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. TRI-WEEKLY EDITIO c r ILi 3ED WINiNSBORO- .: i4RIL 30, ;1898, SALSHD14 FOR LITTLE FOLKS. A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN. TEREST TO THEM. Something that Will Interest the Ju venile Members of Every Household Quaint Acti-ns and Bright Sayings of Many Cute and Cunning Children. The Cradle Ship. When baby goes a-sailing, and the breeze is fresh and free, His ship is just the queerest craft that ever sailed' to sea! Ten fingers true make up the crew that watch on deck must keep, While all a-row ten toes below are pas sengers asleep! And mother is the pilot deaT-ah, none so true as she. When baby goes a-sailing, and the breeze - , is fresh and free! When mother rocks the cradle ship, the walls-for shores-slip past; The breezes from the garden blow when baby boy sails fast! So fast he flies that Dolly cries she fears we'll run her down, So hard a-port! we're not the sort to see a dolly drown; :nd then, you know, we've got the whole wide carpet for a sea ~ When.'baby goes a-sailing, and othe wind -is fresh and free! When baby lies' becalmed in sleep, and all the crew is still, When that wee ship's in port at last, all safe from storm and ill Two eyes of love shall shine above, two lips shall kiss his face, Until in deep and tranquil sleep he'll smile at that embrace!. - For mother watches, too, at night; while through his slumbers creep Dream-memories of sailing ere the breezes fell asleep. Bobbing for Caramels. Mai.ing taffy or any candy Is, to be sure, great fun, but eating it is always far better. In this game the difficulty is to get the candy. Buy some fresh caramels. They must be qu;.te soft. 'Thread a stout needle with some fine vhite:sewing silk, tying a large knot in - one end. Drr the needle through the e4' ie. onteohe,ie Utra th n.dl, evig h crae attch ed toa-Kstayr ofsl.Te i giving to te a aramel un teko t The eo, aftpaing the mlt *e engod betwen hseeth nd. hi handsg foldehuld be fireparcceds ivring tahea caramel ungto oth wins the game. Of course there Is a trick about it, but a very simple one. Just work it out. One little hint. Everything de pends upon having that knot firmly fastened in the beginning between your teeth. It is really worth while to stop and watch the monkey-like workings and twisting of the other faces, If you do get the "booby" prize yourself.--Chi cago Record. Polly Putoff. Her name was Polly Putnam, but everybody called her Polly Putoff. Of course, you can guess how she came to have such a name. It was because shre put off doing everything as long as she could. "Oh! you can depend on Polly for one thing," Uncle Will would say. "You *can depend on her putting off every thing, but that is all you can depend on." And I am sorry to say he spoke the truth. "Folly, Polly!" mother would say in despair, "bow shall I ever break you of this dreadful habit?" It was just three days toe Polly's birth day, and she had been wondering very much what her mother and father mn tended to give her. She thought a mu sie box.would be about the 'best thing. but she was almost afraid to hope for "that. A man who went about selling 'them had brought some to the nouse, and Polly had gone wild with delight over their beautiful musical tinkle. "Folly," mother said, that morning "he.re is a letter that I want you to post before school." "Yes, mother.' 'answered Polly. put Sting the letter in her pocket. As she reached the school house .she~ saw the girls playing and she stopped "just for a moment." Then the be,l -rang, so she could not post the letter then. She looked at the address, 1t was directed to a man in The next town. Ohithasn't got very far to go; I will pose it after schlool." After school she forgot all about it:. "Did you poet My letter, Polly? asked mother, when Polly was study ing her lessona that even!n2. Polly's face grew very rcd, and she put her band in her pock-t. "I will post it in the morning," she said faint ly. "It is to." late," answeed mo:hor. "The man to whom the letier is direct ed went away this e;ening. and I haven't get his ad:ress. It really eily matters to yourself. for it was an order for a music-box for your birthday." "Oh, mother!" exclaimed Polly. "Is it really too late.' "I don't know where he is now." said mother. "If you had not put off post ing the letter he would have received it before he started, and sent the music box. It is too late now." Wa.sn't that a hard lesson? It cured Polly, though, and she has nearly lost her old name.-Weekly Banquet. Out of the Mouths of Babes. One cold morning 4-year-old Fannie's mamma began washing her hands in cold water, but she drew back, ex claiming: "That water's too cold, mamma; please cook it some." Little Edgar, aged 3, was very fond of lemon drops, and one day while he was out on the porch a sudden and vio lent hailstorm came up. "Oh! oh:" he exclaimed, with delight, "It's wainen' tandy." A 5-year-old city miss was visiting in the country for the first time, and she happened to notice the cattle enjoying their cud. "Say, grandpa!" she ex claimed, "does you have to buy gum for all them cows to chew?" Little Mamie had heard her Sunday school teacher speak of backsliders, and one rainy Sunday morning, when !ier mother thought it best for her not :o attend Sunday school, she said: "I've just got to gl. ,r teacher says if we ion't come every Sunday our backs will lide." "You may spell 'smallpox,' Tommy," id the teacher to one of the juvenile ass. Tommy made several attempts but failed. "Well," said the teacher. 'what do you think a boy ought to get vho fals on a simple work like 'small )ox?'" "He ought to get vaccina-ted," Lfswered Tommy. Little Johnny was saying his prayers Lt his mother's knee and she was help ng him out with her suggestions. 'Bless and take care of the little lambs >f the flock," said mamma. Johnnie mew that he was included among the ambs and he reasoned that parents ihold not be forgotten. "Bless' and ,s* repea te n-a .. - guess you had better look after the Id sheep, too.". A BOY CAPTAIN. L SixteeniYear-Old Skipper Piloted a Fever Stricken Ship. With death walking the deck by his ide, short-handed, officers dead or dis Lbled with fever, for seven weeks of Iisaster, danger and fear, a boy of six :een years of age performed an act re luiring--rare force of will and charac er in the South Seas recently. His ame Is William Shotton, and he is he son of an English sailor. The Trafalgar, 'his s;hip, a four mast d bark of 1,700 tons, sailed from Ba avia, with a cargo of petroleum for delbourne, Australia. Fever broke out among the crew even Mfore the ship left portr~and Captain Edgar was invalid. The command dle olved upon the next in authority. Mr. toberts. But scarcely had the ship reighed anchor, when he, too, was tricken, together with several other ,ble-bodied members of the crew. The hip carpenter next succumbed to the ever, and on the same day Officer oberts leaped overboard in delirium. he entire charge of the ship there pon devolved upon Shotton. Luckuiy or all concerned, he was born ofZ a ace of sailors and had received some ntruction in Lavigation. For a time the winds were moderate. >rt the fever still pursued its dead ~ourse, and on Dec. T the cook died. the ith victim of the disease. Port R airy. Lustralia, was the first place sighted or mainland, but this was by no means he end of the boy captain's trociles. A. few days later a fearful storm broke ut, and Shotton was of the opinion that othing could be done but run before it. ince to attempt to withstand it wouldi almost cer'tainly mean destruction in he weakened state of the crew. All of he crew who were half fit for dnty were ordered on deck and the neces ary steps were taken to put the shi? n order to carry out the decision. Day nd night the young captain was on the~ bridge, giving his ordiets amid the aw ful tempest with a coolnecss and calm ess which would have moved mnany a gray-haired skipper to envy. Finally he wind moderated and the vessel was able to resume its journey to the Tie toria coast. Answe:rs to Correspondents. Freshman-Certainly it Is improper to kiss a girl of 10 years: but even if it wasn't. what's the use? Housekeeper- -We cannot tell you what is good for m.oths without know n what is the matter with them. Quaker-You lose the bet. A 'quill >en was used in writing the declara ion of indep~endenceC. not William Penn. Piscatory-Tour idea of using a light ning ro:1 when fishing for electric eels s good, but your judgment is somewhat freckled. Kick:apoo-We havre looked up and down several authorities. but can find nothig that relates to moccasins ever having been made on the Last of the Mohicans. Pennibbs-Tes. employ a stenograph er by all means. -You have discovered how badly you write and a stenograph er will enable you to learn how badly yo rhink.-ChicagO News. SCIENTIFIC SCRA 3 The normal temperature f fish iS 77 degrees. Humboldt said that a sin le pound of the finest spider webs w uld -reac around the world. One inch of rain falling upon one square nile is equivalent to about 17-, 5U0,000 gallons of water. Oats grown on humus so- contain a much greater percentage o nitrogen than those on ordinary land One of the constituents the best qualities of varnish is a re in known as kauri, which is only fo d in New Zealand. A dog has in his upper ja six incis ors, two canines and six mol rs on each side; in the lower, six in sors, two canines and seven molars on each side. The beautiful and deli te colors observed on the eggs of bii s are not very fast to light, more specially when they belong to the li ter. class of color. Vaticana is the name giv to one of the latest asteroids - disco ered, No. 416; in honor of Father ecardi of the Vatican observatory, w has com puted its course. Roentgen rays have pro d of great assistance to the surgeons the Brit ish army in dealing wi gunshot wounds among the troops ngaged in the luckless expedition on . he Indian frontier. According to the recent culations of Professor y. C. Kapteyn f Amster dam 900,000 miles a day is e velocity with which the sun and its lanets are speeding through space in northerly direction. The brightest' ar in that part of the heavens towar which we are going is the brilliant V a in the constellation Lyra, a sun question ably much greater than ou s. Every year, by Professor Kapetyn' estimate, -e draw some three hundr d million miles nearer to that star. A writer in science desc bes a curi ous monstrosity which has- ome under his observation. This is a cock with no signs of spurs upon the tarsi, but with -a couple of well-devel ped spurs upon the head, on either de of the comb, giving the creature e appear ance of being horned. T ese mock spurs are not attached to he skull, whatever they may oi ally: have been, but are-loose. Inst ces are on record of. spurs being gra ted on to combs, but, so far, no sim- ar case is known to have occurred in ature. LEioe n i s ea mous "Hope" djimond. a 11 sort of rumors ha*e been fl -ng t lately regarding its sale. This fa mous diamond cannot be isposed of except by authorization o the Court of Chancery, and persons tharge at the cout say no applic4io has been made for its. sale, but t e mere tict of its being talked abon brings up many interesting events o its history. Few have seen this storie gem, which, since 1870, has een in safe keeping in a London ban Its his ory is one of the rowa ces of great ewels, for it was brough by Taver ier from India .ini 1642 and sold a uarter of a centi4@ J ter to Louis IV, who wore it on some occasions of reat state. In 1792 i was stolen long with many other .reasures, to ie hidden till 1830, when it apDeared nysteriously in the Lo on miarket, aEd was bought for $90 000 by Mr. Eenry Thomas Hope,but hese figures re not supposed now represent aything like its real val .During ts wanderings two pieC* s have been ut from it-one of w 'h found its ay into the Duke of runswick's ollection-making its pr sent weight 4 14i carats. Experts distinguish this diamond from sapp res, not by olor only, but by its isometric or ubic system of crystaliz tion, that of the less valuable stone oeing hexa gonal. Lifting ZedhIot Steel b Magnet. Every one knows that: magnet will attract and lift cold eel, but few have hitherto been aw *e that it:will lift redhot metal. Yet this is done hourly at the plate mill f the Illinois Steel company. The agnets there are said to be capable f lifting five tons of redhot steel, an not only so, but each magnet will - k up half a dozen large steel plates d drop them, one at a time, wvith. the regularity of clockwork. So cleverly and quickly do they conduct themse es that they seem endowed with al st human in telligence. The way i esd pieces of magnetized steel pick up the steel plates that require a do ick to hoist under any other cir . mstances and place them in the desir d spot is said to be truly marvellous-~ A keen-w'it ted electrician has solve the problemi of operating the magn so that the plates can be dropped ne at a time. -Industries and Iron. The Appetite of Iants. Mr. H. W. Wiley, f the depart ment of agriculture, avs that the mineral food consume b~y plants is of two kinds. Some' inerals, such as phosphoric acid, P tash, lime and magnesia, are essenti to the nour ishment of the plant-. . "But plants have also a general apjtite for miner al substances, eating reely in addi tion to the qnantitTh essary to their proper nutrition." 3. Wiley adds that plants seem to trive best where their appetite for non 'ssential miner al food is gratified- includes soda in this kind of plant ~ -c JuvenUe De A boy being asked, desbib a kit ten said: "A kitten i emnarkable for rushing like mad at ing whatever: and stopping before -gets there." It must have been the time boy who thus defined scandal: it is Ate-no body ain't done not - g, an some body gesn and tells"-T ma . Mixing Ashes With ure. There-are only two con oas under which ashes may proper be. -mixed with' stable or .fh mtrogen ous manures... Opr..is w n the ashes have already been with -ni trogen and their ca pioperties have thus been nen ' The other is when stable is: to be plowed under the soil. stic ashes will then greatly -haste - fermenta tion, and will thhs idr sts availa bility and effectiveness. ston Cul-. tivator. To Telf Fresi. There is no.known'm od for tell! ing with absolute c if an egg is fresh, but the follow ests are all of them good, a'nd . . nable the farmer-to know whetile ought to market his eggs or-f them at home. A fresh egg. wi nearly al ways sink in water . n held. to a strong light a iresh egg clear and no jarring of the-conte will be felt when the egg is shakei the hand. A hard boiled egg fr '"which the. shell readily peels is trict fresh for the contents of a egg adhere closely to the shell. Advice Abont ure. Don't buy stable -e unless you can get it at-very low It is of uncertain quality, ciallyi that made in town or city bles, which is -usually the only kind the market. Professor Voorhees that 20 tons of city stable;manur $1.50 would cost $30, while.. odld buy an equivalent'aaofn' actgI plant food in chmical ferti' rs. Freight and cartage are. much less, and' the qiiestion is whether i: can afford to pay the extra.prioe " y to get The -vegetable matter-or humus in =tAe o u s ivyi crop. Make all the 'and u n post possible on the fm, but when it comes to buyingit e have the im pression that farmer pay about twice what the stuff is. w "In New yersey commercial-:fe izers are rela tively cheap and :city manures com paratively dear."-Amherican Agricul turist. -;" Reserve Store of Honey. Frames of comb honey should al ways be provided during the - honey season for the purpose of having a re serve store for the bees .in winter and spring, if at any time they st-and in need of it. It is an ~easy matter to thus save out frames of sealed honey, and they can be put to the most profit able use in thus furnishing the ~bees in time of need. It is equally as im portant during early spring, at the time the bees are breeding rapidly, to keep them well stocked up with frames of sealed honey, and all colonies that have a good reserve-of stores will al ways come out in the best condition, and will have a good force of bees ready for the honey harvest when it comes.: During the breeding season, in spring time, bees consume a large amount of stores, and, if at any time they get short, they will suddenly stop breeding and will not resumo business again until a good honey flow sets in. The careful apiarist al ways watches this and promptly sup plies the deficiency.--The Epitomist. Artichokes for Hogs. For the past four or five years one of my neighbors has planted an acre or two of artichokes annually- for his hogs and I have watched his success closely to learn. if possible, whether or not it was a practical venture, and as a consequen-ce I have, come to the conclusion that they can not only be handled with the utmost safety but are an excellent and cheap food for hogs, says C. P. Reynolds of Michi gan. Tne tops are also valuable for cattle and sheep. The stover is cut and shocked very much as one cuts the corn crop. Stock eat the stalks quite as readily as, if not more so than, they do the corn stover. Where the ground is rich an.immense amount -of coarse fodder can be grown on a single acre. Some writers in speaking of the artichoke give the imapression that they are difficult, in fact impossible, to exterminate. Such an idea is en tirely erroneous. If they are sown in a lot where hogs can be turned in on them there will be absolutely no diffi culty along this-line,unless, of course, there are more tubers than the herd can use, in which case all that is nec essary is to turn in more hogs. If you put p lot into artichokes under the impression that once sown you will reap forever, the chances are you will find yourself very much mistaken. -American Agriculturist. -_ Flavor in Eutter-and Cheese. The question offlavor in butter is. one that is contindally :nppermost in the minds of all -manufacturers and dealers. -Upon tis~one quality de pends practically the value of the pro duct in -the market and to the con sumer. There are v:arying -theories and practices suggested by which the -flavor can be mprov ed; can be made more uniforim and ean be better adapted to the w nts of the great ma jority of consumers. We notice in the Country Gentle man an article.on that subject which we in part produce, and call the at tention of our buttermakers to the statements made therein. These statements and the theories advanced are in accordance with our own belief that has been proven often by prac tice. We have made statements here tofore on sundry and divers occasions that butter properly made is better ten days or two weeks old than at any other period in its history, and it ought not to go beyond its best estate for four weeks. This statement has been contradicted and disputed fre quently, but the trend of sentiment is coming in that direction. Hear what. the correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: "Much is said of the flavor of butter and cheese, but gen erally on one side, and that on the wrong side. The individuality of the cow and feeding are the two main points as the cause of fine or bad flavor of this product. Little is said or thought about the curing of this product, although it is in curing that the best flavor is developed in them. The best butter thirty~ years ago was made in the summer time and pickled for winter sale. The manner of business is now changed, doubtless for the reason that the methods of the dairies have changed. But what then. The purchaser puts it away in cole storage and keeps it until winter when fine butter is scarce, then brings it out for sale. There is too much fine butter made in the summ'er, and on this account the price is too low for satisfactory profit. But we should understand that butter can be cured as well as cheese, and gain by rge, during which an individual ripening goes on very slowly, producing the line flavor desired by most consumers. The vapid fresh butter that goes to the market in warm Weather ripens quickly, and by the time it gets to the consumer it is ready for the table. 'But this curing may be slowly efected by cold storage in the dairy,and much th ening goes on lowly nntil it SThe qah,a en -o. cold storage the past fall and winter is good evidence of the fact that but ter is benefited by a curing process, and that it is a better 'product after being held for a -considerable time for general use than when strictly fresh. -Elgin Dairy Report. Farm and Garden Notes. If your flock of hens is too large to give each hen a sample of table scraps each day, make a hash of the same in gredients as compose table scraps and feed the flock. It will help wonder fully to help make the hens pay. Sometimes the most thrifty tree in the orchard fails to fruit, apparently too intent upon the production of wood and foliage to have time for the production of fruit. If this excessive wood production is cheched the tree will usually fruit. Jonathan and Grimes' goldcn are perhaps the,.most similar in behavior of any two apples we could name; the former a brilliant red, the latter quite s handsome in its coat of bright, rich yellow; each is possessed of a rich, spicy flavor and delicious when prop rly matured and ripened. "Feeding back" extracted honey -to replenish unfinished section has been tried with va"ying success. Some beekeepers hti. e succeeded in so do ing with a fair degree of remunera tion. It is well to observe this rule, that whenever a remunerative price an be obtamned for extracted honey it will not pay to feed it back to the bees to finish sections. At a recent institute a northern or hardist denounced the practice of raising hay or oats in the orchard as especially bad,for it removes from the ground material necessary to the pro dction or fruit. He recommended planting plums, peaches and small fruits between the rows as these ould pass away before the apple trees came into bearing. The San .Jose scale, so called, which s fast beconming a terror to the fruit ro svers of the East, was introduced into Calif ornia from Chili. But it did not originate there. Entomologists are divided as to whether it is of Jap nese or South Amei-ican origin. The parasite which has been found so do structive to the scale is following it p closely, and in California has in reased to such an extent that the scale is held well in check. It is in reasing in numbers in the East also. I have made a special study of the rmer's method of raising poultry the past few years, and have also had onsiderable experience myself in car ing for them and wvatching their habits nd susceptibility to various diseases, and have formed the opinion that up wards of 75 per cent. of all sakness which fowls are subject to originates -with vermin. I have also recently read an article in a popular poultry journal on this subject which places the-percentage still higher, to qu-te their ow~n words, "Ninety per cent. of ,lldiseases found in fowls are directly or indirectly traceable to vermin." L. A. Spalding. I;ength. of World's Telegraph.. The total length of the world's tele graph system has now reached 4,908, 21'miles PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Earth's noblest thing, a woman per feeted. -Lowell. There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.--Lamartine. God makes and the world edacates, but 'tis woman that finishes a man.. There are maay persons who think tunday is a sponge with which to wipe ert the sins of the week.-Beecher. A woman dies twice; the (lay that she quits life and the day that she, ceases to please. -Jean Jaclunes Weiss. There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat, and those who 1nake religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week,-Dickens. We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profoand, and who say the thing with out effort which we want and have long been hunting in vain. - Emerson. Lover, daughter, sister, wife,mother, grandmother ; in those six words lie what the human heart contains of the sweetest, the most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest and the most ineffa ble.-Massias. We- are never more - discontented with others than when we are discon tented with ourselves. The conscious ness of wrong doing makes us irrita ble, and our heart in its cunning quar rels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen th- clamor within. --Amiel'sJ Jr . It is true that other people may see as well as a painter,but-not with such eyes. A man is taught to see as well as to dance ; and the beauties of na ture open themselves to our sight by little and little after a long practice in the art of seeing. A judicious, well instructed eye sees a wonderful beauty in the shapes and colors of the com monest things, aad what are compara tivelvinconsiderable.-Jonathan lich ardson. -A Klondike "Clean-Up." In the Century John Sidney Webb describes "The River Trip to the Klondike.". In telling of his visit-to the El Dorado mines, the author says: i"The sluice-boxes, are made- of b'dards, machine or whip-sawed, and roughly nailed up into troughs - or boxes and fitted together like stoye pipes. Cleats are nailed into the last boxes, called 'rises,' or, in some. in stances,shallow auger-holes are boi'ed into the bottom boards. - The boxes are then set up in ' line on a gentle slope, and the pay-dirt is shoveled in atithe: top, and a stream of water, con useless .gravel washes of, the gold being caught up on the cleats or in the holes scattered about. . In the last boxes quicksilver is put -in to catch the very fine gold. When the gold is taken from the boxes it is called a 'clean-up.' "On the day Iwas there (August1') at No. 30 El Dorado $20,000 was 'cleaned up' in 24 hours,with only one man shoveling in the dirt. Such won derful results may mean, however, months of expensive work; but 'when: it comes it comes quick,' as the saying is among the miners.". K.eacued Through a Bank Note. This siXy is .4ouched for by an English paper called The Gentleman: "Some years ago the cashier of a Liv erpool merchant received a small Bank of England note, which he held up to the light to make sure it was genuine. In doing so he noticed sonmeindistinct brownish marks, as if words had been traced on the front of the nots and on the margin. Out of curiosity he tried to decipher them. In a weak solution of acid the words came out much more legibly, and he was able to read the following sentence: " 'If. this note should fall in the hands of John Dean, of Longhillmar, he will learn thereby that his brother is languishing a priscner in Algiers.' "Mr. Dean,. when the note was shown to him, lost no time in asking the government for assistance and finally secured the freedom of his brother on payment of a ransom to the Dey. -The unfortunate man had been a prisoner for 11 years and had traced, with a piece of wood for pen and his own blood for ink, the message on the banknote, in the hope of its being seen, sooner or later." X-Rays as a Remnedy. Dr, August Schmidt of St. Louis claims to have discovered a practical use for the X-rays. He says that he has had satisfactory results with the rays in the cure of skin diseases and also in the removal of hair from the face. Ever since the discovery of the X-rays, two years ago, Dr. Schmidt has been experimenting with it and has had occasion to use it fre'uently in his practice. After having taken a photograph with the,X-ray,he noticed that a y art of the outer skin would peel off his hands, and that numerous small cracks would appear in his fin ger nails. For a long time these facts puzzled him. Then the idea struck him that the intensity of the light killed the epidermis,-and that, if the hand were exposed to the light long enough, the" skin, and perhaps the flesh would - 'be destroyed entirely. The question tlhen arose: If the X-ray will- destroy healthy skin, why will it not destroy that which is not healthy? Thus his experiments were begun. But the medical world is somewhat sketical so far about Dr. Schmidt's discovery. Crciel. "Yes," said Miss Passeigh. "I enjoy the society of Mr. Airylad. He keeps meinterested. He is a'lways saying something that one never hears from anybody else." "Rea;y!" rejoined Miss Cayenne. "Has he been proposing to you, too?" -Washington Star. HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVE!.i whea s ouring rise. Cake tins and strainers that" greasy should be first asfed in h soda water ad then scoured soapy faniel-dippedintisli When the surface -is; perfectly cle :_: rinse in hot water and dry- withsaclaft cloth. Afterward.polish ta dry whiting - and fm i wh leather. Dish covers w aever tak a good polisin fesss iedith i ,' soda waterand soap frst . For the corners and carved part use a old .plate brush. T T-o Prepa?e sUet -To render"suet for cookig upUpOs es, cut it into small pieces rhile fres==_ and cover with coldwater; le. st,n.t' 24 hours,, changing thegwater bride during the time; this remoyest'rF tallowy taste. Drair well "andputtsh pieces i"to -iu iron Tietfaewith a smooth bottom surface and add half . teacupful of milk- to each4ounl suet. Let- cook very. slowlya t and moderately throughout u til 't fat is clear and light tnrowRUand ' sound of cooking has ceased LOOSo-' the suet occasionally ioa etW - of the kettle, -but avoid mtirring. stand until partly cold, thet-,, into eups:to. becom-e cold. This'f y as sweet and nice s butted be used- in: the piace : cooking purposes. The 'seraps" can be presse4 t fo.frying. It is nc, of courss= ::; as nice as the first. When piecrust of suet rbl-theid i large, old-fashioned-bottle warm water. .For' -.-minoe. p or.pumpkin,piesj which "fror the table, suet is a ening. If 'is' very nice -or doughnut' if they are heat being sdrved.-Sarah E. ' New England Homestead. The following measures 4'f -,ay be found useful _to .-a., kitchen for easy refeere writer in Good HousekPebp Four even teaspeons on'e even tablespoonfuL- ? Three veii feaspoonfils - teiial equal one even tabl& x 'n Sixteen tablespoziul 4 - one cupful. Welve tablespooiful ? m , equal one cupful.-, Two -l I Four capfnIs qn on Fonr eoupfuls O r O nieiMufad d TwdInd one- cu sugar equal one pound. One pint milkor ater eqm ti pound. r - '. One dozen eggs shouldweigh- I'14 pounds. e - The following table of proe is alsovaluable: -: One teaspoonful sdda to neupf molasses. . : L'. One teaspoonful soda do .:oe pin : sour milk. Three teaspoonfuls' baking o to one quart flour. One-half cupful yeast or one-quar. 4 ter cake compressed yeas*'to one pint ~ liquid. - .One teaspoonful extract to pa eio plain cake. One teaspoonful salt to two gqads f lour. IOne teaspoonful. salt tO"cohquart soup. - .. IOne scant1cupful of liquid.tgQthree fulcupfuls of flour for muffins. One scant cupful -of liquid 'to, to at full cupfuls of flour for batters. Four peppercorns,: four:e loves' o a teaspoonful mixed herbs ~foro- eaab quart of water for soup stock.'e Recipee. Chicken Gelatin-Slice cold roast chicken and lay in a moId' with i.lten, - nate layers of cold boiled ton;gue and occasional slides of hard-boiled egg, and season with celery salt. Dissolve half an ounce of gelatin in a- pint of clear brown gravy and pour it over - the.meat. - It must stand for. welve w hours to harden before cutting.. It is a most appetizing dish, and a very nice way of preparing .cold meat foi tea. ILight Soup-Put a can of -peas (re. serving half a cupful), a small"onion, one bay leaf, a sprig of parsley and teaspoonful of blaok pepper'in a-small stewpan and simmer for half 'an hour. Mash and add three cupfuls of good stock and let boil up. Strain,- add. one tea.ipoonful of -cornst-arch. dis solved in a little cold water, one large teaspoonful of butter, and ,boil for ten miutes. Add -'one cupful of rich milk, hal a caipfail of peas, salt to taste and oerve. Prune Pudding--Beat upjthe yolks of six eggs and the whites of three; thin with a few spoonfuls of milk and 1 stir in 'four spoonfuls'of flour.' Stone a pound of mashed prunes,and mix them in with the othe' ingredients; also add a very small pinch of salt and ,: two spoonfuls of grated .giniger. Moisten the mixture with the. greater part of a quart of mnilk and.tie the puding in a buttered cloth' and bol Ifor two, houis..- Serve with a' sweet butter sauce. Fricassee of Beans-Soaltovermight one cup of large dried' lims 5jua;. drai,put on thefi e ion,*quitaot salted (one tablespoonful) watle-an& - simmer for two-hours,,or uiiUi.thoz .' oughiy done; butmbrnke4.WEeon - they are cooked,ianothespaeau puttwo tailespoonfulb>f 1buta j~. tablesoonful' ofchop~pearlyad thejuice' of a letanb hen-h but< has quite melted thro in.e beans, and'ightytosfra~iw gents. Serve ina b 4f boled rice, ve ter l -