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VOL. 8.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FIUDAY, OCTOBER, 2, 1891.
NO. 40.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Mrs. Juno Adams was the first
wliito woman in l'acifio county.
Tho Beatllo MiniHtcrlal Angaria
tion hold a mootitiK to tako some
measures for tho suppression of
gambling.
Janios O'Brino and Joe Roo were
arrested ut Spokane for attempting
to burglarize the commission house
of h. Morgan.
Tucoma ladies, 100 in number.
have organized a Rainy Day Club.
Their frocks aro to be shortened to
the shoe-tops.
Albertson, the absconding cashior
of Die Fidelity bank at Tucoma,
has been captured. He took $20,000
of tho bank's money.
Tncoma is considered a suffi
ciently inviting field for another
daily newspaper ami tho Tucoma
Kvening Call has appeared.
Q raders are at work on the eastern
end of tho lake Washington branch
of the Jamcs stroet electric and
cablo line street railway at Seattle.
A Spokane firm has secured tho
contraot for tho steam heating and
ventilation of tho new public school
building at Cuiur d'Aleno City.
A special committee fur tho pur
pose of drafting an ordinance for
tho planting of trees and parking
of streets has been appointed in
Tacoina.
The coal output from tho Roslyn
and Rouald mine for the past week
has averaged about sixty cars per
day. The weekly output is steadily
increasing.
A match company is proponed
for fort Townsend, the parties who
were in Heattlo being desirous of
locating thero if two acres of land
and $10,000 bonus can be sub
scribed. The wholesale slaughter of prai
rio chickens and other gnmo is
arousing tho farmers of Lotah, and
many of them mean to do as others
have done, and mako use of abund- j
ant buckshot.
Mrs. George E. Wright, living five
miles south of Chewelah, last week
shot a bear weighing about 300
pounds in a thicket adjoining her
ranch. The bear had carried ofl a
young pig the previous night.
Tho Sodro Mercantile Company
of Sedro, have closed their doors.
Attachments to the amount of
10,000 have been filod against thorn,
and mortgages for $9000 more. Tho
liabilities of the firm are $25,000;
assets, $20,000.
A Kettle Falls silver claim is
being drugged into tho courts. A
short time ago Mrs. Kate Ringold
discovered a claim and named it
Hunch QriiHS. It was jumped soon
afterward by some parties who
named it Silver King,
Washington's hop yield should
be about G0,000 bales this season,
but owing to many unpropitious
circumstances it wtil probably bo
far short of this. Not more than 400
or 500 bales of last season's crop
yet remains in the state.
Great preparations aro being
made for the Lewis county fair,
which is to be held in Chchalts
October Gth, 7th, 8th and Oth. It
promises to bo tho best exposition
of Lewis county live stock and
agricultural products yet made
Spokano is to have a regularly
organized and regularly equipped
medical college, a maternity hos
pital and clinical lectures three
times a week, with freo proscriptions
to all who wish to avail themselves
of the benefits of the treatment.
A great wagon road scheme is
afloat for Western Washington. It
is to have a public highway from
the Straits of Fuca to the Columbia
rivor. This movement means a
coast road of nearly 300 miles in
longth extending across the state.
The Western Central Labor
Union, of Sealtlo, has called upon
the local White Cooks and Waiters'
Union to make good the loss of $1GC,
which it is claimed Iluucy and
Pcndcgast, delegates from tho latter
body, misappropriated from, the
dinner receipts on that day. .
The new steamer Victorian has
comnionccd running to Victoria.
Tho Olympian will take tho Seattle
Whatcom run in place of tho
Sohomo, which will bo laid up for
repairs. Captain A. 0. Andorson
will command tho Victorian and
Captain McAlnin, the Olympian.
A mining ootnpany is making
arrangements to ship a lot of
machinery to thoir mines fn tho
Monte Christo mining distriot about
the first of next month. The
maohinory will be shipped by boat
from Seattle via Mount Vomon to
Sauk City, thonco. hauled to tho
minesi
Xfanw vmvinra aro nflrmt. roifArdinflf
uViot. nnnma in be a. settled belief
that the Northern Pacifio Railroad
Company intends making a general
cleanup among its operatives. In
the recent dismissal of McGuane
o.wl MnrrHr two of the oldest men
on the road, the company at least
shows signs of carrying out the
rumor. -
OBEGON NEWS.
A forest fire has been raging on
tho Trask river for several days,
but is now undor control.
Thore sro now 120 newspapers in
Oregon. One over an averago of
four to each county in the state.
The hop yield of Oregon will be
about 10.000 bales short tliit year
on account of ravages by the hop
louso.
Thomas Smith, one 'of the early
pioneers of Grant county, was found
dead in his bed at his' ranch a few
miles above Canyon City.
L. Ralston, of Arlington, has
traded a third interest in his slock
farm for a fifth interest in the First
National bank of that city.
A geodetic survey is in progress at
the mouth of the Siuslaw river to
accurately determine the best
method of tho proposed improve
ments. Two hundred and eighty pupils
were reported at the opening of the
I'endleton public schools. It is
expected that this number will bo
increased to 350.
James Jones, of Heppner, was
arrested lust week, by Deputy
Shoriff J. P. Caflrey, for moving
scabby sheep from Grant county
without a permit.
An organized band of cattle
thieves are getting in their work on
tho honest cattlemen of Union
country. Eflorts have been mado
to locate the guilty parties, but with
no success.
Thore are to be a large number
of fruit trees planted in tho Siuslaw
country tho coming year. l ast
experience of fruitgrowers Bhows
that every variety can bo raised to
advantage and profit there.
Through the efforts of tho enter
prising miners in the Greenhorn
country the camps are all connected
by good wagon roads, ihey are
now turning their attention to their
shipping and mail facilities.
The statement that tho name of
Springfield, on the Oregonian road,
has been changed to Henderson, is
a mistake. The station on the
Southern Pacific, nearly a mile
from Springfield, is the ono called
Henderson.
Constantino Zimmerman, a Swiss
farmer, was in a Salem saloon drink
ing a glass of beer. After getting
ready to go home, he stepped out
into the alley a moment, when ho
was struck from behind, knocked
down and robbed.
An emigrant from Nebraska who
has just arrived at Eugene, has
been on the journey to the latter
place since May 24th. Three of his
horses died on tho way, and owing
to the high price of feed the trip
cost him $200 in cash.
Tho first stago ever arriving in
Greenhorn City, tho summit of
Greenhorn mountain, 900 feet above
tho level of the sea, was that which
conveyed Messrs. Clarke, Stewart
and Abrahams, of Portland, to
Oregon's great silver cump last
week. "
Tho people of Astoria are very
much pleased with the progress
being made with the government
works at tho jetty. They say that
tho long-talked-of bar is no longer
there and that the mouth of the
Columbia can take in the largest
Bhip that sails the Pacifio.
Arrangements are in progress to
change the present Astoria street
railway system into an electric
streot railway. The intention is to
begin work as soon as suitable poles
can be secured on which to string
the wires. A 100 horse power
engine and an eighty horse power
dynamo havo been ordered.
Cattlemen of Crook county feel
a little uneasiness regarding the
demand for beef this fall. The
supply of beef being greater than
was expected, thore is no certainty
that there will be a market for all
the beef in Crook county this season
and cattle-raisors may have to carry
thoir steers over another year.
One of tho largest ranches in
Eastern Oregon lies south of Hep
pner, in Morrow county. This
ranch is owned by William Penland,
and contains 20,000 acres of good
tillable and productive land. This
largo body of land is all under fenoo,
and affords excellent pasturage for
stock during tho entire "winter
season,
Mr. Hobson is engaged in cut
ting a road around tho cliffs below
Garibaldi, a dlstanco of threo-fout ths
of a mile, which when completed
will form nn extension to tho lilla
mook and Bay City road. When
this work shall have boon completed
one of the finest drives along the
Oregon road will be opened up to
all vohioles.
As a party of young mon were
returning to their homes, near
Baker City, the tongue of the
vohiclo in which they wore riding
dropped to the ground and the
horsos started on a mad run, throw
ing the aooupants to the ground
and injuring ono of them, Phil Col
lins by name, so seriously that his
oomrades fear he may not recover.
GENERAL NEWS.
Tho czar and czarina of Russia
celebrated their silver wedding Sep
tember 15th.
A dispatch from Messino, Italy,
says a destructive earthquake has
occurred there.
John B. Bowman, for many years
president of tho Kentucky Univer
sity, died at Harisburg.
Tho stock gambling firm of 8. V.
White & Co., of New York and
Chicago, have suspended.
Joseph Iloran and two Hungarian
laborers were killed by a fall of coal
in the Cayuga colliery at Scran
ton, Pa.
Ralph Stanley, of Carison, Nev.,
was killed by being struck in the
neck with a baseball while playing
a game.
Reports from all parts of North
Wales, England and South Scotland,
tell of irreparable damage to crops
by storms.
Louis Ortlg, who shot Police Offi
cer Lash at Reno, Nev., was taken
from tho jail by a mob of fifty men
and hanged.
Alexander Jacques, the French
faster at the Westminister Aquar
ium, London, has completed his
fifty-two days' fast.
The congressional party of Chili
is rejoicing everywhere over the
suicide of Balmaceda, tho fugitive
president of that country.
The German government intends
to repeal the restrictive passport
decree in Alsace-Lorrane and abolish
the regulations altogether.
A disastrous wreck occurred on
the Union Pacific road near Poca
tello September 18th. Five men
were killed and sevon injured.
The pope has sent a letter to the
German and Austrian Catholic
clergy urging them to make the
strongest effort to eradicate dueling.
The Holland minister of war,
Colonel Bcggansius, proposes a
period of enforced military service
similiar to that of the continental
countries.
Tascott, the alleged murderer of
Millionaire Snell, of Chicago, is said
to be with the Turtle Mountain
Indians, and to bo anxious to return
to Chicago. v
The authorities of Madrid are
troubled over the probabilities
of a plague that may be caused by
the stench arising from the bodies
of dead animals.
Charles Howard has been sen
tenced to ten years' imprisonment
for attempting to wreck the Penn
sylvania's limited mail in Indiana.
Ho confessed his crime.
A wild rush for lands in Ocla
homa was made when the time came
for filing on tho newly-opened Indian
lands. The first man to file papers
at tho land oflice stood in line three
days and nights.
Almost, all of the government
officials of Europe havo voluntarily
contributed a portion of their sal
aries to the famine funds. There is
public talk of bringing wheat from
America and Egypt.
Tho fire which swept over the
Sioux reservation, Saturday, proves
to have burned everything in the
line of hay, wheat in stacks, and
the ranges from the Cannon Ball
river to the Moreau river.
The Cretan situation is alarming,
partly on account of the oppressed
condition of the Cretans, but mostly
because of tho powerful influences
at work to compel the Greek gov
ernment to attack the porte.
The young Duke of Portland is a
horseowner and a betting man, hav
ing at times lost as much as $100,
000 in a day. Ho has immence
estates in Scotland, and is one of
the largest landholders in the
British kingdom.
Numerous ineondiarv fires are
rennrted as occurrinc in Russia.
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The starving peasants set buildings
on fire to sharo in the plunder of
such places. In tho Kloff district
ninety-six places wore burned in
two days. Many arrests have been
made. ,
Mrs. Jane Rowland, of San Fran
cisco, agod sixty-five years, was
knocked oil a trestle by a passen
ger train near Healdsburg, Califor
nia, and killed. She was crossing
the trestle when the train rounded
a curve, but could not be stopped
in time to save her.
Marion Cannon, state representa
tive of the farmers' alliance of Cal
ifornia, has issued a proclamation
to the members, announcing that
arrangements have been made with
President Polk to deliver a sories of
lectures in that state, commencing
at Sacramento on tho evening of
October 10th.
The covernment work at Newnort
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on tho jetty is still going forward
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Willi aooui au,uvw 10 carry inein
to the next appropriation. A hard
rnnfc la hnt hnrlno t.hpm nn tho north
side. In a few days they will be
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depositing rocs, on faye suuiu jtaiy,
as the hoisting works are nearly
ready for business.
HOUSEHOLD.
BLUEBERRY CAKE.
For one sheet of cake use one
generous pint of flour, half a pint
of milk, one gill of sugar, one egg,
two heaping teaspoonful of baking
powder, half a pint of blueberries
and two teaspoonsful of butter.
Mix the baking powder, sugar and
salt with the flour and rub through
a sieve; then work the butter
through the flour. Beat the egg
till light and add the milk to it.
Add this to the dry ingredient and
beat well. Now add the berries,
sterring as little as possible. Spread
tho mixture in a well buttered,
shallow baking pan having it about
an inch and a half thick. Bake in
a moderately quick oven for about
twenty-five minutes, and serve hot.
(1008EBERRY FIE.
Pick off the stems and blossoms
of your gooseberries, wash them
and pour enough boiling water over
them to cover them. Let them
stand a few minutes and then drain
them. Line your pie-plates with
paste, fill them with the fruit, and
add three-quarters of a pound of
sugar to a pint of fruit. Dredgo
a little flour over the top and
cover, with a lid of paste, leave
an opening in the center to permit
the steam to escape, and bake them.
SAUSAGES.
An agreeable change from the
usual manner of cooking is to make
into sausage. Take one pound of
beef, one quarter pound of suet,
chop it fine, and add a teaspoonful
of salt, a half teaspoonful pepper
and sage each; mix all thoroughly,
make into round cakes, dredge with
flour. Put two teaspoonful, of lard
or drippings into a pan, add a slice
of onion, cook until the onion turns
a delicate brown, then fry the cakes
quickly on both sides and serve hot.
RASPBERRY VINEGAR.
Take ripo rasberries, put them in
a pan, ana mash them with a large
wooden spoon or masher. Strain
the juice through a jelly bag, and
to each pint of juice add ono pound
of loaf sugar and one quart of
vinegar. When the sugar has dis
solved place the whole over the fire
in a preserving kettle, and let it
boil a minute or two and skim it.
When cold bottle it, cork it well,
and it will be fit for use.
BLACKBERRY CORDIAL.
Warm and squeeze the berries,
add to each one quart of juice two
pounds of white sugar, one ounce
of powdered cinnamon, one-half
ounce of mace, four teaspoonfulls
of cloves. Boil together for half
an hour, strain, and to each quart
add two iarge wineglassfuls of French
brandy, then bottle tightly. This
is a pleasant, safe and efficient rem
edy, taken a tablespoonful at a
time, for diarrhoea.
WARMED-OVER MEATS.
Hashes, if we choose to call them,
are by no means inferior dishes if
they are properly made. ihey
must not be cooked long, but simply
heated through, and so delicately
seasoned that no one seasoning will
predominate. Onion, if used, must
be chopped very fine. More than
one kind of meat may be combined
if there is not enough of one kind
to makB the required quantity.
TO PRESERVE PEAS.
Shell the peas, wash and scald
them in hot water. Drain them
and put into bottles, filling up each
bottle with a strong brine of salt,
or ihto close-covered earthen crocks;
at the top of each bottle pour a thin
layer of salad oil. Cork and seal
the bottles, which must be quite
full, and stand upright.
SMOTHERED MEAT.
The tough ends of sirloin steaks
and other pieces not fit for broiling
may be chopped, seasoned with Salt
and pepper, and a few bits of butter
and an onion, if liked. Put this in
a baking pan, covered with another,
and bake in a quick oven about
twenty minutes. ,
. GINGER COOKIES. ,
Two cups molasses, two cups
sugar. ' Put eight tablespoonfulls
boiling water into a cup and fill the
cup with melted butter, two tea
spoonsful ginger, two of salt and two
of soda.' Mix as soft as can be
rolled; roll thin as a knife-blade,
BLACKBERRY JELLY.
Soak one box of gelatine in
cold water to cover; add one quart
of hot water, two cupsful of sugar,
one quart of berries; flavor with
almond. Do not cook, but set away
to cool. Serve with whipped cream.
BERRY PUDDING). ,
Two ninfs VinrHtirripn fnnr
cups flour, three-fourth pint New
Orleans molasses, mm tnnnnnnn Bruin.
one-half teaspoon salt, one-half
teaspoon cinnamon. Koil in a but
tered mold or pail three hours.
The people of Union aro iubilat-
ing over the prospect of having a
woolen tactory m the near future.
STORY OF ft VIOLIN.
An Old Mnilclnn'. Ilarfaln with Coast
Wen-I Traottman.dorr.
A Stniner violin wa sold in Lubeck
recently for $750. Early In this cen
tury It was purulinncd for $100, which
was then considered a high price for it.
Since that time, however, the Talue of
Staincr Instruments hns risen so re
markably that the price paid in Lubeck
Is regarded as phenomenally low.
The most costly Stainer in the world
was sold in 1791 for $6,000, under these
curious circumstances. The German
Count Wenzul Trauttmaosdorf enter
tained at his castle Emperor Charles
VI.. King Frederick William of Prussia
and other Princes of high and low
degree, such as flooded Germany in
those dissonant days. For their pleas
nre he had arranged violin concert by
Faustina and Mauro Alessi. Alesi
played on a wonderful Cremona in
strument so exquisitely that be moved
the Couut to tears. After the first con
cert the Count determined that he
must have the Cremona for his own
private concert master. Ue offered
fabulous sums for it, but Alessi said he
would sooner sell his life, and so the
negotiations came to naught
The rumor of the Count's attempt to
get the Cremona went abroad, and
some week later an unknown old man
appeared at the castle door with a
worn and shabby violin case under his
arm. The servants refused to admit
him.
"Tell your master," he said to them,
"that heaven's music is waiting at bis
door."
The Count received him. The old
man drew from the unworthy case a
perfect instrument, the work of Jacob
stainer's own hand, and played it so
marvellously that the Count and bis
people forgot all about the Cremona.
The old man was willing to let his in
strument go on the condition that' he
might pass the rest of his life near it
and play it once daily. The haggling
as to the price lasted for two weeks, at
the end of which the Count got the
Stainer by agreeing to give the old
man $150"in money at once, free food
and shelter for li'e, free light and
wood, one new suit of clothes annually
one-half a bnsbel of wheat and $b
monthly, all the bares be could eat, a
measure of wine daily, and two huge
barrels of beer every year. The old
man lived almost twenty years after
having made this contract, played al
most daily on his adored instrument
before the Count, and consumed fully
$6,000 worth of the Count's money and
provisions. Uis violin is still preserved
intacL It was last played in 1854, at
the marriage of the Emperor Fraoa
Josef of Austria.
The maker of all "Stainers," as well
as the father of the German violin, was
Jacob Stainer of Absnm, in TyroL He
lived from 1621 to 1683.
EXCITINC TRAVEL.
Cnoomfnrtablo Adrantarca or Two Ea
fll.h Ladle. In Uritlah India.
A journey from Calcutta to Jumal
ire. described in London Society
ft'
v an English lndv seems to have been
uncomfortably full of adventure and
variety. It was before the days of rail
ways in India, and she and her friend
were carried by natives in palanquins.
They were asleep, when suddenly
down went the palanquins on the
ground, and with shrieks of "Saarl
saar!" (tiger) the naMvos disappeared.
"Our lirst instinct was to lock the
outside door of our fragile fortress.
Bound the palanquin the creature kw
stalking, switching his tail against the
doors. Then he seemed to spring and
fall heavily on the roof.
' "Who could describe our awful
terror? What if the natives did not
return! We had no firearms and little
food. We dared not open tho aper
ture an inch for fresh air.
"The time wore on. Dawn came.
With the lirst glimmer of day hoarse,
uueartbly yells resounded close by,
and believing that all tho wild beasts
of the jungle were upon us, we gave
ourselves up for dead women.
"A trampling as of a million feet,
crowding and scuffling; then the light
grow red, as with a fearful jerk our
palanquins were pulled asunder, and
torches revealed the natives, who had
returned at last with a score of vil
lagers. They branisbed huge sticks,
and informed us by gestures that the
tiger bad bolted and that we were safe.
"At the bank of a river most ot our
natives disappeared again. After a
long half-hour they returned, with
several of the villagers, carrying large,
wide-mouthed earthern gurras,' or
pots. With a good deal of gesticula
tion we were made to comprehend that
there was only one niodo ot cross
ing the river. Frightened and norvous,
we each stepped into an earthen pot.
These were lifted by two natives and
launched on the water.
"My friend was in front of rue, and
I felt decidodly uncomfortable as I
saw her frail and certainly original
bark pushed violently by A native who
swam behind. Eventually we reached
the opposite shore, . cramped, limp,
dizzy, and thankful to collapse on a
heap of stones, whilo the palanquins,
with each of their feet incased in
smaller pots, made their voyage to
ward us.
'We had had enough of excltemeut
and novelty, and were glad at sunset
to fiud ourselves at Jumalpore.
Tber Both Snored.
Hotel clerk Good morning, colonel,
how did you sleep?
Colonel I did sleep some. Isupposo,
but I was awake the uiost of the night
listening to tho snoring of tho man in
the noxt room. Ue is a good one at it
Ho makes more noise than a steam
whistle, f ' i
Anothor gentleman approaches.
Uotol clerk Good morning, major,
how did you sleep?
Major I got sleep occasionally dur
ing tho night, but there was a fellow
in the uext room to too who snored as
if he wero tilling a contract to saw
forty cords of wood before daylight
At least that is the way it sounded.
Colonel That's iust what I had to
listeu to all night long. What is the
number of your room?
Major No. 22. What is the num
ber of yours?
Colonel And mine is No. 23.
Tableau. Texan Sitlinqt. .
TALMACE'S BUSY WIFE.
4 Gllmpae ot tho Groat Fr.aeh.i'. Baal
noaa Rfanaa.r.
"Mrs. Talmage is distinctly her hus
band's right hand, and all the details
pf his busy life are looked after by her,
lays Edward W. Bok tp The LadUf
Home Journal. She is a business
woman, having a rare executive abil
ity, capable of easily handling a num
ber of things at the same time. Much
of Dr. Talmage's daily work is planned
tnd laid out by her. She makes his
pastoral and social engagement, and
all his luring interests are In her
hands. ne know his capacities even
better than he. Whenever a loainoy
is to be made, It is she who lays out
the routo, procures the tickets and
tateroonis, and attends to all the de
tails. No public man, perhaps, is
saved so mauv annoyances as is Dr.
Talmage by his wife's foresight and
ability. The rear apartment of tho
econd floor is Mrs. Talmage's work
ing room. Il is tastefully furnished,
but more with an eye to utility than
ornamentation. In this room Mrs.
Talmage spends most of her time. It
is "her private den." All the mail
that is left at the house for Dr. Tal
mage is taken into this room and is
opened by ber. It is not an unusual
thing for the postman to deliver be
tween one and two hundred letters a
day, all of which pass through Mrs.
Talmage's hands. Business letters
aro answered by her, and all letters
that may be of an unpleasant or an
noying personal nature are destroyed.
Dr. Talmage never sees them.
A day in Mrs. Talmage's home
would be a revelation to those who be
lieve that the life of a public man's
wife is a succession of pleasures, dotted
here with a pretty compliment and
there with some token of honor. While .
many people are yawning and prepar
ing to break their night's rest Mrs.
Talmage is already up, opening the
first mail. Breakfast is promptly at
eight o'clock. Then the family sepa
rate and the wife begins to receive
callers which alone is a task. It is a
well-known saying among the neigh
bors that "the Talmage bell is never
still." All kinds of people mast be
seen, innumerable appointments made
and kept, the pastoral work of the
largest church in America must be
looked after, tho details of a score or
more missionary, church, literary so
cieties with which Mrs. Talmage, or '
her husband, is connected, havo their
demands, and, iu nddition to all these,
are the household cares of a large
house and a family of growing chil
dren. All the appointments of the
Talmage homo in Brpoklyn reflect the
woman who presides over it. Gandi
ness in furniture or decorations is ab
sent, and. instead, ono sees a harmony
of good taste on every hand. Mrs.
Talmago is an excellent housekeeper
and ber home shows it
CARE OF BEDDING.
It Should Rre.lTO a Grant D.nl Mora Ah
t.ntlon than It Doh.
There are very few people who take
proper care of bedding, says the N. Y.
Tribune. In the nature of things, it is
not possible without a great expense to
have the covering of mattresses and
pillows frequently rcuewed; therefore,
every pains should be taken to keep
them fresh. It is a common thing to
leave rooms which are unoccupied fit
ted np ready for a guest, with even the
sheets and bed covering on the bed.
In this way the bed gathers dampness
In a cold, tin aired room for a long
time, and the most serious conse
quences may result to the lirst unfort
unate gnest who occupies that room.
Whenever a room is unoccupied for
any length of time the bedclothes
should be put away in the linen-closet,
aud the mattresses lifted up from the
bedstead so the air can strike it on all
sides. It is a moment's work to dust
tho bedstead, replace the mattress and
make up the bed with thoroughly aired
bedclothes, nnd tho refreshment that
is experienced from a sleep on such a
bed compared with thu nightmare of
an experience iu a room where the
beddiug has not been niieil for per
haps six mouths more than pays for
the trouble. It is a positive injury to
a good hair mattress to keep it without
properly airing and turning it for
mouths.
As soon as a mattress is made it
should be basted up in a cover of un
bleached sheeting. To mako these
novels, tear off lengths of sheeting
twice the iengtli of the mattress, al
lowing half a yard extr.i for the ends.
Hem, on the machine or by linuil. each
end of a longth of sheeting, nod lay the
mattress on it and baste It up in it
In this way the mattruss is completely
protected from dust aud from contact
with the bands of careless chamber
maids. At least unco a year this
cover should be removed and washed.
In the same way i cover should be
made for bolsters, which is basted down
closely to the bolster and thus save the
ticking from becoming soiled and yel
low. ' :
Every mattress in regular use should
be turned at least once a week. For
this reason a mattress with a wool top
or hair top and husk, excolsior or some
inferior material should be avoided.
It is better to have the mattress of all
husk or any material, but alike on both
sides, and have an extra pad or thin
piece made to lay over it to make it '
soft. Nothing is more uncomfortable
than a cotton top; thereforo, no mat
tress should ever be purchased with
this "improvement" Cotton is heat
ing because it is sodden in texture and
can not be aired liko hair or wool,
which, like all animal libers, are light
and spiral iu their ultimate form, and
therefore bettor adapted to bedding be-
Humbug Succeed.
No one succeeds so surely in this life
as a man willing to gull the world. It
is tho doctor who offers to perform
miracles who becomes rich; It it th
banker who offers to do the Impossible
that gots tho deposits; it is the mer
chant who offers to sell things for less
than cosfwho draws the crowd, and
the pity of it is that this crowd never
learus that philanthropy is not the law
of life, aud that all tho speculators
nro bent on innkliig monuy out of
them. Talk about, experieucn why,
the world doe not even Icurn bv Unit.