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W” in tbs household will this pay 50 well an in making over various gar- ment: and of cutting down and giving 1 ”w appearance to the clothing of grown-up people. so that they may cult afbea' sponging it. but keep a cloth between the goods and iron. Re- newfrayml lining at. thewrist with farmer‘s sa-tisn. The west can be renovated and given s m Lease of life 3130. The greatest care should be taken when alcohol is used. The lamps should miner be filled at nightmr near a flanks. because an inflammable vapor is constantly rising from tho alcohol. who): takes fire from the lighting of ”on . mamb. sometimes altar hours hve passed since the lamp was filled. Ah'obol. benzme, naphtha. all are volatile to the last degree. and they con- tinue tog'mo of! fumes. or gaseous vapors. as long as the air can reach them. So persistent is thus action that. urban mum or semi" substance is used for «leaning gloves or clothes bh-ey m apt to take fire from the lighting of the gas or of acigar near than after three or four hours have passed. Such articles of clothing should be well antigen and hung in a strong draught of an (or several hours before they are expoqtd to agggy 9011ch with. .flgmfe in any form. Wood. alcohol. which is greatly in excess of the ordinary kind m danger should be used with the utmost. caution. since it is likely to ex- plode even more unexpectedly than tho 11159 spirit _oompound. I‘Mâ€"'gfiMxâ€"Jéi‘ Stbvea so extensively uaodin the West are the most danger- .us of all the heating appliances which lam been submitted to the writer \inoe their introduction to the eastern fieldâ€"fifteen yum 01'; mar; ago: Q33 Snowball (Sm-Ono cup of powdered bunt. coo-half cup of butter cream. on? half cup 0‘th milk, whites of (our; :3: N1 lyectcn. on. and one-half oupa’ (loan. With an. tonapoon ofoream of mm. ale-malt teaspoon of sod. sifted vi“ It. Flam to taste. Plain unsold» Cumâ€"Onechnlf cup- mthtud on up I08” rubbed well 1 W with two mrm at melt- m to be. about the safest of the nmrn artu'icial (um, and itapdor -;.nu warning whenever were is a. numerous ewape. The- chbf objection to these quick Nokmc atoms is Lb» temptation topreâ€" 1,1” busty meals in summer in orderco «void mat. But the fact should bere- uwmbered chat by reducing the volume Juan to the lowest cooking int the process may be continued as ongusit amass“)! in order mprepare some ofthoue nutritious and savory dishes. Cornstarch Cakew-One cup sugar. one- haLf cup of butter. creamed. one-hall cup of milk. two ea 8. one and one-half cups of flour. one- ourth cup of corn- starch. one human of cream tartar. one-half teaspoon of soda .11 sifted io- gethar. flavor to taste. SOME GOOD CAKES. (‘oftee Celiaâ€"M cups of molasses. one cup each of butter. sugar. cold. wrong mites and chopped raisins; two Leupoone of soda. six cups of flour. If :p'loe is liked add one even tabICSpoon- ml each a! clove. aLllspice and omni- White Mo.â€"W'h«ites of (our eggs beaten sun; one cupful of sugar. three- :ouxths cupful of butter. one-third cup- {ul of milk. two cup fuls flour and one heaping anulp of baking powder. F lava: (omit taste. HOUSEHOLD. ROME TAILORING. SUMMER FUELS. .th decided Edvtwo-mds '3qu of milk. one be.- spoonful of vanilla. two scant cups pan- try flour and one heaping teaspoonful .tosf baking powder. , Pork Cake.-0no andoneubalf cups of fat pork chopped fine. one cup of strong .6838. two teaspoons of cream of tartar one teaspoon of soda. sifted in with the flour, two teaspoons ezwh of cloves and Cinnamon. one nutmeg, one and one- half cups of entrants. one. and oneâ€"halt cups of seafless raisins, one cup of figs 011101’ fine. one-half cup of citron ohozped fine... He sure to flour all the fruit before. adding it. 'Dhis should bake ed chocolate, twn Somebody we been taking notes in a fam’Lly whom the mater familias seems bob-e very embodime'gt of doâ€" mestic diplomacy. These are the re- sults of said observations: That she never describes her aches and pains. never describes her whee and pains, That she never dwells on unpleasant reminiscences. 'fihat she never apolo- gizes for the food. That she is nev- er amertyr. first she never oor- rects the children in the presence .of any Person, even the family. That (118- mjdpr of a temporary nature does not visibiy disturb her. That when the family diatribe threatens she knows how. and when to deftly ohange the Bu‘bJ‘ect. That she gets rid of eguest Who bores bet b simply folding 11? a. newspaper. an the other never suspects. 'Dhat she lets every one have affairs of his or her own. ’I‘hat she'ls always Fonts and cordial to the chill- riends. That. she never 0 - municates any news before dinner. That she never divulges her methods. They look so easy, We a wonder all women don't live up to these rules. man the. Strange Discovery 0! Empress Catharine cl Russia. The inflexibility of Russian official orders baa resulted im many queer and needless fixtures in the official system. The story is well known of the sentry who was put on guard over a rose Ln bloom in the imperial garden in the seventeenth century. The rose and its bush disappeared. but every day for 3 hundred years a sentry mounted guard over the spot. because no one had ord- ered the service discontinued. A story quite as ludicrous is now told of a discovery made by the Empress Catharina, mother of the Emperor Paul, who was assassinated in 1801. Cathar- the imperial hausetkeepimg amounts. In them, among other queer things, she found that “one bottle of rum daily” was charged to the Naslednk or heir Wrwt. As her son. who was then a young mam. had never given any sign of in~ t‘3'1511-Petuaj.e habits. the empress was greatly astonished. She went over the accounts to see how long he had been addicted to this practice, and found, to her still greater surprise, that the egrpemliture went wax: to the day 0‘ th birthâ€"and indeed. far _beyond it. ‘ hm, at one time, was inspired by some paasmg whim of economy is scrutinize “Iv-- .- w-v \- â€"â€"vaâ€"- Thee heir to the throne had not only been charged with drinking over thir- ty dozen bottles of fine Jaunaioa rum yearly ever since he was born, but for a long time before that. The empress. it is hardly necessary to say, made a thorough investigation of this strange matter, and with the aid of en antiQu- arian, she at last reached the original entry. _ A century or so before, the imperial physician had prescribed for the Nasle- dmixk of the period, “on account of a! violent toothache. a teaspoonfvul of rum‘ to be taken with sugar.” This dose was given for several days in success- sion; and the nurse or steward in charge had deemed it more fitting to the lin- perial dignity, as well as more profit- able to himself or herself, to purchase a new bottle of rum every day.. No one had ever given the order to discon- tinue this purchase, and it had gone on for a century, the rum having consti- tuted one of the perquisites of the court steward. The empress submitted the discovery to her husband, who at once declared that. the method of keeping the accounts should be thoroughly reformed, and such abuses ended. {He carried out his threat. Dome of the Things Tim! the (aged Pets Like [ta-st. "It is a kindness as well as a [plea- sure Lo caged birds to feed them pep- per grass and chick weed occasionally,” says 11 bird dealer. “It is something they need, as it rests them up from the various seeds which are fed them. Can- ar1es 111 -~ ape ially fond of pepper grass, and it does them good. There is no dif- ficulty in finding i1 in the lawns on in any of the parks, and no objection is over made to any one {mllings few branches. C-hiikweed grows best in shady, protected places, and can be found. in abundance. The White clo- ver is also much relished by birds, tho h the red clover is better, but the ether is not so plenty, except in the lsr p.3rks The truth is, any kind 0 tbsp grasses. now as they are inaoed, in good for eagedibirds. A ‘bird an be depended upon to eat no more then it should est, for thsrqis hardly snobs. thing as over feeding “.13:ka their limit, and they enjoy being kept toit, u schsnge from the onus! "F'ar‘ ‘ex'oeaded timed. I shot us wild- cat 3nd brought homo s cn‘b bar. Did the fishing expedition come .up to _your expgotatxpnn. Bimt ‘ THE BABY’S BOTTLE 0F RUM. A MODEL HOUSEVVOMAN. L FEEDING BIRDS. GREAT LUGK. well hgaten PRACTICAL FARMIISEM W PRESERVING FOLIAGE 0F FRUIT To those who personally interestl themselves in their gardens it is noti news that the foliage of trees plays 3 most important part in the ripening of fruit. The grape and the pear are fa- miliar examples. So long as the foli- age of these fruits is preserved the fruit grows, and at length ripens, but let any harm happen to it and the progress of the fruit is at an end. The grape. vine that drops its leaves from any cause be- fore the perfection of the fruit cannot afterwards bring itto perfection. If the fruit be green, it remains so, sour and unfit to eat. The same is true of the pear. T he past season saw the pears in this vicinity largely attacked by a fun- gus, which caused the leaves to fall. There was a stopping of the growth 0‘5 the fruit at once, and, one by one. the pears dropped off. It is these lessons which make experienced planters look for fruits noted for robust foliage, as the first requisite in selecting sorts. The Concord grape and others of that type always maintain healthy leaves, and are safe to plant in any ordinary 131309- Those of the Delaware class, on the oth- er hand, are liableto injury where they do not meet with just the place that suits them, and many of the Roger’s Seedlings, good as they are in other re- spects, will not keep healthy foliage in some Places where the Concord does. In the selecting of fruits to plant it is therefore of prune importance to set out mainly such varieties as are noted for their healthy character. It is just {18 true of flowering plants as of fruit- ing trees. Insects, as well as fungus, must be anticipated and prepared for If ; we would have flowers and fruits. In ; this respect there is but little difficulty jln‘ finding _out what the .concensus of _ __L_. afiniop is in regard to vigorous sorts o frults. As ‘already noted, the Con- corgl grape and its varieties can be rolled on almost everywhere, and there are apples and pears of the same char- acter. Sorts with strong, vigorous looking foliage are what should be obtained. Fast; growth does not'indi; Vw-“v" .- “1-4â€" .. v... “\,- Gate 9, two likeTy to be fungus proof. On the contrary it has been proven con- clusively, that fire blight, the scourge of the pear, oftener attacks trees that have made a vigorous growth than oth- 3 orxvise. Knowing this the e )erienoed f fruit grower does not rush is trees? along. Ho giyes_tllom enough {00¢} aqd 3 wow“... “" u {infirm enablé them to unite a sturdy growth only, and trees less liable to di'Sease are his reward. ‘_ . “‘v‘llwv "I V 5;." These remarks lead to another and an all important subjezt, the spraying of trees for the yrevention of blight. That Spraying acmmpliehee the object needs no argument to prove. With: its aid the growmg of the less hardy leaved grapes and the pear should Impossible in places where it could not be done before. To me there seems to he a .pro- bability of a. revolutionizing of fruit growing through the agency of Bor- deaux mixtune. -What iei to hinder the cultivation of the foreign grape out of. doors if grafted on our native kinda, to overcome the phylloxera, of the root ? Spraying should preserve its leaves. EAIBJJY RIPENING 011‘ FRUIT. It is not difficult to so manipulate a. branch of the peach, pear or apple as to cause it. not only to ripen fruit ten days or more in advanca the ordinary season but to greatly creme the size of it. Trees take their food from the soil, chiefly the minerals dissolved in water which passes from cell to cell through the centre of the wood until. ib reaches the leaves, where it is digested. and as- similated by combining it with the car- bon of the atmmphtere and other gases and then elassses downward immediate- ly under the bark, building mp wood cells and dievelqping the fruit. Now if we check the, downward flaw of this 53.1) by pressing the bark it throws this digested food back and the fruit appropriates it to its own growth. We can do this readily by twisting a mall wire aroumd the branch immedi- ately below the specimen desired. It is well to remove all but the one fruit and great care must be exercised not to get the wire so tight as to rupture the bark and thus destroy the branch. It only needs a. slig ht (ompression‘ to accomplish 'the work. After the fruit has matured the wire must be reâ€" moved. It often happens a, young tree will not develqp fruit buds, It can be made to do so by a sudden clueCkln-g of its growth‘whenjta wood budg art} form- Grape growers who tactico ringing understand this to ,per action. They re~ move a. band of the bark erhaps a quarter of an inch long just below a cluster which then takes a” the re- sources of the limb and does its work in advance of the others and often doubles its size, but the limb must be cut out at the next pruning as it 009M pot, again put out its lgaves. Some accomplish the same result by makmg a. cut squarely around the body of the tree, merely severi the bark. The bark will draw apart a ightly and {ill with gum, but the growth will he suddenly checked and fruit, buds secur- ed for a good crap the followipg sea.- son. This work Ebrwld be dead 12: July for best results. 1” mg and causing them to develop as fruit buds for the next season 8 crop. The win is drawn t htly around the body of tho tree nudgef aft a. few {weeks during July and August. As stated the work must he done with caution or the trge will be injgred. A C It has been said by someone that farm work is hard work. Perhaps this is true; but who can take a leis- mday candied itlesstm the TDMELY FAKRM HINTS. its in- farmer! Indeed. we 800 generally keeps abouts. d hi5 work, and for this tea 'ly has any tangible e away. “VVwJI With extremely hot weather there is usually more or less drout-h. It is then that wagon tines are apt to get a. little loose- decidedly so if there has previously been ewet period. In such a. case it is advisable to apply hot linseed oil promptly to the rims, {or this tightens the tire and saves a blacksmith’s bill. The way to apply it is to place a. little trough under the wheel, to turn it in; next, get the oil boiling hot, or at least neerly’ so, Pour it into the trough and turn the wheel around in it a few times, and the work is done. Cheap. easy and handy, isn’t it? Just try it‘ and just 3.3 soon as you harvest a field of grain, lgok qgrqfqllx to 9h}? glover seeding. Provided it has failed, no time should be lost in plowmg the field and trying another grain crop, this time sowing some timothy seed in fall so as to be sure of a catch of eome kind. Still, if the grain is stout, it will often be found that the clover 18 not killed, albeit itmay appear 80. owing to the fact hat it has been held in check by the shade. In‘ such instances it should of course be left alone, for the rains that come during and after harvest time will generally bring it forward and make a large stand where formerly there seemed to be nothimi. This will particularly he the {anti Iandmlaster was sown in the Spring. Plaster, however, may be sown in midsummer for clover, but unless rains come immediately it will not do much good until the! fol- lowing year. ' A Supposed “’th Tied to Running Horses Ill-mimic She Was Thought to Have fauna-d a Girl's Illness. The region or La. Cirma‘, on the Cana- diam River. New Mexico, is inhabited by mountain folks ignorant and sup-l erstitious as any in the world. lie-i ports brought to Laa Vegas a fort-g night agonf the (killing of an old worn» ; an near San Lorenzo, sixty miles south ; Of this point, for witchcraft, was ati first disbelieved. it was so imtredihlyf sh‘odkiimg. But later news is wrought" from La Cinta confirming the first re- 1 port. i The story remlls the burning of wit- chm im the old Puritan days at Salem. The victim's name was Teodora Sal.- aa. She was about eighty years old. Her murderers were Antonio Lucm'O. aged about. eighteen, and Teodoro Ta- foya, aged twenty-two. Tafoya has a sister who has been sick for some time. The ignorant peo- pLe 0f the neighborhood said she could not get well on account of Theodora» who was WM 8. “brunet." or witch, who exercised her wiles over the young girl. Among the, native Mexican people Who have spent; their lives Lu adobe villaggs, away from civilization, the belief 1n wi mines and evil spirits oontrdling bu- mwu beings is quite prevalent. and of course were are charms and talisman wiLhout emd to ward off evil influences. Acting on the command of his mo- ther, yuung 'l‘afo'ya and his companion Luoero followed Lbs old woman). to a place about three miles from Sam Lor- enzo, where after being frightened. she was prpvailedfipoa; by Lb»: ypung men Lo 36 back with}. twin. to 'tbe 'bouse where Taloya's sister lay sidk mud BREAK THE SPELL shoe had casL over her. 'lhey placed her on Lucero ’s'horse, young Luoero muum~ bung behind, and ulf me) started. After gomg a .short distance 'i‘ufuya shut the old woman's dog, remarking that he had got rld of one "bruhaq," and would now get rid of the other. He threw a lasso over the woman'n head and starting his horse at full gallrp hurled her to the ground. [He then had Luoero attach his 18.630 to her feet and the two started their horses on the run and dragged the woman to death. After Lingering around the place for a few days the murderers disappeared. The mother of Tafoya was arrested. She told the officers that she had command- ed .her son and Lueero to kill the old woman, “because she had cast a spell over her siok daughter and would not remove it and should be killed. thus gbreqllgi'ng the evil influence." Officers are thawing efforts to cap- ture the murderers. The alleged witch was a harmless and almost helpless per- son, but had been looked upon by the superstitious inhabitants as a ”bruha." or witch. She has no relatives. She lived alone with her do? and was sup- ported by the charity 0 wealthy sheep owners of. the vicinity. \IILfI- I! I While this is the first case ill]. which oereme measures have been taken with latives. She lived alone withher dog a “brugha‘,” old woman have often been forced Lo leave the neighborhood for the only crime of being old and defense- less and the victims of pitiful ignorance and superatitixm. l In the days of expensive postage, a (mug Iridhmam wrote a long letter ram America. to 11113 mother in Ireland, and closed it as follows: Well, well! (Here I am with eight pages anti: elgafull, and not one of the things saidt t AI laid out to say. But sum, flhere'll be double postage to pay it Isay 'em here; so to save that I'll write ye another letter to-morrow. ” I assure yQu. magam. said he. that. I would not no» beggurg my bread from door to door if I could bpt procure em- playmemt at my _prgfg§sron. Poor man. repfiad the good woman. as she handed out a pun. what is your grotesskm? . . . I am an airship pilot. madam. DRAGGED TO DEATH. WAITING FOR WORK. PATRICK'S ECONOMY. a about a. day ahead of for this reason be rare- tangiblo excuse for , to a picnic. :6 along all time thrown PRESENTIMENTS [1F DEATfi line. Garlvet’a Dunnâ€" Strange Adv-u." of: French Seam-man W mu 1 “mu" 3 IOIIIOII -â€"- Soleuulsis Arr Inn-run“. There is a. very interesting Paper on presentimentsâ€"suggested, (,1 «nurse, by this terrible Paris fireâ€"4m Hut staid and reliable periodical, um; JOUrnal a“ ”013122.11t is from the pm of M ”0-1)- rl do Parville. than whom tin.” n no greater authority on matters. Hitting to hallucination, second Sight, «Jim'sxiun and kindred subjects. First the fact is noted Umt Mina Ju- no Garivet, one of the Victifllx hf the fire, had a. clear presentinwm. .4‘ he, deem When she bade her fr'mndg Roadby 0110118 morning of the La: ‘1 (13, it was evident that who now, '~‘-‘i;w'tled CO see them again. She 86M Hut dur- to 888 tth again 8118 sand Hut dur. mg the '1th 8118 had suffered {Yuan . frightful nightmare, and that 4w had dreamed (1 being burned alive Equal. 1y singular was the recent (‘xgwrwm-Q at o. Parisian doctor. The gt 1: 1. mm was taking I» walk one aftexnw n \x ’m n mddenly the thought. StX'UHk h :21 11:1. 3“ W might Wk] fire durmg his absence. There was apparvnily no reason why any such accident mauld take place; nevertheless, the duct r hur- ried home, and sure enough, as he. Ap- preached the dwellnng 116 Saw VUIIuHH‘S of smoke pouring from one of me «man. neys. Rushing in. he found that the flue in this room adjoining his own had taught fire. Thanks to his prcwnu- Tzhb Annalss des Sciences L’syc-hiquva recounts two similar examples 0: ex- ceptional value. President. Limwln, it says. had. an wetting preseuuumnt that he would be amsunated. .Dm mg the mght preceding hm death he dream- ed that. he walked down a. l'ligut ul stairs which were draped with was; cloth. When he asked the caube 01 £11.: mourning he was Lold that. we Puma- am. of tho United bum» had been lull- ed at. the era house. 'He told Mrs Lincoln of is dream, and she inn-(gm b11111, but. in vain, not no go to Um Lum- tra that evenmg. {lie mailed at Mr tear and Went calmly out to [UL‘CL um "The second story recalls we mystux- ous_t.ragedy o_t me's 1101‘ kpvgrm. has mad moamrub threw himmu' Law mm 8001 nberg Lake. which surrounded has palm», and dragged down Lo deam with him his physician, Dr. vom (jud- dflu, who had plunged mm the waLer 111 um: hope of wvmg him. how. at [cm day s before bus death. Von Gudden had dreamed that he was vtrugghmg m we water while vainly trying to nave an- other man {rum drowmug. » He told Equally singular are the stories told about. M. de Lerizolles. '1 {his gemleumn was rwently crossing a. mountain at. a little distant» from his bume when he suddenly received, as it were. a severe shook which plunggd pun Law Lhe mm» his wiflo about the dreamt. lad afLer his dam she told the star) to the Anti» royologwal Souiety oi Lhumiuh. 4 I I est. melamxhody. die felt. as though he had been struck by a clinched fist. and for a few minutes his anguish was ex- treme. nflis fitst thoug ht was that some terrible calamity had happened In him or his family y, and that he wuuld hear of it on his arrival at. home. :He was right. Hardly had he crossed the threshold of his home when he rece'u ed a despatch announcing the death 01 his father. On another occasion M. de Lerxzollel was travelling with his wife, and she remarked one mornmg that. she had not been able to asleep during the night.‘ as she had oomstanlly before her eyes her dear friend. Lime. de 13., who. acâ€" cording Lq_the flying, seemed to be‘dyâ€" 1113. As Mme. de B. was summed to be in excellent health. M. de Leriwlles assurad his wife that. there was no {significance iqfier wgking dream. But. hf; wife would not be convmced. and imdeed a letter came in a few days tell- ing them of Mme. de B's most unex- pected death. Eight hundred cases, somewhat. sim- ilar to this last one. are recorded in a book published some time ago in Eng.- land. In each case some peer saw a ghost or apparition of some living re- lative or friend at the precise moment when this relative or friend was on the popgt‘ of dying. if it were not for a. presenllment Mozart would probably never have com- his immm'tal "Requiem.” One day, whale he was sitting alone, lost m a melancholy reverie, a stranger en- tered the room, and havmg aband- some sum of money on the table, re- quested him to compose a ‘Requiem" in memory of a, dear friend who had gist died. yMozart agreed to do so and beggar work at: om-e. Night and day hilabored with extraordimary zeal, until finally his strength gave way and he became ill. \Vhen his Wife tried to cheer him he said brusquelyz-lt's no use. I composed that ‘Requiem’ for my- self and it, will he played at my funer- al.” Nothing could rid his mind of this idea. Nay. he was even convinced that the stranger was a visitor from the other world. who had come to warn him at his approaching and. So he worked at the “Requiem" until it was finished. but when the stranger came for it Mozart was dead. some EXTRAORDINARY FUTURE EVENTS CLEARLY snow", Mrs. Peck-11 I had my life to go over again. I wouldn't marry the best man alive. wâ€"wvw I don‘t gee how. _th;3.t can be. damn-rt- ed the millkman; was always put he fohlfl (water in it just baton luvim Mr. H. Peck. his chance at lastâ€"You bet you wouldnfl I wouldn't ask you The milk is very warm when it. reaches us these mornings, announced thg Lady of this house. THE HUSBAND'S OPPORTUNITY. MANY DEA'HHS FORETOLD. TWO NOTABLE CA5 ES was soon able to QUCU-“ the STRA NGE. 3'" I“ tumult Lm Tho 3W“? Fast I'll a. sand um I: bd .ble King- mm W' -' ‘loufi. 1n fa“ and amumn 80.." .i‘ncf; 184.: lltflkf.‘ .‘hteeu Spa)" "\K' The QuwE “1 war? 1 “on I We“ 11988? I and thm u V)“ g )3!) cant late