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Fiiilosopiij. rjlST??o Ibo few is a surfeit of pleasure, Say as tbo butterfly sipping its sweet. *TT3T3pitj- through gardens a minuet measure, JJacvjy of spirit. wiih fairy-slioil foat -Lil*u> the many's a desert of sorrow, Harry of heart and with plentiful tears; Srie?iig to-day with 1:0 hojios for the morr -w, Slowly they wear oiit the beautiful year. 33Ce us it is has sufficiont of either? Stxlaess and gladness to answer our need. Laughter and weeping, jnade wLolly of D9ith?r: Jfcorvest is always the growth of tbo seed, ZV? who go bravely,with ccurago believing JU3is not evil, w 1. garner the good; Tbij a e deceived who forecast deceiving, Benefits given are not understood. ?[A ii.ie Robertson Noson. | The Clergyman's Ghost Ucv. Dojcc Starkeye had been a Txsath in his new quarters, the parsonage of the church to which he had latc"j been called. The quarters were new but half a dozen of his predecessor had occupied the house, which was pretty in itself, and prettily situated ^icid shrubbery and trees. The place vtia smnrt town in northern Michigan. pastor and his wife were entertaining for a day three of Mr. Sturkeye's dassmatcs at collegc. These gentlemen aame up from Oaio for duck shooting on Like Ilurou shore, aud had stopped 5dx a visit to their old school-fellow iu ius new location. After dinner visitors and hosts were silting in the cozy parlor while the jhiides of night deepened. The talk lively, and all were in the best of fpirits, when one of the visitors suddenly exclaimed: "What's that?" Of course everybody looked at everybody else, and the visitors saw in Mrs. Starkeje's face an expression of annoysaace almost amounting to distress. It was John Trennam who made the ixdamation. His comrades, Jack IDuccman and Henry Kctlow, demanded a one breath: " What is it, John?" ^That's the matter, old fellow ?'' Tronnam exclaimed: "Why, that ?oicc. Didn't you hear it, Starkcye? A awfibd sound like the There it is ag*in I D"> you hear-that?" Every ?nc had heard it this time. A :*mfil:d voice, truly; but the words were jiaiuly heard: " tlOh-h-h-li-h!?Don't I" A long dwell upon the iirst word, in a of crescendo wail; then an instant's sense, and the second word came, short tod sharp, but in a louder tone: "Oh-h-h-h-h! ?Don't !" A woman's voice, evidently. So it j aeesucd to all the listeners. Mr--. Sinrkcyc was the first to speak. "It hr.s come, Doyce," she said to her iasband, and the minner, not less than Sac? words, told that the wailing voicc was ;iot news to them, but was dreaded j<j her, at least. <-Starkeye," cried Duccman, springing to his feet, "with your permission well lay this ghost for you. I sec how Sftsoust bother you. Do you give us !teare? Ah! that's right. Com?, boys, Set's get to the bottom of it. A parson aa't go ghost-hunting, but we can." It was arranged that Trenman should s?cp watch at the west window of the paiior. Duceman was to stealthily staISana himself at the west end of the front p?sch, and Ketlow went to the second 'jfcor room above the parlor. A little aooJ headed watching, they thought, discover something in no very Song time. They were to remain at their for an hour, if nothing w:h found txA meanwhile, and then reassemblu in Hsc parlors to consider lurther steps. The nigiit waj not dark, but it wa3 JilScult to sec much around the leafage aaorounding the parsonage. A soughing, westerly wind came fitfully through the ftws. The friends took their stations half an hour went by, while at infcrrrals the wailing voice was heard. ISbj?ml all question it was somewhere 3foo=at the westen.l of the house. But wfcare? Now it sounded to Diiceman on ftht porch as if it were just above his basil, but the next thus it was heard it sroracd lo come from the top of a silver Ifsfed poplar that stood close to the west csntl of the house. Duccman peered around toward the poplar, and in his .agrrocss stepped off the porch among she shrubbery. ^Oh-h-h-h-h! Don't!'' Almost directly above his head, Dace aros thought. He was sura it was in tbK poplar tree. Ho crcpt slowly until ue stood under the poplar, and then fooling intently through the branches-saw a dark form outlined against the sky?a 3nrrn iipon the peak of the roof and not ii? live tree. Duccman was both elated and indignant at his discovery. hate practical jokes and jokers? especially such stupid ones as this," aud muttered as he stole quickly and quietly back to the porch into the house. -Til give that fellow a lesson he won't ittrget," said Duceman to himself a3 he amtrcd his ducking gun, and then paid a fcnsty visit to Mrs. Starkcye's kitchen. la ii minute more Duccman, gun in aond, was stealing softly around the *T3t end of the house again. There sat the fellow on the roof, dimly seen against sky. Duceman raised his gun and firjd. "With a loul shriek the figure <n the roof plunged forward into the poplar tree. But the branches were small and brittle, and the figure crashed through them and alighted in the centre oT a great arbor-vitas. Out of this again it rolled sputtering, groaning and twkt ing in many contortions. Duoeman dropped bis gun and sprang forward as the inmates of the house came hurriedly out. "Great heaven, Ketlow, is it you?' exclaimed Duceman, as he reached the writhing ligure on the ground. "O-oo-oo! Ow-ow! yes! You've killed me! What did you shoot foi? Oh-h-h! my hip! my hip!" answered tho writhing Ketlow. But Duecman was getting his breath again. "Oh, it's only a little chargc of salt that you've got," he said. "There was no shot in it. It's only salt. But what were you doing on the roof? "Was it you making that noise? This did not stop Ketlow's smarting, but the assurance that ho had been hurt only with salt relieved ths others of ap prehension. By degrees Ketlow explained. He had gone to (ho second room as appointed. There the wailing voice was so distinct]}' heard that ho expucted to put his hand upon the offender by reaching out of the window. But when he carefully raised the sash the wails seemed to come from the roof above his head. Casting about then he j found another window opening onto the j kitchen roof and from this the main roof I was easily readied. Ketlow resolved to j capture the wailing fellow while the others were vainly watching. Without difficulty he got the peak by the poplar | tree. "Yes, yes; but where was the wailing j voice all the time you were sitting on the peak there? heard it right there just j as xui.-covereu you,'" saia i^uccmuu impatiently. "Why, I was cutting it off with my jack-knife whpn you fired your old cannon at me,'' replied Ketlow with returning indignation at a new twinge in his hip. "Cutting what off?" they demauded aghast. "The voice," said K'.'tlow. It was the limb of that poplar tree rubbing across the edge of a shinglo when the wind blew. I cut it off to show you how smooth it was worn against the shiagle.?Atlanta Constitution. A Great Country for Railroads. "I've just been doing an odd bit of figurin'," remarked a brakeman to a Chicago Herald reporter. "By actual count I've found that there arc now 30,GG9 railway stations in the United States at which agents arc stationed. A good many? You bet it is. Why, just think of it; that's ono station for every 1800 people the country through. In the big cities the proportion fs much smaller. In a place like Chicago, for instance, there arc only half a dozoa stations, suburban stopp'ng places not being countcd, for 725,000 people. In Illinois, outside of Chicago, thero are nearly 2500 stations. S'posc a traveling mail should start out to visit all the stations in the United States; say he could make two stations a day, how long would it take him to make the grand round-*? Oaly fifty years. And by the time he had got around there'd bj enough new stations to keep him goin1 fifty years more. This is a mighty big country. Chicago has a g oiter number of railways than any other city in the country, or the w rid, and the biggest onej, to >. Chicago has 20 roads, St. Louis and Cincinnati 14 each, New York 13, Bjslon and Philadelphia 12 each, Pittsburgh 11, Buffalo 10. Some of the smaller towns arc pretty well fixed for railroads tooColumbus, Ohio, has as many as Baston or Philadelphia, and Dayton, Ohio, and Minneapolis have 9 each. The greatest railroad town for it3 siz3 is Djcatur, 111., WJlIUli II?3 3CTCJX 1v/uuo uuu (? |/v|;uimv?v>? of 10,000. I've Leircl that in the Illinois insane a*y!umi there are about 400 people from Decatur, all made crazy by trying to keep up with tho changes in railway time-tables." A Uood Whitewash. J. P. asks: "Will you please give receipt in your noxt issue to roako a whitewash that will stand the weather, i and also what to color with to make a deep slate color?" Answer: Slake onehalf bushel lime, strain, and add a peck of salt dissolved in warm water, threo pounds ground rice put in boiling water and boiled to a thin paste, onehalf pound powderad Spanish whiting, and a pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water. M x these well together, and let tho mixture stand for several days. Keep the wash thm prepared in a kettlo or portable furnace, and when j med, put it on as hot as possible, with painters' or whitewash brushes. uoior to suit by adding sparingly of a dry pigment.?[Scientific American. A Temporary Cessation, "Now, then," said the old gentleman, :i3 lie returned bis slipper to his foot after correcting Bobby for a serious misdemeanor, "do you think you will do that again, young man?" Bobby looked veiy thoughtful for a moment, and then sai l: "Well, I don't believe I will, pa, while the soreness lasts."?[Biizar. LADIES' DEIMIiTMEAT. A Krcrtk of I'n?hIonab!c Society. "Well, I do say 1" exclaimed a fashionable lady in our hearing. ''What are we coming to anyhow? The latest f:td in Boston is to have sedan chairs in the drawing room. Not bogus ones, re member, but quaint old things tnat were once actually in use, and two hundred dollars ia considered n small price to pay for them. It is made a repository for bric-a-brac, to be suro, but it strikes me that it's entirely too cumbersome and aesthetic. Noxt, the ladies will be seen taking an airing in them, provided they can overawe the irreverent small boy. I hope nobody will be silly enough to introduce them over I'.ere.?[Philadelphia Call. Iler Reaver flat. A young lady wearing a beaver hat confided to a correspondent of the New York Mail and Express how she kept the nap so smooth and shiuy. She says: "First brush the hat thoroughly, so as to get all tho fibres straightened out in one direction. Then take a silk haudkerchief and pour into the m ddle of it about half a teaspoonful of salad oil. Hub the handkerchief in your hands until the oil is thoroughly distributed through it. Then go over your hut time after time with the silk thus prepared. Lay the handkerchief aside, and use it every day upon the hat, without, however, replenishing the oil more than once a week. The hat in this way will be kept in perfect order, and even an ordinary wciung win uui, disturb it. lVlidom IteUlad tho Counter. "Some one told me that a smile would go a long way toward helpiug mc become a successful saleswoman," said a girl to whom store life was yet new, "and I have smiled and smiled until I don't think I could look uolemn at the funeral of my best friend. I actually grin from morning till night, and I think I will hare to give my mouth a rest if I don't sell a dollar's worth the rest of the day. I came hero with tho determination of being good natured and pleasant to every one, no matter how cranky a customer I might have, but really, it is harder work than I thought. Still, I am sure good nature pays, and I don't know of any position that requires more patience than that of a saleswoman. A rather stupid girl with a sweet, even disposition is moro apt to auccoed than a brighter girl who is quick tempered, i mean to earn $30 a week some day if I wear out my mouth smiling. I try to be so pleasant to my customers that tlioy won't let anyone else wait on them, but ask me to take them to olher counters. Then when I get a good trade my salary will be raised and I will receive considerable extra as percentage Yes, a bright, good natured girl is pretty apt to havo her salary increased in time, and need not be afraid to begin on $3 a week if she has a home and need not be required to pay board while she is gaining her experiencs. In this store $7 .anil 58 a week is the average salary."?[Philadelphia Press. Indian Wives. There is a reservation at the mouth of the Klarnath for the Indian tribes living in northern California. The squaw3 or young women arc vendible commodities^ and are put upon the market at a price supposed to correspond with their charm3. A girl's choice is not consulted in the matter, and if a rivalry exists she is knocked down to the most liberal offer. A maiden of comely appearanco and having a talent for plaiting hats, baskets and other ornamental wicker ware, is, of course, a more mercuantaoio article than her sister -without accomplishments and without beauty. The prico paid for a girl of the desirable kind is in tho neighborhood of twelve redheaded wood-pcckers, a broncho and a breech-loading rifle, tha woodpecker heads being valued at $2.50 apiece and the pony and gun at about $20 cacb, making the price of the girl $70. This amount varies, of coursc according to the financial standing of the purchaser and the avarice of the parents. It occurs occasionally that as much a3 $150 is given for a girl, but she would be possessed of unusual allurements and tho purchaser a nabob. The lnzy buck when ho has purchased a wife, at onco requires the lady to enter upon all the hard work obtainable. The women pack wood from the forests in baskets, which are carricd on tho back and supported by a band which cncirclcs tho forehead. They also collect gold dust from the cj posed bedrock in abandoned mines, which is handed over with religious regularity. It is a fact that the Indian women on the Klamath arc absolute slaves, but they are faithful and loving, no matte;; how harshly treated. Uneer Trinket*. It is some years since the jewelers made the lucky pig a popular trinket. .&veryono ior u nine wure iui;ii.y yyo u? charms, bangles and what not. When pork became a surfeit tho elephant took its place. Men dangled them at their watch chains and women wore them in their ears. They were made into pins and pendants, ond even adapted to the embellishment of finger rings and bracclota. Tlio eye of destiny?an Egyptian emblem, was the next fad. Now it is a mouse. Mouse jewelry is already the go in London and Paris, and is commencing to find favor here. And women who stand most in dread of the little, living beast will do him honor in efligy for fashion's sake. "What with pigs and elephants and mice, the adaptation to the animal Kingdom to dccorativc purposes in well begun. Before the work is done, we shall be able to muster n complete menagerie in a collection of the average belle's obsolete jewelry. Some very queer charms have come into vogue lately, in the shape of South American beetles. These insects are caught and dried. They become quite hard, and their backs afford a beautiful play of iridescent colors. They are set in rims of gold, and often whole necklaces are made of them. But thev are costly trinkets, for their shells are easily crushed, when they drop to dust in their settings. I saw a wonderfully pretty and odd necklacc at a big jewelry counter the other day. It wai made of little crabs, united -with wire links. Tho metal was silver, with shadings produced by oxidization. In the same shop was a monkey neckhce, also in Bilver, ennmeled. The little monkeys were united by their claws and tails, and they made a very quaint and unique though decidedly ugly ornament.?[New York News. Fneliioii Notes. Norfolk jackets aro in great favor. Bracelets and armlets never go out of fashion. Fans are carried, not worn; likewise bouquets. Large plaids ara correctly worn by little cnnciren. Button gloves are more worn than mousquctaires. All grown women wear high coiffures, but not young girls. Stripes arc the leading feature in spring goods of all kinds. Half high boots and low shoes will again be in vogue for summer wear. The shepherd's plaid is seen in all the familiar mixtures and in bright red and white as a novelty. There are heavy weight tussore silks which are designed for tailor made costumes and are to be stylish. Beads of all sorts enter largely iuto the stylish millinery and in trimming for chessy costumes and outer garments. Dark figures on a light ground are more stylish for sateen and fine ginghams than dark grounds with light figures. Colored beads arc so netted into silk cord as to form matlcttes and make very stylish finish for a summer silk for street wear. A bouquet of ostrich feathers of different shades makes a stylish garnaturc for a hat. Several color3are seen in the tops. Belgian straw is one of the very durable uud pretty braids for walking hats or those used for any serviceable purpose. Cross bars of color on neutral grounds are very stylish. On ginghams these cross bars are coidcd. crivinsr a pretty cffcct. One of the prettiest designs of littlo girls' costumes for tho summer is the (rretchcn dress as it is so easily laundered. Trimmings of Hamburg embroidery ore used in all sorts of costumes for children, including those of light woolen fabric. Braid trimmings wcro never moro stylish than this season, and the variety in which tbey are shown is something astonishing. Satin and plain silks make stylish black costumes. The petticoat is of the stripe and the overdress of plain fabric, surah or gros grain. Plaid ribbon is a stylish trimming for hats. It is in heavy quality with picot edge and is made into tall bows such as were worn on tho winter bonnets and hats. Bonnets are a tr.fb lower than last season, although tho trimming is still heaped well up in front and consists of bows and flowers in coufusion of color. The plain yoke wnist is a favorite model for little girls' costumcs, and is still the most stylish even for those made of fine embroidery to wear over a silk slip. Oriental designs seem to b: very much liked this soason in cotton fabrics as well as woolen. Palm leaves, arabesques and Eastern tracery are quite stylish. A novelty in summer silks is the tussore with satin stripes of bright color. Tacae are exceedingly pretty ana stylish and corabino prettily with the plain material. Colored chip hats and bonnets are for dressy occasions, light blue, heliotropo and red being the favorite shades. These should bo trimmed with colored crnpes of the same shade. Plumes for hats are taking tho varied colors given to ribbon this season. One new hat has dared to show itself adorned with six, one each of crimson, yellow, pink, green, cream and brown. * THE FARM AND GARDEN. i Epilepsy in I'lits. Pigs and other animals arc sometimes affected by a disease of the nerve centres, chiefly the brain, -which causes sudden loss of sensation and voluntary motion, with convulsive action of the muscles, frothing at the mouth, and restricted breathing. The animal suddenly iaiis, ana its limbs aro violently convulsed with spasmodic movements. After two or three minutes these motions cease and the animal lies insensible for a short time, then gets up and moves about in a weak manner. There is no certain remedy for this disease when its source exists in the brain, but it is often caused by worms, anronia, chronic indigestion, and discoso of the spine. In these cases local treatment has been found useful. A laxative medicine, as an ounce of raw liusccd oil, with three drops of croton oil, may bo given to a pig a year old, and after this has operated tonics in small doses, as a teaspoonful of a mixture of one ounce each of su'phateof iron, ground ginger, powdered gentian root, and powdered asafoetida may bo given daily.?*[New York Times. Fruit Tree?. Fruit trees should not be pruned when the sap will keep the saw wet, unless wounds are covered with a solution of gum shellac dissolved in alcohol. When trees are grafted they should not be pruned, because after cutting oil several good-sized limbs to set scams in, the tree needs all the remaining tranches to koep up its usual action and vitality. Every apple tree on a farm that does not bear merchantable fruit should be grafted, and grafted this very spring. "Prccrnstination is the thief of time," and there is no use in putting off grafting from year to year, and gathering a bushel or so of inferior cider-applcs from a tree -which should produce two or three barrels of Baldwins or russets, or some other kind of fruit which has a value. Where an orchard is not cultivated the soil around fruit trees should be freshened up with a digging fork, not dug deeply with a spade, so as to ruin the roots, and a mulch or top-dressing of good rich compost applied. If the soil around the trunks of fruit trees is stirred up frequently the insects which have wintered in it will be turned up and destroyed by exposure to the weather. Rich Sol! for Potatoec. The potato requires more expenditure for both seed and labor than any grain crop, and it follows that it should be plaited on rich soil. It is not safe to manure late potatoes heavily with fresh stablo manure, as its fermentation in the soil makes just the conditions in which the potato-rot fungus flourishes; but in the land rich from previous manuring, this danger docs not exist. For early potatoes the cround can scarcely be made too rich. The crop is marketed before rot, in even the most, unfavorable season can do serious injury. Fresh rannuro is often of great benefit to early potatoes on land that is amply fertile to produce a crop without it. As it ferments it keeps the soil moist, which for early potatoes, and during the extreme heat of summer, is a point of the greatest importance. Moister is apparently a greater necessity in making an early potato crop than ferlility, though rich soils aro apt to keep moisture in dry weather thaa those less fertile. The most successful potato growers partially insure their crop from severe droughts by subsoiling. This requires extra labor, but the reservoirs of moisture thus stored in the subsoil, keep the potato tops fresh and gre?!n long after those on land not eubsoiled have ? ??.? J '- ?? ~ ft WlLUCreU JIU 111 tvmi/tuuu iiCUb uuu drought. BubsoiliDg is a partial protection against the potato blight. It eaves the plants from the sudden extremes of temperature which prevail in shallow soils and are the most common causes of the blight. How Good Batter la Made. Judge M. R. Gray of Ryegote, N. H., who took second prize offered by the Manchester Mirror for best butter shown at the Vermont dairy meeting at St. Johnsbury, gave his methods of feeding and butter making as follows: His cows arc chiefly thoroughbred Jerseys, though he has a few high grades. The winter feed is coarse fodder, such as corn stalks, wheat, rye, oat, or barloy hay fed night and morning, with ordinary English hay at noon. The coarse fodder is cut and steamed about two hours in the morning. The grain is equal weights of corn and cob meal and bran, four quarts at a meal morning and night. Waters after feeding in the morning and bc/oro feeding at night. From eighteen to twenty-five cows are kept. The milk is set in large open pans, usually thirty-six hours, and at temperature of 60 to 70 degrees. Churning is done from two to four times per week, in a dash churn run by horse power. This winter tne cream is cnurnea at G7 degrees, and the butter comes in good condition to handlo. Just before the butter is ready to separate the horse is stopped and the churning finished by hand. "When finished the butter is rinsed off in clear water, and a half ounce of salt per pound sprinkled over it and worked in. "While the butter is being compacted by a lever hand worker . V v/1 a cloth is uied for absorbing the surplus moisture. Tho churning occupies from fifteen minutes to n half hour. If tho cream i9 too thick for proper churning it is thinned with water. He made 0,000 pounds the past year. Points of a <;oo?l Milker. A good milker must bo able to cat a great deal of food. Milk canuot be mide without something to make it from. Tbo cow does not sccrctc milk from the air, bot from her blood, nnd her blood Ak-. is supplied from tho food she cat*. To eat a great deal a cow must have a strong jaw, and we may put this down as ono ' of the marks of a good milker. A strong jaw does not necessarily require a big head, nt least what is called a bull's head, large in tho upper part, but a strong lower jaw, with strong muscles to operate it. Any cxpanson of the head in other directions may be a detriment as drawing from her food to support it. A good milker must digest a great deal of food. This requires an amplo stom. ach or stomaches, for the cow has.fourA large stomach is indicated externally by a large abdomen and a great breadth between the hips, or a great breadth of loins. A judge of cows will tell yoa ?I - t - -1 1J l? J * u ?> a tun ouuuiu uo rrcu^u-ouu|a.v?j -- -rtapering from abdomen to nose. A good milker will have large milk veins?that is large veins leading to the udder, under tho belly. These large veini indicate a large milker. Whether what is called the escutcheon, tho portion of the hind part of the udder and adjacent parts on which the hairs turn back in opposition to the general direction of the hair, is any indication to the milking qualities of the cow, is a disputed question. Many believe that whero it is large it indicates a good milker; where small, a poor one. Others put no faith in it. A soft, velvety feeling of tho skin,and a rich, yellow color, ^especially in the inside of the ears, is believed to indicate a rich milker, at least, ii not a large one. It is believed to show a tendency to fat, and consequently butter. lllms on Poultry flouaea. A good poultry house is as necessary to profit in tho poultry business as any other thing connected with the business.. "Farm and Garden" makes soma suggestion about the subject as follows: It is an old maxim that no poultryman has ever built a poultry houso that w. u d . j not be changed in some respect if it wero to be done tho second time. Thoso who go to the expense of constructing elegantly designed and elaborately built poultry houses may adapt them niccly to the eye, but the hens may not bo comfortable, and will not reward the builder for his pains. In winter the main requirement is warmth, and a low ceiling, dry floor and tarred paper walls, costing but very little, will induco better results than the expense of large sums to suit tho r>nnv/?nienre9 nf thfi noultrvman. 1 * I ' And this is the error all fall into?that of constructing the poultry houses for their convenience, when the real object should be to consider the welfare of the hens first, and make the preferences of the owner regarding his convenience a secondary matter. While you may object to a low ceiling because you do not carc to bump your head when you enter the house, the hen may prefer it to be just the reverse, as it will be warmer; and though you may wish the door nearest your dwelling house, it may thus be on the north side, allowing the cold blasts to creep under it and chill the bird*. You may have a particular location for the house, and wish it to face a point of the compass corresponding with somo other building or object; but tho hens will prefer high ground, and the southeast, so as to get the benefit of *v.? mna no tvnll aq nrnteetion IUQ OUU sJ X i*J Oj uu 11 v** from tho northeast storms la building a poultry bouse, these matters should receivo their proper attention, as well as the coat. The best poultry houses are those that are usually built low to tho ground and henco made warm. Tannins Skins. And experienced trapper recommends the following method for tanning all kinds of skins with the fur on: Trim off useless parts and scrape all fatty matter ! from tho inside. If tho skin is dry first soften it by soaking; next soak tho skin one hour in warm water; then make a thin paste with water, and one ounce each of borax, saltpetre and glauber salts and apply to the inside of the skin with a brush, making the coating heavier on tho thicker parts of the skin; double tho skin, coated aide inwaid, and put away in a cool place. At the end of twentyfour hours apply with a brush as before a coating of a mixture made by melting together slowly and without boiling on& ounce snl-soda, one-half ounce borax and two ounces hard whita soap; fold tho < skin together again as before and keep in a warm place for another twenty-four hours; then dissolve four ounces alum, eight ounces salt, and two oun#es salcratus in hot water enough to saturate tho skin; when the water is cool enough not to scald the hands, soak tho skin for twelve hours, then wring it out and hang it up to dry; the soaking and drying must be repeated two or three times until the skin is sufficiently soft; lastly, smooth the inside with fine sand-paper and pumice itone.?[New York World.