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>v enne . 9E5¢$°9°9°©06699399010 has been cooked tender in boiling 9 c. salted water. ‘3 Date Breadâ€"To one cup of warm 6' 1 3; 3â€"1“â€" ,_.______ 0 0 Q brownv sugar. one tablespoon of but- a tcr and one-quarter yeast cake dis- a solved in one-quarter cup of _lukeâ€" e99 wheat mush add onequarter cup of Recipes for the Kitchen. 0 . warm water. Add one cup of walâ€" for the Housekeeper. o nut meats icut fine, threeâ€"quarters o ,3 cup of dates cut in pieces. and flOur eogosogegoaggggogggeeo enoughto knead. Cover and let rise over night; in the morning knead again, shape into loaves, let rise, in pan and bake in a moderate oven. Fritot of Onions.~â€"Peel and par boil some Spanish or Bermuda onâ€" ions. Drain and cut in slices oneâ€" quarter inch thick ;l place in a pan in a little butter, season with chopped parsley, paprika and salt. Cover with a buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven 15 or 20 minutes. Dip separately in fritter batter and fry in oil. Arrange on a. serving dish and pour over a sauce made frorr the liquor in the pan,~ two taâ€" blespoons of cream and two raw eggs cooked together until thick. Season hygiene and Other Notes a NEW USES FOR NUTS. Nuts are coming more and more into use as food,.most generally as dainties, though scientists tell us fascinating stories about. their nuâ€" tritive value and a new fad has de- veloped in deference to which a few enthusiasts are making nuts the principal article of their diet. The first combination of nuts arid sugar in the form of candy was mo- bled at suspiciously, then devoured greedily. “What funny things to put together!” But the palate ac- cepted the mixture, and now there are many such dainties, while the .t1 h d 1 A 1 U ‘ uses of nuts are becoming more numâ€" W1 1 C Oppe pars 83" (“‘3'- p10“ erous with every season.No function cess’ but rewltmg in an £19590“ng in complete without its dishes of dish- _ _ . salted nuts to nibble at between Stufled Tomato Saladâ€"Peel Slx courses, and nut sandwiches are 05- medium fgxzcd t°.1:nat°es’ rgmove cenâ€" teemed a great dainty, while we all treS" Sprinkle wuh .Salt” “weft {ind know what an addition they are to let stand twenty minutes. Fill with cake__and especially layer cake. equal parts of nut meats and pineâ€" Salted almonds are better than :‘Pplc'sllmdded or out m.cube5; mar- salted peanuts, but they are more “Tate “Ilth Fren‘m ql‘essmg‘ and gar- expens-ive. Peanuts make an accep~ ms“ “1th mayonnmse' Eggs were table substitute. Both are prepared also Scrambled and a puddmg made in the same way, and a great many from 3' new. cereal‘ do the work themselves. The 211â€" _â€" monds are blanced by pouring boil- HINTS To HOUSEKEEPERS‘i ing water on them, after which the Edward Atkinson, the inventor of brown skins can he slipped off be- the Aladdin ovem says quick cooks tween the fingers. The brown skin ing at a high heau is usually bad of the peanuts slips oil‘ in shelling. cooking, and especiany apt to be Melt a teaspoonsful of good butter so in the case of bread, He isl an in?” agate pic‘plilte- Put in ms,“ expert breadâ€"baker himself and a1- nuts enough to cover the bottom of leges that he has made from‘ the the plate. Sprinkle freely with salt same sponge a white, light and tasto~ and put in a moderate oven. Stir less 10af by baking'at a, high heat from time to time, and when lightly the loaf "handsome as a, picture.” browned and crispcd on the outside and a cream colored, nuttyâ€"flavored they are donc- They 11111543 be W‘C“ thickâ€"crusted bread by baking nearly Pm‘ed til? day they RFC t9 be use“- twice the time in a moderate oven. A delicmus cake-filling 15 made of Ho assumes that the long application almonds (Enghsh and black walnuts of slow heat, workaa partial change are just as good). and raisins. Blanch of an the starch into grape sugm._ the almonds and chop’fine. Put two which; he calls “a process of Dm‘ thirds of a cup of the chopped nuts digestion, with the same quantity of chopped Silver vascs, cups, candelabra and .ralsms’ and blend. Yum "1 couple 0‘ other _ornamental silver pieces it is tablespoonfuls of lClllg‘. Spread beâ€" said mm be‘ kept constantly I bright tween the layers and decorate the by dimming. to themhdth a soft top leth blmlclled altnonds split “11a brush a thin coating of collodion. cut m lengthwwc S‘tl'lRS', 0" 1f 39'0" made very thin with alcohol. Such have used walnuts, With halves. of pieces are always very dimcult to that nut" polish and a preventive like this Any common cake rule may be saves a good deagof “elbow grease.» vamed by addmg 9 cup 0f , Chopped If windows, bureau drawers. etc.. nuts of any desrred variety, and stick and refuse to open 0,. shut Gas. making the batter'morc stiff by the my, rub: their edges well with hard addition of a little more flour. soap For sandwiches the nuts must be Perhaps every one does not know YOLUCd into a paSte and Tightly 53”" that white chiffon can be. washed. to ed. Spread the bread‘ With the best look almost as we“ as, new. W9 of butter and then with the nut Have all wasth veils, of course_ out Raste’ Spread very thmly' some’ the: full ruffles and Ilounces so much tunes 1mg? “mt meats are grated used “now are worth the trouble on' A Spunk“? of Chow?“ walnuts Make a lather of l‘q‘rd soap and let on 3‘ mayonnmse or. & Clucken sand" it stand till luke warm. Soak the Whid' glvcs a dawns flawor‘ . chiffon in this for an hour.Shake it salt Should always. be ,eaten.‘v1t.h gently round and round in the suds. nuts. It greatly assists in thelr diâ€" but, do not rub. Squeeze out gently gestlon. A storyâ€"an old oneâ€" it and Shake round in Clem. water. happened long .agOâ€"‘ls tom "f a changing two or three times. Dif- greedy young princess who Was- wonâ€" some a penny-z; Worth of ng Arabic derfully fond of nuts. One day she in half a cm) of Watcr'dnd a few indulged her appetite to such an drops of “magma Dip in the chiffon extent thati she became very ill, and and do not Squeeze. but lay beLween the court physician Was sent for in Old White cotton cloth and pat with great hasto‘ .But the physllc’an was the hand. Iron with moderately hot as fond of wmc 3;! the princess was iron. placing tissue paper between of nuts. and he too had given free the “on and the chm-0n. Treat 1119 min to his appetite vainly 1.110.101“ embroidered silk muslins in the some rifled attendants strove to arouse ' him ; again and again they told him the pi‘iiwess’astruit. All he could. or _ , , â€",~ .. ., 7 . 1 would reply was “salt, salt !” ’l‘he‘ HESS UAFLIDNG 1le LGGb' stuuid maids and men could make According to the SCiCllCG 0011111111 0f nothing .of this, so the. poor princess (1 Gel-man Week-1y paper, the hens of died While the dOCtOI‘ Slept (“T his China lead busy lives. When not or.â€" dehfllwh- It “'35 his laSt- “ht-"n he waged in hatching out. a brood of learned what had happened he vowed inch. own kind they are put to the 110 (“‘01) 0f Wine S‘houm to“““ his additional and novel task of hatching UPS agilin- - fish eggs. Chinese cheap labor colâ€" ”Bllt if You had‘ givon’her Salt!" lects the spawn of fish from the he told Ulcm» “her “f0 “70“” have water’s edge and puts it in an empty been Saved» for 53“? digs‘llws “I‘d sgg shell, which is then hermetically disintegrates the mass formed in “no. Shaled with Wax and placed under Stomadl by the “utsjn ' the unsuspecting and conscientious And so out Salt With nuts for safe- hen’ In a few days the egg 511011 is ty'3 331‘0- removed and the spawn,‘which has 'bcen warmed into life, is emptied DOMESTIC RECIPES. into a shallow pool. Here the fish that soon develop are nursed until Stewed Pieplant.-â€"~Wasll the Dle- Strong .enough to be turned into a plant. peel if it seemsl tough or like or Strmm stringy and cut into inch lengths. ‘ f ' Allow two tablespoonfuls of cold water to, a quart of the cut pieplan’r. Cook in a double boiler. Sweetcn tc taste. If you do not like the full flavor of the picplant‘usc Warm water. ' Pieplant Cream.-â€"Takc three parts \V :1 .‘J' . *_ M... of stewed picplant. wash it. very fine. let it get ice cold, then beat in one part of rich cream. Serve at once. This is delicious. , California. Cookiesâ€"One cup of seeded raisins and one cup of wal- nut meats chopped fine; add one heaping teaspoonful each of ground cloves and cinnamon. Cream one cup of butter with half a cup of granulated sugar; add three unbeat- en eggsmnd one teaspoonde vanilla Stir in the fruits and nuts and a level teaspoonful of s'oda dissolved in a teaspoonful of hot water, then little by little, enough flour to make a batter stiff enough to drop in small bits on buttered tins. Bake carefully in a, moderate oven. . lilaCaroui a la Rarcbit.â€"â€"Melt two level teaspoonfuls of butter, add two level teaspoonfuls of flour and pour on gradually threeâ€"quarters cup of cream and three-quarters cup of stewed and strained tomatoes, to “Do you see specks before which is added oneâ€"eighth teaspoon eyes ‘2” inquired the oculist. of soda. Add 'hx'o cups of cheese cut “Why, I wear 'em right along, you up and two eggs; slightly beaten. Chump l” answered Uncle Nehemiah, Season with salt, mustard and cay- with some vex-anon, Pour this over macaroni that- ’em ‘2” -15: wimpy COULD SEE THEM. your Edi FARMER§ .z \I \; u; ~r \r _I \I ,. \, ..+. _9...#.. .3* . k"*‘ I \° fix. 1 x x.” x I \.I "7*" 1*" r / sF-o 1} ; - r»: Seasonable and Profitable Hints for the Busy Tillers of the Soil. . : SKIWILK CALVES. Skimmilk calves can be raised at a. greater profit than nineâ€"tenths of the farmers imagine, but most of them are not so raisedf It is not a dilier-~ ence between theory and practice, but a difference between methods. Fin‘e skimmilk calves six months old frequently bring good prices, and are very profitable if the cost of raising them has been kept within reason able limits. ' There is some risk in the work un- til one has become expert at it. Then it is simple and sure. The call must be taken from the mother ear- ly. Some do it when it is a few hours old. and it is fed by hand without knowing anything about sucking. Five quarts a. day divided into three meals shouldlbe all that the calf should be fed at first, and this quantity is gradually increased up to about six quarts. The largest meals should be given night and morning and half as much at noon. The milk should be as near the temâ€" perature of the milk from the cow as possible. All calf milk should be fed warm and sweet. Later sour milk can be fed, but in that event it must be fed sour all the time To change from sweet to sour will cause trouble. When two or three weeks old skimmilk can take the place of the sweet, full cream milk. but the change ‘ SHOULD BE MADE GRADUAL " This is necessary because the quan- tity must be increased. It takes 93%.. '5"! «5‘? (no nearly twice as much skimmilk as cream milk to produce a pound of flesh or fat. When the change is complete the calves can be fed near ly all the skimmilk they will eat. but a little meal and ground grain can be added about this time to give them more strength and growth. At first put a little moistened meal in their mouths after drinking, and they will soon acquire a taste for grain. Within a week they. will learn to take the meal themselves from the pail. Four-weok-old calves will eat near- ly three-quarters of a pound of meal a. day; and in eight weeks about double this amount. The feeding must all be done with care, and the food should be given after this in large proportion. Hay can be fed ‘to them when eight weeks old, and theywill enjoy nibbling at it. Nothâ€" ing but; clean, bright hay or grain should be given. No more hay or grain should be given than they will eat up clean at. one time. The calves need plenty of sunshine clean quarters. fresh air. but warn: sleeping places, andl regular kindly treatment which will make them grow and fatten rapidly. Good thrifty calves will then net their owner- more profit than most other animals SOIL NEEDS FEEDING. Fertility depends upon a number of conditions. Before the roots can take! the needed substance, there must be sufficient moisture in the soil. This moisture must circulate to bring it. in Contact with the roots, and physical character of the soil has much to do with this. It must not be too open nor too com‘ pact. If too open water cannot rise if too compact it evaporates too rapidly from the surface. A soil thu.‘ settles down like brick dust after a heavy rain cannot for several rea- sons produce well. Nature has a. remedy for these coalitions, and to succeed we must at least imitate her. Nature .by the decomposition 0- organic materials in the soil, pro (luces what is known as humus, which tends} to correct the above ev- ils. It makes the soil light and flat ulent, prevents packing: from hard rains and facilitates circulation of both air and water in the soil as is best suited to the needs of vegetaâ€" tion. No soil can be highly fertile without humus. Barnyard manure owes much: of its value to the humus produced by the rotting of organic matter. Green manuring is a comâ€" mon method .of producing humus The farmer» should at proper seasons turn under all tlle'vegetable material at hand, provided it has no great market value. In this way he returns the contained nitrogen to the soil which otherwise is lost, and cnlivens his soil _by increasing the humus. Do not, however, turn undcr valuaâ€" ble crops. Sell them der something cheaper. When conâ€" ditions are favorable, the most prof- itable method of utilizing such a 'crop is byl posturing or feeding and reâ€" turning the excrements to the land. In this way you get the value of your crop and yet return almost all the plant food to the soil. M THE PIG PEN. The pig utilizes the greatest per centage of the food consumed of any of our farm stock. It costs less to produce-a. pound of pork than. to pro- duce a.‘ pound of beef, The pig util- izes twenty per cent. of the food consumed, while the ox utilizes but eight per cent. The pig is one of the best sources of ready revenue on the farm. _ A large digestive capacity _is of prime importance in meatâ€"producing animals, and in this particular the hog stands pro-eminent among .0111- "Can't you see farm stock. and, plow unâ€", portance in our pigs, we might be inclined to select a. short, thick sow. tending to fatten early, with the hope of getting this quality in the pigs. But such a sow will not be a good milkergor give large litters, hence these characteristics must be reached through the sire. The good breeding sow should be rather long and roomy, with well sprung ribs, broad loin, deep sides, and .some length of neck.' Let the sire be shorter, more compact and with finer bone, which type indicates early maturity. Equal parts of wheat middlings. ground oats and corn-meal are a good ration for growing, pigs. What we must have with our pigs is unremitted growth from birth to the} block, and no waste of food for needless maintenance. The pig should gain the same 'dur ing the winter as in the. summer if he is given proper, ' and sufficient food, the only drawback beingrthat it takles more food in winter for a given grain unless the pens are warm, as the animal heat must be sustain- ed by the food consumed. -â€"â€"-â€"--§~ minimums or LIFE. SOME STRANGE ESCAPES AND STRAN GER DEATHS. Stories from the News of the Week Showing the Two Ex- tremes. No one will question for an instant the truth of the 01d aphorism that life hangs by a slender thread, yet it would be difficult indeed to deter- mine the strength of this thread for each specific life that finds a place in the world. Sometimes it seems so frail, the wonder is that it did not snap in two at the cradle, while in other instances it withstands the perils of danger with the resistance of a mighty chain. Viewing the causes of death in some cases and the miraculous es- capes from it in others, a goodydeal of color is lent to the creed of fatal- ists by the discoveries that are made. Some lives are whisked out of the world by the. mere scratch of a pin, the pinch of a shoe, or the ulcer- ation of a tooth, while others withâ€" stand collisions with railway trains, strokes of lightning, and all sorts of peculiar mishaps with absolutely no evil consequences. An accident that proves fatal to one person may reâ€" sult in nothing Inc'n'e serious than an attack of fright and some inconven- ience to another. EXTREMES OF DEATH’S VAG- ARIES. Mrs. Kate Agnew is (lying at her home in Norwood, Pa., from ganâ€" grene brought on by wearing a tight shoe that pinched her foot, while Louise Dishiner, a 10â€"year-old Chiâ€" cago girl, recently had a shoe. button removed from her lungs without sufâ€" fering serious consequences. These are the two extremes thatjllustrate in a forcible manner how frail and uncertain a thing life is in some cases and how tcnaciously it hangs on in others. Mrs. Agnew bought a pair of shoes a short time ago. They were the same size she had been wearing, but the shape was not adapted to her feet, and after wearing them a day she discovered a slight abrasion of the skin. The next day her foot was considerably swollen, and a fews days later gangrene developed. The shoe button removed from Louise Dishinâ€" er’s lungs had been imbeddcd there for three years and was removed by means of an incision through the chest wall. Elizabeth Kaighn, 16 years old and living in Philadelphia, had life that hung by V an exceedingly slender thread. One day she discovered a small pimple on her lip and. thoughtâ€" lessly picked it with her finger nail. She thought nothing more of the in- cident for several days, when blood poisoning developed, and in a short time she was (lead. At Atloona. Pa., Mildred Burger, 4 years old, swallow- ed a prize package pin while eating peanuts, ' and lived for three. weeks. The pin lodged in her throat and physicians being unable to remove it pushed it on down into the stom- ach. Her death after MANY DAYS OF SUFFERING was the result. ‘I.ee l). Hitchcock, a farmer living near Norwich, N. Y., died recently from bloodâ€"poisoning produced by a scratch from his pet cat, and Anton Wallace, after suf- fering untold agony, passed away in La Crosse, “is, from the same cause, but in his case it was brought on by an ulcerated tooth. . Death is withal an exceedingly im- possible condition to understand. lTake for instance the case of Ida Hennessey, a 15â€"year-old girl residâ€" ing in Oswego, N.Y. She simply went to sleep, and although physi- cians worked over her for 175 hours, administering cold baths and apply- ing electrical devices. they could not awaken her. Twice she opened her eyes, but only for an instant. The last time she closed them forever. During all the time the girlshowod absolutely no sign of illiiCSs. Ida Hennessey slept her life away, but death came to Gretchen I-Iensel of La Crosse, Wis, under directly oppo- site conditions. She “jumped the rope” 1.00 times, Was taken ill imâ€" mediately afterwards, and died withâ€" in a few minutes. Sometimes escapes from death are so remarkably narrow that it seems Providence exercises a Wonderful hand in the direction of fatalities. llcre is one instance of~this charac- 1er. Henry Thornberg and Anton Early maturity being 0f great 5111‘ Rye were driving near .llurns Valley, Wis., came up and their buggy was struck by lightning. Thornberg and the two- . horses Rye, Thornberg, scratch. . .nah-5%,l‘huthg‘flgsf33l9hSw-_‘; .5” “W. x V- when a. sudden thunderstorm were instantly killed. while who was sitting alongside escaped without a SAVED BY A FEA’l‘llER BOA. Mrs. Henry T. Villas of Pasadene, Ca1., owes her life to a feather boa. She was driving calibre bullet struck her in the neck. The missile. passed through the os- trich feathers of the boa and its force was lessened until only a slight Wound resulted. had not been for the boa she would have ‘been killed. when a stray 22< It is believed if it A Wheeling (W. Va.) young man named 'Joseph Jackson lived to tell the story of having a broom handle knocked through his jaw. toolâ€"dresser the engine-room in the factory Where he is employed while the machinery was in operation. broom caught in the flyâ€"wheel of tln engine and was forced upwards, thc handle penetrating his lower jaw anc extending almost to the base of the brain. He is a and was sweeping out In some way tlu Occasionally some remarkable feat: of‘surgery are resorted to in an ef- fort to sustain the thread that hold: life fast. Here is one: John Olber; of Kenton, Mich., recently was sub jectcd to the novel experiment 0 having a piece of dog's skull graftm upon‘ his head. Olbcrg's skull hat been fractured over the opening, which was an incl and a half in diameter, a foreigi growth had formed. This pressed m the brain and caused ‘convulsions Olberg rallied quickly from the op eration and completely recovered.» â€".â€"â€"_â€"â€"+â€" GRAINS or _GOLD. When in doubt: tell the Samuel Clemens.~ What makes life dreary 15 want 0‘ motiveâ€"George Eliot. A laugh is worth a hundred groan- in any’ marketâ€"Charles Lamb. Honest good humor is the oil am- wine of a: merry meeting.â€"â€"lrving. He is a wise man who wastes nc energy on persuits for which he if not fittedâ€"Gladstone. If you will be cherished when yor are old, be courteous when you 1111 youngâ€"John Lyly. If you would hit the target, air! a. little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.â€" Longfellow. There is nothing so powerful as example. We put othch straight by walking ourselves.â€"â€"Madume Swot- chine. ' Have a purpose in life. and having it, throw your strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given youâ€"Carlyn). Formerly we were guided by tht wisdom of our ancestors; now We are hurried along by the wisdom 05 our descendantsâ€"llornc. Thou hast but, one halienable right, and that. is the sublime one of doing thy duty at all times, un- der all circumstances and in ab placesâ€"F. R. Marvin. +.â€"â€".â€" ‘ ‘ TREK-430 KR" 15‘. N . ’ ' This is the niune given by tlr Dutch settlers of South Africa to th» periodical migrations of the antelop. from the upper veld to the lowe; lands. These removals arc describer by the author of "Klool‘ and Karroo‘ In old days these tint-kâ€"bokken wer a source of the greatest. alarm am danger to the colonisl: quite as grew in fact, as the locust: flights. Count‘ less thousands of unlclopcs, impeller truth.â€" by drought, and the loss of “ref more secluded pastures. migrate: from their true nursery and head quarters into more fertile district: in the interior of the colony. A trekâ€"bokkeu might be witnessct for a whole day, and the vcld woult be left denuded of (ivory scrap of pas turagc. The immense n'z‘mlm's of tin antelope literally swept morythlng before them, and l'arnwrs frequent]: lost whole flocks in consequence From sheer press of numbers, the an telopcs cannot retreat, and one ho:- to be careful to keep out of lheiz Way. As the leading untc‘opr‘s feed anc become satiated, they fall back and allow those in the rear to come tc the front. But. for this provision o" instinctive nature, the roar-gnaw would be starved to death, for (host .in front, of course. leave not a par- ticle of nourishment as they pass On these occasions the :mlelopes an wedged so tightly that est-ape is im- possible; and indeed it is actually 0): record that lions have been carried along, whether they would or no, in the midst of a trekâ€"boldwn. vâ€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-¢â€"â€" ----â€"â€". LAND OF FIT-{TIC AND ICE. A new geological map of Iceland by Dr. Thoroddscn, who has spent many years on the work, gives much fresh information about. one of the world’s most wonderful islands, which few visitors ever see. An'cx- ample of the strangeness of Iceland is furnished by the volcano Katlu. This is buried .under immense snowâ€" flelds, but from time to time its fires burst forth through 1hr) glitter- ing blanket, and then such floods arc poured from the melting;- ice that u great stretch of country between the volcano and the sun is inundated.- and huge masses, of in- are carried out into the ocean. It ,is unsafe ever. to cross the territory lying betwcer the floods. X, 1/». ,, for four years,- am . Katla and the sea, so suddenly court,th ‘ 'w'v‘A‘eWN Wv 4W ‘ ’ . “I. . ran... 1;) .wn‘;,. V 1;“, v11 .3, .. . ’1‘ H f‘r V ~._.«._ "v v s"â€" I V) x' ) x.