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*..:i S fe. fMS&jjSr I I Wi ft" & "*1 sv ip% |y Hi jflfe •Jfe p^M *,rv. THE ENTERPRISE. W. E. Haxnaford, Publisher. VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA •'•. To supplement their meaner in comes the priests in Switzerland are becoming proprietors and managers of inns in their parishes. Orders have been issued by the young amir of Afghanistan forbidding tho transparent or bright colored veils which were. becoming fashionable among women in Kabul. Stockholm claims the largest school .house in the world, which has accom modations for 2,780 children. In the basement are 100 bathrooms, where the children are required to bathe if their teachers think they are not taught habits of cleanliness at home. Soap and towels are furnished free by the city. There is no barbaric splendor about the court of Japan, nor does the em peror insist on lantastic forms of hom age. He is just a plain individual. His guests he receives standing, and he enters freely into conversation with all. There is scarcely a subject that does not interest him or one on which he is not well informed. The varieties of food and drink that can be made from fruits, nuts and ce reals are almost infinite in number. Already there are more than a hundred on the market. Within a few years, it would seem, this scientific preparation of foods will be an immense industry, and the present remarkable output of nearly $50,000,000 worth a year will be increased many times. A. twenty-five-story building is to be erected in New York, one hundred feet square and on land worth $100 a square foot, or $1,000,000 for ten thou sand square feet. The building, 325 feet high, will cost only $1,400,000, only 40 per cent, more than the land. Offices are expected to rent for $2 a square foot—$800 for a room twenty feet square. As long ago as 1853 it was attempted by a study of French statistics to prove that marriage is a "healthy es tate." In a recent series of articles in a London paper Frederick L. Hoffman makes a similar claim and believes that he has clearly proved that the mortality of single people of both sexes is greater than those who are married, excepting only that of women between the ages of 15 and 44 years. One of the newly discovered con stituents of our atmosphere, the gas krypton, displays, when examined through the spectroscope, a character istic group of green lines, which are the same as those observed in auroras under similar circumstances. The fact leads Prof. Ramsay, the leading Brit ish authority on the gases of the at mosphere, to believe that the auroral color may be due to an accumulation or concentration of krypton near the poles. One man in Battle Creek, Mich., Is spending $3,000 a day in advertising a cooked cereal food which ,eight years ago, this same man was peddling by the bag to the grocers of the immedi ate neighborhood. He got an idea, clung to it with unswerving tenacity, developed it with indefatigable energy and overcame obstacles by sheer grit —he advertised—and noto his idea pours into his coffers, almost automat, ically, an income of several thousand dollars a day. Of all the giants that have appeared before the public within the last 30 or 40 years none can be compared with the imposing Russian who has recently been on exhibition in Berlin, Germany. Feodor Machow, of Kustjaky, Russia, is now about 22 years of age. He is 7 feet 9 inches in height and can there fore be classed with the largest giants that have ever lived. He exceeds in height all the known living giants by at least a head, and is in many respects of great scientific interest. The elevation of Sir Charles White to the rank of field marshal puts Ire land in the position of furnishing three field marshals out of nine to the Brit ish army, or four if the duke of Con naught is included. Sir T. Kelly-Ken ny, an Irishman, is adjutant-general Sir Ian Hamilton, a Scotchman, is quar. termaster-general Sir Edward Ward, permanent undersecretary of the war office, is also a north country man, and Lord Kitchener, the Indian command er-in-chief, is of Irish birth. Savage raoes are popularly credited with great acuteness of vision, but re cent observations by Dr. W. H. Rivers on the primitive tribes of Murray Island Show that the superiority is only slight, although on his "native heath" the savage's familiarity with his surroundings gives him an advant. age over civilized man. It is to this familiarity with the minutest details of his evironment, rather than to any natural visual acuteness, that Dr. Rivers attributes the superior ability of a savage to recognize distant ob jects. The most unique of any of the moon shine stills ever broken up by govern ment agents was one captured in Geor gia in September last year. It was so small tfiat the moonshiner carried it about in a valise and had plenty of room for several bottles of mash. All he had to do when he found a customer was to secluded spot, set up his still andqsnqe his drinks. It came to grief becSufeeflie failed to select a thick enough $furi5p,of bushes. The operator fell intO^&e minds of revenue agents at the same time the miniature still ine same tne miniature sun MAY ilEACH FARMERS The Industrial Agitation Liable to Affect the Harvest Fields. T&e Farmer Powerless and More Helpless Than Any Other Employer--Strike on Great Railroad System Like Great Northern Affect* All Business. If, perchance, a strike should be or dered on the Great Northern Railroad, its influence might be much more far reachin'g than is generally supposed. There is already a movement on foot to inaugurate a plan to apply to farm labor the system of organization which is now in force among the trades and other classes of labor. Heretofore the farmer has been ex empt from labor agitation, but if this railroad strike should permeate the Northwest it is very likely its influ ence would extend to the agricultural districts as well. Hitherto the farmer has looked on labor agitation with great complacency, but his own ex perience is evidently near at hand. The farmer, too, is in a more helpless condition than almost any other class of the community. In the average strike the man, or company, can tem porarily suspend business and resume it again when "the cruel war is over," but with the farmer, when his grain is ready to cut, the work must be done at once or he loses a large per centage of his crop, and if long de layed loses it entirely. The conse quence is when organization reaches the farm, as it has in the Eastern states, and demands higher wages and shorter hours, the farmer will be powerless and more helpless than any line of business which has been con fronted -with a strike. There is not, fact, any branch of business in the Northwest which would not be materially injured by a strike otn a great railroad system like the Great Northern, and when the farmer is reached and gathered into the voracious maw of labor agita tion there will be little left which or ganization has not reached—Globe. DOUBLE-HEADERS. The Attitude of the Trainmen Reviewed. As a rule, of late, railway employes, trainmen especially, have been pretty reasonable in their demands upon the employing companies. The railways have. been enjoying a period of un usual prosperity, and it was not inap propriate that the employes should ask a reasonable increase in wages as their share of the prosperity. For the most part, railway managers recog nized the justice of the demand, and wage scales have been raised quite generally without anything serious in the way of a strike. A strike is now threatened on the Great Northern Railway, which was one of the first roads to grant a liberal increase in wages. The strike is now threatened, not as a result of wage disputes, but over a matter of economy in the run ning of train. As the gravamen of the dispute has been presented in the Minneapolis newspapers, the Great Northern trainmen are wholly wrong in their contention and should be able to count on little popular sympathy if they make the refusal of their de mands the pretext for a strike. The dispute is over the use of "double-headers." A "double-header," in railway parlance, is a train to which two locomotives are attached, 'lhe Great Northern Company desires to use two locomotives to pull over the heavy grades trains which on more level ti-ack need only a single locomotive. The trainmen contend that when two locomotives are used' two complete train crews must be em ployed, or that the single crew shall receive double pay for the service. The company, reasonably enough, it would seem, argues that it has use for but a single train crew and has no desire to employ more men than are really needed. It argues, however, that as- the use of the extra engine requires no extra work on the part of the crew employed, the company is not disposed to pay double wages to that crew. It is not difficult to see what the trainmen have in mind. If they can prevent the company from using "double-headers" the company must run two trains instead of one to get' the same number of cars over a heavy grade. Thus two train crews instead of one will be given employment. The trainmen insist that if tiie "double header" be used the crew employed shall be paid double wages, «o the railway may not be able to find any economy in the use of the "double header." This is clearly a case in which the labor organization is contending against the logical economy of things. It is the same old protest against labor-saving methods which has .so often brought organized labor into disrepute. The trainmen are insist ing that the railways shall handle their transportation of freight in a more expensive way than modern in genuity has been able to devise. In so doirig, the trainmen are arguing against the interest of the railtvay and that of the public as well. It is the right of the railway to transact its business on the. most economical methods. It is to the interest of the PULPIT AND PEW. The Rev. H. P. Perkins, of Pao-ting fu, reports to the America.n board of foreign missions that there is a relig ious movement such as has never been seen before in that field in north China. •Rev. R. Calvin Dobson, a Presbyte rian minister of St. Louis, preached a sermon in the world?s fair grounds on Sunday to an audience of workmen, the first religious services held on the exposition grounds, public that the railways shall be al lowed to do this. It is the obligation of the- company to pay all its em ployes a fair wage for the service per formed. It is not the right of the employe to ask that he shall be paid for more work- than he actually per forms, or that the railway, shall em ploy 'more men than are actually needed in the running of trains. The Great Northern trainmen are funda mentally wrong in demanding what they do. Even if their demands should be granted, nobody—not even themselves in the long run—would be benefited, hat is best for the many must be best for the individual.. Look ing back over the long record of fu tile protest against labor-saving methods, we find that what at -first looked like a calamity to some eventu ally proved to be a blessing in dis guise. Facilitating production' has made work easier, wages higher and in the long run has helped to make opportunities for labor. The Great Northern trainmen should, ponder a long while before they strike against a principle the soundness of which has been proved by the record of cen turies.—Sioux City Journal. Coming Strikes. From Sauk Rapids Sentinel It is not only the strike upon the Great Northern Railway System which is scheduled to occur soon, but of others, also, that are to occur from time to time, to accomplish the ends the open work, that we would speak. To the multitude of common people who judge by what they see and hear, it is a cause of wonder and surprise that an immense ly)dy of employes of the Great Northern Railway Company who are being paid all they ask, and with their families happily located, and with the most agreeable relations existing with the company officials, should permit themselves to be drawn or voted into a serious strike over a question or point that don't amount to shucks to them into a contest likely to cost the employes their posi tions, and consequently the loss of their homes, which they cannot af ford, and on the other hand may cost the company many millions of dollars which it can afford, because all such losses or burdens will be figured into the company's expense account to be paid by the future shippers on the line—the ultimate end of all charges, and in making which payments, th farmer has the lion's share. But in blissful ignorance of his bur densome connection w-ith the exciting game, very many of the farmers art constantly sympathizing with th« strikers, mainly because one of tht parties is a corporation. FIND INDIAN BURIAL GROUND. sought by the high strike authorities, been done during the week for corn and by the walking delegates who do and flax on high and light soils, but llO Anoi 4li«-i+ TirA iirAiil/1 nrvnnlr But passing bj' this threatenec strike upon the Great Northern Com pany with its probable bad result upon the country, it would be well fo the farmers and especially the larg farmers of western Minnesota and th two Dakotas to understand that the epidemic of strikes which is upo: the country, those farmers may be hi directly as well as indirectly. As prelude to the game that will interes them, quite a number of them durin last wheat harvest season were con. fronted with the "walking delegate'^ among their harvesting crews whol readily exceded to demanding an «x-V tra dollar or half dollar per day—a demand there was no'resisting. When such organized movements cover the country, and the demands are so ex horbitant as to absorb all profit in the crop, then, the striking business will not be amusing to farmers nor to those who depend upon trade with farmers. It makes a difference whose ox is being gored. As the epidemic spreads, the employers of smaller numbers of men will be threatened. That is not all. When there is adopt ed a sysctem under which those who have nothing combine against those who have excessive wealth, the popu larity of the thing spreads, and the ground between those making the raid to grab what they have not earned, and those who are compelled to resist and fight to keep what they have earned, will become very narrow7, and in a shdrt time people of ordi nary means may have a struggle to save themselves from organized plun der. Old-fashioned law will be found in end safer than the combinations of todav. Laborer* at Fort Riley, Kan., Dig Up Skeletons with Pottery and Other Rcidca. Laborers grading in the vicinity of the new gun sheds at Fort Riley, Kan., have unearthed over dozen skeletons, probably of Indians, and many flint hatchets and spearheads, oddly-shaped pieces of pottery, and stones probably used for grinding corn. The bones of the skeletons are larger than those of the- average sized man. The relics are thought to be at least 200 years old. It is be lieved that the spot was once a bury ing-ground. Be Was Thoroughly Aroaaed. A man in an apparently moribund condition was recently taken into a hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and in order to revive him a» electric shock was administered. The results were startling and unexpected. A demoniac energy was instantaneous ly infused. He sent the doctor sprawling on the floor and flung a couple of assistants out of the win dow. Then he proceeded to wreck the ward, while nurses ran away shrieking and barricaded themselves. He had done $500 worth of damage before the police arrived.' RAILROAD NEWS AND GOSSIP. Two locomotives, the largest in Eq. rope, have just been turned out at Basle, Switzerland. The boilers are twice the ordinary size, give a force of 1,600 horse-power, and a speed of over 75 miles an hour. Russian experts now declare that the Manchurian railway traffic is like ly to be often interrupted because the builders did not sufficiently allow for meteorological occurrences such as typhoons and inundations. & MINNESOTA NEWSL Climate and Crop Bulletin TKe'w^ek was cold and .wet. Thfe minimum temperatures were below the freezing point from the morning of April 28th to the morning of May 1st in nearly all parts of the state, and in some portions till the morning Of the 4th. On the 30th the minimum temperatures- Mn western and north central counties were below 20 deg rees, and in the same region the highest temperatures of the 28th and 29th were below the freezing point. There were general x-ains on the 28th, except in middle western and some southern' portions, which turned to snow late in the day, or on the 29th, with a fall of snow which ranged from a trace to from 4 to 6 inches, and which in some places was piled into deep drifts. In the southwest ern corner of the state a severe sleet storm on the 28th covered the ground, trees, wires, etc., with a thick coating of ice. The soil was frozen on the coldest days to a considerable depth, and it remained frozen till late in the day, or all day, so that very little wrork in the soil could be done. The heavy soils in southeast ern counties are saturated with wa ter farther west a little plowing has & in the whole state the amouht of work doue this week is very little. .The early sown grains are coming up slowly. Cheese. \Y. W. P. McConnell, state dairy and food commissioner, is much pleased at the way in which tiie cheese mak ing industry of the state picked up. He says that throughout the state, and particularly in the northern part ^vhere creameries are scarce, more of •tfies farmers than ever are turnings theiir attention to cneese making, and almjost invariably they find it profit able. At present two cheese factories are feeing constructed in Dodge coun ty Jind one at Hugo, Anoka county. Aj recent test made by Prof. Har ry |Snj-der, chemist ai the state ex periment station, of samples of the besit quality of Minnesota, Wiscon sin! and New York eheese, that could be |found on the market showed the leasfet moisture in the Minnesota eht| ese, and that it was richer in fat th%n either of the other samples. Tlfie ISew York cheese was found to cofntain a little more than 1 per cent tore protein. The result of the test owed that, as' a whole, the Minne ta cheese was the best of the three mples submitted. This, Mr. McCon ell says, shows that the climate, rass and general condition which Snake Minnesota famous as a butter irodueing state will also make the stfete famous for its cheese. Not a Trust. decision was filed in the district iurt at Fergus Falls in a case in the rights of newspaper pub lisher^ under the anti-turst laws. The publishers of the county have for some Tears had an understanding whereby different papers bid in the publication of such matters as the financial statement and a delinquent I tax list at legal rates, and furnished the otha- papers with supplements, !|he amoitit received for the work be ing divided by the publisher who bid |n the publication. Last fan an appeal wras taken from tire, allowance of the bills on the ground thlt the arrangement was a comwine aid conspiracy, and was forbidden the anti-trust laws of 1899 a'pd 19U. The case was argued at the a^ecenl term, and Judge Baxter holds th\at tHere is no ground for the appeal arid oklers judgment in favor of the puiblisrbrs. He takesX^thl ground that the anti trust statutes lo not apply in a case of this kind,\aid that the facts set forth are not .sufficient to constitue a conspiracy at jtommon law. The case will be of mueffi interest to publishers as the saane arlangement is in vogue in many otheri counties. Cljllapsed. Another of tli( concrete bins of the Peavey elevator^ System at Duluth burst. With it .Hvent 35,000 bushels of flax, and as tiis rushed upon the ground it poured) under the railroad poured grain foriy feet into the house. This is thi\ third accident of has shown signs of Weakness. More than half the graiii|\ was removed from it. News Notes nTransfers of real estate aggregated over $1,000,000 in Minneapolis during one week Clemens Hofei*, ai we| known resi dent. of Winona, fell -into the Missis sippi river at Fountain flity, and was drowned. \V J. D. Sabin, who was' arrested on a eharge of' violating the Saw by ille gally fishing in Lake, fc&eteck was fined $100. Frank Cummings, who lis accused of stealing $1,700 worth of watches and jewelry from a traveling man named Anderson at BlaltV Duck. Minn., is now locked up in/tne central police station, Minneapolis. '^5^ The mayor of Nort.iAfield -iftsued a proclamation designating- May 4 as "cleaning, up day/' The pupils. of the public schools were given holi day to assist in the work. prominent merchant of Mankato, went mad arid was shot by the police, but not until it hatd bitten the dogs of some of the "nvost prominent. re sp sidents. trestle with suck force as to raise alligator was given to the zoo by the the tract three fti^t, crusned through Minneapolis lodge of Elks and was the side of a train* shed opposite anc? originally presented to the lodge by the New Orleans lodge. the kind, and the fourth bin to give of John Opperman. living on Custer way. Two of theiA collapsed about street in West St. Paul, swallowed three years ago, an6\ another on April nine strychnine pills. A physician 16, this year. The Occident was not was summoned and administered an unexpected, howeve^ for since the antidote which may save the child's bin burst three weejfs ago this one ROUND ABOUT THE STATE. The war department has advised' the board of regents of the. Universi ty- of Minnesota that Captain George H. Morgan cannot be detailed as mili tary instructor at the university, as he is now on his regular tour of duty in the Philippines. It is the custom of the Grand Army posts of St.-Paul to alternate in tak ing charge of the Memorial day ar rangements and exercises. This year Aeker Post No. 21 has the duty and has invited Garfield Post. No. 8 to assist. Mrs. Alvin Small, wife of Former Sheriff Small of this county, attempt ed to commit suicide, while laboring under a fit of mental depression, at her home in Delhi. The plans for the public building at Stillwater, Minn., have been com pleted. They have been sent to the computor's division, of the supervis ing architect's office and the work will be put on the market about June I. The house of Paul Carpenter at Mc intosh was struck by lightning and baoiy wreelced. The store of George Toogood at Viola was entered and goods stolen. Four Crews of Great Northern sec tion men went on a strike at St. Cloud for an increase of wages from $1.25 to $1.50 a day. It is. probable the demand will be granted. The state dairy and food commis sion has arranged a picnic of the farmers of McLeod and adjoining counties to be held June 16 at Hutch inson. A new bank has opened for busi ness at Foley, Benton county, the first bank at that place. It is known as the State Bank of Foley and. will have a capital of $15,000. The state prison at Stillwater turn ed into the state auditor's office ..62, 283.02, representing the collections for April for binder twine sold to the farmers of the state. The twine plant at the penitentiary doe3 busi ness annually amounting to a half million dollars, which makes the pris on self-supporting. Iron ore shipments from the Min nesota mines during the month of April aggregated 737,290 tons, as compared with 1.095,189 tons last year. The falling off is largely caus ed by the delay in the opening. Of the amount forwarded last month, Two Harbors shipped 262,091 tons Duluth, 239,945, and Superior, 235 254. Fire has run over about 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 feet of pine of the Cass Lake reservation, which was blown down last fall. Arrangements are being perfected for the "grand celebration of the re servation" commemorative of the set tlement by the Chippewas of White Earth reservation. The sheet metal workers of Minne apolis have' practicatly~ won th"#ir strike, for a 40-cent an hour mini mum and an eight hour day. Thirty five out of the forty-four cornice and tinshops of the city had signed the agreement submitted by the strikers. Paul J. Smith, 157 Kent street, was found dead in a stable in the rear of his home by his daughter in St. Paul. Death was said to have resulted from heart trouble. Fire in the Alger-Smith Lumber company yards on Garfield avenue destroyed $3,000 worth of lumber and for a time placed 2,000,000 feet of the same commodity in jeopardy. Birnie Belovitch, seven years old, and Charles Merwin, eight years old, waged a fierce battle in St. Paul and both of them were seriously injured. The boys quarreled and Birnie is said to have struck Merwin in the face. The bank clearings of Minneapolis broke all previous records for one day's business, reaching a grand total of $7,787,280.01. The former record was $4,112,294.76, which was made on Sept. 2, 1901. The clearings for May 2, 1902, amounted to $2,568,143.42. Herman Overbv attempted to step from a train at Fosston. He fell un der the wheels and the train severed his right leg close to the hip. He will probably live. The large alligator at the Minne haha zoo is dead. The animal had been ill for several days nd every ef fort was made to save its life. The uiuvn ,KJ oarc jit. me. ine Willie Qpperman. the 3-year-old son 1 life. Peter J. Smetlen. who sustained a fracture of the spine bv a fall from a barn loft at Hastings, is dead. Julius Frieud of the National Mill ing and Evaporating company of De troit has |een in the 'Ewin Cities looking ovpr the situation "with a view of starting a potato flour mill. The barn and blacksmith shop of W. C. Bonn at Brookfield burned. All the tools and the horses were saved. Loss, $300 /insurance, $100. The fiftieth anniversary of Method ism in Red Wing was celebrated in a way wjiich will be long remembered. Uri jL. Lamprey of St. Paul wins his long drawn out fight with Russell Sage for 50,000 acres of the old St. Paul jfc Chicago land grant. The supreiie court handed down its sec ond aid. final decision in his favor, by wbSch the land must be turned over to him on payment of $62,220. The Minnesota-Wisconsin spring traclj meet has been called off. At a meeting of the board of athletic con trol pf the university it was decided that the Gopher team should not go to Madison to meet the Badgers be cause of the obstinacy of the Wiscon thletic authorities. sin -rf i_ MMk WOMEN SHOULD HAVE MONET. There Are Many Wko Do Not Have Chanoc to Learn the Lmiou of Ecraomjr. Having' the bills paid is all very well. It's much better than not having them paid. But women like the handling of money as well as do men.r They like to pay for their own purchases and opeu their own parcels. If you men cannot sympathize with this eccentricity, con sider how well you like to clip the end& from your own cigars and open your own mail, writes Lavinia Hart in Col lier's,. Consider how well you'd, have liked going through college with all. your bills paid, but not a cent in your pocket. Consider, while you are con sidering, how you would like being: asked to a banquet, and having some body else eat for you. I know women, whose fathers were millionaires and: whose bills were paid without ques tion, who were compelled to wait for the carriage, whatever their errand or its distance, because they never had carfare. Invariably these women were reckless in extravagence. They rarely asked the prices of things they or dered, as it was a matter of no concern to them. Yet with the rare and pre ciotis cash dollars that came their way they were economical to the verge of stinginess. The moral whereof is plain. If you would have your womenfolk economical, let them handle money a^d learn to respect its value. There may be women who have not sufficient womanliness to honor the confidence this trust implies but they are excep tions. If such be your daughters it is your business to teach them otherwise If they be your wives it is your own fault for having married them. When a father gives his son an al lowance he should do the same for his daughter not as a matter of material favor—for the daughter's bills might double the son's allowance—but as a matter of discipline, of financial ex perience and education. The girls who dress and keep themselves within the limits of a stipulated allowance are usually the best dressed yet. their bills are invariably smaller. It- is to their interest to get all they can for their money, and their dollars go twice as far as the girls whose bills are paid. And these are the girls whose training is fitting them to be good wives and helpmates of men, provid ed the men they marry have suffi cient shrewdness to share their confidences and their incomes, and to trust their wives to aid in making the family fortunes solid. In the humbler walks of life, where the husband's earnings are so scant it is incredible that they can cover the mean necessities of life, those households are uniformly mqre thrifty, where the husband turns pver his entire earnings to the Mi'Jfe'T* ^Hls daj'S "!are "-full of toil "and' his evenings of fatigue. He ha»* neither the time nor the energy to figure and plan to make "both ends meet." But somehow she manages to supply their wants and fceep the bills paid, and somewhere, though he cannot see just how she does it, there's a nest egg growing by hard saved dimes and dollars for the in evitable "rainy day." OAK-STAIN FOR FLOORS. Simple Form-Ala for Making It, H'liich Any Honnewilfe Can Put into U*e. A young housewife desires two shades for her floors—one dark ma hogany and the other oak. She has never had an oak floor, but thinks it will suit her doors and window shut ters, and be prettier by it, says the American Tribune. An oak stain is made by, fixing* a pint cf boiled linseed oil, a gill and. a half of turpentine, three table- spoonfuls of whiting. Mahogany stain is made with one pint of boiled linseed oil, a gill and a half of turpentine, three table spoonfuls of whiting, half a table spoonful of yellow ochre, half a tea spoonful of Bismarck brow.n and half a teaspoonful of analine black. If there are cracks in your flopr, see that they are filled before put ting on the stain. The best way to remove the green spots or soil is not to use strong soap or lye, as it leaves an uneven, clouded surface beneath, which show's under the stain, but make a good soft suds of rainwater and washing pow der and ,get it perfectly clean be fore you apply the stain, also have the floor quite dry. Try a little of the stain on a piece of wood to see the exact shade be fore you put it on the floor. Linseed oil and burnt -umber (a tablespoonful of burnt umber to a pint of boiled linseed oil), makes a rich hard-wood looking floor, but it is dark. .. -Vv i.-- Kidney Omelet. Chop cold, boiled kidney quit*} fine make an omelet with three eggs, beat en three tablespoonfuls of milk, ar pinch of salt and a, little pepper put one teaspoonful of butter in a frying pan when melted, turn in the mix ture let cook slowly until a crust forms on the bottom in the meantime, sprinkle over the oihelet the chopped kidney and a little'chopped-parsley fold in half turn out on a hot platter, spread with butter, antf garnish' wlthf parsley.-—Good Housekeeping. Spiced GooMberrlei. Wash and prepare' gooseberries then measure five pounds with foiir|§| of sugar, a pint of vinegar, a table-^J* spoon.of powdered cinnamon .and a^" ~... a. •. ...r r-1 A 3| ,uuu eg* teaspoon of powdered cloves, and boil the whole slowly^for t£ree£&^i hours.—-Good Housekeeping, jf,^i -tt. fcsr *jc-a