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SUNDAY MORNING.
Romance in Life of
A California Recluse.
S^""""""" OMEWHERE In the world
there is some cne who is en
3|g|s titled to $142,200. Who is
that person and where i3 he?
Combining the mystery and
romance of a Dumas novel with the
weird and g or( jid reality of actual
tacts the story or Charles Hill, the
!ram P millionaire, who died recently
fi the Good Samaritan Hospital at
Angeles, Cal., leaving a fortune
u * many thousands without a claim
ant truly surpasses fiction and
startled his Cincinnati relatives be
yond belief.
At present this wonderful fortune is
reposing in the vaults of the First
National bank of Los Angeles and
consists of roils of greenbacks in
large denominations.
The public administrator of Los
Angeles county has been searching
for relatives of the dead millionaire
to take the money off his bands since
the third w r eek in May, 1902.
Mrs. Margaret A. Roberts, the wife
of a painter living on East Court
street, Cincinnati, claims the fortune
left by Charles Hill on behalf of her
widowed mother, three brothers and
a sister as legal heirs of the dead
man. who, she says, was her dead
father's half brother.
The story which brought Charles
Hill to the attention of his relatives
and set the wheels of legal machinery
in motion to establish their title to
his fortune reads like a fiction.
During the first week in May an
agen man applied to the Good Sa
maritan hospital at Los Angeles, say
ing he wished to be taken care of
lor a while. He gave the name of
Charles Hill, and although dressed in
rags had SBOO, from which he settled
all his bills in advance.
This strange individual was taci
turn and moody; refusing to talk
about himself or his circumstances,
he sat silently brooding day by day.
Almost deaf, conversation with him
was carried on by means of signs and
written words.
The hospital nurses, foreseeing the
end, tried repeatedly to discover
something about their aged patient
or his past life, hut all their efforts
resulted in failure. Inquiries as to
ills
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Charles Hill.
his friends or relatives brought only
the piteous answer, seemingly wrung
from his heart:
"I have no one to rare for me —
no one! No relatives or friends in all
the world!”
Shortly after entering the hospital
Charles Htll died, of what complaint
no one knew. Apparently he just
faded away of old age and loneliness.
Greenbacks amounting to $2,000
were found in his clothes by the pub
lic administrator, who took charge of
Hill's estate.
Among his effects was found a key
to a safety deposit box and the ad
ministrator went on a tour of the
hanks to ascertain if the old man had
rented a box of any of them.
At the Union Bank of Savings it
was found that Hill had engaged a
safety deposit box on the 26th of
April.
President Rartlett of the bank, ac
companied the administrator to the
vanlt, and the box was opened. Sev
eral packages were found done up in
w'hile cloth covered with wrapping
paper, and on these "receipts" wa<
written in a large, bold hand.
One of the packages was opened,
revealing a bundle, of crisp, new
greenbacks. All of the other pack
ages were composed of the same
valuable ‘‘receipts.” When it had alt
Margaret Roberts.
been counted the total amount of
$140,000 iay before the astonished
officials’ gaze.
According to the laws of Califor
nia Hill’s estate will remain in the
hands of the public administrator for
seven years. If at the expiration of
that period the lawful heirs have not
established their claim the money
becomes the property of the state of
California.
Mrs. Roberts is firmly convinced
that Hill is her uncle who has been
missing for several years. Certainly
her story throws a light on the dead
man’s queer character and explains
many things that seem perfectly in
comprehensible to strangers.
Mrs. Roberts says that Hill, if ha be
her father’s missing half brother, was
born in Edir.boro, Scotland, Nov. 22,
1819. That would make him 84, just
the supposed age of the Hill who died
in the hospital at Los Angeles.
Hill’* own father, according to Mrq.
Robert's story, died in Scotland and
his widow married a man named Nor
ris, who, after the birth of a little son
whom they named Hiram P. Norris,
brought his family, including his step
son, to America.
Norris settled at Troy, Ohio, where
Charles Hill and Hiram P. Norris,
born of the same mother, but differ
ent fathers, were brought up as
w Hill was a bright, gay-hearted boy
up until the age of 21. when a sorrow
somewhat like that of the ill starred
JP iL
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H. P. Norris.
poet Edgar Allen Poe, made his heart
"grow ashen and sober as the leaves
that were withering and sere," and he
became a restless wanderer on the
face of the earth in search of forget
fulness.
Hill’s stepfather died, and his haif
hrotlier married and had children be
fore Hill returned to Troy. He was
then, to ail appearances, a tramp, dis
owning home, occupation or friends.
When his half-brother chided him for
his shiftlessness Hill would take his
little niece, Margaret Norris, now
Mrs. Margaret Roberts, on his knee
and say: “Don't lost faith in me,
little one. Be good, and some day i'll
leave you a lot of money. It is worth
less to me now.”
Norris, the child's father, laughed
at such statements coming from a
man practically in rags, and mado
Hill’s suppositious fortune, which lit
tle Margaret was to inherit, the sub
ject of many a joke.
Charles Hill wrote to the Norri3
family at varying' periods of time
from Kansas City, Mo.; Denver, Col.,
many different points in Texas, and
San Francisco, Cal. The last letter
received from him came from San
Francisco, saying he had made a lucky
speculation in some mining ventures.
Famous Men and Music.
Arthur Balfour the new British
premier, is sail! m have "an ear for
music," and is, indeed, “the first musi
cal premier” for quite a long time.
The truth is that most public men,
so far from being unmusical or "anti
musical,” would probably rather agree
with the veteran diplomatist who,
when asked the secret of his pro
longed youth, said: "Music and flow
ere.” Even Dr. Johnson, who be
longed to the unmusical people, re
marked while listening to tiie harp
sichord: "I shall bo glad to have a
new sense given to ine." Spurgeon
refused to have an organ in his fa
mous tabernacle, but it is said that
he would take the handle of a poor
organ-grinder's organ ami turn it
while the owner picked up the coins.
Old Church Laws.
In connection with the anniversary
of the Bethel Primitive Methodist
chapel, Burnley, England, a souvenir
handbook containing copies of old rec
ords has been issued. A minute passed
in 1834 reads: "That we do not al
low young men and young women ol
our society to court with each other
on Sunday; neither do we allow our
single men and women to walk in the
street together arm in arm at any
time; neither do we allow them to
stand at street corners chatting to
gether.” By another resolution the
chapel authorities forbade girl chor
isters wearing bows in their bonnets.
Unique Offer for a Laundry.
A laundry was newly established
in a neighborhood to mote in wealth
and social pretensions from the Fifth
avenue district. New York. In the
window after a few days appeared a
placard that attracted the attention
of ever# small boy that passed that
way. "Every kid,” read the irregu
larly painted notice, “wat brings dirty
does here gets a piece of candy.” I!
is a pretty good guess that every boy
who read that sign and whose mother
put her washing out importuned her
to let him carry it to that particu
lar laundry.
Oil in Australia.
It is reported that an oil spring ol
good quality has been discovered in
the southeastern district of South Aus
tralia. The spring is near the lakes at
the mouth of the Murray river. The
existence of patroleum in this desert
region has been known for years. The
oil exudes from the banks of Lake
Coorong, and also from the more
southern coast line. The quantity of
the supply and the purity of the oil
are not yet determined.
Austrian Emperor Still Vigorous.
The Emperor Francis Joseph of
Austria is 72, but is still vigorous and
takes an active interest in all matters
that concern his people.
LABOP NOTES
The Average Man.
When it comes to a question of trusting
Yourself to the risks of -lie roail.
When the thing is the sharing of bur
dens,
The lifting the heft of a load,
Tn the hour of peril or trial.
In the hour you meet as you cart.
You may safely depend on the wisdom
And skill of the average man.
'Tis the average man and no other
Who does bis plain duty each day.
The small thing his wage is for doing.
On the commonplace bit of the way.
'Tis the average man, may God bless
him,
Who pilots us, still in the van.
Over land, over sea, as we travel.
Just the plain, hardy, average man.
So on through the days of existence.
All mingling in shadow and shine.
We may count on the very-day hero,
Whom haply the gods may divine.
But who wears the swarth grime of his
calling.
And labors and earns as he can.
And stands at the last with the noblest.
The commonplace average man.
—Margaret 1-1. Sangster.
Head of Stationary Engineers.
Robert G. Ingloson, who was elected
in Boston as the new president of the
National Association of Stationary En
gineers, is a resident of Cleveland, O.
He was born in England March 30,
186S. and has been actively engaged
in the various branches of engineer
ing for the past 18 years by many big
firms. He is a member of the Eccen
tric Association. No. 47, Ohio N. A. S.
E.; member of the Electric club of
Cleveland, the Associated Technical
club, vice president of the Ohio So
ciety of Mechanical, Electrical and
Steam Engineers and the Eureka Club
of Masonic Engineers. He has been an
ardent worker for the advancement of
the engineering fraternity on educa
tional lines, and was one of the lead-
Robert G. Ingleson.
Newly Elected President of the Na
tional Association of Stationary En
gineers.
ers in Ohio who piloted the engineers’
state license law through the Legisla
ture. The state has grown iu the'
number of associations of the N. A. S.
E. from 30, since he took the office as
the state deputy president of Ohio, to
58 at the present time.
Union Men Checked.
By his decision Judge Jackson makes
it a criminal offense for a man to ask
another to join a labor union, and if
his opinion holds good it is an easy
step for a judge to take to say that
a man must not he asked to join a so
ciety, a church or a political club. No
matter how arbitrary or how opposed
to political freedom a corporation's
demand may be, a judge can be found
willing to exercise his power if it is
but invoked by the proper people. And
if corporations, coal producing or
otherwise, ever lose a strike, the
blame cannot be laid at their door. If
they continue the working people will
bo forced back into the condition of
slavery from which they have been
rescued by the trade unions.
It is not so very far back in the
history of the long struggle between
capital and labor when it was a seri
ous criminal offense for a man to ask
or accept a rate of wages higher than
was ordaineu by law, and the rate was
so low that to think workmen lived
upon it seems incredible. Nor was
that ail, for another law said that it
was penal to refuse to work at the pre
vailing rate. These judges would
again bind the hands of labor and
make it dependent, upon the generos
ity of employers.
Neither law nor judge has the right
to say that a man may not join a trade
union or ask another man to join them.
And when existing law is bent and
twisted to the end that, some men may
employ others cheaply and thus reduce
the standard of living, is it any won
der that contempt for both law and
judge is rampant?—Exchange.
In Search of Child Labor.
The cotton duck mills at New Hart- ;
ford, Conn., which give employment
to 700 persons, are to be closed per- i
manently on the Ist of September, i
The machinery is to be moved to some I
southern state and work resumed i
t#ere. The object of the removal from
a place where the company is doing a
fair, profitable business is not to get 1
nearer the raw material. It is to get ;
a supply of cheap child labor. That
can be had at the South. It cannot j
be had in Connecticut. The laws of j
that state, as of other northern manu- j
facturing states, forbid the employ
ment of children under 14 years of
age. That humane, economically wise
legislation is as offensive to the own- :
ers of the New Hartford mills as simi
lar legislation was to the Lancashire
mill owners seventy years ago. There
is to-day in some quarters the same
appalling indifference there was then
to the sacrifice of health or the lives
of children in the fierce effort to pro
duce goods at lower cost and make
more money.
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
Possibly the natural pride which
southern men take In the remarkable
development ol’ the cotton manufactur
ing industry in thair midst makes
them less observant of the evils which
child labor entails. The southern
states which permit it are guilty of an
economic crime as well as of a crime
against humanity. They are tolerat
ing methods which are destructive of
valuable human raw material. They
are allowing the boys and girls who
should grow up to he healthy, able
bodied workers to be killed off in
childhood, or If they survive to grow
up stunted, dwarfed, and ineffective
workers.
Strikes Across the Water.
In England during the year 1900
there were 648 strikes, 188,538 strik
ers. 3,152,864 days’ work lost in conse
quence. In France the figures were:
902 strikes. 22,714 strikers, 3,760,577
days’ work lost. In Italy there were
259 strikes, 43,194 strikers. 231,590
days’ work lost, or more than 7,000,000
days’ work lost in the three countries
in a single year. In England SO per
cent of the strikes were successful, 25
were unsuccessful; in France 22 per
cent successful, 27 per cent were un
successful; in Italy 34 per cent were
successful, 30 per cent unsuccessful.
The strikes not here accounted for
were compromised in one way or an
other.
Millinery Trimmers in Union.
The millinery trimmers, makers
and preparers, of whom there are
many hundreds in Chicago, have an
swered the bugle call of trade union
ism, and hereafter will trim my
lady’s hat according to the rules of
their union. However, fashion's latest
decree in headdress will be carried
out as it has been in the past, but the
worker who converts wire frames
and millinery folds into beautiful
creations (o cover a woman's crown
iug glory will ask for more compen;
nation, lighter and airier workrooms
and the abolition ol' three hours of
night work "for thirty-five cents sup
per money.”
Fight Label Counterfeiters.
Tlie war against counterfeiters of
(lie elgarmakors’ union label is bear
ing fruit, according to reports from
Pennsylvania. A few woeks ago a
dealer in Gettysburg, Pa., was lined
SIOO and sentenced to eighteen
months’ imprisonment, and last week
another dealer in Red Lion, Pa„ re
ceived a similar sentence. The cigar
makers' officials are elated over the
prison sentences, and believe a few
more such cases will put an end to
the nefarious practice.
Early Tailors' Unions.
Journeymen tailors were among the
earliest craftsmen to form trade
unions in North America. Even pro
vious to the year 1800 we find some
records of their organization in New
York. Philadelphia and some of our
eastern cities. In Boston a tailors'
union was organized in 1806, which
is still in existence, having at no time
since that date entirely lapsed. In
1823, at Troy, N. Y.. the tailors form
ed a local union which lias also had a
continued existence.
President Shaffer's Position.
President Shaffer of the Amalga
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, is reported as having
said “that he will force the tinplate
workers to accept the proposition of
the American Tinplate company for a
reduction in wages.” President Shaf
fer may have that power, but the tin
workers stil! have ground for some
consideration, especially when it
touches their pocket book.
Help Invalid Employes.
Forty invalid employes of the Wa
bash railroad were recently sent from
the company’s hospital at. Peru, Ind.,
to San Francisco, accompanied by
hree trained nurses. It is said to be
the purpose of the road, in case these
employes are benefited by the trip to
California, to send invalid employes
to the coast every year in tlie future.
The railroad company pays all ex
penses of the trip.
Can Not Import Men.
The United States immigration
bureau has informed the Machinists’
union at Omaha, Neb., that any effort
to import men from foreign countries
to take the places of striking shopmen
on any railroad would receive im
mediate attention. It is presumed
that the Union Pacific was preparing
to import men from Scotland and
England to take the places of strikers
on its system.
Money for Striking Miners.
The South Wales' Miners’ Federa
tion has passed a resolution to donate
$50,000 to the striking miners of this
country. All the unions throughout
this country are contributing liber
ally. Still it needs a lot of money to
support the families of 150.000 men,
and they should not be allowed to
suffer when the trade unions gener
ally are in suen a prosperous condi
tion.
Proud Record for Labor.
It is estimated that 500,000 people
were on tlie streets and viewed the
parade in Chicago on Labor day. Of
this vast crowd only thirteen were
taken sick or were injured, while but
eighty-seven needed attention because
of exhaustion and fainting. Dr. Cox
said the other day that this was a
remarkable record, and one that the
labor men could be proud of.
Swelldom Has Choice
Morsel of Scandal.
( HE win of the late Eugene
Guido Cruger, which is still
nanga claiming the attention of the
jdggjlf Surrogate’s Court in New
York, serves to recall the
strange story of a man who once was
the arbiter of fashionable metropoli
tan society and whose matrimonial
experiments were as to the jad
ed appetites of swelldom's gossip.
Cruger belonged to a family of that
naiuo which has prominently figured
in the history of old New YcTk and
was thus relieved of the alternative of
purchasing his entry into society. It
Is money or blood—never brains—you
know r that opens the gilded portals of
society and with his Knickerbocker
blood Cruger had only to knock to
have the doors opened.
He became the rage of society. Ho
was tall, handsome, cultured, a good
talker, a good dancer and had the hap
py knack of paying compliments as
fulsome and as lying as a tombstone.
Women raved over him. They can
rave over anything from a cannibal
king to a chameleon. But Cruger was
no cannibal king, though perhaps he
had some of the chameleon’s changing
characteristics. Some of them one
day hunted up an old mythology and
lo! Cruger becamo Apollo, the hand
some, the divine.
Weil, Apollo one day found his Ve
nus. She was Blanche Spedden, of
New Orleans, a belle of course and
naturally handsome. They were mar
ried in Grace church. Society ap
proved the union and its butterfly life
went on. In due time three children
were horn to the couple, society, of
course, approving.
At this time—lßßß—the father was
at. the height of his popularity and
Mrs. Cruger was allowed to shine in
her husband’s brilliance. All of a
sudden society was shocked. Mrs.
Cruger applied for a divorce and the
custody of her children and got both.
Very prudently Cruger went
abroad. He visited the Riviera and
dazzled the French shore of the Med
iterranean. There he mot Meta Kane
Bell, the widow of Louis Bell, of New
Eugene Guido Cruger.
York. Each knew the intricacies of
the love game and after a few careful
moves each captured the other. Cu
pid led them to the altar, where the
usual ceremonies were performed, and
the American colony abroad approved.
Shortly after the birth of a daughter,
Mrs. Cruger No. 2 applied for and got
a divorce.
Society now became downright in
terested. "What could it mean?” it
asked itself, and as no one ottered an
answer it very accommodatingly be
gan formulating theories itself. But
its Apollo was shattered. It had to
have another title, however, for its
former hero, and some reader of By
ron fittingly suggested Don Juan.
At this lime Cruger, whether from
his matrimonial infelicities or from
some other cause, developed epilepsy.
He became old-looking and haggard
and probably realizing that he had
not long to live and that when once
dead lie would be a long time dead,
he determined on enjoying himself
during the intervals of his epileptic
attacks. The place for this, as every-
Mrs. Cruger No. 1.
one in the world knows, is Paris, and
in the gay French capital Cruger es
tablished himself.
One day in a restaurant he saw a
girl. He saw many, of course, but
this one interested him. She was
cashier of the restaurant, lately pro
moted from being a scullion. She
was of Tartar origin and had jour
neyed from her native Russian step
pes with an art student.
Cruger did some figuring. He had
tried matrimonial bliss with two of
society’s chosen and was shipwreck
ed twice. He reasoned that a wom
an was more devoted the more ignor
ant she was, and he resolved to try ati
experiment. He proposed to the Tar
tar girl, was accepted and they were
wed. His reasoning, possibly, was
right. At any rate the Tartar wife
did not sue for divorce, and when a
few years ago Cruger died he left the
following brief will, scrawled on a
piece of paper: “I leave my name of
Eugene G. Cruger and my property
which I possess to Olga Salomea
Heitz. I make her my legatee to all
my property.” Olga Salomea Heitz
w'as his Tartar wife.
The two ex-wives contested the will,
each wishing for a share of the prop
erty for their children, and this con
test is now going on. It is unneces
sary to enter into its details, but it
Mrs. Cruger No. 2.
may be said that the divorced wives
are trying to prove that Cruger’s mind
was affected when he drew the will.
It may also be noted that wife No. 1
and wife No. 2 married again; the
first Mrs. Cruger becoming Mrs. J.
Frederic Tams and the second select
ing Chevalier Raval Mourichon, a
Knight of the French Legion of Hon
or, for her third husband. Meantime,
New York society has developed
other Apollos and other Don Juans,
and Cruger, while not forgotten is
rarely spoken of. Society must have
change, and it generally gets it.
CLEARED BARN OF RATS.
Vermonter's Ingenuity Was Equal to
a Hard Task.
The tale is old as Hamelin Town.
Rats! They hit the babies in their
cradles, they licked the soup from the
cooks’ own ladles. And they also ate
up the grain in a Vermonter’s barn.
Ilamelin tried the Pied Piper and got
rid, to its sorrow, of more than the
rats. But this Vermonter tiled rolled
oats, and still has his thirteen-odd
children, but no rats. If this were an
advertisement for a breakfast food
the moral would be plain.
”It was this way,” said James F.
Manning. “Out in the country, not
far from Burlington, the grocer, who
is general grain and feed dealer and
disburse!’ of farming tools and the
like for the surrounding district, found
his storehouse to be overrun with
rats, which no trap seemed cunning
enough to catch nor big enough to
hold them all. As the grocer put it,
no ten traps could catch them fast
enough to prevent a second genera
tion. So he hit on an idea. He took
a great, wide tub and filled it half
fuu of robed oats.
"The rats fattened on it, or rather
in it for some days. When they had
learned to go there with confidence he
one day filled the tub half full of
water, on the surface sprinkled °
coating of chopped cork, and thdn
over all sprinkled a thin layer of the
rolled oats. That night the rats came
to the tub as was their wont, peered
over the edge, saw that ail was rolled
oats, and jumped. The next morning
seventeen of them were found dead
at the bottom. In this way the grocer
cleared his storehouse. Being a Yan
kee, he is already talking of a pat
ent.”
Curiosities of Nature.
The thread of the silkworm is so
small that many of them" are twisted
together to form our finest sewing
thread. But that of the spider is
finer still, for two drachms of it by
weight would reach 40U miles. In
water in which vegetables have been
infused the microscope discovers ani
malculae of which many thousands
together do not equal a grain of
sand; and yet nature, with a singular
prodigality, has supplied many of
these with organs as complete as
those of the whale or the elephant,
and their bodies consist of the same
substance, ultimate atoms, as that of
man himself. In a single pound of
such matter there are more living
creatures than of human beings on
the face of the globe.
Woman Will Carry Mail.
Miss Lulu Adsit will be one of the
rural free-delivery carriers on the
new route established from Manilus
(N. Y.) postoffice Aug. 1. Miss Adsit
is the first woman to receive an ap
pointment as carrier in this country,
and one of the very few in this state.
She is 23 years of age, of rather
slight build, determined and popular,
and with a good business education.
Superintendent Machen states that,
although the number of woman car
riers so far appointed are few, they
are giving good satisfaction.
To Command at Sandhurst.
The British military attache at
Washington, Lieutenant Colonel Kit
son. has been appointed commandant
at Sandhurst, one of the most import
ant assignments in the British army.
Lieutenant Colonel Kitson was former
ly commander of the Royal Military
College at Kingston, Ont.
To Make the Batter Better.
Cooking teachers say that the ingre
dients for pancakes, fritters and tl
like should be mixed fully two hours
before the hatter is needed. This, they
explain, gives the flour a chance to
swell and the batter is better and
more wholesome. Which means, to
some of us, an unlearning of old
methods.
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How to Drink Milk.
When one needs a reviving stimulant
after exhaustion, nothing can rival the
effects of hot milk sipped slowly.
Some people say they cannot digest
milk, and these are the people who
drink it down quickly, so that! the
digestive acids, in playing round it,
form large curds, which give trouble
before they can be absorbed. The
right way Is to sip the milk in small
amounts, so that each mouthful, as it
descends into the stomach, is surround
ed by the gastric fluid, and when the
whole glassful is down the effect is
that of a spongy mass of curds, in
and out of which the keen gastric
juices course, speedily doing their
work of turning the curd into peptones
that the tissues can take up. ~ ,
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Tlie Ue of Lemon.
If more people realized the many
uses to which lemons may he put this
fruit would always be found in the
well regulated household. Here are
some of its good qualities: Lemon
juice removes stains from one’s hands.
Lemon juice and water make a mouth
wash, useful for preventing tartar and
sweetening the breath, but the mixture
must not be too strong, or the enamel
of the teeth will in time suffer. Lemon
juice will often, when everything else
fails, allay the irritation caused by the
bites of gnats or flies, and a teaspoon
ful of it, in a cup of cafe noir, will
usually relieve a bilious headache. The
juice of a lemon, taken in hot water
on awakening in the morning, is .
liver corrector and a flesh reducer.
Lemon juice and salt will remove
rust stains from linen without injury
to the fabric if you wet the stains
with tlie mixture several times while
it is blenching in sunshine. Two or
three applications may be necessary
if the staiu is an old one.—Brooklyn
Eagle. -j
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Buckwheat Cakes.
To make buckwheat griddle cakes,
mix together four cupfuls of buck
wheat flour with one scaut cupful
of cornmeal and an even tublespoonfut
of salt. Sift these ingredients to
gether. To moisten them use five cup
fuls of lukewarm water and two cup
fuls of milk. The milk Is used to give
the rich brown color preferred by most
people. To accomplish this many
housewives use all water and add two
tablespoonfuls'of molasses. The milk,
however, makes the cakes more deli
cate. Dissolve a compressed yeast
cake In n half cupful of lukewarm
water; add it to the other liquid. Then
add tlie liquid gradually to the dry
ingredients, beating hard meanwhile.
Pour the hatter into a pall that comes
lor the purpose, and let it rise over
night. In the morning, just before
baking the cakes, stir a level teaspoon
ful of soda into a qunrter of a cupful
of lukewarm water and beat It into
the batter until it foams. Then fry a
test cake on a hot griddle, and if It is
too thick, add more water or milk to
the batter. At least a pint of the bat
ler should be left for the next baking,
to use in place of the yeast. To renew
tiie batter, add the ingredients in the
same proportion as the first time.
A hot solution of salt and vinegar
will brighten copper and tin ware.
A few cloves put in the ink bottle
will prevent the contents from mold
ing.
When color in a fabric has been ac
cidently destroyed by acid, ammonia
may be applied to restore it.
A pleasant household deodorizer is
made by pouring spirits of lavender
over lumps of bicarbonate of am
monin.
Mildews on linen may be removed
with soft soap and chalk rubbed over
the discolored place before it goes Into
the washtub.
String beans, covered with French
dressing sprinkled with chives and
seasoned with salt and pepper, make
an excellent salad.
A pinch of salt will make the whit®
or an egg beat quicker, and a pinch of
borax in cooked starch will make the
clothes stiffer and whiter.
When a bathtub becomes shabby
sandpaper it and give it a coat of or
dinary White paint, to be followed by
one or two coats of bath enamel.
Stains on brass will soon disappear
if rubbed with a cut lemon dipped in
salt. When clean, wash in hot water. .
dry with a cloth and polish with a
wash leather.
Aluminum pans are excellent in
every way and no trouble to keep clean
if rinsed out directly they are done
with. They should not be washed
with sodg, as it Is destructive to the
brilliant polish.
Jtw.clry can be cleaned by washing
iu soapsuds in which a few drops of
spirits of ammonia are stirred, shaking
off tlie water and laying in a box of
dry sawdust. This method leaves ut>
marks or scratches. ... ...... .
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