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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. To Clean Laces. Great care should always be used in cleausing and doing up expensive lace or tins embroidery, so as not to break the meshes or threads in the work. They must never be rubbed, but patted in the hands. This will take out the soiled places. Then put into an earthen dish and pour boiling hot water over them, Let them stand till cool, then rinse in clear or blued water, if they are white; if the yellow tint is desired, a little strong will coffee put into the rinsing should water give the right shade. Laces never be starched very stiff; it spoils their beauty aud makes them look un graceful aud old. The figures must be picked out smooth; then spread on a clean white flannel and press with a cool iron. Laces treated in. this way will preserve their beauty uutii entirely used up by old age. How to Can Beef. Beef may be canned in the following manner: The meat is cooked by roast iug, baking, of boiling, and either fresh or corned. When well cooked it is cut into suitable pieces and packed firmly in the' cans, without the heads, so that the contents can be made solid and till the can completely. The covers are then soldered on and the cans are put into a boiler with a solution of chloride of lime, ■which boils at a much higher heat than water, or in water under pressure. This produces a heat which destroys all germs of decomposition and leaves the meat iu such a condition that it will remain un the changed as long as air is excluded from cans. I or domestic use meat of any kind may be canned or preserved by cook ing from it bone thoroughly, cutting it up free and pressing it while hot in glass cans and then pouring hot melted lard or tallow to All tne bottles. The bottles uire immediately sca.ed. Meat thusqiut up will keep a longtime. This is a good way to put up plentiful. sausage-meat New Bright Hints. Jawclry can be made to look like new by washing in ammonia aud water or alcohol, then rub and dry, polishing with prepared chalk applied with flannel or chamois skin. Silverware to be kept blight should never be washed in soap suds; clear water is best. To prevent articles from tarn shing, warm them and apply with a soft brush a thin solution of col’odium in alcohol. The ware can be brightened by rubbing with a flannel or chamois skin dipped in whiting or chalk, then with a newspaper. Brass can be cleaned by scouring with ashes and soapsuds and afterward with vinegar mixed with salt heated to a boiling point, then dry thoroughly and brighten with a pewspapqy Lime free from grit mixed wuh alcohol applied with leather will give a beautiful polish to steel. lo give stoves a good lustre add either alum or sugar to good polish. 1 in heating pans can be and prevented from rusting by them heatmg rubbing weH Wood with linseed oil and again ashes or whiting (which isbetter) mixed with kerosene will brighten them .-Detroit I<reo Press. Some Simple Remedies. For a sore throat cut slices of fat, boneless bacon, pepper thickly, and tie around the throat with a flannel cloth. When stung by a bee or wasp, make a paste of common earth and water, put on the place at once and cover with a cloth. For a cold on the chest a flannel rag wrung cut in boiling water and sprinkled gives with turpentine, relief. laid on When the chest, the greatest the in and the “Soiy.y,,"; longer it there linger For is kept the better. flaxseed a cough, boil one ounce of in a pint of water, strain and aid a little honey, one ounce of rock candy, and the juice of three lemons - ; mix and boil well. Drink as hot as possible. Often after cooking a meal a person will feel tired aud have no appetite. For this beat a raw egg until light, stir in a little milk an sugar und season with nutmeg. Drink half an hour before eating. For a burn or scald make a paste of common baking soda and water, apply at once and cover with a linen cloth. When the skin is broken apply gives the white instant of relief, au egg with a feather; -thi3 as it keeps the air from the flesh. At tho first signs of -a, run-round, take a cup of wood ashes, put in a pan with a quart of cold water, put the pan on the sfove, put your finger in the pan, keep it there until the water begins to boil, or as long as it can be borne. Repeat once or twice if neces¬ sary.— Good Ilo’tsckeepijig. Recipes, .Delicious Rick Pudding. IVash and’ pick a cupful of lice; put into a pudding mold with one quart of milk; steam for two hours. Eat with cream and sugar, Boston Brown Bread Steamed.— Cut into slices a loaf of stale Boston brown bread. Put a kettle of hot water on the range. On it place the steamer, put the slices in it, cover and steam fif teen minutes. When done butter quickly and serve on a hot plate, Baked Cheese.— Take one cup and a half of finely chopped or grated cheese, a( j^ half a (Sup of bread crumbs, one cup f u ] 0 f m ilk, one egg, beaten light, a lit tiered pepper and salt to taste. Put it in a buttered dish and bake fifteen minutes in a quick oven. This is a good way to use the last of a piece of cheese, when it becomes too dry to be nice alone. Penrith Pudding. —Cut thin slices of bread and butter, spread them with stewed cranberries. Make a custard by mixing one pint and of milk with two well beaten eggs four tablepoonfuls of sugar. If this is not enough to cover the bread and butter double the quantity, Bake until the custard is set. This is a good pudding way to use stale bread. Serve the cold. Sweet Potatoes Sauce.— This is a very fine way of utilizing left over swce t potatoes: Fry a slice of onion in a pan . then remove it. Cut up two boiled sweet potato? into slices, then j n to dice, and fry them lightly in the p au . Shape them as you would an ome. j e f ( add salt and pepper and a little chopped parsley, and turn out on a hot q; s b. The onion flavor removes the pe ouliar flavor of the cold potatoes without own flavor being recognized. If the 0 , dcm is not objected to it can remain aud be mixed with the potatoes, Kidney Beans m Gravy. —The red kid b J which is called the French bean sol le dealerS) is a ve ,y nutri¬ tious and wholesome vegetable, and may be cooked as our ordinary white bean, but with a gravy it is,more desirable, as it m ay be served at almost any meal, j i> u l in the frying pan an ounce of hut tor, half a teaspoonful of dry flour, and a teaspoonful of minced onion; brown ‘ slightly, aud add half of beef a p ut | gravy or rich soup stock; add the neces S ary salt and pepper. Now add a quart 0 f co ld boiled beans; simmer long enough to heat them thoroughly: add a squeeze of lemon juice, and beaiis they aro , e acly for the table. If the aro very dry they should be soaked and boiled before using them, p URK A LA Reine. —Boil a fowl in two quartg of W ater until tender; add two leFy, of parsley, a leaf onion, or two of soup ce a quarter { of an one young cairot , sa t and six whole peppers; sim mer slowly an d add more water as the q f UaI1 tity in the saucepan evaporates, {emove tho f ow l when done. When cold ’ skin and cut the meat . Boak a ‘ ter o{ a loaf of home-made bread a nd chicken together. Skim and strain broth; place ‘ it on the range, ° but do not let it boiL Now rub the pasta through a fine sieve, add it to the broth, whisk into it half a pint of lukewarm cream, and a teaspoonful of flour. Some of the chicken pulp may be rolled into little balls and served with the soup. According to the traditions of the kitchen this soup owes its name to no less a per¬ sonage than the wife of Henry IV., Margaret of Valois, who was said to he very fond of it. A la Reine is a term applied to dishes prepared according which to the Queen’s instructions, or that is especially the food of her Majesty. * F , A farmer named Pius Bean, living near Concordia, Kan., suffered death in a singular manner. He had a feed grinder run by a windmill, and, having occasion to climb above the grinder, the time, the shaft, which was turning and, at spite of the caught his clothes in man’s efforts, his stout coat and trousers were wound around the iron bars. He called to his employes to cut him down, but they could not reach him. It was a fearful squeeze. The sufferer’s face grew purple, his eyes bulged, and the veins stood out. At last the mill could wind no further and had stopped, squeezed but too late. The last breath been out of its victim, and he hung lifeless, The number of whites now in Alaska Territory is stated at .5,000, and the number of uncivilized natives at 27,500. The total of all classes is stated at 89,- 800. The Funereal Month of March. An observant tell one's metropolitan physical barber says that he oan condition by tho state of his hair! The Bible tells us that with his hair gone Samson lost his strength. The Romans con¬ sidered baldness a serious affliction and Julius Cajsar was his never poll quite baro. satisfied with himself because was The face, however, is the open book, and one can readily changes trace and in complexion its various the expres .-.ions, lines, state of the system. The eye that is unusually bright and yet has a pallid brightness, the face upon whose cheeks nature paints a rose of singular beauty and flush, more marked in contrast forehead with the alabaster appearance of the and nose and lower part of the face, is one of those whom the s killed physician will tell you will some day dread the funereal month of March, because it is then that consumption reaps its richest harvest. Consumption they tell us is caused by this, that and the other thing, by microbes in the air, by micro-organ t ' isms in the blood, by deficient nutrition, by a thousand and one things, but whatever the cause, decay begins with a cough and the remedy that cough that will the effectually disease of stop the the lungs. cause of cures That is all there is of it. The cough is an evidence of a wasting. To stop it effectually, a remedy must be used that will search out the cause, remove that and then heal the lung and do away with the cough. This is the power, special to itself, possessed alone by Warner's Log Cabin Cough and Consumption remedy. This is no new¬ fangled notion of narcotics and poisons, but an old-fashioned preparation of balsams, roots and herbs, such as was used by our ancestors many years ago, the formula of which has been secured exclusively by the present manufacturers at great trouble and expense. It is not a mere cold dryer. It is a system-searcher and upbuikler and a con¬ sumption wins, because expellant. Where others constitutional fail, it it gets at the cause and removes it from the system.' J. W. Hensaw, of Greensboro, Pa., on Jan. 15, 1888, reported that “hehad derived more real benefit for the lengtii of time, from Warner’s Log Cabin Cough and Consump¬ tion remedy than he had for years from the best state physicians.” If you have a cough, night sweats, “ posi¬ tive assurance in your own mind that you, oh—-you, flesh, have no consumption,” lungs and yet lose appetite, courage, that as your tho funereal waste away,you may know soon month of March will claim you, unless promptly and If other faithfully remedies you use have the failed article named. try this one thoroughly. If others are offered, insist the more on trying this uuequaled preparation. consumption, Home persons are prone to and they should never allow the disease to be¬ come seated. It has just been discovered that to en¬ able one to penetrate thick, smoky places, the mouth and lips should be covered with cotton wool. •£•3*85. The Five Sisters, There were five fair sisters, and each had an aim— Flora would fain be a fashionable dame; Scholarly Susan’s selection was books; Coquettish Cora cared more for good looks; Sensible Anna, ambitious, Sarah aspired after wealth; So she took Dr. sought Pierce’s first for good health. Golden Medical Dis¬ covery and grew healthy and blooming. Cora’s beauty quickly faded; Susan’s eyesight failed from over-study; Flora became nevous and fretful in striving after fashion and a sickly family, ble Sarah kept Anna’s husband poor. But sensi¬ and intelligent, grew aud daily she more married healthy, charming rich. Florida estimates say, that 60,000 tourists left S6,000,000 t here during the season. Consumption Surely Cured. To the Editor:—Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By it* timely use thousands of shall hopeless glad cases have been permanently cured. I be to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who ha ve con sumption and O. if they will send me their Express P. address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM, M. C., 181 Pear l St., N. Y. Tlie Prince of Wales* day? Why He is is the likely Prince reign. of Wales like a cloudy Remedy of Sweet to Gum Taylor’s Mullein Cherokee and is now the king ventive. of all cough medicines, and is a croup pre¬ The recent New Yoi k blizzard cost the New York, New Haven and Hartford R. B., $100,000. The three R’s brough f , Regret Reproach and Remorse to a great political party in 1884. The three P’s, when signifying Dr. Pierce’s Purga¬ tive Pe lets, brina Peace to the mind, Preser¬ vation and Perfection of health to the body. The amount on deposit in the savings banks of the United States is $1,235,247,371. JACOBS MmM Qlj, TRADE a. I gUSB MARK » v THE LEA DING R EMEDY. THE TRADE SAYS SO. The Suffering Class Says So To The Trade. ITS virtues*ake phenomenal, its cur es are mar velous. Chronic Cases 40 Years’Standing Cured Permanently. Sold by Druggists and Dealers Everywhere. Tho Charles A. Vosreler Co., Iialto., Md. HERBBAND FIFTH WHEEL. fcSHSSSS Improvement. HERB R A N U CO., Fremont, O. Ml mUt ¥1 Live nt anythin?else at homo and in make (he more world. money Either working Costly for us outfit than Bex. ruuit. Term* vault, Address, Tui’C & Co., Augusta, Main*. ^(.Hines V«lS r Y, (ombound For The Nervous The Debilitated f* H URES Nervous The Prostration,Nervous Aged Head* 1 ache, Neuralgia, NervousWeakness, Stomach and Liver Diseases, and all affections of the Kidneys. AS A NERVE TONIC, It Strengthens end Quiets the Nerves. AS AN ALTERATIVE, It Purifies and Enriches the Blood. AS A LAXATIVE, It nets mildly, but sorely, on the Bowels. AS A DIURETIC. It Regulates the Kid. neys and Cures their Diseases. Recommended by professional and businessmen. Price $ 1 . 00 . Sold by druggists. Send for circulars. VELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Proprietors. BURLINGTON, VT. 9 WELLS* HAIR I. BALSAM restores Bair to origi- Gray K UJ | 1 I elegantdresa- nal color. A a i-K lil i ins, softens Hi ytisl 'll I ond-beautifles Nogrease JU| nor A oil. A Tonic Restorative. 1 (Ha Prevents hair I coming out; : wi . SiBM res cleanses strengthens, and §/ heals scalp. 50c. Druggists E. S. WELLS, Jerwj City, K. J. R9UGH<> N CATARRH Unequaled Catarrhal £&£*& worst chronic cases. for throat affections, diphtheria, foul cold breath, in the offensive head. Ask odors, for “Rough sore throat, ok Catakrb. 60c. Drupf. E. 8. WELLS, Jersey City, N. 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Allen, Mac< con. gets gold watcb, Mar. 15. new offer ab ove. _ Itfeij K LY*S n Ely’s Cream Balm, Gives relief at once and cures (AY-FEVER^^ COLD IN HEAD, Catarrh and Hay Fever. Not a Liquid or Snuff! sS Apply Balm mto each nostril. JLSAJEly Bros.,235Greenwich Sfc.,N.Y. jgl/tatyORl MMIa® mm* fQUAIrlTY _ _ PHILADELPHIA”- WBqfsasfL __ Send stamp for Catalogue. [O.OP “OSGOOD” k U. S. Standard Scales. , »-rro) a& Sent on trial. Freight 1 paid. Fully Warranted. 3 TON $35. ------Other size., propor tion* ately low. Agents well paid. Illustrated Catal ogue free. Mention this Paper. OSGOOD & THOMPSON, Binghamton, S. Y. Uf.O-omsU WW live, energetic man, who is not afraid « of work, in every county in the Southern States. Such a mancan make the above amount, handling our goods. No capital 3? co?! Atlanta ua? DG , Wi*. A, N. U...... ........ Thirteen, ’88,