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511'. reckon Ch. m’t you: steal torgot I was“ idnons an 9..- H 1 £116 dreamy. D6 unmatch- aga'xu and dnuun. and \V 33 S‘ WATER. {muttered slum .d of water will 1 few hours it i nearly all the b of the finest 9 particles sin-k- teaspoonful WI]! 'u know what 3 \V \V I )l ax, Dâ€"The steak M £6 gridiron 1K lD. (incl f 801!" :1 Lin, um f0! 11d 88'. L short . rat. [1- {3.3114 in the sible. to lthV. f0! ll ward xtbo Lina .0 n .1 {116 uno [.0 n- used. which *mmt. 9 tab .nnuto it. as m New "am uxâ€"a my )IL for. his ruse $16 10B ' PRACTICAL FARMING. md- stable are branch banks that con- tain his Valuables, but they are not in that refined and ready convertible conâ€" dition, that the products or contents of tihe bank that we refer to are. It is the poufltryâ€"the hens on the farm. They are the free miners. They daxfly put into practical operation a sysr tern of free coinage upon the farm that is of great value to every tamer; and every other person, as well as the farm- er, who has fowls, enjoys the benefits .0'1 this new system of coinage and bankâ€" The» eggs that the. heme com daily tram the table scraps and the pickâ€"ups and cast-aways on Inv- plaoe are adâ€" ditional income. for their keeper, for. where there are on! y a. few fowls that require no special care or feeding, the eggs that the hens day are Just so (much clear gaim. . And, so it names to pass that the Large egg basket, Slimod with cotton or wool, thmph sits in the pantry or beneath the handy bed. is Ln a literal sense the farmer’s W. A * bank that he fre- quontiy draws on for the means with w‘hnch to My even the most common:- pLahe necessizties 01 life, when there 18 no ready same for other prodruntione of the. farm. . Eggs 1' » resent cash; and they are al- ways 3311a. 0. Hence the farmer who has a twirl egg basketâ€"whose hens lay. well. are .ihealthy and thriftyâ€"has a bank to draw upon when all other sources are closed to him. CA RE OF PASH’URES. There is too little estimate in some quarters on the vaflue of good pastures and fiberefore they are neglected. A wrimer an cattle and pastures says: Our pasture fields are usually selected from the lands (which we think will least repay us for the labor of cultiâ€" vahcm. and so. because they are com- paratively valueless, We think it will not pay to give them the care neces- sary to make them of greater value. 'flhe. stock is turned into these fields to pick up what it- may. If the stock is kept from starvation by the vofinmtary mmfifih of the pastures, we are apt to cans'Ldea' ourselves so much" ahead, but the atock kept. in this way pays us lit- tle reaJ profit, and the. interest charges and taxes keep on accumuflaat'mg every year upon) the land. It is sometimes wise. to select for pastures such por- tions of the. farm as wil‘nl. least repay cropping. Sometimes mm fields so dhosen are umsuisted by their natural malformation for profitable: gulfiivation, vvwâ€"â€" â€"â€"___._v. v _ - and so tlhe. best. use. to which they“ can be devoted, b00111 for the hand and the owner, is the carrying of stock. Some- tiimes the land is too poor to grow. a profiitabde crop, amd so it is pastured as a. means of restoring fertiility. In either of these mm the land should {have some care, and paims shomld be 'taken to make it profitable in the line to which circumstances have made advis- aibdo to devote. itt. Do not get. into the habit of considering that it. is ondy a pasture field, and so treating it as if ht. coufld never be. anything else. To keep cider sweet, to sweeten sour cider and to keep cider perfect, take. a keg amd bore hates 'm the bottom of kit: spread a piece. of woolen) clobh at the bottom, then fill with clean sand mosely packed; draw your cinder from a barrel just as fast as it. will run till-rough the sand. After this put in ctleam barrels which have. had a piece of mutton or linen 2x7 inohes dipped in melted sulphur and burned inside of them, thereby absorbing the sulphur fume-e, this process will also sweeten sour cider. Them keep it in a. cellar or ro-Otm wihere there Is no fire and add [had-f a pound of wh’yte mustard seed to each barred. If cuder is long made, or sou-rung when you get it, about one quart of hwkory ashes, or a. little more of other hard wood ashes, stirred into each barre} willsweeten and clarify it. equal to rectizfymg it as above. But, if it is not rectified it must be racked off to getooteur of the poumwe, as with. this m II. it Will sour. \Vhisky barrels are. the best to put under Aim. One-halt pint sweet aid to a barre.) may be add- ed w ith a. decidedly 00d effect. 13mg- lass. 4 waves to ea; barrel, helps to darkly and settle. elder that. is not to be rectified. The. general purpose horse is nearly worthless in the markets of the great cities. They are too light. for any draft work, not fast enough for roadsters, not large enough. for coachers. :A warm house. for laying hens is an absolute necessity. \Ve do not mean one artificially heated, although some breeders of the large comb varieties are obliged to use artificial heat to pro- tea: the combs from freezing. Some. coins are made so “tough” by finding shaker beside wire fences that they never bring anything better than. “t”ough prices. Shelter from storm and a few cats will make iiettei' colts than exposure and pawing the snow off to get a anal-J bit of dried grass. ' It is not. every farmer who is suffi- chemt’ly level headed to raise pigs and keep them growimg at the highest p05. gible rate of qued. To do this means 911913 the right kgnd‘o§_fee.digvg,.regular pihle rate of speged. To do.t'h.is means Aw. doctaih, [10 you, aw, think it pm?) the.- right kmd of feedmg,_regular it would be too munh of a strain on feedlng and good shefiujr. It. 15 pm 94' my mind to lay cwifbbagef complicated problem. lee 11D to In and! Not if you Elke someone to count for we shall usually succeed. I ’you. KEEPth CIDER SWEET THE PEOPLE’S BANK. ' \‘G ‘ 1N1; GLEA U3 Healthy hogs 311ng be taken from the. suck, and not the sickofrom the walk as in the latter case' the excrement and secretions containing tube. contagious principles are left in the pen, on the ground, straw and troughs. It is fur- ther safety, during an outbreak, @ #3â€" ant: an prullll; LCD mo lvsv W van-‘2 y ,-_. ground, straw an troughs. It is fur-‘ ther safety, .dm‘imag an outbreak, ya have the swme in small herds and in small pastures. The. soft, unripened ndbbi-ns of corn will fatten a pig more quickly than the ripe ears Will. 80 to boil the small Price so muub higher than in summer that it will mamh more than balance the difference in the cost of feed and care", ”m ”L wi'lzl pay no betten' to turngut uulbl'm ELI uuc yuan v1. -W... ..__ ‘ but 'ut will pay no hetten' to turnout. a. 9001’ product them than at any other tmne. One must know his ‘husmess from begin-11mg to end, even to the style Which is most inviting when 1118 packâ€" ages are put up for the market. A careful breeder cam take a pair at scrubs and by methods of feeding, care and selection produce an inniproved breed with lixed characteristics. It takes flame and talent to do this, the talent consisting of common sense, and .3? purpose continually in View. If this is true, and nobody disputes it, any de- gree of itinprovement between the ver- ilest mongrel and the finest pureâ€"bred is attainable by every farmer and stock. radser who possesses the qualifications a‘bove enumerated. No domestic ani- mall should be permitted to mate With- out this object in view. Like will pro- duce like, but careful selection of breed- ers will produce something better, and that is what. is wanted. {Miflk is more §ensitiV'I9 in.‘reoeiyi.ng and stanacmus 1n *h‘uldmg unpuntles. than water. Divide the pasture into two or more lots and you will gain in food and For lite bov'me. element why is the saw! called butterime never called euetme on. olleoitnae 2 z '_A cow {heated and worried will not! mull; well. and her milk will not make! good Flutter. i ‘You cannut feed a. scrub cad! into a. gqqd_ (me; you ‘ can stint a. well-bred. r l One of the {Jomparauvcly Few Things That Are Sold by the Million. There are many things that are sold by the gross, and not a few that. are sold by the thousand, but there are not many that are sold by the million. Am- ong the things that are so sold, how- ever, are shoe eyeleta Shoe eyelets are made of brass, by machines whose Operation is almost en- tirely automatic. Three or tour ma- chines are required to produce the eye- let in the form in wthieh it is sold, the brass being fed into the first machine in thin flat strip-s As sold to the shoe manufacturer, the eyelet. is turned down at one end only. The eyelets look as mulch. as anything like so many little hats with narrow brims and withâ€" out any tops in the crowns. The up- per end of the crown, which is like the end of alit'tle cylinder, is put through the eyelet hole in the shoe, the finish- ed brim or flange of the eyelet rest- ing against the leather upon the out- side. After the eyelet has thus been put in place its inner end is turned down upon the leather by a machine made for that purpose. in the. manu- facture of the eyelets a number of very slight vertical indentations are made at equal distances apart in the outside of the eyelet around the smooth, straight end. \Vhen the shoe machine smashes down the inner side of the eye- let the metal parts at these indenta- tions and is Spread uniformly, thus giVing it a secure hold. Eyelets are made of various sizes in diameter and of various lengths of shank or cylinder, according to the thickness of the material With which they are to be used}. and after they come from the machines they are finâ€" islhed in great variety. Some are fin- ished Whiteâ€"these are silver-plated; some are gillt finished and some are cop- pererl. Eyelets are japanned in black or in various shades of russet: they are. in tact, made in any size and of any color that may be desired. Sooner or later the japanning wears off, exposing the brass. There are now made shoe eyelets that are covered with celluloid. which keep their color. but these are much more expensive than the kinds commonly used Shoe eyelets are packed in boxes con- taining one thousand, ten thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand, and five hundred thousand each. Eyelets of thr- kinds most commonly used are. sold, according to sizes and styles. at prices ranging from $60 to $135 a. million: Some of the celluloid-covered eyelets Sell for as minch as $500 a million. The sale of shoe eyelets depends. of course, somewhat upon the prevailing style of shoe. When button shoes are more generally worn not so many shoe eyelets are sold. but the number sold is always very large. Eyelets are made for a wide variety of uses, up to the great eyelets that are sewed into the corners of sails, through whmh the sail is lashed to the end of the boom: or yard. Taking them all together the number is enormous; of shoe eyeâ€"lets alone there are sold some thousands of millions annually. SPITEFUL. I think DeBflowem is just too charm- ing for anything in that Anvil Ghorms, declared the pretty amateur. Yes. snorted- the- rival of DeBlowem, The fellow ev1dently got his musical ed- ucation in a. blacksttb shop. TO MAKE IT EASY FOR HIM. Bomb. SHOE EYELETS. l PROPER VEN’RILATION. As so much of the comfort mad the happiness of the home is dependent, up. an the Wife she shodld make an effort to keep the place as sweet and health- ful as possible. She needs to keep her- self and her family tree from sickness and disease to the best of her ability. She wants to retain her youthful ap- pearanm and cheerfulness as long 38 She can, and ward off premature age and wrinkles if it lies in her power. About the House. In such a home there is allways some member suffering from severe. eolds, rheumatism, malaria, etc... and m. 18 no wonder. \th should pure an be ex- cluded when fit is so veryessentlahto every one’s well-be‘mg? No onecahllve without i't; neither can one get too 'much. of such a good thing. Outdoor. lexercase is always to be recommended, but one should always have pure air at all times, Whether in or out of the lhouse. Unless the house is properly Ventilated, bedding, furniture, carpets .and clothing absorb all the lll smells : and become damp and musty. No wea- {ther is so cold that the house cannot be subjected to a thorough airing ev- 'ery morning. The bedrooms are in : speeial heed of that ‘wttentionj. A ‘I M MNN-meVNW‘ Bard Work and much of it ages even the strongest in a short time; but of- ten it is the need of fresh air and pro- per exercise. True enough housework gives plenty of exercise, but it is 31- ways the same set. of muscles that are exercised, and to keep the body erect; and strong all of the muscles need to be exercised. But with exercise there should be plenty of fresh air. We are in the habit of desqiising when we can have in green. quantities and at all The bedding should be made fresh and sweet by sunshine and wind every day before the beds are made. The kitchen, too. because of the cooking done there, should have thorough airâ€" g Mugs, and a Window should always be lopein while meals are being prepared 2 that steam and odors may escape. The leesllar must not {be neglected. 'l‘here is i always a tendency for dampness to colâ€" ; lect. there. and unless proper vehtilation lits provided there will naturally arise :mosrt unpleasant smells from lit. Di- isease germs will multiply in such a :place and endanger the health of'the entire family. Generous sprinkling with lime and also an annual. white- washing of the cellar will do much to~ ‘war-d keeping it in a good condition. But air of which there is such a bounteous supply, should be partaken freely of. it is the best of medicines, the best of disinfeotants, the best pre- server offlhealth, and is indispensable times and in some homes. judging by the unwholesome odors which pervade them, pure, sweet air must ‘be consid- ered of but little importance. Bedroom Windows are not opened from the be- ginning of winter until spring, and all cooking odors from the kitchen are Permitted to permeate every nook and corner. The cellar wimdows are kept tightly closed. Everything down ithere becomes damp and mouldy, and what- ever of fruit and vegetables are keptt there decay or sprout, and so become unfit for food. Here is a famous old recipe for mince meat whiuh: a writer says cannot. be excelled: AN OLD RECIPE FOR MINCE MEAT. Meatâ€"~Five pounds juicy lean beef, Lame/d, and three pounds of beef suet, both fimely chopped. Fruitâ€"TWO dozen Greening apples, pared, cored, and chopped; the grated peel of six lemons and the juice of three; the graded peel of four large oranges and the juice of rtwo; two quarts of seedless raisins and currents, mixed, measured after stoning and stemming and finely chapped; half pound Citron shredded. Spweâ€"Six grated nutmegs; one even tablespoolnful cinnamon; oneâ€"half teaâ€" spounfuJ cloves; one-half teaspoonful grfiund mace; heaping tablespoonful of Spirritâ€"One pint good brandy; 0116 quart sweet older; one pinrt high flaâ€" vored sherry wme. ('J."hese ingredients may be replaced by buLled cider if deâ€" sirable, as it no doubt Will be for most. of__gur readers.) ‘ Mix gradually, allowing one bowl of granulated sugar to each quart of the other. ingredients, putting them into a stone jar in alternation, one how], meal? suet, fruitt, etc-., to one of guga-I, stirring steadily, until all the Ingre- dients are. mingled and then add the brandy, older and wme. Set. In a cool place for a. week before usmg, and stir to the bottom three. times a day. Bqlge irn puf1_pa8te and_ eat ho‘t‘. The quantities here given make a generous supply for the winter’s use of a large family. It can be halved or quartered, still keeping tthe same pro- portions. This mixture will grew more delicious the older it is, and W111 keep until Easter if freqnently stirred. The question of salt and spice. is subject to variation from the quality of the frail; if it lacks zest, more may be added, and after a month a. livttlemore brandy may be added. The recipe. is an English one, with the emphatic. en- dorsement of four generations of Am- erican descen dams. VVEDDINGS AND LITTLE FOLKS. ‘ Wedding Cakeâ€"Beat to a cream six cups of butter and four of white sugar, add six eggs well beaten, then roll six cups currents washed and dried, three cups seeded raisins, two cups minced citron two cups almonds blanched. and out fine, half cup lemon peel mmced fine, and one tablemoonful cinnamon). nutmeg, cloves and allspice, in three pints sifted flour, until they are well dredged with the flour, them add them all at once to the butter, sugar and 8838. Many add half pint hrandy,but this can be omitted if desired. ‘ Mix the ingredients very thoroughly and smooth, put in a large cake pan well buttered and lined with paper in a very even oven for eight hours; watch it carefiully and your cake W111 be ele- gall-t; icg in; file hext day with "tram- sparent 10mg." Hie. Why not have. it illâ€"plenty? Sand Hearis.-â€"-This recipe is fbr the little folks. and if the mothers do not. believe it. will please them, just try one batch. Use two pounds of floux, two pounds of sugar, one pound of but- ter and three eggs. Make up into a dough as you would for cookies. After rolling out and cutting into heart- ghape, place the cakes qn a panlangc} beat up one egg, spread some of it ove; them, I: herd sprinkle wirth coaxee- granted granulated sugar, mixing mth 1t {1 little finely powdered cinnamon, thlC-h gives them the sandy appearance. SHARING HOUSE WORK. Many a. woman has been in the tread- mill so long she has ceased to case ex- pectant. eyes toward restful green pas- tures. As often as not she is herself to blame. A little more resolution, 9» little less came wharf. others think of her: housekeeping, a deal less of *the behef that no one can fill her place, and she would fare better. . Where more than one woman lives In a family they gain much of bright- ness and hopefulness through alternat- mg work with pleasure, as one doing the necessary work and oversight one week and the other the next week. .It ought to be possible in every famlly to arrange to secure an occasional per- md, long or short, in which to forget accustomed cares. \Vomen who are thus favored wear longest, as a rule. A Few Notes About Some of the Great People of the World. The rivate estates of the Czar covâ€" er 1,00 ,000 square miles. The lord mayor of London wears a badge of office which contains diamonds valued at $60,000. The bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is reported as the latest cycling re- crmt in England. The will of the late Sir Augustus Pa.- get, British Ambassador at Vienna shows personality valued at $130,000. Count Tolstoi'is fond of music, but refuses to attend any entertainment for which an admission fee is demanded. When the Queen of Italy enters a store to do some shopping the doors are closed and the public- excluded until she has left. There are now only two ex-judges in England. These surviving ex-occu- gants of the bench are Lord Field and 1r Edward Fry. Queen Christina of Spain is at. pre- sent the only sovereign who possesses a motor car. This car was on exhibi- tion in London and is now probably on the way to Spain. ; fierhaps as fine an autograph album Pas exists is the visitors’ book at Ha- Iwarden, wherein the names of Glad- istone’s guests are recorded. It con- talns entrles as far back as 1860. The i ’most recent of consequence is that of Dr‘ Bergmamn, of Berlin has been summoned to St. Petersburg to perform an opera-Lion on *the Czar, who is suf- fering from the results of a blow re- ceived in 1891 from a Japanese fanatic. Miss Jane Addams, the founder and head of the social settlement. in Chi- cago known as Hull House, is one of the three women street inspectors of that city who voluntarily watch and report on the condition of the streets. Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, M.P., has left for London to join his steam yacht Rona in the Mediterranean, for a cruise of a couple of months. among the Greek isles and in the Levant. The Prince of Wales, president of the St. John Ambulance Association, has sanctioned a grand ambulance fete and demonstration to be held at the Crys- tal Palace in May- or Jame next, in commemoration of the Queen’s long reign. wells.” Statistics collected b the Chicago Tribune show that t ere were. 6,520 deaths by suicide in the United States last yearâ€"an increase of 761 over the previous year. The number of suicides due to disappointment in love was 180. The murders committed in 1896 num- bered 10,652, as against 10,500 in 1895. Of these 401 were occasioned by jeal- ousy. Detroit congratulates itself that it had only five homicides last year. Earl de Grey has kept a record of the “game” he has killed in twentyâ€" eight years. It amounts to 316,699 head his average for the last twenty 'years being about 10,000, while in 1893 his record was 19,135. He has put to death 200,000 pheasants and partridges, 47,000 grouse, 6,000 other game birds, 566 deer, and 9,000 miscellaneous animals, includ- ing pigs, capereailzie, sambur, a dozen buffaloes and tigers, and two rhinocer- os. On one. day last month 3,000 birds were shot on one of the Marquis of Ripon’s preserves, the largest bag be- ing Earl 'de Grey’s. - NANSEN’S BOATS. Nansen invented the model of the Fraim. making her hull round and slip- pery, like an eel, with no corners or sharp edges for the ice to seize upon. She is the strongest vessed ever used in Arctic exploration. He said that pressure wou‘id simply lift her 0 nthe pressure would Sigrnplfi'1 lift her on the we, and so ‘her bottou , near the keel, was made aflso flat in order that she might not capsize while on the ice sur- fare, and her screw and rudder were 35150 ingeniously protected, The many experts who said ’her design would not save the Frarm from instant destruc- tion were mistaken, for she met these resistfiess ice pressures, and‘ghaey {there- __L- Icarururuuu mV' 1‘" v......___ _, ly lifted her out of hei‘ Cradle, Ennd she rested safely on the surface. Sheâ€"What worries you, dear? Have you made any bad investments? Heâ€"No, but your father has. Kaiser \Vilhelm’s jubilee cup, to he raced for by British yachts next sumâ€" mer 'on the occasion of his grandmo- ther’s reign of sixty years, is three feet high. The course of the race will be from Dover to Heligoland. PERSONAL POINTERS WHICH IS WORSE. THE NOTORIOUS KEA PARROT WHICH KILLS SHEEP. PEST OF NEW ZEALAND When Once Attacked the Pool- Animal II Utterly [Inablel‘oflet Rid of [In Tor- mentor. It has a'lways been considered an un- pardonabfle. em 10 a. dag to kill sheepa Wolves, bears and the, like are expect»- ed to do so, and sheep folds are guard- ed against them. But. the; sly and de- structive visit at a. 1hcytnsaeéhaold dog that has become a. eonfumed sheep killer in samething that. the honest taxman dreads and despises. The notorious Kea parrot of New, Zea- lamd has by a quick process of evolu- tlon become a. confirmed flesh eater, in- stead of confining its diet to the ortho- dox food of parrots the world over, v13. seed- and traits. The story of thin strange change of ‘lzite in that green parrot of New Zeauand, is one of the oddest chapters known to ornitho- logists. Nothing was known of this bird and! one of the eaJ‘EIy explorers of New. Zea;- land sent. two specimens from the South Islands in 1856 to the Zoological So- ciety’s ooflflectimns in London. It was a dark green parrot that led a strictly: Aflphne life in the lofty mountains, about eighteen inches in length, with ‘AN IMMENSE BILL. It [Was generally seen soaring alofl among the rocks or foraging over the (51086, stunted Alphne. vegetation. Now. warms the stramge story of this parrot. Within} the (last twenty years the» whale region underling the A11 pine. (home of the Kea has been changed into a herding and sweep growing dis- trict bry settlers. At every slaeptherd'a smtion there is of course. .a. meat ‘33:}- lows, whea'e fresh killed moasses are skinned and 11’!ng for the use Mthfl (herders. v- “v-"- Duritng flhle continuamce of unusually. severe winters the Kea has been driv- en down to the lower countr in search of food. Hmlf faminhed it s discov- ered the. life-giving qualities of this supply of the meat, gallows, and soon the carcasses of beef and mutton were regularly visitcd {h ' these birds in large flocks. general y by night. Tins rap/deity and capacity of the birds weird so great that the shepherds organ“- ed clubs and regulaa‘ly sat up nights to shoot. the, robbers. _ _ _ _ uuvvv vuu~ - ‘r v-_- One of the setflhers noticed first and than the notice became geneeraxl that the sheep in great n'ulmflmrs appeared to be afflicted with am ine hoable disease. Neighbors and sibepher s were equal-1y. art. 1038 to amoutnt for in, having nevefi seen agythfing of the kind .before. w...‘ The first appearance of this supposed disease. was a. patch of raw Best}. on the Loin of the sheep about the size, of a man’s hand. From time matter con- timually ran down the side, taking the woof! off of every part itt touched, and There are two places on the earth‘s surface where there 18 but. one day and one night throughout the year. ” Arn enterprising .sohooirnarm, of ’estbrook, Me, seemg a ane rooster crop, which was earned out thorough- ly sewed up the incision with silk, and put the rooster m a. barrel where there was nothing to eat. Three times daily for two days She gave it medicine, and it came around all right. - The order requiring anustaches on the Queen’s officers runs thus: "A re- port having been received in the depart- ment to the effect that it is getting the fashion in some regiments for young officers to shave the upper Lip, the 86- cretary of State to rW’ar requests that you will be so good as to take such E-tâ€"ibns being adzhez 1 don’t Like a fnemd to domineer over me, said the youmg man thh the pati- ent disposition. Who has been domg that? My Teammate. He. borrowed my n61: mine. DEATH USUALLY SUPERVENED. LONG DAYS AND NIGHTS. HIGH HANDED. the earth’s