IDEAL IN HOUSEKEEPING.
Iluf of flic Old Customs find Cob*
ditlona Are rS-niim Entire
ly Away.
A generation ago to be an ideal house
keeper was the chief ambition of almost
every woman. No girl desired a fairer
fate than to be placed at the head of a
household with a good and loving hus
v hand to supply all her wants and make
her the mistress and the queen of his
heart and his home. In most cases, says
the Peoria Herald Transcript, the girl
who started housekeeping had more or
less experience in theart under the tuition
of her mother. She loved to decorate and
beautify the house which was to be her
home during the rest of her earthly pil
grimage. She loved to create delicacies
for her husband and her children, and,
<MsguUe It as we may, much of the af
fection she received was due entirely to
her skill as a homemaker. When her
children grew up around tier this kind
and sympathetic mother and the pantry
were the chief attractions in their world.
As they grew older the ties only grew the
stronger. When, they acquired families
of their owe the old homestead, with
Its abundance of good things, still had
attractions #or them. The kind old
mother was still their best friend. Sha
knew all the difficulties they had to en
counter In starting homes of their own,
and her advice and sympathy were
worth more to them than gold. The
grandchildren came to venerate her as a
■ort of venerable goddess, and when
ahe finally went away from the home
circle she left a vacancy which could
never be filled.
But we are assured with every symp
tom of rejoicing that these conditions
are passing; that women have been
emancipated; that Ir. the future they are
to be the rival, Instead of the helpmate,
of man, and that they must combine to
enforce their just demands against the
hostility of the male sex. This Is non
sense pure and simple. It may ba true
that there are more mannish women In
this generation than there were In the
last. It Is unfortunately true that a
larger proportion of the female popula
tion has been forced to be self-support
ing, but It Is not true that women enjoy
the so-called "liberty” which goes with
tolling for a living.
The home Instinct Is too deeply
planted In the heart of women to be re
moved by the effects of a generation ol
club work. It will never be removed. A
few women may go after strange gods,
but the natural, wholesome girl will still
find her highest ideal of happiness in
a good husband and a cozy home. The
clubs may succeed In making suchhomee
Impossible to a few men and women by
making the young women feel that they
have a more Important work in the
world than the prosaic duty of home
making. but among the masses of the
American people the mother will con
tinue to be the bond which unites the
unities of that holy Institution the fam
ily, and she will continue In this exalted
role until the end of all things.
WHAT DROVE HIM TO DRINK.
BM was Happy ana i»i snare was
an Awful Possibility Op
pressing; Har.
"Darling,” he said, as he placed hla
arm around her waist and drew her ten
derly to his breast, relates the New York
Times, “why those pearly tears? Is the
home that 1 have brought you to less
magnificent than you expected?”
“Oh, n-no," she sobbed. “It Is g-grand
er than I dared to h-hope.”
“Have you found since our marriage
that I am less exalted than you had sup
posed me to be?”
"Oh, F-Fred, you are a tb-thousand
times more exalt-t-ted than I thougltt
you to b-be.”
Stooping down he kissed away two
targe tears that were trembling upon her
long, graceful lashes, and asked:
“Has It grieved you to be taken from
your parents and the scenes of youi
childhood, little one.”
“No, no, dear-dearest,” she replied.
"I would g-gladly go anywhere w-with
you.”
“Great heavens!" he cried, in wild
alarm. “Perhaps you are ill. Tell me,
is It so, sweetheart?”
“No,” she said, through a fresh burst
of tears, “It is not that.”
▲ look of deep perplexity overspread
.his handsome visage, and, pushing her
back so that he could look down Into
her big, beautiful, tear-dimmed eyes, ha
asked:
“Then, what in the dickens is the
trouble?”
"I was J-just thlnk-thlnking,” she re
turned, “how miserable I should be if
__ you were to die and I w-were to marry
s-some one who wouldn’t appreciate all
this magnificence.”
Mock Terrapin in Chaflag Dish.
' Take the dark meat of a chicken
booked the day previous and half a
pound of calf’s liver; put together In
(the chafing-dish, add two cloves of
! garlic, one small onion sliced, two
stalks of celery; cover with boiling
water and cook 20 minutes. Take
out and cut Into dice. Cleanse the
chafing-dish and put In a quarter of a
pound of butter; while the butter Is
.melting, take the yolks of two hard
boiled eggs, mash to a smooth paste,
adding gradually a cup of cream. Add
a tablespoon of flour to the butter, mix
and add the cream and eggs, stir con
stantly until It reaches the boiling
point, then add meat, a teaspoon ol
salt, a dash of cayenne and Just a sus
picion of mace. Serve hot on round!
of buttered toast—Ladles’ Home Jour
BlL
When only russet apples are to b<
had, a favorite way we cook them
la to pare, quarter and bake them 1e
ejie bean pot all day. Add a little su
jkr and plenty of water. When cold
t&looks and tastes like cider appli
MEH)£k.~Gre*a* Judd Farms*.
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FORTUNE IN PORPOISES.
flan; of the While Cetacean* Pm*
ijueut tlie Golf of St. Law reace,
and Are Valuable.
American tourists crossing the St.
Lawrence from the mouth of the Sague
nay can almost always enjoy thcieightof
a number of porpoises disport ing them
selves upon the water in the neighbor
hood of Tadoussac, says the New Vork
Sun. The great white cetaceans appear
like shapeless masses of blubber as their
arched backs show from time to time
above the surface. They are doubtless
attracted to the mouth of the Saguenay
by the large number of salmon which en
! ter the river throughout the season.
A large industry is expected soon to
spring up in various parts of the Gulf of
St. Lawrence in connection with the
hunting of porpoises. It has already
been ^tempted upon a small scale, but
the difficulty of capturing any great
number of the animals has stood in the
way of success. Now the difficulty has
been overcome through the observations
and experiments of Campbell McNab, a
Canadian hunter, who has spent many
years In the study of these animals.
The adult porpoise, of the St. Lawrence
and the North Atlantic ocean is from
12 to 18 feet in length. It somewhat re
sembles a dolphin in shape, with large
dorsal iln and a mouth armed with many
Btrong and sharp teeth. Each porpoise
1b believed to eat from one to three bar
rels of fish a day, so that it is difficult
to estimate the frightful ravages which
they make among the salmon, the her
ring and the cod. They are largely gre
garious, though they often hunt their
prey in couples. Mr. McNab has often
peered over the" edge of an overhanging
rock to watch them catch salmon at the
mouth of a stream and sometimes a long
distance up a river, where, they follow
their prey. They chase a salmon Into a
■hallow and then two approach it from
either side. The salmon appears un
able to move, as if paralyzed with fear.
If he attempts to rush from one of his
pursuers he falls into the open mouth of
the other.
The porpoise is equally expert In fish
ing for the slippery eel. Mr. McNab
opened one of these animals the other
day and found more than 40 eels in its
stomach. To prevent their wriggling,
and to aid digestion, the porpoise cracks
the skull of the eel between its teeth be
fore swallowing it.
Like the eel, the porpoise can live a
long time out of the water. In fact, It is
virtually amphibious. Some time ago
Mr. McNab shot a number of the ani
mals which had been hauled ashore and
bound together by their tails. After
skinning another lot at tome distance
and taking out the blubber, he turned a
few days later to the lot which had been
last shot. Unknown to him one had not
been killed outright. As he passed In
front of it it growled at him “like a dog.”
he says, and opened its jaws to snap him.
The porpoises are captured by being
Imprisoned at low tide on the shos.lE,
over which they have journeyed when
the tide was high, in pursuit of their
prey. Hitherto the difficulty has been to
nmr korplni* eti*niur on fill CrVi tn rptnln
such enormously strong, heavy beasts,
| and so many of them together as are
•ometimes enclosed. Mr. McNab has
made the Interesting discovery that the
enormous nets through which they often
broke are not necessary to hold back
the brutes. They are unable to stand the
■lightest vibration in the water, and so
all that the hunter now finds necessary is
to fasten a long thin pole like a fishing
rod to a stake In the mouth of the
stream, the bay or the estuary within
which it is desired to retain the por
poises. They remain to be stranded and
killed upon the shallows rather than ven
1 ture past the vibrating rod.
| This sensitiveness is believed to have
tte seat In the ear of the animal, which
has so small an opening that It might
almost have been made with a pin. For
years McNab has held firmly to this
theory, only to be laughed at for his
pains. He has now proved It beyond
' peradventure, and has reaped the frutt
of his persistence. At one tide the other
day he secured 69 of the animals on the
■hoala of the Portneuf river a few miles
below Tadoussac, and next year will
pursue operations there upon a larger
scale. He has secured a nine year lease
Of the shoal from the government and
has apparently a fortune within easy
reach. The skin and oil from a single
porpoise are worth from $110 to $50.
The utmost caution has to be taken
mot to drive the animals away from theli
haunts. If any of the blood or refuse o;
their dead is permitted to reach the wa
ter, Mr. McNab declares, they will de
sert the place entirely. Tills Is the ex
planation he gives of the present absence
of porpoises from the River Ouelle and
other places on the bank? of the St. Law
rence, where a few years ago many of
them were annually killed. The por
poise, he says. Is one of the most intelli
fen.t animals created.
Unprotected f*ort.
The reputation of a house often de
pends upon the manner of packing as
much as on the merchandise itself.
Goods for Manila should be packed with
special care. The port is unprotected
and the sea is often very rough, mak
ing unloading at such times impossible.
Transfer Is made by natives in small
boats from a point two miles distant.
These boats are tossed about by the
slightest agitation of the water.
No Need for Worry.
Mrs. Homer—John, if Mrs. Neighbors
gets a new sealskin sack this winter I
| must have one also.
Homer—Well, don’t worry about It,
dear. Neighbors and I formed a protec
j tlvve union to-day, and neither of yon
la to have one.—Chicago Daily News.
Foreigners In Japan.
A foreigner cannot own land In Japan
although a number of foreigners may
I organize themselves Into a company, u
1 be known and registered as a ‘‘judlcla.
person,” and this company has all Uu
I property rights of a native citiaem
THI^EE MEALS A DAY.
Relntlon Between a Xation'a Foo4
IIUIm and lt« coiiinifrceShottU
by dtutlatlca,
Statistics have been collected to show
that the measure o£ the prosperity of
a country is the amouht of food con
sumed by its inhabitants—in other
words, that diet and commerce go hand
in hand. The countries which consume
the largest amount of food and drink per
capita are the countries which have the
largest surplus for export to other
lands; the countries which are abstemi
ous or moderate in their consumption
of food and drink havIfTittle surplus to
send away, Says the New York Sun.
The average cost of food per capita
in the United States is CO cents a day;
the United States stands at the head of
exporting countries with an average of
$1,250,000,000 in a year.
The average consumption of food and
drink in England is 50 cents per capita,
and England stands second on the list
of exporting countries. Germany is the
third with an export trade of more than
$1,000,000,000, and 45 cents a day tha
average per capita spent for food and
drink (beer included).
France has an export trade of $800,
000,000 a year and the average expense
to each inhabitant for food and drink
is 40 cents a day. Russia, with an ex
port trade of $375,000,000, expends 20
cents a day on food and drink per capita,
and Italy with $275,000,000 of annual
exports, spends 18 cents a day, in maco
roni, wine and other articles of diet.
All of which convinces statisticians
i who have unearthed this notion of the
relation of productiveness to diet that
‘‘three meals a day for each inhabitant"
is the open door to world powet in com
merce, manufactures and the surplus
products of a fertile soil.
FOOTBALL ACCIDENT.
Emphnaliei Fact That Only tha
StronicPNt and Phyalcally Fit
Should Be Allowed to Play.
So many accidents have been laid to
the game of football and so many lads
have been crippled thereby that we sel
dom hear of the injuries and deaths
that might have been avoided. The
death of a young medical student of
Baltimore during a contest, but at a
time when the ball was not in play,
says the New York Herald, affords a
striking instance of an easily prevent
ive accident.
The victim had been a sufferer from
heart disease for a long time and yet
was allowed to take active part in the
game. His condition should have
been, if it was not, known to his1 med
ical associates.
There is no account of his having
received any injury previous to the
time he was stricken with collapse.
No better proof of his unfitness for any
extra physical exertion can be given
than the suddenness of his death w'hile
he was merely resting. The lesson of
the sad story is emphatic and con
vincing.
There Is no game that requires more
careful and systematic training than
1UULUU11 HIIU uni V IUB Sll UUgCSl HI a
capable of bearing the strain. If there
is any physical weakness in the can
didate it becomes quickly manifest as
he goes on with his exercises, and why
such incapacity could not have been
discovered in time to have saved the
unfortunate youth is difficult to imag
ine.
TOLD IN ENGLAND.
Ludoa Publication Again Rasul*
sects tbe Mythical American
Who Toadies to Royalty.
A continental hotel keeper, says a
writer in the London Truth, recently
i confided the following story to a friend
of mine: Some years ago, after Queen
; Victoria had been staying at a certain
hotel, a wealthy American called on the
, proprietor and signified his desire to
sleep if it could be managed, in the same
apartments, the same bed, and if possi
ble, the same bed clothes, as those which
had held the sacred person of her maj
esty before they had been sent to the
wash. Money was no object to him.
What would it cost?
The hotel proprietor was equal to the
occasion. He thought it could be ar
ranged for £20. A bargain was struck
on these terms. The millionaire duly
arrived, and retired to the royal couch.
No doubt he thoroughly enjoyed his
night's rest, and the prospect of subse
quently electrifying his friends with the
story of his regal experience. His pleas
ure must have been somewhat marred
when he discovered later on that her
Britannic majesty always traveled with
her own bed and bedding.
Gnlllco and I’rbun Till.
Galileo’s wit got him into trouble
when he put into the mouth of Sim
plicio, the foolish opponent of the
Copernican theory in his “Dialogues,’’
an argument that Pope Urban VIII.
had himself devised, and insisted on
Galileo incorporating in the work.
Galileo made Simplicio quote it as an
argument he had from a “very eminent
and learned personage.” The enemies
of Galileo persuaded Urban that he had
been “made game of,” and this was the
offense of which Galileo was guilty. It
was not for upholding the theory that
the sun stands still and the earth moves
: that Galileo was tried by the inquisition.
: Urban himself had supported the
Copernican doctrines, both as cardinal
! and as pope.
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Btirgeit Ralaera of Hops.
■ The United States now produce#
j more hops than any other country.
' Of the world’s crop of 1,760,000 hun
dredweight, the United States furnisfi
; «9 462,000 hundredweight.
laisraiM Slot Maehiaea.
London has accident insurance slot
machines. The device defies fraud and
‘ ku tk# appearance of a clock.
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In the good old Sommer
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Blizzard Coolers.
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Time Tells
The Story.
There is a big difference be
tween the cost of making a first
class sewing machine, embodying
the best materials and workman
ship, and one which is made in the
cheapest manner. The buyer of
the cheap machine soon pays the
i difference of price in the constant
1 cost for repairs, to say nothing of
its annoying inefficiency.
Singer Sewing Machines_do
good work during a lifetime.
Sold on Installments.
Old Machines taken in exchange
Liberal Discount for Cash.
Oils, Needles, Attachments and
Repairs for all makes of machines.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
“The Sewing Machine Makers of the World.”
j FRANK W. LYNN. M'g'r.
121 Hazel St., Newport, Ark.
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LIVERYMEN
FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
WATERS-PIERCE
OIL COMPANY.
; Jack Herron
For Granitoid and Stone Walks,
Curbing, all kinds of Brick Work.
Don’t fail to get my figures
before contracting.
My Work Talks For Itself
Parties wanting crushed Lime
Stone Walks apply to me.
Henry Owen,
Physician, Surgeon
and Oculist.
Office - - Sells’ Drug Store.
J. W. Lindley, Pres. L. T. Slayden, V-Pres. E. V. Holt, Cashier
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