Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Crys tallied Nuts. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Crys tallied Nuts.

What the Commoner realy needs is an editor who will see that it isn’t so blani&Common. Recruits are coining in very fast for the new army. Evidently neither the tales of hardships' in the Philip pines nor the abolition of the army canteen has had a deterrent effect. ?< If 0 m Paul has succeeded in making the war so expensive as to force a change in the tariff policy of Great Briti/in he has done something quite as important as staggering humanity It is ag<fod deal ofa question wheth er the South ever really beiieyed n free silver. It followed that doctrine simply ' because the Populists who captured the parly machinery advocated it Most <>i t Im Hawaiian legislator.'', it . _Js said, cannot speak. English. That’s nothing! Many United States Con gressmen cannot speak English either. For proof of this, read their speeches in theUongressionai Record., Appointments to posts in the new army will be restrict'd almost altogether to the volunteer officers now in the service. Not only are these trained m m but they, are for tiie most part already o.i the grounds to say nothing of beifig, generally speak ing, deserving of reward. Paydays at military posts seem to be rapidly degenerating into Donny brook fairs, there having been an out burst of rowdyness and drunkenness unknown'in this country.for the past decide. But then, wfe can console ourselves with the reflection that the infamous ami degrading canteen has abolished. Senator Hanna says that President McKinley has no desire for athird term and that -any. assertions . that he has, are arrant 'nonsense. JjPhi’H is well. Mr. McKinley has been a good’and able President, but the rulty, that was enforced ' against General (Irani should not be relaxed for anyone. Consider-ing that American trade has thriven beyond all precedent >since Russia took hold of Manchuria and policed that turbulent country, and that Ilussia gives formal assurances that American development'there shall not be interferred with, there to be no special reason for Uncle Sam to interfere in the matter. Strangers at the inauguration were taken aback by the wav m which President McKtnjldy goes around the streets of Without protection. Judging from the imperial talk of the Democrats and from Cleveland’s example they expected to find him withat least a por ion of the t wenty two guards with which his predecessor surrounded himself.

Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, has abandoned the Democratic party and joined the Republicans, showing that negro disfranchisement is likely to work out in a way totally un'-xpected by its authors Now that this incubus of black domination has been removed,, the South can divide on political lines-and it shows a strong'teridency to do it, too.

Crystallized nuts are easily made by the home coo.k and are a useful addition to tlie menu of the country hostess who finds herself the traditional 12 miles »froin n lemon. English walnuts are the best to use for the purpose, but an.y large meat nut that the country store may afford ■•an be crystallized. A cupful ol’> water and two cupfuls of sugar, pi cferal ly granulated, are boflM together until a little drop from the JRipmi into ice water will candy. Ths sirup should then be poured into a straight s.idejd pan or dish, deep enough U> allow it to cover the nuts. The meats —-whole, if small, or halved if they are English iwalnuts or Brazil nuts —are dropped *n carefully and left in a dry nn< rather warm place for fully 24 hours. It is a good point to heat the nuts, not hot, but to the point of being A’armed through, before they are dropped into the sirup.—New York Post. A Comfortable Sofa. A swinging’ sofa, which is appropriate oil 11. r for the veranda or drawing room, r made in the following

«lmplo manner: Take a rattan gofit 85A-.'. :jv,- « • the legs, leaving the top t. o as n ftAi'i'i, and then stain, the P-G. 1 ft raw, to match the rest, lb;;-.- t .. .1 in-.)y be bought by the y.ii r.n-i a. a; < .I to the four corners by iin ,8 set 'wed into the wood and into the beams of the ceiling. When ‘c sofa is iu place, pile it up with eof* New York TrtbowNew Kind of Blaekm lil. Scientific know ledge has been perverted to the tires of blackmail by a Gratz (Austria) medical student, who endeavored to obtain 10,000 florins from a rich old lady by threatening to open a bottle of assorted deadly bacilli in her room if she did not pay up. When arrested, bottles stolen from the bacteriological laboratory and containing the microbes of several diseases were found in his possession. The mining of the natives of the Philippines has been confined to the alluvial deposits of the rivers, for there is not a stream Rising In the’ mountains of Luzon which has not its goldbearing sands and deposits, from which for centuries the larger portion of the precious metals has been obtained.

S.W. NGING SOFA.