Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 May 1905 — Page 6

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Twas a lonely little homestead, the home of pioneers. On the wide open prairie, where passed my early years; Sometimes on the threshold harvests with plenty filled the bin, And sometimes on the threshold Hard Times stood peering in Then serious discussions of ways and means occurred, To be finally concluded by my father's cheery word, Whatever we may do without, whatever we may get. There's one thing that is certain, we can do without a deM." Twas a bit of homely wisdom, with a touch of honest pride, Through good or evil fortune it was never set aside; Many summers, many winters, with their shadows and their'sun. With their happy days and sad days, have vanished one by one; Time and Change, the unrelenting, swept the little home away, The open, lonesome prairie is a fruitful field to-day, But the voices of the homestead, I can hear their echoes yet. And what may come or not come, I can do without a debt. Woman's Home Companion.

m "TIMES" id iAiuuuia rm ran r.-vt rn rert rsn r?n r?n EORGE was quite ready to argue the point. He sat down and lit a cigarette. "Now. then, let's be calm," he said. "I'm quite calm," said the girl. "Very well, then, why won't you marry me? What's wrong with. me V "My dear George," said Violet, "I am not like other girls. For any other girl you would make, I am sure, an excellent husband. But the man I marry" her voice grew more gentle "must be a hero, a man out of common, a man whose name is in everybody's mouth." She looked at the photograph of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain that stood on her desk. "My dear girl!" said George. Violet gazed earnestly at him. "I , like you, George," she said, at last "When you are famous I will marry you." . George shifted awkwardly in his seat "Look here, Vi," he said; "if you want me to go about making speeches all over the place, I'll do it. of course. At the same time ' "I certainly don't want you to go about making speeches all over the place, as you describe it," Violet Interrupted; "there ,are other ways of being famous." "I say, what do you call famous? I got my 'blue." "One sign of fame is the frequent appearance of one's name in the papers." "Saturday Sportsman," said George, promptly. "Every week, and again on Mondays. 'Back, G. Hopper" "I don't refer to sporting papers," said Violet, chillingly. "Arthur Clinton has had some signed verses in the morning Press." , "All right," said George; "111 take to poetry if you like." "don't be so absurd! I only instanced Mr. Clinton as an example. Can't yoa understand that I want to be the wife of some one? I want to be able to take up the Times each morning and read my husband's name in it I don't want him to be a nonentity. If I married you, no one would wonder if I was the wife of the George Hopper." "Hang it all, no other George Hopper has played for the South." "I don't happen to be Interested In football, you see. Now," George, dear, I do like you and if you'll show me that you really want to be, and will try to be, some one, I'll I'll think over what you asked me." She smiled at him. "I do want to be some one," said George; "I want to be the husband of the Miss Thurston." Violet smiled gravely. Flattery never had any effect on her. "George," she said, "when your name appears in the Times, then come and ask me again." She added, in reply to a question o! George's, that the advertising and iporting pages don't count Pressed further, she disqualified also the Agony column. He left with no certain Idea as to what step he should take. Next day he called on Ruth Clifford and discussed the matter with her. Ruth and he had been friends since childhood. George poured out his woes. "Yes," said Ituth; "it's very Interesting. I suppose you realize that the isn't in the least suited to you." "Of courser said George. "That's why I fell in love with her." "I know, as a fact, that she paints," murmured Ruth, inconsequently. "H'shs! No confidences." "Dear boy, I want you to marry somebody nice." "So do I. That's why I want your help. Now, what would you suggest? Do you think I might write a letter to the Times? I could write on the decadence, or something, of Rugby football. Only they'd probably shove it on the sporting page.". "It's ridiculous," said Ruth, "the whole idea. She wouldn't marry you Just because you had your name in the Times." "She said she would, and she happens to be one of the few women, who aren't of opinion that only men are supposed to keep their word." . "Thanks!" said Ruth, angrily. "And I might reply that, anyhow, it isn't rery honorable to get a girl by a trick like that What she meant was something quite different" "It isn't a trick," said George. "She really is fond of me, and this is simply ft test to see If I would take any trouble to please her." "Oh, go away!" said Ruth. "I say, what are you angry about? Hang it all, why you're not crying? What's the matter?" "Nothing at all." said Ruth quickly. George left in some concern. He felt that he had put his foot into it somehow. After considering the matter in all its bearings he gave it up, and began instead to think of Violet and the Times. When he saw Ruth again he had a really Immense idea. "You see," he said, "it's well known that the Times reports all law cases with great fullness." "Well?" George hesitated. "Yoa see, the idea was, I might easily get chuckeL out of Da Albanbra to-morrow niht.

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REVENGE rrei ra i n vi revt rai rra Lsa rft 1 rfl t n?n -George!' "The fine wouldn't be more than shillings, and, say half-a-sov. to the Alhambra man to do it gently. You see, knowing him from last 'varsity match makes it so easy. And then the Times reporting all Jaw cases so fully " "Stop it, George!" "Of course, the pater might see It and stop my allowance, and the matter would be upset " "I should think so!" "Only one must take risks of some sort. What do you think?" Ruth picked up a heavy ivory paper knife from the table and went over to his chair. "Now," she said, waving it threateningly over his head, "look me in the eyes, George." He did so admlrlrlngly. She had never looked so pretty. "Oh!" cried Ruth. "Now then, promIse me faithfully on your word of honor that you'll never do anything so absolutely Idiotic." "But, Ruth, dear " "Promise!" she said, holding the point of the paper knife at his heart "Yes, yes; I promise." Ruth sank back on the sofa. "There! she said. "Thank heaven we've knocked that out of his silly old head! Now let's us talk about something else. Who won on Saturday? Oh, but I know. Congratulations !" A week later and the Times was still worrying along without George's name. He had written one letter to that pa per, pointing out what the government should have done in a certain crisis, but It had not been printed. Ruth and he had talked the matter over at great length and on mar y afternoons. "If the worst comes to the worst" he said on one occasion, "I can always figure In the death column." "I am afraid It would be too late then." "True," said George, thoughtfully. "I saw her in the park with Mr. Clinton yesterday," said Ruth. "Why not?" said George, coldly. About a fortnight after this he met Violet Thurston suddenly at the corner of Piccadilly. "Well, how are you?" she said, giving him her hand. "Oh, very well, thanks." "I read the Times every day," she said, meaningly. "Indeed?" he said politely. "Do you get it under the new system for three pounds, or did you always take it in?" She looked at him In astonishment He laughed nervously. "Oh, a Joke of mine," he said, hurriedly, "I thought I thought I'd take you in, don't you know. As a matter of fact, I may say that before the end of the week " He stopped and nodded mysteriously. It seemed the best way out of it "Really?" "Yes." "How clever of you!" "Well," he said, modestly, "it isn't all my Idea. Miss Clifford and I have been putting our heads together " Miss Thurston had been admiring a hat in the window. She turned back to him. "Doing what?" she said absently. 'Have beenHe broke off. Miss Thurston had turned to the window. The full meaning of his words came to him suddenly. He tried not to laugh, and made strange noises within. The joke, he thought would appeal to Ruth. Violet finished her inspection of the hat "Wake up, George!" she said. He came to himself with a start "I'm going to Surrey to-morrow," Violet went on; "so, if there is anything in the Times you must send it on. I'll give you the address. I shall expect it, remember." George was now fairly caught "I think it will be Friday," he said. "Good-br." "Now, what on earth am I to do?" he thought as he walked along Piccadilly. "I couldn't get anything in the Times by Friday if I wanted to. Hanged if I hadn't forgotten all about the arrangement meeting her suddenly like that!" He looked at the address she had given him. "Good Lord!" he said. It worried him for 20 yards, and then he returned to the thoughts that Violet had Interrupted before. Opposite the Green Park he spotted Ruth Clifford across the road. He went quickly over; as he did so, the great plan came to him. "Hello and hooray!" he said. "What's the matter?" said Ruth. "Everything. You're the one person I wanted to see. I've got the most glorious Idea." "Still thinking 'of the silly old Times?" I "Wait, oh, wait! Let's find a shady corner in the park and I'll tell you. Bless you, dear, you do look ripping today. And It's such a lovely plan!" On Friday evening Violet Thurston received a copy of the Times addressed in George's handwriting. She opened it eagerly and blue pencil marks caught her eye. She read: "A marriage has been arranged and will etortly fci-s placs fcetwun Gcczz-

Hopper, youngest, son of Gen. Sir Arthur Hopper, K. C. B., and Ruth Emily Clifford, only daughter of the Tate James Clifford." London Sketch.

ELIMINATINO THE OBVIOUS. Content I Found In Searching for Con cealed Opportunities and Joys When at Mr. Russell's death it was discovered that his fortune had melted away in bad investments, and Mrs. Russell and Rosamund were nearly penniless, their friends looked at each other In consternation. "What will they do?" they exclaimed. "There is Mrs. Russell practically ah invalid, and as for Rosamund she has never lifted a finger for herseli in her life. She will be so helpless poor girl!" Rut fora helpless girl, Rosamund proved remarkably energetic. She and her mother moved at once into a srnalJ flat, and then Rosamund secured a po sition In a bookstore. Occasionally some of her old acquaintances met hex when she was on her way to he: work, and to each other they confided their surprise that she looked "just the same as usual." Finally one day one of them went lr. to see her. - "Isn't it dreadful, you poor thing? she asked, sympathetically. "What is dreadful?" Rosamund returned. "Why, being in a store the noun and work and the people you have tc wait on, and everything." "Oh. that!" Rosamund laughed. "1 don't think of that part of it at all You f ee, there are so many othei things to think of instead. I'm really getting Joe he's the little wrapper so that he likes to lift his hat to me and Mary Dennis Is beginning to b interested in books, though she doesn't suspect it in the least. And it's such fun to help bewildered ladies find out what they want and to beguile girls from cheap novels to good ones, and help boys to know the real heroes ol life. I've been making discoveries, you see. One of them is that the world is just as large from Washington street as from Highland avenue, and another, that you see just about what you look for in life. It's worth being in a store to make discoveries like that" In a recent book Stewart Edward White declared to a mystified young woman that the secret of seeing deer is "the elimination of the obvious." It is the secret of other and greater successes, no less. Any one can see the obvious the common tasks, troubles, inconveniences, disappointments, of diflicult places: to set one's mind free from these, to search instead for the joys and opportunities which they conceal this is one of the great victories of life. Youth's Companion. CELIA'S MIND. She Would Insist Upon Lending It to All Her Acquaintances. She had a very, good mind, clever and artistic, and not wanting in humor; Celia had a perfect right to enjoy it The trouble was but perhaps on of Celia's typical days will explain the case. Celia was going downtown to do a few errands. Upon the car she met Gertrude Reynolds, who was taking a water-color to be framed. "How are you going to frame It?" Celia asked, instantly interested. "I thought I'd have a gold mat." Gertrude replied. "Ob, you're making a great mistake," Celia declared, positively. "It should have a black mat to relieve the snow, and then a gold frame if you want Mr. Wheeler, the artist, had one framed so, and you've no Idea how much finer the effect was. You try it and see." "Well, perhaps," Gertrude answered, doubtfully, as she left the car. A little later Celia came across Amy Dutton, who was starching for red silk for a waist ' "Oh, why do you get red?" Celia exclaimed. "With your eyes and complexion you never ought to touch it Blue is your color." "But I'm so tired of blue," Amy protested. "Well, of course it's your waist," Celia replied, "but I think you'll regret it if you get the red." Three minutes later she was arguing with another friend over a book to be chosen for a gift The friead had decided upon a charming novel which had just come out, while Celia earnestly recommended a volume of poems. "But Maud doesn't care for poetry," the friend explained. "I know, and how much she Is losing because of her fancy that she doesn't care for it," Celia said. "Don't you see, this Is your opportunity to make her a real gift one that will open a new window in her life? A novel will be read and thrown aside, but the love oc poetry will be a joy to her as long as she lives. You'd better take my advice. I'm sure I'm right" Yes, Celia had a good mind. "If only," one of her friends said, hesitatingly, one day, for they all liked Celia. "If only she wouldn't insist upon lending it to other people when they don't want it!" Youth's Companion. The Land of Thunder. Java is said to be the region of the globe where it thunders oftenest, having thunder-storms 97 days in the year. After It are Sumatra, with 86 days, Hindostan with 5G, Borneo with 54, the Gold Coast with 52, and Rio de Janeiro with 51. In Europe, Italy occupies the first place with 38 days of thunder, while' France and Southern Russia have 10 days. Great Britain and Switzerland have each seven days, and Norway has four. Thunder is rare at Cairo, being heard only three days in the year, and extremely rare in Northern Turkestan and the Polar regions. Oldest Mail Carrier. Thomas Bailey, of Hillsboro, Ind., 81 years old on Christmas, is the oldest mail carrier in the Hoosier State. He makes six trips daily between the railroad station and the postoffice, the round trip being just a mile. Mr. Bailer began carrying the mall in 18G9 and 1 as attended to his duties continuously! ever since, with the exception et three months. His salary is $1S0 a year. A certain man was flirting with a certain girl. "Don't hold her hand." a friend ed vised tin; "she'll tell"

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SELECTING BROOD SOWS. The selection of brood sows is a very difficult matter, not only to the amateur hog raiser, but also to the most experienced judges. Even tne most proficient connoisseurs of ho'gs are very often disappointed in their choice. A sow that seems externally perfect In shape, form and size may prove to be barren or otherwise deficient. Brood sows should not be chosen until they are about five or six months old, as it takes thAn about that time to round out in figures, thus enabling you to choose more satisfactorily. Good large sows should be chosen. They should be not only large but proportionately as long. They should have a good, blocky form just as broad across the belly as across the back. There is an old, old verse which brings the truth out about as good as anything I can say: "A broad belly and broad back Brings the dollars ev'ry whack." They should have a goodly number of well developed teats, for In most cases this not only indicates a good milkCR, but also a tendency to be prolific. A young sow or gilt should not be bred until the last of December or the first of January, as they seem to do better and farrow about the first of May when the weather is warm and there is green vegetation to be had. Old sows may be bred any time from the middle to the last of November with perfect safety if a good shelter is provided for them. Swine should have good shelter. This is especially true of the brood sows. How many of us just merely throw a few old brush across a corner of the pen and pile a lot of old hay upon it? And then expect our sows, wih such a shelter, to successfully farrow and raise from eight to twelve fine pigs twice a year. Not only is the shelter of our swine usually insufficient, but our bedding is often very scarce. Bedding is something that a brood sow has positively got to have especially in cold weather. We can't expect our sows to be successful with her offspring unless they have a warm place to stay. When your sows are about to farrow they should be given a good bed of straw or hay, and let me add don't be stingy, with your straw enough don't cost you a little of pigs. . The feed of brood sows should never be limited entirely to one kind of grain, and especially is this true if you are feeding corn. Corn produces only fat. and a sow fed solely upon it lacks the stamina and strength and does not beget as vigorous pigs as one fed upon mixed feed. The ration should be so balanced as not to get the sow too fat and at the same time not allow her to become thin. Corn, oats and wheat make a very good ration, and this occasionally mixed with vegetables, such as artichokes, beets, turnips, etc., will usually bring a sow to the farrowing time in good shape when good judgment is exercised in feeding it. I will say one more thing In reference to farrowing: Always keep your eye on your brood sow, especially about farrowing time. Then Is when they need your attention, ard then is when your attention is most richly repaid. E. L. T. in Indiana Farmer. FERTILITY OF EGGS. The question of fertility should be of more importance than how to get eggs, especially at this time of the year. There are few farmers that separate the breeding stock from the fiock, but it Is certainly best to do so if one is desirous of good results. It is now time to select the fowls which you expect to furnish eggs for the early hatches. It should not be treated as a light matter for upon this point much of your success may depend. If you have fowls that have been sick or drooping during the fall and winter do not use them for it would certainly have a bad effect, even if they are well, seemingly. After the stock is selected, see to.it that they are. well fed and cared for. Starved stock never did much good in reproduction, we cannot expect strong, healthy chicks from a flock of this kind. Do not neglect to feed foods rich in lime for these help to make the shell and furnish material In the egg to make the bones of the little down birds. Meat and the various grains will supply flesh. Keep the drinking vessels well filled with water, which is the necessity for a large per cent of the egg is made up of water. Provide nest-boxes with clean straw; change the contents often. It is fald a nest that is clean and properly made is an inducement to laying hens and not only that but dirty eggs are spoiled by being left in the nest and allowed to chill during cold weather; they should be gathered at least three times a day. Keep in an even temperature until ready to set them, which time should not exceed four or fiv-3 days. Chicks are seldom hatched earlier than March with hens, and from this time on during the entire summer one may arrange to have hatches to come off even a3 late as August or September. The late hatched chicks made splendid frys. M. D. H. in Indiana Farmer. AT SEED-BUYING TIME. It 13 estimated that If the corn cicp of tt.e country could be increased ten per cent it would add to the production of wealth in the United , States over seventy millions of dollars. That the corn crop can be increased this small per cent is well known, for it requires only the selection of the best seed and .the best methods of cultivation to do it. The trouble is, corn is too easily grown and the crop b usually large enous'n so that

there are enough kernels left In the crib for seed. So the average farmer argues, "why should I pay out good money for seed corn when there is more than I need in my own crib?" He forgets that tne seed corn in his cribs may be the kernels dropped from nubbins and if so they will produce nubbins. The tendency to pay out as little as possible for seeds is wrong. It is safe to say that in a normal season one would make, more clean cash from crops grown from the best seed sold regardless of price than from double the quantity of what may be called cheap seeds. If you don't believe in the value of the best seeds, test them in a small way. Take, for example, a few seed tubers from the potato pile in the cellar, then buy from some reputable seedsman the same quantity of the same variety, cut the seed In the same way, plant at the same time and give the same care and cultivation. At harvest time compare results and if you do not find the argument in favor of higaclass seed a solid one we'll take it all back. Indianapolis News. KEEPING MILK RECORDS. With feeding grains very high In price one is tempted to feed more roughage and less grain and unless there is a decided falling off in the Quantity of milk received is apt to deceive himself with the idea that he is saving money. It is a good plan to try different combinations or rations and note results. To try them, without keeping a record of the milk, at least by weight, is of little use. Take a ration of, say, gluten feed, wheat bran and oil meal. Try these in varying proportions of each, keeping the record carefully and thus determine which is the most profitable. The same plan may be readily carried out with any other combinations of grains. Then, too, experiment with theroughage as with the grains and see what difference, If any, is in the results when the corn stover Is cut or crushed before feeding. Also note the difference which may result from giving rather warm water. There la more in obtaining a balanced ration than simply feeding a combination which some one says is good. It may be good for his herd, but, by experimenting you may be able to hit on a combiiation which will be better for your cows and, perhaps, at less cost. Indianapolis News. SOWING FERTILIZERS ON GRASLAND. It should be done early in the season, while there is plenty of moisture in the soil to render the materials soluble and of use as plant food. The fertilizers best adapted to grass seem to do better on land that is a little moist rather than on dry ground. Apply while there is a good seeding of grass or sward, otherwise the land should be plowed, devoted to other crops and again reseeded. With these conditions a email amount applied each spring will produce very satisfactory returns. Several years since the writer selected a field of several acres, second or third year from seeding, with a good sward, and sowed thereon only one hundred pounds of a standard fertilizer to the acre. ' It was a hard-pan soil and a little moist. There was a large crop of hay, estimated at one-half a ton extra' for the hundred pounds of fertilizer. The next spring the same amount was again sown with like results, and this practice was continued for four years, when it became necessary to plow, devote to other crops and seed again to grass. The experience seemed remarkable, and convinced the writer that it Is often better to apply a small amount of available fertilizer of any kind every year rather than much more all at one time. E. R. Towle in Massachusetts Ploughman. FORM IN HOG. Any creature of symmetrical proportions is a pleasing sight and in selecting hogs the farmer should have an eye to certain characteristics which go to make up the perfect animal, one that may be depended on to attract buyers, because it promises to please the packer, who is the final judge of its merit and determines the profit for the owner. Breeders generally, have sought to produce a quick growing, ; early maturing hog and have succeeded fairly well in establishing a type that might be termed. perfect according to our modern notions. Such a hog may be described as a rectangular solid supported on short, strong legs; the head small, with medium drooping ears that do not obscure the vision; short neck with size of shoulder-corresponding as nearly as possible to that of the ham, straight back, with well curved ribs having a uniform covering of flesh; as little flabbiness in flank and belly as may be and a deep heavy ham. Such an animal will make . carcass with the least percentage of waste and the largest proportion of high priced meat, being therefore more valuable and commanding the highest market price.PERPETUITY POST PAINT. Take boiled linseed oil, and mix it with charcoal dust until the mixture has the consistency of ordinary paint. Give to the posts, which should be ( well dried, two coats of the mixture before setting them, and no farmer will live long enough to see the same posts rotten. The posts, which may be of the softest wood, will cost less than three cents each to prepare, and will also be a great saving in the cost ot building fences. R. M. Field ...

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FRUIT BISCUITS. Mix half a cupful of butter into four cupfuls of bread dough, also a halt cupful of sugar, a third of a cupful of chopped citron, the same of figs and candied cherries; add four wellbeaten eggs. Then knead thoroughly and set to rise. When light, make into biscuit form, brush with the white of an egg, dust with sugar and set again to rise. Then bake in a moderate oven. PINEAPPLE CREAM PIE. Cream one-half cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar; add the yolks of two eggs beaten and mixed with one-half cupful of milk and one cup ful of freshly grated pineapple. Turn into a pie pan lined with paste and bake in a moderately hot oven. Beat the whites of two eggs to a foam, add two tablespoonfuls of sifted pow. dered sugar gradually, then beat until very stiff, spread roughly over the pie when cool, return to the over and brown. ALMOND WAFERS. Cream one-half cupful butter; add slowly one cupful powdered sugar, one-half cupful milk, drop by drop; then add one and seven-eighths cupfuls bread flour, one-half teaspoonful extract of almond; spread very thin on the bottom of a dripping pan inverted and buttered; mark in squares; sprinkle witn almonds blanched and chopped rather fine and bake in a moderate oven about five minutes; roll in tubular or conucopia shape -while warm; it is better to set the pan on the back of the range while rolling the wafers, as they be come brittle very quickly. CREAMED EGGS. Pour into a saucepan half a pint ol milk, three tablespoonsfuls of butter, a saltspoon of salt, a little celery salt and a dash of pepper; thicken with a little flour made smooth in milk, and allow it to boil up once. Have prepared five or six eggs that have been hard boiled, crumble one oi them into the mixture, arrange the others in thick slices in the center of a hot platter, turn the cream over them and garnish with three-cornered pieces of toast and an occasional sprig of parsley. Serve very hot. PEACH-RICE. This is a delicious way in which to dispose of a little extra cooked rice: Halve and pare nice large peaches, or use firm canned ones. In the former case, steam the peaches for fifteen minutes. Lay them on a dish with the cup side up and fill with rice, which is prepared as follows: Beat into it a little lemon juice and sugar to suit the taste. A few seeded raisins, that have been steamed or soaked in boiling water for a few minutes, garnish the rice. Serve warm or cold with cream or a nice sauce. The Epitomist. TUTTI-FRUTTI CAKE. Cream two-thirds of a cupful of but ter; add' gradually two cupfuls o sugar, then the yolks of three eggs; when well mixed add three cupfuls of flour, alternating with one cupful ol milk; then add the whites of eggs, beaten stiff; four level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and one teaspoonful of vanilla extract; bake in greased jelly cake pans; put over the fire one cupful of granulated sugar, half a cupful of water; let boil to the head; pour it slowly over the whites of two eggs, beating while pouring, and beat until cold; add one teaspoonful each of chopped citron, candied cherries, pineapple, seeded raisins. English walnut, blanched almonds and one teaspoonful of vanilla; put between layers and over the top. USEFUL HINTS. In roasting pork sour apples are sometimes baked with the meat like potatoes. .They should be placed on a wire rack to keep them out of the fat. The apples are served with the roast and take the place of apple sauce. To keep a spoon in position when desirous of dropping medicine into it, and requiring both hands to hold the bottle and cork, place the hanJi between the leaves oi a closed book lying upon a table. Silver spoons and forks which are in daily use may be kept bright by leaving them once a week in strong borax water for several hours. The water should be. nearly boiling when the silver is put Into it. Lime water will sweeten jars and jugs which soap and water fail to cleanse. It is admirable for cleansing milk vessels and nursing bottles. With . boiled salmon, cream sauce plain boiled rice is very good. Many prefer it to potato. There really is no reason why any vegetable should be served with the fish course. Its sauce is quite sufficient. Still the average taste demands a scrap ol potato, or sometimes with sole, a bit of creamed spinach. A good cement for mending glass Is made by boiling isinglass in spirits of wine. Try a few drops, of spirits of turpentine on a cube of loaf sugar for hacking cough. Tea leaves moistened with vinegar will remove the discoloration in glass caused by flowers. . A half-hour's sleep after dinner is, to many women, worth two hours' sleep in the morning. A common screw writh a stout string tied around the top makes a fair substitute for a cocrkscrew. It is said neuralgia of the face may be quickly relieved by a mustard plaster applied to the elbow. Pieces of sponge packed into a mouse hole will induce the rodents to permanently vacate a house.' By covering the bottom of a bureau or chiffonier with a sheet of tin or zink, protection from mice is secured. If palms are sponged occasionally with equal parts of milk and lukewarm water they will retain a healthy gloss.

An Old French Fort. The Interior of Fort Chambly li only a mass of ruins. Fortunately thehand of the restorer hag but drawn a protecting line around them and thus the lichen-covered remains of the powder-house, the kitchen, the chapel, have not lost their picturesqueness. The parade ground is now overgrown with long grass and wild flowers, and the birds nest in the crannies of the chapel walls, the kitchen, and even in the powder-house. It is pleasant to listen to the twittering of the swallows that still linger about the place, and to look down upon the swift current of the Richelieu, which here swirls and leaps over the rocks in mad, foaming rapids. By the Treaty of Paris, in 17C3, Fort Chambly passed, with all the other French possessions In Canada, into the hands of the English. In 1775 It was taken by the troops of Congress led by General Montgomery, on his way to Montreal ,and the following yearwas burned by the Americans when they retreated to the shores of Lake Champlaln. Four-Track News. A Great Discovery, Clayton, Texas, May 1. (Special.) That a genuine cure for Diabetes has been discovered Is the opinion of Mr. J. H. Bailey of this place. Speaking of the matter Mr. Bailey says: "I believe Dodd's Kidney Pills Is thebest remedy for Diabetes and the only one that has ever been discovered that will cure Diabetes. T have a genuine case of Diabetes. I have taken seven boxes of Dodd'sKidney Pills and am still taking them. They have helped me so much that I am now up and able to work some. I believe that if I had conformed strictly to a Diabetes diet I would now have been completely cured." Dodd's Kidney Pills have cured hundreds of cases of Diabetes and never once failed. It is an old saying that what will cure Diabetes will cure any form of Kidney Disease and that's Just exactly what Dodd's Kidney Pills do. They cure all kidney diseases from Backache to Brlght's Disease.

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