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~-~m¢'ww~...»\ - . ' save your steps by these common sense, since-over Duds. A wealthy woman from the city visited her aunt, and in the course of the conver- sation told of how she sent their last sea- son’s clothes in a box to the frontier,to home missionaries, says a lady correspondent, The aunt commended her and added: “Well, niece, bear in mind you hays an aunt whose husband was a minister of the gospel, though he was not on the frontier. We could use old clo’es too.” They afterwards received this bundle and made good use of it, for she was struggling to educate her two daughters to fit them to become bread-winners. Mrs. Minerva was wont to cut off the legs of worn merino drawers and change , them so that the best come outside. The city niece‘s things worked over well. The soiled waists of worsted dresses were cut low and her girls wore them with guiuipes. The faded part was improved by. sewmg velvet straps across. Odd waists she fashioned from old style polouaises. It is a pity that this pretty garment ever was nllwowed to go out of fashion; it was becoming, especially for portly matrons. From white dresses whose front breadths ware worn and stained, she was able to remove the front width and cut them down square in the neck, and then trimmed in lace. By the use of diamond dyes she made faded woolens all of one color. Mrs. Minerva has been “ handy ” in her youth. and lived across the street from a milliner whom she occasionally helped, and almost stole her trade. It aftedwards proved available in fixing over headgear for herself and relations. She always taught her girls to Wear everyday skirts made of skirting goods. The old style iull skirts worked over admirably for her daughters. The old, shiney, “ boiled ” silk was the thing for the present fashion- able silk skirts. It is a good plan in a family of girls to have one learn dressmak- ing, if she has any “knack "in that dir- ectiou. I know of a family whore there are six daughters. One does nothing but keep the rest “repaired and in good run- ning order,” as they say of locomotives. She seldom does housework, for a reason. The hands must be kept in order for needle- work. _ _« One of her latest achievements is that of making over two fur capes into a modern one that comes to the waistline, alamode. A furrier wanted to charge me $28 for a similar job : of course, matching ‘ the stripes is a nice piece of work, and it is no fun to properly line such a garment. My lady also made into modern style a seal plush coat, matching the plush and adding big modern sleeves. I sigh wistfully here, forI need such work done. I can’t do it myself, and I cannot afford to hire a high- priced professional. A Gloomy Kitchen. Many women imagine thata bare floor scrubbed every day or two is the only “neat way of living,” but the woman who covers her kitchen floor with a hemp rag carpet, protected, in the most exposed places by neatly bound oilcloth, saves much exhaust' iug scrubbing, and her kitchen looks cleaner than the floordiugy and rough from frequent washing. Almost always the freshly wash- ed floor is the real cause of those mysterious languid, lame, sensations from which deli- 0 no women suffer. A board floor looks dry when there still remaining sufficient damp- nc-is to give Cold to persons standing on it. A dingy, shabby kitchen affects one’a spirits. . Womankind advises that if you feel that you are a drudge, and life is a burden be- cause you must spend it in the kitchen, study those kitchen walls and those cup- boards and chairs and then go out and buy some "common paint” yellow ochre or “ red stain,” or pale green and paint the gloomy kitchen; hang new curtains at that windows ; and if possible make “ a rest corner” where you can wait for the pot to boil or the oven to heat. Instead ofstand- ing and walking aimlessly while you mu st Wait, sink into the little rocking chair, or upon the softly covered soap box and close your eyes. Rest, if only for a minute; lawful methods, and refresh your heart with the fact. that all the great and important actions never could be accom- plished, if the brain were not nourished by rich, pure blood ; and the blood cannot feed the brain, if the food does not pass through the mouth ; and where shall the mouth go for this food, if not to the woman who works in the kitchen? â€"â€"_._ , Useful Recipes. A nice way of using up cold beef steak is to brown and dip in salted hot water as many slices of bread as will mvcr the platter and butter tliem ; tlicn chop the steak very fine, add salt and pepper to taste, a little butter, enough water to moisten well, heat. quickly and pour over the toast. Egg Sslad.â€"T\velve hard-boiled eggs. one-half pint of cream, butter the size of an egg, a little parsley chopped fine, one tablespoonful of flour. Take cream, butter, parsley and flour, mix and cook until thick. Slice the eggs, and after each layer of eggs add one of bread crumbs, over which pour the cream to cover. When the dish is full bakc until brown. Garnish with parsley and serve hot. Cake Without eggsâ€"One heaping table. spoonful lard, one cup sugar, stirred to~ geiher ; add one cup of milk or water, two even tablespooufuls corn meal (which takes the place of eggs). flour to make the right consistency. S‘euou with any flavor. After all is well stirred, add two heaping ieaspoonsfuls baking powder. Butter may take the place of lard, and when lard is used a pinch of salt should be added. Indian f’es Soupâ€"Put one pint of good boiling (dried) green peas in a pot with three pints of water and a mores! of soda ; Hoar cloves and two bay leaves till of a ' nice golden.~brewn, then add the puree of peas; saltto taste, and a teaonp of best tomato conserve :a pinch of Kepanl pepper is an improvement. Let it simmer gently for about half an hour; if too thick, a glittle more water may be added. Serve i with fried bread out in dice. l â€"â€"â€"â€"_.â€"â€".â€".â€" YOUNG ENGLISHMAN MURDERED. n. A Financier and Eduar- Charged with the Crime. Not for many'a day has Guthrie, Okls., enjoyed such a sensation as when she awoke gthe othermorning and found two of her 3 prominent citizens and business men in jail l on a charge of murder. When the body of ‘Frank Ledgers, ayoiing Englishman, was ; taken from the Cottonwood River last lSepLember, and the Coroner's jury could i not tell after a thorOugh investigation what I produced death, or who the guilty parties i probably were, it seemed that his taking off was destined to remain a mystery. "Two months ago came a Pinkerton detective, sent by the British Government, on the appeal of the murdered man's parents and sweetheart in Birmingham, England. As a result of his work came the arrest ten days ago of Frank Thorpe, a negro porter, and three days ago William Knowles, ex-night policeman, both as accessories to the mur- der. Still the detective followed up his clews. At midnight be secured a confession of some startling facts from a woman of the town, and at 3 o’clock, with the Sheriff, went to the resident of W. H. Thorne and 0. C. Seeley and took them from bed and to jail, charged with the murder of Ledgers. Thorne is Pesident and general manager of the Guarantee Investment and Loan Company, and Seeley a prominent real es- tate man and publisher of Oklahoma ll- lustrated. Thorne is an Englishman, and the murdered man was related by marriage to his wife, and boarded at his house at the time of the murder. The detectives will not give out the particulars, and the details of evidence so far can not be told with certainty. They give, hOWever, an assurance that they have a conclusive chain of evidence that will implicate all the four parties so far arrested. There are still other persons who are suspicioned as being at least accessories after the facts, and more arrests will follow. The theory of the murder now is that he was chloroforiued at Mrs. Jackson's on South Second street, where the negro, Thorpe, was porter, and afterwards thrown into the river. When the body was found swatch and considerable loose change was found in the pockets, which seemed to allay the suspicion of robbery, but several thousand dollars young Ledgers had brought from England were never found. In Frozen Labrador. Through its long winter Labrador is simply frozen out from the rest of the world. One "komitick," or dog-sled, mail, reaches QRIlIULTURAL Them. Almost every country .home needs a, windbreak of trees, the exceptions beingfhigh. and finitely “have ground. Th6 where hills check the air currents, or! natural grove can be utilizad for the pur- it on the cold side of the house. latitudes place it so as to shield the prem- distant, the air is close and damp with poor “Milan”, WhiCh tends ‘0 devalop di“Upuiline plates; these boxes communicate . . . . case. On this account the minimum number ‘ which will afford protection is better than ' between 9‘9 Mlle"- Th" WW1“ have lslatted sides opened and closed by a large grove. The space between the trees and the buildings can be utilized for a lawn, garden, or for smallfruits, avoiding thick setting. Admit plenty of sunlight. It is a vitalizer of most animal and vege» table life. Better have no windbreak than one too closely set. If you have no tree shelter, start one this spring. The form, size and distance from buildings must be governed by circumstances. A single row of thickly growing evergreensâ€"white pine, Norway spruce, or red cedarâ€"l5 it. apart will suffice. Limbs will then grow close to the ground, while if more than one row is used, the trees will prune themselves, as in a forest, and in time destroy the efficiency of tlio windbreuk. Deciduous trees of almost any quick-growing, hardy variety will answer, but require more land, a grove 50 to 100 ft. wide being necessary. Mix nut-bearing trees and those valu/ (Fig. l, crescent shape. Fig. 2, right angle. Fig. 3, obtuse angle. Fig. 4, acute some of the more southerly settlements late angle, Fig. 5, straight line. The letter h in the spring. The Moravian missionaries at the Eskimo villages further north en- deavour at least once a winter to visit by korritick the few scattered white settlers Within 100 miles or so of the missions- Sometimes the komitick is overtaken by a severe snow storm before shelter can be obtained. Then the missionary and his Eskimo driver dig a deep ditch down in the snow, and camp in the bottom. The gases from the camp fire prevent the snow from are only two churches on the Labrador coast south of the Moriwian missions), they have a public sewing-machine,and one long winter, when the kerosene oil supply be- came very low, the women gathered at the parsonage and did their sewing by the parsonage lamp. .219 the Battle Harbour Mission is too poor to furnish the wee church with a bell, the rector signals the call to service with a flag. Tradeln Human Hair. There are wholesale firms in Paris which send around agents in the spring to various I $33122; life] “22:. lumber beautify me i s r ' landsca c, and utilizs rou h land. are provided with ribbons, silk, laces,l p g Bi‘etonand other villages. These gentlemen haberdashery, and cheap jewelry of various kinds, paying for the maidens’ glossy tressss in these goods or in ready money. So far as personalbeauty is concerned, these i floating in, and the travellers are sheltered ! from the icy blasts. At Battle Harbour, | â€" . " Labrador, where there is a church (there 1°“ the crescem' 'e:tpected, cultivate the soil deeply and :tiiorougbly enrich it before planting the ’small trees or seed. Plant in rows and ‘ indicates location of house, and 1) location of barn.) .able for timber with others at planting itime. The accompanying illustrations (Figs 1 to 5) show some of the most desirablo forms for the wiiidbreak, which i will furnish sullicietit variety. If the land 3 is on the east or south side of the road, the VARIOUS FORMS 0f WINDBREAKS. 1 buildings must be placed a considerable .distance from the highway, unless space i for planting the trees can be obtained from the farm just across the road. A long rope attached to a stake is helpful in laying If rapid growth is ‘i cultivate much as you would corn. Protect ifroni injury by live stock and teams by ,produce a good windbreak without any outlay unless it be for the young trees or seeds. \Vithin a few years it will add several times its cost to the selling value of the farm, besides being a comfort and a satisfaction. Clumps of deciduous trees and evergreens can often no so located as to afford protect some crop, Dairy Barn Ventilation. While it is safe to say that there is a great deal of needless and unwarranted got oxygen has been introduced. The great Windbreaks and HOW to Make detriment of confining stock in poorly-van» i i pose. In regions of low temperature, place 5 Wm, sgiplap' thug making 3 inupmch as In mild ‘space between. About a dozen of these in” from the most prevalent and danger. jventilation fines. They are titted at the one winds. Do not set the trees too cloael to the dwelling, or the quarters of the upper plates these lines are extended by live stock. If less than 100 to 300 it. meamofboarding up on the underside of Breton lasses do not lose much in losingialmm concerning tuberculosis in dairy their hair, for it is the fashion in that part i ‘ . , , stock, it is not improbable that inefficient of France for maidens to wear a ciose Cap, Heb omirel rave m t f h h , l ventilation of farm barns is responsible for w .1 y? D My p" o t e_ a" a large part of the disease that does exist. being seen. home years ago the light ' German hair was held in such esteem by . I” m a man“ or common omervamn that the hair merchants that they gladly paid the herds most seriously affected have as much asS shillings an ounce for small » almost invariably been subjected to close quantities of itâ€"nearly from Germany by agents of a Dutch com- pany, who make yearly visits to various parts of the Germania States. The black hair imported comes mostly from Brittany and the south of France. and is, as a rule, ! double the ' 'proper fencing. Any sensible man or woman, by his or her own labor, can soon price of silver. Light hair is still collected ' confinement in unsuitable quarters. Bulletin No 7 of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Indus- try on investigations concerning bovine . . . ‘ I very fine and silken. Within the present! mu" century the heads sf hair of whole families? bacilli dried and suspended in the air." in Devon‘lllrc were 191' out by ‘he Ye“? A!) ; Farm buildings, as a rule, are inadequately Exctcr pcriwig maker went around periodi- ‘ l round I . . . . g l features in barn construction is of Vital ' importance to the health and profitable sally, cut the locks, and oiled the thus left in stubble to stimulate a fresh crop. An Old Sewer Unearthed. An old sewer has been unearthed in Lon- don during the excavation for a block of new buildings. According to the architect, it is about its) feet long and 10 feet in di~ ameter, and, as the houses over it were 150 to 2‘10 years old, it is believed to have been much older. The portion row discovered seems solid and wall built. The . rain was full of refuse, and the soil was s saturated that the ciiitractor had to go down eight feet below the invert to secure a satisfactory foundation. Among the articles which the workmen found in excavating the vicinity boll “ll ll“ W“ “N w“ eno‘fil‘ ‘° 9‘”? were some some of the Georges, a number through a Wire Sieve : CM MI Onion very ofsmall vessels of early English manufacture small and chop two heads of garlic: fry andai'ewtsbacco pipes of the gzorm used thee-sin two ounces oibutter, with twanty- in the time of Charles I. lighted and ventilated. Attention to these management of domestic animals, and the tuberculosis scare, if it does nothing else than to direct attention to the importance of this subject, will not have been without, some good. It is estimated that cattle and horses required from thirteen to fourteen pounds of oxygen per 1,000 pounds daily, live weight. To properly furnish this requires about 2,500 cubic feet of pure air. The ordinary methods of stabliug do not give cows more than from 300 to 500 cubic feet of breathing room in the barn. Unless some adequate system of ventilation is provided, one of twn things is inevitableâ€" outside air must come in through poorly- conetructed walls and openings of the build- ing, in which case it will be impossible to :zmintain a suitable temperature in winter, tuberculosis says : "Fully nine~tcnlhs of all diseased animals been infected by inhaling the tubercle if the cows must inhale the same air many i times. Air that hasan once expelled from the lungs is unfit for the maintenance of animal life of any kind until afresh supply tilated buildings is becoming plainly apparent. The barn should be a frame structure 40:70 feet, two and a half stories side walls are of 2x45 upright twenty-four inches on centre covered outside with siding and tarred paper, and lined inside spaces between the studding are used for bottom on the inside with a ventilator register opening into the fines and from the the rafters until they are all joined in the trtanoular ventilator box shown at the with the cupolns by means of wider ducts means of a cord with pulley attachment conducted to the lower floor. The registers also answer the purpose of enabling any number of the fines to be closed when desired. It is found that some of these lines carry upward and some downward currents at different times, thus maintaining a con- stant circulation of air. The registers being near the floor take the cold and impure air out of the building from the right place, instead of permitting the warmer air to escape as in the case where there are dell- ing exits. The nay chutes are also joined in this system of ventilation and may be opened or closed at will. In severe weather it becomes necessary to close a part of the openings, though the temperature of the barn rarely gets below 40 degrees even in times of extreme cold. This system provides an ample supply of pure air, is not expensive, and may be ap- plied in any well constructed barn. A cement floor and cemented sewer pipe drainage, with bell trap openings, gives this barn substantially perfect sanitary conditions. The cement floor gives good satisfaction without plank covering for all stock, except horses. In the dairy cow section we have five different cow ties in use, using cement flooring with all of them. --â€".â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"- TRANSFORMED. A Lesson from the Life of [won the Terrible. A legend is told concerning the Russian Tsar, Ivan the Fourth. This monarch be- gan to reign in his boyhood, and was remarkable for his cheerful aminbility. An old chronicler describes him and the tsarina as “two blessed children, beloved of God and men.” At the age of twenty Ivan lost his wife. Then his character underwent a sudden, inexplicable transformation. He became a pitiless monster, murdering thousands of his subjects to gratify his thirst for blood. He is known in Russian history as Ivan the Terrible. The legend states that the Angel 0 Death, when it claimed his wife, was sent also to Ivan’s door, but that an evil genie entered his chamber at the same moment, and offered to give hiiii long life on condi- tion that he should become its slave. Ivan consented, and was given a bottle contain- ing it liquid of which he was to swallow a few drops on the first day of each year. “Whenever he drank of this liquid," says the tradition, “it filled his soul with evil. as a drop of the cuttlefisb's secretion turns a cup of water black. Each year Ivan grew more vile, until there was not an atom of his body or heart which belonged to God.” The genie probably was Ivan’s own he- ssttiug sin, and the elixir was liquor or some other vicious indulgence; but the facts of his life remain no less mysterious and terrible. As singular a change in the other direc- tion took place in John Newton, who records that when he was serving in an African slave-ship, addicted to the lowest vices,he resolved to give himselfback to God. After three years he became a minister of the Gospel, preaching both bya mighty eloquence of words and a holy life. “I drank,” he says,“every day, through God’s word, of the water of life.” The poison and the elixir are in the world still. We may taste of either each day, and make of ourselves what we will. Few persons ever think of the terrible capacity for change that is within them. An acorn can grow only into an oak, but an innocent youth at his own will may developinto a criminal; or an ill-tempv-red malicious, dishonest man may become one of God's ministering angels in the world. _____..â€"._.â€"â€"_ A Ghastly Tale from China. There are many curious trades in the world, but the most strange must surely be the “ artificial maulacture of wild men.” Yet a well-known English doctor in China has just certified from his own personal experience that this art is regularly prac- tised in the Flowery Kingdom. First a youth is kidnapped, then hit by bit he is flayed alive, and the skin of a dog or bear grafted piece by piece upon him. His vocal chords are next destroyed by the action of charcoal to make him dumb ; and the double purpose of causing; “ etiolatiou’ of the skin and utter degradation of the mental faculties is effected by keeping him immuer in a perfectly dark hole for a number of years. In fact, by treating him likeia brute for a sufficiently long lllllc he is made into one. At last he is exhibited to the entirely credulous Chinese as a wild man of the woods, and his possessors reap a rich harvest. . The priests, it BCl‘llla, aic adopts at the art. When a kidnappcr, however, is caught by the people he is torn to piece-i, and when the authorities get him they torture him and promptly behest] him. Such is life under the rule of the Son of Heaven. ______+_...__ Another convention of the Central Ann-i crican countries for the purpose of forming a union is likely to be held this year. BROTHER GARDNER When the routine business of the regular Saturday night meeting of the Limekiln club had been disposed of, Brother Gardner arose and said :â€" "I hold yere in my hand sartin resolu- shuns on de death of Brudder Abraham Lightfoot Green, which sad event took place five days ago. Brudder Green was an active member of dis club. While he didn't do much talkin' no one could doubt his interest in all do. purceedin'a To a sartin extent be bid his light under a bushel, but whatever work was assigned him to do he did it faithfully. Dose resolushuns hsv bin drawod up by a committee. Dey start 03‘ by sayin' dat Providence has seen fit to remove from our midst a fond father, a luvin’ husband an’ s dearly beloved bruddsr “ I RUN our MD A onus.” of dis club. While I am awar' dat sioh am (is custom I can’t abide no sich hypocrisy. ' “In de fust place, BruddorGreeu was not a fond father. He had seben chil'eu in do fam’ly, an’ be was arrested about twice n month for lickin’ 'em wid a rawhide. I'm often heard him wish dem seben chill'en would git blowod up in a heap on a swam- boat. In de second place, he was not a luvin’ husband. \Vlien he wasn’t engsiged in runnin' away from his wife, she was on- gaiged in runnin’ away from him. He libed jist back of my cabin, an’ it was a cold day when he an’ de ole woman didn’t bev a row. “ I wish to state dst Providence didn’t see fit to remove Brudder Green. Provi- dence wasn’t around dur at, all an' didn't hev nufliu’ to do wid his removal. He removed hisself. He got mad at do ole woman kase she couldn’t. wash a black- berry staiii outer his White vest, an’ he went out into his ga’den and devoured nine large cowcuinbcrs in a new state an’ wid- out peelin'. Datnight lie was tooken wid sicb pains that he jumped obsra fence ’leben feet high an’ died befo’ he could make his will. Sicli things should not be laid off on to Providence. Providence might have sunthin' to do wid a pussou fallin' off a barn or gittin’ run ober by a butcher cart, but she draws do line at cowoumnors widout any salt on ’em. “I notice dat dese resolusliuiis go on to say dat Brudder Green was honest an up- right in his dealin’s wid his fellor men. i; am customary to put dat in, but I feel dat do truth orter be stated once in awhile. As a matter of fact Brudder Green was allue borrowin’ money an was nebbcr known to pay any back. He owed his grocer an butcheran landlord. If lieowcdadebt ofSlO, his creditor was willin’ to sell do claim fur 10 per cent. of its face value. He borrowed '55 of me ober two y’ars ago, an though I put in 600 days of hard work tryin’ to get it back do debt was nebber gold an has gone to do grave wid him. no hi hi I heard a commosbun in my ga’den. had fo’teen of do nicest, biggest Summer squashes yo’ eber saw an I run out wid a club to find dat Bruilder Greenhad gobbled up ’leben of ’em an cum back fur do odder three. He was in bed fur two weeks arter lgot frew wid him, an it was giben out around that he had been sunstruck. “I also notice a resolushun to the effeck (lat we extend our heartfelt sympathies to his bereaved fam’ly and feel to pint out to ’em dat. our loss um Brudder Green’s gain. De fam’ly am not bereaved. l was obor dar dis arternoon an found do chill’en gallopin’ up and down and tokin’ heaps o’ cumfurt, and dc ole woman told me she had all do washin she could do and do best kind of an appetite fur meat and, tators. When I spoke of de late departed, she said she could git a better man inside of fo’ weeks and she frowed out a strong hint dat 82 in cash would do her mo' good dan a dozen rcsolushuiis of sympathy. “My fren’s I shall lay dose resolushuns under de table, and onless my di-cishun am appealed from dey will not be heard of agin. Brudder Abraham Lightloot ()rccn am dead. De world am no hotter and no wuss fur if. He was not too goodâ€"not too badâ€"jist about like the rest of us. He was honest when he had to be, on when he saw an openiii' to beat his fellor man he took advantage of it. He was a fa’r sample 0’ millyons of men illl llfi sicii ho libcd an died. I am pcrfcclily 'wzllin for the club to vote money to buy him a tonibstuu, but let it. be r. plain one, and let dc epitaph be confined to name an date. We shall hang up do usual emblem of mournin in Paradise hall, and we shall set aside die customary page in our book of purcvedin’s, but we shall have no use fur rcsolushun's. Iii-udder (-rceii was bo'n an Ziimd an died. He had his streaks of goodness and his streaks of badnces. He Was no better and no wuss dan dc nivcruguz While we am sorry he’s gone, we at do some time rcalme' that he wasn’t of much :icco.iit while among us. llypouitical resolissliuns dea ccivo no one. Lotus put out do fire, empty de water [hall and break (is tncetin in two for one week." A Daily Assistant. Friendâ€"Docs your wife assist you any in your work ‘.’ I often see her at your desk. ilumo'istâ€"Y-e 5, she goes over all I write, and burns up all my jokes about wives.