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f A LOCUST PLAGUE. A Province in China Devastated by the Insects. Queer Efforts Made by the People to Dispel the Scourge. The great Province of Klang-Soo, China, is being devastated by jjocusts. Consul. Jones, at Cldn-Kiang,' sends the State Department an account of the curi ms efforts made by t lie afflicted sections to dispel the scourge, i Some of the methods resorted to are as striking as the" suggestions >offi|red\to (he Kansas people when theft! were sullcring from a similar visitation some vears ago. When the 'jlocusts a ,| make their appearance in one of (hose Chinese districts there is consternation among the unfortunate peasantry, who assemble in the fields with wild clamor and din' of gongs, armed with long bamboos with streamers attached, and vainly endeavor todrive off the terrible invaders who are settling down in myriads and devouring their crops be fore their eyes. Every leaf aifd.fwig is covered thick, giving the itppea. nnee of some hideous yellow fijuit or plant. There is a curious ami widespread belief among the' Chinese in the ex istence of a “king” locust—“YVang,” he is called of coldssal 6ize and quasi supernatural character, who hovers invisible in the upper "regions fof Ike air, directing and controlling the mi grations of the different swarms. At some places the leading officials have publicly sacrificed and made offerings to the king of the locusts in order that he might he influenced to spare their localities. •‘1 know of few sights,’! writes the Consul, “more extraordinary than a swarm engaged in pairing. The air is filled with clouds of locusts: drift ing, circling, crossing anil recfpssing, with a faint, whirring noise, and get ting 011 the ground in thousands and Couples. The ground is cjjrpeled thickly with them; you cannot iffiake a stop without crunching heaps of them under yotir feet, whilo thousands more start up in pattering volleys ngainstryour legs, hands and face.” The eggs are deposited itil holes drilled by fhe female an inch or more deep in the ground. The tithe re quired for hatching depcnds^enlirely on the temperature. In hot weath. er the new brood begins to mtiko its' appearance at the end of a week.. At this stage they are very small, black and active, making extraordinary bounds by means of their muscular hind legs. They, are greedy feeders and grow rapidly. By the eighth or ninth day wings have budded ijind the color begins (o change, yellow spots appearing, and in about three weeks or a month they arc full grown. Tlie destruction, by suitable meas ures, of this formidable pest, iuvolv as Ifdocs, the prevention of fam ilies, fever epidemics and riolq, is a matter of grave public concern. One constantly bears of mandarins losing their buttons and being disgraced as the penalty of remissness or failure to destroy the enemy. Consul Jones says the Chinese con sider that the visitation of the locusts is a “calamity from heaven, atjd tiiat there is no help for it.” Chinese re cords chronicle many instiinceslof the appearance anil the calamities itjflictcd by the locusts in former limps,, but they have no peculiarly effective! meth ods of destroying them. The Gjovern ment usua’iy issues proclamations ordering out the soldiers aiid en couraging tlie farmers to destroy them. The latter arc given a (bounty for flieir destruction.. Tlie soldiers nre used against I he locusts, witli their officers at their head, as against an adverse army in the field. Instead of a gun or ft lance, however, each soldier is armed witli*a coarse hempen bag, attached to a bam boo pole, which, witli wide-open mouth, is waved back and forth among the swarms until fiiieil, when -they are killed and the action re ucpved. the fanners use large brooms made of bamboo twigs and other bushes, and each armed with tins weapon goes forth to slaughter. When killed and collecied, they are paid for by weight, which is at (lie rate of four cents .per pound. • Tlie locusts’ eggs arcidug up and paid for on a similar scale. (_- 6<ld FactsTtbont Beasts find Birds. Perhaps- no birds spend more of their lives on'lho wing than parrots and pigeons, tho latter being a'60 among the most gracefnl and rjapid of the inhabitants of the air. In New Zealand a species of parrot is 1 found that,’linditig its food entirely on the ground, has lost the power of flight. It difl'ers from the rest of the if ami ly only iu this particular, and in; being almost voiceless. Among recent breeds pf pigeons is the" parlor tumbler, which has hot only lost the power of flight, but has very nearly lost that of walking as well. Its queer motions when it alietnpts to walk have given it its natpe, the tumbler. / i - “As liiick as the hair on a) dog’s back” expresses nothing in Mexico, for the Mexican dog is utterly devoid of lialr on its back or anywhere else. The hot climate having rendered it superfluous. Mother Jhiture kindly divested him of it. Nor docs “the little busy bee improve cacii shilling hour” in that country. On the con trary, it soon learns that, as there . is ...1 sounded idiotic to the discoverers of j Kamchatka. They found foxe3 in j large numbers, but so Stupid, because \ tliey iiad never before seen an enemy, ' that they could be killed with clubs.' 1 The “birds of n feather’' that/‘•flock.I together” do not belong to the penguin family, as ihey are entirely destitute of feaihcrs, having for'd covering a kind of stiff down. Another penguin peculiarity is that it swims not on but under waier, never Leeping more than its head out, and, when fishing,coming to the surface at such brief and rare intervals lha,t an ordinary observer would almost certainly mistake it for a fish. Ducks swim tho world over, but geese do not. in . South America a domestic species is found that cannot excel an ordinary lien in aquatic ac complishmentg. It has lived so long in a country where water is only found in wells that it has. lost its aquatic tastes and abilities entirely. “As awkward . as a crab” does not apply on some of the South Sea islands, for a crab is found there that not only rung as fast as any average man, but climbs trees with tho easo of a schoolBoy. A Mad King Amuses Himself. The one insane monarch who now occupies., a European throne. King Olho of Bavaria, shows no symptoms of iccovery from Ins mental malady. I am told, says a Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph, that lie lias lucid intervals, which ai>c very brief, and occur but rarely, and it is as well, for these fleeting gleams of reason only servo to make the poor man miserably unhappy, for while they last lie realizes his own wretched condition to the full. Everything is done to amuse and interest him in his ordinary slate, which is that of hope loss as well as dangerous insanity. lie spends his days in unceasing occupa tion of an insignificant and mechanical nal u re. At one time lie worked from morn ing till night in lolling cigarettes. Then he took up to peeling potatoes, and bushels upon bushels ' of them were provided for liis amusement. Of lute his favorite pastime is by no means of snch an inoffensive nature. He has taken to shooting peasants, and will sit,all day long with his gun at the window , waiting for this new kind if game on winch to exorcise his skill. Even this freak his guardians have rontrijvcd to satisfy without injury to my oiie of Ills subjects. His gun is oaded in, his presence, as he always usisls upon seeing the powder niul shot duly put in, but for the latter his rttendant substitutes dry peas. Orders have been given that no per ron sliall bo allowed to pass along tlie road in front of his dwelling,lest King Dtho should tire upon him or her, and je driven quite wild by seeing his in ended victim walk off unhurt. But it stated intervals a man in peasant’s ;arb makes his appearance on the road. L'he king takes aim aud fires, and the nan drepps down, to all appearance lead. Tire supposed body is removed jy two of the guards, and some hours nter ihe performance is repeated to’ he immense satisfaction of his lira 's y The make-belicvo peasant is a figu •ant from one of the minor theatres of Munich. Generally he simply drops >n hearing the shot, and remains mo ioiiless, but occasiona ly he varies the rerforinance by dying Very hard,tuni ng found two or three times before le falls, and then expiring in IcniUc joiivulsions—a catastrophe that always {really interests tile royal maniac. Tlie Sew City Hall in St. Louis. This jmrk is tlie lumie of ihe New City Hall, one of tlie Cost-planned nnnicipal buildings in America; in deed, its fame while in actual course >f construction is so great Hint a very large number of delegations from other cities have from lime to time risked St. Louis to glean actual in formation concerning the new homo for the city’s governors. ‘ The. build ing lias a frontage of 380. feet and a depth of about 220 feet. It is, or will be* live stories high, with a fine jell-tower some 200 feet above the sidewalks. The general style of archi ed ure is of the Louis X1Y. order, uid the building is in ffppcarancc ail uilurgement on a very liberal scale of the town hails which the traveller hrongli Northern France sees today n goino of the more prosperous cities. The basement and first story of the juilding are constructed of Missouri granite, the upper stories are of buff liornan brick with sand-stone (run ning*. and the roof is of black glazed Spanish tile. The interior courts are iiieu with white glazed brick, and tlie ti ncture,wliigh i's absolutely fire-proof liroughout, is being equipped with •iglit elevators so arranged as to be jinvciiieut to ench of tlie numerous mtrauces. A portion of this handsome md massive, building is under roof, ttid a few offices are already occupied jy municipal departments. Tlie site m whicii tlie old City Hull stands is ibput to be sold anil the building lorn down to make room for another lofty Minmorcial structure. The hall is a substantial-looking building, and mswered its purpose well for years, jut neither in size nor in elegance is it iip to tlie requirements of New St. L juis. — [LippincotTs. He Was Answered. Ho—Well, what have you there? - She—Two of your old letters, my dear. lie—Umpli! What’s the first one— Hint 40-pager? FOB FARM AND GARDEN. CUtTCRE <?V HORSERADISH. This rool is grown as follows: The soil should he rijbli and well prepared, or the roots will not bo so smooth as they ought to be.' C-tilings are made of the small robots as thick as a. lead pencil and four incites long. These are set in the soil, care being taken to keep litem right end up, or the roots will be distorted, hi rows eighteen inches apart and the plants eight inches apart in the row. The soil will need cultivation, of course, and when the roots are full grown they arc dug, trimmed, and washed and bundled for sale. The small side roots are kept for planting. — [New York Times. FOR MUNCHING- TREES, Which is the mure pioihnbio, town ?|iaiiure at tweniy-five cents a load, or cached ashes at ten cents a load, to be put around youitg trees and vines? Answer by the Rural New Yorker: A ton of good stible manure should be worth $2 or more as compared with fertilizers for Which one must pay cash. A ton of leached ashes on the same basis will [)c worth not fluite so much—say $1.60 or over. Still the manure may Lie cheaper to he used around the .trees, ft makes abetter mulch and contains somo nitrogen, none of which i$ found in ilie leached ashes. At the same time, at ten cents a load and for' a short haul, leached ashes make a cheap sonreo of potash and phosphoric acid. In an average ton of such ashes there arc nearly twenty pounds each of these substances as well as 1000 pounds of lime. The ashes are most; servicahle spread on . very light, open soil or on very still clays. They make the former compact amt better able to hold moisture, and the latter more open and easily worked. SALT AS A FERTILIZER. It is not known by chemists how salt acts as a fertilizer, but the opin ion is, says a writer in an exchange, that salt has the power (o liberate am mcmia from soils that have been man ured with nitrogenous manures. This is the case in stiudy soils, where the ammonia exists In fertile combinations. The salt acts upon the ammoniacal salts by forming soda in the soil, and choloridc of aiiniionln, which passes into solution ajid then becomes an active fertilizer) It is known that on poor lands devoid of humus and am monia it acts njs a very indifferent manure, while.: on rich lands, where ammonia has been stored up in clay or humus,<it acts )vcll by eliminating the ammonia and placing it in combination suitable as soluble plant food.' Salt is also beneficial’ on soils as a fertilizer by aiding in j rendering insoluble potash and phosphate soluble, which dissolves tho bone phosphate and transforms it into soluble phosphate of lime. Salt is a beii iicent solvent when added to the manure heap by drawing moisture and keeping down the fermenting) heat in nitrogen ;us manure and making it more soluble and better decomposed as plant foo l when applied ip the soil and crop.— [Chicago Times. TWO IIOED CKQI’S 1'ItOM ONE SOD. . It was tlie practice of a successful fanner wo ktteiv many years ago to let Iiis land lie!in sod two and some times threeycays. By this time the clover had ruujout, and a heavy sod of timothy and other grasses were feeding on the i decaying clover root. He put all his! coarse manure, drawn as made in whiter, on this sod, and in spring plowed jsod and manure under for corn. After thorough cultivation during the summer, the field was .fall plowed a .little deeper than in the spring, so as Io:turn the partly decayed manure to thi sip-face. It was then lightly plowed in liie spring and planted with potatoes. Our friend claimed that thus lie got the best results from the manure for both crops, as (he second year it made a large growth of potatoes without liability to rot‘that an application of fresit manure-might induce. The po tato crop was then got olf early, and the land sows to rye or wheat and seeded with clover in (he spring. There were no more crops, and no moro time between sod-plowing and clover-seeding! than in the usual rota tion. The plan lias certainly its ad vantages where land is very weedyi as it is apt to Income where too many grain crops come in proportionable to those that require, if they do not al ways receive thorough cultivation.— [Boston Cultivator. - . — ing of swine—flirst,-clct quarters, protected fro WOOD ASIIEjp IN SWINE RAISING. An agricultural, authority of high icpulc formulates throe rules for the guidance of lltiosc who would scciiro the maximum of profit from the feed clean, dry, warm out winds and draughts; sedond—as much whole, some food—(if grain—preferably ground fine—as they will- cat clean, three times ,ill day; and third, free access to a mixture of salt a,ud ashes, to sods or soil.| .Another writer speaks specifically of the great valuo of wood ashes as a medicine for .all kinds of farm animals, land especially for pigs. He has raised \ swine extensively for more than tivtnty years without Cholora or swine plague, and lias not lost one per cent, of his hogs from disease. lie keeps wood ashes and charcoal mixed with salt, constantly before his swipe in a largo covered box with holes* two by six inches near the bottom. } .» The hogs will work the mixture out through these holes as far as (hey waist it. .He’ selects ashes rich in charcoal, andj mixed three parts o: ashes to -ones of salt Tliei theisw^e eat. /bay are provided with water. Tld jenefieial efiecls of ilie combinaticB ire quite marked, especially when t\m logs are fattened on fresh maize*, Wood ashes when given to horses ait found to have a most salutary eflecj 1'he writer last mentioned says that ip thirty-seven years’ experience upon the farm he has lost but one horse, tud this was overheated in the horse, power of a threshing machine during liis absence, and the only “condition powder” he 1ms ever usijd has been clean wood ashes. The ashes may bo givon by putting an even teaspoonful on llio oats twice :i week; but he piefers to keep the is lies and salt mixture com tan tty be fore the horses, and has made Iter this purpose, a little compartment in one corner of the feed box. His experi ence is that the best condition powder s a mixture of three parts of wood islies to one of salt; and when it is jiven regularly, and reasonable cari( tnd intelligence are used in handling* horses, no other medicines are neces ary. Apart from the medicinal qual ities of wood ashes their efficacy as a fertilizer is well known.— [Courier. Journal. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Plenty of eggs are better t' iuii ning a grocery bill. The Dorking is a gooil general fowl for'market purposes. Withmost slock, breeds ailect pro. fit more that quality. Barley makes a good grain food for sillier 1 logs or horses. With; all animals cleanliness is a preventive of disease. Many good breeders prefer training mares after breeding. Pack horse radish roots iu sand to keep to use iu winter. To make a success of farming one must be schooled to it. The ipan who has much to sell usually has less to buy. Winter laying requires warm quar. lers and plenty of food. Plenty of exercise iii wintor is very essential to. good health. Even in winter it is an item to keep !lie water troughs clean. Corn lacks in muscle-forming aud itrength-givilig material. A visit to tho poultry shows can jasily be made protitablc. Tho scraps from the table will fur nish food'for a email flock. Tho flesh of a well-fed guinea is jqual to that of a wild duck. Poultry are never properly fed-ini, less regularly fed every day. Do not undertake very early hatch ing without a good brooder. The Question of breed must largoly depend on the fancy of the owner. See that the guineas roost iu the poultry house with tho other fowls. In a majority of cases tho best market for poor chickens Is at home. Every month has its disadvantages as well as advantages in spcclul ways. Scaitering a little sulphur in the Bleeping quarters will help prevent lice. A mill): cow should never be driven faster than <i walk or ha worried by dogs. Give Ura hens a place for -them selves, and let the animals have the stables. The host butter and milk cows were bred by j once pairing animals that were near akin. Yon have a right to make butter as you please, hut the folks that want to purchase have, a right to price it as they please. Water is a necessary constituent of the milk, amp the cows must have it during the lime tho milk is being manufactured. Selling butter takes little fertility from the farm, while selling milk cai ries off mineral and organic mutter of its consumption. He Was a Little Dali. A Penobscot Comity farmer, speak, ing of a former hired man in his em ploy, remarked quietly: “He’s a pretty good sort of a felloii-, John is, but lie’s a litllo dull—a little dull.” After a moment’s further thought be eoiitihuod. “It may le necessary to explain that a bit. I’ll tell you how tits with him. I had a pretty nice Geld of onions growing, hist they stood a little thick together and need. 3d. thinning out. So 1 told John he might do it. IIo worked away at hem for a day or two and then I went ant to gee how he was getting on. I found l*e had pulled up all the biggest tines and thrown (hem away, leaving inly the smallest plants in the rows. I isked him what in creation he iiad pulled out all the best ones for, and ho said ’t.vas ’to give the little fellows a .'banco, ‘cos the big ones had crowded lbelli and they couldn’t grow.’ A little lull, John is, a little dull.”—[Lewis* on (Me.) Journal. Killed by Wild Beasts. The prevention of cruelty to animals s nowhere in the world pushed to such eugths as iu India where it is by nany pious Buddhists thought to be a most grievous crime to take the life of mything. As a consequence, the souutry abounds in wild beasts, which lake the lives of an enormous number >f people every year. It is said lhatj he numbers killed by wild beasts iu 1891 were 450 more than those that ost their lives in Ibis way iu 1890, mt such deaths for that year wera nuch below the average. The ’ ivorago of deaths by wild ^ India is about 3,000. mortally f QUAINT AND CURIOUS. were the Mammoth The first papermukcrs wasps. Petroleum was first ul Izcd by the Indians. The Japanese name for bicycle is jetensha. The largest cave is the cave of Kentucky. The first coal mining was done iu Pennsylvania, 1791-' The only fresh water Canary Islands is the eel. The largest mammoth tusk yet dis covered was sixteen feet. fish in the Two Philadelphians arc m jail counterfeiting one-ccnt piopcs. There are 122 diflcrent arielies of rosea in a garden at Lexington, Fla. weigl ed twin y is covered A watch carried by the Charles V. in 1530 seven pounds. The tomb of Mohammed with diamonds, sapphires and rubies. Valued at $10,000,000 The diamond, if laid in t le sun and then carried into a dark re distinct phosphorescence. Excessive rope-jumping o death of Bessie Woodward, a little girl of Washington, D. C. Tho diamond mines of Brazil liavo lor Empepor om, shows m-ed tlio yielded over 15,000,000 stones, valued at $150,000,000, A third set of natural come to bless Mrs. John Kingston, Canada. Her agp is 90. Augustus, carats of teeth lias Smith of all dagger • The llomau army under B. Qi 5, comprised 45 legions, with 25,000 horse, and 37,000 light-armed regulars. The mUericorde was a smja with thin blade made to reacl^ tho vitals of on antagouist between the joints of the armor. Boiling oil, hot water, molted pitch and sulphur were always in readiuess during a medieval siege to repel storm ing forces. The battle-ax was originally a Celttc weapon. The ancient Irish carried axes as the men of other nations car ried swords. A humpback whalo which went ashore in Crake’s Bay, California, the other day measured seventy-eight feet long and nine wide. Tho Pelew Islands have a"bout 10,000 inhabitants and are very fertile. Their situation between the Philippine Islands and the Caroline Islands, both Spanish colonies, is regarded as a sign that Japan intends to encroach on Spanish possessions in the Pacific. Captain John Christianson has made one of the deepest, dives on record. He plunged into the waters of Elliot ^Bay, Washington, and after twenty minutes returned with the lead line and a Uhcket from one of the hatches of the tug Majestic, lying at a depth at half flood tide of 196 feet.; He ap parently suffered no great inconven ience, People who have taken the Lake Superior steamers at Port Arthur have noticed the high, long dike of basalt that pushes into to water from the northern limit of Thunder bay. The’ Indians believe that this ridgp is the grave of Hiawatha, or, as he is called there, Manibozlio, mid few led men pass the spot without dropping a few heads or a pipeful of tobacc^ in tho, water as an oblation to his spirit. Strip,” said A. J. Myers of St. Louis to tlio Star representative at the Ran dall, “recalls to me an experience that I had in the rush at the opening of Oklahoma. territory, There were about 600 set tlers with me. We ranged air along the line. There was not a soldier or Deputy United States Marshal in jsight. There was, in fact, nothing to' -prevent any of us from crossing the lino before noon, tho hour fixed in 'the proclamation. It was a ihngnifi ccnt example of American love and loyalty to the observance of the law of the land, for there was not a single restraining influence. “We all compared watches and agreed upon the time. There were three pistol shots promptly at noon and the rush began. 1 have been through the Wft“, but it was ohe >of the most exciting scenes I ever witnessed. A few of us were on horseback, while there wero countless teams, prairie schooners and even ox carts, ito say nothing of* the people on foot. Men, women and children were freuzied with excitement, and it was a wild rush over the prairie, tho railroad, flftcen miles distant, being the ob jective point. I was splendidly mounted and three or four of vjs were tho first to reach the railroad. It was a grea race. The owncjrs of good teams in spring wagons were next be hind us. “The settlers spread out over the country, tho bottom lands along the streams being the first selected, the high Tolling prairie and |the divides being tho second and third' choice. Those iu advance, when they came to a quarter section that they Wanted, would drive their stakes and hold it down. Considering tho great excite ment under which the people labored and the rivalry for the land,the (shoot ing affrays were remarkably few.”— [Washington Star. Jinks. —.“When burglars were in 'your house the other night did Mrs. IFilkins look under tho bed for a Fiikins:—“ Yes; and found one. “1 was on tho eastern border of the Mrs. Theresa Hartson Albion, Pa. Misery Turned to Comfort Kidney Troubles, Sleeplessness, Distress—All CU&ED. “ All ionTErie Co., Pa., Feb. 18, ’03. “I can truly say that Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done more for me than all the prescrip tions and other medicines 1 hive ever taken. For 14 years I have suffered with kidney troubles; my back being so lame at times thatl Could Not Raise Myself up out of my chair. "Nor could I turn myself in Ijed. I could not sleep, and suffered great distress with my food. I have taken 4 bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla with the mo>t gratifying results. I fe.*l like a new person, and my terrible sufferings have all gone. Life is Comfort compared to the misery it used to be. I can now go to bed and have a good night’s rest; can eat heartily without any distress. Jam Hood’s3^11* Cures will o C this should be published for others good.” Mrs. Theresa Hartson. HOOD'S FILLS cure Constipation by restor ing the peristaltic action of the allmentary,caiud. Care of Bread After Baking. Remove the bread from the pans as soon as baked, and place the loaves where the air can circulate fr.eely around them, thus allowing the gas. which has formed, but is no longt r needed, to escape. An old wire win dow screen, too small for modern win dows, with cleats on the ends to keep them two or three inches from the table, will answer as well as a cooler. • Many use a sieve, but that is too small, and leaves the mark of the larger cross wires on the • loaf. Never leave the loaves on the table to sweat and absorb the odor of the wood, and do not cover them if you want the crust crisp. To give the bread that soft, tender, wafer-like consistency, wrap it in sev eral thicknesses of bread cloth. When cold remove the cloth, as that absorbs the moisture and gives the bread an unpleasant taste and odor. Place the loaves in a stone jar or tin box well covered and carefully cleansed from crumbs and stale bread. Scald and wipe dry every two or three days. A yard and a half square of coarse table linen will answer for a bread cloth. Keep a good supply of these, in order that they may always be sweet and clean, and never use them for other purposes.—Exchange. Reason For Grief. Old Gentlemen—“What’s the mat ter?” 4 Little Boy (crying)—“Papa gave me a penny to buy a school pencil and now—hoo, hoo, hoo?’ Old gentleman—“Well, here’s an other one. How did yoq happen to lose it?” Small Boy—“I—Ididn’tlose it; I— I spent it for candy and—and lost the candy.” Changed the Subject. Teacher—“Is your composition fin ished?” • Boy—“No’m, not quite. ” “You told me an hour ago you had a subject.” “Yes’m; but it wouldn’t do; I bad to hunt for another.” “What was the matter with the first one?” “I couldn’t’ spell it.” Tlie Genuine Article. Old Lady—(“Is this a genine alliga tor bag?” Dealer—■' ‘Yres, ma'am. I shot that alligator myself. ” Old Lady—‘“It looks rather shop worn.” Dealer—“That’s where he hit the ground when he tumbled off the, tree, ma’am.”—New York Weekly, Learning tlie Business. Lady (in drug store)—“I wish to get a two-cent stamp." New Boy—“Yes’m; here’s one, ma’am—ten cents, please,”—Street <£; Smith’s Good News, A Matter of Health IT costs more to make Royal Baking Powder than any other, because its ingredients are more highly refined and expensive. But the Royal is correspondingly purer and higher in leavening strength, and of greater money value to the consumer. The difference in cost of Royal over the best of the others does not equal the difference in leavening strength, nor make good the inferior work of the cheaper powders, nor remove the impurities which such powders leave in the food. Where the finest food is required, the Royal Baking Powder only can be used. Where the question of health is considered, no baking powder but Royal can be used with safety.\ All others are shown by official analyses-to contain lime, ammonia or alum. t < Do Kol llu UouelfMl with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the hands. Injure the Iron and burn red. The Risina Sun Store Polish Is Brilliant, Odor less Durable^nd the consumer nays tor no tin -OBitiT# Table Etiquette In General. Gloves are not to be worn at the ta ble under any circumstances. No argumentative or in anyway un pleasant topic should be broached at the table. There should be no difference be tween “company manners” and those in daily use. j The napkin is n6t folded, but is simply crushed and laid beside the plate on rising. Teach the children to eat at table with their elders, and do it in a digni fied manner. | , Coffee may be served at any time , during breakfast, but should come at the end of dinner. Do not overload the plate of a guest, or press upon anyone that which they have once declined. Remember the maxim of Confucius: “Eat at your own table as you would at the table of the king,” Never say or do, or countenance in others the saying or doing, of anything rude or impolite at the table, j Never notice or comment upon any accident, but redder unobtrusively any ! assistance which may be necessary and : possible. The side of the spoon is to be placed | to the mouth, except in the case of a. ; man wearing a moustache, when the | point of the spoon leads the way. --- Hen Blush More Than Women On a work on criminology the learned investigator says that out of 98 young men criminals 44 per cent did not. blush when examined. Of 122 female criminals 81 per cent did not blush. If our novels are to keep up with science, they must change their indicia of emotion. It must be the men who blush and the other six whose sensitiveness must not be a regular feature. Leander blushes as he de clares himself or is suddenly brought up against a sentimental outcrop, but Hero takes it calmly. The scientist also notices that women blush about the ears rather than on the cheek. This also requires change in the novels. It is a pointer, too, for the ladies’ man who is watching for signs- that he is making an impression. If he fastens his gaze upon the left ear, he may see something that will tell him he may consider himself happy.—San Fran cisco Argonaut. Over Eatlug. A physician lately said: “Most per sons eat four times as much as they should.” The proportion seemed pretty large, but an eminent Bfitish physician of a former generation said almost the same thing—that one fourth of what we eat goes to sustain life, while three-fourths go to imperil it. Another physician wittily remark ed that most people dig their own graves with their teeth. The founda tion of the habit of overrating is apt to be laid in childhood and youth, since the stomach then seems almost able- to bear anything. 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