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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. This year's recruits for the Russian army number 270,000, which is con siderably more than the whole Br i tu li army. William Dean Howells, the novelist, recently declared in a magazine arti cle that the practice of accepting .'tips" was degrading and ua-Ameri cac. Coba Burns proposes to have a law passed by Parliament making it com pulsory for employers to give domes tic servants "a character" on dismis sal. Laws to that effect have long been in force in France and Germany. Parisians who went to the Kassian Czar's coronation were aston nc ca at (he unpaved condition of Moscow. Tfcey.fqnud that it would cost $30," 000,000. to pave the town, and that th s work would practically have to be done over every year on account of the effect? of frost. Once in five years the Mayor of Newcastle, England, is rowed up thc river in an Elizabethan barge, and, landing at a village green kisses the prettiest girl hejeees and gives her a sovereign, to elinch Newcastle's right to the foreshore. Some of those old English customs are not so very silly utter all. The entertainment of royalty is ex pensive. An English paper states that the Earl of Lonsdale is known to have spent nearly $1,000,000 in connection with a four days' visit which Emperor William paid him at Lowther Castle last autumn. They say that Ladv William Beresford paid $150,000 tc entertain the Prince of Wales from Saturday to Monday at Deepdeene. j A statitioian who has been interest* ing himself in the population of the earth says that 32,214,000 persons die annually; that is, an average of 98,810 & day, 4020 an hour and 67 a minute. The annual number of births on the other hand is estimated at 36,792,000, an average of 100,800 a day, 4200 an hour and 70 a* minute, so that the population is increasing at the rate of 8 to the minute. * Threo great lifo insurance com panies whose home offices ore in New Tori City have policies in g to more than. 82.530,0[ companies exceed $5,881,0007000. The grand total of American life insur? ance policies in force, those of the assessment companies and orders in cluded, is reported to be S13,018,452, 664. The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph notes that of the long list of philan thropists who have given $1,000,000 or more to the cause of higher education in this country, only ODO is a college graduate. Tho single exception i.> Seth Low. Girard, Peabody, Cornell, Cooper, Rockefeller, Bich, Parker, Hopkins, Clark, Drexel, Vanderbilt, Da Pauw, Lick, Stanford and the others had not the advantage of col lege education, but they appreciate J the value ot such a training enough to assist other men to obtain it. Herr Albert Joly, formerly a confi dential messenger of Prince Bismarck, who entrusted him with the cuirying of documents and telegra ns of special importance, died at Schouhausen re cently, He was well known m Berlin as "tho Black Rider," his hair, hie olotb.es, his horse and tho bag in which he carried his missives bsing all ofthat hpe. Prince Bismarck gener ally took him with when he traveled. When the Prince resigned iu 1890 Horr Joly also left tho public ervice, and was appointed Keeper of the Bis mark Museum at Schonhausen, to the arranging of which he devoted his last years. _ An ideal, bu', we are assured quite necessary, state of cleanliness for healthful school rooms requires that the floors shall be dampened and swept every day, with all the windows open ; the dusting to be done the next morning with a damp cloth. In addi tion to this cleaning, Dr. Adams, who ii President of the Orange County (New York) Medical Societies, be lieves that at least every other day the floors should be thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water. The various women's clubs throughout the coun try, whose members are interested in the work of the public schools, will do well to find out how near the school rooms where their children spend tho greater part of their waking hours ap? proach this state. "Real Estate Mortgages in the Unit ed States" is the title of a volume just issued by the Census Bureau, the work having been delayed nntil now on ac count of tho rush at the Government i ri n tin g Office. According to this publication, dur ing. tho decade of 188C 1890 there were 9,157,747 mortgages filed, representing an incurred debt of $12,094,877,793. During this time acre tracts wero covered by 4,747,078 mortgages, representing a debt of 34, 896,771,113, and 4,770,639 mortgages were placed on lots to secure an in curred debt of $7,198,106,681. With in the same period 622,855,091 aores were covered by 4,758,268 mortgages, not stating the amount ot debt eecured by them, and 8,027,031 lots were cov ered by 4,778,075 such mortgage?. . WAVE OF DEATH. DETAILS O',? THE TIDE THAT 8W1?PT NORTHERN JAPAN, Some 27,000 Persons Were Killed anti 5000 Injured-WJiole Towns nml Villages Swept Away. Y Y Y TIE story of the tremendous tidal wave that swept the northern shoreo of Japan and S caused the loss of some 27,000 lives on June 15 is told in full detail in the advices, recently received at San Francisco by tho Pacifio Mail steamer China. The first reports were not ex aggerated, and in addition to the loss o' lifo there were over 5000 persons seriously wounded and ia bad condi t on owing to the destruction of hos pital facilities and medical stores. The damage to property is enormous, and is roughly estimated in the offi cial report at nearly 1,000,000 yon. DIGGING IN THE Bl Thomas D. McKay, for two years past General Pascenger Agent of tho Central and Union Pacifio Eailroad6 at Yokohama, arrived on the steamer China for a short vacation trip. He has traveled on three different oc casions this year through that portion of Japan recently devastated, and in talking about the remarkable seismic disaster he said : "The earthquake affected fully 250 miles of the coast line. A great wave rolled inland and wrought havoc to many villages and their itbabitants. Fishermen live miles out ot sea were unharmed and returned at night to '"MIMI w^^wi?^^^^^By^f^^Wwu^d Aomori prefectures. In the Aomori country eight towns were badly ruined, with great loss of life. In the Iwate section fully thirty-one towns were devastated, and in the Prefecture of Miyagi almost eighteen towns or hamlets. "Of oourse, the survivors all have strange and interesting stories to re late. One man I heard say that he saved his life by running up to the top of a mill. His friends were en BUINS IN THE VILLAGE OF OD?CB3. gulfed by ruining in their fright to wards the beach. He say? the first shook he felt was slight and he paid put little attention to it. Then a big wave started to come inland. In half an hour the damage was done and the waters were back to their usual level again. He thinks the big rush' of water j proper did no" last over five or six minutes, and it was accompanied by a j terrific noise. Following the first big wave there was a second one not so large, but he thinks it made fully as much noise." Mr. Sakai, an assisstant expert of tho Iwate Looal Office, was one of those saved. A report submitted by him to the local Governor graphically describes what he had to endure. On the fateful evening he was lodging in an inn at Kuji. He felt a number of earthquake shocks while sitting in a room of the inn, and observed with surprise that though objects suspended -as lamps-did not oscilliate much, the shock he himself experienced was ?arite considerable. At abont ten minutos past 8 p. m. he heard a noise outside like the crack of a pistol, which was followed five minutes later by a rumbling sound, resembling the explosion of a steam boiler. The lat ter sound came evidently from tho direction of the eeo. At the same time an np and down motion of the ground was felt, at first somewhat feebly, but gradually growing in intensity. Con cluding that something extraordinary was about to happen, he rose hastily and prepared to leave the house. Just at this moment a number of sheds SHIZDKAW AFTER THE ? on the beach were struck by the waves, and amid an appalling din their ruins wcro swept forward into the street. Mr. Sakai rushed frc m the house, but the night wis so dark that he could not decide waither to fly, During a moment of hesitation hugh billows overtook "him and swept him away. AB he was hoing swept on his head sil nek r.gain?-t what he supposed to be a storehouse Heating among the waves, and hil body was tumbled over and over three or four limes. He at tempted to reach the surface of the water, but lumber and debris kept him down. He concluded, therefore, that his only chance was to keep as composed as possible, and holding his breath be remained nnder the water for what sconced a space of five minutes. After that he was able to get his head over the snrfaco and breathe three or four times. Again a big building drifted toward him, but as he had no power to buffet with the craves ba addressed himself to husband ing what was left of his strength. At last he could no longer hold his breath, and hud to swallow the salt water. The act was followed by loss of consciousness. The nezt thing he knew was that people were talking in his vicinity, and opening his eyes he fonnd himself in tx templo of Knji, about two nnd a half miles away from the inn whence ho had been swept. Ho was told that his body had been found amongst a mass of lumber, and extricated with difficulty. An official report of the effects of riNS AT KAMA1SHT.' the tidal wave has been issned as fol lows: "On tho loth inst, the weather was misty from morning and the tuer* mometcr fluctuated between eighty and ninety degrees Fahrenheit, about ten degrees higher than in ordinary years. People suffered much from this unusual heat, but did not think it particularly ?trange, the weather be ing generally fickle in the Bain (spring rain) season. The loth, coinciding with the May festival, according to the old calendar, a feast waa held In every family, ttad the honrs were pass ing merrily, when,, ot dusk, repeated f earthquake were felt, and soimdas if marie by the firing of big cannon Was heard from the direction of the sea, off the coast of Higashi Hei district. Such a sound from the sea not being uncommon, the inhabitants did not pay much attention to it, thinking that it might be caused by men-of-war practicing gunnery. Only a' few minutes had elapsed when a seismic wave cadden ly rolled in with terrible force, and towns and villages j along the coas t, through a distance of 175 miles, we;:e innndated. In a mo ment men, cattle, building?, ships, etc., were almost entirely swept away, BO that towns which had been thickly populated only the day before were turned ?Dto sandy wastes. Corpses were piled in heaps, houses were com pletely wrecked and the whole 6ccne presented the most ghastly and heart rending aspect, impossible to describe. It is reported that the wave was as high as eighty feet, and that, though moro or Ieee variation occurred ac cording to locality, the devastation und damage inflicted by the wavo were most serious in places facing the southwest. Strange to say, fishermen plying their trade aboat five miles off the coast not iced merely a slight swell and had no suspicion of the occur rence of such a catastrophe. As soon ns reports cf the calamity were re ceived steps were afc once taken to ex tend succor to the Bufferers. The local Chief of Police was direct ed to visit the scene of the disaster, the Secretary of the Prefecture was dispatched to Higashi Hei, the Coun cilor to Risen and Minanmi Hei and the Chief Tax Collector to Knnohe. At the same time thirty-three clerks and police inspectors, together with 113 police constables and 450 coolies, wore sent to various afflicted distriots, to succor tho survivors, to dispose of | tho remains of the killed and to re store order. Neighboring towns and villages that escaped unhurt offered the services of their fire brigades and coolies, and the number of working ingmen available altogether amounted to above 4000. The disaster having proved fatal to many medical prac titioners living alcng the coast, and the survivors having lost their supply of drugs and^instruments, the greatest difficulty was experienced in extend ing efficient aid to the Bufferers. A large quantity of carbolic acid, ban dages and such things was quickly sent, and ot the same time fifteen doc tors and fifteen nurses were expressly engaged and dispatched to the scene of disaster. Even this proved insuf ficient, in consequence of the multi tude of sufferers, but how to meet the urgent need of the moment was a per YAVE PASSED OVER IT. plexing problem, the number of medi cal practitioners in this prefecture being from the first comparatively small. . At this juncture twelve sur geons from tho Second Military Di vision and seven doctors, two phar maceutists and twenty-eight nurses from the Bed Cross Society arrived, and were forwarded to ono or other of th'j afflicted d stricts, Bot tho ambu lance ttnff still proved, inadequate,agd. on the arrival of a party of troopa belonging to the Sendai En* gineering Corps one surgeon from the same division and five physi cians and one nurse from the Fakn shima branch of the Bed Cross ?Soci ety, the detachment from the Sendai barracks was hurried forward to Mi yako, and the physicians from Fuku shima were distiibutedto other places. In addition to the above a number of medical men have been requisitioned from towns and villages adjoining the afflicted districts, and drugs, instru ments and other mattera needed in surgical operations are being for warded to places where they are wanted. Further, in order to give prompt relief to survivors suffering from starvation, more than 1000 koko of rice have been sent with all speed to the scene of the disaster. "According to the latest official re ports the casualties to life and prop erty in the afflicted districts, including Hokkaido, stand as follows : Houses Washed A wo f Ol Wreoked. 7.429 1,398 465 25 Deaths. Iwate.23,309 Miyagl.3,314 Aomorl. 346 Hokkaido... 6 Wounded. 4,396 776 213 5 - Total.... 2G, 975 5.399 9,313 Tho damage to boats and fishing gear, that were washed away or de stroyed by tho big wave, is estimated at 250,000 yen in Miyagi, 540,000 yen in Iwate and 90,000 yen in Aomori, all in round numbers. If to these figures be added the damage to cultivated fields, to houses and the loss of omer valuables as well as cash, the whole must reach a very large figure. The fishing industry alone in each of the threo districts produced over 1,500,000. yen a year on the aver age, and this han been seriously crip pled, especially in Iwate, owing to the destruction of the fishermen and their implements." A Winsome Welsh Mayores?. Tho Prince and Princess of Wales lately made a tour of their ancient principality, and at Aberyst?ith wero the central figures in an important function. The Prince was installed Chancellor of the Welsh University, and the Princess was given the degree of Doctor of Music. The Princess of Walet wore the hood, oap nndgown of a Doctor of Musio of the university, therish scarlet of the robe, the outer hood of indigo blue, and the inner hood of puce being particularly be coming. Mr. Gladstone, who, with THE MAYORESS OF ABEBISTWTTI?. his wife, atlendod, was enveloped in the ample scarlet folds and puce hood of ni LL.D.,his grandson bearing the trai l of the Chancellor. A less im posing figure thar, tho big folks, but quite as winsome, was the Mayoress of the town in her quaint, National garb. She received the Prince and Princess of Wales at the station. London an Overcrowded City Arthur Clayden, lecturing in Lon don, stated, asa "startlingfact,"that of the 350,000,000 inhabitants of 11, 000 000 square miles of the British Empire, no fewer than 340,000,000 are crowded upon the 121,000 square miles of the United Kingdom and the limited area.of British India. Nearly 40,000,000 people are packed like sardines on 121.000 square milos, while on tho 3,000,000 square miles of Australasia there aro fewer that 4,000, 000 inhabitants. On the area which constitutes the Metropolis, although only a four-thousandth part of the size of the seven oolonies of Austral asia, there are over a million more propio than are to be found in the whole of those vast areas. A Carions Test of Coins. In America an alloy of one-tenth copper is used in coins to harden them and make them lesa susceptible to abrasion. In England the amount of alloy is less-only one-twelfth. Re cently a controversy arose among the mint officials of London as to which ooins, English or American, would last the longer. In order to put the mat ter to a test two small steel cylinders were fixed on a revolving rod and one filled with United States and the other with British coins. It is needless to say that all of tho letters, milling, etc., were worn from tho English coins twelve hours before they were finally totally effaced from the Amerioan coine. Old Shaped Spicers. The most peculiar spiders in the world, as well as the largest one?, in habit the island of Sumatra. They aro of all conceivable forms and color?, and tome of them spin threads almost as large and strong as the grocer's twine. Some queerly ehnped spiders have square bodies poised on long red legs, and others have crooked green and yellow leg9 which support h.9ort shaped bodies'. One of the very odd est of the lot has a body that looks like that of a young turtle, tho "shell" having round knobs and pear shaped projections all over it. Remarkable Cabbages. A favorite industry of the Channel Islands is the raising of cabbages tj great heights to make canes of their stalks. Those readily cell tb visitors, who buy them as mementoes, paying all the way from twelve centa to $1.25 apiece. ?omo of them are twelve feet high, and have a dimeter pf pix inohes nt tho hage. MINTY AND NEW. INNOVATIONS AND NOVELTIES IN FEMININE GARMENTS. Bolero Jacket "With Bell SlecvcB for Early, Fall Wear-Recent Chandra In the Styles of Sleeves. rBE bolero jacket with bell sleeves, writes May Manton, is among the latest importa tions for early fall wear. Heavy black corded silk is the ma terial represented, the (rimming being bandi of embroidered jet or net laid over weam faced olotb. The chiffon ruche worn around the neck that ends in a hrge bow with jabot ends in front may be omitted in favor of the flaring Medici collar. The jacket is 6imply flbnpod by shoulder and un der-firm seamf, the round outline reaching the waist wi th slightly poi? ted corners that NOVEL BOLERO JACKET re apart in front. The bell sleeves ti a special feature cf this fashionable ?Ot, being conveniently adapted to over the present style of dress eves. The sleeves aro circular in )0v and reach to below the elbow, t her ed fullness adjusting them at the top. Jackets in this les can be worn with any style of ?'sb and skirt and are usually made satin, velvet, rioh heavy silk or idcloth to match or contrast with . :. TOBS,IIVA!I?J? LJJW'! The styles depicted in the double column out are an innovation on the plain full models so long worn and are quite a feature of tho new basque and fanoy waists this season. No. 1 is of light figured silk, shaped with smooth under and full upper portions over fitted linings. The upper portion is gathered at the top and on the side edges, the centre having a tucked shirring that arranges the fullness in butterfly style. The outline at the wrists can be pointed, or plain, as pre ferred. No. 2 is developed from - Persian silk lawn over fitted linings of yellow silk. The sleeve is shirred in mousquetaire style, its soft wrinkles across the arm being caused by gathers along the edges of seam and tuoked shirring on each side of tho full pouf, that droops from shoulder to near the elbow. The top is decorated with a bow of satin ribbon and the wrists can be plainly completed or finished with frills of lace as shown. The quantity of material forty-four inches wide required to made No. 1 design for a lady of medium size is two yards ; and to make No. 2 design two and one-half yards. MODISH WAISTS. Waists have yokes of quite open em broidery, and from this to the waist line the material is gathered rather full ; the sleeves are tucked from tops to elbows and then made up in flaring puffs. From elbows to wrists the sleeve fits the arm but rather loosely, as tight sleeves in hot weather are ex ceedingly nncomfortable. With most of these dr cases there are sets of rib bons crossing back and frcnt from sleeve to sleeve at the edge of the yoke. Thone are fastened on with hooks that engago with tiny loops wrought on just where the sleeves and yoke join. Sometimes thero are ribbons from the collar down to the tops of the sleeves, over tho shoulder seams. A full ribbon collar and bow is a necessary accom paniment. A pretty dress, for evening jg ma'ile after a model pf this eort, save that Ihe yoke and/ower portion of tb* sleeves are omitted. The dress is worn over a yoke of fancy material, or ia filled in with lace, and the sleeves haro deep falls of lace edging. ATTBACTTVE GOWN FOB A GIRL. This attractive- gown, says Maj Manton, is made of cream and ch rry colored silk, trimmed with insertion over cherry ribbon, and decorated with belt and rosettes of ribbon to match. The full fronts and backs ara arranged over fitted linings that close invisibly in centre back. Tho front is pal herod nt. the centre of neck band and waist line, three tucks bein? f-hirred acrcss the front at square yJ^.o depth with novel and becoming ef fect. The sleeves are mounted witTi short full puffs, according to the latest mode, the waist being decorated with single rows of insertion. Tho stylb-h bretellos are edged with insertion over ribbon, and a frill of lace falls from the upper edge of the standing colli ', which is decorated to match bretelles., WITH BELL SLEEVES. The skirt falls in graceful shape, the front side ond three back gores form ing a smooth adjustment in front and on the sides, the back being plaited or gathered at the top, as preferred. Very pretty dresses in this style can be made from organdy or batiste in colored floral designs over silk or cot ton linings. The mode will be found among the newest designs for fall wear and can be copied in woolen fabrics with bretelles of velvet-a veal of silk in this style giving added smartness to "io costume. :;vtf???&r sffiy of material thirtv-rix inches wide required to make" GIRL 8 GOWN. waist for a miss in the medium size is two and one-half yards. To make tho skirt it will require, of the same width material, three and ono-half yards. HATS IN COBAN STBAW. Eats in Caban straw have taken the fancy of some ot our mondaines, and . it is said that birds and feathers are to supersede flowers. The novelties in millinery which havo been so success ful during the "grande semaine" are SLEEVES-BY MAY MANTON. gray hats with white feathers, pale pink straws caught up on one side with a panache of white ostrich tips and black velvet bow*, as a cache-peigne ; rice straws and white velvet, with Malmaison rosta half hidden beneath feathers. Tho Sanskirt language ia said, to have about OOO root-word?, An English Invention for Fast Road Traveling. Inventive genius in England has turned its attention to the perfection of a road skate,an adaptation of the con PNEUMATIC TI RED WHEEL ON A ROLLER SKATE FRAME. ventional roller skate, which will en able the skater to skim along over any road smooth enough for a bioyole. Two years ago the "skaycycle," as it is called, made its appearance. It had n pneumatic tire. The original pattern was introduced in the United State?, but has nerer been popular, probably on acoouut of its high price -$25. There is too much ice skating in the United States to admit of the permanency of tho popularity of any form of roller skates. Not so, however, in England, where the inventor of tho skate claims that "a skato which is independent alike of the fickleness of the climate and the more or leas intermittent enterprise of the skating-rink promotor is a long felt want. The new appliance, which is really an adaptation of the princi ple of tbe cyclo to the old-fashioned roller skates, is iurnished with pneu matic tires and ball bearings, and it will not be long in all probability be fore the slight exertion of energy on them over u reasonably smooth and solid road is still further reduced by the introduction of the principle of geared action. Tho skates are held to the soles of the shoo bj the ordinary clamp in use on ice skates of the club pattern, but have au ankle support, which is kept in position by a leather brace lined lamb's wool and which fits about the calves of the legs. -, It is claimed that the skates max-tte ^safely used in.both mju-awFdown. grades^ aud Mal W?l?^ractioe a speed of ten ?o twolvo miles may oe reached on a fairly good road. Several of the English papers are enthusiastic over the future of the road skate, pointing out that in its uso every muscle of the legs, back, neck and arms is brought into play. This is true also of sawing wood, an exeroise which has never be come a National fad. The EDglish road skate is a cumber so mo thing. Tho wheels are about four inches in diameter. The skate may be folded up for traveling. FlshiDg (or Lost Anchors. One of the queer occupations of mankind is that of ?ragging for lost anchor?. It is carried on in bays and rirers, and even in the open sea along tho coast. Several sloops and schoon ers aro engaged almost exolusivoly in this pursuit. Tho hunters are as fa miliar with the ground where anchors are to be found as fishermen are with the favorite haunts of the living in habitants of the sea. The manner of fishing for lost anchors is most sim ple. A ohain is let down in a loop long enough to drag along the bottom, and the vessel goes on'her way with all hands on board alert for a bite, and a bite usually ends in a catch. The re covered anchors aro generally sold again at a price of about twopence a pound, which is a halfpenny under the market price for new anchors. A big anchor will weigh 6000 pounds, so that the fishermen make $250 out of it. More often however, the anchors fished up weigh from 1000 to 2000 pounds, and there is a pretty profit in the business even then.-Tit-Bits. A Human-Faced Hen.. One of the strangest freaks of nature has been unearthed by a New York resident in a New York market. It consists of a human-faced hen, which he found in a lot of 10,000 chickens which had been brought to New York from Michigan. The hen is a Ply mouth Bock. Its eyes aro set below beetling brows. The ohin is double, and tho nose resembles that pf a man. Its tongue also resembles that of ahu man being. Several of the clt.ws have fingernails. The fowl is said to be a decided epi cure, spurning the corn which gener ations of its ancestors have considered wholesome, preferring moistened bread and cake. The prosent owner of this strange freak intends keeping THE FREAK HEX F.^OM MICHIGAN. lt with the view of ascertaining ^ bother the odd markings are trans mitted by it to its progeny. There is aomo talk m London of building a memorial to the late Sir Augustus'Harris, tho great impresario aqd. theatrical marker,. MOTHERS READ THIS. The Best Remedy. For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhoea, Dyson te ry, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera Da? fantum, Tc .1 thing Children, Cholera Morbos, Innatural Drains from the Bowels, Palm, Griping, Lou of Appetite, Indigestion and all Dis eases of the Stomach and Bowels. PITT'S CARMINATIVE p I 5 Is the standard, lt carries children OT??1 0 the critical period of teething, and A ls recommended hy physicians M * the friend of Mothers, Adults sad 0 Children. It is pleasant to the taste, A and never fails to give satisfaction. J A few doses wl!l demonstrate ita au 0 perlatlve virtnes. Price, 25 eta. \nx{ A bottle. For sale by druggists. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, i WOOD POB SUMMEB FIRES, j There are very few housewives, ?I least in the country, who will be satis fied with coal fires in summer. Tire j may do well enough on washing days, when a continuous fire through the day becomes a necessity, but for cook ing a fire made of well dried wood that will heat uj quickly and as quickly go ont is what is required. The wood fire also on most farms is cheaper than the coal. It can usually be grown on some part of the farm that would otherwise be of a little use, and its only cost is that of cutting and pre paring for the stove. Wood can alco in part take the place of coal for win ter on farms where it is abundant. The coal market is controlled by great railway monopolies tho? oppress not only the miner but the coal consumer. Happy is the farmer who can if he will be independent of them. We are afraid that part of the increasing ase of coal for fuel is due to dislike of the winter labor required to prepare the wood fuel that might be its substitute. This in olden times mude no small part of the winter's work, and though the fuel was burned the work saved buy ing coal, and therefore paid enough to make no small part of the prosperity of old fashioned farming in the days when the mle was to only buy what was necessary, and what could not profitably be produced on the farm. American Cultivator. KEEPING OUT THE G Zit ll?. The object in canning fruit is to find some chemical that will pr3vent the development of bacteria aal yet be safe when used in a strength neces sary to accomplish this eid. Salicylic acid, one part to 1000 part ol vrater, will prevent the development of bac loria, and in this proportion uo ill effect; can come from eating what sauce fae would ordinarily take at a meal. First of all, sugar is not necessary to preserve canned fruit if they are put np air-tight, though the flavor of some is improved by tho addition of it. Tho writer has fonnd the following method of canning the cheapest, easi est and most satisfactory, and would recommend it to others : Thoroughly heat the irait, but do not allow it to boil. Fill the cans and leave them open fifteen to twenty minutes to give tho fruit time to settle. Then fill up again, put tho covers on and screw down tight. In this way fruit will keep for years, and if kept in the dark will retain its original color and form. One can make cupboards of dry goods boxes for the fruit cars, and these may be kept dosed in the cellar, A word in regard io the closing of cans to prevent the entrance ot germs. When M. Pasteur advanced his theory that all fermentation was caused by organisms so minute that they float about in the air, ho very soon an nounced that according to his experi ments these infinitesimal objects would not pass through cotton. Many peo ple use cotton to tie over the boiled fruit while it is still hot, and have found that it keeps the germs out aa efficiently as the rubber ring, or any amount of wax. The writer has alao tried this experiment with tomatoes, corn, lima beans and other vegetables, and the results were perfectly satisfac tory, not even a partido of mo'.d form ing in the can. In most ca?es the cotton was simply tied over the canful of hot fruit ; in some cases there was a piece of white paper put on first to prevent tho cotton from dropping down and becoming juice-soaked. The "latter way is preferable. Take the cottton just as it comes off the roll, the thickness being about it as it un winds, then tie down with strong cord. This will be found an all-suffi cient method of preserving fruit for winter use.-American Agricultor ist BECIPES. Dried Corn--*Pat the ears into boil ing water two or three minutes, score the kernels and cut from the cob, spread upon sheets of wrapping or manilla paper, and ?ry in the sun or . warm (not hot) oven. It can be stored in paper bags. When wanted for use put to soak over night and cook very 8lowlv for about two hours. Tomato Toast with Poached Eggs Place three sliced ripe tomatoes in a saucepan over the fire ; add one-half teaspoonful salt, three dashes pepper, one teaspoonful sugar and same of butter ; boil ton minutes. In mean time toast five slices of bread, butter them and place on hot dish. Pour the tomatoes over the toast and on each slice place one poached egg. Potato Ribbon-Pare and lay in cold water one hour five medium-sized potatoes; then remove from the water and wipe dry. With a small knife pare round and round in one continuous ttrip (I think there is a small machine for this purpose) ; handle with care and fry a few at a time in fresh cotto?eno. Remove to a hot dish, sprinkle lightly with salt and serve. Broakfast Biscuit-Sift together one scant quart flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder, a ?half teaspoonful salt ; mix a half teacup melted butter in rather less than a quart of sweet milk ; add to the flour, beating well, until the batter is stiff enough to drop from a spoon into a buttered tin, like drop cakes ; the oven should be very hot or tho biscuits will not be light and puffy. Tau lightning killed a male croquet pluyir i:i Mis?R?k*tppi tho other day. So tho lightning ? 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