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and skill than the other methods of
cooking1.
Stewing must be conducted slowly
and on the same g-eneral plan as boil
ings The stew must be made the most
appetizing- or the most repulsive of
dishes. Prepared as the French serve
it, a la jardiniere, the addition of a
finely cut carrot, green peas, string
beans and the sprinkling- of an onion,
the whole browned and thickened with
baked flour and served with small
pieces of cut toast, offers a most
tempting- dish.
Hashing- meats is a fine art.
Meat can never be twice cooked with
out injury to the article; hence the
process of hashing- should be a warm
ing only. Perhaps the best way is
strong steaming until it is completely
warmed through. This completed, the
hash may be best treated with a piquant
ketchup of mushroom or tomato, and
then be quickly served.
To Make a Fowl Tkndkr.— When
it is drawn and stuffed it is wrapped in
two thicknesses of brown paper and
tightly bound with twine so that none
of the vapor or steam may escape. Ac
cording- to its size and ag-e, the fowl is
allowed to cook in a very hot oven,
within its envelope of paper, from an
hour to an hour and a half. When the
fowl is taken out remove the paper,
which is to be burned with all the
grease it may contain. The bird is
now dredged with flour, replaced in
the oven and basted every few minutes
with the juice which may flow into the
pan. As soon as it has assumed a
deep brown color it is served with a
rich gravy. Full-grown pigeons
cooked in this way are said to be equal
to squabs.
AFRICAN DIAMONDS.
The African diamond fields are in
the Orang-e Free State, where there is
one important mine at Jag-ersfontein,
and in the British colony of Griqua
Land West, where there are four. Of
these the best known are the Kimber
ley mine and the De Beet's, the latter
of which was so admirably illustrated
in last summer's Columbian exhibi
tion.
It is but twenty-five years since the
gems were discovered on the Dark
continent, and the value of the an
nual yield now amounts to $20,000,000.
It is interesting- to note that notwith
standing- such large quantities are
mined and that diamonds have been so
successsully imitated, their value has
not declined more than $1 a carat.
The South African mines have yield
ed larger stones than any found in
Brazil or India. Some of them are of
a yellow tint, and therefore of low
value; but the De Beers diamond (428>^
carats) and the Jagersfontein (969^
carats), the last found less than a year
THK RANCH.
ago, are perfectly white. These
weights are for the roiifjh diamonds,
but the Kohinoor weighed only 192
o;irats, and was reduced by cutting to
102# carats.
The Kimberley mine has been
worked to a depth of 4<H) feet, and ver
tical shafts have now superceded the in
clined ones formerly used as means of
entrance. The quantity and value of
the African in the market have
made great changes in the diamond
trade. The Brazilian gravels are now
worked very little, as are the fields in
India and Borneo. London is the dia
mond market of the world. —Scientific
American.
RATHER SHARP.
ANOTHER MATTKK.
He uttered awful groans
When asked to pull a tack,
But he could mount his wheel
And for hours could bend his back.
A beetle can draw twenty times its
own weight. So can a mustard plas
ter.
A two-foot rule —Stand on your own
pins.
A woman's right* lady remarks that
the highest use of man is to have his
life insured for his wife's benefit.
It's a poor mule that won't work
both ways.
My daughter, when you note that
the man who wants to marry you is
just too awfully anxious to learn
whether you can bake a loaf of bread
or wash a shirt with Chinese dexterity,
before you close the negotiations do
yon just fly around and ascertain
whether that man is either willing or
able to earn enough flour to make a
biscuit, and if he has paid for the shirt
he wants you to wash. Nine times
out of ten, daughter, the man who
only wants to marry a housekeeper
can be kept more economically in the
workhotfse than he can in your father's
house. —R. J. Burdette.
Mother —You say your husband no
longer spends his evenings at the club?
Daughter—l soon broke him of that.
Mother —How did you manage?
Daughter —Before tfoin^ to bed I put
two easy chairs close together by the
parlor fire and then held a match to a
ci}, rar until the room got a faint odor
of smoke. —New York Weekly.
Cease from this antedating1 of your
experience. Sufficient to to-day are
the duties of to-day. Don't waste life
in doubts and fears; spend yourself on
the work before you, well assured that
the right performance of this hour's
duties will be the best preparation for
the hours of iifres that follow it. 'Tis
the measure of a man —his apprehen
sion of a day. —R. W. Emerson.
Dost farm lands for sale.
Safest loans negotiated on 7 and 8 per
cent first mortgaged
Reference —First National Bank of
North Yakima.
Correspondence solicited.
G M. McKINNEY,
North Yakima.
(i. M. IfeKINNBT, Esq.—Dear sir: I take
pleasure instating that as partner In the firm
I made a personal examination of nil the
loans negotiated by you as our manager at
North Yaklma during the years 1800,181)1 and
1992, or during the time you had charge of our
office, and in every instance 1 considered the
security ample for the loan. If at any time
in the future. I can be of any assistance to
you by informing interested porties of the
good quality of our loans negotiated by you
in North Yukima advise me and I will cheer
fully and promptly do so.
CHIPPEN, LAWRENCE & CO.,
Denver, Colo. per 11. .1. Putnam, parner.
BESIDES FINE
LITHOGRAPHIC STATIONERY,
We make Labels of all kfnds, Nursery
Flower plates, and carry in stock Bird
Seed boxes: Vegetable and Seed Hags,
Nurserymen's Order Books. Box Labels,
Show Cards, and in fact anything and
everything embraced under the head of
LITHOGRAPHY.
LOWMAN & HANFORD LITHO. CO., '
Seattle, Wash.
NORTH A KIM A
MILLING COMPANY.
Manufacturers of
Victor Family Flour.
Wallnla Star Straight Grade Flour,
Self-Rising Flour,
Graham Flour,
Corn Meal,
aud all kinds of chop and mill feed and
dealers in
GRAIN FOR SEED AND FEED.
JOHN SAWBRIDGE,
Gone veil
Hardware,
PLUMBING,
SHEET METAL WORK,
Agent for Majestic Steel Ranges,
the Domestic and White
Sewing Machines.
Farm Tools, Hod Growers' Supplies.
Send us your name and $1, and re
ceive Thr Ranch for a year.
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