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agricultural topics. Turkpy* AVith A'ertlgo. Turkeys do not liko confincmcct. Having plenty to eat and not muck exercise, they get the “staggers,” or what is more properly termed, vertigo. The best remedy is to feed cut clover and oats and less corn, until they can get out of doors.—American Agricul turist. Chinese Pinks. Old-fashioned garden favorites— periwinkle (with blue eyes), cowslips, heather and Chinese pinks—bloom among the grenadine gauzes that veil the spring straw hats. One must be hard to please who cannot find any thing to one’s taste, for the assort ment of artificial flowers is large, the colors correct and the workmanship excellent. Early Potatoes in tiardons. It is the habit of most farmers to plant a few potatoes for early use in the garden. But this is bad practice, because often the potatoes are planted on the same ground year after year, and as the germs of disease live in the soil over winter, the potatoes thus grown are more likely to be diseased. Besides, where potatoes are grown in succession, the soil is filled with hard shell potato bugs, which como up just about the time the potatoes do, and will often be found gnawing the po tato shoots before they are fairly out of the ground. It is much better to plow a clover sod somewhere on rich land for the early potatoes, and reserve the garden for vegetables not so easily grown by field culture. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. A SOWU. Creamed Cudflth. r The Pa«King of the Bi(c Steer. The West Texas Stockman calls at tention to the passing of the heavy beef steer. The great, heavy, full grown bullock of five or six years ago, weighing from 1800 to 200*0 pounds, is no longer wanted. There may yet remain some chance to sell him to the beef canners, who want cheap, strong, coarse meat for export, but our homo people have learned better. They now want a steer not exceeding 1500 pounds in weight nud all ready for market at thirty months old. These results can’t bo got out of scrub stock. They may get the weight, but it will be in the wrong place, and the difference in price from one to three cents per pound. Tho demand now is for the small, well- rounded animal whose white fat and clear meat indicate breed rather than pounds. Farm Telephoned Practicable.' The farmer must be a business man and should be connected with the world. But few farmers can live near a telegraph office and the telephone offers direct communication. If the farmer need the doctor or groceries, or repair for machinery, he is in in stant communication with these peo ple, and in a rainy day or during the winter when the roads are well-nigh impassable, the farmer can do busi ness with the cattle dealer, or any business men in the city. Telephones are cheap now and can be bought for 810 to $15, and the lines can be put in by subscription. Poles can be bought very cheaply and ought to be from twenty to twenty-five feet long, eight inches in diameter at tho base, and placed 200 feet apart. This would mean twenty-five poles to the mile. Good wire costs $2.25 per 100 pounds, ami nobs, seventy-five cents. The total cost will he about $17.75 per mile. Any farmer who once uses the telephone will never bo without it again. It adds life to tho community and is an education and a step toward a better civilization.—C. C. Mills, of Illinois, in American Agriculturist. T'aa wind comes riding dowa from lieavor.—» Tv.i „„„ ic-v H° ! wind ojt heaven, what do you bring? ... one cupml of pitked-txp codfish , f or t j l0 m o r n > dflw tor the And every sweet thing. AThle-Tiro Carriages. An improvement in the wide tires, about which so much has been said of late, is in building the vehicle with the front axle about an inch shorter than thoso ordinarily used, and tho rear axle an inch to an inch and one- half longer. This gives from two to two and one-half inches difference in the space between the fore wheels and the hind wheels. In running, the two wheels make a track or line, nearly double the width of one. Al lowing the tire to be four inches wide, the mark on the roadway will be from seven and a half to eight inches wide. The practical value of this style of wheel can scarcely he appreciated. Instead of deep cuts and ruts, which kre a menace to all vehicles, we would have an approximately smooth road J urface, and the soil would be much ikely to become cut up and soft. These wheels would act like rollers. They would crush down ruts and irregularities, and have a constant .tendency to keep tho road in order, ’rather than destroy it. It is sug gested that a law be passed compel ling wide tires on light as well as ° heavy vehicles. A skeleton wheel with a wide tire might be made extremely handsome. The felloe could he thin and light, and the epokes braced from tho edges of the wheels in such a fashion as to secure jthe greatest strength and durability. It is predicted that once the wide tiro fancy for light vehicles gets started, it twill speedily push all old-fashioned, 1 arrow-tired wheels out of the mar- et.—New York Ledger. C n a stewpan with boiling water enough :o cover; cook twenty minntes; drain ill water; add one pint of boiled milk; look ten minutes longer; thicken with ■ablespoonful of flour and one table- spoonful of butter, rubbed together; idd oue-fourth teaspoonful of pepper, ind, if too fresh, a pinch of salt. Have in a hot platter five moistened squares Df toast. Place the codfish on the toast, spreading smoothly; put some boiling water and five muffin rings in i frying pan; break fiVe eggs on a saucer, one at a time; drop each one gently into nriug; cook three minntes; take them out with a skimmer, one by one, and move tho rings, sprinkle lightly with pepper and salt. TXic True Story ot a Soup Eono. It was just an ordinary soup bone, rather undersized, and costing fifteen sents. The family to be cooked for consisted of one man and three women. It arrived at the door of the farm bouso early one Saturday morning and was at once washed aud put on to cook, in two kettles. For dinner tho housewife added noodles to a part of the broth, which she had carefully seasoned. To make tho noodles she took two well beaten eggs, two spoon fuls sweet milk, pinch of salt and flour to mix very hard. The meat was boiled until so tender that it was readily slipped from tho bone. For breakfast tho next morn ing part of the cold meat was used for hash. The principal dish of tho Sunday’s dinner was a meat pie. Slices of tho meat, carefully freed from all gristle, were covered with tho stock and put upon tho stove. From tho stock it was necessary to remove a half cup of fat. Tho crust of the pie was made of one cup sour milk, one-half cup sour cream, level teaspoon soda, teaspoon salt and flour to make a soft dough. Before putting on the top crust gener ous bits of butter aud a sprinkling of pepper were added. The crust was brushed over with sweet cream before the pie was placed in the oven. The remainder of the stock was heated, thickened a little and served with the dinner. Now’ you think I have come to the end of my soup bone. No, there was hash again Monday morning for breakfast. And tho best of the story is, it is trne.—Hope Darling, in New England Homestead. Recipes. Clear Candy—Use one pound of granulated sugar, with half a pint of water; stir it well; when dissolved al low it to boil until it bubbles, without further stirring; then drop a little in to cold water; if it spans like glass when broken, it has reached what is called the “crack,” and is ready for use in dripping any kind of candy. If you wish to use the sirup for cara mels, boil it longer; when it has reached a yellow color, take it at once from the fire. Baked Fig Pudding—First stew some dried figs till tender, with a lit tle lemon peel and sugar. Take two eggs, their weight in butter, flour and sugar. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add tho eggs, and lastly the Hour, w’hich has had half a teaspoon of baking powder mixed with it. But ter a pie dish, spread it with a double layer of the stewed figs, pour the bat ter mixture over, and bake for half an hour in a sharp oven. The pudding will bo equally good hot or cold. Julienne Potatoes—Wash and peel some potatoes, cut them into small shreds, wash well aud dry on a cloth. Throw them a few at a time into plenty of clear, boiling fat ; shake tho potatoes about in the fat until they are crisp and of a deep yellow color. Drain on a cloth, sprinkle slightly Hvith salt and serve on a folded nap kin. In order to remove the potatoes well in the fat so that they may be equal in color it is best to use a frying-basket, in which the potatoes are placed for frying. Veal Pears—Take sufficient cold cooked veal to make a half-pint when chopped. Add an equal quantity oi bread crumbs, four chopped raw oysters, half a teaspoonful of salt,one- fourth of a teaspoonfnl of pepper, three tablespoonfuls of stock or gravy, just sufficient to mold nicely. Press into a wineglass (small). When ready to cook butter a shallow dish,on which lay the pears, first rolling them in beaten egg and fine cracker crumbs. Brown in a good oven, and serve with a*sprig of parsley inserted in the stem end. Clam Soup—Chop twenty-five clams and strain the liquor. Melt one table- spoonful butter in a saucepan, adding two tablespoonfuls fine-chopped whits onion and cook five minutes without browning. Then add two fine rolled soda crackers and stir a few minutes, adding one pint of boiling water, one pint of fine cut potatoes, one even tea spoonful pepper, aud cook fifteen min utes. Add to it one cup canned to matoes and cook ten minutes longer. Next add the clams and liquor and cook again for ten minntes. Put one pint of boiling milk in tho tureen, pour in the soup and serve crackers. .-ven, Oli, wind of even, from pink clouds driven^ What do you brin^ to me? * Tho low call of thy love, who waits Under the willow tree— Whose boat upon tho water waits For iue--for thee! —Harriet Monroe, in the Century- with m There are 1425 characters twenty-four books Dickens wrote, There are supposed to be nearly 50,- the 000 dentists practicing upon people’s teeth in the world. j -^-pCriin a i Tr-i-Vj-pi HUMOR OF THE DAY. “He’s rather timid, is he not?” “Very. Why, he’s so timid that he’s scared by war-scares!”—Puck. He—“Then I go—and for ever.’ She—“Very well! But don’t call to morrow evening; forlsha’n’t be in.”— Life. “Harry, do yon love* your little baby brother?” “What’s the use? He wouldn’t know it if I did!”—Tid- Bits. Watts—“Bixley is a sad wag.” Potts—“Especially when none will laugh at his jokes.”—Indianapolis Journal. “It doesn’t do any good to scold the janitor about our cold rooms.” “Yes, it does. I get all warmed np when I talk to him.”—Chicago News. She—“I like your impudence. I haven’t reached the bargain counter yet.” He—“You would be a bargain on any counter.”—Harper’s Bazaar. I've heard tho sweepinp; statement made That money talks; ’tis funny, For certain specie’s not verbose— Tho kind known as hush-money. —Fuck. Wiggles—“My physician has order ed me never to take active exercise after a hearty meal.” Waggles— “Well, what of it?” Wiggles—“I board.”—Somerville Journal. “Young Mr. Tizzena called on me last week,” said Maud. “Did he?” replied Mamie. “He told he was go ing to reserve all disagreeable duties for Lent.”—Washington Star. Mr. Hunter—“I have a speaking acquaintance with Miss Throckmor ton.” Mr. Spatts—“You are very lucky. All her other acquaintances are listening acquaintances.”—Judge. ‘Tis not tho man Who really toils That makes the^roatost row; ‘Tis he with nething else to do, Who stands afcund the whole day thro* To tell tho othefs how. —Washington Star. Dicky Doolitt|e—“I feel weal devil ish to-day! Let’s do something out of the ordinary.” Teddy Thoughtless —“All wight; we’ll have ‘bweakfast food’ for dinner, doncher-know.”— Judge. Tho Sitting OJie—“Jones is so near sighted he once took a man for a giraffe.” The Standing One—“That’s nothing. I once took a lady for a sail.” — Browning, King & Co.’s Monthly. “I tell yon, he is a Spanish sympa thizer. He must be.” “But why?” “He has three different arguments to illustrate how the Maine affair might have been an accident. ”—Philadelphia North American. Mrs. A.—“I think yumr husband is a very quiet dresser.’’ Mrs. B.— “H’m! You might change your opin ion if you heard him looking for his clothes some mornings.”—Browning, King & Co.’s Monthly. Admirer (time 2:30 a. m.)—“Has your father any objection to my pay ing you visits, Miss Maud?” Miss Maud—“O, no — but—er — I think that he’d rather you paid them in in stallments.” —Brooklyn Life. Ethel—“Why didn’t you attend Professor Dump’s lecture ou ‘The Cycles of Time?’ It was very inter esting.” Maude—“The subject of the lecture was embarrassing to me. You know, dear, I bought my wheel ou tho installment plan.*’—Pittsburg Press. “I want war,” said Billets, face tiously, “because I am in hopes that in that way some of my creditors will be killed off.” “I suppose,” re marked Crisp, “that you would rather see them killed outright than have them starve to death.”—Philadelphia North American. Deepest American Lake. Crater Lake is the deepest American lake, and, indeed, one of the deepest lakes in the world. It is one of the wonders of America. Crater Lake is on the crest of the Cascade Mountains, about 100 miles east of Ashland, Ore gon. It is circular in shape and about five miles across. It lies on the very top of Mount Mazama, and is com pletely surrounded by rocks rising straight from the water. Its greatest ascertained depth is 2000 feet, and this depth seems to be almost the same over tho greater part of the lake. There is no beach, the surrounding rocky shores extending vertically be neath tho water to the depth of sev eral hundred feet. There are few large fish in the lake, but much small life in the shape of Crustacea, etc. No amount of argument can convince the experienced, honest grocer that any other soap will give his customers such general satisfaction as Ivory Soap. He knows that they prefer Ivory Soap to new kinds, of unknown quality. Ivory Soap will sell because the people want it, the other soaps may look like Ivory, but his customers want the real thing — they may buy a new soap once to try it, but they come back again and again for Ivory Soap, and they insist on having it. PoprrttM. IMS. k? Hi. 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