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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Use For oid Nersnaners.


There are numerous ways OF using old
newspapers so that they may be of more
use than lighting the fires.
Clean out the rack each day if many
papers come into the house, but some
times once a weeks often enough where
few papers are used. Place the super
duOus papers in q pile, tie them together
and put aside for use when wanted.
Put the large sized papers and those
printed on heavy paper in one pile, and
the small sizes and those of soft paper
IN another. Put both aside, vet have
them IN some convenient place so they
may be found easily when wanted for
use, also that they may be added to each
clearing out. lie the string that holds
them together in a loop knot, so it can
be undOne when adding to its contents.
Inc large heavy papers are excellent
Tor laying under carpets, many prefer
ring them to the patent carpet lining.
The latter, unless some preventive is
put under the carpet, will in close
weather, breed moths, but with the
newspaper there is little danger from
these pests, as the printers ink is very
obnoxious to them, and they much pre-
fer keeping at some distance away. We
have used both papers and lining under
carpets, and our experience enables Us
to prefer the paper for general use.
These heavy, large papers are nice for
chIIdren's garments If one paper is not
large enough in itself for an extra sized
pattern, fasten two together, using -four
paste, put aside, and when dry cut out
the pattern wanted. MucIlage can be
used for this purpose, but is not as good
as the paste, as it does not leave the
jOinture as smooth. Many home dress
makers use these patterns altogether fer
their cutting. For closet shelves and to
lay in the bottom Ofbureau drawers they
are excellent, and when packing a trunk
always begin by laying one of these
heavy papers at the bottom on the in
side.
The soft papers can be used more gen
orally, as every day they may figure In
some part of the homework. After
securing the tins thoroughly, they can
be made to look very nice by rubbing
briskly with soft newspaper, which gives
polish that nothing else Will. Lamp
chimneys after being washed and dried
may be rubbed with newspaper for the
final gloss. Many women wash their
lamp chimneys but very seldom, keeping
them looking nice by breathing into
them and Wiping with soft newspaper.
After steel knives have been cleaned,
they can be given an added gloss by
rubbing hard with newspaper. For
sweeping carpets there are few things
will take up the dust as thoroughly as
ua4Ap 0u9u newspaper L 4rst wei Inc
paper thoroughly, then squeeze out as
much Of the water as possible. Pick the
damp paper into small bits and scatter
over the carpet to be swept. These par
ticles Of paper, when sweeping, will
collect the dust and prevent it flying
about the room. A soft piece of news
paper is just the thing for rubbing over
the top of the range after cooking,
burning the paper when through with
it. Persons suffering from brOn chial
affections are much benefited by wear
ing a layer of newspaper across the
chest. when going abroad in severe
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
Hints to Housekeepers.

IN watering plants put little am
mOnia into the water once q week.
MIXTURES of two parts of glycerine,
one part ANN Onia ana a little rose water
whiten and soften the hands.
A FEW drops of ammonia in cup of
warm rainwater, carefully applied with
a wet sponge, Will remove thespOts from
paintings and chrOmOs.
PIECES of cheese-cIoth make the very
best kind of busters. Hem the edges
and have large enough supply so that
one set can be washed each day.
EQUAL parts of ground mustard and
-four made into a paste with warm water,
and spread between two pieces Of mus
lin, forms the indispensable mustard
plaster.
For freckIes, put a tablespoonful Of
borax into a pint Of hot water, and ap~
ply it hot to the face; sponge the face
for ten minutes and frequently repeat
the process.
To POLISH slate floors, use a smooth,
fat piece of pumice-s stone. then polish
with rotten stone. Washing well with
soap and water is usually enough to
keep the states clean, but by adapting
the above method, not only do the States
become polished, but any stains are
taken out,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
Concerning COrsets.

There is a new corset made for horse
women out of soft leather which is al
most without bone, but IS both firm
and flexible and has been found to be
the best thing possible for wear with
the habit That is an importation
from India, where corsets Of this sort
have been in use for hundreds of years.
The Elost expensive cOrsets kept in
stock in the shops and by the corset
makers cost $50, which is indeed about
as high as they ever run, though they
can be made to order even more ex-
trayagantly. A popular corset with
the swagger young woman just now Is
only about a foot long and does not
come up over the bust at all, being
merely sort of cestus which Iaces
around the body and gives smOothness
to the outlines Of the waist. This has
the effect of Iengthening the waist and
making it look simmer, and, in short,
acquiring that English figure which is
the ambition of every American girl.
These little cOrsets are made Of satin,
and it is the fancy to have them Of
VARYING cOIors and with a silk petticOat
to match. Thus a girl who Is going to
put on a gray gown viii first fasten
about her waist a little lemOn-coiored
satin cestus, slip over her head a lemon
silk petticoat trimmed with three pink
ruf1es, draw on a pair Of lemOn-cOlOred
silk stockings, and cover her feet with
a pair of gray satin slippers, pointed
ut the toes and fastened with a little
buckle Of old paste, and then stands
ready for her gown. ~ NelC York
World
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
THE KITCHEN.
Testad RecfDts.


SUGAR DROP CAKES. pound Of
-four, three-fourths pound Of sugar,
one half pound Of butter, four eggs
and one gill of rOseWater; bake on pa
per. This viii make sixty drops.
FEATHER CAKE.-One cup of sugar
well beaten, with three tablespoOnfuls
of butter. One-half cup of milk, one egg,
three Ourths cup Ofhour, two teaspoons
of baking powder: bake in a quick
oven.
STEwED PoTAroEs.-Cut in small
pieces enough cold boiled potatoes to
I'll a vegetable dish, put with them one
pint of milk, half a cup Of butter, salt
and pepper to taste; thicken with one
teaspoonful Of -four; stew five minutes
and serve.
COLD WATER PEA good substi-
tute for custard pie when milk is scarce.
Two tabIespoonfuls Of -four, level, two
tabIespoOnfuls Of sugar, heaped, one
egg, lump of butter the size Of a hick-
DRY nut, nutmeg to taste, and good
BREAKFAST CAKEs.-One cup of In
dian meal, one teaspo Onful.Of salt and one
tablespoonful Of sugar. Scald the meal,
then add two tabIesp oOnfuls Of milk or
water, one egg and one tablespoonful
of -four. Stir well. Put large spoon
fuls of the batter on q buttered griddles
and fry light brown
CHICKEN SALAD.-Cook on chicken
until tender, then chop fine one head Of
cabbage, and i've cold, hard boiled eggs;
season with salt, pepper, and mustard;
warm one pint Of vinegar add half a
teacup Of butter, stirring until melted
pour hot OVerthe mixture, stir ell thor
oughly and set away to cool
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
THE POULTRY YARD.
Attend 10 the Nest.

While there are many poultry breed
ers, as we'll as farmers who raise fowls
in large numbers, who regularly clean
out their lighthouses, removing and
carefully housing the drOppings thus
obtained, the number who pay the
proper attention to the nests and nest
ing boxes is very limited. 1t seems that
the majority of fGwl-raisers have an
idea that a nest is good enough for q
years hard service, when once properly
made, 40 matter how many times brood
Of young chicks has been Matched IN it
or how many times laying hens have
visited on business. But it Is an absO-
Lutte necessity that nests are kept cleans
and well supplied with fresh hay, straw,
or other good nesting material, ana ali
good poultry breeders recognize 1t as
such. Those who complain of getting
few eggs, are usually the ones who do
not supply their hens with plenty Of
good, sweet, and clean nests for them
to lay their eggs in, leaving the fowls
to find places to lay wherever they can.
The result is, that only part of the eggs
are found, the remainder going to sus-
tain and fatten rats and other pests
which are always found under and
around farm buildings, especially old
ones.
We have found that the best place to
locate the nests SO as to afford always
the surest preventive against the mems
eating their eggs (as some kinds re
quentIy Win, is somewhere IN the dark
or in the darkest and most secluded part
of the fowl house.
If the hen that IS disposed to destroy
her own eggs cannot see them after
laying she shortly gets cured OF TINS
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

Mr.. n. 81. Gentry, Ssdalia, Mo,
Treasurer of the American Berkshire
Association, not only holds the funds
Of a Berkshire Association, but also
some money from a Berkshire pig that
is owned by Andrew Smith, of Cali
fornia. The pig is a yearli5noggo - boar,
Model Duke is one of the best bred
and individual Berkshire hogs in the
world. He was bred by Mr.. Gentry and
sold at three months old to S. w. Rem
fro, of CoIlinsville, III, for $50, who
grew the pig out finely. He was shown
as a yearIing at the st. Louis Fair last
fall, and won first IN his class and
sweepstakes as the best Berksh hire boar
of any age, beating his sire LongfellOW.
Mr.. Gentry is a breeder VINO wants and
viii have the best so he offered RenfrO
$500 for the pig-the offer was accepted
and Model Duke was transferred to the
Wood Dale Herd, where he did service
during the season and proved himself q
valuable sire. A short time ago Mr.
Smith asked Bir. Gentry If he would
sell the boar, the latter not dreaming
that he would buy, named the price
$3.50. Within q week Smith Wired J
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
The TO- Was unneeessarE.

A very popular young lady, who has
been visiting in Americus for several
weeks, was to return home on the
early train Monday morning. She
was afraid that she would not get up
In time for the train, so one of her adj
niring gentlemen friends borrowed an
alarm clock, which she placed in her
room and set to alarm at 4 o'clock
Sunday evening a number of young
men called on her, and among them
came the borrower of the alarm clock.
All the others departed, and left he
two enjoying themselves as only Wo
young people can. The light In he
parIor burned brightly; all others IN
the house were either extinguished or
burned very low. The dogs began to
howl, the chickens crowed, and still
the alarm clock man held on. at last
the parting words We're exchanged,
and the young man was on the eve Of
departing, when the said alarm clock
broke loose Ia laundering tones. The
young man gave ms love one sad, Tor
Torn look and jumped clear of the
veranda, and with the second leap
landed In the street. She left or be
early train.---aalerica Ga. RecorusTs
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
! habit. This IS oaa advantaas II aba 90.

habit. This is one advantage in the ses
eretly arranged nest.
1t is quite immaterial how the nest is
thus darkened. A narrow covered pas
sage leading to the nest may be ar
ranged SO that the hens viii have to
pass through this, to lay at the other
end Of it. Half barrels or cracker kegs
may be laid on their sides, and turned
towards a plank wall, leaving only room
between the open end of the kegs OF
barrels, and the partition for the layer
TO creep into this retired spot.
They viii quickly get accustomed to
any place thus prepared for their con
ven1ence, and viii lay their eggs very
regularly Ia such dark places. The very
best kind of nests, however built, are
those which are secluded, retired, and
quite dark in the interior.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
THE sTOCK-RANCH
Five Hundred Lambs at Play.

Says ranchman In the Montana
Wool GrOWer: There is only one thing
that is five hundred times as funny and
provoking by turns as a lamb, and that is
500 lambs together when they are about a
month old. The shepherd sits down
and watches the 500 lambs all in a bunch
by themselves, playing, running and
frOIicing and he laughs. When he
has tried, and tried in vain, to get the
same 800 across a bridge or into a corral,
he sits down again, but he does not
the antics of 500 lambs, all of them
about a month old. They must be seen
to be appreciated.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

THE officials in charge of State pris-
Ons are compelled to use every pos
sibIe evasion of anti-Iabor enactments.
since the latter prove to be torture Of
Che wickedest sort, ending in insanity,
idiocy, and physical diseases, as well
as moral degeneracy. They are teach
ing the prisoners mathematics, history
and science; and also allowing them
more recreation in the way of games,
reading, bathing and holding prayer
meetings. Still the great, stout fell
lows beg for work One man at Sing
Sing says he was sentenced to hard
labor, and if he does not have permits
sion to work, he viii go to the courts
when his term elapses and he viii
know why. The man is right. The
Legislatures have absolute rights, but
so also have prisoners, and one can
not deprive the other. Our prisons
might as we'll pass enactments Of an
outrageous sort to govern the legis-
lators. No human authority has the
right to create idiots and rob human
beings Of health and reason.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
COLO OF Horsss.

Bulletin No. 2, Vol III, of the Ohio
Agricultural Experiment Station, is a
comprehensive treatise on Collie of
Horses, by DR., n. j. Detmers, the Vet
eFInarian Of the Station
1t begins with brief introduction.
and definition of what is understood
by the term collie, showing that the
same is applied not to a single disease
but to quite a number of morbid pro-
cessess which have their seat in the
digestive canal, and produce violent
manifestations Of pain. It then dwells
at length on the various causes, and not
only explains their action, or their effect
upon the animal organism, but also
draws attention to formerly overlooked
facts, which throw light upon the origin
of many cases of collie and the morbid
accounted for in any other way. 1t
fully and COMPREHENSIVE describes
the symptoms, gives all the Data neces-
sary for the diagnosis and prOgnOsis,
and finally, in plain language, maps out
a rational treatment which is simple
enough to be understood by everybody,
and easy enough of application to be
executed by any intelligent person.
One plate illustrating the cause of GER
tain morbid changes, peculiar to hOrse s
and mules, and predispOsing the same
TO the most frequent of these diseases,
usually called collie, accompanies the
treatise.
This bulletin viii be sent free to any
resident of Ohio on application to the
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station,
Columbus, Ohio.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

TULARE LAKE, in California, which
was formerly twenty by thirty miles
in extent, isnow only fifteen by TWEEN
ty. Although the water is strongly
impregnated with borax and alkali, the
lake is full of fish.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
DeveIopine q Young Cow.


E. W. Stewart is considered good au-
thority upon dairy COWS and matters
pertaining to them. In answer to an in
quiTy from a subscriber to the Country
Gentleman about developing a young
jersey COW soon to drop her second calf,
he gives directions that are good. Our
idea is that what will develop the milk
qualities of a Jersey will develop the
milk qualities Of a young COW of any
other breed. Believing this we give his
directions. He says that for some time
before calYing a COW should be fed no
corn meal. Feed simply clover hay and
bran. Let her be fed the same ration for
about ten days after coming in. Then,
if he wishes to develop her, to see how
good a COW she may become, Let him
combine the following ration: Four
teen pounds good cut clover hay, six
pounds corn and Oat meal, ground to-
gether in equal weights, six pounds
wheat bran, two pounds Hnseed meal.
Let him mix the corn meal, bran, and
Iinseed meal thoroughly together, dry;
then mix this with the mOistened cut
clover hay. Give this in three feeds,
smallest at noon. But when he first be-
gins to feed this combination OF food,
he should not give her as much, but
gradually increase it up to the amount
mentioned during the first ten days; and
if she should show capacity to digest
10 ore, he may increase the amount by
mixing more in the same proportion.
But he must increase her food very
gradually. 1t Will take some months
befOre she viii show the full effects of
the ration, and show how far she can be
deVeiOped. And If she shows consider
able capacity Of improvement this COM
ing season, he should feed her on the
same plan during her next milking sea-
son, for she viii develop year by year
up to five or six years old
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

The cultivation of the tobacco plant
shows no signs of falling off. On the
contrary, the worlds output is con
stantly growing. The acreage in this
country is increasing every year, and
in Cuba the planters are abandoning
sugar and turning their attention to
tobacco, finding the latter far moro
profitable. In the East Indies this in
dustry has lately been making i'm
mense strides, and the stock of the
corporations who control the great to-
bacco plantations in Sumatra and Ba-
tayia has advanced nearly 100 points
in the last three months. This seems
to show that the number of people in
the world who find solace in the weed
are multiplying quite as rapidly as is
the human race in general
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

Mrs. ALLEN G.. THURMAN says of
the late Mrs. Hayes; "The White
House was never presided over with
more grace than by Lucy Hayes, and
never contained a nobIer woman. Her
death Will be mourned by every true
woman in the land"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

WHEN Macmillan, one of the early
German emperors, returned with his
victorious troops from a foreign war he
was greeted in Augsburg with salute
which was intended to be Of a hundred
shots. The master of artillery, how
ever, became confused, and when the
one hundredth shot had been fired he
was uncertain whether it was the hun
dredth or only the ninety-ninth. Pre-
ferring to err on the safe side, he or
dered another shot to be fired. When
the Emperor reached Nuremburg the
people of that city, determined not to
be outdone by the Augsburgers, also
saluted him with a hundred and one
shots. This is said to be the origin of
the royal salute Of hundred sid one
guns.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

Mrs. Henpeck-My dear. you viii
make sad mistake if you marry Mr..
Meak. He has no beard, and he wears
a wig.
Daughter-W hat difference does that
make?
Huh You try managing a husband
with no hair of his own. and youTI find
out.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

The weight of whale is said to be
about ninety tons, but the weight Of a
citizen Of Chicago since that place has
been increased in population to /, 200,
600 by annexa ton is past finding out,
as scales of sufficient power have not
been found to bear him up.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

ANDREW JACKSON COFFEE, a nephew
Of Old Hickory" is a notary public at
San Francisco. Mr.. Coffee is a native
of Louisiana and has many interesting
relics of a Jacksonian character in his
pOssession
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
THE DAIRY.
Feadine standnrds.

Prof. Armsby, of the Pennsylvania
agricultural experiment station, in in
vestigations regarding the subject of
breed as efecting the richness of milk,
draws the following conclusions:
1. The quality of milk which a COW
can produce depends upon her breed
and individuality, and in this sense the
milk is more dependent upon the breed
than upon the feed. On the other
hand, the quality of milk which any
given COW Will produce is largely de-
pendent upon her feed.
2. By feeding rich foods the proper
tiOn of butter-fat IN milk can be in
creased. The bulk of cream obtained
is dependent upon so many other cir
cumstances than feeding, that it affords
no safe guide as to the real effects of the
latter.
3. The standard rations given for the
feeding of dairy COWS presuppOses that
the animals are good of their kind. On
the other hand, the standards are not
sufficiently exact to admit of mOdifca-
ton for each breed of COWS. The feed
ing standards are intended simply as
guides to rational feeding, to be modi-
fed in each particular case as expert
ence may show to be necessary.
These conclusions of the professor
are no doubt correct, and at the same
time they bring the whole matter of
feeding to the position that, after all,
with all the feeding returns that may be
proposed, the constitution of the ami
nal. its ability to assimilate food, re-
quire the exercise of experience and
Judgment in the feeding, regardless of
any established ration. This is pre-
cisely the ground occupied by Dr.. LaWes
of ROthamgted.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

The duck is to China what the cod
fish is to the rest of the world They
eat duck raw, cooked, boiled, fried,
baked and every other way, and they
worry over the duck crop the same as
we do over wheat.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

EMPEROR WILLIAM has commissioned
Koch to paint a picture representing
the scene at the moment when he led
the foot guards past his father at Char
lottenburg on May IS, 1888. This was
the only occasion upon which Freder-
ick inspected the troops as Emperor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

If the capital punishment of muir
derers by electricity is going to bring
into the language the horrible word
"electrOcUted, to express a murderer's
taking off, then the millions of limo
cent people who never murdered any
body viii be made to suffer more than
the few guilty.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

ENGLAND has over 81, 100000 invest
ed in the manufacture of idols for hea-
then countries, and yet the churches
of that country are continually calling
for more money and more missionaries
to suppress idolatry.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

r. P. AIoGREGoR, of Ohio, the deaf
mute orator, who made the address at
the unwilling of the GalIaudet statue
at Washington, was accompanied by a
reader, and the effect of this simulta-
neOus delivery of the speech orally and
in the sign language was extremely
striking.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

The young men of England have ex-
hibited a taste for our national game
of baseball, and have invited the
bright young men of American col
1eges to give them some lessons. The
invitation has been accepted, and the
prospect is for some friendly rivalry
and fun.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
IPHILLIPsBURG.
KANSAS

DURING the last ten years Ameri-
cans have contributed $40, 100000 to
relieve suffering caused by disasters
or epidemics.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

The scepter of an Egyptian king has
been examined chemically by Professor
Berthelot, and proves to be nearly pure
copper, with only traces Of lead. It is
supposed to be about six thousand
years old.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30

BEES settled in the top of d house
near Atlanta, Ga, eight years ago, and
the other day, when the gable end was
removed, the entire roof was found to
be filed with honey.