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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
A Hint to Bread Bakers.

Few people know that baking pow
der can be used to almost as good adj
vantage as yeast. 1t will heaven dough
perfectly and make sweet and whole
some bread. 1t will make bread that
will keep moist and fresh for several
days. To make one loaf use quart of
flour, Il teaspoonful of salt, half a
teaspoonful of sugar, two heaping tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and half
of a cold boiled potato. Sift all ex-
cept the potato thoroughly. Rub in the
potato and add enough water to mix
smoothly and rapidly into a stiff bat
ter, about u pint of water to a quart
of flour, Pour the batter into a greas-
ed pan and bake three-fourths Of an
hour. Bake Immediately after mixing.
lnis process Of baking bread saves
time and care.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Artistic Decoration of the Home--A
Swinging SOFIA Hint to
Bread Bakers.

In selecting house furnishings be
very careful not to confound liking
with taste.
AS a rule, furnishings that are con-
spicuous in themselves are seldom a
good investment for people who can
not afford to toss them aside at will.
Door hangings should always be Of
heavier weight and stronger coloring
than window draperies.
The appointments of a dining room
are SO few that an error in their choice
or combination is more obtrusive than
q similar error in any other room.
The walls Of a room that is to be
occupied constantly should be hung
with plain paper or with that having
an all owe interlocked pattern in leu
trail tints.
The artistic and restful effect Of al
most any room is heightened by the
use of homemade fancy articles, pro-
vided their coloring tones in or con
trasts pleasingly with the dominant
one of the room and they are few in
number.
Small oriental rugs make the most
effective coverings possible for floor
cushions. Simply place the cushion in
the center of the rug, bring the ends
together and blind stitch these and the
sides together, using the scanned side
next the hoor.-Elmira Telegram.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
%xstaIl1z Nuts.

Crystallized nuts are easily made by
the home cook and are a useful addi-
ton to the menu of the country hostess
who finds herself the traditional IL
miles from a lemon. English walnuts
are the best to use for the purpose, but
any large meat nut that the country
store may afford can be crystallized. A
cupful Of water and two cupfuls of
sugar, preferably graduated, are boil
ed together until a little drop from the
spoon into ice water will candy. The
sirup should then be poured into a
straight sided pan or dish, deep enough
to allow it to cover the nuts. The meats
whole, if small, or halved if they are
English walnuts OF Brazil nuts-are
dropped in carefully and left in a dry
and rather warm place for fully "a
hours. 1t is a good point to heat the
nuts, not hot, but to the point Of being
warmed through, before they are drop
ped into the sirup.-New York Post.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
The Causes of Rust.

There is not SO much rust in grain
prevalent of late years as used to De
the fact. says American C%ultiyator, and
the proportion grows less as the coun-
try grows older and the amount Of
vegetable matter in the soil decreases.
Rust in small grain is due to a %fungous
growth which is most prevalent in hot,
damp weather. The air is always fill
ed with bacteria. and when these are
brought into contact with the grain by
rains the leaves absorb them with the
moisture and produce a sappy condi-
ton that cannot resist disease. This il
especially liable to be the case with
grain that has mad an excess Of nitrog-
enous fertilizer and too little of the
mineral plant food that gives frmness
to the stalks. One of the advantages
of using potash and phosphate on grain
crops is that these minerals insure
clean, bright straw and well filled
heads Of grain.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

yet a youth. His military predictions
We're shown early In life by his joining
the local volunteers. In 1870 he enlist
ed in the Gordon ~highlanders, but it
was not until nine years later that he
saw active service. The Afghan war
of 1S79-S0 gave him his first oppor-
tunity. While a noncommissioned off,
Ger at the front he had the honor to
be twice mentioned in dispatches and
was awarded a medal and a commits
sion. He served with his regiment in
the South African campaign Of 1881
and has taken part in all the fighting
in the Sudan for the last Is years.
While he was yet a sergeant he was
mentioned for gallantry in the Majuba
hill disaster and as captain was pre-
sented in 1889, at Suakin, with the
Osmanieh medal. AT that time Cen
eral Grenfell spoke in the highest
terms of his service under the khedive.
He was again decorated in 1890 and in
1897. He is popular with both officers
and men in the army and is Familiarity
known as Fighting Mac"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
MMR. MARGUERITE LABoR1.

School of Music-and was esteemed SO
good a pianist that she was taken on
tour through Austria and Germany.
There She met the pianist, M. de Pach-
mann, whom she married, but the alli-
ance proved an unhappy one, and it
was dissolved on the wife's petition.
AS Nine. de Pachmann, however, the
lady played at all the best concerts IN
London. and finally she appeared in
Paris, where she met the then rising
young barrister, Maitre Lahori. She
married him and has since not appear
ed in a professional capacity. Those
who have heard her at her home in
Paris declare that she is just as fine a
pianist as ever.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
seeding Corn Ground.

Last year attention was called to the
& method Of seeding corn ground that
, Mr.. Jamison advocates. He uses the
land roller on the stubs before cutting
the ground with a disk harrow. l had
when l read Mr.. Jamison's article l
could not think that the rolling before
narrowing would make the difference
1t does in keeping the stubs from be-
coming uprooted. Last fall we cut the
corn low and ran the roller in the d.
rection we intended to harrow and
drill. The result was that very few
stubs were torn out by harrow or drill.
The ground was left smooth for the
grain and. grass crops. 1t is not easy
to decide what is best to do with the
ground in the shock ows Some farm
ers place the shocks in squares of IL
or 16 hills OF q side. drilling around
the shocks. and others prefer to make
the shocks 6 or 8 by 20 or "a hills and
leave the shock rows unseeded. The neat
way is to place the shock rows as far
apart as practicable. seeding only the
strips between the rows, and then husk
curly rs poSSlDle duu Seeu tne SHOCK
rows. This plan worked very well
with us last fall. but some seasons the
corn cannot be got off the field in time
to give the seeding in the shock rows
any chance for growth before winter.
A strip of oats in these rows seems to
me a nuisance. A fairly good way is
to seed the shock rows before cutting
the corn. and then no Ground is lost ay.
cept that actually covered by the
shocks. But this will not work where
corn ripens two or three weeks before
the regular time of seeding, as these
strips of wheat draw the f1y.-Alva
Agee in National Stolkman and Farm
or
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
A Corner sofn.

A pretty sofa corner may easily be
made with a little expense for a sitting
or drawing room. The platform, one
foot in height, may be made by any
amateur carpenter. Upon this is fit
ted a mattress or cushion, which may
then be covered as deliberately or rs
simply as desired, the same scheme
being carried out in the curtain at the
back. which should be lined with a
plain cover.
The looping is done by drawing the
fullness through brass curtain rings,
the last on either side being finished
with an ornament, such as a Japanese
fan or any other effective bit of color.
Piled up with cushions, this makes 4
charming piece of furniture.-New Or
leans Picayune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

THE FARMER :

tE11GL
he thousands of abandoned farms
New England are being purchased
people from many countries and
Va, disappearing. The old farms have
new value. The Portuguese, the
liam and the Canadian are found in
aost every community, and it be-
oves the thrifty New Englander to
.eive his Latin neighbor we'll, for he
S come to stay and vote, and his
any children are to vote. The out
me of these changes we ann fore
e. But of one thing we may be rea-
,nably sure-that an honest man can
ave no more honorable or stable pos
ession than a New England farm on
which no mortgage remains, accom-
panied by the protection of a sum
equal to it's value in some solid bank.
So l would repeat, whether in New
England or elsewhere, if you have a
farm, keep it; if not, get one, for the
time may come when this country will
9oe largely divided into monopolists,
and farmers, and the farm
rs will be the most independent of all
lnen and the saving power of u in
at%itutions. The relief from the per-
licking problems of the time is a sim
lie, honest, character building, faith
lstaining life on the soil.
The permanency Of the New Eng
and schools and historical scenery, the
ssured stability Of her manufactures,
With a tendency to create the finest
abrics, the prospective revival of COM
lerce, the grange and the enterprises
Incidental to these conditions make
.he New England farm an ideal pos
session. The New England farmer
who says that the farm is a thing of
the past is himself but a product of
the past. The man who has a $4,000
farm in New England, with $4,000 in
the bank, and who will live within his
means, is a millionaire, and his pos
session and contentment are not I'M
likely to outlast that Of the millionaire.
-Hezekiah Butterworth in Review Of
Reviews.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
The Fest Cuts For stev..

The neck, shoulder and breast are in
the order given the best stew cuts. the
neck being the ~juiciest part of the ami
NAL II probably the cheapest. 1t may
seem almost an affront to some to be
assured that a royal meat dish for a
family may be provided at a cost of %
or 30 cents. But such is actually the
case. For a brown stew Drown stews
are either fricassees, pot roasts or
braiaes if properly named) a u from
the round is best in beef. while for
pot roasts a thick cut from the face Of
the round is nearly always used.-Ella
Morris K%retschmar in Woman's Home
Companion.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
Why Dniryine Is Profitable.

One of the reasons that dairying has
been profitable to the farmer who un-
dertakes it is the fact hat this indus
try gives steady employment through
out the year not only to the farmer
himself, but in some measure to his
children, large and small, as well.
This factor is often of the highest i'm
portance and brings the dairy industry
In strong contrast with grain growing,
where labor is employed only a part
of the season, to be idle the rest Of the
time.-EXchange.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
lFrom a photograph

You will thank the Lord you live in
free America when you read the fol-
lowing story of a girl in Manila. 1t is
quite true.
In the Philippine Islands persons of
mixed foreign and Malay blood are
called mestizos; feminine, mestiza.
Sometimes these mestizos display
thrift and good management, like
White people, particularly if a proper
ton of the race mixture is Chinese.
Such persons often become wealthy or
inherit fortunes from their ancestors,
and the richer they are the more they
initiate the Spanish style Of living,
laziness and all.
One of the cardinal tenets of the
Spanish social fabric is thai a girl is to
be watched and tended precisely as if
she were a baby or perhaps a criminal
or an idiot. She must not take a walk.
aus not work or get much education,
must not be driven out in a carriage by
the c%oachman, unless somebody is with
her to prevent the total depravity Of
her nature from asserting itself. She
is not allowed to know anything of the
world till after she is married, and not
eyen then unless she is a woman of I'M
usual brains and independence and
takes the bit in her w teeth.
The logical result is thai the most
absolutely useless human being on this
planet is the average Spanish woman
in Manila, whether maid, wife or
widow.
Now let us go on with my story.
Prudencia'S father and mother were
rich mestizos. They reared the girl in
plnchbeck imitation Of the Spanish
style, showing thereby the Stiffness and
vanity of human nature, since no Span
lard of high social standing would
have associated with them any more
than with his own valet or stableman.
The Americans came to Manila,
changing the whole face of things. The
Filipino insurrection famed up in a
night. Our soldiers fired native houses
and cut up plantations for miles
around Manila to drive out the rebels
and protect the city.
Among those whose possessions went
up in smoke were the parents of Pru-
dencla. In II day their chocolate
n cocoanut groves, banana gardens
and ricefields We're leveled to the
ground, and of their home only the
brick steps were left.
Homeless, ruined, not knowing
Whence their next weeks living would
come, they sped into Manila, the city
Where the American government feeds
the wives and children of the insurrec-
los who are fighting against it. The ia
ther and mother consulted an Ameri-
can lawyer to ascertain whether thew
could recover damages for the loss of
their property, seeing that they them
selves had not been it's enemies.
Oh, yes, they could, the attorney
told them. The great and good United
States government always paid for
property necessarily destroyed in the
wal when it belonged to persons not in
rebellion. Put it would require time to
recover what was due them.
The attorney showed himself kindly
and interested in their welfare, SO that
one morning they made bold to consult
him on Il matter that vitality concerned
them. How were they going to live
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
Giving a Horse Castor OIL.

To make a horse take castor oil or
other doses which he refuses to swal-
low grasp his tongue lightly in the
hand, raise his head high up and while
pouring the liquid into the throat
through a long necked bottle tickle the
roof of his mouth with one finger of
the hand which holds the tongue. This
will make him work his tongue in the
endeavor to get free, as the sensation
is not a pleasant n to him, and the
sucking motion takes down the drench
while the horses attention is being dis.
tracted from it.-Farm Journal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
The Colnmbia May Go to Euroue.

1t is expected that the syndicate
owning the cup defender Columbia will
e IN American boat across the
Atlantic next spring to compete against
the crack boats in foreign waters. This
plan is now under consideration. and
it Is said that ]. Pierpont Morgan and
q. Oliver lselin think very favorab1y
of the project. There is a great deal
OF racing in the Mediterranean and
along the English and Scotch coasts
each year. The presence of an Ameri-
can cup defender, racing with the
Britannia, Meteor, Aurora and Val
kyrie III, would give racing a big
boom on the other side. Naturally the
decision to send the Columbia across
the water will depend upon the result
Of the series of races with the Sham
rock. If the latter boat should upset
he calculations of the Americans and
win the International trophy, a new
boat will probably be built to send
across to compete for the cup. The
project of sending the Columbia across
next spring will therefore depend en-
tirely on her success in the cup races.
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while the lawyer was recovering their
possession?
That was more than even he could
tell them. Had they no way Of earn
ing money to tide over the waiting? he
asked. No; there was no way, there
was nothing. At least there was one
thing, but it was not thought of, not
for a moment.
what is that?' asked the attorney.
"There has been offered to our
daughter" answered the father, "a
place as teacher in one Of the munic-
ipal schools. 1t is a primary school, to
teach young children, and our Pruden-
cia could do this WE'LL"
"Oh. then" said the attorney, you
are provided for already"
"But, no." answered the father; ut
cannot be. The little school is in Err
mita. We live in the walled city, a
mile and a half away. We are too
poor to keep a carriage in which to
send ouS daughter back and forth four
times a day.
But there's the street car quite con-
'Sd4Cdt, Sdiu lue AlleIlCdu.
But the senior does not understand.
Her mother cannot accompany our
daughter always in the tram car or go
after her every noon and evening. We
are 90 poor to hire a nurse or woman
servant to do SO. 1t would eat up all
the earnings"
But surely the senorita knows the
way to her Schoolhouse and can sit in
the street car Till she arrives at her
sch%oolhouse.'
oh, no, no., senior! She could never
go alone. 1t cannot be-" was the hor-
ritied answer.
1t is true that P%rudencia's Tagalo
cousins and aunts and friends, young
women with quite as much Spanish
blood in their veins as she had and
quite as pretty and intelligent, rode in
the street car every day, and they rode
Dareheaded and barefooted at that, and
smoked cigarettes or chewed a nasty
blood red betel nut on the way, quite
able to take care of themselves in ev.
cry respect, just as Prudencia would
have been had not fate cursed her
mother and father with a little money,
thus enabling them to make of their
daughter a cheap and monkeylike imi-
tation of a Spanish Even
cigarettes and all their healthful, &C.
tive life were better thai hers.
The legal gentleman smiled. "Wait
till the Americans have been here a
year longer, and you'll let your daugh-
ter go alone anywhere she likes i in the
street car. You will find it will be not
only safe. but entirely proper" he said.
But they only shook their heads in
stupid unbelief.
h kindly attorney made another
suggestion: .tents are clleap in Err.
mita. Why don't you take a small
house and have the whole family &c
II live there, somewhere near your
daughters school?"
Even then our Prudencia would
have to walk several blocks and alone
four times a day." said her mother.
We could not let her do that. not
ever. 1t is out of propriety. No, senor,
alas, no! This means of living is cut
OH from us. We must starve or beg
unless the good God helps us"
You will say that people like that
ought to starve. | say so. o., the
sooner the better, that they may the
more speedily get off the earth and be
preparing for another incarnation in
which they will have more sense.
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Nine. LnbOri.

Nine. Marguerite Labori, wife of the
famous lawyer who has attracted al
most as much attention as Dreyfus
himself at the Rennes trial, is an Eng
lish lady. According to the London
Daily News. she was before her first
marriage Miss Maggie Okey, who at
tracted so much attention by her per-
formances on the piano at the Covent
Garden promenade concerts in 1882.
She was at that time a pupil of the
London Academy of Music-and not,
as has been said, Of the Guildhall
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

that would never 'get there" and for
that reason he was sold for 5000. His
most remarkable achievements were
his heat against Robert j in 2:O1b in
the a in which he dethroned that
plucky animal from his proud position
as king of the side wheelers'' and his
recent decisive victories over John r.
Gentry and Star Pointer.
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SWINGING SOFA.

and saw off the legs, leaving the top
knob as a finish, and then stain the
places left raw to match the rest.
Brass chain may be bought by the
yard and attached to the four orner
by rings screwed into the wood and
into the beams of the ceiling. When
the sofa is in place, pile it up with soft
cushions.-New York Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
wellmnn'. Injuries Not Permanent

A London dispatch says a specialist
of this city who has been consulted bv
Walter Wellman, the leader of the
Wellman polar expedition, who arriy-
ed in London recently after his return
from explorations in Franz-Josef
Land, reports that the injury to Mr..
Wellman's right leg, which was seri-
ously hurt by the explorer falling into
u snow covered revasse While he was
leading his party, will not be perma-
nent and that he expects Mr.. Wellman
viii be quite well in some months. The
patient, however, will have to undergo
two operations. 1t is thought that he
will remain here.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
A Valuable Bicycle.

A gorgeous bicycle has just been
sent from France to an Indian raiah.
The parts which on an ordinary ma
chine are nickel plated are in this BIZ
cycle of gold. Even the spokes are
cased with gold. The gold cased rims
alzeludded alternately with turquoises
se .-bies. A scarlet cloth held down
wells covers the saddle.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
Joe patchen. the Great Pace

There an be no longer any question
as to whether Joe Patchen is the fast
est PAGER in the world. He is also the
most consistent performer among the
many excellent side wheelers" now
on the track. 1t is said that Joe
Patchen was once regarded as a horse
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
international Horse show.

One of the most attractive features
of the Paris exposition of 1900 will be
the great international horse show. 1t
has been decided, according to the pro-
gramme issued by the French authori-
ties, that the international horse show
will open on Monday, Sept. 3, 1900, and
close on Monday, Sept. 10. The prize
list is a liberal one, the amount of add
ed money being $4,000, in addition to
a number of medals. and as there are a
great many classes for foreign breeds
1t may be taken for granted that 4
large entry will be obtained from the
United States and England. The show
is divided into seven sections, the first
being for thoroughbreds, pure bred
Arabs and Anglo-Arabs, with over
$4,000 in prizes. the first prize for
thoroughbred stations being $1,000
and for thoroughbred mares $500.
The second section is for barbs, the
third for trotters Of French, Ameri-
can and Russian breeds, the fourth for
half breeds-this including classes for
the English hackney and Cleveland
the fifth for ponies, the sixth for cart
horses and the seventh for donkeys.
Officials of the United States commits
sion say that full particulars can be
obtained by addressing the French
minister of agriculture Of the Paris ex-
position al Paris.
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PEOPLE OF THE DAY.

Colonel Hector Archibald Macdon-
aid, who, it is said, is about to be dis
patched by the British war office to
the Cape to receive a high command
under General Sir Frederick Forester
Walker, has an interesting personality.
By his ability and his bravery he has
risen from the ranks to the present
high position he occupies in the British
army.
Born in Ross-shire in 1852. he found
employment at Inverness while he was
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Comfortable sofa.

u COEn1OrtHDIe SOHd.
A swinging sofa, which is appropri-
ate either for the veranda or drawing
room, may be made in the following