Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 January 1908 — Page 3

w ¥ £ PREDICTED By SUSAN HARTLEY SWETT = (Copyright) “I really believe that Marthy is a witch,” said % aunt. “She said in the last fortune she told for me that I was going to receive a present that would surprise me, and from an unexpected quarter. And who'd ha’ thought that Cousin Sabriny Woods’ daughter, that I never saw and scarce ever heard of, would set up and send me a present? Amother time, when she cut the cards, she told me that I was going to be real fortunate in some money mattérs, and so I was, for the very next week his brother died and left me this place. I wish I knew whether something she told me the last time would come true.” My auant took a good look at herself in the glass as she breathed this wish, and anxiously arranged some airy little curls which were grouped tenderly about her smooth but too high and not especially intellectual-looking forehead. Nelly, my sister, laughed. “She’s always predicting presents and rmoney, and it would be very strange if she did not get it right sometimes,” she said rather scornfully. “What does a child like you know about such things?” exclaimed my aunt angrily. . Nelly. was 19, and besides being very pretty, had a good stock of common sense, as everybody remarked, but my aunt was always pleased to call her a child. Nelly made no reply, but my aunt made haste to say that “of course she didn’t believe in fortune telling, as a general thing, but the cards ran very queer sonietimes, and Marthy read ‘em wonderfully.”. All that morning my -aunt seemed to have something more tha&h usual on her mind. She was airily playful and deeply meditative by turns, and with a knot of gay ribbon at her throat astonished us by her juvenility and sprightliness. . ' “Joe,” she called to me :after. dinner, “I wish you would go over and ask Marthy Doane if she®won’'t come here to supper to-night. Say that T'm going to have plum fritters, and that she mustn't forget to ‘'bring her cards.” Nelly and I exchanged glances, and when my aunt had left the room, she said with a sigh: ) ' / “Oh, dear, I wish Aunt Jane wouldn’t have such notions.” “But I'm glad she has,’] I replied. “Marthy is fun, and there’ll be -four or five kinds of preserves for supper.” Marthy's appearance was not impressive enough to give one great faith in ber powers as a seeress. She was fat and roly-poly and had a funny little nose which looked as if.it had been an afterthought and had been made with putty and stuck on. My aunt had supper at an earlier hour than usaal, so impatient-was she to get at the fortune-telling. And, while Nelly was doing up the supper dishes, my -aunt drew two chairs into a distant corner-of the room. Marthy produced a not over clean and wellworn pack -of cards from her pocket; and the important sitting began. | “Let me see; there’s a dark complected man that has a real good heart for you. Don't seem's if he lived close by; neo, there's a wood.' I «can’t see's there§ mo water between ye. 1 ain't certain that you know him. “He's tall, & real personable man, and it ’pears as if you'ld meet him first where there was something particklar goin’ on,” pursued Marthy after a little interval of breathless waiting, “and judgin’ by the cards ‘round him, he’s got lots o' money. My, jest look at them ten-spots, *bout every ome in the paek! Seem’s as if he must be a squire; yes, I know he’s a ’squire by the way the cards run—there’s books and an awful lot o’ people he has to deal with and—" “Mightan’t he be a minister?” interrupted my aunt, her eyes very wide open. ; . “No, there’s foo much confusion, ‘'round him for that, and he don’t look a mite like a schoolmaster. “Seems as ef he was an old bachelder. Now, I'll give ’em a real good shufflin’ and you cut “agin. Yes, plain enough. There, I can tell ye who the o)fd bachelder ’squire is now; I mever thought of him before. It's 'Squire Canning over to Fowler’'s Falls. He's about 40, he’s a bachelder—and has got no end o’ money. He's tall, too, and looks for all the world like the feller in the cards.” 2 ! “But I never saw him,” said my aunt, looking rather doubtful. “I've heard he was real haughty, too, and wouldn’t even speak to common folks ’less he took a notion.” “Well, you don’t call yourself common folks, do ¥e?” replied the wily Marthy. “You're pritty-lookin’ and genteel enough for anybody I—" | “I was thinking of going over to Fowler's Falls for a few days next week,” faltered my aunt, looking very red in the face. “I haven’'t made a fldttberetoraloag;fim.m.l'u_n-‘ ways being invited.” £k ! “You've got folks there, ain’t you?' Why, ain't it your cousin that -manages the '.m%fl” TN s to his house. Fve got a lot of other the hotelkéeper, is & relative of my b sRT B e s e ’Z :_ %Jf!g‘g%g:: ;llx‘{?‘;‘ ” m to keep su . intention to herself, PP A st Ry S i 7 Ry P T T A it AR B

We started for ¥owler’'s Falls the next Tuesday, my aunt in her bonnet, so like the fresh young spring in its tender coloring. There were four other passengers occupying the stage when we entered. Two fat old Itdies and two mern; one little old man who was evidently a stranger in the region and was interested in the rafts and booms sliding down the rapid river, of which we caught glimpses through the pine woods all the way, and the ‘'other a rather distinguished looking man of about 40, or perhaps younger, who was leaning back in a corner with his hat pushed far down over his eyes. He seemed to be rather drowsy, but still conversed at intervals with the little old man, who wished to know about everything and seemed to be unable to keep silent for a moment. The old ladies talked too, or at least one of them did; the other, we were informed, was kinder stage-sick and discouraged. = “Be you goin’ to stop at the Falls?” said the talkative old woman, addressing my aunt. : “Yes, 'm going there for a visit,” replied my aunt. “Be you? Well, now, I know about everybody at the Falls, and probably I'm well acquainted with your folks, if I might take the liberty to ask who they be?” “T'm going to visit ’Squire Canning’s folks,” said my aunt with a little selfimportant nod of the head, and in a litt¥e. mincing voice, “but to-day I sha]l put up at the public house and get cleaned up and rested a little before I go to see any of my folks.” The old lady glanced from my aunt to the man in the soft hat with a look of amazement. My aunt’s statement seemed to have a strange effect upon him also, for he started visibly, and looking my startling relative full in the face, said: a 0 “Madame, pardon me, but may lask yvour name?” : .

“Certainly,” simpered my aumt; “it is Benson. The Widow Benson, that is.” : ; Nelly kept her head resolutely turned toward +the window, apparenily absorbed in the, landscape, but L.could see that even her ears were crimson. o “So you know the 'squire?” he said with that amused spark in his keen eyves. : & “Oh, yes, indeed; T—" My aunt faltered a little, for she really was not accustomed to - 'such fabricating. - “Pray what ‘do yeu 'think of “him?” he. inquired. : ! “Well, T don't know's T want to discuss my -friends in a public conveyance,” she replied, detecting something like mockery in his voice. “Quite right. And of course you know little Nan?” ‘he wenton. - “Of course. 1 think she is a lovely child.” : ¢ “Child! Well, T suppose we are-all children in the sight of God,” he said with a broad smile, but meeting Nel--I¥’s glance, which was fixed upon him with a half-appealing, half-indignant expression, the smile quickly vanished, and he returned the glance with one of boyish'frankness and contrition. And sinking back into his corner once more became. silent for the remainder of the journey. : : . The fat old lady kept up a most offensive titteting with meaning glances at Aunt Jane, but no one heeded. her and no one spoke, with the exception of my aunt-and the little elderly man who were getting quite chummy and personal in their conversation. . It was late when we reached ‘Fowler's Falls, and everybody looked tired and cross. The man with the soft hat took his departure first, the stage stopping at a beautiful avenue which led to a far more pretentious mans Ton than is usually seen in a backwoods village. : >

He took off his hat to my aunt:and Nelly, bidding them good-day very politely, and ;saying that if they were to spend ‘a week or so at the Falls he should probably see them. He hoped so, at -any rate, with a meaning glance at my sister. - . “It was ’Squire Canning himself!” tittered the fat old lady, as soon:ashe had turned 'his back. “The man you are going to visit.” My aunt grew .as white as the 'frill about ‘her ‘throat, ‘but she 'kept .a discreet silence and ignored ‘the speaker entirely. Nelly and I squeezed eaéh other’s ‘handsunder ‘the carriage robe. ‘We next passed Cousin Levi’'s cosy but somewhat dilapidated looking old farmhouse, -and I would have begged to stop there, had I dared, but my aunt, in her crushed gentility, did not. glance in its direction, 80 we rode on to the hotel, which was perhaps a half mile farther. .But finding the hotel closed for repairs, at least to all but “mealers,” as the driver said, we had nothing to do but to walk back to Cousin Levi's, Aunt Jane, plaintive in the extreme, and just ready to burst into tears in her airy but tight boots and her mud-plastered skirts. “I feel a spell of tic-douloureux comim’ on,” she said, “and shall go back home again in the stage to-morrow.” And go she woulid, in spite of our remonstrances and the entreaties of Cousin Levi and his wife, who were delighted to see us and determined that we should make |a 'good long visit ; : . " “The children can stay a week or a fortnight if they want to, but I'm going back with the stage,” she said. “Im better off at home when I have an attack, and other folks are a good deal better off without me.” : “But the stage starts so early in the morning, and you won’t have time to go over and see 'Squire Canning’s new conservatory even,” complained Cousin Sarah. “There’s nothing like it in this county, either. I suppose you’d be too. tired to go to-night?” ; At the mention of 'Squire Canning's name my aunt’s face flushed painfully, then grew deadly white. She “was indeed too tired to go anywhere,” she said. She thought she would retire to her room as soon as possible. | But she wasn’t destined to get away from the place without another ghimpse of the ’squire, for while we were all seated at the supper table, when Cousin Levi rose and opened the outside door in answer to a rap, there he stood in plain sight, and recognized ug at the first glance it was evident | smmotmflg‘fi! fl;° gy m \ l wning in

ognize him, though I suppose we made sorry work of it. Tam sure Aunt Jane did, and even Nelly grew very red in the face. : _ “The-best and kindest man in the world,” said Cousin Levi, returning from a little outside conference with him. -“He's been buying some new plants, and he wants me to bring you all over to see them after supper.”

But we were all too tired to accept the invitation.

Aunt Jane seemed less, drooping in the morning, but the stage took her mway, also the little elderly man who had only come ‘to the Falls on a voyage of discovery. Nelly and I were to remain with our cousins a fortnight, and were both anticipating a right good time. , B ’Squire Canning appeared soon after Aunt Jane had taken her departure, and Nelly and I, who were just leaving the house for a little walk, came plump upon him at the gate. He was most cordial, and said he had come to take us over his grounds and to see his conservatory. But Nelly met his advances with unusual dignity, and declined the invitation on some pretext or another. ‘ | After our first day at Cousin Levi’s

I did not see very much of my sister, for Cousin Levi lent me his gun, and as there was, all sorts of game in the woods I.did not care to be tied to the apron string of any girl, much less to a grown-up young body like Nelly, who did not like guns and objected if I killed even a woodchuck. But I was a little bit surprised as the days went on to meet her occasionally with “softhat,” as I still called him, sauntering about the lanes, the pair seeming to be on the best of terms, in fact, quite absorbed in each other. And by-and-by Cousin Sarah and Levi began to whisper in delighted wonder over the ’squire’s attentions to my sister, for, as they said, “he had seemed to be a real settled-down old bach and never was Known to look at a girl before, and it must mean something particlar. Nelly appeared to have something against him :at first, and fought shy, but now, like a sensible girl, she had made it all up with him, and seemed real pleased.”

But I did not think much about it until the day before we started for home, when Nelly came to me and told me that she'had promised to marry 'Squire Canning, that is, if Aunt Jane would give her consent, and that he.was going to take us home. to her ih his own private carriage. I was only equal to:a prolonged whistle by way of reply. ‘When wer eached Aunt Jane’s, we found her, to our astonishment, seated on the sofa in ‘the best. room with the little elderly man who had been our fellow passenger to Fowler’s Falls, close beside her. j o She rushed forward as we entered the room, and clasping her arms around Nelly's neck, burst into_tears. Then we knew what had happened without further enlightenment. Then Nelly whispered in her sympathetic ear ‘the tale of her own engagement to the ’squire, and she consented to the marriage on the spot, and all went as merry as one could desire, for Aunt Jane did not seem to mind meeting the ’squire at all, and he was all deference and politeness to her, behaving quite like one of the family.

It seems that Aunt Jane and the little elderly man, who was a Mr. Pendleton fromi Bangor, and had just made a purchase of a water privilege at Clewly’s Mills, had fallen in love with each other on the way back. to the Mills, and -he had proposed and been accepted the very next day. “And you - see, Nelly,” whispered Aunt ‘Jane, “that in spite of your contempt at fortune telling, Marthy was more than half right. She is a witch after all.” : !

But in spite of this belief, Aunt Jane grew more sensible after her marriage and troubled her head no more with Marthy's predictions. She left .off her juvenile airs also, and was forever.after, I think it safe to say, as strictly truthful as she had always been kind-hearted. -3

GOT RID OF EMPLOYE. First ‘Raised His Balary to Make It Harder, ! A :story ‘s going the rounds in Mil- ‘ waukee concerning an elderly German - who conducts :a good-sized manufacturing plant on the South side, says the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. He had an engineer at his factory who had been with him for‘ls. years, and the old gentlemaan had implicit confidence in him. ¥t was with a profound shock that he discovered finally that the trusted engineer was “grafting” most shamefully. The proprietor theught it all over for a long while and then sent for the engineer. 'When that functionary ar. rived the following dialogue took place: > . “Ah, Johm, good morning. ' John, how long haf you been vorking by this place?” “Fifteen. years.” _“Ach, s 0? And vot are your vages?” “Twenty-five dollars a week.” “M-m-m. Vell, after to-day it will be five dollars a veek more.” L The engineer thanked his employer profusely and withdrew. A week later the old gentleman senf for him again and the same conversation ensued, ending with another five dollars a week raise. ' The thirl Saturday he sent for the engineer again, and after ‘the . same questions apd answers he raised his salary anotlrer five dollars a week. . : On the fourth Saturday the engineer was again summowred before the boss. J “How long have you been vorking here, John?” asked thms proprietor. “Fifteen years,” replied the engi: neer, who by this time had grown tg expect the weekly quesfion and sal ary raise as a regular thing. = “Aad how much vages are yow getting?” § L I “Forty dollars a week” Py “Ach, so? Vell, you are fired.” “Fired!” exclaimed the engineer,al . most fainting. “Why, you have been raising my salary. five dollars at a clip for the last three wooks.” ~ “Sure I have,” roared the Teutonie boss, all his indignation faring out at once. “And the reason that I did it vas that it shall make It harder for you vhen I fire you, yom lnafer.” |

| Do 3 N l'y,-’ ; 3 . ; £ 7 ,‘W \ e 2 f N sB~ 1 X . 7 ‘"'C!'s ..--s".""WV\W\W\W HANDLING HEAVY HOGS. Convenient Arrangement by Which One Man Can Do Work Alone. The old fashion of having a lot of help around at hog killing time is going out owing to the use of better appliances “for handling the animals after kililng. I rigged up a simple arrangement so that I am able to handle heavy hogs without assistance, says a writer in Farm and Home. I built a fire box with a fiue, b, of ~ ~y ’i b /‘ =lzl:m_.-'_.~. *‘—““‘k"“. IN\t /\ i/ 7\ . ' R F -] 7\ . 7/.4:-:-:-3}',-(‘» == [ : :;'_.--_.”:"'_"“—-‘.2‘-—.:— /,‘ D- i A One-Man Butchering Plant. three joints of ©0!1 stovepipe. Theé vat was made of heavy galvanized iron four feet long by two feet wide and 18 inches- deep. . Over this I erected a frame of two by four-inch strips, upon which 'I placed an old traveler from a hay carrier. With the windlass arrangement, a, and the tackle, e, to which were attached the four feet of the hog, I can convey it from the vat to the bench. A Tope, ‘¢, passing over the pulley at g, serves to pull the carrier, d, over the bench from the vat. I have seen -arrangements that were more simple than this but have never used one that was any easier to work.

"CANKER OR SORE MOUTH. -A Disease ‘Which Is Apt to Appear in the Herd in the Spring. ; - It usually happens in the spring that there is a great deal of complaint from this trouble. The disease is one that is quite common in almost every section of the country and while it has been noticed that it is more prevalent some seasons than others, we feel justified in quoting from Mr. S. M. Shepard in his excellent book, “The Hog in America,” on account of the number of letters we have recently received asking for information about this disease. Mr. Shepard thinks’ it Is usually the result of wunhealthful milk from the sow or from poison on her teats obtained by contact with poisonous vines or wet grass. He says: “The first symptoms are lumps on the sows’ udder, and sometimes sores; next will be moticed blisters on the lip, tongue and miouth of the pig; the tongue and lips become swollen and the roof and the sides of the mouth inflamed and covered with deep red or white blister spots. Swab the pig's mouth out thoroughly with a solution of carbolic :acid and water sufficiently strong to make the flesh upon the arm tingle. Apply with a rag or small piece of sponge tied on @ stick. Strong sage tea applied in the same way is good and in addition blow powdered sulphur through a straw into ' the pig’s mouth. Bathe the sow's teats and udder with a weak solution of carbolic acid, and keep afflicted litters away from other pigs.” |

THE FARM STOCK. Improved breeds are .mast. profitable. . Old horses with poor teeth meed ground grain. Save waste grain -by grinding their feed for them. . : It's a good plan to have a veterinarian inspect the teeth before winter time and do any floating that is necessary. ; Too many feed the sow too much corn and when the pigs arrive they are weak, the sow is feverish, and the result is only abouwt :a half crop of pigs saved. : - I always fatten my hogs on old corn. In this way I get them to market earlier in the fall and secure!the high prices. Do not feed old, hard corn to hogs until it is ground and soaked. Hogs are apt to get too hot in ‘'a straw pile them chill, and trouble begins. : In feeding hawy to hogs cat and moisten it and mix with meal for A-1 results. :

One ear of corn a day and all the alfalfa hay she will. eat will carry a brood sow through the winter in good breeding condition, says ex-Gov. Hoard, who keeps his that way,

Beans Make Good Pig Feed.

Mixed with other grains, cull heans may be fed to sheep and swine. Scmetimes they are used for dairy cows. In tests of feeding swine on culled beans, it was found that an average gain of a littl® more than one pound per day could be made, at a cost of about $2.50 per 100 pounds. There is practically 'no better way to make use of culled beans than to feed them to hogs. The beans should only be fed when cooked, and to do this, they should be soaked for several hours before the cooking is begun. They can be cooked either by running live steam ‘into a barrel containing them or by putting them into an ordinary feed cooker or pot over a fire. Fur small quantities the pot is more convenient. ittt et : Treating Horses’ Hoofs. For horses that ' have. eaten sgo much corn that the feet begin to swell near the top of the hoofs, the following mixture is advised: Poultice the feet for two days with any good poultice, such as bread and milk, bran or flax seed meal. Keép the poultice hot by the continued application of hot water while it is on the foot. When it is removed, the part should be washed well with warm water and castile .soap suds, then dried with a linen cloth. Make a mixture of one part carbolic acid and three of glycerine by weight and apply this to the affected parts twice each day. S e g et ~ Breeding Qualities—lt is essential that all breeding animals should stand up in good shape and have plenty of bone, muscle and constitution. .

~ EXPOSURE OF COWS. Dairy Animals Need More Protection ‘ Than Beef Animals. " Dairy cows will not stand the exposure that beef cows will stand. This is one of the arguments put forth by some of the advocates of the use of beef cows for the produc tion .of milk. We have to acknowl edge its force. If cows are to be left to hustle around wintry strawstacks perhaps it is better to keep beef cows than any other. .This can be said for them, that the fat that is laid up from high feeding is @ distributed through their flesh and forms also a layer under the skin, which serves as a non-conductor of heat. This prevents the escape of the heat from the body and gives the cows a certain amount of protection when they are exposed. The cow of a dairy:breed makes all this fat up into milk and does not have it to use as wadding under her skin. The cold air strikes her skin and she shivers. Therefore the dairy cow must not be exposed -to the cold rains of fall and spring or to the cold winds of winter. A Holstein, Guernsey, Jersey, or Ayrshire cow-of pure breeding must be given a fair amount of protection in winter, though' not so much as was once thought to be necessary.

Some years ago one of the prominent dairymen living in northern Illinois came out with a theory which he promulgated that the dairy cow needed no protection in winter. He had made an experiment and found that when his cows were allowed to fight their way through snow drifts and suffer other hardships they did as well as at any other time. He preached his theory quite vigorously, but ‘did not obtain many followers. His experiments may have been made with cows thdt belonged to the beef breeds of that were grades having in them a large per cent. of -beef blood. ‘ .

If there is one thing that seems to have been fairly well demonstrated by a large number of experiments, says Farmers’ Review, it is that exposure of cows belonging to the dairy breeds lessens the milk supply and the fat supply. In Holland aad some other countries the cows are frequently blanketed in cold days-in spring and fall and are warmly housed in winter. Protection is given them against cold and wet, and it is a generally accepted tenet that exposure reduces profits. In winter it may be that some of the protection given such cows is excessive, but .we cannot’ afford to go far in the opposite direction.

FEED RAC‘WOR SHEEP. One Which Is in Use on Experimental ~Farm in Louisiana. a . N Dr. D. H. Dalrymple of Louisiana in a bulletin from thé experiment station illustrates a feed rack that is being used in experiments made at the station. A good idea of one of these racks is given in the accompanying e 7 ; /// ,// 4%l‘%‘\‘%\\\ / / /A 1 & : 7 AR EOR AN .u{"‘i 1 "‘)/}‘ NS 7 g N ’\\\g\&‘\\\\\\t“l\};\% yV"’ p \; i AAT T T T e - T NSNS (L T~ == S = T g = = : A Good Feed Rack for Sheep. illustration. Its advantages are a covered manger for roughage, a shelf to catch the waste, and a platform for the fore feet of the sheep or lambs. ‘This sketch ought to contain some suggestions that will prove useful to those building feeding racks. THE GOAT IN AGRICULTURE. No Better Helper Can Be Found to . Clear Land of Briers or Bushes. The owner of a badly brier infested or bush covered farm has before him an expensive and disagreeable task, if he intends, to clear it by manual labor. Many millions of dollars have beenexpended in this country in that kind of work, and many millions more will be spent in the same direction. But the Angora goat will do -the work for nothing and will pay for.the privilege. It prefers briers and bushes to the best clover or grass that was ever grown. An Jowa land owner has cleared 600 acres of briers and bushes through this- agency. He estimates that the goat has increased the va'ue of this land at least ten dollars an acre, and while the animal has been making the owner money in that direction it has been contributing to his bank account with its hair, skin and flesh. Nor has it bpen troubled during the time Iy the great enemy of the sheep, the Jog. ; |

‘ - MATCHED HORSES. Are More Valuable to Sell and wive Better Service to Farmers. There is a -decided advantase in having a matched team of draft hozses, especially when it comes to selling them in the open market. There is an increased value of from 25 to 40 per cent. in a team that is perfectly matched as to color, size, conformation and pulling. power. A matched team is not only more attractive in appearance, thus furnishing an asset to the city buyer, but they are actually more valuable from the standpoint of efficiency. In yiew of the above facts it is advantageous for a farmer to endeavor to send matched teams rather than in. dividuals, to market as a good matcheq team will usually bring far mora than the individuals woulil sell for separately. In selling horses on the market it should be remesnbered that the buyer is guided first by appearance, which includes amount of flesh and grooming, and it is only a}f_tcr‘.‘é‘wfij chasing that he learns efiviency.

REMEDY FOR TORN MAT;I"ING.

Darn with Colors of Raffia to Match Straw; l TEAGHE

‘Often in moving a heavy piece of furniture the matting on the floor will have an ugly hole torn in it. The torn place is usually where it is the most noticeable and cannot be covered with a rug. There is an excellent way to remedy this defect by darning the place with raffia of colors to match the matting straw. It is much better than threads and the work can be neatly done. It may be necessary to run heavy cords across the work through which. the raffia is to be woven. The threads are sewed in place with alarge darning needle. Torn places on the edge of matting can be remedied in the same manner. It is best to sew matting together with a loose stitch, using very heavy linen thread for the purpose, but where this cannot be done then use the regular matting tacks or ordinary tacks, placing first one side, then the opposite side to prevent the baggy appearance which so often occurs. Never use a claw hammer to lift tacks from matting, since it invariably breaks the straw. Get an old blunt chisel, place it beneath the matting and tack head, pound gently with the hammer and pry the tack up. This will draw the tack out straight and leave the matting unbroken: If matting is used in a room during the winter, cover the floor with paper coyvering and pad lightly with newspapers. The cold air cannot penetrate a floor covering of that kind,

VARIETY OF. THE CAKE MAKER. Meant to Satisfy Longing for “Some-, : thing Different.” Instead of coqking all the sugar or ginger cookies the same size try cutting some out with small cans, baking the same as larger cookies. Make a boiled, frosting of one cup of sugar and a little water, boiled until it will thread, and then poured slowly over the beaten whites of two eggs. Beat until cold. Flavor and spread on small cookies; dip into cocoanut and press two .cookies together. This makes a neat little cake, and may be made with colored or chocolate frosting and cocoanut omitted, just as one pleases. : The small round centers of dough left when cutting out doughnuts are nice fried and dipped in the frosting and cocoanut. : If sponge or angel food cake is tough, place in a stone crock or jar, cover carefully, and set in the cellar or cool place for a day or two, at the end of which time the cake will be moist and tender. = The ordinary paper cracker boxes, three by 12 inches in size, are nice to bake loaf cakes in, requiring little fire, and the parafin paper with which they are lined prevents the cake from sticking. ! ,

Pantry Lore. - : Cover the shelves with white oilcloth; they are so much more easily kept clean. » Keep dry supplies in glass preserve jars, labeled. : Have sewing implements at hand for dressing fowls—strong cotton, celluleid thimble, tape, twine, needle and scissors. - . Keep a roll of cheesecloth for bags and strainers. Cotton cloth for pudding and dumpling bags will be needed; also bands for binding the beef roast. - A big apron, a basin of warm water -and towels are essentials. . Sugar, flour, soap and starch can be bought in large quantities at a saving, for they will not spoil. Perishable things, like cornmeal, oatmeal, codfish, raisins, olive oil and potted and canned goods had best be purchased in small lots. ; Curried Vegetables. Four level tablespoonfuls butter, one-half onion sliced, four level tablespoonfuls flour, one level tablespoonful - curry powder; one-half level teaspoonful salt, two cupfuls hot milk, one cupfal cooked peas (fresh or canned), one cupful potato (diced), one cupful turnip (diced). ~ Cook the onion in the butter for five minutes, but do not brown; add the flour, curry powder and salt and stir until blended. Add gradually the milk and stir "until thick and smooth. Strain this over the vegetables and heat in a double boiler. - Cottage Pudding. To be eaten with sliced oranges and whipped cream: Two eggs, one cup-. ful of sugar, one and a half cups of flour, one-half cup of sweet milk, butter size of an egg, two teaspoons ‘of baking powder. Steam 30 minutes. Slice two oranges thin. Add one cup of sugar, let stand one hour’ When -ready to serve cut pudding in slices, cover with oranges, then . whipped cream. ) : : | i King’s Pudding. Two cups bread crumbs, one-half cup suet or butter, one-half cup molasses, one egg, one teaspoon of soda, one-half cup sweet milk, one-half teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon cinnamen, pinch of salt; boil or steam like a loaf of brown bread two hours; serve with lemon or hard sauce., . ; ' Kettle Needn’t Bqil Over. When the kettle threatens to boil over grease the rim lightly with a bit “of butter. The contents will come as | _high as this danger line, but they will | come no higher. Saucepans in which ‘vegetables and other things are cooking may be treated in this manner, as can also the coffee pot. e A Favorite Dessert. Make a ‘sponge cake and, while warm, cut into rounds with biscuit cutter. Have ready some gelatine jelly in individual molds (made the day before). On each round of sponge cake pile a layer of whipped sweet- | ened cream, then slip a jely form | on each and send to the table. | . Baked Greed Peas. | " One pint of peas soaked over night. | [m morning put Into bean pot with one. | %fltwmm”w fl«kflrmhid et sgt e e

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2 A\ - Sl Senna acts %(\mt'ly yeT PromPT- : li; on-t e bOWEIS.- cle_(mses ‘) D{S »:f »y 3 ~ assists one n overconng habitual constipati } }\(l \tu(_l COHS%‘)O on | ermanen‘(‘ly. o get ils eneficic | effects buy t e genune. anu{actured_\ythe e Fic Sxrup Co. _ SOLD BY LEADING DRUCGISTS-50¢ pe-BOTTLE. FOR SOLDIERS AND HEIRS ° fil federal soldiers and sailors who served 90 days tween 1861 and 1866 and who homesteaded lessthan 160 acres before June 23, 1874, are entitled toadditional homestead rights which 1 buy. If soldier isdead, his heirs can sell. Talk toold soldiers, widowsand heirs. | Find some soldier relative who went West or South, | after the war and homesreaded government land. Get busyand make some easy money. Write HENRY N. Copp, Washington, D. C., for ;nnher particulars, First Mortg oans ' First Mortgage Farm L E If you wish to place your money where, if banks | fail or burglars come, your security will not be ; affected. Write me and I will tell you about first. mortgage loans on fine farms worth §75 to { 2100 peracre in South-East Nebraskaand NorthEast Kansas. The richest agricultural section of the West. Twenty years of experience without the loss of a cent. . HENRY C. SMITH, Falls City. Nebraska. DA'RY'NG roising clover. timothy, 8 8 e vegelabies. strawber--lies, ~mail grians, pouliry. “eep, cattie, hogs or horses. are as nrofitabiy underiaken in Btevens Jounty as in Towa, lilinois or Indiana. WANTaD, tenants or purcuasers tor several improved farms hereabouts. Easy terms given purchasers. Full particulars by maii. Write e at'Morris, Minn. - LEWIS C. SPOONER. MA land for sale, easy terms,§l 10 8% per CAUFOR acie. Une cro, pays it. *Wondertul returus Irow - grapes, peacoes, _cun‘mloupvs,hfreeb potatoes ard barries. Located near greal l-{‘n(n.\ markets in celeprated TURL. CK ll(l{;(-fi’i TON ISTRICT. Abundant water. Write for literfature, questions answered. HILMAR LAND COMPANY, wnerse Turlock. Stanis aus Counts . : ALBERTA PEACH SALES Zrett,soventucre two hundred peracre, ‘| Apples fifty to one hundred and fifty.’ Berries and ; | truck make large profits. lmproved farms ten te ! forty dollars per aere. Unimproved two to eight, | Healthy. Splendid water. Write for tookict “Jonn- | son County.” Johnson County Realty Company, ; Clarksville, Arkansas. |RFOUR HIDE TANNEDIORES CATTLE HIIDES make fine, warm robes. We are tbhe oldest house doing this kind of work. Are responsible, and know how. Write for prices. THE WORTHING & ALGER Cfl,, Hilisdale, Mich. : el i 526 C Crock Pacific Investment Syndicate, & <an Francisco, buys and sells bonds and listed stockson . commission. Cash invested in first morigages. Write us if you ‘'want to make mofe money on large or small. capital.’ Our city has great future, and we have splendid chances for yoy right now. Watson K. Coleman, Patent Attorney.Washin§l<m, D.C. Advice i . frée. Terms low. Highest ref, sl W e el A. N. K—A (1908—1) . 2211.