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AP ainst Corrupti rotest Against Corruption By President Harris at A mherst. ‘. =@AT comes to this to every man: Shall my anxi:cty, ,that is, my effort .53 E : and striving, be for a measure of wealth and what it can buy for {5 3 § myself, or shall my anxiety be for the bettermment of the world Smestexmmnd in higher than material values? lln the ideal republic we see % }é.:@ good and righteous laws, geod and able men to administer laws. S In contrast, we se2 political corruption. Office is bought b.y i money or by favors which have a money vaiue. Legislation is shaved by corporations which give millions of dollars to carry elections to the hlgh@st.offices. But we do not despair of the republic. There is protest againss ‘cor:xf‘.flgnon growing louder. vi xf_..‘}f? fashionable society of cur cities is a society of the wealithy. The rich e With one another in the expensiveness of focd, drinks, clethes and decora tlrczrls. ineir morgl standards are low. Divorce does not read a rich man or wdrman cut of fgshmnablq society. They are the degenerates of the cities. But '%%;?élflt;‘-e Weaxvthy .rus‘n m‘to this silly scramb“:o of w;ulgarity and sensuousness. & 8 e many who use wealth to sscure higher values. How otherwise could ciflirr«ih oe" cuiture, science, art, music, philanthropy, volleges, schools and i cnes ¢ _’}l‘he‘pmb}ems‘ that ar.ise wi}l ba selved by the intelligence and moral sense of educated men influencing opinion. The National Recl ion A eclamation Act, By Gifford Pinchot's «The New Hope For Ihe West''in the June Centtuiry. pameoeesme [0 passange of the Naticnal Reclamation Act marked a new era q i for the West. Its effect upon actual settlement may not unfairiy : § Dbe compared to that of the Homestead Law, signed by President s Lincoln in 1862. It devotes the proceeds from the disposal of ?{3’ f"{‘\’vfi\g { public lands to the construction “of irrigation works by the na e g ticnal government, and provides that the cost of these works : shall be repaid by the s:ttlers who take up the land reclaimed. What it will eventually mean I scarcely dare to predict, but some of its imme diate results are obvious. In scuthern California, if we count the urban and 'ruyal populations together, one and one ‘half acrcs of irrigated land are re quired to support one person, and it is more tkan probably reasonable to expect that this area will ultimately be reduced to a single acre. But if two acres are required to support cne person, the expenditure of the twenty mil lion doilars already in the reclamation fund will in the end make homes for haif a million people, the average cost of reclamation being about twenty doilars an acre. After the first cxpenditure the money will be repaid by the settlers, will return to the Treasury, and will then bz available again for repeated use until the irrigation of all reclaimable land is achieved. H La | ow to Lave to 100. Senator Wark, of Canada. = TIND that the informaticn usually sought from me is as ¢to my : 3 d {ood and habits of life, that may show why my life has been ; extended beyond the usual span. As to food, I have been accus ecsituaamg tomed, to eat oatmeal porridge and milk fromm my childhood, @@ and I still use it for the principal part of my breakfast, with a . single cup of black tea and a slice of plain bread after it. I con- T sider it both wholesome and nutritious. Tiil quite iate in life I ate butchers’ meat, I did not care how fat, but the fat began to disagree with me, and I tave made it a rule to eat nothing that disagrees with my digest;on, no matter how palatable. I have, therefore, for many years, eaten neither beef or muttca or pork in any form. I take instead a little fowl or fish with my cup of tea at mid-day for dinncr, and at six o’clock I find. a cup of tea and a slice of bread is all that I need.. My cup of tea is my only dessert; I eat no pie or pudding, drink nothing stronger than tea, eat no suppers, g 0 to bed at or before ten o’clock and rise these dark mornings about half past seven, ! I now ask my young r2aders to open their Bibles at the 25th chapter of Matthew, and read from the 31st verse to the end, and learn that, whether life is long or short, the important point iz to be prcpared for its end. A Troublesome Diner. “Seo that man coming in?” said the head waitsr, beckoning to one cf his men. “Get him in tow quick, and ‘lead him to a seat near the window. Don’t let him come up here into the centre of thhe room. Give him a chair facing the street.” The unsuspecting customer followed the waiter who met him without an idea that he was baing led, and was seated as direct ed. The head waiter breathed a sigh -of relief. “That man is a good customer,” he said. “I wouldn‘t like to offerd him for the wold. But he has fallen into bad habits that work injury to the house if I let him sit wnere other guassts can sce him. Oh, no. He does nct put his knife in his mouth or any thing of that scrt. He just makes faces. He grins and snarls at the menu card as a cat shows its teeth to a hostile dog. The trouble is he can’t maka up his mind what to order. «Out of fifty-six different dishes on the card it would seem something micht sfrike his fancy. But, no. He'll pull at his mustache and scowl for ten minutes, giving everybcdy the im pression that the whole outfit is bad. Then he'll call me over, tell me he hasn’t any apptite, and ask me to pick a dinner for him. He’'ll eat all I send him, too, and perhaps call for more. It’s all halit. There he is beckening to me now.”—New Ycrk Press. A Valuable Emigrant. According to a recent British Con sular report the most valuable export of Swatow, cne of the Chinese poris under the treaty of Tientsin, is the Swatow emigrant. The adverse finan cial balance cf the port is more than adjusted by the remittances of the natives who have gone to British and Dutch East Indian cclonies and Siam, It is estimated that no less than $30,000,000 is annually remitted by them. In addition to thesz remit tances a sum of probably not less than $2,000,600 in cash and notes is brcught hack each year by refurning emi grants E 3’ 207 /) = ;M’v 1.-.: % PNy Rk, 1] NSy WS e, (i 3 s e BT | GLASS TEA POTS NOW. | The glass {eapot is a novélty that finds considerable favor among expert tea makers. These pots come from England. They are of stout tempered glass and are delicately trimmed with i bands of silver, says the Kansas City Journal. - Inside the pot itself a hollow ball ~of silver rolls about, and by its prompt acceptance of the heat of the boiliag water prevents the glass from crack ing. ( The charm of the crystal pot lies 'not wholly in its noveity or beauty, - but in the fact that through its trans gpar'ent sides the tea maker can see - just what amount of brew she has ;on hand and the strengta thereof. i TO IRON SILK. | Smooth the silk out well on the ironing table, place an old handker ' chief or a piece of thin muslin cver it -and iron with a moderately hot iron. ' When partly dry remove the covering, ' iron the silk with a bare iren, and in :}the case of a scarf or handkerchief, first on one side and then on the other 'to produce a gloss. If the silk should feel in the least stiff or hard, shake it out, rub it botween the hands and iron again. When finisjed it should . be smooth and as scft as when new, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Some silks, such as ribbons and corded silks, are better kept covered | all the time, as the iron gives them | a glaze which is nct suitable; discre ition must be used in this matter. | When ironing bright colored silks put !a piece Qf muslin or old linen over | the ironing sheet to prevent its being | stained..—Mirror and Farmer. l WINDOW BOXES I'OR FLLOWERS. Window boxes filled with growing ‘flowers add greatly to the attractive 'appearance of a country house and | can very easily be made. Buy planed half-inch boards of the right length, with pieces for the ends about eight inches wide. Nail the front boards over the edges of the side pieces, un less the boxes are mitred at the cor ners, which would make them more expensive by requiring the services of a carpenter, says the New York Tribune. When the becards are neatly nailed together, tack marrow mould ing along the edges and over the cor mer to give them a finished appear ance. Then paint the boxes tne color of the trim of the windows. Secure them with iron brackets and fill them first with one inch of broken ash coal ‘ and then well prepared earth. Bore ' three small auger holes in each box ! for drainage. It is fascinating to see l a brilliant array of flowers above the | sill in a bedroom window aad refresh ing to smell the sweet odor of mignon ette, etc. | CARE OF THE DINING-ROOM. “Do you air your dining-room before breakfast?” asked Miss Johnson. “If not, you certainly cannot enjoy your breakfast, eaten in the vitiated air of I the night before. You cannot digest | your food without oxygen, and oxy gen is just as necessary as food to life and health. “Do you dust your dining-room be fore breakfast?” ! A ripple of laughter ran around the room. : . f “I know,” said the speaker, serious | ly, “thdt, in the present unsatisfactory ! condition of domestic service, it is im l possible to get everything done that | ought to be done. But we can at least { know what ought to he done. | “Germs are in dust everywhere. But | it is in the dining-room that they get | into our food, and thence into our ' bodies. The dining-room of all rooms | should be kept free from dust; should | have nothing in it to catch and con ! ceal dust. It should be a plain room, | as devoid as possible of frocks and friils ” Miss Johnson's idea of a breakfast seems to be something bstween the coffee and roll of Europe and the heavy meat and mince pie breakfast of old-time America. The climate, habit and tasto of America call for scme thing more than the former, and, as a substitute for the latter she would tave something nourishing, but light. She would eliminate the most com mon of all breakfast dishes, potatees. She wou!d call a halt on the mad rage for cerecals.’ She wouid recommend fruit, hot bread and coifee, and for the main dish would have eggs, chops or one of the various dishes discussed in her lscture.—Cooking Schaol Repoit. BECIPES. Breakfast Puffs—Mix half a cup of water with half a cup of milk. Pour this gradually over cne cupful of flour, adding a pinch of salt. Beat until smooth, then add one stifily whipped egg. Fill hissing hot greased gem nans two-thirds full of the batter and bake 35 minutes in a quick oven. Creamed Cabbage—One small cab bage, cne cup cream sauce. Take off the outside leaves of the cabbage; cut it into four piececs, cut out the hard core, and lay it in very cold salted wa ter_half an hour. Then wipe it dry and slice it, not too fine, and put it in a saucepan; cover with boiling wa ter with a teaspoon of salt, and beil it hard for fifteen minutes. Do not put a cever over it, but keep the water well above it. While it is cooking make a cup of cream sauce. Take up the cabbage and press it with a plate in tha cclander till all the water is cut. Put it in a kot dish and pour the sauce over it, This cabbage will have no odor in cooking and will be so easy to digest that even a little girl may have two helpings. If you like the cabbagze to locok green put in a bit of soda as large &s a pea as it cooks. ‘ Creamed Sweet Potatoes—Boil the rotatoes, skin t';{enl and cut into small i slices. Make a cup of cream sauce— . that Is, thick, white saucc—mix with ;them. sprinkle with =alt, and prt in ' the oven half an hour. _ l Walnut Meclasses Candy—Dßoii to gether a cup of molasses and cne of brown sugar, a tablespoonful of vine gar and two tablespoconfuls of butter. When a little dropped into cold water is brittle add a cupful cf shelled and chopped walauts, take from the fire, add a half teaspoonful of baking soda "and turn into a greased pan to harden. ~ Sandwiches—To prepare . cream sandwiches get the best cheese, and be cure it is fresn. Work it to a smooth paste and add finely chopped walnut cor ‘hickory nut meats, mixing in a little mayonnais2. Spread on thin slices cf bread, cut in fancy shapes, if you like, but a £mall square sandwich is better. For chicken sandwiches chop fine the white meat of cold bolied chicken and mix with hightly sea soned mayonnaise; add a few olives chopped very fine, and spread. Another Cake Filling—Cne cup of sugar, five teaspoonfuls of sweet milk; put 3ugar into stewpan. Pour on the miik; let a'l stand a few minutes until the sugar dissolves. Set same con range, watch carefully until it boils up; then let boil by the clock five minutes—no more, no less! Don't vhake or touch with a aspoon until taken from the fire; then beat rapidly - with a silver spoon until almost cold. Flavor with vanilla. Spread on quick !ly, as it cocls very rapidly when it ' begins. Put pecans on top if you wish. ' This tastes very much like icinz. i Iced Russian Tea—Take four tea ' spoonfuls of tea aand place in a pot which fas just been scalded out with ' hot water; pour over the tea four cups of boiling water; cover with the “co ' sey” and let it steep ttree or four - minutz3; to serve, fill each glass three quarters full of cracked ice; a slice of ' lemon is then placed on top and the hot tea i 3 poured over the whole; block sugar or meited sugar in a smhjl ' pitcher may be used to sweeten. ; | ————— - l A Canadian trade commis;ione:’ in South Africa recently boaelfed orders 'for over 48,000 plows.”