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SUNDAY MORNING. GOOD ft • ROAD S. President KooneTeit’e Adtlreu. THE fact that the nation's Chief Executive attended the National Convention at St. Louis aud participated in the proceedings indicates the impor tance which the good roads movement lias attained. The fact that the con vention unanimously indorsed the na tional aid plan also indicates the trend of sentiment in that direction. The President's entrance was sig nalled by cheers front the assembled delegates. He was introduced by Presi dent Moore, of the National Good Roads Association, and spoke as fol lows: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle men-'-Wlien we wish to use descript ive adjectives tit to characterize great empires and the men who made these empires great, invariably one of the adjectives used is to signify that that empire built good roads. (Applause.) When we speak of the Romans, we speak of them as rulers, as conquer ors, as administrators, as road builders. There were empires that rose over night and fell overnight; empires whose influence was absolutely evanescent, which passed away without leaving a trace of their former existence; but wherever the Roman established his rule, the traces of that rule remain deep to-day, stamped on the language and customs of the people, and stamped in tangible form upon the soil Itself. Passing through Britain fifteen cen turies after the dominion of Rome has passed away, the Roman roads as features still remain. Going through Italy, where power after power has risen and flowered and vanished since tlie days when the temporal dominion of the Roman emperors transferred its seat from Rome to Constantinople; going through Italy after the Lombard, the Goth, the Byzantine and all Hie peoples of tlie middle ages have ruled that, country—it is the imperishable Roman road that reappears. Tlie habit of road building marks in a nation those solid stable qualities which tell for permanent greatness. Merely from the standpoint of his torical analogy, we should have a right to ask that this people which has lamed a continent, which lias built tip a country with a continent for its base, which boasts itself with truth ns the mightiest republic that the world has ever seen, which we llrmly believe will in the century now opening vise to a position of headship and leader ship such as no other nation has ever yet attained (applause) merely from historical analogy, I say, we should have a rigid to demand that such a nation build good roads. (Ap plause.) Much more iiave we a right to de mand it from tile practical standpoint. Tlie difference between the seml-bnr harism of the middle ages and' (lie civilization which succeeded il, was the difference between poor and good means of communication. And we, to whom space is less of an obstacle than ever before in the history of any > *‘~Hpll pn "'hr have spanned a conti nent, who have thrust our border westward In the course of a century and a qunrtcr, until It has gone from the Atlantic over the Alleganies. down Into the valley of the Mississippi, across the great plains, over the Rock- ies, to where the (lolden Gale lets through th" long heaving waters of the Pacific, and finally to Alaska and Ihe Arctic regions, to the islands of 1 lip .Orient, the tropic isles of the sen—we, who take so little account of mere space, must sec to it 1 lint the best means of nullifying ihe existence of space arc at our command. Of course, during the hist century there has been altogether phenomenal growth in one kind of road, wholly unknown to the people of old the Iron road. The railway is, of course, something purely modern. Now, a great many excellent people have pro ceeded upon the assumption that, some how or other, having good railways are a Substitute for having good high ways—good ordinary roads. A more untenable position cannot lie imagined. (Applause.) What the railroad does is to develop Ihe country, and, of course, its development implies that the conn try will need more and better roads. (Applause.)' A few years ago it was a matter. 1 am tempted to say, of national humilia tion that there should he so little at tion paid to our roads —tha 1 then' should lie a willingness not merely to refrain from making good roads, hut to let tile roads that were in ex istence heroine worse: and 1 cannot too heartily congratulate our people upon the existence of a hod.v such as this, ramifying into every section of the country, having its communica tions in every State of the country, and bent upon this eminently practical work of making the conditions of life easier and better for the people who of all others we can least afford to see grow discontented with their lot in life—the people who live in the conn try districts. (Applause.) The excessive, the wholly unheard of rate of our industrial development during the past seventy live years, to gether with the good sides, has had some evil sides. It is a tine tiling to see our cities built up, hut not at the expense of the country districts. (Ap plause.) The healthy thing is to see the building tip of both the city and the country. But we cannot expect the best, the most eager, the most ambi tions young men to stay in the coun try. to stay on the farm, unless they jinyr oertn.l’i jiflvaiitfisjc*. If farm life is a life of isolation and mental pov erty. a life in which it is a matter of great difficulty for one man to com municate with his neighbor, you can rest assured that there will he a ten dency to leave It on the part of those very people whom we should most wish to see stay on the farm. It is a good thing to encourage In every way any tendency to cheek an unhealthy flow from the country to the city. (Applause.l There arc several tendencies in evidence. The growth of electricity as applied to means of transportation tends to a certain de gree to exercise a centrifugal force to offset the centripetal force of steam. Exactly as the uses of steam have tended to gather men into masses, •o wow electricity, a* applied to tntne portation, has tended to scatter them out again. Trolley lines running out into tlie country are doing a great deai to render it possible to live in the coun try. and yet not lose the advantage* of the town. The telephone is not to be minimized as an instrument with a tendency in the same direction. Rural free delivery is playing its part along the same lines. Rut no one thing can do as much to offset tlie tendency to ward an unhealthy trend from tli country into the city as the making and keeping of good roads. They are needed for the sake of their effects upon the Industrial conditions of the country districts, and I am almost tempted to say that they are needed even more for their effect upon tlie social conditions of the coun try. If winter means to the average farmer the existence of a long line of liquid morasses, through which he has to move his gootls if bent on business, to wade and swim if bent on pleas ure; if winter means that, if an ordi nary rain comes, the farmer’s girl or boy cannot use his or her bicycle, if a little heavy water means a stoppage of all communication, why you have got to expect that there will be a great many ytonng people of both sexes who won’t find form life attractive. It is for this reason, among many others, that I feel the work you are doing Is so pre-eminently one for the interest of the nation as a whole. I congratulate you upon the fact that you are doing it. In our American life it would be hard to overestimate tlie amount of good that lias been accom plished by associations of Individuals who have gathered together to work for a common object which was to lie of benefit to the community as a whole. And among nil the excellent objects for which men and women combine to work to-day, there are few indeed who have a better right to command lite energies of those engaged in tlie movement, and (lie hearty sympathy and support of those outside, than this movement in which you are engaged. WORDS OF WISDOM. All men are fools, but only the Wise stop being so. Truth is with ourselves; It takes no rise from outward tilings, whate’er you may believe. The mother who sees all the virtues in hei own child is blind to those in other children. It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. Tlie thoughts will turn to the future when one comes to reckon the rapidity of Time’s flight. There is any quantity of gold in the land, but we enjoy it most when the other fellow digs for it. Few men are wise enough to prefer tlie blante that is useful for them to the praise that betrays them. The pleasures of dissipation are like gaudy colors—they attract for a mo ment. hut afterwards they oppress the senses. Be not disturbed about the future, for if ever you come to it you will have tHo same reason for your guide which preserves you at present. Patience and strength are what we need; an earnest use of what vve have now; and all tlie time an earnest dis content until we come to what wo ought to he. Were we to believe nothing but what we could perfectly comprehend, not only our stock of knowledge in ail tho branches of learning would lie shrunk to nothing, but even tlie affairs f common life could not bo carried on. An Every-Day Type. Let us name Him Coppazine, because he is all brass. He has been striking you for small sums, ones, twos, fives and an occasional ten, until in your debt SSO or SOO. This, of course, ho never intends to pay. Believing that lie has about reached your limit of patience, he leaves you for other vic tims. Six months pass. You meet him when down to your lasi cent of change. You say: “My dear Coppazine, please lend me Half a dollar.” “Certainly." You hope lo credit it to ills account, but the next time lie meets you he re minds you of the loan and asks for the return of the fifty cents. Yon give it to Him with a queer feeling in your heart, yet have not tlie courage to men tion the SSO or SGO lie owes you. There are thousands of Coppazincs tints beat ing their journey through life, always borrowing, never paying, treating lib erally with other men’s money and supporting numerous barrooms. There’s one of him talking to you now. Make him settle up!—New York Press. The liOfit Diamond. While feeding a flock of fowls a Doylestown woman dropped a valuable earring, for which tho chickens itmno mediately made a dive. The earring was missing after the scramble was over, ami, believing that it had been swallowed by one of the chickens an axe was brought into service and one by one the flock of twenty-seven was decapitated and a post-moster exam ination held, with no results. Later, in looking over the ground, the earring was found. Tlte story abounds with morals, as it does with feathers. First People with diamonds should not keep chickens. Second— People with chickens should not wear diamonds. Third—lf you keep chickens keep an axe. Fourth—Don't keep chickens. Oil City Derrick. Mttktng Saltpeter From Air, For ages whenever persons wished to make a particularly streng state ment about the impossibility of doing anything, they were more likely than not to say. "1 can't pull it out of the air, can 1?” Now Professor Mutlimann, of the Pelyfechnieal Academy in Munich, has found a way by which many things can tie nulled out of the air. He has demonstrated that liy passing high elec tric currents through moist air from one platinum point to another, nitric acid is formed and can be gatheerd h.v the use of suitable apparatus. He has shown that saltpeter can lie “pulled out of Uio air" at less than one-fourth of its present cost. New York Press. XI ties of riililni; I.te*. A North Sea eodtishiug boat usually carries eight miles of lines, with very uvtU'ijr mm hooks upon them, AgßiniL ■sr HNTS^ The Milk Tester. Any sort of a milk tester Is better than none at all. lake as many glass tumblers of equal E'ize as you have cows, and fill each to the brim with milk from one of the cows. Let these stand for 12 hours and you will get a very fair idea of the cream or butter producing capacity of your several cows. This is not equal to a Babcock tester, nor a churn, but the butter will soon follow. Shelter for the Hay. Hay stacks should never be used if the hay can be put under shelter. Hay sheds, which are simply roofs on pools, cost hut little, and will save much val uable food in a year. Clover hay does not retain its quality when closely packed, being liable to heat, which is also an objection to hailing it. The best prices for hay are obtained only when the hay is bright and clean, and when exposed to the weather it is liable to Injury unless stack are made by ex perts. The best hay is that which has received careful attention in both cur ing and storing. Ensilage. Ensilage should not cost the farmer over a dollar per ton, and 50 pounds a day is a large ration for a cow. This is 40 rations per ton, at two and a half cents per ration, and hence will pro vide for one cow forty days. There is no food fhat can be produced at a low er cost. The ensilage is not of itself a complete food, as the best results are derived when grain and hay are also allowed, but it cheapens the cost of tho whole and provides succulent food in the winter when there is a change from grass to the regulation dry ra tion of that season. Cows on Pasture. It may surprise the inexperienced that although the cows can be put on pasture after grass appears, the supply of milk is then usually reduced. This is frequently the rase when any kind of change in the fo’od is made, but more especially very early in the spring, as the grass is then more large ly composed of water than at any oth er season of the year, und consequent ly is also more laxative than when It approaches maturity. To offset these conditions give the cows a full supply of ground grain mixed with cut hay at night, and do not keep them on the pasture but a short while each day at the beginning. Always give a full nteal of grain and hay at night, and al so an allowance of grain in the morn ing, bran, middlings, ground oats and cornmeal being an excellent mixture. The Manure Spreader. I have used a manure spreader the bast two years and am very much pleased with It. I think it the greatest labor saving machine I have on my farm. I spread all my manure with it. For hoed crops I use twenty-six loads per acre and have as good results as when 1 used 30 or 35 loads the old way. I lay that to spreading it so evenly over the land. When we come to har rowing, can work It into the ground so nicely. When I get to the field It takes from three to four minutes to unload, while by hand it would take 30 minutes, and the spreader does it much nicer. Some say it draws so hard they cannot use it. I have no trouble about it and use it on ail my land. For grass I use ten to 15 loads per acre. It is the nicest tiling to spread ashes with I ever saw and is worth all its cost just for that. You can put on any amount you want per acre.—A. E. Hobart, in New Eng land Homestead. Temperature ct Soils. Everybody has observed that on a summer evening when the air comes in contact with the rapidly cooling grass and leaves of growing vegeta tion, It begins to deposit moisture on them, and tilts increases as the night advances and vegetation cools down still more, until by morning a large amount of water has been precipitated. By this we learn that the air at a cer tain temperature is able to hold a giv en amount of water, but if the temper ature tie reduced it will hold less, and the surplus water will he precipitated. It the air that enters a drain tile, and is distributed through the porous earth along its coure, is reduced to a lower temperature, by contact with a soil cooler than the air, it will deposit moisture in the soil. A tile laid three or four feet deep will keep the ground moist in its vicinity as long as the air contains moisture enough to make a dew point at a reasonable tempera ture, but a shallow drain gives com paratively few favotable results in drought. Poison for Farm Pest*. Avery successful strychnine poison has been used against the prairie dog and gopher pest in Kansas and Ne braska, and the demand for the mix ture would prove effective against the tats and woodchucks which make so much trouble for Eastern farmers. Dis solve 1 1-2 ounces of strychnia sulphate In a quart of hot water. Add quart of syrup—molasses, sorghum, or thick Sugar and water —and a teaspoonful of oil of anise. Thoroughly heat and mix the liquid. While hot pour it over a bushel of clean wheat and mix com pletely. Then stir in two or more pounds of line corn meal. The quantity of corn meal will depend upon the amount of extra moisture present. There should be enough to wet every grain of the wheat and no more. Care should be taken that there is no leak age from the vessel in which the wheat Is mixed. Let the poisoned grain stand over night, and distribute it in the early morning of a bright day. An ex cellent substitute for the oil of anise in the above formula ran be made by soaking two ounces of green coffee berries in the whites of three eggs. Let this stand tor about twelve hours aud use the liquid instead of anise oij. In making this mixture ror rats, oil of rhodium, although a very costly drug, would prove more attractive than any other odor. Poison for rats should he put in a plate, then sprinkled over with com meal and set where they can get THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. it during the night, other animals bo ing shut away. During the day it may be put one side for safety. Some far mers claim to have poisoned wood chucks by using paris green water on cabbage plants. Possibly this strych nine mixture, with the grain left out, would prove equally effective applied to plants in the woodchucks’ feeding ground.—The Cultivator. Important Disease of Currant. Anthracnose of currants is a fungous disease which attacks chiefly the leaves, causing them to fall premature ly. Multitudes of brown spots of pin head size make their appearance on the leaves which soon after turn yel low and fall. Anthracnose is not often destructive, but in 1901 it caused great damage in the Hudson River Valley. The disease appeared early in June and by the time the fruit was ripe many plantations were almost entirely bare of foliage. Asa consequence, the berries shriveled and some of the new wood was not properly matured. From this cause some of the new biiools died and it is probable that a part of the unusually large amount of dead wood in curjant plantations the past spring resulted from the severe attack of an thracnose last season. The greater part, however, was due to cane blight. Should it become necessary to fight grain of the wheat and no more. Care anthracnose it could doubtless be con trolled by spraying with bordeaux mixture, commencing before the leaves appear and repeating the treatment at intervals of ten to fourteen days until the fruit is two-tnirds grown. Thor ough spraying will also have a ten dency to check the ravages of cane blight and by the addition of paris green to the mixture, currant worms may be readily controlled without ex tra labor.—Professor F. C. Stewart, of the New York .Experiment Station. Raising Calves. To keep up the supply of stock, which should be constantly on the in crease in this country, large numbers of calves must he raised. A great many of these young animals are now sold to the butchers, and this detracts large ly from the supply that is needed to keep the number good on the farm. And in some instances it is feared that the best, or those that will bring the most money, are disposed of in this way. The farmer should make no mis take in this matter, and injure future prospects for a little present gain. Tits best for the purpose needed should 1)0 retained on the farm. Particularly should this be the case where dairying is the leading industry, and indeed the same rule will apply where beef pro duction is followed, or both combined. The best are none too good for the purpose. But I wish now to speak more par ticularly of the dairy. The farmer as a general thing should raise his own stock, —that is, the heifers. Of course he should get the best males he can from the most approved families or breeds, and then select the most prom ising heifer calves from the best cows. A considerable proportion of our most enterprising dairymen, those who are in a condition to do so, have their cows fresh in milk from September on during the four succeeding months. This affords a good opportunity for raising a fine lot of fall and winter calves that, if well cared for, will be come large, thrifty animals, which an other spring, as the postures become good, will be fully able to care for themselves. The raising of calves in this manner is becoming quite an in dustry of itself where winter dairying is practised. It comes at a time of the year when the work can be readily performed and in the best manner. To be the most successful in this business there are some necessary con ditions. These are comfortable quar ters, where the young animals can be kept dry and warm. This is very im portant, as they can hardly be ex pected to thrive or to do well in cold, dark, wet pens. Plenty of bedding to keep them dry is one of the requisites, and they should be fed regularly with sweet, warm milk, it may he skimmilk after the first few weeks or days even, with neither too little nor too much at a time. Where separators are used on the farm, or cold, deep setting of milk precticed these conditions can be suc cessfully carried out. Where calves are thus kept in a comfortable stable and fed milk until the following spring, tuey should become such animals that the owner may well be proud of. But milk should not form the entire ra tion. After a few weeks they will com mence to eat a little hay and it should he fed to them regularly, and that of the best quality. If there is a silo on the premises the ensilage will be rel ished and help to make a better ration. Not much grain need be fed, as it is essential to develop the milking qual ities rather than those of a beef ten dency. A little bran or oats will not come amiss. The idea should be to keep them healthy, thrifty anu grow ing all through the winter, the begin ning of just such animals as the far mer will be delighted with a little time hence, when they shall take their places in his own dairy or go to make a profitable addition to some other herd.—E. R. Towle, in American Culti vator. The Kangaroo Kicks. The porters and cabmen at Euston were wiser than they knew when they rapidly retreated on observing that the escaping kangaroo was assuming a belligerent attitude. When a big "eld man'' kangaroo stiffens his tail and converts it into a sort of revolv ing pivot, bearing the whole weight of his body, leaving his tremendously powerful legs free for attack and de fense, everybody does not want to be ripped up or thrown in a heap for a considerable distance, will give the marsupial a wide berth. Only those who have seen the full grown kanga roo in his native Australian bush with his back to a tree, scattering dogs, bleeding and torn, right and left, can form any adequate idea of the pro digous strength the animal is capable of exerting when he finds himself li a tight corner. Kangaroos are nov getting scarce in the southern parts of Australia, but they are still pretty numerous in the thinly-peopled norP.i —London Chronicle. A chimney of 115 feet high will with out danger, sway ten Inches in ft wind A TIGER YARN. A Tale Even Stranger Than That About a Certain Tommy. There is no tiger story in India more hallowed by custom and unstaled by variety than that of the Tommy who hung on to the tiger’s tail till it came off. I suppose it is to be reckoned among the beneficent effects of our education of the native, says the Lon don Tatler, that this fine old chestnut has recently been appropriated and served up by the baboo in his native papers. We are told how the animal, “infuriated" at having the door of the baboo’s sitting-room shut in his face, tried to get in through the roof. “He pushed up the thatch with his head and just got well in, when down came the thatch upon him, preventing him from moving either way. Master Stripes was now an object of derision to the assembled villagers. One brave youth got hold of his tail and there was a regular tug-of-war between man and tiger. But a still stranger thing happened. The tail gave way under severe tension and a considerable por tion of it was left in the hands of the plucky youth, to the delight of the by standers.” After this sort of tiling a plain, un varnished fact is what you begin to think refreshing. But the plain, un varnished fact which has just taken place in Rangoon is really more as tonishing. A man-eating tigress, which had recently been reported in the vici nity of Rangoon, was suddenly discov ered early the other morning to be ly ing fast asleep on the platform of the famous Schwe Dagon pagoda, which stands almost in the centre of Ran goon and is thechief place of Buddhist worship in lower Burmah. The pagoda is thronged night and day with monks and devotees, and it would be almost incredible if it were not true that a tigress should choose such a place for a night’s rest. Perhaps the monks will explain that she was in a former exist ence a wicked nun who had now come to do penance before the shrine of Buddha, or perhaps she remembered the spot as one where she might easily pick out a fat devotee for dinner. At any rate, there on the gilded platform she was seen to be sleeping in the early morning sunshine, and the ex citement and panic of the holy men may be imagined. They rushed across to the arsenal just below and called upon the sahibs to save them. Some of the officers and “the sons of the military” came to their aid. It is rumored that a firing party was drawn up which shot at the tigress by sections and half sections; but the tig ress wisely refused to be frightened— she was, of course, secure from being hit—by the British army. At any rate, in the end, Major Jennings climbed on to the roof of a pyathat and Mr. Chris topher on to the scaffolding of one of the small pagodas. Thence they fired. The tigress was hit, but did not move. After another shot to make sure, Major Jennings, followed by some Burmans armed with spears, gave the beast the coup de grace. It proved to be a tig ress in fine condition, measuring be tween seven and eight feet. Man Told to be a Woman. “We men are frequently called cow ards when it comes to enduring physi cal pain, and it may be we deserve it,” said a treasury official, “but I never had the fact so forcibly present ed to me as one morning last week. I bad been suffering from my head for a few days and on my way to office one morning last week determined to see the doctor about it, and did so. Contrary to all rules concerning a vis it to the doctor, the pain became more intense instead of stopping or even getting better. “It may have been that my groans disturbed the patient for whom the doctor was preseribing in an adjoining room. At any rate, in a snort while the doer ilew open and I prepared to pour my woes into his sympathetic ear. Instead I was greeted with ‘What in heaven’s name is the matter with you, Jack? Wnat are you groaning about?’ I tried to tell him, and, feel ing rather ashamed of myself, made it a little worse than it already was. Ts that all?’ he came back at me; ‘welt, I'll get to you after a while; you have a little cold, and for heaven's sake stop your moaning, brace up and be a woman for once in your life.’ "After that blow I remained quiet until it came my turn to seek his med ical advice. I then agreed with him that it was nothing but a slight cola, and he laughingly told me as I went out that he hoped the last dose would be as beneficial as the first.” —Wash- ington Post. Self-Made Copper King of Japan. We regret to announce the death of Mr. Furukawa Ichibel, owner' of the Asliiwo copper mines. He was a self made man, having originally been a hawker of beancurd cakes in Kyoto. Fortune took him by the hand when at 22 he entered the service of the Kcyioike house in Kyoto, whereafter he was adopted into the family of Fur ukawa Tarozayemcn and initiated in to the mysteries of the foreign silk trade under the auspices of the Ouo gumi. It appears that from the year 1874, after the bankruptcy of the Ono firm, he conceived the idea that Japan’s future lay in the development of mines, and following that inspiration, he devoted himself to getting posses sion, wholly or in part, of various min ing properties, first that of Kusakura (copper) and then those of Ashiwo, Irnai and Sui. No difficulties seem to have daunted him, and at the time of his death he had a proprietary inter est in 69 mines, measuring twenty-five millions of tsubo, employing 30,000 men; having machinery of 7000 horse power, and producing 20 kwamme of gold, 3000 kwan of silver, 16 million pounds of copper, and 400,000 tons of coal. These figures represent 20 per cent of the whole production of silver in Japan and 40 percent of that of copper. Mr. Furukawa was 79 years of age at the time of his death, and his malady was cancer of the stomacn. -The Japan Mail. A Bacteria Lamp. A professor at Prague has construct ed a lamp which is lighted by means of bacteria. He believes that it will be of special use to miners. HOUSEHOLD * * * * * * MATTERS Care of Children’s Hair. Mothers should teach their children to care for their hair as early as pos sible. If the little girl is coaxed into the habit of giving her locks a hundred strokes with a stiff brush every morn iug and evening nud braiding them loosely for lied the foundation for a future beautiful head of hair will be laid. Counting the strokes will lighten ♦he task for her. and she will soon be come accustomed to it and make it part of her daily toilet. Too many children are allowed to go to bed with their hair in a tousled condition, only to have it jerked and tangled Hastily when school time comeß around. Such a practice is disastrous to the nerves of a sensitive child and ruinous to tlie hair. Teach the little daughter to take care of her hair, and at the light time, and also to keep her brushes and comb in the proper state of cleanliness. These articles should lie as strictly personal property as the tooth brush. Never alloNv one child to use the other’s hair brush. Dis eases of the scalp are most contagious, and the brush is the surest germ agent. —Washington Star. Cake>Making Axioms. To get a fine grained cake beat thor oughly after tlie flour is added. ... Sweet milk makes cake that cuts like pound cake. Sour milk makes spongy light cake. * * * Always sift flour before measuring, then it may be sifted again with the baking powder to insure their being thoroughly blended. * • In making fruit cakes add the fruit before putting in the flour, as this will prevent it falling to the bottom of the cake. Flouring the fruit Is un necessary, unless the fruit is damp. * * * If a cake cracks open while baking, the recipe contains too much flour. ... In creaming butter and sugar, when the butter is too hard to blend easily, warm the howl, and, if necessary, warm tho sugar, but never warm the buttei, as tills will change both text ure and flavor of the cake. ... The smaller the cake the hotter should be the oven. Large, rich cakes require very slow baking. - Grease cake pans with lard or drip pings, as butter will be likely to make tlie cake stick, owing to the salt in it.—Philadelphia Telegraph. 'V Shrinking Wash Fabrics, There is one little bit of work the home dressmaker should never try to avoid. If she does, her efforts to have a pretty summer wardrobe are going to spell failure. She should never, un der any circumstances—no matter how work presses nor how limited her time —fail to shrink her wash fabrics be fore making up. Ail such materials ns linen, madras, duck and the like will shrink an Inch for every yard the first time they are washed. This means skirts will be too short, waistbands not able to meet, the skirt will ride up over the Hips, and bodices get all out of proportion. And it is quite likely that every time they are washed there after the shrinking will continue to some extent. Neither depend upon the laundress to do your shrinking. She will proba bly do it the wrong way—that is, dip it in water, wring it out, and then iron it. Done this way, the material will go on cheerfully shrinking at the next washing. The proper way Is very simple and easy, and any one can do it. The re sults are very satisfactory, >for it has been done by the writer many times. Fill a bathtub quarter full of clear filtered water. Be sure to filter the water, otherwise the material, if white or light colored, is liable to have a darkish hue when dried. Then fold youi material in a clean towel to pre vent dust from settling on it, put it-in tlie water, and let it remain there all day or over night. On taking it out of tlie water do not unwrap the folds or wring it out, but hand it up drip ping. It will lake some time, but it will eventually dry, and be smooth enough to make up without ironing. When the skirt, or whatever tlie ar ticle is, inis been finished, it should then he dampened and pressed. If any one will try this method, they will lie sure to find it very satisfactory, and well worth the little extra trouble.— Philadelphia Telegraph. RECIPES f Boiled Salad Dressing—Stir one tea spoonful of oil or melted butter, one teaspoonful each of mustard, salt and sugar together; add three beaten eggs; then ono cupful of vinegar and one cupful of milk; cook In a double boiler until as thick as boiled custard. liice Bannocks—One cup of rice, set over lire in a little water until swelled thoroughly; add one cup milk and piece of butter size of walnut. Let stand un til morning, add one-half pint Indian me.-l, two well beaten eggs, two table spoonfuls of floor, a liberal pint of milk, a half teaspoonful of salt. Bake one hour in shallow pans. Buttermilk Dumplings—Rent two egge togetlier and mix them with two and one-half cupfuls of buttermilk. Dissolve a teaspoonful of baking soda in a very little boiling water; mix it with the milk and Immediately mix with enough flour to make a dough soft enough to drop from a spoon. Drop into boiling water, cover closely and boil steadily, but not too rapidly, for ten minutes. New Rice Pudding—Wash one-fourth cup of uncooked rice in three waters, put into a deep baking dish with one- Ihird cup of sugar, four cups of milk aud a rounded teaspoouful of butter. Bake slowly two hours, stirring occa sionally at first. A rich brown ertmt should form on top. It may be eaten with or without cream. It has an alto gethei different toiro and flavor from tfee pudOing ac witb cooked tie*. EVENING ON THE PORCH* ■When work is over for the day And twilight gathers ’round And Lucy takes iho garden hose And wets the dusty ground, When through the dusk Where scents ot innsk Are borne upon the breeze, A voice says, “Law! 1 never saw Rose bushes grow like these! That’s when the world Is brighter than The firefly’s tickle torch, When kids roll on The level lawn And chairs are on the porch. When darkness finally settles down And drives away the heat, And ends ihs bail game which the boyi Are playing In the street. Oh, then's the time When half in rhyme The dreams go to and fro, With oceans of Bright stars above And seas of love below. Till reason says It’s time to leave The night, the damp, the air, But with the dreams A something seems To Chain one to the cha'r. —lndianapolis Bun. HUMOROUS. Wigg—Did he inherit his money or did he make it? Wagg—Worse than either. He married lor it. “Your face is very familiar to me,” remarked the barber. “Not half so familiar as your manner to me,” re plied the crusty man in the chair. Billings—How did you know Pottel took tho elevator coming up? Bert — Oh, I know Pottel’s nature. He takes everything he can lay his hands on- Miss Gushing—Which do you pre fer, Mr. Dashing, blondes or bru nettes? Jack Dashing—Oh, it ail de pends on the girl I am with. —Chicago News. Silllcus—How did he acquire his reputation for such great wisdom? Cynicus—Why, there isn’t a subject under the sun that he can’t remain si lent about. Growler—When ’ I was younger, madam, I was a lion. Mrs. Growler — I agree with you. Growler —You do? Mrs. Growler —X°s; you are still the king of beasts. “That old lady,” said the fish deal er’s assitant, “wants a black bass, and we haven’t any.” “Oh, well, give hei a bluefish,” replied the dealer. “She’s colorblind, anyhow.” Manager —Yes, mum; this is the Os sifiecf'Man. He stands like a statue all day and does not move an inch. Mrs. Van Albert —Goodness! Wouldn’t he make an ideal butler? Pete —When yer dad was lickin’ yer I heard him say it pained him more than it did you. Ain’t data chestnut? Jimmy—Naw; ’twas de truth dis time. De switch urolte an flew in his eye. “Yes,” remarked the loud-voiced man with the diamond stud, “i am out of politics for good.” “Ah,” mur mured tho sedate little fellow in the corner, “May I ask for whose good?” Blcbbs —There goes a fellow whose name is in everybody’s month. Slobbs —A famous character, eh? Biobits— Not at all. He is quite unknown to fame, but his name happens to be Tongue. The Smart Architect. —Wealthy Pa tron —Remember, that in making plans for my house, bay windows are barred. Smart Architect —I thought only prison windows were barred. — Express. Ascum —If “brethren” is a synonym for “brothers,” why not “sistern” for "sisters?” Henpeck—Nonsense! I’ve often heard of a cistern that would dry up occasionally.—Catholic Standard and Times. Rollingston Nomoss—Here’s a piece in de paper wot says de great trouble wid de American people is dat dey eat too much. Hungry Hawkins —Hully, gee! An’ people gits paid fer writin’ t’ings like dat! “Tommy,” said the surprised moth er as she caught him in the act of tak ing too Sfili slice of cake, uren t you forgetting yourself?” “No, ma,” chuckled Tommy; “I am remembering myself pretty well.” Mrs. Briggs—Funny about men. Mrs. Fitts —What’s funny? Mrs. Briggs—When we were married John was mad because the people threw rice at me, and now he thinks nothing of flinging at me any bit of ironmon gery that happens to be near his hand. "That is Prof. Dygge, is it? He seems to be the lion of the evening. What has he ever done to make him famous?” "Haven’t you heard about him? He’s the man that succeeded in supplying a Manx cat with a tail by gratting the latter half of a snake on ine animal. —Chicago News. \ Mystery of the “Dowser.” In an interesting letter published in last week’s Speaker, Lord rarrar calls attention to the mystery in which the time-honored calling of the “dowser” is still enveloped. The “dowser” is, of course, a person endowed with the rare sense'of being abl.e to detect the presence and locality of underground streams of water, and the illustra tions supplied y Lord Farrer of tho practical value c.f this accomplish ment fully corroborate the mass ot testimony that has been collected from time to time. The inference to be drawn from Lord Farrer’s observations is that the hazel twig usually employed as an in dex is by no means a necessary part of the dowser’s equipment, and that the sense which warns him cf the presence of water is most probably equivalent to the instinct that guides the birds and animats of the desert to their drinking places. Asa matter of fact, the hazel twig has been tested as often as planchette, and will “dip" in the hands of the merest novice Jf persevered with lor a time. The results, too, are usually as misleading as those obtained by tho m o of the heart-shaped board. But th * instinct of the born "dowser" would appear to be a most valuable one, and capable of further develop ment if properly understood and di rected. —Black and White. All About Metaphysics, A Scotchman thus defin.ru meta physics: “When a mon wha’ kens naething aboot any subject takes a subject that nae mon kens anything aboot and explains it to anither mo still more ignorant than himself-* that'* metaphysics."—The Lyre.