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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1889)
SHELTER FOT FOWLS.- Korptnc I'oultry In Cheap llullrilnga nt Some lltnrn From the llntur. Most farmers Uavo no buildings spe cially designed for the fowls they keep. They allow tlicm to occupy the farm mid stable with the cuttle mid horses. This plan is very objectionable in many respects. All fowls nro dirty creatures. Their elroppings two scut tored on every place they pass over and are deposited tinder their roosts. They are so offensive that they ruin every kind of food tb$y touch and ren der the air in a building unfit to beathe. They are very valuab'a fft' manure, but it is likely to bo lost if it is scattered about a barn or horse stable. Hens will eat much of the grain that is fed out to animals if they nro kept in the same building with them. They will also "hide their nests" in hay-mows, and in many cases they will not bo found till the eggs they contain are spoiled. They will sometimes hatch out a lot of chickens in a nest on a scaffold, from which they will fall out and be killed li theio are rats about a barn they will be likely to cat many eggs. Persons who put up buildings for the special use of fowls are likely to spend so much money on them that their in vestment in unprofitable. Thoy use the designs furnished by poultry books and papers, which nro intended for those V. ho keep fowls for pleasure rath er than profit. Thoy supply these build ings with "all the modern improve ments" found in iirst-class city resi dences. The boxes for nests are all in this same style and are arranged in uni form rows. For some reason fowls do not take kindly to these expensive ana ornate structures. They behave like Indians quartered in a palace. Their chief desire appears to be to make their escape. Thoy want more freedom and a greater variety of nests. Thoy have e very thing their owner thinks they need. There is no reason why poultry houses should be made ornamental un less they are to stand in a town or city where thoy will attract consider able notice. No one but a poultry fancier cares for a splendid house to shelter fowls. There are good reasons for putting up buildings on farms expressly for ihc use of fowls and for locating them at some distance from the house and br.rn. If more than a hundred liens arc kept on a place there should be more than one building, as very large Hocks are seldom profitable or healthy, l'robably it would bo better to restrict; Hie number of full-grown fowls kept in eno Hock to fifty. In a newly-settled part of the country where farmers are likely to bo poor a poultry-house must be made of cheap materials. A building made of turf has many ad vantages. It is very cheap, is warm in winter, and cool in summer. It can bo covered by straw placed on poles. These will form a roof that will shed rain and keep out the cold. It will rcquiro no ventila tion, as air will eireuhvto through the straw. It should stand in a dry place, so that water will not collect about it. A lloor is not necessary. The ground between the wallo can be covered with sand or gravel. The roosts can bo fastened into the turf walls. Frames fur glass windows can bo set in thorn. A building that will accommodate from .00 to 100 hens can bo mado of boards and scantling for about $20. This sum will buy tho lumber for a building '-'0 feot by 12 and G feet high from tho sills to tho eaves. On tho south end thore should bo a door of tho ordinary sizo for persons to enter, with a window on ec.eh side. It is also woll to havo two windows on the east side. Under the windows should be small sliding doors for tho fowls to pass through. Tho north and west walls should bo mado tight to keop out tho cold wind. In each gablo should bo a small sliding window for ventilation when tho weather is warm. Soino sholves for nests can be put in each corner of the building. Half barrels turned on tho sido and sunk a few inches in the ground are good for making suitable places for nests. Nail-kegs and cheap boxes can also bo used for the samo purpose. Somo hens prefer to deposit thoir eggs in a dark place. To accommodate them largo boxes may bo fastened to tho ouifaido of tho building and small doors cut to alTord n passage to them. 6Y--nrjo Times. m , The Foot Gear of Kings. A curious museum has just been opened at Dresden. In it'aro collected a numbor of boots, shoes and slippers in which Emperors, Kings. Queens, Princes and other august or famous persons havo somo timo or other trodden tho path through life. Among thorn aro a pair of boots worn by Napoleon I. nt tho battlo of Dresden, on April 27, 1813, and a pair of white satin shoos, embroidered in gold, which tho snvno great Emperor wore on tho day of his coronation; nnother pair cf 6trone leather boots which belonged to tho famous French Marshal, Murat, afterwards King of tho Two Sicilies; a pair of high heeled boots of Maria Theresa; boots of tho philosopher, Kent, and many others, forming a curious assembly. If tho promoters of tho museum havo any energy they will not find it dllllcult to increase their curious collection considerably and to make it ono of tho sights of Dresden. Hut thoy must search both highways and byways for thoir treasures; thus, for instance, thoy might perhaps obtain an interesting nr-ielo from tho good nuns at Nniaroth Hou.o. Hnmmor.mlth, who pnworvo a Inrjfu ooinfortnbl.looklng slipper of tho late Popo nndar a dainty glmaton-o in oat of r huge. roum. "h7 Mail Uaxik. HuUSchuLu i.INi.jv Ucnnttrul Xiipkln. l'.eit-Sprc.iiK Sltprts and Tiililr-Clutli. l'uro white damask is still the only thing for dinner, but nap kins vary in size. Tl most popular size is twenty-seven inches square for a dinner napkin, but sonn-tlmes they are preferred thirty-one inches square. Tho demand seems to be all tho time for a larger napkin, and more and more tho French napkin is being used. This napkin is not qulto square, being seven-eighths of a yard ono way and a yard the other. Tho damask has an artistic pattern which is called crackle and daisy, and other patterns are crackle and clover, and crackle and oak, showing the oak leaf and acorn. The designs are mado here and sent over to Europe, and there worked into linen. A dinner set in this pattern of very excellent quality of damask, in cluding table cloth, twocarving cloths, two tray cloths and a dozen napkins may be had for the moderate price of $18. Tho best dinner napkins are from $7..00to$10adozen. For luncheon and tea smaller napkins with fringes are used, and the price is only one-third. In luncheon cloths a broad band of narrow stripes on a white ground is popular; tho edge is fringed and tho napkins match. Tiny doylies are in silk.hcin-stitehed or fringed.the newest designs in embroidery on them being in geometrical patterns. For the bedroom, handsome damask large, very nice huckaback towels nrcf; $3 a dozen, the demand for the lattei f far exceeding that for the former. There is a decided preference shown for the- huckaback towel, the. damask being bought more for a show towel than for use, and tho hemstitch is taking the place of fringe. The fringed towel is always cheaper than the hem-stitched one, and unless t lie fringe is carefully washed and ironed and we'll kept, it has a ragged, untidy look, which people aro beginning to Hud out. There is also a new towel calleTt the Russian towel, that is .$3 a dozen, which is quite heavy, and will probably take the place of the Turkish bath towel. The newest thing in fancy bed spreads is of linen, one large- piece that is cut out and embroidered to re semble lace work and is very hand some. This work is elone in (icrmnny and is all by hand. A bed-spread and pillow shams cost $.00; smaller pieces are for bureau cover-, and lucre are also tray cloths, with a bordor of this open work. Long scarfs of lino white linen for bureaus, table, or sideboards have a similar border on each end. Tho hem-stitched sheet is still the most popular, with initial or mono gram in the ipiddlo of tho end, just below the hem. Theso em broidered letters aro used on all nice towels and napkins. A nov elty for the bed-room which is the revival of an old fashion, is the night-dress case. They aro imported, of course, and aro of linen, embroid ered, in the shape of a largo envelope. Now that they havo really come they will probably bo made in various de signs and colors, and cortainly they will look very protty laid on the foot of a bed, or in the center, according to their size and ornamentation. Ireland. Scotland and Germany send their linen to the United States, but it is not necessary to cross the sea in order to buy good blankets, for Cali fornia produces as lino if not liner than any country in the world. If ono is so incli ed, ono may pay $7.0 for a pair o! blankets, or $30; but blankets at "18 v pair aro good enough for any one. and very nice ones may be had for $7 .00. Tho newest scarfs for decorative purposes aro imported and aro of liner scrim, tho ends adorned with Turkisl cmbroidory in colors, tho wrong sieh being almost tho same as the right. Thoy aro very handsome and como as high as $8, though less elaborate one are much lower. Doylies also c me in this siyle, gojd thread being used in tho embroidery. -V. Y. Mail and ; jircss. m Warm Water for Stock. In spito of tho teachings of agricult ural papers, thore aro still man, farmers who adhere to the old way o: turning out the stock to drink at a frozen stream, perhaps half a mile off. first having to break a holo in the ice to let tho cows got to tho water. What is tho result? A deficiency nt the milk pail and moro feed required to maki up for tho animal heat lost drinking ice-cold water. In theso days o' small prices for farm products it be hooves tho farmer to uso evcr, means in his power to increase the quantity of milk given by each cow without increasing tho cost of feeding. A farmer with a small herd, say olgh or ton cows, need not bo at thooxpen--of fitting up a costly apparatus. H could easily heat enough water in th wash boiler or in tho old-fashion' ton-quart cans that aro lying aroun to take tho chill oil tho cold watc given. In tho twenty years I havi been farming I havo always held tho opinion that it is not so much th breed or peuligreo of a cow as tho cat and feed given her that mako a goo cow such as tho common farmor v. afford to possess. W. li. Cunuison, t Farm tful Home. m It is hotter to mako your land pr duco moro rather than to attempt t cultivato moro land. Tho larger lb area cultivated tho grontor the pr portionntu expense. Kvon the mat! of Dimply Unvoting to the dUUint of a large ft nn become qu la hu it of expense In tho course of a y Phti work xhoultl bo onua-mrut V lie hLiullrnt splice tlmi Mril)ll- , .in. OF GENERAL INTEREST. , 1 wenty-ono apples picked by a No w Holland (Fa.) farmer completely tilled a half-bushel measure. Tho smallest weighed exactly ono pound and live ounces. Tho entire lot tipped the scales at twenty-four pounds. Tho mule has qualities which en title him to respect. A mule and a mnn in Georgia made a crop of cotton which packed into seventeen bales, averaging live hundred pounds each, besides making enough corn, fodder, hay and peas to feed the mu.o another year. A Nebraska man has organized a band consisting of a Concertina, a tri angle, two drums, a pair of cymbals and a mouth organ. Ho plays the en tire combination himself, and wouRl make a mighty showy organization if he could only afford to hire a drum major. There are on exhibition in the rooms of the State mining bureau at San Francisco four "desiccated human bodies" that were found by Signer S. Marghieri in a sealed cavern at an elevation of 4,000 feet on tho eastern sido of the Sierra Mad re mountains in Mexico. ' You'd be surprised," says a New York safe manufacturer, "at tho number of sham pasteboard safes in New York and they're made so woll that any ordinary person would be de ceived. They havo a businesslike ap pearance and give an ollieo a thrifty look, all for $.0 or $ti whereas the real article would cost something like $100 Joo l'atrick, of Delovan, Wis., married his mother-in-law, Mrs. Cas perwich, the other day, and brought about a very complex state of things. Ho thus becomes stepfather to his former wife. He was formerly tho son of his present wife; being tho son, he becomes tho brother of tho old lady's daughter (his former wife) and also a. father-in-law to himself. Thomas Cruse, tho millionaire stockman of Montana, proposes tc. rent ewes at fifty cents each per year for a term of years, the lesseos to re turn the same number of ewes at the end of tho term; tho owes to bo taken as thoy run In the Hock when leased and when returned. The lessees have all tho wool and bear tho losses. Mr. Cruse, estimating tho sheep at $2..0G per head, receives twenty per cent, on his investment. A negro entered an Amoricus (Ga.) restaurant and laying down a dollar said: "Give mo a square meal and no change." The proprietor hustled around to oblige so good a customer, but soon sickened of tho bargain. Tho hungry man ato thirty-two links of sausage, thirteen biscuits, half a elozon slices of fresh pork and two fried mullets. Ho remarked as he left tho restaurant: "I havo been sulTering from dyspepsia and my appetite isn't very good." A pair of carrier pigeons but three months old, and entirely untrained, wero sold by a man in Now Haven to a citizen of Hoston, who carried them homo with him. A month afterward thoy appeared at their old home in Now Haven, and wore shortly fol lowed bv a postal card from lloston savinfi- that thev wero missing. Tho (inestion is yet to be answered: How did these young and untrained birds know the way from Hoston to Now Haven, a distance of Mfi miles? The following .is from a Grass Lake, Mich., daily: "Last Monday morning, while a small knot of men wore talking together at tho Contra I Depot in Jackson, tho peep of a chicken was distinctly heard. Thereupon one of tho number opened his vest, and in an inner pocket was revealed a chicken just hatched and still partly in its shell. Ho reported that ho had carried an ogg for twonty-ono days on a ten dollar wager that it would hatch from tho natural warmth of his body." Trained Heas aro exhibited from llmo to time. Whether trained or un trained, thoy. ar.o. extremely interest ing insects simply irom an atnieiio point of view. A healthy flea will cover two hundred times its own length nt ono jump. They aro plucky fighters, and will stand on their hind legs and strike at ono another until they lose legs, antennas and life. A single (lea has been known to draw a silver cannon twenty-four times its own weight, and to show no fear nt tho dis charge of gunpowder from tho cannon. In tho town of Sutro, Nov., thcro is a silver mino tho main gangway of which runs from that place to Vir ginia City, four miles distant. Fre quently this "tunnel routo," as it is called, is used by Sutro parties desir ing to go to Virginia City theaters Tho parties enter the tunnel almost at their own door, clamber into a cur drawn by several mules and aro carried tho full length of tho tunnel in a comparatively short spaco of time. Once there they are hoisted up a shaft 1.G40 feot deep, issuing within a fovr minutes' walk of tho Virginia Opera House. Tho routo Is cool in summer and warm in winter. Tho cars aro so clean that ?ho best of dresses can be worn without disastrous result. A Hint to Salesmen. "Cheap watches?" YcssumO Now, horo's no for $75." "Do you mean to say you call that cheap?" "Well, no. I don't mysolf, hut Mrs Tompkins, who llvos across tho street from you, was Inyostordnyand wanted to sou a cheap watch, and whoa 1 showed her one for $0O she turned up her noo and wild that a watch for f GO was uhtMip wuough for her." Well. I'll Utktt t!itt$75ono, Iguoss." Jeuh it r' U'itktff, PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Tho Washington Mnr mentions the fact that every Vice-l'resldent who was more than sixty years old when elected has died in otllco. The list is limited to five. Clinton, (Jerry, King, Wilson and Hendricks. Senator Hearst, of California, is beyond doubt the richest miner in America. Originally from Missouri, he began in tho mountains as day la borer. Ho steadily ascended to fore man, superintendent and ownor. -Mr. Frank Godfrey, now tho State Printer of Michigan and a man of con siderable fortune, w hen a boy of twelve years walked into Michigan's capital and slept the first night in a barn in sight of tho presont huge smoke-stneiv of his printing otllco. The late Francis A. Droxol left an estate of $10,000,000. all of which Is to go to tho Roman vntholic Church il , his three daughters die childless. Il they have children tho property is to be divided among their offspring. In case only one child Is born to any one of them tho fortune goes to that child. President Van Home, of tho Cana dian Pacific railway, who resides at Montreal, Is to be knighted by Queen Victoria because of his services to the Dominion iti promoting railway and commercial interests. Mr. Van Home began his career as a night operator for tho Michigan Central at.Ioliet. 111., nearly thirty years ago, and is yet a comparatively young man. Congressman "Tim" Onmplnjll is fond of the phrase, "There's no Hies on me," and tells a story which proves that not every Washington lady under stands tho United States language. At a dinner to which he was a guest, ho remarked to tho hostess: "An elegant dinner, ma'am. No Hies on that din ner." "No, indeed, Mr. Congressman," returned tho hostess, all unconscious of his meaning. "1 had tho kitchen windows kept shut for two days. A lady who has dono great honor ti herself in scholarship is Miss Cora Henneson, of Quiney, 111., who at pres ent holds a fellowship in Hryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She was graduated at the University of Michi gan with high honors, and afterwards received the degree of LL. R. cum laude from tho same institution. Sev eral years ago sho went around the world, going tho greater part of the way alone, and then spent somo time "roughing il" in the Rocky Mount ains and in California. A whimsical and extravagant Phil adelphia lady decorates her table to correspond with her own costune. For instance, sho lately presided at a dinner party in a superb directoiro robe, while the tablo decorations wero after the ;tyle of the same era. Tho table cloth was of stripes of laco and drawn work, spread over a foundation of olive-green satin. Laid in loops all around the tablo wero pink roses and foliage, festooned- with satin ribbons; at each nlato wero laid bunches of cream roses and maiden-hair ferns, tied with pink and pale-green ribbons. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." In tho palmy days of Homo prize fights wore fought with gloves loaded with lead. seems to us thai scrap iron would havo beon moro appro priate. Tcrrc Haute Express. Mrs. Cumso "Why did you not remain after service, John? The min ister asked all lay mombers to wait a few moment." Mr. Cumso "Yes, I know; but I'm not a lamo member." Drake's Magazine. First base-ball player "Did you go to Shortstop's wedding to-day?" Second base-ball player "Of course I did." First player "How did it como olT?" Second player "Declared a tio." Once a Week. "Kiches take unto homsolvot wings and lly away," said tho teacher "What kind of riches is meant?" Aiu the smart bad boy at tho foot of tin class said ho "reckoned thoy must in ostriches." American Poultry Yard. llobbio "Oil! Great Scott, Pv beon and put tho wrong ond of m; cigar in my mouth." Maggie "Ha Ha! It's not Great Scott, but anolhe poet you put mo In mind of. Hobble. "Who?" "Why, Heibbio Hurns!" Texas tiifliiirjs. Tho meanest man up to date i Snlfkins. Ho sold Jones a half Intel est In a cow, and then refused to d vide tho milk, maintaining that .lone owned tho front half. Tho cow hooke Snifklns, and now Snlfkins Is suiii Jones for diimagos. Time. Justlco "Well, O'Connor, what! tho matter with your eye?" O'Conno "Sure Missus O'Connor an' inose wuz dlshcussln 'Is marrlago a fallyor . I said it wuz and sho said it wuz no nn' wld that sho t'ron a fiat-iron at m Oi'd loiko to havo yor honor put a fo bonds on her." America. Customer (in "hund-mo-down store) "This suit is all full of cioas and wrinkles. It looks as If it lin been slopt In." Doalor- "Dot vos on ladest Improved tourist suit, mlstei noddlngs llko it in Vhiladclphla. Dc suit mako all your vrlonds dink yo shust return from a torvelvo month tour In Kuropo." Little Pat was In tho habit of fall Ingoutof bod during tho night, an his father to break him of the habii would remind him of It tho noxt morn Ing. Ono day, as usual, his fathe said to him: "Horc, Pat, you fell on of bed again." "Oh, no, papa," sab Pat; "It was tho pillow, for I wont Uj to tco, and tho pillow was on tho lloo by tho sido of tho bed." "What mud you cry, then?" askod his fathoi "Woll, you see," said Pat la his hio sobor inunner, "It was dark and couldn't toll whether It was mo or tin pillow." Troi VfriHW, THE BOWSER r-Alvtti-t. Hr. II. Conk SuppiT mid ItWk 111 I.lfp liy Kiitlnc Somo of It. Mr. Howser camo homo tho other afternoon just In time to meet the cook going awav with her bundle, and ho rushed into tho house to inquire: "I suppose you've gono and done It ifrnin?" "What?" "Abused and maltreated the girl un til her sense of justlco has impelled her to leave." "I hadn't any thing to do with her leaving." "Then who hnd? Sho looked honrt broken as I passed her just now." "Did she? Poor thing! Sho got a letter this morning from her aunt in Canada, tolling her that sho had been left llvo thousand dollars In cash, and advising her to como homo and marry a man who owns three farms. She must feel very sorrowful!" "Humph! And you didn't put too much work on herP" "No." "Nor make her feol hor position?" "No. Her position was in tho parlor &bout half the time." "Well, it seems very qucor to me that so many of our girls leave. Every thing will bo upset now for a week, 1 suppose." "Oh, no. You can cook, you know. and you aro such a sympathetic soul that you ought to bo willing to go into the kitchen for a day or two. 1 shall depend on you, Mr. Howser." "Oh, you will? Not satisfied with driving a dozen poor souls to destruc tion, you want a rub at me! I wouldn't have your spirit for nil tho money In tho world!" Ho went away with that, but ho was home an hour earlier than usual, and when I inquired tho cause ho said: "What for? Why, tho child and I have got to havo something to eat, haven't wo, and who's to cook it if 1 don't take hold?" "I can cook." "Mrs. Howser, Pvo long felt it my duty to give you a fow lessons in tho culinary art. 1 havo held off, hoping your prido would force you to take bold, but tho limit hns been reached. The time has come when I must sacri fice my business to enter my kitchen and prevent my child from feeling the pangs of hunger." "Please don't." "Hut I will! I'm driven to it. Pvo got a wifo who can't cook tho north west end of a last year's turnip, and who can't keep a cook over a week at n time. Pvo put up with it too long much too long, Mrs. Howser. 1 must sacrifice my dignity to preserve tho life of my child." "Shan't I help you got supper?" "Not a help. You'el only bo In tho way. Just sit down in tho rocker, Mrs. Howser, put your feet on the lounge, got a cud of gum in your mouth and sit down and chow and chow and think what mean things you aro going to say to tho next girl to drive hor away. When suppor is ready 1 will call your royal highness." Ho disappeared with that. When ho reached the kitchen he took oil' his cutis and coat, pushed up his sleeves, and kindled a fire. His confidence began to desert him at this point and ho seemed to bo studying deeply as ho filled tho tea-kottlo ovon full and sot it to boll. 1 Hud some fresh beofsteak in tho ico box, and ho got it out, scratched his head in a thoughtful way, and laid it on the kitchen table. Thou ho went down collar after the hatchet, wiped tho head of It on his right leg, and pounded away until a good shjiro of tho steak had gono into tho board. Mr. Howsor's noxt move was to hunt behind tho pantry door for a spldor which wo had never used. Ho carried it to tho kitchen towel, gavo it a wlpo, and then placed it on tho stove. lie had heard that grease was necessary, and ho put in somo buttor, dropped in his steak and soon had it sizzling. Then ho started in for tho biscuit. Ho got down tho dish-pan, filled It almost full, and then relleeted for a moment. I took advantago of tho occasion to oiion tho door and remark: "Mr. Howser, you needn't figure on an elaborate supper, under tho circum stances. Just make us a cup of tea :ind wo'll got along." "Mrs. Howser, you ought to know by this tlmo that thcro Is no half-way work with mo," ho replied, with groat frigidity. "You can afford to neglect tho comfort of this family, but I can not. Plcaso return to your gum and your novel." Then ho went nhend just as any other husband would. Hp hnd heard about soda and short ening in biscuit, and he mixed tho (lour with cold water, put in pepper und salt, slushed off half a pound of butter und stirred it in and then re membered tho baking powder. Thore was nearly a quarter of a pound In the box, and the whole of it went in. How Mr. Howser managed to got a grease spot between his shoulder bladcs.llourou his hair and baking pow dor In his hind pocket I do not know, but It was probably whilo ho was rolling that mass out. He didn't trlllo with tho nilxlng-board, but used tho spot whore ho had pounded tho beef. I heard tho mass of dough fall to tho lloor three different times with a dull thud, but he wasn't a bit discouraged. Ho got it rolled out at last, cut somo biscuits with a tea cup, and presently the oven door shut on his tins. Ho bud just forty biscuit. Ky this time the steak had burned Mack on both Kldos, and hu set It down buhlnd the stove and prepared the tun. To two quarts of water hu tibud ono tonipooiifiil, Ten minutes 'ator lie HUiniiioniid mo to the buuquut Ho hnd tho tablecloth on crlss-cross the butter on tho pie plate, tho cako In the chceso dish and his beefsteak was placed in tho center of tho tablo on a pie tin. 'Any thing wrong?" ho asked as L sat down. 'Oli, no. You havo dono splen didly." 'I am awnro of It. Tills tablo has never looked so homelike boforo." His biscuits wero raw In tho mid dle, while top and bottom wero so wonderfully and fearfully mado that I had to laugh. 'Tho biscuit; you can't beat 'em. Wait till you tasto ono!" I dldn t taste, but he did. I was watching him, and a look of horror camo over ins lace at. tno nrst mourn ful. Ho wouldn't glvo in, however, but crowded a whole biscuit down and. pretended to enjoy it. 'I wouldn't eat any of that steak. Mr. Howser," I said, as ho eyed it sus piciously. "Wouldn't you? Perhaps you want It all yourself?" "I don t think it is proporly cookod. "Well. I do! If that isn't a nico steak then wo never have had any in. this house'." Ho ato at least a quarter of a pound. though every morsel choked him. I offered to wash up the dishes, but ho put me out of tho kitchen and wont ahead, lie washed ovory thing to gether in the Hour-pan, wiped them on whatever ho could find loose, and it was a week before wo got tho pantry In order again. That night, aftor bragging of what a breakfast ho was. going to got, Mr. Howser was taken with chills and colic, and when tho doctor camo and I showed him tho beef and tho biscuit ho said: "Mr. Howser, If you hadn't tho stomach of a shark you'd havo boon dead an hour ago. You'd better quit this sort of nonsense if you want to llvo tho year out." And as soon as wo woro alono Mr. Howser turned on mo with: "Don't expect mo to shiold you again! Your jealousy prompted you to put poison into that Hour while 1 was down cellar! If this thiny occurs again 1 will send you to tho gallows." De troit Free Press. WORK FOR WOMEN. TIui Cooking anil 1'rcparliiK of Dollciicle for tlto Nick. Cooking delicacies for tho sick with a dnitity perfection that can not bo at tained by largo caterers or ordinary, cooks Is a comparatively now but very popular Industry, added to tho list of peculiar employments by which women aro enabled to earn their living In Now York. Ono of tho consignors of tho Woman's Exehango has ontiro charge of this special branch of culslno, nnd has coined dollars for herself, bosidoa carrying comfort to many sufferers. Sho is ono of tho unappropriated blessings of this world, nn unpluckod roso loft to withor on tho virgin stem, according to tho billons poet, hut who, with tho perversity of her sox, re fused to do tho expected, and, instead of withering, has blossomed into now tenderness, Iwauty, usefulness and womanliness. Sho failed entirely lit tho cako department at tho Exchange, but at tho suggestion of somo friends sho began tho cooking of thoso delica cies which long practice had mado hor an adopt and an artist in preparing. Now tho Invalids In tho richest housoa on tho avenue, the boarders at tho Hoffman llouso and Hrunswlck, tho sick in various hospitals and tho dol icato friends of wealthy patrons among tho poor alike enjoy tho same broths and teas, Iceland moss and blano mango sho prepares, and which can bo found nowhoro else so dollclous in tasto. Hoof tea, (shlckcn and mutton broth and beef juice, with various similar delicacies, mny bo had at any timo on a. diiy's notico at tho Exchange, and in cases of emergency thoy aro often pro pared by tho lady during tho night. Ladles who havo most accomplished cooks Hay that thoy almost invariably fail in cooking for invalids, and boarders at oven tho best hotels nnd boarding houses can not bo supplied with tho appetizing and nourishing food essential to invalidism. Still another gentlewoman propares various kinds of breads, brown bro:ul, graham, and health food bread, tho latter mado from cntlro wheat. Ono oustomor, a dollcato man boarding at a vory elegant up-town reaturant, con sumed eight loaves of health food bread a week through tho ontiro winter. A wealthy lady in town haa kept an old coachman allvo on the bcor tea mado by tho gontlo spinster at tho Woman's Exehango all through tho past summer nnd another ladyirdered rolls and chicken broth sent to a sick, servant for many weoks, until hor ro covory was announced. A lady i Washington, learning of tho illness of a poor friond, ordered nourishing dainties sent to hor through a long illness. The kindness of rich women continually manifests itself in this way. Other women employ thomsolvos very lucratively In tho preparation of puro jollies, containing no gelatino, for invalids, and still others aro occupied in the making of wino and fruitcordlals and tonics for tho sick and debilitated. Theso women aro almost without ex ception ladles of wealth and rollncniont, who, learning their dainty and womanly art of invalid culslno from experience gained In tho enro of their own fumllles, havo a pooullar skill which can not ho acquired In any other way, and which soma Middon whirl In tho wheel of fortuno haa caused them to employ for thopuuluigowl through tha omptlnoBS of u prlvHt puim JV, J'. Hun,