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The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
The Irish Potato Not Irish.

"The peculiarity of the Irish potato, so called, is in the fact that it is not Irish," observed one of the potato ex- perts of the agricultural department ''The potato originally grew wild i'll the fields of Chile, Peru and Mexico Sir John Hawkins did not take 1t to Ireland until 1865. Sir Francis Drake took it to England 20 years afterward. It did better, however, in Ireland than anywhere else and got its name, no doubt, because of its early and extensive cultivation in Ireland. Botanically 1t was originally known as the Batata Vlr- giniana, but in after years it was prop erly identified and classified as the So- lanum tuberorum. As the winter stock is now being laid ill, it may be woll for the inexperienced to be able to select good potatoes.
 "Cut the raw potato ill two and rub the halves together. If the moisture on rubbing is soft and liquid enough to drop, the potato will be soggy and set when cooked Rub the halves briskly around on each other. A potato that will be dry and mealy when cooked will give out a good, rich froth, while a poor one will show only watery froth by the same action. The pieces will stick together if the potato is good one Of course the whole thing is 10 test the amount Cf starch ID the potato, for the more starch the better the potato. if however, @ person intends to lay in very large supply, the best plan, e' course, is 70 cook them, and there Wil. bo 10 chance Of d Illst.Au. -n a.siins- ton Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
MILLIONS OF COOK BOOKS GIVEN
 AWAY.

There is one large house in this country that hSS taken business OH its turn and means ride in on the rising tide. Alive to the signs of better times and to the best interests of the peo pie, they are now circulating among families a valuable publication known as HE CHARLES A. NOGELER COMPANY S COOKERY BOOK AND BOOK OF COMFORT AND HEALTH, which contains very choice iufOrmati on on the subject of cook rr7o PncoFvt~ F~~ tt,~ ~r~n7'~-"+f~"~ Nf ~@>>7 .- .....s.. ..4t Laiuty ulsues. preuareu especIulIy for it by leading authority, will be found in its pages. Much care has been taken in it's prepa- ration and distribution, with the hope that it will be just the thing needed for hOuSekespeTs, and just the thing needed also for the care of the health and household As a Cookery Book it will be invaluable to keep on hand for leference.
 It also contains full information in regard to the great remedies of this house, which provide against bodily ailments, especially the Master Cure for Pains and Aches, St. Jacobs Oil
 To give some idea of the labor and expense of this output, more than 200 tons of paper have been used in its publication, and at the rate Of 100000 day. it has taken several months for the issue.
 The book can be had of druggists everywhere, or by enclosing Pc. stamp to The Charles A.. NOgeler Company, Baltimore, Md.
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son brought her into action with the Frenchman and was blown out of the water by broadside. "
 The little captain turned on his heel -lu paced .t3 aAU dow ,.. ..-... --. ready his crew were plugging the shot holes, kHotcing and splicing and mend ing. When he came back, the lieuten- ant saw a softening of the stern lines about his mouth and eyes.
 Are they all gone?"
 Every man. They must have sunk with the wreck.
 The two officers looked down at the sinister name and at the stump oi wreckage which floated ill the discolor. ed water Something black washed tC and fro beside splintered gaff and g tangle of halyards. It was the outra geous ensign, and near it a scarlet caI was floating.
 "He was villain, but he was Brit on, !" said the captain at last. ''He lived like dog; but, by God, he died like { manw
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
One Way to Break Glass.

It is scarcely credible, but it is a fact, that a glass can be broken by the voice If you strike a thin wine glass while you hold it by the stem it will emit a certain note-in most cases a pretty deep one. On approaching the glass rapidly to your mouth, and shouting into it the same note as loudly as possi- ble. the vibrations of the glass being thereby extended, it will be shivered into fragments. This used to be fav- orite experiment of LabIache, the re- nowned singer, who would thus break, one after the other, as many glasses as were handed to him.
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ulack swarm or poarders steadied them.

UIacK swarm or Doarders steadled them selves for spring.
 But their feet were never to reach that blood stained deck. From some. where there came we'll aimed whiff of grape and another and another. Tine English marines and seamen, waiting with cutlass and musket behind the si- lent guns, saw with amazemont the dark masses thinning and sh.Adding away. At the same time the port broad side of the Frenchman burst into a roar
 "Clear away the wreckI' roared the captain. What the devil are they fir ing at?'
 "Get the guns clear,' panted the lieutenant. "We'll do them yet, boysi''
 The wreckage was torn and hacked and splintered until first one gun and then another roared into action again. The Frenchman's anchor had been cut away, and the Leda had worked herself free from that fatal hug. But now sud- denly there was a scurry up the shrouds of the Gloire, and 100 Englishmen were shouting themselves hoarse.
 They running! They're running! They're runningr'
 And 1t was true The Frenchman had ceased to fire and was intent only upon clapping on every sail that she could carry.
 But that shouting 100 could not claim it all as their own. As the smoke clear ed it was not difficult to see the reason. The ships had gained the mouth of the estuary during the fight, and there. about four miles out to sea, was the 1 Leda's consort bearing down under full sail to the sound of the guns Captain 7.5[.. hal don. L-9 part for one day and presently the Gloire was drawing . off swiftly to the north, while the Dido was bowling along at her skirts, rattling away with her bowchasers, untila head land hid them both from view.
 But the Leda lay sorely stricken, with her mainmast gone, her bulwarks shat tered, her mizzen topmast and gaff shot away, her sails like beggar's rags and 100 of her crew dead and wounded. Close beside her a mass of wreckage floated upon the waves. Itwas the stern post of a mangled vessel, and across it ill white letters on black ground was printed ''The Skipping Sal. '
 By the Lord, it was the brig that saved us!' cried MT. Wharton. "Hud-
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
JACKETS OR NO JACKETS.
This Is Not a Fashion Article, put As
 Interesting to Womankino'

Interesting to Womank1no'
 If Is rareIy in this country that pota- toes are boiled before they are peeled or, in the old-fashioned way of express ing it, in their jackets" and yet in Ireland the very headquarters or this vegetable, such a thing is scarcely known as pre-peeling them. Those who have never tried them in this way are advised to do so some day, when tney can make sure they are brought 10 tue table the moment they are done, anu not allowed to stand any length or Ille before they are eaten. Select lhoSe VI equal size, allow them, after "ashinS and Scrubbing thoroughly, to e'nnu covered with cold water for hall all hour, then throw into plenty or DolIlns water, and after boiling twenty nlin utes prick to the heart with two pronged fork; if not soft, COOK h''ie longer, drain, sprinkle with salt, reluin to the range, and when the saucepan 10 hot. toss them, to allow the sat- to shake evenly through and to dry WeI' Dlace in a warm napkin on a red-nOt plate and serve with good, sweet but ter. The flavor of the snowy, feecy morsels. taken from the jackets and buttered as they are eaten, will be found to be much better than if peeled before boiling; indeed, epicures declare thnv can detect the difference at once and as the most nutritious part of a po- f -Iv Rf lost.
 Potatoes in their jackets make a suit able adjunct to oysters baked and served in the shell. Wash and scrub the oysters, put them in a large baking pan in a hot oven, and in five minutes or less they will begin to open and must be sent to the table at once, six apiece on hot plates. It is well to have small red doiley at each plate with which to grasp the oyster while open ing. Chilled sardines are also partlcu- larly good with these same potatoes; they are very savory, yet easily pre- pared Chilling is merely another name for broiiing, and unless one possesses a perforated broiler, not expensive, now ever, shaped like a waffle iron, which comes on purpose to cook articles that would slip through the ordinary grid iron or broiler, they may be cooked easily. quickly and satisfactorily by proceeding as follows: Make the frying pan or chafing dish sizzling hot, drop in teaspoonful of sweet butter, or use the oil in which the sardines are pack ed as preferred. The pan must be kept very hot, when the fish will brown al- most instantly on one side, then turn ed, Drowned on the other, and they are ready to be served on toasted crackers or squares of toast softened with bouill- ion.
 The butcher will supply marrow bones on purpose for grllling, and they, too, fit in excellently with potatoes in their jackets. as would scallops, done to a golden brown in boiling olive oil, fried shrimps, roasted crabs and the like.
 People who have an open grate with a glowing fire of hard coal, possess the means, with the addition of a chafing dish, that make possible the most say ory suppers imaginable, and may de light their friends by novel invitations to sup, with the words potatoes in tro'r 1o cLnts' oddod instead of "danc, Iug, cards OF what nOl.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
CALENDARS AND COUPONS.

So many beautiful calendars and entertaining novelties have been issued by the proprietors oi Hoods Sarsaparilla, that we are hardly surprised to receive this season not only one of the very prettiest designs in calendars, but with it coupons which entitle the recipient to attrsc tive novelties. Every one who gets a Hoods that will prove interesting and valuable as well as a beautiful specimen of the lithographer's at The calendar is accompanied this season by an amusing little book on 'The Weather D or send cents in stamps for one to c. I. Hood TS Co.,, Lowell, Mass.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts direct ly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack medicine. It was prescribed by Cne of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tOnics known, com bined with the best blood purifiers, acting di- rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect com bnatiOn of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonial s. free.
 F.J CHENEY X CO, Props, Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 75c.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
DANGER ENyIRONs IFS

If we live in q region where malaria is preva lent. It is useless to hope to escape it if un provided with medicinal safeguard. Wher malignant - in South and Central America the West Indies and certain portions of Mexico and the Isthmus Cf Panama, Hostetter's S:om ach Bitters has proved remedy for and pre- effective is it in curing rheumatism, liver anC kidney complaints, dyspepsia, biliousness anC nervousness.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
THE TIPPING QUESTION.
How It Is Practiced at Home and Abroa
 and the Need For a Reform.

How It Is Practiced at Homo and Abroad and the Need For a Reform.
 The question of tipping seems small enough in detail, but rather i'm portant when exaggerated.
 A woman who spent last winter in one of the most sumptuous of New York hotels says she invariably gave quar- ter to her waiter at breakfast and lunch con, those being meals taken alone. At dinner time she was joined by her hus- band, who always handed the seryitor 90 cents.
 The latter sum seemed to evenly fill the mans idea of what was due him, and his Thank you, sir!'' was bland and gracious, but the lady's modest quarters always found their grave in the black waistcoat pocket, with no eX- pTession of gratitude from the recipi- ent's face, which wore meaning look, as of one who says, "Women are mean, an never knows low to do the right thing by man, but one 'as to put up with 'em'
 It is only ill reckless, good natured
 
 America that optional fees are so much larger than they ought to be. A dollar, which is common enough sum for a man to give at dinner in a fashionable restaurant, would make a French wait CT stare, although he would have the presence of mind to pocket it quickly.
 In Paris there is an unwritten scale which apportions 3 per cent on the amount of a customers bill as a tip. Thus a person ordering a dinner that costs $2 would, on settling his bill. add 10 cents for the attendant.
 It is time we had either q legal CT in formal rule governing tips in this Coun- try, and it is to be hoped that some rich persons will help on the reform.
 It will never be done by those whoso means are really small enough to feel the tax, for it is one of the errors of the impecunious to feel obliged to show as much liberality as a millionaire, even if, like the guest in "Charley's Aunt, " he has to borrow half a dollar from the butler with which to tip him.-Illus- rated American.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
TARIFF AND TAXES.

Whatever the new order of things may be in tartffard taxes, business is already better, and tEere are sure signs of it's being rapidly improved. Intirmities and ailments are the tariff and taxes on physical strength. Lum- baoo is 4 complaint that taxes our best en- duTance. It cripples and units one for any Ihing ike active exertion. It is a sudden bacEache. but no matter how sudden, ST. Jacobs oil is quick and sure enough ill its nrOmpt cure 10 break 1t up and restore strength. In paying the taxes on our health the best currency is the best remedy for pain, and its prompt use the surest way of getting back to business.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
SIeDt a Year.

In Blanchets curious book, "Cemptes Rendus," mention is made of a girl who at the age of IS had a peculiar spell" which the physicians pronounc- ed constitutional lethargic slumber," !" which lasted for forty days. Again at the age of 20 she slept for fifty days. Her last recorded Hong sleep lasted almost a year-from April 20, 1862, un' til March, 1863.
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A fly is almost 1nvincible. 1t will sur vive long immersion in water and will sustain the odors of sulphur and ether disinfectants without apparent injury. Only turpentine, chloroform and ann monia can get the better of fly.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13

CObwigger-Look here, Freddie, the man next door says you fired a small stone through $2 pane of glass in his window Freddie-Pshaw If that pane is worth $2 1 broke about 10 cents worth of it.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13

A Holsters skin when shedding splits down the back and comes off in two equal parts. The tail slips out of the shell like finger out of glove.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13

Malaria and Grip positively cured also all other Medlcal and Su gical cases guaran teed write; confidential. DR. CRAIG x CO, Medi- cal Institute, 13i6 Market St., San Francisco, Cal
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13

Thirty days are required for mail to travel between New York and Bushire.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13

A foot of common measure is equal to 30 ceutimeters or hundredths of meter.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13

Yes. siT
 A round shot dashed the hinuacle to pieces between them. A second Knocked two marines into a bloody, palpitating mass. For a moment the smoke rose and the English captain saw that his adyersary's heavier metal was produc- ing a horrible effect. The Leda was a shattered wreck. Her deck was strewn with corpses. Several of her portholes were knocked into one, and one of her IS pounder guns had been thrown right back onto her breech and pointed straight up to the sky. The thin line ot marines still loaded and fired, but half the guns were silent, and their crews were piled thickly around them.
 Stand by to repel boardersr yelled the captain.
 "Cutlasses, lads, cutlassesr' roared Wharton
 Hold your volley till they touch, " cried the captain of marines.
 The huge loom of the Frenchman was seen bursting through the smoke. Thick clusters of boarders hung upon her sides and shrouds A final broadside leapt from her ports, and the mainmast of the Leda, snapping short off few feet above the deck, spun into the air and crashed down upon the port guns, killing ten men and putting the whole battery out of action. An instant later the two ships scraped together, and the starboard bower anchor of the Gloire caught the mizzen chains of the Leda upon the port side With yell the
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"It is c mercy ono daughter, at least, re-
 produces mOthcrn

"It is mercy ono daughter, at least, re-
 produces mother"
 bit. What wife she would make to some man, only it would be bad for himl She would serve him like slave, and he would be insufferable.
 But there is no fear of that calam- ity," Frances went on, for Grace will never marry. She is beginning to have the airs of an old maid already"
 "It passes me" said Gertrude, "how no man has seen her excellence and tried to win her. Do you know I've some- times thought that MT. Lepnox admired her? They would certainly make per feet pair"
 You are the dearest old stupid Ger trude. Of course George Lennox adores Grace, as ho would saint in painted window, and Grace appreciates him be- cause ho teaches astronomy or conchol- ogy or something to werkingmen in the east end. Neither of them knows how to make love. Their conversation is a religious exercise. And Frances eyes danced with the delight of a mistress in her art. "Why, did my best with him just to keep my hand in, and, Gertrude, you might us we'll have firted with that wretched god. I would rather have the god, for he winked to me just now quite distinctly"
 Perhaps you're right, and Grace does not wish to marry. But it will be lonely in this big, empty house for mother and her when we are gone. ."
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WEEKLY BULLETIN
Of Condition of Crops as Compiled by the
 Weather Bureau.

Washing ton, Aug 10-The weekly bull ABpol psnssI nesInq IeuleeM sul Jo unsI says:
 In the states of the central valleys and Atlantic coasts and gulf districts. the week has been generally favorab ble for crops. Portions of Missouri, western Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky have however, suffered from drought and excessive heat during the first of the week. proving injurious over portions of the gulf states. In the west gulf states the week has been very unfavora ble
 being excessively warm and dry. On | the Pacific coast the conditions have been very favorable, although extremely warm in Washington and Oregon.
 Corn has continued to make unfavora- ble progress Tn the principal corn states, and while recent rains have proved bene- flcial In Nebraska and Kansas the re- ports indicate that the crop has been i permanetly injured in portions of both states. It is estimated that the bulk of the corn crop will be safe from injury by frost by September 15, and that the late planted win be safe by October 1. Ex- cept over portions of North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas. Missouri. and Oklahoma, where cotton has made lalf prOSTeSS the pdSt Neeh mas fot Ueeii favorable to the staple. Complaints of shedding are general over the southern portion of the belt. while worms and rust are reported from some sections. In Texas. Louisiana and Arkansas cotton on uplands is suffering seriously from drought Picking is Secoming general over southern and central portions of the cotton region. and first bales were mar keted during the week in Alabama,
 Mississippi. Arkansas and Florida. | Spring wheat in the Dakotas and Min nesota is well advanced. but had been 1 delayed by rains to some extent in South | Dakota, and where a portion of the crop
 was overripe has sustained injury. | Very favora ble reports continue from l Oregon and Washington although recent | hot winds have caused some injury in the | last named state,
 | Tobac<~ is doing well except in New | England where there has been too much 1 rain.
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THE LAST SACRIFICE.
RJ IAN MAOLAREN.
[Coiyrfght, 1897, by the Author.]
 GH PIER

[Copyrfght, 1s97 by the Author.l
 CHAPTER I.
 Firelight casts weird enchantment over an old fashioned room in the gloaming betwixt the light and the dark.
 "I It is, do believe, the dreariest room in Bloomsbury, and surely one cannot go farther,p eaid the young woman at ease on the white bearakin before tho fire, "and yet, I believe, my room at Kensington will not show more lovely, nor your black oak at the rectory"
 If you had got your will, Frances," answered sister some six years older, from the couch, every stick of this furniture would have been sold long ago, and the very walls draped ill pale green. You are full of sentiment to- night.
 Its our double wedding and the de- parture from the ancestral mansion cast sas shadows over my sensitive heart, and Frances concealed her emotion with fan. Your already matronly staid- ness is removed from such moods It is mercy one daughter, at least, reproduces mother i"
 Are you also deceived by mothers composureP' and Gertrude's quiet tone emphasized the contrast between her re- fined face and Frances Spanish beauty . Strangers count her cold as marble, but she has always seemed to me the very type of tenderness and faithful ness.
 'She is. tho dearest mater ever was, and most patient with her youngest daughter, but she is, well-not carried away by emotion. "
 Frances, I'll tell you something once saw and can never forget When l slept in mothers room, woke one night and found she had risen She opened drawer that was always kept locked and took out likeness of father. After kissing it again and again--can you believe that?-she laid it on a chair, and, kneeling down, prayed to God for us all, and that they might meet again, and then she kissed him once more and put tho picture in it's place.
 ''Pray God, Frances, that you and I may love as she has done, once forever. Do you know I've. often thought that Grace is the only one of us that has mothers power of affection, yet we are to be married and she is to be left?''
 Yes, Grace is like mother, and yet don't think mother understands her ono
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CHAPTER II.

My work at court was finished lit tie earlier today, and have done my self the pleasure of calling 10 inquire for Mrs. Leconte al,d you after the mar riage. The manner was grave and n trife formal, but the man was one in whom any woman might safely put her trust-tall and well built, with strong face and kindly eyes-a modest and courteous gentleman.
 1t is good of you to remember us, but, indeed, you have always been most kind, said Miss Leconte, with the faintest flush on her check Mother is out and will be sorry to have missed you. Will you not sit down, and I'll or der tea?''
 The London sun, which labors hard, with many ingcnuities, to do his part by every home, found the right angle at that moment and played round Graoe's face with soft afternoon light
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he never came again to the house after the marriage except once to make a formal call, and missed him.
 Dying all alone, with no woman to hold his hand or say word of love. for whose sake any woman might we'll have left all. But you may be right, he did not want to marry"
 Grace made no sign and shed no tear, but she pressed to her lips handful of rose leaves, dry and withered, and the shadow heightened on the street along which she had seen him go for the last time.