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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03

water without rinsing. When it dries
it is soft and serviceable, instead OF
stiff.
Shabby oak should be brushed over
with warm beer and when thoroughly
dry polished with beeswax and tur-
pentine.
An excellent furniture polish is
made by mixing together equal parts
of boiled linseed oil, vinegar and
methyiated spirits.
If when making coffee little salt
is added before pouring on the boil
ing water it will be found to greatly
improve the flavor.
Enameled ware that has become
burned or discolored may be cleaned
by rubbing with paste formed by
coarse salt and vinegar.
Half lemon mixed with salt Will
do all the work of oxalic acid in
cleaning copper boilers, brass tea
kettles and other such utensils.
A heavy wooden block with re-
movable iron piece at the top is the
newest device for opening oysters.
The knife is made entirely OF iron
with the handle painted to resemble
wood.
A comparatively new article is the
wire sink strainer, made in two styles,
one with tiny feet and another to
hang in one corner of the sink. These
wire strainers are the best things OF
the kind yet turned out.
Stains and spots on mahogany FUR
niture may be taken out with weak
AQUA forts, or oxalic acid and water,
rubbing the part with a cork dipped
in the liquid till the color is restored
Then wash the wood with water, dry
and polish as usual.
| One ingenious woman hangs pretty
china plates on the wall by the FOL
lowing method. Three or four large
dress hooks were slipped over the
edge of each plate. Wrapping cord
was then run across the back OF the
plate from hook to hook, fastened Sc
curely in the center with a look to
hang the plate up by White hooks
being used they were scarcely notice
able when the plates were hung.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03
WORTH KNOWING

Strong hot vinegar will remove
paint from window glass.
Place an apple in the cake box and
cake will keep moist much longer.
If you get too much bluing in the
rinsing water put in little household
ammonia.
A little milk added to the water in
which silver is washed will help to
keep it bright.
To revive the luster of morocco or
any other leather apply the white Of
an egg with a sponge
A little flour spread over the top
of cakes before they are iced will
prevent the icing from running off.
Use little ammonia in the dish
water when washing glassware. 1t
will make it sparkle like cut glass.
Sausages should be served with ap-
pie sauce or baked tomatoes. Either
makes them more easily digested.
When cleaning knives mix a tiny
bit of carbonate of soda with the bath
brick and they will polish more easily
Cereals are seldom overlooked but
rather undercooked. Thus always al.
low plenty of time in preparing Ger.
calls.
The potato slicer is a convenience
that is greatly liked. 1t gives a fluffy
prettiness to the dish of mashed pc
tatoes impossible to achieve in any
other way.
To bake potatoes quickly boil then
in sailed water for ten minutes, ther
put in the oven. The boiling water
will heat them through so they cool
| in a short time.
| Wiring channels out of the soap,
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03
sPoNGING AND PRESSING

In economy the chief thing is to buy
judiciously, and while 1t will cost more
to get really good article at first,
it will pay much better in the end,
but no matter what is spent for mate
rial, it is the care given ones outfit
in clothing that counts. A little care
fui sponging and pressing will often
do wonders for garment that seems
to have served its time, and an ex-
cellent way to renovate black goods
that are only slightly soiled and shiny
is to use lather made of soap tree
bark The cloth should be pressed
on the wrong side while still damp,
but the iron must not be allowed to
stand on the cloth as IL may make
he goods shiny or leave prints of the
iron. Black alpaca can be made to
look like new by sponging on the
right side with strong coffee and pres
sing on the wrong side with hot
iron. Deodorized benzine Is good for
removing grease spots from any kind
of goods, and does not change the
color, but the fabric should be cleaned
with piece of the same goods, and
the cloth rubbed lengthwise and with
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03
How to Retain Good Looks

The woman who longs for social
success should always be cheerful.
That is the keynote of social success.
Do not laugh loudly, and do not gig
gle, but let your eyes sparkle and
your countenance show that you feel
animated If you are tired stay at
home. If one eats the right food and
drinks the right beverage one will
be in good humor. Vivacity and
good spirits are largely muscular. The
woman who is dreadfully tired will
never be viyacious. The muscles
must be exercised and rested. This
gives a certain lightness to the ply
sique. Beautiful women are often
hard workers, and are always full
of hope and cheerfulness. That is
the way they retain their good looks.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03
EGG TESTS

A good egg will sink in the water.
Stale eggs are CLASSY and smooth
of shell.
A fresh egg has lime like sur
face to its she'll
The boiled egs which adhere to the
shell are fresh laid.
Thin shells are caused by a lack
of gravel, ETC., among the hens lay
ing egs.
After an egg has been laid a day
or more the shell comes off easily
when boiled.
Do not permit the hens to roose
over mass of droppings. On warm
night these send up large quantities
of ammonia, which is very harmful
to the health of the fowls.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03
Blouse Waist. 1921

To bemade with or without the lin
ing and with long or elbow sleeves.
The fancy blouse grows more popu-
lar with each incoming season and
this year the variety is quite unpre-
cedented. Lingerie materials Of all
sorts are shown made up in combin-
alton with lace and embroidery, thin
silks and the lightweight woods are
similarly treated and there is alto
gether a most fascinating opportunity
offered for the Indulgence in evtreme-
ly pretty waists at moderate cost, if
one be clever and willing to do a lit
tie of the work herself This one is
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03
HOME LIFE

the weave and the rubbing should be
continued until the material is per-
fectly dry. There is no cleaning fluid
better than gasoline as clothes
cleaner when the garments have be-
come soiled enough to be cleaned
all over, but it must never be used
in a room where there is light or
fire. Delicate ribbons, silk waists,
wooden dress skirts, and mems cloth
ing will come out of a good gasoline
bath looking almost just like new.
A quart of gasoline will clean a SILK
or wooden waist perfectly. Put the
garment in the wash bowl and pour
enough gasoline over it to saturate it
thoroughly, then cover the. bowl to
keep the fluid from evaporat1ng and
let it stand for two hours. Rinse in
clear gasoline, and hang the garment
over the line in the air, and there re-
mains no odor The best way TO
clean ribbons is to put them in the
fluid and let them remain for five
| minutes then draw through the ing
ers to remove all soiled spots. 1t
will not be necessary to press any
SdTIl0ulS Ludt nave UCCA ClOeaAou -
clear gasoline, if care is taken to
prevent them from becoming wrinkled
in the cleaning process There is
nothing better for cleaning wooden
fabrics that are much soiled than
warm suds to which small cup OF
gasoline has been added. A light tan
skirt that had become faded and
soiled was washed and then colored
rich dark brown by dipping in
brown diamond dye for wool, and a
rusty black alpaca skirt was renewed
by recoloring a jet black, and they
were SO carefully pressed that they
looked as nice as new skirts An I'm
lined wooden skirt is as easily washed
as cotton one, but in pressing the
cloth great care hould be taken te
preserve the shape of the pieces by
ironing one way of the goods, either
| lengthWise or across, and the cloth
| should be pressed over and over I'm
| til every inch of the fabric is per
fectly smooth and dry, and when {
garment is much soiled it is better tx
wash it in the suds than to try to re
move he spots, for if the cloth il
much spotted it is hard to clean with
out leaving visible marks-A M. Fl
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03
THE ANGELS PROMISE

The sculptor wrought on the marble
white
From early dawn till the shade of
night
Fell over the landscape far and wide,
Then he looked at his work and sadly
sighed,
SO poor and incomplete it seemed
Beside the model of which he
dreamed
But all his hopes were centered
His days of toll, his nights of care;
And now he thought with throb OF
pain
That all of his labor had been in vain;
For none would see in the work
achieved
The grand ideal his soul conceived.
A prayer burst forth from his sorrow
ing breast:
20 God,' he cried, Il have done my
best ~
That night an angel, in mercy sent,
Over that marble figure bent;
And as he worked the statue grew
More beautiful and fair to view;
For every stroke to form and face
Added some new and subtle grace.
The sculptor came in the early morn.
With heavy heart and looks forlorn ;
But his eyes were dazzled, his brain
distraught,
BY the wonderful change the night
had wrought;
With rapturous joy his bosom swelled
As the glorious image his eyes beheld;
And there on the wall, just over his
head,
In letters of gold these words he
read:
when the workman hath wrought
the best he could,
Whatever the work, God makes i
good"
Our Dumb Animals
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03

Some of the most costly motor coats
are made of snakeskin, and the
woman who would scream at the
sight of mouse wears the skin of
a deadly reptile with the greatest
calmness. Four large and perfectly
matched anaconda skins are needed
for each of the new three-quarter
length coats, and they are extremely
expensive, a coat often costing near
ly twice as much as good motor
itself. The advent of the anaconda
motor coat has led to the manufac-
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-05-03

Age-Gf Child's or Misses Pattern)
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27

;uls general. While congress did not
authorize in this measure the practical
Evil service recommended by Secre-
tary Root. it is understood that the
policy of the administration will be to
adopt civil service methods in future
appointments. Already they have re-
Iuired candidates for appointments to
pass an examination fully as rigid as
the civil service commission would de-
wise. The president has let it be
known also that after this bill be-
comes a law the appointments in the
future will be only to the lower
grades of consul and that the higher
places will be filled by promotion as
vacancies occur.
There is another reform that has
not yet been accomplished, but which
S being strongly urged by business
organizations and those who demand
hat the American consular service
shall be filled by Americans. In an adj
lress recently submitted to congress
Oy Minister Barratt on the subject of
Americans needed as vice and dep
lily COHSulS, lie lellS the IOllOWluB
rather startling facts: OF 60 con-
,ulates general. 20. or one-third, have
rice or deputy consuls who are not
Americans. OF 225 consulates, lib, or
lalf have vice or deputy consuls who
ire not Americans either by birth,
naturalization or residence. or IL
commercial agencies, nine, or two
birds, have nonresident vice and
leputy commercial agents. OF six
:onsulates where the incumbents are
permitted to engage in business. two
have foreign or deputy vice consuls
and one has consul who is not an
American. OF Al consulates and COM
mercial agencies where the officers are
paid by fees and allowed to engage
in business, rs, or over one-half. have
vice or deputy consuls who are not
Americans, while in six cases the con-
'uls or agents are foreigners.
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27
New Ideas About FARMING.

Nothing can contribute more to the
advancement of agriculture than the
eradication of the old. stupid notion
that farming is a mere physical drudg-
cry and to be despised, and the incul.
cation OF the truth that farming is a
scientific pursuit entitled to as much
respect and consideration as any other
occupation when there is devoted to
it the amount OF scientific knowledge
and intelligent judgment and discrimi-
nation to which the business is entitl.
ed. To the extent that the farmer
boy and farmer girl of Minnesota
learn to look with pride upon this &C.
cupation in that degree is the business
of farming benefited and success as
sured.-Minneapolis Journal.
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27
WOULD NOT PLEASE "FLossIe."
That Store Had No Bones DoggIe
Could Appreciate.

The phone in the Office OF a down
town establishment devoted to dry
goods and various articles of feminine
apparel rang Sharply and the head
bookkeeper responded. The voice he
heard was feminine voice. 1t was
somewhat indignant and it began con-
versation without preliminaries.
"Those bones you sent up are alto
gether too large" said the voice 81
told you | wanted small bones. This
is my little dogs birthday. and
wanted to give her some nice little
bones as a special treat. And here
you have sent up some great enor.
nous things only fit for a st. Bernard.
My poor Flossie, with her dainty lit
tie teeth never could manage them in
the world, and she and | are both
awfully disappointed"
Il beg your pardon. madam" said
the bookkeeper in establishment. but
| am afraid you have rung up the
wrong place. This is not a market,
and the only bones we ever send out
are the kind that come in corsets."-
Providence Journal.
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27
ATTACKED The HEART
Awful Neuralgia Case Cured to Stay
Cured by Or. Williams
Pink Pills.

Neuralgia in any form is painful but
when it attacks the heart tbs frequently
fatal. Complicated with indigestion OF
form that affected the vital organ it
threatened serious consequences in an in
stance just reported. The case is that OF
Mr.. Il. Il. Graves, of Pleasanthill, La,
who tells of his trouble and cure as
follows:
Z" travelled considerably, was exposed
TO all kinds Of weather and was irregular
i'll my sleeping and eating. i suppose
this was the cause of my sickness, at
any rate, in May, 1905, had got so bad
that L was compelled to quit work and
take TO my bed. / had a good doctor
and took his medicine faithfully but
grew worse. l gave up hope of getting
better and my neighbors thought was
surely going to die.
Il had smothering spells that it is
awful to recall. My heart fiuttered and
then seemed to cease beating. l could
not lie on my left side at all. My hands
aud feet swelled and so did my face.
After reading about DIR. Williams Pink
Pills in newspaper l decided TO try
them and they suited my case exactly.
Before long could see an Improvements
and after taking a few boxes L was EN-
tirely cured. 1 am glad to make this
statement and wish it could cause every
sufferer to try DR.. Williams Pink Pills."
Dr. Williams Pink Pills do not simply
deaden pain; they cure the trouble which
causes the pain. They are guaranteed to
contain no narcotic, stimulant or opiate.
Those who take them run no danger OF
forming any drug habit. They act
directly on theblood and tits only through
the blood that any medicine can reach
the nerves.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists or will be sent, postpaid, on
receipt of price, 90 cents per box, six
boxes for $3.50, by the DR.. Williams Med
icine Co., Schenectady, NY.
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27
BASEBALL IN MlDWlNTER.
Game Was Played at Medicine Hat
Alberta, in the Month of
February.

Baseball in Canada in midwinter!
When the professional ball teams be-
gin their practice for the season they
go south; but, apparently, it would
not be unreasonable for them also to
go north. On February 2, this year,
reports the New York Tribune, the
machine shop hands and pretty nearly
everybody else in Medicine Hat, AL
berta, Canada, went to see ball game
without wearing overcoats. 1t was
such a day as one might expect to
experience in May in the latitude OF
New York. Medicine Hat, situated
many miles north of Montreal, is rec
ognized by the United States weather
bureau as the birthplace of billiards
and ordinarily one OF the coolest places
on the continent. For nearly half of
the fall and winter the date line Med
icine Hat" on the bulletin is followed
by 40 below zero"
New Workers who complain of the
changeableness of the weather ought
to go to Medicine Hat, If they would
get a first-class specimen of change
able weather. Prepared to brave the
chilly blasts, they would arise one
morning to find the chinook had ar
rived and the temperature like that
OF southern California. The chinook
is a peculiar wind which is expe
rienced frequently on the eastern side
of the Rocky Mountains. 1t is caused
by high atmospheric pressure in the
upper heavens. This creates a down
ward current of air through compress
sion. The compression heats the air
at the rate of one degree Fahrenheit
for every 1873 feet of descent. A drop
of $500 feet, which is common on the
Rocky mountain slope, would mean a
rise in temperature of about 30 de-
grees. Owing to its dryness as we'll
as warmth the chinook quickly melts
snow and absorbs any moisture that
may be on the ground.
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27

The drainage so necessary 10 reclaim
millions Of acres will have to be
handled by the government and Rep.
resentative Stevenson. of Minnesota.
has introduced a bill for the reclama-
ton of swamps.
1t is estimated that there are 100,-
100000 acres of swamp lands in the
United States. some 100000 OF
which have been surveyed and the
great bulk of which would make
splendid farms II the excess of water
were drawn off. In the Kankakee
river basin in Indiana and Illinois,
there are 100000 acres Of the very
richest bottom lands that are sub
ject to overflow. Where they have
been reclaimed through expensive pri-
yate drainage works, they are worth
as high as $3.50 an acre. 1t has been
estimated that this whole track could
be drained effectively at a cost of not
more than $40 an acre.
In Florida, the Everglades alone
would afford an empire of some 7,000,-
900 acres. In New Jersey and Vir.
ginia are vast swamps, among them
the famous Dismal swamp. In I'LL
nois there are 100000 acres of swamp
land; in Michigan about 5000, 1000; in
Iowa, 100000 acres; in Minnesota,
100000 have been surveyed and there
are huge areas not yet surveyed. The
Stevenson bill demonstrates that the
government can transform swamps
into fertile farm lands and that the
settler or owner will pay back to the
government the relatively small cost
of the improvement.
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27
A BUSY WOMAN
Can Do the Work of 8 OF If Well Fed.

An energetic young woman living
just outside of New York, writes:
81 am at present doing all the house,
work of a dairy farm, caring for chill
dren, vegetable and flower garden, a
large number of fowls, besides manag-
ing an extensive exchange business
through the mails and pursuing my
regular avocation as a writer for sew
eral newspapers and magazines (de-
signing fancy work for the latter and
all the energy and ability to do this l
owe to Grape-Nuts food.
'It was not always so, and a year
ago when the shock of my nursing
baby's death utterly Frustrated me and
deranged my stomach and nerves SO
that l could not assimilate as much
as a mouthful of solid food, and was in
even worse condition mentally, he
would have been rash prophet who
would have predicted that 1t ever
would do 80.
prior to this great grief had suf-
fered for years with impaired diges-
ton, insomnia, agonizing cramps in
the stomach, pain in the side, consti-
patton, and other bowel arrangements,
all these were familiar to my daily
life. Medicines gave me no relief
nothing did, until a few months ago.
at a friends suggestion. began to use
Grape-Nuts food, and subsequently
gave up coffee entirely and adopted
Postum Food Coffee at all my meals.
To-day l am free from all the trou-
bles have enumerated. My digestion
is simply perfect, assimilate my food
without the least distress, enjoy sweet.
restful sleep. and have a buoyant feel
ing OF pleasure in my varied duties. In
fact. | am new woman, entirely made
over, and repeat, owe It all to
Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book. The Road to wsllvills." In pkgs.
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27
and manners.

and manners. They are just like
other folks in their habits of living"
Mr.. Beveridge said the other day.
Most Of them are as regular in their
hours as the Virginia farmers-and
most of them are farmers. Practical
ly all those from the Indian Terri
tory follow that.
Probably the star boarder of this es-
tablishment is the chief of the Sene-
cas-, Andrew John. He spends great
deal of his time here every winter in
the interest of his people. The Sene-
cas- are a nation independent Of the
United States, and have made several
treaties with the federal government.
Chief John said the other day that 1t
is a puzzle to the lawyers to determine
iust what the Senecas are as a tribe
and what they are as individuals. Un-
der the laws of New York they are a
corporation existing by a special act.
The chief tells some interesting tradi-
tons of the Indians. speaking of whom
the other day he said:
Several winters ago some 20 Of us
representing half a dozen tribes used
to assemble here evenings with inter-
prefers and relate legends OF the va
rious tribes. l was struck with this,
that each tribe adopted as the favor
lite animal of their tales that most
frequent in its own country.
"The Creeks and Choctaws. original
ly from the south, were fond of the
'possum and the rabbit Our Seneca
legends have to do with animals We
hunted, especially the deer. The ia
vorite Seneca legend is of child OF
our tribe that overcame giants and
evil spirits. The Sioux told tales Of
marvellous battles with the buffalo and
the Chippewas. from northern Mime.
sofa. filled their stories with fur-bear-
ing animals"
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27

master General Madden says If your
stamps don't stick, don't blame the
post Office department.; blame the
weather bureau. 1t is not the muci-
lage that is responsible. but the Pc
culiar atmospheric conditions preva-
lent this winter and spring. If the
little red stamp will not adhere to the
envelope there is no comfort until a
better brand of climate is dealt out
by Chief Moore, of the weather bu-
reau. There is also another trouble.
The post office department issues two
styles of stamps, the summer stamp
and the winter stamp.
Mr.. Madden admitted the other day
that there was an unusual number Of
complaints about the stamps not stick.
ing, while he said upon investigation
of these complaints were found to be
unjust. For instance" he said.
there is a complaint from a business
man in New York We sent an agent
to investigate, and found that in his
establishment a man had been in the
habit of wetting the stamp by taking
a big sponge and drawing it across the
back of the sheet of stamps, wiping
the mucilage completely off.
while every complaint we have
run down has turned out to be with
out sufficient foundation, there must
be something wrong or we wouldn't
get so many. The gum is exactly the
same as that used last year, when
there were practically no complaints;
so the fault can't be there. My opin-
ion is that there is something in the
atmospheric conditions which causes
this"
The Yale expositor., 1906-04-27
Once Enough.

A Frenchman who was staying at a
hotel in Edinburgh asked at the cash
ier's desk for his bill, and was aston
lshed to find it so large. He felt that
he had been plundered, but he paid
the bill and asked to see the proprietor.
The landlord came down in response
to the call. The Frencnman rushed up
to him, exclaiming: "Ah, let me en-
brace you! Let me KEGS you'll" But,
why do you want to embrace me, sir?"
"Ah, saire, but look at this bill" Eyes,
but what of it?" "Vot of 1t? Why. 1t
means Eat sail nevaire see you again,
saire."