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Household Science.

At "a recent meeting of the De-
partment Of Household Science of the
Illinois Farmers Institute, Miss Ruth
Connibear, in the course Of a talk
on the problem of living economically
and yet buying nutritive foods, said:
1.-THE State University School for
Housekecpers has broadened my nor.
lion in domestic work; 1t has taught
me to make the household duties a
pleasure when before I thought them
d.udgery. When I 60 into a house
or store I cannot help but observe
and take an interest in the things
that were taught to US at the short
course There Is a steadily growing
sentiment in favor of furnishing to
every girl, high or low, rich or poor,
somewhere in her regular education,
systematic instruction and drill in
housekeeping, and home making, in
food value and domestic economies"
Mrs. Jennie C.. Barlaw in her re.
port said:
1.-The housekeeper Of to-day must
read more, think more, study more
and know more in order to meet the
demands. There Is no business In
which brain work is needed more to
be able to apply principles underly-
ing right living. Let me urge more
work to interest and instruct the
girls. Teach them how to cook, not
blanc mango and fruit cake, but the
essential foods and to do it properly.
Teach them how to make good bread
and cook meats and vegetables prop
erly rather than angel food or float
ing island. Teach them, not point
lace and embroidered pillows, but to
make aprons, dresses, children's
clothes, to cut economically and fit
carefully. Teach them how to care
for the home, to have 1t sanitary, and
to care for their bodies in health and
sickness. Teach them system and
economy, how to keep accounts and
spend money wisely. Then better
homes will be assured, better health
and happiness"
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Cleaning Lace.

Pure alcohol can be used with won
derful success as a means of cleaning
black Spanish or chantilly lace. The
alcohol should be poured into a clean
basin and whipped with the hand un-
til it is frothy, when the lace should
be dipped into it and we'll worked
about with the fingers until the dirt
is removed. After gently squeezing
out the spirit the lace should be laid
on a folded cloth, the patterned edge
pulled out, each scollop or picot
being fastened down with a pin.
When perfectly dry the lace should
be unpinned and pressed gently be-
tween the palms Of the hands until
smooth in lieu Of ironing it, as this
would fatten the pattern and spoil
the color.-Indianapolis News. 4,
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Total ..,, ,..... ........ . . S3.6t

The pence have been converted on
the basis of two cents, but the slight
difference between this and the actual
value would make the total cost
s3.6S.
To this must be added the cost of
rental, which amounts in the poorest
districts for one room to not less than
two shillings (4S cents) per week,
and for a three-room fiat from SIS. to
los. ($1.94 to s2.43) per week. The
coal in these laboring districts is sold
at the rate of 80 to sc cents per l12
pounds. To this must be added the
possibility Of a car fare, which
amounts to two cents to eight cents
per trip. The men seldom use the
cars unless exceptional distance from
work necessitates this. Some OF the
better paid workmen, such as engi-
neers and others. who earn from
S7.25 to 1915 per week, are living
better in proportion. The only real
cheap article l found is the working
mans clothing. One Of the union
secretaries stated: mo workman with
wife and two children in London, in
my opinion, can subsist and be housed
for less than 22s. (S5.34) per week"
From Waekly Consular and Trade
Reports,
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Keeping the Soil Fertile.

According 10 Professor Whitney, OF
the Bureau OF Soil, United States De-
partment OF Agriculture, a soil to
be fertile must Contain a sufficient
quantity of the ash ingredients Of
tire plants to he cultivated, and these
must be in such soluble condition as
to be taken up b. the growing plants.
Soils once fertile are said to be en-
hausted when deprived of such food
as is required for plant nutrition, but
rest and me.iorating treatment will,
in time. restore such soils to a fertile
condition.
Until pas7vShe year 1850 mt Just
ideas upon Q e rotation OF crops
seemed to have been formed in any
part of England.
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Wasted a Fortune on Skin Trouble.

u began to have an itching over
my whole body about seven years ago
and this settled in my limb, from the
knee to the toes. | went to see a
great many physicians,a matter which
cost me a fortune, and after ] noticed
that / did not get any relief that way,
went for three years to the hospital.
But they were unable to help me
there. | used all the medicines that
could ee, but became worse and
worse. | had an Inflammation which
made me almost. crazy with pain.
When I showed my foot to my friends
they would get really frightened. l
did not know what to do. was so
sick and had become so nervous that
l positively lost all hope.
81 had seen the advertisement of
the Cuticura Remedies a great many
times, but couldnot make up my mind
to buy them, for ] had already used so
many medicines. Finally ] did decide
to use the Cuticura Remedies, and |
tell you that ] was never so pleased as
when l noticed that, after having used
two sets of Cuticura Soap, Cuticura
Ointment and Cuticura Pills, the en-
tire Inflammation had gone. | was
completely cured. ! should be only
too glad if people with similar disease
would come to me and find out the
truth. would only recommend them
to use Cuticura. Mrs. Bertha Sachs,
1921 Second Ave-, New York, N. Y,
Aug. 20, 1909"
Mrs. Bertha Sachs Is my sister-in-
law and | know well how she suffered
and was cured by the Cuticura Rene
dies after many other treatments
failed. Morris Sachs, 321 E. seth St.,
New York, N. Y, Secretaryof Deutsch-
Ostrowoer Unt.-Verein, Kempner He
brew Benevolent Society, ETC."
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Corn Chowder-Melt a, small piece
of butter in the bottom of a kettle
and in it fry an onion. To this add
three potatoes cut in dice and one.
half can of corn. Season we'll with
salt and pepper. Cover with water
and cook until potatoes are soft.
Then add one pint Of milk. Reheat
and erv
Eggs in Nests.-Take the whites OF
the eggs and whip to a stiff froth;
pile it irregularly on q fiat buttered
baking dish and make hollows here
and there; sprinkle with salt and pep
per and drop into each the yolk OF an
egg; put a small piece Of butter on
each yolk; place the dish in the oven
from five to eight minutes; serve at
once.
Corn Oysters-One cup of cold
sweet corn, one-half cup Of -four, n
beaten egg, one tablespoonful of but
ter, one-half t%easpoonful of baking
powder; seasoning. Make a batter
of the corn, flour, egg and baking
powder. Melt the butter and drop
batter into it by the teaspoonful.
Fry until brown. These are good
with maple syrup.
Fish Chowder-Fry one-half pound
of salt pork until brown. Then re-
move pork from kettle and to fat add
one onion sliced, two pounds fresh
fish cut in small pieces and six sliced
tomatoes. Sprinkle with salt and
pepper; cover with cold water and
let cook about forty-five minutes.
Then add two or three pints Of milk
and six. common crackers broken in
halves.
Ginger Cakes-MiX and sift to-
gether six cupfuls Of flour, two table,
spoonfuls Of ginger. one tablespoon
full of cinnamon, and one tablespoon
full of soda. Heat one-half cupful of
lard or butter, one cupful of New
Orleans molasses and 4 cupful Of
brown sugar until boiling. Take
from the fire, add n cupful of sour
cream and pour gradually into the
-four mixture, beating until smooth.
Pat and roll out, cut into small cakes
and bake in q moderate oven.
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Cane to Cairo Railroad.

The Cape to Cairo road is not yet
completed, but it may be said that
fits completion is fairly in sight. The
finished part extends more than 1900
miles from Cape Town, and lines in
course of construction will make the
connecting links, so that within two
of three years trains will be running
through the heart of the Dark Con-
tinent from Alexandria to Cape Town.
The "%iridescent dream of Cecil
Rhodes has become, or is about to
become, a solid reality, and there are
plenty of practical, hard headed peo-
pie who are firmly of the opinion that
it will not be many years before one
can take a train anywhere in North
America and be taken to stations in
the remotest points Of the African
continent.-New York American.
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Old Maids Beds.

This is our special old maids
bed" said the salesman. I'VE are
selling it like hot cakes. I don't be-
lieve there's an old maid in the
township sleeps on any other pattern.
What's its peculiar advantage to
old maids? Why, Of course, its low
ness. Don't you see how low it is?
1t goes right down to the ground. No
man on earth could crawl under it.
$50 this is the bed that old maids
buy. No man could hide under it.
So it doesn't have to be looked under
uneasily the last thing before turning
off the light. minneapolis Journal.
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Making q Paper Hat.

In these days Of fancy paper cos
tunes a girl should know how to
make an effective hat. Tear crepe
paper into two-inch strips the length
of the sheet. Take three strands and
plat closely into a smooth and even
braid.
Cover a wire frame with these
braids and face under part Of brim
with plain crepe paper or null to
match. Make a bunch of paper flow.
ers-roses, peoples, or carnations
and arrange them on the hat with q
band of dull green, brown, or black
glazed paper to represent velvet:
New York Times.
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Vegetable Compound has done TO, ma
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means so much
to me that for the sake of other suffer
ing women I I'm willing to make my
trouble public so you may publish
this Letter" Mrs. CHAS. BARCLAY,
RED, Graniteville, vi.
No other medicine for woman's iHa
has received such wide lad AID u.
qualified endorsement. 10 other med
icine we know of has such a record
of cures of female ills as has Lydia Il
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
For more than 30 years It Las been
curing female complaints such a
Inflammation, liberation, local weak
nesses, fbroid tumors, irregularities
periodic pains, backache, indigestion
and nervous p%rostration, and It Z
unequalled for carrying women safeiy
through the period of change Of hfa
1t costs but little to try Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and.
as Mrs. Barclays says, it is worth moVu
aims of gold Ito suffering women.
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The rotation of crops affords time
for the dis%integrating action Of the at
mosphere, rain and frost to prepare
new material from the rock particles
in the soil and get it in a form to be
used by the plant. One plant may
use up the available food for a par
ticular kind faster than it a be pre-
pared by these natural agencies.
When properly managed it enables
one plant to prepare food for an
other.
All plants exhaust the soil, though
in an unequal degree; plants of diff
ferent kinds do not exhaust the soil In
the same manner; all plants do not
| restore to the soil a like quantity or
quality of manure, and all plants are
not equally favorable to the growth
of weeds. Upon the above principles
is based a regular succession of crops.
Though the system Of rotation is
adapted to every soil, no particular
| rotation can be assigned to any one
description of soil which will answer
at all times, and on the demand for
different kinds of produce. On clayey
soils. beans and clover, with rye grass
are generally alternated with grain
crops, and on dry loans or sandy
ground turnips, beets, potatoes and
clover. On rich soils this system of
alternate husbandry is most con-
ducive to the plentiful production of
food, both for men and animals. One
portion of a farm would thus be al
ways under grain crops, while the
other portion was growing roots or
cultivated grasses; but, as the major
| part Of arabic lands can not be pre-
served in a state of fertility with even
this kind of management, it is requi-
site that the portion Of the farm
which is under cultivated grasses
should be pastured for two or three
years, in order to give it time to re-
cruit. The following is a good rota-
ton of crops: First year, clover;
second, clover; third, corn; fourth,
oats; fifth, wheat. The clover does
we'll with oats, and after an early
moving can very we'll be prepared
for wheat.
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Currant Culture.

The currant is a very hardy fruit,
and as fair results are obtained with
out high culture, almost everyone
who has a garden grows currants.
Like all other fruits, however, the
eurrant becomes most profitable when
it is given good care.
The currant is a moisture-loving
fruit, hence for profit it should be
planted in a cool, moist, but well
drained soil. 1t also requires rich
soil, hence as a rule the best Is a good
clay loan which is retentive Of moist
ure and cooler than sandy loan. The
soil should be thoroughly prepared
for c%urrants before planting. One
year old plants from cuttings II
strong will give good satisfaction,
although two year old plants are not
too old. They shculd be planted In
rows about six feet apart, and from
four to five feet apart in the rows,
the wide distance being more salts
factory for the strong growing varie-
ties, and especially currants.
Fall planting Is best for currants,
es the buds start very early in the
spring, and should these develop be-
fore they can be planted their future
growth will be checked. They can,
however, be planted in the spring
with success. The plants should be
set a little deeper than they were in
the nursery and the soil well pressed
against the roots. Thorough cultiva-
ton should follow to promote as
much growth as possible, but 1t
should be shallow, as the currant
roots are neal the surface. The fol-
lowing spring the currants will need
some pruning to give them a shapely.
open head, the bush when well shaped
having from FIVE to seven main
branches we'll distributed to avoid
crowding. The fruit of red currants
is formed from spurs on wood two
years old, while the fruit of black
currants is borne on wood of the pre-
vious year. Currants should be
pruned annually to get the best re-
suits.
After the bushes are in full bear
ing, the pruning should be done with
the object of removing some of the
older wood from the ground each
year.. There should be no wood more
than three years old left on black
currant bushes, as the object is to
keep up a strong growth of young
wood. 1t is also not we'll to let the
wood of red c%urrants get very old, as
the finest fruit is produced on the
two and three year old wood.
The currant plantation will begin
to give some fruit the third season.
but 4 full crop Will not be obtained
until the fourth. AS the currant is a
great feeder, drawing heavily on the
fertility Of the soil, the plantation
should receive an annual dressing of
BARNARD manure or some other fer
tilizer. Rotten r. applied in the
autumn and cultivated in the next
spring gives very good results. Ap-
plications of wood ashes or muriate
of potash and ground bones are also
heacfcial.-Prof. H. L. HUT, Canada
Experiment Station.
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SOUR STOMACH

IT used Cascarets and feel like a 9Sv
man. I have been a sufferer from dys-
persia and sour stomach for the last two
Years. I have been taking medicine and
other drugs, but could find no relief only
for a short time. I will recommend
Cascarets to my friends as the only thing
for indigestion and sour stomach M To
keep the bowels in good condition.
They are very nice to eat"
Harry Stuckley, Mauch Chunk, Pa
Pleasant. pala,able. Potent. Taste Good
DoGood. Never Sicken, Weaken or Grips.
Inc pc. Soc. Never soldin bulk. The gen
uine tablet stampetCCC Guaranteedts
cure or your money back "a
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ABANDONED 1T
For the Old Fashioned Coffee Was
killing.

= "I always drank coffee with the
rest of the family, for it seemed as
If there was nothing for breakfast
if We did not have it on the table.
81 had been troubled some time
with my heart, which did not feel
right. This trouble grew worse
steadily.
at other times very slowly, so that
! would hardly be able to do work
for an hour or two after breakfast,
and if l walked up a hill, it gave
me a eve pain.
II had no idea Of what the
trouble was until a friend suggested
that perhaps it might be causel by
coffee drinking. ! tried leaving off
the coffee and began drinking
Postum. The change came quickly.
l am 10 glad to say that l am en-
tirely we'll Of the heart trouble and
attribute the relief to leaving of
coffee and the use of Postum.
"A number of my friends have
abandoned the old fashioned coffee
and have taken up with Postum,
which they are using steadily. There
are some people that make Postum
very weak and tasteless, but if it is
boiled long enough, according to Ill
r%ections, it is a very delicious bev-
erage. We have never used any of
the old fashioned coffee since Postum
was first started in our house"
Read the little book, The Road to
Wellville." in pkgs. There's a Rea-
son."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of blman
interest.
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Bacon Hogs.

1t is generally understood that
what is frequently called bacon in
American markets is not Identical
with the article sold as bacon IN
Great Britain. This will appear from
the following statement: A writer in
an exchange states that bacon hogs in
England weigh from $50 to 23O
pounds, while bacon hogs in the Uni
ter States weigh from 155 to l95
pounds, and light mixed hogs weigh
$50 to 220 pounds. 1t is very evident
that the hog that furnishes such ba'
con as the English consumers want is
a better grade animal than thai which
is used for bacon in the United States.
The average weight for the former Is
given as 100 pounds, whereas the az
GRACE weight of the latter is only It's
pounds.
There is too much Of an inclination
In our markets to separate hogs that
are unfinished and to classify them as
bacon because of their leanness'
This, of course, does not truly repre-
sent the bacon hog when put upon
the market in finished form. The ba-
con hog, though not what may be
termed fat in the sense in which the
lard hog is fat is not, on the other
hand, lean, in a sense in which the
unfinished hog is lean. 1t occupies
middle ground between the two. The
flesh is firm; indeed, more so than
that of the fat hog. In other words,
a lack of firmness is very objection
able in first-class bacon. Because OF
the lack of proper discrimination in
the application Of the terms, the ba-
con hog has suffered somewhat on
our markets. The term bacon has
been applied in a careless n as
pointed out above, consequently 1t
has been applied to animals that do
not bring top prices in the market,
hence the idea has gone out that ba-
con swine do not bring so high a mar
ket price relatively as other types. In
time, no doubt, this will be corrected,
out in the meantime it should be TAX
en- into the account of those who are
taking notes with reference to the
relative market prices.-Weekly Wit
lesS.
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Huxley Knew the Tragedy.

Huxley, the brilliant English sci
enlist and man Of letters, was unns
ually quick and subtle at reparteA
Once while dining with Herbert Spene3
Ger and another friend at the iAthe.
naeum, the conversation fiagging.
Spencer remarked.
You would little think It, but !
once wrote a tragedy"
Huxley answered promptly: =.
know the catastrophe"
Spencer declared it was tmpossibls
for he had never spoken about It bes
fore then. Huxley insisted, &ifd
Spencer asked what it was. Fuxley
replied: ...' ....
"a beautiful theory, killed by 2
nasty, ugly little fact."- Yontnf
Companion.
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As the Country Cried.

Johnny, can you tell us why
Washington is called the Father OF
his Country"
"'Cause he walked the floor a
good many nights when it was still
young, I guess."-Chicago Record
Herald.
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The Wall Street Lexicon.

AS soon as people become easy
marks, the Trust magnates and poll
ticians tell you public confidence is
restored; and when the people get
wise to themselves, and realize that
they are being fooled, the same fell
lows call it a crisis.-Puck.
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Ground las been broken Tor do

Ground has been broken TOR tfAa
grca. 'ibrar! building at the Univer-
s!ty o. Chicago, which Is to serve. as
. memorial to the lat2 President
William Rainey Harpel. The con-
tract price is 100000, and the build
Ing is to be completed by the summer
Of 1911. The structure will b. 17e
by eighty feet, fronting on the mid
way plaisance.
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SfI'DEHovszHolD6 1SSR
HHR MATTERS YNR
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Oilcloth For Shelves.

A busy housewife can save herself
and ner maids a great deal of labor
by covering all the larder, cupboard
and scullery shelves with oilcloth.
This is very easily kept clean. My
kitchen table is also covered in the
same manner, while e few odd floor
tiles on which saucepans can be put
are equally useful, as they are so
easily wiped clean.-Home Chat.
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WORTH
W ~~~ ara
MOUNTAINS
OF GOLD
During Change Of Life,
saws Mrs. Chas. Barclay
Graniteville, VII was passing
through the Change of Life andsufered

from NERVOUSNESS
and the annoying
symptoms, and
can truly say that
LydiaE. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound has proved
worth mountains
of gold to me, asst
restored my health
and strength. !
never forget to ten
my friends what
JyC E.Pinkham'd
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Not less than seventy-ive families
we're visited, and from all the infor-
nation gathered from these inter-
views a family of man and wife and
possibly two small children may sub
sist on the following food per week:
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Among all their palaces and castles
It is Balmoral that the members OF
the British royal family have always
looked upon as their home.
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The great North Sea fishing ground
known as the Dogger Bank, is esti-
mated to yield an annual income OF
$4,000 a square mile.
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, Munyon's Paw Paw Pills coax the hyef
into activity by gentle methods. They do
not scour, grippe or weaken. They are .
tonic to the stomach, liver and nervess
invlgorate instead of weaken. They en-
rich the blood and enable the stomach 70.
get ali the nourishment from food that -
put into it. These pills contain: no caioS
mel; they are soothing, healing and stira-
and 25c sizes. If you need medical al:
vice. write Munyon's Doctors. They WIN
advise to the best Of their ability abso-
lutely free Of Charge. MUNYON'S, 80
and Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Last year owe: seventeen million
pounds of tobacco and snuff manu-
featured in the United Kingdom were
exported.
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There is no tide at New Orleans.
At PASSPORT. Me-. i. is eighteen feet.