rub
over the wound or sore, then throw
aw,ay each piece as fast as used. I
much prefer using a syringe.
Sometimes bottle-fed Infants are
thin, worrisome and show evidences
of poor nourishment. Fivo or ten
drops -of Bovinine, or extract of red
bone marrow, added to each feeding
will often be of great benefit. I have
seen a number of cases where the
greatest improvement has taken place
by adopting the above.
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The New Postmaster General.
. The New -York World is engaged In
making revelations concerning the po
litical career of Henry C. Payne, the
new postmaster general. The World
presents a portrait of Henry C. Payne
as he appears to the people of his own
state, Wisconsin, and to his own town,
Milwaukee.
Concerning Mr. Payne the World
says: "He is in extremely bad odor
there as a politician of the Quay stripe
a lobbyist, a corruptionist, an agent
of corporations in franchise and tax
manipulations, a wrecker of his party
when the intelligent rank and file rog?
against his flagrantly corrupt abuse of
the party's name and power. He has
been to Wisconsin what Matt Quay has
been to Pennsylvania; ho has been to
Milwaukee what Richard Croker has"
been to New York city.
"In addition to these titles to local
and state fame, Mr. Payne has two
titles to national prominence first, as
a handler of the Hanna 'boodle funds'
in 1896, and second, as one of the re
ceivers of the Northern Pacific whom
Brayton Ives charged in court with
scandalous official misconduct and who
resigned while the charges were pend
ing. And this politico-commercial ma
nipulator, against whom Wisconsin
republicans are in revolt and to whom
President McKinley refused the post
master generalship because of his
'strong' records, and in spite of his
'party services,' is now to enter the
cabinet and to enter it by invitation
of Theodore Roosevelt and to be at
the head of the postofilce department.
If Mr. Roosevelt had appointed Quay
or Addicks it would not have been
more scandalous, In gloomier contrast
with his professions and with his repu
tation, or more depressing- to his ad
mirers in all sections and in both par
ties." The World then proceeds to ask
whether Mr. Roosevelt, now that ho
knows Payne's record, will not with
draw the nomination. According to
the World, Payne may help him to
keep the machine, "but what about Mr.
Roosevelt's chief , asset the confidence
of the people?"
It must be admitted that if the pbr:
trait of Mr. Payne drawn by the World
is a correct one, Mr. Payne has no
business in . the cabinet, and if Mr.
Roosevelt adheres to his old-time no
tions, the nomination will be with
drawn. Omaha World-Herald.
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Egbert Watson Smith; published, by
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North, New York.
T.e Aristocracy of Wealth, treating
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Imperialism, Despotism and the Decay
of American Freedom, by Dr. M. W.
Nesmith; published by the author.
Negotiable Instruments and Prin
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Origin of Commercial Paper, Bills of
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Law of Guaranty and Suretyship, with
Statutory Modifications of them which
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Carrel; published by Daily Telegraph,
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