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?^A AAVA AAAA^. .?. A, A A j??R FARM AND GARDEN^ A Pointer for Bean Rsiaer*. I do not know just how trr.e it is, but I have read that tho common black butter bean will bear continu ously through the season il the pods are all picked as soon as they are large enough to tue. If any are allowed to ripen, the plant has fulfilled its mis sion and will die.-New York Weekly Witness. Know Tour Cow. A proper daily ration will supply, in appropriate forms, the proteiu needed to form the nitrogenous materials of the body and the energy required for ? heat and muscular work, and a proper feeding standard will call for sufficient digestible protein, fats and carbohy drates per day to meet these needs. But '? gust -what ta ese weights should be is a matter of considerable uncertainty. .Differences in breed and individual peculiarities of the animals, aud in the food and handling as well as other conditions known and unknown, . bring it about that the best ration for .. one cow may not be the best for au - other. The feeder must know his '' cows and fit the food to their wants. -.-But in so doiug he may be greatly helped by feeding standards. -> Shallow or Deep Cultivation for Corn. We have been from boyhood a be liever in shallow cultivation of corn, even when the work was done with a plow by most farmers. The first cul tivator we remember seeing was like a small spike-toothed harrow with plow handles attached. It mellowed the ground to make easy hoeing, and killed many weeds when they were small, which was an inducement to use it frequently. But we never knew how much gain there was by the shal low cultivation. At the Nebraska experiment station they tested four cultivators on as many different lots one of which worked the ground six inches deep,and the others went three inches deep. Where the soil was worked six inches deep the yield was 59 bushels per acre. On the others one gave 68 bushels per acre and the other two 69 bushels each, a loss of about one-seventh by deep cultiva tion.-American Cultivator. Caring far Sheep. There are no secrets about the best way to care for sheep. The man who owns a farm and does not keep sheep making an excuse for not doing so ' because they are hard to take care of, is either ignorant of sheep husbandry, or simply lazy. Sheep are about the >moat comfortable animals to take care of that we have about us. They .1 quiet and gentle and are not very particular about their feed if they are kept in good health. They need to be fed regularly and given sound and wholesome feed, but the feed need not be of the costliest kind. Good, bright hay and a small amount of corn will keep them in good shape during the ' winter and grass is all they want in summer, although if there are briers, elders or any other scrubby bushes in their paature they will eat them up by way of relish. They should be protected from the storms of winter, and salted regularly the year through, and for the amount of labor involved they will make bet ter returns than any other kind of stock*. The Open'Paatare Ditch, Many a farmer tint would not think fi having any thin-r but a covered drain in his meado .7 or grain field still, keeps the old-fashioned open ditch in his pasture. Yet the pasture drain ditch is always a nuisance and frequently a source of expense. The roil of the banks is constantly being washed by the rains into the bottom, and in the case of heavy freshets this washing sometimes amounts to a land slide. The whole line of the ditch is disfigured and the owner,of the past ure ia put to a great deal of expense in keeping the channel sufficiently open to allow the wa ter. to run at all. Weed seeds find it a' p?ace where they eau lodge and grow without dis turbance by. the mower,-and , ff om" which they can in turn send out new myriads of seeds to resow, the adja cent fields. Too often in summer time stagnant pools collect in these ditches and the cattle seek them for drinking purposes. As they' readily become foul with the droppings of the farm auimals and with decaying vegetation they become a menace both to the purity of the milk pf the cows and to th? health of all the farm stock. Being open, they prevent the pasture being included in the rotation of crops, or, at least, make it extremely inconvenient, for the reason that the plow.could not run close to it and it would become an obstacle to the free passage of the teams at all times. Added to these things is the fact that it takes out of the pasture a con siderable aera, and we can readily see that to put a covered drain in its place is a wise proceed ure in almost every ?se,-Farm, Field and Fireside. ' - The Fertility That Crops Ute. From a table published by Professor Ormsby upon the manorial value of farm products, which shows the amount and value of fertilizing con stituents carried away from the soil by diterent products, it can be seen that the farmer who sells a ton of hay sells fertilizing ingredients which, if purchased in the form of commercial fertilizers would cost him about $5.10; that if he sells 2000 pounds of wheat hs sells an amount of nitrogen, phos phoric acid and potash which it would cost him $7.91 to replace in his soil in the iorm of commercial fertilizers. Or, looking at it from a somewhat different standpoint, a farmer who Bells, for example, $10 worth of wheat sells with it about $2.63 worth of the fertility of his soil. In other words, when he receives his $10 this amount does not represent the net receipts of the transaction, for he has parted with $2.63 worth of his capital, that is,of the stored up fertility of his soil, and if be does not take this into the aoconnt he makes tho same mistake a merchant would should he estimate his profits by the amount of cash which he received and neglect to take ac count of stock. The department of agriculture sug gests that the farmer, instead of sell ing off his crops, feed them to live . stock on the farm as far as possible, "if the business of stock feeding is carried to the point where feed is pur chased in addition to that grown on fie farm, a considerable addison may in this way be made to the fertility of '.fae tann at an almost nominal cost, ?ince it is assumed that feed will not be bought unless ita feeding value will at least pay its cost. This commendable system of indi rect purchase of fertilizers in feeding stuffs is practiced largely in England and other European countries, and ac counts for no small share of the jw oiite of stock-raising iu those coun thcugh of course these advnu tages will not be secured unless the manure produced is carefully saved and used. Thc Good Point.? of Small Cheese. Small cheese are best for home con sumption. Cheese are to a certain ex tent porous, and the unbroken rind forms a shell of protection. When this rind is broken by cutting, air enters, and the shield that the prod net formerly enjoyed against moder ate changes of temperature no longe serves it. Mold generates and travels along the seams and cavities, if the ai:* be s ! ig. it ly humid; or natural moisture is dried out if conditious ha pen to be the opposite. In either oreut the quality of the cheese deteri orates, especially .! several weeks elapse from the time of cutting befor it is consumed. For average sized families, 10-pound cheese are much better to buy or make than 30 or 40-pounders. These suull sized cheese, while mauu'a ture - on limited scale, a e not produced in snf ficieut quantities to supply the de maud. I think that in no way can au increase of cheese consumption be more effectually induced than by the nrbre general manufacture of such light-weight full cream stock. Dairymen who produce cheese at home for their own use should not at tempt to ha e them weigh less than five pounds or more than ten apiece. This of course applies to i he cheddar vairety, and does not meau to include brick or other styles of cheese OJ for eigu introduction. By so doing they will always have a fresh and healthy article to place upon their tables, for a small cheese being consumed within a few days after cutting has no chance to deteriorate, if givea ordinary care. I have been familiar wi h cheese and cheese making since childhood, and I speak from firm conviction when I say that no healthier or more nutri tious food exists than this when prop erly made and carefully served. George E. Newell, in New England Homestead. Marketing' the Onion Crop. The method of selling onions at harvest time aud deli.-ring to the railroad station direct from the field bas many advantages over that of put ting them in store for fnlure sales. Probably most important is that, when taken from the field, there is no loss to the grower from shrinkage. More or less dirt will always adhere to the bulbs, which, with the outside skin, comes off by future haudling, and the onions also lose moisture. Yet the practice of storing the ci op for winter sales is becoming somewhat prevalent. Especially is there a dis position to hold the crop following an advancement of prices during the pre ceding winter. The disadvantages which follow holding the crop are the deprivation of the use of the money which a ready sale would bring and tho risks. These are several. Perhaps the first to be cited would be the loss from shrink age in weight. Much depends upon the manner in which they are kept, the place of stora :e, the temperature of the storage room, and whether dry, well ripened and cured when put in store. If not, they are liable to sprout Sprouting causes "the bulb to_ grow soft and uumerchantable. If the crop can be stored in a building adapted to the purpose and kept continually al most at freezing point, there will be comparatively little shrinkage. I would prefer them to become chilled, or frozen some on the outer edge of the receptacle ir which kept than stored in a warm cellar. But they must not be allowed to freeze and thaw repeatedly, neither should they be handled when frozen, but allowed tu thaw out gradually and put upon the market at once. When frozen they should be kept in xhat condition till wanted for disposal. Some per sons keep a part of their crop by stor ing in their house cellar, where they become offensive and disagreeable to those living iu rooms ai ove. Onions intended to be kept for late sales should be harvested with the tops uncut. They are much less liable to grow, as the tops, being usually free from moisture, will ab.sorb any moisture that the bulbs may have. Being dry, they will sustain a greater degree of cold, aud will be kept in a bbtter condition. The tops will have to be cut when marketed, unless a sale can be made with tops ou, which is sometimes done when onions are commanding a good price. There is yet another r.sk in holding the crop whiph is common to all crops, the dan-' ger of depreciation instead of apprecia tion in market value. Anyone who continues to hold any crop after it is ready, for market, iu a sense becomes a speculator, and should take into consideration the danger of a falling market The writer has known in stances where crops of onions w?re kept througu the winter and then found no sale, being finally thrown away, a total loss. Unless a farmer has abundant capital and is able to bear the loss of a part or tho whole of his crop without embarrassment, the surest way is to sell when he can get a fair price.-John M. Smith in Orange Judd Farmer. An Unpopular finnie. A game that was introduced among town boys aoout a week ago has al ready become unpopul?r, despite its uniqueness. The boys place a com rade in a large bag, and when a man comes along two. of the lads are tug ging at the bag as if in efforts to lift it and carry it away, while the other youngsters are out of sight, but on the watch. The two boys at the bag, panting as if out of breath, appeal to the passing man for help, and nine cases out of ten the reque t is com plied with. In his anxiety to give the boys a lift the man pluuges right in and raises the "boy in the bag" off tl*e ground. Immediately he is startled by cries of "murder" and "help," which come from the bag and inform him that he has been made the victim of a boyish prank. In most cases the victim joins in the laugh,but a few nights ago a fatherly-looking indi\idual upon whom the joke was played got his dander up and seized the kid in the bag, roughly pulled him forth and then, turning the much frightened lad across his knee, admin istered au old-fashioned spanking. In that neighborhood the game has become unpopular lecaupo of the difficulty of getting a bt>y to go into ?he bag.-Philadelphia liecord. * Tragedy of a Collnrette. Mice and rats are not to be encour aged when they begin to show a taste for flat life. An uptown woman vis ited the shopping district the other afternoon and carried home with her collarette that was mostly tails. She lives in a sort of flat where no one speaks to any one else and, therefore, one of the other tenants was sur prised when the next morning early brought the woman with a collarette to h*" door. **I bought this yesterday," said she in tragic accents, "look at it now." The rats had eaten away every one of tho big fluffy tails during the night --Now York Sun. THE BOER ARMY SYSTEM. UNIQUE MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF THE TRANSVAAL I Unrulier** Forces Practically a Huge i Guerrilla Mob - Bow They Are Concen trated-Never Drilled - Marlwmanihlp th? Only Thiner They Pay Attention to. Tba army and military Bystem of the Boers ia without parallel in civil ized couutries. They u ay be com pared with the American army and system of warfare of the early part of the Revolution. The burghers have no military school, no standing army. They indulge in no expensive experi ments to keep pace with the up-to date ideas iu armament; in fact, they have nothing, apparently, to warrant the conclusion that they know aught ol the science of war or are capable of presenting a national system of de lence or- 'Hence. Yet in a remarkably snort time they have showu the world that they have both knowledge of, and capacity for, military service, and ?heir e ;ectivene3s has been demon strated most forcibly. Practically every man in the Boer army was following some peaceful pursuit six mouths ago. Yet he was just as capable a soldier then and as much a part of the national defence as he is now. The Boers clo not be lieve in supporting an army in time of peace. Nature has provided the country with natural defences that could not be duplicated by man. It was the savage, primarily, who made the Boer a natural soldier, and the wild beasts with which his coun try abounded enabled him to maintain his skill. with firearms. His free, open-air life has preserved his physique and inherent prudence and discretion have led him to perfect a i military system suitable to the natur al conditions under which he exists. From the time when he is able to handle a gnn until old age impairs his faculties, the Boer is in constant practice with the rifle. His weapon changes as distinct steps are taken in the evolution of gnns. His ancestors took the matchlock and flintlock to Africa from Europe, and it has been replaced as occasion required, or as advantage was apparent, until today his rifle is of the best. Simultane-' ously with learning to shoot, the Boer youth takes his place with men of all ages at the practice meetings, which are held at stated intervals and which correspond to the "training days" of American colonial times. The Transvaal republic is divided into military districts. The command ing officer of each is called a veld cor net (field cornet), whose troops may vary in number from less than a co?- j pany to a battalion, or even a regi ment, of American formation. Usually, I however, the commando, as the bodies ore called, number ai;out 125 men. When the cornet decides on a date for a drill notice is sent to the burghers, ! who assemble with their families at ! the appointed pince and the affair is made the occasion for a holiday. Every mau in the district capable of bearing arms is included iu the com- j manda An old Boer with eight or ten sons, and perhaps several grand- ; sons, is not an uncommon representa- ? tiou from oue family. Each one has his own gun and equipments, and all have burs s. Like the minute men of 1776, they pay no attention to uni forms, but a certain similarity of dress gives them a 'uniform appear ance. The men are drilled in a simple fashion, the evolutions being crude, but applicable to the defence of the boundaries. Competitive rifle prac tire is, of course, the most important part of the drill, and the skill exhib ited chal.enges the admiration of . marksmen. Ninety-five per cent, of ! the Boers capable of bearing arms conld pasB the sharpshooter's test at Creedmoor with ease. It has been said that the Boer does ' not shoot as well today as be did at Majuba Hill,but those who know him j best assert that his skill has not diminished. The losses of British officers at Glencoe and Ladysmith seem to bear out the latter statement An officer is a shining mark to the Boer, for one of his military theories ? is that the loss of officers demoralizes the privates. ,' Among the Boers themselves officars are remarkably few as compared with the modern army standard. The cor net, who leads a company, or perhaps, a regiment, is the first approach to an American or British commissoned officer. But the cornet is dressed and equipped like the remainder of the burghers and uses bis rifle with as much effect Heads of families direct or advise the younger men, but there is not the elaborate system of officers that exists in the army of other civi lized nations. As the system for action is based on defense rather than aggression, only general orders are given. Each man is supposed to look out for himself and his horse, and to lire at will after the word has been given. He can be \ relied on to fire rapidly and ac- j ettrately. His ta-get is the -waistband of the man among the enemy whoso body offers the best shot; officers, of course, aro always preferred. He knows how to follow up his advantage if the enemy wavers or retreats and how to beat a stubborn retreat him self, if necessary. While the Boer is extremely coura geous and will B and a hot fire with any soldier, he has two vitally weak points which will count heavily | ugainst him when the British troops i are ready for decisive engagements. He has never been trained to with stand a bayonet charge and has no j Bystem of discipline, which is an ab solutely essential factor in controlling large bodies of meu in action in open country. The Boers, like the Ameri can Indians, have never been able to face old steel. While they can abort the jcess of a bayonet charge by . breakiug and scattering and after ward reuniting, they must inevitably lose ground and men. That is recog nized by their leaders and those who aro familiar with their military system, but nothing has ever been | dono toward correcting the defect The result of the lack of thorough discipline is obvious and will be a prominent factor in the overthrow which even their sympathizers admit awaits them. Another defect in tho Boer military Bystem that would prove fatal to American or European annies is the crudeness of sanitation in camp. Here again, howers**, the burger's natural method of living enables him to sur mount with ease what would be a gigantic problem to his present adver saries. The Boer forces can be mobilized more quickly than those of any country in the world. The simplicity of the system'and of the individual accoutrement account for that All the men are mounted, and when the commando, or order, to mobilize is sent out, each man hus all that is needed at hand, ?nd with a simple and efficient commissary service, re markable speed is made on marches. When the desired point is reuched.the commandos, or units, of formation are merged into divisions commanded by generals, who, with the commander in-chief, plan the moves that follow. CHURCH COLONIZATION. A Successful Combination of BuslneBs.Re lig-lon and Common Sonso. An enterprising minister of Ander son, Ind., is making a great success df a novel project which an irreverent critic referB to as "turning the church of God into a real estate office." The plan of the minister, who is Pastor W. H. Covert of the denomination known as the Church of God, is to lay ont plots of ground near the religious edifice and place those members of the church who ha-.e no homes of their own in a position to acquire them by selling the land, with any kind of building the purchasei wants on easy terms and the lowest price possi le. In this way the chtsrch pas tor gathers his flock all around him and is sure of keeping fcheis, for the owner of a house is not a transient occupant of the fold, but stays there and becomes a pillar of strength. The church seeks no profit on the venture, so that the prices a cept?d are re markably low. All that is desired is to keep the members faithful to the religious organization that pats them in the way of owuing their home. The past,ir has found this system of church colonization to work like a charm. "Where there was talk of closing tho church on account of lack of funds. the congregation is now a large and increasing one, the pastor's salary is always paid on time, and the organization is in a most flourishing condition. ,When the pastor who had enterprise enough to carry out his;, plan of combiniug the ideas of a business man with the fervor of a preacher of the gospel, was asked to' make a statement regarding his ex perience for the benefit of the more timid ministers who prefer to preach to empty seats in the old orthodox way, ratlrer than insure success by a radical departure, he wrote the fol lowing: .... - . "Our local members being few, and the town of small population, I hit upon a plan to get church people to locate here permanently. I began by raising stock companies for manufac turing purposes, and then, to induce persons to invest and to make the in vestment safe I gave a deed in fee simple for a .certain amount of stock. Where the stock was sold at par, with every $li)0 cash I gave $100 worth of. the capital stock and a deed to a lot worth practically $100, thus making the investor absolutely secure. "Persons of limited means were at tracted by this plan to settle here. They came in from all over the coun try and the town soon began to thrive. d3ut I wanted the church to thrive too. It was found by careful figuring that houses could be built for from $400 to S?OO of the kindthatrent from $9 to $12 a mouth. I put the plan be fore some of the church members and they heartily approved of it Those with money enough to build agreed to put up house-* for the poorer members and sell them on the easy payment plan without interest. By this means it is within the power of almost every member of the church to acquire a house, and the benefits accruing all round aie such as to make the project a blessing to every ono cont erned. To be a member of the church is to share in a building plan that makes a man a house-owner in time without any additional economy at all being necessary, for tho members who help their less fortunate brethren to acquire houses ask for LO profit or the outlay, while the church sells the land at cost price. "The church is satisfied, for it wants only to solidify its membership and root the component parts of the or ganization to the neighborhood. The richer members are repaid for their loans by seeing the property in the vicinity of their residences increase in value through the coloaization of peaceable, respectable and industrious citizens,aud those to whom the houses are sold are, of course, happy and grateful to those who enabled them to own a home. The plan has helped me and pleased the members. It is a mixture of busiuess, religion and practical common sense that harms no one aud does many people good. The same conditions do not exist every where, and hence tho plan could not be made universal. Where similar conditions do exist the plan will.be found to work admirably." The Church of God is a very old organization in the United State>. It was founded in 18:28 in Lower Paxton township, Dauphin county, Pennsyl vania. There are over 500 ministers and between forty and fifty thousand members in the United States. The church at Anderson, Ind., was estab lished in August, 18SC. A Postal Card Trajrody. EAGLESEYRIF, July 9, 1899. DEAR JACK-Here I am, installed for the summer. It seems to be a very pleasant place-plenty of walks, drives, boating, fishing, eta, and the people are very nice. There is one girl, a Miss Summerson, who is simply stun ning. Better knock off for a couple of weeks and run up here for a little vacation. Yours, Jnr. EAGLESEYBIF, July 16, 1899. DEAR JACK-This is certainly a 1 great place. I like it more every day. Miss Summerson is the most delight ful girl I ever met, but, confound the other chaps, I can't see as much of her as I'd like; ouly a walk,or a dance, or a drive, or something like that, a day. Do quit grubbing and come up here for a while. I waut to know what you think of her. Yours, Jnr. EAGLESEYRIF, July 22, 1899. DEAR JACK-This is the bulliest place ever was. I've got the inside track of all those other poor chaps, and Mabel and I ride and walk and sail and dance and do everything together. You must get np hero, if only for a day. I want you to meet Mabel. Mabel! Mabel! Mabel! By George! I do like to call Miss Summerson that though I've no right to - just yet Yours, Jnr. EAGL-ESEYRIF, July 30, 1899. DEAR JACK-You needn't come. I leave on the first train to enlist in the first regiment that goes to the Philip pines. Good by. Jnr. -From Life. Curious Stoves of Indians. The stoves of the Bolivian Indians are curious things. A hole is dug in the ground about 18 inches deep and a foot square, and over this is built a roof of clay with holes of different sizes to receive the various cooking pots. Boasting is done on spits passed through the holes, so that the meat comes out very much smoked un less great care is taken to have only live coals at the bottom of the oven. France has 200,960 square miles in Europe, 30r?,998 in Asia, 3,706.752 in Africa (includiug the zone of French influence),78,382 in America and 15-, 058. in Oce?nica. . 'Mn Empty Sack Cannot Simd Upright" Si??her can poor, <weak, thin blood nourish and sustain the physical system. For strength of nerves and muscles there most be pure, rich, vigorous blooo\ Hood's Sarsaparilla is established as the standard preparation for the blood by its many remarkable cures. CENTRAL AMERICAN THRIFT. Tuc Only Way thc Murdered Man's Brother .Could Have the Murderer? Punished. "There ls an amusing side to the re cent settlement of the noted Pears case," said a gentleman lated? from Honduras, "and lt throws a strong light on the true native character. It also Illustrates the shrewdness of Ben Pears, the brother of the man who was murdered. Mr. Pears Insisted at the outset that the people Implicated in the crime must be punished, and I know he had set his heart on having that done. "However, when the Government simply asked a $10,000 money indem nity he said nothing further about his demand for personal retribution, and moved heaven and earth to press the collection of the claim. He was ac cused of being cold blooded and mer cenary, but he paid no attention to the slurs and kept working to that one end. At last, after infinite trouble, the Honduraneans were brought to the scratch and handed over 510,000 cash to their financiad agent, with Instruc tions to pay off the indemnity and stop tho confounded row. "Then Pears made his great strat egic play. 'If I allow you to keep that money, he said, in substance, 'will you . do as j asked at first, and punish my brothers murderers? Would tbey? Will a duck swim? If you knew how bard it ls to get coln from a Central American Government you would un derstand with what avidity they grab bed that proposition. Pears wanted General Manuel Bonilla, Governor of the Coast Department, removed for di rect complicity. Bonilla was supposed to have a first mortgage on his job, but tho way he was yanked out of it was a caution to boa constrictors. I doubt whether he has caught nir breath yet The other demand was for the arrest and punishment of the soldier who did the actual shooting. He was promptly burled into a dungeon, ! and I wouldn't bo In his boots for all Latin America. 'Did the senor want anybody else arrested?' asked the po lite officials. 'No.' 'And did he really waive claim to the $10,000?' 'Yes.' "So that settled it nnd everybody was happy except Boullia and the sol dier. The case will have a salutary effect down there. Hereafter petty military tyrants will probably think twice before they jeopardize their own skins by molesting strangers." Effect of Altitude. , Perhaps In no State of the Union has ! climate so much to do with the charac- j ter of the people as in Colorado, ls the contention of a writer in Ainslee's. He says In parc: * "Go Into Colorado; climb the long ascent from the level of the Missouri, ' and then r.s you emerge from the train into the handsomely improved ?treets, and among the unsurpassed brick and stone residences of Denver, feel your head swim with the lotty altitude and the rarefied air; then realize that the ; miners went on a mile further Into , the air, that they are working and I taking out millions of dollars of gold to the present day a mile higher In the air, at Cripple Creek, at Leadville and , a dozen other places; it will make you j pause to think what exaltation thero ls In dwelling there always, what stay ing powers the pioneers must have had. Walt a day or so, until the ver tigo has passed away, and the exhll eratlon comes to you that always comes when you have climbed a . mountain and stood upon its top and gazed out over a wide world that ex pands below you; then you will begin to feel that electric, that nervous sur charge, that indomitable, uudiscour ageable, almost towering spirit of ele vation and still further elevation that makes Colorado almost the liveliest the most irrepressible, the most deter mined element in the American body, social and poltic." A Toochin? Incident Captain Peyton, of the Manchesters, narrates a touching Incident of the bat tle of Elands Laagte. Those wounded just before dark lay there until 5 o'clock in the morning. One man of his regiment remained throughout the bitterly cold night with his arms around him to give him such warmth as was possible from his own body, both having been drenched by the heavy rain just before assaulting the position, with no better covering* than their wet khaki uniforms.-Lendon News. . Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor goods dyed with PUTNAM FADSUUB DIES, Bold by all druggists. Bough On Alfred. "Good-bye. Alfred, dnrling. You have oheored me np. If 1 get lonely and depressed nenin I'll just look ar. your dear photo-thia's sure to mp.ke me laugh and laugh and laugh."-Puck. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak mon strong. All druggists, 50c or $1. Curo guaran teed. Booklet and sample freo. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. A cynic suegests as an appropriate motto for unmarried womon, "Hope on. hope ever." Deafness Cannot Be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. Thero ls only one way to cure deafness and that ls by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gots In flamed you have a rumbling sound or Imper fect hearing, and when lt rs entirely closed Deafness ls the result, and unless the Inflam mation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will bo de stroyed forever. Nine cases out of ron are caused by catarrh, which ls nothing but an in flamed condition of tho mucous surfaced. Wewill give One Hundred Dollar? for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not bs c ured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist*. 76c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A family divldod by strife may be Bald to he in roduood circumstances. How Are Toar Sidneys f Dr. Hobbs* 9paragns Pl ns cure all kldnev Illa. Sam* plo free. Add. Sterling Kum oe 7 Co., Chicago or N. r. No matter bow often a clock may go on a Btrike its hands refuse to stop work. Hro. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma tion, allays pain, euros wind colic. 25c. a bottlo. PIso's Cure ls the medicine to break up ohIMron'B Coughs nnd Cold*.-Mrs. M. G. BLUNT, Sprague. Wash., March 8,1891. No spring medicine yetdlscovered can cure the lazy man of that chronic tired feeling. Kd neale lour Hnirtdi* With Casciircts. Cnnuy Cathartic, cure constipation forevor, lCc. ?oc. If C. C. C. lall, druggists refund monoy. Th oro ia a horrible rumor afloat that Oom Paul jyjjiakc-rs wiU be popular thia winter^ ? HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES. TVhitenin r Ivory. Ivory may be whitened by washing Well with soap and wa er, and allow ing it to"dry in the sun. This process must be repeated for several days. If the ivory be attached to any heavy article that cannot readily be moved, another process is to put a thin paste of lime over it until it turns, white. It is then dried and polished. Artistic Decorations for Evcnlnjr Slippers Hero is a pretty idea for decorating evening slippeis. Une of my girl friends has sent me some patterns and designs, and says she bought two pairs of slippers-one pink satin pair aud one white kid. The pink satin ones she has embroidered in gold thread in a large sort of bowkuot de sign, and she writes me they are ex tremely pre?ty. The .white kid slip pers she painted in ].o?jpies and green lea\es. This time I think I have struck a rejlly practical idea and oue which we can utilize in winter.-Edith Lawrence, in Ladies' Home Journal, New Mattress Covers. Covers for the mattress, which most housekeepers now consider an essen tial part of the furnishing of every bed, are made of strong white muslin with a flap to button over at the foot. It is better not to use the unbleac hed muslin since it is apt to give a yellow tinge to the most snow-white linen. These covers are a great protection to the mattress, but they require ire- ! quent washing, and after being ex- ? posed to the dust and dirt all summer long this is one of the first things which needs attention when putting a house in order. The mattresses them selves should they require making over can be sent to the upholsterer, who eau generally be prevailed upon to return them the same day. Many ladies prefer to employ a visiting upholsterer to do this work ? nuder their direct supervision, but it requires a room to be given over to the purpose, which is not always sonveniout An Idoa for Wash Day. There is a prevalent idea that no I woman who is not desperately poor . does her own washing. It used not to be au uncommon thing, and the woman who did not know how to hang out her clothes in a neat and orderly . way, the sheets together, the table | linen in one place, underclothes and starched pieces in another^ v thought by her neighbors to br . alack housekeeper. These times nave not .tltogether gone by, or perhaps they have come back again. One young married woman whose life so far has been more literary than domestic is keeping house in a few rooms and does her laundry ns well as her other work. It is not necessary, but she wishes to save something for a rainy day, she finds her household cares light, and she does not waste her money'on a washerwoman. "And I feel as if I had found my arms," she said, speaking of her laun dry feats the other day. "It is per fectly surprising what washing is do ing for them. I have never exercised the upper part of my body much here tofore, and I feel as if I had gained two new members." There are other women with small ' families who are doing the same and are uot ashamed of it. They'h?ve* not much money, and what they have they wish to use for other purposes, and they don't engage washwomen for the sake of an idea.-New York Times. The Way to Chop. A great deal of indifferent chopping can be charged to the American chop ping knife, a utensil which is not iften seen in Europe. The chef who is accomplished in his business ig nores the familiar knife and bowl of our kitchens and chops herbs, minces meat, and other thiugs which it is necessary to chop on a board using his keen bladed cook knife. This knife is not so heavy as our chopping knife, and it does not crush as well as ! chop, so that a pasty mince is always the result, unless the chopping knife j is of steel and very sharp. The aver- j age chopping knife is a dull blade I that cannot be kept sharp. It is good enough for cutting vegetables for chowchows and similar minces made of tender vegetables, but it is not a good article to chop meat with. It is too cumbersome to take ont such a large apparatus simply to mince up a few herbs, wheu Chis can be easily done with au ordinary sharp knife, such as is in coutiuual use in cooking, and a board on which meat or bread is cut The cook's knife is open to the same objection as the chopping knife in cutting meats. It does not cut them evenly; it grinds part of them to powder before the remainder of them is minced. The best utensil for preparing minces of either cooked or raw meat, or of minces of auy other kind, is a meat chopper. This is similar in its form to a sausage glinder, and grinds whatever is put in it in oven dice or in a fine, even mince, as is desired. A simple ma shine of this kind can be takeu apart so it can bo thoroughly clenued and is a valuable addition to the cooking utensils. Recipe*. Drawn Butter-Put a quarter of a pound of butter into a dish, rub in one dessertspoonful of flour, add five tablespoonfuls of cold water, place over a pan of boiling water, heat un til it begins to simmer, then remove instantly. Hot Sweet Cakes-Rub one table spoonful of butter aud one of lard, aud two of granulated sugar into one quart of pastry ?ionr, add one beaten egg, with sufficient milk to make a li.^lit dough. Roll out about an inch thick, cut into squares aud bake in a quick oven until done. Split open and butter before serving. Salsify in Onion Sauce - Scrape eight medium-sized ones, rub each with leniun and drop them in cold wa ter. Put two pints of boiling water in a stewpau with one clove, add the salsify and cook one hour. In half an hour add a'level teaspoonful of salt. Drain off tho water, put the salsify in a deep dish and pour over it nn onion sauce. Br ead rd Sausages-Six small sau sages, half a pint of dried bread crumbs, the yolk of one egg, one tablespoonful milk. Beat the yolk of tin egg, then beat into it the milk. Prick tho sausages with a fork and roll them one by one in the egg, then in the crumbs. Have fat smoking hot; arrange in frying basket; cook ten minutes; drain and serve. Maple Parfait-Beat the yoi' i o? four eggs left from the timbales and add slowly one cup of hot maple ! syrup. Cook over the fire until a Ljatiug is 'orined on the spoon. Cool and bent in ono pint of thick cream, | stithy whipped. Turn into a mold, ! 20\er with a sheet of paper and then 1 tho cover of tho mold and pack in i aqua! parts of ico and salt, keeping packed four hours before serving. ? " ?KING" LEARY OP QUAM. Sow This Versatile Nani Officer Ii Admin ister iris Our New Ula. It ls not strange that among our di versely gifted people there should be found here and there a man with an aptitude for kingcraft There have al ways been plenty of Americans who would have reached one, too, if thrones had bean open to competition. But the division of labor has not gone that far and hitherto the deserving person has fltood no chance against the tenth transmitter of a foolish face. So many a potential monarch among us has had to look on while others muddled the royal business in a way to make him grit his teeth. Sue* a man was Com mander Leary of the Boston Navy Yard till a turn of affairs led the gov ernment to take him away from rou tine duties and anoint him king of Guam. Not that there was a formal coronation, for that would have offend ed popular sentiment And as to any future legends that he was burning cakes in a peasant's hut at the time or that he was at his plough clad only In a tunic and had to send home for his toga, we may say in advance that there is nothing in them. The one au thenticated fact Is that he became ?ing of Guam. As king he has justified thc hopes of ali that knew him. There was nothing of the Bourbon about him-no blind ness to the mistakes of his predeces sors. He saw, for example, where men like Louis the Pious and Edward the Confessor had failed, and he soon wrote home that "Having disposed of the priests, rapid progress will be made and no further resistance will be en countered." Rapid progress was made, such progress as is seldom seen in a Pacific archipelago. The people were lazy and producing just enough food to keep them alive. In his ukase of October 4 he commanded them to plant cereals and vegetables. He has re quired every adult native to contribute to the support of the government. He has compelled each one to maintain twelve hens and a sow. He has order ed them to bring tneir produce to the palace and sell it In short he has started them at the regular produc tion of wealth out of which they are to discharge their debts and pay their taxes. In this there ls a resemblance to the policy of Peter the Great but Guam ls _ "re backward than the Russia of Peter's time, and the reforms are more sweeping. He may be compared to the Hohenzollern who beat idlers over the head with his rattan and made the ap ple women knit at their stall. But be hind Frederick William was an army of 70,000 men, the best drilled force in Europe. On the other hand, when the Navy Department asked the ruler of Guam if he wanted more troops he re plied that the only thing Le needed was an ice machine. Where other kings required standing armies he wanted only Ice water. That as an American, he felt he must have. And it is no mere matter of Issuing decrees. These decrees are obeyed even when they run counter to the strongest popular traditions. A light and transitory marriage tie, or no mar riage tie at all, is one of these tradi tions. Yet when the decree went forth that people should marry, the entire adult population made a rush for licenses, and the officers had more than they could do to meet the demand. These are the rumors that come to us from Guam, and of no man is it easier to believe them than of the present ruler. It should encourage them who fear that we should be unequal to our new duties. Even for a queer ana chronistic Job like this we can find our man, and he fits in a good deal better than the average porphyro genitus. Bucks Dead Wifb Locked Horns. There was a battle royal between two lordly bucks in the Canterbury woods the other day. A sportsman from that village was furnished with ample evidence of the battle when he drew a bead on one of the combatants and saw him fall as IL result of the shot. He hurried forward to olalm his prize when he was astonished to find that the horns of the wounded buck were Interlocked with the antlers of another and that he had dragged his foe to the earth with him. The sports man killed the remaining buck, which was thoroughly exhausted from the life and death struggle he had been engaged In. The hunter cut off the heads and brought them to McAdam with the horns locked so securely to gether that no one could separate them unless by destroying one or other set of antlers._ Mormonism. This ls a question that Bhould Interest every one. It ls a blot upon our fair land-a symp tom of governmental ill-health. The right laws would act as speedily upon lt as Uo*tet ter's stomach Bitters does upon constipation, or dyspepsia. 'I hey would quickly clear it out and restore healthy purity; and this is Just what the Blttors does for the human con stitution. It makes the stomach strong by curing Indigestion, biliousness and liver trouble. _ Recognized lr. Bill-"That's my rich uncle. Isn't he a mean-lnokinc man?" Jill-"Yes; now you come to speak of it, there Is a family resemblance."-Yonkers Statesman. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Ciei.n blood means a clean skin.. No beauty without it. 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This is not an ordinary almanac, but a handsome book, copiously illustrated, and sold for 5 cents on all news-stands. (We simply allow you the two cents you speed in postage for sending.) Great men have written for the Year Book. In it is summed up the progress of the 19th cen tury. In each important line of work and. thought the greatest living specialist bas recounted the events and advances of the past century and bas prophesied what we may expect of the next. Among the most noted of our contributors are : Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, on Agriculture; Senator Chauncey M. Depew, on Politics ; Russell Sage, Otk Finance; Thomas Edison, on Elec tricity; Dr. Madison Peters, on Re ligion; General Merritt, on Land War fare; Admiral Hichbom, on Naval Warfare; "Al" Smith,on Sports, etc.; making a complete review ot the whole field of human endeavor and progress. 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