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at about twenty inche° from the cei ing the white is Shirred and meets i extending further to be gathered in big rosette in the centre Good gaffects can be secured with pink and \yhztg cheesecloth, the pink gath- ered In {my folds for thé walls, and at about twemv inchpo frnm nu. “:1 An ingenious young woman bought a roll of m1.tting. pliable and jointless, with diamonds of blue here and there This, with a lot of picture moulding from a 3:511 factory, a paper of brads, a stepl idder and considerable patience helped to change a rather ugly little room. Another room has been arranged byE its owner as it. sort of mermaid’s cave, the walls of stucco, covered with clan.l shells pressed into the plaster and tint- : ed a soft green. The ceiling is drap-: ed with fish nets hung on spears. A: whaler's lantern and a narrow painted; frieze of red crabs heighten the illu-g sion. ? Japnese umbrellas have long been‘ uSed to cover an ugly ceiling. L..nterns ‘ have also been used. but they are not‘ so pretty as the soft, bright cr.pes;. and chintzes which m..ke looking up-j, ward a pleasure. « ’« OVERHEAD FURNISHINGS. Floor and ceiling of a room should be. as pretty see the walls and in a like scheme of color. Some summer art stu- dents who have a mountain cottage have mide its walls of. rough plaster colored a dull brown, which shzdes on the ceiling into a grtiyish green. Along the walls at the height of the picture rail. are narrow boxes, made of rich boughs, full of wood earth. In the are German ivy roots, the tendrils trained in a spider web of green wires, ; which spreads across the ceiling i meat, or fish. Cooked potatoes admit of such a variety of methods of rte-serving that not a M1311) ever need be wasted. Left over portions of mashed potatoes should be packed closely in a cup or small bowl, directly after the meal, then cut in slices and browned in hot butter or Lard. They may be mixed with beaten egg. made into balls and browned in the oven. Or used as a crust for a small pie of warmed over WHAT TO' no WITH POTATOES. Potatoes that have been left over from dinner or breakfast may be utili- zed in inany ways. Boiled potatoes may be fried brown in butter in which a teaspoonful of minced onion has first been tried until yellow, then season with salt, pepper and parsley. Cut in slices pnd browned in hot tat. or stewed in milk with parsley. ' Cut in half inch dice and warmed in milk, seasoned with butter, salt, pep- per and parsley. Mixed with drawn butter or white: sauce, seasoned with chopped celery.or l with crumbled cheese, covered with buttered cracker crumbs and baked until the crumbs are brown. Or mixed with sliced beet, yolks of hard eggs, parsley, onion, and lettuce, and served with French dressing. Sweet potatoes may be browned in butter, or sliced, buttered, or sugared, : and browned in the even. i A gcvd way to brighten a carpet is to put half it tumbler of spirits of tur- vpentine in a b..sin of water, and dip your broom in it and sweep over the carpet once or twice, and it will re- store the color and brighten it up un- til you would think it new. Another good way to cleun old carpets is to rub them over with meal; jIISt damp- en it a very little, and rub the carpet with it, and when perfectly dry, sweep' over with meal. After a carpet is thoroughly swept, rub it with acloth dipped in water and ammonia; it will! hrighten the colors and make it look like new. i Heavy capers sometimes do not re- quire taking up every yelr, unless in constant use. Loosen the edges, fold the carpets b-ck, wash the floor in strong suds. With a tablespoonful of borax dissolved in them. Dash with insect powder, or lay with tobacco leaves along the edge, and retack the carpet. Or use turpentine, the enemy of buf- falo moths, carpet worms, and Other in- sects that injure and destroy carpets. Mix the turpentine with pure water in the proportion of three tablespoon- fuls to three quarts of water, and then, _ after the carpet has been well swept,§ go over each breadth carefully With, a sponge dipped in the solution and wrung nearly dry. Change the water a soften as it becomes dirty. The car- C will be nicely cleaned, as well as sinfected. All moths can be kept away and the eggs destroyed by this means. Spots miy be removed and re- novated by the use of ox-gall or am- monia and water. and pram a hot flatiron over it; but the best way is to take the carpet up and clean it, and give a careful at- tention to the floor. Look in the cracks, and if you discover signs of moths, wash the floor with benzine, and scat- ter red pepper on it before putting the carpet lining down. MOTHS 1N CARPETS. If you fear that they are at work at the edge of the carpet, it will sometimes suffice to lay a wet towel, W”... and other facilities; f more than £5000,00. _ The number and extent of the reefs promise not only a steady increase in the rate of production, but also furnish indications of its pernianency. The township of Wyalong, which occupies a site practically uninhabited in 1893, now boasts of a population 0! about 7,- 000, Court House, public ‘and private schools, branch bank, church. pubiic‘ _ --~-_- qu\V WCU“ later the population had increased to about 300, of which between thirty were on payable . 1855 the quantity of gold. obtained w £5,497 ounces; in 18:16 it was 33,159; ounces; and in 18:17, 34,370 ounces, being, the largest auriferous output as of any goldfield in the colony, the next! richest being Hillgrove, with 31,886! ounces. The total yield. from the,: Wyalong goldfield from ' " ' at the end of 1893 up to th been estimated at 130,000 ounces, with; more than £sooo.oo- ‘ uuuwer 01 clauns worka 300, of which between thirty were on payable 18.35 the quantity of gold 25,497 ounces; in 16:16 . ounces; and in 18:7, 34,370 the largest anrifnrnno m. Other discoveries followed, and afew days later systematic prospecting operations were commenced. Fresh linds were made, and ultimately Mr. Neeld and his sons decided upon hoist- :ing the red flag and pegging out their claims. This was done on Sept. 18, ‘18.:3. and no sooner had the discovery .been reported than the news spread 'lixe wildfire. numbers of men riding {the same .night towards the scene of} 'the gold discoveries, in order to secure claims wherever possible. In J anuary,l 1894, there were over five hundred men: following March I FRAGMENTS 0F QUARTZ. This was the beginning “August, 1893, and he at, once; commenced prospecting, In J uly. 1893. a Victorian colonist. named Neeld, and his family, being de- sirous of obtaining alarger area of land for settlement than was possible under the Victorian land laws, crossed the River Murray and made their way to Wyalong, 338 miles south of Sydney, where asuitable area of land was secured. Mr. Neeld, who had had con- siderable experience on the Bendigo, Ballarat, and other Victorian gold fields, was speedily impressed by the auriferous conditions of the district, his attention being attracted by num- erous ironstone nodules and loose ulstory of the “'ynlong Gold Fluids, In New South Wales. The romance of Australian gold min- !ing is not inaptly illustrated by the history of the \Vyalong gold field, in New South \Vales. Less than seven years ago it was simply a grazing dis- trict, consisting largely of Crown lands held on lease by pastoralists, the; level nature of the country, covered with red soil and scrub, causing it to be neglected by prospectors, although the Temorag old field, with its busy population, was only forty miles dis- tant. I 1 GOOD EGGS IN SUMMER. Slake a peek of fresh lime in water and when cool dilute it with addition- ?al water to make a barrelful. When F this is well settled and perfectly Clea; [have a barrel sweet and clean and gently put the eggs in the bottom so that none are broken or cracked. Then pour the clear lime water over the eggs to level. Over them lay a piece of mus- lin larger than the top, and tuck it in: all around so as to put above it the soft lime to the thickness of half an inch. Cover this with water and move the barrel in a, cool place, then eggs for any emergency are at hand all sum- mer. It is needless to say that for breakfast, one should always have them an nt‘tturel, from the nest as soon as possible - The housewifes frock, when engag- ed in such duties, should be a. skirt of print or some washable material, made quite short. Over it may be worn a ;sort of combined waist and apron, pre- ferably of gingham. A shirt waist made rather scantier in front than usual is supplemented by a long apron: of two breadths. One half of it is sew- ed to the belt, the other half over the left side. attached to a belt..of its own. This apron saves the sleeves of the ordinary waist worn with the usual ; bib apron, and is likewise cooler. It} is only a moment s work to slip off this novel arrangement and don a cool fresh shirt waist. !oeem lower, but it is novel and cheer- IN JELLYIN G TIME. Canning and jelly making have been begun. All fruits should be plucked before they are ,very ripe, and on a clear, dry day. Four or five common playing marbles in boiling fruit juice. as they move about on the bottom of the sauce pan will preclude the neces- sity of constant stirring in order to prevent scorching. ROMANCE OF GOLD MINING. u was a great rush to the 1 about. three weeks later (ion had increased to about many subsequently left, heâ€" . v “C "v...” ”mu wooed. and never fed oréfiake after that one in Si . improved. The povery of such men is eauty. . . . the most Estressing. and is at the same . The fest1v1t1es lafit three < time a lezss'm to young men who have mg which all ijiends and theOOpportunity to farm on 51 more in- celebrate a hohday. _â€"v-“a. mu «[5 (ll time a lesson to young men the opportunity to farm on a telligenr busis. The anegfirm'" A f the unfortunate resuits defld‘id- ,hShOUId she 0f failing to understand the necessny 3.321;)ng e ‘ of improving the soi1,afeature of our 2 t daft agriculture that forces itself on the en 5 S ay er supper, an attention of thinking men, and one bargain With the young 1: that will not change for the betterlover a bottle of good‘yod] till farmer recognize the necessity of? A {31031 peculiar thing that one in Size _ I . ° : hpan+w win its natural fertility, and when he most needs help from the soil it isa robber in turn, drawing from him th declining strength of old age in his â€"'â€" -.q \ on soil imprrov ume of crOps ement only as the vol- is increased; on build- ings erected, as soon as they can be placed 011 the tax dnn‘linafn “ :a .m; f In the older sections of the country, :the first improvement should be in the land itself, the other improvements fol- lowing in course of time, as the pro~ ducts of the soil prove able to support them. It is the part of wisdom to im- prove the soil first, rather than put on surface improvements in the way of buildings and fences. The former when once started is cumulative, and in the hands of a farmer able to make the start, the improvement is rapid, and profitable. The surface improve-1' ments are not cumulative, in value,, but rather in expense. We pay taxes’ . | on soil improvement only as the vol-,3 _â€"â€".â€"â€"â€". -â€" vâ€"v -“r‘v' van-av“; _ . those flocks of farm homes, if every farmer fully yards insteai expected to spend his days on the farm. er free raj There is much difference between the quired of co improvement that looks only to com- confinement mercial value, when selling is the only in the incree object, and improvement made for the in the cost I comfort and happiness of the owner. Leghorns 1 Many things considered as improve- ish and Houd ments in this direction by some have an extra deg no commercial value whatever in the provide them eyes of others. The improvement add- mg to satisl ed to the farm by the owner, who where their] must make his living from it: Will lymouth RC often differ very much from that of long to the - the owner who has an income from 0th- and will 8in er sources. When the farmer earns the em for confine improvements as he goes along, they 1' The Brahmas are usually noticeable for their uti1-' . . . 'f ' f : zty, and are fully apprecmted. But if airylsdoorbggtlia built for show, or because money is! plentiful, they too often become a bur- ; than any 0th .1... One fact stands very much against the improvement of farms in the hands of many owners; this is the ex- peCLation of so many to leave the farm some time, and have a home in the village or town. Much more inter- est’would‘ be taken in the improvement self, he will not attach much value to them, even.if they" are costly struc- tures. When lands thrown on the market are bought to addto pasture areas, the purchaser, in most cases, pre- fers the improvements to be in some other form than fine buildings. Clean fields and good fences please him more. In the improvement of new land, muscle originally counted for more than brains. Now, a new order of things must rule in the old sections of the country. Original ferl;ilit5’-"in the mainâ€"has been exhausted, or al- lowed to escape. With the careful far- mar/the buildings om land to be pur- chased are only," valued according to the actual use to be made of them. If he does not expect to occupyfthem him- 5 self and family. No thought was had looking to the improvement of the soil. Then a farmer’s skill, in a great mea- sure, was accredited to his ability to clear and fence land, and the build- i385 PM up added to the value of the holding. Improvements in the way 0f buildings, in a newly-settled section, .aIWays add much to the value of the land. ‘ It should be the aim of every man owning and operating a farm to im- prove it in some way, writes John M. Jamison. Formerly, when these farms of ours were in the hands of the ori- ginal owners, improvement meant something very different from what it means now. Then the effort was to get the land in condition t0“be cul- tivated, and to erect such buildings as the farmer must have to shelter him-l WW‘WW WAW EAgI‘icultural Of all the strange customs of foreign t .nations those that strike us to be most ipeculiar are the marriage customs of tgthe Russian peasants. It is the aim 7i r ‘of every young peasant: to acquire for ”himself a wife that will be a suitable alaid both in the field and in the kit- 1 ! . i§lady and her taste of dress and furni- ':'ture is little considered, but insteadli ’g'the dispatch with which she can per-Q 'iform her daily duties. And in the? .following peculiar way her ability inf lthat line is obtained. ; l The parents of the young man decidei that a certain young lady would 'mtke a suitable mate for him. They; ‘say nothing about the matter to any : one, but on some evening they willi idrop around unexpectedly to the pros~z 'work speedily; if she goes neatly and. cleanly about her plate she will per-f form her work neatly and cleanly; if: she does net talk much she will ' ' ‘ noc continually; business, and if eds to clean up' meal she will 1 “tr husband and 3 pry into her husband’s she immediately proce the dishes after the _,__ â€"vvâ€"-°v' Leghorns, Hamburgs, Minocras, Pol- ish and Houdans are true rangers, and an extra degree of care is needed to provide them with litter for scratch- ing to satisfy their restless natures where their nagge is a small one. The Mymouth Rocks and Wyandottes be- long to the middle class, as it were, and will give great satisfaction eith- er for confinement or on a free range. The Brahmas and Cochins are strictly fowls for confinement and will natur-i ally do better under that condition than any other class. i BEST BREEDS OF CHICKENS. The difficulties of poultry raising may be overcome in a measure by the you should choose those breeds which may be kept in confinement with best results. The suburban residents pro- 'duce a large proportion of the poul-' try and eggs consumed in this country. 'The farmer, as a” rule, keeps one flock on a farm with less satisfaction than he who takes care of one in confine- ment. The best egg records are from those flocks which have been kept in yards instead of having an altogeth- er free range. More labor is re- quired, of course to manage flocks in confinement. yet this is made up for in the increased egg yield and saving in the cost of the range. 1 gen. He should gain instead of lose upon the investment, to say nothing of preventing a possible loss in his orchard. Clean cultivation with a har- row to maintain a loose surface, will prevent this trouble by making the roots go deeper into the soil for their food and,moisture. It would be better to part with the straw at a loss than to jeopardize the life of the orchard. But the farmer can buy and feed afew extra stock to eat part and trample down the rest of the straw, and thus form good man- ure with no loss of the straw’s nitro- in doubt as to how to dispose of his surplus straw. He frequently comes to the conclusion that he should spread it in the orchard, under the impres- sion that it will act as a mulch, then decay and become available to the roots of his trees. Thic is a three-fold mistake. First, the straw, though theoretically worth about 83 a ton as manure, loses much of its nitrogen when it is compelled to decay as slow- ly. as it does when spread in this way. Second, it becomes a harbor for mice and other vermin, which, particular- ly if the orchard is a young one, may render great damage by gnawing and perhaps girdling .the trees. Third, it keeps the upper layer of soil moist and thus encourages the growth of roots near the surface. This is dan- gerous to the life of the tree, since should the mulch be removed at any time, or should an unusually dry spell occur, the roots could not exchange their then dry position for a deeper one supplied with water. QUEER RUSSIAN CUSTOM. place in tie, fall 5 been gathered, hing about the s the fact that r the church both :3 a dash for the the pulpit. It three- days, dur- l Dung man decide matter to any and in the kit- '36 choice to his ' of the young dress and furni- ee dBS’S, dur- Lnd relatives The bride is the brightest all colors and a new fur tied With a he. marriages he fall, after teur singer. \Vhy? ‘When I have a cold I‘m When I get well I'm 319‘“ never tell whether to pract Diver,” or “ Sally in Our Alb vâ€" Vuv tract (CW Croesus said "in sortin them "Y‘r' and Dieking out the b] lac teans. M" they are extra quality and 3V9 5““ sell them at an extra price.” the It was some years later when Pennsylvanian 011 fields began “ Rockefeila Yield their treasures, that 11 refine!!! V‘ \‘K 1‘», re: 0rd fortune. Frcm a - i1 beans to a fortune of 3950000900 a great journey, and only has made it. 3 however, that Rockefeller first flou- 5 9‘1 11179 fortune: and on oil the bulk of git sull floats. In his oil industry ‘alone the muiti-millionaire employ! an army of 25.030 men. to whom he pays. three and three~quarters of 8 mrlhon unds eVery year in wagefi :npne 0 his men earning less than i e‘g‘ht Shillings a dav. His vii-“118°” . niumber 7,000: he has 20’! steamerbij! 3 °‘â€"}‘t1'?vnp0rt., 20,030 miies of pipe-11005 and uses every year 4,000,090 barrel! and 400,000,000 five-gailon cans. : The nursery of this colossal 1'0? » tune, the eighth wonder of the worm. :was a small warehouse, which W‘ 'on a modest sign-Eward the 11am?! g"BOL'kefeIEer an'i Hi-M'RL” AD 3:333 fmend of the milliumire still recal'fi the days When he used to find Rafi: â€"oâ€"..---.. a- .-..â€"-â€" teller sorting barrels of bean§ W. as much zeal as he now (115933-35 {n I have I“ managing his millions. . H 111 my spare time, day and mght 0 the Past few Weeks." the (0111‘:er U I Croesus said. "in sorting 3mm \‘mv Croesus said, "in sortin and picking out the blac- thcm 0v beans.:‘ they are extra quality and W 5h‘ sell them at an extra pm 99 ce. You see, he said I was. a 1001‘ Yep. ' . And then I soaked him. M‘hm. And that was Where I proved lions are invested in oil, five minions each in iron mines and railway S? Curities. more than three millionsm real estate £1,6002000 in Mt stock, a million each in lead and n?- tunal gas, and nearly five millions 1n steamships, municipal gas, and 01138! securities. 1885, it had grown to $310,000,080; m 1890, to £20,0011,000,00U; andthis year it BXCGBdS £50,(>OU.000. Between 1870 and 1875 Mr. Rockefeller’s wealth grew at the rate of nearly pwenty thousand pounds a year, dur- mg the next ten years the annual in- crease was nearly one miilion pounds; between 1885 and 1890 it progressed at the rate of £23.000,000 8 193T; and since 1890 it has added to itself over £3,000,000 sterling every year; ”Of this £50,000,000, thirtywmll- As recently as 1870 John D. Rocke- feller had only made half of his dreamed of £20000. Five yearslater his £10,000 had become 182000002111 A“ every year. He might give away hi, own Weight in sovereigns every work. ing day of the year, and still hisin. come for fifty-two Sundays would place him among the men whose an- nual revenue runs into six figurea Every three days his income alone exceeds the £20,030 of his boyish dmams, he wakes every morning more than £12,000 richer than when he retired to bed; while he is smok- exohequer; and while he is sipping his morning cup of coffee he present: himself with five £5 notes. Three hundred horses would find their strength faxed to draw the in tons of gold he has accumulated in thirty-five short years; and eight re giments of soldiers would find it difii cult to carry them away. With his sovereigns he could mike sixteen piles, each as high as Mont Blanc; or he could make a golden foomathn foot wide, along which he might walk from Charing Cross to Brighton yearly‘ fincome would still be to create From THE NATION? STORY. CONFUSING IT WAS ON OIL Ran-e1 of Ly a sovereign every mm- life, night and day. hi. ave Potatoes Who (in: fool. it. i'Blta‘ sufficiem Uplomatic, that without. thrown; their cards on the table, and thus re- ““118 their hand, they can force the m ‘0 80 any way they will. Jeri-j 0'18 husbands are very quick to eee when their Wives really adore Lhemy "16 them alone, and the woman we) 5‘ the Victimized wife of a jealous men instead of scorning his weakness, d9es Well to be lenient toward it, and wu- der, remembering that her con-jug:f 'tscure, or, on the ether e .111. are wives who argue falsely that When their husbands cease {0 9w Jealous they also cease to love hm mth the Passionate term: at the firs‘ 3 are 0f married life. Never was a more absurd miSfake. 01' a truth, only the woman who his :1 known “10 Fangs of jeaiousy '»-.';:'.1.2 8° argue. Jealousy has been known to kil; 1w»- mo’ It 8398 the strength and v.31:- ‘m the."itfitlity of the heart. though It does invariably imply 9 find real hot love, too, it shouid‘ he: finenched by the sufferer and the 939â€"; 1°“ 0‘ his or her devocion. Love 1-».-. W' be Wfietain of it, and more truiy W re the green-eyed [11"0': “‘1’ has been killed. ' In a sign of love, and it makes in unit! 0f thought and feeling Chi would exist between husband am Wife a hollow mockery. It is the wife's part to cure Line Banker. Women are so delicately eun- ‘ifiVO and so wonderfully wise and Sipbmatic, that without. throwing r“ a L. ARE YOU JEALOUS. After marriage jealousy should be striven against just as one baLles With fever or any other kind of da- case. It creates misunderstandings by tho hundreds; it chiils love, though LL The men are the pick of a skating nation, and they are commanded Lay an airâ€"champion, They are capable _:f traveling 80 miles a day on the ice, fully equipped. For patrol and scout duty they are orpected' to be of the greatest use, as the. ice season in Norway is of consid- erable duration. The corps can be manoeuvreq' «Mg; a rapidity equal to that of Lhe mm. trained cavalry, and at a men: re- viewâ€"on one of the fjordsâ€"their evo- lutions astonished the mimary Lepre- mtatives of other natiuns who were inzited to witness the diaplay. The Norwegian army has lately Jr- ganized a highly trained corps of :kd-L- era. The men are armed with mpg-m- incrifles. They wear a Speciaiiy cm- Itructed skate evolved afLer numerous eXperiments with various types. he. heel is 80 shaped as to enable the {11%;} to turn with great rapidiLy. A: 4 matter of fact they perform the ‘ 13.); about” in much quiqk-ar time {bun ul- tantry, Spinning round as thong.) :1 a pivot at. the Word of command. Recently. however. Lhe new 53.3 taken from Henschan's relauve a“; begun to coptract, drawing the am: up an that 1t has become almost en- mely useless, the commotion being .0 gradual that It was 23021er 9.3-- capable. fiat one remedy lemmas, and that us to remove the shriveumg skin and put other skin in its plum. The union, if Consented LO by we patiant, will be a; difficult. one and m- quire skilful handhng. flown-Organized Crops for Scout and my. krl [Duty in “inscr. W “0“ "m “4 NOW the .Da“. f mu ’ .9: Safer Alerter .‘l‘rlalâ€"Imcr. ‘1‘: a! I ”ma! we- 3 J W Margot Cincinnati, was} ‘1 burned about the back, shoul- Q 1 w. ”a right arm on February 25 He i 1 “y for weeks in the City HOSPiZaZ a; i ’ ' ° 1, of death, but gradually ms we?” ' wounds began to hear, my the 6:09?“ _ - ‘ uded the arm of alums: mole of skin. The smbbozn offered by these Wound: known remedies {inâ€"11;.- physicians to make a. 5km. ‘ As quite a large quanuoy J: ‘ 1e Was required to cover 54 ex- WW0 an area the physicians were a; “loss to know where L0 Obtain m, In this dilemma Hanschan's 5:31.33 volunteered to supply it. and “fluid have done so had not. a brorher-in-mw flopped forward and made Lhe sacri- fic. iUnder all known 35¢;me “ch u- h skrn was removed {mm {raft nuticu dons eroug the brother-in-law'a thigh :0 WW: the surface. After this Lhe heaizng ...z‘ the wounds went rapidly on, and Live. discharged {rum Lhe zn- : ‘ patient was ' less than a month 11“,“- satanic-n in ward- ‘ : 1.“--.Annp vha nous .:L.' n 1 ,I think NORWAY’S SKATING sown: Cal ' 'G. 1k FT A R G o SKIN F m 883 f the EVIDENTLY Hie bman who works at that the street is the m).<t gpmcmntious workman I away, Our! agl ha Lat S 6'