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THE GHOST UPON THE STAIR.
She paaseth midway on the stair;
Her step is like a breath.
Pleasant was her wandering
Adown the slopes of death.
And pleasant was her journeying
Across the dim divide.
O'er bridges which the day threw out,
Unto the eventide.
She is no spirit dark and dread,
No soul of peace denied:
Within her calm eyes shine the light
Of groat love satisfied.
And yet, white-robed and innocent,
At eve she loves to stray
Unto the path she trod in youth:
The dear, familiar way.
For all unbroken are the ties
That bound her tender licart:
Her soul still guards what it held dear,
Though silent and apirt.
And so she waiteth white and still,
Yet fair so passing fair:
Content for evermore to be,
A wraith upon the stair.
American Cultivator.
. A FAMILY DINNER.
I was dining at a woll-known res
taurant the other .ening when Smith,
came in.
"Hello!" he cried in his breezy
manner. "Do you eat in this place?"
"Sometimes," I replied. "Why
not? It's the best place 1 know."
"Is it? Then I'm sorry for you,"
said Smith, as ho dropped into a
chair and gave a hurried order to the
waiter.
"Why! What is the matter with
the place?" I asked in real astonish
ment "Oh, nothing particular, any moro
than with any other place. They're
all alike. If by any miracle they get
anything lit to eat, they spoil it in
tho cooking. I suppose they
wash their pots and pans occa
sionally in a half-way decent place
like this, but yet, for some reason or
other, everything you get in any,
given restaurant has somo composite
and indescribablo ilavor peculiar to
the placo a sort of trade mark, a6 it
were.
"Tell you what, old man; come up
and dine with us to-morrow. No
scenteen-course affair, all fuss and
feathors and nothing to eat, you know,
but just a plain family dinner. You
must have forgotten what one tastes
like. And I eun promiso you more
fun than you'd got at any show in
town. I believe in having things
lively at tho table. It is a good deal
bettor than norvo tonics and pep&in
and it doosn't cost a cent. What!
Going? Hero comes my dinner, and I
shall have to cat it alone in this hor
rible place. You wouldn't seo me
here except that I've got an engage
ment in Brooklyn to-night and didn't
havo time to go home. Well, so long,
Don't fail me to-morrow at 6:80
sharp."
There is no use in trying to decline
Smith's invitations or combat his
statements, as I knew from long ex
perience, wherefore I allowed myself
to bo taken captive, and on the fol
lowing evening at G:30 sharp deliverod
myself, as per order, at his house.
Mrs. Smith, a nervous littlo woman
whom I had met onco or twice before,
welcomed me and said that Mr. Smith
had not yet come home, but she sup
posed he would como soon; but yet
she wasn't sure, ho was often kept so
late by business, and then they lived
so Jar up town and the cars wero so
often delayed, and if there is one
point in the city further from the
elevated than the house sho believed
it was the office, and besides tho
elevated wasn't very much better,
anyway, and it was a shame tho way
the taxpayers were imposed on, hav
ing their streets torn up and their
houses filled with dust and yet
packed into crowded cars and
'couldn't get home till midnight, and
if she were a man sho would try to
do something, and she often talked to
Charles like this, but he only laughed
at her. It occurred to me that
Charles must have a sunnier dispo
sition, even, than I had given him
credit for.
It is my impression that she touched
on a few other points, but I may be
mistaken. Perhaps she merely en
larged upon these, for Smith only
kept us waiting half an hour, and
part of that time was taken up by a
discussion between 14-year-old Tom
and 12-year-old Blancho concerning
the right and title to certain books,
and a dissertation on cough syrups by
Mrs. Smith's unmarried sister, who
was much addicted to indulgence in
those seductive beverages.
Tho time was so fully occupied
that I was greatly surprised when
Smith entered like a breath of fresh
air and said it was 7 o'clock. I
thought it was 10.
Ho brought a friend with him.
"Bob White. Why, Brown, you
surely remember old Bob White.
Used to bo with Chappit & Snider
when we were youngsters ever so
many years ago."
And with this summary introduc
tion we sat down to dinner.
"Sorry I'm so late," said Smith,
"but one of those everlasting talkers
came in just as I was starting and
kept me half an hour. I can't see,
for my part, how a man can be so in
love with the sound of his own voice.
"It was just that nothing else in
the world. He knew I didn't care a rap
about what ho was saying, and that
he was boring me half to death. Yet
he kept on a full head of steam, and
I had to put on tho throttle myself.
Told him I always got a lecture for
being late at dinner. Put it all on
you, my dear, Ha! ha! Now I can
talk myself, although hello! this
soup's cofd, and I swallowed nearly
all of mine beforo I noticed it. It's
enough to give a fellow a chilL
What's the matter with tho cook,
anyway?"
"But, Charles," suggested Mrs.
Smith, deprecatingly,
late, you know, and"-
you were so
"Oh, all my fault, of course. But I
don't see why a man should be com
pelled to eat frozen victuals if he is
late. That cook doesn't know her
business. I'll discharge her next
week. Never mind, let's try tho fish.
"Well, as I was saying, I can talk
myself if it's necessary, though I'm
not much of a talker. But. I gener
ally have something to say when I do
talk, and I have some consideration
for other people now what are you
youngsters fighting about?" -
"Tom has hidden all the books
that Uncle John brought us, and
won't even let me read one, and I
know Uncle John"
"That's right, baby," interrupts
Tom. with fine scorn, "cry about it.
I wouldn't be such a tell-talo for"
"Here! here!" roared Smith, "no
wrangling at the table. I don't care
whose books thej- are, but the first
one I hear another word out of
I'll"
ne didn't say what he would-do,
but he brought his fist down on the
table so that the fish
jumped up and
in the Arabian
turned over, as those
Nights did at the genii's bidding.
Then there was an eloquent silence,
only broken by whimpers from
Blanche, for nearly fifteen seconds.
"The best children man ever had,"
Smith then remarked, aside to White
and me. "But they will have their
little squabbles now and then. I
tion't suppose they would be healthy
without them. Speaking of children
reminds mebut never mind. Til
tell you that some other time.- Little
pitchers you know" v
He was interrupted by tho appear
ance of a big piece of roast beef,
which he attacked with a great flour
ish of knife and fork and the remark:
"Aha! Brown, old boy, I'll show
you some beef that isn't quite as
'fair1 as that you had yesterday. I
only hope that confdunded cook
hasn't spoiled it"
At this point I became aware ot
the voice of the unmarried sistef,
which was raised soveral octaves
above its usual pitch of F in alt,
saying:
"No, Nellie, I don't believe it, and
you can't make me believe it if you
talk all night, so you may as well
stop."
"There, there, Mary," said the un
fortunate Mrs. Smith, "I only meant
wYoii only moant 'to beat nio out of
my opinion, that's all. Bub you can't
do it if you talk till doomsday, and I
don't want to hear any more about
it."
"You introduced the subject your
self," retorted Mrs. Smith, very un
wisely, it seemed to me, though I
suppose the poor woman couldn't
help it
"Yob, of course! Everything is a
Bubject with you, a subject to argue
and wrangle over for hours. I can't
say a Word about anything but you
snap me Up, and contradict and try
to beat me out of my opinion, and get
insulting and personal, as you did
just now.'"
"Why, 1 am sure, Mary," Mrs.
Smith began.
But she was interrupted, and the
attention of all was divertod, by a
little remark from Smith.
Considering the justico of tho re
mark and the number of times it has
been made by other persons, it was
strange that it produced such a pro
found impression.
All he said was:
"Damn that cook!"
"Charles!" exclaimed Mrs. Smith
and her sister, simultaneously.
"Wouldn't it do to burn her at tho
steak?" suggested White.
I smiled gratefully upon him.
I thought'he was justified by tho
circumstances.
"If you aro going to bo profane,
Charles," said the unmarried sister,
icily, "I shall lcavo tho table."
Smith clutched his carving knife
and glared at her. But he got him
self in hand, after an effort, and
merely said:
"Don't bo an idiot, Mary."
"Isn't it enough to make a saint
swear?" he continued, turning to us.
"There's as fine a pieco of beef as J
ever saw, simply ruined by tho btu
pidity of the cook."
"Do you prefer it burned or raw,
Brown?" That's the only choice I
can offer you."
Well, we got through dinner at last
and adjourned to tho parlor, where
Tom and Blanche recommenced their
discussion and the unmarried sister
again fell foul of tho unhappy Mrs.
Smith, while Smith talked politics to
White and mo. But as we were very
careful not to contradict him, he
tired of the sport in a little while,
and asked Blanche to play "that
littlo thing I like so much" on the
piano.
This was the last straw. I looked
at White and ho looked at mo.
"I am afraid I must go," said
White. "I have a very particular
engagement."
"By Jove!" I exclaimed, "I am on
gaged, too. The time has passed so
pleasantly that I had forgotten all
about it. I must bo off at once."
As we left the house White said:
"Well, what's your engagement?
Mino is with a cocktail and tho farce
comedy at tho Gaiety. I need a
bracer. Will you join ine?'
"Xo," I said. "A stiff doso of
bromide will suit my case better.
And then I think I will go to tho
Rev. Dr. Knapp's lecture. Repose is
what I want."
I failed to appear at tho office next
day, and suffered a good deal with
dyspepsia and palpitation of the
heart for a week.
At the end of that timo I met
Smith.
"Hello!" he exclaimed. "You look
seedy. I tell you what, old man, the
life you lead is killing you. If you
tako my advice you'll got married
and make a homo for yourself, just
as soon as you can.
"Meanwhile, look up a rospectable
boarding house, or dine and spend
the evenings with frionds as often as
possible.
"I can sympathize with yon, my
boy. Used to be in the same boat
myself, you know.
"You're welcome to my house just
as often as you choose to come. Wish
1 could keep you there for a while,
but I suppose that's out of the ques
tion. You would bo another man in
a month."
"No," said I, "I don't think I
should. Tho fact is, I don't believe
in tho transmigration of souls."
Then I made a flying leap for a
Broadway car and left Smith scratch
ing his head.
He said to White afterward:
"That man Brown sets up for a
wit, but I can't see anything in his
brilliant remarks. And I think I'm
as good a judge of that sort of thing
as the next man. "
And I dare say ho is. Now York
World.
The rigerm'a or St. Mark's.
Nothing is more amusing than to
watch, on a winter's day, the marvel
lous intelligence with which tho
pigeons of St Mark's, in Venice,
can discriminate between residents
and visitors in the grand square of
that city, the Piazza of St. Mark.
The moment a foreigner shows his
face in the Piazza tho pigeons set
upon him in clouds, hoping to be fed.
They do not trouble the natives, who
may be sunning themselves by the
hundreds in the square. More
curious still, they do not trouble the
ragged men and boys strolling about
the Piazza with bags of grain, which
they sell to visitors to feed the
pigeons. They,, however, keep their
eyes on these persons, andas soon as
they see one of them approaching a
visitor they hasten to him in clouds,
and surrounding the visitor add their
supplications to that of the seller, as
if saying "Yes, do buy tho grain;
buy it for us; do buy it"
There Are Sereral Such. Persona.
"It will cost you fifteen cents just
thesame,"are the reported words of a
New York druggist when he was told
that the use of his telephone was de
sired in a case of Hie or death. Of
course the fifteen cents was paid.
Too Good for a Hoy.
Johnnie Say, Tommie, do you ever
get licked by tho-teacher.
Tommiewith pride No. I don't.
Johnnie, with contempt Aw, you
must be a girl.
THE THERMOMETER.
from 88 Decree Below la Siberia to 130
Above la the Ctfloradd Desert
The ldwest mean temperaidre that
occurs anywhere, or at any season on
the globe, occurs in January at Wor
kojansk, in Northeastern Siberia.
Here the mean for the first month in
the year is 61.2 degrees bolow. For
the same period the temporature is
forty degrees bolow over tho region
situated a littlo. north of the mbg
hetld 016. At We::kojarisk the ther
mometer has registered over eighty
eight degrees below zero. Going to
tho other extreme ihe Nautical Mag.
azino rinds that the atmosphere of
Colorado river desert has shown a
maximum of 120 degrees, and this
will give a seasonal variation over
tho land of Upward 01 200 degrees
Fahrenheit, against less than one
third of that range over tho water cf
the Atlantic. Tho comparative con
stancy of the oceanic temperatures
moderates the climatological condi
tions of approximate land masses
very considerably and tho disparity
between summer's heat and winter's
cold is still less marked when tho
seaboard is swept by warm ocean cur
rents. The mean annual tempera
ture of tho British islands is quite
twenty degroos higher than it
would be did its temperature de
pond Upon tho latitude alono. This
is. of dourso, owing to tho influonco of
the gulf stream, which is calculated to
poUr into the North Atlantic some
thirty-eight cubic miles of warm
water per hour. Tho heating effect
of this current upon the atmosphcro
of the North Atlantic is best seen by
comparing tho position of isothor
mal lines with tho same temperature
lines id tho South Atlantic. Thus,
ill tho month of January, tho isotherm
of thirty-four degrees run-? in almost
a straight lino from Boston to Ice
land and from Iceland across, to tho
Norwegian coast At its most
northorly limit it just impinges
uppn the arctic circle. Thus tho
mean temperature of thirty-five do
grees is found in tho coldest month
at a distanco of sixty-six and one
half degrees north of tho equator. In
the South Atlantic during the month
of July, tho midwinter month, is
otherm of thirty-five degrees is prac
tically identical with tho fiftyth par
allel of latitude. Contrasting the
temperature for tho midsummer
months, it will bo seen tnat while in
tho South Atlantic tho isotherm of
fifty dogrces, has a mean latitude of
forty-live degrees, the same isotherm
in tho North Atlantic passes over
tho middle of Iceland, and from there
runs in a straight lino to tho North
Capo of Norway in latitude seventy
two degrees.
.rA BRIDE'S PRESENTS.
Some of the Gifts of a 110O Girl on Her
Wedding D.ty.
Giovanna dci Medici, tho bride, re
ceived from hor different relations
no fewer than twenty rings and six
more from the bridegroom two when
he fetched hor, two for the espousals
and two on the morning they ex
changed rings. From Bernardo fcho
received 10) florins and somo othoi
coin, with which she made hortelf
two handsome dresses, one of white,
velvet, richly trimmed with pca'-ls,
silk and gold, with ojien sleet cs lined
with pure white fur; one of zotani, a
stuff of very thick silk, trimmed with
pearls. and tho sleeves lined with
ermine, says Blackwood's magazine.
She has also a gown of whito
damask, brocaded with gold flowers,
the sleeves trimmed with pearls; an
other silk with crimson, gold and
brocaded sleeves, besides other
dresses and overdresses so-called
giornee. Among tho jewels given
her was a rich necklet of diamonds,
rubies and pearls, which was worth
100,000 gold florins, a pin for her
hair, a necklace of pearls with a largo
pointed diamond, a hood embroid
ered with pearls, and a net for her
hair, also worked with pearls.
Tho dowry, which to-day would
seem modest, was (50,000 francs, in
cluding the trousseau, in which was
included a pair of chests, with richly
worked edges, and several long
dresses of different shapes for every
day wear, made of fino stuffs em
broidered, also a lawn hhift fashioned
out of material that camo from
Rhcims, a hood of crimson cloth
wrought with pearls, two caps with
silver, pearls and diamonds, a little
illuminated "missal with silver clasps,
and n infant Jesus in wax wearing
a damask dress trimmed with pearls.
Bosidcs this there was cloth in tho
piece, satins, velvets and damasks,
embroidered cushions, belts, purses,
thimbles, needle-cases, ivory combs,
etc.
Gen. O. O. Howard and the Ileggar.
When General O. O. Howard was
in Chattanooga a beggar, with a
withered arm, from which thefingors
and part of the hand woro missing,
camo up to him and asked for alms.
The general, with a twinkle in his
eye, held out his empty sleeve and
said: "You aro better off than I am,
for you have your arm left; while I
havo lost mine." The cripple gazed
at the empty sleeve for a moment and
then extraetod fifteen cents from the
pocket of his tattered jeans trousers.
"Here," he said, turning to General
Howard; "this is all 1'vo got, but
you'ro wolcomc to it." Thoro wa a
general laugh at tho expense of tho
distinguished commander of the de
partment of the East, and ho made
the man happy by giving him a sil
ver dollar. Argonaut.
Truth I.es ricaInsr Than Fiction.
An English traveler had a quarrel
.vith the mate of a Mississippi btcam
boat, and the case came into court.
The counsel for the plaintiff, in his
opening address to tho jury, thus
stated his cause of action: "The firot
officer of the Bella Richards addressed
my client in most violent and per
emptory terms, and threatened him
that if ho did not immediately re
move his personal effects from the
entrance-way of the steamer ho would
immediately precipitate him into tho
raging flood below." The cvidenco
of the by-standers as to the mate's
words was as follows: "Look here,
stranger, if you don't tote your plun
der off that gang-plank right smart,
I'll spill you into tho drink!" Argo
naut Nothing to Feed On.
"Cholly is down with bwain fevah,
don'tchcrknow?"
"You don't say! Bwain fevah.
That's a fevah that aw takes ton
days to wun."
"Ya'as, but in Cholly's case tho
doctah says it will take aw only
two hours, and he will be all wight
to-mowwow."
X.ipoleon and the Silver Statne.
When Napoleon overran Italy his
attention was called to a number of
silver statues of the apostles which
had decorated an ecclesiastical insti
tution for centuries. "Take them
down," said the great conqueror,
and coin them into currency, that
they may go about doing good, as did
their master,"
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
9&AKE0 CORN THE BEST FEED
FOR' VoUngT PICS.
Shorts and Oil Meal Part or the Ration
The Hay Crop Doable Crops
Poultry and Bees, House
hold Helps. "
Feed for l'onng T1r&
id the absence df milk, wo feed
(Soaked corn to yodng1 pigs between
the ages of two tb six weeks, almost
without stint, and I find at thisago
tho pig will, stand 'more corn in pro
portion to his size than when a few
wcoks older that is, if his dam is
being well fed on milk producing
food. When they aro from four to
Bix weeks .Old tho dam should bo milk
ing her very best, and this is why
soaked corn can be fed at this timo
without injury to tho'pigs. They aro
getting sufficient milk from tho dam
to neutralize corn that would othor
wiso bo injurious from its lack of
bone and muscle-making material.
When the dam's milk bogins to fail,
or perhaps I ought to say, when tho
assimilativo capacity of tho pigs has
increased beyond the power of
tho dam to supply it, which is
Usually at about six weeks of
ago, wo do not continue increasing
the amoUnt of soaked corn feed in
the same ratio, but begin feeding
slops made of good shorts and oil
meal, in the proportion of one part
of oil meal to four parts shorts. Wo
find by soaking them together bo
tween feeds that tho pigs do much
better than if fed en the slop as soon
as it is mixed. No one will claim
that soaking adds anything to tho
feed, but soaking six or eight hours
dissolves the shorts and makes them
easier of assimilation. With shorts,
oil meal and soaked corn, good pigs
can Lo raised without milk other
than that supplied by the dam. I
havo observed that many farmers
loso interest at onco as soon as oil
meal is mentioned as good for any
kind of stock; they regard it as
something beyond their reach, when
the facts are that in combination
with other feeds, and when its bon
eficial effect on the system is con
sidered, it is usually ono
of tho chcapcot foods within
our reach. As a preventive of harsh
haired, hide-bound pigs, it has no
equal. Last summer wo found one
bunch of thirty pigs at ten weeks old
consuming two pails of shorts, one
half pail of oil meal, and a pail of
soaked corn at each feed, fed three
times a day. The shorts and oil
meal being well mixed before water
was added, and while the above may
seem like heavy feeding, I observed
the pigs were doing some heavy
growing. About this timo the bunch
was divided into two lots of fifteen
each, and a quick rise in their de
mand for increased feed was noticed,
showing that thirty was too large a
number to feed together to obtain
tho best results. An adjoining bunch
of thirty of tho samo age and practic
ally tho same as far as breeding was
concerned were fed and treated exact
ly tho same, except that the shorts
and oil meal were fed as soon as
mixed. We found thtit while they
would cat as much corn as
the other lot, they con
sumed about one-third less
of the oil meal and shorts, and were
not showing nearly as good results
as tho first lot. At eleven weeks we
concluded tho experiment was grow
ing too costly to continue farther;
but tho first lot held what they had
gained, and while individuals of the
second lot caught up with thom, their
comparative general average re
mained about the same until fall. As
good or even better results can be
obtained by soaking corn as can lc
had by grinding. All the advantage
of grinding is that it makes the food
more easily penetrated by the juices
of the stomach, allowing the work of
assimilation to begin at once. Soak
ing the corn gets at tho same result
with more effect if tho corn meal is
fed without being soaked. Corn
meal soaked may bo better than
whole corn soaked, out not enough
better to pay for grinding. George
Wylie, before Wisconsin Institute.
Double t'rojiH.
Why not raise two crops to
gether? Farmers, witli but little ex
tra trouble, can raise two or moro
crops upon the same piece of land by
selecting varioties that, will not mix
or draw tho same substance from the
soil, and in this way not retard the
growth of the main crop, but greatly
lessen the expense of producing it.
Squashes, beets, dwarf peas will
thrive finely with potatoes, while
beans, pumpkins, tomatoes and turn
ips do well with corn. Melons,
pumpkins and squash sjiould never be
planted together no more than sweet
corn and common field corn, for one
willspartake of tho other and lessen
the valuo of each.
Thus from a single acre a full crop
of corn may be obtained, besides five
or six bushels of beans, many loads
of pumpkins and turnips, and all the
tomatoes a dozon families could use.
From the potato field a full supply of
boots, squashes and peas aro received,
without incurring extra expense or
adding Jmt littlo if any labor to the
cultivating of tho main crop. It is
that where land is heavily cropped
an extra amount of manure is needed
to keep up the fertility of the samo;
hi;?, every farmer knows that the
n.Wi-c an acre can be made to produce
by manuring, the greater the profit
is to the owner. Farmers Voice.
The Hay Crop.
A good crop of hay may be made
even more profitable than a grain
crop.
First, for the reason that it enables
the farmer to reduce the area of cul
tivated land and thus give him the
opportunity to give better care and
culture to grain crops.
Second, it will give a chance to im
prove the fertility of the soil; as it
is known that all grass crops allow
tho soil to increase in fertility.
Third, if tho right varieties of
grasses including tho clovers are
used the fertility will be largely in
creased. Fourth, if this is the proper course
pursued to get a good stand if tho
ground is literally covered with a
growth of grass the yield will be
moro than doubled as comparod with
yields now obtained and the increase
in fertility will bo still greater. Any
good soil properly preparea and
sown to grass of the right varieties,
is capable of producing four tons to
the acre and oven more; and if clover
is mado the main grass two crops
each season may be taken, each of
which may be made to yield about
four tons. This means doing tho
work right from beginning to end.
Only about one-half the labor is
required for the grass crop as com
pared with that of the grain crop;
and if good stock is kept and the hay
fed out to them even at the low
prices of cattle there will be a
greater profit than from a grain crop.
Let us have more grass, more fertil
ity of soil, moro good beef, moro
leisure and more profit Thero is
too much hoggishnoss to tho neglect
of beef and mutton, which are far less
unhealthy. Hogs do not improve tho
fertility of tho soil as much as do
cattle. . But if tho hay is sold off tho.
farm thoro will still bo a greater
profit rcalizod than from grain crops;
but this means that the grass crop
shall bo proporly treated so that
large yields will be had while the
soil is Increasing in fertility.
Hay generally commands a good
price and is capable, with improved
macninory, of boing handled at littlo
cost of labor as compared with othor
crops. Hay and grain, more live
stock, less labor, moro leisure and
greater profit and comfort Journal
of Agriculture.
Perfect ltuUer at One Operation.
If a littlo skill is doveloped in
makirig, washing, salting, working
and packing butter at ono operation,
tho results aro quito satisfactory.
John Gould describos his process as
follows:
"Taking slightly acid cream, put it
in a revolving churn, and churn it
until it begins to show signs of break
ing, when a little weak brino should
bo added to the cream to assist in
tho separation. When tho butter
grains arc the size of small shot, and
before taking out any buttermilk, add
rtwo-thirds as much cold water as
there is butter, eta, in tho churn.
Agitato a little, draw off this dilute
fluid and repeat until the water comes
clear. Then let it di'ain in.a churn
for a short time, and then add tho
salt by the use of a littlo wooden fork.
Let the butter remain undisturbed
for a half hour, when tho cover is
put on and the churn slowly revolved
for five or more minutes. Then tako
this fork and break up tho buttor
balls that have formed in tho churn,
and liberate the buttermilk insido of
them. Then re-churn and at the
conclusion of this operation, pack tho
butter into tho littlo- pails by adding
a pound or so at a time, turning off
tho moisture each time, until the pail
is full. Then cover the top with a
cloth wet in somo of the brino that
came from tho churn, and sprinklo
on dry salt, and put on cover; and if
the buttor cannot be sold that day
put it in as cool a place as possible,
and sell at tho first opportunity, not
that it must be, but the great damage
to the buttor market is in tho pro
ducers holding their butter for some
reason, until it has lost its fin
flavor." Journal of Agriculture.
Hurrying Crop In.
Americans arc too much in a hurry
to le the lest farmers, unless they
constantly guard against our national
habit of slighting work to get it done
in tho easiest and quickest way.
The plowing is not done as it ought
to be, thinking that the after culti
vating will remedy this defect. But
threatening weather causes the far
mer to hurry his seed into tho
ground. Then he thinks if it is a
hoed crop that he will "make up" for
neglect by being more thorough in
cultivation and hoeing, but he never
is. The poor praparation of the seed
bed makes it longer before the crop
comes up so he can sec the rows.
Ground not fitted o as to give the
crop the most vigorous start cannot
make a crop either cheaply or to the
capacity of the land to produce.
American Cultivator.
Poultry and IIec.
Wire netting makes a good tem
porary fence for poultry yards.
Size and condition arc of moro im
portance than shape and color.
There is always a good market for
clean, fresh og-is at fair prices.
When tho turkey hen has a free
run she will select her nest out
Thero is no excuse for any farmer
not raising poultry for home use.
Sudden showers often cause con
siderable loss early in tho spring.
A littlo raw salt pork will often
cure a hen of feather pulling, it is
said.
Ducks for market should be
hatched early and then fed well until
sold.
Nature provides the honey, the
bees gather and store it, and man
uses it.
Ducks need dry, clean quarters at
night or they get lame with rheu
matism. A German journal says to intro
duce a new queen, dip the queen in
liquid honey and drop her among the
bees.
A patch of oats or somo other kind
of grain sown where the chickens can
help themselves will be of inestim
able value.
The poultry house should have a
window, and the sun allowed to shine
in. Keep the floor covered with
clean, dry dirt.
A bee-keeper thinks that catnip
will repay cultivation for honey
alone. It continues in blossom a long
time, and the bees work on it assidu
ously. Household Helps.
In packing gowns they will be
found to crease very little if paper is
placed between the folds.
A sponge large enough to expand
and fill tho chimney after having
been squeezed in, tied to a slender
stick is the best thing with which to
clean a lamp chimney.
Corn meal is one of the best cos
motics known. Keep a jar on the
washstand and rub a handful well
into the skin after washing with
warm wator; wipe it off, dust out
your eyebrows, and then see how
satiny your face feels.
A simplo way to remove greaso
spots from wall paper, caused by the
head resting against the wall, is to
hold a piece of clean blotting paper
over the spot and press a moderately
warm flat iron over it Repeat the
operation until all the grease is out
In making wash dresses for children
it will be well to make the skirts
plain and hem them, and then run a
tuck by hand on the under side of
the hem. This can be let out before
tho dress is washed, and will offset
the inevitable shrink of somo kinds
of goods.
A small scrubbing brush is a very
valuable article about the sink for
scrubbing tho skins of beets and po
tatoes and other vegctablo roots.
Where a root is not peeled, it is nec
essary to scrub it well with a brush
in order to get it clean, and where
it is peeled, it is much better to
scrub it before it is peeled than to
wash it by merely soaking it in cold
water.
Beef dripping, which is useful in
place of lard in many instances,
should be clarified. This is readily
done by pouring boiling water over
it and stirring it so that the impuri
ties will be washed out and will set
tle on the bottom. Let it cool and
tho drippings will riso to the top. If
not as clear as you would like heat it
in a clean saucepan and strain
through a piece of cloth.
Danger la Oil Stoves.
The consumate folly of people who
fancy that they can heat a room with
gas stoTes, or with new-fangled "car
bonite" fuel, without providing a way
for the deadly products of combustion
to escape into the air, says a New York
paper, has received a fresh illustration
in a New Jersey town, where two
guests were suffocated almost to death
in s room in which they were quar
tered in company with one of these
newly patented devices for heating
rooms without any chimney or draught
It ought to be known by everybody and
everywhere, that the combustion of any
sort of fuel natural or artificial, solid,
liquid or gaseous, produces dangerous
gases, noxious to health, and, in large
quantities, perilous to life. It was once
the fashion to use a pan of charcoal,
ignited, as a means of suicide. These
new fuels, employed in stoves without
stovepipe orchirnney.are almost as sure
to kill as the old method. Exchange.
Saved by Sunshine.
I think the superb health of my fam
ily is to a great extent due to the habit
we have of almost living in sunshine.
Every bright day all of the shutters are
open, and the entire house gets the
benefit of sunlight It drives away
dampness mould, microbes and blue
devils, and puts us all in good humor
and health. I cannot imagine good
sanitary conditions and darkness. Even
my cellar is as light as I can possibly
make it, and whatever fruit and delica
cies need to be shut away from light
I put in alose cupboards of covered box
es. I have sheets of canvas that can be
thrown over them before they aro put
away, and alwaj-a take pains so to ar
range my stores that nothing will be
injured by an abundance of light. Peo
ple who live in badly-lighted apart
ments have little color and less health.
I for one do not intend to spend my days
in an atmosphere of gloom. New York
Ledger.
The great question is not how long are we
going to live, but how.
There is no easy placo anywhere on earth
for a lazy man.
Do You Wish
the Finest Bread
and Cake?
It is conceded that the Royal Baking Powder is
the purest and strongest of all the baking powders.
The purest baking powder makes the finest, sweet
est, most delicious food. The strongest baking pow
der makes the lightest food
That baking powder V .lich is t 3th jurest and
strongest makes the most digestibr , anc' wholesome
food.
Why should not every housekeeper avail herself
of the baking powder which will give her the best
food with the least trouble? -
Avoid all baking powders sold with a gift
or prize, or at a lower price than the Royal,
as they invariably contain alum, lime or sul
phuric acid, and render the food unwholesome.
Certain protection from alum baking powders can
be had by declining to accept any substitute for the
Royal, which is absolutely pure.
Cracked Ice.
People who take cracked ice get the
stimulus of ice upon the nerves of the
mouth and tongue, and not the Hooding
by water of the feeble throat andhtom
ai h. Did not one ingenious nurse,at
the time a matron in the University
hospital, some years ago, feed a pa
tient who revolted at the mere thought
of food, and was starving in his ex
haustion, by deftly sprinkling pounded
ie over the bits of broiled chicken that
she had prepared to tempt his taste? It
was the noveltj- and sprinkling ice that
carried the day. The man tasted, en
joyed and ate it all. The uses of cracked
ice in cholera casesarc familiar to some.
It is possible that with hot-water bags
at the feet, hot mush poultices on the
stomach and a constant diet of cracked
ice no further treatment may be needed
to complete a cure. Philadelphia Led
ger. I Core Constipation anil Dygpepvia.
pr. Shoop's Kestorativo Nerve Pills sent free
with Jiedical Book to prove merit, for 2cstanp.
Druggists.ef-c Dk. Snoop, Box "'.,Kacine Wis.
Electric Hallways for Delaware.
A corporation asks at the hands of
the Delaware legislature a charter cm
powering the company to net the little
state with electric railways and to light
the villages along the line. The com
pany hopes also to include the Mary
land counties of the pcnninsula in p.
comprehensive railway scheme. This
latter plan would involve a good deal
of bringing, as the whole eastern shore
region i honey-combed with navigable
tidewater streams, and villages live
miles apart on air line arc often fifteen
miles apart by road.
State or Onto, Citt of Toucdo, )
Lucas Cocstt, I
Frank J. Cheket makes oath that he Is
the senior partner of the linn of F. J. Cheset
fc Co., doing bu-lnrss in the city of Toledo,
County ami State aforcald, and that said linn
will p.iy the gum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of IIaix'3
Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this Oih day of December, A. D. 1SS0.
SEALV
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Xnlnrv lhlblie.
TTnll'n Catarrh Cnrn is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonial?,
free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
f3TSold by Druggists, 75c.
There is as much love in a warning as
there is in a promise.
Soldiers in tho Italian army are allowed
cigars as part of thoir daily rations.
Moro people aro killed by fulling down
stairs than from tho tops of high cliffs.
DOyT BE FOOLED
by the dealer wno
bring3 out some
thing else, that
pays him better,
and says that it is
"just" as good."
Doctor Pierce's
Golden 3Ietlical
Discovery is guar
anteed. If it don't
benefit or cure, in
ovo rase. YOU
have your money back. !N o other medi-
cine ot its Kinu is so certain u c....
that it can be sold so. Is any other
likely to be "just as good"?
As a blood-cleanser, flesh-builder, and
Etrcneth-reatorer, nothing can equal the
"Discovert-." It's not like the sarsapa
rillas, or ordinary "spring medicines."
At all seasons, and in all cases it puri
fies, invigorates, and builds up the whole
svstera. For every blood-taint and
disorder, from a common blotch or erup
tion, to the worst scrofula, it is a perfect,
permanent, guaranteed remedy.
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Th Nertfc Pel aad
Are aot mora widely distinct than the staaa
ara tonic, stimulant and alteratlt. Bests
ttr's Stomach Bitters, asd the cheap aat trey
local bitters which unscrupulous vendors feist
upon the unwary as medicated preparations
with remedial properties. The latter are usu
ally composed In the main of halt reetlOea al
coholic excitants, with soae wretoaea aras
oomhiaed to alsfulee taslrreel flavor aad are
girfectly rulnou te the coats of the stomaoa.
ostetter's Stomach Bitters, oa tto oeatrarr
has for iu basis choice spirit of absolute
purity, and this is modified and combined irita
ssedletnal extracts of rare exceUeaee and be
taalo origin, which both invigorate aad regulate
the bowels, stomach aad liver. They effect a
radical channe In the disordered physical
economy, which Is manifested by a speedy lsa
provement la the general health.
Why Not Hire a Man?
He Deah me, the days ought to have
been made longer; don't you think?
Se I don't know. .
. He Why, certainly they ought, yon
know. How can a fellah dwess four
times in twenty-four hours and havo
time left to accomplish anything!
Life.
"Wno siteks with his liver, constipation,
bilious ills, poor blood or dizziness tako
Beecham's rills. Of druggists. S3 cents.
The farmer in Japan who has ten acres of
land is looked upou as a monopolist
The World's Fair Favorite Hotel. (
Tho fireproof BANCROFT HOTEL. Calu
met Av. and 29th St.. Chicago, 244 largo
rooms, is tho place for you to stop. Bates
one dollar, meals 50 cents. Near World's
Fair grounds. AYrite for circular to reservo
rooms.
The first trial of woman suffrage, curi
ously enough, was on tho Islo of Man.
'Hanson's Manic Corn Salve."
Wan mntatt to curr, or money refuuilwt. Alt: ysr
drugg tfurlt. rrlca 25 cento.
Doing good is a better occupation than
digging gold.
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SeadtoDr. J$n.l. renst-.m a ) a I
Before great victories can be enjoyed,
great battles must be fought.
If the Baby U Cattta Teeth.
Be tar and us that old and wall tried remedy, M -Wkslow's
Sooi:c Starr for Children Teething.
No man is good who
simply because he has to.
behaves himself
Jo Populist Press and People.
I take pleasure In announcing
that I have made arrangements on
behalf of the National Reform Press
Association, whereby plates and
ready-prints containing Populist
matter officially approved and rec
ommended by the National Reform
Press Association and Chairman
Taubeneck, In any quantity desired,
will be furnished by
The Western Newspaper Union.
Write to the Western Newspaper
Union for Samples and prices. No
other house furnishes authorized
matter. W. S. MORGAN, Sec. Na
tional Reform Press Association.
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Pise's Remedy for Catarrh la tho
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