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CONTENT A PLEASURE. -
There are no ills but wbat we make
By Riving shapes and names to things;
Which is the dangerous mistake
That causes all our sufferings.
O fruitful grief, the world’* disease*
And vainer man, to make it so,
Who gives his miseries increase,
By cultivating his own woe!
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Wo call that sickness which is health,
That persecution which is grace,
That poverty which Is true wealth,
And that dishonor which is praise.
Alas! our time is here so short,
That in what so e’er ’is spent,
Of joy or woe, doos not impart,
Provided It be innocent.
But we may make it pleasant, too.
If We will take our measures right,
And not what heaven has done undo
By an unruly appetite.
The world is full of beaten roads,
But yet so slippery withal,
That where one walks secure ’ts odds
A hundred and a hundred fall.
Untrodden paths are then the best,
Where the frequented are unsure;
And he comes soonest to his rest
Whose journey has been most secure.
It is content alone that makes
Our pilgrimage a pleasure here;
And who buys sorrow cheapest takes
Au ill commodity too dear.
—Charles Cotton.
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
THE STORY OF A TELEPHONE.
Persons represented: Miss Eyphen-Smitb,
Mr. Paget.
Scene: A drawing-room in Miss Smith’s
house, near New York. In the room, on a
stand against the wall, is a telephone.
<ai r*
LSS S. (putting
down her book
f«o 0°'j and glancing at
c clock). “Nearly
3, and he said
I/e that at 3 o’clock
% % he would tele¬
>: phone to me from
V New York. What
m m can to he me? want I—I to
say
think—I am near¬
ly sure it must be a proposal. He has
been so attentive of late. I am sure
no one can be leas vain than I am, but
there has been a look in his eye, a
tone in his voice, that is quite unmis¬
takable. (Looks fondly at telephone.)
What a comfort it is to have a tele¬
phone in one’s house! I really don’t
know how I ever existed without it.
If a visitor drops in unexpectedly to
dinner, and I want a nice little dish
of cutlets, I ring up the butcher. If
I feel a little low, and only a fried sole
can tempt my failing appetite, I ring
up the fishmonger. The grocer, the
butcher, the egg merchant, the livery
stables—they are all on the telephone.
(VJiock strikes.) Ah, there’s the bell!
(Rushes to telephone and speaks.) “Yes,
are you there? Is that vou, Captain
Vavasour? Yes; are you there?”
no one there, and yet I hear some one
speaking in the distance, a faint buzz-
ing like a bee in a bottle. (Rings off
and glances at clock.) Just three. It
was the clock striking, and I thought
it was the telephone bell. (Sits—ring
at the bell—she jumps up.) There it
is again ! Oh, no; it’s the door bell
this time (goes to window), and there’s
Mr. Paget coming in—provoking! 1
should have said. “Not at home;” too
late now,and he must come in here; I
can’t leave the telephone ! Not that I
don’t like Mr. Paget; I like him very
much. I might have preferred him to
Captain Vavasour; but I havo never
seen any tendency in Lira to propose
tome. Dear me, it’s very awkward
to have a visitor in the room when I’m
expecting a telephonic proposal, and
mean, to accept it, at the top of my
•j^p.Vays (Enter Mr. Paget.)
pearin{y ei y do, nervous Miss and Smith?—beg flurried).
r tn , ou
1 rom S, Hvpheu-Smith. Er—er
louenKtreq-isn’t it?”
Mis 3 S. (shaking hands with effu-
sion). “So glad to see you; here is
your favorite chair. Let me put your
bat down in its accustomed corner.”
Mr. P. (aside). “She is really a
most charming woman. I wonder if
she’ll be surprised when I ask her to
marry me* It’s a little difficult to lead
up to, but I like to get these awkward
things over quick.” (Aloud, ner-
vous.) “Alieui—my dear Miss Smith
wha^ le “t-—Smith—I—” (Telephonebell
rushes to it.) “Confound
it that? what’s doing?”
iss S. (at telephone). “l T es are
* there? What? Is that Captain
—— Mr. who? 1 can’t hear; speak
louder. What? what? Six gross of
„ we o don’t keep screws. Who do
vou ^ want? No, I’m forty-six.”
Mr P “Impossible!”
MissS- “What? what? Well, an-
ther time when vou want sixty-four
don’t ring up forty-six.” (Rings off
in disgust and sits down.)
Mr. P. “My dear Miss Smith, may
I ask what that instrument of torture
- g *Miss an( i -why * you are shouting at it?”
S. “Why, havo you never
“Ver shall again.” (Aloud.) “I don’t
Z ire tor "fashioned these new-fangled things; I’m
o fellow. Don’t you
11 Hn 1 it a confounded nuisanee?”
Mies S. “No, indeed! It’s the
Ses ,rrp*test comfort I possess.” (Clock
’ she jUmns up, then sitsA
P. “Don’t vou find it a little
ris. a Bad for the nerves, eh?”
8 “Not * in the least; most
r ^Ir j^i P" w
(nervous). “Mv dear Miss
c/th Hvohen-Smith—you—you will
besurprised u nmrised tonea to hear what brought « me
bC Miss°S. " (absently, looking at tele-
phone]. i ni "Cab IsapDOse.”
^ r ««Yrm will be surprised to
*
hear- • >
Miss S. (absently). “Oh, not at
all.”
Mr. P. “Eh? I had no idea yon
had guessed my secret.”
MissS. “Secret? what secret? Oh,
I beg yonr pardon, I didn’t quite
catch what you were saying. I —I was
listening for the telephone.”
Mr. P. (aside). “Confound the
telephone.”
Miss S. (aside, glancing anxiously
at clock). “He said about three, and
now it’s nearly twenty minutes past;
surely he must ring me up soon.’l
Mr. P. “Well, as I was going to say
when the telephone interrupted me,
you will hardly have guessed why I
came here to-day.”
MissS. (archly). “Wasn’t it to see
me?”
Mr. P. “It was, my dear Miss Smith,
and—”
Miss S. (lauching). “And to hear
the telephone?”
Mr. P. “Apparently. But as I was
going to say, it was to tell you—to—
to—” (telephone bell rings. Miss S.
rushes to it). “Curse the bell!”
MissS. (at telephone). “Yes; are
you there? What? is that you? Cap¬
tain Vavasour? What? Fish? what
fish? I said salmon. What? Yes,
salmon cutlets. What? No, I didn’t!
I never said sausages! sausages in July !
What? I can’t hear. Salmon cutlets
—S-a-l-m-o-n. Do you hear? Next
time you take my orders, please send
someone who isn’t deaf! (RiDgs off
and sits down, fuming.)
Mr. P. (dryly). “You must find
that telephone a great comfort, I am
sure. No drawing room should bo
without it.”
Miss P. “I hope not, for the sake
of your nerves and yonr—visitors.”
MissS. “Oh, I am so sorry; of
course it must be very provoking for
you, but it isn’t my fault, is it? Now
sit down and begin again; you were
going to tell me something very inter-
esting, I am sure.”
Mr. P. (aside). “I’ll make one more
attempt, but if I can’t get my proposal
out before that confounded telephone
goes off again—I’ll give it up, once
and for all.” (Aloud.) “My dear
Miss Smith—Hyphen-Smith, I am a
man of few words.”
MissS. “Indeed?” (She listens
with perfunctory attention, and every
sign of impatience, her eyes on the
telephone, half starting from her
chair at every sound that can suggest
a bell.)
Mr. P. “I don’t wear my heart
upon my sleeve, I keep it in it’s right
place (aside) though it’s in my mouth
I at this moment! (Aloud.) I am, as j
said before, a man of few words -re- j
ticent, taciturn.” !
MissS. “Yes?” I
Mr. P. “Feeling a great deal, but j
never saying so—modest, retiring—|
perhaps you may think me too re-
tiring;'
MissS. “Oh, no ! not at all!’’
Mr. P. “But a man cannot change
his nature.”
MissS. “Of course not!”
Mr. P. “I am sure I have kept my
secret, that I have never given you
.
think—to __
reason to imagine—that—
sel^clear?” a word,^ that I—I do I make my-
Miss S. “ Oh, perfectly!” (Aside.)
“What is he^ talking about? Why
doesn't he go?”
^ ev en ir ^ o y e ex ~ j
pHcit.” (Telephone bell rings . faintly ;
she starts up.) “Don’t go—it was the
clock. In one word, Miss Smith, the
feeling I have for you is not friend- ;
ship. ” J
Miss S. (her eyes on the ^ telephone),
“Oh dear, I am sorry to hear that!
' v ^7 ” !
Mr. P. “It is _ more ! I ask ^ you to
m .Y—” (Bell rings loudly; she :
rushes to telephone.) ^‘Confound the
bed- That’s all over!”
Miss S. (at telephone). “Yes? ^ Are |;
Y ou there? Are you Captain—what? j
£>peak up, I can’t hear ! Four wheeler? |
^°* a Victoria. What? Got a fit? j
The horse? What? Not fit? Then ;
why do you keep a Victoria that’s not ;
fit to use!” (Rings off violently aud j
sits down.) {
Mr. P. “This _ is too bad, Miss
Smith. Let me tell you, this is too ;
much of a good joke!” (Bell rings j
again ; she rushes to the telephone.) i
MissS. (at telephone). “Yes? What? J
Still on? Ring off? W hy did you ever
rf Q g on?” (She rings off viciously.) ;
“Ah!” (She falls into a chair and fans
herself.)
Mr. P. (furiously). “Where’s my
h & t? I’m going !” i
MissS. “Going? Why?”
Mr. P. ‘‘Because I can’t stand it
any longer!
Miss S. “I ^ m sure I’ve done au ^ tne ^
standing!”
Mr. P. “Don’t ^ joke ! it’s beyond a
j°^ e - Do you know what I was going
to say to you? ’
MissS. “The telephone didn’t give
me a chance. ’ !
Mr. P. (with venom). “No, it’s lost
J ou a chance ! I was going to ask you
to marry me—to marry me, do you
hear?’
Mi=s S. (starting up with out-
stretched hands). To marry me ! Oh,
Mr. Paget!”
ssSillS Mr. P.
fool enough to domesticate a tame
telephone in her drawingroom ! Good- j
bve-I shall not call again.” (He
; takes up his hat and departs, smiling
sardonically.)
MissS. (sinking into a chair). “Oh i
dear, oh dear, I’ve lost him! Why
didn’t I guess what he wanted to say,
; but I conldu’! tbiuk of anything with
that dreadful bell always going. Oh,
; my head! I feel quite dazed! I be-
gin to think a telephone is a qualified
: blessing. (Telephone bell rings.) Ah!
this time it mast be he! (She rushes
to the telephone.) Yes? are you
there? Is that Captain Vavasour?
Yes—yes. You are very unpunc-
tual. What? can’t hear—what? she
was very unpunctual? I don’t under-
stand. I can’t speafc any loader, I’m
shouting. Yes—oh, yes! what? yea,
oh, yes! I have always felt a deep
interest in your happiness. (Aside.)
Now it’s coming.
What? What? I can’t hear you.
What do yon say? oh, yes, now I do!
What? who? Mies who did you say?
(her face falls.) No. I never met her.
Does she live in New York? what?
(she becomes vaguely alarmed.)
What? Very what? oh! I’m not a
judge of pretty girls. (Disgusted,
and more and more alarmed.) What?
what say? Ah ! glad you are in such
good spirits. Yes? yes? something to
tell me? (her face brightens.) Oh,
yes; do! Yes? yes? oh, yes What?
what? accepted you? what do you
mean? what? what? did you say marry
her? Ah! (she shrieks and drops re¬
ceiver).
I have lost both ! both! Oh, why
did I ever have that abominable tele¬
phone? (She drops, weeping storm-
iiy into chair. Curtain descends upon
her sobs.)—Frank Leslie’s Popular
Monthly.
_
Alaskan Curiosities.
Professor L. L. Dycbe, of tho Uni¬
versity of Kansas, returned from
Alaska on the City of Topeka, and left
last night by way of California for
his home. Professor Dyche went to
Cook’s Inlet especially in search of
natural history specimens. He as-
cended to the source of the Kuik River
with - an organized expedition, which
was a success although the obstacles
to be overcome were appalling. The
native boatmen stripped and with
ropes pulled the boat up the turbulent
river. Professor Dyche obtained
specimens of a new mountain sheep,
twelveammense mooseheads, caribou,
sea otter, birds and other small am-
mals. On July 17 Professor Dyche
saw eight inches of snow fall, and on
August 11 six inches fell. He saw
three smoking mountains, and experi-
enced an earthquake. Ho found large
coal ledges, but the coal was so soft
that it could be whittled with a knife,
Professor Dyche said:
“The country is one-half made. It
will be a good country when it is
finished. The glaciers are slowly
doing their work; the mountains are
smoking and the rivers are vomitting
out quantities of quicksand. It is a
new country. Let it alone, and some
day it will be a good country.”
Professor Dyche met Princess
Tom, a famous l 7 akutat Princess,
wealthy beyond all other Alaska
Indians. She has $15,000 in gold
twenties! On her right arm she wears
five bracelets, each hammered out of a
gold twenty, and on her left arm she
wears ten bracelets, each made from a
$10 gold piece. She has hundreds of
blankets, sea otter skin?, etc., and
owns a schooner and two sloops. She
is sixty-live years old and has just oo-
tained her fifth husband, a man twenty
years old for whom she paid 500
blankets. TheThlinginwomen manage
the households and hold the purse.
The relationships are traced back
through the mother’s side. It is, in
fact, almost a savage realization of
Lytton’s “Coming Race.”—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Something of a Voice.
Tbe greatest voice of which there is
any record or tradition about Congress
was possessed by George G. Symes, of
Colorado. Symes, who was a good
deal of a character, finally committed
suicide. He was an Ohioan by birth,
but served in the Union Army through
tbe war iu a Wisconsin regiment, en-
tering as a private and coming out as
a colonel. Most of hfcs life after the
war W as spent in the West in the
Rocky Mountain region. From 1874
b e made his home in Denver, Col. He
t or n 0 t e d for his great voice, Com-
pared with it the bellow of “the Bull
Q f Bas’nan” was a gentle murmur. It
wss a deep, heavy bass, x )rosee ^i a g
seemingly from cavernous depths.
Asked one day about the reputation
bis voice hacf given him, he replied:
“Well, I’ll tell you about it,” and
the words roiled out in his deepest,
heaviest bass. “You see I was out
ca mpaigntng. I was addressing a Ra¬
publican audience at Silverton. Over
at Oroville, twenty miles distant, the
Democrats were holding a meeting,
Along about nine o’clock there came
up one of the awlnl storms which oc-
cur j n that mountain country. The
w i n( t howled like a million imps. It
was especially bad at Oroville. The
people showed signs of alarm, and
acted as if they wanted to break up the
meeting and leave the hall. The
chairman, becoming anxious, rose to
assure them. ‘Ladies andgentlemen,’
he said, ‘do no be alarmed. Thera is
aRepublican meeting over at Silverton,
an q George Symes is addressing it.
tie has just come to that portion of
his soeech where he denounces the
Mills*Tariff bill, aDd the noise you
hear is the indistinct rumbling of his
voice.”’—Washington Post,
The Needs ol* Indians Few.
The Government nas shown an ex
ill!—SI
dians or more on the Yuma reserve-
tion. The economy of the Indians in
the matter of food is proverbial, and
therefore it is quite likely that 3000 of
them can feast comfortably on $2000
worth of provisions until next cron
"
time.
^ ®“‘ »»™* ----U* Pvenmally.
John Elliott’s coal mine, at New
Straitsville, Ohio, was set afire by
strikers twelve years ago and was af-
terward abandoned. It is still burn-
ing. It has been discovered that nn-
less the fire is extinguished it will
reach other mines, and will also le>
many houses drop into the faery hole,
the roof of which has been nearly
turned away.
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SETTTSG MILK.
A bulletin of tho Perdue (Ind.) ex-
periment station contains some useful
information in regard to the setting of
milk. The poorest method is consid-
ered to be the setting of it in shallow
tin pans or crocks on pantry shelves,
or in cellar, the reason being that milk
thus set is exposed to a greater air
contact, and is, therefore, more liable
to be afiected by injurious odors, by
disease transmitted through the atmos-
phere, and by heat and cold. Milk so
set often sours rapidly and in cold
weather may freeze. If it sours rap-
idly in summer curds get into the
cream and remain more or less in the
butter, forming white spots and affect-
ing the quality; or if the milk or
cream freezes an inferior grade of
butter will be made from it.
Where cream is to be secured by
setting, the best plan is to set tho
milk m round tin cans about eighteen
inches deep and eight inches in cliaine-
ter. The separation of the cream is
greatlv improved if such can is placed
m ice water or in cold spring water
to the height of the milk in the can.
Ibis keeps the milk in a uniform tern-
peratuie and enables the cream to rise
to the best advantage. This is what
is oommonlv known as the shotgun
can, which is sold by dairy supply
houses, or can be made by any tinner,
The deep cans are skimmed either
with a conical skimmer from tue sur-
face, or by means of a faucet or valve
at the bottom through which the skim
milk is drawn off. Experiments show
that the latter is much the better
method, the loss of butter fat being
only about one-half that which takes
place when the skimmmg is on the
top.
m Tin . vessels , should , be used for setting
milk. and they should be made of tin
plate of good quality, as cheap tin is
so thinly washed that it really cor-
rodes and the under metal of this gives
a ruinous flavor to the but.er if there
is any souring in the vessels at all.
SUGGESTIONS FOR TRUCK GROWERS.
The following suggestions from the
T,myis!flno Louisiana P'vnnrimoiit Experiment station iv*ion a A e <o to
the point for the farmer, trucker or
0I1 one Who tnvminc! oLnts « familv intcnsiVc warden •
Tru'b IxUivk farming means ir pans intensive high hinb
farming. Lands dedicated to truck
must be heavily fertilized, not with
commercial fertilizers only, l but with
such home-made manures will insure
large supplies of organic matter. The
m.A.. frequent incorporation of vegetable
matter by the glowing n .rnwin ( v«nd and tnrm'n.v turning nn un-
der of some legumiuous crop-prefer-
ably cow peas (clover at the North
—suuulemented bTmSrmaTwM
will in a few rears render these soils
to + v» 1 ,rvL* ^vnxxtirto-
If Jt -tabie tahlp manures mamups bensed be used, tnev they
should first be thoroughly composted
and several times piled and cut down,
in order to bring them into a most
available condition as plant food, A
compost of stable manure, cotton seed,
acid phosphate and kainit, mixed in
such proportions as will suit the crop
to be grown, will be found a very ef¬
fective fertilizer, perhaps superior to
any other mixture.
When the supply of home manures
is inadequate for the demands of your
crop, these may be supplemented by
cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and
kainit, mixed to suit the kind of vege¬
table grown.
Proper rotation must be observed in
truck growing as in general farming,
if the fertility of the soil be maintained
and maximum results desired. A
slight knowledge of botany, yea, even
offhe character of vegetables grown,
rr adopted,
Melons, encumbers and squashes be-
long to one other* family, and should Eot
succeed each Egg plants, to-
™the°r! 8 and beans and°peas another.
Always follow a crop Expressed by another of
a different family. in a
simpler manner, roots should not fol-
low roots. A tap-rooted plant will
follow well a fibrous-rooted one. Af-
ter a heavy manuring, cabbages,
onions, Irish potatoes and egg plants j
should be planted, since these require !
excessive fertility for best results. I
Follow these crops with tomatoes, I
squash, etc., aud these in turn by !
beans, peas, etc. A farmer will soon i i
have a suitable rotation of both crops
and fertilizers.
NEW POTATOES IN WINTER.
tbe e s’oU n as 1 ‘in coosid'ered W Jalv at or e ' August,
doubtless be a remarkable j
commission men here.
“If you want to inspect really new
potatoes, drop in and see us.” was the j
cousin request office which Yesterday floated into the the Wis- tele-I j
over
phone wire from a well-known com- *
mission house on lower Broadway.
Taking ^ the sender of this message ~ at :
^ the potato e(Jitor of lhis
investigate/ g rea t family jouriml He did was sent and out found to j
so,
several barrels of new potatoes of the
Early Rose variety, witn every appear-
B nce of being fresh from their native
BoiI . That they were as youthful as
they looked was soon demonstrated,
aa( j the assurance of to-commission
ninn that the visitor could have ali the
cew Marpuies he might want at the
rate of S3 per bushel rather staggered
the potato editor, who has long been
accustomed to meeting, interviewing
a nd writing up freaks in the potato
family.
There they were, a large supply of
fresh young, potatoes, tender and new
every sense, on the last day of the
year, when “old” potatoes are usually
| j found insipid to be somewhat decrepit and
from age and the general wear
since potato-digging time in the fall,
Those who had partaken of the novelty
pronounce them just as de¬
licious as any July product,
Inquiry brought out the fact that
these new potatoes are now being pro¬
duc8d by means, it is said, of some
secret process, by Frank Dalzell, an
extensive potato grower at Genesee,
Wis., where he has a farm of 160 acres.
On the farm is a large building which
do one but Dalzell himself enters, and
heie, it is said, he is producing the
early summer potato in all its glory,
He has made the Milwaukee commis-
sion firm of Thomas Sz Shaus his agents
for Wisconsin, and they positivelv
state that they are daily in receipt of
a sufficient quantity of these new pota-
toes to supply an average market for
such a vegetable novelty m midwinter.
They are also assured by the grower,
Mr. Da.zell, that by another winter
he expects to be able to supply the en-
tire Milwaukee market with the winter
grown article, ms intention being to
put genuine new potatoes on the mar-
ket here months before the Southern
growers can have any of their very
earliest potatoes ready for the North,
which is during the latter part of Feu-
ruary or in Marco First, he guaran-
tees to furnish fresh, new potatoes
dunng any and every winter month,
and to nave tuem in suflicient quanti-
ties for all by another seaeon.
It has been suggested that this . new
potato wonder is the result of the dis-
| covery of Borne process for preserving
new potatoes ,rom early summer until
midwinter, in such a manner as to keep
hem absolutely fresh, plump and
‘ new iu every sense. But this is
clared to be an erroneous idea, and, on |
j 1 the contrary ?g" Mr TT*. Dalzell’s ? u 8 most 1 inti-! in “ |
*
; ma x te mends insist - . , that he produces m 1
the natural na.uiaiway, wav without witnout hothouse nobiiouse aid aid ’
.
the 77 °^ secret aer ySbcial 4l process, means, c.iscovered except bv him- that
(
sel "eHon f ls US frimftosh in their '^ Itiselaim^, -rowih and pro- j
aho,
th°t he can «row new* potatoes ground lovmod in lar^e
quanUties with the
with snow and things frozen up gen-
erally J iu«t u L as easily 1 J as b at 1119 the present pre.Hu i
time, when the weather nas been much
mil der than the season calls for. What-
ever is thesecretofthisuewmove.it
“ Mnw^e" qU /*° ce '“* anTttot in thftt “ the^are n ,® w " or '’,****”
Juiiwaujtee, anti mat tuey^are ddteious aenciout
and 1U e ' er -^ uay ab as tilosy |
taken from the average garden when ;
the robins and the early summer j
zephyrs are singing carols to contented j
nature.—Milwaukee Wisconsin, j
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. 'j I
If your hens are too fat to lay, put
them on short rations for a few days. ■
Give the hens lime and grit. Pound
,
up old crockery and see how soon they
will put it out of sight.
Sunlight is a great tonic and health-
giver. No stable should be without
a window on the sunny side.
Feed vour whole grain in the morn-
j no ° . among litter. It will make the 1
be s work for it. The warm mash j
should be fed in the afternoon, as it J
will, help keep them warm and com*
tor fable through pot’sh° the ni^ht.
Th “j German ® <=aits are not
„ otash h nce th (!o not dis .
^ when •»««*»<* applied >>y 1“’“^ to manure In-
stead, they form a compound with the
™?' tS nftKol To^VtZ
formed is the most powerful fertilizer
P lie ‘ l to .^ 1“ kmd of cron cro P o
* rul ene L '
The American Saeep Breeder says: j
Ke ep the sheep’s feet dry and cleaD !
while they are in the stable. It is quite j
unnecessary to distuib the manure on |
td e hoor it it is kept ary and wed Jit- j
te red. The packing ot it unuer the ;
fe et will prevent decomposition, anc }
keep the floor better in every wav for ;
the sheep than it it were cleaned every j
c ‘ a T- Plenty of common land plaster ^
should be sprinkled or scattered over j
the litter. This will prevent ail bad!
odor.
‘beVS: are !
«oo large for rue intense and careful,
<**7 in interviewing their crops ana ■
their live stock scat-ered over ueir .
of br°ad 60 much »««. account To them as quantity. quality was not. j
stlpated If a cow increase has a tendency the production to oe of con-j oil
meal in her ration. If her bowels be- j
l j
come to loose decrease the oil mea |
,
aDd iccrea5s the bran. If the cows ;
have decrease a tendency the to cornmeal put on too discard much]
fiesh or
it altogether. If she gets too thin give
her more cornmeal and less of the
other foods. If straw and fodder are
high limit the feed to eight or ten
pounds a day. If these rough foods
are cheap give twenty to twenty-fava
pounds a day to each cow, and use
what is uneaten for bedding.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
SAND-BATH FOR POTATOES.
Sir Francis Cruise strongly recora-
mends the use of the sand-bath or the
common oven for potatoes as prefer¬
able to either boiling or steaming, on
the ground that a much higher tem¬
perature can be used by the lirst
method and a more thorough cooking
of the starch grains brought about.
Many delicate patients can use baked
potatoes who cannot touch them
vhen boiled.—New Y’ork Post,
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TO BROIL ROUND KTEAE.
Have a slice two inches thick cut
across the part of the round or rump
of the beef. Lay the meat in a deep
earthen dish and pour over it a gill ot*
the finest olive oil. Let it lay in this
dish with the oil for twelve hours.
Turn the beef over frequently m the
oil and be sure it stands iu a cool
place.
At the end of the oil bath take the
steak out and Jay it on a meat board.
Take a heavy meat knife and with the
back of the blade strike tho beef the
entire length in light furrows across
these, so tho entire surface of the
meat is in small checks. Turn the
beef over and repeat tho process of
corrugating on the other side, Thou
lay tho steak on a broiler and broil
quickly over a hot coal fire or under a
hot gas broiler fiame. Sprinkle salt
on each side as it browns.—New York
J ournal.
CLEARING WINDOWS.
E practical housekeeper seem,
to have a different method of cleaning
windows which she considers su. orior
to ))lan adhered to bv nei< , bbor9
and frjeucls _ B , lt after asI!i „ le triaI
of this melhoiJ it 13 (lo . jbtful if OIie
wi „ care to make a ch no mat tcr
how sfttis [ actory were the operations
*
i iec | ttie agt
j£ ave readv a muslin 1-^ti/rs ba^ full of
J. w hitin" £ and two wash r>nsfc
then gh mbit thicklv off thoroughly with the whitiig,
J with a damp,
not - lwet leather or cUamojs> nad
flnal , polish it „„ witb a clean d
onc workmen This is the metho(1 y„ rsue d b‘v
when cleaning the windows
0 * a new house, and gives polish
a un-
known to the glass washed iu the or-
binary 'Another -wav.
‘ini excellent method of qivin~ ra"
br a ncy to /'lass, is to dampen a
elighUy with spirits of wine, rub thS
lass well with this, and then polish as
befor0 with a c] dry leather.
New5Dapcr3 „ a admirable as polishers
W P an s ae ? ’ a eatLie ai, n r , or
chamois - is not convenient, or for anv
nthpr '
? r s /7~ tuat U-ecl 113P j fnr lor looa or
’
beve , a ges. The newspaper should be
crushed and softened in the hands
be f ? r ? Ucin f’ _ aud OT1 j the l 3rl ^ lcr 8 laK 18 ; a
P “^““^i't/obfsined 0 - * 1 - ^ s .° T a, ckiy o j.amecl. “
“
® “ ? E * he -,^1!^ o
b 50 ' e p ^ orient and shmin b ni Ir tne.y
0 .
have i , Decome dull or creasy loOKing,
^ l n a^d f • nT .. lc] . dld^d e“-e^ in “d~f
to a‘
first, simply wash them with little
auddilnted ammonia, anl
t ’ aen i h (alter thorough rinsing)
po ls
with the chamois or crumnled news-
^ !
v c npen-snrv to h the
rt vo
frames and all the hi . about
the windows perfectly clean before
beginning to clean the glass; and if
convenient choose a dull day for tho
window cleaning, or at least a time
when the sun is not shining on the
fi ia£S *
don’t BE WASTEFUL.
Don’t throw away the dingy lamp
burners that seem to have outlived
their usefulness; but boil them in
plenty of water with a quart or two of
potato parings, and they will bo as
g° od as new.
Don’t throw away the emab quantity
sweet potato or winter squasti tout
is left from dinner, for a very little
of cither wUi make a nice pie, if pie-
pared in tlic same manner ns punip-
Don't throw away the yeast when it
begins ^ to soar; instead add two tea-
6 n f n , 8 of sngar to each cup of tho
^ ^ ^
Don’t throw awayeoiled and mus3ed
ribbons nnless ,h °y Rre mach worI1 '
There are many preparations for
cleansing these fabrics that are not
-washable, or they may be dyed ; and,
although they will not bo like new,
they will prove satisfactory for many
purposes.
Don’t throw away grease of any sort,
besides the drippings that can be used
f or frying purposes; put the seeming-
] y unless grease int<j a pail, and when
nea rly fall add some water and a pound
c f potash, and only a little boiling
AV j]j b e required to make it into nice
soap.
Don’t throw away o'd rag carpet
worn
oat. but tha..the»gs «re «tlH good
the rags will usually wear twice as
long as ..e_^ ar P*
Don t throw away the salt , bags , ader .
emp.jiLg, or lake
an « seT7 several togeeuwr lor fnr cu ; u
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cen use v. l all
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