Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1894 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SBTTINEL, WEDNESDAY . -MORNING, JULY 4, 1 891 -T WELTE PAGES.

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GREEN MANURING PLANTS.

XEGl"IIOl S OES ADVISED BY TIIE DEIMIITSIKST OK AGRICI LTI RE. iCood Honey Prodarrr Some Secrets of Profitable- Pork Ratnlnjf AkHcultural Exports Cnrlnsr Clover llnj-DehornlDK Cattle Ulm to V JloHeleepers Some Farm Notes A ; Collection of Valuable Ileclpes. " We have received from the United States department of agriculture a bulleTtin on green manuring, of which the following Is a summary: v 1. Green manuring improves the physical properties of the soil by making- the oll more porous and adding to its supply Tof humus. It breaks up the dormant jdant food from deep down in. the soil and deposits it near the surface where it can obe used by plants feeding near the. surface. 2. Green manuring with buckwheat, Hungarian grass, and other non-legumin-V)us plants adds practically nothing to the toll which was not there before, except a mass of vegetable matter which decays Sind goes to form humus. 3. Green manuring with clover, peas, dbeans, lupines, etc. (leguminous crops), (actually enriches the soil In nitrogen drawn from the air. These plants can Jjrrow with very little soil nitrogen. They tore up the nitrrgen of the air as they fgrow. and when plowed under give it up ho the soil and to future crops. It Is the "cheapest means of manuring the soil with fcni trogen. 4. But animals, as well as plants, require ,Snitrogen for food. By feeding the crops ft)f clover, cow-peas, etc.. only about oneIfourth the fertilizing materials of the crop us lest if the manure is' properly cared for. 'As the nitrogen of the air is the cheapest resource of nitrogen for plants, so it is the Cheapest source of protein (nitrogen) for animals. The leguminous crop is best utilized whvi-n it is fel out on the farm and the manure saved and applied to the poll. The greatest profit is thus secured jand nearly the fame fertility Is mainttalned as in green manuring. I 5. For renovating wjrn or barren soils, iind for maintaining th? fertility where the tarnyard manure is not properly cared tor, green manuring with such leguminous tn'ps as cov.--po.ts. clovers, and lupines Is recuinnif-n.ied. A dressing of potash and .phosphates will usually be sufficient for ho green manuring crop. J. Th-? practice of green manuring on ijnedium and better classes of soil is irrati"nal ari l wasteful. The f?rmar . sh vdd rue ii 1 his .ystem so- that the barnyard iu-tnure will he as well cared l'or a.- any o:h r farm product. Loss from surface gashing. lc.iehir.g. fermentation., an 1 decay sir mid h? g lurde 1 acainst. Then the ft--ding of ri.-her f od will mean richer manor' ar. 1 better an 1 cheaper crops. 7. The system of roiling or feeding "trr' n cr.-is la th:- barn in place of pasturage tn.ibk-s a lirger nuinber f animals t- 1 - k'pt in a green area of land, 'and tiio manure- to be more completely Fiveil. For this purp se leguminous crops an rxm m'ly valuable. S. May fi'i-ru b-iruminoiis crops Is about twi -e as ri.ii in r u in as hay fnni 'gr.i.s s. In th oiu case this prot. ia ,(ni:r.'g-n) i obt lined very largely froia the a : hi. .-). h-re; in the other it is all 'drawn from the f-rtllity of t.V soil. L-'gu-'n'n 'us crops y i-) I larger crops of n iy t ' th-- acre than gras.os. Hence the produeti a of foo l m :tr ritls on an acre, c-sp; '..illy prot.-in. is overal times larger with 1 goniin ius crops. I. If ai!ovel to ripen, the see of the cow-pM ? ",1 s j i be :n furnishes an extremely rieli cone..Mtr ited feed whi'hean t? gr .t.r.d an I f.J ia rüc of cxn nsive comaiTci il feeds. The straw remaining may b i.iir--" fodder, for it is Yi - - ,,rj.-,lrv h-,v 10. Grow more leguminous crops. They fu...i .s ... t . t ipv.. food for stork and the fhap-st manure fir the soil. They do this Icf-au.-v they obtain frim the air B su bs t trice necessary for plant' and anImil alike, which costs in the form of fertilizers and filing stuffs from 15 to v.j cents a pound. Honey I'radncers. , Th plants which yield a generous supply are not numerous, and many of them pre not of a character which invites cultivation. The m.jft important of these fcultivated plants. av the one upon Vvhich beeket-pers place the most dependence, is th- white clover. While it is hot so free a grower as red clover, and is. f I therefore, 1?s cultivated by the farmer, t sun makes excelk-nt pasturage, forms thick mat near the ground, and Is by no mans an unprofitable forage plant. It grows spontaneously in many byJlacs, even when It Is not cultivated. It irflures an .abundant flow of honey riuring its blossoming period, June and July, and the honey is peculiarly white, 5ne. and fre from any disagreeable bdor or offensive tastf. The farmer who Veeps bees can well afford to raise white )!over. It makes a pretty lawn when tlosely shaven, and is frequently used t-r th!s purrose abcut city residences fend village hoir.es. Another important Iind cultivated honey riant is the buckwheat. It comes late in the season, beginning to blossom In August and regaining in bloom until the coming of frost. From this plant the bees gather fin abundant harvest of very rich, dark honey having a peculiar taste, not at all joffensive, and for which a liking is easily fend speedily acquired. But buckwheat s not largely cultivated. The grain does 4;ot always fill well, and the crop is not Always a very profitable one. The rapid growth of th- plant, however, makes it useful as an eradicator of weeds, and encbles it to put the soil in a good condition f r subsequent cultivation. It will frrow on almost any soli, though usually the better the soil the better the buckwheat. It is believed by some apiarists that In p.lsike clover will be found a plant that !s alike profitable for the apiarist and the farmer. Whethtr the hopes enlrrtalned of this forage plant will be fully Realized is a matter of future demonstration Pr.f. Vok says or this plant: . 'Alslke or Swedish clover scorns to reemble both the red and the white clover.' It Is a stronger grower than the white, end has a whitish blossom tinged with t-ink. This form excellent pasture and hay for cattle, sheep, etc., and may well le sown by the apiarist. It will often Jay apiarists to furnish-, neighbor fariners with seed as an inducement to prow this superior honey plant. Like vhite clover it blossoms all through June Jnto July. It should be sown early In the spring, with timothy, five or six jjounds to the acre, in the same manner that clover is sown." To this li.st of cultivated honey producers can J added the red raspberry, though It Is the wild berry, growing spontaneously on mountain clearings and in t-pen fields, which produces the largest amount. The red raspberry is an abundant producer, and the honey from it is rtearly or quite equal to that produced from the white clover. And as this berry 1.4 one of the most delicious of small fruits, there seems to be good reason why It should be cultivated, especially by those who have convenient and ready access to a good market. The blackberry, elso, often cultivated, but oftener growing wild, produces honey, and the reasons which would lead to the cultivation tT the raspberry ought to be efficacious In its case. It is vigorous,- very productive, and of good, marketable qualities. II. Uutler in the American Agriculturist. Profitable Pork. If w should have good swine It Is necessary to give them good hygienic food and surroundings. This is not generally done, for the hogs are supposed to be aturally dirty, and their surroundings I are filthy and repulsive. The writer hag demonstrated to bis own satisfaction

that It pays to raise pork from clean, sweet pig pens, and from food that is not disease-breeding. There is a sweeter flavor to pork that comes from a clean pen, and the animals from which it is raised show a smaller percentage of death and loss than those raised after the old-fashioned dirty method. It Is just as much applies to pigs as to other animals, that a c-en, healthy body must be inclosed in a "Mean, healthy skin. If we allowed our cöws or sheep to wallow in the filth that surrounds the pig during most of his life It would not surprise us at all if they suffered from lice, ticks and all sorts jf skin diseases. Most diseases among swine start from a filttj- pen. Hog cholera started there, and o:iier hog troubles will find the same origin The disease germs live and grow in the filth, and the sickness of one animal is communicated to the whole herd. Clean out such a pen twice a week and disinfect it with slaked lime. If hog cholera or plague breaks out this is the quickest way to check it. Make the floor of the pen either of boards or of earth packed down solidly. Have a natural drain . from It to some place where manure can be kept. As the water collects there it will run- off and leave the place dry. If plenty of greea material Is thrown into the pen the hogs will root less than if confined to dry dirt. It is possible by cleaning the pen out once or twice a. week, and disinfecting It with lime, to keep the place in a sweet, presentable condition, where it 13 possible for hogs to live and grow fat without contracting disease. Occasionally it may be necessary to throw In- fresh dirt as the old bottom is scraped away. As for the question of feeding the swine with food that is at least not In the putrid state It seems very necessary to speak plainly. The notion prevails too generally that the hogs are general receptacles for all sorts of waste that is good for nothing else. Consequently many hogs- are starved Into the condition of eating old stuff that is actually pol'onous in its character. Half-decomposed food can do no animal good. S;called slops should be sweet at least. Two slop palls should be kept ready for swill, and each one should be drained eveTy week and then washed out, dried in the sun, and some lime placed in it for a day. Then it is ready to receive swill for another week, while the other swill pall goes through a similar stage of cleansing. Today most swill pails are not emptied from one year's end to another, and they are actually filthy. Do not starve the pigs and then say they will eat anything. Give them good, nutricious food and clean swill and they will then leave many unhealthy articles that they now eat. Cor. American Cultivator. Our AKrirnlliirii I Kx porta. There are some instructive lessons on the subject of hard times prices to be found in the lite bulletin of the national bureau of statistics, showing the principal domestic exports for the month of May. 1S34. It shows that the value of bro.idstuffs exported for the eleven months ending May 21, 19 1, was Jir,3.fl07.f0!). while the figures for the eleven months ending May "1. ISM. were $17fl,473.vl. thus showing an actual falling off of ?2.i.r.;.CS2. This would be a bad showing if one failed to take into account th low prices as compared with a yetr ago. A further examination of the tahlo shows that In many things hre v.as a decided and gratifying Increase. Thus it may b seen for the eleven months ending May 31 of this year th'M-e was an actual Increase in the exports as compared with the correspon ling period of last year of 2.17S,:Cd bushels of barley, 2( ."v;.S."." bushels . f corn, 11.312 barrels of cornmeal, 4. oil. 974 bushels of oats, ".- J3,04. iunds f oatm?tl, an.1 22-".MS2 barrels of Hour. The actu.il decrease- In bulk was 21 073.174 bushels of wheat and l.f;47 bushels of rye. But the unfavorable showing is chiefly in the matter of values. Thus, although there was an increase of 22".0S2 barrels of flour, ther? was an actual decrease in values of $r.,H3.07tf, or about one-fifth of the total falling off. Pi, too, in the case of cornmeal. which shows an increased export of 14.312 bushels, with a decrease in value of $35.44". Corn exports jumped from 40,oon,ooi to 60.000.Wio bushels, an inon-as of 50 per cent., while th1 value of the corn exported increased only from $21.000,000 to 52S.000.ono. or aUiut 3 per cent. In other words, while ther? was a falling off of $25.(M'0,000 in the value of our breadstuffs exported for the eleven months as compared with the previous period of the same length of time, there was an actual net increase of 3.757.3S4 bushels of grain, besides the meal and flour. The increase in the export movement of oatmeal is especially noticeable, the figures giving 8.r,33.4t6 pounds, valued at $214.516, for W4, against 4, 595,421 pounds, valued at J125.747, for UD3. The exports of provisions for the eleven months show an increase in value of $') 184.7.1S. yet there was a falling off as compared with the corresponding period ending May 31, 1S'j3, of 10.794,743 pounds Qf cheese, 4.5S1.S2S pounds of tallow, 17 927,167 pounds of fresh beef and 21,653,08 of canned beef.

Curing Clover liny. I have at last learned how to cure clover hay so as to be sure of a sweet article, free from must and mold. The secret lies in what I call double curing. In bright, good hay weather clover will dry in a single day until one can feel no moisture with the hand, and no water can be wrung out of it by twisting the stems, but if put in bulk for a night it will be found damp and clammy. Kor several years past I have followed this rule: We start the machine in the afternoon, and. if we wish to cut only one or two acres, not until after 5 o'clock supper. There is no moisture on the clover at this time, and It is so late that it does not wilt at all that night, and so the dew doe3 not Injure it. The next day at 11 o'clock we turn it. and again at 1, and an hour later rake it up, and ". y 5 o'clock we have it all in cocks. The next day, after the outside 13 thoroughly dry, we open the cocks and invariably find them damp, but we shake them out so that the sun and air have access to every part, and when this second moisture has drld out we know that our hay is so well eurer! as to be safe in the mow. Shou!d the day prove cloudy or a poor hay day we do not disturb that cut the night before, but leave it in the swath, for it will endure a long rain with but little damage In this shape, but if it has been dried, and then stands out through a rain, either in the cock or windrow, it is greatly damaged. One Saturday I put in clover hay in good condition which, when I had to take it out to feed, came out as easily as though it had been pitched off by hand. Usually two men can do this as fast as it comes, but if necessary we let the horse fork wait a little, for I want this Job done well even at the sacrifice of a little time. Timothy hay does not require this second drying, but in good hay weather we can begin to draw in by 1 o'clock that which was cut the previous evening. I. have never used a hay tedder, but know how they ork, and think that by the use oT one timothy hay could be cured in three hours in perfect hay weather. W. F. Brown In Country Gentleman. I Dehornlna- Cattle. The Orange Judd Farmer gives the following detailed dl regions for the operation, now so generally used of removing the horns of cattle. The writer says: "This operation should be done in as merciful a manner as possible, when the animal is young, as then there Is no pain. All that is needed is a pair of sharp, curved scissors, a stick of caustic potash, a cup of clean water and a rope. Catch the calf, fix the rope so that the calf is cast and tied secure, trim the hair off as close to th skin as possible around the button or knob where the horn will come out, and then dip the stick of caustic in the cup of watrr and rub It all around and over the button. When this is done, turn the calf again and repeat the application. If this is well done, the calf will never know what a horn is. "For removing a matured horn, the operation is best performed with a fine tenoning- saw, takln; the horn off close

to the hair tuft, but not near enough to touch the skin. The skin will curl over the root, and almost If not quite cover it. The operation should always be performed in the mild season, when flies and pests are absent. If it is desired to cover the horn root after the operation. this can be done with veterinary styptic collodion, made by dissolving powdered aloes, myrrh and shellac in spirits of wine, which will, when dissolved, form a strong coating when it Is carefully applied with a brush; or the usual collodion, mixed with Canada balsam and castor oil, can be used, which is termed. flexible collodion. Shoemakers' wax, just melted and applied, is used also, and answers very well when the other cannot be obtained. The object is to exclude the air. Should there he much bleeding at any time, and it be desired to stop it, use tincture of pcrchloride of iron on raw cotton.

Hints to Housekeepers. Aleohol will clean hats, but If a black one, I would polish with a good shoe polish. Nothing will give such a polish to glass, even the linest, as slightly moist newspaper to wash it, and dry newspaper to give the finishing touches. Piano keys yellow with age can be cleaned by a dilution of one ounce of nitric acid in ten ounces of soft water. Apply with a brush and wash oft with flannel, To cleanse glass bottles that have held oil, place ashes In each bottle and immerse in cold water, then heat the water gradually until It boils; after boiling an hour let them remain till cold. Then wash the bottles in soapsuds and rinse in clear water. Steel knives and other articles which have become rusty should be rubbed with a little sweet oil. then left for a day or two in a dry place, and then rubbed with finely-pob-red. unslacked lim? until every vestu of the rust has disappeared, and kept In a dry place wrapped up in a bit of flannel. . A bit of peppermint lozenge 'just before going on Is Lillian Hlauvelt's preventative against dry palate, or any other sallvatory trouble. Every one knows that her mellow notes seem to ripple from a well-oiled throat. She gave the remedy to Campanari, who extols it highly. It may come In excellently for many nervous, dry-throated young singers. TVhen putting gloves on always begin by buttoning the second button; then, when buttoned to the top, you can easily fasten the first button without tearing the kid. Never remove the gloves by pulling the fingers, but by drawing the part covering the wrist over the hand, and leave them thus wrong side out for some time before turning them to their proper shape. Always lay gloves lengthwise; never roll them. Heat and damp are injurious to pianos, so that the choice of a suitable position is important. They should never be kept in damp rooms, nor allowed to stand in a draft. Damp will cause the strings and tuning pins to rust, and the cloth used in the construction of the keys of action to swell, so that the mechanism will be impeded, making the keys stick when pressed; the sounding board is also effected, and the varnish. "When not in use the piano should be closed, to keep out the dust, and small articles should not be placed upon it. It is an instrument, and not a table or sideboard. The ivory of the keys will keep the'r color if exposed for a short time every day to the lijjht, and rnothes are effectually prevented by placing a pW-o of camphor In soft paper inside. New pianos require m ore frequent tuning thin old. Fnrm Notes. Color may. be but skin deep, but It pays to- n't'e the color in the apples raised for market. Many people fail with poultry because of neglect. Fowls respond to Rood treatment as readily as the dairy cow or other animals. Have you cut out all the ca-s of black knot in the plum Hees an l cherry trees? This Is a trouble that means extermination if neglected. Th garden is the index of the farmer's power f c;re for the d't tils of h's business; A r.fclfcted jjnrden gives away the habits of order in his business. "A Canada fruit grower says that he found a remedy for the curculio in merely hang'r.g cedar branches in his plum and cherry trees at blossoming time. Lime sown on' the asparagus bed while the (! nv is on is recommended to destroy beetlrs. When th insert is in the larval state apply pyrothruru to the plants. The butter maker who fails to put his butter on the market in a neat, clean and attractive form h;is yet to learn one of the most important lessons in successful dairying. When shep are sen runn'ng with head close to the ground and stamping, the fly which produces the grub in the he-ol Is r.enr. Put som pine tar o the sheep's news. Th? growth rf limb, trunk, vino rr bush Is the ahs'r.aAion of more potash "from the soil than of any ether important mineral. Add this material to the fruit garden. The Massachusetts experimental station maf an experiment in feeding skim m'Jk to calves an l p'gs. The result showel that it was equivalent to selling milk at " cents a hundred. Tli? tv.enty-thousand-pound Canadian cheene which -was on exhibition at the world's fair is stored at a railway depot in London. The owners have net yet b en able to make a sale of it. Trees, whether planted for ornament or usefulness, are the better for the society of othfr treeH near by, because of their affording one nnother mutual protPctlon from w.nds and from extremes of heat and cold. It is net too lite to 'amend the mistaken pol?y" of w ithhholdintr manure from thr garden to enrich the farm. On the former the most labor is put and tha most manure needed. Try chemicals in the gard:n; thv act quickly end do not ad 1 weeds t the' lot. Make un a list of the belts, nuts, screws and small tools that you are in constant need of, and buy them in one lot, and put each "in a well arranged series of pigeon holes and keep them there. The siving will pay a greater Interest tlian thi- savlntrs bank account. Sheep and hogs are good in orchards hogs preferabe to sh.-fp, because they root the ground over and preoare it for an application of fertilizer. Neither class of stock is sufficient for the full amelioration of the soil to bring the orchard to its best productive capacity. A farmer said before an Iowa Institute: It has been proven that clover sod Is as good to produce corn as the vlrcin soil. Farmer are Just awakening to the importance Of sowftig all small grain fiel is to clover. It is the only wholesale fertilizer we have discovered. The following from a poultry writer Is good advice: (Jet a barrel of lime and let it air-slack; scatter occasionally about the fowel house and runs. It Is a great absorbent of dampness, removes bad' odorsktens off vermin, tends to keep everything &wlet and clean, and is very healthful for the fowels. The question is sometimes raised" whether it is possible to keep wooden diary utensils always perfectly clean. It is not good policy to let miik stand for any length of time In wooden pails or receptacles, but wooden churns and butter workers ire all right, and can be kept perfectly sweet and bucterta-proof by the use of hot water. When your cream foams and swells In the churn don't pour hot water into It. but warm It up to seventy degrees. If need be. by warm water to the outside, an mature it more before you attempt again to churn. Maturity and warmth within certain safe limits will generally knock tne obstinacyall out of winter cream that doen not want to yifld up its butter. While stable manure has generally fallen Into some disrepute for fruit, the need of nitrogen tform a healthy but not extreme growth Is still acknowledged. Peas ar good for orchards. They arc the kind of leguminous which dissolve air In the soil ami put Its nitrogen into available form. Crimson clover Is on Ideal nitrogen saver wherever it grows well. It Is best for the South, as it will not stan a severe climate. The Farm and Fireside says that bagging grapes as soon as the bloom has fallen will prevent rot. The fruit is much mors beautiful when grown In bags. One pound manllla bags are used. The bag Is opened, drawn carefully over the bunch and pinned aliove the cane from which the bunch is growing. This method of protecting grapes Is advisable wlure one has only a tew vines. It makes little difference how rocky land Is for grape. They have been known tr flourish where It was necessary to carry soil to cover the roots when planting. Vines have frequently been known to do well where their roots were beneath buildings end- th vines brought out at the foundation. They never fall In such places for want of moisture, the natural dampness of th soli being sulllclent. Very often

such vines will come through the winter uninjured, when those in the garden or vineyard" are seriously damaged. The clover hay hardest should begin as soon as the field . is well in bloom, and every care possible exercised tn curing and harvesting the crop, and while all undertakings are uncertain In which the weather takes suoh an important part, much may be done to offset the uncertainties by extreme watchfulness and care and no diaryman can afford to withhold these In such a case. - Kerosne emulsion can most easily be applied to stock to destroy lice and prevent the attacks of the horn fly by using the sprayer, which is designed originally for applying spraying mixtures to fruit trees. A hanö sprayer-Is most convenient, and with a fine nozzle a very small quantity will be sufficient, whereas by hand and sponge application the work will require much more liquid and take much more trme. Mtny mistakes are made in setting out shade trees. Evergreens ought never to be set near the house. They are usetul as wlndbrakes at the north and west, at some Oistance from the house, where they may be set In clumps or hedtres, but never on a lawn. Grass does not J"j so well under them r.s under deciduous trees, and sj many of them drop cones almost the entire year that they are unsightly and interfere with the mower. Stirring the soil in warm weather makes it warmer by n Emitting more outside ar. It also stimulates decomposition of any vegetable matter that the soil contains, and thus directly adds to the available supply of fertility. The more manure that the farmer applies the more thorough should be the cultivation of the crop. Only thus can its full value be secured. Besides, unless the cultivator is kept busy the manure makes weeds grow as well as the crop. Vnlnable Recipes. Canned Peas Fill th cans - brimful, shaking them well to force the peas down as compactly as possible. Fill to overflowing with clear, cold water; screw the cover, and proceed as In "Canned Corn." Scotch Shortcake Three-fourths of a pound of rice flour, half a pound of butter, one-fourth of a pound of sugar, a pinch of salt, ltoil out end cut Into forms and bake on buttered paper; while hot sprinkle with sugar. French Flummery Half ounce gelatine, one pint cream, one tablespoonful orangefowcr water, two ounces sugar. IMssolve the gelatine in a gill of milk, add the cream, sugar and oinge-flower water; boil for five minutes, stir till quite cool, then strain into a mould and stand aside to set. Tread Flapjacks Take a pint of stale bread crumbs and pour over them a pint of hot milk In which a tablespoonful of butter has been melted. Soak over night. In the morning strain through a colander and add two eggs, one cup of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a little cold milk, If necessary. Frozen Cherres Two quarts of pie or morello cherries, or one-quart can, two pounds sugar, one quart of water. Stone the cherries, mix them with the 6Ugar ami stand aside one hour; then stir until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved: add the water, put into the freezer and turn rapidly until frozen. This will serve ten persons. Strawberrv Sauce Beat two ounces of butter, adding gradually a half cupful of powdered sugar. Tben add twelve strawberries, one at a time, crushing each and beating till the whole is light. If a slightly curdled appearance should be noticed, acidity is Indicated, and a little more sugar should be ndded. Let it stand in a cool place till wanted. Whole Cherries, a la Vanille Boil two pounds sugar with two glasses of water and clarify It with whites of two eggs. Skim the syrup and put Into it four pounds of line cherries without staiks or stones, but as whole us possible. Add some (ine extract of vanilla and let the whole Infuse f-n the fire, but by no means let it boil; let it Infuse for at least five minutes. Gooseberry Custard One pound gooseberriea, half pint water, one ounce butter, three-quarter pound suear, four eggs. Boil the gooseberries In the water for fifteen minutes till quit" soft, then add the butter and stir till melted; pulp the gooseberries through a sieve, add the su?ar and yelks of four eggs, stir over the fire till thick, but on no account ltt it boil. Serve in custard glasses. Strawberry Dumplings Into a pint of sifted Hour rub two ounces of butter, and a teaspoenfu! of salt, a neaping teaspoonful of baking powder and about a gill of inilK-iSuilirient to mohfn. Hix quickly and roll out Into a sheet a quarter inch in thickness. Cut out with a round biscuit cutter, place three or four berries upon each sheet, fold the eJges over and steam for twenty minutes. Baked Gooseberry Puling One quart goo.seb.-rries. three ounces fresh butter, six ouncn fine bread crumbs, e'ght ounces sugar, three eggs. Top and tail the goosebo! ries. stew them till they are a pulp, then rub through a sieve; add the- butter, finely, grated bread crumbs and sugar, beat well, then -add the eges. pour Into a pie dish, and bake for a haif h jur. Strew sifted sugar over and serve. Compote of Cherries Take a quart of early red cherries; boil thre.-quarters cf a pound, of sutrar until It candies; drop th cherries Into the syrup; let it stand live minutes, then return to the fire; let It boil gently until clear; take out the cherries with a skimmer; lay them in a dish: add a small teacup of red currant Juice to the syrup: toil until very thick; rour over the cherries when nearly cold. Chocolate Cake One cup of sugar, half a cup of butter, half a cup of milk, two cups of flour, two eiigs, two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Grate a little less than one-hälf cake Baker's chocolate, add onehalf cup of sugar, one-half cup of milk and the yelk of one egg. Boll in a double boiler (as it burns easily) till it thickens, and stir it into the cake mixture, add lat one teaspoonful of vanilla. Frost it or not, as you please. Gooseberry Charlotte Two pound3 gooseberries, half pound sugar, twelve Savoy biscuits, one-quarter ounce lexf gelatine. Ton and tall the gooseberries, wash them well, then boil them with the sugar until reduced to a pulp; dissolve the gelatine in half a teacupf'd of hot water, mix it well with gooseberries, and rub through a sieve; line a rlain nv ni l with Savoy biscuits, pour in th? gooseberries, stand aside -to set: turn on to a dish and serve with cream. To Mix Mustard Mix mustard with water that has letn boiled and allowed to cool; hot water destroys its essential properties. Put the mustard in ai cup with a sm.i'l pinch of salt, and mix w!tn it very gradually sufficient boiled water to mane It drop fr m the spoon r ithout being wa'.erv. Stir anl rub smooth; th-"n a id to a toacupI'ul of the HV.q-trd tv. t ib'.espoonsfuls of govl, sharp vinegar anl a scant teaspoonful of sugar. A toa-u jon'ul of horseradish or tarragon vinegar may be adlet to the above If liked, or mustard may be flavored with celery of shallots, though it is not customary in this co'int.-y to add ary flavoring to mustard, the flavor of the ni'jstiird itnelf teing consider---! suHicient. Strawberry Sirup Lightly press the fruit with a silver spoon and sprinkle a little finely powdered sugar over it. One-fourth pound to six pounds of fruit will be enough. Let It stand twelve hours. Drain away all the juice from the fruit through a gauze sieve, measure It and let it boil for twenty minutes in a preserving kettle; skim it well at Intervals. Put one-half pour.! of finest lump suar in large lumps to each pint of Juice, and let it boil until It b":r:;n to thiekea. Pour into an earthen vessel, an I when cold put the sirup into small bottles. L'se good corks anl seal th.-ri rt.- to exclude the air. The fruit from which the Juice has been extraetel will still be useful, and may be made into Jam either with or without little rhuoarb Canned Corn Pick tne corn as soon, as it Is r:gm for table use; dj not allow any delay In the matter, riusk an 1 remove every particle of the silk, rhen cut the corn from the cob with a sharp kuif j, taking care not to cut too near, the r:ob; scrape out the milk; pack the corn ia itlasi can.:, pr.-ssing It In as firmly as possible with a wooden p.-stle do this very rm.-rouvhly--fill ihcans full to the brim, and screw on the covers as tUrht as you can. Put a thin layer cf hay or straw into a l..rge kettl? or boiler; lav the cans on It in any position; over these put a layer of trus straw; fill the vessel in this order; cav?r with ..11 water; put on the range and bail fo- three hours. Let the cans remain In the water until cold; then remov tii-mi; tighten in covers, and stt in a cool, dry place. Two or three thicknesses of clo.h may be put under and between the ci.is if priferred, but they must not be al'owed to touch each ether while boiling for fear of breaking them. Housework nnd Health. Refined woman finds much satisfaction in performing certain tasks in her own way, and there is nT healthier employment than common housework. Even ffhysical culture teachers have to admit that if there is requisite strength for the steady pull there Is nothing like the ordinary tasks of housework for developing a full chert, a strong back and good lungs. However much domestic science and new implements may simplify old methods of housekeeping, the more the better, the happiest and most economically managed home will still be the one where the mistress is content to give her energies and accomplishments to the successful running of the domestic machinery rather than to numerous outside enterprises. Brooklyn Eagle. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Hijht Medal and Diploma.

WOMAN AND HER HOME.

Sl'CCESSES LDE I1V WOMEi' OX BOARDS OF 1'IHI.IC WORKS. Bringing Ip Little One Life f the Homelean Women Keep Your Bread Dtj Consider Onr Girls To Do Ip Handkerchief Ilotv lie Was Converted. When Mrs. Jacobi handles a question of public health or Mrs. Josephine Shaw Russell of public charity, when Mrs. Ad'ce Lincoln faces the Boston charity commissioners and carries the day nobody complains that tnese ladies do not know what they are talking about. The only criticism is that they know it too well. Once make it plain that the question at issue is one involving the moral element or the humane element, there is no complaint made that women do not interest themselves in it. No matter where they learned their lessons it may have been In the nurseries of their own children or in that prenursery of period devoted to paper dolls at any rate, they have learned it somewhere and can hold their own. One reason is that their life is necessarily, even in the most limited sphere, a work of details. It is invariably found thatwhen women are placed on public boards they immediately begin to apply the habits they acquired in housekeeping. Now, inasmuch as the functions of public boards are really a kind of housekeeping on a large scale, this Is undoubtedly the very best thing they can do. When it comes to borrowing money on a large scale and incurring a debt which is sometimes the very thing that needs to be done women are doubtless less ready and fearless than men. When, on the other hand, the Important thing ia to rind out your precise municipal Income and live upon it, women are greatly aided by the habits of their v.-hcle lives. Their acquired tendency will be to accept the situation, to distribute fairly among the various departments and in general to cut the coat according to the cloth. Instead of proving reckless and profuse, tliey turn out to be prudent and cautious, dealing with each bill as if it were their household account with the family grocer. Every one who has had occasion to serve with women on public boards or charity organizations Is probably familiar with this trait. It is a quality which, while in some respects discouraging as to enterprise, is, on the whole, a safeguard. Women being unused to risks or bold ventures, such enterprises seem a little more intimidating, on the whole, to them than to men. Their memory for small details.- top, is more formidable than that of men,' and then perhaps they keep diaries! The late Miss Abby May, when a member of the Massachusetts board of education, could at any time send a thrill of anxiety through the board by quietly taking from her pocket a certain inexorable little red memorandum book. It will be found in almost any American city, on comparing the lists of officers in the charitable societies of fifty years ago with those of today, that, whereas they found it necessary to begin with having men as treasurers, women now usually keep these financial affairs in their own hands. This results in a detailed accuracy which is heroic and sometimes pathetic. Col. Illgginson in Women and Men. Ilrinuing In Little One. Every mother, of course, has her own peculiar method of bringing up her little folk5;, and there is not one in the land that could be induced to acknowledge that by any possibility there could be the slightest flaw in her especial plan. When, however, on outsider sees a group of well-trained children it Is but natural to praise the system that produced such pleasing results. A mother whose little brood is the admiration and envy of all who see them told the writer that she believed thoroughly in making her children helpful from the time they were old enough to understand the meaning of the term. "And." she went on, "that does not presuppose a very advanced age, for a baby is quick to pick up ideas of all sorts, nd when it is hardly able to speak plainly the little duty of filling the salt cellars becomes an affair of great import, because It sees that the work It does actually relieves some one else of the responsibility of remembering It." The wise mother gives each of her children, boys and girls alike, some certain part of the domestic work to perform each week, allotting a different one to a new task at the end of seven days, thus sagely eliminating the monotonous element and working in a great fund of general knowledge in the pleasantest manner possible. The dressing of dolls is not only a pastime, but the tiny frocks ara made on the exact plan of wearable models, and in this way dress-making is learned. Study is made a privilege rather than a necessity, only a certain time being allowed for book3. in consequence of which a ravenous appetite for literature is fosterod. which, little by little, is gratified, each concession coming as the greatest boon, instead of being the irksom "cramming" process that is a part of most young people's general education. These hints may not seen of value to mothers who have other plans that work well, but as this method Is marvelously effeftive in one family it d-es no hurt to tell about it, and perhaps there may be a gain of helpfulness hidden somewhere that some discouraged parents may profit by. Keep Your Itretid Dry. One hears a great deal of talk about moist bread, and a large number of housekeepers shut their bread in air-tight boxes to keep it moist. Such barbarous tteatment of bread may be elncacious in keeping it moist, but bread from which flesh air is excluded always has a disagreeable, clayey flavor and is unpalatable to people of cultured tastes, who appreciate the nutty sweetness that is a prominent characteristic of ail good bread. The foolish notion of keeping bread moist had its origin in bad cookery. Most of the stuff made by bakers has to be eaten fresh and moist or not eaten at all. It is so light and woolly that, if exposed to the air a few hours, it grows dry and husky and is almost as unsavory and innutritous as chips. A large proportion of homemade bread Is similar In character and is affected in a similar manner by exposure t the air. But properly made bread such bread as ought to be in every intelligent home and on every' Christian table three times a day grows sweeter by exposure to the air, and is not at its best until two or three days old. bread should be kept in a well covered box or jar, but It should not be wrapped in cloths, and the box or jar in which it Is kept should have small holes in the top or sides, through which the fresh air can have access. As soon as loaves of bread are taken from the oven they should be exposed freely to pure air, and at no time afterward should they be exclucb-d from it. Make good bread, put it in a well ventilated box after it is perfectly cool, and it will keep sufficiently moist at least a week. N. Y. Mall and Express. Social Obligation. Women make a great mistake- in trying to pay off all their social obligations In bulk. Nothing is more fatiguing than the preliminary work to a grand dinner or a great reception. It Is a great deal better, and it will certainly be found more acceptable to one's guests if th social obligations be paid gradually, and if it be to dinner let there be no more than the table can accommodate or the usual help attend to. In Issuing Invitations to such dl nner parties care should

be taken to bring together people who

are congenial and well acquainted. By so doing conversation, which is a most j important feature of such, assemblies, j will be made cheerful and pleasant, and people will go away feeling that they j have had a good time and a good dinner without being able to recall what they had to eat. Washington Star. Ufe of the Homelea Woman. "Did you ever think," asked a woman who is making her own way, "how many homeless women there are in Chicago? "Women who never know what it is to sit down and expect a visit, or hang up a picture, or fix a screen, or arrange a corner, the same as other women whose lives are rounded by heme? Women who have to turn out so early and so hastily in the nu rning that they have no time to arrange their room before goin to the shop? Who have no one to say as they leave for the day's trials: 'Good-by! Take care of yourself?' Wh3 go back to these same rooms at night and find them dark, and often still as they were left in the morning? Who, when Sunday comes, have to utilize the day for mending and stitching and fixing up the rerrts and the pinned up places of the week? Who have to work Sunday nights on the 'only decent gown,' which they laugh at when it is fixed, for they wonder when they can wear it, and where? "Of course there are many of the shop women of the city who live at home, and their mothers or sisters attend to the little wants. But the majority of them have no homes except the little hall room or the back room on the top floor. And when they wash out a pocket handkerchief in their room the landlady glares at them if she knows It, as she is apt to, and they dare not speak. As they are tired out after their day's work they have no time for company in the evening, and if they had they have no place to receive such company except the parlor in the boarding house, and any woman who has ever tried that knows what it Is. "Is it any wonder you see so many women whose faces are white, whose lips are ashen and whose tapering fingers are purple? Women who have no time or place to be loved, not even time or place to hear one endearing word! Sometimes the burden gets too heavy, and then there is a missing woman until the lake gives back Its dead and a threeline item in the coroner's news is all that the world knows." Chicago Tribune. Consider Onr Girls. "What are we to do with our girls ?' distracted parents are asking Incessantly. The answer Is easy enough. Consider them, respect the needs of their nature, and do not require them to conform to the exigencies of the day before yesterday. Parents who would do their duty by the modern girl should recognize the fact that the average intelligence is higher in her sex than It used to be, that observation is involuntary and that silence may conceal thought, but does not stifle it. The reasoning faculty is there and will work of Its own accord, but probably all awry if not carefully directed. There are very few girls who will not strive after an ideal of life if 01 ly It Is offered to them ealy. Girls are of a plastic nature. Their inclinations for the most part tend toward refining Iniluences. but influenced they must be, and if there is an absence of that which is noble in the shape into which they .re first molded then that which is ignoble is apt to take its place. There is no more difficult or delicate task in education than the forming of a young girl's character. If a well Judged touch will on the on hand produce the most beautiful results, so on the other one that is ill judged will warp and disfigure. N. Y. Advertiser. To Do t'p Handkerchief. To have your handkerchiefs always looking like new ones wash and iron them after the following directions: After they, have been washed and brought !n dried from the line, instead of sprinkling them for ironirur as you do the- other clothes, put two quarts of water In a bowl and squeeze six drops of bluing into it from the blue bag; then take a piece of raw starch the size of a pigeon's egg and dissolve it in the water, being carefuUthat it does not settle in the bottom of the bowl. Take each handkerchief separately, dip it up and down in the water two or three times, squeeze it as dry as possible with the hands, then when they have all been dipped in lay them out smoothly in a towel and place them in the clothes basket. To iron them lay them out flat on the Ironing table and smooth them on both sides. After this make a fold two inches deep across the handkerchief and press it in lightly with the iron; then make S fold the other way across the handkerchief Just as they are folded in the boxes when you buy them. By laundering them in this way handkerchiefs will look quite new as long as they last. X. Y. Mail and Express. Hott He Wa Converted. Emma Harriman, in the southern California White Ribbon, says: I once heard a minister tell how he was converted to woman suffrage. He was a very resolute, determined, outspoken man, and his friends tried hard to keep him from going to the polls at all, for fear he would be beaten for his fearless defense of the right. 13ut he went in spite of them, to find a filthy polling place filled with half drunken, foul-mouthed men, the air thick with tobacco smoke and heavy with curses. One light after another made the day hideous. The next year he went again. The women had been there before him. The place was clean; flowers stood about in vases here and there. In one corner vere tables covered with white cloths and women, good women, gave out coffee and cakes to the voters. "I staid all day," said he, "and not a man swore or smoked or fought. The place was clean in the morning and clean at night, and I said: 'If women can do this in one day. what could they do in a year. In a lifetime? This is what we need, the women to help us In political matters, and Ood helping me I'll vote for it from this dav on.' " And he did. Care of Carpel. If cleanliness and economy are to be observed In the household, it is necessary to give special care to carpets. At least twice a year they should be taken up and treated to' a sun and wind bath and a general all-around beating. A carpet lining is a necessity. It may be of newspaper or ft It. Uefore sweeping throw some tea leaves on the floor. A coarse broom is apt to cut a carpet, especially one with a velvet idle. L'se an ordinary clothesbrush Instead. Then there are spots. of grease on the carpet. They may be removed by covering them with curd soap which has been dissolved in boiling water. Rub thoroughly over the spot with a brush. To remove a tallow stain try alcohol. For vegetable, wine and. fruit stains and red ink wash with warm soap and water or ammonia. When the stain Is of tar, rub with pumicj stone, then soap. Let it stand awhile and then wash alternately with turpentine and water. Upholsterer. Debilitating: Hot Hath. Don't take a hot bath in the morning, girls. It is the very worst thing you can do to the complexion, digestion and interior departments generally. Instead of stimulating the digestive organs they are debilitated by the exhaustive - hot water. A big breakfast token soon after is an added Injury and a step in tTis direction of dyspepsia. Cold water, that is what you want before breakfast., Pull on an oiled silk cap, turn on the shower, J siana in tne iu aim ibkc ine mhck one or two minutes. Never mind the soap or sponge. Then dry up and drink a cup of hot milk, water or clear tea or coffee. That's the way to tone up the nervous system and send the bloyd enuralnar thronen' the veins. That' the

way to get an appetite for breakfast and a clear view cf the day's duties. That'a what the doctors say. arj they ought to know what they are talking about. N. Y. World. Attractive Mr. Cmmrl. Mrs. Thomas Addis Emmet, wife of the celebrated woman's doctor axil president of the Irish league, is one of the prepossessing women who appear in New York society; gatherings. She has a gracious personality that insensibly attracts people. To those who have t.e pleasure of, knowing Mrs. Emmet a still greater attraction lies in her wdi-store-d mind and discriminative appreciation of literature, which is the result of careful reading and familiarity with the greatest authors of every country. X. Y. Correspondent.

She toe to the Oeonlon. Columbus has a number of women ol original bent of mind and occupation. Mrs. Wormley. wife of the worll-wid authority on poisons, illustrated hpr husband's work on "Poisons." S delicate were her drawings that no engraver could be found, not even in the United States mint, to undertake the work. Undaunted. Mrs. Wormley mastered tha engraver's art to such a degree of pro ficiency that she engraved her own drawings, which remain standard. Columbus Dispatch. Doling the Can. Never strike a child on the head. Thl is not only cruel, but it is dangerous. "Eoxing the ears" should be made an offense punishable by law, for a "box", as likely as not will break the drum ot the ear and destroy the hearing perhaps permanently. Children have often died from brain trouble produced by a box on the ears. No parent or teacher should ever think of administering chastisement in this way. Hospital. t- J Tle Modern Girl. - Novel-reading is not as popular as It was some years ago with the girl wbrs time, hung heavy on her hands. Prob ably the reason may be found in fhj greater devotion to athletic sports which prompts a girl to go out for a walk, a tennis game or a blrycle ri ie rather than "loll" with a sensational love story, 01 perhaps the girls are steadily growing more sensible who knows? Chicago Record. A PRETTY HAT. It I Made of BlacW Lace Shirred on Wlrea and bdged Mltli Jet. Somebody has lately raised his volco for the purpose of disillusioning us and destroying the pocti?al associations of our hats. He says that neapolltan braid that fine, lacy material, made of horsehair Is not neapolitan at all, but was Invented by a man in New YorK who gave It that name because he could not think of anything elso to oall 4t. BLACK LACE HAT. Fo good-by to all dreams of Vesuvius an4 the bay of Naples in connection with our bonnets. Thus are most of our idols and idyls shattered. We dress our salad with olive oil, nominally the product of sunny Tuscany, only to discover later that it Is mane from the domestic pea nut. We eat Mediterranean sardines, ascertaining by and by that they wer caught off the coast of Maine. Our Brl cheese is made in Orange county; oui French wines come from California; oui spaghetti never came near salt watel until It was cooked. Since, as It appears we must use our own products, why nol announce to the world In general thai we really are sufficient to ourselves B.n nonestly call American goods by Amerl can names, thus avoiding the payment of duty on Imported titles? Black hats, neapolltan and others. art mush worn this year and are often pro fusely trimmed with ostrich pluines, which are again in full vogue. They ar a perishable sort of deooratjon although very beautiful, for the least dampnesi in the air destroys the lovely curl that II their chief charm and make them stJfS and flat, and recurling never restores them to their prestine beauty. Tii9 spangled plumes are especially sensitiv to moisture, their frost vanishing 'befor a fog as natural frost' does before th sun.' - Moire ribbon shows no decline of popti larity as a trimming for hat and bonj nets. It. combines well with Jet and spangles and has the glitter which is this season conceived necessary to a fashion able effeet. Yellow and black is a popu lar combination, and a very pretty gold colored straw braid has been brought out, wide and glossy, but light. It is fragile in spite of its coarse weave and will not bear rough usage. A sketch is given of a large round hat made of black l:uv shirred on wires. It is eilgod with jet spangles and trim med with chantilly lace which forms two large wings in front. These serve as a background to two jet wings fastened together in the middle by a knot of ribbon from which springs a jet aigret. JUDIC CHOLLET. SAVED P0 WOMEN, THOUGH MAXV MILES APAKT. smiU, TO Ol B LAI.T BF41r.M J Many curious and interesting experiences are found in the correspondence of r' S"? r-. N, a womanlike Mrs. t'ft l'itikhani,wliofor "-ii4f '-3 ,uuR-v'oarsmiuis J JT tcred to the suffer- ' r tf ha'r SS t J 1 all over the land. JA n. """ . 1 1'cre are two 110e c and the 4hcrf rota 'MRS.Ltt.LIE MEYER. -cQj & the A Haut ic coast. The Brooklyn woman is Mrs. Lillie Meyer. Five years apo she begin to feel sharp pains in her abdomen, with the bearing-down feeling and pains in lier back. She tried doctor an! ot no relief. A friend told her of Mrs. rinkham's Compound, and after -(ingit the pain eft her, and menstruation now comes without suffering. The Riverside, Cal., woman is Mr?. J. E. Dewey, who say. "I have used three bottles of your Vegetable Compound for painful menstruations. " Every month my suffering wa terrible, and I was obliged to go to bed. "After using the first bottle, my gcnral health was much improved, and now. after Using three bottles, all pain has left in ft, and I am a well woman. Lydia E. Tinkham's Yetret able Compound is as un failin j as the buu.'' Get it from your drallst.

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