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Books in the Home.

u would urge" says Ruskin, "upon
every young "a at the beginning of his
due and wise provision for his house
hold, to obtain as soon as he can by the
strictest economy, q restricted, service
able, and steadily-however slowly-in-
creasing series Of books for use through
life" This excellent advice, which is
given in the preface to the little book,
Sesame and Lilies" if followed out,
would do what we sometimes call mis-
slonary work, avs a writer in the New
York Evening Post. Who can doubt if
it were made a rule when the household
Just assumes form and consists Of but
two members, who usually think alike,
for a time at least, that it would become
q habit. and in counting over the
necessary expenses SO much o
year would be put aside for books as o
matter of course, and to the lasting ben
eht of all the future inmates of the
home? 1t Lay not occur to the young
man and woman who found the home
that the greatest safeguard of it will
prove to be the tastes they have in com
mon, over which time has no power, and
to love the salne books, to approve of
the same author, and to take a delight
IN his work will form a bond not easily
broken. OF course it may be possible
for a man and woman toread Shaks-
peare and to enjoy him and still to quar-
rel, but it is not very likely that they
will do so, for all the likeness of mind
which leads them to enjoy him are links
in the chain that binds them. The
associations that are connected
with home books are
never readily forgotten or overlooked,
and sons and daughters have been led
away from temptation by these "cold
but sure friends" the books that moth
er priced or that mother loved. How
ever the mistress of the house may re-
gard her duties to those employed by
her, she cannot very we'll put out Of
sight the fact that, if her servants read
anything worth reading, it must be pro-
yided by her. For this reason I advo-
cate having two or three shelves in the
dining-room. On these should be
placed not only the cook book and the
literature Of the kitchen, but some 9TH
er good books and papers; let it be I'M
derstood that these may be taken and
read at any time. It is
just possible that some OF these,
like the Bibles in the cars, may not be
used, but it is not probable. If any one
fears that a taste for reading will inter
fere with a legitimate performance of
duties, I would like to cite to her the
case Of a m whom I know who
reads Carlyle, and quotes Burns, and is
also an accomplished cook, and one of
the most conscientious diggers-out-of-
corners ever employed as a maid OF all
work. A judicious selection of cook
books is an actual inspiration to a girl,
and a perusal of them will lead to that
intelligentinterest in work which makes
it pleasurable.
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ThinHs Good to Eat.

Ivory may be restored to it's former
Wilderness by cleaning in burnt pumice-
stone and water, and then placing it un.
der glasses in the suns rays.
SEED CAKE.-Beat to a cream one cup
of butter and two cups OF sugar. Add
three tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, a
little salt. and vanilla or lemon, to the
taste, with two tablespoonfuls of cara.
way seeds. Stir in flour in which o
teaspoonful OF baking powder has been
sifted, and make the cake stiff enough
to roll. Roll ont thin, cut in round
cakes, and bake in n moderate oven.
This rule makes about seventy-tive
cakes.
Finger biscuit, otherwise called lady
fingers, are made by beating the yelk.
of four eggs with half q cup of sugar tc
a froth. Beat the whites very stiff and
dry, and stir in lightly, adding three.
quarters OF a cup of lightest sifted flour.
Drop from a paper horn or pastry bag
on a sheet of glazed letter paper and
bake, or rather dry in u slow oven TO,
fifteen minutes. Creamery -four in.
steau ol pun makes Il Tlcn DlSCult, anC
requires a hotter oven.
A dainty way to make chocolate is tc
set an earthen pot into a kettle of boil
ing water; in this place a quart of milk
and cream mixed. Stir into this wher
it is hot a paste made by mixing three
heaping tablespoonfuls of grated choco
late with a little cold milk. Let thi.
boil for twoo or three minutes, and serve
very hot. If the chocolate is sweetened
it is better not to add sugar, but lei
each one add it at the table if it is moi
sweet enough, but if the unsweetened
chocolate is used, two desert spoonful,
may be put in while it is cooking
Cream is the greatest possible addition
This recipe is from those furnishedt e
o fashionable cooking class in Provi.
idence: Select a given number Ga,
many as may be desired upon occasion.
of thin-skinned, juicy oranges, remove
the p lay the orange upon its side, and
cut (crosswise) into very thin slices
using a thin, sharp knife, and without
entirely separating the slices from tn,
orange, which will then spread oper
somewhat in the forp: of e sea shell
sprinkle over it fine granulated
more on less according to taste lay fine.
~ chopped or pounded ice over tn,
whole, and let it stand about five min
utes and serve. Eaten just before break
fast, the dish possesses a peculiar del.
lcacy n flavor as an appetizer.
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Industry as a Matter Of Race.
From the London Spectator


We suppose there are indoIent Chi
nese, but the immense majority of that
vast people have an unequaled power of
work; care nothing about hours, and so
long as they are paid, will go on with a
logged, steady persistence in toll for 16
hours a day such as no European can
rival. No English shipcarpenter will
like a Chinese. no laundress will wash
ss many clothes, and a Chinese COM
positor would very soon be ex-
PEELED for over toll by an English
Chapel" of the trade. The Chinese peas
ants and boatmen work all day, and
every day and, in fact, but for untiring
industry, the closely packed masses Of
China could not be sustained as they
are by artificial irrigation. OF the
brown races the Arabs generally pre-
fer abstemiousness carried to q starving
point to continuous labor; but the most
numerous brown people, the Indian, Ia
Dor unrelaxingly for n hours q week.
They are often called
lazy by unobservant Europeans,
because they enjoy the cool of the ave.
ming; but they go to work before 4 in
VIC uAOTuAuS blu NOIA vi tll1 q, Auu OIL
~ eat once during sunlight, the second
meal being taken after dark. They
take, too, no weekly holiday. The re-
suit, in fact, proves their industry.
They keep up a system Of agriculture
singularly toilsome, because it involves
irrigation, raise often three crops and
always two in the year, and have COW
cred India with grand cities which they
built for themselves. Asthey feel their
climate, thoughless than Europeans do,
their labor is severe, and we should say
deliberately, after the observation OF
years, that their industrial fault was,
when laboring for themselves, q dispo-
sition to do too much or insufficient
food. They weasr themselves out too
early. They know this themselves, and
have q tendency to refuse overtime and
reject pay for it. which is often most
annoying. OF course the savage brown
races will not work continuously, but
neither will the savage white ones, e. g.,
the mean whites of the southern states
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Whatever outside duties woman may
be called upon to perform, she is the
centre of the home circle. On her de-
ponds largely the attractiveness of the
home, and no woman has u right to dim
its brightness or lessen her power by
being careless concerning her personal
appearance.
1t may seem like o bold assertion, but
it is none the less true that a woman
who is always neatly dressed is able to
exercise a greater influence for good
than one who is the reverse.
The well-dressed woman is more at
t~ractive to the eye, and the eye is one
of the main venue to the heart.
Other things being equal her influence
is more potent than her %neighbors,
whose reputation of dressing "just as it
happens" at homein some detinable way
casts o shade over whatever virtues she
may possess. A woman neatly dressed
is ready for emergencies. The chance
caller and the unexpected guest finds
her ready to receive them. But per.
haps the greatest necessity for looking
we'll at homo exists in the home itself
To the members Of our own family Cir.
Gle we owe our first duty. A tidy we'll
arranged home is very invitingto alfred
man and the charm is heightened il she
who presidea over the home is neat and
tidy also. And perhaps some who are
ever studying the subject ofhow to keep
the bows at home evenings would find
the problem half solved if they gave d
proper amount of attention to home
dress.
The woman who is both mistress and
servant, as very many housekeepers are,
is constantly met by the temptation to
neglect her adornment and sacri-
fee her own tastes and wishes to ths
nnmberless demands upon her time and
strength. OF course to a busy woman
every moment is precious, yet q few
spent in fresheningth toilet will scarce
ly be missed and somehow one feels
rested, and the work goes easier for it.
The habit of dressing neatly at home
like all other habits, is strengthened by
practice, and if 4 girl is early taught
that neatness in dress is me Of the car
dinal virtues, she will practice it almost
unconsciouslv.
1t should be u part of a girls home
t~raining-not only the duty hut the
method. Let the child underestimate that
it is to please others rather than to win
admiration for herself and it will but
help to make her thoughtful.
This is a subject which concerns us
all, and if we give the matter the
thought which itdeserves we shall see
its Importance more clearly.
If we hold up the mirror of theory in
which to view our practice 10 doubt
many of us will find nmperfections
which need onlype seen to be re1nedied,
So we shah be helped thereby, our
homes made brighter, and our families
happier.
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F.rm Use. Of crud. Petroleum.

Crude petroleum is a wonderful
preservative of wood, but it is in no
sense a paint, and should have no pig
ment whatever mixed with it. It has
none of this drying properties of lin
seed oil, and will never harden Upon q
surface. On the contrary, it will pen
citrate where water cannot, filing the
pores of wood and completely excluding
wet. There is nothing equal to it as a
first application to buildings or fences,
especially when rough and weather.
beaten. I have so applied it. leaving
it q few weeks to the action of the air
and hot sun, her covering with lead
and linseed oil. The woodwork of my
farming tools is kept full of it. APP
piled hot to wagon felloes from time to
time, the tires will never loosen. For
years T have used it in a multitude of
ways, and q barrel of light cruds
petroleum I should not like to be with
out. Almost any city has a refinery
where it may be produced, and it costs
me, per 50-gallon barrel, freight and
all, about IS. But if you get any, get
understanding with it, and don't try to
make a paint Of it. Don't grease your
harness with it, and don't useit to kindle
your fires.
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Magnificent Distances i'll Texas.

From the Gree. vile, (Texas) Banner.
The distance from Dallam county, in
the Texas Pan Handle to Brownsville,
at the mouth of the Rio Grande, is 800
miles; but we can better realize how far
it is by saying that it is nearer from
Dallam county, Tex, to st. Paul,
MINI, Of to Bismarck, d. T., or to He
lena, NJ. T., or to Salt Lake City, Utah,
than it is from Dallam county to
Brownsville, Tex. It is also nearer
from Brownsville to Guatemala in
Central America, than from Browns
vile to Dallam county. Again it is
nearer from Liscomb county, Tex, to
St. Louis, than from the same county
to Galveston. And even Chicago and
Cincinnati are nearer to Texas than
Dallam county is to Brownsville. It
is further from Texarkana to Ell Paso
than from Texarkana to West
Virginia, old Virginia of North Carolina.
Suppose a gentleman should start from
Savannah, Ca, on the Atlantic, to look
at a track of land at Ell Paso. After
travelling three days and nights on a
passenger train he might arrive at
Orange, Tex. Ofcourse when he put his
foot on Texas soil he would begin to
look around to see how he liked the
country, by way of deciding whether he
would buy the Ell Paso land or not.
But if told that he was not half way
from Havana to ElPaso, he might turn
back discouraged, but such would be
the fact. Again, Texas wants deep
water at Galveston. But it is nearer
from Ell Paso, Tex, to the deep harbor
Of San Diego, Cal, than from Ell Paso
to Galveston. In fact, more than l 900
miles of the Pacific coast, extending
from Los Angeles, CAL, to Mazatlan,
Mexico, is nearer Ell Paso than any part
of the Texas gulf coast.
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The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser

The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
says it has the authority of an educated
and accomplished violinist for the asser-
ton that the popular belief that the
manufacture of superior violins is .
lost art" is q sheer delusion. No bet
ter violins are made, or ever were made
than the best Of instruments now man
ufactured in this country. The collec-
tors and relic-mongers put fabulous
prices on a Stradivarius because ii is q
curio and not because of its instrinsic
merit as a violin or of its superiority in
anything but age, to the finest modern
instruments. No trained and compe-
tent Judge of violins in tLis country ever
thinks of importing an instrument
from Europe or would give o straw
more for q genuine Strsdivarius, SO far
as use is concerned, than fora first rate
instrument of heme manufacture.
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Winter Feeding OF Cattle.

The daily allowance of hay to each
COW should be about 25 pounds, the
quantity varying somewhat with the
size of the animal. 1t is well to bear in
mind, when laying in the winter supply
that early-cut hay is by far the most
nutritious, as the early cutting saves, in
q nutritious form, material which later
on becomes woody fiber.
The value of roots as Winter food is
90 widely acknowledged that little need
be said in support of their use. Their
nutritive qualities are considerable, and
their vegetable constitution retains their
distinctive natural moisture, while the
large bulk which may be grown on q Civ
en- area at a comparatively small cost,
recommends them to every reason
ing man. A crop of 900 bushels of
mangelwurzels and 800 bushels of ruta-
bagas was raised upon one acre OF good
land at a total cost of only $55. Fifty
pounds of roots and 20 pounds of hay
constitute a good daily feed for milking
cows of average size. More hay should
be added if the cattle will consume it,
or its equivalent should be given in
straw or corn-stalks, boiled if practic-
able. Add to this ration two quarts Of
corn-meal, and almost the excellence OF
a Summer pasture is attained. If the
further addition of the two quarts OF
co~tten-seed meal is made, as recon-
mended in the case of pasturing, the
results will closely approach the maxi
mum, and will prove a sufficient reason
for ~persevering in this diet. The value
of variety in food should not be forgot
ten. Carrots and parsnips, oats and
other grains may profitably form an oc-
casional change.
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Great Salt Lake.

A gentleman who has been lately sail
ing on the dead Sea of America" thus
describes it: s'Soon we were on our
way toward the hazy western shore.
AS we passed along the sea-gulls
circled around us or tlotaed on the wa
ter, their white plumage shining in the
sunlight. Every now and then a hawk
moth would fit by or alight on the boat;
~dragon-fys would stop long enough to
gaze at us c%uriously and then spin off
toward the distant islands. Occasional
ly o 1~7-year-old locust would hum past
as if to mock at us for ever daring to be-
lieve that this is the Dead Sea of
America As the bow plowed through
the water millions of small diptera (hies)
would rise from the water where they
were resting, and cover the bow of the
boat till quarts of them could be
collected. Wherever we went we OBJ
served the same thing. The water of
the lake is I their home, and they are as
much at home on water as u skipper is
on an Eastern pond. In some places
where it is calm these flies darken the
water for miles. Here (not on the
beach, they lay their eggs; here they
hatch, and here the Larvae live by the
million till ready for the pupa state,
when they attach themselves to the sea-
weed floating everywhere in the water)
and remain till they emerge as perfect
flies. The larvae doubtless prey upon
the strange little shrimps that live in
the water. There are infinite numbers
of these, as there is scarcely a place in
the lake where a bucket of water can be
dipped without taking up from twenty
to 500 Of them. 1t is strange that
people should call this a dead sea, for,
though the number of species does not
exceed ten or fifteen, there is no lake,
fresh or salt, in the world that contains
half as many living things as Great
Salt Lake"
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A strange dish, but one that has foun

A strange dish, but one that has found
favor with the epicure himself On, in
10 case being told how it is made) is
called bacon short-cake. Make a crust
just rs youdo for the biscuit served with
fricassed chicken rollit out in one large
cake to be baked in a long tin cut little
slashes in the dough, and through these
slip slices Of bacon in. The bacon
should be cut in thin slices or strips
about five inches long, andnot half that
width. Have these slices about three
inches apart Bake the same as IN
short-cake, and serve hot. As an en-
tree, with game, this is considered
especially appetizing.
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ANGELS FooD.-To a layer Of peeled
orange, sliced, add o layer of white
sugar; then 4 layer of freshly-grated
cocoanut, and keep adding layers in the
order named until the quantity desired
Is prepared.
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Truth from the Lime Kiln Club.
Trustee Pulback then offered the fol-

Trustee Pulback then offered the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, Dat when a pusson has bin
tried in due form, convicted Ivy an hon
est jury an sentenced to prison by q
Judge in whom de people have conf
dence, de criminal should stay dar' I'M
till his sentence has expired"
Giveadam Jones moved that the roll
be called upon the vote, and this being
done Shindig Watkins wa the only
name marked as opposing the resolu-
ton.
"Dis resolushun kivers a subject of
deepest interest to de people at large"
said Brother Gardener when the vote
had been pronounced. "a robber or
emhezzeler or defaulter or::thief or even
murderer kin sit down wild a piece of
chalk in one han ana shingle in de Cd
der an make clus figures on dis matter.
De murderer strikes his victim
an makes a break. Do
papers howl, de detectives rush an de
public talk of lynchin'. If he am not
picked up right away dar' am q fusilade
agin' de officers. When he am caught
dar' am great anxiety to push him to
trial. When he am tried an convicted
dar' am a heap of sweet talk 'bort de
majesty of de law. He gifts, say, fifteen
vars in prison. He orter have bin sent
fur life, but it was shown dat he was
drunk, or his grandfather was insane,
or his great-grandmudder had allus
acted a lettle queer. Befo' a var has
passed away somebody begins to pity.
In de course of two or free Vars de
prosecutin' attorney begins to relent. A
Potassium am drawn up an de jury finds
dey was mistaken, de Judge diskivers
dat he sentenced de wrong man, an de
Gub'ner am asked to exercise de par
donin' power to restore q perfeckly in
nercent man to society ?"-Detroit Free
Press.
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Alfred Smith, Of Newport, has pre-
sented to the Charming Church in thst
city, a. . memorial to his wife, the es-
tate No. 90 Key street, to be used as a
parsonage. It is worth about $25 900.
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but then both will make incredible
exertions by fits and starts, as, for OK
ample, in hunting, or rowing very long
distances.
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Testing Feed Corn.

Thinking farmers will lose no time in
securing a supply of good seed nor will
they trust to appearance, nor to any
mans word but will carefully test it
for themselves, and thus be SURE it will
terminate. This testing of seed is not
at all q difficult undertaking; to be
douhly sure three tests should be made
for n dip with o large spoon careless
l,y, 100 kernels out of the pile; for the
second, select 100 of the best, and, for
the third, 100 of the poorest you can
find. .
Take for each lot any convenient
dish, and fill it nearly full of clean
sand, and pour in water till it rises to
within q quarter of an inch of the top
of the sand; on the sand place the 100
kernels of r and over these place
any convenient cloth to retain moisture
and exclude light. Place the dish near
the stove so as to secure q temperature
of so degrees, and not over 110degrees.
In two days, and every day thereafter,
examine by carefully lifting the cloth.
Every kernel that has sprouted should
be removed and counted; in this way
you can tell what per cent. OF each
grade will grow. If not over rs per
cent. of the best kernels terminate, the
seed should be rejected, but in any
case you will know how much to allow
for worthless seed at planting time
Rural New Yorker.
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One Kind Of Homs 1nnusnos.

1t is a part of every woman's duty to
dress neatly and becomingly at home.
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MITES FOR THE FARM And HOUSE.
Agricultural Items.

The Scottish Farmers Alliance is a
vigorous organization. with membership
of over 1000.
Maury, in Tennessee, is the banner
County of the United States for mules.
Its annual shipment is from 1000 to s.
600.
To remove rust from tools, first scour
them with emery moistened with sui
phuric acid diluted with six volumes of
water; rinse dry, and finish with oil and
emery flour.
The man who is dependent upon
Natures methods for his crops, cannot
afford to be ignorant of Natures laws.
Kind words and q gentle patting on
the head will go much further in tanning
a timid heifer, than a score of milk
stools.
You will soon need all the work the
horses are able to perform. SEQ to it
now that they have the best of care and
q little extra feed.
If you would succeed in horticulture
you must be observant, u~nsleepingly
vigilant, always ready to go where
needed; to go quickly and have a ready
hand to assist soils, trees or attend
ants-and always carry a sharp prun-
ing knife in your pocket:
An early Spring pig kept growing
and f~attening on pasture (mostly Red
Clover) during the Summer and early
Fall, and then rapidly fattened on grain
for two months, is the most profitable
hog.
Every farmer owes to his brother
farmers a knowledge of each event that
occurs to him, in his business, that
would be of interest TO them.-tFarm-
er's Review.
If as much money We're spent in de-
veloping the walking gait of our horses
as is devoted to bring out their trotting,
pacing and running qualities, the real
value of our horses would soon be veg
materially enhanced.-[National Stock
man.
Mules are much more economical than
horses for farm work. They eat one
half less, will do Us much work and live
a half longer. With this data do your
W figuring.JFarm Journal.