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Wine Cottar to Crypt. The historic vault under the Capuchin Church in Vienna, which contains the remains of nearly all the members of the imperial family who have died within the last 200 years, has been enlarged by the inclusion of the monastery's wine cellar. Two new vaults have thus been added. The walls are lined with white .marble. The smaller one now contains the coffins of the nearer relatives of the Emperor. Here also the last resting place ol the present Emperor will be.?Week End. Household Helps. H It is surprising the many different appetizing ways that Corned Beef can be prepared for the family's meals. Every one likes Corned Beef and there is no more healthful or delicious dish than Libby's, carefully selected from prime beef and properly "cured." There is some waste, to be sure, when bought at the butcher's, but in the plan here suggested you may buy the finest corned beet in the world in which there is absolutely no waste and every particle of which can be eaten. Suppose you ask your grocer for Libby's Corned Beef. It represents all full value?no bone, no gristle?iust clean, pure corned beef selected 'irst nand from the finest beef stock?no scraps rt second pieces?and corned and cooked to per feetion in Libb.v's wonderful "vviute enamel kitchens. A can of Libb.v's Corned Beef sliced and served cold with dill pickles and potato calad i9 a delightful meal and will be enough for four people. Corned Beef Hash.?Take the contents of a can, chop fine, add one-fourth as much boiled or baked potatoes, a little fried onion and a small quantity of water. Cool; slowly until thoroughly heated, then serve on toast with or without poached eggs. Corned Beef Omelette?Beat the yolks and whites of four eggs separately and add one-half of the whites to all of the volks. Put in a hot frying pan and, when nicely browned on the* bottom, sprinkle a cup of minced corned beef over it. Spread over this the remainder of the whites, put in the oven and brown on top. Then fold uid serve. Creamed Corned Keef.?Mince the contents of a can of Libby's Corned Peer. Put over this a dressing of cream gravy the yolk of an egg beaten into it. Serve on toast. New England Boiled Dinner.?You may have this in one-fourth of the time it usually take?. Put a can of Libby's Corned Beef in boiling water?it is already.cooked ?and serve in the usual manner with vegetables. Besides the economy in the use of Libby's Corned Beeft another great advantage to the housewife in usinc it is that it is all cooked when bought and there is no necessity for the long, tedious and expensive boiling which is necessary with raw corned beef. The house is not filled with steain and odors and valuable time is 6aved. Libby's Corned Beef is ready at once for serving in any one of the many ways mentioned above, and you will find it a great convenience to try it next time. Be sure vou get Libby, McNeill & Libby's Corned feeef. North American reindeer usually select an old doe for their leader. Try Murine Eye Remedy For Red, Weak. Weary, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. It Soothes' Eye Pain. * Murine Eye Remedy Liquid, 25c. and 50c. Murine Eye Salve, 25c. c_d SI .00. The English army now has 44.000 total abstainers. Mrs. Wiuslqw'B Soothing Syrup for Children teething, soitens trie gums, reauces mnaminatioD. al lays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bociie Forty Acres and Independence. I would exchange ray age, money and acres for youth and forty acres, and think that I had the best of the bargain; and I would start the factory by planting ten acres of orchard, buying two sows, two cows, and two sitting hens. Youth, strength and hustle are a great sight better than money, and the wise youth can have a finer farm than mine before he passes the half-century mark, even though he have but a bare forty to begin with. -'1 do not take it for granted that every man has even a bare forty: but millions of men who have it not, can have it by a little persistent selfdenial; and when an able-bodied man has forty acres of ground under his feet, it is up to him whether he will be a comfortable, independent, selfrespecting man or not.?From "The TTof nt 4> ^ Tanrt " the> ctnrv r?f an American Farm, by John William Streeter. Watch Crystals of Ce?lnloid. Celluloid watch crystals have appeared and are guaranteed not to break like those of glass. The celluloid crystals are not favored by dealers in the higher grades of watches, but are placed on cheap timepieces. Of late the German manufacturers have been employing these crystals. They cost a little more than glass, but are liked because of their durability.?Scientific American. Germany is losing ground in China. Fiftpen vears aeo its exports to that country exceeded those of the United States and Japan combined. To-day they constitute only a little over four per cent., -whereas America has nine per cent., Japan fourteen and England about fifty. N.Y.?23 FEED CHILDREN On Properly Selected Food. It Pays Big Dividends. ^If parents will give just a little in. telligent thought to the feeding of their children the difference in the health of the little folks will pay, many times over, for the small trouble. A mother writes saying: "Our children are all so much better and stronger than they ever were before we made a change in the character of the food. We have quit using potatoes three times a day with coffee and so much meat. "Now we give the little folks some fruit, either fresh, stewed, or canned, some Grape-Nuts with cream, occasionally some soft boiled eggs, and some Postum for breakfast and supper. Then for dinner they have some meat and vegetables. "It would be hard to realize the change in the children, they have grown so sturdy and strong, and we attribute this change to the food elements that, 1 understand, exist in Grape-Nuts and Postum. "A short time ago my baby was teething and had a great deal of stomach and bowel trouble. Nothing seemed to agree with hin until I tried Grape-Nuts softened and mixed with rich milk and he improved rapIdly and got sturdy and well." Read "The Road to Wellville," found in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from tjpae to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. The Auto Question. tl I have received several letters from ; parties asking as to my plan to con- P' | trol automobiles, control of roads, ! ctc. My plan is to form civic leagues *>( i and enforce the present laws, patrol I all roads and compel all parties to w ] comply with our existing laws. 1 w ; mean all travelers." be they autoists m , 5r farmers, and 1 mean all travel. If j you or any other man in Indiana can | suggest anything better or more just V( 1 write me. This has been my reply to b* j all private letters.?J. J. New. ai If the people are satisfied with the i ^ nrpspnt. lavs, and if they can be in- | I duced to organize, as you suggest. cv i your plan may work, but tbese are P* ; big ifs. We don't believe either of ri them can be compassed. But let us hear from others on this subject.? *n i Indiana Farmer. m bi liiishel of Corn and liutter. Cows of fair quality only, such as *r will make 250 to 300 pounds of but- ^ i ter per year, when properly fed make ; three pounds of butter each bushel i Df corn or oats, when the two grains j are ground together and fed. Surely . ; that is a better market for corn than 'n ! when sold as grain is sold on the e i market. Referring to this matter ns j Hoards' Dairyman says: "There never was a time when it 00 . paid as good r. profit as it does to-day j to feed a cow well. Think of it. ? I Three pounds of butter in a bushel of Ul :orn. That is nearly SI worth of outter. What kind of a farmer must a man be that will not turn grain into i outter at that price? One great troui ble is that these farmers have not er | taken pains to breed good cows that co j it will pay a big profit to feed well, nc j Tf ever a farmer fed well be should th do it now." th tw Wintering Farm Horses. of At the Michigan Experiment Sta- ^ j tion an experiment was recently con- ar : iucted for ten weeks using a variety ^ | Df cheap substitutes for oats and tim- co j 3thy hay as a feed for horses. Six Tt | horses at work received a regular ra- ca i tion of timothy bay and oats at an so ; average cost of 29.6 cents per day, es- mi j timating the feed at current prices. er I The horses lost on an average of eleven pounds each. Six horses were lD fed a cheaper ration, consisting of po shredded cornstalks, oat straw, hay, m( ear corn, oats, beet pulp, bran, oil '0< :ake and a few carrots, the average cost of which wasl7.7 cents per day, co and the horses gained on an average m( fourteen pounds each. Four horses sc: were also fed the cheaper ration, but to ! as they were at rest part of the time i they were not fed so heavily as the a j other lots. The average cost of mainj tenance in this trial was 12.9 cents, i and the average loss in live weight so j for each horse four pounds. to ^ j* The Sow in Farrow. a1, j Nothing is so certain to produce a ! small and unprofitable litter of pigs lo! | as to have the sow in farrow to share pe her lot or bed with a pen of half mi l grown shoats or with other sows. In re summer she will go off to some se- an ! eluded spot to make her bed and thus ec* escape the danger of crowding. In er ! winter or early spring, however, she ! cannot overcome the habit of hud- ag 1 dling up with the lot even up to her ^ | time and thus endangering her off- e ! spring. ! The thrifty farmer will provide op . ... an separate pens, ur iuis, a.xiu piouij ? not too much?of straw and shelter from rain. After the pigs are a week old two or three sows may be run to- ^ | gether. Of course, it takes more time to water and feed the sows separated ^ r this way, but it pays to do it. ca j It is a great disappointment and a real loss of ?ime and feed to have your promising brood sow turn up with only one or two pigs. If it is ^ J your fault you cannot make it up .t I this season, and by another the CO | golden opportunity may have passed. gg : ?Farmers' Home Journal. ! Di wl Prevention of Disease. at One of the greatest causes of dis- tj, j ease among fowls is from lice and not jjj I disinfecting the poultry houses prop[ erly. I have never had a contagious b disease among my fowls. Eighteen jn years ago I lost quite a number from ^ limber neck. I did not know the ^ cause then, but by sad experience learned a lesson that has been worth Sj a great deal to me. I never allow a any dead chickens or any other kind m ot flesh to lay about where the chick- ju ens go. It is sure death to them if they get maggots from any kind of w flesh. sc For destroying lice and miter. I fumigate my poultry houses with to- ^ bacco and sulphur, usually do this on ta j damp days, and is better if done once ^ j a week. We not only believe it is h< j good for the fowls, but for people. } I We have not had a spell of fever j ! since we have been fumigating with I tobacco, while so many of our neighbors have fever every year. This ^ promises to be the greatest year in . poultry business, yet in my exper- C? ience have never known eggs as high as they were last winter. I have never had such a demand for eggs and C'C chickens; can't near supply the orders ^ for the last five or si:: weeks. If you .. want every mail to bring in orders fc ! and inquiries advertise in Farmers' Home Journal and you will have ali the work you are looking for.?Mrs. ? Emily Gibson, in the Farmers' Home Journal. w Cleanliness in Hog Feeding. 01 The hog responds as readily to w cleanliness and care as any other ani- ^ mal on the farm. Not long since I \ ?j was greatly impressed with the lar k j of sanitary conditions around the yards and houses of a man who has been growing hogr more or less successfully for ten years. His feeding tc troughs were foul with decayed food. ' v\ro#?HI a ie floors were damp and full of mud- j tia :>les that good drainage would have wa evented. ut< All fixtures in a hop; house should ho ? movable. It is advantageous to sui ive the troughs where they may be gi* ashed or scalded out twice each Fr eek at least. It should be borne in wb ind that foul troughs are good Pei eeding places lor parasites that may ere ; taken into the stomach and con- en< i#'ed into worms. Damp floors may i pri ; overcome if the house is well aired , fro id windows enough are in it to let I cef ie sunshine in on the floors. It is never best to allow dust to ac- ' of imulate on the partitions and in tin ;ns used for feed. It is always inju- cal ous to the health of the hogs. ret Those who are in the habit of feed- rai g their hogs grain scattered in the ud or dust of a dry yard should se^ lild a feeding floor and use it. Go ac*< - - fiir to any herd tnat is red in me oust j om thrown-down grain and much heezing and coughing will he heard. C01 iis is bad on all hogs, and especially art ose kept for breeding purposes. a ] In building afeedingfloor it should mi ! set off the ground four to six ches and built solidly of good timjr. A two by four piece should be ca' iiled around the whole edge, which ac1 ill prevent lots of shelled or ear a ] rn being pushed off into the dirt eni id dust. The floor should be swept I c^' f each time before feeding.?W. H. aderwcod, in the Indiana Farmer. bil of pre Scrub Cows Don't Pay. ta* If any of the great throng of farm- .? ! s who are blindly adhering to scrub ^ w breeding were asked why he does jQV >t keep pure breds he would reply an at it cost too much to start, and at the purchase of a new bull every j o years would eat up a good share ^ the profits;. Here are two ianacies Q0^ at require some attention. There ^ e many farmers who will not allow ^ emselves to think beyond the first ^ st of a pair of registered calves. ley can not "see" $100 in a heifer co(. If. and wonder how any one can be j0]. foolish as to "throw away" so jes, uch money on a calf that the butc'a- e(^ wo''ld think dear at $10. But the ery lyer of such a calf is not viewing cie e question from the butcher's stand- dir int. He does not propose to make sur ?at of a registered heifer, but he wa Dks ahead to the time when he will use ,ve a whole herd of registered ceI ws, any one of which will be worth Dre than double as much as the rub, whether for dairy purposes or sen. ,. This question of beginning right is , mo very important one in all walk:; of j e, but especially to the breede:: of ' e stock, as the increase in the t.erd- , taE on grows by leaps and bounds and j ^ e first outlay is as nothing compared j ^?( the increased returns in the not ! stant future. The writer knows a i iry farmer who figured out a dead j 5s from scrub cows?practical exrience and no guess work. He j ade a study of the official butter i cords of the different dairy breeds, | d on the strength of that knowl- i ( ge he invested $700 in three heif- j s that were closely related to the \ st cows of the breed, and that aver- j sei! ed less than thirteen months old. ; 1)r'; lat was less than five years ago, and t now has a nice little herd of pure ; ed cows. His cream checks are j ening the eyes of his neighbors, j id he has sold more than $800 1 ( jrth of registered stock at prices : , ry much lower than he paid to get J ( s start. He is booking orders for i lifer calves before they are born at '5 each, and future prospects are ' ouj ight for nice profits from cream and 1 Ives. j ; He reminds his friends that the i ei : "WO an who pays $150 for an ideal ear | nnt-n ie TIAfr OvnPffinP tf? feed it tC' . win ?r j cis e pigs, but that he coolly computes i ; worth as a breeder of high-class rn, and he is far-sighted enough to j e its influence on future crops, oubtless there - many farmers ; tio ho take a similar view of the grain sl? id live stock pi*blem. They are 19 oroughly convinced that it pays to , r'e tve the]best, but they are just too j ad' mid to make the start. They may ! I?1 ! brave soldiers, they may be heroes ' 'ar many places of danger; but they ani ive yet to learn that there is such a ling as cool, business bravery. 110 here arc places for brave men be- 'n des upon battle fields. This is t F'r( plea for the reckless expenditure of mg oney with one's eyes shut, but for ? ve] idicious expenditure after carefully aD' msidering the probable returns, not , ar( ithin si?: months but within a rea- cie inable time. 0*>' Regarding the outlay for bulls. ; ^r: lere are some wrong views enter- j to1 ined. It is not always necessary to ; an' ay a new one every two years. If an ; is of good vitality and free from c|u adesirable qualities, his choice j ;ifers may be bred back to him with j ) fear of bad results. When the ! ne comes to dispose of him, he will ! ing enough from the butcher, if ; j-jj i proper condition, to pay for a bull wa ilf; so that the total cost of bulls ! aft ay be figured in advance to the : th< ice paid for the first one plus the die ?st of feed thereafter. This may j <?tc i reduced by the service fees from ! io\ te neighbors who are willing to pay Ro ir the use of a good bull. ' soi This cc-st of bulls may be alto- | to Jther eliminated by breeding to a 1 frc iighbor's bull if there should be one J Ro I the right breed and valu^ | th< ithin convenient reach. Community ; en reeding, that is, all the people in on le region deciding upon one breed, ha ill very materially lessen expenses;! th< ut this is too large a problem to con| th( der here.?W. H. Underwood, in thi wc idiana Farmer. An electric machine has been madt S5 i wash aud pvrffy the j>!r Je wi )3ai, lai V " > =-' ' itail Priccs and Living Cost ?< By ,J. LAURENCE LAtTGHLIN. I There can lie little doubt that the ;ail organization by which goods go >m the wholesaler to the co lsumer unnecessarily wasteful and expen e. There are twenty butcher shops . d groceries in every neighborhood j 11 iere only one is needed. Each must j u ?nd much in advertising, in show ! v ndows, in rents, i:i costly fixtures. | ? telephones, in wages, in hcrses and 1 livery wagons, which are not esssn- ' w 1 to the total result. Five or six ^ gons, with salaried drivers, distrib5 trifling quantities of goods to p uses in the same street. The con- s" mer pays for this waste in the nu.r- 11 i of retail over wholesale prices. | e om 1S90 to 1903, on an average, I " olesale prices have increased nine 11 r cent., while retail prices have in- " ;ased sixteen per cent. The differ- ^ :e between wholesale and retail ces in particular cases, varies im 10-25 per cent, tj lod-150 per it. | Li If one stops to analyze the process ! ti retail buying it will be realized | |j it it is the seller only who practi- | p ly sets the price. There is no true c, ail market price. Eusy or iguo- p it people pay what is charged them n Lhout the patience or the power to a ect. In these days we pay for the jj 3itional costs of dainty and attrac- a c packages for cereals, crackers, t( s and the like. Indeed under the w ?er of speicial tins an amount of an ^ icle is sold at a price which makes 0 pound cost two or three times as ^ ich as formerly. The psychology t, the retail market is itself a study fl no mean interest. Habit, fancy, >rice, rumor, emulation, gregarious ion of a set, may play a part. Once man gets established with a cliLele he puts up his prices. He o irges all he can get, and the con- d ing customer goes on paying the ti Is?until there rises a general cry s: high cost of living, like that of the Si >sent day. There are different re- o 1 prices for each half mile as one k ;ses from the centre of a city to its tl :skirts. Yet some persons think it ti meaning to bargain or seek for o rev prices. To spend recklessly is b: evidence of what some regard as n onging to social position. si tn the margin of the retail over p i wholesale price, in a community S) : well shake-, down into form, y ire is an opportunity for serious 0 inges in the cost of living. Out of s margin the catalogue houses, the 0 olesale grocery houses, the tea and C) fee houses, have accumulated great tunes?at the expense of the help3 consumer. Then what is the remtl Obviously, the creation in ev- ^ neighborhood of co-operative scties for the distribution of goods ectly from the producer to the coi> ' ner at actual cost?obviating tne ste ot advertising, high rents and n iless duplication of service.;?Scribes Magazine. ________________ cl Somewhat Complicated. ^ Pour customers had called that i Di rning. The dealer reflected that ! order Tby mail would necessarily ^ ;e time, so going to the long dis- ^ ice telephone he got his favorite iber on the wire. This conversa- e, n ensued: 0, 'Hello! Is this the Retailers' Sup- ' jg Company?" J 'Yes." 'Who's talking?" 'Watt." 'What is your name?' . 'Watt is my name." 'Yes. What is your name?" fl 'My name is Watt?Charles Watt." 'Oh! Charles Watt. Well, Y\fatt, S! id me this order on this noon's ex- a jss." (Here he reads order.) 'All right. Are you Schott?" 'No; I'm not snot nor nan snot. "I mean are you John Schott?" a 'No. I'm Knott." c< "Well, then, what is your name?" f? "Will Knott." s< "Why, won't you?" ^ 'Uh! My name is Will Knott, of oxville. I want that order sent w t on to-day's noon express, sure." 0 'Certainly, Knott. Good-by." e< A.nd Knott, went back to the coun- c' wondering whether Watt said he S uld or not or what. > P But he got the goods.?San Fran- b co Star. h h Cremations in England. it The movement in favor of crema- ai n in England continues to make w but steady progress. During OS the number of cremations carJ out in Great Britain was 855, ar vance of sixty as compared with 08. The first crematorium in Eng- ( id was opened at Woking in 18S5 3 the total number of cremations ce that time is S121. There are w altogether thirteen crematoria | Great Britain, and this number will I ci )bably soon be increased. The Cre. | 01 iticn Society of England has been ? ~ TmAnofronfln nrnrb I 61 ry ci L' L i VU 111 no |Ji upa?,uuau nvin j d public interest iz slowly being j bl )used. Recently a cremation so- j 01 ty was formed in Edinburgh. The j n ject of the society is to promote the i S1 icticc of cremation and burial re m by means of meetings, lecture? li ci publications or otherwise. There oi j already about 180 members, in ft iding many well known persons.? sj w York Medical Journal. g M How the Roman Empire Grew. Rome was founded B. C. 750; th( igs were expelled B. C. F>09; and it s cot until B. C. 290, 4G0 years j ? er the founding of the city, that i Romans conquered their imme 01 ite neighbors, the Samnites, Latins, p1 :. It was not until B C. 266, folving the defeat of Pyrrheus. that " s_ t._I? , m ime was supreme in juu,>, nuu tuc . ithern boundary of Cisapline Gaul te the Sicilian Straits. For 350 years, Cl im the foundation of the city, the mians could stand on the hills ol 10 jir city and almost look across their tire territory, as it stretched away d< ly some twenty miles on either ai nd. After the consolidation ol tc jir power in Italy, however, it took ai ?m but loO years to conquer the cc irld.? Review of Reviews. Si tl( It is calculated that no fewer f!."- i u aj ,000 people spend their lives on w ? canal boats and barges of EDg-1 . id alone. ) ^ > i^g^H0U5EH0LD^p|j A S Use For Broken Dishes. A woman who keeps a restaurant i Washington square has served the se of one of the by-products of serent girl carlessness. Whenever one f her girls breaks a dish of figured si lina the flat part of the dish or plate, t< 'ith a pattern showing on it, is care- ji ally laid aside. "I have arranged S) iiese old pieces," she said, "into a ai retty mosaic pattern for my window, stting tbem in cement. In a year or fc 3 I shall have enough to inlay the fj ntire floor of the restaurant, making a lie pieces into colored borders and fc sing the white for the centre of the Si oor. just as I have done in the win- c( ow."?New York Sun. tl m Cuts or Ayonnds. v< A wound produced by a sharp cuting instrument will heal without ?' rouble when the edges are nicely 11 rought together and left so, without ** utting on any salve, provided the ac- r< ess of air is shut off and the person 11 ossesses a good constitution. If the is round is produced by a rusty nail or similar cause, so as to be jagged, 1L ; will soon become very inflamed, V nd in such a case it is recommended " 3 smoke the wound with burning a| rool or woolen cloth, says Woman's P rife. Twenty minutes in the smoke a f wool will take the pain out of the 'orst wound, and if repeated once or ^ tvice will allay the worst case of in- C1 amraatioD. a] tt Lavender Disinfectant. p, The following directions were given f? nee upon a time in a sick room for a 01 isinfectant. It was there discovered tl a be so agreeable that it has ever pi ince that time been employed in the ol ame household to disguise the smell ai f food in the kitchen. Every one m nows the value of burning coffee for he like purpose, but that is bo iden- gi ifled with the use that one thinks at I nee, when sniffing its odor, of the Hi mell which it is covering up. To 4, lake the lavender disinfectant, soak s\ beets of common brown wrapping ju aper in satpetre and water, then pi at them away to dry till wanted. Is /hen brought into play, throw on st nfl nf these leaves of caper some ar owerg of lavender and burn them 3f n a shovel, as In the case of the ar Dffee.?Woman's Life. th th For Stained Fingers. of The days of preserving briug :ained fingers. Have you ever tried Y' sing a weak solution of oxalic acid pl fter preparing berries or discoloring ar egetablea? It is a quick stain re- Dc >over. As the acid is a poison, label the : ottle plainly and keep away from e hildren. Wher,e stains are under yc ngernails wrap a bit of absorbent 01 Dtton on the end of an orangewood 01 :ick and dip in the solution. * For minor stains lemon juice is elpful. Run ends of fingers into alf a cut lemon. Tomatoes will also remove stains, ^ specially those of paring potatoes or ther slight discolorations. A tomato i a whitener and softens the hands. -New York Times. p( -?? Jy How to Serve Watermelon. m "Watermelons are especially cool- fa lg and refreshing on a liot day be- ' ra luse of quantities of deliriously ja avored juice which they contain," I jj. iys Fannie Merritt Farmer, in Worn-- I n's Home Companion. "The edible j ortion is sometimes chilled, cut in j nail cubes (removing seeds),, at prinkled with powdered sugar, and I pi rranged in coupe glasses for the first j ti] surse at luncheon or dinner. For ; imily use it is most attractively ! fo ;rved in one of the following ways: j er ut a section three or four inches in i in i!i:kness from the centre of a chilled i atermelon. With n sharp knife cut [ as ut a circle of the pink pulp (the j to 3ible portion) ,and place upon a J he lilled serving dish of correct size, fo erve in pie-sbaped pieces on chilled gr lates, -or cut off a thick slice from tb oth ends of the melon (that the of alves may stand level) and cut in st alves crosswise. Arrange on a serv- of ig dish on a bed of green leayes, if ta ny are at hand." ds a? Coree Souffle.?One anu a half , ips strong coffee, one-half cup milk, e ae tablespoon granulated gelatine, :, vo-thirds cup sugar, yolks of three ?gs. Cook in a double boiler till it 61 egins to thicken, then add the whites f three eggs beaten to a stiff froth; lould and serve with cream and j* Donge drops. Soft Ginger Cake.?Beat two egg9 ght, add one-half cupful sour cream, tc ne of molasses and three cupfuls a] our gifted twice, with a level tea- ai :oonful soda, a level tablespoonful inger and a saltspoonful of salt, ix well, add a half cup seeded Lisins cut in halves and dredged with m our, and bake in a moderate oven. m Snow Custard.?Boil eight eggs, j as aving out the whites of four; add to 1 ai lem one quart of milk and five fc inces of sugar; have a shallow par. tt : hot water in the oven; set the dish w ito it and bake till the custard is T lick; then set away to cool; beat re- si aining whites very light; add half a tli aspoonful of lemon juice; when the u: istard is cold lay the whites over 01 le top in heaps, but do not let them ri uch. it Dutch Apple Cake.?Make a biscuit J'( Dugh, using cream instead of butter id milk. Make the dough a little si 10 soft to roll and spread about half >'( l inch thick in a pan. Pare and P' ... I he >re tart apples ana cut into eigiuns. Lick the pieces in the top of the ar Migh in regular rows, core side ?c >wn. Sprinkle on top as much sugar al ; necessary to sweeten the apples, ith grated cinnamon and bits of m ltter, and bake until the apples ?.re< m loroughly done. er KIN DEEP BEAUTY OF FRD11 High Cultivation Doesn't Help In Every Way-Apples Are Striking Proof of This, Says a Dealer?Tomatoes, Too, Have Lost in Flavor More Than They Have Gained in Size and Smoothness. "Now try this one," said the fruil :ore man, handing a small, unpre^ ;ntious apple to a customer who hac ist bought and eaten a fine rosj jecimen from Oregon nearly as big 3 one's two fists. The customer had paid ten cents >r the big apple, while the baskel om which the little one came bore placard: "Two for five cents; fiv? )r ten cents." He looked at tht nail apple and bit into it. Th'en his juntenance changed. "Why, that's ie better apple of the two. It isn'l luch for locks, but it has the flair." "Only poor people eat the good Id fashioned apples," said the fruit tan. "New Yorkers who can afford lem will have nothing but the big ;d, rosy apples and that's where thej lake a mistake. The big red applt ; the result of much grafting and ilture, and size and color are almosl s only merits. The little, more natral, uncultured apple retains th( ue apple navor ana cue meat is 50110 ad smooth grained. These new ap> les that might be called man made re coarser and less firm under the rin and the meat is uneven. Bui ley please the eye and thousands ol ty people do not know that there ii ay other kind. "The horticulturists have improved le size and color till it is nearly imDssible to get a really good, old ishioned apple in the market. The rchard men who produce apples foi le trade plant none but the imroved trees, for they get more bull! I apple to the acre and the appearace makes it possible to realize a uch better price. "I was born and bred in the apple owing region of northern Ohio and know fruit. In my young days we rst had the July apples, about July then the August apple, both fine, Feet, mellcw, Lealy apples that got licy when dead ripe. Our staple apes in those days were the Rhode land greening, northern spy, rambo, leep nose, pippin, wiiiesap and seval varieties of russets. Every one these apples had a distinctive flavor id their keeping qualities were such iai mey lonoweu eacu utuci m uiuu irough the winter. Do you see any ' these apples in the fruit stores of ew York nowadays? Not much, ou'll find big, pithy, tasteless apes called kings and queens of this id that which in our day we should )t have cared for at all. "No, it isn't a change of taste. 1 lOught that maybe my palate was ss sensitive than when I was >unger arid that perhaps a winesap a sheep nose wouldn't taste as it ice did, but I got out into that Ohic jple country last fall and I found ie old fashioned apples just as good they used to be. They were hard i find though, even there. "But apples are not the? only lings that scientific development has loiled. Peaches are not what they sed to be in flavor and texture, lough the size and color are better. =ars have held their own more even. Eastern and Northern orcharden have been content to let Caliirnia and some parts of the South ise the pears and as they depend rgely upon soil and climate they ive flourished and held their old me sweetness. But plums really ive been improved. Only a few tars ago a plum without a worm the heart was rare and the various um tree blights weakened the trees II they lacked the vitality to proice good fruit. Means have been und to kill the worms and with sciitific treatment the trees are gaing vitality. "Among the vegetables I suppose paragus, celery, etrawberries and matoes have suffered most at the mds of science. What man of rty doesn't remember the little een asparagus that was not bigger an a lead pencil and that cooks that day broke into inch lengths, ewed in cream and served on bits toast? It wasn't as pretty on the ble as the giant white stalks of toly, but there was no lack of asparjus flavor. "Don't you remember the celery of ssteryear? Great plants, three feet 11 and bleached half way up and ie true celery flavor from root to p leaf? Why, to make modern .lery taste like something more than drink of water they stutf it with leese. "And strawberries?now they have m so big that one makes two or iree bites, but they taste so much ke straw that the name seems well ven. "We get beautiful red, smooth toatoes these days, big as a dinner ate, but they are mostly pulp that tasteless and insipid, mey useu ) be smaller and less tempting, and lere were lots of seeds and juice, but miatoes didn't have to have sauces id dressings to make them palat* lie."?New York Sun. Covetousness. 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