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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18

kept the bette:, especially il you have
any nervous COWS. The men are not
apt to neglect the thorough cleaning Of
the stalls or brushing of the cows in
occasional absence of the proprietor If
they know that women are to aid in
the milking. The average man, born
or long resident in the country, looks
upon every woman as lady, and en-
tertains for her respectful courtesy
which keeps him upon his good behav-
ior in her presence. II. will be max
ing good move to introduce as many
women as he can among his mixers.
-[Jaque, in Country Gentleman.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18

for the raising of the bridge TO it's
full height in fifty seconds. The
whole structure is figured to resist q
gale pressure given by wind of 100
miles an hour, thus making it entirely
secure. Both on the piers on which
the bridge rests and Mt the tops of the
towers are hydraulic buffers which pre-
vent any jar in raising the bridge to
full height or lowering IL to its seat on
the piers. II gives clear channel
parallel to the bed of the river and in
the centre of the river of 100 feet.
AT the same time the end piers are
sufficiently removed TO allow all craft
to get up as near the bank as desired.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
AN IMPROVED HORSE STALL.

The following is description of an
improved horse stall, the merit of
which consists in its simplicity, says
the Live Stock Record:
In the center of the stall--a box
stall--a pit is dug Is inches in diane
ter, and three feet deep. Into this is
put cobblestones 3'to inches in dia-
meter, until they reach the top. Three
large fiat stones are placed over them,
which just fill the top of the pit. A
load of ground limestone is then
spread around the outer edge of the
stall and raked towards the centre,
giving it gentle slope in this direc-
ton. Over this is spread two inches
of yellow clay which is well tamped.
The stall, when thus completed, is
like an oval dish, and carries all the
urine TO the centre and into the pit,
where it gradually soaks away. There
being no opening in the bottom of the
pit, no bad odor comes back into the
stable, as so often is done when "a
drain pipe is used to carry off the
urine. Another advantage of this
stall is the shape, which more nearly
fits the horse while lying down, and
requires less straw for bedding.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
The King of Slams Private Chapel.

There are several temples situated
in and near the royal inclosure in
Bangkok. The private chapel of the
king is situated within the palace
grounds, and contains more costly
treasures than any place in Siam. The
looting of this temple would have af-
forded the French officers nice
chance for prize-money if they had
been allowed to seize the opportunity
which the prospect of hostilities of
fered. One of the principal objects
of value in the Temple of the Emerald
God, as it is called, is sacred idol,
twelve inches high by eight inches
wide, of solid gold, in which is set a
marvellous combination of crystals,
topazes, sapphires, rubies, onyxes,
amethysts and diamonds. 1t is en-
shrined on pyramidal altar springing
from the floor to the roof of the
great building, and it is one of the
duties of the king TO visit it once a
year and touch it with his royal hand.
At such visits the steps of the altar
are covered with costly presents to the
king, from faithful subjects. II Dem
crest
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
SALT FOR THE GARDEN.

Salt is especially useful for the gar
den. This is usually plot of ground
that has had an excess of stable man
ure for several years, and without min
eral fertility TO make it do all the
good it should. While plants do not
need the mineral the salt furnishes, it
helps no less surely by making other
plant food, including the mineral
phosphate, available for crops. For
this reason salt does best on rich land
that for any reason is not producing
as it should--[Boston Cultivator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
An Active Industry,

The demand for skulls and skeletons
10 said to be always in excess of sup
ply, particularly at this time of year.
It may interest our readers to know
hat are the current prices in the
imerican market.
"Half skeleton, disarticulated, in
box, consisting of the skull, the spinal
column, twelve ribs, pelvis, one arm,
and one leg. The bones of the spine.
land and foot are held together by
catgut, $21. II Medical Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
AN EXCELLENT STOCK.

An excellent stock is obtained from
roast meats by pouring into the drip
ping pan, just before the joint is done,
from a glass to pint of hot water, ac-
cording to the size and the quantity OF
the dripping. Turn into dish and
when quite cold there will be found a
glassful or more of pure meat stock
ready for enriching sauces or for i'm.
proving common stock. / New York
Telegram.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
wATERING TRoUaHs IN STALLS.


An experiment has been made
abroad to test the advantages of hav-
ing watering troughs in the stalls, al
lowing the cows to drink Mt will.
A herd of Dutch cows was kept for
time in ordinary stables, and water
brought TO them twice daily; they
were then changed to stalls having
troughs in each manger with constant
water supply and afterwards they were
changed back again to the ordinary
stables and watered twice.
The milk yield increased on nm aver
age O.53 liter per COW daily, and there
was no decrease in fat contents. The
increased yield is calculated to be
about 100 liteis per COW annually.
The cows drank little less when al
lowed to drink at will than when
watered twice day. 49, New York
World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
THE RIpEY1yG or CHEESE.

The making of II curd from milk is
only the first stage of the action of the
rennet. Green cheese thus made is
somewhat more digestible thnn is the
cheese made by natural curdling of
milk without rcnnet. The digestive
principle goes with the cheese into the
stomach. But if the cheese is put
away to ripen, the rennct still works
through it, changing the caseine, diff
cult to digest, into compound con-
tanning the same protein or nitrogen
ous food in soluble form. 1t is thus
that well-cured cheese becomes so easy
to digest, contrary to the usual opin-
ion based on the indigestibility of
fresh curd. A piece of cheese with
bread is more healthful, more nutri-
tious and more digestible than is bread
and butter. The latter, indeed, is
only digestiblc when it is liked
and thus stimulates the glands that
furnish saliva. Bread and butter are
each n different form of carbon. One
is starch, the other is fat. In cheese
the digestive organs find the kind of
nutriment that gives strength, while
the bread and butter mainly contribute
to making fat and maintaining animal
heat American Cultivator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
IN A DEN OF THIEVES.
DY OLIVE MAY EAGER.

In ante.bellum days, before West
Virginia became a separate State, that
mountainous region was filed with n
rough mining set, who lived in the lit
tie cabins scattered here and there
among the wild hills. The miners kept
much tc themselves, and had bad
reputation with the more pacific viii
layers, who rarely saw the "furriners'
except when they came to the town
store for supplies, on which occasions
they were generally the worse for Ii
quor.
II happened that two young men
from the Eastern Shore were making n
horseback journey through the noun
tains in search of fun and adventure,
Late one autumn day, they were fol-
lowing n steep bride path to place
where they intended to pass the night !;
but darkness overlook them when far
short of their destination, After
stumbling along for some time, be-
ing forced to lead their horses, they
spied light among the trees, and
reaching it with difficulty over stumps
and stones, they found log cabin,
whose only inmate was brawny
Scotchman of about fifty.
In answer to their request for ac-
oommodation for the night, he replied
rather gruffly that they were welcome
to his rough quarters, but as his wife
had died some weeks before, he and
the three boys were obliged TO do
their own cooking, with Indifferent
result There was no stable, but
only u rude shed for the cow and her
feed, of which he gave the horses nm
abundant share, as, tying them under
convenient trees, he led the way back
to the house for their owners.
Merely remarking that "the boys
would return later" their host wasted
no more words on the unexpected Wis
itors, as he proceeded to fry some
bacon and make fresh corn pone. On
such mountain fare the young men
supped heartily, assisted by copious
drafts of good tea, which seemed to be
the one luxury that had followed the
pioneer Scot into his New World
home.
There were two beds, into one OF
which the travellers gladly crept, as
their host said that he and the boys
would take turns sleeping in the other.
The tired horsemen were just touching
the pleasant borders of dreamland,
when they were reused by the entrance
of tall, strappIng fellow, who came
in with gun in hand.
The Scotchman's few words had
somehow left the impression that his
boys were mere youths; but this
looked fierce withal. The two noun
taineers talked in low voices before
the big fireplace, which so swallowed
up their guarded tones that no words
reached the listening couple, now wide
awake and alert with suspicion.
At the last stopping-place the young
men had been warned against the
robbers who haunted these mountains
and although carrying but little money
they knew full well that their gold
watchesand fine riding horses were suf.
fcient to tempt reckless men to mur.
der. So they felt for the loaded
revolyers undcr their pillows, and
with tense yet suppressed excitement
waited for what might happen next
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
TO DESTROY ANTS.

A new cure-all for ants of all kinds
came to my knowledge the other day.
woman writes, and was hailed with
delight. as during summer we had both
the tiny red ants and the large black
ones in the house. 1t is also remedy
for cockroaches and other pests that
invade the sanctum of the "chcf.'
Place green walnuts in the pantry,
closets, cupbonrds or any place where
the "varmints" roam. I tried il ns
soon as / heard of it, and the ants left
post-haste. also placed handful OF
the nuts under the red and white peo.
nies, and the ants do not thrive there,
either. The cure was so quick and so
efiectual that | concluded / could rec
ommend it to the world ut large.
have been SO tired of the untidy RENE.
dies of tea, alum, chalk, etc, Uttered
all over the pantry shelves, and all to
no purpose. Fl New York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
THAT COLD POTATO.

A brown fry.-Cut cold boiled po.
tato in even slices, dredge lightly with
flour and fry brown in butter, drip.
pings, cottolone or lard.
Potato provcncale. Cut cold boiled
potato in little balls, with vegetable
scoop, and fry, with few slices of on.
ion added, in butter, drippings or cot.
tolene and it will be potato proven.
Gale.
Potato n Ia baragoulc Cut cold
boiled potato in the shape and
size of olives, and fry, with II spoonful
of minced herbs added, in olive oil or
cottolene, and you will have potato a
In baragoule.
Potato au grGtin. - Slice cold
boiled potato, stew in broth or milk,
season with snlt and pepper, sprinkle
with grated cheese and bread crumbs
mixed, and brown in oven, and it be-
comes potato au grntin.
As Plain Stewed. Slice cold boiled
potato, put in stew pan with cold
gravy of any kind season with salt and
pepper, stew gently for ten minutes or
until thoroughly heated, AMI then
serve as plain stewed potato.
Lyonnaisc potatoes. Gut cold
boiled potato into little dice
shaped pieces, add minced onion, fry
i'll butter, season with salt and pepper,
sprinkle with chopped parsley and you
will have Lyonnaise potatoes.
Potato hash. Heat together in q
stewpan n spoonful of butter and teal
cupful of milk seasoned with salt and
pepper, add cold hashed potatoes,
cover closely, simmer gently until well
heated and you will have an excellent
potato hash.
Potato biscuits. Add a cup of milk
and half tcaspoonful of salt to
quart of cold mashed potato, work in
flour until tho dough is sufficiently
stiff to roll out and cut into biscuit.
Bake ona foured grid,ile or baking
pan. Serve hot.
Cakes and balls. Enrich cold mash
potato with beaten egg yolk, make the
mixture into balls, dip the balls into
beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs or
cornmeal, and brown in "A quick oven.
These will be potato balls. Make the
prepared mixture into fiat cakes, and
brown in little hot fat and you will
have potato cakes.
A Ia maitre de hotel. Stir together
in sauce pan over the fire equal por-
tions of butter and flour; pour in
little milk, and cold boiled potato,
evenly sliced; let ii simmer till well
heated, season with salt, pepper, lem
on juice and minced parsley, and the
product will be the famous potato
In maitre de hotel.
Baked hash. Mix well, about equal
portions, finely minced cold meat of
any kind and minced cold potato,
moisten with milk, gravy or soup stock
never with water--season with salt
and pepper, make into roll, put in a
buttered pan and bake in the oven.
This, if properly prepared and cooked,
will be delicious hash.
Don't throw away cold potato, is the
admonition of Emma z. Ewing, the
Chautauqui lecturer on cookery. Save
and untilize it. There are numerous
ways in which it can be quickly re-
warmed, and in many of them when
properly done it is almost as good az
when first cooked. Much of the pota.
to served up at hotels is merely re-
warmed potato and can be under fam
ciful foreign names prepared similarly
in any private kitchen very easily, very
inexpensively.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18
Apple Song.
o tho Sun has kissed the apples,
Kiesed tho annlps,

o tho Sun has kissed the apples,
Kissed tho apples;
Aud the apples, hanging mellow,
Red and yellow,
All down the orchard seen
Mako glory in the green.
The sun has kissed the apples,
Kissed the apples;
And the hollow barrels wait
BY the cato.
The cider presses drip
With nectar for the lip.
The sun has kissed the apples,
Kissed the apples;
And the yellow miles of grain
Forget tho rain.
The happy gardens yet
The winters blight forget.
The sun has kissed the apples,
Kissed the apples.
Der the marsh the cattle spread,
White and red.
The sky is all rs blue
As n gentian in the dew.
Tho sun has kissed the apples,
Kissed the apples;
And the naples are ablaao
Through tho haze.
The crickets in their mirth
Fife the fruiting song of earth.
The sun has kissed the apples.
Kissed the apples.
Now with fiocking call aud stir
Birds confer.
As II their hearts were crost
by fear of coming frost.
o the sun has kissed the apples,
Kissed the apples
And the harvest air Is sweet
On the wheat.
Delight is not for long
Give Us laughter, give us song!
CHARLES q. d. RoBERrs in Youths 60
nion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-18

clothes. An hour passed, and as the
two mountaineers we're now dosing in
their chairs the travellers began to
breathe more freely.
Suddenly peculiar whistle, cutting
shrilly through the quiet night start
led them TO fresh wakefulness, and
the old man, rousing mp, stirred the
fire and moved about cautiously,
glancing now and then toward the bed
to see if the sleepers were disturbed by
his preparations for supper. A few
minutes later two more young giants
stalked into the cabin, stacking their
guns in corner, and placing their
long bowie knives by the side of others
on the stone iamb of the fireplace, where
they made n fearful glittering row to
the watching eyes.
Again there were significant glances
at the bed in the furthest, darkest corr
ner, and much more low-voiced con-
versation, while the three newcomers
quietly ate their late meal. Matters
began to look very serious to the
young men, now fully convinced that
the Scotchmans tale of his recently de-
ceased wife was all pure invention, and
that they were really caught in den
of horse-thieves. There was no use
in shouting for help in these unfre-
quented woods, so, determined to sell
life dearly, the travellers lay quietly in
their bed, but with every nerve
strung, and with revolvers grasped
ready to fire at the slightest alarm.
In the semi-darkness of the cabin
they could watch every movement of
the men, whose forms were plainly
outlined against the fire. Soon the
old man rose, and taking book from
"A rude cupboard, began reading in un-
dertoncs; but unaccustomed to the
Scotch accent, the Virginians caught
but n confused murmur Of sounds.
One whispered to the other: 81
have no doubt they are reading some
diabolical book, which gives them full
directions how to kill lis" Then AZ
the men huddled together to hear
something that seemed especially in
teresting, he added recklessly, Lets
rake them fore and aft as they sit
there; it's our only chance IN this
trap"
"No," said his more cautious com
panion, "wait till they make n move
toward their guns"
"Pooh! it's those big bowies they
will use for us.
"Well, let us wait any how till we
see them start for their knives"
So they waited with feverish anxiety
until simultaneous movement among
the group at the fireplace convinced
the unfortunate travellers that their
time had come. Sitting bolt upright
in bed, with pistols cooked, they pre-
pared to fire, and then spring upon
the surprised gang.
Under his breath, one said: "Ready!
Cne, two"-but ere the last fatal word
was pronounced, both pistols fell
harmlessly on the bed, and the two
young men stared blankly before them.
With one accord the four big, grim
Scotchmen had dropped on their
knees, while through the quiet cabin
came in low, yet distinct tones from the
old man, with mumbled chorus from
the boys: "Our Father which art in
Heaven"
Both of the travellers were declared
skeptics, but in relating the adventure
afterward, they were wont to add:
"We were fast asleep before those
Scotchmen got as far MS "Thy king
dom come. 20 York Independent
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1893-06-16
HOPE MEAT MARKET, j,
H.H. BAKER PROP.
SPRING TIME.

SPRING TINGE.
Spring time here
slice ham for breakfast Salt dried
All
products pntonzng
practically
A GOOD SCHEME.
Now tho time foundation fall
money you
atl Tor i"m VIII handy You VIII md c
GOLD 9ToKAQH
soIeyoH butr
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-13
TIMELY, SENSIBLE ADVICE.

The Monroe (Ga.) Advertiser offers
this very sensible suggestion to all
classes of people:
While looking to the Democratic
party and expecting from the Demo-
cratic administration proper legislative
and other needed reforms, the people
should be careful not to swing on the
pendulum of expectancy to the
extreme, and demand that the national
government transcend its legitimate
functions and become paternalistic in
its operations
Whenever the people OF any class Of
the people look to the government to
feed them, to foster their private affairs
and to supply them with what money
they fancy they need, then they are
expecting too much of the government.
We have right to expect the govern
ment machinery to be SO regulated by
the party in charge thereof as to give
equal rights and equal privileges to all,
but individual success and individual
prosperity must be attained by in
dividual effort and personal energy
Therefore let the masses of the people
who are looking for relief through
reform in the administration of the
government not expect too much al
the hands of the government.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-13
WHY THE SOUTH HAS NOT SUI
FERED.

1t is pleasant to know that the South
has learned the lessons of business so
we'll, and applied them so faithfully at
the right place, that when commercial
distrust is making a record of failures
and bankruptcies elsewhere, compare
lively few disasters of the kind are re-
ported from the South. This can not
be because little was ventured, for
there has been activity in great
variety of enterprises in the South. It
must be because the South, under the
same unfavorable conditions that ap-
piled to the West and Northwest has
had the prudence to hold credits suf-
ficiently in check and to keep herself
solid and solvent.
The experience of 1890 was not
thrown away. The severe attack of
the speculative fever cleared out the
adventurous and forewarned the saga
cious. Considerable sums were lost,
and many worthy enterprises will for
some time to come suffer from the sad
experience of investors in cornfeld
town lots and archaeological swamps.
But the people never lost faith in their
resources or confidence in themselves
and the future. They have had the
good sense to take a broad view of the
financial situation. They have silenced
the blatant agitators who roared up
and down their land two years ago,
scattering seeds of visionary theories
and plucking good sense by the bread
as a slave of the money power. The
South was not to be driven pell- nell
into camp by political guerrillas with
axes to grind. 1t looked abroad to
get its bearings, and, getting them,
had, as usual, the manliness to shape
its course accordingly.
The same good sense that took in
sail when financial storms began to
blow, and that neither ran blindly
upon the rocks of bankruptcy on the
one hand nor desperately upon those
OF agrarianism on the other, is making
converts every day in the South tc
rational, conservative views of the
best public policy to be pursued by
the nation in the present monetar,
crlsls.-Louisville Courier Journal
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-13

SECRETARY SMITH is still doing
yeoman service in revising the pension
lists and ferreting out frauds An
order has been issued from the Pen
sion Bureau to many pensioners over
the entire country, who are receiving
pensions under the act of June Fl,
1890, that the payment of their claims
will be suspended for sixty days, dur
ing which time they will be required
to show cause why they should con-
tinue to draw pensions. They will be
dropped from the rolls unless they can
produce the certificate of reputable
physician attested to by two reliable
witnesses that the pensioner is pre-
cluded from labor by injuries or dis
ability not the result of his own vicious
habits. If no attention is given the
notice their names will be dropped
from the list. The ruling of Secretary
Smith will certainly reduce the
excessive number of pensioners now on
the rolls, and will considerably lessen
the large amounts thus unnecessarily
paid out of the government Golfers.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-07-13

: AT the call of Gov. Foster, ofLouis-
lana, meeting of the levee boards of
Mississippi and Arkansas, and the
United States civil engineers having
in charge the levees of the Mississippi
valley, was held in Baton Roughe, La,
July II, for the purpose of discussing
some plan for the better protection of
the valley lands. In the face of the
destructive overhows, and heavy
damage done to property and life
during the recent breaks of the levees.
some effective method should be used
and put into execution that would
render safer the property and people
of this section of rich agricultural
land. 1t is to be hoped that this
meeting will accomplish much good
in the direction in which it is working
and for which it was called.