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~ rr -1" AL! IN letter,, - TRI- WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO S.C., JUNE 14,,1898- ESTABL1SHED1844 Don't Buy Show Birds. Do not bay and pay high prices for show birds, par tieularly if they have been exhibited. The treatment they v^e had ha-, not been favorable to egg production, and has been unfavor aole for" producing fertile eggs. They liave bie,-n forced for size and form, and doesed to induce glossy plumage, until the feathters are worth more than the rest of thea bird, excepting for a am;iily diiyner. -Hom to Cnltivate Artichokell. Answering the inquirer who asks how to pant and caltivate artichokes, :Ea_n!, Field and Fireside gives an ex tract froni a letter from a Missouri reader. He saTs: "I reant the in drills eighteen~to twent~y inches apart one wah7 and two feet and six inches the otheri, and eultivate the same as potatoe.a ~hen the hogs root them ut tfh roui the fall and winter,. the roud *hourie be plowed and har rowed in the soring and left alone, as there ili>enough remain in the ound1 or see:i. Should they be too thiek". tak e a one-horse plow and plow n tis, leaving rows from twelve tnsixteen inches wide.'' .Pruning. In-ptunin t'ees the branches re - move shoudbec sawed"off close to the :nain trunk or limb on which they. grew. If a long stub is left the ond will not heal over, but remain roe subject to the attack of disease germs. which, when they have once gned. entrance, a ree sooner or ?ater_to produce "black heart," -which may e.tendS through the whole tree. .- cutting back.small branches or leading-in"-he cut-should be made -ust-above a good strong bud so that no stub is -leftodie back and invite ese disease. e sarge nds should be ainted over-to p-o eet "checking" iac:d to keep out g:7m2; while the healing pro ness is goiny o.). When smaaller rai aa been ehoued or put not ot i4 f o.en-es germs from enter ing the wounds, but also cheeks their growth on other parts of the tr-se. John W. Lld Dehorning Cattle. The saw \'as first used in dehorn ~ng aad I ah~vys had an aversion ::o its use, but when the ,knife, came I at -once had mv herd dehorned. Then I e3nmmenced the use of c hem icals on my calves to prevent horn -growth, and for years have had no horns except in eattle we have bough! oi wher-e we ma-de a partial failure in stopping their growth. . Wit neither knife nor the use of chem eals c.in there be any charge of cruelty or camusing suf'ering any more than clipping a lamb or pig's tail, which everyody believes is right. I hav'e never had any special trouble wit~h.horned camttle, but the dehorned 26s ar so much' more peaceable that, especill in.a new country where ac commodC atins for stock are so lim iteL 1nd so much more crowding necessary, that I very much prefer the hornless ones, they housing together under- the shed o - drinking at the tr~oughL as closey as hogs. T oul 4trongly advise that no horas ha 0 ow1 to gen'.--J. M1. In,'eetion,- Diz-aes .Among Poultry. Drs.Smith and Moore of the bureau ofia industry, Washington, D. C. h-; madet important investiga tions on? abov~e subject. They find tit"lack head" in turkeys, diph thla.cle: anud roup in fowls are contaio.m They also .belisve that so:ae roup -i-nfluenza and some ti:c -hlaredifferent stages of the one diisease--diphtheria. How erthis my be, it is stated that di-htheric is inectious, and it may be trai mied tb children. Therefore, the great i.npotanice of separating all 'sic.; fowls aind confining them to some ontblg keeping the children away Deeerig sick fowls is very enernilebusness, and there is seldom anyv reason why the fowls shid be si priovidedt you have doe )aa Xar.Yur pa~rt is to keep thes ca and f es imm(Ii lice. Gi-:e lea wate d-ly F il 'up all Sow- 'o where water is apt to col is iad m away all rub,bish'--urn n--; i L, Ih po.er thing. Furnish geriy >gitfor the fhwls, and donaa ie paNrysa fat that. the can e a- o l"rg.:d that ther 3. - *o-, cight andic dlry and1( pro - wiedatig pla-:a. MaLke c:-ie by s.eratc-hin g ini I - i - f i1 s last. rpoint and h :e: will go a long way othe fowls ini good uo kind of stock on ate u'ore healthy than .have proper care. 4 Mke -r to crowd 100 ~iliohuse. This not wvea:mmher of eggs, but e~asea well. The by thirty feet is not a bit too large for 100 fowls. The proper way is to 6i. vide the fowls up into smaller flocks of say twelve to twenty fowls each,ana separate them during cold weather at least.-Agricultural Epitomist. Pegging Down Plants. An admirable way. according to Tick's Magazine, to grow most any of the hybrid perpetual roses is by peg ging them down in the garden. Plants grown ir this way furnish many more flowers than when raised in the regu lar way. The young shoots of each season's growth are pegged 'down in the fall b.y tht ise of small sticks plac'ed often enough to keep the branches fastened solid. In laying the branches down, leave none nearer than eight or ten inches; after a bush has been pegged down for several years the spa^e will become crowded, and then the old wood can be cut away to give room for the new branch es. The new shoots should never be pegged down when in a growing condition, but when the wood has ripened off and become dormant in the fall is the proper time to do the work. Should it happen, as it sometimes does, that some of the old wood must be left, because too few new shoots hv,- grown to take its place, the old wood should be pushed back to two eyes or buds on each branch; the shoots will then start out in the spring,making new wood for blossom ing. The reason for this pegging down process is this: The rose bush has a latent bud at every joint of the plant, which is only waiting for a good chance to grow and produce blossoms; planted in the ordinary way only those at the top of the bush have much of a chance to develop, but when laid down every one of the latent buds will stand an equal chance with every other in the distribution of the sap, moisture and sunshine and few of them will fail to grow and bloom. A bed of roses grown in this way presents a grand appearance, as the surface of the soil is nearly hidden by the foliage, above which the lovely roses are growing thickly. These bushes need enriching often, as they are being forced so hard, and a good dressing of well rotted stable manure is almost a necesity every fall. Some of the shoots th_Rt have become covered with wi z e aecilly if tha-h becomes ara. layering. Nature, in-her effort to heal the place, will callous it over and then roots are quite likely to form. Weak Colonies. Many colonies will be reduced down very weak fromi coming through the winter, It is very desirable to save every colony that is in a healthy condition and that hive good queens. We can very materially help out such colonies by giving them some atten tion at the right time and in the right manner. A weak colony will always do better in a small space, and this can be arranged by fitting a board down in the hive, one on each side of just the number of combs the bees can occupy, thus contracting the space, with these division boards. Weak colonies may thus be tucked up in small quarters, and surrounded thoroughly with warmi protection so as to confine as much heat as po,ssib.ie, and in this shape, with good food at their disposal. it is surprising to see how rapidly they will build up and need more territory to accommodate their increase of business. Strong colonies may be drawn up to strengtheu weak ones, and this is very frequently done at almnost all seasons of the year. It is done by taking a frame of brood bees, or brood without bees, from .a strong colony and giving it to-a weak one. It has been found, however, that to do this in early spring proves more of a detriment generally than to allow the strong ones to keep what they have. In building up in spring a strong colony will rear more brood alone than both colonies if the brood is divided, the one being a weak colony. It is only by good management that we can get weak colonies built up stron.g by the time the honey season is on. for if they are not strong at this time. it will be at the expense of the honey crop that they will reach their fullest capacity. A good, fertile queen is capable of producing enough .bees in a very short period to make 'su immense colony of bees, but she iK altogether governed in this respect by the number of bees in t.he hive, and she lays only the number of eggs thant the bees are capable of tak ig care of. Sihe occu pies just the amount of brood combs that the bees cover well, and in this she does not venture too close to the outsidie line, and as the number of bees inease and mnore,space on the cmbhs is occu;piel, she extends her territory in laying egs *A queen 1.ee is capable of laying 3000~ eggs in a single day uInder the most favorable cicmtacs so that f :35,000 b)ees arc a god colony she could pro'duce it in twelve or fifteen (ays, if it were not the case that she is governed by ben thus limited. A. H. 1)uff. A canal thirty yards wide and five yards deep would not carry off one ifteenth of all the water that runs through the water-pipes and sewers of Belrlin, or one-ninetieth of the of T.~oi, THE WOMEN OF SPAIN. Interesting Statistics Concerning Their Soctal and Intellectual Condition. A great deal has 1eeA *rifter about apaiish tien, bitt I think one may find a true- key to Spanish character by taking a glimpse of the misery of te Spanish Womei. I doubt if the Spanish woman is any better off than the Turkish woman, and while Ameri can women are not clamoring for a conflict, the fact remains that the taking of Spain from the European geography might prove a great step in advance for the women of that land. It appears from an official docuntent which came my way the other day that but 2,636,615 Spanish women can read or write. This fraction is al most as big as the male army that kno*s its own language. It is a pitiful showing, but it is only the be ginning of the table of female wretch edness. ,.The municipalities list 51, 946 professional beggars who wear petticoats. Then there are 828,531 women who earn their living by work ing in the farm fields. There are 329,596 women rated as day servants who get but little more than bord and shelter for their work, and in all the dying dynasty there are but 719,000 girls in the schools of any kind,public or private. There are twice as many female mendicants as male. The cen sus shows that 6,764,406 women have neither professions nor trades.and are altogether dependent upon charity. the possibilit -6f getting married, or hard labor starvation wages. The s e lamentable condition of the Spanish woman is shown by a glance at another side. of her life. The kingdom has but seventy-four women classed as literary writers. There are but seventy-eight women physicians in the mother country and all the provinces. The women school teachers number only 14,400, as com pared with 24,612 men, but this does not include the nuns, who are classed by themselves, and number 28.540. Spanish women who are fortunate live in the most magnificent homes and seem never to bother their heads about the poorer sisters at their doors. The favorite resort for the grande senoras is San Sebastian,and the lives the careless Spaiiish women of fashion lead there during the summer are said to be a scandal over all Europe. There is scarcely a pretence at propriety or even ordinary conventionality. As in France, a majority of the young girls of the best families . are educated in the convents. Their gre+..est ac complishment is embroidery,and they sit and sit and sit at their knitting until some man from an ancient and bankrupt house or a bull-raising plan tation comes along and marries them: Club life is. unknown. Marriages are celebrated very early in life, and but few people who get weary of these early alliances erer go to the trouble and for rl' a;x6' ppy coup es simply divide up the household. things and live the balance of. their lives the best way they can. Spanish women, as I have found, have very little outdoor amusement. The bicycle is just beginning to be admitted, but under protest. The young women love their queen next to pretty frocks and glittering fans and bright ribbons. They flock to the cruel shows in the bull rings and laugh and cheer at the horrible spec tacles. They show no more pity than an American girl bestows upon the dashing hardships which the average tennis player or the golfer undergoes when he performs in a broiling sun to amuse her. -Chicago Times-Herald. - JACK PAST AND PRESENT. The MIan-of-War of Today and Years Ago. The American man-o'-war's man of today is as different in personal char acter from his predecessor of afew de cades ago as is the steel-clad, turreted, mastless battle ship of 1898 from the graceful. wooden frigate of past gen erations. The new weapons, motive power and other equipment of latter day war vessels necessitate different an~d often higher qualities in the men that handle them. To this is due the fact that the modern man-o'-war's man is more of a mechanic and a soldier than a sailor pure and simple. But this is not all. The general character of Uncle Sam's blue-jacket has undergone a change since the de velopment of the new navy, as radi cal as his professional training. Such familiar phrases as "Like a drunken sailor" and "Spending money like a sailor' no longer apply, for Jack is today steadier, more self-respecting and better behaved than the average man in his own walk of life on shore. Where in former days but few would return on board ship on time, "clean and sober,"~ from a day's liberty, it is nuw the exception- for liberty to be broken. A party of liberty men on shore f rm an American cruiser is an oderly, respectable body of men. Several causes have contributed to this change for the better. One is the. app.renlticesystemf, which has been in su cesdal operation now for about tw ent-ive years, a period long engugh to. give predominance to the American bon seam en graduate-1 from the ap pre'n:iee trinuing ships. This sy-stem a.i g:eni to teservice a large num he r neciable young Americans, uh . a. 1islatd ai like number of i g i" I reign'ers, waifs of for i ,r': 'u!y inter'est in our navy w, ic 1;y and the food, both de eil '-iee thain they could get im th i or merchants marines of Marpotent cause of the good qu itf the American man-o'war's -m bf th resent day is more intell i ui tetent. In the days of the * '1-invy the men were allowed to dran' bu t at staall fraction of their pay wh m m, the remainder flcoumulft paid in full at the" time of discharge. The men, unaccustomed to handling much money at a time, did not know the valte of what they had received, so they squandered their money. Quite likely they became th8 prey of sharp ers. In either .event they were com pelled to ie-enlist sdon, and in dismal spirits. When "liberty" was given in the old days it was the custom to let a whole 'watch"-half the ship's dom pany-go ashore -at once, and then only at long .intervals. Knowing that it would be a ?ong time before they would get on landagain, the men taus freed would endea:or to concentrats as much revelry as possible in the short period given, and were usually regardless of conseaueuces. All that has been changed; The crew of a man-of-war is now divided into three' condact grades, according to behavior. Thoes in the third or lowest grade are permitted ashore at long intervals, in the discretion of the commanding~of icer ; those of the sec ond may have liber.ty once a month, and those of the first once a week, while there is what is known as the "special first class," the men ii which are given elmdet as much shore leave as the officers. TELEPHONES FOR TWO LANGUAGES. Story Told at the Expens.of a Millionaire Breweno.ikR'aukee. J. G. Nolen, 'who is an old-timer in the electrical construction business, tells a story on "Val" Blatz, the millionaire brewer of Milwaukee. "Our company had had some corre slondence. with Mr. Blatz regarding the putting in of a tlephone plant in his big brewery establishment and I was sent up to try to'close a deal. "I took a couple' of our 'phones with me in ordei to make a practical demonstration should one be required, asd I went with the intention of mak ing a sale "I got to talking 'with Mr. Blatz and showed him the advantage of put ting in our intercommunicative system throughout his establishment. He listened attentively and finally said: "'Yes, that is el so: very true. But,' and he spoke withtihe conviction of one who was putting a poser, 'but my men dow.yi h-althouse and the warehouses aid cld stoiage are ali Dutchmen. - "'I, myself, though a (erman and a graduate of Lespsi, and Heidelberg, car' speak English, but what would your.teleph.one be to my Dutch work men, -:ho cannot -talk English at all?' ." Wei;-.I saw ho. the land lay: Old Val could _-ot get it tlzrough his head that the telephone wc"ld 'transmit anything but the languaga' America. I was bound t . make the deal, as I said-befor so e arkedto Mrz Blatz; ---'+- -1 "'I canput on s e Ger ai rP on so desirt. Ihave some with me.', "I . connected. up the' 'phnes, made a show of changing the re ceivers, and in half an hour Mr. Blatz was talking to one of his Dutchmen down in the malthouse. He was de lighted.. . " 'You may put them in,' he said 'anid I shall want one German one in the malthouse, one German one in each warehouse, English ones in my offiee and the business office and a German one-in the cold storage house.' "We closed the dcal and Mr. Blatz was glad to pay $2 extra for each Ger man enunciator we put in. When the 'phones were shipped from the factory I had them labelled German and Eng lish, respectively, and the big brewer was perfectly satisfied. "It was five years before I saw Blatz again," concluded Mr. Nolen. "He recognized me at once, and said with a hearty German laugh: 'You are the accommuodatin ggentleman who put in the German and English tele phones for me. Well, you are a good one.' " A Rapidly Growing Plant. A plant that grows at the r'ate of nine inches every 24 hours without earth or water is a curiosity in the possession of Captain S. R. Vaughn at No. 524 Reed street. Captain Vaughn calls his plant a "snake lilyr." It came to him through a friend .in Cochin China, and when it first arrived at a bulb it looked like a huge Indian turnip. It lay during the greater part of the winter in a dar'k closet, but re cently it began to show signs~ of awak ening from its long sleep, Mrs. Vaughn knew the symptoms, for the bulb has been in the family's possession for several years now, and she had watched its successive bloomings and witherings during that time. Mrs. Vaughn took it out of its hiding place and set in an Iordinary peach basket with nothing at all abou.t it except some newspapers. A mottled-green.stalk pushed its way out of the top of the bulb and grew at the amazing rate aban mentioned, until now it has reached'the height of Ieight feet one inch and is just begin ning to wilt. Of this total height the pistil or tongue issuing from the cup Sof the lily represents four feet one inch. Cup and pistil are both of a .beautiful dark maroon color. The flower and stalk will gradually wither away and drop off the balb. The lat ter will then be planted in the earth Iand in July and August will show a great umbr'ella-like spread of foliage. In September this,too,.will wither,and the bulb will go to sleep for the win ter.-Philadelphia Record. -A Better Expression. "I suppose," said Mrs. Snaggs, "that when soldiers are said to be sleeping on their arms the idea is that th.ey are ready for instant service ?" "Your idea is correct," replied Mr. Snaggs. "How did you guess it ?" "But woul it not be more expres Isive"-ii's. Snaggs went on, ignoring thei sarcasm, "to say that they slept on their nap-secks ?"-PtbrgCrn cl>Tlgah di J The Song of the Tub. Scrub! scrub! scrub! . ark to the Song of the Tub! Saturday night is the time for ie! Then is:the time th:it you chuckle with glee. Fill up the tub with the water so hot! Never be sparigg. but put in a lot. Now for the soap and the flannel as well. Oh, how delightful!- Its joys who can tell? Scrub! scrub! scrub! Hark to the Song of the Tub! Scrub!'scrub: scrub! Hark to the song of the Tub! How you look forwa-d to Saturday night. Down by the fire so cosy and bright; First you must dip in that jolly old tub. Then you must dry yourself-rub' rub! rub! Scrub! scrub! scrubi Hark to the Song of the Tub! The Big Wall. A story of the Chinese wall was rek.d to a class in composition. After the reading they were expected to re p'oduce the story in original style, and they did so. Here is a sample: "Once they was a man, and he was the greatest man of any one there, or in the United States. And he had to build a wall, so he built it. He had a lot of Shanghais, and he built the wall around the Shanghais. These were all China people. Some of the other people wsho were not China people tried to climb the wall, but they didn't, cause they were afraid of the Shanghais." Trifles Make Perfection. When Michael Angelo, the great sculptor, was employed on one of his nol2lest works of art, a friend called to see him, and during his visit ex pressed great surprise at finding his statue apparently no further advanced than when he had seen it a few weeks before. . "Stay, my friend," said the artist, "I can assure you that I have been hard-at work on it since I saw you last. I have deepened the furrow on the brow, and slightly depres3ed the eyelid,while I have added another line to the mouth." "Yes," said his friend; "I see all that, but these things a:a only trifles." "That is trud,":.replied the sculptor, "stilt,it -a.these trifles which make perfection, 7r,nd doyoin call pe:-fectj0ei a"triae?" To iake a _i,: :on Picture. Hav_ ver made , conibination .-I is a spiei4d. way to put in long, disagreeable evenis.'A Cluster of Babies," makes a goo.' ject for the girls, and "FootbaT Favo--ites" will do for the boys. The pictures can be clipped from.the- news papers and the magazines. After the girls have a large collection of baby faces the picture must be neatly trimmed and pasted on e big sheet of paper so that the effect will be that of a hundred or more babies looking out of a window frame. Some are crying, some are smiling and some look pert and saucy. If you are fond of birds, make a combination picture of them. or you can have a flower garden if you wish. Gathering pictures of public men is a good plan, too, for it famnil iarizes one with celebrated faces. The Emotion or Grief in a Dog. Dutch was a brown retriever of ad vanced years. Curly was said to be a Scotch terrier, but his appearance suggested some uncertainty in his descent. Dutch' was chained to her kennel, and Curly, who enjoyed his hiberty, evinced his friendship by fre -quently taking bones and other canine delicacies '.o his less fortuna%' fried. One morning Curly presented himself at the house evincing unmistakable signs of grief by his demeanor and his whines. A visit to the kennel, where poor Dutch was found lying dead, showed the occasion of Curly's un happiness. We buried Dutch de corously under a vine in the garden, and supposed that Curly would forget the incident, but we were touched to see him in the capacity of faithful mourner often revisit the spot where his old, friend was laid. taking by way of offering choice bones, which he carefully buried by the grave. This practice Carly maintained fo.r two years, when we left the house. Two Way a -A Fable, Two little weeds grew on a bank by the roadside. All summer they had drunk dew and sunshine, and had been happy. but now autumn was come, with gray skies, and winds that nipped and pinched them. "We shall die soon," s.aid one little weed. "'I should like to do some thing pleasant before I die, .iust to show what a happy time I have had. I think I will turn red, and then people will see how I feel. "TYou will be a gi eat fool to waste yote strength in any suc.h nonsense!" said the other little weed. "I shall live as long as I can, and hug tile brown bank here." So the first little weed turned bright acarlet, and was so beautiful that every one who passed that way turned to look at it. By and by 4here came along a most lovely maiaen with her lover; and, when the lover saw the scarlet leavts, he picked them, and et them in his maiden's hair, aad they lent her a new grace. This made he little weed so happy that he died for p'ure joy. The eccond little wed lived on,and t-ned slewly bro'wn., like the ban, "He wa: a foo' he-said. spe tking of his co:maniou. "He put a!l his sirength into turning red. and so he died. "I ;as .prun:1 of him," sa:d the brown bank. ''He di:l what he could. and people observed him." "Yes; but I a:: alive and stay with you.' sai:1 the weed. - "Much I care!" said the brown bank.-Laura E. Eichards, in the Church. bo Your B:s-. A gentleman once said td a physi. cian, "I should think, doctor, that at night you would feel so worried over the work of the day, that you would not be able to sleep. "My head hardly touches the pil low before I fall asleep," repliud the physician. "I made up my mind," he continued, "at the commencement of my professional career to do my best under all circumstances; and so doing, I am not troubled with any misgivings." A good rule for us all to follow. Too many are disposed to say: "No matter how I do this work now; next time I'll dp it better." The practice is as bad as. the reasoning: "No matter how I learn this lesson in the primary class, when I get into a higher department then I'll study." As well might the mother in knitting stockings say: "No matter how the top is done, even if I drop a stitch now and then, I'll do better when I get further along." What _kind of a stocking would that be? As well might the builder say: "I don't care how I make the foundation of this house; anything will do here; wait till I get to the top, then I'll do good work." Said Sir Joshua Reynolds once to Dr. Samuel Johnson: "Pray tell me, sir, by what means have you attained such extraordinary accuwacy and flow of language in the expression of your ideas?" "I laid it as a fixed rule," replied the doctor, "to do my best on every occasion, and in every company to impart wh'at I know. in the most forcible language I can put it." Pigeon's Devotion. In the animal kingdom there are many strong examples of, mother love, and the birds are particularly noted for displaying it. A remarkable in; stance of this maternal .. instinct was recently noticed uear Elwood, Ind. A mother.. pigeon whose young one had mysteriously disappeed searched ~unceasingly for weeks for the little one, and ohe day was seen flying violently against the side of a frame ,uilding in the city. Eaatimeshevanin eontact with the house'she chipped o a'small i ofwoodwithher br wo days the old birik practice * fn4 : at . time falling ex hausted from the repeated shocks. and fatigae. In the afternoon .of the second day she had pecked a hole in the wall, the wood of which was old and soft from the weather. This hole was large' enough to admit a man's hand, and through this *the mother bird went and came. Every time she entered she carried grain or seeds or grass. Some curious people investigated the hole while she wvas absent, and there they found the little lost pigeon, jusb below the hole, wedged in between the weather boards. For two days more the bird continued to bring the little one food, and would stay fluttering near the hole, chirrup ing and trying to cheer the little prisoner up. Many times it entered and seemed to be trying to extricate its young one, but it could pot sue cee d in doing- so. try as it would. The prisoner had flown into the building, which was empty, and managed to get between the weather boarding, near the top of the inside.- Falling a con sideraboe distance, it lodged in the narrow space, which did not permit it to use its wings in rising again. Its plaints had reached the mother. and she, not being able to reach it from the inside, had cut through from the out. .An admiring man thrust his hand through the hole and brought out the fluttering young thing, much to the, great delight of the anxious mamma bird.-Indianapolis Sentinel. The Language of Colors. There is a language of color as well as of flowers. White expresses power, wisdom, purity, cand'or. chastity. Red is symbolic of power, passion and riches. Kings and rulers on earth have always worn red mantles, and so have the executioners of old, so that this color also stands for cruelty and hardness. Blue denotes fidelity, s weetness, tenderness, loyalty,a spot less reputation. Aeriel divinities are invariably clad in bluer The ancients -allowed yellow to stand for glory and fortune. Now it is called the color of inidelity and shame. Green is emi blemnatic of hope and joy. It is the embles of yonth, because spring ver dure is green. JTealousv does not have any~ showving in discuss'ing tbis color. Black stands for sahness, for de ception. fo~r dlisappointed hoges. In fernal deities ar plainted black. Le. gnd says that Apollo turn.ed the raven b,lack because it betrayed him. Hence tire raven is called the bird of misfortune. Pink denoctes health, love, youth, pleasure. Violet is the dnt allowed faith. Orange means divine inspiration andi poetry. The mues are represented as draped in orange colored draperies. Orange was once the color of Hymen. Brides in olden times wore orange colored veils cal led flammeum, and they could not pronounce their vows unclescoy ered with flamnmeumn. Even now brides wear om.:e ilosom on theIr wdding dav, iladalaiaf Ties HELPS FOR !OUSEWiVES, ho Kew Lamp shadeS. Among the now lamp- shades; the - empire effects are made of white stiff drawing paper with. artistic desNis painted on in black or white water colors, depicting;beauties or scene$ of the empire. Louis XV shades hare scalloped f!ounces,- and are turned back near the top. the upper part near t g the glass being caught 'with bunclies of ribbon. Sash Curtains. - Sash curtains of. surah insolid color are' gaining ground, es' cially for cold weather .hangings. They are placed next the window, are dap to have two broad hems, -somretimea hemstitched, sometimes not : Pink seems to be the- favorite shade, 'al though a pair. of enipire green ones seen lately were very handsome, and - s, ' oredurable than the pink. A Cure for Mildew. The laundress is, of "courze, '. blame for scorch or mildew. It ia said that .when linens are badly scorched the spot can be removed if ireated in the following manner: Ex 'ract the juice from two peeled. onions, and put it into an- agate or 'g' i ves.eL Add to it half an ounce of white castile soap, cut into small' - pieces, and two ounces of.- iuller f earth Mix them together, and then stir in one cup of vinegar. Stand:the vessel over the.fire, and: let its cof'I tents thoroughly boil. When the mix ture habecome cool, spread it over, . - SA the scorched linen and let it dry upon - the cloth. When well dried wash b14t the linen. - Washing Bedding.' It saves a great deal 'of trouble fo wash up the heavy bedding by degs instead of doing it all one daY-n..%he season set aside for it.. There are at ways some counterpanes and. .ome blankets that are ready to be wa!bd and put away for the season as earl*s March. At this season the washing are usually light, and one or two of, these pieces can be washe& 'on Moi day every week without interfering with the other washing. A windy dy is not a good day to dry blankets biW, blankets can be dried in a well venti-= lated kitchen, and dried better.an more quickly than any other way. It * ' ahlinks them to expose them t- the suns of summer or.the frosts wn - ter. The only objection tod r r blankets in the house is the "-tnt: unpleasant odor that may,be airc8d This is obviated by ventilating he room thoroughly while they 7 6 ing. Tbd night, when.there %s no one in the room, is the proper time t y. oms, the.kitchen.as.a drying-room;, ZtMW f de th odiilr: entilated ai s a : be mae as fresh andpure as b r otdobrs.-New York Tribune. ei chB9an Sa a nto long strips and -boil" till ain thoroughly,and allow thesn t~ hb quite cold before'putting into the - bol. Add #o these two tablespoon ful'.of chopped par0ley or chienvilan& dressat the last moment withnnzegar sat, pepper and plienty of -oiL - Bread Cake - Separate from the ' dough,when mag commomi white, bead,s much as is sufEicient fot' a. quarter loaf. Knead well intothis two ounces of moist sugar, the same. quantity of butter and half a poui of urants; warm the butter in t cupful of good milk.^'When thorou~ ly kneaded, make the dough jnt9 iMe formQof a'cake and bake in atinl. Swiss Roll-Sift"together' a full tea cupful of flour and 'a scanVtJhW te spoonful of baking powder,'- add a pinch of salt and as much sugar as you have flour. Beat two whole eggs till light, make a nice batter,.not too thick, with the flour, etc., pour into a well-reased baking. tin, not too-thick, and bake from sir to ten minite's in a sarp oven. Turn out the .sheet of paste, spread thickly with any pre ferrd- jam, roll up and dust it with sugar. . Maple Sugar Cake-Mak~e a plain cake for three layers. -When cold, put between~ them and on the last. cake a 'maple sugar fro.ating: Take two' cups of maple sugai, one cup of water, (or two and one&half cups maple syrup, no water); aboil un til the syrup will fall from the spoon in threads. Beat the whites of three eggs to a s%jff froth, and pour the hot syrup over, 'beating hard with a~spoon after the egg beater has made -it' smooth. It is very nice indeed. Macaroni with Chopped Ham-Boil the macaroni in salted water till ten-* der, blanch-it and put it in a 'shallow baking dish. Sprinkle with a cup of finely-minced ham seasoned with mus tard, and cover with a white sauce. The sauce is made by cooking a table sponful of flour in one of hot butter, adding gradually one cup' of hot milk, and when the ham is used, one raw egg beaten in. After the sauce is poured over the ham and macaromi, moisten two-thirds of a cup of fins cracker crumbs in melted butter, sprinkle over the top of the mixture, and bake till the crumbs are brown.I Native Shrewdness. n the recent Abyssinian' campaign an Italian captain who wore- a glass eye was accustomed to remove the' counterfeit optic every evening and put in his purse before retiring for the night. Seeing this the natives de clared that he took out one of his eyes and left it to look after his money and prevent anybody from- stealihg it.' An.Ohio, wo'man .has notified, all &-hom it may concern,. thronglh the medium of an advertisement in a coun-a try weekly, that. she has renounced her marriage with hey; present husband, aix on3eort1h po'i orgo ld el ba