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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1887)
.TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Ad "Epitome of the Principal Events Now Attracting Public Interest Three miners! were shot in a conilict with miners at Scranton, l'n. The Canadian parliament voted against prohibition by a minority ot 42 -' J. II. Fields thot his wife and two ' i ..i . i ii i ons iiiiu ii.iumpit.-u auicmv near uti ena, Ivy. Columbia College has conferred the Bachelors degree on Miss Mary Par sons Hankey. At Pittsburg Frederick Herman killed his baby, beat his wile fatally and cut his own throat. The steamer Tern was sunk by a collision in the British channel and nine persons were drowned. The Kentucky distillers have de decided to ceaso the production of whisky until October 1, 18S8. The calaboose at Mackinaw, III., was burned, and Edward J.ahart, the only prisoner, perished in the (lames. Two firemen were killed and several other people badly burned by a gaso line explosion at Chattanooga, Tenn. The Governor of Sonora, Mexico, has offered a reward of $."00 for the head of each hostile Apache Indian. Havemeyer's immense sugar re finery in Williamsburg, near New YtTrk city, was totally destroyed by lire. Loss, .$1,000,000. Five men were killed and many wounded by an explosion of dynamite cartridges at thu Inmun mines, near Chattanooga, Tenn. A construction train fell through a trestle on Huntington's new railroad, near Newport, Ohio, and fatally in jured four workmen. A Chicago canning company has concluded a contract for l,f)00,000 kilos of canned meat for the French army and 3,000,000 for the navy. The residence of a farmer named James Edwards, living at South Man itoba, was burned and three children, aged 7, 12 and 14, perished in the Haines. The crown prince of Germany is suf fering from a disease of the throat which is pronounced incurable. The removal- of the- larnyx . is the only chance to save his life, and that is only a chance. Advices from Panama report a land slide on the El Pedero farm in Con cordia, burying Senor Pedro Arestropo, his wife and nine children and servants in the house. In all sixteen persons were killed. Shocks of earthquake have occurred at Vernotne in Turkestan, and the town was almost entirely destroyed. About 20 persons were killed and 125 were injured. Among the latter is General Ariede, Governor of Seniiret tchinsk. The rice fields of Louisiana near the Gulf, are ruined by the saltwater being driven all over them by an east wind. If a bright suushino follows the sub sidence of the Hood not a head of rice will be made for thirty miles along tho east bank of the Mississippi. Fire broke out in the stables of the Mound City Street Car Company, in the outskirts of St. Louis, and two alarms were turned in. In the space of one hour 151") mules were burned and the stable totally destroyed. The loss will probably be' iffiO.OOD or more. An serolite of vast dimensions fell near St. Joseph, Indiana. In falling it struck a huge oak tree which it com pletely denuded of its branches and passed downward, completely burying itself in the earth to the depth of eigh teen feet. From the great orifice made it is estimated the .erolite weighed about two tons. Hailstones strangely shaped, pointed and weighing over a pound each, re cently fell in tho districts of Aitosand Carnabat, between Adrianople and Shumlnon, on the south slope of the Balkan mountains. In lioumeha hail stones destroyed the harvests and killed many laborers and cattle in the fields, and pierced tho roofs of houses. Mrs. Albert Brooks, of Juniata, Michigan, who last fall went to Den ver, Colorado, and received .fSO.OOO be queathed to her, suddenly disappeared. Mr. Brooks employed detectives, but eecured no information. He then re ceived a letter fiom his wife stating that sho was held captive by a gang of men who had secured .$20,000 of her money and wanted all. She said she hud been tortured by them. News has reached San Francisco that a pearl-fUhing licet near West Australia was struck by a galo April 22, by which many boats were sunk and 210 lives were lost. Another gale near New Zealand prevailed from May Dth to 11th, which wrecked the ship Northumberland, capsized the steam launch Boojum, whereby four men were drowned, and sunk the schooners Julia Pryco and Ueward, and the steamers Maitaki and Lalla Ropkh. Tho steamer Chumplain was burned off Charlevoix, Michigan. The boat was running ten miles an hourj when jtho tlame8 suddenly started up beneath tln fni'inr ilriviiiir llin nni'iiinnr from - - - - - - ri --d" in1 po.'i wiiu ins eioiiies on lire, a no 1 . 1 - . . V . U .a.W.aU.a, ...... .. ....- ..tn .1... I.nnt . e. f t aa.w aa-' a .. a. w . fc. " ' w .... w w a . ' v v. w C.A HaUJU tH'tU HlJ-DUaJI WOaCWI.O J 1 a oaril including Hie crew, lit tins tiiiuiuvi inuui it i u niiuiiu llILfWUfLl UIlll fttitMl IIIIUUUIIIIIILCJII 1U1. ,'lulf, when they wero rescued by a yawl ami fish bouta from the shore. Hev- ni-nl tf tlifk iitntm linllt till tt1 fl fceven bodies have already been re- covered. 1 ne I'liammaiu was vaiueu COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. A. W. Gulp's hotel a't Elvina, Cal., was burned. Loss, $"),000. Thirty-five cases of spotted fever arc reported in Paradise, New Salt Like City will shortly be lighted with incandescent electric lights. A rabbit cannery is said to bo in successful operation at Nampa, I. T. W. E. Wright was drowned while bathing in the surf at Eucinas, Cal. Sagebrush is still the fuel used at the mining works in Tuscarora, New James Hansen committed suicide with strychnine at Santa Monica, Cal. Joshua Baffncr, watchman at Sand Point, W. T., was drowned in Clarke's Fork. A teamster and nine horses were burned to death in a lire at Kcdwood City, Cal. August Hoffman blew himself to pieces with a shotgun in San Diego county, Cal. A thief broke into the postollice at Garfield and Mole $100 worth of stamps and .$(!0 in money. Queen Victoria has sent $100 to the fund for the erection of a home for girls in Los Angeles. At Stockton, Cal., Loyd Harrison shot and killed William Koran during a quari el over a foot race. Hugh Phillips, of Klickitat county, W. T., has German carp in his pond weighing twenty pounds each. Mrs. Gustavus Murhard died of ap poplexy while bnthing in the Colum bia river near La Camas, W. T. A skull was washed ash.ne near Lewiston, I. T on the Clearwater. It was doubtless that of an Indian. Louis Napoleon, Chief of the Pity allup Indians, died and was buried at the reservation near Puyallup, W. T. E. S. Spence, ex-Mayor of Los An geles, has subscribed $50,000 toward an astronomical observatory for South ern California. John M. Wilson, son of H. C. Wil son, of Bed Blutr, Cal., shot himself through the heart. No cause is as signed for the deed. A young son of J. S. Yoacham, of WaUonville, Cal., fell from a tree and his head was impaled on a picket fence, fatally injuring him. Ed. Hayes and Dennis Enright, two old time miners, of Missoula, Mon tana, were drowned in Bitter Boot river by the upsetting of a skid'. Wild pigeons are numerous on tho fields and timber between Centralia and Chehalis. Many hunters are kill ing them, but still their number in creases. The Sacramento Knights of Labor give notice that they will prosecuto vi olators of the law forbidding the pur chase of Chinese products for public institutions. Michael Spearman, who was em ployed in the Pacific Boiling Mills on the Protrero, near San Francisco, was instantly killed while adjusting a belt on one of the pulleys. A cablo railroad anil water company, with $150,000 capital stock, has been incorporated at Seattle. It proposes to supply the town with water as well as with street railroads. Trains will pass over the swithback on the Cascade branch at the rate of seven miles an hour. It is pronounced perfectly safe if no faster time Is made than eight miles an hour. Eugene Win.ler, a baker, of Butte, M. T., while his wife was away on a three weeks' visit married another girl. Wife No. 1 discovered the fact and Winzler now languishes in jail. The damage done to Shaw's Hot Springs at Carson, Novada, by the re cent earthquake appears to bo perma nent. They are going dry. Steam boat Springs are also nearly ruined. Frank Forrest, an ICllensburgh (W. T.) hotel keeper, made a brutal attack on his wife a short time ago, but was knocked down by a rolling pin in the hands of a spectator, and is now in jail under $.1,500 bonds. following is about tho size of the leading cities of California at present : San Francisco, .110,000; Los Angeles, 50,000; Oakland, 45.000 ; Sacramento, 30,000; Stockton, 20,000; San Jose, 10,000; San Diego, 12,000. A brutal stabbing affray occurred at Old Yakima, W. T. A man named Richmond, n teamster, and well known as a brutal, violent man when ho ha the advantage, stabbed a man named Bell in the groin with a bowie knife and then ripped the knife upward cut ting the man's liver half in two. As the man fell the savage again struck him in the back, indicting another wound. Five thousand acres of crops in the Skagit valley, W. T., are under water. Among tho heaviest losers is Anthony Barrett, who lost 150 acres of crops by inundation, and his house and house hold effects by fire, caused by the ris ing waters coming in contact with a barrel of lime, resulting in combus tion. Tho cultivated lands on tho Olympic marsh and tho Swinnomish flats, including many hop ranches, are nundated. Small pieefs of rock from a big blast completely riddled tho roof of O. II. Blount's store in tho Siskiyous.and one laigo rock entirely demolished tho front porch. By the same blast a freight wagon 300 yards uway on the road, heavily loaded with cement, was struck by a llying rock and knocked over off tho road and down tho grade. The driver had been warned, and took his eight hort-es away before the shot was tired. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form. The taxable property of .Morrow county is $840,35-1. Win. Dutcher caught a nine-foot 6turgeon at Oiegon City. A cheese factory near Lebanon is turning out 100 pounds per day. A few days ago a whale drifted ashore ou the beach at Coos Bay. The total aniountsent frcin Portland to the Nnnainio sufferers is .$4,5)50. A wrestling match for $1,000 a side is to take placo at Baker City soon. Grasshoppers are making their ap pearance in portions of Harney valley. The last term of court cost Jackson county within a few dollars of $5,000. The largest crop ever raised in Mor row county will be harvested this year. The Oregon and California Kailroad pays about $10,000 taxes in this State annually. A heavy hailstorm did much dam age to Hardens and young cornfields about Weston. Edward Wallers was thrown from a horse near Beaverton and his' collar bone was broken. The assessment of Klamath county will amount to $1,000,000, ngaiiiH $700,000 last year. A largo amount of wool and grain is being hauled into tho warehouso for shipment at La Grande. A new pojtollice has been estab lished at Meda, Tillamook county, with Wallace Yales postmaster. Out of eighty bands of sheep in spected in Gilliam county, fourteen wero found affected with the scab. Hyman Abraham, of Portland, has been appointed Collector of Customs for the District of the Willamette. There are fewer salmon in Pine creek this spring than ever before. Only two or three have been caught this season. Postmasters appointed : Klamath Agency, Sarah Emery; Lewisville, Polk county, B. F. Smith ; Price, Min nie M. Logan . Tho Oregon Gold Mining Company, of Cornucopia, is now employing 100 men. The new mill has been deliv ered at tho mine. Tho farmers of Eagle valley have commenced cutting their alfalfa crop. They cut threo crops a year, averaging in all six tons to the acre. John C. Simpson, senior member of the firm of Simpson Bros., Coquille Bay, was diowned on Coquillo bar. His body had not been recovered at last reports. A vein of coal and another of cop per oro have been discovered by the deep cut for the railroad near White Point, on the southern side of the Sis kiyou mountains. Pendleton is to have another Hour mill, of one hundred barrels capacity, to bo built by the Fanners' Custom Mill Company, organized with a capi tal stock of $30,000. Number of bands of old sheep in Morrow county, 101; number of sheep in Morrow county, 231,403 ; there were 28.7S5 wethers driven east from Mor row county this spring. Horse and cattle dealers in the south fork of the John Day country have signed an agreement to use all lawful means to discourage the run ning of sheep in that vicinity. A natural bridgo has been discov ered fourteen miles from Oakland, Douglas county, which is said to bo higher and longer than the famoijs Virginia wonder. The County Commissioners' Court at Salem has fixed the different' boun ties on scalps of animals at tho follow ing figures: Panther or cougar, $5 ; bear, $3 ; wild cat or catamount, $2; wolf orcoyotte, $5 ; musk rats, 10 cents. An unknown white man was found floating in the riveratThe Dalles, with a bullet hole in the Duck of his head. Tho body was. beyond recognition on account of decomposition. The man was apparently about live feet eight inches in height. The State Railroad Commission ha' recommended the Oregon Pacific Com pany to replace with Howe truss or other substantial structures the tempo rary bridges Nos. 21, 30, 4i and 09 now .standing, and which arc not con sidered safe in high water. Governor Pennoyer paid a visit to the penitentiary recently and ordered the construction of a fan for the pur pose of disposing of the cinory dust from the polishing wheel, which was a cause of great inconvenience, botli to tho laborers and those connected with tho institution. G. D. Stcddard was shot and killed by L. L. Backus near Verona, Colum bia county. Both were farmers and tho killing was the result of a quarrel. After tho shooting Backus stole a neighbor's rillo and took to the woods. Ho was pursued by officers, and defy ing tho command to halt was fatally shot by I hem. A terrible accident happened at tho south end of tho Siskiyou tunnel, on the O. t. C. 11. It., resulting in tlo death of a young man named Joseph Farleigh. Uo got between two cars, and tho cars coming together caught his head and crushed it, driving a bolt into it, which resulted as above stated. Adolph Liebonow shot and killed Mrs. Lillio McCourt at Pluenix. Tho murdcier surrendered himself. He says the shooting was accidental, It is believed, howover, that tho act was caused by jealousy. Mrs. McCourt left her former husband, Liebonow, a year ago and was divorced from him, but ho wanted her to return to him. AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the Interests of Farmers and Stockmen. KnlNlue I'lilrltciiN Xntttriilly. Of all the work connected with poul try, none is more troublesome or tedious than the looking after sitting hens and thoir nests while incubating. If the hens are allowed to sit in the poultry-house where they laid, and where the other hens are laying, a great many vexatious annoyances oc cur. Two hens will sometimes tight for one nest and h break tome of the eggs, or the sitting ben goes off, and on returning finds the nest occupied by an intruder. This state of affairs is fully set forth by persons who strongly recommend incubators; but as every farmer has not time to attend to an incubator, I will give little of my own experience in raising chickens by the natural methods, aided by a plan which most farmers can follow. I have a small building divided by a wire partition into two parts, with a door from ono to the other.anda small yard made with wire netting, also di vided. I have a slide from each com partment into each yard. Tho size of the house will depend on the number of chickens desired. Two rooms, foui by siv feet, with yards twice that size, will be large enough for fourteen hens to sit in, and if these sit twice it will be equal to fifty-six sitting hens. In most cases the houso may bo used a third' time, raising several hundred ! chicks. When my hens get broody I set a "lot together in one house, using small shallow boxes for nests not over j eleven or twelve inches cquare so that two hens cannot crowd into one nest. I set these on the floor all ' around the sides ami a few inches apart, so that a greedy lieu cannot reach the eggs from the next nest, as such hens are very apt to break tho tenth commandment. I leave water and food in the house, so that the hens ' can eat or drinkat any time when they 1 come off tho nests. There are no perches in the houses or anything they 1 can get on above the nests. A dust ' box sunk level with tho floor, with , sand and ashes, and with a little car bolate of lime or carbolic acid sprin kled in from time to time, placed where the sun shines on it through the windows on clear days, will keep the hens clear of parasites. A little sod j or grass in the yards is good for their health. I don't have trouble once in fifty times in removing a setting hen. I let her sit a few days in the nest bIio has been laying in, to see that she is in earnest, then I remove her one even ing to the sitting-house, placo her nest on the tloor (as above), and if a num ber of others can bo removed at tho same time so much tho better. Then 1 hang something up over tho window to shade the light a little. This may remain for a few days, until ono learns that all mean business, and as soon as they settle down tho shade should bo ruinoved, and tho slides into tho yards may be left open, that tho hens may get fresh aii whenever they please. The advantages of this system may be easily seen by. those who have had to spend a largo portion of their valu able time in spring watching tho sit ting hens or lifting them off and driv ing them back to their nests every day. As many as possible should bo set at or about tho same time a few days are not of much consequence so that if tho hens change nests it would bo of no importance, and if there are no more nests than hens and tho nests are a little way from each other, so that the hens cannot quarrel, things will go on very smoothly, 'and much loss of time and vexation will bo avoided. Tho second batch of sitting hons should bo set in tho next compartment so that thoy all come out together in the samo way as the first. Tho house should bo well ventilated oveiy day, and never bo tightly closed. As the hens hatch thoy should bo removed with the chicks to their coons whero it is intended to raise them. The outlay of money for such a building to thoso who raiso any num ber of chickens is trilling compared with tho outlay of time required by tho old-fashioned way, and much is saved, I as the hens do not break so many eggs. Of course the nests should bo looked to and kept clean, but if a little sul phur be sprinkled in them.'or, what is hotter, some tobacco stems bo used with the straw in making them up, few will be troubled with vermin. Tho lions should bo lifted off at times if thoy do not get off of thoir own accord to see that no broken eggs foul tho nests. If only a few chickens arc wanted, a placo 4x8 feet with alow roof and a door opening out in each room, divided, will answer well. ' Hemp Culture. The cultivation of liemp (heniquen) is the principal agricultural industry of Yucatan', and of this tho greater portion is imported jnto and. con sumed in tho United 'Statnx. Mm im. ports thereof during tho year 1885 amounting to 30,101 tons, valued at $2,501,000. Wo are, therefore, largely interested in this industry, which is carried on in a veiy primitive manner. Tho plant, says Consul Thompson, to whom we arc indebted for tho follow ing facts relative to its cultivation, is a species of agave. It jis best propa gated by cuttings, tho 'young plants being allowed to grow at will until three years old, after which thoy are transplanted into regular lows and fields. Eight years are giyon them to maturo.into plants nblo to bear tho cutting, and then tho profits of this patient waiting will continue to How uninterruptedly for many years if moderate euro is exorcised. The leaves are cut by a peculiar instru, meat, a cross between a sickle and a carving knife, called by the natives corlrn, and aie made into a systematic 'bundle of about twenty-live each, and ( carried by tho laborors upon their backs to the tram car or cleaning wheel, where they are passed through the proems before mentioned. This cleaning-wheel is the only kind of ag ricultural machine, as we understand the term, in use upon the farms of Yucatan. Even the plow is practi cally unknown. Each mccateof hemp land should produco yearly four arro bas of merchantable hemp. Arroba is the equivalent of twenty-five pounds, therefore each acre, or ten mecates, should yield at least 1,000 pounds of heniquen fiber ready for shipment. To cut and pack 1,500 leaves is con sideied to bo an ordinary day's work. These 1.500 leaves, when cleaned and dried, will produce about three arro bas, or seventy five pounds of liber. One cleaning-wheel, with two men to tend it, is calculated to clean easily 7,000 leaves per day. A 400-pound bale of fiber, cut off from the plant, but still in tho leaf is estimated to cost $1, or 1 cent a pound; when cleaned, bleached and baled, ready for shipment, the cost is probably a small fraction over 2 cents a pound. A hemp plantation containing 10,000 mecates, or 1.000 acres, should produce an nually 1,000,000 pounds of merchant able hemp. Heniquen fiber is the principal ar ticle of export from Yucatan to tho United .States. During tho fiscal year ending .luno.lO, 18S4, there was ex ported from Progreso, Yucatan's port of entry, heniquen fiber having a value of over $2,500,000, American gold. During the calendar year of 1SS4 the amount of hemp shipped to all parts from Yucatan reached tho figures of 233,311 bales, averaging 400 pounds per bale. The value of the above, ex pressed in Mexican dollars, is $3,331, (501). In American coin the value is expressed at $3,015,301. The duties and taxes of State' and National Gov ernments amount to the sum of $137, 000, Mexican money. Over six-sevenths of tho above exportation went to the various ports of the United States, New York leading with 180,078 bales. l'otalo Nrali. The skin of the healthy potato tuber consists of a layer of cork cells of uni form thickness, and when tho skin is injured or a portion of it cutaway, the wound heals by tho formation of a now layer of cork, which reprodpees itself in a manner very similar to what takes place when tho skin of an animal forms again over a wound. When tho potato tuber grows in water, or when tho soil is kept unduly wet, the cork layer in creases in thickness, at various points, producing a multitude of little warts upon the surface. Whore these warts occur tho cuticle is less resistant than otherwise and decay of the tissues un derneath is likely to tako place. If tho excess of water about tho tuber con tinues for a considoniblo time, decay sets in and the starch and tissues of tho tuber become discolored. When under favorablo conditions the decay is arrested, tho cork layer forms be tween the decayed and the healthy parts of the potato, and the potato is "scabby." This affection of tho potato is ac cordingly tho result of excess of moist ure, either because of its texture or on account of tho occurrence of a pro tracted period of wet weather. Stablo manure and other fertilizers influence it as they affect Die state of moisture in the soil. Stablo manure may also aggravate the disease by filling the soil with the spores or seeds of molds or fungi, which taking root in the in jured cork layer may favor decompo sition of tho tuber and protract the healing process. Saline fertilizers, like potash salts, may antagonize scab by hindering tho growth of fungi. Overloaded Fruit TreeH. Orchardists find the task of ticking off the young peaches from tho over laden trees to bo no trilling one, and would bo greatly pleased if the frosts had nipped about four-fifths of the blossoms that finally grew into fruit upon most of tho trees about town. As an indication of the excesses into which tho trees fall in fi iiitago in this clime it is worth mentioning that W. B. Colton found by actual count the other day that ho had picked 1,0(50 young peaches from a tree less than four years old from tho bud, and there are still left too many peaches on the tree. Mr. J. Scott brought down town tho other day a number of twigs full of double and tripplo peaches. These woro from trees which have novor been irrigated. Tlioy are on high ground, and boro an excellent lot of peaches last year. Some of tho plum trees in town aro perfect marvels of excessive bearing, in many cases there being a sufficient numburof young plums on a singlo tree to make a full crop for nearly t hundred trees if thoy could bo properly distributed. Ashland (Or,) Tiling, With proper attention a peach treo will produce three hundred pounds an nually, on an average, fr ton years, that time being about as long as it would bear with profit, when it should bo dug up and a new tree substituted. An acre will accommodate 100 trees. They will bo protty close during the last yours of their bearing life, but will do well enough. At H cents per H)imd each tree will produce $ I 50 wortli yearly or tho 100 trees $150, or $1,500 for the ton years. John Capitra, of Orovillo, Cal., owns one of tho finest cherry trees in that State. It is now eighteen yctirs old, stands nearly sixty feet in height and measures five foot nine inches in cir cumference. It is of the white Oxhart variety and last year bore by actual weight 2,225 pounds. This year ho estimates that it will proijueo not less than 000 pounds moro' than last year, or over 2,b00 pounds. ALL AROUND THE HOUSE. Up Slulr, liown Stiih-i. In Kitchen nml In (tin I.ailj'ft I 'ill-1 nr. A cabinet umber recommend- a mixture of threw jwrts linseed oil and ono part spirits of turoiitino as mi excellent preparation tor cleninnsnnd restoring furniture, eieciaUy thnt which ii somewhat ifinrred or scratched. It covers slight scratches, restores tho color of the wood mid Rives it hitrons surface. Apply with n woolen cloth mid rub dry with woo fen. A Omul family llpucrta One of the best fnmily deceits cnu lx mado cither in city or country of apples and stulo bread, says Mks Julia Corson, in llnrier':. Hnir: Peel ten good sized apples, core mid slice them, and stew to a pulp with sugar enoitch to sweeten; meantime thickly butter the sides nnd bottom of nn onl earthen dkb, nud press all around them crumbs from th insidoof a loaf of bread, having them nenrly nn inch thick; w hen the npplu Is done mix with it a tnhlcspoonful of butter and ono egK licntcu; put the npple into thu dish without. disturbing tho crumbs; over the surface put an Inch thick layer of ci-iiiuIm dotted with i few bits of butter, nnd bnko the pudding until tho crumbs at tho sides are brown; turn n platter, just largo enough to inclose tho dish it hiti its rim, over the pudding dish, quickly turn Inith upMilt) down, so that tho pudding will slip out ou tho plntter, dust it with powdered sugar, and servo It hot. s Device In rioor Co erttic. Out of n discarded cnrot of largo slzo enough that is bright and clean can often tw got to mnl.o a squaro or rug for the center of the room; then the tloor nround can be stained with wnlnut or cherry stain. This fashion of rug and stained tloor is hi every way desirable in summer time. It gives a ccol, refreshing, artistic apix-nrnnco to tho room ; it does nwny it h tho dust constantly arising from nn nil ovev carpet, for tho rug can Ik) taken out of thu house nnd beaten clean whenover necessary. Unfortunately somo floors nro too rough anil poor to Ihj stained. In that enso t.nko the good jarts of tho old carpet to cover around tho sides of tho tloor nud buy for tho center of tho room ono of tho "squares'' that coma for that purpose. New nnd Dnlnty 1'lllow Sham. Among new things in pillow shams are white silk handkerchiefs of small sizo joined together with antique) insertion nnd trimmed nround with nntiquo lnce. Cream white, soft pink, jwilo blue, or yellow handkerchiefs, small in sizo and laid over a Silesia lining, nit) just now n pretty fashion in shnms for guest chambers. For every day uso small linen handkerchiefs joined with Torchon and edged with tho samo nro received with great favor, for they nro not only pretty nnd in expensive, but they do up charmingly. A l'l-ci for Kltrlicn Use. Tho ordinnry method of extracting juice from fruits, lard from scraps, etc., by plac ing tho material in a strong ling or cloth and squeezing nnd wringing it by hand is exceed ingly irksome. Thoro are screw presses niado for tho purjose, but thoy nro moro or less expensive, unit aro to bo found in few kitchens. 4 : KITC11K.V l'llKSS Much nid may bo derived from tho use of a simple lover press, mndo ou tho principle of a lemon squeezer. It requires two persons, however, to manage this one to hold thu material in tho bag or cloth nnd tho other to apply tho pressure. Tho cut hero given Miows how tho samo press may l)o arranged to bo worked by ono iierson. Ono of tho halves of tho press U hinged to n piece of hoard two feet long and fourteen inches wido, nud set upon ii table with ono end elovnted in tho 'manner shown in tho llguro. Such a press will bo found especially con venient among housewives who nmko their own jellies mid wines, as with its nid tho julco may bo pressed without cither unduly tiring or staining tho hands. To Keep' Piles Away from Window. For n preparation that will prevent Ail's nnd other insects from lighting on and Knock ing windowi, etc., Tho Kclantlfle American recommends n strong Infusion made by boil ing smart weed for n few minutes in water. When cold apply to tho glass, and for twenty four hours it is quite eU'ectual in keeping away flies and other Insects. Murk Criili. Mock crab is a relish made by breaking up half a ound of soft rich cheese with a fork and mixing it with a teaspoouful of dry mustard, a K:ilUHxmfiil of xqptT and a des sert spoonful of vinegar; servo it cold with a plato of thlu breud and butter or crackers. DYSPEPSIA Up to it few weekK nno I considered myself the champion Dyspeptic of America, During tho years that k havo been iitllletetl I have trlru almost overythliiK claimed to bo ;i upeclflo for Dyspepsia. In tho hope oi lludlHH Honu'thlutr that would alt'onl pcrmauont relief. I had about made up my mind to abandon nil medi cines when I noticed an endorsement of KlmmniiH IjIvci' Kcnulntor by a prominent Ucoiulau, a jurist whom I know, nnd fouuludcd to try Its etfectx in my caso. I havo used but two bottles, and am HutlHiled that I have htruek tho right thln at lust. I folt Its beneficial effects almost im mediately. Unlike all other prepara tions of a hlmllar kind, no special instructions are required as to what one shall or rf.mll not eat. This fact alone ouht to commend it to alt troubled with Dyspepsia. J. X. HOLMES, Vlnoland, X. J. CONSTIPATION To Kecure a lteuulur Habit ut lloily without t-littiiKliitf the Diet or 1)1-oi-kuiiIzIiik the System, take SIMM0NSLIVERREGUL1T0R USLX GENUINE MAMMm'HtU r J, H. ZEILIN A CO., PhilaMphia.
