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maicalfarmditt marketing farmbutter i have read with interest all that has came under m observation on this sub ject and have not ret found anything that gave any light to those that need it- save a writer the only advice giv en in tell to private customers- this however is impossible for the great ma- jority of this class of butter maters the situation is simply this every good farmers wife aims to supply her own table with good butter she will take just as great pains to make what she expects to use as she would if she was making a large amount for some fancy trade always remembering that there must be a difference in quality in favor of the greater quantity made to do this she must aim high enough to cover the entire year and thus she will have a surplus at some season of the year the amount is too small to pay for the drive to a special market even if there was one within 8 or 10 miles private customers are not plen ty in our country towns who will pay you more than the retailers margin above the price at the store i thought by giving our experience we could be of some help to that class of dairy wo men for many years we were patrons of the cheese factory and took the ups and downs in price with our fellow patrons until the fall of 1893 when we concluded that we could do better by making butter and selling to private customers we had no trouble to con tract for the winter to the first of april at per lb a butter shipper eaid it had never been done in that town before it was to bo an experi ment both on our part and our cus tomers we bad 8 miles of a drive every week rain or shine we soon learned that there was not enough demand for butter at that price to pay us for the time and trouble we learned one thing however that was of some value viz that our but ter was all right this same butter shipper offered us no less than 16c per lb and when the market went above that we would get tbo advance this opened a new thought in our mind if he could ship our butter at that price why cant we ship it our selves we are only 1 12 miles from the express office and 8 miles from his office we sent to one of the man ufacturing firms fur small packages and had one sent by mail as a trial package we filled it with butter and aid express on it to our nearest city market as a sample we received a favorable reply and after the first of april shipped our first lot to the city our anxiety mingled with fear while waiting must be experienced to be ap preciated all we had ever heard about the dishonesty of railroad employes and city merchants came to our memory but in a few days we received a postal card stating butter received you are credited at 23c per lb butter scarce in this market send more soon butter here was worth 12c and we felt all right we have been sending that firm our butter ever since and have not lost one pound nor one penny this summer we shipped them our eggs also at a good profit above what we could get at homo last spring we persuaded a young man just starting into the buying of butter and eggs to try our 2lb paper packages we let him have some to make the trial and it was not long until ho bad a good market for all he would leave some empty packages of would leave some empty packages at each house as he took up the full ones on each package was pasted a label manufactured for by he paid them two cents extra for their work and sold it on orders at a fair margin while all other butterhoueht j the advantages are apparent at once the maker gets 2 cents at home she is accustomed to see tho manufactur ers name on everything she buys but to see her own name go before the public as such looks altogether differ ent this will spur her up to her beat efforts the butter will reach the con sumer just as it left the makers care and in a much shorter time than the old way another plan would be for a few neighbors to unite and ship together one should have no less than 30 lbs per week or in at least ten days to ship they should however agree on some one system of making their but ter so as to have a uniform quality as near as possible while there is still much butter made that is inferior there is also a great amount made that is good but tho 1s97 will prove a prosperous dairy year for those dairymen who strive in dividually to make it a success dont wait till next summer but begin now today and you will see that by increas ed zeal ana enterprise in feeding and care the milk yield of your dairy will feel the stimulation even by tomor row pig feeding the treatment of pigs intended for porkers and those intended for bacon should from the age of twelve or four teen weeks be somewhat different the former may be pushed on sharply and fed at least three times a day says na tional provisloner but care should be taken not to give more food at each meal than is thoroughly cleaned up a good mixture of two or three sorts of ground corn either scalded or steam ed with the addition of some boiled po tatoes mangels or swedes and a lit tle skim milk will make porkers fit for the market in four or five months pigs that are intended for bacon should and for the first four or five months need only be fed twice a day on such food as will promote growth and pro duce flesh rather than fat but they be allowed a fair amount of exercise should never be allowed to stop grow ing nor to lose their suckers flesh when put ro feed the change to richer food should be gradual opinions vary very much as to whether it is desirable to give meal raw or cooked for my part i have found the best results from cooked food as regards the diet on which lacon pigs should bo fed it is impossible to lay down any hard and fast rules the pig of all animals thrives lest on a mixed diet and every pig feeder must decide for himself what is the mixture that be can most economically usehav- ing regard to the produce of his coun ty there is no doubt barley meal is one of the best all round foods for the production of good bacon with tho ad dition of a small quantity of pea or bean meal and fourths flour maize meal is a most useful food iu small quantities but it should always be scal ded or boiled and never be used ex clusively or as the principal ingredi ent in food where high class streaky bacon is desired as its tendency is to produce fat it is of tho utmost im portance that pigs should be fed at regular intervals when this is not at tended to they become restless and do not thrive as they ought to do the food should be varied from time to time as nothing promotes a good ap petite like change of food ancient marriage laws there are many curious features about the laws of marriage as admin istered under our early anglosaxon and danish kings traces of which have survived in our existing jurisprudence by the anglosaxon laws every wom an was under tho care of some man who was termed her mundbora or guar dian and no one could marry her with out having first paid a sum of money as a compensation to her mundbora the father of course was the guardi an of his unmarried daughters the brother if the father died and next to him the nearest male relative if how ever the female were friendless and alone she found in the king her legal guardian there were no runaway matches no clandestine and romantic nuptials among the saxon people they did everything even to their very love affairs iu a plain matteroffact way they estimated the value of the maid according to her rank in life and the law fixed the sum which should be re- i step methods used in gettingit to market are all wrong we need a radical re form in the line of business tho mar ket is waiting to receivo it consumers are fast becoming educated in taste for the better article the manufacturers of these cheap small packages should advertise more frequently in our farm papers dairy notes an inexperienced dairy hired man is dear at any price lie should not be engaged simply for his physical qual ifications in milking cows and clean ing stables writes george e nona 1 1 in ohio farmer if he is not a compet ent dairyman you cannot conduct your dairy business profitably ho is the in dividual under whose caro the cows usu ally como moat on him devolve those little minor details of attention in the stablo which if neglected or aro im properly performed help to keep the cows down to a 825 per year income when it should run over 850 show me the dairyman who depends on transient or inexperienced help and i will show you tho one who never rea lizes a profit from his cows from my earliest recollections my life has been closely associated with milch animals mfreims6ad butr jnd i havo studied with keen interest the rcvolu tion of dairying while- the general advance in methods on tbo farm and in factory is not what it should bo in view of the diffusion of dairy know ledge more money is now being made from cows than ever before rig dairy prices do not necessarily mean profit tho dairyman who de pends solely on the condition of tho milk or butler market to measure his rirofits can never be counted as real- y successful that the times are desperately hard for all engaged in agricultural pursuits goes without saying but yet it should be remembered that there is as much money in the country as thereover was a portion of which stands ready to be exchanged for necessary dairy products this should act as an incen tive for dairymen to produce good win- tor butter and lots of it despondency is infectious and i be lieve there are thousands of dairy men all over the land despondent at tho hard times who are not putting forth half the effort they might nnd should to make their business pay this wintor now is the time to act and by stirring briskly around you can make soma profit by making your cow make milk action is tho life of dairy ing and unlets you act your cows will not when i first embarked in the da iry business i wondered why i didnt make any money but after a iimo wakened ivtho fact that i was oipaqu ing my cows to do it all while i ntood by and watched their efforts cows count for only htlf of dairy capital their owner or their mana ger counts for ho other half thus you seo bw neceviiry it is hat a dairy man should be aa gooi as hi cows in courtship therefore was to buy the consent of the mundbora the lover was then admitted into the society of his ladylove and allowed to claim her in due course as his wife if however her personal charms or her disposition prov ed on better acquaintance unsatisfact ory to her suitor and ho failed to com plete his bargain he became imniedi- aetly amenable to tne law if a man ventured to marry without first having bought and paid for his wife ho was guilty of the crime of mundbreach tho consequences of which were both disastrous and vexatious the husband in such a case possessed no legal authority over his spouse ho was a husband in fact without a wife ho had no right to her property ho could recover no compensation for any in sult which another man should dare to offer her she bad not been paid for the guardian had received no considera tion and all tihe damages or fines in flicted for such an insult were payable to the womans mundbora if a man wished to take his wife into a foreign part or into another thanes land he had to enter into a compact with herguardian that no wrong should be done to her but that she should re ceivo every mark of attention and kind ness if a man bought a maid and paid for her no other could negotiate for her purchase but if any fraud had been committed on her part or on the part of her friends she was returned home and the man demanded back his money ry the saxon law a maiden and a widow were of separate value tho lat ter could be purchased for onehalf tho sum which the guardian of a maid was entitled to demand a man therefore who could not afford to purchase a maid might perhaps bo able to pur chase a widow the laws relating to the marnago of widows seem to dis countenance second nuptials the wid ow was compelled by a law of canutes to continue husbandjoss for twelve months at least if she married within that time she forfeited all her mar riage gifts and all tho property which she acquired by her first marriage was claimed by her nearest kinsman henry ii confirmed this decorous law savings bjm roms interesting experiences told by the managers hw a feor wmam kepi her bek frem acrvel haband a kaiooiul tad lawyer and ike mechanic la old rioaa amoiiutitil at in am nut dae that truth u stranger than fiction or at any rate sometimes as strange can be learned behind the doors of a commonplace savings bank though tho clerks pouring over the big blank books from morning until night may know- it not many accounts in these banks are opened by people of little means and the sums to their credit gradual ly accumulate from small beginnings thousands of them have only a limit ed education and it is hard fox them to realize that they are to get the ben efit of the interest accruing on their money unless they actually see the am ount entered in their passbooks every six months soma even go further the figures are not enough for them they must see and handle the cash for themselves to be convinced so it sometimes happens that one of those doubting thomases will present his book to a paying teller and have the interest due him counted out and then without leaving the bunk will join the line on the other side of the room and deposit it again if one has the good luck to get sev eral managers of savings banks to gether and when they are through with talking business hear them ex change interesting experiences he will have an enjoyable hour here are some of the things which he will be ikejy to hear or might have heard any time within the last few years imagine a group of managers seated around a glowing coal fire in the lux urious office of one of them after the conversation has become general as some of the novel writers say mr a discourses to this effect i dont know whether any of the rest of you have ever had anything like this in your experience or not it is against the rules of course for our bank to take charge of the books of any of the depositors but i must plead guilty to violating the rule to a certain ex tent myself in one of the drawers in my desk for the last six or seven years i have kept the book of a wo man who opened an account that long ago as soon as sh had done so she came to me and told mo a moving tale of tho cruelty of her husband say ing that he would give her no peace day or night if ho knew she had put money in a bank she was afraid to take the book home with her as she had no place to conceal it where he could not find it and she didnt want to tell any friend about what she was doing unbeknownst as she might have said so she begged me with tears in hex eyes to allow her to leave it with me and as a personal favor i consented to take charge ot it- every now and then she comes in here asks for the book takes it out to make her deposit and then returns it to me her account now amounts to about 3su0 and 1 think i can say that i havo nayer suffered from a pricking of con- i tems of ikterest tke few- panxrapki suy rreve later ux readier a curiosity u exhibited by a man in blue rapids rnfivi it is the head of a rabbit which has eight horns ranging in lengtn from 112 to 213 inches one of the hearts sprouts from the nose and the others are around the jaw mr and mrs geo barry of milton mass recently celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding in the house where the wife was born where the marriage took place and where the couple have ever since resided from the time that the bureau of printing and engraving in the unit ed states treasury department receives the blank paper which is to be convert ed into money 101 persons handle each note before it la ready tor circulation a spring gun was attached to tho door of his pheasantry by the count de medrono at mons france to wel come thieves with a shower of shot the count was one day showing his birds to some guests and forgot about the spring gun as he opened the door he received the charge in his breast and died immediately take four pieces of glass or board and paint them red black green and yel low lay them outdoors at night and in the morning the red und black will be perfectly dry the green will be damp and the yellow will be covered with moisture- joseph briggs of new orleans who has been totally blind for seven years heard the movements of a burglar in his room and fired three shots in the direction whence the sounds seemed to come every shot took effect and the burglar was captured in kew england watches are sub jected to severe tests ere they are con sidered perfect two of these tests are to heat thorn tnan oven and to freeze them in an ice pail if this treatment does not effect their works the watches are deemed perfect timekeepers an alaskan belle at tigarx arrayed herself in her best garments to welcome dr john b dnggs a missionary from delaware the doctor says thai she wore her full line of jewelry a safety pin dangling from one ear three years ago a poor and lazy young man in lawrence mass married a wealthy bride and as a condition of the marriage took her family name she found him a little too wild and secured a divorce and now he intends to re sume his bachelor name i the spectators of a football match in oakland cal were disappointed when the game closed without serious injury to any of the players but the latter did some rough work when on leaving the field they bounded over a seven- foot fence causing it to fall on an old lady and producing hurts which are deemed fatal liquor in russia household i how to carve well many ladles hav to carve for large families without any or very little experience and a little advice from an expert carver will not come amiss it should be born in mind first ot all that carving is quite an art if done in the right way many think if tbty cut a joint ox bird up in pieces that it is all that is required but ta carve neatly artistlcauy and econom ically and place invitingly on the plat ter or dish is quite another thing in the first place the carver should be seated high enough to carve com fortably and with celerity the next thing ei should be sure to have her platter large enough to hold the entire joint or bird when it is carved so that c portion of it falls on the table no string or skewer should be left in the meat or bird vhen brought to the table unless it is a silver skewer which is permissible much depends upon the way in which the viand to be carved is placed on the platter large birds such as turkeys geese etc should havo their heads placed always to the left smaller birds as partridges grouse etc which are usually placed across the platter have their heads on the farther side a saddle of mutton should be placed with the tail end to the left on tho carver a haunch of venison or mut ton with the loin or backbone nearest the carver a leg of mutton or veal should be placed with the thickest part up a rib roast or sirloin roast should have the backbone at the right of the platter the flesh side should be up in a round of beef and in a sirloin beef steak the tenderloin snoutdbe next tho carver a fillet of beef should have the thick end nt the right end of the platter and a calfs head should be placed with the face to tho right ai roast pigs head should be placed to the left and the thickest side of a roast ham should be on the farther side of the platter now for the carving and let the joint be a leg of mutton or lamb put the fork in the top turn it toward you slice through to the bonei slip the knife under and cut away from the bone a saddle of mutton is always carved with the grain of the meat in jong thin slices from each side of the back it must be turned over to reach the tenderloin and kid ney fat the leg and saddle of veni son are carved in the same way when i j and j are ggjygd together blossoms only in an enameled saucepan and covering with cold water one who has tried it says that to remove a refractory screw from wood heat a piece of iron red hot and hold it oa top of the screw for a minute or two then the screwdriver will easily take out the screw if used while the screw is warm if the leather valises the reticules and the other paraphernalia of travel are dull or streaked they may be re stored to their original luster by rub bing with tba wellbeaten white of an egg leather cushions and seats may be renovated in the same way an excellent substitute for potatoes at a dinner is rice cooked in milk and well salted put into a dish and brown ed in the oven make a hot lemon sauce and pour it over the rice when it is taken from the oven and just before the dish is sent to the table if a mother would teach the small lads of the family how to sew and a most useful atccmplishmeut they will find it in the end let her follow the example of a clever kindergarten beacher who achieved signal success by adroitly managing that the boys sew ing should take the form jt sailmak- ing for small boats learning to mend sweaters and stitch balls low book cases around the walls of a back parlor or library are both conven ient and pleasant to see chairs and couches may be pusned up in front of the least used of these so that they in no way take up space in the long run costly bookcases bought as so many pieces of furniture are unsatisfactory they seldom are made to hold as many books as possible but are rather show pieces the simple rows of shelves which can be raised in many quaint ways are after ail the most artistic and a room can be filled with these by some good carpenter for what one elegant socalled store oookcase will cost a battleships amour ships of the british navy built on a new principle the science because of having wiuiced at a violation ot a xuje o the bank jlr a having been acquitted by the unanimous silence ot his conlreres ii doai- majl is silence xttfylt sponge fishing hethoil or kerurjiig llie irstful article a to i kg orriipnllon lying on his chest along the boats deck tho sponge fisher with his water- glass a pane set in a box fitted with handles looks down 4q feot into the clear depths with ono hand he grasps and sinks a slender pole some times 50 feet in length fitted at the end with a double hook tho sponge once discovered the hook is deftly in serted at tho rock base and by a sud den jerk ia detached this curt discretion of what seems the simple work of sponge fishing gives no idea of the real skill and exertion needed the eve of the fisher has to be trained by long experience to peer into tho tens and tell the commercially valuable sjionges from those that aro worthless ilo must have a deft hand to detach the sponge without a tear above all while doing this with one hand he must manipulate with tho other the waterglass as the waves sway it sideways up and down tho strain on tbo eye and body is most intense to say nothing of the cramped position and exposure to wind and wet which first und last make almost every sponge fisher a victim of acuto rheumatism yet with all his ardu ous toil an expert sponge fisher earns not more than 515 a month besides his keep on the boat which barely de serves tbo name of existence heara this before lie remarked it certainly was a singular experience borne years ago a hardworking me chanic opened an account in oiw bauk to which he added regularly for some time after that for a long period the account lay dormant growing by tho addilion of the interest until it am ounted to about 3500 in some way an unprinciplled lawyer heaird of it and after the manner of his kind went to the mechanic with a plausible tale what will you give me he asked if i will prove to you that there is a sum of several thou sand dollars due you and put you in tho way of getting tho money the mechanic was naturally astonished and was easily prevailed on by the smooth tongued lawyer to sign a contract that if tho lawyer could make oul such a casi as he said he could the money would be divided between them there upon the lawyer let out his secret the money is due you he said from such and such a savings bank oh i know all about that replied the mechanic i have known all along that i had the money there hut the law yer flaunted tho contract in the mans face und though it was a plain case of fraud tho man believed it was a valid contract and actually gave the scoundrel lawyer half the amount in the bank after a suitable interval manager c took up the tale i dont know that i can do hotter he began than to tell a little story which i heard a few years ago from tho manager of one of the banks and 1 shall try to tell it as nearly as possible in his own words ns i recall them as i was sitting in my office one day ono of the young men in the bank came to me and showed me a book which bore a date of tunny years before- ho said it bad been brought in by an old wo man i told him to sentf her to me on inquiry i learned that she could neither read nor write but she said the book belonged to her and she had put the money in the bank a long time before as nearly as she could remem ber the amount was about 5300 and several times pointing to the book she asked anxiously ii it was not all there i assured her that it was nnd proceeded to question her as to why she had left tho account so long und1sturged she said that many years before she had been employed as a servant and hud taken all she could sparo from her wages and put tho money in bank af ter a time she went away from the city and had never set foot in it until thnt day she was getting old and thought it would bo a good thing to go and pot heir money again sho asked if it was all there indicating tho lkok and of course i told her it was all right except the interest a word that seemed to convey no idea to her mind i became convinced that sho was en titled to tho money and told one of the clerks to write up tho book just though it hod len an active account til tho time when his work was done i found that the amount due tho old woman was about 3000 sho was imply dazed and asked how it could be i explained ns well as i could about tho interest but she was unable to understand it overcome by her feelings sho burst into tears when the money was brought to her oh sir he said you dont know rhat you have done tor me i cant understand at oil how all that money belongs to me but do you know i shant have to do another days work as long as t live i dont think said my frlond in telling the story that t over bad a keener appreciation of tho benefits of savings banks than at that moment and l fancy all of us would have said the same thing if we bad been in his place iu sale anil manufacture to be conlrollt bj ibe government the liquor question can hardly be called a live issue in russia because that would imply the existance of a freedom of public discussion which is not possible in tho empire of the czar but to tho very capatle set of men who conduct the czars government and who are not changed with the fre quency common to more democratic states the liquor question has been for years a subject of careful study drunkenness is the curse of the rus sian peasant and a paternal govern ment which expelled the jews to pro tect the peasants against their wiles can hardly he indifferent to the agen cies that aro supposed to promote tho driniingfebits of the simpleminded children the czar the russian ad- has undertaken the con manufacture ana sale of verages wine and beer it does not ouch but all forms of spirits must be distilled and rectified under its supervision and sold through its established agencies the russian government has set about this business with a full appre ciation of the magnitude of the pro- kern it has attacked if the business yields as much as the existing excise duties say 150000000 a year the ex periment will bo deemed a success but it is not expected that tho gov ernment monopoly will be universal throughout the empire in less than ten or fifteen years the immediato purpose is first to provide a guarantee that only pure spirits are sold and next tliat they are sota under condi tions least calculated to promote drunkenness it is proposed to dis courage the country di inking shop by providing that spirits shall be sold there only at the price at which they aro purchased from the government depot and to reduce to a minimum in tho towns the places where tbesalo of drink by the glass is the chief busi ness russia consumes annually 3- 250000 hectolitres of alcohol or about 85000000 gallons it is calculated that tho consumption may decrease 20 per cent without affeoting the amount ot revenue which tho new- system is cal culated to rroducc on jan 1 1815 the system was es- tab sslied in four provinces of the em pire having a population of 8000000 in ri t tlrjn in tlllv the loin should be carved first cut off the flank first of all and cut up in pieces then separate the ribs and last come tho legs in carving a fowl it is always a good plan for the carver to first study the uncooked fowl very carefully in order to get the hang of its limbs and joints when the carver finds joint and cuts tho gristle the leg or wing is free it is not so easy to find tho side or collar bone but that comes with practice to carve roast chicken the leg is first removed then the wing from ono side and then the leg and wing from the other side separating the joints then the breast is carved each side next the wshbone comes off now separate the collar bone and shoulder blade and the breast bone from the back then the back from the body then follow the side bones and the bird is completely dissected the reader will bear in mind the foregoing applies correctly to all class es ot fowls and birds found in the markets or 10 per cent of the whole on july 1 last it was extended to nine other provinces with a population of 21000- 000 on jan 1 1897 it was estab lished in another seven with 10000000 inhabitants and on jan 1 1898 it will take in poland therefore tho system will bo in opera tion over tho most populous part ot russia and will apply to 49000000 pcr- ions the price at which liquor shall bo sold is fixed by tho imperial coun cil with approval of the emperor and varies somewhat for different prov inces in the ivlaces where it is ex posed for sajo it can be had only in closed bottles and flasks bearing the wax seal of tho state and a ticket in dicating tho quantity the degree or strength and the price the liquor cannot be consumed at the place whero it is purchased the dispensary sys tem with limitation is in short tho russian plan and it will iks interesting to see whether it decreases drunken ncss only nt tho cost of increasing cor ruption for that revelation how ever tho world will havo to wait some tune a three hundred and ten pounder of nineteen turned up in this years batch of french conscripts he was active enough to be accepted trust harald she said almost in a whisper am i the first girl you ever kissed t you are ho answered with eager earnestness t i believe you she replied looking him full in tho face sincerity must command confidence- yes sho went on with a faraway look in her eyes sincerity must ever show for itself with those who thinks and tho amateur is always sincere you arc the most inexperienced kisser i ever encountered afraid of guna blinks i thought bluffer challeng ed you to a duel you didnt weaken did you i jinks not much i accepted what weapons f guns eh f lies a dead shot wouldnt be fight no i chce oldfahioned muskets of i the kicking variety and he backed out recipes rico waffles- sift ono quart of flour with two teaspoonfuls of bakingpowd er and a teaspoenful of salt add a cupful of cold boiled rice a tablespoon- ful of melted butter two beaten eggs with sweet milk to make thin batter bake in wellgreased waffletins and serve with maple syrup macaroni with tomato sauoe boil a quarter of a pound of macaroni in clear water until tender drain and throw into cold water for ten minutes put a tablespoonful of butter into a fryingpan and set over the fire to melt add a tablespoonful of flour mix until smooth add half a pint of stewed tomatoes strained and stir until boiling pour over tho ma caroni oyster pie one quart of solid oys ters one quart of milk ten large oys ter crakers rolled fine pepper salt and a small piece of butter stir all together and pour into a dish lined with a thick puff paste cover with an upper paste and bake threequarters of an hour oyster purses an english recipe- take three dozen large fat oysterssea- son with salt and cayenne and lay in a seive to drain stew the liquor down thicken with a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour let cool dip each oyster into the sauce until well coated roll a sheet- of puff paste out thin cut out in rounds lay an oyster on each gath er tho paste up with tho fingers pass a thin stripe around it twice and tic flatten tho bottom so as to give a- baglike shape and fry in boiling fat drain on brown paper and serve hot t roiled onions peel a dozen medi umsized onions and put into a sauce pan of boiling water add a teaspoonful of salt and set over the fire to boil until tender take up drain and turn into a heated v ego tabledish dredge with pepper nnd salt pour over melted butter and serve delicious apple sauce the ordinary way for making apple sauce is to pour water over the apples when put on to cook ana very often tho sugar is not put in till the sauce is almost done this makes a thin watery sauce which is noti half so delicious as if made in the following manner pare and cut up tart apples into quarters or finer if desired place them in a granite saucepan and pour over the sliced ap ples one full cup cf sugar to each quart of- apples place the kettlo on tho back of the stove whore it is not too hot this gentle heat will draw out the juice of tho apples and they will cook in their own juice without the ad dition of water this method of cook ing this king of winter fruits makes a- most delicious sauce which would tempt even those who are not fond of it i useful hints paint can be removed from glass by rubbing it with hot strong vinegar i clover tea purifies the blood clears the complexion and removes pimples dried chover may be used for the tea tn boiling for soup stock tho meat should be put into cold water covering the kettle tightly and letting the stock simmer gently until the meat falls from the bones a handful ot carpet tacks will clean fruit jars or bottles readily half fill the jars with hot soapsuds put in the tacks cover give vigorous shaking and rinse well in stewing meats the water should be boiling when tho moat is put into f tbo intense boat causes the pore to close immediately and thus keeps the julco in tho meat i it is said that elderflower water is an excellent and simple wash for tho skin it may be made by placing the tlic director o nnviil 4ouiruetlou of uie autulrallfy ii inlfutfuced tke ulmlc- ifack oil ibe uei 1ewl or the navy it was reserved we believe for sir w h white the present director of naval construction at the admiralty to propound nay to build ship after ship upon an entirely new theory says an english paper able naval architect saw that no matter to what degree of thickness and excellence arm our plates might be brought there was no doubt that they would always bo more or jess penetrable to a projectile that struck them fairly and squarely at right angles and in the last two words he found the extremely practical solution of the difficulty that has since- been adopted in ail our latex battle ships and cruisers it is weii known to most of us that if a shot or even a stone travelling at a good speed strikes anything from a sheet of water to an iron plate at an angle much less than a right angle the result is invariably a ricochet that is to say the shot or stone bounds upwards after striking ihe surface hit instead of penetrating it this is the principle involved in that favorite gamo of our childhoods days known as duck and drakes it is evident that could armour plates bo placed on a vessel in such a position that whilst effectively guarding its vital points thoy would also cause the majority of shots hitting it to ricochet off again a great increase of effective shotresisting power would be obtained and by introducing what is known as tho protective or whaleback mid dle deck sir w h white has practi cally achieved this end the whaleback deck is as its name implies a stout steel deck constructed in the form of a whales back and running tbo entire length of the vessel to which it is fitted the lower parts or sides of the deck are situate a sufficient distance below tho waterdine to insure that on ac count of the resistance offered by the depth of water no shot would bo like- iy to penetrate the ships side below it whilst the middle ot the ieck rises above tho level of the waterlino thus it will bo seen that were all tho superstructure of one of our modern battleships shot away she would still whilst her protective deck remained in tact bo capable of steaming off the scene of action her engines and all her vital parts being careiuily covered by the armoured deck ncedicssto say the main batteries conning tower and barbettes of these ships arc as care fully armoured as ever but the stems and sterns of the vessels although of course of iron are practicably unarm- cured and comparatively light render ing the ships consequently quick in turning and manoeuvring a most im portant thing in modern navoj tactics naturally these comparatively un- armoured ends would be easily pierced by shot from a big gun rut in any caso modern guns would pierce them whether the armour bo thick or thin and this forms the basis of sir william whites theory instead of vainly endeavouring to erotect with heavy armour portions of is vessels that must in any case bo pierced ho uses tho greater part of it in his protective deck and utilizes the remainder in strength ening his citadel the introduction of so radical a change in battleship design lias of course been productive of a great deal of controversy especially with the devotees of tho old style of belted vessel and many have been the wordy warfares that havo been waged between tho disciples of the two schools that tho protective deck is pre ferable to tho armour bolt seems pro bable otherwise it would not have been so generally adopted by our naval au thorities nevertheless there are still many good and able men who prefer bo pin their faith to the bolted vessel and among them is no less an author ity and gallant sailor than lord charles bcresford who in a recent speech on naval matters declared his great dis like for tho lightended vessel of mod ern design which school is right will only be found out when wo enter upon our next naval war and under those circum stances wo can only hope that it will bo a long time before so practical a test of the theories of our naval con structors comes to be made cobe fflfi consumm cheat discovery by an italian pbofessob interetjuje kxperturiu la iku lmrecl 1 5er york iipitfu- serum from f bocutxtrd hon the unusual interest taken by phy sicians and tho public in the treat ment of pulmonary tuberculosis or con sumption as it is commonly called will be increased by the news that serumi has been discovered which it is declar- ed will prove an absolute cure for tho disease in its early stages and will greatly benefit patients and arrest the progress of the disease in its advanced forms the serum is the discovery of professor maragliano of genoa italy the serum is obtained from the blood of horses which have been inoculated with the tuberculosis germ in small quantities and continued under this treatment for several months its ef fect is to produce in the blood of the horse some quality of resistance to the disease which when introduced into the human system strengthens the re sisting power the serum theory is therefore exactly opposite to the the ory of vaccination which introduces the germs of the disease itself into the system and by producing the disease in a mild form renders the body im pervious to its further attacks says the new york herald- only a small quantity of the serumi has reached this country about two hundred cubic centimetres in all part of this quantity was imported for st lukes hospital as at present manu factured it is expensive each centi metre being worth about j0 what is claimed for it on account of the small quantity of the serum available only two patients have been selected for the experiment at st lukes and assurances have been obtained from them that they will remain in the hospital long enough to give the remedy a fair test the claim is not made fotr tho serum that it acts quickly constant treatment fojc at least two or three months is re quired to produce any definite results and it should be continued for a year to effect a complete cure professor maxagliano is modest in his claims for his remedy he does not expect to effect a cure except in tho early stages of the disease when it has advanced far enough to produce lesions of the tissues or cavities he does not believe that a cure can be effected he thinks however that the progress of the disease can be arrest ed- the reason for this is that the serum is fatal to only one germ the tubercle bacillus which alone is present in the early stages of phthisis but in the more advanced stages several other bacilli which are classed under the gen eral name of pyogenic or pus produc ing germs are present on which the antitubercular serum has no effect the removal of the tubercle bacilli however is distinctly beneficial and leaves the paucnt with more energy to resist tho ravages of those that are left it is urged how it is atjiaonistmled the serum is administered hypoder- mically in doses of one cubic centimetre daily in st lukes the injection is made in the tissues of the back this is the part of the body recommended by professor juaragliano because of the thickness of the tissues there and their freedom from small blood vessels which might bo pierced by the hypo dermic syringe while it is too eairly yet to observe any decided benefit the experiment have gone far enough to demonstrate that no ill effects follow the applica tion of the remedy the physicians say there is no feverish reaction and no local irritation or inflammation as oc curs in the administration of sbmo other remedies of a similar nature the hospital authorities do not con sider that the two patients unden treatment will afford a satisfactory test as many patients have improved under the old treatment with creo sote and many even under the im proved conditions of food and hygiene accompanying hospital treatment without tne aid of drugs or medicines if the patients under treatment show any marked improvement however a large quantity of the serum will be importedand experiments will be made ona scale sufficiently extensive to en able definite deductions to be made as to its efficacy its manufacture is a slow process the animals from which it is obtained being kept under treatment for three or four months it braces hui tjp during the treatment with marag- lianos serum all other specific treat ments are suspended but every effort is made to build up th3strength and improve the bodily conditions of the patients by the administration of cod- liver oil glycerophosphates and nour ishing food ono of the staff of st lukes hos pital in describing the effects of tho remedy said the best recommenda tion wo can give it is that it does for the patient in this climate what tho climate of the adirondacks art zona or new mexico does for him it increases his power of resistance to tho disease and enables him to throw it off consumption is a disease which differs from nearly all others in this respect tho bacilli of phthisis arc every where i venture to say that if the sputum of most healthy persons was ex amined some of the bacilli would bo found in it but this does not signify by any meais that the person from whom it is taken is condemned it is only when tho power of resistance leaves us that we sutcunib to the dis ease and tho bacilli multiply i havo no doubt that i breathe thousands of them every day in the hospital but i have the power of throwing them off and they do not multiply when tho conditions arc right in the human body for this propagation and tho system is weakened t lien a caso of consumption dovolops that is tho value of slarag- lianos serum it restores tho power of resisiance which has been lost by the patient and enables bm to fight tho disease his cross he i suppose your father under stands that i am not going ho marry the rest of tho family she ono of many sisters he says that is the only thing that troubles him satisfactorily explained how is it that wildon- comes to the club every night now it used to bo that we couldnt get him here onco a month o he married last fall and settled down emile nlcbebourg the french nove list is said to hone amassed 800000 ir twenty years by writing sensational serial stories for le petit journal deerfoot dead lieutcol hercbmer commissioner of the north- west mounted police who is in ottawa on his annual visit in connection with tho force has re ceived a telegram stating that deer- foot tho once worldrenowned indian runner died on thursday at calgary in tho police barrack where he was confined for an assault on another in dian and his wife dcerfoot was ono of the instances of civilization having a lad instead of a good affect upon the north- west indian in his ravage or rcmlsavngc slate deerfnot was classed as a good indian his pheno menal fleet ncss of foot caused him to lie taken un by some white men as a professional runner thoy brought him cast where he easily defeated tho crack runners of his day his contact with civilization proved bowowr that on indian does not always benefit by such advantages lonc trip how long liavo ou bevn on this route asked h drummer of the con ductor en a primitive southern riilr road ten yeah suh indeed you must have gotten on several mhcs south of whoro x did