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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10
GOOD THINGS 70 EAT.


How 20 Prepare Them % That they VIM
Tickle Epicureen Palates.
Cocoanut Cake: Two cups pow.
dered sugar, half cup butter. three
eggs, one cup milk, three cups -four,
two teaspoonfuls cream-tartar, and one
teaspoonful soda Bake as for jelly
cake. Filling: One grated cocoanut.
to one-half of this add whites of three
eggs beaten to froth, and one cup OF
powdered sugar. Lay this between
the layers. Mix with the other half
of the grated cocOanut four table,
spoonfuls powdered sugar, and strew
thickly on top of cake.
Chocolate Cake: Two cups sugar,
one cup butter. the yelks of five eggs
and whites of two, one cup of milk,
three and a half cups -four. half tea
spoonful soda, one teaspoOnful cream
tartar, sifted into. Bake in jelly-cake
tins. Mixture for filling: Whites of three
eggs, one and half cup sugar, three
tablespoonful grated chocolate, one
teaspoonful vanilla. Beat we'll to-
gether, spread between the layers and
on top of cake.
Charlotte Russo: Take a half box
of gelatine dissolved in a pint OF
cold water, simmered down to a hall
pint (takes about three hours), make a
custard of five eggs (not the whites),
one pint of new milk, make veru sweet
and vanilla. consistency of thick cream.
One quart of thick cream whipped stiff;
after all is cool stir lightly in the Gus
tard and gelatine. Line the bowls with
stale sponge cake.
Caramel Filling: One cup of
cream; two cups chopped pecans;
three cups brown sugar. Boil sugar
and cream until thick or almost like
wax, then stir in the nuts and remove
Immediately from the fire. Spread on
cake while little warm.
Okra Catsup: Two quarts of ripe
tomatoes (or one peck it is), one quart
of gumbo 1.-TWO quarts before it is cut),
four or five white onions chopped fine;
cook this; then add celery seed, mus
tard seed, cinnamon, cloves, mace,
black pepper, red pepper pods (three
cut fine), red pepper. sugar to taste,
salt The spices must be whole; cook
all together; just before taking from
the stove put in a coffee-cup of vinegar
or more, according to taste.
Spiced Currants and Grapes: To
five pounds of currants or grapes add
half-pint of vinegar, three pounds of
sugar and a tablespoonful each of
ground cinnamon, cloves and allspice.
Cook fifteen minutes, stirring fire.
quently; then remove from the fire,
strain and even rub through sieve.
Some cooks add a teaspoonful of white
pepper and the same of salt, but such
flavors do not suit all tastes. Preserve
in air-tight pint jars.
Chow Chow: Chop four quarts
green tomatoes and four of pared green
cucumbers and drain an hour or two
in sieve, now chop and add a quart
of green peppers, a quart of onions, a
cupful of sugar, half a teacupful
of salt, four tablespoonfuls each
of ground cinnamon. cloves or white
mustard seed and quart of good
cider vinegar, boil the mass slowly in
an earthenware or an enameled kettle
four hours.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10
SPECIMENS OF MANNERS.

Aoslsssisa sfE.siisA slszs On AAsissa.
Wonanhood and Society.
Erom her own mouth I heard N
american relate the following story:
I'VE were at Balmoral over Sunday.
we vent tc church, of course, and
asked the sexton to give US seats. He
gave us horrid squeezed places under
the gallery. / told husband wouldn't
stay there. They were evidently third
class seats and I. as an American.
wouldn't take any thing but first class.
SO up got and looked about. Down
the center aisle discovered grand
looking pew entirely empty. 1t was
all hung round with curtains embroid-
cred with gold letters and figures. 4
am going there said to John. He
drowned mo-; but up / jumped and
marched straight in to that swell pew
all alone. Presently the sexton came
running up out of breath. and -four
1shed his arms as if scared to death. /
took no notice whatever, though /
knew he wanted me to come out.
A moment later great big turnkey
came and stared at me as If his
eyes would pop out of his head. He,
too, beckoned threateningly. beseech-
ingly. / would not move. First-class
was my quality of pew at home, and I
wasn't going to take less in shabby
Scotland. Soon the frightened-looking
beadle faded away, and seedy little
old woman slipped into the pew and
sat down beside me. She found me
the place in the prayer book, pushed
me a hassock, and never seemed bit
abashed at the contrast of her rusty
buds with my Paris rig. When service
was over she preceded me out of the
pew. Everybody stood in church and
bowed low as she passed. I came up
to John, who was pale with excite
ment. ''What have you done?" he
whispered. you've been and crowded
the Queen of England out of her place
in the royal pew" Then" added the
lady, Il was bit startled, I confess,
but l was glad of it after all, for it
gave me splendid chance to look her
all over" Would Mr.. Higginson con-
slider the American manners equal to
the royal ones? Was not the very es-
sence of good breeding in her dowdy
Majesty's efforts to mitigate the aVk-
wardness of the situation to the push
ing American strangerp
At a French dinner 1 heard the fol-
lowing story told by an Englishman
ignorant that any American was pres
emit. Zone of my friends was yachting
with A., B. and c." he said, naming
two well-known American newspaper
men and a famous hotel man. I'VE
remained later at the dinner-table than
Mrs. A., B. and c. Those ladies to
amuse themselves sat upon the edge of
the slylight and hung their dainty feet
down upon the gentlemen's heads ask
ing them to guess which feet belonged
to which lady," Possibly the story
was not true.
In London drawing room saw an
English lady pass round a box of Turk
ish sweets. Every lady carefully
twisted a morsel from the leathery
compound with her fingers till it came
to a newly arrived American. She
coolly bit off one with her teeth, re-
turning the remainder to the box
plainly marked with her charming
ivOries.-Art Age.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10
MANS TIME LOCK.
Points In Life When It Turns and MARKS
Astonishing Changes.

Points In Life When It Turns ana MARKS
Astonishing Changes.
There is theory, you know, that We
inherit traits and conditions from our
remote ancestors as well as from our
immediate ones. sometimes fancy
that they descend to some people with
a time lock attachments. A child is
born: he is like his mother, we will
say; gentle, sweet, kind, truthful. for
years-let US say seven. Suddenly the
time lock turns. and the traits OF his
father (modifed, of course, by the
acquired habits of seven years. show
themselves strongly-take possession.
in fact. Another seven years, and the
priggishness of great-uncle, the
stinginess of an aunt, or the
dullness, in books, of a rural
grandfather. Then, in keeping with
the next two turns of the lock, he
falls in love with every new face he
sees, marries early and INDUCES him.
self recklessiy in large family. He
is an exemplary husband and father,
as men 90, an ideal business man, and
a general favorite in society. Every
body remarks upon the favorable
change since his stupid. priggish col
lege days. All this time, through
every change, he has been honorable
and upright in his dealings with his
fellows. Suddenly the time lock of a
thievish ancestor is turned on; he finds
temptation too strong for even that
greatly underestimate power-the
force of habit of lifetime-and the
trust funds in his keeping disap-
pear with him to Canada Every body
is surprised, shocked, pained-and
he, no doubt, more so than any one
else. Emotional insanity is offered as
possible explanation by the charita-
BILE, longheaded. calculating, intention
al rascality, by the severe or self
righteous. And he? Well. he is wholly
unable to account for it at all. He
knows that he had not lived all these
years as a conscious, self controlled
thief. He knows that the temptations
of his past life had never before taken
that particular form. He knows that
the impulse was sudden, binding,
overwhelming; but he does not know
why and how. 1t was like an awful
dream. He seemed to be pOwerless to
overcome it. The time lock had turned
without his knowledge, and in spite Of
himself. The unknown, unheard of
thievish ancestor took possession, as
it were, through force of superior
strength and abllity-and then it was
his hour The hereditary shadow
on the dial had come around to him.
The great-uncle's hour was past. He,
no doubt, was turned on to some other
dazed automatom-in Maine or Texas
who had fallen heir to drop too
much of his blood. and she, poor thing,
if it happened to b a girl this time,
forthwith proceeded to fall in love with
her friends husband-seeing he was
the only man at hand at the time;
while the thievish ancestor left-in
shame and contrition-a small but
light-fngered boy in Georgia. to keep
his engagement with our respectable,
highly-hOnOred and heretofore highly
honorable man of affairs in Wall street.
The time lock of heredity had been set
for this hour, and the machinery of cir
cumstances oiled the wheels and silent
ly moved the dial.-Belford's Magazine.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10
ue~Sa.. -

:. Ia American 4dnoa<iooal Aid Aseocia-
uo9s Which has tor IT'D object the providins
ot homes foe poor and ffiendlese children.
= DONG . noble werk. Since IT, essah lish.
mens II has found good homes for seven
hundred homeless little ones. All children
received under tho caro- of the ADMINISTRATION
are Of special promiss in intelligence nd
health, and are in age from one month "a
twelve years, and are sent free to those re.
ceiving them. on ninety days. trial, unless
. special contract Is otherwise made. A
number OF promising children Of both sexes
are now waiting adoption into families.
Contributions to this very worthy charity
may % sent to Rev. Glen Wood. Financial
Secretary, Room Al. go LaSalle Street
Chicago. Rev. NJ. v. B. Van Arsdale, SIS
Sixty-seventh street. Englewood, Ill, is
the General superintendent
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10
HOME AND FARM.

J. HOME AND FARM.
The greatest truths are the sim
plest, and so are the greatest men.
-Turpentine mixed with carbolio
acid and kept in open vessels about .
room will. it is said. greatly lessen tho
risk of contagion in scarlet fever,
diptheria and kindred diseases.
"A stone heap under q tree often
causes its death. 1t obliges the tree
roots to feed near the surface, and
then freezing. Against this the stones
offer no protection, which is the cause
of the injury.
Now and then we hear of a horse
being injured by coming into contact
with barbed wire. This can be avoided
by leading the horse up to the fence
and pricking its nose against the barbs
when it is first turned into the en-
closure.
Every lost or broken or WORKOUT
screw bolt should be replaced with a
new one before the implement is
stored in the Toulouse or barn. SO
that when spring comes every thing
will be ready for work.
Drowned Turnips: Pare, slice and
cut them in dice an inch square, boil
till nearly done in as little water as
possible, and to one quart turnip add
tablespoon of sugar, and salt to taste;
when boiled as dry as possible without
burning, add two or three spoons of
cream. a beaten egg, and serve.
To keep lamp chimneys from
breaking put a cloth in the bottom of
large pan, fill the latter with cold
water and place the new chimney in it;
cover the pan and let its contents boil
one hour; then take from the fire and
let the chimney remain in the water
until it is cold.
Fall is the time to manure the
rhubarb plant. Cover its crown lib
orally with stable manure. Then toward
spring draw the manure away, cover
the crown with a barrel open at both
ends, and draw the manure around it.
You will be surprised at the difference
this simple treatment will make in it's
growth.
Marsh Mallows: Dissolve one-half
of a pound of gum arabic in one pint
of water, strain. add one-half of a pound
of sugar; place over the fire and stir
constantly till the strip becomes of the
consistency of honey; then, add grad
ually the whites of four eggs we'll beat
en-, stir till the mixture will not adhere
to the fingers. have pan busted with
starch at hand, pour into this. and
when cool enough divide into forms
usually seen. Marsh mallows are de-
lightful if they are placed when little
stale in the stove and slightly Drowned.
Good Housekeeping.
"A horse appreciates comfortable
fitting harness as much as he does
properly fitted shoe. The latter, when
set too tight, or with nail driven in
to or near the sensitive tissues, pro-
duces a positive lameness. Under this
condition of things he is promptly
taken to the shop for relief. But he
may suffer nearly or quite as much
from the chafing of badly-fitted col
lar. or a narrow belly-band drawn too
tight, or from a check-rein shortened
up so as to form of itself one of the Sc
verest punishments. Either of these
conditions produce restiveness in the
dullest brute, and in the case of an
animal of nervous temperament and
having thin. sensitive skin, he is liza
BILE to become frantic, the Obtuse own
err or driver seldom approaching the
origin of the difficulty.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

The vault of the United States
Treasury is the biggest vault in the
world and is capable of holding $780,.
O00, 900 in silver coinage.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

TACKLE an Obstinate Cough or Cold with
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

Bunco Steerers arc Exemplary Mon
Compared with the ruthless impostors who
represent to invalids inquiring for Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, that certain local
nostrums they prepare are the equal Of the
world celebrated tonic and Alternative. 1t is
deep infamy to rob the sick Of chance Of
health. The Bitters restore vigor and
eradicate malarial complaints, dyspepsia,
constipation, liver and kidney complaint,
rheumatism and neuralgia
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

The sentence There's no such word y
fail" can hardly be classified as cant
phrase.-Merchdnt Trdueier.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

SOMETIMES men become crooked in order
to help themselves out Of Strengthened po
sitions.-ROchester Post Erprcs&
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

ARE unlike all other pills. No purging OF
pain. Act specially on the liver and bile
Carter's Little Liver Pills. One pill q dose
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

TIE man who invented the type
writer did more toward giving women
their writes than all the women suffrage
associations in the country. -NorTtsto'r''
Herald.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

WHEN q bald headed man removes hi
hat to salute alady, it does not remind one
of q leafless branch, although it's naked
boW.-Bin0hamton Republican,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

10 trGs surprised
after using Ely's
Cream Balm tUO
months to find the
right nOstra, tChtch
Tas closed for 20
years, ,ras Open0dnd
free as the other. /
feel re,y Handful
r. II. Crcsscnghdm,
275-fSh Street,
Ryrn0kl,s3a
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

WILL be found an excellent remedy for
sick headache. Carriers Little Liver Pills.
Thousands of letters from people who have
used them prove this fact. Try them.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

'Man overbored p'-the editor.-Bostos,
Commercial Bulletin
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

TIE counterfeiter never stands still II
his profession. He 10 always forging
ahead.-YOnkers Statesman.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

BIZ INVESTING 81 TO s. you may secure q
fortune. Address with stamp, The Montana
Investment Co., Helena, N. T.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

An authority on etiquette says that
woman can take mans hand, but must
not shake it.; but there is nothing set down
in the rules which can prevent her froD
shaking the man.-PainesctIle DeM0erdk
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

THEY have no police on the prairie:
though a coppice often seen there.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

For COUGHS AND THROAT DISORDERS use
Br0pn's Bronchial Troches.-" Have never
changed my mind respecting them, except
think better Of that which began think
ing well of."-Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
Sold only in boxes.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

No WONDER time Is 50 often killed; It Is
struck every hour.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

TIE latest out-the boy3who is KEEP
after school"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

WHY is tooth drawn like q thing for.
Rottene Because It's out Of the head.-BoS
timore Democrat
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

EMALL dinner tables may - Partisan,
but omall dinners are . failure OF the
averaeo -09UssfsaGs hdepsnd-
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

A MILKNAN and an oak tree both flourish
according to tho size and condition Of their
foute.-Hdrper's Boar.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

THE successful lover thinks he Is getting
ahead when he i getting heart
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

An authors title ought 70 bes WITH
Honorable. ~ Wdshin0Con Fhst.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

Al actrees Who IL presented With costly
bouausos 6 IL footlights may b said =
- 8 laay q Ane saags peesentA -zAe
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

WaEx the rug is over the fence it Is ont
Peck
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

PLAIIxG upon Workshops. writing.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10

FATHER TINS travels by cycles.-1ymA
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-10
? EDIeATED ELEeTRielTY!

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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-12-28

MRS. DEBORAH POWERS, Of Lansingburg, N. Y,
Is one hundred years old. Since the death Of her
husband she has been managing head Of the
Powers Bank, one Of the Oldest private banking
institutions in that section. In addition to these
duties she has many interests Of a domestic and
charitable nature, and is said to show small mark
Of her extreme age.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-12-28
LITTLE ROCK, ARK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1889.
Vol. H.-NO. A.

Apostles. There can be no doubt but what st.
Paul taught was to the point and right for the
women OF his day. He taught them such lessons
as they were then prepared to receive, when Chris
tianity was far behind its present conditions, and
when it is very probable that the women were also
tar behind their own time, being as completely in
subsection as were other slaves. But there are
those at the present day who would not fear the
edicts Of st. Paul could he return at this stage to
render judgment in regard to the sphere of women.
st. Paul was a progressive man in his own time,
and would not fail in his desire not to lag behind
now more than then. He would simply be obliged
to become acquainted with a new era, and the
women that belong to the nineteenth century.
Those women whose convictions are based upon
the teachings Of st. Paul, yet secretly desire to
enlist under the banner Of equal rights, must learn
to take st. Paul with more faith while looking
above and beyond to Christ, his superior. None
can doubt His being the woman's friend.
NEVER since Mother Eve came forth from the
first Paradise and assumed the business of raising
babies, has that branch Of industry received so
much attention, or found such interest in the
rinds OF men, as in the present day. Since
women are beginning to cultivate a more worthy
self-respect; a more just and proper self-appre-
citation and a better understanding Of what is due
their sex, they are naturally led to aspire to a po-
sition OF greater advantages and to be lifted to the
level Of equality with men. 1t is this which has
raised the war cry in behalf Of the baby. From
all points Of the compass comes the fierce ,jangle Of
the alarm bells, and back Of almost every bush and
tree there is a man ready to ''perk up" his head
and exclaim in a hollow whisper, "MUsr the baby
COZ" or, "What IS to become Of the baby?' All,
poor baby-dear baby-proud %baby-have you
at last, by some unexplainable accident, caught
the masculine heart-strings in your pink and
dimpled fists? Then, indeed, is baby's day dawn
ing; baby is to be "king'' Of all the world and
not half a sovereign as in days gone by; and
especially should we rejoice for those poor little
wayside waits and strays, which have hitherto been
left without a hint Of any warm spot that may
have existed for them in o fathers heart. The
warm spot has evidently been there all along, but
it needed a band Of woman's rights women to find
it. The poets are about 10 receive a blessing in
the guise OF q bran new and fruitful subject, "a
Fathers Love-" and it is probable that for the
next decade that great fountain head Of poetic in-
s%piration, IA Mothers Love-" will be placed
upon the shelf and left for a time a theme unsung.
And there let it rest for the brief spell that it is
possible for anything to supersede it, for a
mothers love is one Of the things that ''neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt"
Well done, good and faithful equal rights women,
your labors have not been in vain, il you succeed