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(Animals Feign Even Elephant "Pla Creatures, Seemingl cape When the Hunt "The most perfect simulation of t death," remarked a well known nat- t itralist the other day. "is that of the 1 opossum, whence originated the 1 phrase "playing 'possum.' Only the i closest examination can determine j that life still is present?in the pul- 1 sation of the heart and in the almost ( suppressed respiration. In this con- 1 dltion, either the animal has lost the sensaCon of pain or else it possesses f most t'onderful powers of endurance, c tr> hp used most \ IiUl 11 J/C* UHWJ ?vwv** ?w ? ~ roughiy without showing the least 1 sign cf consciousness. If, however, ? attention is withdrawn, the sly rascal ( opens his eyes, glances around, and, i if the coast is clear, gently departs. i "Tire striped squirrel, when caught s alive, will often lie limp and appar- s ently lifeless till its captor, thrown i off his guard, makes the opportunity f for ivs escape possible, when the little i anitflal will scamper off with a sharp < chitter of delight. ( "That such a huge beast as the ele- i phant should practice so remarkable 1 a ruse seems incredible, but Tennent, ( in his 'Natural History of Ceylon,' re- 1 coids 3uch an observation. After a i number of wild elephants had been 1 captured one particularly fine sped- t men was led out between two tame c ones, as is the usual method, and t Started toward its future home, some ? miles away. When night fell and i torches were lighted to show the way, i the elephant'refused to go on, and flnniiv <-nnir tn the ?roiind. annarent Ily lifeless. The fastenings were tak- ^ en off its legs and when all attempts ^ to raise it had failed, the keeper, convinced that it was dead, ordered the ropes to be taken off and the carcass abandoned. While this was being done he and a friend who accompanied him leaned against the body to rest. They had scarcely taken their departure, and proceeded a few yards, when to their astonishment the elephant rose with the utmost alacrity and fled toward the jungle, screaming at the top of its voice, its cries bung audible long after it had disappeared in the shades of the forest. "W. H. Hudson, the well known naturalist, describes the death-feign- . Iing habit of a small South American fox, common on the pampas. When caught in a trap or overtaken it collapses as if dead, and to all appearances is dead. The deception is so well carried out that dogs are constantly taken in by it. When one withdraws a little way from a feigning fox, and watches him very attentively, a slight opening of the eye may be detected. Finally, when left to himself, he does not recover and start up like an animal that has been stunned, but slowly and cautiously raises his head first and gets up only when his foes are at a distance. I was once riding with a gaucho when we saw on the open level ground in front of us a fox not yet fully grown, * standing still and watching our ap- t proach. All at once it dropped, and f when we came up to the spot it was e lying stretched out, with its eyes j closed and apparently dead. Before passing on my companion, who said it was not the first tim6 that he had t seen such a thing, lashed it vigorous- r ly with his whip for some moments a without producing the slightest effect. e The Turkey Buzzard'9 Trick. 1 "The turkey buzzard is one of the t few birds who feign death to escape 1 their enemies. Once a friend shot a c specimen through the wing. He found I it standing under a laurel bush, looking brightly about, one wing hang- c ing. As he approached its head be- 1 gan to droop to one side and by the < time he reached it the buzzard lay s upon its side, apparently lifeless. Be- ) lieving that it was really dead, my e friend with difficulty forced it into t his game bag and proceeded home, a a distance of two miles. The bird was1 t then taken from the game bag and t thrown down in the yard, limp and i seemingly lifeless. My friend's sur- 1 prise may be imagined when, calling ( out to the family to come and view x the captive a moment later, the bird i was found running around the yard f as lively as ever. On the family's ap- ? proach. however, the same motions ? were enacted as when it was first captured, and again it lay upon its side, apparently dead. This routine followed each approach until after a while it became accustomed to the presence of persons. "The wild goose, when wounded, will occasionally adopt this ruse. As soon as it finds escape impossible it will stretch out its neck and remain stiff and immovable, so that it may be handled in this condition, the muscles remaining rigid as in catalepsy. If, however. It is not disturbed it will soon begin to peep around and gradually attempt to get away. "The Spotted Tinamou (Nothura , maculosa), of the namnas of Smith America, is especially addicted to practicing this trick. When captured, after making a few violent efforts to . escape, it drops its head, gasps two or three times, and to all appearances dies. But if the hold is released the eyes are opeced, and with startling ' suddenness the bird flies rapidly away. "The common English sparrow has been observed on several occasions to adopt this ruse to escape. 1 "Tennent reports the case of a ten- ' foot Ceylon crocodile which feigned 1 death on being surrounded while asleep and its retreat cut off. When | , discovered the animal was under some bushes several hundred yards ( from the water. The terror of the <. creature was extreme when it discov- 1 ered that it wa3 completely surround- 1 ed. and it started up and turned around in a circle, hissing and snapping its bony jaws. On being struck 1 with a stick it lay perfectly quiet and apparently dead. Presently it looked ( cunningly about and made a rush to- ! jward the water, but on a second blow ' it lay agaii* motionless and feigning ' death. Its captors tried to rouse it. but without effect, pulled it3 tail, ? slapped its back, struck its hard 1 scales, and teased it in every way. but ? all in vain; nothing would induce it Death. lys 'Possum" Sometimes? y Lifeless, Make Their Eser Turns His Back. ;o move till accidentally a boy c-f ;welve tickled it gently under the 'oreleg, and in an instant it drew the imb close to its side and turned to ivoid a repetition of the experiment. \.gain it was tickled under the other 'oreleg, and the same emotion was >xhibited, the monster twisting about Ike an infant to avoid being tickled. "It is very unusual for snakes to 'eig.n death, but one such incident has :omo to my notice. An amateur natirallst was collecting in the neighjorhood of Matawan. N. J., when he ipparently cut off the retreat of a :opperneaa snaite. w aen me uaiuiilist got close to it the reptile appeared to be dead. Desiring to make lure of this the naturalist circled the make, and was rewarded by discovering an unmistakable light issuing 'rom the reptile's eyes. The appearmce of the entire body was that of :omplete relaxation. Thinking to capture it, dead or alive, the naturalst looked around for a stick or stone, )ut could see none nearer than forty >r fifty feet distant. He cut a stick from an aspen sapling, leaving it lotched at the end. The spot where le left the reptile, apparently as mo.ionless as ever, was marked by a lot >f cut horse-mint, and when he reamed the snake had given him the >lip, and without any doubt resumed ts interrupted journey toward the lear-by swamp. i i Lizards Adept Deceivers. "Lizards are especially addicted to ;his habit. Phrynosome Douglassi,! jnown as the 'horned or California :oad,' is widespread over the entire iVestern plains, where it very closely mitates the color of the soil on which t lives. They are most bashful aninals, when they think they are being >bserved, as well as when roughly .reated, depressing their bodies, and,, pvith closed eyes, feigning death to perfection. A little tickling along ;he side will bring them to life, however, and please them hugely, they irnrooni'nor t-Vioir f/vnrinoan fnr the nn ;ration by inflating themselves until learly spherical. "Lecvlaenus Darwinii, which Darvin found in Northern Patagonia, he ?ays, 'lives on the bare sand near the iea coast, and from its mottled color, ;he brownish scales being speckled vith white, yellowish red and dirty >lue, can hardly be distinguished 'rom the surrounding surface. When 'rightened it attempts to avoid discov?ry by feigning death, with outitretched legs, depressed body and :losed eyes; if further molested, it >uries itself with great quickness in he loose sand. This lizard, because )f its flattened body and short legs, :annot run quickly ' "The gray or sand lizard (Lacerta igilis) attains a length of from eight o ten inches, and is common in kmthern Europe. Its movements are is rapid as a bird's. When an atempt is made to seize a gray lizard >n the wall, it lets itself fall to the jround, and remains there a moment mmovable before attempting to run, j ividently simulating death. "Ann r\9 tyiaIIiioTt IrnAmn I VUC V/l U1W11UCU I'O XVIAVS TT tl o have this habit. The pneumodernonidae have a spindle shaped body ind two extensible arms bearing suck;rs. much like those of the octopus, rhey swim strongly, but when touched >y a foreign object roll themselves up ike an armadillo, and, feigning leath, sink until out of reach of ap>arent danger. "Lobsters less than a year old oc:asionally exhibit the death feigning labit, but, strange to relate, the idults do not practice it. When itroked lightly with the finger the roung lobster will immediately stiffsn, and lie stretched out at the botom of the dish, on its side or back, ls if paralyzed. It will remain in his position for fifteen or more minltes, when it will slowly turn over md begin to move about. While ying at the bottom in this state, a :onvulsive movement of the swimnerets and a twitching of various nuscles over the body can be detect?d by close observation. The claws md legs remain perfectly rigid, howjver. Sea Dwellers Have the Habit. "In China is found a peculiar little :rab about the size of a large pea. It las received the common name of pill making crab,' from its habit of aking up mouthfuls of sand, extractng the food particles and then ejectng the sand in the form of little pelets or pills. Owing to its great ac;ivity it is a difficult object to cap;ure. Should one be so unfortunate in frv r?r% ntn if urill im *3 tw V/U|HUltU **/ "HI JLUll lUtUIULClj ;url up and feign death. Should the :rab be put back on the beach in this condition it will remain motionless 'or a short time, when by a twisting md wriggling movement it rapidlv links into the sand and disappears. "On the dry part of the beach 3 I HOW SHE IDE] i The Blase Bank ^ r at the Tfc s "I'm very sorry to trou nadam." said the bank tell y. "but you'll have to be id -de pushed the check across ?le slab toward her as he spo. "Identified?" repeated the i. 'what does that mean? Isn't' -'J, :heck good?" The bank man did not smile, for I his was the thirty-seventh lady who lad asked this question that day. "I have no doubt it is," he said, 'but I don't know you. Do you kuow mybody in the hank'.'"' "Why, I'm Mrs. Weatherley!" exclaimed the lady. "Didn't you see ny name on the check? Set;?here it | s." The teller shook his head wearly. "You must be identified." he Insisted; "you must bring somebody vho knows you." The lady drew herself up. "That check," she said with dig along .the Indian Ocean are to t)o f found the homes of many little her- 1 mit crabs. When alarmed they slip hurriedly into their shells and drop motionless as if dead, so that the noise of their fall makes a continu- , ous tinkle as one walks the beach. "Starfishes are often found stranded upon our beaches, and in many in- i stances these curious creatures ap- . pear dead when really they are alive. > When really dead a starfish hangs j loose and limp, but, however dead it may look, if on touching it there are I manifest a firmness and consistency ! In its substance, one may feel reason- ' ably sure that it is playing the 'pos- : sum,' and will revive when placed in the water. Quite as certain a mode j of ascertaining whether your starry j friend is living or dead is to lay it I upon its back, when, if alive, a num- I ber of semi-transparent globular ob- j jects, the animal's locomotory organs, will be seen to move, reaching ! this way and that, as though feeling j for something to lay bold or wnerewith to restore it to its normal position. "Some kinds of beetles, many of the woolly-woolly caterpillars which have poisonous hairs on their backs, and numerous cpiders adopt similar tactics. Even the weed louse has the same trick and rolls itself into a ball. One small spider which makes its home in a corner of the immense web of a very large spider ha3 a curious j way of feigning death when disturbed. Uniting four legs in front and four behind, the insect presents with the body a uniform curve, and the spider might in this condition be readily mistaken for a little bit of curved twig or bark." \_75Ifjr7VGJ I fewORTH KJfOWlNCa Boys' hair grows at half the rate of that of girls. In the Russian secret service there i are 600 women. OCA AAA WAr/la X JLiOiC atu 4UV|VVV TTU1UD 1U tUQ I EngliBh language. The making of chinaware is the oldest of all Industries. } Large elephants weigh six tons; large whales 150 tons. Transvaal gold averages half an ounce to the ton of quartz. According to Dr. J. E. Squire, the ideal meal consists of bread, butter and cheese. More than one-fourth of the world's coal production comes from the United Kingdom. t ' The Danube River was frozen over j so that an army crossed it on the ice in the year 462. / New York City has more ?utomo- I biles run at the public expense than 1 any other two cities in the world. In New York's Bronx Zoological Park there are nearly twice the number of animals that there are in the London Zoological Garden. i The longest telegraph line in the i world above ground and without a j break has been completed in Austra- i lia. Its total length is something over 6000 miles. The mill occupying the most north- ! ern location in America is a flour mill at Vermillion, 700 miles north of the United States boundary, and within 400 miles of the Arctic circle. In Germany, if a doctor is wanted suddenly in the night, one goes to the nearest emergency station and fetches one of the several doctors who are always doing their turn of night duty. There is a telephone line over the ; Alps, but the record elevation in this j respect belongs to the United States, | there being a line at Camp Bird, Col., j which is 13,000 feet above the sea j level. The current year-book of the Carnegie Institution shows that during , the last year $636,300 was distrib- I uted among nearly 500 persons on- ' gaged in conducting scientific re- | searcn. New York City has more than doubled its consumption of distilled spirits during the last ten years, and added 773,000,000 gallons to its consumption of fermented liquors during i that time. J If you walk up Broadway for twenty blocks, accoiding to the tradition, you walk just one mile, but as a matter of practice if you walk during the busy hours of the day you will have gone three-sixteenths more than a mile on account of the zigzag course you must take in dodging persons and avoiding vehicles. 3FIED HERSELF 1 Did Not Even Smile seventh Lady. nity, "was given me by my husband. There's his name on it. Do you ! know him?" "I do." said the teller, "but I don't | 'mow you." "Then," said the lady, "I'll show i who I am. My husband is a tall j man with reddish hair. His face is j smooth shaven. He has a mole on ' one cheek, and looks something like I a gorilla, some people say, but I don't j think so. When he talks he twists his mouth to one side, and one of his j front teeth is missing. He wears a No. 1 r? collar, a No. 6 shoe, and won't keep his coat buttoned. He's the hardest man to get money out of you ever saw?it took me three days to get this check." The banker waved his hand. "I guess it's all right." he said; "put your name right there?no, on the back, not the face."?Galveston News. "GOOD HUNTING" IN TH THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS EVER' . A KEENER INTEREST II To Gratify This Longing Railroads Ar Heart of the Moose and Deer Country at Stations That Are But Vestibules t CAMPS SO COMFORTABLE THAT WOMEN M Ttie number of Americans who are < fired with the ambition to kill some- vei thing big that moves around on four ace legs is phenomenal. The hunting in- of stinct, brought down the long cen- roi turies from primal man, survives dia throughout all the advancements of qui civilization. It crops out in bankers, ed merchants, journalists, capitalists, brt bookkeepers and even Presidents. qui Indeed, It Is not too much to as- qui sume that the present hunting trip of ] Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in Africa da; has had the direct result of inducing the many of his contemporaries here who to would not otherwise have thought of on it, to plan for an outing in that great tha preserve of American "big game," ma the Maine woods, this fall. n,? nGreat is the force of example, es- in^ pecially when it is set by some na- mo tional figure; and there is no question for whatever that Mr. Roosevelt's expedi- ?sr BACK IN COMFORTABLK CAMP AFTER DAY'S sport. law ? WO tlon Into the wilds of the Dark Con- m0 tlnent will have a far-reaching effect the upon the pastime of hunting in all , civilized countries. > Those who live in large cities?the last place on earth that one would > me oaturally associate with anything per- B taining to the wilderness?are now- R adays among the very first to be re- K minded of the approach of the hunt- If ing season, for about this time of year j K the sporting goods establishments, so HK numerous in all large centres, begin j|N to make their attractive window dis- j M plays of firearms, camping outfits and M hunting and tramping paraphernalia, |Ss not forgetting the guide books and J| outdoor works of fiction; for there is ||g a literature of hunting to-day, as of ||f all things else. - I w In fact, the comforts of life in the > woods in these days form one of the chief reasons for the wonderful popularity of those exciting and healthful hunting trips that we soon will be ? reading about in every metropolitan fori and local paper. There are a few of lab us who really take delight in "rough- pro ing it;" but for every one of these and modern Davy Crocketts, there are a sho thousand who prefer the downy couch res] in the snug camp after the hard day's is i quest of moose or deer. day A CITY SPO&TSHAN'S It is so easy, indeed, and yet so I "real," that it has become the ac- alo cepted custom for the sportsman to age take along the feminine members of wil his family, after the unselfish fashion I of the true American. Hundreds of pla women go into the Maine woods now- ing adays, for big game hunting as well as as fnr flghin? and soma of the finest elPi prizes fall to their aim. Nothing will larj so quickly and effectually eliminate a its bad case of "nerves," in man or worn- its an, as a few weeks in the woods, es- "gc peciaJly under the bracing climate. fou Those who have been brought up I in the woods claim to possess the gift woi of prophecy as to the character of the wit coming hunting season. Last year uin -vas one of the best on record, and nes the 1909 season gives every promise to of being even better. One reason for imr this belief is found in the fact that roa this year has brought an unusually he? large crop of beechnuts. drc Guides and vacatfon season tramp- tio: ers who have recently come in to the Kineo, Rangeley and other centres, tot report having seen large numbers of wh deer and lots of moose during these wLt trip|. fou -t- . a [E MAINE WOODS. I YEAR MANIFESTING i mnr nnrorr nr dta hamu 1 IJQEi yuuoi Uf DiU UfiMD 6 Now Ron Tbrongb the Yery , Dropping the City Sportsman o the Happy Hunting Grounds iY HUNT BIG GAME IN MAINE WOODS ? i One would realize this latter fact *y forcibly could he go behind the nes in the advertising department one of the great American railids serving the Maine and Canaan hunting region and see the vast intitieg of booklets and other printmatter ' pertaining .to thi? noble inch of sport that are sent to every arter of the Republic, at the reast of interested parties. Perhaps it is the feeling that some / in the not far distant future, sre will be no more moose and deer be hunted in Maine or elsewhere this continent; but certain it is ,t the American public is every year nifesting a keener interest in the - a Ui 3BL Ol Ulg gauie, auu IB miuug iu rest generously of its time and ney in order to gratify its desire a set of antlers, or even a set of tap shots" of antlered game. Even a peaceful expedition like it of Dr. Cook to the North Pole 5 an unconscious effect upon the ad of the bom hunter. He yearns emulate the intrepid discoverer in jging musk-oxen and polar bears, t realizing that these are as far beld his reach as the Pole Itself, he js the next best thing and goes er moose and black bears in Maine New Brunswick. And in his way, has just as much fun as Dr. Cook Commander Peary?and far more nfort. With the multiplicity of the camps i come a marked Increase in the nber of professional guides, all of m duly registered, according to and in no hunting region in the rid can there be found a finer or re reliable set of woodsmen than se. iVith these intelligent guides to jath away the rough plaqes, per A HUNTBRS L.udu1s in imjs anun i WILDKRNE8S. en most of the necessary manual or, pilot the hunter to the moat mising places for a telling shot, I, in short, to take upon their ulders the bulk of the work and ponsibility, hunting "down East" i good deal of a "cinch" in these 'S. FIRST MOUSE. Cven the children can be taken ng, if they are not of too tender an i, and the experience is one that I be of inestimable value. n the matter of selecting a likely ce for good moose or deer hunt, there' is almost as wide a range if one wanted to go in quest of iVicint-a <->r linns in Africa. A very ;e part of the State of Maine, with 9,000,000 acres of forest land and 25 00 lakes and 3treams, afford iod hunting" of every kind to be nd in this corner of America. ?Jot only has modern llie in the Dds reached the acme of comfort, h oftentimes a little bit of gene luxury thrown in, but the wilders itself has been made accessible a degree that would have seemed >robable 30 or 40 years ago. Railds are now run through the very Lrt of the moose and deer country, ipping the city sportsman at stuns that are but the vestibules of i happy huntiug grounds. New s-roads and trails radiate everyere, the water highways swarm h canoes, comfortable camps are nd on nearly every shpro. : . During the recent rioting at Barcelona all the gas and electric light plants were out of commission, and the city was Illuminated only by the searchlights of warships in the harbor. The term "electricity" was derived from the Greek word meaning amber. Electricity itself is earliest described by Theophrastus (321 B. C.) and Pliny (70 A. D.), who mention the power of amber to attract straw and dry leaves. At the annual convention of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, the licensees under Mr. Edison's patents, held last week at Scarborough on the Hudson, was celebrated the thirtieth birthday of the Incandescent lamp. In order to compete more effective ly with the gas company, which lets kitchen and other stoves, the municipal electric light plant of Aberdeen, Scotland, has laid in a stock of electric heating and cooking apparatus, which it proposes to ofTer for hire at proportionately low rates. The latest use of radium was upon I a case of filariasis, or blood worm disease, in Paris. In this mosquitocaused disease the blood at night swarms with millions upon millions of microscopic maggots plugging up and inflaming and swelling the kernels in the armpits. A short course of radium in the armpits cured the swelling and made the worms scarcer in the blood. Plans have been filed for a new home for the American Geographical Society at 156th street and Broadway. The building will form one of a group that now includes the Hispano Society's home and the Numismatic Museum, although it has no J connection with either institution. | The building will be erected from iunas proviaea oy mrs. xr. nantington. The estimated cost of the building will be between $250,000 and $300,000. Professor Charles Richet, of Paris, i has devised a means for purifying the air in rooms. According to press dis' patches his apparatus is an air filter which mechanically sterilizes air. I Very fine drops of glycerine are scatI tered along the walls of a cylinder I containing a suction fan. Each par! tide of air drawn in by the fan is ; freighted with- glycerine, and hence tends to drop, thereby carrying with I it the germs, dust and microbes with j which it may be laden. , The Middle Splash. "TKfjf I a imnnooihlo " aoM SpTlfttfH* Aldrich of a socialistic proposition. He laughed. "In its impossibility," he went on, "it reminds me of Joe Jobson's middle splash. "Joe Jobson, a very ignorant and I pig-headed chap, presented himself : at the church with his infant son for the christening. The following dialogue then took place between Jobson and the minister: " 'What name do you give this child?' 1 "'Peter Ananias Jobson.' " 'Ananias? I refuse to christen the child in that name. Do you know who Ananias was?' " 'I don't know who he was, and what's more I don't care.' " 'But Ananias was the greatest liar in all biblical history.' " 'Well, that's nothing to me. My j baby ain't no liar, so what's the dif! ference? I want him christened Ananias because I like the sound of it.' " 'I won't do U. I will christen the child Peter Jeremiah Jobson.' "And the minister was as good as his word, and as he repeated each name he sprinkled a little water od 1 the Infant's face. | " 'Ahd I rub out that middle i splash.' said the father, heatedly. He rubbed his sleeve across his child's wet face and sprinkled a little more water over it. '[ rub out that middle splash, substitute this one for it, an? christen him Peter Ananias Jobson.' And that settled it." ? Washington Star. Parliamentary Pretensions. Parliamentary repartee, as illustrated by recent anecdotes in the Office Window, was ably upheld by Lord Brougham,, especially during the great reform debates of the last century. On one occasion, when an| ti-reformers were trying to howl him i down by imitating the sounds made by various animals, among which the i braying of the ass was most recurrent, he waited for a pause, and then remarked imperturbably that by a wonderful disposition of nature every animal had its peculiar mode of expressing itself, and he was too much of a philosopher to quarrel with any of those modes. This was no less severe than the famous libel on the Earl of Limerick, calling him "a thing with human pretensions," which appeared in the Times in 1831, and for which the printer was fined ?100 and confined for an indefinite period in Newgate.?London Chronicle. Basket Willows. A bulletin of the American Forestry Association says: "A truly infant industry in this country is tr ?rnwin.? of hasket. willow. This ! - ; one kind of tree which can be easi!* grown in time to meet the demanr". Osiers for making baskets have a-ii been imported heretofore from Europe, but experiments by the forest service show that they can be grown successfully in this country as a farm 'jrop. The manufacture of baskets is by no means so large as it might be, and the increasing scarcity of wood for boxes may cause a greater lemand hereafter for baskets." \ A composition of wax and pitch Is low being used instead of glue in the ! making of organs for tropical counties, where the damp climate causes I glue to peel off. i*.., -.v : . <\.v v 1 ' . -. g II ousehold IT! ? .MattersJ; Cleaning Porcelain. With a cloth dipped In kerosene oil ! the effect Is wonderful. You may, then rub with a dry cloth. The articles cleaned will be as bright as new. The same method may be used In cleaning furniture. Even paint may be cleaned with a, little oil on the cloth and soapsuds as well.?Alnslee's. Gardening. One of the most successful of the amateur women gardeners, whose oldfashioned garden is a wonderful tangle of bloom and perfume throughout the season, says that her success is due to bringing the clay soil to terms. When having & bed made she has it first filled In with a thron-inch layer of sand, then with an equally thick layer of sawdust, and last with a generous amount of fertilizer.. The second year the same rule Is followed, at which time she has planted whatever hardy plants Bhe wishes to stay there, the first year's planting being merely for a temporary bloom. 'The sawdust rots and enriches the ground and is almost as beneficial as wood ashes.?New York Tribune. ' 1 mmmmmmmmmrn p . ^ c-( ? Kitchen Supplies. Keep roasted coffee in tin or glass and tightly ^covered. When exposed to the air or kept too long it loses both aroma and strength. For-these reasons it should be bought in limited quantities. On the other hand,v- - ' ,'jgreen coffee Improves with age. ( Store salt in a stone jar in/a: dry S place. -When desirable to keep .tip.tr, Yt j.l ter for any length of time wrap each roll in clean muslin, then pack in brine that will float an egg and weight down with a heavy plate. Cover the top of the jar closely. Lard should be kept in bright tin ' pails or cans. Soda and baking pow- . ; der should be left in the original packages and kept in a cool, dry I place. i Qnorv Ka mimltaflafl In /innn iouap ouuurn uo pui i-uaocu ui v|uaua V-MT titles, unwrapped and stacked on a shelf to harden. When well dried ! out Its lasting qualities are about 'double.?New York Tribune. / ' v'i-J The Home Laundress. To Polish Linen?To give a fine polish to linen use lukewarm water instead of cold to break down the starch. When it has been reduced to the required consistency by boiling % I water add a pinch of fine salt and stir ? : several times with a wax .candle. This j will make the iron run smoothly and | give a polish to the linen that noth> { ing else can impart. Getting Up Collars and Cuffs?> After washing the articles perfectly ' nlno n Iootto th Qm nnlrl u/q tor H11 the next day. Make cold starch In j the usual way and wring the articles through it twice. Then dissolve two ' . . teaspoons of borax in hot water, let . -'J it cool, and wring the collars, and cuffs through that twice. Wrap them in a clean towel and mangle. Wait for a little time before ironing. Iron on the wrong side first, and then on the right, pressing very evenly ao as produce a good gloss. A polishing v iron is best for this.?Boston Herald. To 'Wash White Lace, j First, the soiled laces should be (carefully removed from the garment and folded a number of times, keeping the edges evenly together^then basted with a coarse thread without * knot in the end. Now put them in a ! basin of lukewarm suds. After soak* j Ing a half hour, rub them carefully j between the hands, renewing the sudi | several times; then, after soaping I them well,-place them in cold water I ??/! lit rnmo frn ?. SPAld. Take OUU tov vuvxu VV1MW WW ?. .. them from this and rinse them thoroughly in lukewarm water blued a little; then dip them into a very thin, clear starch, allowing a teaspoonful of starch to a pint of wafer. Now roll them in a clean towel without taking out the basting; let them lie for an hour or more, iroii over several thicknesses of flannel, taking out the bastings, of one lace at a time and Ironing on the wrong side with a moderately hot Iron; the lace should be nearly dry and the edges pulled gently with the fingers in shape b?? , fore ironing.?Boston Post. '1 i . I - > Macedoine Salad.?Mixed vegetaDies, well cooked, either canned or fresh, are called^ macedoine. If canned drain, wash and arrange them neatly on crisp lettuce leaves. Pour over French dressing and serve. Raspberry Trifle.?Beat one-half pint of heavy cream until "it begins to thicken, add the stiffly beaten white of one egg. Beat until stiff, fold in one-half cup of crushed raspberries and sweeten to taste with powdered sugar. Line sherbet cup with thin slices of cream. j Shrimp Delight.?Melt a piece of butter the size of a walnut in a sauce[ pan, add one-half pint of cream. I When heated through add one cup J boiled rice, one can of shrimp chopped I fine, and last of all one-half bottle of j tomato catsup. Serve on toasted ! bread or soda crackers. Vnrrot'llilA Sruin.?Ollt five Dotatoes j into small pieces, one carrot, a small I tomato, one-half onion, small piece of | cauliflower, one piece^of celery andI some parsley, then add a pint of milk and one of water and boil until vegej tables are soft, and season with a lit? I tie sugar, salt and pepper. Meat Souffle.?One cupful of cold meat chopped fine, one cupful of sweet milk, one large tablespoonful' of flour, one small tablespoonful of | butter, two eggs, seasoning to taste. j Scald the milk, thickened with the i flour and butter; stir in the beatenyolks, pour this while hot over the meat, stirring; set aside to cool. Then stir in lightly the beaten whites and1* bake in a quick oven fifteen minutes. Serve hot. ... _ i