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mv , 1 ; . , . r :' ' ? club woman, Mrs. Haute, of Edgerton, Wis., tells fbow she was cured of irregularities and uterine trouble, terrible ^ jjaihsand backache, by the use of Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable ii. Compound. \ ;/ "Dsab Mbs. Phtkham :?A while r my health began to fail because of female-troubles. The doctor did not V;- 2ielp me. I remembered that my mother had used Lydia E. Pinkham's t, k Vegetable Compound on many oc?> x oaaAons for irregularities and uterine troubles, and I felt sure that it could not harm me at any rate to give it a trial. 6": - f " I was certainly glad to find that "l?- T XaUnr fVitt mum K WOT* * Win UUbu w?wM terrible peine in the back and side "were beginning to cease, and at the . \ time of menstruation I did not have p; ? early as serious a time as heretofore, ? - . > wo. I continued its use for two months, wad at the end of that time I was like -y.-iv*'. w new woman. I really have never * felt better in my life, have not had a sick headache since, and ^ weigh 30 jidunds more thai I ever did, sol unhesitatingly recommend your medi&.4_ r v cine." ? Mrs. Mat Hauls, Edgerton, v'7 ?: Wis., Pres. Household Economics Club. i-V -?#8000 forfait If original of abooe latter proving fnViMm cannot bo produce* DYSPEPSIA v gg(m ?? ^ |w...r HEADACHE, COSSTIPATIOK PROMPTLY AND PERMANENTLY JB%& CURED WITH !. Crab Orchard Water. / A Ceatury'i Experience, With Successful "... Results, is the Best Testimouisl. BOLD BY ALL DSUOQZSTS. Crab Orchard Water Co., Louisville, Ky. Avery & Company SUCCESSORS TO avery & McMillan, , -*91-58 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. ?ALL KINDS OF? *T MACHINERY 1^7 Reliable Frlck Engines. Boilers, all Sizes.' Wheat Separators. Large Engines and Boilerssuppiied promptly. Shingle Mills, Corn Mills, I Circular Saws,Saw Teeth,Patent Dogs, U// ''Steam Governors. Full line Engines & Milt Supplies. Send for free Catalogue. 1 You Want the Best f COTTON GIN MACHINERY jgv v ask Aoy Experienced Ginner Aboul :C PRATT MUNGER EAGLE fU WINSHIP SMITH Wo would like to show you i ,fV , " " i What Thousands of Life Long Customers Say. Write for catalogue and testi^ . anonial booklet. f Continental Gin Co. Charlotte, N. C., Atlanta, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., Mem[ phis, Tenn., Dallas Texas. ? - ?? i 111''. ? i l f \ TARNISH ON SILVERWARE. To prevent articles of silverware from tarnishing, warm them when well cleaned and paint them over with a thin solution of collodion in alcohol, using a wide, soft brush for i-v * 1 *4>2a1a?i ?a a/? mncrf LUtJ yur^lUSC. Al uuico ou li cai^u uiuqk be wiped only wltb riry cloths. "Your wife would like to find a ton ! of coal In h-rr stocking" is an adver- ; tisement of a Philadelphia coal deal- ! er. It is not clear whether this is a reflection on the size of the wifey's i stocking or the amount of coal the | dealer gives for a ton. When the Kaiser drove through Kamc- ' * Jin recently hundreds of children stood along the route, dressed either, as rats or 1 in the picturesque dostume' of the famous "Pied Piper's" period. } i FITS nermanently cured. No flts or nervous- i ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great 1 NeryeBestorer,$2tria? bottleand treatise freo Dr. R. H. KuxE.Ltd.. 98i ArchSt.,Phila., Fa. j ; !*] Cavalry of the west coast of Madagascar , ride oxen. A Guaranteed Cure For Pile*. Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Druggists will refund money if Paso Ointment fails to cure in 3 to 14 days. 50c. All the soldiers in the army of Argentina are forced to play football. j j Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildren teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma- i ' tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25e.aboUie < The cost of living has doubled in Spain j t in the last few years. j J Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken o* [ as a cough cure.?J. W. O'Bbien, S22 Third ! ^ Awnne N.. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 0.1D93. i * At a "smart" dinner in New York but- |] ter is not served. 1 !< A Well Deserved Tribute. ' The awarding of the Grand Prize to the < Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Ha- ' j ven. Conn., at the-St. Louis Exposition, , confers upon this company the highest ( ' mark of distinction attained by any manufacturer of guns or ammunition in the I world. Although a great number of med- j als were given, the only award of a Grand ' Prize was to the Winchester Repeating ! Arms Co.; given as it was in competition i J with the leading manufacturers of all coun- ! " tries, it testifies decidedly to the superior- [ ity of Winchester rifles, shotguns and am munition. The success attained by the j Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at this exposition is in line with past honors. At the Paris Exposition they received the Grand Prix, and wherever exhibited have always been given the highest possible prizes. This latest recognition ot superi lority is the natural result of thirty years of careful and successful endeavor in maintaining the high quality of Winchester rifles, shotguns and ammunition. . , :? Sleepers of mahogany are used on the ! Mexican Central Railway. To Care a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Broroo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. ! E. \Y. Grove's signature.is on bor. 25c^ j 1 There are 44,000 hotels in the United , States. , [ Itch cured in 30 raihutes by Woolford'* j Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. Sold by all , druggists, $1. Mail orders promptly filled by ?h\ E. Detchon, Crawfordsville, Ind. < One of the new sports in England is falconry with motor cars. ! ?? i I At3-'05) [; ^Potash") is necessary for cotton to produce high yields and good fibre. Write for our valuable books on fertilization; they contain information that means dollars to the J farmers. Sent free on request. Write now while you think of it to the ' GERMAN KALI WORKS . ||j^ " ^ 1 How to Live 100 Years. i I Sir James Sawyer, an English physician, has formulated the following i 19 rules for prolonging life to luO years: 1. Eight nours' sleep. 2. Sleep on your right side. | 3. Keep your bedroom window open . all night. 4. Have a mat at your bedroom j door. 5. Do not leave your bedstead against the wall. 6. No cold bath in vhe morning, but I a bath at the tempertaure of the ! body. V. Exercise before breakfast. 8. Eat little meat and see that it is i well cooked. 9. (For adults.) Drink no milk. 10. Eat plenty of fat. | 11. Avoid intoxicants. ' 12. Exercise daily in tne open air. 13. Allow no pet animals in your living room. They are apt to carry i about disease germs. 14. Live in the country if you can. 15. Watch the three D's?drinking water, damp and drains. 16. Have a change of occupation. 1 17. Take frequent and short noil days. 18 T.imit vour ambitions, and 19. Keep your temper.?Chicago 1 Journal. . j There Is now talk that the King of; Italy may send over a statue of Julius | Caesar, and if people object to that, j too, they are informed- that Caesar j was an eminent scholar who learned ! Latin when a very small boy, declares" ! . the Bangor, Me., News. < c^y < - V ' ' " '? : ? IimI SUJ3. "My nightly rest was broken, owing to irregular action of the kidneys. I was suffering intensely from severe pains id the small of my back and through the kidneys' and annoyed by painful passages of abnormal secre- j tions. No amount of doctoring relieved j this condition. I took Doan's Kidney ! Pills and experienced quick and lastllig j relief.. Doan's Kidney Pills will- prove J a blessing to all sufferers front kidney j disorders who will give them a fair j trial." Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.f j proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price r>0 cents per box. | 1 /A Long Train. . Cordele, Ga., Jan. 3.?The Atlantic . & Birmingham railroad ran Saturday ! what was probably the longest train of j sars even seen in Georgia,, operated I by a single engine. The train was i made up of one hundred and two j cars, loads and empties, and was drawn to Fitzgerald from Brunswick, it a good rate of speed by one of the company's new raonstrer locomotives. The train was brken up at Fitzgerild, where, several branches of the road diverge, after the officials of the road were thoroughly satisfied that ;he big engines would do all that was Maimed for them by the manufacturers. The train was nearly a mile and i quarter long, including the engine i and caboose.?Macon Telegraph. - j Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum | and Mullen is Nature's great remedy?Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup and Consumption,and ill throat and lung troubles. At druggists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. ... r Defying the Fiend. Two Baltimore architects have j drawn plans for a building entirely; without wood. It is to be built for j Mr. Hilgenburg, who doos not wi3h to i be burned out again. It will be six | stories and will have a frontage of ! fcrty-one feet six inches/ The entire j structure is to be reinforced concrete j and steel. Even the doors, trims, window | sashes and door jams are to be of ! metal. The windows will be glazed with wire glass. The ffame for the show windows will be cf steel, into which the plate glass will be fitted. The side walls, columns and rear walls as well as the supporting columns of ? aIIm tfill Ka r\P nnnr.rato LI16 1I UUt vy aiid win uc vi wuviv??* j The floors wiii all have a top dressing Df cement one and a half inches thick. The stair will be of concrete, with 3late treads and wrought iron balustrades. The elevator shaft will be of concrete, as will * also the inclosure iround the stairway and the elevator bail. The cellar and roof are to be of cement. In order to eliminate all wood the two flagstaffs on top of the structure will be of steel. If this mass jf metal, stone and cement can oe ?A nnf MArrnrl KTT fl f ho I jrUlliUlCU Ui uca.i ujtu uj u>vt ww struggle for an absolutely flrsproof structure might as well stop.?Minne iDolis Journal. ' Correggio and His Life. Little is known of Correggio, which would argue that he was of a retiring lisposition. He was born in the little own of Correggio, twenty-four miies !rom Parma. In the latter city he was jducated, but in his seventeenth year an outbreak of the plague drove his .'amily to Mantua. By 1514 he was , aack In Parma. For some years he J worked here and painted many famous ! pictures. It may have been because )f grief over the death of his young wife, but at the age of thirty-six, iniifferent to fame and fortune, he retired to the little town where he was born. All that is known regarding : his death is the daie, March 5, 1534.? I Charles H. Caffin, in St. Nicholas. ' MIGHT HAVE SAVED IT. 1 Lot of Trouble. From Too Much Starch Food. A little boy of eight years whose parents did not feed him on the right * J ~a e? ^ nlrroro norrnilS flTld K1L1U Ui. iUUllj M uo un? ?j>j ? vmm ? ?? suffered from a weak conditiou of the stomach and bowels. Finally he was taken down with appendicitis and after the operation the doctor, knowing that his intestinal digestion was very weak, j put him on Grape-Nuts twice a day. He rapidly recovered and about two months thereafter, his B'ather states, "He has grown to be strong,-muscular, ; and sleeps soundly, weighs G2 pounds, | and his whole system is in a fine condition of health." Name given by ! Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is plain that if he had been put on . Grape-Nuts at an earlier period in his life, and kept from the use of foods i that he could not digest, he never i would have had appendicitis. That I disease is caused by undigested food I decaying in the stomach and bowels, j causing irritation and making for the j growth of all kinds of microbes, setting I up a diseased condition which is the i active cause of appendicitis, and this I is more marked with people who do not { properly digest white bread. Grape-Nuts is made of the selected . parts of wheat and barley and by the peculiar processes of the cooking at the factory, all of the starch is turned into sugar ready for immediate digestion j. and the more perfect nourishment of , all narts of the body, particularly the brain and nerve centres. ? Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," round in each . . ' : - i < I % \ ' ' > . iyr SOUTHERN * /, 0? 70/VCS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTEi K ?? Thirty Ytart* Experience In Berry Frait ] Growing;. j Thirty years old in any one line ; of business is. quite patriarehial, 1 for this has * been a generation of ] changes and frequent adjustments and f readjustments. It has not fallen to ? the lot of many'men to hold to one i thing for .so pear tlfe third part of the j century I consider myself fortunate t that fate has permitted me to bend j virtually ali the energies of my life < to one thing, given me time and op- I portunity to master it in proportion to * my abilities and to reap a reward that i seems to me greater than my deserts. ' s And still more fortunate am I in that j 1 I have had sons to grow up around me, j t profiting by my experience, to see more ' i broadly.and;reach higher, making my | s plans and aims their plans and aims, 1 but larger. But I am not writing a i family history, but a treatise on fruit ( growing. 1 In that thirty years I learned many t things and had to unlearn many things, i What I had to chiefly unlearn was J thai: the old system of manuring fruits was wrong. To me and to my average contemporaries in those days manure was manure and fertilizer fertilizer. 1 It occurred to us dimly, if at all, that 1 as different animals required different 1 kinds of food and in different propor- 1 tions, so did different plants and crops. * And 1 will add that the less from Illy ( balanced manure aud fertilizer in those 1 dark days was enormous, and who will ' 1 i be bold enough to say that the dark 1 days are even yet entirely past with 1 all of us? * The three fertilizing properties which 1 experience has proven should be added 1 to the soil to make it productive are, ; as is well known, nitrogen, potash and \ phosphoric acid. All of these are es- ' sential, one as much as the other, but ; they are needed in differentv proper- V tions on different soils and for different ( crops, and their blind and injudicious use works loss in many ways. As nitrogen is the most expensive | ' it is in that the greatest waste; | anil loss occurs in the ignorant '' use of fertilizers. The loss is greater in berry frnit growing than in any other crop we have, because more fer- ' 1 ilizer is used on this than is the enstorn on other crops and because the loss in quantity and quality through unwise manuring is so great in this . crop. 1 My largest crops of fruit have al- ( ways come from the most liberal use ! of fertilizer when righ'tiy proportioned. J My largest crops of disappointments ' have grown where the largest quantity of illy balanced fertilizer was used. My experience is that a perfectly ! balanced berry fruit fertilizer should ' nnntnin ?it least two and one-half times as much potash and twice as much j1 phosphoric acid as it contains am-1 ( monia. My plan in planting strawberries, dewberries, blackberries, raspberries, < etc., -is to apply cottonscc-d meal in the 1 drills before the plants are set at the j rate of 600 to 800 pounds to the acre. This is sown in the drills and mixed ] with the soil and listed on just before . the plants are set in winter or spring, j After that no more nitrogen is used in any form until after the crop is gathered the following year. I depend upon plenty of potash and , phosphoric acid to make the fruit. Nor have I ever failed in my whole experience to make a good crop except one year when hail destroyed about onc-lialf. I apply potash in the form of sulphate of potash: which is decid- , edly the best form for all kinds of fruit, using about 100 pounds per acre, usually mixed with 300 pounds of acid phosphate or dissolved bone. This ( mix In re I sow broadcast over the j plants during iate fall and winter. It , will undoubtedly pay to use a somewhat large quantity of both of these fertilizers either broadcast before the plants are set or else by chopping in a.vuud and between the plants during ( the summer or early fall. Totash and" pho>phoric acid, as they are much less liable to be washed out and lost than ammonia is, can therefore be more liberally used without loss, as most of the fertility of this kind remains in the soil until taken up by the plants. I will add that the largest yield of strawberries which I ever heard of being made in this State was grown by myself under the system of fertilizing above described. 0. W. BLACKBALL. Kittrell, N. C. r Subsoillnjj. 1 A few years ago we saw some red clay land, containing little humus, j sub-soiled eight to ten inches. The ; work was done with an excellent two- J horse subsoiler drawn by two mules. ! That work was thrown array. Heavy i spring rains solidifle.'l the clay. The zeal of the farmer doing the work was j not according to knowledge. He knows ; better now. He will not repeat his or-! ror. But he is fully convinced of the? I great value of snbscillug our clay ; A Peculiar ratal try. An engineer named Knorr, a German, who has become a naturalized Russian, built four of the great bridges on the Trans-Siberian Railway, including the big Yenisei and Obi bridges, which cost, respectively, $2,330,000 and $2,000,000. They were great engineering feats, and brought him international fame in his profession. But he was pursued by a curious fatality. A writer in "T. A. T." says: He had five daughters who were famous in Russia for their beauty, and whom he loved dear * - . w MM : flOTES. a ?> ?, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER. ands. If he can break one or two nehes of clay with one mule drawing i diamond point tongue plow that is all le wants on land with .a light top soil. Following that with small grain and)eas he incorporates Iiuirius iuto the ;oil and is ready then to break up two uclies more of the clay. Thus by de jrees in tiiree years lie will secure a :en-incli soil well charged with humus md capable of resisting heavy raius, >r long droughts. Land should never >e subsoiled when the clay is wet and sticky. We saw a field prepared for .vheat this fall. In places the soil was (hallow. A two-horse turn-plow was lsed. The wet clay was brought to the op. where it remains in clod, and it .vill be there next spring. Break only ;o much of the hardpan or clay as can )e incorporated with the top soil. This vork should be done before the first >f March. Any subsoiling that leaves he broken clay in a mass is worthless, is the first heavy rain- will cause t to become soil again.?I'rogressive farmer. Value of Cottonseed Weal. A pound of cotton-Seed meal is worth i pound and three-quarters of corn for 'eeding cattle, but when cotton-seed neal is fed and the mannre saved with ensouable care, three-fourths of its "ertilizer value may be regained in the Iroppings. Can we continue to waste hree-fourtbs of the value of oor coton-seed meal because we have not earned, and apparently do not want to I earn, to raise and care for live stock? , if nrA?f>iit thp nr'rp of rot ton-seed meal s based on its fertilizer value alone, put as its food value becomes better ippreciated, the price will be determined by its combined fertilizer and ieeding values. During the last ten. j rears the price of meal has risen from I >15 to $25 per ton, and I prediet that luring the next teu years it 'will adrance to $35, because it is worth that imouut in comparison with the usual j price of other food stuffs. Can we afford to continue to use it as fertilizer ilone, at that price, and ignore and waste its feeding value? We certainly need live stock to consume this cotton-seed meal, for only by feeding it can we obtain its full value. The same principles are involved whenwc consider the disposition that should lie made of leguminous forage crops. It is universally admitted that it pays to grow cowpeas as a means of soil improvement, for. even when the crop is cut for hay, there is still left to the soil, in the roots and stubble, from ?2.50 to $3 worth of nitrogen for every ion of hay produced. But when this crop is grown, what shall we do with it? Every ton of this cowpea hay is worth at least $10 for fertilizer, at the j price we pay for plant food in commercial fertilizer.?Progressive Farmer. S'ubsoilinjc With One Hor?e. A farmer came io us a few davs ago saying that you are always telling us to break the hard pan and subsoil our vmt oro ?r? flrmht forreet. but iu ;tu* avu u*v mv | wliat is a poor, man with only, one liorse to do? This is our advice to him :md all such farmers: Take pea stubble that is intended for cotton next rear. The leaves and remnants of vines are now 011 the ground. They should be saved. Use a six-inch shovel and lay off the rows cotton width as early as possible. When this is done, take a tongue or diamond point plow and run in the same furrow. That will break the hard pan. Then do the same thing for the midille, leaving the freezes to pulverize the soil. If land is intended for corn, make the rows proper width and run tho furrows in the middle. That requires a little time, but it will pay auy farmer cultivating lands. Another plan for one-horse farmers is to swap tabor. Buy two-horse-plows and harrows in .common and take it time about using them. They will soon be able to buy another horso. Two farmers could thus unite.?Charles Petty, in Progressive Farmer. Millet Seed Poultry Fco?l. I he following is from the Farm and Fireside: The commercial millet seed is about as cheap as wheat, and it is possible that in the future it will become A special food for all kinds of poultry. Millet seed contains more oil than corn, but less starch, aud is also more nitrogenous. The advantage in its use is that as the seeds are very small each hen is compelled to eat slowly, and must also perforin considerable work before she can secure n full meal. Such method of feeding the fowls brings them nearer the natural conditions required, as a -portion of the food will be digested slowly and I entirely before all the food is eaten. A quart of millet seed scattered in lit ler?such ns cut straw, leaves or earth ?In the morning should amply supply fifteen hens, until night, whan a full meal of grain and other foods may be given for theliuish of the day. Hens so kept wit! give better results than if fed twice a day or oftener. ly. Just after his first bridge was completed one of them died; and as each of his three succeeding bridges was built, another died. He would not build a fifth bridge. A Huge Belt. A guttapercha and rubber manufacturing company, of Toronto, has made a belt for the grain elevator of the intercolonial railway at St. Johns, which is one of the largest ever produced. It is of rubber, and measures 3259 feet Its weight is nine tons </ ? " : \ ^ [household ^ patters " v. ' Carrant Bread. '* - ? To one quirt bowl of raised bread . j dough add one tablespoon of sugar. ; "Jra one cup of dried currants, a level xfj. teaspoon of cinnamon and half a level teaspoon of cloves. When well mixed let rise again, then put in pans a?d .i bake slowly. This:bread makes good sandwiches. J ; . ? Hot Chopped Cabbage. V,j Chop - a small head of cabbage V J coarsely and put on to cook with wa* m t.r to cover. Season with salt and f: pepper and add half a cup of vinegar. Simmer slowly until the cabbage is ^ tender, then season liberally wliii bat-V j ter and add paprikas Paprika must always be au.ied after a vegetable or 5 j other food is cooked, ^as it loses flavor by great heat. ' Glaze.1 Sweet Potato?*; Parboil half a dozen s.. ct potatoes v JJi and cut in halves, lengthwise. Make a syrup of one^-half cup of sugar and r three tablespoons of water by boiling | ; them together for three minutes and adding a rounding teaspoon of butter. Butter a pan. lay in the potatoes and brush over with the syrup. Set in oven and baste with the syrup in the j pan while baking. When done the potatoes will be covered with a glaze. 1 Potato Puff. To four cups of hot mashed potato Jrj add a teaspoon of salt, a si.ltspoou of ,.V*j pepper, a few dashes of celery salt, , one-quarter cup of butter aud milk to ^ moisten, making it a little more moist v,?j than for ordinary mashed potato. Beat in the yolks of four eggs, and when . the mixture is very light and creamy ifT/1 tho nrhifp* nf flip fnnr ncrcs beat cn stiff. Turn Into a buttered baking disk and set in the oven for ten in'-u*'- ' Roasted Oaionjt, >*j reel twelve cnicns of medium size and soak in cold water for half aa '3 liour. Cook in boiling water for twenty minutes, pouring off the water ones* and renewing with boiling water. Drain and put into a shallow baking dish and dust with salt and pepper. "Tix one-third cup of butter with one- - I: third-cup of boiling water and *ptmr , over half the onions. Use the remainder for basting; bake in a hot oven Kerosene oil and a soft cloih will . ^ keep* mahogany furniture in 2ne conSoak lamp wicks in vinegar, then I f dry them th:roughly to keep the lamp , ; | from smoking. % Discolorations c i china baking | dishes and custard cups can be i*e-* - ; ^ moved with whiting. /;y A tablespoonful of borax in a pail of . . tlie water in which flannels r-e warned : will keep them soft and white. r ; To make a damp clipboard dry "Stand y in it a bowl of quicklime, which must be occasionally renewed, as it loses its power. A warm bath before retiriug will in-. y ; sure restful sleep. A cold or tepid vJ3 | bath on rising will insure one against f. taking cold, and also sweeten the tern- . ' f Harks that have been made on pal ? % with matches can be removed by rnl^ *3^^ bing first wifli a slice of lemon, then c w with whiting, and washing with soap " I and water. . A pantry cupboard may 'hold flour and meal chests, extracts, spices, , f sugar, salt, baking powder, soda, raisins, rolling pin, bowls, moids and 1 'i all measuring and mixing dishes and . ^ Sheet zinc, laid over edges aud y# tacked firmly in place, makes a taiffi* covering that is easily cleaned, and Is not iujured by hot cooking vessels, ^ which may be removed from the figt to such a table. When lighting a gas stove it, ten give a slight explosion and lights, wrong, thus causing no heat. Turn the gas off very quickly and on again. : It will then light properly without any further trouble. The presence of chicory in coffee ?an be detected by shaking a little of the . :*> i suspected coffee in a wineglassful of-' water. Coffee swims on the surface, and only very slightly colors the wa- . ter, while chicory sinks and gives a . deep red tint. Occasionally the wick of a lamp will > not more easily in the holder but Tn rdmwtr this <trnw rtnfr Vf -v-sB one or two threads from one sid,e o the wic& The wick should be just^vS as large as the holder will 'receive.?-' The Xor-West Farmer. , In ironing handkerchiefs, It is useful to remember that the middle should. ') && be ironed first; to iron the edges first - >?> causes the middle to swell out Hke V ~ balloon, and makes it difficult to iron V satisfactorily. Test th^'.ron carefully 'Mm before using it; a piece of rag should be at hand for this purpose. For unfermented grape *5nice pick, . I over the grapes, rejecting all unsound ones. Put in a porcelain lined kettle and almost cover with cold water; heat slowly, mashing, and cook until all the juice is out. Drain in a jelly bag and measure the liquid, adding one-third ' of a cupful of granulated sugar for each quart Boil four minutes, bottlev , >fj and seal* >. i.