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The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Odds and Ends,

Powdered alum applied TO fever
sore will prevent it from becoming un-
slightly or noticeable.
When having occasion to hang out
clothes in winter where frost is likely
to stiffen them and injure the fabric
this can be obviated by putting hand
full of coarse salt in the last rinsing
water and letting it dissolve before put
ting in the articles under treatment.
A thermometer to be fastened upon
the oven door is one Of the most useful
of articles to the cook. With this the
heat of the oven can be determined
without opening the door, and the bak-
ing of cakes, puddings and souff1es can
be accomplished much more success
fully.
To make Goldfish balls, simmer to-
gether equal quantities of raw fish and
potatoes-cut in small pieces-until the
potatoes are thoroughly cooked. When
done drain and mash; add a dash of
white pepper, little sweet milk and
butter and the beaten white of one egg
for every cupful of the mixture. Fry
in hot pan, drain and serve at once.
For the sewing room piece boxes in
stead of piece bags are much to be pre-
ferred. These may be built along the
WALL forming pigeonholes about eigh-
teen inches square, duly labeled for
each member of the family, and for
Innings and patterns. A chintz curtain
falls to the floor in front of such a cab
met, whose convenience has only to
be tried to be amply demonstrated.
To make linen beautifully white, use
refined boraX in the water instead of
handful of powdered borax to ten gal
ions of boiling water is the proportion,
and you will save one-half in soap by
this method. Borax being a natural
salt, does not injure in the slightest
degree the texture of the linen, and
will soften the hardest water
Both dishcloths and busting cloths
should be put through the wash regu-
larly and fresh supply given out each
week. This is done in order that they
may pass inspection regularly. They
should be washed out carefully every
day they are used, and dried at least
once in the twentyfour hours in the
open air. This will prevent any dan
ger Of death in the dishcloth' In the
shape of mold and the germs of disease
so often bred in putrid and offensive
cloths.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
New Uses for Greenbouses.

The decreased cost OF constructing
and managing greenhouses is leading
to a great multiplication of their num-
ber, and as another result of the uses
to which they are put. A Philadelphia
owner of numerous greenhouses, for
which he could not find profitable use,
devoted several to the growing of pota-
toes. OF course in rich soil and with
abundant warmth and moisture, the
crop was very large. He had home
grown potatoes as early as they could
be brought from the South, and made
a fair profit by selling at the same price
per peck as new potatoes brought per
bushel a few weeks later.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

under our treatment, she can be MIXED
tie year round. Two years ago we
bought g cow that I picked out fer :;
persistent milker, but she had Keen
careiessly handled and poorly fed. sad
was dry three or four months. This
fall We wanted TO dry her in time to
give her sixty days rest, but found her
still giving four or five quarts daily.
Much IS said nowadays about milking
continuously, if cows will do So
l have had number of cows that could
be MIXED without difficulty, and oc-
casionally have done so, but have al
ways found it resulted in loss. The
COW needs at least eight weeks rest,
and will do enough better when she
comes in to pay for it.-Hoards Dairy
man.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Team Horses,

l think if we could have q larger
breed of horses started there would be
money in raising colts for team pur-
poses, as I think q native colt at four
years of age weighing twelve hundred
pounds would bring from 1925 to $3.50,
and it seems as though it might be
made to pay to raise colts for these
prices, and l would much rather have
a pair of such horses than those
brought from the West and Canada.
1t will pay you to breed your farm
mares this year, if they are good ones.
If they are not good, keep selling and
trading until you get good ones. A
good team tells good farmer.-Farm
News
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

There is not a business man in the
country who does not know the sugar
trust and It's methods of dealing. And
yet the sugar trust is pursuing
business course that has for many
years been considered unfair and un-
justifiable. 1t escaped conviction on
technical grounds once. 1t has been
driven out of one State. Nevertheless,
it can go into almost any State in the
Union and transact business. If the
States had proper laws against trusts
it could easily be broken up, but until
they do the trusts will continue to flour
ish and fiaunt themselves in the pub
lie view.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

IT is the health rather han the
strength that is the great requirement
OF modern men at modern occupations.
1t IS not the power to trav L great dis
tSnces. carry great burdens, lift great
weights. or overcome great material OBJ
structions; it is simply that condition
of body and that amount of vital ca
pacity which shall enable each man.
In his place, to pursue his calling and
work on in his working life with the
greatest amount of comfort to himself
and usefulness to his fellow-men.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

The Postal Telegraph Company is
now paying dividends at the rate of 4
per cent. annually. This is the first time
on record that an opposition telegraph
company to the Western Union ever
paid dividend. The Postars stock is
S15.000.OOO and no bonds. This latter is
also rare feature with big corpora
zion. The company has 10000 miles
OF wire and over 5000 offices. Million
alre John w. Mackay is the principal
owner
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
L;ons Disappearinr.

Just as the buffalo has been exter-
minated from our great Western plains.
so lions are disappearing from India
before the rifle of the hunter and the
ak and plow of the farmer. In Kathia-
war, whose forests have furnished one
of the last retreats of the retiring king
of beasts, an attempt is being made to
save the animals from complete extinc-
ton by prohibiting lion-hunting during
period of six years. 1t Is said, how
ever, that the gradual clearing away
of the forests will in itself result In the
determination of the lions.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME.
Fuel Va1ue of Corn as COMPARED with
Coa1-Experiments as to the Cost of
Butter in Eastern Cauada-How to
Feed for Strength.
Fuel XaIue nf CnHn

The present abundance and low price
of corn throughout the Northwest has
caused it to be used as fuel by hun
dreds of farmers and by some dwell
ers in the towns. To test the economy
Of this practice, the station burned
5,232 pounds of corn in a furnace un-
der boiler, and a careful account was
kept of the quantity Of water evapof-
ated by the heat. The next day ike
quantity of coal was used, and care
full account kept of the quantity OF wa
ter evaporated converted into steam).
The experiment proved that one
pound of coal will evaporate nearly
twice as much water as one pound of
corn-the exact figures being one and
nine-tenths times as much. The coal
used cost $685. per ton in Lincoln, and
according to that price the corn was
worth, for burning, $3.50 per ton, or
121a cents per bushel. When coal is
worth S4.87 per ton, corn is worth, for
burning, cents per bushel; when coal
is worth S5.41 per ton, corn Is worth
10 cents; coal $5.95, corn II cents; coal
S6.49, corn II cents; coal Sill, corn 13
cents; coal, $7.57, corn IA cents; coal
SSH, corn Is cents. But, by burning
corn, the farmer saves hauling the corn
to town and hauling the coal home. An
other consideration, however, Is this:
May it not pay better to hold the corn
till next year than to burn it? Two
years ago wheat was so cheap that
farmers were feeding it to hogs; now
it is well up in price 1t is not unlike
ly that corn may go the same road
Bulletin of Nebraska Experiment Sta
ton.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
The Origin of yankee Doodle. -

Yankee Doodle" is claimed by many
nations. 1t was known in England as
"Nankee Doodle" in the time of Charles
I. The Hollanders had an old song to
this air called "Yanker Dudel." 1t is
said TO be also an old French vintage
song, a native Hungarian air, and the
ancient music of the sword dance of
the Biscayans. In June, 1855, DR..
Richard Schuckburg, regimental sur
eeon under General Braddock, thought
to play a joke on the ragged, tattered
ContinentalS by palming off the "Nan-
kee Dodle" of the time of Cromwell
upon the colonial soldiers as the latest
martial music. 1t at once became pop
ular, but a quarter of century later
the Joke seemed turned when the Con-
tinental bands played this same "Yan-
kee Doodle" as Lord CORVALLIS march,
ed out after surrendering his army, his
sword and the English colonies in
America TO the Yankees.-Ladies'
Home Journal
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

In South Africa, the Transvaal Gov
ernment and Volksraad have made con-
TO the elementary schools, also certain
fiscal regulations. and the application
of mining titles to the underground
working of gold reefs beyond the limits
of the allotted surface ground. On the
other hand, very stringent measures
for the Uitlander newspaper press, and
a law for the arbitrary expulsion of
of foreigners suspected of treason,
have provoked some additional resent
ment
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Top Dressing Poor KnoIls.

1t is often hard work to get a clover
seeding on the dry, elevated knobs in
grain fields. Lack of moisture is usual
ly the cause. But the evil may be RENE
died by drawing a few loads of stable
manure and spreading over these
knobs. The manure not only protects
the young clover plants, but it also
holds the moisture in the soil by check
ing evaporation. A few times seeding
the knOlls thus will make them as rich
as any part of the field. 1t is usually
the lack Of clover seeding on such
places that has kept them poor.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Feeding for Strength.

1t is not accidental that oats, the
grain which, next to whole wheat, is
best for furnishing growth to the mus
cles, should have always been the ia
yorite food for horses. They are better
than wheat for all animals except man,
and as good also for man, if properly
prepared. 1t is the large proportion OF
hull which makes oats superior for
horse feed, as the hull distends the nu-
triment and prevents it from compact
ing and heating in the stomach. Oat
grain not only contains a large amount
of heterogeneous nutriment, but it has be-
sides a certain stimulative substance,
which is peculiar to the oat.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

1t has been said that people some
times give to charity, not according to
their means, but to their meanness.
This may be true, but there is a para
dox here, as well as to some of the ac-
cepted hypothesis of the laws of life.
and that is that winter meanness.
frigid as it is, is sometimes warmed in
TO glowing generosity by the freezing
temperature of a poor mans house.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
In life things are important

In life things are important not ac-
cording to their individual measure
ment or emphasis, but according to
their report to the eye or to the ear.
singly they are like grains of sand,
but united they are vast as the shore.
The shore cannot spare its sand. HUI
man life makes itself by its little
deeds, and becomes great by the sum
OF all its minute things.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
RaiaRd.

The Master of the House-You see
it's simple enough to build a fire in this
range if you know how. suppose it's
all strange to you, however?
The New Domes tic-Yes, sir; l wasn't
raised in that way.
And how We're you raisedT'
Il used too much coal oil, SIR
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Law of Contraries.

why" asked the inquiring one,
"why should they allude to woman
kind as the fair sex?"
Probably" said the cynical bach
elor, "by the same law of contraries
that church hold-up is called a fair
Enquirer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
why He w ent Of.

Police Magistrate-I would not like to
think, prisoner, that you attempted
suicide. Yet witnesses testify they saw
you on the pier, minute before the
accident. But why did you go Off
Tankley-Ish the OF story-hic--I
spose didn't know l wash-hic load
ed.-Pittsburg News.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Shade of Walter Scottr' exclains
the London Chronicle. "Cluny Mac
pherson, of Cluny, as chief of the Clan
Chattan, presided at the inaugural
gathering of the clan in Glasgow this
week, but apologized for not appearing
In the kilt, as he was afraid of catching
nOldr,
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Persistent M;1l.o.a

Each year in keeping COWS confirms
ME more and more in the belief that the
matter of having persistent mixers is
largely under our control. AS illustra-
tive of this, certain COW in our herd,
owing to lack of grain feed at milking
time, was dry for six months, and yet.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Lots of 1t.

Yes" said Lungly, as the clock
hands neared the midnight hour, 81
think l shall accept the presidency of
that gas company"
Il should think that you would be
fitted for the position" she replied
Philadelphia North American.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Sarcastic,

They were looking over some of the
childrens instructive holiday books.
''WhO is that creature with the i'm
mense head of bushy hair?" asked Mrs.
Judden.
That replied her husband, with the
fiucncy of n lecturer lis a Circassian
girl. She is famous not only for her
magnificent hair and personal beauty
but as one of the few women who can
remove their hats in theater and still
be happy. ."-Washingt Star.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
How Bullets Make Clouds.

Photographs of flying bullets recent.
ly made in Italy show dark streaks and
blurs just in front of the projectiles,
and it Is thought that these are the i'm
ages of little clouds formed by the sud-
den condensation of moisture as the
advancing bullet congresses the air
head of it
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Percherons.

The horse is a noble animal, but |
think the time may come when elec-
tricity will crowd him out. Our NOW
ing machines, horse rakes and wagons
of all kinds will be shooting around,
and not horse to be seen. But for the
present for farm wear, would have
Percheron horses weighing from ten
to twelve hundred. and the feed should
be cracked corn and oats, equal parts
every time.-Farm News.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

What can we do, each of us, to help
others to bear their burden of sadness
This-if we are merry, our mirth will
not be lessened by trying to bring good
cheer to others less fortunate than our
selves; if we, too, are sad. our sadness
will be made lighter by forgetting our
selves in thinking for others.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
J wo Bad Scares

es' SAID the retired army officer,
81 can recall two occasions when was
most terribly frightened"
Oh exclaimed the romantic young
lady, do tell me about them. sup
pose lt happened when you were fight
ing the Indians?"
NO. he replied; "one time was when
| was married and the other time was
when we had our baby christened." -
Washington Star
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

his escape. The trick worked well on
four rabbits, but the fifth hole, unfor-
tunately, contained skunkus Ameri-
canis, who was undoubtedly scared.
but. The new device has been dis
Iln1
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Cropping Bearing Orchards.

1t requires some extra profitable crop,
and one that will itself pay for good
deal of manure, to make the cropping
of bearing orchard pay. We have seen
it done with both blackberries and
raspberries, both of which do well
when partially shaded. and which will
not suffer from drought, as do most of
the crops grown in orchards. On no ac-
count should grain crops be grown in
the orchard, unless it be where young
trees have grown to bearing size, but
without producing a crop. Even then
the result is better accomplished by
sowing clover, to be grown for year or
tWO,-EXchange
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

In a collection of rare and curious
books soon TO be sold in Boston is
copy of the Book of Common Prayer of
the Church of England abridged and
edited by Benjamin Franklin. and. so
far as can be ascertained, it is the only
one of its kind in existence.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

men of neighboring county learned
from a small boy that if you take a
piece of rubber hose, thrust it down the
rabbit burrow and blow through ii
loudly. If there be n rabbit anywhere
within the burrow 1t will rearly scare
him TO death. and If there Is another
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Exnenses of the White House.

Congress appropriates between $4O.-
900 and $4,000 annually for the cur
rent expenses of the Executive Man
sion to meet clerk hire. including that
of the Presidents private secretary,
which is $1,000 a year; stenographer.
typewriters, telegraph operators, mes
sengers, doorkeepers, a steward, and
hnnsekeener. and light and heat
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Alfred Austin. the poet laureate, fell
into the Tweed the other day and had
narrow escape from drowning. Verify
the ways of Providence are past find
Ing out
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
A Wooden One.

Bacon-My partner and myself want
a wooden partition across the store.
Crinsonbeak-Wel I guess IL you
put your heads together you can ac-
complish it.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Having tried TO make it illegal to
wear hats at the theater, or for wom-
an to wear bloomers, the Alabama Leg
islature is proceeding with its work of
reforming the world and will pass a
bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Professor James, of Harvard, denies
that genius is a disease. Probably
those who hold otherwise would be
willing to admit that the disease Is not
yet epidemic.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
a pnfhafsO CuSa

would you please help me?' said
the poor beggar to the pedestrian; II
have wife and five children at home
and an installment to pay on my BIZ
cycle to-mOrroww-Y States
man.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Correct.

Look here, Totling, you said that
your cousin who went West died of the
dropsy, but 1 have discovered that he
was hanged"
That's all right, Tenspot. He dies
of the drop, see"-Up-to-Date.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
hO He Is.

Singely-Who is this man Cleverly,
whose divorce suit is causing such a
sensation?
Margaret-Oh, why, he's the author
of that charming novel, "A Happy Mar
riage. Exchange.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

bicyclists," says a contemporary, ito
stop fake contests" This is palpably
false. Bicyclists would spurn any move
mant ON foot
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Never on the Floor.

Soxey-There's one beauty about
learning to carve in our fiat.
KnoXey-What is that?
SOxey-If the bird flies off the table
it never falls, for the wall pushes it
back again.-Cleveland Leader
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Hubert Crackenthorpe, one of the
best-known contributors to the Yellow
Book and other examples of decadent
literature, has killed himself in Paris
under circumstances which show that
he lived as he wrote
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Among the thousands of photo
graphs brought back by Nansen is one
of an attacking Polar bear, of which,
the explorer took three snap shots with
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Some genius claims to have invented
a pneumatic boxing glove" This may
be something new, but the pneumatic
prize fight has become fixed institu-
tion in sporting circles in this country
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Deadly Insult.

Botts-You are a weather prophet, /
believe?
Potts-Sir, l allow no man to call me
a falsifier!-Yonkers Statesman
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Very Cordial.

She-l hope you were polite TO papa.
dear?"
He-lndeed | was. gave him cor
dial invitation to make his house my
home.-Detroit Free Press.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
CHANGED Her Mind.

''He is a hero"-"I never saw one
who was not an insufferable egotist''-
"Of one Of the greatest scandals''-"In-
troduce me; dow-Indianapolis Jour.
nal.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Not Slow,

isn't that very slow horse Of
yours?'
''Well, he isn't much for speed, but
he's easily frightened and runs away
good deal, so he gets there just the
same."-Detroit Free Press.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

friendly terms with the Marlboroughs
just as long as the Vanderbilt purse
holds out. Leave Albert Edward u
loan for that
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

The Nebraska girl who sent her lover
a rattlesnake skin necktie as present
evidently had an eye to the avoidance
of any cause of jealousy.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Fire Without Matches.

Although the ancients had no knowi-
adoo Of the friction matches of these
times. still they had quite number
of WAYS of obtaining fire. The igniara
vrara contrivances similar to those In
use to-day by savage tribes, and the
fire was produced by the friction Of
noInted stick of wood In the hollow Of
another piece.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

4 Cincinnati clergyman has dropped
1I9 members from the rolls of his
church for too much wOrldliness. All
the other members perhaps are dead.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
A Grain of Mustard.

Orator-HOw can we encourage the
freedom of genius?
Cinnicus-Abolish the lunacy com
miSsions.-NewY York Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
After He Saw Them.

George, that's a very bad fitting
suit of yours"
"Yes; know it."
Custom nader
mo; cust'em after they were made"
Cleveland Plaindealer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

No man likes to hear his wife tell the
children that Jesus was the best man
that ever lived.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
WALLACE,

Cuba is now suffering with yellow
fever and yellow generalship.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
A Word of Approval.

i intended this poem merely as
pot-boiler," said the young man in lofty
explanation.
mats a good idea. Take it right
home and let your folks start the fire
with it."-Wash hington Star.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

The Boy: Shall We Whip Him." as
subject of debate may give place to
The Boy: Can We Whip Him.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Thomas Jefferts-W'at you runnin'
fo' so, man!
George Washless-Cose l can't fly,
yo' fool niggah!-Up to Date.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
An Old Friend Gone.

Kansas Farmer-I don't know how il
is, but | don't feel comfortable any
more. The old place amt what is used
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
HUMOR OF THE WEEK
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.

odd, Curious and Laughab1e Phases
of human Nature Graphically Por-
trayed by Eminent Word Artists of
Our own Day-A Budget of Fun.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Whenever two women get together,
and there Is a man In an adjoining
COON. they soon begin to whisper.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
Visitor-What's the trouble?

Kansas Farmer-Well, yer see. nv
son he come home few days ago and
he paid off the mortgage!-Up-to-Date.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

Van Ishe-My darling, I'll never be
able to find him. He owes me f25.-
Tit-Bits
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12
An Impossibility.

Ethel-You may ask papa, Mr.. Van
Ishe.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-12

turn out!
why, to tell you the truth, sir, they
didn't turn out as good as l thaart they
was ag'oin to. and I never thaart as
low they would"