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ethod. The Norman- s; with dirty water. gives a stronger and liquor. They even pI‘O' water does not mako 8 popularity of cideraa Doe'sible, been increasafi y by the Pasteur Inst!" 3. bactericide. The b3- dies in cider in two to according to acidifi- d {tontain at least 3 P“ Cid to produce this 9“ yous. By means of them. [111:: the whole gamut of ex- pe, fear.defiance, triumph. ’agfe, vanity, and a fine. 8 treatment of the fruit essed. After. they have out the tree the applet! hed. This interim the fermentation. whicb live. but the cider itself hens without families, are the true barnyard y finv day, outside meal:- 1 may see tlx'em, standing heir heads close together. [1 chattering like so many r else wallowing in light g lightly as they scratch pnd evidently finding it }o throw dirt over each ~ â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"° _ - _ 1 with the general ill!J in» quality of the cm?!- netbod of bidetâ€"mam radical differences from urpose. It IS saw. mu mt of tannin, sugar and 106: by the fruit during washing is of little 1:: they hadn’t tin-g they r parts of Germany, Ana- wrland has often been comment. It appear! lemma is in a great moa‘ MEANT CAD“? at a ragged. {unkempt empered shadow of her- and pecking at whatever lied In Dlfl'crelu Scrape.- ('ountrlm. t quality of the cider Lptain told me to law inemys {giro did ya tell him? him the infirm wth setting. will wt}- \nd when setting she I! eit er and more pleasing e purest water must be 10058. It is said thlt 3 bird. a kite KOVING CIDER. the L of th hovered l g it me cock. or one has a wonderful they Chit-r of I. quaimest 33 appear \V 13 Past making 0‘ Waning“ at their mother. er and scum. “88, Hot Air Furnaces, Shingle Machinery, Band Saws, Ernery llfichines, hand or power; Crestmg, Farmers’ Kettles, Columns, Church Seat Ends, Bed Fasteners, Fencing, Pump-Makers’ Supplies, School Deslis. Fanning Mill Castings, light. Castings and Builders’ Sup- plies, Sole Plates and Points for the Merent ploughs in use. Casting RpAirs for Flour and Saw Mills. - WE REPAIR-- h m wide ost b Pad in hushed 1k unty 0f Grey. Circular and C ross-Cut . Gmmed, Filed and Set. Saws 1 am prepared to fill orders for N Shingles cumm SMITH, “PDTT-I- â€" UN DERTAKIN G J. SHEW ELL Undertaking and Embalming A SPEC! A BIT Farmers Thrashers. and Millmen authors. us Local News is Complete and market reports accurate 53°" “42 Tu pus NT To THE m cur \ wall "'33:: up“ up by theIndian Tc m‘m;1_¢faof the b5! (21111121.. A; [alga 'nrnace Kettles, Power Staw Cut- FURNITU RE DURHAM FOU 'IRST CLASS HEARS}! IN CONNECTION M'RIIUI. - {DNT Furniture AT THE BRICK FOUNDR "EL T“UR$DAY I JACOB KRESS. m%““keepit.tenhim under .‘T‘EL: HAYTER A no- Each week an epitome of the world’s news, articles on the household and farm, and serials by the most popular 9‘4 Emma Dealer In all kinds of Prices Out; Embalming a specialty. -- WE MAKE -- w. IRWIN . Am) PROPRIETOR- chosr 3N DRYMAN 1cm; will be sent to an} of postage, for $1.00 ,1: : in advance-$1.50 ma; The date to which ever} :d by the number on th: ; .ntmucd until all mean of the proprietor. "0‘ Fact- 1". than T0850» nmnfo The breath of tWIhght m the air 18 sighins. And twinkling stars amld the azure amine, Wxth mother love the wxnsome face I kiss, And fold the hands so weary of their play, No sweeter joy 3 mother holds than guru 1011(1 we :nanda so weary of their play, No sweeter joy 5 mother holds than this, Too soon, alas! the little feet will stray. Again I press him to my hungry heart. Again 1 press him to my hungry heart, A-h. me! If I might shield him ever so Mayhrip some day he'll kiss me and depart, And 1 shall sorrow as 1 watch him go, Secure I hold. him in my arms to- night. . Amd mother-like I lay him down to rest, His curly head upon the pillow His dimpled hands soft folded on his breast. I may not go and. leave my darling Lhere, So fair he looks within his cozy bed. Ere one last touch upon the wavy hair, “God bless my darling!" low I whis- per then, And silent as a watcher of the night, I close the door, low breathing o'er again, A mother's pmyer to keep his steps aright. To some people canning fruit is one of the biggest bugbears of their house- hold duties, says Emma R. Makemson. They dread it, and from the time the first berries and cherries make their appearance, until the last peach and year have been taken care of they live in constant fear of their fruit ferment- ing and Spoiling. With myself, while it is 'a work that I have no fears as to :‘the result, it is always satisfactory â€"always what I intend it shall beâ€" a BUCOCSS. In canning fruit for sauce, I mea- sure into my preserving kettle only enough raw fruit, as near as I can guess, to fill one jar when it is cook- ed. This method may seem very ted- ious to some. out in the end it pays, for in this way the fruit has a chance to be thoroughly cooked without crowding, and the danger of cooking it too much is also lessened. To save time one can have several kettles over the fire at once, sbut do not try to 8Xpedlte matters by cooking a large quantity of fruit altOgether. I have seen it tried a number of times, with always the same result; if not abso- lutely sour when Opened, it would be as flat failure. A_L2-L a Llab uttuuvo Another important point which should be carefully watched is to have the jars perfectly air-tight, and in usâ€" ing the self-sealers, if the taps do not screw on sufficiently tight with one rubber, add an extra one. This should rem-Ody the trouble which is caused by the jars being uneven or defective at the month. After the fruit is canned, protect from the light by wrapping paper around each jar, or, better still, fill the. boxes the jars came in when pur- chased and. set in a place with as lit- tle change of temperature as possible. There will be no danger of its Spoil- insz if it has been properly cooked. l A FAMILY BREAKFAST. Cereal With Fruitâ€"To four and one-hal£ cupfuls boiling water addvone and one-half teaSpoonfuls salt and, gradually, one cupful of a wheat pre- paration. Cook five minutes, stirring oopetantly, then finish cooking ore-r apple sauce and cream. All cereals should be cooked from a half to threeâ€"quarters of - an hour, gardless of direutions on the package. Always cook in a double boiler or a. shbstitute made by setting one dish in- suie of another holding the hot. water. OaLmeal Muffinsâ€"To three-quarters cupful scalded milk add one-quarter e oupful cold of the fingers work on d one-half cooked oatmeal into two an cupfuls flour. Combine mixtures, beat thoroughly and. let rise over night. In Hm morning fill buttqrgd “iron gel?- Omeletâ€"Beat four eggs 5“. oneâ€"half teaspoonful salt, teaSpoonful pepper and. fc spoonfuls milk. Put two 1: spoonfuls butter in a hot 0 melted turn in the Cook until creamy; ‘brown q derneath. Fold and turn I with a sauce. be strictly One ligg'ering kiss upon the lips so A FEW POINTS ON CANNING FRUITS. MY LITTLE BOY 30 initiates. four eggs slightly, add .onful salt, one-eighth a. little head is 1,. .e are looking into pepper finely chopped, five minutes. Add one and three-1 quarters cupful tomato and cook until the momture has nearly evaporated. then add one tablespoontul sliced muslin-00mg, one tablespoonful capers, onerqtuarter teaspoonful salt and a few grams cayenne. Buckwheat Cakeâ€"To oneâ€"third cup- ful tine stale bread crumbs add two cupfuls scalded milk. and 803k 30 min- utes; add one-half teaspoonful salt, one-quarter yeast cake dissolved in one-half cupful lukewarm water. and one and three-quarter cupfuls buck- wheat flour. Let rise over night. In the morning stir well, add one-quarter teaspoonful soda dissolved in one- quarter oupful lukewarm water, and one tablespoonful molasses. Cook on a hot griddle the same as griddle cakes. Serve with maple syrup. Kippered Earringsâ€"Remove her- rings from can and place in aplatter; sprinkle with pepper, brush over with lemon juice and butter, and pour over the liquor left in can. Heat thorough- ly, and garnish with parsley and lem- on. French Fried Potatoes-Wash and pare small potatoes, cut in eighths lengthwise and soak one hour in cold water. Drain, dry and try in deep fat. Drain on brown paper and sprinkle with salt. Broiled. Tripe â€" Wipe honeycomb tripe as dry as possible, dip in cracker dust and oil or melted butter, and again in cracker dust. Broil five min- utes, spread with butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper- wun salt and pepper. Coffeeâ€"Have a clean pot scalded out and the best brand of coffee. To one cup of ground coffee add abeaten egg and the crushed shell. Dilute the coffee and egg with one-half cup of cold water. Then pour on six cups of boiling water and boil three minutes, closing the spout with crumpled pa- per. After this turn a little coffee out and pour back into the pot and settle with one-half cup of cold water. Set on the back part of the stove for ten minutes before serving. POT ROAST AND BUTTERMLLK. Farmers' wives cook too much bacon, says a writer. I find occasionally a piece of beef boiled or roasted and slic- ed cold is a welcome change in diet. It can be cooked in the cool part of the day. if gravy is wanted, save the juice and thicken at dinner time. We are very fond of a “pot roast." Boih a nice piece of beef or mutton, very tender, and boil down almost dry, then try brown in the kettle, in its gravy. Turn often. \Vhen it is brown all over, take up and thicken the gravy. Some people object to pie, but two or three fresh pies baked in the morning are delicious for dinner. Stale pies are not good. Boil plenty of potatoes at noon. ChOp and fry in butter or meat fryings for supper. Buttermilk is a good warm weather drink. Have all the vegetables that you want to use brought in before the sun shines hot, and peas, beans, beets and onions can be gathered and prepared :the evening before they are to be used. I can rest luxuriously and shell peas or «string beans in the evening. I like to have everything as cool and inviting as possible, after the long, hot siege that the men have had in the field. Do not for anything have them eat in the warm kitchen. A lovely place to eat can be made under the shade, with mosquito netting. I can rememâ€" ber long years ago we would eat out on the porch, or in the shade, but I want‘ the flies and other insects shut out. Conditions of She Decoration-Sufi“,- for Twenty Years. The question asked frequently by volunteers as to the conditions of the long service medal, granted to the 0010. nial volunteers, is covered by the Gen- eral Order setting forth the “Condi- tions of Warrant of the Colonial Aux- iliary Forces Officers’, non-commmis- sioned officers, and men also, Decora- tion, Victoria, R. I.” II V“, V-v‘â€"~ , It proves hat the decoration shall be granted to officers, non-commis- sioned officers, and men of the militia and volunteers, except the permanent force, and headquarters.or district staff, serving in the colonies, who have served continuously for twenty years; ten years service in the ranks to count for officers; service on \K est African double; service in one ly in another to count ' the entire period; ten in volunteers of Great The clause in the as special reference years’ service Britain to count. regulation that h to Canada is:. v"-* St the Dominion la‘tions thus sat for the YQIUEtee‘ Say, y catch What’ll I0! W’yâ€"W’Y- 11" LONG SERVI n v E MEDALS. '9 July 27, 1899. catch. Sir Edward Russeil, whc is writing a series of articles giving his reminis- cences in the Liverpool Post. of which he is the editor, n-mde a remarkable The Queen has no politics. on course not. Yet she has had and must have. Most people think that the his- tory of her politics is quite to her hon- or, even it her Majesty has not always been right ;. and at all events it is eas- ily understood. Probably if her politics were to be defined at the present mo- ment she might be classed as a Whig- Unionist. She began as a Whig under Lord Melbourne, to whom she was in- finitely indebted for political tuition and training. She remained Liberal in her tendencies until the time of Dis- raeli’s first Premiership, and it may probably be assumed that if she be- came Tory at all, it was because her natural sense of the greatness of Great Britain abroad was stimulated by Lord Beaconsfield's stately and politic addiction to that cult. "But I have a story about the Queen which leads me to write down these things. The..5tory is trueâ€"or at least 1 have good reason to believe it to be true, although nobody shall drag from me, my authority. That authority is not Lord Rosebery, and no more will I .say about it. The story is that when Lord Rosebery was resigning office the Queen earnestly and almost affection- ately begged him not to turn Conser- vative. This is the more remarkable because it occurred at the time when Lord Rosebery had been attacking the House of Lords with a logical vehe- metnce, which if it had been better supported by his party would have led to a great revision of the powers of that _.assembly. “What the anecdote undoubtedly means is this: The Queen sees with alarm, as anybody who thinks enough about the matter must, the prospect of the whole aristocratic section of the community passing over to the Tory side. This is a danger that has been overlooked by the Duke of Dev- onshire, by the Marquis of Zetland, and by all the great \Vhig nobles, who have all bwt passed over to the Tory Bide. “Her Majesty dreads any condition of things in which the whole of the commonalty would be ranged against the whole of the aristocracy in a war- fare which could not fail seriously to damage every political and national interest.” Fabulous Prices Paid for Rare Specimens allow the English Aquariums Arc Re plmlsiu-d From the Slate». Many aquariumls in England are per- iodically replenished from a gold fish “ farm," in Shelby County Indiana, about: thirty miles from Indianapolis. It is the largest gold fishery in the world. Fitted with a costly propagat- ing plant, the “farm," produces the finest specimens possible. Innumer- able small ponds are connected by nar- row channels or sluice ways, in which the flow of water is controlled by wa- ter gates. The ponds are constructed with care- ful regard for depth, size, height of embankment, and amount and kind of shrubbery on the banks. The most careful consideration is given to these details, for it has been demonstrated that they all, each and collectively, in- fluence the health and development of the fish, and the perfecting of the colo’r, without which the coldfish is valueless. Immediately after it is hatchedthe goldfish is very much like any com- mon every-day minnow, and there is nothing in its appearance to indicate the glorious hues it will afterwards assume. For more than a year it has a dull, whitish, silvery look, which gradually gives place to the shadings and blotches of color so well known by fanciers. It is the sun that creates the deli- cate tints. [f a fish is kept in the shade from infancy it will always re- tain its youthful, silvery color, and will be a very ordinary, and in fact worth- less fish, but if it is allowed to bask in sunny shallows and to lie with its sides exposed on pebbly ripples, its scales will absorb the rainbow tints of the sunlight refracted through wavelets of crystal‘water. Odd and rare colors and spots and blotches are the kind of markings most preferred. Unusual shapes in the fish are also very much sought after and invariably bring high figures. In physical development the tail is the great favorite of nature, for it is that appendage that receives the most attention. Fish with two, three, four and even five tails are not uncommon, and a few specimens with six tails have been known, but they are rare. These abnormal developments are al- ways accompanied by the most bril- liant hues, and have been known to bring almost fabulous prices. Old Doctorâ€"Don’t do it. You should never give your patients an opportun- ity to discover how well they can get along without you. -â€" QUEEN AND POLITICS. A GOLD \FISH FARM, HALF OF A STEAISBIP MADE INTO A WHOLE ONE. new the Milwaukee Wu Blown M and a New Seem: Put on Ier. There has just been launched from a. shipyard at Newcastle on Tyne the most singular ship that has ever breasted the waves. It is the result of what the shipmen call a maritime miracle, and it has been constructed on lines that were never before dream- ed of by shipbuilders. GREAT MEGHANIBAL FEAT. It is a ship one haLfi of which has sailed the ocean for years and carried insight: to far off countries, while the other half now touches deep water for the first time. So successful has been this experiment that beyond doubt it will be tried again when opportunity serves. The ship spoken of is the Milwaukee which was wrecked on the Cruden Scars, on the Scottish coast, last fall. and which was given up for lost by the salvage and insurance men. The forward half, being wrecked beyond hope of saving, was blown off with dynamite, and the stern halt towed into port, where a new how has been joined, making the ship as good as new: Some think that she is better than new, on the ground that light- ning never strikes twice in the same place, and that the ship, having been wrecked once, will never be wrecked 0. second time. had never been done before was proof sufficient that it could not be done now, said the old fagies, but. neverthe- " less, the launching has proved that it 'is an absolute success and that a new feature in the salving of vessels has been introduced to the world. HALF THE SHIP SAVED. f‘The steamshp Milwaukee was own- ed by Elder, DempSLer 8: Co., of Liver- Kpool," said one of the firm in describ- ing the work just completed. “She was one of the largest. cargo steamers afloat. She "was a good, Staunch boat. or she never would have held together as; she did, and to-day she is as good. if not better, than new. The Mil- waukee sailed from the Tyne on the morning of September 15 last, bound for New Orleans in ballast. She went ashore, while going at full speed, on Crude-n Scars, near Aberdeen, Scotland at four o’clock the following day. “Divers reported that there was a rock thirty feet long standing up eight feet through the bottom of the vessel in the main hold. It was decid- ed to cut the vessel at the after end of the: main hatch, or some fifty feet forward of the stokehold bulkhead, which remained intact, and kept the after end free from water. This space included the engines and boilers. Failure was freely prophesied for this unique piece of work in the mar- ine engineering line. The fact that it “The severing was then commenced and] was done by means of charges of dynamite applied to the shell plating, tank topsy decks and swingers, each charge being spread over a length of from four to six feet, the charges be- ing varied in accordance with the thickness of pfa'te to be cut, one es- pecially troublesome one taking no less than 1-10 pounds of dynamite to sever it. One charge, unfortunately, blew in the watertight ,door in the boiler room bulkhead, the water rush- ing in and flooding the engine and boiler rooms. _ , PARTS FITTED EASILY. “Although this strong door was blown bodily out the bulkhead remain- ed uninjured, which speaks volumes for its strength and for the spiendid manner in which it was built. This accident deiayed the operations for three days, until an oak pad was put over the opening left by the door and the water puniped out of the engine space. But on a Sunday the after end was floated off, leaving about 180 feet of the forward end to be broken off by the winter seas, which are so heavy on that part of the coast: â€"â€"v St “The after end was taken in tow to the Tyne, the engines in the vessel herself assisting by going slowly astern the whole way. After a pas- sage; of about two days she arrived in the Tyne, where a new fore end has been built. The work of reconstruct- ing the steamer is now completed. The new fire end has been built on one of the builder's slips and launched in the ordinary way, a temporary wood- en bulkhead having been built at the open end to keep it afloat. The after end was taken into dry dock at Walls- end' and set in position on the blocks, all the water ballast tanks in the dou- hle bottom and a large deep tank be- ing filled up with water to insure this ogca'remain‘ing on the blocks and not floating when the forward and light- er draughted portion was floated ”When everything was ready the fore end was floated in, set in the right position‘ and the water pump- ed out. When it was found that the two halves joined together exactly the work was rapidly finished, and it is expected that Milwaukee will be com- pleted and ready to commence work again about the end of July." Nellie, said 'a mother to her little daughter, I wish you would run over and see how old Mrs. Smith is. She hag. been quite ill‘ in. Why, Nellie, said the astonishcs mother, what did you ask her? Just what you told me to, replied the little innocent, I " old her you want- ed toknow how ‘015 aha was. » In a. few minutes Nellie came rm’ ning back and reported. She said t tell you jg _w_as none of_ ‘your busipess SLIGHTLY MIXED.