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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^*^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ j^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ TUOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1896._ VOL, LXI. NO. 20 It is figured thai the sea swallow 2000 vessels every year, with 12,000 human lives and $100,000,000 of prop erty. _ A French scientist says that the "salt air" of the seacoast is a popular delusion. He has been conducting a series of elaborate experiments and can find no trace of salt in the air. The London Standard thinks that it is high time to begin hanging captains of ships who run down small craft ot rea. Passing ship? uro !:rown to the fialnrs and coasters as "silent deaths," and dreaded far more than storm-.. ' A scientist in Washington cannot understand why women have such a strong prejudice against vivisection, when, according to Genesis?, had it sot been for au experiment in vivisec tion there would have been no woman. * A Spanish newspaper, quoted by the New Orleans Picayune, Eays : "Exter mination. This is the only solution of the war in Cuba. Let the romantic North Americana say what they wish, the moment has arrived for showing ourselves cruel and inflexible, and bloody if necessary." James P. Hamilton, a blind piano inner of Grand Rapid?, Mich., is mac ing a great excitement in Athens, where he went to study Greek. Tho Greeks were amazed at the idea of a blind man acquiring an education, an I they are discussing tho establish men!; of a school for the blind, with Hamil ton nt the head of it. There is no such sohool in Greeo?, whore a blind person is considered fit for nothing bat begging. The rate of increase in wages shown by Mr. Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, in tho lecture he lately delivered in New York is striking. His figures cover a period of fifty year?, no doubt the most important in the history of mod em times, and they show a progres sive increase from an averago of $217. 83 in 1550 to $283.0 i in 1S30, to 8302.08 in 1870, to $316.91 in 1380 and to $44183 in 1890. Mr. Wright points out that before the real signifi cance of such averages con be compre hended the fluctuating value of money must be considered. He says that tho real question of wages is of the amount Th3 Atlanta Journal says that a syn dicat*) of New York capitalists are about to purchase the grounds of Pied mont Park, Atlanta, on which the Ex position was held. It adds that New York capitalists already hold large interests in Atlanta, and thus New York capital is destined to cut a large figure in tho bustling metropolis of Georgia. These statements, comments the New York Tribune, are especially interesting, in view of tho fact that whilo the Fair was in progress last fall, everybody in Atlanta was predicting that Chicago capital was soon to como 1 to Atlanta and revolutionize thing?, and New York was denounced as slow because it failed to appreciate its op portunity. Chicago money, however, is still far from conspicuous down j there, but it should be added in fair- t ness thal the Chicago papers wrote up he Fair in fine style, y . : It is stated in the New York Ob- ( server that the reindeer which wero introduced into Alaska largely through the efforts of Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jack j eon, who is a kind of apostle of Alaska, have been giving a good account of themselves. While a dog can average but thirty-five miles a reindeer can make ninety miles a day. Sit ift oom- ' munication between many of the scat- | tered settlements has thus been mndo feasible. The natural increase of tho reindeer is rapid, being estimated at fifty per cent., so that large herds may be expected in course of time. At present nearly one ' thousand head of reindeer are herded at Port Clarence, sear Baring Strait. Numbers of the natives whose homos are contiguous to the Government school stations are ' thus being lifted by degrees from a ' dependence upon the uncertainties of fishing and hunting to tho more steady and comfortable condition of herds men. The skins and meat of the rein deer are also valuable, so that Alaska ' is finding the animals already import ed a veritable godsend. Catching Col'.?. A great deal of lung trouble, con sumption and throat difficulties ore I chargeable directly to the habit of ? laughing and talking on going out from heated audienoe rooms. People Bit for hours ia warm roora?, then go out suddenly into tho cold air. They ? are in high spirits and naturally in clined to chatter and laugh, often j keeling this np for a long time. The sadden reducing of the temperature of, the'laugs by the enormous inhalation 1 of very cold air is productivo of con- j gestion and chills innumerable. It is j declared by a physician who has made a stndy of this subject that if people I could be induced to keep thoirmonths shat on goiag out of heated rooms ' into a cold atmosphere thero would ba . fewer pulmonary and throat troubles and fewer colds and coughs. People 1 should gradually accustom their lunga to the :old, rarely speaking for the first few minutes of their out-of-door j trip. To the thoughtless this looks like a small matter, but on it may de pend health, happiness and long lifo. -New York Ledger. ! "FARMERS' ROADS. A MATTER OF ^IMPORTANCE TO TILLERS OF THE SOIL. United States Department of Agri culture Takes It Up-Macadam and Telford Systems-Model North Carolina Roads. HE United States Department of Agriculture has taken up the matter of "farmers' roads," avers the Chicago I Record, and Boy Stone, an engineer 1 of the department, believes that farm ers can build good roads without im ! poverishing themselves. On this sub ject Engineer Stonie says : ? "In the fit6t pkce the "road that will b:st suit the needs of the farmer must not be too costly ; in the second place j it must be of toe very best kind, for the farmer should be able to do his heavy hauling over it when his fields are too wet to work and his teams are free. The road that would seem to fill the farmer's need, all things con sidered, is a solid, well-bedded stone road, so narrow as to be only a single track, but having an earth track along side. "A fine, dry, smooth dirt track is the perfection of roads ; it is easy on the horses' feet ami legs, easy on the vehicle and free from noise and jar. lt holds snow better than gravel or stone and requires less snow to mako sleighing, and where sach a road has a stone road alongside to take the travel in wet weather it will suffer hardly any appreciable wear. "The stone road? on the other hand, wears by the grinding of the wheels and the chipping of the horses' calks in dry weather more than ia wet. If it can be saved this wear for an aver age of six months in each year, so much will be clear gain. " "The questions raised regarding this method of construction are : Can tho junctions of the earth and stone sec tions of the road be kept even so as not to have a jog in passing from one to the other, and can the mesting and passing of loaded teams be provided for?" Mr. Stone oitcd the condition of the Canandaigua (N. Y. ) roads nu evidence that thero is no sign of division be tween the earth and stone, and added that those who use these roads say that no difficulty is found in the passing of teams, since practically no two teams ever tnrn out at exactly the same spot, and no rutting of the earth road occurs. A MECKLENBUna COUNTY The League of American Wheelmen has taken up the cause of good roads, and men who are accustomed to feel the public pulse say that good roads will soon be a dominant issue in Stale and National politics. What bicycle riders are doing at present was done by the horseless vehicle men of Eng land in 1831, when their agitation re snlted in the appointment of a com mittee of the Hor-e of Commons "to inquired into and to report upon the propcrtion of tolls which ought to be im poi ed upon coaches and other ve hicles propelled by steam or gas upon turnpike roads." It was just about this time that James Macadam^ Boad Surveyor, and Thomas Telford, President of tho In stitution of Civil Engineers, with their adherents, were engaged in a contro versy regarding the relative merita ofMacadam" and "Telford" ::oads. Up io that time England's best roads were the remains of tho old Roman roads, but Macadam and Telford be gan an era of road building, each af ter hii. own kind, which brought Eng lish roads to a high state of develop ment and made those two engineers famous as the originators of the two system* which to-day bear their names. SBCnON^P TELFORD KOA?. ' The macadam road has the earth graded and rollen for its foundation. The principles laid down by Macadam were as follows : lt is the natural soil which really supports the weight of trav el ; while it is preserved in a dry state it will carry any weight without sink ing. This native soil must previously be made quite dry and a covering as much impenetrcble to iain as possible must then be placed over it to pre serve it in that dry state. That the thickness of a road should only be reg ulated by the quantity of material necessary to form such impervious coveriug and never by any reference to its own power of carrying weight! These principles, modified in some respects, govern the making of a mac adam roadway to-day. The natural earth foundation is graded so that the curve cf the foundation will be par allel to the curve of the surface of tho roadway when completed. The earth foundation is rolled and rerolled un der a heavy roller until the rarlh is firm, compact and even. On both sides of the roadway exca vations are made for the drains. In the bottom of tho ditoh thus mndo tiling in laid, oovered with hay, straw or some such filtering material, and over it is laid broken stone in such a manner that water will easily find its way down to the tile. Sometimes, instead of tiling, bnndles of rode or straight limbs of trees, bound together fagot fashion, are laid in the bottom of the drains instead of tiles, '.Dhis is a cheaper construction, br? is not regarded so good as tb* U-shaped tiling. When the roadway has been graded and rolled and the drains haye been built the first layer of broken stone is put on the rolled surface of the eaith foundation. This layer is about six ' inches deep, and consists of broken stone, no piece too large to pass 1 through a ring of two and one-half inches inside diameter. When this layer is evenly spread over the foundation the roller is again brought into use, and the stone layer is rolled until it is firm and compact. Tho stone is sprinkled with water be fore the roller is passed over it, and sometimes clean, sharp sand is sprin kled over the stone. The second layer, thick enough to bring the stone bed np to ten inches, ! is next spread on and rolled, and then j a top layer of clean gravel or stone , chippings is put on and rolled. Care is taken that the gravel shall not bo waterworn, with smooth, round cor ners, for this is injurious to the road way. The Telford road differs materially from the macadam, for it has a foun dation of stones laid down singly, with the broad side down, and tho spaces between the stones filled with smaller, SECTION OP MACADAM ROAD. rough, wedge-shaped stones driver in eolid. Orig'nally the Telford foundation was "convexed" by laying the largest stones to form the crown in the cent er of the roadway and then grading down to the gutters with smaller stone?, but this*practice is no longer followed, tor the earth is graded to form the crown as it is done in a macadam road. The earth foundation is well rollad and then the sub-pavement is laid on with the long side of tho stone set transversely. Between these stones stone chips are packed firmly and then broken stone is placed over tho sub pavement in two layers, tho first lay er being rolled and packed before the second is laid on. i This layer of broken stone forms the intermediate course, for the sur face is mado of stone broken in smaller pieces and packod under a light roller. Sand is swept over the surface and in other rolling with a heavier roller complotes tho pavement. The sand is moistened and tho rolling is continued (NORTH CAROLINA) ROAD. until the sand can no longer be drivo:i in between tho broken stone. Drains aro laid, as they "re for ma?adam roads, before the ub-pavement is built. A simple experim which can bo made with any wht viii show why a smooth, hard-sun 1 road makes hauling easy for a ho. On such a road the roadway i<> ngent to the circumference of the wheel. The wheel stands on the immediate point of con tact, and there is no obstacle over which the wheel must be lifted. On a sandy or loose, soft earth road th$ wheel sinks iuto the roadway. To draw tho wheel forward the earth be fore its track must be displaced or passed over, so that a horse, in addi tion to the force it must exert to draw the load, must use extra force to over come tho obstacle in tho path of thc wheel. I In Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, thc systematic improvement of rfr.ids has made progress for nearly fifteen year?. The general plan adopted was to start at the city limits of tho county seat and to grade and macadam all public roads from this point out toward the township and county limits. These roads havo a width of forty feet for the firBt two miles from the city limits and beyond this point a width of thirly-oix feet. Tho average cost of these roads, in clrding tho macadamizing and grad ing, is about $2000 a mile. Tho effi ciency of the roads is shown by the il lustration, copiod from a photograph. Tho wagon loaded with twelve bales of cotton weighs G000 pounds, and eaoh of the other three wagons is loaded with a cord of wood. Much of tho road bnilding in this county is done by cenvicts. The av erage number of convicts employed is about eighty, and the averago cost of this l'ibor per convict, including food, clothing, medical attention cud guard?, is from twenty to twenty-two cents a day. The rate of taxnbion in the county is eighteen cents on $100 worth of property. In addition each township levies a tax varying from Ecven to fif teen cents on each $100 worth of property. The law requires all able bodied citizens along tbepublio roads to labor four days of each year on tho public roads or to pay fifty cents a day in lien thereof. This olass of labor is used indepen dent of the convict labor, principally in the work of grading or in tho gen eral repairs of those roads or portions of them upon which tho convict force is not cngaggd. Where Wafer h iccrcp. Water is so tcarce in South Africa that it is dealt oat by tho gallon, the allowance to each person working for tho mining companies ranging from one to ono and a half gallons per day. This limits tho drinker of tea and cof fee to ono cup, whilo if stronger stim ulants are indulged in they aro swal lowed without. Wushing isa luxury, clothing being f ubinitted to the action of sunshine and air, with a good shak ing, alter the manner of carpets, to get rid of the dust STEAlLHEATim Recent Advance in This System of Warming Residences. With its many early imperfections steam-heating was slow in coming into favor, and there ore to-day many worthy persons who hold a rooted aversion to it, hased upon unhappy PERSPECTIVE VIEW. experience. It is not difficult to under stand the reason for this when one visits a huilding equipped wi th a steam heating apparatus of a score or more years ago. The temperature is scarce ly even bearable, for with the steam turned on the rooms become torrid; if it is turned oft they become frigid, and there seems to be no happy me dium. Added to this very vital objec tion, when the steam is first admitted to the radiator?, one might as well live in a boilershop. The thumping and clanging is enoughto craze a person of nervous susceptibilities. In view of the splendid results that aro now obtained in steam-heating, it is needless to say that thc3o faults arc not due to the system, but to the ignorant application of it. Where the heat cannot be properly and per fectly regulated there has been no scientific adjustment of heating sur face to the cubic dimensions of the room. In many buildings that have been equipped with the apparatus, subsequent to their ereotion, there are hundreds of feet of steam pipe ex posed, because it was impossible to carry them from floor to floor and from room to room within the walls. The radiators themsolvcs have suf ficient heating surface, while tho steam pipes are responsible for tho over heat ing.' The architect of to-day Bottles this difficulty in his plan?. If the matter is left to him, steam-heating becomes a delight to the householder, as it gives sure and equable tempera ture in the utmost extreme weather, and at a minimum of cost for fuel. The thumping in tho radiators, which forms a primo objection to thc system in the mind of those who re member the experimental stage of steam-heating, is entirely obviated by the nse of improved apparatus. It ii caused, of course, hy the condensing of steam in the radiators, and when as hot air or hot water heating. The accompanying design is for a country villa in which tho plans c ill for a simple' and inexpensive steam heating plant. GeneralDimensions : Width, throngh dining-room and back parlor, 33 ft. 6 in?. ; depth, including bay window, 43 ft. Heights of Stories : Cellar, 7 ft. ; first st?ry, ? it. ; second story, 9 ft. Exterior Materials: Foundation, stone; first and second stories, clap boards ; band between first and second ?. Ver?n dd 6'v/ide Tirst TLoor stories, band under eave?, gables, dor mora and roofs, shingles. Interior Finish ? Two [coat plaster, hard white finish. Flooring and trim in hall, oak; elsewhere, N. C. pine. Oak staircose. Kitchen walls wain scoted. All interior woodwork grain filled and finished with hard oil varnish. Colors: All clapboards, fawn brown. Trim, including water-table, corner boards, c?mico', etc., white. Outside doors and ceiling, oiled. Shingles on side walls left natural for weather stain. Shingled roofs stained a deep red. Accommodations : Cellar under rear half of house with inside and outside entrance. Portiere openings connect hall, parlor, sitting-room and dining room. Open fireplaces in hail and dining-room. Hat and coat closet in hall. Butler's pantry, containing Second TLoof " dresser, connects kitchen and dining room. Portabio rango and sink in kitchen. Bath-room iu second story, with full plumbing. Attic unfinished, except for etorago purposes. This House would cost ah ont $2985 -not inoluding the heating apparatus, range and mantels-built -within 100 miles of New York City, although in many sections of the country the cost should be much less, where labor or materials pre cheaper. Eadiators should be placed as near the mido wa ns possible, anl iu all rooms but tho kitchen, including tho bath-room and lower hall. A fair es timate for the apparatus complete, set, would be about $290. CCopyxishted 1695.) A FEATHERED CURIOSITY. It ls a Booster With a Sixteen Feet Long TaL'. The jopanoso oro a fun-loving peo ple ana they are a- full of tricks of various; kinds as an American school boy. A writer who recently returned from Japan" tells of a queer rooster ho saw on tho Mikado's Island. "The only toing in the shape of a live, phy sical freak that ever came under my observation was a common, everyday 6ort otf a barndoor rooster," ho says. "That rooster had a tail sixteen feet BOOSTER WITH ? ?.ONG TAHu long and thought ho was 'somo pump kins.' Nevertheless, ho wa3 a fraud, a ?mare and delusion. He strutted about with the self complacent air of a pea cock, notwithstanding that he must have been aware of tho fact that his tail was composed of plumes begged, borrowed or stolen from the caudal ap pendages of other rooster*. That tail certainly was a marvel of ingenuity. Tho feathers were so cleverly joined one to enothor as to defy detection, except on the minutest of scrutiny. Yet the owner of tho bird could tako off and put on that wonderful tail whenever it pleased him to do so." Philadelphia Press. - ? "^jrn?" - A Feline Fireman. There's tv remarkable cat in this city called 'Tootsy." She is tho only fire cat ia the land. Tootsy is a member of Engine Company No. 27, and all tho firemen love her. She was born on tho Fourth of July, has been in the cat ? show, rides on the engine, sitting on j tho driver's seat, and loves the smell , of smoko as much as she does a dinner of live mouse. Nothing could induce j the men of No. 27 to part with their pet. Tootsy knows an alarm of fire, even if she hears the gong strike when she's a block away. When Tootsy dies libero will be sorrow of tho genu ine kind in the engino house of No. 27.-New York Eecord, Iiis Imperative Duty. A lady, cn route to tho last Queen's drawing-room, in London, found her self blocked in a lino of carriages con- j faining people who had not tho cntrco to which she herself was entitled. Much annoyed, she loaned ont of the oarriuge window and said to a police man on duty there.in imperious tones: "Perhaps you don't know that I am the wife of a cabinet minister?" "I couldn't let you pass, ma'am," he calmly replied, "even if you were the wife of a Presbyterian minister."-Ar gonaut. Fireproof Paper. An inhabitant of Berlin is responsi ble for the invention of fireproof pa per. A considerado quantity of as bestos fiber of tho best quality, with several other ingredient?, is mixed with tho ordinaiy wood pu'p, with the addition of somo lime water and bor ax. Paper thus produced will resist the direct influence o" a flame and oan be placed even in a white heat with impunity. . Tho Largest Dam. The largest dammed body of water in the world will be secured by the building o? a dam at Cloqnot, Minn., on tho St. Louis Biver, 900 foet long and eighty feet high, by which back water will bo extended sixty miles. Current Literature. - iML.li -~ Great Botanic (Jardea. Tho botanic gardens of tue Jardin des Plantes, P?iris, includes about seventy acres. The plants are all labeled with rod labels, medicinol; green for alimentary ; yellow, for or namental purposes; blue, for art, and j black, for poisonous plants.-Current . Literature, WOMAN'S WEAR STYLISH C03IBINATIONS IN JAC KETS AND WAISTS. Handsome Outing Jacket of Light Gray Cloth-A Becoming Waist of Linen Batiste-New Wi .yd Of Wearing the Hair. j I y HE stylish combination por I / trayed in the first double-col I uran engraving illustrates one fr" of the newest fanoies of tho season. The open jacket is made of light gray cloth, the lapels and collar being faced with fine suiting in "shep herd's plaid" (black and white oheck) that matches the skirt with which it is worn. Smoked pearl buttons are used for decoration. The fronts are deeply faced and reversed to form long lapels that meet the rolling collar in notches. They are usually worn open, but can be closed at the bust if so desired. Tho back fits smoothly, side, back and STYLISE: OUI underarm gorep, with a curved centre seam securing a trim adjustment. Plaits are laid underneath, below the waist line in back, to form tho fullness now fashionable. The stylish gigot sleeves aro shaped by single seams, tho fullness at the top being laid in baok and forward turning side plaits, that form single box plaits at the shoulder seams. The blazer can be made i rom one material in self-colored cloth or of suiting to match skirt. Pockets can be inserted in the fronts if desired, these being omitted from all the latest ?jgns, inside breast pockets being ".icier seam. The quantity of material, ii inches wide, required to make this jacket for a lady having a 36-inch bust measure is 3? yarde. A B2C01HNG WAIST. The stylish waist depicted in tho second large illustration i? ono of tho season's novelties, its soft fullness and handsome decoration making it un usually attractive and becoming. Ecru linen batiste is tho material repre sented, made up over green taffeta linings and decorated with bands of batiste embroidery and green satin ribbon. The full fronts and back are joined in shoulder seams, and gath ered in several rows of shirring around tho neck and at tho lower edge3 in cen tre. A full plaited basque of the j trimming is sewed to tho lower edges in centre. Tho standing collar has a plaited frill standing out from ita up per edge that separates in point3 at front and back. Three bands of batiste embroidery decorate tho frouts, tho ceutro one blousing slightly at tho waist. Tho bishop sleeves aro fash ionably full, and are shirred top and bottom over fitted linings of taffeta. Straight cuffs of the batiste embroid ery complete the wrists. Waists in this style are stylishly developed from any of the numerous weaves of fancy silk now in vogue, with ribbon, lace, insertion, jet or spangled passemen terie for decoration. B?h combina tions are possiblo by the mode. The quantity of material ii inches wide required to make this basque for a lady having a 36-inch bust measure is 3 \ yards. KEW RIBBON'S. The new ribbons are really wonder ful in coloring and diversity or pat terns. On wfcite and bright colored grounds there are ohine designs, and over these are narrow black and white LADIES stripes or dots. Tl.07 como wide for snehes, and coat between ?1 and $5 a yard. One design of purple lilnc3 strewn all over a white around, with one narrow white satin stripe down either side nearly two inches from the edge, is particularly pretty, but the variety ia beyond description. EVENING BONNET OP SPANGLED NET. The home milliner has an excellent opportunity to show her originality in making up a variety ol bonnets for evening wear. Spangled net is one of the newest and most popular materials to be employed in the make-up of these necessary little bits of feminine finery. Rhinestone buckles and bunches of half-blown pink roses com plete this simple but effective little evening headdress NEW WATS OP DRESSING THE HAIR. With a return to the fashions of our grandmammas there is also a return to the elaborate mode of dressing the hair. The plain "knot" that anyone could do has given place to an elabor ate structure of curls and waves and frizzes and flowers and jewels that only an artist can accomplish, and tho reign of tho hair dresser will soon be gin in the land. Speaking of the new coiffures, a noted French hair dresser says that for an evening toilet waving the hair is only accessory ; for morning it is in ?ING JACKET. dispensable. For day wear tho knot is raised higher on the head than last year, while for evening wear it is raised quite up on the top of the head. In the pretty designs for a daytime coiffure given above tho hair is simply waved all over the hca 1 and drawn back so that it forms bands at the ?ides. At the back it is drawn loosely into .a knot well up on the head, where it is secured by a handsome tortoise shell comb. ^ - For evening wear all'sorts of hand some accessories jewels, flowers, feathers, rosettes are worn, mixed with tufs of hair. To these ure added .tigreU^' $cir? ?lightly .ct o ac side. I The hair is very much puffed around ? FOE DAT AND DINNER WEAH. the head and the waving gives it a pretty and airy effect. A stylish and new arrangement of the hair for au elaborate dinner or thoatro party is pictured here. It is composed in front of bande, which form waved festoons over the oars. Behind are rosettes of pink velvet, ono upon another, form ing an aigrette. Five curls foll over thc shoulder at the back. WHITE STREWN WITH LU ACS. Tho new ribbons aro wonderful in coloring and diversity of pattern?. On white and bright-colored grounds there are chino design?, and over those are narrow black and white stripes o:r dots. One design of purple lilacs strewn all over a whito ground, with one narrow white satin stripe down either side nearly two inches from the edge, is particularly pretty, but the variety is beyond description. A VERT ODD SLEEVE. The very popular sleeve model ol the moment fits the arm very closely, some inches above the elbow, and has a short, full puff at the top, th? sleeve WAIST. a the wrist sharply pointed and frule J with rich lace. SAILOB HAT?. Sailor hat:? having tho edgo of tho brim rolled ip all around arc among ] the n?T fcfv ?es, - ----- MOTHERS READ THIS. The Best Remedy. ? For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhoea, Dyscn ( i tery, Nausea, Cong tts, Cholera In-1 ( ) fantum, Teething Children, Cholera ! I \ Horbas, Unnatural Drains from, . ) the Bowels, Fains, Griping, Loss of ' I Appetite, Indigestion and all Dls ' j eases of the Stomach and Bowels, J J PITTS CARMINATIVE . < ?ls thc standard. It carries cUldren over^ m the critical period ot teething, and( .A ls recommended hy physicians as. \ the friend ot Mothers, Adults and' ( t Children. 'It is pleasant to tho taste, ( (| and never fails to give iiatlsiactioQw ' [ A few doses will demonstran) its sn-' (' portative Tlrtnes. Price, 25 ct*, peri ^ ) bottle. For ralo by drujjgista. j HO UNE HOLD AFFAIRS. MAREINO TOWELS. If you wish to mark your silver, china and glas? towels in the very latest fashion, you will mark on the former two crossed spoons, on the glacs towels a wineglass or tumbler, and on the china towels the outlines of a cap. These outlines are then' worked in stem stitch, and even the: maid ignorant of English cannot mia?' take their use. OVEN DOORS OP CBTSTAIw It has remained for a woman (o in* vent and patent glass doors for ovens. The wonder is that the idea has not long ago been thought of by some wo? man who cooks. Ail cooking instruc tors lay the greatest stress on the care to be obeerved in opening an oven door to watch the progress of cakes or muffins. Maria Parloa, making sponge cake, touches the knob with the most delicto care and lightness, dreading even to jar the cake within, and peeks through the smallest crack that will aSord the necessary glance. What a relief to walk boldly up to the oven and through these transparent doors, whioh the genius of a Michigan woman has discovered, study at leis* are the progress of rising cake dough or crisping fowl.-New York Adver tiser. CLEANING COVERS AND CARPETS. To cleanse a rubber piano oover^Iay the cover on a long, clean table, and spongo it all over with clear, warm water containing a little powdered borax, just enough borax to soften the water ; use no soap ; then with a olean cloth rub it dry ; if it looks dall and does not give satisfaction, then take another soft cloth and drop on it not more than two or three drops of sweet oil andjrub gently all over the cover. To deane? a Brussels carpet: first have the carpet well shaken, then tack it down in a room where it is to re main and sweep it as thoroughly as possible. Take a pail of hot water, put rar, wash the carpet all over the sur face, using a flannel cloth. For grease spote or very dirty places, uso a scrub bing brush freely and a very little soap, taking care to rinse the soap off well after scrubbing; ohange the water quite often ; rub the carpet well after washing with a dry cloth, and open the doors and windows so as to dry tho carpet as qrjickly as possible.-New York Observer. PAPER CARPET LIXIN3. A carpet lining male entirely from wood and paper pulp is ono of the nowest articles to be prodused from that seemingly unfailing sourcs paper. Carpet linings made from manilla paper, folded in flat rolls, or otherwise constrnoted, are com mon enough, but tba new typo of lining is quite out pf the ordinary. Anything that is between two layer?, as a carpet lining (which is between the floor and tho carpet), must bo porous BO as to allow the dirt that works through the texture of the car pel to sift through to thc floor. Again, tho lining must be flexible nnd smooth, lt must also be moth proof. These ends are obtained by running the pulp on the floor to an nverago depth of one-quarter inch, which will furnish a good, smooth, elastic founda tion for tho carpet. The pulp fills every crack, bad place, depression, and forms a perfectly-level sur?ace. Ex posure to the air dries the composi tion in a day or so. Thc carpet is laid directly upon this surface, which, being absolutely smooth and just elostio enough, makes the poorer grades of carpets seem like the softest and most costly of pile textures. RECIFE?. Velvet Mush-Melt two tablespoon fuls of butler in a porcelain kettle; cook in this two coffcecupfuls of wheat flour until it slips tho spoon und th 3 kettle ; have five caps of mill: ready boiled and add to tho flonr, one cup ial at a time. Let boil between each cupful. Add one teaspoonful of salt ; stir thoroughly aad serve. Tartle Beaa Soap-Soak one pict of black beans over night, then put them iuto three quarts of water with beef bones or a small piece of lean salt pork ; boil three or four hours, strain, season with salt, pepper, cloves and lemon juice. Pat iu a few slices of lemon, and if wished 1 ,dd slices of hard boiled egc-8. Sirve with toasted bread cut into dico and placed in the tureen. Rica Bread-Quarter pounl of rice, two pounds of flour, one-half table spoonful 'salt one cake of yeast, one pint of lukewarm water. Sew rice in a sack, but leave snfficieat room to let it swell ; put tho sack ia boiling water and let cook for three hours. Dis solve yeast and salt in water, m;x with rice and knead in two pounds of flour. Let ri?e, then put in bread pans and treat as common wheat bread. Turbot-Take a whitefish, steam till tender, take ont boues, aad sprinkle with pepper and salt. For dressing, heat a pint of milk and thicken with a quarter pound of flour ; wuen cool add two eggs and a large piece of batter and season with onion and parsley (very little of each). Put in the baking dish a layer of fish, then a layer of sauce, till full, cover the top with bread crumbs aid bake half un hoar. Murderer of the Sones. The trial of Romula* Cotoll, the murderer 1 f the Stone family at Tal ladega, Ohio, six weeks ago has boen set by Judge Kohler fur Jane 22, .. .- .