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I AbOUt the 1 ....House SPRING MEDICINES. Dandelions are used largely as a bitter in medicine, and the best dandelion bitters are no doubt to be found in eating dandelion greens. In fact, the bitters can be taken from your dinner plate than from a bottle. Meats and heat producing foods of winter can now be wisely reduced in amount and greens of any kind used not only as natural food but as a gentle laxative and general spring medicine. Spinach, lettuce and other greens are no • doubt very meritorious, but the dandelion seems to fill the requirements of spring better than any other similar article of food. The cooking of any kinds of greens should be a careful one. Nine-tenths of the spinach is spoiled by overcooking. Dandelions need to be cooked a longer time, but even these greens can be spoiled in that way. Dandelion Greens--Carefully pick over the greens and rinse thoroughly in at least two waters. If out ol door grown dandelions they should have boiling hot water poured over them and be allowed to stand a few moments and then thoroughly drained For a peck of the greens place in boiling hot water one pound of good sweet, mixed (lean and fat) salt pork and boil for about one hour, then put in the dandelions and cook until tender. At the time you put on the dandelions add a pinch of soda and they will remain a fine green in color. Appetizing Spinach--Wash thor-mghly and cook the spinach dcr, ther i the . dry for ten minutes. Cut sprinkle it with salt, pepper and a little dry mustard, and .to each pint allow a teaspoonful each of oil and j brush vinegar, dropping them in alternately. Mix thoroughly and serve on slices of toast with poached eggs or sliced hard boiled eggs on top. Watercress Salad--Watercress as a salad is besf served simply with a sauce of lemon juice and olive oil poured over it ; but, if preferred, may be served with the addition of a little grated horseradish, sliced leeks and sliced hard boiled eggs. Dandelion Salad--The small blanched or pale greens of the dandelion make one of the most appetizing' salads ever eaten. Trim them and drop them into ice water until crisp, then drain well and cover with a good French dressing. The tender leaves in spinach may be treated in the same way but not so desirable*. Radish Salad.--Wash round radishes and cut in narrow strips and arrange among lettuce li serve with a dressing made as follows :--French Dressing--Mix one teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth tea-*-><>.......Is of olive oil and two table-spoonfuls of vinegar. Boiled Spinach--As spinach shrinks very much in cooking be sure to buy plenty. A peck is not too much for a family of seven. Wash in several waters, as it is usually very sandy. Put it into boiling salted water. Unless a good deal of water Is used, the spinach will be bitter. Boil half an hour. Drain thoroighly pressing it with a plate. Chop and add butter and more salt if needed. Serve vinegar with it. Macaroni With Gravy--This is a nice supper dish when meat is not desired. Blanch three ounces o: macaroni by throwing It into boiling water and cooking for five minutes; drain, place in a clean stew-pan and cover with a good g'ravy or sauce; simmer for three-quarters oi an hour, when the gravy should be all absorbed ; stir in two table-s of grat< careless about airing bedd bed that is not regularly a quently experienced the "hospitality" of hotels know how often the sheets of the bed are damp. When the case the safest way is to take them oft and hang them on cl before a fire or register. It is safe to have heeds made up in ro that are not occupied. There it ways some dampness, especially winter, about rooms that are aired, and this settles upon the bed and other articles in the room. The best way is to keep a single sheel and counterpane, with fancy shan pillows on the beds when not ii pied, air it by opening the windows and turning on the heat, or light a fire in the fireplace, if there is one. Wipe oil the furniture and put everything in order. Meantime iet the bed air, after taking off the counterpane, sheet and fancy pillow cases. Dry these, but put them away for use when the roon: occupied. Make the bed with fresh sheets and blankets, and other bed linen, which has been aired before a fire for at least two hours after taking 'it out of the linen closet or wherever the bedding is kept. There a great many people who do know that it is dangerous to sheets and pillow cases out of awer or off a shelf and use them out airing them. All muslin or i gathers dampness when laid HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. A good way to keep sausage for « during the summer months is to pack it in small, strong cloth sacks, ie with good, strong strings, hang in the smoke house, exchange says a fine, white hat can be cleaned beautifully making a paste of lemon juice and flowers of sulphur. The paste applied to the straw with a brush, being careful that every place ered ; allow it to dry and then 'lit with a dry brush. In article it is stated that a white straw hat may be colored black, or any bright color, by dissolving diamond dye for black, or the color wanted, in a little alcohol and applying with a soft brush. A coat of very thin shellac varnish is given after the hat is dry. Baked pieplant is much more appetizing than that stewed in water. Cut in small pieces, leaving the skin on if the stalks are young and tender, as they should be ; put into an earthen or granite baking dish and set in a moderate oven till thoroughly done. If intended for a tart pie, beat to a paste with a silver spoon, spread on the pastry--already baked--cover with a meringue made by beating the white egg with a tablespoonful of powdered sugar and setting in the oven rden. The eg'g must be beaten for frosting first. Pieplant takes all flavors, and like the common potato, imparts Therefore, it can be used with BE KIND EVERY DAY. Cultivate kindness of heart; think lot with veil of your fellow-harity upon the shortcomings heir lives; do a good turn for them is opportunity offers; and, !o not forget the kind word ig'it time. How much a wc indness, encouragement, or appre- lH.lt 1 India ?spoonfuls of 7 hot which gra pie mothers particularly excelled Rich* and sweet and good, many of us remember both as we knew them in our youth, and think, perhaps not without a show of reason, that no ■"modern products" taste quite so good as these used to years ago. The old fashioned Indian pudding depended for its excellence upon the long, slow cooking'. If we can provide the same slow cooking we can have a pudding just as good--even " 5 consump- irly 1 i appt Tho modus operandi real old-style Indian p put together involved of three tablespoonful; ground <. ing hot thickens lilk. ■ had scald-till it and how We need occasion. couragement ough, yet ir calls for 3thers ttle it costs us to give it! lot wait for some special When calamity overtakes or'ds of sympathy and en-offered sincerely en-Such an occasion ; take from cup of molasses, a tablespoonful of chopped suet, a pint of cold milk, one teaspoonful of salt and a tea-epocnful each of ground cinnamon and mixed spices. Bake for two hours in a slow oven ; stir in another pint of cold milk and bake two hours longer. A cup of nice plump raisins is regarded as a toothsome addition. The pumpkin pie timber should be medium or small in size, fine fleshed and deep yellow inside and outside. Steam, after cutting up, until tender, put through a colander. To a pint of the prepared pumpkin allow warmed, a respond. But why wait for an occasion? Why not speak the kind word when there is no special occasion? In. the course of our lives there must be many times when thoughtless words are spoken by us which wound the hearts of others. And there are also many little occasions when the word of cheer is needed from us and we are silent. There are lives of wearisome monotony which a word of kindness can relieve. There is suffe-ing which words of sympathy can make more endurable. And often, even in the midst of wealth and luxury, there are those who listen a- d long in vain for some expression of disinterested kindness. JAPANESE RAILROADS. Japan has both government •ivate railroads. The total profits from the former (1,059 •■ 'i in 1902 were about 54,000, 0OO. Of private lines there are 2, 966 miles, and the profits in 1900 were $8,250,000. The govei roads earned $3,7'77 awfulbqy known IS ALFRED FUCHS, BERLIN, GERMANY. How He Revenged Himself 0n s Man Who Reported Him to His Father. The real, genuine "infant terrible" has been located--the actual and magnified "Peak's bad boy," the most "awful" boy of whom any olticial recoixls have been pressi-ved. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn become two mild dispositioned, meel, and demure youngsters when compared to this boy. They little angels. The bad boy < own neighborhood, for of course there is a bad boy if you have neighborhood, will appear as paregon when you read of Alfred Fuohs. He is a German boy. Alfred has the imagination of Sherlock Holmes, the craft of a counterfeiter, and the demand for revenge which animates an Indian. He lives in a flat building, which affords him opportunities. In the beginning Alfred was simply an ordinary troy who could torment a disagreeable neighbor to such an extent that the neighbor would feel like committing murder on Alfred or any member of is family if he could find them. Herr K- was the neighbor particularly selected for Alfred's boyish pranks, and he retaliated by reporting the boy to his father. Re-" , a spanking and sundry other iplinary applications. Additional result--a wild desire for revenge on he part of Alfred, and at subsequent periods the following occurences befalling Herr K--: BEGINNING OF HIS BADNESS. A number of postal cards containing the most insulting references to Herr K-- and all his family begun find their way through the mails to the home of the neighbor. They bore a stamped signature of "Dr. Lang." Herr K- boiled over as e had read one of them Id have visited immediate and severe punishment on the writer could have been found. All the authorities who endeavored to locate the physician failed and the insulting postals continued to reach Herr *"-s residence in increasing num- At length they stopped, but in a few days afterwards Herr K-was to appear jn court and answer to an anction stituted by Dr. Lang to recover debt of 514. The annoyed neigh appealed to answer the action quickly enough, carrying not a soft answer but a large club. He o no such bill, but he was willing „„ pay his creditor with the club if he could find him. No creditor appeared to prosecm the case and Herr K-- carried the club home. Several days afterwards an ambulance drew up at Herr K-'s residence, and three large, stout men rushed in upon him without a word of explanation, bindirur h«~ ~"» piacmg nun t.-i ir„. ambni-ance without listening to his wild protestations and demands for an explanation. Before his family could interpose to rescue him he was carried to an insane hospital. During the examination of the supposititious patient at the lunatic asylum it was discovered that the seizure had been made on information furnished by "Dr. Lang." The medical practitioner had notified the police that a dangerous maniac was harbored at Herr K-'s residence and that he should be taken in charge immediately. SKii EVADE IN EARLY MORNING. Herr K- began to sit up nights wondering how on earth he could catxh the scoundrel and how he could do enough to him after he had caught him. He was still thinking when a band of musicians arrived before the house at the early hour lock in the morning and be- the chum kept the sei was able to reach when he told it. Within two hours the entire neigh borhoorl knew that Alfred Fuchi was "Dr. Lang." The Berlin police are not particularly romantic individuals. Alfred has been arrested. ASSORTED NOTABLES. Playful Skit on the Matrimonial Market. The Englishman is bound sert his superiority, even facetious moments, as, witi following playful skit from the London Punch on the high matrimonial market : Punch uses this caption : "The Missouri Peer-Importing Company," and then says : "This company was formed to meet the ever increasing demand for lords and noblemen in the State of Missouri and U. S. A. generally. "Absolutely no risk run by our "Ladies dealing with us are assured of fair treatment and prompt delivery. 'Without fear of contradiction we I'm that our Peers are superior rank and pedigree and in posi-n in their own countries to any nobleman now on the market. "Our stock of British Dukes is he finest in the world, and at the Missouri Exhibition we were awarded the Gold Medal for this rare and beautiful type of goods. choice selection of belted We have a very cheap line in French Couir purse , tho gan to s Windoi (low ; the c i moment e i Herr K-- xplanation disgraceful conduct. Maybe ! little German bands are better Germany, but anyhow you don't want then under your window at 4 o'clock in the morning. The leader, having been forced to desist on pain of death, informed the irate neigh-•hood with great dignity that he "We beg leave to observe that ie lowest-price Peers--such, for ance, as Polish Counts--we do stock, as in very few cases h they been found satisfactory. urge upon our clients the advisability of paying a somewhi higher price and insuring quality. Peers delivered to any address S. A. free of duty and carriage paid. „ daily : "The Marchioness of Fitz-Port-11 is (nee Miss Polly Porker) rites : 'Your Marquis is simply lovely--and so intelligent. Please send two more, as I want them for rth'day presents for my sisters. Am going to England shortlv. Yours sincerely, " 'POLLY FITZ-PORTCTJLLIS.' "A Countess (who desires to be anonymous) writes : "Earl recently received and gives satisfaction. Have shown him to friend who bought Russian Prince last year, and she says she wishes she had heard of your firm then, for she certainly would have tried one of your Earls. " 'P.S.--Please send me French Count suitable for presentation to elderly maiden aunt. Was delighted with Irish Baron.' " BRIEF BUT PERTINENT. A good Goods should g they are to retain ;ss man lets up business will let up i wouderful invention PATENTS SECURED FOR A MAGNET TRAIN. From New York to San Francisco in Ten Hours Instead of Five Days. The weight of a train on tracks is what makes it hard pull. The resistance offered by friction is greatly reduced by wheels and well oiled axles, and yet powerful engines are required to draw the train at any considerable ra speed. We are now informed wonderful invention that practically annuls the weight of the tr consequently makes it possi draw it with a comparatively small igine and at an incredible rati Prof. A. C, Albertson, Ph.D. merly of the Royal University Copenhagen, has recently secured patents for a magnet train which, if put into practical use, would travel from New York to San Fran-lours, instead of five days. The principle is to overcome ight of the train by means ol powerful magnets connected with truck, and so arranged as tc slide along underneath the side ol The Exporter gives the following simple explanation of this remarkable device ; Take an ordinary horseshoe magnet and touch it to the under side -. It will at once i here to the bar with a force mi than sufficient to HOLD UP ITS OWN lvEflGHT. Next fasten a piece of stovepipe wire above the bar and use it as support for a small matchbox, will then be seen that the heav: the matchbox is, the weaker will the adherence of the magnet to t "If the weight of the combined matchbox is a magnet's power traction, it will be very es move the mag-net along the b: pecially if the bar is smooth well oiled. This is the princip on which the new magnetic railroad operates. By balancing magnetic attraction against weight the latter is practically abolished. In fact, a heavy train is made to pull upward as if it were equipped with wings. "Thus, in case of the railway, suppose, for instance, that a train weighs ten tons. The engineer in an Albertson locomotive would merely turn on a magnetic force of eleven overcoming the weight of the and allowing the train to slide along the rails with a friction of only one ton. The entire weight would in this way be more than held by the magnet force. In fact, Professor Albertson has found a way to abolish the attraction of gravitation, so far as his train of concerned. The train no longer weighs anything. Instead of pressing downward upon the rails it pulls upward." As a result, a ten-ton train loaded th passengers can be moved by A ONE HORSE-POWER ENGINE, advertising, his i him. What appeals The e > hav< t way ) sell. to the customer i ivill get the worth of 0 sell good th 1 you have good > the ordinary had 1 villi 1 r Fra i K-- i the ned only $2, 781. A curious feature of thi Japan railroads is that the bulk of the revenue is derived from pas gers, while the freight ha amounts to little or nothing, the United States and Europe freight yields the greater part of the earnings. Japanese government officials must be honest, since they beat the private companies $966 a mile. gem of 5 lali i 5 egg, sf ginger salt, a little nutmeg 3vel tablespoonfuls ol our takes the place oi and gives a smoothness stained by the use oi bove makes two pies, squash makes just as people think better-- AFLOAT ON AN ALLIGATOR. The strange sight of a man riding huge alligator across a lake was [ witnessed recently by a large num-I ber of tourists at the alligator farm at St. Augustine, Florida. At the | close of this remarkable feat in | navigation the man, to the amazc- CAT'S CONSTITUTIONAL, t is becoming quite fashionable in Worcester, Mass., to take cats out is. A .beautiful yellow haired Persian is a common sight in the ;reets, being led by its devoted mis-■ess. The cat behaves liko a dog i leash, frisking about its mistress ad acting as though it Shss-oughly ljoyed the outing. rthday anniversary. A letter from "Dr. Lang" was produced to substantiate this statement. By this time Herr K- was in despair, but^ there was worse coming. The climax was reached when eight mourning carriages, drew up at the door. The funeral director entered the house to begin the funeral. ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUNERAL. When he was threatened with instant death he produced a letter from "Dr. Lang" stating that one of his patients had died, and that all arrangements for the funeral had been made by an undertaker who, on the day of the funeral, had died himself. It therefore had become necessary to secure the services of another funeral director. Information further was given that everything was in readiness and that the hearse and carriages might proceed once to the residence designs**"* id carry out the plans interrupted by the death of the other undertaker. At this last manoeuver of "Dr Lang," Frau K--went into hy- Herr K- himself was on the verge of nervous prostration, and the police admitted themselves unable to discover the miscreant. identity might never have been known if the boy had been keep his own secret, but the joke became too much for him. When he saw the funeral procession Come up to the door of his enemy he exploded. He took one of his chums aside and told him all about it under pledge of secrecy. Of course things The way ti should be ad-Profits is the fruit that grows on ie tree of good advertising; now is the blossoming season. th all it costs if the merchant can get that much alue into the space he uses. Many merchants waste money in tfve'rtising; some by doing too much f it and some by not doing enough. Don't try to expand the business 3 rapidly that it becomes necessary 3 abandon the defence of that already established. Some people like to buy where goods are fine and some where goods are cheap. It pays to appeal to all an'd make the publicity inviting to all. It takes an inducement to make some people buy and the best way to insure their buying is to make them appreciate the greatness of your inducement. No article is so cheap that people will want it just because of the ' price. It must have a quality that makes it worth the price if people are expected to buy and appreciate it. EVES THAT NEVER CLOSE. Snakes may almost be said to have glass eyes. This is because their eyes never close, are without lids, and each is covered with a transparent scale much resembling glass. When the reptile moults, or sheds outer skin, the eye scales come with the rest of the transparent -elope that the snake slips out of. The snake's eye-scale is so tough that it effectually protects the other obscructi Professor Albertson assures us. to cost, it is said that a current of electricity sufficient for a thousai ordinary electric lamps would hold in suspension a weight of al one hundred and twenty tons, half a dozen trains weighing twenty tons each. A motor of ten horsepower could move swiftly such s The superiority of this new magnetic railway to any present system, steam or electric, Professor Albert-son claims for the following "First, there 1 times the speed be one-sixth c there will be no fourth, sleeping < impossible peopheoies A Comet Will Never Destroy the Earth--The Yellow Invasion. There have been three chances within the last ten years that the earth might come to a sudden end through colliding with one of the huge comets that are careering throlugh space at the rate of untold miles per hour. Two of them have come very close, any ( > quit this i the cards t way for the world t i the r uid that, «sly _ later. Books, pamphlets, and articles in great numbers ha\e appeared to prove it. It has only just been discovered that this can never happen, and that the prophecies that have been re^ peated at intervals for a century past were all wrong. The reason is that a comet, as Professor Babinet has proved, instead of being a solid body with a gaseous tail, as supposed, is a good deal lighter than the air that surrounds this earth of ;, and is composed of meteoric or nebula, so minute that youi might drag it through w'th a net of butter-muslin- and not catch anything. This body of illuminated nothingness travels at a fearful " through the ether beyond the atmosphere of the worlds, but has enough weight to HURT A MOSQUITO. ; were a solid body, the earth would be knocked into cobble stories by the shock of meeting it; but in reality it is so light that, even it raight at us, it would probably never reach the earth's surface through the air that surrcfunds second, there will the cost ; third, rs will be abolish-ill be possible to travel i New York to San Francisco in hours ; fifth, there can be no de-ing, no hot-boxes, no grade-crossing accidents ; sixth, there r any 1 r for ing 1 when the railroad is being supported by single iron r. enth, the heavy locomotiv abolished, as magnetic foi take the place of weight." rigs, sharp allow the dth in its travels, yet i parent eye from the twi perfect vi Nelly--"What kind of a letter did mr husband write when he was away ?■" Wife--"He started, 'My Precious Treasure,' and ended by sending 'love.' " "How did you answer ?" "I started with 'My Precious Treasurer,' and ended with 'Send me five dollars.' " Employer--"What makes you think this new hand is likely to rise rapidly over the other men in the factory ?" Foreman--"I noticed last light that he worked nearly four seconds after the whistle blow." Selling is easy if the prices are IN CASE OF ACCIDENT. A gentleman went a few days back to have a tooth stopped. Tho dentist advised him that he had better have the tooth taken out, and sured him that he would feel pain if he took laughing-gas. "But what is the effect of the 1 askec : you ally : l:n takes place." The patient submitted, previous to the gas beiiij tered he put his hand in pulled o "Oh, don' >uble aboi the dentist, is going to be paid his fee. 'Not at all," remarked the pa-was simply going to see I had before the gas took BIRD VENGEANCE. mtty little brown duck. The duck apparently insulted the swan by trying to crosa its path, for it was luddenly seized by the swan and held under the water until he was would be drowned. But at go, and sailed ie duck, after last the s majestically i taking breatl not far off i back. ' The s*. the duck, apj and f > the i ery ominous terror 1 troubled thousands of people, lear-j-d otherwise, is the great threat of the "yellow invasion." It hag prophesied for a long time thai? if the most serious dangers in store for Britain, together with the of Europe, is that before very, long tho Chinese may discover what' everybody else has known for a long time--that they easily outnumber Jie whole population of Europe put ogether. If they chose to arm themselves with modern weapons -- i have -- and gather their strength together, they could devastate and loot the whole of the old world, for all the nations together could not stand against their overwhelming numbers. And their hatred of everybody but themselves, and their love of wealth, would want little spurring to set them loose on us. There are over 400,000,000 people in China -- prob- ably 500,000,000 -- and only 5,000 foreigners. But the notion if a European invasion by the Chi-iese is more chimerical than probable, and it is a prophecy which lever be fulfilled-THE "ACTUAL ZERO." could be, great things could be for science and for medicine, diseases killed, and countless valuable experiments proved that are now impossible for want of it. For there is a point beyond which cold cannot go, and many lives have been spent in searching for it. Of course, what is called "zero" on a thermometer is no more tho actual zero than boiling-point is. The mercury often falls tielow it even in England. In the Arctic meroury freezes at a certain point, and spirit thermometers have to be used. But by artificially made cold even the spirit freezes,and this cold can be induced scientifically to such a point that even gases can be frozen solid. The most defiant of all the gases is hydrogen, and it was feared that it would be some time before anybody would get so ■ far as to freeze it, but that when they did the actual zero would easily be found. All sorts of expectations were placed on the result; but finally Professor Dewar succeeded in ireezing hydrogen--which is colorless and intangible gas -- into a solid block at the amazing coldness of 260 degrees centigrade below ordin-Only 13 degrees more separate this from the longed-for rtual zero," than which there is nothing colder -- tho very bottom of cold, so to speak. But those 13 degrees, it is claimed, can never be wiped out by any possibility of sci-The bed-plate of cold, and its uses, will defy man's knowledge for good. It has often been declared -- and the belief has troubled a great many people -- that at the rate the population of Britain is increasing, tain i within r the 1 sight when ONE VAST TOWN, with no unbuilt-upon land at except in the shape of parks, entire country will be artificial, ays and tr i distric single t fifty mlt ( ainly , worked upon, fol- >w. Books have been \ rove it, economists have worried ver it, and lovers of towns and ar-ficial life in general have rejoiced ver it. These islands are fixed and mited: the mited. Ediri is said, are 1 the farthest moors w Ugh £ BEHIND THE TIMES. On coming out from the St prison at Trenton, New Jersey, al' serving a twenty-five years' s Herbert Jacobs was stri and injured by an electric trami while trying to cross the road, knew nothing of electric tractii which was introduced during his carceration, and seeing no hor; attached to the front of the c. concluded it was going away frc him..