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It was a very dark night when llabd
bullah arrived with his nine camels at
the lonely Zhob Levy post on the road
to Dera Ismail Khan Though a na
tive of the regions round about he with
true Mohammedan recklessness turned
to sleep leaving his beasts unsaddled
to forage during the rest of the night
Small wonder tihat at dawn the loss of
the whole nine was reported at the
nearest post The loss was promptly
attributed to cattle lifters as a band
ot Waziris had been rumored to have
come from the Mahsud tribe during the
last few days Saddle and ride was
the order of the day Bakshan Khan
slipped his medicine phial into his pock
et Wazir Khan put a chlllum and some
tobacco into his holster instead of his
ration pocket Gurdit Sinh put a twist
ed cloth containing opium into his tur
ban The English officer crammed half
a dozen chupatties and a flask of whis
ky into his pockets In twenty minutes
fifteen armed men were galloping to the
place whence the animals had been
lifted
Bakshan Khans trackers had been
before them and had run the trail
across the river and into the hills on
the other side Every indication was
that the party had gone off toward
Wano in a bee line across the hills and
-with probably ten hours start In that
awful country and with the slow and
malignant camel peculiar to those
parts they -were probably a dozen
miles ahead To follow that trail among
that mass of torrents all twisting like
wounded snakes and in as many direc
tions as imagination could devise seem
ed at first an absolutely impossible
task But to the men following it every
nullah was as well known as London
streets to a cockney Not for nothing
had they hunted the wild goat and
sheep and chikor day after day in those
fastnesses Only two routes were pos
sible One was an easy one with sandy
going up a nullah and then across a
shallow neck through a kind of down
country with rocks for grass into an
other nullah and so down among an
interminable wash of ravines to the
Gumal and Waziristan The other was
a stiff but not steep climb by the way
of the lowest hills into t wide plain
crossed by ravines and then by an
intricate system of nullahs to the con-
fluenee of the Toi and Gumal and so to
Wano Ait the end of tiwo hours ride
up the latter route chosen because it
was the shortest in distance a sure
indication was found
Turning a tall ragged knee of precip
itous rock a man was seen making off
up the mountain side He bore a hand
some jezail across his shoulders and
was dressed as if on a journey far from
home At the shouts of the party he
turned and unslung his jezail but a
shot fired bj a sowar induced him to
ground arms and then at a second hail
from Wazir Khan he came down to
the party He was instantly seized and
disarmed On inquiry he was found to
beayoung Mahsud who gave the name
of Mazduri till nn application of stir
rup leather to his legs revealed an alias
of Bakhtawar This being accepted
as probable he was further questioned
His replies were evasive to say the
least During the conversation four or
five sowars had gone ahead and found
on the soft wet side of a trickle of
waiter a plain mark of a camels foot
This damned the prisoner
He was decorated as to his neck
-with a collar of tough picketing rope
theslackend was made fast to a sowars
saddle and he was bidden run or hang
A sword point at his back ended all
his hesitation He ran and nimbly
too while the pursuers followed at a
brisk trot winding up the sandy bell
of the nullah A collection of camels
dung hastily thrown into a small cran
ny in the rocks close to the site of a
sheepfold removed all doubts The
prisoner ran on for nearly a mile more
before he -tripped and fell cutting his
left knee and arm badly As he did so
a shot fired from a rock on the moun
tain side about 400 yards ahead scat
tered sand and flint among the horses
legs It -was now quite certain that the
rear guard of the camel lifters had
been caught and a hard gallop to head
off the firere resulted in his capture
within half an hour He was not
wounded but very tired
A rapid council of war was held while
the horses drank at the water and
cropped a Httle of the sour -herbage at
Its edge When all are of much the
-same mind there is little need of words
nd so in half an hours time the pur
suers now ten in number saddled and
mounted and were off at a canter
While crossing the rough and stony
downjlike country a horse fell and -was
badly hurt This necessitated the
sending back of the injured horse and
three other sowars whose horses
unlikely to last out the stern chase
-which as all knew was bound to be a
long one This delay of ten minutes
was not such a great loss after all For
bardly had the pursuers started again
than the keen eyes of Bakshan Khan
saw a camel standing against the sky
line on tSie top of a mountain about a
mile ahead as the crow flies As he
jcalled attention to4t another camel ap
jpeared and then a man Against the
rclear sky they looked gigantic The
camels semed the most weird and dia
bolical creatures seen out of a dream
-while the man appeared at least ten
feet high and of gigantic dimensions A
-truly uncanny sight In a moment more
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The point at which they appeared
showed that -they had changed their
route a little and that by a daring dash
across a difficult and little used sheep
track the pursuers could drop into the
plain of the ravines before or at the
same time as the Waziris The ques
tion was whether the horses could sur
vive that awful scramble and gallop
afterward But blood was up and
without d word they all tried for it
To get up to the top of the neck was
not very difficult but the descent
Pacilis descendus Averni Bu t this was
far otherwise A yawning precipice of
about 200 feet deep on the bridle hand
and a path consisting entirely of bowl
ders which goats might jump or a man
scramble over on the very brink was
almost too much for the horses These
gallant creatures had far weaker nerves
than their riders and though each man
dismounted and led his liorse walking
in front with the bridle reins behind his
back the agony of fear made them
sweat as the galloping had yet failed
to do It was painful to see the fear
distended nostrils the glaring eyes and
the tremble of every muscle in their
hard knit frames
The clash of the hoofs and the omin
ous slide as -the hard iron hilt the unre
lenting bowlder made both man and
horse thrill with absolute terror It
was simply awful Nothing but the
lust of blood when man hunts man
the greatest and most exciting hunt of
all could have steeled the hearts of
the pursuers Nothing but the blind
trust in company which drives the
war horse into the deadly charge the
hideous companionship of perfect fear
could have enabled the horses to suc
ceed in this awful enterprise Their
groans sent a cold shudder down the
spines of the men Tears started to
Bakshan Khans eyes at the agony of
his beloved mare He vented his feel
ings in curses and so did his white
brother The passage did not last
twenty minutes It might have been
twenty hours
All reached the plain in safety But
the horses were spent with terror The
camels were seen not -half a mile head
making for the la vines as fast as blows
could urge them The Englishman pull
ed out his flask and pouring a few
drops on his handkerchief wiped the
horses nostrils Then he mounted
Bakshan Khan breathed into his mares
nostrils and Gurdit Singh mounted
and spurred Wazir Khan calling
aloud on Allan mounted too At first
a trot feeble and uncertain then as
they felt good firm ground a gallop
The -horses regained courage with pace
The camels neared the ravines as the
pursuers raced hard for them In that
supreme moment there was nobbing
known of race or creed or color The
Biluch Sikh Pathan and Englishman
each swearing indiscriminately at each
other raced for blood
Another 300 yards A camels lead
ing rope breaks and the jaded brute
stands still A yell of joy from the pur
suers A couple of shots from the
Waziris Bakshan Kthan pulls up and
is off his mare like a streak of light
ning A shot from his rifle hits the
man who is striving to drive the camel
on The rest sweep on with a yell
Another 200 yards to cross They have
them No
They reach the brink of the first
ravine to find nothing In a way in
conceivable except to an actual be
holder there remains only a solitary
camel and a dying man bleeding from
a bullet wound in the back of the neck
The rest are as clean gone as if the
earth had swallowed them up
It is hopeless to search those endless
ravines The horses were quite done
up Eight hours hard going across
that dreadful country at an average of
five miles an hour make it far more
desirable to make for home as quickly
as possible So they loaded the dead
Mashud on the camel and after rest
ing a couple of hours began to wend
their weary way home by the easiest
ways known The horses found water
and grass about nightfall and the sev
en weary and hungry men forgot all
differences of race and religion in con
sidering their safety and relief in that
dangerous desert Each man put his
provisions out on a flat rock and then
under cover of the dark each went
alone and took his share The Mussul
man drank from the English flask the
Sikh ate the Mussulmans chupatties
the Englishman took and smoked a pill
of the blessed opium Surely God sent
that drug for mans solace in Ms hour
of utmost need
It was nearly noon next day when
the pursuers returned to the post After
taking six hours dead sleep it was
time to attend to business Habibullah
had recognized his camel and also the
dead man as a man he had met on the
road near Mir All Khel who had said
he was a coolie on the road The great
question now was how to get the re
maining eight camels back At the
instigation of Bakshan Khan the fol
lowing device was adopted A rope
was hung from one of the -bag beams
supporting the roof of the gate and
Bakhtawar mounted on a ghi box was
placed with the noose around his neck
In this position be was told before his
fellow prisoner that unless the camels
return safe and sound before the third
sun his corpse would be burned on the
dunghills below the post The other
youth was then stripped to a garment
doing duty for a shirt soundly flogged
and then hunted out of the post de-
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fenseless It had previously been as
cenfcained that the two were cousins
and that Bakhtawar was the son of a
man having some influence The dead
mans corpse was not to be burned un
less the camels failed to return He
was also an influential person or had
been
All that now remained was to wait
and trust that the camels would be re
stored It was a game of -grab The
young Mahsud bore himself -with a
calm indifference to bis fate He even
pretended that he was a Ghazi and as
such could not -burn One could not
but admire his courage None the
less was he carefully guarded under a
Sikh guard no Mussulman being allow
ed to approach him for the faith oi
Islam is as the faith of Freemasons
and the oath of the Sikh is as strong as
the sword that baptizes him
On the afternoon of the day that was
to end Bakhtawars life an old man
came into the post He was Bakhta
wars father Gray broken toothed
scars on his face and arms from count
less fights he looked like a grim old
boar To morrow at sundown said
he you shall see eight camels come
in If not hang and burn me with my
only son After this he said no word
Respite was perforce granted and the
English officer went to bed wondering
how he was to get out of the scrape
If the game of brag failed whaft was
he to do An hour before dawn the
hand of the Afridi jemadar was laid
on his face and the voice said Let
go the wild goats for I go out hunting
and will not return till I bring the
horns
I am not afraid was the reply grj
not till the second darwn and the
jemadar retired as softly as he came
It was late afternoon and the sun all
but touched the western mountain crest
when they took the old man and bis
son put nooses on their necks and their
feet on the boxes with a horse harness
ed to each rope Lower and lowei
sank the sun Half the disc had gone
when a camel turned the corner of the
rocky road below the post Just as
the sun set eight camels stoood inside
the posit with two stout grinning Mah
suds in charge
The men so suddenly released from
death evinced no feelings of any sort
The only sign of relief they gave was a
ready acquiescence in the confiscation
of their arms and the handcuffing of
all four Mahsuds till next day when
they were escorted across the river and
set free In the evening the jemadar
returned from shooting He said I
shot two wild goats but they were
without horns and Sahib wants horns
What can I show And he laughed
a satanic laugh So did Bakshan Khan
Pall Mall Gazette
SHE STAMPED HIS OFFER
An English Breach ofPromise Case
Hangs Upon a Postage Stanip
Miss Jane Ashton of Hollingwood
near Manchester -has discovered an
entirely novel use for penny postage
stamps
Courted by Mr Samuel Scholes a
farmer of that part and growing wear
ied of -her lovers proscrastinaiting hab
its Miss Ashton determined at last to
bring matters to an issue She was
moved thereto by more than one con
sideration It was not merely the
farmers persistent neglect to name the
wedding day pleading the cotton Strike
agricultural depression and other in
sufficient excuses it was the fact that
after ten years of this sort of shilly
shallying Mr Scholes had begun to pay
marked attention to another lady
Moreover Miss Ashtons dilatory suitor
had attained -to the age of 60 and Miss
Ashton was herself getting on that
way
So Miss Ashton informed him in de
cided terms that he must make up his
mind
I will do anything in reason said
the farmer
Then let us have it in writing said
the lady
Thereupon Miss Ashton wrote on
a sheet of paper Will you marry
me if I keep company with you and
the farmer being thus cornered ap
pended the words I will but added
the insidious proviso I will df I ever
marry
Naturally Miss Ashton saw -in this
act need for extra caution She knew
her man and therefore pulled out a
penny postage stamp stuck it firmly
on the document wrote across it tlhe
date and put it in her pocket Then it
was that Mr Scholes impressed by this
legal formality begged piteously to
have the fatal paper stamp and ail
handed over for him He -would give
a sovereign for it he staid and when
the lady asked him Are you going
to get married or are you net he wild
ly gasped out the words Whether or
not I want tihee to set me free
The closing scene of the little drama
was enacted at the Manchester assizes
where Miss Ashton appeared as plain
tiff in a breach of promise action The
postage stamp may have lacked the
sovereign virtues that Miss Ashton had
attributed to it this little object which
had caused Mr Scholes teeth to dhattei
with fear may have been a mere bug
bear but the jury looked to the facts ol
the case and gave the lady a verdict
though with what seems to be the rath
er paltry sum of 75 damages London
News
-Her Brag the Biggest
Dr M W Stryker President of Ham
ilton College told this story the other
day in an address before the New York
Hardware Club The braggart spirit
anywhere is absurd Some little school
girls it is chronicled of Chicago were
discussing their clothes Ive got a
lovely new dress said one and 1 am
going to wear it to church next Sun
day Tooh said another Ive a new1
hat and Im going to wear it every
day Well said a third Ive got
heart disease anyway
In forming a bad habit remember
that it will be very hard to quit
TOPICS FOE FARKEES
A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS
flow to Care for Timothy Hay Pro
longing the Fruit Season by Cold
Storage Hardiness of Winter Wheat
Nests for Setting Hens
Timothy Hay
I prefer a cut in the afternoon when
it is free from all external moisture
turn it just before noon the next day
and at 1 oclock turn a second time
and in half an hour start the teams to
taking it in I learned by a losing ex
perience that it is necessary to have
ventilation under the door of a hay bay
I built a hay barn five or six years ago
and laid a floor on mud sills only a
few inches above the ground and
found nearly a ton of musty hay in the
bottom of a bay 24x14 in size I then
raised my mud sills and placed them
on stones so as to allow a space of a
foot under them and my hay has kept
well ever since I do not use sills at all
In a hay barn but stand the posts on
the foundation and spike a 2x8 joist to
them to hold them in place and then
place timbers on stone to support the
floor joists so that the weight of the
ray rests on the ground and not on the
frame of the barn For our own use we
prefer mixed hay clover and timothy
and the mammoth clover is best as it
ripens with the timothy but not over
two pounds of seed to the acre should
be sown or the timothy is likely to- be
smothered out entirely the next season
Another advantage of this thin seeding
is that the timothy keeps the clover
from falling down and helps it to cure
better I have never found mammoth
clover satisfactory for hay when sown
by itself but with timothy it largely
increases the yield of hay and cures
out so as to be eaten by all stock as well
as the medium clover W F Brown in
Ohio Farmer
Cold Storage for Apples
Anent the recent progress in the mat
ter qf prolonging the season of fruits
by means of cold storage Prof Craig
of the experiment farm at Ottawa Can
ada thinks that the time may soon
come when winter apples may not be
a necessity as fall apples can be kept
in perfect condition until the next sum
mer This is entirely practicable but
as winter apples are quite as easily
grown as summer or autumn apples
there seems no need of dispensing
with either At the Columbian exposi
tion in the New YorK fruit exhibit
there were shown at the opening of the
exhibition and for some weeks after
perfect specimens of the sweet bough
sour bough fallpippin pound sweet and
others and they would have kept in the
summer or fall without having been
thus stored In other words contrary
to the generally accepted idea the cold
storage in no way impaired their keep
ing qualities It would certainly be
very pleasant to be able to have a sup
ply of primate Chenango strawberry
Gravenstein and fall pippin through the
winter The problem to solve is to
make central cold storage plants in
fruit growing neighborhoods where
business enough can be secured to
make them profitable operated by the
ammonia process Ice methods will
not answer To fill the modern demand
they must be able to freeze fresh meats
fish and poultry in one room while
keeping fruit at 30 degrees Fahrenheit
in another Orange Judd Farmer
Hardiness of Winter Wheat
Winter wheat is a much hardier grain
than is commonly supposed If it were
not it could not endure the changes
which in our climate ordinary winter
weather always involves With regard
to flooding we found many years ago
that Avheat can be entirely covered by
water for a day or two In spring with
out injury provided the water was run
ning and there was an outlet below
for it to escape through An oat or
barley crop in similar circumstances
is much Avorse injured than is wheat
often turning yellow and sometimes
entirely rotting down while the wheat
plant went through the ordeal uninjur
ed It is possible that the tenderness
of the spring grain is due to its sudden
and rapid growth while the wheat
leaves have been inured to hardiness
by exposure to cold weather all the
winter But however hardy wheat may
be against injury from a running
stream or where an underdrain be
neath will carry off the water neither
it nor any other
can long live
where its roots are surrounded by stag
nant water
Nests for Sitting Hens
The nest for a hen that is to sit and
hatch a brood of chicks should be on
the ground wherever that is possible
With a little management on the part
of the poulterer this
cau usually be ac
complished The advantages of the
nest on the ground are that the mois
ture arising from the soil prevents the
eggs from drying up and destroying
the gerin of the young chick by exclud
ing air The egg shell is porous but if
there is no moisture the warmth from
the hen hardens the membrane inside
before the chick is able to break
through it In such case the chick dies
and the egg is addled Every farmer
has noticed that hens which steal their
nests in summer usually come off
with full broods The only dis
advantage of nests on the ground
for setting hens is that they may be dis
turbed by rats skunks or other vermin
But if such vermin abound it is quite
likely that they will take more or less
of the chicks and it is better to have
the nest rifled when it contains only
eggs than to lose all after the chicks
have hatched
Treatment for Hojr Cholera
There are a great many so called rem
edies for the so called hog cholera and
I havo tried many of them with vary-
Ing results The one that has proved
the most successful with me and under
my observation is this
First separate the well from the sick
ones removing the well ones and put
ting them in other pens or fields as far
removed as practical from the diseased
ones Disinfect the old and new quar
ters with a strong solution of carbolic
acid and at the same time sprinkle
around the feeding places and pens
slaked lime Whitewash the pens and
fences with ordinary whitewash in
which put crude carbolic acid in the
proportion of a pint of the crude to an
ordinary bucketful of the wash Be
fore removing the well animals sprin
kle them with a solution of crude car
bolic acid and water in the proportion
of a Dint of the acid to a irallon of
water
Give internally especially during the
period of fever tincture of aconite ten
to twenty drops in milk according to
the size of the animal and the violence
of the disease Keep the sick in dry
and comfortable quarters and if an
animal seems stupid or its bowels are
not working right fifteen to twen
ty drops of turpentine in castor oil
twice a day until the conditions change
Give no solid food to uny of the affect
ed milk is best but if not at hand or
in sufficient quantities make a warm
gruel of cornmeal ana allow the sick to
drink of it in small quantities and
often Put hyposulphate of soda in all
water used by the animals for drinking
in the proportion of an ounce to a gal
lon of water Care to prevent changes
of condition and preventing the ani
mals from taking cold is one of the im
portant things Sick animals should
not be exposed to storms or sudden
changes of the weather Disinfect ev
ery day as above indicated If instruc
tions are followed strictly SO per cent
of the afflicted can be saved Shen
in Breeders Gazette
Old Apple Trees in Maine
Some of the old apple trees that se
cured hard tough barks before the
borer became numerous are still living
and productive So long as new or
chards are put out the borer attacks
the young trees and leaves them alone
The secretary of the Maine Board of
Agriculture mentions an apple tree in
York Me which was brought over
from England in a tub and planted
more than 200 years ago It was still
bearing in 1S70 Another apple tree
near Wiscasset bay was an old tree in
1S05 and it continues to bear fruit un
til now
Farm Notes
Early potatoes for family use can be
started in hotbeds and then set out in
the open ground It enables them to
gain two or three weeks growth
It is claimed that the wild goose
plum in order to bear fruit must have
the aid of pollen from some source oth
er than its own as it is incaoable of
fertilizing its pistil
It is claimed that there is less wheat
in the world than is required for con
sumption even with prices much below
those obtained a decade past Wheat
however can be produced for much
less in cost owing to improved machin
ery and implements
Wide tires on wagons not only lessen
the draft on the horses but prevent
cutting up of the roads to a certain ex
tent They also assist in hardening
and packing the roads after the frost
is gone and can be used on land
where narrow tires are impracticable
For the potato beetles it is not neces
sary to use Paris green very liberally
as the smallest quantity taken by tlie
beetle is fatal A mixture of one pound
of Paris green with one hundred
pounds of land plaster is an excellent
application but the two substances
must be intimately mixed
Now that the frost is making the
roads soft the farmers will find it prof
itable to compare the amount of taxes
paid with the loss of time on the roads
With mud up to the hubs of the wheels
to say nothing of the cleaning of vehi
cles good roads should find advocates
on every farm without regard to their
cost
By crossing we often procure large
well developed chickens which often
surpass in size and development either
of their pure bred parents Of course
for breeding purposes these chickens
are worthless but they were not bred
for that end they develop meat and
eggs and if they do this work they an
swer the ends of their being
It very rarely pays to buy different
kinds of chemicals to mix together- un
less it can be done on a large scale A
little makes more bother than the profit
will be from using the fertilizers I ius
mixed But as stable manure is often
deficient in mineral plant food it will
pay to buy phosphate and potash to
mix with it The mineral fertilizer
thus used is much more effective than
if applied alone
Canned apples sell rapidly and every
year the demand increases so much as
to somewhat lessen the demand for
evaporated apples The wastes from
the evaporators are said to be used lor
making cheap jellies In England tur
nips are used as the base of such jel
lies and flavored with strawberry
raspberry etc The canned apples are
largely being used instead permitting
of the utilization of early summer and
fall apples that cannot be kept over
winter as well as placing on the mar
ket a wholesome article of diet
Every farmer should economize but
it is not economical to omit that which
is necessary to the production of large
crops It may compel a large outlay
to procure fertilizers for special crops
b t it will not be economical to endeav
or to succeed without them If the land
will not yield largely without their aid
they must be procured or the farm
will be operated at a loss It may be
a misfortune for a farmer to be com
pelled tomakethe expenditure but low
prices and competition must be met by
compelling the soil to do its best in pro
duction
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Care of Floors and Furniture
Miss Parloa emphasizes the need of
method and thoroughness even in so
3imple a thing as sweeping a room All
ornaments and furniture should be re
moved or carefully covered and even
the pictures should be protected Open
the windows wide sweep the carpet
with a soft light broom always with
the nap Bran or bits of dampened
paper are better to gather the dust than
tea leaves or salt either of which is
apt to make discolorations The walls
should be brushed with downward
strokes the broom being covered with
soft flannel Rugs should be beaten
face down with a rattan and not shak
en Brush the carpet lightly a second
time and then go over it with a flannel
cloth wrung out in tepid water to
which a little household ammonia has
been added
Water should not be used on a pol
ished floor except to dampen a cloth
the least bit while soap said the lec
turer need not be taken out of the
kitchen One pound of wax and a pint
of turpentine make an excellent polish
for furniture For pianos or such highly-polished
surfaces use rotten stone
and parafline oil but powdered pumice
stone and water will answer for other
furniture unless there should be deep
scratches when Avater must not be put
near it A piece of felt is generally
msed for this but old haircloth is even
better Oxalic acid will remove dark
spots The natural colors may be
brought back where the wood is
chipped by a careful use of burnt sien
na burnt umber Bismarck brown yel
low ochre or whatever shade is re
quired Take a piece of cheese cloth
rolled into a hard ball wet it in thin
shellac and dust with the color desired
Rub lightly until the surface takes on
its natural gloss If a stickiness re
mains rub on a little alcohol
Coffee Charlotte
For coffee charlotte make a quarter
of a cup of strong coffee by using two
heaping tablespoonfuls of ground cof
fee to half a cup of boiling water Soak
half a package of gelatine in half a cup
of cold water two hours Tut half a
cup of milk over the fire in a double
boiler with the quarter of a cup of cof
fee to heat Beat light the yolks of
four eggs and add to them one cup of
sugar stir until very light and when
the milk is at boiling point draw the
dish to one side of the range and grad
ually stir in the egg mixture Cook
until it just begins to thicken stirring
all the while quickly add the soaked
gelatine and take from the fire imme
diately Stand the dish containing the
mixture in a pan of ice water and beat
until it begins to set then stir in lightly
three quarts of whipped cream and stir
from the bottom of the dish until it will
just pour Turn the mixture into the
prepared mold
Potatoes Souffle
Wash and bake three large potatoes
Cut in halves lengthwise and without
breaking the skin scoop out the pota
toes into a hot bowl Mash and add
one even tablespoonful of butter one
of hot milk and salt and pepper to
taste Beat the whites of two eggs
stiff and mix with the potato Fill the
skins with the mixture heaping it light
ly on the top Brown slightly in tha
oven and serve
To Renovate Old Lace
To renovate old black lace dissolve
one teaspoonf ul of borax in half acup
of rain water and add one tablespoon
ful of spirits of wine Soak the lace in
this pressing it several times and rinse
in a cup of hot water in which a black
kid glove has been boiled Pull out the
edge of the lace until it is almost dry
and lay it between newspapers put a
weight on it and let it remain two days
Bengral Omelet-
Six eggs one tablespoonful of Span
ish onion chopped fine one tablespoon
ful of chopped parsley Beat the eggs
until thoroughly mixed add the onion
and parsley and make the same as
plain omelet dust with salt and pepper
then serve
Hints
Scrape kettles with a shell
Steam an old fowl before roasting it
To freshen salt fish soak them in sour
milk
Dont use your carpet broom for any
other purpose
Fight sewer gas with chloride of lime
of copperas
Remember that sulphur dissolves in
dia rubber
A pinch of soda on a hot stove drives
away disagreeable odors
Hot water and hay is the right mix
ture for sweetening iron and wooden
ware
Steel knives wont rust if you dip
them in strong soda water the wipo
them dry and roll in flannel
Two teaspoonfuls of salt in half a
pint of tepid water is an emetic always
on hand and is an antidote for poison
ing from nitrate of silver
To remove pitch and tar stains rub
lard on the stain and let it stand for a
few hours Sponge with spirits of tur
pentine until the stain is removed If
the color of the fabric be changed
sponge it with chloroform and the color
will be restored
To sleep in a poorly ventilated room
is to invite headache and depression
Warmth during sleep should be ob
tained from blankets not from closed
windows The window
should be open
about three inches at the top and an
inch or two at the bottom
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