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III ausekeepiny Hints.

Coarse brown paper-you can get it
at your butcher's-is best for draining
fried thilrgs.
Dry your towels and napkins before
putting them in the hamper. If damp
they will mildew.
Equal parts of vinegar and paratlin
oil makes better polish for a piano
than any furniture cream.
Always heat the frying basket before
putting in the fat. When cold it takes
too much heat from Tie fat
a clear day Is much better for max
ing fruit jellies than cloudy one. The
atmosphere affects the boiling point
Of sugar.
then spread over carpeted room.
Then when you sweep you will have no
dust to bother you.
Wipe frying pans out clean with pa
per before putting in dishwater. Pans
should also have periodic boiling out
in soda water.
Housewives who still make salt ris-
ing bread will be interested in know.
ing that the cleaner and more airy the
room is the better the bread
All the life will come back to an
eiderdown quilt which has become
hard and lost it's elasticity If you will
hang it In the sun for few hours.
Every housekeeper who does not pos
sess one should get together at the ear
lest moment collection Of salad re-
cipes and begin the use Of them at
once.
\ new table pad that Will be vel
come Is of asbestos cloth, woven SO
soft and silky that it cannot injure
the most highly polished table. 1t is
heat-proof.
Olives are advised for dyspeptic and
nervous patients by many physicians.
Rancid butter may be sweetened by
washing it with good new milk and
then with cold spring water.
You can tell more about the quality
Of the housekeeping from the condi-
ton Of the kettles and pans in the
kitchen than from the way the Empire
| furniture is arranged in the parlor.
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For Hop.Kil1ing Use.

A. J. Berry, Of Hancock County, In
diana, writes Iowa Farmer: AS the
time for butchering is approaching
there will be desire to know of sim
pie and yet handy devices for aiding
the work in butchering. l have made
at very little expense a very COM
plete arrangement for butchering hogs
and my neighbors enjoy it as much as
do. 1t is made by taking large pole
about thirty feet long for lever and
another about ten feet long for a post
which is set in the ground. A clevis-
shapediron is made for the top of the
post to support the lever and permit
ting it to swing around in any position.
The lever can be used in lifting the
hog in any part of the butchering op-
Grafton. 1t can be swung from the
scalding vat to the scraping table,
thence to the hanging bracket which
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HER PECULIAR EXCELLENCE.
Jane Austen Deft at Work Done with
Her Hanis.

Miss Jane Austen, the English nov.
elist, whose work is valued to-day more
than when it first appeared, in writing
to her sister in 179S, remarks, My
mother desires me to tell you that l am
very good housekeeper, which l have
no reluctance in doing, because l really
think it my peculiar excellence, and for
this reason: l always take care to pro.
vide such things as please my own ap-
petite, which l consider as the chief
merit in housekeeping" In her life of
Jane Austen. Constance Hill quotes
from Austen Leigh, who declares that
Miss Austen was successful in every
thing that she attempted with her tins'
erS.
Her needlework was exquisite. We
have seen a muslin scarf embroidered
by her in satin-stitch, and have held in
our hands a tiny housewife of fairylike
proportions, which Jane worked at the
age of sixteen as a gift for Il friend. 1t
consists of a narrow strip of tlowered
silk, embroidered at the back, which
measures four inches by one and Il
quarter, and is furnished with minikin
needles and fine thread. At one end
there is tiny pocket, containing some
verses in diminutive handwriting with
the date, "Jany, 1892"
Austen Leigh writes: "None of us
could throw spilikins in so perfect a
circle, or take them off with SO steady
hand. Her performances with the cup
and bali were marvellous. She has been
known to catch the ball Il hundred
times In succession"
She did not give up the activities and
pleasures of everyday life in order to
write of the pleasures of other people,
and Aunt Jane was the delight of
large circle of ncphews and nieces,
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QyEER S1oRDt5

Thunder is rarely, if ever, heard at
a greater distance than eighteen miles.
The wife of the Governor Of New
Borneo has baby rhfnoceros for
pet.
The moose deer has the largest horns
Of any animal. They often weigh from
fifty to sixty pounds.
Beetles in the East and West Indies
are so brilliant in coloring that they
are beautiful as gems.
Denmark has the largest army in
proportion to her size She has 1877
soldiers to every 10000 of her popula-
ton.
The largest butterflies are the bird
are sometimes twelve inches in ex-
panse.
A person usually begins to lose
height at the age of fifty, and at the
age of ninety has lost at least one and
half inches.
A wall thirty feet high and thirteen
feet broad could be built all round
England with the coal annually raised
in that country.
The world now consumes $500, ,OOO,-
600 pounds of tobacco yearly, or 2,S12,-
500 tons. This is worth $780, 600.
In other words. the worlds smoke bill
is just $5.OOO.OOO week.
A Berlin periodical, Der Weinkenner,
relates that when Bismarck died about
10000 bottles of the choicest wines
We're found in his cellars, mostly gifts
from friends and admirers. They came
from all countries.
But eight States do not now require
examination by State Board Of those
who wish to practice medicine They
are Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky.
Michigan, Nebraska. Nevada, South
Dakota and Tennessee.
Prizes of $1,000, $3.50 and $500 for
the best instruments to measure wind
pressure are offered by the Hamburg
Marine Observatory to German and
foreign inventors. The plans must be
sent in by April l, 1903.
The New York City Record, an off,
cial publication, owned and issued by
the municipality, is the biggest news
paper in the world. 1t appears every
day in the year. Sundays and legal
holidays excepted, and sometimes con-
tains as many as 3S3 pages.
Five Of the twenty fellowships re-
Gently awarded in the department Of
philosophy, University of Pennsylva-
mia. were given to women. Most of
these fellowships carry with them an
income during the academic year of
$500 and free tuition, with an addition
al $10O for particular research work.
Honesty Is prevailing virtue among
most Cinnamon. Some of them, in
their native towns and cities, often
leave their places of business unguard-
ed while they go off for half an hour
or more. Should customers arrive in
the meantime, they find the prices OF
goods plainly marked. select what they
want and leave the money for them.
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AND SOCIETY WOMEN.

~ UESTIONS as to whether busi-
VJjn ness women ought to mingie in
society, whether society women
make good business women, and
whether any woman makes business
of society are frequently debated in
these debatable days, and conclusions
point to the fact that there is no such
person as business woman pure and
simple, and that the woman who has
no business in life but that of attend
ing social functions is a creature of
the past. Glancing at the names Of
"thOse who assisted in receiving at
an afternoon tea, one frequently finds
those of women who are prominent
as physicians, educators, or literary
characters, and whose lives are busy
but not too busy for some social amen
tiles. Perhaps the most satisfactory
attitude toward society is that taken
by the epistolary hero of Mr.. Robert
Herrick's Literary Love Letters"
who writes to his butterfyish beloved
of his feelings about the gay world:
II like to break off a piece of its cake
| (Or it's rank cheese at times) and lug
it away with me to my den up here for
| further eXaminaton-then after the
echo becomes faint and lifeless, or, if
you prefer, the cheese too musty,
sally out once more to refresh my
larder." OF course some people can
eat more cheese than others, but the
point to be made is that nowadays
nobody lives by cheese alone. Even
the designing mother of delectable
debutantes recognizes the fact that
the days of social buds must be filled
with something besides teas and their
minds occupied with something better
than the material for social chitchat.
OF course there will always be serious
minded women who look with scorn
upon what they call the frothiness of
social life and social favorites who
forget that teas are not among the
eternities. but the fact remains that
the sober minded and the social mind
ed are coming together, and that the
tone of society is by this mingling to
be made healthier and sounder.-Chi-
| cagO Tribune
The Western news., 1903-01-14

There Is a certain amount of law
that every woman ought to know. If
she has property, or ever expects to
have any, she ought to know how to
look after it. Ii she has none. and
never expects to have any, she may be
busily engaged in acquiring the small
coins of experience that come to her
along with her weekly stipend. SO is
she doubly in need of modicum of
legal knowledge. for she is, in the cant
Of the school reviews, a "social and
commercial factor" The reading of
Mrs. McCulloch's "AIr. Lex" is enough
to give one pale blue hysteria.
Women perhaps are beginning to re-
alize this, to judge by some announced
courses.
To-day Judge Moran lectured before
the Sacred Heart Aiumnae on "Wom-
ans Status Before the Law"
The Framngham (Mass.) Woman's
Club has n class in business laws. An
outline of the years work includes pa
pers to he read on Laws Pertaining to
the Sale of Goods" Laws Governing
the Rights of Traveller" THE Rights
of Landlords and Tenants" Savings
Banks" and "The Wards of the State:
How They Are Cared For.'
When the time shall come that WON
en- generally know their legal status it
is safe to say that the number of bar
risters, man and woman, will be most
marvelously reduced.
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Where the Intellect Resides.

The left lobe Of the brain. governing
the right side of the body, is known
to be superior to the right lobe In its
influence upon the bodily functions.
DR.. Phelps, recent investigator, In
sists that the left brain Is also the
intellectual half. He has studied near
" 300 cases of brain injury and dis
ease and has found that the right side
may be severely injured without ma
terially affecting the thinking powers.
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Wholeso me Discipline.

Don't try to make life too easy for
the children. True, they will have
lots of troubles in later life, but the
childish ups and downs are a very
good preparation for the struggle that
awaits each one at "grownupdom."
An undisciplined child grows into an
undisciplined man or woman-a nuis-
ance to himself and to every one else.
There is a theory now that children
should not be made to get sums right,
that all lessons should be play les
sons. Make the lessons bright and
attractive by all means-they can't be
too much SO. But do let lessons be
lessons, and play be play. Give lots
Of encouragement, and every help; but
let the child realize that If a thing is
worth doing at all it is worth doing
we'll. and that doing well always
means taking infinite pains.-Ex-
change.
The Western news., 1903-01-14

mace to heat a house. The cover and
bottom can be on hinges, so they can
be let down or lifted up and cleaned in
two minutes. The pipes should have
two elbows. The one at the back
should turn down, and the one at the
other end should turn up, so there can
be a cover to it, with two or three
small holes punched in the cover SO as
not to waste too much heat. l use a
single burner oil stove. This stove
will heat a brooder ten or twelve feet
long.-Poultry Keeper.
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Lamp and Curler Heater.

Here is a convenient combinat ton
gas fixture which will be appreciated
by persons who are in the habit of
burning a small light in their rooms
at night, as it provides gas flame of
such size that the expense of maintain
ing it will be scarcely felt At the
same time the auxiliary burner is so
arranged that sufficient heat can be
obtained to bring curling iron to the
proper temperature when suspended
in the supporting device shown in con-
nection with burner.
In constructing this burner an auxil-
iary tube leads off from the main pipe
Just beneath valve ring, the move
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Simple Poultry Brooder.

sends plans of a brooder which is his
own idea and which he claims will
raise every chick put into it. 1t can
be made any length, partitioned off,
and the chicks can go in and out of
the sides instead of the end. Take a
box feet long, 1 foot wide and ~
feet deep. Cut round hole in each
end six or eight inches in circumfer-
ence, according to the size of the stove
pipe. use eight-inch common tin
pipe, the same as they use on a fur
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Untrainel Nurses.

There are several unframed nurses
in the town in which l live and the
supply does not equal the demand. One
young girl of my acquaintance, forced
to leave college because too close ap
plication to study was considered TN
advisable, began along this line at
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organizing grea t.
transportation sys-
TENS has made hi1rE
one of the triumvir-
ate which practical
ly controls all the
lines of the West.
The others of the
trio are j. Pierpont
Morgan and James
j. Hill, both Of
whom got their in
spiration from Har-
,.i,,,ap II vync hi1
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UNKNOWN A FEW YEARS AGO.

To-Day Hartman Controls 1S,SOO
Miles of Western Railroads.
Ills recent break with George Gould
has served to draw attention to Ed
ward II. Hartman, whose genius for
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cleaneSt and most dura-
BILE, besides allowing the
free circulation Of air
through their contents.
In use in a garden
where a water tank and
hose connection are
available they are a
great labor saver. The
The Western news., 1903-01-14

When you get tired of work, you will
realize that you have reached the time
Of life when you have no place to play.
The Western news., 1903-01-14

ullcH COWS, ana IL mas some IOunuas
ton in the fact that cows are often
harmed by eating them. Such cases,
however, seem to occur always from
the cows getting out and filling up
full at the piles of half-rotten apples
under the trees Cows will be made
sick by eating good, clean corn fodder
il they break into the cornfield and
stuff themselves some time when they
have not been used to eating green
corn. Careful tests show that apples
fed regularly and in moderation to
cows will produce no bad effects. Their
nutritive value is not very great, but
they do no damage.-Country Gentle
man.
Most and Least Profita bic Crops.
Out of 141 correspondents of the
Board of Agriculture sixty-two called
potatoes the most profitable, and twen-
ty-seven called them the least profit
able; eight called corn the most profit
able and sixty-four thought it the least
profitable; forty-one consider hay the
most profitable; thirty-two apples; ten
oats; seven tobacco; seven cranber
ries; six cabbages; six sweet corn; six
Strawberries; four each favored on
ions, tomatoes, beans and fruit; three
each peaches and pears, two market
garden crops and two asparagus; one
each for rutabagas, forage crops, eel
cry, milk, plums and root crops; nine
thought hay the least profitable; seven
tomatoes; six apples; four each said
squashes, cabbages and sweet corn;
three each milk cranberries and beans;
two each said onions, pears and Gu
cumbers, and one each asparagus,
grapes, cauliflowers, beets, melons,
peas, small fruit and market garden
crops; siXty-two considered the season
to have been profitable; eleven as
above the average for profit; sixteen
as an average for profit; eighteen fair
ly profitable, and thirty-seven thought
it had been an Improbable one. Thus
it will be seen that much depends
upon the location, and more perhaps
upon the individual as to the profit on
crops. In nearly every country corn
and potatoes We're less than an aver
age crop, but the loss on amount in
potatoes was largely made up by the
high prices.-Massachuse Plough
man.
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can be made for several hogs if de-
sired. believe this to be the simplest
and most inexpensive arrangement for
butchering hogs.
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baskets may be filled with potatoes
and other vegetables, the hose turned
on and the contents Immediately wash
ed without touching the vegetables by
hand. When not in use they are easily
hung up out of the way.-Exchange.
Farm Investments.
Investors ought to be satisfied with
low rate of interest in agricultural
investment on account of it's relative
safety. AS yet it is a little soon in our
history to expect that the new agricul-
ture of the future shall have any spe-
cial attractions for capital. But the
time will come when all Of our old
depleted lands will be regenerated and
revived, through the era of invested
capital. There is very little chance for
any regenerative work in agriculture
without such investment. The poor
man must either keep to the skimming
policy. or work for others until he
has put by enough to be capitalist
himself, in a small way at least.
have always been averse to recon-
mending any man to go in debt for
anything. Yet most of the successes
of this world are made by those who
venture in this respect A never for
gotten remark l once heard by nice
old capitalist was to the effect that he
always loaned money to the man who
wanted to buy manure with it.
Hoard's Dairyman.
Work in Winter.
There is plenty of work to do in VIM
ter if the farm is rightly managed. 1t
is the season of the year for all re-
pairs and renewals. Every implement
or piece of machinery should be over
hauled and all repairs ordered, SO as
to be ready for spring work. An inn
plement that is in good order saves
labor and enables the farmer to hurry
with the early work when every day
is valuable. The farmer who does not
place his implements under cover at
this season may be forced to buy new
ones much sooner than he expects.
Milk and Hog Cholera.
During seasons when hog cholera Is
prevalent it has been noted that what
are known as the creamery and dairy
sections of the country suffer much less
from the disease than those sections
| where the steer takes the place Of the
dairy COW. The reason assigned is thai
pigs in the dairy sections get good
ration of skimmilk, one of the best bal
| anced ratiOns to be had, and are thus
better fitted to resist the disease thar
purely corn-fed hogs.-Creamery Jour
nal.
The practice of using half bushel
of seed per acre is good. In favor
able season, with plenty of fertilizer
more seed could be protitably used, but
| the tendency is to inferiority in quail
ity, especially in decreasing the pro
tein and increasing the fiber
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Shaker DairyinE.

Shaker DairyinE.
The Canterbury Shakers of New
Hampshire have some 1000 acres of
land, and the community numbers
about 100 persons. A large quantity
of dairy products is consumed by a
family of that size, and some years
ago with an ordinary dairy and meth
DDS, some butter had to be purchased
for home use. That necessity caused
more attention to be given to the dairy.
Poor cows were sold and more scien-
tific methods Of feeding adopted. In
order to further improve the herd and
increase it's butter capacity, two thor
oughbred Guernsey bulls were pur-
chased about four years ago from Mr..
Mixter's, of Barre, Mass. By constant
care, and the raising Of the best heifer
calves, the dairy has steadily improv-
ed until last season, with dairy of
forty cows. fifteen of which were two
year-old heifers, an average of 300
pounds Of butter per COW was made.
Instead of purchasing butter for home
consumption, $1,000 worth of butter
was sold and $1,000 worth of stock.
They have now about 12O head of cat
tie, sixteen of which are pure-bred
Guernseys. The sisters take entire care
of the milk after the milking is done.
run the separator, including the engine
which furnishes the power, care for
the cream and milk and make the but
ter.-New England Farmer.
Waste Apples.
AS the apple season progresses we
see more and more the need of some
good outlet for waste apples. In some
localities they go to the cider mills;
but there is not much profit in that,
even when a mans conscience is not
involved. They can be fed to pigs and
cows, and perhaps that is as good use
as any. There is very common preju-
dice against feeding fresh apples to
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Handy Garden Baskets.

Every orchard and garden should
have supply of wire baskets Of diff
ferent sizes and shapes. They are the
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baskets may be filled With potatoes
and other vegetables, the hose turned
on and the contents Immediately wash
ed without touching the vegetables by
hand. When not in use they are easily
hung up out of the way.-EXchange.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-03-10
A WOman's Words of Praise.

Neosho Falls, Kans, Nov. Is, '0l.
Pepsin Syrup Co, Monticello, III.
Dear Sirs:-For almost fifteen
years I suffered from indigestion,
and last winter thought l would
die, when my doctor, DR.. A. }.
Lieurance, OF this place, advised
me to try DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin, which did, and two bot.
ties cured me- Ii not only relieved
me, but it cured me so that | have
not been troubled since If any
one should offer me $500 for the
good Syrup Pepsin has done me /
would not think of taking It, No
one can take your medicine with
out being convinced OF its more than
wonderful cures recommend it
to all my friends as a laxative and
stomach remedy. Yours with graf
Itude. Mrs. j. MORGAN.
Sold by c *. WHY.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-03-10
LOUISyILLE'S GROWTH,
City's Population Now Placed at
22z, 900.

The new directory OF Louisville
published by the Caron Directory
Company is completed and a few
copies have made their appearance
The new volume contains 1898
pages and, when the size of the city
is taken into consideration, is a
small and compact volume.
Miss Clara Aaron, who lives at
1859 Baxter avenue, has the dis.
tinction of being the person whose
name appears first in the Louis
vile directory, and Joseph Zweiner,
of go hampton street, is the last
person whose name is given.
A comparison of the names in the
directory alphabetically shows that
the Smiths are in the lead as to
numoers.
The name John Smith appears no
less that IS times, and to all of the
Smiths fifteen pages of the book are
devoted, which indicates that there
between 1,500 and 1000 Smiths ID
the city.
The Browns come next in point of |
mum bers. There are 10 pages of
Browns, while only seven pages
are given exclusively to the Jones
family.
The number of names used in the
new directory is 40, 1854, and using
2, the figure fixed by the last cen
sus as the proper multiplier, the
population tor January, 1908, is
211, 908, an increase of 4,7l8 in the
past year.-Post
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-03-10
Clay A." Butter. !"

1t is not generally known that in
many parts of the world clay is eaten
on bread as a substitute for butter.
This is termed "stone butter" and
is used in Germany. In the northern
parts of Sweden earth is often baked
in bread, and is sold in the public
markets on the Italian peninsula, as
well as on the Island of Sardinia,
Persia, Nubia and other tropical
countries. This practice probably
had lite origin in the knowledge that
ell earths have some sort Of favor.
and take the place Of salt, q necessary
iRgreiiisgst III siit kiindis u u ffpOd. -
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-03-10
ChiIdren's Coughs and Colds.

Mrs. Joe McGrath, 327 f. LIST ST.,
Hutchinson, Kan, writes: II have
given Billiards. Horehound Syrup
to my children for coughs and colds
for the past four years, and find It
the best medicine l ever used. y
Unlike many cough syrups, it con-
taIns no opium, but will soothe ard
heal any disease of the throat or
lungs quicker tbany other remedy.
25c, soc and 81 at r. c. Hardwick S