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!v Critical For Fonlts. Thej-first few weeks ?3 the critical time of? a poult's life; young turkeys r.re" rather delicate at first. Keep them warm and dry and protect them from, storms and wet grass. Keep the hens free from vermin, as the poults jsuffer greatly from these pests. ?-Farmer's Home Journal. [ Facts About Goats. Coats do not eat grass as long as v lhere are weeds and brush. An {Angora te a prolific breeder and a Productive shearer until twelve or thirteen years old. . An Ordinary .fenoe is generally ef fectual to confine goats. Their tend ency, fas a ruler la rather to go thrcu?h a fence th&a to jump over, -Weekly Witness. Add Humus. Whten crowing green crops to plow undeij to add humus it will be found more I economical to turu down leguujes and' * thus add -, nitrogen. AVhenj this is done it will not be nec essary to use a fertilizer rich in ni trogen. Nitrogen is the most expen sive ?l?ment of fertility, and the air is a much cheaper source to obtain lt frcjm than the fertilizer works.- ) Farmer's Home Journal. I l?epa?r Tarni Tools. T.bje man who is handy with tools can ?ave many a trip to tho black? ". smith shop during the busy season, says .Drovers' Journal. Every farm should be equipped with a repair shop and ?very farmer should lp-rn how to ? usc tools. Save all the nuts, screws, hinges, holt' and any other pieces that 'might be of use, and whe.. a machine breaks down you may have just ,the piece to fix it. A box in the j^tofijsjied makes agood rlace to throw /^tmfc.fOdds and ends. [ j' Profit's on TonUry. ? ?";%Tae profits to be derived from a - Itqck of fowls depend largely-very ^ largely-upon their housing and ? keeping. It is unreasonable to ex k pect&ens kept in a cold, damp, filthy . house to produce eggs, and they sim ply will not do it It is much easier to fix the house up now than it will he after the weather gets cold; in fact, the chandes are ten to one that if the repairs are not made before cold weather sets in, they will not bel made at all," and the result will be a'] let of roupy, sniveling, profitless hens and a disappointed owner.-Farmer's Horns Journal. Bugs That Eat Bugs. The Department of Agriculture cul tivates insects that destroy any.and 5*41 crop parasites. The polygnotus hiemalis can whip any Hessian fly ever born; the ~ tysphlebus tricti is 'death on the green bug. The green hug eats the other, which promptly lays its eggs inside its devourer. The young eat their way to the open air, thus killing the green'bug, says Van Nordan's Magazine. To one lady bug is due the destruc tion of the San Jose scale, which did millions of dollars' damage to the fruit trees of California. When the pest had become a positive menace ike, department heard of a species of hug in North China which was fatal to the scale. A large number of. the bugs were procured, but all were dead except one when they reached this country. The one insect was taken to Washington and became a ward of the Government. She rewarded her keepers by laying about 5000 egg?. In an incredibly short space of timo she had a flourishing family of seven billions and the reign Vt the scale was ever, j^r" Cracked Cora For Hens. . In a recent experiment the Maine Agricultural Station made a compari son of whole corn "nd cracked corn for laying hens. Certain poultrymeu reason that cracked corn ls more de sirable when thrown in the litter, be cause laying hens, which tend to grow >too fat upon the whole corn, are forced to take more exercise in se curing the smaller pieces. In Octo ber 1000' April hatched pullets were put into ten like peas, Besides the other food, the pullets in one-half of the pens received whole corn, and in the other half an equal weight of cracked corn, The records of each pen from November- to April shqw that the average number of eggs per; hird receiving the whole corn;was, for the various pens, eighty-four, seventy-eight, seventy-three, seventy*! Heven and seventy-six, and for those ! receiving tho 'cracked corn seventy" nine, seventy-five, seventy-seven, sev enty-five a?t} seventy-four. From this experiment it appears that there is nothing in the results that leads to the, conclusion that it Is necessary or advisable to crack the corn fed to hens kept for laying purposes. Building a Herd For Beef. In building up a herd for beef pro duction, select cows with a broad, deep and square body, cows with a good coating of flesh, for these, if bred to the right kind of bull, will produce calves that will prove profita ble feeders. Now for the bull. The buil is half the herd. He stamps his qualities on all the calves, not simply on one calf a year, as with the cow. Get a registered bull of the breed you want, even If you have only grai.e, cows, as | then you are sure you are getting a beef breed from beef ancestors. Se lect a bull that is of good size, with a proud masculine bearing, a good, Intelligent' head, broad and full be tween the eyes, yet with a quiet ex pression', as a nervous, excitable ani mal will never fatten to good advan tage. He should be broad and straight across the back, with smooth, even hips. He should have well sprung ribs, heavily covered with flesh. \ Spring is the natural season for cows to drop their calves, and the cows should be bred so as to drop their calves in the early sprint, and then when the cows are turned to pasture in the spring the calven are ?ld enough to go with them and thus i have advantages for making rapid growth and require very little atten tlon during the busy summer months, When the calves are a few weeks old they should be castrated and the wound washed with some good germ killer, so it heals rapidly. In the fall the calves should be weaned and fed on good,- nutritious food. This should consist of silage and roots, clover or alfalfa hay, oats and bran-equal parts-with daily allowance of some reliable stock food to aid digestion and promote a quick growth. The aga at which steers should be marketed depends largely on the market prices, but as a rule well fed steers sell best at fourteen to sixteen months old.-Dr. David Roberts, Wisconslu State Veterinarian. Culling is Beneficial, Culling the flock improves it and makes it better every year, as a high er standard ia constantly being evolved. By an observation of the individuals much can bo learned. In stead of running indiscriminately with culls, one becomes acquainted with the * good hens and perhaps makes pets of them and pride in their individual excellence is entertained by the owner. All of which is very desirable. Then, too, the young flock will be hatched only from the best producers and the. choicest specimens, "initead cf from eggs taken indiscrim inately from the egg basket and large ly from poor specimens, says Eplto mist. Even with good pure-bred stock the matter of selection should not be overlooked. There is no* likelihood of there being such extremely poor specimens in a pure-bred flock as in a flock Of mongrels, but at the same time in every flock there art) some that are better than others. The ob; Ject of this, then, is to impress upon poultrymen and farmers the impor tance of a close scrutiny of the stock, and to teach the fact by careful se* lection a profitable flock may often be built up from what may at first seem to be very Unpromising matei rial. ..??rn^ ~ - ? " 't:''-'" Pore-Bred Horses. Next week will end the county fairs in Ohio. I have attended county fairs and the Ohio and Indiana State Fairs this year. Becoming the owner of a coach stallion last spring, my interest centered ii the horse displays at these fairs. 1 shall not dwell upon the displays at any of them, but I wish to say a few words through your paper of .ths result of my own ex perience and that of many horse own ers to whom I talked. In Ohio we have no stallion law; that is, anybody who owns a stallion, no matter how many blemishes or other imperfections he may have or hoymongrelly br.ed be may be, he is for service 'to any who apply. At county fairs the so-called grade horse was there, but I am happy to say he was overshadowed by the magnificent specimens of the pure-bred horse. Eut the mongrel is like a cancer; he keeps on in business by the cheap price he offers for service, and the only way to drive him out is to pass stringent laws allowing no mongrel bred stallion to stand for service. When as company or a person pay? from $1500 to $CO0O for a horse they should be protected.- Under our pres ent no-law-at-all, lt is only a matter of four year3 when a horse of pure blood has stood in a locality, that there will be as many grade stallions as you have fingers in as many miles in every direction. This is not true in- all localities, but this statement will hit more localities than it misses. Thirty-five years ago I can remem ber that almost one-fourth of the horses were blind. We have better horses than in that day; we are be coming more educated, but like the liquor question,, it takes more than education to correct the evil. Strin gent laws of all kinds have been en acted to curb the liquor traffic, but it i still exists. If the eradication of the mongrel bred horse is to be done by education it will be a long way off. That there should be a law of some kind there is no doubt, but who is going to take the first step? If the Legislature of Indiana would move in the matter, all owners of pure-bred .stallions should get busy, In Ohio wo have to wait a year yet, as the Legis lature only meets every two years, and this is the off year. In an article in a week or two I will outline a law, which I believe would be efficient, and the working of such a law prove a boon to the horse business for genera? tions to come.-C, C, Neal, in the Indiana Farmer, The Early Military Band. A little more than seventy years ago there was no such thing as a brass band in existence. The very first band entirely of brass dates, in fact, no further back thaii 1835. Prior to that time even our military music was produced almost entirely from instruments of wood, and as recently as 1783 a full regimental band consisted of two oboes, two clarinets, two horns and two bas soons. As showing the important part played by the "sounding brass" in our bands to-day it is sufficient to men tion that in an up to date first-class band of, say, forty-two pieces, there would probably?be found from eight een to twenty horns, to say nothing of saxophones, which are partly clar inet and partly horn.-Tit-Eits. Many Vines on a Small Plot. A fine sample.of what can be done on a small plot of southern California land has been furnished by W. S. Palmer, of Third street. On the two city lots east of his house, ? space less than one-third of an acre, Mr. Palmer last spring set out 30,000 grape cuttings. The cuttings were heeled in dur ing February and March and set out April 1 in double rows four inches apart. Two boys were able to take entire care of them during the sum mer, and at the present time all the vines are in flourishing corditlon, representing at the lowest nursery valuation $3000.-Claremont Cor?# Bpondence Lon Angeles Times. j THE PAGE FOR WOMEN. Evolution of What Was Once Consid ered a Startling Iden. . There was a time, however difficult it may he to realize, when women did not read newspapers, when in the ma jority of cases the daily journal was regarded by them as an insidious enemy of the household; when the "gude housewife" beg$n her busy day opposite an autocrat, who in disdain ful silence delayed the savory break fast too satisfy his curiosity regard ing the antics of "bull and bear;" and when the youthful members of the family, unable to repress their bub bling spirits, brought forth ebulli tions of paternal wrath from the gleaner of the stock market. In the evening the same conditions pre vailed. My lord must needs retire behind the well-filled sheet, digest its contents and steal/forty winks be fore becoming properly attuned to wifely confidences, and womankind, perforce from long years of experi ence, accepted in a matter of fact way these conditions as part and par cel of conjugal life. By and by there loomed upon the horizon an editor with an . idea, one who said to himself, "Once a week I shall run a story with feminine inter est; the women may like it." And like it they did. Nay, more, they proved their appreciation by booming the circulation of that particular journal, and eo gladdened the heart of the astute editor, Other papers took up the good work, following closely in the footsteps of the cour ageous pioneer, and thus it came to pass that, like the flashings of a me teor, paragraphs began to scintillate in the leading newspapers through put th? land, concise, to be sure, but unmistakable in their tendency to please women. Then came a day big with fate, when a valiant editor, throwing cau tion to the four quarters of the globe, gave space to women writers on womanly subjects, and thus evolved the "Woman's Page." The effect was* Instantaneous, widespread and beneficial: The mind of woman broadened as she read, and, not con tent with the restricted sphere of fashions, recipes and beauty talks, she^stepped over the borderland into thelvery domain of man, into the world of science and politics; grap pling and treating the policies of the day with so rara an intelligence, so just an appreciation, that men could only wonder and exclaim at what they termed4-phenomenal. , To-day the Woman's Page is a fixture. No longer does the feminine end of the household await In trembling silence behi?d th? coffee urn the pleasure of her life-partner. She has become the oracle which decides the choice o? journal in her particular province. So powerful a factor is the woman editor and so far-reaching her influ ence that even the masculine element seeks the benefit of her services. Nay, more, it has been known to consult this authority on the delicate sprout ing of a microscopic mustache or plead for a suggestion in the adjust ment of a complex love affair. To be si,re, in this wise.-oid world, there are still many doubting Thomases who relegate women to their so-called sphere-the kitchen-whose dulled intellects deny the benefit accruing from the feminine atmosphere in journalism! who sneeringly suggest that fashions alone are ladled forth to its many readers and who wilfully close their eyes to the growing in fluence of women. These may be graphically classed under the genus Crank, and with whom there is little sympathy. The spirit of comradeship is abroad in the land, and to-day men and women, hand in hand, traverse the paths of knowledge. What inter ests one is bound to please the other. The Woman's Page, silently and unostentatiously, crept into the home life and is there the accepted coun sellor, ameliorator and all-round con- J fldante of its many readers. It is made the arbiter of style and fashion, the authority on epicurean concoc tions, a guide-book by land and sea, the healer of bodily ills, an.adjuster of domestic cataclysms, the Black stone of legal wrangles, the mouth piece of woman's emancipation, the restorer of fading loveliness, and, finally, the sympathetic receptacle in to which are poured the tribulations, miseries and heartburnings of every day commonplace humanity.-New York Evening Sun, How the Japanese Bathe. In Japan every one, rich or poor, .fakes one hot bath a day. Each house possesses a round, bar rel-like tub, and In lt the bather kneels. The temperature of the wat er varies from 110 to 120 degrees, and no Japanesa thinks of taking lees than an hour to bathe in. Before going into the bath a pre liminary scrubbing takes place, for which each person is provided with a brass bowl full of water and a small stool to sit on. The bowl is constant ly refilled with hot water and the skin thoroughly scrubbed. The body at last gets so perfectly cleansed that when its owner steps into the bath tub the water is not "soiled," so to speak. A Japanese considers his or her bath before food, and there is no doubt that the vitality and endurance of the Japaneso are greatly due to their cleanly habits. The water is always heated by charcoal, and it ls said that a Japanese woman takes five minutes to wash one arm! The Te Deum. The authorship of "Te Deum" is uncertain. It is now generally under stood that we are to put no rellanes upon .the ancient legend that makes the famous hymn the joint produc tion of Saints Ambrose and Augus tine. The first actual reference to it is in the rule of Caesarlus of Aries, who was made a bishop in 502, and it is certain that lt arose as early as the fifth century. It is ascribed by some authorities to Hilary of Aries, by others to some disciple of Cassian of Marseilles, but in no case is tue evidence complete. There are in the State of New York forty-three villages of between 1000 and 2000 inhabitants, which bay* Jree libraries? -----. WHITE PLAGUE GEKM NOT ALWAYS DEADLY. Expert Says Seventy Per Cent, of People Have Tuberculosis, Only Fifteen Per Cent. Oio. Tuberculosis - in its many phases was thoroughly discussed at the ninth annual meeting of the American Therapeutic Society. Expert physi cians told of the proper treatment of the dr?aded disease in its varying stages. The first paper, upon the treatment of tuberculosis, was read by Dr. Law rence F. Flick, who has charge of the White Haven sanitarium. "The restoration of the afflicted in dividual to his normal capacity and the stimulation of his intrinsic disease fighting qualities constitute in a broad sense the modern treatment of tuberculosis," declared Dr. Flick. "As a rule the tubercle bacillus ls nat very virulent to human beings. The tendency to r-eeover ls so great that the majority who suffer im plantation will recover without devel oping noticeable symptoms. Seventy per cent, of all persons living in civil ized communities get Implantation of tuberculosis. Only fifteen per cent, of those living in civilized communi ties die of the disease. Without mixed infection tuberculosis would never kill." W. SohMr Bryant, of New York, declared ;t from the ear come the first sigm : pulmonary tuberculosis, THE ?S? OF DISTANCE, A. Pleasi Mr. Glimmerton Finds Wien 3 : Takes His Vacation. "One of the things that I go on my vacation for, one of the chief things," said Mr. Glimmerton, "is dis tance; the refreshing,, reviving, ex panding power of . distance. The change to new scenes, as any change whatever is always, sure to be, is helpful; but the broadening, uplift ing, clarifying effect, the effect in -which we find the greatest enjoyment and by which we store up the greatest renewal of strength for the future, we get through our sense of distance. "We are so shut up In the city, our range of vision is so limited; live where we will or go where we will here and our. sight stops short at walls. Then- when we go away and leave the city behind us, as we get out into the open country, where we can see past .houses, how grateful does the distance *sem! "But I get this sense best ?t a quiet place where I go in the mountains, where I can sit and look down a long, broad lake with mountains rolling away on either hand and beyond. The change, I know, from the city is great and delightful; but the thing that gets me here, and releases me, is the distance. "Daily, hourly, I come back to this view, to expel what lingering traces may be left in me of the contraction of the city and to expand anew in this great spaciousness through the sense of distance. Space has no care nor confinement, but only freedom. And what joy and relief to be where one can cast off all chains and be free! "Any change is good for us; but the greatest joy in change that comes to me is through the sense of dis tance."-New York Sun. Indian's Picture on Bill. Hollow Horn Bear, chief of all the Sioux, returning from a visit to Sen ator . Gamble at Yankton on tribal matters, found himself "broke," and through Interpreter Elliston sought Judge Witten, in charge of the Tripp reservation, and asked him for a loan of $5 to buy food for his family. When the Judge presented a $5 bill Elliston pointed out Hollow Horn Bear's picture on it. Judge Witten kept the bill and gave the chief specie and said he thought it advisable to retain the bill which contained the picture of the only living man who ever got himself photographed in that manner. Hollow Horn Bear made a great speech in Congress in 1889, and as he is a good-looking specimen of his race his picture was engraved on both the $5 and $20 bills.-Sioux City Correspondence St, Paul Dis patch, Orville Wright's Schoolboy Essay, "I was in High School at Dayton at the same time as Orville Wright, now famed as inventor of the aero plane," remarked Ernest F. Crum mel. ''We were not In the same class, but I remember one essay that Wright prepared for one of the liter ary programmes. It was about air ships, and Wright read from his pa per that the time would come when men would navigate the air. "He read on BO enthusiastically that the other students all laughed good-naturedly at him for writing along such foolish .lines. They all told him a' man would be crazy to try to ride an airship. But as every body knows to-day, Wright's youth ful enthusiasm has carried him along to success and fame In just that very direction."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Big Texas Melon, Robert Longbotham, a farmer near Shafter Lake, raised an eighty-pound melon. It is of the Georgia sweet variety from Texas grown seed. The seed was planted July 2, the vine blossomed August 7 and the melon matured September 18, mak ing an average growth of two pounds a day from the time the blossom dropped off the vine until the melon ripened, and during its growth the melon registered a maximum gain of six pounds during a single twenty, four hours.-Galveston News. Old London Clubmen's Wager. The rage for gambling at White's and Almack's led to most outrageous betting, as to which Walpole tells what he calls a good tale: A man dropped down in a flt before the door and was carried inside; the club instantly made bets as to wheth er he would die or not, and when a doctor was called in to attend him his ministrations were interfered with by the members, because, they said, these would affect the fairness of the bets,-London Chrouipje. >I?^ An air gun of large size, working on the principle of the pneumatic hammer, has been devised for killing animals in a humane manner. Prof. Frederick Starr, anthropolo gist at the University of Chicago, has been appointed an officer of public in struction under the French Govern ment. The consul explained that this was one of the highest honors, in rec ognition of his work in Mexico. The ravages of consumption, trach oma and other diseases of a like na ture are so great among the natives of Alaska that in a few decades the races of that section will be extinct. Statistics from a typical settlement of the natives show a greater mortal ity than that of any other primitive race that has come In contact with Anglo-Saxon, civilization. Experiments made in compressed air by two English physicians dem onstrated that divers can work at least 21? feet under water without danger of death from the pressure. Astronomers of note are inclined to the theory that the eighth satel lite of Jupiter, discovered last winter, ls the missing Leiell comet, last seen in 1779 close to the planet. Resembling certain fossil quadru peds more than any other living an imal, a few Specimens of the solen don, an insectivorous animal, have been seen on the island of Santo Do mingo for the first time in several years. It had been supposed that the animal was extinct. f . ... .The depopulation of the earth will be brought about through the failure of the water supply. This is the con clusion reached by the French geolo gist M. Martel. He has made careful observations of subterranean caverns, and says that the earth is gradually drying up. They contain, he says, not only the secret of prehistoric life, inasmuch as they were the homes of men of the remotest age, but also bear indications of the endless future. M. Martel has found proof of a steady fall in the level of the water in these subterranean depths, and from these facts he arrives at his conclusions. DECLINED WITH THANKS. Publishers Who Don't Pant For Bull dog Suspenders. Messrs. Hewes & Potter, Boston, Mass. : I Gentlemen-Your favor of the 9th inst., offering us two pairs of your best "bulldog suspenders" for our personal use during the time we in sert your advertisement free, re ceived. In reply we would say that we do not use the same kind of pants that bulldogs wear, and therefore your "bulldog suspenders" would be of lit tle or no use to us. However, to take advantage of your offer, if at all pos sible, we have consulted our bulldog, and he informs us, his tail being somewhat of a wag, that he does not use suspenders to keep his pants up, but manages to do that by running after good advertisers, who appreciate the cash value of space" in our paper and make offers, on a mcney basis. Such propositions as you offer would, if accepted, be business sus penders for every publisher who would be fortunate at the end of the year to possess trousers to keep up. Note the difference Detween business and "bulldog" suspenders. One is a calamity, the other the preventive of a calamity. We are not panting for advertisings contracts such as you offer; as they would not only keep our pants in sus pense, but our shirts and payroll also. Thanking you for the offer and thanking heaven that there are few business concerns in this country who make such offers, we beg to remain, Yours very truly, SUNBEAM PUBLISHING CO., Per C, F, P, -Salem, N, J" July 13, A Sympathetic Farmer, A large touring automobile cor? faining a man and his wife met a load of hay in a very narrow road. The woman declared that the farmer must back out, hut ber husband con? tended that she waa unreasonable. "But you can't back the automo bile so far," she Bald, "anc I don't Intend to move for anybody, Be sides, he should baye seen us," The husband pointed out that this was Impossible, owing to au abrupt turn in the road. "I don't care," she insisted. "I won't move if I have to stay here all night." Her husband was starting to argue the matter, when the farmer, who had been sitting quietly on the hay, interrupted: "Never mind, sir!" he exclaimed with a sigh, "I'll try to back out. I've got one j :st like her at home."-i Philadelphia Ledger. The Owl's Wisdom. "In a hollow tree, during my va cation, I found two young owls," said a student. "I also found in the same nest two eggs. Puzzled that the mother owl should have abandoned her setting ere Its completion, I laid the matter before my farmer host. "The farmer told me that country people know well that the owl, after hatching half, her brood, leaves the other eggs to be hatched by the new born birds. These young are warm blooded, they are helpless to leave the nest, and in nine cases out of ten they complete the hatch as well as the -mother would have done. I'd consider this a superstition if I hadn't seen a proof of lt."-Philadelphia Bulletin. No Smoking For Children. The Board ci! Education has or dered the prohibition of smoking by young persons under seventeen years of aget-rThe Shanghai Mercury? ????J i Revised Version. Hiv Bonnie lies under the auto; My Bonnie swears under the car. riease send to the garage for some one, For 'tis lonesome up here where I are, -The Home Magazine. Still Talking. First Commuter-"Does your wife saw wood? That's the rumor." Second Commuter-"She does not; neither does she say nothing."-New York Press. A Thoughtless Man. He (Impulsively) - "Darling, I rather thought of kissing you." She-"How dare you? Yon know I can't scream with so many peopli about! "-Punch. AH in Diagnosis. Patient-"How many different lan guages do you speak, doctor?" Doctor-"Only one, but I under stand a great many different tongues.* -Chicago News. J Nearly All On. "Hurry up, Tommy! " called moth er from/ down stairs. "We're late now. Have you got your shoes on?" "Yes, mamma - all but one."-* Everybody's Magazine. More Libel. "I see a certain actress says she likes to tell jokes to an audience of women." "Yes; -they are afraid not to laugh."-Houston Chronicle. Lots of Material. "Much can be doue with left-over food." "That's fine," declared Mrs. Nu bride. "I'll have plenty to work with, for hubby leaves over half of what I prepare. "-Pittsburg Post. Curiosity. Mrs. Jones-"James, stop here." Chauffeur - "At, Mrs. Smith's, ma'am?" Mrs. Jones-"Yes. I see her at the window, and I wish to see if she is at home."-Cleveland Leader. Often Kastens Matters. "Married, eh?" "Yep." "I thought It was purely a platonic affection." "It was, but another fellow started to call."-Houston Chronicle. Sympathetic. Muffit-"Hello, old chap! How are you feeling to-day?" Weeks-"Oh, I'm improving slowly -very slowly." Muffit-"That's good. I'm delight, ed to hear it."-Chicago News. We Can't Escape. "Looks to me like nature attends to keeping the money in circulation." "As to how?" "Well, there's the spring hat, the summer vacation, the fall gown, and Christmas."-Washington Herald. The Same Texture. """ ' ? Demosthenes, who was practicing oratory with pebbles in his mouth to cure him of stammering, accidentally swallowed one. "If that had been b-b-buttered," he stammered, "I could have thought lt was one of my w-w-wif e's b-b-blscuits. " - Harper'/ Weekly. Anchor to Windward. Jeweler-"You say the inscription you wish engraved on the Inside of this ring is to be 'Marcellus to Irene?' " Young Man (somewhat embar rassed)-"Yes, that's right. But-* er-don't cut 'Irene' very deep!"-< Modern Society. As Ile Expected. Earber (looking for business) "Excuse me, sir, but your hair is go? ing to come out soon by the hand? fuis." Jaggs (who was out all night and is ;:ust going home to face his wife) "You (hie) shpose I don't koow (hie) that?"-Bohemian,' An Enjoyable Wedding. ''Here I am home again," said Mrs, Nagget, removing her wraps. "I was in plenty of tima for the wedding, and I enjoyed it immensely." "You don't say?" snapped Mr. Nag? get, ''What waa the matter? Didn't the bride appear at her best?" Catholic Standard and Times, Made a Jilt. "J suppose the Galveston flood cleaned you out?" "Nope." "Ah! a sufferer from the San Fran cisco earthquake?" "No, mum, I'm just a plain tramp or vag." Ke got a fancy hand-out.-Wash ington Herald The Human Test. Lady In touring car beckons to pedestrian. "Will you do me a small favor, sir?" "Certainly, madam." "Then please stand out in the mid dle of the highway and let me see how quickly I can stop my car with out hitting you. I'm afraid thiB brake is out of order."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ready to Oblige. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, at a din net in Cincinnati, told a quaint story about a precocious boy. "They are very precocious, indeed," she said, "those little chaps from Eton or Rugby, with their round, 'sober faces and their quiet air. "A very pretty American girl was talking one evening in London to one of these urchins. \ " 'And have you got a sweetheart yet, Tommy?' she said, playfully. i " 'No/ said Tommy, 'still, I'm game enough for a bit of spooning if that's*, what you're after,'" - Washington B?WLA - . 1 1 HOUSEHOLD Lace Curtains, r-y.r/0 All lace curtains should be soaked for at least an hour In cold water in which a little borax has been dis solved before putting them Into winn suds. This takes out the smoky odor' and softens the dirt.-New Haven Register. A Simple Insecticide. Hot alum water is the best Insect', destroyer. Put alum into hot water and let it boil until lt is all dissolved;;*; then apply the solution hot with a.1' brush to all cracks, closets, bedsteads . and other places where any insects . are found. Ants, bedbugs, cock roaches and other insects are killed by it; will not injure or poison,-* . Boston Post, Cleanser of Black Goods, 1 To remove spots from black ma? terial and to restore their freshness prepare the following mixture: Taka ten cents' wm -h of gum camphor? break it in tiny pieces- in a large bowl; pour a quart of boiling water over lt, add to this five cents' worth of powdered borax. Bottle when cold, leaving the undissolved - camphor in the mixture. Keep it tightly corked, -New York Times. Shoes Blackened There is no reason why young or old should he careless about having their footwear kept in proper condi tion. A lamb's wool glove and daub er can be bought for ten cents and a box of blacking for another .dime. By being careful to never use but one side of the dauber there will be no need of soiling the fingers, and tho wool glove gives a fine polish with very .little effort.-New Haven Reg?- : ister. Sand Soap. Half a bar of coarse sand soap should always be kept within reach of the r'^ht hand of every dishwasher, Rub .ie half bar right on the bot tom, both inside and outside, of all. saucepans and spiders. Follow this with a scrubbing with a five cent sink brush, kept up a little higher than the wire soap dish for the sand soap, and ' fashioned differently than the regu lar brush used for the sink. By training one's self to always use both sand soap and brusb, pot and pan washing is robbed cf Its much talked of dislike. An occasional dipping of the pan brush on to the cake of com mon soap kept near will remove ev ery vestige o? grease.-New Haves Register. Sance Bcniaise. Put two tablespoonfuls tarragon vinegar in a saucepan, add eight ? crushed black peppercorns, two chopped shallots and a tablespoonful minced parsley. Cook five or six minutes, then set aside to cool. Break six eggs, separating the whites from the yolks, and stir irtf^the cold vinegar, adding at thd?P'/ie time four tablespoonfuls but?* cut in small pieces. Set the smaMt"1 \n in a larger one of hot water ^>w": as it reaches the boiling point ?S^r .con stantly until thickened. Add spoonful beef extract, dissolved quarter cup hot water, season with salt and a little grated nutmeg pour over the steak or whatever it is to be served with.-New York Tele/ gram. Invalid's Tray Table, It Is often impossible for a ?lek person to sit up in bed to eat from the tray, and when this is the ca3e, it often is hard to put the tray in a handy and yet comfortable position for the invalid and in many cases the person is so weak it tires them to support the tray on the lap. ? table for an invalid tray car bs easily and quickly made by anyon3. Select a small folding table, such as is used for sewing, and stand it beside the bed and saw off the legs on one end even with the bedspread. Move the table across the bed irhtil the uncut legs'stand close to the bed and the shortened legs rest cn the bed ?nd mako the table firm. In thi3 way the table is in the most convenient posi tion, while it does not rest on the person in bed or prevent the use of the limbs. Another handy table for the invalid's use can be made from a doll'g table. Cut off ail four legs so that they are only about eight inches long. This table may be placed over - the covered legs of tho patient with the legs of the table resting on the bed on each-side. These tables may be folded up and piaeed standing against the wall of a ?loset when not in use.-Boston Post. to ?&1 jim) nay TO ? Quick Waffles.-Three cups of flour, two cups of milk, two eggs, half a teaspoonful of cream tartar, one saltspoonful of salt. Sift the cream tartar and salt into the flour; dis solve the soda in a little hot water; beat one egg; put in the flour last. Hash Croquettes.-Take what is left of the steak or any.odd bits of meat from beef roast aud chop fine ly,'season with salt, pepper and a dash of celery salt; dip into the well beaten yolks of two eggs and fry in hot fat the same as doughnuts. Serve on crisp lettuce leaves. Butter Thin Nutlets.-Beat the white of an egg stiff, stir in enough powdered sugar to make stiff. Add one-half cup of chopped nuts (wal nuts preferred) and spread quit9 thick on butter thins and brown in the oven. Nice to serve with hot chocolate or for lunches. Molasses Cookies.-One cup mo lasses, put on stove and bring to boil ing point-do not boil. Stir in one dessert spoon of soda and one table spoon strong vinegar. While foam ing pour over one egg, one-half cu| sugar and one teaspoon of gingei rith a little salt, beaten togeth'ej Flour to mix stiff enough to haue easily. Roll out; not too thin. i