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THE COUNTY RECORD KlJNGSTREE, S. C. LOMS J. BRISTOL , Rd. & Prop'r. I The railways of Switzerland will probably soon pass under the control , of the government. Women may now practice law in the Canadian courts, but they mii9t j do so bareheaded and wearing a black | gown over a black dress, with white ' collars and caffs. . _ ... V ? " Denver, Col, is to have a building 125 feet long by fifty feet deep and two stories high, to be devoted ex- J clnsively to doctors* offices. Tweuty j physicians can be accommodated, but there will be a common operatingroom fitted up in the most approvetf manner. ? Farms in England are selling at ? rninons reduction of their former value, and in many cases cannot be sold at all. In many cases farms have been sold for less than one-tenth of their value twenty years ago. Wellto-do farmers are abandoning the business and going to the colonies or to cities to start life anew. Tho State of Ohio paid over $500,D00 last year for the support of the outside poor, but the law has been 1 recently repealed, and henceforth the | towns must take care for the needy I outside the almshouses as well as ! within. The expense to the state for indoor relief and the soldiers' relief commission brought the years' total to over $1,750,000. Ibe queerest educational contract in the history of West Kentucky has beeu closed at Lewisbnrg, McCraoken County, near the Graves County lineCitizens living in both Graves and McCracken counties for a raidus of a mile of two have subscrided $1100 * for the purpose of building a school. Each patron proposes to get the value of his stock io tuition for his children uuriDg the next three years. After j that time the schoolhouse will be the persoual property of Professor Rork of Paducab, who has been engaged to teach during the three years. The Argentine Republic trill hereafter be a very unhealthy place of residence for persons vho do not believe in marriage. There is a new law in that conntry which contains these provisions: "Every male resident between the ages of 20 and 80 shall pay a tax till he marries, and shall pay it every month. Young celibates of either sex who shall, without legiti# mate motive, reject the addresses of him or her who may aspire to his or her hand and who continue unmarried shall pay the sum of 500 piasters for the benefit of the young person, man or woman, who has been so refused." There isn't a hair on President McKinley's face, and, according to the New York Press, he is in the style.. He carries us baok to the anti-bellum fashion of the White House. With the exception of Martin Van Buren, there was never a president before Lincoln who wore a beard. Van Buret! had smail patches of hair on his t > cheeka General Taylor's hair descended low before his ears, but could not be called a beard. Lincolu was the first president to wear a beard, and Grant the first to wear a mustache. All the presidents since Johnson have had beards or mustaches, or both. Grant, Huyes, Garfield and Harrison were bearded like the pard. Arthur !snd a fine set of side whiskers. Cleveland wears a heavy mustache. Science often works along soma very miuute lines, and when laid down their utility may at first be matters of groat doubt, but eventually most of them develop into affairs of the ; greatest importance. One of these apparently useless discoveries has just been announced. It is the result of ! the patient investigations of a professor at.Harvard who declares thst bis researches with the aid of a newly devised machine enable him to fit the Iaf/io in fho wrndtinh/ivi a/ AVI 'M ?UV V\?ltVblVU ISJL an X-ray photograph at 1,000.000 horsepower exerted during the teumiliionth part of a second. This accounts, be says, for the ability of this mysterious element to penetrate solid substances. The figures have a theoretical appearance that would tend to cast doubt upon their serious accuracy, but the high character of the investigator and the solemnity with which the declaration is made by him and received by the scientific world are sufficient to convince the lay mind ' that something truly great has been discovered. i NEWS ITEMS. Southern Pencil Pointers. The buildings at the Tennessee Exposition are ready for the exhibits. Moses X. Harshaw's nomination has been sent to the United States Senate as postmaster at Lenoir, X. C. One hundred bales of tobacco, worth Si. 50 a pound, has been shipped toXew York by Cuban tobacco growers from Fort Meade, Fla. Xear Pikeville, Ky., while Tom Parben, a logging man, was absent in Virginia chopping wood, his mountain home burned and his wife and four children were roasted alive. Saturday at Frankfort, Ky., in the election of a United States senator, tne Democrats broke a quorum, leaving the .Republican candidate; Deboe, four votes short of election. Governor Bradley begged to vote for Deboe. Milton G. Coi>e, the defaulting expresident of the First National Bank of Paducah, Ky., has been indicted for forgery. Greenville, S. C., has secured the Southern Railway terminal that has formerly been at Central. Damage is reported from the frost of the 20th from Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. At Norfolk, Va., a plant has been established with a capacity for five tons of peanuts daily, for the manufacture of peanut oil, peanut flour and stock feed, the estimated combined yield representing more than $400 a day. W. W. Kidd, of Marshall county, Ala., has decamped. His shortage is i ftin iino V-vj vvv. Wm. J. Bryan made an address before a crowd of rbout 1,000 people in the Kentucky legislature, representing every faction in that State. At Barboursville, W. Va., Mrs. Amos D. Reynolds was killed by her daughter-in-law during a family row. Her head was severed from her body with an axe. James J. Willis, of Florida, thei deputy auditor of the State Department has been removed. It is stated that during the past year Mr. Willis has been absent from his desk 234 days with pay. All About the North. The lockout against the steam-fitters in New York has been called off. The New York Legislature has finished its session and adjourned. President Spalding, of the Chicago Globe Savings Bank, has been sent to jail, the judge being dissatisfied with, the bond given by him. Saturday gold bullion to the amount of $977,000 was drawn from the New York sub-treasury for export, the first since last July. The Connecticut Senate has passed a bill prohibiting free lunches in saloons. A curfew ordinance requiring children to be indoors by 8 o'clock is in effect at Springfield, Ohio. The "king of negro minstrels,'' Billy Birch, died in New York at the age of 65 years of paralysis of the brain and chronic Bright's disease. R. C. Bundy (colored), of Cincinnati, O., has been "appointed a cadet at the Naval Academy by Representative Shattuc. Joseph ?. Kelly has confessed to the murder of Cashier Stickney, Somersworth, N. H., admitting that he committed both the murder and the rdt>bery. The business portion of the town of Boca, O., has been burned. The total loss will reach ?80,000. The cause of the fire was attributed to tramps. Miscellaneous. Greece has a population of 2,187,208. Pneumatic tube mail service will soon be tried in Boston. . An unsuccessful attempt was made at Rome, Italy, to assassinate King Humbert by an iron worker, who was out of work. The Southern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions have closed their fiscal year free of debt, and with more than $500 in the treasury. A good showing. ' Ex-President Cleveland delivered an address before the Reform Club in New York Saturday on "Present Problems." He defined the cause that lead to the depression around us as the false teachings of agitators and demagogues, and says Democratic conscience cannot be forced to follow false lights. The trial of the only remaining issue in the Fair will case has begun at San Francisco. Instead of a contest for the whole estates, and a struggle over $20, 500,000, it is a fight for $1,000,000 the case having narrowed down to a legal battle over two pieces of real estate which Miss Nellie Craven says Senator Fair conveyed to her by pencil deed a few days prior to his death. One hundred women of the Warren Avenue Congregational Church, of Chicago, have just earned $1 each for the church. At a meeting the other evening each one told what she did. One shaved her husband; another got five cents whenever she got up before ! ?V?iieV\oni1 on/\fV?ov a waoVi for her son, and got $1 for letting the shirts alone; another assessed her husband $1 for a shine. Still another got the money by not singing a song. One woman starved her hnsband till he paid up. Several thousand razor-back hogs imported into Iowa from Texas daring the pAt year have died from kidney worm. . ? ? ??: Washington. (ien. Miles, commanding the United States army, has the consent of President McKinley to visit the seat of war io Europe. Harold Al. Sewall, of Maine, has beeu ai j>ointed to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Hawaii. The President has sent the following nomination to the Senate: John W. C. Long, to be postmaster at Statesville, N. (.'. V , I feiflHSilft . & THE I'lELD OK ADVENTURE. | THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. Two Gloucester Fishermen's Marvelous Adventure?How a Cowboy Won a Bride?A Thrilling Hide. I HAVE recently met in Gloucester one Howard Blackburn, who was ( for years a Gloucester fisherman, j says a writer in the Washington ^ Star. About ten years ago this man ^ had ono of the most marvelous adven- , tures ct sea on record. He, with a ^ dory mate named Welch, were caught j( out in a frightful snowstorm hauling their trawls on Burgee Bank oi New- ^ foundland. The wind shifted and ^ blew with almost hurricane force. ^ They were compelled to abandon the lines and pull for their lives. The ^ seas ran higher and higher, and every t effort to pull in the direotion cf the e small schooner anchored well to windward was in vain, and, knocking the ^ liead out of one of the kegs used for ^ buoys, a drag was made, and they lay ' to that. Tossed up and down on the c foaming billows, their tiny boat ^ shipped barrels of water, and the ice formed in large lumps and dashed g against the boat's sides and against g, its occupants with great force, and the little dory was in constant danger ^ of swamping. ^ During the long and weary watches b of that night the occupants c*f the A, dory, hungry, oold and bleeding, ^ could see the glare of the flashlights ^ their shipmates on board the schooner kept burning in the vain hope that the poor sailors might reach the ship in t safety. J As the night wore on, the dory, j half-filled with ice and water, drifted ^ to leeward, and before daybreak was p out of sight of the flashlights. In the meantime Weloh was giadnally dying from hanger and cold. Blackburn lost his mittens, and, standing amidst the ice and water in the boat, his P hands and feet bad began to freeze. *; His dory mate, disoonraged and faint-, lay in the stern of the boat, and his " stony stare and pitifal appeals told ? Blackburn as plainly as words that he was dying. * Realizing his own pitifal position, ? an/) tko ?i 4 4nw VtAnnloccnoaa j\9 Vti'o O auu IUO UbKl UW|yOiCDOUCOO VI uio mate's condition, he tucked him up " gently and lovingly :in the stern of the boat, that he might be an com- a fortable as possible, while he yet ? lived. And then,'with the most wonder- 81 ful presence of mind, incomprehen- n sible nerve and grit, he sat down on P the thwart, and, facing his dying com- a rade, pitiful to see in his hopeless and P freezing condition, grasped the oars ? firmly, that his hands might freeze in n a curved position and not straight, rendering him entirely helpless. A " few hours more and his dory mate was 8 dead. As he had lain there in the Cl bottom of the boat he knew he wae P freezing to death, and his last words a were: "I am going, Howard. Goodbye and God bless you. Howard, I 8 can trust you, and now make me a " promise. If you ever reach chore, e' Howard, take me with you. Good-bye. God bless you." " Words cannot describe the suffer- a iug, the physical pain and mental an- Bl gnish through which this poor fisher- 0 man passed. Nor can the pen do credit to the fortitude, the manhood, ? the heroism and noble natnre of the " man. For foot, days without food or water, he struggled on, bearing with " him the dead body of hia comrade. n His feet were stiff and freezing, and 11 the flesh was gradually slipping off of 8 his hands from contact with the oars. * On the fifth day he reached shore. In his wretched condition, after all his P suffering in his touching devotion he 81 pent hours in filling the dying request of his lost comrade. After finally 8 getting the corpse safely on shore, he ^ started in quest of food." Some good ? simple people took him in and cared ^ for him and bathed his frozen hands ? and feet and some days after he ^ reached Gloucester. J He lost both hands and his feet became warped out of shape, render- * ing him forever unable to do any manual labot. But the good people of Gloucester recognized in Blackburn a hero and be was established in a u 6mall business by them. He is as b modest as he is brave, and, while d rough and brusque, he is as gentle as o a child. In his daily life be is as he a woe in fVtrtcA darlr hnnro when adrift S upon the tempestuous ocean, generous t and noble. He is the friend of the widow and orphan, the sick and the i needy, and no one in need ever r appeals in vain to the Gloucester fish- n crman. i As I stood in his small store talking c to him one rainy afternoon, a burly g fisherman entered. "Halloa, How- t ard!" "Halloa, Bill!" was the greet- s ing to each other when Bill hurried to t inquire of him if ho knew of the sad c condition of Mrs. S. down in ^ Duncan street. He tolcl of her illness, F of a sick child, of her poverty-stricken 1 condition. Her rent was overdue, n Notice had been given her to vacate, c unless her rent was paid within a very p short, specified time. "I never heard v of this before," said Blackburn, after h hearing the man's story; "I will h investigate the matter." And he did. t The poor woman was not ejected and t her suffering in other ways was d alleviated. All are not ablo to give a as Blackburn is, but I have yet to c see among men of their corresponding e level in life a more courageous, fear less, brave, generous and moral set than the Gloucester fishermen. How a Cowboy Won a Bride. Very romantic were the incidents leading up to the m&rrige in South Dakota the other day of Myrtle Morrison, the noted "bronco buster," and Frank Dupree, a mixed-blood Sioux Indian. The bride besides being pretty is famous as a breaker and trainer of i broncos, beiDg known as the girl cow- 1 * boy. Though ehe had many admirers, she stoutly insisted that she would never marry a man who could not shoot, ride end throw a lariat better than she. Dupree is a eplendid horseman, jourageous and a member of a very wealthy half-breed family. In addi;ion he ie well educated. Riding together one day, Myrtle and Frank ;ame in sight of a herd of sixty or sev>nty bnflalo. In a spirit of bravado ?rank urge his bronco alongside a huge >uffalo bnll and sprang from his sadlie upon the animal's back. Instantly he herd was stampeding madly across lie prone, with the old bull in the pad. Dnpree's foolhardness had ilaced bim in an extremely dangerous medicament. If he jumped or fell from the b ifalo's back he would certainly be rampled to death by the pursuing erd, and if he retained his seat till he bull became tired and ugly it was qually certain that the beast would lake a fnnous assault upon him when e dismounted. All he could do- was o cling to the bull's back and await a hance to escape alive, which did not ome till be had ridden two miles in his uncomfortable manner. Fortune favored him, for his novel teed ran for some distance along a teep, narrow washout with almost erpendicular banks twenty feet high. lere Dapree jumped nnd slid down be bank just in time to escape the oofs of the herd behind. Meantime be girl had lassoed her companion's orse, and, hurrying after the rapidly isappeariug buffalo, reached the spot ist as Dapree had saved himself. The episode somehow touched a snder spot in Myrtle's heart, and at. a Bquel the bells of Cherry Creek Mision Church announced the union of bis typical frontier couple.?San 'rancisoo Examiner. A Thrilling Rltle. "What was the most exoitiug exerience I ever had?" repeated Clnr ce Hight, as he jerked bis chair a ittle nearer the comfortable grate at be Olympio Gun Club. "I think it ccnrred last summer, when I was ! j o n- a anting aoves up in oonotua vAJuniy. Tow, shooting doves is not particalnr? exciting or nervous, bat this was ne of the hotieet experienoes 1 ever ad. "I had been traveling all day with big bag, and was pretty well tired at when i struck the connty road and tarted tor he me. It was a good foor lilee walk, and I was pretty well leased to see a big wagon load of hay pproaching. The ranches gave me ermissioD to ride, po I scrambled up n tba top, lay'llown on the sweet ew-mown hay and went swaying and singing down the road. I was just ozing off when bang! went my shotun. I had forgotten to take the artridges out of it, and something had ressed the trigger. The horses gave jump and the' driver rolled off into lie ditch. Then I discovered that my nn had set dre to the bay, and I bought it was abont time for me to Bcape. The horses were tearing along Ka marl as hard as tkev could run. at I clambered for the side of the load , nd slid for the road. The tail of my boat hunting coat caught on the top ; f a sharp standard, and there I hang ! o the oareening wagon that threatened o upvt and dump a load of burning ay on me at egafj turn of the road. I "The fire wjHMpkling and burning ercely, and jlffly I could feel the lames. Stiinljf horses ran and still iy coat heUl?aft fast to that seething lass of flaaca My trousers began etting hot and then 1 found my coat ras on fire. The next moment the Dose cartridges in my ooat began exloding from the heat, and then I melled my dales broiling. "I had just made up my mind that 11 was over when the tail of my coat urned off, and I was thrown into a itch full of water beside the road. I id not stop to see what become of the ay and the horsee, nor of the rancher, ut cut straight across that field for ome. That, gentlemen, was the most hrilliug experience of my life."?San 'rancieco Post. Combat With a Tiger. Russian hunters are euid to look pon a combat single-handed with a ear as an ordinary experience. It is onbtful, however, if many instances f a man attacking a tiger, armed with sword only, oan be fonnd. Colonel leaton, the elephant hunter, however, ells tbis story of bravery: "One morning, just as we were leavag the parade ground, a man came ashing ap breathless. 'Get yonr guns, aen.^M exclaimed; 'there is a tiger n the hollow by the hut, and no one lares go by!' In all haste we got oar i :uns and two elephants and harried to be spot, where in trath a terrible j cene presented itself. The tiger, deeding from a cut in the head, was >n the edge of the hollow, growling iercely, with a man mangled and aplarently dead lying beneath his paws. ?he unfortunate man was a fine swordsaan and first-rate wrestler?one of the hampions of bis regiment. Some ./wvnln wcint. to lirtv water alt the " "I? ? ?? rell had disturbed the tiger, and on is rising they fled in terror. The irave but rash soldier, who happened o be near at the moment, on learning he cause of the commotion, immeliately i>dvaneed to attack the tiger-' ,nd with his sword gave him a tremenlous cut over the head, which, howiver, did not materially injure the >owerful brute. Th* tiger rushed at he man, stripped the arm down to he elbow, and dashing him to the 'round, held him beneath his pawe. iVhen we came up we were at first at oss how to act, for the man was as nuch exposed to our fire as the tiger, dowever it was not a time for length>ned consideration?we fired, and a ucky shot finished the animal." ? I The French Societe Astronomique vas founded ten years ago, and now las a member -hip of over 130V. WS- V RELIGIOUS REA.DING. I j WE WILL HAVE FAITH. ! The way Is long and dreary. The path is bleak and bare; j Our feet are worn and weary, But we will not despair, j More heavy was thy burden, i More desolate thy way: I O Lamb of God, who takest The sin of the world away. Have nieiey on us. I Our hearts are faint with sorrow, Heavy and hard to bear, Tor we dread the bitter tomorrow, But we will not despair. Thou knowbst all our anguish. And thou wilt bid it cease; . O Lamb of God, who takest The sin of the world away, (live nftthv 1 ?Adelaide A. Proetoc. Tirr T.VI.EXTS MUST <5*15 C8CRY. 1 When Nelson signaled from his flagshfp to every person in bis fleet. "England ex peets ever}- man to <io his duty," it aid not mean the same to all. To the captains it meant that they should do their best as commanders: to the marines that they should do their best at the guns; to the sailors that they should do their best in sailing the ships; to the cabin boys that they should do their best as messengers. Every one succeeded. who did the best he could. Successis not a question of talents, but of doubling them. It is not n question of present position at all, but of making tbe most of one's ae.t. Over both departments of your business,, the earthly andthe heavenly, in each of which you are called upon to glorify God and do-good to men. write high above the entrance door this significant motto: God expects every man to do his best?Rev. GL B. F. Uallock. THAYER THE BREATH OF THB SPIRIT. Prayer is the breath of the spirit that is in harmony with God. Learn the condi. tions of effectual prayer, and conform to them^ just as you obey laws of gravitation,. or electricity, of physical life. Daily see that the lifeaim is right and high ; that the ruling desire of your heart is toward truth andlo7e; that the will is set with immovable fixedness on righteousness ; that the words and deeds of daily life are in the direction of and in harmony with aim. desire., and purpose, and that you trust in the Goa revealed in Jesus Christ and abiding within you. Best in Him. Talk, to Him. Wait in silence before Him. Let your whole life of buslness.of hard labor, of social intercourse,, of recreation, of intellectual, artistlo, scientific, professional servioe be in harmony with this doctrine of prayer?this life of prayer.?Bishop Vincent. PRATER FOB WISDOM THROCOH SORROW. We beseech thee. Almighty God! healer and comforter of man's sorrows, that not only those things which we have suffered in tho body and the outward losses and. pains ! of life may bless us: but also may the evil | that we have done become to us the solemn | gate through which, in penitence and sorj row having gone forth, in joy and rejoicing | we may return. We beseech thee to make I us wise that no dead past may have power , to jletain us long ; give us not saekcloth and ; ashes but help us to gain light from which we never should have fallen ;ancf in newness | of heart and freshness of courage to do the I i things that we have hitherto left undone. | I Hear us of thy mercy. Make thy face clear to us. Lead us in patience, correction and loving kindness through life and death into eternal peace, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. THE OXE TIIINO WOKTH CAXIXG FOX. To await the growing of a soul is an almost divine act of faith. How pardonable, surely, the impatience of deformity with , itself, of a consciously despicable character, stunning before Christ, wondering, yearning. hungering to be likp that Yet must one trust the process fearlessly and without misgiving. "The Lord the Spirit" will do ; his part. . . . The creation of a new heart, i the renewing of a right spirit, is an omnipo' teat work of God. >*o man, nevertheless, who feels the worth and solemnity of what I is at stake will be careless as to his progress. To become like Christ is the only thing in ' the world worth caring for. Those only | who make this quest the supreme desire of their lives can even begin to hope to reach it.?Henry Drummond. "We, too, would wear unspotted The garments of the King, noma nave me royai pei.ume About our path to cling, And unto all beholders A lilied beauty bring." Thought answeretb alone to thought, And Soul with soul hath kin ; The outward God he llndeth not, Who finds not God within. ?F. L. Hosmer. THE LITTLE THINGS COUNT. Oftentimes the little things you do don't seem of much account. But they are. One spring morning a little boy planted a single seed in a bank of earth, i It grew, budded and blossomed into sweet blue violets unseen by the child planter. It also- seeded, and the seed fell out upon the bank of earth, and the next spring more violets grew, and so for years, increasing every season. The boy. grown a man in a foreign land, desired to Visit; his childhood's home. When he saw the bank of violets he remembered how. years before, he had planted there a single seed. "Can it be," he said, "that all these have sprung from the single seed I planted? t will never waste a siugle seed."?English Exchange. WE ALL MAY DO SOMETHING, We may not move through the dark continent of Africa, a living sunburst of God's truth and glory.as did Livingstone. We may not be asked to lie in a prison, as did Judson, to testify that we deiire God's wiil to ! bo done by us and in us. But we have some money to (jive, some heart prom (tings to [ compulsion, some insight to see where aid is needed, some ability to pray. Are these all and ever at the disposal of the Master??S. K. Times. i TROUBLE. Through trouble, with surprise we find The soul is lifted high. As birds against a gentle wind More easily can fly. ?George Bancroft Griffith. There is such a thing as putting ourselves in the way of God's overflowing love and letting it beat upon us till the response of love to Him comes, not by struggle.not even 1 by deliberation, but by necessity, as the echo comes when the sound strikes the , rock. ?Phillips Brooks. (ICOli FOB EVIL. On clouds that strive to dim its light The sun still pours its glory bright; So in our treatment of a foe, A smiling, gen'rous front we'll show ! ?George Bancroft Griffith. It is a part of my religion to look well after the.cheerfulnesses of life and let the i dismals shift for themselves.?Louisa M. I Alcott. j "And Duty opens wide the door By which Love enters free. The* Love whose rule is largest life I And purest liberty."' ,) ^ 1 ??????? HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. . TO POLISH BRASS KETTLES. To polish brass kettles or anything brass that is very much tarnished,first rub it with a solution of oxalio acid and then dry and polish with rotten stone or rery fine emery dust. BATH BAGS. A bran bag is one of the most grateful of all toilet accessories. It is more cleansing to the skin, and much more refreshing. It is made by filling a mnnlin ha<r with twn nn&rta of bran. 0 ? -* one oanoe of orris root, one onnoe almond meal and one small cake of castile soap cat in small pieces. THZ CORK BEEF NOT TO BUT. It is a good thing to know that brisket is one of the cheaper cats of beef and that it comes from that part of tho animal jast. above the front legs, bat it is better to know that batchers never corn meat that can be kept any longer and that the corned beef already cot and rolled is the eorned beef not to bay.?New York World. TO FRESHEN WINDOW SCREENS. Window and door screens may be made more durable and to look better by an occasional coat of varnish or i paint If the wire netting is not faded ' ? ?? A - # or rusty it is Deuer to give it a coat 01 good coach tarnish, bat if faded or rnsty apply a coat of paint. Use a good quality, and thin with tnrpentine until it will ran, or it will fill the , meshes of the netting. Black is a good * color,, as it makes the netting almost invisible from a distance. Paint the frames the, same color as oatside of window sash. USES FOB uri KRSKCLOxfL The following is a list of some of the household purposes for which cheese* :j, eloth may be need. For polishing windows and mirrors. For washing windows. For oleaning silver. For oleaning brass ware. For drying and polishing glassware f all kinds. For dnst-doths. For shining bronzes. For stain era in cooking. For dish-towels. For scrub-cloths. | For bread-cloths. CLEANING HINTS. v J To remove ink stains, cover them with a nolnt.inn ftf atnrrvh ! whan. d*T rub off the hardened starch, and repeat the process until the ink has entirely disappeared. If the stain is not too old, ink may be removed from paper aa follows: Take a teaspoonfnl of chlorinated lime and poor over it just enough water to cover it Take a piece of old linen / and moisten it with this mixture, and / do not rub but pat the stain, when it will gradually disappear. If one application does not remove the stain, ^ let the paper dry, and repeat the process. ' k Limp, forlorn and rusty blaqjVbee ean be renovated by a simple us fcocL Wash it gently in soft soapy ^Ber, rinse in olear water, and squefHinstead of ringing it Dip it I ^Lid coffee into which a little guml ^Ko has been dissolved, and then V Hk it with a hot iron, taking care I Vp it while damp and cover it witbr m cloth. The coffee darkens I A gum arabio stiffens it the / 1MB AAika nn/I if {4 sa ali crkf v , t" ouiuuiiuo lit) Mtu a* aw to ^ with the fingers after the irol g?| made flexible and lace-like. I' tBL a cream with as much luiheed *. Jm and after dusting each slice at sHwm lightly with salt and peppec,jNfrJgfl ' '$&& little of this sauce on each lief/^ *v '-'WChipped Beef aud Tomatoes, French ' < Style?Cat a slico from tie iitdm end of five good, solid canned toalstoe^ \' then with yonr finger take oat the seeds; pnt seeds and slices in a saucepan, boil and strain. Pnt into a bowl one cnpfal bread ornmbs, add quarter* pound dried beef, picked in small pieces; a quarter-teaspoonful pepper ar.d one tablespoonfnl melted batter. Mix, add strained tomato jnice and fill into tomatoes. Stand them in a ' . baking pan and bake slowly fifteen minntfls. basting once or twice, ' Cracked Wheat, Lemon Sauce? ' Prepare the cracked wheat as nsnal, care being taken that it is thoronghlj cooked. To prepare the saoce, rnb a desertspoonful of cornstarch smooth with a little cold water; stir it carefully into a pint of boiling water and cook until it thickens. Score a large . lemon with the tines of a silver fork and when the oil is exnding rnb a small qnantity of sagar over the surface to flavor it. Cut the lemon and squeeze the jnioe from it. Add the jnioe and one-half enp of the flavored sugar to the hot cornstarch mixture; allow the whole to boil np once, stirring constantly. Germ wheat is delicious when served with the lemon flpoeBan Loaf?One quart of sifted flour, three eggs, one tablenpoonful of butter, rubbed, light with two of $ of powered sugar, half an yeast cake dissolved in a large cupful of lukewarm water, a oupful of currants (washed, dried and picked over), half teaspoonful of salt, quarter-teaspoon - m fal of soda; mix all the ingredients together in a soft dough, exoept the currants; if stiff, add a little warm' water; when yon have an elastio mass on the board, set to rise until very light; knead again; mold into a.loaf when you have worked in the currants; dredge with dry flonr and leave to rise for an hour; bake in a steady oven, covering with paper as it rises. Eat fresh, bat not warm. w *9H IS . f . .11 - "fwr'ffilriair lik